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Ribbon cutting marks 3D’s grand reopening And while the old location will still be used in various ways, Williams plans to transition to Community leaders, neigh- the new location, at 881 Merrick bors and elected officials con- Road. Measuring about 4,400 gratulated Dr. Zodelia Williams, square feet, it’s significantly the founder and executive direc- larger than the original site. tor of 3D’s Aftercare Inc., last There are seven rooms in the Friday on the grand opening of street-level center, under the her organization’s new location First Church Baldwin United on Merrick Road in Baldwin. Methodist Church. It was also a celebration of “You are an example of a true the organization’s g rass-roots per13th anniversary. son,” Mulé told A ribbon-cutting Williams at the cerceremony was emony. “You really attended by represtarted from the sentatives of the ground up. Like a B a l dw i n C iv i c garden, we’ve seen Association and you grow from the the Chamber of ground up. I know, Commerce, County also, that you are a Executive Laura woman of deep, C u r r a n , S t a t e DEBRA mUlé deep faith. EveryAssemblywoman County legislator thing you do comes Judy Griffin, Counfrom your faith in ty Legislator Debra God, and I think Mulé, Hempstead Town Council it’s so appropriate that you’re members Chris Carini and Doro- here in a church.” thy Goosby, and Williams’s fami“After-school programs can be ly members. an important service for many The nonprofit, which is dedi- children and parents, providing cated to caring for teenagers and safety and support — pandemic children, especially after school or not,” Curran said in a statewhile their parents work, is ment. “More power to Zodelia, housed at its original site, 3D’s seeking to empower children, Community Empowerment Center, at 586 Seaman Ave. Continued on page 4

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mIChEllE AND lARRY Foder, of Malverne, renewed their wedding vows at the Coral House last Friday alongside Hempstead Town Clerk Kate Murray and Councilman Anthony D’Esposito.

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“I found Larry over a death certificate,” Michelle Foder said of her husband. She’s a funeral director at Franklin Funeral Home in Franklin Square. “So we found something happy over something sad.” Larry, who works in the Town of Hempstead clerk’s office, met Foder when she visited Town Hall to file documents. They married 12 years

ago and have two children. The Foders, of Malverne, were among the couples who were invited by the Town of Hempstead to renew their wedding vows at a socially distanced reception at the Coral House in Baldwin last Friday to celebrate Valentine’s Day. “We were happy that they extended an event like this at this time,” Larry said. “My wife, being a first responder — she’s a funeral director — she had a rough year, emo-

tionally, physically. It was tolling, so being able to do something like this, a little sense of normalcy, is a nice gesture.” Although the coronavirus pandemic forced cancellation of all types of celebrations, town officials partnered with the Coral House to host wedding vow renewal ceremonies and complimentary dessert receptions for first responder couples and those who have been working on the front lines of the pandemic. Continued on page 3

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A sectioned-off part of the ballroom was turned into a wedding chapel that was adorned with red, pink and white balloons, festive lighting, flowers and heartshaped decorations. Another couple, Robert and Lisa Dexter, of Island Park, have been married for almost 32 years. They met while performing in the Sacred Heart Church marching band. “And then we re - m e t , ” Lisa said, “because I went away to colle ge, and then at the San Gennaro feast — it was raining on a Sunday — and he had to bring his grandmother there, and then we were like, ‘Hey.’” The rest is history. Robert Kate Murray is a for mer Hempstead town clerk c h i e f a n d 35-year member of the Island Park Fire Department, and their two sons, Maxwell and Logan, are also department members. Matthew and Stephanie Schmidt also renewed their vows. They were married by Town Clerk Kate Murray in 2007 just before Matthew’s deployment as a U.S. Army sergeant. He’s a former Hempstead Town public safety officer and former city and county officer. Stephanie is a registered dietician, and they have three children. Matt Graci, an Island Park firefighter, and his wife, Yvonne, also tied the knot again. They met at On the Rocks in the village, and have been married for 33 years. They have four children and two grandchildren. Dawn and Zac Posporelis, a Sanitation District No. 6 employee, which serves Franklin Square, Elmont, West Hempstead, Garden City South, Malverne Park, South Floral Park, North Valley Stream and Lakeview, celebrated 25 years of marriage. The pair live in Massapequa. The ceremonies featured wedding music, champagne toasts and miniature tiered wedding cakes, cookies and other treats, as well as red roses for each bride, courtesy of Flowers by Mike in Oceanside. Professional wedding portraits were also taken and mailed to each couple. Masks were worn, social distancing was observed, and none of the food or drinks were shared between couples to practice safety protocols. The exchanges of vows were officiated by Murray and Councilman Anthony D’Esposito behind plexiglass. “During this pandemic, there’s been a strain on so much,” D’Esposito said. “It’s been a strain on first responders and our front-line workers, our health-care workers, our grocers, our sanitation, funeral

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f we could just give them a little bit of a celebratory spirit for a little while amongst their very busy lives, we’re very happy to do it.

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Matthew and Stephanie Schmidt renewed their vows at the Coral House last Friday. directors, but it’s also been a strain on local business, especially restaurants and catering halls, so this is nice.” “We still wanted to celebrate love, to celebrate what people are doing and what they mean to each other — we just had to do it with Covid restrictions and guidelines and everything else,” Murray said. “And we thought, well, what better than to invite first responders to renew their vows.” Town officials invited a broad spectrum of essential workers, “real heroes,” Murray said, and it was their way of thanking them for what they have done for everyone in the last year. “We have a funeral director,” Murray continued, “and she said to us that she was so pleased because she feels like funeral directors sort of have gotten lost in the mix of who is a first responder — who’s an essential, front-line worker — and boy oh boy, they are . . . If we could just give them a little bit of a celebratory spirit for a little while amongst their very busy lives, we’re very happy to do it.” The Coral House has been in business for more than 100 years, owner Butch Yamali said, and has been consistently open throughout that time. But last year, the catering hall nearly closed. “It was sad to see a big building like this close — no events, no parties, nothing,” he said. “So to see people back in the building today and to see some of my staff walking around and filling up glasses with water and champagne and setting things up, it’s great. We’re back in action again.” He said he hopes it’s the start of a new beginning, when no one will feel afraid to leave their homes and can walk around safely.

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another Couple, robert and Lisa Dexter, of Island Park, celebrated their love and tied the knot again.

3D’s Aftercare reopens in new location continuEd from front pagE create confidence and encourage academic accountability.” Mulé and Curran presented Williams with citations. Griffin also presented her with a citation, “acknowledging her continued commitment to the community and help in revitalizing downtown Baldwin,” she said in a statement. “In these challenging times, it’s wonderful to see established local businesses flourish and expand,” Griffin said. Additionally, on behalf of Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin and the Town Board, Carini and Goosby presented Williams with a citation to wish her continued success in Baldwin. “She believes that all children have a right to be free from the circumstances or challenges that confront them,” Carini said of Williams, “and they should be encouraged to dream big and given tools to make their dream come true.” Karen Montalbano, of the Baldwin Civic Association, also gave Williams a certificate, and thanked her for remaining in Baldwin and working on behalf of the community. At the ribbon cutting, in one of the large rooms, Williams thanked the local representatives for their kind words, citations and warm wishes, and invited them to walk through and see the other rooms in a socially distanced manner. “There are five other rooms in the

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ElEctEd officials joinEd community leaders and neighbors last Friday at the ribbon-cutting ceremony and grand opening for 3D’s Aftercare Inc.’s new location. back, and those rooms are all sponsored, painted by different organizations,” Williams explained, “the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., the Blacklist, the National Coalition of Black Aviators, STRONG Youth, and the Association of Black Social Workers.” Sponsoring a room meant that the organization or business provided the paint, materials and people power needed to enhance the room, and they pledged to

onE of thE seven rooms in the new facility was sponsored and painted by STRONG Youth.

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officials and local leaders presented Dr. Zodelia Williams, center, with citations. do so in an energy-efficient manner. In return, sponsors’ names are featured on plaques in their respective rooms, as well as on social media posts, and sponsors will be offered free use of their spaces for meetings three times a year. They will also be able to use the orig-

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L.I. Music Hall of Fame recognizes Marc Greene the middle and high school levels when the recession of the early 1990s resulted in the elimination of his teaching position. There was a mid-year retirement at Newfield High School in the Middle Country Central Schools, where he became the director of Choral and Theatre Activities. In 1997, Greene took on the new role of director of music and art and immediately began to develop with staff and community a long-term plan to embellish the available Arts Education experience for Middle Country students, which at the time, was the third largest suburban school district in New York State. Marc During his tenure at Middle Country, he served as a chairperson for the Suffolk New York State Council of Administrators of Music Education Honors Chorus, and served on the team of leaders that developed the first High School Honors Treble Chorus in addition to the Mixed Chorus. He also was elected President of the statewide chapter of NYSCAME, with which he initiated an Internet presence in the form of an association website. He also served NYSSMA as an assistant to the Zone 14 Suffolk County representative, as a member of

School District, he returned to teach in the Baldwin Union Free School District as the Director of Choral Activities at Baldwin High School. He developed a comprehensive vocal lesson and choral curriculum that greatly increased student enrollment as well as representation in the All-County, All-State, All-Eastern, and All-National Choral Honor Ensembles. As he served the Baldwin community, he also was elected to serve as the president of the New York State School Music Association, headquartered in Westbury. This provided the opportunity to develop statewide structures that supported the embellishment of standards-based curriculum instruction and learning, advocacy to support and maintain music education in all schools, and the continued to increase student access to NYSSMA’s performance evaluation festivals and honors ensemble programs. He has continued to work with the Long Island school districts in multiple capacities, as a consultant for music curriculum development, assessment and instruction and as a guest conductor for county and district choral ensembles. Additionally, he maintains a small voice instruction studio and provides piano accompaniment and vocal performance on an as-needed basis for several local religious congregations. For more information, visit www.limusichalloffame.org.

the statewide Curriculum Committee, and as an All-State Voice and Vocal Jazz and Choral adjudicator. In late 2006, he was approached by several faculty members in the Port Washington School District and encouraged to make application for the district’s open position of Director of Creative Arts. While at Port Washington, he served as NYSSMA’s Zone 13 Representative, providing leadership throughout the performance evaluation festival seasons and representing Nassau County as a member of NYSSMA’s Executive Board. He was a founding member of two organizations during this Greene period as well — Long Island Symposium of S u p e r v i s o r s o f A r t s, which offered extensive development for leaders in arts education in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, and the Long Island Scholar-Artist Program, which, under the auspices of the Long Island Arts Alliance, provides annual recognition to a select group of high school seniors with proven success both academically and in the arts. After leaving Long Island for work with the New York State Education Department and the Bedford Central

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The Long Island Music Hall of Fame announced two weeks ago that Marc Greene, from Coram, Long Island, is the 2020 LIMHOF Educator of Note. “The Long Island Music Hall of Fame is very excited to honor such an accomplished and respected educator,” LIMHOF Education Committee Chairman Tom Needham said in a statement. “We have found Marc to possess an unparallel level of commitment to music education here on Long Island — his body of work is exemplary! He is one of a small group of music educators who have had such a long-lasting and significant impact on so many music students all over Long Island.” Greene is a professor at Ithaca College in the Music Education program and also supervises student teachers across Long Island. He began his teaching career in upstate New York, and has taught in the Baldwin, Middle Country, Centereach and Port Washington school districts. “It is so very exciting and humbling to be recognized as the 2020 Long Island Music Hall of Fame Educator of Note,” Greene said in a statement. “So many of the previous honorees are esteemed music education colleagues and mentors, providing very large footsteps in which to follow and broad shoulders upon which to stand.” Greene moved to Long Island in 1993 after a dozen years of teaching upstate at

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music, movement, fine and gross motor skills, storytelling and a craft. Each registrant will be emailed the Zoom link and password after registration as well as a short list of suggested materials you’ll need in order to participate each week. Online or over the phone registration began Feb. 1. This will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 11 a.m. For more information, visit www.baldwinpl. org.

Morning meditation with the library The Baldwin Public Library will host a meditation session on Thursday, Feb. 18 at 9 a.m. via Zoom. Holly from the Kadampa Meditation Center will guide participants through this meditation practice. All are welcome to attend. RSVP to baldwinzoom@baldwinpl.org for the password. Join Zoom Meeting: https:// us02web.zoom.us/j/88924416148? and the Meeting ID is 889 2441 6148. For more information, visit www.baldwinpl.org.

Learn to knit Learn the basics of knitting in this twopart series just in time to work on the Baldwin Public Library Yarn Bombing Community Project! This will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. RSVP to baldwinzoom@baldwinpl.org for the password. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/89305073315 and the Meeting ID is 893 0507 3315. For more information, visit www.baldwinpl.org.

Beginners Mah Jongg Donna Miller Small will teach Beginners Mah Jongg in this four-part series hosted by the Baldwin Public Library. This will take place on Thursday, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. RSVP to baldwinzoom@baldwinpl.org to receive the password. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/84485810760? and the Meeting ID is 844 8581 0760. For more information, visit www.baldwinpl.org.

Baldwin Historical Society series Join a representative from the Baldwin Historical Society in this monthly series and learn about the rich history of Baldwin. This session will take place on Thursday, Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. RSVP to baldwinzoom@baldwinpl.org for the password. Join Zoom Meeting https:// us02web.zoom.us/j/84108826557 and the Meeting ID is 841 0882 6557. For more information, visit www.baldwinpl.org.

Friday, Feb. 19 Chair yoga with the library Instructor Augusta Berner will guide this class utilizing a chair to perform yoga poses that are kind to the body. Participants should have weights and resistance bands, or substitutions, on hand. Join the program, to take place on Friday, Feb. 19 at 9 a.m. RSVP to baldwinzoom@baldwinpl.org for the password. Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web. zoom.us/j/88372251489? and the Meeting ID is 883 7225 1489.

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People of all ages — learn to knit! Learn the basics of knitting in this two-part series just in time to work on the Baldwin Public Library Yarn Bombing Community Project! This will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. RSVP to baldwinzoom@baldwinpl.org for the password. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/89305073315 and the Meeting ID is 893 0507 3315. For more information, visit www.baldwinpl.org.

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Join Miss Mariel for online story time via Zoom on Monday, Feb. 22 at 11 a.m. for children ages 2 to 4. You don’t need a Zoom account to participate. This is a recurring program. Register online or over the phone. For more information, visit www.baldwinpl.org.

Monday meditation The Baldwin Public Library will host a meditation session on Monday, Feb. 22 at 6 p.m. via Zoom. David from the Kadampa Meditation Center will guide participants through this meditation practice. All are welcome to attend. RSVP to baldwinzoom@baldwinpl.org for the password. Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom. us/j/84426130354? and the Meeting

The library presents The Black Aesthetic, Black Artists and their Art Join art lecturer Louise Cella Caruso as her program highlights the unique artistic expression of Black artists. RSVP to baldwinzoom@baldwinpl.org for the password. Join Zoom Meeting https:// us02web.zoom.us/j/87530833220 and the Meeting ID is 875 3083 3220. For more information, visit www.baldwinpl.org.

Wednesday, Feb. 24 Yoga for beginners The Baldwin Public Library will host

Yoga for Beginners on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 9 a.m. via Zoom. Join for an energizing and restorative session. Those new to yoga are encouraged to attend. RSVP to baldwinzoom@baldwinpl.org for the password. Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom. us/j/88549213309? and the Meeting ID is 885 4921 3309. Yoga is known to have many health benefits, including improving strength, balance and flexibility; reducing back pain; increasing energy levels; helping manage stress; and lifting your mood, among others.

Little Learners Join for four weeks of fun and fastpaced programs for your little one celebrating winter and popular characters. Each week will focus on a different theme — snowmen, penguins, brown bear and Pete the Cat. Activities include

Zumba — at night! Instructor Linda Salamone will get participants moving in this evening series. Join for Zoom Zumba on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. RSVP to baldwinzoom@baldwinpl.org for the password. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web. zoom.us/j/85203709421 and the Meeting ID is 852 0370 9421.

HAving An evenT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest. All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to bdownes@liherald.com

The library and the Civic Association are coordinating a “yarn bombing” community project for April. State Sen. Todd Kaminsky hosted a virtual roundtable on cyber bullying on Feb. 11. The Saint Peter’s Early Learning Center is hosting private tours. Call (516) 223-1392 for more info. The Baldwin H.S. Booster Club is hosting a clothing drive, to take place on April 16, 17, 23 and 24. The Town of Hempstead is hosting free drive-in movies in Point Lookout through Feb. 21.

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Mary Trump leads quiet life in RVC Best-seller on her uncle, the former president, catapulted her into the spotlight By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com

Although she is a member of a wealthy and well-known family, Mary Trump, niece of former President Donald Trump, has led a quiet life in Rockville Centre for the past two decades, putting her daughter through local schools, dining at North Village Avenue eateries and riding her bike through local parks. Life was peaceful, she said. Then, last summer, her blockbuster best-selling book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” was published. Instantly, Mary Trump, 55, became a household name, and she star ted appearing regularly on cable TV news programs. Despite her virtually overnight fame, Trump generally shies away from the spotlight. She enjoys spending time at home, including reading the Rockville Centre Herald. “I’m a regular reader,” she said. “It keeps me up to date.” In an interview with the Herald last Friday, Trump said she came to the village in 1998, from Garden City, because she had heard good things about the schools. Amid the Co-vid-19 pandemic, she rarely ventures outside, and “has lots of stuff ordered.” She said she has not publicly encountered hostility from her uncle’s supporters on village streets. But, she said, “I get some of that on Twitter.” When she does leave the house, Trump wears double masks and sunglasses, and thus she is rarely recognized. A clinical psychologist who earned a doctorate from Adelphi University, Trump no longer practices. Instead, she is working on a second book, about the trauma caused by the pandemic and how people might overcome it. “Hopefully, the book will be timely and helpful,” she said, adding that she planned to include the trauma that has resulted from the attack on the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6. “When I was wrapping up my first book, George Floyd was killed,” she said. Her first book had to include the killing of the unarmed Black man at the hands of the Minneapolis police last May. The recovery from the pandemic and the Jan. 6 insurrection will be slow, Trump emphasized. “It’s as if this country were at war, and we were all called up at the same time and we all came back at the same time,” she said. “That should be helpful — that we’re all in this together — but we have to mobilize resources” both psychological and social. “And we’ve never been good in [this] country mobilizing psycholo gical resources. “The trouble is in this long pandemic, we’ve forgotten how to be social beings,” she said, and getting back to

mary trump, niece of former President Donald Trump, has lived in Rockville Centre for the past two decades. normal “will depend on how dedicated we are and how the current administration responds to the crises.” She worries that once many people receive their Covid-19 vaccinations, they will believe everything is back to normal, and it really won’t be. When her book was published, Trump said, her own life would have changed more had it not been for the sheltering that the coronavirus forced on her. “Everything’s at home now,” she said. Asked if she regretted not having written the book sooner, to alert the public about her uncle’s behavior, she said, “If I had written it before, it wouldn’t have made a difference. Donald was getting away with everything.” She acknowledged that it’s impossible to know whether her book played a role in his loss in November’s election. “I hope it did,” she said. Trump said that she and her uncle got along when she was growing up, but “I can’t say we were close.” He hired her to work on his second book, “The Art of the Comeback,” but neglected to inform his publisher, who had another writer in mind, ending her involvement in the project. Donald Trump has insisted he won the election in a “landslide.” Does she believe he really believes that? “It’s not that he believes it,” Mary Trump said. “But it’s that he can’t believe he lost. That’s not acceptable in my family. It’s hard to underestimate the [influence] my grandfather has had on Donald.” In her book, she writes that Fred Trump Sr., ruled the family with an iron fist, and was extremely harsh to his oldest son — her father, Fred Trump Jr., whom the senior Trump had pegged to take over the family real estate busi-

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mary trump’s Best-seller, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” brought her widespread acclaim — and some derision on Twitter. ness. But as Fred Jr. drifted away from the business, becoming an airline pilot, his father turned to Donald, his second son. It wasn’t a happy choice, Mary Trump wrote: “When things turned south in the late 1980s” for the family business, “Fred could no longer separate himself from [Donald]’s brutal ineptitude,” but “had no choice but to stay invested.” Fred Jr. died of a heart attack in 1981, at age 43. Her uncle, she said, is “psychologically disordered” and became “more unhinged” after his election loss. She described feeling “miserable” about the impeachment trial last week,

because many Republican senators did not appear to be listening, and some even consulted with the former president’s lawyers on the case. Jan. 6, Trump said, “was not a joke. People died. A police officer was murdered.” She believes her uncle must be held accountable for his role in riling up the mob before the riot. Work on her second book, she said, will take up much of her time. And now that her daughter is away at college, she is thinking of moving back to Manhattan, where she attended Columbia University, to earn a master’s in English literature.

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Students craft valentines for veterans

steele elementary school students also created special cards. the program celeBrates Valentine’s Day. the students spread love and gratitude to servicemen and women.

Baldwin elementary schools continued their annual tradition of sending hundreds of hand-made cards with messages of gratitude to veterans in hospitals and nursing homes across the country. The initiative — done through the “Valentines for Vets” programs associated with Nassau County a n d t h e To w n o f Hempstead — allows for the students to spread love and gratitude to men and women of service. The offices of Nassau County Executive Laura Cur ran and Assemblywoman Judy Griffin organized the effort this year. A total of 1,300 valentines from the Baldwin elementary schools were collected and will be delivered during throughout the month in celebration of Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14th.

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RICHARD WALLIS

LIDO BEACH Director of Nursing, Mount Sinai South Nassau Oceanside

have been in the nursing profession since 1977, and I’ve been director of nursing at Mount Sinai South Nassau since 2006. The Covid pandemic has been the worst thing I have seen in my career. I saw Sandy, SARS and HINI, but this has been even worse. We are seeing a moderate decline in cases at the moment, but I'm worried about the Super Bowl. You saw people in Tampa crowded around one another and many mot wearing masks. I worry about all these kind of events where crowds of people get together. The worst of the crisis was last spring. People were working 24/7. We have 22 critical care beds, and we had 80 patients at one point. Not all were Covid cases, but we had to expand to other areas of the hospital to take care of these very sick people. In April 2020,

NORTH BELLMORE Patient care tech, Emergency Department, MSSN

I got Covid myself, not from a patient, but someone walked into my office and said she felt sick. I was out for three weeks at home. But when I came back, the strict rules we had got even stricter. No one was allowed to be anywhere without a mask, and we had PPE equipment to wear. I was affected the same way many others were. My father died in January 2020, and my family and I were not allowed to spend time with my mother. We had to go by her window and talk to her. I think the people who refuse to wear masks or think this is all some kind of hoax should come here and work. How dare they endanger other people’s health. I don’t understand what they don’t understand.

Treatment wasn't like it is today, so a lot of people that came in sick, they weren't getting better. They were just getting sicker, and now they have a better handle on it, how to treat it and how to handle the virus. I never saw a group of doctors, nurses or patient care techs come together for the betterment of the patient than I did during the peak of Covid. And it definitely affected many patients' outcomes. We're still getting plenty of cases coming in, but they're not as severe as they were a year ago, which is good for everybody all around. We've been able to keep up with it, the hospital has kept up with it, and when that happens, it's going to be a better outcome for the patient, and I think they've done a great job in handling this pandemic.

y job is to assist the medical staff, doctors and nurses in taking care of patients' needs while they’re with us in the Emergency Department. During the height of Covid-19, it was crazy and chaotic. When it was at its worst in the Emergency Department, we were very limited with space and the number of beds, and the influx of patients was just overwhelming for what we had space for. We had patients everywhere. If there was six inches of space, there was a patient there. Nobody knew what to expect, and I think it was worse than what anybody could have imagined. The severity of the cases coming in, it was all brand-new to everybody from the doctors to the nurses to us. It was just a learn as you go type of atmosphere.

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BRIAN SMITH

ROCKVILLE CENTRE 1st Assistant Chief, Rockville Centre Fire Department

have been certified EMT-B for over 10 years. I started working at Hunter EMS as a EMT-B four years ago and am currently the director of operations. I oversee the daily operations, training and community education. I enjoy teaching the newer certified EMTs on the standards of the pre-hospital care and patient transportation, along with the great relationship between Hunter EMS and the Catholic Health hospitals. It’s been an up-and-down rollercoaster, especially on the health care side. In the beginning, it was ever-changing. We had to figure out how to organize, and how to restructure quickly in order to get certain things done. There are have been good things and bad things. We’ve seen a lot of people come together, even though, outside of this, there’s been a great divide,

but we’ve seen how a lot of people did come together, hunker down, listen. But then we have the horror stories of people getting sick, losing family members, and it’s hard in that sense. Someone close to me spent four months in the hospital; he had his ups and downs, they didn’t think he was going to make it twice. He pulled through, and he’s in rehab and bouncing back. Others weren't so lucky. Now, we have a better handle on things at least. I think it’s a little bit better getting people transferred and getting people help than it was in the beginning. And now, going forward, with the vaccinations, I think it should be a lot better.

am a critical-care EMT, and like everyone else, Covid has affected the fire department tremendously. It’s cost us time and money, as we’ve had to purchase PPE supplies. We always focus on safety and pay attention to the situation so we can understand what we’re walking into. We now have to first talk to people from the doorway before entering the home so we can determine if it’s a Covid case. My job is to look out for the safety of the members of the fire department, and take care of the residents I’ve been sworn to protect. Last April, I tested positive for Covid-19, and had very mild symptoms. Fortunately, I carried antibodies and had antigens, and was able to donate plasma. This pandemic has made me more concerned about bodily substance isolation, and ensuring we’re using protective

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gear such as gloves, masks and eye shields to control the spread. I’m waiting for everyone else in the department to get vaccinated, and then I’ll get mine last. Out of about 200 department members, only 22 still have to get vaccinated, which will hopefully be done by the end of next week. This is the hardest thing I’ve had to do — scheduling the vaccinations is a daunting task. The system from the state is flawed, but I’m trying to work around it and get my membership taken care of.

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Officials urge people to get vaccinated By Ronny Reyes rreyes@liherald.com

When Maria Jordan-Awalom, of Freeport, contracted the coronavirus last year, she said one of her main motivations to recover was so she could protect her 84-year-old parents from the disease. As soon as she was cleared and healthy, Jordan-Awalom, a trustee of the Freeport School District Board of Education, became a public advocate to help disseminate information about the coronavirus to people like her parents, Spanish-speaking seniors who have trouble accessing the Internet, where the bulk of the information on the virus and vaccine access lie. “I was afraid that people like my parents wouldn’t be able to recover from the virus like I did,” Jordan-Awalom said. “I decided to help spread the word and help educate others with facts.” On Feb. 4, Jordan-Awalom joined State Sen. John Brooks and a panel of health experts during a webinar to discuss the impacts of Covid-19 and the current vaccination rollout on Long Island. Both Dr. John Zaso, a board member of the Nassau County Department of Health, and Dr. Andrew Clair, a pharmaceutical consultant with Pfizer, urged people to register for the vaccine as soon as they could. Zaso, of East Meadow, said that while vaccine supplies are limited, residents who currently qualify for the vaccine should check the county’s website daily to find an open appointment. He and Clair said those with pre-existing health conditions — like hypertension, obesity and diabetes — should definitely get vaccinated, as Covid-19 is a virus that can affect the whole body. “The virus can attack the brain, eyes, nose, heart, blood vessels, liver, kidneys and intestines,” Clair said. Zaso and Clair shared stories about colleagues who continue to suffer from Covid-19-related symptoms a year after they were first infected. Steven Jordan, a critical care nurse from Maine, also shared his stories of patients

who is eligible? ■ Those 65 and older ■ Medical professionals and anyone in contact with patients ■ Residents and staff of nursing homes ■ Coroners, medical examiners and certain funeral workers ■ First responders ■ Teachers ■ Grocery store employees ■ Employees or support staff of licensed or registered child-care centers ■ Public transit employees ■ Those working at or living in homeless shelters

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MaRia JoRdan-awaloM Recounted her story of helping her parents register for the Covid-19 vaccine. dying of Covid-19 in the intensive care unit. Jordan, who has worked as a nurse for a decade, said that as patients came in with Covid-19, they often became sicker and sicker as the virus ravaged their bodies. He added that as hospitals overflowed with patients, family members were not allowed to be with their loved ones in the ICU, so it was usually nurses who stayed with dying patients during their final moments. After seeing the devastation of Covid-19 firsthand, Jordan signed up for the Covid-19 vaccine and was among some of the first health care workers to receive it in December. While the first dose only left his arm a bit sore, the second dose left Jordan with a fever, headache and greater soreness. The side effects are common. Jordan-Awalom said the possibility of side effects seemed to scare her 84-year-old parents, but she explained to them that any side effects would be mild compared to what Covid-19 could do to them. “Luckily they haven’t gotten any symptoms after their first dose,” Jordan-Awalom said. “They’re feeling anxious about the second dose they’re scheduled for, but I’m reassuring them.” What had been more difficult, JordanAwalom said, was helping her parents get the initial appointment to receive the vaccine. She described a chaotic and stressful time as she and her sister needed to guide her parents through the whole process, since they do not have a computer and face a language barrier, as English is a second language to them. These barriers came as no surprise to Zaso and Clair, who emphasized how Covid19 revealed the racial disparities in the U.S. health care system, as Blacks and Latinos have suffered from the virus at higher rates than their white counterparts. National studies have shown that majority-minority communities like Freeport have had higher rates of Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths than predominantly white communities since the pandemic began last March, and in November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that African-Americans were 1.4 times more likely to contract Covid-19 than whites, 3.7 times more likely to be hospitalized for the virus and 2.8 percent more like-

ly to die from it. Clair added that while “white Americans like me can hunker down and work from home,” residents in communities of color often work in essential businesses and are thus at higher risk of exposure. Communities of color have the highest number of Covid-19 positive cases, with Baldwin consistently standing as one of the hardesthit hamlets in Nassau. As of Feb. 8, Baldwin had had about 2,941 positive cases since the start of the pandemic, according to the

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county Department of Health. Zaso said that while New York only receives 300,000 vaccines and about 7 million people are currently qualified in the state, officials are working to get the vaccines to the most vulnerable populations. He added that there would come a time when nearly everyone will have received the vaccine, including those who have already been infected with Covid-19, as the antibodies produced from natural infection are not “a good proof of immunity.”

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AMY ROSSi

BAldWiN Baldwin Fire Department First Aid Company

became a certified EMT during the pandemic, and as challenging as it is going back to school at an older age, the challenge of dealing with Covid-19 was quite the wake-up call. We are trained for all sorts of emergency situations, like car accidents, strokes and even overdoses. You’re advised how to deal with scared and irate family members. What you’re not taught in school is compassion. I have learned how important compassion is over patient care at times. We aren’t transporting patients unless we absolutely must, and unfortunately, during the pandemic, family members are unable to accompany the patient. It is a terrifying feeling, not only for the patient, but for the families as well. Fear of the unknown, fear

that this is possibly the last time they will see their loved one or hold their hand. As healthcare professionals, we are innately a compassionate group. I have had the pleasure of running into people that I have met on a call and have been told, “Thank you for your help, mom is doing much better,” and “Thank you for coming into our home, and taking care of my mom when she was so sick.” A smile can’t be seen under a mask, N-95, goggles and gowns, but just holding their hand, rubbing their arm and looking them in the eye is all it takes. That’s what most remember. That’s compassion. It’s a very scary time for all of us and hopefully we are headed in the right direction. In the meantime, we say in the fire house, remain positive, but stay negative.

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Libraries to receive $340k in CARES funds help for local libraries

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On Feb. 9, alongside local library directors, Hempstead Town Supervisor Donald Clavin announced that the town has approved more than $340,000 in grants to support several public libraries within the township (see box). The allocation was made possible by funding through the federal CARES Act, which was secured by U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer last year. Each library will receive a more than $20,000 grant to help pay for unbudgeted expenses incurred during the pandemic. Clavin said the funding will also allow these institutions to continue to provide essential programs and services to their communities. “They might have lost some sort of benefit they’d given the community,” he explained. “No one in our town was spared from the impacts of this pandemic and the financial toll it has taken, [and] we are proud to be able to provide this funding to our neighborhood libraries so they can continue serving the residents of Hempstead Town.” Most libraries have continued to offer a full complement of services throughout the pandemic with Covid-19 safety measures in place. These include high-grade Plexiglas shields for circulation and reference desks, personal protective equipment for staff, daily sanitizing procedures, UVlighting to disinfect books and printed

Courtesy Town of Hempstead

oN FeB. 9, Hempstead Town Supervisor Donald Clavin, at lectern, announced that the town will allocate more than $340,000 of federal CARES Act funding to support several libraries within the township. materials and reconfiguration of library spaces to maintain social distancing. The announcement came from outside the Levittown Public Library on Feb. 10. Levittown Library Trustee Steve Dalton commended town officials for their support. “There are two broad purposes for this money,” he said. “It’s one, to make inperson library use safer for our patrons and our staff, and two, to expand digital and virtual access to library materials.” Digital and virtual access includes lending hotspot devices and installing Wi-Fi routers and boosters so patrons can

access the library’s Wi-Fi during off hours. Town Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby pointed out that the libraries could also use the funds to keep developing virtual literacy programs, which are increasing children’s skills with computer programs like Zoom and strengthening their adjustment to remote learning. Town Councilman Christopher Carini recalled fond memories of leading civic association meetings at the Seaford Public Library, further proving their importance.

East Meadow Public Library Elmont Memorial Library Franklin Square Public Library Hempstead Public Library Island Park Public Library Island Trees Public Library Lakeview Public Library Levittown Public Library Merrick Library Peninsula Public Library Seaford Public Library Uniondale Public Library Wantagh Public Library West Hempstead Public Library Baldwin Public Library Rockville Centre Public Library North Bellmore Public Library Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito regarded the institutions as “a central location for meetings” that have the ability to bring community members together. “No one could have anticipated the impact that Covid-19 would have on libraries and so many other aspects of our daily lives,” he said, “and these relief funds will go a long way to helping them get back on their feet.”

Inside LI webinar focuses on estate planning By Nicole AlciNdor nalcindor@liherald.com

The coronavirus pandemic has, like never before, demonstrated to families that they must prepare now, not later, for any eventuality. Herald Inside LI recently held a webinar, “2021 Estate and Medicaid Planning,” to provide guidance to Long Islanders on how to do just that. The event, sponsored by Family Care Connections LLC and by D’Angelo Law Associates, included guests Frank D’Angelo, of Family Care Connections, and his daughter, Stephanie D’Angelo, of D’Angelo Law Associates. Stephanie, who has been a trust and estates attorney for 10 years, spent the first 30 minutes speaking on the importance of having a will. “Everyone should have a will, and if you have a bank account, it makes you able to distribute your finances,” she said. “If you don’t have a will, you will have to go through a process called administration—which means the law dictates where your money goes. With a will, you can distribute the assets in the way you want to.” Be sure, she said, to store a will in a fireproof box when keeping it at home, and keep it in good condition, without staples or tears. “We look to see if the will is in good

condition, and this impacts how we view the person’s intent, and just because you wrote something out does not make it a will,” she said. “People should create a will with an attorney that focuses and specializes in this area of law.” D’Angelo advises married couples with children to meet with a trustworthy attorney to review their estate and draft a will. D’Angelo added that adult children with disabilities would require special treatment in a will. “Look for a power of attorney for that person with disabilities, and you may have to get guardianship over that child if they can’t vouch for themselves by signing documents,” she said. “People can get a special-needs trust for their children to protect their child’s finances.” D’Angelo said that despite the difficulty of talking about death, it’s vital for people to hold conversations about their wills with loved ones. “We all know that at some point our parents will be gone, and if your family doesn’t normally talk about things like this, go to an attorney and then reach out to your elderly loved ones,” she said. After, Frank shared about his work at Family Care Connections helping people qualify for Medicaid, which provides medical insurance for low-income people. Eligible populations include chil-

dren, pregnant women, single individuals, families, and individuals certified blind or disabled. “Family Care Connections is a comprehensive service that aims to aid people who are facing many things that come with aging,” he said. “Generally, a home-care Medicaid application is processed in about one to two months tops, which includes eligibility and getting the care.” For 2021, he said, a single individual who is 65 years or older must have an income of less than $2,382 per month to qualify for Medicaid. This applies to nursing home Medicaid, as well as assisted-living services, “This number went into effect last January, and the qualifications for Medicaid change every year at the beginning of the year,” he said. “If you make a higher income than the Medicaid qualifications, then you have the option to do a pooled income trust—which is a trust that can be set up with a nonprofit organization where you can put your income, and then you identify your monthly income and expenses, and expenses get paid through that income.” Fo r t h e p o o l e d i n c o m e t r u s t , D’Angelo said, people are typically required to pay a monthly fee for trust management. The trust allows people to take their excess income and apply it to monthly expenses or payments, and

then qualify for Medicaid. “People always come to me wondering what they should do with their additional income,” he said. “My answer is usually, ‘You need to transfer all assets, which will enable you to qualify for Medicaid. And, of course, always talk to your financial adviser to know what the parameters are.’”

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The Power of Play: How to Make the Most of Your Children’s Playtime Engaging in playtime with your kids can be more powerful than you think! By seeing play for the skill-building practice that it is, getting involved with your kids when they do it, and expertly crafting your toy toolbox, you can unlock the power of play for your family!

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You may have heard that “play is the work of children” (famously touted by one of the first child development experts, Jean Piaget). Not only do we trust our kids to have fun while playing, but we also know that through play, they learn countless skills. But did you know that playing with your children is also one of the best ways to communicate? We’re breaking down the why, how, and what of creating growth and connection through play.

Why Should Children (and Parents!) Play?

Play isn’t a broad category for anything that’s “not learning;” on the contrary, play allows children to practice what they’ve learned and experiment with new skills and ideas. You may have noticed your children playing games that reflect other aspects of their life - your 6-yearold uses Legos to build a summer camp (he’s missing his camp friends), or your 8-year-old is always on a superhero mission (her new friends at school love Marvel). Watching your kids play can be like a window into their world. Better yet? Playing with your children will give you a foot-inthe-door; you’ll suddenly be an active participant in their most important work, and this role will give you credibility and insight when you need it to work through future situations.

You can see why play is central to a child’s development and that your role in play is crucial for building connection and communication, but what if you don’t like to play? You’re not alone. Many parents find that playing pretend or collecting your 100th Pokémon isn’t an enjoyable way to spend time – and that’s okay. You don’t have to love playing these games, and you’re not a “bad” parent if you’d rather do something else. Just keep three things in mind: 1. Negotiating is one of the skills that your child learns through experience, so feel free to collaboratively decide what’s on the agenda. 2. You don’t necessarily have to play for a long time for it to be meaningful, so opt for short 10-minute sessions of your least favorite games. 3. You get to choose what games and tools are in the house, so make the most of this power by choosing wisely!

How Play Builds Skills

Giving your children space to play not only introduces some fun but also allows them to explore feelings, thoughts, and questions that may be too complex for words. It’s often easier to see what a toddler learns from play

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Choosing the Right Tools

Play can happen spontaneously or at a planned time, with toys or without, alone or in groups – its versatility means that there are almost infinite tools available that market themselves as “the best.” Because play provides so much of your child’s foundational experience and creates a way to build connection and communication, it’s important to spend time thinking about the tools that you provide for playing. Consider a few questions when building your home’s play toolbox: 1. Are there tools and opportunities for outside play? 2. Is this toy open-ended or is it limited in scope? 3. Do we have toys and tools that address various aspects of learning (social, emotional, physical, etc.)? 4. What are my child’s interests, and do we have ways for them to explore these? 5. Feel like you’re “supposed to” shy away from digital tools/games? Don’t! Often, online games provide an approach that can help fill in the gaps. When choosing digital options, look for things that are created by child development experts. A great example of a digital tool is Mightier. A research-backed video game platform that helps kids to practice navigating emotions through play. Along with teaching emotional regulation skills, it can help to enrich play and communication between kids and parents in a way that’s often hard to target through traditional toys. If the work of children is to play, then it’s up to parents to provide the best tools for the job. By actively participating in our children’s play and offering games and opportunities for exploring a whole range of skills, we can ensure that they are well-equipped to continue their most important work of growing up! To learn more about Mightier, go to our website at www.mightier.com/newyear Sponsored Content

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– fine motor skills, colors, object permanence. What’s more challenging is seeing the value that comes from an older child’s playtime: when kids play low-stakes games, they can freely practice high-importance skills. When play is self-directed without an adult agenda, children are more likely to persist when confronted with challenges. Practicing patience, persistence, and resilience ultimately lead to success and confidence-building. Similarly, risk-taking during games can help kids learn what it feels like to forge ahead even when scared and seek out resources during difficult situations. Playing with others is a prime space for navigating social roles and developing empathy.And when kids play with their parents? They learn that adults can have fun and make mistakes, and that communicating with their parents is not always adversarial.

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ebruary is about far more than conversation hearts and romantic rendezvouses: the month of love also marks American Heart Month, which calls major attention to heart health. And for good reason: as the fifth largest and most important organ in your body, your heart beats a hundred thousand times a day, pumping blood to all of your organs and enabling you to perform everything from driving a car to performing downward facing dog. In other words, when your heart is in jeopardy — of the physical sort, mind you — so is your life. Indeed, heart disease — which affects more than 43 million American women per year —is the number one killer in both men and women, rendering it a greater hazard than breast and prostate cancer. While genetics may play a role in your predisposition to heart disease, a quarter of deaths from cardiovascular failure are preventable. Lifestyle changes can reduce your risk of heart disease by a whopping 80 percent. What’s more? Key tweaks to your daily activities allow for a richer, more fulfilling existence. Here are some leading changes you can implement today to keep your ticker safe tomorrow. Skip the pasta Italian might be more your thing, but the point is this: eating more fish — specifically low-mercury fish—can be a boon for your heart, thanks to its healthy doses of omega-3 fats. Take it from the American Heart Association: “Omega-3 fatty acids fatty acids benefit the heart of healthy people, and those at high risk of—or who have —c ardiovascular disease. Research demonstrates that omega-3 fatty acids decreases the risk of arrhythmias (abnormal heartbeats), which can lead to sudden death.” Further, upping your consumption of fish supports normal blood pressure. Low-mercury is critical here, however. Mercury — a heavy metal found naturally in the environment and absorbed by fish — can irritate the lining of your blood vessels and serve as a potential cause of atherosclerosis, a hardening of the arteries that may render you more susceptible to stroke. Salmon, freshwater trout, herring, tilapia and tuna are all excellent choices, while high-mercury choices like ahi and tuna, King mackerel and swordfish should be minimized. Floss your teeth Studies have shown that periodontitis raises your risk of heart disease, in part because of inflammation and the increased thickness of blood vessels in the neck. While further research remains to be done, oral health — accomplished by brushing after meals and flossing once a day, preventative care and cleanings — is often indicative of how well a person takes care of themselves in general. Forgo the salt Let’s get one thing out of the way: salt is critical for life. It’s an essential mineral for every cell in the body — it helps regulate your heartbeat, blood pressure, nerve transmission, muscle contraction, stomach acid and pH balance. The problem, however, rests in the average American’s consumption of salt, which exceeds the daily recommendation of 1,100 to 3,300 mg of sodium each day for adults. (To picture this, one teaspoon of salt gives you 2,300 mg of sodium.) And, as you probably know, high amounts of salt in the

diet have been associated with high blood pressure, which can cause ischemic heart disease. The solution lies not in removing salt from your diet completely but in finding the right balance of sodium to potassium — two components that work together in a unique way to regulate your water balance, which, in turn regulates your blood pressure. Indeed, studies demonstrate that when sodium is decreased and potassium is increased, blood pressure can drop. In short, aim to increase the potassium in your diet by eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, which are rich in potassium and low in sodium. At the same time, be mindful of the type of salt you consume. Commercial salt goes through a dramatic metamorphosis before it reaches your dinner table — it’s heated, bleached, stripped of its minerals and oftentimes treated with anticaking agents that contain aluminum. Reach for unrefined salt that comes from the sea instead, and use it sparingly. Dine early A wholesome diet is crucial for maintaining (or improving) heart health. But recent research suggests that it isn’t just what you eat but also when you eat that matters. According to the American Heart Association, eating more calories earlier in the day and fewer calories at night may decrease your chances of stroke, heart attack or other heart and blood vessel diseases. Take it from Marie Pierre St. Onge, a nutrition researcher at Columbia University. “We may not process sugars as well at night as we do during the day, and studies of shift workers have linked this schedule with a greater risk of obesity and heart disease than a typical day job,” she says, going on to cite that 30 percent of Americans skip breakfast. Which is a shame, given that eating breakfast is associated with lower weight, a healthier diet overall and a lower risk of heart disease. Join the healthier side of the statistic by making your morning meal a priority. Aim to eat protein, fruits and/or veggies, and some heart-healthy omega-3s. One dish that hits all three? A slice of chia-seed or whole wheat toast topped with nut butter and a sliced banana. Schedule in some ‘me time’ The link between chronic stress and heart disease cannot be underemphasized. Such negative stress has a profound impact on your body, from higher levels of stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol, to changes in the way your blood clots. What’s more, chronic stress — whether derived from a grueling work schedule or troubles at home — tends to spur lifestyle changes that may further increase your risk for heart disease, including over-eating, under-exercising, smoking and over-imbibing. To mitigate the stress in your life, it’s imperative that you carve out time for you —and you alone. “Me time,” however that may be defined, allows you to catch your breath, decompress, assess where you are (physically, spiritually and emotionally) and enjoy life’s riches. Above photo: Caring for your heart through a healthy diet and regular physical activity is the secret weapon. While many may assume that popping a few pills that your healthcare provider prescribed is enough to quell symptoms or prevent a heart attack, the real preventative power lies with real changes to your lifestyle,

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Exercise, along with heart healthy eating, is essential if you want to keep your ticker at its best. To get heart-healthy benefits, you need to get your heart rate up. There are dozens of activities you can do to help your heart. Whether it is a structured exercise program or just part of your daily routine, all physical activity adds up. Consider these tips from personal trainers to get the most out of your exercise program. Pick up your pace Aerobic exercises done 30 minutes a day is excellent for increasing your heart rate. Climbing the stairs, a brisk walk, cross trainer exercise machine or treadmill, anything to get your heart rate up. Any moderate-intensity exercise like swimming, jogging, zumba and yoga is good. Exercising your heart muscle means exercising your body. You don’t need a gym, just a bit of motivation and a good pair of walking shoes. Tone up Strength training is a great complement to aerobic training and helps to prevent age-related bone and muscle-mass losses. Keep in mind that strength training doesn’t increase heart rate but does increase stamina. Use it to target areas where muscletone is needed and don’t forget the other muscle groups. If you already do a vigorous aerobic routine or enrolled in an exercise class, then three days a week for 20 minutes a day is good.

For adults that are 65 and older or anyone with chronic conditions or limited mobility, you need the same amount of exercise as younger people — the activity can be less intense. Use good judgment and follow your doctor’s advice. Stick to a schedule If you “don’t have time” then fit shorter but more frequent periods of time, like 5-10 minutes several times a day throughout your day. Take the stairs, park your car further away from the door, and definitely count in those house chores such as mowing the lawn, vacuuming, or a short brisk walk around the block at lunch or for a break. With any plan, start strength training slowly and build up to heavier weights and repetitions especially if you are new or out of shape. The old adage “no pain, no gain” is more often inappropriate and can be dangerous. Stretching exercises done twice a week helps keep flexibility, which is very important. Consider 10 minutes of stretching twice a week to improve your flexibility With any exercise program, it’s good to start slowly by warming up, then increasing the pace. A good cooling down afterwards is also equally important. Above photo: It’s easier than you might think to improve your health with exercise. You don’t have to jog for an hour a day. In fact, some studies have shown greater health benefits from light to moderate exercise simply because people are more likely to stick with it.

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At the heart of your hearing It may seem unlikely, but your heart and your hearing are connected! Increasingly, studies show that people with compromised cardiovascular health are at increased risk for impaired hearing and even decline of cognitive function, underscoring the need for broad scale health and wellness management. Because both your hearing and your heart rely on healthy blood vessels, individuals with poor circulation, cardiovascular disease, diabetes or high blood pressure, should be particularly vigilant about checking their hearing and sharing this information with their audiologist. In fact, nearly 70 percent of adults with diabetes over the age of 40 have some level of hearing loss, which can be well-managed when found and treated early. Optimal heart and hearing health can be maintained with

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It’s pretty safe to say that many people fell off the healthy eating wagon during 2020 — stress from the pandemic to remote learning at home for the kids to actual quarantining left lots of us reaching for the chips and cookies. Regularly scheduled meal times also fell by the wayside as Zoom meetings and Google Classrooms took over the house. As we settle in to 2021, let it be a reset for all kinds of things, including nutrition. Jessica Crandall, registered dietician, says this is a great time to get back to the basics of healthy eating. And, she adds, if you’ve gained weight during the past year for whatever reason, it’s important not to be tempted by fad dieting. “Trendy things to avoid include keto, fasting and cleanses,” she said. “There is no quick fix! And there is little data to support longterm benefits for any of these trendy diets. A high-fat diet (like keto) is not recommended for anyone with cardiac issues. And the keto diet is often low in fiber, which has long studied and proven health benefits! “Fasting can have a negative effect on your metabolism, making it harder to lose weight in the long term,” said Crandall. “It can make it difficult to get your nutritional needs met as well. And there is no scientific research to support the benefit of most cleanses. The best way to detoxify your system is to eat a balanced diet with as little processed foods as possible! We all know that improving our diet can drastically improve overall health. Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet can reduce your risk for heart disease, reduce your risk for many types of cancer, and can help you experience a better quality of life and even live a longer life. Unfortunately, when many people think of improving their diet, they think of “going on a diet.” They imagine something similar to a New Year’s resolution where they cut back on everything and make sweeping changes to their lifestyle. And while it is definitely a good idea to want to change your lifestyle and eating habits, most of us realize that “going on a diet,” as we tend to think about it, is really difficult and can even make us feel worse about

ourselves if we fail. Instead, those drastic, sweeping changes should be thought of as an end-goal of a healthy nutrition plan, and instead of changing everything about your diet all at once, it’s much more manageable to make small improvements along the way to help reach that end goal of a healthier diet. Consider these some important tips to get back on track and focused on a heart-healthy lifestyle. Drink more water. Water helps as an aid in digestion, and helps to flush bacteria from the bladder, normalizes blood pressure, stabilizes heartbeat, as well as maintaining hydration. Eat more fiber. Don’t fear carbs! A highfiber diet helps you feel full, lowers cholesterol, helps control blood sugar levels and maintains bowel health/regularity. Good sources of fiber include whole fruits, vegetables, potatoes (especially the skin), beans/legumes, whole grains (such as brown or wild rice, quinoa, barley, farro and whole grain pasta). Eat more plants. Purchase whole fruits and vegetables in their natural state and prepare as desired (raw, roasted or sautéed). Include bean/legumes and nuts. Try to include at least one fruit or vegetable with each meal. Eat enough for breakfast. Think of it as fueling your day! Having a good (as in balanced, with some fiber and protein) breakfast will help control your appetite throughout the rest of the day. Eat fewer processed foods. Processed meats are high in sodium and usually high in saturated fat. Processed plant-based meats are also high in sodium and often high fat also. Snack foods, sugary cereals and candy are nutritionally void and do not satisfy your hunger. Prepared foods — such as boxed, flavored rice mixes, instant potatoes and canned soups — have added sodium. Above photo: Every choice you make to improve your nutrition matters. You don’t have to be perfect and you don’t have to completely eliminate foods you enjoy to have a healthy diet. The long term goal is to feel good, have more energy, and reduce the risk of heart disease, among other health risks.

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Cyberbullying among teens has been a problem for some time, and the issue has been exacerbated during the pandemic. On Thursday, Feb. 11, a group of panelists came together to address the issue in a virtual roundtable discussion. Hosted by S e n . To d d Kaminsky, the panel included students, educators, law enforcement officials, pare n t s, a dvo cates, and Dr. Scott Poland, an inter nationally recognized expert ashleY Ganesh on youth suiStudent, Baldwin High cide and selfharm. PanelSchool ists discussed their experiences and provided ideas on how to combat the issue going forward. Sue Moller, a guidance counselor at Lynbrook High School, said that cyberbullying has evolved during the pandemic. “There’s a lot more exclusion bullying versus outright bullying,” Moller said. A 2020 study by the Cyberbullying Research Center found that one in five children between the ages of 9 and 12 have seen or been the victims of cyberbullying. “You really don’t see physical bullying anymore,” Ashley Ganesh, a senior at Baldwin High School, said. “That’s been a really apparent change from elementary school to high school. It’s all online now, especially on TikTok.” Ganesh, an ambassador in the Northwell HealthCohen’s Anti-Bullying Ambassador Program, also said that she has seen Instagram and TikTok rumor accounts that can spread hurtful or damaging rumors with near total anonymity and a lack of accountability from either the account owner or the social media platforms. Panelist Stacey Seltzer shared the story of her 13-year-old daughter’s experience with cyberbullying where a TikTok user took images from her private account and added sexually explicit music. Seltzer contacted local law

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aT The virTual roundtable on Feb. 11, stakeholders and Sen. Todd Kaminsky discussed the prevalence of cyberbullying in New York state, explored its root causes and spoke about possible solutions in addition to Kaminsky’s pending legislation to establish a state task force on the issue. enforcement and her child’s school and eventually was able to stop the harassment, but she struggled to get any sort of response from TikTok or Instagram. “There’s just no way to get anyone, so no one is held responsible,” Seltzer said. “This is like the tobacco companies. They’re cashing in on our children’s well-being,” Katie Duffy Schumacher, the founder of Don’t Press Send, a campaign aimed at educating and empowering people to use technology responsibly, said. Solomon Noyem Akaeze, a sophomore at Valley Stream Central High School and the president/founder of Students Committed to Social Justice,

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warned that barring kids and teens from phones is not a permanent solution. Rather, he said, it will take a culture change to get people to stop cyberbullying and that will involve parents making their kids aware of the effects of prolonged social media use. “You need to educate your kids on the gravity of the situation,” Akaeze said, “and how much it can really affect them.” Dr. David Kilmnick, president of the LGBT Network, likewise cautioned that simply taking phones away might not be helpful. For LGBTQ+ teens, surrendering their phone might not be helpful if they do not have supportive parents. “LGBT youth are two to three times more likely to commit suicide to begin with,” Kilmnick said. “If they get rejected by their family, they’re eight times more likely to commit suicide.” He urged parents to avoid punitive measures and educate their kids so that they understand the ramifications of what they say online. “When we know kids are involved in bullying, we should not hesitate to ask them questions about hopelessness, thoughts of giving up and thoughts of suicide,” Poland said. A psychology professor at Nova Southeastern University, Poland also spoke of the importance of supporting victims and providing consequences for bullies. The CDC currently lists suicide as the second

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Elmont $650,000 Theodora Street. Colonial. 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms. Finished basement. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room. First floor master bedroom. Taxes: $10,902 Merrick $699,000 Ellen Drive. Splanch. 5 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Finished basement. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room and skylight. Custom garage doors. Taxes: $16,025.44 Long Beach $590,000 W. Olive Street. Ranch. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Finished basement. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room. First floor master bedroom. Taxes: $12,271.45

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Bellmore $838,000 Judith Drive. Hi Ranch. 5, bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room and home office. Taxes: $17,059.45 East Meadow $700,000 Gates Avenue. Colonial. 5 bedrooms 4 bathrooms. Finished basement with accessory apartment with separate entrance. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room and skylight. Taxes: $13,567.35 East Rockaway $650,000 Waverly Avenue. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Eatin kitchen. Formal dining room. Spacious great room with fireplace. New central air conditioning. Taxes: $15,062.50

Oceanside $750,000 Murdock Avenue. Hi Ranch. 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms. Finished basement. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room and home office. Skylight. On deep water canal with large yard. Taxes: $21,403.64 Valley Stream $508,000 Marlow Road. Cape. 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. L-shaped dining room. First floor master bedroom. Taxes: $12,294.54 Rockville Centre $729,000 Tarence Street. Colonial. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Finished basement. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room and home office. Taxes: $22,590.04 Woodmere $765,000 Ocean Avenue. Farmhouse. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Finished basement. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room. Taxes: $14,606.78 Source: The Multiple Listing Service of Long Island Inc,, a computerized network of real estate offices serving Nassau, Suffolk, Queens, and Brooklyn.

Q. A few homes in my neighborhood are much taller. What are the rules for how tall a house can be — like how many floors, and what’s legal? I mostly see only two stories, but the new ones are at least three stories. Is this a new thing that you can build taller? Was it just traditional to only build two stories until now?

A. Recently, influences have changed the thinking on allowed height. Hurricane Sandy’s flooding caused New York to promote house lifting in flood zones. Influence also came from the Federal Emergency Management agency, which, in essence, is a publicly funded insurance company, covering people in areas where regular onte eeper home insurance companies avoid the risk of insuring. to lift or build higher is to avoid huge flood insurance cost increases by building above flood levels, with the lowest level only allowed to be for a garage and storage, not living space. By making the first livable floor higher, above the flood level, insurance rates are kept lower. People have shown me that their rates went from $500 to $5,000 a year, increasing annually since Sandy in 2012. Some homes are much higher than codes and incentives intended, due to misinterpretation of reasons to build higher and misrepresentation in the review process. For example, a home’s first floor is no longer a first floor if it’s higher than 6 feet above the ground. Over 6 feet high, the floor level automatically becomes a second floor, meaning the next floor above is a third floor, which requires zoning board approval, interior sprinklers, escape terraces and wind strengthening. I’ve seen home plans misrepresented as being two stories by not correctly showing the floor level heights or describing a second floor as a first floor, the next floor as a second floor that is really a third floor and even where a fourth floor is shown as a mezzanine or roof level balcony. There’s a small country town in Tuscany, in central Italy, San Gimignano, that is famous for its skyline of towers that people built on their homes during medieval times. As the story goes, one prominent homeowner built a tall tower to watch for potential attackers. His neighbor jealously built a tower a little higher, and, not to be outdone, several adjacent homeowners began building towers higher and higher than one another. History repeats itself. Thirty feet from the ground or the center of the road is your maximum roof height. The safety code intends to protect people from perishing in fires. The first code chapter addresses wind resistance, since the taller you build, the more turbulence from adjacent buildings and wind destruction, not just to your building but also to adjacent buildings. With the 75-mph gusts of wind we’ve been known to have, wind, like flooding, is a real concern. Manhattan towers aren’t wood and nails for a reason. Decisions to build higher have to take community safety and appearance into account, and until recently, they did.

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e lost our sense of normalcy in recent years, didn’t we? Nearly every morning of his presidency, Donald J. Trump treated us to one outlandish tweet after another, one more extreme, more incendiary, than the next, until finally that routine became our new normal. We were conditioned, as if in a Pavlovian experiment, to jeer or cheer, depending on party affiliation, when his tweets appeared in big, bold letters on the TV news, usually first thing in SCOTT the morning. So we began each day BRINTON feeling angry and despondent, or elated and victorious, depending on whether we disagreed or agreed with the president’s rhetoric. I, like so many others, felt fear in my heart when the U.S. appeared on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea. I felt helpless rage when babies, many the children of narco-violence refugees, were ripped from their parents’ arms and separated and caged in sterile detention facilities. I felt numb last summer when the president sent federal forces to disperse peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters near the White House with tear gas and rubber bullets so he could stage a photo op, holding up a Bible, then simply walk-

ing away. And I felt mournful and depressed — and, again, helpless — as I watched him mock basic hygiene measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, and convene mass rallies to boost his already hyper-inflated ego, while hundreds of thousands of Americans died and the economy tanked. Since he first announced his candidacy for president in June 2015, it has been all Trump all the time. The circus should have ended Nov. 3, the day Joe Biden was elected our 46th president with the largest popular vote in the nation’s history — more than 81 million ballots cast for him. It didn’t, however. Trump sought, by any means necessary, to overturn an election that, by all official accounts except his, was an efficient and lawful exercise in democracy. Many had predicted that violence would erupt. When you condition a dog to maul, it will when called on to do so. On Jan. 6, the mob of Trump supporters, conditioned by the president’s continual tweeting and provoked by his now infamous “fight like hell” speech, attacked, unleashing collective fury on a Congress that had gathered to count the Electoral College votes and once and for all certify the results of the election. And so, last week, when we should have been focused on Covid-19 vaccine distribu-

tion and economic stimulus, Trump was once again front and center in the national consciousness. None of us were happy about it. His detractors felt deep loathing. His supporters, I imagine, were riled up, angrier than ever to see him tried in the Senate for the second time. For those who oppose Trump, the impeachment trial was a necessary exercise in futility, knowing there likely wouldn’t be 17 Republican senators courageous enough to vote to convict him, but believing he should at least be shamed publicly for his role in the Capitol insurrection. For those who love Trump, meanwhile, the trial was yet another occasion to revel in his seeming invulnerability, no matter what he might have done. The question is, how do we recover from the past five years of uninterrupted political turmoil, and now very real death and destruction? How do we find peace again? I, for one, desperately want to feel normal again. I hate feeling angry and depressed. I need to start enjoying my life once more, without a sense of impending doom. I want to wake up feeling free — free of Trump and the angry mob of Jan. 6. We must end the coronavirus pandemic for any of us to feel entirely free again, but resolving our political differences would go a long way toward restoring our sense of normalcy.

ow do we recover from the past five years of uninterrupted political turmoil?

Personally, I want what we had in America long ago, before House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Fox News declared war on our political establishment in the 1990s, leading us down a slippery slope that, over time, sent us hurtling into the Trump presidency, which ended, predictably, with Capitol rioting. I want what I had as a teenager and young 20-something back in the 1980s and early ’90s — the ability to debate critical issues — abortion, environmental regulation, monetary policy — with friends and acquaintances, of all political stripes, and then hang out over pizza and a game of basketball. Politics played an important role in people’s lives back then, but it wasn’t the center of our universe. Trump, as the nation’s first shock-jock president, forced his firebrand politics into the very core of our being. His presidency became our national psychosis. Setting politics aside, what I love about Biden thus far is this: He doesn’t need to be the center of our collective attention at all times. Day by day, he is quietly leading, offering straight talk, and perhaps — perhaps — that is how we recover from the recent years of fear and rage: four years of honesty and compassion. Let the healing begin. Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@ liherald.com.

Grab your ladle: The soup’s on the table

This column is back by popular demand. Well, in truth, only one reader, shivering through the freezing weather, remembered that I once wrote about winter soups, and asked me to do another one. My pleasure. I cook every night, and over the years, I’ve gathered a collection of recipes, tweaked to a healthier way of eating. Mind you, we aren’t fanatics, but I’m happy to avoid any soup made with cream or excessive amounts of butter. Also, there’s no meat in these prepRANDI arations. KREISS These days, weeks and months through the pandemic, I have been making big, and I mean big, pots of soup, and then, before my husband can see how much is there, I siphon off a quart or more and hide it in the freezer. This neutralizes his portion-control issues and addresses my what-if fears, like if we both get sick at the same time, how will we eat?

But let’s not go down that dark path. Let me share a few faves:

Manhattan clam chowder ■ 2 tablespoons olive oil ■ 1 large onion, chopped ■ 1 clove garlic, minced ■ 1 red or green pepper, diced ■ 2 celery stalks with leaves, diced ■ 2 small cans chopped clams, including juice ■ 2 bottles clam juice ■ 1 16-ounce can crushed tomatoes ■ 1 bay leaf ■ ½ teaspoon dried thyme leaves ■ ¼ teaspoon dried marjoram leaves ■ 1/8 teaspoon black pepper In large pot, heat garlic, add onion, celery, peppers and sauté. Drain clams and set aside. Add all other ingredients and simmer 30 minutes. Add clams and adjust seasoning. Serve with wedges of toasted homemade sourdough bread, which is another whole story.

Chicken tortilla soup

■ Buy a roasted or rotisserie chicken, or use raw chicken thighs or breasts, cut into pieces (about 3 cups)

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2 tablespoons olive oil 1 cup chopped onion 3 cloves garlic, minced 8 cups chicken broth 1 large can chopped tomatoes 1 teaspoon cumin 1 can fat-free refried beans 1 can mild green chilies 1 tablespoon lime juice ¾ cup diced avocado ½ cup chopped cilantro ½ teaspoon pepper ¼ teaspoon salt Parmesan cheese

Sauté onion and garlic in olive oil. Add all the other ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes. Serve with tortilla chips broken into the soup. Add more spices and cheese to taste.

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14 cups chicken stock or broth 1¼ cups pearl barley 3 tablespoons olive oil 3 cups chopped onions 1 pound fresh mushrooms, sliced 4 cloves garlic, minced

■ 1/3 cup chopped dried shiitake mushrooms ■ 1 carrot, peeled and thinly sliced ■ 1 parsnip, peeled and thinly sliced ■ 2 stalks celery, thinly sliced ■ Salt and pepper to taste Sauté garlic and onion in olive oil. Add fresh mushrooms and sauté 5 minutes. Add sautéed mix with all other ingredients to large pot of chicken stock. Rinse barley before adding. Simmer for 1 hour. Adjust spices.

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4 cups chicken broth or stock 1 bag fresh spinach 4 cloves garlic, minced Juice of 1 fresh lemon 1 egg, beaten Salt and pepper Fresh parsley or cilantro to taste

Sauté minced garlic. Add all ingredients except egg to broth and simmer 5 or 6 minutes. Just before serving, pour egg into simmering soup, forming the egg drop threads. Serve immediately. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Vaccine distribution needs improvement

he rollout of New York state’s Covid-19 vaccine distribution has been, at times, disorganized, even chaotic, but in fairness, the state has received a mere 300,000 doses per week, while the need is significantly greater than that — there are nearly 19.5 million people living in the state, and more than 7 million of them are currently eligible to receive the vaccine. Three hundred thousand represents 1.5 percent of the state’s population. The actual percentage of people receiving the vaccine, however, is less than 1 percent per week, as each person must receive two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine to achieve 95 percent immunity to the coronavirus. So, at the current rate of vaccination, we would need more than 100 weeks — about two years — to vaccinate everyone in the state, and at least 60 weeks, or a little more than a year, to achieve “herd immunity.” As is the case with all other states, New York’s weekly allocation is determined by the federal government. Last week, President Biden announced that his administration had finalized deals to buy 200 million more vaccine doses from Pfizer and Moderna by this summer, so it appears increasingly likely that he will be able to make good on a promise to ensure that all Americans who choose to be vaccinated can be. These are frustrating months. Life-saving vaccines started streaming into the public in early December, but slowly. That is behind us, though. Now we must focus on the future. We urge people to be patient as more vaccine is manufactured and sent out to the states. Your turn will come — soon. In the meantime, keep following the critical

Who’s next for an inoculation? New York state began the second part of Phase 2b of its Covid-19 inoculation distribution plan on Monday. Those in the phase include women who are pregnant and people with: ■ Cancer, current or in remission, including 9/11-related cancers ■ Chronic kidney disease ■ Pulmonary disease ■ Intellectual and developmental disabilities, including Down syndrome ■ Heart conditions, including high blood pressure ■ Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) ■ Severe obesity (body mass index of 40 safety protocols that we have heard repeated again and again over the past year — stay home as much as possible, keep at least six feet of distance between you and others, wear a mask (or two) when in public (KN95 masks are five-layered and tight-fitting), wash your hands often and use hand sanitizer when you cannot. And even after you receive the vaccine, be sure to continue these measures. We were surprised to see that food bank workers were not included in New York’s staged vaccine distribution plan. Those who work at food banks, many of them volunteers, are doing God’s work, feeding the hungry and the poor. If they don’t show up to work, people don’t eat, lowering their immune systems, making them

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leTTers The truth on abortion To the Editor: For many years I have enjoyed reading Randi Kreiss’s column. Although we differ on many of her opinions, Kreiss is clearly well read, knows how to use the English language effectively and can be very funny to boot. In her recent column “2020: What did you do while you waited?” Kreiss observed all the ways we’ve had to “wait” during the coronavirus pandemic. What struck me most was her comment, “For women, the iconic wait of our lives is pregnancy, the time we go inward and focus attention on the seed of life growing inside.” I know she’s a supporter of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision and the right to terminate a pregnancy, but I think her description of a “seed of life growing inside” inadvertently speaks the truth of the abortion issue: that the seed growing inside a pregnant woman is a life. I know this issue has been enthusiastically debated on

kg/m2 or higher), obesity (body mass index of between 30 kg/m2 and 40 kg/ m2) ■ Sickle cell disease or thalassemia ■ Type 1 or 2 diabetes mellitus ■ Cerebrovascular disease ■ Neurologic conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease and dementia ■ Liver disease Previous phases included health care and emergency workers, educators, essential workers and those over age 65. For more information and instructions on how to schedule your vaccine, go to the New York State Department of Health website, covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov. more vulnerable to disease, including Covid-19. Clearly, food bank workers are among our most essential workers, and should have been included in any vaccine distribution plan. We are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and our state legislators to rethink the plan — and include them in the current round of inoculations, labeled Phase 1b. Finally, when your turn comes to be vaccinated, be sure to schedule your inoculation as soon as you can. People have reported reactions that include muscle soreness and mild to moderate flu-like symptoms, but these side effects pale in comparison with the virus itself, which, strangely, leaves some unharmed, while ravaging — and killing — others.

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here are many benefits to getting older, although I often wish that I were a lot younger. When it comes to Long Island politics, I have pretty good recall going back to the mid-1950s. As a fledging reporter for a weekly newspaper, I met County Executive A. Holly Patterson, and in later years had some battles with his successors Ralph Caso and Fran Purcell. I served in the Assembly with the late Tom Gulotta, another former county executive, and of course know U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, JerrY who also occupied the executive’s kremer office. While all of those characters had different personalities, by and large they were good county executives who performed their jobs responsibly. They made sure the streets were plowed after snowstorms and the potholes on county highways were filled. They all had their challenges, and like all human beings, they made their share of mistakes. All of this leads me to some observations about current County Executive Laura Curran.

Nassau County, like all suburban counties, isn’t an easy place to govern. It has a major police force, a large workforce and facilities all over the place. There are county parks and numerous recreation facilities. We are blessed with beautiful beaches and waterfront facilities, which require maintenance and supervision. But if I had to pick the toughest part of Curran’s job, it is managing the county’s finances, and that includes tax collections. On the few occasions that I dealt with the county’s tax assessment system, I usually met with some department employee who worked with old yellow assessment cards that looked like they’d been used since the Civil War. The agency has never been easy to run, and its assessment of homes has been a source of anxiety for Curran, as it was for her predecessors. There is no way to make any aggrieved homeowner happy, and Curran has done the best she could to keep the system from imploding. Long before she came to the job, the county was in deep financial trouble. For years and years, it ran up major deficits, and for political reasons kept deferring any increase in real estate taxes. Executive after executive tried to paper over the

f she doesn’t know the answers, she promises to get them, and keeps her word.

LeTTers both sides, but I think Kreiss’s comment actually acknowledges the truth. Please, watch the Rev. Frank Pavone on www.youtube.com, illustrating an abortion procedure with a model and quoting an abortionist who speaks about what actually happens in a dismemberment abortion. You cannot watch a fetus being dismembered or sucked out through a vacuum without facing the truth. This isn’t just about religion. Pavone says, “If we’re going to talk about abortion in this country, let’s make sure we know what we’re talking about.” Once acknowledging what abortion is, America cannot continue this infanticide. It’s like the little boy exclaiming, “But mama, the emperor has no clothes on!” while the crowd blindly cheers. Please check the www.priestsforlife.org website for much more enlightening information. Science has proven the facts. If a plant is growing and no one pulls it out, it will continue growing because it is a living thing. Wake up, America, please. THERESA DAUBE Franklin Square

Kreiss column was ‘preposterous’ To the Editor: Randi Kreiss’s column “When it comes to Trump, newspapers go BIG” (Jan.

growing deficits, but eventually the chickens came home to roost. In 2000, the county was near bankruptcy. In order to save it from itself, the State Legislature created the Nassau Interim Finance Authority to monitor Nassau’s finances and serve as the equivalent of a control board. NIFA is similar to boards that have been created for New York City, Yonkers and Buffalo. It keeps a close eye on the county’s operations, and a mere threat from NIFA can give the county executive and the Legislature a major migraine. NIFA isn’t a paper tiger. It has the ability to force dramatic changes in the county budget and operations. The past two years have been especially tough for Nassau and Suffolk counties. Sales tax collections have been declining at the same time that mandated expenses have been ballooning. Expenses have increased dramatically during the pandemic, which no one could have anticipated. The county’s share of Medicaid expenses is dictated by the federal and state governments, and there’s no source of funds to counterbalance them. Just keeping the county afloat is enough to keep Curran busy.

14-20) was preposterous. Kreiss asserted that former President Trump incited his supporters to violence, yet she brought no examples and no proof. I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt, because maybe she didn’t see his speech. But even so, she wrote, “I sure hope we do more as a society than take away his freaking Twitter account.” So Kreiss wants us, as a society, to do more than censor someone’s opinion on a private app? That idea would be fascist. Kreiss also brought up the man at the Capitol who wore a ocratic politicians support such behavior. In addition, the man wearing the Nazi T-shirt wasn’t in a position of power. But Louis Farrakhan has met with Democratic elected leaders, some of whom have potential ties to the Nation of Islam leader. Kreiss’s description of the riots was full of misinformation and lacked context. There were tens of thousands of people there, perhaps as many as 100,000, but only hundreds were not peaceful. Furthermore, FBI investigations show that the violence was planned weeks in advance. The rioters’ behavior was unacceptable. However, was it acceptable that stores and businesses were looted and people were killed during the BLM protests, which were encouraged by then Sen. Kamala Harris? Kreiss called the election “fully legitimate.” Yet in 2005, a bipartisan commis-

The other criteria I use in judging any public official’s performance is their public personality. Curran is bright, outgoing and genuinely pleasant. She is out in the community frequently, and when she faces the press, she is confident and factual. If she doesn’t know the answers, she promises to get them, and keeps her word. I’ve seen her speak outside Long Island, and she gets high marks from total strangers who think she comes across as very professional. I’m aware of one other facet of Curran’s performance in office. She speaks her mind, and on occasion has tangled with Gov. Andrew Cuomo over county issues. It’s hard to govern a county of over one million people and not have differences with the people in Albany or Washington. I have no dealings with the Nassau County government, so I’m not seeking any special favors. After four years of President Donald Trump and a lot of Washington ineptitude, it’s nice to focus on local competence for a change, and Curran is a good example of that. Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.

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sion, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, concluded, “Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” If that’s the case, then universal mail-ins are even less reliable, leaving me more skeptical about the outcome

of the 2020 presidential election. All misinfor mation needs to be brought to light, and reporting must have proper context. MORDECHAI NEWMAN Oceanside

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