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‘Greatest view’ turned into nightmare

Jada CERVaNTES aNd Nala Graddick, from Girl Scout Troop 2088, coloring garden picks to put in planters in the Baldwin LIRR station parking lot.

stead meeting about a year ago.

“The pictures that the town sent us about how the project Peering out her window each will look like with these blue day, Bonnie Weinstein says she stones would have looked gorhas watched the “living shore- geous, and it would have held line” project slowly destroy the back all the dirt and sand,” ecosystem at BaldWeinstein said. “But win Harbor. somehow the blue The Baldwin Harstone became expenbor Park Shoreline sive, and the engiStabilization Project neers of the project is a $4 million effort decided to cut the funded by the U.S. bulkhead in half.”

Department of Re m o v i n g t h e Housing and Urban bulkhead and creatDevelopment and ing a “living shoreadministered by the line,” the New York Governor’s Office of State Department of Storm Recovery to Environmental Conprotect the harbor servatio said, “will against future storm result in more wave surges. attenuation and less Weinstein, a Baldenergy traveling up win Harbor resident the canal. Instead of for almost 50 years, bouncing off of the and her neighbors BoNNIE vertical bulkhead said they expected to walls, storm waves see blue stone cover WEINSTEIN will wash ashore the shore of the har- Baldwin Harbor into the living shorebor, which would resident line/park area have helped decrease where they will disstor m surge, but sipate and lose enerinstead they see wheatgrass, gy before returning more slowly trash and debris. Weinstein said to the bay.” she has seen very little progress Now, months after the bulkwith the project since she spoke against it at a Town of HempContinued on page 7

By BEN FIEBERT

bfiebert@liherald.com

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Courtesy Jen Muschett

Girl Scouts beautify Baldwin Members of five troops collect four bags of trash at the LIRR station, and plant flowers

By BEN FIEBERT bfiebert@liherald.com

Seventeen Girl Scouts from five area troops joined forces on May 21 to work on an ambitious beautification project with the Baldwin Civic Association.

The scouts embarked on a cleanup behind the Long Island Rail Road station and its parking lot. The goal was to collect trash and make the area look more inviting for visitors and neighbors. Planters sit all along the municipal parking lot by the station, and the Girl Scouts were tasked with replanting them.

“The girls cleaned out the planters, replanted new flowers in the pots and then ‘adopted’

the pots,” said Jen Muschett, the service unit volunteer manager for the troops in Baldwin.

“And so they’re doing a continual watering and maintaining throughout the rest of the season, as well as garbage pickups in the municipal parking lot along the back of the Long Island Rail Road station.”

According to Muschett, some troop members walked up and down the entire Brooklyn Avenue side of the LIRR tracks, with some of them picking up garbage by the planters themselves and filling four garbage bags.

“I was excited about this event,” Muschett said.

“I’m happy that we had a wide range of Continued on page 4

omehow the blue stone became expensive, and the engineers of the project decided to cut the bulkhead in half.

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New Navy attack sub named USS Long Island

By KARINA KOVAC kkovac@liherald.com

A new Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine has been named the USS Long Island, paying homage to the multitude of veterans from Long Island and the island itself. The announcement was made to active sailors and media on Pier 88 in Manhattan during the 35th annual Fleet Week, the city’s time-honored celebration of the sea services, by Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro.

The submarine is the third U.S. Navy ship named after Long Island, but a long way from the original USS Long Island steam trawler purchased by the Navy in 1917. As an attack submarine, the 377-foot-long vessel is designed specifically to seek and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships, project power ashore with Tomahawk cruise missiles and Special Operations forces, carry out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, support battle group operations and engage in mine warfare.

“New York has been a Navy town since our nation’s founding,” Del Toro said at the announcement. “Today over 200,000 veterans are spread across the five boroughs, with over 50 percent living on Long Island, in Brooklyn and Queens. The service of these veterans throughout our nation’s history has been admirable, and it’s an honor to recognize them as well as the district itself with this submarine naming.”

Capt. Patrick Evans, a naval special assistant for public affairs, wrote in an email to the Herald about the history of the original USS Long Island: “It served as a minesweeper, harbor patrol ship, and an icebreaker until after the first world war and (was) decommissioned in 1919.”

The second ship to bear the name Long Island was an

Courtesy U.S. Navy/Amber Speer

SeCRetARy Of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announces the name of the Navy’s newest submarine, USS Long Island, on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp on May 25 during Fleet Week. escort carrier, the first of its class at the time. Notably, it was the first of the Navy’s prototype aircraft carriers, which launched squadrons of attack aircraft in the Pacific theater in World War II. Earlier, in 1941, the ship cruised the East Coast on neutrality patrol, keeping a watchful eye on potentially dangerous patrolling German submarines. A year later, the ship would prove instrumental in assisting with the Guadalcanal campaign.

Fighting at the Battle of Guadalcanal, one of the turn-

ing points in the war, the USS Long Island helped save the island of Guadalcanal from a Japanese onslaught.

The vessel carried Marine Corps dive bombers, and two squadrons of Grumman Wildcat fighters, built in Bethpage, into the skirmish.

After the war, the USS Long Island trained pilots and ferried returning American troops home from the Pacific as part of Operation Magic Carpet, the largest combined air and sealift ever organized to bring troops back. Many of them, no doubt, were coming home to Long Island.

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BALDWIN HERALD — June 15, 2023 Maureen Lennon/Herald photos

Baldwin Fire department’s Honoree Jerry Brown with several photos of his 50 years of the Baldwin Fire Department Service, including his service at NYC Twin Towers. Three Fire Helmets were on display as well.

Firefighter honored at his 50th anniversary Elected officials, family members, and fellow firefighters attend Jerry Brown’s ceremony

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aldwin firefighter Jerry Brown was recognized last week for being part of the Hook Ladder and Company Two of the Baldwin Fire Department for 50 years.

Elected officials, firefighters, and family members rejoiced, as they celebrated Brown’s anniversary with the fire department. Brown has served as an EMT and the District Supervisor for the Baldwin Fire Department. He said in a Facebook post that the day he was sworn in 50 years ago changed his life forever.

“Thank the good Lord and my family for this life of adventure, commitment, and dedication to the best job on the planet,” Brown continued in the post. “Without their love and support this would not have been possible.”

Congressman Anthony D’Esposito praised Brown’s service in a Facebook post.

D’Esposito said, “The fire service has changed in fifty years here in #NY04 - one thing has been a constant. The constant has been the dedication, commitment and love that Jerry Brown has showed the Baldwin community. He talks the talk and walks the walk - always with his sleeves rolled up and ready to work.”

“To the thousands I have met, the honor has been all mine,” Brown said. “To the heroes past, those old Iron Firemen, that taught me well. Thank you for the honor of serving next to you. To my brothers and sisters past and present especially mom and pop, I love you all. Cheryl, Tara, Lindsey, and Aubrey you have always been the wind beneath my wings. 50 in the books.”

–Ben Fiebert

town oF Hempstead Councilwoman Laura Ryder, left, with Congressman Anthony D’Esposito, right, presenting citations and thanking Jerry Brown, middle, for his 50 years of service.

Honoree Jerry Brown, second from left, with his wife Cheryl, and their two daughters Tara and Lindsey. nassau County assemBlyman Brian Curran, right, thanking Jerry Brown, left, for all the years of his service in the community and in the Baldwin Fire Department.

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Photos courtesy Jen Muschett

members of girl Scout Troop 2324, Hailey Castello, Zoe Fray, Miranda Castillo, Zoe Muschett, Camila Castillo and Zoey White, pick up trash around the LIRR station.

Scouts clean up and beautify Baldwin railroad station Continued from front page

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ages. We had girls as young as kindergarten, up through girls in seventh grade.”

Muschett said it was important to draw a wide age-range of girls to the clean up.

Some of the older girls were helping the younger girls with different tasks and activities, which, she said, is one of the main points of the Girl Scouts.

“The whole premise of Girl Scouts is teaching girls to be leaders and to empower them,” Muschett said.

“And the best way for them to do this is to work with each other. So the older girls at events like this one have an opportunity to be those role models to younger girls and show them how to act, how to coordinate and to teach them.”

Muschett also stressed the importance of keeping Baldwin clean for community members and visitors. She added that Zoe musChett and Camila Castillo plantmany people leave it to the town workers ing new flowers. and sanitation crews to clean everything around them. Muschett said she wants planters put a smile on the girls’ faces as people to take ownership of the trash they well. leave behind.

This year, the Girl Scouts’ goal is to “If your own community doesn’t take partner with more community organizapride and doesn’t take ownertions, and Muschett said she ship of some of the trash, hopes that, by doing this, the then how can you leave everyGirl Scouts take pride in the body else to clean up after Baldwin community. you?” Muschett said.

The May 21 event launched “Planting a few flowers the Girl Scouts’ partnership may not seem like a lot, but with the Baldwin Civic Assoeverybody who comes off the ciation. train gets to see all of this and Muschett said her job is to you know what? A flower can help manage, as well as put a smile on someone’s face “orchestrate” and coordinate, and make their day.” different activities for BaldAlong with planting the win’s 15 Girl Scout troops, flowers, the girls decorated a which have a total of about garden pick that goes in the 150 girls. planter.

“It’s great that the Girl According to Muschett, Scouts earn badges and it’s some of the picks have a Jen musChett great that they go on trips and hedgehog on them or a snail Girl Scout service sell cookies, but the most and the Girl Scouts colored important thing is having unit volunteer them in. Muschett said that in that community and that addition to the commuters manager. partnership with our area,” coming off the train, these Muschett said.

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he girls cleaned out the planters, replanted new flowers in the pots, and then ‘adopted’ the pots.

CRIME bRIEf Baldwin man arrested after pointing gun at mail carrier Dwayne White was arrested for an incident that occurred on Thursday, June 8 at 11:50 am in Baldwin.

According to Detectives, a United States Postal Mail Carrier was delivering mail to 1413 Eva Ct. White started to yell at the mail carrier from the 2nd floor window of 785 Everett Ct. and pointed a black object at the victim. The victim feared the subject had pointed a handgun and fled the scene and called 911.

First Precinct Officers arrived and after a thorough investigation, White of 785 Everett Ct., was arrested. No injuries were reported.

White is charged with second degree menacing, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. He was arraigned on Friday, June 9 at First District Court, 99 Main St. in Hempstead.

–Ben Fiebert

NEws bRIEf Hofstra University announces Baldwin students who were on the Dean’s List Hofstra University congratulates the students named to the Spring 2023 Dean’s List for their outstanding academic achievement.

Students must earn a grade point average of at least 3.5 during the semester to make the Dean’s List.

Hofstra students from the local area to be honored include eight Baldwin community members.

These are Fabiola Belizaire, a Community Health major, Thomas

Dean, a Fine Arts major, Brooke DeLuca, a English major, Jason Eusebio, a Audio/Radio Production & Studies major, Laika Jerome, a Political Science major, Daniella McCoy, a Pre-Early Childhood & Childhood Education major, Anthony October, a Management major, and Aidan Santiago Bealin, a Mathematics major.

–Ben Fiebert

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EPA announces winners of their Pollution Prevention challenge The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the winners of the “Pollution Prevention Works: A Storytelling Challenge for Students.”

The winning stories include essays, infographics, videos, and a mock newspaper article and highlight how pollution prevention practices that were implemented at businesses benefitted communities, the environment, and the businesses themselves. More than 50 high school and college students from across the nation submitted stories for consideration.

“It is exciting to celebrate these students that will help shape our future. With their stories, we are increasing awareness of the benefits and practice of pollution prevention,” said EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention Deputy Assistant Administrator Jennie Romer. “I congratulate these talented

students for their creativity in highlighting innovative pollution prevention solutions that can help protect human health and the environment.”

The winners of the challenge include Baldwin students. Annaliese Persaud, Francisco Suriel, Jasmin Tiong-Smith, Samaya LindoSmellie, and Jordyn Faria, from Baldwin created a mock newscast that highlights P2 practices implemented at the Ravenswood Generating Station in Long Island City, New York. In the video, a mock news reporter interviews students playing a host of characters including local residents and a scientist about how the P2 improvements positively impacted the public and environmental health in nearby neighborhoods. They won first place and $5,000.

— Ben Fiebert

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Baldwin students won first place and $5,000 in EPA challenge.

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Herald sports Arcangelo wins historic Belmont Stakes

By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

There was no Triple Crown on the line, but the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes was historic nonetheless.

Trainer Jena Antonucci etched herself into thoroughbred racing history last Saturday when Arcangelo, ridden by jockey Javier Castellano, pulled away down the stretch to finish atop the nine-horse field before a roaring crowd of 48.089 at Belmont Park.

The Florida-based Antonucci, 47, became the first-ever female trainer to capture any of the Triple Crown races and did so with her first-ever entry. Castellano, meanwhile, has now won all three.

“It’s the horse and I am so grateful,” said Antonucci, who began training on her own in 2010. “I will forever be indebted to his honesty to us, his heart, and he is why you get up seven days a week. I didn’t get a lot of sleep the last few nights. I’m not going to lie. I’m so grateful.”

The race marked the 50-year anniversary of Secretariat’s electrifying 31-length Belmont triumph. One of the symbols used to honor “Big Red” this year was the addition of blue roses to the traditional blanket of white carnations awarded to the winner, reminiscent of the famous blue and white checkerboard silks of Secretariat’s owner, Meadow Stable.

Owned by Blue Rose Farm, Arcangelo was full of run throughout as he sat behind pacesetters National Treasure, the Preakness winner, and longshot Tapit Shoes along the backstretch. As the field approached the turn and with Angel of Empire and Hit Show still very much involved after a mile in 1:37.41, Castellano made a decisive move to put the lateblooming son of Arrogate in ideal position going into the turn.

A retreating Tapit Shoes left clear running room for Arcangelo to sneak up along the inside of National Treasure, who dropped out of contention at the quarter pole. Drawing away at the eighth pole, Arcangelo then held off late-charging favorite Forte and Tapit Trice to win by 1 ½-lengths in 2:29.23.

“This is a dream come true. To win two Triple Crown races in the same year, it’s amazing,” said Castellano, who rode Mage to victory in the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May and guided Bernardini and Cloud Computing to Preakness scores in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

“Everything worked out good,” he added.

“There’s always something to shoot for, but I’m just going to keep working hard.

But this is so special. He was so impres-

Eric Dunetz/Herald photos

ArcANgELO, A 7-1 ShOT ridden by Javier Castellano, pulled away down the stretch to capture the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes last Saturday before a crowd of more than 48,000.

JON EBBErT, fAr left, owner of Blue Rose Farm, jockey Javier Castellano and trainer Jena Antonucci.

sive. He was always there for me.”

Castellano entered 2023 0-for-15 in the Kentucky Derby and 0-for-14 in the Belmont Stakes. Last Saturday’s win was redemptive for the 45-year-old Venezuelan native, who finished runner-up in the Belmont on three occasions — all by narrow margins, including a three-quarter length loss aboard Stay Thirsty to Ruler On Ice in 2011; a head defeat to Tonalist in 2014 when piloting 28-1 shot Commissioner; and a nose defeat to Creator in 2016 aboard

Destin.

Arcangelo, a $35,000 purchase who didn’t make his career debut until December, won his third consecutive start and was coming off an impressive triumph in the Grade 3 Peter Pan at Belmont May 13.

He paid $17.80 to win and earned a $900,000 payday to boost his lifetime earnings to $1,067,400 in five starts.

Jon Ebbert, owner of Blue Rose Farm, was in awe as he earned his first Grade 1 win of his career and said he always had

faith in the grey ridgling.

“It’s amazing,” he said. “What an amazing ride. I’m so proud of the horse. He’s an amazing horse. He’s all heart. We knew he had it in him. Javier rode him perfectly and Jena is an amazing trainer. I’m so lucky to find her. The rest is history.”

Forte nosed out Tapit Trice for second.

Angel of Empire and Hit Show finished in a dead heat for fourth. Rounding out the field was National Treasure, Il Miracolo, Red Route One and Tapit Shoes.

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WheatgraSS haS been planted in the sand to limit the amount of storm surge from Baldwin Harbor.

that carrying a kayak that far is laborious and difficult. Also, the path, according to Weinstein, is covered with garbage that has accumulated over the years.

“We had a hawk and in the middle of this construction, they must have taken down the tree that it used to live in,” she said. “I have pictures of the hawk on top of the crane because it had nowhere to go.”

Last week, Weinstein saw firsthand how the wheatgrass isn’t a good enough conduit to lower the energy of storm surge in the harbor.

She added that a “flood tide”

occurred because a full moon and high tide took place at the same time. Weinstein said she saw more sand and dirt fall back into the harbor.

“So eventually, if something isn’t done ASAP, it’s going to be a swamp canal,” she added.

Weinstein said that she has spoken to every agency that she can think of to help the situation at the harbor, but she hasn’t had any luck yet.

Every other day, she said, she is in contact with Kuniz, who said he understands the situation and will send specialists to measure the depth of the canal.

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head was cut in half, Weinstein said she received a message from project engineer Brian Kuniz, who said he is waiting for the DEC to approve the permits to replace 800 feet of the bulkhead.

Kuniz told her that the stones would be too expensive so wheatgrass was planted to hold back all of the dirt and sand. However, Weinstein said she has gradually seen all of the wheatgrass get washed away.

“The long and short of it is every high tide, every flood tide it gets worse and worse,” Weinstein said.

She said that everyone used to tell her that she has the “greatest view” from her home, as the harbor used to be filled with nature and greenery. Now, she said, it’s a “garbage dump.”

She said that since the project began in 2020, the debris from the hundreds of trees that were cut down has not been cleaned up.

“We used to have a wildlife preserve,” Weinstein said. “It was magnificent. They tore down over a 100 trees to make this so called ‘kayak ramp,’” Weinstein said.

She called the kayak ramp a “sham” because the path to the ramp is a mile and a half away from the parking lot. She added

Photos courtesy Bonnie Weinstein

Sand continueS to erode along the harbor shoreline, despite ongoing efforts by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the New York Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery to ‘stabilize’ the shoreline.

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Smoke of wildfires raises health concerns Air quality advisories were issued five days in a row amid worst pollution in memory

By NICOLE FORMISANO nformisano@liherald.com

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he thick yellow haze that descended on Long Island last week was more than a natural sepia-toned filter — the unnervingly post-apocalyptic scene brought with it some serious health concerns.

The blanket of smoke that blocked out the sun on June 7 was a result of a soonerthan-typical start to what is projected to be Canada’s worst wildfire season ever.

The resulting smoke plume was like nothing New York state had ever seen, according to officials from the Department of Environmental Conservation.

“It’s certainly the worst in memory, by far,” DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said of the air quality at a June 7 news conference. “It certainly is unprecedented.”

Long Island, like most of New York, received health advisories regarding degraded air quality every day from June 5 to 9. The advisories came as no shock to residents who were experiencing a yellow, smoke-scented world.

It “smelled like a campfire I couldn’t escape from,” one Facebook user commented to the Lynbrook Herald. “Amber skies, and fire pit smell everywhere,” wrote another.

The Air Quality Index, created by the Environmental Protection Agency, measures the level of pollutants in the air and the resulting health concern. Sensitive groups — children, seniors, pregnant women, or those with heart or lung conditions — should be mindful of AQI ratings of over 100, and everyone, regardless of health, should be careful when ratings rise above 150. Places in Nassau County saw ratings of over 300 during the June 7 peak of bad air. New York City had a rating of 484, briefly making it the most polluted city on earth.

“If you’ve been looking out the window the last couple of days, you can see the effects of the Canadian wildfires,” Dr. James McDonald, acting commissioner of the state Department of Health, said at Wednesday’s news conference. “If you’re out walking and all of a sudden you’re coughing, you’re feeling short of breath, that’s a signal. When your body speaks to you, you want to listen to your body.”

The DEC and other environmental and health organizations urged people to limit time outdoors. Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a statement urging all schools to suspend outdoor activities, and the Public High School Athletic Association canceled a number of sports events on Long Island.

“When we’re talking particularly about wildfire smoke, we know that contains fine particulate matter, which we know can enter the lungs,” Trevor Summerfield, the director of advocacy in New York for the American Lung Association, said. “These particulate matters could be potentially toxic as well. We don’t want anything in the lungs that’s coming from burning. We know that’s just not healthy for you.”

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ThE vIEw FROM North Woodmere Park as a plane landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport on June 7. of breath, a runny nose, and irritation of the eyes, nose or throat, according to the DEC. Significant long-term exposure can lead to more serious complications, such as asthma. The DEC and the American Lung Association urged people to stay indoors as much as possible, and to wear an N95 mask if a trip outside was unavoidable.

Last week’s conditions were something of a perfect storm of atmospheric anomalies. According to Nelson Vas, the warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service, the intensity of the smoke Long Island experienced was exacerbated by a poorly timed low-

pressure system that funneled smoke from extreme fires in Quebec south to Long Island and the metropolitan area.

The stifling smog, Vas said, was so intense that Long Island temperatures dropped several degrees.

“Some of the wildfires have spread a bit,” Vas said. “That and the wind direction have all come together to really increase the concentrations down here.”

The severity of the fires is due largely to an extended dry season in Canada. Vas explained that New York has not experienced such a dry spring, making a similar wildfire season here unlikely.

Nonetheless, even more concerning is

the possibility that this is only the beginning of a pattern that could continue to threaten the Northeast with smoke. Climate change is a direct cause of the increased intensity and longevity of wildfires, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. “We’re really concerned about climate change,” Summerfield said.

“We know that climate change has an impact on our lung health because of incidences like this. I think it’s just getting worse.”

He added, “In New York, we’re blessed to have great air quality, for the most part.

And when we’re used to that, and then you get (June 7), which is like the worst you could possibly see, it’s a pretty stark wakeup call.”

The stifling smog has given way to normal atmospheric conditions, but if the experts are right, and Long Island can potentially expect future run-ins with wildfire smoke, a hazy yellow world may be added to the growing list of “unprecedented events” people should get used to.

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Vintage Fire trucks from communities along the south shore including Oceanside, Baldwin, Rockville Centre, and others were among those showcased during the third annual Vintage Fire Truck and Car Show on Saturday.

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Rockville Centre Mayor Francis Murray said the annual car show has continued to grow each year since it began, thanks to the hard work and dedication of Deputy Mayor Kathy Baxley, who hosts the event every summer.

At the show, people took the opportunity to peruse a variety of different vehicles, from American muscle cars to some more modern custom sports cars.

“It was really well attended,” Baxley said.

“I was really happy. I have to say it’s just a simple community thing to bring people together and it seemed to work out really well.”

Baxley said that this year’s car show was bigger than ever before thanks to Dominick Alesi, a Rockville Centre volunteer firefighter, who approached her with the idea of adding vintage fire trucks to this year’s event.

During the show attendees also got a peak at a number of retired police cruisers and antique fire trucks, including some of the vintage apparatuses belonging to the Rockville Centre Fire Department and other neighboring communities including Oceanside and Baldwin.

“Despite the clouds, the antique fire trucks and antique car brought out lots of laughs and great conversations,” Alesi said.

“Looking forward to next year’s show.”

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Dominick alesi anD Deputy Mayor Kathy Baxley pose with his dog, Dexter, in front of one of the RVC Fire Department’s vintage fire engines. one oF many vintage vehicles on display on Saturday, June 3, was this old ‘black and white’ Plymouth Belvedere police vehicle. this 1986 gran Fury served as police vehicle for the NYPD 106th Precinct in South Queens.

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By Karen Bloom ne of the best things you can grow in a garden is a life-long gardener. With summer upon us, the world outdoors beckons. Starting at home. Your personal landscape is a great place to enjoy being outside.

The kids can benefit in so many ways from digging right in. Literally. There’s growing body of research that indicates gardening-related activities boost physical and emotional health, even academic performance, besides the all-around benefits of family bonding.

So parents and grandparents who are not already getting down and dirty with the kids, what are you waiting for?

From the onset, prepare to pivot. Gardening with kids requires flexibility. Most kids prioritize exploration and discovery in the garden rather than appearance or production. You might have a planned activity, but they prefer to focus on the grasshopper they just found. Rather than corral them back to the task at hand, try talking to them about the grasshopper, sharing their wonder and excitement, and then finding a way to connect it to your activity.

Remember that positive associations with gardening are the goal. If they walk away with those, you’ve succeeded. And they’ll be back to learn more.

Let kids choose what to plant. Offer guidance and guarantee some sure-success plants are among their picks. But if they want beets, roses and petunias, why not? Giving kids agency over what plants they grow also gives them the incentive to continue engaging with their plants over time. Don’t forget that gardening isn’t confined to a raised bed or backyard. You can grow a multitude of plants indoors, on windowsills, porches, or balconies, you name it!

Choose garden projects that work for your needs. To set yourself up for success, always consider projects or activities you might want to try through the lenses of the kids’ age and ability levels, your budget, available space, available time, safety concerns, and growing conditions in your area.

Leave room for good old-fashioned digging. Many kids love to dig in the dirt, and digging and observing are excellent for their sensory systems, gross and fine motor skills, and practicing focus and empathy for small creatures. Leaving a designated dig space in the garden gives them a spot to search for worms and grubs, and helps keep disruptive digging out of other areas of the garden.

Make the garden a joyful place.

Positive associations with nature early on in life give kids a sense of belonging to the natural world and responsibility for it. Help with the behind-the-scenes maintenance of kids’ gardens so they continue to be an inviting space for them. Give them opportunities for responsibility, but don’t turn gardens into a chore or punishment they would rather avoid. Embrace kids’ preferences, and avoid

Get outside and go green pressing them to taste, touch or smell something they don’t want to.

Ensure activities are geared toward equal access. Think through how to share a gardening experience equally with all the kids participating.

Try collaborative gardening: One kid digs a hole, another sprinkles compost, another kid places a seedling in, and so on. This helps multiple kids be involved in smaller garden tasks.

Set aside time when kids can explore the garden without an intended activity.

Positive associations also come from moments when kids are allowed to observe, explore and play in a self-led way.

And just as important, enjoy gardening yourself.

One of the most powerful teaching tools is the use of modeling.

Don’t underestimate how impactful showcasing your enthusiasm for gardening can be on the kids you’re working with.

A garden is a wonderful place for kids to try caring for a living thing and being responsible for the success or failure of a growth cycle. And when failures happen, it’s a space for kids to learn how to deal with an undesired outcome, grow their resiliency, and try again.

The Fab Faux With a commitment to the accurate reproduction of Beatles’ repertoire, The Fab Faux treat the seminal music with unwavering respect, known for their painstaking recreations of the songs (with emphasis on the later works never performed live by the Beatles). The musical virtuosity of The Fab Faux — in actuality five New York City-based musicians — upends the concept of a Beatles tribute band. Far beyond extended cover sets, their shows are an inspired rediscovery of The Beatles’ musical magic. Imagine hearing complex material like ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ or “I am the Walrus” performed in complete part-perfect renditions. Or such harmony-driven songs as ‘Because,’ ‘Nowhere Man,’ and ‘Paperback Writer,’ reproduced with extra vocalists to achieve a double-tracked effect. That’s The Fab Faux experience.

Friday, June 16, 8 p.m. $75, $55, $45, $35. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. Tickets available at Ticketmaster.com, or ParamountNY.com.

Felice Brothers A folk-Americana-rock-country band with deep roots in varied genres, The Felice Brothers are lauded as ‘musician’s musicians’ and poets.

The brothers — Ian on guitar and lead vocals, and James, a multiinstrumentalist and vocalist — hail from the Catskills. Their early songs echoed off subway walls and kept company with travelers and vagrants. Their current lineup, with the addition of bassist and inaugural female Felice member Jesske Hume and drummer Will Lawrence (also a singer/songwriter) as their rhythm section, promises to be the best yet.

Their latest tunes carry messages that beg listeners to think deeply about the environment, humanity, legacy, and death. Many of the songs depict nostalgia, transience and getting older. For songwriter Ian Felice, there must also always be a current of hope in the music.

Sunday, June 18, 7:30 p.m. $37 and $32. Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main St., Port Washington. (516) 767-6444 or LandmarkOnMainStreet.org.

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Harry Chapin’s family holds a special place in the long rich history of family ensembles. Always busy with their many endeavors, the family unites for a rare performance together on the Landmark stage, Thursday, June 22, 7:30 p.m. Their successful musical careers are a testament to Harry’s enduring legacy. His brother Tom Chapin, with daughters Abigail and Lily Chapin, who perform as The Chapin Sisters; along with bandmate Michael Mark on electric bass and Jon Cobert on piano, will enthrall the audience with their pristine harmonies and folk-influenced melodies. A fixture on the music scene for decades, the Chapins, of course, continue to carry on Harry Chapin’s philanthropic legacy. Non-perishable food items will be collected for Long Island Cares, the Harry Chapin Food Bank. $150 and $75. Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main St., Port Washington. (516) 767-6444 or LandmarkOnMainStreet.org.

On exhibit Nassau County Museum of Art’s exhibition, “Eye And Mind: The Shin Collection,” highlights the extraordinary collection masterworks assembled by 31-year-old connoisseur Hong Gyu Shin, an internationally recognized figure in the global art world. He shares his treasures, including works

by Whistler, Lautrec, Boucher, Daumier, Delacroix, Klimt, Schiele, Balthus, Warhol, de Kooning, Gorky and many other important names from art history provocatively juxtaposed with the painting and sculpture of our own time from both Asia and the West. On view through July 9. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.

‘Blinded By The Light’ Bruce Springsteen tribute band E Street Shuffle rocks Eisenhower Park, Saturday, June 17, 8 p.m. Hailing from Asbury Park, N.J., E Street Shuffle is a band that built itself from the ground up on the principals of being as musically authentic as humanly possible, while embodying the spirit, power and camaraderie of Springsteen and the E Street Band’s legendary live concerts. Bring seating. Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre, Eisenhower Park, East Meadow. For information, visit NassaucCountyNY.gov.

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Food Truck Fridays Attend the Baldwin Community Garden at 1980 Grand Ave. every first Friday of the month to enjoy food and live music. This event takes place from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The food trucks at the event are The Waffle Chic, Kool Kat, Amped Panadas, NY Sausage, Kannoli King, and The Big Cheese. For more information, call (516) 274-9008.

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Adopt-a-Pet session Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter representatives explain the adoption process and the benefits of owning a pet, Saturday, July 8, 10-11 a.m.

They may even bring a furry friend or two. Community room, 2385 Grand Ave. Visit BaldwinPL.org or call (516) 223-6228 for information.

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Sing-along storytime Ages two and up can enjoy a storytime program with photo with Ariel, Saturday, June 17, 2 p.m., at Baldwin Public Library. 2385 Grand Ave. Visit BaldwinPL.org or call (516) 223-6228 for information.

Slime Time Kids can ooze into a gooey hour of sliming around, Wednesday, July 12, 1-2 p.m., presented by the Long Island STEAM Group at Baldwin Public Library. Create slime using the Mad Science recipe, and then enter the Slime Olympics. Take home your own concoction of “Mad Science Slime.” Community Room, 2385 Grand Ave. Registration required. Visit BaldwinPL.org or call (516) 223-6228 for information.

Items on The Scene page 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 thescene@liherald.com.

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Kids can participate in stories, songs and craft, Monday, July 3, at Baldwin Public Library. Registration required. Children’s room, 2385 Grand Ave. Register at BaldwinPL. org or call (516) 223-6228 for information.

Whale of a Drink fundraiser Support The Whaling Museum by participating in Sandbar restaurant’s Whale of a Drink, Whale of a Cause fundraising effort, now through June 21. Enjoy the Sandbar’s iconic cocktail, the Whalebone, and a portion of the purchase will be donated to the museum. A “mocktail” version is also available.

To help promote the fundraiser, mixologist Dan Leopold will offer a mixology demonstration and Whalebone tasting at the Museum’s Whales & Ales event on June 3, 2:30-3 p.m. Funds will support the Whaling Museum’s community education programs during its 2023 summer season. 55 Main St, Cold Spring Harbor. For information, visit SandbarColdSpringHarbor.com.

On stage Families will enjoy another musical adventure, ripped from the pages of Mo Willems’ beloved children’s books, on the Long Island Children’s Museum stage, Thursday and Friday, June 15-16, 10:15 a.m. and noon.

This musical comedy adventure stars Willems’ beloved character The Pigeon, who is eager to try anything and everything.

When a bus driver takes a break from the route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take the driver’s place — a pigeon.

The audience is part of the action, in this innovative mix of songs, silliness and feathers. $9 with museum admission ($7 members), $12 theater only. Long Island Children’s Museum, Museum Row, Garden City. (516) 224-5800 or LICM.org.

Westbury House Tour For many years visitors to Westbury House at Old Westbury Gardens asked what was beyond the first floor corridor.

Now beyond the door and discover “secrets of the service wing,” during a 60-minute guided tour, Friday, June 16, noon; Sunday, June 18, 1:30 p.m.; Monday, June 19, noon, Wednesday, June 21, noon; Thursday, June 22, noon and 1:30 p.m. Be introduced to the intensive labor required to create the lifestyle experienced by the Phipps family and their guests; tour the many rooms that were “behind the scenes” to create the formal dining experiences of early 20th century. Go along the corridors to the butler’s pantry and silver cleaning room then descend the 17 steps to the kitchen, scullery, and wine storage rooms located on the ground floor. Reservations required. 71 Old Westbury Rd., Old Westbury. For information contact (516) 333-0048 or visit OldWestburyGardens.org.

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Mercy Hospital offers a peer to peer meeting for breastfeeding support and resources, facilitated by a certified breastfeeding counselor, every Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Bring your baby (from newborn to 1 year) to the informal group setting. All new moms are welcome, regardless of delivering hospital. Registration required.

Call breastfeeding counselor, Gabriella Gennaro, at (516) 7052434 to secure you and your baby’s spot. Mercy Hospital, St. Anne’s Building, 1000 North Village Ave., Rockville Centre.

For information visit CHSLI.org.

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State files suit against anti-abortion group

By BRANDON CRUZ bcruz@liherald.com

State Attorney General Letitia James announced on June 8 that her office had filed suit against Red Rose Rescue, a rightwing anti-abortion organization, for blocking access to three Planned Parenthood locations in Nassau and Westchester counties, including the Planned Parenthood in Hempstead on July 7, 2022.

The lawsuit, announced just over two weeks before the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe V. Wade, claims that several members of the pro-life group, Christopher “Fidelis” Moscinski, Matthew Connolly, William Goodman, Laura Gies and John Hinshaw, have interfered with clinics by lying to clinicians to gain access to the facilities under the guise of being a patient and having an appointment.

Once inside, James’s office said, a Red Rose Rescue member posing as a patient will open a back door, allowing others inside, where they have occupied waiting rooms and refused to leave, barricaded entrances, threatened staff and clinicians, and physically blocked access to women’s health care services, all in an effort to stop clinics from operating.

“Red Rose Rescue has made it their mission to terrorize reproductive health care providers and the patients they serve,” James said. “Only we have the right to make decisions about our own

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StAte AttORNey GeNeRAl Letitia James addressing the media about her office’s new lawsuit against Red Rose Rescue. bodies — not anti-choice legislators, not religious extremists and bigoted zealots, and not Red Rose rescue.” She continued, “We will not allow Red Rose Rescue to harass and harangue New Yorkers with their outrageous militant tactics. Make no mistake — abortion is health care, and as New York’s Attorney General, I will continue to protect and defend everyone’s legal right to safely access health care in this state.”

James also announced that she would

seek to ban members of Red Rose Rescue from coming within 30 feet of any reproductive health care facility in the state.

Under the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and the New York State Clinic Access Act, it is illegal to block access to reproductive health care clinics or harass their patients.

At the news conference announcing the suit, Dipal Shah, the chief external affairs officer for Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, thanked James for

holding Red Rose Rescue accountable for actions that he said impact not only Planned Parenthood patients, but staff and volunteers as well.

“It’s unacceptable,” Shah said. “We see, on an almost daily basis, anti-abortion protesters outside our health centers … using harmful tactics to block patients’ access to our health centers — everything from verbally abusing them, forcing pamphlets in their face, and blocking them from entering.” He added, “These top tactics are not just disruptive, they’re psychologically destabilizing and they’re incredibly harmful.”

Catherine Lederer-Plaskett, president of Choice Matters and founder of Project CATCH (for the Center for Analysis and Tracking of Clinical Harassers), share her experiences with Red Rose Rescue.

“I would bet that everyone in this room has a day that changed their lives forever,” Lederer-Plaskett said. “I have mine. It was Nov. 27, 2021. That was the day All Women’s Medical in White Plains was invaded,” Red Rose Rescue managed to take over the entire facility, she said.

“If they had trespassed in a mall, they would have been evicted, removed, taken out immediately,” Lederer-Plaskett said, “but because it was only women’s health care, the police could be heard saying they didn’t want to get involved.”

James said she hoped to continue being a leader in the fight for a woman’s right to choose.

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now necessary to draw attention to the severity of the issue, which has only worsened since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. “I think we need “I am living with this unimaginable pain, something like this now,” Brown said. “I don’t grief, emptiness,” Diana Alati, an advocate at know how to bring people’s attention to what a Families for Safe Streets who lost her 13-year-old serious problem (this is). It was bad before Covid, son, Andrew in a bicycle crash, told the audience (but) since Covid it’s a nightmare.” at the first ever Walk Bike Long Island Summit.

Speeding, impairment, distraction, and fatigue The event, held at Farmingdale State College, account for 90 percent of all fatalities, Kazem Orywas organized to fight what advocates are calling ani, an engineering professor at Farmingdale “the silent epidemic” — the stunning and often State College, said. “Thirty percent of the fatalioverlooked number of pedestrian and bicycling ties are related to speed,” he said. “This is the one fatalities. (worth) fighting (now). There are others, which Andrew was bicycling home from a friend’s are education on other things, which would come house for dinner on Hempstead Turnpike, in Levlater.” ittown, on June 30, 2019, when a speeding 19-yearDaniel Flanzig, an attorney and a member of old driver doing 55 mph in a 40-mph zone, trying the New York Bicycling Coalition board of directo make it through a yellow light, struck and tors, said he believes the next step for the next genkilled him. The Alati family, worried about how eration of drivers is automated enforcement, long Andrew had been gone, checked the Life360 which works effectively in Europe and New York app to see his location. They saw that his icon City — changing the incentive from relying on wasn’t moving, and rushed out. At the scene, his empathy to forcing open wallets after an impartial Karina Kovac/Herald mother screamed to paramedics, “Is he OK?” saymachine dishes out a ticket. Other than that, Flaning over and over, “Andrew, please don’t go. Don’t DIANA AlAtI, AN advocate at Families for Safe Streets, shared her zig said, little tweaks in a town can alter roadway heart-wrenching story of losing her young son, Andrew, to a reckless leave me.” behaviors, like changing the radius of a turn or But the affectionate young boy who loved base- speeder at the first Walk Bike Long Island Summit, meant to fight the painting bike lane lines more clearly with inexball, hockey, music and riding his bicycle was ‘silent epidemic’ of pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities. pensive paint. gone, and “our family forever changed,” Alati said.

Engineer Matthew Carmody stated that interAlong with other advocacy groups, Alati is part sections and streets are safer when we can see eye Cynthia Brown, executive director of the New York of a growing movement demanding changes that would Coalition for Transportation Safety, remembers the days to eye with one another. One improvement that accomreduce the number of deaths on the streets. Simple road of advocating for seatbelts to be a law. She recalls the plishes that is called daylighting, which bans parking design changes, such as rumble strips, consistency of combined efforts of medical professionals recounting near an intersection so pedestrians and bicyclists can see school zone limits from town to town, and accurate the horrors of seeing car crash victims, public figures motorists, and vice versa. For this, Carmody said, no police report documents, in the case of a fatality, are lending their voices, and public service announcements traffic study needs to be done; it’s just a matter of conways she has suggested could help, because “my son’s shown in movie theaters, and how they succeeded. vincing the public to lose two a couple of parking spaces life was not an oopsie.”

Brown said she believes that a similar group effort is in order to save lives.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 2016-CTT, Plaintiff AGAINST THOMAS BRADY, LORI BRADY, ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered July 24, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on June 22, 2023 at 2:00PM, premises known as 950 WASHINGTON STREET, BALDWIN, NY 11510. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Baldwin, in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 54 BLOCK 388 LOTS 2072, 2073.

Approximate amount of judgment $707,075.86 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #001956/2017.

The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the court appointed referee will cancel the foreclosure auction.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine”. Ellen Durst Blair, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 17-000548 76013 139668

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU. WISDOM VENTURES LLC, Plaintiff, v. FONSECA DEVELOPMENTS LLC, et al., Defendants. Index No. 606392/2022 Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale granted herein on May 8, 2023, I the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction at the North side steps of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, County of NASSAU, State of New York on July 12, 2023 at 3:00 pm of that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: Said premises being known as and by street address 3350 COLONY DRIVE, BALDWIN, NY 11510 Section 54 Block 348 Lot 25-26 Said premises are sold subject to the terms and conditions of the filed

Judgment and the Terms of Sale. Approximate amount of Judgment $458,613.61.

Dated: Garden City, New York May 30, 2023 JANE SHRENKEL, ESQ., Referee Adam E. Mikolay, P.C. Attorney for Plaintiff 400 Garden City Plaza Suite 405 Garden City, New York 11530 516-222-2050 139906 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF THE FW SERIES I TRUST, Plaintiff, vs. WILHELMINA O’BRIEN A/K/A WILHELMINA O’BREIN, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on April 12, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 13, 2023 at 2:00 p.m., premises known as 557 Irving Place, North Baldwin, NY a/k/a 557 Irving Place, Baldwin, NY 11510. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 36, Block 416 and Lot 135. Approximate amount of judgment is $478,065.92 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 602813/2021. This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale. Louis B. Imbroto, Esq., Referee Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Firm File No. 202886-1 139921 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR TRUMAN 2016 SC6 TITLE TRUST, Plaintiff, vs. DONNOVAN EVANS, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on April 4, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 11, 2023 at 2:00 p.m., premises known as 720 West Carl Avenue, Baldwin, NY 11510. All that certain

plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 36, Block 541 and Lot 32. Approximate amount of judgment is $791,917.73 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 607354/2020. This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale. Maria Scheuring, Esq., Referee Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF NASSAU THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE C E RT I F I C AT E H O L D E R S OF CWMBS, INC, CHL MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH TRUST 200504, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-04, Plaintiff, Against VALERIE POWELL, CHARLES POWELL, et al.

Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered on 2/9/2016, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. 11501. This Auction will be held rain or shine on 7/10/2023 at 2:00 PM, premises known as 3386 Bertha Drive, Baldwin, NY 11510. and described as follows: ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York Section 54 Block 551 Lot 54 The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $897,754.32 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 08-007502 If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the then Court Appointed Referee will cancel the Foreclosure Auction. Harold F. Damm, Esq., Referee. McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC, 10 Midland Avenue, Suite 205, Port Chester, NY 10573 Dated: 5/8/2023 File Number: 253-0039NY LD 139925

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, as amended, a public hearing will be held in the Nathan L. H. Bennett Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, Town Hall Plaza, 1 Washington Street, Village and Town of Hempstead, New York, on the 20th day of June, 2023 at 10:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, to consider the enactment of an amendment to Chapter 99 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead entitled “Registration and Permitting of Property” in relation to accessory structures and penalties.

The proposed local law is available at hempsteadny. gov, on the bulletin board at Town Hall as of the publication of this notice, and on file in the Office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Hempstead, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, New York, where the same may be inspected during office hours.

ALL PERSONS INTERESTED shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposal at the time and place aforesaid.

Dated:Hempstead, New York June 6, 2023

BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK. KATE MURRAY Town Clerk DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor 140098 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO. 372023 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing was duly called and held May 23rd, 2023, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 37-2023, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Town of Hempstead Local Law No.37-2023, amending Section 197-5 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, to include “ARTERIAL STOPS” at various locations.

Dated: May 23, 2023 Hempstead, New York

BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 140116 LEGAL NOTICE BOARD OF EDUCATION BALDWIN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIFICATIONS FOR PUPIL TRANSPORTATION Section 1 ADVERTISEMENT The Board of Education of The Baldwin Union Free

School District, County of Nassau, hereafter invites The Submission of sealed Bids. For the SouthWest Quadrant Consortium.

PUPIL TRANSPORTATION Friday, June 23, 2023 At 9:30 A.M. At the office Of the Board of Education Baldwin Union Free School District. Baldwin, N.Y. 11510 At which time and place All bids will be publicly Opened and read aloud. Specifications and bid Forms may be obtained by Telephone 516-434-6040 Between the hours of 8:30 A.M. and 3:30 P.M. Weekdays.

The Board of Education reserves the Right to reject any or all Bids, or to accept any bid Which is in the opinion of The Board of Education Will be in the best Interest of the School District. Board of Education Baldwin Union Free School District. By: Pamela Pratt District Clerk 140066 LEGAL NOTICE A non-profit religious organization located in Merrick, NY is seeking sealed bids for sales and installation of security related enhancements.

The project includes obtaining and installation of: 1.New solid interior doors with new frames and automatic closing and locking hardware to replace selected interior doors. 2.New double pane locking security windows with shatterproof glass & limited opening hardware 3.Physical access control equipment (card readers, door strikes, panic bars), to enable remote lock release capability that is compatible with our current systems for selected interior doors.

4.Acquire and install panic buttons in selected areas of the building (hardwired and/or portable wireless) 5.Acquire and install additional high-definition security cameras compatible with our existing video surveillance system. 6.Acquire and install LED dusk to dawn ground level lighting for exterior of the building 7.Acquire wireless portable Public Address System with both interior and exterior speakers.

Selection criteria will be based on knowledge of doors, door installation, security windows & installation, security cameras, security lighting and public address systems.

Experience and specific knowledge of all or some of items 1-7 listed above, adherence to projected work schedules, prior experience, references, and cost. Bids will be accepted for either individual items listed above or any combination of those items. Specifications and bid requirements can be obtained by contacting us at bidstbame@gmail. www.liherald.com

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com. All firms who intend to bid and are interested in receiving the bid requirements must provide the following information in your email request: firm name, owners’ names, business address, primary contact, telephone, fax, and email address by no later than 5:00pm Friday June 30, 2023. Bids will be accepted until 5:00pm on Friday July 21, 2023.

Work is to commence by Tuesday September 5, 2023 and be completed

by October 31, 2023 140067 LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Formation: Instincts Media LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/05/2023. Office: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 891 N. William St. Baldwin, NY 11510.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

140124 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff, vs. ALAN BUCHBERG, ET AL., Defendant (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on May 2, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Nassau County Supreme Court, on the north side steps, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York on July 19, 2023 at 2:00 P.M., premises known as 988 LYDIA PLACE A/K/A 988 LYDIA PLACE #1, BALDWIN, NEW YORK 11510. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section: 54, Block: 553, Lot: 10. Approximate amount of judgment is $734,301.41 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 616609/2019. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee’s attorney, or the Referee. ELLEN N. SAVINO, Esq., Referee Roach & Lin, P.C., 6851 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 185, Syosset, New York 11791, Attorneys for Plaintiff 140126 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST Nassau County Public Administrator, as the Limited Administrator c.t.a. of the Estate of

Franklin Durand; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered May 12, 2023 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 17, 2023 at 2:30PM, premises known as 964 Lydia Place, Baldwin, NY 11510. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Baldwin, in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section 54 Block 553 Lot 6. Approximate amount of judgment $665,578.27 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 006835/2008.

The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.”

Ralph Madalena, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: May 25, 2023 For sale information, please visit www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832 140128 LEGAL NOTICE REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff - against - MARIE AMBROISE, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on October 30, 2019. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. 11501 “Rain or Shine” on the 18th day of July, 2023 at 2:00 PM. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Baldwin, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York. Premises known as 3051 Grand Avenue, Baldwin, NY 11510.

(Section: 0054, Block: 00409-00, Lot: 00075) Approximate amount of lien $467,106.06 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 613132/2018. Brian J. Davis, Esq., Referee.

McCalla Raymer Leibert

Pierce, LLC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 840 New York, NY 10170 Tel. 347/286-7409 For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www.

Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832 Dated: April 26, 2023 During the COVID-19 health emergency, bidders are required to comply with all governmental health requirements in effect at the time of sale including but not limited to, wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing (at least 6-feet apart) during the auction, while tendering deposit and at any subsequent closing. Bidders are also required to comply with the Foreclosure Auction Rules and COVID-19 Health Emergency Rules issued by the Supreme Court of this County in addition to the conditions set forth in the Terms of Sale.

140080 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR TRUMAN 2016 SC6 TITLE TRUST, Plaintiff, vs.

MARGARET A. BURCH A/K/A MARGARET A. MILLS A/K/A MARGARET A. GREEN, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on May 4, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 19, 2023 at 2:00 p.m., premises known as 1459 Prince Street a/k/a 1459 Prince Avenue, Baldwin, NY 11510. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Baldwin, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 36, Block 373 and Lot 69. Approximate amount of judgment is $454,243.16 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #609911/2019.

This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale. John G. Marks, Esq., Referee Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

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A. This is a typical case of “you snooze, you lose.” I regularly hear from people who tell me that their friends, contractors, even their attorneys, in some cases, give them “off the record” advice not to make waves, not to do anything. But the issues and requirements don’t just go away, and design professionals are held back from what you onte eeper really wanted them to do, like an addition or a home makeover, many years later.

Waiting and ignoring the requirements has put you in a much more difficult situation. Since Sandy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has required that people who received funding, whether directly from the federal agency or through public funds like New York Rising, had to confirm that the funds were put toward the repairs they were meant for. It’s just like providing your car insurance company the receipts and/or an inspection to confirm that the money they gave you for repairs was spent on the car, and not on some fraudulent luxury expense.

In 2013, your municipality required a repair permit, and instead of repeatedly contacting you, they opted to say that they notified you (once or twice), and now it’s your problem that you didn’t respond.

The friction this created has lasted long after the memory of the flood turmoil has diminished.

People feel ambushed, but arguing or passing on the requirement doesn’t make it go away.

In fact, one of the requirements is a “proof of loss” letter issued to the property owner, preferably the person who owned the property at the time of the flood. Switching to the next owner just complicates the process. Even though repair permits do not have a permit fee, most people made improvements during repairs, and your municipality recently doubled the fees for property improvements. So putting off the repair is now going to cost even more, which your buyer’s attorney might also realize while protecting the buyer.

When it comes to building department fees, one of the biggest municipalities, whose fees were more lenient, just raised them substantially. A couple who applied for permits in 2019, later hampered by the pandemic, saw their projected fees go from $2,000 to $4,600 this past month. Yes, it really did take that long, due to the pandemic and the stages of approval they had to go through, and they weren’t snoozing. Listen to the buyer’s attorney and follow through. Good luck!

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o date, there are at least 10 Republican Davids who have announced that they are running for president, and there are perhaps another five coming. This should very much please the Goliath, Donald Trump, who welcomes as many competitors as possible.

Almost all of the declared candidates have one thing in common. They are afraid to attack the former president, even though doing so would make them look truly independent. Former Vice President JERRY Mike Pence criticized Trump for KREMER his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, but then pledged to support the eventual party nominee.

From candidate to candidate, the story is the same. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis takes pokes at Trump and tries to outdo him, but refuses to aim any direct hits at him. DeSantis wants the support of the pro-Trump movement, so he won’t take on Trump in any meaningful way.

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has some impressive credentials,

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and talks about “moving forward,” but she can’t muster the nerve to say anything negative about Trump. On issues like abortion, she is wishy-washy, saying she is pro-life and not criticizing DeSantis for his six-week abortion ban. She claims she does “not want to get into the numbers game.”

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is well respected in the Senate. He is very articulate, but when confronted with specific issues, he dances around like Fred Astaire. He could become a formidable candidate, but if he hedges like all the other candidates, he won’t get any traction.

Vivek Ramaswamy is a former tech and finance executive who relatively few people have ever heard of. He is prominent in conservative circles. He has a lot of work to do to get public recognition, and even though he declared back in February, he hasn’t made a dent in any public opinion polls. He is silent on Trump.

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has great executive experience and is working hard to attract independents.

He has made some negative comments about Trump, primarily about Trump’s

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role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Hutchinson has a very conservative record on taxes and abortion, which might attract some voters. But he is too low-key at a time when more vocal candidates get noticed.

Doug Burgum, the governor of North Dakota, is a new face on the national political scene. In his home state he is known for cutting taxes and anti-transgender policies. Money is no issue, because Burgum is a billionaire. But a governor from an obscure state won’t ever be a favorite to lead the pack. He appears to be running primarily for name recognition, which may help in the next election cycle.

One of my favorite candidates is former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Coupled with the fact that he is a former U.S. attorney, he is articulate and tough.

At his announcement of his candidacy, Christie ripped into Trump with humor and sharp barbs. Few political observers think he can win the nomination, but he has the ability to cause some damage to Trump.

While all of these announced candidates are running around Iowa, New Hampshire, Arizona and Georgia,

eSantis, Pence, Haley, Scott, Ramaswamy?

Who can take out Trump?

Trump is sitting back and thinking, the more the merrier. In the coming weeks there will be more entrants into the presidential horse race, which will make him even happier. The latest polls show him with a wide lead over his nearest rival, DeSantis. In recent weeks, DeSantis has seen a drop in his support due to some of his very unpopular actions in Florida.

Is it possible Trump could lose his party’s nomination? In politics, anything can happen. He faces two indictments (so far), in New York and Florida, which would sink almost any other candidate. But his continuing popularity among Republicans could keep him viable as a candidate, even one who’s been indicted.

And it’s possible that even if he’s not the eventual nominee, Trump will run anyway. He may be willing to burn the Republican house down, even if he’s in leg irons.

For now, it’s the Davids against Goliath, and Goliath is looking hard to topple.

Jerry Kremer was an 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.

Column writing through hell and high water

’ve written my column through hell and high water. To be specific, I wrote my heart out after 9/11, grieving with so many readers who lost loved ones in the towers. I scribbled my way through blackouts, epic blizzards, hurricanes and, for three years, the pandemic.

I wrote about how to sleep better and eat better and find friends and keep friends.

Sometimes an idea landed on the page full blown, and sometimes it’s been a struggle to compose a cogent piece. I spent my RANDI 750 words in wildKREISS ly different ways, from a tribute to a courageous teacher friend going through chemotherapy to a send-up of the muchreviled New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, to one column many years ago in which I advertised for a prom date for my daughter. (She was in on the joke.).

My work has been personal. I have

written about my children’s lives, their mitzvahs and their missteps. My breast cancer. My husband’s heart surgeries. I struggled for days trying to find just the right words to honor my parents when they died. In some ways the column has been a running history of our times in our Long Island communities. After all, don’t we share the same lives and dreams, worry about the same threats to our mother Earth and hope for a safer world for our kids?

Many of my columns have suggested or reviewed books, the other love in my life. In return, many of you have pitched books my way that turned out to be thrilling and illuminating.

As politics got nasty and toxic in recent years, I jumped in, wanting to use my 750 words a week to rally support for our democracy, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights and laws that ensure equality for every community and every human being. I think these were words well spent, although at times the backlash has been fierce. That’s what opinion columns are for: to stir the pot,

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open up the debate and disagree without getting too creepy.

When I was lucky enough to travel, I wrote to you from places as far-flung as Mumbai, the Maldives, Japan, Norway, Komodo Island, Normandy, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia and Dubai. The first question I asked when booking a trip was, “Will there be Wi-Fi?” Over the decades, I had one official week off per year, the end-of-year edition of the Heralds, when we publish special editorial pages. I consider the obligation to turn in a column every week, on deadline (most times), a sacred privilege and a joy. Mine used to be considered a “humor” column, and I miss that, but the world is only intermittently funny these days.

Maybe you can tell: I love newspapering. So it is with some sadness that I write today to tell you that I am taking a two-month leave starting next week.

My husband, my Donnie, is facing a serious medical challenge, and I want to be there for him 100 percent. I hope to see him through it, help him get healthy

nd now a break, so I can focus on Donnie’s health.

So we’ll rerun some favorites.

and strong again, and come back to this page with fresh ideas, good news and renewed focus.

Over the next few weeks, we’ve decided to revisit some winning columns from the past 20 years, and hope they still offer a laugh or an insight or a reason to write an angry letter. I did briefly consider using ChatGPT to write my column while I’m away, but I’d hate to find out that I can be replaced by an app that’s writing fake college essays for a living.

I am keeping a journal of this time, and if you’d like to stay in touch, please write to my email below and I’ll share some of what I’m writing on our medical adventure. I wish we were off on a Hawaiian Islands fling. Or a return to Komodo Island, even with the monstrous, salivating dragons. I’d even settle for the North Seas cruise where the waves were 20 feet high and the sun didn’t shine for 14 days.

This turn of events is not what I would have expected or wished for in our lives, but it is what has been given us at this time.

Wish us luck.

Copyright 2023 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Don’t let our map of history disappear

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istory is not the past, but a map of the past,” historian Henry Glassie once said, “drawn from a particular point of view, to be useful to the modern traveler.”

We explore that map through collections of stories, drawings and photographs. Later, through moving images and even elaborate recreations on the silver screen. Yet no matter how advanced our mapmaking skills of history have become, there is not a single plot point or directional as effective in truly connecting us with history than directly interacting with those who were there.

That’s why we are so grateful for efforts like the UJA-Federation’s Witness Project.

Similar to other efforts with variations on the same name, the UJA started the Witness Project five years ago, as an effort to tell stories from the Holocaust and World War II directly from the source: those who witnessed it.

As part of a recent featured exhibit and film, “The Ties that Bind Us,” at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, the Witness Project showcased its efforts to tell stories directly to high school students in twice-monthly small group meetings where each has a chance to interact with

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Another private energy company, Jerry?

To the Editor: As former Assemblyman Jerry Kremer writes, “The PSEG love affair is over” (June 1-7). There is no prospect of LIPA continuing to contract management of our electrical system to PSEG. But Kremer is wrong to suggest that after the breakup, Long Island should get back out there and seek a relationship with a different private company.

Our current arrangement, in which a public utility (LIPA) outsources management to a private corporation (PSEG), is a unicorn found nowhere else, because it’s unworkable. PSEG wastes tens of millions of dollars a year, and gave us high electric bills, substandard service, and the lowest customer satisfaction in its class.

But the problem is bigger than one under perfor ming company.

The incentives of outsourcing are all wrong. PSEG’s incentive is to

someone who experienced the horrors of the genocide, and later the triumphs of the period when it ended.

One of the witnesses who took part in the project is Fred Zeilberger, who was ordered to stack bodies of fellow prisoners like firewood at a makeshift concentration camp in Latvia. He was just 14, and was one of just 27 Jewish prisoners to survive that camp, out of 1,000 who ultimately ended up there.

“I was working every day,” Zeilberger recounted. “If you didn’t work, you didn’t survive.”

Some might question why we, as a society, spend so much time focused on history, when we have the present — and the future — to deal with. But that’s the thing.

You can’t understand the present or prepare for the future without exploring the past. That means the bad, the good. The horrific, the triumphant. There is no room for filters, only for an honest assessment of what we, as a society, have cobbled together over the years, decades and centuries.

And yes, a lot of our history will make us quite disappointed in our ancestors. We may even feel terrible about what happened, even though we personally did not do any of those things.

No one, of course, wants to feel bad.

But a little bit of guilt is far different than the pain and suffering so many others experienced before us. And if feeling bad helps us better understand the plight of those who came before us, it’s a small price to pay.

It’s an oft-repeated quote, so often that it could be argued that it’s cliché. But George Santayana was right: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Remembering the past might not ensure that it won’t be repeated, but it’s the best defense we have for breaking the cycles of pain and anguish that fill our history books.

Our darkest period in modern history is, by far, the Holocaust. Every story from this time couldn’t be more important. But as each year ticks by — as the Holocaust rapidly approaches the century mark — it’s vital that we keep listening. We keep learning. We keep seeking.

A map might make our travels easier by pointing the way, but it doesn’t simply make them easy. There are many obstacles blocking our way from the bright future we all want, and it’s important that we look at our own societal map — past, present and future — to ensure that we find our way.

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erving as a police officer in the New York City Police Department and the police departments of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for 22 years, I saw firsthand the effectiveness of the “broken windows” model of policing. This theory on policing suggests that visible signs of crime and disorder encourage further crime and disorder — especially serious crimes.

The theory proposes that having police enforce CHristopHer minor crimes, such as graffiti, Carini public drinking, trespassing and fare evasion, will create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness. This model proved effective in New York City, when the city was transformed from the murder capital of the country in the 1990s to record low crime rates in the 2000s.

Albany’s soft-on-crime approach, with

cashless bail and the “Raise the Age” statute, has broken the windows of our community, and it’s our responsibility as elected officials to fix these windows.

Although the Town of Hempstead doesn’t have its own police force, we do have hardworking CSEA Local 880 employees who know how to get the job done.

The Town of Hempstead will be doing our part to help restore quality of life by tackling local community issues such as graffiti and illegal advertisements — and Supervisor Don Clavin and I created a Quality-of-Life Task Force whose sole responsibility will be to right these wrongs. By actively targeting minor offenses and keeping our township clean and pristine, we are taking a proactive step to discourage further illegal activity.

Since my days as a civic leader, I have battled these very same quality-of-life problems that deteriorate neighborhoods and bring down home values. I brought this initiative with me to the town, and formed a graffiti task force to quickly eradicate any reported graffiti. Capitaliz-

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special task force will rein in graffiti and keep the town clean and pristine.

Letters serve shareholders, which it does well, posting impressive profits. It also does well for itself, with big executive salaries and bonus packages.

It’s the same with other private utility companies. National Grid tried holding New York hostage by halting all new gas hookups unless it got a new pipeline, bringing local development to a standstill and damaging our economy. The company pursued its own interests at the expense of the public’s, and didn’t back down until the state imposed a $36 million fine and threatened to yank its operating license. Then National Grid had the chutzpah to turn around and push for a rate hike.

Putting ratepayers first would mean lower bills, shorter outages, and better service. Serving the public interest would mean faster ramp-up of renewables, and giving local voices a say in planning and oversight. Outsourced private management isn’t designed to deliver these things. T hat’s why, instead of getting enmeshed with another private company after PSEG, LIPA should switch to full public power, and manage the system for the benefit of Long Islanders.

LISA TYSON Executive director, Long Island Progressive Coalition Massapequa

ing on this, I partnered with Clavin and the Town Board in expanding this task force to protect the quality of life in our township.

While we continue to fight against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s attempt to seize control over local zoning, the town will also fight illegal signs, overgrowth on public land, littered roadways, messy parking lots and, of course, graffiti. The task force is not limited to land and streets maintained by the town; it will also target signs on utility poles, and will not be hindered by bureaucratic red tape.

Low-level crimes blight our community, and by not holding criminals accountable, we’re pretending that these crimes don’t matter. We need proper leadership in Albany to do its part by equipping law enforcement with the resources needed to go after low-level crimes. Policies like cashless bail and “Raise the Age” only encourage this behavior, and we’re starting to see an increase in crimes such as graffiti at town parks.

Hateful graffiti was recently found at

The outdoor season is the noisy-aircraft season To the Editor: There are only a few short months during which we who live on Long Island can enjoy being outdoors, riding bikes, taking walks, sitting in the backyard, gardening and eating outside.

And we are bombarded by the sound of jets taking off from Kennedy Airport every 60 to 90 seconds.

The scream of the engines is a health threat. It’s a proven fact that excess noise impacts hearing; raises blood pressure, stress, anxiety and depression; and can lead to cardiovascular problems.

Can’t air traffic controllers shoot these aircraft out over the Atlantic Ocean until they reach significant height, and then turn them back over urban areas, rather than creating havoc with our lives in Rockville Centre, Lynbrook, Malverne and other communities that are in path of the takeoff patterns?

There is a Port Authority noise control number where you can lodge a complaint about the intolerable, brutal noise blasts.

Call (800) 225-1071 and say something. If enough of us call, perhaps the P.A. will do something to let us enjoy our lives in the summertime while paying monumentally high taxes to do so. We deserve some peace and quiet.

JIM PAYMAR Rockville Centre

a park in Seaford. While the drawings and handwriting were crude and childish, the message it tried to perpetuate was one of intolerance. The town was swift to remove the graffiti, but it’s not uncommon for the act to be a repeat offense. There is no fear of repercussion, and that empowers people to confidently scrawl messages of hate.

The town will continue to do its best to remove illegal signs and graffiti — especially those that infringe on the town’s zero-tolerance policy regarding hatred of any form — but sometimes the effort feels like it’s one step forward, two steps back. This needs to change.

We all want the same thing: safe, affordable and scenic neighborhoods in which to live, work and raise our families. It is my mission to keep the Town of Hempstead on this track, and I’m proud that our Quality-of-Life Task Force will continue to beautify a new area every day. We’re doing our part to fix the broken windows, but Albany would make this mission a whole lot easier if its leaders held criminals accountable.

Hempstead Town Councilman Christopher Carini represents the town’s 5th District.

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