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First Church organizes pop-up pantry Thinking she had to act fast, Geasor contacted a woman from Halandia Shores and delivered First Church Baldwin United about $75 worth of food. Then Methodist recently launched a she mentioned it to the church. mission to help feed those in “We decided that we wanted need at a local housing develop- to kind of embrace this as an ment in Baldwin. outreach program,” she said, Church member Valerie Gea- “and how great it is that it’s sor and other vollocal.” unteers collected F i r s t C h u rch nonperishable food members are comitems and set up a mitted to charity pop-up pantry at work, and this is Halandia Shores not their first on June 27. effort. In the past, T h e d eve l o p m e m b e r s h av e ment houses a variundertaken misety of residents, sion work in Far including seniors Ro c k aw ay a n d and people with Belize, and have disabilities. More donated gifts to than 30 residents older adults in Nascame to the comsau County at munity room to Christmas. wait on line and “ We, as a select the items church, should be reV. Claire wU they needed, Geadoing more local Pastor sor explained. community work It all star ted for our neighbors because of a Facebook thread. right here in Baldwin,” the Rev. About two months ago, a local Claire Wu, the church’s pastor, woman posted that she had tried wrote in a newsletter. “We need to donate food to Halandia to reach past ourselves to those Shores, Geasor said, but wasn’t God has placed around us by progaining traction. The develop- moting Christ’s love through ment had stopped receiving assistance in the winter. Continued on page 4
By Bridget dowNes bdownes@liherald.com
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steVe BUrke, oNe of the founding members of the Baldwin Hot Rod Association, left, and Shawn Sabel, owner of the Irish Pub, hosted a car club meet-up last Sunday.
Baldwin Hot Rod Association, Irish Pub host car enthusiasts Locals show off their classics at meet-up
By Bridget dowNes bdownes@liherald.com
Baldwinites showed off their classic cars at the Baldwin Hot Rod Association’s first car club event of the season last Sunday morning. Dozens of people socially distanced in the parking lot behind the Irish Pub, on Merrick Road, where Shawn Sabel, the pub’s owner, offered drinks and a free buffet. Steve Burke, one of the founding members of the
Baldwin Hot Rod Association, had planned the event since February. The onset of the c o r o n av i r u s p a n d e m i c delayed the meet-up. But many of the eventgoers said it was a great opportunity to see their friends, and to support a local fixture like the Irish Pub. Many local businesses have struggled throughout the pandemic, and Burke said he was happy to partner with someone like Sabel. “To me, it’s all about get-
ting the guys from the car club out doing something positive,” Burke said, especially after everyone has been cooped up inside for so long. “Shawn really cares about this community. And for me to see my friends, you can’t go wrong. We haven’t seen each other in a while.” In May, Burke and other members of the Hot Rod Association, in collaboration with Baldwin American Legion Post 246, organized a Continued on page 3
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Hot Rod Association hosts car club meet-up Continued from page 1 car parade that led to the veterans memorial in Silver Lake Park to commemorate Memorial Day. The parade featured military vehicles, classic cars and motorcycles. “When I got involved in doing Memorial Day to do something for the community,” Burke said, “Shawn then went back to me and said he wanted to go ahead and still do it.” And Burke said he was planning more events for the future. “It was from 10 to one — I’m going to start thinking of the next thing at 1:05,” he said. “I’m working hard Steve Burke on it. This is Co-founder, Baldwin my passion; these cars have Hot Rod Association been around Baldwin for a while.” He thanked Baldwinites John Cools and Jerry Brown, of the Baldwin Fire Department, for their help in organizing the meetup. “It’s not all me,” Burke said. “It is me — it’s my heart, it’s my ideas, I’m the architect of great ideas — but I need guys to help me execute it.” “This is the first time since the pandemic that we actually were able to get together,” Brown said, “and it gave us an outside venue so we can still do social distancing and still see everyone and have a good time, so it ended up being a great thing.” Burke showed off his gray 1967 Chevy Super Sport, with its original drivetrain still intact. The car belonged to his late brother, Tommy Burke. “Hopefully one day my son gets to
dozenS of people socially distanced and showed off their classic cars.
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drive it,” Burke said. “It’s going to stay in the family. Hopefully the right person drives it. Who knows? My daughter could drive it.” Burke’s friend Rich Baldassano, of Baldwin, brought his 1955 Chevy Nomad, a black two-door station wagon that he said he rebuilt. “I modernized it with a different engine transmission,” said Baldassano, a mechanic. “Power steering, power brakes, power windows — I put all that in.” The car has been in Baldwin since 1976, Baldassano said. It even has fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview mirror. “Without Steve Burke, we wouldn’t have been able to organize it in such a big fashion,” Sabel said. “I am proud to be partners with him on this event. I love this town and I just want to keep continuing to be part of such a supportive, beautiful town. It was so refreshing to finally start seeing familiar and new faces again.”
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the parking lot was filled with colorful classic cars.
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riCh BaldaSSano with his 1955 Chevy Nomad, a black twodoor station wagon.
First Church launches pop-up pantry Continued from page 1
Valerie geasor, left, set out nonperishable food items like soups and pasta in the community room at Halandia Shores on June 27 for a “pop-up pantry” set up by First Church Baldwin United Methodist Church.
outreach to the community and the world.” Some residents said they no longer felt “forgotten about.” “We, the seniors living at Halandia Shores, would like to thank the First Church in Baldwin for your generous donations,” Cathie Staiano said on Facebook. “Special thanks to Bonnie Schneider and Valerie Beaudry Geasor for your time and patience. We would like to have this pantry monthly, and if anyone can donate to the church, please do so.” Anyone who wishes to donate may drop off nonperishable food items in the collection box outside the doors that lead to the church office. The church is at 881 Merrick Road. Geasor said monetary donations are also being accepted, and help to fill in any need for certain items. The money allows her to buy the more popular food items that go quickly, like oatmeal, applesauce, coffee, peanut butter crackers, soups and pastas, as well as fresh produce. To send a monetary donation, mail a check to the church, and make sure it specifies in the legend that it is for the food pantry. To reach Geasor, call or text her at (516) 851-9215. Geasor said she would like to see the mission continue, and hopes donations are robust enough to do so. “I believe in God, and I believe in the spirit that comes through,” Geasor said, “and I definitely feel like I was meant to do this mission. The way things fell into place and all these signs and all these little things that happened, it just confirmed to me that this is what I need to do to help.”
more than 30 people, below, took advantage of the offerings. Photos courtesy Valerie Geasor
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Writer Diane Baumann, of Baldwin, and Kidz Entertainment, Inc. has announced their new children’s picture book titled “I Can’t Seem to Find My Tail.” Presenting their signature character line, Pansie and Friends, the book tells the story of true friendship, helping one another and learning to live together in peace and harmony, according to a news release. Pansie the Pig’s tail has gone missing, so Oliver the Frog, Tasha the Nightingale, Isabella the Swan and Logan the Bee go on an adventure to help her find it. Diane Baumann Pansie and her friends get through their journey by using their heads and hearts and by facing the challenge together. “Ultimately, the goal is for my program to be a fun way for kids to learn about friendship and teamwork while making a positive impact on their development and behavior,” Baumann said. To compliment the book, she added activities and created a coloring book, music, “Pin the Tail on Pansie,” and a writing activity called “I Am A Friend When...” on character letterhead. Baumann has also created a lesson that teachers and social workers can use as a guideline if they would like to take the book and activities into the classroom. The activities also work well for children with disabilities. “Children love to have the opportunity to lend a hand and share their own knowledge and experiences with others,” Baumann said. “It helps them become more self-confident and aware of their own abilities. The kids can see the value in helping and teaching someone else, and in turn, it can enhance their own skills.” Additionally, there is a cartoon with Pansie and Friends that focuses on childhood behavioral development, socialization and simple academia in
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Front-line workerS at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Oceanside came outside to greet hundreds of cars that drove by in a parade to support them during the battle against the coronavirus in April.
Weathering the pandemic at MSSN By Mike SMollinS msmollins@liherald.com
When faced with an “unprecedented” situation in April as coronavirus numbers reached their peak — 383 — the staff at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital rose to the occasion and banded together to get through the difficult time. “We are stretched beyond anything we have seen in the past,” spokesman Joe Calderone said at the time. “The situation here is unprecedented.” While many lives were lost because of the virus, the hospital celebrated the release of hundreds of Covid-19 positive patients who were released healthy. At a time when front-line workers were stretched thin, the Oceanside community and many others came together to show their support, donating food to the hospital’s staff daily throughout the pandemic. In May, when cases began plummeting, the hospital returned to offering elective surgeries as the hospital began a “Don’t Put Your Health on Hold” initiative, urging the community not to risk safety out of fear of coming to a hospital. “If you’re out there and you have a procedure that you’ve been putting off, or if you have any kind of medical issue, you should call immediately,” Calderone said. “Don’t wait.” In June, most units of the hospital returned to welcoming visitors under strict guidelines, including one visitor per day per patient, and a shift from a 24 hours per day visitor policy to a fourhour window. Additionally, all visitors must undergo a Covid-19 test no more than two days before visiting. Before, during and after the surge of the pandemic, MSSN was committed to delivering standard-setting, patient-cen-
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Senior Quotes 2020 Baldwin High School student named a poetry contest winner Baldwin High School student Dylan Pigott, of Ms. Hughes’ AP Language and Composition class, recently won the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association 34th Annual Student Poetry Contest 2020 for his category: 11th grade individual poetry anthology.
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“The Roving Protector” The griot. She leaps. Bounding over the conflagrations of past and present. Clutching to the former, the ci-devant, the antecedent. She leaps, But never high enough to forget. Never far enough to ignore their calls. The calls of the ancestors. Be it high, low, or far, She carries them with her, But is never weighed down. She is never cumbersome. She is the griot. The vessel of our torments. She is the griot. The Cerberus of our stories. She is the griot.
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Baldwin HigH ScHool student Dylan Pigott was recently named a winner in the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association poetry contest.
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The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association celebrates the creative efforts put forth by students and their teachers. In light of the 2020 leap year, the theme, based on Whitman’s poem, “Joy, Shipmate, Joy” and the line, “The ship is clear at last, she leaps!,” called for students to submit a poem about “leaping” into a “leap day.” This year the awards were presented via video due to the present need for social distancing, school officials said. The virtual award ceremony video was shared privately with the families of the winners,
along with their teachers, on Walt Whitman’s 201st birthday, May 31, 2020. Pigott’s poem reads:
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Heading off to school Adjusting to the new realities of college life in the ‘new normal’
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ndoubtedly, the outbreak of Covid-19 has brought a cloud of uncertainty to higher education institutions regarding how to proceed with returning to campus. While many colleges and universities have announced their plans to reopen campuses this fall, students need to prepare for a college experience that will be from what it used to be. College will clearly not be the same, whether that be in person or online. Many schools are hopeful to have students on campus but are also making alternate plans, such as a hybrid of online and in-class, an early or late start, and other creative options. But regardless of how college will look, students will want to make transitioning this fall as smooth as possible. Introduce yourself Don’t be shy! Introduce yourself to your professors, classmates, and advisors. For school online, try and follow the same advice and find virtual office hours for your professors, peer study groups, and work that campus directory to contact the folks you need. Set up for Success No matter where you are this fall, have a dedicated study space to focus on your studies, especially if you are taking classes online. Read through your syllabus and plan your to-do schedule for weekly studying as well as longer preparations for exams, papers, or projects. Try to eliminate distractions (like your phone) and if necessary use headphones. Learn about the services your school offers like tutor centers in math and writing, whether online or on campus. You don’t have to do it alone! There are resources available to help you succeed! And
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Nassau demands $2M for the Coliseum By BRIAN STIEGLITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com
Nassau County is demanding that Onexim Sports and Entertainment, the company that operates Nassau Coliseum, pay $2 million in overdue rent in 15 days or risk forfeiting its lease. The county recently explained its action in a Notice of Default sent on July 7 to Onexim, which operates Nassau Coliseum under the Nassau Events Center. The letter came following Onexim’s decision last month to temporarily close the Coliseum while it waits for investors to take over operations and take on the remaining debt. If Onexim fails to pay the $2 million in payments to the county within 15 days after the letter was sent, it would result in an “event of default” and mean the county could terminate its lease. The lease accounts for an additional 30 days in which the Nassau Events Center’s leasehold lender, Nassau Coliseum Funding 100, could “step into the tenant’s shoes” and satisfy the rent payments before the county could end the lease. However, in a loan agreement secured by the lease, the Nassau Events Center owes $100 million to Nassau Coliseum Funding 100 for renovations made to the Coliseum in 2015. A statement about the county’s decision reads that it was made in “an effort to ensure a plan for sustained operations” at the Coliseum and the redevelopment of the 72 acres surrounding it, known as the Nassau Hub. “We cannot drag our feet on a strategy for the future of this hallmark Nassau County arena nor risk the unprecedented progress we’ve made to transform the Hub site,” County Executive Laura Curran said. “We did not take
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AmId NASSAu CoLISEum’S temporary closure, Nassau County is demanding that Onexim Sports and Entertainment, the company that operates Nassau Coliseum, pay $2 million in overdue rent. today’s action lightly and believe it is the best way to bring all parties to the table.” The county invited Onexim and its lender to discuss their plans for the future of the Coliseum and the Nassau Hub redevelopment, as written in a letter sent to both groups as well as the codeveloper for the Nassau Hub, RXR Realty. The county’s action also comes after the Nassau Events Center requested a rent forbearance ag reement. In response, the county asked for a detailed plan describing how the Nassau Events
Center plans to continue Coliseum operations and how rent forbearance would help with such a plan. “I’m committed to swiftly reviewing any proposals to get a plan for the building and the redevelopment back on track for the benefit of all our residents — including our devoted Islanders fans — who were looking forward to a final season at the Barn,” Curran said. The temporary closure of the Coliseum leaves the future uncertain for the New York Islanders, which is set to play half of its games next season at the Col-
iseum and the other half at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn. “We are engaged in a productive conversation with all the stakeholders,” reads a statement from Onexim. “We have consistently initiated communications with the county and have been responsive to their communications. We are hopeful that we will soon be able to announce a resolution that will satisfy the needs of the community while taking into account the new realities that we are all facing in light of the pandemic.”
Pols call for oversight of Covid-19 spending By BRIAN STIEGLITZ
and the only town that qualified for the CARES Act funding. Nassau County received $103 million, New York State Sen. Kevin Thomas and Suffolk County, $257.6 million. and U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice are calling On Thursday, Thomas and Rice for the state comptroller to review how appeared outside Hempstead Town Hall, the Town of Hempstead is where Thomas announced spending the $133 million it legislation to appoint a fiscal received from the federal govmonitor to ensure “equitaernment under the Coronavible” distribution of the panrus Aid, Relief, and Economdemic funds, he said. He said ic Security Act. he would introduce the legisDubbed the CARES Act, lation in the State Senate the legislation distributes $2 once it resumes its session on trillion in funds among cerJuly 20. tain governments to alleviate “Strong oversight is about expenses related to the coromaking sure that the people navirus. It is not meant to who really need relief are the replace lost revenue and ones who receive it,” Thomas Kevin Thomas could be used until Dec. 30, said. “This important legisla2020. tion will ensure the accountGovernments that qualified for the ability and transparency that taxpayers funds must have populations of over deserve in these exceptionally challeng500,000. Hempstead is the largest town in ing times.” In a statement, Greg Blower, the the country, with over 800,000 residents,
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town’s director of communications, funds toward the following efforts: accused Thomas and Rice of doing “very ■ $1 million toward each of the four hoslittle to provide direct aid to communipitals in the Town of Hempstead. ties that are struggling.” He said they are “looking to deflect attention from their ■ $2 million to the Nassau County lackluster performance.” Industrial Development Agency’s effort “What’s more, our governto provide small businesses ment’s diverse Covid-19 Adviwith free personal protective sory Panel continues to idenequipment kits. The town’s tify areas of need, and the donations funded the cretown’s administration is ation of 4,000 more kits. working with village officials ■ $2.1 million for Island to provide assistance,” BlowHarvest. er said. On May 5, after securing All of the above decisions the $133 million in CARES were made as resolutions Act funding, the town develpassed on the town website oped an Economic Relief before they were communiAdvisory Committee to delibcated to the press and in the Kathleen Rice erate how to distribute it. town’s e-newsletter. SuperviThe same day, the committee sor Donald Clavin has also agreed to distribute $2 million among 14 been communicating once a week, via local food banks within the Town of Zoom, with village mayors to hear their Hempstead. input and discuss their needs related to So far, the town has also allocated the pandemic.
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When Marianna Hernandez, a teaching assistant at Giblyn Elementary School in Freeport, came down with Covid-19 in March, she felt terrible. Not only was she stuck at home fighting the illness, but she was also separated from her Giblyn students, who she figured were having a hard time adapting to distance learning and life amid the pandemic. As soon as Hernandez was medically cleared to return to work, she threw herself into helping her community, volunteering to distribute food to students who lacked transportation through the district’s “Grab & Go” meal program. When Hernandez learned that one student she was delivering food to had a birthday coming up, she took it a step further, and with fellow teaching assistant Michele Velasquez, founded the Birthday Brigade, a group of Giblyn teaching assistants who helped celebrate the birthdays of nearly 100 students in Freeport from April to the end of June. “After I recovered, I had all this energy that I needed to put into something,” Hernandez said. “I needed to do this.” Although she had beaten the virus, she recognized how badly it had ravaged her community. Freeport was the third-hardest-hit community in Nassau County, with more than 20 new cases reported daily at
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ThE GiBlYN ElEmENTaRY School Birthday Brigade surprised 98 students with birthday parties from April to June. the height of the pandemic. Despite her doctor’s advice to rest and replenish her strength after finally testing negative for Covid-19, Hernandez said she could not fight her drive to help her community during these difficult times.
After the success of the initial birthday surprise, Velasquez recognized what the act meant for her students, so she pushed Hernandez to keep it going. With help from fellow teaching assistants and the Giblyn administration, Her-
nandez and Velasquez put together a calendar of all the students’ birthdays, and the group organized how they would celebrate each one. Marilyn Pignataro, a member of the Birthday Brigade, said the group became skilled at holding the celebrations. They would meet at their cars after their last E-learning class, assemble their supplies and head to the children’s homes on their birthdays. The Birthday Brigade sang “Happy Birthday” in English or Spanish, with Pignataro and Velasquez playing the ukulele and maracas, respectively, to add to the festive mood. “The kids’ and parents’ reactions made it all worth it,” Pignataro said. “Doing it gave us so much joy. I felt like the sunshine coming in and brightening people’s days for a while.” “Every time we went out, we made someone smile,” Velasquez added. “It shows that any act of kindness matters.” Hernandez also let the students wear a special birthday crown during the celebrations as the teaching assistants cheered for the students and often offered balloons, ribbons and cake. Hernadez said it was difficult to juggle volunteering, teaching and organizing the Birthday Brigade, but she felt fulfilled after every birthday. “We just had to do it for them,” she said. “Giblyn has always been my family.”
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Officials outline local summer activities By AlexAndrA WhitBeck State Senator John Brooks, whose district includes Baldwin, held the “Summer School & Activities” webinar on July 2 to inform the community about programs available this summer after Long Island entered Phase Three of reopening. Guest speakers were welcomed from the Freeport School District, Wyandanch School District and the Freeport Memorial Library to introduce their summer activities and current operations. Multiple language options for the webinar were provided. “I hope you’ll find this information very informative and maybe come up with a couple of ideas of things you and your family would like to do over the summer,” Brooks said. In the Baldwin School District, virtual secondary summer school is offering credit bearing courses to high school students, a program for middle school students focusing on English language arts and math is also available, and elementary students have reading assignments and math practice to prevent any loss of learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Freeport School District is offering summer learning programs for Kindergarten through seventh grade and a middle school to high school algebra transition program. The Special Education Extended School Year Program for students in the district’s Individualized Education Program is available through an in-person, 30-day program for four hours a day. Grab and go meals will also be provided for the rest of the summer months, as well as SCOPE childcare programs. Glori Engel, district director of English Language Arts K-12 and Dr. Helen Kanellopoulos, director of Special Education and Pupil Personnel Services represented the Freeport School District at Brooks’ webinar and said teachers planned to keep their students on their toes throughout July. “Everyday, from July 6 through the 30th, we will be posting math and ELA lessons that are grade specific
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the Freeport MeMoriAl Library has begun its summer reading program for kids and adults and plans to hosts several other activities this summer. from our Freeport teachers,” Engel said. For more information about Freeport Public Schools summer programs visit freeportschools.org, or email Glori Engel at gloengel@freeportschools.org regarding the ELA programs and Dr. Helen Kanellopoulos for concerns about special education programs at hkanellopoulos@freeportschools.org. While local school districts all have programs available for students, the Freeport Memorial Library is offering a variety of activities and events open to the community. Cindy Soto, Head of Youth Services Department at the Freeport Library spoke about upcoming online library programs for adults and children of all ages. “Now that we are back in the building, we are going to start doing more programs,” Soto said.
Storytime events for all ages are available at freeportlibrary.info/ with no registration needed, but registration is required for craft related programs. Craft kits can be picked up prior to the program at the library. STEM and trivia programs are provided for kids ages seven through 12. “One of our biggest programs of the year is our Summer Reading Club,” Soto said. “Obviously this year it’s going to be a little different. We used to do everything where the children come in and they report the books to us, but now this year it’s online.” Soto encouraged parents to participate in the adult summer reading program when registering their children. For more information about summer programs and library hours or operations visit https://freeportlibrary.info/. At the Roosevelt Union Free District summer school is offered to all students who need to meet graduation requirements. SCOPE services are available as well at https://www.scopeonline.us for children of emergency workers in the Roosevelt Union Free District. Melody Yanza, the external relations associate for Brooks’s office, explained that parks, preserves, golf courses, driving ranges and tennis, paddleball, handball and bocce ball courts are all open in Nassau County. Playgrounds, dog parks and rifle ranges are also open. At Nickerson Beach in Lido Beach, RV campgrounds and cabanas are open while following overarching state guidelines limiting 25 people or less. Yanza detailed that leisure passes and picnic passes are available at administration buildings located in parks, which are open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. with lifeguards on duty. There is a $15 parking fee, and seasonal permits are available. In Nassau County, RV campgrounds at Battle Row in Old Bethpage, Summer Recreation programs in Wantagh and Cantiague, pools in Cantiague, Christopher Morley Park, Nickerson Beach and Wantagh Park are all open but only to Nassau County residents. For more updates about Nassau County parks visit https://www. nassaucountyny.gov/1767/Parks-Recreation-Museums.
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When Rob Weltner was growing up in Freeport, he loved boating and diving along the South Shore, but over the years, the now 64-year-old said, the marine environment has changed dramatically. Gone are the days of a clean ocean floor, as pollution and garbage have become the norm on the South Shore, greatly affecting the marine life that supports the local economy and culture in Freeport. “It just became covered in trash throughout the decades,” Weltner said. “We need to do something about it, because our economy is tied to fishing and recreation on the shore.” As president of Operation SPLASH (Stop Polluting, Littering, and Save Harbors) — a local nonprofit organization that works to clean up the South Shore — Weltner and his fellow volunteers are back at work collecting garbage and building a new SPLASH boat after the coronavirus pandemic delayed their annual launch day in March. The organization was founded 30 years ago by Joanne Grover, a Freeport native who wanted to clean up local waters and
restore them to the way they were when she was growing up in the village. Operation SPLASH has about 200 active volunteers who go out on six boats to collect tons of garbage every year. They have collected about 2.5 million pounds of trash in the past three decades. Jacqueline Le Duc, of Freeport, joined the group two years ago, and is helping Weltner build the seventh SPLASH boat. Le Duc said that all kinds of garbage can be found in the water, from plastic bags and bottles to guns and bullet shells. SPLASH headquarters, on the Nautical Mile, is filled to the walls with all sorts of odd items that the organization has recovered, including signs, rafts and small boats. “Anything and everything is out there,” Le Duc said. “But trash almost always starts on land and makes its way to the ocean.” Weltner said that while people assume the trash they throw out will end up in a dumpster or their litter will disappear into the woods, a lot of it ends up in the bays and ocean via storm drains. That garbage goes on to damage the entire South Shore ecosystem. Weltner said SPLASH volunteers head out early in the mornings to clean up the
marshes, which are often littered with trash that tangles up breeding wildlife. The garbage and pollution also hurts the marshes, which act not only as nutrient sources and habitats for marine animals, but also as a buffer to protect communities on the shore from storm flooding. Weltner and Le Duc added that people could be unknowingly damaging the marine ecosystem with lawn fertilizer and balloons. They said that while homeowners may think fertilizers stay on their lawns and gardens, the chemicals are picked up by rain and delivered to the bays and ocean through the storm drains. They then feed the algae, which blooms exponentially and dies off, floating into deep-water nurseries. The dead algae destroys the oxygen balance and causes the nurseries to die, which disrupts the oxygen even further. Along with the fertilizers, Le Duc said balloons are a significant problem in local waters. She and Weltner said they hoped Nassau County would ban the intentional release of balloons, as Long Beach did last year. “People don’t really understand that when you release the balloons, it seems wonderful, but it has a lasting impact on the environment,” then Long Beach
Councilwoman Anissa Moore said last year. “And those balloons return and can be eaten by sea animals — dolphins, sea turtles, you name it — and can cause death.” Weltner said he is confident SPLASH will further spur environmentally friendly legislation as it did with the county’s plastic bag and Styrofoam ban last year. “We share all our data with local governments on what we’re seeing out here and how much of it we’re collecting,” Weltner said. “We want to help make policy that improves our bays and our beaches.” “People move out here because they want to see the nice, clean water,” Le Duc said. “That’s why we all have to do our part to make sure it’s just that.” While SPLASH meetings have been canceled since March, the organization hopes to start meeting again in August. SPLASH meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 202 Woodcleft Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Operation SPLASH has local chapters in East Rockaway, Long Beach and Wantagh. To learn about volunteering opportunities or how to donate to SPLASH, visit operationsplash.com.
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Garden City developer Engel Burman has proposed significant changes to its plan to build hundreds of condominiums and apartments on Long Beach’s oceanfront, in the hope of making the development more palatable to the City Council. Dan Deegan, an attorney for Engel Burman, said the developer has reduced its proposed payment in lieu of taxes agreement from 30 years to 25 years, and increased the percentage of affordablehousing units from 10 to 12 percent. A public hearing on the project was to be held via zoom two weeks ago, but was abruptly postponed, as of press time, to give the council more time to consider those changes in the proposal. The new changes in the latest proposal for an area known as the Superblock were not spelled out. Deegan said that Engel Burman was still working with the council, and hoped
able to proceed with the project if the to have the hearing as soon as possible. “The city is still doing its analysis,” IDA does not approve a PILOT. A previous developer, iStar, made a John McNally, executive assistant to similar claim when it sought Interim City Manager Donna, to build 522 apartments on said Tuesday night, declining the Superblock in 2015. The to comment further. iStar deal, which included a The superblock project has $129 million tax break, went been one of the most controsour after residents raised versial proposals in Long objections to it. Beach in decades. It is now A person in the real before the Nassau County estate industry with knowlIndustrial Development edge of the negotiations said Agency, which postponed the John mcnally that Engel Burman was likepublic hearing at the city’s Executive assistant request. to the city manager ly to walk away from the project if it did not receive Engel Bur man, one of approval by the fall. The IDA Long Island’s largest developers, is seeking to build 200 condos and is not likely to approve the PILOT if the 238 apartments, along with a 1,000-space city does not find it acceptable. “The developer needs to know whethparking garage and some 6,500 square feet of restaurant and retail space. The er this is a go by the end of summer,” PILOT was to total $52 million under the original proposal. Engel Burman has said it will not be
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t seems like this is the summer of America’s discontent. No one is happy about the prospect of being locked down again by the coronavirus. All are dismayed by the indefensible killings of unarmed citizens at the hands of law enforcement officers. And everyone is horrified by the endless, senseless killings of young men, women and children of color in many of our cities, not by police, but by one another. If Black lives matter, then all Black lives must matter. So where does America go from here? Do we stew in our own disconalfonse tent, lash out at d’amato one another and generally make ourselves more unhappy? Or instead, do we commit ourselves to making things better? Or maybe at least not making things worse? One thing that won’t heal our nation is flailing away blindly to erase its past. Some historically challenged young people seem to have discovered that our founders — like all of us — were deeply flawed human beings who failed to live up to the virtues and ideals they espoused
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be next. Can’t we all agree that taking down statues of Confederate generals who betrayed the nation and fought for slavery isn’t the same as taking down statues of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant just because they don’t meet our 21st century sensibilities about race? Wasn’t winning the Civil War and ending slavery enough to redeem them? Is Teddy Roosevelt — the most progressive president of his era, the “trust-buster” who won both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Medal of Honor — to be exiled from history because he too was racially biased and “imperialist”? Wasn’t his brave charge up San Juan Hill enough to help save his historic site at Sagamore Hill? Is FDR, who led America out of the Great Depression, created the New Deal and defeated Hitler and Nazism, to be dumped in the ashbin of history because he interred Japanese and failed to end Jim Crow laws and stem racial segregation? Do Presidents Kennedy, Clinton and even Obama get pilloried because they failed to do enough to end racial injustice? Where do recrimination and historical revisionism end? Was the Rev. Dr. Martin
oes anyone not newly ‘woke’ to injustice fail to meet impossible standards?
Luther King Jr.’s devotion to nonviolence too timid to be honored? Does anyone not newly “woke” to prejudice, privilege and injustice fail to meet the left fringe’s impossible standards? If so, we’re all lost. We all come up way short. But there is another path. We can revisit history, but let’s not revile it. We can and should take a hard, cleareyed look at racism and economic deprivation in our own time. We should invest in our poorest neighborhoods, improve our poorest-performing schools, and help create better economic opportunities for minority communities. I’d like to see us fight hard to right the wrongs of America’s past. But we can only succeed if we build on the solid foundations of that past. In a few weeks, Congress will return to Washington to consider another historic round of support for America’s struggling economy. This year, a pandemic has forced our leaders to drop partisan differences to pass legislation to keep our economy afloat. Let’s hope and pray they build on this cooperative spirit to earn a place of honor in our nation’s history. Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com.
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eally, I am trying not to take this personally, but it seems clearer every day that our federal government is choosing to open the economy at the expense of older Americans. When I say “expense” I’m not talking dollars; I’m talking survival. A few indisputable facts:
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and should have followed. The founders’ ideal of liberty for all clashed starkly with the horrible reality of their support for the slavery of many. But if the good they did and the good we do can be swept away by the sins they committed and the sins we commit, then there is little hope for redemption. If every American leader up to the present day is judged too flawed to honor, if all of American history before today is judged irredeemable, then we are doomed, for those who erase history will surely find themselves bound to replaying it. The intolerance of today’s mobs toward everything and everyone who went before us will eventually turn on all of us and those who come after us. History shows it’s just a few short steps from the French Revolution’s cry for fraternity and equality to the Reign of Terror, the Star Chamber and the guillotine; from the heady days of the Russian Revolution to the horror of the Soviet purge, the gulag prisons and the Berlin Wall. So the next time a former president’s monument is defaced or his statue is torn down, let’s think for a moment who will
■ America has an agonizing challenge ahead. Covid-19 cases are surging in many states, and many hospitals are once again in danger of being overwhelmed.
■ Ninety-five percent of coronavirus deaths occur in people over 60 years of age. A crushing number of people have died in elder-care facilities across the country. ■ We are months away from any breakthrough treatment, and possibly longer than that for a viable vaccine. ■ Children need to get educated, and they need to get out of the house to play and meet friends. If not, we will have a generation of kids growing up with their own unique psychological problems as a
result of living through a pandemic. Clearly, the needs of the children are in direct conflict with the need to protect our older people. The children always have to come first, but it isn’t an either/or situation. The problem can be addressed reasonably well. As the epidemiologists have told us, widespread testing, universal protections, like masks and shields, and respect for medical guidelines, to maintain social distance, can allow our kids and grandkids some of the social freedom they need and still help keep older people safe from contagion. This isn’t perfect, but it isn’t rocket science, either. We need a coordinated effort to put in place safety measures so our economy can stumble forward and our children can return to some kind of schooling. None of this is happening now. We don’t just have a vacuum of leadership, we have a toxic message spewing from President Trump and his minions that undermines medical advice and seems indifferent to the threat to older folks. There is a receptive audience for this message. Sacrificing Grandma and Grandpa seems to be the price many are willing to
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pay in order sit at a bar, attend a rally or party with friends. Senicide (a word I just learned) is the killing of older people or abandoning them to certain death. It is a practice that took a while to gain traction in America, but apparently we are cozying up to the idea. Senicide has been practiced since ancient times by cultures around the world. Though illegal in India, thalaikoothal is still practiced in some remote villages as a form of “mercy killing.” In ancient Nordic cultures, attestupa was the custom of old people jumping or being pushed off high cliffs. In rural China, among the Inuit, helping people to their final destination was an acceptable way to conserve resources for the young. And now, in the United States of America, the bean counters are accepting a certain number of deaths in exchange for opening the local tattoo parlors. I never imagined senicide as part of the American experience. Until now. I see Trump humphing and pfumphing about pushing kids back into school and opening “Main Street,” and I hear the unspoken calculus that a boost to the economy will require a culling of the over-60 population. That doesn’t have to be the deal. There
never imagined senicide as part of the American experience. Until now.
is another way to move forward without stepping over the bodies of our elders. Masks really work. Social distancing is effective. To me, it follows that people who gather in groups without masks are willfully putting their older loved ones at great risk. Since the president has abdicated leadership over the pandemic, it is up to the governors and mayors to find their backbone and their moral conscience and make masks and distancing the law of the land. For my baby boomer brothers and sisters, we need to take care of ourselves, and that means staying relatively isolated, so our grown children won’t have the additional burden of caring for us. That means not connecting physically with our grandkids, as we did before the pandemic. No hugs and kisses for the moment. We can welcome one another with open arms as soon as it’s safe to embrace; in the meantime, this is what we must do. My friends and I joke darkly that if Covid-19 rages on, tens of thousands of the older generation will die sooner rather than later, Medicare will have fewer claims, younger people will inherit ahead of schedule, and it will all be just dandy. If you can live with it. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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police officer on Memorial Day, crystallized in our minds the importance of the capital B. Black, in this case, not only represents a movement toward social justice, but also a shared identity. We are making one exception to the new rule. We will not capitalize black in Crime Watch items, where black speaks only of a person’s physical description. In keeping with our longtime policy, no person can be described in Crime Watch solely by the color of his or her skin. A physical description must also include height, weight, clothing and any distinguishing features, such as a beard. Many will ask why the AP, The Times — and now the Herald — will not capitalize white. First, and most important, white does not represent a shared sociocultural identity. It is simply a physical description. Most white Americans can, and do, trace their roots back to Europe. They know what countries their ancestors came from, with stories of grandparents and great-great-grandparents passed down in family trees and oral histories. These histories help white Americans feel a sense of cultural heritage, a connection to their past, whether they are Irish-American, Italian-American or Polish-American. Most Black people in America had their familial and cultural ties ripped away from them because of slavery. In the nation’s earliest census at the end of the 18th century, Blacks accounted for nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population, with nearly all brought here as slaves
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letters Keep New York moving forward To the Editor: As of last Friday, coronavirus hospitalizations dropped below 800 for the first time since March 18, and the three-day average death toll — seven — was the lowest since March 16. The number of new cases, the percentage of tests that were positive and many other helpful data points are always available at forward.ny. gov. Throughout this pandemic, we have made progress by recognizing that state and local governments cannot fight the virus on their own. The efforts of everyday New Yorkers to socially distance, wear masks and wash their hands are central to our ability to slow the spread and save lives. As we allow ourselves to celebrate some good news, I urge residents to stay “New York tough” and not give up the ground we have worked so hard to gain together, particularly in the face of rising cases throughout the country and compliance issues here at home. Last Friday’s data are summarized briefly below: ■ Patient hospitalizations: 799
from Africa, according to the Pew Research Center. Today, most of the nation’s 40 million U.S.-born Black people are descended from this original population. Enslaved Blacks were forced to start over, developing a shared socio-cultural identity in this new and terrifying land. To write Black, as opposed to black, is to recognize this identity. Changing a newspaper’s style will do nothing to alter the social and economic conditions that Black people face in America. It will not reverse the evils of systemic racism, which has oppressed them since they were forcibly brought to this land. When all of us commit to and work toward ending racism, in all its forms, we will at last eradicate it. To write Black is a sign of respect for a people who have, for too long, been castigated and downtrodden. The Herald has long been committed to reporting on the issues that matter to the Black community. In 2014 we took on a yearlong investigative series, “Living on the Edge,” about the challenges that people face making ends meet in Nassau County. Issues of poverty, we found, disproportionately affect Black and Hispanic people. Last year, we took on another yearlong series, “The Racism Around Us,” examining myriad examples of systemic racism throughout society. In choosing Black instead of black in our Style Guide, we are committing to continuing such reporting in the future.
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p to now, President Trump has been lucky enough to avoid catching Covid-19. He is tested two times a day, along with all of the White House staff. Despite these tests, a number of staffers have contracted the virus, including members of the Secret Service detail. But there’s no doubt that even if the president escapes the bug, there’s a strong likelihood that the pandemic will be his undoing come Election Day, Nov. 3. At the beginning of the year, Trump was an odds-on favorite to be re-elected. The JerrY economy was kremer humming along and unemployment was at an alltime low. But in early January, China reported its first cases of the new coronavirus. The president called for a halt to immigration from China, but in the weeks after the declaration, it’s estimated that over 20,000 Chinese citizens traveled to America without hindrance. For the entire month of February, the president downplayed the reports of the
virus, predicting that it would quickly go away. He said that the few reported cases in the U.S. would dwindle down to zero, so there was no need to worry. Fearful that any reports that the virus was spreading would harm his re-election campaign, he lost precious weeks in which he could have alerted the nation to take any and all precautions. Well into March, Trump ignored the growing death toll and was determined to get the economy going again at all costs. His pressure on Republican governors to reopen has now turned into a massive debacle, with Florida, Texas, Arizona, South Carolina and Arkansas, among others, reporting record numbers of infections. Blindly loyal to the president, they have exposed millions of their people to the possibility of death or serious health problems. Now, as their hospitals reach capacity with Covid-19 patients, these governors are backtracking from their stupid political decisions and calling for the wearing of masks and renewed lockdowns. When New York state was hit with the virus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo sprang into
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action, directing the state’s millions of citizens to stay at home, to wear masks and to follow social-distancing protocols. At Cuomo’s urging, the federal government provided lifesaving equipment and set up numerous temporary shelters, but thousands of people still died in overcrowded hospitals and nursing homes. The state’s struggle to reduce the caseload, and its eventual success, should have been a warning sign to the nation that no one was safe from this silent killer. Every day, Trump is digging the nation deeper and deeper into another tragedy. A vast majority of people want our schools to reopen, and there’s no doubt that parents are especially anxious to get their children back to learning in school buildings and not at the kitchen table. But just like the president’s blind effort to get businesses to reopen, he is pushing hard for schools to open, threatening the health of millions of teachers and students. The federal government hasn’t provided one cent of funding for sanitizing classrooms or for testing school personnel. Teachers are being told that they must provide their own protective equip-
very day, he’s digging the nation deeper and deeper into another tragedy.
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ment in order to make their classrooms ts safe. At the same time that a number of Am states are reporting their highest numha loc bers of infected citizens, Trump is threatening that any school that fails to reopen rus. Al will lose federal aid — even though they killing don’t get aid directly from Washington. of law During previous national health crises,one is h the nation has been comforted by public- killing health officials who have provided guidance on how to stay alive and safe. But this time around, every time guidelines have been issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, Trump has countermanded them, insisting on his own standards. Every step taken by this president has been and continues to be a recipe for disaster. As the days go by, he could accidently expose himself to the virus. I don’t wish it on him. I’m content to wait until November, when the virus wipes away the possibility of his re-election. unhap Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for selves 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways at least One and Means Committee for 12 years. He now flailing heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strat- Some h ple see egy firm. Comments about this column? founde JKremer@liherald.com. flawed to the v
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To the Editor: Construction will finally begin on the Belmont Arena Long Island Rail Road station in Elmont. Completion of the eastbound platform is promised by 2021. There is no news, however, as to who will purchase, operate and maintain a fleet of shuttle buses to connect the station with the Islanders arena. Bus manufacturers have a backlog of up to two years for orders already placed by transit agencies. Who will build a facility for maintenance, storage and powering of electric shuttle buses? Building a facility can take two years. What will the capacity of these electric buses be? They could range from 20 to 60 riders. Will they comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act? Who can guarantee all of this will be available to support the first hockey puck hitting the ice in October 2021? Don’t be surprised if the Islanders play their 2021-22 season at Nassau Coliseum.
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LARRY PENNER Great Neck Penner is a transportation historian, writer and advocate who worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York office for more than 30 years.
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