Baldwin Herald 11-12-2020

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Town officials expand virus testing munity safe, so we must do the same for them.”

The initiative expands existFor the next few weeks, essen- ing Covid-19 testing programs to tial workers can be tested for include free polymerase chain coronavirus for free, thanks to a reaction testing for essential n ew i n i t i at ive wo rke r s, s i n c e launched by Town they are the people of Hempstead offiwho are consiscials in collaboratently coming into tion with Northwell contact with the Health. public and putting More than a their own lives at dozen people risk. attended a news Polymerase conference last Frichain reaction day outside the Stop testing, officials & Shop on Atlantic explained, conAvenue in Baldwin, firms whether the where of ficials Covid-19 virus is announced the proactive within the g r a m , wh i ch i s test recipient. dON ClAViN available to resiBeginning Mondents who live and Hempstead Town day, testing was to work in the Town supervisor be accessible in of Hempstead. two locations: the “Testing is a cruLakeview Fire cial part of the process to ensure Department at 891 Woodfield people are remaining safe, which Road in West Hempstead and the is why it was a priority of ours Island Park court house at 127 to expand testing options for our Long Beach Road in Island Park. essential workers,” said Town Between Nov. 16 and 20, the two Supervisor Don Clavin, who was locations are the Oceanside Fire joined by Council members Dor- Department at 64 Foxhurst Road othy Goosby, Chris Carini and in Oceanside and the Island Park Tom Muscarella, as well as local court house. Other locations are essential workers and labor leaders. “They work to keep our comContinued on page 3

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weeding — and learning Meadow Elementary School students tended to their school’s garden as part of the science curriculum alongside botanist and designer Sue Avery last Friday. Story, more photos, Page 14.

Restaurants prepare for winter Split the Bill NY to come to Baldwin

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As colder weather creeps in and winter approaches, Baldwin restaurants, which may no longer be able to serve patrons outdoors, are preparing and winterizing.

Kitty O’Hara’s, on Merrick Road in Baldwin, has installed plastic curtains around its outdoor dining area in the back, near the parking lot of the Bald-

win Public Library. Employees have also set up a few electric heaters to keep patrons warm if they choose to dine in the spacious outdoor area.

“It’ll help us stretch out our outdoor business into the winter,” said Kitty O’Hara’s manager Shay Leavy, adding that the clear curtains shield patrons from the wind and make the space feel warmer.

There are at least five tables set up outside, in addition to a

couple of open-air tables, which patrons can use if the weather is fair. Leavy said patrons are more apt to use the open-air tables in good weather, like there was this past weekend, when temperatures reached past 70 degrees.

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Northwell Health has staffed each location and made sure the facilities are properly cleaned before and after testing.

Made possible by CARES Act funding that U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer helped to secure, the program aims to eradicate the virus and keep essential workers and their families safe, officials said. The town received a $133 million grant to alleviate some of the adverse effects of the pandemic.

“We have tested, already, through initiatives with Northwell, thousands of residents this year for this pandemic,” Clavin said. “This saved lives . . . It’s through testing that we will be able to contain coronavirus. We do not want to go back to March and April.”

He recalled the early days of the pandemic, when, sitting in Town Hall, the only sounds he heard were those of ambulances transporting people to the hospital.

Clavin said the town’s physician, who worked at NYU Winthrop Hospital (now NYU Langone), would return from allnight shifts at the packed hospital and report that some patients were placed on tables in the cafeteria.

“We’ve all seen loss and grief in this,” Clavin said. “We’ve seen it personally with our family members, our friends. I had staff members who passed away from coronavirus and others who got sick . . .

We want to test as many people as we can because we want everybody to be safe.”

Representatives of Transport Workers Union Local 252, Local 338, 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, Laborers 66, the Long Island Federation of Labor and the New York State Nurses Association also attended the news conference.

“In all my years in this labor movement, I’ve never been prouder of the labor movement, but in particular, my members, here today, who are the front-line workers who went out every day and gave a certain semblance of normalcy to all of your families,” said John Durso, president of Local 338 and president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, AFLCIO. All of the Baldwin Stop & Shop employees, with the exception of those in the meat department, are members of Local 338.

“These ladies and gentlemen that are behind us today, there [are] never enough ‘thank-yous’ to them for all of the work and the sacrifices that they have done,” Durso said. “They have left their families to go out and protect us, in every aspect of our lives. We owe them all a great deal of gratitude.”

“As a former union representative myself, I understand the great importance that organized labor brings to the working class,” Carini said, “so thank you for advocating for your membership while they went through this. Thank you for being on the front lines and for fighting for your workers’ rights.”

Clavin said all essential workers are encouraged to use the testing services to keep themselves and their communities safe by preventing the spread of Covid-19.

Photos by Bridget Downes/Herald

a group of Stop & Shop employees and Local 338 members outside their workplace last Friday after a news conference at which officials announced essential workers could be tested for coronavirus for free.

The list of eligible essential workers includes, but is not limited to, those working in grocery stores, phar macies, schools, nursing homes and health care.

To make an appointment or learn more about the testing, call (516) 821-2500.

Dr. Jennifer Mieres, of Northwell Health, said on behalf of chief executive officer Michael Dowling and Dr. Deb Salas-Lopez, senior vice president for community and population health, that the hospital is proud to team up with the town to work toward eradicating the virus and protecting essential workers.

“We have learned many lessons from Covid-19,” Mieres said. “We know it’s an equal opportunity virus — we are all vulnerable, but the key to keeping us all safe is prevention and testing.”

Clavin and Mieres said the testing program might expand to additional locations if needed.

John durso, president of Local 338 and the Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, addressed the crowd at the news conference.

dr. Jennifer mieres, of Northwell Health, near left, said on behalf of chief executive officer Michael Dowling and Dr. Deb Salas-Lopez, senior vice president for community and population health, that the hospital was proud to team up with the town.

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Kitty o’hara’s, on Merrick Road in Baldwin, has hung plastic curtains in the outdoor dining area.

Photos by Bridget Downes/Herald

Restaurants winterize as winter approaches ElEctric hEatErs havE also been set up outside the restaurant.

Canal House, Swirl Bliss and The Irish ago, and there are also a few TVs in the Pub. The charitable initiative is created outdoor dining area.

Leavy said he has noticed that some and funded by the Sidgmore Family people will not dine inside, and only feel Foundation, a private family foundation comfortable outside. But Kitty’s, like all that has roots on Long Island. A total of New York restaurants, is able to accept $100,000 has been allotted for Split the patrons indoors up to 50 percent capacity. Bill NY to be spread across multiple phases in various towns. There are no Patrons are seated at every other booth.

Leavy said he expects more people will fees for restaurants to become involved.

P rev i o u s c a m p a i g n s want to come inside once have taken place in Valley the weather drops to the 30s.

Stream, Farmingdale, WestHe said locals who patronize bury and Hempstead. The the business regularly have campaigns have driven dined with no problems. more than $84,000 in total Additionally, Kitty’s has retail spent in local municiopted into a program in palities, according to a Baldwin on Thursday called news release.

Split the Bill NY. Leavy said Baldwin Civic Associait’s a great idea to boost tion members spread the local business. shay lEavy word about the initiative on Split the Bill NY is an initiative that encourages peo- Manager, Kitty O’Hara’s Facebook, advising interested people to take photos of ple to support local restautheir meals and receipts rants by having them dine in or order out from any of the participat- and submit them no later than 11:59 p.m. ing restaurants and then be reimbursed on Thursday.

“I think it’s a wonderful idea,” said for half of their bills.

Customers can submit a reimburse- John Kanaras, owner of the Baldwin ment form through the Split the Bill NY Coach Diner. “I hope people take advanwebsite confirming purchase of their tage of it.”

The diner, which has been a Baldwin meal and, within a week, will receive a reimbursement for 50 percent of their res- staple for more than 50 years, remained taurant receipt, up to $30 via PayPal or open throughout the pandemic.

“When we weren’t able to be open, Venmo.

Participating restaurants in Baldwin we’re grateful for the people that were for the one-day program include Kitty able to come,” Kanaras said of the early O’Hara’s, the Baldwin Coach Diner, Basil days of the pandemic, when patrons Leaf Grill, Coalhouse Grill, Defrancisco’s, picked up meals or received deliveries.

Gino’s Pizzeria, Long Island Bagel Cafe, “We’re grateful for all those people, Lucas Dominican Restaurant, New Old because they helped keep us afloat durVenice Inn, R.A.J. Mexican Grill, Sonny’s ing that time.”

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t’ll help us stretch out our outdoor business into the winter.

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Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick leading over Griffin in A.D. 21 race

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Absentee ballots could decide results

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It’s still a tight race in Assembly District 21.

For mer Malver ne D e p u t y Mayor and Judy griffin Vi l l a g e Trustee Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, who challenged incumbent Judy Griffin for a seat representing the district, was leading over Griffin as of press time on Monday.

Republican challenger CanzoneriFitzpatrick had garnered 27,516 votes while Griffin, a Democrat from Rock-

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But thousands of absentee ballots, which could Patricia canzoneritip the scale fitzPatrick of the race, were still to be counted, and tallying them could take days. Nearly 13,000 absentee ballots had yet to be counted as of press time on Monday.

The Board of Elections could not start counting the absentee ballots until Tuesday under New York state law.

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the coalhouse grill owners Patrick and Nathalie Francis accepted a PPE kit from Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin, right.

Baldwin business accepts PPE kit from town Patrick and Nathalie Francis, owners of The Coalhouse Grill in Baldwin, accepted a free personal protective equipment kit from Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin on Oct. 15.

The new town program makes 6,000 PPE kits available for local businesses with items needed to keep staff members and patrons safe.

The kits are free of charge and are only available while supplies last, according to a town news release, so

businesses in need of these high-indemand supplies are encouraged to apply on the town website at hempsteadny.gov/ppe-giveaway as soon as possible.

The initiative was made possible through funding from the federal CARES Act, which provided a $133 million grant to the Town of Hempstead to distribute economic relief grants to alleviate some of the adverse effects that have risen due to the pandemic.

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NYU Winthrop is now NYU Langone NYU Langone Health this week announced that NYU Winthrop Hospital in Mineola would change its name to NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, pending approval by the New York State Department of Health. The name change continues NYU Winthrop’s integration into the NYU Langone Health system.

The renaming follows last year’s merger of NYU Winthrop into NYU Langone Health’s network of multi-specialties, clinical trials, research and medical education, which complement NYU Winthrop’s existing services, hospital officials said.

“NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island has made our NYU Langone Health system even stronger, as we bring its greatest strengths into our broader network,” said Dr. Robert Grossman, dean and CEO of NYU Langone Health. “NYU Langone Health provides one standard of care— excellence in quality and safety—no matter where that care is received within our health system.”

NYU Langone has consistently been named a top hospital system by Leapfrog, U.S. News & World Report, Vizient and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Patients of NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island have access to more than 350 inpatient and outpatient locations across Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.

“NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island has grown from a community-based hospital to one with a much broader mission, having solidified our ties in clinical, research and academic collaborations with NYU Langone Health,” said Dr. Joseph Greco, chief of hospital operations at NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island. “As advances in medical care grow by leaps and bounds, it has become ever the more important that our institution becomes synonymous with an extensive network of healthcare choices.”

NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island officials credit the medical center’s affiliation with NYU Langone Health for help-

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NYU WiNthrop hospital in Mineola will now be known as NYU Langone Hospital. ing it achieve one of the lowest Covid-19 mortality rates in New York state during the initial coronavirus surge when Long Island was labeled a “hot spot” for the infection. During that time, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island accessed lifesaving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) heart-lung machines through its collaboration with NYU Langone. It is among many expanded clinical services the Long Island hospital now offers as part of NYU Langone Health.

In addition to that joint initiative during the coronavirus pandemic, which is part of an advanced heart failure program, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island’s further enhancements in collaboration with NYU Langone Health include:

■ Access to expanded clinical trials, including for cancer through Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone HospitalLong Island.

■ Lifesaving transplant services, such as for kidney, pancreas, liver and heart transplants.

■ Expansion of neurosurgery services, including a newly opened, integrated orthopedic and neurosurgery ambulatory center in East Meadow.

■ A new NYU Langone Health Vaccine Center testing site on Long Island, aimed at breakthroughs in areas such as Covid19 prevention and treatment.

■ A renewed commitment to academic excellence with the opening last year of

NYU Long Island School of Medicine, which brought to the campus of NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island.

■ A strengthened research enterprise on Long Island, which already has produced Covid-related pathology information shared around the world.

NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island was originally known as Nassau Hospital upon its founding in 1896, later incorporating Winthrop into its name. The hospital has been a stalwart for medical care on Long Island, going back to its days caring for residents during the eras of the Spanish Civil War, the Depression, World War II through the coronavirus pandemic.

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Baldwinites react to presidential election

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BALDWIN HERALD — November 12, 2020

Biden is projected winner “If the popular vote is any indicator, it would appear as though the real ‘silent majority’ weren’t the ones driving around in flag-draped trucks, cars and/or boats looking and sounding like they were channeling their ‘inner Klansman,’” Baldwinite Mark Prevatt said. “The majority of Americans maintained their composure, listened to the scientists and medical professionals who suggested that we vote by mail wherever possible to avoid violating [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidelines, and the results speak for themselves. I’m truly happy that our democracy in action was successful, and the outcome showed that there is truly a majority coalition in this country that will not stand for the ugliness we saw throughout the country which, due to when and how frequently they occurred, were clearly emboldened behaviors based upon the current leadership. America is now great again.”

Baldwin resident Elizabeth Douje also shared her thoughts.

“I’m proud to have been part, had an opportunity to vote and to have witnessed such a historic day,” she said. “This will forever be a monumental part in our history. Generations after would be proud to see how our democracy [actually] works.”

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At press time Monday, former Vice President Joe Biden had tallied over 75 million votes — more than any other presidential candidate in history — besting President Donald Trump’s 70 million-plus votes, the second most in history.

Only two states remained to be decided, Georgia and North Carolina, according to the Associated Press. The outcome of either, however, would not affect the overall outcome of the election.

Biden had 290 electoral votes secured, the AP was reporting. If he were to win Georgia — an increasingly likely outcome — he would end the election with 306 electoral votes. A candidate needs 270 to win the presidency.

“I, for one, did not think the Democrats put forth a strong candidate in Biden and I personally did not like Harris,” Baldwinite Jeff Barkan said, referring to Kamala Harris, Biden’s choice of vice president.

“Although, in my humble opinion, I felt Trump had to go, was bad for our country, promoted division and racism, etc.,” Barkan continued. “If I was a betting man I would have picked Trump as the winner by a landslide. My hope for our country is that we heal and move forward so our children and grandchildren can be proud to be American.”

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Thanksgiving food drives to benefit local families

November 12, 2020 — BALDWIN HERALD

10 Helmer Birkelund, of Baldwin, and Hempstead Town Clerk Kate Murray attended the town’s Stop Throwing Out Pollutants event last month.

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky is sponsoring a Thanksgiving turkey and food drive to benefit Long Islanders this season.

Suggested donations include, but are not limited to: turkeys, stuffing, canned goods, instant potatoes and canned gravy.

Donate now through Nov. 24 to Kaminsky’s district office at 55 Front Street, Room 1, Rockville Centre.

If you need someone to pick up your donation, call (516) 766-8383.

State Assemblywoman Judy Griffin is also sponsoring a Thanksgiving Food Drive, through Nov. 20, to benefit local families in need.

The suggested donations are the same, and participants can drop them off at Griffin’s district office at 74 N. Village Avenue in Rockville Centre.

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Town of Hempstead hosts pollutants disposal event Baldwin resident Helmer Birkelund was assisted by Hempstead Town Clerk Kate Murray on Oct. 18 as he participated in the Town of Hempstead Stop Throwing Out Pollutants, or S.T.O.P., program at North Woodmere Park in

Valley Stream.

The program allows residents to dispose of harmful pollutants — such as antifreeze, drain cleaners and pesticides — in a safe and environmentally friendly manner.

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eing away from bedside nursing for six and a half years to have kids and raise a family came to a halt when the nursing shortage during the pandemic became a reality, and compelled me to act.

Considering becoming a new school nurse presented me with an opportune time to step up and make a difference in the community. I recognized early on that I was now serving as a crucial part on the front lines in keeping our students, school and our community at large safe and healthy.

Although presented with challenges, such as mask wearing, social distancing, cleaning and sanitizing protocols and screenings, this job has been an enriching one. Furthermore, working in a team-oriented environment under the leadership of [the school district’s Director of Health Services and Athletics] Ed Ramirez and with the guidance of Sherrylyn Waldron, RN and Christine Van Ness, HA, this has been nothing less than fulfilling and pleasurable.

Knowing you can make a difference is rewarding, and it is my absolute joy and privilege to serve in the Baldwin School District, of which I am a proud resident.

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We were all fully equipped with PPE. We had masks, face shields and haz-mat suits, and we sectioned off a part of the center solely for those who had Covid.

It almost felt like going to war, where we would suit up and do the best we could for our patients. And we were working with a lot of disposable equipment that we had to constantly open and dispose of to make sure things were safe and sanitary.

I was very proud of my team for helping our patients through this. It was physically and mentally challenging, but we made it to the point where we’ve been Covid-free for the past seven months.

It’s been hard on our residents because seniors are among the most susceptible to Covid, so they couldn’t have any visitors, and they couldn’t really leave their rooms. But we wanted to occupy them so that they weren’t just stuck watching TV and getting more and more worried.

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Secretary, Long Beach KiwaniS cLuB y mother, Mary Curatolo, has always been a great influence on my life. She always told me that in life, it is important to give back.

My mom lives with us now, and she still reminds me about giving back.

I had been involved with charity all of my adult life. But by the time I had my second child, I was out of things. I decided to get back, and three years ago, I became president of the Kiwanis Club of Long Beach. But as of this year, I am now secretary of the club.

This fall, we just completed a drive in which we collected $2,000, and we were able to supply 27 Long Beach school children — 24 in grades kindergarten to five and the others in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades — with loads of school supplies.

We were able to supply the kids with binders, books, crayons, pencils and pens. We worked with the school social workers and asked them what the kids needed. We only bought the items they told us the kids needed. These are kids who are economically disadvantaged, and some are homeless. We have been doing this program for three years now, and this has been our most successful year in terms of fundraising.

There’s always a need for kids to have supplies, and I am sure we will do it next year too. We at Kiwanis are always busy. We are already planning food drives for the Long Beach soup kitchen. Because of Covid this year, we will be setting up food boxes outside of supermarkets, asking people to donate.

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he task of running the operations for the 9-11 EMS and emergency management is challenge in itself, but during Covid-19, it was breaking new ground.

With more than 40 years of experience in these two fields, I have never been busier. I had to scramble to find personal protective equipment and other supplies for our staff from many sources, modify existing plans for the expansion of a designated isolation area large enough to accommodate the surge of Covid-positive or suspected for our facility.

We set up tents for a front triage and screening area, created a system for education and dissemination of the information we had on Covid, dealt with the decontamination issues for the Emergency Department and the EMS units, mitigated efforts to prevent the spread of the virus in the hospital, modified several areas of the facility to increase the number of intensive care unit and medical beds and also modified our mass fatality management plan to accommodate the increasing number of decedents and the proper transfer to funeral directors or medical examiners.

I had to participate in five daily conference calls with related agency partners, such as the New York City Emergency Management Office, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Greater New York Hospital Association, the Department of Health, the Brooklyn Coalition for Emergency Management and for the Network of our sister facilities.

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Their fronT-line sTories in Their own words Sarah MordetSKy JacK FinKeLStein Long Beach

Students tend to garden to learn about plants Elementary school students in Baldwin are digging in the dirt this fall, but not just during their recess. The young “citizen scientists” are tending to their school’s gardens instead of just reading the pages of another textbook to learn about plants and native wildlife.

Tending to the gardens is part of the unique science curriculum that was designed by a scientist specifically for the Baldwin Union Free School District. All five of the elementary schools boast native gardens through a partnership with Seatuck Environmental Association.

Brookside, Meadow and Plaza elementary schools also maintain vegetable gardens with the help of horticulture experts from Cornell Cooperative Master Gardeners. The gardening, coupled with the study of the local outdoor environment, helps make the science lessons more relatable and easier to understand, resulting in a deeper learning experience, school officials said in a news release.

The students are able to learn about the advantages of native and vegetable gardens through a hands-on approach, including the plants’ importance to the Long Island ecosystem. For instance, the native gardens help prevent polluted runoff flowing into the bay. In addition, the gardens provide vital habitats for birds and many other species of wildlife, such as the Monarch butterfly. Following the district’s teaching approach of “enrichment for all,” the science program is accessible to all Baldwin students.

“The garden work is absolutely thrilling! Students come alive when they actually get their hands on worms and centipedes,” said Nomi Rosen, administrator for professional development. “Students who are typically quiet or reserved in the classroom are abuzz with conversation in the gardens. The excitement is contagious and spills over into research, reading and writing.”

Throughout the school year, the students work in the gardens, learning different lessons each season. In the fall, second graders learn why it is important to winterize a garden, helping to mulch, pull weeds, and plant garlic as part of the soil study. As the months warm up, students at Brookside, Meadow and Plaza will also plant vegetables, from tomatoes and lettuce to beans and kale, which are harvested and cared for by Baldwin students and their families over the summer.

High school and middle school students also play a vital role in building and overseeing the gardens. The Baldwin High School science classes collaborated

A MonArch butterfly danced around the milkweed in the Meadow Elementary School garden on Nov. 5.

Photos by Bridget Downes/Herald

with Seatuck Environmental Association to design Brookside’s garden, select the native plants and teach the fourth and fifth graders there how to break ground.

Additionally, the garden at Meadow was created by seventh graders from Baldwin Middle School, who drew the blueprint and constructed the layout as a part of their science course. Now, for the first time, beginning in December, the seventh grade students will kick off the middle school’s very own native garden, in preparation for the spring.

The collaborative program is just one of the many ways in which the district’s curriculum correlates from one grade to the next between both the elementary and secondary-level schools, ultimately preparing all students to be “future ready” upon graduation.

On Nov. 5, Meadow students tended to their garden by weeding and pulling out invasive plants, including dandelions and porcelain berries, as bugs crawled around them and a Monarch butterfly gracefully danced around the milkweed.

Students also joined Seatuck Environmental Association Education Director Peter Walsh and botanist and designer Sue Avery in pulling out an invasive tree that started growing in the garden about six months ago, blocking out the light and nutrients for plants underneath it.

Rosen has been working on the science

curriculum for five years and explained that each year students focus on a different topic: for example, trees in kindergarten and water in first grade.

Walsh said Seatuck, as a conservation organization, focuses on a mission of conserving Long Island wildlife but also training teachers and conducting research.

“We have a saying,” he said. “‘People only conserve what they love, and they only love what they understand, and they only understand what they’re taught.”

“Our relationship with Baldwin is really just supporting their teachers in getting outside and thinking of their schoolyard as a place of learning and a place where they can go beyond their classroom to connect kids to where they live,” Walsh continued. “It’s one thing to learn about plants but, like today, when you come out and you can touch them and you can see the impact, and the whole time they’re here they’re surrounded by bees and butterflies . . . It’s not a theoretical thing in a book or a smartboard.”

Especially since the students remain connected to the garden as they enter middle school, Walsh said, the memories build upon themselves.

Provided by the Baldwin School District; compiled by Bridget Downes.

botAnist And designer Sue Avery helped pull out an invasive tree.

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Baldwin schools feel the Halloween spirit Baldwin students, teachers and staff members were feeling the Halloween spirit this year.

People showed off their colorful, imaginative and creative costumes either as part of a group or individually.

Photos courtesy Baldwin School District

Brookside elementary school Principal Unal Karakas joined students in showing off their costumes. a student dressed up as a fortune teller.

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A. Do things once, the best way. A deck isn’t habitable, but a sunroom is, onte eeper and a permit is required.

Plans have to show structural support, energy and building code compliance. Rain, moisture and ice are your primary concerns.

You need the whole story without the sales part.

Just like any purchase, issues you might not expect are still important, like finding out what kind of oil to add to your snow blower before the engine seizes or that windows without factory tinting can allow ultra-violet sunlight rays to fade your carpet. As an architect for a largely popular sunroom manufacturer in the 1980s and ’90s, I experienced many issues with their construction.

Pre-engineered panel systems are designed by the company, hopefully by engineers, and should come with plans, from the manufacturer, that can be sealed and signed by their in-house engineer. If not, plans may need to be drawn from scratch by an architect or engineer that you hire so those plans can be integrated with your house. Integrated means that the company generally just sells you a product and doesn’t necessarily give any indication of how to support the unit or how to attach the unit system to your house so that it won’t leak or move.

This is the general failing of the system, since, as I experienced with most of the installations, the part I could detail was free of leaking or movement, but the units themselves leaked nearly every time.

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I looked at a two-year-old system while discussing other work for a home recently. The owner described the back-and-forth misery he and his family were experiencing with their sunroom and the company. Even 25 years after I gave up, the same company is still doing things the same way.

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urrounded by thousands of adoring supporters, many sporting red MAGA caps, President Trump sauntered into a victory rally in Cincinnati on Dec. 1, 2016, three and a half weeks after his election, and laid out the Trump Doctrine.

“You hear a lot of talk about how we’re becoming a globalized world,” he bellowed to the chanting and screaming crowd, “but the relationships people value in this country are local: family, city, state, country.

They’re local.

There’s no global anthem, no global currency, no certifiSCoTT cate of global citiBRinTon zenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag, and that flag is the American flag.”

So ends “A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps,” a 2019 documentary directed, edited and produced by Alana DeJoseph, who served as a small enterprise development Peace Corps volunteer in a tiny village in Mali, West Africa, from 1992 to 1994. The film, with historical footage and interviews with former and current volunteers and world leaders, most notably former President Jimmy Carter, tells the nearly 60-year history of the federal agency devoted to fostering world peace.

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described as her “baby,” only weeks before Trump lost his re-election bid. It was a nervous time for many. Would the United States again elect an unabashed nationalist as president and continue on its lonely path toward global disengagement, closing borders, frayed alliances and the shredding of hard-fought international treaties, or would it choose another path, one of reengagement — one that seeks to build friendships rather than divide and conquer?

This was the question with which DeJoseph chose to end “A Towering Task,” The answer would, potentially, determine the Peace Corps’ future.

I was particularly interested in the film because I served in Peace Corps, in Bulgaria, from 1991 to 1993. I was among the first two dozen volunteers — and Americans, period — to enter the country after the fall of communism only a year earlier. It was a time of great trepidation — many wondered whether democracy would take hold for good in Eastern Europe after mass protests had toppled one hardline regime after another — and a time of great hope — millions of Eastern Europeans cheered the opening of the former Soviet bloc to the West.

As an American who wore jeans and sweatshirts and spoke with a New York accent, I was something of a local celebrity in Veliko Turnovo, the ancient city in cen-

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tral Bulgaria where I served. I cannot express in words the sense of optimism I felt at the time. You believed, if only for a short time, that world peace was perhaps at hand.

As one of the globalists whom Trump has decried for the past four-plus years, I feared his presidency, and I wasn’t unwarranted in my concern. In June 2017, Trump withdrew from the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Then, in 2018, he backed out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed by Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States — to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb, at least for the foreseeable future. I could go on, but this column isn’t about Trump. It’s about “A Towering Task.”

Last week, President-elect Joe Biden immediately affirmed that the U.S. would re-enter the Paris accord, one of President Barack Obama’s signature achievements.

We shall see what becomes of the Iran nuclear deal.

Biden’s election gives returned Peace Corps volunteers like me a sense of hope that the U.S. will continue to engage with the world, as it had for decades before Trump, and that the Peace Corps will con-

moving film tells the story of the agency devoted to fostering world peace.

tinue its core mission of building international friendships by sending Americans to developing nations to live and work as people in those countries do. As “A Towering Task” makes clear, each Peace Corps volunteer is an ambassador of goodwill, a friendly face who becomes deeply embedded in the local society and culture, and whose contributions become the stuff of local conversation for years to follow.

Creating the Peace Corps in the 1960s was indeed a monumental undertaking by President John F. Kennedy and the agency’s first director, Sargent Shriver — Kennedy’s brother-in-law and the father of broadcaster Maria Shriver. The film, narrated by Academy Award-nominated actress Annette Bening, does a masterful job of telling the early story of the Peace Corps and the political fray that its formation stirred, after which it meticulously chronicles the agency’s history, decade by decade, with panoramic footage from Peace Corps countries around the globe, showing both natural wonders and human suffering.

The film also shows it’s perfectly possible to love one’s country — the U.S. — and engage with the world. If you love the Peace Corps, watch this film. If you love your country, watch this film. If you love the world, watch this film. You can do so at bit. ly/3lcL6VA. Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.

Dog days of the 2020 pandemic election

s we go to press, Major and Champ are heading to the White House. Apparently, Joe and Jill Biden will be moving in, too, on Inauguration Day, but the big news is that dogs are back in the people’s house. This dog whistle is sweet: the presence of the Bidens’ two German shepherds speaks to the humanity of their owners.

Also at press time, the current occupant of the White House has not yet conceded RAndi the election and is kReiSS launching lawsuits like North Korean missiles. They seem just as likely to plummet into oblivion.

This traumatic election of 2020 unfolds in the midst of a catastrophic pandemic, with more than 100,000 people a day getting infected with Covid-19. The entire election experience, not to mention the past four years, has been an unraveling of norms.

The pollsters suggesting a big “blue wave” couldn’t have been more wrong.

Basically they were telling us the earth

was flat and we nearly sailed over the edge.

There was no such wave. It seems as if every person who voted for President Trump last time voted for him again. His supporters are still believers, which speaks to our great national divide.

The voting went smoothly, but the counting has been excruciatingly slow. At press time, Joe Biden is the president-elect, but there are recounts ahead for Senate seats. We will have a new government in a couple of months. Probably.

In this time of uncertainty, what can we know and count on for sure, no matter what? What is your life preserver? With my kids far away, my grandkids disembodied voices on the phone and friends scattered to their personal pods, my lifesaver has been my dog, Lillybee. I know she is my husband’s comfort as well. That is not to take away from us as a couple, but Lillybee is another category of loving companion.

As it turns out, dogs can save us from ourselves, from the pain of isolation and the tension of being inside and outside bubbles. I’m sure you know as many people as I do who’ve become first-time dog

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owners since the onset of the pandemic.

According to what I’ve read, the demand for dogs far exceeds the supply.

Animal shelters, private breeders and pet stores are reporting unprecedented demand. People are hiring people to fly new puppies to them. Some shelters are reporting dozens of applications for individual dogs. Some breeders are reporting waiting lists well into 2021.

Dogs fill the void created by lost jobs and lost school days and lost opportunities to socialize. As people realize the pandemic won’t be over anytime soon, they’re changing travel and spending habits. They’re longing for emotional connection, and that’s where dogs do what they have always done: give special meaning to life. All the clichés of unconditional love and friendship are true.

Of course, shelter directors are hoping that people remain as faithful to their dogs as the dogs are to them. When the pandemic ends and political life calms down and people go back to school and work, dogs will still need their people for food and companionship and love.

Dogs are pretty happy these days. It’s a

ajor and Champ will be moving into the White House with Joe and Jill.

great life. Everyone is home! There’s always someone to play with. There will be a big adjustment for dogs and humans alike when pandemic restrictions are lifted.

I’ve noticed that Lillybee is increasingly attached, following us from room to room, and also more anxious, picking up on our vibes. I took her to the puppy park yesterday and, like a toddler in preschool, she sat behind my legs and wouldn’t play with the other kids. When we get our mojo back, I expect she will, too.

It’s a sign of our national health and well-being that Major and Champ will be moving in to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. On a personal note, I’m relieved that they’ll be bringing Joe and Jill.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, author of the collection “Dog Songs,” wrote this tribute: Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?

Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Three honks for President-elect Biden

e offer sincere congratulations to former Vice President Joe Biden for winning the presidency last week, at 77, the oldest man ever elected to the nation’s highest office. With him, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris was elected the first woman — and the first Black and Indian American — vice president. The vote totals were also historic: Biden received the most votes of any presidential candidate ever, over 75 million. President Trump had the second-most, with over 71 million.

At press time Monday, the Associated Press had called all but two states — Georgia and North Carolina. Biden led Trump in Georgia, and North Carolina was expected to go to Trump. Biden had 290 Electoral College votes, 20 more than are needed to win the presidency. If he were to win Georgia, he would extend his total to 306, a clear mandate.

Biden should feel a deep sense of pride in the race that he ran. He conducted a clean campaign that respected the health and safety of voters during the coronavirus pandemic. When Trump attempted to stir controversy during the first chaotic presidential debate on Sept. 30 by raising questions about Biden’s son Hunter — while the former vice president was speaking about his dead son, Beau — he did not take the bait. He did not engage Trump in the ugly war of words that the president sought.

Biden could easily have made hay about nepotism in the Trump administration.

After all, Trump gave top jobs to his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, both of whom have continued to engage in their daily business activities while working at the White House, creating any number of potential conflicts of interest. For that matter, the Trump Organization has carried on its dealings even

while the president has been in office.

Yes, Biden could have made much of all that, escalating the rhetoric in what could have been a terrible tit-for-tat game with the president. But he didn’t. He left Trump’s kids alone, while proudly defending his own.

In doing so, Biden showed his fundamental decency, his respect for the moral codes that we expect a president to abide by. He campaigned hard, but he never lost his sense of self-respect by engaging in the kind of scorched-earth tactics that got Trump elected in 2016. Biden ran a principled campaign, most notably in his socially distanced approach to reaching people through Zoom sessions and car rallies — and he always wore a mask. In other words, Biden set an example for all of us to follow.

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Early voting, a victory for the people

ew York state held its first early vote in 2019, and voter participation shot up nearly 45 percent statewide compared with 2015, according to Vote Early New York. Last year, Nassau County, which had double the required number of early-voting sites, had the highest early-voting turnout in the state. In all, some 256,251 people voted early in New York.

This year, an astonishing total of at least 2.2 million New Yorkers cast early ballots over the course of nine days, from Oct. 24 to Nov. 1, according to the Associated Press. At the same time, 1.1 million sent in absentee ballots. Before Election Day, some 3.3 million people had already voted in New York.

There’s no doubt that the contentious nature of this historic presidential race drove people to vote, either early at the polls, by absentee ballot or in person on Election Day. But without early and absentee voting, we have to wonder whether turnout would have been as high as it was.

We doubt it.

Clearly, New York is on to something with early and absentee voting. That’s why we must not only continue to offer these options in the future, but also expand on them. Nassau County had 15 early-voting sites this year, while Suffolk had 12. Only one of the Nassau sites was on the North Shore, in Roslyn Heights. Clearly, the North Shore needs more sites — but it should not receive them at the expense of

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letters Thank you, South Shore voters To the Editor: Thank you to the voters of the South Shore for overwhelmingly re-electing me to the State Senate. This election cycle saw record turnout all across Long Island, and the whole country, and it is an honor to have the opportunity to continue representing our communities.

We have taken on many challenges since I came into office.

Since I’ve been entrusted with serving our community, we’ve taken on corruption in Albany, stopped tax hikes, banned guns from our classrooms, funded our towns and schools, and passed New York’s ambitious blueprint to tackle climate change.

There is still so much work to be done, especially in the midst of the ongoing pandemic and economic recovery. I look forward to getting to work on behalf of all voters to achieve more prosper-

other areas across the county. They should be added to Nassau’s current roster of sites.

Too many people had to wait too long to vote, which some would argue is a form of voter suppression. You simply shouldn’t have to wait an hour to vote, let alone three hours or longer. The Nassau County Board of Elections should begin planning additional sites.

That would require funding, because elections require paid poll workers. Coming by such funding will not be easy if the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic drags on. Nonetheless, the county should be taking a hard look at expanding early voting — if not now, then in the near future.

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cene 1: The butcher at the local food store turned to face me from behind the counter. I noticed his mask in the below-the-nose position. I gave him my food order, and calmly ask him to wear his mask appropriately.

He thanked me for reminding him, and we bade each other a good day.

Scene 2: Same food store, same day. A customer ahead of me was checking out, paying the cashier. I assumed my spot, six feet behind, on the assigned, socially distanced color blob on the floor. A shopping cart coming from my left eriC C. appeared in front LaSt of me and assumed the position between me and the customer checking out.

“Excuse me,” I said, intentionally calm and non-threatening. The customer looked at me, his mask in the below-the-chin position. I told him I was waiting on line and asked that he not cut in front of me. He

wasn’t pleased, called me “an ass,” but went to the next checkout line.

“May I also ask you to wear your mask the right way?” I said, still calm, nonthreatening, non-judgmental.

“No, I won’t. I won’t be an ass like you.”

I asked, “Out of curiosity, why do you feel so strongly about not wearing the mask?”

Now threatening, he yelled, “Because you’re an ass, and you better not ask again or we’ll really have a problem! Are you looking for a problem?”

No, I wasn’t looking for a problem. I was looking for chicken. But I felt an obligation to say something when my safety, and that of those around me, was threatened.

After paying for my groceries, while my fellow shopper (still with mask concealing only his Adam’s apple) finished checking out, I spoke with the store managers. I told them what happened at the butcher counter and in the checkout line. I told them that although I was a regular customer, I’d find it hard to return to a store where the safety of cus-

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tomers and staff is put in jeopardy by fellow customers and staff.

The managers lamented their plight, talking about the difficulty they faced enforcing the mask rules and the verbal, and sometimes physical, threats they and their employees have had to endure. They apologized for the behavior of their butcher, qualified by, “The staff is almost always good about masking.” And they spoke of the difficulty of enforcing mask rules among shoppers, and the awful choice their cashiers have to make regularly: risk a confrontation with a mask-deficient customer, or risk exposure to the coronavirus.

I expressed my understanding of the awful situation store owners and employees are in, a situation they never sought.

But I also expressed my passion about the issue. Because I’m a customer, a citizen, a husband, a parent. And I’m a physician, practicing primary care internal medicine in this community for over 30 years. We’ve lost patients to Covid-19,

t’s simple. It’s not political.

It’s caring for others. It’s setting an example.

LetterS ous communities, honest government and a cleaner environment. The road ahead will be tough, but we’ll get through it together.

Now is a time to come together, heal divisions and do the hard work to make real change for our communities and families.

TOdd KAMINSKy State senator, 9th district

Water takeover should be rejected To the Editor: Liberty Utilities and New york American Water signed an agreement for Liberty to purchase American Water for a whopping $608 million. Why, you may ask, would anyone pay $608 million for a water system, 40 percent of which was sold for $71 million a little over eight years ago? Because NyAW gifted its shareholders with a 204 percent return on its investment — while charging its customers 10 times more than what our neighbors with municipal water pay.

We urge NyAW ratepayers to join us in urging the Public Service Commission to reject this private acquisition and, instead, to support a public takeover of our most basic necessity — the water that runs freely under our feet. Water is a basic human right, one that should have local control, with local accountability.

Knowing that there are plans under way to take back the water that is rightfully ours, Governor Cuomo gave the PSC until April 1 to distinguish between utility and customerowned assets if the state were to revoke American Water’s license to operate in New york

some of whom we’ve known for most of those three decades. We’ve cared for many others who’ve recovered, some of whom are still struggling with the lingering effects of the virus.

What have we become? We threaten those who request that others in our presence follow simple guidance that could save another’s life? In a pre-Covid time, had I been wearing an Islanders T-shirt and my fellow shopper, a Rangers T-shirt, would I have been threatened for my team partisanship?

It’s simple. It’s not political. It’s caring for others. It’s setting an example for others. It’s making a tiny sacrifice to potentially protect another human being. It’s pushing back against an ideology that questions science to foster political goals.

It’s following the simplest guidance there is: Treat others as you’d want to be treated yourself.

We owe one another nothing less.

Eric Last, DO, FACP, is an attending physician and clinical assistant professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is also a physician at Northwell Health Physician Partners/Internal Medicine at Wantagh.

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state. With political support, the path to victory is within reach.

A public takeover is long overdue and absolutely necessary. It is time that the PSC does its job, which is to protect the interests of the public rather than do the bidding of a public water monopoly and its shareholders.

CLAUdIA BORECKy, dAvId dENENBERG Directors, Long Island Clean Air Water and Soil Merrick

Keep masking up, New York To the Editor: As we continue to fight Covid-19, it is clear that masks help stop the spread of the virus and save lives. I am proud to announce, with my daughter Mariah Kennedy Cuomo, that New york is partnering with the company The RealReal and dozens of New york fashion designers to create limited-edition, made-inNew york masks. drawing from the diversity and creativity that New york’s fashion industry is famous for, these masks will benefit Covid-19 relief efforts and remind the public that we all still need to “mask up.”

Profits from this campaign will be donated to Feeding America, Nurse Heroes and the New york Covid Relief Fund to help New yorkers and Americans in need.

Particularly now, as the virus surges in parts of the country, it is critical that we continue to wear masks and take the simple, everyday measures that reduce the spread — stay distant and wash your hands often.

GOv. ANdREW CUOMO

Tested by a tumultuous week, but none the worse for wear — Valley Stream

BALDWIN HERALD — November 12, 2020

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