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Locals react to Blakeman’s mask order however, were quick to voice their support for Blakeman’s decision. Carmella Ciancarelli, a mother of three boys in the carroyo@liherald.com, sbrinton@liherald.com, North Bellmore district, wrote in jvallone@liherald.com an email to the Herald, “I supNassau County Executive port Bruce Blakeman allowing Bruce Blakeman signed execu- local control again and advocattive orders on Jan. 6 directing ing for mask choice. Vaccines local boards of education to vote and boosters are available for all this month on whether their dis- those in a K-12 building. If extra tricts should manprotection is still d a t e m a s k u s e, wanted by those while also lifting individuals, they the mask mandate have the right to for all county agenwear extra proteccies. tion like an N95 Bellmore-Mermask, as Blakeman rick Central High said he would make School District offisure was available cials said they were for them.” unsure of the legaliThe orders read ty of Blakeman’s in part, “[G]iven the action. Superintenhistorical data on d e n t M i ke H a rCovid-19 and the rington said that he CARSoN ongoing debate over and the superinten- TERmoTTo whether masks are dents of the North North Merrick more harmful than Bellmore School beneficial to chilDistrict, Bellmore dren and to school Public Schools, the environments in North Merrick Union Free general, we should protect the School District and the Merrick freedoms and statutory rights of Union Free School District were students and parents by resting in touch and working with their with the parents the decision legal counsels to interpret the whether their children should executive order. Some community members, Continued on page 16

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RABBI ShImoN KRAmER and his wife, Chanie, at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life’s Jewish Early Learning Center preschool.

Chabad prepares to expand school, early learning center By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com

The Chabad Center for Jewish Life, also known as the Chabad of Merrick-Bellmore-Wanta gh, recently raised over $500,000 in five days. The donated funds will be used to expand the chabad’s school building, which serves its Jewish Early Learning Center preschool, a Hebrew school and a summer camp. The campaign — “Build-

ing a Dream: Investing in the Future” — went live online at www.chabadjewishlife.org, on the morning of Dec. 9. Five days later, the community had raised $518,888. Expanding the preschool had been under discussed for a while, but because the chabad operates as a nonprofit, the funding had to be donation-based. With over 100 children on a waiting list for the school, a handful of donors approached Rabbi Shimon Kramer and his wife,

Chanie, the JELC director, and offered to triple any donations received from the community. “The directors and teachers of the preschool are all on the front lines, doing a fantastic job,” Rabbi Kramer said. “The only way we could expand was if the community could contribute and help. Some donors came forward and wanted this to be a community event.” The names of the donors Continued on page 14

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Town of Hempstead officials began their new term Jan. 4 at Town Hall. During the nearly two-hour inauguration, Supervisor Don Clavin, Town Clerk Kate Murray, Senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, and Councilmen Anthony D’Esposito and Dennis Dunne were sworn in following their re-election this past November. After the invocation by Rabbi Mordechai Kamentzky of Yeshiva of South Shore in Hewlett, Clavin was sworn in first by Nassau County Republican Committee Chairman Joseph Cairo. Months into Clavin’s first term as supervisor, the coronavirus pandemic erupted and took a toll on Hempstead. Clavin secured tens of millions of dollars in federal CARES Act funds that went to the community, including millions for hospitals, schools, food banks, villages, fire departments and community organizations. The Town Board also rolled out the first mobile vaccination unit in New York state, which has provided nearly 10,000 vaccine and booster shots to residents to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Clavin thanked many of the government officials in attendance for the help that they have given him during his time in local government. “Today is really about just saying thank you,” he said. “We work together and for the betterment of all the residents, from the town’s finances to bond upgrades to services through the pandemic. And it’s not just that it’s the men and women that I work within the town. We do it together because we’re one big team in the Town of Hempstead.” Murray, who was sworn in next, led creation of online accessible parking permits, posted one-stop passport shop events and established outdoor service trailers where residents can continue to access clerk’s office programs. Murray became the first elected official in New York to conduct weddings using online video conferencing. In October, she reached a milestone when she performed her 500th wedding ceremony. After reflections were offered by the Rev. Dr.Calvin Butts of Abyssinian Baptist Church, Attorney General Letitia James swore in Goosby, who is the firstever African-American woman on the Town Board, now entering her 22nd year representing the 1st District. During her last term, Goosby assisted in supplying free PPE kits for businesses and churches, secured personal air filters for residents at risk, aided in launching the outdoor dining initiative to help residents stay open during the pandemic and sponsored food pantries that donated more than a million meals to residents in need. Goosby discussed her tenure in government and the plans that she has for her district moving forward. “I’m going into my 22nd year, as I was elected seeking representation from my community via a historical lawsuit,” Goosby said. “I’ve been sworn in on my plaza and that’s progress,” she noted. The Town

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SuperviSor don Clavin gave a speech following his inauguration. Senior CounCilwoman dorothy Goosby, standing with her family, was sworn into office by State Attorney General Lettita James. town ClerK Kate Murray spoke to the crowd after being sworn in. hempStead town CounCilman Anthony D’esposito was sworn into office on Jan. 4. Hall plaza was recently named for her. “My colleagues are of a different party,” she continued, “but it didn’t matter to them that I’m a Democrat and they aren’t. I’ve worked with wonderful people, and I respect them and they respect me. We made a lot of progress in this town.” D’Esposito was then sworn in by State Assemblyman Edward Ra. D’Esposito, a retired New York Police Department detective, has taught his Narcan training program to town employees, community groups and residents throughout Hempstead. And he has helped expand the Narcan training program, with the town recently announcing distribution of 10,000 Narcan kits in Hempstead. D’Esposito reflected on the town’s accomplishments in recent years. “The last four years we’ve delivered budgets to save taxpayers money, holding the line or lowering taxes,” he said. “We’ve been lauded by Wall Street, earning outlook upticks and credit upgrades. We expanded programs and invested in our parks, beaches and marinas. Just this year, we’ve invested $75 million in our roads. While other municipalities were unable to collect garbage and recycle at the height of the pandemic, our sanitation crews

stepped up and kept the town moving.” Dunne, who served with the U.S. Marines during the Vietnam War, remains a leader among local American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars organizations, and has been pivotal in crafting legislation to create a permanent

property-tax exemption for Cold War era veterans, providing a tax reduction for eligible recipients. He has also sponsored several pieces of legislation to restict vaping and vape products.

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Third graders compose and celebrate at Newbridge A two-month immersion in memoir writing culminated with published stories for third graders at Newbridge Road Elementary School in the North Bellmore School District. Students from Brenda Adragna’s and Lynda Brust’s classes proudly shared their work with each other during a recent writing celebration. Through Writer’s Workshop, students reflected on special memories and made their own books. They could write using many different styles, such as first-person or thirdperson, or even by retelling a moment through an imaginary character. There were some techniques that every writer used including sensory details, which helps a reader visualize the scene, and character dialogue. The lesson began with students reading mentor texts, including several books by Patricia Polacco. After brain-

storming ideas, they got to work on their own writing. Like any author, the first draft was not the last, as they edited, revised and refined their stories before publishing. Nick Chierchie wrote about the grand slam he hit during his first year playing Little League because “I remember that moment and it was a great feeling.” He noted that not only did this project make him a better writer but also a better artist as his illustrations got better throughout the book. Alice Boylan reflected on the first sleepover she ever hosted. “Being a writer is a lot of work,” she said. “It’s worth it because once you finish it, you feel proud of yourself.” Courtesy North Bellmore School District; compiled by Jordan Vallone.

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NEWBRIDGE ROAD ElEMENTARY School third graders, from left, Nick Chierchie, Alice Boylan, Gabe Hannas and Elianna Lopez showcased their memoir writing.

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Six Kennedy Regeneron Scholars

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ASR teAcheR ORquideA Afonso-Ancieto and Shannon Su (standing left), Christopher Luisi and ASR teacher Barbi Frank (standing right) Michelle Brown, Desiree Rigaud, Brandon Lin and Chris Prainito (sitting) of Dietary Restriction and Exercise on Aging Drosophila melanogaster Involving Custom-Built 3D Printed Equipment.” Luisi’s project is, “How Dietary Restriction Affects the Athleticism, Metabolic Rate, and Lifespan of Drosophila melanogaster.” Prainito’s project is, “Development of a Polydiacetylene-Based Paper Biosensor for Naked-Eye Detection of COVID-19 in Saliva.” Rigaud’s project is, “COVID-19 Induced Economic Stress: The Effect on Marital Functioning and Methods of Alleviating Financial Stress.” Su’s

project is, “The Combined Effect of HIF-1a Inhibitino with Azacitidine and Venetoclax in Acture Myeloid Leuokemia” In total, 12 students from the school’s advanced science research program submitted projects. Su’s mentor throughout the three-year process was ASR teacher Orquidea Afonso-Ancieto, while ASR teacher Barbi Frank served as a mentor to Brown, Lin, Luisi, Prainitio and Rigaud. “They have inspired, guided and mentored our research students for three years while on remote learning, hybrid,

and in-person instruction,” said Soel. “We could not be prouder of our advanced science research program and all the students who want to take on the challenge of creating original research during their high school years,” added Superintendent Michael Harrington. “A program like the one that exists in our district does not happen without some very special educators. We are in awe of the six students named semifinalists and their projects.” These scholars represent 185 American and International high schools in 37 states and three countries, including three homeschools. Each student will be awarded $2,000 while an additional $2,000 will go to the school to support its science program. On Jan. 20, 40 of the scholars will be named finalists, competing for more than $1.8 million in awards March 10-16. The Regeneron Science Talent Search is hosted by the Society for Science, a program of Society for Science since 1942, is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. Each year, nearly 2,000 student entrants submit original research in critically important scientific fields of study and are judged by leading experts in their fields. Courtesy Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District; compiled by Jordan Vallone.

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Six students from the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District were named Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholars on Jan. 6. John F. Kennedy High School seniors Michelle Brown, Brandon Lin, Christopher Luisi, Christopher Prainito, Desiree Rigaud and Shannon Su are among 300 scholars selected from 1,804 applicants. Since 2004, there have been 62 research semifinalists/scholars at Kennedy. Last year, five students received this distinction. “When we learned that six students were recognized today, the feeling of school pride was just overwhelming. When it comes to college readiness, the research conducted by these students may be one of the most meaningful learning experiences of their high school careers. “Their projects included hundreds of hours of laboratory and field work; the findings are novel and relevant to many challenges our society is facing today in the fields of medicine, psychology and epidemiology,” explained Science Chairperson Robert Soel. “They all completed extensive research investigations and impressive scientific essays in their Regeneron applications.” Brown’s project is, “The Concurrent Effects of Metformin and Dietary Restriction on Parkinson’s Disease in a Drosophila melanogaster Model.” Lin’s project is, “A Novel Approach to Examine the Effect

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Cards will be disritbuted to children’s hospitals nationwide. Kits will be provided in the kit exempting writing utensils such as markers, pencils, crayons, etc. Pickup begins Jan. 18, and drop-off of the finished cards ends Jan. 25. Registration is required through the Merrick Library website. Contact the library directly with any questions or concerns.

Weights and Strength Class at the NBPL Visit the North Bellmore Public Library for a weights and strength class. Strength classes aim to improve daily living skills through better balance, strength, flexibility and agility. These classes promote progressive resistance where your training load is increased as your muscles become stronger. Participants must provide their own weights. Class will run from 11:15 to 11:30 a.m. Please contact vkowalewski@northbellmorelibrary.org with any questions.

Thursday, Jan. 20 Learn to cook Chinese Fried Rice In celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year, learn to cook delicious Chinese fires rice with Miss Julie of Chefs D’Future at the North Bellmore Public Library. The event will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. This is one combined children’s and young adults program, open to Grades 4 and 5, including teens. Please register in advance. Registration for Grades 4 and 5 opens Thursday, Jan. 13. Contact Jane Sullivan at juvprograms@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.

Friday, Jan. 14 FiveStone & Hi Def playing at K.J. Farrell’s Music Venue FiveStone and Hi Def will be performing this night at K.J. Farrell’s Bar and Grill music venue. With live music offered almost every night, K.J. Farrell’s is a local hotspot for music lovers in Nassau County. Feel free to order appetizers or meals off the menu during the performance. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. Register online through K.J. Farrell’s website for guaranteed seating.

Friday, Jan. 14 Flip Tales for Toddlers Join Ms. Jane for some silly stories and sogns just right for two year olds and the special grown-ups at North Bellmore Public Library. Take home crafts are included at the event being held at 10:00 a.m. Please contact juvprograms@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.

Saturday, Jan. 15 Switch Time Play Super Smash Bros at Bellmore Memorial Library from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Battle against other participants and see who will ermerge as victorious! As per CDC and NYS guidelines, all visitors and particpants over the age of 2 must wear a mask while

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Snow day fun at Newbridge Road Park With last Friday’s snow storm resulting in school closures for the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, Bellmore Public Schools, North Bellmore School District, Merrick Union Free School District and North Merrick Union Free School District, families gathered at the hill at Newbirdge Road Park for some sledding fun.

inside the library and the mask must cover both the nose and the mouth. Social distancing of 6 feet is still required inside the building. Contact the Bellmore Memorial Library for any questions or concerns regarding the event. Registration may be completed through the library’s website.

Saturday, Jan. 15 Cinderella at the Bellmore Movies

and Showplace Starting off this Saturday, the most classic of all fairy tales comes to life in the musical production Cinderella. All shows will be featured at 11:00 a.m. except for Sundays at 12:00 p.m. All audience members 12 and over must be vaccinated, bring proof of vaccination status to the venue, and wear a mask throughout the performance. Contact the venue at (516) 599-6870 with any questions or concerns regard-

ing the event. More showtimes are available on the website.

Tuesday, Jan.18 Take and Make: Valentine’s Day Cards for Hospitalized Kids Held at the Merrick Public Library all- day, teens will create uplifting, handmade Valentine’s Day cards to help brighten a hospitalized child’s day.

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

You can register to take a class to earn your Boating Safety Certificate on March 5 at the NBPL. Newbridge Road Park will undergo a series of park improvements throughout the winter for next spring. Area schools and libraries will be closed on Jan. 17 in observance of MLK Day. Town of Hempstead boat ramp stickers will be available starting Jan. 1 for 2022. Janurary ice skating is available at the Newbridge Arena in Bellmore.

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Baldwin Senior Basketball MOrENO IS LOOKINg to lead Baldwin to its eighth straight Nassau Class AA championship and has drawn interest from a handful of D1 college programs. She is a two-time All-County selection and was an impact player as a sophomore during the team’s last county title run. She scored 10 points in its 60-52 victory over Syosset in the Class AA final held March 8, 2020 at Nassau Coliseum, marking her seventh game that season scoring in double figures. She averaged 14 points as a junior.

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Girls Basketball: East Rockaway at West Hemp.....4:45 p.m. Girls Basketball: Lynbrook at Lawrence...................... 5 p.m. Boys Swimming: Wantagh vs South Side (at Jeircho) 7 p.m. Gymnastics: Valley Stream at Hewlett ........................ 7 p.m. Gymnastics: Sewanhaka at South Side ..................... 7 p.m. Girls Basketball: North Shore at Seaford ................... 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Westbury at Baldwin ....................... 7 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 14 Girls Basketball: Glen Cove at Sewanhaka ..................... 5 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Roslyn at Elmont ............................ 5 p.m. Wrestling: Freeport at Oceanside ..............................5:30 p.m. Girls Basketball: New Hyde Park at MacArthur................ 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Island Trees at Clarke ........................... 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Seaford at Lawrence ............................ 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: V.S. North at South Side................. 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 15 Wrestling: Baldwin Tournament ........................................9 a.m. Boys Bakisetball: V.S. Central at East Meadow.............. 12 p.m. Boys Basketball: East Rockaway at West Hemp. ........... 12 p.m. Girls Basketball: Kennedy at South Side ..................... 12 p.m.

For the second time in three nights, Long Beach overcame a sluggish first half to secure a Nassau Conference A-1 boys’ basketball victory. The Marines trailed at Mepham by seven points at halftime Jan. 6 before scoring 17 in each of the last two quarters for a 54-41win. Sophomore point guard Mike Main led the offense with 19 points including a 9-for-11 performance from the foul line, and senior forward Bret Michaels scored 12 of his 18 points in the second half and grabbed 10 rebounds as Long Beach improved to 3-1 in A-1 and 5-4 overall. Senior forward Robert Tansey poured in a game-high 27 for the Pirates (2-7 overall), who lost their fourth conference game in as many tries. “We’ve had nice stretches in every game, but we’re just not as consistent as we need to be,” Mepham head coach Bob Kaible said. “Tonight was probably the best first half we’ve played all season. In the second half, we got away from running our offense at times and they really hurt us on the boards. They had too many second and third chances.” Behind Tansey, the Pirates enjoyed their second-highest scoring opening quarter of the season when they raced to an 18-12 lead. Tansey accounted for half of their points through the opening eight minutes and had 17 at halftime, 3 fewer than Long Beach. “I think we probably took those guys a little lightly and I give them credit for coming out strong,” Long Beach head coach Scott Martin said. “We had no weakside help in the first half and the Tansey kid hurt us. But the third quarter has been our best quarter all season and that’s what I told the kids at halftime.” The Marines, who scored 20 third-quarter points on the way to rallying for a 55-49 victory over Great Neck North two nights earlier, outscored Mepham by a 15-1 margin after senior Timmy Burns gave the hosts a 30-22 advantage early in the third with his second trey of the game. Michaels, Main and junior Jack Shields

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MEPhaM SENIOr rOBErT Tansey, right poured in a game-high 27 points on Jan. 6 but the Pirates fell short against Long Beach after a strong first half. were instrumental in the comeback, combining for all of Long Beach’s points in the third. Michaels had 7; Main and Shields 5 apiece. Main’s three-pointer with 3:15 remaining in the quarter put the Marines ahead for good at 32-30. “This is their gym and it’s a tight court and it took us a while to get going,” Martin said. “We moved the ball much better in the second half and started to take advantage of the mismatches Bret can provide. He’s so versatile we can use him

inside or outside depending how teams want to guard him.” As was the case against Great Neck North, Main sank 7 free throws in the fourth quarter to seal the outcome. “The biggest things we need to do are improve our rebounding and consistency,” Kaible said. “If we execute like we did in the first half tonight, there’s nobody we can’t beat.” The rematch is Feb. 2 at Long Beach.

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Winthrop Avenue students trap snowmen with engineering To get into the spirit of the season, students in Avery Breakstone’s third grade class at Winthrop Avenue Elementary School in the Bellmore Public School District recently used the engineering design process to design and build traps for snowmen. Students listened to the book “How to Catch a Snowman.” In the story, the snowman comes to life and the children try to trap him. Unfortunately, however, none of the traps are successful. Using the engineering design process, students were asked to create a trap for a snowman that would help the children in the story. They followed the six steps of the process: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Experim e n t a n d I m p r o ve. S t u d e n t s planned, designed and executed their own ideas. After they completed the activity, there was time for reflection — in the spirit of continuous improvement, they thought about what worked about their designs, what didn’t and how they could improve it. Courtesy Bellmore School District; compiled by Jordan Vallone

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The Long Island Crisis Center (LICC) has expanded their organization with six new volunteer members. Founded in 1971, the organization offers a multitude of services such as a volunteer-based 24/7 crisis hotline, LGBTQ+ services, workshops and more. Amidst the pandemic, the organization relied on virtual services and moved their platform online to adapt. Although their organization was unable to meet in person, their client base grew, according to Long Island Crisis Center Associate Executive Director, Tawni Engel, who has worked with the crisis center for 13 years. “It was a big undertaking but we managed to do it,” said Engel. “There was definitely a shift in what the stressors were and what they were calling the hotline about. We didn’t want them to feel abandoned, especially during such a scary time.” According to Engel there was an influx of callers at the start of the

COVID-19 pandemic but the numbers have since dwindled down. As the new Omicron variant surges, the organization is ready to handle any influx in calls. “People were afraid of COVID, they were losing their jobs, their family members,” said Engel. “The one silver lining we’ve been seeing through our virtual services is that we have been able to engage a lot of people who wouldn’t be able to access our services otherwise.” Experiencing the success and accessibility of the virtual services, the organization is planning to keep those services in place even after the pandemic is over. Engel described the importance of the programs, especially throughout the Covid months, as people who were lonely before, were more isolated during 2020-2021 A separate division of LICC , Pride For Youth, established in 1993, was also affected during the pandemic. Recognizing the need for LGBTQ+ support on Long Island, the group offers similar services and even recreational programs for LGBTQ+ people, such as weekly virtual meetings to socialize

and interact with one another. According to Engel, Pride For Youth received an influx of calls for young LGBTQ+ teens facing homelessness and food insecurity on the island. “Covid has really done a number on how we operate as a society as a whole. Even before Covid, we knew that the LGBTQ+ community was disproportionately affected across certain areas and covid has completely exacerbated and made the situation worse,” said Director of Pride For Youth, Devon Zappasodi, 38. “There’s really no other places on Long Island that offer what we offer, or are capable of doing so.” No longer on the frontlines, Zappasodi manages Pride For Youth, making sure all runs smoothly. Pride For Youth offers an assortment of services such as helping those who have become homeless, giving those without cell phones a smart phone with a year of unlimited calls and texting, case management, even interactive social clubs for LGBTQ+ members of differing age groups. Hired by Engel, Zappasodi has been involved with the organization for eight years. Both a member of the

team and the LGBTQ+ community, Zappasodi believes the organization has changed his life as a queer trans man. “It [being with PFY] increased my self-esteem and confidence,” said Zappasodi. “It showed me that I was worthy and eventually I found myself empowered as a person, enough to get out of an unhealthy relationship.” Before meeting PFY, Zappasodi found himself in a “not so great” relationship, but with the help of the organization, found a way out. Managing the funding for the organization,Zappasodi said he “isn’t leaving anytime soon.” Passionate about the organization’s volunteer based work, Zappasodi left a message for locals: “Spread the word that places like this exist. Let them know the services we provide so they know we are here.” If you are in need of counseling call the Long Island Crisis Center 24/7 Hotline at: (516) 679-1111 O t h e r s e r v i c e s a re ava i l abl e through their website.

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$500,000 raised for school expansion As soon as we have the permits, we’ll be ready to roll.” The JELC currently serves about 82 students ranging from 1½ to 4 years old. The expansion will create four new classrooms, so there will be two classes each for 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds. There will be a day care facility as well, for children as young as 6 weeks. “Everyone wanted the expansion,” Rabbi Kramer said. “The education [children] get here lasts a lifetime. It is so important — this is really an investment in their future.” With added classes, the center will be in need of new staff. “We are very selective of who we take — they need to have a passion for education,” Rabbi Kramer said of the hiring process. “The teachers here really make the children feel important and loved.” Once the chabad receives the necessary permits, the Kramers said, the construction should take no longer than several months. Updates on the construction process can be found on the website, and the Jewish Early Learning Center has a site of its own, www.jewishelc.org. “The community is amazing, and everyone chipped in,” Rabbi Kramer said. “The matchers went above and beyond — those amounts were really tough. We were so touched and thankful.”

ConTinued from fronT page and matchers were kept confidential, out of courtesy, but Kramer added that almost every parent in the school gave something to the campaign. Though the expansion will make it possible for roughly 100 more students to attend the preschool, the chabad’s Hebrew students will also use the added space in the afternoons during the week and on Saturday mornings. During the summer, it will be available to the summer camp. This is not the first expansion of the preschool, Chanie Kramer explained. The program started with four children in 2008, and it operated out of the Kramers’ home. “We’ve had many expansions,” Chanie said. “The first big step was moving it out of the house.” The chabad opened a two-room preschool at its Hewlett Avenue location in 2015, and added two more classrooms and a multipurpose room in 2018. The multipurpose room now serves as a temporary classroom. “Right now we have no proper multipurpose room,” Kramer said. “It’s really important to get this done as soon as possible.” Plans for the expansion were in the works before the fundraising campaign even began. The original goal was to

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The Chabad CenTer has already started to meet with architects to get the building process under way. raise $400,000, a total that was quickly surpassed. Chabad officials met with representatives of the Town of Hempstead and the state to make sure the expansion would be possible.

“We are re-meeting with everyone now because what was a dream is now a reality,” Rabbi Kramer said. “Architects are working on the details. The greatest challenge is with the building permits.

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Blakeman calls end to masking requirements Continued from front page wear masks in school.” School boards, the orders continue, must vote “to determine whether or not parents and children should be granted the constitutional right to reject mask mandates while in the classroom.” The orders further state, “More than half of all states in the nation have no set policy on masking at educational institutions, leaving the decision up to local governments to decide when and how to enforce mask mandates.” State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa issued a statement to local school districts in reaction to Blakeman’s orders, writing, “Counties are required to enforce school masking regulations. … Counties do not have the legal authority to require boards of education to vote on specific issues. School officers take an oath to obey all legal requirements. The State Education Department expects school boards will follow all legal requirements, including the face-covering regulation.” William Biamonte, chief of staff of the County Legislature’s Democratic minority, said, “When ideology trumps science and politics are prioritized over the common good of society, our most vulnerable residents stand to suffer the most. “County Executive Blakeman can say that ‘Nassau is normal again’ all he wants,” Biamonte continued, “but as Omicron continues to spread like wildfire and hospitalize more children than any other Covid variant to date, this is a recipe for disaster.” Blakeman, a Republican, said he was directly opposing an order put in place in early December by Gov. Kathy Hochul, a

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Section 202-48 of the code of the Town of Hempstead entitled, “Handicapped Parking On Public Streets,” a public hearing will be held in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, New York, on the 25th day of January, 2022, at 7:00 o’clock in the evening of that day, to consider the adoption of a resolution setting aside certain parking spaces for motor vehicles

for the sole use of holders of special parking permits issued by the County of Nassau to physically handicapped persons at the following locations: ELMONT ESTELLE AVENUE - south side, starting at a point 15 feet east of the east curbline of Stone Street, east for a distance of 20 feet. (TH-554/21) EMPORIA AVENUE - east side, starting at a point 197 feet south of the south curbline of Atherton Avenue, south for a distance of 20 feet. (TH-576/21) GARDEN CITY SOUTH YALE ROAD - east side, starting at a point 132 feet of the north of the north curbline of Princeton Avenue, north for a distance of 16 feet. TH-577/21) ROOSEVELT CEDAR STREET - south side, starting at a point 320 feet east of the east curbline of Brookside Avenue, east for a distance of 20 feet. (TH-558/21) UNIONDALE MARVIN AVENUE - west side, starting at a point 77 feet south of the south

curbline of Gerald Street, south for a distance of 20 feet. (TH-436/21) DECATUR STREET - south side, starting at a point 240 feet west of the west curbline of Emerson Street, west for a distance of 20 feet. (TH-551/21) and on the repeal of the following locations previously set aside as parking spaces for physically handicapped persons: BELLMORE BERGEN STREET - east side, starting at a point 148 feet south of the south curbline of Natta Boulevard, south for a distance of 20 feet. (TH-350/90 - 12/11/90) (TH-552/21) ALL PERSONS INTERESTED shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposal at the time and place aforesaid. Dated: January 11, 2022 Hempstead, New York BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 129136

“As governor,” she said on Dec. 10, “my two top priorities are to protect the health of New Yorkers and to protect the health of our economy.” The county executive’s legal counsel drafted the orders that Blakeman signed, said his spokesman, Chris Boyle. Blakeman’s orders came at a time when Long Island’s Covid positivity rate was spiking at more than 25 percent — the highest in the state — and a growing number of school districts were reporting increased transmission of the disease, with some, such as Long Beach, being forced to close some schools because of staffing shortages. Hospitalization rates were rising as well. Dominique DeLucia, whose daughter is also a student in the North Bellmore district, wrote to the Herald, “I am proparents’ choice all the way. Children should not be responsible to worry about adult problems. At this point, anyone who wants the vaccine and believes it works has already gotten it, so the children should be unmasked at this point. “If parents want kids to wear masks, go for it,” DeLucia added. “If you truly believe masks work even after the experts have advised they don’t, then they should not be worried what the kid next to them is doing. At this point, we need to learn to live with the virus and treat it like the flu season — we never did any of these ridiculous behaviors before and kids should not be deprived of fresh air.” “The order returns this decision back to the people that should have had it all along — parents and the local community,” wrote Will Luciani, a parent of two sons in the North Merrick district. “This never should have been a statewide, uni-

versal mandate — it never made sense in a state so large and populous to have one rule for everyone. Now school boards can make the best decisions for their communities with plenty of parent input. “We never should have put so much of the burden on our kids and I’m glad that we will be able to restore some sense of normalcy to their lives,” Luciani added. “It’s been frustrating for months to watch kids in other states get to go to school like normal, with no masks, while my first grade son at Old Mill Road School in North Merrick has never even seen the faces of his teachers or classmates.” The county plans to distribute KN95 masks to private and public schools for staff, and especially teachers. Not everyone in Bellmore-Merrick was comfortable with the executive order, however. Carson Termotto, a North Merrick resident and a 2019 graduate of Sanford H. Calhoun High School, said, “It is imperative that our districts take every measure to ensure the safety of our children while in school so they can remain in school. “I am confident our school board will continue to act responsibly by enforcing the mask requirements as dictated by state law,” Termotto added.

at a news conference on Jan. 6, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed an executive order directing school districts to vote this month on whether to require masks in classrooms.

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n Christmas Day, NASA sent into space the James Webb telescope, which, if all works out as planned, will provide us with our first look into the beginning of time. The telescope will bring into focus the oldest stars in the universe, and examine the atmospheres of nearby exoplanets for signs of life. But who the heck was James Webb? He has largely been lost to history. He was a Marine Corps pilot, an aide to several members of Congress, JAMES undersecretary of to President BERNSTEIN state Harry S. Truman, president of a New York company, Sperry Gyroscope, and NASA’s second administrator. A pretty impressive biography. But just as Webb’s name has largely been forgotten, so has a tragic incident that occurred during his administration that almost ended America’s space program. On Jan. 27, 1967, three astronauts

— Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, 40, Edward H. White, 36, and rookie Roger Chaffee, 31 — were killed on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida when a fire erupted in their command module during pre-flight training. At the time, it was the world’s worst space disaster. Little is said or written these days about the three astronauts and their destroyed Apollo 1 spacecraft. For one thing, there was the success of the moon landings beginning in 1969. And there have been other disasters — two space shuttles, Challenger, in 1986, and Columbia, in 2003, were lost, resulting in the deaths of 14 astronauts. The country was in shock after the ’67 fire in Apollo 1. NASA’s carefully cultivated image of infallibility had been badly damaged. There were calls from various corners to nix the space program, and let the Russians have the moon. It wasn’t worth human lives, some editorials in leading newspapers said. Webb saw it differently. But perhaps the most distinguishing factor of his leadership, something rarely seen in gov-

ernment or politics these days, was that Webb publicly took the blame for the disaster, pulling no punches. “We’ve always known that something like this was going to happen soon or later,” he told the press at the time. “Who would have thought that the first tragedy would be on the ground?” Not only did he shoulder the blame, but Webb was determined to get all the facts and keep the space program moving forward. America, he thought, had to be first on the moon. He went to President Lyndon Johnson and asked that NASA be allowed to handle the investigation into the fire, promising to be truthful with the agency’s findings. Webb was grilled by various congressional committees, and kept the backlash away from NASA and the Johnson administration. As a result, Webb was assigned much of the blame, and NASA ultimately regained its “right stuff ” image. An investigation indicated that a faulty electrical wire inside the Apollo 1 command module likely caused the fire.

fter a tragedy, he was determined to keep the space program moving forward.

Webb retired from the space agency in October 1968, just as the Apollo program was nearing completion. Astronauts landed on the moon a year later. There were bumps along the way in Webb’s career. In 2015, a Seattle Times columnist revived talk that when Webb was undersecretary of state, thousands of gay men and women lost their government jobs in what was known as the “Lavender Scare.” There was never any evidence that Webb had anything to do with the firings, although people speculated he must have known about them. Perhaps the thing to remember about James Webb is that he kept the complex machinery of NASA humming so America could stay true to the goal that President John F. Kennedy set in 1962: to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade and bring him back safely to Earth. Much of the technology had not even been invented yet when Kennedy made that bold pledge, and many thought the goal was impossible. Webb was one of the believers. Jim Bernstein is editor of the Long Beach Herald. Comments about this column? JBernstein@liherald.com.

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hat if we got knocked out of our socks by a brilliant turnabout in our national life? At the moment, “Happy New Year” rings hollow. We all know how heavy the baggage is that we dragged from December to January this year. But my hope is in the mystery of the future. We could never have predicted the dreadful twin plagues of Covid and civil unrest, and that is exactly why we can’t predict a change, a windfall of good RANDI karma and good KREISS timing. Twenty-two years ago, I wrote a New Year’s column for the Heralds offering my predictions for the year ahead, 2000. First, I suggested, sell all your stock. In my capacity as a person with little understanding of financial markets, I firmly believed that stores would become obsolete as online shopping became more popular. The markets would go south from there. As it turned out, if you just kept your stocks for these 22 years, you would have made a tidy bundle. So my first predic-

tion was dead on arrival. Even with the dot-com bust in the early 2000s and the Great Recession, the average annual return in the stock market was about 10 percent. I also predicted that that we would not go to war with Saddam Hussein. On the national front, I lamented the scandals in Congress, and said our officials would out one another until no one would be left in government. That one was particularly interesting: Apparently, the worst thing I could imagine about Congress 22 years ago was that folks were having sexual flings. Man, wouldn’t you take that scenario in a heartbeat? What if someone told you back then that on New Year’s 2022, our country would be stumbling ahead, staggered by more than 800,000 deaths from a virulent pandemic that shut down schools and services and sent millions into isolation and quarantine? Could you possibly have believed that political fighting, a violent attack on the Capitol and hordes of know-nothing anarchists would threaten the integrity of Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court? Would you have believed that a Marjorie Taylor Greene could exist

if I described her to you back then? How about this one: Donald Trump would get elected president in 2016. Hell, 22 years ago, the twin towers were still standing in all their massive glory at the tip of Manhattan. Perhaps it’s best that crystal balls are cloudy. The unexpected is what I am counting on — that unpredictably good things may save us. As I think about the year ahead, my head and my heart do battle. Our hearts don’t heal according to a turn of the calendar page. My heart is aching for our losses. Some friends have died. My city is set back on its heels. Our kids are out of school yet again, as we enter the third year of the pandemic. Part of my head is worried about tomorrow. But I’m going with the part of my brain that knows unexpectedly beneficent events in the year ahead could heal the country and get us healthy again. We can go back to work, and bring back birthday parties and theater and family dinners. The virus could burn out. Our political leaders may find their best selves. Airplane travel will take off and people, too long sequestered in their homes, will embrace one another again.

nexpected events in the year ahead could heal the country and get us healthy again.

This could happen, and is no more unlikely than a raging global pandemic that stopped the clock for two years. I wish this for all of us in 2022: that we are off-the-charts lucky and blessed in our lives and work. In the meantime, the poet John Roedel offers this advice: “My heart is always sad about/something that happened yesterday/while my head is always worried/about something that may happen tomorrow, I lamented . . . “My gut squeezed my hand./‘I just can’t live with my mistakes of the past/or my anxiety about the future,’ I sighed . . . “My gut smiled and said: ‘In that case/ you should stay with your lungs for a while . . . “If you are exhausted about/your heart’s obsession with/the fixed past and your mind’s focus/on the uncertain future/ your lungs are the perfect place for you/ there is no yesterday in your lungs/there is no tomorrow there either/there is only now/there is only inhale/there is only exhale/there is only this moment/there is only breath/and in that breath/you can rest while your/heart and head work/their relationship out.” Let us say goodbye to 2021 hoping to be astonished, in a good way, by 2022. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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n his first week on the job, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman addressed the coronavirus pandemic in a way that can best be described as premature, if not downright foolhardy. Last week, Blakeman, a Republican from the Five Towns, signed a set of three executive orders, all of which were intended to loosen state regulations whose purpose was to protect public safety during this most recent surge of infections caused by the Omicron variant. Blakeman was clearly thumbing his nose at Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, who on Dec. 10 ordered mask wearing in public to reduce the spread of Covid-19 as it fans out like wildfire across New York state, and the nation. Before taking office, Blakeman had said he would not enforce the public mask mandate, as required by Hochul. Then, on Jan. 6, he took this political showdown one step further when he signed a surprise executive order directing local boards of education across Nassau to vote on whether to require masks in the schools. Refusing to enforce the mask mandate was bad enough. To require school districts to weigh in on a measure that is, incontrovertibly, intended to protect the health and safety of students — many of them unvaccinated — along with teachers and school workers, represents an abdication of his duty as county executive to protect Nassau’s most vulnerable. It’s been a while since Blakeman, 66, has been in school, but surely he must

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letters Blakeman’s decision is ‘misguided’ To the Editor: The news generated by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s recent publicity stunt of signing an executive order allowing school districts to decide on mask-wearing is nothing more than a glaring example of misguided judgment and poor leadership. Surely Mr. Blakeman knows he cannot supersede Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate or the state education commissioner’s similar order. It is nothing more than playing to the cheap seats, on top of being quantifiably false (the idea that there is no science to support mask wearing as a Covid mitigation practice). It’s both an embarrassment and an invitation to those who believe such nonsense to cause disruption and only furthers divisiveness. It’s a sad day in Nassau County to be represented by a person willing to sow discord to be

remember the conditions in which students and teachers work. Twenty to 30 people are confined to a room for six to eight hours a day, with ventilation systems that are often decades old, unless a district has recently upgraded them. In short, students and teachers must spend hours a day within feet of one another, in rooms of stagnant air. One infected student or teacher could spread the coronavirus to dozens of people in a single day. Why not mask up? What, precisely, is Blakeman’s point here? Anyone who enters a school must wear a mask, period. Some parents say they worry about the potential psychological effects of their children wearing masks throughout the day. In studies since the start of the pandemic, however, children were found to be highly resilient, reporting few, if any, effects from mask wearing, and health experts across the country have weighed in, saying children are, generally speaking, doing just fine wearing masks. At the same time, as we reported in last week’s editorial, numerous studies indicate that mask wearing does, in fact, reduce the spread of the coronavirus. That is, there is no real downside to children wearing masks in school — and only an upside, the likely reduction of community spread of the coronavirus. Thus, it would be just plain wrong of any school district, for what could only be described as political reasons, to overturn the state’s mask mandate in a vote. Hochul quickly weighed in on the mat-

ter last week, saying that any school district that voted to overturn the mandate, ordered by both the State Education Department and the State Department of Health, could — and likely would — face the loss of state aid for education. She was right to weigh in aggressively. There will be those who say that the Omicron variant, according to studies, is less virulent and less deadly than previous strains of the coronavirus. They are correct. This variant is still, however, a virus with the capability to send the unvaccinated to hospitals. And people who believe that even a three-dose vaccination will entirely protect them from it should think again. The vaccinated are becoming infected as well. They might not experience the heavy symptoms that unvaccinated people do, but they can still get sick. Further, the risk of a vaccinated person being hospitalized by the Omicron variant is extremely low, but it is not zero. The bottom line: Blakeman appears to be playing a game of political brinkmanship, which has garnered him a good amount of publicity across the state and made him something of a hero to farright conservatives. That is why we find his first two weeks in office to be so disappointing. We honestly expected better of him. We hope and trust he will see the error of his ways and restore one of the best measures that we have to guard against the coronavirus — the mask mandate.

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ational Public Radio and ABC News warn, “Teachers are on the front lines in the Jan. 6 culture war.” Depending on where they work, teachers experience different political pressure when it comes to how to discuss with students the events that rocked the U.S. Capitol a year and a week ago. For younger children, important themes are community decision-making and fairness, the building blocks of a democratic society. In grades five to eight, students aLan learn about the foundations of the sinGer democratic process — rights and responsibilities, civic action and voting — along with injustices. In grades 11 and 12, students should follow congressional hearings, evaluate media coverage and discuss the implications of current events. For these grades, the anniversary of Jan. 6, with expanded media coverage, offered a teachable moment for more in-depth analysis. While students and teachers are entitled to their opinions about the implications of the events, discussion in class about them must be respectful, and speakers must support statements with evi-

dence. The teacher must prepare documents for evaluation, ask questions of student speakers and moderate discussion. The teacher must guide students through multiple sources with different perspectives so they can form their own questions, evaluate the sources and information, and arrive at conclusions supported by evidence. This process must not include deciding whether the Jan. 6 insurrection happened. It happened, and it was indeed an insurrection, intended to block certification of the presidential election. One difficulty in addressing the events of that day is the country’s partisan divide. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found that despite widely viewed video footage, 60 percent of Republicans claimed the attack on the Capitol was not violent or somewhat violent. Here, teachers should ask students to suggest additional documents to allow them to discuss and decide whether the events were violent or not. To be clear, more than 700 people have been charged with various crimes at the Capitol. The FBI estimates that about 2,000 people were part of the mob that breached the building after a pro-Trump rally at which then President Donald Trump and other speakers repeated

unsubstantiated charges that the election was stolen. Some 140 law enforcement officers were injured during the attack, one died, and the Capitol sustained more than $1.5 million in damage. More than 160 of the rioters entered guilty pleas in exchange for lighter sentences. Seventy have been sentenced. Thirty-one were jailed and 18 received home detention. The longest prison term so far is five years. About 100 defendants have ties to extremist groups. Trump tweeted many times on the afternoon on Jan. 6, attacking then Vice President Mike Pence more than once. At 2:38 p.m. — more than an hour and a half after Trump supporters first breached the Capitol — Trump tweeted, “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!” At 4:17 p.m. Trump tweeted a video in which he told his followers, “I know your pain, I know your hurt. We love you, you’re very special. You’ve seen what happens, you’ve seen the way others are treated . . . I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.” Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, called what happened on Jan. 6 “an insurrection, incited by the president.” On Fox News, Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, said, “There’s no

t offers a teachable moment for indepth analysis, if discussed respectfully.

Letters more popular with a loud and uninformed minority. MICHAEL LUDWIg, PH.D. Rockville Centre Ludwig is director of Hofstra University’s health education master’s program.

No wonder Democrats are in trouble To the Editor: Alan Singer’s analyses of why the Democratic Party is in peril of losing control of government (“Democrats election perils have little to do with ‘wokeness,’” Dec. 9-15) is yet another anti-Republican screed with selective omissions of facts. Nowhere in his op-ed piece does he mention the Southern border, which is a lawless catastrophe for our country as well as for Biden, Harris or whoever is supposed to be in charge. Singer fails to mention that with no clear mandate, a 50-50 Senate and a razor-thin majority in the House, Biden and company are trying to pass a multi-trillion-dollar package that can only be paid for with higher taxes. Nowhere does he mention the murder, mayhem and chaos that are a direct result of flawed policies in Democratic-run cities across the country.

Weakening support for Israel; kneeling to an Iran deal, which is a pathway to a nuclear weapon for a country with a malevolent, untrustworthy government; abandoning friends and weapons in Afghanistan; sitting idly by as China steals land in the South China Sea to build military outposts; closing down the Keystone Pipeline (while green-lighting Russia’s), which has led to soaring gas prices as we struggle to electrify, are just a few other omissions. Throw in the teaching of a flawed critical race theory, the 1609 Project, FBI surveillance of school board meetings, support of the corrupt and often violent Black Lives Matter movement and consideration of reparations for descendants of people who were slaves more than 150 years ago, and it’s quite understandable why the Democratic Party is in trouble. Its record of failure in one year is breathtaking. Most people who are, or will turn from, blue to red are neither racist nor violent. They abhor the Jan. 6 insurrection. They are pragmatic! And yes, like it or not, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted by a jury of his peers who heard all of the evidence. To become purple, we need moderate leaders on both sides of the aisle who listen to and respect one another. Ignoring reality when it conflicts with one’s point of view is a prescription for failure. DR. MEL YOUNg Lawrence

question the president formed the mob. The president incited the mob. The president addressed the mob. He lit the flame.” The New York Times published useful lesson ideas to aid teachers. It also recommends consulting the websites of Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance), Facing History and Ourselves and the Anti-Defamation League. The Times package includes documents with questions sorted by these themes: ■ Understanding what happened and reacting to it. ■ Investigating President Trump’s responsibility. ■ Exploring why democracy requires a peaceful transfer of power. ■ Understanding the roots of the riot. ■ Considering the role of the news media and the power of language. ■ Scrutinizing how social media can facilitate insurrection. ■ Putting Jan. 6 into historical context. Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on Twitter, @AlanJSinger1.

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