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merricK residenT JenniFer Schatzman recently started an initiative to fight racism in her community. With the help of a coworker and a local printer, she is distributing signs like this one to other residents who want to send a message.

salons and tattoo parlors are also allowed to reopen. Restaurants will only be perRocky Telese said that Elisa’s mitted to reopen indoors at 50 Ristorante has been something percent capacity, according to of a chameleon since the corona- the governor’s New York Forvirus shutdown began in mid- ward website. The maximum March. “We’ve been constantly number of people per table will changing for the be 10. “Outdoor past three seating has been months,” Telese, more popular than the owner of the we expected,” said Nor th Bellmore Telese, whose restaurant, said. brother, Paolo, is “Our takeout menu the head chef at doubled in size, we Elisa’s. “People just hosted a couple of want to get out and drive-in movies, do things they’re and with Phase 2, used to doing and we had outdoor enjoy a great seating for the first meal.” time in 25 years.” Rocky is unsure As Nassau how long the entered Phase 3 of expanded takeout the state’s reopenmenu will remain ing protocols on in place, since it Wednesday, Telese causes a strain on said his seating Femy Aziz the kitchen staff, capacity — 89 — President, and with outdoor could be split in Merrick Chamber seating in place, half between there is no longer of Commerce indoor and outdoor room for drive-in tables. m ov i e s. “ T h o s e Restaurants are permitted to were more for fun than anything open for indoor dining in the else,” he said. third phase, provided employees On its website, the state and patrons wear masks, and six Department of Health recomfeet of social distancing is maintained between tables. Spas, nail Continued on page 3

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Protests produce ‘signs’ of progress in Bellmore-Merrick By AlyssA seidmAn aseidman@liherald.com

Merrick’s “lack of diversity” was apparent to Jennifer Schatzman when she moved to the community from Manhattan’s Union Square three years ago, but it became even more glaring earlier this month, she said, when a group of counter-

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protesters halted a Black Lives Matter demonstration marching through the neighborhood on Merrick Road. Schatzman, who is white, but has a biracial son as well as nieces and nephews who are black, took part in the June 2 protest. A fake flier that circulated on social media led some residents to believe the protest

wouldn’t be peaceful, and that demonstrators could loot or damage property. So when Schatzman’s group tried to continue past the detractors, police told her the counter-protesters “didn’t have our interests at heart,” she said. As officers escorted the protesters past the smaller group, Continued on page 11

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ContinuEd fRom fRont pagE mends that restaurants offer single-use, disposable menus or display menus in a common place. Elisa’s will have both disposable paper menus and laminated versions, which will be disinfected after each use. “We are the strictest of the strict when it comes to cleanliness,” Telese said. Until it reopened to customers on June 10 with very limited outdoor seating, The Vine Wine Bar in Merrick offered curbside takeout and local delivery, as well as wine and spirit tutorials on its social media pages. “From a spacing standpoint, half capacity inside — 25 instead of 50 — will work out just fine,” co-owner Lynn Mione said. “We can continue with the three outdoor tables as well. I think people are looking to enjoy the summer and socialize. We’re the perfect place for a date and for friends to get together.” Lone Wolf Tattoo, a staple in Bellmore for 25 years, has four separate appointment rooms, which makes social distancing easy to achieve, owner Ronald Bianco said. “We already work in a clean and sterile fashion where everything used on a customer is disposed [of],” Bianco said. “We’ll be doing temperature checks, keeping a log of customers and having employees and customers wear masks.” While playing catch-up with rescheduling, Bianco said his staff would fit in new appointments as quickly as possible. Customers are asked to call the store to set up a session. Spas are also able to open at 50 percent capacity with safety protocols, but waiting rooms will remain closed. At Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa in Bellmore, manager Christine Santelli said its full complement of massages — including hot stone, deep tissue, prenatal and Swedish — will be offered starting June 24. Other services such as facials will not begin until Phase 4. “We’ve always been very sterile, but we doubled down to be extra safe,” said Santelli, who said masks will be mandatory and gloves made available by request. Other New York regions entered Phase 3 previously; only Long Island, New York City and Mid-Hudson remain. Cuomo said at his daily briefing June 18 that he

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Elisa’s RistoRantE, in North Bellmore, will feature indoor and outdoor seating in Phase 3. was in a “happy-go-lucky mood” because New York had tested 68,000 people overnight and found an average infection rate of .9 percent — the lowest it had been since the pandemic began. The governor insisted businesses keep up coronavirus safeguards, and issued an executive order giving local authorities the power to immediately shut down businesses that do not maintain safety protocols. Bars and restaurants that do not can lose their liquor licenses. “Phase 2 was a great foundation for businesses that can open fully in Phase 3,” said Merrick Chamber of Commerce President Femy Aziz. “In my opinion, opening slowly was the right way. Being shut down for three months brought its share of emotional ups and downs, but we’ve come so far, and we don’t want to go backwards.” Scott Brinton contributed to this story.

lonE Wolf tattoo, in Bellmore, has four separate appointment rooms, which makes social distancing easy to achieve. at Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa, in Bellmore, a full complement of massages were to be offered starting Wednesday. Other services, however, such as facials, will not begin until Phase 4.

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While Major League Baseball owners and players continue to squabble over compensation to get a shortened 2020 season off the ground, there’s excitement at the Little League level after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced some youth sports could begin in early July as part of the Phase Three reopening in counties that qualify. “Young people can engage in sports [with] two spectators per child, so that’s another step toward return to normalcy,” Cuomo said during a June 14 press conference. Baseball, softball, gymnastics, field hockey, cross country and crew will be allowed once Phase Three begins, which, in Nassau County is expected to start on July 6. Typically, Little League baseball and softball seasons begin during the first week of April. In mid-March, the Little League International Board of Directors advised programs across the country to delay their seasons until at least May 11 due to Covid-19. Despite that timeframe increasing week by week, North Bellmore-North Merrick Little League President Craig Kute said he never lost hope. “Everyone on our board was patient and positive,” said Kute, who coaches all three of his sons’ (Alex, 10, Nicholas 8, and Logan, 5) teams. “We only had about 10 percent of people request a refund,” he added. “We’re still at about 525 kids and we’ve reopened registration. We’re excited to get started and to see the kids play the sport they love most.” Kute said North Bellmore-North Merrick would start play on Aug. 1, with a

likely 10-game regular season followed by playoffs. He expects leagues to conclude in mid-September. In addition to limiting spectators, Kute said additional safety measures will be taken, including the umpire working behind the pitcher instead of behind home plate. The league will also limit the number of kids in the dugout, prohibit handshakes, hi-fives or sharing of equipment and provide each kid with their own personal bottle of hand sanitizer. The next step is to secure as many of the fields the league is used to having; Kute said he expects to have a clearer picture of the situation next week. “This is a baseball town,” Kute said after the initial shutdown. “My kids have been practicing in the yard and itching to play, and I know they’re not alone.” The Merrick Bellmore Little League will get going soon after Phase Three begins, President Nick Ippoliti said. “July 8 is our tentative date for the first games,” he said. “We’ve had that date in mind for quite a while since it was the original anticipated date for Phase Four.” The league has more than 700 kids registered for the season, which will consist of 10 to 12 games over a six-week span. “We probably won’t be able to make up rainouts for the most part,” Ippoliti said. Parents and guardians of registered kids were all sent a “Return to Play” handbook with instructions and recommendations, including pre-game and ingame safety measures, Ippoliti said. Little League International, which operates more than 6,500 programs in 84 countries, also posted a season resumption guide on its website, www.littleleague.org.

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Rallying for September schools reopening By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com

Chants of “Classrooms not class Zooms” and “Classrooms are essential” could be heard through the crowd of roughly 50 parents and teachers from across Long Island who gathered on Franklin Avenue in Mineola to express their desire that schools reopen for in-person instruction in September. The “Rally To Reopen Schools in September” took place on June 20 in front of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative building. The event was organized by East Setauket residents Maria Sanders, Amalia Makroglou and Aristea Lucas. The three organizers are mothers of children in school, and Lucas works as an English as a second language teacher in the Sachem Central School District. Sanders noted that they chose Mineola as the rally location because it served as a “middle ground” location for attendees. “Back in April, Cuomo said that the schools would be closed for two weeks to help our medical infrastructure and flatten the curve,” Sanders said. “Now we’re in June, and we’re still questioning September. [Gov. Andrew] Cuomo needs to act and tell us that schools need to open in September.” Cuomo first closed all schools in the state on March 16 for two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic. The governor continued to extend the closing, until on May 1 he announced that all schools would stay closed for the rest of the school year. The state has yet to release reopening guidelines. Oceanside residents Steven and Randi Weinberg attended the rally with their two children, Noah and Stella. Randi noted how Noah, who is entering second grade in the Oceanside School District, has not enjoyed the distance-learning experience. “He didn’t enjoy looking at the screen to learn and then having to turn to me for guidance,” she said. “I’m not a teacher;

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I’m trained to do something else. There’s also that boundary between being a mom and being a teacher that has been hard for me to follow.” Teachers in attendance included Carolyn Schwartz, a Rockville Centre resident who teaches English in the Baldwin School District. Schwartz said she believes a social divide will occur if distance learning continues. “You are creating the largest divide on the planet if this keeps going on,” Schwartz said of distance learning. “For me as a middle class mother, I can get my child a tutor. Others may not be able to do that, depending on their financial circumstances, and that may cause their children to fall behind in school due to that.” The dissatisfaction with distance learning extends to college for East Meadow resident Marie Lombardi noted her 20-year-old son decided to continue college outside the state because of the uncertainty whether school will reopen here in September. “My son just finished at Nassau Community and was set to attend Hofstra,” Lombardi said. “He decided to enroll at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut instead due to the u n k n ow n f u t u r e f o r schools in New York.” Sanders added that the importance of school is beyond education. “I recognize that some school districts have better distance learning than others, but school is much more than learning ABC’s and one, two, threes,” she said. “It’s social learning, emotional learning and THE RAlly To Reopen Schools in September was held building relationships. We outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative can’t teach them all of Building Mineola on June 20 to urge the state to reopen this in the comfort of our kitchens.” schools in September.

THE WEInBERg FAMIly, from left, Stella, Randi, Noah and Steven of Oceanside, said they hope schools reopen in September. THE EducAToRs In attendance included Long Beach speech therapist Tammy Neumann of Oceanside, left, and Baldwin English Language Arts teacher Carolyn Schwartz, from Rockville Centre, right.

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pen-pal relationships with a group of kids there. The club also donated $500 to Brick by Brick, a nonprofit that helps build housing in Uganda. Brooke was adopted from Guatemala, and this year, through the nonprofit For the Love of Mateo, the Sarubbis have sponsored a child abroad to help them attend school. “Having seen how fortunate we are compared to so many people around the world, it made me feel like we live such fast-paced, materialistic lives,” Sarubbi said. “Others live with the bare necessities and they’re happy — that perspective helped start my passion for helping people.”

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When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Jessica Sarubbi, a junior at John F. Kennedy High School, could not sit idly by. “I love helping people,” said Sarubbi, 17, of Bellmore. When she heard of the “exhausting” work being done from a close family friend and infectious disease specialist at North Shore University Hospital, “I knew I wanted to do something,” she said. “Those doctors didn’t even have time to sit down and order lunch for the day,” Sarubbi added. “They go all day working and don’t even have time to order meals for themselves.” To lend her support, Sarubbi started a GoFundMe page and asked family, neighbors and members of her school community to contribute. Her younger sister, Brooke, contacted the principal at Grand Avenue Middle School, and the fundraiser quickly spread to teachers and faculty members. With more than $2,800 collected — and some help from local eateries Town Bagel, Pit Stop, Hunki’s Kosher Pizza and John Moore’s Deli — Sarubbi sent more than 550 catered meals to the staff at North Shore. The deliveries were made over several weeks starting on April 13, each consisting of bountiful supplies of food displayed on large platters. Aside from her fundraiser, Sarubbi’s altruism can be found at Kennedy, too. In October, she started the Student Humanitarians for International Education club (SHINE), which garnered roughly 30 members. They set up a holiday toy drive for children in Guatemala and established

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With most of the sports world still idle in the midst of Covid-19, horse racing grabbed the spotlight last Saturday evening with the Belmont Stakes serving as the opening leg of the Triple Crown for the first time in history. And, for the first time since 1882, a New York-bred earned its way into the Belmont history books. In striking distance throughout the 1 1/8-miles, Tiz the Law cruised past pacesetter Tap It to Win down the stretch and was never threatened by closers Dr Post and Max Player on the way to a 3 ¾-lengths victory in the 152nd running of the Belmont Stakes. “I was pretty confident by the time we hit the seven-eighths pole,” said Tiz the Law’s jockey, Manny Franco, who secured his first career Triple Crown race win. “He was so kind and relaxed for me,” he added. “He was so comfortable and never got keen, so I think that was the key.” Franco, 25, the New York Racing Association’s leading rider the past two years, has piloted Tiz the Law to all four of his graded stakes victories, including three in a row. “It means a lot to me,” he said. “This is my home track. I’ve been riding here for about six years already. One leg of the Triple Crown is the dream of any jockey. I’m happy with the opportunity that I have right now.” Owned by Sackatoga Stable and trained by Barclay Tagg, Tiz the Law, bred in the Empire State by Twin Creeks Farm, returned $3.60 on a $2 win wager, increasing his career earnings to more than $1.5 million. The final time was 1:46.53. “It’s tremendous [to win the Belmont with a New York-bred],” said Jack Knowlton, operating manager of Sackatoag Stable. “We buy New York-breds; that’s our game, and we don’t spend a lot of money. We’ve been with Barclay Tagg for 25

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years, and I keep telling everybody, Barclay doesn’t get a lot of big horses, big opportunities, but when he does, he knows what to do.” Tagg, who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 2003 with Funny Cide, said his main concern leading up to the shortened Belmont was Tiz the Law’s 11-week layoff. But that proved a non-factor. “It looked to me like everything just went like clockwork,” he said. “That’s the way the horse likes to run and that’s the position the horse likes to be in. Manny knows the horse very well.” Held without spectators and owners, and with limited media permitted to attend, Tagg thought the quietude was “very nice” and said the absence of crowd noise helped keep Tiz the Law calm, and it showed. “About the five-eighths pole, my horse was so relaxed, so calm,” Franco explained. “From there, I knew I had so much horse to win the race. I didn’t want to move early. I knew I had the horse underneath. I was just waiting for the right time to move.” Dr Post, trained by three-time Belmont winner Todd Pletcher, finished a lengthand-a-half ahead of Max Player for runner-up status. Both horses were making just their fourth career starts. The $1 trifecta returned $99.50. Pneumatic, Tap It to

TraINEr BarcLaY Tagg has mapped out future plans for Tiz the Law, who upped his career earnings to more than $1.5 million and is 5-for-6 lifetime.

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Win, Sole Volante, Modernist, Farmington Road, Fore Left and Jungle Runner completed the order of finish. “He ran great,” Dr Post jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. said. “No excuse. He got beat by a good horse too. The winner is a nice horse, New York-bred and he ran great. My horse is improving. . . He just needs a little more time to figure things out.” Linda Rice, trainer of Max Player,

said, “He got shuffled back a little after the break and had a wide trip through the turn, but he was still running on at the end of it. He hasn’t run in five months so it was a pretty good effort.” Tagg said he will target the Aug. 8 Travers Stakes at Saratoga, followed by the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby and the Oct. 3 Preakness for Tiz the Law, who has five wins in six career starts.

Quick pivot provides big results Editor’s note: Quotes attributed to Adam Selden are from an interview on June 8, 2020. Many businesses have been forced to scale back aggressively since March because of the global coronavirus pandemic. A few, however, have been forced to expand. For Adam Selden, 50, of Melville, a quick pivot in business direction during a crisis has created new possibilities for Albatross Manufacturing. The brand Albatross Manufacturing (albatrossmfg. com) falls under Selden’s company, Quality Specialty Projects, which he founded in 2008. His company has distributed any number of items, but now it is focused on facemasks, which are in high demand these days. “We had been doing some clothing and receiving government contracting, so we were working to supply products for those clients,” Selden said. “Our biggest was actually the Army.” Selden secured a contract with the U.S. Army to supply their weight room and gym equipment for military fitness centers. He also worked closely with the American Red Cross, as his company supplied tarp materials for the foundation. The Bayside, Queens native and University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus was candid in saying business started to drop off in mid-2019. “We had a really bad seven months from August 2019 to, really, March 2020,” Selden said. “There was no federal funding, really, and we were working on government contracts.” He went on to say that the onset of the coronavirus pandemic provided an opportunity to jump-start his business. “When this whole thing kind of got started, the Red Cross came to us and said we had to get started into looking into masks,” Selden said. He and his business partner, Matt Delaney, of Manhasset, listened to that advice. The pair scrambled to find manufacturers in China near the top of the year, but with the country facing serious pandemic restrictions, they were unable to secure a shipment immediately. Once the manufacturers were able to ship, though, Albatross received its first load, which it sent to the American Red Cross. “Once we were able to, we switched over our company to do masks,” Selden said. “After we sent our first order to the Red Cross, we started taking orders for locals on Long Island.” Selden, who had worked out of a Melville office with no warehouse to that point, then started shipping masks out of his home. After sending masks to roughly 8,000 homes, the Albatross founder knew he needed a new way to go about this. With the help of Delaney, and the hiring of a few part-time employees, Albatross soon shipped hundreds of thousands of masks to residents across Long Island, with more than 100,000 of those coming to Nassau County.

Albatross even began donating masks to local fire departments and essential workers. “We would give the people at the gas stations masks; we donated hundreds of them,” Selden said. The company has since expanded. Selden said there are a few reasonable next steps, including distributing hand sanitizers, hand wipes and wall-mounted automatic thermometers to take the temperature of any person who walks past. The demand to expand in product and volume has forced Albatross to look toward securing a warehouse in Plainview. “If we get this, we are going to need

inventory, and I plan on hiring a staff to do that,” Selden said. “We wouldn’t be able to do the business without it. Because the way we’ve been operating, in the office in Melville, it’s just me and Matt.” Selden said he would continue to build relationships with distributors to stimulate business growth and be able to reach more people. Selden finished with, “When we first started this, I didn’t think it would be end up being our business. We wanted to just give these out to the people. Then it turned into the business.”

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AlBAtRoss FounDER ADAm Selden, 50, of Melville, has grown his business during the coronavirus pandemic by supplying personal protective equipment.

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EmployEE GEraldinE dElGado stocked the displays of Spiga Bakery while wearing a mask. Under Phase Two guidelines, customers can sit and eat desserts on the bakery’s outdoor patio, which overlooks Merrick Road.

Phase Two in photos: Bellmore As Long Island entered Phase Two of reopening on June 10, the streets of Bellmore bustled in a way they hadn’t since mid-March, when New York state was forced to shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. Select business owners opened their doors to customers they hadn’t seen in three months; restaurants erected makeshift patios outside their establishments to welcome diners for a meal al fres-

co; and residents made their way to their favorite park or playground while keeping a social distance from others. During the first weekend of Phase Two, the Herald Life was on the ground to get a glimpse of our new normal. This photo series not only evokes some needed sense of normalcy, but also captures life amid the pandemic. — Alyssa Seidman

dii dEals and disCounts employee Alaina Ciorra, of Merrick, browsed the women’s section on her off shift. Ciorra said the new store, which was filled with shoppers at its grand opening on June 12, has been “busy with people.” ClEar, protECtivE sCrEEns hang from the ceiling of Elegant Barber Shop on Bedford Avenue, near left, to keep customers socially-distant while getting a post-quarantine cut.

traCy spinElli, ownEr of Hair Effex in Bellmore, wore a face shield and mask while giving a color treatment to one of her clients after reopening her salon’s doors to the public.

st. BarnaBas ChurCh in Bellmore propped its doors open on Sunday, far left, as signs reminded churchgoers of social distancing regulations. Under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s most recent guidelines, houses of worship can now be open to 25 percent occupancy.

Residents show racism has no home here they yelled, “Go back to Freeport!” and “All lives matter!” Some gave them the finger. “It made me question why I was living here,” Schatzman said. The incident also prompted a number of conversations among residents about how to combat racism the community. After Schatzman posted in the Merrick Moms Facebook group emphasizing the peaceful nature of the protest, one commenter suggested she make lawn signs to unify residents against racism. With the help of a coworker and a printer, Schatzman began distributing signs on June 10; they can be spotted on front lawns or in storefront windows throughout Bellmore-Merrick. Each sign costs $10 and can be shipped anywhere in the country in packs of 10; roughly 30 percent of the proceeds are donated to the NAACP. Schatzman’s initial order list was 150names; now, she has more than 1,300 requests. “When I saw a former colleague post a picture of the sign, which was the first time I had seen it outside of New York, I sat at my computer and cried,” she said. Khasai Ramsey, a graphic designer, developed the concept for the sign: a white and black hand shaking in solidarity in the shape of a heart, with the saying, “Racism Has No Home Here” circling the image. As a black man with two young sons, Ramsey was happy to help with the cause, he said. “I’ve had encounters where I was pulled over and the police officer asked, ‘Whose

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jennifer sChatzman’s signs have made appearances at local Black Lives Matter protests, too, including this one in Copiague two weeks ago. car is this?’ When I told them it was mine, they said, ‘How can you afford it?’” he said. “People are becoming more aware of things happening in black communities, and I think that’s because of . . . white millennials who come from the suburbs to Brooklyn and the Bronx, where there tends to be more people of color. They learn about their struggle.” Schatzman plans to print Ramsey’s design on T-shirts, too, and hopes to establish an organization dedicated to social jus-

tice in the future. “Eventually the lawn signs will go away, so I want to mobilize the group to do other work like voter registration and legal reform,” she said. Schatzman acknowledged that while the counter-protesters represented a small segment of the community — they numbered about 30 — their presence had a profound impact on the commmunity. The signs, as well as the week’s worth of local Black Lives Matter protests that followed, would not have happened without them.

the signs have not only popped up on front lawns in the hamlets — people in more than 20 states have asked to have them sent to their own hometowns. “What’s happening in this community and others around the world is there’s a new willingness to talk about these issues and do something about them,” Schatzman said, “and that makes me hopeful.” Ramsey added, “This design represents unity through all kinds of communities, whether black, white or Hispanic — everyone’s jumping on board.” To purchase a sign, email racismhasnohomehere@gmail.com.

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t Molloy, we know you are tired and worried. The coronavirus has taken a toll on everyone. Most of all, though, we know you are confused. When you chose your college, you had a mental picture of exactly what your next four years would look like. Now you might be debating your original decision or possibly wondering if you need to look at a college a little closer to home. At Molloy, we understand your frustration and we are here to help you. We want to help you reach your academic goals, on the timeline that you always expected, so that you can launch your career. Now, more than ever, students and their parents are looking for an academic environment that offers the best fit and best value for the student and their tuition dollars. Molloy was recently ranked the #18 “value added” college in the U.S. by The Wall Street Journal, arguably the nation’s premier financial publication. Molloy also was ranked the #10 best value among Catholic colleges nationwide by College Values Online.

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residence hall, the College’s third. Some of Molloy’s newer offerings include an economics major, as well as a degree completion program that will enable returning students to easily earn their undergraduate degree. We know you have questions, now more than ever. At Molloy, we will help you find the answers. Visit molloy.edu to learn more. Molloy congratulates the graduating class of 2020!

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John F. Kennedy high School Joshua Abramovich Elana Rose Abrams Sara Christine Adcock Victor Guillermo Alderete Isabella Rose Aletrakis Grace Elizabeth Angrisani Jeremy Arbesfeld Julie Luna Aronsky Benjamin Evan Bach Evan Gabriel Baines Jason Dean Baker Mattingly Julia Barkan Jillian M Beksinski Nate Stephan Bergfeld Olivia Helen Berin Jordan Daniel Berke Sophie Faye Berkowitz Salvatore John Bernardini Hannah Morgan Birke Evan Blankoph Catherine Elizabeth Bohlert Averyl Elizabeth Bolles Vincent Joseph Bonura Rachel Alivia Braunhut Marcella Simone Braver Jacqueline Lisa Brea Andrew John Brinton Robert Ryan Burns Ashley Cammiso Justin John Canarte Nicholas Thomas Carlino James Patrick Casazza Julia Marie Castela Muhammad Chaudhry Andy Chen Hugh Hoi-Yip Cheung Jason Ryan Cloth Alexa Rachel Cohen Gabriel H Cohen Harrison Evan Cohen Joshua B Cohen Mikaela Faith Cohen Skyler Andrew Cohen Anthony Louis Comunale

Ryan Michael Cooke Jakob N Cooperstein Christopher Robert Costaro Gabriele Covelli Hailey Morgan Cuttler Eric Christopher Daliendo Alara Dalkir Daniel Anthony Dasaro Angela Enriquez DeLeon Marielena Delgado Shea Delgado Anthony Todd Denicker Connor Adam Desmond Cameron Rose DiGangi Vincent Frank DiMartino Jake Salvatore Dippolito Matthew Peter Ehrlich Tamer Tarek Eldidi Regina Ann Erickson Drew Ryan Estrin Karly Yve Etheridge Brittany Angelina Falcone Chloe Marya Falcone Jason Michael Feldman Max Robert Feldman Ana Corinne Fernandez Benjamin Zachary Ferraro Mason Tyler Ferraro Jennifer Ann Field Randi Jessica Finkelstein Elizabeth Joan Finne Gianna Fitch Ashton Anthony Ford David Griffin Frank Stephanie Paige Gaynor Justin R Geffner Kenar Zoey Gelman Laszlo Cooper Goch Jason R Goldstein Kayla J Goodlin Sydney Devin Goodstein Mikayla Aidan Gorelin Ross Derek Gossett Jordan Haley Graber Clarissa Lianne Granados Christopher Jon Greeff

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AS I GRADUATE SOON, I take with me the friends and teacher memories that I’ve made for life. As I enter West Virginia University in the fall, I know I’ll be the best that Baldwin has made me. To all 2020 graduates, we are awesome and destined for greatness. Troy Wiener, Baldwin High School I HOPE THAT AS A NATION, we will be able to emerge from the political and economic turmoil we are currently experiencing having learned valuable lessons and grown as a result. I hope that the people and opportunities that I and other students in this graduating class will encounter in college help us reach our full potentials, rather than putting us on a bad path. Finally, I hope that I’m able to learn from whatever failures I’ll inevitably face in the future instead of getting discouraged and losing sight of my goal, since I have seen and heard of many individuals who let their shortcomings keep them down, and I’d like to avoid such a fate.

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AS A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE in the middle of a pandemic, my hopes for the future are simple. I hope to be able to go to college in the fall knowing I’m safe so I can further my education. I hope to be able to hang out with my friends without social distancing or limiting the number of people. Basically, I hope that we can all move out of the difficult place we are in now and bring back a sense of normalcy to the world we live in. Jordan Berke, John F. Kennedy High School

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As this year’s Pride Month comes to a close, LGBTQ+ rights activists in Bellmore-Merrick are reflecting on the community’s progress and shortcomings in creating a safer, more welcoming Long Island for people of all identities. “Pride Month has always been about taking a moment to hit pause,” said Aiden Kaplan, a services manager at PFY, a Bellmore-based LGBTQ+ organization. Formally known as Pride For Youth, the nonprofit has been helping to transform the region into a more inclusive and accessible environment for those with non-heterosexual and/or non-cisgender identities. It provides free HIV and STI testing, counseling, support groups and programs for members of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as educational workshops at local middle and high schools. “It’s a safe place,” said Christian Milan, a 23-year-old client and peer navigator at PFY. Milan gained the confidence to start his drag career at the center’s bimonthly drag competition, Drag Factor. “There are so many youths who view PFY as the only space where they can go to feel affirmed and accepted,” Kaplan said. “Our goal is to create an all-encompassing space where you can access lifesaving services, [a] community and culture and feel celebrated for those things.”

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christian MiLan’s draG persona, Aphrodite, has become a symbol of PFY, where he works as a peer navigator to educate LGBTQ+ youth on sexual health and identity.

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Administrators at the Long Island Crisis Center founded PFY in 1993, at a time when LGBTQ+ services were virtually nonexistent on Long Island. In the late 80s, the center’s hotline experienced an uptick in calls from people who identified as LGBTQ+, but there were no resources to be shared. During this time, incidences of homophobia went unchecked in Bellmore-Merrick schools. Records from Uncovering the Past, a program at John F. Kennedy High School, showed an incident from the 70s at Shore Road Elementary in which a third-grader, Richie Jackson, was harassed for choosing choir as an elective. The gym teacher told the kids in his class to “jump on the faggot,” and stood by while a group of boys piled on Jackson and made him cry. The incident was never addressed. In 2007, Kaplan began his female-tomale gender transition while attending Grand Avenue Middle School; the process continued into his time at Mepham High School. As the schools’ first openly transgender student, Kaplan said the faculty made an effort to make sure he was respected, though, given the time period, he was still unable to use his bathroom of choice. Now, as a PFY facilitator for the Central High School District, Kaplan has seen firsthand the progress the schools have made over the last decade. “They have actively been trying to recognize that this isn’t just one student anymore,” he said. “This is possibly hundreds of students who are coming out, who need support,

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PFY is a division of the Long Island Crisis Center. and schools need to make sure that they’re affirmed.” Graduating Calhoun High School senior Noah Marchuck, who is gay, is the former president of the school’s Gay Straight Alliance. “Bellmore-Merrick has come a long way with LGBTQ+ acceptance, but I think a stigma does still exist,” he said. “At Calhoun, the atmosphere is very accepting, and every faculty member embodies that; however, I’ve [had] a good deal of people call me hurtful things regarding my sexuality, both to my face and behind my back.” Christina Dimitriou, the faculty advisor for Mepham’s GSA, said her students occasionally hear offensive language targeted at the LGBTQ+ community, such as

when the club handed out rainbow-colored ribbons for national Coming Out Day. “GSA is not just about getting together and having a safe space, but about us going out into the Mepham community and normalizing these things so that these derogatory terms trickle away,” she said.

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In the wake of George Floyd’s death ⁠— which sparked thousands to turn out for Black Lives Matter protests in Merrick and Bellmore⁠ — LGBTQ+ rights activists are also thinking about race-related problems on Long Island. Among 291 commu-

Although the pandemic has forced Gay Straight Alliance clubs to temporarily disband and PFY to close its physical doors, support for LGBTQ+identifying individuals remains. Popular PFY programs, like Coffee House, continue to provide a comfortable environment for LGBTQ+ youth to connect virtually. The organization also launched Long Island’s LGBTQ+ Covid19 relief program in April, which provides assistance with employment, housing, technology, at-home HIV testing, free condom delivery and case management services. In a 2015 report from the New York State LGBT Health and Human Services Needs Assessment, LGBTQ+identifying Long Islanders most frequently reported a lack of psychological support groups and health professionals who specialize in LGBTQ+ issues. With these barriers in mind, PFY’s program was “designed to make sure that LGBTQ+ individuals are not at a higher risk during the Covid-19 Crisis,” Kaplan said. nities, the majority of Long Island’s Black residents live in just 11 neighborhoods, making the region one of the most segregated places in the nation. “I think Pride this year is unique. It’s a time for us to remember our roots and look at other communities that are having their fight right now, and relate their experiences to where we were 50 years ago,” Kaplan said. “It’s an opportunity for [our] community to stand in line with another movement and say we know what it’s like to face injustice.” Recognizing that Mepham is in a community made up of 85.7 percent white residents and only 1.45 percent Black residents — with similar demographics in Merrick — Dimitriou agreed that change is needed, and that starts with education. “We don’t have members in the club that are people of color, but we absolutely address these things, whether I send out an article or share a book,” Dimitriou said. Marchuck urged residents to use their platforms to educate each other about the susceptibility of Black LGBTQ+ individuals, and “donate to organizations that focus on Black LGBTQ+ people,” such as “The Trevor Project” or “The Center for Black Equality.” “We have a long way to go.” Milan said. “Long Island has been so systematically separated for so long now, but I think that now, especially with the Black Lives Matter movement, people are starting to understand.

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Todd Krystopher raises money for friend who recovered from Covid-19 By TONy BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

Walking from the Brooklyn Bridge to Montauk had been on Todd Krystopher’s to-do list for many years. So when his longtime friend, Craig Jamison, was hospitalized with Covid-19, Krystopher, of Merrick, put the plan in motion and started a GoFundMe page to help with Jamison’s medical expenses. “My immediate concern after Craig’s diagnosis was that he has a wife and a child, and just closed on a house,” Krystopher said. “I wanted to do something, and my wife [Dana] suggested the walk I’ve been thinking about for so long.” More than once during his six-day, 130-mile journey, Krystopher said he became emotional and “choked up” when thinking of Jamison. They met 25 years ago through a mutual friend. Krystopher graduated from Calhoun High School in 2000, one year after Jamison graduated from Mepham. Jamison was diagnosed with Covid19 a week after closing on his first house in Freeport and endured a 40-day battle at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan beginning April 21. He was on oxygen for most of his stay and needed dialysis for a stretch. “There were times while I was hospitalized when I wasn’t quite with it,” Jamison said. “When my wife [Holly] told me what Todd was planning to do, to be honest I wasn’t surprised. He’s a very thoughtful person. He helped my family in ways I can’t articulate to anyone.” Jamison was released from the hospital on May 29 and Krystopher went into action three days later; he logged 32

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MErrICk’S TOdd krySTOphEr walked from the Brooklyn Bridge to Montauk, covering 130 miles over six days. miles from the Brooklyn Bridge to his Merrick home. The stretch had him second-guessing himself. “I’m a pretty fit guy, but looking back I shouldn’t have done so much on the first day,” he said. “I literally couldn’t move when I got home. That night, lying in bed thinking I wasn’t going to make it all the way to Montauk, my wife said ‘Imagine what Craig is going through.’ Her words helped me cope and keep going.”

Over each of the next five days, Krystopher covered between 15 and 32 miles. He was picked up by friends in Bohemia, Shirley and Southampton after completing each daily excursion while the GoFundMe garnered more than $22,000 through mid-June. “There’s a lot of humanity out there,” Krystopher said. “I was stopped by people every day who gave me cash out of their pocket to put towards the cause. The amount raised exceeded my expectations.” The final day of Krystopher’s journey was a memorable one. Not only did he reach Montauk — covering the last couple of miles in complete darkness — but he also received news that Jamison was coming off dialysis and on the road

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to a full recovery. “I’m happy I did it and happier that Craig is OK,” he said.

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HERALD COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS — June 25, 2020

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Q. I read your column about insulation, and wonder why foam insulation is better, why not everyone uses it, why it’s so expensive and whether there are different kinds. We just had insulation put in the walls between our family room and living room to muffle the sound when my parents play the TV too loud, and we noticed the package said R-15. What does that mean? Also, the label had tiny lettering saying there is formaldehyde in it. Should we be concerned?

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A. We live in an era when computers and science accelerate our knowledge and choices. Unfortunately, with so many more choices, we can still use the wrong insulation without knowing. Basically, insulating isn’t just the material; it’s the molecular configuration that traps air in the onte eeper material. Foam has the highest resistance per inch thickness. Air entrapment keeps cool or warm molecules from directly slamming against the next air molecule and transferring temperature. By computersimulating configurations, engineers and scientists have formulated better ways to slow transfer, keeping us warmer or cooler and our rooms quieter, but only if the right material is installed the right way. Among the many kinds of insulation are fiberglass, cellulose fiber and polyisocyanurate foam. R-value refers to resistance. The higher the number, the greater tested resistance to thermal loss capability. If you use the wrong type or install incorrectly, it won’t accomplish the job. Foam insulation can be rigid boards or liquid-applied. Depending on the chemical composition, when the compressed liquid foam contacts air, it reacts or oxidizes, developing open- or closed-cell configurations. Less costly open-cell has half the ability to trap air as closedcell, and is soft and spongy, while closed-cell, which contains greater amounts of dense foam, will harden, trapping more air in smaller, closer cells, also forming a water barrier. All insulation must be uniformly and fully installed, or cold air will get in. Most installations are incomplete, with gaps where cold air gets through. A non-uniform application can’t be expected to act uniformly. A quarter-sized gap is like leaving a window open, according to the Department of Energy, which funds, studies and regulates how much insulation you were supposed to have, according to the building code. Sound insulation works differently, does a different job and is configured differently. Did I mention that it’s different? No matter how much educational material is available and considering, with most adults having the entire world at their fingertips on their cellphones, installers often can’t get the concept right. You have thermal R-15 insulation in the family room walls instead of sound-rated insulation, so you don’t have the sound reduction you thought you would get. It’s possible to get waterbased or inert insulation instead of toxic, formaldehyde-containing insulation and the thermalresistance(R) insulation should be replaced with sound-rated batting or even better rigid insulating board that goes on the outside of the wall studs, under finish sheetrock, to avoid sound vibration transfer through the wall studs.

© 2020 Monte Leeper Readers are encouraged to send questions to yourhousedr@aol.com, with “Herald question” in the subject line, or to Herald Homes, 2 Endo Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530, Attn: Monte Leeper, architect.

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