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The hybrid model will be in effect for the first two weeks of agarcia@liherald.com school, dividing the student body Schools statewide will be between alternating schedules. allowed to reopen for in-person If routines are perfected and it is lear ning next month, Gov. safe to do so, the district has a Andrew Cuomo announced last tentative full in-person reopenweek, and the Belling date slated for more-Merrick CenSept. 21. The final tral High School decision on a full District’s three reopening will be reopening plans — made by Sept. 16. in-person learning, District officials online lear ning sought parents’ and a hybrid of the feedback through a two — were survey that was approved by the mailed to homes.

State Education Out of 5,200 famimiChAel Department. lies contacted, 4,600 Central District replies indicated hArriNGToN schools will reopen that if there is a Se pt. 8 using a Assistant return to normal, hybrid model, in superintendent, in-person schoolwhich students will BMCHSD ing, 82 percent of alternate between parents would send in-person and their children to remote classes. The goal is to school, while 18 percent would ease into eventual full in-person keep them home for a virtual instruction, as teachers, stu- experience, Harrington said. dents and staff adjust to new Under a hybrid model, 91 persafety protocols, Assistant cent indicated they would send Superintendent for Instruction their children to school, while 9 Mike Harrington said. percent said they would keep “Our hope is to move toward them home. a full in-person opening,” HarThose parents who prefer to rington said. “However, we’re going to do that smartly and safeContinued on page 7

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A lArGe Tree ripped up a portion of sidewalk on April Lane in south Bellmore when it was blown over in the storm.

Tropical Storm Isaias batters Bellmore-Merrick

By AlySSA SeiDmAN aseidman@liherald.com

Navigating Bellmore-Merrick’s side streets in the days after Tropical Storm Isaias was like being caught in a dizzying maze.

Drivers were forced to turn around at the sight of downed trees marked off with yellow caution tape; pedestrians sidestepped electrical wires on residential sidewalks, uncertain if they were live; and those who live on dead-

end blocks relied on neighbors to bring food and supplies, because storm debris prevented vehicles from passing through.

“This is the biggest thing since Sandy,” said Jessica Wilkinson.

The North Merrick resident — along with her two toddlers — stayed with her inlaws in North Bellmore after the storm because that area still had power. The wind gusts that Isaias whipped up on Aug. 4 caused outages on

Wilkinson’s entire block and leveled a tree in her backyard.

Her husband, Sean, an NYPD officer, was stranded in the city until the night of Aug. 5, because the Long Island Rail Road wasn’t operating.

“Living without power poses some difficulties to keep [the kids] entertained,” Wilkinson said. “I just can’t wait to go home.”

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Downed trees cut power and block traffic downed trees, frayed wires and splintered utility poles in Bellmore and Merrick. In North Merrick, a felled tree knocked out a pole at the intersection of Lindgren Street and Elsie Avenue.

“It’s just a nightmare,” said Michelle Moss, of south Merrick. “This is the house I grew up in. We’ve had other storms where the power would go out, but nothing like this.”

Moss said the power loss was likely caused by a felled tree on James Street, which intersects with the end of her block, Colonial Avenue. When the tree came down, it “ripped out two utility polls and a big portion of the sidewalk, and tore wires off a nearby house.” “This one’s pretty ugly,” she said of the storm.

On the morning of Aug. 6, a PSEG worker came to Moss’s block to assess the damage, but was unaware of the downed tree at Colonial and James, since there was “no report about” it, Moss recalled.

“When I took him down to the end of the block and he saw that tree, he said it had to be a priority. The lack of communication is worse than anything else.”

North Bellmore resident Arlene Gitter said her electricity went out at 1:14 p.m. the day of the storm. Seconds before, a tree in front of Rutler Street home was walloped by the strong winds. But since the top of the tree was caught in adjacent electrical wires, “it didn’t make a big bang” when it fell,” she said. “There was a car underneath it, but when they pulled it out [Thursday] morning, it wasn’t even damaged.”

The trunk, however, was sizable enough that it blocked the dead-end street. Gitter said that on Aug. 4 an ambulance tried to reach one of her neighbors on the other end of the block, but had to find an alternate route because of the downed tree.

As of Thursday, Gitter had no electric, phone or Internet service. “I haven’t been able to speak to [PSEG] at all,” she said. “I can’t get online to report, so I rely on whatever my neighbors [hear].”

Merrick resident Cindy Chertock had similar problems in the wake of Isaias.

She lives on Ripley Avenue, a cul de sac off Merrick Avenue, so when the large tree in front of her house came down, it trapped her and her seven neighbors with no power and no way out.

“Not being able to get off the block is very nerve-racking,” she said. “My nextdoor neighbor has an elderly parent in the home who needs chemo — he doesn’t know how he’s going to get him there.”

The Nassau County Police Department reported the felled tree on Ripley to PSEG after waiting on the phone for nearly five hours, Chertock said, but when she followed up with the utility two days later, they said they had “no record of any problem.”

“I don’t understand how such a large corporation . . . is unresponsive to their customers during times of crisis,” she said. “If we had gotten . . . an answer, my whole block would’ve been OK, but you can’t even get through to them to tell them that you have an outage. It’s absolutely insane.”

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A downed tree blocked off part of Beltagh Avenue, at Henry Street, in North Bellmore.

A fAllen tree in front of Arlene Gitter’s house on Rutler Street, in Bellmore, took part of the sidewalk with it.

nursing a 20-foot-tall willow tree in her backyard since the day of the storm. It stood on her property for 10 years, but Isaias’s “crazy” winds uprooted it about halfway, she said. “I’ve never lost a tree before.”

DiTieri lives in the North Merrick Campgrounds, also known as Tiny Town,

where trees abound. She explained that unless environmental issues are addressed and trees are conserved, future weather events would only get “worse and worse and worse.”

“The aftermath of this storm wouldn’t have happened if we protected the trees — [they’re] supposed to block the wind

and slow down the wind velocity,” she said. “The hurricanes we get are going to be very destructive because of this warmer climate, but conservation can block the devastation from future hurricanes.”

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Bellmore Kiwanis keeps on giving amid the pandemic

By JustiN DyNia aseidman@liherald.com

Local families impacted by the Covid19 pandemic have faced many hardships in recent months, including financial insecurity, but service organizations, like the Bellmore Kiwanis Club, have stepped up to help families in the community and beyond.

Members of the club raise money for different groups, organizations and charities as well as specific individuals and families. “The Kiwanis Club of the Bellmores has been around for 60 years and our mission has stayed the same: to help children and families in the town of Bellmore,” said President Andrew Meyerowitz.

Since the onset of the pandemic, the club has provided additional support to the dozen local families it assists regularly. From food to gas gift cards, it seeks to meet all the needs of local families who have been hard hit in the wake of the pandemic.

“We went right to work helping families and supporting anyone in need,” Meyerowitz said.

Despite losing the primary source of its revenue with the cancellation of the Nassau County Strawberry Festival, the club has found creative new ways to raise money. “We haven’t been face-toface with the community in a long time, but we’ve found new ways to adapt,” Meyerowitz said.

The club recently held a virtual fundraiser in conjunction with Bellmore restaurants, including Piccolo’s, American Beauty Bar & Grille and Cassidy’s Pub, which raised more than $1,000 to provide aid to local families.

The Kiwanis Club of the Bellmores maintains an active role in the community throughout the year by hosting food drives, supplying children with school supplies and giving families access to the Newbridge Pool in the summer.

Kiwanis also has a large presence in the schools, including Key Club for high school students, Builder’s Club for middle schoolers, and K Kids for elementary-aged children.

But the reach of the club goes far beyond Bellmore. On Oct. 1, 2021, North Bellmore resident Peter Mancuso will assume the position of president of Kiwanis International. He currently serves as the president of the East Meadow Kiwanis.

“East Meadow’s Kiwanis club is the largest in the state and extremely active in the community,” Mancuso said. “The club has done very well to react to the pandemic.”

Mancuso and East Meadow Kiwanis Club have continued to raise money and help families in need in their community, including donating personal protective equipment and meals to frontline workers.

“The horrors of the pandemic present tremendous challenges, but provide us an opportunity to show unity and strength,” Mancuso added. “A better day will come if we work for it.”

The Bellmore Kiwanis Club urges all local residents facing pandemic-related hardships, whether they live in Bellmore or not, to reach out if they need assistance. Contact information can be found on the club’s website, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram pages.

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siNce the oNset of the pandemic, the Kiwanis Club of the Bellmores has provided additional support to the dozen local families it assists regularly.

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North Bellmore Fire Department volunteers responded to a multi-vehicle crash that occurred on Old Britton Road on Aug. 9.

Four injured after SUV crashes in North Bellmore Four people were injured after a Ford SUV drove off the Southern State Parkway and crashed into two parked vehicles on Old Britton Road in North Bellmore last Sunday morning, according to state police.

Officials reported that the SUV was traveling westbound on the Southern State when it veered off the roadway and onto Old Britton Road, a residential street, and collided with an oncoming pickup truck before rolling over an unattended parked vehicle and landing on its side.

The North Bellmore Fire Department was notified of the incident at 10:46 a.m.

Harrison Last, NBFD’s public information officer, said that two of the SUV’s occupants were able to remove themselves and an infant from the vehicle prior to the department’s arrival, but couldn’t remove the remaining occupant. “ C h i e f o f D e p a r t m e n t D av i d

Marschall confirmed that one male adult was pinned inside the rear of the SUV, partially in the trunk,” Last said. “Firefighters were able to remove the roof from the SUV [and] quickly extricate the patient and place him into care of emergency medical technicians before [he was] transported to the hospital in critical condition.”

The other three occupants were also taken to local hospitals for treatment of minor injuries, and the two occupants in the pickup truck were treated for minor injuries at the scene.

Additional mutual aid was provided by Bellmore-Merrick EMS, the North Merrick Fire Department and the Nassau County Police Department, Last said.

Officials are still investigating the cause of the collision, and ask anyone with information to call (631) 756-3300.

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Elected leaders call for PSEG reimbursements U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, a Democrat reimbursements for spoiled food, medfrom Garden City who is up for re-elec- ication or other perishable items to tion this year, and Nassau County customers who have experienced proExecutive Laura Curran, a Democrat longed outages in the wake of Tropical Storm Isaias. from Baldwin, are calling “More than 400,000 cuson PSEG-Long Island to tomers lost power in the refund the previous month’s after math of this stor m. utility bill and reimburse W h i l e m a n y h a d p owe r for spoiled food, medicarestored within the first 24 tion, or other perishable hours, more than 140,000 items for customers who customers were still left endured power outages lastwithout electricity over 24 ing over 24 hours. More hours later. PSEG’s website than 400,000 Long Islanders has repeatedly crashed and lost power in Tropical calls and texts from customS t o r m I s a i a s, a n d s o m e Kathleen Rice ers have gone unanswered.

35,000 were still without “A prolonged power outpower on Sunday. age is difficult under normal circumIn a letter to Daniel Eichhor n, stances, but in the midst of the coronaPSEG-LI’s president and chief operatvirus pandemic, it can be disastrous. ing officer, Rice and Curran wrote: Families have stored food in their “Dear Mr. Eichhorn: refrigerators to limit trips to the gro“We write to you today to urge cery store, and these items have now PSEG-Long Island to offer refunds on had to be discarded. Access to electricthe previous month’s utility bill and ity, especially the internet, is critically

important to Long Island residents at this time. New Yorkers working from home depend on consistent and reliable utility services. Not only is it vital to have air conditioning available during the hottest month of the year, but also inter net access is a necessity to clock in for work and to visit with doctors from the safety of one’s home.

“Because of these hardships, we urge you to offer our constituents who have endured outa g es lasting Laura more than 24 hours financial relief in the form of a refund on past bills. At least one of your local competitors, Con Edison, is offering reimbursements for spoiled food, medication or other perishable commercial merchandise. Taking these steps immediately would show compassion to a region that is still recovering from past storms and an

unprecedented health crisis and could be facing more storms this hurricane season.

“When PSEG-Long Island took over from the Long Island Power Authority in 2014, our constituents were promised better service, better communication and more accountability. After the failures we have witnessed from your handling of Isaias, we sincerely urge you to provide Long Island residents with financial relief.

We thank you in advance Curran for your consideration and prompt response.

Sincerely, Kathleen Rice Member of Congress Laura Curran Nassau County Executive

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PSEG-LI’s lackluster performance was frustrating Editor’s note: Clavin is the Town of Hempstead supervisor.

Few things are more frustrating that PSEG-Long Island’s bungled efforts to restore power to its customers in a timely manner. Perhaps the only thing more maddening than the utility’s lackluster energy restoration efforts has been the electric provider’s unmitigated failure to furnish accurate information to customers and the company’s inability to simply answer phone calls from power-deprived customers.

Adding insult to injury, nothing has better demonstrated PSEG-LI’s misunderstanding of how it dropped the ball last week than an Aug. 6 “To our customers” email sent by PSEG President and CEO Ralph Izzo. All evidence to the contrary, the utility’s chief executive claims to understand the importance of power in supporting family lifestyles and the urgency associated with an energy provider’s accuracy when communicating with customers.

In that message, Izzo neglects to recognize that PSEG-LI’s greatest shortcoming last week was in frustrating customers’ ability to communicate with the utility. In fact, more than long restoration times and inaccurate estimated times of restoration, Long Island customers were most angered by their inability to contact the company in any way dur-

ing the storm to report that power was out. T his, despite re peated emails and text messages from PSEG ahead of the storm assuring customers of the company’s preparedness to deal with upcoming weather and reminding them that they could report outages by calling a particular telephone number, sending a text message to the company, filing a report through the PSEG app or the company website.

None of those methods worked.

As a result, customers tur ned to other authorities, none of which could reasonably be thought to have any way of getting the power back on or tellDon i n g c a l l e r s wh e n t h a t might happen. Switchboards exploded at local police departments and at county, town and village offices across Long Island. When those efforts proved unproductive, residents tur ned to social media, where they learned – many for the first time – that they were not the only ones who could not get through. Nobody without power could be sure that PSEG-LI even knew that they were in the dark. If they had entered the Federal Witness Protection Program, PSEG-LI customer service representatives would not have been harder to reach.

In his Aug. 6 email, Izzo pointed out that Isaias was one of the most powerful storms to strike the Northeast in years, which is true. However, it was precisely this type of storm that PSEG was hired to handle. One need only think back to National Grid’s post-Sandy failures to recall that it was the Long Island Power Authority’s dissatisfact i o n w i t h t h at p e r fo rmance that led to the management contract’s transfer to PSEG. Izzo pointed out, “At its peak, more than 1.7 million homes and businesses lost power across Long Island and New Jersey – including 420,000 PSEG Long Island customers.”

Clavin W hy a re we b e i n g linked to New Jersey? Is it because an af filiate of PSEG-LI services the Garden State?

That’s the company’s problem – not ours. In fact, at the time the company was being considered for the LIPA contract, it argued that the availability of crews in nearby New Jersey would enhance PSEG’s emergency response capabilities on Long Island.

It apparently never occurred to management that geography made it likely that both areas would someday be affected by the same storm.

In his email, Izzo wanted us to know, “PSEG-Long Island under-

stands how critical it is to share accurate and timely infor mation with our customers.” If that’s true, it’s hard to understand why a host on talk station WLIR (107.1 FM – Hampton Bays) was left on Wednesday wondering why the promised call from a PSEG-LI spokesman didn’t come during his show. It’s also hard to accept Izzo’s claim of understanding the importance of sharing information that is accurate and timely when, as of this writing, the energy provider’s communication systems were still replying to many customers with error messages, and the PSEG outage map appeared under a banner that read, “Map Data May Contain Inaccuracies.”

Finally, Izzo wrote about reports of tor nadoes “and wind gusts topping 100 mph in some places” as a cause of PSEG’s post-storm troubles.

No tornadoes or 100 mph winds were experienced in PSEG-LI’s service territory, so that claim is dishonest.

PSEG-LI has been fortunate that, until this week, its stewardship of the Long Island electric system has occurred under mostly blue skies.

The first real test of its professionalism under pressure came with Isaias.

The test came, and PSEG failed. The utility failed to restore power in a timely fashion, it failed to provide accurate and useful communications to its customers, and it even failed to answer the phones.

Students will be back in school next month will ask whether they are experiencing any Covid-19 symptoms, whether they have been in contact with anyone who has had Covid-19 recently and whether they have traveled. If they answer “no” to all three, the app will display an “access color,” Harrington said, which will allow entry into the school after a temperature screening.

Juniors and seniors’ temperatures will also be monitored after off-campus lunch breaks.

All buildings will be disinfected daily, and additional workers are expected to be hired with additional pay for the longer hours, Harrington said.

“I’m grateful for the work that’s been done by everyone,” Harrington said. “We feel confident we have a good plan.

Now it’s just putting the plan into practice and doing it as safely and smartly as possible.”

Cuomo said he based his decision to reopen schools on the low infection rates recorded in every region in New York.

“If you look at our infection rate, we have the best situation in the country right now, as incredible as that seems,” he said. “We’ve been successful

because we’ve been smart.”

The State Education Department has left the specifics of how to reopen New York’s 749 school districts to the districts themselves. Like BellmoreMerrick, all are empowered to decide what in-person learning will look like, how much remote learning will be offered and how safety protocols will be implemented.

He emphasized that communication between school districts and their communities is essential to address concerns of families and teachers. In following state requirements, BMCHSD officials have posted outlines of their plans on the district website.

“The more communication the better,” Cuomo said, adding that he is also “asking districts to set up at least one discussion with teachers.”

Cuomo is mandating that every student wear masks and have one with them at all times.

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BmCHSd phys. ed. plans in place Health guidelines, will be enforced where and when appropriate, and athletic equipment Phys. ed. classes in the will be sanitized. Sharing of Bellmore-Merrick Central High equipment among students will School District will operate under be prohibited, and social disnew protocols in the 2020-21 tancing will be enforced. academic year, including taking Caballero said additional advantage of the outdoors and guidelines for a full or hybrid prohibiting access to locker return include procedures on how rooms under the full and hybrid gym staff and students will exit reopening options. and re-enter buildings when “We’ll conduct gym classes classes are held outside. outside for as long as the weath- Should a hybrid school model er permits, and we’re paying be in play, phys. ed. assessments careful attention to providing will be determined by a combiactivities with limited equipment,” nation of in-class performance said Eric Caballero, director of and at-home activity logs. physical education, athletics, In the case of a 100 percent driver’s education and health. remote model, students would “We have many committees and pick up limited equipment for sub-committees at work. We put use at home. Grading would be three strong plans in place for based on a combination of physical education covering online class participation, use of whichever way schools are going the BMCHSD mobile app, activity to operate.” logs and written assignments.

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keep their children home will have that option. The district will have an alternate remote option that will allow students to virtually connect to their classes while they are in session at school. The technology introduced in classrooms in preparation for remote learning made the option a possibility, Harrington said. Those parents will be contacted for a final commitment before the school year begins.

For students who will be in school, classrooms and hallways will look very different.

Signs will line the walls reminding all to follow socialdistancing and safety guidelines; fur niture such as shelves, tables and teachers’ desks will be rearranged or removed; students’ desks will have plexiglass walls; many hallways will be limited to oneway paths; and locker use will be prohibited (see box). The district is looking to purchase drawstring backpacks for all students, while teachers will require fewer physical materials for student use day to day.

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A dozen of Lou Corradino’s friends and colleagues held a car parade in honor of his retirement from Richner Communications Inc. on Aug. 6. Mask wearing and social distancing were musts.

A beloved RCI figure is moving on

Printing Manager Lou Corradino retires after two decades with company ciation to Lou for his time and dedication to Richner Communications,” RCI President Stuart Richner said.

Richner Communications Inc., par- “‘Upstairs Lou,’ as he’s known, has ent company of the Herald Community made a positive impact on our company Newspapers, bade farewell to Lou Cor- while becoming a loyal friend and colleague to all of us radino, its director at Richner, as well of commercial as our commercial printing, who print clients. retired last week “We’ll certainly after two decades. miss Lou’s printing And, as is the cusexpertise and t o m t h e s e d ay s, knowledge,” Richmany of his ner continued, friends and col“and his uncanny leagues at the comability to juggle pany held a car many balls at the parade for him in same time without front of his Commissing a beat or a mack home on deadline. What I’ll Aug. 6. miss most, howevThe soft-spoken er, is having Lou as father, grandfather a colleague and and great-grandfafriend.” ther, whose passion I n p a r t i c u l a r, for his work was Richner noted, Corexceeded only by corrAdino wAS rci’S commercial radino was instruhis love for his fam- printing manager for two decades. mental in growing ily, the Yankees and RCI’s commercial the Giants, will be printing and mailing divisions. “Lou missed by all at RCI. Corradino was one of RCI’s unsung oversaw the expansion of the printing heroes, a behind-the-scenes manager division from a newspaper- and publicawho ensured that the company’s presses tion-focused printer to one of Long hummed along according to tight, near- Island’s premier, full-service commerly 24-hour-a-day schedules. He oversaw a cial printers and mailers,” Richner said.

Corradino plans to spend more time staff of press operators, mail distributors, binders and drivers, and worked with his wife, Marie, and their family — with RCI’s commercial printing and and they have a lot of family, including mailing clients, including other publish- three daughters, two sons, and many ers, hospitals, schools, municipalities, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

“Lou is the consummate printing prononprofit organizations and corporafessional,” said Michael Bologna, RCI’s tions throughout the tristate region.

“I’d like to express my sincere appre- vice president of operations. “I remem-

By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com

corrAdino with rci President Stuart Richner, left, and, Michael Bologna, vice president of operations, right. ber at his interview thinking how lucky we were to have found him. The last 20 years have gone by in a flash. Along with our customers, we’ll miss having Lou and his incredible talents in our stead. His are some pretty big shoes to fill. I wish him well.”

Rhonda Glickman, RCI’s vice president of advertising sales, said she had been through a great deal with Corradino, including the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, which upended business operations across Long Island, and a catastrophic fire at RCI’s Lawrence office in 2004, which forced the company to move to an abandoned manufacturing plant in West Hempstead for two years while a new office and printing plant was built in Garden City.

“No matter what, Lou always got it done,” Glickman said. “The papers always got out, and he always got it done

with his kind and quiet nature. He was a terrific colleague, and I’ll miss him.

Best of luck to him.”

Heralds Sports Editor Tony Bellissimo worked with Corradino for 12 years.

“He’s a wealth of information and a tremendous problem solver,” Bellissimo said. “I’ll miss popping into his office to talk sports, but our conversations will no doubt continue by phone.”

This reporter would like to thank Corradino for all his encouragement over the past 20 years. He often remarked how great the Herald papers looked and how interesting the stories were, and he would always remind me of our mission — that people buy newspapers for the stories inside — even at the car parade last week.

So, from all of us at RCI, thank you, Lou, for your outstanding service to the company. You will be missed by all of us at 2 Endo Blvd.

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The bar industry has taken another hit with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s most recent measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The regulation, which prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages without the purchase of a food item, has added pressure on local bars and restaurants across Bellmore-Merrick that continue to adapt amid the pandemic.

On July 17, an executive order by the New York State Liquor Authority deemed that restaurants, taverns and bars could not serve alcohol to patrons without the purchase of acceptable food items, including sandwiches, soups or other foods of “quality and substance.”

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Cuomo enacted the rule in an effort to cut down on crowded bars, which, without social distancing, could jeopardize New York’s progress in preventing a second wave of coronavirus cases.

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For Francke, ensuring the safety of his customers is personal — he lost one of his cooks and two loyal customers to Covid-19, and experienced the severity of the virus himself after contracting it this past spring.

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He recently reopened the pub for indoor and outdoor dining after installing dividers between seats and reminding customers to wear their masks.

“We’re trying to keep people safe and healthy, but sometimes these new regulations just make it tougher unnecessarily,” he said. “I understand getting rid of those crowded bars on TV, but you’re hurting the small, local pubs, taverns and restaurants by doing this.”

The pandemic has created many obstacles for Lynn Mione, the owner of Vine Wine Bar on Merrick Road, but the biggest has been the requirement of serving food. “We have a very small kitchen that’s been under a lot of pressure,” she said. “It’s been difficult getting food cranked out.”

“We are a small, cozy, romantic wine bar,” she added. “It’s not a place where customers socialize with strangers as much as they socialize with people in their own party. It’s not a place where people have to stand three rows deep to get a drink.”

The wine bar is still in the hiring process to replace employees that left because of the virus, adding to the challenge of serving food in an establishment known for wine and spirits. And with profits down 50 percent from last year, Mione said the last thing she needs is to be penalized for not following the rules — businesses found in violation of Covid-19 regulations can face fines up to

$10,000 per violation.

Tejan Arora, who owns Street to Table in Merrick, has been confronted with a similar issue. “My kitchen is tiny,” he said. “We have incredible staff in the back that can turn out orders fairly quickly, but when things get busy, it gets difficult to prepare even a small order of fries to accommodate a drink order.”

Generally, Arora said, customers understand and respect the rule. But some frustrated patrons end up canceling or not ordering at all after staff members tell them how long it may take to prepare their order. “It keeps people waiting around longer than necessary,” he said.

For Merokean John Amaruso, who opened Bourbon & Brews in Merrick last August, business is better than ever. “It was either adapt or die,” he said. The owner used quarantine to gain momentum in the community through local charity drives. By donating part of his profits to the town’s fire departments and fellow businesses, he has gained support of local patrons.

“Bars have been through a lot, and I’ve personally been through a lot to open this bar,” he said, adding that he is grateful to his customers who are accepting of the new rules. “It’s survival of the fittest, and I give a lot of credit to bar owners who are adapting every day to meet these regulations. We’ll be stronger at the end of it.”

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I N S U R A N C E S A L E S / C U S TO M E R SERVICE: Full Time Position/ Oceanside Office- Various Office Duties, Internal Sales, Answering Phones - Insurance licensed and Computer Skills Required. Call Jon at 516-766-4025

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Under NYS CDPAP Medicaid program you can hire your family or friends for your care. Phone: 347-713-3553

Help Wanted Dealer Seeks Responsible Individual For New Car Cleaning Clean Drivers License A Must Salary, Benefits, And 401K

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NO CDL required, 4 DAY WORK WEEK, (enjoy 3 days off). Run your own route. Year round No lay offs!

100% medical, dental, uniforms, 2 weeks paid vacation. 401K. Plus commission. Will train! 4am-2:30pm. .

Route driver $800.00 per week, includes $100.00 weekly bonus program. Plus 10-12 hours overtime. Apply in person Monday- Friday 9am-7pm at 304 Crossbay Blvd, Queens NY 11693

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Updtd EIK. O/S Prop w/Deck. Att Gar. SD#20 ........................................................... $599,000 62 Bulaire Rd, BA, NEW! Renovated 4 BR, 2.5 Bth Exp Ranch with Open Floor Plan on Oversized Prop. Gran/Wood EIK, LR/Fpl, FDR, Vauled Ceiling in Den. SD#20 ......... $725,000 101 Emmet Ave, BA, WATERFRONT! Rebuilt in 2010, 4 BR 3.5 Bth Split w/ Pool, Outdoor Kit & Deck. Open Layout. Private Mstr Ste, 2 Car Gar, SD#20............................... $1,250,000 LYNBROOK 6 Birch St, BA, NEW TO MARKET! 4 BR Colonial On O/S Property in SD#20. LR, FDR, EIK, Playroom. Full Bsmt w/ Hi Ceiling & Walk up Attic, Det Gar ..................................... $609,000 240 Bixley Heath, BA, Move right into This Beautifully Maintained 4 BR, 2.5 Bth Tudor w/ Updtd EIK. Fin Bsmt. 2 Car Det Gar. CAC. SD#24 ...................................................... $629,000

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EAST ROCKAWAY: 2ND Floor, Private Entrance, EIK, Heat/ Water Included, No Smoking/ Pets, $2,200. 516-599-5132

WOODMERE BA, 960 GREENFIELD Rd, BA,4 BR,3 Bth CH Col in Academy Area. Spac LR w/ Fpl, FDR , EIK & Fam Rm. Main Flr Br w/ Bth.Mstr Ste/Bth/ Off. Walk up Full Attic for Poss Expansion. Fin Bsmt. 2 Car Gar. SD#14. Near All. .REDUCED $999,000 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman RE 516-238-4299

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Asbestos shingles should not be power-washed. The reason is that federal and state environmental-protection laws prohibit mechanically cutting or disturbing the shingles. It releases fibers into the air, and also leaves the surface of the shingles exposed when it dries out.

Most people who do this may argue that soap and water are safe to use because the soapy water combines with the fibers and is called a “surfactant.” Unfortunately, people who make this argument are only half correct, the other half being that power-washing can often damage the surface of the material being jetted with high-pressure water. I have even testified to this in a court case in which the plaintiff argued that the defendant damaged fencing and a concrete driveway.

It may seem harmless to spray something with water, but at high pressure it’s like hitting the surface with bullet force. The defendant’s attorney unsuccessfully argued that the nozzle used for the power-washing, which he held in his hand, produces a “gentle” stream that’s designed to remove only dirt and grime. The nozzle clearly had never been used, showed no signs of having been attached to a spray gun, since the threads still had the clinging plastic from molding, and the judge saw this.

Pressure washing is generally damaging to most materials, and isn’t suggested unless that material can be safely exposed and resurfaced. Asbestos cannot be safely exposed. Even though you can argue that the material will be immediately resurfaced, temporary exposure is exposure, and any exposure, while the material is drying out, can allow fibers to be released into the air.

The shingles should have been brushed with a soft-bristle brush, like a car-cleaning brush, along with detergent, like siding wash or dishwashing liquid, and then rinsed. The dirt will still come off, the surface will still be clean and as long as fibers are not exposed, this method is the safest way.

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Q. Some men working out of the trunk of their car showed up this morning, and are power-washing the siding of my neighbor’s house. I know that, like many older homes in my neighborhood, the shingles are made of asbestos, so I wonder if it’s safe to power-wash them. It seems that the siding is splintering, and there are a lot of particles landing on my bushes, trees, fence and siding from the spray. What can you tell me, and if it isn’t Ask The safe, what can be done? I Architect don’t use air conditioning, and with my windows open, I just need to know if this is serious.

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t’s becoming more apparent each day that the Unites States will not return to any semblance of normalcy until there is a working vaccine for Covid19. In the meantime, we must face the reality that providing essential services to keep our economy going is job No. 1.

Our health care workers are our first line of defense against the pandemic. People who grow and transport our food, as well as the grocery store workers who stock the shelves, are critical. Our police, firefighters, sanitation workers, transit operators and other local alfonse government workd’amaTo ers who provide basic services are keeping America running.

Add to this list of essential employees the teachers and school administrators, bus drivers and school workers who will soon be asked to take our children back into school. We are more fortunate in New York than many other states, because the pandemic here seems to have abated to the point at which carefully reopening our schools is possible. It will mean taking extra precautions to maintain the

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can’t say I have a perfect track record with the recipes I publish. In fact, here’s an excerpt from a letter to the editor published many years ago. The note, from a Rockville Centre reader, said: “Randi Kreiss’ recipe sent me to the hospital with chest pains.

After spending four hours at the emergency room and $70 the next day at my family doctor, I was told I had gas from all those veggies in the soup (which did not taste so great, RandI anyway).” kReIss I don’t know if the old gasbag is still with us, and I’m sorry she suffered chest pains, but I don’t think her issues had to do with my soup.

My soup-making skills are considerable, and I’m in the process of compiling the recipes into a book for my kids and grandkids. My granddaughter Sabrina is particularly keen on cooking, and has already added her own culinary flourishes to my vegetarian tortilla soup. I say why mess with perfection, but she felt it needed some queso blanco.

Anyway, she’s been pressing me for

health of students, teachers and other school workers, including measures that will add considerably to school budgets.

The recent debate in Washington about the next round of federal pandemic relief has centered almost exclusively on helping the unemployed with a continued $600-per-week federal unemployment insurance subsidy. No one can argue that the 30 million unemployed Americans receiving this aid aren’t in need of assistance. They are out of work through no fault of their own.

But it’s important to understand that this generous benefit adds up to $18 billion per week. That money is being borrowed by the U.S. Treasury, and will eventually have to be paid back to those who are loaning it to the federal government. And for many workers, their unemployment payments — including state and federal benefits — now exceed the weekly wages they were earning before losing their jobs.

It is not unreasonable to ask that this benefit be adjusted to a more realistic and fiscally sustainable level. That doesn’t mean that the federal government should retreat on providing relief to Americans.

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the safe reopening of our schools. And billions more should go to helping states and local governments provide the essential services that would be drastically reduced without federal assistance.

A fair way to assist states and local governments would be for Washington to help them make up for the sales tax revenue they’ve lost due to the pandemic. These sales tax losses are fairly straightforward to calculate. And since every state collects sales taxes, federal aid making up these losses could be fairly distributed across the country. Red states and blue states would benefit equitably.

Another area where more federal aid is needed is for small businesses. Many received aid under the Payroll Protection Act, which extended them loans and grants to help keep their workers employed. Giving these businesses an additional lifeline so they can continue to stay open and provide jobs is a good investment. Economists of all stripes tell us that if these businesses were allowed to sink, many would never come back. The loss to the economy would be enormous.

Finally, our hospitals and other medical facilities have been badly wounded by

he postCovid-19 business landscape will be altered for years to come.

the Covid-19 crisis, as almost all other hospital admissions and doctor’s visits dried up these past few months. They should get the extra help they need to continue to provide quality health care.

And it’s not too early to begin to think about what the economic future will look like once the virus is defeated. The business landscape will be altered for years to come. The real estate industry may see wrenching change if offices remain empty after the pandemic fades. Malls may never recover the business they’ve lost to online sales. We can expect what amounts to a national reorganization of our economy, with many old and respected businesses failing and many new ones struggling to emerge.

Let’s not lose our sense of hope and optimism. The American spirit is boundless. We’ve learned some hard lessons, including that we must bring critical manufacturing home rather than depending on the rest of the world to provide essential medicines and products.

The promising race to develop a Covid19 vaccine by our scientists shows that with a concerted effort, even the seemingly impossible can be made possible.

Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com.

Top-secret recipe revealed my family chicken soup recipe. It is special. I know every cook in every family makes the best chicken soup, but mine is outstanding. If there were a New York State Fair entry for chicken soup, I would win. I’m not claiming that in the age of Covid-19 it has unusual medicinal properties, but you can judge for yourself.

It may not be hydroxychloroquine or bleach shots, but it’s a real comfort, spiritually and physically.

Because Sabrina was so persistent, and because she also has a wicked sense of humor, I recently sent her the plans for my Manhattan Project of chicken soups.

This was never meant to be published in a newspaper; it was meant to pass from kitchenwarm grandma hands to upturned fingers. It’s a kind of promise-to-keep, whispered mother to child. But in the interest of public health, here goes:

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thinking Kosher was tastier. My mother said it was because of all the salt. Invite your chicken into the pot. (Give him a good scrubbing first, using no soap. It’s soup!)

ot to brag, but if there were a New York State fair entry for chicken soup, I’d win.

Dear Sabrina, OK, OK this is the recipe: Find a chicken and a huge pot. Now maybe this chicken has it all together, or maybe he comes in eighths. Could be a pullet or a broiler; equal opportunity here.

Could be Kosher or not. I was brought up

Gather: 3 32-oz. cartons of any good organic chicken broth Bunch fresh parsley (well washed) 2 tablespoons chicken bouillon 1/2 cup pearl barley (rinsed and strained) 5 stalks of celery 2 turnips, peeled, sliced and diced 2 parsnips, peeled, sliced and diced 6 carrots or a bag of cut-

up carrots 2 medium sweet onions, chopped 10-oz. bag frozen mixed vegetables (no sauce or butter!)

Salt, pepper, a nearly infinitesimal amount of rosemary . . . no, that’s too much . . . such a heavy hand.

Now here’s the hard part: Put everything into a huge pot. Cover.

Turn up the heat and simmer for an hour and 10. That should soften the toughest old bird. I call it the RBG method.

The after part:

Lift the chicken out of the pot. He will not come willingly. And he may fool you by pretending to fall apart. And he may actually fall apart. Round up all his body parts and put them in a separate bowl.

Choices here: You can shred the chicken into the soup and dispose of the bones, or you can eat the chicken as an entirely separate experience. Boiled chicken with something — anything — is quite yummy if you give it a chance.

You can also cut the boiled chicken into salad or stuff in a taco or toss into a smoothie. (I’m kidding.)

Find your soup blender stick and puree just the right amount of time. Depends on whether you like soupy soup, or thick puree, or recognizable pieces, or just vegetables and soup, in which case you won’t need the soup blender at all. You decide.

Personally, I like a few seconds of blending, while letting the vegetables keep their identities intact.

If you call and visit me, I’ll give you my matzo ball recipe. If you call and visit me often, I’ll give you my matzo ball recipe with all the ingredients. May you enjoy this recipe, and may it nourish all the people you love.

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

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To bury the power lines, or not?

ropical Storm Isaias marched up the Eastern Seaboard Aug. 4 with 70-mph winds that snapped trees in half or ripped them out of the ground, often sending them crashing onto power lines, leaving 420,000 Long Island ratepayers without electricity.

PSEG-Long Island had promised to respond faster to restore power than its predecessor, the Long Island Power Authority. Last Saturday, four days after the storm, 60,000 Long Islanders were still without electricity, however, and thousands remained that way through Tuesday — a week after the storm.

As Isaias blew through, communications between customers and PSEG-LI rapidly broke down, with people unable to send messages about lost power, despite the $1 billion in taxpayer and ratepayer funds that the utility had invested in upgrading its communications and smartmeter networks in recent years.

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, plans to hold hearings on the response to Isaias by utilities across the state, including the communications response by PSEG-LI, Altice and Verizon.

The question is, what will come of those hearings? Will we vent our anger, and let that be the end of it? Will we seek another utility company to manage Long Island’s electrical system, as we did after Hurricane Sandy in 2012-13? Or will we work toward a more durable solution, one that considers the long-term effects of repeated tropical storms and hurricanes on an

island that juts 118 miles into the Atlantic Ocean, and one that hardens our infrastructure so we never again have to suffer the crippling damage that Isaias, and so many storms before, have left in their wakes?

We can upgrade the communications network all we want, but as last week’s storm made clear, that effort would likely prove futile. If $1 billion wasn’t enough to fix the communications system well enough to respond to a tropical storm, then what amount would be needed to prepare for a Category 4 hurricane — with wind speeds double that of Isaias and a million people trying to message PSEG-LI all at once?

One possible solution would be to bury the electric and cable wires, ensuring that they would remain stable and protected in hurricanes, tropical storms, ice storms and run-of-the-mill thunderstorms. The trouble is, burying lines is a massive undertaking that would require an investment of billions of dollars. Still, we should at least study it.

Consider this case study of one typical little South Shore community. During Isaias, a tree came down on Merrick Road in Merrick, near the Meadowbrook Parkway, cutting power to a .36-mile-long commerce zone just to the east.

Within that small business district are two supermarkets, 11 restaurants, a frozen yogurt shop and an ice cream parlor, which had to throw out hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of food that had

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letters Put power lines underground To the Editor: Consumers want cheap electricity. As a result, utility companies have been unable to charge the appropriate rates to allow for capital improvements to upgrade the existing power grid and substations, and burying more power lines.

Residents living in low-density neighborhoods want to keep the price of homes low by accepting aboveground power lines rather than burying them. After Tropical Storm Isaias, with limited crews, it was impossible to reach everyone within 24 hours with such a catastrophic loss of power impacting so many customers at once. I would gladly pay to cover costs for burying my power lines to ensure more reliable delivery.

Unfortunately, this wouldn’t work unless my neighbors also agreed to do the same. Decades ago, elected officials attacked the Long Island Lighting Company for being overpriced and inefficient. They promised that creation of the Long Island Power Authority would solve all our problems. Having lived in Great Neck from the 1960s to now, I don’t recall LILCO being anywhere as bad as today’s generation of elected leader claim LIPA was. Voters deserve a rebate from the elected officials who committed consumer fraud by

gone bad or melted because refrigeration was lost — in the case of one pizzeria alone, $50,000 worth, on top of the business it lost during the two days it had no power.

There are 22 other businesses on this strip, ranging from a clothing shop to a gas station, a dry cleaner, a ballet studio and an insurance agency, as well as offices for a cosmetic surgeon, an attorney, a veterinarian and a pediatric dentist.

Now, project all the lost goods and services in this commerce zone across Long Island, and you begin to understand the enormity of the economic hit that comes with even a relatively small-scale storm like Isaias. When we speak of storm damage, we generally talk about the price of repairs. Rarely do we consider the cost of business interruptions. This clearly needs greater deliberation.

Burying lines, at an estimated cost of $1 million per mile, would undoubtedly raise electricity rates, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Spreading the project over decades, however, could mitigate the increase, while ensuring that future generations needn’t suffer as we have. Anaheim, Calif., is burying all its lines over 50 years, necessitating a 4 percent customer surcharge — or $4 per month for every $100 of electric use — while the cable TV companies must pay to bury their lines. The program began in 1990.

With the climate crisis threatening to bring bigger hurricanes in the future, now, not later, is the time to act.

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PPE. You’ll see people with masks, face ease in the U.S. each year. About 1,000 ly, a potential resurgence of preventable n the midst of a pandemic, the last t’s died. And that’s 1,000 too many. infections resulting from missed vaccines thing we need is another outbreak of tha shields, gowns and gloves, which protect Now that we’re in the recovery phase is also very real. a highly contagious infection like to them — but also protect you. in New York, the risk — to young and old One year ago this month, a measles measles. Unfortunately, the diligent the From the waiting room to the medical — of contracting Covid-19 is much lower outbreak in New York caused a 30-year rooms, frequently touched and trafficked 19. In t work of stopping the spread of Covid-19 than at any point during this crisis. Not high in cases of the highly contagious illareas are regularly cleaned and disinfect- reality has, for many parents, meant falling only are there fewer patients, but the ness — which still kills hundreds of thoukeep ou behind on having their children routinely ed. Some organizations, like Northwell physical spaces are now safer, with measands of people per year globally. That vaccinated.

Health, are using ultraviolet light technol- Our sures in place to protect any patient who outbreak occurred because in some comogy to create an additional level of disin- line of Individually, missing one vaccine shot enters a doctor’s munities we have fection. may not seem like a big deal, office. seen the number So, health care offices are but immunization schedules That starts with of people vaccinatsafe, and you shouldn’t be were developed after decades limiting the numed dip below safe afraid to see your pediatriof study, and the sheer number of patients. levels, threatening cian. Vaccinations have ber of missed trips to pediatriOnce in the office, our hard-fought cians during the coronavirus changed the game on so many people remain six herd immunity, crisis has meant a drastic fallillnesses, saving millions of feet apart — six which protects the off in childhood immunizalives. But that progress can beach balls of entire community. tions across the country. unwind, and it can do so space. To avoid When that immuIn fact, the Centers for Disquickly — as it is right now in overcrowding, nity declines, ease Control and Prevention other parts of the world.

JosHUa DaVID CHarLes families are somethere’s a greater reports 250,000 fewer doses of Health care’s mission is to roCker FaGan sCHLeIen times asked to call risk for the infecmeasles-containing immunipromote and protect the genfrom their cars tion to spread. zations ordered from March 23 eral well-being of the commuwhen they arrive Last year it was to May 16 than during the nity. We need parents’ help. We and wait to be called in. just the measles we had to worry about. runnin same time period in 2019. And it’s not just can solve this problem together and Frequently, pediatric offices have desAdd measles. There were also about 2.5 million Today it’s every vaccine-preventable illensure that we protect the entire herd. ignated mornings for visits from those ness, because if kids aren’t coming in for fewer doses of all routine non-influenza The time is now. Please don’t wait until the tea one vaccine, they’re not coming in for any. who are well and afternoons for “sick visvaccines. Across Cohen Children’s Mediwe have another outbreak on our hands. bus dri its,” which is another way of assuring the And yes, wash those hands.

Measles is our main concern, because of soon be cal Center’s 18 pediatric offices, we saw a how rapidly it spreads and how it can lead health and protection of those visiting the into sc 45 percent drop in all vaccinations for office. Everyone over age 2 must be to dehydration, pneumonia and encephachildren of all ages in that same period.

Dr. Joshua Rocker is the chief of pediatric York th masked, and is screened upon entry with litis, or swelling of the brain. But we also The good news is that you and your emergency medicine at Cohen Children’s pandem a symptom checklist. You will be asked if worry about Haemophilus influenzae child can catch up. Pediatricians across Medical Center. Dr. David Fagan is the cen- the poi you have a fever, any symptoms and any Type b, a major contributor to meningitis our sch the country have worked overtime to creter’s vice chair of pediatric ambulatory known exposure to Covid-19, and based on administration. Dr. Charles Schleien is and bacteremia, when the bacteria ing ext ate safe environments, cleaning protocols those answers, you’ll be managed and spreads throughout the blood. Before the and strategies to minimize the risk of senior vice president and chair of pediatric moved within the office appropriately.

Hib vaccination, about 20,000 children Covid infection. Fear of contracting the services at Northwell Health.

Health care providers are dressed in full younger than 5 developed severe Hib disvirus is understandable, but unfortunate-

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A guest column was short on insight To the Editor: Re Robert A. Scott’s op-ed column, “Of course Black lives matter!” (July 2-8): Scott addressed the removal of President Woodrow Wilson’s name at Princeton University because of his racist views and policies. I say well and good, but wouldn’t the same reasoning apply to Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and be worthy of similar response?

Scott went on to characterize the Native American and Black man at the sides of Teddy’s Roosevelt’s statue at the American Museum of Natural History as representing “colonial expansion and racial discrimination.”

Really? Does Scott truly believe that these figures were included in such negative context, rather than representing progress from backwardness and deprivation into a more hopeful future?

Scott wrote that Black lives matter because “they were being eliminated by police violence.” Not only was this claim false, is that the only reason, for him, that

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Black lives should matter?

That the kind of officer who killed George Floyd could get into law enforcement at all shows a failure in the vetting and training process, with such officers representing only a small part of law enforcement. For Scott to even imply that “police violence” is primarily responsible for Black deaths is absurd.

Incredibly, he contends that “Black people are killed in their homes and suburban neighborhoods by white police.” Is he blind to the realities of drive-by shootings, of revenge killings, of assaults, robberies, murders and rapes of innocent Black people — infants, the young, the old — by those who live in these very communities? How many more such crimes, of the most horrific nature, have been reported since his article was published only weeks ago?

Why does Scott attribute “failing schools” as the cause of Black social woes? Many of those who have participated in looting and arson are school-aged minors from minority communities. Would Scott dispute that lack of proper guidance and disciplining at home contributes to educational and social deficiencies? He should consider the dedicated students and teachers in these schools, and how their pursuits are impacted by the criminal and antisocial miscreants among them.

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