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bellmore-merrick ceNtrAl HiGH School District Prep Academy student Keith Mickity could barely contain his enthusiasm as he prepared to head into the water for a surfing lesson.

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“This is one of the things I’m most proud of as an educator,” said Eric Caballero, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District athletic director. “It’s one of our prouder moments in education.” Students in the district’s Prep Academy are hitting the waves for the first time this fall in Long Beach, taking part in a special program

designed to teach those with physical and intellectual disabilities how to surf. The Prep Academy is a special-education program that aims to give students up to age 21 educational, recreational and vocational experience. Cliff Skudin and his brother Will, a professional bigwave surfer, own and operate Skudin Surf in Long Beach. After trying for years to connect with a local school district, they finally paired up with the Central District.

Cliff Skudin, a phys. ed. teacher at Long Beach High School and president and cofounder of the nonprofit organization Surf for All, told the Herald that the organization specializes in teaching kids with physical or developmental limitations to surf. “It’s very specialized,” Skudin said. “We have a oneon-one with groups — we use specialized equipment” such as adaptive equipment for those with disabilities. Continued on page 5

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Bellmore F.D. installs new leadership On Sunday, Sept. 26, the Bellmore Fire Department gathered to officially acknowledge the officers for 2021. Ordinarily held in February, the Installation was postponed until now to allow for a safe social gathering. Chief Joseph Ancona, First Assistant Chief Michael Irving and Second Assistant Chief Timothy Carroll, along with line officers and officers of the Ladies Auxiliary, were sworn in ceremoniously to the positions they have held since January.

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After 43 years in the pulpit, thousands of Sabbath and Holiday services, countless sermons, scores of counseling sessions, numerous guided tours of Israel — as well as officiating at weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, funerals, unveilings, and other life cycle events too many too count — Rabbi Charles A. Klein is retiring from the Merrick Jewish Centre at the end of this year. He is leaving a congregation in which he had a principal role building up to more than 700 families, elevating the synagogue to be the premier conservative one on the South Shore of Long Island. Particularly noteworthy is the number of young families — second and even third generations — who have returned to Herald file photo live in Merrick to make the MJC Rabbi ChaRles Klein is retiring from the Merrick their spiritual home. Jewish Centre at the end of this year. As members wish him a much-deserved rest, they also He has been there for congregants who indicate how much he will be missed. suffered during the economic financial “Impactful,” “supportive,” “scholarly,” crisis, making sure that everyone was “inspirational,” and “eloquent” are taken care of. Most recently, he was attenamong the many words of praise heaped tive to members who were struck by upon their charismatic religious leader. Covid, ensuring that all their needs — Rabbi Klein has left an “indelible whether they were medical, financial, or mark, not only on his congregation, but personal — were tended to. on the broader Jewish community as To celebrate Rabbi Klein’s long tenure, well,” remarked one long-time member. numerous achievements at the MJC as “He is always there in a time of need, well as his outreach to the larger commube it a purely personal one or something nity, a special event is planned for Oct. 24 affecting all of us,” commented another, at the Merrick Jewish Centre to honor citing some of the “rough spots he navi- him and his wife, Betty. gated us through” over the past four This salute and send-off are a way to decades. Still others point to his pres- wish him a long, happy, and healthy ence during tragic times such as Sept. 11, retirement after so many years of devoted the massacre at the Tree of Life Syna- service. gogue in Pittsburgh, the Space Shuttle disaster, and families nearly wiped out by Courtesy Steve Kussin, past president of Superstorm Sandy. the MJC. Compiled by Andrew Garcia.

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StudentS in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s Prep Academy are learning how to surf, thanks to the district’s unique partnership with Surf for All. Each paddled out into the surf with an instructor. “[Some of the students] weren’t ready to go in the water,” Caballero said of their first week. “By week two, those kids were ready.” “They think it’s the coolest thing to be in the surf shack,” he went on. “For them to have the opportunity to do this — every week for 10 weeks — they look forward to it at the end of the week.” The students will surf for the next seven weeks, and after seeing the positive

response from the Prep students, the district is looking to get other students involved next spring. “I know how much the kids will benefit from it,” Skudin said. “It carries into their self-confidence — and their day-to-day routine.” Surf therapy, which Skudin described as a “holistic” alternative to traditional therapy, can treat anxiety, PTSD and depression, among other conditions. “To put surfing in the [student’s] toolbox — to teach them to use surfing — it’s different,” he said.

The response from the students, he said, has been “incredible.” “The teachers — the aides — tell you how excited the [students] are,” he said. “You can tell they’re stoked to do something new. It’s only an hour out of their day, but it carries through to home — it carries into schoolwork. “I’ve had kids with autism that were completely mute come out of the water and say, ‘I want more,’” Skudin recounted. “Something like that is so powerful.” Last Friday, the fun the neophyte surfers were having was almost palpable. One, Keith Mickity, excitedly told the Herald how much he loved his new sport. Surf for All has created programs for groups such as Camp Anchor, for those with special needs, and the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan. But the partnership with the Central High School District was the first of its kind on Long Island. Soon after Bellmore-Merrick’s program began on Sept. 17, Long Beach Schools also started taking part in Surf for All. The Prep Academy students’ lessons are on a different schedule than the local students’, so each group can get as much attention from instructors as possible. “Cliff and Will tried for so long [to work with a district] and were unsuccessful,” Caballero said. “Bellmore-Merrick broke down that door — and I was happy to be part of that, so to speak.”

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Surf for All was formed in 2002. “It’s very unique,” Skudin said. “Surf therapy is something used in other parts of the world, like Hawaii, California and Australia — places where surfing is more mainstream. “For the past decade, I’ve been trying to give surf therapy to a [school] district,” he added. “Eric — he’s an incredible director and was really an advocate,” Skudin said of Caballero. “He really made it happen.” Caballero met a Long Beach-based psychologist, Jeanine Sorenson, in June, and learned about the potential of having students in the Central District’s specialneeds program learn to surf. According to Caballero, the program extends far beyond the physical activity — it also involves environmental awareness and, Skudin said, understanding the therapeutic qualities of the ocean. Throughout the summer, Caballero worked with the district Board of Education to get everything where it needed to be in order to meet the needs of the students. The trustees were “completely on board,” as was Superintendent Mike Harrington. Last Friday, 16 students of varying disabilities rode a bus to Long Beach for their third surfing lesson. The anticipation was evident, with many of them clearly eager to get into their wetsuits and to be fitted with other necessary gear.

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Nassau D.A. candidates trade accusations By James Bernstein and scott Brinton jbernstein@liherald.com, sbrinton@liherald.com

The race for Nassau district attorney has quickly become one of the most hotly contested in the county, with Democratic State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, of Long Beach, and Republican Anne Donnelly, of Garden City, trading blistering verbal barbs in a series of TV commercials. The spots, running on CNN and other cable networks, began three weeks ago, when Donnelly, a 3 0 - ye a r c a r e e r prosecutor in the Nassau district attorney’s office, aired one featuring a Syracuse woman, identified in the commercial as Jennifer P. The woman, Jennifer Payne, said her daughter’s killer was released without bail because of the state’s bailreform law, which Kaminsky voted for in the Senate. The State Legislature first passed the bailrefor m measure in 2019, restricting anne Donnelly, the the use of cash bail and pretrial detention in misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases. It did, though, give judges discretion to assign bail in almost all violent felony cases and certain nonviolent cases, such as witness tampering, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. In Donnelly’s commercial, Payne holds a framed photograph of her daughter, Sarah Tombs, who was 22 at the time that she died. The man who allegedly shot her, Darien Shellman, then 24, a mall security guard who was a Navy veteran with no prior criminal record, was charged with second-degree (unintentional) manslaughter after, he claimed, his gun went

off when Tombs, his girlfriend at the time, grabbed the weapon and a bullet struck her in the head, killing her, according to Syracuse.com. Shellman had been held in jail on $75,000 cash bail or $150,000 bond following Tombs’s death in April 2019, but was released on Jan. 9, 2020, under the new bail-reform law, eight days after it took e f f e c t , a c c o r d i n g t o S y r a c u s e. com and CNYCentral.com. Under the original bail-reform law, unintentional manslaughter was among the alleged crimes for which defendants were automatically released. The Legislature amended the law in April 2020, a little more than three months after the measure took effect, to include a greater number of crimes fo r wh i ch b a i l could be assigned, including any alleged crimes in which someone had been killed, according to the Courtesy Anne Donnelly Brennan Center. Although bail Republican candidate. could have been reassigned in this case, it never was, and Shellman recently accepted a plea agreement for which he will serve no prison time, according to Syracuse.com. Kaminsky noted that the district attorney who offered the plea deal is a Republican. Kaminsky has repeatedly said he voted for the bail-reform bill, but was not a prime sponsor, and he did not write it, as Republicans, including Donnelly, have incorrectly claimed. He also emphasized that he voted for the amended law giving judges back the discretion to assign bail in crimes such as second-degree manslaughter. Kaminsky recently rolled out a commercial of his own, saying Donnelly had

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toDD KaminsKy, the Democratic candidate for Nassau County district attorney. “botched” a case involving a woman accused of plotting to kill her husband, saying Donnelly had lied to the judge in the case. At one point in the 2010 case against Susan Williams, a Garden City mother, a mistrial was declared after a taped phone conversation between Williams and her daughter was erroneously played for a jury. In the commercial, Kaminsky blamed Donnelly for the error, and said she had changed an agreement sent to the judge. Williams was ultimately found guilty in the case, but Kaminsky stressed that there “was a mistrial. That’s a serious thing.” Asked for a response, Donnelly wrote in an email, “It is no surprise that [Kaminsky] would lie about my unblemished record as a prosecutor. It is sad that Senator Kaminsky is embarrassing himself this way, and the voters always see through a politician’s lies.” So far in the campaign, Kaminsky has emphasized his law-enforcement background. In 2008, he joined the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, and worked for six years as an assistant U.S. attorney.

There he became acting deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section. He had been an assistant district attorney in the Queens County D.A.’s office, prosecuting domestic violence cases, robberies, shootings and other violent crimes. Donnelly resigned from the Nassau County district attorney’s office to run for the top job, as she was required to do, but she has emphasized her extensive law-enforcement background. She was most recently deputy chief of the office’s Organized Crime and Rackets Bureau. She was also liaison to the Nassau County Correctional Facility. She formerly oversaw public corruption trials as acting chief of the public corruption bureau, once served as the deputy chief of the economic crimes bureau and was a senior trial assistant in the rackets bureau, as well as a felony-screening supervisor. In the most recent financial filing, Kaminsky said he had raised $1.7 million for his campaign. A spokesman for Donnelly said she had raised more than $386,000. Both Kaminsky and Donnelly said they planned to run more TV commercials in the coming weeks.

Publication: Nassau is America’s safest county Nassau County has been named the “Safest Community in America” by U.S. News & World Report for the second straight year. The publication’s ranking is based on crime, public safety capacity and injuries. Individual metrics on which counties were assessed included violent crime rate, property crime rate, vehicle crash fatality rate, the share of public safety professionals within a population, and per capita spending on health and emergency services. Crime in Nassau has continued to decline to historic lows in recent years, down 10.5 percent over the past year and 36 percent over the past decade. Over the last 12 months, homicides have dropped 22.2 percent; bur-

hile crime has spiked in other parts of the country, Nassau County is safer than ever.

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Nassau County executive glaries, 15 percent; and grand larcenies, 11 percent. “While crime has spiked in other parts of the country, Nassau County is safer than ever,” County Execu-

tive Laura Curran, a Democrat who is up for re-election, said. “Nassau’s success in holding crime down shows that intelligence-led, community-oriented policing works. It also shows that Nassau has the finest Police Department in the nation.” Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said, “The hard-working, dedicated men and women, both sworn and civilian, of this Police Department, along with our Intelligence-led Policing Model, have brought our crime rate to historically low levels over the past 10 years. A 31 percent drop in major crime over the past 10 years, combined with another 7.4 percent year-todate, is a true testament to the excellent work being done daily.”

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Thursday, Oct. 21

Documentary Showing at the Merrick Library

Breast Cancer Screenings In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, members of the Nassau Legislature are teaming up with Nassau University Medical Center to bring its Mammography Van to locations in Nassau County to provide breast cancer screenings for women over age 40. Each screening includes a breast examination by a registered nurse, a mammography, and instructions for self-examination. The NUMC Mammography Van will be visiting the Echo Park parking lot at 399 Nassau Blvd., West Hempstead from 9 a.m. to 12 pm. Appointments are required and are scheduled on a first come, first serve basis. To schedule an appointment, please call Legislator Vincent Muscarella’s office at (516) 571-6208.

Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved-but-dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction. Nominated for Best First Documentary, Best Documentary, and Best Director at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. Winner of Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking: Directing at the Newport Beach Film Festival. “A rich, thoughtful, meticulously crafted tapestry about the evolution of the beloved writing machine for purists, history buffs, collectors and others fighting to preserve or reembrace analog life.” - Gary Goldstein, The Los Angeles Times. All are welcome to attend. Documentary will be screened from 2:00 p.m. to 3:05 p.m. Please contact the Merrick Library with questions or concerns.

Thursday, Oct. 27 Breast Cancer Screenings

Saturday, Oct. 9 Fire Safety Day at the Bellmore Memorial Library

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Experience what it is like to be a firefighter! Children will learn about fire safety and will explore a fire vehicle up close with our local heroes from the Bellmore Fire Department. Crafts will be available as well. Intended for ages 12 and under. Following updated CDC guidelines, all patrons, regardless of vaccine status, must wear a mask inside the library. Event begins at 11 a.m., and will conclude around 12:30 p.m. Please register in advance as space is limited. For additional information, questions or concenrs, please reach out to c hildrens@bellmorelibrary. org.

Sunday, Oct. 10 Farmers Market Garden at St. Francis Join the St. Francis Episcopalian Church in North Bellmore every Sunday for a farmer’s market with organic pro-

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a behind-the-back building challenge Fourth graders in the ALPHA gifted and talented program in the North Bellmore School District worked together for a cup-stacking challenge. Summer Ferrie gave instructions to her teammates James Mao, left, and Christian Levoso, who had their backs turned to the cups. duce grown in their garden! Lots of fresh vegetables to choose from, and a great volunteer opportunity for anyone

Tuesday, Oct. 12 Inside Out: Coping with Emotions at the Merrick Library For children ages 6-10 years. Join Lisa Finn, “The Feelings Teacher,” as she uses music, dance, mindfulness and creative arts to help your child learn to identify and cope with their emotions. Lisa Finn is a local social worker who specializes in helping children and adolescents identify and cope with their emotions, ADHD, and anxiety. Event will

take place from 4:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. in the community room of the library. Please contact the Merrick Library will additional qurestions or concerns.

Wednesday, Oct. 13 Blood Drive in Merrick The New York Blood Center will be hosting a Blood Drive in the Multipurpose Room of the Merrick Library. To schedule an appointment call 1 800 933-BLOOD. Walk Ins are also welcome. Blood Drive will take place from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Please reach out to the Merrick Library with additional concerns or questions.

Saturday, Oct. 16 Fall Harvest Fair at Grace Lutheran Church The Grace Lutheran Church in North Bellmore will be holding their Fall Harvest Fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The church is located at 1294 Bellmore Ave. Hand craft vendors, baked goods, children’s activities and a grand raffles will be available. For more information, contact (516) 785-5029 or email gelcnb@aol.com.

The NUMC Mammography Van will be visiting St. Bernard’s Church, located at 3100 Hempstead Tpke., Levittown, from 8:15 a.m. to 12 pm. Appointments are required. To schedule an appointment, please call Legislator John Ferretti’s office at (516) 571-6215.

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

TOH is holding a Street Hockey Clinic at the Merrick Road Park Basketball Courts, starting Oct. 1. Bellmore-Merrick Community Coalition will host a “Shed the Meds” program on Oct. 23 at Brookside. Grace Lutheran Church in Bellmore will have a Fall Harvest Fair on Oct. 16. Bellmore Chamber of Commerce will host its usual Halloween Festivities this year. Merrick Fall Festival is slated to begin on Oct. 22.

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Mepham Senior Football it Was a memorable Homecoming game for Honerkamp and the Pirates on Sept. 25. The senior quarterback, in just his fourth start, rushed for five touchdowns and threw for a pair of scores to lead Mepham to a 63-30 win over Glen Cove. He averaged 12.2 yards per carry on 11 attempts and completed 6 of 9 passes for 151 yards in the first half. In last Saturday’s loss to MacArthur, Honerkamp rushed for his 10th touchdown of the season as the Pirates suffered their first loss in four games.

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Girls Soccer: Mepham at Wantagh........................4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer: Malverne/ER at Elmont....................4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer: V.S. South at Calhoun ......................4:45 p.m. Girls Soccer: Sewanhaka at Lawrence ..................4:45 p.m. Boys Soccer: Oceanside at Uniondale ....................... 5 p.m. Football: Port Washington at Oceanside..................... 6 p.m. Football: Massapequa at Freeport ............................. 6 p.m. Football: Manhasset at Hewlett ...................................... 6 p.m. Girls Soccer: South Side at Massapequa .................6:30 p.m. Boys Soccer: Lawrence at Seaford................................. 7 p.m. Football: Sewanhaka at Glen Cove ................................. 7 p.m. Football: Carey at MacArthur........................................... 7 p.m.

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football: Elmont at Herricks..................................1:30 p.m. Football: Plainview at East Meadow .......................... 2 p.m. Football: Mepham at Baldwin ................................... 2 p.m. Football: V.S. Central at Garden City ............................... 2 p.m. Football: South Side at Wantagh .................................... 2 p.m. Football: V.S. North at Kennedy....................................... 2 p.m. Football: Clarke at Seaford.............................................. 2 p.m.

Football: North Shore at East Rockaway......................... 2 p.m. Football: Malverne at Lawrence ...................................... 2 p.m. Football: Calhoun at New Hyde Park .............................. 2 p.m. Football: Lynbrook at Mineola ........................................ 2 p.m.

Second-year Calhoun girls’ volleyball coach Christina Strezenec saw the sign she’d been awaiting at an early-September tournament. With still-fresh scars after losing to eventual county champion Wantagh in last season’s Nassau Class A quarterfinals, the Colts were again on the point of falling to their nemesis at the Wantagh Invitational. From seven points down, the Colts would rally and steal the set from the Warriors – getting the latest last laugh in what has become a perpetual grudge match. But more important, said Strezenec – whose first-place team is 5-1 in Conference A/C2, 5-2 overall – the Colts’ comeback was feisty proof that the club, which finished second last season in Conference A2, was ready to become a pacesetter. “In that one set, they were able to take the next step,” Strezenec said. “It’s weird, because (last season) wasn’t that long ago, but they matured an incredible amount in a short time. They know now how competitive they can be together. At a certain point, they kind of said, ‘Wow, we’re in this, and we’re going to step up.’” Before stumbling 3-0 against host Manhasset on Oct. 2, Calhoun had dropped only two sets across a five straight wins in conference – a blistering fortnight spree that started with a shutout win at Garden City, and culminated Sept. 29 with a 3-1 win at home against Lynbrook. The latter match saw season highs from junior Julia Lawrence, who blasted 21 kills, and sophomore Gianna Lucchi, who fired 12 of her conference-leading 31 aces against the Owls. “Julia Lawrence is the heart of our offense,” Strezenec said of the Honorable Mention All-County outside hitter, whose 108 kills are second-most in Nassau. “The girls know if they give Julia the ball, she’s going to put it away. Gianna’s a just positive light, with lots of natural athleticism. That’s important for a setter, because you’re interacting with both offense and defense.” All-County junior Ella Maldonado, a team co-captain with Lawrence, continues to burnish her considerable resume at libero, with 136 digs to rank second in Nassau, while junior middle blocker Victoria

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Zovich has a second-leading 31 blocks in A/C2 (fourth in Nassau). “Ella’s been tremendous,” Strezenec said. “She has risen as a leader for us, which is helpful after losing lots of seniors. Tori’s become a tremendous server. Her energy changes the whole team dynamic.” Chiefly reserved for spot starts, sophomore setter Olivia Katz has made a strong case in part-time appearances, leading the Colts with 122 assists (fifth in A/C2). “Oliv-

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ia’s done a really good job filling in,” Strezenec said. “She comes in with an aggressive serve and is a really good asset as a setter.” The Colts get a chance at proper vengeance when they travel to second-place Wantagh (4-2) Oct. 7. “We’re all looking forward to that match,” Strezenec said. “As long as everyone stays focused, I think we’ll do better than last year. I’m excited to see how far we take this.”

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Howard Weitzman, Nassau County’s comptroller from 2002 to 2009 who was known for challenging establishment politics through the power of the audit during this time in office, died Sept. 27 of a rare blood disorder called amyloidosis. He was 75. Born in Brooklyn in 1945, Weitzman was known as a loving husband to his wife of 52 years, Suzanne, and father to their daughter, Catherine Diamond, and sons Peter and Matthew Weitzman. Howard Weitzman was raised in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn and later Laurelton, Queens. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and went on to graduate from Queens Colle ge with a de g ree in accounting, becoming a certified public accountant. Weitzman was said to have “reveled” in his role as “Nassau’s fiscal watchdog” when he was comptroller. He was also known for his personal approach to politics, holding town hall meetings in houses of worship and schools to meet with constituents from across Nassau to hear their concerns. His local approach to county politics stemmed from his time

as a trustee and mayor of Great Neck with eliminating special districts] are Estates from 1989 to 1995. He and his not large when divided by each home . . . wife had lived there for 35 years before in these times of extreme fiscal pressure on Nassau County taxpayers, all moving to Roslyn in 2013. As comptroller, Weitzman was relent- savings are worth pursuing. The outdatless in pursuing investigations of Nas- ed patchwork quilt of special districts is no longer viable in this day sau’s many special districts, and age when they cost resiincluding sanitation and dents money without providwater districts. In all, Nasing any benefit.” sau has more than 200 such Weitzman was first electdistricts, and Weitzman said ed comptroller in 2001 on a he was convinced they were ticket with Tom Suozzi, then key to helping rein in govan up-and-coming political ernment overspending. leader who had previously “Nassau residents can served as the Glen Cove pay two or three times as mayor and is now a U.S. conmuch for the same service gressman representing the depending on the district in 3rd District. They were which they live,” Weitzman Howard Weitzman swept into office following said in a published report in years of fiscal mismanage2010. “Our audits unveiled millions of dollars of waste by some ment at the county level, with a clear mandate to eliminate waste and abuse. special districts, and a general lack of Weitzman lost the comptroller’s post accountability, transparency and overto Republican George Maragos in 2009. sight.” Eliminating many of the special dis- Illness was said to have hindered tricts, Weitzman contended, could save Weitzman’s campaign. He then chaltaxpayers tens of millions of dollars lenged Maragos in 2013 and was again defeated. annually. In 2016, Weitzman was appointed to Speaking with the Herald in 2008, he Authority, a said, “While the savings [associated the Nassau Interim Finance color version

Herald Inside LI Webinar fights fears with facts Keeping our loved ones healthy and out of harm’s way— especially the senior members of our communities — has always been a priority, but perhaps never more so than during the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout this unprecedented time we’ve faced new challenges, constant changes and a perpetual wave of questions. So the Herald Inside LI webinar “Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe” brought together a panel of local experts on Sept. 30 to help find answers. The webinar was produced by RichnerLIVE and sponsored by Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, Emerge, Harbor House, Oyster Bay Manor and Glen Cove Hospital Northwell Health. Dr. John Colletta, Dr. Usman Khan, Madeleine Moritz, Melissa Schumacher and Erika Weber gathered virtually to share their insights and expertise on topics ranging from safety protocols in hospitals and emergency departments to special precautions for patients with dementia in skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers. “We understand that it causes a lot of anxiety for people to come” to the emergency department, Colletta, the Glen Cove Hospital Emergency Department chair. “What we have seen is people are holding off on their medical care. They’re just not going.” No one should put off a trip to the emergency room, or even a regular doctor’s visit

and physical therapy and rehabilitation, he said. “A lot of families have put off coming to the skilled nursing facility after a stay at the hospital for fear that the nursing home has exposure and their loved one now, who was in the hospital, may be better off going home,” added Moritz, administrator at the Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation. Schumacher, director of business development at the Oyster Bay Senior Campus, noted that such fears have also extended to the assisted living world. At the height of the pandemic, she said, “unless there was a true crisis, families were holding off because of the fear of contracting Covid . . . in congregant living, but also the inability to visit their loved ones.” As the panelists reviewed the protocols in place at each of their facilities—whether they be for handling unvaccinated patients or those who have Covid, ensuring safe visits from family members, cleaning processes for high-touch surfaces, adapting social experiences for those in assisted living—the clearest takeaway was the importance of communication — of knowing where to go for the most current information and finding the right experts to ask. A replay of the Herald Inside LI webinar “Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe” is available now. You can find it at http:// www.richnerlive.com/insideli/.

fiscal oversight board created by the New York State Legislature in 2000 to monitor and oversee the county’s finances following a debt crisis in the late 1990s that nearly bankrupted Nassau. Weitzman had also been a board member of the American Jewish Committee, a treasurer of Temple Israel of Great Neck and a board member of the United Community Fund of Great Neck. An avid adventurer, he traveled the world with his family, with he and his wife taking trips to Cambodia, Australia and Italy when their children were grown. He was also an avid boater who was a member of the Shelter Bay Yacht Club. In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by a sister, Leslie Kornfeld, and her husband, Edward; four grandchildren, Leo, Max, Morris and Ema, and many cousins, nieces and nephews. A funeral service was held last Thursday at Temple Israel of Great Neck, with burial following at Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens. Riverside-Nassau North Chapels made the arrangements.

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On Aug. 14, Haiti — the Caribbean island nation ravaged by an earthquake in 2010 — was struck again by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake. With more than 130,000 buildings destroyed, more than 12,000 injuries, and close to 2,500 deaths, it is the deadliest natural disaster of 2021 so far. Relief efforts were immediate in providing help to the communities affected, many of them rural and poverty stricken. The Freeport-Merrick Rotary Club, which has many members who are Haitian, was among the many to join the relief efforts. Having already held one successful drive, the club is still accepting donations, and has described their efforts as “ongoing.” “The first portion of the drive has been completed,” Rotary Club member Jordan Pecora told the Herald. Pecora is the head of the club’s membership committee and their public image committee. “It’s been an island-wide effort of the Rotary Clubs,” he explained, adding that various clubs on Long Island participated. “Our president and other members are Haitian — this is very near and dear to their hearts.” Including monetary donations, the club was accepting all sorts of supplies, such as a food, basic medical equipment like gloves, masks, rubbing alcohol, Tylenol and Advil, and also toiletries like towels and hand sanitizer. “We have direct contacts with other rotary clubs in Haiti, and we have people who actually know people who are there, and told us what is needed,” Pecora added. Immediate past-president of the club Florence Marc-Charles was of the many members who were closely involved with establishing direct contact to people in Haiti. “What we decided to do is focus our relief from Rotary Club to Rotary Club,” Marc-Charles explained. Having worked with two Rotary Clubs in Haiti in the past, Marc-Charles said they reached out to them and assessed how clubs on Long Island could be helpful. “We identified a few villages that were effected,” Marc-Charles added. “Relief

effort has been focused on getting specific supplies for those villages. Those supplies have been packed, are being transported, and will be distributed by Rotarians.” Additionally, Marc-Charles said a few hospitals in Haiti that took in airlifted patients were in desperate need of equipment. “We were able to purchase the things needed, and send them directly by plane to the hospitals,” she said. “The supplies that were transported by plane were urgent supplies and have been there for two weeks.” The other supplies collected were transported by boat, and left on Sept. 20. A transportation company — KBG Logistics — offered their service for free, and has been of tremendous help to the Rotary Club, according to Marc-Charles. “In the first round of donation — it was successful,” Pecora said. “It’s definitely not going to be enough. The earthquake hit one of the rural parts of Haiti.” The 2010 earthquake in Haiti had an epicenter close to Port-au-Prince, the nation’s capital city, which made it easier to provide relief, according to Pecora. However, with recent political unrest, there are still many Haitians living in makeshift camps due to damage sustained in 2010. “The more stuff we get, the better we can help,” Pecora said. “We are thankful for the generosity of the people of New York and the generosity of other Rotary Clubs— it is really extraordinary,” Marc-Charles said. “It is truly an organization where people want to serve.” Donations can be brought to a drop off site in Freeport, located at 294 West Merrick Road, Suite 12. Additionally, other Rotary Clubs in the area are also taking donations, and there is a spot on the club’s website to donate money directly. “It took a team of about ten people — packing those big boxes,” Marc-Charles said of the club’s efforts. “It was a tremendous effort, but it’s really what makes Rotary a great organization. “It was hard work, but I went home encouraged, inspired and lifted,” she added. “These are the things that give you hope.”

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Hofstra’s first woman president is inaugurated By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com

Hofstra University inaugurated its ninth — and first woman — president on Oct. 1 in grand fashion. Dr. Susan Poser now leads the institution — she first assumed her duties on Aug. 1. This is Poser’s first foray into guiding a university as a president. She was previously the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago, a Carnegie Research One university with 16 colleges, including seven health science colleges and more than 35,000 students, from 2016 to 2021. Poser joins a tighter-knit community at Hofstra, with roughly 10,000 students. Poser succeeds Stuart Rabinowitz, who retired this year after serving as president for 20 years. Under his lead, the university grew to include schools of medicine, nursing and physician studies, engineering and government, putting Hofstra on the map as an internationally competitive institution. Celebrations leading up to the inauguration were held throughout the week in the form of symposia that looked toward the future of education at Hofstra. From “Building and Bridging Our Future Together” to “Innovative Experiential Learning Opportunities in Engineering and Computer Science,” each featured experts in their respective fields lending their advice to fellow professionals and students alike. A keynote address by New York Times columnist and best-selling author Charles Blow kicked off the week. Throughout her two months at her post so far, Poser has also made her presence known on campus. She has often been seen touring around, stopping to chat with groups of students. After the singing of the Hofstra alma mater “Blue and Gold” by the Inauguration Vocal Ensemble, as well as welcomes from several of the university’s student and faculty leaders, Poser was congratulated by three close friends and colleagues. “To me and many others, [Poser] has always been a light from which many have been lit — a shining light that no one would dare, or could, dim,” said Daniel Dawes, director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine and a professor of law, policy and management. Dawes is one of Poser’s former students. As a first-generation immigrant student at the University of Nebraska, Poser, then a professor, took Dawes under her wing, he said. He was a young, anxious student who was 1,400 miles from home, but felt welcomed and accepted by Poser in the intimidating environment of law school. “I, for one, am frankly jealous of you all, because you get to bask in the warm glow of her light,” Dawes said. “But I’m also immensely excited to watch Hofstra shine brighter than ever before.” Barbara Wilson began a new position at the University of Illinois around the same time that Poser did, and their careers flourished together. In 2016, Wilson became the executive vice president for academic affairs, and the two worked

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hand in hand over five years on academic affairs. This year, Wilson was named the president of the University of Iowa a short five months after Poser received her promotion at Hofstra. “During the time we were in these positions, we navigated some sticky state politics; we managed a financial crisis in the state of Illinois that underfunded higher education pretty significantly; we managed the onslaught of Covid-19 and the challenging racial and equity issues, particularly after the murder of George Floyd,” Wilson said. “It was not an easy time. “Everyone that worked with Susan could see that she was destined to be a president,” Wilson said. “There is no shortage of persons who want to be the president of a university,” said Harvey Perlman, a professor of law and former chancellor at the University of Nebraska. “My experience, however, tells me there is a much smaller number of persons who want to do president of a university. “You have chosen wisely,” Perlman told the Hofstra community. “You have a new president who wants to do president, not just be one.” In her address, Poser reflected on Hofstra’s history of independence and innovations in education and student relations. “What a time we are living in, and what a time for higher education,” Poser said. “The pleasure of our renewed togetherness is real, but it cannot mask the challenges ahead.” Before Covid, the challenges were already apparent, she said: There were fewer high school graduation expectancies, skepticism about the value of a college education and new world of students who have always lived in a digital environment. “How we address these changes over the coming years will determine Hofstra’s future and the future of our students,” Poser said. “The idea of the pandemic as a portal or gateway serves as a useful metaphor to frame the challenges that we in higher education have before us,” Poser added. “If the pandemic is a portal, how will Hof-

DR. SuSAN PoSER was inaugurated as the ninth and first female president of Hofstra University on Oct. 1. CloSE CollEAGuES of Poser’s spoke at the inauguration, including Harvey Perlman, former chancellor and law professor at the University of Nebraska.

stra walk through it? What will we take, and what will we leave behind? What world are we ready to fight for? What kind of university and community do we want to imagine on the other side?” At UIC, Poser oversaw many accomplishments, including the acquisition of the John Marshall Law School as the first and only public law school in Chicago. She also focused on supporting faculty and enhancing diversity through several initiatives, including the creation of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence. She played a key role in creating two new cultural centers on campus, one focused on Arab American students and another on students with disabilities. Before becoming provost at UIC, Poser was the dean of the College of Law at the University of Nebraska from 2010 to 2016, the associate to the chancellor from 2007 to 2010 and a law professor for more than 15 years. While dean, the College of Law moved up 35 points in the “U.S. News & World Report” rankings. Poser grew up in New York City and majored in ancient Greek at Swarthmore College, graduating with honors. She earned a law degree and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.

Before starting her academic career, she clerked for the Dolores Sloviter, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia and served as the Zicklin Fellow in Ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Poser is also a recently appointed member of the Long Island Association Board of Directors, which will allow her to further engage with the Long Island community. Poser is married to Dr. Stephen DiMagno, an organic medicinal chemist, and they have two adult daughters. “I am so optimistic that if we come together, with pride and purpose,” Poser said, “we can do these things. Hofstra is beautifully positioned as a university — small enough to offer every student the opportunity to know their professors, participate in a wide variety of activities and influence their surroundings, and large enough to offer an array of academic and career opportunity for undergraduate, graduate and professional students. If we have the commitment, the discipline and the energy, we will prosper as never before.”

Seniors start tree-planting nonprofit Giving Trees to an admissions counselor. “They said this is exactly the type of thing they’d be interested in,” he said. Both teens find themselves in new leadership roles since they created their organization, something that has been rewarding and educational. “I haven’t done something like this before,” LaSalle said. “I’ve been to tree plantings before,” Prainito said, “but this is the first time I’ve taken on a leadership role,” which, he added, has been a great learning experience. At the fair, LaSalle said, they got a lot of donations — on Sunday in particular — and were “surprised, actually.” He and Prainito were accepting donations in cash and online, by scanning a QR code. “We were more successful then we thought we’d be,” LaSalle said. Students Giving Trees is looking to attract as much attention as possible as it works toward a tree planting early next year. Its two leaders are active on Facebook, @studentsgivingtrees, and online at studentsgivingtrees.org. Donations can be made on the website, and inquiries can be directed to studentsgivingtrees@gmail.com. “Our purpose — the purpose of this organization — is to just plant more trees on the Long Island,” Prainito said, which thus far, he added, has been embraced by a receptive and welcoming community.

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continued from front page school and out of school,” Prainito said. “To keep it in the community, we plan to purchase trees from local nurseries. Then we want to organize tree plantings in parks, preserves and other public spaces. “We’ve been in communication with local legislators to get the permission to plant on lots,” he explained. Getting in touch with those legislators has been “really easy,” according to Prainito, and he added that Nassau County Legislator Steve Rhoads put them in contact with the county parks commissioner. “We’ve also been in communication with the Arbor Day Foundation as well — their mission is the same as ours, but on a national level,” Prainito said. He and LaSalle plan to go away to college next year, but to stay within a three- or four-hour drive of the Bellmore area. Their hope is that their organization gains momentum, within and outside Kennedy, so that it’s passed on to future generations of students. They both said they wanted to stay involved in any way they could, even while away at school. Asked if they envisioned the organization expanding beyond the Bellmore area, they agreed that it was definitely a possibility. Prainito, who is considering continuing his education at Lehigh University, in Pennsylvania, said that on a recent visit, he mentioned Students

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The purpose of the public hearing is to allow any person to be heard in favor of or against the proposed budget as it submitted, or for or against any item or items contained in the proposed budget, and hearing all persons interested in the subject concerning same.

That a copy of the proposed budget is available at the Office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Hempstead at 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, NY 11530 and the Fire District Superintendent at the North Bellmore Fire District Office located at 1500 Newbridge Road, North Bellmore, NY 11710 where it may be inspected by any interested person during regular office hours (9:00am - 4:00pm) Dated: September 21, 2021 Board of Fire Commissioners North Bellmore Fire District 1500 Newbridge Road North Bellmore, NY 11710 127781 To place a notice here call us at 516-569-4000 x232 or send an email to: legalnotices@liherald.com

LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU BNB BANK, formerly known as THE BRIDGEHAMPTON NATIONAL BANK successor by merger with FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK, successor in interest to MADISON NATIONAL BANK, Plaintiff -against- BARRY DAVID COHEN A/K/A BARRY COHEN; JILL DONNA COHEN A/K/A JILL D. COHEN A/K/A JILL COHEN, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated March 18, 2019 and entered on March 19, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the North Side steps of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on November 8, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in Bellmore, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at point on the Southerly side of Rebecca Street, distant 317.59 feet Easterly from the extreme end of an arc of a curve connecting the Southerly side of Rebecca

Street with the Easterly side of Judith Drive; being a plot 60.00 feet by 100.00 feet by 60.00 feet by 100.00 feet. Section: 63 Block: 337 Lot: 6 All bidders must wear a face mask/shield at all times and social distancing must be observed by all bidders at all times. Bidders who do not comply with the face mask and/or the social distancing mandate will be removed from the auction. Said premises known as 2654 REBECCA STREET, BELLMORE, NY Approximate amount of lien $607,993.91 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. This foreclosure sale is subject to a first mortgage in an unknown principal amount. Index Number 16-008771 DAVID W. GRABER, ESQ., Referee CULLEN AND DYKMAN LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 44 WALL STREET, New York, NY 10005 {* BELLMORE L*} 127694

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Q. I hired a carpenter to rebuild my garage because it was rotted and leaning. The roof was OK, so we kept it, but all the walls were stripped away and replaced. In the middle of the job, an inspector showed up and stopped it, saying we needed a permit. I hired an architect, he made a plan and we filled in the permit. Now the plans have been rejected because, according to the inspector, they have to show fireproof walls and roof. That’s crazy! Nobody has that, so why am I being made to do this? It’s expensive, and I shouldn’t have to do it. I think they’re making me pay for starting with no permit, right? A. Not exactly, but you have to look at the big picture. You may feel like you’re getting burned, but the building code is actually named The Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code. Fire prevention is a primary reason that the building laws exist.

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In many cases, building departments allow onte eeper existing garages to have minor repairs without a permit, but only for things like replacing a garage door, a rotted section of wall base plate, shingles or siding, although you should always verify before starting. You described a near-complete rebuild, only saving the roof part of the garage, and your building official has determined that, beyond 50 percent change, the code for new buildings applies. Even though your zoning code allows a free-standing accessory structure to be 2 feet to 4 feet from a property line, depending on your community, garages that are closer than 5 feet to a property line must have materials that are rated to prevent flame spread for an hour.

This is especially important in places where there’s a volunteer fire department that must take the time to assemble from all over the community before even heading off to put out the flames. In that precious time, without flame-retardant materials, the structure may not just become completely engulfed, but also spread fire to adjacent houses and other structures. Unless you never catch the news, you can clearly see how vulnerable whole towns and cities are, and just because we don’t live next to a forest, the unthinkable can still happen. As for cost, aluminum siding, which actually still exists, may cost less, can be painted to match the house and lasts an average of 35 years. Fiber cement siding also does the job, but costs more. Other choices include stucco over cement board and steel panels, all more costly. Aluminum or cement board eaves, gutters and roofing are also required, and even though most of the home construction industry doesn’t read or know the regulations, the requirements still exist, and cost the most when they aren’t adhered to and the work has to be done twice. So don’t feel like you’re being singled out or being held to the fire. The rules exist for all of us. Good luck! © 2021 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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ctober is a unique month. It’s time for apple picking, watching the trees change color and, if the weather permits, taking long car trips to interesting places. Depending on where you live, it’s also the time for candidates for public office to make their final arguments as to why you should vote for them on Nov. 2. And if you live in Nassau County and are a registered voter, you’re seeing that lastminute blitz to make sure you show up on Election Day. JERRY Unlike years when we elect a KREMER president, in politics this is considered an off year, with most of the campaigns involving candidates for local office. The biggest races in our county are for county executive, district attorney and comptroller. County Executive Laura Curran is favored to be re-elected, due to her professionalism and support from both political parties. That leaves the contests for district attorney and comptroller.

The hottest competition will be for the office of district attorney. Mailboxes all over the county are being flooded with materials promoting the candidacy of State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, and Anne Donnelly, a Republican and an assistant D.A. This one campaign could wind up costing the candidates as much as $6 million, and possibly more. Having once represented the South Shore of Nassau County in the State Assembly, I have gotten to know Todd Kaminsky, and have watched his political career rise rapidly. Our career paths are somewhat alike. I started out as a city attorney in Long Beach, and he started out as a federal prosecutor. I prosecuted local slumlords, and as a federal prosecutor he was given the opportunity to prosecute high-profile criminals. In my late 20s, I got a chance to run for the State Assembly, and he got his opening to run for the State Senate. To the benefit of Long Island taxpayers, Kaminsky has been a hard-working legislator who has been a leader on criminal and environmental issues. He was the principal sponsor of a law to take pen-

sions away from corrupt elected officials. He has gotten tougher drunken-driving laws and battled opioid manufacturers and doctors who dispense drugs too freely. During my time in Albany, I passed many laws in similar areas, and like Kaminsky was the leader of the Long Island legislative delegation in Albany. I applauded his decision to run for district attorney, because he has been a strong voice on so many issues of concern to the public. The State Senate leaders turn to him for advice on criminal and environmental law issues. He is responsible for the $3 billion environmental cleanup bond that will be on the ballot in 2022. Donnelly, who claims that Kaminsky was the “author” of the bailreform law, has criticized him. I know for a fact that he was not its author, and he has battled his own party on this issue. Politics is a tough and unforgiving business. If you stay in one elected position for a long period of time, you are accused of being part of the “establishment.” If you run for higher office a few years after getting elected to a different job, you are accused of being too “ambi-

eciding who leads Nassau County is a great reason to go to the polls next month.

tious.” I had the chance to run for statewide office twice, but a family tragedy prevented that from happening. I know Kaminsky’s opponent to be a long-term veteran of the D.A.’s office. In the end, it will be up to the voters to decide whom they want for district attorney. There is another countywide contest on the ballot, for the important job of county comptroller. While the public focus has been on the D.A.’s race, the job of keeping an eye on taxpayers’ money is also crucial. Former Republican State Sen. Elaine Phillips is challenging Democrat Ryan Cronin for that position. I have worked with Phillips, and found her to be an excellent public official. This will be another important choice for Nassau County voters. I hope they won’t decide to skip this year’s election, because any election, whether for dogcatcher or president, is important. If you stay home on Election Day, you get the kind of government you deserve. Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.

Really, what’s up with the whole world?

ave you noticed that the seams don’t meet the right way and the doorjamb is wobbly? Our house is unstable. The beams of this great edifice called America are slightly off plumb in a number of disturbing ways.Nothing at all is exactly as it was before the pandemic overwhelmed the United States. In small ways and profound ways, cultural and political forces are impeding the ordinary progression of life in America. But then, what’s ordinary? Most of us have given up RANDI on the concept of KREISS going back to “normal,” and what passes for normal these days is disquieting. It isn’t just the pandemic, as if one could write off a highly infectious novel virus that swept around the world, killing 700,000 people here at home. It is how the pandemic was handled from the time it was discovered, then covered up, then ignored, then addressed with inoculation and medical efforts that ranged from inadequate to state-of-the-art medicine. I just checked in to the CDC website and

saw that they have now broken-down categories of information into: What We Know and What We Are Still Learning. That’s good. The fact that there is a learning curve in science seems to have challenged the efficacy of the coronavirus vaccines, which by any reasonable account have been remarkably successful in saving lives. We are in a world where scientists are vilified for not having all the answers, the president is begging and bribing folks to take a shot that will keep them out of the hospital, and large swaths of people are bonding online and deciding that it is safer to throw away our protective masks, refuse the vaccine and embrace bizarre and debunked remedies for this deadly disease. With some few exceptions, there is no excuse for refusing a mask and a vaccine. Using horse de-wormer instead of monoclonal antibodies? It’s kind of like what Justice Potter Stewart said of pornography: I know crazy when I see it. The problem is that those of us who have followed the science and had the vaccine, and perhaps the booster, by now can feel safe, but not completely safe. If we have young children or grandchildren, we

see those who refuse the vaccine as a direct threat to the health of our family. As we re-emerge into the world, the places we go are all changed. How did the “office” disappear in two years? Transportation is different from what it was, with some mask rules and some vaccine requirements on planes and trains. Some travel, like cruises, requires not just the time and money, but a willing suspension of disbelief. If you can’t bear cooking one more meal at home and venture out, chances are the server and possibly the chef are new hires. The workforce is sliced and diced, and not many people are fully trained for the jobs they are doing. If you talk to a friend of the heart for more than hi-and-how-are-you, chances are you’ll get into your mutual stress levels and anxiety. The psychiatrists don’t have enough hours for the people who need help, because we all need some help right now. If you live in a community or apartment building of some kind, then you know about improvement projects being delayed because the painter shows up but there’s no paint. My son finally got his

he places we go are all changed. How did the ‘office’ disappear in two years?

new roof, but the roofer had no gutters to install. Costco is out of toilet paper again. There are people who don’t have enough food, who can’t get to work, who have no health care and who don’t have proper shelter. We are living in a country that desperately needs new bridges and tunnels and roads. There is a good a plan to rebuild and, at this moment, it may not get passed by Congress. Not because we don’t need it. Not because most Americans don’t support it. But because the government is paralyzed by partisanship and ignorance and fear. This morning I read in The Washington Post that in Anchorage, Alaska, people attended a public hearing on mask wearing with yellow Stars of David on their arms, equating the mask requirement to Nazi-era restrictions on Jews in Germany that led to the Holocaust and the death of some 6 million people. I am worried for us. Most disturbing is the elevation of lies for personal and political gain. For me, there is some comfort in bearing witness to this time. We must keep talking and writing, acknowledging the losses and summoning the strength to tighten the floor joists and secure the roof. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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ispanics are Nassau County’s fastest-growing ethnic population, County Executive Laura Curran noted in mid-September, the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated each year since 1988, and before that as Hispanic Heritage Week, beginning in 1968. From Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we recognize the many rich cultural and economic contributions of Hispanic people to the United States. The celebration was first signed into law as a week by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, and expanded to a month by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. In 2016, the Herald explored Hispanic immigration to our region in a series, “The Changing Face of Long Island,” and we wrote this in a December editorial that year: “There is much talk about how Long Islanders are leaving for elsewhere because of the high cost of living. The Island, however, actually saw a net gain in population because of immigration. Suffolk’s population remained largely unchanged between 2000 and 2012, while Nassau’s increased by roughly 78,500 people, according to census data. “Immigrants have been arriving on Long Island for more than six decades, but the pace of immigration has accelerated within the last 10 years, with an average of 20,000 Long Island immigrants annually receiving citizenship. “Immigrants, it appears, are bypassing the big cities and settling in the suburbs. That’s a good thing for Long Island.” We should now add this: There is a false impression that most Hispanics are immigrants. While that might have once been true, it no longer is. Most Hispanics in the

United States were born here and are American citizens, having become deeply ingrained in the fabric of American society. According to the New American Economy Research Fund, a bipartisan, nonprofit immigration advocacy group, there are 58.8 million Hispanic Americans in the U.S. Just over two-thirds of them — or 39.2 million — were born here, while 19.6 million were born outside the country. Combined, Hispanic immigrants and U.S.-born Hispanics now comprise 18.1 percent of the U.S. population. By 2050, the Hispanic population in the U.S. is expected to double, to 106 million, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates. In 2017, Hispanic households earned more than $1 trillion and paid some $252.2 billion in taxes, including $165.9 billion in federal income taxes and $86.3 billion in state and local taxes, the NEA Research Fund found. At the same time, today’s most recently arrived Hispanic immigrants are better educated than those who landed here only a decade ago. Between 2005 and 2010, only 15.1 percent of Hispanic immigrants held a bachelor’s degree. Between 2012 and 2017, 28.5 percent did, roughly in line with the overall U.S. population. Despite all of this, Hispanics are frequent targets of discrimination. A recent report by the Hispanic Marketing Council noted, “Fifty-five percent (but only 15 percent of non-Hispanics) said Latinos encounter frequent discrimination, while 67 percent of Hispanics strongly or somewhat agree that as a group they are discriminated against more than other ethnic minorities.” In particular, we must recognize that

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America’s Hispanic population is not monolithic — it is diverse, with a variety of cultures according to people’s countries of origin. A Mexican American, an Argentine American and a Dominican American might share the same Spanish language, but their cultures of origin are very different. We saw the issue recently play out in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of his Broadway sensation “In the Heights,” a musical that speaks to the hopes and dreams of Hispanic people living in the close-knit New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights, overlooking the Hudson River, in view of the George Washington Bridge. The film, released on HBO Max, was widely praised for its artistry, but criticized because it failed to include darkskinned Afro-Latinos, who comprise a significant portion of Washington Heights’s actual population, among the film’s leading characters. That is, the film treated Hispanics as members of a single culture. Miranda took to Twitter to acknowledge the psychic pain the film may have caused, writing, “I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism, of feeling still unseen in the feedback … Without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy. In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short.” There is a lesson here that all of us can take away: We must see Hispanic Americans as individuals, each with his or her own heritage that contributes to the American landscape, including here in Nassau County, one of the most diverse places in the nation.

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lthough I was raised in the United States as a Hispanic immigrant, born to immigrant parents, I have long been blasé about Hispanic Heritage Month. As a kid, I would stare curiously at the school calendar marking this month-long celebration and shrug it off as just another quirky, throwaway American holiday, like Groundhog Day or National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. Interesting to some, peculiar to many, and something that I didn’t particularly care for. JUAn Perhaps it was the odd proposiLAsso tion that somehow, some way, you could condense the cultures and national histories of more than 600 million people under a catchall term like “Hispanic heritage.” It’s true that there is some measure of shared experience, some invisible thread linking us Hispanics (for lack of a better term) together in this country we call home. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend the better part of my young adult life standing shoulder to shoulder with a diverse crowd of Hispanic community leaders and intellectuals, including academics, student leaders, attorneys and a

legislator. Each of these movers and shakers, with his or her own story and cultural identity, is proudly committed to improving the lives of fellow Hispanic Americans. So you would think that, over the years, I would have shed my small-minded childhood indifference and come to have a deeper appreciation, even love, for this time to recognize the contributions of Hispanic Americans. But I haven’t. I still don’t relish this special month. I don’t have anything against Hispanic Heritage Month. I simply don’t understand the meaning of the term “Hispanic heritage.” The conventional definition of “Hispanic” is broad enough to encompass people who trace their roots to Latin America and Spain. The term came into wide use in the 1970s, when there were issues with the U.S. census, and Hispanic organizations and leaders sought a term to identify the growing minority residing coast to coast. Hispanic was chosen as an imperfect but useful messenger to signal to those in the halls of power, and to neighborhoods across the U.S., that we were here, too, we mattered, and we were here to stay. So this celebration, too, was a push for such visibility and inclusion. The month

he term leaves the misguided impression that we have a fully integrated history.

Letters inflicted on them. The funds we are infusing into New York today and going forward will be used to invest in prevention, treatment and recovery. While no amount of money will ever compensate for the millions of addictions, the hundreds of thousands of deaths or the countless families torn apart by opioids, this money will be vital in preventing future devastation. Opioid manufacturers and distributors were responsible for heavily marketing opioids to doctors, hospitals, health-care systems and others, which led to the over-prescription of the drugs across New York and the rest of the nation over the last two decades. The manufacturers included in our state lawsuit include Purdue Pharma and its affiliates, as well as members of the Sackler family (owners of Purdue) and the trusts they control; Janssen Pharmaceuticals and its affiliates (including its parent company, Johnson & Johnson); Mallinckrodt LLC and its affiliates; Endo Health Solutions and its affiliates; Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and its affiliates; and Allergan Finance LLC and its affiliates. The distributors named in the complaint were McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health Inc., Amerisource Bergen Drug Corporation

was intended to validate the reality that we Hispanic Americans have, since the beginning of America’s founding, added to the rich and diverse tapestry of the democratic experiment, anchoring us as members of the American popular concept of “the people.” As President Lyndon Johnson declared, “The people of Hispanic descent are the heirs of missionaries, captains, soldiers and farmers who were motivated by a young spirit of adventure, and a desire to settle freely in a free land … This heritage is ours.” And yes, that much is true. Hispanics have fought and continue to fight in the nation’s wars, contribute to its art and culture, and sit in the highest offices of political power as proud citizens and servants. But when examined more closely, the term “Hispanic heritage” brings with it a mess of ambiguity and confusion. The term leaves the misguided impression that Latin America has a single, fully integrated history tracing its beginnings to Spanish and European colonialism. Using this as the starting point for our story overshadows the bigger picture. Multitudes of people from Europe, Africa and Asia collided with multitudes of others from pre-Columbian societies, not knowing that they would be caught in a

whirlwind of encounters, battles and unions that would dynamically entangle different people from vastly different regions and histories. This, in turn, sowed the seeds for cultural innovation and diffusion that would sprout into modern-day countries and societies unlike anything the world has ever seen. Latin America, therefore, has no definitive maker’s mark etched into its diverse past, no single heritage. For the sake of becoming a distinct, recognizable cohort in American demographics, we have regrettably traded away a part of reality we so-called “Hispanics” understand all too well but often fail to articulate. We are not one singular, panethnic group. According to Pew Research, most Hispanics prefer to use their country of origin to identify themselves. Yet despite my serious qualms, I do now see the wisdom in devoting a monthlong celebration to exploring the unique complexity of our Latin American identities, and celebrating Hispanics who have and continue to serve the U.S. as one nation, one people, yet with feet still firmly planted in the pride and love of their distinct cultural histories. All that I’d recommend is that if Americans are to get the most out of this month-long celebration, they start to think of us beyond the term “Hispanic.” Juan Lasso is editor of the Valley Stream Herald.

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Is congestion pricing the answer? To the Editor: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s proposed congestion price tolling is politically sensitive. Congestion pricing may not kick in until January 2023. Final details of who will pay still need to be established. Elected officials will lobby for discounts or exemptions for police officers, firefighters, teachers, low-income workers, outerborough New York City residents, seniors, the physically disabled, small commercial delivery drivers, users of electric vehicles or other special niches. These discounts or exemptions will likely be adopted to placate the constituents of elected officials running for reelection in 2021 or 2022. You can’t capture five years of toll revenues, estimated to be $1 billion per year (leveraged to raise $15 billion in support of MTA’s $51

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billion 2020-24 five-year capital plan), when you implement the program three years or more after 2020. The late start for implementation, a downturn in the economy, more people telecommuting full- and part-time, and a series of discounts and exemptions to tolls could result in billions of lost

anticipated revenue. LARRY PENNER Great Neck Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.

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