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Islanders fans raise the roof

Supermarket’s turkey giveaway

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JFK student government lends a hand and a student government community service co-coordinator.

“On the way out of the store, At John F. Kennedy High [shoppers] would donate food.

School in Bellmore, the student Post-Covid, we’ve had to take government raised nearly $7,000 alternative routes, but I think we in just two weeks to fund a food had a good outcome.” drive for the Bellmore-Merrick “We had to adapt,” Nicole Central High School Giordano, 16, of BellDistrict’s Communimore, added. Giordaty Cupboard ahead no is a junior at Kenof the holiday seanedy, and the other son. community service The Community co-coordinator.

Cupboard is the disThe government trict’s food pantry, at decided that this the Brookside School year, instead of solicin Merrick. It serves iting food donations, family in the district its members would who are in need of acce pt monetary financial support. donations and use The Cupboard is run NIColE them to go shopping. by volunteer faculty Using the Venmo members and stu- GIoRDANo app, they started colStudent government lecting money on dents.

At JFK High, the community service Nov. 1, and in two student government weeks they collected co-coordinator always organizes a $6,785. yearly food drive in “Everyone has support of the CupVenmo nowadays,” board, but since the start of the Giordano said. “We made a coronavirus pandemic, tradi- Venmo chart for social media, tional food drives have been chal- and there were boxes that had lenging. “Prior to Covid, we used certain amounts of money, from to have a food drive by soliciting $1 to $10.” outside of super markets,” The chart was shared with explained Layla Schechner, 17, of Bellmore, a senior at Kennedy Continued on page 16

By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com

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Bring on the suds for a cause Ira Wishe, left, owner of Sunrise Car Wash in Merrick, organized a fundraiser for ACDS, an agency that runs a day habilitation in Merrick, Above, attendees held a cermonial check. Story, Page 3.

Parents leave shoes to protest Covid-19 mandates in schools

By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com

On Nov. 18, parents in more than 50 school districts across New York state took part in Operation Shoe Drop — an initiative that was created in response to Covid-19-related mandates in schools.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website, “Students benefit from in-person learning … vaccination is the leading public

health prevention strategy to end the Covid-19 pandemic.”

The site further states, “Due to the circulating and highly contagious Delta variant, CDC recommends universal indoor masking by all students (age 2 and older), staff, teachers, and visitors to K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status.”

Though there is no current mandate for students in New York state schools to be vaccinated, there is increasing concern among parents who are opposed

to the vaccine — or to a mandate — that there will soon be one.

Kim Boyette, of Merrick, who has a daughter at John F. Kennedy High School, created the Operation Shoe Drop Facebook page on Nov. 13. She said the page “went from an idea to over 6,000 people.”

Boyette explained that the first shoe drop — with parents leaving shoes in front of a school building — took place in a California school district earlier this Continued on page 9

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ACDS — formerly known as the Association for Children with Down Syndrome — serves children and adults with varying levels of disabilities.

Megan Lombardo, of Rockville Centre, the ACDS director of development, said the nonprofit was founded more than 50 years ago by a group of parents who had children with Down syndrome. They were told they should institutionalize their children, as was common practice then, but they didn’t want to. They wanted them home.

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ACDs AttENDEEs WIth the ceremonial check at the Sunrise Car Wash. ACDS has a day habilitation center and numerous group homes in Merrick.

Supporting ACDS, one wash at a time MARy sMIth, ChRIstINE Achatz, Stephanie Zapata, Daniel Neches, Jamie Guaricci and Vincent Perri, who all attend the day habilitation center in Merrick, had fun inside the car wash.

By JORDAN VALLONE jvallone@liherald.com

Drivers in Bellmore-Merrick have likely passed by, or maybe even stopped at, Sunrise Car Wash on Sunrise Highway in Merrick.

Ira Wishe, 46, of Syosset, the car wash’s new owner, said he knew instantly that he wanted to give back to the community after taking over the e s t abl i s h m e n t i n June. “I was on Wall Street for 20 years,” Wishe said, “and while I was there, I did a lot of philanthropy work, raised a lot of money for a lot of charities. It was very important for me to give back to local communities.”

IRA WIshE Partnering with Sunrise Car Wash ACDS, an organizaowner tion that serves children and adults with disabilities, Wishe ran a fundraiser called “Car Wash for a Cause.” On Tuesdays and Wednesdays from Sept. 14 to Oct. 13, $2 from every wash was donated to ACDS, raising $1,024 for the agency, which serves many families in Bellmore and Merrick.

“It just so happened that one day, we were washing a van for ACDS,” Wishe explained.

“I was talking to the [day habilitation attendees] who were in my wash, and I was talking to the person who brought them in, and said, ‘I want to give back to the community.’

“They said, ‘Well, we have a school and a building right here in Merrick.’ So I gave them my information,” he said.

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t was very important for me to give back to local communities.

Wishe was connected with Megan Lombardo, ACDS’s development director, and together, they figured out the fundraiser.

“It was Ira’s idea and vision,” Lombardo said. “He came up with an amount, and we’re just so grateful because it’s been such a hard time for our agency. We really have a big presence in Merrick.

“The support of a local business was so important to us post-Covid, when all of our

fundraising events have all been canceled,” she continued.

Mary Smith, one of the day habilitation attendees in Merrick, said she was thankful for Wishe’s support. Funds raised will go to support ACDS’s operations in Merrick.

“I love to have donations for ACDS,” Smith said. “I can’t wait to keep fundraising” for the agency.

“These parents fought back, brought their children home, but then needed to build the services they would need,” Lombardo, 40, said. “In our early days, we were serving exclusively children, but as they grew, we grew with them.”

ACDS now offers lifetime services, and because the agency serves more than children with Down syndrome, it changed its name to simply ACDS. “To reflect the breath of services and diversity of our constituents, we just go by ACDS,” Lombardo said. “It no longer stands for anything.”

In Merrick, ACDS operates a day habilitation center across the street from Sacred Heart Church on Merrick Avenue. The organization also runs a few group homes in Merrick. Its headquarters is in Plainview, and the group serves families throughout Nassau County and parts of Suffolk County.

Lead day specialist Lucia Cicchetti, 25, of Lynbrook, said that at the day habilitation program, children and adults learn how to cook, keep their money and do their laundry.

“We are a program without walls,” Cicchetti said. “We just provide a safe environment for them to have fun and express themselves.”

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Stew Leonard’s helps out the community

By MALLORY WILSON mwilson@liherald.com

Members of the East Meadow Fire Department joined elected officials and Stew Leonard’s workers outside Stew Leonard’s on Nov. 18 to help give out over 40 boxes of turkeys ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

This is the fifth year of Stew Leonard’s tradition of giving out turkeys to help those who might not have meals for their Thanksgiving table has been in the community. Cars and trucks were lined up throughout the store’s parking lot waiting to pull up to the building to receive their turkey donations.

Stew Leonard’s started this tradition of donating turkeys to charities and local organizations near its supermarkets in 1979. The East Meadow location opened in 2017 and the store has continued the tradition ever since.

“This started back in the original store,” Joe Vota, vice president of operations for Stew Leonard’s said. “We like to be a part of the community, be familybased and there’s a lot of great people in East Meadow, a lot of great residents.

“We get a great reception,” he added.

“We like to work with the churches and a lot of these people are our customers as well and love to help out.”

Charities can apply to be beneficiaries of the turkey giveaway, but others were selected after a representative of Stew Leonard’s called them and asked if they needed help with stocking their food pantries.

“When the organizations are selected we try to fit the number of turkeys they need the best we can,” Vato said. “We base it off of the need.”

Thanksgiving is a great time to put an emphasis on those in need of food but the need is constant, Christine Schulz, the treasurer and long-time member of Calvary Lutheran Church in East Meadow said.

“It’s very generous on Stew Leonard’s

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SteW LeONARd’S eMpLOYeeS, elected officials and members of the E.M. Fire Department helped pack cars and vans with the donated turkeys. part,” Schulz said. “It helps a lot of families. A turkey can feed a family for a few days.”

Calvary Lutheran Church has been a participant in this turkey donation since Stew Leonard’s came to East Meadow five years ago, Christine Schulz, the treasurer and long-time member of Calvary said.

“It’s a very nice donation from them,” Schulz said. “What they do as an outreach to the community is even better. It’s heartfelt.”

The 15 turkeys they received will be going to the Luthern Social Services center in Uniondale, now known as the LIFE Center.

This is the third year that the East Meadow Fire Department has participated said John A. Priest, captain of Engine Company 1.

“This is our third year participating in this turkey event where they give away turkeys to needy organizations and churches

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and PTA’s and other places,” Jim Kane, the East Meadow fire inspector said. “They called us and asked us to participate as their community group like we have been for years.”

It’s a great way to give back to the community, Priest said.

“It’s good networking with the community,” Kane added. “It gets us to connect with them for public safety information as well as assisting with whatever their needs may be.”

Over 200 turkeys were donated locally to roughly 20 organizations such as nonprofits, food pantries, churches and PTA’s nearby to the Stew Leonard’s East Meadow location. In total, the company distributed 3,000 turkeys throughout the tri-state area.

The PTA organizations that participated included the North Bellmore PTA, which serves the North Bellmore School District’s five elementary schools. Each school has its own PTA board, and there is also a coordinating council that helps run events for the district as a whole. Aside from the Thanksgiving drive, the PTA also runs a coat drive through Coats for Kids, and a winter accessories drive.

“This is not the first year we’ve done this,” Michael Rut, PTA co-president from the John G. Dinklemeyer Elementary School said of the turkey distribution.

“This year we got 20 turkeys — 4 for each school. They were distributed to needy families [in the district].”

Wendi Murphy, president of the North Bellmore PTA coordinating council said that each school runs a Thanksgiving food drive that consists of non-perishable and perishable items. The council works with Stew Leonard’s to secure turkeys to donate, she added. The identity of families receiving the turkeys remains anonymous.

The path to the Stew Leonard’s everyone knows now, is a humble one. Charles Leo Leonard started Clover Farms Dairy in Norwalk in the early 1920s. In 1969, his son Stew converted it into a retail dairy store that he called Stew Leonard’s. In 1987, Stew Jr. took over what eventually expanded into a six-store chain in Connecticut and New York. In December 2016, the chain opened its first Long Island location in Farmingdale and, about six months later, it introduced its second in East Meadow.

“Of course we have our heroes, local heroes, the members of the East Meadow Fire Department,” Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray said. “...I just wanted to say thank you so much to Stew Leonard’s for opening its heart to those in need.”

Jordan Vallone contributed to this story.

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Isles fans raise the roof on their new ‘Barn’ UBS Arena opening ends a 20-year battle for team’s home base

By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com

Islanders fans from across Long Island made the pilgrimage on Saturday to the team’s new home at UBS Arena in Elmont. Despite a disappointing game result — the Islanders lost to the Calgary Flames 5-2 — fans were elated to finally have a home for their favorite hockey team after years of uncertainty, recreating the exuberant cheering that so defined games at Nassau Coliseum, known affectionately as “The Barn.”

The $1.1 billion arena at Belmont Park already means a great deal to fans who have watched the team through years when the Nassau Coliseum fell into disrepair and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn offered obstructed seating. The fanbase survived rumors of the team’s move to Quebec City or Kansas City in the 1990s and 2000s and has STeven finally been Ferraro rewarded with an Islanders fan arena that pays homage to both them and the players of yesteryear.

“I’m 26 years old, and I’ve been waiting my entire life to see this building open,” Steven Ferraro, of Rockville Centre, said.

“It was the Lighthouse and then whatever after, but the [new] building [is] absolutely fantastic, just gorgeous.” Ferraro said his favorite aspect of the structure so far is the Heineken Terrace above the main entrance, saying it’s unusual to have clublike atmosphere at a hockey game.

The late John Kempf was remembered at the game by his wife and son, Christine and Sean Kempf, who carried around a cardboard cutout of him. A detective in the Suffolk County Police Department, John died in April 2020 after a battle with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease — a rare degenerative brain disorder. During his tough fight, Kempf got to speak to his all-time favorite Islander, John Tonnelli, on the phone.

“It means everything to be here,” Sean Kempf said. “[My father] was a lifelong fan, and he passed that down to us.” Sean also said that his father was a huge fan of both Zach Parise and Zdeno Chara and would have been blown away if he had seen them both acquired by the Islanders in the off-season.

Mark Martinez, of Levittown, said he became an Islanders fan along with his school friends when the team visited Summit Lane Elementary School when they were children. “When we were little, tickets were cheap and we would go to every game, and now we still go to every game. It’s a part of our friendship now,” Martinez said.

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more Than 17,000 Islanders fans brought the old Nassau Coliseum energy to their new home at UBS Arena in Elmont.

The Blue and Orange Army in Section 329 brought soccer-style chanting throughout the game.

ISleS FanS goT pumped up before entering UBS Arena for the first time.

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Diego to the United Kingdom were placed above the raucous Section 329 crowd. The section, carried over from the Coliseum, serenades the team with soccer-style chants and drum playing throughout the game.

The much-touted low roof of the building traps the noise, giving amazing moments like when the crowd sang along with Nicole Raviv during the national anthem. There were glimpses of what the atmosphere can be like when the team gets going, like when Richard Panik laid the first big hit or when the referees announced Brock Nelson’s first goal.

Superfans Jake Basile and Nicholas Constantinidis, from Plainview, came to the game carrying cardboard cutouts of Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech’s face.

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UBS Arena opens Nov. 20 to much fanfare years ago, now even selling merchandise to the over 8,000 followers of their Instagram page, “Bathtubjake.”

“A lot of guys from the Barn days were kind of concerned about this not being home, but it really felt like it tonight,” Basile said. “This is genuinely a dream come true. It’s so surreal. The atmosphere was great. Not the result we wanted from the game, but the arena was absolutely amazing,” Constantinidis said. “It

felt like this is ours, this is our amazing, 21st-century arena. We finally joined the club.”

Co-owner Jon Ledecky, who purchased the team with business partner Scott Malkin in 2016, spoke to and took pictures with fans outside the arena before the game.

“You can hear the fans are so excited and they’re saying, ‘Thank you,’ which is great, but we’re saying it back, because without them and their support, this building doesn’t happen,” Ledecky said.

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NiCholas CoNstaNtiNidis aNd Jake Basile of the “Pelech Posse” with cutouts of their favorite Islanders defenseman, Adam Pelech.

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In Bellmore-Merrick, parents protest mandates rie Kalish, of Bellmore, who has a 14-year-old son at John F. Kennedy High School and a 10-year-old daughter at Shore Road Elementary, told the Herald. “I inoculated my children not only for their own health, but for the benefit of public health. I look forward to a future where they don’t have to wear a mask in school.”

Resident of neighboring school districts, including East Meadow, Seaford and Wantagh, also took part in the shoe drop. The following day, the shoes were collected by the organizers of the event and taken to State Sen. John Brooks’s office in Massapequa. They were later donated to a soccer team in East Islip that was running a shoe drive.

“Maybe one day I’ll be like, ‘Let’s all go get the vaccine,’” Boyette said. “But we’re not there yet, and the truth is, enough people have gotten it that we should be OK. “It’s like the flu shot,” she added.

“Not everyone gets the flu shot. Not everyone should have to get the vaccine. This [protest] literally was formed in less than six days, and look at all the shoes we have. People want freedom, and that’s it.”

Mallory Wilson contributed to this story.

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On nOv. 19, parents in 50 school districts across New York State participated in Operation School Drop. A sign reading “My Child My Choice” was spread out on the front lawn of the Brookside School in Merrick.

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and NYS and Nassau County Health officials. The procedures outlined will be reviewed continuously and revised as necessary to best meet the needs of our students.”

The momentum to end mask mandates in schools is quickly growing — but as of now, the state has no plans to change the rules. On Nov. 16, Governor Kathy Hochul tweeted, “If we want to get to the point where we don’t need masks — in schools especially — we need to get through the holidays without a spike.”

If the state sees no spike, Hochul added, she would direct the state Department of Health “to look at ways to relax measures, including masks in schools.”

Although masks mandates were a contributing factor to the Shoe Drop, the most pressing issue was vaccines. “Most of us are not anti-vaccine,” Boyette said of those who took part in the demonstration. “We are anti-mandate, and we’re anti-this vaccine.

“It’s only been around less than a year, and if a person wants it, that’s great — I am so happy people that want [the vaccine] can get it,” she went on. “But I don’t want it, and I don’t want my daughter to have it, because I don’t know the longterm effects.”

Many parents in Bellmore-Merrick, however, are vaccine supporters. For them, the inoculations represent a step toward post-pandemic normalcy.

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month. Dropping shoes represented students walking out of the school or leaving a district should mandates persist, according to Boyette.

“Parental choice,” she said. “We need parental choice.”

In Bellmore-Merrick, the shoe drop took place at the Brookside School in Merrick. Parents in the North Bellmore School District, the Bellmore Public School District, the North Merrick Union Free School District, the Merrick Union Free School District and the BellmoreMerrick Central High School District took part.

Brookside School is home to the administrative offices of the BMCHSD, and by the end of the evening, over 250 pairs of shoes had been left on its front lawn, along with letters, notes and signs demanding parental choice.

The district had not responded to a request for comment at press time.

According to its 2021 guidelines, students and adults inside any district school are required to wear masks.

A statement sent out by BMCHSD Superintendent Mike Harrington reads, “The goal has been to balance safety with the return to normalcy whenever possible … decision making was informed by our experiences over the many months of the COVID-19 pandemic and guidance from the CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the NYS Education Department

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events and activities

community update Sunday, Nov. 28

Gazebo for a fun morning and kick off the holiday season.

15th Annual Great Menorah Parade - Merrick Chabad

Sunday, Dec. 5

Come down to the Merrick Chabad for the 15th Annual Great Menorah Parade.

A Fire Truck & Vintage Car with Rooftop Menorahs lwill ead the way, as participants walk in the parade with special visitors along the way! The destination is a 12 Ft Menorah at the Merrick Train Station. Parade will leave the Chabad center at 4:15. There will be dignitary greetings, hot latkes, delicious donuts, music and dancing. Town Supervisor Don Clavin will light the Shamash. At 4:45, there will be a performance by the JELC Preeschoolers and Chabad Hebrew School Students, followed by Keith the Fire Juggler.

Holiday Lighting hosted by the Merrick Chamber of Commerce Join the Merrick Chamber of Commerce at 5 p.m. for a special holiday lighting extravaganza. Come down to the Merrick Gazebo for a fun evening and kick off the holiday season.

Monday, Dec. 6 Intro to Android Devices at the NBPL

Monday, Nov. 29 Introduction to the IPad or IPhone at the North Bellmore Public Library Visit the North Bellmore Public library for this Introduction to the iPad and iPhone: Learn all about Apple’s hottest gadget. In this class, you will get a hands-on tutorial of your iPhone/ iPad’s device, learn how to get online, understand important device settings, learn about the latest ios system, and discover many tips and tricks. Bring your iPad or iPhone or just come and listen. Prerequisite – Bring Apple ID and Password. This will take place in the community room and start at 1:00 p.m. Pleae contact vkowalewski@ northbellmorelibrary.org with any questions. Please register in advance on the library’s website.

Tuesday, Nov. 30 South Merrick Community Civic Association Meering The South Merrick Community Civic Association will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. at the Merrick Golf Clubhouse. Guest speakers will include officer’s from the 7th precinct’s problem oriented policing unit. Please call 516-978-8310 for info. All residents are welcome.

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In this class, students will get an introduction to their Android device (phone or tablet). Students will learn about their device’s home screen, system apps, learn how to access the Internet and email, understand their device’s settings, and discover many tips and tricks. Pleae contact vkowalewski@ northbellmorelibrary.org with any questions. Please register in advance.

Newbridge food donations stay within the family Newbridge Road Elementary School sixth graders, from left, Angelina Abbondondolo, Elyzabeth Kuchynskas, Liana Brugge, Emma Czyz, A.J. Navarro and Michael Imperiale helped sort donations.

Wednesday, Dec. 1

Tiny Art Project for Adults at the NBPL

Bellmore Chamber of Commerce Menorah Lighting

Come be part of the first Tiny Art Project at the North Bellmore Public Library!

Participants will receive a 4x4 canvas, a set of paints, and a brush - just add your imagination. Limited to 20 Adults.

Register online or at the Reference Desk beginning December 1st. Craft kit pick up begins Tuesday Jan. 18 and drop offs begin Monday Jan. 31.

Religious leaders from the local Synagogues will lead us in prayer and light he beautiful 10 foot tall, silver Chanukah Menorah. This year’s celebration will include the singing of traditional Chanukah songs, led by students of the Hebrew and nursery schools. There will be gelt and wonderful Chanukah giveaways compliments of the Chamber of Commerce of the Bellmores. This event will start at 6:00 p.m. and conclude at 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 2

Friday, Dec. 3 The Annual Christmas Tree Lighting & Holiday Extravaganza Come Join the Bellmore Chamber of Commerce for an Old Fashion Christ-

mas! Festivities will include Christmas Tree Lighting at 7:00 p.m., a visit from Santa, a live nativity, festive holiday music, a horse and carraige ride (from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.), trolley rides through the community (from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.) and refreshments. There will be a slight fee. Extravaganze will take place at the Bellmore Village Veterans’ Memorial, on the corner of Bedford Avenue, Broadway and Petit Avenue.

Saturday, Dec. 4 The Annual Christmas Tree Visit From Santa hosted by the Merrick Chamber of Commerce Join the Merrick Chamber of Commerce at 11 a.m. for a special visit from Santa. Come down to the Merrick

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Hanukah starts this Saturday, Nov. 28.

The Bellmore Chamber of Commerce will host a visit from Santa on Nov. 26 at the Bellmore Movies.

MerrickTruck Co. 1 is hosting a visit from Santa on Dec. 18, at two different locations.

The Bellmore Lions Clubs will have a flea market on Dec. 5 and Dec. 12, weather permitting.

Football fans can sign up for the HTB&G Flag Football league, which plays at Wantagh Park in the spring.

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Daisy Troop 946 donates food to Community Cupboard

By JORDAN VALLONE jvallone@liherald.com

A Girl Scout troop in North Bellmore had fun ahead of the holiday season, and learned the value in giving back to the community.

Daisy Troop 946, which consists of 1st grade students in the John G. Dinkelmeyer Elementary School, ran an extensive food and supply drive while working towards their badge for “needs and wants.”

“The badge was to learn about the difference between needs and wants,” Dana Carullo told the Herald. Carullo’s daughter is part of the troop.

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DAisy TROOp 946 from John G. Dinkelmyer Elementary School ran a food and supply drive for the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s Community Cupboard.

“We also talked to them about the importance of giving back to the community,” she added.

The troop didn’t focus on Thanskgiving items like many other drives around this time of year do. Rather, they collected everything from cleaning supplies, to canned goods, to pasta.

“I had seen on Facebook that the [Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s] Community Cupboard was in need of donations,” Carullo said, which is ultimately where the donations were brought.

“They’re really sweet girls, and they work hard on their badges,” Carullo shared. “It was really nice.”

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Helena Fu, tHe Wellington C. Mepham High School Class of 2022 valedictorian, has earned a perfect score on her AP Research exam.

Helena Fu, the Wellington C. Mepham Hi g h S ch o o l Class of 2022 valedictorian, has earned a perfect score on her AP Research exam.

Not only did Helena earn the top score of a 5, but she is also one of only 375 students worldwide to ear n every possible point on the exam.

In AP Research, students select topics of interest and work on the project for the duration of the year. Her topic was Sustainable Urban Design and her research was titled, “Sustainability Without Borders: The Design of a T heoretical Eco-friendly Apartment Building Based on the Analysis of Existing Sustainable Housing Models Internationally.”

Throughout this research, the current environmental situation of both the U.S. and the rest of the world was examined, and international eco-apartment models were analyzed in order to answer the following question: How can an environmentally sustainable apartment model be designed in Manhattan, NYC (USA) based on the international model of an ecofriendly building? This question was explored through a five-step methodology process, which essentially studied what current apartments in Manhattan are like, what inter national eco-housing models are like and the design concepts they utilize, and finally, how these concepts can be applied to a new

eco-building in Manhattan.

This study designed a completely new and original ecoapartment for Manhattan.

“I hope that this study will encourage others to become more involved in environmental policies, as well as inspire more support for the development of ecoapartments, so that buildingby-building, we can all work toward the creation of ecocities around the world,” explained Fu. Fu has also been recognized as a National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar with Distinction and an AllCounty Artist Courtesy Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District; compiled by Jordan Vallone.

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A Hanukkah Greeting overpower the physical and spiritual darkDear friends, On Sunday evening, November 28, the ness we encounter. Often, we feel this dimJewish people worldwide will come together ness when we are surrounded by negativity to light the first candle of Hanukkah — the or lack spirituality in our lives. Lighting Festival of Lights. candles gives power to the inner voice deep This educational and uplifting holiday is inside us that insists that we are an imporabout the struggle for justice in the face of tant part of our Creator’s plan. We are never overwhelming obstacles, the determination alone because our connection to our Creator and courage in a period of is universal. The Almighty uncertainty. It is an excepis present in our homes, in tional time to reflect on the our businesses and in our triumph of liberty over tyrhearts. He is part of us, anny, the rejection of persethus, we are always connectcution, and on the shining ed. miracles that can happen Like the biblical Joseph, e v e n i n o u r d a rk e s t we should never fear uncermoments. tainty or feel abandoned. We The ancient Maccabees’ stay connected through our dedication to their credence prayers, our dreams, our was impeccable, despite inner spark and our faith. their number in people and It has been said, that a in means, and thus the small amount of light can almighty saw to it that they remove a lot of darkness. At emerged victorious. Their abbi oshe eisbluM this time, when the world is small beam of hope became still in so much confusion, a huge flame of triumph. we all have an obligation to The light of faith that light the candles of the bur ned continuously in Menorah and to be a genutheir hearts, as well as the Holy Temple in ine beacon of courage and hope.

Jerusalem thousands of years ago, still So during the Festival’s eight days, let us shines bright in Jewish homes and syna- all be inspired by the light that is believed to gogues today. bring about wonders and overcome darkThe radiance of the Menorah serves as a ness. I invite everyone to join us at Congresign of our Creator’s blessings, of the ardu- gation Beth Tikvah in Wantagh, as we celeous efforts and countless sacrifices made by brate Hanukkah with a memorable proJewish people over the centuries, for the gram for the entire family. There will be values of faith and freedom. food, heartfelt music and many thanks Each night of the Festival of Lights, an offered to the Almighty for the continued additional candle is added to the Menorah blessings and miracles he bestows upon us. increasing the glow brighter and stronger, May the lights of Hanukkah enlighten signifying the ascension of faith and hope. your homes and warm your hearts, and may The candles represent illumination, radiat- this holiday season be a time of hope, joy, ing a light that inspires others with the unity and peace for all mankind. Amen. belief that our Heavenly father is the Creator and ruler of the world.

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Student government PreSident Nicole Rosen, 17, of Merrick, checked out at Stop & Shop.

Kennedy students support Community Cupboard Kennedy alumni as well as current student government members. They posted it on their social media accounts, along with their Venmo usernames. Anyone who was interested in donating money was able to do so. As people donated, the chart was filled in with their names.

Nicole Rosen, the student government president, emphasized that the money members raised would not have been possible without the support of the alumni who participated. “We were really fortunate to have such awesome alumni,” Rosen, 17 of Merrick, said. “We sent them a simple chart and they were able to raise $4,000. Current students were able to raise around $2,000.

“We really just used social media,” Rosen added. “It was the most successful food drive to date.”

With the donated funds, the students went on a shopping trip to the Stop & Shop in Merrick, and bought Thanksgiving and other holiday food items. Each year, the Cupboard designates which schools will collect certain food items, and this year Kennedy collected groceries such as rice, couscous, pasta, stuffing and mashed potatoes.

The students were also able to purchase $90 gift cards for every family that receives food from the Cupboard.

Schechner, Giordano and Rosen all said they had been involved in student government since they were freshman, and that running food drives, especially around the holidays, is what makes their time with the organization so important and worthwhile.

“Community service has always been something I love doing — especially when it’s hands on,” Schechner said.

“I love it because I just love helping people,” Giordano said. “I love that feeling that you get from doing good things, and helping others.”

Rosen added that along with community service, student government has allowed her to make an impact and have a voice throughout her years at Kennedy.

“It’s really important for students to have a voice in school and the community,” Rosen explained. “And to do something like a food drive — and to raise over $6,000 — to have that impact is so surreal.”

Referring to all the students and alumni who took part in the effort, Schechner noted that the student gover nment couldn’t be more thankful for the support.

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For example, it almost always comes up during the design phase of offices and retail spaces that the owner wants to put in a bottled-water cooler instead of a drinking fountain, but the plumbing code, which is a law, states that two drinking fountains or a dual unit, the high and low kind, are required to be installed. (The reason for the low drinking fountain is to avoid discrimination, along with many other regulations, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into federal law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.) A bottle station is nice to have but not required.

Water purification will be a healthy solution for your employees and family, since it removes chlorine, sediments and multiple trace minerals. There are many different types of purifiers on the market. For commercial purposes, consider a cartridge-type purifier specific to your commercial space, and for a residence, a whole-house system such as the ones from PurifiedSolutions.net, which use a seven-stage reverse-osmosis process. Just remember, these systems all require the replacement of filters, so factor in replacement costs so you aren’t surprised later.

As for the bigger question, air purification, it is a much broader and more questionable issue, since different systems filter air in different ways, and even though advertisements tout all the wonderful particulates that can be removed, virus particles aren’t necessarily one of them. Smoke from cigarettes and dust have a much larger mass, and are more easily removed with high-efficiency particulate air, or HEPA, filters than bacterial or viral-laden particles.

Even though microscopic-sized allergens can be removed, unless they are treated with either damaging light or chemical containment, just catching the allergens doesn’t necessarily get rid of them. Make sure you find out what the filtration unit will do from an independent testing source report before spending the money on one.

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he Event,” a 2015 found-footage documentary by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, opens with black-and-white images of mostly men marching in August 1991 through the streets of Leningrad, in the then Soviet Union, overturning a trailer and grabbing all manner of furniture to erect hastily constructed barricades.

Worry was etched on the protesters’ faces.

People had assembled in Leningrad’s central Palace Square and surrounding streets to stop an attempted coup d’état that, SCoTT they believed, was radiating from MosBRINToN cow, USSR’s capital, across the land.

“The Event” is a hopeful but strangely haunting film that I watched last week on Zoom. Hofstra University’s Department of Comparative Literature, Languages and Linguistics and the History Department presented it, with a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Ben Rifkin, a Hofstra professor of Russian.

I wanted to see the film because in August 1991 I was a Peace Corps volunteer stationed in Bulgaria, a Soviet satellite nation for 45 years, from the end of World War II through 1990, when it finally gained its freedom and turned to democracy. I cannot express the

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chilling effect the coup attempt had on many Bulgarians, who worried about a sudden return to hardline communism. I wondered what, precisely, had happened in Moscow and other Soviet cities from Aug. 18 to 21, 1991, as the coup unfolded. I had never seen images of it before.

The good people of Leningrad were concerned that Soviet Armed Forces tanks might roll against their city, and a sea of tens of thousands of people rallied, placing themselves in mortal danger to preserve the democratic reforms enacted under Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

The fear of a possible attack on Leningrad was not irrational. Eight communist hardliners calling themselves the Committee on the State of Emergency, and various factions within the Soviet military, were behind the putsch, seeking to halt the impending breakup of the Soviet Union that would give sovereignty to its 15 outlying republics. Soviet tanks, in fact, rolled into Moscow, where tens of thousands of demonstrators stood in their way. Among them was Boris Yeltsin, the man who succeeded Gorbachev as president of Russia when the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991.

I was on a train somewhere outside Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, with my then fiancée, Katerina, who was born and raised in Sofia, when we first heard the news of the coup attempt. Katerina’s face turned sullen. What

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would we do if it succeeded?

Most Americans cannot understand the fear of the then Soviet Union that many, if not most, Eastern Europeans carried with them in the backs of their brains. They risked limb and life to secure their freedoms from the USSR in the late 1980s and early ’90s. They stood in solidarity, marching en masse in their capitals’ squares, demanding sovereignty. Then, seemingly in an instant, all their hard-won reforms appeared to be in jeopardy.

If Bulgaria lost its newly won democratic freedoms to the communists, would the old-school apparatchiks “cleanse” Bulgaria of any American “sympathizers”? In that case, anyone who had had contact with an American like me would have been in grave danger of just disappearing.

These were not wild conspiracy theories.

They were valid questions based on nearly five decades of iron-fisted Soviet rule. Katerina and I planned an escape route to the U.S. through Greece if the coup held, which, thankfully, it did not. We were in our mid-20s at the time. We recently celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary, living, peacefully, on Long Island for the past 28 years, returning every few years to Sofia. Bulgaria remains a democracy to this day.

The Soviet coup plotters were not especially well organized, according to various

he USSR in 1991 and the U.S. in 2021: similarities I never would’ve imagined.

reports, and most of the SAF military was not a party to the conspiracy. It’s said that the plotters spent most of the three days of the coup drunk. Seven of the eight organizers were imprisoned, and one committed suicide.

Ilya Vinitsky, chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, was among the panelists last week. He was 22 and living in the Soviet Union at the time of the coup. It was a seminal moment in his life, a point of demarcation — there was life before the coup, and after.

Now he asks his students, “Have you ever felt you lived through a historical moment?”

Yes, I would respond, more than once.

Most recently was the disorganized insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when thousands of pro-Trump rioters besieged our very seat of democracy to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election — that is, to attempt to overthrow our nation’s duly elected president, Joe Biden. Having lived through such a coup attempt while in a foreign land, I never imagined one here, particularly not one as violent as that of last January.

Democracy is clearly a fragile thing. It requires an active, engaged citizenry that respects the rule of law. If it is not respected, then it must be enforced.

Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.

Year of wonder, one Thanksgiving to the next

ast Thanksgiving we dined alone.

I’m remembering an over-roasted turkey leg with a side of anxiety for me, a wedge of spinach pie for the vegetarian, hold the Thanksgiving cheer. We tried not to make too much of the day.

We were veterans of isolation by then, still months away from our first vaccine. To see our kids and grandkids, someone would have had to risk flying, and the infection rates were daunting.

Nevertheless, we watched millions RANDI of people choosing KREISS to travel, weaving through airport lines and hoping for the best. Spikes and surges followed.

Sorry for the ruminating, but sometimes you must go back to appreciate how far you’ve come. A few months after Thanksgiving, our son and grandson caught Covid.

We missed birthdays, anniversaries, proms and graduations. We were lucky; the nightly news featured Covid crises cascading across the country. Who will ever forget the pictures of refrigerator trucks parked outside New York City hospitals?

Today (and I won’t say fast forward, because it wasn’t), all of us have had vaccines and boosters. We’re all back to our jobs. Kids are back in school. As I swayed from despair to hope and back to trepidation, I coped, and that feels like enough.

This Thanksgiving we will sit down with our family to start reweaving the ties that have stretched thin over the months of this pandemic.

I have often written about gratitude for the small things that charge our days with interest and pleasure. This year my gratitude is singular, profound and unending. I am so thankful to the researchers and scientists and companies and governments and leaders who took on the virus and dug in for the fight.

There were missteps and political machinations and failures along the way, but the development of vaccines, 90-plus percent effective, in only 11 months has been the stunning achievement of our lifetime.

When we encountered a novel coronavirus transmitted easily through the air by breathing, talking and coughing, the World Health Organization said it did not expect a vaccine to become available in fewer than 18 months. Many virologists have said that the development of a safe and effective vac-

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cine within 11 months was an extraordinary achievement.

Please read “A Shot to Save the World,”

by Gregory Zuckerman. Zuckerman tells the story of the unlikely heroes who worked together and separately, driven by the mission to find a vaccine.

He describes the false starts and missteps, but also all that went right as researchers took on the challenge of their lives. It required unprecedented devotion, selflessness, fierce dedication to the job and a vision of success that transcended any one person’s ambition.

It is a thrilling story. One of the salient points Zuckerman addresses is the idea that the new vaccines are too “experimental.” He says these discoveries are not one-day wonders, but blocks of research that came together over many years. They found daylight in the time of the pandemic because of the money and dedication and leadership that supported the effort. The work on AIDS informed this medical moon shot, and the Covid vaccines will inform research going forward.

Zuckerman tells the story of Jason Schrum, the Moderna scientist who had worked at the company for only a short time. He came up with the actual modifica-

his year my family will gather again, and my gratitute is profound and unending.

tion to the mRNA molecule that is currently used in Moderna’s vaccine, Zuckerman writes. “That modification is the one that BioNTech uses also. It’s not the one from Katalin Karaka and Drew Weissman at the University of Pennsylvania. They’re really pioneers, and I’m not sure we would have these vaccines without them.”

Zuckerman writes that not enough attention has been paid to the Chinese scientist who struggled in the early days of the pandemic to share the genetic sequence of the virus. “The guy’s a hero,” he writes.

“He risked so much …”

I thank them all, from the doctors and nurses to the supermarket workers to the teachers and parents of young children, to the bench researchers who put in the hours, day after day and month after month.

This year at our Thanksgiving, there will be a too-big turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce. Leaves and grains for the vegetarian. We will hug and kiss our kids and grandkids, feeling safe enough with our jabs and boosters. Then we will feast on my apple cranberry crumble with a topping of gratitude for this country and countries everywhere where scientists are educated, supported and honored for their work.

Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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he social media posts generated by Long Islanders at the very first Islanders game at the new UBS Arena, the linchpin in a $1.3 billion transformation of Belmont Park, came fast and furious on Saturday, showing an excitement not seen since the Islanders’ four straight Stanley Cup wins in the early ’80s. The state-of-the-art arena is indeed a crown jewel of the New York metropolitan area sports scene.

“Today is a monumental day for New York and the Islanders as we cut the ribbon on the world-class new UBS Arena,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said last week. “This is the first step in the newly redeveloped Belmont Park, which will serve as an internationally recognized destination for sports, entertainment, retail and hospitality.”

It was only a few years ago that the

home of the Islanders was a real question mark. The team had moved out of the Nassau Coliseum in the Hub for the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and Long Island fans largely hated the venue, not only because of the distance they had to travel for games — it could be a four-hour round trip from points out East to Brooklyn and back — but also because the venue was made not for hockey, but for basketball.

The new UBS Arena, finished on time and on budget, was constructed specifically for the Islanders, in Elmont, on Nassau County’s border with Queens, making it convenient for hockey fans from both Long Island and New York City.

At the same time, the revitalization of Belmont Park is, no doubt, a boon for Long Island. The project, which will also include a 350,000-square-foot entertain-

ment and retail complex, a 250-room hotel and a community center in the future, is expected to create 10,000 jobs and generate $2.7 billion in economic activity when all is said and done. By 2024, the project is projected to sustain 3,200 full-time jobs, produce $858 million in annual economic activity and generate tens of millions of dollars in new yearly tax revenue for the region.

We recognize that not everyone in Elmont is happy. Local residents have said they worry about increased traffic caused by the arena. Planners, however, have worked to mitigate traffic, building a new Long Island Rail Road station in Elmont, the first new full-time station in 50 years.

Overall, the UBS Arena is a win-win for Long Islanders, whether or not you’re an Islanders fan.

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he Long Island Rail Road and Nassau Inter-County Express Bus are making significant strides to reduce their carbon footprints, with the LIRR testing battery-powered trains on its Oyster Bay branch to replace the diesel locomotives that have rumbled across the North Shore in the past, and NICE planning to bring six electric buses online to replace compressed-natural-gas models.

While on the electrified portion of the Oyster Bay branch, the LIRR trains run on the third rail. When they reach the non-electrified portion, they switch to battery power.

At the same time that NICE adds the

electric buses, it will switch all 150 vehicles in its paratransit fleet to electric.

Excellent!

All of this was discussed last Friday during an hour-long talk on public transportation at Vision Long Island’s annual Smart Growth Summit, at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. We can only say bravo to Phil Eng, the LIRR president, and Jack Khouz, CEO of NICE Bus, for demonstrating a commitment to the environment by moving away from dirty fossil-fuel transportation to electric rail and bus lines.

Diesel trains are especially awful for the environment, using one of the dirtiest of fuels. Diesel is also among the most car-

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letters Many thanks on Thanksgiving To the Editor: During this season of gratitude, I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to all our neighbors who make helping others a priority in their lives.

Whether responding to the devastation caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, offering relief after the destructive home fires that occur nearly every day in Nassau and Suffolk counties or supporting others who need extra aid during Covid-19, our neighbors raise their hands to help in countless ways.

Every day I am humbled by our Red Cross volunteers who share their time to help the most vulnerable prepare for and recover from life-changing disasters in their communities. And when needed, these selfless people put their lives on hold for weeks to lend a hand far from home after relentless hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and historic wild-

cinogenic substances on the planet, according to numerous federal agencies.

Diesel trains simply shouldn’t exist in the 21st century.

The LIRR began testing battery-powered trains on the Oyster Bay branch in April. Let’s hope the eight-month test period is successful, so the other three diesel branches — Montauk, Port Jefferson and Ronkonkoma — can become fully electrified as well.

Of course, we must ask ourselves how the electricity to power our trains and buses is being generated — from fossilfuel power plants or renewable resources such as solar, wind and geothermal?

Renewable is the way forward.

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opinions

fter watching a boring sci-fi movie, I stared at the blinking orange hand signal outside the Lynbrook movie theater, waiting to cross heavily trafficked, four-lane Peninsula Boulevard. The white stick figure flashed, the seconds counted down to zero, and I found myself halfway across the road, wondering if this would be how I would die.

I had just undergone my fourth knee surgery a few weeks before, and a fullleg brace and crutches were docCristinA ArroYo tor’s orders. The first time I had my roDriGUeZ ACL swapped for a cadaver ligament, I was a first-year doctoral student in industrial and organizational psychology, more than happy to return to class in person two weeks post-surgery, against doctor’s orders.

“At least it’s your leg that’s the problem, and not your brain,” my program chair said by way of welcoming me back.

Not only was this statement ableist in that it dismissed the worth of neurodivergent people, but also it showed a lack

of understanding in our leadership and institutions of what it means to live with or be a person with a disability.

“I no longer want the disabled population to be an afterthought,” Nadia Holubnyczyj, the first person in a wheelchair to run for the Nassau County Legislature, said during this fall’s campaign. With the founding of the county’s new disability-awareness advisory group, she called for government “to shift their entire mindset, their language, planning and execution.”

Indeed, my temporary mobility disability didn’t only affect my leg, but also changed my relationship with the world, and vice versa.

First, I was following a pain management schedule that included prescription opioids, which affect memory, focus and cognitive speed. When you’re hugging a toilet bowl between fits of vomiting or falling asleep from chemically induced fatigue three times a day, it’s difficult to decide whether Edward Lawler or John Stacey Adams best explains reactions to pay inequity.

Second, the cognitive labor of navigating a world not built for you, and even

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temporary mobility issue changed my relationship with the world, and vice versa.

Letters fires out West.

I am also grateful for our partners who share a common purpose and community spirit to connect more people with critical humanitarian support. And our financial supporters allow the Red Cross to deliver emergency relief 24/7, 365 days a year.

A final word of thanks to our first responders — police, fire and EMS — whom we are proud to support as they protect and assist our communities every day.

Wishing you all a happy and safe Thanksgiving. Let’s continue to look out for one another.

JOSE DOMINguEZ CEO, American Red Cross on Long Island

Keep up the cancer reporting To the Editor: Regarding Scott Brinton’s column “A famed journalist enlightens us on cancer reporting” (Nov. 11-17): I want to thank Brinton and commend him for his cancer reporting. Although no cancer clusters have been officially designated on Long Island, I have found that there is a high incidence of cancer in communities here.

I was diagnosed with acute myeloge-

built against you, is taxing. Where are the elevators in this Long Island Rail Road station? Are they currently in service? Will my crutches slip on the sidewalk? Where can I elevate my leg when at work? How much earlier do I need to leave? What detours should I take to avoid tripping and falling?

Even though Holubnyczyj said she believes “there is no specific area of need that the county should be focusing on that would benefit the disabled,” she makes an exception for inequities in public transportation, which is one of the “hot spots” that need to be addressed.

Besides planning the logistics of navigation, there is also the emotional strain of being treated as an inconvenience, a burden. “If it’s important to you, you’d attend,” an elected official said of whether to allow public meetings to be held on Zoom. “If you loved your children, you would make time,” said the president of a school club who holds monthly meetings exclusively in the evening.

According to the 2018 American Community Survey, about 2 million New Yorkers, roughly 11 percent of the state’s

population, have a visible or invisible disability. And even after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, over 30 percent of reports filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were claims of disability discrimination. In the past five years, Nassau County has spent almost $1 million in ADA settlements, even though only about one in five report this kind of discrimination.

My Ph.D. program chair accurately recognized that there was a problem, but it wasn’t my leg. My leg wouldn’t have been a problem if public transportation had reliable access, if workplaces provided proper accommodations, if public meetings offered remote participation and if that pedestrian crossing signal lasted a few seconds longer. The disability doesn’t lie within me, Nadia, or within the community of people with disabilities, but within our institutions.

Cristina Arroyo Rodriguez is editor of the Baldwin Herald and has been a nonprofit organizational consultant in the areas of pay equity and diversity, equity and inclusion. She has lectured in psychology at Baruch College, Bronx Community College and the City University of New York, and has taught Master Executive classes for NYPD leadership at John Jay College.

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nous leukemia two and a half years ago.

In my square-block area in North Merrick, there were four other people diagnosed with cancer. One of them lost her life. In Merrick, I know of five other people with blood cancers besides me. In the office where I worked in Roosevelt Field, there were two others besides me diagnosed with blood cancers. One of them lost her life. We were an office of only about 75 people.

This is all anecdotal, but unless responsible reporters like Brinton and Dan Fagin bring this to the public’s attention, dangerous cancer-causing situations will not be addressed. Thank you for the work you do.

PATRICIA FIFE North Merrick

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