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In hot water over vaccines NUMC could face penalties for slow rate of inoculations tered 62 percent of its vaccines.

“It’s not just a function of size; it’s a function of adminisNassau University Medical trative capacity,” the governor Center, in East Meadow, is facing said. “We want those vaccines in criticism for allegedly having people’s arms.” one of the slowest rates of vacNUMC officials took issue cine inoculation in New York. with Cuomo’s numbers, saying At his Mondaythat the hospital morning coronavihad administered 34 rus briefing, Gov. percent of its vacAndrew Cuomo cines but an IT called out the hospiinterface issue led tals that were slowto misreported est to administer information. Neverthe vaccines, and theless, Dr. Anthony lauded those that Boutin, NUMC’s had done so the fastpresident and chief est. executive officer, The New York said that the hospiPresbyterian Health tal could be doing Care System, based laura Curran better. in Manhattan, and NUMC received Oswe go Hospital Nassau County 797 doses of the had the fastest dis- executive P f i z e r- B i o N Te ch tribution, and had vaccine, and adminused 99 percent of istered the first one the vaccines they were allocated on Dec. 15, to Emergency Room by the state. NUMC was listed as Nurse Gabrielle Desiree, of Baldthe third-slowest, and was win. The following week, it reported to have administered received 2,000 doses of the Modonly 19 percent. erna vaccine.

Cuomo acknowledged that Most hospitals in New York smaller hospitals have an easier state have had the vaccines availtime with inoculation efforts, able for three weeks, but on averbut noted that Northwell Health age have used only 46 percent of is the largest hospital in the state, and had already adminisContinued on page 3

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Santa swings by the Meadow The Grand Stage Diner partnered with, from left, Levittown residents Julie Dascoli and her husband, Rob, and Michelle Debatto and her husband, Al, for a toy and gift card distribution on Dec. 20, during which they gave presents to hundreds of local children. Story, more photos, Page 5.

Encouraging giving and taking

Woman launches Sharing Table in East Meadow

By BrIan StIEGlItZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

Dianne Carannante is generating foot traffic at her home on Sheila Court in East Meadow.

She set up a table of nonperishable food, candy, toiletries and other household items in her driveway, and is encouraging residents to either take any supplies they need or drop off more for others.

Sometimes, Carannante said,

people drive past the table two or three times before parking, walking up and timidly taking an item or two.

“We don’t judge,” she said.

“They could pull up in a BMW or Mercedes and the same rules still apply: Take what you need.”

The project is called Sharing Table, and it is one of more than a dozen that have popped up across Long Island over the past month. Carannante, 63, set up the East Meadow table on Dec.

28, after seeing a Facebook post about the opening of the first Sharing Table, in Seaford.

Mary Kate Tischler, of Seaford, put out the first table on Nov. 22, and runs it with her 6-year-old daughter, Ruby. Her inspiration, she said, was an article she read in the November issue of Real Simple magazine, titled “Reasons for Hope in America: 17 Reasons We’re OptiContinued on page 3

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Sharing Table encourages giving and taking mistic.”

The story featured 17 women across the country who were giving back to their communities during the coronavirus pandemic, including Kaylan Waterman, a musician and philanthropist from Detroit who pioneered the Sharing Table when she opened one in her neighborhood last May. “I’m very big on volunteering,” Carannante said of her decision to start a table in East Meadow.

Carannante worked at Verizon Wireless for 32 years and is the incoming president of the Verizon Pioneers, a volunteer network of current and former workers in the U.S. and Canada. One of the Pioneers’ recent projects was Operation Christmas Child, in which they sent shoeboxes full of supplies and toys to 100 children in different war-torn cities overseas.

This holiday season, Carannante also contributed to Wreaths Across America, and raised money for 60 wreaths that were donated to families of veterans buried at Calverton National Cemetery in Wading River.

Before she set up her Sharing Table, she went shopping, and bought enough food and supplies to stock it. Within a few days, she said, she was overwhelmed by the generosity of her neighbors. Residents frequently dropped off items, and one directed Amazon ship supplies to Carannante’s house. Her church, Calvary Lutheran, also gave her boxes of sup-

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Diane Carannante starteD East Meadow’s Sharing Table at her home on Sheila Court. She encourages residents to either drop off food and supplies or take any that they need. plies.

“I always look at the dates to make sure nothing’s expired,” she said as she inspected several new items that came in on the morning she spoke to the Herald.

Carannante stocks the table with at least one of each item and keeps the rest in her house. “My living room looks like Stop & Shop,” she said with a laugh. “We

have wipes, we have soap, we have toothbrushes, toothpaste, razor blades . . . so if you’re driving in the neighborhood and you’re hungry, come grab a snack; I won’t judge ya.”

She added children’s books and board games to her table. “Literacy is very important to me, too,” she said. For the past four years, Carannante has worked

for Suburban Bus Transportation in North Bellmore, driving a bus for students with special needs. Each holiday season, she buys each one a book reflecting their interests and reading level.

Carannante isn’t worried about theft, she said, adding that she had already seen a group of kids stuff most of the snacks into their backpacks. “You’re always going to have greedy people who just take things,” she said. “There are some people who really need these things, though, and that’s what’s most important.”

Carannante lives with her son Eric, 25, a construction worker. Throughout the pandemic, she has also been caring for her mother, Georgeanna, 83, and her husband Lou, 70, who is recovering from Stage 2 lung cancer and has been in remission since June. Lou, an Army veteran who served in Vietnam, is also a survivor of Stage 4 kidney cancer, from which he recovered in 2013.

The couple also have two daughters, Danielle, 30, a Nassau County paramedic, and Laura, 27, a doctor’s assistant at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Uniondale.

“We’re very fortunate,” Dianne said.

“It makes me feel good to know that we could help people.”

Her Sharing Table is open every day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. To find out about other local tables, go to the New York Sharing Tables Facebook page, www.facebook.com/TheNYSharingTables.

Cuomo: NUMC must administer vaccines faster continued from front page them, according to Cuomo. As a result, the state Department of Health updated its guidelines for vaccine allocation.

A hospital that doesn’t use all of the vaccine doses it has received by the end of this week could face a $100,000 fine and risk being disqualified from further vaccine distribution. Going forward, hospitals have seven days after receiving vaccines to use all of them.

“This is a very serious public-health issue,” Cuomo said. “And if you’re not performing this function, it does raise questions about the operating efficiency of the hospital.”

He called on officials in areas with public hospitals, such as County Executive Laura Curran, to step up and take responsibility for vaccine distribution rates. “This is a management issue of the hospitals,” he said. “They have to move the vaccine faster.”

Curran expressed frustration with NUMC at a coronavirus news briefing on Monday, and said she had requested a vaccine distribution plan from the hospital, but never received it. “I want to make sure that doses are administered as quickly as possible,” she said, “because what’s happening now does not meet my expectations for a plan of action.”

County Legislator Richard Nicolello, the Legislature’s presiding officer, put fur-

ther pressure on Curran in a statement about NUMC’s distribution rate. Nicolello said that Curran must “light a fire” under Robert Detor, whom she appointed last year as board chairman of NuHealth, the public-benefit corporation that runs NUMC. “. . . By failing to distribute the vaccine, the hospital is failing as a safety net for those most in need of medical care, including communities of color,” Nicolello said.

Curran said that the county joined with Northwell Health to run a Health Equity Task Force, to ensure that vaccines are distributed fairly to communities with the highest infection rates. “This is a full-court press to mobilize our resources to get information out there as soon as we get it, and to get vaccinations out there as soon as we get it,” she said.

“We could do this, Nassau. I know we can.”

At her news briefing, Curran also announced the opening of the county’s first vaccine distribution center, at the CCB Building at Nassau Community College in Garden City. The distribution center, run by Northwell Health, began offering vaccination to eligible candidates on Tuesday. Vaccinations, provided by both Pfizer and Moderna, are free, but by appointment only.

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nassau university MeDiCal, in East Meadow, received 797 doses of the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine and 2,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine last month, and began inoculating its staff on Dec. 15.

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EAST MEADOW FIRE DEPARTMENT

EMFD puts stop to 3 a.m. Christmas Day fire Third STreeT Filled quickly with EMFD Apparatus for the Christmas Morming Deck Fire.

By John J. o’Brien Sr. Early Christmas morning at 3:04 a.m., radios woke up EMFD volunteers from Engine 1, 4, and Ladders 1, and 2 for a House Fire on Third Street. It was the height of the overnight storm that delivered high winds and heavy rain making the call more of a challenge.

Two minutes into the alarm, Third Assistant Chief Philip Fertitta transmitted his response, quickly followed by Second Assistant Chief Peter Cheswick, First Assistant Chief Paul Kosiba, and Chief of Department James Walsh. With all four EMFD chiefs on the road, and members boarding their respective rigs, additional information came in through dispatch that the rear deck attached to the home was on fire.

At 3:08 a.m., Assistant Chief Cheswick, arrived on the scene. Seeing smoke at both the outside rear, and filling up inside the home, the Chief transmitted a “Signal 98” (“First In” pumper connects to a fire hydrant and stretches (2) attack hose fires to the home, as dispatch re-alerts the initial assignment adding Rescue 5 for EMS).

A signal that prompts all firefighters responding in their trucks to fix on any additional radio reports, double check their protective equipment, and self contained breathing apparatus.

Less than seven minutes into the initial alert, “First Due” Engine 611 arrived on the scene going into their hose stretch operation. All this, as Ladder 617, Engine 614, Ladder 619, and Heavy Rescue 616 now filled the street with additional firefighter resources.

As attack lines were stretched by the engine crews, ladder company members moved into the home to search for any occupants, and check for fire extension in the smoke filled rooms.

With reports confirming that the main body of fire was on the rear deck hose lines were positioned for the exterior attack. Other crews readied in case interior teams called for water as well.

Rescues 4 and 5 established a medical treatment area in the event of any injuries. There were none.

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been knocked down as ladder company crews opened up areas on the deck to expose any hidden fire.

Fire damage was held mostly to the exterior deck, the exterior of the home, and the windows closest to the fire.

As the smoke cleared, it became evident that the fire had been stopped before it took hold of the home.

In all, 41 EMFD volunteers from Stations 1, 4, and Ladder 2, brought the scene under control with no need for any other E.M.F.D. companies or mutual aids. Small by comparison to many other fires, this one could have been much worse with wind gusts exceeding 60 MPH. It was the 2nd time in recent weeks that a smoke detector woke the family in the middle of the night, and the 3rd active house fire in as many weeks. But in this case, with the window nearest the fire failing, smoke entered the home setting off the alarm, alerting residents.

Other agencies on the scene were the Nassau County Police, PSEG, Keyspan, and the Nassau County Fire Marshal.

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Grand Stage hands out hundreds of toys

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EAST MEADOW HERALD — January 7, 2021

By BRIAN STIEGLITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

The Grand Stage Diner became Santa’s village the weekend before Christmas when volunteers set up a drive-through service under a tent adjacent to their restaurant, and handed out hundreds of wrapped toys and Amazon and iTunes gift cards.

Leading the effort was Michelle Debatto, of Levittown, and her husband, Al, who dressed up as Santa Claus. They teamed up with their friends Julie and Rob Dascoli, also of Levittown.

In total, the group bought 500 toys and $1,000 in gift cards. They spent the entire day on Dec. 19 wrappoing the presents and haded them to a line that formed down Hempstead Turnpike on Dec. 20.

They gave the leftover boxes of gifts to Emma Vulpi, who celebrated her 9th birthday on Dec. 16 with her third annual fundraiser for the Child Life Program at NYU Winthrop Hospital in Mineola.

This year, Vulpi raised over $2,000 for the nonprofit.

The Debattos have been customers of the diner, on Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow, for roughly a year. They have become friendly with Tom Argyris, one of its owners. “We’re like family now,” Michelle said.

George Argyris, 43, and his brother Nick, 41, owns the diner with their father. For decades the family managed the Stage Door Delicatessen in Manhattan, which had two locations, but both had closed by 2016.

They opened the Broadway-inspired Grand Stage Diner in February 2019 in what used to be the Empress Diner, which had been in East Meadow for nearly 50 years.

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JuLIE DAScoLI, LEfT, and her husband Rob volunteered alongside Michelle Debatto and her husband Al, all of Levittown, at the Grand Stage Diner on Dec. 20 for its toy distribution effort.

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community update Thursday, Jan. 7

Frosted Dusk Paint Night Pinot’s Pallett, in East Meadow, is open with a number of virtual and in-person painting events. The studio is offering the program “Frosted Dusk,” on Jan. 14 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., for $40. This event is happening in the studio at 2557 Hempstead Turnpike. They are practicing social distancing with seating, hand sanitizer is available when you walk in, disposable aprons are being given and masks are required by all staff and guests.

Teen Game Night Meet up on Zoom and play Drawful– a hilarious drawing and guessing game with your friends from the East Meadow Public Library, You will need your phone or another device to play.

Register online at the library’s website to receive the Zoom link.

Gathering Time: an Evening of Winter Songs One of the country’s best folk trios, Gathering Time, is with East Meadow Public Library for an evening of superb music for the season. Join and listen together on Jan. 7 at 7:30 p.m. Register online at the library’s website to receive the Zoom link.

Monday, Jan. 18

Friday, Jan. 8 Easy Exercise for Adults This East Meadow Public Library class will be given every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m. Ann Rothman will lead us in an Easy Exercise Class.

This is good for those of us who are NOT athletes. It was good seeing and talking with everyone. They ask that, you click on “participants.” There you will see a “raise your hand” line.

Click on that, and we will unmute you so that you can ask a question or make a comment. Register at www. eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

Brian Rose and the Development of TV News Brian Rose’s lectures have been big hits. Join him at the East Meadow public Library’s program on Friday, Jan. 8 at 7 p.m. Theyhave his take on the changes in TV News through the decades. Register at www.eastmeadow. info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

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Miss Bella Tells Tales Miss Bella is one of the favorite storytellers of the East Meadow Public Library. She always brings such wonderful new books and will be offering a reading on Saturday, Jan. 9 at 11 a.m. Register at www.eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

Wednesday, Jan. 13 It Came from the Radio: Comic Creator/Writer Jonathan Syphax Jonathan Syphax (creator of the MAS Fleet Line, Graphic novel, “Street Journal”) is the special guest on this show offered through the East Meadow Public Library on on Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 7 pm Future Scope, a new independent comic book company that will be headlined by some of the very best artists, writers and creators in the business. A few artists which have worked for various main stream and top comic companies! Check out his website here: FS Showcase:Celestine: And Other Stories | futurescopecom-

ics (wixsite.com). Register at www. eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

Thursday, Jan. 14 Pop Art Drawing Workshop Create a pop art inspired drawing of Dalmation dogs based on the work of iconic pop artist, Andy Warhol. Artist Doris Benter will lead participants through a virtual guided drawing of the dogs. Simple materials including copy paper, pencil, black marker, black color pencil and neon highlighter markers will be used. Grades 3-12.

are welcome. This East Meadow Public Library program is on Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. Register at www.eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

Mystery/Thriller Book Club The East Meadow Public Library’s Mystery/Thriller Book Club will be reading The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware. On Jan. 14, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., they will discuss the book.

Register at www.eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

Journaling During the Pandemic: Tune in and Write It Out With Us! Every Monday at 7 p.m. the East Meadow Public Library offers a course on journaling in the pandemic.

This time in history needs to be saved for the future, and we are the ones to tell the stories. Join Professor Kathleen Volk Miller who will introduce the science and practice of writing toward emotional well-being and psychological healing. Register at www. eastmeadow.info or call the library at 794-2570 ask for Programming. They will then email the Zoom link to you on the morning of the program.

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East Meadow has birthed talented musicians like Sterling Morrison, of the Velvet Underground The East Meadow School District includes the Salisbury community Getty Oil is based out of East Meadow Lufthansa United States had its headquarters in East Meadow beginning in the 1970s, before moving to Uniondale The East Meadow Chamber of Commerce is welcoming new president Richie Krug Jr.

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EAST MEADOW HERALD — January 7, 2021 Photos courtesy Angela Connelly

Dancers from Jam Dance Studio in Bellmore helped Evan Styron, center, propose to his girlfriend, Lisa Friedrich, of East Meadow, with a surprise flash mob at Wantagh Park.

JAM Dance organizes flash mob proposal By alyssa seiDman aseidman@liherald.com

Evan Styron said he defied the odds when planning to propose to his girlfriend, Lisa Friedrich, of East Meadow.

Between the Covid-19 pandemic, a lastminute location change and inclement weather the day of the engagement, “I had every obstacle against me,” he said, “but I’m resilient.”

On Dec. 20, 2020, Styron and Friedrich drove to Wantagh Park to attend a Christmas function — or so Friedrich thought. Once they parked, dancers from JAM Dance Studio in Bellmore filled the lot, flash mob-style, as Bruno Mars’ song “Marry You” blasted in the background.

“I was like a deer in headlights,” Friedrich said.

The couple met on Bumble about a year ago, just before the Covid-19 lockdowns put New York on pause. Friedrich, a hairstylist, said that since she and Styron are very similar, they found ways to stay entertained during quarantine. Last May, for example, the two dressed up in formal attire and decorated her home to hold a “prom-demic.”

“I’ve dated a lot of girls, but never one that made me feel compelled . . . to marry her,” said Styron, a licensed mental health counselor from Massapequa. “I knew from day one that she was the one.”

Styron said he and Friedrich knew they would get engaged before the end of 2020, but the actual proposal was still a “total surprise” to his fiancé. He got the idea to do a flash mob proposal after Friedrich showed him a video of one on YouTube last February.

“I love these styles of proposals because they’re very engaging,” he said, “and I wanted to do something that was like a magic moment for Lisa, something that made her feel special.”

To conjure the magical moment, Styron enlisted the help of Friedrich’s best friend, Angela Connelly, who lived next door to JAM co-owner, Gina Petit-

to, growing up. Although this was only JAM’s second flash mob proposal, it was “probably more exciting because everyone really needed some good news since quarantining,” Petitto said.

About 20 dancers participated in the flash mob, which was choreographed and rehearsed over the course of two weeks. Styron said he and Connelly scouted Cedar Creek Park in Wantagh as an initial location for the proposal, but had to change plans after a powerful nor’easter whipped across the region on Dec. 17.

On the day of the engagement, an unexpected storm threatened to ruin the special surprise, but for the 10 minutes the flash mob took place, Connelly said the weather cleared up. Some of the couple’s family and friends were on hand to surprise the bride-to-be. Everyone, including the dancers, stayed socially distant and wore masks.

As the team performed their choreography, Styron improvised a few of his own moves, twirling Friedrich around the parking lot and dancing along to the song. “Lisa’s face was priceless,” said JAM co-owner Michele Cuccaro. “She was in a shock in the best way possible . . . and couldn’t stop smiling.”

As the song concluded, two of the dancers rolled out a 30-foot banner spray painted with red graffiti lettering, which asked Friedrich if she would take Styron’s hand in marriage.

Styron said he rushed to get the ring out of the box once Friedrich realized what was happening.

“It was the most amazing day of my life, [and] a good finale to 2020,” Friedrich said. “I’m looking forward to a lifetime of memories.”

Styron said he is looking forward to spending more quality time with Friedrich and her son, Nicholas, 8.

Petitto and Cuccaro said they hope to choreograph the couple’s first dance as husband and wife.

To plan a flash mob proposal, email jambellmore@gmail.com.

after the flash mob ended, Styron popped the question. once frieDrich saiD yes, the dancers threw rose petals in the air.

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Federal gov’t stalling offshore wind farms the federal governMent is holding up construction of offshore wind farms between Long Island and New Jersey because the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has yet to assign the final leasing grounds for them, as it was supposed to have done two years ago. Above, a view of the nation’s only offshore wind farm, off the coast of Rhode Island.

By Madeline arMstrong The final leasing grounds for offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean south of Long Island were supposed to have been designated in early 2019 so lease auctions could be held, but nearly two years later, they have not yet been assigned, slowing New York’s bid to acquire 70 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2030.

Assignment of New York Bight Offshore Wind Energy Areas, located between Long Island and New Jersey, has been indefinitely postponed without explanation, angering local elected leaders like U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, a Democrat from Garden City and a wind energy proponent.

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a division of the Department of the Interior, oversees assignment of offshore wind leasing grounds. Rice, who represents the 4th Congressional District, covering a wide swath of Nassau County’s South Shore, recently wrote to DOI Secretary David Ber nhardt to express her outrage that designation of the WEAs continued to be delayed.

She was joined by other elected leaders, including Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from Glen Cove who represents the 3rdCongressional District, and who was formerly Nassau’s county executive, as well as Rep. Jerrold Nadler of the 10th District and Rep. Tom Reed of the 23rd District. The representatives asked that the BOEM assign the WEAs so lease auctions could be held. To date, they have not received a response from either the BOEM or the DOI. That has local environmental advocates concerned and dismayed, as offshore wind does not emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere the way fossil fuel power plants that burn oil, natural gas and coal do, and so wind energy is not a cause of climate change, the slow heating of the Earth over time. Global warming is considered a particular threat to Long Island because it causes sea levels to rise and hurricanes to grow bigger.

“If we’re really going to fight climate change and transition to renewable energy, offshore wind has to play a key role,” said Adrienne Esposito, executive director of the Farmingdale-based Citizens Campaign for the Environment. “It is not a luxury item. It is a necessity.”

Esposito said she supports Rice’s letter.

“We really need a congressional representative to get involved, take action and support wind farms,” Esposito said.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, a state agency that promotes energy efficiency and renewable power, is also calling on BOEM to designate the final WEAs. “Our progress in catalyzing this gamechanging industry is limited without additional lease areas in the New York Bight — a needed solution only BOEM has the authority to execute,” read a NYSERDA statement. “We urge BOEM to issue final Wind Energy Areas for the New York Bight.”

When contacted, BOEM gave the following statement: “BOEM continues to

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this Map, froM the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, shows the potential wind energy that would be captured off the coast of Long Island. work with our government agencies and our stakeholders to assess how future offshore wind development could affect other ocean uses with the goal of reducing potential conflicts.” The BOEM said it was assessing possible conflicts, but it did not specify what they might be.

Esposito said she believes the federal government has been stalling the assignment process to assist the oil and gas industries. President Trump “has been clear he does not support wind,” she said, “and wants to continue advancing the exploration and development of oil and guess industries.”

Rice said Trump has never supported wind farms and has worked to stall other

renewable energy projects in New York.

In July 2019, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, legally requiring New York to obtain 70 percent of its energy supply from renewable sources such as wind, solar and geothermal.

According to Joe Martens, director of the New York Offshore Wind Alliance, a coalition of advocacy groups that support wind power, 27 percent of New York’s energy currently comes from renewable sources. “We have a long way to go in 10 years,” said Martens, “and offshore wind is one of the ways that we can make the transition.”

There are currently three projects proposed in the New York Bight, two of which — Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind — have begun the regulatory review and permitting processes, and have the potential to power hundreds of thousands of homes and bring in hundreds of millions of dollars, even billions, for the local economy. “As New York continues to build back its economy from the [Covid-19] pandemic,” read a NYSERDA statement, “offshore wind provides a massive opportunity to stimulate billions of dollars in investments and create thousands of family-sustaining jobs.”

The New York Bight wind farms would create about 32,000 jobs annually, Martens said. “I think this is a great opportunity for a whole new generation of workers,” said Roger Clayman, executive director of the Long Island Federation of Labor. “Our labor movement was not always environmentally sensitive, but the fact is we’re all on the front lines of climate change.”

When the Wind Energy Areas might be designated is unclear. “I don’t know if anybody could [know] unless they had a crystal ball,” Esposito said. Martens said that 6,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy would need to be generated by 2030 to help New York reach its goal of 70 percent renewable energy by that year.

Development of a single wind farm takes years. That is why it is crucial, the experts said, to designate the WEAs so leases can be assigned, and the years-long regulatory review process and construction can begin.

“I will openly concede that it will be a challenge,” Martens said, “but in New York anyways, we’re required to do it.”

Esposito urged Long Islanders to “speak up and speak out in favor of wind energy.” “Having a voice matters,” she said, “and we can’t stay silent and hope that things change.”

EMFD takes on car fire seven hours into 2021 At 6:45 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2021, radios alerted firefighters of Engines 1, 2, and Ladder 1, for a car fire on the Meadowbrook State Parkway, north of Hempstead Turnpike.

Within minutes, EMFD Chiefs were on the road, soon followed by all three fire companies.

First arriving Third Assistant Chief Philip Fertitta radioed to all units of a “Working car fire.”

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two Levittown men, Anthony Diomede, 31, and Joseph Arena, 32, were arrested on New Years Day after an alleged brawl and stabbing.

Two arrested after alleged stabbing, brawl Two Levittown men were arrested for an incident that took place on Friday, Jan. 1, 2021 at 1:05 a.m. in Levittown.

Following an investigation, police determined that Anthony Diomede, 31, was involved in an altercation with Joseph Arena, 32, wherein Diomede allegedly pulled out a metal knife in an attempt to stab Arena.

Police say that Arena was able to take the knife from Diomede and used it to stab him multiple times as Diomede kicked and punched Arena in the head. Diomede was charged with second-degree assault and two counts of second-de g ree criminal contempt, Arena was charged with first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Attorney information was not immediately available at press time.

First due Engine 612 soon arrived on the scene quickly stretching an attack hose line to the fire with water from their on board water tank as Engine 611, and Heavy Rescue 616 arrived with additional manpower to assist.

Within minutes all visible fire had been knocked down. Although the fire was held mostly to the engine compartment, the vehicle was declared a total loss.

There were no injuries reported.

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Amid the first sunrise of the New Year, EMFD volunteers found themselves on the Meadowbrook State Parkway to extinguish the above car fire.

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By Nicole AlciNdor nalcindor@liherald.com

Last year, nearly 350,000 Americans died of Covid-19 — and more than 3.2 million total — making 2020 the deadliest year in U.S. history, according to the Associated Press. Help, though, is on the way.

In the weeks leading up to the New Year, the federal Food and Drug Administration approved two vaccines — the first by Pfizer-BioNTech and the second by Moderna —which have gone to health-care workers and will also go to residents of long-term care facilities during the early stages of distribution.

On Dec. 23, Herald Inside LI held a Zoom webinar featuring three doctors, all of whom recently received a first shot of vaccination, to discuss their experiences and what people can expect in the coming months.

“I urge people to take the vaccine because Covid-19 is a horrific disaster to human life,” said Dr. Aaron Glatt, chairman of the Department of Medicine, chief of infectious diseases and the hospital epidemiologist at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside. “We want to go back to hugging and seeing people, and the way we will do this is through the Covid-19 vaccines. The goal is to vaccinate everyone.”

Webinar attendees were encouraged to submit their questions for the panelists. One viewer asked if the vaccine could hurt fertility.

“There were some cases of women who got pregnant after getting the vaccine; however, there is zero evidence that the vaccine can cause infertility,” Glatt said. “I would tell a pregnant woman that it’s a personal decision if she wants to take the vaccine, but if she chooses to get the vaccine, she might be protecting herself more, as well as protecting others and [her] baby. [She] might even give [her] baby antibodies against the virus.”

Another viewer wondered whether people of color were more likely to experience side effects from the vaccine or lower efficacy.

“There were about 40,000 people of color that were represented in the experimental trials for these two vaccines,” said Dr. Zenobia Brown, vice president and medical director of population health at Northwell Health Solutions. “We have proven that the vaccines are safe for people in minority groups.”

Brown and Glatt agreed that although the PfizerBioNTech and Moderna vaccines were proven 95 percent effective in experimental trials, after people receive them, there is still a chance that they can contract the

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“When I get my second dose of the vaccine, I won’t become Superman. I don’t know how to play the piano now, and I won’t magically know how to play the piano after the second dose,” Glatt said. “We still need to be careful, and we still have to wear masks and social distance.”

“I cannot stress this enough: Social distance and wear masks, even if you get the vaccine,” Brown said. “My biggest fear is that people will not want the vaccine. I look forward to the day when more and more people will want to take the vaccines.”

For Dr. Nicolas Hernandez, the academic hospitalist at Northwell Plainview Hospital and another panelist, taking the vaccine was a decision that he made to protect his family, his patients and himself.

“I was scared when they gave me the Pfizer vaccine, but I’ve been a patient with Covid-19, I’ve had family

Herald Inside LI to host local college webinar With the Covid-19 infection rate rising during a second wave, many Long Island parents were concerned about the health and safety of their college-aged children who lived in university dorms during the fall semester.

In the coming weeks, before the spring semester begins, parents will have to choose whether to send their children back to school to live in campus dorms or off-campus apartments, or whether they should live at home and attend local schools.

Local colleges are accepting students on rolling admission to accommodate those who decide at the last minute to stay home for the spring semester. Many parents, though, are wrestling with

choosing the best options for their children.

Herald Inside LI will host a free live Zoom webinar, sponsored by Molloy College, on Thursday, Jan. 7, at 7 p.m., to discuss staying local for college. The webinar will feature college advisers, counselors and college students, who will share their thoughts on staying home this spring.

To register, go to LIHerald.com/StayingLocal. To sponsor a webinar or for more information, contact Amy Amato at aamato@richnerlive.com or (516) 5694000 ext. 224. For questions, email insideli@liherald.com.

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members that have had Covid-19, and I take care of patients with Covid-19, so I wanted to do my part,” Hernandez said, while adding that his only reaction to the first shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was temporary fatigue and soreness. “As a family physician, I recommend that all immunocompromised people should get the vaccine, and even if you are not up for the vaccine, still do your part.”

This webinar was the final episode of the first season of Herald Inside LI. To watch the recording of this episode and all others, go to LIHerald.com/Recordings and subscribe to the Herald Inside LI YouTube channel.

The next Herald Inside LI episode will take place on Thursday, Jan. 7, at 7 p.m. and will feature college advisers and counselors discussing students staying local for upcoming spring semester, rather than going away to school. To register, go to LIHerald.com/StayingLocal.

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Students learn about climate change Science teachers throughout the East Meadow School District recently collaborated with Emily Kang, an associate professor at Adelphi University, to implement the New York State Science Learning Standards on Global Climate Change and Human Impact. Specifically, students were introduced to the phenomenon of environmental impacts of clothes production.

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On Jan. 4, Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin and Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll called for a one-month extension of the 2021 first-half General Tax payment deadline. They are pushing for an extension from Feb. 10, 2021 to March 10, 2021 without penalty. Their reasoning, per a release from the town, is that Hempstead residents are still facing economic hardship deriving from various effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

Clavin and Driscoll referenced the quick turnaround of the state’s most recent extension to the first-half school property tax bill deadline, from Nov. 10, 2020 to Dec. 10, 2020, as a precedent for a possible extension to the General Tax deadline.

“As the calendar turned to 2021 after a year marred by the economic and health impacts of Covid-19, the unfortunate reality is that the pandemic did not end at 12 a.m. on January 1st,” Clavin said. “Extensions were granted for the payment of property taxes in 2020 to provide additional time for struggling homeowners, and we are asking for the same for the 2021 first-half General tax bill as the pandemic continues to take a toll on families.”

Driscoll and Clavin also pointed to the Nassau County Reassessment, where a large majority of residents received tax increases rather than decreases, as a reason for their desired extension.

“Many taxpayers find themselves facing serious economic and job losses, while also contending with health concerns, and they need all the help they can get during this pandemic,” Driscoll said before lambasting the County Assessor’s tax roll and reassessment as a whole.

According to Driscoll, the County Assessor submitted a delayed tax roll on Dec. 30 and, after her office analyzed it, they stood firm on their desire for an extended period of time for taxpayers to make their payments without penalty.

The Receiver’s frustration was aimed at the Assessor’s tax roll being submitted with “only 36 hours” before the commencement of General Tax payment cycle at the top of the new year.

“While our office is working hard to issue bills in a timely matter despite the County Assessor’s delays, I sincerely believe that a payment deadline extension is appropriate for homeowners during this pandemic,” Driscoll said in the release. “We will continue to provide taxpayers with convenient and safe payment options, including drive-thru and walk-up booths, and [we] are here to answer any

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Supervisor and Receiver call for extension

Hempstead 15 town supervisor and Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll called for a onemonth extension of the General Tax payment deadline, ostensibly moving from Feb. 10 to a proposed date of March 10, 2021.

Kleindeutschland to Levittown

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By Dr. Scott EckErS William Levitt and Sons built more houses in East Meadow than any other single developer. Eleven sections were planned in 1950 in a German-American farming community with heavy marriage ties, traditionally associated with nearby Hicksville. It seems that all the boys literally married the girls next door. Tracing family histories within this community is especially confusing because multiple generations of both boys and girls used their parents’ first names. Many of these farmers joined a mutual aid society called des Freundschaftlichen WohlthätigkeitsVerein, and the local branch met at Charles Kiestling’s residence.

Levittown Section 11 (between Twig Lane

and Levittown Parkway) was built on the former Henry and Sophia Bartels property, later owned by their children Henry and Frederick. The elder Henry moved to the United States from Germany in 1855 and spent three years fighting in the American Civil War. Frederick lived on Newbridge Road his entire life.

Section 16 (“C” encircled by Cypress Lane) is at the northeast corner of Carman and Stewart avenues. Most of this section was farmed by the Bremen-born Hohorst Family – Diedrich and Anna and then their son Henry, who married Louisa Rowehl of the Bellmore Road German farming community. The Rosche and Foley families also had tracts there, and Daniel Hoeffner, older brother of hotelier Andrew, farmed at the edge of town. Daniel and Anna’s daughter Eugenia married Henry Kollmer (Section 20).

Section 17 (“C” encircled by Choir Lane) is directly opposite, on the northwest corner, previously owned by the Salerno Family.

Section 18 (“C” encircled by Cabot Lane)

is just south of Section 16, across Stewart Avenue and extending over the Town of Oyster Bay line into Hicksville. The land was farmed by August (Jr.) and Margaret Diemicke, whose multiple children married into the Kollmer family (Section 20).

Previously, it had been farmed by Ernest Hartmann and his son Frederick, whose sister Sophia married Henry Bartels (Section 11).

Section 19 (“F” built around Friends Lane) lies between Carman Avenue and the Wantagh State Parkway. Three related households (Rottkamp and Finn) lived

there in the 20th century on farms that had previously been in the Laxeng, Heckinger, Wellinghousen, Joseph Berghold, Baker, Henry Bartel, and Gasser families.

John Gasser, German immigrant and patriarch of that family, lived on various properties at the northeast corner of Carman Avenue and Old Westbury Road with his wife Mary Dauch and their six children. Gasser was the school district’s tax collector at the turn of the century. His son and grandson, both named John Gasser, all grew up in the same location.

Mary Dauch’s father, Nicholas, arrived from Germany in 1845 and settled on Old Westbury Road. Thomas (Section 20) was Mary’s brother.

Section 20 (“H” south of Hearth Lane) lies directly south of Section 19, with an extension of Friends Lane. Thomas and Barbara Dauch and son Adam farmed this land, followed by Henry and Mary Kollmer. Three of their children married Diemicke siblings (Section 18): Frank married Margaret, Catherine married Adam, Peter married Mary. Their daughter Anna married William Schneider (son of David, who farmed just north of Section 19) and set up their home next door on the old Henry Schriefer farm. At the corner of Old Westbury Road and Carman Avenue lived John and Wilhelmina Hogrefe, whose daughter Catherine married Henry and Mary’s son John Kollmer.

Daniel Hoeffner’s daughter Eugenia (Section 16) married Henry Kollmer.

Section 21 (“G” encircled by Greenbelt Lane) lies just across the Wantagh State Parkway, west of Newbridge Road on grounds of the longstanding Adolph and Angelina Pasker estate and New Bridge Hotel. Pasker was one of the earliest German immigrants to come to the New Bridge section. After the Civil War, he was a dairy farmer alongside innkeeper Charles Kiestling. The railroad kept the Hicksville-area milk supply flowing to New York City until prices dropped such that residents could no longer demand enough to be profitable in the 1890s.

Pasker became involved with Democratic politics. Gottlieb and Jane Metzger and Jacob Gaenger farmed there before it was sold.

Section 22 (“L”) sits at the southwest corner of Stewart Avenue and Carman Avenue.

Section 23 (“M”) is situated just south of

Section 22’s Melody Lane and north of Salisbury Park Drive.

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Section 24 (“P” and part of “M”) is just west of Section 23, around Palm Lane.

Section 25 (“P” near Pilgrim Lane) lies just west of Section 24 at the intersection of Salisbury Park Drive and Stewart Avenue.

Sections 17 and 22-25 had been part of

the vast Hempstead Plains Company holdings, following the 19th century sale of the plains to Alexander Turney Stewart. The posh Meadow Brook Hunt Club, located just west of Merrick Avenue at Stewart Avenue, ran its regular hunts in this section of East Meadow after its 1881 inception.

As the plains were developed into suburbia and high society estates were built in the neighborhood, the Meadow Brook Hunt Club shifted its focus to horse racing, then polo, and finally golf. When property was taken by the state for the Meadowbrook Parkway extension in 1954, the club moved its headquarters to Jericho. Some of the grounds have been incorporated into Nassau Community College. A revolutionary-era road to Hicksville ran from Uniondale through the hunt at this location; Old Westbury Road ran northwest through the properties to Old Country Road through the 1920s but now ends at Carman Avenue.

Sections 22 through 25 surround Bowl-

ing Green School, which was set aside by Levitt as a school site. Section 22-23 land was acquired from the Rottkamp Family, whose farm homes still stand on Carman Avenue. The Rottkamps were one of the largest families on Long Island; there are over 2,000 descendants of Bernard Rottkamp and Caroline Engel, who wed in New York City in 1851. The family members who remained farmers, children of Henry and Theresa Wulforst Rottkamp, migrated from Elmont to East Meadow in the 1920s. Though they only spent about 25 years living in East Meadow, the Rottkamps transformed Carman Avenue: the 1930 Federal Census lists seven households just with the name Rottkamp living one after another, growing vegetables. A sister, Mary Teresa Rottkamp, lived across the street with her husband John Finn.

The character of New Road, as it was also known, and New Bridge as a GermanAmerican farming enclave came to a screeching halt in 1950 as the Rottkamps, Schneiders, Gassers, and their neighbors sold off farms en masse to Levitt. © Scott Eckers Dr. Scott Eckers is the author of East Meadow (in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series). He is a trustee on the East Meadow Board of Education and serves as a school administrator. He is also an entertainer and recording artist.

The silent inventory

By LaurEn LEv In “A Promised Land,” the latest memoir by President Barack Obama, there is a passage describing a moment late one night when he is unable to sleep. As Democratic candidate Obama, the time is recalled as a very private one in which he thinks of the people that matter to him most — describing the process as a silent inventory.

He thinks of his wife Michelle, his two young daughters, the senior team, his loyal friends and even the young organizers and volunteers that have brought him to this moment in spring 2008 on the precipice of the Democratic convention. And he writes of the American people who “[placed] their faith in a young and untested newcomer” too.

Although our silent inventories may not always be as life altering, I would contend that for most people, it’s not if we do silent inventories, but when. I believe this inventory likely occurs at one of two ends in our “daily living” spectrum: either in a moment of thanksgiving or reckoning, or at one of the lowest, saddest times a human can experience.

In a moment of thanksgiving it is a quiet expression of gratitude for loved ones, their health, support and care.

In a moment of incredible loss, it is an

accounting of the blessings that remain. I can think of no other activity that is quite as humbling as a silent inventory can be.

And there’s no time of day best suited for such an inventory, but now I can relate to President Obama’s nighttime reference because the darkness and solitude, being alone with nothing but your thoughts is one of the few chances to deflect this new world so filled with distractions.

So in the dark night, my silent inventory is made of ideas about the present and what I can count upon in the days ahead. It is also made up of thoughts for the future with hope that the unknown will be safe and joyful — filled less with anxiety and fear. It is privately counted, recounted and reconsidered. And sometimes, when I catch myself inserting the silent inventory into words of unexpected prayer, I hope I’ll have the faith to believe that we will be better, live better, love better than I calculated the day before.

A contributing writer to the Herald since 2012, Lauren Lev is an East Meadow resident and a direct marketing/ advertising executive who teaches marketing fundamentals as well as advertising and marketing communications courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology and SUNY Old Westbury.

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A. You picked a bad time in the process to propose a change. I have experienced this ongoing type of problem, and usually ended up taking the clients and their designer to meet with the building officials who uphold their community’s laws, zoning and building regulations.

The first problem here is that you seem to be getonte eeper ting bad advice from your designer, because the state code specifically prohibits the use of an attic as living space above the second floor, unless your community and state authorities review and both authorities agree that the use is safe. You would also need to sprinkler the interiors of the house and have a safe means to escape to an area no more than 12 feet below the top floor.

Studies have shown that only five out of 100 people survived a fire in the top level above the second story in a wood-framed one- or two-family residence; 95 out of 100 died.

If your architect is experienced in your particular community, one of more than 70 jurisdictions in your county, each with their own zoning board and rules, you should take his advice. Your community has previously not approved attics as living space, and no licensed professional who is doing their job will support the idea of putting you or your children’s lives in jeopardy. Either take the architect’s advice and proceed, speak directly to your building official, stop the job while you apply for a local zoning variance and state variance decisions (which could take up to a year) and then proceed.

Keep in mind that if either one of the boards turns you down, you are prohibited from having a habitable third floor, and you will have to submit revised plans and reconstruct anything that doesn’t comply with the law. In my experience, your community is very strict, and has even delayed its final decision and then forced the owner to cut down (rebuild) the wishful height to the regulation height. If your “designer” isn’t licensed and legally qualified to advise you, he may actually be violating the law. In your state it’s a class E felony for him to hold himself out to be practicing without a license.

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t’s now nearly a year since the Trump administration learned that a deadly virus was making its way into our country. During that period, the White House and many governors have engaged in a political wrestling match over who was responsible for leading the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.

While you may not like the conclusion, it is clear that President Trump never took this crisis seriously, and is even less concerned now that his tenure is about to end.

It may be an uphill battle, but JERRY President-elect Joe Biden has made it kREMER clear that he is willing to aggressively step into that battle on Jan. 20, because the next six to nine months will determine whether the pandemic is beaten. There are two good reasons why there has to be a field general leading the fight. America can’t afford for this dark cloud to linger indefinitely because of the economic damage we have experienced. Moreover, what if there is another pandemic, caused by one

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of our political enemies?

Prior to the election, the president predicted that there would be many millions of vaccinations before the end of the year.

To date, fewer than three million people have been inoculated, and only 11 million doses have been distributed around the country. The slow rate of inoculations is due to the fact that many states are staggering under the weight of testing costs and the needs of responders. Local governments and health care institutions have been on their own for 10 months after being told by Washington that the virus was a state-by-state problem.

Biden has pledged to get inoculation numbers up to one million a day. That is comforting, but health care professionals estimate that even at that rate, it would take over a year to vaccinate every American. And to reach that pace, the federal government will have to take some draconian measures.

The Defense Production Act dates back to the Korean War. It gives the president the power to force companies to drop their private customers and produce what the country needs. Trump claimed he used

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the act to get General Motors to build more respirators, but GM claimed it came forward on its own to build them. The president didn’t aggressively use the act, for fear of offending his conservative base, which opposes government intervention.

Why is there a need for use of the act now? When you have a mass anti-virus campaign, you need more than a vaccine. The big pharma companies are spending billions of dollars to keep up with their competition and protect their stockholders. In addition to the vaccines, you need cotton swabs, syringes, packing materials, dry ice and other supplies, and those products aren’t manufactured by big pharma. That’s where the federal government comes in. Using the act, manufacturers can be forced to produce the goods that are needed to get a complete program in place.

While Biden is preparing to take on the vaccine program, the pandemic is exploding in numerous states that have a shortage of hospital gowns, masks and gloves and can’t cover the costs of doctors, nurses and other first responders. Bipartisan

ven ramping up to a million inoculations a day may not be enough.

Covid relief legislation finally signed last week by the president will inject some new money into the efforts of local organizations, but it won’t make up for the costs they have been incurring since last March.

The world is keeping a close eye on our national effort, and many friendly countries are trying to figure out why we’ve done such a terrible job of combating the virus. But our enemies are also keeping a close eye on our tragedy. In his latest book, “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World,” author and CNN host Fareed Zakaria claims that our enemies could create another health crisis in our country in as little as 24 hours. Are we capable of handling another one? You know the answer to that question.

The weeks and months ahead will determine how long America will suffer and how well we will heal. Happily, the incoming administration is prepared to pick up the ball dropped by the outgoing one.

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.

Saving our sanity and our souls through books

reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The person who never reads lives only one.”

— George R.R. Martin

It nearly killed me. One of my grandkids said they “hate” books. They don’t read books except when one is assigned in school.

Given the options of smartphones, TV and computers, they don’t ever crack the cover of a novel or nonfiction adventure, even during RandI quarantine, when there’s so little to kREIss do.

Oddly, this kid gets good grades and likes school, which seems counterintuitive, because I can’t imagine anyone becoming an educated person in the world without reading books. It’s not like I haven’t tried. I have gifted and suggested books pitched toward this particular teen’s interests. I’ve read the same books they are assigned in class so we can talk about them. I keep tossing out lines and getting no bites.

My hope is that this child just hasn’t found the right books yet to get their attention. I know a few people who

became enthusiastic readers in adulthood. I wish that for this young person I love.

Granted, I was a book nerd from the time I could put eyes on paper. I remember, in first grade, begging my father for some money so I could buy books. It was like falling in love. My first loves were “Half Magic,”

by Edgar Eager, and “The Boxcar Children,” by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

If feels lame even to be defending reading when it seems so self-evident that through books we fire up our imaginations, we live other lives and we timetravel to places beyond our reach. We find comfort in finding common ground with writers. It is a bias, but I do believe that life is only halflived without books.

As part of my own life, I have led book groups for the past 20 years, and this year will do so again. For the first time, our group will be Zoomed, and so it’s open to anyone who contacts the Longboat Key Education Center (941383-8811, (charity@longboatkeyeducationcenter.com) wishing to sign up. We meet at 11 a.m. on Wednesdays, and began this week with the first of eight short books in eight weeks.

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I want to share my reading list because I call my class “Literary Gems,” and these are. We begin with “Hamnet,”

by Maggie O’Farrell. William Shakespeare had a son, Hamnet, who died when he was 11. Four years later, the bard wrote “Hamlet.” From these thin facts, O’Farrell weaves a rich story of grief and life in the throes of a plague.

Our second book is “We Have Always Lived in this Castle,” by Shirley Jackson. Murder, mayhem and the especially delicious brand of British madness abound in this story by the author of the most famous short story in the world, “The Lottery.” Next, we’ll read “The Boy in the Field,” by Margot Livesay, a luminous psychological thriller. Our last book for January is “Writers and Lovers,” by Lily King, a gorgeously written, rather ordinary story of a young woman finding her way, told with extraordinary beauty.

In February, we’ll read “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” by Ocean Vuong. This debut novel by a Vietnamese-American writer was described as “permanently stunning” by Ron Charles of The Washington Post. It is an original and exquisite amalgam of memoir,

or many of us, talking about them is as much fun as reading them.

letters and poetry. Next, we read “The Disappearing Earth,” by Julia Phillips, comprising an astonishing cast of characters, an unspeakable crime, all set in Kamchatka, on the Siberian peninsula.

Our third book next month is “Trust Exercise,” by Susan Choi, a brilliant send-up of students enthralled with themselves in an artsy university setting. The language is pitch-perfect. Our last selection is “Last Train to Key West,” by Chanel Cleeton. It is 1935, and a ferocious hurricane is barreling towards the Florida Keys. A helluva story of three women caught up in a story of murder, betrayal and salvation.

For many of us “bookies,” talking about the novels and nonfiction works is as much fun as reading them, like a delicious dessert after a remarkable meal.

So I hope some readers can join the book group. But no matter what, wherever you are at this moment, sheltering in place, working from home or venturing out, I want to share these special books with the hope that you connect with the authors and find solace and peace and joy in that connection.

Reading? The past year, when so much was lost, books brought joy into to my life. As the new year begins, they are the untapped treasure of 2021.

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

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et’s say it like it was: 2020 was miserable. It was a horrid year for us all. Everyone — everyone — was affected to one degree or another by the coronavirus pandemic, which washed over us like a merciless tidal wave, leaving fear, anxiety and death in its wake.

The speed at which the virus swept across the land was stunning, leaving us feeling helpless against a viral invader.

Nearly 4,700 people have died of Covid19 in Nassau and Suffolk counties — and an estimated 25,000 in New York City — since the coronavirus broke out in the greater metropolitan area in March, bringing grief to hundreds of thousands of lives here.

On top of those terrible — and terrifying — statistics, Long Island lost more than 100,000 private-sector jobs from November 2019 to November 2020, an 8.8 percent decline, according to the New York State Department of Labor. The biggest losses came in hospitality, 35,800 jobs; education and health services, 23,600; trade, transportation and utilities, 15,000; professional and business services, 10,000; and manufacturing, 8,000.

There is help available, however. If you are feeling anxious, depressed or suicidal, regardless of the reason, you can — you should — check out the state Office of Mental Health website, where you will find numerous resources to turn to for help.

There you will find the NY Thankful project, for which you are asked to write messages about all that you are thankful for. The very act of writing down all that is good in your life, it seems, helps relieve stress and anxiety. We suggest that you try it — if not on a state website, then on your own.

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Also listed on the site are the phone numbers of numerous agencies you can call to talk it out, whatever the issue might be. Call if you need to. There has, in the past, been a stigma associated with seeking help with mental health crises.

That should never have been the case.

Mental health is crucial to your wellbeing.

If you think about it, you also realize

letters The pandemic’s empty chairs To the Editor: In a November speech, President-elect Joe Biden expressed his sorrow at the number of empty chairs that would appear at the dinner tables of many families this year because of the coronavirus.

Covid-19 has often been compared to the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed 675,000 Americans, a majority of them young adults, and infected one-third of the world’s population during its four waves. Masks were strongly recommended, but many protested against wearing them. People were quarantined, hospitals were full, and the death toll was overwhelming. Like Donald Trump, President Woodrow Wilson underplayed the severity of the virus. There was no vaccine, no Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and very few opportunities to work from home in that precomputer era.

that your mental health is connected to everyone else’s. What the coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated, in certain terms, is that we are all interconnected in a larger societal web. So — please — seek help if you need it.

If you make any New Year’s resolution, let it be that you will take care of yourself in 2021 — both your physical and mental well-being.

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s 2020 came to a close, the coronavirus surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death in the U.S. — a sobering reminder of the toll the virus continues to take.

We have learned a lot about Covid-19 over the past 10 months. Importantly, we know now that it isn’t just a lung and respiratory issue, as was thought early on. It is a systemic inflammatory disease that may affect many organs in the body, and when it comes to the heart, it can JeFFrey t. be especially serious. kuvin Covid-19 infection certainly does not affect everyone’s heart, but it turns out that you don’t even need to have significant symptoms to have heart-related issues.

The most direct, and at times the most complicated, impact of the virus on the heart is muscle inflammation, a condition called myocarditis. This can result in a variety of cardiac issues, including

muscle weakness and rhythm disturbances.

It is well known that other viruses — as well as some medications, chemotherapies and other medical conditions — can also affect the heart in similar ways.

In addition to direct toxic effects on the heart muscle, Covid-19 may cause blood clots, which can impact the heart, lungs and the brain, resulting in heart attacks, pulmonary emboli and stroke. We learn more every day, but it remains unclear whether traditional approaches to heart disease are applicable to patients with long-term complications of the coronavirus, like heart damage.

While many patients are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, others may become very ill, and some even succumb to the disease. We don’t know the exact number of Covid-19 patients with myocarditis, because some patients may have cardiac involvement without even knowing it.

Some of the symptoms of myocarditis include chest pain; shortness of breath; heart palpitations or irregular heartbeat;

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hronic heart conditions are showing up after even mild cases.

Letters One of the empty chairs of 1918 belonged to my family. My father, then 16, was playing in the streets of Manhattan with his brother, Irwin, 13. Irwin wasn’t feeling well, and my father carried him home piggyback, and his mother put him to bed. The next day he was dead. Ironically, his parents and older brother remained healthy, but they never recovered emotionally from Irwin’s death. It was especially devastating to my paternal grandmother, whose father fought in the Civil War, contracted tuberculosis and gave it to my grandmother and her sister, both of whom died young: a history of empty chairs. My father would occasionally see my sister and me drawing pictures or playing a game, and remark, “My brother and I used to do that.”

When the 2020 pandemic arrived, I immediately thought of Irwin. Did he suffer? Was his mother with him at the end?

Had he survived, I would have had an uncle and perhaps some cousins on my father’s side. Empty chairs span generations. Only one photo of my father and his brother remains, as my grandmother destroyed all the others in her grief.

Fortunately, I lost no family members in 202, but as I watched the statistics rise, I knew that each death was more than just a number. It reflected a deep loss and an empty chair at the table of many families. I hope they find solace in 2021 and beyond.

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lightheadedness, dizzy spells or loss of consciousness, and extremity swelling.

The lingering effects of Covid-19 on the heart, particularly myocarditis, have been a hot topic in the sports community.

Several college and pro athletes with the virus have done the right thing by staying off the field this season — not only because of the risk of virus transmission, but because their doctors saw evidence of myocarditis on an MRI. The heart needs time to heal. We know that active inflammation of the heart can cause serious problems, even in highly trained athletes. And, during recovery, athletes should refrain from heavy exertion until they are assessed by a cardiologist.

And if an athlete can get asymptomatic, or subclinical, effects of the heart, so can we all.

Given new and emerging data, the exact risks and treatment protocols for Covid-related cardiac issues remain unclear. Who should undergo MRI testing of the heart — the best way to detect myocarditis — is a question that has not

been definitively answered.

As things stand now, a coronavirus infection alone does not warrant an extensive cardiac evaluation. If, however, patients are highly symptomatic and have abnormalities in specific laboratory tests, like electrocardiograms or echocardiograms, then highly specialized tests, like MRIs, might be warranted.

As the pandemic continues, as at all other times, it is important to recognize cardiac warning signs, which can be very similar to Covid symptoms.

Addressing cardiac risk factors, including cholesterol, blood sugar levels, blood pressure, sleep hygiene and obesity — is always prudent. In addition to improving quality and quantity of life, it is widely recognized that controlling cardiac risk factors can affect the course of Covid-19.

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Cardiac Covid: How the virus impacts the heart

Jeffrey T. Kuvin, M.D., is the de Roulet professor and chair of the Department of Cardiology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/ Northwell. He is the senior vice president of cardiology for Northwell Health’s Central and Eastern regions, chair of the Department of Cardiology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital, and co-director of the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital.

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Give Trump his due

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To the Editor: Re Carolann Perez’s letter to the editor, “How did we almost re-elect Donald Trump?” (Dec. 17-23): The writer said that Randi Kreiss was “brave enough” to have written about President Trump. On the contrary, Kreiss took every low pot shot at Trump that she could come up with, yet virtually denied him any credit whatsoever for his achievements, which were significant and many. And this is coming from someone who recognizes Trump’s failures and personality flaws.

Remember when Trump, early on, restricted travel between the U.S. and China, and President-elect Biden called him a racist and xenophobe? Yet soon after, Biden criticized Trump for not having taken this action sooner. What hypocrisy!

Would people have voted for Biden if the media had reported more thoroughly on the Hunter Biden scandal and its potential implications for the presidentelect? This was an election the true outcome of which we will likely never know with certainty.

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