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E.M. Boy Scout thinks big for Eagle project sense of what they need. He played baseball from around age 4 or 5 until he was 15, and he now The East Meadow Baseball umpires at the complex. and Softball Complex, on Mer“The shelving is really going rick Avenue, will receive two to help out a lot because in the important additions this spring. mini field dugouts they don’t For his Eagle Scout community have any shelving,” Schwartz service project, Boy s a i d . “ Wi t h t h e Scout Alex shelves that I’m Schwartz, 17, will making, they’ll be build dugout shelves able to put their and plant arborvitae equipment in there trees at the fields. instead of leaving it A major commuon the bench or on nity service project, the floor.” which must be comSteve LaSala, the pleted before a scout East Meadow Baseturns 18, is required ball and Softball StEVE laSAlA to reach Eagle Scout, Association commisBSA’s highest rank, Commissioner, sioner, said he loves attained by only 8 East Meadow when young people percent of scouts in Baseball/Softball who played at the 2019, the latest year complex give back to Association for which data was it. “I think it’s absoavailable. An Eagle lutely fantastic what board of review must approve he was doing for the complex,” the project once complete, along LaSala said. “He’s a great kid with the scout’s Eagle applica- and always helps out on the tion. Eagle Scouts must also field,” adding, “He’s everything earn a minimum of 21 merit you would want a kid to be.” badges and serve as a troop leadSchwartz said he started planer, among other requirements. ning the project over the sumSchwartz, a Troop 362 mem- mer of 2020, developing a ber, said he decided on the proj- required 10-page report on it. ect because he has spent much Once BSA’s executive board of his life on the fields at the approved the project, he could complex, giving him a good Continued on page 11
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MEliSSA NAilS ANd her husband, Tom, are involved in the community with their daughters, Sophia, left, and Olivia. Melissa has taken a leading role in the Bowling Green Elementary PTA.
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Melissa Nails is a ‘staple in the community’ By MAlloRY WilSoN mwilson@liherald.com
Melissa Nails joined the Parent Teacher Association in 2015, when her oldest daughter, Sophia, now 11, started kindergarten at Bowling Green Elementary School. Since then, she has made her way up the PTA ladder, most recently becoming Bowling Green’s first vice president since 2020. She is also a member of the W.T. Clarke Middle School PTA.
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“I enjoy volunteering and meeting new people, so I thought the PTA would be good for me,” Nails said. “I’ve met some of my closest friends through the school and the PTA, and I still continue to meet new faces any event I go to.” Her first position on the PTA board was corresponding secretary from 2018 to 2020. Previously, she had chaired events and volunteered her Continued on page 12
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The LIU SharkS and Saint Anselm’s Hawks faced off on a night dedicated to the military.
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The game dedIcaTed to the military raised money for the Long Island Warriors, an all-veteran hockey team. The NaSSaU coUNTy Pipes and Drums were in attendance to play a tune before the game started. PeTe WeNNINger, The East Meadow American Legion Commander helped present the flags. WeNNINger gave a few words to the Levittown American Legion.
The Long Island University’s men’s hockey team dedicated their game against New Hampshire’s Saint Anselm College’s team on Jan. 22 to military appreciation. The game played at the Northwell Health Ice Center in Eisenhower Park raised money for the Long Island Warriors, an all-veteran hockey team with players all across Long Island. The team raised over $1,400 and the money will be able to purchase ice slots for them. The LIU Sharks, donning special camouflage jerseys, beat the Saint Anselm’s Hawks 7 to 0. East Meadow American Legion was in attendance along with the Levittown American Legion and the Patriot Guard Riders, a not-for-profit motorcycle group that attends any service of a veteran. The Levittown American Legion presented colors and the Nassau County Firefighters Pipes and Drums played a tune. Legislator Laura Schaefer sang the national anthem.
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News briefs Swim lessons. Learn to Dive lessons provide participants the opportunity to learn how to master the skill of springboard diving. Open to children and adults with the ability to swim in deep water, this 8-week course teaches proper safety and skillful techniques when using a diving board and is instructed by experienced diving coaches. The American Red Cross Blended Learning Lifeguard Training helps to educate and develop Hempstead Town’s lifeguards of tomorrow. Participants will take a pre-skills exam and enter the 8-week class upon passing. The class focuses on proper lifeguarding practices, different life-saving techniques and other tools of the trade. Town residents can see fees, schedules and register for these programs online through hempsteadtownparks.com. “Hempstead Town offers the best training program for any future lifeguards,” Clavin said in a statement. “It’s comprehensive, it’s challenging, but our entire aquatics program helps lead young swimmers to that point. Taking advantage of these programs is the best way to become the best swimmer and lifeguard you can be.”
State Supreme Court Judge Thomas Rademaker from Nassau County ruled on Jan. 24 that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s statewide mandate ordering students and staff in schools to wear masks indoors is unconstitutional and can no longer be enforced. Hochul said Jan. 24 evening that the state will “immediately” appeal Judge Rademaker’s decision. East Meadow joined a list of more than 15 schools in Nassau County to make masking optional for the Jan. 25 school day. The New York State Education Depart-
ment sent a statement Monday night to boards of education and district superintendents that they were aware of the ruling and that the Department of Health will be appealing the court’s decision. “It is SED’s understanding that the Department of Health will appeal the Nassau County Supreme Court decision, which will result in an automatic stay that will unambiguously restore the mask rule until such time as an appellate court issues a further ruling. Therefore, schools must continue to follow the mask rule.”
Breast Cancer Hotline seeking volunteers The Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program is seeking women and men who have had breast cancer to become hotline volunteers. There will be four sessions of training, which includes presentations by nurse navigators and social workers on basic breast cancer education, active listening skills and tips on engaging the community. Training dates are Feb. 8, Feb. 15, Feb. 22 and March 1 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Zoom. Attendance at all four sessions is required.
For 42 years, the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program has been helping women and men who are diagnosed with breast cancer. The hotline is staffed with trained volunteers who have survived breast cancer and now help others. For further information and to arrange an interview, contact social worker Nina Foley at (516) 877-4315 or email nfoley@ adelphi.edu. For help on breast cancer information, services, support, and referrals call the hotline at 800-877-8077.
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Easy exercise
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Join the East Meadow Public Library for virtual easy exercise at 10 a.m. Ann Rothman will lead this class. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of the class. To register visit https://eastmeadow.info/.
Join Pinots Palette at 2557 Hempstead Tpk., in East Meadow to paint from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. This class is $45 per person. To register visit https://www. pinotspalette.com/eastmeadow/events.
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Thursday, Feb. 3
Join Pinots Palette at 2557 Hempstead Tpk., in East Meadow to paint in blacklight from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. This class is $42 per person. To register visit https://www.pinotspalette.com/eastmeadow/events.
Chess club Chess club meets from 1 to 4 p.m. every Thursday at the East Meadow Public Library in the conference room in the lower level.
Saturday, Jan. 29
Japanese tea ceremony
Cosmic Island Join Pinots Palette at 2557 Hempstead Tpk., in East Meadow to paint in blacklight from 9 to 11 p.m. This class is $42 per person. To register visit https://www.pinotspalette.com/eastmeadow/events.
Sunday, Jan. 30 Sunday concert Sympatico will be playin gat the East Meadow Public Library at 2 p.m. Sympatico features the versatile, far ranging-voice of Toni Washington Bolt. She navigates jazz, blues, ballads and can belt out a tune with ease. Come and enjoy a mix of popular jazz and blues both nostalgic and current, from Nina Simone to Etta James, and Sergio Mendes to Diana Krall. Register at www. eastmeadow.info.
Sunday divine liturgy The Divine Liturgy is celebrated every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church at 369 Green Ave., in East Meadow. Those interested in the church’s ancient traditions and liturgical life welcome. Coffee hour follows. For further info email htocem@gmail.com.
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Valentines fundraiser Purchase some Valentine’s Day Sweet Boxes to support students at W.T. Clarke for $25. All treats provided by Entenmann’s Family Bakery in East Meadow. All orders must be placed by Feb. 8. For any questions contact Allyson Benowitz at (516) 841-3074. Pick up is Feb. 12. support W.T. Clarke middle and high school To participate Venmo $10 a card to @Clarke-PTSA. Include your email so that the bingo card can be sent with the Zoom details. Each card plays five games. Bingo starts at 7 p.m. For any questions contact Carly Feinstein at (917) 690-5936.
Monday, Jan. 31
Moonlight cherry blossom Join Pinots Palette at 2557 Hempstead Tpk., in East Meadow to paint from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. This class is $42 per person. To register visit https://www. pinotspalette.com/eastmeadow/events
Join Mark Brier for a hybrid laughs at the library program at 1 p.m. Come for a laugh, or two, or three, or more. Mark Brier and his troupe of merry-makers spread joy and laughter for the afternoon. For those in person, the event is in the community room. Register at www.eastmeadow.info.
Register at www.eastmeadow.info.
Valentine’s day craft There will be a take and make craft for ages pre-kindergarten to fifth grade. Pick up the craft kit within 2 weeks of registration in the children’s room.
McVey might market The East Meadow Kiwanis will be collecting food at McVey Elementary School for those in need. Stop by to donate whatever you can.
Wednesday, Feb. 2
Tuesday, Feb. 1
Join the East Meadow Public Library for game day starting at 11:30 a.m.. There will be tables set up in the makers space downstairs.
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Storytime Ages 3 to not yet in kindergarten can head to the children’s story hour room in the East Meadow Public Library at 10 a.m. for a Lunar New Year story time. There will also be a simple craft.
Young adults in grades 7 through 12 can join the East Meadow Public Library at 7:15 p.m. for a Japanes tea ceremony with Hiroko. The Japanese tea ceremony is a Japanese tradition steeped in history. It is a ceremonial way of preparing and drinking green tea typically in a traditional tearoom with tatami floor. Beyond just serving and receiving tea, one of the main purposes of the tea ceremony is for the guests to enjoy the hospitality of the host in an atmosphere distinct from the fast pace of everyday life.
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Easy exercise Join the East Meadow Public Library for virtual easy exercise at 10 a.m. Ann Rothman will lead this class. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of
HaVInG an EVEnt? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest. All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to mwilson@liherald.com
Check out public ice skating at https://www.northwellhealthicecenter.com/publicskating. Check out who’s coming to Lucky’s Sports Cards and Memorabilia at luckysportscards.com. The Acoustic Outlaws will be playing at Whiskey Reds on Feb. 5. The next American Legion Post 1082 meeting will be February 5 at 11 a.m. Check out the workshops that techspace CulturePlay has to offer on East Meadow Avenue.
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Hewlett Junior Basketball on JAn. 18, Weiss moved himself into select company with his 1,000th career point in the Bulldogs’ 67-61 important conference victory at Kennedy. The AllCounty selection poured in 30 points on the evening to reach the milestone, marking the fifth time in the last six games he scored at least 30. Through 15 games, he was averaging better than 28 points per game and ranked among Nassau County’s leaders in three pointers with 58.
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Boys Basketball: East Rockaway at Malverne ............ 6 p.m. Gymnastics: Oceanside at Long Beach...................... 7 p.m. Girls Basketball: Elmont at Calhoun........................... 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: North Shore at Wantagh.................. 7 p.m. Wrestling: Hewlett at Long Beach............................... 7 p.m. Girls Basketball: South Side at Kennedy.................... 7 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 28 Wrestling: South Side at Lynbrook .............................4:30 p.m. Girls Basketball: Seaford at Lawrence............................. 5 p.m. Girls Basketball: G.N. North at Long Beach..................... 5 p.m. Boys Basketball: Calhoun at Elmont ............................. 5 p.m. Boys Basketball: Glen Cove at Carey ............................. 5 p.m. Girls Basketball: Carle Place at Malverne ..................5:30 p.m. Girls Basketball: North Shore at Wantagh ....................... 7 p.m. Girls Basketball: G.N. South at MacArthur ...................... 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball: V.S. North at Hewlett ...................... 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Kennedy at South Side ....................... 7 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 29 Wrestling: South Side Tournament ...................................9 a.m. Girls Basketball: Massapequa at Freeport .................... 12 p.m. Boys Basketball: Port Wash. at Oceanside .................. 12 p.m.
Results were going from bad to worse as a winless December wore on, from a string of heartbreaks out of the gate to more and more sound defeats – but there were straws of hope to clutch at. The Clarke boys’ basketball team, at partial strength, started the season on a six-game skid, but had come within a basket in three of its first four matchups, and as the league portion of its schedule approached, key cogs repatriated from the injured list. “I thought some early games were winnable,” said Clarke head coach Joe Hasbrouck. “If we’d had a full squad, that is. But that’s something a lot of teams are dealing with.” Led by late-returning offensive engines James Desimone (junior) and Bryan Richard (senior), the Rams abruptly made a midseason U-turn. After Desimone’s gamehigh 21 points helped Clarke secure its first win Dec. 28 against non-league host East Rockaway, the Rams kicked off a 3-2 run that included handing Nassau Conference A5 rival North Shore its first league loss Jan. 19. At 3-2 in A5 (4-10 overall), Clarke has clawed to within a game of catching second-place Seaford nearing the stretch, with an inside track to its second playoff berth in four seasons after ending a 21-year drought – and eyeing what could be its first winning league finish since 2007-08. “The non-league games were a learning experience,” Hasbrouck said. “We weren’t scoring with high efficiency, weren’t taking opportunities. These last few games, at full strength, I think we’ve hit our stride. Against North Shore we took the opportunities given, with all five of us on the court.” Clarke spread its scoring load to beat host North Shore, 45-33, in the first of back-to-back, home-and-home meetings, paced by Desimone’s 13 points and junior Zeak Mercado’s nine, while Richard and junior Jason Gaetz had six apiece in the teams’ first tilt. The Rams held the Vikings (9-3, 6-1 A5) well below their season average of 51 points in both games,
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SEnIoR BRyAn RIchARD chipped in six points Jan. 19 as the Rams knocked off Conference A5 frontrunner North Shore, 45-35. the second of which North Shore won, 44-36, Jan 21. “We hang our hat on defense, but also know it’s about shot-making,” said Hasbrouck, whose club countered North Shore’s 14-point, fourth-quarter flurry in the teams’ first matchup with a 20-point, rally-snuffing onslaught. “That fourth quarter, things seemed to open up. We got some good looks, and hit a couple more shots than them.” Desimone leads Clarke with 15 points per game – with a high of 28 in a league win over Lawrence Jan. 5 – and 20 3-point-
ers. “I think he’s caught people by surprise, including myself,” Hasbrouck said of the 5-foot-9 point guard. “And he’s only getting better, more creative.” Even apart from possible postseason implications, Clarke has its regular-season Feb. 8 finale circled, as the Rams get a chance at a do-over against lately-sliding Seaford (6-5, 4-3 A5), which dealt Clarke its biggest blow, 70-44, Jan. 11. “We take each game understanding this conference will be a dogfight,” Hasbrouck said. “Whoever’s the most consistent team will be the one who’s there at the end.”
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Scout’s project aids baseball/softball complex With donations from family members and friends, the East Meadow Chamber start fundraising for it. of Commerce, East Meadow Kiwanis “I met with my Boy Scout leader over Club and Council of East 10 times to perfect my writeMeadow Community Organiup before sending it to the zations, Schwartz quickly board,” Schwartz said. “My reached his fundraising goal. leaders want our proposals to Schwartz, an East Meadow be perfect so that when it is High School senior, has a sissent to the board, they ter, Erin, 14. He said he joined approve it.” Cub Scouts in first grade and The proposal must include Boy Scouts in sixth grade. safety precautions, needed “I joined Cub Scouts materials and their prices, because I love camping and I supervisors, the project timelove the outdoors and I line and the reason for it. thought that it would be realSchwartz submitted the proly fun,” Schwartz said. “I’ve posal to the executive board always loved the outdoor last August, and it was aspect.” approved in September. Aside from Boy Scouts, Schwartz raised $1,200 to Schwartz has wrestled in complete the project, with his school since seventh grade, first fundraiser at Pietro’s and he’s in the math and sciPizzeria in East Meadow on ence honor society. Jan. 10, which brought in For his Life Scout project, $500. he painted all the dugouts at Lauren Maslov, Pietro’s Alex the complex in 2018. Now, he owner, was excited to hold the SchwArtz said, he is proud to become an fundraiser. She said Schwartz Member, Eagle Scout. greeted everyone who attend“The honor really makes ed. “He brought in a lot of Troop 362 me feel like I accomplished business. Almost 80 people something great,” he said. came in just for the fundraiser,” Maslov said. “He blew it out of the “I’ve spent my whole life since first grade water.” completing this project.”
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According to a new poll from Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside, more than 80 percent of metropolitan area residents say government should be doing more to make Covid-19 testing readily available to the public. The hospital’s latest “Truth in Medicine Poll,” released last Thursday, illustrated people’s frustrations with both the federal and state governments’ testing systems. Fifty-seven percent of respondents hold the federal government accountable for lack of available testing, with 15 percent blaming state government. Nationally recognized, independent polling firm LJR Custom Strategies, based out of Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, called 600 residents in New York City and Long Island on landlines and cell phones. The poll was conducted from Jan. 4 to 9, before the federal government’s recent effort to make free test kits available for every household in the country. “The lack of available testing has been an Achilles’ heel of the Covid-19 response since day one of the pandemic,” MSSN President Dr. Adhi Sharma said. “More testing enables those who suspect they may have been exposed to get information, stay home if they have a positive result and help stop the spread to others.”
The poll included several other distressing details and pessimism among respondents, hospital officials aid. For one, 63 percent of respondents believe the pandemic will last at least another year. Forty-three percent of those polled say they have put off routine well visits, including their annual physical, dental or eye exams, mammograms or blood pressure screenings. “During the past two years, we repeatedly have seen patients come to the hospital with more advanced disease that might have been prevented had it been caught and treated earlier,” Sharma said. While 79 percent of adult respondents say they have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and about one-half of those vaccinated have received a booster, those who are unvaccinated remain hesitant to take the jab. The vaccination rate remained similar to the previous poll released last August. “We still have more work to do to educate why people should receive a booster vaccine and to get their children vaccinated,” said Dr. Aaron Glatt, MSSN’s chairman of medicine and chief of infectious diseases. “Vaccination is the way out of this pandemic.” Dana Sanneman, MSSN’s vice president of public affairs, announced that according to the poll, nearly 90 percent of respondents over age 65 have been vaccinated. Mean-
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while, 68 percent in the 18-to-34 demographic in the poll reported being vaccinated. Eighty percent of poll respondents strongly support offering newly emerging antiviral pills and medicines to all patients with Covid-19 and not prioritizing them for the unvaccinated, as some health officials have urged. Eighty percent of unvaccinated respondents agreed that antibody treatments and antiviral medicines should be available to all people. “Prioritizing medicine or care for groups or subsets of people when resources are limited is a highly complex issue and will be dependent on many variables,
mouNT SiNai SouTh Nassau in Oceanside released a poll of New York City and Long Island residents last Thursday in which more than 80 percent of respondents said the government should be doing more to make Covid-19 testing available to the public.
including potentially biological differences based upon genetic factors,” Glatt said. “But racial and ethnic characteristics of patients should not be the primary determinant, unless it is something that directly impacts the care that is required.” The Truth in Medicine Poll serves Mount Sinai’s mission to improve education around critical public health issues. The poll was the 12th in the Truth in Medicine series, dating back to the 2017. Before the pandemic, the polls measured concerns such as holiday stress, legalization of recreational marijuana, and antibiotic use and misuse.
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Following months of constr uction, Buzz’d Express Coffee finally celebrated its grand opening on Jan. 24. Located just north of Sunrise Highway on Bellmore Avenue, the coffee shop offers a new take on drive through coffee establishments. Buzz’d Express Coffee sits on the lot that was once home to the “Bellmore Dairy Bar n,” and has undergone extensive renovations. It’s located just a short distance away from Wantagh’s strip of businesses on Sunrise Highway. Converting the dairy barn Buzz’D ExpREss COffEE owner Greg Carmada, with into a coffee shop allows for general manager David Czegledi. the business to operate with two lanes — one for the Herald. “We want to provide the best ordering in-person, and one for picking customer service, and give out a high up online orders. quality product of [both] coffee and Online orders can be placed ahead of food.” time on their app, simply called “Buzz’d” Buzz’d’s menu includes coffee and available on both the Apple and Android other beverages, as well as bakery and app stores. The two-lane drive through food items, specifically for breakfast and gives way to the concept of Buzz’d being lunch, Carmada explained. The menu is “express.” accommodating, featuring dairy and “[Buzz’d has] the quality of a coffee non-dairy options for beverage items, as shop with the convenience of it being well as vegan and gluten free items for express,” owner Greg Carmada previous- those with dietary restrictions or preferly told the Herald. “It will be a little bit ences. of a different take on it.” Buzz’d Express Coffee will be open Buzz’d’s general manager, David Monday through Friday, from 5 a.m. to 8 Czegledi, has been active on their Face- p.m. On Saturday and Sunday, their book page and is working with the Bell- hours are 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more informore Chamber of Commerce, other local mation on the establishment, patrons businesses, as well as the libraries, in can visit their site buzzdexpresscoffee. order to establish themselves as an inte- com. Patrons can also follow them on gral part of the community. social media — on Facebook at Buzz’d “We want to give back to the commu- Express Coffee, and on Instagram at @ nity,” Czegledi previously shared with buzzdexpresscoffee.
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT. NASSAU COUNTY. NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE, LLC, Pltf. vs. LIGIA PADILLA, et al, Defts. Index #438/2013. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale entered July 31, 2014, I will sell at public auction on February 28, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. on the north side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY prem. k/a 2625 Beech Street, East Meadow, NY a/k/a Section 51, Block 429, Lot 1 a/k/a Lot No. 1, Block 429 on a certain map entitled, “Map of Post Meadowbrook, Section No. 4, East Meadow, Nassau Co., N.Y., surveyed by Sidney B. Bowne, Civil Engineer and Land Surveyor, April 20, 1951” and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau on July 25, 1951 as Map No. 5263. Approx. amt. of judgment is $394,529.42 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Foreclosure auction will be held “rain or shine.” If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the court appointed referee will cancel the auction. GEORGE P. ESERNIO, Referee. THE MARGOLIN & WEINREB LAW GROUP, LLP, Attys. for Pltf., 165 Eileen Way, Ste. 101, Syosset, NY. #99070 129352 LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE OF NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER’S SALE OF TAX LIENS ON REAL ESTATE Notice is hereby given that commencing on February 15th, 2022, will sell at public on-line auction the tax liens on certain real estate, unless the owner, mortgagee, occupant of or any other party in interest in such real estate shall have paid to the County Treasurer by February 11th, 2022 the total amount of such unpaid taxes or assessments with the interest, penalties and other expenses and charges against the property. Such tax liens will be sold at the lowest rate of interest, not exceeding 10 percent per six-month period, for which any person or persons shall offer to take the total amount of such unpaid taxes as defined in Section 5-37.0 of the Nassau County Administrative Code. Effective with the February 2019 lien sale Ordinance No. 175-2015 requires a $175.00 per day registration fee for each person who intends to bid at the tax lien sale. Ordinance No. 175-2015 also requires that upon
the issuance of the Lien Certificate there is due from the lien buyer a Tax Certificate Issue Fee of $20.00 per lien purchased. Pursuant to the provisions of the Nassau County Administrative Code at the discretion of the Nassau County Treasurer the auction will be conducted online. Further information concerning the procedures for the auction is available at the website of the Nassau County Treasurer at: https://www.nassaucount y n y. g o v / 5 2 6 / C o u n t y Treasurer Should the Treasurer determine that an inperson auction shall be held, same will commence on the 15th day of February 2022 at the Office of The County Treasurer 1 West Street, Mineola or at some other location to be determined by the Treasurer. A list of all real estate in Nassau County on which tax liens are to be sold is available at the website of the Nassau County Treasurer at: http://www.nassaucounty ny.gov/DocumentCenter/ View/17674 A list of local properties upon which tax liens are to be sold will be advertised in this publication on or before February 03rd, 2022. Nassau County does not discriminate on the basis of disability in admission to or access to, or treatment or employment in, its services, programs, or activities. Upon request, accommodations such as those required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to participate in all services, programs, activities and public hearings and events conducted by the Treasurer’s Office. Upon request, information can be made available in Braille, large print, audiotape or other alternative formats. For additional information, please call (516) 571-2090 ext. 1-3715. Dated: January 12, 2022 THE NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER Mineola, NewYork ___________________ TERMS OF SALE Such tax liens shall be sold subject to any and all superior tax liens of sovereignties and other municipalities and to all claims of record which the County may have thereon and subject to the provisions of the Federal and State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Acts. However, such tax liens shall have priority over the County’s Differential Interest Lien, representing the excess, if any, of the interest and penalty borne at the maximum rate over the interest and penalty borne at the rate at which the lien is purchased.
The Purchaser acknowledges that the tax lien(s) sold pursuant to these Terms of Sale may be subject to pending bankruptcy proceedings and/or may become subject to such proceedings which may be commenced during the period in which a tax lien is held by a successful bidder or the assignee of same, which may modify a Purchaser’s rights with respect to the lien(s) and the property securing same. Such bankruptcy proceedings shall not affect the validity of the tax lien. In addition to being subject to pending bankruptcy proceedings and/or the Federal and State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Acts, said purchaser’s right of foreclosure may be affected by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act(FIRREA),12 U.S.C. ss 1811 et.seq., with regard to real property under Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC) receivership. The County Treasurer reserves the right, without further notice and at any time, to withdraw from sale any of the parcels of land or premises herein listed. The Nassau County Treasurer reserves the right to intervene in any bankruptcy case/litigation where the property affected by the tax liens sold by the Treasurer is part of the bankruptcy estate. However, it is the sole responsibility of all tax lien purchasers to protect their legal interests in any bankruptcy case affecting their purchased tax lien, including but not limited to the filing of a proof of claim on their behalf, covering their investment in said tax lien. The Nassau County Treasurer and Nassau County and its agencies, assumes no responsibility for any legal representation of any tax lien purchaser in any legal proceeding including but not limited to a bankruptcy case where the purchased tax lien is at risk. The rate of interest and penalty at which any person purchases the tax lien shall be established by his bid. Each purchaser, immediately after the sale thereof, shall pay to the County Treasurer ten per cent of the amount for which the tax liens have been sold and the remaining ninety per cent within thirty days after such sale. If the purchaser at the tax sale shall fail to pay the remaining ninety per cent within ten days after he has been notified by the County Treasurer that the certificates of sale are ready for delivery, then all amounts deposited with the County Treasurer including but not limited to the ten per cent theretofore paid by him
shall, without further notice or demand, be irrevocably forfeited by the purchaser and shall be retained by the County Treasurer as liquidated damages and the agreement to purchase shall be of no further effect. Time is of the essence in this sale. This sale is held pursuant to the Nassau County Administrative Code and interested parties are referred to such Code for additional information as to terms of the sale, rights of purchasers, maximum rates of interest and other legal incidents of the sale. Furthermore, as to the bidding, 1. The bidder(s) agree that they will not work with any other bidder(s) to increase, maintain or stabilize interest rates or collaborate with any other bidder(s) to gain an unfair competitive advantage in the random number generator in the event of a tie bid(s) on a tax certificate. Bidder(s) further agree not to employ any bidding strategy designed to create an unfair competitive advantage in the tiebreaking process in the upcoming tax sale nor work with any other bidder(s) to engage in any bidding strategy that will result in a rotational award of tax certificates. 2. The tax certificate(s) the Bidder will bid upon, and the interest rate(s) bid, will be arrived at independently and without direct or indirect consultation, communication or agreement with any other bidder and that the tax certificate(s) the Bidder will bid upon, and the interest rate(s) to be bid, have not been disclosed, directly or indirectly, to any other bidder, and will not be disclosed, directly or indirectly, to any other bidder prior to the close of bidding. No attempt has been made or will be made to, directly or indirectly, induce any other bidder to refrain from bidding on any tax certificate, to submit complementary bids, or to submit bids at specific interest rates. 3. The bids to be placed by the Bidder will be made in good faith and not pursuant to any direct or indirect, agreement or discussion with, or inducement from, any other bidder to submit a complementary or other noncompetitive bid. 4. If it is determined that the bidder(s) have violated any of these bid requirements then their bid shall be voided and if they were the successful bidder the lien and any deposits made in connection with said bid shall be forfeited. Dated: January 12, 2022 THE NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER Mineola, New York 129230
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Chocolate as social construct According to AdWeek.com, the M&M again, even a gendered candy character mascots are being updated to “represent is not exempt from being evaluated a more ‘dynamic and prog ressive based on its looks. world’”. I think the intention is admirable but Those product icons, with names feels self-serving. Someone in that conidentified by color as “Red” or “Yel- ference room must have considered this low”, are being revamped to become a revamp a better way to spark conversamore inclusive supportive group. And tion and sales without the benefit of a the marketer’s brand effort $6.5 million television comis pretty serious -- as serious mercial on Super Bowl Sunas diversity and inclusive day. messages and policies are As for the dutiful lanswee ping business, acaguage, “focus on personality demia and social environrather than gender,” “selfments. expression and feeling like The results, based on they belong” it is well-meaninformation from a number ing but if this is a way for us of news websites, is that Red to build respect for one “will be less bossy” and another it feels forced, not Orange will “acknowledge reinforcing. auren ev and embrace (their) anxiI also have questions yet ety”. All icons will have to be answered: what about limbs the color of their Blue and (his) musical candy shell. And the candies will begin career? What about Yellow breaking out to have different shapes and sizes. of his shell to no longer being second Not surprisingly, the M&Ms with the banana (sorry, couldn’t resist) to Red? honorific “Ms.” in front of their names I recommend let’s keep the dialog are getting the most alterations and about inclusiveness among people, not attention. treat it as a trend to be exploited but a They will only be called by their world envisioned. Then again, if it color, Green or Brown. They will get needs to be “sweet” rather than candid, more sensible shoes and sneakers as who am I to say that chocolate can’t lead footwear vs. knee-high boots and high the way? heels they previously sported. They will have less makeup with less dramatic A contributing writer since 2012, Lev is eyelashes. They will support each other, an East Meadow resident and a direct less shade, more shine. marketing/advertising executive who Some of the instant consumer social teaches marketing communications media response? Bring back sexy. Once courses at FIT.
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU BEI WANG, Plaintiff against- JOHNNY XING LIU A/K/A EN HUI LIU, Defendant. Pursuant to a certain Interlocutory Judgment in the above-captioned partition action dated November 4, 2021 and entered on November 9, 2021, I, the undersigned
Referee will sell at public auction on the north side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court Building, located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York 11501 on March 14, 2022, at 2:30 p.m. the premises situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, known and designated as Section 50,
Block 234, Lot 72 as shown on the Tax Map of the County of Nassau, said premises being known as 2245 7th Street, East Meadow, New York 11554. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Interlocutory Judgment under Index Number 602458/2020. Evan D. Van LeerGreenberg, Esq., Referee
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A. My childhood was spent between elementary school in Orlando, Fla., where we regularly had hurricane days off from school, and then middle and high school in Toledo, Ohio, where a tornado actually hit our home when I was 12. Forty-three people were killed in that July 4th storm, while our family of six huddled in the southwest corner of onte eeper our basement, the place we ran to every time the alarms sounded. Getting to a basement at the closest point to the direction the wind is coming from allows the house to blow over and away from you. We were lucky to live in an area where it was understood that you had to have a basement. While I was producing and directing a documentary aptly titled “Hell or High Water” in 2013, I interviewed several survivors and officials in Moore, Okla., the scene of the highest winds ever recorded in a tornado in the U.S. The homeowners I spoke with described how there was no time to run, and they had no basements. At their building department, I met with the commissioner, who explained that the soil there is red clay, and so expansive when it’s wet that it would push basement walls inward. I told him I didn’t buy that excuse, because there are ways to buffer expansive soil with loose gravel in a cage-like perimeter that improves drainage around the whole foundation in addition to allowing for basement foundations. I also pointed out that the brand new homes still under construction across the road from the neighborhood where the tornado touched down had no reinforcement attaching the roof to the walls or the walls to the foundation. They were also using particleboard instead of stronger plywood, especially to reinforce outside corners. The commissioner looked at me sheepishly and said that most people there couldn’t afford it. I noted that eight third-graders had just died outside their classroom. Was the lack of code-required connectors really worth it? I was elated that since we spoke on camera, with their permission to film, I might have had something to do with the announcement, in 2014 that Moore now led the nation as the first building department to require specific tornado-proofing methods, including the steel frame connectors for openings and wall and roof connections I mentioned. If you can’t get to a low, reinforced room below ground level, the best thing to do is strengthen an area next to the masonry chimney. More on safe rooms in the next column. Stay tuned.
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ents, and like Harriman, was the son of a billionaire. In his time he was a political rock star, and he brought a great deal of attention to the position. He built the Albany government complex, and spent your money like it was his. I met him frequently as a new state legislator and he had that rare quality known as gravitas. His successor, Malcolm Wilson, served for only a few months after Rockefeller resigned before losing to former Congressman Hugh Carey. Carey was a jovial and highly competent public servant who successfully took on many challenging projects, while occasionally battling with his own Democratic Legislature. His Irish charm made him well known around the state for two terms in office. Carey was succeeded by Mario Cuomo. Cuomo was one of the state’s most liberal governors, which often put him at odds with the Legislature. He was known for his brilliant oratory, and he turned down the chance to run for president as well as membership on the U.S. Supreme Court. When I was chair of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, we sometimes butted heads, but always stayed friends. Cuomo served three terms, but as is
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the case with all long-tenured officials, the public eventually gets tired of you, and, seeking a fourth term, he lost to Republican George Pataki. Pataki never gained the notoriety of his predecessor, but he was known to be a hardworking official. During his time in office, he supervised the takeover of the Long Island Lighting Company and helped set up the Long Island Power Authority. Then, in the space of three years, New York had two new governors. In 2007, Eliot Spitzer came into office with a bold agenda, but personal issues drove him from power the following year, and Lt. Governor David Paterson succeeded him. A native Long Islander, Paterson was a bright, sharp-tongued elected official, but he failed to win his party’s nomination and he stepped aside for Andrew Cuomo. Unlike many of his predecessors, the younger Cuomo quickly became a wellknown figure. He attracted national attention last year, when the coronavirus pandemic gave him the opportunity to be a television star. Whether they are pro- or anti-Cuomo, fair-minded people will acknowledge that he became another
he has the support of the state’s power brokers bcause they like her style.
Robert Moses, completing major projects that no other governor would dare undertake. Last August, Cuomo resigned in disgrace and was succeeded by Hochul, his lieutenant governor and a seasoned western-New York political figure. She has swiftly embraced her new role as the state’s first woman governor. Her success to date is primarily due to the fact that she is experienced in handling people issues, both at a national and local level. She has attracted strong financial support from the state’s power brokers because they like her personal style. While few are counting, she has made over 75 appearances in downstate New York, and has displayed wit and charm while manifesting take-charge talents. Upstate New Yorkers are big supporters, because she acts and talks like one of them. There is no doubt in my mind, based on all the governors in my life, that she is the right person for the job at the right time. 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.
Greatest hits from this month’s read-a-thon
very book ever written is about the pandemic — at least that’s what I’m discovering after trying to escape the here and now through fiction. Honestly, I could read “Dick and Jane Go to School” and I would be thinking, not so fast, kids. Where are your masks? Everything we do, everything we read, every plan for the future is now viewed through the prism of the ongoing health crisis. But that’s OK. We always bring our own lives to the RANDI first page of a new KREISS book. Reading is a diversion, but alas, it is not an escape. I read four books this month, which I chose specifically because I hoped to get away from the grind of the daily news and from other books featuring pandemics, natural disasters, environmental catastrophes and family trauma. Ultimately, my choices did not offer escape from the moment, but they did offer comfort, and the knowledge that painful life challenges are part of the human condition.
Because my attention span is a casualty of pandemic anxiety, I selected relatively short books. I want to read Jonathan Franzen’s “Crossroads,” for example, but I’m not yet up for a nearly 600page read. My first choice was “Midnight in the Library,” by Matt Haig. A young woman decides to end her life, and winds up in a kind of supernatural middle space called the library, managed by a kindly old librarian who may or may not be her former teacher, or God. She has the chance, then, to choose other lives she might have lived, and is transported into those lives to try them out. Despite the serious theme, the writing is clever and entertaining. Naturally, it made me think about my own what-ifs. Over the past two pandemic years, who didn’t feel like clicking their ruby slippers and going back to a pre-Covid world? Who didn’t romanticize other unlived lives? I also read “Klara and the Sun,” by Kazuo Ishiguro. The story imagines a future in which parents can purchase artificial friend robots, or AF’s, for their kids. Children spend all their time indoors, learning on screens called
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“oblongs.” They attend special classes to learn how to socialize with their friends because their lives are so solitary. I thought the robot story would be so removed from real life that it would offer distraction. However, the lives of the children in “Klara and the Sun” are prophetic of this exact time in history, when children are isolated and suffering from that isolation. Again, the novelist had his ear to the ground in a way no one could have predicted. His descriptions of a future dystopian society are prescient in many disturbing ways. None of these novels can offer a flying carpet out of our own predicaments. What they can do, and it’s worth the ride, is validate the richness of the human experience and offer hope. My third suggestion is “Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line,” by Deepa Anaparra. This story had the best chance of getting me out of my head and into the life of the 9-year-old Indian narrator who hopes to solve the mystery of disappearing children in his “basti,” or slum neighborhood. Strangely, the novel is buoyant and funny and ultimately hopeful, although it follows a tragic series of events. The joy was in the narrative “voice” of the
n ‘Klara and the Sun,’ the children’s lives are prophetic of this exact time in history.
young boy, whose observations of adult behavior are keen and funny. I enjoyed the immersion in the sensory kaleidoscope that is India. The story depicts, too, the contrast of the “hi-fi” rich people who live in the “hi-fi” buildings outside the slums. So, before long, I was thinking about how our own homegrown disparities in wealth alter the experience of living through a global pandemic. The last book I read this month was “Northern Spy,” by Flynn Berry, a thriller about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the divisions within the population and the mistrust between the IRA and the Brits. Countrymen and women turned against one another. Families divided over politics. Governments abusing their power. Politicians lying to their constituents and choosing personal power over service to the voters. Sound familiar? The descriptions of scenery along the coast near Belfast are stunning. And the story is a page-turner. Of course, it also brought home the destabilizing political division in our own country. Perhaps we cannot read to escape. No matter. We read to know that others survive tragedies. We read for the comfort of knowing that we are not alone. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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peaking last Friday in Woodbury before the Long Island Association, Gov. Kathy Hochul devoted much of her speech, delivered with characteristically biting humor, to touting the array of projects now in the planning stages that were made possible by the Biden administration’s signature achievement to date, the $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The measure, passed late last year, will mean tens of billions of dollars for infrastructure improvement across New York state, including here on Long Island. For starters, Hochul said, New York will invest $1 billion in short order to fix potholes on our state thoroughfares. Potholes, she noted, cost New Yorkers an average of $635 a year in
repairs. “I have a personal experience with every single pothole,” the governor remarked, half-jokingly. The infrastructure bill will also provide $32.8 billion to repair and restructure New York’s crumbling roads and bridges, including $103.4 million for Nassau County. New York will receive $9.8 billion to modernize public transportation systems, making them cleaner and more efficient. Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, for example, will receive $40 million to improve and further develop terminals, improving the flight experience of many Long Islanders there. some $500 million will go to develop sustainable offshore wind farms in the Atlantic ocean, providing clean energy for New Yorkers for generations to come and helping to protect Earth
against climate change. The wind farms will also mean hundreds, even thousands, of high-paying, high-tech jobs for Long Islanders. And New York is set to receive $175 million to build out a network of electric-vehicle charging stations across the state, reducing or eliminating gasoline costs for those with electric cars and helping to fight climate change. We could go on and on. The federal investment in New York transportation and electric systems will reap benefits for years, even decades, to come. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act tells us, in no uncertain terms, that good things happen when Democrats and Republicans work together. We, the people, expect — demand — more such examples of bipartisanship in Congress.
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letters ‘Uninformed’ is too strong a word To the Editor: Re Dr. Michael Ludwig’s letter to the editor, “Blakeman’s decision is ‘misguided’” (Jan. 13-19): Dr. Ludwig’s unhappiness with the way the race for Nassau County executive went last November is apparent, with name-calling. Two dozen “blue” cities have defied federal law over enforcement of immigration laws, so let’s not be naive. In his letter, Ludwig comes off like Hillary Clinton when she referred to conservatives as “deplorables.” “Uninformed” is a strong grade to apply to anyone who isn’t a liberal. I’m not disappointed by such daily attacks. People should, however, use their brains before they engage their mouths. We are Americans with some slightly different views. The ballot box is the field of honor. We should not defame one another. RoBERT F. CAsALE Glen Head
Time to fund maternal care To the Editor: I stand with Dr. Martine Hackett, of Birth Justice Warriors, a Hofstra University professor, and Dr. Tarika James, chief medical
officer of Long Island Federally Qualified Health Centers, to call for a major funding increase to address the nation’s maternal mortality crisis among Black women and eliminate racial bias in maternal care. Ahead of final negotiations for the fiscal year 2022 appropriations package, I am calling on House and senate Appropriations Committee leaders to include $7 million to fund evidence-based training programs to reduce implicit bias in maternal health and $25 million to establish a program that delivers integrated health care services to pregnant
women and new mothers that can reduce the disproportionate rate of maternal deaths among Black non-Hispanic women and adverse maternal health outcomes. The United states continues to have the highest rate of maternal mortality in the developed world, driven in large part by the high mortality rates among Black mothers. The overall maternal mortality rate in New York state is 10 percent higher than the national average. These risks have only grown over the past year, as Covid-19 presents additional risks for pregnant women and their babies.
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efore I started working for the Heralds last year, a coworker raped me at a previous job. I didn’t immediately report it to police. I didn’t tell my family in Puerto Rico, or my then husband. I didn’t keep the torn dress or the photos of the bruises. With only 31 percent of rapes reported to police, according to the Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network, we need to empower rape victims to seek justice in a system that they believe is fair and equitable — and one in which they feel Cristina arroYo safe and supported. Under the current roDriGUeZ system, though, for every 1,000 sexual assaults that are reported, only 25 perpetrators will be incarcerated, according to RAINN. My story is not a 0.025 percent story. Six months after I was raped, I received a screenshot from a different coworker in which my rapist mentioned me by name, saying he hadn’t raped me, that it was consensual. He also mentioned two other women, as if listing membership in a club one out of five women join against their will. I reached out to the women. One answered. She said he had bought her
drinks, and she awoke the next morning, unable to remember the night before, to a text from him that read, “Thanks for sex, hope you remember.” That was when I decided to call the police. Late one night, four male officers came to my home to write a report. I told them about the man who raped me and the other woman, that he had admitted two weeks after the incident that he raped me, and that I suspected he might have done the same to others, based on this woman’s report and the text he sent her. The police dismissed my rape allegation as “sex,” asking, When did he have sex with you? Did anybody else witness you having sex? Had you had sex before with him? Finally, they offered me a counseling services number. A few weeks later, I met with a specialcrimes detective for three interviews. I shared texts and named witnesses to the crime. The detective tried to contact my rapist but could not. I was offered counseling services pamphlets. Not only did I relive the trauma, but I also had to endure victim blaming, with police saying, “Maybe you agreed, but you don’t remember?” “Are you sure you weren’t in a relationship with him?” “You both made bad decisions that night.” “You should talk to someone — RAINN offers
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great counseling services.” The detective interviewed witnesses who had told me they saw what happened, but no one would admit to authorities that they had seen anything. A year and half later, after I had quit my job because I didn’t want to run into my rapist, he posted on social media that he had exacted revenge on me, calling me a terrible person and himself a “genius.” I immediately went to the police. They said they could do nothing, because my rapist was never arrested and the harassment wasn’t chronic. I tried to get a restraining order but couldn’t, because he wasn’t related to me or my live-in boyfriend. Police said I should’ve reported the rape when it happened, and again referred me to counseling. Now my rapist still works in the same place. I walk with my keys between my fingers toward my car, and check the back seat. I pretend to be on my phone when I walk alone at night, having 911 pre-dialed. And I keep an aluminum bat nearby at home. For rape victims, no amount of therapy offers the healing that justice can. Our justice system and social institutions are fraught, however, with puritanical misbeliefs about female sexuality — the woman is almost always to blame — and a history
o hold rapists accountable, stop asking victims why they waited to report.
of categorizing women as property, both of which fuel rape. New York made some progress in 2020 when the Democratically controlled State Senate passed a bill to prohibit a rape suspect from using an alleged victim’s intoxication as a defense in court. But the measure failed to pass the Assembly, also controlled by Democrats, signaling to women that our Legislature, dominated by men, cannot protect us. Want to hold rapists accountable? Stop asking their victims why they waited to report. Instead, call out men when they objectify women; advocate for greater female representation in formal and informal organizations, especially in leadership; unionize for living wages and worklife balance; and vote for elected leaders that will support women’s autonomy. Victims cannot trust systems that fail them, at best, and retraumatize them, at worst. Once women gain a degree of financial and workplace autonomy and equitable systemic power, particularly in government, our institutions will change. Then, we hope, our criminal justice system will become a safe place for women to come forward. Cristina Arroyo Rodriguez is editor of the Baldwin Herald. She has also lectured in psychology at Baruch College and Bronx Community College in the City University of New York, and has taught Master Executive classes for NYPD leadership at John Jay College.
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Despite the high number of pregnancy and childbirth complications, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies have found that two out of three of all reported deaths were preventable. I am also urging my congressional colleagues to continue funding for several maternal health priorities, including at least $30 million to support uniform data collection on individual maternal deaths, $15 million for the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health program, $5 million for the Maternal Mental Health Hotline and $10 million to train health care providers to screen, assess and provide specialized care to treat maternal mental health conditions. I support the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021, which includes my bill, the Moms Matter Act. And I support a host of bills to reduce racial disparities in maternal health, including the Maternal CARE Act, the MOMS Act and Sen. Cory Booker’s MOMMIES Act. I also co-led the TRICARE Coverage for Doula Support Act in 2020, which helped initiate a pilot program for TRICARE beneficiaries to receive coverage for doula fees in 2021. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND U.S. senator, New York
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EAST MEADOW HERALD — January 27, 2022
Rape victims need counseling. They also need justice.
January 27, 2022 — EAST MEADOW HERALD
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