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By MAlloRY WIlSoN mwilson@liherald.com

There are mixed opinions on how — or if — diversity, equity, and inclusion should be taught in schools. Some think it should be part of the curriculum, while others think it’s a topic reserved for parents to talk with their children about. One thing is clear for parents in the East Meadow School District — it should not be taught covertly.

Undercover videos were released showing David Casamento, the district’s assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, discussing DEI being taught covertly in schools across Long Island. Parents

expressed their outrage at the March 8 Board of Education meeting.

DEI aims to include and teach about all groups disadvantaged by race, ethnicity, disability, gender and gender identity, socioeconomic status, or other factors.

The videos were released by Project Veritas, a nonprofit journalism enterprise that, according to its website, “investigates and exposes corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions to achieve a more ethical and transparent society.”

In the video, Casamento is seen talking about how certain

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Salisbury resident Eileen Cronin, left, the longtime host of the Long Ireland Show — a radio show on which the talk is all things Irish — met a festively dressed parade-goer on March 5 at the annual Irish American Society’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Mineola. Cronin’s show airs on Saturdays from 3 to 5 p.m., on Hofstra University’s WRHU 88.7 FM.

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Most school districts provide students with an option to take language courses like Spanish, French, or Italian. For East Meadow and Clarke high school students, American Sign Language is an option. And now, they have an opportunity to show off their ASL skills.

This year, the students in the ASL honor societies will host ASL Idol, an event that allows students who study American Sign Language to perform their talents. The event is an annual fundraiser that supports different non-profit organizations for Deaf

people. The competition is based on the popular singing competition, “American Idol.”

“I started ASL Idol over 10 years ago as an opportunity for students to get community service hours to satisfy the requirement to get inducted into the National American Sign Language honor society,” said Woodland Middle School ASL teacher Maria Kaminsky. “What started out as a fun little event, turned into a highly anticipated annual event.”

Kaminsky brought the event with her to the East Meadow School District from West Islip when she became an ASL teacher at Woodland Middle School. The

ASl Idol?

ASL Idol is March 23, at 6 p.m., in the East Meadow High School Auditorium.

Admission is $5 for those with ASL merchandise, or $7 for those without. event was initially planned for March of 2020, but the pandemic forced organizers to move it to this March.

Other schools nationwide hold a similar event. Locally, it is being

held in the East Meadow High School auditorium on March 23 at 6 p.m. The event is open to the public. Tickets at the door are $7 for general admission and $5 if you have ASL merchandise. Raffles and food will also be sold at the event. All money collected will go directly to the American Society for Deaf Children.

“Each year, the ASL students of the hosting school research and decide on the deserving organization,” Lauren Beygelman, event organizer and ASL Honor Society advisor for East Meadow High, said. “This year, the organization chosen is the American Society for Deaf Children, who believes deaf children are enti-

tled to full language and communication access.”

The event’s performers consist of American Sign Language students from across Long Island from middle school to high school with good academic standing. In the end, there will be a winner.

There are over 25 groups and individuals registered from schools including Commack, Massapequa, Smithtown, Hicksville, and East Meadow high schools, and Woodland Middle School.

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St. Patrick’s Day parade fun Salisbury resident Eileen Cronin, left, the longtime host of the Long Ireland Show — a radio show on which the talk is all things Irish — met a festively dressed parade-goer on March 5 at the annual Irish American Society’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Mineola. Cronin’s show airs on Saturdays from 3 to 5 p.m., on Hofstra University’s WRHU 88.7 FM.

There are mixed opinions on how — or if — diversity, equity, and inclusion should be taught in schools. Some think it should be part of the curriculum, while others think it’s a topic reserved for parents to talk with their children about. One thing is clear for parents in the East Meadow School District — it should not be taught covertly.

Undercover videos were released showing David Casamento, the district’s assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, discussing DEI being taught covertly in schools across Long Island. Parents

expressed their outrage at the March 8 Board of Education meeting.

DEI aims to include and teach about all groups disadvantaged by race, ethnicity, disability, gender and gender identity, socioeconomic status, or other factors.

The videos were released by Project Veritas, a nonprofit journalism enterprise that, according to its website, “investigates and exposes corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions to achieve a more ethical and transparent society.”

In the video, Casamento is seen talking about how certain Continued on page 2

East Meadow High preparing to host sign language ‘Idol’

By AMA NKRUMAH Intern

Most school districts provide students with an option to take language courses like Spanish, French, or Italian. For East Meadow and Clarke high school students, American Sign Language is an option. And now, they have an opportunity to show off their ASL skills.

This year, the students in the ASL honor societies will host ASL Idol, an event that allows students who study American Sign Language to perform their talents. The event is an annual fundraiser that supports different non-profit organizations for Deaf

people. The competition is based on the popular singing competition, “American Idol.”

“I started ASL Idol over 10 years ago as an opportunity for students to get community service hours to satisfy the requirement to get inducted into the National American Sign Language honor society,” said Woodland Middle School ASL teacher Maria Kaminsky. “What started out as a fun little event, turned into a highly anticipated annual event.”

Kaminsky brought the event with her to the East Meadow School District from West Islip when she became an ASL teacher at Woodland Middle School. The

Want to see ASl Idol?

ASL Idol is March 23, at 6 p.m., in the East Meadow High School Auditorium.

Admission is $5 for those with ASL merchandise, or $7 for those without. event was initially planned for March of 2020, but the pandemic forced organizers to move it to this March.

Other schools nationwide hold a similar event. Locally, it is being

held in the East Meadow High School auditorium on March 23 at 6 p.m. The event is open to the public. Tickets at the door are $7 for general admission and $5 if you have ASL merchandise. Raffles and food will also be sold at the event. All money collected will go directly to the American Society for Deaf Children.

“Each year, the ASL students of the hosting school research and decide on the deserving organization,” Lauren Beygelman, event organizer and ASL Honor Society advisor for East Meadow High, said. “This year, the organization chosen is the American Society for Deaf Children, who believes deaf children are enti-

tled to full language and communication access.”

The event’s performers consist of American Sign Language students from across Long Island from middle school to high school with good academic standing. In the end, there will be a winner.

There are over 25 groups and individuals registered from schools including Commack, Massapequa, Smithtown, Hicksville, and East Meadow high schools, and Woodland Middle School.

They will be performing songs of their choice and judged by four judges — each with a differContinued on page 9

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Many district residents are outraged by video continued from front page topics need to be taught without parents knowing due to the possible parent backlash “Here’s the thing with DEI work,” Casamento said in the video. “If you push too hard doing the work and you get this pushback, it will be decades before you can do the work again. So, it needs to be incremental.”

Another clip of him shows him saying parents, “honestly believe that systemic racism does not exist. They don’t understand why we have to talk about LGBTQ issues. Or have books that have LGBTQ themes in them.”

At the board meeting, roughly 100 heated attendees, many being parents, demanded answers from the board. Casamento was not present.

“As most of you are aware there was a story that broke today from Project Veritas regarding Assistant Superintendent David Casamento,” School Board President Alisa Baroukh said at the meeting. “In terms of the district’s hiring practices, we have a strict protocol that was developed by a diverse group of stakeholders within our district.”

Another part of the video that angered parents was a clip of Casamento talking about not hiring conservative-leaning candidates. He said a rubric for hiring was specifically designed “in light of DEI.” Baroukh added that the board is requesting a public review of the district’s hiring process including a review of the

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Roughly 100 people attended the March 8 Board of Education meeting to share their thoughts about an undercover video in which Assistant Superintendent David Casamento talks about how diversity, equity and inclusion are being taught covertly in school districts. evaluative rubric, which will be presented to the public at the March 22 board meeting.

“While we believe that our hiring practices are sound and completely above board, we feel that a public review is necessary given the situation at hand,” she said.

“In addition, we will also be conducting a thorough investigation into this matter.”

East Meadow parent Allyson Benowitz, told the board that Casamento’s comments reveals evidence of fraud in the district’s hiring process.

“Covert operations, taking power from people, creating rubrics for not hiring ‘those types of people,’ secrecy, collusion, the list goes on,” Benowitz said. “More-

over, not only are his comments evidence of corruption, his pride, and compliance, as he revealed systematic corruption over public funds towards his personal agenda, is irreprehensible. It is morally repugnant.”

Concerning Casamento saying that he tries not to hire conservatives, one East Meadow parent, Terence Hohlman said “it was slimy, devious, and backhanded.”

“Then he says we need good people,” Hohlman added. “Who are the good people? We’re not good people? Conservatives aren’t good people?”

A few parents addressed that DEI inherently isn’t a bad thing. “It’s important that we use this opportunity to move things for-

ward,” Adam Pobliner, a district parent said. “(DEI) teaches our children that the mistakes that we have made as a country can be fixed.”

He noted that DEI is not about turning students gay, it’s about having representation in schools. “When I was in high school I had friends that put razor blades to their wrists because they were gay and got tortured and they had no one to go to,” he said. “If my child is gay and finds a teacher he can relate to, good.”

Ethan Mann, a parent of an East Meadow graduate, told the Herald that he was surprised by the video, and that, “taken at face value, the video shows very concerning things.”

He also believes that DEI should be taught in schools. “When teaching is not rooted in student’s lives, student learning suffers,” he said at the meeting. “It does not say that a gay teacher should make his or her children gay, it does not say to me that somebody should use their sexuality to influence or teach, but what it does say to me, is that there needs to be representation so that students are available for learning.”

A March 10 email sent by Board President Alisa Baroukh stated that Casamento was “administratively reassigned,” and that he will not be in any district buildings.

As of press time, Casamento and other district officials have not responded for comment.

Additional reporting by Ama Nkrumah

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E.M.’s Marcella Pizzo is a leader in social work

By MALLORY WILSON mwilson@liherald.com

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ast Meadow resident Marcella Pizzo started her career as a high school English teacher in Brooklyn. But after seeing some of the mental hardships that these kids faced, she knew there was more important work she could be doing.

“I realized that that population of young folks, high school students specifically, were really struggling,” Pizzo said.

“There was a lot of stigma around talking about it and seeking services.”

From there, she transitioned and got her master’s degree in mental health counseling from Touro College in New York in 2014. She started her practice right out of her home in 2017, mostly helping young adults and adolescents.

“I designed my practice,” Pizzo said. “I think part of social work is service, so I try not to turn anybody Marcella Pizzo away. If someone calls and they don’t have insurance, I try my best to work on a sliding scale for them because I feel like I have to be accessible.”

Pizzo soon realized that she wanted to focus more on the research component of social work, and set out to get her Ph.D., which she’s been working on since 2017 at Adelphi University in Garden City. Her current research is grounded in critical feminist theory, focusing on gender inequality.

“I look at inequities in nonprofit organizations,” Pizzo explained. “I’m looking at the intersection of race and gender, and systemic oppression and leadership specifically. Right now, I’m looking at (black, indigenous people of color) female social workers as leaders of nonprofits, and examining how they got there because there’s almost no mentorship because so few of them exist.”

The latter of which is the topic of her dissertation.

Pizzo’s research is done qualitatively, meaning that the research seeks to understand the findings through real women’s experiences based on answers to the questions she gives them. The subjects are found through people she knows, and by word of mouth. What the research has found is that those women are overcoming so many obstacles to get where they want to be.

“We’re looking at (anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives because right now that’s a big thing,” she said. “Training around ADEI, and it’s not really working. It’s been unsuccessful for a myriad of reasons. What these women are saying is that there has to be buy-in from everybody at the organizational level.

“It has to be sort of this ongoing pro-

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Her turn toward research was a way for her to highlight diverse voices. A lot like the nonprofit sector, the social sciences field also tends to be dominated by men doing research. “I wanted to highlight women specifically and highlight them in an organizational context,” she said. “I felt the need for a woman to get in there, and do her own sort of research.”

She attributes her passion for social justice to her time spent working in the New York City education system. “It’s a very different paradigm than working (on Long Island),” she said. “I had students that were homeless, and I realized that folks are fixated on testing, and it’s like how about focusing on how they’re not doing their homework because they’re living in a shelter.”

Once Pizzo returned to school, she found her way back to the classroom.

She’s guest lectured at Hunter College in Manhattan several times, and was an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University on Long Island. She was originally a doctoral research assistant at Adelphi before switching to teaching research methods.

Pizzo’s main goal is to continue her research and wind up with a full tenure track faculty job at a university. “A university where I can conduct my research and really teach the way that I want to teach,” she said. “Social work programs afford me that because most of them, there’s a social justice and human rights lens. I then can teach the way I need to teach, I can have a real conversation about policies that may make people uncomfortable.”

Apart from working at a university, she wants to focus on her community advocacy. She’s an active member of the East Meadow community and works closely with Equity 4 LI Youth — a group that provides equity and opportunities to underprivileged youth on Long Island. She’s

If you are a black, indigenous, person of color social worker, or in a leadership role in a human service organization, reach out to Marcella Pizzo at mpizzo@adelphi.edu.

This doctoral dissertation seeks to explore the lived experiences of BIPOC social work women and the complex interplay of multiple social identities, within their roles as leaders in human service organizations.

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One organization she hopes to give more time to is the Cedarmore Cooperation, a nonprofit in Freeport that aims to educate, elevate and empower local youth.

Pizzo serves on the planning committee for the organization’s Girlz Talk program.

“It’s an incredible organization,” she said. “They’re really embedded in the community, and I think if I didn’t go the route of academia, I probably would have developed a community center. And that may still be on the horizon.”

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Leaders: Housing plan undermines neighborhoods

By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com

Many on Long Island already are having a tough time finding affordable places to live. The elderly are priced out of affordable homes, and younger generations are fleeing to more affordable locales — many times out of state.

Lawmakers have tried a number of ways to keep rents low, but the latest plan offered by Gov. Kathy Hochul to build 800,000 new homes across the state over the next decade isn’t meeting with a lot of support. Especially on Long Island.

“We don’t want Hochul control, we want local control,” Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin told a crowd of local elected leaders at the Port Washington Long Island Rail Road station earlier this month.

Clavin believes the governor’s proposal is a power grab and doesn’t take into consideration the differences between upstate and downstate communities. He worries Hochul’s plans will force Long Island to become the sixth borough of New York City.

While the proposal speaks to creating high-density housing, officials say it doesn’t address upgrading the existing infrastructure to accommodate the population increase — like roads and utilities. There also seems to be little attention from Albany about how such fast growth could impact schools, which might not be able to keep up.

Rents have risen 30 percent since 2015 in New York City, while home prices have grown 50 percent. The situation is even more dire outside the city where rents are up as much as 60 percent, with some existing home sales rising as high as 80 percent over the last eight years.

According to the Population Reference Bureau, more than half of the state’s renters are paying more than 30 percent of their income on rent, the second-highest rate

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HeMpSteAD tOwN SupeRvISOR Don Clavin says he’s not alone in his opposition to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to push affordable housing. Officials believe forcing development — even near transit hubs — doesn’t consider additional concerns neighbors face such as infrastructure and crime. in the nation.

Hochul wants to battle that through what she’s calling the New York Housing Compact. It’s intended to eliminate many of the barriers stopping development of affordable housing — especially around Metropolitan Transportation Authority rail stations — including plans for the state to step in if local government refuse to act.

But that’s what really have many local leaders like

Clavin fired up. The town supervisor says Hochul’s proposal eliminates the public hearing process, and will allow an “unaccountable, bureaucratic board located hundreds of miles away in Albany to make decisions over what belongs in your neighborhood.”

The governor, however, believes the state’s housing crisis requires bold actions and an all-hands-on-deck approach.

“Every community in New York must do their part to encourage housing growth to move our state forward and keep our economy strong.” Hochul said, according to a release. “The New York Housing Compact is a comprehensive plan to spur the changes needed to create more housing, meet rising demand, and make our state a more equitable, stable and affordable place to live.”

The compact, however, suggests local leaders aren’t doing enough to address the housing crisis. And that’s wrong, said Jennifer DeSena, town supervisor for North Hempstead.

“We have a hearing process,” DeSena said. “There are always projects that are being considered Nassau County is the densest suburban community in the country. We have a lot of housing, and wanting to add an arbitrary number like 3 percent every three years, it’s just not realistic.”

Pamela Panzenbeck said she’s worried about a devastating scenario for the city she leads, Glen Cove, where giving the governor the power to rezone property within a half-mile from a train station to 50 units of housing per acre will hurt more than it will help.

The mayor also believes Long Island towns and cities should be able to decide for themselves what the appropriate land use is.

“Changes such as she suggests would destroy our way of life,” Panzenbeck said, “the historic nature and beauty of Glen Cove, and our Long Island communities.”

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Residents from Legislator Tom McKevitt’s 13th district made their way to the East Meadow library on March 7 for a public safety meeting. Nassau County police officers from the first and third precincts were in attendance as well. Residents were encouraged to ask questions.

Topics discussed included current crime trends and steps that residents can take to better protect themselves, their home and property, and their family.

McKevitt started off the meeting by joking with the attendees about how his wife begged him for years to get ring doorbell. “From my perspective, the worst device invented for a politician in this universe was the ring doorbell,” McKevitt joked.

But, not feeling safe anymore is what ultimately led him to get one.

“The reason I had to get it is I just don’t feel safe in East Meadow anymore,” he said. “That shouldn’t be the case. I’ve lived here for 51 years.”

McKevitt reminded residents, though, that this meeting was not to scare them, just to provide some tips.

Major crime in Nassau County is up 41 percent from 2021-22, McKevitt said. With grand larceny up 43 percent, and auto thefts up 72 percent.

“Over $1.1 billion a year on the (Nassau County) police department,” he said.

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LegISLAtOR tOM McKevItt speaks to the residents at the public safety meeting.

“From my perspective, the most important thing government does is keeping people safe, and we have the best department to do that to keep it safe.”

Inspector Joseph Guerra, commanding officer of the first precinct, pointed out that Nassau County is the safest county in America. “Comparatively speaking to other counties, compared to New York City, our bordering counties and stuff,” Guerra said. “We still have crime very low, and you are in a very safe county. The thing is that we want to keep it that way.”

Guerra pointed out that residents should not leave their cars unlocked and keys in their cars. He also mentioned the uptick in catalytic convertor thefts and

said that he has his detail officers and problem-oriented police on the case.

Guerra discussed bail reform as part of the problem. “People think that you have to show that you got larceny arrests,” Guerra said. “No, it’s the drug arrests.

The drugs bring the crime. A lot of this stuff is people supporting habits.”

In terms of repeat offenders, he said that his officers keep track of them, and have files on them.

Another big topic that came up at the meeting was the Coliseum Inn on Hempstead Turnpike. “We’ve been very busy, that’s just one part of our day,” Guerra said. “We’re having cooperation from the hotel, whereas we didn’t get it before.”

McKevitt explained that he, along with police, have been trying to get the Coliseum Inn closed for years.

One frustrated resident shared his concern about the crime that comes out of the Inn. He said that he has daughters who come home late from work, and he’s afraid of what could happen.

“It’s definitely a very serious conversation,” McKevitt said. “I agree, we can’t do it overnight, I wish we could.”

Guerra said that officers are watching the outside of the Inn. Michael Shea, an officer from the first precinct, told the audience about some recent arrests, including shoplifters, gas station robberies, and more. He said to make sure to turn off your car at gas stations, lock them, and take your keys with you.

“We’re good people,” he said. “But the bad guys are out there let’s not make it easy on them.”

Another crime that residents should be on the lookout for, he said, is phone scams.

Shea said that the first precinct’s biggest tip is when residents call in to report crimes. “Tell your neighbors,” he said, “that if they call the precinct, they don’t have to leave a name.”

At the end of it all, Guerra reminded residents that he’s committed to their safety. “I won’t retire because it’s a passion for me,” he said. “I will tell you this right now, we have committed to use whatever tools we have.”

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Beckham, Lloyd share soccer skills in Nassau

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hey flocked from all over Long Island to learn from one of soccer’s greatest — Carli Lloyd. But the 400 or so young athletes who gathered at the Mitchell Athletic Complex in Uniondale this past Saturday got an added bonus, with a chance to bend it like David Beckham — with David Beckham.

The two soccer stars paid the weekend visit to talk about teamwork, sportsmanship and fitness. And, of course, to show a few moves to the kids, who ranged in age between 9 and 12.

Afterward, they broke into two sessions led by Lloyd and Beckham, teaching some soccer fundamentals and techniques, before posing for pictures with players and teams.

The visit was part of Sands Cares and its Sands Youth Empowerment Initiative — an organization active in communities where facilities owned by the Las Vegas Sands are situated.

The Sands is pursuing a massive redevelopment project at the nearby Nassau Coliseum, where it hopes to transform 80 vacant acres into an entertainment complex. It would include a hotel, restaurants, convention space and performance venues, as well as a casino.

Lloyd is a four-time Olympian, winning gold medals in 2008 and 2012. She has also won two FIFA Women’s World Cups in 2015 and 2019. She retired from the national team in 2021, but not before becoming the oldest player to score a goal for the United States in a 4-0 victory over Jamaica — a month shy of her 39th birthday.

Beckham was a soccer prodigy beginning as a teenager when he played for Manchester United who also appeared in three FIFA World Cups, and was known to be one of soccer’s best-paid players during his career.

Although retired as a player, Beckham is co-owner of Inter Miami CF, which competes in the Major Soccer League.

one might Say David Beckham has learned everything there is to learn about soccer over a long, storied career — but then again, he hasn’t had a chance to interact with some of the future soccer stars from Long Island.

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Soccer icon DaviD Beckham snaps a selfie with some of Long Island’s best up-and-coming young soccer players during a surprise visit to the Mitchell Athletic Complex on Saturday, as part of the Sands Youth Power Initiative.

Soccer StarS DaviD Beckham and Carli Lloyd took plenty of time to pose for pictures with the young soccer players and teams that traveled from across Long Island to see them at the Mitchell Athletic Complex on Saturday — but the stars also took a moment to pose with some of the adults there, too. That includes Nassau County’s labor relations director Jose Lopez, far left, and Ted Sempepos from County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s office.

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New LIRR rollout gets mixed reviews The good, the bad, and the bumps in-between

By JUAN LASSO & KEPHERD DANIEL of the Herald

For weeks, the ideal stage had been set for the full launch of Grand Central Madison, finally connecting the Long Island Rail Road to the bedrock of Midtown Manhattan.

Or so it seemed.

Limited shuttle service between Jamaica station and Grand Central Madison gave commuters roughly four weeks to try out the new travel routes in advance of the big day, warming them to the idea of the $11 billion East Side terminal.

But as the new service rolled out, some reinforced their concerns. While a number of service lines have been expanded, others have been completely rescheduled. And there were those who worried about inadequate direct service to Penn Station and Atlantic Terminal after timed connections would be eliminated at the Queens station, as well as through direct transfers across platforms at stops like Jamaica under the new schedules.

Then, full-service started Feb. 27, and contrary to the MTA’s calculated expectations, the ensuing first days of its historic Midtown terminal turned into the most dizzying and distressful for commuters in recent memory.

Riders — coping with the rush-hour meltdowns at Jamaica station and onboard Penn Station-bound trains — poured their anger and disbelief onto social media.

Images and posts showed commuters cramming into train aisles. Others making frantic sprints to catch their connecting lines. And many finding themselves tightly jammed inside an antsy crowd of riders on waiting platforms.

By the end of the first week, MTA officials rushed to provide relief in the form of extra train cars added to roughly 30 of its busiest trains, most of them rush hour excursions on the Penn Station service routes, as well as ramping up the frequency of shuttle service between Brooklyn and Queens.

While the adjustments have managed to ease overcrowding and quell a frantic commuter flow, the fumbled full launch of Grand Central Madison has left some commuters scratching their heads — and shaking their fists — at what went wrong.

The reason, according to Long Island Rail Road interim president Catherine Rinaldi, can be chalked up to a miscalculation on how many commuters would actually shift from Penn Station to Grand Central.

The LIRR’s original service plan was designed to accommodate a “60-40” split of ridership, with most still traveling to Penn Station. So far, however, the split has been more “70-30,” although new ridership figures are still pending.

For all the initial bumps, however, Barry Kleinworm — a diamond inventory manager in Midtown Manhattan — said full service to the East Side was a “home run” decision.

“Grand Central station is only five minutes from my office, so I’m loving it,” the Woodmere commuter said.

“Before, I had to walk 20 minutes from Penn Station. So this is a benefit for me for sure.”

It’s something that should have happened 30 years ago, said Jack Halpern, who rides the Far Rockaway branch.

“I’m a lawyer, and my office is in the Grand Central area,” he said. “But of course, I don’t go all the time what with hybrid work. It would have been really helpful to have this service pre-Covid when I was going five days a week.”

Despite the benefits, however, Halpern did note that finding his way in and out of Grand Central has proven difficult.

“When exiting the station, going up the escalators is ridiculous, so I use the elevators. But they’re not all in the same area,” he said. “Entering the station, there is no clear signage on the street level to point you to what looks like a temporary construction elevator that takes you

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MEtROPOLItAN tRANSPORtAtION AUtHORIty chief executive Janno Lieber and Long Island Rail Road interim president Catherine Rinaldi are re-routing four Grand Central Madison trains back to Penn Station after higher-thanexpected ridership on the West Side. down into the station, so they have to make the signage a little clearer.”

Melvin Medina says commuting on the Babylon branch is “not so bad,” but feels the benefits tilt toward Grand Central commuters at the expense of everyone else.

“There used to be an express train straight to Penn Station,” the commuter from Bay Shore said. “Now, by around 8 a.m., I have to transfer to Wantagh to get to Penn, and the train stops at every stop.

“At the end of the day, you’ve just got to plan ahead.

But I don’t really agree with all the changes made.”

Then there are commuters like Debby Washington who say navigating the new train schedule changes has been nothing but daily stress.

“I hate it. It’s just so much confusion going on,” the Wantagh commuter said. “It’s just not organized right now. The schedule is crazy, and the trains come out of nowhere with no announcements.

“I’m paying a lot of money in taxes, and my service is not that great. In fact, it’s getting worse.”

But a lot of that might simply be a resistance to change, based on long-term familiarity to what’s already been in place — even if what’s there now wasn’t all that great.

“I think people are used to what they had before, and so if you’ve been commuting to Penn Station for decades, it definitely throws a wrench in your regular routine,” said Amy Zervas of Merrick. “I travel to both stations, but I prefer Grand Central because there are fewer people on those trains. Either way, I’ve had no issues.”

While opinions appear sharply divided, Rinaldi reassured commuters that changes are being made as needed.

“We are going to be continuously making adjustments based upon ridership and loading data. We look at it every single day,” she said. “The Long Island Rail Road team is all over the rollout in terms of looking for trends, what ridership is looking like, what trains are popular, and adjusting accordingly.”

What lawmakers have to say Assemblyman Brian Curran “Clearly the opening of Grand Central Madison is a benefit, but my office has received numerous complaints regarding schedule changes, specifically additional travel time for our commuters on the West Hempstead line where riders at Malverne and Westwood now experience an approximate hour gap in travel times from the old schedule.

Sen. Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick and myself were informed that the Long Island Rail Road would reevaluate scheduling times for the West Hempstead line if data was provided regarding commuters’ preferred changes. We decided to hand out voluntary surveys to commuters about the issue.”

Assemblyman Charles Levine “We have all known for years that the Oyster Bay line is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s biggest loss leader. With the advent of East Side Access, the MTA has had to reroute and reprogram any number of trains from the Oyster Bay line. The biggest challenge is that the OB line runs on diesel-powered trains that need to stop at Mineola where there is a transfer for riders to get on electric trains to go into the city.

We do not have express trains running directly into Penn Station as we had in the past before the new train schedules. The result is there is less availability for Oyster Bay commuters to travel than there was before, and riders are not pleased — nor should they be pleased. I’m confident, however, that the MTA leadership is aware of this issue and will be addressing it.”

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thinks the event can benefit many.

“I think this event helps bridge the gap ent purpose. between the deaf and hearing “The students will take songs community because anyone can and make them more expressive participate and watch this than how they would talk norevent,” Leahy said. “It’s a big mally in ASL,” Mia Senetto, a night for people all over Long senior at East Meadow, and an Island to get to know one anothASL Honor Society member, said. er.”

“They’ll add classifiers, which Run exclusively by the ASL are not real signs, but are hand Honor Society students from East shapes used in sign language to Meadow and Clarke high schools, sort of paint a picture, which they worked in committees to makes the performance of the promote, fundraise, and gather songs much more beautiful for donations for raffles. deaf people to understand.”

The ASL Honor Society stuTwo of the judges are deaf, dents will also be acting as hosts one is an ASL interpreter, and and interpreters during the event the other is dedicated to judging sHannon LEaHy — they will also help by coordithe rhythm and soul of the perASL Honor Society nating performances, selling rafformer. fle tickets, and selling tickets at “Two deaf individuals look at board member, the door. their actual interpretation and East Meadow “I think that [ASL Idol] is a signing ability,” Beygelman said. High School really exciting way to bring both “One ASL interpreter judges the the Deaf and hearing world students’ ability to accurately together with music,” Giselle portray the lyrics and create a mental picture Mustafich, an ASL Honor Society member, throughout their performance, and one rhythm and soul judge looks at the students’ and EMHS senior, said.“I am really grateful to ability to maintain the pace and mood of the be a part of it.” continued from front page

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song.”

Despite being an event for the Deaf community, Shannon Leahy, an ASL Honor Society board member, and senior at East Meadow,

East MEadow HigH will host ASL Idol on March 23, featuring performances from sign language students from across Long Island.

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NCC follows through on insurance increase asilva@liherald.com

It had to be done, and they did it. Nassau Community College’s board of trustees made a plan to increase health care premiums for its faculty and staff official — something the employees union that has spent months negotiating a new contract says could effectively reduce salaries by as much as $5,000.

The new insurance premiums begin March 23, and simply reflect a cost increase by their carrier, NCC officials said. They were allowed to pass on the increase despite a lack of a new contract based on a past agreement that allowed the board to make such increases under an expired contract.

The insurance increases, according to union president Faren Siminoff, could effectively act like a pay cut.

“These are the actions of people with no soul,” Siminoff said. “The college was asked by Nassau County if they needed more funding, and the college told them they do not need supplemental income. Instead the college decided to bleed its faculty dry.”

The educators union and trustees board has been negotiating full-time faculty contracts since last July, hoping to work out a deal before their contracts expired a month later. The union has rallied multiple times since then, but there is still no new contract on the table between NCC and its full-time faculty.

NCC attorney John Gross said the imposed health care provisions were not “pulled out of thin air.” In fact, the union knew about the existing contract provision, which was negotiated decades ago.

“The college board is a public agency, and they have a fiduciary responsibility to effectuate what’s in the contract,” Gross said. “If the (college board) said no to this (imposing health care premiums), they would be giving up thousands and thousands of dollars.”

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This time around, the union is entertaining a proposal for new employees to pay about 20 percent of health care premiums, and existing staff members are willing to give roughly 2 percent of their salary toward the cost of premiums during their last negotiation sessions.

But the college has known health care premiums were rising since last December, Siminoff said, and that those costs would be passed along to employees. So why did the school wait until after the new year to notify faculty members of the change, during the open enrollment period?

“Usually in November or December, if you have an insurance policy through your job, you’re permitted to change your policy,” Siminoff said. “So, while most of us

NASSAu CommuNIty CoLLEgE’S board of trustees announced their intention to impose health care premiums on staff members, effectively reducing salaries by $5,000 on average, according to the union representing fulltime faculties, who say it’s a negotiation tactic.

are the college’s plan, there are many faculty members who could be covered under a partner’s plan. In order for them to switch coverage plans, they have to do it during open enrollment.”

Although NCC denies the increase being nothing more than ensuring they’re good stewards of their accounts, Siminoff is convinced the health insurance increase is being used to help with the school’s negotiating position, or at the very least retaliate against and punish the union members.

“It’s really a huge pay cut,” the union president said.

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K

erri Scanlon knew from a young age that she was destined to be a nurse.

Her mother, Mildred O’Connor, had a successful career in the field. And she convinced her daughter to follow in her footsteps.

“Seeing her love of the career, and then seeing her in action in the facility she worked at,” Scanlon remembered, “she just had this incredible love for what she did.”

Scanlon was fortunate to receive a scholarship that allowed her to study at Columbia University. It was there she earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing, and then a master’s in advanced practice nursing.

Now the executive director of Glen Cove Hospital, Scanlon celebrates her 30th year as a nurse.

For the last 25, she’s been an integral member of Northwell Health, New York’s largest health care provider that oversees the operations of Glen Cove Hospital. Having worked closely with Northwell’s leaders for years, when Scanlon was offered the opportunity to lead the hospital in 2019, she couldn’t turn it down.

“Glen Cove, at the time, was really a hospital in transition and needed direction,” she said. “I love Glen Cove. I love the community. I love the people. I was welcomed with great arms.”

Just months into her new role, Scanlon — and health care professionals like her around the world — would face a much different problem: the coronavirus pandemic. As early as February 2020, Scanlon told her Glen Cove team to get ready. And expect the worst.

Epidemics were nothing new for Scanlon. Her career included HIV/AIDS as well as the avian flu in the 2000s.

But the first wave of Covid-19 was something she’d never seen before. Glen Cove did all it could to offer the best possible care to its patients, collaborating and completing

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GLEN COVE HOspitAL executive director Kerri Scanlon, center, addresses a crowd of health care professionals, working in a unit converted to treat coronavirus patients. research with larger hospitals, and opening up an acute rehabilitation facility to treat patients who’d spent months in intensive care.

“It kind of defined us as the little engine that could,” Scanlon said.

The pandemic helped Scanlon identify areas of growth for the hospital, and she says it’s now better fit than ever to advance into the future.

“Is Glen Cove thriving?” she asked. “Is Glen Cove going to be here 10 years from now? Heck yes. We just celebrated our centennial, and the health system is more than ever investing in Glen Cove. We’re budgeted this year to make money, not lose money. And that’s a huge change.”

The 247-bed community hospital offers a lot, including a state-of-the-art brain injury unit, but Scanlon wants people to know the full scope of care Glen Cove provides. It has renowned doctors in the fields of gynecology, endocri-

nology and breast care — areas of the body where typically women encounter conditions.

A geriatric-only facility is opening in Oyster Bay, she added, to offer age-friendly services to older adults.

Employee happiness is key to running a successful hospital.

“We want to continue to focus on our patients, and focus on our customers, and the only way to do that is to focus on our staff,” Scanlon said. “Because if they’re not happy, our patients aren’t going to be happy.”

A mother of two, Scanlon resides in Nissequogue. Her 26-year-old daughter also works in health care, so Scanlon is used to giving advice to young women wishing to advance in the field.

“My greatest advice always is to focus on doing the best that you can do today,” she said. “Everybody is so focused on what’s the next thing — it’s this generation. They’re constantly under so much stress. The opportunities are greater for women, but I think the level of stress is even greater.”

Women have made excellent strides in health care, Scanlon said, but there’s always work to be done.

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A true Broadway legend returns her Long Island roots, visiting Tilles Center with her acclaimed one-woman show. ‘Don’t Monkey with Broadway’ is a celebration of her life-long love affair with Broadway, as she indelibly interprets classic theatre tunes by the likes of Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Jule Styne, Stephen Schwartz, Charles Strouse, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin. She explores her love affair with Broadway and offers up her opinion and concerns for what the Great White Way is becoming today, in this intimate concert, which includes behind-thescenes anecdotes.

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Sunday, March 19, 7 p.m. $110, $75, $55. Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, LIU Post campus, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville.

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Since the invention of the camera, photographers have been enthralled by interpreting the natural world.

We (viewers), in turn, are captivated by what their cameras reveal.

As we spring forward, we’re all eager to enjoy the landscape as it emerges from its winter “hibernation.”

It’s the subject of Heckscher Museum of Art’s current exhibition, “Viewfinders: Photographers Frame Nature,” on display through April 16.

Viewfinders explores artists’s varied responses to the relationship between nature and humans. These lens-based works reveal the divergent ways in which nature continues to fuel documentation of the human experience and imagination — from images symbolizing the untamed power of nature, to those where the landscape has been abused for human consumption. The exhibit — featuring 64 works from 34 artists — traces the lure of photography through the centuries, culminating in contemporary times where every person with a smartphone has the power to “frame” nature.

Guest Curator Susan Van Scoy, associate professor of art history at St. Bloom

By Karen WHERE Joseph’s University, combed through the museum’s permanent collection to hange the world? It’s a question WHEN explore the myriad ways artists respond the landscape their responses n at thetofocus of and ourhowcollective ••Now through 16 noon-4 Saturday andApril Sunday, have shaped our perception of nature.

• Open p.m.;Thursday Tuesday through Friday, centuries.“Landscape Now as society have and photography Sunday, noon-5 11 a.m.-4 p.m. p.m.

••$5 suggested admission Emily Lowe Hall Gallery, always been closely intertwined. In fact, the complexities of modern life, non-members; members and South Campus, Hempstead. the world’s first automatic photograph children younger than free For information and 13 to RSVP, was a landscape and photography ath for social change is at the • Heckscher call (516) Museum 463-5672,oforArt, visit was first referred to as ‘sun pictures’ 2Hofstra.edu/museum Prime Ave., Huntington f artisticor expression. ‘drawings from nature,’” Van Scoy (631) 380-3230 or Heckscher.org says. “Artists have long used landscape as a University vehicle toMuseum explore other issues l Stand,” Hofstra of Art’s newsuch exhibition, examines as poetry, spirituality, philosophy and er of the arts in society. environmentalism.

Theassistant images director in Viewfinders are noand exception. They are exandra Giordano — the museum’s of exhibition teeming withcivic hidden meaning.“ xhibit underscores artists’ responsibility and influence.

Legendary photographers such as Edward Steichen, Larry Fink he vital role that artists have American in activating democratic values that and Berenice civic Abbott are represented, as are newly acquired photographs nd freedom, encouraging engagement, and cultivating unity,” by the Kenjicharge Nakahashi and Jeremy Vanotherwise Scoy alsobe selected a substantial rtists often lead and expose truthsDennis. that may s in this exhibition takeofaworks stand by andnotable call outLong injustices their art number Islandthrough image makers. sues such as immigration, gender, reproductive rights, mass incarceration, Beyond traditional forms of landscape photography, Van Scoy was l bias, gun violence, promiseswhat unfulfi lled.

They allascombine the making takes,” which excited and to introduce she describes the “contemporary service that has a grassroots approach in the hope of mobilizing explore environmental issues such as climate changetheir and reclaiming the land. the nation to ignite movement, create awareness, and now inspire “Everyone enjoys seeing landscape, it’sothers beingto used as a background for protest,” she says. “Artists have an important role to help hich runs through July 28, is in conjunction with Hofstra’s onference on the Barack Obama presidency coming up in April. erested in the idea that the artist has a civic responsibility,” says

Patchange McGann is quickly rising as one people shape the future of the environment and our behaviors.” of the sharpest stand-ups on the Visitors will notice a “local flavor” to the exhibit, such as N. Jay Jaffee’s comedy scene. A relative latecomer photo of Lloyd Harbor’s Caumsett Park Preserve. to comedy, he began doing standAs Van Scoy explains: “The Olmsted family up landscape architectural firmwas not Willie Nile at 31 after realizing he The singer-songwriter comes to the created some of the most famous and unnatural ‘natural’ sites in the world, very good at selling packaging. including New York City’s Central Park and Caumsett Statehis Historic Park He hustled way to become the Landmark on Main Street stage for Preserve. Yet some visitors view these parks as nature its untouched house in emcee at Zanies state.

Chicago, an exciting evening of roots rock, with special guest James Maddock. he distinguished himself as Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve has been where a favorite subject of artists Nestled somewhere between especially adept at working the such as Jaffee and Neil Scholl, whose photographs capture the landscape power-pop and American folk, A husband and father of architects’s signature picturesque landscapes in crowd. the park. you will find Willie Nile strumming McGann’s “Visitors just love the Caumsett shot,” shethree says.young “Manychildren, people don’t his guitar. A true believer in appeal stems from his quick wit rock ‘n’ roll, over the years Nile realize its history.” and relatable take on family life has made admirers out of such Picturesque scenes are just one aspect of what’s on view.

From the and marriage. In 2017, McGann names as Bruce Springsteen and whimsical — such as Barbara Roux’s mise-en-scènes wooded areas with act began in touring as the opening Pete Townshend who personally frames or mirrors placed against a leafy ground, natural images that moving fortoSebastian Maniscalco, requested him to tour with The show the power of nature in Kenji Nakahashi’swith abstract take on Hurricane him from clubs to theater, Who, among others who sing Gloria — nature in all its forms is documented.to arenas, including four soldhis praises. The New York Times shows Madison Square “I want people to be able to look at theseout works andatrelate to them,” called him ‘one of the most gifted relatively she says. “I love when you can relate an imageGarden. to yourMcGann’s everyday life and short, singer-songwriters to emerge from also learn something new at the same time.” but impressive resume, includes the New York scene in years,’ Montreal’s famed Just For Laughs among the many accolades he has The takeaway from Van Scoy: “We are reminded that humans are Festival, Gilda’s LaughFest, The received. The timeless qualities of always small in relationship to the power of nature.”

Great American Comedy Festival, melodic craft, lyrical insight and and more. McGann still calls emotional engagement that have Chicago home. endeared Nile to listeners around the world throughout a three-andTop left: N. Jay Jaffee’s Long Island Sound Saturday, from Caumsett (1990) Feb. 11, 8 p.m. $40, $35,a-half-decade recording career — a gift of Paula W. Hackeling — is an example of landscape $30, $25.

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Hands-on garden activity Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau offers a hands-on pruning workshop, Saturday, March 18, 10 a.m. to noon, at East Meadow Farm, at 832 Merrick Ave., in East Meadow. The workshop will include a talk on basic pruning techniques, what to look for while pruning, and more. To register, or for more information visit reg.cce.cornell.edu/ pruningworkshop-2023_228.

Breastfeeding Support Group Mercy Hospital offers a peer to peer meeting for breastfeeding support, facilitated by a certified breastfeeding counselor, every Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Bring your baby (from newborn to 1 year) to the informal group. All new moms are welcome, regardless of delivering hospital. Registration required. Call breastfeeding counselor, Gabriella Gennaro, at (516) 705-2434 to secure a spot. Mercy Hospital, St. Anne’s Building, 1000 North Village Ave., Rockville Centre. For information visit CHSLI.org.

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Jazz giant Dave Brubeck’s sons celebrate their dad’s life and career, with “The Brubeck Brothers Quartet Celebrates Dave Brubeck’s Centennial,” on the Tilles Center stage, Thursday, April 13, 7:30 p.m. Chris and Dan Brubeck bring their multimedia show to the LIU Post campus, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville. To honor Brubeck’s legacy, the Brubecks, who performed and recorded with their father since the 1970s, curate this memorable concert with their own Brubeck Brothers Quartet. Through their stories and music performed by the quartet, the show invites audiences to travel along the timeline of Brubeck’s extraordinary life and career. Tickets are $52; available at TillesCenter.org or (516) 299-3100.

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Items on The Scene page 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 thescene@liherald.com.

The 12th annual All Kids Fair returns to Samanea Mall, Sunday, April 23, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 1504 Old Country Road, Westbury. With bounce houses, petting zoos, face painting, balloon animals, cotton candy, child ID kits, and more. To purchase tickets in advance visit allkidsfair.com/tickets.

Name that tune Support East Meadow Kiwanis’s annual Name that Tune fundraiser, Friday, March 31, at East Meadow Fire Department Headquarters. Doors are open from 7 to 11 p.m.; game starts at 8 p.m., at 197 East Meadow Ave. Price is $45 per person for food, beer, soda, coffee, and dessert. Prizes for the winning team, along with raffles, 50/50 and more. RSVP to Harry Demiris Jr. at (516) 317-4726.

Plaza Theatrical is ready to spring forward with “Forever Plaid,” an affectionate musical homage to the close harmony guy groups that reached the height of their popularity during the ‘50s, Saturday, March 18, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, March 19, 2:30 p.m.; Thursday, March 23, 2 p.m. The show features such hits as “Three Coins in a Fountain,” “Heart and Soul,” “Catch a Falling Star,” and “Love is A Many Splendored Thing.” It’s performed at Plaza’s stage at the Elmont Library Theatre, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. $49, $45 seniors. Elmont. For tickets, call (516) 599-6870 or visit PlazaTheatrical.com.

Mobile officer hours with Steve Rhoads State Sen. Steve Rhoads will host mobile office hours at East Meadow Library, Saturday, April 29, 11-1 p.m. Rhoads wants to hit the road, to get to know his constituents. Visit EMPL at 1886 Front St., in East Meadow. Call (516) 882-0630 for additional info.

Family theater Everyone’s favorite cat comes to mischievous life in this theatrical adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic, presented Plaza Theatrical Productions, Sunday, March 19, noon. See what goes on during that rainy day when two siblings are home alone with their pet fish while their parents are out of town, and the tall cat wearing a hat appears.

Tickets are $15. Visit the Plaza stage at The Showplace at Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore. For information/tickets, go to PlazaTheatrical.com or call (516) 599-6870.

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Headaches are the worst. They come at the worst time, but can be treatable with a pop of Tylenol or Advil. But have you ever asked yourself if it could be something more?

If it is, knowing when to seek medical attention is what those who tuned in to the recent Herald Inside LI webinar were looking for as Dr. Kimon Bekelis shared his expertise on the critical differences between a brain aneurysm and a stroke — and how to treat or prevent either one.

A brain aneurysm is a weak spot in the blood vessel in the brain that can burst. An estimated 30,000 people in the United States suffer a brain aneurysm rupture each year, according to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation.

“Because it’s a fairly rare disease,” Bekelis said, “I think it hasn’t been as mainstream.”

Symptoms of a brain aneurysm can be confused with a headache. If it’s allowed to rupture, it could mean everything from brain damage, to coma, or even death.

Bekelis is a certified neurosurgeon with training in invasive endovascular neurosurgery. He is also the chairman of neuro-interventional services for Catholic Health Services of Long Island, and co-director of the Neuro Intensive Care Unit at Good Samaritan Hospital.

He’s also the director of the Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Center of Long Island, located in Babylon. With all that experience, if Bekelis comes across someone with a stiff neck, blurred or double vision and confusion, he knows he needs to take action right away. The feeling of an aneurysm is like someone hitting you with a hammer.

“It is a very severe event when they rupture,” Bekelis

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DR. KiMON BEKELiS from the Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Center of Long Island in Babylon, recently discussed the differences between a stroke and brain aneurysm. said. “But people do survive.”

Preventing an aneurysm varies from not smoking or using tobacco products, having a healthy diet, and checking your blood pressure and exercising regularly.

But if worrying about aneurysms aren’t enough, Bekelis also warns about strokes. They are caused when blood supply is blocked in part of the brain, or when a blood vessel bursts.

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The “deficit” of a stroke can vary from impaired speech, limited physical abilities, weakness or limb paralysis. But just like aneurysms, there are ways to prevent strokes, Bekelis said.

Monitor blood pressure and cholesterol. Cut cigarettes.

Monitor weight. And, of course, exercise. And there could also be a “magic” pill that might help, too.

“When it comes to aspirin, it used to be a general recommendation that if you’re over the age of 55, they would put you on a baby aspirin,” Bekelis said. “Nowadays, it’s been modified a little because aspirin has been founded to slightly increase the risk of bleeding if you don’t have any risk factors.”

Thinner blood might be good for strokes, but could be bad for other conditions. So, adding a baby aspirin regimen is something Bekelis says should be monitored by a doctor.

It’s challenging to know what the brain is trying to tell us in a headache. But when you know something doesn’t seem right, Bekelis says it will be hard to miss.

“When it comes to a stroke, the symptoms — you can’t miss them,” the neurologist said. “When it comes to a headache, things are a little bit more murky, and headache is a symptom of aneurysm rupture possibility.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE UNDER THE INDENTURE RELATING TO IMH ASSETS CORP., COLLATERALIZED ASSETBACKED BONDS, SERIES 2005-4, Plaintiff, Against RAMIRO PAREDES GONZALEZ, JOSE A PAREDES, ET AL. Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered on or about 12/8/2022, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. 11501. This Auction will be held rain or shine on 3/27/2023 at 2:00 PM, premises known as 344 Nursery Lane, Westbury, NY 11590, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in thein the Incorporated Village of Westbury, Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York Section 10 Block 308 Lot 8 The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $587,352.04 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 010406/15 If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the then Court Appointed Referee will cancel the Foreclosure Auction.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU LONS MORTGAGE SERVICES, INC., Plaintiff, Against GEORGE C. BERGLEITNER III, MARIANNE BERGLEITNER, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 05/30/2019, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. 11501. This Auction will be held rain or shine on 3/29/2023 at 2:30 PM,

premises known as 1486 Cleveland Avenue, East Meadow, New York 11554 and described as follows: ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at East Meadow, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York Section 50 Block 522 Lot 28 The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $463,351.48 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 608897/2017 If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the then Court Appointed Referee will cancel the Foreclosure Auction.

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McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC, 10 Midland Avenue, Suite 205, Port Chester, NY 10573 Dated: 2/6/2023 File Number: 17-302739 LD 137490

PUBLIC & LEGAL NOTICES To place a notice here call us us at 516-569-4000 x232 or send an email to: legalnotices@liherald.com

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET-TRUST 2017-RPL2 Plaintiff, Against FRANCISCO MOLINA A/K/A FRANCISCO S. MOLINA, MARIA MOLINA A/K/A MARIA H. MOLINA, ET AL. Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 12/16/2022, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. 11501. This Auction will be held rain or shine on 3/30/2023 at 2:00 PM, premises known as 786 Davis Avenue, Uniondale, NY 11553 and described as follows: ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Hempstead Park, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York Section 36 Block 138 Lot 15 The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $392,575.61 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 614717/2019

If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the then Court Appointed Referee will cancel the Foreclosure Auction.

Heather D. Crosley, Esq., Referee.

SHELDON MAY & ASSOCIATES Attorneys at Law, 255 Merrick Road , Rockville Centre, NY 11570 Dated: File Number: 36603 LD 137480

Place a notice by phone at 516-569-4000 x232 or email: legalnotices@liherald.com

LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, v.

DALE JUNGER A/K/A DALE R. JUNGER, MARGARET JUNGER A/K/A MARGARET M. JUNGER, ET AL, Defendant. NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the Office of the County Clerk of Nassau County on September 18, 2019, I, Judith Powell, Esq. the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell in one parcel at public auction on March 29, 2023 at The North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, County of Nassau, State of New York, at 2:00 PM the premises described as follows: 1611 N Jerusalem Road East Meadow, NY 11554 SBL No: 50-388.00-54 ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York.

The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 611231/2017 in the amount of $267,342.65 plus interest and costs.

Foreclosure Auctions 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 foreclosure auction.

Richard S. Mullen Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Plaintiff’s Attorney 500 Bausch & Lomb Place Rochester, NY 14604 Tel.: 855-227-5072 137484 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, AGAINST GALE YOUNG, NATHANIEL YOUNG, Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly entered on August 24, 2022.

I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on April 4, 2023 at 2:30 PM premises known as 751 Macon Place, Uniondale, NY 11553.

Please take notice that this foreclosure auction shall be conducted in compliance with the Foreclosure Auction Rules for Nassau County and the COVID 19 Health Emergency Rules, including proper use of masks and social distancing.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Uniondale, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York. Section 50, Block 398 and Lot 4.

Approximate amount of judgment $470,797.45 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment. Index #003566/2015.

Stephen Frommer, Esq., Referee, Aldridge Pite, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff - 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200, Melville, NY 11747 137657

LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2019-HB1, V. MARIE E. METZGER, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated December 5, 2022, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2019-HB1 is the Plaintiff and MARIE E. METZGER, ET AL. are the Defendant(s).

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on April 4, 2023 at 2:30PM, premises known as 930 WINTHROP DRIVE, EAST MEADOW, NY 11554: Section 50, Block 454, Lot 24: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING AT EAST MEADOW, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK

Neighbors iN the News

Courtesy Town of Hempstead

Walnes Cenor, far right, and Stephanie Michel, center, wed on March 3 at Hempstead Town Hall.

Cenor and Michel wed on March 3 Walnes Cenor and Stephanie Michel wed on March 3 at Hempstead Town Hall.

Their wedding was officiated by Hempstead Town Clerk Kate Murray.

Residents interested in obtaining

their marriage license and/or scheduling a wedding ceremony should call the Office of the Town Clerk at (516) 812-3014.

They can also visit hempsteadny.gov/ marriage.

Public Notices

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 603292/2020. Mary Ellen Divone, Esq. - Referee.

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 137659 LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”), V. DENNIS R. WENDORF, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated January 9, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”) is the Plaintiff and DENNIS R. WENDORF, ET AL. are the Defendant(s).

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on April 4, 2023 at 2:30PM, premises known as 190 NANCY DR, EAST MEADOW, NY 11554: Section 45, Block 478, Lot 9: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING AT EAST MEADOW, (UNINCORPORATED AREA) IN THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 005053/2016.

Desiree Lovell Fusco, Esq. Referee.

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 137661

To Place A Notice Call 516-569-4000 x232

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTION ONE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-HL1 ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HL1 Plaintiff, Against MARISOL LORENZO, EDWIN LORENZO, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 11/16/2017, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. 11501. This Auction will be held rain or shine on 4/3/2023 at 2:00 PM, premises known as 388 Maplegrove Avenue, Uniondale, New York 11553, And Described As Follows: ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Uniondale, In The Town Of Hempstead, County Of Nassau And State Of New York Section 50 Block 51 Lot 158 The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $613,177.58 plus interest and costs. The

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 12-013295 If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the then Court Appointed Referee will cancel the Foreclosure Auction.

Scott H Siller, Esq., Referee.

McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC, 10 Midland Avenue, Suite 205, Port Chester, NY 10573 Dated: 2/6/2023 File Number: 560-1721 LD 137655

PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com TO PLACE AN AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232

LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Comics In The Classroom, LLC. Articles filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 8/20/2022.

Office located in Nassau County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to P.O Box 246 East Meadow NY 11554.

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Basic customer service and administrative responsibilities include: heavy computer work, answering phones, making phone calls, entering orders, faxing, filing, etc.

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Bad advice from another ‘expert’

Q. We just received a permit for our construction. The contractor asked why we also got a permit for a finished basement, which was there when we bought the house. He told us it’s just a Building Department “money grab,” and could have been avoided. We’re wondering why we had to spend money, and, since the basement was already finished, why we ended up with a second permit we didn’t need. The contractor said people call it “finished storage” all the time, and we’re wasting money to put in an expensive escape well, which we could have avoided, right?

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A. It all sounds good, even though it’s not true, but if it sounds too good … You got bad advice from yet another ”expert” who knows just enough to sound confident. Telling you how much should be done should only be from their perspective as a contractor. Advising you to skirt the law (and get the architect to go along with it) is fine for them, since onte eeper they have no responsibility if something bad happens.

A finished basement without an escape well is considered a potentially dangerous and illegal use.

Just like smoke detectors, an escape well is retroactive, required even after a permit has been issued if the use of the basement is “habitable,” such as a recreation room, exercise room, music room, hobby room or any other type of space you can occupy other than a utility room, laundry room or closet.

These are rooms where people don’t generally spend a lot of time, unless of course they really like to do laundry, listen to their boiler hum or hide in small dark spaces, but that should be discussed with a different kind of professional.

Think about it. You spend hundreds of dollars a month on home insurance you’ll never see again, in most cases. Add to that the fact that in a disaster, which we collectively experienced during two hurricanes, insurance companies, which charged increasing fees for building values, turned around and then devalued the same buildings when it came time to pay out. Insurance companies don’t just write you a big fat check — maybe a “lowball”-value check, but not the full amount — and will spend money to investigate whether your home, and the way you used it, were legal.

Illegal use is just one of many ways to challenge the payout you thought you’d receive. I wonder if that came up in your conversation about avoiding the escape well. That escape well isn’t just a child’s only way out when the interior stairway is blocked by fire; it’s also the only way into the death trap for a rescuer. Taking the advice you quoted in your question is like going into a hospital and getting your diagnosis at the information desk. If you would take that advice, then this wasn’t the kind of hospital you needed to go to. Be wise and at least ask the professional. Good luck!

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o one has given me a riddle to consider for a long time. But I can think of one. What’s the difference between U.S. Rep. George Santos and Fox News? The answer is that there is none. Neither can handle the truth.

Santos is two and a half months into his term in Congress, and even though some of his colleagues have condemned him, there seems to be no possibility that he will be removed from public office in the near future, so the lies will conJERRY tinue until the prosecutors call.

KREMER With Republicans controlling the house by a very slim margin, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is badly in need of every vote.

Even if Santos were a real-life Jack the Ripper, no effort would be made to oust him.

Fox’s case is much more serious. It’s one thing for a candidate to lie his way into office. It’s another thing for a network to knowingly distort the news to

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millions of Americans and have no one who can discipline it.

The whole world knows what happened on Nov. 6, 2020, and on Jan. 6, 2021.

There was a national election, and when the final tallies were in, Joe Biden won the presidency by roughly 7 million votes. The election deniers, led by Fox, ranted and roared, but Congress certified the election. It was done, over. But faced with a potential catastrophic loss of viewers, and profits, the network knowingly and willfully lied about the results, continuing to spread the nonsense that the election had been “fraudulently” conducted.

As if the election denialism wasn’t enough, Fox’s Tucker Carlson, armed with 40,000 hours of security video, now claims that the Jan. 6 insurrection was really a peaceful protest.

There are people like former President Donald Trump who want you to believe that, but the footage that Carlson will never show tells the horrible story of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The next phase of Fox’s big lie was its promotion of the falsehood that Dominion voting machines were manip-

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ulated to change votes from Trump to Biden. Fox gave airtime to numerous people who claimed that the voting machines were controlled by the government of Venezuela and other countries, which compounded the notion that the election had been stolen.

Dominion now has a major defamation suit against Fox. The litigation has resulted in the release of hundreds of pages of sworn testimony of Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch, wherein Murdoch states that he knew Fox was falsely claiming that the election had been stolen. Also among the evidence are emails and texts exchanged between Carlson and other Fox voices, admitting they had few doubts about the election results.

It’s one thing for a member of Congress, one of 435, to lie all the way from the campaign to the Capitol. It is a much bigger thing for a federally licensed television network to knowingly spread falsehoods about an election and a subsequent riot to millions of gullible people who are willing to believe those distortions.

t’s one thing to lie your way into office.

But a network that knowingly distorts news?

It will be extremely difficult, under defamation law, for Dominion to prevail and for Fox to be punished for its deliberate conduct in its zest for profit and viewers. So, when you compare one man’s falsehoods with a television network’s commentators knowingly distorting the truth about issues of worldwide concern, there’s a big difference.

Santos will eventually meet his fate, but what will happen to Fox? Eventually, Murdoch will be forced to write a check for millions of dollars to compensate Dominion for its claimed damages. That will be considered little more than the cost of doing business, and in time the story will fade away.

But, sadly, there is no mechanism to adequately punish a network for its willful neglect of the truth. In the end, the only group that will have any say over Fox’s future is its viewers. If they fail to punish the network, it is a message to all the George Santoses of the world that blatant lying is permissible conduct.

Jerry Kremer was an Assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? jkremer@liherald.com.

The sun shivers and shudders northward ou can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”

–Pablo Neruda

Don’t believe me. Don’t believe the National Weather Service. But come hell or high water (and both are coming!), you better believe the Farmers’ Almanac.

Those dudes, with their secret algorithms and witching sticks, are forecasting a challenging spring, followed by a beastly hot summer.

Spring will officially arrive next RANDI Monday at 5:24 KREISS p.m. EDT, when the sun crosses the equator, sailing north. However, the Farmers’ Almanac says cold temperatures, freezing rain and even snow may dot the northern landscape well into April. You were expecting daffodils and lilacs? You know very well that nothing rolls the way it used to, including the weather.

Eventually the lilacs will bloom and our hearts, slowed and steadied by hours and days in sedentary hibernation, will dance to a livelier beat. We will have sur-

vived, and only sunny days will lie ahead. At least, that’s what the poets say.

Have you seen any of the early signs of spring?

According to the Almanac, worms begin to emerge from the ground this month. Indeed, the March moon is called the full worm moon.

Birds are migrating northward, along the path of the sun. Apparently, the increasing sunlight inspires birdsong.

Of course, trees, shrubs and flowers are reactive to temperature and sunlight.

According to the F.A., since ancient times, people have used flora as indicators of when the time is right to plant. For example, when the crocus blooms, it’s the cue to plant radishes, parsnips and spinach.

The agonizing turn from hard winter to early spring feels hopeful. You don’t have to live on a farm to study the Farmers’ Almanac and appreciate the old-time folk tales and wisdom. Did you know, for example, that you could balance an egg on its end during the vernal equinox? It’s true. You can balance it on other days as well, but it makes a good story.

Many of us have been suffering serious winter fatigue or worse, exacerbated

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by Covid isolations. Too many older residents in our communities have been shut in all winter, hindered by the cold and the fear of falling on the ice. People have been afraid to drive. For several weeks, amid successive storms, cabin fever went viral.

I offer an it-can-alwaysbe-worse story. We have kids and grandkids out West in a small High Sierra mountain town you may be reading about. The teenage grandkids have had two days of school in the last two-plus weeks. High walls of snow line the few roads that have been plowed. The interstate that connects them to the rest of the world has been closed on and off for weeks. In the last 10 days, 12 feet of snow fell. That isn’t a typo. And last weekend they were expecting another three feet.

The kids have been entertaining themselves by jumping off the roofs into the snow. They dug a path out of the house for the dog, who would rather stay inside by the fire, thank you. My grandson’s high school closed for a time because the roof was caving in. People who live there to ski can’t ski. No hiking.

No biking. No skateboarding. Epic cabin fever abounds.

y teenage grandkids have had two days of school in the last twoplus weeks.

Even here on Long Island, you can admire the pristine mornings for just so long. Cravings for carbs have driven our meal choices. Our skin is pasty, our muscles like Jell-O. I have faith that any day now, the mercury will start rising and the sun will dry out the soggy flowerbeds where spring flowers are trying to set roots. The season may not have turned yet, but we have reason to hope, and I will predict a balmy end to April.

The Almanac agrees. They say it will be a slow and stormy warmup, but it will come. What will also come is another blast of wicked weather this summer.

According to the F.A., “Another threat of severe weather, this one more widespread, is forecast around the time of the June solstice, as a surge of very warm, humid, and unstable air triggers showers, violent thunderstorms and possibly even a twister or two” in the central and eastern parts of the country.

Let’s ground ourselves in this moment. The rule is: When the sun takes its place over the equator, it is spring in the northern hemisphere. Winter is all memory; summer is just over the horizon. It is inevitable, and it is elemental.

As Neruda says, “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”

Copyright 2023 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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here did our collective societal grudge against mornings come from?

Our fictional universe presents mornings as bright sunlight pouring through our curtains. Birds happily chirping outside our windows. The smell of freshly brewed coffee — and, if we’re lucky, a hearty breakfast of pancakes and eggs.

Reality, however, includes tightly pulled curtains. Birdsong drowned out by the 12 alarms we’ve set on our iPhones.

And by the time we get that coffee, we’re already in the car and stuck in the drivethrough.

Yet we as a society don’t truly show how much we dislike mornings until it comes to daylight saving time — when we push our clocks ahead an hour at the start of spring, with the hope of enjoying more sunlight and fewer stars.

In fact, the whole idea of daylight saving is to push more sunlight into the evenings, and less into our mornings. So, if we were hoping for more sunlight to fill our bedrooms as we wake up, we better consider sleeping in.

If your day starts at 6 a.m., then you’re experiencing what it was like at 5 a.m. just a week ago, when standard time was still in effect. And really, it is still 5 a.m.

— just not in the reality where the Uniform Time Act of 1966 exists.

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letters It’ll take more than novelists and playwrights, Randi To the Editor: Re Randi Kreiss’s column last week, “Writers will tell the story of our times”: We don’t have the luxury of time, since we’re off the rails already.

What good will it be if novelists and playwrights find the truth and bring it to us, if fewer and fewer people are reading?

Our media has to step up and present the truth in an unvarnished manner, and let the people be swayed by the facts. Media bias, by holding back on reporting certain stories, is the poison of our time. The media should be questioning everything and holding everyone accountable, regardless of party.

We have been plagued by censorship and the demonization of people who have alternative views. The shouting and screaming at meetings does no one any good. We must step back and put our country and its people first,

doesn’t apply — to today. In general, we come to the same conclusion: We don’t like moving our clocks back and forth twice a year.

Why do we still do it? Blame Congress.

And not just for the 1966 bill signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, but for not ending this nonsense once and for all in the decades since then.

We actually came very close to making daylight saving time permanent across the United States with a Senate bill introduced by Marco Rubio. Modeled after a similar bill that had passed in Rubio’s home state of Florida, the Sunshine Protection Act earned support on both sides of the political aisle — from Democrats like Sheldon Whitehouse, of Rhode Island, to Republicans like then President Donald Trump himself.

The bill was actually passed by the Senate last year through unanimous consent, although some senators later complained that they didn’t know the bill was part of a consent package, and that if they had, they would have voted against it.

Yet all the Sunshine Protection Act needed was a thumbs-up from the House, and President Biden’s signature. It got neither, and thus, last weekend, we got to experience once again a shift in time for no other reason than to make evening daylight longer.

Is this all much ado about nothing? No, says neurologist Beth Ann Marlow, who teaches at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. She has studied clock-changing across the country for the past five years,

and found that “the transition to daylight saving time each spring affects health immediately after the clock change, and also for the nearly eight months that Americans remain on daylight saving time.”

Marlow shared these findings with TheConversation.com last year, saying that the question shouldn’t be whether to end clock changes, but whether we should stick with standard time or daylight saving. Her choice? Standard time, which is closer to geological time, when the sun is highest at noon.

While daylight saving might allow for more sports to be played in sunlight after school, it also means that many who wake up before 8 a.m. to catch a bus are doing so in the dark.

Having the sun set earlier — at least according to our clocks — could help with sleep, too. Extended light in the evening delays the brain’s release of melatonin, the hormone that promotes drowsiness. It’s even worse for teenagers in the throes of puberty, Marlow adds, when melatonin already gets a late release, meaning our young minds are getting even less sleep.

Too often, we continue to embrace practices because they’ve always existed — Black Friday, scrambling an egg, making our beds in the morning only to mess them up again at night. But there are some practices that should indeed become a remnant of the past. And changing our clocks twice a year to accommodate daylight saving time can’t be eliminated fast enough.

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t. Patrick’s “Day” is actually several weeks of events commemorating Irish culture and traditions and Irish-America’s contributions to the American mosaic.

The highlight event, of course, is the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, on the actual St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. But there are parades throughout the metropolitan area in the weeks leading up to and following the big day.

I can recall marching in numerous peter parades in communities includkinG ing Bethpage, Glen Cove, Islip, Mineola, Rockaway, Rockville Centre and Wantagh.

These were festive, upbeat events. What drew attention and controversy, however, was when, as Nassau County comptroller, I was elected by parade delegates to be grand marshal of the New

York City parade in 1985. The centuriesold struggle between the Irish and the British, euphemistically called the Troubles, was then in the 17th year of its latest manifestation in Northern Ireland, which included shootings, bombings, mass imprisonments and hunger strikes to the death.

I had visited Northern Ireland numerous times, including a fact-finding trip to Belfast with Senator Al D’Amato in December 1980, just after his election.

Then I served as a member of a tribunal in Belfast investigating abuses by the British army and observing trials of accused Irish Republican Army members in non-jury courts. From these visits, where I met with people on all sides, and from my own study and analysis, I concluded that the main cause of the violence in Northern Ireland was British oppression and denial of human rights to the Catholic community. I concluded that the only solution would be all-party talks, which would include

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n St. Patrick’s Day in 1985, I needed a police escort and a bulletproof vest.

Letters and not be scared to say that. Too many self-serving agendas must be the next balloon that has to be shot down.

TONY GIAMeTTA Oceanside

Don’t try to pin T.R. down to ‘labels’ To the editor: Re the editorial in the Feb. 23-March 1 issue, “Teddy Roosevelt: a president who defied labels”: Roosevelt didn’t defy labels; it’s we who seek the simplifying tags.

As the editorial mentions, T.R.’s “American” was an amalgam — not to be qualified by hyphen or purpose.

He also said “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.”

Roosevelt’s pioneering conservationism was toward that end.

That principle could be a useful guide through the coming year — more useful than simplistic labels like “liber-

Sinn Fein, the party representing the IRA and a majority of the Catholic population in Northern Ireland.

Not surprisingly, the British government of Margaret Thatcher denounced my election as grand marshal of the 1985 parade. So, too, did the Irish government, which announced that it would boycott the parade and not allow any Irish official to march or participate in it in any way. Both governments pressured Cardinal John O’Connor to break with tradition and refuse to greet me on the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on the day of the parade. This led to a one-on-one meeting between the cardinal and me just days before the parade, following which O’Connor agreed to review the parade and recognize me as the duly elected grand marshal.

This incensed British officials, who increased the pressure on O’Connor, which only moved him to support me more strongly and make our public

handshake (labeled by British media as the “handshake of shame”) the centerpiece of parade coverage. A consequence of all this controversy was death threats, which made it necessary for me to wear a bulky bulletproof vest and be escorted by Nassau County Police Department detectives and NYPD undercover officers along the 40-block parade route and then the rest of the day on the reviewing stand.

Fast-forward 13 years. By then a congressman, I had worked closely with President Bill Clinton and British and Irish officials to advance the Irish peace process, culminating in the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998, which brought peace to Ireland for the first time in almost 800 years. Sinn Fein had been a party to the talks, and was a key signatory to the agreement. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the prime ministers of Great Britain and Ireland, the leaders of the countries that years earlier had condemned me as grand marshal, thanked me for my efforts!

Peter King is a former congressman, and a former chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

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BRIAN KellY Rockville Centre

Long Islanders, support Bigger Better Bottle Bill To the editor: New York state is considering the Bigger Better Bottle Bill. led by Sen. Rachel May, it is intended to reduce litter and increase recycling by raising the deposit on returned cans and bottles from 5 to 10 cents.

The deposit has been 5 cents for 40 years. The bill would also expand the types of bottles that are eligible for return to include almost all beverages, including wine and liquor bottles.

Many environmental groups are advocating for the bill.

I urge our readership to contact their state legislators and urge them to support this important piece of legislation.

JOSePH M. VARON Member, Food and Water Watch, Long Island chapter, and Beyond Plastics

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