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kids a leg up on interviewing,” Hodish said. “It could be helpful for a summer job at a day “So, tell me a little about camp, for college interviews or yourself,” I asked Chelsea Lee, regular business interviews.” a junior at East Meadow High The Academy of Finance is School. a program offered to the two This was only one of the high schools by the National questions I asked her and Academy Foundation, a compaAngelina Calabro, also a junior, ny that supports career acadeon March 18 during their virtu- mies within traditional high al mock interviews. schools. It allows The East Meadstudents to take a ow C h a m b e r o f variety of business Commerce has been classes. The mock hosting the Millie interviews are just Jones mock interone requirement view event for the that the students past 13 years. need to complete to Juniors in the get NAF-certified, Academy of Fisaid Melissa Woinance program at son, the secretary East Meadow and o f t h e a dv i s o r y W.T. Clarke high MElISSA board for the Acadschools participate emy of Finance at WoISIN in the interviews, East Meadow High. w h i c h a i m t o Secretary, Chamber memimprove their skills Advisory board bers, East Meadow and prepare them Kiwanis members for college or future and this year, me, a jobs. jour nalist from the Herald, Alan Hodish, a past presi- played the par t of future dent of the chamber, is the mas- employers. We were assigned a termind of the event. Hodish student or students to intersaid he’d been told that stu- view. Then the students — or, dents who had come to the for this exercise, the potential chamber for jobs or internships employees — introduced themwere not very prepared for selves to their interviewers. interviews. Beforehand, each interviewer “We wanted to give back to was given the student’s resume, both Clarke and East Meadow a list of potential questions to high schools and give these Continued on page 13

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veryone who participates is so kind and so professional.

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Following a blood donor’s example Friends, family honor Alexis Zayas by donating By MARIA CESTERo and MAlloRY WIlSoN mcestero@liherald.com, mwilson@liherald.com

She was only 27 when she died, but already Alexis Zayas had demonstrated a passion for helping others. Among the good works attributed to her was her commitment to donating blood in her community whenever the opportunity arose. It’s part of what sparked the idea for an annual blood

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drive that has become something of a tradition in East Meadow. Over three years after her daughter’s death, her mother, Ava Jacobs, once again surrounded herself with friends, family, and community members at the blood drive to commemorate the vibrant life of her daughter. This year, the #LiveLikeAlexis blood drive was held at Temple B’nai Torah on Jerusalem Avenue in Wantagh on March 20. Old friends, boy-

friends and coworkers were among those who came to donate. It was the Sunday before Zayas’s birthday. She died in June 2018, in a skydiving accident in Massachusetts. “She encouraged everybody she knew to donate blood,” Jacobs said at the blood drive. “So this is very meaningful because it was so important to Continued on page 9

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Austin CosenzA, 10 months, didn’t forget his green for the holiday.

East Meadow goes green for St. Paddy’s Day East Meadow residents—both human and canine—celebrated St. Patrick’s Day last week by dressing in green, white and gold. Some even donned shamrocks and beards to celebrate the holiday. There was so much St. Paddy’s Day pride to be found that someone was bound to get a visit from a leprechaun. Did anyone stumble upon a pot of gold?

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Joie VAlentinA trottA, 6 months, celebrated her first St. Paddy’s Day. AmeliA GerAGhty, 5, left and her brother Ryan, 3, were all decked out in their green outfits. DominiC DossAntos, 5, left and his brother Jayden DosSantos, 9, showed some brotherly love by wearing matching shirts.

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Wantagh temple garden is giving back By Maria Cestero mcestero@liherald.com

Birds chirped, and the smell of dirt and garlic filled the warm spring air as about a dozen volunteers worked on a community-service garden at Temple B’nai Torah, in Wantagh, on March 15. They chatted as they pushed wheelbarrows full of nutrient-rich dirt for an upcoming harvest. Once an unused playground, the volunteer-run vegetable garden rona KauffMan deliCately helds a sunchoke, was created by Rona Kauffman, of a vegetable that blooms in March. East Meadow, and Susan Salem, of donated supplies, making it a zero-waste Bellmore. In 2020, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the pair asked enterprise. Everything that is grown in it the temple to turn the playground into a is donated to community members and garden to help feed local families strug- organizations in need. Volunteers plant and harvest vegetagling with food insecurity, Kauffman said, bles and herbs including potatoes, peas, which was spreading across Long Island. “The [food] pantries were over- squash, heirloom tomatoes, peppers, letwhelmed, and it was a good opportunity tuce, dill, chives, garlic, kale and sunto start,” Kauffman said. “It’s all about choke, a root vegetable known as Jerusacreating a welcoming space to encourage lem artichoke. Given the crops’ disparate people to learn.” And at the time, it gave growing periods, they are harvested at volunteers a way to help those in need various times of the year. The next harvest is in May, and anothwhile social distancing. Kauffman had worked with Salem at a er will follow in July. Last year they harvegetable garden outside St. Francis Epis- vested as late as November. Registered as an official monarch waycopal Church in Bellmore for over a year, and she invited Salem to “work her station, the garden will include a bed of magic” on the former playground, she flowers such as milkweed to attract monsaid. “It was a godsend during Covid,” arch butterflies. Flowers will be planted Salem said, “just being in the company of between vegetables to attract other pollinators, such as birds and bees. other humans.” Some of last week’s volunteers were Volunteer started by emptying the playground sandboxes, under which they focused on preparing the vegetable beds, discovered a layer of asphalt, which indi- adding new soil, while others were cated that the playground had been built replanting chives to make room for differabove a parking lot. Unable to remove it, ent crops. New volunteers are expected to they laid down a layer of shredded leaves join them, to plant seeds, by the end of the before adding soil to promote vegetable month. Salem said she started gardening when growth, and created a gardening infrastructure to hold sections of soil using she was a chef, and wanted to grow her own vegetables. She has shown the worklandscaping fabric and cardboard. Kauffman’s husband, Bob, joined local ers the finer points of planting and harBoy Scout troops to create what his wife vesting, and has encouraged them to described as “cardboard lasagna” that refurbish donated planters and flower could then be filled with soil. “It’s satisfy- beds for future crops. Autumn Tankleff, of East Meadow, voling to do something with your hands and benefit other people,” Bob said. “It’s really unteered after hearing about the project through the Temple. Kneeling by one of a labor of love.” The garden was constructed entirely the vegetable beds, she dug out chives and of materials that volunteers have gath- separated them. “It’s good to feed the poor ered through donations or built with and needy and do something good for

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anne Paley, left, and Rona Kauffman discussed the perks of composting and swapping out soils. someone else,” Tankleff said. “I also love being able to save the planet and help be organic.” The garden has an area where foods typically found on a traditional Seder plate will be grown. And one corner of the plot has been left fallow, because Kauffman decided to take part in the tradition of Shmita, or sabbatical year, the seventh year of the agricultural cycle observed in Judaism. Shmita began on

Sept. 7, 2021. Many of the volunteers who were laboring last week had helped with the garden since it was created. Most are former member of Temple Emanu-El, in East Meadow, which merged with Temple B’nai Torah four years ago. Anne Paley, of East Meadow, was one of them. “It’s like the Garden of Eden,” Paley beamed. “I feel positive and energized, and I get to see my friends.”

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Ten girls from the Girls Elite Hockey team from the Northwell Health Ice Center in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow have won scholarships courtesy of National Grid. This season, the program for med a partnership with N at i o n a l G r i d at Northwell Health Ice Center. As a result, the girls received finanCourtesy Chris Lombardo cial aid scholarship Ten girls received financial aid scholarships towards their funds. The girls included: hockey careers from National Grid. S a b i n e Vo c k i n s , University, Men & Women’s Hockey proCourtney Reynolds, Katie Wong, Caleigh Chocko, Chloe Muth, gram and many adult hockey leagues. The Center is approximately 175,000 Ashlee Grillo, Julia Mendoza-Pineyro, Brooke Corbett, Isabel Coogan and Bea square feet in size and offers hockey development classes, hockey skills and skating MacLean. Northwell Health Ice Center is not only clinics, ice skating classes, freestyle figure a place to ice skate but it is the official skating sessions and public skating sespractice facility of the New York Island- sions. The state-of-the-art facility also ers. It is also home to many youth travel offers a gym/training center, hockey and hockey programs such as the Police Ath- figure skating equipment, skate sharpenletic League Junior Islanders, Girl’s Elite ing, sports therapy and rehabilitation serHockey Program, and Long Island Maver- vices, Allstar Children’s Center, and the icks as well as public and private local New York Islanders pro shop For program information, contact alexhigh school varsity hockey teams, Farmingdale State Men’s Hockey, Long Island is.moed@newyorkislanders.com.

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Friday, March 25

Ann Rothman will lead this class. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of the class. To register visit https://eastmeadow.info/.

Easy exercise Join the East Meadow Public Library for virtual easy exercise at 10 a.m. Ann Rothman will lead this class. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of the class. To register visit https://eastmeadow.info/.

Taxpayer forum There will be a taxpayer forum held at the East Meadow Public Library form 7 to 9 p.m. Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll will be presenting the forum.

Acoustic Outlaws The Acoustic Outlaws will be playing at Whiskey Reds Sports Bar and Grill at 2552 Hempstead Tpk., in East Meadow from 9 to 11 p.m. Head down to enjoy some good food and good music.

Thursday, Mar. 31 Chess club Chess club meets from 1 to 4 p.m. every Thursday at the East Meadow Public Library in the conference room in the lower level.

Saturday, March 26

Virtual chair yoga

Opal moonlight Join Pinots Palette at 2557 Hempstead Tpk., in East Meadow to paint from 9 to 11 p.m. This class is $42 per person. To register visit https:// www.pinotspalette.com/eastmeadow/ events.

The Cana Rap Show The Cana Rap Show will be playing at Coasters Tavern at 487 Newbridge Rd., in East Meadow starting at 9 p.m. Head down to listen to this trending New York Hip Hop artist.

Craft Beer Festival The Spring Craft Beer Festival will be at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum at 1255 Hempstead Tpk., in Uniondale from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. For tickets visit https://www.ticketmaster.com/spring-craft-beer-festivaluniondale-new-york-03-26-2022/ event/00005C3BC7FB4783.

Sunday, March 27 Sunday divine liturgy The Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great is celebrated at 9:30 a.m. every Lenten Sunday from March 13 to April 10 at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church at 369 Green Ave., in East Meadow. Various themes are highlighted every Sunday as part of the Orthodox Tradition of

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Parade for a local veteran Pete Wenninger, the commander of the East Meadow American Legion Post 1082 is looking for military style jeeps, motorcycles and cars with big flags to say thanks for service and happy birthday to 100 year old veteran on March 27 at 11:30 a.m. at Sunrise Assisted Living. For more info call Pete at (516) 978-5884. Great Lent. All services are conducted in English. The liturgy is followed by coffee hour with Lenten foods. Services are also streamed on https:// www.facebook.com/htocem. The full schedule for Great Lent and Holy Week can be found on the parish website’s calendar at www.htocem.org. For more info call (516) 483-3649 or email htocem@gmail.com.

soming of love and for many, it is a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships. The festival also celebrates the beginning of a good spring harvest season. To register visit east meadow.info.

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Ajna Dance Company will be at the East Meadow Public Library to celebrate Holiday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Ajna Dance Company is a New York City based woman and minority owned performing arts organization with the mission of South Asian dance and culture in a way that is relatable, joyful and fun. Holi celebrates the arrival of spring, the end of winter, the blos-

Monday, March 28 The East Meadow Kiwanis will be collecting food at McVey Elementary School for those in need. Stop by to donate whatever you can.

Tuesday, March 29 Kiwanis meeting East Meadow Kiwanis will be meeting at Borrelli’s at 1580 Hempstead Tpk., East Meadow. at 7:15 p.m. For more information, contact club president Jennifer Reinhardt at (516) 351-9891.

Wednesday, Mar. 30 Game day Join the East Meadow Public Library for game day starting at 11:30 a.m.. There will be tables set up in the makers space downstairs.

Easy exercise Join the East Meadow Public Library for virtual easy exercise at 10 a.m.

There will be an Easter Egg-Straganza at Stew Leonard’s on April 5. There will be a psychic dinner at La Novella on April 12. The annual All Kids Fair will be at the Samanea New York Mall on April 3. There will be supply collection bins at Eisenhower Park until March 25. The Mini MightyMan Triathlon is coming to Eisenhower Park on April 16.

Originally introduced to the fitness world as a modified version of Hatha yoga for individuals with health implications and for those of a certain age. Improving flexibility, relieving cramps and stiffness, and creating a happy mental state are a few benefits that chair yoga can provide for us. Join the East Meadow Public Library virtually for this event at 4 p.m. Register at www.eastmeadow.info.

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A tragic death inspires a life-saving cause

alexis Zayas, 27, had donated blood since she was in high school. pandemic. With many restrictions lifted, she decided it was a safe time to resume the event. “When our 27-year-old daughter passed in such a tragic way, it was mind-boggling,” Jacobs said. “Loss is like a chronic illness; you just learn to live with it. I’m living my life to honor Alexis.” The blood drive also featured a rotating slideshow with music to remind friends and family of the woman they lost.

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Daniel Jacobs, alexis’s brother, helped at the blood drive. “It feels good to be doing something positive to remember her,” Daniel Jacobs, 26, said about doing the blood drive for his sister. “I’m grateful to everyone who comes out and gives blood and I like being able to do something to honor her memory.” Service workers were also present at

the blood drive to assist those who were interested in registering as organ donors. Ava became an organ donor in honor of her daughter. “As long as one person is still around to tell your story,” Ava Jacobs said, “you’re never truly gone.”

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her. “I’m trying to make sense of her death by doing something positive with it,” she added. “I can’t donate blood but I can donate myself,” Janet Goldstein said. She had seen the drive advertised at her temple. “. . . I want to help.” Jacobs said her daughter was extremely sociable, always making the effort to meet new people at any opportunity. Zayas shared a deep bond with her friends and family, Jacobs said, and she loved to spend time with both. After her unexpected death, friends and family shared photos and memories of Alexis over social media. The hashtag #LivelikeAlexis was created, inspired by her adventurous nature and free-spirited way of life. “Her sister has said that Alexis lived more in a week than most people do in three months,” Jacobs said. “. . . She lived hard.” From local Facebook groups to service projects, Zayas, who studied criminal and deviant justice at John Jay College in Queens, was always finding ways to give back in the area. Besides donating blood, she also donated hair to the nonprofit Locks for Love, and helped collect clothing for local shelters. Jacobs first organized the blood drive in 2018. But she was unable to organize drives in the past two years due to the

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Meeting the Democratic Congressional Democrats By JORDAN VALLONE jvallone@liherald.com

Courtesy Bellmore-Merrick Democratic Club

ThE BELLmORE-mERRick DEmOcRATic Club hosted a Meet the Candidates on March 14. Four of the five Democratic candidates attended. County Legislator Carrié Solages who is also running was not in attendance. illegal guns,” he said. “I don’t know anyone — Republican or Democrat, who is against illegal guns. Let’s finally get something done to stop the illegal trafficking of illegal handguns.” Gillen touched upon several topics, all relating to lifestyle affordability, whether it be housing, prescription drugs or gasoline. “We need to tackle this problem immediately,” Gillen said of the recent uptick in gas prices. “We should have an immediate gas tax holiday — we should also be working to become energy independent.”

Shakil, the CEO of Islamic Radio, also said safety was his main concern. “We are seeing crimes through the roof, illegal guns — people are getting killed, people are getting shot,” he said. “The only way we can ensure that public safety is taking serious is by funding our police, but ensuring that they have transparency and accountability.” Bynoe said she agreed “whole heartedly” with the previous responses. Bynoe discussed some of the work she had done with the legislature, such as offering mental health services to public facing employ-

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Florence Price Symphony No 1 The South Shore Symphony Orchestra, under the musical direction and baton of Scott Jackson Wiley, will be performing in Madison Theatre in Rockville Centre on Saturday, February 12th at 7:30 pm. The performance will include Symphony No 1 in E minor by the American composer Florence Price. The composer was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1887 and during her career won many accolades. Price’s First Symphony won critical acclaim and became the first symphony by an African-American female composer to be performed by a major American orchestra in 1933. Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major op. 61 virtuoso violinist Wen Qian hailed by China Daily as “one of Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 104,Qian “London” China’s most promising young violinists. ” Ms. has been Sergei Prokofiev Classical Symphony No.1, Op.25 a first violinist with the Metropolitan Orchestra since 1997, Richard Wagnerto serve Siegfried Idyll Assistant Conwhere she continues as the acting Bela Bartok Dances certmaster, as well as violinRomanian professor atFolk Mannes College of Music at the New School University.

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Saturday, March 26th at 7:30 pm

Bartok, a Hungarian composer, moved to the US in 1940 Prokofiev, born in Ukraine, came to the US in 1918, later Paris and Russia Haydn, an Austrian composer spent productive years in London Wagner was exiled from Germany for 12 years spending time in Switzerland.

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Four out of the five current Democratic candidates vying to be the Dems representative in the general election to replace Kathleen Rice attended a Meet the Candidates night hosted by the Bellmore-Merrick Democratic Club at the Merrick Road Golf Course Clubhouse on March 14. Rice announced she would not seek re-election last month. Nassau County Legislator Siela Bynoe, Malverne Mayor Keith Corbett, former Town of Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen, and first-time candidate Kevin Shakil, of Westbury, took part in responding to questions that were submitted by their potential constituents. County Legislator Carrié Solages, who is also running, was unable to attend. Each candidate was allotted three minutes to make an opening statement, as well as three minutes to respond to each question. Among the topics discussed were the affordability of living on Long Island and public safety. The first question asked was: What did the candidates feel was the biggest problem facing the district, and what would be their solution? Corbett said the biggest issue facing the district is the use and trafficking of illegal handguns. “We need a real comprehensive, federal program, that funds the local police departments so that we can actually put together, and stop the trafficking of

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St. Paddy’s Day puppy pride Milo, 2 years old, didn’t forget his green for the holiday.

Siblings in green Alejandro Gavidia, 7 and his sister Catalina, 10, shared some sibling love in their matching green.

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Jets, Rams cheerleaders compete in championship E a s t M e a d ow H i g h School and W.T. Clarke High School’s varsity cheerleading teams competed in the 2022 UCA National High School Cheerleading Championship from Feb. 11 to 13 in Orlando, Florida. The East Meadow Jets cheerleaders enjoyed an amazing trip as they finished third out of 18 teams in the preliminary competition and advanced to the semifinals. Overall, the Jets placed 16th in the nation in the Medium Varsity Division II. They also had a great time exploring all four theme parks in their free time, along with a delicious team dinner before the competition and a team picnic The w.T. Clarke Rams cheerleaders had a memorable to cap off their trip. The W.T. Clarke Rams trip to Orlando, Florida as they competed in the 2022 cheerleaders had previously UCA National High School Cheerleading Championship. competed at a regional championship in December as they put on an incredible performance. and earned a chance to be a part of this After a great performance at ESPN Wide prestigious event against the best cheer- World of Sports, the team was able to celeleading teams in the nation. The Rams’ brate their accomplishments with some hard work throughout the season paid off fun at the Walt Disney World parks.

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o matter what you do, you’re always trying to sell yourself, and we wanted these kids to be able to put their best foot forward.

Some questions students were asked: tell me about yourself. Why did you decide to pursue this job? How were your grades? in which courses did you do well? What are your strengths? Weaknesses? What would you like to be doing 10 years from now?

anything,” Chowdhury said. “But in freshman year I took the class careers in finance, and we did a mock interview with our teacher and that helped me feel more prepared.” Chowdhury was interviewed by Chamber President Richie Krug Jr. “[Krug] wound up only asking me one question from the list of possible questions and from there he based all of the questions off of what I said in the beginning,” she said. “It made me think quickly on my feet and create better sounding responses.” It’s all about being prepared, Woison said. “Everyone who participates is so kind and so professional,” she said. “They do a great benefit for the students.”

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that she works two jobs and that one of her strengths is time management. ask and a rubric to grade them. Before the interviews took place Hodish said that “No matter what you do, you’re always trying to sell yourself, and we wanted these kids to be able to put chamber members visited some business classes virtually and talked to the students about their best foot forward,” Hodish said. “We resume building, dressing professionally got some tremendous feedback on it.” He and other skills they felt would help the added that some students even wind up students to achieve success. landing jobs or internships with chamber “We gave them a little warm-up before members. the interview,” Hodish said. “We wanted Each student was told to research his or them to be prepared.” her potential future employer before the Woison said that the program has interviews to know what type of job they grown tremendously. “It started with just would be interviewing for and to dress promy business management classes and fessionally. Lee and Calabro were interabout 35 students and probably about 20 viewing for a reporter position with me as chamber members,” she said. “This year it their future employer. was about 65 students participating and 35 Lee said that she was looking to get a chamber members.” job that would allow her to use her technoThere are two mindsets that students logical, organizational and bilingual skills have when they find out that they will have in the workplace. She talked about her to participate in this mock interview, Woistrengths and weaknesses and of her volson said. They think it’s either a great unteer work, which included teaching Englearning experience or they become very lish to a Pakistani girl. nervous and hesitant. But at the end of the She said that she liked writing and day, she said, students come out loving it. researching and would like to write about AlAN HodiSH “I would tell them to take a deep breath current events. At the end of her interFormer president, E.M. and that this is all a learning experience,” view, she asked me questions. One was she said. “I would check on those students whether I thought that any experience on Chamber of Commerce in particular after and they say it wasn’t so her resume made her qualified for the job. bad.” Calabro said that she was seeking a Sumaiya Chowdhury, another junior who participosition where she could use her creative and design skills to ensure the company’s success. She told me pated in the mock interviews, said that at first, she about her experience with design from classes she’s was a little scared. “I found out my freshman year that taken and that she excels in English class. She said I had to do this and in freshman year you don’t know

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East Meadow FD gets new ambulances The East Meadow Fire Department recently placed two new ambulances into service, replacing similar vehicles that served the community for more than 15 years. According to East Meadow Fire District Commissioner and Chairman of the Board of Fire Commissioners John J. Priest, ambulances are among the most heavily used apparatus in the community. He also noted that requests for emergency medical services have increased, in part because of the building of several East Meadow housing units that are aimed at older adults. Funding for the new ambulances was made possible, due in part, from a $300,000 grant secured by New York State Senator Kevin Thomas, through the State and Municipalities funding program. “Our first responders go above and beyond to keep our community safe, and they deserve to have the most up-to-date equipment and vehicles to effectively do their jobs,” Thomas said. “I was thrilled to help our East Meadow Fire Department secure needed funding to upgrade their ambulance fleet. These brandnew, state-of-the-art vehicles will help our first responders do what they do best – keep our community safe and save lives.” The new ambulances are located at fire headquarters, on East Meadow Avenue, at Front Street, and at Station 4, off Carman Avenue, in the northern portion of the district. They are equipped with state-of-the-art emergency medical equipment, including chest compression systems, external defibrillators, and cardiac monitoring systems capable of

transmitting electrocardiogram information to the hospital for a doctor’s analysis and treatment order. The ambulances are also outfitted with advanced stretcher-lift systems that improve patient safety and comfort throughout the loading and unloading process. In addition, East Meadow’s emergency medical services volunteers have received extensive training in how to use the new equipment, as well as in the overall operation of the ambulances. “We thank Senator Thomas for his efforts in providing the funds to replace East Meadow’s aging ambulances, which also provides welcome relief to the district’s taxpayers,”Priest said. “The two new ambulances will allow the East Meadow Fire Department to continue to provide the highest degree of emergency medical response to the community.” The East Meadow Fire Department, which covers East Meadow and parts of Levittown and Westbury (Salisbury), is always looking for new members to join their ranks as firefighters or emergency medical personnel; no experience is necessary. The fire department provides the training required. There are numerous benefits associated with volunteering, including tax breaks, college scholarships, annual health checkups, life insurance, and a service award pension program, all at no cost. For more information on volunteering with the East Meadow Fire Department, visit www. eastmeadowfd.com, or call (516) 542-4565. Submitted by the East Meadow Fire Department

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Senator thomaS, third from right presented a check to the East Meadow Fire District, left to right, Commissioner Keith Hoffman, Michael Cody, Engine 4, EMFD Chief Paul Kosiba, Commissioner John J. Priest, Commissioner Carey Welt and EMFD Ex-Chief Thomas Tergesen.

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LEGAL NOTICE BID REQUESTS DOORS, VIDEO INTERCOM/ACCESS CONTROL A non-profit religious organization located in Merrick, NY is seeking sealed bids for sales and installation of security related enhancements. The project includes obtaining and installation of: 1.New FRP steel reinforced security exterior entry/exit doors with new frames and multipoint electronic locking mechanisms to replace existing entry/exit doors. 2.New reinforced interior doors for with self-closing and self-locking mechanisms. 3.Video intercom and physical access control equipment that is compatible with our current systems. 4.Ballistic/security film on windows. Selection criteria will be based on knowledge of doors, door installation, surveillance, and security systems in the aggregate, experience with protective ballistic security film for windows, along with specific knowledge of all or some of items 1, 2, 3 & 4 listed

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Ordinance, NOTICE is hereby given that the BOARD OF APPEALS of the Town of Hempstead will hold a public hearing in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Town Hall Plaza, One Washington Street, Hempstead, New York on 3/30/22 at 9:30 A.M. to consider the following applications and appeals: --------------------------------THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 9:30 A.M. 242/22. LEVITTOWN Levittown Chamber of Commerce, Amusement Rides (Special Event) duration May 26, 2022 May 30, 2022., N/E cor. Hempstead Tpke. & Division Ave., a/k/a Town of Hempstead Parking Lot L-2 N.C.P.C. Local Determination. ALL PAPERS PERTAINING TO THE ABOVE HEARING ARE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AT THE BOARD OF APPEALS, TOWN HALL, 1 WASHINGTON STREET, HEMPSTEAD, NY 11550. This notice is only for new cases in Levittown within Town of Hempstead jurisdiction. There are additional cases in different hamlets, towns and villages on the Board of Appeals calendar. The full calendar is available

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CIRCULATION ASSOCIATE Full Time/Part Time Richner Communications, publisher of Herald community newspapers has an excellent opportunity for a FT/PT Customer Service Clerk in our busy Circulation Department. Basic customer service and administrative responsibilities include: heavy computer work, answering phones, making phone calls, entering orders, faxing, filing, etc. STRONG knowledge of EXCEL a must! Knowledge of DATABASE maintenance or postal regulations a big plus. Qualified Candidates must be computer literate, able to multitask, dependable, reliable, organized, energetic, detail orientated and able to work well under deadlines. For consideration, please send resume & salary requirements to: careers@liherald.com

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A. Maybe someday there will be an easy way to see through walls. What you describe is so common that building authorities should come up with a better way to hold the contractor legally responsible instead of turning to the architect. A contractor’s most important tool is the phone. Your contractor could have avoided all of this. If the architect wasn’t called and didn’t see the work, it is fraud to write the letter your inspector is suggesting. You may need to open areas for either the inspector or the architect, or both, to see examples of critical points. What I often advise is that homeowners take lots of pictures of work. When taking pictures, it’s helpful to stand far enough away to see the relationship of where it is located relative to the surrounding building. I regularly see pictures so close up that I can’t tell anything about where the subject of the picture is located. So take a picture farther away, then walk closer, take another picture, then close up, where details can be examined. Each view allows a look at connections, which are extremely important, and then the conditions close up, of materials and joining techniques, such as a lack of bolts or nails. Foundations should show, progressively, an empty pit with a tape measure held to show the depth of the excavation, then width. The plumbing work must be handled by a licensed plumber, who must get the final plumbing inspection and plumbing inspector signoff. The electrician must do the same with the electrical work, and final electrical certification from a private agency. Neither your architect nor the building inspector does this. Bad reviews may get your contractor to comply, open up and repair the work if he won’t answer the phone, but you will get through this. Good luck!

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aving been a player and observer in the political world for many decades, I’ve gotten used to surprises. I recall endorsing then New York City Mayor Ed Koch for governor, and seeing him lose to Mario Cuomo in the primary. I worked hard to help Eliot Spitzer to become the state’s attorney general and governor, and then his political career imploded overnight. My latest puzzlement is what’s going on with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi. JERRY There is no doubt that Cuomo KREMER has gone through a very difficult time. Having to resign as governor in the middle of your third term is surely a sad experience. It would seem that the most logical next step would be to take a long vacation and start planning some meaningful activities outside of politics. Regrettably, that isn’t the case, which makes the Cuomo saga totally unpredictable. Instead of decompressing, Cuomo is

spending some of his $16 million war chest on television advertisements telling the world that he was wronged and hinting at some kind of political comeback. His argument for exoneration is that no criminal charges were brought against him in connection with the complaints made by a number of women. But it is an accepted fact in the halls of Albany that had he not resigned, the Assembly was poised to begin impeachment proceedings against him, which would probably have resulted in a finding of guilt by the State Senate. The deadline for filing petitions to run for statewide office is April 1. It’s always possible that since he has lots of money to spend, Cuomo could find a way to get on the ballot or try to run as an independent candidate. Public sentiment about his record in office shows that he is appreciated for his many accomplishments, but the majority of those polled aren’t in favor of his running for office again. Those polls, if accurate, should send him the message that for now, it’s time to retire, but Cuomo doesn’t follow a predictable path. Almost every week I meet people who

tell me that he got a raw deal, but I also meet voters who say they had enough of Cuomo, and would never support him again. If you polled the Assembly or the Senate on how their members felt about his possible return to public life, it would be hard to find anyone who was in favor of a Cuomo candidacy. Many describe him as a bully, and want no part of his dream to return to power. Many of the big political contributors have gone in a different direction, and are now writing big checks to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s campaign. But will Cuomo decide to run again? It’s anybody’s guess. Suozzi’s decision to run for governor set off another political guessing game. Despite the fact that his congressional district has been realigned, most observers agree that he could run for re-election and win. Suozzi began the year with $3 million in the bank and strong name recognition, thanks to his congressional activities. But instead of seeking a new term, he has chosen to run against Hochul, who has a reported $22 million on hand and is prepared to spend every penny of it in a

ne may be plotting a comeback, and the other may not want to be in the minority.

primary contest. Some people think Suozzi’s decision to run for statewide office is based on the likelihood that the Democratic Party’s House majority may be lost in November. Nonetheless, he has calculated that he can run a credible campaign. There isn’t much logic in politics, but it’s logical to conclude that with another challenger in the primary contest, Suozzi would have to pull off a major miracle to upset a sitting female governor. Stranger things have happened in this business, but you have to consider his race more than a long shot. In the weeks and months ahead, we’ll see whether Cuomo can make some kind of political comeback with the odds stacked against him, and whether Suozzi has a secret plan to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, despite no signs, to date, of what that plan might be. But it’s the unpredictability of politics that makes the Cuomo and Suozzi sagas so interesting. Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.

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s the sun sails northward and we stand in the doorway known as spring, between a stark winter and a hopeful-looking summer, there is a passion to embrace life again after years of pandemic constraints. First, though, we have unfinished emotional business. As individuals and as a country, we must find a way to memorialize this loss in our lives. Now that the pandemic seems to be abating, we need to think about how we RANDI want to keep alive KREISS the memory of those who died of Covid-19 these past two years. So many closed their eyes without saying goodbye, so many took a last breath with very little comfort from loved ones and very little comforting ritual for the community of friends left behind. According to NPR, Marked By Covid, a grass-roots group, is advocating for a national day of remembrance to honor those who died. The group supports the idea of an annual event, stating that the pandemic, which touched us all, should

not be a footnote to the history of our time on earth. Janeth Nuñez del Prado, a New Mexico resident who was interviewed by NPR, was waiting for her father to visit from Bolivia when she got word that he died of the virus, alone in a hospital, on a ventilator. “It really interrupts the grieving process,” Nuñez del Prado said. “We have these rituals for a reason, because they help us heal. And in the absence of that, it’s just really, really hard.” Nuñez del Prado, a social worker and trauma therapist, is now channeling her grief into lobbying for a national Covid Memorial Day on the first Monday of March each year, as well as trying to build memorials in cities all over the country. “I know that a key to healing from trauma is to hold space, to feel what you need to feel,” she said, “and to do this in community.” She is working with Marked by Covid to support plans for a memorial. Trauma is an overused word, but there has been suffering everywhere during the past two years, and memorials would be appropriate and significant. The survivors of the Spanish flu pan-

demic of 1918 did not look back. Once it was over, they never wanted to think about it again, and so the losses were never fully acknowledged and the healing never completed. According to Nancy Bristow, author of “American Pandemic: The Lost World of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic,” doctors didn’t want to think about the loss, because it reminded them of the limitations of “modern” science. Survivors couldn’t bear to think of the awful contagion, the bodies piled outside hospitals in our big cities. And our government, under President Woodrow Wilson, didn’t want to think about the pandemic, because it drew attention away from support for World War I — which helped spread infections around the world. No one really wanted to talk or write about what it was like to live through the flu. Newspaper articles about it didn’t describe the personal stories of those who died or survived, says J. Alex Navarro, assistant director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan and one of the editors in chief of “The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia.”

erhaps a day on the calendar when we stop and hold our loved ones in our hearts.

“It’s striking to me,” Navarro says. “I’ve read . . . probably thousands of newspaper articles on influenza from all these cities throughout the pandemic, and I can list off the ones that stand out, that talk about the personal tragedies of common folk, because they’re just so few and far between.” Fifty million people died around the world, and some 650,000 Americans perished here at home. Covid-19 is blowing right past those numbers, as we approach 1 million dead in America in just these two years. Everything in its own season. We have suffered and we have lost, and we have grieved. And still it is not over. But now is the time to begin planning how to best remember this pandemic. There were the patients, and the doctors who served at their own peril, and all the scientists who produced extraordinarily effective vaccines with unprecedented speed. I like the idea of a day on the calendar when we stop and hold our loved ones in our hearts. We need to remember so that we can prepare ourselves for future pandemics. We need to remember so that we can honor the people who died too soon, and heal the emotional scars of isolation and anxiety. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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f you have children or grandchildren, you likely think about them all the time. You imagine them smiling and laughing while running outside or playing on a swing set, or indoors, mastering the latest video game. One place we never imagine them? Cold and hungry on the street. Alone. Unsafe. Terrified. Yet 1.6 million children, teens and young adults across the country end up on the streets each year, according to the True Colors Fund. And 40 percent of them — 640,000 — identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer. Our society has made admirable progress when it comes to the LGBTQ community. It’s been nearly 50 years since the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. In many places across the U.S., it’s illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. And marriage equality has been the law of the land since 2015. All of that might give us the impression that homophobia is a shame of the past. But tragically, it’s very much alive today. And it especially affects the transgender community, where someone is four times more likely to be the victim of rape, sexual assault — or really, any assault — than their cisgender counterpart, according to a UCLA School of Law study conducted not decades ago, but just last year. And with what appears to be a solid

letters Finding common ground amid war To the Editor: Thanks to Scott Brinton for writing the heartfelt and informative column “War in Eastern Europe reverberates on Long Island” in the March 3-9 Herald. He captured the humanitarian essence of this tragedy and placed its global implications in our local context. Like Brinton and so many others who are appalled by the horrific scenes of death and destruction, my heart bleeds for the people of Ukraine, who are truly admirable and deserving of our support. During a time of such anxiety, bewilderment and frustration, it was quite important and much appreciated that Brinton conveyed how many Long Islanders have ties to Eastern Europe generally and Ukraine specifically, noting the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox churches in East Meadow, Uniondale and Sea Cliff. Although I was previously unaware, I have since learned there are also a num-

conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, a number of states are passing laws their legislators hope will not just walk back many of the measures that have opened the door to equality over the past decade, but run them back at full speed. One prime example is Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. If you haven’t heard of the legislation, it might be because few actually refer to it by its name. Instead, it’s deridingly known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. It’s a super-vague bill that would prohibit schools from teaching kids from kindergarten through third grade about sexual orientation or gender identity that is “not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate . . . in accordance with state standards.” What is appropriate? What are the standards? They aren’t defined, which means they mean whatever whoever in power wants them to mean. DeSantis, who is expected to sign the bill into law, has defended it, saying that children at that age are too young to learn about sex. As if being LGBTQ is only about that. Sexuality and gender identity are about so many more aspects of life than sexual relations. Seeing something as abnormal is a learned behavior, not an inherent one. And there is a chance that many children will sit in classrooms with fellow students who have LGBTQ parents, if not go

home to LGBTQ parents themselves. A 2019 U.S. Census study found that 292,000 children in this country have a parent living with a same-sex partner or spouse. But for DeSantis — and Republicans like him — the fear is that diversity somehow leads to moral corruption. And Florida isn’t alone, by the way. CNN’s Giselle Rhoden has found more than 150 anti-LGBT bills floating around the legislatures of more than 30 states. No similar proposals have found their way to Albany, but that doesn't mean we shouldn’t fight this cruelty everywhere else. Not everyone is born meeting the high societal standards set for us, like being heterosexual and identifying with the gender assigned at birth. But we should celebrate diversity, not fear it. There are some great services — especially close to home — that can help those working through sexuality and gender identity issues. One that comes to mind immediately is Pride for Youth from the Long Island Crisis Center. From social activities for pre-teens with Camp PFY to Friday coffeehouse gatherings for older kids, and help services through its TransAction group in Bellmore, there's something for everyone. And they provide 24/7 support, too, for those in crisis or feeling suicidal, at (516) 679-1111. And we must not let DeSantis and others like him march us back to the societal Dark Ages.

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t must be cold comfort to former Nassau County Executive Laura Curran that a recent media analysis reports that Nassau County Republican voter registration is down. She must also be disturbed that defeated Democratic district attorney candidate Todd Kaminsky won’t stand for re-election as a state senator, after he was a contributing cause of the Democrats’ loss in the last county election due to his support for state Democrats’ dangerous “no bail” law. And that news ronaLd J. probably doesn’t well with rosenberG resonate North Hempstead’s Wayne Wink, who lost the supervisor’s race to a Republican, Jennifer DeSena, a challenger who didn’t have anywhere near Wink’s name recognition in what has been a Democratic stronghold for generations. More astounding was the election of Mazi Melesa Pilip in Nassau’s 10th Legislative District, in Great Neck. This was the first time since the County Legislature was created that a Republican won a seat in the Great Neck peninsula. What this all means is that political labels, affiliations and registrations are less important than what candidates actually stand for on the issues most important to the electorate. The Nassau Repub-

lican Party stood firm on its commonsense principles during the last election cycle and spoke to voters in clear declarative language. Crime, taxes, reassessment, government lockdowns and personal choice were among the principles that most appealed to Nassau voters across the political spectrum. Nassau Republican Chairman Joseph Cairo oversaw extremely successful campaigns that focused on those issues rather than poring over spreadsheets and computer analytics tracking past voter trends. The unprecedented results speak for themselves. What does that mean for this year’s gubernatorial race? Polls suggest that Gov. Kathy Hochul may not be the sure winner that Democratic operatives are claiming she is. One recent poll should give her considerable pause, because it found that 65 percent of New York’s electorate believes the state is headed in the wrong direction. Her reception at a recent Rangers game, where the boos overpowered the public address announcer, may have been one of the more dramatic impromptu focus group responses in recent memory. Hochul has harnessed herself to a progressive movement that continues to celebrate cashless bail at a time when violent crime has surged — when staff are being attacked with knives at the Museum of Modern Art, commuters are being pushed

ov. Kathy Hochul may not be the sure winner that Democrats claim she is.

Letters ber of Ukrainian Catholic communities and churches in Nassau and Suffolk counties, in Hempstead (St. Vladimir’s), Lindenhurst (Holy Family) and Riverhead (St. John the Baptist), as well as the Ukrainian Basilian Order of Fathers and Brothers at St. Josaphat’s Monastery in Glen Cove. As this history unfolds before us, Brinton’s perspective and observations can continue to help Herald readers understand these connections, and other local, faith-based communities that are suffering and striving for a cessation of hostilities. Certainly readers are paying close attention to this conflict, and will be doing all we can to shore up Ukraine’s fledgling democracy so that it can eventually emergence from this crucible. As people of goodwill across Long Island and around the world pray for peace and search for ways to assist the innocent civilian victims of the vicious Russian assault, Brinton’s concise yet evocative journalism helps us find common ground and hope. JAY KORTH Lynbrook

in front of subways and retail stores are closing because they can’t withstand the repeat shoplifters. What this means is that U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin could win the governor’s mansion in the very blue state of New York. In the poll that found so many New Yorkers pessimistic about the state’s direction, over half of the respondents also said they want a return of checks and balances in Albany, where progressives control the political agenda. Hochul, fearful of a primary challenge from an empowered left, believes she needs to cater to that revolutionary force if she is to survive beyond November. But New York Post columnist Bob McManus opines that the governor’s problem is more institutional. He draws comparisons of her accidental ascent to power to that of Gov. David Paterson, who took over for the disgraced Eliot Spitzer. McManus writes that Paterson “never caught traction” with either voters or legislative leaders. Hochul recently discovered just how politically malignant the progressive agenda can be when she endorsed “auxiliary housing units.” The proposal would have allowed multi-family dwellings in single-family neighborhoods, which would destroy suburbs across the state. Even her normally Democratic loyalists on Long Island quickly separated them-

selves from this destructive idea, and Hochul ruefully retreated — but like a tin can attached to a puppy’s tail, it will follow her into the autumn election cycle. Which is one more reason Zeldin is a challenger with a genuine chance to win. He comes from Long Island, which is must-win geography for any statewide candidate. It’s a voter-rich environment, and Zeldin not only knows it well, but, just as important, has the support of two savvy GOP chairmen, Joe Cairo in Nassau and Jesse Garcia in Suffolk County. Zeldin is looking to leverage strong pockets of support to energize his campaign on the Island while introducing himself to upstate Republican primary voters. He will also look to connect with disaffected voters in the five boroughs who have seen progressives enfranchise non-citizens with the right to vote. Zeldin’s advisers say he is following Alfonse D’Amato’s successful 1980s playbook by creating political building blocks one endorsement at a time. Zeldin has conservatives’ endorsement and is now heading for the GOP nomination. He is doing it at a time when taxes, crime and that progressive agenda, which is at odds with Republicans and the vast majority of non-affiliated voters, are creating a demand for change and balance. Ronald J. Rosenberg has been an attorney for 42 years, concentrating in commercial litigation and transactions, and real estate, municipal, zoning and land use law. He founded the Garden City law firm Rosenberg Calica & Birney in 1999.

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Remembering a local literary legend To the Editor: March 12 marked the 100th birthday of novelist, poet, Beat Generation member and Northport resident Jack Kerouac. It made me reread one of his best works, “On the Road.” Kerouc’s writing reminds me of the more adventurous spirit of youth. Sadly, as we get older, with more responsibilities and less free time, there are fewer journeys to take, but the ideals of Jack Kerouac continue to live in all of us. LARRY PENNER Great Neck

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