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Ringing in state’s Phase 3 Indoor dining, salons and spas among businesses to reopen night, but during the day as well so customers see it and feel more comfortable. As East Meadow was set to Restaurants, salons, spas and enter Phase 3 of New York state’s other personal services were perreopening protocols on Wednes- mitted to reopen indoor areas at day, many business owners were 50 percent capacity starting looking forward to Wednesday, accordallowing guests into ing to the governor’s their establishments New York Forward for the first time website. The maxisince March. mum number of Stew Leonard Jr., people per restauchief executive offirant table is 10. cer of the superstore On its website, Stew Leonard’s, crethe state Departated a video in ment of Health recw h i c h h e g av e ommends that resadvice on reopening taurants provide to local business single-use, disposowners. able menus or disAlthough the play menus in a East Meadow store sTeW leonard Jr. common area. remained open For Frank BorrelChief executive throughout the panli, the owner of Bordemic, Leonard said officer, relli’s Italian Restauhe felt as if he had to Stew Leonard’s rant in East Meadreopen “about a ow, entering Phase 3 dozen times” meant he could open because of ongoing adjustments the restaurant’s dining area and government guidelines to again, seating 40 people in its prevent the spread of the corona- back room and 40 in its main virus. room. Typically, Borrelli’s can “You have to convince your accommodate 180 diners. With an customers that it’s the cleanest additional 40 seats in its new outplace they can be every day,” he door dining area, the restaurant said, adding that business owners should clean not only overContinued on page 4

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Tiandre TuosTo, lefT, and his brother, Terrel, led a protest in East Meadow on June 16, marching through the same area where both had been arrested, and Terrel was pinned to the ground by police, on June 12.

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Racism and police reform are themes of protests By Brian sTieGliTZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

Protesters were back in East Meadow on June 16 in the same place where three men were ar rested and charged with disorderly contact at a similar protest four days earlier. One of the June 12 arrests was captured in a video that

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showed officers throwing Terrel Tuosto to the ground and pinning him to the pavement before handcuffing him. His brother, Tiandre, was arrested shortly before the video was taken. Now, the video is being investigated by the Nassau County Police Department’s Internal Affairs unit. On June 16, the brothers were back at the East Meadow

Mall parking lot with a group of roughly 100 demonstrators protesting systemic racism and police brutality. The g roup marched for four hours, heading east on Hempstead Turnpike, then north on Car man Avenue, east on Hearth Lane and north on Friends Lane, which circles back to Hearth Lane. From Continued on page 3

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continued from front page there, protesters headed west on Hearth, south on Carman and west on Hempstead Turnpike, back to the mall. Terrel, 28, of West Hempstead, recalled facing racism for the first time when he was 8 and a boy on the playground threw a ball at his face and called him a “Hershey’s Kiss.” When he told the principal, he recalled, she said she knew the boy and his family and that he would never do that. “I’ll never forget it,” Terrel recounted. “It made me feel like I’d never have anyone on my side.” Terrel is biracial. He never knew his white mother’s family because they disowned her when she married a black man, he said. Even indirect acts of racism made an impression on him as a child, when he would get looks from strangers. “Little by little I would stand up for myself,” he said, adding that this was the first time he had protested with the Black Lives Matter movement. The first protest he and Tiandre organized was on June 4, when 500 people marched onto the Southern State Parkway in North Merrick and shut it down for about two hours. “When I’m usually in segregated neighborhoods like that, I feel uncomfortable, like people are watching me and monitoring me,” Terrel said. “But that night, it felt like I finally had people backing me.” The decision to move onto the parkway was spontaneous, Terrel said, adding that the group did it to draw attention and amplify the protests’ message. That night, he said, police worked with them to make sure everyone was safe. But 8 days later, in East Meadow, he said, “everything was different.” At a protest the Tuosto brothers led in Merrick on June 4, both sides of the street were cordoned off for the march. But in East Meadow, demonstrators were permitted to march only on one side of Hempstead Turnpike. Furthermore, Terrel said, it was the first time police officers drove alongside them and rows of officers marched next to them, pushing back those who veered off the route. After the Tuostos were arrested, Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and County Executive Laura Curran defended the officers’ actions in a joint statement that read, “It became necessary” to make the arrests for “the demonstrators’ safety.” Police added that they were charged with deviating from the route and inhibiting traffic. But, Terrel said, there was no conversation about a designated route prior to the march. “It seemed orchestrated — like they were looking for a reason to arrest us,” he said. “If they say they want to keep us safe, than why isn’t there a dialogue? Why isn’t there communication?” On June 16, all of Hempstead Turnpike was sectioned off, and the march led into areas that Terrel said they could not go four days earlier.

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This proTesT, on June 16 in East Meadow, was one of many the Tuostos have organized across Nassau County. MArchers chAnTed The names of black men and women who were killed by police, including George Floyd. The proTesT included families with children and people of many races, ages and backgrounds. and proud,” said the brothers’ uncle Brandon Felton, 45, of East Meadow, who has been joining them at the protests. Felton was born in Brooklyn, moved to Hempstead when he was 7 and Uniondale when he was 12, the same year his mother died. He described his upbringing as tough after that, and said he ran into trouble with the law throughout his adolescence. Now, he lives in East Meadow, where he is raising seven sons and four daughters. “They’re your typical Honor Roll kids in A.P. classes who do volunteer work and are active in the community,” Felton said. “They don’t know my life, and I never lived theirs.” His hope for his children, he said, is that they won’t have to face the struggles he did growing up. But he still has worries about their interactions with police. He has had numerous talks with them about what they should do if they get pulled over by police while driving. “I tell them to get the names of the officers,” he said, “keep their hands on the wheel, don’t look them in the eyes too long, don’t say much . . . because once

[police] put on the blue suit, they’re conditioned a certain way, even if they’re black. And there are good cops who are wonderful people, but how can you be when you see these horrible things happening and turn a blind eye to it?” Terrel said that he and Tiandre hope to continue organizing protests, under the name LI Peaceful Protests, and hope to eventually turn their passion into a nonprofit that spreads awareness about systemic racism and police brutality. “We’re looking to build up our community,” Terrel said, “and open the eyes of people in white neighborhoods who may disagree with us.” He added that education is one of the most immediate benefits of the protests. Residents of predominantly white communities across Long Island, he said, “have the luxury of pushing racism to the back of their mind because it doesn’t affect them. We’re able to get out into these communities and open up a dialogue.”

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can now operating at two-thirds capacity. The outdoor dining area is sectioned off with a wooden fence, decorated with palm trees, and, three nights a week, features live music. “It definitely doesn’t feel like you’re sitting in a parking lot in East Meadow,” Borrelli said with a laugh. He has kept the same menu throughout the pandemic, and added a special takeout option for families of four that was popular on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. “We’ve taken a hit shutting down for three months,” Borrelli said. “Takeout The Grand STaGe Diner was set to welcome was good, but it’s not enough to cover guests back into its Broadway-themed dining our overhead costs. Hopefully, by Phase rooms on Wednesday. 4, we’ll be able to get back to some form of normal here.” The Broadway-inspired Grand Stage every $20 they spend, and the points can be Diner opened under new ownership in redeemed for a chance to win up to $600. February 2019, and has since become a staFor Garden Social, in East Meadow, ple of the community. It reopened two Phase 3 meant rehiring 50 staff members. weeks ago with a new outdoor dining sec- In a video shared on the restaurant’s Facetion on the east side of the restaurant. book page, Bob Russo, one of its owners, Asked what went into reopening, owner welcomed guests back. “I know a lot of you Tom Argyris laughed, “A lot of sweats.” have been sitting at home probably laying Argyris and his sons George and Nick, in your underwear on your couches, eating who co-own the diner, are active in the Cheetos,” Russo said, “and you’re craving East Meadow Chamber of Commerce, that French dip and that giant pretzel, so which has helped its members stock up on we’re gonna make that happen.” the necessary supplies to keep employees Other regions of the state had already and patrons safe, including facemasks, entered Phase 3. Only Long Island, New gloves, hand sanitizer and toilet paper. The York City and the Mid-Hudson region had “reopening kits” were one of many ideas not. Gov Andrew Cuomo said at his nextgenerated by a chamber committee dedi- to-last daily briefing on June 18 that he cated to post-pandemic efforts, comprising was in a “happy-go-lucky mood” because co-chairs Ted Rosenthal, founder of the New York had tested 68,000 people overlaw firm Rosenthal, Curry & Kranz, and night and found an average infection rate Jim Skinner, owner of A&C Pest Manage- of .9 percent, the lowest it had been since ment, as well as Skinner’s son James, also the pandemic began. of A&C, and Richie Krug Jr. and Tom and Cuomo insisted that businesses mainLyndsey Gallagher, all of Century 21 tain the coronavirus protocols, and issued American Homes. an executive order giving local authorities To encourage residents to patronize the power to shut down businesses that do chamber businesses, the organization also not. Bars and restaurants that do not can plans to give out a total of $5,000 in cash lose their liquor licenses. rewards. Anyone who patronizes member businesses will receive five points for Tony Bellissimo contributed to this story.

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Rallying for September schools reopening By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com

Chants of “Classrooms not class Zooms” and “Classrooms are essential” could be heard through the crowd of roughly 50 parents and teachers from across Long Island who gathered on Franklin Avenue in Mineola to express their desire that schools reopen for in-person instruction in September. The “Rally To Reopen Schools in September” took place on June 20 in front of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative building. The event was organized by East Setauket residents Maria Sanders, Amalia Makroglou and Aristea Lucas. The three organizers are mothers of children in school, and Lucas works as an English as a second language teacher in the Sachem Central School District. Sanders noted that they chose Mineola as the rally location because it served as a “middle ground” location for attendees. “Back in April, Cuomo said that the schools would be closed for two weeks to help our medical infrastructure and flatten the curve,” Sanders said. “Now we’re in June, and we’re still questioning September. [Gov. Andrew] Cuomo needs to act and tell us that schools need to open in September.” Cuomo first closed all schools in the state on March 16 for two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic. The governor continued to extend the closing, until on May 1 he announced that all schools would stay closed for the rest of the school year. The state has yet to release reopening guidelines. Oceanside residents Steven and Randi Weinberg attended the rally with their two children, Noah and Stella. Randi noted how Noah, who is entering second grade in the Oceanside School District, has not enjoyed the distance-learning experience. “He didn’t enjoy looking at the screen to learn and then having to turn to me for guidance,” she said. “I’m not a teacher;

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RAlly oRgAnIzERs, FRoM left, Amalia Makroglou, teacher Aristea Lucas and Maria Sanders spoke to the crowd about why it is important to reopen schools in September.

I’m trained to do something else. There’s also that boundary between being a mom and being a teacher that has been hard for me to follow.” Teachers in attendance included Carolyn Schwartz, a Rockville Centre resident who teaches English in the Baldwin School District. Schwartz said she believes a social divide will occur if distance learning continues. “You are creating the largest divide on the planet if this keeps going on,” Schwartz said of distance learning. “For me as a middle class mother, I can get my child a tutor. Others may not be able to do that, depending on their financial circumstances, and that may cause their children to fall behind in school due to that.” The dissatisfaction with distance learning extends to college for East Meadow resident Marie Lombardi noted her 20-year-old son decided to continue college outside the state because of the uncertainty whether school will reopen here in September. “My son just finished at Nassau Community and was set to attend Hofstra,” Lombardi said. “He decided to enroll at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut instead due to the u n k n ow n f u t u r e f o r schools in New York.” Sanders added that the importance of school is beyond education. “I recognize that some school districts have better distance learning than others, but school is much more than learning ABC’s and one, two, threes,” she said. “It’s social learning, emotional learning and THE RAlly To Reopen Schools in September was held building relationships. We outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative can’t teach them all of Building Mineola on June 20 to urge the state to reopen this in the comfort of our kitchens.” schools in September.

THE WEInBERg FAMIly, from left, Stella, Randi, Noah and Steven of Oceanside, said they hope schools reopen in September. THE EducAToRs In attendance included Long Beach speech therapist Tammy Neumann of Oceanside, left, and Baldwin English Language Arts teacher Carolyn Schwartz, from Rockville Centre, right.

The calls that interrupt that had all those cool products to enhance hair. It was not even the women’s shampoo section with the heady fragrances, organic ingredients and designer packaging. This was a phone call to clarify my mother’s health while standing in the men’s shampoo section, trying to remain positive next to the eleven different shades of grey and navy blue bottles that were with or without conditioner. And there I was, already running those familiar next steps in my mind: emergency room, admittance, surgery, recovery, rehab and hopefully home. It turned out she needed them all. With an elderly parent there is always an underlying hum, a feeling of high alert

that cannot be erased from the day to day. But given the pandemic and its victims, racial injustice and its victims and the unknown days that stretch out in front of us, Mom’s condition is different and its issues are carefully navigated by phone, given the skill and compassion of dozens of healthcare workers who I know only by name. Funny, this all started off as just another morning in which I thought the toughest job was going to navigate the “one direction” aisles and find paper towels and peanut butter. Instead, I had to mentally step back into a routine with which I am unfortunately familiar so as to insure essential

decisions are made for my mother’s safety. I don’t know what is tougher to accept: getting and making those calls (and their residual results and memories) or realizing that there is a “go-to” process that kicks in instantly for incidents like these. I don’t regret or resent, but sometimes I’m sad. I wish it could be a little easier, say like picking out the right bottle of shampoo. A contributing writer to the Herald since 2012, Lauren Lev is an East Meadow resident and a direct marketing/advertising executive who teaches marketing fundamentals as well as advertising and marketing communications courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology and SUNY Old Westbury.

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Sacred Heart Academy named Maggie Maier and Margaret O’Connell as co-valedictorians for the class of 2020. Michela Giura was named as Sacred Heart’s cosalutatorian. Maier, of Atlantic Beach, was a student at Long Beach Catholic before she attended Sacred Heart Academy. Maier had an outstanding cross country and track and field career at the school as she was named a two-time All-Long Island runner for cross country and captain for the varsity cross Country/track and field teams. In addition, Maier was part of Sacred Heart’s math team, National Honor Society, Math Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, and Science Honor Society. Maier will continue her cross country and track and field career at the University of Pennsylvania this fall. Her major is undecided. A Rockville Centre resident, O’Connell attended St. Agnes Cathedral School before she arrived to Sacred Heart. O’Connell is a National Merit Commended Scholar and a member of the National Honor Society, the Math Honor Society and the Science Honor Society. She was also the Speech and Debate varsity extemporaneous captain. O”Connell was captain of the varsity swim team and varsity badminton team at SHA. O’Connell will study civil engineering at the University of Notre Dame this fall. Giura, of New Hyde Park, attended New Hyde Park Memorial before she arrived to SHA. Giura was the co-captain for the varsity track and field team and was named the Most Valuable Runner. Giura also played soccer as an all-conference goalkeeper and received the Most Improved Award at the 2019 Fall Sports Awards Dinner at Sacred Heart. In addition, Giura is an Advanced Placement scholar and National Merit Commended scholar. She was involved in the Mission Club and Chamber Chorus all four years at Sacred Heart. Giura is a volunteer counselor-in-training at Camp Abilities Long Island, an athletic camp dedicated to modifying sports for children with visual impairments (not affiliated with Sacred Heart). Giura will study accounting at the University of Notre Dame this fall.

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Whether best of times or worst of times, I am always astonished how our memory can hold an exact moment, down to the slightest detail, and keep replaying it for reference, even when you’d think you’d prefer to forget. First, there was those three missed calls noted on my phone’s lock screen on Saturday morning. By their very existence I knew that something wasn’t right. With an elderly parent with balance and mobility issues, no random call from medical staff can be good. So with intent and immediacy there I was, calling my mother’s doctor while standing in the shampoo aisle at WalMart. Alas, it was not the hair care section

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With most of the sports world still idle in the midst of Covid-19, horse racing grabbed the spotlight last Saturday evening with the Belmont Stakes serving as the opening leg of the Triple Crown for the first time in history. And, for the first time since 1882, a New York-bred earned its way into the Belmont history books. In striking distance throughout the 1 1/8-miles, Tiz the Law cruised past pacesetter Tap It to Win down the stretch and was never threatened by closers Dr Post and Max Player on the way to a 3 ¾-lengths victory in the 152nd running of the Belmont Stakes. “I was pretty confident by the time we hit the seven-eighths pole,” said Tiz the Law’s jockey, Manny Franco, who secured his first career Triple Crown race win. “He was so kind and relaxed for me,” he added. “He was so comfortable and never got keen, so I think that was the key.” Franco, 25, the New York Racing Association’s leading rider the past two years, has piloted Tiz the Law to all four of his graded stakes victories, including three in a row. “It means a lot to me,” he said. “This is my home track. I’ve been riding here for about six years already. One leg of the Triple Crown is the dream of any jockey. I’m happy with the opportunity that I have right now.” Owned by Sackatoga Stable and trained by Barclay Tagg, Tiz the Law, bred in the Empire State by Twin Creeks Farm, returned $3.60 on a $2 win wager, increasing his career earnings to more than $1.5 million. The final time was 1:46.53. “It’s tremendous [to win the Belmont with a New York-bred],” said Jack Knowlton, operating manager of Sackatoag Stable. “We buy New York-breds; that’s our game, and we don’t spend a lot of money. We’ve been with Barclay Tagg for 25

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JOckEY MaNNY FraNcO earned his first career Triple Crown race victory.

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years, and I keep telling everybody, Barclay doesn’t get a lot of big horses, big opportunities, but when he does, he knows what to do.” Tagg, who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 2003 with Funny Cide, said his main concern leading up to the shortened Belmont was Tiz the Law’s 11-week layoff. But that proved a non-factor. “It looked to me like everything just went like clockwork,” he said. “That’s the way the horse likes to run and that’s the position the horse likes to be in. Manny knows the horse very well.” Held without spectators and owners, and with limited media permitted to attend, Tagg thought the quietude was “very nice” and said the absence of crowd noise helped keep Tiz the Law calm, and it showed. “About the five-eighths pole, my horse was so relaxed, so calm,” Franco explained. “From there, I knew I had so much horse to win the race. I didn’t want to move early. I knew I had the horse underneath. I was just waiting for the right time to move.” Dr Post, trained by three-time Belmont winner Todd Pletcher, finished a lengthand-a-half ahead of Max Player for runner-up status. Both horses were making just their fourth career starts. The $1 trifecta returned $99.50. Pneumatic, Tap It to

TraINEr BarcLaY Tagg has mapped out future plans for Tiz the Law, who upped his career earnings to more than $1.5 million and is 5-for-6 lifetime.

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Win, Sole Volante, Modernist, Farmington Road, Fore Left and Jungle Runner completed the order of finish. “He ran great,” Dr Post jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. said. “No excuse. He got beat by a good horse too. The winner is a nice horse, New York-bred and he ran great. My horse is improving. . . He just needs a little more time to figure things out.” Linda Rice, trainer of Max Player,

said, “He got shuffled back a little after the break and had a wide trip through the turn, but he was still running on at the end of it. He hasn’t run in five months so it was a pretty good effort.” Tagg said he will target the Aug. 8 Travers Stakes at Saratoga, followed by the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby and the Oct. 3 Preakness for Tiz the Law, who has five wins in six career starts.

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A crowd gathered in Eisenhower Park on Juneteenth to address systemic racism, police reform and how to support the Black Lives Matter movement. The event was hosted by The Right to Know Your Rights, an advocacy group that strives to bring systemic change and combat racism. One of its main goals is to educate students in inner-city schools and in lowincome areas throughout New York about the rights they have when interacting with police. Discussion rang ed and included ways police departments could be reformed to prevent brutality, the importance of lifting up underrepresented voices in the media and how individuals could combat racism on a daily basis by standing up against micro-aggressions. “It does not take a grand gesture to support the black community,” said one speaker, who preferred to remain anonymous. “When you see someone who is being mistreated because of their identity, speak up.” As an example, she spoke

about hair and how black children have been sent home from school, judged or bullied for having braided hair. “Let people be who they are,” the speaker said. Juneteenth, observed each year on June 19, celebrates the day in 1865 when slaves in Texas became aware of the Emancipation Proclamation. The executive order, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, freed slaves in the 11 states of the Confederacy, but it was not until the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in December 1865 that slavery was outlawed in all states. Because it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write, most were illiterate. Not knowing how to read a calendar or determine dates, newly freed slaves combined the name of the month with what they knew to be a common ending for dates. Observance of the holiday was erratic, declining after the turn of the 20th century but increasing in popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. Texas declared it a “significant holiday” in 1970, according to the Juneteenth.com website.

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ThE GRoup hELd a public forum at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow on Juneteenth, which is observed on June 19 to celebrate the day in 1965 when slaves in Texas became aware of the Emancipation Proclamation. ThE RIGhT To Know Your Rights is an advocacy group that strives to bring systemic change, starting in New York.

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Aiden MustAfich And his friends celebrated their graduation in the Mustafich Jeep.

A send off for Woodland graduates

PArents decorAted their cars with Woodland red and yellow and students dressed to show off their school spirit. eighth-grAde students At Woodland Middle School celebrated their graduation with a car parade through the community on June 17. students cheered As they drove through the community.

Eighth-g rade students from Woodland Middle School in East Meadow geared up for graduation and moving on to high school through virtual and social distancing ceremonies. Parents decorated their cars with Woodland red and yellow and students dressed to show off their school spirit for a car parade throughout the community on June 17. The route started on Prospect Avenue before heading south on East Meadow Avenue, right onto North Drive, another right on Midland Drive and a third right o n We n wo o d D r ive before taking two final turns on Harvey Lane a n d C y n t h i a D r ive before students arrived back at the school. The school’s annual academic and athletic awards ceremony took a virtual platform this year on June 18. Lastly, students attended a virtual graduation ceremony on June 24.

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With a steady decrease in coronavirus cases, Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital began welcoming back visitors to the medical center last Friday, but under strict guidelines. While the hospital had welcomed visitors 24 hours a day before the pandemic, it is now following guidelines recommended by the state’s Department of Health, which means only one visitor per patient between 4 and 8 p.m. Visitors are not permitted to split the four-hour block among different visitors; only one person can come to see a patient each day. The hospital’s other visitation rules include: ■ Visitors must be 18 or older. ■ Visitors will be required to provide their names, the name of the patient they are visiting and their contact information. ■ Visitors will undergo a symptom and temperature check upon entering the hospital.

cleaning and sterilizing all units and departments (as well as its comprehensive network of outpatient specialized health care centers). As of Friday, there were only 10 confirmed Covid-19 patients being treated at MSSN, and they were isolated from non-coronavirus patients. The Emergency Department is also screening patients seeking emergency treatment, so non-Covid patients and staff can be in a safe environment. Patients visiting the hospital for any procedure, oncology or infusion treatment, or surgery are required to undergo pre-procedure Covid-19 testing at a new drive-up testing site in the hospital’s Washington Avenue parking lot. The test must be performed no more than two days before the procedure. Though there are strict guidelines in place, Calderone said enabling visitors to come to the facility again was a major milestone for the hospital, and he urged residents not to put their health on hold. “It’s been three months since we’ve had visitors in the building,” he said. “It’s good for everyone . . . Emotionally, no one wants to be in a hospital where you can’t have outside visitors, so the connection with family and friends is critical to the healing process, and we recognize that and embrace it. We’re very excited to open up our doors again to the community.” For more information, visit mountsinai.org/SouthNassau.

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practice social distancing, check in when they arrive at the hospital and fill out their contact information on an iPad, so ■ Additional personal protective equipthat staff can conduct contact tracing in ment will be provided, if indicated. the event of a second wave of infection. ■ Once in the facility, the The hospital continues visitor must remain in the to monitor the coronavipatient’s room throughout rus pandemic, and its visithe visit, except when tor policy may be altered requested to leave by the as the need arises. The staff. new visiting rules are in effect to keep all patients Additionally, the Emersafe from infection. If a gency Room is not acceptvisitor has cold or flu ing visitors, and the symptoms, hospital Behavioral Health Unit is administrators said they only permitting visitors should stay home. from 6 to 8 p.m. Because “We recognize that there is a statewide ban on nursing home visitation Courtesy MSSN patients who have visitors generally do better and and the hospital’s Transi- RichaRd MuRphy, the make a faster recovery,” tional Care Unit is a president and CEO of Mount said Richard Murphy, the licensed nursing home, Sinai South Nassau hospital, hospital’s president and visitors are prohibited said staff were eager to CEO. “We are as [eager] as there at all times. reunite patients and families. our patients to reunite “This is visiting hours them with their loved in the post-Covid era,” ones. This is another said Joe Calderone, the hospital’s vice president of corporate communications, important step toward returning our hos“meaning it’s not going to be the way it pital to more normal operations. We was before Covid. Now, when you come to always operate with our patients’ needs the hospital, on order of the Health foremost in all we do, and having family Department, we have to collect people’s members present at the bedside is at the contact information, and when they come top of our list.” The hospital is taking measures to proto the hospital, a number of things are vide a safe and sterile environment for going to be different.” Calderone added that visitors must patients, visitors and staff, thoroughly ■ A surgical mask must be worn at all times; one will be provided if needed.

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Ciara Marie DaSilva Sherin Davis Isabella De Leon Julaine Pearl De Oca Tyler De Simone Anthony Desimine Aaron Alexander Diaz Jason Dunn Paola Duque Kaylei Fanfan Aileen Farrell Andrea Fasce Brianna Ferrara Daniel Joseph Flaherty Daniel Flores Kirsten Fogarty Arianna Fracchioni Lilianna Rose Fusco Lauren J Galarraga Debra Garcia Anthony Gianni Christopher Giardino Leonit Gjonbalaj Alma Glavatovic Jordan Glinski Justin Goetz Andrew Gomes Gabriella Gomez Ariana Gonzalez Jason Gonzalez Emily Granizo Ian Grant Kira Gruber Steven Ha Raza Haider Danielle Hallett Youngwoo Han Ali Hassan Michael Joseph Heavey Catherine Heitner Santiago Hernandez John Shea Heyen Cassandra Hicks Daniel Hong Alvin Hsu Antonia Marie Iannucci Justin Ryan F. Infante Alexa Jacovetti Samantha Jaeckel Abdulhadi Javed Christina John Christopher Johnson Danielle Kalathakis Maverick Kandel Alexandra Karavias Lacey Kaufer

Simranjeet Kaur John Kelly Joseph Kennemer Arman Khwaja Eleni Koutroulos Nicolas Koyfman Alyssa Kozak Gionna Lagnese Paul LaRosa Jack Douglas Layburn Dylan Leyva-Gomez Kiana Linton Ashley L Lones Justen Jon Lopez Victoria Lorusso Brendan Mark Emmanuel Martinez Melissa Martins Jonathan Matthew Mathai Christian Matos Lauren Matthews Dylan McAlevey Liam Mendoza Isabella Michaelis Matthew Roy Michaelis Aleeza Mirza Alitta Mitchell John Montoni Victoria Lynn Morais-Perez Michelle Morales Graceann Murphy Dominic Muth Araiz Nagra Rebecca Nagri Marcela Orellana Gianni Orlando Santino Orlando George Pagiatis Joseph Palacio Arjun Panickssery Pavlos Papoutsakis Emma Passariello Deeti Patel Michael Paul Christopher Perez Claudia Perez Kaitlyn Perkel Rose Perlman Sahar Pertaw Joanna Peters Juliana Piscitelli Gabriella Posillico Isabella Posillico James Prignano Shahriar Priom Nicolas Quesada

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Woodland Middle School Marissa Abels Noah Abraham Samuel Abrons Jake Adler Aiman Adnan Danika Lind Agatep Emerson Aguirre Noah Aguirre Mahira Ahmed Tanjeed Alam Angelina Alongi Enzo Alvarado Jonathan Amador Natalya Angulo Daniel Abraham Anish Amyah Anthony Joseph Arbitello Anthony Arevalo Hiya Arif Aiden Augustyn Rania Babu Jeevika Bajaj Tamanna Bajaj Karolina Bajda Landen Bane Christen Banez Paige Elizabeth Barnett Nickolas Bartlett Damien Bennett Justin Berkowitz Attallah Bethel Geneva Bhagroo Shara Bhandary Sabreena Bhuiyan Anthony Bilz Rosemarie Louise Blaney Eva Blaslov Matthew Bodzin Emely Bonilla Rachael Boucher Aelyshe Lynn Bowe Matthew Brachman Jakub Brachowski Krzysztof Brachowski Skye Bradley Christian Brennan Janiya Brooks-Crews Jorge Buezo Jimenez Zain Amjad Butt Nelson Cabrera Guzman Dimira Cabrera Olivia Caiozzo Aaron Calvo-Murcia

Justin Campana Melia Rose Campbell Kevin Canto Robyn Canuto Peter Capece Mia Caridi Jennifer Cassidy Kayla Cassidy Jaclyn Marie Castillo Sophia Catalano Gianna Marie Cavazza John Cereoli Nicholas Cervo Andrew Cheng Alexis Chew Jake Chimienti Aleena Chohan Emma Cristina Chungata Victoria Cineas Brianna Collura Janina Alexis Conde Miranda Alexa Cotterell Tiago Cunha Bianca Cuozzo Adrienne Curet Ryan Cymerys David D’Achille Anthony D’Amore Gabrielle Daniel Isabella Dardzinski Megha Mariam David Julia De Angelis Alejandro DeJesus Daniel Deleon Maya V Delrosario Daniel Demko Victoria Lynn DeRiggi Emily DeRosa Robert Derwin Jack DeVoti Tiffany Diep Jack Vincent Dieso Carmela Dilthey Ryan Dinkins Felipe Dos Santos Rabelo Kristin Drescher Dylan Dhubo D’Rozario Skylar Egan Jack Eira Juliana Alexa Elie Kaylie Epstein Brooke Errico Makenzie Esposito Jordan Esquivel Miah Anne Euler

Jaeden Farquharson Derek Felician Leila Fernando Dianna Fischetti Kateryn Flores Amaya Julissa Flores Castaneda Matthew Joseph Flynn Ana Freeman Arianna Fuduli Maryann George Rachelle Germain Connor Gilmor Emily Giraud Maya Yasmin Giuffre Gianna Godinho Matthew Goebel Sarah Olivia Grace Christopher Gregg Ashley Guerrier Anthony Guevara Antonella Gutierrez Pinillo Matthew James Haidt Sophia Harrigan Katelyn Haubrick Sara Hauser Justin Hendler Vivian Hernandez Bolivar Melvin Herrera Cuellar Brady Hohlman Andrew Huber Blake Hurwitz Muhammad Umer Hyder Andrew Ignatiou Aminah Imranullah Belal Mohamed Ismail Emily Anne Jackson Alishaan Jafri Jolie Jasmin Fatima Javed James Alan Javier Myrdiva Jean-Pierre Win Jiang Henry Jimenez Alvizures Lydia Jose Ann Maria Joseph Jeremiah Joseph Ashley Kanas Abigail Karavally Harmeet Kaur Alexa Kelley Cara Elizabeth Kelly Liam Kenny

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East Meadow School Growth and Costs In the previous column, I outlined the growth of the East Meadow schools from the Roaring Twenties (with the construction of Newbridge Road School and the addition to Front Street School) through the midcentury era (climaxing with the opening of six school buildings in 1955). During the 1945-1946 school year, there were 467 students enrolled in our two schools. This number represents a fairly average enrollment for the two decades prior to and including the Second World War. Three years later, as the first Levitt homes were built in East Meadow, the number grew significantly to 798. By 1951, when Lakeville Estates was opening, the enrollment ballooned to 2,774. Three years later, when a myriad of housing developments were completed (comprising the vast majority of homes found today in East Meadow), total student enrollment was 10,033. This would only increase through the 1960s as the Greatest Generation parents sought greener pastures for their Baby Boomer children when they became r cott ckErS school age. Here are some interesting statistics about the schools in the district in the 1950s. Keep in mind that the number of students a school could legal and safely accommodate assumed that each classroom had up to thirty children. This number would not be acceptable to most educators today. Every building in the 1950s was designed by architect Frederic P. Wiedersum, who designed more than 500 local schools. Some are modified cookie-cutters; for instance, parts of East Meadow High School, Merrick Avenue Junior High School, and Wantagh High School are nearly identical. Front Street School (1-8 and then K-8), the subject of several earlier articles, was built in 1911, expanded in 1922, and burned down in 1950, which accelerated the construction of Meadow Lawn School nearby. Newbridge Road School (1-8, then K-8, and finally K-6) was occupied in 1928 and expanded in 1952 and 1954. It was the district’s largest elementary school in 1955 and cost $1,327,149 to construct, a cost of almost $20 million today. Prospect Avenue School (K-6), our district’s first “modern” building, was occupied in 1950 and expanded almost immediately in 1951 after the Front Street School burned down. It was expanded again in 1954 and could accommodate 960 children at a construction cost of $1,194,149, equivalent to about $13 million today. Meadow Lawn (now George H. McVey) School (K-9, then K-6), also the subject of an earlier article, opened in 1951 and was doubled in size the following year. It was built to accommodate up to 960 elementary and secondary students until a high school was completed. The cost was $1,265,000, which is over $12 million today. McVey has one of the fastest-growing school populations today and is the oldest school still used. Bowling Green School was opened in 1952 for 960 students in kindergarten through grade six. The following year, Bowling Green School No. 2 was built in mirror image for an additional 960 children. The total cost for the two connected buildings was $2,629,722, equivalent to about $25 million today. It is currently the largest elementary school building in the district and has the highest enrollment. Barnum Woods School (K-6) was occupied in 1954 for 960 students at a cost of $1,327,222, or $12.6 million today. The rear wing was expanded a few years later and a fourclassroom extension at that junction was built in the mid-1980s. Its construction, funded largely by the United States government due to children attending from nearby Mitchel Manor, significantly alleviated crowding in the district and was the first school in the 1950s to have single-session classes.

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The ABOve is a map was drawn by Phyllis Nelson, who was the art director for the East Meadow School District in 1955. Meadowbrook Elementary School, Parkway School, and Salisbury School (all K-6) opened in 1955 for 600 students each at a cost of $842,298 per school (or $8 million per school today). All three were expanded within a few short years: the front of Meadowbrook School, the side of Parkway School, and the rear of Salisbury School. Salisbury is the district office today and no longer used as a local elementary school. Three secondary schools opened in 1955 at a total cost of $8,758,212: East Meadow High School (10-12), Meadowbrook (later McCleary) Junior High School (7-9) and Woodland Junior High School (7-9). W. Tresper Clarke Junior-Senior High School (7-12) opened in 1957. The secondary schools will be the subject for next week’s article. All in all, the district spent over $20 million in actual 1950s dollars on its modern construction program, which is the equivalent to almost $200 million today. It is easy to

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hen it comes to race relations, there is no doubt that we are at a crossroad. Events dictate what our conduct must be going forward, and there is no doubt that the recent killings of unarmed black men have forced America to come to grips with the fact that many of our fellow citizens suffer because of ingrained racism. President Trump has admitted that there is some systemic racism, but he doesn’t have the mind or heart to acknowledge that it is rampant in this country, and little has been done to bring it to a halt. JeRRY In my years in kReMeR the Assembly, I learned a lot about racism from my colleagues, who told chilling stories about their sons or daughters being singled out for arrest just because the color of their skin invited different treatment. They spoke about failed health care systems that contributed to a higher mortality rate among black children. They spoke of overcrowded school classes with inferior teaching and a lack of basic supplies. While these stories were chilling, nothing they said prompted any dramatic action by the state.

A lot of us in office tried to find ways to help children of all kinds with pre-kindergarten programs, funding to reduce child mortality and extra state aid for school districts in heavily minority communities. But looking back over the years, these actions were a drop in the bucket, and didn’t really make a dent in the system that shortchanges millions of people. If anything has forced us to confront the issue of race, it’s been the invention of the cellphone. It is showing us how minorities are abused on a daily basis in many different ways, including police officers shooting unarmed black men in the back. That’s recorded testimony to systemic abuse. The demonstrations in the streets of this country and around the world bring out millions of young people of all races who are willing to speak out about conditions their elders have ignored. Police shootings that once were an occasional story that faded with time now go viral within minutes. The assault on a crowd outside the White House so the president could have a photo op showed how tone-deaf the leaders of this country are on issues of equality. The questions we now face is, what do we do to uproot this ugly system? I understand the opposition to statues that glorify public officials who were slave-

holders or generals from the South who fought for slavery. Most are symbols that no longer belong in the public space. Doing away with the Aunt Jemima syrup brand or Uncle Ben’s Rice is pure tokenism, and doesn’t help a minority student get a job or stop a racial profiling incident. Congress and local governments around the U.S. have to come up with programs that defuse the tensions racism causes. If you listen to the debate going on about banning chokeholds and a national system of reporting police conduct, you can see that there is still deep-rooted racism that dates back to the Civil War. There are probably some senators whose forebears were slaveholders, and growing up in a racist system has poisoned their hearts. Take a trip down to Richmond, Va., and you’ll see statue after statue glorifying generals who fought for the South. Elsewhere, some of our military bases do the same. The two houses of Congress have to come together to pass laws that attack the problems that the policing of minorities creates. The suggestion that police departments be “defunded” is an overreaction by a relatively small number of people who don’t understand the challenges that law enforcement faces every day, but those departments have to be reorganized to deal

ongress must attack the problems that the policing of minorities creates.

more effectively with spousal abuse and rape allegations. Policing in America hasn’t changed enough in the past 50 years. A commission appointed by President Barack Obama produced a road map for fairer policing, but federal law enforcement ignored its recommendations. Now, in a very short period of time, local governments have sprung into action, passing laws banning chokeholds and acting against policemen who have serious disciplinary problems. Incidents captured on smartphones showing the use of unnecessary force have resulted in firings and suspensions. The New York State Legislature has passed a series of bills to address faults in the policing systems. Only time will tell whether they are all appropriate. There is no doubt that passing new laws, firing rogue cops and funding important programs to stop racism are all important steps forward. Unfortunately, you can’t legislate what’s in people’s hearts. We can only hope that more open eyes will change enough people’s thinking to make a difference in the years ahead. 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.

Let’s end classroom education as we know it, they said

ou probably haven’t read “Teaching as a Subversive Activity” by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner. “What is it that students do in the classroom?” the authors ask. “Well, mostly they sit and listen to the teacher. Mostly they are required to believe authorities or at least pretend to such belief. It is practically unheard of for students to play any role in determining what problems are worth studying . . .” “Teaching as a Subversive Activity” was published in 1969. The war in Vietnam was Randi ablaze. The antikReiss war movement in the United States was galvanized, and militants were taking over university offices, bombing draft offices and picketing ROTC buildings. In the midst of this civic unrest, when it seemed as if the country was so divided it might never come together again, Professors Postman and Weingartner wrote their book, which was called a “no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods.” They were two obscure and uncelebrat-

ed professors who taught at Queens College during the Vietnam War years. As it happens, I was a student in Weingartner’s class in secondary school education in 1968. I studied with him that year, and then took another class with him while working on my master’s degree in education, all at Queens College. The background noise was Vietnam 24/7. In fact, during the worst of the protests, students commandeered our dean’s office and threw his furniture out the window onto the quad. I was a bystander to the drama, just trying to get my degree and get on with my life as a newly married woman and a newly hired English teacher. I never forgot Weingartner’s class and his “subversive” approach to education. He and Postman were captivating and provocative, and although many of their suggestions proved to be impractical, we knew inside that they were right. They were right to say that schools needed to stop the rote teaching and testing. Their emphasis on critical thinking and process was spot on. They said schools needed to do away with grades, tests, textbooks, courses and full-time administrators. They said teachers should be more like life coaches

(although the term didn’t exist at the time) and not authority figures. I thought about Weingartner’s theories all the time I taught English. I was a good teacher, but we were constrained by a stagnant system in which students passively listened to teachers present “course content.” Now, in the midst of a global pandemic, we accomplished the unthinkable: We shut down the nation’s schools and changed how kids learn. Postman and Weingartner taught before the internet and devices and virtual teaching. It’s hard to know what they would make of this. They might be glad kids were liberated from the classroom, but their vision of educating children was more dynamic than sitting down with screens. I remember Weingartner telling us future teachers to get our kids out of the classroom and into the world, where they could experience art and music and literature firsthand, with us along as guides. Our school shutdown is a unique opportunity. If we can do that — and we did — why can’t we task our best and brightest with making learning a process and not a product, as David Hill proposed in an arti-

t took a pandemic to shut down the nation’s schools and change how kids learn.

cle in Teacher magazine in 2000? Teachers, Weingartner said, should ask provocative questions. “What bothers you most about adults?” “How would you distinguish good from evil?” “What are the most dangerous ideas floating through our lives today?” “Why do you think so?” The professors encouraged students to be creative and tolerant, and to learn to deal with ambiguity and failure. They encouraged teachers not to be in the business of giving answers, but to let students think through problems on their own or in peer groups. This problem-solving approach to teaching has found traction in recent years. But too much dead wood anchors our education system. Too many classroom experiences are based on lesson plans and note-taking and tests. “Don’t plan a lesson,” the professors wrote in their book. “Confront your students with some sort of problem that might interest them. Then allow them to work the problem through without your advice or counsel.” We are at a tipping point in education because of the pandemic, and we have an extraordinary opportunity to improve the public-school experience for our students and teachers. We could make some lemonade from this lemon. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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n April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia, ending the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history, in which an estimated 498,000 soldiers died in battle. With the surrender of the South, slavery ended with the stroke of a pen. But not quite. News of the emancipation of slaves did not reach Texas, a slaveholding state, until June 19, 1865. On that day, Union forces arrived on Galveston Island to free Texas’s slaves, who rejoiced in the streets. Since then, Juneteenth — a blend of June and 19th — has been celebrated in Texas. It officially became a state holiday in 1980, but as of last year, only Texas recognized Juneteenth as a paid holiday for state employees. Last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed

an executive order proclaiming Juneteenth an official New York holiday, on which state employees will receive a paid day off, starting next year. It was the right move. If you think about it, June 19, 1865, was effectively the day when all Americans were at last free. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution applied to all white people, but not to all black people. Millions were held in bondage, beaten and defiled into subservience. According to the 1860 census, there were 4 million slaves in the U.S., accounting for 12.9 percent of the country’s total population of 31 million. For centuries, the U.S. held Fourth of July celebrations — as well it should have — but rarely, if ever, did we recognize that the hard-fought freedoms won during the Revolutionary War did not apply to millions for 76 years after the Constitu-

tion took effect. Juneteenth — celebrated in Texas with cookouts, rodeos and street fairs — reminds us of that horrid reality, at the same time that it celebrates the victory over the evil of slavery. We must remember and reflect on our nation’s long history of enslavement if we are to understand our present-day systemic racism — and someday soon, we hope, overcome it. The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day unleashed a wave of hundreds of peaceful protests and a handful of riots. It was clearly an inflection point in our history, a moment that, it appears, will move the needle further toward freedom and justice for all, regardless of skin color. New York, we are pleased to say, is playing a leading role in that movement.

Mark July Fourth by reading the Declaration

ext week, the Herald Community Newspapers will publish the Declaration of Independence and a likeness of the American flag. The Declaration will appear here, on our Editorial Page, as it long has during the week of the Fourth of July, and the flag will appear in the center of the paper. We encourage families to stand on their stoops and front lawns and read the Declaration together, as messengers did across the 13 colonies in 1776. For 39 years, the Merrick Historical Society, led by President Lawrence Garfinkel, gathered on July Fourth at the Merrick Library and the Long Island Rail Road station to read the Declaration. All from the community and beyond were invited to attend, and the event attracted

many families with small children. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, however, the society decided against the public reading, and is instead encouraging people to read the Declaration with their families at home. What a wonderful idea, we thought. What better way to learn about and teach our history — about the very moment our nation was conceived — than by reading the Declaration, line by line. If you do so, take a photo and email it to us. Check Page 4 for details on how. The Signing of the Declaration ushered in an entirely new era in history, when colonies would rebel against their sovereign, in our case the mighty British Empire. That rebellion brought forth a new era in government, when democracy — rule by

letters Defunding police isn’t an answer To the Editor: The actions of the Minneapolis police officers implicated in the death of George Floyd were sickening and disgusting. The officers were fired and criminally charged, and I pray that justice will be served in this humiliating chapter in our nation’s history. In the wake of this shameful incident, demonstrations continue to take place in large cities, suburban areas — both wealthy and economically disadvantaged — and ethnically and racially diverse neighborhoods. Some rallies have been marked by violence, vandalism and looting, while others have been peaceful and respectful. As a father, former police officer, current local elected official and former civic leader, I believe the most dangerous proposal that has come forth in response to Mr. Floyd’s death is the call to defund the

the people — began after thousands of years of monarchial rule in Europe and around the globe. Thus began the great American experiment, as we like to call it. For sure, it has been an imperfect experiment. As noted in the editorial above, not all were freed by the American Revolution that followed publication of the Declaration. Millions remained enslaved for the better part of a century. The American experiment, however, has moved steadily toward greater freedom and justice for all people. It is up to our generation now to carry the mantle forward and form a more perfect union than that which we were given by working to eliminate systemic racism in all its forms.

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Here’s how: First, stay connected. Call ost people don’t like going to your doctor’s office and ask about the the doctor. The truth? Even options for a visit. There are two comdoctors don’t like going to mon options: the virtual visit, conducted doctors. And now, in the time by video chat or phone, and the traditionof the coronavirus, people’s willingness al in-person visit. In either case, many of to see their doctor is at an all-time low. the same rules apply. Come prepared to It’s not a surprise, considering that the pandemic has many worried not only ask questions and complete any required tests (like blood work) that are needed to about themselves, but also about catchmake the time with your phying Covid-19 and bringing it sician the most beneficial for home to their loved ones. both of you. Still, while you may tell yourIf a virtual visit is the self that the crisis is a good right option for you, ask your reason not to see your physidoctor’s office for any special cian, it’s a mistake that could instructions. What technoloprove costly to your health gy is needed? Will a smartand well-being. phone or laptop work best? Do Whether you suffer from you need to download an app an illness that requires testor program? Will the doctor ing and close monitoring, or anika call or send a website link via have symptoms that are new, saGar text or email? Make sure the it’s important to continue to battery for your phone or see your doctor. With Covidcomputer is fully charged and 19 widespread, the best way that, if the consultation takes places durto access health may seem unclear at ing the day, you sit facing a window or first, but just as you continue relationplace a lamp in front of you so the doctor ships with friends and family by followcan see you clearly on his or her screen. ing safety protocols, your relationship If an in-person visit is the right option with your doctor is one that can also be for you, ask your doctor’s office for any maintained safely.

Letters police. Defunding police in response to a violent and disgraceful death in Minneapolis that involved bad law enforcement officials would have only negative consequences for the public, including the promotion of chaos and lawlessness. Redirecting funds away from police departments would reduce the number of police officers on our streets, lead to increased 911 response times and make Nassau County less safe. During my time as a New York City police officer and Town of Hempstead councilman, I have been committed to government’s primary responsibility to keep residents safe and protect property. The events of the last few weeks have underscored the need for allocating police resources to preserve our communities as safe and desirable places to live and raise our families. Instituting new programs, incorporating technology, expanding community outreach and exploring innovative ideas to improve policing should be priorities, as opposed to slashing police funding. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to shrink the NYPD budget. The city’s police commissioner has disbanded the plainclothes anti-crime units, which were instrumental in transforming Gotham from one of the most dangerous cities in America to one of the safest. It is illogical and dangerous to disband plainclothes anti-crime units while homicides and shootings have gone up. Defunding the police would also take resources away from community-policing initiatives when we need to enhance the relationship between police officers and

community members. Nassau learned its lesson on the negative impacts of making cuts to community policing a few years ago. After cutting Problem Oriented Policing units, Nassau’s administration acknowledged the adverse impacts of this ill-conceived policy decision. Indeed, the county reversed course and restored its POP units. Clearly, Nassau’s impressive and responsive police force is one of the reasons that the county boasts one of the lowest crime rates among all major suburban areas in the nation. George Floyd’s horrible death rightly focused the attention of the nation on the extremely few bad police officers who wear uniforms. However, any call to defund police officers would not effectively address this problem.

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can reduce fear and anxiety about seekspecial instructions before you head to the office. Some may ask you to call them ing medical care. One more thing: If you don’t have a from the door when you arrive to make sure you don’t have to wait in the waiting primary-care doctor, it’s important to area. If you have a fever, cough or cold, find one who can help you on your health going f or otherwise aren’t well, please let the journey. Ask friends, family members or the rec office know so proper precautions can be your insurance provider for recommen- have fo taken to care for you. Remember to wear dations. The best time to meet a new doc- the fac a face covering and follow the social-distor is before you fall ill. This gives your suffer b tancing rules of the office, doctor the chance to underwhich will require you to be stand who you are and how he six feet away from others and can help achieve your goal: to be in an area with fewer than be the healthiest version of 10 people. Wash or sanitize you. your hands both before and Remember, although many after the visit and when you things have changed as a arrive back at home. And result of the virus, we’re in once you’re at home again, this together. Relationships put your clothes in the launremain essential — and that dry. includes your relationship Maria No matter which option is with your doctor. CarneY right for you, make sure you call the doctor’s office to folDr. Anika Sagar is a primary low up or schedule other care physician for adults and appointments, and remember to keep the an assistant professor of medicine at the colleag doctor up to date on how you’re feeling. their so Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/ If at any time you feel ill, let your physiNorthwell Health. Dr. Maria Carney is a for arre cian know right away. geriatrician and palliative medicine phy- skin in By having a plan and a strategy, and sician for older adults, and a professor of spoke a exercising control of the situation, you contrib medicine at the Zucker School. among crowde ing and these s said pr state.

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CHRISTOPHER CARINI Hempstead town councilman, 5th District Carini served as a police officer with the NYPD, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department and the Port Authority Police Department for 22 years.

Let business owners reopen To the Editor: Re Randi Kreiss’s column “Thank you very much, but I prefer to remain alive” (Jun 18-24): Kreiss is entitled to her opinion, and common sense certainly dictates that one must be cautious during the coronavirus pandemic.

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I don’t know Kreiss’s age or financial stability, but I think the owner of the bridge club is entitled and smart to open his establishment. My family has two medical professionals, and we have a cancer survivor in our household, so I don’t treat medical issues in a cavalier manner. However, we must try and restore some sense of normalcy and let businesses operate and allow people to earn a living. This will allow mort-

gages, rent, utilities, taxes and food to be paid. It will also allow people the opportu-and mi nity to recoup savings lost during the lastoffices, ROTC three-plus months. This nightmare is an unknown. Peopleunrest must use their intellect and choose howwas so er agai they return to a normal day-to-day life. gartne PHIlIP KIRKa “no-h Sea Cliff teachin The

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