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Torah parade brings shuls together in E.M. of the East Meadow Jewish Center who is now the co-president of the new synagogue. “Rabbi Roughly 100 people marched [Ronald] Androphy left the from North Bellmore to East march to explain to them what Meadow last Sunday to celebrate was going on. This was about the the consolidation of the closed spirit of being Jewish and carryTemple Beth-El of Bellmore and ing the torah.” the East Meadow Singing songs in Jewish Center. The Hebrew, Androphy 2.6 miles were joyand Cantor Eitan ous ones for the Binet led the procesmembers of the two sion, for which parsynago gues, who ticipants wore royal completed the route blue T-shirts with in one hour and 10 the logo “Consolidaminutes. The new tion Celebration.” East Meadow BethPeople took turns El Jewish Center IRA MINKOFF carrying the five has grown from the East Meadow To r a h s, s a c r e d consolidation to 400 scrolls outlining the individual or family “law of God.” memberships. “We didn’t want to let our Some people living in East synagogue die,” said Ira Minkoff, Meadow and North Bellmore Beth-El’s former president and appeared to enjoy watching the now a co-president of the East “Torah procession.” When mem- Meadow Beth-El Jewish Center. bers of the Nassau County Having grown up near the BellPolice Department closed Bell- more synagogue, he remained a more Road and other streets on member of Beth-El, even after he the route to vehicles, a number moved to East Meadow. “We of residents left their homes to decided to find a new home watch the celebration, with instead,” Minkoff said. many clapping and cheering. According to Minkoff, the “People came out of their temple closed on July 1, 2019, houses and waved at us, a few because the building was failing with quizzical expressions,” said and membership was waning. Todd Knauer, a former president CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

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RALPH ESPOSITO, LEFT, prepared to give the 2021 Distinguished Service Veterans Award for Pete Wenninger, to Nassau County Executive Laura Curran at Eisenhower Park.

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The East Meadow American Legion commander, Pete Wenninger, was one of five veterans honored with the 2021 Distinguished Service to Veterans Award last Sunday at the 35th annual Salute to Veterans at Eisenhower Park’s Harry Chapin Lakeside T heatre. Hundreds attended to honor Nassau County’s veterans. “There are five individuals

today who have answered the call to assist our local veterans,” said Ralph Esposito, director of the Nassau County Veterans Service Agency. “These are individuals in the community who have shown exceptional volunteerism to our local veterans. They have shown what it means to be a leader in their community.” Before introductions were made and awards given out, the colors were presented by Paul Masi, the sergeant of the guard, followed by an invoca-

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MEMBERS OF THE PTA gathered at La Novella to celebrate the new members of the council.

New E.M. PTA council officers installed New members of the EM PTA Council and its PTA building units were installed on August 18th, at the PTA Council Installation Dinner at the La Novella, East Meadow. Veronica Nicastro, East Meadow PTA council’s immediate Past President, installed the new officers for the upcoming 2021-2022 school year. Donna Goldstein will be leading as the East Meadow PTA council President, the First Vice President is Olga Kalogiannis, the Second Vice President is Tracy Pulice, the Treasurer is Kelly Jones, the Corresponding Secretary is Maria Morello and the Recording Secretary is Dara Casill. Due to Covid-19 and vacations, the event was scaled down with approximately 40 people in attendance. Instead of the usual ceremony in which flowers were handed out, a different candy was handed out to each position to represent their new titles. Donna Goldstein introduced the new PTA presidents for each unit. The PTA President for Barnum Woods Elementary School is Jennette Ackerman. The PTA First Vice Presidents and Second-Vice Presidents for Barnum Woods are Olga Kalogiannis and Liz Oliva-Kong. The Treasurer for Barnum Woods is Staci M. Salomon. The Corresponding Secretary is Anne Facendola. The Recording Secretary is Denyse Kofod. The PTA Presidents and Co-Presidents for Bowling Green Elementary School are Christina Tormey and Rina Filardo. The PTA First Vice Presidents and SecondVice Presidents for Bowling Green are Melissa Nails and Monica Asaro. The Treasurer for Bowling Green is Karen Neilson. The Corresponding Secretary is Kara Gambino. The Recording Secretary is Linda Gramstad. The PTA Presidents and Co-Presidents for Meadowbrook Elementary School are Alisa Lauer and Maria Morello. The PTA First Vice Presidents and Second-Vice Presidents for Meadowbrook Elementary School are Rachel Sweeney and Elizabeth Morgan. The Treasurer is Jomy Zacharias. The Corresponding Secretary is Jennifer Cohen. The Recording Secretary is Lara Iadevia. The PTA Presidents and Co-Presidents for Parkway Elementary School are Christina Di Gesu and Elizabeth Einhart. The PTA First Vice Presidents and Second-Vice Presidents for Parkway Elementary School are Sini Jablonski and Maurisa Singh. The Treasurer is Randi Wilson. The Corresponding Secretary is Michelle Marckesano. The Recording Secretary is Heather Sutz.

EVERYONE AT THE installation enjoyed a nice dinner at La Novella. The PTA Presidents and Co-Presidents for McVey Elementary School are Karen Baker and Shannon Necci. The PTA First Vice Presidents and Second-Vice Presidents for McVey Elementary School are Amy Ramnarine and Jennifer Reinhardt. The Treasurer is Julie Leake. The Corresponding Secretary is Jennifer Pevsner. The Recording Secretary is Karen Heckman. The PTA President for Woodland Middle School is Jill Maillio. The PTA First Vice Presidents and Second-Vice Presidents for Woodland Middle School are Heather Parker and Shannon Necci. The Treasurer is Maureen Hand. The Corresponding Secretary is Tracy Pulice. The Recording Secretary is Jennifer Pevsner. The PTSA President for East Meadow High School is Tracy Pulice. The PTA First Vice Presidents and SecondVice Presidents for East Meadow High School are Liz Oliva-Kong and Donna Goldstein. The Treasurer for East Meadow H.S. is Ann Jackson. The Corresponding Secre-

tary is Sue Bogen. The Recording Secretary is Carmela Morgillio. The PTSA President for W.T. Clarke High School is Carly Feinstein. The PTSA First Vice Presidents and Second-Vice Presidents for W.T. Clarke High School are Regina O’Sullivan and Kelly Ann Lasker. The Treasurer is Pina Ruperto. The Corresponding Secretary is Allyson Benowitz. The Recording Secretary is Maria Pozapalidis. The PTA President for SEPTA is Kelly Jones. The PTA First Vice President for SEPTA IS Paulette Foley. The Treasurer is Donna Plante. The Corresponding Secretary is Tobie Shedrow. The Recording Secretary is Michelle Brandeis. East Meadow Board of Education, President Alisa Baroukh, along with Dr. Scott Eckers, Dr. Jodi Luce and Eileen Napolitano were present to help the newly installed officer to celebrate.

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Hundreds take part in Salute to Veterans CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE ees during the coronavirus pandemic, and Nassau County Executive Laura Curran shared her appreciation for the veterans, too. Wenninger “is making a positive impact in our community every day,” Curran said. “I’m so grateful for your wonderful service. This is a guy I see at almost every event.” Wenninger also spearheaded a group that is committed to making certain that every veteran receives a proper burial escort with military honors, Curran noted. Wenninger, 61, has been a member of the Patriot Guard Riders since 2009. The PGR is a national nonprofit whose members attend the funerals and memorials for members of the U.S. military and first responders. It was Wenninger who encouraged Wayne Cohen, an East Meadow American Legion member, to get involved in the PGR. Cohen is now a senior ride captain for Region 8. “I can’t say enough about Pete,” Cohen said. “He’s someone that when he stands up to do things, people want to follow him.” Wenninger, a lifelong East Meadow resident, served in the Navy for six years after graduating from East Meadow High School in 1978. He has been volunteering and helping veterans for years at local fire departments and in the Nassau County Fire Riders and has fundraised for veterans. Additionally, he has helped with “The Wall that Heals,” a moving replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Wenninger became commander of American Legion Post 1082 in East Meadow last year. He said he has spent 968 hours volunteering for the organization. Under his leadership, the hall has been renovated, with new siding, air conditioning, grass and a patio. “I can’t tell how much work, blood, sweat and tears he has poured into that facility,” Cohen said. “The place is no lon-

COUNTY EXECUTIVE LAURA Curran presented the Distinguished Medal to East Meadow’s Peter Wenninger. ger an eyesore. It’s a place people want to come to gather.” Wenninger has made the hall a place where veterans feel appreciated and welcome, Cohen said, adding, “He’s probably one of the most passionate people I know.” The crowd listened intently when Wenninger shared how important it is to honor and help the country’s veterans. “I feel very blessed today, especially because of our military, especially because of our recent veterans,” Wenninger said. “...You may not like this war, you may not like that war, but I hold one thing very true in my heart: If there wasn’t a veteran, there wouldn’t be a country.” Then he shared two words that he said veterans should hear. “Welcome home,” he told the audience. “That’s so very important to say.” Wenninger also asked people to tell their elected leaders that Covid-19 relief money needs to be distributed to veteran halls. “A country that forgets its defenders

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p.m. Register at eastmeadow.info or call at (516) 794-2570. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of the program.

Chair yoga with April 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, chair yoga has gained many new members. To register, visit eastmeadow.info or call (516) 794-2570. Chair yoga starts at 4 p.m.

Falun Dafa Falun Dafa is back and will take place virtually every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Falun Dafa is an easy-going, relaxing, meditative exercise similar to Tai Chi. Many discover health benefits as well as newfound energy, mental clarity and stress relief through Falun Dafa. For more information, visit eastmeadow.info or call the East Meadow Public Library at (516) 794-2570.

Friday, Sept. 3 Easy Exercise This exercise class will be given virtually every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m. Register once to access all the classes. Ann Rothman leads this class that is appropriate for those who are not athletes. To register, visit eastmeadow.info. For more information, call (516) 794-2570. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of the event.

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Head down the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre in Eisenhower Park at 7 p.m.on Saturday, Sept. 4 for the band Radio Flashback. Bring blankets or chairs. Fireworks by Grucci and food trucks.

There will be an American Legion meeting at 11 a.m. New members are welcome. All members of the U.S. Armed Forces are eligible to join. The American Legion meeting hall is located at 294 Bellmore Rd., in East Meadow.

etable farms, craft beverage producers and other Long Island food vendors to join them each week.

Lucky’s opening Lucky’s Sports Cards and Memorabilia will be having their grand opening. Visitors can meet retired Mets player Ed Kranepool from 1 to 2:30 p.m. As part of their grand opening special, any item will be signed for $19 and inscriptions of up to 4 words are available for $10 extra. Lucky’s is located at 1854 Front St., in East Meadow

Monday, Sept. 6 Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2736 The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2736 will be meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the American Legion meeting hall is located at 294 Bellmore Rd., in East Meadow. New members are welcome.

CCE Nassau farmers market Head down to Eisenhower Park field eight from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. for a farmers market. Cornell Cooperative Education Nassau Farm Stand, will be inviting other local farmers and local food businesses including fruit and veg-

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Tuesday, Sept. 7 Tai Chi Join the East Meadow public library for virtual tai chi starting at 11 a.m. Reg-

ister at www.eastmeadow.info or call (516) 794-2570. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of the event.

Advanced crochet class Join the East Meadow library for a virtual crochet class at 7 p.m. with April. Supplies needed include light color skein of yarn and a size G, H, I, or J crochet hook. To register, visit eastmeadow.info or call (516) 794-2570. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of the event.

East Meadow Kiwanis There is an East Meadow Kiwanis meeting at the Grand Stage Diner at 7:15 p.m. For further information contact Kiwanis President Lisa Hallett at (516) 204-2284. New members always welcome. Social distancing is enforced. Mask is needed when not eating if not

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, chair yoga has gained many new members. To register, visit eastmeadow. info or call (516) 794-2570. Chair yoga starts at 4 p.m. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of the event.

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Wednesday, Sept. 8 Beginning crochet class Join the East Meadow library for a virtual crochet class at 7 p.m. with April. Supplies needed include light color skein of yarn and a size G, H, I, or J crochet hook. To register, visit eastmeadow.info or call (516) 794-2570. The Zoom link will be sent the morning of the event.

It Came from the Radio Achilles Yeldell is the writer and artists of his self-published comic strip titled Cocktails that is meant to add lighthearted humor to 2020. The East Meadow Public Library is hosting this event virtually with Mark Torres at 7

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The band Take 2 will be playing at Borrelli’s on September 25 at 6:30 p.m. There will be a 9/11 parade starting at the EM Fire Department headquarters on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. Enjoy the CCE Nassau farmers market at Eisenhower Park field 8 every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. There will be a blood drive at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church on Sept. 16 from 2 to 8 p.m. The Long Island Marathon Festival of events at Eisenhower Park runs through Sept. 30.

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Many E.M. parents say no to masks in school BECAUSE THE ROOM was filled to capacity, many parents of East Meadow students waited outside the Leon J. Campo Salisbury Center to tell the board their thoughts on masking for the new school year.

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The East Meadow Board of Education’s meeting on Wednesday featured the district’s reopening plan for the 2021-2022 school year. A long line of impatient parents waited outside until 7:40 p.m. for admittance to the meeting, which began at 7 p.m., because the room was filled to capacity. When parents were admitted the room was once again filled to capacity. Those who waited outside were permitted into the building after someone left. Before the district’s reopening plan was presented, Board of Education President Alisa Baroukh allotted additional time for a second first public commentary because not everyone was allowed into the building during the first. It was also announced that the board would not be answering any questions at the meeting, adding that the district would contact each person individually by email with an answer. Parents of children of varying ages spoke at the podium with some saying that that they wanted to choose whether to send their students virtually or in person to school. The majority spoke of the mandatorymask mandate by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Many said that masks should not be mandatory and that masks affected their child’s learning experience. “If I personally saw a difference for

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masking children as far as health goes I would 100 percent be pro-mask,” said Ivona Blaslov, a mother of three children who attend the district. “I brought my kids everywhere this summer with no mask and not one of my kids got sick with

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Covid.” Then she asked the district to make masking a choice rather than a mandate. “People are fearful and I understand that every situation is different,” she said. “That’s why I think masking should be a choice. I don’t like how the East Meadow School District doesn’t even entertain us for a second.” Two W.T. Clarke High School students also shared their opinions on the school’s mask mandates. “Last school year I felt like nobody really listened to the students,” Nicole Servider, an incoming junior said. “We had to ask to take a sip of water and I’ve had numerous asthma and anxiety attacks from wearing the masks.” Her brother Paul Servider, an incoming senior at Clarke, shared his belief that masks should be optional as well. But not everyone who spoke agreed with optional masking. Sharon Stanley who had retired from P.S. 107 in Queens after teaching for 33 years stressed that it’s difficult to witness children become sick at school. “I was working in an elementary school in 2009 during the swine flu and you don’t know how scary it is to be a teacher and watch a kid just drop to the floor,” Stanley said. “...The virus is real and you can spread it without being sick and I know that from experience.” Then she spoke of how her son contacted swine flu from her interaction with sick students. When the public comment session concluded some members of the board spoke. “I can guarantee that you are being listened to,” Board of Education Vice President Matthew Melnick said. He told the parents that everyone on the board is a parent and that they do not have the luxury of making the mask decision for their children either. “We are a community that has always taken care of each other and today that means making sure we do everything we

can to protect the other members of our community,” he said. “If wearing a mask in school keeps one student from being hospitalized than there’s no question it was the right thing to do.”

Reopening plan

The reopening plan dictates that all students will attend class in person. They will be required to wear a mask, along with all employees, service providers, contractors and visitors. There is no remote teaching option, but for those students who do get sick and need to quarantine, home teaching will be provided. Classrooms and other areas will have a 3 feet social distancing rule and students will eat lunch outside or in their classrooms. Any instances of Covid in the school will be reported to the Nassau County Department of Health and contact tracing will be conducted immediately. All parents/guardians and staff will be notified if there is a positive case. Sports will resume in the fall with weekly student-athlete testing mandated for all high-risk sports and activities. The reopening plan with the rest of the in-depth Covid guidelines can be found on the school’s website.

Michalis receives a shout out

A portion of the meeting was dedicated to giving recognition to new administrators and other assistant principals and directors. Special recognition was given out to Denise Michalis for her dedication to the children of East Meadow for the past 18 years. “On behalf of the board of education, we express our appreciation to you for all your work to the district,” East Meadow Superintendent Kenneth Card said. “In recognition of your dedication, service and contributions to the children and residents of the East Meadow school district we salute you and applaud you for your service.”

ROSH HASHANAH MESSAGE

The coronavirus pandemic that has upended our world for the past 18 months has certainly caused delays in human development. Students on all levels have had their educations short-circuited; many jobs have simply disappeared and in other cases businesses have had to postpone expansion plans for lack of available workers. Weddings, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, and holiday gettogethers have had to be rescheduled; grandparents could not visit grandchildren, even newborns. And all types of plans, programs, and aspirations had to be placed “on hold” due to Covid-19. We all pray that the pandemic ends soon. We pray that the time will come in the not too distant future when we again engage in those activities that we were forced to postpone due to the pandemic. But how do we decide what to do first? The High Holy Days are rapidly approaching. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur offer us the perfect opportunity to engage in a self-evaluation — a cheshbon hanefesh, as we say in Hebrew — to determine our priorities for the coming year. While performing a cheshbon hanefesh should be part of every High Holy Day season, it seems to me that it is particularly important this year, when we

pray that we will be able to emerge from the pandemic and consider returning to our “normal” level of activity. So what should be among our first steps? I will mention three. First, family. The pandemic lockdown has deprived all of us of so many opportunities to be with members of our extended family. When the pandemic ends, we should make visiting with family a top priority. The coronavirus pandemic has taught us how fragile life is, so making time for family should be one of our main focuses. Second, education. While schools struggled valiantly to maintain educational standards via remote learning during the pandemic, let’s be honest: there is no substitute for the education that comes from face-to-face contact between teachers and students — especially for younger children, but also for students in higher grades and high school. And what about students in professional schools in fields such as law and medicine, in which in-person interaction is essential; how has the coronavirus impacted their education? While I think Zoom is here to stay, I look forward to a return to in-person education. Children have a lot of educational ground to recover. I hope that all stakeholders (which really means every mem-

ber of society) realize that the new academic year must be one dedicated to learning and to providing the best education possible for all. The students themselves, their parents, the teachers, the school administrators and local taxpayers must make quality education a major priority this year. Our future depends on it. Third, for Jews, Judaism must be one of our priorities. And for non-Jews who may be reading this column, your religion must be one of your major undertakings. What I say below about Jews and Judaism is equally true for you and your religious affiliation. The pandemic closures deprived us of many occasions to join together to pray, learn and socialize. While we tried to overcome some of these lost opportunities via careful, socially-distanced reopenings and through Zoom and livestreaming, we missed the special connection that comes from praying, learning and socializing together as a synagogue family. Judaism teaches that there is always room for growth; in fact, growing as a Jew is a Jewish imperative. This year, when we (hopefully) emerge from the stasis of the pandemic, each of us should promise ourselves that we will grow by engaging in those positive actions that

we may have not yet adopted, and by participating more actively in the religious, educational, cultural and social programs of our synagogue and community. What more significant and meaningful way could there be to celebrate our eventual (God willing) emergence from the pandemic than by partaking more fully of the many wonderful programs and opportunities for growth that our religion institutions offer. Certainly, each of us, myself included, can find one or two new rituals, values, actions or programs in which to engage this year. I hope that we will use these days that lead to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur as an opportunity to think about the priorities we want to make part of our lives in this (hopefully) post-pandemic year. Then let us immediately engross ourselves in these activities, before we fill our lives with the unimportant minutia of life that sometimes distract us from attaining our true goals. For isn’t that what the High Holy Days encourage us to do? — To prioritize our lives so that we can merit a year of spiritual and emotional fulfillment. Shanah tovah umitukah – a happy, healthy, and sweet new year. Dr. Ronald L. Androphy is the rabbi at the East Meadow Beth-El Jewish Center.

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Richner hosts vaccine clinic for employees By JORDAN VALLONE jvallone@liherald.com

Covid-19 vaccinations are now being administered at businesses, thanks to a new initiative by the Nassau County Department of Health. On Aug. 27, Richner Communications Inc., parent company of Herald Community Newspapers, hosted a pop-up vaccination clinic at the company’s Garden City office in conjunction with the county-sponsored initiative — referred to by county officials as the “traveling vaccine pod.” Nassau County communications specialist Vicki DiStefano said many people around the county still do not know where and how to get vaccinated. The new program — which brings vaccines directly to businesses for “in-house” vaccination — quickly grew in popularity, according to DiStefano. Covid infection rates have recently been on the rise in Nassau, hovering around 4 percent. Interested RCI employees, as well as eligible friends and family, received their first doses of the Moderna vaccine. The second dose will be administered at the RCI office on Sept. 24. If employees had already received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine, they were also able to receive their second shot at the pop-up site. “In Nassau County, 86.7 percent of adults 18 and older are vaccinated,” County Executive Laura Curran told the Herald, making Nassau the leading county in the state for vaccinations, and third in the country among large counties with a population of 1 million people or more. The first business vaccination pod took place at Café Baci in Westbury on Aug. 3. “Since then, dozens of businesses have reached out to us,” Curran said, adding that officials have seen a solid uptick in the vaccination rate

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At A tRAVELiNg vaccination clinic hosted by Nassau County at the Herald Community Newspapers’ office in Garden City last Friday, nurse Jeanne Ost injected RCI pressman Richard Maitland with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. since the program’s start. “With the Delta variant, we want to get everyone vaccinated,” Curran explained. The pods are run by health department nurses, all of whom have been on the front lines of vaccine administration since earlier this year. Pod manager and nurse Holly Marrano said, “We’re bringing the vaccine to local businesses to make it more

convenient for people to get vaccinated.” “We are making this as easy as possible — no excuses,” Curran said. “No business is too big or too small.” Any business interested in participating in the program and hosting a vaccine clinic for employees can reach out to the county health department at (516) 2279570, Monday through Friday. Among the RCI employees who were vaccinated was Richard Maitland, 46, of Rockaway, Queens. Maitland has been working as a pressman for the company for nine years. “I’ve been watching the news and seeing what’s going on,” Maitland said. “I’m seeing that it’s the unvaccinated that are transmitting the virus.” Saying he was never against the vaccine, he thought getting it now was the right thing to do with the infection rate on the rise, and especially since the vaccination pod made it so convenient. “No one is safe, and I don’t want to be that carrier who gets someone sick,” he added, calling to the Delta variant “round two” of the coronavirus. “I don’t want to be part of the problem,” Maitland said. “I want to be part of the solution.” That solution, according to Curran, is to vaccinate as many people as possible. Covid-19 vaccines are not 100 percent effective in preventing the disease; however, county officials are finding that those who are vaccinated and do test positive for Covid are less likely to end up with a severe case that results in hospitalization. Pod nurse Camille Laudando said the traveling vaccine clinic is all about “community outreach” and is the “definition of public health.” “The vaccine is the most effective way to prevent Covid,” Curran said. “Our residents understand the value of the vaccine.”

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When the yearly edition of the Herald reaches out to the entire town at this time of year, as it did last week, it is a connection to all residents with messages of news and community. Whether you have the good fortune to write or read the paper, it is the spirit of connection that forges us as one especially during these challenging times. Although media like this paper links us, there is another way to forge the spirit of connection for everyone, one person, one message at a time. A little over a year ago, I reached out to

a family friend whose companion had just died. My relationship with her was tentative; I only really knew her because I knew the man she had loved. After the initial loss that is raw and relentless, there is a point when everyone goes back home, back to daily life. It was then that I started to call her every week or so, simply because I didn’t want her to feel alone. That led me to check in with a distant family member, then a neighbor, then a colleague -- calls, cards and snail mail – those old-school methods that supported the texts and

social media we had often relied on. Because my world is a household of four adults who each sought a room or alcove in our home to stay productive during the lockdown, this made me forget how Covid was really good at isolating people. First-hand accounts of the people I knew, who prior to getting a vaccine, hadn’t been out of doors for weeks at a time. Some had access and reliance on their computers, some not. I simply went looking for ways that would avoid that feeling of loss – a robbery of human connection.

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The East Meadow Fire Department will be hosting a 9/11 parade on Saturday, September 11 at 7 p.m. The parade, which was organized to commemorate Sept. 11, is marking its 20th anniversary. It will travel down East Meadow Avenue from East Meadow Fire Department headquarters at 197 East Meadow Ave. Various organizations, elected leaders and the Nassau County Firefighter’s Pipes and Drums band will march, as well as members of the community. East Meadow Fire Department consists of many volunteers who were career firefighters, police officers, medical personnel, and emergency service workers who were there as the towers fell and worked tirelessly in the months that followed to recover the many heroes, and the innocent, bringing closure for many loved ones. By day three of the attack, all of East Meadow’s seven volunteer companies had responded to Manhattan as part of the largest mutual aid plan ever effected. All East Meadow residents are welcome. Anyone wishing to march along with the fire department should arrive at the East Meadow Fire Department headquarters at 6:45 p.m. Any large groups should contact the EMFD’s Ex Chief Eric Becker at (516) 690-0427 or email him at ebecker@eastmeadowfd.com. The parade will be followed by a short candlelight ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park, 1700 Prospect Ave.

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READY TO BEGIN the “Torah procession,” participants gathered to document the occasion. Photos courtesy East Meadow Beth-El Jewish Center

They shared the ‘spirit of being Jewish’ CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE The consolidation was not official until last Oct. 23, when the Nassau County Supreme Court signed the order, which is required by law for a consolidation. Covid-19 was cited as the reason for the delay. Knauer said the wait for the procession until August was intentional. It was decided that the new Jewish year, which begins next week with Rosh Hashana, would be an appropriate time for a celebration. “We were looking for a time that would make the procession even more meaningful and symbolic,” he explained, “in addition to the symbolism of joining the two congregations and bringing the Torahs to their new home.” For the former members of Temple Beth-El, the wait was bittersweet. “Covid ended up being positive because the wait allowed for us to heal and be a part of the congregation [at East Meadow Jewish Center],” Minkoff said. “It was cathartic.” “And participating in the Torah procession was emotional,” he added. “What I love about this community is that it has multiple cultures with-

out strife.” Androphy said he could not be happier. “The consolidation has been and is a marriage made in heaven,” he said. “The spirit of togetherness was palpable, whether during the march with the Torahs or whenever we have come together in the sanctuary. I think everyone feels this way.” A number of older adults took part, either on foot or in wheelchairs or in one of five convertibles. Several elected leaders took part Sunday too, either by walking in the procession, as Nassau County Legislator Tom McKevitt did, or on the bimah, a platform in a synagogue from which the Torah and Prophets are read. County Executive Laura Curran, Town of Hempstead Supervisor Donald Clavin and Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder were among the invited guests who spoke. “The day was tinged with a little sadness from those from Beth-El but being united makes us stronger,” Androphy said. “Yesterday showed that we are one under a new name.”

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A. You should assure your wife that her concerns are very real and it is all right to be concerned. Validate her feelings and be understanding, because many people in the same situation, in taller buildings, are questioning the safety of where they live. Questioning and confirming are what keep us safe, onte eeper no matter what the issue is or where we are. Ignoring or dismissing a potential problem doesn’t make it go away. Applying knowledge and reason leads to security. Many people assume, with most things, that some qualified person simply took care of a problem, solved it correctly, and kept us safe. I often share my calculation process with clients, showing them the reasoning behind steps taken to calculate a beam, for example, for two reasons. One is so they understand how buildings work, and also so that when a substitution is requested, they understand why it was rejected. Unfortunately, there are a lot of assumptions that work is being done with correctness and conscientiousness. With larger buildings, there are many safety procedures, including independent certification by qualified consultant engineering professionals. You might feel better if your building hired an engineer who could explain the building’s structural system and how it keeps you safe. If the people living in the Surfside condominiums could have questioned and acted with a maintenance program, which would have required spending money, things might have been different. The design, review, construction and maintenance all played a part in the failure. Look at your own building’s track record and ask informed questions. If you have no knowledge of the building process, ask others who do. The more I learn about the investigation of the collapse, the more convinced I am of the reasons for never ignoring the smallest details of how these giant custom jigsaw puzzles fit together. Every failure I have ever learned about had at least two common denominators, confidence and naïveté. If a reinforcing rod is shown on the drawings to be a specific diameter, don’t substitute a smaller size because it was more available or install separate pieces where a continuous rod was supposed to go. The pool deck of that building was a separate structure that should never have been tied into the columns of the taller adjacent building, just like a deck should have minimal or no attachment to a house. The right force, wind or water, can pull a vertical support column sideways, rendering the column useless and toppling the taller structure. Listen to your wife and have a happy life!

© 2021 Monte Leeper Readers are encouraged to send questions to yourhousedr@aol.com, with “Herald question” in the subject line, or to Herald Homes, 2 Endo Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530, Attn: Monte Leeper, architect.

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hirty years ago this week, I hopped on an electric train with a brightred engine, a nervous energy pulsing through my arms and legs straight to my fingers and toes, which fidgeted uncontrollably. My head was spinning. I carried all I had in my arms — two gray suitcases of clothes, one violin in a worn brown case and one blue duffle bag with running shoes and toiletries. I was 24 and headed to the greatest adventure of my life, a twoyear bicultural SCOTT exchange that excited me, at BRINTON times vexed me and forever changed me. I served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Veliko Tarnovo, a 5,000-year-old city in central Bulgaria with a medieval fortress that was flanked by white stucco houses, squeezed onto the steep hills above the winding Yantra River. In the first week of September 1991, I left the safe haven of the training site the Peace Corps set up in Bankya, a spa resort 11 miles outside Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, and headed to Tarnovo, as it’s commonly known. After two and a half months of preparations, I still had no idea what to expect. I loved every minute of the next

two years. I was part of the first group of 26 Peace Corps volunteers to enter Bulgaria after the fall of communism there a year earlier. As was the case in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania between 1989 and 1990, thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets to protest communist rule. Todor Zhivkov — the longest-serving Soviet Bloc dictator in the post-World War II era, who reigned from 1954 to 1989 — was deposed without bloodshed. In July 1990, then President Petar Mladenov, a former communist leader, quit over accusations that he had ordered tanks to roll against protesters in December 1989. People rejoiced after Mladenov’s resignation, The New York Times reported on July 7, 1990. “Never again a communist president in Bulgaria!” 5,000 protesters chanted in unison in central Sofia. To be there, in this place burning with democratic idealism after more than four decades of repressed speech and thought, was the thrill of a lifetime for an American who had freedom of speech and assembly ingrained in him. Bulgaria felt so alive. I felt so alive. People were suddenly free. As an outside observer who was quickly acculturated to Bulgarian beliefs and practices (I married a Bulgarian), I internalized their joy, their relief and,

sometimes, their fear of a return to communism. On June 20 this year, most of the original 26 Peace Corps volunteers, our Bulgarian manager, Emil Patev, and my wife, Katerina, who was one of our language and culture trainers, gathered on Zoom to reminisce. It was perhaps the strangest feeling I’ve ever experienced. Because of the intensity of the experiences that we shared, the names and faces of my fellow volunteers were indelibly etched in my mind. I pictured them as their younger selves, and then we appeared in little boxes on a computer screen, significantly older variations of ourselves, as if this were a “Dr. Who” episode. It was jarring at first. Then we started to share what we took away from Bulgaria. Many spoke of the Bulgarian work ethic, the slower place of life, the neighborliness or the kindness they were shown by their colleagues at the schools where they taught — we were all English teachers. Happy memories coursed through my mind — meeting my lovely wife for the first time, soaking in the sights and sounds that were so different than the United States, chatting with my students, who were 17 when I met them and 19 when they graduated from the Vasil Drumev High School of Mathematics and Natural

ecalling a lifealtering stint in Bulgaria after the fall of communism.

Sciences, as they attended a fifth year of high school for advanced studies. That graduation, in June 1991, was among the most beautiful days of my life, aside from my wedding and the births of my children. It was a simple, short ceremony, full of music. The students poured flowers into their teachers’ hands, as is Bulgarian tradition. Katerina and I taught at the school together, and we came away with so many flowers that our tiny, rented apartment resembled a florist’s shop. I’m occasionally asked to speak to young people about my Peace Corps experiences. They often ask about the challenges, or whether I had any regrets about signing up. I can sense their trepidation. Volunteering for the Peace Corps is a monumental, life-altering decision. I used to speak of the pluses and minuses. There is, no doubt, a financial sacrifice, because you’re volunteering for two years of your life, I would say. Perhaps that was the reporter in me wanting to give both sides of the story. If they have a strong interest in joining, I tell them now, they should embrace any fears they might harbor and let the river of life take them wherever it might flow. You needn’t know where it will end up. It could take you to magical lands you never imagined. Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.

In the eye of the western firestorm

e’ve been through a lot together, you and I. Now this. As I wrote last week, my husband and I and Lillybee the dog headed out West to the Northern California mountains on Aug. 10. We drove from Denver through Cheyenne, Park City and Elko and arrived here in Tahoe-Donner on Aug. 20. We’re in a rental house perched on stilts set into a hillside, a half-hour from anything, including our kids and grandkids, who live in a nearby town. They’re the reason we came, RANDI and they’re the reaKREISS son we’re still here, 10 days into a month-long stay. We’re in the throes of a wildfire emergency, officially declared by President Biden yesterday. Smoke obscures views of the mountains. The grandkids’ school opening was delayed. The smell of smoke is in our clothes, our hair and even on the dog. The Caldor and Dixie fires are raging around us, from 45 to 100 miles away. We’re told to stay inside, not exert ourselves and

keep the windows closed. The obvious move is to leave ASAP, but that means driving back to Denver in our rental car through areas that are now smoky as well. Our children surely aren’t ready to abandon their family home. We hate to run, since the wind could change in a week, and it could be healthy to resume normal outdoor life. We don’t know when we’ll have the chance to sit down at the same table again. Our kids must figure out if their life out here is sustainable going forward. These fires aren’t going away, and it’s unlikely that it will be better next year. The snowpack has been lighter every winter, and the ground brush is drier. Tinder. No one has grass, just scrub around the homes, cut back for safety. Back home, I know you’re struggling with the Delta variant and unusual heat. We Long Islanders have had our shared disasters, mostly hurricanes, and there will likely be more this season. This is something else. People who live up here are tough and self-reliant, but everyone is shaken by the hazardous air quality and the danger of encroaching

fires. We all have alerts set on our phones should the conditions get more dangerous. Ash falls out of the smoke clouds, irritating our eyes and throats. We have captured some moments with the grandkids, some meals, a lot of time together playing Rummikub. They seem able to be outside longer than we can, younger lungs and all that. But they are tuned in to our talk about the smoke and fire and what the options are. These kids just lived through more than a year of relative isolation during the pandemic, and so much of their hope was invested in this summer, to do the swimming and rafting and hiking that is their reason for putting up with life in the semi-wilderness. All of our kids and grandkids have tolerated so much constraint and disappointment. I hope it makes them stronger. To summon my own resolve, I’ve been reading about people who live in places where the geography or the weather or the terrain is a constant challenge and threat. Why do they stay? My husband and I can and probably will leave if the air remains unhealthy or the fires get worse; we have

ur kids must figure out if life out here is sustainable going forward.

that option. Our kids will make their own calculation of risk vs. benefit of life in these mountains. People live on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Sicily, generation after generation, despite the inevitability of lava flows and ash that burn them out of their houses. They rebuild; they stay. Some say the reason is that the volcanic soil is fertile and produces the best olives and olive oil in the world. People in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., know for sure that periodic super-floods will drive them from their homes, but they come back and they build again. Why does anyone live in New Orleans? Or on any barrier island? Why didn’t we all flee after Hurricane Sandy? Ultimately people look around and decide that the benefit outweighs the risk of living near a volcano or in a flood plain or on a fire-scarred mountaintop. We would not have come to California now if we knew how the smoke and fire would look and feel and taste. The headline in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday read: “Caldor Fire Knocking on the Door of Tahoe Basin.” The fire is knocking, and there isn’t much here to keep it out. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Get your teenagers vaccinated ASAP . . .

ome 87 percent of Nassau County’s adult population, ages 18 and up, has received at least a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bravo, Nassau! That’s a remarkable statistic, well ahead of the state average of 79.3 percent. Nearly a million people have been vaccinated here, and we could soon reach that threshold. But here’s the thing: Looking at all age groups in the county, only 73 percent of the total population has gotten at least one dose. That’s because children are ineligible, and only about 49 percent of teenagers, ages 12 to 18, had received a first dose as of last Friday, even though 16- and 17-year-olds have been eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine since April, and 12- to 15-year-olds since May. Clearly, we must focus our efforts on vaccinating teens. With school starting in many districts this week, and therefore with students starting to congregate in large groups five to six days a week, there is the potential for the virus to spread rapidly in this population, and then to be passed on to unvaccinated adults and even

to the relatively small number of vaccinated people who will get Covid despite being inoculated. Nassau County government now has an excellent program that brings a team of vaccinators to a workplace on request. It’s all about making the vaccine readily available to people who are too busy or otherwise unable to break away from work to get inoculated. The Herald Community Newspapers took part last Friday afternoon, and the vaccination team did all the work. Similarly, the county and the Town of Hempstead, each of which has a mobile inoculation unit, should bring the vaccination fight to our schools, one by one, starting in low-income areas, where parents may be unable to take their teens to a vaccination site because they’re working long hours and worry about taking time off. We’ve already seen mobile units brought to a small number of school districts like Freeport, but the effort should be rapidly expanded to all 54 Nassau districts. At the same time, parents should seek to have their teens vaccinated. With the

. . . And have a Covid talk with all of your kids

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Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine receiving full approval by the federal Food and Drug Administration for those 16 and over, we should all feel confident about its efficacy and safety. It will now be marketed as Comirnaty, according to the FDA. For those ages 12 to 15, the Pfizer vaccine will continue to be available under an emergency-use authorization. The Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are likely to receive FDA approval for 12- to 17-year-olds in the coming months. Clinical trials are still under way to test all three vaccines for children ages 5 to 11. It’s uncertain when, precisely, they might receive approval under emergency-use authorization for this age group. It could be as early as this fall, though that seems unlikely now. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said that authorization would more likely come by late December. The bottom line for parents: Have your children vaccinated as soon as humanly possible.

LETTERS Happy birthday, President Johnson To the Editor: The late President Lyndon Johnson was born Aug. 27, 1908. Many remember him for succeeding President John F. Kennedy after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Others remember him for his domestic Great Society program, which included civil rights, Medicare, Medicaid, the War on Poverty and public broadcasting. There was also foreign policy, most notably the Vietnam War. Few remember that the success of public transportation can be traced back to one of Johnson’s greatest accomplishments, which continues to benefit many Americans today. On July 9, 1964, he signed the Urban Mass Transportation Act into

ate. There’s no need to scare young children. They need to be reassured that they will be safe in school. Meanwhile, teens might need a more frank discussion. PBS Kids for Parents has an excellent primer on “How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus” that’s worth a quick read. You can find it at www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/how-to-talk-to-your-kidsabout-coronavirus.

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n the 1987 movie “The Princess Bride,” Vizzini, a Sicilian assassin, warns Wesley, also known as the Dread Pirate Roberts, “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders — the most famous of which is, ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’” The United States fell into that classic blunder when it ignored 19th-century British debacles during the First AngloAfghan War (18391843) and the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) and pretended it could avoid the ALAN fate of the Soviet Union in the SoviSINGER et-Afghan War (1979-1988). A 1979 internal memo to the Soviet Union’s governing Politburo explained why “nation building” by the Soviet Union was doomed to failure. The reactionary forces described in the memo are now known as the Taliban. “The Afghan reactionary forces,” the memo stated, “are very skillfully taking advantage of the almost complete illiteracy of the population, complex interna-

tional and intertribal conflicts, religious fanaticism and nationalism. Subversive actions, sabotage and the resistance of the overthrown class of exploiters are deepening the economic problems, lowering industrial and agricultural output, as well as hampering business activity, raising prices and reducing the influx of revenue into the state budget.” The memo warned the Politburo that “the use of Soviet troops in repressing the Afghan counterrevolution would seriously damage the international authority of the USSR.” In his 2010 memoir “Decision Points,” former President George W. Bush tried to justify the 2001 decision to invade Afghanistan and the prolonged war that followed. This wasn’t just about revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, or a strategy to kill Osama bin Laden and destroy Al Qaeda. According to Bush, “Afghanistan was the ultimate nation-building mission. We had liberated the country from a primitive dictatorship, and we had a moral obligation to leave behind something better. We also had a strategic interest in helping the Afghan people build a free

erhaps every candidate for president should be a certified historian.

LETTERS law. It has resulted in the investment of several hundred billion dollars in public transportation under grants from the Federal Transit Administration, which before 1991 was known as the Urban Mass Transit Administration. Even with Covid-19, millions of Americans continue using various public transportation alternatives, including local and express buses, ferries, jitneys, light rail, subways and commuter rail services. Investment in public transportation today contributes to economic growth, employment and a stronger economy. Dollar for dollar, it is one of the best investments we can make. LARRY PENNER Great Neck Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.

State is now offering Excluded Workers Fund To the Editor: New York state’s Excluded Workers Fund, which is intended to provide much-needed relief to workers cut off from government unemployment bene-

society. The terrorists took refuge in places of chaos, despair and repression. A democratic Afghanistan would be a hopeful alternative to the vision of the extremists.” The nation-building task was “more daunting” than Bush and his advisers anticipated because of their ignorance about Afghanistan and because they apparently never consulted either Wikipedia or the CIA World Factbook. It is a mountainous region of tribes, clans and linguistic groups, with millions of people who have little connection to those outside their locality or village. The constitution of Afghanistan, written in 2004 under U.S. auspices, recognizes 14 major ethno-linguistic groups. The largest is the Pashtun, who make up almost half of the population of the country and are the dominant group in the Taliban. If only the Bush administration in 2001, or policymakers in the Obama and Trump administrations, had watched “The Princess Bride” or had access to the Soviet Politburo memo. I found it, quite easily, translated from Russian to English, on the website of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

The memo, “Our Future Policy in Connection with the Situation in Afghanistan,” became available to the public in 1993. As President Biden made clear in a speech to the American public, “After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces [from Afghanistan] . . . There is no chance that one year — one more year, five more years or 20 more years of U.S. military boots on the ground would’ve made any difference.” After the diplomatic, military and human disaster in Afghanistan, maybe there should be a constitutional qualification for becoming president of the United States: that a candidate be a certified historian. The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians could review all candidates the way legal organizations review potential judicial appointments. Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.

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fits and stimulus checks during the pandemic, is now accepting applications. Any workers who were not eligible for enhanced Covid-19 pandemic unemployment benefits can apply. The funds do not need to be paid back, and this relief is available regardless of immigration status. Please visit https://dol.ny.gov/EWF for more information and to apply. I thank state leaders for their efforts to maximize the scope of our Covid-19 relief initiatives. In the weeks ahead, I look forward to sharing information about the Excluded Workers Fund at community events and with our local faith and civic leaders to ensure that economic relief reaches the maximum number of Nassau residents possible. CARRIÉ SOLAGES Nassau County legislator, Lawrence

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