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Cancer-free for 10 years E.M. man is hosting fundraiser to honor mother’s milestone By BRIAN STIEGlITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

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Making words into phrases Students are learning the foundations of writing in Janine Farinella’s first-grade class at Parkway Elementary School in East Meadow. Since Oct. 5, elementary school students have been back in class full-time, with safety restrictions like plastic desk guards.

Elisa Bevilacqua rarely missed a day of work from July 2009 to March 2010. She had worked in the office of what was then known as South Shore Radiology of Howard Beach for nearly 13 years. She was a single mother of three children, ages 23, 20 and 17. And she was battling Stage 2 breast cancer. “She said work kept her going because it kept her mind busy,” said Bevilacqua’s son, Anthony, now 33, who lives in East Meadow. “I think that’s a good point for a lot of people to realize . . . The more you take action and

keep your mind occupied, the better off you’ll be, and I think that shows, and this is what makes her strong.” “It was a very difficult time,” said his mother, trying to hold back tears. “But I had the support of my kids.” Bevilacqua, 58, now lives in Wantagh, and still works in Howard Beach, at what is now known as Prohealth Radiology. Her daughter Staci is a teacher, Anthony owns AB Fitness Center, which has locations in East Meadow and Massapequa, and her daughter Lauren works there as a personal trainer. And as of March, Bevilacqua had Continued on page 3

District to allow athletes to begin after-school practices By BRIAN STIEGlITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

While student athletes in the East Meadow School District will not play competitively against other school teams until at least Jan. 4, Athletic Director Kristi Detor has come up with an alternative that will allow them to practice with teammates and coaches this fall. On Aug. 26, Section VIII, the gover ning body for Nassau County high school athletics, postponed all fall sports until January. The plan, which is subject to change, is to fit all three sports seasons in the months from January to June, when, it is

hoped, the threat of Covid-19 will have declined. At a Board of Education meeting on Oct. 14, Detor presented her plan for the district’s Out of Season Intramural Program. The goal, she said, is to allow students to train with their peers and coaches, while adhering to pandemic guidelines. “In our current time, we truly believe it’s essential to offer a program to provide students an opportunity to interact with each other and their coaches, safely,” she said. Through the program, which will begin on Oct. 26, student athletes will be separated into two groups that align with their

hybrid lear ning schedules. Those groups will be divided into fall and winter sport sessions, each meeting once a week. And students can practice in one fall and one winter sport session. All staff and students will have to complete a Covid-19 questionnaire before every practice, and students will be required to have a parent or guardian sign a permission slip to participate. All activities will take place outdoors, and will be canceled in inclement weather. Locker rooms will remain closed. Students will bring their own personal athletic equipment and water bottles. Shared equipment will be provided by coaches and

cleaned in between drills. Activities will be modified so that six feel of social distancing can be maintained, and students will be required to wear masks when that isn’t possible. Superintendent Kenneth Card Jr. said he supported Detor’s presentation, and described it as a compromise that will benefit the athletes without risking the safe-

ty of the rest of the community. “Kids are engaged in physical activity during P.E.,” Card said. “This is just an additional experience that kids should have, and must have, because if Section VIII and Section XI” — the governing body for Suffolk County high school athletics — “decide on Jan. 4 that we’re going to Continued on page 3

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Fundraising to mark 10 years without cancer

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continued from front page been cancer-free for 10 years. To honor the milestone, Anthony is hosting a fundraiser for Susan G. Komen, the largest breast cancer research organization in the country. He had planned to hold an in-person group workout session, similar to one he organized for the American Heart Association in February, before the coronavirus pandemic spread widely in the U.S. But, he said, such an event would now pose logistical challenges given Covid-19 protocols, and the number of people who could participate would be limited. Instead, he is selling pink AB Fitness Center shirts and donating the proceeds to Komen. Since it was founded in 1982, the Dallas-based nonprofit has funded over $988 million in research and $2.2 billion in education, screening and treatment, and helped millions of people in more than 60 countries. According to the organization, there will be an estimated 276,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 42,170 deaths among women this year, and 2,620 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 520 deaths among men. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that women between 50 and 74 get a mammogram to screen for breast cancer every two years. Screening has reduced the number of women diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer by 29 percent. “If it weren’t for early prevention, my mom might not be here,” Anthony said. Elisa found what she described as “a little pimple” on her breast in July 2009, and was going to ignore it, but, she said, “Something inside me told me to check it out.” The following month, she was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer. She underwent a double mastectomy, but found out that the cancer had spread to her lymph

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Elisa BEvilacqua is celebrating 10 years of being breast cancer-free. Her son, Anthony, is hosting a fundraiser for Susan G. Komen, the largest breast cancer research organization in the country. nodes, meaning that surgery couldn’t remove it entirely. That September, she began five months of chemotherapy. “That was the tough part,” she said. Anthony recalled that he would take her to appointments, each an hour long, and know that she would be sick to her stomach once they got home. When her hair began to fall out, he cut the rest of it off for her. “It was one of those moments that kind of stick with you,” he said. When his mother was finished with chemotherapy, she went through six weeks of radiation. “It was defi-

nitely a lot easier,” she said. Since then, there has been no further sign of cancer in her lymph nodes. Now she sees her doctors regularly, and has a sonogram once a year. Asked what advice she would give to others battling breast cancer, she said, “Just be strong and hang in there, and it will all work out in the end.” Don’t look at it as a death sentence, Anthony added, “and don’t go down without a fight.” To buy a shirt for Anthony’s fundraiser, go to www. abfitnesstrainer.com/tshirt.

Student athletes permitted to train together be carried over into this probegin athletic competition, gram as well.” Eleven students have tested then it would be a little too late positive across the for us to even think district’s nine about conditioning schools since they our students.” reopened on Sept. The program 8, according to the will be voluntary, N e w Yo rk S t at e and open to all stuC ov i d - 1 9 Re p o r t dents, whether or Card. There were not they have been staggered start members of school dates for full-time teams in the past. instruction on the Detor added that elementary level, s t u d e n t at h l e t e s with kindergarten who did not want to through first-grade take part will not students returning be penalized when on Sept. 8 and secinterscholastic ond- through fifthcompetition regraders, who had sumes. been on a hybrid “This is really schedule, returning going to be about on Oct. 5. getting them fit, get- KrisTi dETor Middle and high ting them back in Director of Athletics, school students are action, getting them still following a physically prepared East Meadow hybrid schedule, and skill develop- School District with no set return ment,” Detor said. date for full-time “We are so successful right now because I think instruction, which district offieve r yo n e i n o u r d i s t r i c t cials attributed to a lack of believes in the health and safe- space for social distancing. ty of our students, and that will continued from front page

his is really going to be about getting them fit, getting them back in action, getting them physically prepared and skill development.

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ThE EasT MEadow School District will allow student athletes to practice with their teammates and coaches starting Oct. 26, including the Jets football team, above, which beat Calhoun High School at its Homecoming game last fall.

News brief Panel to talk commercial real estate, Covid-19 RichnerLive’s next Herald Inside LI webinar will focus on the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic is having on the commercial real estate market and major development projects, such as UBS Arena at Belmont Park and the Nassau HUB. In past virtual conversations hosted by RichnerLive, the events division of Richner Communications, publisher of Herald Community Newspapers, panelists have discussed changes in the residential real estate market. On Oct. 29 at 10 a.m., Herald Inside LI will shift focus to major, commercial projects and community developments on Long Island. How are Covid-19 restrictions impacting commercial real estate projects and developments? How have construction projects adapted to accommodate the new normal? During this episode of Herald Inside LI, viewers will hear from the commercial perspective, as well as a broader outlook on Long Island and what’s to come for the region. Several experts will engage in discussion, including: ■ Harry Coghlan, CEO, Nassau County Industrial Development Agency ■ John Madigan, senior vice president and director of Emerging Corporates Long Island Citibank ■ Michael Maturo, president of RXR

Realty ■ Sophia A. Perna-Plank, associate at Jaspan Schlesinger LLP ■ Tom Pistore, president of commercial operations, UBS Arena at Belmont Park. ■ Kyle Strober, executive director of Association for a Better Long Island “There has never been a better time to invest in Long Island’s future,” Coghlan said. “As businesses pursue relocating to suburban areas, the Nassau IDA stands ready to assist businesses considering to move to or expand in Nassau County.” Skye Ostreicher, of RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers, will moderate and deliver questions from viewers. To submit questions in advance, send an email to insideli@ liherald.com. Herald Inside LI webinars began in August to inform the community about different, changing aspects of life in the Covid-19 pandemic. To register, visit liherald.com/insideli. RXR Realty, Jaspan Schlesinger LLP and Citi Commerical Bank are sponsoring this virtual event. To sponsor a webinar or for more information about Herald Inside LI, contact Amy Amato at aamato@richnerlive.com or (516) 5694000, ext. 224.

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Coronavirus 2.0 It happens in ordinary conversations. “they are a ‘changing’ whether or not I In ordinary texts. It’s not necessarily the like it or agree with it.” words that are said or written, but a cerAnother friend, usually talkative and tain subtle resignation in tone. It perme- ebullient, wistfully admits that his ates the talk between me and my long- chance to travel for a once-in-a-lifetime time, long-standing friends and I don’t work opportunity is not possible, and I ever remember them like this, before can detect him wondering when the next last spring. opportunity might be withMy peers don’t say things out him saying another they used to, don’t sound like word. they used to — it’s as if the A third friend concedes to wind has been knocked out a self-imposed shelter-inof their sails in October place, only broken up by 2020. brief trips to the grocery Perhaps it is just adding and drug store as well as the up to an understanding that office when no other colthe unknown is still very league is there. It is status real regarding Covid-19. An quo since March. unknown that is different My husband asks if I am from when sheltering in angry or sad or disappointed auren ev place took place because at these observations and then it was an immediate discoveries. I am not. rush to remote education, Like many, I am confused. mass unemployment, a demand for foods I am reflective. I am waiting. But I have and paper goods in the stores. First changed too and don’t know what the responders and front-line workers as future Lauren will be compared with the heroes, farewells in conversation that one I thought I knew six months ago. remind to “stay safe and stay well.” Now this is an evolved unknown that respects A contributing writer to the Herald since what has come before, but really demon- 2012, Lauren Lev is an East Meadow resistrates what we still do not know and are dent and a direct marketing/advertising yet to find out. executive who teaches marketing fundaOne friend texts me confessing he is mentals as well as advertising and marnot the optimist he once was, and how keting communications courses at the he needs to take a more truthful, honest Fashion Institute of Technology and look at what is happening business and SUNY Old Westbury. career-wise. “The times,” he writes,

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ThE KRuG TEAm, of Century 21 American Homes in East Meadow, recently earned the State Senate’s Empire Business Award.

Real estate team earns honor from State Senate By BRIAN STIEGLITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

DIANE KRuG, LEfT, and her husband Rich spoke about what the honor means to them. Staci. They also have six grandchildren who attend schools in the East Meadow School District. Krug grew up in New Hyde Park and was in the aviation branch of the U.S. Navy from 1966 to 1970. He started selling real estate in 1982 and moved to East Meadow in 1988. He met Diane in 1976 when he was working as a bartender in her hometown of Mineola. They married in 1981. The Krugs said that the honor holds even more meaning to them at a time when the State Senate is pushing for more accountability in real estate. Last December, senators Kevin Thomas, Brian Kavanagh and James Skoufis cochaired a joint public hearing on housing discrimination on Long Island in response to a Newsday investigation revealing unfair housing policies. Although 68 real estate industry executives and agents where invited to testify at the hearing, only one appeared. In response, the senators issued 31 subpoenas on the matter. “For them to recognize us in this climate speaks volumes,” Diane said and Richie added, of his father, “This guy always taught me that if you do the right thing by people, good things will happen.”

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October 22, 2020 — EAST MEADOW HERALD

What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

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Students selected for All State festival Two students in the East Meadow School District have been selected as perform in the virtual 2020 All-State Festival. An additional two students were selected as alternatives in the festival, hosted by the New York State School Music Association. Abby Van Ohlen, a senior at East Meadow High School, plays the piccolo and was chosen for the symphonic band. Gabrielle Lim, a senior at W.T. Clarke High School, was selected to play violin with the string orchestra. Noel Manalil, a senior at East Meadow High School who plays alto saxophone, and Alexander Borozny, a senior at W.T. Clarke High School who plays the snare drum, were chosen as AllState alternates.

While the traditional format of the festival, held as part of NYSSMA’s annual Winter Conference, was canceled this year due to Covid19, NYSSMA plans to gather the ensembles in a virtual format to record the first 2020 Virtual All-State Concert. “We are always so proud of our East Meadow musicians and look forward to their participation in the 2020 All-State Festival,” said Kelly Gelfer, the district’s director of music and art. “Although the format of the conference has been adjusted this year, we are confident that they will represent East Meadow with the finest of performances.” –Brian Stieglitz

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abby Van ohlen, a senior at East Meadow High School, Gabrielle Lim, a senior at W.T. Clarke High School, were both selected to play in the New York State School Music Association’s virtual 2020 All-State Festival.

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The easT Meadow School District celebrated School Board Recognition Week at their monthly meeting on Oct. 14.

District recognizes its board of education The East Meadow School District celebrated School Board Recognition Week at their monthly meeting on Oct. 14. Superintendent Kenneth Card Jr. expressed his gratitude for the dedication of each member of the board on behalf of the entire community and presented each board member with a special certificate as a thank you for their support. “The East Meadow School District is joining all public school districts across the state to celebrate School Board Recognition Week, by honoring the board members for their com-

mitment to East Meadow and its children,” Card said. Director of Music and Art Kelly Gelfer and Art Department Chair person Heather Anastasio gifted each member with a ceramic vase, each of which was handmade by W.T. Clarke High School students in Mr. James Parisi’s creative crafts class. “We thank you for your service to the East Meadow community and for your support of all programs, making East Meadow an incredible place to learn,” Gelfer said.

KenneTh Card Jr., the superintendent of the East Meadow School District, gave a certificate to Board President Matthew Melnick in honor of School Board Recognition Week.

EAST MEADOW FIRE DEPARTMENT By John J. o’Brien Sr. As the cool crisp air of an October Sunday morning began to warm into a beautiful sunny day, members of the East Meadow Volunteer Fire Department assembled seven companies strong, in full dress uniform, on the front ramp of Fire Headquarters for their annual memorial service. In a year far from the norm, the EMFD continued to find ways to carry out the finest of their rich traditions. With no opportunity to march proudly through the streets of East Meadow in honor of our military on Memorial Day, nor the memorial service held each year prior on that morning, nor a formal installation of officers, events at EMFD, as with all of us in our lives, had been put on hold. But with the current situation of the coronavirus pandemic slowly and very cautiously returning us to a still-restricted and carefully monitored everyday lifestyle, our volunteers took the opportunity to remember the many great members of our organization who passed away in the last year. With all members spaced for social distance, and wearing masks, First Assistant Chief Paul Kosiba called the membership to attention. Amid all the preparation, planning, and re-written pandemic related policies that has brought our fire depart-

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FireFighterS Saluted aS the headquarters bell was struck on the announcement of each firefighter passed. ment to a new level of care for our community, while taking unprecedented actions to protect themselves, finally a moment for all members to feel something that we can build upon. Yes, we still have a deep concern. With the arrival of the Flu season, the next few months will likely add to the story, of how much more we may need to endure, and for how long. But on this morning, Chief of Department James Walsh, whose work for our department and community has been of a

strictly business nature, without the fanfare of being properly honored as our highest in command, this day had as much meaning for our chief as anyone in attendance. Sad as it may be, that his proudest moment to speak before our membership was to honor past members, it was also a privilege to remember them in an official ceremony. With the presenting of our nation’s colors by the EMFD color guard, the laying of wreathes, the singing of our national

anthem, the playing of taps, and the white gloved hand salute as the memorial bell was struck to the announcement of each member of the past, it was a tribute ceremony in deed for many deserving and dedicated members. The ceremony included speeches of inspiration and gratitude from Chief James Walsh and Chairman of the Board James Surless, for the outstanding efforts of our members in the past year. Our prayer was led by Rabbi Dr Ronald Androphy as the membership removed their hats. The ceremony also included a moment for Chief Walsh, accompanied by Board Chairman James Surless, to inspect the appearance of each member in perfect formation of social distance, as done in all years past. A moment in time every past EMFD fire chief no doubt vividly remembers. Our thanks to our membership, our chiefs, board of fire commissioners, and fire district staff, for continuing to move us through this health crisis, and providing our organization with a path of direction as we hopefully make our return to normal living. In closing, we ask our residents to please continue to wear your masks, follow social distancing guidelines, stay home if you are ill, and avoid any large gathering.

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Experts discuss your health and wealth By Briana Bonfiglio bbonfiglio@liherald.com

RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers presented “50 Plus Health and Wealth,” a virtual event featuring speakers from the healthcare, wellness and elder law sectors, on Oct. 14. In 2018, RichnerLive launched Senior Health Expos, which invited the community to meet with health experts at venues in Nassau County every few months. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the event was modified to fit an online platform, and attendees took part through Zoom. Cassena Care, Ronald Fatoullah & Associates, Comprehensive Audiology and UnitedHealthcare sponsored the event. Experts spoke about the changes in their fields, including George Zaharioudakis, vice president of SNF operations of Theradynamics at Cassena Care; attorney Ronald Fatoullah, founder of Ronald Fatoullah & Associates; Dr. Esther Fogel, owner and director of Comprehensive Audiology; attorney Robert Harper, partner at Farrell Fritz P.C.; Josiane PelusoTomczyk, medicare sales director for New York City and Long Island at UnitedHealthcare Government Programs; and Ashley Straw, founder of Flow and Restore, a holistic wellness practice. Skye Ostreicher, of RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers, moderated the event. She announced prizes awarded to several attendees and took questions from viewers. First, Straw led participants through a breathing exercise of lengthening exhales — by pushing more air out than normal — to deepen the breath. Then Ostreicher kicked off the conversation and asked the speakers about how Covid-19 has impacted their services. Cassena Care, a line of nursing homes in New York and Connecticut, had “very large challenges to overcome,” Zaharioudakis said, including admitting people, discharging them, acquiring personal protective equipment and controlling the spread of infection through isolation. “It took a lot of coordination and communication,” he said. “A lot of people in the communities stepped up and came up with creative ideas to solve these problems.” In all fields, workers and patients have

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CloCkwise from top left: George Zaharioudakis, vice president of SNF operations of Theradynamics at Cassena Care; Skye Ostreicher, the panel’s moderator; attorney Ronald Fatoullah, founder of Ronald Fatoullah & Associates; Dr. Esther Fogel, owner and director of Comprehensive Audiology; Josiane Peluso-Tomczyk, medicare sales director for New York City and Long Island at UnitedHealthcare Government Programs; and attorney Robert Harper, partner at Farrell Fritz P.C., discussed health and wealth during the coronavirus pandemic on Oct. 14. had to adapt and, in many cases, switch services to a virtual setting, which has often been a benefit. People can now have documents like wills and Medicaid trusts signed, notarized with witnesses and approved from home. “Since March, we’ve been doing as many consultations as we can through Zoom or FaceTime, whatever someone feels comfortable with,” Fatoullah said. “As an elder law attorney, our clients range anywhere from 40s and 50s to last week, we had a client that was 107 — but we’re doing Zoom. It’s wonderful.” Harper agreed — his firm has held virtual conferences via Microsoft Teams and Skype, other video call apps that have become useful during the pandemic. “Options that one never would have thought about months ago are now readily

available in our field,” he said. “Clients are saving travel time. These are efficiencies that we didn’t have before the pandemic.” Peluso-Tomczyk noted the pandemic has also caused more people to apply and stay on Medicaid. More people are becoming unemployed and applying for Medicaid; additionally, the yearly recertification process has been delayed so people will not lose their coverage during the pandemic. Though many of these logistical aspects of health and wealth have seen improvements, those 50 and older are at higher risk of more severe illness when contracting Covid-19. Fatoullah said his longtime secretary and brother have both died from the virus. “It’s affected my firm and me personally,” he said. “It’s been tough in that respect.” Covid-19 has caused many to stay at

home more than they typically would to avoid catching the virus and becoming ill. The panel discussed the implications of that and how to combat some common health issues. Fogel spoke about how the pandemic has brought new struggles to those with hearing loss. In isolation, many rely on phone calls with friends and family to stay connected, but those with hearing loss cannot always use the telephone to communicate. Even when those with hearing loss leave the house, masks can muffle the sound of people’s voices and make it harder to hear, she said. “If you’re stuck at home and you want to communicate with friends and family, we recommend using some sort of video communication,” Fogel said. “Being able to see their face makes it easier to have a conversation. We also offer free captioning phones for our patients.” Fogel’s audiology office is offering inperson and telemedicine appointments for those who need a screening or repairs to their hearing aids. The panel also discussed fall prevention for seniors. “Falls are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries in the elderly, which can lead to avoidable hospitalizations,” Peluso-Tomczyk said. “We want to see our seniors in the best health possible.” Zaharioudakis noted that handrails, shower bars and proper lighting help prevent falls. He also said rugs should be stabilized, and layout and placement of everyday items should be checked to ensure a healthy flow of movement. Fogel said hearing plays a part in balance, which is related to fall prevention. Taking care of any hearing problems early on can help prevent future loss of cognitive function, she said. There are also exercises that can support balance, and Straw led a movement to stretch the spine to close out the event. “Enough cannot be said about the health benefits of movement,” she said. “Exercise increases the flow of chemicals called endorphins to the brain that lift our mood. Movement through the body encourages important energy strengths like circulation and the lymphatic systems to do their job in clearing out toxins in the body.” For more information about RichnerLive’s virtual events, visit richnerlive. com/virtualevents.

UBS Arena’s leadership team growing Four executives have been named to the UBS Arena’s leadership team, New York Arena Partners announced Oct. 14. Mark Shulman has joined the team as senior vice president of programming; Michael Sciortino is now senior vice president of operations; Ethan Brown is senior vice president of marketing and community relations; and Zane Parry is vice president of finance. Shulman and Sciortino have backgrounds in the sports and entertainment industry, while Brown has had previous

marketing experience with the New York Islanders and has held leadership positions with Pacer Sports & Entertainment and Unilever. Shulman has managed a variety of projects over his 25-year career, including musical festivals, major venue developments and high-profile stadium concerts. Before joining the UBS team, he established the Anschutz Entertainment Group office in New York, where he expanded the company’s footprint into multiple cities through acquisitions and

booking partnerships, and as senior vice president of the East Coast, he supervised thousands of mainstream concert bookings, while promoting several national tours and shows at MetLife Stadium, the Great Lawn in Central Park, Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. “I’m thrilled to be joining the entertainment team at UBS Arena,” Shulman said in a statement. “The music industry is poised to have an incredible resurgence, and we anticipate consumers and

fans to be yearning to experience live entertainment by the time UBS Arena is open next fall.” Sciortino, meanwhile, has worked as vice president of operations at Golden State’s Chase Center, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations. “I’m excited to be back here in New York working with this team at UBS Arena,” he said. “This is a long time coming for the New York Islanders and their fans.” –Melissa Koenig

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Election Day is a little less than two weeks away, but thanks to a series of reforms passed by the State Legislature in 2019, Nassau County residents can vote before Nov. 3. Starting Saturday, Oct. 24, residents can head to one of 15 polling sites to cast their votes for the Nov. 3 election during a nine-day early-voting period. The process was introduced in New York state last year as part of a series of reforms intended to make voting easier for people who struggle to get to the polls on Election Day. The nine-day schedule offers 83 hours of early voting — 60 are required — including evenings and weekends through Sunday, Nov. 1 (see map). Registered voters may cast their ballots at any of the listed locations, but if they do not, they must vote at their regular polling place on Nov. 3. Residents will verify their voter registration on iPads, or electronic poll books, which have replaced physical poll books at each early-voting site and regular polling place. Using a stylus, poll inspectors will assist voters in signing their names and confirming their identities. Once their signatures are approved, the poll inspector will print ballots from a ballot-

on-demand printer. “No matter where you go, you’re getting your ballot,” said James Scheuerman, the Democratic commissioner for the Board of Elections. Scheuerman also said that if residents submit their ballots during the early-voting period, it precludes them from voting on Election Day. “The poll pads sync up,” he said, “so after you vote, other poll books around the county, within one minute, will know that you voted to guard against double voting.” Residents who have questions about the county’s early-voting procedures can visit www.nassauvotes.com. The Board of Elections has advised voters that some states that have already begun their early-voting period have reported significant lines at polling sites. To ensure ballots are cast at legitimate polling stations or deposited in legitimate drop-off boxes, voters are advised to be attentive. Report any suspicious activities or efforts to interfere with or disrupt voting immediately. If in doubt, or to report any issues, please call the Nassau County Board of Elections: (516) 571-8683 for English; or La Junta Electoral Condado Nassau en Español: (516) 571-1245. Information provided the Nassau County Board of Elections. Map by Christina Daly/Herald

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ToH OKs $453.5M budget — taxes are flat By TimoThy denTon tdenton@liherald.com

The Hempstead Town Board unanimously approved a $453.5 million budget for 2021 on Oct. 13. The budget represents a $16 million increase from last year’s $437 million approved budget, but is $11 million less than the current projected 2020 budget of $464.5 million. The $27 million — a difference of 6.1 percent — is because of unforeseen expenses from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Town Comptroller John Mastromarino. “That’s the projected budget,” Mastromarino cautioned. “We still have more donald than two months until the end of the year; we don’t know what could happen between now and then.” Mastromarino’s caution underscored the difficulty in preparing a balanced budget in the face of the biggest disaster to befall the town’s economy in 100 years. “We really have to look to the [1918-19] flu pandemic to see anything like what we’re facing now,” Mastromarino said. With the support of the board’s lone Democrat, Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, the budget was billed as bipartisan. Goosby has sided with the Republican majority on all but a handful of

issues in the past two years. The property tax levy for 2021 is flat, year over year, at $253.1 million. Total levies, including funding for the Highway and Sanitation departments, come to $341 million. Cost savings included $6 million from a reduction of 37 positions from the town’s workforce of 1,781 employees, and $750,000 in debt service. In the face of the coronavirus, the town’s fund balance — its emergency fund — which had been projected to grow to $5 million in 2020, will finish the year $7.5 million in the red. Next year, that deficit is projected to grow by a further $12 million, to $19.5 million, Mastromarino said. X. Clavin Moody’s Investors Service cited the town’s minimal reserves as an area of concern in last year’s rating upgrade, saying that deterioration could lead to a potential downgrade. However, the rating agency has taken no action to date. The town received $134 million in federal CARES Act funding, Mastromarino said. Much of the one-time grant has yet to be allocated, he said, but the town has used revenue to support local hospitals and food banks, as well as purchasing personal protective equipment kits for villages and local businesses. The grant has also been used to make town facilities safer, Mastromarino said.

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The Town of Hempstead Board passed its tentative 2021 budget unanimously, but Comptroller John Mastromarino cautioned that the Covid crisis may add complcations. For example, “we’ve installed filtration systems in buildings with central air conditioning. From all we’ve learned, buildings with central climate control represent one of the greatest dangers for airborne Covid transmission,” he said. CARES funding has also been used to increase the town’s deep-cleaning efforts at its facilities.

In common with other state and local governments, the town’s efforts to prepare realistic balanced budgets in the face of the Covid-19 crisis has become complicated, Mastromarino conceded, adding that continued assistance from the federal government would be critical in addressing the demands of the pandemic.

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Ignatius Muscarella

Darlene Harris

Lisa Cairo

Running on the Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Independence party lines

Running on Democratic, Republican, Conservative and Independence Party lines

Running on Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Independence party lines in the general election

Age: 63

Age: 54

Age: 43

Lives in: Town of Hempstead

Lives in: Uniondale

Lives in: Garden City

Education: Bachelor’s degree, Bowdoin College; law degree, New York University Law School

Education: Bachelor’s degree, University of Pennsylvania, 1986; law degree, Hofstra University School of Law, 1989

Education: Bachelor’s degree, Loyola College in Maryland, 1999; law degree, Hofstra University School of Law, 2002

Legal career: Between 1982 and 2007, Ignatius Muscarella served as a law clerk for three justices of the New York Supreme Court. From 2008 to 2013, he was a guardianship referee, and from January 2014 to his start on the Nassau County 10th District Court in 2015, he was a court attorney referee. In 2008, Muscarella was honored for Professionalism & Community Services by the Court Officers’ Benevolent Association, and in 2004 he received the Merit Performance Award for Community Service and Humanitarian Pursuits by the New York State Court System.

Legal career: Darlene Harris is currently a Nassau County District Court judge, and was elected to the post in 2014. From 1991 to 1994, she served as senior court attorney for the District Court Law Department; from 1995 to 1996, as the Town of Hempstead’s deputy attorney; and from 1996 to 1999 as a Nassau County legislator. In 1997, she opened a private law practice, which she maintained through 2010. From 2010 to 2014, she was chair of the Nassau County Assessment Review Commission.

Legal career: Lisa Cairo began her career in 2003 as an associate at Chris J. Coschignano P.C., handling civil litigation with a focus on matrimonial cases, municipal applications and real estate transactions. In 2006, she became an associate at Jaspan Schlesinger LLP in the firm’s matrimonial practice group. In 2011, she became a partner in the firm’s municipal law, litigation and real estate practice groups. She is also a member of the firm’s management committee.

County Court Judge Vote for two

Robert Pipia

Tricia Ferrell

Running on the Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Independence party lines

Caryn Fink Running on the Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Independence party lines Age: 53

Age: 56

Age: 47

Lives in: Roslyn Heights

Lives in: Levittown

Lives in: Uniondale

Education: Bachelor’s degree, SUNY Albany, 1987; law degree, Hofstra University, 1992

Education: Bachelor’s degree, City College of New York, 1995; law degree Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1998

Legal career: From to 1993 to 1994, Robert Pipia served as a law assistant for the Town of Hempstead attorney’s office. In February 1994, Hempstead Presiding Supervisor Gregory Peterson appointed him as the Hempstead Town Board counsel. He became deputy town attorney in 2000. He was also executive assistant to Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray. In 2014, Pipia was elected Nassau County District Court judge, a position he still holds. He has also served as a member of the State Rehabilitation Council, which was the oversight agency for Vocational and Education Services for Individuals with Disabilities, a division of the New York State Department of Education. And he is a member of the Hofstra Law Alumni Association board of directors.

Legal career: Tricia Ferrel began her legal career in 1998 as an assistant Nassau County district attorney. She served in that role until 2005. She was the Village of Hempstead attorney from 2005 to 2006. She became the Nassau County director of compliance from 2006 to 2008. She was appointed by Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi as a Nassau County District Court judge in 2008, and was re-elected to the post in 2009 and 2014.

Legal career: Caryn Fink started her legal career from 1993 to 2000 as an assistant district attorney and senior trial attorney in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. From 2006 to 2013, she was an assistant district attorney in the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office, Rackets Bureau/Labor Unit. And from 2013 to now, she has been the principal law clerk for the Hon. Helene Gugerty, a New York State Supreme justice.

Chris Hoefenkrieg Running on the Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Independence party lines Age: 53 Lives in: Roslyn Heights Education: Bachelor’s degree, SUNY Albany, 1990; law degree, St. John’s University, 1994.

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Legal career: Chris Hoefenkrieg has been an associate court attorney in the Law Department of Nassau County Court since 2004. In addition to his duties as associate court attorney, he was assigned to work as a law clerk for 14 different County Court judges when their own law clerks were unavailable because of sickness, vacation or military leave.

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John Mikulin

imperiled public safety more than any other legislation in Incumbent OFFICE memory. While reforms were Electores Presidenciales needed, according to MikuParties: Republican, ConPara Presidente y Vice lin, what was enacted went Presidente servative, Independence beyond what was necessary. (Vote por uno) Age: 32 He would work to repeal the Democratic OFFICIAL BALLOT law and replace it, if re- Democratic 1 Professional experience: FOR GENERAL ELECTION elected, he said. Electors For New York State assemblyman Joseph R. Biden Mikulin favors lowering November 3, 2020 For President taxes, saying that raising Education: Bachelor’s Kamala D. Harris A NASSAU COUNTY For Vice President taxes now could force many Degree, St. John’s University; with precautionary restricRepublican BOARD OF ELECTIONS to leave New York and expelaw degree, Touro Law Center tions. Republican 1 dite the exodus that has He recognizes that Long Electors For been occurring over the last Island is an expensive place On the issues: Donald J. Trump Bellmore 15 years. In addition, he For President to live, making it difficult for John Mikulin said his first Michael R. Pence wants to focus on Long B priority is to ensure everyone young people and older For Vice President Island’s education system, adults to stay here. Mikulin is safe from contracting the Conservative Conservative recognizing the burden that said he believes thought coronavirus. He helped 1 the pandemic has placed should be given to expandobtain personal protective Electors For INSTRUCTIONS Donald J. Trump on districts. Schools must ing senior and millennial equipment for local busiFor President Tonesses vote forand a candidate whoseand name ishousing, not printed on the mark the oval to the left be given support not only to citing theballot, redevelinstitutions, Michael R. Pence C ofplans ‘write-in’ and print the name clearly, staying within the box. Any mark or writing outside expand technology, he said opment at the Nassau Colito continue to ensure For Vice President the spaces providedand for voting the entire You havefora right to replacement Working Families heabelieves, but also be Working seum as anballot. opportunity that businesses first may void with the tools Families innovative housing. ballot. If you make mistake or want to change your vote, call the board ofprovided elections at 1 responders havea needed Electors For to maintain physical year, Mikulin PPE.571-2411 for instructions on how toThis (516) obtain a new ballot.has The numberneeded of choices is Joseph R. Biden facilities been of the bail alsoDo advocatFor President listedMikulin for eachhas contest. not mark for morecritical candidates than allowed. If you do, youramid vote the pandemic so all students can return Kamala D. Harris restaurants bowl- reform legislation passed in D ined thatforcontest will notand count. For Vice President to the classroom. 2019, saying that it has ing alleys to be reopened Green Green

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Randy Sue Marber

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Kathy G. Bergmann

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Independence cap the properThis is not an actual ballot, but a composite of several permanantly sample ballots ty-tax levy cap at 2 percent so as to Incumbent reflect all the districts within the communities covered by and continue middle-class your edition of the Herald. tax cuts. He voted against G Party: Democrat tax hikes over Complete reporting on candidates running in districts covered by 40 times, while delivering Nassau “its Age:Herald 36 the – as well as the full text of our endorsements in each fair share of state resources,” race – may be found at LIHerald.com under the Elections ’20 tab. Professional experience: he said, noting, “I believe inWrite-In For election after the polls close Tuesday night, State senator,results former civil smart affordable transitrights attorney go to LIHerald.com. based housing development,

Kevin Thomas

Education: Bachelor of Science, St. John’s University; law degree, Western Michigan University Cooley Law School

and I secured $225,000 for a housing study for the Town of Hempstead.” Thomas also said he helped secure “record school aid for Nassau County,” and over $500 million to clean up the Grumman-U.S. Navy underground toxic plume, which is spreading from Bethpage to Wantagh. Saving Nassau University Medical Center is also a top priority for his next term. “I will continue to fight to protect our taxpayers, bring the school and infrastructure funding our district deserves,” he said.

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Michael Shannon’s business East Meadow Upholsterers is approaching its 70th year of operation, making it among the oldest businesses in East Meadow. Despite the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on small businesses and the tool the virus took on him personally — he was sick with Covid-19 for 14 days in March — he has pushed to keep his business thriving. Shannon recently spoke to the Herald about his bout with Covid-19 and how he has run business since reopening in June. Shannon’s birthday and 60th anniversary with his wife was approaching in March and he had planned to travel to Aruba to celebrate. On March 25, however, he was slammed by a sever fever and had to close his shop and send home his upholsterer Ziya Sinik. For the next 14 days, his fever was stagnant and he would spend hours basking in the sun to try to bake it out of him, he said. “There were a couple of times I was in a very scary situation,” he said. “I had blue around my eyes and my mouth because of a lack of oxygen.” Shannon’s wife Debrah had a milder case of the virus and, he said, “She nursed me back to health.” When Shannon recovered, business shutdowns were in place and he had to keep his store closed until restrictions began to lift in June. In the interim, he spent every

day cleaning his shop and clearing it of decades-old material he no longer needed. Then, once he reopened, “the phone didn’t stop ringing and it still hasn’t stopped,” he said, adding that old and new clients alike had been waiting to have their furniture upholstered and were finally able to get it done. The summer is usually a busy time for outdoor furniture and this year was even busier, he said. Shannon brought back his upholsterer Sinik, a Turkish businessman who owned and operated a successful upholstery business in his home country. “He’s a good man,” Shannon said. “He’s worked for me for 22 years and I saved furniture aside so he had stuff to work on when he got back.” Shannon began working at East Meadow Upholsterers in 1981 and become its owner in 1987, taking over for his father-in-law, Louis Ferrari, who opened the business in 1951 and was president of the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce in 1962 and 1963. Shannon, who is also active in the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce, had planned to become an electrician, like many others in his family. But he learned upholstery after marrying Ferrari’s daughter Debrah, and saw it as a profitable venture, he said. Now, he said, he feels connected to East Meadow’s history and an integral part of the community. “It’s a nice feeling being back out there and getting to say I survived this,” he said.

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he first thing on my mind as the pandemic was breaking out was keeping students at forefront, because they were learning all new technology. I found myself working with my colleagues 12 to 15 hours a day learning the programs to then impart to my students. I also had to make sure the parents of the students understood what was going on as well. I had FaceTimes with all parents to teach a lesson on how to use the computer. If I found out a family didn’t have certain materials, I would go and drop it off to their homes, because I live here in North Merrick. We also dropped off little treats and personalized rocks so they would know that the teachers were thinking of them. I’m honestly shocked that I’m being acknowledged because I think everyone was amazing, and my coworkers and I worked collaboratively through the whole thing. The teachers in North Merrick also had auctions every other Friday, and the proceeds went to the Bellmore-Merrick Community Cupboard. They reached out to us and said they had a great need, so everyone came together and did something that gave us a little joy but also benefitted our whole community. I think that that is the number one trait that I have, is that I give back to my community and my students, because that’s what I was taught and how I was raised. In the summer, it was nice that I could spend time with my husband and children and go back to basics of old-fashioned family dinners.

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hroughout the pandemic, Kiwanis International has encouraged clubs that couldn’t meet in person to meet over virtual platforms, with Zoom being the most favored. The pandemic created many opportunities for services going back to March, and Kiwanis clubs all over remained active. We have an Italy-San Marino district, which began raising money for ventilators when Italy was in the throes of the virus in mid-March. In East Meadow, the Kiwanis club teamed up with [Borrelli’s Italian Restaurant] and raised thousands of dollars to cook meals for first responders. We also have leadership service clubs in schools, and we’ve been helping them continue to provide services when schools were closed or extracurricular clubs couldn’t meet. We’ve created web-based kits to allow school clubs to function virtually. We just launched the Youth Leadership Development curriculum, which allows students to learn youth leadership skills for college credit. There are all kinds of courses kids could attend from home and add to their transcript. Some clubs have started meeting in person, and some also stream their meetings on Facebook live for those who aren’t comfortable being there in person. So many have moved to a hybrid model. Challenges always bring about new opportunities. While we couldn’t be in person, we could attend meetings and conference with people when we wouldn’t normally think about doing that. I recently attended a meeting of a Colorado Kiwanis club and another of a club in Nepal before that.

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ohn Jacobsen, a U.S. Army veteran, has served as a Freeport Police Officer for almost 30 years. He spent most of his career in the Patrol Division and Community Response Unit. After being promoted to sergeant in 2013, Jacobsen began serving as the commanding officer of the Motorcycle Squad and as the police department’s representative to the Freeport Emergency Management Team. He recently became a supervisor of detectives in the Detective Division. As the pandemic began shutting down the village, Jacobsen worked with the Emergency Management Team to ensure that Freeport officers were all equipped with proper personal protective equipment to help protect officers and combat the spread of the coronavrius in Freeport. The village was the third-hardest hit community in Nassau County, with dozens of new cases being reported every day during the height of the pandemic. Freeport officers were at the forefront of the village’s Coronavirus Task Force, assisting paramedics who tended to and transported the sick. Several officers contracted the virus, but were able to recover and return to work after quarantine. For his work in helping to protect his fellow officers, Jacobsen was honored as a “Covid Hero” by Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé.

ottie Weremeyshik spent 47 years at PSEG-LI and its predecessors, starting with Brooklyn Union Gas Co., and has raised more than $40,000 for various causes, including more than $13,000 for breast cancer charities. I started working for Brooklyn Union Gas in 1972. Except for four years at an engineering firm that supported the gas industry, I spent my whole career at PSEG or the various companies that became PSEG. It was a great place to work. They took good care of me and treated me with respect. I was a cost analyst, which means I monitored the projects in their capital budget. With my [two] daughters, I always did a lot of little extras, helping out with school dances, things like that. Once they were grown ad married, I didn’t feel as needed. Two close family members had breast cancer, so I did the Avon [39] Walk. It’s a 39-mile walk in 24 hours or less around Manhattan. This year, it was a virtual walk, because of Covid, so I walked 39 miles around Wantagh. The first year, I raised $1,800. That got me wanting to do more. I thought about how I could do more, so I asked PSEG if I could set up a little snack stand. I ended up with two by the time I retired last August, just little snack items. I raised more than $42,000 for various charities by the time I retired. The biggest ones — besides breast cancer, I raised about $8,100 for food pantries and $6,800 for the March of Dimes.

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Stop & Shop, L.I. Cares Herald ScHoolS distribute treats for kids Districts introduces its library on wheels What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

Elementary schools throughout the East Meadow School District have been safely distributing books to students with a “library on wheels.” Frank Lukasik, the district’s director of literacy and funded programs, along with Jim Mendonis, the director of social studies and 21st century learning, and district librarians, devised this plan to ensure students could continue to have access to reading. Ellen O’Neill, the librarian at George McVey Elementary School, considers this mobile asset to be vitally important. “It was priority number one to get books in the hands of as many of our students as we could,” she said. “It was a sense of normalcy for children returning to school.” Every morning, O’Neill curates a collection of books for students in Courtesy East Meadow School District grades K-5. Since students are not cureLLen o’neILL, the librarian at George McVey rently permitted to visit the library, her mode of delivery is a 70-pound cart, Elementary School in East Meadow delivered which she pushes around the school to books to students with a “library on wheels.” visit each class. must do so again before they return to The thoughtful selection of titles for the cart is based on such factors as grade their desks. Although curating a specific and safe level and interest. There are also favorite authors, series and characters. The cart library cart for multiple classes is a returns the power of choice to students in tedious task, O’Neill said, she recalled how their reading, something that is very one student’s reaction made it all worth it. “The first child that went up to the cart important to the district. “Before school closures, students had and took a book off, the smile was absolutemultiple opportunities to shop for books in ly beautiful,” she said. “This little child our classrooms and school libraries, but was hugging the book.” Another focus of this initiative was the pandemic changed all of that,” Lukasik said. “Our focus on student choice and equity of materials for students learning helping kids get quality texts remains a from home. Utilizing the Sora K-12 reading app from OverDrive, O’Neill has her priority.” Through the pandemic, an attention to remote students digitally check out the cleanliness and safety was also taken into same titles she offers to her in-person stuconsideration when planning the distribu- dents. The students who tune into class tion of books. O’Neill “quarantines” books virtually are able to read along, forging a before and after they are checked out by vital connection to the classroom and to students. Additionally, students are reading. required to wash and sanitize their hands –Brian Stieglitz before making their selection, and then

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Stop & Shop and Long Island Cares, Inc., officials gathered outside LI Cares’ food pantry in Freeport to announce their Halloween Trick-or-Treat program last Friday. Stop & Shop has provided 500,000 goodie bags to LI Cares, who will be distributing the treats to children throughout Long Island through their pop-up food pantry sites and mobile pantry programs in October. “These are challenging times, and with that comes a responsibility to take extra precautions to protect our children’s health, as well as their happiness,” said Stefanie Shuman, Stop & Shop’s community relations manager. “We are also grateful to have such wonderful vendor partners who donated so generously to help ensure Long Island kids in need have a happy Halloween.” “It is essential that we provide children with a sense of normalcy even during a pandemic,” added Paule T. Pachter, CEO of Long Island Cares, Inc. “Stop & Shop’s generosity and its continued support of our mission will allow us to provide kids with a fun Halloween experience but in a manner that allows us to protect their health and safety.” Distribution sites for the goodie bags include: ■ Long Beach Distribution Center - 650

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Long IsLand Cares partnered with Stop & Shop to distribute Halloween goodie bags at their food pantry in Freeport on Oct. 16. Magnolia Ave, Long Beach ■ 5 Towns Community Center - 270 Lawrence Ave, Lawrence ■ Presbyterian Church of Valley Stream - 130 Central Ave, Valley Stream ■ LIC Center for Collaborative Assistance- 21 East Sunrise Highway, Freeport ■ LIC South Shore Service Center, 163-1 North Wellwood Avenue, Lindenhurst ■ LIC Super Pantry- 386 N. Wantagh Ave., Bethpage

Information to identify the case: Debtor: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York EIN: 11-1837437 United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York Date case filed for chapter 11: 10/01/2020 Case Number: 20 - 12345 Official Form 309F1 (For Corporations or Partnerships) Notice of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case 10/20 For the debtor listed above, a case has been filed under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. An order for relief has been entered. This notice has important information about the case for creditors and debtors, including information about the meeting of creditors and deadlines. Read both pages carefully. The filing of the case imposed an automatic stay against most collection activities. This means that creditors generally may not take action to collect debts from the debtor or the debtor’s property. For example, while the stay is in effect, creditors cannot sue, assert a deficiency, repossess property, or otherwise try to collect from the debtor. Creditors cannot demand repayment from the debtor by mail, phone, or otherwise. Creditors who violate the stay can be required to pay actual and punitive damages and attorney’s fees. Confirmation of a chapter 11 plan may result in a discharge of debt. A creditor who wants to have a particular debt excepted from discharge may be required to file a complaint in the bankruptcy clerk’s office within the deadline specified in this notice. (See line 11 below for more information.) To protect your rights, consult an attorney. All documents filed in the case may be inspected at the bankruptcy clerk’s office at the address listed below or through PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records at https://pacer.uscourts.gov). The staff of the bankruptcy clerk’s office cannot give legal advice. Do not file this notice with any proof of claim or other filing in the case. 1. Debtor’s Full name: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York 2. All other names used in the last 8 years: Diocese of Rockville Centre 3. Address: 50 North Park Avenue, Rockville, NY 11570 4. Debtor’s attorney: Jones Day, Attn: Corinne Ball, 250 Vesey Street, New York, NY 11570, Phone: (212) 326 – 3939, Email: cball@jonesday.com 5. Bankruptcy clerk’s office: US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004-1408, Hours open: Monday – Friday, 8:30 AM (ET) – 5:00 PM (ET), Contact phone: (212) 668 - 2870. Documents in this case may be filed at this address. You may inspect all records filed in this case at this office or online at https://pacer.uscourts.gov. 6. Meeting of creditors: November 5, 2020 at 12 PM (ET), Location: The meeting of creditors will be conducted by telephone conference. The Office of the United States Trustee will provide dial-in instructions prior to the meeting. The debtor’s representative must attend the meeting to be questioned under oath. Creditors may attend, but are not required to do so. The meeting may be continued or adjourned to a later date. If so, the date will be on the court docket. 7. Proof of claim deadline. Deadline for filing of proof of claim: Not yet set. If a deadline is set, notice will be sent at a later time. A proof of claim is a signed statement describing a creditor’s claim. A proof of claim form may be obtained at www.uscourts.gov or any bankruptcy clerk’s office. Your claim will be allowed in the amount scheduled unless: your claim is designated as disputed, contingent, or unliquidated; you file a proof of claim in a different amount; or you receive another notice. If your claim is not scheduled or if your claim is designated as disputed, contingent, or unliquidated, you must file a proof of claim or you might not be paid on your claim and you might be unable to vote on a plan. You may file a proof of claim even if your claim is scheduled. You may review the schedules at the bankruptcy clerk’s office or online at https://pacer.uscourts.gov. Secured creditors retain rights in their collateral regardless of whether they file a proof of claim. Filing a proof of claim submits a creditor to the jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court, with consequences a lawyer can explain. For example, a secured creditor who files a proof of claim may surrender important nonmonetary rights, including the right to a jury trial. 8. Exception to discharge deadline: If § 523(c) applies to your claim and you seek to have it excepted from discharge, you must start a judicial proceeding by filing a complaint by the deadline stated below. 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ome who are opposed to Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination are blurring the line between confirming a justice to fill a vacancy and the so-called “packing” of the court. Using this nomination to justify court packing would be a huge mistake. The real underlying issues relate to checks and balances and separation of powers. These are ideas that are embedded in our constitutional system of government. They’re essential to the successful American experience in alfonSe representative govd’amaTo ernment. The continued success of this experience depends on all of us abiding by these basic principles. Without checks, balance is threatened. Without separation, power is unfettered. Our founders understood that. They deliberately divided our national government into three branches designed to balance one another against the accumulation of too much power in one place or person. That’s why we have a president, not a king; a Congress, not a politburo; and an independent judiciary, not star chambers or kangaroo courts. If we knock one leg

off this executive/legislative/judicial stool, the whole thing tips over. That’s what could happen if our leaders in Washington go down the path of tinkering too much with our carefully checked and balanced system — if they fail to maintain the deliberate separation of powers. The most recent example is talk of increasing the size of the Supreme Court. The argument goes like this: Since Republicans are pushing through a conservative Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Democrats would be justified in expanding the size of the court with liberal justices to offset its conservative tilt. This tit-for-tat approach may sound appealing to Democrats, but it could easily lead to an unraveling of the balance of power in Washington, remaking the Supreme Court into not an equal branch of government, but an appendage of executive and congressional will. Suppose Democrats sweep to power in Washington next month, winning control of both the White House and Congress, and the court is increased from nine to 11 members by this one-party government. It may more easily bend to the will of Congress and the president, but it will have lost its essential independence as a co-

equal branch. It will in essence have become an arm of the other two branches. Fast-forward a few years and imagine the presidency and Congress swinging back to Republican control. The new oneparty government decides to increase the court from 11 members to 13 to get its pet initiatives through. It passes a different health care bill and changes the abortion laws, and then guarantees their passing Constitutional muster by loading the court with sympathetic justices. Over time the Supreme Court becomes a bloated mess, with 17 or 19 justices, or whatever number is needed to uphold the policies of the contemporaneous administration and Congress. America came perilously close to this situation once before. In the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt was frustrated that the Supreme Court struck down some of his New Deal initiatives as unconstitutional. When FDR tried to pack the court with sympathetic judges, the national backlash was swift and certain. FDR wisely backed down, and judicial independence was maintained. Maybe we Americans take our form of government too much for granted. We expect it to survive another 200 years just because it’s already lasted well over 200. Yet what Congress and the president do

f Democrats win big and ‘pack’ the Supreme Court, where might that lead?

can imperil our constitutional government. Congress, in particular, should resist the temptation to change its own self-limiting rules. The current Supreme Court controversy began when then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took advantage of his Democratic majority to remove the requirement of 60 votes to confirm District Court nominees. When the Senate swung back to Republican control, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decided to remove this 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court justices as well. That’s why Coney Barrett will likely be confirmed before the election. The next step in eroding the 60-vote requirement for Senate action would be to eliminate its application not just to judicial appointments but to all other legislative actions as well. That might sound appealing to the leaders of the next Senate majority, but it could come back to haunt them, too. Majorities shift with elections, and minority rights and privileges look a lot better when you’re in the minority. As someone who lived with both the pluses and minuses of the Senate’s higher threshold for action, I know that tinkering with power is tempting. It’s also dangerous. Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com.

When real-life horrors outdo Halloween

eally, could you make up Donald Trump if he didn’t already exist? What book publisher in their right mind or movie producer hoping for a hit would create a character as unlikely as the Republicans’ very own Great Pumpkin on steroids? Imagine this: Hungry screenwriter pitches a story to movie mogul: “See, you have this superrich guy who decides to run for Randi president against kReiSS 17 other candidates seeking the GOP nomination. He has some problems, sure, some ADD maybe, some narcissistic personality disorder, some grandiosity. Yeah, I’m pretty sure there’s tape out there of him bragging about grabbing women’s genitals and getting away with it because he’s a star. History? Not his strong suit. Also, yeah, he has no experience at all in government or foreign affairs. “He did host a reality TV show. And he has experience hosting the Miss Universe pageant, which will help when

negotiating with Russia, Syria and Iraq. “He’s planning to build a wall along the border with Mexico, lower taxes on the rich, create a religious test for immigrants trying to get to America. Also, there are TV clips of him gyrating while mocking a disabled reporter, and, yes, he did insult the Gold Star parents of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq. “OK, OK, he isn’t perfect, but he is flamboyant, and a fast talker, and he knows how to gin up a crowd, even inciting anger and violence, which will make for a great plot line, maybe even ending in another American Revolution.” Would any publisher or producer want to invest in this preposterous story? And wait, there’s more. He not only wins the nomination of his party, he wins the 2016 election and becomes the 45th president, a profoundly unprepared, uncouth, blatantly racist xenophobe. Then, get this, he runs for a second term. Sorry, Halloween 2020, you’ve been hijacked by the facts on the ground. Nothing can be as horrific as real life in the midst of a global pandemic in a country abused by an inept leader.

Between the last election and this year, certain bedrock beliefs, such as the peaceful transition of power, have been challenged. Double double toil and trouble. From which caldron did he pull the idea to destabilize the country by sowing hatred and fear? Halloween, can you really do better than that? Fake Freddy Krueger fingernails and monster teeth just don’t cut it anymore. This year, thanks to the worrisome spiking of the Covid-19 virus, most children won’t have the fun of going door to door. The trick is on the innocent kids who might have been living in an entirely different environment if a competent and forthright president had taken charge early on to fight the pandemic in a smart and scientific way. Halloween tricks seem old school. Egging a car? Toilet paper in the trees? You call those tricks? They’re lame when compared with Russia hacking the election, the GOP placing fake ballot boxes around California and the leader of the free world coyly encouraging a wacko fringe group like QAnon. Now those tricks get everyone’s attention. Facebook, like other social media plat-

his year, the scariest holiday has been hijacked by facts on the ground.

forms, is under attack by foreign goblins and gremlins; cyberwarfare is terrifying. The old-time fright masks just don’t have the same ability to reach inside our lives and twist until we scream. Masks have taken on a whole other meaning in the time of Covid and the reign of Donald. As for ghosts, Halloween, I’m seeing the spirit of dictators, past and present, dancing across America. What have you got? White sheets and green makeup? Meh. Trump is actively summoning the spirit of his brother, Vladimir Putin, to name just one. He invokes his spirit every time he saws away at the pillars of our democracy: the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the Supreme Court and the Environmental Protection Agency. Clearly, the Donald trumps Halloween. He has ruined my taste for manufactured terror. I just can’t get interested in candy corn. We need to invent a special holiday for him. Let’s call it Inauguration Day, celebrate a new president and say goodbye to the sick joke that has been Donald Trump’s presidency. Maybe next year, fright wigs and skeleton costumes will be amusing again. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

EAST MEADOW HERALD — October 22, 2020

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Herd immunity, a recipe for further disaster

onsider the number 675,000 for a moment. That’s the number of people in the United States who died during the flu pandemic of 1918-19. Could the U.S. be headed for such widespread death again? At press time, nearly 220,000 Americans had died of Covid-19, only eight months into this pandemic. The coronavirus could very well be with us for months to come, perhaps through the end of 2021. What will the death toll be in six months, 12 months, 18 months? It isn’t a stretch of the imagination to believe we could reach 400,000, 600,000 deaths or more if a safe and reliable vaccine isn’t found soon. Each death represents someone’s mother or father, brother or sister, friend or colleague. Each death is a tragedy, an extinguishment of life that was, in all too many cases, avoidable — if not for the policies of the Trump administration. From the start, President Trump downplayed the dangers of the coronavirus, even though he understood its severity as

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early as February. When we should have been locking down nationally, as New Zealand did in March, we remained open for business in most parts of the country, and the virus spread from transportation hubs like New York and California across the country. There was never a complete travel ban from China early this year, as Trump has claimed — American citizens and permanent residents flew back and forth at will between China and the U.S. And Trump has eschewed masks all along, even though mask wearing would improve safety as the U.S. continues to open up. Now the Trump administration is weighing, and in many ways pursuing, its potentially most dangerous policy of all — herd immunity, the ill-advised, frankly inane notion that we can beat the coronavirus by allowing healthy young people to become infected. If enough people do so and develop immunity to the virus, the thinking goes, it will disappear. Reputable scientists tell us, however, that herd immunity requires at minimum

Say goodbye to ‘Lady’ on our sports pages

n late September, we at the Herald were jolted when a senior at Kennedy High School, in Bellmore, called on school officials — and the local media — to stop referring to girls’ sports teams at Kennedy as the “Lady Cougars.” The student, 17-year-old Rachel Nossen, of Merrick, wrote an op-ed essay for her school newspaper, The Cougar Crier, and it certainly caught our attention. Throughout our newspaper group, which encompasses 18 editions on the north and south shores of Nassau County, we decided to

drop the use of “Lady.” Nossen was right to argue that the term diminishes the accomplishments of female athletes. Lady is a term of a bygone era when women were expected to be prim and proper and quiet, not the accomplished and fierce competitors they have become since Title IX was enacted in 1972, prohibiting sex discrimination in the schools. According to Title IX, if there is a boys’ team at a school, there must be a girls’ team. Up until then, many, if not most, schools did not have competitive girls’ ath-

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50 to 60 percent of the population to be infected, and that it cannot be achieved without a vaccine. But let’s suppose for a moment that we, as a nation, were to pursue a herd-immunity course through natural infection, and 60 percent of Americans — or 196 million people — were to get the coronavirus. Think about the astronomical death total that would likely result. To date, 8.17 million Americans have reportedly been infected with Covid-19. That’s 2.5 percent of the population. In widespread testing in late September, 1 in 10 Americans had Covid-19 antibodies, according to the Stanford University Medicine News Center. That is, we’re a long way from herd immunity. Pursuing herd immunity in the absence of a vaccine is a recipe for a death toll not seen in a pandemic since 1918-19. Listen to the reputable scientists: Wear a mask in public. Keep your distance. Wash your hands frequently. Work from home if you can.

letters Voting is now convenient To the Editor: It’s been a trying year for our nation and a tragic one for New Yorkers, many of whom have lost loved ones and are worried about our tattered economy and the wellbeing of isolated friends and family. The scary prospect of a second wave of Covid-19 washing over New York during flu season has been anticipated all year, but one silver lining is that we need not fret over voting safely in next month’s election. For the majority of Long Islanders who haven’t voted since 2018 or before, casting a ballot in New York has changed drastically for the better, thanks to a raft of reforms and resiliency measures that improved convenience, due process, fairness and public safety. There are now three ways to vote in Election 2020, each with pros and cons. Given our protracted public health emergency, however, this flexibility is key to our safety

letic programs. Our editorial board gathered to figure out how “Lady” came into our sportsreporting lexicon, and concluded it was simply a matter of tradition. As we have learned in recent months and years, however, we need to look critically at our traditions to ensure they are in sync with modern thinking. Use of “Lady” when referring to girls’ sports teams is clearly out of step with 2020 culture, and so we will stop using it, except when it is part of an official team name.

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here is a storm brewing, and your child’s school is in its cross hairs. It’s not a hurricane or a tornado. It’s a fiscal tsunami, and it’s going to devastate the education system on Long Island unless Albany steps up and acts. Too many of our school districts were already in dire fiscal straits due to decades of austerity before the economic experts released their forecasts of even more funding cuts. This is especially true for schools in Black and brown neighborhoods. For Lisa years, students in TYson these classrooms have lacked up-todate materials, technology and other basic resources, so it’s no wonder these districts have been the first to feel the effects of this oncoming storm. The Copiague Board of Education pink-slipped dozens of staff members just a week before students were set to return to class. And this is just the beginning. The wind is picking up. Dark clouds are forming. Things are looking grim. But don’t worry. This particular storm isn’t a force of nature that we are powerless to stop. This is a human-caused

financial calamity to which there are sensible solutions. First, however, we have to examine how our “leaders” got us into this mess. It’s not news to anyone that New York, like the rest of the nation, is in economic turmoil because officials at both the state and federal levels failed to adequately respond to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 25,000 people in our state and left millions jobless. In response to New York’s fiscal distress, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the State Legislature approved a budget earlier this year that cut $1.1 billion in state aid from schools. Long Island schools lost a total $49.4 million. But it gets worse. Here’s how Copiague Public Schools Superintendent Kathleen Bannon explained the dire situation that every district is facing: “On Aug. 20, the district received a state aid payment for the 2019-20 school year that was 20 percent less than expected. Along with that payment was a notice that all future state aid payments would also be reduced by 20 percent.” These aren’t just numbers in a spreadsheet. Your children’s education, and therefore their future, is on the chopping block. Far too many of Long Island’s bright young minds have been forced to

he state must dip into its rainy-day fund, because it’s pouring out there.

LeTTers and the election’s legitimacy. Regardless of ideology, nobody argues in print that American citizens should need to risk their lives to vote. Options can protect our rights and our communities if we avail ourselves of them. Last year, lawmakers created an election period to spread voting out over nine additional days — including two weekends and workday evenings. At the time, “social distancing” wasn’t common parlance to anyone without a degree in disease transmission, but that reform seems prescient today. The early-voting options in Nassau and Suffolk counties include a shift to countywide voting centers, permitting residents to visit any site from Saturday, Oct. 24, to Sunday, Nov. 1. Nassau, a statewide access leader, offers 83 operating hours of early voting. (The same can’t be said for Suffolk, which has a greater population and sprawling geography, but fewer sites and nearly three fewer days’ worth of hours.) For those who have adapted to our new normal — who wear masks and venture out for groceries — finding a quiet five minutes to vote early may be the best option. Voters cast their ballots after privately marking them, and they will be included with election night results. Those who believe the process is a partisan ploy should know that Texans have

attend schools that are criminally underfunded, and these cuts will further pulverize their chances at receiving a quality education. So, will Long Island’s state legislators stand by and let this happen, or will they fight for the children of Long Island? It’s time to act to stop this fiscal tsunami in its tracks, because we shouldn’t play politics with our kids’ education. We are proposing a fourpronged approach, and the first prong can and should be done immediately: The state must dip into its rainy-day fund, because it’s pouring out there. We can’t weather a storm with an umbrella full of holes. Secondly, class is now in session, so the State Legislature should be in session, too. Cuomo has been circumventing democracy and playing games with the budget, which has caused unimaginable uncertainty and instability in school districts and municipalities. This has to stop. He needs to produce a real plan that lawmakers can work with to avoid more cuts at all costs. If he fails to do so, state legislators must immediately reconvene to stop the bleeding themselves, and they can do that by passing measures to make ultra-millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share. Albany needs to stop giving New

been voting early since the 1980s. Until Covid-19, absentee voting was not a mainstream option for New Yorkers. The state was one of only 16 to restrict it to those with the right excuse. Busy with work or child care? Not eligible. It shouldn’t have taken a deadly pandemic to develop voting resiliency — disruptions on Sept. 11, 2001, which was a Primary day, and Hurricane Sandy’s late-October 2012 landfall were enough. For immunocompromised people and those living or working with them, voting remotely may be safer, and pitfalls that jeopardize rights have been significantly mitigated. Voters can now request a ballot online in seconds or by phone, and may return completed ballots via contactless drop boxes at early voting or Election Day sites, or at their county Board of Elections office, which avoids return mail, stamps and postmarking entirely. Common clerical errors can now be fixed, providing a layer of due process where none existed before. Those who still prefer voting on the first Tuesday in November at one assigned site are welcome to, but they will have waited until the last possible day, when no other options remain — even if there are lines, inclement weather or a local uptick in Covid-19 cases. I wouldn’t wish that uncertainty on anyone, even those dispar-

York’s wealthiest residents a free ride. The rich have profited handsomely during the epidemic, earning enough during the public health crisis alone to close the state’s budget gap. New York’s cashstrapped families can’t be the only ones forced to make sacrifices. This isn’t a partisan issue. An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support raising taxes on the rich, which lawmakers should remember when it’s their turn to cast a vote on legislation, because voters will surely remember who acted and who didn’t when Election Day comes around. Third: All options should be on the table to raise necessary revenue and avoid exacerbating this crisis with more cuts. So Cuomo also has a duty to consider short-term borrowing from the New York Federal Reserve Bank’s Municipal Liquidity Facility. And, last, we can’t let the federal government off the hook. It needs to get its act together, stop all the partisan bickering and send relief to the state and local communities. Sadly, recent events have made clear that the State Legislature can’t just sit on its hands and wait for Washington. For the sake of suffering New Yorkers, Cuomo and state lawmakers must act now. Lisa Tyson is the director of the Long Island Progressive Coalition.

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