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A successful softball season

Halloween with the E.M. Chamber

District spreads messages of unity

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Rice, Mikulin hold on to their seats

Rallying behind E.M.’s veterans

Dunne bests Thomas in the 6th Senate District HERAlD STAff REPORT Election Day 2020 tur ned out to be a wild one.

As of midnight on Tuesday, tens of thousands of absentee ballots remained to be counted, making projecting winners in any number of races for Congress and the State Legislature tricky, if not impossible.

U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, a Democrat representing the 4th Congressional District, was reelected, cinching 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for her opponent, Republican Douglas Tuman.

“Serving the people of New York’s 4th Congressional District is the greatest privilege of my life, and I am eager to continue fighting for Long Island in Congress,” Rice said.

“I believe we can move forward from this election stronger and more unified. Long Islanders and Americans of all political backgrounds want an end to the dysfunction in Washington, and we can only achieve that if we work together.”

Meanwhile, State Assemblyman John Mikulin, a Republican representing the 17th District, was re-elected with 58.8 percent of the vote, to 31.4 percent for his challenger, Mark Engelman.

“I’m very happy with the results, and I’d like to thank the people of the 17th Assembly District,” Mikulin said. “I

Resident raises over $6,000 for American Legion Post 1082 bstieglitz@liherald.com

Courtesy Kathleen Rice

IN THE fOuRTH Congressional District, incumbent Kathleen Rice, a Democrat from Garden City, bested Republican challenger Douglas Tuman. think it was a very good night for Nassau County.”

Mikulin said his priorities moving forward include cleaning up the Northrop Grumman plume, focusing on qualit y - o f - l i f e i s s u e s l i ke ro a d re pairs and re pealing bail reform.

“I’m happy to receive the overwhelming support of my c o n s t i t u e n t s, ” h e s a i d . “ I thank them profusely, and I look forward to serving them for another two years.”

In the 6th Senate District, Republican challenger Dennis Dunne unseated State Sen.

Kevin Thomas, a Democrat from Levittown. Dunne had 54 percent of the vote to Thomas’s 46 percent, according to the State Board of Elections.

As the Herald went to press Wednesday morning, the presidential race pitting Donald T r u m p a g a i n s t Jo e B i d e n remained undecided, with key battleground states — Pennsylavania, Michigan and Wisconsin, along with Arizona, Nevada and Georgia — still furiously counting votes. The presidency, according to the pundits, may not be decided until Friday.

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bonare and Bill McCrindle gave the Herald a tour of the hall. At the time, the 120-year-old buildA small group of veterans ing had not seen much work from American Legion Post 1082 since the post acquired it in 1935. sat at a bar in the hall on Bell- Lights flickered, paint had more Road last Friday and peeled off the walls, rooms were raised their glasses to Eileen filled with clutter covered in Napolitano. dust, and after rainThe 58-year-old storms the building East Meadow resioften flooded dent had just drawn because of damage the winning ticket to the roof and the from a 50/50 raffle back door. she has been hosting Napolitano, a online throughout niece of two VietOctober to benefit nam veterans, read the hall. The fundabout the post’s conraiser yielded $1,440 ditions in the Herald in direct donations (“Preserving a home and $5,000 in ticket PETE for vets,” Aug. 2-8, sales, all of which WENNINGER 2018), and on Oct. 5, went to the post after 2018, she held her Commander, raffle winner Ciro first fundraiser for Porricelli donated American Legion the post at Public his $2,500 in win- Post 1082 House 106. nings.

Over the past two “ We a r e n ow, years, Napolitano thanks to you, climbing up a has helped the legion raise Mount Everest,” post Command- $15,000 and secure a grant of er Pete Wenninger read from a $25,000 from L.I. Rebuilders. letter the veterans wrote to Brian Watters, of East Meadow, Napolitano to thank her. who operates Three Guys MainPost members have been rais- tenance, is donating his services ing funds for renovations and to renovate the roof and siding repairs since they set up a of Post 1082. And Napolitano’s GoFundMe page in May 2018.

That August, members Dan CarContinued on page 7

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Kathleen Rice (d) – 52%

douglas tuman (R) – 47%

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Kevin thomas (d) - 46%

17th A.d.

John Mikulin (R) - 58.8%

Mark engelman (d) - 31.4%

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A successful season for the Fillies

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EAST MEADOW HERALD — November 5, 2020

by brian stieGLitZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

The East Meadow Fillies eight-and-under and sevenand-under travel softball teams, part of the East Meadow Baseball Softball Association, faced off for a Halloween game at their fields on Merrick Avenue on Oct. 28, with each team dressed as characters from the movie A League of Their Own. When the team started practicing this fall, they had to put in place procedures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Girls must be six feet a part and wear a face mask when they can’t maintain that distance. They must clean equipment in between nataLie necci, 8, left, and her uses and sanitize in teammates dressed up as characbetween plays. And ters from the movie A League of a nyo n e p l ay i n g Their Own. must be cleared after answering a Covid-19 questionnaire.

“It was difficult adjusting to safety guidelines at first,” said Shannon Necci, one of the team’s coaches. “I think the girls were just so happy to get to play the sport again.”

This was Shannon Necci’s first year coaching the nineand-under team and, after their season, she came up with

Photos courtesy Shannon Necci

two of the East Meadow Fillies travel softball teams faced off against one another during their first Halloween game. the idea of hosting the team’s first Halloween game.

Necci belongs to a softball family: her and her husband Benjamin have always loved the sport and their daughters Natalie, 8, and Olivia, 10, both play on East Meadow’s intramural league.

“I absolutely want to coach again,” Necci said. “I just love getting to teach them the things I learned when I was a little girl.”

Natalie started paying for the Fillies travel team three years ago and Benjamin started coaching them last year.

Necci came on this year as a second coach, along with their assistant coach Alex Martin.

The team started practicing in September and played against teams in the neighboring communities. The athletes put their best foot forward for not having played in six months, Necci said.

They finished their season with six wins and one loss before beating Oceanside in their play-off game with a score of 8-7. They advanced to the championship game against Bethpage and lost with a final score of 9-7.

“It was the closet game all season and we were neck and neck the whole time,” Necci said.

This year, the team drew more interest from girls who either haven’t played softball or were new to the Fillies. Necci attributed the uptick in demand to the restlessness many felt during the pandemic shutdown along with the cancellation of the season for other, higher-risk activities. “A lot of other sports weren’t happening, so the fact we could do this was huge,” she said.

“I loved watching the girls grow and come together as a team. We had girls whose first choice was not softball and they loved it.”

What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

Herald ScHoolS W.T. Clarke Rams band is back in action

Photos courtesy East Meadow School District

MeMbers of the color guard practiced their routine, alongside the band, on the school’s football field.

The W.T. Clarke High School Rams marching band, in the East Meadow School District, were back on the field practicing their music and movements during a daylong clinic on Oct. 24.

The clinic adhered to the New York State Department of Health’s social distancing guidelines and students wore masks when they weren’t playing wind instruments.

Students from both in-person groups and fully remote students were invited to participate and work with special guest clinician, Dave Abrams.

Activities included section color wars, fundamentals of marching and drill formations. The event culminated with a choreographed performance that showcased the hard work of the students and their teachers.

–Brian Stieglitz

the student Musicians of the W.T. Clarke High School Rams marching band, in the East Meadow School District, practiced their fundamentals and rehearsed together on Oct. 24 during a daylong clinic.

Lateness

EAST MEADOW FIRE DEPARTMENT

Change your clocks, batteries

By John J. o’Brien Sr. Your East Meadow Fire Department, together with the International Association of Fire Chiefs and the Energizer bunny, remind our residents that, on Sunday November 1, 2020 at 2 a.m., all clocks should have been set back to Standard time.

In doing so, we promote the reminder to change your smoke detector batteries.

Each year smoke detectors save lives.

Each year lives are lost do to a non-operational smoke detector.

Protect yourselves and your loved ones and change your smoke detector batteries.

Today, more than 6,200 Fire Departments nationwide participate in the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery campaign, helping to save countless lives.

Your East Meadow Fire Department is no exception.

When the campaign was first launched 30 years ago, Energizer the International Association of Fire Chiefs, as well as NFPA, launched a public education campaigns presenting some disturbing statistics. Listed below are the most recent from NFPA. Smoke alarms sounded in more than just half, or 53 percent, of the home fires reported to U.S. fire departments.

Three of every five of home fire deaths resulted from fires in homes with no smoke alarms, or 38 percent, or no working smoke alarms, or 21 percent.

No smoke alarms were present in almost two out of every five home fire deaths, or 38 percent.

The death rate per 100 reported home fires was more than twice as high in homes that did not have any working smoke alarms compared to the rate in homes with working smoke alarms (1.18 deaths vs. 0.53 deaths per 100 fires).

In fires in which the smoke alarms were present but did not operate, almost half, or 46 percent, of the smoke alarms had missing or disconnected batteries.

Dead batteries caused one-quarter, or 24 percent, of the smoke alarm failures.

The problem with today’s home fire behavior: In today’s home fires, modern homes contain a large quantity of synthet-

ic furnishings which when ignited, burn hotter and faster than natural materials such as wood and cotton ever had. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted full scale fire tests and concluded that escape time in flaming fires can be as little as three minutes, as compared to 17 minutes in tests conducted in the 1970s.

Your East Meadow Fire Department volunteers live smoke alarms day in and day out in their responses to your emergencies. Although much of our community follows these important instructions, we still see homes today, without detectors, or with detectors missing battery after we open them. We strongly recommends that should a battery need replacing at times when a spare is not available, the resident must leave the cover off the detector to serve as a reminder of the need. There have been many times over the past years where we responded to a fire, and the detectors failed for such reasons.

Lack of care and maintenance is the number 1 cause of unnecessary Fire Department responses nation wide. Such alarms put East Meadow volunteers at risk at a moment’s notice.

Although the campaign is targeted to smoke detectors our past years, we urge our residents to change the batteries in their carbon monoxide detectors at the same time.

The members of the East Meadow Fire Department urge all residents of our community to change your batteries today. It will give us a better chance to minimize your property damage through our quick response to early detection, but most importantly, it may save your life. We urge all residents to keep your detector instructions for safe-keeping and refer to them for all needs such as installation, maintenance, and care.

Remember many of today’s detectors sound the alarm differently to indicate a low battery, or even whether the alarm is carbon monoxide or fire, should you have the dual model.

Should you have any questions on the proper use and/or installation of your home smoke or carbon monoxide detectors call our business line to the Chiefs Office at 542-0580, or e-mail us at the address below.

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We all know them. The people in our be just as exasperating. Such as those moments when I am bending time, lives who are always late to everything.

According to the Fast Company.com squeezing in another phone call, another recent article, “This is Why You’re email, a load of laundry or tending a Always Late and it’s not your fault” by sink filled with dishes when my family is Stephanie Vozza (https://www.fastcom- frustratingly ready to sit down to dinner pany.com/90558000/this-is-why-youre- or a sitcom. Or during those chronically always-late-and-its-not-yourearly arrivals everywhere I fault) there is a correlation go which often result in waitbetween those people who ing longer than usual, quite fail to be punctual and the needlessly and unnecessary. tendency to be adaptable and In short, it’s physics. After flexible. all, there’s only 24 hours in a In contrast, those who day and only so much of it need to be on time can be can be pushed, massaged and potentially accused of being manipulated. the kind of individuals who So consider if you are late seek closure. They aren’t you can “kee p all your moved by a looming deadline options open.” Or you can — because they get the job keep on being early and “get auren ev done way before it’s due. things done ahead of schedDepending on the day I ule”. But when it comes to can play on either team. our personal and professionThat’s why there are those that can easi- al lives, I’d suggest a more practical ly exasperate me including the Califor- route. Always read the faces in the room, nian friend who squeezes out every hour especially if you fail to read the minutes he is here in New York, overbooking his ticking by on the clock. plans and running late to every appointment and personal visit he makes — A contributing writer to the Herald since including mine.

2012, Lauren Lev is an East Meadow resiAnd the classroom parent, who was dent and a direct marketing/advertising always late to every school event. Finally executive who teaches marketing fundathe teacher had her first grade pilgrims mentals as well as advertising and marrestage and re-sing their Thanksgiving keting communications courses at the songs a second time because the parent Fashion Institute of Technology and arrived after the presentation was done.

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Bringing local sports home every week

Herald sports POPS softball perseveres amid pandemic

By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

Just like every sports organization at every level, 2020 brought unprecedented challenges for POPS 40 & Over Softball, which recently completed its 22nd year on the South Shore of Nassau County.

“We’re thrilled to say we played a whole season without any member testing positive for the virus,” said POPS founder and commissioner Keith Pastuch, a retired chiropractor who resides in East Atlantic Beach. “It took a lot of work to pull it off, and this was the most rewarding year out of the 22.”

POPS traditionally conducts two seasons each year from early May through late August, but had to eliminate fall ball for 2020 after Covid-19 forced its spring/summer schedule to be delayed by more than two months.

“The thanks and appreciation I’ve received from players and their wives and family members has been incredible,” Pastuch said. “Probably the one thing everyone missed was the camaraderie after games. We had to ask guys not to hang out in the parking lot or stick around to watch other games after they played.”

POPS, which had 400 players this year, down from the usual 550, not only followed New York State Department of Health guidelines for Covid-19, but also took additional precautions to keep everyone safe, Pastuch noted.

“Because we’re dealing with older players, we were advised to have everyone wear a mask in the dugout areas,” he said. “Because of guidelines, catchers wore masks during games, as well as the first- and third-base coaches and the umpires.”

Similar to youth org anizations, POPS players were not permitted to share equipment or drink bottles, or celebrate with the usual high-five or fist bump. Postgame handshakes were replaced by the tip of a cap.

One unexpected hurdle to get the season off the ground, Pastuch said, was securing enough field per mits.

Because if Covid-19 restrictions, some familiar fields were not available or only available through the end of August. Because of this year’s delay, fields were needed until mid-October to get a 12-game regular season in, plus playoffs. “It came down to the wire in terms of getting enough permits,” Pastuch said.

When the action finally began July 13, players took the field with heavy hearts. A beloved member of the POPS family, longtime director Bob Lashinsky, lost his battle with Covid-19 in March. Pastuch organized a drive-by past Lashinsky’s Bellmore home to

Photos courtesy Keith Pastuch

TEaM PaSTuch, aBOVE, captured the 60 and older division championship in the POPS softball league, which overcame a myriad of obstacles to get a full season in.

TEaM GrEGOrETTI fINIShEd No. 1 in the 40-plus division.

ThErE waS NO stopping Team Cohen, below, in the 50-C division.

pay respects, and nearly 100 cars took part. A scholarship, presented to a graduating high school senior related to a POPS member, was established in Lashinky’s name in honor of Bob and his father, Leo. While there’s long been a waiting list to join POPS, Pastuch said that would not be the case for 2021. With the help of six directors and seven field supervisors, he has already secured additional weeknights at various fields to accommodate m o r e g a m e s . Fo r m o r e information, visit www.popsoftball.com.

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husband, Anthony, is a member of Teamsters Local 202, which contributed to Eileen’s raffle with a $300 donation.

Most of the post’s revenue comes from rentals for christenings, charity events and other special occasions — all of which were on hold from March to June because of the coronavirus pandemic. And in May, Past Commander John Devany died of complications of Covid-19.

That left the post in dire straits, Commander Pete Wenninger said. Then, early last month, Napolitano galvanized the post’s members by launching the 50/50 raffle.

She announced it on Facebook by posting a video, filmed

by East Meadow resident Janet Goldstein, in which post members described what it means to them to have a community for veterans.

“This is our last home in East Meadow for the veterans, and we’re trying to do everything we can to keep it open,” said Bill McCrindle, who was on active duty in the Navy in 1984 and is the post’s treasurer.

When he joined five years ago, he said, he found a community, and was eventually joined by his wife, Adriana, who also served in the Navy, completing four years of active duty in 1997.

Wayne O’Connor, an Army veteran and a post member for 37 years, recalled the organization’s past efforts to help East Meadow residents. Eight years ago, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the hall was open to members of the community who were in need of food, water, heat, a hot shower or even a place to sleep overnight, as some did. “Now we’re asking the community to help us,” O’Connor said.

Before the pandemic, a number of renovations had been completed, including the reconstruction of the hall’s main social room, electrical work and the installation of new steel doors and wheelchair-accessible ramps.

New chairs had been purchased as well. “We really got a

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East MEadow rEsidEnt Eileen Napolitano, 58, second from right, raised over $6,000 for American Legion Post 1082 in a 50/50 raffle she hosted online throughout October. She drew the winning ticket last Friday with, from left, post members Wayne O’Connor, Pete Wenninger, Daniel Carbonare, Skip Kneuer, Adrianna and Bill McCrindle and State Sen. Kevin Thomas. lot of important work done,” Napolitano said.

The next tasks include getting a new stove, fixing the plumbing and renovating the basement — which is largely unchanged since the hall was built in 1891. Wooden logs hold up its ceiling, a common architectural practice at the time.

Napolitano said she was prepared to continue fundraising for the post until the basement is redone and other goals are met. “I consider you all family now,” she said to the room of veterans last Friday. “Thank you for letting me come into your lives.”

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Herald Inside LI focuses on development

By Briana Bonfiglio bbonfiglio@liherald.com

Panelists from several different sectors involved in commercial real estate offered a positive outlook on Nassau County’s economic development during the latest Herald Inside LI webinar on Oct. 29.

Financial, legal, government and development professionals engaged in discussion about current projects and how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted their work. Those speakers were Michael Maturo, president of RXR Realty; John S. Madigan, senior vice president and director of Emerging Corporates-Long Island, Citi Commercial Bank; Kyle Strober, executive director at Association for a Better Long Island; Sophia A. Perna-Plank, associate at Jaspan Schlesinger LLP; Harry Coghlan, CEO and executive director of Nassau County Industrial Development Agency and Tom Pistore, president of commercial operations for UBS Arena at Belmont Park.

Skye Ostreicher, of Herald Community Newspapers and RichnerLive, moderated the discussion. RichnerLive produced the webinar and started the Herald Inside LI series in August to spark conversations about how the Covid-19 crisis has impacted life on Long Island. In this webinar, the big questions were: How has commercial real estate been impacted, and what does this mean for Nassau’s economy?

One of the newest commercial projects in the works is the UBS Arena at Belmont Park, being built on Hempstead Turnpike in Elmont, which will open with the Islanders 2021-22 hockey season.

Pistore said he sees the project as a “beacon in the community” during this dark time — it will create 10,000 construction jobs, 3,000 permanent jobs and build a new railroad in Elmont, he said. He noted that the build is following the “three S’s” — sanitization, security and sustainability. He also said that developers are working closely with partners, such as Northwell Health, to create a diversity and inclusion plan to ensure the community benefits from the project.

“There’s a lot of darkness right now — a lot of uncertainty, a lot of anxiety,” Pistore said. “The construction continues; we are on track. We’re making great strides

with our Islanders fans. We’re making great strides with our premium fans, with our music lineup that’s about to be announced, with our partner UBS, which is our naming partner, and Northwell.”

Maturo, whose company is developing the Nassau HUB near Nassau Coliseum, noted that before the pandemic, there was a real interest in creating vibrant, walkable downtowns on Long Island. While this still stands, there are now many more factors involved, including people staying home more than they used to. People are also working from home — Maturo said his commercial office buildings are only 10 to 12 percent occupied at this time — and there is an influx of people moving from the city to the suburbs.

Taking all of this into account, Maturo said he believes that post-pandemic, once there is a vaccine, “there’s going to be an explosion in activity,” he said. “There will be greater connectivity, both literally in terms of how we move between the city and the suburbs, but more so how the suburbs collaborate and integrate with the city in terms of economic activity.”

Maturo advocated for more public transportation in Nassau County’s future, which he hopes to integrate into the Nassau HUB, a multi-use, village-style development.

The pandemic has also brought new companies leasing office buildings on Long Island — as residential real estate has climbed, so has commercial, in markets such as offices and rental buildings.

“We are seeing a lot of our clients, especially from Brooklyn or Queens, are looking to move their facilities out to Long Island,” Madigan said, “so a lot of commercial real estate requests we’re getting right now are companies looking to move out here. Long Island is definitely benefiting.”

Strober added that eventually people will return to their offices, and that will be a plus, as well. He did warn, however, that the economy may need another boost well before things start returning to normal.

“The federal government shot the economy in the arm,” he said, referring to the CARES Act, which offered loans to businesses across the country, as well as stimulus checks and unemployment benefits that allowed people to spend their dollars,

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“and slowly we’re going to be weaning off that high and we’re going to need another shot.”

Perna-Plank said she represents several big-box clients filing for bankruptcy, such as retailer Pier 1, which recently closed all its brick-and-mortar locations.

This puts landlords in a situation in which they need to fill large spaces with new leases.

“Our landlords have to get creative,” she said. “They have to start breaking up these large leasable areas. If they have a store that’s 5,000 square feet, they’re going to have to do some work and chop those up so that they can start filling those spaces.”

As businesses struggle during the pandemic, Perna-Plank also said landlords are working with their tenants to negotiate plans for rent payments.

Coghlan also spoke about his role in aiding businesses that want to open and thrive in Nassau County, such as offering several different types of tax incentives.

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CloCkwise from top right: Moderator Skye Ostreicher; John S. Madigan, senior vice president and director of Emerging Corporates-Long Island, Citi Commercial Bank; Michael Maturo, president of RXR Realty; Tom Pistore, president of commercial operations for UBS Arena at Belmont Park; Kyle Strober, executive director at Association for a Better Long Island; Harry Coghlan, CEO and executive director of Nassau County Industrial Development Agency; and Sophia A. Perna-Plank, associate at Jaspan Schlesinger LLP, discussed economic development on Long Island during a Herald Inside LI webinar on Oct. 29.

in New York and one of eight on Long Island. Its programs help Nassau County’s economy remain competitive with surrounding regions, the panelists said.

“We address the affordability,” Coghlan said. “There’s a lot of discussion about PILOT programs and things we do…

We’re not giving corporate welfare; we’re not destroying the tax base of Long Island.

It’s frustrating when we work hard on a great project and you just see ‘tax breaks’ in the headline …

“I look at it as tax creation,” he continued. “We’re not going to do anything that’s going to destroy the tax base. We’re only seeking to grow it, which will offset the burden on our residents as we’re working with manufacturing companies and wholesale companies who move here.”

RXR Realty, Citibank and Jaspan Schlesinger LLP sponsored the webinar.

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Webinar to discuss youth mental health In recent years, local school districts have placed greater emphasis on mental health improvement initiatives and support systems for students. Now, amid the Covid-19 crisis and a rapidly changing world as we head into the holiday season, students may need those resources more than ever.

During the next Herald Inside LI webinar on Nov. 10 at 7 p.m., school officials and behavioral specialists, as well as a local elected official working closely on the issue, will discuss how schoolaged children have been impacted by the pandemic and what solutions Long

Island has available to it. Panelists will include: ■ Dr. Vera Feuer, child and adolescent psychiatrist, Northwell Health ■ Dr. William B. Johnson, state monitor of Hempstead School District and former superintendent of Rockville Centre School District ■ State Sen. Todd Kaminsky ■ Dr. Jeffrey L. Reynolds, president and CEO of Family & Children’s Association ■ Dr. Charles Schleien, chair of pediat-

ric services at Northwell Health Skye Ostreicher, of RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers, will moderate the conversation and deliver questions from viewers. The webinar will also touch upon Northwell’s partnership with several Nassau County school districts to provide mental health services at Cohen Children’s Behavioral Health Center on Merrick Road in Rockville Centre, as well as FCA’s partnership with the North Shore and Great Neck school districts.

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‘A great public servant’ needs help from his community

By Laura Lane

Tony Jimenez is familiar to many in the City of Glen Cove. He has been involved in city government, is an emergency medical technician and helps at-risk youth.

The Jimenez family was originally from the projects in Manhattan before moving to Levittown, where he attended W.T. Clarke High School.

Known for his generosity of spirit, he is someone people turn to for help, regardless of how well they know him. U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a friend for 25 years, described Jimenez as a “great public servant.” Now, the Vietnam veteran, who served his country and continues to give to his community, needs help. Jimenez, 69, desperately needs a kidney. Doctors have told him that if he does not receive one, he will likely not survive.

Jimenez joined the Army when he graduated from high school in 1969. He served for two years, one as an infantryman in Vietnam, and eventually became a sergeant. Like so many other soldiers, he was exposed to Agent Orange, and by 1980 he had diabetes, which led to kidney failure two years ago. Knowing how his life would change once he underwent dialysis, he said, he put it off as long as he could.

But his kidneys weren’t functioning, and filled with so much fluid that he suffered congestive heart failure. In September he began dialysis, having been told that if he didn’t, he would die.

Because doctors have given him six to nine years to live, he was denied inclusion on a list to receive a kidney from a cadaver donor. There is no living donor list.

Jimenez has been looking for a kidney donor with type A negative blood ever since.

There are several tests a potential kidney recipient must undergo. During Jimenez’s physical workup, he had an angiogram, and doctors found three blocked coronary arteries. He could not be considered for a kidney transplant, they said, until his heart issue was resolved. So, in February, he had open-heart surgery.

That wasn’t his first operation. After working at ground zero in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, he was diagnosed with lung disease. And he suffered a stroke in 2013.

‘He helped so many people’

Jimenez was one of the first people in Glen Cove to respond on Sept. 11. He began working at what was then known simply as the pile that night. The next day, he drove back in to Lower Manhattan and joined the bucket brigade. “It reminded me of Vietnam,” he said. “Sometimes [in Vietnam] we’d lose people and couldn’t find them. We’d come back days later and smell for them. I’d find body parts, which we did on the pile too.”

The city had two ferries at the time, which brought those who were fleeing the attacks from Manhattan to Long Island.

The plan, recalled Suozzi, who was mayor

at the time, was to bring the wounded to Glen Cove Hospital.

Jimenez moved to Glen Cove in 1980. He was a surgical technician for 26 years, and became a court officer for the city in 1988.

He joined the Fire Department as an emergency medical technician in 1994, and said he was proud that he assisted in the delivery of seven children.

For a few weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, he went to work during the day as a court officer, and then headed to Lower Manhattan at night. Eventually he was assigned to ground zero, because court officers were being asked to assist the police. He never found anyone alive in the wreckage.

His experiences, starting with Vietnam, have left him with physical as well as emotional scars, he said. “I still think of 9/11 a lot,” he said. “I was diagnosed with PTSD and underwent counseling. I lost friends in the military, but most of the pieces of bodies we found on Sept. 11 were from everyday New Yorkers — your neighbor.”

“Tony keeps things to himself,” said his older brother Phil. “When he found out he had to have open-heart surgery, he knew my wife and I were going on a cruise. He made sure we were on the ship, and then said, ‘Oh, by the way, I’m having openheart surgery tomorrow.’”

Giving others hope

Jimenez was a Glen Cove city councilman from 2000 to 2014. Then, even after losing an election, he was asked to return a

year later when Councilmen Nick DiLeo died.

Jimenez can be found at most ceremonies in Glen Cove, but especially those for veterans. Phil said his brother has always been extremely patriotic. “Even after his heart surgery in February, he went to an event, and should not have been there,” Phil said. “People were holding him up.”

Dialysis has weakened Jimenez considerably. He goes three days a week for three and a half hours. He insists it isn’t that bad, but it does hinder his activity. He misses going on vacation, he said.

As he waits for a kidney his wife, Kathy, a retired registered nurse, said her husband is more withdrawn. “I think he’s closing himself into a little cocoon,” she said.

“Physically, I’m seeing his limitations. The day in between dialysis he has more strength, and we try to make the best of things.”

Glen Cove firefighter Pete Prudente donated a kidney to a stranger in March 2019. “I feel fine,” he said. “Living with one kidney hasn’t changed my life in any way. I try to advocate for others to do this.”

Prudente is helping to spread the word around town that his friend needs a kidney. “I’m in the process of making T-shirts right now,” Prudente said. “It will say, ‘My friend needs a kidney.’”

Jimenez is hopeful that someone will help him soon. “There was a reason why I survived in Vietnam and others didn’t,” he said. “Maybe the reason is to do my best for humanity.”

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Trunk-or-Treat offers a Halloween haven

By BRian stieglitZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

Trick-or-treaters made their way through a Halloween village and greeted costumed members of the East Meadow community as t h e y h a n d e d o u t c a n dy t o a f e s t ive soundtrack of songs from movies like A Nightmare Before Christmas and Ghostbusters.

The East Meadow Chamber of Commerce hosted its first “Trunk-or-Treat” last Saturday at the East Meadow baseball fields on Merrick Avenue.

“A lot of the events that usually happen around Halloween have been canceled this year, so we thought this would be a good way for the businesses to promote themselves while giving kids a safe way to enjoy Halloween,” said Marcella Pizzo, who co-chaired the event with Taleen Krug. Both are chamber board members.

Chamber members, business owners and community leaders participated by dressing up and decorating booths according to different themes. There was a one-way route for children to walk along as they visited each booth and took individually wrapped candy.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released guidelines for safely celebrating Halloween, ranking traditional activities as low, moderate or high risk.

While trunk-or-treating and trick-or-treating were both considered higher-risk activities, the chamber took additional precautions to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Booths were spread six feet apart and there will be tables with hand sanitizer and personal protective equipment. Attendees had to pre-register for a specific time slot and attendance was limited.

Photos by Brian Stieglitz/Herald

Dale the eagle greeted trick-or-treaters at a booth for the Long Island Nets basketball team.

Ross schilleR anD his wife Melody went as characters from the Harry Potter book series as they enchanted trick-or-treaters. nassau county legislatoR Thomas McKevitt, left, was with Johnny Ferretti and his father, Legislator John Ferretti.

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When Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered non-essential businesses to shut down earlier this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, pet groomer Debra Izzo applied for a permit through the New York State Department of Health to reopen her shop, The Dirty Dawg, in Bellmore, to continue serving the community’s furry friends.

“I was one of the very few grooming shops on Long Island that was issued a permit to operate,” Izzo, of Islip, said, “so to help other people that were not my regular customers during that time, I offered a $20 speAlyssa Seidman/Herald cial.”

The deal allowed longtime clients deBrA izzo, owner of The Dirty Dawg in as well as newcomers to bring their North Bellmore, shared a smile with her furry pets to Izzo’s shop for a coat and nail client, Louie. trimming and a sanitary shave, The small shop offers a variety of which was particularly helpful for the more matted animals who visited her grooming services for all dog and cat grooming table, she said. “If the dog was breeds, as well as other animals like guinin extreme need, where there was a medi- ea pigs and lizards. “We offer a customer referral program, saving opportunities, cal need, we were allowed to groom it.” and we also have gift certificates availBark-ground able,” Izzo said.

Izzo opened The Dirty Dawg on Newbridge Road in October 2006; at that time, A pur-fect place for pets only she and her daughter, Debi, manned The most important aspect at The the shop. “When she first opened, I didn’t Dirty Dawg, however, is that clients get a even groom dogs,” Debi said. “My groom- personal and friendly experience every ing experience [came] from working with time. This is exemplified by return cusher closely.” tomers who brought their pets back to Izzo is past president of the Chamber Izzo’s business after years long excurof Commerce of the Bellmores and cur- sions in places like Florida and Greece, rently serves as the Street Festival Coordi- she said. nator. She is also a member of the local “It’s good to know that they’re that Lions and Kiwanis organizations. Before happy with my work that they will go out opening The Dirty Dawg, Izzo worked at of their way on their vacation to make Dog Grooming by Rachel in Wantagh for sure they bring their dog here,” Izzo more than a decade, which enabled her to added. “We do our best to please all of our get acquainted with the local clientele. customers, and when they’re not happy, “Some have asked why I would open we try and find a solution to make them my grooming shop in Nassau County happy.” when I live in Suffolk County,” her webThe Dirty Dawg is at 1867 Newbridge site reads. “For me the answer is simple: Road in Bellmore. The shop is open After working in Nassau for 11 years why Tuesday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. would I open anywhere else? I have devel- to 6 p.m., and Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. oped great friendships with the residents to 4:30 p.m. For business inquires, call of Nassau County, and their pets.”

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The younger children are now seated at independent desks that we’ve decorated to look like Jeeps.

We’ve had to change a lot of our daily routines — like colored tape on the floor so the children have a safe and comfortable “box” to stay in.

The beauty of being a kindergarten teacher is that they come in at 4 and 5 years old — they don’t know any different. Children are very resilient; I was very worried about how they would have their masks on for extended periods and how they’d cope with that. But they have absolutely no problem keeping their masks on — it’s almost become a little fashion statement. The truth is, they have absolutely no problem keeping a mask on all day long.

I never would have thought that kindergarteners would be sitting at individuals desks and rows all day long, but they do it and they do it well. They’ve learned to be socially distanced from each other. To get them accustomed to that, we taught them to hold their arms in front of them and walk like a monster.

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I’ve been giving discounts to first responders, firefighters, police officers and veterans. Back in April, one woman came in who worked at a rehabilitation center in Bellmore, and I donated a bunch of meals to her to feed the staff there.

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Nine months into a worldwide pan- wear a mask all the time when outside demic, less than half of metro area res- the home or when they cannot social idents said they plan to get a Covid-19 distance.

“If together we are going to continue vaccine when it becomes available, according to the latest Mount Sinai our rigorous recovery from the overSouth Nassau public health poll. whelming disruption caused by the The poll’s findings underscore con- pandemic and ensure that we don’t cerns about the vaccine’s development experience significant setbacks from a and lack of trust in the Food and Drug second wave as well as the flu season, Administration’s regulatory process to we must remain vigilant and wear ensure its safety and effectiveness. masks in public and practice social disH oweve r, m o s t a r e a r e s i d e n t s tancing,” MSSN Chief Medical Officer responded that they believe the reopen- Dr. Adhi Sharma said. ing of local schools has gone well, the About a month into the school year, poll showed. Forty-one percent of those parents and guardians with children polled have school age chilback in school responding dren, and about half of to the poll said the return them said their children has been successful. On a returned to school at least scale of 1 to 10, in which 1 part-time. More than 90 permeans not successful and 10 cent of them gave schools means very successful, the high marks for successfully mean score was 6.82, and 7 reopening. And mask wearp e rc e n t o f re s p o n d e n t s ing in public has gained offered a score of 1 to 4. w i d e s p re a d a c c e p t a n c e, Parents and guardians according to the poll. are a bit less likely to attest Another key finding of that their children’s return t h e p o l l : Re s p o n d e n t s to school has been safe.

Dr. Aaron Glatt reported high Covid-19 job Using a similar scale, for losses among minorities in which 1 means extremely the area compared to whites. And only unsafe and 10 means extremely safe, h a l f o f t h o s e ove r 6 5 wh o we re the mean score was 6.35, and 12 percent employed before the pandemic are still offered a score of 1 to 4. About half of working at the same job. the parents and guardians reported Only 46 percent of respondents to that at least one of their children has the poll said they would get a Covid-19 returned to school at least part time, vaccine. Among those who said they with New York City households more would not get it, two-thirds said they likely to have a student back in school believed the vaccine is being rushed, than Long Island households. and they questioned its safety. In all, 54 The poll also found that work life is percent of 600 metro area residents still in recovery from the tumult polled indicated they trust the FDA to caused by the pandemic. While threeimpartially determine that a Covid-19 quarters of area adults who were vaccine is safe and effective to release. employed before Covid-19 are currently “We clearly have our work cut out employed at the same job, 11 percent for us in terms of educating the public are at a different job and 14 percent on the safety of a Covid vaccine, remain unemployed. Of those who are assuming one is fully developed, tested, at a different job or unemployed, 82 perdemonstrated to be safe and effica- cent experienced a job change/loss cious, and approved by the FDA,” said because of the pandemic. Additionally, Dr. Aaron Glatt, the chairman of the New York residents are more likely to Department of Medicine. “The poll have experienced a job change or lost results show that there is significant their job than Long Island residents. concern about the approval process. It Only 18 percent of white responwill be up to us in public health and in dents have changed or lost jobs since the government to make the case for a the pandemic started, compared to 31 Covid vaccine once it becomes avail- percent of Black respondents, 31 perable. I have faith in the approval pro- cent of Hispanic respondents and 32 cess being conducted by the FDA and percent of other race respondents. that all the data will be analyzed by Almost one in four (23 percent) of black independent professionals. These pro- respondents who were employed before fessionals will be guided by the science Covid-19 are now unemployed. and nothing else.”

T h e s u r ve y m a rke d M S S N ’s The public’s desire to vaccinate for third poll of 2020, sponsored by BethCovid-19, as well as the flu, comes at a page, on the region’s response to corotime when their trust in government navirus. It is a survey of Long Island agencies is at a low point. Just 32 per- and New York City adult residents that cent of the poll’s respondents said they aims to gather data about attitudes on trust the CDC “a lot,” while 44 percent key public health topics. The poll was said they have “some” trust. conducted from Oct. 4 to 8 via landOverall, the public has widespread lines and cell phones with 600 residents acceptance of mask wearing and main- in New York City and on Long Island. taining social distancing to prevent the spread of the virus. In all, 92 percent of Courtesy Mount Sinai South Nassau; poll respondents said that they either compiled by Mike Smollins

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In many cases, these past few months have created a greater need among the populations that non-profit organizations serve — for child care, for food, for financial assistance — while the nonprofits themselves are also dealing with limited resources.

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LEGAL NOTICE ANNUAL FIRE DISTRICT ELECTION OF THE EAST MEADOW FIRE DISTRICT December 8, 2020 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Annual Election of the East Meadow Fire District will take place on December 8, 2020, between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. at the East Meadow Fire Department Headquarters Building, located at No. 197 East Meadow Avenue, East Meadow, New York, and at Station No. 3 of the East Meadow

Fire Department, located at Newbridge Road and Carnation Road, East Meadow, New York, for the purpose of electing one (1) commissioner for a five (5) year term commencing on January 1, 2021, and ending on December 31, 2025. All duly registered residents of the East Meadow Fire District shall be eligible to vote, but residents must be registered to vote by November 16, 2020 with the Nassau County Board of Elections.

PLEASE FURTHER TAKE NOTICE, that Candidates for District Office shall file their names with the Secretary of the East Meadow Fire District at the East Meadow Fire District Office Building located at No. 197 East Meadow Avenue, East Meadow, New York, no later than the close of business, twenty (20) days before the date of the election. Said filing shall be submitted in the form of a petition provided by the Fire District Secretary and subscribed by twenty-five (25) qualified voters of the Fire District to the Fire District Secretary.

Dated: East Meadow, New York

October 20, 2020 DIANE BARTONE Fire District Secretary EAST MEADOW FIRE DISTRICT 123689

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PREPARATION OF REGISTRATION ROLLS FOR ANNUAL ELECTION OF THE EAST MEADOW FIRE DISTRICT PLEASE BE ADVISED, that the Board of Elections of the East Meadow Fire District shall meet on the 23rd day of November, 2020 between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. at the Fire Headquarters Building located at 197 East Meadow Avenue, East Meadow, New York for the purpose of preparing the rolls of registered voters of the East Meadow Fire District.

The annual election of the East Meadow Fire District will be held on the 8th day of December 2020 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. at the East Meadow Fire Headquarters Building located at 197 East Meadow Avenue, East

Meadow, New York, and at Station No. 3, Newbridge Road and Carnation Road, East Meadow, New York.

PLEASE BE ADVISED that only those persons who have registered with the County Board of Elections on or before the 16th day of November, 2020 shall be eligible to vote.

PLEASE BE ADVISED that candidates for District Office shall file their names with the Secretary of the East Meadow Fire District at the East Meadow Fire District Office, located at No. 197 East Meadow Avenue, East Meadow, New York no later than the close of business, twenty (20) days before the date of the election. Said filing shall be submitted in the form of petition provided by the Fire District Secretary and subscribed by twenty-five (25) qualified voters of the Fire District to the Fire District Secretary.

Dated: East Meadow, New York October 20, 2020 DIANE BARTONE Secretary EAST MEADOW FIRE DISTRICT 123688

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Development of the Woodland Area, continued Last week’s column focused on the Fish farm and Central Homes near North Jerusalem Road and East Meadow Avenue.

This article continues to the west.

Sidney N. Weniger of Greenwood Construction Corp built Wenwood Oaks around Wenwood and Bruce Drives on land sold by June Sokolov. Sidney’s father, Morris, started Wenwood Organization, a home building business in New York City.

Morris Weniger and Sons, Inc. created developments all over Long Island. Sidney’s son Bruce (the street’s namesake) recalled that “Almost all the projects started with ‘Wen’, including ‘Wenshaw Park’ (‘Shaw’ was a derivative of Moe Shore’s family name, my uncle in [the] North Merrick project), Wenwood at Bar Harbour (Massapequa Park, where there is another Wenwood Drive, among others in East Meadow, Brookville, North Bellmore, and Hauppauge), Wenwood at Selden, etc.”

Weniger later expanded into emerging markets in Arkansas, becoming known for extravagant parties before going out of business in 1990. In East Meadow, three models were available: the $15,950 Barden split, the $17,750 Wenwood split, and the $18,250 brick Glencote ranch. Advertisements featured a “finished knotty pine rumpus and recreation room.” Ken Zuckerman, an original resident, recalled a story of how a mosquito fog truck would come through Wenwood Oaks with all the children happily running behind! Sidney Weniger expanded his real estate dealings under Wengroup Companies and focused heavily on emerging markets in New York and, later, Arkansas. Wenwood Oaks still has an active civic association. Volunteers recently spruced up the entrance signs at North Jerusalem Road.

Sy Nemirov and David Tuchman of Meryl Estates, Inc. constructed several small sections of houses around Central Homes in 1953. These are primarily on Bethlynn Court and Leslie Lane and known as Meryl Manor and Landers Park. Patsy Esposito built and sold four houses on her land (Esposito Court) in 1957. Four houses on the adjacent property were constructed much later. Emanuel Rosenberg and Stanley and Marvin Gerla of Gerose Estates built the small San Remo Rancher Colony on Chaladay Lane and Gerose Estates on Gerose Court in 1952. Houses were made of brick and cedar and sold for $15,990. Their San Remo Rancher model was advertised with a “Beautiful Hollywood Kitchen.”

Part of the land for these developments had been in the L’Ambrose family, whose predevelopment home still stands on North Jerusalem Road. Historically, the intersection, including a small grassy piece that is now between the old and new road alignment, had been settled by the Seaman family, though Kate Vail Barnum came to own the tract in the early 20th century. Just across North Jerusalem Road, Rosenberg and Gerla also built Cameo at East Meadow, which is technically in North Bellmore.

Though just outside East Meadow, make sure to find the old private cemetery just across from Cameo Estates at Bradley Court.

Lakeville Estates Section 6 was built by Kalman Klein and David Teicholz on Die-

man, Garden, Flower, and Pine lanes – an irregularly-shaped collection of properties in 1954. (See earlier article for details about Lakeville Estates, a major development in East Meadow.) The same year, Sy H. Corak and Michael V. Chaiko (Syntal Realty Co. and Cor-Mar Realty Corporation) built the widely-advertised Broadlawn Estates. This development, built in three parallel sections as Mark Drive, Reed Drive, Sherwood Drive, and Sylvan Lane, was alternatively known as Sherwood Park. Homes were designed as front-to-back splits and were initially sold for $19,990 to $23,000. Residents formed the Broadlawn Civic Association. An extension of Maxwell Drive was built as Maxwell Estates in 1961 by the Chaladay Lane Development Corporation. A section of Broadlawn Estates had been the Nohern (or Nohearn) family farm. Family patriarch Nathan Nohern was a celebrated and active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having held many leadership positions there. His son Irving and Isabelle (Fream)’s old home still exists on Bellmore Avenue. The Fream family lived south of the East Meadow Hotel, on what is today the pool parking lot.

Billed as the “last land in East Meadow,” Jack Weiner’s East Meadow Estates, Inc. built Tall Oaks on the last remaining section of the former Raymond Fish homestead between 1959 and 1961. These houses on Clover Court, with a very early ‘60s feel, were built on the south edge of the Fish apple orchards, which were just across the street from Oberle’s Florist.

Several smaller homesteads along the main roads were sold off for development as the large tracts around them fell to suburban sprawl. Vincent G. Berger, who later built on the Klein property at Front Street), created Avington Homes in 1951. These 22 homes at Von Elm Avenue were designed by popular architect Stanley H. Klein and included large picture windows, wrought iron railings, knotty pine cabinets, Formica tops, and Venetian blinds. Great Oaks Development Corp. built Barbara Park in 1957. The following year brought Prospect Estates, eight homes on an extension of Chamberlain Street. This section of Prospect Avenue was historically settled by the Valentine, Smith, Seaman, Post, and Fream families. The Post, Fream, and Nohern families became related through marriage.

Lemax Homes developed a tract of land abutting Central Homes in 1962. This small neighborhood is unique because it is in East Meadow but served by the North Bellmore post office. This inconsistency is due to the county’s 1950 realignment of North Jerusalem Road.

The superblock discussed this week and last also includes some of East Meadow’s newest housing developments. A formerly undeveloped piece of the Fish farm was built up by Donald Voorhis’s Fams Homes in 1971. After the East Meadow Union Free School District sold the Prospect Avenue School property to Living House, Inc., Heritage Park was created on extensions on Benito, Adelphi, and Coakley streets in 1979. Finally, 1986 brought MED Associates’ Greenhouse Homes on Poe Avenue. This lot was formerly used for Goldblatt’s sand pit operations.

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Q. I hired a carpenter to rebuild my garage because it was rotted and leaning. The roof was OK, so we kept it, but all the walls were stripped away and replaced. In the middle of the job, an inspector showed up and stopped it, saying we needed a permit. I hired an architect, he made a plan and we filled in the permit. Now the plans have been rejected because, according to the inspector, they have to show fireproof walls and roof. That’s crazy!

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A. Not exactly, but you have to look at the big picture. You may feel like you’re getting burned, but the building code is actuonte eeper ally named The Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code. Fire prevention is a primary reason that the building laws exist.

In many cases, building departments allow existing garages to have minor repairs without a permit, but only for things like replacing a garage door, a rotted section of wall base plate, shingles or siding, although you should always verify before starting. You described a near-complete rebuild, only saving the roof part of the garage, and your building official has determined that, beyond 50 percent change, the code for new buildings applies.

Even though your zoning code allows a free-standing accessory structure to be 2 feet to 4 feet from a property line, depending on your community, garages that are closer than 5 feet to a property line must have materials that are rated to prevent flame spread for an hour.

This is especially important in places where there’s a volunteer fire department that must take the time to assemble from all over the community before even heading off to put out the flames. In that precious time, without flame-retardant materials, the structure may not just become completely engulfed, but also spread fire to adjacent houses and other structures. Unless you never catch the news, you can clearly see how vulnerable whole towns and cities are, and just because we don’t live next to a forest, the unthinkable can still happen.

As for cost, aluminum siding, which actually still exists, may cost less, can be painted to match the house and lasts an average of 35 years. Fiber cement siding also does the job, but costs more.

Other choices include stucco over cement board and steel panels, all more costly. Aluminum or cement board eaves, gutters and roofing are also required, and even though most of the home construction industry doesn’t read or know the regulations, the requirements still exist, and cost the most when they aren’t adhered to and the work has to be done twice.

So don’t feel like you’re being singled out or being held to the fire. The rules exist for all of us.

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y the time you read this, the 2020 presidential election will either be over or not. There will be a clear winner, or there won’t. The Herald properly advised its columnists that we couldn’t endorse presidential candidates, because we don’t speak for the newspaper. But I can tell you how I think the candidates’ policies and personal character stacked up.

Donald Trump was not an accidental president.

He didn’t win the White House in 2016 in a fluke, or because Hillary Clinton was a more flawed candialfonse date who ran a d’aMato weak campaign.

He won because he tapped into the valid concerns of Americans — both diehard Republicans and disaffected Democrats — about the future of the country.

These Americans decried the flood of good jobs out of the country in the name of “free trade” and “globalization.” They understood that the unchecked flood of illegal immigrants into the country further threatened good-paying jobs here with cheap labor. They were weary of exorbitantly expensive foreign wars, with

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lost American lives and floods of dollars that went to fight them instead of helping rebuild America. They wanted to see America put first, not last.

Trump merely distilled these legitimate concerns into that “America First” campaign. Americans responded to his straightforward pledge to Make America Great Again.

This may have surprised and dismayed some of the media and academic elites who live lives far removed from the American mainstream, but it didn’t surprise me, because I’ve lived my whole life in that mainstream.

As president, Trump largely kept his promise to restore American peace and prosperity. He ended foreign wars and avoided new wars. He grew the economy and jobs with lower taxes and less regulation. He nominated conservative judges he said he’d nominate. He kept his word.

Then Covid-19 struck, and Trump was swept up in his own flaws. He couldn’t concentrate long enough to see the huge threat the virus posed. He couldn’t overcome his know-it-all attitude to let Mike Pence and an able Coronavirus Task Force do its job. He just had to run the task force’s press briefings himself, dig-

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ging ever deeper holes for himself. It was as if FDR had tried to one-up Eisenhower by announcing D-Day the day before the troops hit the beach.

So if Trump has lost, or loses, his reelection bid, it won’t be because the old elites hate him, though they do. It will be because he just couldn’t help himself, and talked his way out of the presidency. It won’t be because of fake news, but because of his flawed penchant to make news. He’ll have only himself and no one else to blame.

And what about Joe Biden? Full disclosure here: Biden is an old and dear friend of mine. I’ve known him for 40 years, and I believe he’s a decent and honorable man. I also know he’s not a leftwing ideologue who is hankering to impose a socialist revolution on America.

Biden, like me, has lived his life in the American mainstream, and by nature he’s not inclined to swim out of it.

Joe’s problem, if he has, or does, become president, will be with the same left-wing elites who have battled Trump.

If he’s real lucky, the GOP will retain control of the Senate, so he’ll have a handy foil for not pursuing the left’s most radical agenda. But if he sweeps into office with

hen Covid-19 struck, President Trump was swept up in his own flaws.

both Houses of Congress in Democratic control, he’ll be hard-pressed to hold back the legislative floodgates.

If a President Biden and a compliant Congress impose steep new taxes and regulations in the midst of a fragile economic recovery, that recovery could collapse.

If he jumps back into the globalized freetrade mishmash, more U.S. jobs will hemorrhage out of the country. If he rejoins the deeply flawed Paris Agreement on climate change that imposed heavy burdens on the U.S. — while giving competitors like China and India a pass — more jobs still will flow out. If Biden accedes to the wild-eyed demands of enviro-extremists to dismantle America’s oil and gas industries, he could destroy America’s hardwon energy independence and further stifle any economic recovery.

What Biden would have to do to have a successful presidency is follow his own conscience and his own path. He would have to bang heads with the radicals in his own party. He would have to disappoint the same elites that cheered on his candidacy. He would have to lead, not follow.

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.

I’m smitten with Smitten and coveting Envy

y go-to source of comfort at this time of year is apples, particularly apples born and bred in New York state.

One of the sweetest compensations for the end of summer and the turn toward winter is the homey apple. It’s sad to say goodbye to cherries and peaches and plums, but apples take center stage in October and they hang on well into winter. Under the right conditions, apples can Randi be stored for five kReiss to six months. Try that with a peach.

Plums, peaches and cherries don’t have the same cultural and mythological powers as apples.

Eve didn’t pick a plum in the Garden of Eden. The Evil Stepmother didn’t offer Snow White a peach.

Apples have cachet. It is said that Alexander the Great enjoyed dwarf apples in Macedonia in 300 B.C. Today there are some 7,500 different cultivars, with qualities ranging from tooth-aching sweetness to mouth-puckering tartness.

The most expensive apple you can buy is the Sekai Ichi, grown in Japan. They go

for around $21 each. Do not use for baking.

Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has developed dozens of apple varieties, including the popular Cortland, Macoun, Empire and Jonagold.

It leads the search for fruit that is delicious, offers crunch, has eye appeal, is disease-resistant and is blessed with a long shelf life. In recent years, horticulture professor Susan Brown led the breeding program for SnapDragon and RubyFrost at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in upstate Geneva. Her past varieties include Fortune and Autumn Crisp.

SnapDragon is an offspring of Honeycrisp and an unnamed apple in Cornell’s breeding program that is described as similar to Jonagold. I haven’t found one yet in stores, but they are said to be sublime in their appleness.

Forgive me if I indulge the memory of apple picking every autumn through the 1980s, when my kids were growing up. If I breathe deeply enough, I can still smell the baskets of apples in the back seat on the way home, and the scent of sugary fried doughnuts, always part of the outing. It was one of those activities actual-

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ly as good as you expected it to be. The picnic lunch, the freedom of running through the orchards, the climbing and collecting, and then the eating and baking and cooking apple sauce comprised a perfect day. Even the bee stings and poison ivy were worth it.

Many self-picking orchards are still open for business and observing Covid-19 precautions.

My personal apple favorites are Pink Lady, Macoun and Honeycrisp. If I’m looking for an import, then Envy is it, from New Zealand. New York McIntosh are perfect if you’re in a slightly tart mood, and Rome and Cortlands head my list for baking.

Apparently there was a juicy apple scandal that rocked the horticulture world some years back. When the succulent Honeycrisp made its debut following a romantic propagation at the University of Minnesota, it was said to be a blend of the Macoun and the Honeygold. But someone who apparently had way too much time on his hands questioned the new apple’s paternity, conducted genetic fingerprinting and discovered that the Keepsake, not the Honeygold, was the father. Great embarrassment ensued in the world of apple cross-cultivation. I

t’s apple season, and here’s my advice: Don’t use the Sekai Ichi for baking.

don’t know if anyone ever conclusively proved who grafted to whom and how.

Apples are the main event in crisps, cakes, pancakes, cobblers and stove-top compotes. They are the crowning glory of muffins and cupcakes and cookies. We associate apples with holidays, the Jewish New Year (apples and honey) and Halloween. If you have young teeth, think apple jelly. In my home, from October to May, there is always a bowl of apple compote in the refrigerator that we enjoy with cereals, yogurt and especially ice cream.

Recently I tried a Smitten apple, whose rich parentage includes Gala, Braeburn, Falstaff and Fiesta breeding lines. It’s a keeper.

Apples have always been associated with knowledge, immortality, temptation, sex and yes, sin. Of course, today we have to think about the other Apple.

Why did Steve Jobs decide to call his company Apple? According to the Walter Isaacson bio, Jobs said he thought of the name while he was on an all-fruit diet.

He thought it sounded “fun, spirited and not intimidating.” I guess he was on to something.

And now I understand why my Mac is called a Mac. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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o doubt, understanding the coronavirus takes work. We hear a seemingly endless stream of arcane reports emanating from an alphabet soup of acronym-laden government agencies, and our heads start spinning. Then along comes a hopefulsounding research paper, and suddenly many among us breathe a sigh of relief, believing, as President Trump would have us think, that things aren’t really as bad as CNN makes them out to be and we’re “rounding the corner.”

Case in point: A single research paper, published online over the summer by Dr. John Ioannidis, of Stanford University, indicated the Covid-19 death rate for those under age 70 was 0.04 percent, according to the Associated Press. That figure spread rapidly on social media, and many people took it as license to carry on with business as usual.

We see this irrational fearlessness reflected in the “herd immunity” approach to the virus touted by one of Trump’s top advisers, Dr. Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist and a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank. Atlas, who cited the 0.04 figure in July, has suggested we should let the virus run its course among young people to build “natural immunity.”

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letters Saluting their service To the Editor: In anticipation of this Veterans Day 2020, I salute veterans, currently active men and women of the armed forces, and their families. Their sacrifices are extraordinary in ordinary times, but Covid-19 has brought more anxiety and uncertainty to their unique situations.

For nearly 140 years, the American Red Cross has been there for these brave families, to provide compassionate support to address critical needs at every stage of service. As part of our Service to the Armed Forces Program, Red Cross volunteers provide home comforts and critical services on bases and in military hospitals across the country and around the world; they support military families during deployments and during emergencies; and they continue serving our nation’s veterans after their service ends, both in person and virtually.

Since the coronavirus pandemic started, the Red Cross team has been working around the clock to address an array of

was greater than 99 percent. Thus, he appeared to suggest, we should think twice about shutting down again.

Many conservatives across the country latched on to the 0.04 percent figure, and have used it — or, rather, misused it — as evidence to support a push to fully reopen the economy and end what they say are intrusive policies, such as New York’s mask mandate in public spaces. The trouble is, that could lead to tens of thousands of more needless deaths, even among young people.

The 0.04 percent figure is likely accurate, but without context, it can leave the false impression that virtually no one under age 70 is dying of the coronavirus, when, in fact, tens of thousands are. At the Herald, we have written too many obituaries this year for people in the prime years of their lives cut down by this merciless virus — a firefighter EMT, a pharmacist and a philanthropist among them. You need not take our word for it, however.

National Institutes of Health statistics tell us that, among those killed by Covid-19 in the United States, 8.3 to 22.7 percent are under age 65. That is to say, of the more than 231,000 Americans who have died in the past eight months, 19,000 to 52,500 have been people under age 65. By comparison, 58,200 Americans died in the Vietnam War, which carried on for years.

When we look at Covid-19’s impact in this way, we suddenly see that America’s

alarmingly — and unacceptably — high death toll includes many, many younger people, and we have no idea whom the virus will take next. It is an indiscriminate killer. It infects many, but leaves some unharmed; others come down with what is essentially a bad case of the flu; and others contract pneumonia and die.

Each life lost is precious. Each life lost is irreplaceable. Amid the flurry of statistical information generated by government agencies, it is all too easy to forget the human devastation that the coronavirus has caused.

Moreover, many Covid-19 survivors under age 65 now suffer long-term symptoms, including memory loss, known as “brain fog,” joint pain, high blood pressure and heart palpitations, and we cannot say for certain what their prospects are for future recovery.

Finally, we must remember that we cannot hermetically seal our elderly in virusfree bubbles. The greater the infection rate is in our larger population, the greater the chance that older adults will contract Covid-19 and die.

We must accept that the virus is with us, and we must do all we can to preserve life. We’ll say it again: Wear a mask. Wash your hands often. Keep your distance.

Avoid mass gatherings. Work from home if you can. Get a flu shot. And pray for a vaccine.

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hinking about allegations of “fake news,” assertions that Covid-19 is a hoax and the denial of climate change in the face of expert testimony and extreme weather events, I began to wonder: How do we know what we think we know? I thought of the biblical quote, “The truth shall make you free,” and its variants, used as a motto at a number of universities as a secular declaration devoid of its biblical origins.

This is a fitting slogan for universities, because they are chartered to pursue the ideal of truth in accord roBerT a. with facts. In fulsCoTT filling this mission, universities serve three distinct roles. They are creators of new knowledge grounded in objective study and independent research; they are curators of what is thought, whether true or false, in books or databases; and they are critics supporting pursuit of questions that ask, “What if ?” and about fairness, justice and truth.

But how do we know the truth? I think there are three ways that people claim something as true. Some seek truth

through empirical evidence that is supported by findings that can be replicated by others. This way of knowing a truth is based on trial and error and controlled experiments.

In this way, we can learn the biological origins, manifestations and consequences of disease. Medical scientists and public health experts explain what they know from objective studies. Their findings can be tested by others and reported in peer-reviewed journals in order to minimize the potential for bias to influence results.

Some others express as truth what they “know” through epiphany, or revelation. They know this truth because they believe it, often because of religious inspiration and teachings. To say that someone believes something is true without empirical evidence is not to cast doubt on their conclusion, but to clarify the process by which they determined what they consider to be true. At times, such “received wisdom” becomes an orthodoxy that brooks no challenges.

Still another expression of a truth is based on emotion, including fear and prejudice. These irrational “truths” can be the foundation of hate and discrimina-

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Each day across Nassau and Suffolk counties and across the country, we help support military families. Nationally, since 9/11 we have served more than one million military families. During this time of crisis, we stand ready to continue to support the next million.

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tion. When President Trump claimed that Mexican immigrants were “murderers and rapists” he was expressing a prejudice, making an emotional claim, a fear of the “other,” not a fact supported by evidence. His claim was true only as an opinion grounded in bias.

I think that each way of knowing — fact, faith and fear — must be acknowledged. We also must understand that we cannot argue against an expression of truth held by belief or bias by relying on empirical evidence alone. Beliefs and biases are not susceptible to reason — but they can be the subject of ethical analysis.

We must take a stand against fear-mongering, racist rants and lies about public health measures. We must expose the nature and character of the assertions made or the actions taken. As the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, “Sunlight is the best disinfectant,” so we must expose falsehoods and discrimination for what they are.

Someone might assert that climate change isn’t occurring or isn’t caused by human behavior, but that shouldn’t stand in the way of taking steps to mitigate climate disasters. Someone else might assert

that wearing masks and social distancing are denials of individual liberty. But such an opinion doesn’t give that person license to deny the rights of others who seek protection from a deadly virus.

One can argue with the scientists about how to behave during the pandemic, and the extent to which human behavior is threatening our planet, but we must do so with facts, not opinions based on emotion or epiphany.

By emphasizing the importance of facts, we may offend others who “know” a truth through another means. But they must honor our path to truth just as we must respect their right to an opinion.

Indeed, the very foundation of democracy requires civility, the willingness to listen to alternative views. But we shouldn’t allow opinions to negate facts and prejudice to deny freedoms.

So let’s acknowledge that there are different paths to what we consider truth, some based on empirical evidence, some based on emotion or bias, and some based on belief. Further, let’s agree that each of us can hold our position without denigrating a way of knowing expressed by another, unless that belief or bias endangers others and curtails their legal rights. We can disagree without being disagreeable.

Dr. Robert S. Scott is president emeritus of Adelphi University.

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At last, the election is over To the Editor: Election Day has come and gone.

This reminds me of “The Outer Limits,” the 1960s television show.

With the end of around-the-clock commercials by politicians, political parties, political action groups and pay-for-play special-interest groups, we now return control of your television back to you — until the next election cycle.

No more candidates’ campaign mailings clogging our mailboxes and weighing down our hard-working postal employees. Finally, some peace and quiet! Now, if only all the winning and losing candidates would pick up all the thousands of campaign signs that litter our roads and highways to help clean up our environment. They could use leftover campaign funds to hire either the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts to collect the litter. They could pay our young people a nominal fee, which I’m sure would be appreciated.

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