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Reacting to county orders Blakeman directs school districts to vote on mask mandates “More than half of all states in the nation have no set policy on masking at educational instituResidents of Franklin Square tions, leaving the decision up to and Elmont had mixed reactions local governments to decide to new County Executive Bruce when and how to enforce mask Blakeman’s Jan. 6 order direct- mandates.” ing local boards of Blakeman also education to vote lifted the mask this month on mandate for all whether their discounty agencies tricts should manand the state’s temdate mask-wearing porary mask manin schools. date for those in As a result of public places. the order, school Local Democratboards will vote “to ic elected officials determine whether representing parts or not parents and of Elmont and children should be Franklin Square granted the consti- MICHAEL released a statetutional right to ANDERSON ment decrying reject mask man- Teacher’s aide, Blakeman’s order. dates while in the “Over the past two classroom.” The Dutch Broadway School years 3,435 of our orders read in part, friends, neighbors “Given the historical data on and loved ones in Nassau County Covid-19 and the ongoing debate have died from COVID-19,” read over whether masks are more the statement, from State Senaharmful than beneficial to chil- tors Todd Kaminsky and Anna dren and to school environments K a p l a n , A s s e m b l y wo m a n in general, we should protect the Michaelle Solages and others. freedoms and statutory rights of They called Gov. Kathy students and parents by resting Hochul’s mask mandate a “simwith the parents the decision ple precaution” in schools that whether their children should works to “keep our schools open wear masks in school.” The order further states, CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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A VIEW OF ongoing construction at the UBS Arena, just on the other side of resident James McGovern’s fenceline.

Residents riled up over noise

Horns, lights at UBS Arena have them up in arms By ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com

Months after expressing concerns about construction at the UBS Arena in Elmont, Floral Park residents who live close to the arena — within 1,500 feet of it — are voicing complaints about horn honking, triggered vehicle alarms, public urination and other disturbances after events at the arena. Bill Kelleher, of Floral Park, who has accused arena

developer Empire State Development of failing to clearly communicate construction plans for the building’s Emerald parking lot, has also expressed concerns about the quality of life for homeowners in the neighbohood. Kelleher described the Emerald lot, formerly known as the north parking lot, as “the bane of my existence.” Since the arena opened in November, Kelleher said, he and his neighbors have been subjected to late-night horns

and other noises from arenagoers. Although New York Arena Partners put up signs prohibiting tailgate partying and honking in the parking lot, Kelleher said that both have become common. He also said he had seen people hop over fences bordering the arena to avoid paying for parking, as well as public urination in the Emerald lot, which, he added, was “witnessed by many people.” Kelleher’s neighbor James CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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Town of Hempstead officials began their new term Jan. 4 at Town Hall. During the nearly two-hour inauguration, Supervisor Don Clavin, Town Clerk Kate Murray, Senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, and Councilmen Anthony D’Esposito and Dennis Dunne were sworn in following their re-election this past November. After the invocation by Rabbi Mordechai Kamentzky of Yeshiva of South Shore in Hewlett, Clavin was sworn in first by Nassau County Republican Committee Chairman Joseph Cairo. Months into Clavin’s first term as supervisor, the coronavirus pandemic erupted and took a toll on Hempstead. Clavin secured tens of millions of dollars in federal CARES Act funds that went to the community, including millions for hospitals, schools, food banks, villages, fire departments and community organizations. The Town Board also rolled out the first mobile vaccination unit in New York state, which has provided nearly 10,000 vaccine and booster shots to residents to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Clavin thanked many of the government officials in attendance for the help that they have given him during his time in local government. “Today is really about just saying thank you,” he said. “We work together and for the betterment of all the residents, from the town’s finances to bond upgrades to services through the pandemic. And it’s not just that it’s the men and women that I work within the town. We do it together because we’re one big team in the Town of Hempstead.” Murray, who was sworn in next, led creation of online accessible parking permits, posted one-stop passport shop events and established outdoor service trailers where residents can continue to access clerk’s office programs. Murray became the first elected official in New York to conduct weddings using online video conferencing. In October, she reached a milestone when she performed her 500th wedding ceremony. After reflections were offered by the Rev. Dr.Calvin Butts of Abyssinian Baptist Church, Attorney General Letitia James swore in Goosby, who is the firstever African-American woman on the Town Board, now entering her 22nd year representing the 1st District. During her last term, Goosby assisted in supplying free PPE kits for businesses and churches, secured personal air filters for residents at risk, aided in launching the outdoor dining initiative to help residents stay open during the pandemic and sponsored food pantries that donated more than a million meals to residents in need. Goosby discussed her tenure in government and the plans that she has for her district moving forward. “I’m going into my 22nd year, as I was elected seeking representation from my community via a historical lawsuit,” Goosby said. “I’ve been sworn in on my plaza and that’s progress,” she noted. The Town

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SUPERVISOR DON CLAVIN gave a speech following his inauguration. SENIOR COUNCILWOMAN DOROTHY Goosby, standing with her family, was sworn into office by State Attorney General Lettita James. TOWN CLERK KATE Murray spoke to the crowd after being sworn in. HEMPSTEAD TOWN COUNCILMAN Anthony D’esposito was sworn into office on Jan. 4. Hall plaza was recently named for her. “My colleagues are of a different party,” she continued, “but it didn’t matter to them that I’m a Democrat and they aren’t. I’ve worked with wonderful people, and I respect them and they respect me. We made a lot of progress in this town.” D’Esposito was then sworn in by State Assemblyman Edward Ra. D’Esposito, a retired New York Police Department detective, has taught his Narcan training program to town employees, community groups and residents throughout Hempstead. And he has helped expand the Narcan training program, with the town recently announcing distribution of 10,000 Narcan kits in Hempstead. D’Esposito reflected on the town’s accomplishments in recent years. “The last four years we’ve delivered budgets to save taxpayers money, holding the line or lowering taxes,” he said. “We’ve been lauded by Wall Street, earning outlook upticks and credit upgrades. We expanded programs and invested in our parks, beaches and marinas. Just this year, we’ve invested $75 million in our roads. While other municipalities were unable to collect garbage and recycle at the height of the pandemic, our sanitation crews

stepped up and kept the town moving.” Dunne, who served with the U.S. Marines during the Vietnam War, remains a leader among local American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars organizations, and has been pivotal in crafting legislation to create a permanent

property-tax exemption for Cold War era veterans, providing a tax reduction for eligible recipients. He has also sponsored several pieces of legislation to restict vaping and vape products.

Residents outraged over Elmont arena noise tion that works to protect the community and the community’s quality of life,” McGovern said he had witnessed public Solages previously told the Herald. urination in the lot during the New York Kelleher and McGovern both live on Islanders’ home opener in November. He one of three dead-end blocks adjacent to saw it, he said, near vegetation placed by the Emerald lot, near a fence that stands NYAP to shield the yard of the Floral eight feet tall and was designed to reduce Park-Bellerose School. noise. Kelleher said that he, McGovern Kelleher and McGovern have reached and other residents have resorted to “selfout to NYAP about these issues. The last policing” the area, notifying NYAP when update they received, Kelleher said, was a they see issues. “We’re telling them what Dec. 21 email from NYAP stating that Nastheir problems are,” Kellesau County police officers her said. were patrolling the parking In addition, due to the lot and were stationed along slow rollout of electric shutthe fence separating Floral tle buses that will bring Park and the Floral Parkpatrons to the front of the Bellerose School from the arena, the facility has arena to “make sure [public instead provided diesel-powurination] doesn’t happen.” ered shuttle buses, which, Kelleher said that loud Kelleher said, often idle BILL KELLEHER noise has become the norm before and after games, for those living close to the Floral Park within earshot of Floral arena after every event. He Park residents. “The diesel cited the chorus of remote buses are noisy, emit fumes and make a locking and unlocking signals before and beeping sound when backing up on their after events by patrons leaving, and then route,” McGovern said. searching for, their vehicles, as well as car As well, residents who live on the block alarms that sometimes blare for 45 min- closest to the arena, 40 to 50 feet away utes to an hour before the parking lot from the fence, are subjected to bright empties at around midnight. lights from vehicles leaving the arena at State Assemblywoman Michaelle night. “Most of the issues around here Solages, who has worked with Kelleher are at night, from headlights coming into and McGovern to try to address their con- our homes,” McGovern said. “NYAP still cerns, has said she wants to find a solu- have not placed any bushes along the lot tion that alleviates stress on residents. “I by homes, which would help with the encourage all parties to come to a resolu- headlights.”

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Kelleher said that NYAP has told them it is pursuing measures that would mitigate noise, such as additional fences and vegetation. But three months after the opening of the arena, there is no time frame for these measures, Kelleher said. Residents’ lives are dependent on the

arena’s schedule, he explained. “If it’s an Islander game, we’re looking at chanting and horn honking. If a concert ends at 10 o’clock, then between 10 o’clock and 11 o’clock we’ll have horn honking before people get out … Unfortunately it’s a sad way of life.”

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Renovations on the home of the Arcillas family of Elmont by Franklin Square-based nonprofit Rescuing Families, which rebuilds homes for families in need, has begun. “We have been working super hard with our charity Rescuing Families, Inc., in frigid temperatures trying to get the framing done for the new ramp and small deck for the Arcillas family,” Gina said in a post to Facebook about the renovations to the Elmont home. The Arcillas family, described by Rescuing Families on its website as a “hardworking middle-class family of 5” consists of Kelly’s mother, Carina, her father, Joel, and her twin 13-year-old sisters, Kiana & Kiara. When the family returned from a vacation in September 2019, Kelly, who was then only 16, was hospitalized due to a sudden illness. She fell into a coma for three months and was later diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis. This, the nonprofit added, “changed her and her family’s lives forever.” Autoimmune encephalitis is a collection of related conditions in which the body’s immune system attacks the

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A RAMP TO provide Kelly greater access to the house is being built by Rescuing Families. brain, causing inflammation. The immune system produces substances called antibodies that mistakenly attack brain cells.

Since Kelly came out of her coma, she has spent the last two and a half years in the hospital and nursing facility due to new disabilities. She is now

paralyzed from her waist down, has lost 90% of her vision, relies on a ventilator & a gastronomy tube for all of her nutrition. In order for Kelly to come home modifications need to be made to support her ongoing care and wheelchair. Kelly, now 18, has not been home since September 2019. The nonprofit plans to renovate the family’s bathroom to make it wheelchair accessible, widen doorways, build a deck and ramp on the back exterior of the home and install a French door and new windows in the rear of the home for easier access for Kelly. “We will also be updating the flooring and doing some landscaping for the family to create and outdoor space they can all enjoy together,” reads a statement about the Arcillas family home’s renovation on the organization’s website. “Being able to bring such joy and comfort to the families we help is such an incredible feeling for us and our team,” Rescuing Families wrote in an August post to Facebook about the nonprofit’s latest home renovation. Joel Arcillas, Kelly’s father, has been helping Rescuing Families renovate the

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COMMUNITY UPDATE Thursday, Jan. 13

Questions will be addressed. Registration is required. Limited seating. First –comefirst-seated. Masks are required for all INPERSON programs, regardless of vaccination status. To register, contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or via

Poetry Workshop with Dr. Linda Opyr Join Dr. Linda Opyr, Poet Laureate of Nassau County and the author of six collections of poetry, in person at Elmont Memorial Library in meeting room 2 at 4 p.m. for a poetry workshop. Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to write poetry and share what they’ve written. Bring paper and a pen and the desire to expand your knowledge and enjoyment of writing good poems. Registration is required. Space is limited. To register, contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org.

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Thursday, Jan. 20 Tai Chi/Chi Gong with Joseph Panico Join Elmont Memorial Library and Joseph Panico at 11 a.m. in meeting room 2 for an in-person tai chi/chi gong class, which consists of breathing and movement exercises that aim to reduce stress as well as increase flexibility. Registration ends one hour before class begins. Contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 x 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org to register.

Friday, Jan. 14 Senior Chat

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Join Elmont Memorial Library for senior chat with seniors from the community every Friday morning at 10 a.m. in meeting room 1. Participate or just listen to casual discussions on special interests, concerns, and other topics that happen to come up. To register, contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org.

Tuesday, Jan. 18 Dance Around the World with Lauren Join the Elmont Memorial Library and Lauren for a virtual dance class at 5 p.m. Step into the beat and let music from around the globe move you in this fun, no-partner, dance class on Zoom. From the comfort of your home, you’ll get a great workout as you learn easy steps and rhythms to dances including Latin, African, Balkan, Middle Eastern and more. Discover the beauty of different cultures in this enjoyable, energizing class! Wear shoes/sneakers that glide, and bring a water bottle and 2 lightweight scarves (if available). Registration is required. Registration ends one hour before class begins. Link will be emailed to you before program begins. Please join class 10 minutes before start time. Note: Participant accepts any potential injury associ-

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Learn sign language at the F.S. public library Pictured: Illustrations from Franklin Square resident Christy O’Connell’s 2020 book, “Sally the Signing Squirrel” (illustrations by Shereen Said). The Franklin Square Public Library is holding an instructional American Sign Language class with Rosemary Algios on Wednesday, Jan. 12 at 11 a.m. ated with this class by proceeding through the link or entering using meeting ID. Please consult with your physician before beginning this or any other exercise class. As with any exercise program, if at any point during the class you begin to feel faint, dizzy, or have physical discomfort, you should stop immediately and seek medical attention.

Wednesday, Jan. 19 American Sign Language with Rosemary Algios Join Elmont Memorial Library and Rosemary Algios at 11 a.m. for a beginner course that will teach you about fingerspelling, numbers, vocabulary, facial expressions, basic conversational phrases and Deaf culture. Registration is required, and limited seating is available. Registration for Elmont Library cardholders began Oct. 20. Registration for non-cardholders begins one week before the program, on

Oct. 27. Masks are required for all in-person programs, regardless of vaccination status. Contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org to register.

Hitchcock film discussion: I Confess with Phil Harwood Join the Elmont Memorial Library and Phil Harwood at 2:30 p.m. in meeting room 2 for a viewing and discussion of “I Confess.” Father Logan is a Catholic priest, but he finds his faith put to the test when he is accused of the murder of a wealthy member of his parish. The real murderer was Otto, a poor German immigrant desperate for money, and Father Logan knows this because Otto confessed it to him. However, Father Logan is bound by the secrecy of the confessional and cannot share this evidence with the police, even if it means his own life. Patrons will have time to view the film on their own and come together for a post-film discussion. Registration is required. Limited

seating. First –come-first-seated. Masks are required for all IN-PERSON programs, regardless of vaccination status. . Contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 x 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary. org to register.

Understanding Your Income Tax with Livingstone Young, EA, NTPI Fellow Join the Elmont Memorial Library and Livingstone Young at 7 p.m. for a dual virtual and in-person class in meeting room 2 on how to understand your income tax. This presentation will take you through Form 1040 LINE by LINE & explain the associated forms & how they are developed. Also learn about various filing status & how to determine standard deductions vs. itemized deductions, and how to arrive at allowable dependent exemption & credits. A comparison of the changes under the Tax Cut & Jobs Act will be explained and tax consequences on retirement distributions, social security and GIG Economy will also be discussed.

Friday, Jan. 21 Senior Chat Join Elmont Memorial Library for senior chat with seniors from the community every Friday morning at 10 a.m. in meeting room 1. To register, contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org.

HAVING AN EVENT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest. All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to rtraverso@liherald.com

Vivian Zhu and Malik Hyman were named Elmont Memorial H.S. valedictorian & salutatorian. The F.S. school district recently introduced a coding program into its schools’ curriculum. N.H.P. Memorial H.S.’s Leilani Lee performed at the American Protégé Winter Gala Concert. Covert Ave. School celebrated students’ native cultures on Cultural Diversity Day on Dec. 9 Sewanhaka alum Dennis Peron co-wrote a proposal that legalized medicinal marijuana in CA.

Outgoing county exec. pushes gender inclusivity On her second-to-last day in office, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran issued an executive on Dec. 30 to create a nine-member Nassau County Advisory Committee for Gender Inclusivity to address gender identity discrimination in the county’s charter, administrative code and other regulations. The committee would report to the county executive. Bruce Blakeman, who became county executive Jan. 1, said he would not start the committee, saying the executive order was intended to play Laura Curran to the press. Instead of creating the committee, “this administration will respect the [LGBQT] community by placing important stakeholders on the Human Rights Committee,” Blakeman said, citing the 15-member human rights commission chaired by Bobby Kalotee. Curran’s executive order came three years after she enacted an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission policy that upgraded sexual harassment prevention measures, including having a sepa-

Gender inclusive definitions ■ Sex: biological status that is typically categorized as male, female, or intersex. ■ Gender: attitudes, feelings and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person’s biological sex. ■ Gender identity: deeply felt, inherent sense of being a boy, a man or male; a girl, a woman or female; or an alternative gender. ■ Gender expression: presentation, including physical appearance and behavior that communicates aspects of gender or gender role. –American Psychological Association

rate complaint form for sexual harassment and prompt investigations into discrimination or harassment allegations. “We are working to eradicate all forms of discrimination in the workplace and to ensure equal employment opportunity for all members of our team,” Curran said during a 2019 news briefing. “This new

policy will do more to protect the civil ing to educate all employees in identifyrights of our employees than has ever ing and reporting instances of discrimibeen done before.” nation and/or sexual harassment. The chief executive of the LGBT NetKilmicky, however, also noted that, work in Hauppauge, Dr. despite these policies, transDavid Kilmicky, praised Curgender workers may still face ran’s work in making the discrimination. county safer and more inclu“Across our nation, memsive throughout her tenure as bers of the transgender comcounty executive. “This longmunity continue to endure overdue policy change for elevated levels of poverty, Nassau’s transgender people housing discrimination, and families sends a clear workplace bias and a risk of message that all county suicide and mental health employees are entitled to challenges. They are the vicwork in an environment that tims of fatal violence with is safe and free from harassinfuriating frequency,” Legisment and discrimination,” he lator Arnold Drucker, a Demsaid at the news briefing. ocrat, said. Jay Kaplan, the LGBTQ He then added that Blakeyouth services manager at ARNOLD W. man has publicly expressed the Bellmore-based Pride for DRUCKER his commitment to helping Youth, echoed the sentiment, Legislator all Nassau residents, so saying, “This policy is the Drucker asserted, “Following first in Nassau County’s histhrough on the formation of tory to explicitly protect transgender peo- this committee would put the power of ple, and it is hopefully the first of many action behind his words and bring us one policies that will be introduced to end dis- step closer to fulfilling the promise of ‘libcrimination against this vulnerable popu- erty and justice for all.’” lation.” In October, Curran also signed into law Indeed, the policy was the first in Nas- a bill that created a 15-member disabilisau’s history to protect in EEO policy a ties advisory council, comprising memclass of “sex” against gender-identity dis- bers with disabilities and people reprecrimination in the workplace. The policy senting organizations that serve and also protects employees who report advocate for those with disabilities, harassment and/or discrimination from tasked with providing recommendations retaliation and provides interactive train- to the county executive and legislature.

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Baldwin Senior Basketball MORENO IS LOOKING to lead Baldwin to its eighth straight Nassau Class AA championship and has drawn interest from a handful of D1 college programs. She is a two-time All-County selection and was an impact player as a sophomore during the team’s last county title run. She scored 10 points in its 60-52 victory over Syosset in the Class AA final held March 8, 2020 at Nassau Coliseum, marking her seventh game that season scoring in double figures. She averaged 14 points as a junior.

GAMES TO WATCH Thursday, Jan. 13

Girls Basketball: East Rockaway at West Hemp.....4:45 p.m. Girls Basketball: Lynbrook at Lawrence...................... 5 p.m. Boys Swimming: Wantagh vs South Side (at Jeircho) 7 p.m. Gymnastics: Valley Stream at Hewlett ........................ 7 p.m. Gymnastics: Sewanhaka at South Side ..................... 7 p.m. Girls Basketball: North Shore at Seaford ................... 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Westbury at Baldwin ....................... 7 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 14 Girls Basketball: Glen Cove at Sewanhaka ..................... 5 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Roslyn at Elmont ............................ 5 p.m. Wrestling: Freeport at Oceanside ..............................5:30 p.m. Girls Basketball: New Hyde Park at MacArthur................ 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Island Trees at Clarke ........................... 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Seaford at Lawrence ............................ 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: V.S. North at South Side................. 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 15 Wrestling: Baldwin Tournament ........................................9 a.m. Boys Bakisetball: V.S. Central at East Meadow.............. 12 p.m. Boys Basketball: East Rockaway at West Hemp. ........... 12 p.m. Girls Basketball: Kennedy at South Side ..................... 12 p.m.

While the game was more competitive than the score implies, Sewanhaka earned a sizeable boys’ basketball victory over visiting Elmont last Saturday, 72-46, thanks to a steady offense that produced at least 16 points in every quarter. The outcome was mostly settled in the first half, as the Indians took a commanding 37-12 lead into intermission. Sewanhaka head coach Jay Allen was thrilled with how his team looked and played coming out of the gates. “As far as our energy in the beginning of the game, I think our guys came out and played hard,” Allen said. “We got hit hard over Christmas break, so I think our guys are hungry now that they’re getting a chance to play.” That hunger and passion was evident in the first half, as the Indians controlled every facet of the game. Their defense was stifling, and when they weren’t forcing turnovers, they were contesting shots at the rim. On offense, they displayed a good mixture of getting in the paint and shooting from the perimeter Senior Chris Cherry had 17 points and went 3-for-3 from behind the arc. Senior Kamren Denhart helped set the up-tempo pace, as his 12 points came almost exclusively from fast break layups. The second half wasn’t as seamless for the Indians, but the team was able to mitigate any runs from Elmont, with a lot of the credit going to senior J’Den Lloyd. He was the game’s high scorer with 28 points, with 20 coming in the second half. His combination of power and touch was unstoppable at times, and Allen was elated with how Lloyd performed. “J’Den is our biggest strongest guy,” Allen said. “He’s essentially a guard but has to play forward for us. He was really aggressive today. He put his shoulder down and got to the rim the entire game. We’ll take our matchups with J’Den against any team.” Sewanhaka (4-4 overall) will look to build upon the win when it takes on redhot Calhoun.

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SENIOR J’DEN LLOYD, right, went off for 28 points and 14 rebounds last Saturday as Sewanhaka cruised past visiting Elmont by 26. For Elmont (2-6), the game was a tale of two halves. In the first half, they appeared outmatched and uninspired, but in the second half they were rejuvenated, partly due to a schematic change. The team implemented a suffocating press coming out of the half which generated numerous turnovers. While the final result wasn’t ideal, head coach Ryan Straub saw positive takeaways from this game. “We didn’t quit,” Straub said. “Second half we picked up the intensity. It’s not easy to go down such a big margin but it says something special about these guys

that they kept fighting.” Senior Giovanni Pierre-Chrispin had 10 points for the Spartans, mostly coming from hard fought-buckets down low. Sophomore Osagie Ehkator also had 10 points, including a dunk. Junior Girell FriasWalsh had 9 points and was a defensive catalyst as well. Junior Davidson Ba Lafortune also was a core weapon in the second-half press, while also providing 7 points. The Spartans will look to get back on track this week when they face Glen Cove and Roslyn.

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COUNTY EXECUTIVE BRUCE Blakeman said at a Jan. 6 news conference that school districts in the county would be able to choose whether to require mask-wearing.

CONTINUED FROM FRONT and our kids safe.” Additionally, the officials called it “the height of irresponsibility to ignore Governor Hochul’s vital efforts to protect public health.” “We are confident the school districts of Nassau County will continue acting responsibly in the coming days, as they had no input in the County Executive’s actions,” the lawmakers said. “For the sake of our children, teachers, and school personnel, County Executive Blakeman must immediately rescind his irresponsible and clearly unlawful executive order.” In a memo to local school districts released Jan. 6 in reaction to Blakeman’s order, State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa stated, “Counties are required to enforce school masking regulations. The regulation, which applies to schools and many other sectors, requires local health departments to enforce school mask mandates. “Counties do not have the legal authority to require boards of education to vote on specific issues,” Rosa continued. “School officers take an oath to obey all legal requirements. The State Education Department expects school boards will follow all legal requirements, including the face-covering regulation.” Blakeman, a Republican, said he was directly opposing an order put in place in early December by Hochul, a Democrat, requiring mask use in public spaces. The state mandate was originally set to expire in mid-January, but Hochul recently extended it through Feb. 1. “As governor, my two top priorities are to protect the health of New Yorkers and to protect the health of our economy,” she said on Dec. 10. She added that she expected the coronavirus test positivity rate to rise with the rapid spread of the Omicron

variant. The legal counsel for the county executive drafted the executive order signed by Blakeman, said spokesman Chris Boyle. A spokeswoman for the State Education Department said on Jan. 6 that local school boards could not vote to violate either SED or State Health Department policy. Some local residents said they agreed with Blakeman’s rationale. “Schools should have the option,” Lisa DelliPizzi, president of the Franklin Square Chamber of Commerce, said, stressing that while her personal view is that “it doesn’t hurt to wear a mask … [Blakeman] has his points.” But Michael Anderson, a teacher’s aide at Dutch Broadway School in Elmont, said Blakeman should enforce Hochul’s mask mandate. “All governments underneath [the state] should honor it if it’s good for the people,” Anderson said. Adding that his daily work with children informs his viewpoint, Anderson said that both contact tracing and maskwearing are essential to stop the spread of the coronavirus. “Our job is to enforce these rules as adults to help save everyone’s lives,” he said. “[Blakeman’s] job is to enforce the state’s rules.” “The only way to get a handle on this,” Anderson concluded, “is for all of us to get on board with the rules.” Blakeman’s order came at a time when Long Island’s test positivity rate — the highest in the state — was spiking at more than 25 percent, and a growing number of school districts were reporting increased transmission of the disease, with some, such as Long Beach, forced to close some schools because of staffing shortages. Hospitalization rates were rising as well.

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Musuem shows off 1930s F.S. bank $5 bill By ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com

A U.S. Treasury-backed banknote issued by the Franklin Square National Bank during the early 1930s remains in “mint condition” at the Franklin Square Museum. Founded in 1926, the Franklin Square National Bank was a national bank, meaning the federal government granted it the ability to issue its own paper money through the United States Treasury. As a result of this, Franklin Square National issued a small amount of paper money, backed by U.S. Treasury bonds, throughout the 1930s. In October 1993, former cashier of the bank Arthur T. Roth presented a five-dollar Franklin Square National Bank banknote to the Franklin Square Historical Society (which runs the museum), as he was working with historical society president Paul van Wie to document the history of the bank for the society. “The five-dollar banknote is the size of contemporary United States currency,” van Wie, the president of the society, said in a statement. “The primary images are a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the obverse and the Lincoln Memorial on the reverse. The obverse bears a brown seal, the usual statement of value, and ‘The Franklin Square National Bank, Franklin

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THE BILL WAS printed in 1934. S q u a r e , N e w Yo rk , ’ ” v a n Wi e explained, describing the appearance of the banknote. Although the banknote, cut from a sheet of bills by Mr. Roth himself, is dated to the ‘Series of 1929,’ it was actually printed in 1934. This is because the banknote was signed by Roth in his capacity as cashier of the

Society invites all residents of Franklin Square to join the society and receive its monthly newsletter. Check the society’s website, https://www.fshistoricalsociety.org, for updates on the opening of its museum to the public, and email society trustee Bill Youngfert at BYoungfert@aol.com to schedule a tour of the museum.

bank, and Arthur C. Phillips as bank president. Mr. Roth did not join the Bank until 1934. “This banknote is obviously quite historic, and it is also quite rare,” van Wie said, since “Franklin Square banknotes were issued in small quantities, and very few survived.” The Franklin Square Historical

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STUDENTS AT WASHINGTON Street School participate in CodeMonkey activities. First and second graders who have mastered the kindergarten-level challenges use a program known as Beaver Achiever to learn essential coding skills.

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F.S. School District introduces ‘CodeMonkey’ By ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com

The Franklin Square Union Free School District recently introduced CodeMonkey, a coding program currently offered only to district students between kindergarten and second grade, to the district-wide curriculum. “CodeMonkey is a game-based program where students can learn to code without any prior experience. The courses transition from block-based coding to text-based coding, assisting students in learning coding basics and how to code in real programming languages,” the district explained in a statement. Kindergarteners use CodeMonkey Jr., a program designed for kindergarteners, to learn the basics of coding with a pro-

gression of gaming challenges. “Using blocks, students build a set of visual coding instructions to help lead a monkey to collect bananas and get to a treasure chest,” the statement read, describing the program’s challenges for kindergarterners. Once Code Monkey Jr. has been mastered, first and second graders use a program known as Beaver Achiever to learn essential coding skills. “Students use coding blocks to help the friendly beaver complete different tasks within each of the courses,” the statement explained. “CodeMonkey helps our students develop computational skills, as well as writing skills,” said district-wide coding teacher Jennifer Horton, adding that the students enjoy the program.

Leilani Lee, NHP Memorial junior, performs at Carnegie Hall New Hyde Park Memorial High School junior Leilani Lee performed solo piano during the American Protégé Winter Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 12. Lee submitted a video of her solo performance to the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition that earned her the opportunity to perform at the event.

Lee, who currently attends the Manhattan School of Music’s pre-college program where she studies under concert pianist Ubaldo Diaz-Acosta, has also participated in a variety of recitals at different venues, including local churches, schools and Flushing Town Hall. Lee also traveled to Spain in 2018 to participate in the Burgos International Music Festival.

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LEILANI LEE, A junior at New Hyde Park Memorial High School, performed solo piano during the American Protégé Winter Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 12. She studies under concert pianist Ubaldo Diaz-Acosta at the Manhattan School of Music’s pre-college program, which Lee currently attends.

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room and other areas in the house that need to be widened and modify. “There’s some more to get done but we are getting closer every day to #BringKellyHome,” Gina added in the Facebook post. “Our charity is not a huge charity,” Vinny previously told the Herald. “The community is what drives us. We’re not getting funding from corporations; we’re getting funding from our neighbors.” Donations to Rescuing Families can be made at www.rescuingfamilies. org.

GINA SAID WHILE the nonprofit waits for deck boards, the team is preparing to demo the Arcillas family’s bathroom and other areas of the house that need to be modified.

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LEHRER AVENUE (TH 575/21) West Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the south curbline of Steele Street south for a distance of 25 feet. STEELE STREET (TH 575/21) North Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the west curbline of Lehrer Avenue west for a distance of 30 feet. STEELE STREET (TH 575/21) South Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the west curbline of Lehrer Avenue west for a distance of 30 feet. OCEANSIDE FOXHURST ROAD (TH 570/21) South Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting from the east curbline of Loftus Avenue east for a distance of 33 feet. LOFTUS AVENUE (TH 570/21) East Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting from the south curbline of Foxhurst Road south for a distance of 40 feet. ROOSEVELT BROOKSIDE AVENUE (TH 558/21) East Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the south curbline of Cedar Street south for a distance of 25 feet. BROOKSIDE AVENUE (TH 558/21) East Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the north curbline of Cedar Street north for a distance of 30 feet. CEDAR STREET (TH 558/21) South Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the east curbline of Brookside Avenue east for a distance of 30 feet. CEDAR STREET (TH 558/21) North Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the east curbline of Brookside Avenue east for a

distance of 30 feet. ALL PERSONS INTERESTED shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposal at the time and place aforesaid. Dated: January 11, 2022 Hempstead, New York BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 129138

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Section 202-48 of the code of the Town of Hempstead entitled, “Handicapped Parking On Public Streets,” a public hearing will be held in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, New York, on the 25th day of January, 2022, at 7:00 o’clock in the evening of that day, to consider the adoption of a resolution setting aside certain parking spaces for motor vehicles for the sole use of holders of special parking permits issued by the County of Nassau to physically handicapped persons at the following locations: ELMONT ESTELLE AVENUE - south side, starting at a point 15 feet east of the east curbline of Stone Street, east for a distance of 20 feet. (TH-554/21) EMPORIA AVENUE - east side, starting at a point 197 feet south of the south curbline of Atherton Avenue, south for a distance of 20 feet.

(TH-576/21) GARDEN CITY SOUTH YALE ROAD - east side, starting at a point 132 feet of the north of the north curbline of Princeton Avenue, north for a distance of 16 feet. TH-577/21) ROOSEVELT CEDAR STREET - south side, starting at a point 320 feet east of the east curbline of Brookside Avenue, east for a distance of 20 feet. (TH-558/21) UNIONDALE MARVIN AVENUE - west side, starting at a point 77 feet south of the south curbline of Gerald Street, south for a distance of 20 feet. (TH-436/21) DECATUR STREET - south side, starting at a point 240 feet west of the west curbline of Emerson Street, west for a distance of 20 feet. (TH-551/21) and on the repeal of the following locations previously set aside as parking spaces for physically handicapped persons: BELLMORE BERGEN STREET - east side, starting at a point 148 feet south of the south curbline of Natta Boulevard, south for a distance of 20 feet. (TH-350/90 - 12/11/90) (TH-552/21) ALL PERSONS INTERESTED shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposal at the time and place aforesaid. Dated: January 11, 2022 Hempstead, New York BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 129136

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n Christmas Day, NASA sent into space the James Webb telescope, which, if all works out as planned, will provide us with our first look into the beginning of time. The telescope will bring into focus the oldest stars in the universe, and examine the atmospheres of nearby exoplanets for signs of life. But who the heck was James Webb? He has largely been lost to history. He was a Marine Corps pilot, an aide to several members of Congress, JAMES undersecretary of to President BERNSTEIN state Harry S. Truman, president of a New York company, Sperry Gyroscope, and NASA’s second administrator. A pretty impressive biography. But just as Webb’s name has largely been forgotten, so has a tragic incident that occurred during his administration that almost ended America’s space program. On Jan. 27, 1967, three astronauts

— Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, 40, Edward H. White, 36, and rookie Roger Chaffee, 31 — were killed on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida when a fire erupted in their command module during pre-flight training. At the time, it was the world’s worst space disaster. Little is said or written these days about the three astronauts and their destroyed Apollo 1 spacecraft. For one thing, there was the success of the moon landings beginning in 1969. And there have been other disasters — two space shuttles, Challenger, in 1986, and Columbia, in 2003, were lost, resulting in the deaths of 14 astronauts. The country was in shock after the ’67 fire in Apollo 1. NASA’s carefully cultivated image of infallibility had been badly damaged. There were calls from various corners to nix the space program, and let the Russians have the moon. It wasn’t worth human lives, some editorials in leading newspapers said. Webb saw it differently. But perhaps the most distinguishing factor of his leadership, something rarely seen in gov-

ernment or politics these days, was that Webb publicly took the blame for the disaster, pulling no punches. “We’ve always known that something like this was going to happen soon or later,” he told the press at the time. “Who would have thought that the first tragedy would be on the ground?” Not only did he shoulder the blame, but Webb was determined to get all the facts and keep the space program moving forward. America, he thought, had to be first on the moon. He went to President Lyndon Johnson and asked that NASA be allowed to handle the investigation into the fire, promising to be truthful with the agency’s findings. Webb was grilled by various congressional committees, and kept the backlash away from NASA and the Johnson administration. As a result, Webb was assigned much of the blame, and NASA ultimately regained its “right stuff ” image. An investigation indicated that a faulty electrical wire inside the Apollo 1 command module likely caused the fire.

fter a tragedy, he was determined to keep the space program moving forward.

Webb retired from the space agency in October 1968, just as the Apollo program was nearing completion. Astronauts landed on the moon a year later. There were bumps along the way in Webb’s career. In 2015, a Seattle Times columnist revived talk that when Webb was undersecretary of state, thousands of gay men and women lost their government jobs in what was known as the “Lavender Scare.” There was never any evidence that Webb had anything to do with the firings, although people speculated he must have known about them. Perhaps the thing to remember about James Webb is that he kept the complex machinery of NASA humming so America could stay true to the goal that President John F. Kennedy set in 1962: to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade and bring him back safely to Earth. Much of the technology had not even been invented yet when Kennedy made that bold pledge, and many thought the goal was impossible. Webb was one of the believers. Jim Bernstein is editor of the Long Beach Herald. Comments about this column? JBernstein@liherald.com.

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hat if we got knocked out of our socks by a brilliant turnabout in our national life? At the moment, “Happy New Year” rings hollow. We all know how heavy the baggage is that we dragged from December to January this year. But my hope is in the mystery of the future. We could never have predicted the dreadful twin plagues of Covid and civil unrest, and that is exactly why we can’t predict a change, a windfall of good RANDI karma and good KREISS timing. Twenty-two years ago, I wrote a New Year’s column for the Heralds offering my predictions for the year ahead, 2000. First, I suggested, sell all your stock. In my capacity as a person with little understanding of financial markets, I firmly believed that stores would become obsolete as online shopping became more popular. The markets would go south from there. As it turned out, if you just kept your stocks for these 22 years, you would have made a tidy bundle. So my first predic-

tion was dead on arrival. Even with the dot-com bust in the early 2000s and the Great Recession, the average annual return in the stock market was about 10 percent. I also predicted that that we would not go to war with Saddam Hussein. On the national front, I lamented the scandals in Congress, and said our officials would out one another until no one would be left in government. That one was particularly interesting: Apparently, the worst thing I could imagine about Congress 22 years ago was that folks were having sexual flings. Man, wouldn’t you take that scenario in a heartbeat? What if someone told you back then that on New Year’s 2022, our country would be stumbling ahead, staggered by more than 800,000 deaths from a virulent pandemic that shut down schools and services and sent millions into isolation and quarantine? Could you possibly have believed that political fighting, a violent attack on the Capitol and hordes of know-nothing anarchists would threaten the integrity of Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court? Would you have believed that a Marjorie Taylor Greene could exist

if I described her to you back then? How about this one: Donald Trump would get elected president in 2016. Hell, 22 years ago, the twin towers were still standing in all their massive glory at the tip of Manhattan. Perhaps it’s best that crystal balls are cloudy. The unexpected is what I am counting on — that unpredictably good things may save us. As I think about the year ahead, my head and my heart do battle. Our hearts don’t heal according to a turn of the calendar page. My heart is aching for our losses. Some friends have died. My city is set back on its heels. Our kids are out of school yet again, as we enter the third year of the pandemic. Part of my head is worried about tomorrow. But I’m going with the part of my brain that knows unexpectedly beneficent events in the year ahead could heal the country and get us healthy again. We can go back to work, and bring back birthday parties and theater and family dinners. The virus could burn out. Our political leaders may find their best selves. Airplane travel will take off and people, too long sequestered in their homes, will embrace one another again.

nexpected events in the year ahead could heal the country and get us healthy again.

This could happen, and is no more unlikely than a raging global pandemic that stopped the clock for two years. I wish this for all of us in 2022: that we are off-the-charts lucky and blessed in our lives and work. In the meantime, the poet John Roedel offers this advice: “My heart is always sad about/something that happened yesterday/while my head is always worried/about something that may happen tomorrow, I lamented . . . “My gut squeezed my hand./‘I just can’t live with my mistakes of the past/or my anxiety about the future,’ I sighed . . . “My gut smiled and said: ‘In that case/ you should stay with your lungs for a while . . . “If you are exhausted about/your heart’s obsession with/the fixed past and your mind’s focus/on the uncertain future/ your lungs are the perfect place for you/ there is no yesterday in your lungs/there is no tomorrow there either/there is only now/there is only inhale/there is only exhale/there is only this moment/there is only breath/and in that breath/you can rest while your/heart and head work/their relationship out.” Let us say goodbye to 2021 hoping to be astonished, in a good way, by 2022. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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n his first week on the job, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman addressed the coronavirus pandemic in a way that can best be described as premature, if not downright foolhardy. Last week, Blakeman, a Republican from the Five Towns, signed a set of three executive orders, all of which were intended to loosen state regulations whose purpose was to protect public safety during this most recent surge of infections caused by the Omicron variant. Blakeman was clearly thumbing his nose at Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, who on Dec. 10 ordered mask wearing in public to reduce the spread of Covid-19 as it fans out like wildfire across New York state, and the nation. Before taking office, Blakeman had said he would not enforce the public mask mandate, as required by Hochul. Then, on Jan. 6, he took this political showdown one step further when he signed a surprise executive order directing local boards of education across Nassau to vote on whether to require masks in the schools. Refusing to enforce the mask mandate was bad enough. To require school districts to weigh in on a measure that is, incontrovertibly, intended to protect the health and safety of students — many of them unvaccinated — along with teachers and school workers, represents an abdication of his duty as county executive to protect Nassau’s most vulnerable. It’s been a while since Blakeman, 66, has been in school, but surely he must

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LETTERS Blakeman’s decision is ‘misguided’ To the Editor: The news generated by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s recent publicity stunt of signing an executive order allowing school districts to decide on mask-wearing is nothing more than a glaring example of misguided judgment and poor leadership. Surely Mr. Blakeman knows he cannot supersede Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate or the state education commissioner’s similar order. It is nothing more than playing to the cheap seats, on top of being quantifiably false (the idea that there is no science to support mask wearing as a Covid mitigation practice). It’s both an embarrassment and an invitation to those who believe such nonsense to cause disruption and only furthers divisiveness. It’s a sad day in Nassau County to be represented by a person willing to sow discord to be

remember the conditions in which students and teachers work. Twenty to 30 people are confined to a room for six to eight hours a day, with ventilation systems that are often decades old, unless a district has recently upgraded them. In short, students and teachers must spend hours a day within feet of one another, in rooms of stagnant air. One infected student or teacher could spread the coronavirus to dozens of people in a single day. Why not mask up? What, precisely, is Blakeman’s point here? Anyone who enters a school must wear a mask, period. Some parents say they worry about the potential psychological effects of their children wearing masks throughout the day. In studies since the start of the pandemic, however, children were found to be highly resilient, reporting few, if any, effects from mask wearing, and health experts across the country have weighed in, saying children are, generally speaking, doing just fine wearing masks. At the same time, as we reported in last week’s editorial, numerous studies indicate that mask wearing does, in fact, reduce the spread of the coronavirus. That is, there is no real downside to children wearing masks in school — and only an upside, the likely reduction of community spread of the coronavirus. Thus, it would be just plain wrong of any school district, for what could only be described as political reasons, to overturn the state’s mask mandate in a vote. Hochul quickly weighed in on the mat-

ter last week, saying that any school district that voted to overturn the mandate, ordered by both the State Education Department and the State Department of Health, could — and likely would — face the loss of state aid for education. She was right to weigh in aggressively. There will be those who say that the Omicron variant, according to studies, is less virulent and less deadly than previous strains of the coronavirus. They are correct. This variant is still, however, a virus with the capability to send the unvaccinated to hospitals. And people who believe that even a three-dose vaccination will entirely protect them from it should think again. The vaccinated are becoming infected as well. They might not experience the heavy symptoms that unvaccinated people do, but they can still get sick. Further, the risk of a vaccinated person being hospitalized by the Omicron variant is extremely low, but it is not zero. The bottom line: Blakeman appears to be playing a game of political brinkmanship, which has garnered him a good amount of publicity across the state and made him something of a hero to farright conservatives. That is why we find his first two weeks in office to be so disappointing. We honestly expected better of him. We hope and trust he will see the error of his ways and restore one of the best measures that we have to guard against the coronavirus — the mask mandate.

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ational Public Radio and ABC News warn, “Teachers are on the front lines in the Jan. 6 culture war.” Depending on where they work, teachers experience different political pressure when it comes to how to discuss with students the events that rocked the U.S. Capitol a year and a week ago. For younger children, important themes are community decision-making and fairness, the building blocks of a democratic society. In grades five to eight, students ALAN learn about the foundations of the SINGER democratic process — rights and responsibilities, civic action and voting — along with injustices. In grades 11 and 12, students should follow congressional hearings, evaluate media coverage and discuss the implications of current events. For these grades, the anniversary of Jan. 6, with expanded media coverage, offered a teachable moment for more in-depth analysis. While students and teachers are entitled to their opinions about the implications of the events, discussion in class about them must be respectful, and speakers must support statements with evi-

dence. The teacher must prepare documents for evaluation, ask questions of student speakers and moderate discussion. The teacher must guide students through multiple sources with different perspectives so they can form their own questions, evaluate the sources and information, and arrive at conclusions supported by evidence. This process must not include deciding whether the Jan. 6 insurrection happened. It happened, and it was indeed an insurrection, intended to block certification of the presidential election. One difficulty in addressing the events of that day is the country’s partisan divide. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found that despite widely viewed video footage, 60 percent of Republicans claimed the attack on the Capitol was not violent or somewhat violent. Here, teachers should ask students to suggest additional documents to allow them to discuss and decide whether the events were violent or not. To be clear, more than 700 people have been charged with various crimes at the Capitol. The FBI estimates that about 2,000 people were part of the mob that breached the building after a pro-Trump rally at which then President Donald Trump and other speakers repeated

unsubstantiated charges that the election was stolen. Some 140 law enforcement officers were injured during the attack, one died, and the Capitol sustained more than $1.5 million in damage. More than 160 of the rioters entered guilty pleas in exchange for lighter sentences. Seventy have been sentenced. Thirty-one were jailed and 18 received home detention. The longest prison term so far is five years. About 100 defendants have ties to extremist groups. Trump tweeted many times on the afternoon on Jan. 6, attacking then Vice President Mike Pence more than once. At 2:38 p.m. — more than an hour and a half after Trump supporters first breached the Capitol — Trump tweeted, “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!” At 4:17 p.m. Trump tweeted a video in which he told his followers, “I know your pain, I know your hurt. We love you, you’re very special. You’ve seen what happens, you’ve seen the way others are treated . . . I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.” Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, called what happened on Jan. 6 “an insurrection, incited by the president.” On Fox News, Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, said, “There’s no

t offers a teachable moment for indepth analysis, if discussed respectfully.

LETTERS more popular with a loud and uninformed minority. MICHAEL LUDWIG, PH.D. Rockville Centre Ludwig is director of Hofstra University’s health education master’s program.

No wonder Democrats are in trouble To the Editor: Alan Singer’s analyses of why the Democratic Party is in peril of losing control of government (“Democrats election perils have little to do with ‘wokeness,’” Dec. 9-15) is yet another anti-Republican screed with selective omissions of facts. Nowhere in his op-ed piece does he mention the Southern border, which is a lawless catastrophe for our country as well as for Biden, Harris or whoever is supposed to be in charge. Singer fails to mention that with no clear mandate, a 50-50 Senate and a razor-thin majority in the House, Biden and company are trying to pass a multi-trillion-dollar package that can only be paid for with higher taxes. Nowhere does he mention the murder, mayhem and chaos that are a direct result of flawed policies in Democratic-run cities across the country.

Weakening support for Israel; kneeling to an Iran deal, which is a pathway to a nuclear weapon for a country with a malevolent, untrustworthy government; abandoning friends and weapons in Afghanistan; sitting idly by as China steals land in the South China Sea to build military outposts; closing down the Keystone Pipeline (while green-lighting Russia’s), which has led to soaring gas prices as we struggle to electrify, are just a few other omissions. Throw in the teaching of a flawed critical race theory, the 1609 Project, FBI surveillance of school board meetings, support of the corrupt and often violent Black Lives Matter movement and consideration of reparations for descendants of people who were slaves more than 150 years ago, and it’s quite understandable why the Democratic Party is in trouble. Its record of failure in one year is breathtaking. Most people who are, or will turn from, blue to red are neither racist nor violent. They abhor the Jan. 6 insurrection. They are pragmatic! And yes, like it or not, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted by a jury of his peers who heard all of the evidence. To become purple, we need moderate leaders on both sides of the aisle who listen to and respect one another. Ignoring reality when it conflicts with one’s point of view is a prescription for failure. DR. MEL YOUNG Lawrence

question the president formed the mob. The president incited the mob. The president addressed the mob. He lit the flame.” The New York Times published useful lesson ideas to aid teachers. It also recommends consulting the websites of Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance), Facing History and Ourselves and the Anti-Defamation League. The Times package includes documents with questions sorted by these themes: ■ Understanding what happened and reacting to it. ■ Investigating President Trump’s responsibility. ■ Exploring why democracy requires a peaceful transfer of power. ■ Understanding the roots of the riot. ■ Considering the role of the news media and the power of language. ■ Scrutinizing how social media can facilitate insurrection. ■ Putting Jan. 6 into historical context. Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on Twitter, @AlanJSinger1.

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