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state asseMBlywoMaN Michaelle Solages, who represents Elmont, spoke at the Valley Stream rally, calling for $15 billion in funding for action on climate change.

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“What do we want?” “Climate justice!” “When do we want it?” “Now!” State Assemblywomen Michaelle Solages, who represents Elmont, led activists working to counter climate change in this chant at a rally in Valley Stream on Feb. 12 that called for including $15 billion of “climate justice” funding in the 2022-23 state budget. “I’m here to fight for our climate justice, because we cannot wait,” Solages said. “We are facing a mass extension. We are facing an uptick in climate refugees. We are facing an uptick in severe weather.” She recounted the flooding that affected residents across Long Island during Hurricane Sandy, praised officials at every level of government for working to counter the damages of the superstorm and called on elected officials to respond to climate change in the same way. Solages stressed that Long Island communities are especially vulnerable to sea level rise and warming temperatures. “We have enormous problems when it comes to climate Continued on page 4

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‘Leading Ladies’ encouraged by Biden’s selection of Jackson for Supreme Court By RoBeRt tRaveRso rtraverso@liherald.com

The fact that a Black woman has been nominated to the Supreme Court is all about one key word, “possibility,” according to Caron Cox, the founder and adviser of the Leading Ladies, a student organization at Elmont Memorial High School that is dedicated to female empowerment. President Biden, who pledged during his campaign for the White House to select a Black

woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, affirmed that commitment following the announcement in January that Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, would step down from the court. On Feb 26, Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. “You can’t be what you can’t see,” Cox said, adding that the nomination has created an unprecedented sense of representation for women and Black Americans.

“I definitely think it will add a lot of diversity that is needed in politics,” said Britney Bennett, a senior at the high school and a member of the Leading Ladies, adding that she believes the current makeup of the Supreme Court is not diverse enough. “I definitely think it will provide a different perspective, especially with the Supreme Court being mostly white and mostly male.” Both Cox and Bennett emphasized the need for a Black female perspective on the court, espe-

cially when it considers issues that uniquely affect women. Cox said that although Jackson will not create law, she will rule on the constitutionality of legislation governing female reproduction rights, as well as civil rights

concerns and other issues. Cox said the nomination was a step toward a society that empowers women. “For a long time we’ve been subjected to a patriarchal society, but the tides Continued on page 10

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What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

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John Street School held a fifth grade science fair on Feb. 17. Students displayed the findings of their experiments to other fifth-grade classes, fourth-graders, administration members and their STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) teacher.

Experiments displayed at science fair Fifth graders at John Street School presented self-conducted science experiments at the inaugural fifth grade science fair held by the school on Feb. 17. Each student and selected and researched a topic of their choosing. “Students worked on their projects for approximately five to six weeks,” the district stated in a news release. “One of the parameters was to have a

constant and a variable.” Students used boards to display their selected topics, hypotheses, materials, procedures, data and conclusions. “During the fair, students presented their boards and the results of their experiments to other fifth grade classes, fourth graders, administration and the STEM teacher,” the district added. —Robert Traverso

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Solages backs calls for $15B in climate funds heat waves, violent storms, melting sea ice, flash floods. It’s getting worse before our eyes, and it’s going to keep getting worse unless our leaders find the courage to act.” Gov. Kathy Hochul has pledged $4 billion extra in climate action funding in addition to last year’s bond act, but coalition members say they believe this is inadequate. On top of New York’s ambitious climate goals, activists are calling for more funding. “We passed landmark legislation with the [Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act],” Solages said at the event. “That was great, but we need to back it up with dollars.” The Long Island Progressive Coalition and New York Renews are planning a rally on March 8 in Albany. For more information, go to bit.ly/march8albany.

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and the weather around us,” she said. The proposed $15 billion in funding, she said, should be used to create and support green-energy jobs, climate infrastructure, renewable energy and transportation. The funds, she said, would work “to make sure that we are tackling the climate crisis.” “The crisis is here right now,” she added, “and we need to make sure that we react.” A total of $3 billion worth of bond funding for climate change-targeted projects can be allocated to communities across the state, if passed by voters this November. The measure was slated for a vote after the Restore Mother Nature Bond Act was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The act mandated that 35 percent of funding be allocated to community projects in areas designated as environmental justice areas. Elmont received the designation, defined as a community that meets specific racial and socioeconomic criteria, and so qualifies for higher levels of funding. Solages expressed support for New York state’s climate goals, outlined in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019. The state is committed to zero-emission electricity by 2040 and a greenhouse gas reduction of at least 85 percent below 1990-level emissions by 2050. Solages also lauded the recently passed constitutional amendment that creates a right to clean air and water. “It might seem like a big number, but it’s small in the scale of what’s going on right now,” she said of the $15 billion price tag. She stressed that 40 percent of those funds would be allocated to disadvantaged communities and workers impacted by fossil fuel pollution. According to Monique Fitzgerald of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, the $15 billion budgetary proposal would be split into four key areas: $4.8 billion for climate-related jobs and green infrastructure funds; $4.6 billion for a community fund that would help particularly hard-hit local areas adapt to climate change; $1 billion to support fossil-fuel-dependent workers’ transition to a greener economy, and $4.6 billion for a fund designed to help low- to moderate-income residents lower their energy costs.

Impacts of climate change on communities of color ■ More than 1 million Black Americans live within a half-mile of a natural gas facility. ■ More than 1 million face a “cancer risk above EPA’s level of concern” due to unclean air. ■ More than 6.7 million live in 91 U.S. counties with oil refineries. ■ Black Americans are 75 percent more likely than white Americans to live in “fence-line” communities, areas that are near commercial facilities that produce noise, odor, traffic or emissions. Illustration by Christina Daly/Herald

THE STATE DEPARTMENT of Environmental Conservation designated Elmont as an environmental justice area in 2021. The Long Island Progressive Coalition held a “social media storm” to rally support for the budget proposal at noon on Feb. 22.

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Caption a: the ‘vaxmoBile,’ a mobile Covid-19 vaccination program that has vaccinated over 11,000 residents of Nassau County, visited the Franklin Square Public Library on Feb. 24. turn, we’ve pivoted,” he said, adding that the vaxmobile partnered with school districts when children became eligible for the various vaccines and has continued to target groups especially in need as conditions have changed throughout the pandemic. Calderone said creating easy access to vaccines has been key to the vaxmobile’s success in vaccinating Nassau residents. “The main lesson learned is you just have to make it as easy as possible for people,” he said. “They don’t have time, necessari-

ly, to hunt down an appointment for a vaccine,” Calderone added, recounting the vaccination by hospital staff of two workers from Island Park who requested to keep their white aprons on because they needed to hurry back to work following being vaccinated. “These guys are working 12 hours a day, they don’t have time to get a vaccine sometimes,” he said. “Making it easy for people is the key.” Calderone said many county residents are yet to receive booster does of a Covid-

19 vaccine, and that providing these shots to residents is the vaxmobile’s current focus. “That’s what we’re concentrating on,” he said, adding that the vaxmobile is partnering with schools, libraries, senior centers, and businesses to continue vaccinating residents. “We’re looking for those kinds of partnerships, so please give us a call,” Calderone said. For more infor mation about the mobile vaccination unit, visit https:// www.southnassau.org/sn/vaxmobile.

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The “Vaxmobile,” a Covid-19 vaccine mobile unit that has roved the communities of Nassau County for more than a year administering vaccines to residents, stopped at the Franklin Square Public Library on Feb. 24. Launched by the Town of Hempstead in early 2021 and staffed with a clinical unit from Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside, the vaxmobile stopped in Hempstead, Freeport, Uniondale, Elmont and other communities across Nassau five days per week in 2021. Eleven vaccines were administered by MSSN staff on Feb. 24 at the Franklin Square Public Library. While the mobile unit has administered over 11,000 vaccines throughout the entire pandemic, the hospital has experienced lower numbers of vaccination since the end of the Omicron wave and the lower positive case numbers seen in Nassau County this month. Early on, the vaxmobile partnered with local senior centers to distribute vaccines to the elderly, whom the science pointed to as the most vulnerable population in society to Covid-19, said Joe Calderone, a spokesman for Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital. “At every iteration, at every twist and

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painted watch dials for use by soldiers in the trenches and more! Registration is required. To register, contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org

Project Hope (F.S.) Join Project Hope at the Franklin Square Public Library between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. at a table on the ground floor of the library where Project Hope will be providing helpful information. The organization has an emotional support helpline, educational materials, trusted referrals, and local provider agencies that are “all dedicated to helping you manage and cope with changes brought on by COVID-19… NY Project Hope Crisis Counselors understand what you are going through. Talking with them is free, confidential, and anonymous. Talk with someone who is trained, knowledgeable and never judges. Sometimes it’s helpful to talk with someone you don’t know.” Project Hope recommends looking at the articles on their website (to learn relaxation techniques or coping tips) if you are not able to speak in person. For more information, visit the library’s website, https://www.franklinsquarepl.org/.

History and Horticulture: France (F.S.) Join the Franklin Square Public Library for a virtual lecture between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. to learn about horticulture and France. Which of Marie Antoinette’s trees are still standing? Why did Monet’s neighbors report him to the police? Two of France’s most beloved gardens, the gardens of Versailles and Monet’s garden at Giverny, each took 40 years to complete, but the similarities stop there. Join garden writer Jessica Damiano on this virtual tour of each and learn about their storied pasts and botanical presents. To register online, visit the library’s website, https:// www.franklinsquarepl.org/.

Friday, March 4 Senior Chat (Elmont Memorial Library) Join Elmont Memorial Library for senior chat with seniors from the community every Friday morning in meeting room 1 at 10 a.m. Participate or listen to casual discussions on special interests, concerns, and other topics that happen to

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Wed., March 9 Adult lecture: the benefits of whole grains, with the Cornell Cooperative Extension (Elmont Memorial Library)

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Celebrate Women’s History Month at Elmont P.L.

Members of the Leading Ladies, an Elmont Memorial H.S. student organization, at homecoming in 2019. Join the Elmont Memorial Library on Sat., March 5 at 2 p.m. in the library’s theater for a lecture on Shirley Chisolm, the first African-American woman to win a seat in Congress.

arise. To register, contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org.

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Celebrate Women’s History Month – Live performance: The Ladies of Tin Pan Alley with Paul & Rochelle Chamlin

Learn how to create unique and amazing designs using the free Design Space program from Cricut through a virtual program held between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. by the Franklin Square Public Library. Those who attend will learn how to use all the features of the program to create a unique design or import premade designs from varying formats, as well as what you need to print your final project. To register online, visit the library’s website, https:// www.franklinsquarepl.org/.

Join the Elmont Memorial Library at 12:30 p.m. in the Elmont Library Theater to celebrate Women’s History Month by enjoying the music & lyrics of the women who made major contributions to this incredibly fruitful era of song writing at a performance by Paul and Rochelle Chamlin. Favorites by Kay Swift, Dana Suesse, Ann Ronell, Dorothy Fields and many more will be performed. Registration is not required. FREE and open to the public. Limited seating. First-come-first-seated. Masks are required for all IN-PERSON programs, regardless of vaccination status. For more information, contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org.

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Celebrate Women’s History Month Live performance: Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed with Ingrid Griffith (Elmont Memorial Library) Learn about Shirley Chisolm, an AfricanAmerican trailblazer and 20th century social justice activist and the first AfricanAmerican woman to win a seat in Con-

gress, at this live performance at the Elmont Library Theater at 2 p.m., with Ingrid Griffith. Registration is not required. FREE and open to the public. Limited seating. First-come-first-seated. Masks are required for all IN-PERSON programs, regardless of vaccination status. To register, contact adult reference at (516) 3545280 X 223 or via email at reference@ elmontlibrary.org.

Tuesday, March 8 Celebrate Women’s History Month – Adult lecture: Unsung Heroes Women with Howard Rosenberg (Elmont Memorial Library) Join Howard Rosenberg for a virtual lecture at 7 p.m. in honor of women’s history month to explore the accomplishments of women who never made it into the history books. Learn about Anna Coleman Ladd who created prosthetic masks for disfigured WW I soldiers, the Radium Girls who

What is a whole Grain and why should we be consuming them? Find out during a virtual at 9 a.m. lecture held through the Elmont Memorial Library and organized by the Cornell Cooperative Extension. Participants will learn about how to improve the quality of grains they are including in their diets through reading labels, becoming aware of the benefits and how to go about adding whole grains to their diets. Registration is required. Registration ends one hour before program begins. A link will be emailed to you before the program begins. 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

ElmontresidentsPatrickHiltonandNicoleFlorestalweremarriedonFeb.8. BusinessesbegantoformonHempsteadTpke.uponthecreationofBelmontParkin1905. StudentsatWashingtonStreetSchoolinF.S.createdValentine’sDaycardsforveterans. OnceBelmontParkopenedpubliclyin1915,Elmontshiftedfromaruraltosuburbanarea. TheF.S.NationalBankbecametheEABBuildingandCitibankbeforebecomingaChaseBank.

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Behind seniors Godwin Eyiuche (17 points) and Malcom Harrison (16), No. 10 Valley Stream North upset second-seeded Sewanhaka in a thrilling Nassau Class A boys’ basketball quarterfinal playoff matchup Feb. 23, 58-44. It was the epitome of a playoff atmosphere, with both fan bases as vocal and emphatic as a school could ask for. Valley Stream North head coach Michael McVeigh thought this win represented the selfless and hard-nosed attitude the team has demonstrated this season. “We don’t care who scores,” McVeigh said. “We are going to play defense and we are going to play together and that’s what we did.” Defensively is where the Spartans shined, as the team’s zone defense prevented Sewanhaka from ever finding a rhythm or from generating easy looks. The Spartans held the Indians to only 16 first-half points. This gave the Spartans enough cushion for them to secure the victory in the end. Offensively, North’s ball movement and shot making ability was a night and day difference following the halftime break. Eyiuche was the central playmaker, as his fearless takes to the basket were a central catalyst in the Spartans’ third-quarter run. Eyiuche thinks this win embodies the team’s strong and resilient demeanor. “We were the underdogs coming in,” Eyiuche said. “We weren’t scared from the jump, and we just wanted to show everybody how hard we play and that we were ready for the moment.”

Eyiuche was the game’s leading scorer and added five assists, but it was a balanced effort for the Spartans. Harrington was a steady presence at the rim. Sophomore Dom Obukwelu had 12 points and senior Gio Grey added 7. Valley Stream North, which edged No. 7 Lynbrook by a point in the first round, will face third-seeded Garden City in the semifinals on March 1, after Herald press time, at Hofstra University. The winner will face either top-seeded Manhasset or No. 5 South Side in the county title game this Saturday at 5 p.m. at Hofstra. For Sewanhaka, it was a premature ending to what had been a terrific season. The team played hard all afternoon, but the shots just didn’t fall. Indians head coach Jay Allen had nothing but respect for North’s performance. “All the credit goes to coach McVeigh and their players, they played a great game from beginning to end,” Allen said. “They were well prepared and ready for the moment, and they played extremely well.” Sewanhaka dug too deep a hole. The Indians, who entered the game on a 14-game winning streak, attempted a late comeback but couldn’t generate enough offense. Senior J’Den Lloyd was a beast on the interior, as all of his 14 points came from well-earned buckets at the rim. Senior Chris Cherry had 11 points and was seemingly the only player for the Indians who could get anything going from beyond the perimeter. The senior backcourt duo of Tyler Harts and Kamren Denhart assumed much of the ball handling responsibilities as they have all season and finished with 9 and 10 points respectively.

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SEwANhAkA’S kAMrEN dENhArt, left, worked against Valley Stream North’s Harpreet Singh during last week’s Nassau Class A quarterfinal playoff battle.

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Leader of student group stresses need for representation are turning a little bit,” she said. Bennett echoed that sentiment, adding that given the current conservative majority on the court and the desire expressed by some Republicans to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the U.S., she hoped that Jackson’s nomination would offer contrasting perspective. “I hope that this will lead to a shift in more positive gains for rights and equalities,” Bennett said, “and hopefully we’ll see more people step up into these roles who are qualified people, able to represent what America truly is: a melting pot course. “Long term, it’s my hope that our of different beliefs and cultures that are voice matters,” she said. “Understanding able to work together in unity for a better that the unique perspective cause.” of Black women is honored She added that the nominot just on the Supreme nation would open up more Court, but in businesses and possibilities for Black schools.” women to serve in top-rankMembers of the Leading ing roles in American sociLadies are proud that a ety. “You don’t see a lot of Black woman will likely people who are Black or who soon sit on the nation’s top are women being able to go court, they said. “The girls into high-level positions,” are really inspired and excitBennett said. “Being a Black ed,” Cox said. “It’s about woman, this brings, in my time to feel like you matter,” britney bennett opinion, a lot of justice for she added, emphasizing that the future and for what I’m Senior, Elmont a sense of belonging is necable to do as an American.” Memorial High School essary for all Americans. Cox said she hopes the Bennett, who noted that historical impact of Biden’s she hoped to work in a nomination is to heighten the profile of career that involves shaping policy in Black women in societal and political dissome capacity, said she was inspired by

definitely think it will add a lot of diversity that is needed in politics.

the nomination. “For me, and for anyone who cares about political influence and has been involved in politics,” she said, “I think it’s really important to see this change.” Bennett said members of the Leading Ladies who aspire to work in the legal field or the judicial branch of government, Bennett said, have also been inspired by Biden’s pledge, and his choice for the court. “I can see a lot of excitement among the people I’ve talked to,” she said. “I think it will be very inspiring for them.” Cox said that the Leading Ladies plan to hold internal discussions about the nomination before the end of the school year. “You can apply how this unfolds to different times in your life,” she said, adding that the organization has encouraged students to watch the nomination process, which she said can have “real-life applica-

Photos courtesy Caron Cox

members of the Leading Ladies, above left, a student organization at Elmont Memorial High School dedicated to female leadership and empowerment, during the group’s 2019 visit to the Federal Reserve. caron cox, who stressed the need for society to value the “unique perspective” of Black women, with Valencia Butler and Colleen Brown, fellow educators and leaders of the Leading Ladies. bility” to the lives of its members. “This story can be your story,” Cox said. “It can be anybody’s story.”

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Historical society holding dinner for first time since 2018 The Franklin Square Historical Society is set to hold its annual dinner on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 5 p.m. at the Plattduetsche Park Restaurant in Franklin Square. “It has been three years since the Franklin Square Historical Society has been able to hold their Annual Dinner,” said Bill Youngfert, the secretary of the organization, in an email, because of restrictions put in place amid the Covid-19 pandemic. At the upcoming dinner, the historical society will honor its 2022 Citizen of the Year, Phil Malloy. A lifelong resident of Franklin Square and a former chief of the hamlet’s fire department, Malloy is among the many first responders who suffered long-term injuries from the debris created at ground zero as a result of the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001. Malloy, 59, has two grandchildren, ages 6 and 3. He is a former member of the Nassau County Fire Commission, where he served during 9/11, and is also a Board Member of the Franklin Square Civic Association. The first responders of the Franklin Square Munson Fire Department are set to be honored at the April 28 dinner as well. “We are looking forward to getting the entire community out for a night to celebrate after going through the COVID pandemic. Please join us at this

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How to break bad money habits By Mary Hunt Money a little tight these days? You might assume it’s due to rising costs, tightening credit and perhaps your salary isn’t keeping up with the painfully high rate of inflation. But truthfully, if your basic needs are being met, problems you’re having are more likely a result of bad money habits you’ve picked up — behaviors you’ve repeated so often they’ve become almost automatic. Don’t despair. In the same way you picked them up, you can replace them with good ones: Stop the old behavior, and consciously repeat new behavior so often that it becomes an almost automatic response. Living without a spending plan Spending money without a plan has to be the mother of all bad money habits. It’s like driving blindfolded. You don’t know where you are and can’t see where you’re going, so you don’t know when to stop. Pre-spending your paycheck on paper (also known as a budget) is the way to remove the blindfold so you can see what’s going on. Paying with plastic Depending on plastic to cover your day-today spending might be very convenient, but it creates a bad habit. You stop noticing how much you’re spending, and that opens the door to overspending. Break this habit by figuring out how much cash you’ll need for the day and putting that much in your wallet. Leave your plastic at home, or put it in a less convenient place in your handbag or wallet.

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Rolling a credit card balance Credit card issuers know that once they can get you to cross the threshold where you owe more on your credit card than you can pay in a single month, they’ve got you where they want you — paying them interest month after month. If you cannot pay the entire balance in a single month, you’re living way beyond your means. To break this bad habit, make it impossible to use it anymore until that balance is paid in full. Don’t close the account, but put that plastic far from you. Hand it off to your spouse, put it in drawer, or freeze it in a block of ice! Anything to help you break this bad money habit by replacing it with a good one. Then start paying down the balance as rapidly as possible. Waiting to save It might make sense to pay your bills first and then see how much you have left to put in savings, but that’s a really dumb idea. It will lead to a very bad result also known as no savings, because you will keep doing this same dumb thing month after month, year after year. To break this habit, pay yourself first before you pay any of your bills. In fact, treat yourself as your most important creditor. Make up payment coupons like you have for your mortgage or car payment. Or set up an auto bill payment to “Myself.” Now move “Myself” to the front of the line so the very first bill you pay each month is to You. Even if it’s only $25 — or even $10 — to start, do it. Over and over again. It won’t take long for that to become an almost automatic response and a very good habit!

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First of its kind: revving up an electric pickup By LISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com

I’ve never driven a truck, never mind an electric truck – that is, until Rivian Automotive drove its truck, the world’s first electric pickup, to the Herald’s office in Garden City on Feb. 23, as they stump for a proposed New York state measure that could increase sales. The truck exterior of the vehicle looked smooth, shiny and futuristic, with retractable handles and cylindrical headlights. The vegan leather interior was accompanied with a new-car smell and looked alike to many trucks – except for its electric dashboard, where the gas gauge was replaced with a battery percentage, and it’s large, 15.6 inch touchscreen, where features like the backup camera picture were displayed clearer than ever. Electric vehicles could be the new norm sooner than later, as State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat who represents the 9th Senatorial District, and State Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy (D-Albany) are sponsoring a bill that will make EVs more available in the state. In 2021, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced finalized contracts for the state’s largest renewable energy and transmission project in 50 years, which included goals to derive 70 percent of state electricity from renewable resources by 2030. The project plans to put more EVs on the road – in 2014, then Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed 850,000 by 2025 and two

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The RIvIAn pIckup truck weighs 6,800 pounds, but on a test drive the ride was smooth and quiet. million by 2030 – as gas-powered transportation accounts for 30 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Farmingdale, Executive Director Adrienne Esposito. Switching to electric vehicles will reduce air pollution significantly. “Cars are mobile polluting machines,” Esposito said. “They produce carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter, all of which pollute our air, cause an increase in asthma, heart disease and

respiratory ailments. Transitioning to electric cars will be good for the earth and good for our health.” Right now, New York has achieved only 3 percent of Cuomo’s goal. This is because in 2014, a state law prohibiting the direct sale of EVs from manufacturers, specifically Tesla at the time, was passed after lobbying efforts by car dealers, banded together as the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association. Nineteen states have no cap on the number of direct-sales locations, but New

York has capped direct-sales locations at five Tesla locations. Kaminsky told the Herald that E.V. manufacturers such as the Rivian should be allowed to sell its vehicles directly to the public. Removing the state direct-sales location cap could accelerate the process of New York reaching its 2030 environmental goals. Currently, if New Yorkers want to buy an EV. that is not a Tesla, they must go through other states, such as California, Massachusetts, Colorado and Florida, which allow EV manufacturers to directly sell and open dealerships in its state. New York still restricts sales from companies like Rivian, Tesla and Lucid, but now, with more EVs entering the market, overwhelming feedback from environmental groups statewide, and a moredeveloped vision for a sustainable future, the state is considering legislation that would remove the restriction and increase the cap on direct sales of E.V.s. The Automobile Dealers Association is pushing back on the legislation. “This is not about the environment or an ‘old fashioned’ group stuck in its ways,” the group’s communications person Nick Crispe said in an email. “This is about livelihoods and good paying jobs with healthcare and benefits in every community on Long Island with a network to provide electric vehicles to everyone who wants one. We are thrilled an excited by electrics and welcome the companies and their amazing vehicles but just ask that they play by the same rules.”

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A. You’re not necessarily barking up the wrong tree to make an offer on a house like this, but it does show the age of the home. When people say, “They don’t build houses like they used to,” I usually think, thank goodness. What you’re seeing was common through the 1920s, when locust trees, known for their resistance onte eeper to decay and insects, were used as support columns. These trees have been used for structural support for many centuries. Their most well known use was for supporting the city of Venice when the swamp-dwelling inhabitants, who lived on small islands, stabilized and built the city. Using locust posts, they could conduct their marine merchant trade while protecting themselves from the regularly invading Goths, preparing for attacks by seeing them from the north from 20 miles away, long before an attack could take place. The Venetians rammed locust posts deep into the seabed and supported those beautiful Renaissance structures on them. In the James Bond film “Casino Royale,” there is an intense fight scene that takes place in a building under extensive renovation. At the end of the scene, the building, which actually was having the locust posts retrofitted, like most of Venice, collapses into the watery depths. From an architect’s perspective, knowing about the structural changes underway, this was very interesting as well as dramatic. If the locust posts aren’t split and cracked but are smooth and semi-straight, they should be fine to continue to do their job. If you see signs of weakness or are suspicious, contact a licensed architect or engineer who has experience with these conditions for a closer look. If you decide that the columns need changing, then the job requires building temporary walls in the basement on either side of the main beam to support the whole structure of the home before the columns are removed. Correctly calculated concrete foundations, called footings, will need to be installed by digging up the concrete floor where forms are set and the footings are placed. Whether steel or wood columns are installed, the anchors for them need to be properly placed and attached. The columns, when installed, should be connected, at the top and the bottom, to the footing and to the beam. This isn’t a small job, and requires an experienced company that protects the area from dust before cutting the concrete, orders the right strength of cement for placement in the formwork and knows what connectors to install top and bottom. Good luck!

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y heart bleeds for the people of Ukraine, an emerging democracy pulled between West and East, a former Soviet republic that only gained its independence from the USSR in August 1991, amid the sudden and precipitous collapse of communism across Eastern Europe. Now Ukraine’s freedom is once again in jeopardy because of a war that it didn’t start. I was living in Eastern Europe in August 1991, serving in the Peace Corps in Bulgaria, a six-hour drive south of Ukraine Scott along Romania’s Black Sea coast. I BRINtoN fell in love and married in Bulgaria on Nov. 9, 1991, the second anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was born and raised on Long Island, and live here now, but Eastern Europe became an adopted homeland. Many Long Islanders have ties to Eastern Europe, including close to 13,000 people of Ukrainian descent, according to census data. We can see those ties in the Eastern Orthodox churches that dot the Island — St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Uniondale, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in East Meadow and St. Seraphim of Sarov Russian Orthodox Church in Sea Cliff, among others.

Eastern Europe is a conglomeration of ancient cultures, at once set in their ways but ever morphing in response to the push and pull of powerful nations — historically, Russia and Germany. Eastern Europeans are survivors. Ukraine will survive Russia’s invasion, an act of war in violation of international law. The price that Ukrainians will pay for the takeover, ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, will be terrible, though. The impact will be felt by people across Eastern Europe. Most Americans can’t understand the fear of the old Soviet Union that many, if not most, Eastern Europeans carried with them during the Iron Curtain era (1945–91). They risked life and limb to secure their freedoms from the USSR in the late 1980s and early ’90s. They stood in solidarity, marching en masse in their capitals’ squares, demanding sovereignty. There was an electric unity among people across Eastern Europe in those heady days. They were afraid, but they stood in defiance of a nation that had for more than four decades tried to crush their independent spirit, their freedom of thought and religion, their very way of life. If Bulgaria had lost its newly won democratic freedoms to the communists, as was entirely possible in the early 1990s, oldschool apparatchiks might have “cleansed” Bulgaria of any American “sympathiz-

ers.” In that case, anyone who had had contact with an American like me could have been in grave danger of just disappearing. This was not a wild conspiracy theory. It was a valid fear based on years of iron-fisted Soviet rule. Now, a little more than 30 years after the fall of communism, Putin, a former KGB foreign intelligence officer, threatens once again to upend stability in Eastern Europe, a region that has, through the ages, been shattered by war, including two World Wars. And, once again, Eastern Europeans fear for their future. In the U.S., war in Ukraine is far away. The images of a Stalinesque housing complex ripped apart by Russian artillery fire, repeated many times on American and European TV news networks in the first days of the war, are perceived very differently across Eastern Europe than they are here. The expansive structure, fortified by plain cement walls, could have been most anywhere in Eastern Europe. Such an attack sends a terrifying signal to people across the region — you could be next — even if the thought is a distant one. It is highly unlikely that Putin would roll tanks beyond Ukraine’s borders into NATO-allied nations, military analysts tell us. But before the war, most of them appeared uncertain that he would invade

he census counts close to 13,000 area residents who are of Ukrainian descent.

Ukraine, despite President Biden’s warnings to the contrary. In recent weeks the U.S. has sent some 14,000 troops to Germany and Eastern Europe to shore up the defenses of NATO allies such as Poland and the Baltic states, bringing the total number of American troops in Europe to nearly 100,000, according to The New York Times. Thus, once again, we see a dividing line drawn between superpowers in Eastern Europe. My wife and I were listening to Bulgarian National Radio Friday night, wanting to hear how Bulgaria, a NATO ally that condemned the invasion, was reacting. The news centered on two communities — hundreds of Bulgarian expatriates living in Ukraine (who needed to be evacuated) and hundreds of Ukrainian expats living in Bulgaria (many of whom planned to drive through Romania to meet refugees fleeing Ukraine and bring them to safety). Their route would become a “humanitarian corridor.” With U.S. troops moving within firing range of invading Russian forces, and tens of thousands of war refugees fleeing across Eastern Europe, we, as Americans, must pay close attention to this conflict and do all we can to shore up Ukraine, a fledgling democracy. Scott Brinton is a special assistant professor of journalism at Hofstra University, and editor and adviser to The Long Island Advocate, a student online publication. He is a former executive editor of the Heralds.

Ukrainian Jews flee a Russian attack, again

either Russia nor the Ukraine has ever been a welcoming homeland for the Jewish people. Despite the singing and dancing in “Fiddler on the Roof,” the play was set in 1905 czarist Russia in the Pale of Settlement, the lands of Eastern Europe, including what became Ukraine, where hundreds of thousands of Jews lived under the boot of the Russian Cossacks. It is estimated that more than 1.5 million Jews lived in what is now Ukraine on the eve of World War II, according to a story in The Forward last RANDI week. “Some one KREISS million of those Jews were killed in the Holocaust,” the newspaper reported, “but a 1989 census estimated that close to half a million still lived in Ukraine in 1989, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.” The story went on to say that under Soviet rule, Jews were persecuted and denied the right to emigrate, forced to hide much of their religious practice in a society “rife with anti-Semitism.” Last week, once again, with Russian tanks crossing the border, the dwindling

Jewish population was on the run. In a bizarre and nonsensical statement, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the invasion of Ukraine would remove Nazi influences, ignoring the fact that the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish. The story of the Jewish community in Ukraine today is a minor footnote to the greater story of a nation beaten into submission by a dictator on the march. The footnote, however, resonates with me, because many of my relatives fled Ukraine and came to America in the years before World War I. My grandfather Morris Brownstein, born in 1897, left Ukraine in 1912 on the SS Zeeland. We don’t know how he managed to travel from Russia to Antwerp, but he boarded a ship in Belgium for the long crossing. He was 15 years old, and he was alone. What we do know is that he made his way to Brownsville, Brooklyn, became a tailor’s apprentice and found and married Anna, a second cousin. In 1924 he applied for naturalization, was granted citizenship and was as proud of being a “yankee” as anyone who ever escaped oppression and found freedom on our shores.

For his first decade in America, Morris lived in a tenement in Brownsville, probably without running water, possibly with dozens of other new arrivals. According to Wikipedia, Brownsville was predominantly Jewish from the 1880s until the 1950s. An estimated 25,000 people lived there by 1900. In the early 20th century, the majority of Brownsville’s residents were immigrants. By 1920, when Morris was living there, more than 80,000 of the area’s 100,000 inhabitants were Russian Jews, and Brownsville was known as “Little Jerusalem.” For decades, the Ukraine he left behind was a sovereign nation, pulled between the magnetic poles of the West and Russia. Historically, it has always been an uneasy homeland for Jewish people, from ancient persecutions to the pogroms of the 20th century. It seems unlikely that the nation has any chance of surviving the Russian invasion. I believe that if a 15-year-old boy can travel across Europe, book passage on a ship and make a new beginning in a new world, then those of us who have reaped America’s bounty must stand with the Ukrainians in their resistance to occupation in any way we can.

n 1912, Morris Brownstein, my grandfather, left Ukraine on the SS Zeeland.

We do not know yet what will be asked of us. When Grandpa Morris signed his naturalization papers, he pledged his heart and soul to the United States of America. He was a good citizen, a patriotic American, grateful to this country for blessings he never could have imagined as a child in war-torn Ukraine. The Forward added another footnote to last week’s invasion. According to Rabbi Shlomo Baksht, his staff was still looking into moving the 250 children from the three orphanages they run in Ukraine westward, away from the Russian border. His last message was that the effort was too late, and they were “hunkered down.” Of all the what-ifs we ponder in our lives, one of the most intriguing is what our lives would look like if our parents and grandparents and great-grands hadn’t left their homes and all that they knew of the world to risk dangerous ocean passages to begin new lives, learn new work and absorb new customs in a new land. The people of Ukraine will suffer mightily in the coming days and weeks, as Russia tramples their dreams of freedom. I think of the 15-year-old from Ukraine who made that harrowing trip 110 years ago, and I am so grateful. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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hese days, we smile or roll our eyes when we hear the term “fashion police,” but leading up to the Nixon administration, wearing the wrong outfit could land an otherwise innocent young woman in hot water. Dresses were required in Nassau County schools until 1970, when administrators finally allowed girls to wear pantsuits. It was a seemingly small change by today’s standards, but every single one mattered in the movement we celebrate every March as Women’s History Month. It was President Jimmy Carter who, in 1980, issued a presidential proclamation creating what was then National Women’s History Week. “Too often, women were unsung, and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed,” Carter said. “But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well.” By then, women were claiming their place. They were already earning more bachelor’s degrees than men, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, and roughly half of the master’s degrees. Four decades later, in the red-hot fields of science and engineering, women still trail men in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, according to the National Science Foundation. And women still earn just 84 cents of every dollar a man makes, according to a 2020 Pew Research study.

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letters Senator Brooks is doing great work To the Editor: Kudos to State Senator John Brooks and his staff for their work on trying to rein in the high cost of living on Long Island. Brooks has been a leader in the fight for affordable municipal water. His support for a legislative commission on the future of the Long Island Power Authority will open the door to reduced electric rates as well. If legislation creating the commission is passed, it will set out a roadmap for the “municipalization” of the electrical system. With full municipal ownership, electricity would be managed on a nonprofit basis, much like public water and public libraries. This is no far-fetched idea. Freeport and Rockville Centre have municipally operated power systems with rates 40 percent less than PSEG. If we take the profits out, electric rates will fall. Thank you, Senator Brooks. FRED HARRISON L.I. Food & Water Watch Merrick

But they have made steady, if sometimes agonizingly slow, progress. In the century since women finally earned the right to vote, they have become professionals, more financially independent, and more visible as business leaders. And women have worked their way into the leadership positions they have long deserved. Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981. Three years later, Geraldine Ferraro became the first female vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket. Jeannette Rankin of Minnesota might have been the first woman elected to Congress in 1916, but Shirley Chisholm broke yet another notable glass ceiling in 1969, becoming the first Black woman sent to Washington. And then, of course, Kamala Harris finally put a woman one step away from the Oval Office, a feat that can be topped only by whoever eventually becomes our first female president. It seemed only logical for Congress to expand the week first set aside by Carter into something more substantial, although Capitol Hill needed a little push. Thanks to the efforts of the National Women’s History Project — a nonprofit promoting “multicultural women’s history awareness” — Congress decreed the first Women’s History Month in 1987, issuing similar proclamations each year until 1995, when Bill Clinton started the tradition of simply

having presidents issue the proclamations on their own. The last girls who were compelled to wear dresses to school would be grandparents now. Some — especially of the younger generations, who never knew differently — might even take for granted a lot of what women have achieved. But as far as they have come, there’s still a long way to go. And to finally achieve full equality, women will depend on one another to pave the way, just as the female trailblazers of the past have done — Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Susan Ahn Cuddy, Billie Holiday, Rosalind Franklin, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Richardson. Don’t recognize a name? Then Women’s History Month is the perfect time to look it up and learn more about her. Three cheers for the women who are the leaders of our nation. Our inventors. Our entrepreneurs. Those who tend to our health, and fight our battles in court. And those whose names aren’t widely known — especially those who gave birth to us, raised us, and taught us right from wrong, shaping us into the people we are today. These women, in particular, may sometimes be taken for granted, but their contributions must never be forgotten. They make their own history, every day, in the families that ensure our society remains healthy and strong.

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n addition to the world’s oldest (continuous since 1762) and largest St. Patrick’s Day parade up 5th Avenue in Manhattan on March 17, dozens of Long Island communities are looking forward to their local parades, including Mineola and Bethpage on March 6, Huntington on March 13, Rockville Centre on March 19, Glen Cove and Wantagh on March 20, and Bayside on March 26. New York state has more than 50 parades — not including other kinds of St. Patrick’s celebrations — in March. These JoHn will all be well by marcho’ConneLL attended ers and spectators, since most parades are returning after two years of Covid-caused hiatus. There are thousands of St. Patrick’s parades throughout the country, many thousands around the world, from Dublin to Tokyo. Principally a chance for Irish-Americans to show their ethnic pride, our local family-oriented events are welcome signs of spring, reasons to rejoice in the pandemically safer outdoors and great opportunities for downtown businesses, with so many people lining the streets. I’ve been watching or marching in such

wonderful events in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, for most of my long life. Sciatica and other maladies, however, have recently removed me from the line of march and sent me to the sidelines to cheer on my friends and fellow members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. While parades are fun, they say little about the important role Irish-Americans have played in the past and present of our country. I wish people knew more about the magnificent contributions Irish immigrants and Irish-Americans have made to the formation and preservation of the United States, and its ongoing exceptionalism. Science, government, education, the labor movement, the military, civil rights, justice, policing, the arts, music and literature, industry, business, journalism and many other fields would be profoundly the less but for what Irish-Americans have done and continue to do. March is Irish-American Heritage Month, a good time for all of us to learn about or remember some of the people who have made America great. Six of the last seven presidents — and half of all American chief executives — were of Irish ancestry, including Biden, Reagan, Kennedy, Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt and Grant.

t's a list that goes on an on, in every field of endeavor from politics to the arts.

Letters Does Hochul have the right priorities? To the Editor: Replacement Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed legislation allowing farmers to grow marijuana in New York. That appears to be her priority over halting crime and rampant subway attacks. By permitting this bill, as well as an online betting bill, we are encouraging a generation of misfits. Is this how we develop the future leaders of our country? Perhaps our leaders in Albany, who passed the “no bail bill,” have been smoking this stuff just to test its efficacy. PAT KING Merrick

Conservatives, and individualism To the Editor: I’m a 72-year-old who already has one foot in the grave — a 1968 graduate of Mepham High School in Bell-

More than 25 percent of George Washington’s Revolutionary Army comprised Irish-Americans. Of the country that provided him with such brave soldiers, Washington said, “Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country’s most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation.” A hero of that war, Commodore John Barry, of Ireland, was the holder of the first commission in the new United States Navy. Two hundred fifty-seven recipients of the Medal of Honor were born in Ireland. Dan Daley was awarded two Medals of Honor for separate actions, and would have been given a third but for the fact that he already had two. Walt Disney, actor and dancer Gene Kelly, dancer Michael Flatley, playwright Eugene O’Neill and authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Malachy McCourt were/ are Irish-Americans. Bruce Springsteen is of partial Irish ancestry. John Ford has the most Academy Awards for best director, at four. Auto manufacturer Henry Ford had Ireland’s blood in his veins. The first woman to command a NASA space mission was Astronaut Col. Eileen Collins, an Irish-American. The first American woman to walk in space was

the Irish-American Dr. Kathryn Sullivan. Edward J. Flanagan was born in a wee stone cottage in County Roscommon, Ireland. He would become the Father Flanagan of Boys Town, in Omaha, Neb., and a beloved activist on behalf of children. Mary Harris, a.k.a. Mother Jones, was an advocate for child labor laws. Tough Kerryman Michael J. Quill was one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union. The list of Irish America’s contributors to the greatness of our nation goes on and on. The symbols of Irish America aren’t the stereotypical leprechauns, green beer, silly plastic hats and fake freckles; Irish America’s significance is better found in Washington’s words, the names of Irish Brigade troops on Gettysburg’s gravestones, Boys Town, NASA, the American labor movement and the Medal of Honor rolls. All Americans should celebrate IrishAmerican Heritage Month. Educators should teach about the heroic influence Irish-Americans have had. Librarians should create displays. Parents should show their children how deserving IrishAmericans are of honor. Many of the notable American heroes mentioned above have surely earned their own classroom lessons, from grade school to college. I wish all Herald readers and staff a happy St. Patrick’s Day! John O’Connell is a former executive editor of the Herald Community Newspapers. Comments? OConnell11001@yahoo.com.

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more, and a 1972 graduate of Hofstra University — but I’m really worried about what the future will be like in our society. Since 1980, I’ve watched the growth of a cold-hearted, survival-of-the-fittest Social Darwinist mentality among many Republicans in the conservative news media, on talk shows, in think tanks and policy institutes, and especially in Congress. More and more of these folks want to abolish every single federal government social program that helps the working class and middle class. I don’t think most Americans are aware of this. These people are now much more conservative than our Republican voters. What also scares the dickens out of me is the growth of an over-thetop, extreme hyper-individualism and libertarianism, in which so many of us believe that we have no responsibilities to one another, and only a concern for me-me-me and what I want to do. And we smugly and defiantly call this selfish and self-absorbed narcissism “personal choice.” STEWART B. EPSTEIN Rochester

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