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Maura lewinger Franklin Square trustee

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Tameka Battle-Burkett beat Flormelissa Johnson, 536-282

Franklin Square school district board

Maura Lewinger edged Katie Ladner, 456-452

elmont Union Free School District budget Courtesy Rescuing Families

KellY ARCillAS, CeNteR, with her parents, Joel, far right, and Carina, far left, and her twin sisters, Kiana and Kiara.

Returning to a new home

F.S. group reveals renovated house to Elmont resident after over two years of hospitalization

By RoBeRt tRAVeRSo rtraverso@liherald.com

Kelly Arcillas returned to her Elmont home for the first time in over two and a half years on May 12. It had recently been renovated by the Franklin Square-based nonprofit Rescuing Families to help Kelly, who was diagnosed with a rare disease in the summer of 2019 and now uses a wheelchair to get around.

“It was an absolutely amaz-

ing day,” said Gina Centauro, co-founder of Rescuing Families, which reconstructs houses for those in need across Long Island. “Lots of cheers, and all happy tears,” Centauro added, describing the longawaited day outside 373 Randall Ave. Arcillas, 18, returned to her home in a medical transport vehicle with a huge smile on her face, triumphantly repeating that she was finally home, Centauro said.

Thirty-two months ago, life

for Kelly, then 16, and her family — her parents, Joel and Carina, and her twin sisters, Kiana and Kiara, 13 — changed forever when Kelly was suddenly hospitalized when the family returned home from a vacation. After spending nearly three months in a coma, she was diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis, a combination of related autoimmune conditions that lead the immune system to attack brain cells.

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Total: $98.5 million. Passed, 714-210

Franklin Square school district budget Total: $44 million. Passed, 695-337

Sewanhaka school district budget

Total: $227.5 million. Passed, 2,539-1,300

Sewankaha Proposition 2

Total: $6 million. Passed, 2,841-1,174 Set to fund the general capital budget, as well as for new positions with the career and technical education program

Franklin Square Public library budget Total: $2.67 million. Passed, 764-266

— Robert Traverso

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Select exterminating Staff pictured with TOH Clerk Kate Murray, left.

Select Exterminating marks F.S. office opening A ribbon cutting ceremony was held at Select Exterminating in Franklin Square on May 9 by the Franklin Square Chamber of Commerc to commemorate the grand opening of the company’s new office in the community.

“For 63 years, Select Exterminating

has been providing New York & New Jersey business and property owners with the latest and most effective pest control methods,” the company said in a May 11 Facebook post, announcing the opening of the Franklin Square location.

Franklin Square Chamber of Com-

merce Board members William Sonner, Adrienne Greene, Patty McColley, Jamie Parra and Joseph Petrosino, as well as chamber president Lisa DelliPizzi.

Also in attendance were Town of Hempstead Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll, Clerk Kate Murray and Council-

man Tom Muscarella.

Select Exterminating is located at 149 New Hyde Park Road, near Washington Street, in Franklin Square.

— Robert Traverso

Civic spruces up community before Memorial Day American flags were recently placed at the triangular space near New Hyde Park Road and Lutz Street in Franklin Square by the Franklin Square Civic Association and the Franklin Square Chamber of Commerce in the lead up to Memorial Day. Each year, the civic association’s Spruce Up The Square Committee (SUTS) committee, which works to beautify the community, decorates the area. “The SUTS committee has been hard at work, having the winter banners replaced with our spring / summer banners, and they have added more lamppost flower decorations on Hempstead Turnpike,” civic association president Frank Culmone said in a statement released by the organization about the efforts of the committee.

Additionally, the civic association’s annual Hometown Hero Project is planned to begin soon. The organization said in a statement that it plans to hang 30 banners at VFW Post 2718 and Rath Park in Franklin Square before Memorial Day on May 30.

The banners, which each year showcases photos of servicemen and women who are current or former Franklin Square residents, include their name, branch of service and the era when residents served in the military.

“This program serves as tribute to those who have served or are currently serving in a branch of the military as a

Courtesy of Lisa DelliPizzi

the franklin Square Civic Association and the Franklin Square Chamber of Commerce placed American flags before Memorial Day. first responder, or, as of last year, a health care worker,” former civic association president Katherine Tarascio said in a previous Herald story.

Residents can join or contribute ideas and/or funds to the SUTS committee at

this link: https://fsqcivic.org/fsca-beautification-lamppost-flowerspurchase/#!form/Lamppost2022.

— Robert Traverso

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Soon, the civic association will hang its hometown heroes banners, which bear the photos of servicemen and women who are current or former Franklin Square residents, throughout the community.

New home provides resident mobility, safety “Kelly belonged home.” Even so, her Before she came home last week, Kelly return was delayed this month when she had been treated at various hospitals was readmitted to a hospital with an since September 2019. She remains para- infection.

The Arcillas family’s home was renolyzed from the waist down, has lost 90 percent of her vision and relies on a ventila- vated by Rescuing Families to ensure that tor and a gastronomy tube for daily nutri- Kelly will be able to live there safely. A tion. At her homecoming, she and her new deck and ramp allow her to enter in family, whom Centauro and her husband, her wheelchair, Centauro explained. The hallways, flooring and doors Rescuing Families Co-founder were also widened and reinVinny Centauro, grew close forced. with during the renovation, Keller Williams Legendary, were overcome with emotion. a real estate firm with an Joel Arcillas had cooked office in Franklin Square that lunch every day for the Rescuhas supported Rescuing Famiing Families volunteers, lies projects in the past, prewhom he worked side by side sented a $1,000 check to the with and who included the Centauros. “This is the first ginA centAuro organization on the day of Kelly’s return to kickstart the time we’ve ever had assis- Co-founder, nonprofit’s next project, tance from a family member, Rescuing Families which is planned to help a or even having them living in Malverne family. the home while we’re doing Gina Centauro described the renovation,” Vinny previously told the Herald, emphasizing the the upcoming project as a “major renovaunique nature of this project and the tion.” The plan is to create two easily bonds among him, his wife and the Arcil- accessible bathrooms and two decks with a ramp for an elderly couple who have a lases.

Kelly’s mother, Carina, had not slept in 43-year-old son with, among other disabilher own bed in two and a half years, ities, cerebral palsy. He has used a wheelinstead spending nights at the hospital chair his entire life, and the accumulated with her daughter, Gina Centauro said. effort of caring for him his taken its toll “She was just relieved to be able to be on his parents, who are both over 70.

On Memorial Day weekend, Rescuing home and take care of her other girls and take care of the household and be able to Families will kick off a series of charity have Kelly home,” Gina said, adding, yard sales to raise funds for the Malverne

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Kelly ArcillAs returned to her Elmont home, at 373 Randall Ave., on May 12 for the first time in over two years. project. A barbecue fundraiser will also be held on July 10. Tickets for the BBQ can be purchased on the nonprofit’s website, https://www.rescuingfamilies.org/.

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Task force set to explore antisemitism surge Will host public discussions, suggest legislation

By LISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com

Nassau County officials have created a special legislative task force to combat antisemitism and, immediately after being sworn in, went right to work.

Made up of eight legislators — four from each political caucus — as well as 18 members of the public, the task force is tasked to gather facts about the origins and extent of antisemitism in the county while working toward prevention methods like education and community collaboration.

The commission has a number of tasks before it, said County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is part of the task force.

“What is the cause of antisemitism? How do we educate people? How do we liaison with the police department when a hate crime occurs?” Blakeman told the task force after they were sworn in. “These are just some of the things that you’ll be tackling here in this commission, and it’s important work.”

The task force is expected to host public hearings before developing a report filled with recommendations to the county legislature to combat antisemitism.

“We are living in a polarized time,” said Rabbi Eli Weinstock of the Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach, who chairs the task force. That time “has seen the rise of hate speech, which has seen a dramatic rise in antisemitic acts. A large proportion of hate crimes, overall, are antisemitic in nature. We’re here and we’re tasked to try and find mechanisms and ways to combat that.”

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A 27-peRSon SpecIAL legislative task force is expected to research and ultimately recommend prevention methods in the hopes of combatting antisemitism in Nassau County.

The task force plans to host a virtual youth roundtable targeting antisemitism with a focus on how the law and public policy can help diminish bias and insensitivity.

The initiative to create the task force was spearheaded last summer by Plainview legislator Arnold Drucker. A bill establishing the task force was adopted unanimously by the County Legislature last August, and amended this year.

“It was clear that the need for action was urgent,”

Drucker said in a statement. In an audit of antisemitic incidents, last year, reported antisemitic incidents jumped 34 percent compared to 2020, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

“Now is the time to roll up our sleeves and work collaboratively with residents and community leaders,” Drucker said, “to devise and enact meaningful, enduring legislation that will strike directly at the fetid sources of antisemitism in our county.”

Blakeman champions partnership with West Bank By eD WeInTRoB eweintrob@thejewishstar.com

Nassau County cemented its relationship with Israel last week, signing an economic and cultural agreement with the Shomron.

It’s an area in the northern part of an Israeli territory commonly referred to as the West Bank, or Judea and Samaria.

“This is an agreement of friendship, understanding and solidarity,” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman proclaimed during a ceremony in Mineola.

Blakeman’s Israeli counterpart, Shomron Regional Council chair Yossi Dagan, says his region has been the Jewish heartland since the days of the religion’s forefathers and prophets.

Mazi Melesa Pilip, a Great Neck-based legislator and a former Israeli Defense Forces paratrooper who emigrated to the Jewish state from Ethiopia during Operation Solomon in 1991, said the agreement would “continue an important and meaningful partnership and friendship based on social, economic, security and cultural” links.

“This event perfectly exemplifies the beautiful relationship between Israel and America,” Assemblyman Ari Brown said.

At a time “when people are trying to put a wedge between us, the county executive brings us together.”

In fact, that’s an aspect that sometimes gets lost, said Davidi Ben Zion, deputy head of the Samaria Regional Council.

“These are not easy days in Israel because of the attacks and the terrorist

Courtesy Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman

IT WAS ALL smiles and friendship for Shomron Regional Council chair Yossi Dagan and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman after signing an economic and cultural agreement between the two ‘sister’ regions. Joining them were, at far left, Assemblyman Ari Brown, and former Boro Park Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Rabbi Anchelle Perl of Chabad of Mineola, and County Legislator Mazi Melesa Pilip. campaigns,” he said. “And sometimes for you, it is not easy days. But if we move together, we can win.”

Dov Hikind, the firebrand former Assemblyman from Boro Park, applauded what he called Blakeman’s leadership in joining with Israel.

“We are united with the people of Israel, and we are united with the communities — not ‘settlements’ — in Judea and Samaria,” Hikind said. “These are mag-

nificent cities with the most special people.”

Yet, it takes more than simply saying, “I support Israel,” the onetime lawmaker said, although it’s “a good start.”

“But this is called action,” Hikind said.

“This is called doing something real. You are saying to over half a million people in Judea and Samaria, ‘You are not alone.

We the people of Long Island — of America — we are with you.’”

Judea and Samaria is a subject of international controversy, with some referring to it as “occupied territory,” where development by Israel violates international law. Others maintain Israel is acting legally.

Blakeman, who’s visited the Shomron, described the area as critically situated relative to the rest of the country.

“It’s the high ground overlooking the Tel Aviv airport,” he said. “To give away that strategic area would put all of Israel in danger.”

Meanwhile, Israeli development there boosts everyone.

“What you won’t hear in the media is how many Palestinian Arabs are employed in Judea and Samaria in the factories, earning three times what they would if they were in the Palestinian Authority areas,” Blakeman said, explaining that Israelis “are providing a lot of economic opportunity for their Palestinian neighbors as well as for Israelis.”

While Judea was not represented at Thursday’s event, Blakeman — whose wife is Israeli — emphasized his support for them as well. Blakeman highlighted his latest personal link to the Jewish state, introducing his daughter, Ariel, a student at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv. Just last week, he announced Ariel’s engagement to a former defense forces paratrooper.

In 2016, the Town of Hempstead proclaimed the Region of Shomron a “sister municipality.” Blakeman, a Hempstead councilman at the time, said then that “they are truly on the front lines.”

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events and activities

community update Thursday, May 19

Post Covid mental health. For more information, contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org.

Online Program: Operation Gratitude Letter Writing (F.S.)

Thursday, May 26

From April 26 to June 27, the Franklin Square Public Library is holding an online gratitude letter writing program. The first 23 people that register will receive a pack of colored pencils, a letter-writing packet as well as instructions and guidelines for writing them. Return letters to the library and receive one hour of community service credit. Pick up began April 1. Register online at the library’s website, https:// www.franklinsquarepl.org/.

Library Board Meeting (Elmont) The public is invited to attend the Elmont Public Library Board of Trustees’ regular meeting at 700 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont. The public portion of the meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. The agenda calls for the Board to meet in Executive Session at 7 p.m.

Friends of the Franklin Square Public Library Meeting (F.S.)

Friday, May 27

A meeting of Friends of the Franklin Square Public Library Meeting, normally held on the third Thursday of every month at 10:15 a.m., is being held between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. in the meeting room.

Lecture: Controlling Stress with STARR Exercises with David Hymowitz (Elmont) Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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/.

Saturday, May 21 In Person: College Funding (F.S.) Join Julia from New York Life for an infor-

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Write gratitude letters through F.S. library program The F.S. Public Library is holding an online gratitude letter writing program from April 26 to June 27. mative program on college funding from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the community room. This seminar is geared towards parents, grandchildren, and guardians who are interested in building a college funding plan for their children or grandchildren and to educate them on the various tools available. Some of the topics covered are: the student loan landscape and its effects on graduates, how much a four year degree costs today and what it may cost tomorrow, available options parents have when building a college funding plan, and resources you can turn to for more information and assistance.

Friday, May 20 Senior Chat (Elmont) 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

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

Monday, May 23 Board of Trustees Meeting (F.S.) Attend the Franklin Square Public Library’s Board of Trustees meeting in the community room between 6:45 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. All community members are invited to board meetings. Meetings are currently being held in person if safety allows. No registration is needed. The agenda for the meeting (and virtutal link if necessary) is posted prior to the meeting on our website: https://www.franklinsquarepl.org/about-us/board-of-trustees/.

Chair Yoga with Mary Mazzone (Elmont) Join Elmont Memorial Library and Mary

Mazzone at 1 p.m. in meeting room 2 for a chair yoga class. Registration is required, and there is limited seating.

Registration for Elmont Library cardholders begins two weeks before each program. 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.

Wednesday, May 25 Mental Health and Wellness Seminar (Elmont) Sponsored by the Town of Hempstead, this mental health and wellness seminar will be held between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m in meeting room 2. A panel of 4 health professionals will be speaking on the following topics: EMS Doctor speaking on EMS services & health, Adult and adolescent mental health & substance abuse, Post Covid complications - heart health and

In meeting room 2 at 12:30 p.m., this lecture will discuss how stress can have a tremendous impact on our physical and mental well-being. Improving our mental health and overall wellness is not a ‘one size fits all’ process. STARR focuses on stress and works to heal the central nervous system and improve your wellbeing by building mental health routines. No registration is required for this event.

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

Rescuing Families returned Kelly Arcillas to her newly renovated Elmont home on May 12.

Casey Hauptman will be director of technology, innovation and data systems at F.S. schools.

Elmont residents Cleveland Johnson and Sonia Munoz Rosas were married on April 5.

Elmont residents Juan Guarderas and Leslie Ramos Vega were married on April 8.

The one-year anniversary of the F.S. museum was May 13.

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What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

Student wins big again at statewide math competition

Seahawk flag waves for diversity The Cultural Awareness Committee of H. Frank Carey High School in Franklin Square coordinated the creation of the school’s Seahawk Diversity Flag, which serves “to represent the various countries that make up the school culture and community of H. Frank Carey High School,” the Sewanhaka Central High School District said in a statement.

Founded in May 2021 under the guidance of H. Frank Carey High School Social Studies Chairperson Michael Farina, the committee is composed of admin-

istration members, staff and students.

The committee distributed a survey to the school community to gather information on all school community members’ backgrounds and cultures to ensure they were represented in the flag.

After this, student Isaac Chin created the Seahawk Diversity Flag, which is now displayed near the schools’s social studies department office, under the guidance of art teacher Jessica Burgalassi.

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Sean andrade oF Sewanhaka High School pictured in the center next to second- and third-place winners at the statewide competition.

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H. Frank Carey High School student Isaac Chin, who created the flag with school art teacher Jessica Burgalassi, pictured with the Seahawk Diversity Flag.

Sean Andrade, a student at Sewanhaka High School, placed first in the Related Technical Math Competition at the New York State SkillsUSA Spring Leadership Conference held from April 27 to April 29.

A pre-engineering student at Sewanhaka High School, this is the second consecutive year that Andrade has won gold at the competition.

Andrade will represent the Sewanhaka Central High School District at the SkillsUSA National Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia next month.

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Carey rolls into baseball playoffs

By GARRETT D. URIBE sports@liherald.com

STEphAn GERShfElD Hewlett Junior Tennis

coMInG off A perfect 2021 season that saw him capture the Nassau singles title, Gershfeld, who began playing varsity tennis as a seventh-grader, will look to repeat as county champion this weekend at Eisenhower Park. Gershfeld hasn’t lost a single set since 2019. Last spring, he defeated Roslyn’s Mikey Weitz in the finals, 6-2, 6-1, hours after topping Great Neck South’s Albert Hu in the semifinals, 6-3, 6-1.

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Nassau Class A championship at Adelphi.............6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 31

Nassau Class B championship at Adelphi ................. 4 p.m.

Nassau Class C championship at Adelphi ............6:30 p.m.

BoyS Thursday, May 26

Nassau Class A semifinals at Hofstra............. 5:30&730pm

friday, May 27

Nassau Class B semifinals at Hofstra ................... 2&4 p.m.

Nassau Class C semifinals at Hofstra ................... 6&8 p.m.

Tuesday, May 31

Nassau Class A championship at Hofstra .................. 8 p.m.

wednesday, june 1

Nassau Class B championship at Hofstra.............5:30 p.m.

Nassau Class C championship at Hofstra .................. 8 p.m.

Carey senior Teagan Graham’s numbers this spring sufficed to earn him Nassau Conference A2 baseball’s Offensive Player of the Year Award.

They may prove less persuasive, however, in his team’s Most Valuable Player Award voting – a state of affairs which helps explain why the Seahawks were named the No. 5 seed, among 15 teams, in the Nassau Class A playoffs starting Monday after Herald press time.

“Teagan had a monster season,” said fourth-year Carey coach Doug Robins, whose club went 15-2-1 in league to finish two games behind A2 champion Calhoun (17-1). “He’s been our main leader for two years. This year, though, we had more pitching depth to go along with hitting.”

An All-Conference selection last year, Graham all but solved the game offensively this season. The third-year-starting outfielder batted .517 with three home runs, 31 runs batted in and an .817 slugging percentage – all team highs except for homers, as junior pitcher/infielder Jake Perlowitz (.393 avg., 21 RBI) led Carey, and the conference, with four.

Cleanup-hitting senior catcher Joe Moryl (.356) was second on the club with 24 RBIs and led Carey with eight doubles, while eighth-grade phenom Jayden Gigante (.370, 17 RBI) quieted all concerns about his leapfrogging a planned stint on Carey’s junior varsity. Sophomore Matteo Tufano (.340, 15 RBI) and senior fellow infielder Domenick Romano (.367, 11 RBI) gave opposing pitcher no respite facing the bottom of the Seahawks order.

The fruits of such a fearsome lineup have been what one might expect: Carey has won six games this season by 10 or more runs, five via the mercy rule.

Ensuring Carey’s offensive fireworks aren’t wasted is a task that has fallen largely to two standouts on its staff: Ryan Degnan, a senior, and fellow righthander Jake Berenger (junior). If anyone other than Graham can be said to have carried Carey this season, it is Pace University scholarship awardee Degnan, whose six league wins led A2 and seven wins overall

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SEAhAwkS jUnIoR pITchER/InfIElDER Jake Perlowitz (.393 avg., 21 RBI) led all of Conference A2 in home runs with four. were tied for tops in Nassau. The six-footthree hurler went 6-1 in conference with 71 strikeouts across 38 2/3 innings, against five walks, posting a 1.86 earned run average. Berenger finished 4-1 with 36 strikeouts in 24 1/3 innings.

“Ryan’s a real competitor who has dominated for us,” said Robins of the scholar athlete who carried a no-hit bid into the seventh inning in dealing Calhoun its lone loss, 2-1, April 25. “He kept us in that game [against Calhoun] when their guy (Brian Chin) was also no-hitting us,” Robins added.

Returning the favor, Calhoun has like-

wise played spoiler to Carey, taking the final two of their three-game set.

“This team is hungry,” said Robins, whose club exited last year’s playoffs with a first-round, deciding-game, comeback walk-off loss, 8-7, to eventual Nassau Class A champion South Side. “After what happened last year, they’re eager to take out some revenge.”

Carey begins its postseason with a firstround series against A2 rival Kennedy.

Apart from the Seahawks’ pair of losses to Calhoun, the Cougars accounted for Carey’s only other conference non-win – a 9-9 tie March 31.

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Officials: Shortage of baby formula avoidable rbethany@liherald.com

Under a spring sky soft with the threat of rain in the air, Don Clavin joined fellow government officials and parents demanding Congress push much harder to alleviate the current national shortage of baby and medical formula.

“It’s the role of the federal government to step in at a time of need,” said Clavin, Town of Hempstead’s supervisor. “It’s disgraceful that we have to do this because the federal government have been sitting on their hands.”

Clavin called on President Joe Biden to use the Defense Production Act to direct federal funds to boost formula production.

The same act — a Cold War relic designed to use Washington resources to jump start private sector production during war and emergencies — was also used during the coronavirus pandemic to step up the manufacture of ventilators and other equipment intended to combat Covid-19.

The formula crisis stems from a pandemic-fueled nationwide supply chain and labor shortage that’s affecting a number of economic sectors. But it became even more critical after Abbott, a major formula manufacturer that produces the Similac baby formula brand, shut down its factory in Sturgis, Michigan, after reported safety issues with its products. Four infants in Minnesota, Texas and Ohio were hospitalized with bacterial infections. Two died.

Whether Abbott’s formulas were

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HEmpsTEAd TowN offIcIAls and parents called on Congress to speed up production of baby formula. Among those making the statement were, from left, John Caputo of Lynbrook, Councilman Chris Carini, Legislator Denise Ford, Oliver Miller and mother Councilwoman Melissa Miller, Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin, Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, Councilman Tom Muscarella, Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll and town clerk Kate Murray. responsible is still under investigation.

At the news conference, Councilwoman Melissa Miller gestured toward her 22-year-old son Oliver, who sat in his wheelchair beside the podium. Oliver had a stroke prior to birth that affected his brain stem and left him with multiple disabilities.

“This shortage is more than just baby formula, which in itself is a crisis and needs to be addressed,” Miller said. “But in fact, millions of children and adults that have dietary special needs, their medical formulas are included in this shortage.”

Oliver has never been able to eat regu-

lar food. He relies completely on medical formula to live.

“When the formula recall happened, there was no communication to parents with baby formula or communications with parents of special need individuals, or adults with special medical nutrition needs,” Miller said. “I found out on a Facebook trading group for special needs equipment. I went and looked (at the lot numbers stamped on the canisters of formula): Every single case of formula that I had was part of the recalled lot.”

Miller’s online search for formula in February finally turned up four canisters of formula powder for $175. Now the same

four canisters on Amazon’s Canada site cost $315.

One strategy to keep Oliver supplied was to switch formulas, Miller said. But babies and medically needy adults don’t tolerate every type of formula. Switching formulas often causes diarrhea and other digestive disruptions, possibly leading to hospitalization.

John Caputo joined others the news conference because his daughter, like Oliver, needs a particular formula.

“Switching formula could mean days in the hospital,” the Lynbrook resident said. “I would urge everybody, parents — anybody else who takes care of someone with special needs — to reach out to your people in our local governments..”

Liquid infant formulas produced by Abbott were not affected by the recall.

A senior White House administrative official said at a May 12 White House news conference that the federal government has actually done a lot to get formula back on grocery shelves since the Feb. 17 product recall.

One national survey found more than 40 percent of retailers across the country were out of stock when it comes to formula, according to NPR. Yet, these actions should have happened months ago, Clavin said, urging constituents to call their representatives.

“That’s when you see the most reaction,” he said, “when people get together and make the phone calls and ask for action.”

Protect Patients. #EndMedicalDebt.

Medical costs are strangling New Yorkers. Patients face hidden charges and are unable to find out how to apply for hospital financial aid.

As a result, tens of thousands of New Yorkers struggle with medical debt. Thousands are sued every year, and many more are harassed by collection agents.

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New Yorkers need relief from hidden fees and a streamlined process to apply for hospital financial aid.

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To take action, visit cssny.org/EndMedicalDebt.

FRANKLIN SQUARE/ELMONT HERALD — May 19, 2022

By REINE BETHANY

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By ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com

Photos courtesy of Keller Williams Legendary

BRiAn WEllS, RighT, a team leader at Keller Williams’ Franklin Square location, and various agents at the company preparing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before the May 12 event.

Employees at the Keller Williams Legendary real estate location in Franklin Square spent the work day on May 12 traveling to food shelters and community fridges across both Nassau County and Queens on the company’s annual Renew, Energize and Donate (R.E.D.) day dedicated to community service to deliver peanut butter and jelly sandwiches they made

earlier in the day to individuals in need.

“We put a lot of time and effort into what we’re going to do on R.E.D. day, every market center in the country is going to be doing this,” said Franklin Square location team leader Brian Wells of the annual day, when every market center run by the firm nationwide has closed since 2009 to devote the day to serving others.

The event was originally inspired by Mo Anderson, current vice-chair and former president and CEO of the firm, who is renowned for encouraging employees to focus on their character in both their personal and professional lives.

Leadership, top agents and even one agent whose first day at Keller Williams was on May 12 delivered sandwiches to 10 community fridges in Nassau and Queens as well as two local shelters, Terena Williams Glory House in Hempstead and The Bethany House in Baldwin.

“The mindset we try to create here is a culture of abundance, not scarcity,” Wells said of the firm’s commitment to serving others. “It’s rewarding, and I’m looking forward to driving around, dropping sandwiches off and meeting some people,” Wells said in anticipation of the event.

“On a daily basis, the culture here is to help one another, no matter who is in need,” said Justin White, an agent at the firm who participated this year in his second R.E.D. day.

“It’s nice to be focused on giving and to do something for other people,” said Laquetta Kearns, a launch coach with the firm for five years, of the company’s goal on R.E.D. day.

During past years, Keller Williams Legendary has helped construct houses for families in local communities, organize relief efforts following natural disasters and, like this year, gather and distribute food to those in need. “These are just a few of the community activities we’ve carried out in support of those who have poured into us,” the company explains in a statement on its website.

“At the heart of Keller Williams’ culture is our shared commitment to community service,” a statement on the company’s website reads.

AgEnTS fROm ThE real estate firm delivered sandwiches to individuals in need at 10 community fridges across Nassau County and Queens as well as two local shelters.

Alternative energy blows in with future at stake

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that it won during a recent auction hosted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, according to company spokeswoman Alanna Russo.

“This is something we’ve thought about for many years, and we’re very excited, but we’re still in our infancy stage of developing our project,” she said.

“We’re doing site surveys, environmental assessment, and engaging with stakeholders, and hopefully it will be completed by the end of decade.”

For Jamie Shellenberger-Bessman, who represents the Attentive Energy subsidiary of France’s TotalEnergies Renewables, says her role is more about education — not just of Attentive Energy’s work, but renewable energy in general.

ALANNA RussO, thE strategic engagement director for Community Offshore Wind — which is developing a seabed lease in the New York Bight — says they hope to get some of its wind energy projects off the ground and running by the end of the decade.

“I have conversations every day with people who don’t even know what an offshore wind farm is and the massive opportunity that’s out there,” she said. “So, it’s just about making sure we’re making those connections. We believe the younger generation is the future because it’s the people in junior high and high school right now who are going to be building these things, so we’re looking to make connections there.”

The Ocean Energy Management bureau auctioned off six leases last February in the Bight for $4.4 billion, including $795 million from Attentive Energy. The leases include more than 460,000 leasable acres with the hopes of producing enough energy for nearly 2 million homes.

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There are certainly some advantages to living on an island — advantages Matt Cohen says Long Island doesn’t exploit enough. Especially when it comes to alternative energy sources like offshore wind.

“We’re an island,” Cohen, president of the Long Island Association, told a roundtable discussion in Melville last week.

“We’re surrounded by water. Iowa and Nebraska may not be able to do this, but we can. We’re in position to take advantage of it.”

Cohen brought together small business owners as well as representatives from four leading wind developers — Ørsted/ Eversource, Equinor, Community Offshore Wind and Attentive Energy — hoping they might find some synergies as part of several intimate 15-minute “speed-dating” style meetings.

Harrison Feuer, the New York-based spokesman for Norwegian petroleum company Equinor, called the association’s roundtable “inspiring.”

“There were so many people interested in this growing industry on Long Island and eager to see where they could learn more,” he said. “They want to get involved to help this industry grow, and the conversation in general was a great opportunity to connect with the folks on the ground and see how much support there is for offshore wind.”

It’s also a great opportunity to help develop new career paths, said Marjaneh Issapour, an associate dean focused on sustainable energy at Farmingdale State College.

“I’m here as an educator interested in the business and looking for possible employment pathways for our graduates,” she said. “The most exciting thing about this is mainly just that the fact that it’s actually happening now, and that it’s a realization. We’ve been talking about it for so long, and now we actually have a few projects in the pipeline. And that is great news for the local economy.” Ørsted’s roots are in fossil fuels, but the Danish company — named for scientist Hans Christian Ørsted — has since moved completely to renewable energy. It has joined with Connecticut-based offshore wind company Eversource on a pair of major projects in the region, including the South Fork Wind Farm — a dozen turbines spinning offshore 30 miles east of Montauk.

Construction on those turbines start and finish next year, according to Grant van Wyngaarden, who heads offshore procurement in North America for Ørsted.

It’s expected to deliver enough electricity to power more than 100,000 homes.

Sunrise Wind, expected to be constructed nearby in 2024, will be a much larger project with more than 80 turbines.

Community Offshore Wind is developing a seabed lease in the New York Bight

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FRANKLIN SQUARE/ELMONT HERALD — May 19, 2022

By JAKE PELLEGRINO

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

BY THE BOARD OF APPEALS Pursuant to New York State Town Law Article 16, New York State Public Officers Law Article 7, and the Town of Hempstead Building Zone Ordinance, NOTICE is hereby given that the BOARD OF APPEALS of the Town of Hempstead will hold a public hearing in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Town Hall Plaza, One Washington Street, Hempstead, New York on 5/25/22 at 2:00 P.M. to consider the following applications and appeals: --------------------------------THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 2:00 P.M. 410/22.

FRANKLIN SQUARE - 790 Holdings Corp. d/b/a Luxury Motor Club, Special exception for sale & display of used automobiles; Use variance to park in Res. “C” district; Variance in off-street parking; Special exception to park in front yard setback on Hempstead Tpke. & Poppy Ave.; Special exception for storage of vehicles in front yard setbacks on Hempstead Tpke. & Poppy Ave. & also within clear site triangle (existing used car dealership)., N/W cor.

Hempstead Tpke. & Poppy Ave., a/k/a 790 Hempstead Tpke. S.E.Q.R. determination not made.

N.C.P.C. Local Determination.

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FRANKLIN SQUARE - 776 Holdings Corp., Special exception for sale & display of used automobiles; Use variance to park in Res. “C” district; Variance in off-street parking; Special exception to park in front yard setback on Hempstead Tpke. & Poppy Ave.; Special exception for storage of vehicles in front yard setbacks on Hempstead Tpke. & Poppy Ave., within clear site triangle & storage in rear yard setback (used car lot in conjunction with car dealership located at adjacent property)., N/E cor. Hempstead Tpke. & Poppy Ave., a/k/a 776-784 Hempstead Tpke.

S.E.Q.R. determination not made.

N.C.P.C. Local Determination.

This notice is only for new cases in Franklin Square within Town of Hempstead jurisdiction.

There are additional cases in different hamlets, towns and villages on the Board of Appeals calendar.

The full calendar is available at https://hempsteadny.gov/ 887/Hearing---05252022 The internet address of the website streaming for this meeting is https://hempsteadny.gov/ 524/Live-Streaming-Video Interested parties may appear at the above time and place. At the call of the Chairman, the Board

will consider decisions on the foregoing and those on the Reserve Decision calendar and such other matters as may properly come before it.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2013-TT2,

BY U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE, Plaintiff, vs. ALEXANDER DAVIS, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on April 17, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auctionon the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on June 2, 2022at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 77 Roquette Avenue a/k/a Rouquette Avenue, Elmont, NY 11003. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 32,Block 360 and Lots26, 27 and 28. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 3700/15. This foreclosure sale will be held on the North Side Steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine.

COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale. Oliver E. Roche, Esq., Referee Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, &Peddy, P.C., 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City, NY 11530, Attorneys for Plaintiff 130922 LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU CITIBANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAA HOME EQUITY TRUST 2007-10, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-10, V. EDISON S. LEWIS, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated October 8, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein CITIBANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAA HOME EQUITY TRUST 2007-10, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-10 is the Plaintiff and EDISON S. LEWIS, ET AL. are the Defendant(s).

I, the undersigned

Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on June 16, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 29 BELMONT AVENUE, ELMONT, NY 11003: Section 32, Block C-01, Lot 71: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING AT ELMONT, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 606833/2017. Ellen N. Savino, Esq. - Referee.

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 131425

LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, V. STUART J. ZABLOW. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated June 7, 2017, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION is the Plaintiff and STUART J. ZABLOW is the Defendant.

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on June 15, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1494 ROSSER AVE, ELMONT, NY 11003: Section 32, Block 503, Lots 34 & 35: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING AT ELMONT, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 013461/2013. Dalia Zaza, Esq. - Referee. Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for

Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH C O U R T / C L E R K DIRECTIVES. 131421

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, STATE OF NEW YORK, ELMONT GATE, LLC, Plaintiff, against 541 HEMPSTEAD TPKE LLC, et al., Defendants Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated March 4, 2020 and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, I the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the front steps of the New York Supreme Court, Nassau County, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola NY on June 16, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. premises situated, lying and being in the Town of Elmont, County of Nassau and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at the corner formed by the intersection of the Southwesterly side of Hempstead Jamaica Turnpike with the Southeasterly side of School Street, (aka Elmont Road); RUNNING THENCE southeasterly along the Southwesterly side of Hempstead, Jamaica Turnpike 22.34 feet to the division line between Lots 2 and 3 in Block 1, on a aforesaid map; THENCE Southwesterly along the division line between Lots 2 and 3 in Block 1 on aforesaid map and on a line forming an interior angle of 81° 54 minutes with the Southwesterly side of Hempstead, Jamaica Turnpike 94.86 feet to the Northeasterly side of Selma Place; THENCE, Northwesterly along the Northeasterly side of Selma Place and at right angles to last mentioned course 72.52 feet to the Southeasterly side of School Street; THENCE Northeasterly along the Southeasterly side of School Street 104.67 feet to the corner, the point or place of Beginning.

Approximate amount of lien $393,687.95 plus interest & costs.

All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon 541 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont, NY, erected, situate, lying, Section: 32, Block: 284, Lots 1 and 2.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The

Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney.

Index 607608/2019 COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS WILL BE FOLLOWED AT THE FORECLOSURE SALE Mark Ricciardi, Esq., Referee Attorney for the Plaintiff; Joseph, Terracciano & Lynam, LLP, Janine T. Lynam Esq., 2 Roosevelt Ave # 200, Syosset, NY 11791 131415 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NASSAU COUNTY U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff against RUDOLPH GREENIDGE, et al Defendant(s) Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein Such & Crane, LLP, 1400 Old Country Road, Suite 103N, Westbury, NY 11590.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered October 29, 2019, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on June 8, 2022 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 541 Bieling Road, Elmont, NY 11003. Sec 32 Block 714 Lot 18. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate lying and being at Elmont, in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York.

Approximate Amount of Judgment is $489,811.53 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 605075/2017.

The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 10th Judicial District’s Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules.

The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the Court Appointed Referee shall cancel the foreclosure auction.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.”

Julianne Bonomo, Esq., Referee AYSJN073 131051 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com

LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, V. ANGELA T. ATKINS, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated January 28, 2020, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION is the Plaintiff and ANGELA T. ATKINS, ET AL. are the Defendant(s).

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on June 16, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1640 EMPIRE ST, ELMONT, NY 11003: Section 32, Block 601, Lot 61, 62, 262: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING AT ELMONT, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 007639/2008.

Rita Solomon, Esq. - Referee.

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 131423 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF NOMURA HOME EQUITY LOAN, INC., HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2007-1, Plaintiff AGAINST ALBERTA WOODS F/K/A ALBERTA REEDER, ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered September 24, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on June 14, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 149 CARNEGIE AVENUE, ELMONT, NY 11003. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Elmont, County of Nassau and State of New York, SBL #: 3 2 - 3 5 6 - 1 0 2 .

Approximate amount of judgment $684,295.35

plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #011494/2009.

The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 Protocols located on the Office of Court Administration (OCA) website (https://ww2.nycourts.gov /Admin/oca.shtml) and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Janine T. Lynam, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 00-155711 71339 131153 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU U.S BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR J.P MORGAN ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2006-S2, Plaintiff AGAINST JEAN ROBERT MOMPEROUSSE, KATHY MOMPEROUSSE, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered April 26, 2016, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on June 14, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 70 HOLLAND AVENUE, ELMONT, NY 11003. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Elmont, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 32, Block 440, Lots 41, 42 & 43.

Approximate amount of judgment $392,802.81 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #007049/2015.

The aforementioned auction will be conduct ed in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 Protocols located on the Office of Court Administration (OCA) website (https://ww2.nycourts.gov /Admin/oca.shtml) and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Arthur I. Shaw, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 15-002091 71389 131149 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com TO PLACE AND AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO. 38-2022 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing was duly called and held May 10, 2022, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 38-2022, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 38-2022, amending Section 197-13 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, to repeal “TRAFFIC REGULATIONS IN THE VICINITY OF SCHOOLS” at various locations.

Dated: May 10, 2022 Hempstead, New York

BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 131420 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO. 36-2022 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing was duly called and held May 10, 2022, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 36-2022, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 36-2022, amending Section 202-1 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, to include “PARKING OR STANDING PROHIBITIONS” at various locations.

Dated: May 10, 2022 Hempstead, New York

BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 131418 To Place A Notice Call 516-569-4000 x232

LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR NOVASTAR MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST, SERIES 2005-4, NOVASTAR HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-4, V.

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What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

The Clara H. Carlson School in Elmont hosted “Pick a Reading Partner” (PARP) events with a “Wild for Reading” theme from March 14 to April 9. “Along with logging their daily reading minutes and who they read with at home, students enjoyed fun at-home prompts throughout the four weeks,” the Elmont Union Free School District said in a statement, adding that the month-long event was designed to encourage students to read more.

Some of these activities included students acting out a scene from their favorite books for family members, going on a trip to the Elmont Memorial Library, reading to family members and reading to either their

pets or stuffed animals.

At school, guest readers virtually read books to Clara H. Carlson School students via Zoom during the four-week-long event.

Student council representatives at the school also distributed prizes to the students who read the most during the challenge.

The PARP events concluded with a PTAsponsored Scholastic Book Fair, which was held outdoors on April 11 and April 12. At the book fair, students browsed through illustrated books, graphic novels, chapter books and various other reading materials.

–Robert Traverso

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PATRICIA PIETSCH F/K/A PATRICIA HARASEK, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated March 10, 2020, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR NOVASTAR MORTGAGE FUNDING TRUST, SERIES 2005-4, NOVASTAR HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-4 is the Plaintiff and PATRICIA PIETSCH F/K/A PATRICIA HARASEK, ET AL. are the Defendant(s).

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on June 14, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1309 POST AVENUE, ELMONT, NY 11003: Section 32, Block 568, Lot 46, 47, 48 & 49: ALL THE CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE AT ELMONT, IN THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 607178/2019.

Charles Casolaro, Esq. - Referee.

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure

sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 131299

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NASSAU COUNTY U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR GSMPS 2004-1, Plaintiff against JOHN LESLIE, et al Defendant(s) Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein Such & Crane, LLP, 1400 Old Country Road, Suite 103N, Westbury, NY 11590.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered June 18, 2019, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on June 22, 2022 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 138 Gotham Avenue, Elmont, NY 11003. Sec 32 Block 430 Lot 13, 14 and 15. All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Elmont, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York.

Approximate Amount of Judgment is $596,887.35 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed

Judgment Index No 018507/2007.

The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 10th Judicial District’s Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules.

The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the Court Appointed Referee shall cancel the foreclosure auction.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.”

William Corbett, Esq., Referee XCHJN245 131366

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LEGAL NOTICE LOST TITLE APPLICATION NO.: 2389572 OFFICE OF TITLES NOTICE PURSUANT TO SECTION 82 OF THE REGISTRATION OF TITLES ACT (rta) WHEREAS the application(s) in the above stated application has/have declared that the following duplicate Certificate of Title has been lost, I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that I intend to cancel the said Certificate of Title and issue a new one in duplicate fourteen days after the last publication of this advertisement.

Volume: 959 Folio: 532 Place: Ewarton District Parish: St. Catherine Registered proprietor(s): Esmena Adassa Ramsay and Glynis Cattaneo The following transactions lodged with this application will be registered pursuant to section 81 of the RTA:

Application to Note Death 2389569 Transfer 2385751 Signed By: L Dunbar Deputy Registrar of Titles 131399

LEGAL NOTICE TO THE TAXPAYERS OF THE ELMONT FIRE DISTRICT: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a resolution was duly dopted by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Elmont Fire District, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, on the 11th day of May, 2022, subject to permissive referendum as provided for by the General Municipal law.

An extract of the resolution is as follows: THE ELMONT FIRE DISTRICT SHALL PURCHASE A RENOVATION OF BUILDING HVAC SYSTEMS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO REPLACEMENT OF SIX ROOFTOP HVAC UNITS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT AND PUBLIC WORK RELATED THERETO AT A COST, INCLUDING COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH TRANSACTION NOT TO EXCEED THREE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND ($350,000.00) DOLLARS WITH FUNDS FROM THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS CAPITAL RESERVE FUND. This resolution shall not take effect until thirty (30) days unless in the meanwhile a permissive referendum as provided for by the General Municipal Law is required to be held.

Dated: May 11, 2022 BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS ELMONT FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD ATTEST: FRANCES ANDINO Secretary 131414

Courtesy Elmont Union Free School District

acTing school principal Richard Mansfield attended the book fair and helped students pick out books.

Work of Sewanhaka H.S. artists displayed The artwork of 13 students who attend Sewanhaka Central High School District schools was displayed at the Art Supervisors Association of Nassau County’s 2022 Nassau All-County Virtual Art Exhibition, an exhibition that honored over 1,000 students-artists at levels ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade.

At the event, the artwork of 13 Sewanhaka students was displayed: Angel Anderson, Adeoluwasewa Idowu and Hanz Mugar from Elmont Memorial High School; Gagandeep Kaur, Rebecca Lin and Shannon O’Malley from Floral Park

Memorial High School; Isaac Chin and Alyssa Erbe from H. Frank Carey High School; Shirley Chen, Rachel Houng and Kelly Patel from New Hyde Park Memorial High School; and Lucilla Mathieu and Abigail Percy from Sewanhaka High School.

The artwork of Chen, Chin, Idowu, Kaur and Mathieu, who are all ASA Senior Scholarship Recipients, will remain on display virtually through June at artsupervisorsassociation.org.

—Robert Traverso

Courtesy Sewanhaka Central High School District

The arTwork of Elmont Memorial High School students Hanz Mugar and Adeoluwasewa Idowu’s artwork and New Hyde Park Memorial High School student Shirley Chen on display at the 2022 Nassau All-County Virtual Art Exhibition.

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interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume on OLAS at www.olasjobs.org

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CIRCULATION ASSOCIATE Full Time/Part Time Richner Communications, publisher of Herald community newspapers has an excellent opportunity for a FT/PT Customer Service Clerk in our busy Circulation Department.

Basic customer service and administrative responsibilities include: heavy computer work, answering phones, making phone calls, entering orders, faxing, filing, etc.

STRONG knowledge of EXCEL a must! Knowledge of DATABASE maintenance or postal regulations a big plus. Qualified Candidates must be computer literate, able to multitask, dependable, reliable, organized, energetic, detail orientated and able to work well under deadlines. For consideration, please send resume & salary requirements to: careers@liherald.com

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Tenant responsible for electric, electric heat, and electric cooking. Tenant rents have been reduced by a utility allowance. ALL RESIDENTS MUST BE 55 AND OVER, MAX OCCUPANCY=2. INCOME LIMITS & ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS APPLY. Maximum income limits ranging from $50,900 – $139,560. Minimum income limits ranging from $46,732 – $73,715. Income limits subject to household size & set-aside requirements; please visit www.cgmrcompliance.com for details. To request an application by mail, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to ON THE COMMON AT ROCKY POINT, PO Box 440, Wading River, NY 11792, visit www.cgmrcompliance.com or email onthecommon@cgmrcompliance.com.

Applicants who submit more than one application may be disqualified.

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Database Administrator: Dun Huang Trading Inc. in Syosset NY seeks a database administrator to create methods to store, organize, and present data efficiently; administer a variety of database systems including Microsoft SQL Server, File maker Pro, and others; set up new website databases; integrate old systems data with a new system; test and coordinate modifications; troubleshoot and correct issues as they arise; assume the technical lead for SQL Server and online database projects; enhance or build the database designs. must have a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or other computer-related subjects. Mail resume to 8 Cold Spring Road, Syosset NY 11791 Attn: Deyu Liu. DELI COUNTER AND PREP PERSON Full Time And Part Time. Weekends A Must. Experienced. Long Beach. Call 516-431-5515

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The award-winning Herald Community Newspapers group, covering Nassau County's North and South Shores with hard-hitting news stories and gracefully written features, seeks a motivated, energetic and creative editor/reporter to join our dynamic (and awesome) team!

This education and general assignment reporting position offers a unique experience to learn from some of the best in the business. Historically, reporters who have launched their careers with us have gone on to The New York Times, Newsweek, Newsday, the New York Daily News, New York Post, CNN, BBC, NBC News and The Daily Mail, among many others. We look for excellent writers who are eager to learn, enhance their skills, and become well-established and respected journalists in our industry.

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PRESS-ROOM/WAREHOUSE HELP Long Island Herald has IMMEDIATE openings for a FULL-TIME Pressroom/warehouse helper in Garden City. We are a busy print shop looking for a motivated and reliable individuals to assist in various duties in the shop. Forklift experience is a plus and heavy lifting is required. Hours vary, so flexibility is key.

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RECEPTIONIST - FULL TIME

Receptionist (full-time) needed for Publisher and Self-Storage Facility located in Garden City. The ideal candidate should have excellent communications and customer service skills, be professional, dependable and have reliable transportation. Candidate should have computer knowledge and working knowledge of MS Office. Candidate MUST be reliable, punctual and be able to work a CONSISTENT schedule: Monday and Wednesday 8am to 4pm Tuesday and Thursday 8am to 6pm Friday 8am to 5pm Job Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Answering phones and greeting customers, assisting new customers by showing storage facility options and pricing, collecting payments from customers, contacting customers for late payments, applying payments and updating the customer files /data base and other general administrative responsibilities on an as needed basis. Hourly pay, plus eligible for Holiday Pay, PTO, Medical, Dental, 401k with company matching, plus other benefits. Qualified candidates should email their resume, cover letter and salary requirements. No phone calls please. Job Type: Full-time.

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A. Somebody named Murphy once said, “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.” Someone named Stein responded to that by saying, “Murphy was an optimist!” You can now quote Leeper’s Law: The act of simplifying often leads to further complication. In the process of trying to make things easier, you may have unanticipated problems that can surprise you.

I started writing this column because I saw people making the biggest investment of their lives without truly understanding the process or what to expect. Documentation onte eeper and planning shouldn’t be taken for granted. Part of a licensed professional’s job is consumer protection, on top of combining artistic needs, structure, function and systems.

From your perspective, we need to only provide the planning for the affected areas. That seems simple enough. But then things get more complicated, because our plans are reviewed by so many others who all have their particular point of view.

Building officials see your home or business differently than you do. Years ago, when everything was done with paper and pencil, we submitted plans and they got reviewed at face value, such as only looking at the room you want to add. Then computers compiled information that allowed officials to quickly locate the whole property history and possible illegal uses that were previously recorded. After a while, it became a regular assumption of government that people were all trying to get away with something most of the time, and the extra level of scrutiny led to officials asking for more and more information, mainly because some owners ruined trust for everybody.

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Your home may have had a violation that was never cleared from a suspicion of a former owner who rented the basement, or a long-term house guest who caused a neighbor to secretly report you, without any need for proof. It happens more often than you imagine, and then things get complicated just proving that there’s no illegal use, or you have to hire a professional to produce plans for more than you expected. You could start out simply, but be prepared for the rest. Good luck!

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n just under six weeks, New York state voters will get a chance to select the candidates for governor and State Assembly. With no disrespect to that branch of the Legislature, and having been an Assembly member myself, it is obviously the race for governor that is the most significant one from the standpoint of the millions of New Yorkers who will cast their ballots.

New York is a state that tilts heavily toward the Democratic Party, so the party’s primary contest on JERRY Tuesday, June 28, will more than KREMER likely choose the person who will run our state for the next four years. I’m not ignoring the fact that there’s a Republican challenger, U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, but with the highest vote concentration in the downstate region, a big Republican vote from upstate won’t be significant enough to drown out the heavy Democratic enrollment elsewhere.

Candidate Tom Suozzi, another member of Congress, has spent a substantial amount of money on television ads intro-

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ducing himself to the general public. He has a list of promises on taxes, crime and a variety of other issues. But considering the fact that he’s running against Gov. Kathy Hochul, who already has the job, Suozzi has yet to tell voters why they should choose him over Hochul, who would be the first woman elected governor in state history.

Suozzi is running as a right-of-center candidate in a state where most of the voters who show up for primary elections lean to the left. Whether the progressives will turn out for Hochul is still an open question.

The recently passed state budget was a big victory for Hochul. While some armchair critics have blamed the lateness of the spending plan on the governor, the delay was partially caused by her insistence that there be bail reform changes in the package. Because the new budget had so many of Hochul’s proposals, the Senate and Assembly leadership refused to attend the traditional news conference following its passage.

Having served as chairman of the Assembly Ways and Means Committee for 10 years, I can attest to the fact that the new spending plan spreads equal

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amounts of money throughout the state, as opposed to previous budgets, which were heavily weighted toward New York City and Long Island. The city got substantial amounts of money for health and day care workers and big dollars for mass transit. Long Island was a big winner, with record amounts of school aid, money for road improvements and for clean water projects.

Suozzi has been critical of the approval of public funds for a new stadium for the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. Historically, western New York, like most upstate areas, has been an orphan when it comes to state dollars. If there were a grant of state money for a football stadium on the West Side of Manhattan, you’d hear the same gripes from upstate voters. Previously, Gov. Andrew Cuomo awarded funds for numerous upstate programs, but many, like a Buffalo solar factory, produced no economic gain.

There is no doubt that crime will be a big issue for voters, but the responsibility for New York City’s current crime wave is an issue for Mayor Eric Adams, and can’t be shifted to the state. The controversial bail reform law that was signed by Cuomo has now been amended

e’s to the right of center, unlike most voters who show up for primaries.

with revisions aimed at giving judges more discretion over criminals with gun charges and others with histories of violent crime.

Thanks to recent revelations about an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision that may overturn Roe v. Wade, Hochul has set aside $35 million in funds for women in need of abortions where appropriate. There are no differences between the two Democrats on this issue, but the governor has the money, so she has the upper hand.

Suozzi has one self-made disaster to deal with when it comes to the LGBT community. His recent description of Florida’s controversial so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law as “reasonable” resulted in some serious pushback against him that will be hard to controvert. How bad a hit he will take is still up in the air. The electoral clock is ticking, and six weeks go by quickly. Suozzi is facing a big challenge to capture the attention of the voters, and at this point he has failed to get any big wins on the campaign trail, which leaves him where he started — on first base.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years.

He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.

A Memorial Day like no other in our lives

he things we carry to this Memorial Day, 2022, are freighted with more recent events than past battles. On the last Monday in May, we look back to honor our war dead; this year we also hold in our hearts love for the friends and family members who died this year and last in the pandemic.

We stagger under the weight of one million Americans dead of Covid-19. This has been a war, too.

This year, especially, it feels appropriate to broaden the meaning of Memorial RAnDi Day to honor the KREiss sacrifice of all those who have lived through the plague of our time, including the medical teams and the teachers and the workers who kept showing up and, especially, the parents who have fought a front-line battle every day since winter 2020. The efforts of scientists to develop vaccines with unprecedented speed have been astonishing and heroic.

My special heroes are our teenagers, who gave up nearly every single aspect of joy in their lives to stay healthy and

keep their parents and grandparents safe. Teens live for connection and freedom and breaking through boundaries and trying new things. During Covid, the constraints have been particularly onerous for them. In an ironic twist, just as the world was awakening to the dangers of screen time, so many millions of kids were pushed ever further into the digital world of texting and Zooming. As we all know, our teens are experiencing a secondary epidemic of depression and stress and mental health crises.

I want to honor their sacrifice. I say this out loud to my teenage grandkids, and I want them to know that we know how tough it has been.

The parents of young kids have been raising their children without the relief of school and play dates and family gatherings. Many struggled to keep the home front safe and productive. They were also trying to work, to pay the bills, to get meals on the table. I wish there were medals of honor for them, too.

Growing up, I watched Memorial Day parades along Broadway in Woodmere.

Later, my kids marched down the avenue with their school bands, tooting on their

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clarinets. In my mind’s eye I can see them looking so proud to be part of the parade, glancing sideways to catch my eye as they walked by. They stopped at the war memorial on the corner of Broadway and Conklin and, in a solemn ceremony, offered gratitude to those who died in our great wars.

I imagine that as children march in this year’s Memorial Day parades and parents gather on the sidewalks, with or without masks, thoughts of other losses will bleed into the moment — as it should be when so many are scarred by painful memories of the past two years.

Many Americans visit cemeteries and place flags on the graves of soldiers who defended American democracy in conflicts going back to the Civil War. We have seen images of hundreds of thousands of flags on the Mall in the nation’s capital, each a reminder of someone who died too soon or too young during this raging pandemic. For me, it is all threaded together.

These past two years have been a battle, complicated by divisions and conflicts among our citizens. Add to this the suffering in Ukraine beaming into our

want to honor teens’ sacrifice, and I wish there were medals of honor for parents.

homes and onto our devices every single day in recent months. This aggression, an amalgam of old-fashioned warfare and new-age weapons, is displacing millions of people and killing children and civilians in staggering numbers. Doesn’t this war have an unofficial place in our Memorial Day as well?

It’s a big job being a thoughtful American citizen today. We want to keep up our traditions and we need to move along with life, somehow weaving our most recent pandemic losses into the fabric of our days.

According to NPR, Marked By Covid, a grass-roots group, is advocating for a National Day of Remembrance to honor those who died.

In the meantime, on this Memorial Day, I will think about all those brave kids who carried the American flag onto beaches in Normandy, and friends who died in Vietnam and those who were killed in Afghanistan and on so many other foreign fields far from home.

I will remember the more recent losses of friends who died of Covid, and I will also go to a barbecue and eat a hot dog and celebrate our lives, which are ever so precious. We just have to do it all.

This Memorial Day is like no other.

Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Pearl Young, 77.

And then there was Aaron Salter, a 55-year-old retired police officer. He spent his days after his time on the force greeting customers as they walked into the Tops supermarket in the Masten Park neighborhood of Buffalo. His job was security, and everyone knew him. And he knew everyone.

Well, not everybody, unfortunately. Not the monster who was tearing through the store’s parking lot on Saturday, using what police believe were illegally modified semiautomatic assault weapons, emblazoned with racist sentiments like, “Here’s your reparations.” While at first glance it seemed he was firing his weapon indiscriminately, authorities believe his targets were quite deliberate: anyone who was Black.

Salter had been trained to deal with this very scenario, an unfolding mass shooting.

He had never come face to face with it, but he knew what he had to do — protect the lives of everyone around him, even if that meant taking the life of the man who threatened all of them.

Salter pulled his handgun from its holster and took aim. Police said he fired a number of shots, and hit the perpetrator at least once. Except the bullets didn’t stop him. They didn’t even slow him down. The young man was reportedly wearing body

armor, protecting him from heroes like Salter.

The gunman reportedly turned his own gaze toward Salter — who did not have the benefit of protective armor — and pulled the trigger.

Another senseless mass shooting. No. 198, in fact, according to NPR and the Gun Violence Archive — in 2022. That’s right.

Last Saturday was the 134th day of the year, yet this country has already had 198 mass shootings. They claimed the lives of 210 people, and forever changed the lives of 836 more who survived.

On Jan. 1 alone — New Year’s Day — the nation was victim to seven mass shootings, including one in Philadelphia that claimed the life of one person, and injured four others.

What happened in Buffalo is believed to be racially motivated. And as evidence continues to accumulate about the shooter, it’s hard to believe otherwise. And while tackling racism is a different discussion that needs far more space than we have here, the fact is that this is a nation where there are too many guns are on the street, and more often than not, they are used to instantly destroy families, and communities.

The Philadelphia shooting wasn’t believed to be racially motivated. It was just a dispute, enhanced by alcohol, that turned deadly simply because a gun was available. It’s the kind of violence you almost never hear about anywhere else outside the U.S. But here it’s something we expect on any day that ends with a "Y." The alleged gunman in the Tops shooting is said to have illegally modified his

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letters Randi’s ‘raised voice for women’ To the Editor: Thanks to Randi Kreiss for having the courage and honesty to write about the threat to a woman’s right to control her body and her destiny (“Threat to choice has women on the march,” May 12-18). I am approaching 70. I have raised two successful and loving human beings who were wanted and treasured. I also had the ability to end two unwanted pregnancies early in my 20s, which allowed me to continue my life to the point where I was financially, emotionally and socially able to welcome and nourish the much-wanted children I did choose to bear. I have never regretted my decision to terminate those unintended pregnancies, and am extremely grateful that the choice was mine to make.

This is such a frightening time in our lives, as we watch such hard-fought gains be ripped away by religious and social hypocrites who appear to care far more about life before birth than the life of a child — and its parents — after it arrives.

primary weapon, a gun that’s perfectly legal in New York, holding no more than 10 rounds. But the modifications, illegal in New York, are legal in Pennsylvania, and this monster only needed to walk from his home in Binghamton across the state line to get what he needed. Legally.

Following the tragedy, many lawmakers took to social media and called up reporters to express their condolences and outrage. Gov. Kathy Hochul made the rounds on national television, preaching about the need for better gun control. But as quickly as those sentiments flare up, they just as quickly flame out. Over and over again, we get the same action aimed at ending this true pandemic: absolutely nothing.

That must end. The excuses must end.

The silly arguments that any regular person needs a weapon that can instantly kill or maim a large number of people must be put to rest. The time for talk is over. The time to act is now.

Aaron Salter should have never spent the final moments of his life face to face with a monster. He had a distinguished career with the Buffalo Police Department, regularly putting his life on the line.

Yet even a neighborhood supermarket proved to be more dangerous for him than some of the most violent hotspots in the world.

No more. Read their names again — Celestine Chaney. Roberta Drury. Andre Mackneil. Katherine Massey. Margus Morrison. Heyward Patterson. Aaron Salter.

Geraldine Talley. Ruth Whitfield. Pearl Young. And remember them the next time you think there’s something more important than ending this nation’s gun crisis once and for all.

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very weekday at 10:06 a.m., I walk into my high school engineering class and take a seat among my peers. I spend the period learning the same material as my classmates, completing the same assignments as them and receiving the same education. I wouldn’t think twice about attending if it weren’t for the fact that 15 pairs of eyes are on me the moment I walk into the room, for one reason and one reason only: I’m a girl in a classroom full of boys.

Amazingly, this one simple attriIlana bute of mine has power to GrEEnbErG the instantly draw so much attention.

For roughly 40 minutes, I am no longer a student who loves engineering. Rather, I’m a girl who loves engineering.

I’d like to imagine a perfect world, with equal participation of men and women in all professions. However, while there is more opportunity these days for both men

and women to break into rigidly defined, gender-specific jobs, an imbalance still holds in certain career paths, including science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. I’m a high school freshman who has always been passionate about STEM. Yet despite efforts by well-meaning stakeholders and educators to promote more enthusiasm among women in these subjects, I can’t help but feel that today’s inspiring message for girls in the field is too wrapped up in their gender.

Instead of pushing for girls to be treated like everyone else, there is an unhealthy obsession with making gender the centerpiece of today’s advocacy for girls in STEM. I often receive praise for being “confident enough” to pursue what has been labeled an unlikely passion for my gender.

I garner attention and adulation for defying gender barriers by deciding to enroll in STEM-based classes.

But I find this focus on my gender distracting from my work and frustrating, to

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find the focus on my gender distracting from my work and frustrating, to say the least.

lEttErs Randi, regardless of the pushback you may receive on this column — much of it from older men, I suspect! — please stay strong and remain a raised voice for women, their bodies and their choices. The specter of a Margaret Atwoodtype dystopia rising in our midst grows more real every day. Like you, I cannot believe that we are fighting for basic rights we believed we had secured decades ago. Those who opened the Pandora’s box of Trumpism and religionsaturated politics must not be allowed to damage this country more than they have already.

Fight the good fight for us, Randi!

MARISA HOHEB Merrick

A decision that was theirs to make To the Editor: I cannot agree with Randi more about what she wrote. Her decision to have an abortion was only for her and her husband to make. I am certain they did not make this decision lightly or quickly. Whatever their reasons, they did what they thought was the right decision at the time.

I have known women who have had the procedure, and whatever their reasons were, I supported them.

It is an extremely personal matter, and I applaud Randi for coming for-

say the least. I just want to escape the label of feminism attached to my interest in STEM, and simply be able to enter my engineering class without getting noticed, just like boys do.

Today’s educational programs, like Girls Who Code, while inspiring and well-intentioned, inadvertently call attention to the fact that STEM isn’t a “normal” activity for girls. By singling out girls in creating specialized female-oriented programs, educators seem to acknowledge that girls aren’t expected to be like their gender opposites in science. To me, it’s akin to creating a group called Teenagers Who Respect Their Parents or Kids Who Aren’t Always On Their Phones.

Granted, there is no mistaking that my interests in STEM as a girl are considered rare by today’s standards. Women account for roughly half of the population, but they comprise only 28 percent of workers in STEM fields, according to the American Association of University Women.

Perhaps that’s because math and science

continue to be promoted as “male-oriented” subjects.

I’ve seen this firsthand. In middle school, I was one of two girls in a class of 20 students in a computer animation program. On the website of a prestigious math summer program, girls were especially encouraged to apply, because most of its participants are male. Disturbingly, even my early-childhood day camp discouraged girls from choosing sciencerelated activities, and our choice of workshops didn’t include the boys’ activities of engineering and rocket science. Our choices included ceramics, dance and “beauty school.”

Yes, there is still a lack of equality in perception, but the way to fix this isn’t by forming a club exclusively for girls that puts the emphasis on “girls coding” instead of simply “coding.” Educators should create courses that include both boys and girls. While I’m grateful for the progress women have made in STEM, I look forward to the day when walking into my engineering class won’t be cause for surprise.

Ilana Greenberg is a freshman at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck.

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ward, and thank her for sharing her story.

LARRY EzRATTY North Bellmore

No, Kagan, Sotomayor should not retire To the Editor: Re Matthew Adarichev’s column, “Stephen Breyer retired. Why not Kagan and Sotomayor?” (May 12-18): Why not? Because this is a fantasy, flawed in detail and conception.

Details: The Supreme Court justices are not pawns to be manipulated. To expect a double-unanimous vote of 50 Democratic senators to confirm a pair of young replacements is a risky bet, the effort itself would demolish any remaining shred of court legitimacy, and nothing would be gained, because Sen. Mitch McConnell’s supermajority would remain.

Concept: The battle for the court is over. The present battle is for Congress, and it will be over by Christmas. Mr. Adarichev’s suggestion that Democrats adopt Republicans’ “Machiavellian” tricks to fight for power means they would abandon the laws, institutions, and aspirations of the American project.

To imitate the Gingrich-McConnellLimbaugh model is to become them.

America would be one more example of

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a society undone by Madison’s “factions,” the Florentines’ Whites and Blacks, Constantinople’s Blues and Greens, Russia’s Reds and Whites — the list is long.

This season’s issue is, shall America’s Democratic/Republican form of

government, in its 20th century conception, survive the first quarter of the 21st? More relevant than T.R. is Smokey Bear, who advises, “Only you can prevent ...”

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