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Civic leaders to appeal decision on Belmont state agencies violated the Urban Development Corporation Act, which, civic leaders argue, Elmont civic leaders plan to states that redevelopment should appeal a State Supreme Court occur only in areas where there justice’s decision to allow con- is “substantial and persistent struction of the $1.3 billion Bel- unemployment,” and went on to mont Park redevelopment proj- list a number of Elmont resiect to continue. dents’ concerns about the redeThey filed a docvelopment project — ument in the New including traf fic York State Supreme congestion on the Court system on Cross Island ParkJune 16, stating way, the plan’s water their intention to demands and a proappeal, 27 days posal to install two after Justice Roy 30,000-gallon proMahon dismissed auBreY PhilliPs pane tanks undertheir case. “We disground to heat the Vice president, ag reed with the new Islanders arena. judg e’s r uling,” Parkhurst Civic In his 13-page Aubrey Phillips, Association decision, however, vice president of Mahon ruled that the Parkhurst Civic Empire State DevelAssociation, explained. “We opment, the state agency tasked believe we have a very strong with promoting development in case.” New York state, had adequately The civic leaders originally addressed each of the group’s filed the lawsuit last Sept. 21, concerns. ESD, Mahon wrote, claiming that Belmont Park is took “into account the factors [it] public land and thus cannot be is accused of disregarding” sold to a private developer under when studying the project’s the state’s Public Trust Doctrine, effect on traffic, and was “only which states that “people’s trust required to thoroughly analyze may not be diminished or the identified relevant areas of infringed without specific autho- environmental concern.” rization by statute by the State “It was not required to conLegislature.” sider every conceivable enviThe suit also alleged that Continued on page 3

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Gotham avenue PrinciPal Marshall Zucker, right, received a proclamation in honor of his retirement from State Sen. Todd Kaminsky on June 16. They were with Parent Teacher Association President Natasha Appleby.

Elmont principals say goodbye Zucker, Buchanan, Kranidis are set to retire By melissa KoeniG mkoenig@liherald.com

In his 44 years in the Elmont School District, Marshall Zucker has worked with people who started their education careers in

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year. The Board of Education approved Zucker’s, Amy Buchanan’s and Hope Kranidis’s retirement requests in January. Zucker was honored with a drive-by parade Continued on page 17

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Elmont civic lEadErs are planning to appeal a justice’s decision to allow construction of the Belmont Park project, seen here, to continue.

Civic leaders intend to appeal Belmont decision continuEd from front ronmental impact, mitigating measure or alternative.” Mahon wrote, “and it was not required to reach any particular result.” He also explained that ESD held a number of community meetings on the project and could thus “rationally deter mine that local concer ns were heard, addressed and acted upon where feasible,” and did not violate the UDC Act because the state agency has “broad authority . . . to override local zoning ordinances and regulations.” Finally, Mahon noted that residents’ concerns about the proposal to install propane tanks were nullified when National Grid officials ended their moratorium on processing new applications for natural-gas hookups, and ruled that the state did not violate the Public Trust Doctrine because Belmont Park had been privately owned and operated since 1905. It had only recently become state-owned, he explained, with private development explicitly authorized by the State Legislature. But Phillips disagreed with that principle, pointing to an 1892 U.S. Supreme Court decision that each state has a permanent title to all lands within its borders and holds these lands in a public trust. In the decision — which was made in response to Illinois officials granting the Illinois Railroad Company 3 million acres of shoreline

along Lake Michigan for the construction of a north-south railroad, and allowing the company to “enter upon and take possession of, and use … any lands, streams and materials of every kind — Justice Stephen Field ruled that “the state can no more abdicate its trust over property in which the whole people are interested . . . so as to leave them entirely under the use and control of private parties.” Phillips also previously claimed that much of the state’s evidence contained “lies.” ESD officials, he said, wrote in court documents that they met with an Elmont community group that no longer exists. Additionally, Phillips noted that Elmont residents are already feeling the effects of the construction. He said water pressure has dropped considerably, despite recent upgrades to the water-pumping station on Elmont Road, and there is iron in the water. The proposal to install propane tanks, meanwhile, has reduced home values, he said, and could place lives at risk. The payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement that the developers received for the project last year, he added, may be affected by decreased attendance if the coronavirus pandemic were to continue. Under the agreement, New York Arena Partners — a consortium comprising the Islanders hockey franchise, the Oak Group and the Wilpon family —

timeline of the lawsuits Sept. 9, 2019: Village of Floral Park officials file lawsuit to overturn all approvals on the Belmont Park project. Sept. 21: Elmont civic leaders file lawsuit challenging the legality of the project. Sept. 23: State breaks ground on the project. Oct. 25: New York Arena Partners asks state justice to dismiss Floral Park’s lawsuit, or combine the two lawsuits. Nov. 1: Floral Park officials file a request for a temporary restraining order on construction. Nov. 7: Justice denies request for a temporary restraining order. May 11, 2020: Justice dismisses the lawsuits. is to pay $40 million to various municipalities. An estimated $154 million is to go to the Elmont and Sewanhaka school districts over nearly 50 years, and the state is to earn at least $1 million per year from rent based on attendance. If Arena Partners is unable to make the payments because of the pandemic, however, Phillips said it would take years for the districts to recoup the money. He said he and other civic leaders filed the statement to appeal “to ensure that we keep the pressure on [the state] to do the right thing by the community” and “mitigate all the critical elements that were brought to their attention.” The Belmont Park project includes the construction of an 18,000-seat arena

for the Islanders, a 250-room hotel, a community center, commercial office space and 350,000 square feet of retail space. “We are very optimistic,” Phillips said of the application, and “we’ll keep pushing for a resolution that makes sense to the community.” ESD officials could not be reached for comment as of press time, but previously told the Herald, “This project has gone through a transparent, public process over multiple years, and has adhered to all requirements under state law.” Elmont civic leaders, meanwhile, were scheduled to discuss their appeal further on June 23, after the Herald went to press.

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Thefts ■ A victim reports that on June 7 at 9 a.m., an unknown suspect stole both license plates from his vehicle at the Smoke Stax in Franklin Square. ■ A victim reports that on June 11 between 12:01 a.m. and 12:01 p.m., an unknown suspect stole assorted property from his unlocked vehicle on Fox Street in Elmont. ■ A victim reports that between June 13 at 11 p.m. and June 16 at 8 a.m., an unknown suspect stole a propane grill from her backyard on Louis Avenue in Elmont.

F.S. woman arrested for running over ex-boyfriend A Franklin Square woman was arrested on June 17 for striking her ex-boyfriend and leaving the scene of the accident on June 14. According to Nassau County police, Kristen Gerakaris, 33, of Franklin Square, was driving westbound on Jericho Turnpike in Floral Park at around 12:15 a.m., when she struck her ex-boyfriend, a 38-year-old pedestrian with whom she had a dispute, and left the scene without stopping. The victim suffered from a head injury and was transported to a local hospital for treatment, where he was listed in serious condition. As a result of a subsequent investigation, police identified the vehicle and driver, and Gerakaris was located and placed under arrest. She is charged with first-degree assault and leaving the scene of a serious physical injury accident. She was scheduled to be arraigned on June 18.

People named in Crime Watch items as having been arrested and charged with violations or crimes are only suspected of committing those acts of which they are accused. They are all presumed to be innocent of those charges until and unless found guilty in a court of law.

Community leaders: Support black-owned businesses By VisVajit sriramrajan Black community leaders and business owners in the Elmont area are stressing the importance of uplifting Black small businesses, as protests against institutionalized racism and police brutality continue on Long Island and across the country for the fifth consecutive week. These leaders explained that whiteowned businesses often hold a monopoly on commerce in the United States, particularly in areas like Long Island, which is one of the most racially segregated areas in the country. “The Black Lives Matter movement has renewed interest to support Blackowned businesses especially across Long Island,” said Alicia Ray, the founder of Black-Owned Long Island, a collaborative working to support and boost Black entrepreneurs and influencers on Long Island. The organization offers free advertising for Black-owned businesses. “It is important that we work together to dismantle the economic barriers Black business owners have faced for far too long,” she said. Black residents constituted over 45 percent of Elmont’s population as of the latest U.S. census data, while less than 14 percent self-identified as white. Despite this fact, Elmont’s small businesses are overwhelmingly owned and operated by white employers. Data released in 2017 by the United States Federal Reserve shows that Black owners are twice as likely to be turned down for bank loans despite applying for them at greater rates than their white counterparts, and that less than 47 percent of loan applications from Black business owners were fully financed. “Black community leaders at this time must lift their voices and speak out,” said Jon Johnson Sr., president of the Elmont Cardinals Sports Club. “Black lives matter. They have always mattered, but today, for the first time in my history, I feel white people and others hear my voice.” He also noted that it is important to eradicate systemic racism for future generations.

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Community leaders enCourage residents to shop at black-owned businesses. Other community leaders have also said that the United States has the potential to improve and uplift voices that have historically been marginalized. “Black business representation is vital to America’s great vision of all Americans to enjoy the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness in all areas of American life,” said Phil Andrews, president of the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, the largest of any such business collective in New York State.

He added that Long Island has a history of segregation. According to the Federal Reserve report, Black people on the Island have had decreased opportunities (in part due to redlining — the practice of denying services to people in a specific area), which has had a negative effect on Black people’s economic opportunity. “Whenever our interests are at stake,” Andrews said, “we must be the voice for the voiceless, and uplift our community to help manifest its hopes and dreams.”

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Elmont business owners prepare for Phase Three Danielle Vetter is expecting Queens residents to flood the Solid Gold Tattoo Shop in Elmont when it reopens on June 24. People have been calling the tattoo parlor for appointments since Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered all “non-essential” businesses closed in mid-March, Vetter explained, and because New York City is one phase behind Long Island in its reopening process, Queens residents may cross the border to get a new tattoo or piercing. “We have a very solid clientele,” Vetter, co-owner of the shop, said, noting that the parlor has survived for 10 years, and the tattoo artists have never had three months off from work before. To keep themselves busy during the pandemic, she said, the artists have been selling their own paintings, and the staff has repainted and renovated the store for its grand opening on Wednesday. Under Cuomo’s guidance, personal services — including spas and tattoo parlors — will be allowed to reopen at 50 percent capacity on June 24, when Long Island reaches the third phase of the state’s reopening process, but waiting rooms must remain closed. Additionally, Vetter said, the Solid Gold Tattoo Shop has “very strict cleanliness and cross contamination” policies to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, and the stations are “pretty much already six-feet away from each other.” She has also set up hand sanitizing stations in the store, and said staff members will be taking clients’ temperatures when they walk in. Inkings and piercings will be done by appointment only, although clients could also call the store to see when an artist would be available for a walk-in appointment. “We are ready to get back to work,” Vetter said. “We’re pretty hyped on everything.” But not everyone feels that way. The owners of Love Nails in Elmont are afraid to reopen because “they don’t know what’s going to happen with the coronavirus,” their daughter, Monica Chung, said. As a precaution, the salon has installed glass barriers between the chairs, and nail artists are required to wear face shields, masks and gloves. Phase Three also allows for restaurants to offer indoor, in-person dining, provided employees and patrons wear masks, and maintain social distancing guidelines. Only 10 people would be allowed at a table, according to the governor’s New York Forward website, and they must maintain 50 percent capacity. But even with these regulations in place, Elmont Chamber of Commerce President Paul Sapienza said, restaurant owners will benefit. They were allowed to offer outdoor dining under Phase Two, he explained, but could only offer the service in sunny weather. And now that they can offer indoor dining, Franklin Square Chamber President Lisa DelliPizzi noted, the restaurants

could once again host meetings and parties. “They just have to comply with the rules,” she said, adding that she is happy that the small businesses that are reopening do not have to compete with large retailers and malls yet. Cuomo also said at his daily briefing on June 18 that he was in a “happy-golucky mood” because New York had tested 68,000 people overnight and found an average infection rate of 0.9 percent — the lowest it has been since the coronavirus pandemic began in mid-March. New York City’s infection rate was 1 percent, while Long Island’s was 0.7 per-

cent. By contrast, the infection rate had previously reached 20 percent in New York City and 16 percent on Long Island. “New York went from being one of the worst states in the country to one of the best” for coronavirus cases, Sapienza said, attributing the improvements to the precautions the state government took. Florida, however, saw an additional 3,822 cases on June 19, and Arizona saw an additional 3,246, according to the Centers for Disease Control. But, Sapienza said, “If we can’t be responsible, there’s no way our economy can come back.”

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Rallying for September schools reopening By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com

Chants of “Classrooms not class Zooms” and “Classrooms are essential” could be heard through the crowd of roughly 50 parents and teachers from across Long Island who gathered on Franklin Avenue in Mineola to express their desire that schools reopen for in-person instruction in September. The “Rally To Reopen Schools in September” took place on June 20 in front of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative building. The event was organized by East Setauket residents Maria Sanders, Amalia Makroglou and Aristea Lucas. The three organizers are mothers of children in school, and Lucas works as an English as a second language teacher in the Sachem Central School District. Sanders noted that they chose Mineola as the rally location because it served as a “middle ground” location for attendees. “Back in April, Cuomo said that the schools would be closed for two weeks to help our medical infrastructure and flatten the curve,” Sanders said. “Now we’re in June, and we’re still questioning September. [Gov. Andrew] Cuomo needs to act and tell us that schools need to open in September.” Cuomo first closed all schools in the state on March 16 for two weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic. The governor continued to extend the closing, until on May 1 he announced that all schools would stay closed for the rest of the school year. The state has yet to release reopening guidelines. Oceanside residents Steven and Randi Weinberg attended the rally with their two children, Noah and Stella. Randi noted how Noah, who is entering second grade in the Oceanside School District, has not enjoyed the distance-learning experience. “He didn’t enjoy looking at the screen to learn and then having to turn to me for guidance,” she said. “I’m not a teacher;

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RAlly oRgAnIzERs, FRoM left, Amalia Makroglou, teacher Aristea Lucas and Maria Sanders spoke to the crowd about why it is important to reopen schools in September.

I’m trained to do something else. There’s also that boundary between being a mom and being a teacher that has been hard for me to follow.” Teachers in attendance included Carolyn Schwartz, a Rockville Centre resident who teaches English in the Baldwin School District. Schwartz said she believes a social divide will occur if distance learning continues. “You are creating the largest divide on the planet if this keeps going on,” Schwartz said of distance learning. “For me as a middle class mother, I can get my child a tutor. Others may not be able to do that, depending on their financial circumstances, and that may cause their children to fall behind in school due to that.” The dissatisfaction with distance learning extends to college for East Meadow resident Marie Lombardi noted her 20-year-old son decided to continue college outside the state because of the uncertainty whether school will reopen here in September. “My son just finished at Nassau Community and was set to attend Hofstra,” Lombardi said. “He decided to enroll at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut instead due to the u n k n ow n f u t u r e f o r schools in New York.” Sanders added that the importance of school is beyond education. “I recognize that some school districts have better distance learning than others, but school is much more than learning ABC’s and one, two, threes,” she said. “It’s social learning, emotional learning and THE RAlly To Reopen Schools in September was held building relationships. We outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative can’t teach them all of Building Mineola on June 20 to urge the state to reopen this in the comfort of our kitchens.” schools in September.

THE WEInBERg FAMIly, from left, Stella, Randi, Noah and Steven of Oceanside, said they hope schools reopen in September. THE EducAToRs In attendance included Long Beach speech therapist Tammy Neumann of Oceanside, left, and Baldwin English Language Arts teacher Carolyn Schwartz, from Rockville Centre, right.

Food donation pickup service expands to F.S. mkoenig@liherald.com

As a social work graduate intern at the Baldwin Public Library, Molly Miskiewicz noticed that many residents were struggling to get food during the coronavirus pandemic, and decided to help. She posted on social media in midMarch that she could come to people’s homes to pick up any food they would like to donate to local food pantries. The residents would not have to leave their homes, she explained, and she would wear protective personal gear to get the donations from people’s front yards. Within a week, Miskiewicz’s inbox was flooded with messages from Baldwinites offering to donate, and she has since made “more trips to the Bethany House and St. Christopher’s than I could count,” she said. “They want to help the community,” Miskiewicz explained, “but they are afraid to leave the house.” Additionally, she collected thousands of dollars for the food banks in just a few weeks. “It’s truly incredible to see the community come together like this,” Miskiewicz said. “The best of humanity is truly shining during this dark time.” Now, Miskiewicz would like to expand her efforts to her own community of West Hempstead and its surrounding neighborhoods. She is planning to work with three

Molly Miskiewicz has been picking up food donations from people’s houses since March. Now she is expanding that effort to Franklin Square and West Hempstead.

food pantries in Hempstead and the Mercy First pantry in West Hempstead, but before she reaches out to them, she said, she wants to make sure she gets enough support from Franklin Square, Garden City, West Hempstead and Hempstead residents. In a flyer she distributed to community members, she wrote that people in these neighborhoods are “considerably generous,” and noted that “times are difficult for everyone.” According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s statistics for 2018, more than 10 percent of households in New York are food insecure, and in Nassau County, the problem is more pronounced, with the Long Island Health Collaborative, a consortium of the region’s hospitals and health networks, reporting that nearly 24 percent of adults — roughly 1 in 4 — faced food insecurity. The agency defines food insecurity for households as those that are “uncertain of having or unable to acquire enough food to meet the needs of all their members.” To help solve that problem, Miskiewicz is now collecting nonperishable goods — including cereal, pasta, canned goods, rice and nonperishable milk products — from the community. To schedule a pick up, please call or text Miskiewicz at (516) 672 8607 or email mollymiskiewicz@mail.adelphi.com. Volunteer opportunities are also available. Courtesy Molly Miskiewicz

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Herald sports Tiz the Law wins historic Belmont Stakes By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

With most of the sports world still idle in the midst of Covid-19, horse racing grabbed the spotlight last Saturday evening with the Belmont Stakes serving as the opening leg of the Triple Crown for the first time in history. And, for the first time since 1882, a New York-bred earned its way into the Belmont history books. In striking distance throughout the 1 1/8-miles, Tiz the Law cruised past pacesetter Tap It to Win down the stretch and was never threatened by closers Dr Post and Max Player on the way to a 3 ¾-lengths victory in the 152nd running of the Belmont Stakes. “I was pretty confident by the time we hit the seven-eighths pole,” said Tiz the Law’s jockey, Manny Franco, who secured his first career Triple Crown race win. “He was so kind and relaxed for me,” he added. “He was so comfortable and never got keen, so I think that was the key.” Franco, 25, the New York Racing Association’s leading rider the past two years, has piloted Tiz the Law to all four of his graded stakes victories, including three in a row. “It means a lot to me,” he said. “This is my home track. I’ve been riding here for about six years already. One leg of the Triple Crown is the dream of any jockey. I’m happy with the opportunity that I have right now.” Owned by Sackatoga Stable and trained by Barclay Tagg, Tiz the Law, bred in the Empire State by Twin Creeks Farm, returned $3.60 on a $2 win wager, increasing his career earnings to more than $1.5 million. The final time was 1:46.53. “It’s tremendous [to win the Belmont with a New York-bred],” said Jack Knowlton, operating manager of Sackatoag Stable. “We buy New York-breds; that’s our game, and we don’t spend a lot of money. We’ve been with Barclay Tagg for 25

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JOckEY MaNNY FraNcO earned his first career Triple Crown race victory.

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years, and I keep telling everybody, Barclay doesn’t get a lot of big horses, big opportunities, but when he does, he knows what to do.” Tagg, who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 2003 with Funny Cide, said his main concern leading up to the shortened Belmont was Tiz the Law’s 11-week layoff. But that proved a non-factor. “It looked to me like everything just went like clockwork,” he said. “That’s the way the horse likes to run and that’s the position the horse likes to be in. Manny knows the horse very well.” Held without spectators and owners, and with limited media permitted to attend, Tagg thought the quietude was “very nice” and said the absence of crowd noise helped keep Tiz the Law calm, and it showed. “About the five-eighths pole, my horse was so relaxed, so calm,” Franco explained. “From there, I knew I had so much horse to win the race. I didn’t want to move early. I knew I had the horse underneath. I was just waiting for the right time to move.” Dr Post, trained by three-time Belmont winner Todd Pletcher, finished a lengthand-a-half ahead of Max Player for runner-up status. Both horses were making just their fourth career starts. The $1 trifecta returned $99.50. Pneumatic, Tap It to

TraINEr BarcLaY Tagg has mapped out future plans for Tiz the Law, who upped his career earnings to more than $1.5 million and is 5-for-6 lifetime.

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Win, Sole Volante, Modernist, Farmington Road, Fore Left and Jungle Runner completed the order of finish. “He ran great,” Dr Post jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. said. “No excuse. He got beat by a good horse too. The winner is a nice horse, New York-bred and he ran great. My horse is improving. . . He just needs a little more time to figure things out.” Linda Rice, trainer of Max Player,

said, “He got shuffled back a little after the break and had a wide trip through the turn, but he was still running on at the end of it. He hasn’t run in five months so it was a pretty good effort.” Tagg said he will target the Aug. 8 Travers Stakes at Saratoga, followed by the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby and the Oct. 3 Preakness for Tiz the Law, who has five wins in six career starts.

Elmont fathers create volleyball club When driving home from a club volleyball game about two years ago, Ryen Campbell and Maya Martin started telling their parents how they felt excluded from the team. So, the girls and their fathers worked together to create a more diverse and welcoming volleyball club for Elmont and North Valley Stream high school students. The girls spoke to Principal Kevin Dougherty about using Elmont Memorial High School’s facilities for the club, and their fathers, Neil Martin and Terrance Campbell, helped set it up. Neil filed the permits to establish the club as a nonprofit, and Terrance worked to get the club recognized by USA Volleyball, the national governing body of volleyball in the United States. “I could see nothing but positives,” Terrance said of the idea to create a volleyball club, noting that there weren’t any other volleyball clubs in the area, and it provides children with an opportunity to “get out and have fun as a part of the community.” Their first year, they had 23 girls enroll in the club, enough for one team. They met at the high school weeknights from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., where they were coached by the two fathers — despite Neil not knowing much about the sport and Terrance being exhausted from

installing Verizon Wireless cables in New York City. “You could just see that he cares about the girls,” Ryen said, noting that her father doesn’t treat her differently from the other players on the team, and rewards them to trips to Dave & Busters. The club also offers a traveling team that teenagers have to try out for, and a developmental clinic for children and adults who want to learn about the sport. In the off-season, the club members also participate in camp outings and a beach volleyball club. “It’s an all-year round thing to get the kids involved,” Terrance said. “It’s more like a family environment.” This past year, word of the volleyball club spread, and they had enough people sign up to form five teams, including one boys’ team. “There is a lot of interest in the Valley Stream, Elmont area,” Neil said with Terrance noting that a lot of girls had talent, but did not have an outlet to play volleyball prior to the club’s formation. Maya also said “it was really cool to see that I had [my dad’s] support unconditionally,” and Ryen said, “It’s a great feeling to know that my parents are willing to start a nonprofit volleyball club for low-income residents.” For more information about the Long Island Knights nonprofit volleyball club, visit its website at www.liknightsvbc.org.

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State Sen. todd Kaminsky presented Elmont Memoral High School senior Robyn Chung with her New York State Senate Student Award.

KaminSKy Stopped by Vanessa Tortorella’s Franklin Square home to deliver her award.

Robyn Chung, a senior at Elmont Memorial High School, and Vanessa Tortorella, a senior at H. Frank Carey High School, were recently recognized for their high grades and leadership skills. Chung ranks 12th in her class, putting her in the top 5 percent of seniors. She has taken rigorous classes, and is a member of Leading Ladies, a female student empowerment club. She is interested in a career in real estate and business, and will be attending Cornell University in the fall. Tortorella, meanwhile, is captain of the basketball and lacrosse teams at H. Frank Carey, and ranks in the top 10 percent of her class. She is a coordinator for PALS, a program for students on the autism spectrum, and will be attending Syracuse University in the fall.

They were recognized as part of Sen. Todd Kaminsky’s “Student Star Awards.” Every year, he honors 28 graduating seniors for their exceptional work and leadership. But because he could not hold a ceremony to recognize these students this year, Kaminsky visited each recipient’s house and presented them with his New York State Senate Student Award. “I am thrilled to recognize these extraordinary students who have excelled academically and established themselves as leaders in their communities,” Kaminsky said. “The Student Stars Award winners represent the best and brightest that our schools have to offer, and serve as role models for their peers. I applaud their achievements and will be eagerly awaiting their future plans.”

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t Molloy, we know you are tired and worried. The coronavirus has taken a toll on everyone. Most of all, though, we know you are confused. When you chose your college, you had a mental picture of exactly what your next four years would look like. Now you might be debating your original decision or possibly wondering if you need to look at a college a little closer to home. At Molloy, we understand your frustration and we are here to help you. We want to help you reach your academic goals, on the timeline that you always expected, so that you can launch your career. Now, more than ever, students and their parents are looking for an academic environment that offers the best fit and best value for the student and their tuition dollars. Molloy was recently ranked the #18 “value added” college in the U.S. by The Wall Street Journal, arguably the nation’s premier financial publication. Molloy also was ranked the #10 best value among Catholic colleges nationwide by College Values Online.

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residence hall, the College’s third. Some of Molloy’s newer offerings include an economics major, as well as a degree completion program that will enable returning students to easily earn their undergraduate degree. We know you have questions, now more than ever. At Molloy, we will help you find the answers. Visit molloy.edu to learn more. Molloy congratulates the graduating class of 2020!

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IF WE GET THROUGH THIS PANDEMIC, economic crisis and social upheaval and still come out all right, it only proves that we have the will to resolve anything in our path. Even if growth slows to a halt and industry has nowhere to go, we must remember not to fixate on the “will” to progress, but experience life as it is realized. Zackary Hirashima, East Rockaway High School WITH SO MUCH OCCURRING across the globe and in America that is new, unprecedented and even chaotic, it is easy to forget the subtleties of our lives that make us truly happy and keep us motivated to chase our dreams. Try to take a moment each day to remember what makes us happy and to motivate yourself. As Winston Churchill said, “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

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MY MESSAGE TO THE CLASS OF 2020 is that I know that times are hard, but yet again we have risen to the occasion. I know that this class will be resilient and grow from what we are going through at such a pivotal point in our lives. I want the class of 2020 to know that I love them and I look forward to seeing how we take the world by storm. Gianna Wayar, East Rockaway High School I WANT MY PEERS to know that we are more than the experiences dictated by a virus and a shutdown. We know that we must answer when opportunity comes knocking because we do not know for how long it will linger. We can accomplish anything we set our minds to. I am extremely proud to be one of us, the class of 2020. Anna Rath, Lynbrook High School

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ur main focus during this pandemic is to make sure that everyone has enough to eat. We have had food at the Community Center that has been donated by Syd Mandelbaum and Rock and Wrap It Up!, along with many other organizations. Through Sasha Young and Gammy's Pantry, the center also currently serves as a Long Island Cares food donation site. We have been honored to partner with Long Island Cares to intensify each of our missions to reduce food insecurity, especially during this pandemic. Families can claim at least 20 pounds of food once a month at our food distribution sites We were also honored to receive a $30,000 grant from State Sen. Todd Kaminsky. The Five Towns Community Center is thankful to have the support of Senator Kaminsky as we have partner with local governments, our neighbors and other social service agencies to assist those in need, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. This grant will allow us to help people from a diverse spectrum dealing with food insecurity. The Community Center is over 100 years old, and people in the community have a great deal of reverence for the community center. I want the legacy of that to continue. I think we’ve all done a great job of doing that during this pandemic by providing services to those in need. I hope we continue to be of assistance to those in need.

ow that everything is virtual, things are tremendously busy. Now you have to call more to feel like you are serving people the best you can and things are a lot more involved. With the pandemic happening, I decided to start a new ministry on Saturday, April 11, from 10 to 2 p.m. For this food distribution center program, Valley Stream Presbyterian Church has partnered with Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages and Long Island Cares to provide groceries for people every Saturday. Each family is allowed to receive food once a month through the program, and every Saturday 200 families are provided with groceries. Serving others virtually and through the food distribution program is satisfying, but I miss in-person gatherings with my congregation. I hope that in the future I can resume in-person services while practicing social distancing. My congregation is suffering from a lack of hugging. We know things will never be the same because of the virus. We are thinking that if we open up again, there will most likely be no hugging, touching or communal singing, which are all things that could spread the virus more. There’s a lot that we will have to figure out.

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Editor’s note: Quotes attributed to Adam Selden are from an interview on June 8, 2020. Many businesses have been forced to scale back aggressively since March because of the global coronavirus pandemic. A few, however, have been forced to expand. For Adam Selden, 50, of Melville, a quick pivot in business direction during a crisis has created new possibilities for Albatross Manufacturing. The brand Albatross Manufacturing (albatrossmfg. com) falls under Selden’s company, Quality Specialty Projects, which he founded in 2008. His company has distributed any number of items, but now it is focused on facemasks, which are in high demand these days. “We had been doing some clothing and receiving government contracting, so we were working to supply products for those clients,” Selden said. “Our biggest was actually the Army.” Selden secured a contract with the U.S. Army to supply their weight room and gym equipment for military fitness centers. He also worked closely with the American Red Cross, as his company supplied tarp materials for the foundation. The Bayside, Queens native and University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus was candid in saying business started to drop off in mid-2019. “We had a really bad seven months from August 2019 to, really, March 2020,” Selden said. “There was no federal funding, really, and we were working on government contracts.” He went on to say that the onset of the coronavirus pandemic provided an opportunity to jump-start his business. “When this whole thing kind of got started, the Red Cross came to us and said we had to get started into looking into masks,” Selden said. He and his business partner, Matt Delaney, of Manhasset, listened to that advice. The pair scrambled to find manufac-

turers in China near the top of the year, but with the country facing serious pandemic restrictions, they were unable to secure a shipment immediately. Once the manufacturers were able to ship, though, Albatross received its first load, which it sent to the American Red Cross. “Once we were able to, we switched over our company to do masks,” Selden said. “After we sent our first order to the Red Cross, we started taking orders for locals on Long Island.” Selden, who had worked out of a Melville office with no warehouse to that point, then started shipping masks out of his home. After sending masks to roughly 8,000 homes, the Albatross founder knew he needed a new way to go about this. With the help of Delaney, and the hiring of a few part-time employees, Albatross soon shipped hundreds of thousands of masks to residents across Long Island, with more than 100,000 of those coming to Nassau County. Albatross even began donating masks to local fire departments and essential workers. “We would give the people at the gas stations masks; we donated hundreds of them,” Selden said. The company has since expanded. Selden said there are a few reasonable next steps, including distributing hand sanitizers, hand wipes and wall-mounted automatic thermometers to take the temperature of any person who walks past. The demand to expand in product and volume has forced Albatross to look toward securing a warehouse in Plainview. “If we get this, we are going to need inventory, and I plan on hiring a staff to do that,” Selden said. “We wouldn’t be able to do the business without it. Because the way we’ve been operating, in the office in Melville, it’s just me and Matt.” Selden said he would continue to build relationships with distributors to stimulate business growth and be able to reach more people. Selden finished with, “When we first started this, I didn’t think it would be end up being our business. We wanted to just give these out to the people. Then it turned into the business.”

AlBAtRoSS FounDER ADAm Selden, 50, of Melville, has grown his business during the coronavirus pandemic by supplying personal protective equipment.

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thiS yEAR’S RAlly also included a eulogy read for the families of six Long Island janitors who died from Covid-19.

Six local janitors remembered at rally By FRAnk SoultS Under a blazing summer solstice sun, dozens of cars carrying union members and allies drove in a caravan from Hempstead to the Nassau Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola on Saturday morning to mark Justice for Janitors Day. Union flags fluttered from car windows, horns blared, and union chants hung in the humid air, but in the day’s speeches and commemorations, the mood of the 90-minute event shifted between joyful celebration and somber reflection. Every year for the past 30 years, workers in cities across the nation have chosen a mid-June day for Justice for Janitors, which commemorates the events of June 15, 1990, when Los Angeles janitors were beaten by police as they peacefully protested for better pay, benefits and working conditions. The assault marked a turning point in the janitors’ organizing efforts. Since then, more than 135,000 janitors, 71,000 security officers and 32,000 airport workers— predominantly Black and brown workers— have won unions across the country. That includes the members of the union that organized the Long Island caravan, 32BJ SEIU, a union with 800 members working on Long Island and 175,000 across the East Coast. As speakers emphasized, this year’s Long Island commemoration fell one day after Juneteenth, which has taken on profound resonance with the global protests demanding an end to police brutality and a recognition that Black Lives Matter. It also comes during a pivotal moment in the deadly pandemic that has killed a high percentage of black, Latinx, immigrant and low-income workers, in part because of racial inequalities in the nation’s workforce. “With great deliberation, Juneteenth celebrates the day that the last remaining slaves in this country learned that they were free, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation legally gave them that freedom,” said Lenore Friedlaender, assis-

tant to the President of 32BJ SEIU and head of the union in Long Island. “Juneteenth recognizes that freedom is not just a law, passed from on high. It has to be felt and lived in communities everywhere, and its fullness is not realized until it is a freedom lifted by justice. That means, as Dr. King emphasized in the last years of his life, racial justice cannot be won without economic justice, nor economic justice without racial justice.” Nassau Coliseum cleaner and 32BJ member Elizabeth Florentino amplified that message in her story of losing her job early in the pandemic, and of the permanent losses now facing some 80 coliseum cleaners and over 100 security officers when the venue officially closes. “It’s a difficult time for people like me,” she noted. “Among black workers, the unemployment rate is almost 50 percent higher than it is among white workers.” For those who remain working, the risk of catching the coronavirus is also higher among black, Latinx and immigrant workers than among white workers. The day’s events concluded with a eulogy read for the families of six Long Island janitors who died from Covid-19, one of the highest per capita death rates among 32BJ’s ten districts. In total, the union has lost 130 members from Boston to Miami. On Long Island, all of those who died were either immigrants or people of color. “Their humble origins did not stop them from forging a future in a new country, raising and supporting families, and being part of the workers’ struggle on Long Island,” said Jose Portillo, a 32BJ shop steward who cleans at the Samanea Mall in Westbury, as families of the fallen listened. “Today their lives are a reflection of what it means to be an essential worker -- to be on the front lines of battle for the safety and welfare of others, despite the risks to their own lives.” Frank Soults is the senior communications associate for 32BJ SEIU.

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Frank Carey HigH School’s Class of 2020 held a surprise parade for Principal Christopher Fiore on June 18.

H. Frank Carey seniors thank principal The students decorated their cars in orange and black, and held signs of appreciation for Fiore as they drove past the school that afternoon. Some even dropped off cards and gifts for him as they past him. The parade ended with mothers Gabi Stolz and Jill Romano walking past the school holding a banner showing the senior class’ appreciation of Fiore, and giving him a hug. — Melissa Koenig

MotHers gabi stolz and Jill Romano, above, held a banner thanking Fiore for his work at the school. seniors drove past the school holding posters for Fiore, right tHe students also decorated their cars, far right.

Elmont principals reflect on their careers

remember just about everything that’s gone on here.

Amy Buchanan

When Amy Buchanan first came to the Dutch Broadway School from a public school in Queens, she said, “I almost felt like I had opened the door on Oz, it was so different from where I’d been.” Then-Principal Walter Oksinof f walked her through every classroom in the building and introduced her to every staff member, making her feel more welcome. Now Buchanan, 62, is ending her career at the school. “I’m back home where I started,” she said. Buchanan taught kindergarten at the school in 1993, then became a sixthgrade teacher. Her colleagues later encouraged her to take on the role of assistant to the principal of the Dutch Broadway School, and in 2001 she was tapped to become principal of the

dent,” she said. “You kind of grow with the students and families.” Kranidis, 60, began her career in the district as a teaching assistant with students struggling with reading and math. Then she took a position as a fifth-grade teacher at Alden Terrace, and became its core skills coordinator, working with small groups of students who were struggling with literacy and coordinating instruction with their teachers. She eventually became the assistant to the principal at the Stewart Manor School and assistant principal at Dutch Broadway, and has been the principal at Stewart Manor for 21 years. There she has continued the school’s tradition of putting on a holiday play every year, and has helped the parents of incoming kindergartners adjust to the

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school environment. In 2006, the U.S. Department of Education designated Stewart Manor a Blue Ribbon School, based on student test scores and academic achievement. It was one of only about 250 schools to be named to the program that year, and Kranidis was invited to attend a ceremony in Washington, D.C., where she received a plaque and a Blue Ribbon flag. “It was very exciting,” she said. “It’s quite an honor to be a Blue Ribbon School.” Newsday named Stewart Manor the most diverse school on Long Island last year. In 2018-19, the student body was 26

percent Latino, 24 percent white, 23 percent black, 22 percent Asian or native Pacific islander, 4 percent multiracial and 1 percent Native American. Kranidis called the school a “unique place for students,” and told a Newsday reporter that she was proud of her school and its racial diversity. In retirement, she said, she would like to travel once it’s again safe, and teach students about gardening. Of her time in Elmont, she said, “I really couldn’t think of a more rewarding career.” Kranidis will be replaced by Clara H. Carlson Assistant Principal Amanda Sagnelli next year.

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Alden Terrace School. During her time there, she helped on June 16, and Buchanan was previ- train new teachers, and received the Dr. ously awarded the Dr. Carter G. Wood- Carter G. Woodson Award for her dedison Award by Elmont Online and High- cation to Elmont at the 10th annual lighting Success Inc. Black History Month Celebration in Zucker started out as a student 2013. teacher in the district, then substituted “She guides with her heart,” Superat three of its six schools, an experi- intendent Al Harper said of Buchanan ence that he said was “invaluable to at the awards ceremony. “She’s always me.” Over the years, he climbed the there.” ranks of the administration, from Also in 2013, State Education Comteacher to assistant principal and missioner Dr. John B. King Jr. visited Gotham Avenue School principal in Alden Terrace to observe students and 1997. faculty during a typical day of teaching “I remember just about everything and learning. King called Buchanan that’s gone on here,” said Zucker, who “an energetic principal who is focused declined to give his a g e, instead on instruction for the students,” and describing himself as “ageless.” added of the school, “It’s an impresHe has amassed “years and years” sively diverse student body where of files during his time in Elmont, teachers are focused on making sure including old newspaper every student is prepared articles about the origins for colle ge and career of the school district, class success.” rosters, old newsletters, Four years ago photos from various B u ch a n a n w a s t r a n s Gotham Avenue events fer red back to Dutch and student work. They Broadway to be its prinare now all included in the cipal. One thing that Gotham Avenue archives. hasn’t changed, she said, “I have a natural inter“is the people.” est in history,” Zucker told “The constants are so the Herald in March, “and mArsHAll zuCKer important here — the I’m willing to share that Principal, parents’ love for their interest with anyone.” Gotham Avenue School kids, the professionals’ He also enjoys schedullove for their work,” she ing programs and classes, noted, adding that she he said, and would even has had students whose volunteer to help other principals with parents were in her classes more than their class schedules. “I like details,” 20 years ago. he explained. “To me, they affect everyNow, however, she said it’s time to one’s lives.” leave. “I want to go out on a high note,” But now, he said, he would like to she said. spend his time teaching religious Assistant Principal Cynthia Qasim school and learning how to play more will take over as principal in the fall. musical instruments. “I’ve been an amateur musician since 1963,” said Hope Kranidis Zucker, who plays the xylophone and Over the 39 years that Kranidis has vibraphone. been in the district, she has seen educaHe said he would miss his time at tion change. Teachers no longer just Gotham Avenue, but noted that “good make children memorize facts, she leadership will make it a continued said, and are instead posing questions success.” to students so they can apply what they William Mingo, who is now the have learned in class. school’s assistant principal, will take “It’s just very rewarding to watch over in the fall. the children grow and become indepen-

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hen it comes to race relations, there is no doubt that we are at a crossroad. Events dictate what our conduct must be going forward, and there is no doubt that the recent killings of unarmed black men have forced America to come to grips with the fact that many of our fellow citizens suffer because of ingrained racism. President Trump has admitted that there is some systemic racism, but he doesn’t have the mind or heart to acknowledge that it is rampant in this country, and little has been done to bring it to a halt. JeRRY In my years in kReMeR the Assembly, I learned a lot about racism from my colleagues, who told chilling stories about their sons or daughters being singled out for arrest just because the color of their skin invited different treatment. They spoke about failed health care systems that contributed to a higher mortality rate among black children. They spoke of overcrowded school classes with inferior teaching and a lack of basic supplies. While these stories were chilling, nothing they said prompted any dramatic action by the state.

A lot of us in office tried to find ways to help children of all kinds with pre-kindergarten programs, funding to reduce child mortality and extra state aid for school districts in heavily minority communities. But looking back over the years, these actions were a drop in the bucket, and didn’t really make a dent in the system that shortchanges millions of people. If anything has forced us to confront the issue of race, it’s been the invention of the cellphone. It is showing us how minorities are abused on a daily basis in many different ways, including police officers shooting unarmed black men in the back. That’s recorded testimony to systemic abuse. The demonstrations in the streets of this country and around the world bring out millions of young people of all races who are willing to speak out about conditions their elders have ignored. Police shootings that once were an occasional story that faded with time now go viral within minutes. The assault on a crowd outside the White House so the president could have a photo op showed how tone-deaf the leaders of this country are on issues of equality. The questions we now face is, what do we do to uproot this ugly system? I understand the opposition to statues that glorify public officials who were slave-

holders or generals from the South who fought for slavery. Most are symbols that no longer belong in the public space. Doing away with the Aunt Jemima syrup brand or Uncle Ben’s Rice is pure tokenism, and doesn’t help a minority student get a job or stop a racial profiling incident. Congress and local governments around the U.S. have to come up with programs that defuse the tensions racism causes. If you listen to the debate going on about banning chokeholds and a national system of reporting police conduct, you can see that there is still deep-rooted racism that dates back to the Civil War. There are probably some senators whose forebears were slaveholders, and growing up in a racist system has poisoned their hearts. Take a trip down to Richmond, Va., and you’ll see statue after statue glorifying generals who fought for the South. Elsewhere, some of our military bases do the same. The two houses of Congress have to come together to pass laws that attack the problems that the policing of minorities creates. The suggestion that police departments be “defunded” is an overreaction by a relatively small number of people who don’t understand the challenges that law enforcement faces every day, but those departments have to be reorganized to deal

ongress must attack the problems that the policing of minorities creates.

more effectively with spousal abuse and rape allegations. Policing in America hasn’t changed enough in the past 50 years. A commission appointed by President Barack Obama produced a road map for fairer policing, but federal law enforcement ignored its recommendations. Now, in a very short period of time, local governments have sprung into action, passing laws banning chokeholds and acting against policemen who have serious disciplinary problems. Incidents captured on smartphones showing the use of unnecessary force have resulted in firings and suspensions. The New York State Legislature has passed a series of bills to address faults in the policing systems. Only time will tell whether they are all appropriate. There is no doubt that passing new laws, firing rogue cops and funding important programs to stop racism are all important steps forward. Unfortunately, you can’t legislate what’s in people’s hearts. We can only hope that more open eyes will change enough people’s thinking to make a difference in the years ahead. 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.

Let’s end classroom education as we know it, they said

ou probably haven’t read “Teaching as a Subversive Activity” by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner. “What is it that students do in the classroom?” the authors ask. “Well, mostly they sit and listen to the teacher. Mostly they are required to believe authorities or at least pretend to such belief. It is practically unheard of for students to play any role in determining what problems are worth studying . . .” “Teaching as a Subversive Activity” was published in 1969. The war in Vietnam was Randi ablaze. The antikReiss war movement in the United States was galvanized, and militants were taking over university offices, bombing draft offices and picketing ROTC buildings. In the midst of this civic unrest, when it seemed as if the country was so divided it might never come together again, Professors Postman and Weingartner wrote their book, which was called a “no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods.” They were two obscure and uncelebrat-

ed professors who taught at Queens College during the Vietnam War years. As it happens, I was a student in Weingartner’s class in secondary school education in 1968. I studied with him that year, and then took another class with him while working on my master’s degree in education, all at Queens College. The background noise was Vietnam 24/7. In fact, during the worst of the protests, students commandeered our dean’s office and threw his furniture out the window onto the quad. I was a bystander to the drama, just trying to get my degree and get on with my life as a newly married woman and a newly hired English teacher. I never forgot Weingartner’s class and his “subversive” approach to education. He and Postman were captivating and provocative, and although many of their suggestions proved to be impractical, we knew inside that they were right. They were right to say that schools needed to stop the rote teaching and testing. Their emphasis on critical thinking and process was spot on. They said schools needed to do away with grades, tests, textbooks, courses and full-time administrators. They said teachers should be more like life coaches

(although the term didn’t exist at the time) and not authority figures. I thought about Weingartner’s theories all the time I taught English. I was a good teacher, but we were constrained by a stagnant system in which students passively listened to teachers present “course content.” Now, in the midst of a global pandemic, we accomplished the unthinkable: We shut down the nation’s schools and changed how kids learn. Postman and Weingartner taught before the internet and devices and virtual teaching. It’s hard to know what they would make of this. They might be glad kids were liberated from the classroom, but their vision of educating children was more dynamic than sitting down with screens. I remember Weingartner telling us future teachers to get our kids out of the classroom and into the world, where they could experience art and music and literature firsthand, with us along as guides. Our school shutdown is a unique opportunity. If we can do that — and we did — why can’t we task our best and brightest with making learning a process and not a product, as David Hill proposed in an arti-

t took a pandemic to shut down the nation’s schools and change how kids learn.

cle in Teacher magazine in 2000? Teachers, Weingartner said, should ask provocative questions. “What bothers you most about adults?” “How would you distinguish good from evil?” “What are the most dangerous ideas floating through our lives today?” “Why do you think so?” The professors encouraged students to be creative and tolerant, and to learn to deal with ambiguity and failure. They encouraged teachers not to be in the business of giving answers, but to let students think through problems on their own or in peer groups. This problem-solving approach to teaching has found traction in recent years. But too much dead wood anchors our education system. Too many classroom experiences are based on lesson plans and note-taking and tests. “Don’t plan a lesson,” the professors wrote in their book. “Confront your students with some sort of problem that might interest them. Then allow them to work the problem through without your advice or counsel.” We are at a tipping point in education because of the pandemic, and we have an extraordinary opportunity to improve the public-school experience for our students and teachers. We could make some lemonade from this lemon. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Why we must commemorate Juneteenth

n April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia, ending the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history, in which an estimated 498,000 soldiers died in battle. With the surrender of the South, slavery ended with the stroke of a pen. But not quite. News of the emancipation of slaves did not reach Texas, a slaveholding state, until June 19, 1865. On that day, Union forces arrived on Galveston Island to free Texas’s slaves, who rejoiced in the streets. Since then, Juneteenth — a blend of June and 19th — has been celebrated in Texas. It officially became a state holiday in 1980, but as of last year, only Texas recognized Juneteenth as a paid holiday for state employees. Last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed

an executive order proclaiming Juneteenth an official New York holiday, on which state employees will receive a paid day off, starting next year. It was the right move. If you think about it, June 19, 1865, was effectively the day when all Americans were at last free. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution applied to all white people, but not to all black people. Millions were held in bondage, beaten and defiled into subservience. According to the 1860 census, there were 4 million slaves in the U.S., accounting for 12.9 percent of the country’s total population of 31 million. For centuries, the U.S. held Fourth of July celebrations — as well it should have — but rarely, if ever, did we recognize that the hard-fought freedoms won during the Revolutionary War did not apply to millions for 76 years after the Constitu-

tion took effect. Juneteenth — celebrated in Texas with cookouts, rodeos and street fairs — reminds us of that horrid reality, at the same time that it celebrates the victory over the evil of slavery. We must remember and reflect on our nation’s long history of enslavement if we are to understand our present-day systemic racism — and someday soon, we hope, overcome it. The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day unleashed a wave of hundreds of peaceful protests and a handful of riots. It was clearly an inflection point in our history, a moment that, it appears, will move the needle further toward freedom and justice for all, regardless of skin color. New York, we are pleased to say, is playing a leading role in that movement.

Mark July Fourth by reading the Declaration

ext week, the Herald Community Newspapers will publish the Declaration of Independence and a likeness of the American flag. The Declaration will appear here, on our Editorial Page, as it long has during the week of the Fourth of July, and the flag will appear in the center of the paper. We encourage families to stand on their stoops and front lawns and read the Declaration together, as messengers did across the 13 colonies in 1776. For 39 years, the Merrick Historical Society, led by President Lawrence Garfinkel, gathered on July Fourth at the Merrick Library and the Long Island Rail Road station to read the Declaration. All from the community and beyond were invited to attend, and the event attracted

many families with small children. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, however, the society decided against the public reading, and is instead encouraging people to read the Declaration with their families at home. What a wonderful idea, we thought. What better way to learn about and teach our history — about the very moment our nation was conceived — than by reading the Declaration, line by line. If you do so, take a photo and email it to us. Check Page 4 for details on how. The Signing of the Declaration ushered in an entirely new era in history, when colonies would rebel against their sovereign, in our case the mighty British Empire. That rebellion brought forth a new era in government, when democracy — rule by

letters Defunding police isn’t an answer To the Editor: The actions of the Minneapolis police officers implicated in the death of George Floyd were sickening and disgusting. The officers were fired and criminally charged, and I pray that justice will be served in this humiliating chapter in our nation’s history. In the wake of this shameful incident, demonstrations continue to take place in large cities, suburban areas — both wealthy and economically disadvantaged — and ethnically and racially diverse neighborhoods. Some rallies have been marked by violence, vandalism and looting, while others have been peaceful and respectful. As a father, former police officer, current local elected official and former civic leader, I believe the most dangerous proposal that has come forth in response to Mr. Floyd’s death is the call to defund the

the people — began after thousands of years of monarchial rule in Europe and around the globe. Thus began the great American experiment, as we like to call it. For sure, it has been an imperfect experiment. As noted in the editorial above, not all were freed by the American Revolution that followed publication of the Declaration. Millions remained enslaved for the better part of a century. The American experiment, however, has moved steadily toward greater freedom and justice for all people. It is up to our generation now to carry the mantle forward and form a more perfect union than that which we were given by working to eliminate systemic racism in all its forms.

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Here’s how: First, stay connected. Call ost people don’t like going to your doctor’s office and ask about the the doctor. The truth? Even options for a visit. There are two comdoctors don’t like going to mon options: the virtual visit, conducted doctors. And now, in the time by video chat or phone, and the traditionof the coronavirus, people’s willingness al in-person visit. In either case, many of to see their doctor is at an all-time low. the same rules apply. Come prepared to It’s not a surprise, considering that the pandemic has many worried not only ask questions and complete any required tests (like blood work) that are needed to about themselves, but also about catchmake the time with your phying Covid-19 and bringing it sician the most beneficial for home to their loved ones. both of you. Still, while you may tell yourIf a virtual visit is the self that the crisis is a good right option for you, ask your reason not to see your physidoctor’s office for any special cian, it’s a mistake that could instructions. What technoloprove costly to your health gy is needed? Will a smartand well-being. phone or laptop work best? Do Whether you suffer from you need to download an app an illness that requires testor program? Will the doctor ing and close monitoring, or anika call or send a website link via have symptoms that are new, saGar text or email? Make sure the it’s important to continue to battery for your phone or see your doctor. With Covidcomputer is fully charged and 19 widespread, the best way that, if the consultation takes places durto access health may seem unclear at ing the day, you sit facing a window or first, but just as you continue relationplace a lamp in front of you so the doctor ships with friends and family by followcan see you clearly on his or her screen. ing safety protocols, your relationship If an in-person visit is the right option with your doctor is one that can also be for you, ask your doctor’s office for any maintained safely.

Letters police. Defunding police in response to a violent and disgraceful death in Minneapolis that involved bad law enforcement officials would have only negative consequences for the public, including the promotion of chaos and lawlessness. Redirecting funds away from police departments would reduce the number of police officers on our streets, lead to increased 911 response times and make Nassau County less safe. During my time as a New York City police officer and Town of Hempstead councilman, I have been committed to government’s primary responsibility to keep residents safe and protect property. The events of the last few weeks have underscored the need for allocating police resources to preserve our communities as safe and desirable places to live and raise our families. Instituting new programs, incorporating technology, expanding community outreach and exploring innovative ideas to improve policing should be priorities, as opposed to slashing police funding. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to shrink the NYPD budget. The city’s police commissioner has disbanded the plainclothes anti-crime units, which were instrumental in transforming Gotham from one of the most dangerous cities in America to one of the safest. It is illogical and dangerous to disband plainclothes anti-crime units while homicides and shootings have gone up. Defunding the police would also take resources away from community-policing initiatives when we need to enhance the relationship between police officers and

community members. Nassau learned its lesson on the negative impacts of making cuts to community policing a few years ago. After cutting Problem Oriented Policing units, Nassau’s administration acknowledged the adverse impacts of this ill-conceived policy decision. Indeed, the county reversed course and restored its POP units. Clearly, Nassau’s impressive and responsive police force is one of the reasons that the county boasts one of the lowest crime rates among all major suburban areas in the nation. George Floyd’s horrible death rightly focused the attention of the nation on the extremely few bad police officers who wear uniforms. However, any call to defund police officers would not effectively address this problem.

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Going to the doctor in a Covid-19 world

can reduce fear and anxiety about seekspecial instructions before you head to the office. Some may ask you to call them ing medical care. One more thing: If you don’t have a from the door when you arrive to make sure you don’t have to wait in the waiting primary-care doctor, it’s important to area. If you have a fever, cough or cold, find one who can help you on your health going f or otherwise aren’t well, please let the journey. Ask friends, family members or the rec office know so proper precautions can be your insurance provider for recommen- have fo taken to care for you. Remember to wear dations. The best time to meet a new doc- the fac a face covering and follow the social-distor is before you fall ill. This gives your suffer b tancing rules of the office, doctor the chance to underwhich will require you to be stand who you are and how he six feet away from others and can help achieve your goal: to be in an area with fewer than be the healthiest version of 10 people. Wash or sanitize you. your hands both before and Remember, although many after the visit and when you things have changed as a arrive back at home. And result of the virus, we’re in once you’re at home again, this together. Relationships put your clothes in the launremain essential — and that dry. includes your relationship Maria No matter which option is with your doctor. CarneY right for you, make sure you call the doctor’s office to folDr. Anika Sagar is a primary low up or schedule other care physician for adults and appointments, and remember to keep the an assistant professor of medicine at the colleag doctor up to date on how you’re feeling. their so Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/ If at any time you feel ill, let your physiNorthwell Health. Dr. Maria Carney is a for arre cian know right away. geriatrician and palliative medicine phy- skin in By having a plan and a strategy, and sician for older adults, and a professor of spoke a exercising control of the situation, you contrib medicine at the Zucker School. among crowde ing and these s said pr state.

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CHRISTOPHER CARINI Hempstead town councilman, 5th District Carini served as a police officer with the NYPD, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department and the Port Authority Police Department for 22 years.

Let business owners reopen To the Editor: Re Randi Kreiss’s column “Thank you very much, but I prefer to remain alive” (Jun 18-24): Kreiss is entitled to her opinion, and common sense certainly dictates that one must be cautious during the coronavirus pandemic.

Sherbet skies and silent sands — Long Beach

I don’t know Kreiss’s age or financial stability, but I think the owner of the bridge club is entitled and smart to open his establishment. My family has two medical professionals, and we have a cancer survivor in our household, so I don’t treat medical issues in a cavalier manner. However, we must try and restore some sense of normalcy and let businesses operate and allow people to earn a living. This will allow mort-

gages, rent, utilities, taxes and food to be paid. It will also allow people the opportu-and mi nity to recoup savings lost during the lastoffices, ROTC three-plus months. This nightmare is an unknown. Peopleunrest must use their intellect and choose howwas so er agai they return to a normal day-to-day life. gartne PHIlIP KIRKa “no-h Sea Cliff teachin The

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