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Throwing a strike at Covid Bowling alleys, gyms reopen By Melissa Koenig, naKeeM gRanT and KaRen BlooM mkoenig@liherald.com

■ A new air-filtration system. ■ Ultraviolet lights to sanitize the register and employees’ masks.

Diane Horowitz was dropping off some supplies at Dani’s ■ 40 gallons of sanitizing alcoStrike Zone, in Elmont, on Aug. hol. 15 — the first day she ventured out into the community since ■ 1,700 cleaning wipes. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s New York Horowitz also on Pause order bought a vacuum went into effect in to clean newly March — when installed carpetone of her ing, washed the employees said, ball-return equip“You must be so ment, waxed the h ap py. ” T h at ’s floors, put plastic how Horowitz wrap around the found out that Diane HoRoWiTz vending machine bowling alleys Owner, Dani’s Strike Zone and lane consoles, would be allowed and equipped to reopen the folemployees with lowing Monday, according to bags containing hand sanitizer, another announcement from the face shields, masks and gloves. governor. “I did everything that I could Fortunately, Horowitz, who possibly think of,” Horowitz owns the Strike Zone, was pre- said. “I just want everyone to be pared. She spent the nearly six safe.” months that it was closed orderThe renovations weren’t ing a slew of safety measures for cheap, however, and Horowitz its grand reopening, including: said her bills have been “unbe■ Plexiglas shields for the front lievable.” She closed the alley desk and tables. about a week before Cuomo’s

did everything that I could possibly think of.

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a smokin’ hot presentation “Vote for me and there will be a rib in every pot,” said grillmaster David Tillery, of RMD Food Adventures, as he kept the crowd laughing and eating during his barbecue demonstration at the Elmont Memorial Library last Saturday, which featured grilled chicken, baby-back ribs, grilled pineapple and salad. Story, more photos next week.

F.S. native is a ‘beast’ in the gym Woman enters muscle magazine cover contest By Melissa Koenig mkoenig@liherald.com

Christa Wilhoit-Churco has long maintained an active lifestyle, and even played competitive tennis up until two days before giving birth to both of her children. But it wasn’t until a doctor told her that she needed to strengthen her legs and core in 2007 that she became a selfproclaimed “beast” in the gym. “I didn’t realize how hard I

was working out, and it paid off,” Wilhoit-Churco, a Franklin Square native who now lives in Georgia, recounted. She said she slowly learned how her body worked, began eating in moderation and more often throughout the day, and built up muscle strength along the way. She recently entered a competition to be featured on the cover of Muscle & Fitness Hers magazine, after she saw a post about it on Facebook. “Once I saw the

$20,000 prize, I thought, ‘That’d be nice to win,’” Wilhoit-Churco, 42, said, though she noted that she isn’t normally the type of person to put herself out there, “so it was very out of my comfort zone.” The process of applying was easier than she expected, though. All she had to do, she said, was fill out some personal information and upload photos Continued on page 5

■ Six-and-a-half-foot-tall partitions to be installed between lanes. ■ A thermometer to check bowlers’ temperatures when they walk in.

shutdown order went into effect, out of an abundance of caution, she explained, and continued to pay her 20 employees for a few weeks until she ran out of money. Still, they all agreed to Continued on page 3

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Gym owners only too happy to reopen continued from front come back to work on Aug. 17. Now everyone who walks into the bowling alley, on Village Avenue, must wear a mask that covers their mouth and nose, and stay in their own lane. No one is allowed to use the bar, concession stand or arcade, and anything anyone touches is immediately sanitized. The nearly two dozen people who bowled on Aug. 20, three days after the Strike Zone officially reopened, didn’t seem to mind the changes, and kept their distance while throwing spares and strikes. “It’s slow,” Horowitz said of the business since it reopened, “but it’s fun.” But bowling alleys aren’t the only recreation centers that are now allowed to open. Cuomo also announced on Aug. 17 that gyms could reopen on Monday, pending inspection by local authorities. The facilities must maintain 22 percent capacity, with masks required at all times and ventilation that meets state mandates. Crews could be seen cleaning the floors and windows at Synergy Fitness, on Hempstead Turnpike in Franklin Square, last Thursday, and representatives had posted on social media that they were “working very diligently” to meet all of the safety protocols “in order to provide you with a safe environment and allow you to resume your exercise routine and the healthy lifestyle that characterizes you.” They did not have an official reopening date as of press time, but wrote, “We appreciate your patience as we continue to develop and implement the new approach in which our services will be offered.”

Michael Corleone, a Franklin Square resident who owns Kayo Boxing in West Hempstead, had already sprayed and sanitized his facility, and was in the process of getting new filters for the gym. He had also installed a hands-free hand sanitizing station, and spaced the punching bags to adhere to social distancing protocols. Every kickboxer must call ahead to register for a class, and anyone who is late forfeits their spot. Everyone must also have their own boxing gloves, water bottles and towels, and will be required to wear a mask at all times. When patrons arrive at Kayo, they will be required to use hand sanitizer, have their temperatures taken and answer a four-question Covid symptom survey. Then, when a class is over, participants will once again use hand sanitizer and will leave the gym single file. “I only hope that people start flocking back to the gym,” Corleone said, “but I understand that so much has changed because of the pandemic.” A gym owner for 16 years, he said that he lost a lot of money during the lockdown, but was fortunate that his landlord was willing to work with him, since he regularly pays his rent on time. “I feel bad for the businesses that weren’t able to handle this meltdown,” Corleone said. “Because we’re a small business where I only have one employee, we’re not eligible to get loans and grants.” The fact that he is active on social media, he said, has helped keep his regulars informed about the gym. “The only thing that I can hope for is that the community shops locally,” Corleone said. “It’s more important now than ever before.”

Horowitz keeps All of the bowling balls in a back room. every lAne console is encased in plastic wrap, and bowlers can only use every other lane.

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At dAni’s strike Zone in Elmont, there are reminders of the proper use of personal protective equipment. At left, Diane Horowitz used an ultraviolet wand to sanitize the register.

District 13 officials outline plans for new year By Melissa Koenig mkoenig@liherald.com

About a quarter of all Valley Stream School District 13 parents and guardians have opted to enroll their children in a full remote learning program, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Judith LaRocca announced at a Board of Education meeting on Aug. 18, one day before the deadline to enroll in the program. The district serves students in Elmont and Franklin Square. Students enrolled in the remote program would follow a daily remote learning schedule that would include live teaching, small group instruction and individual work on SeeSaw or Google Classroom, LaRocca explained to parents that night. Every other student in kindergarten and first-grade would automatically be enrolled in a full in-person program, while students in second- through sixth grades would be enrolled in a hybrid program. Those classes would be split into two groups, one of which would attend school in-person on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with remote learning on Wednesdays and Fridays, while the other group would do the opposite. Siblings would be assigned to the same group, and all students would learn remotely on Mondays. “We were very meticulous about what we could do,” said Superintendent Constance Evelyn. “We took a very conservative and cautious approach.” The school year would begin on Sept. 3, at which point parents would be required to fill out a survey every morning ensuring that their child does not have any Covid symptoms. Attendance teams would then ensure that these surveys have been filled out, and if it is not, district officials would try to contact the student’s parent or guardian. If they could not be reached, a nurse would take the student’s temperature. Any student who develops Covid-like symptoms over

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Judith laRocca, the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, announced that nearly a quarter of all Valley Stream District 13 parents and guardians have opted to enroll their children in a full remote learning program. These students come from various schools and are in a variety of grades.

the course of a day, meanwhile, would be brought to a safe room, and any area he or she uses would be closed off for 24 hours. Additionally, any classes that have to quarantine would be taught remotely by their classroom teacher, who would also be quarantined. Under the district’s plan, children would also be assigned seats on a school bus, and only one bus would be allowed to unload students at a time. The students then would enter their school building at different locations to miniDear neighbor: mize contact. Class sizes would range We live and work in this community. The lives of each and every one of you is important from 12 to 18 students, to us and we are here to tell your stories — from beginning to end. That includes the with desks kept six-feet final chapter. At this difficult time, I want to remind you that obituaries in all Herald apart. District officials Community Newspapers are, and have always been, completely free. have also ordered clear barriers for each desk, COVID-19 has taken far too many, far to soon. Let us help you commemorate the life of which are expected to your loved one with a story and photo celebrating their life. Contact our Executive Editor arrive on Sept.5, and are Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com or call 516-569-4000, ext 203, if you would like to memorialize a loved one in the Herald, regardless of their cause of death. mandating that students wear masks at all times, Stuart Richner except for when they are Publisher eating. The teachers, Eve-

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lyn said, would also provide constant “support for the social and emotional health of our students, and educate our students about the reasons why we need to socially distance.” Children would also be discouraged from sharing materials, and breakfasts and lunches would be brought to the individual classrooms, although, Howell Road Principal Frank Huplosky said, district officials are considering letting students use the cafeteria one day a week so that they can get out of the classroom. Recess will also be available, but the district will minimize the use of recess equipment and principals would survey the buildings on bad weather days to see where each class could hold a recess. The district is able to provide anyone in need with an Internet-enabled device, and every device will be equipped with the programs a student in the district will need over the course of the year. “We believe we will be ready in the Valley Streams,” Evelyn told the more than 100 parents who expressed their concerns with the plan last week, although, she noted, “Things are changing all the time.” District officials are still working with teachers to determine how to offer music courses and clubs, Evelyn explained, and will continue to monitor enrollment numbers for both the hybrid and remote learning programs.

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continued from front she wanted to display on her profile. Magazine employees then selected entrants to participate in the competition and divided them into groups. People could vote for a competitor once a day, or could donate money to Jared Allen’s Home for Wounded Warriors — an organization founded by former Carolina Panthers defensive end Jared Allen that builds and remodels handicapped-accessible homes for injured veterans — for additional votes to move their favorite entrant to the next round, until one person is crowned the 2020 Miss Health and Fitness. On her profile, Wilhoit-Churco wrote that fitness “is a lifestyle for me, so I make it a priority in my daily life to exercise and eat well,” and noted that her healthy lifestyle has inspired her to become a health and phys. ed. teacher. “I really want to instill my passion in others, so it becomes a lifestyle for them as well,” her profile reads. “Without fitness, life wouldn’t be the same.” She starts exercising at her house every morning at 3:50 a.m. for half an

hour, then goes to a local gym around 4:30, and stays there until she must leave for work at around 6:45 a.m., according to her husband, Todd Churco. “I don’t think she really takes a day off,” he said, adding that he is proud of what Christa has accomplished. Two years ago, she decided to participate in a bikini competition, and started training for it five and a half weeks before the show. She won three out of the four categories she competed in. In the Muscle & Fitness Hers contest, however, she placed sixth in her group on Aug. 21, preventing her from moving onto the Top Five competition. “I didn’t expect to win,” she said, “because it was based on votes, and out of my control.” But, Wilhoit-Churco said, if she could have done more to ensure she stayed in the competition, “I would have worked 100 percent towards winning like I do in everything else I do. “Either way,” she said, “I’m glad I went for it.”

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Inside LI panel addresses return to college By Briana Bonfiglio bbonfiglio@liherald.com

Higher education officials across Nassau County have been tasked with creating plans that balance health and safety and quality education for students returning to campus amid the coronavirus pandemic. Although Covid-19 numbers are at their lowest since March, health experts say colle ges must be vigilant and enforce strict guidelines in their reopening plans. On Aug. 21, Inside LI, produced by RichnerLive, hosted its second virtual panel discussion on topics related to “new normals” in different aspects of life. It featured several leaders in higher education to discuss their paths to a safe and productive fall semester. The 45-minute webinar included panelists Dr. James Lentini, president of Molloy College; Dr. Christine Riordan, president of Adelphi College; Dr. Gabrielle St. Léger, assistant vice president and dean of students at Hofstra University; and Dr. Jermaine Williams, president of Nassau Community College. Dr. Aaron Glatt, chairman of the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside, also joined to offer a medical perspective on how to open colleges and universities safely. Skye Ostreicher, of RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers, was the moderator. “It’s almost like opening a mini-city,” Riordan remarked about starting classes on a college campus. “We have to abide not only by the higher education guidelines, but by all of the other guidelines that may pertain to some of the things that we have on campuses — we have hotels with our residence halls, restaurants with our dining facilities, day-care centers, transportation systems, sports teams, religious organizations [and] retail with our bookstores.” Riordan said colleges worked together, and with state and county health officials, to develop plans that adhere to

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Several leaderS in higher education, as well as one medical professional, spoke about reopening colleges amid a pandemic during a Inside LI webinar, part of an ongoing series. Centers for Disease and Control Prevention guidelines. At the same time, college presidents want to uphold high standards of education. At Nassau Community College, the state’s largest community college, 93 percent of classes will be online. This will leave around 300 to 400 students on campus at any given time, which Wiliams called an “extreme drop from where we’d normally be.” Williams said the college is “providing the same high-caliber education whether you’re in the classroom or taking a remote course.” At Molloy, Lentini said students would receive a quality education, despite altering the mode of instruc-

tion. He said professors have been trained and retrained in remote teaching skills. “It’s not like in the spring where we had to turn on a dime,” he said. “This time we had time to do it.” Aside from instruction, students attend college for the social experiences, many of which will be lost this semester because colleges cannot hold large gatherings. St. Léger noted that telling students, “No, we can’t do that,” would be difficult but necessary. Hofstra staggered move-ins for more than 2,000 resident students, St. Léger said. The university is also launching educational campaigns to provide positive reinforcement of safety measures, such as mask wearing, social distancing

and avoiding large gatherings. Student ambassadors, who normally hold social events, will now be tasked with helping to enforce those measures on campus. “I want students to understand their impact on the campus, on their suitemates, on their classroom community,” St. Léger said “We need our students to understand their individual role.” Each panelist said that if their own children were college students, they would feel comfortable sending them away to college given the universities’ thorough plans. “I’m very impressed by the plans that all of the colleges have talked about,” Glatt said, while recognizing that no plan will be perfect. “I do think it’s important to have students go to college in person, however, with significant restrictions. That’s how we are going to defeat this until there is a practical vaccine available and distributed.” He noted that a vaccine will not impact this semester of college because it will not be widely available until sometime in 2021. Colleges thus must be vigilant in monitoring the health of students and faculty and acting quickly if a Covid-19 case were to arise. Colleges are requiring resident students to test negative before moving into residence halls. They are also requiring commuter students to conduct health screenings and fill out a health form before attending classes each day. Molloy has a contactless temperature-reading kiosk outside every building. Using face recognition, it scans people as they come in, takes their temperature and records it under their student or faculty identification, Lentini said. “I’m hopeful that if, in general, society takes this seriously,” Glatt said, “... we can have a close-to-normal educational program.” InsideLI’s next virtual panel, “Why The Residential Real Estate Market Is So Hot,” will be Thursday, Sept. 3, at 10 a.m. Register at liherald.com/insideli9-3.

RichnerLive webinar to explore fast-moving housing market Realtors across Long Island have had their hands full this summer. After a lull in the market during the spring, when coronavirus stay-at-home orders took effect, it’s now full steam ahead as demand for homes has skyrocketed. Bidding wars are the current norm, and real estate agents say that houses are selling quicker than ever. At the same time, there are fewer homes to sell, which is only driving demand even higher. But why now? RichnerLive, a division of Richner Communications Inc., publisher of Herald Community Newspapers, will explore this phenomenon on Thursday,

Sept. 3, at 10 a.m. during a live, 45-minute webinar with Long Island real estate experts, including: ■ Steven Dubb, Principal, The Beechwood Organization ■ Bryan Karp, Licensed Real Estate Sales Representative, Coach Realtors ■ Joseph G. Milizio, Esq., Managing Partner, Vishnick McGovern Milizio LLP ■ Deirdre O’Connell, Chief Executive Officer, Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty

Skye Ostreicher, of RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers, will moderate this discussion, entitled “Why The Real Estate Market Is So Hot.” “As we’ve all seen, Covid has impacted our communities in countless ways,” Ostreicher said. “With more families able to work from home, less people need to commute to an office. What long-term impacts will this have on Long Islanders and our downtown areas? I look forward to hosting an engaging and informative conversation with leaders in the industry and taking questions from our

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Heralds earn top honors in state press contest Excellent coverage of gover nment spending, complete with strong editorial support. Clearly the newspaper took a leadership position here.”

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The Herald Community Newspapers came up big in the New York Press Association’s 2019 Better Newspaper Contest, earning 18 awards, including five firstplace honors, and placing fourth among newspaper groups in the state. Some 173 daily and weekly newspapers submitted a total of 2,198 entries in the annual competition, the results of which were announced via webcast on the NYPA website last Thursday and Friday. The Heralds’ sister publication in the Bronx, The Riverdale Press, earned seven accolades in the contest, bringing the total for Richner Communications Inc. publications to 25. “I’m thrilled with our showing in this year’s competition,” Heralds Publisher Stuart Richner said. “The depth of our team shows in the breath of awards we came away with. These honors, judged by out-of-state journalists, demonstrate the talent and dedication of our team. “Each week,” Richner continued, “our editors, reporters, photographers, layout artists, advertising account representatives, press operators and drivers put their hearts and souls into Herald Newspapers. Special thanks to Copy Editor Jim Harmon, the unsung hero of our Editorial Department.” “I’m so proud to be a part of this team,” said Rhonda Glickman, the Heralds’ vice president of advertising sales. “Congratulations to all.” Here’s a rundown of the accolades:

first place honors

■ Heralds’ Photo Editor Christina Daly was named the 2019 NYPA Photographer of the Year. Daly submitted a portfolio of 10 news and feature photos. Judges wrote, “Fireworks, sports, fun and emotion. This portfolio has a little bit of everything, and each image tells a story. Great angles. Very strong entry.” ■ The Heralds’ seven-part series “The Racism Around Us” earned first place for Best News or Feature Series and second place for In-Depth Reporting. Scott Brinton, the Heralds’ executive editor, was the series editor and a writer for it. Other writers included Jeff Bessen, Briana Bonfiglio, Timothy Denton, Andrew Garcia, Nakeem Grant, Melissa Koenig, Nadya Nataly, Robert Traverso and Darwin Yanes. Daly created the graphics and maps for the series. Judges wrote, “Comprehensive and complete coverage of an issue — structural racism — which remains embedded within the American experience. This newspaper’s devotion to this story … represents a great service to readers.” ■ The Freeport Herald-Leader, Long Beach Herald and Oceanside-Island Park Herald were honored with a firstplace award for Spot News Coverage for their in-depth reporting of the horrific murder of Oceanside High School student Khaseen Morris, 16, at an Oceanside strip mall last September.

■ Michael Smollins, senior editor of the Lynbrook-East Rockaway and Oceanside Heralds, received second place for Headline Writing. Judges wrote, “Catchy and accurate headlines sampled across categories. Some obvious thought went into making the puns work.”

third place awards ■ Ronny Reyes, who is now the editor of the Freeport Herald Leader, received third place for In-depth Reporting for his work while he was the assistant editor of the Franklin Square-Elmont Herald last year.

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above iS a collage of all 10 of the photos for which Christina Daly won the New York Press Association’s Photographer of the Year title. The writers covering the story were Bonfiglio, Daly, Nataly, Anthony Rifilato and Yanes. Daly was also the primary photographer. Brinton wrote the editorial that accompanied the stories and edited the video that appeared with the online version of the initial story, and he and Mike Smollins were editors for what became a series of stories on the murder. Judges wrote, “Congratulations to a dedicated team that insisted on journalism more impactful than video clips and sensational headlines ripe for social media and judgmental commentary. Diligent, uncompromising, steady and focused, the newspaper produced quality journalism.”

■ The Merrick Herald Life was awarded first place for Coverage of Education. The paper submitted five stories on a variety of Board of Education and classroom news.

Judges wrote, “Very well done, thorough, consistently classy page design. Great presentation from a business that does not get a lot of play.”

Second place honors ■ The Heralds sports editor, Tony Bellissimo, earned second place for Sports Writer of the Year for his portfolio of five stories covering events ranging from the Belmont Stakes to local high school sports.

hese honors, judged by out-of-state journalists, demonstrate the talent and dedication of our team. StuaRt RicHneR

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Wr i t e rs included Garcia, Erik Hawkins and Alyssa Seidman. Judges wrote, “Great storytelling … [Coverage] connects with readers on an emotional level … Great presentation and education of readers to understand the topic[s].” ■ The Herald Community Newspapers were honored with a first place for Special Section/Niche Publication on Newsprint for their section on Nassau County’s best attorneys, which accompanied an awards and networking event attended by hundreds. The event organizers included Amy Amato and Courtney Meyers. The section editor was Karen Bloom, and the designer was Jeff Negrin.

Judg es wrote, “Tight writing, vivid detail and great range distinguish this entry from the rest. Very nice job.” ■ Bonfiglio, reporter for the Oceanside-Island Park and Rockville Centre Heralds, received second place for Rookie Reporter of the Year for a five-story portfolio that examined subjects from teen mental health to the retirement of a local rabbi.

Judges wrote, “An impressive and versatile portfolio, from very tough subject matter — sexual abuse in the Catholic Church — to personality profiles to event coverage. What shines through in every story is Bonfiglio’s attention to the telling detail, quotes that move the story forward and thoughtful narrative.” ■ Rifilato earned second place for Community Leadership for his series of 20 stories that examined the City of Long Beach’s multi-million-dollar payout scandal. Brinton wrote the final editorial accompanying the stories, and occasionally contributed reporting and writing to the series and edited it. Judges wrote, “Damn good reporting!

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Nearly a dozen activists drove from the Chase Bank on Linden Boulevard in Elmont to the intersection of 217 Street and Linden Boulevard in Cambria Heights, Queens on Sunday, spreading awareness of the police-involved shooting of Matthew Felix along the way. “It’s been six months, and a lot of people don’t know about Matthew’s case,” said Victor Dempsey, founder of Families on the Front Lines, which organized Sunday’s protest, along with the Long Island Peaceful Protest group, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Felix’s family. According to the Nassau County Police Department, Felix, 19, had met with a man in Garden City Park who was selling his vehicle on Feb. 25, when he pulled out a gun, and aimed it at the seller’s head. He then fled in the stolen vehicle, officers allege, with detectives from the Bureau of Special Operations following him to his home in Cambria Heights, crossing jurisdiction lines. They then waited for Felix outside of his house, and when Felix left in his own vehicle, police said, they tried to pull him over — but that’s when shots rang out, and Felix was fatally injured. “He did not deserve to die like this,” Felix’s sister, Samantha, said at the rally before the caravan drove to the scene of his death. “He had a family that cared about him.” She is now demanding answers from the Nassau County Police Department and the State Attorney General’s office — which are conducting investigations into the police-involved shooting — about how many officers were involved in the fatal shooting, why they crossed jurisdiction lines, and whether the officers were ever penalized for their actions. “This family still doesn’t know,” Dempsey said, adding that officials are “hiding behind this pandemic.” Felix’s family has only been able to meet with representatives from the Attorney General’s office, Rachel Hu, organizer of the Party for Socialism and Liberation on Long Island, explained, and have not yet been able to meet with Nassau County Executive Laura Curran or Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder. They only found out about Matthew’s

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Protestors with the Party for Socialism and Liberation demanded answers about the police killing of Matthew Felix. death from a television news report, she noted, and were brought into the police station for questioning. Representatives from the Nassau County Police Department and the State Attorney General’s office said they are still investigating the incident. “They are the judge, the jury and the executioners,” said Terrel Tuosto, founder of the Long Island Peaceful Protests group. “Too many Black men are being murdered.” He and other speakers at the rally said that Felix’s death one week before his 20th birthday is just part of a pattern of racism and police brutality in Nassau County, citing an incident in which two Roosevelt Middle School teachers displayed a photo of two nooses under the term “Back to School Necklaces,” and the words “ha” and “#yes,” and another in which police beat a Black teenager in January for suspected gun violence. Still, Stephen Figurasmith, of Valley Stream, said Nassau County police have largely avoided scrutiny, and Arthur L. Mackey, Jr,. pastor of Mt. Sinai Baptist Church in Roosevelt said the police department has “to do the right thing by Matthew Felix” and arrest the officers involved in the shooting “in Jesus’ name.”

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A. Picture if you will a group of people sitting in a courtroom. One is your framer, another is your architect and the judge is hearing the case in which you spent way too much on beams, or even worse, your lawyer is going over the damages of cracking and sagging ceilings and walls. Who do you imagine will be the onte eeper responsible party in the eyes of the law? Your framer? No, your architect. Why? The state grants a license, upon proof of a rigorous education followed by an internship and one of the longest exams given to show competence, not to your framer, but to the architect. Your County Office of Consumer Affairs, which licenses contractors, not framers, can confirm what the qualifications are: no formal educational background, no particular experience, not even an exam. Your framer gets elevated to the status of a licensed professional by you and you alone. He may be smart, even experienced, but the call isn’t for him to make, any more than a couch potato making the calls for a professional football team. There are no consequences for framers whether they’re right or wrong. If they choose not to put in beams prescribed on the sealed, permitted plans, just to make a point, and the house seems sturdy on the sunny day when they drive away, they may pat themselves on the back — that is, until the wind blows like it did recently in one of many heavy storms, or until the first heavy snowfall, when the roof begins to creak and sheetrock cracks. At that point, the amateurs you trusted are long gone. Framers can say anything, and they often do, confusing homeowners into believing their bold, unsubstantiated claims and calling into doubt the designated professional’s judgment or competence. “Rule of thumb” has no place in construction, but homeowners regularly and naively believe nonsense claims. The claim of no columns to support the beams makes no sense, since all beams require support. It sounds more like your framer is flexing his ego to you instead of speaking to the architect. If your plans carry the professional’s seal and received a permit, to change the situation requires a lot of backtracking. The owner and new architect, if they have any ethics, should notify the current architectof-record of the change in status. New, redrawn plans and new paperwork carrying the new architect’s seal, with an explanation letter, must be submitted to your building department; all this because you granted an amateur the level of responsibility they have no legal standing to hold over a licensed professional. Good luck!

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n the tangled web that is the Middle East, peace breakthroughs are few and far between. They seem to happen once a generation. But when they do happen, they’re historic. And in every case, the United States has played a significant leadership role. Remember Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shaking hands with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in recognition of the 1978 Camp David Accords brokered by President Jimmy Carter? Begin and Sadat shared the Nobel Peace Prize for that agreealFonse ment. D’amato Or Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands with Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat after signing the 1993 Oslo Accords negotiated during the presidency of Bill Clinton? Rabin and Arafat shared another Nobel Peace Prize for their agreement. Fast-forward to today, and we have just witnessed another historic Mideast peace agreement. The significance of the deal between Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, the leader of the United Arab

Emirates, cannot be overstated. It is a historic agreement on a par with the Camp David and Oslo accords. If past is prologue, Netanyahu and Prince Mohammed should be candidates for yet another shared Nobel Prize. And just as Presidents Carter and Clinton rightly deserve great credit for helping usher through those earlier agreements, so President Trump deserves equal credit and congratulations for his administration’s role in bringing about another historic Mideast deal. What was accomplished in bringing this agreement to fruition is also of great significance. It sends a sign to other Mideast leaders that it is time not only to recognize Israel’s right to exist, but also to normalize relations with Israel and fully accept it in the community of nations. “Peace by peace,” major powers in the region have come to accept Israel’s right to nationhood. The question now is which Arab country in the region will be the next to summon the courage to make peace with Israel? What about Saudi Arabia, an independently powerful nation that could lead the way for other Arab states? If the young leader of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, wants to reclaim

the mantle of reform, he should begin by moving forthrightly toward peace with Israel. And the U.S. should push him hard to do so. Saudi Arabia owes a great deal of its own peace and stability to the United States, which supplies it with both arms and diplomatic support. America’s hand today in the Mideast is infinitely strengthened by our own energy independence. Oil states like Saudi Arabia can no longer hold us energyhostage. In fact, the tables have turned: the U.S. can and should press Mideast states to make peace with Israel, and focus the attention of the entire region on the nation that is the last remaining stumbling block to peace. I’m taking about Iran. Iran is an outlaw nation that has done more to stir turmoil and suffering in its neighborhood than any other country. Its support for terrorism is widespread and indisputable. Just one glaring example is its continued support for the terrorist organization Hezbollah, based in Lebanon. Hezbollah has fomented instability both outside and within Lebanon’s borders. It should be stamped out. And Iran should be warned that if it interferes, it risks a military conflict it cannot win. America sent a strong signal when we

ollowing in the footsteps of Carter and Clinton on the way to a lasting peace?

led the military campaign to destroy ISIS, which briefly threatened to establish an Islamist terrorist caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq. Even Russia agreed to help dismantle ISIS, as Russia faces its own deadly internal threats from radical Islamist terrorists. Now that the UAE has led the way for the next possible round of peacemaking in the Mideast, we should not wait another 20 years for the next peace agreement. The U.S. should continue to push strongly for it. And the rest of the free world should help. We know we can’t count on the feckless United Nations, which recently couldn’t even summon the intestinal fortitude to continue the arms embargo on Iran. But the democratic nations of Western Europe should step up and help lead the way to Mideast peace and stability. That begins and ends with stamping out Iranian support for terrorism and doing everything possible to end the dictatorship of the corrupt ayatollahs in that country. Amid all the turmoil in the Mideast, there is a strong glimmer of a possibility that this troubled region may be on the brink of true and lasting peace. America should continue to lead the way. Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com.

Encounter with a phantom of the future

ateline: Feb. 15, 2020 RK: Who are you?

Covid 19: I am a virus, about to launch a worldwide pandemic.

RK: I never heard of you. 19: But you will. RK: How? 19: Well, what’s today? RK: Feb. 15. I know because I still have sand in my shoes from a family reunion in RanDI the Dominican Republic. We were kReIss n e r vo u s a b o u t going because of the recent minibar deaths in the country, but it was fun and safe and a great time together with the kids and grandkids. 19: Death by mini-bar was nothing. I’m here to give you a glimpse of the future. And by the way, that’ll be your last vacation for a very long time. You’re lucky you didn’t meet me in the D.R., because I was already there. Let me introduce myself properly. I’m a novel coronavirus, which means that I’m a

brand-new bug in humans, and therefore unstoppable. Until recently, I was living in a market in China. I thought I was having a discreet and productive life, thriving in local bats, and then, vroom, I found myself inside people, and discovered a whole new way to grow and spread. Nothing personal; I’m just a force of nature. RK: What does this mean to me? I’m healthy and have a busy life, reading and writing and socializing with friends and traveling. I see my kids and grandkids often, even though we don’t live near one another anymore. How does your arrival in the States affect me?

igniting small fires among unsuspecting groups of people and making many of them very sick. RK: This sounds like science fiction. How will it get so bad so fast? 19: I’ve got a free ride. At this point there are no vaccines, and there won’t be an effective treatment for a long time. When there’s a surge in a city, thousands of people will show up at emergency rooms where doctors won’t know how to help them. Thousands will go on ventilators so they can breathe, but many will die. No one will know how to deal with me. Doctors and front-line responders will get sick themselves. I will thrive because no one will be prepared: not enough protective gowns and masks, not enough ventilators, no organized national plan to challenge me and enough confusion to allow me to flourish. Your whole life will change, RK. You and your husband will have to isolate yourselves to stay healthy. By the way, where is he?

t sounded like science fiction. How could a new virus get so bad so fast?

1 9 : In the next six months, I will infect more than 23 million people and kill almost 800,000 across the world. By August I will sicken nearly 5 million people in the United States, and more than 170,000 Americans will be dead before the fall. Refrigerator trucks with dead bodies will line some city streets. I’m tough on people who are compromised by other diseases and older people with weaker immune systems. In April alone I will kill 37 people in just one Seattle senior home. I move fast. Before anyone knew I was a threat, I was embedded,

RK: At the movies. 19: He won’t be able to do that again for

a long time. Movie houses will close, restaurants will shut down, schools will close. No sports. No college dorms. No large weddings or parties. No airplane travel. Hospitalized patients won’t be allowed to have visitors. RK: How can we stay safe? 19: You’ll have to stay six feet away from other people, and you’ll have to wear a mask wherever you go. You won’t see your children or grandchildren for at least six months. RK: Not possible. 19: You won’t see them because they could infect you, and you’re more vulnerable. You won’t see them because you could infect them, and that would be intolerable. RK: When will you disappear so we can return to life as it was? 19: I don’t think I’ll ever go away, but a reliable vaccine could make most people immune. As for “life as it was,” once the ground shifts under your feet there’s no going back. Going forward, your only hope is to be better prepared for the next novel virus about to leap into the human population. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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ollege classes were set to start on Long Island this week and next, and that presented a potentially big problem: partying. Across the nation in recent weeks, one university after another has begun in-person instruction only to have to pull back within a week or two because of a Covid19 outbreak and switch immediately to online learning again. The source of infection: parties involving dozens to hundreds of students and, often, lots of alcohol. All it takes at one of these sophomoric soirées is one infected student to spread this terrible disease to dozens, if not hundreds, of others. So, to all the college students out there, we say this: Your school administrators and professors have spent the past six months trying to figure out how to bring you back to your campuses safely, while the coronavirus pandemic has continued to rage in many parts of the country. Don’t blow it! We get it. Many, though not all, of you are looking for the full college experience — translation: classes accompanied by partying. It’s a centuries-old tradition. Your four years of college, you’ve been told again and again, are the best years of your life, your time to work hard and play hard, your chance to live it up a little before the workaday world consumes you. Now you’re being told to wear and a mask and stay at least six feet apart from everyone — not the optimum partying condi-

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letters PSEG-LI shareholders should pay for losses To the Editor: We are writing about PSEG Long Island’s customer reimbursement for spoiled food and medication because of Tropical Storm Isaias. While we appreciate the fact that the company is offering this policy to customers on Long Island, we are greatly concerned about how the reimbursement is being paid for. The Long Island Power Authority has publicly stated that funds to cover customer reimbursements will come from this year’s prospective bonus, comprising ratepayer funds. This is unacceptable. Hardworking Long Islanders should not foot the bill for PSEG-LI’s mismanagement. Rather, the utility’s shareholders and those of its parent company, PSEG, should fund these reim-

tions. First, the hype about college being the best years of your life is just that — hype. Sure, there’s plenty of fun to be had in college, but there’s plenty of fun in the adult world beyond the university campus. Holding off on the partying for another six months or a year, until we can nail down a vaccine, won’t kill you. But Covid-19 could. Think young people can’t die of the disease? A 6-year-old just did in Florida. So, yes, young people can get really sick and die. Moreover, you could very well give the disease to people significantly older than you — like your professors, many of whom are in their 60s, 70s and older, the most vulnerable ages for contracting the disease and potentially dying of it. Also, many Long Island college students commute to school from home, and each night they return to their families, which have varying levels of vulnerability to the coronavirus. An outbreak on any of our college campuses thus could cause an outbreak in surrounding communities. So, it’s really simple: Put off the partying for now. We don’t believe that’s too much to ask. Yes, you’re being asked to delay gratification, to grow up faster than usual, to become full-fledged adults before, perhaps, you’re ready to do so. These perilous times, however, call on every one of us to make sacrifices for the greater good. Yes, the greater good. It’s a concept that we hope and trust you will study in one of your humanities classes. The English phi-

losopher John Stuart Mill (1806-73) championed the idea: In one’s actions, one must ask what will do the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people. In this case, the correct course of action is a no-brainer: Abstain from partying to protect public health. On any college campus, believe it or not, about 20 percent of students never drink and never party; about 60 percent are somewhere in the middle, often holding off on partying until their sophomore and junior years, though occasionally experimenting with alcohol before that; and about 20 percent are hard-core revelers from the get-go. Persuading the hard-core partiers will be the tough part for university officials. We agree that the focus should be on educating college students about the benefits of holding off on partying — and the benefits of mask wearing and social distancing. But we also recognize this reality: Administrators and professors likely won’t convince everyone. And in cases in which students are engaging in prohibited behaviors, namely mass-gathering parties, consequences for such actions must be meted out swiftly, including potential expulsion from the college or university. The stakes are simply too high to do otherwise. People’s lives and livelihoods are on the line here. If universities don’t take a hard stance against partying, then all of us — the larger public included — are potentially endangered by a second wave of infection.

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hen I was a child, there were only two sports that captured our attention. One was boxing and the other was baseball. Today you can watch multiple sports on fancy television sets. In my early years, radio was the medium by which we connected to both of them. Watching the presidential campaign unfold reminds me more of boxing than baseball. Boxing is a brutal sport, just like politics. Some memorable fights lasted 15 rounds, and you could feel every punch through the words of the JerrY announcer. Men kremer from humble homes chose boxing because it was their only chance to become someone. Their reward was either a championship belt and a modest purse, or a lifetime of crippling injuries with no financial rewards. Watching former Vice President Joe Biden give the speech of his life at the virtual Democratic Convention last week

was like watching the first round of what promises to be a brutal 10 weeks between now and Election Day. I recall men like Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano, who battled in the ring late into their careers. Joe Biden is at that stage of his career, and this is his last chance to show that he’s a champion. Donald Trump is today’s version of the flashy newcomer who entered the ring with a lot of hoopla but was often defeated with a series of gut punches. Trump has three-plus years behind him in the center ring, but now he’s facing a competitor who may just have enough punches left to end the reality show in the White House. Leading up to the Democratic Convention, the street talk by the Trump enthusiasts, and Trump himself, was that Biden was sleepy, too old and way past his prime. I heard claims that he was a socialist, and would turn the government over to the progressives. He was going to raise your taxes and turn the suburbs into places of urban terror. He was mocked for “hiding in his Delaware base-

iden’s convention speech last week was Round One. Election Day will be Round 15.

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ment,” with the implication that he was afraid to come out and join the battle. But the final night of the convention showed that, just like Louis and Marciano, Biden still has plenty of fight left in him to stay in the ring. Unlike the entitled Trump, Biden’s humble background speaks to the people who just want a normal and capable president who will take the punches for them at a time when there’s too much angst and uncertainty in this nation. Biden survived the first round, and showed the nation that he is none of the things that his detractors allege. His words were strong, measured and a call for decency in government. He did not capitulate to any socialist agenda. He was just plain Joe, at his best. Some great boxing matches came at a time when the nation was looking for someone to emerge as its hero. In the late 1930s, American sports fans were riveted by the rivalry between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling, a German boxer who was his nation’s hero. Their matches in 1936 and 1938 became worldwide symbols for the struggle between democracy and

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Nazism. I don’t equate Trump to Hitler nt in any way, but his views of the world Ea and Joe Biden’s are a contest, in my an mind, between good and evil. pe The next round won’t be an easy one do hap for the president. His campaign brings to case, th mind what Richard Nixon did in his cam-icant le Rem paigns. Biden is running on a platform Menac of uniting America, and Trump is embracing racism and claims that Biden will destroy the country if he’s elected. As the campaign moves forward, the country remains locked in a battle with the coronavirus, which isn’t going away until we have a proven vaccine and enough of it to inoculate millions of people. There won’t be any knockouts in the months to come. The fighting will be brutal, and Election Day will be Round 15. That’s when the referees, the American voters, will make the final decision. Hopefully, decency and common sense will prevail. shakin Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman tion Or for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s after si Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. tiated d He now heads Empire Government Strate- ton? Ra gies, a business development and legisla- Nobel Fas tive strategy firm. Comments about this witnes column? JKremer@liherald.com. agreem betwee min Ne bin Zay

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greatly appreciates the work of our local health department partners to date in our efforts to contain and prevent community transmission of the novel coronavirus. The Department of Health will also be grateful for and rely on their commitment to protecting public health going forward. As we now enter an influenza season during an unprecedented pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has directed my department to ensure that local communities have adequate testing capacity for both seasonal influenza and Covid-19, so we can ensure that limited testing, lab and treatment resources are used most effectively. I am requesting details about what the plans for this fall that local health departments have developed to provide people with sufficient availability of, access to and information about both flu and Covid-19 tests. Their response will help inform the state’s ongoing efforts to build a sufficient testing system to protect all New Yorkers. Finally, in addition to adequate testing capacity, developing and implementing a robust influenza vaccination plan will help ensure that we can continue to respond efficiently to the ongoing challenges of this pandemic.

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