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A ‘bridge to recovery’ Rotary Club bolsters support for Haiti after earthquake Anne, an international grassroots nonprofit established by Haitian Americans in 2008; The Central Nassau Rotary Health Education Action League Club held an emergency meeting for Haiti, known as HEAL Haiti, after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake a nonprofit that trains and mobistruck Haiti on lizes young leaders Aug. 25, and decidin Haiti to improve ed to donate $10,000 health care; and to two organizathe Rotary Club in tions that were Haiti, which helps helping out in the people in need. crippled island A number of nation. members of the Bill Youngfert, Rotary Club, which co-president of the also sent money to Rotary Club, said Haiti after an that it chose to earthquake in 2010 make the donation left over 200,000 after hearing about dead, according to the devastation the BIll YouNGFeRt some estimates, are ear thquake left Co-president, Central of Haitian descent behind. The club Nassau Rotary Club and have family was specifically there. moved by the The club, which details of blocked s e r ve s E l m o n t , deliveries of supplies and the Franklin Square, Westbury and lack of shelter for children who West Hempstead and is well were left homeless. “Some roads known in the sizable Haitian in the southern area are impass- community in Elmont and able and shelter is a big problem across Nassau County, wanted to also,” read a statement the orga- make an effective donation that nization released about its dona- would help as many Haitians as tion. “We heard one story about possible. Unable to hold its annuhow a newborn infant died over- al fundraising dinner in 2020 due night due to lack of shelter.” to the coronavirus pandemic, the The Rotary Club donated to three organizations: Project St. Continued on page 13

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the sewaNhaka INDIaNs showed off some dance moves during their exercise performance as part of the district’s annual Sports Night in March 2020.

‘It’s nothing new for us’

Sewanhaka sports adjust to new mask mandate

By RoBeRt tRaveRso rtraverso@liherald.com

Sports programs at Sewanhaka Central High School District schools are adjusting to the in-school mask mandate recently imposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

“We’ve been down the road of having Covid underway and still being able to play athletics,” said Matt McLees, the district’s athletic director. “. . . It’s nothing new for us.”

Masks are required

indoors this school year, and Hochul’s mandate encompasses indoor sports as well. In Sewanhaka schools, it will primarily affect students who play volleyball as well as other indoor sports such as basketball, McLees said, noting that outdoors sports outnumber those played indoors.

The district, he said, plans to continue enforcing social distancing measures, and stressing their importance to students. “We will continue to try to maintain social dis-

tance when possible and have it in the back of everybody’s mind,” McLees said, “but there is no concrete rule or mandate for outside.”

He pointed out that maskwearing is required by the new policy “as tolerated,” meaning that students are allowed to remove their masks while playing if they choose to.

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Elmont students awarded for Civil Air Patrol service

By RoBeRt tRaveRso rtraverso@liherald.com

Elmont residents Kleev Simon and Erin Simon, members of Civil Air Patrol NY Squadron 288 of the Civil Air Patrol, the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force, were awarded the Billy Mitchell Award at a ceremony on August 16.

Kleev Simon, who also served as a flight sergeant and flight commander during his time in the Civil Air Patrol, assumed the rank of cadet commander beginning in February, but stepped down earlier this month. Kleev graduated from Elmont Memorial High School, where he also played lacrosse, in June, and is set to attend SUNY Alfred this fall to study architecture. Erin Simon is entering her freshman year at Elmont Memorial High School this fall. Erin currently serves as a flight commander and has recently served as flight sergeant in the Civil Air Patrol as part of NY Squadron 288, which Kleev was also part of.

Kleev and Erin, like other members of the Civil Air Patrol who have also been granted the prestigious Billy Mitchell Award since it was first awarded in 1964, advanced through a multi-level cadet program. According to the Civil Air Patrol, there are 16 segments to this program, which are deemed “achievements.” Once each level of the program has been reached, cadets qualify for a number of

Courtesy Civil Air Patrol NY Squadron 288

the Civil aiR Patrol is the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force. opportunities, such as decorations, awards and opportunities for flight and academic scholarships.

Cadets are also required to pass a comprehensive, 100-question exam on questions regarding both aerospace and leadership. Lastly, Kleev and Erin also needed to meet specific physical fitness requirements in order to be eligible for the award.

One final step is required to win the Billy Mitchell Award: cadets must demonstrate leadership skills. “Fulfilling the promotion eligibility requirements above is only half the battle. You also need to show that you have some leadership skills,” according to the Civil Air Patrol’s website.

“The Billy Mitchell Award is granted to dedicated cadets who ‘speak truth to

power.’ Kleev and Erin Simon exemplify this motto through their unwavering dedication to the Civil Air Patrol and the betterment of Long Island,” said State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, who attended the ceremony on Aug. 16.

Indeed, Billy Mitchell is remembered for taking a brave stand that risked his position in the military during World War One. After helping to sink a German battleship from the air during a July 1921 mission, Mitchell challenged high-ranking members of the military by advocating for increased focus on airpower. Congress later awarded Mitchell a gold medal for his foresight and courage following the conclusion of the second world war.

“With General Mitchell as their role model, cadet officers know that speaking truth to power is a moral duty,” the Civil Air Patrol website said of the lasting impact Mitchell has on cadets in the Civil Air Patrol today.

“Every year, these cadets volunteer over 150 hours with their squadron and choose to serve their local neighborhoods.

“Through their cadet service, they have demonstrated tremendous leadership,” Kaminsky said, noting that Civil Air Patrol cadets work to advance the efforts of various local nonprofits. “Elmont is fortunate to have leaders like them, who care about bettering themselves, fellow cadets, and their community,” Kaminsky said.

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The mishpacha has a new spiritual leader

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

With more than 20 years of educational experience and familiarity with the Five Towns, Rabbi Nissan Goldberg has joined The Brandeis School mishpacha – which means family in Hebrew – bringing his unconventional learning methods.

“I have no set curriculum,” said, Goldberg, the Frost Lane school’s new rabbi. “I look at what the class needs,” pointing to his more than two decades of teaching special education. He has taught from nursey school to 12th graders. “It is to get their strengths out and diminish their weaknesses. Whatever it takes. As long as their learning, that is my responsibility, is done in a fun and caring way.”

Blending teamwork lessons such as tug-a-rope, showing the students that working together is better than working alone, to using popular and games to enhance the learning experience, Goldberg adheres to the old Confucius saying, “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember.

I do and I understand.”

Raised in Kew Gardens, Goldberg, 41, graduated from South Shore Yeshiva High School in Elmont and moved on to the Yeshiva Gedolah-The Five Towns in Woodmere and then Touro Graduate School, graduating with a degree in psychology and education. He also earned three master’s degrees from Touro: early intervention, special education and school leadership.

Further burnishing his Five Towns

officials stated: “Rabbi Goldberg believes in an open door policy and has always encouraged students to visit him with any questions thy may have regarding any aspect of life. With more than three decades of working with children, Rabbi Goldberg understands first hand that each child learns differently and will succeed when given the opportunity to do so.”

“I’m excited for Rabbi Goldberg to join our mishpacha and looking forward to creating engaging and unique programs, activities and opportunities for our parents, students and staff members that bring the Torah to life in exciting new ways,” Brandeis’s Head of School Raz Levin said.

Using real world examples, Goldberg teaches the children about their Jewish heritage, their history and their significance as Jews living in this modern world. “I use current events without getting into politics,” he said. “We also use Jewish history. The Bible is a story to learn life lessons to tap into. The Torah is a living document and I teach it that way.”

connections, Goldberg was the rabbi for Hillel Day Camp, this summer. “I love the Five Towns,” he said. “Hillel was an opportunity to be able to make traditional connections and this is an opportunity to teach our heritage in a fun loving way with real understanding of the connection to [Judaism.]”

His previous camp experience includes serving as a division head at Avnet Day Camp and Mesorah and Lavi sleepaway camps. He is the youth director at Young Israel of Great Neck. He lives in Great Neck with his wife, Bracha, and their four children.

Goldberg most recently was the Judaic and genera teacher at Ptach, a Brooklynbased nonprofit that aims to offer Jewish and secular education to children with special needs. He also has taught at the Yeshiva High School for Boys in Manhattan, known as the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy and Yeshiva University High School for Girls, known as Central in Queens.

In the school’s official welcoming letter,

Courtesy Brandeis

GREat NEck RESidENt Rabbi Nissan Goldberg, who has learned and worked in the Five Towns, is The Brandeis School’s new rabbi.

Relationships 101 The basic principles of relationships are best learned when you’re just a baby. They’re taught by example, honed by repetition and absorbed into your bloodstream as you interact with others who live by the principles day in and day out.

The principles are simple. They are: ■ treat one another with kindness ■ listen to one another respectfully ■ speak to one another respectfully ■ pay attention to what people are telling you - directly and indirectly And since you are one of the people in the relationship, you must also ■ treat yourself with kindness ■ listen and speak yourself respectfully ■ pay attention to what you are telling yourself Eli learned the principles of rela-

tionships while growing up in a crowded apartment in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn. Jimmy learned the principles while growing up in a well-educated family in a beautiful home in the Five Towns.

M a r c i e , h o w e v e r, lear ned the principles only years after she was a full grown adult. Hence, they have special meaning for her today.

opinion, she isn’t told how selfish, stupid or bad she is.

When you adhere to the basic principles of relationships, will discord and dissension be a thing of the past? Sorry, that only happens in fairy tales. In real life, when people bump up against each other, there’ ll be conflict.

But conflict doesn’t need to lead to warfare!

Clashes don’t need to end in character assassination! Hostilities don’t need to end in humiliaapadin tion! Disagreements can be resolved. Compromises can be made.

So, next time your spouse disappoints you, remember the most fundamental principles of relationships.

Instead of screaming at him (or her), calling him names, blaming her for what’s gone wrong, tell him respectfully how you experienced what he

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■ When her spouse responds affectionately to her request, she feels elated.

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■ When her child asks for her opinion and listens to what she says, she blinks away tears.

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did and what’s bothering you.

It’s easy to slide down the slippery slope to being mean when someone disappoints you. You blame them, treat them poorly, then make excuses to justify your own behavior.

But now that you know the basic principles of relationships, I trust that you, dear reader, will do your best to avoid sinking down to the lowest common denominator even if “he deserved it” or “I didn’t start it.”

Instead, you’ll pay attention to the soft voice inside of you that’s whispering, “there’s gotta be a better way for us to get along.” ©2021 Linda Sapadin, Ph.D., psychologist, coach and author, specializes in helping people overcome procrastination and debilitating anxiety and fear. Contact her at DrSapadin@aol.com. Visit her websites: www.BeatProcrastinationCoach.com and www.PsychWisdom.com.

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Back-to-school drive gives back to community

By RoBeRt tRaveRso rtraverso@liherald.com

The Jamaica Square Improvement League, a local civic organization that works to serve the community in Elmont, donated over 300 backpacks to Elmont families at a back-to-school drive it held on Aug. 21 at Hendrickson Avenue Park in Elmont.

As the vice president of the food pantry at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Elmont, Volunteer Claudine Hall helped organize donation drives every Saturday for 18 months amid the pandemic. As cases of the coronavirus dropped, Hall was alarmed by the continuation of long lines at the food pantry.

“If they can’t afford milk and bread, how in the word can they afford back to school supplies?” Hall asked, explaining that the continued need for assistance she witnessed at the church’s food pantry moved her to launch the back-to-school drive for Elmont students and families in need. “God laid it on my heart to do a backpack give-away,” Hall added.

When she reached out to family, friends and local officials and organizations for help and donations and with a plan to donate backpacks with school supplies included, Hall did not expect a major response. Later, she was overwhelmed by the response: the community rallied to donate over 300 backpacks.

Hall described a massive effort on the part of a diverse range of community stakeholders to donate to the back-toschool drive: “There was an overwhelming amount of donations from the New York Islanders, local unions, coworkers, sorority sisters, friends and family, the Town of Hempstead, everybody just jumped in,” she said.

Extra supplies and backpacks were transferred from the Jamaica Square Improvement League to Superintendent Kenneth Rosner of the Elmont Free Union School District, who said that the extra supplies will be stored at the school district’s registration building and that supplies will be administered to families in need whose children register to attend school in the school district.

Because of the success of the inaugural event as well as the potential demand for supplies and backpacks from students seeking asylum in Elmont from other

countries, such as Haiti and Afghanistan, Hall said she is considering holding the back-to-school-drive annually.

“This event shows what Elmont is all about,” Rosner said. “No one stands alone, and if you need help, the help is there.”

Hall said she saw the back-to-school drive as her responsibility as a civic leader.

“I am the product of a single-family home, my dad died at 10 years old, and my mom made plenty of sacrifices,” Hall said, “but I never had to want for anything, never wanted to anyone else to want for anything.

Born and raised in Elmont, Hall, who attended the Clara H. Carlson School as well as Sewanhaka High School, emphasized that the back-to-school drive was her way of giving back to the community that molded her into the person she is.

“I’m just making sure to give back to the community that made me the woman who I am today,” Hall said.

Nichola Gray, who is originally from Elmont and attended Sewanhaka High School but lives in Queens today, said the back-to-school drive was necessary as a result of the economic angst some families are experiencing during the pandemic.

“These days during the pandemic we have a lot of people who are unemployed and don’t have enough money to purchase school supplies,” Gray said. “So the fact that the community wants to have a backto-school backpack drive is really important, and it’s fostering community for the folks in need, and that’s really important,” she added.

Gray donated supplies and helped organize backpacks and supplies on the night before the giveaway. She also helped distribute the backpacks at the event on

Courtesy Jamaican Square Improvement League

Claudine Hall, wHo attended Sewanhaka High School, said the back-toschool drive was an opportunity for her to give back to the community who made her the person she is today, above. daisy tRoop 2064 Helped pack donated backpacks with school supplies on the night before the giveaway.

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“I am a retired probation officer, so I want to get involved in any positive activity for the children,” Gray said. “I think it’s important for the community to know that officials care about them, and they care about providing them with neces-

sary supplies,” she added.

Hall said that was thrilled by the success of the first backpack giveaway held by the Jamaica Square Improvement League. “It went beyond well,” she said.

However, Hall said she is looking forward to doing more to help students and the community at large in the future. “If it were up to me, it would be to help every child in Nassau County.”

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After-school activities The pros and cons of filling your kids’ schedule

By Emily Starbuck Gerson

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hen Robyn Parets’ two boys were young, she was torn in numerous directions, running all over Boston to take them to extracurricular activities.

Like many parents, she thought her kids needed to be involved in as many activities as possible. But one day at her 7-year-old son Noah’s soccer game, she noticed he was more interested in pulling grass than actually kicking the ball.

“That was a lightbulb moment for me; my kid didn’t love it and he wasn’t good at it,” she says. “Sso why am I even knocking myself to get to those games?”

Since her kids were little, Parets has owned Pretzel Kids, a nationwide kids yoga company that trains adults to teach yoga to kids, so she knew the importance of mindfulness and stress management. Following that aha moment, she focused on guiding her kids to just one activity each that they both were good at and liked — not just what all the other kids were doing.

In recent decades, there’s been increasing pressure on parents to involve their children in extracurriculars. Part of it is the competitive nature of getting into schools and college these days. Another factor is the need for after-school care with today’s working family. There are certainly mental, physical and developmental benefits to being involved in after-school activities like sports or the arts, but overscheduling kids can also do more harm than good.

Keeping your kids so busy outside of school that they lack free time for play or rest can lead to stress, anxiety and depression, says Dr. Harpreet Kaur, a licensed clinical psychologist for kids and teens.

“I think parents feel this pressure to prepare their kids for academic success and make them competitive college applicants and make them successful for a job, but they often miss out on that unstructured playtime that provides some of the skills that kids need to be successful anyway,” she says.

Extracurriculars enrich development There are plenty of compelling reasons to have kids involved in extracurricular activities. Kaur says extracurriculars help improve the overall functioning of children.

Encourage positive habits: Kids do best when they have structure and routine, she says, and those involved in extracurriculars perform better academically and are more likely to finish high school. “These children engage more with their parents and are more active in their community,” Kaur says. “They’re also less likely to engage in drug use or other criminal activities.”

Help develop skills and interests: Jennifer Fink, a nurse-turned-freelance writer, the mother of four boys, says an extracurricular activity “gives children a chance to develop their skills, learn more about their interests and connect with others who may share the same passions they do.”

Foster time-management skills: Fink

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has found that getting involved in extracurriculars can also help teach the kids time management.

“Sometimes a kid wants to do a lot of different things, and it may look like too much to us,” she says. "There’s some value in letting them try it and see how it goes. If all of those things are really important to the kid, they may find a way to make it work and learn time management skills in the process — things like how to get your homework done even when you’re playing on a sports team and taking a dance class.”

The downside of overscheduling Unfortunately, overscheduling kids in too many extracurricular activities can take a toll on both the children and their parents, and it’s becoming increasingly common — an alarming trend that Kaur has observed in her practice.

Interrupts valuable unstructured playtime: Kaur says there’s simply not enough information out there about how valuable play is.“Unstructured playtime promotes social skill development, and kids develop problem-solving skills,” she says. “It allows them to be creative thinkers and develop assertiveness, and they learn how to cope with negative emotions.

Kaur says unstructured playtime has become so deprioritized that an American Academy of Pediatrics report recently encouraged pediatricians to prescribe play to help make it more common for children again.

Triggers stress, anxiety and depression: When kids are too overscheduled and stressed, they’re more prone to anxiety, irritability, tiredness and destructibility, Kaur says. She adds that rates of anxiety and depression are already somewhat high in the general adolescent population, and “overscheduling kids just makes those rates increase.”

Devise a realistic plan If your family feels hopelessly overbooked and overstressed, here’s the good

news: There’s a lot you can do to regain a sense of balance.

Create a visual schedule: Kaur recommends that parents create some sort of visual reminder of everything that’s going on, whether it’s a calendar or list of activities, and to color code it by family member. “If one person has too many things going on in their schedule, it’s easy to identify, and it helps families be more aware when they’re creating schedules."

Schedule downtime: Another way to help busy kids, Kaur says, is to schedule at least an hour a week for family time to relax and have quality interactions together. This could be anything from cooking or playing a game to watching a movie as a family, she says.

Practice moderation: While it’s tempting to have your child involved in a million activities in order to look like a stellar college applicant, Kaur says, pay attention to what the children value and where their interests are, and consider picking just one or two activities that are meaningful. It’s wise to focus on quality over quantity and schedule in moderation, Kaur says.

Celebrate kids’ differences and talents: Parets has noticed that many parents fear their kids being “different” from other kids if they aren’t involved in certain activities, and they worry that their kids won’t get into college if they aren’t involved in everything under the sun. But in her experience, tuning into your child’s true talent and nurturing it, even if it’s not the most popular extracurricular, makes them happier and healthier — and there are colleges that are happy to accept someone who shines at one thing rather than is simply involved in 10 things, she says.

Above photo: Afterschool and summer enrichment programs have been a consistent source of support to young people and families who have been juggling a disrupted school routine, dealing with the health and related stressors created by the pandemic and managing the toll that Covid-19 is taking on their overall well-being.

Thriving once that final school bell rings "School” can be defined in many different ways these days, which means the after-school benefits might speak louder to you than others. The simple point is that school is just different than what kids and teens are accustomed to in our post-pandemic “normal” — they’re learning from teachers differently, however that might be; they’re doing homework differently, however that might be; they’re being tested differently, they’ve been socializing differently, etc.

In our new normal, kids may be needing the benefits of an afterschool program more than ever as a result. From online homework to the afterschool routine, and more, there is a lot to consider, and a lot that afterschool actitivies can do in order to help.

A good afterschool program can turn the aimless hours after school into productive learning time. That’s a big benefit, especially for kids who learn and think differently.

Create a sense of belonging If the afterschool program isn’t run by your school district or a local facility, it may be a way for your child to make some new friends. Being away from school can offer a break from any usual cliques or social concerns.

If the program is local or at school, it enables your child to connect with peers in a new setting. Kids in afterschool programs are more likely to be included and feel like they’re part of a group. These programs often have more adult supervision than playground time offers.

Improve social skills A good program promotes cooperation, support, and respect. This can help kids feel more secure about joining a game or starting a conversation. And if they slip up, a sympathetic staffer should be on hand to remind them to take turns or stop interrupting.

Academic support Some afterschool programs provide classroom support, including an opportunity to do homework.

This time can be very helpful for kids who struggle with homework at home or who can’t sit down to do it until late. Getting it done after school can make everyone’s evening more pleasant.

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“A lot of people see a list of all the great things that are being offered,” says Lee “and sign up for everything and then they realize it’s so unrealistic with their time constraints and all the schoolwork that they have.”That’s not good — as Newman notes, it’s no fun for kids “to have so many things that they have to drop out.”

An overload of extracurricular activities also doesn’t bring the perceived benefit a lot of parents and kids are looking for: a goodlooking college application. “What they’re really looking for is applicants who are well rounded and have focus. You can see they are pursuing a goal and they really like what they are doing,” Newman says.“And not just dipping their hand in this and that and the next thing so they can fill out more lines on the application.”

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By Harry Kimball he vast array of extracurricular activities offered to school-age children can be a headache for kids and parents both. They can help kids develop talents and passions and learn how to push themselves. And, of course, we want them to look like well-rounded, accomplished kids to college admissions committees. But we don’t want to run them ragged or turn them into stressed-out automatons. Even parents of young children,are feeling the pressure.

After school activities have also stepped in to supplant the unsupervised “free time” we’re no longer comfortable allowing our children to have, says Rachel Cortese, a speech-language pathologist and former New York City schoolteacher. And there is a consensus that children should have the opportunity to experiment with a variety of activities in well-delineated blocks — ”structured free time,” as it is called.

But how much should parents push their kids to engage — and how much is too much?

The benefits In general, says Cortese,“kids tend to do really well when they have structure, and part of that structure is having an afterschool schedule.” Educational and learning specialist Ruth Lee also extols some well-known benefits of getting kids together outside of the classroom for more activities — especially the physical kind.

“It gives kids social interactions,” she says, at the same time helping them “get out some of their energy so they can settle and go back to their work” after school. This is particularly important, she notes, as schools are cutting back on recess more and more.

For older kids, after-school activities can be very important as protection against more dangerous activities, says clinical psychologist Dr. Mary Rooney — particularly if parents are busy at work or with other children.“Once kids get into middle school and high school,” she says, “the hour or two after school is the highest risk time for dangerous behaviors like substance abuse, because

it’s the largest chunk of time when kids are unmonitored.”

And of course, more recreational activities outside of school, whether its sports, dance, theater, science, give kids another arena to demonstrate competence and mastery, which is important for their self-esteem and identity development —especially for kids who might be struggling in school.

The drawbacks But what about overscheduling? It is not to be taken lightly, says Dr. Susan Newman, a social psychologist and author of, among many others,“The Case for the Only Child.”

For one thing, Newman warns that mastery might suffer. “If you are spreading yourself too thin you’re not going to be able to focus and get really good at one thing.”

The school-life balance How many activities are too many? “Seven,” jokes clinical psychologist Dr. Jerry Bubrick. But really, it’s too much when afterschool activities start interfering with a child’s life. Bubrick notes that in the case of intensive commitments like sports or theater, even one activity can be too much.

Bubrick has a pretty simple calculus for how much is too much.“Can you still do your homework? Can you still get 8+ hours of sleep each night? Can you still be a part of your family? Can you still hang out with your friends? If the answer is ‘no’ to one or more of these, then it’s too much.”

Back to school: What’s a parent to do?

Know your child. “Kids come to us with different predispositions,” Cortese says, and the best activity “depends on the individual child.” And when it comes to scheduling, kids respond better to different kinds of structure. “One kid who is highly scheduled might do very well and another might need to dial it back,” says Cortese.

Courtey Child Mind Institute Above photos: Kids have lots of options these days, but an overscheduled child can go from busy to burned out in no time.

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at (516) 354-5280 x 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org to register.

Tuesday Book Discussion

Virtual Paint Party with Celicia Cargill of Authentic HeARTwork

Join the Franklin Square Public Library in the library meeting room at 10:30 a.m. for an in-person book discussion of “A Good Neighborhood by Theresa Anne Fowler” with Sarah Siegel. The book discussion is limited to 30 people. To register, stop by the Reference Desk or call the library at (516) 488-3444.

Registration begins on Wednesday, September 1.

Join Elmont Memorial Library and Celicia Cargill of Authentic HeARTwork at 1 p.m. for a virtual paint party and step-by-step painting class. Contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or at reference@ elmontlibrary.org to register. Only Elmont Memorial Library cardholders may register for the program. The link to attend the virtual event will be emailed before the program. Registration is required by Wednesday, September 8, and supplies can be picked up on both Thursday, September 9 and Friday, September 10.

Wednesday, Sept. 8 Lecture/Film Discussion: The National Film Registry Join Elmont Memorial Library an at 2 p.m. for a virtual discussion on the National Film Registry and to view film clips from different genres of movies reflecting the range and diversity of American film heritage. Registration is required and ends one hour prior to the discussion. The link to attend the event will be emailed to you before the program begins.

Thursday, Sept. 9

Online Program: Zumba

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Pick up your brush Elmont Memorial Library is a virtual-only painting instruction class on Sept. 13 at 1 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 10

Tai Chi/Chi Gong with Joseph Panico Join Elmont Memorial Library and Joseph Panico at 11 a.m. for a virtual Tai Chi/Chi Gong class. The class consists of breathing and movement exercises.

Registration ends one hour before class begins. Contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or at reference@ elmontlibrary.org to register.

Book Discussion: Shoeless Joe Join Elmont Memorial Library and Ian at 7 p.m. for a virtual discussion of the novel “Shoeless Joe” by W.P. Kinsella.

Registration is required one hour before the program begins, and the link to attend the event will be emailed to you before the program begins. Contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or at reference@elmontlibrary.org to register.

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Join the Franklin Square Public Library and Kristen Fonte between 5:45 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. for a Zumba class. Register online at the library’s website, at https:// www.franklinsquarepl.org/.

Live Performance: The Music of the Great Composers with Marshall Zucker Join Elmont Memorial Library and Marshall Zucker at 12:30 p.m. in the Elmont Library Theater for a performance of music by the great American composers Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, which will be played on the Xylophone by Marshall Zucker. Admission is free and open to the public, but there is limited seating available on a firstcome-first-serve basis.

Saturday Sept. 11 Tech Time with Todd Schlitt Join Elmont Memorial Library and Todd Schlitt for Tech Time with Todd Schlitt between 10:30 a.m. and 11 p.m. in

meeting room 1. Register for a personal 15-minute appointment with Todd Schlitt, who will help answer tech-related questions you have. Online or in-person registration is required, and only Elmont Cardholders may register for an appointment. Contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223 or at reference@ elmontlibrary.org to register.

Online Program: Intermediate Powerpoint Join the Franklin Square Public Library Learn for an online program between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to learn intermediate level techniques in slide animation and graphics, transitions, formatting, adding multimedia objects, slides, and animation effects on Microsoft PowerPoint. You need a tablet or laptop for this class. Register online at the library’s website, at https://www. franklinsquarepl.org/.

Sunday, Sept. 12 Live performance: Classic R&B Music of Yesterday & Today with Simply Magic Join Elmont Memorial Library and Simply Magic at 2 p.m. in the Elmont Library Theater for a live performance of R&B music. Admission is free and open to the public, but there is limited seating available on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Monday Sept. 13 Coffee Chat with Elmont Memorial Library Staff Join Elmont Memorial Library and its staff for a coffee chat, held weekly on Mondays at 11 a.m. Registration is required; the Zoom link to attend the coffee chat will be emailed to you before each chat, and registration ends one hour before each program begins. Contact adult reference

HAVING AN EVENT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest.

All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to rtraverso@liherald.com

The Jamaica Square Improvement League held a school supplies drive in Elmont on Aug. 21.

This month, the New York Islanders provided hockey instruction to GYO campers in Elmont.

The first day of school for schools in the Sewanhaka Central High School district is Sept. 2.

Donna Orender, who once served as the president of the WNBA, is originally from Elmont.

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Richner hosts vaccine clinic for employees jvallone@liherald.com

Covid-19 vaccinations are now being administered at businesses, thanks to a new initiative by the Nassau County Department of Health.

On Aug. 27, Richner Communications Inc., parent company of Herald Community Newspapers, hosted a pop-up vaccination clinic at the company’s Garden City office in conjunction with the county-sponsored initiative — referred to by county officials as the “traveling vaccine pod.”

Nassau County communications specialist Vicki DiStefano said many people around the county still do not know where and how to get vaccinated. The new program — which brings vaccines directly to businesses for “in-house” vaccination — quickly grew in popularity, according to DiStefano. Covid infection rates have recently been on the rise in Nassau, hovering around 4 percent.

Interested RCI employees, as well as eligible friends and family, received their first doses of the Moderna vaccine. The second dose will be administered at the RCI office on Sept. 24. If employees had already received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine, they were also able to receive their second shot at the pop-up site.

“In Nassau County, 86.7 percent of adults 18 and older are vaccinated,” County Executive Laura Curran told the Herald, making Nassau the leading county in the state for vaccinations, and third in the country among large counties with a population of 1 million people or more.

The first business vaccination pod took place at Café Baci in Westbury on Aug. 3. “Since then, dozens of businesses have reached out to us,” Curran said, adding that officials have seen a solid uptick in the vaccination rate

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At A tRAVELiNg vaccination clinic hosted by Nassau County at the Herald Community Newspapers’ office in Garden City last Friday, nurse Jeanne Ost injected RCI pressman Richard Maitland with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. since the program’s start.

“With the Delta variant, we want to get everyone vaccinated,” Curran explained.

The pods are run by health department nurses, all of whom have been on the front lines of vaccine administration since earlier this year.

Pod manager and nurse Holly Marrano said, “We’re bringing the vaccine to local businesses to make it more

convenient for people to get vaccinated.”

“We are making this as easy as possible — no excuses,” Curran said. “No business is too big or too small.”

Any business interested in participating in the program and hosting a vaccine clinic for employees can reach out to the county health department at (516) 2279570, Monday through Friday.

Among the RCI employees who were vaccinated was Richard Maitland, 46, of Rockaway, Queens. Maitland has been working as a pressman for the company for nine years.

“I’ve been watching the news and seeing what’s going on,” Maitland said. “I’m seeing that it’s the unvaccinated that are transmitting the virus.”

Saying he was never against the vaccine, he thought getting it now was the right thing to do with the infection rate on the rise, and especially since the vaccination pod made it so convenient.

“No one is safe, and I don’t want to be that carrier who gets someone sick,” he added, calling to the Delta variant “round two” of the coronavirus.

“I don’t want to be part of the problem,” Maitland said. “I want to be part of the solution.”

That solution, according to Curran, is to vaccinate as many people as possible.

Covid-19 vaccines are not 100 percent effective in preventing the disease; however, county officials are finding that those who are vaccinated and do test positive for Covid are less likely to end up with a severe case that results in hospitalization.

Pod nurse Camille Laudando said the traveling vaccine clinic is all about “community outreach” and is the “definition of public health.”

“The vaccine is the most effective way to prevent Covid,” Curran said. “Our residents understand the value of the vaccine.”

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club’s members and its supporters raised the money themselves, Youngfert said.

This, he said, was a “substantial donation for our organization.”

A major concern for the club was getting the funds to organizations on the ground in Haiti that can be trusted to help its people. After the 2010 earthquake, the FBI and other governmental agencies warned of fraudulent charities that were not distributing funds and supplies.

“We wanted to make sure the money actually helps people with needs,” Youngfert said. “It’s unfortunate on the island: There is no support structure in place to get help to people; there’s nowhere to go . . . it breaks our hearts.”

State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, the first person of Haitian descent to serve in the New York State Legislature, said she appreciated the donation. “I really approved of the Central Nassau Rotary Club’s donation,” she said. “It was humbling.”

Solages applauded the club for donating to organizations recommended by its members of Haitian descent, who are familiar with charities there that have low administrative costs and distribute the majority of donations they receive to people in need.

“We need to build a bridge to recov-

ery,” Solages said. The goal, she said, should be to empower and inspire the people of Haiti, and help them mount a recovery from the earthquake, as well as the political and social crises the nation faces.

“There has been an outpouring of support from people of all demographics,” Solages said, noting the donations made by people in Elmont, Franklin Square and across Nassau County. “The people of this community support Haiti and its success.”

In fact, she said, as a result of a donation drive she held last month, immediately after the earthquake, her office needed to purchase a larger truck to transport the donations of medical gowns, syringes and other supplies.

She urged community members to continue to pray for and keep Haiti in their thoughts, and she advised those wanting to donate to its recovery to work with trusted organizations such as HEAL Haiti.

In its Aug. 25 statement, the Rotary Club noted that Solages’s office was coordinating the collection of monetary donations, medical supplies and personal hygiene products that were to be transported to Haiti soon. Those interested in donating can call Solages’s office at (516) 599-2972.

“Haiti will recover from this,” she said.

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Soulful tuneS were provided by the Janis Joplin Experience at Eisenhower Park.

Janis Joplin lives again at Eisenhower Park A large crowd gathered at Eisenhower Park on Aug. 7 to experience the music of Janis Joplin, who died so many years ago. Lisa Polizzi, lead singer from the Janis Joplin Experience, shared heartfelt renditions of Joplin’s popular tunes alongside her band of talented musicians.

People sang along and they were inspired to get up and dance too.

The free concerts provided by the county are beloved by the community, with the Janis Joplin Experience perhaps one of the most popular.

liSa Polizzi, aBove, belted out Janis Joplin’s hits.

BuBBleman Sal mackey walked through the crowd with his bubble gun throughout the concert.

Sally Simeone danced the night away.

Joe ferrante trieS to make it to a concert every night and dances from start to finish. He went to 321 shows in 2019 before Covid stopped live music.

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LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Board of Water Commissioners of the West HempsteadHempstead Gardens Water District, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York. To the residents of the West HempsteadHempstead Gardens Water District: Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held for the West HempsteadHempstead Gardens Water District on Thursday September 9, 2021 at the hour of 6:00 o’clock pm located at the district office of the West Hempstead-Hempstead Gardens Water District 575 Birch Street West Hempstead, New York 11552. For the review and public inspection of the estimate of proposed expenditures and revenues by the district for the year 2022.

Pursuant to Article 13 Section 215 Sub Part 9-a of Town Law. Prior to this public hearing, any resident may contact the Water District at (516) 483-1180 to obtain the necessary information to have live internet access to this public hearing via computer or telephone. A copy of the estimate of proposed expenditures and revenues is available for public inspection at the District office during business hours from September 2, 2021 through September 9, 2021. By order of the Board of Water Commissioners.

West Hempstead-Hempstead Gardens Water District West Hempstead, New York 11552 Submitted: Jason Belle District Superintendent Dated: August 26, 2021 127299 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court of the State of New York, Nassau County, Index No. 609395/2019 Bank of Hope, Plaintiff v.

Tae Hoon Yoon, Kyong Suk Yoon, and Board of Managers of Maple Run Condominium, Defendants.

TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale entered in the above captioned action on February 6, 2020, the undersigned Referee named in said judgment will sell at public auction on September 23, 2021, at 2:30 P.M., Rain or Shine, on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, the premises described in said judgment of foreclosure and sale. Said premises are known as 505 www.liherald.com

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Peninsula Boulevard, Hempstead, NY 11550 (Section 34, Block 382, Lot 206), situate in the County of Nassau, State of New York. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the Referee will cancel the foreclosure auction.

The approximate amount of plaintiff’s lien is $262,383.12 plus interest and costs. The premises will be sold in one parcel and subject to provisions of the filed judgment and terms of sale.

John G. Kennedy, Esq., Referee Law Offices of Tae H. Whang, LLC, Attorneys for Plaintiff, 185 Bridge Plaza North, Suite 201, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, Tel. (201) 461-0300, 415 White Oak Road, Palisades, NY 10964 (By Appointment Only).

127195 LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that an on-premise license, #TBA has been applied for by Belmont Sportservice Inc to sell beer, wine, cider and liquor at retail in an on premises establishment.

For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 2400 Hempstead Turnpike Elmont NY 11003.

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that an order granted by the Supreme Court, Nassau County, on the 26th day of July, 2021, bearing Index Number 408/21, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, NY grants me the right to assume the name of Osazee Brian Clarke. The city and state of my present address are Elmont, NY; the month and year of my birth are August, 2002; the place of my birth is Valley Stream, New York; my present name is Osazee Brian Igiebor.

127273 LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU ___________________I NDEX NO. 606466/2019 REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC, Plaintiff, Plaintiff designates NASSAU as the place of trial situs of the real property vs.

JOHN ZICCARDI, INDIVIDUALLY, AND AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ANTIONETTE ZICCARDI A/K/A ANNE ZICCARDI; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF ANTIONETTE ZICCARDI A/K/A ANNE ZICCARDI any and all

persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; PERILLO BROS FUEL OIL CORP.; HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC. O/B/O THE OFFICE OF THE MEDICAID INSPECTOR GENERAL; NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 864 CENTER DRIVE FRANKLIN SQUARE, NY 11010 District: Section: 35 Block: 161 Lot: 58 To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party

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defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $787,500.00 and interest, recorded on May 29, 2009, at Liber M 33775 Page 571, of the Public Records of NASSAU County, New York, covering premises known as 864 CENTER DRIVE FRANKLIN SQUARE, NY 11010.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

NASSAU County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: August 13th, 2021 ROBERTSON, ANSCHUTZ, SCHNEID, CRANE & PARTNERS, PLLC Attorney for Plaintiff VERONICA M. RUNDLE, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 127191

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Under the neW mandate issued by Gov. Kathy Hochul, students will not be required to wear masks for outdoor sports.

Loosening restrictions for student athletes will not be the case,” McLees said of the ning to slowly move away from coronavi- potential for rising case numbers in the rus restrictions. “We wanted to explore fall. He emphasized that infected students and move in the direction of not being as will be required to quarantine for up to 10 restrictive,” he said. Now, however, days, which would be unfortunate for stu“Everything that was on the table is now dent athletes, who have been looking forward to getting back on the fields and off the table.”

Though they were not expected courts after the pandemic shut down change, McLees said he was not con- school sports in 2020-21.

As far back as January, Nassau County cerned about student compliance with the new mask-wearing rules. “Our kids have Executive Laura Curran made it clear been terrific with it,” he said of previous that she identified with them. “I’m excited to get our kids back on the fields, pandemic guidelines. He courts and the rinks they also complimented the dislove so much,” she said trict’s student athletes for then, “and to bring a little limiting extracurricular nor mal back into their social gatherings, which, he lives.” said, are often responsible Pandemic restrictions for transmission of the necessitated a truncated and virus. condensed school sports calIndeed, according to data endar: In January, the released recently by the Sewanhaka district held a NFL and the Centers for Diswinter “season” for basketease Control and Prevenball; fall sports took place in tion, “Shared transportation March and April, and spring and meals were the most sports in May and June. common causes of the virus Matt McLees McLees emphasized the spreading among sports Athletic director, impact the pandemic had on teams,” The New York seniors in 2020-21, and will Sewanhaka Central Times reported. possibly have this year as McLees said he under- High School District well. “We’re different,” he stood the expectation that said of coaches and athletic there would be an uptick in directors, “because we have next year, we coronavirus cases this fall as students return to school, and school sports. The have the year after that . . .” But for those who are graduating, he said, “This is it CDC has called for the cancellation of school sports in communities with high for them. It’s imperative that we make levels of transmission of the virus. every effort to get them on the court and “High-risk sports and extracurricular field and playing as much as possible with activities should be virtual or canceled in as limited restrictions as possible, areas of high community transmission because this is their only time — they unless all participants are fully vaccinat- don’t get another opportunity.”

And following safety protocols, McLees ed,” the agency wrote in “Guidance for COVID-19 Prevention in K-12 Schools,” said, is essential in order for this to happen. “We want to get beyond this — at released in August.

Even in communities with lower num- some point, this is going to be over,” he said. “We want to move as . . . quickly as bers of coronavirus cases and rates of transmission, the CDC called for weekly we can for the sake of these kids. We’re thinking positively, and moving forward screening and testing.

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A. You should assure your wife that her concerns are very real and it is all right to be concerned. Validate her feelings and be understanding, because many people in the same situation, in taller buildings, are questioning the safety of where they live.

Questioning and confirming are what keep us safe, onte eeper no matter what the issue is or where we are.

Ignoring or dismissing a potential problem doesn’t make it go away.

Applying knowledge and reason leads to security.

Many people assume, with most things, that some qualified person simply took care of a problem, solved it correctly, and kept us safe. I often share my calculation process with clients, showing them the reasoning behind steps taken to calculate a beam, for example, for two reasons. One is so they understand how buildings work, and also so that when a substitution is requested, they understand why it was rejected.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of assumptions that work is being done with correctness and conscientiousness. With larger buildings, there are many safety procedures, including independent certification by qualified consultant engineering professionals. You might feel better if your building hired an engineer who could explain the building’s structural system and how it keeps you safe. If the people living in the Surfside condominiums could have questioned and acted with a maintenance program, which would have required spending money, things might have been different. The design, review, construction and maintenance all played a part in the failure.

Look at your own building’s track record and ask informed questions. If you have no knowledge of the building process, ask others who do. The more I learn about the investigation of the collapse, the more convinced I am of the reasons for never ignoring the smallest details of how these giant custom jigsaw puzzles fit together. Every failure I have ever learned about had at least two common denominators, confidence and naïveté.

If a reinforcing rod is shown on the drawings to be a specific diameter, don’t substitute a smaller size because it was more available or install separate pieces where a continuous rod was supposed to go. The pool deck of that building was a separate structure that should never have been tied into the columns of the taller adjacent building, just like a deck should have minimal or no attachment to a house. The right force, wind or water, can pull a vertical support column sideways, rendering the column useless and toppling the taller structure.

Listen to your wife and have a happy life!

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hirty years ago this week, I hopped on an electric train with a brightred engine, a nervous energy pulsing through my arms and legs straight to my fingers and toes, which fidgeted uncontrollably. My head was spinning.

I carried all I had in my arms — two gray suitcases of clothes, one violin in a worn brown case and one blue duffle bag with running shoes and toiletries. I was 24 and headed to the greatest adventure of my life, a twoyear bicultural SCoTT exchange that excited me, at BRINToN times vexed me and forever changed me.

I served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Veliko Tarnovo, a 5,000-year-old city in central Bulgaria with a medieval fortress that was flanked by white stucco houses, squeezed onto the steep hills above the winding Yantra River.

In the first week of September 1991, I left the safe haven of the training site the Peace Corps set up in Bankya, a spa resort 11 miles outside Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, and headed to Tarnovo, as it’s commonly known. After two and a half months of preparations, I still had no idea what to expect. I loved every minute of the next

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two years.

I was part of the first group of 26 Peace Corps volunteers to enter Bulgaria after the fall of communism there a year earlier. As was the case in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania between 1989 and 1990, thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets to protest communist rule. Todor Zhivkov — the longest-serving Soviet Bloc dictator in the post-World War II era, who reigned from 1954 to 1989 — was deposed without bloodshed. In July 1990, then President Petar Mladenov, a former communist leader, quit over accusations that he had ordered tanks to roll against protesters in December 1989.

People rejoiced after Mladenov’s resignation, The New York Times reported on July 7, 1990. “Never again a communist president in Bulgaria!” 5,000 protesters chanted in unison in central Sofia.

To be there, in this place burning with democratic idealism after more than four decades of repressed speech and thought, was the thrill of a lifetime for an American who had freedom of speech and assembly ingrained in him. Bulgaria felt so alive. I felt so alive. People were suddenly free. As an outside observer who was quickly acculturated to Bulgarian beliefs and practices (I married a Bulgarian), I internalized their joy, their relief and,

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sometimes, their fear of a return to communism.

On June 20 this year, most of the original 26 Peace Corps volunteers, our Bulgarian manager, Emil Patev, and my wife, Katerina, who was one of our language and culture trainers, gathered on Zoom to reminisce.

It was perhaps the strangest feeling I’ve ever experienced. Because of the intensity of the experiences that we shared, the names and faces of my fellow volunteers were indelibly etched in my mind. I pictured them as their younger selves, and then we appeared in little boxes on a computer screen, significantly older variations of ourselves, as if this were a “Dr. Who” episode. It was jarring at first.

Then we started to share what we took away from Bulgaria. Many spoke of the Bulgarian work ethic, the slower place of life, the neighborliness or the kindness they were shown by their colleagues at the schools where they taught — we were all English teachers.

Happy memories coursed through my mind — meeting my lovely wife for the first time, soaking in the sights and sounds that were so different than the United States, chatting with my students, who were 17 when I met them and 19 when they graduated from the Vasil Drumev High School of Mathematics and Natural

ecalling a lifealtering stint in Bulgaria after the fall of communism.

Sciences, as they attended a fifth year of high school for advanced studies.

That graduation, in June 1991, was among the most beautiful days of my life, aside from my wedding and the births of my children. It was a simple, short ceremony, full of music. The students poured flowers into their teachers’ hands, as is Bulgarian tradition. Katerina and I taught at the school together, and we came away with so many flowers that our tiny, rented apartment resembled a florist’s shop.

I’m occasionally asked to speak to young people about my Peace Corps experiences. They often ask about the challenges, or whether I had any regrets about signing up. I can sense their trepidation.

Volunteering for the Peace Corps is a monumental, life-altering decision.

I used to speak of the pluses and minuses. There is, no doubt, a financial sacrifice, because you’re volunteering for two years of your life, I would say. Perhaps that was the reporter in me wanting to give both sides of the story.

If they have a strong interest in joining, I tell them now, they should embrace any fears they might harbor and let the river of life take them wherever it might flow.

You needn’t know where it will end up. It could take you to magical lands you never imagined.

Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.

In the eye of the western firestorm

e’ve been through a lot together, you and I. Now this.

As I wrote last week, my husband and I and Lillybee the dog headed out West to the Northern California mountains on Aug. 10. We drove from Denver through Cheyenne, Park City and Elko and arrived here in Tahoe-Donner on Aug. 20.

We’re in a rental house perched on stilts set into a hillside, a half-hour from anything, including our kids and grandkids, who live in a nearby town. They’re the reason we came, RANDI and they’re the reaKREISS son we’re still here, 10 days into a month-long stay.

We’re in the throes of a wildfire emergency, officially declared by President Biden yesterday. Smoke obscures views of the mountains. The grandkids’ school opening was delayed. The smell of smoke is in our clothes, our hair and even on the dog.

The Caldor and Dixie fires are raging around us, from 45 to 100 miles away. We’re told to stay inside, not exert ourselves and

keep the windows closed.

The obvious move is to leave ASAP, but that means driving back to Denver in our rental car through areas that are now smoky as well. Our children surely aren’t ready to abandon their family home. We hate to run, since the wind could change in a week, and it could be healthy to resume normal outdoor life. We don’t know when we’ll have the chance to sit down at the same table again.

Our kids must figure out if their life out here is sustainable going forward.

These fires aren’t going away, and it’s unlikely that it will be better next year. The snowpack has been lighter every winter, and the ground brush is drier. Tinder. No one has grass, just scrub around the homes, cut back for safety.

Back home, I know you’re struggling with the Delta variant and unusual heat.

We Long Islanders have had our shared disasters, mostly hurricanes, and there will likely be more this season.

This is something else. People who live up here are tough and self-reliant, but everyone is shaken by the hazardous air quality and the danger of encroaching

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fires. We all have alerts set on our phones should the conditions get more dangerous.

Ash falls out of the smoke clouds, irritating our eyes and throats.

We have captured some moments with the grandkids, some meals, a lot of time together playing Rummikub.

They seem able to be outside longer than we can, younger lungs and all that. But they are tuned in to our talk about the smoke and fire and what the options are. These kids just lived through more than a year of relative isolation during the pandemic, and so much of their hope was invested in this summer, to do the swimming and rafting and hiking that is their reason for putting up with life in the semi-wilderness. All of our kids and grandkids have tolerated so much constraint and disappointment. I hope it makes them stronger.

To summon my own resolve, I’ve been reading about people who live in places where the geography or the weather or the terrain is a constant challenge and threat.

Why do they stay? My husband and I can and probably will leave if the air remains unhealthy or the fires get worse; we have

ur kids must figure out if life out here is sustainable going forward.

that option. Our kids will make their own calculation of risk vs. benefit of life in these mountains.

People live on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Sicily, generation after generation, despite the inevitability of lava flows and ash that burn them out of their houses. They rebuild; they stay. Some say the reason is that the volcanic soil is fertile and produces the best olives and olive oil in the world.

People in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., know for sure that periodic super-floods will drive them from their homes, but they come back and they build again. Why does anyone live in New Orleans? Or on any barrier island?

Why didn’t we all flee after Hurricane Sandy?

Ultimately people look around and decide that the benefit outweighs the risk of living near a volcano or in a flood plain or on a fire-scarred mountaintop.

We would not have come to California now if we knew how the smoke and fire would look and feel and taste. The headline in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday read: “Caldor Fire Knocking on the Door of Tahoe Basin.”

The fire is knocking, and there isn’t much here to keep it out.

Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Get your teenagers vaccinated ASAP . . .

ome 87 percent of Nassau County’s adult population, ages 18 and up, has received at least a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bravo, Nassau! That’s a remarkable statistic, well ahead of the state average of 79.3 percent.

Nearly a million people have been vaccinated here, and we could soon reach that threshold.

But here’s the thing: Looking at all age groups in the county, only 73 percent of the total population has gotten at least one dose. That’s because children are ineligible, and only about 49 percent of teenagers, ages 12 to 18, had received a first dose as of last Friday, even though 16- and 17-year-olds have been eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine since April, and 12- to 15-year-olds since May. Clearly, we must focus our efforts on vaccinating teens. With school starting in many districts this week, and therefore with students starting to congregate in large groups five to six days a week, there is the potential for the virus to spread rapidly in this population, and then to be passed on to unvaccinated adults and even

to the relatively small number of vaccinated people who will get Covid despite being inoculated.

Nassau County government now has an excellent program that brings a team of vaccinators to a workplace on request. It’s all about making the vaccine readily available to people who are too busy or otherwise unable to break away from work to get inoculated. The Herald Community Newspapers took part last Friday afternoon, and the vaccination team did all the work.

Similarly, the county and the Town of Hempstead, each of which has a mobile inoculation unit, should bring the vaccination fight to our schools, one by one, starting in low-income areas, where parents may be unable to take their teens to a vaccination site because they’re working long hours and worry about taking time off.

We’ve already seen mobile units brought to a small number of school districts like Freeport, but the effort should be rapidly expanded to all 54 Nassau districts.

At the same time, parents should seek to have their teens vaccinated. With the

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chool’s starting this week. That’s a scary thought, given that we were supposed to have vanquished the coronavirus by now but simply have been unable to, despite our best efforts. This is one mean virus.

All parents of school-age children, whether they’re kindergartners or seniors in high school, should have a talk with them not only about avoiding strangers and saying no to drugs and

alcohol, but also about staying safe from Covid-19.

Remind them to wear their masks in school, as mandated now by New York state. Tell them to maintain social distancing, and to cover their mouths when they cough, and to stay home when they’re feeling sick. And don’t forget about handwashing — lots of handwashing with good old soap and water.

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Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine receiving full approval by the federal Food and Drug Administration for those 16 and over, we should all feel confident about its efficacy and safety. It will now be marketed as Comirnaty, according to the FDA. For those ages 12 to 15, the Pfizer vaccine will continue to be available under an emergency-use authorization.

The Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are likely to receive FDA approval for 12- to 17-year-olds in the coming months.

Clinical trials are still under way to test all three vaccines for children ages 5 to 11.

It’s uncertain when, precisely, they might receive approval under emergency-use authorization for this age group. It could be as early as this fall, though that seems unlikely now. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said that authorization would more likely come by late December.

The bottom line for parents: Have your children vaccinated as soon as humanly possible.

letters Happy birthday, President Johnson To the Editor: The late President Lyndon Johnson was born Aug. 27, 1908. Many remember him for succeeding President John F. Kennedy after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Others remember him for his domestic Great Society program, which included civil rights, Medicare, Medicaid, the War on Poverty and public broadcasting. There was also foreign policy, most notably the Vietnam War. Few remember that the success of public transportation can be traced back to one of Johnson’s greatest accomplishments, which continues to benefit many Americans today. On July 9, 1964, he signed the Urban Mass Transportation Act into

ate. There’s no need to scare young children. They need to be reassured that they will be safe in school. Meanwhile, teens might need a more frank discussion.

PBS Kids for Parents has an excellent primer on “How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus” that’s worth a quick read. You can find it at www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/how-to-talk-to-your-kidsabout-coronavirus.

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n the 1987 movie “The Princess Bride,” Vizzini, a Sicilian assassin, warns Wesley, also known as the Dread Pirate Roberts, “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders — the most famous of which is, ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’”

The United States fell into that classic blunder when it ignored 19th-century British debacles during the First AngloAfghan War (18391843) and the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) and pretended it could avoid the ALAn fate of the Soviet Union in the SovisinGer et-Afghan War (1979-1988).

A 1979 internal memo to the Soviet Union’s governing Politburo explained why “nation building” by the Soviet Union was doomed to failure. The reactionary forces described in the memo are now known as the Taliban.

“The Afghan reactionary forces,” the memo stated, “are very skillfully taking advantage of the almost complete illiteracy of the population, complex interna-

tional and intertribal conflicts, religious fanaticism and nationalism. Subversive actions, sabotage and the resistance of the overthrown class of exploiters are deepening the economic problems, lowering industrial and agricultural output, as well as hampering business activity, raising prices and reducing the influx of revenue into the state budget.”

The memo warned the Politburo that “the use of Soviet troops in repressing the Afghan counterrevolution would seriously damage the international authority of the USSR.” In his 2010 memoir “Decision Points,” former President George W. Bush tried to justify the 2001 decision to invade Afghanistan and the prolonged war that followed. This wasn’t just about revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, or a strategy to kill Osama bin Laden and destroy Al Qaeda.

According to Bush, “Afghanistan was the ultimate nation-building mission. We had liberated the country from a primitive dictatorship, and we had a moral obligation to leave behind something better. We also had a strategic interest in helping the Afghan people build a free

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erhaps every candidate for president should be a certified historian.

Letters law. It has resulted in the investment of several hundred billion dollars in public transportation under grants from the Federal Transit Administration, which before 1991 was known as the Urban Mass Transit Administration.

Even with Covid-19, millions of Americans continue using various public transportation alternatives, including local and express buses, ferries, jitneys, light rail, subways and commuter rail services. Investment in public transportation today contributes to economic growth, employment and a stronger economy. Dollar for dollar, it is one of the best investments we can make.

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society. The terrorists took refuge in places of chaos, despair and repression. A democratic Afghanistan would be a hopeful alternative to the vision of the extremists.”

The nation-building task was “more daunting” than Bush and his advisers anticipated because of their ignorance about Afghanistan and because they apparently never consulted either Wikipedia or the CIA World Factbook. It is a mountainous region of tribes, clans and linguistic groups, with millions of people who have little connection to those outside their locality or village. The constitution of Afghanistan, written in 2004 under U.S. auspices, recognizes 14 major ethno-linguistic groups. The largest is the Pashtun, who make up almost half of the population of the country and are the dominant group in the Taliban.

If only the Bush administration in 2001, or policymakers in the Obama and Trump administrations, had watched “The Princess Bride” or had access to the Soviet Politburo memo. I found it, quite easily, translated from Russian to English, on the website of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

The memo, “Our Future Policy in Connection with the Situation in Afghanistan,” became available to the public in 1993.

As President Biden made clear in a speech to the American public, “After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces [from Afghanistan] . . . There is no chance that one year — one more year, five more years or 20 more years of U.S. military boots on the ground would’ve made any difference.”

After the diplomatic, military and human disaster in Afghanistan, maybe there should be a constitutional qualification for becoming president of the United States: that a candidate be a certified historian. The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians could review all candidates the way legal organizations review potential judicial appointments.

Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.

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Any workers who were not eligible for enhanced Covid-19 pandemic unemployment benefits can apply. The funds do not need to be paid back, and this relief is available regardless of immigration status.

Please visit https://dol.ny.gov/EWF for more information and to apply.

I thank state leaders for their efforts to maximize the scope of our Covid-19 relief initiatives. In the weeks ahead, I look forward to sharing information about the Excluded Workers Fund at community events and with our local faith and civic leaders to ensure that economic relief reaches the maximum number of Nassau residents possible.

CARRIé SOLAGES Nassau County legislator, Lawrence

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