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‘You’ve got to shop local’ F.S. Chamber of Commerce promotes area businesses at expo get to know members of the community. “I just like to be with the community and see people,” Fifteen local businesses were said Sasan Shavanson of One In highlighted at a business expo A Million Inc, a screen-printing held by the Franklin Square and embroidery company off Chamber of Commerce on Nov. Franklin Avenue in Valley 18 at Veterans of Foreign Wars Stream. “Obviously we haven’t Post 2718. been out because of the pandem“We wanted to do ic, and I’m looking another event forward to hanging besides the fall fair out with the commuto promote our nity and seeing peomembers’ businessple.” es,” chamber Presi“I’m looking fordent Lisa DelliPizzi ward to meeting peosaid. “This is just ple and trying to see another creative if I can help anyone way to promote our or any of the compabusinesses.” She nies here,” said Bill added that the panSonner of the Sondemic prevented the ner Agency, a Frankchamber from holdlin Square-based ing many events last insurance company year. he has mana g ed PEGGY The event was since 2016. held at the VFW hall PAULSON Participants rather than the larg- Valley Bank stressed the imporer venue of Plattdutance of small busietsche Park, DelliPizzi said, nesses to the American economy. because the goal was to give it a “We’re here to encourage small more tight-knit feel for residents businesses because they hire the and local businesses alike. The local work force, so it’s very expo, which was free, also fea- important to help local busitured a live DJ and food provided ness,” said Peggy Paulson of the by five local eateries.

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BY ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com

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THE NEW LIRR station in Elmont, which cost $105 million, opened on Nov. 16.

Elmont LIRR station opens First new depot in 50 years welcomes Islanders fans — and only fans, for now

BY ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com

T he new Elmont-UBS Arena Long Island Rail Road station opened on Nov. 16, four days before the New York Islanders’ first home game at the arena and amid concerns about the Belmont Park project raised by area residents.

An eastbound train from

Jamaica — a 10-minute ride — was the first to arrive, and the first fare-based train from Penn Station rolled in last Friday night. Beginning the following day, eastbound Hempstead-branch trains were to be offered at the station before and after all events at the arena.

Only the station’s eastbound platform has been com-

pleted. Westbound trains are not expected to be offered at the station until next summer.

Until then, LIRR customers from other branches can transfer at Jamaica for connecting service to ElmontUBS. “Shame on UBS Arena MTA and NICE Bus for failing to provide additional Q2, CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

mall business is what keeps this country going.

This country is built on small business.

Elmont residents eager to see family on Thanksgiving

BY ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com

Elmont residents are eager to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 25 in person with their families, over 20 months since beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s safe now, and for me it would be worth the risk,” said Ozzy Cordona of Queens, a member of a pit orchestra that practices at the Elmont Library Theater at the Elmont Memorial Library.

Cordona, who is not planning to see his extended family for the holiday for reasons separate to the pandemic, said he is not concerned about group gatherings at this stage of the pandemic. “To get the whole family together… that would be worth the risk,” Cordona said, adding that celebrating with his immediate family, which he will be doing, is important to him.

Chantel Lefevre of Elmont is more concerned, but she will be hosting her family for the Thanksgiving holiday. This includes her sister along with her husband and child, all of whom had to relocate from their apartment in Philadelphia and move in with Lefevre and her family because of the pandemic.

“We have more people in the house, but no one else is coming because of Covid, and we used to have a lot of people,” Lefevre explained, stressing that everyone attending the gathering is fully

vaccinated.

Her mother, who is immunocompromised and has adverse reactions to various medications, is concerned about contracting the virus, and has ensured that everyone in the household is vaccinated.

“It’s a tough subject for her to ask about,” Lefevre said.

“The holidays, to me, are not the same since Covid,” Lefevre said.

Lefevre added that she hopes the holidays return to normal soon. “I think people want to get together but Covid makes it iffy – Covid is still there, and I think people who stayed home during that whole time have gotten themselves into a cocoon of staying home,” she said.

Lefevre said this is a negative development for society and that she hoped to invite more people to the gathering, but only if they were vaccinated. “So we’re not having people over, and for me it’s a downer,” she added.

Other community members are more eager to celebrate Thanksgiving with others amid the pandemic.

Ray Ramos, who grew up in Elmont and now lives in Astoria, Queens, will be celebrating Thanksgiving at night with family and friends after working during the day. He said he plans to hold a gathering “as if it were a regular thing” absent the pandemic. “I’m not too concerned,” Ramos, who held a smaller gathering last year, said. “I’m looking forward to everyone getting back together.”

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ALTHOUGH CORONAVIRUS CASES have ticked slightly upward, members of the community in Elmont are planning in-person gatherings for the Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 25.

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THE NOV. 18 business expo featured 15 local businesses.

Business expo unites community CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE ley Bank, which offers loans to small businesses. “Small business is what keeps this country going,” Paulson added. “This country is built on small business.”

Joanne Kreuscher, chamber secretary and the organizer of the expo, emphasized the importance of buying local and the relationships among residents and local businesses. “You buy things online

on Amazon, you’re anonymous,” she said. “. . . You’ve got to shop local. It’s important for people to come in and meet and know our businesses in the area.

“You need to know Sasan, you need to know Bill, you need to know these people . . .,” Kreuscher added. “They’re the ones who are going to look out for you.”

BILL SONNER, OF the Sonner Agency, said he hoped to offer insurance help to both residents and businesses at the event.

SASAN SHAVANSON, OF One In A Million Inc, a screen-printing and embroidery company.

JOANNE KREUSCHER, CHAIR of the expo and chamber secretary, said that she and a team of volunteers collected items for baskets that were raffled off.

LIRR station provides service to UBS Arena calling for additional service.

He said that members of his organizaQ110, N6 bus service for its workers and tion were concerned about overcrowded fans going to and from UBS arena in public buses and the shuttle buses offered Elmont,” said Charlton to the Queens Village D’souza, president of LIRR station following Passengers United, a the Islanders’ first grass-roots organizagame at the arena. “Restion made up of bus, idents are concerned subway and LIRR cusbuses will be delayed by tomers that advocates traffic running on 20 for public transportaminute regular schedtion reform. ules, which means Passengers United is Queens passengers opposed to the Hempwon’t be able to board stead train service to due to overcrowding,” the new station, curD’souza wrote in an rently offered only on email. “We are calling an hourly basis on for bus stops to have event days. The organilighted shelters and be zation is also concerned moved closer to the about the distance CARRIE SOLAGES arena along Hempstead between public bus Nassau■County■legislator Turnpike . . . We are stops nd the new arena, calling on [the] LIRR to and overcrowding on run more than two shuttle trains.” those buses.

D’souza and Passengers United held a “In addition, there are only two shuttle press conference to voice concerns the trains before and after the games to the day before the Islanders’ Nov. 20 home old Belmont Park station,” D’souza added, opener, at a bus stop straddling the CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

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hen■this■project■ was■first■ presented,■I■was■hopeful■ that■we■could■strike■a■ balance■that■benefits■ local■residents,■the■ developer■and■Nassau■ County■as■a■whole.

What you need to know about the UBS Arena and the new LIRR station ■■ At■the■Elmont-UBS■Arena■LIRR■station,■trains■are■offered■only■on■days■when■events■are■ being■held■at■the■arena.■

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THE NEW ELMONT-UBS Arena■station,■which■is■currently■providing■service■only■before■ and■after■events■at■the■arena,■is■the■first■LIRR■station■to■open■in■50■years.

Queens border and the Cross Island Expressway. Nassau County Legislator Carrie Solages highlighted concerns raised by area residents about the new station in a statement.

Solages said that residents were disappointed “that the future train station — which was promised for Elmont — will be located in Bellerose Terrace.” He highlighted other concerns as well, such as

how Elmont residents will be able to reach bus stops along Hempstead Turnpike and the station, which is at the north end of the Belmont project.

“When this project was first presented,” Solages said, “I was hopeful that we could strike a balance that benefits local residents, the developer and Nassau County as a whole.”

■■ The■stop,■the■first■new■LIRR■station■in■50■years,■is■expected■to■offer■full■service■by■ 2022.■ ■■ The■UBS■Arena,■on■which■construction■began■in■2019,■cost■$1.1■billion,■and■holds■ 17,250■hockey■fans.■ ■■ A■one-way,■off-peak■ticket■to■or■from■Penn■Station■—■a■roughly■34-minute■ride■—■costs■ $9.25.

■■ Shuttles■offer■Islanders■fans■rides■from■the■train■station■parking■lot■to■the■arena.■

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Isles fans raise the roof on their new ‘Barn’ UBS Arena opening ends a 20-year battle for team’s home base

By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com

Islanders fans from across Long Island made the pilgrimage on Saturday to the team’s new home at UBS Arena in Elmont. Despite a disappointing game result — the Islanders lost to the Calgary Flames 5-2 — fans were elated to finally have a home for their favorite hockey team after years of uncertainty, recreating the exuberant cheering that so defined games at Nassau Coliseum, known affectionately as “The Barn.”

The $1.1 billion arena at Belmont Park already means a great deal to fans who have watched the team through years when the Nassau Coliseum fell into disrepair and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn offered obstructed seating. The fanbase survived rumors of the team’s move to Quebec City or Kansas City in the 1990s and 2000s and has STeven finally been Ferraro rewarded with an Islanders fan arena that pays homage to both them and the players of yesteryear.

“I’m 26 years old, and I’ve been waiting my entire life to see this building open,” Steven Ferraro, of Rockville Centre, said.

“It was the Lighthouse and then whatever after, but the [new] building [is] absolutely fantastic, just gorgeous.” Ferraro said his favorite aspect of the structure so far is the Heineken Terrace above the main entrance, saying it’s unusual to have clublike atmosphere at a hockey game.

The late John Kempf was remembered at the game by his wife and son, Christine and Sean Kempf, who carried around a cardboard cutout of him. A detective in the Suffolk County Police Department, John died in April 2020 after a battle with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease — a rare degenerative brain disorder. During his tough fight, Kempf got to speak to his all-time favorite Islander, John Tonnelli, on the phone.

“It means everything to be here,” Sean Kempf said. “[My father] was a lifelong fan, and he passed that down to us.” Sean also said that his father was a huge fan of both Zach Parise and Zdeno Chara and would have been blown away if he had seen them both acquired by the Islanders in the off-season.

Mark Martinez, of Levittown, said he became an Islanders fan along with his school friends when the team visited Summit Lane Elementary School when they were children. “When we were little, tickets were cheap and we would go to every game, and now we still go to every game. It’s a part of our friendship now,” Martinez said.

In the upper deck, signs with the logos of Islanders fan meetup groups from San

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more Than 17,000 Islanders fans brought the old Nassau Coliseum energy to their new home at UBS Arena in Elmont.

The Blue and Orange Army in Section 329 brought soccer-style chanting throughout the game.

ISleS FanS goT pumped up before entering UBS Arena for the first time.

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Diego to the United Kingdom were placed above the raucous Section 329 crowd. The section, carried over from the Coliseum, serenades the team with soccer-style chants and drum playing throughout the game.

The much-touted low roof of the building traps the noise, giving amazing moments like when the crowd sang along with Nicole Raviv during the national anthem. There were glimpses of what the atmosphere can be like when the team gets going, like when Richard Panik laid the first big hit or when the referees announced Brock Nelson’s first goal.

Superfans Jake Basile and Nicholas Constantinidis, from Plainview, came to the game carrying cardboard cutouts of Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech’s face.

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UBS Arena opens Nov. 20 to much fanfare years ago, now even selling merchandise to the over 8,000 followers of their Instagram page, “Bathtubjake.”

“A lot of guys from the Barn days were kind of concerned about this not being home, but it really felt like it tonight,” Basile said. “This is genuinely a dream come true. It’s so surreal. The atmosphere was great. Not the result we wanted from the game, but the arena was absolutely amazing,” Constantinidis said. “It

felt like this is ours, this is our amazing, 21st-century arena. We finally joined the club.”

Co-owner Jon Ledecky, who purchased the team with business partner Scott Malkin in 2016, spoke to and took pictures with fans outside the arena before the game.

“You can hear the fans are so excited and they’re saying, ‘Thank you,’ which is great, but we’re saying it back, because without them and their support, this building doesn’t happen,” Ledecky said.

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NiCholas CoNstaNtiNidis aNd Jake Basile of the “Pelech Posse” with cutouts of their favorite Islanders defenseman, Adam Pelech.

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Floral Park school community collects donations for charity

BY ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com

The school community at John Lewis Childs School in Floral Park collected and is donating various items to Ronald McDonald House Charities for the Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 25.

The donation drive is being organized by the school’s student council. “The drive encourages students to visit the

Kindness Tree in the main hallway that displays the needed items on paper leaves,” a statement released by the school district said. Students are also able to donate spare change as part of the Thanksgiving donation drive.

Members of the student council, along with advisor Julie Lafferty, are scheduled to donate the items to the Ronald McDonald House in New Hyde Park on Nov. 22.

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NEW HYDE PARK Memorial High School student Yan Hao Chen was recognized by school principal Dr. Richard Faccio and art teacher Danielle Livoti.

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STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT Grace Cohn and Vice President Abby Burleigh in front of the John Lewis Child’s School’s kindness tree with the donations the student council raised for Ronald McDonald House Charities

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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

COMMUNITY UPDATE Saturday, Nov. 27

Saturday, Dec. 4

Empire Driver Safety Program

Online Program: Introduction to QuickBooks

Join the Elmont Memorial Library between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in meeting room 2 for a driver safety program sponsored by the Empire Safety Council. Participants must attend the entire class to complete this 6-hour Defensive Driving Course. Receive 10% off Collision and Auto Liability/PIP rates on your auto insurance. There is a $28 fee payable to the Empire Safety Council (check or money order please) for these classes. Registration is required.

Limited class size. Masks are required for all in-person programs, regardless of vaccination status. Register online at the library’s website, www.elmontlibrary.org.

Join the Franklin Square Public Library between 10:30 a.m. and noon for an online class that will teach you the basics of QuickBooks, including including customizing QuickBooks for your business, transactions in modules, banking, custom reporting, using asset, liability and equity accounts, and much more. A tablet or laptop is required for this program. Register online at the library’s website, www. franklinsquarepl.org.

Friday, Dec. 3 Senior Chat

Monday, Nov. 29 Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

Evening Book Cafe Join the Franklin Square Public Library and Janet between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the community room for an in-person book discussion on the “Library of Lost and Found.” Register at the Reference Desk.

Tuesday, Nov. 30 Soulful YOGA with Karen Taylor Bass Join the Elmont Memorial Library and Karen Taylor Bass at 7 p.m. for a virtual, one-hour yoga class. Class includes breathing and movement techniques.

Registration is required. Registration ends one hour before class begins. Link will be emailed to you before the program begins. Contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 x 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org to register.

Wednesday, Dec. 1 Eat Healthy on a Budget with the Cornell Cooperative Extension Join the Elmont Memorial Library and the Cornell Cooperative Extension at 11 a.m.

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How To Eat Healthy On A Budget The Elmont Memorial Library is holding a virtual program with the Cornell Cooperative Extension on Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 11 a.m. about how to eat healthy on a budget. for a virtual program on how to eat healthy on a budget. During the program, participants will gain three skills for eating healthy on a budget: planning, purchasing, and preparing. Participants will be taught a few different skills to plan meals and snacks ahead of time to avoid purchasing fast foods that typically cost a lot more. Registration begins two weeks before the program begins. A link will be emailed to you before the program. Registration ends one hour before the program begins. Contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 x 223 or via email at reference@elmontlibrary.org to register.

Lecture: The Making of a Christmas Story with Sal St. George Join the Elmont Memorial Library and Sal St. George at 1 p.m. in meeting room 2 for a program on the making of “A Christmas Story.” The program will focus on the backstory of the making of this holiday movie. Registration is required. Limited seating. Registration for Elmont Library

cardholders begins two weeks before the program. Registration for non-cardholders begins one week before the program.

Masks are required for all in-person programs, regardless of vaccination status.

Contact adult reference at (516) 3545280 x 223 or via email at reference@ elmontlibrary.org to register.

everyday tasks with ease. Space is limited, and registration is open to Elmont Memorial Cardholders only. Masks are required for all in-person programs, regardless of vaccination status. To register, contact adult reference at (516) 3545280 X 223 or via email at reference@ elmontlibrary.org.

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Online Program: Great Operatic Voices of the Mid 20th Century

Dance, Stretch & Tone with Barbara Fraser Join Elmont Memorial Library and Barbara Fraser at 1 p.m. in meeting room 2 for this class designed for mature adults and active seniors who enjoy dance and exercise. This co-ed, mind/body session will include line dancing and folk dancing to aid in memory retention, coordination, and balance, and conclude with toning and stretching of the major muscle groups allowing participants to perform

Join the Franklin Square Public Library and Richard Knox between 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. for a virtual lecture on the great operatic voices of the 20th century.

Come share your memories of many outstanding tenors, sopranos, baritones, and basses who graced the stages of the Metropolitan Opera House and La Scala during the years 1925-1975. Participants will have an opportunity to relive via video and audio clips the voices of classic opera stars. Register online at the library’s website, www.franklinsquarepl. org.

Join Elmont Memorial Library for senior chat with seniors from the community on Friday mornings in meeting room 1 at 10 a.m. Participate or just listen to casual discussions on special interests, concerns, and other topics that happen to come up. To register, contact adult reference at (516) 354-5280 X 223.

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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 Islanders played their first home game at the new UBS Arena in Elmont on Nov. 20.

Linda Bredow is stepping down as president of the Elmont Senior Center.

A hotel built in 1852 attracted an increasing number of visitors and immigrants to F.S. Belmont Park was the site of “War Relief Day” in 1940 to benefit the American Red Cross The southern portion of Franklin Square once included oak and dogwood forests.

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Holiday Message The season of light and festive celebration is upon us!

This year, more than ever, we need the inspiration and message of the holidays to reassure us that all will be well with us and with the world. For Jews, we are lighting our Chanukah menorahs at the beginning of December. Christians will be celebrating the birth of Jesus toward the end of the month.

And Kwaanza will be observed also at the end of December with lights. Light is a symbol of the Divine within each of us and a reminder of God’s presence in the world and in our lives. Particularly at this time of the year, we are also reminded of our common humanity and that what unites us is greater than our differences.

We are blessed to live a country that endorses religious liberty and allows each of us to worship in our own way, or not at all, without any interference from government. This freedom is quite unique to America and is not found to the same extent in any other country in the world!

My ancestors, the Jewish people of the second century BCE(before Jesus), fought to

keep Judaism of their day alive against overwhelming odds and the great power of the Assyrian Greek Empire. The AssyrianGreeks turned our Holy Temple in Jerusalem into a pagan shrine and banned the observance of Jewish rites and rituals. A single family, descendants of Hasmon the Priest, rallied the people and successfully fought to recapture and rededicate the Holy Temple.

Had they failed, not only would Judaism have ceased to exist, but perhaps, Christianity might not have come into being after Jesus, born a Jew - Joshua of Nazareth.

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Guest Column

Thanksgiving 2021: A time for reflection, gratitude and thanks

BY BILL GAYLOR lyn-ereditor@liherald.com

Each year, Thanksgiving provides us with an opportunity to give thanks for all of life’s blessings both large and small. Traditionally, the holiday is a time for family and friends to come together to share a festive meal, perhaps watch some football and enjoy each other’s company. Despite that norm all but disappearing in 2020 due to Covid-19, it gave us more reasons than ever to embrace our loved ones, even if it was from a distance.

Fortunately, this year, while the pandemic remains a concern and the challenges it has created continue to impact our lives a sense of normalcy has returned, and we once again will gather with those near and dear to us to celebrate Thanksgiving along with a newfound appreciation for all the wonderful things that we too often take for granted.

As the official kick-off to the holiday season, Thanksgiving also stirs up excitement and anticipation. Parents eagerly await to spend time with their

sons and daughters and other family members to enjoy the holiday together and school children look forward to their upcoming vacations. Surrounding yourself with loved ones and remembering special moments you’ve shared together exemplifies the season’s true meaning.

Personally, I have much to be thankful for, including my family and friends and the wonderful memories I’ve been so fortunate to help create and share with them. I am especially grateful for the opportunity to continue representing the citizens of Nassau County as your legislator in District 6, a hardworking, diverse community that I’m proud to be a member of.

My sincerest best wishes to everyone for a Happy Thanksgiving and a joyous and healthy holiday season ahead. May God’s blessings be bestowed on you and your loved ones.

Gaylor is a county legislator for Legislative District 6, which comprises Malverne, Lynbrook, North Lynbrook, Valley Stream and portions of Rockville Centre, Hewlett, Franklin Square and Woodmere

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BY RABBI AARON MARSH, OCEANSIDE JEWISH CENTER Jews in America are accustomed to being wished a “Merry Christmas” or perhaps the more religiously neutral “Happy Holidays” in December. While the former does not really “do it” for us, the latter tends to work better since the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah also falls around the same time of year. Except... not in 2021.

This year, Hanukkah begins the Sunday night of Thanksgiving weekend, lasting its usual eight days, which means it will be over before everyone gets into the full swing of saying “Happy Holidays.”

Contrary to common wisdom, Hanukkah is not the “Jewish Christmas.” While Christmas is a major Christian holiday and a significant American cultural event for many, Hanukkah is actually a minor Jewish holiday that gets disproportionate attention because of its proximity on the calendar to Christmas. There are, in fact, more significant Jewish holidays that get little or no attention in the media.

Because I wear a kippah on my head all of the time, I am pretty readily identifiable as Jewish. That doesn’t seem to stop the occasional “Merry Christmas” from people not paying attention or who are not particularly sensitive to the fact that most Jews avoid celebrating Christmas — even in secular ways — for religious and cultural reasons. Occasionally, when I check out at a store in December, I do get a “Happy Hanukkah,” and I am very grateful for the recognition of my Jewishness and the familiarity with our holiday.

After all, the main reason for our lighting the menorah is to publicize the miracle of Hanukkah, and certainly, its existence seems to be quite well known now, despite its minor status.

What is more awkward is that because of the equivalence that people make between Hanukkah and Christmas, I often find in years like this one that I am being wished “Happy Hanukkah” weeks after it is over. While Hanukkah’s existence is well known, it seems that its actual timing is not. People tend to expect a holiday to fall roughly on the same date every year.

In fact, Hanukkah does fall on the same dates every year; just not on the expected calendar. The Jewish calendar differs from the “normal” (Gregorian) cal-

endar in that the Jewish calendar is based on moon cycles, with months alternating 29 and 30 days, while the Gregorian calendar is designed so that a year is 365 days — one revolution around the Sun. The Jewish calendar also adds an extra month in the spring every two to three years to keep our holidays in their proper seasons.

So, in a year like this one, when there were two normal-length Jewish years in a row, Hanukkah falls “early.” Next year, after adding an extra month, it will fall mid-December, overlapping with Christmas. Effectively, Hanukkah, while always starting on the 25th of Kislev on the Jewish calendar, can begin anywhere from the last week of November to the last week of December on the Gregorian calendar.

The bottom line is that it certainly should not be assumed that Hanukkah will overlap with Christmas (even though it sometimes happens). If you know someone’s Jewish, but not when Hanukkah falls, consider asking them before blindly giving them a holiday greeting for something that happened weeks ago. After all, it would be strange if someone wished you a “Merry Christmas” in January.

Hanukkah’s timing on the Jewish calendar means that not only does it always fall close to the winter solstice (the shortest day of the year), but because it is tied to cycles of the moon, its sixth day always falls on the New Moon, which effectively makes it the darkest night of the year.

Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights — when we try to shed some light in the darkness, both literally and metaphorically. It commemorates the second century BCE Maccabean Revolt of Jews over their Syrian-Greek oppressors and Jewish assimilationists. If not for their success, the Jewish people would likely not be here today. Nevertheless, the ancient rabbis wisely redirected the focus of the holiday to the “little” miracle of a lamp burning eight days rather than dwelling excessively on the violent revolt.

We are truly blessed to live in a country where religious freedom is a basic right, and many religious, cultural, racial and ethnic groups can live together in harmony. While we may face threats to that American ideal in our days, may our seeking to better understand and support one other shine a bright light in the darkness.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SPECIAL DISTRICT MEETING OF ELMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Education of Elmont Union Free School District, in the County of Nassau, New York, adopted on October 5, 2021, a Special District Meeting of the qualified voters of said School District will be held on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 from 6:00 o’clock A.M. to 9:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) at the following voting places: (1) Stewart Manor School, Stewart Manor, New York, for those persons residing in Election District No. 1; (2) Covert Avenue School, Elmont, New York, for those persons residing in Election District No. 2; (3) Clara H. Carlson School, Elmont, New York, for those persons residing in Election District No. 3; (4) Elmont Road School, Elmont, New York, for those persons residing in Election District No. 4; (5) Gotham Avenue School, Elmont, New York, for those persons residing in Election District No. 5; (6) Dutch Broadway School, Elmont, New York, for those persons residing in Election District No. 6; and (7) Alden Terrace School, Valley Stream, New York, for those persons residing in Election District No. 7; for the purpose of voting upon the following Bond Proposition: Page Break BOND PROPOSITION RESOLVED: (a) That the Board of Education (the “Board”) of Elmont Union Free School District, in the County of Nassau, New York (the “District”), is hereby authorized to construct improvements to District buildings (the “Project”) substantially as referred to and described in a plan prepared by the District with the assistance of H2M Architects & Engineers, (the “Plan”), which Plan is available for public inspection at the office of the District Clerk, such Project to include: various classroom, heating, ventilation, airconditioning, security, ceiling, lighting, electrical and drainage improvements; asbestos abatement; and replacement of fire alarms systems and original restrooms; all of the foregoing to include the original furnishings, equipment, machinery, apparatus, and all ancillary and related site and other work required in connection therewith; and to expend therefor, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and to the financing thereof, an

amount not to exceed the estimated total cost of $52,000,000; provided that the estimated costs of the components of the Project as set forth in the Plan may be reallocated among such components if the Board of Education shall determine that such reallocation is in the best interest of the District; (b) that a tax is hereby voted in the amount of not to exceed $52,000,000 to finance such cost, such tax to be levied by and collected in installments in such years and in such amounts as shall be determined by said Board of Education; and (c) that in anticipation of said tax, the Board of Education of the District may authorize the issuance of bonds in the aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $52,000,000, and a tax is hereby voted to pay the interest on said bonds as the same shall become due and payable.

Such Bond Proposition shall appear on the ballots used for voting at said Special District Meeting in substantially the following condensed form: BOND PROPOSITION YES

NO RESOLVED: (a) That the Board of Education (the “Board”) of Elmont Union Free School District, in the County of Nassau, New York (the “District”), is hereby authorized to construct improvements to District buildings, substantially as described in a plan prepared by the District with the assistance of H2M Architects & Engineers; and to expend $52,000,000 therefor; (b) that a tax is hereby voted in the amount of not to exceed $52,000,000 to finance such cost, such tax to be levied by and collected in installments in such years and in such amounts as shall be determined by said Board of Education; (c)†that in anticipation of said tax, the Board of Education of the District may authorize the issuance of bonds in the aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $52,000,000, and a tax is hereby voted to pay the interest on said bonds as the same shall become due and payable.

The voting will be conducted by ballot on voting machines as provided in the Education Law and the polls will remain open from 6:00 o’clock A.M. to 9:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) and as much longer as may be necessary to enable the voters then present to cast their ballots. No person will be entitled to vote at the Special District Meeting whose name does not appear on the register of the Elmont Union Free School District prepared for such Meeting. The

register of the qualified voters of said District prepared for the Annual District Meeting and Election held on May 18, 2021 shall be used by the Board of Registration as the basis for the preparation of the register for said Special District Meeting to be held on November 30, 2021. Any person whose name appears on such register or who shall have been previously registered for any annual or special District meeting or election and who shall have voted at any annual or special District meeting or election held or conducted at any time since January 1, 2017, will not be required to register personally for this Special District Meeting.

In addition, any person otherwise qualified to vote who is registered with the Board of Elections of Nassau County under the provisions of the Election Law shall be entitled to vote at said Special District Meeting without further registration.

NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that otherwise qualified residents may have their names placed upon such register at the office of the school within their election district on any day school is in session between the hours of 9:00 o’clock A.M. and 4:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) up to November 23, 2021.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Board of Registration of each separate election district will meet at the registration places hereinafter stated on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2021 between the hours of 4:00 PM and 9:00 PM, at which time any person shall be entitled to have his/her name placed upon such register, provided that upon such meeting of the Board of Registration he/she is known or proved to the satisfaction of such Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such election for which such register is prepared.

The register will be filed on November 23, 2021, in the office of the District Clerk at the Elmont Road School and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the school district between the hours of 9:00 o’clock A.M .and 4:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) on each day thereafter, including the day of the vote, except that on Saturday, November 27, 2021, shall be by appointment only and the school will not open for the said inspection on Thursday, November 25, 2021, Friday, November 26, 2021 and Sunday, November 28, 2021.

ABSENTEE BALLOTS: NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots may

be applied for at the office of the District Clerk.

If the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, the completed application must be received by the District Clerk no later than 5:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) on November 23, 2021. If the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter at the office of the District Clerk, the completed application must be received by the District Clerk no later than 5:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) on November 29, 2021.

Absentee ballots must be received at the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) on the day of said Special District Meeting.

A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available in the office of the District Clerk between the hours of 8:00 o’clock A.M. and 5:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) on each day thereafter, including the day of the vote, except that on Saturday, November 27, 2021, shall be by appointment only and the school will not open for the said inspection on Thursday, November 25, 2021, Friday, November 26, 2021 and Sunday, November 28, 2021.

MILITARY BALLOTS: Text BoxNOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that pursuant to Education Law Section 2018-d, any person serving in the military, including a spouse, parent, child or dependent accompanying or being with such voter, may register to vote in the upcoming school district election no later than 5:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) on November 4, 2021. A military voter who is a qualified voter may obtain a registration form by contacting the District Clerk. A military voter who is duly registered may apply for a military ballot by requesting an application from the District Clerk. Completed applications must be personally delivered or mailed to the District Clerk and received no later than 5:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) on November 4, 2021.

Completed military ballots must be received by 5:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) on November 30, 2021 if signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto with a date which is not later than the day before the vote, or not later than the close of polls on November 30, 2021 if postmarked or endorsed by an agency of the United States government. A military voter may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration form, military ballot application or military

ballot by mail, facsimile or electronic mail in the request for such registration, ballot application or ballot. Such designation will remain in effect until revoked or changed by the voter. If no preference is designated, the District will transmit the military voter registration by mail.

The boundaries of the seven (7) separate election districts and the place of registration and voting for each of said separate election districts as established by the Board of Education are as follows: ELECTION DISTRICT 1 The place of registration and voting will be the STEWART MANOR SCHOOL, Stewart Manor, New York, with said Election District commencing at a point in the north line of School District No. 16 where the same adjoins School District No. 22 at the intersection of Third Avenue (which point is approximately 50 feet south of the south line of the main line of the Long Island Railroad); running thence along the boundary line between School District No. 16 and School District No. 22 as it runs generally south, then generally east and again south crossing the Hempstead Branch of the Long Island Railroad; thence continuing east and south along such boundary line to Tulip Avenue; thence southerly along the Covert Avenue center line for about 100 feet and continuing southeasterly 100 feet south of and parallel to Tulip Avenue to the easterly boundary line of School District No. 16; thence continuing in a general northerly direction along the easterly boundary of School District No. 16 to the northeast corner of the School District; thence westerly along the northerly boundary line of School District No. 16 to the point or place of beginning. In addition the said Election District shall include the following: a point commencing at a point on the boundary line between school District No.16 and School District No. 22 at the intersection of the center line of Memphis Avenue and a line about 100 feet North of and parallel to Chelsea Street; thence continuing easterly along this line to its intersection with the extension of a line midway between and parallel to Fredrick Avenue and Arthur Avenue; thence proceeding north easterly along said line to the boundary between School District No.16 and School District No. 22; thence north westerly along the said boundary line and continuing north westerly along the said boundary line to the point and place of beginning.

ELECTION DISTRICT 2 The place of registration and voting will be the COVERT AVENUE SCHOOL, Elmont, New York, with said Election District commencing at a point midway between and parallel to Frederick Avenue and Arthur Avenue and proceeding south along this line to its intersection with the center line of Makofske Avenue; thence south in a straight line to the intersection of the center line of Hempstead Turnpike at a point midway between Emporia Avenue and Stone Street; thence continuing easterly along the Hempstead Turnpike center line to a point 100 feet west of Butler Boulevard; thence continuing southerly along a line 100 feet west of and parallel to Butler Boulevard to a line approximately 100 feet north of Omega Street; thence easterly along the said line 100 feet north of and parallel to Omega Street to a line approximately 25 feet east of South Covert Avenue thence southerly along the said line 25 feet east of and parallel to South Covert Avenue to the intersection of an extension of the Elliott Street center line thence easterly along the Elliott Street center line to an intersection with the Sun Avenue center line; thence continuing along the Sun Avenue center line to an intersection with the Meacham Avenue center line; thence proceeding south along the Meacham Avenue center line midway between E Street and F Street; thence proceeding north easterly and continuing northerly along the District No. 16 boundary line to a point about 100 feet south of Tulip Avenue; thence proceeding in a northwesterly direction along a line about 100 feet south and parallel to Tulip Avenue to the center line of the District No. 16 western boundary where the center line of Covert Avenue and Tulip Avenue intersect; thence continuing on the boundary line, southeasterly, southerly and westerly on a line approximately 100 Feet south of Webster Street to a line midway between Fredrick Street and Arthur Street approximately 50 Feet south of the point or place of beginning.

ELECTION DISTRICT 3 The place of registration and voting will be the CLARA H. CARLSON SCHOOL, Elmont, New York, with said Election District commencing at a point midway between Emporia Avenue and Stone Street on the center line of Hempstead Turnpike; thence continuing easterly along the Hempstead Turnpike center line to a point approximately 100 feet

west of Butler Boulevard; thence continuing southerly along the said line 100 feet west of and parallel to Butler Boulevard to a line approximately 100 feet north of Omega Street thence easterly along the said line 100 feet north of Omega Street to a line approximately 25 feet east of South Covert Avenue; thence southerly along the said line 25 feet east of and parallel to South Covert Avenue to the intersection of an extension of the Elliott Street center line; thence continuing easterly along the Elliott Street center line to an intersection with the Sun Avenue center line; thence continuing along the Sun Avenue center line to an intersection with the Meacham Avenue center line; thence proceeding south along the Meacham Avenue center line to a point midway between Collier Avenue and Star Avenue; thence proceeding westerly on a line midway between Collier Avenue and Star Avenue to the boundary of Beth David Cemetery ; to an extension of the easterly boundary of the Beth David Cemetery; thence north westerly along the northerly boundary of the Beth David Cemetery; then, northerly along the boundary of the Beth David Cemetery to a point midway between Emporia Avenue and Stone Street; thence northerly along the midway line between Emporia Avenue and Stone Street to the point or place of beginning.

ELECTION DISTRICT 4 The place of registration and voting will be the ELMONT ROAD SCHOOL, ELMONT, New York, with said Election District commencing at a point in the boundary line between School District No. 16 and School District No. 22 at the intersection of the center line of Plainfield Avenue and a line approximately 100 feet north of and parallel to Chelsea Street; thence continuing easterly along this line to the intersection of Chelsea Street and Makofske Avenue thence south in a straight line to the northern boundary of Beth David Cemetery; thence westerly along the northern boundary of Beth David Cemetery to the center line of Elmont Road; thence northerly along the center line of Elmont Road to the intersection of Elmont Road and the Hempstead Turnpike; thence westerly along the center line of the Hempstead Turnpike to the intersection of the Hempstead Turnpike and Plainfield Avenue, thence northerly along the center line of Plainfield Avenue to the point or place of beginning.

ELECTION DISTRICT 5 The

place of registration and voting will be the GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL, Elmont, New York, with said Election District commencing at a point on the westerly boundary line of District No. 16 at its intersection with the center line of Hempstead Turnpike; thence easterly along the center line of Hempstead Turnpike to its intersection with the Elmont Road center line; thence south along the center line of Elmont Road to the extension of a line forming the northerly boundary of Elmont Memorial High School ; thence westerly along said line to a point 25 feet west of Kirby Road north westerly to a point approximately 25 feet east of Rye Street northerly on a line parallel to Rye Street to a point approximately 25 feet north of Baylis Avenue to a point approximately 100 feet west of 4th Street; thence north to the southerly side of Hathaway Avenue west on a line formed by the southerly side of Hathaway Avenue to the north along the westerly boundary of School District No. 16 to the point and place of beginning.

ELECTION DISTRICT 6 The place of registration and voting will be the DUTCH BROADWAY SCHOOL, Elmont, New York, with said Election District commencing at a point on the Linden Boulevard center line where it intersects the Elmont Road center line; thence proceeding southeasterly along the Linden Boulevard center line and continuing on a projection of this line along the Southern State Parkway to its intersection with the District No. 16 easterly boundary line; thence continuing in a northeasterly direction along the District No. 16 easterly boundary line, to the intersection of Meacham Avenue and F Street; thence northerly along a center line of Meacham Avenue to a point approximately 20 feet northerly of Star Avenue; thence westerly along said line to the eastern boundary line of the Beth David Cemetery; thence southerly along the east boundary line of Beth David Cemetery; thence westerly along the south boundary line of Beth David Cemetery to its intersection with the Elmont Road center line; thence continuing in a southwesterly direction along the Elmont Road center line to a line formed by the extension of the Northerly Boundary of Elmont Memorial High School ; thence westerly said line to a point 25 feet west of Kirby Road; thence north westerly to a point 25 north of Renfew Avenue; thence

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Luke Oberle, longtime resident of F.S., dies at 72 Luke John Oberle died on Nov. 11 in Goldsboro, N.C., at age 72. He was born Aug. 14, 1949, in Edgewater, N.J. and was raised in Franklin Square.

“His passion for theater developed at Binghamton University where he majored in Cinema Arts and worked with director Nicolas Ray on the film “We Can’t Go Home Again,’” his family shared

in a statement.

Luke was predeceased by his father, William Oberle, his mother, Nina Oberle, and his brother Peter Oberle. He is survived by four siblings: Mark Oberle, Clare Brown, Martha Wallace and David Oberle.

A service in memory of Oberle was held at McInerny Funeral Home in Elmont on Nov. 20.

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westerly on a line approximately 25 feet north and parallel to a point approximately 25 feet east of Rye Street northerly on a line parallel to Rye Street to a point approximately 25 feet north of Baylis Avenue to a point approximately 100 feet west of 4th Street; thence north to the southerly side of Hathaway Avenue continuing west on a line formed by the southerly side of Hathaway Avenue to the western boundary of School District No. 6 and then south along the western boundary of School District No. 16 to the center line of Dutch Broadway; thence last along the center line of Dutch Broadway to the intersection of Dutch Broadway and Elmont Road; thence south along the center line of Elmont Road to the point and place of beginning.

ELECTION DISTRICT 7 The place of registration and voting will be the ALDEN TERRACE SCHOOL, Valley Stream, New York, with said Election District commencing at a point in the westerly boundary of District No. 16 at its intersection with the center line of Dutch Broadway; thence southerly along the

westerly boundary line of School District No. 16; to the intersection of Elmont Road and Sobro Avenue thence southeasterly along the center line of Sobro Avenue continuing southeasterly then northeasterly along the boundary of School District No. 16 to the northerly side of the Southern State Parkway thence westerly along the Southern State Parkway to the center line of Linden Boulevard thence westerly along the center line of Linden Boulevard to the intersection of Linden Boulevard and Elmont Road thence northerly along the center line of Elmont Road to the intersection of Elmont Road and Dutch Broadway thence westerly along the center line of Dutch Broadway to the point or place of beginning.

Only qualified voters who are duly registered will be permitted to vote.

BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION Dated: October 5, 2021 Diana L. Delahanty District Clerk 128017

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that an Order granted by the Supreme Court, Nassau County, on the 19th day of October 2021 bearing the index number 695-21, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Nassau County Clerk located at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, grants me the right to assume the name of Stella Varricchio. My present address is 196 Monroe Street, Franklin Square, N.Y. 11010.

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Bid: EPL 2021-4, Paper Supplies The bid documents are available and may be examined at the Elmont Public Library, Business Office, 700 Hempstead Turnpike, Elmont, New York between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

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STARTING SAlARIES STRONG knowledge of EXCEL a must! Knowledge of DATABASE Big Bus Van maintenance or postal regulations a $26.18/hr. $23.41/hr. big plus. Qualified Candidates must be computer literate, able to multiNon-Benefit Rate Non-Benefit Rate task, dependable, reliable, orgaSign On Bonus $2,500.00 for CDL driver bus and van nized, energetic, detail orientated $500.00 for non CDL drivers. Will train qualified applicants *Some restrictions may apply. and able to work well under deadlines. For consideration, please EDUcATIoNAl BUS TRANSpoRTATIoN Clients • m-Clients • Malverne • 43053 Malverne Richner Communications send resume & salary requirements 3.125x 3"516.454.2300 Richner Communications to: careers@liherald.com 1152112

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

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

To apply: Send a brief summary in the form of a cover letter describing your career goals and what strengths you can bring to our newsroom, along with a resume and three writing samples to sbrinton@liherald.com

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HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR Richner Communications is looking for a hands-on Human Resources professional to oversee all HR functions on a strategic and tactical level. Exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and expanding Garden City, Long Island media company. This position has a flexible schedule, part-time job share would be considered.

Responsibilities: Talent acquisition: Source, screen, and interview potential candidates and manage new employee onboarding Benefits administration: Liaise with brokers, providers and facilitate enrollment and updating of coverage. Manage annual open enrollment and employee benefits review. Administration of 401(k) plan. Employee relations: Provide day- today support and problem resolution in regards to employee concerns, questions and policy issues. Performance management: Coach, counsel and recommend disciplinary actions Compliance: Maintain indepth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance Payroll: Process biweekly payroll through payroll vendor for population of 150 employees Requirements: Bachelor's degree, preferably in business or HR, or equivalent experience Minimum 5 years HR generalist experience Knowledge of Federal, State & Local regulations governing employment Experience with payroll processing Self-motivated, ability to prioritize and work well under pressure Customer-focused attitude, with high level of professionalism and discretion Excellent oral and written communication and quantitative skills Proficiency with Microsoft Office Qualified candidates should submit a resume and cover letter to: careers@liherald.com.

LYNEER STAFFING SOLUTIONS Hiring Mail Sorters, Data Entry $15.00, Forklifts $17.50, Mystery Shoppers Ages 21-25 $20.00. 860 Long Island Ave., Deer Park NY 11729 631-586-4699 PRESS-ROOM/WAREHOUSE HELP Long Island Herald has IMMEDIATE openings for a FULL-TIME Pressroom/warehouse helper in Garden City. We are a busy print shop looking for a motivated and reliable individuals to assist in various duties in the shop. Forklift experience is a plus and heavy lifting is required. Hours vary, so flexibility is key.

Email resumes or contact info to careers@liherald.com

Sales Executives Outside Sales

Richner Communications has openings for Outside Sales Executives to Sell Digital and Print advertising Service and sell both existing and developing new business.

If you have the desire to succeed in our fast paced business and are motivated, dependable, have strong communication skills and can manage your own time, We would like to hear from you!

Base salary with commission plan. Paid sick/personal days, vacation and paid holidays. Sales experience is a plus but we will train the right person to learn the industry. email resume to careers@liherald.com SECRETARY NEEDED For CPA Firm, Rockville Centre. Proficient In Word And Excel. Flexible Hours Monday- Friday.

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OPEN HOUSES SUNday 11/28/21 HEWLETT Bay PaRK 40 Heron Dr, BA, 10,000 Sq Ft Waterfront Property on an Acre of Parklike Grounds Tucked away in Cul de Sac. 5 BR, 5.5 Bth Contemporary. Soaring Ceilings. IGPl, Hot Tub. 285' Vinyl Bulkhead Raised & Redone Dock. 3 Car Garage .......REDUCED! $3,499,000

HEWLETT 1534 Broadway #103, BA, BRAND NEW GUT RENOVATION! Spacious 2 BR, 2 Bth Condo in Luxurious Jonathan Hall. LR/DR Opens Into Large Gran/Wood EIK w/ Island & Stainless Steel Appl. Laundry Rm & Pantry. Mstr Ste Boasts New Bath & Huge Walk in Closet. Terrace Facing into Courtyard. Doorman Bldg with Elevator. Indoor Garage Pkg & Storage ........................... $850,000 395 Serena Rd, BA 5 BR, 2 Bth Col on O/S Property. Updtd EIKs. 3 BR Main Level, 2 Upstairs with OSE. SD#14.Possible M/D with Proper Permits. Near All ............................... REDUCED! $749,000 156 E Rockaway Rd, BA, Rental of a Renovated 2 Bedroom, 1.5 Bth Apt with Spacious Gourmet Kitchen Use of Patio & Outdoor Space ........................................................................ RENT .$3,850

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(516)860-6889/ (516)852-5135/ (516)582-9978 EAST ROCKAWAY LOVELY STUDIO Separate Entrance, Fireplace, Backyard, Parking. Suitable One/ No Smoking/ Pets. $1,200 Includes All. 516-695-7476 HEWLETT RENTAL 156 East Rockaway Rd, BA, Rental of a Renovated 2 Bedroom, 1.5 Bth Apt with Spacious Gourmet Kitchen Use of Patio & Outdoor Space...$3,850 Ronnie Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299

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A. There is a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about levels of purification and, depending on the source of the information, like an advertisement instead of research reports, the facts are unclear. I couldn’t tell anyone, definitively, what works best, or even the specifics as to why, only that there are systems that are required and units that do have benefits for employers onte eeper and homeowners, according to industry reports.

For example, it almost always comes up during the design phase of offices and retail spaces that the owner wants to put in a bottled-water cooler instead of a drinking fountain, but the plumbing code, which is a law, states that two drinking fountains or a dual unit, the high and low kind, are required to be installed. (The reason for the low drinking fountain is to avoid discrimination, along with many other regulations, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into federal law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.) A bottle station is nice to have but not required.

Water purification will be a healthy solution for your employees and family, since it removes chlorine, sediments and multiple trace minerals. There are many different types of purifiers on the market. For commercial purposes, consider a cartridge-type purifier specific to your commercial space, and for a residence, a whole-house system such as the ones from PurifiedSolutions.net, which use a seven-stage reverse-osmosis process. Just remember, these systems all require the replacement of filters, so factor in replacement costs so you aren’t surprised later.

As for the bigger question, air purification, it is a much broader and more questionable issue, since different systems filter air in different ways, and even though advertisements tout all the wonderful particulates that can be removed, virus particles aren’t necessarily one of them. Smoke from cigarettes and dust have a much larger mass, and are more easily removed with high-efficiency particulate air, or HEPA, filters than bacterial or viral-laden particles.

Even though microscopic-sized allergens can be removed, unless they are treated with either damaging light or chemical containment, just catching the allergens doesn’t necessarily get rid of them. Make sure you find out what the filtration unit will do from an independent testing source report before spending the money on one.

Recent studies do show the workplace benefits for having enhanced ventilation and filtration. Some 90 percent of maintenance costs are for keeping people productive at work, increasing profits by reducing infection, sickness and missed days by employees.

Choose systems wisely and it will benefit you. Good luck!

Ask The Architect

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Q. I saw an article in a magazine about how I may be able to add air and water purifiers in my office to minimize sickness and infections. Is this for real? Can air purifiers limit things like Covid, and does it pay to put in a full water purifier instead of just having a bottled-water cooler station, even in my home or in my office (for my employees)?

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© 2021 Monte Leeper Readers are encouraged to send questions to yourhousedr@aol.com, with “Herald question” in the subject line, or to Herald Homes, 2 Endo Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530, Attn: Monte Leeper, architect.

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he Event,” a 2015 found-footage documentary by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, opens with black-and-white images of mostly men marching in August 1991 through the streets of Leningrad, in the then Soviet Union, overturning a trailer and grabbing all manner of furniture to erect hastily constructed barricades.

Worry was etched on the protesters’ faces.

People had assembled in Leningrad’s central Palace Square and surrounding streets to stop an attempted coup d’état that, SCOTT they believed, was radiating from MosBRINTON cow, USSR’s capital, across the land.

“The Event” is a hopeful but strangely haunting film that I watched last week on Zoom. Hofstra University’s Department of Comparative Literature, Languages and Linguistics and the History Department presented it, with a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Ben Rifkin, a Hofstra professor of Russian.

I wanted to see the film because in August 1991 I was a Peace Corps volunteer stationed in Bulgaria, a Soviet satellite nation for 45 years, from the end of World War II through 1990, when it finally gained its freedom and turned to democracy. I cannot express the

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chilling effect the coup attempt had on many Bulgarians, who worried about a sudden return to hardline communism. I wondered what, precisely, had happened in Moscow and other Soviet cities from Aug. 18 to 21, 1991, as the coup unfolded. I had never seen images of it before.

The good people of Leningrad were concerned that Soviet Armed Forces tanks might roll against their city, and a sea of tens of thousands of people rallied, placing themselves in mortal danger to preserve the democratic reforms enacted under Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

The fear of a possible attack on Leningrad was not irrational. Eight communist hardliners calling themselves the Committee on the State of Emergency, and various factions within the Soviet military, were behind the putsch, seeking to halt the impending breakup of the Soviet Union that would give sovereignty to its 15 outlying republics. Soviet tanks, in fact, rolled into Moscow, where tens of thousands of demonstrators stood in their way. Among them was Boris Yeltsin, the man who succeeded Gorbachev as president of Russia when the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991.

I was on a train somewhere outside Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, with my then fiancée, Katerina, who was born and raised in Sofia, when we first heard the news of the coup attempt. Katerina’s face turned sullen. What

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would we do if it succeeded?

Most Americans cannot understand the fear of the then Soviet Union that many, if not most, Eastern Europeans carried with them in the backs of their brains. They risked limb and life to secure their freedoms from the USSR in the late 1980s and early ’90s. They stood in solidarity, marching en masse in their capitals’ squares, demanding sovereignty. Then, seemingly in an instant, all their hard-won reforms appeared to be in jeopardy.

If Bulgaria lost its newly won democratic freedoms to the communists, would the old-school apparatchiks “cleanse” Bulgaria of any American “sympathizers”? In that case, anyone who had had contact with an American like me would have been in grave danger of just disappearing.

These were not wild conspiracy theories.

They were valid questions based on nearly five decades of iron-fisted Soviet rule. Katerina and I planned an escape route to the U.S. through Greece if the coup held, which, thankfully, it did not. We were in our mid-20s at the time. We recently celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary, living, peacefully, on Long Island for the past 28 years, returning every few years to Sofia. Bulgaria remains a democracy to this day.

The Soviet coup plotters were not especially well organized, according to various

he USSR in 1991 and the U.S. in 2021: similarities I never would’ve imagined.

reports, and most of the SAF military was not a party to the conspiracy. It’s said that the plotters spent most of the three days of the coup drunk. Seven of the eight organizers were imprisoned, and one committed suicide.

Ilya Vinitsky, chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, was among the panelists last week. He was 22 and living in the Soviet Union at the time of the coup. It was a seminal moment in his life, a point of demarcation — there was life before the coup, and after.

Now he asks his students, “Have you ever felt you lived through a historical moment?”

Yes, I would respond, more than once.

Most recently was the disorganized insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when thousands of pro-Trump rioters besieged our very seat of democracy to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election — that is, to attempt to overthrow our nation’s duly elected president, Joe Biden. Having lived through such a coup attempt while in a foreign land, I never imagined one here, particularly not one as violent as that of last January.

Democracy is clearly a fragile thing. It requires an active, engaged citizenry that respects the rule of law. If it is not respected, then it must be enforced.

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.

Year of wonder, one Thanksgiving to the next

ast Thanksgiving we dined alone.

I’m remembering an over-roasted turkey leg with a side of anxiety for me, a wedge of spinach pie for the vegetarian, hold the Thanksgiving cheer. We tried not to make too much of the day.

We were veterans of isolation by then, still months away from our first vaccine. To see our kids and grandkids, someone would have had to risk flying, and the infection rates were daunting.

Nevertheless, we watched millions RANDI of people choosing KREISS to travel, weaving through airport lines and hoping for the best. Spikes and surges followed.

Sorry for the ruminating, but sometimes you must go back to appreciate how far you’ve come. A few months after Thanksgiving, our son and grandson caught Covid.

We missed birthdays, anniversaries, proms and graduations. We were lucky; the nightly news featured Covid crises cascading across the country. Who will ever forget the pictures of refrigerator trucks parked outside New York City hospitals?

Today (and I won’t say fast forward, because it wasn’t), all of us have had vaccines and boosters. We’re all back to our jobs. Kids are back in school. As I swayed from despair to hope and back to trepidation, I coped, and that feels like enough.

This Thanksgiving we will sit down with our family to start reweaving the ties that have stretched thin over the months of this pandemic.

I have often written about gratitude for the small things that charge our days with interest and pleasure. This year my gratitude is singular, profound and unending. I am so thankful to the researchers and scientists and companies and governments and leaders who took on the virus and dug in for the fight.

There were missteps and political machinations and failures along the way, but the development of vaccines, 90-plus percent effective, in only 11 months has been the stunning achievement of our lifetime.

When we encountered a novel coronavirus transmitted easily through the air by breathing, talking and coughing, the World Health Organization said it did not expect a vaccine to become available in fewer than 18 months. Many virologists have said that the development of a safe and effective vac-

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cine within 11 months was an extraordinary achievement.

Please read “A Shot to Save the World,”

by Gregory Zuckerman. Zuckerman tells the story of the unlikely heroes who worked together and separately, driven by the mission to find a vaccine.

He describes the false starts and missteps, but also all that went right as researchers took on the challenge of their lives. It required unprecedented devotion, selflessness, fierce dedication to the job and a vision of success that transcended any one person’s ambition.

It is a thrilling story. One of the salient points Zuckerman addresses is the idea that the new vaccines are too “experimental.” He says these discoveries are not one-day wonders, but blocks of research that came together over many years. They found daylight in the time of the pandemic because of the money and dedication and leadership that supported the effort. The work on AIDS informed this medical moon shot, and the Covid vaccines will inform research going forward.

Zuckerman tells the story of Jason Schrum, the Moderna scientist who had worked at the company for only a short time. He came up with the actual modifica-

his year my family will gather again, and my gratitute is profound and unending.

tion to the mRNA molecule that is currently used in Moderna’s vaccine, Zuckerman writes. “That modification is the one that BioNTech uses also. It’s not the one from Katalin Karaka and Drew Weissman at the University of Pennsylvania. They’re really pioneers, and I’m not sure we would have these vaccines without them.”

Zuckerman writes that not enough attention has been paid to the Chinese scientist who struggled in the early days of the pandemic to share the genetic sequence of the virus. “The guy’s a hero,” he writes.

“He risked so much …”

I thank them all, from the doctors and nurses to the supermarket workers to the teachers and parents of young children, to the bench researchers who put in the hours, day after day and month after month.

This year at our Thanksgiving, there will be a too-big turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce. Leaves and grains for the vegetarian. We will hug and kiss our kids and grandkids, feeling safe enough with our jabs and boosters. Then we will feast on my apple cranberry crumble with a topping of gratitude for this country and countries everywhere where scientists are educated, supported and honored for their work.

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

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UBS Arena is a win-win for Long Island

he social media posts generated by Long Islanders at the very first Islanders game at the new UBS Arena, the linchpin in a $1.3 billion transformation of Belmont Park, came fast and furious on Saturday, showing an excitement not seen since the Islanders’ four straight Stanley Cup wins in the early ’80s. The state-of-the-art arena is indeed a crown jewel of the New York metropolitan area sports scene.

“Today is a monumental day for New York and the Islanders as we cut the ribbon on the world-class new UBS Arena,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said last week. “This is the first step in the newly redeveloped Belmont Park, which will serve as an internationally recognized destination for sports, entertainment, retail and hospitality.”

It was only a few years ago that the

home of the Islanders was a real question mark. The team had moved out of the Nassau Coliseum in the Hub for the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and Long Island fans largely hated the venue, not only because of the distance they had to travel for games — it could be a four-hour round trip from points out East to Brooklyn and back — but also because the venue was made not for hockey, but for basketball.

The new UBS Arena, finished on time and on budget, was constructed specifically for the Islanders, in Elmont, on Nassau County’s border with Queens, making it convenient for hockey fans from both Long Island and New York City.

At the same time, the revitalization of Belmont Park is, no doubt, a boon for Long Island. The project, which will also include a 350,000-square-foot entertain-

LIRR, NICE Bus move toward greener future

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he Long Island Rail Road and Nassau Inter-County Express Bus are making significant strides to reduce their carbon footprints, with the LIRR testing battery-powered trains on its Oyster Bay branch to replace the diesel locomotives that have rumbled across the North Shore in the past, and NICE planning to bring six electric buses online to replace compressed-natural-gas models.

While on the electrified portion of the Oyster Bay branch, the LIRR trains run on the third rail. When they reach the non-electrified portion, they switch to battery power.

At the same time that NICE adds the

electric buses, it will switch all 150 vehicles in its paratransit fleet to electric.

Excellent!

All of this was discussed last Friday during an hour-long talk on public transportation at Vision Long Island’s annual Smart Growth Summit, at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. We can only say bravo to Phil Eng, the LIRR president, and Jack Khouz, CEO of NICE Bus, for demonstrating a commitment to the environment by moving away from dirty fossil-fuel transportation to electric rail and bus lines.

Diesel trains are especially awful for the environment, using one of the dirtiest of fuels. Diesel is also among the most car-

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ment and retail complex, a 250-room hotel and a community center in the future, is expected to create 10,000 jobs and generate $2.7 billion in economic activity when all is said and done. By 2024, the project is projected to sustain 3,200 full-time jobs, produce $858 million in annual economic activity and generate tens of millions of dollars in new yearly tax revenue for the region.

We recognize that not everyone in Elmont is happy. Local residents have said they worry about increased traffic caused by the arena. Planners, however, have worked to mitigate traffic, building a new Long Island Rail Road station in Elmont, the first new full-time station in 50 years.

Overall, the UBS Arena is a win-win for Long Islanders, whether or not you’re an Islanders fan.

LETTERS Many thanks on Thanksgiving To the Editor: During this season of gratitude, I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to all our neighbors who make helping others a priority in their lives.

Whether responding to the devastation caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, offering relief after the destructive home fires that occur nearly every day in Nassau and Suffolk counties or supporting others who need extra aid during Covid-19, our neighbors raise their hands to help in countless ways.

Every day I am humbled by our Red Cross volunteers who share their time to help the most vulnerable prepare for and recover from life-changing disasters in their communities. And when needed, these selfless people put their lives on hold for weeks to lend a hand far from home after relentless hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and historic wild-

cinogenic substances on the planet, according to numerous federal agencies.

Diesel trains simply shouldn’t exist in the 21st century.

The LIRR began testing battery-powered trains on the Oyster Bay branch in April. Let’s hope the eight-month test period is successful, so the other three diesel branches — Montauk, Port Jefferson and Ronkonkoma — can become fully electrified as well.

Of course, we must ask ourselves how the electricity to power our trains and buses is being generated — from fossilfuel power plants or renewable resources such as solar, wind and geothermal?

Renewable is the way forward.

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fter watching a boring sci-fi movie, I stared at the blinking orange hand signal outside the Lynbrook movie theater, waiting to cross heavily trafficked, four-lane Peninsula Boulevard. The white stick figure flashed, the seconds counted down to zero, and I found myself halfway across the road, wondering if this would be how I would die.

I had just undergone my fourth knee surgery a few weeks before, and a fullleg brace and crutches were docCRISTINA ARROYO tor’s orders. The first time I had my RODRIGUEZ ACL swapped for a cadaver ligament, I was a first-year doctoral student in industrial and organizational psychology, more than happy to return to class in person two weeks post-surgery, against doctor’s orders.

“At least it’s your leg that’s the problem, and not your brain,” my program chair said by way of welcoming me back.

Not only was this statement ableist in that it dismissed the worth of neurodivergent people, but also it showed a lack

of understanding in our leadership and institutions of what it means to live with or be a person with a disability.

“I no longer want the disabled population to be an afterthought,” Nadia Holubnyczyj, the first person in a wheelchair to run for the Nassau County Legislature, said during this fall’s campaign. With the founding of the county’s new disability-awareness advisory group, she called for government “to shift their entire mindset, their language, planning and execution.”

Indeed, my temporary mobility disability didn’t only affect my leg, but also changed my relationship with the world, and vice versa.

First, I was following a pain management schedule that included prescription opioids, which affect memory, focus and cognitive speed. When you’re hugging a toilet bowl between fits of vomiting or falling asleep from chemically induced fatigue three times a day, it’s difficult to decide whether Edward Lawler or John Stacey Adams best explains reactions to pay inequity.

Second, the cognitive labor of navigating a world not built for you, and even

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temporary mobility issue changed my relationship with the world, and vice versa.

LETTERS fires out West.

I am also grateful for our partners who share a common purpose and community spirit to connect more people with critical humanitarian support. And our financial supporters allow the Red Cross to deliver emergency relief 24/7, 365 days a year.

A final word of thanks to our first responders — police, fire and EMS — whom we are proud to support as they protect and assist our communities every day.

Wishing you all a happy and safe Thanksgiving. Let’s continue to look out for one another.

JOSE DOMINGUEZ CEO, American Red Cross on Long Island

Keep up the cancer reporting To the Editor: Regarding Scott Brinton’s column “A famed journalist enlightens us on cancer reporting” (Nov. 11-17): I want to thank Brinton and commend him for his cancer reporting. Although no cancer clusters have been officially designated on Long Island, I have found that there is a high incidence of cancer in communities here.

I was diagnosed with acute myeloge-

built against you, is taxing. Where are the elevators in this Long Island Rail Road station? Are they currently in service? Will my crutches slip on the sidewalk? Where can I elevate my leg when at work? How much earlier do I need to leave? What detours should I take to avoid tripping and falling?

Even though Holubnyczyj said she believes “there is no specific area of need that the county should be focusing on that would benefit the disabled,” she makes an exception for inequities in public transportation, which is one of the “hot spots” that need to be addressed.

Besides planning the logistics of navigation, there is also the emotional strain of being treated as an inconvenience, a burden. “If it’s important to you, you’d attend,” an elected official said of whether to allow public meetings to be held on Zoom. “If you loved your children, you would make time,” said the president of a school club who holds monthly meetings exclusively in the evening.

According to the 2018 American Community Survey, about 2 million New Yorkers, roughly 11 percent of the state’s

population, have a visible or invisible disability. And even after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, over 30 percent of reports filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were claims of disability discrimination. In the past five years, Nassau County has spent almost $1 million in ADA settlements, even though only about one in five report this kind of discrimination.

My Ph.D. program chair accurately recognized that there was a problem, but it wasn’t my leg. My leg wouldn’t have been a problem if public transportation had reliable access, if workplaces provided proper accommodations, if public meetings offered remote participation and if that pedestrian crossing signal lasted a few seconds longer. The disability doesn’t lie within me, Nadia, or within the community of people with disabilities, but within our institutions.

Cristina Arroyo Rodriguez is editor of the Baldwin Herald and has been a nonprofit organizational consultant in the areas of pay equity and diversity, equity and inclusion. She has lectured in psychology at Baruch College, Bronx Community College and the City University of New York, and has taught Master Executive classes for NYPD leadership at John Jay College.

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nous leukemia two and a half years ago.

In my square-block area in North Merrick, there were four other people diagnosed with cancer. One of them lost her life. In Merrick, I know of five other people with blood cancers besides me. In the office where I worked in Roosevelt Field, there were two others besides me diagnosed with blood cancers. One of them lost her life. We were an office of only about 75 people.

This is all anecdotal, but unless responsible reporters like Brinton and Dan Fagin bring this to the public’s attention, dangerous cancer-causing situations will not be addressed. Thank you for the work you do.

PATRICIA FIFE North Merrick

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