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Elmont chamber president dies at 68 Friends, business leaders remember Paul Sapienza

By MElISSA KoENIg mkoenig@liherald.com

Paul Sapienza, the longtime president of the Elmont Chamber of Commerce and the owner of Sapienza Bake Shop, died at St. Francis Hospital, in Roslyn, on Saturday, at the age of 68. The cause of his death was not known as the Herald went to press.

Sapienza was born on Oct. 2, 1952 to parents Andrew and Angelina, and was the younger brother of Rose and Annette.

He grew up in Elmont in the 1950s and 1960s, and lived next door to his good friend Roseanne Golde, whom he later married.

The two clicked from the start, playing games together and holding hands on their way to kindergarten at the Butler Boulevard School, now the Clara H. Carlson School. A teacher once even

scolded Roseanne for holding Paul’s hand “too frequently” at such a young age, she previously told the Herald.

But when Paul started first grade, his parents decided they wanted to give him a Catholic education, and he was enrolled at the St. Boniface School, in Elmont, while Roseanne stayed at Butler Boulevard. Still, the two remained good friends and spent their free time together — until the early 1960s, when the Sapienzas moved to Baldwin, and Paul’s parents tried to enroll him in the St. Christopher School.

But the school was too full, and Paul instead attended the St. Vincent de Paul School, in Elmont.

He went on to attend Chaminade High School, in Mineola, while Roseanne went to Sewanhaka High. At age 18, Roseanne married her high school boyCoNTiNueD oN page 3

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PAul SAPIENzA wAS president of the Elmont Chamber of Commerce since 2012. He gave the State of Elmont address last year.

Sewanhaka CHSD battles two Supreme Court cases

By MElISSA KoENIg mkoenig@liherald.com

The Sewanhaka Central High School District Board of Education approved a resolution on Nov. 24 to hire Farmingdalebased Guercio and Guercio as special counsel “to defend the district’s interests” in an unspecified legal proceeding.

But court records show that the district is actually involved in two separate cases in New York State Supreme Court. It was unclear at press time whether Guercio and Guercio was hired for either of those cases.

Elmont residents Christina Drummond-Young and Eric Young filed the more recent case against the district in February,

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claiming that district officials were negligent in allowing “a dangerous condition ” they “knew, or should have known, existed and continued to exist” within the district’s premises, and failed to warn DrummondYoung of the dangerous conditions (which are not specified in the lawsuit) when she fell down CoNTiNueD oN page 4

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Business community remembers Paul Sapienza friend, and had her first child, Dawn, while working in the health and beauty section of Hills Supermarket in Elmont.

Sapienza, meanwhile, studied accounting at St. John’s University, and discussed taking over his family business with his good friend Antonino Scolieri. Scolieri eventually bought out his father’s bakery, on Meacham Avenue in Elmont, and in 1973 Paul took over his family’s Italian pastry shop, on Hempstead Turnpike.

He had heard that his once good friend Roseanne was now married, and he figured he would never see her again, but he was wrong. She and her husband separated in the early 1970s. In 1975, she came into Sapienza Bake Shop to order a wedding cake for her brother, and, as Sapienza has previously told the Herald, “The rest is history.”

Paul asked her out less than a week later, and the two went on their first date on Jan. 29, 1975. Ten months later, they were married.

They went on to have two children, Melissa and Andrew, whom Sapienza is teaching to run the family business, and Roseanne started running the bake shop while Paul focused on the wholesale distribution of its Italian pastries, which, he told the Herald last year, are superior to those offered by chain supermarkets because those markets are more priceconscious about their ingredients. As a result, customers don’t get the same nostalgic feeling for their grandmother’s baking when they bite into a supermarket pastry that they do when they try one from Sapienza’s.

“We might not be able to beat [the supermarkets] on price,” he said, “but we can beat them on taste and quality.”

Everyone who works at the store lives in the area, he said, and 67 cents of every dollar spent at the bakery is returned to the Franklin Square and Elmont communities.

“He was a caring person,” said Jeanette Toc, who worked at Sapienza’s when she was younger. “Like if he asked you how you were doing, it wasn’t just a ‘Hey, how you doin’?’ He genuinely cared, and was present in any conversation he had.”

Toc hadn’t seen Sapienza since she left the bakery eight years ago and moved to Pennsylvania, she said, but when she called him in May to place an order for her mother’s birthday, “He recognized my voice and we chatted for a bit.”

Sapienza served on the boards of the Martin de Porres School, in Elmont, and Gateway Youth Outreach, an organization that provides children in the community with counseling as well as educational and recreational programs. He and Roseanne also was lector and eucharist minister at St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church.

Sapienza, who became president of the Chamber of Commerce in 2012, helped the Elmont business community throughout the coronavirus pandemic and spoke out in support of the Belmont Park redevelopment project. He unsuccessfully challenged Carrié Solages for his seat in the County Legislature in 2017, running on an economic development platform, and was honored as the Nassau Council

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Courtesy Paul Sapienza

roseanne and Paul Sapienza were good friends as children, and they were married in 1975. of Chambers’ Small Businessperson of the Year, the grand marshal of the Belmont/Elmont Parade and the St. Boniface Parish’s Man of the Year for his dedication to the community.

“The name Sapienza and Elmont are synonymous,” said Julie Marschesella, the chamber’s acting president. “The Elmont community is greatly indebted to him.”

Sapienza helped out more than just the Elmont and Franklin Square communities, though. He participated in the fundraising run for prostate cancer research at Belmont Park every year, and he has served as president of the Nassau-Suffolk Bakers Association, the New York State Bakers Association and the national Retail Bakers of America Association, organizing and attending several conventions in Atlantic City.

“There is no one that loved the RBA more,” the organization posted on Facebook on Monday. “We will forever miss his stories and laughs.”

John Lupo, a baker from Minnesota, commented that “Paul was one of the good guys,” and was always willing to help out anyone in need. “He touched so many of us in such a positive way,” Lupo wrote. “The world needs more Paul Sapienzas.”

Sapienza was predeceased by his parents. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children, Melissa Waelchli (Victor) and Andrew; his stepdaughter, Dawn (Keith); and his grandchildren, Jessica, Allyson, Patrick, Alayna and Kaylee.

Wakes were scheduled for Dec. 2 and 3, from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m., at the Elmont Funeral Home, 1529 Hempstead Turnpike in Elmont. The funeral will be held on Dec. 4, at 9:30 a.m., at St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church, 631 Elmont Road. All Centers for Disease Control and Nassau County Department of Health regulations will be followed, and limited viewing is available.

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Paul saPienza sPoke with Ex-Councilman Ed Ambrosino at Crossroads Farm in 2017 for the West Hempstead Chamber of Commerce’s fourth annual multi-chamber event.

Sewanhaka CHSD embroiled in two legal cases continued froM front the stairs to the track at Elmont Memorial High School in August 2019.

George Gridelli, an attorney representing the Youngs, told the Herald that the “dangerous conditions” include the steps not being uniform in distance, and the handrail being too low to the ground.

As a result, the lawsuit claims, Drummond-Young fractured her ankle and needed surgery. Her insurance paid her medical bills, Gridelli said, but she is seeking damages for her pain and suffering that exceed the limits of lower courts’ awards.

Additionally, the lawsuit claims, Eric Young, Drummond-Young’s husband, “has been deprived of her society, companionship and consortium, and was otherwise required to render to her services for her care and cure, and as such has been damaged in an amount which exceeds the monetary jurisdictional limits of all New York State courts.”

The couple filed a Notice of Claim for the damages in September 2019, the lawsuit asserts, but the district “refused to make payment.”

Attorneys for the district declined to comment because the case is ongoing, but acknowledged in court documents that a Notice of Claim was filed and had not been paid. They denied all of the other allegations.

The parties are due back in court in January.

In the meantime, the district must also deal with a second lawsuit, which a former student, Diane Messelschmitt, filed last year under the state’s Child Victims Act. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the act into law in February 2019, extending the statute of limitations for survivors of child sexual abuse to file a criminal or civil case and allowing claims to be brought against institutions that may have been involved in the abuse.

The suit alleges that the district and H. Frank Carey High School officials are “vicariously liable and responsible for their own acts and omissions which caused, allowed and permitted” former teacher, band instructor and cheerleading and dance squad coach Stanley Indig

to sexually abuse and assault young girls at the school, including Messelschmitt, who was then known as Diane Schleimer.

Messelschmitt played in the band and took part in cheerleading and dance squad when she attended Carey from 1985 to 1987, the suit states, and “encountered defendant Stanley Indig on an almost daily basis.” In the spring of 1987, the suit claims, Indig “began to invade plaintiff ’s personal space, often sitting right next to her she practiced piano alone in the music room,” and once told Messelschmitt that he was “‘going through a difficult time in his marriage,’ and stated that he was ‘so glad I have you.’”

One day in March, the suit states, Indig followed Messelschmitt into the supply closet in the music room, “closed the door behind him and proceeded to sexually assault her,” grabbing her by the neck and shoulders, “forcibly kissing her, and reaching his hand under her skirt to touch and grab her intimate parts and her vagina.”

District officials were supposed to be responsible for her care, well-being and safety, and had a duty to protect her from abuse and other harms, Messelschmitt’s attorneys argue in court documents, because she was a minor in their care, and “were aware and/or should have been aware that Stanley Indig was a sexual abuser who had inappropriate contact with and inappropriate relations with children.” He frequently sought to be left alone with children, the lawsuit alleges, frequently left school grounds with students, in violation of school rules, and had a reputation as a “pig” who wanted to expose himself.

Lawyers for Indig and the district declined to comment, but the district’s attorneys denied the allegations in court documents, claiming that, since the alleged incident occurred more than 30 year ago, the district no longer had the relevant personnel documents and the statute of limitations had lapsed. Therefore, they argued, the lawsuit should be dismissed.

They are due back in court on Dec. 9.

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Covid continues to close schools

By Melissa Koenig mkoenig@liherald.com

Sewanhaka High School remained closed through Tuesday, after a student tested positive for the coronavirus, and several classes at Elmont elementary schools had to quarantine last week.

The students and staff members at Sewanhaka High School had to work remotely during the closure, Superintendent James Grossane said in an announcement on the Sewanhaka Central High School District’s website last week, and any student participating in the district’s Career and Technical Education program, which is based at Sewanhaka High School, had to remain at their home school and participate in the program remotely.

Students at the Stewart Manor and Covert Avenue schools in Elmont also had to quarantine last week after coming in contact with individuals who had tested positive for the virus. No student or staff member had tested positive in these cases, however, Superintendent Kenneth Rosner wrote in an announcement on Nov. 25.

He said the district will continue to work closely with the Nassau County Department of Health, and take all the necessary precautions “to ensure the health and safety of our school community.”

“I am confident our approach to addressing the safety of students and staff during this pandemic will continue to serve the entire community well,” Rosner said.

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Four run for fire commissioner in F.S., Elmont mkoenig@liherald.com

Sitting fire commissioners in Franklin Square and Elmont are facing challengers in this year’s elections on Dec. 8.

in Franklin square

Chris gioia

Chris howard

run for fire commissioner this year to give the members of the Franklin Square and Munson Fire Department a voice on the commissioners board.

If elected, he said, he would work to grow the fire department’s membership and boost morale, while retaining the department’s current membership. There are currently only about 100 active members in the Franklin Square & Munson Fire Department, Howard said, and new recruits are required to respond to a number of calls, while also attending classes at the Nassau County Fire Services Academy twice a week.

“We have to make certain changes to continue to do what we

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do,” Howard said, adding that he hopes to have the community’s support in the election because he will give 110 percent of his time and effort to accomplish his goals.

Voting for the Franklin Square & Munson fire commissioners race will be held on Dec. 8 from 1 to 9 p.m. at the Franklin Square & Munson firehouse, 841 Liberty Place.

in elmont

In Elmont, Fire Commissioner Joseph Bolletta is seeking another term on the board, but is being challenged by Jean Duroseau.

Bolletta has been an active member of the Elmont Fire Department for 33 years, serving as the chief for three and a half, and serving on the fire commis-

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sioners board for 15. He is currently the fire department’s treasurer.

“I like helping out,” he said.

“That’s all I want to do is help out.”

During his time on the fire commissioners board, Bolletta said the Elmont Fire District has purchased new portable radios, kept the budget in check and “never held back on training.”

The board only buys the best equipment, he said, and if he were to be re-elected, he would like to hire a dispatcher for the Elmont community, make the training tower more challenging for the volunteer firefighters and would continue to fight with the Water Authority of Western Nassau County to lower rental fees on the fire hydrants.

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In Franklin Square, incumbent Christopher Gioia is running for re-election against challenger Christopher Howard.

Gioia could not be reached for comment as of press time, but told the Herald in 2015 that he was running because he felt the fiveperson board was “totally out of touch with the Fire Department and the community it serves,” and he wanted to “restore fiscal sanity to the fire district and to help restore the faith of the community to which the commissioners are elected to serve.”

He was a 30-year member of the Franklin Square and Munson Fire Department at the time, and had served as an emergency medical technician for 25 years and the chief of the fire department from 2007 - 2012.

Howard, meanwhile, has been living in the Franklin Square community for 25 years and has served as a volunteer firefighter for seven. He said he decided to

“I’m fighting for myself, my neighbors and my friends across the community,” Bolletta said, adding that after 15 years on the board, “I think I’ve gained enough knowledge to continue to help the community.”

His opponent, Jean Duroseau, has been serving in the Elmont Fire Department for 21 years, and previously served as the captain of the EMS squad. He recently retired from his position as supervisor of transportation at the Elmont Union Free School District, and served on the NICE bus system’s board of committees for the past seven years. Duroseau is currently a member of Truck 1 and the Truck 1 Corporation.

He decided to run for fire commissioner, he said, because the current members have served on the board for about 20 to 30 years.

“When you’ve already spent 15 years and you’re looking for another five, I don’t think that’s right,” Duroseau said.

If Duroseau were to be elected, he said, his focus will be on the “safety and training of the members.”

Voting for the Elmont fire commissioners race will be held on Dec. 8 from 12 to 9 p.m. at the Elmont Fire Department headquarters, 95 Lehrer Avenue.

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Herald sports Molloy aims to rebound off 12-17 season

By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

Despite losing its all-time leading scorer, Molloy College’s men’s basketball program is aiming to rebound from a 12-17 season, including a 7-9 mark against East Coast Conference foes.

The Lions, who captured their firstever ECC Tournament title in the 2018-19 campaign, aren’t playing any non-conference games this season due to Covid-19 and won’t be in action until traveling to upstate Rochester to face Roberts Wesleyan College in the Jan. 9 opener.

“We began working on conditioning around the same time as we usually do and then got into individual skill work and socially distant team-based offense and defense drills,” head coach Charlie Marquardt said. “We have that mandatory week off around the holidays and when we start back up Dec. 28, we’ll have 10 days to get ready for the opener.”

Barring any changes, the 18-game ECC schedule and postseason tournament will be played without fans. “I’m expecting games to have the feel of a scrimmage,” Marquardt said. “We will have to generate our own energy. It’ll be intriguing.”

The Lions will also need to turn the page on the Nick Corbett era. A threetime All-ECC First Team selection, he averaged 23.7 points per game and finished his career at Molloy with 2,032 points, 379 rebounds and 385 assists and 153 steals. “Not only was Nick our alltime leading scorer, which is an amazing feat considering some of the players we’ve had, but he also had the uncanny ability to step up late in games,” Marquardt said. “Who’ll be getting the ball in crunch time this season will be by committee,” Molloy returns four players who made at least 14 starts a season ago, including former Baldwin High School product Justin Caldwell, a redshirt senior big man, and former Lynbrook High School standout James Montgomery, a sophomore who like Caldwell is 6-foot-7.

Calldwell, who averaged a little more than 5 points and 5 rebounds per game last season while making 22 starts, knows what it takes to get the job done inside, Marquardt said, and will be counted on to provide leadership as well.

Montgomery started 19 games and led the Lions in field goal percentage (55.7) on the way to chipping in 6.3 points per game. “James improved as the season went on and made steady contributions as a freshman,” Marquardt said. “He got bigger and stronger during the offseason and he can attack the rim as well as post up.”

Pano Pavlidis, a 6-8 sophomore, emerged last winter and Marquardt is expecting even more with 17 starts under his belt. Pavlidis led the team in

rebounding (6.8 per game) and scored at a 6.7 ppg clip.

Though experienced in the frontcourt, Marquardt also likes his collection of guards and believes it’ll take strong backcourt play for Molloy to be competitive against the likes of Daemen, Bridgeport and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Spearheading a deep group of guards is Steven Torre, one of few seniors on the roster. He’s the Lions’ top returning scorer (10.4 ppg) and made 14 starts. Marquardt said the plan is for Torre to be off the ball more and make up for some of the offense lost by Corbett’s departure.

Junior guard Frankie Phelan is a breakout candidate following a determined offseason. Another quality option to run the point is Kenny Lazo, a freshman out of Brentwood High School who won two Long Island championships and earned All-State honors. Marquardt describes Lazo as a born leader and tenacious defender.

Former Lawrence Woodmere Academy standout Kendall Ogilvie, a junior, transferred from LIU Post prior to last season but didn’t play. He’s in the mix along with a pair of freshmen — former Freeport High School’s Darren Fergus and Mick Browne from Queens.

“We like our guards,” Marquardt said.

“We have some experience, some guys with bigger roles and some talented newcomers.”

JuNIOr FraNkIE PhELaN is part of a deep backcourt that has Molloy head coach Charlie Marquardt excited.

Photos courtesy Molloy College athletics

JuNIOr PaNO PavLIdIS, a 6-foot-8 forward, averaged 6.7 points and 6.8 rebounds for the Lions last winter and is primed to take his game to another level.

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the house at 1051 Harrow Road in Franklin Square is like a shining beacon of Christmas decorations, with nearly every square inch of the front lawn covered in decorations.

F.S. man displays ‘the essence of Christmas’

by Melissa Koenig mkoenig@liherald.com

Robert Destefano had dreamed of putting up a large Christmas display since he was a child growing up in Franklin Square near Valley Stream North High School.

There was a house across the street from the school that was always well-decorated and featured Santa Claus greeting passersby on Christmas Eve, he recounted, and he said he would one day like to do something similar for the community.

But Destefano, 42, struggled with obesity, and weighed 528 pounds in his 30s, making it difficult to put up such a display. He eventually got gastric bypass and tummy tuck surgery, and lost 300 pounds in one year.

Then, when he saw that his friend, Kevin Lynch, of Whitestone, Queens, win the “Great Christmas Light Fight” on ABC and $500,000 in 2013, Destefano figured it was time to start his own display.

He started installing festive lights and inflatables on his front lawn in 2015, and the next year, he put out a donation box for St. Jude, at his mother’s behest. She told him that since he was doing such a big Christmas display, he should also raise money for children with cancer, he said, “and I loved it.”

He has since collected between $2,000 to $6,000 for the organization each year, as his display grew with more and more decorations. This year, there is barely a square inch of open space left on Destefano’s front lawn at 1051 Harrow Road, between the countless Santa Clauses, the “Grinch” inflatable, penguins, seals, a

creche, “Alvin and the Chipmunks” figurines and a reindeer handing out candy canes.

He even traveled to Pennsylvania to pick up an archway, and spent $100 on North Pole signs.

Destefano estimates that the entire display cost him about $100,000, with roughly $3,000 in electricity costs per month. He usually hooks the display up to a generator, he said, but it is currently broken.

The display also took Destefano a long time to complete. He started working on it two weeks before Halloween, and only finished it up on Nov. 29, taking only two weeks off when his father was in the hospital for congestive heart failure and he needed gallbladder surgery.

“It’s been a rough road this year, but that didn’t stop me,” Destefano said. “I do it for St. Jude, and I needed to get it done. It means the world to me.”

And it seems to mean a lot for others as well, as people drove by slowly on Nov. 29 to stop and take a look at the shining Christmas beacon, or got out of their cars and walked around as Christmas music played in the background.

Marisa Nogueira, of Floral Park, for example brought her 22-month-old daughter to take a look around, after seeing Destefano’s post about it online, and Bernadette Forloine said she stops by with her three sons every year, describing the house as “breathtaking” and “the essence of Christmas.” Even his new neighbors, Sabhi Singh and Singh Bunty came out to marvel at the finished product, saying they are lucky to have a neighbor like Destefano.

Destefano has “alvin and the Chipmunks” figurines.

RobeRt Destefano spent weeks putting up the decorations, only taking weeks off when he and his father were in the hospital.

He traveled to Pennsylvania to pick up this archway.

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FRANKLIN SQUARE/ELMONT HERALD — December 3, 2020 Courtesy Sewanhaka Central High School District

Courtesy Sen. Todd Kaminsky

Elmont teachers are Outstanding Educators Muslim community honors Kaminsky Sen. Todd KaminSKy, second from left, was honored by the Muslim community of Valley Stream and Elmont on Oct. 10, along with Hempstead Mayor Don Ryan. They were with President of MusCare Mohammed Hassan and NYU Student Imran Rabbani.

chased that day to support the people of Yemen, where five years of political conflict has forced more than 3.6 million people to flee from their homes and about 80 percent of the population – 24 million people – are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.

Eight Elmont Memorial High School teachers received the University of Chicago Outstanding Educator Award, including Nkenge Gilliam, Stacey Taylor, Amy Giorgio, Frank Nuara, Marc Raskind, Pete Marini, Chris Persaud and Luz Del Rosario.

Teachers are nominated by newlyadmitted University of Chicago students, who reflect on their time in high school

and choose an educator who played a significant role in their education, made a positive impact in their lives and whose influence has brought them to where they are today.

All award winners receive a commemorative award, certificate and letter that includes details from the student they were nominated by.

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State Sen. Todd Kaminsky was honored by the Muslim community of Valley Stream and Elmont at a charity event to support peace in Yemen on Oct. 10 at the Holy Cow restaurant in Elmont.

In partnership with MusCare, a New York City-based nonprofit, Holy Cow donated 30 percent of each meal pur-

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Family fights for kidney patients as pandemic continues

December 3, 2020 — FRANKLIN SQUARE/ELMONT HERALD

By Melissa Koenig mkoenig@liherald.com

Jacqueline Botta is immunocompromised and could not travel to Albany and Washington D.C. to raise awareness of kidney disease this year as she normally does due to the coronavirus pandemic. But that did not stop her and her mother, Marlene, from trying.

“The work and the fight do not stop because of the pandemic,” Marlene said.

“There are still people living with kidney diseases getting treatments, and people are still participating in drug trials.”

Families with an immunocompromised individual are also suffering from “double the isolation” during the pandemic, she added, because they are taking extra precautions to prevent spreading Covid-19 to their relatives. In the Botta family, for instance, Marlene said, her husband, Anthony, a New York City police officer, pitched a tent in their backyard to sleep so he would not infect Jacqueline if he were to get the virus.

Jacqueline, who is now 19, was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome — an umbrella term that describes irreversible damage to the kidneys’ filters — in 2016.

At the time, she experienced low energy, swelling and stomach pain, and after a week, she had to be rushed to the hospital for dehydration from vomiting. That is when a doctor told her she has focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, a disorder that occurs when the kidney filters stretch out and scar. There is no known cause of the

Photos Courtesy Marlene Botta

Jacqueline Botta recently spoke at an FDA hearing about patient focused-drug development. disease, and it is incurable.

“Inevitably, I’m going to need a kidney transplant,” Jacqueline previously explained to the Herald.

But she continued to attend H. Frank Carey High School and was on the Pirettes kickline team. She is now studying medicine remotely from Western Connecticut State University.

“Sometimes she looks so normal, you

forget that she’s sick,” her mother, Marlene, said. “You meet her, and you don’t think she’s sick, but inside her body is attacking itself.”

To help find a cure for her and the 37 million other patients with chronic kidney disease, Jacqueline and Marlene have become leaders in raising awareness of nephrotic syndrome. Jacqueline has met with Assemblyman Ed Ra and State Sen.

Anna Kaplan to have March 27 recognized as Nephrotic Awareness Day, created a “Kidney Fight Club” Instagram group, where 14 young adults can talk about their lives with nephrotic syndrome, and organized an annual walk at Eisenhower Park.

Marlene has also become a patient advocate for NephCure Kidney International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding a cure for nephrotic syndrome diseases, organizing and speaking at various NephCure events, and raising money for the organization.

But many of those events had to be canceled this year due to the pandemic, and Marlene said she has had to “pivot and create opportunities to keep funding research with events.”

She has held Zoom meetings with families of patients with kidney disease, and a virtual gala and silent auction on Nov. 12, which raised over $700,000 for NephCure’s programming, research and drug trial work.

Jacqueline also testified at a recent virtual Food and Drug Administration hearing about patient-focused drug development. She is going to start a precision medicine study soon, in which researchers will test her urine for a certain protein and create a medication regimen based on the results.

“We are at a very exciting time in the development of better treatments,” Marlene said, adding that the trial should put Jacqueline in remission.

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Curran encourages local holiday shopping By tony BellissiMo tbellissimo@liherald.com

Last Friday afternoon, outside of Matty’s Toy Stop in Rockville Centre, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran was joined by the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce and the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency to announce the “Shop Safe, Shop Local Scavenger Hunt,” encouraging residents to shop and dine at small businesses struggling from the impact of the pandemic.

It’s Nassau’s second annual scavenger hunt to promote shopping local during the holiday season; however, this year it has been expanded from one day to one week.

The event will kick off this Saturday, Nov. 28, and run through Friday, Dec. 4. There will be one winner each day and no repeat winners will be allowed. The first to complete the hunt each day successfully will receive a $100 gift card, courtesy of the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce, to be used to shop locally.

“Laura Curran and other local politicians like Anthony D’Esposito and Todd Kaminsky have been extremely supportive to small businesses since the shutdown in March,” said Jeannine Palladino, owner of Jeannine’s Gifts located at 6 N. Park Ave. in Rockville Centre. “It’s really been a struggle and I admire how hard they’ve worked to keep small businesses going,” she added.

For rules on the contest and to print the

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nassau county executive Laura Curran with Sean McQuade, owner of Matty’s Toy Stop, at a news conference on Nov. 20.

“Shop Safe, Shop Local Scavenger Hunt,” go to www.nassaucountyny.gov/shoplocal.

All purchases must be made at small businesses located within the same community in Nassau County.

Chris Evans, owner of Press 195 restaurant located at 22 N. Park Ave., said he’s a big fan of Curran’s and appreciates everything she’s done to assist struggling business owners.

“Supporting local businesses is more important than ever,” Evans said. “These

times are very difficult for many.”

At the news conference, Curran urged consumers to do their spending at local small businesses. “Our small businesses, especially those in our once bustling downtowns, that employ so many of our neighbors, families and friends, are struggling to survive,” Curran said. “You can help throw them a lifeline just by doing your holiday shopping at the mom and pop shops in your community — rather than online or at big box retailers. I hope residents take

advantage of this engaging shopping game and have some fun while supporting and safely exploring local small businesses — you never know the hidden gems you may find.”

Richard Kessel, chairman of the Nassau County IDA, added, “The Industrial Development Agency and our sister organization, the Local Economic Assistance Corporation, have worked tirelessly during this pandemic to do what we could to assist small businesses during these challenging times, including loans and PPE giveaways.

This is just another effort of support to promote shopping safely and shopping locally to support the brick-and-mortar businesses that are the fabric of this county.”

Small Business Saturday was first launched by American Express in 2010 to promote shopping at small businesses in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This collaborative event expands on Small Business Saturday and is intended to highlight the economic impact and importance of shopping and dining locally.

“The Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce is proud to be partnering with Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and the Nassau County IDA in this our second annual scavenger hunt,” said Julia Marchsella, past president of the NCCC. “We are grateful for the opportunity to recognize our local business owners and chamber members who eagerly await your safe shopping experience.”

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Unfortunately, however, my colleagues and I like to be social, and we started working from home shortly thereafter.

When you’re working from home, though, you don’t get the same experience as you do when you’re working in the office. At the office, there always seemed to be something going on, or someone you could talk to before starting your next story, but at home, I had to turn on the TV just to get some background noise. You see, everyone in my household was considered an essential worker — my father is a family physician, and my mother works the front desk at his office. So, they would be gone during the day, leaving me alone in the house with my dog.

We eventually created our own routine, and in the beginning, my parents’ hours were reduced, so we would all eat dinner together — something we haven’t done since I was a child, as my dad usually had to work late, watch “Jeopardy!” and scream out the answers (or, I suppose, questions) together, and watch a lot of television as a family.

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Covering the pandemic for the past nine months has been such a mental challenge. I still remember the first coronavirus case story that I covered in March. I didn’t imagine that Covid-19 cases would increase exponentially in our neighborhoods. During that period, we really didn’t have any time to sit back and process everything that was happening. We were tasked with reporting on every aspect of this virus and how it had affected our communities, and we did.

Things took another unexpected turn in our communities shortly after the George Floyd killing in May. The number of peaceful protests that came about and the droves of people who marched for racial equality was another eye-opening experience. As a Black man, it was tough to set aside my own thoughts and feelings, but I understood that it was necessary to do so in order to carry out my job and to report objectively.

One of the things that made me hopeful and kept me going during the pandemic was seeing the resiliency and togetherness from residents and groups in the communities I cover. People of all ages stepped up, banded together and persevered, and having the opportunity to share those stories is something that I will forever be grateful for.

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’m likely not alone in saying that it’s hard to overstate how much of a rollercoaster these past nine months and change have been.

In my role I’ve recounted tales of crises, loss and perseverance, both in the face of disaster and injustice. There has been so much death, financial destruction and disruption that it has certainly at times been overwhelming.

Often, I think back to those first few weeks when this all started. There was so much fear, and so many people on a knife’s edge for whom this whole thing threatened to take what little they had managed to scrape together. I often wonder how they’ve fared.

Then, there were the bright spots, when the anxiety and death gave way to a renewed fight for justice. A generation of activists was born, and we settled into a new normal. Now, with a renewed sense of uncertainty, I brace for what’s next.

Like many, what my day-to-day looks like has changed. I no longer commute, and I’m fortunate enough to live in the community I cover. In that sense I feel closer than ever to the people whose stories I write about.

I don’t tire of telling coronavirus stories because I know that they have the potential to help. Depending on the context, they provide useful information and hopefully a bit of illumination in dark times. I also hope that some might illustrate the ways in which we aren’t alone — whether it’s through loss, success, sacrifice or determination — there are others experiencing the same.

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It’s also difficult to manage working from home instead of being in the office because at home I usually wind down from a long work day. Now, my home is my work space.

I enjoyed the structure of working in the office because I could focus a lot better at my desk cubicle.

When the pandemic first hit, it terrified me because it was very unexpected. Both my parents had the coronavirus in late March. When my parents were sick, I was terrified that they would both die and leave me and my siblings to survive on our own.

Although both my parents survived the virus, I still have fears of them contracting another strain of the virus, and not making it through a second infection. Fortunately, I never got sick from the virus, even though I was exposed to my parents at the time when they were sick with coronavirus. I will always be afraid of the virus because it nearly stole my parents from me.

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By Melissa Koenig mkoenig@liherald.com

Kyle Heckler wanted to get away from the stress of the coronavirus pandemic over the summer, and decided to visit some friends from SUNY Potsdam in a small upstate town. While he was there, however, Heckler realized he was not the only one who needed a break from the stressors of the pandemic, and decided to create a street fair for mental health.

The Rock In Peace Fest would be held in October to promote the businesses on Franklin Avenue, where Heckler grew up playing music at the annual Franklin Square Street Fair, promote Outrlimits Art Studio owner Darren Boerckel’s Art Experience exhibit in Tribeca and raise money for a Hempstead-based mental health facility known as the Turquoise House. The House is a crisis respite and hospital service diversion program that is provided by Consumer Link, the recovery and peer-services division of the Mental Health Association of Nassau County.

“That’s why I wanted to do it,” said Heckler, a Franklin Square native. “It was for the businesses in the area, and to bring awareness of art.”

The event would be a “reject street fair,” Heckler said, with sectioned-off tables, live painting demonstrations outside the art studio, live music, a gelato cart from Dolce Gelateria, a pretzel cart from the Philly Pretzel Factory and a

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a Band played at the Rock ‘n’ Peace Fest in October. stand from Sew Fine. Tables would be placed six-feet apart to ensure social distancing, there would be hand sanitizing stations and masks would be required, with some local artists distributing and selling handmade ones.

Heckler also put up signs throughout the community to advertise the event, and word quickly spread. “The local people really listened,” Heckler, 25, said.

“They wanted it to happen and supported it.”

Unfortunately, however, the festival

did not go as planned.

Heckler had hoped that it would be the first event permitted since the pandemic began, and spoke to members of the Fifth Precinct and Franklin Square Munson Fire Department about it. He even had all of the residents and business owners between Adams Avenue and Fenworth Boulevard sign a permit application from the Town of Hempstead, only to find out that Franklin Avenue is actually a county road. So, he started calling county officials, and was transferred between departments several times, until he received a one-week expedited permit application.

He then submitted it back to the Nassau County Department of Public Works, but received an email the Friday before the scheduled event that they would need a play-by-play of what he was planning.

He did so, but the county still denied his

permit.

“As far as anyone was concerned,” however, Heckler recounted, “it was happening.”

And he didn’t want to disappoint his neighbors.

He set up a stage at Chuck’s Auto, where four local bands played music, and a boutique clothing truck was parked for customers, as cars whizzed by. People also stopped by to eat at Dolce and Philly Pretzel Factory, and Heckler spoke to the crowd about mental health, before presenting Jeffrey McQueen, a recruiter for the Turquoise House, with a small check for the organization.

“He was like blown away by the whole thing,” Heckler said of McQueen, adding that the Rock In Peace event “could’ve been better, but it was what it was.”

He is now planning to hold a larger festival over the summer.

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FranKlin square native Kyle Heckler organized the event.

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Q. We were told to file Ask The a permit to rent our house Architect next door, which an inspector came and looked at and said it was a “simple” permit. We had to have house plans made, and we filed them, paid their fee and waited six months, because of the pandemic. Now we got a response that’s three pages long with a ton of items. The letter is titled “Omissions Letter,” but we really think onte eeper we didn’t leave anything out.

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A. Your northern Nassau County town has the particular reputation for this behavior. Many architects won’t even do work there, for the simple reason that they punish honesty instead of promoting ways to improve public safety.

The implication of “omissions” at the top of the notice is a legally irresponsible implication that accuses you and your architect of purposely or unprofessionally leaving out important facts, as if you or your architect would have imagined filing for a washing machine or patio. A washing machine application would have been part of a plumbing application anywhere else. Most communities have no such requirement for the architect, and the homeowner expects that a house with a washing machine is as common as a car with four wheels.

The inspector who came to your house was probably trying to help you with safety items, looking for the smoke detectors, escape windows and handrails, but the letter was composed by a plans examiner, who doesn’t come to the house but instead goes through the files that you can’t see because of the pandemic. The examiner went looking for anything and everything to reveal that there is much more they previously didn’t enforce. In this age of computers, building departments have a better way to keep records about your home, and they’re trying to update, since illegal additions and amenities like fences, retaining walls, pools and decks — and washing machines, I guess — slipped past their radar over the years.

They also assume that plans are made just by pushing a few keyboard buttons, so why not ask for more than they ever did before? Unfortunately, the method of punishing with court hearings, fines and dismantling work isn’t the only way they could handle this. It’s just the way your North Shore town chooses to do it. Good luck! © 2020 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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n the interior of Washington state, in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, there is a tiny city, population about 900, that I have long wanted to visit — Roslyn.

There are no vacation amenities in this place — it is a seemingly ordinary American city, with a handful of eateries and shops and one hole-in-the-wall radio station along its single weatherworn main street. From 1990 to 1995, however, Roslyn was the standin for the fictional Cicely, Alaska, in the CBS cult classic “Northern Exposure,” an Emmy Award-winning sCoTT series that, to my BRInTon mind, is the finest comedy-drama ever produced, mixing medicine with literature, history, philosophy, religion, music —oh, so much music — and magic to conjure up an idealized version of small-town America.

Yes, the denizens of this very out-of-theway place disagree and argue — and argue some more — but despite their differences, whether they be spiritual, political or socio-economic, folks seek to understand one another on a deep, existential level, and in the end, they do.

That’s why, I believe, so many viewers love this show, worship it, really, including my wife and me. We discovered “Northern Exposure” in 1993, when we arrived in the

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U.S. after I had served for two years in the Peace Corps in Bulgaria, where Katerina was born and raised, and we instantly fell in love with it.

Five years ago, I bought the six-season DVD set of the show for Katerina as an anniversary gift, and we set it aside, thinking we would eventually watch and rewatch the show’s 110 episodes, but we never found the time. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck, and it forced us to slow down. Sequestered at home in the early weeks of the crisis, we started watching the series from its start and found solace in this endearing show, which was best described by one reviewer as “esoteric utopian.”

Each Saturday afternoon, feeling pandemic fatigue, we lounged on the couch after chowing on diner food and watched three or so episodes at a clip until, nine months later, we had viewed six years’ worth of shows. It was an entirely escapist exercise in a year when, it appeared, the country was collapsing around us. It brought us back to a happier time, one of relative stability, before the Oklahoma City bombing (which occurred the year “Northern Exposure” ended), 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Great Recession of 2008-09, Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and now the pandemic.

The show’s main character, Dr. Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), a Queens native and a graduate of Columbia Univer-

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sity’s medical school, must spend four years practicing in Alaska because the state paid for his exorbitantly expensive medical education. He thinks he’ll be stationed in Anchorage, the state’s largest city, or its capital, Juneau.

Instead he is sent to Cicely, somewhere in the far northern reaches of Alaska, where paved roads peter out into dense forest and the temperature plummets well below zero in the dead of winter. Fleischman, a citified New Yorker, is appalled, horrified even. In Cicely he must adapt to a decidedly slower rural culture, one that values the natural beauty of the land surrounding the town, and one that places interpersonal relations, rather than economic success, at the forefront of people’s lives.

Through the relationships Fleischman develops with the other central characters, he slowly comes to appreciate the place and its people to the point that, one day, toward the end of the show, he ventures upstream by canoe to live off the land with a Native American tribe, fishing and gathering, before finally returning to New York City.

Among his small circle of friends are the debutante-turned-bush pilot Maggie O’Connell (Janine Turner), the philosopher D.J. Chris Stevens (John Corbett), the millionaire retired astronaut Maurice Minnifield (Barry Corbin), the trapper-turned-

reaking up Covid fatigue with all six seasons of ‘Northern Exposure.’

barkeep Holling Vincoeur (John Collum) and his live-in girlfriend (and later wife), the former beauty queen-turned-waitress Shelly Marie Tambo (Cynthia Geary), aspiring filmmaker-shaman Ed Chigliak (Darren Burrows), general store owner Ruth-Anne Miller (Peg Phillips) and Fleischman’s quiet and patient receptionist, Marilyn Whirlwind (Elaine Miles). There are a host of minor, but always eccentric, characters who round out the cast.

What defines the show are the relations among the characters, the depth of their thoughts and the intelligence of the dialogue. There is no other show quite like it.

Many have compared it to “Twin Peaks,” another ’90s cult classic. Yes and no is my answer to that appraisal. There is a persistent darkness to “Twin Peaks,” which is about the murder of a teenage prom queen. “Northern Exposure,” meanwhile, is one long celebration of life and its many traditions and mysteries.

Sadly, the show isn’t available on a streaming service, only on DVD, but buy it and watch it if you’re seeking a feel-good story that will stimulate your mind and soul.

I’d love to know what show is keeping you going through the pandemic, and why.

You can email me at sbrinton@liherald. com.

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.

We’re on Trump time for another seven weeks

alf of me never wants to write or speak the name Trump again.

Half of me wants to finish the work I started nearly four years ago: to use my 750 words in this newspaper to speak to the issue of our time, the ongoing incompetence of the Trump administration.

Apparently my second half is Trumping my first half, at least this week.

I tried over and over again to stand in others’ shoes, to imagine how readers who clearly are RandI informed and kReIss patriotic could support a leader who freely lies and then lies about lying, who cheats and who is willing to abuse the majesty of the presidency for his personal gain. I understand when a reader praises his peace initiative between Israel and the UAE, or the Warp Speed vaccination program. Well done, Mr. President. But none of this comes close to compensating for all we’ve lost here at home, and across the world.

Responding to a column about Trump’s bad behavior, some readers digress to Cuomo and Clinton, with references to their lapses. But they aren’t in the White House. Does the fact that Hillary Clinton either did or did not use a personal e-mail account have anything to do with Donald Trump’s misogyny and racism? Were Cuomo’s people speaking to Russian operatives before his election?

Perhaps you have loved ones and friends who have died of Covid-19. We have, and we are living the same masked and socially distanced life that so many of you are. This is our war, and we pull together to protect one another.

Do we just let go the fact that Trump, back in January, was in the singular position to organize a cohesive national response to what he knew was a surging global pandemic? Do we forgive and forget 265,000 dead Americans? Do we let go of the tragedy that thousands died because the president decided to keep the pertinent information about the deadly virus a secret? How can we forgive the delay in

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ramping up manufacturing of masks and gloves and ventilators?

Even if we accept that which we cannot change, how do we accept his present shenanigans — the comments and behavior of the outgoing president in the face of his clear defeat to Joe Biden?

The man is still raving, hurling false accusations and conjuring imaginary frauds perpetrated against his campaign. Dozens of frivolous lawsuits have fizzled to nothing. The courts are upholding the integrity of the election, and yet the sitting president says he won’t concede, and may or may not agree to attend the inauguration or welcome the new president to the White House.

We have a leader who fiddles while the pandemic burns across the land. Every single day we are paying the price for electing him to office.

This will all go away after the inauguration, I suppose, as Biden takes office. But what to do with the Donald? Reports abound that he is the subject of investigations in D.C. and New York.

Trump has been pardoning himself

hen what? I don’t think it serves our country to be in forgive-andforget mode.

since he stepped into the presidency, so more pardoning will not be a surprise. The question is, how aggressive will authorities be in prosecuting him for his alleged misdeeds? Biden should not be asked this question, and certainly he should not answer it. Unlike his predecessor, he knows that executive power stops at the doors to the Justice Department.

We teach our children that actions have consequences, and that bad actions may lead to punishment or sanctions. It must be the same for the president. I don’t think it serves our country to be in forgive-andforget mode. We cannot let Trump slide into his next incarnation with impunity.

We cannot give him a pass if he has actually broken laws that he swore to uphold.

He may be unsavory and duplicitous and, frankly, incapable of being president, but none of that is illegal. Let the investigations run their course. If we are a country of laws, then so be it, for everyone. If the legal eagles find no cause to pursue prosecution, then so be it. Should charges be brought, let Trump have his day in court. This is not to humble the man, but to heal the country.

Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Seeking comfort in a cult classic this pandemic year

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Celebrating our Hometown Heroes

n mid-May, as the coronavirus pandemic raged in New York, the Heralds undertook what became a monumental project to feature each week the front-line heroes who were — and are — keeping us safe and providing for our daily sustenance — doctors, nurses, EMTs, firefighters, supermarket employees and sanitation workers.

Every week through November, we published 16 Hometown Heroes — 444 in all — encouraging them to describe in their own words their harrowing, and sometimes horrifying, experiences. They told stories of death and job loss, mourning and fear. At the same time, they demonstrated resilience in the face of unbearable hardship and kindness to desperate strangers.

They spoke of our shared humanity at a time of collective tragedy.

Last week, we wound down the series, publishing our final set of 16 Heroes in our Thanksgiving Day issue, a fitting way to end it. We are so grateful to so many people who have kept our society and our economy moving during this crisis.

We began the series focusing primarily on health care workers, but we expanded it over time to include teachers and principals, custodians and business owners, and many, many people who formed ad hoc organizations and small nonprofits to address the needs of their neighbors during the pandemic.

This week, we feature our stories — those of editors and reporters who, at

the beginning of the crisis, were deemed essential workers by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and since then have provided readers with the vital, fact-based information necessary to keep them and their families safe.

We have often risked our own health to report not only on the pandemic, but also on the massive social and political protests that have erupted across Nassau County this year. Yes, we wore masks in the field. Yes, we maintained social distancing — or tried our best to do so. Still, in the backs of our minds, we had to live with the persistent thought that any time we were in the field reporting, we could have been infected.

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Why returning to the Paris accord is good for L.I.

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resident-elect Joseph Biden recently committed to re-entering the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, which President Trump pulled the U.S. out of in June 2017. Re-joining the climate treaty, which 194 countries have agreed to — including every industrialized nation except the U.S. — will surely be good for Long Island.

Why? Because any effort that we make to limit CO2 and mitigate the global-warming crisis is good for the Island.

Leading scientists from the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change and other agencies around the world tell us that we have limited time —

perhaps only a decade or two — to reverse the effects of the crisis before the Earth’s climate system suffers permanent damage. And, they tell us, we must make a concerted, collective effort to address climate change. That was the idea behind the Paris Agreement.

Among the many potential dangers of climate change are stronger hurricanes, and with Long Island jutting 118 miles into the Atlantic Ocean, we are particularly vulnerable to oceanic storms. We must not forget Superstorm Sandy.

Thankfully this hurricane season, we weren’t hit by a hurricane, but Tropical Storm Isaias, which began in the Caribbean as a Category 1 hurricane, did wreak

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Thank goodness the election wasn’t in February To the Editor: Re John O’Connell’s column, “Give thanks the election is over, and put the knives away,” last week: I was deeply saddened that a person such as O’Connell bought into President Trump’s madness.

O’Connell wrote that Trump ignited national pride among his followers, but that’s not at all what I saw. I saw an explosion of hate and intolerance. I saw people voting against their own best interests by supporting him.

He is anti-union. He is anti-labor. He has declared bankruptcy six times, each time forcing his vendors to sue him to recover pennies on the dollar.

His vindictiveness carries into his political decisions. His intent of destroying the states that didn’t

havoc here in early August, downing trees and power lines, causing widespread outages for a week or more. There were so many hurricanes in the Atlantic this year that forecasters ran out of names — the last named storm was Wilfred, in late September — so they switched to letters of the Greek alphabet. 2020 was the seventh most costly hurricane season on record, with more than $40 billion in damage in the U.S. Now, not later, is the time to address the climate crisis. We are pleased to see the president-elect taking it seriously, appointing former Secretary of State John Kerry, who signed the Paris Agreement for the U.S. five years ago, as his climate czar.

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or over a century, American higher education has been viewed as a public good as well as a vehicle for personal growth. It has been a source of scientific and technological advances as well as a means for individual intellectual and social development. According to such polls as Gallup and Pew, Americans believe that higher education is nearly essential in helping young people and adults succeed personally and professionally.

We can see this on Long Island, where 15 public and independent roBert a. colleges and unisCott versities prepare the region’s students for productive and satisfying lives in a range of careers, from attorneys to artists to military officers, who contribute to the common good. These institutions enroll over 160,000 students, many the first in their families to attend college; employ over 30,000 people, from groundskeepers to faculty and administrators; have operating budgets of over $5 billion, yielding tax revenues and retail sales for the local and state economies; and hold over $1.5 billion in invested funds.

If a community started an economic development initiative seeking an employer whose workforce included highly educated people who would be

active locally, whose “products” and services added to the economic and cultural well-being of the community, whose operations were respectful of the local ecology and whose economic impact would be significant, it wouldn’t have to look much further than its closest college or university.

Nationally, however, there are an increasing number of critics of higher education, some of whom even question the value of a college degree. According to recent reports by Pew and Gallup, those surveyed said they were deeply concerned about higher education because of increases in tuition and student debt, and questions about the relevance of academic programs.

Survey respondents’ dissatisfaction with colleges correlated closely to their political affiliation, with more Republican-leaning respondents saying higher education is going in the wrong direction. Those respondents were also much more likely to mention allegations that college faculty bring their political and social views into the classroom, and that colleges spend too much time protecting students from views they might find offensive.

While we in higher education may question the design of the surveys, the vagueness of the questions and the definition of “college” they use, the results are the work of established polling orga-

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mong the increasing number of critics are those who question the value of a degree.

Letters vote for him was and is clear.

He appointed unqualified cronies to cabinet positions who proceeded to gut the public school system and make decisions based on increasing big-business profits.

Lastly, the last four years of “good economy” is a balloon that is due to burst in a few years. The national debt will have to be paid at some point, and people like O’Connell will conveniently forget that a big chunk of it is the fault of Donald Trump.

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Reminded what Thanksgiving is about To the Editor: Sitting at breakfast this morning, I was feeling sorry for myself because tomorrow, Thanksgiving, I will be home alone (for the first time) celebrating the holiday.

This was not the original plan. I was to visit my son and his family and enjoy Thanksgiving with them.

nizations, and help perpetuate public views. Therefore, we should take these findings, and the resulting news stories, seriously and try to understand not only why these views exist, but also what we can do to regain public trust and confidence in our institutions.

In many public discussions and news articles, higher education is overrepresented by wealthy institutions like Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford. Institutions on Long Island are not comparable in terms of students’ family income. Nearly 30 percent of students at Adelphi and over 21 percent of those at Hofstra come from families in the bottom 60 percent of family income (under $65,000), with fewer than 4 percent of families in the top 1 percent ($630,000 or more). In comparison, 15 percent of Harvard students are from families in the top 1 percent; Yale, 18.7 percent; Princeton, 17 percent; and Stanford, 17.5 percent. Long Island institutions are more accessible and offer opportunity to a wider swath of society.

The role of higher education is complex and not easily understood. Not only do colleges and universities challenge what is known through research, scholarship and other creative endeavors, they also act as curators of the past, the archivists of heritage. They bridge the past and the future by preparing graduates for the challenges of careers and com-

merce as well as citizenship.

Several Long Island colleges and universities are ranked nationally, but none are exceedingly wealthy, aloof from their communities and principally residential in character. Nor are any as the universities of Georgia, Alabama or Ohio State.

Instead, our colleges and universities are primarily commuter institutions that fulfill their missions not only in their classrooms and online, but also in their communities.

There are numerous examples of college partnerships with schools, chambers of commerce, nonprofit groups and businesses, not only for the benefit of the partners, but also as part of students’ education. Our research universities contribute to biomedical advances and the understanding of climate physics, among many other contributions. Many of our colleges and universities partner with one another in order to share resources and enhance efficiency. Overall, they are responsive and flexible, and have demonstrated that they can meet societal and student needs with a variety of programs and credentials.

With greater efforts to demonstrate commitments to student success on and off campus and renewed initiatives to serve the public, colleges and universities can strengthen their place in society and regain public trust and confidence as essential forces for social mobility and personal fulfillment. Institutions on Long Island can lead the way.

Robert A. Scott is president emeritus of Adelphi University.

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What happened, however, is that he lives in what is now a yellow zone, and he and his wife and school-age sons are concerned that they might inadvertently expose me to Covid. My initial reaction was disappointment and sadness, despite the fact that every year I have been blessed with being a participant in a great family celebration of extended family, including my two sons and daughter and their families.

As I read Randi Kreiss’s column “Dinner for two at our Thanksgiving table” (Nov. 19-25), about the berlin Airlift and the sacrifices of World War II, I recognized that me being alone at Thanksgiving was nothing compared with the many who are currently suffering through this pandemic in such tragic ways. I am fortunate to be in good health, have the love of family and friends, have a roof over my head and food to share with our local pantry each week.

When I sit down to Thanksgivings dinner tomorrow, I will remember to be very thankful, and I will look forward to next year and a hopeful return to normal for all of us.

MARGE ELLIS Merrick

Another last burst of color — Red Cote Preserve, Oyster Bay Cove

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