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Hochul lifts school mask mandate infection rates that really validated the rationale and the logic behind ensuring that we had Gover nor Kathy Hochul those masks in place through announced on Sunday that the those spikes, especially the Omistate requirement for children in cron variant.” school and child care to wear Hochul used a series of large masks indoors would end on diagrams to demonstrate her use Wednesday. of positivity rates, hospitalizaHochul likened the Covid-19 tions, CDC guidance, and consulpandemic to a “war tations with “the that has been unfoldeducational commuing for the last two nity, whose voices years, where our needed to be heard – country has been our commissioner of under siege by this education, our parunseen assailant — ents, our PTAs, our one that has taken school superintenthousands of lives of dents, our school Americans and New administrators, and Yorkers.” our school unions,” In defense of the in the process of mask requirement deciding whether or so far, Hochul said not to require masks. that when she was KAtHy HoCHul From a high sevsworn into office six Governor en-day state average months ago, her priof 14,167 pediatric ority was to get chilCovid cases on Jan. 10., with 38 dren back to school, but that children hospitalized, the numwearing masks was the best way bers have dropped steadily for 48 to guarantee children’s safety at days. The most recent seven-day the time, especially since no average of pediatric cases was pediatric vaccine was yet avail- 226, and only seven children able. were hospitalized. “We’re going to talk about Hochul said the current numwhere we came from in these bers represent “our lowest point last six months,” Hochul said, in pediatric cases since July of “and you see the spikes and the Continued on page 12

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ANiA KulGHytSKA, weARiNG a vishivanka, the Ukrainian national shirt, which sharply distinguishes her cultural identity from that of Russia.

Local Ukrainians speak out Friends, relatives endangered by invasion By ReiNe BetHANy rbethany@liherald.com

Hor rified by Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine, four Ukrainians living near Freeport expressed anger at Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s tyranny, and admiration for their own nation’s heroism. “We have not been able to sleep for the past six days,” said Ania Kulghytska, a Bellmore real estate agent who once tended bar at Rachel’s

Waterside Grill on the Nautical Mile. “I have friends and family everywhere, all over Ukraine. When you call your friends and your family, if they don’t pick up right away, your heart stops.” Kulghytska, 32, was born in Ukraine about two months before the Soviet Union dissolved in 1989. Ukraine became fully independent from Russia in 1991, and she grew up with an unshakable sense of identity as a Ukrainian rather than a Russian.

“I was pretty much in the first generation where we were taught that we were an i n d e p e n d e n t c o u n t r y, ” Kulghytska said, “with our own language, our own government. We’ve got a democracy; we’ve got freedom. I think [Putin] is another Hitler, the way he has this delusional view that he wants to bring back the Soviet Union, and Ukraine is his.” Her words were echoed by the Rev. Wasyl Hrynkiw, pasContinued on page 11

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An interview with Legislator Siela Bynoe

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When Siela Bynoe ran for the office of Nassau County legislator in 2014, she already knew Legislative District 2 very well. She had resided in one of its main coverage communities, Westbury, for more than 30 years. Eight years and many completed projects later, Bynoe has decided to run for Congress, representing Congressional District 4, potentially to replace Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, who has decided against running for reelection. The position would give her access to federal funding and legislation for a wider area than she now represents in Nassau siela Bynoe County. But meanwhile, Bynoe’s eyes remain on L.D. 2, where she looks forward to advances in health, safety, and infrastructure. Elder care is one arena that touches on both health and safety. On Feb. 16, Bynoe partnered with the Long Island Alzheimer’s and Dementia Center to host a virtual “Sip & Talk” workshop, in which participants could learn how to spot the warning signs of dementia, what to do if warning signs appear in oneself or a loved one, and how to find resources and programs that are available to help. “We had close to 100 people that registered,” Bynoe said. “It was a robust presentation and appeared to be very well received by those who attended. We’re going to have a second installment which is going to highlight specifically the stages of Alzheimer’s, in April or the end of March.” Related to elder care, though not confined to it, is the problem of cognitively impaired people wandering from their residences. The matter was brought into sharp focus when a Nassau County intern, Sendy Veillard, lost her father, Chesnel Veillard. He wandered from their New Cassel home and died crossing Long Island Railroad tracks near Mineola. “We all put our heads together to try and figure out what we can do to make sure that tragedies like this are not the reality for families in the future,” Bynoe said. “So the bill [to make the Nassau County Lifesaver Program free to residents] is in his memory in an effort to make sure we can safeguard our residents from this type of danger or harm.” While Nassau County currently utilizes the Lifesaver Program in conjunction with its Silver Alert System, participants must pay $325 to enroll. Under Legislator Bynoe’s proposal, county funding would ensure cost-free access to Project Lifesaver for all clinically eligible residents who apply, or whose families or caregivers apply on their behalf. “This program would also provide the police department with resources to track the individual as quickly as possible,”

Photos courtesy Office of Legislator Siela Bynoe

Legis. Bynoe, thiRd from left, celebrated the renaming of Nassau County Police Headquarters at 1490 Franklin Ave. in Mineola for William J. Willet, who in 2000 became the first African American to serve as Nassau County Police Commissioner.

Bynoe’s background prior to L.d. 2 Bynoe was a mortgage loan consultant and a credit loan officer. She administered her bank’s commitment to the Community Reinvestment Act. She moved on to work for the Long Island Housing Partnership, establishing their Nassau County branch in Hempstead. She next became Assistant Director of the North Hempstead Housing Authority, then Executive Director of Huntington Housing Authority in 2006. and helped secure over $40 million to rehabilitate some of Long Island’s oldest affordable communities. Legis. Bynoe’s county projects include upgrades to playgrounds in the communities of L.D. 2. said Bynoe, “so they do not have to utilize as many resources as they do in cases where people who wander do not have Lifesaver Bracelet.” Also prominent in Bynoe’s mind are streetscape projects planned for Westbury, Lakeview, and Hempstead Village. These are densely populated areas whose streets were not designed for the heavy vehicle and foot traffic they must carry. Not only have the areas lost esthetic appeal with the reduction of green space and the increase of multi-unit buildings, they have also decreased in safety. Bynoe sees a way to fix all that. “The term that’s used for what we are doing is ‘crime prevention through environmental design,’” Bynoe said. “It includes lighting and where you might place park benches as opposed to other areas. It has to do with everything from where bus stops will embark and disembark passengers, to redesigning street curbs and crosswalks. It runs the full gamut of elements of the design that can

really assist in making an area safer.” In Hempstead Village, capital investments include funds to set into motion the design phases of the Washington and Franklin Avenue streetscapes—projects that will yield a $6 million infrastructure upgrade. Furthermore, the county will dedicate an additional $1 million toward the Joysetta & Julius Pearse AfricanAmerican Museum of Nassau County over the next four years. Lakeview’s Woodfield Road streetscape is also receiving funding toward the design phase of a $1 million project. Legislator Bynoe additionally secured new bond approvals for improvements to Union Avenue between the railroad and Brush Hollow Road, and improvements on Maple Avenue from Union Avenue to Post Avenue. Upon their completion, these streetscapes will reflect an $8.5 million investment in Westbury’s revitalization. These improvements still leave unanswered one of the toughest dilemmas the

county faces: providing enough affordable housing. Though Bynoe disagreed with Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to mandate that accessory dwelling units be allowed in every New York county, she does not disagree that the problem exists, and she knows that informal, illegal accessory dwelling units are already out there. “My thought on the matter is that this is not a situation that was created overnight and it’s not a situation that we’re going to turn a light switch and rectify,” Bynoe said, “but I do believe that, with the opportunities that exist in each community, we could make significant headway with the challenges that we face locally for all types of housing.” Regarding existing, potentially illegal accessory dwelling units, Bynoe said, “I think there should be some kind of amnesty period so that the local building departments can go in and certify the dwelling units or deem them unsafe for that type of occupancy, because I don’t want to see people harmed or hurt if they’re living in spaces that are not safe.”

Black History Month gets its proper due MS. GOOSBY DETAIlED the careers of Harriet Tubman and Major Nancy LeftenantColon.

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In Freeport, the Town of Hempstead, and neighboring communities, celebrations of Black History illuminated histories of Black heroes of the health and medical fields. The Freeport celebration honored Michael Williams, appointed in 2020 to become Freeport’s first Black deputy police chief. The ceremony was held in person at the Freeport Recreation Center on Feb. 23. Over at Town Hall, the Town of Hempstead arranged an extensive display in the lobby of the Nathan L.H. Bennett Pavilion. Because the national theme for this year’s Black History Month is Black Health and Wellness, the lobby was ringed with posters depicting Black men and women who broke racial barriers to succeed in the medical field, and developed pioneering techniques in blood storage and heart surgery. One full table held literature and photos of Harriet Tubman, in honor of her 200th birthday. Though Tubman is best known as the “Black Moses” because she courageously led more than 70 slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, she was also a nurse, soldier, and spy for the Union Army in the American Civil War. After the war, she settled in Auburn, NY, which became her base of advocating for woman suffrage as well as community health and wellness. Hempstead Town additionally mounted a virtual Black History program on Friday evening, which was appropriately hosted by Senior Councilwoman Dorothy L. Goosby—not only because she is a Black civil rights leader, but because she is licensed by the State of New York as a certified nutritionist and dietician. She introduced keynote speaker Brian L. Harper M.D., New York Institute of Technology’s Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and its chief medical officer. Harper used visual aids to discuss the high rates of cancer in the U.S. Black community compared to other races and ethnicities, and how the disparity could be addressed. Then Councilwoman Goosby introduced a living World War II hero, Major Nancy Leftenant-Colon, retired from the U.S. Army/Air Force Nurse

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SHAqUANNA HUDSON DANCED to “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also known as the Negro National Anthem. Corps and the first woman president of the Tuskegee Airman. Leftenant-Colon herself spoke on the video, age 101, thin and gray but with the fsame orce of personality that carried her past World War II-era racial bias to give distinguished service to her country. Interspersed with powerful solos by singers and dancers were brief explications of each of the heroes in the posters, delivered by middle and high school stu-

dents. Rheinai Bailey, Majestic International Pageant Queen for the Junior Division, started the talks by donning a wig cleverly imitative of Councilwoman Goosby’s hairstyle. She articulated aspects of Ms. Goosby’s civil rights achievements and life philosophy from behind a table displaying nutritious foods. Kevan Abrahams, Nassau County legislator for Legislative District 1, also produced a virtual program, on Saturday, Feb. 26. U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer spoke for some time to express his appreciation and his promises for the Black community on Long Island. Actor Kene Holliday helped host Abraham’s show; he is best known as Tyler Hudson on the mystery drama “Matlock” in the 1980s. With humor he guided the viewers from one segment of the show to another, commending Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Joe Biden, and then moving through an

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impressive roster of singers, dancers, facts about lesser-known figures like Yankees player No. 32, Elston Gene Howard, and citations of area Black educators and community activists. Long Island Historian Georgette Grier-Key gave out prizes for answers to trivia questions on Black history. In Hempstead, at Kennedy Memorial Park, dancers, drummers, and village poet Ruth Roberson supplied the artistic component for a program that honored African American achievers in business, medicine, law enforcement, and education. The keynote speaker was Dr. Errol D. Toulon, Jr., who became Suffolk County’s 67th Sheriff and the county’s first African American to be elected to a nonjudicial countywide office in 2018. Life-sized cutouts of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, Rosa Parks, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and former President Barack Obama with First Lady Michelle Obama smiled from the stage.

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The Little Learners Club after-school prog ram at Columbus Avenue Elementary School has been learning about a variety of different scientific themes this winter. Teacher Monica Campos helped the kindergarten students turn into little scientists and make a “blizzard” using a bottle of water, oil, white paint and glitter. The students also learned about Arctic penguins and how the oils in their feathers allows them to stay warm and dry in the cold, wet weather. Following, the students made paper penguins and coated them with oil, and then sprayed them with water to demonstrate how the oil helps keep them dry. Finally, to close out their winter scientific themes, the Little Learners Club learned about Groundhog Day and how shadows are formed by using a box, a figurine, and a lamp.

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As pArt of their scientific themes for the winter months, the Little Learners Club learned about Artic penguins. the Columbus Avenue Elementary School Little Learners Club made blizzards using water, oil, white paint and glitter.

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Talking about literature [hybrid] From 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. Join us for a discussion of “The Dearly Beloved,” by Cara Wall. The leader for this discussion is John Zaluski. Call Mary Robinson (516) 379-3274, ext. 505.

Freeport Schools art reception From 2-4 p.m., come view the “By Their Own Hands” art exhibition by Freeport’s pre-K to grade 6. Contact Tanisha Mitchell, tmitchell@freeportlibrary.info or (516) 379-3274.

Teen writer’s corner [at the library] join Jaclyn monthly at 3:30 p.m. to share your writing, and work with a writing prompt. Contact youthservices@ freeportlibrary.info or (516) 379-3274.

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From 6:30-7:30 pm., learn through meditation how to let go of anger, fear and worry. Contact the ASK Department, ask@freeportlibrary.info, or (516) 379-3274.

From 5:30-6:30 p.m., on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Alcoholics Anonymous meets at the Freeport Memorial Library. Contact Marilyn Pignataro, mpignataro@freeportlibrary. info or (516) 379-3274.

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Saturday, March 5 Literacy Nassau citizenship classes [at the library] This test-prep class will help students study for the civics portion of the citizenship exam. Contact the ASK Dept. at the library, (516) 379-3274, or ask@ freeportlibrary.info.

Monday, March 7 Tony Bennett [virtual] From 1-2 p.m., revel in Tony’s rendition of classic songs. mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info, or (516) 379-3274.

Mother Goose [at the library] From 6-6:30 p.m., for children ages 12-24 months and an accompanying adult. Call (516) 379-3274 or come into the Children’s Room to register.

Tuesday, March 8 It’s time [virtual] At 7 p.m., the office of Nassau County Legislator Kevan M. Abrahams (D Freeport) is partnering with SUNY, the

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“It’s Time” with Abrahams, LIEOC, and BOCES “It’s Time,” a seven-week Tuesday webinar series focusing on career advice and help for adults, holds its second webinar, “Financial Aid,” on March 8. To sign up, see calendar below. Long Island Educational Opportunity Commission (LIEOC) and Nassau BOCES to present “It’s Time,” a sevenweek webinar series focused on delivering advice for adults who are returning to college, pursuing higher education for the very first time, or seeking to advance their careers. The first webinar (“Careers”) occurred on March 1. The second webinar in the series focuses on financial aid. It airs at 7 p.m. on Zoom and Facebook Live (https://www. facebook.com/LegislatorKevanAbrahams). Register online at https://app. nassaucountyny.gov/Leg/forms/01/ its_time.php.

Special story time with Miss Rose at the library From 10-10:30 a.m., join Ms. Rose for a special story time, ages 2-4 with an accompanying adult. To register, call

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Nassau BOCES ESL Classes From 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., and 6-8 p.m. today, Wednesday, and Thursday, Nassau Boces conducts ESL classes through the library. Call (516) 3793274, or email ask@freeportlibrary.info.

Yoga for adults [virtual] From 6-7 p.m. through the library,.Contact Maryellen Cantanno, mcanntanno@ freeportlibrary.info or (516) 379-3274.

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Social worker at the library From 2-5 p.m., social work intern Hudson Joachim will be in the library lobby to provide assistance with social services in English, Spanish, French, and Creole. Email socialworkintern@freeportlibrary.info or contact ask@freeportlibrary.info or (516) 379-3274.

Thursday, Mar. 10 Quilting [at the library] From 2-3 p.m., join Jessica Alexandrakis, author of “Quilting on the Go.” Participants will receive a kit with all the

Freeport author Tom Phelan will discuss his memoir, “We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood,” at 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 12, at Theodore’s Bookshop, 17 Audrey Ave., Oyster Bay, NY. For more information, email glanvil3@aol.com.

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The AHRC Work Center on Hanse Ave. has helped adults with disabilities find work for 50 years. Hungerford & Clark Funeral Home is now owned by Carmine and Michael Carpinone. Black-owned Value Precision Inc. was featured on Economic Forum, WTHE-AM 1520, in 1992. Led by Chief Joe Shapira, Freeport has New York State’s largest all-volunteer fire department. Freeport residents drink naturally purified water drawn from Freeport’s own fresh-water aquifer.

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After Kathleen Rice said she would not seek re-election, last month, three Democrats have now announced they are running for the 4th Congressional District seat that covers central and southern Nassau County. Last week, County Legislator Siela Bynoe and former Town of Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen announced their candidacies; now County Legislator Carrié Solages has thrown his hat into the ring. He is expected to officially announce on Tuesday. Solages, 42, an attor ney, has served as a county legislator since 2012 and represents the 3rd Legislative District, which comprises Elmont, Valley Stream, south Floral Park, Inwood and parts of Lawrence and North Woodmere. He lives in Lawrence. “I have great support,” he said and “based on my record and community service,” Solages expects to differentiate himself from his oppo-

nents he will be facing in the June 28 primary. He said he thinks that people are tired of representatives who just go to Washington to be part of what Solages called “the side show.” He said he wants to be a leader and get things done, noting that he wants to solve the Nassau County property assessment issue through a federal mandate. In his years as a county lawmakers, Solages has represented his diverse constituency with verve from overseeing the rapid deployment of Covid testing sites for residents regardless of their insurance or immigration status to serving as the watchdog to protect resident interests during major projects such as the Belmont Arena and Elmont Long Island Rail Road station. He has been a consistently strong advocate for safer roads, especially in Elmont, and pushed for the rebuilt marina and an overhaul of the soccer field at Inwood Park. The only stain on Solages is a 2017 arrest after a domestic squabble was resolved by non-criminal charges.

Both Bynoe and Gillen think they are qualified to represent the congressional district. “I am proud to announce I am running for Congress to represent the values, hopes and dreams of the extraordinary people of Nassau County’s CD-4,” Bynoe posted on Facebook. “Please join me in this grassroots campaign to make sure our community has the representation in Congress we deserve.” “As the mother of four kids, I’m running for Congress because we need a Representative who rolls up her sleeves to get things done for people back home,” Laura Gillen said in a prepared statement. “As town supervisor, I found ways to work across the aisle and deliver results, while never compromising my principles. In Congress, I’ll work to help Nassau’s middle-class families by reinstating the SALT tax deduction, defending a woman’s right to choose, and tackling tough issues like gun violence, climate change, and ensuring our national security.”

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recent Nassau and Suffolk County elections. “The NYPD and other police around On March 1 the GOP announced their the state…have been turned into enenomination of 1st District Congressman mies,” said Esposito, a SUNY graduate, Lee Zeldin for New York state governor when accepting the nomination. “My offiand former NYPD Deputy Inspector Ali- cers have a fear in their eyes, but this is a son Esposito for lieutenant. governor on different fear…the fear in the eyes now the second day of the 2022 GOP Conven- was of them losing their jobs and potention in Garden City Hotel, after over 85 tially their freedom,” she exclaimed. percent of the county RepubEsposito also criticized lican delegations voted for critical race theory, Covid Zeldin. mandates and “other shenani“I want people to feel like gans” regarding the lack of they’re back in control of the parental “choice” in schools. government again…this is a Other convention speakers rescue mission to save our echoed Esposito’s and Blakestate,” said Zeldin, a former man’s concerns, also adding senator, attorney, and Army high taxes, corrupt DemocratReserve major, who gained ic politicians, and undocunational attention by defendmented immigrants. Lee zeLdin ing former President Donald “New York Republicans Trump amid the 2019 Ukraine Congressman are putting our money where scandal impeachment hearour mouth is and proving to ings and contesting the 2020 the people of this state that election results. we are serious about ending the public Zeldin stated that his day-one priority safety crisis created by the Democrat as governor would be ending all Covid Party,” said NYGOP Chairman Nick Langmandates, re-employing anyone who lost worthy in a Feb. 23 statement. their jobs to these, ending the masking Republicans also nominated global “child abuse” in schools and strengthen- financier Paul Rodriguez, former Newsing parental choice. He also talked about max host Joe Pinion and litigation attor“Backing the Blue,” enacting voter ID for ney Michael Henry to challenge Comptrolelections, keeping zoning control local and ler Thomas Dinapoli, Sen. Charles Shumer standing with the Ukraine. and Attorney General Leticia James, County Executive Bruce Blakeman respectively. nominated Zeldin, urging Long Island resRepublicans, however, have a historical idents to turn out to vote, stating, “My uphill battle in statewide elections, where whole life I would’ve loved to be governor Democratic voters outnumber registered of this state, but I’m not the right candi- Republicans by a two-to-one margin. A date — this is a moment in history that we Republican has not won a state race 20 have the opportunity to nominate some- years, since George E. Pataki secured a one that is the right person, at the right third term as governor in 2002, after defeatplace, at the right time.” ing Democratic Mayor Mario Cuomo. Three other GOP candidates were seekPataki spoke on the first day of the 2022 ing the nomination for governor: former GOP Convention, identifying woke culture Westchester County Executive Rob Astori- as the Democratic party’s weakness and no, Andrew Giuliani, son of Rudy Giu- saying of President Joe Biden, “We need a liani who served in Trump’s White House, Republican Congress to hold this president and millionaire fund manager Harry Wil- accountable, we need a Republican Senate son, whose home county Republican dele- to hold this leader accountable, and to get gation of Fulton ultimately backed Zeldin. the United States headed in the right direcZeldin had reached out to the 27-year tion.” NYPD veteran Esposito last year, tapping The 2022 midterm state primary elecinto the spiking crime and bail reform tions for governor, senate and congressiomessaging that proved successful in the nal offices will be held on June 28.

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Pain of invasion mixed with hope for resistance Maria now lives in Floral Park. Her daughter was a journalist for several years tor of St. Vladimir’s Ukrainian Catholic Church on Front Street in Hempstead. in Ukraine. Maria’s grandchildren are “Ukraine was baptized into Christianity as now adults living in Switzerland, where a country with King Volodymyr, whose they are joining public protests against churches we now have, in 988,” Hrynkiw Russia. The transplanted Ukrainians applaudsaid, adding that Putin ed the bravery of the has tried to deny the Ukrainian resistance to separate identities of the Feb. 24 invasion. Ukrainians and Rus“Putin just didn’t sians to justify annexing expect us to fight that Ukraine. hard,” said Kulghytska. Hrynkiw’s mother, A secure site has been “I speak to my friends, sister, and other relaset up for donations they say some of them tives live in western are making Molotov to supply Ukraine’s Ukraine, distant from cocktails, some of them the main Russian incursoldiers with medications are making the bags of sions, but seeing bombs and clothing: sand, some of them are and Russian military https://savelife.in.ua/en/ making the barricades. approaching. donate/ Everybody’s united, and “Putin is lying about everybody’s doing someall the actions of Westthing just to help the ern Europe, of AmeriUkrainian military.” ca,” said Hrynkiw. “He Maria said, “I think we’re also puts information in the brains of his people, of his country, to make them hate the impressed with the president of Ukraine. We were surprised when he was elected Western world.” A parishioner of Hrynkiw’s church, president, yet he is standing there, firm, who gave her name as Maria, is the daugh- with the people.” However, another St. Vladimir’s parishter of a Ukrainian couple who fled Ukraine in 1944 to escape World War II. ioner, Ihor Szpaczynsky said on Sunday They settled in Canada. “They brought us that he was uncertain of his home counup in such a way that we would keep the try’s military strength. “Ukraine surrendered their nuclear spirit and the flame of the independence of Ukraine alive,” Maria said. “And this is weapons in 1991, when they got their indewhat we did with our children as well.” pendence,” Szpaczynsky said. “Were we

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The Rev. Wasyl Hrynkiw leads St. Vladimir’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hempstead. naive? … Our soldiers have been able to keep the Russians at bay, but I don’t know how much longer they can hold up.” Maria also expressed anxiety about the outcome of Russia’s aggression. “We used to hear my mother say, ‘May you never know war,’” Maria said. “They lived to see the independence of Ukraine in 1991. I hate to say this, but I’m glad they’re not here to see what’s going on, after all they went through.” Forcing Putin to back down, the Ukrainians agreed, will be extremely difficult. “He has to be exhausted financially, maybe materially,” Hrynkiw said. “If his army will be exhausted completely — no

more weapons, no more fuel, no more missiles — he will stop.” “You see how ego-driven he is,” Kulghytska said. “Even if he runs out of everything, he’s just going do something really bad out of spite. He needs to be stopped.” The Ukrainians interviewed were grateful for international help. “The help comes from all over the world,” Kulghytska said. “I’ve been sharing the website where other people can donate. Everybody reached out to me because they know I’m Ukrainian. If you can donate, if you’re willing to, Ukraine would really appreciate it.”

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Face coverings optional in Freeport district continued from front page 2021, and that was before the school year started. … We are in a much, much better place.” The improved statistics were confirmed by a Feb. 25 CDC report that broke down the number of Covid cases in New York by county. “They’ve come up with a calculation on what constitutes a low, medium, or high community risk level,” Hochul said, “and 70 percent of our population now lives in an area considered low to medium risk.” The CDC recommendation is that, for communities with low to medium risk, masks for children need no longer be required indoors, including for children in day care. “So given the decline in our infection rates, our hospitalizations, our strong vaccination rates, and the CDC guidance,” said Hochul, “my friends, the day has come.” Hochul said that communities designated higher risk had the option to enact more restrictive measures, but the state would not enforce a mask requirement in those areas. Freeport Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kishore Kuncham sent an explanatory email to district households on Tuesday afternoon. Kuncham wrote that mask wearing on school buses and inside district buildings would now be optional, except in two situations when a child has been ill with or exposed to Covid-19: “Upon return to school from a 5-day isolation or quarantine, a well-fitting mask must be worn for 5 days in school and on school buses. If deemed a close contact, and not required to quarantine, a well-fitting mask must be worn for 10 days in school and on school buses,” he stated. The letter cautioned everyone to respect each other’s choices, as some parents might still be more comfortable keeping their children masked. “We will continue to follow physical distancing and

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Gov. Kathy hochul used statistical diagrams to support her decision to end the requirement for children to wears masks indoors in schools and child care facilities. proper hygiene and sanitization protocols according to our reopening plan,” the letter continued. “Although our region is currently considered a low risk area, COVID-19 is still not over and, if necessary, the return of mask wearing may occur for all students and staff,” Kuncham stated. County Executive Bruce Blakeman responded to Hochul’s announcement by saying, “While I believe the governor’s decision to end her unconstitutional mandate is too little too late, I am happy that parents will soon have the power to decide what is best for their kids, and our students will finally be able to return to

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■ On Feb. 26, Freeport police officers responded to a restaurant in Freeport where an employee reported that an irate customer threatened him. The employee reported that a male customer placed a food order and began to get upset with the amount of time it was taking to prepare the food. Once the customer received and paid for his food, he lifted his sweater, displayed a knife to the employee, and then said, “Come meet me outside.” After police investigated the incident, they arrested the suspect on Feb. 28.

■ On Feb. 27, 2022, a Freeport resident in a multi-unit building reported numerous missing packages. The resident ordered items online to be shipped to her dwelling unit. All the packages were shipped and delivered, but the resident did not receive them. Unfortunately, the residential building did not have any security to determine the destination of the packages.

Petit larceny ■ On Feb. 26, Freeport police officers were notified of a larceny that had just occurred at a commercial establishment. Officers canvassed the area for the suspect, who was described as a male carrying a blue laundry bag containing the stolen items. Officers attempted to stop a male, who disobeyed their orders and fled. After a brief pursuit, officer apprehended him and the store employee identified him as the suspect who stole the items. Subsequently, the items were recovered and returned to the store.

Unlicensed operator ■ On Feb. 27, Freeport police officers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle with an expired inspection sticker. Upon identifying the driver, officers ran a DMV check, which revealed that the driver had a suspended driver’s permit and outstanding warrants.

Identity theft ■ On Feb. 24, a Freeport resident reported that her identity was used without her permission. The resident reported that, while investigating the suspension of her New York State driver’s license, she discovered that someone used her name and social security number to cosign on the purchase of a Jeep Grand Cherokee. The resident filed an identity theft report with the Federal Trade Commission.

Road rage ■ On Feb. 21, a Freeport police sergeant conducted a vehicle stop on two vehicles, who appeared to be engaged in a road rage incident. The operator of a Toyota stated that he was almost struck by a Nissan SUV moving at a high rate of speed. Both drivers stopped at another intersection to exchange words. Then both drivers got back in their vehicles but continued the argument, which led to one of the drivers throwing an object at the other’s vehicle. After officers arrived on the scene, the situation resolved and no damage or injury was reported.

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Freeporters arrested in connection with robberies The Nassau County Police Department recently updated its information concerning arrests for three bank robberies that occurred in Carle Place, Merrick, and Baldwin. Men from Freeport were arrested for the Carle Place and Baldwin robberies. A Uniondale man who was arrested for the Baldwin robbery was also arraigned for the robbery in Merrick. The earliest robbery occurred in Carle Place on Sept. 13, 2021, at 4:30 p.m., when a male demanded money from a teller at the Capital One Bank at 225 Glen Cove Rd. in Carle PlaceThe teller complied, and the man fled. No injuries occurred. The teller described a black male, 5’ 10” or 6’ tall, thin, light-colored sweatshirt, black knit hat, sunglasses, gloves and a face covering. Two men were later arrested and arraigned for the robbery: Antonio Cowan, 44, of Hempstead Turnpike in West Hempstead, arrested Nov. 10,

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LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, NEW YORK PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on February 28, 2022, the Board of Trustees of the Village of Freeport, in the County of Nassau, New York, adopted a bond resolution entitled: “Bond Resolution of the Village of Freeport, New York, adopted February 28, 2022, authorizing the construction of various improvements to Cow Meadow Park, stating the estimated maximum cost thereof is $2,500,000, appropriating said amount for such purpose, and authorizing the issuance of bonds in the principal amount of $2,500,000 to finance said appropriation,” an abstract of such bond resolution, concisely stating the purpose and effect thereof, being as follows: FIRST: AUTHORIZING said Village to construction of various improvements to Cow Meadow Park; STATING the estimated maximum cost thereof, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and the financing thereof, is $2,500,000; APPROPRIATING said amount for such purpose; STATING the plan of financing includes the issuance of bonds or notes of the Village in the principal amount of not to exceed $2,500,000 to finance said appropriation, and the levy of a tax upon all the taxable real property within the Village to pay the principal of said bonds and interest thereon; SECOND: AUTHORIZING the issuance of not to exceed $2,500,000 bonds of the Village pursuant to the Local Finance Law of the State of New York (the “Law”) to finance said appropriation; THIRD: DETERMINING and STATING the period of probable usefulness applicable to the purpose for which said bonds are authorized to be issued is fifteen (15) years; the temporary use of available funds of the Village, not immediately required for the purpose or purposes for which the same were borrowed, raised or otherwise created, is hereby authorized pursuant to Section 165.10 of the Law, for the capital purposes described in this resolution and the proceeds of said bonds and any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation thereof may

be applied to reimburse the Village for expenditures made after the effective date of this bond resolution for the purpose for which said bonds are authorized; and the proposed maturity of said bonds will exceed five (5) years; FOURTH: DETERMINING that said bonds and any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of said bonds and the renewals of said bond anticipation notes shall be general obligations of the Village; and PLEDGING to their payment the faith and credit of the Village; FIFTH: DELEGATING to the Village Treasurer the powers and duties as to the issuance of said bonds, and any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of said bonds, or the renewals thereof; and SIXTH: DETERMINING that the bond resolution is subject to a permissive referendum. DATED: February 28, 2022 Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk 129852

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Freeport, by virtue of the authority invested by law, shall conduct a public hearing to be duly held on the 2nd day of May 2022, to consider the rezoning application for Section 62 Block 69, Lots 208, 209 and 210 a/k/a 104 E. Bedell Street (formerly West Wind Yacht Club) from Residence A District and Business A District to Marine Apartment-Boatel Condominium and Cooperative District. FURTHER RESOLVED, that the foregoing notice of public hearing shall be entered in the minutes of the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Freeport, and published in the Leader and a printed copy thereof posted conspicuously in at least three (3) public places in the Incorporated Village of Freeport, Nassau County, New York. STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF NASSAU, VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, ss: I, PAMELA WALSH BOENING, Clerk of the Village of Freeport, Nassau County, New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of said notice duly authorized by the Board

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A. You’re not necessarily barking up the wrong tree to make an offer on a house like this, but it does show the age of the home. When people say, “They don’t build houses like they used to,” I usually think, thank goodness. What you’re seeing was common through the 1920s, when locust trees, known for their resistance onte eeper to decay and insects, were used as support columns. These trees have been used for structural support for many centuries. Their most well known use was for supporting the city of Venice when the swamp-dwelling inhabitants, who lived on small islands, stabilized and built the city. Using locust posts, they could conduct their marine merchant trade while protecting themselves from the regularly invading Goths, preparing for attacks by seeing them from the north from 20 miles away, long before an attack could take place. The Venetians rammed locust posts deep into the seabed and supported those beautiful Renaissance structures on them. In the James Bond film “Casino Royale,” there is an intense fight scene that takes place in a building under extensive renovation. At the end of the scene, the building, which actually was having the locust posts retrofitted, like most of Venice, collapses into the watery depths. From an architect’s perspective, knowing about the structural changes underway, this was very interesting as well as dramatic. If the locust posts aren’t split and cracked but are smooth and semi-straight, they should be fine to continue to do their job. If you see signs of weakness or are suspicious, contact a licensed architect or engineer who has experience with these conditions for a closer look. If you decide that the columns need changing, then the job requires building temporary walls in the basement on either side of the main beam to support the whole structure of the home before the columns are removed. Correctly calculated concrete foundations, called footings, will need to be installed by digging up the concrete floor where forms are set and the footings are placed. Whether steel or wood columns are installed, the anchors for them need to be properly placed and attached. The columns, when installed, should be connected, at the top and the bottom, to the footing and to the beam. This isn’t a small job, and requires an experienced company that protects the area from dust before cutting the concrete, orders the right strength of cement for placement in the formwork and knows what connectors to install top and bottom. Good luck!

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y heart bleeds for the people of Ukraine, an emerging democracy pulled between West and East, a former Soviet republic that only gained its independence from the USSR in August 1991, amid the sudden and precipitous collapse of communism across Eastern Europe. Now Ukraine’s freedom is once again in jeopardy because of a war that it didn’t start. I was living in Eastern Europe in August 1991, serving in the Peace Corps in Bulgaria, a six-hour drive south of Ukraine Scott along Romania’s Black Sea coast. I BRINtoN fell in love and married in Bulgaria on Nov. 9, 1991, the second anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was born and raised on Long Island, and live here now, but Eastern Europe became an adopted homeland. Many Long Islanders have ties to Eastern Europe, including close to 13,000 people of Ukrainian descent, according to census data. We can see those ties in the Eastern Orthodox churches that dot the Island — St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Uniondale, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in East Meadow and St. Seraphim of Sarov Russian Orthodox Church in Sea Cliff, among others.

Eastern Europe is a conglomeration of ancient cultures, at once set in their ways but ever morphing in response to the push and pull of powerful nations — historically, Russia and Germany. Eastern Europeans are survivors. Ukraine will survive Russia’s invasion, an act of war in violation of international law. The price that Ukrainians will pay for the takeover, ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, will be terrible, though. The impact will be felt by people across Eastern Europe. Most Americans can’t understand the fear of the old Soviet Union that many, if not most, Eastern Europeans carried with them during the Iron Curtain era (1945–91). They risked life and limb 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. There was an electric unity among people across Eastern Europe in those heady days. They were afraid, but they stood in defiance of a nation that had for more than four decades tried to crush their independent spirit, their freedom of thought and religion, their very way of life. If Bulgaria had lost its newly won democratic freedoms to the communists, as was entirely possible in the early 1990s, oldschool apparatchiks might have “cleansed” Bulgaria of any American “sympathiz-

ers.” In that case, anyone who had had contact with an American like me could have been in grave danger of just disappearing. This was not a wild conspiracy theory. It was a valid fear based on years of iron-fisted Soviet rule. Now, a little more than 30 years after the fall of communism, Putin, a former KGB foreign intelligence officer, threatens once again to upend stability in Eastern Europe, a region that has, through the ages, been shattered by war, including two World Wars. And, once again, Eastern Europeans fear for their future. In the U.S., war in Ukraine is far away. The images of a Stalinesque housing complex ripped apart by Russian artillery fire, repeated many times on American and European TV news networks in the first days of the war, are perceived very differently across Eastern Europe than they are here. The expansive structure, fortified by plain cement walls, could have been most anywhere in Eastern Europe. Such an attack sends a terrifying signal to people across the region — you could be next — even if the thought is a distant one. It is highly unlikely that Putin would roll tanks beyond Ukraine’s borders into NATO-allied nations, military analysts tell us. But before the war, most of them appeared uncertain that he would invade

he census counts close to 13,000 area residents who are of Ukrainian descent.

Ukraine, despite President Biden’s warnings to the contrary. In recent weeks the U.S. has sent some 14,000 troops to Germany and Eastern Europe to shore up the defenses of NATO allies such as Poland and the Baltic states, bringing the total number of American troops in Europe to nearly 100,000, according to The New York Times. Thus, once again, we see a dividing line drawn between superpowers in Eastern Europe. My wife and I were listening to Bulgarian National Radio Friday night, wanting to hear how Bulgaria, a NATO ally that condemned the invasion, was reacting. The news centered on two communities — hundreds of Bulgarian expatriates living in Ukraine (who needed to be evacuated) and hundreds of Ukrainian expats living in Bulgaria (many of whom planned to drive through Romania to meet refugees fleeing Ukraine and bring them to safety). Their route would become a “humanitarian corridor.” With U.S. troops moving within firing range of invading Russian forces, and tens of thousands of war refugees fleeing across Eastern Europe, we, as Americans, must pay close attention to this conflict and do all we can to shore up Ukraine, a fledgling democracy. Scott Brinton is a special assistant professor of journalism at Hofstra University, and editor and adviser to The Long Island Advocate, a student online publication. He is a former executive editor of the Heralds.

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either Russia nor the Ukraine has ever been a welcoming homeland for the Jewish people. Despite the singing and dancing in “Fiddler on the Roof,” the play was set in 1905 czarist Russia in the Pale of Settlement, the lands of Eastern Europe, including what became Ukraine, where hundreds of thousands of Jews lived under the boot of the Russian Cossacks. It is estimated that more than 1.5 million Jews lived in what is now Ukraine on the eve of World War II, according to a story in The Forward last RANDI week. “Some one KREISS million of those Jews were killed in the Holocaust,” the newspaper reported, “but a 1989 census estimated that close to half a million still lived in Ukraine in 1989, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.” The story went on to say that under Soviet rule, Jews were persecuted and denied the right to emigrate, forced to hide much of their religious practice in a society “rife with anti-Semitism.” Last week, once again, with Russian tanks crossing the border, the dwindling

Jewish population was on the run. In a bizarre and nonsensical statement, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the invasion of Ukraine would remove Nazi influences, ignoring the fact that the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish. The story of the Jewish community in Ukraine today is a minor footnote to the greater story of a nation beaten into submission by a dictator on the march. The footnote, however, resonates with me, because many of my relatives fled Ukraine and came to America in the years before World War I. My grandfather Morris Brownstein, born in 1897, left Ukraine in 1912 on the SS Zeeland. We don’t know how he managed to travel from Russia to Antwerp, but he boarded a ship in Belgium for the long crossing. He was 15 years old, and he was alone. What we do know is that he made his way to Brownsville, Brooklyn, became a tailor’s apprentice and found and married Anna, a second cousin. In 1924 he applied for naturalization, was granted citizenship and was as proud of being a “yankee” as anyone who ever escaped oppression and found freedom on our shores.

For his first decade in America, Morris lived in a tenement in Brownsville, probably without running water, possibly with dozens of other new arrivals. According to Wikipedia, Brownsville was predominantly Jewish from the 1880s until the 1950s. An estimated 25,000 people lived there by 1900. In the early 20th century, the majority of Brownsville’s residents were immigrants. By 1920, when Morris was living there, more than 80,000 of the area’s 100,000 inhabitants were Russian Jews, and Brownsville was known as “Little Jerusalem.” For decades, the Ukraine he left behind was a sovereign nation, pulled between the magnetic poles of the West and Russia. Historically, it has always been an uneasy homeland for Jewish people, from ancient persecutions to the pogroms of the 20th century. It seems unlikely that the nation has any chance of surviving the Russian invasion. I believe that if a 15-year-old boy can travel across Europe, book passage on a ship and make a new beginning in a new world, then those of us who have reaped America’s bounty must stand with the Ukrainians in their resistance to occupation in any way we can.

n 1912, Morris Brownstein, my grandfather, left Ukraine on the SS Zeeland.

We do not know yet what will be asked of us. When Grandpa Morris signed his naturalization papers, he pledged his heart and soul to the United States of America. He was a good citizen, a patriotic American, grateful to this country for blessings he never could have imagined as a child in war-torn Ukraine. The Forward added another footnote to last week’s invasion. According to Rabbi Shlomo Baksht, his staff was still looking into moving the 250 children from the three orphanages they run in Ukraine westward, away from the Russian border. His last message was that the effort was too late, and they were “hunkered down.” Of all the what-ifs we ponder in our lives, one of the most intriguing is what our lives would look like if our parents and grandparents and great-grands hadn’t left their homes and all that they knew of the world to risk dangerous ocean passages to begin new lives, learn new work and absorb new customs in a new land. The people of Ukraine will suffer mightily in the coming days and weeks, as Russia tramples their dreams of freedom. I think of the 15-year-old from Ukraine who made that harrowing trip 110 years ago, and I am so grateful. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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hese days, we smile or roll our eyes when we hear the term “fashion police,” but leading up to the Nixon administration, wearing the wrong outfit could land an otherwise innocent young woman in hot water. Dresses were required in Nassau County schools until 1970, when administrators finally allowed girls to wear pantsuits. It was a seemingly small change by today’s standards, but every single one mattered in the movement we celebrate every March as Women’s History Month. It was President Jimmy Carter who, in 1980, issued a presidential proclamation creating what was then National Women’s History Week. “Too often, women were unsung, and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed,” Carter said. “But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well.” By then, women were claiming their place. They were already earning more bachelor’s degrees than men, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, and roughly half of the master’s degrees. Four decades later, in the red-hot fields of science and engineering, women still trail men in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, according to the National Science Foundation. And women still earn just 84 cents of every dollar a man makes, according to a 2020 Pew Research study.

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letters Senator Brooks is doing great work To the Editor: Kudos to State Senator John Brooks and his staff for their work on trying to rein in the high cost of living on Long Island. Brooks has been a leader in the fight for affordable municipal water. His support for a legislative commission on the future of the Long Island Power Authority will open the door to reduced electric rates as well. If legislation creating the commission is passed, it will set out a roadmap for the “municipalization” of the electrical system. With full municipal ownership, electricity would be managed on a nonprofit basis, much like public water and public libraries. This is no far-fetched idea. Freeport and Rockville Centre have municipally operated power systems with rates 40 percent less than PSEG. If we take the profits out, electric rates will fall. Thank you, Senator Brooks. FRED HARRISON L.I. Food & Water Watch Merrick

But they have made steady, if sometimes agonizingly slow, progress. In the century since women finally earned the right to vote, they have become professionals, more financially independent, and more visible as business leaders. And women have worked their way into the leadership positions they have long deserved. Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981. Three years later, Geraldine Ferraro became the first female vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket. Jeannette Rankin of Minnesota might have been the first woman elected to Congress in 1916, but Shirley Chisholm broke yet another notable glass ceiling in 1969, becoming the first Black woman sent to Washington. And then, of course, Kamala Harris finally put a woman one step away from the Oval Office, a feat that can be topped only by whoever eventually becomes our first female president. It seemed only logical for Congress to expand the week first set aside by Carter into something more substantial, although Capitol Hill needed a little push. Thanks to the efforts of the National Women’s History Project — a nonprofit promoting “multicultural women’s history awareness” — Congress decreed the first Women’s History Month in 1987, issuing similar proclamations each year until 1995, when Bill Clinton started the tradition of simply

having presidents issue the proclamations on their own. The last girls who were compelled to wear dresses to school would be grandparents now. Some — especially of the younger generations, who never knew differently — might even take for granted a lot of what women have achieved. But as far as they have come, there’s still a long way to go. And to finally achieve full equality, women will depend on one another to pave the way, just as the female trailblazers of the past have done — Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Susan Ahn Cuddy, Billie Holiday, Rosalind Franklin, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Richardson. Don’t recognize a name? Then Women’s History Month is the perfect time to look it up and learn more about her. Three cheers for the women who are the leaders of our nation. Our inventors. Our entrepreneurs. Those who tend to our health, and fight our battles in court. And those whose names aren’t widely known — especially those who gave birth to us, raised us, and taught us right from wrong, shaping us into the people we are today. These women, in particular, may sometimes be taken for granted, but their contributions must never be forgotten. They make their own history, every day, in the families that ensure our society remains healthy and strong.

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n addition to the world’s oldest (continuous since 1762) and largest St. Patrick’s Day parade up 5th Avenue in Manhattan on March 17, dozens of Long Island communities are looking forward to their local parades, including Mineola and Bethpage on March 6, Huntington on March 13, Rockville Centre on March 19, Glen Cove and Wantagh on March 20, and Bayside on March 26. New York state has more than 50 parades — not including other kinds of St. Patrick’s celebrations — in March. These JoHn will all be well by marcho’ConneLL attended ers and spectators, since most parades are returning after two years of Covid-caused hiatus. There are thousands of St. Patrick’s parades throughout the country, many thousands around the world, from Dublin to Tokyo. Principally a chance for Irish-Americans to show their ethnic pride, our local family-oriented events are welcome signs of spring, reasons to rejoice in the pandemically safer outdoors and great opportunities for downtown businesses, with so many people lining the streets. I’ve been watching or marching in such

wonderful events in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, for most of my long life. Sciatica and other maladies, however, have recently removed me from the line of march and sent me to the sidelines to cheer on my friends and fellow members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. While parades are fun, they say little about the important role Irish-Americans have played in the past and present of our country. I wish people knew more about the magnificent contributions Irish immigrants and Irish-Americans have made to the formation and preservation of the United States, and its ongoing exceptionalism. Science, government, education, the labor movement, the military, civil rights, justice, policing, the arts, music and literature, industry, business, journalism and many other fields would be profoundly the less but for what Irish-Americans have done and continue to do. March is Irish-American Heritage Month, a good time for all of us to learn about or remember some of the people who have made America great. Six of the last seven presidents — and half of all American chief executives — were of Irish ancestry, including Biden, Reagan, Kennedy, Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt and Grant.

t's a list that goes on an on, in every field of endeavor from politics to the arts.

Letters Does Hochul have the right priorities? To the Editor: Replacement Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed legislation allowing farmers to grow marijuana in New York. That appears to be her priority over halting crime and rampant subway attacks. By permitting this bill, as well as an online betting bill, we are encouraging a generation of misfits. Is this how we develop the future leaders of our country? Perhaps our leaders in Albany, who passed the “no bail bill,” have been smoking this stuff just to test its efficacy. PAT KING Merrick

Conservatives, and individualism To the Editor: I’m a 72-year-old who already has one foot in the grave — a 1968 graduate of Mepham High School in Bell-

More than 25 percent of George Washington’s Revolutionary Army comprised Irish-Americans. Of the country that provided him with such brave soldiers, Washington said, “Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country’s most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation.” A hero of that war, Commodore John Barry, of Ireland, was the holder of the first commission in the new United States Navy. Two hundred fifty-seven recipients of the Medal of Honor were born in Ireland. Dan Daley was awarded two Medals of Honor for separate actions, and would have been given a third but for the fact that he already had two. Walt Disney, actor and dancer Gene Kelly, dancer Michael Flatley, playwright Eugene O’Neill and authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Malachy McCourt were/ are Irish-Americans. Bruce Springsteen is of partial Irish ancestry. John Ford has the most Academy Awards for best director, at four. Auto manufacturer Henry Ford had Ireland’s blood in his veins. The first woman to command a NASA space mission was Astronaut Col. Eileen Collins, an Irish-American. The first American woman to walk in space was

the Irish-American Dr. Kathryn Sullivan. Edward J. Flanagan was born in a wee stone cottage in County Roscommon, Ireland. He would become the Father Flanagan of Boys Town, in Omaha, Neb., and a beloved activist on behalf of children. Mary Harris, a.k.a. Mother Jones, was an advocate for child labor laws. Tough Kerryman Michael J. Quill was one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union. The list of Irish America’s contributors to the greatness of our nation goes on and on. The symbols of Irish America aren’t the stereotypical leprechauns, green beer, silly plastic hats and fake freckles; Irish America’s significance is better found in Washington’s words, the names of Irish Brigade troops on Gettysburg’s gravestones, Boys Town, NASA, the American labor movement and the Medal of Honor rolls. All Americans should celebrate IrishAmerican Heritage Month. Educators should teach about the heroic influence Irish-Americans have had. Librarians should create displays. Parents should show their children how deserving IrishAmericans are of honor. Many of the notable American heroes mentioned above have surely earned their own classroom lessons, from grade school to college. I wish all Herald readers and staff a happy St. Patrick’s Day! John O’Connell is a former executive editor of the Herald Community Newspapers. Comments? OConnell11001@yahoo.com.

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more, and a 1972 graduate of Hofstra University — but I’m really worried about what the future will be like in our society. Since 1980, I’ve watched the growth of a cold-hearted, survival-of-the-fittest Social Darwinist mentality among many Republicans in the conservative news media, on talk shows, in think tanks and policy institutes, and especially in Congress. More and more of these folks want to abolish every single federal government social program that helps the working class and middle class. I don’t think most Americans are aware of this. These people are now much more conservative than our Republican voters. What also scares the dickens out of me is the growth of an over-thetop, extreme hyper-individualism and libertarianism, in which so many of us believe that we have no responsibilities to one another, and only a concern for me-me-me and what I want to do. And we smugly and defiantly call this selfish and self-absorbed narcissism “personal choice.” STEWART B. EPSTEIN Rochester

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