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Perfecting Faith Church honors mayor, officials “Basically, it’s an outreach for the people who don’t come to the church building,” said McClurLast Sunday, the Rev. Donnie kin’s sister, Marlene Mason, who McClurkin invited officials from is part of the Perfecting Faith F ree por t, Hempministry team. stead and Roosevelt Those who to his weekly outreceived plaques on reach, the Church Sunday were repreWi t h o u t Wa l l s , sentatives of the where he recognized police and fire the officials for outdepartments of the standing service three communities, during the pandemas well as medical ic. service representaThe Church Withtives from Mount out Walls is a minisSinai South Nassau try of Perfecting in Oceanside, NYU Faith Church, which Langone in Mineola, McClurkin founded Nassau University in 2001. Each sum- DoNNiE Medical Center in mer, from the first MCCluRkiN East Meadow and S u n d ay o f Ju l y Northwell Health. Senior pastor, through the first After the awards Sunday of Septem- Perfecting Faith ceremony, McClurber, the Perfecting Church kin admonished the Faith team holds an crowd concerning outdoor worship serthe Covid-19 vacvice on a large cines. “Do not believe the selfmobile stage with a 40-foot-tall appointed epidemiologists on scrim set up in the parking lot of Facebook and Instagram,” he Roosevelt Mall, on Nassau Road said. “They are self-proclaimed in Roosevelt. ‘experts’ that have no experience Service organizations set up whatsoever. Please get your tents and tables during these ser- infor mation from the right vices. Health screenings, insur- sources . . . I’m not getting into ance signups and access to social services are made available. Continued on page 15
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ToMMy FaMiGliETTi oN the dock of the mint-green bay house that he co-constructed with Sue Lyons on Meadow Island.
New bay house continues a Long Island tradition By REiNE BEThaNy rbethany@liherald.com
Where Hempstead Bay meets Jones Bay, on the southeastern edge of marshy Meadowbrook Island, five houses sit. They are off the grid and accessible only by boat. Their existence has a complex history. Their occupants are people whose lives are inseparable from Long Island’s shores and waters. Hitching a boat ride to one bay house with its co-
owner, Freeport resident Sue Lyons, takes a passenger to a universe quite apart from the bustle of today’s Long Island villages. “I grew up on the water in Baldwin and lived on the South Shore my whole life — 65 years now,” Lyons said. One of her brothers had leased a bay house when he was first married, which Lyons often visited. “I have searched for a bay house on Meadow Island for at least 40 years,” Lyons said.
Her father, who owned a construction business, trained her and her siblings in all the necessary waterrelated skills — “tides, channels, navigation, fishing, clamming, erosion,” Lyons said as she piloted her centerconsole outboard boat into a stiff wind. The steel-gray waves appeared low, but their frequent jolts against the boat bottom made the ride reminiscent of driving the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in a Continued on page 14
he mayor of Freeport is more important to Freeport than the president of the United States.
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Freeport High School graduates excel rbethany@liherald.com
Merit News is a university service that notifies communities when students from Freeport are doing well. Twenty-three Freeport residents in college or grad school have earned high honors this past semester. Three are profiled here, in their own words, with more profiles to come.
Kenneth Gray, Jr., Dean’s List, SUny Delhi, 3.5 GPa required I’m in my senior year at SUNY Delhi, majoring in architectural design and building. I chose SUNY DELHI because it has a great hands-on architecture program that lets students develop hand drafting skills, digital rendering skills and model-making skills. It also has a 24-hour studio available for architecture students. Construction management field is joined with our program as well. The pandemic affected the amount of classes I had in person. I had four classes in total and only came in person for my architectural design studio plus a lab for another class. The rest of the classes were either asynchronous or synchronous online. I was well prepared for my major. At Freeport High School there were drafting classes that I took which had hand drafting, model making, and AutoCAD assignments. I have lived in Freeport since I was born (20 years) with my mom and dad, my older sister, and my twin sister.
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Carolina Flores-iglesias, President’s honors List, new york institute of technology, 3.7 GPa required and at least 12 credits earned
I am currently in my second year as an architecture student, in the fully accredited five-year B.Arch program. I chose New York Tech for its studio-based and interactive architecture program. It has an amazing updated fabrication lab and licensed architects as professors. During the pandemic I have mostly attended college virtually through Zoom. I got to go on campus once a week in my first semester, since architecture is a very hands-on major. Mostly we were all at home making our architectural models and doing our presentations virtually. I had to go to Home Depot to buy material as well as a saw. It was actually a lot of fun but a lot of work. Hopefully, this new school year, I get to go on campus more and experience more things. Freeport Public Schools have always had many opportunities for students and I’ve always made sure to take advantage of them. They had project challenges at Bayview Avenue School that I really enjoyed when I went there. They had accelerated math at Atkinson School. I’ve always had a love for math and really liked that class. There were also many honors classes at Dodd Middle School and advanced placement college courses at the high school. I was able to get many college credits transferred to New YorkTech from Freeport High School. I have lived in Freeport my whole life
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Kenneth GRay maDe the Dean’s List at SUNY Delhi.
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JaDen RiChaRDSon iS on the Dean’s List at the University of Hartford
and really enjoy it. I’m very family oriented and appreciate my parents very much. I thank them every day for everything they have given me,
Jaden Richards, Dean’s List, University of hartford, 3.25 GPa required
I am a third-year biology student, currently on a pre-pharmacy track. I came to the University of Hartford because they provided me with a feasible gateway to reaching my goals in the future. The university made me feel like I belonged. Also, knowing that I came from a diverse town, I wanted a school that appreciated those values, and with the smaller classroom sizes I was hopeful to make strong relationships with my professors and friends. The pandemic made it harder to be
CaRoLina FLoReSiGLeSiaS iS on the President’s Honors List at the New York Institute of technology.
productive with my classes -- hybrid schedules, less in-person interactions with my professors, and having to cut down on study time with friends. Some of the personal qualities that I have utilized to be placed on the Dean’s List are selfmotivation, determination, good study habits and a great support system. Freeport helped me prepare for college in many ways. My football and lacrosse coaches encouraged me to never give up, instilled mental toughness and pushed me to my limits. At Freeport High School, my science research teacher, Mr. Irwin, reinforced my love for the sciences and the medical field. I’ve lived in Freeport for my whole life. I am the oldest brother of three. My parents have always supported my goals.
FPS teacher receives global award By Reine Bethany and SheRiLL SPRUiLL rbethany@liherald.com
On June 24, 2021, Dr. Sherill Spruill, Director of Choral and Vocal Arts at John W. Dodd Middle School, received the Top 100 Visionaries in Education Award from the Global Forum for Education and Learning (GFEL) for her experience and accomplishments as an educator of excellence. The conference at which the award was given took place June 23-25 at MGM in Las Vegas. “The Global Forum for Education and Learning is a worldwide organization whose headquarters is in India, but they have extensive connections with stakeholders in this country also,” said Spruill. “GFEL brings together the brightest minds consisting of educators, social scientists, and aspiring business people whose passion is to build the lives of people through education.” Spruill did not apply for the award. “They found me,” she said. “GFEL nominated me to receive the Top 100 Visionaries in Education Award by interviewing former colleagues and administrators, mentors, and students, by researching my accomplishments during my tenure as an educator, and by obtaining information
DR. SPRUiLL’S awaRD from the Global Forum for Education and Learning established her high standing in the worldwide organization. Photos courtesy Sherill Spruill
GFeL StoCKhoLDeR SCott Hardy, a widely known entrepreneur and the CEO of Angel Investors, congratulated Dr. Sherill Spruill on her award. through various social media forums, including Youtube.” The conference was supposed to happen in June 2020, but was delayed a year
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by COVID-19. The pandemic also forced Spruill to exclusively teach remotely for a year and a half, as her multiple sclerosis put her in
a high-risk category. This fall, classes are in person. “The students I was teaching before the pandemic were in seventh grade,” said Spruill. “Now they are eighth graders. I’m really excited and looking forward to it.”
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What’s up next door and around the corner
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les endo wore his U.S. Navy uniform with pride.
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BiBi Bethune held her county plaque given by Legis. Mulé, with Woodcleft Canal in the background.
legis. deBrA mulé presented a county commendation to Mega Wash owners.
Legis. Mulé welcomes new businesses Twice in August, Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé (D-Freeport), attended grand openings for new businesses in Freeport. Mulé welcomed Mega Wash as the newest member of the Freeport Chamber of Commerce as she presented the owners with a Nassau County Legislature Citation on Tuesday, Aug. 17. “As we continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s especially encouraging to see that entrepreneurs are choosing the Fifth Legislative District to embark upon their business ventures,” Legislator Mulé said. “It’s my pleasure to congratulate Mega Wash on joining the Freeport Chamber of Commerce, and I wish them all the best in the months and years to come!” On Friday, Aug. 20, Mulé joined her col-
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leagues in government as well as the Freeport Chamber of Commerce on Friday, Aug. 20, to celebrate the grand opening of Caribbean Island Restaurant & Bar, 229 Woodcleft Avenue. Legislator Mulé presented a Nassau County Citation to owners Bibi and Egbert Bethune to commemorate the momentous grand opening of a new restaurant on Freeport’s storied historic Nautical Mile. “Every new business that opens its doors strengthens our local economy and makes our communities more diverse, vibrant and prosperous,” Legislator Mulé said. “I’m delighted to welcome Caribbean Island Restaurant & Bar to the Freeport business community and wish them all the best in the months and years ahead.”
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events and activities
Friday, Sept. 3
Hall at (516) 377-2252.
Agua on the Mile
Sunday, Sept. 12
A Labor Day weekend “Carnival on the Mile” will take place from noon to 11:30 p.m. at Agua on the Mile, 379 Woodcleft Avenue on the Nautical Mile. Vicardi Singh, Tony Cuttz, Milo Myles, and DJ Lovaboi will perform.
Cardboard Boat Race Signup 10 a.m. at the Milburn Creek Boat Launch on Atlantic Avenue at the border of Baldwin and Freeport. Race starts at noon. For more information call (516) 860-7555. Sponsored by the Baldwin Fire Department and Sanitary District No. 2, the annual event features local residents dressed up in colorful garb riding in their handmade cardboard boats. The only other materials allowed to be used other than cardboard are duct tape, rope and string.
Chess Workshop Intermediate The Freeport Memorial Library will host an online workshop presented by the Long Island Chess Nuts, 7-7:45 p.m., for grades 1-5. Basic knowledge of the game is needed and participants must pre-register. Contact the Youth Services Department, (516) 379-3274, or youthservices@freeportlibrary.info.
“Acoustic Outlaws” at Montana Brothers Montana Brothers Pizzeria & Catering, 385 S. Main St., will host the “Acoustic Outlaws” country, rock, and blues band, 7:30-10:30 p.m. Call (516) 579 3053 for details.
Saturday, Sept. 4 Penny Lane at Tropix The popular music group Penny Lane will perform at Tropix on the Mile, 395 Woodcleft Avenue, from 2-6 p.m. For details, call (516) 623-8767.
Tuesday, Sept. 7 Yoga for adults (online) Online 12:30-1:30 p.m. through the Freeport Memorial Library, Yoga can benefit anyone, regardless of age, flexibility, or disability. Fully hydrate with water, and eat lightly no less than 30 minutes before class. Jon at Global Go to Meeting, https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/596979125. Contact Maryellen Cantanno, (516) 379-3274 or mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.
Wednesday, Sept. 8 Senior property-tax reduction
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Get ready for the Cardboard Boat Races The annual Cardboard Boat Races will take place on Sept. 12 at the Milburn Boat Launch. See below for details. From 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Freeport Memorial Library, Joseph Mazza will help applicants with an annual income of less than $40,000 to complete initial applications and annual renewal forms for both the Village of Freeport. Bring your renewal form and last year’s tax return with you. IMPORTANT: Call the ASK Desk to schedule a 1-hour appointment, (516) 379-3274, or email mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.
Zumba for adults (online) From 6:30-7:30 p.m., participate in this fun fitness routine that will have you moving and burning calories while mixing the dance moves! To get the Zoom link, go to freeportlibrary.info and click on Calendar of Events, or contact Maryellen Cantanno, (16) 379-3274 or mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.
Freeport Camera Club
Through Freeport Memorial Library, 7:00-8:45 p.m. The purpose of the Freeport Camera Club is to promote and further the interest in photography by providing appropriate educational events, programs, and field trips. Contact Marilyn Pignataro, (516) 3793274 or mpignataro@freeportlibrary. info.
Thursday, Sept. 9 Page Turners mashup day 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Big Mouth Frog story and Origami Jumping Frog -Page Turner tells the story of the Big Mouth frog, then shows the kids how to make their own jumping frogs using only an index card. Contact Freeport Memorial Library Youth Services Department (516) 379-3274 or youthservices@freeportlibrary.info.
Zumba Gold for adults This online workout combines cardio, muscle conditioning, balance and flexibility, while increasing your energy level at a lower intensity. On Global Go to Meeting. To get the link, go to freeportlibrary.info and click on Calendar of Events, or contact Maryellen Cantanno, (16) 379-3274 or mcantanno@ freeportlibrary.info.
Saturday, Sept. 11 Annual 9/11 Ceremony, Village of Freeport The 20th anniversary of 9/11 will be observed at 7:00 p.m.at the 9/11 Monument, in the traffic circle where South Bayview Avenue, Branch Avenue, and Ray Street come together. For further details, call Freeport Village
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Issues of the Freeport-based Nassau Daily Review-Star can be found at FultonHistory.com. The Freeport Memorial Library website lists 223 Freeport authors. 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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Richner hosts vaccine clinic for employees By JORDAN VALLONE jvallone@liherald.com
Covid-19 vaccinations are now being administered at businesses, thanks to a new initiative by the Nassau County Department of Health. On Aug. 27, Richner Communications Inc., parent company of Herald Community Newspapers, hosted a pop-up vaccination clinic at the company’s Garden City office in conjunction with the county-sponsored initiative — referred to by county officials as the “traveling vaccine pod.” Nassau County communications specialist Vicki DiStefano said many people around the county still do not know where and how to get vaccinated. The new program — which brings vaccines directly to businesses for “in-house” vaccination — quickly grew in popularity, according to DiStefano. Covid infection rates have recently been on the rise in Nassau, hovering around 4 percent. Interested RCI employees, as well as eligible friends and family, received their first doses of the Moderna vaccine. The second dose will be administered at the RCI office on Sept. 24. If employees had already received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine, they were also able to receive their second shot at the pop-up site. “In Nassau County, 86.7 percent of adults 18 and older are vaccinated,” County Executive Laura Curran told the Herald, making Nassau the leading county in the state for vaccinations, and third in the country among large counties with a population of 1 million people or more. The first business vaccination pod took place at Café Baci in Westbury on Aug. 3. “Since then, dozens of businesses have reached out to us,” Curran said, adding that officials have seen a solid uptick in the vaccination rate
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At A tRAVELiNg vaccination clinic hosted by Nassau County at the Herald Community Newspapers’ office in Garden City last Friday, nurse Jeanne Ost injected RCI pressman Richard Maitland with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. since the program’s start. “With the Delta variant, we want to get everyone vaccinated,” Curran explained. The pods are run by health department nurses, all of whom have been on the front lines of vaccine administration since earlier this year. Pod manager and nurse Holly Marrano said, “We’re bringing the vaccine to local businesses to make it more
convenient for people to get vaccinated.” “We are making this as easy as possible — no excuses,” Curran said. “No business is too big or too small.” Any business interested in participating in the program and hosting a vaccine clinic for employees can reach out to the county health department at (516) 2279570, Monday through Friday. Among the RCI employees who were vaccinated was Richard Maitland, 46, of Rockaway, Queens. Maitland has been working as a pressman for the company for nine years. “I’ve been watching the news and seeing what’s going on,” Maitland said. “I’m seeing that it’s the unvaccinated that are transmitting the virus.” Saying he was never against the vaccine, he thought getting it now was the right thing to do with the infection rate on the rise, and especially since the vaccination pod made it so convenient. “No one is safe, and I don’t want to be that carrier who gets someone sick,” he added, calling to the Delta variant “round two” of the coronavirus. “I don’t want to be part of the problem,” Maitland said. “I want to be part of the solution.” That solution, according to Curran, is to vaccinate as many people as possible. Covid-19 vaccines are not 100 percent effective in preventing the disease; however, county officials are finding that those who are vaccinated and do test positive for Covid are less likely to end up with a severe case that results in hospitalization. Pod nurse Camille Laudando said the traveling vaccine clinic is all about “community outreach” and is the “definition of public health.” “The vaccine is the most effective way to prevent Covid,” Curran said. “Our residents understand the value of the vaccine.”
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Freeport welcomes new teachers
FREEPORT HERALD — September 2, 2021
The Freeport School District held its annual first year teachers’ orientation in the Caroline G. Atkinson School cafeteria on Aug. 23. After they enjoyed a complimentary breakfast and mingled with their new colleagues, attendees were greeted by Assistant Superintendent for Personnel and Special Projects Benjamin Roberts. “Today is about you,” Roberts said. “For new teachers, today, this week and this entire year, we are here to support you. We want to give you the resources to be successful, and we want to be there for you at each and every turn.” Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kishore Kuncham thanked the new teachers for braving the inclement weather. “As they say, it’s not about how hard it’s raining … it’s about how you can dance in the rain,” Dr. Kuncham said. “I know already that you all can do that. We’re very fortunate and delighted to have you as part of the Freeport family.” Dr. Kuncham asked the newest Freeport staff if they’re excited to be a part of the Freeport family, which was met with a resounding round of applause. “I have always said Freeport is a magical place,” Dr. Kuncham added. “Anything and everything that one aspires to be in their careers, this is the place, so think big.” He added that the interview process served as a reminder of their own educational journeys, which helped bring out the best in each of them when they came to meet with Freeport Public Schools. “Think of that every single day when you come into our school buildings,” Dr. Kuncham said. “Think of that every single day in the classroom to inspire you and to inspire our most precious gift — our students.” Board of Education President Maria Jordan-Awalom congratulated the new teachers on beginning the next
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Superintendent of SchoolS Dr. Kishore Kuncham visited with staff from Columbus Avenue and Archer Street schools at the new teacher orientation. chapter of their careers, or perhaps the first, and said she looks forward to the ideas the new faculty members will contribute to their respective buildings. “Despite all the challenges we have faced in the past two school years due to COVID-19, I am proud to tell you that you are joining a district that has mastered conquering all challenges,” she said. “There is really nothing that our staff or our students can’t do. There is no other district that compares to the Freeport School District.”
After the greetings and introductions were complete, the new teachers went into breakout sessions that included an overview of the district’s curriculum and instruction, COVID-19 health and safety protocols, an overview of district policies and procedures and Chromebook orientation. The district wishes its new staff members the best as Freeport moves forward into a new and exciting school year ahead.
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ou surely want your child to excel in any sport or activity he or she participates in. But what happens when your child says "I want to quit"? Do you shake your head no and say, "You have to honor your commitments," or do you call the coach to say your child won't be back? It's a dilemma for parents who want their children to expand their horizons, develop skills and build a good college résumé, but it's an equally large dilemma for the child who wants out. Some of the most common reasons a student may wish to quit a sport or activity are: It went from fun to pressure. According to Dr. Philip Dembro, life coach and author of "The Real Purpose of Parenting," "play is a necessary and healthy part of the human condition, where we begin to learn the connection between 'fun,' 'learning' and 'effort.' As a child gets older, into their 4s and 5s, they begin to take that learning into organized sports such as soccer and tee ball." This is where adults today begin to take away the fun of the game and focus solely on the outcome, which is "winning," says Dembro, "and parents often get caught up in the winning and losing." As the child gets older, the pressure to win gets more intense, so by the age of 13, winning often seems the only valued option. According to Dembro, 75 percent of kids who play a sport are quitting by age 13. The child is overscheduled. With multiple sports and activities booking up their schedules each season, children can feel stressed and overextended, then tempted to lighten their load by dropping an activity or two. They're afraid. According to Len Saunders, author of "Keeping Kids Fit," children may develop a fear of failure, fear of getting hurt, fear of losing, fear of not pleasing others or "a fear of time sensitivity, where they feel there are not enough hours in the day for everything." Your child's desire to quit will stem from his or her own particular issues, which you must find out in order to handle this dilemma. According to Robyn Odegaard,CEO and owner of Champion Performance Development and author of "Stop the Drama! The Ultimate Guide to Female Teams," the first step is listening to them. "It's amazing what kids will tell you when you ask, and then you stay quiet," she says. "So often parents don't allow enough space in the conversation for a child/teen to answer, or will ask multiple questions in succession. Asking one question and allowing the child/teen to answer
will prompt a thoughtful response. Rapid-fire questions just cause a child/teen to shut down in confusion." Some questions to ask during this conversation with your child include (courtesy of family life instructor Anastasia Gavalas): √ Why did you choose to join this activity/sport? √ What didn't happen that you were hoping to accomplish? √ What do you think would have made it better? √ What did you learn about yourself from this experience? Your child's responses will give you insight into his or her deeper experiences. Deciding What To Do Odegaard says: "Unless the situation is dangerous or emotionally damaging, you may recommend that the child live up to his commitment and finish out the season. I believe it is important for children to be taught to follow through on their commitments, particularly when other people are counting on them." Explain these values to your child, and if this is the lesson you'd like your child to learn, enforce your rule to follow through until the end of the season. Some parents help their child over this hurdle by returning fun to the activity, such as playing catch in the yard or going to the batting cages, but emphasizing enjoyment rather than pressuring to be a better hitter "so you enjoy it more." If your child rediscovers the fun aspects of the activity, he may be more comfortable staying until the end of the season. Parent Nikki Thompson enforces a rule that no quitting occurs mid-season. "If they choose not to pick it up next season, that's fine — but not before it is over," she says. "When I was a kid, I joined almost every sport and activity, but I quit before the season was over. I hardly finished anything, which created a negative cycle as an adult. I didn't want my kids to continue this vicious cycle." Thompson says she talks with her kids, encourages them and sticks with her rule. "Sticking it out is always a great option," says Saunders. "But maybe they do have a good reason for wanting to leave the sport. Yes, being on teams and clubs in high school does look great on college applications, but they're always looking at grades and test scores first anyway." An overextended, stressed and miserable child won't perform well on academics, so think carefully before you push your child to keep a commitment that is clearly causing him more harm than good. Above photo: Should your child be allowed to quit a sport or activity midseason?
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“A lot of people see a list of all the great things that are being offered,” says Lee “and sign up for everything and then they realize it’s so unrealistic with their time constraints and all the schoolwork that they have.”That’s not good — as Newman notes, it’s no fun for kids “to have so many things that they have to drop out.” An overload of extracurricular activities also doesn’t bring the perceived benefit a lot of parents and kids are looking for: a goodlooking college application. “What they’re really looking for is applicants who are well rounded and have focus. You can see they are pursuing a goal and they really like what they are doing,” Newman says.“And not just dipping their hand in this and that and the next thing so they can fill out more lines on the application.”
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By Harry Kimball he vast array of extracurricular activities offered to school-age children can be a headache for kids and parents both. They can help kids develop talents and passions and learn how to push themselves. And, of course, we want them to look like well-rounded, accomplished kids to college admissions committees. But we don’t want to run them ragged or turn them into stressed-out automatons. Even parents of young children,are feeling the pressure. After school activities have also stepped in to supplant the unsupervised “free time” we’re no longer comfortable allowing our children to have, says Rachel Cortese, a speech-language pathologist and former New York City schoolteacher. And there is a consensus that children should have the opportunity to experiment with a variety of activities in well-delineated blocks — ”structured free time,” as it is called. But how much should parents push their kids to engage — and how much is too much? The benefits In general, says Cortese,“kids tend to do really well when they have structure, and part of that structure is having an afterschool schedule.” Educational and learning specialist Ruth Lee also extols some well-known benefits of getting kids together outside of the classroom for more activities — especially the physical kind. “It gives kids social interactions,” she says, at the same time helping them “get out some of their energy so they can settle and go back to their work” after school. This is particularly important, she notes, as schools are cutting back on recess more and more. For older kids, after-school activities can be very important as protection against more dangerous activities, says clinical psychologist Dr. Mary Rooney — particularly if parents are busy at work or with other children.“Once kids get into middle school and high school,” she says, “the hour or two after school is the highest risk time for dangerous behaviors like substance abuse, because
it’s the largest chunk of time when kids are unmonitored.” And of course, more recreational activities outside of school, whether its sports, dance, theater, science, give kids another arena to demonstrate competence and mastery, which is important for their self-esteem and identity development —especially for kids who might be struggling in school. The drawbacks But what about overscheduling? It is not to be taken lightly, says Dr. Susan Newman, a social psychologist and author of, among many others,“The Case for the Only Child.” For one thing, Newman warns that mastery might suffer. “If you are spreading yourself too thin you’re not going to be able to focus and get really good at one thing.”
The school-life balance How many activities are too many? “Seven,” jokes clinical psychologist Dr. Jerry Bubrick. But really, it’s too much when afterschool activities start interfering with a child’s life. Bubrick notes that in the case of intensive commitments like sports or theater, even one activity can be too much. Bubrick has a pretty simple calculus for how much is too much.“Can you still do your homework? Can you still get 8+ hours of sleep each night? Can you still be a part of your family? Can you still hang out with your friends? If the answer is ‘no’ to one or more of these, then it’s too much.” Back to school: What’s a parent to do? Know your child. “Kids come to us with different predispositions,” Cortese says, and the best activity “depends on the individual child.” And when it comes to scheduling, kids respond better to different kinds of structure. “One kid who is highly scheduled might do very well and another might need to dial it back,” says Cortese. Courtey Child Mind Institute Above photos: Kids have lots of options these days, but an overscheduled child can go from busy to burned out in no time.
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Freeporter continues bay house tradition Continued from front page rattletrap truck. Unfazed, Lyons stood at the helm and guided the vessel toward Meadow Island. Her co-owner, Tommy Famiglietti, came out on their pier to help her moor the boat. Famiglietti and Lyons were meeting at their bay house on this day because Long Island Traditions, a historical organization, had scheduled a Freeport bay house tour, and Lyons and Famigilietti had agreed to be docents for their two-story, mint-green structure. Inside their kitchen, Lyons and Famiglietti talked about the circuitous process by which they had become bay house owners. Bay houses typically are inherited or passed from a longtime owner to a trusted friend. “It started with Helmut Tsogl,” Lyons said, looking out the kitchen door at the buff-colored beach, the long green marsh grasses and the rugged waves. For half a century, she explained, Tsogl had owned a bay house on the spot where the new house now stands. Then came Hurricane Sandy. “The day before Hurricane Sandy hit, I was out on the bay, and there were 11 bay houses on Meadow Island,” Lyons said. “I took a ride out the day after Sandy, and there were five left. . . . Helmut’s bayhouse had floated away and was destroyed.” Tsogl still owned the land, but could not reconstruct the house. In 2016, a mutu-
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al friend introduced him to Lyons, whose late husband, Gary Williams, owned the Baldwin Harbor Boat Yard and 55 Hudson Marina. Lyons had the knowledge and means to design and complete a bay house. Tsogl’s side of the partnership was the land. Lyons built the house, and she brought Famiglietti into the partnership in 2017. “We’re both bay rats,” she said. Famiglietti owns Baldwin Boat Haulers. When Tsogl died in 2020, ownership of the house passed to the remaining two partners. As Famiglietti explained to the tour group, he and Lyons went to unusual lengths to make the house steadfast against future storms. Bay houses are commonly elevated four to eight feet on four-by-four posts of treated wood, leaving a crawl space below the house. Lyons and Famigliett, however, dug out a foundation with a 10-foot clearance below the house, and then installed 25 12-inch-diameter pilings to which they secured the house’s foundation, plus 20 more pilings under the pier. “These are 35-foot posts,” Famiglietti told the tour group. “Each one is buried 18 feet into the sand.” Four-inch ropes loop between the deck and dock pilings as well as between pilings under the house. “It was a labor of love, and really hard work,” Lyons said. “We built her solid, and we hope she survives anything that Mother Nature brings us.” Owning a bay house is not easy. Everything that Lyons and Famiglietti had learned from a lifetime on the South Shore has been needed to build and maintain it. Their house complies with federal, state, and local environmental regula-
L.i.’s bay houses Long Island’s bay houses were built during the late 1800s and early 1900s on the beach fronts of wetland islands off the South and North Shores of Long Island. They originally served as outposts for baymen whose living came from selling oysters, scallops, clams and little carp-like schooling fishes known as killies. Further details about bay houses can be obtained from Long Island’s greatest authority on the matter, Nancy Solomon, executive director of Long Island Traditions. Solomon leads bay house tours, which can be scheduled at longislandtraditions.org. tions and building codes. “I don’t like the erosion that is constantly taking our sand and marshes,” Lyons said, “and we do what we can to preserve the land.” The progression from dreaming about a bay house to owning one was natural to Lyons’s passion for her South Shore life. “I love the ever-present breezes. I love sleeping out there and watching the sunrises and sunsets,” Lyons said. “I love the marshes and their ever-changing colors. I love that I can watch the seasons change the color of the marsh grass, and that I can almost figure out the date by just looking at the color of the grass. I guess I love how much I learn from our tides, weather, wildlife.”
Church honors local leaders for service politics — I’m lending my voice to something that will save people’s lives.” McClurkin received his second vaccination dose on Aug. 25. Addressing the officials on the stage with him, McClurkin said the award was for “what you are doing and how you value service. You all are putting your own lives on the line. . . . The ones that came in with a disease that could have affected you and your family, you made it your business to facilitate them, and God has gotten them through because of your service.” Cheers and amens punctuated McClurkin’s words, while beyond the portion of the parking lot that his ministry occupied, cars arrived and departed from Western Beef and other stores in the shopping mall. Business was brisk. Most people wore face masks. Some strolled over to visit the tables set up by Empire Health and other organizations, including the Northwell Health van, which administered about 40 Covid-19 vaccinations. At one of the tables, families received free backpacks for school children. As he closed the service in prayer, McClurkin said, “We’ve got to pray for those who are in authority. . . . The local is more important than the national. The local is where things really happen. The mayor of Freeport is more important to Freeport than the president of the United States.” In a post-event interview, McClurkin said his own congregation, which numbers
around 3,000, was “split down the middle” on the Covid-19 vaccines. “When I got my first vaccination,” he said, “six or seven people [from my congregation] went and got theirs, and encouraged others.” When he went back for his second shot, McClurkin streamed it live on Facebook, receiving 192,489 views — but the comments were not for the faint of heart. “I got more than 4,000 comments,” he said, “most of them negative.” Nonetheless, he planned to continue promoting the benefits of getting vaccinated. McClurkin, 61, is an internationally known gospel singer and radio personality who has won multiple music awards, including three Grammys. He served as associate minister at Perfecting Church under the Rev. Marvin Winans in Detroit for more than a decade before founding Perfecting Faith Church in Freeport. The church has continued to run a food pantry throughout the pandemic. According to a news release from Gail Gertrude, mission liaison for Perfecting Care Home & Global Missions, a division of the Perfecting Faith organization, the pantry’s normal 60 to 80 weekly clients expanded to “well over 600 client households served each week, distributing over 193,000 tons of food, with the help of Island Harvest and Long Island Cares food banks.” More than 400 households still come every week. “If the church is not helping the community,” McClurkin said, “it’s just a building.”
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LEGAL NOTICE The resolution, a summary of which is published herewith, has been adopted on July 26, 2021, and an abstract thereof has been published and posted as required by law and the period of time has elapsed for the submission and filing of a petition for a permissive referendum and a valid petition has not been submitted and filed. The validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Village of Freeport, in the County of Nassau, New York, is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of the notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution. Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk BOND RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, NEW YORK, ADOPTED JULY 26, 2021, AUTHORIZING THE ACQUISITION OF A TRUCK, STATING THE ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST THEREOF IS $150,000, APPROPRIATING SAID AMOUNT FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $150,000 TO FINANCE SAID APPROPRIATION The object or purpose for which the bonds are authorized is the acquisition of a truck, at the estimated maximum cost of $150,000. The period of usefulness is fifteen (15) years. The maximum amount of obligations authorized to be issued is $150,000. A complete copy of the bond resolution summarized above shall be available for public inspection during normal business hours at the office of the Village Clerk, at the Village Hall, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York. Dated:July 26, 2021 Freeport, New York 127331 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com TO PLACE AND AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232 PUBLIC & LEGAL NOTICES To place a notice here call us us at 516-569-4000 x232 or send an email to: legalnotices@liherald.com
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LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF THE HOME EQUITY ASSET TRUST 2005-3, HOME EQUITY PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2005-3, Plaintiff against SIMBIA A. WILLIAMS, et al., Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on April 5, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y., on the 14th day of September, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Freeport, County of Nassau and State of New York, known and designated as and by part of Lot No. 11 on a certain map entitled, “Map of Oakhurst, situate at Freeport, Queens County, New York, surveyed and laid out by Carman Cornelius, Surveyor, Freeport, Long Island, 1888 Property of A. Pettit, Esq.” and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Queens on December 19, 1988 as Map No. 366 and subsequently filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau as Map No. 116, which said part of lots is bounded and described as follows; BEGINNING at a point on the Northerly side of Harris Avenue (East Lincoln Place) (Lincoln Place), distant 100 feet Easterly from the corner formed by the intersection of the northerly side of Harris Avenue with the easterly side of Jay Street (Garfield Place); RUNNING THENCE Northerly and at right angles to Harris Avenue, 140 feet; THENCE Easterly parallel with Harris Avenue, 50 feet;
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff AGAINST HERBERT LEWIS, JR., CEDRIC WHITT, ERIC WHITT, IF LIVING OR IF EITHER OR ALL BE DEAD, THEIR WIVES, HUSBANDS, HEIRS-AT-LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS AND GENERALLY ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING UNDER, BY OR THROUGH SAID ERIC WHITT BY PURCHASE, INHERITANCE, LIEN OR OTHERWISE, OF ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO THE PREMISES DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN, AND THE RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES, WIDOW, OR WIDOWERS OF THEM, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOSE NAMES ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of
Foreclosure and Sale duly dated October 05, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, on September 27, 2021 at 2:30PM, premises known as 16 Abbott Place, Roosevelt, NY 11575. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Roosevelt, in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, and State of New York, SECTION 55, BLOCK 419, LOT 81 and SECTION 55, BLOCK 419, LOT 82. Approximate amount of judgment $329,149.57 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 2324/2012. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the Court System’s COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Lisa A. Goodwin, Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 69439 127167
LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SURPREME COURT. NASSAU COUNTY. BOARD OF MANAGERS OF WHARFSIDE CONDOMINIUM, Pltf. vs. JOHN K. CONLIN, et al, Defts. Index #609108/2018. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale dated Sept. 16, 2019, I will sell at public auction on Sept. 28, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. at the north side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY prem. k/a 725 Miller Avenue, Unit 224, Freeport, NY a/k/a Section 62, Block 103, Lot 245U and CA113 and Section 62, Block 183, Lot 410 a/k/a Tax Unit No. 224 together with a .9066% undivided interest in the common elements of the condominium hereinafter described as the same defined in the Declaration of Condominium hereinafter referred to. The real property above described is a Unit shown on the plans of a Condominium prepared and certified by Baldwin and Cornelius, P.C. and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau on the 12th day of December, 1985 as Map No. CA 113 defined in the Declaration of Condominium entitled, Wharfside Condominium made by Freeport Nautical Development Company, under Article 9-B of the New York Real Property Law dated May
Arrests Petit larceny ■ A suspect was arrested on August 25 by Freeport police 0fficers for a petit larceny from a grocery store. The suspect removed numerous items from the grocery store without permission and without paying for items. The suspect was placed under arrest without incident and transported to Freeport Police Headquarters for arrest processing. Assault in the 3rd degree ■ A suspect was arrested on August 29 when Freeport police detectives located the suspect in connection with a domestic assault. The suspect struck the victim across the face with an open hand, causing substantial pain, and upon being arrested, was charged with assault in the 3rd degree. Criminal mischief and harassment ■ A suspect was arrested on August 30 by Freeport police officers after he intentionally prevented the victim from calling 9-1-1 to request police assistance. The suspect was charged with criminal mischief, 4th degree, and harassment, 2nd degree.
theft. The victim reported that an unknown person accessed his Capital One bank account information and made several unauthorized charges. The Capital One bank account was subsequently closed.
Car fire ■ On August 28, Freeport police officers responded to a report of a car fire. Upon arrival, officers observed the Freeport Fire Department extinguishing a vehicle on fire. The cause of fire did not appear to be suspicious and no injuries were reported.
Civil dispute ■ On August 30, Freeport police officers responded to a report of a neighbor dispute. Upon arrival, officers spoke to the complainant, who stated that his neighbor contacted a tree service company to remove large branches from the neighbor’s tree because the branches were hanging onto his property. The neighbor stated that pruning the tree would offset the tree’s balance and affect the aesthetics. The building department was notified and both parties will await assessment from an appraiser.
Identity theft ■ On August 25, a Freeport police officer completed a walk-in report of an identity People named in Crime Watch items as having been arrested and charged with violations or crimes are only suspected of committing those acts of which they are accused. They are all presumed to be innocent of those charges until and unless found guilty in a court of law.
1-800-244-TIPS Nassau County Crime Stoppers The public is asked to call Crime Stoppers if they have any information about any crimes.
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14, 1985 and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau on the 12th day of December, 1985 in Liber 9689 of Conveyances at page 313 covering the property therein
described. Approx. amt. of judgment is $71,864.81 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Foreclosure auction will be held “rain
or shine.” If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the court appointed referee will cancel the auction. JEFFREY W. HALBREICH,
Referee. JAY L. YACKOW, Atty. For Pltf., 355 Post Ave., Ste. 201, Westbury, NY. #98833 126636 Search for notices online at: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com
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AMENITIES INCLUDE: • Shared Kitchen • Conference Room • Reception Area • Municipal Parking Open Houses HEWLETT 1610 Hilary Ct, , REDUCED! Beautifully Gut Renovated 4600 Sq Ft Colonial in Cul de Sac.5 BR,3.5 Bth with Full Fin Bsmt, 2 Car Att Gar. SD#20. Tax Grivance Filed.....$1,279,999 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299 HEWLETT BA 1534 Broadway #103,, NEW! Spacious 2 BR,2 Bth Condo in Luxurious Jonathan Hall. LR/DR, Large EIK, Laundry Rm, & Pantry. Terrace Facing into Courtyard. Doorman Bldg with Eleva t o r. I n d o o r G a r a g e P k g & S t o r age...$599,000 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299
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Ask The Architect
A. You should assure your wife that her concerns are very real and it is all right to be concerned. Validate her feelings and be understanding, because many people in the same situation, in taller buildings, are questioning the safety of where they live. Questioning and confirming are what keep us safe, onte eeper no matter what the issue is or where we are. Ignoring or dismissing a potential problem doesn’t make it go away. Applying knowledge and reason leads to security. Many people assume, with most things, that some qualified person simply took care of a problem, solved it correctly, and kept us safe. I often share my calculation process with clients, showing them the reasoning behind steps taken to calculate a beam, for example, for two reasons. One is so they understand how buildings work, and also so that when a substitution is requested, they understand why it was rejected. Unfortunately, there are a lot of assumptions that work is being done with correctness and conscientiousness. With larger buildings, there are many safety procedures, including independent certification by qualified consultant engineering professionals. You might feel better if your building hired an engineer who could explain the building’s structural system and how it keeps you safe. If the people living in the Surfside condominiums could have questioned and acted with a maintenance program, which would have required spending money, things might have been different. The design, review, construction and maintenance all played a part in the failure. Look at your own building’s track record and ask informed questions. If you have no knowledge of the building process, ask others who do. The more I learn about the investigation of the collapse, the more convinced I am of the reasons for never ignoring the smallest details of how these giant custom jigsaw puzzles fit together. Every failure I have ever learned about had at least two common denominators, confidence and naïveté. If a reinforcing rod is shown on the drawings to be a specific diameter, don’t substitute a smaller size because it was more available or install separate pieces where a continuous rod was supposed to go. The pool deck of that building was a separate structure that should never have been tied into the columns of the taller adjacent building, just like a deck should have minimal or no attachment to a house. The right force, wind or water, can pull a vertical support column sideways, rendering the column useless and toppling the taller structure. Listen to your wife and have a happy life!
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hirty years ago this week, I hopped on an electric train with a brightred engine, a nervous energy pulsing through my arms and legs straight to my fingers and toes, which fidgeted uncontrollably. My head was spinning. I carried all I had in my arms — two gray suitcases of clothes, one violin in a worn brown case and one blue duffle bag with running shoes and toiletries. I was 24 and headed to the greatest adventure of my life, a twoyear bicultural SCoTT exchange that excited me, at BRINToN times vexed me and forever changed me. I served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Veliko Tarnovo, a 5,000-year-old city in central Bulgaria with a medieval fortress that was flanked by white stucco houses, squeezed onto the steep hills above the winding Yantra River. In the first week of September 1991, I left the safe haven of the training site the Peace Corps set up in Bankya, a spa resort 11 miles outside Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, and headed to Tarnovo, as it’s commonly known. After two and a half months of preparations, I still had no idea what to expect. I loved every minute of the next
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two years. I was part of the first group of 26 Peace Corps volunteers to enter Bulgaria after the fall of communism there a year earlier. As was the case in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania between 1989 and 1990, thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets to protest communist rule. Todor Zhivkov — the longest-serving Soviet Bloc dictator in the post-World War II era, who reigned from 1954 to 1989 — was deposed without bloodshed. In July 1990, then President Petar Mladenov, a former communist leader, quit over accusations that he had ordered tanks to roll against protesters in December 1989. People rejoiced after Mladenov’s resignation, The New York Times reported on July 7, 1990. “Never again a communist president in Bulgaria!” 5,000 protesters chanted in unison in central Sofia. To be there, in this place burning with democratic idealism after more than four decades of repressed speech and thought, was the thrill of a lifetime for an American who had freedom of speech and assembly ingrained in him. Bulgaria felt so alive. I felt so alive. People were suddenly free. As an outside observer who was quickly acculturated to Bulgarian beliefs and practices (I married a Bulgarian), I internalized their joy, their relief and,
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sometimes, their fear of a return to communism. On June 20 this year, most of the original 26 Peace Corps volunteers, our Bulgarian manager, Emil Patev, and my wife, Katerina, who was one of our language and culture trainers, gathered on Zoom to reminisce. It was perhaps the strangest feeling I’ve ever experienced. Because of the intensity of the experiences that we shared, the names and faces of my fellow volunteers were indelibly etched in my mind. I pictured them as their younger selves, and then we appeared in little boxes on a computer screen, significantly older variations of ourselves, as if this were a “Dr. Who” episode. It was jarring at first. Then we started to share what we took away from Bulgaria. Many spoke of the Bulgarian work ethic, the slower place of life, the neighborliness or the kindness they were shown by their colleagues at the schools where they taught — we were all English teachers. Happy memories coursed through my mind — meeting my lovely wife for the first time, soaking in the sights and sounds that were so different than the United States, chatting with my students, who were 17 when I met them and 19 when they graduated from the Vasil Drumev High School of Mathematics and Natural
ecalling a lifealtering stint in Bulgaria after the fall of communism.
Sciences, as they attended a fifth year of high school for advanced studies. That graduation, in June 1991, was among the most beautiful days of my life, aside from my wedding and the births of my children. It was a simple, short ceremony, full of music. The students poured flowers into their teachers’ hands, as is Bulgarian tradition. Katerina and I taught at the school together, and we came away with so many flowers that our tiny, rented apartment resembled a florist’s shop. I’m occasionally asked to speak to young people about my Peace Corps experiences. They often ask about the challenges, or whether I had any regrets about signing up. I can sense their trepidation. Volunteering for the Peace Corps is a monumental, life-altering decision. I used to speak of the pluses and minuses. There is, no doubt, a financial sacrifice, because you’re volunteering for two years of your life, I would say. Perhaps that was the reporter in me wanting to give both sides of the story. If they have a strong interest in joining, I tell them now, they should embrace any fears they might harbor and let the river of life take them wherever it might flow. You needn’t know where it will end up. It could take you to magical lands you never imagined. Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.
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e’ve been through a lot together, you and I. Now this. As I wrote last week, my husband and I and Lillybee the dog headed out West to the Northern California mountains on Aug. 10. We drove from Denver through Cheyenne, Park City and Elko and arrived here in Tahoe-Donner on Aug. 20. We’re in a rental house perched on stilts set into a hillside, a half-hour from anything, including our kids and grandkids, who live in a nearby town. They’re the reason we came, RANDI and they’re the reaKREISS son we’re still here, 10 days into a month-long stay. We’re in the throes of a wildfire emergency, officially declared by President Biden yesterday. Smoke obscures views of the mountains. The grandkids’ school opening was delayed. The smell of smoke is in our clothes, our hair and even on the dog. The Caldor and Dixie fires are raging around us, from 45 to 100 miles away. We’re told to stay inside, not exert ourselves and
keep the windows closed. The obvious move is to leave ASAP, but that means driving back to Denver in our rental car through areas that are now smoky as well. Our children surely aren’t ready to abandon their family home. We hate to run, since the wind could change in a week, and it could be healthy to resume normal outdoor life. We don’t know when we’ll have the chance to sit down at the same table again. Our kids must figure out if their life out here is sustainable going forward. These fires aren’t going away, and it’s unlikely that it will be better next year. The snowpack has been lighter every winter, and the ground brush is drier. Tinder. No one has grass, just scrub around the homes, cut back for safety. Back home, I know you’re struggling with the Delta variant and unusual heat. We Long Islanders have had our shared disasters, mostly hurricanes, and there will likely be more this season. This is something else. People who live up here are tough and self-reliant, but everyone is shaken by the hazardous air quality and the danger of encroaching
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fires. We all have alerts set on our phones should the conditions get more dangerous. Ash falls out of the smoke clouds, irritating our eyes and throats. We have captured some moments with the grandkids, some meals, a lot of time together playing Rummikub. They seem able to be outside longer than we can, younger lungs and all that. But they are tuned in to our talk about the smoke and fire and what the options are. These kids just lived through more than a year of relative isolation during the pandemic, and so much of their hope was invested in this summer, to do the swimming and rafting and hiking that is their reason for putting up with life in the semi-wilderness. All of our kids and grandkids have tolerated so much constraint and disappointment. I hope it makes them stronger. To summon my own resolve, I’ve been reading about people who live in places where the geography or the weather or the terrain is a constant challenge and threat. Why do they stay? My husband and I can and probably will leave if the air remains unhealthy or the fires get worse; we have
ur kids must figure out if life out here is sustainable going forward.
that option. Our kids will make their own calculation of risk vs. benefit of life in these mountains. People live on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Sicily, generation after generation, despite the inevitability of lava flows and ash that burn them out of their houses. They rebuild; they stay. Some say the reason is that the volcanic soil is fertile and produces the best olives and olive oil in the world. People in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., know for sure that periodic super-floods will drive them from their homes, but they come back and they build again. Why does anyone live in New Orleans? Or on any barrier island? Why didn’t we all flee after Hurricane Sandy? Ultimately people look around and decide that the benefit outweighs the risk of living near a volcano or in a flood plain or on a fire-scarred mountaintop. We would not have come to California now if we knew how the smoke and fire would look and feel and taste. The headline in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday read: “Caldor Fire Knocking on the Door of Tahoe Basin.” The fire is knocking, and there isn’t much here to keep it out. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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ome 87 percent of Nassau County’s adult population, ages 18 and up, has received at least a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bravo, Nassau! That’s a remarkable statistic, well ahead of the state average of 79.3 percent. Nearly a million people have been vaccinated here, and we could soon reach that threshold. But here’s the thing: Looking at all age groups in the county, only 73 percent of the total population has gotten at least one dose. That’s because children are ineligible, and only about 49 percent of teenagers, ages 12 to 18, had received a first dose as of last Friday, even though 16- and 17-year-olds have been eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine since April, and 12- to 15-year-olds since May. Clearly, we must focus our efforts on vaccinating teens. With school starting in many districts this week, and therefore with students starting to congregate in large groups five to six days a week, there is the potential for the virus to spread rapidly in this population, and then to be passed on to unvaccinated adults and even
to the relatively small number of vaccinated people who will get Covid despite being inoculated. Nassau County government now has an excellent program that brings a team of vaccinators to a workplace on request. It’s all about making the vaccine readily available to people who are too busy or otherwise unable to break away from work to get inoculated. The Herald Community Newspapers took part last Friday afternoon, and the vaccination team did all the work. Similarly, the county and the Town of Hempstead, each of which has a mobile inoculation unit, should bring the vaccination fight to our schools, one by one, starting in low-income areas, where parents may be unable to take their teens to a vaccination site because they’re working long hours and worry about taking time off. We’ve already seen mobile units brought to a small number of school districts like Freeport, but the effort should be rapidly expanded to all 54 Nassau districts. At the same time, parents should seek to have their teens vaccinated. With the
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Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine receiving full approval by the federal Food and Drug Administration for those 16 and over, we should all feel confident about its efficacy and safety. It will now be marketed as Comirnaty, according to the FDA. For those ages 12 to 15, the Pfizer vaccine will continue to be available under an emergency-use authorization. The Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are likely to receive FDA approval for 12- to 17-year-olds in the coming months. Clinical trials are still under way to test all three vaccines for children ages 5 to 11. It’s uncertain when, precisely, they might receive approval under emergency-use authorization for this age group. It could be as early as this fall, though that seems unlikely now. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said that authorization would more likely come by late December. The bottom line for parents: Have your children vaccinated as soon as humanly possible.
letters Happy birthday, President Johnson To the Editor: The late President Lyndon Johnson was born Aug. 27, 1908. Many remember him for succeeding President John F. Kennedy after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Others remember him for his domestic Great Society program, which included civil rights, Medicare, Medicaid, the War on Poverty and public broadcasting. There was also foreign policy, most notably the Vietnam War. Few remember that the success of public transportation can be traced back to one of Johnson’s greatest accomplishments, which continues to benefit many Americans today. On July 9, 1964, he signed the Urban Mass Transportation Act into
ate. There’s no need to scare young children. They need to be reassured that they will be safe in school. Meanwhile, teens might need a more frank discussion. PBS Kids for Parents has an excellent primer on “How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus” that’s worth a quick read. You can find it at www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/how-to-talk-to-your-kidsabout-coronavirus.
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n the 1987 movie “The Princess Bride,” Vizzini, a Sicilian assassin, warns Wesley, also known as the Dread Pirate Roberts, “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders — the most famous of which is, ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’” The United States fell into that classic blunder when it ignored 19th-century British debacles during the First AngloAfghan War (18391843) and the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) and pretended it could avoid the ALAn fate of the Soviet Union in the SovisinGer et-Afghan War (1979-1988). A 1979 internal memo to the Soviet Union’s governing Politburo explained why “nation building” by the Soviet Union was doomed to failure. The reactionary forces described in the memo are now known as the Taliban. “The Afghan reactionary forces,” the memo stated, “are very skillfully taking advantage of the almost complete illiteracy of the population, complex interna-
tional and intertribal conflicts, religious fanaticism and nationalism. Subversive actions, sabotage and the resistance of the overthrown class of exploiters are deepening the economic problems, lowering industrial and agricultural output, as well as hampering business activity, raising prices and reducing the influx of revenue into the state budget.” The memo warned the Politburo that “the use of Soviet troops in repressing the Afghan counterrevolution would seriously damage the international authority of the USSR.” In his 2010 memoir “Decision Points,” former President George W. Bush tried to justify the 2001 decision to invade Afghanistan and the prolonged war that followed. This wasn’t just about revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, or a strategy to kill Osama bin Laden and destroy Al Qaeda. According to Bush, “Afghanistan was the ultimate nation-building mission. We had liberated the country from a primitive dictatorship, and we had a moral obligation to leave behind something better. We also had a strategic interest in helping the Afghan people build a free
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erhaps every candidate for president should be a certified historian.
Letters law. It has resulted in the investment of several hundred billion dollars in public transportation under grants from the Federal Transit Administration, which before 1991 was known as the Urban Mass Transit Administration. Even with Covid-19, millions of Americans continue using various public transportation alternatives, including local and express buses, ferries, jitneys, light rail, subways and commuter rail services. Investment in public transportation today contributes to economic growth, employment and a stronger economy. Dollar for dollar, it is one of the best investments we can make. LARRY PENNER Great Neck Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.
State is now offering Excluded Workers Fund To the Editor: New York state’s Excluded Workers Fund, which is intended to provide much-needed relief to workers cut off from government unemployment bene-
society. The terrorists took refuge in places of chaos, despair and repression. A democratic Afghanistan would be a hopeful alternative to the vision of the extremists.” The nation-building task was “more daunting” than Bush and his advisers anticipated because of their ignorance about Afghanistan and because they apparently never consulted either Wikipedia or the CIA World Factbook. It is a mountainous region of tribes, clans and linguistic groups, with millions of people who have little connection to those outside their locality or village. The constitution of Afghanistan, written in 2004 under U.S. auspices, recognizes 14 major ethno-linguistic groups. The largest is the Pashtun, who make up almost half of the population of the country and are the dominant group in the Taliban. If only the Bush administration in 2001, or policymakers in the Obama and Trump administrations, had watched “The Princess Bride” or had access to the Soviet Politburo memo. I found it, quite easily, translated from Russian to English, on the website of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
The memo, “Our Future Policy in Connection with the Situation in Afghanistan,” became available to the public in 1993. As President Biden made clear in a speech to the American public, “After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces [from Afghanistan] . . . There is no chance that one year — one more year, five more years or 20 more years of U.S. military boots on the ground would’ve made any difference.” After the diplomatic, military and human disaster in Afghanistan, maybe there should be a constitutional qualification for becoming president of the United States: that a candidate be a certified historian. The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians could review all candidates the way legal organizations review potential judicial appointments. Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.
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fits and stimulus checks during the pandemic, is now accepting applications. Any workers who were not eligible for enhanced Covid-19 pandemic unemployment benefits can apply. The funds do not need to be paid back, and this relief is available regardless of immigration status. Please visit https://dol.ny.gov/EWF for more information and to apply. I thank state leaders for their efforts to maximize the scope of our Covid-19 relief initiatives. In the weeks ahead, I look forward to sharing information about the Excluded Workers Fund at community events and with our local faith and civic leaders to ensure that economic relief reaches the maximum number of Nassau residents possible. CARRIé SOLAGES Nassau County legislator, Lawrence
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