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Antique gun show is full of history

Rice vote favors big pharma firms

Solages rallies for Haitian migrants

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‘Kutz’ donates backpacks, shoes, haircuts you’ve got to give back to the community.”

Broughton did not have to Leon Lavar Broughton put his sponsor his event by himself for Freeport education to good use long. He caught the attention of when he established Trimz Bar- Nassau County Legislator Kevan ber Shop, at 20 Guy Lombardo Abrahams, and later, Legislator Ave., 24 years ago.

Debra Mulé, who But his school days stood behind him. also showed him that Local businesses, young people can be too, put a hand in, as hard on one another, did other charitable and 15 years ago, he foundations. decided he should One such foundaact on those memotion was Heeling ries.

Soles, a Uniondale “Growing up here concern run by Steve and seeing kids get Muir, his wife, Niala, bullied when they and his 18-year-old didn’t have the cool daughter, Aria. The bookbags and the lEoN lEVAR threesome conduct sneakers and the their own sneaker haircuts,” Brough- BRougHToN g ive aw ay eve n t s ton recalled, “I said, Owner, about three times a you know what? Let Trimz Barber Shop year, but also particime try to do somepate in other charity thing so I can kind events, giving sneakof put a stop to that.” ers to children and adults.

Broughton organized a day — “On average, depending on “Kutz for Edu” — when he gave the event size, we give out 75 to free haircuts, bookbags and 100 pairs of sneakers per event,” sneakers to families. He covered Muir said. “We reach out to instithe entire expense. tutions like Bethpage Credit “That’s how it starts,” he said. Union and a lot of different fund“You’ve got to put your hard- ing organizations.” earned money out. I have a com“We do it as a family thing,” munity-based shop, and if you Aria said. “We take inventory, we make money on the community, Continued on page 12

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ScHool AdMiNiSTRAToRS uSHEREd students and families across South Brookside Avenue at the start of Freeport Public Schools’ seventh annual Peace Walk.

Peace Walk unites, then Fun Day raises $30k for schools

By RENE BETHANy rbethany@liherald.com

When a school system can demonstrate its hopes for peace to its community, and on the same day raise more than $30,000 for scholarships and teaching grants, that’s a good day in Freeport.

“The Peace Walk happens every year on the third or fourth Saturday of September, as it is near International Peace Day on Sept. 21,” said Dr. Alice Kane, assistant

superintendent for educational and administrative services. “It’s also close to Oct. 2, the United Nationas International Day of Non-Violence, which was chosen because it is Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. We added Family Fun Day after the Peace Walk because the weather was beautiful and we already had the families out there.”

Several hundred students of all ages, with families and school officials, assembled at Freeport High School on Sept.

25 at 10 a.m.

“It’s my first Peace Walk,” said Navy Junior Reserve Officers Trainign Corps member Victoria Shim. “I’m looking forward to walking for peace.”

“This will be my third Peace Walk,” said Michael Adams, also in the Navy Junior ROTC. “To be honest, peace on its own is so hard to accomplish, but the community coming together for this Continued on page 15

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Antique weapons open a door to the past

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History of nations inhabits ancient instruments

By Reine Bethany rbethany@liherald.com

Since 1959, the Long Island Antique Historical Arms Society, Inc., has provided an outlet of fellowship and historical exploration for people -- mostly men-- who fit the single requirement for membership:- “An interest in old and antique guns and gun related items,” according to its Membership Information flyer.

The flyer appeared on an information table at the Antique Arms & Militaria Show on Sept. 25 and 26 at the Freeport Recreation Center.

“We have monthly meetings at Babylon Masonic Hall,” said Dave Brunner, a longtime club member who set this particular show up for the club. “Club members talk, we have a pizza night, we do social things.”

But the social aspect appears to be secondary to the fascination with weaponry, not solely for its destructive power, but for the endless inventiveness that has characterized weapon production, firstly throughout American history, but also across millennia.

“These are Civil War cavalry swords,” said Brunner, indicating his own table among the many tables stretching throughout the big hall in the recreation center. “These are Revolutionary War items. Then there are smaller items.” He pointed to several dozen pistols neatly laid out on a deep blue tablecloth, arranged to progress in time from early to late nineteenth-century models.

“They’re all antique,” Brunner explained. “Anything made before 1898 is an antique. Each is really a collectible, nothing you’d go out and shoot. These are for sale, and collectors come in from the public. We charge at the door, and you have collectors who collect Civil War muskets -- those are for the cavalry on horseback, you have shorter muskets because they’d carry them on a horse.”

Interest in evolving technology and materials is not the only driver of fascination with weapons.

“This is a Civil War officer’s sword that was presented to him,” said Brunner, removing a long curved implement from its scabbard and gesturing across the blade. “It says here, ‘Presented to Colonel E.F. Jones, by the staff officers of the 26th Massachusetts Infantry, October 1861.’ So that adds a lot to the value of it, and the blade is just beautiful, like new.” Brunner held the sword so its engraving shone under the ceiling lights. But there was more.

“These are all his [Jones’s] records that I got from the National Archives in Washington,” Brunner said, lifting a sheaf of copied pages from the table. “For most soldiers, their records are in the archives and there are people who do research for you. Some people have had family members in the Civil War -- or earlier -- and you can hire someone to do research at the archives.”

So, from one engraved sword that passed through the hands of caring collectors, the vista of a distinguished sol-

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casual aRms collectoRs as well as antique arms experts attended the show. dier and his family was opened to his relatives over 150 years later.

At another set of tables, show chairman John Fucci stood behind a table of robust firearms. His collection included an unusually historic model.

“This is the first Winchester, the genuine rifle, 1860, that served in the Civil War,” said Fucci. “That’s the father of all Winchesters.”

At the table next to Fucci’s, Al Vaccaro’s more varied assemblage included a copper-colored helmet from 18th-century India. Its dome was engraved with intricate symbols. A four-inch metal point was firmly fastened to the peak of the dome, and a metal band descended from the dome to terminate shortly below the helmet’s front edge.

“That’s a nose piece that comes down,” said Vaccaro, “and do you see those holes around the edge? There was a piece of chain [suspended from the holes] that covered the face so the warrior wouldn’t get slashed.”

Questioned about why anyone would harbor an interest in weapons meant for killing other humans in war, Vaccaro and Fucci swiftly pointed to the long, singlebarreled rifle that sat up on a rack on Vaccaro’s table.

“This is a Kentucky rifle that has nothing to do with war,” said Vaccaro.

“It’s for feeding your family,” said Fucci. “It’s utilitarian.”

But most of the items in the show were related to the art of staying alive by the use of a weapon. In past times and in rural places where laws against violence were, at best, hard to enforce, defense against other humans was needful -- and also against hungry creatures with fierce teeth who considered the land as much theirs as any human’s. A well-made weapon could mean the difference between life and death for oneself and one’s family.

“There’s a lot of great stuff, a lot of history here,” said Fucci. “That’s what this club focuses on: history. We’re historians.

We keep it alive.”

Further information about club meetings and gun shows can be found at the club’s website, www.liahas.org. member

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al VaccaRo, anotheR member of the Long Island Antique Historical Arms Society, Inc., has an eclectic collection that includes an 18th-century warrior’s helmet from India.

John Fucci was the chairman of the 2021 Antique Gun & Militaria Show in Freeport Sept. 25-26.

Crime watCh Arrests ■ On September 21, Freeport police officers located a known sex offender who failed to verify an address change with the Freeport Police Department. The sex offender was placed under arrest and transported to Freeport Police Headquarters for arrest processing.

strong odor of alcohol on her breath, and was unsteady on her feet. Standardized Field Sobriety Testing of the suspect resulted in her being placed under arrest and taken to Nassau University Medical Center for medical attention. After receiving proper care, the suspect was transported to Nassau County Police Central Testing Unit.

Rice votes against lower drug costs — and her party

Before the vote, Rice, who represents a swath of the South Shore, acknowledged that the Build Back Better Act would U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, of the 4th Dis- improve the lives of Long Islanders, but trict, was one of three moderate Demo- she said she does not support advancing crats who voted against a key provision provisions “that are not fiscally responsithat would lower prescription drug prices ble and jeopardize the bill’s final passage.”

■ On September 23, Freeport police in President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion infra- In a letter sent after the vote, however, Rice detectives conducted an investigation of structure package, known as the Build shifted her stance, saying that she supa suspect who was wanted in connection Back Better Act, in the House of Energy ports H.R. 3, but she does not think the act with an assault that occurred outside of and Commerce Committee. would pass the Senate. a Freeport restaurant The defendant ■ On September 23, a Freeport police The others were Rep. Kurt According to Data for Progwas arrested and charged with thirdofficer completed a report for an incident Schrader from Oregon and ress, 90 percent of Rice’s condegree assault. of criminal mischief to an auto. An Rep. Scott Peters from Califorstituents support the provi■ On September 25, Freeport police offi- unknown subject had damaged the driv- nia. sion that she voted against. cers went to the scene of a motor vehicle er’s side window. However, the complainOn Sept. 15, the three DemSchrader and Peters offered accident that had just occurred. The ant declined to prosecute. ocratic votes, in addition to the their own alternative drug driver displayed slurred speech, had a unanimous disapproval from pricing plan before the vote, the Republicans, tied the vote which was co-sponsored by 29-29 in the committee, blockRice. Their proposal limitPeople named in Crime Watch items as having been arrested and charged with violations ing the plan that would allow ed Medicare to negotiate pricor crimes are only suspected of committing those acts of which they are accused. They are Medicare programs to negoties on only older drugs that are all presumed to be innocent of those charges until and unless found guilty in a court of law. ate lower costs for prescription off patent but do not have any Kathleen rice drugs instead of pharmaceutigeneric competition—a sliver cal companies setting their of what the original provision own prices with little competition. proposed.

This drug pricing provision is based Pharmaceutical companies have spent on H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower the most of any industry on federal lobbyDrug Costs Now Act, which passed with ing this year. Combined, they have spent zero opposition in 2019. The Congressional $171 million in 2021, more than twice the Budget Office found that this bill would amount of the next highest spending save the government $456 billion over 10 industry, and their lobbying expenditures CommunIty uPDAtE years and reduce drug prices by 57 percent have increased since 2013, topping at $309 to 75 percent. million in 2020.

In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed by Rice and nine other moderate Fri. nite Oct 1 Democrats in May, Peters argued that and Sat. Oct 2 reduced drug prices would hamper research and development of new mediThis week’s cines in the pharmaceutical industry, Torah portion: echoing the statement that the leading Bereshis pharmaceutical federal lobbying contribuCandle Lighting tor this year, PhRMA, published in an 6:19 pm open letter that was signed by the heads of Shabbat Ends major pharmaceutical companies.

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Courtesy Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center

The holocausT memoRial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove, which has been vandalized in anti-Semitic acts at times.

Bridging the Holocaust understanding gap

By Roksana amid newsroom@liherald.com

New York has the highest Jewish population outside of Israel. With that in mind, many young New Yorkers are misinformed about the Holocaust at the same time that the state is seeing a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

A recent, first-of-its-kind survey, conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Ger many, found high levels of inadequate Holocaust education among young people in all 50 states. In New York, 58 percent of Millennials and Gen Zers — those born between 1981 and 1996 and 1997 and 2010, respectively — could not name a single World War II concentration camp, death camp or ghetto, according to the survey. Sixty percent of New York young people also did not know that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, and 57 percent reported seeing Holocaust denial or distortion on social media and elsewhere online.

Dr. Stacie Locascio, a certified BrainCore Neurofeedback provider and mother of two from Glen Cove, said, “It’s absolutely shocking, and that just shows you how much anti-Semitism there is out there. I think [young people] are probably getting it from social media, which they probably believe more than they believe their teachers.”

Social media has become a politically charged platform to spread misinformation, and the extent of that misinformation is cause for concern to Holo-

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andRea BolendeR, acTing executive director of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove. caust educators like Andrea Bolender, who is acting executive director of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove.

“Education has changed over the years. I remember when I was in high school — you know, a hundred years ago — that you could take a Holocaust elective for a whole semester, and I think education has changed,” Bolender said.

Elected leaders like State Sen. Todd

Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, are working to ensure New York schools provide adequate Holocaust education. Kaminsky said he believes there are schools on Long Island that are doing a good job of educating students about the horrors of the Holocaust, but he stressed the need for schools to undergo audits to see how students are being educated, and whether school curricula need to be amended.

“It’s not just enough to mandate it in the law that Holocaust education should be taught. We actually have to make sure it’s being taught, and it’s clearly not, or not well,” Kaminsky said in an interview with The Long Island Advocate. “And so, something has to be done, and we need to know where the problems are and direct our resources there.”

A bill proposed by Kaminsky to authorize the state education commissioner to undertake a study of which school districts are teaching about the Holocaust and which are not is currently under review in committee in the State Legislature. Kaminsky is now running for Nassau County district attorney.

Bolender said that without in-depth education about the past behaviors that led to the Holocaust, history could repeat itself. Bolender said young people must understand the context behind the history.

“That’s what we do here at the Holocaust [Memorial and Tolerance Center].

We identify the period of hate, which

behaviors will lead up to a genocide, but also examine the roots of anti-Semitism. A lot of people think it started with World War II,” she said.

In 2019, anti-Semitic hate crimes rose by 14 percent across the United States, according to the FBI. New York was among the states where they were on the rise. On Long Island, swastikas have been etched into sidewalks in Oceanside, Ku Klux Klan stickers placed on poles in Bay Shore and swastikas spraypainted at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center.

Bolender shared that most youths who have vandalized the Holocaust museum have not been Glen Cove locals. As a consequence, most must perform community service and take part in Holocaust education, including the meaning of Nazi symbols.

“We have to spend a little more time developing their emotional intelligence, not just their mathematical and science intelligence,” Bolender said of today’s students. “Emotional intelligence will get you much further in life and make you a better human being. Isn’t that what we all want for our kids, for someone to say they were a good person Locascio said parents play a key role in their children’s emotional development, especially regarding current events in the Middle East.

“I think their parents just need to pay a little bit more attention to what their kids are doing, thinking and who they’re hanging out with,” she said.

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events and activities

Friday, October 1 Applause for Paws All week, 9 am - 8:45 pm, help Freeport Memorial Library celebrate the Great Give-Back by taking part in supporting local animal shelters. Contact the ASK Department, (516) 379-3274 or ask@freeportlibrary.info.

Happy Birthday, Julie Andrews!

From 3-4 p.m. at the Freeport Memorial Library, Jack Schnur will present a program with clips from the Broadway and films of famed actress and singer Julie Andrews, as well as interviews with Andrews and people who have worked with her. Please register; many spaces are available. Contact Maryellen Cantanno, (516) 379-3274, or mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info

Co-Dependents Anonymous CODA meets 7-8:30 p.m. to offer information and support. Contact Marilyn Pignataro, (516) 379-3274, ext 226, or mpignataro@freeportlibrary.info.

Saturday, Oct. 2 Senior Councilwoman Dorothy L. Goosby Day At 10:00 a.m. on Oct. 2, Hempstead Town Hall Plaza will officially be renamed Senior Councilwoman Dorothy L. Goosby Plaza. The ceremony will be held at Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, NY. Also, Supervisor Don Clavin, along with Councilmembers Bruce Blakeman, Anthony D’Esposito, Dennis Dunne, Sr., Tom Muscarella and Chris Carini, has declared Oct. 2 as Senior Councilwoman Dorothy L. Goosby Day in the Town of Hempstead. The announcement was also made by Town Clerk Kate Murray and Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll.

Tai Chi for adults online From 10-11 a.m., adults can enjoy Tai Chi, the ancient Chinese exercise form.

Have water with you and wear comfortable clothing and sneakers.Join at https://global.gotomeeting.com/ join/509229173. Contact Maryellen

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A remarkable anniversary

Piñata Party at the Freeport Library For grades 1-4, from 6:30 – 7 p.m., in person at the library, let’s celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a piñata party. First you’ll listen to a piñata story, and then you’ll make your own piñata filled with goodies to open at home.

Preregistration is required. Contact youthservices@freeportlibrary.info or call Youth Services, (516) 379-3274.

On Sept. 27, Mayor Robert Kennedy congratulated Freeport resident Dorothy Sellers on reaching her 108th birthday.

Sellers has lived through the terms of 18 U.S. presidents. She was five years old when the the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920, which killed 675,000 Americans plus 50 million worldwide, came to her hometown of Connellsville, Pennsylvania.

Nowadays, an aide comes daily to help Sellers with various needs, including care of a flourishing flower garden, but Sellers still gets around her house and yard using a cane. She didn’t stop driving until she was 102.

Cantanno, (516) 379-3274, or mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.

Sunday, October 3 Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Los Amigos del Amargue Come to the library, 2:30-3:45 p.m., for a special concert. In 1973, Luis Cordero formed his first band, playing merengue, bachata, and boleros in Santo Domingo. He continued to develop his extraordinary talent and band when he moved to Freeport. Join us for amazing music and a wonderful time with one of the best merengue, bachata, and boleros bands in New York! Please register. Contact Maryellen Cantanno, (516) 379-3274, or mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.

Wednesday, Oct. 6 Current events in perspective From 1-2 p.m, join a Zoom meeting with Professor D’Innocenzo-Libresco as he offers his insightful perspective on the people and events that shape our world today. Audience participation is encouraged. Contact Maryellen Cantanno, (516) 379-3274 or mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.

Zumba for adults (online)

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Monday, October 4 Great Broadway duets of Hispanic and Italian heritage From 1-2 p.m. at the library, join presenter Richard Knox. Among the most enthralling moments in any Broadway musical is when two of the leading performers combine their voices in song. The result is often one of the highlights of the entire production.

Watch singers past and present such as Howard Keel, Mary Martin, Hugh Jackman, and more. Contact Maryellen Cantanno to register.

Magic, magic, magic!

From 7-7:30 p.m, professional closeup card magician Ari Brisk will perform an interactive Zoom magic show. Following the performance, he will teach some beginner magic tricks. Viewers should have a deck of playing cards in

hand. For all ages up to grade 6. Contact Freeport Library’s Youth Services Department, (516) 379-3274 or youthservices@freeportlibrary.info.

Tuesday, October 5 The true story of the Culper Spy Ring From 1-2 p.m., at the library, Long Island historian Bill Bleyer presents the operation of the Long Island–based Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution. This lecture separates facts from fiction and details the ingenious operation of the intelligence network that helped the Patriots win the war.

Bleyer is the author of George Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring. Maryellen Cantanno, (516) 379-3274 or mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.

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, (516) 379-3274 or mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info.

HAvInG An evenT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest. All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to rbethany@liherald.com

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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Freeport embraces fundamentals

By Jamie DeJoNg sports@liherald.com

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Mepham Junior Football oN sept. 18, LaSpina made national headlines when she became the first female football player in Long Island history to score a touchdown. She caught a 4-yard scoring toss from quarterback Peter Mayo to put the finishing touch on Mepham’s 49-21 victory over Roslyn. She had two other receptions in the game and totaled 45 yards.

LaSpina, also a key member of the school’s Long Island champion softball team, began playing football as a seventh grader at Grand Ave.

games to watch Friday, oct. 1

Girls Soccer: Massapequa at East Meadow .........4:15 p.m.

Girls Tennis: Lynbrook at Oceanside......................4:30 p.m.

Girls Tennis: South Side at Long Beach.................4:30 p.m.

Girls Volleyball: East Rockaway at Mepham ..........4:30 p.m.

Field Hockey: Sewanhaka at East Meadow...........4:30 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Hewlett at V.S. North ........................4:45 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Kennedy at South Side....................4:45 p.m.

Football: East Meadow at Farmingdale .....................6:30 p.m.

Football: South Side at Manhasset ...........................6:30 p.m.

Football: Lawrence at Island Trees .............................6:30 p.m.

saturday, oct. 2

Girls Soccer: South Side at Garden City ................... 1 p.m.

Football: Garden City at Long Beach......................... 2 p.m.

Football: Sewanhaka at Baldwin ............................... 2 p.m.

Football: Carey at Elmont ............................................... 2 p.m.

Football: East Rockaway at Clarke .................................. 2 p.m.

Girls Volleyball: Long Beach at South Side................ 2 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Clarke at Carey..................................... 2 p.m.

Football: Massapequa at Oceanside .............................. 3 p.m.

Football: Hempstead at Freeport .................................... 3 p.m.

Football: New Hyde Park at V.S. Central .......................... 3 p.m.

Football: Hewlett at V.S, South ........................................ 3 p.m.

Football: Seaford at North Shore .................................... 3 p.m.

Football: Herricks at Calhoun ......................................... 3 p.m.

The Freeport girls’ volleyball team has gotten off to a fast start in the 2021 fall campaign. The team holds a 4-1 record, with a loss to West Hempstead being its only blemish up to this point. Coach Eleanor Barry noticed a few pertinent factors that have contributed to the players’ proficiency in the early going.

“Dedication to the fundamentals has been very high,” Barry said. “Also, the returning players that we have are doing a great job of really embracing the new players of the team to get everyone the same page.”

The Red Devils’ upperclassmen talent has been the primary catalyst of their success through the opening month of the season. Senior and captain Windney Destin is a returning leader. She is a three-year varsity player as an outside hitter and middle blocker. Barry referred to her as a “team leader on the court and motivator in practice.” Their second captain is Junior Zaria Chaplin, who is the primary setter and a varsity player since her freshman year.

Barry believes she is “the most improved varsity player,” and has the most assists for the team over the last three years.

Senior Shelby Jackson is a starting middle hitter and a key to the Red Devils’ offense. “Shelby is an all-around and consistent player, and she brings a light-hearted side off the court that the players respond to,” Barry said. Jackson also is tied with Windney Destin for most service aces on the team. Senior Ariana Turcios has also been a key member of the squad.

Barry stated that Turcios has brought “powerful and consistent serves and strong front row play as a right-side hitter.”

A few other key players round out the team’s starting unit. Junior Talia Gunter has grown to be one of the best blockers on the roster as a middle hitter and middle blocker. Her quality as a blocker is reflected in the statistics column, as she currently leads the team with 20 solo blocks up to this point. Lisseth Gomez is a junior who has grown into a role of being both the starting setter and a competitive server.

She has an impressive 53 assists as of this juncture. Sophomore Sejla Omeraagic is another who has worked her way into the starting role as an outside hitter. The start-

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ers are supported and assisted by substitutes Threisi Guerra, Tayla Baskin, Jaileen Almonte, Jessica Vigliotti, and Adrianna Pinzon.

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Leaders rally for asylum-seeking Haitians On Wednesday, September 22, County Legis. Carrié Solages (D-Lawrence) led a news conference to address the Haitian migrant crisis at the U.S. - Mexico border.

Local Haitian leaders and government officials had sent a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden and the Department of Homeland Security to voice their disappointment over the treatment of Haitian asylum seekers, and to urge an investigation.

Haiti is still suffering political and environmental turmoil from the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck on August 14.

At the news conference, state and county elected officials and Haitian advocacy groups gathered on the steps of Theodore Roosevelt Executive & Legislative Building. A member of a Haitian advocacy group stood next to the podium holding a poster with images of mounted U.S. Border Patrol officers whipping Haitian asylum seekers with ropes.

“It looks like it is 1923, horses being used on people,” Solages said. “I cannot help but be outraged here today. These subliminal messages that people get when they see a horse, and a man whipping someone else ... will have a lasting effect.”

Solages urged residents to call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard in Washington D.C., at 202-224-3121, to demand that their Con-

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County Legis. CARRié Solages, at the podium demanded humanitarian aid for Haitian asylum seekers fleeing earthquake devastation and political violence in their country. gressional representatives stop the mass deportation of the Haitian migrants.

Referring to news images of Haitian migrants sheltering beneath a bridge, Solages said, “We see no humanitarian needs being met ... One can only imagine what is going on under that bridge.”

State Assemblywoman Michaelle C. Solages, who is Chair of the New York

State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus, said, “We need to state clearly that we are the land and nation of immigrants. I’m disgusted by this blatant racism we see. The images of law enforcement on horseback whipping individuals just took me back to the place where I had to retreat.”

The assemblywoman listed resources

for migrants in need, including financial support for attorneys and physical support for migrants and for Haiti itself.

Suffolk County Legislator Jason Richberg (D-West Babylon) referred to the Haitian migrant crisis as something that is “not happening in a vacuum.”

Pointing to the images on the poster, he said, “These are the images we know about. What of the images we don’t?”

Pastor Edy Bichotte of Bethany French Baptist Church in Elmont stated that Haiti has had an ongoing relationship with the United States that dates back to the American Revolution, during which Haiti aided the U.S. patriot side. Bichotte reminded listeners that Haiti was the first free black state in the Western Hemisphere, and said of today’s asylum seekers, “They are looking for a better life after the assassination of their president. … With guns all over the country. there is no safety over there.”

Mimi Pierre Johnson, president of the Elmont Cultural Center, highlighted stories she heard directly from Haitian migrants who were desperate to come to the United States. In one instance, a man in Haiti sold his possessions, traveled through 11 Caribbean and South American countries, and arrived in Texas, where he was then deported back to Haiti. As her speech ended, Johnson quoted the man saying, “I had something to sell to get a better life, but now what do I do? There is nothing for me here but to die.”

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‘Kutz for Edu’ event keeps growing continued from front page go through the stores and pick up the shoes, tag them, tie them together, get them all in bags to take to events.” Kutz for Edu is a yearly favorite for the Muirs.

Another charity organization that responded is Long Island Laboring Against Covid-19, or LILAC. Its founder, Sabrina Guo of Sysosset, was 14 when she heard New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announce in March of 2020 that the city’s hospitals would run out of masks within a week.

“I thought, these people need PPEs just to survive,” Guo said. After consulting with her parents, she donated award money she had won in contests, plus thousands of dollars from her college tuition savings, to buy personal protective equipment for front-line workers.

“I think the fact that I donated that much really garnered support from people all over the communities,” Guo said. “They were saying, hey, if a 14-year-old could do it, then we can donate too.” LILAC gave 3,150 masks and $1,000 to Kutz for Edu. Broughton pointed to a large poster advertising Kutz for Edu. The poster listed more than 20 donors and participating organizations.

“Everybody loves it,” he said. “All the names on that flier are people that partner with me. That list changes all the time. It gets bigger and bigger each year.”

Broughton looks forward to the end of the pandemic.

“This is small compared to what we usually do because of Covid,” he said. “Normally, we have food, we have bouncy houses, we have clowns, face-painting, hair-cutting, music . . . but we don’t want to create a super-spreader.”

Still, he sees the growth of the event as an ongoing process.

“It grows every year,” he said. “This is beautiful.”

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Quintanilla died in the collision and her son suffered a fractured arm and other injuries.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Tara DePalo of the NCDA’s Vehicular Crimes Bureau.

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Press Release from the Nassau County District Attorney MINEOLA, N.Y. – The Nassau County District Attorney’s Office announced that a Freeport woman was sentenced today to 6 to 18 years in prison for driving at estimated triple digit speeds while intoxicated and crashing into another car, killing the 39-year old driver and injuring the driver’s 8-year old son.

Nicole Pollock, 28, of Freeport, pleaded guilty before Judge Patricia Harrington on June 16, 2021, to aggravated vehicular homicide (a B felony), manslaughter in the second degree (a C felony), assault in the second degree (a D violent felony), assault in the third degree (an A misdemeanor), driving while ability impaired by the combined influence of drugs or of alcohol and any drug or drugs, and aggravated driving while intoxicated. The defendant was sentenced today to six to 18 years in prison.

“Nicole Pollock drove her car dangerously fast while she was extremely intoxicated by alcohol and marijuana and inevitably crashed into innocent victims, destroying a family,” said Acting DA Smith. “Nicole Pollock killed 39-year-old mother Lissette Quintanilla in front of her 8-year-old son who was both traumatiz ed and physically injured. Reckless and impaired drivers cannot be tolerated on our roadways because innocent families like the Quintanillas pay the price.”

According to the investigation, on Sunday, February 2, 2020, at approximately 12:02 a.m., Lissette Quintanilla, 39, was driving north on the Meadowbrook Parkway just north of exit M7 in a red Kia with her 8-year old son.

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LI MS-13 member pleads guilty to murder News release from the U.s. attorNeys office, easterN District of New york On Thursday, Sept. 23, in federal court in Central Islip, 24-year-old Eduardo Portillo, also known as “Firuli” and “Tito” (Portillo), a member of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the “MS-13,” pleaded guilty to racketeering charges relating to his participation in the murder of 15-year-old Javier Castillo, and to conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana.

The guilty plea was entered before United States Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco.

Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and Stuart Cameron, Acting Commissioner, Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD), announced the guilty plea.

“With today’s guilty plea, the defendant, an MS-13 gang member, admits to an utterly depraved and heinous crime, of taking turns with a machete to hack a teenage boy to death, simply because he believed the boy belonged to a rival gang,” stated Acting U.S. Attorney Kasulis. “This Office

and its law enforcement partners in New York and El Salvador are committed to stopping the violence of MS-13 gang members and bringing an end to their reign of brutality and murder in this district. It is my hope that today’s plea brings some measure of closure to the family members of the young victim.”

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As set forth in prior court filings and the defendant’s statements during his guilty plea, Portillo and his fellow MS-13 members targeted Castillo because he was believed to be a member of the 18th Street gang, one of MS-13’s principal rivals. On October 10, 2016, Portillo and other Brentwood-based members of the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside (Sailors) clique of the MS-13 convinced Castillo, who lived in Central Islip, to go with them to Freeport – approximately 30 miles away – to smoke marijuana. They lured Castillo to an isolated marsh area in Cow Meadow JacqUelyN m.

Park in Freeport, kasUlis where they Acting U.S. Attorney attacked him, taking turns hacking the victim with a machete. Afterwards, the MS-13 members dug a hole and buried Castillo’s body, which was not recovered until one year later, in October 2017.

Portillo also pleaded guilty to participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy, admitting that between April 2016 and March 2017, he and other members of the Sailors clique conspired to distribute cocaine and marijuana in the Brentwood area to raise money for the MS-13 and fund its operations.

Portillo was arrested in Morazán, El Salvador on February 23, 2019 and extradited to the United States on November 6, 2020.

Today’s conviction is the latest in a series of federal prosecutions by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York targeting members of the MS-13, a violent, transnational criminal organization. ... Since 2010, this Office has obtained indictments charging MS-13 members with carrying out more than 60 murders in the Eastern District of New York and has convicted dozens of MS-13 leaders and members in connection with those murders. These prosecutions are the product of investigations led by the FBI’s Long Island Gang Task Force, which is comprised of agents and officers of the FBI, SCPD, Nassau County Police Department, Nassau County Sheriff ’s Department, Suffolk County Probation Office, Suffolk County Sheriff ’s Office, the New York State Police, the Hempstead Police Department, the Rockville Centre Police Department, and the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

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School BoArd preSident Maria Jordan-Awalom, far left, Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé, Village Trustee Chris Squeri, State Sen. John Brooks, Superintendent Kishore Kuncham, and Deputy Mayor Ron Ellerbe encouraged the Peace Walk participants.

School events build community continued from front page walk is a nice thing.”

Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kishore Kuncham introduced the day, thanked the community leaders in attendance and outlined the plan for the walk.

“All of you are leaders,” Kuncham told the crowd. “I would like to be able to recognize each one of you special people who have joined us to lead in this cause.”

School Board President Maria JordanAwalom said, “Thank you for being change makers.” Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé said, “This is something special that Freeport does. ... As far as I know, there are not any other communities who celebrate this.”

“We know we have many challenges here in our nation and here in the world,” said State Sen. John Brooks, “but to walk in hope, which you’re doing today, and to call on the world to live in peace, is a beautiful thing.”

Assistant Principal Alan Joohnson said, “We are not just a school in the middle of a community, but we’re part of this larger picture.”

The crowd then followed Kuncham and the school leadership across South Brookside Avenue, heading down along the sundappled street toward Merrick Road. The walk was orderly and focused, circling up South Long Beach Avenue and finally westward back to the high school. The demonstration was not with signs and chants, but with an orderly flow of people who displayed Freeport’s diverse population in a strong but harmonious spirit.

As the families returned to the high school for Family Fun Day, the same tranquility of spirit prevailed. The vast schoolyard dwarfed the tents and tables at either end, from which health organizations dispensed information and volunteers doled out free hot dogs, water and granola bars. George DiGiovanni, a fourth-grade teacher at Leo F. Giblyn School, led rows of children through a series of hilarious foot races.

“You’re the Turkeys, you’re the Chicken Nuggets, you’re the Rafters, and you’re the Boosters,” DiGiovanni said, naming the four teams, each of which comprised 10 to 12 children. “OK, stand like a penguin. Now waddle.” The children stumbled down the field with arms stiffly at their sides, touched the cones that

A group of Junior ROTC members from Freeport High School joined the event. marked the halfway point and raced back at top speed.

“Drum roll!” DiGiovanni shouted. The children and onlookers pounded their thighs until DiGiovanni announced, “The winner, straight from MacDonald’s, is the Chicken Nuggets!”

Relaxing at a table with her fifth-grade son Justin, Marie Grant said, “I’m enjoying this event. It’s wonderful. It’s community teamwork, it’s community involvement, meeting the administrators, our teachers, other students and parents, and,” she laughed, “they’re feeding us well.”

After the races and a sidesplitting string of dances from “YMCA” to “Baby Shark,” parents chatted in clusters while their children dashed across the field in improvised gaggles. The teens made their own big group at a comfortable distance from the rest of the attendees, talking earnestly together or bursting into laughter.

It was a day for a school system of about 7,000 students to relax together after reaching out to their community via the Peace Walk.

The Family Fun Day was sponsored by the Freeport Educational Foundation, which raised money by selling tickets for the event to families at the schools, and by receiving donations from private parties and area businesses.

The money pays for $500 scholarships

that are awarded yearly to graduating seniors based on submissions of written essays. It also goes to mini-grants for projects for which Freeport teachers apply — projects that the teachers develop for their own classes, like researching the world’s seven different biomes using iPad technology, or an Interactive LEGO Exploration Zone that incorporated math, science and technology to create replicas of buildings from around the world. More information can be found at feffreeport.org.

The Freeport Memorial Library was allocated $142,970 in state aid for library construction, State Sen. John Brooks and Assemblywomen Judy Griffin and Taylor Darling said Sept.

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The funds will enable the library to renovate an existing storage space in the East Building to create a local history room. The funds are from $34 million in capital funds for public library construction and broadband infrastructure projects provided in the fiscal year 2021-22 state budget.

New York’s public libraries are in urgent need of renovation and upgrading. A recent survey showed a documented need for public library construction and renovation projects totaling more than $1.5 billion. More than 52 percent of the over 1,000 public library buildings in the state are more than 60 years old.

Another 31 percent are more than three decades old.

Many libraries in New York State are unable to accommodate users with disabilities, are energy-inefficient, cannot provide internet, or completely lack computer and other electronic technologies because of outdated and inadequate electrical wiring. Many do not have sufficient space to house expanding collections or to address the need for adequate meeting rooms.

“I was proud to secure this funding so that the Freeport Memorial Library will continue inspiring young minds,” Griffin said.

“It has never been more important,” Brooks said, “to secure the local library as a home and resource for our communities, our families, and our imaginations.”

“Ensuring our libraries stay current, and continue being an important resource to our communities, is a priority of mine,” Darling said.

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Most of the time, people complain about taxation but rarely, if ever, do they collectively attempt to do anything about it. The methods for deciding value, or even using value as a gauge for tax increases, are questionable, especially because we used to be taxed based on square feet. As we transition into not leaving our homes, communicating digitally, the tax system perpetuates without challenge.

In many villages and towns, garages are required, and hard surfaces for any kind of paving are considered “impervious,” not replenishing groundwater. There are limits on how much of your total property you can cover. You will need to investigate your specific jurisdiction’s requirements. Sidewalks, patios and driveways are all impervious, but pools and decks generally are not.

You’ll need your property survey, which is a map of your lot, house size and location, but you’ll also discover that surveyors generally don’t provide the dimensions of porches, sidewalks, driveways or steps. Get out a tape measure and accurately document the property’s hard surfaces if you’re in a community that requires impervious-area information. When you hire an architect or engineer, that’s what we have to do.

The only way to answer questions about removing walls is to assess the whole house: where to disperse loads, how to brace exterior walls against wind shear, how to handle snow loads and wind uplift, where pipes and wires would be relocated, how the spaces function and will be finished.

Package all this to be reviewed by building officials and receive permission to build — sounds simpler than it is, especially when workers leave details out or change something and we start adjusting all over again, only after much discussion, time and money.

That’s also part of the age-old process. Avoid changes once you decide, save money doing so and your old house will be like new again.

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Taxes: $13,468 Franklin Square $675,000 Seminole Road. Cape. 5, bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Partial finished basement with wet bar and butler’s pantry. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. First floor bedroom. 3 seasons room. Large park-like yard. Central air conditioning.

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Baldwin $677,000 Charing Cross Road. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

Finished basement. Updated kitchen. Formal dining room with French doors to patio. Den/family room and office.

Attached garage. Large rooms. Near LIRR and Loft Pond.

Taxes: $13,903.83 Bellmore $760,000 Karen Street. Splanch. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Gourmet chef’s eat-in kitchen with custom cabinetry, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances with induction cooktop. Open floor plan with vaulted ceiling. Formal dining room. Den/family room. Entertaining backyard with pool and deck. Central air conditioning.

Taxes: $16773.45 East Rockaway $565,000 Riverside Road. Colonial. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Eat-in kitchen with granite countertops. Living room with fireplace.

Formal dining room. Den/family room. Deck, pergola and patio. Many updates.

Taxes: $6,705

Freeport $510,000 Wilshire Court. Splanch. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Eatin kitchen. Spacious living room/dining room with vaulted ceiling. Master bedroom with sitting room. Den/family room. Gunite inground swimming pool with brick patio and built-in barbecue. Close to Nautical Mile. Taxes: $8,744 Island Park $800,000 Redfield Road. 2 Story. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Updated eat-in kitchen with granite countertops. Living room/dining room with vaulted ceilings. First floor master bedroom with skylights in master bathroom. Radiant flooring throughout.

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Taxes: $10,087.92 Lawrence $1,770,000 Auerbach Lane. Colonial. 6, bedrooms, 5 bathrooms.

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Formal living room with fireplace. Formal dining room. Den with fireplace. Ensuite spacious master bedroom with luxe bathroom and balcony. Inground swimming pool. Central air conditioning and security system.

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was mowing my backyard lawn in Merrick last Saturday when I was suddenly struck by the strange sensation that I had missed the bus to my race — that I should, at the moment, have been running a 5K or a 10K at a frantic pace instead of plodding along, mower in hand.

The temperature was a perfect 72 degrees, with no wind. Sunshine streamed down.

The leaves on the trees were halfbrown and turning crisp. Fall was clearly in the air.

Year after year, from my early adolescence to my SCoTT young adulthood, I ran cross-country BRINToN every fall, from middle school through college, missing only two seasons in high school. I was conditioned to gear up for the racing season as September neared an end. When the fall air and the angle of the sun in the sky turned just so, I had to be ready to run — hard.

The nervous anticipation I felt as the racing season approached was embedded in my brain, and every now and again it pops up, even now, more than three decades later. Such was the case on Saturday.

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young athletes, how all of the coronavirus delays and cancellations in their sports seasons must have messed with their heads, whether they were elementary-age kids a few years into athletics or college competitors. When you’ve participated for years in a sport, there is an intuitive sense you feel for its up-anddown rhythms and welltimed rituals.

As a cross-country runner, I knew I had from midSeptember to late October to qualify for season-ending championships in early November, a narrow window within which to achieve that year’s goals, for sure. It was six straight weeks of focused energy, of exacting routines and, potentially, of great disappointment or glory on the field of play.

I was never a star runner, though in college I did eventually achieve my goal of breaking 17 minutes in the 5K, running it in 16:40, and 5 minutes in the mile, finishing it in 4:31. What cross-country, and track in college, gave me was a sense of belonging, camaraderie, place. That’s important for a young person. Athletics also gave me a routine — I knew where I had to be after school and on Saturday. My schedule revolved around sports.

I thought about how disruptive the pandemic must have been over the past year and a half to the routines of tens of thousands of young athletes, and the joy they

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must be feeling as they return this fall for their regularly appointed seasons.

Then I thought about Bulgaria. From 1991 to 1993, I served in the Peace Corps there, teaching English at the Vasil Drumev High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Veliko Tarnovo, an ancient city in central Bulgaria. There were no after-school athletics in Bulgarian schools. If you wanted to play sports, you attended a specialized high school, open only to those displaying natural athletic ability.

At Vasil Drumev, there wasn’t even much of a gym program. The students, in grades seven to 12, hung out in the school courtyard during a free period when the weather permitted, playing basketball or volleyball. Boys did most of the playing. Girls often sat on the sidelines, chatting. There were no grass fields, no bleachers or scoreboards, only two basketball hoops set on one downwardsloping asphalt court, which, in the U.S., would no doubt have been a lawsuit waiting to happen.

One day, I asked my students what they did after school without sports or even clubs. Mostly, they said, they walked around town with friends, stopping for coffee at a café, where they would sit for an hour or two before heading home to finish homework and eat dinner with their fami-

’d never suggest that we do away with them, but they do have a downside.

lies. Afterward, they might watch TV on the handful of channels that were available then, and they were usually in bed by 10 p.m. It all sounded shockingly stress-free.

High school and college athletics in the U.S. can be wonderful, but the competitions are frequently high-stress events. The emphasis is too often on winning, on beating the competition, on rising to the top.

Even youth athletics can be anxiety-provoking, which I found as a volunteer soccer and track coach when my kids were younger.

I hope the pandemic might give us pause to think more deeply about our high school and college athletic programs. I would never suggest that we do away with them and adopt a Bulgarian-like system. As a former interscholastic athlete, I see the intrinsic value in sports. I also see the downside — the over-programming of students’ schedules, the often intense rivalries that can develop between teams and lead to divisions among young people, and the prioritization of victory over young athletes’ health, including their mental health.

Pushing young people beyond their limits to the point of a physical or mental breakdown in order to win a trophy is never worth the cost. Never.

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.

It’s fall 2021. Can summer 2022 be far behind?

y earliest memory of a family vacation adventure ended with my mother and father falling into each other’s arms and sobbing. I was 7 years old. They were 31. We traveled 11 hours in our black Oldsmobile to a rental my dad had found in the newspaper known as Stony Hill Farm. It was in the armpit of New Hampshire, and we had dreamt of it, talked about it, and planned for it over an entire grim New York winter.

I can still see the scene where we drove onto the property. I was sweating RANDI in the back seat KREISS with my 3-year-old sister and my Grandma Annie.

We had turned off the main road, and when we saw the sign for Stony Hill, we were thrilled that all the days of our two-week vacation lay ahead. Then we saw the “cottages” — tiny, shabby huts that were more than chicken coops but not acceptable dwellings for humans who could walk upright.

We moved in, but not really. At 4 a.m. my parents woke us up, and we jumped into the car and fled, presumably skipping out on

our reservation and any financial commitments to the scamming “resort” owner.

The story came back to me this week as I started fantasizing about finding a rental for a few weeks in Maine next summer. I know it’s crazy early for planning anything, but I’m dreaming. I need to buy into a future when we can travel again without risking our lives. In case you’re wondering, everyone is going to Maine; it’s become the “it” place for summer. Ogunquit is the new East Hampton.

Part of Maine’s popularity has been its shabby chic, inexpensive cachet.

No more. Long gone are the days when early colonists fed lobsters, considered trash food, to their prisoners.

Since my early trauma in New Hampshire, the renting of vacation properties has become big business on Vrbo, Airbnb, HomeToGo and other platforms that bring owners and renters together — not without issues. The companies have gotten so big, and so many people are looking to escape, that the fees have soared and the potential for scams is always present. That said, we’ve found reasonably good vacation apartments and houses over the past 30 years, and I was looking to Maine for our

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getaway.

Maine may still be shabby, but the prices are for the rich and famous. For the uninitiated, when you rent on the platforms, for any time from one night to several months, you get to see photos and a list of amenities and house rules and availability.

I am now the world’s expert on deciphering what the house descriptions and photos actually reveal. Wherever you wander, I offer this as a pubic service: When reading about a property, look no further if you see the words “cozy” or “adorable.” This is online speak for cramped. You may have to crawl into the dormer bedroom. If the list of amenities includes “washing machine available,” it may be coin-operated. You don’t want to play your washer like a slot machine.

“Basic” kitchen supplies is a red flag.

Expect only salt and pepper. “Evolving” neighborhood also not a positive.

Study, study, study the photos. The angles can make a 6-by-8 room look like a football field. We nearly booked one appealing place until we looked at a photo of a bedroom and spotted what turned out to be a toilet right next to the bed. Another place had beautiful

s you search for a future vacation rental, pay very close attention to details.

wood floors, white walls and spiffy-looking appliances, but no other furniture aside from beds in otherwise empty bedrooms and living areas.

“Waterfront” can mean anything from waves crashing on a beach in front of the house to a glimpse of a canal from an attic window.

You must read all — every one — of the house reviews posted by renters. People will write on and on about how perfect the house is and then, perhaps prompted by conscience, add something like, “Just one little thing. There were mice in the walls.

But, really, the owner took care of it immediately.”

One house looked very promising until I read a review that said, “This was a spectacular house with a beautiful view of the bay.

I would definitely go back again except for the man living in the basement.”

Now I’m pursuing non-Maine properties, slightly off the grid, with more acceptable prices. Canada is a possibility if it stays open to travelers from the U.S. I did see a nice house in South Dakota. It boasted “stunning mountain views” and a “chef ’s kitchen.” But one reviewer complained of bears breaking into cars, more than once. There’s always something.

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ere we are, nine years after Superstorm Sandy pummeled Nassau County’s South and North Shores, still waiting for the federal and state governments to take meaningful action to harden our coastal infrastructure to withstand the likes of such a storm in the future.

For sure, strides have been made. The City of Long Beach has a new, much sturdier boardwalk, constructed of hardwood rather than pine. Smart move. It also has new dunes, with cord-grass plantings, to hold back the ocean. And here and there, small flood-mitigation projects have been undertaken in various communities.

We have yet to see the types of largescale hardening projects that were promised in Sandy’s wake, however. Check valves, for example, were supposed to be installed on storm drains that let out into the bays in any number of communities, but they are yet to materialize. Check valves prevent the tide from flowing backward into storm drains and flooding streets.

During Sandy, backflow caused by the storm’s rush of seawater flooded hundreds of blocks nowhere near the bays.

Our communities need check valves.

Where are they? Our new governor, Kathy Hochul, needs to answer us on this one.

For that matter, where are the streetraising projects? Is there any word on a $300 million proposal by Freeport Mayor Robert Kennedy to construct tidal floodgates across Jones Inlet? He first proposed the idea five years ago. So far we’ve had nothing but studies.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently released a draft report of its Nassau County Storm Risk Management Study, which suggests elevating more than 14,000 homes across the South Shore, at a cost of $3.8 billion, to mitigate the risk of flood damage during big storms, which are only expected to grow more powerful in the coming decades because of climate change.

Global warming not only heats up the atmosphere, but also increases sea surface temperatures. Warmer oceans provide greater energy for hurricanes to feed off.

So, yes, we need to act, as the study asserts.

At what point, though, do we stop studying and start taking decisive action?

The risk management study began in

2016. It is not expected to be complete until 2023 — more than a decade after Sandy ravaged our shorelines.

Beyond that, it’s unclear where the billions of dollars in funding to elevate thousands of homes would come from. This isn’t right. People deserve answers from our elected leaders.

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach who heads the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee and is running for county district attorney, recently expressed frustration with the lack of action on the storm-hardening front. Speaking of the Army Corps study, he said, “This study, while welcome, needs to become more than just paper and evolve into funding and real deliverables as soon as possible. This must go from concepts to actual, physical storm hardening — and that’s what matters as sea levels rise and storms intensify. Time is of the essence.”

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air and festivals season is upon us again. Last weekend, the Chamber of Commerce of the Bellmores staged its famed Family Street Festival, touted as the largest such fair in Nassau County, annually attracting as many as 100,000 people. This year, the crowds were back, despite the coronavirus, thronging Bedford Avenue.

It was, on one hand, a much-welcome relief to see people back together, laughing, smiling, chowing on roasted corn and zeppole. On the other, it was more than a little concerning that so many people were elbow to elbow in relatively close quarters. Social distancing — and masking — were out.

In no way are we suggesting canceling such festivals. We need them now to help rebuild our tattered spirits. We would like to see more people wearing masks during such events, however.

Yes, folks are outdoors, so ventilation isn’t a problem. Yes, many Nassau adults are vaccinated. We should make every attempt, however, to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in all ways possible, and masking helps.

By the way, the Bellmore chamber wasn’t the only organization holding a

festival over the weekend. Huntington Mobilization for Sustainability did as well. The Huntington Environmental Festival brought together conservation groups from across Long Island to teach about subjects ranging from electric cars to geothermal energy, composting and more.

What a wonderful idea! We suggest

that other groups, like our chambers of commerce, incorporate their own environmental corners into their festivals and fairs in the coming years. Long Island juts into the Atlantic Ocean, so it’s vulnerable to the effects of climate change (see editorial above). We need all the environmental education we can get.

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friend was lamenting the antivaccine movement and those who advocate their freedom from mandates, government or otherwise, to become vaccinated against Covid-19. After commenting on the irony of “pro-life” advocates wanting freedom from life-saving vaccines, my friend said, “What’s up with them?”

Fortunately, about 75 percent of the adult population in the U.S. has been vaccinated at least once.

Vaccination coverage, however, varies widely across roBert the country and among different sCott racial and ethnic groups. Black and Hispanic people are less likely than whites to have received vaccines, leaving them at high risk, especially with the Delta variant. As of September, nearly 60 percent of white people had received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared with only 10 percent of Black people, 17 percent of Hispanics, 6 percent of Asians, 1 percent of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, and under 1 percent of Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.

The low rate of vaccination among Blacks may be explained in part by their history with American health care. From

the time of slavery through the Jim Crow era, the Flexner reforms of medical education and medical care that disenfranchised Black citizens, through the syphilis “experiments” and segregation, Black people have been discriminated against, and have good reasons to be skeptical of government and corporate health care.

In recent months, however, owing in large part to citizen and community advocacy, vaccinations are reaching larger numbers of Black and Hispanics.

Nevertheless, there are elected officials and activist groups who argue against sensible public health measures such as vaccinations and mask-wearing. Unfortunately, these zealots brook no questions about their assertions and assumptions.

Their responses to questions like “Why not?” often is, “You just don’t get it.”

Perhaps one of the major challenges in our country is that we hesitate to engage those with other views. We have conservatives who think in terms of conserving privilege instead of promoting policies for the common good, and liberals whose lifestyles or attitudes at times belie their principles of equality and inclusion.

A former state senator in New Jersey was known for his familiar refrain: “We can disagree without being disagreeable.”

I sometimes wish this phrase were posted on every street corner in America.

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s members of a society — family, village or nation — we are free, but with responsibilities.

Letters Support the Climate Act To the Editor: Regarding the story “U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reveals findings of Back Bays Study” (Sept. 16-22): It is astonishing that an article about the high risk of flood damage faced by South Shore residents does not mention climate change. Why are our local elected officials supporting a plan to spend $3.8 billion in taxpayer money on resiliency measures such as “elevating more than 14,000 homes”? We know from the science that without addressing the source of the problem — climate change caused by fossil-fuel emissions — resiliency measures will ultimately fail.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and State Sen. Todd Kaminsky must realize that the real solution is a transformation to a renewable economy. The State Legislature must pass the Climate and Community Investment Act, which will create jobs and revenue by making corporate polluters pay their fair share to mitigate the damage they have done to our communities.

If our leaders truly want to combat the disastrous effects of climate change on the South Shore, and benefit every

Those who object to vaccinations not only put themselves in harm’s way, as many have learned, but also put the health of others in jeopardy. They must acknowledge responsibility for illness and death when not following the guidance of science-based public health protocols. How ironic it is that many who argue for the rights of the unborn act against the rights of the living to be protected from disease.

The anti-vaxxers might think they are making a political or perhaps theological choice, but in fact they are making a moral choice.

They are asserting a set of values that can harm and kill others. We are taught to love one another, even the meekest among us, but anti-vaxxers often prefer antipathy to empathy.

A defense offered by some is that mandates violate their freedom. Yes, a democracy honors freedom and provides that its citizens are free to question orthodoxy, to express opinions without fear of consequence, within the boundaries of law.

Consequently, members of a democracy must exercise freedom with responsibility, not freedom unfettered from concern for others.

Those who refuse to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle may cite their freedom to feel the air flow through their hair, but to do so is to ignore the societal

costs incurred when they crash. Society pays for their irresponsible behavior. The same is true for anti-vaxxers.

Freedom isn’t a simple concept. We can be free “from” bondage and free to exercise our will, but as members of a society, whether it be a family, a community or a nation, we are free, with responsibilities. Freedom “with” derives from our founding principle expressed as “We the people.” “We,” not “I.” To flout this freedom is to fail to understand the different ways of knowing what we think of as truth. Public-health policy depends on truth as established by science, through rigorous experimentation and replication. Those opposed to vaccine mandates cling to a truth based on faith, which cannot be replicated, or a truth based on fear of authority and suspicion of government, which may at times be justified. These forms of truth generally focus on “I” instead of “we.”

As American citizens with equal voices and residents of the world community, we must bear witness to the health and safety of others as well as ourselves. We must engage in boundary-spanning discussions and promote education about public health. We must honor the humanity of our neighbors and fellow citizens if we are to have a viable democracy.

Dr. Robert A. Scott is president emeritus and university professor emeritus of Adelphi University and author of “How University Boards Work” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018; Eric Hoffer Awardee, 2019).

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Lead by example on the climate crisis To the Editor: Those attending the United Nations General Assembly could lead by example when it comes to global warming.

Hundreds of heads of state, ambassadors, military attachés and security personnel can give up limousines taking them to and from their embassies, hotels or residences to the U.N. These motorcades contribute to gridlock and increase air pollution.

Join several million New Yorkers by riding the subway or bus. Enjoy some fresh air and walk several blocks from any nearby subway or bus stop. Mingle with ordinary people to develop a better understanding of America and its people.

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