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She’s 108, and feeling great Dorothy Sellers gets a drive-by parade and a cake from the village by reiNe betHaNy rbethany@liherald.com

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DorotHy sellers sHareD slices of her special birthday cake with the crowd that surprised her at her Freeport home of 62 years.

If Dorothy Sellers suspected why her longtime caretaker, Donna Bellacosa, and her nextdoor neighbor, Pamela Marbury, were helping her down her sunlit front steps at 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 30, she gave no indication.

“Well, hello,” she said to Mayor Robert Kennedy as he strolled through her front gate, surrounded by camera-wielding journalists, village police and Fire Department officials, and some of her closest friends.

“You’re 108,” Kennedy said.

“We brought all these people down here to see you.”

“Well, I think most people are working,” Sellers told him, “but it’s nice that you came.”

Kennedy read her a list of fun facts about her birth year, 1913, concluding, “Life expectancy for someone born in 1913 was 50.3 years for a male and 55.3 years for a woman, so you exceeded that by twice!”

A noisy parade of fire trucks and police cars raced by, sirens blaring in a birthday salute, while Sellers watched Continued on page 15

Freeport student artists show colors in county contest

by Matt HuGHs and reiNe betHaNy rbethany@liherald.com

Five Freeport School District students took home prizes for their artwork this summer in the prestigious Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County Student Art Competition, and their works were displayed at the extension’s gardening show last Saturday and included in its 2022 calendar.

One-fifth of the honorees in the competition were from Freeport. “The district congratulates these talented young artists on their award-winning work,” a district release from Superinten-

dent Kishore Kuncham’s office read.

More than 100 entries from students in all grades across Nassau were submitted from mid-May through the end of June, with 24 honorees selected in July, including 12 winners and 12 honorable mentions. Gold, silver and bronze prizes were awarded. Among the Freeport honorees were: ■ Tatiana Arieta, ninth grade, Gold Level.

■ Emma Quinn, 11th grade: Gold Level.

■ Christian John, 10th grade: Silver Level.

■ Raymonii Cowen, 12th grade at time of contest: Silver Level.

■ Yenifer Flores Delgado, ninth grade, Bronze Level.

Their art teachers were Lauren Levine and Jocelyn Rodriguez.

Three professional Long Island artists judged the competition: Jim Minet, who teaches at the Nassau County Museum of Art and the Mills Pond House historical site and gallery in Smithtown; Michelle Palatnik, a specialist in portraiture whose work can be viewed at the Salmagundi Club and the Main Street Gallery in Huntington; and Barbara Silbert, who teaches at the

Nassau County Museum of Art, the Art Guild of Port Washington, the Great Neck Community Education Center, and other places on Long Island.

The students’ pieces were displayed in an Art of the Garden exhibit on Family Fun Day last Saturday at the cooperative extension’s East Meadow Farms.

The Gold Level winners had

their pictures mounted full-size on easels along the pathways running throughout the farm.

The honorable mention pieces (Silver and Bronze levels) appeared in a collage on the wall of the main building at East Meadow Farms.

The students’ artwork was also featured in the extension’s Continued on page 14

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Renaming ceremony honors Goosby

By Reine Bethany rbethany@liherald.com

On Saturday, Oct. 2, about 500 people crowded into the Hempstead Town Hall plaza to see it renamed for a Hempstead civil rights icon: Senior Councilwoman Dorothy L. Goosby.

The diverse crowd, in itself, represented the sea change in the politics of the Town of Hempstead instigated in 1988 by Goosby, her husband Anderson Jay Goosby, Long Island civil rights attorney Frederick K. Brewington, and others. On Aug. 8 of that year, Goosby signed her name as lead plaintiff on a lawsuit filed in federal court, Goosby v. the Town Board of Hempstead.

At that time the majority-white town elected its council members “at large,” meaning that the whole town voted as if it were a single district. Because the town was heavily white, no African American candidate could ever receive enough votes to be elected. The lawsuit charged that the at-large structure violated African Americans’ constitutional right of representation.

After an 11-year battle, Judge John Gleeson of the U.S. Eastern District of New York agreed. He mandated that the town be divided into six single-member districts. The U.S. Supreme Court backed Gleeson’s decision.

Goosby was then elected to represent Councilmanic District 1, which includes parts of Freeport and Baldwin, and the entirety of Roosevelt, Uniondale, Hempstead, and Lakeview. She has been reelected ever since by a majority of up to 93%. For 22 years, she has legislated for infrastructure upgrades, hospitals, schools, and equal opportunities for all races, ethnicities, and ages in the Town of Hempstead. She has lent her supportive presence to countless local events and has led voter registration drives each year at churches, community centers, and high schools.

town SupeRviSoR Don Clavin presented the plaque renaming the plaza at Hempstead Town Hall for Goosby.

She is running to retain the District 1 seat this year.

At the Oct. 2 renaming ceremony, tributes were paid to Goosby, now 83, from every level of government.

“Councilwoman Goosby, to me, looks past party lines,” said Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin. “She cares about the residents, she cares about the district, she cares about the citizens, and frankly she cares about her friends, and that’s a wonderful tribute.”

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said, “Dorothy Goosby is an institution in all of America. … She fought for civic engagement among her constituents, [and] she diversified the leadership ranks of the Town departments, to better serve the communities she represented.”

“In 1955 in Montgomery Alabama,” said State Attorney General Letitia James, “Rosa Parks said, no, I will not move to the back of the bus. In 1988, in

Hempstead, New York, Dorothy L. Goosby said yes, I will put my name on that lawsuit because I understand the power of the law. Rosa Parks sat down for justice. Dorothy Goosby stood up for it.”

New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who supported Goosby’s initial candidacy to the Town Board, remembered her 1999 swearing-in ceremony.

“It was a very chilly reception there in the Town,” said DiNapoli. “It is so significant to me, Dorothy, that you are receiving this honor from the Republicans who control the Town of Hempstead.”

Rev. Dr. Sedgwick Easley, pastor of Union Baptist Church, where Goosby has been a member for decades, delivered the Mid-Ceremony Prayer, thanking God “that she raised her voice … Thank You, O God, for the energy you gave her, that she stood in the gap for many of us.”

Keynote speaker Fred Brewington recalled the Town Board’s wearying opposition to the lawsuit during the 1990s, calling the legal battle “a dogfight.”

The decision favoring Goosby, Brewington said, affected the entire nation.

“There are over 150 cases in federal courts that cite to the case ‘Goosby versus the Town of Hempstead,’” said Brewington, holding high a sheaf of papers listing victorious lawsuits in 25 states since Gleeson’s 1999 ruling.

Goosby herself spoke with appreciation for her Town Board colleagues.

“They don’t play with me, they know I don’t play, so they work with me,” she said and added jovially, “If they don’t do something right in their district, you better believe somebody from their district will call me. ... I enjoy working with each and every one of them.”

She then unveiled the plaque, which bore the words, “Senior Councilwoman Dorothy L. Goosby Plaza … The Town of Hempstead is privileged to forever dedicate the Town Hall Plaza to community leader and civil rights hero, Dorothy L. Goosby.”

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Rev. DR. SeDgwick Easley, pastor of Union Baptist Church, delivered the MidCeremony Prayer.

Cordero’s band part of Hispanic heritage

By Reine Bethany rbethany@liherald.com

If Luis Cordero and his renowned band, Los Amigos del Amargue, had come to the Freeport Memorial Library on October 3 solely to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, their performance would have been fascinating in itself. But the musicians also showed that, while tradition is important, a band is firstly a venue for expressing the human heart.

Librarian Maryellen Cantanno introduced the program. She credited Nancy Solomon, director of Long Island Traditions, with connecting Los Amigos del Amargue with the library. Solomon spoke of her long association with Cordero and his family.

“I met Luis because he had just released a record and he was playing for a group at Holy Redeemer … and that’s when we started doing these concerts,” Solomon said, before yielding the mic to the band.

Cordero adhered to the merengue and bachata rhythms he learned as a child in the Dominican Republic. His band combined the traditional bachata instruments:

requinta (lead guitar), segunda (rhythm guitar), bass guitar, bongos, and güira, a metal percussion instrument played by scraping it with a special brush. The band also uses the tambora, a Dominican drum that produces a broad variety of sounds depending on where and how it is struck.

Cordero’s daughter, Rosa Reyes, not only sang and played the electric drum, but acted as emcee, translating her father’s exposition of the music from Spanish into English.

“Thank you all for being here today and supporting Reine Bethany/Herald us,” said Cordero through Luis CoRdeRo, Right, and his daughter Rosa Reyes, center, led the Dominican-style band Los Rosa. “We’re going to have a happy day singing merengue Amigos del Amargue through a series of songs at the Freeport Memorial Library. and bachata and I want everymonths of listening to virtual performanc- years old, to sell on the street as part of the one to feel good!”

The band demonstrated the difference es, the masked audience members were family income.

His family moved to Santo Domingo, between quick-paced, get-up-on-your-feet thrilled to respond in-person to live voices capital of DR, in 1973, where he formed his merengue dance music and the more and instruments.

Shortly into the program, Cordero sang first merengue and bachata band. In 1978, romantic, thoughtful bachata styles. After age 25, he emigrated illegally to New York, “Carta a mi padre” -- Letter to My Father.

Rosa introduced the song. “You gain hoping for opportunities of success, but respect for these people and families that without English, he ended up dishwashhave to go through poverty,” she said. Cor- ing. Then he wrote “Carta a mi padre.” dero, the oldest of 15 children, was born in Roughly translated, the lyrics would read, the small town of Tenares in 1954. He “Dear Father, I write to you this letter with recalled his mother handing him oranges love so I can speak to you about my life and from the family orchard when he was four to let you know how I am. I find myself in New York working like a cowboy. They only want to have me washing dishes and pots. I don’t speak any English. I want to go Fri. nite Oct 8 back to my country.” and Sat. Oct 9 With those lyrics, Cordero shifted his This week’s audience from listening only to the music Torah portion: for tradition’s sake into hearing the Noach thoughts of his heart translated into pulsing sounds of guitar and percussion, and Candle Lighting haunting melodies.

6:08 pm The band’s mastery of instruments and Shabbat Ends tradition kept the flow of thoughts lively, 7:15 pm while Rosa explained how her father had Five Towns times from the created his first guitar from meat-packing Whilte Shul, Far Rockaway styrofoam, a stick, and rubber bands. He would go to hear local bands perform and The hold his hands in imitation of the posiJewishStar tions of their hands on the guitar strings .com while he walked home, where he would New York’s Trusted Jewish Newspaper • Honest Reporting, Torah-True implement those positions on his makeFor free delivery to your synagogue or store, email Publisher@TheJewishStar.com shift instrument. Later, he bought his first guitar and began to compose.

Through Rosa, Cordero spoke of the evanescence of inspiration. _________________ Freeport _________________ “Anytime there’s an inspiration, you always have to ensure you record this melody as soon as possible,” Cordero said, “because if you forget the melody, it’s only words, not a song. It could be a poem, but HOW TO REACH US if you forgot the melody, then it’s nothing.”

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What’s up next door and around the corner

Legis. muLé recaLLed her own term as Freeport school board president when she attended the Oct. 2 inauguration of Hofstra University’s ninth president, Dr. Susan Poser. “I congratulate Dr. Poser,” said Mulé, “and am confident that she will work diligently to strengthen the university.”

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The members and leaders of the Freeport Volunteer Fire Department received a bit of extra recognition from Legis.

Mulé at their 2021 Promotion Ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 26. “When a crisis is occurring and every second counts, volunteer firefighters rush toward danger to protect their neighbors and the entire community,” Legislator Mulé said. “It was my pleasure to join Chief Sotira and the men and women of the Freeport Volunteer Fire Department in celebrating a spirit of selfless volunteerism that sustains departments throughout the region.”

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Nassau D.A. candidates trade accusations

By James Bernstein and scott Brinton jbernstein@liherald.com, sbrinton@liherald.com

The race for Nassau district attorney has quickly become one of the most hotly contested in the county, with Democratic State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, of Long Beach, and Republican Anne Donnelly, of Garden City, trading blistering verbal barbs in a series of TV commercials.

The spots, running on CNN and other cable networks, began three weeks ago, when Donnelly, a 3 0 - ye a r c a r e e r prosecutor in the Nassau district attorney’s office, aired one featuring a Syracuse woman, identified in the commercial as Jennifer P. The woman, Jennifer Payne, said her daughter’s killer was released without bail because of the state’s bailreform law, which Kaminsky voted for in the Senate.

The State Legislature first passed the bailrefor m measure in 2019, restricting anne Donnelly, the the use of cash bail and pretrial detention in misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases. It did, though, give judges discretion to assign bail in almost all violent felony cases and certain nonviolent cases, such as witness tampering, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

In Donnelly’s commercial, Payne holds a framed photograph of her daughter, Sarah Tombs, who was 22 at the time that she died.

The man who allegedly shot her, Darien Shellman, then 24, a mall security guard who was a Navy veteran with no prior criminal record, was charged with second-degree (unintentional) manslaughter after, he claimed, his gun went

off when Tombs, his girlfriend at the time, grabbed the weapon and a bullet struck her in the head, killing her, according to Syracuse.com.

Shellman had been held in jail on $75,000 cash bail or $150,000 bond following Tombs’s death in April 2019, but was released on Jan. 9, 2020, under the new bail-reform law, eight days after it took e f f e c t , a c c o r d i n g t o S y r a c u s e. com and CNYCentral.com.

Under the original bail-reform law, unintentional manslaughter was among the alleged crimes for which defendants were automatically released. The Legislature amended the law in April 2020, a little more than three months after the measure took effect, to include a greater number of crimes fo r wh i ch b a i l could be assigned, including any alleged crimes in which someone had been killed, according to the Courtesy Anne Donnelly Brennan Center.

Although bail Republican candidate. could have been reassigned in this case, it never was, and Shellman recently accepted a plea agreement for which he will serve no prison time, according to Syracuse.com. Kaminsky noted that the district attorney who offered the plea deal is a Republican.

Kaminsky has repeatedly said he voted for the bail-reform bill, but was not a prime sponsor, and he did not write it, as Republicans, including Donnelly, have incorrectly claimed. He also emphasized that he voted for the amended law giving judges back the discretion to assign bail in crimes such as second-degree manslaughter.

Kaminsky recently rolled out a commercial of his own, saying Donnelly had

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toDD KaminsKy, the Democratic candidate for Nassau County district attorney. “botched” a case involving a woman accused of plotting to kill her husband, saying Donnelly had lied to the judge in the case.

At one point in the 2010 case against Susan Williams, a Garden City mother, a mistrial was declared after a taped phone conversation between Williams and her daughter was erroneously played for a jury. In the commercial, Kaminsky blamed Donnelly for the error, and said she had changed an agreement sent to the judge.

Williams was ultimately found guilty in the case, but Kaminsky stressed that there “was a mistrial. That’s a serious thing.”

Asked for a response, Donnelly wrote in an email, “It is no surprise that [Kaminsky] would lie about my unblemished record as a prosecutor. It is sad that Senator Kaminsky is embarrassing himself this way, and the voters always see through a politician’s lies.”

So far in the campaign, Kaminsky has emphasized his law-enforcement background. In 2008, he joined the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, and worked for six years as an assistant U.S. attorney.

There he became acting deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section. He had been an assistant district attorney in the Queens County D.A.’s office, prosecuting domestic violence cases, robberies, shootings and other violent crimes.

Donnelly resigned from the Nassau County district attorney’s office to run for the top job, as she was required to do, but she has emphasized her extensive law-enforcement background. She was most recently deputy chief of the office’s Organized Crime and Rackets Bureau.

She was also liaison to the Nassau County Correctional Facility. She formerly oversaw public corruption trials as acting chief of the public corruption bureau, once served as the deputy chief of the economic crimes bureau and was a senior trial assistant in the rackets bureau, as well as a felony-screening supervisor.

In the most recent financial filing, Kaminsky said he had raised $1.7 million for his campaign. A spokesman for Donnelly said she had raised more than $386,000.

Both Kaminsky and Donnelly said they planned to run more TV commercials in the coming weeks.

Publication: Nassau is America’s safest county Nassau County has been named the “Safest Community in America” by U.S. News & World Report for the second straight year.

The publication’s ranking is based on crime, public safety capacity and injuries. Individual metrics on which counties were assessed included violent crime rate, property crime rate, vehicle crash fatality rate, the share of public safety professionals within a population, and per capita spending on health and emergency services.

Crime in Nassau has continued to decline to historic lows in recent years, down 10.5 percent over the past year and 36 percent over the past decade. Over the last 12 months, homicides have dropped 22.2 percent; bur-

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hile crime has spiked in other parts of the country, Nassau County is safer than ever.

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Nassau County executive glaries, 15 percent; and grand larcenies, 11 percent.

“While crime has spiked in other parts of the country, Nassau County is safer than ever,” County Execu-

tive Laura Curran, a Democrat who is up for re-election, said. “Nassau’s success in holding crime down shows that intelligence-led, community-oriented policing works. It also shows that Nassau has the finest Police Department in the nation.”

Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said, “The hard-working, dedicated men and women, both sworn and civilian, of this Police Department, along with our Intelligence-led Policing Model, have brought our crime rate to historically low levels over the past 10 years. A 31 percent drop in major crime over the past 10 years, combined with another 7.4 percent year-todate, is a true testament to the excellent work being done daily.”

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Applause for Paws

Oktoberfest cooking!

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.

Presented by Barbara Sheridan, 1-2 p.m., at the library, gain a new culinary dimension! Autumn brings new food back to the table, and a calendar full of celebrations for enjoying them.

Harvest festivals have been celebrated by many cultures since ancient times.

The menu will include forest-mushroom strudel, pork tenderloin with apple maple and cognac sauce, Bavarian noodles, spiced beets, and Black Forest cupcakes. This program has a nonrefundable fee of $5 payable at the ASK Desk at the time of registration. Contact Maryellen Cantanno, mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info or (516) 379-3274.

Collect the Creepy From 9 a.m-9 p.m. at the Freeport Memorial Library, come tell the librarians about something spooky that happened to you. Fill out a creepy card with your creepy story and place it in the creepy card collection box in either the Children’s Inn B-Tween, or TRAC room anytime during library hours between Oct. 4 and 22. The librarians will read them all, pick the creepiest ones, and maybe publish some of the them in the next library newsletter! For grades 3-12. Contact Youth Services at (516) 379-3274 or youthservices@ freeportlibrary.info.

Zumba for adults (online)

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.

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village Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month On Tuesday, Oct. 12, 6 p.m., come to the Freeport Recreation Center for an evening of local Hispanic traditions and refreshments.

Girl Scout Troop 2324 The troop meets at the library 7-8:30 p.m. Contact Marilyn Pignataro, (516) 379-3274, X 226, or mpignataro@ freeport library.info.

Saturday, Oct. 9 Take a tour of Southern Italy!

Available 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. on the library website throughout October, enjoy a virtual trip to Southern Italy. Explore the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea, Naples, Sorrento, the Amalfi coast, and the Island of Capri. Then travel farther south to Sicily. For the link to access the program contact Maryellen Cantanno, mcantanno@freeportlibrary. info or (516) 379-3274.

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

Monday, Oct. 11 Columbus Day observed The Village of Freeport will observe a holiday in honor of Columbus Day.

Tuesday, Oct. 12 A very bear-y story time and craft For ages 2-4, from 10-10:30 a.m., in person at the library, join Miss Rose for stories, songs, and a craft about bears. Registration is required. Contact youthservices@freeportlibrary.info or call Youth Services, (516) 379-3274.

Yoga for adults 12:30-1:30 p.m. through the library, this virtual program will enhance your health, flexibility, and confidence. For the link, contact Maryellen Cantanno, mcantanno@freeportlibrary.info or (516) 379-3274.

Pumpkin painting From 6-6:45 p.m. at the library, grades pre-K to 6 can come in their old clothes

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to paint a pumpkin, with both pumpkins and paints provided by the library staff. Preregistration is required. Contact the Youth Services Department.

Hispanic Heritage Month At 6 p.m., the Incorporated Village of Freeport will hold a program to honor Hispanic Heritage Month at the Freeport Recreation Center, 130 East Merrick Road. Honorees will include Ana Garcia, Carmen Ramos Jose, and Hernandez Sandra Manfrellotti. Call (516) 377-3214 for details.

Teen Jigsaw Jam For grades 7 through 12, 6:30 - 7:30 pm. Contact the Youth Services Department, (516) 379-3274, or youthservices@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.

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Girls Soccer: V.S. South at Calhoun ......................4:45 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Sewanhaka at Lawrence ..................4:45 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Oceanside at Uniondale ....................... 5 p.m.

Football: Port Washington at Oceanside..................... 6 p.m.

Football: Massapequa at Freeport ............................. 6 p.m.

Football: Manhasset at Hewlett ...................................... 6 p.m.

Girls Soccer: South Side at Massapequa .................6:30 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Lawrence at Seaford................................. 7 p.m.

Football: Sewanhaka at Glen Cove ................................. 7 p.m.

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Football: Plainview at East Meadow .......................... 2 p.m.

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Football: V.S. Central at Garden City ............................... 2 p.m.

Football: South Side at Wantagh .................................... 2 p.m.

Football: V.S. North at Kennedy....................................... 2 p.m.

Football: Clarke at Seaford.............................................. 2 p.m.

Football: North Shore at East Rockaway......................... 2 p.m.

Football: Malverne at Lawrence ...................................... 2 p.m.

Football: Calhoun at New Hyde Park .............................. 2 p.m.

Football: Lynbrook at Mineola ........................................ 2 p.m.

At the midway point of the season Freeport finds itself in contention for a return to the Nassau Conference I football playoffs after a rebuilding year in the spring.

A 40-28 win against Hempstead last Saturday improved the Red Devils to 3-1 with a tough schedule ahead in the season’s second half. Longtime Freeport head coach Russ Cellan said with a young team and low roster numbers he is looking for progress throughout the fall that can lead to the team playing its best football when the games matter most.

“We’re just taking it a week at a time,” Cellan said. “We have the potential.”

The Hempstead victory featured a big day from sophomore quarterback D’Angelo Gordon, who rushed for 172 yards and two touchdowns including a 33-yard score with 4:18 remaining that produced the game’s final points. Freeport entered the fourth quarter trailing 28-26 before Martese Davenport gave the Red Devils the lead for good on a one-yard touchdown with 8:53 remaining.

Davenport also opened the scoring against Hempstead with a 32-yard touchdown run that tied the score at 8-8 following a Tahliel Simpston two-point conversion pass from Gordon. Nazair Jean-Lubin hauled in a 13-yard touchdown pass from Gordon in the second quarter for a 14-8 lead and later returned a kickoff 59-yards to the end zone that made it 26-14.

Last Saturday’s win followed a 38-27 setback at Syosset on Sept. 25 in which Gordon shined with 155 yards passing and two touchdowns. Despite the loss, Cellon said he came away from the game encouraged by how they responded to a tough team after falling behind 21-7 to make it a onescore game late in the fourth quarter.

“The kids clawed their way back into the game, which is a good sign,” Cellan said. “It was a real challenge and you never know how your team is going to react to something like that until you do it.”

The previous week, Freeport dominated in a 48-20 home win against Hicksville led by a strong running game that featured Donte Lloyd’s 88 yards rushing and two touchdowns and Martese Davenport with 87 yards on the ground to go along with

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The Red Devils kicked off the season with a 27-6 win at Westbury in another dominating performance jumping out to a 21-0 lead after one quarter and 27-0 heading into the final period. Gordon rushed for 66 yards and tossed a six-yard touchdown pass to Matthew Drayton Thomas. Tahliel Simpson and Davenport both recorded

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Cellan credits the leadership of senior center/linebacker Kobe Valdez as a captain in bringing the team together on and off the field. He said Valdez has also improved his play quite a bit and is leader of the defense at middle linebacker.

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■■ On■ September■ 28,■ Freeport■ police■ officers■conducted■a■Vehicle■Traffic■Law■stop■ and■recovered■a■small■quantity■of ■cocaine■ from■ inside■ the■ suspect’s■ car.■ The■ defendant■was■placed■under■arrest■without■incident■ and■ transported■ to■ Freeport■ Police■ Headquarters■for■arrest■processing.

■■ On■ September■ 28,■ Freeport■ police■ officers■ were■ dispatched■ because■ a■ notification■on■the■Freeport■License■Plate■Reader■ system■ informed■ them■ that■ a■ stolen■ or■ unauthorized■vehicle■entered■Freeport.■A■ Freeport■police■officer■conducted■a■traffic■ stop■ and■ confirmed■ unauthorized■ use■ of ■ the■ vehicle■ by■ its■ occupants.■ The■ car■ was■ subsequently■impounded.

■■ On■ September■ 29,■ Freeport■ police■ officers■responded■to■a■report■of ■a■larceny■in■ progress■at■a■local■business.■Before■the■suspect■left■the■store,■the■officers■were■able■to■ detain■ the■ suspect■ return■ the■ stolen■ merchandise.■■The■defendant■was■placed■under■ arrest■and■charged■with■petit■larceny.■■

Third-degree assault ■■ On■ October■ 3,■ Freeport■ police■ officers■ arrested■ a■ suspect■ for■ striking■ another■ person■ in■ the■ shoulder,■ bicep■ and■ hand■ with■ a■ baseball■ bat,■ causing■ substantial■ pain.■ The■ defendant■ was■ placed■ under■ arrest■ and■ charged■ with■ third-degree■ assault■and■fourth-degree■criminal■possession■of ■a■weapon.

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Preserve the peace ■■ On■ September■ 30,■ Freeport■ police■ officers■helped■a■complainant■to■retrieve■personal■ belongings■ from■ a■ home.■ An■ active■ temporary■ “Refrain■ From”■ Order■ of ■ Protection■ required■ police■ assistance■ for■ the■ complainant■to■enter■the■home■and■recover■ the■ property.■ The■ belongings■ were■ retrieved■without■incident.■

Criminal mischief ■■ On■October■4,■a■Freeport■police■officer■ completed■ a■ criminal■ mischief ■ report■ involving■ a■ damaged■ vehicle.■ ■ The■ complainant■ reported■ scratch■ marks■ on■ his■ auto’s■ front■ fender■ and■ hood■ that■ were■ made■without■his■permission.

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Richard■ J.■ Rizzo■ of ■ Patchogue■ (19652021)■ died■ on■ September■ 24.■ He■ was■ the■ loving■ father■ of ■ Richard,■ Jennifer,■ Joseph,■Chloe,■and■Kristin,■and■the■dear■ grandfather■ of ■ one■ grandchild.■ He■ was■ also■ the■ loving■ brother■ of ■ Joann■ Piskopus,■ Gina■ Foley,■ Gregory,■ Philip,■ Thomas,■ Kathy■ Cruder,■ Ralph,■ and■ the■ late■ Frank,■ as■ well■ as■ the■ fond■ uncle■ to■ many■ nieces■ and■ nephews.■ Cremation■ services■were■private.

Pedro J. Dobladillo Pedro■ J.■ Dobladillo■ (1934-2021)■ of ■ Hicksville■died■on■September■24.■He■was■ a■ retired■ clothing■ presser.■ He■ was■ the■ beloved■ husband■ of ■ Emilia,■ the■ loving■ father■of ■Victor,■Antonio,■Luis,■Julio,■and■ Edy,■the■dear■grandfather■of ■9,■and■great■ grandfather■ of ■ 1.■ The■ funeral■ service■ took■ place■ on■ Sept.■ 28,■ with■ interment■ Sept.■29■at■Pinelawn■Memorial■Park.■

Mary Patricia Nicolino Mary■ Patricia■ Nicolino■ of ■ Freeport■ died■ on■ September■ 28.■ For■ 58■ years■ she■ was■the■beloved■wife■of ■Stephen.■She■was■ the■ devoted■ mother■ of ■ Stephen■ (Susan),■ Patricia■(Casey)■Ward,■and■Regina■(Sean)■ Passananti,■ and■ the■ cherished■ grandmother■ of ■ Lauren,■ Stephanie,■ Charles,■ Kristen,■ Victoria,■ Stephen,■ Michaila,■

Nicole,■ Michael,■ and■ Julianna.■ She■ was■ the■dear■sister■of ■Terrance■Callahan■and■ the■ late■ Martin■ Callahan.■ The■ funeral■ Mass■ took■ place■ on■ Oct.■ 1■ at■ Our■ Holy■ Redeemer■RC■Church,■with■interment■at■ Holy■Rood■Cemetery.

Martine Muzak Martine■ Muzak■ (1970-2021)■ was■ given■ a■private■funeral■service■and■cremation.

Robert J. Muncaster Robert■ Muncaster■ (1949-2021)died■ on■ October■2,■surrounded■by■his■family.■Bob■ is■ survived■ by■ his■ wife,■ Patty,■ and■ his■ sons■ Sean■ (husband■ of ■ Bridget)■ and■ Brian■ (husband■ of ■ Amy■ and■ father■ of ■ Thomas).■ ■ ■ Bob■ worked■ for■ many■ years■ for■ UPS,■ first■ driving■ a■ “package■ car,”■ later■ driving■ 18■ wheelers.■ ■ Bob■ retired■ from■ UPS■ with■ a■ perfect■ safety■ record.■■ He■ was■ a■ good■ husband,■ father,■ grandfather,■ brother■ (of ■ Bruce■ and■ Karen),■ son,■ brother-in-law,■ friend,■ and■ neighbor.■ ■ In■ short,■ Bob■ was■ a■ good■ man■ who■ will■ be■ sorely■missed.■■Toward■the■last■few■years■■ of ■ his■ parents’■ (John■ and■ Marie)■ lives,■ Bob■ and■ Patty■ devoted■ much■ of ■ their■ time■ and■ effort■ to■ taking■ care■ of ■ them.■■ Bob■ cherished■ his■ time■ with■ his■ grandson■ Thomas.■ Bob■ served■ in■ the■ Army■ in■ Vietnam.■His■funeral■Mass■was■on■Oct.■7,■ with■ immediate■ interment■ at■ Calverton■ National■Cemetery.

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Hofstra’s first woman president is inaugurated

By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com

Hofstra University inaugurated its ninth — and first woman — president on Oct. 1 in grand fashion. Dr. Susan Poser now leads the institution — she first assumed her duties on Aug. 1.

This is Poser’s first foray into guiding a university as a president. She was previously the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago, a Carnegie Research One university with 16 colleges, including seven health science colleges and more than 35,000 students, from 2016 to 2021.

Poser joins a tighter-knit community at Hofstra, with roughly 10,000 students.

Poser succeeds Stuart Rabinowitz, who retired this year after serving as president for 20 years. Under his lead, the university grew to include schools of medicine, nursing and physician studies, engineering and government, putting Hofstra on the map as an internationally competitive institution.

Celebrations leading up to the inauguration were held throughout the week in the form of symposia that looked toward the future of education at Hofstra. From “Building and Bridging Our Future Together” to “Innovative Experiential Learning Opportunities in Engineering and Computer Science,” each featured experts in their respective fields lending their advice to fellow professionals and students alike. A keynote address by New York Times columnist and best-selling author Charles Blow kicked off the week.

Throughout her two months at her post so far, Poser has also made her presence known on campus. She has often been seen touring around, stopping to chat with groups of students.

After the singing of the Hofstra alma mater “Blue and Gold” by the Inauguration Vocal Ensemble, as well as welcomes from several of the university’s student and faculty leaders, Poser was congratulated by three close friends and colleagues.

“To me and many others, [Poser] has always been a light from which many have been lit — a shining light that no one would dare, or could, dim,” said Daniel Dawes, director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine and a professor of law, policy and management.

Dawes is one of Poser’s former students. As a first-generation immigrant student at the University of Nebraska, Poser, then a professor, took Dawes under her wing, he said. He was a young, anxious student who was 1,400 miles from home, but felt welcomed and accepted by Poser in the intimidating environment of law school.

“I, for one, am frankly jealous of you all, because you get to bask in the warm glow of her light,” Dawes said. “But I’m also immensely excited to watch Hofstra shine brighter than ever before.”

Barbara Wilson began a new position at the University of Illinois around the same time that Poser did, and their careers flourished together. In 2016, Wilson became the executive vice president for academic affairs, and the two worked

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hand in hand over five years on academic affairs. This year, Wilson was named the president of the University of Iowa a short five months after Poser received her promotion at Hofstra.

“During the time we were in these positions, we navigated some sticky state politics; we managed a financial crisis in the state of Illinois that underfunded higher education pretty significantly; we managed the onslaught of Covid-19 and the challenging racial and equity issues, particularly after the murder of George Floyd,” Wilson said. “It was not an easy time.

“Everyone that worked with Susan could see that she was destined to be a president,” Wilson said.

“There is no shortage of persons who want to be the president of a university,” said Harvey Perlman, a professor of law and former chancellor at the University of Nebraska. “My experience, however, tells me there is a much smaller number of persons who want to do president of a university.

“You have chosen wisely,” Perlman told the Hofstra community. “You have a new president who wants to do president, not just be one.”

In her address, Poser reflected on Hofstra’s history of independence and innovations in education and student relations.

“What a time we are living in, and what a time for higher education,” Poser said. “The pleasure of our renewed togetherness is real, but it cannot mask the challenges ahead.”

Before Covid, the challenges were already apparent, she said: There were fewer high school graduation expectancies, skepticism about the value of a college education and new world of students who have always lived in a digital environment. “How we address these changes over the coming years will determine Hofstra’s future and the future of our students,” Poser said.

“The idea of the pandemic as a portal or gateway serves as a useful metaphor to frame the challenges that we in higher education have before us,” Poser added.

“If the pandemic is a portal, how will Hof-

DR. SuSAN PoSER was inaugurated as the ninth and first female president of Hofstra University on Oct. 1.

CloSE CollEAGuES of Poser’s spoke at the inauguration, including Harvey Perlman, former chancellor and law professor at the University of Nebraska.

stra walk through it? What will we take, and what will we leave behind? What world are we ready to fight for? What kind of university and community do we want to imagine on the other side?”

At UIC, Poser oversaw many accomplishments, including the acquisition of the John Marshall Law School as the first and only public law school in Chicago.

She also focused on supporting faculty and enhancing diversity through several initiatives, including the creation of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence. She played a key role in creating two new cultural centers on campus, one focused on Arab American students and another on students with disabilities.

Before becoming provost at UIC, Poser was the dean of the College of Law at the University of Nebraska from 2010 to 2016, the associate to the chancellor from 2007 to 2010 and a law professor for more than 15 years. While dean, the College of Law moved up 35 points in the “U.S. News & World Report” rankings.

Poser grew up in New York City and majored in ancient Greek at Swarthmore College, graduating with honors. She earned a law degree and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.

Before starting her academic career, she clerked for the Dolores Sloviter, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia and served as the Zicklin Fellow in Ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Poser is also a recently appointed member of the Long Island Association Board of Directors, which will allow her to further engage with the Long Island community.

Poser is married to Dr. Stephen DiMagno, an organic medicinal chemist, and they have two adult daughters.

“I am so optimistic that if we come together, with pride and purpose,” Poser said, “we can do these things. Hofstra is beautifully positioned as a university — small enough to offer every student the opportunity to know their professors, participate in a wide variety of activities and influence their surroundings, and large enough to offer an array of academic and career opportunity for undergraduate, graduate and professional students. If we have the commitment, the discipline and the energy, we will prosper as never before.”

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By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com

Howard Weitzman, Nassau County’s comptroller from 2002 to 2009 who was known for challenging establishment politics through the power of the audit during this time in office, died Sept. 27 of a rare blood disorder called amyloidosis. He was 75.

Born in Brooklyn in 1945, Weitzman was known as a loving husband to his wife of 52 years, Suzanne, and father to their daughter, Catherine Diamond, and sons Peter and Matthew Weitzman.

Howard Weitzman was raised in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn and later Laurelton, Queens. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and went on to graduate from Queens Colle ge with a de g ree in accounting, becoming a certified public accountant.

Weitzman was said to have “reveled” in his role as “Nassau’s fiscal watchdog” when he was comptroller. He was also known for his personal approach to politics, holding town hall meetings in houses of worship and schools to meet with constituents from across Nassau to hear their concerns. His local approach to county politics stemmed from his time

as a trustee and mayor of Great Neck with eliminating special districts] are Estates from 1989 to 1995. He and his not large when divided by each home . . . wife had lived there for 35 years before in these times of extreme fiscal pressure on Nassau County taxpayers, all moving to Roslyn in 2013.

As comptroller, Weitzman was relent- savings are worth pursuing. The outdatless in pursuing investigations of Nas- ed patchwork quilt of special districts is no longer viable in this day sau’s many special districts, and age when they cost resiincluding sanitation and dents money without providwater districts. In all, Nasing any benefit.” sau has more than 200 such Weitzman was first electdistricts, and Weitzman said ed comptroller in 2001 on a he was convinced they were ticket with Tom Suozzi, then key to helping rein in govan up-and-coming political ernment overspending. leader who had previously “Nassau residents can served as the Glen Cove pay two or three times as mayor and is now a U.S. conmuch for the same service gressman representing the depending on the district in 3rd District. They were which they live,” Weitzman Howard Weitzman swept into office following said in a published report in years of fiscal mismanage2010. “Our audits unveiled millions of dollars of waste by some ment at the county level, with a clear mandate to eliminate waste and abuse. special districts, and a general lack of Weitzman lost the comptroller’s post accountability, transparency and overto Republican George Maragos in 2009. sight.”

Eliminating many of the special dis- Illness was said to have hindered tricts, Weitzman contended, could save Weitzman’s campaign. He then chaltaxpayers tens of millions of dollars lenged Maragos in 2013 and was again defeated. annually.

In 2016, Weitzman was appointed to Speaking with the Herald in 2008, he said, “While the savings [associated the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a

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Weitzman had also been a board member of the American Jewish Committee, a treasurer of Temple Israel of Great Neck and a board member of the United Community Fund of Great Neck.

An avid adventurer, he traveled the world with his family, with he and his wife taking trips to Cambodia, Australia and Italy when their children were grown. He was also an avid boater who was a member of the Shelter Bay Yacht Club.

In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by a sister, Leslie Kornfeld, and her husband, Edward; four grandchildren, Leo, Max, Morris and Ema, and many cousins, nieces and nephews.

A funeral service was held last Thursday at Temple Israel of Great Neck, with burial following at Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens. Riverside-Nassau North Chapels made the arrangements.

Herald Inside LI Webinar fights fears with facts Keeping our loved ones healthy and out of harm’s way— especially the senior members of our communities — has always been a priority, but perhaps never more so than during the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout this unprecedented time we’ve faced new challenges, constant changes and a perpetual wave of questions. So the Herald Inside LI webinar “Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe” brought together a panel of local experts on Sept. 30 to help find answers.

The webinar was produced by RichnerLIVE and sponsored by Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, Emerge, Harbor House, Oyster Bay Manor and Glen Cove Hospital Northwell Health.

Dr. John Colletta, Dr. Usman Khan, Madeleine Moritz, Melissa Schumacher and Erika Weber gathered virtually to share their insights and expertise on topics ranging from safety protocols in hospitals and emergency departments to special precautions for patients with dementia in skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers.

“We understand that it causes a lot of anxiety for people to come” to the emergency department, Colletta, the Glen Cove Hospital Emergency Department chair.

“What we have seen is people are holding off on their medical care. They’re just not going.”

No one should put off a trip to the emergency room, or even a regular doctor’s visit

and physical therapy and rehabilitation, he said.

“A lot of families have put off coming to the skilled nursing facility after a stay at the hospital for fear that the nursing home has exposure and their loved one now, who was in the hospital, may be better off going home,” added Moritz, administrator at the Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation.

Schumacher, director of business development at the Oyster Bay Senior Campus, noted that such fears have also extended to the assisted living world. At the height of the pandemic, she said, “unless there was a true crisis, families were holding off because of the fear of contracting Covid . . . in congregant living, but also the inability to visit their loved ones.”

As the panelists reviewed the protocols in place at each of their facilities—whether they be for handling unvaccinated patients or those who have Covid, ensuring safe visits from family members, cleaning processes for high-touch surfaces, adapting social experiences for those in assisted living—the clearest takeaway was the importance of communication — of knowing where to go for the most current information and finding the right experts to ask.

A replay of the Herald Inside LI webinar “Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe” is available now. You can find it at http:// www.richnerlive.com/insideli/.

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Former Nassau comptroller Howard Weitzman dies

Freeport student artists score in contest continued from front page first Nassau Gardening Calendar and Guide, published for 2022. The calendars were on sale at the Family Fun Day to raise money for East Meadow Farms.

Gold Level student art pieces were set in the calendar as the page photo for each month.

The extension’s Nassau County master gardener, Dave Rolnick, said, “This is our first attempt at [the calendar], and we enlisted three of our most knowlKiSHore edgeable master KuncHam gardeners to supply the Superintendent infor mation.

Each day in all 12 months has a tip or a task for the gardener. The information is for avid gardeners or beginning gardeners, and all of the artwork is done by local school kids.”

The Fun Day attracted dozens of families, who wandered throughout the farm examining the flourishing flowers, trees and crop plants. One little girl was invited to dig up a sweet potato -- and

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Freeport HigH ScHool Principal Gisselle Campbell-Ham, far left, congratulated award recipients Christian John, Yenifer FloresDelgado, Tatiana Arieta and Emma Quinn. Not shown was Raymonii Cowen (class of 2021), who now attends the Rhode Island School of Design. unearthed the largest sweet potato that the master gardeners had ever seen, nearly globe-shaped and about 7 inches in diameter.

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chase, live guitar music with singers, gardening activities, and student artwork in different parts of the garden, with master gardeners from the cooperative extension informing visitors about the relationship between the artwork and the nearby plant life. A pair of mounted Nassau County police officers chatted with families, while children patted the patient horses on the neck.

Barbara Levine, who taught art history for 25 years in Freeport elementary schools, volunteered for the day, seated on a bale of hay beside a table stacked

with colorful calendars. Retired now, Levine fondly remembered her time in the Freeport School District. “Most of the time I was at Bayview [Avenue School],” she said, “and I loved it. If they hadn’t paid me to teach there, I’d have paid them. I’m not kidding.”

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guideS at tHe Family Fun Day included, from left, master gardener Dave Rolnick, retired Freeport art history teacher Barbara Levine, CCE-Nassau technology specialist Andrea Savorette and master gardener Judith Wilensky.

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

DATED: October 4, 2021 Pamela Walsh Boening Village Clerk 127789

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LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT SERIES I TRUST, V. CLIFFORD BLACKWELL, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE RUTH CHASE FISHER; ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated January 31, 2020, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT SERIES I TRUST. is the Plaintiff and CLIFFORD BLACKWELL, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE RUTH CHASE FISHER; ET AL. are the Defendant(s).

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Nassau County Supreme Court, North Side Steps, 100 Supreme Court Drive Mineola NY 11501, on November 8, 2021 at 2:30PM, premises known as 231 ELMWOOD AVENUE, ROOSEVELT, NY 11575: Section 55, Block 471, Lot 358: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING AT ROOSEVELT, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK,

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 002450/2017. Roger H. Hausch, Esq. - Referee.

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 127785

LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that an Order granted by the Supreme Court, Nassau County, on the 31st day of August 2021 bearing the index number 551-21, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Nassau County Clerk located at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, grants me the right to assume the name of Michael Aviles.

My present address is 48 Overton Street Freeport, N.Y. 11520. The date of my birth is 14 October 1946; the place of birth is Manati, Puerto Rico; the present name is Jose Miguel Vargas Melendez AKA Joseph Miguel Vargas AKA Michael Aviles 127715 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS SUNRISE HIGHWAY STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF FREEPORT NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK Notice is hereby given that the Purchasing Department of the Incorporated Village of Freeport, New York will receive sealed proposals for “SUNRISE HIGHWAY STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS” until 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, October 18, 2021, in the Main Conference Room of the Municipal Building, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York, 11520, at which time and place they will be opened publicly and read aloud.

Specifications, proposal and proposed contracts may be seen and obtained at the Office of the Purchasing Agent, Municipal Building, 1st Floor, 46 North Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York, 11520, or by visiting the Village’s Website at w w w. f r e e p o r t n y. g o v.

Bids will be available from 9:00 A.M. from Friday, October 8, 2021, until 4:00 P.M. Friday, October 15, 2021. There is no charge for the bid documents.

The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bid proposals received and subject to these reservations, shall award the contract to the lowest qualified and responsible bidder. Bids, which, in the opinion of the Board, are unbalanced, shall be rejected.

In submitting a bid, bidders agree not to withdraw their bid within forty five (45) days after the date for the opening thereof.

Kim Weltner Purchasing Agent Village of Freeport VILLAGE OF FREEPORT Issue Date - October 7, 2021 Freeport Leader 127788

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LEGAL NOTICE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS PUBLIC HEARING - October 21, 2021 NOTICE IS HEREBY given that a Public Hearing with the Zoning Board of Appeals is scheduled for Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 6:00P.M. in the Incorporated Village of Freeport, Main Conference Room, 46 N. Ocean Avenue, Freeport, New York on the appeals and applications of cases as they appear on the calendar; residential applications that do not extend their prior nonconforming status may be called first; public comment invited. It is anticipated that the Board will adjourn the legislative session and enter into Executive Session until 6:30P.M. INTERESTED PROPERTY OWNERS and other persons should appear at the above time and place to have questions answered and to voice opinions.

All applications are nonconforming with zoning regulations herein specified for the districts in which they are located.

Application #2021-23 -34-42 E. Merrick Rd AKA 101 Henry St, Business B - Section 62/Block A/Lot 139 - Morning Star Daycare - Create new daycare.

Variances: Village Ordinance §210-6A, §210-80B3 Permitted uses, §210-172 Required parking spaces.

Application #2021-14 - 6 Union St., Residence A Section 55/Block 361/Lot 20 - Hector Velez Construct a new 112.5 sq. ft. open front porch.

Variances: Village Ordinance §210-6A, §210-43(A)1 Required yard, front depth.

Application #2021-21 74 Willow Ave., Residence A - Section 55/Block 209/Lot 142 Roxanne Reid - Construct a new 189 sq. ft. second story addition. Variances: Village Ordinance §210-6A, §210-39A Sky Exposure.

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Mayor robert Kennedy delivered a birthday citation from the Village of Freeport.

At 108, Dorothy Sellers is humorous and feisty career short. “When I was ready [to find a

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Kennedy light three large candles in the job], there was nothing to be had in my little town of Connellsville, so I came to shape of a 1, an 0 and an 8.

“Where are my 108 candles?” she New York and I finally got a job.” She stayed with an aunt on Long Island. asked, tongue-in-cheek.

“I had a very adventurous life in New “I think you bought them all out of the store when you hit 100,” responded Ken- York,” she said, having found a job with nedy, who then led the crowd in a multi- Seagram’s Distilling Company. “I worked for the head man in one of the branches key rendition of “Happy Birthday.”

“Thank you very much,” Sellers said. and so I got a lot of perks … I would say I did not have a bad beginning.

“I feel very honored, and I Maybe that’s why I lived a will never forget that you all long time.” came to wish me a happy Sellers moved into her 108th.”

Freeport house in 1959, taking Kennedy handed her a care of her mother, who died framed document wishing at age 94, and then caring for her many happy returns from her aunt. After the aunt died, the Village of Freeport. As said Sellers, “I never got loneshe drew the knife through ly. I had lots and lots of good the cake, she answered quesfriends.” She retired from tions gently posed by the jour- dorothy Seagram’s in 1981 and for nalists.

SellerS about 10 years ran her own “I have no magic formula,” craft business, selling Christshe said. “I don’t know any Freeporter mas and Easter decorations to more about why I’m this old the Waldorf Hotel. She than you do. ... I’m not sick at all. I’m just old, which is why I don’t walk, I shuffle. … belonged to organizations like the PlantI don’t know why I got to 108. I guess they ing Fields and area museums.

Raising her first forkful of cake to Kenforgot me!”

Asked to tell a few memories of her nedy, Sellers said, “Here’s to the greatest childhood, Sellers recalled her dog, a village on Long Island,” evoking cheers Newfoundland named Max, who sat on and applause.

Someone asked her what would hapthe running board of the family car as they drove around her hometown of Con- pen for the rest of the day, Sellers replied, nellsville, Pa. Her father made their “Well, you never know what’s going to house popular by hanging a long swing happen. Like this, I didn’t know this was coming. So I presume somebody will stay from the immense tree in their yard.

“I was a victim of the Great Depres- and will visit.”

Her friends surrounded her in the sunsion,” she said, not mentioning a fact recorded elsewhere: that her father died light, taking photos and chatting, before while she was studying English at Ohio escorting her back inside.

Wesleyan University, cutting her college

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don’t know why I got to 108. I guess they forgot me!

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Application #2021-22 34 Pearsall Ave., Residence A - Section 54/Block 68/Lot 15,211,212 - 34 Pearsall LLC - Construct a 34 unit, 26,720 sq.ft. three-story multiple dwelling.

Variances: Village Ordinance §210-6A, §210-54 Front yards of apartment buildings, §210-38A Use prohibited, §210-47 Building height, §210-49(B) Lot coverage, §210-48 Lot area,

§210-51A Front yard depth.

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LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT, NEW YORK PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on October 4, 2021, the Board of Trustees of the Village of Freeport, in the County of Nassau, New York, adopted a bond resolution entitled: “Bond Resolution of the Village of Freeport, New York, adopted October 4, 2021, authorizing the acquisition of various vehicles, stating the estimated total cost thereof is $400,000, appropriating $80,500 in addition to the $319,500 heretofore appropriated for such purpose; and authorizing the issuance of bonds of the Village in the principal amount of not to exceed $80,500, in addition to the $319,500 bonds heretofore authorized for such projects, to finance said additional appropriation,” an abstract of such bond resolution, concisely stating the purpose and effect thereof, being as follows: FIRST: AUTHORIZING said Village to acquire various vehicles; STATING the estimated maximum cost thereof, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and the financing thereof, is $400,000; APPROPRIATING $80,500 for such purpose, in addition to the $319,500 heretofore appropriated pursuant to the bond resolution duly adopted by the Board of Trustees on February 3, 2020; STATING the plan of financing includes the issuance of bonds of the Village in the aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $400,000 to finance the total appropriation and the levy and collection of taxes on all the taxable real property in the Village to pay the principal of said bonds and the interest thereon; SECOND: AUTHORIZING the issuance of not to exceed $400,000 bonds of the Village pursuant to the Local Finance Law of the State of New York (the “Law”) to finance said appropriation; THIRD: DETERMINING and STATING the period of probable usefulness applicable to the purpose for which said bonds are authorized to be issued is fifteen (15) years; the temporary use of available funds of the Village, not immediately required for the purpose or purposes for which the same were borrowed, raised or otherwise created, is hereby authorized pursuant to Section 165.10 of the Law, for the capital purposes described in this resolution and the proceeds of said bonds and any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation thereof may be applied to reimburse the Village for expenditures made after

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Q. I hired a carpenter to rebuild my garage because it was rotted and leaning. The roof was OK, so we kept it, but all the walls were stripped away and replaced. In the middle of the job, an inspector showed up and stopped it, saying we needed a permit.

I hired an architect, he made a plan and we filled in the permit. Now the plans have been rejected because, according to the inspector, they have to show fireproof walls and roof. That’s crazy! Nobody has that, so why am I being made to do this? It’s expensive, and I shouldn’t have to do it. I think they’re making me pay for starting with no permit, right?

A. Not exactly, but you have to look at the big picture. You may feel like you’re getting burned, but the building code is actually named The Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code. Fire prevention is a primary reason that the building laws exist.

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In many cases, building departments allow onte eeper existing garages to have minor repairs without a permit, but only for things like replacing a garage door, a rotted section of wall base plate, shingles or siding, although you should always verify before starting. You described a near-complete rebuild, only saving the roof part of the garage, and your building official has determined that, beyond 50 percent change, the code for new buildings applies. Even though your zoning code allows a free-standing accessory structure to be 2 feet to 4 feet from a property line, depending on your community, garages that are closer than 5 feet to a property line must have materials that are rated to prevent flame spread for an hour.

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As for cost, aluminum siding, which actually still exists, may cost less, can be painted to match the house and lasts an average of 35 years. Fiber cement siding also does the job, but costs more.

Other choices include stucco over cement board and steel panels, all more costly. Aluminum or cement board eaves, gutters and roofing are also required, and even though most of the home construction industry doesn’t read or know the regulations, the requirements still exist, and cost the most when they aren’t adhered to and the work has to be done twice.

So don’t feel like you’re being singled out or being held to the fire. The rules exist for all of us.

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ctober is a unique month. It’s time for apple picking, watching the trees change color and, if the weather permits, taking long car trips to interesting places.

Depending on where you live, it’s also the time for candidates for public office to make their final arguments as to why you should vote for them on Nov. 2.

And if you live in Nassau County and are a registered voter, you’re seeing that lastminute blitz to make sure you show up on Election Day. JERRY Unlike years when we elect a KREMER president, in politics this is considered an off year, with most of the campaigns involving candidates for local office. The biggest races in our county are for county executive, district attorney and comptroller.

County Executive Laura Curran is favored to be re-elected, due to her professionalism and support from both political parties. That leaves the contests for district attorney and comptroller.

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The hottest competition will be for the office of district attorney. Mailboxes all over the county are being flooded with materials promoting the candidacy of State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, and Anne Donnelly, a Republican and an assistant D.A. This one campaign could wind up costing the candidates as much as $6 million, and possibly more.

Having once represented the South Shore of Nassau County in the State Assembly, I have gotten to know Todd Kaminsky, and have watched his political career rise rapidly. Our career paths are somewhat alike. I started out as a city attorney in Long Beach, and he started out as a federal prosecutor. I prosecuted local slumlords, and as a federal prosecutor he was given the opportunity to prosecute high-profile criminals. In my late 20s, I got a chance to run for the State Assembly, and he got his opening to run for the State Senate.

To the benefit of Long Island taxpayers, Kaminsky has been a hard-working legislator who has been a leader on criminal and environmental issues. He was the principal sponsor of a law to take pen-

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sions away from corrupt elected officials.

He has gotten tougher drunken-driving laws and battled opioid manufacturers and doctors who dispense drugs too freely.

During my time in Albany, I passed many laws in similar areas, and like Kaminsky was the leader of the Long Island legislative delegation in Albany.

I applauded his decision to run for district attorney, because he has been a strong voice on so many issues of concern to the public. The State Senate leaders turn to him for advice on criminal and environmental law issues. He is responsible for the $3 billion environmental cleanup bond that will be on the ballot in 2022. Donnelly, who claims that Kaminsky was the “author” of the bailreform law, has criticized him. I know for a fact that he was not its author, and he has battled his own party on this issue.

Politics is a tough and unforgiving business. If you stay in one elected position for a long period of time, you are accused of being part of the “establishment.” If you run for higher office a few years after getting elected to a different job, you are accused of being too “ambi-

eciding who leads Nassau County is a great reason to go to the polls next month.

tious.” I had the chance to run for statewide office twice, but a family tragedy prevented that from happening. I know Kaminsky’s opponent to be a long-term veteran of the D.A.’s office. In the end, it will be up to the voters to decide whom they want for district attorney.

There is another countywide contest on the ballot, for the important job of county comptroller. While the public focus has been on the D.A.’s race, the job of keeping an eye on taxpayers’ money is also crucial. Former Republican State Sen. Elaine Phillips is challenging Democrat Ryan Cronin for that position. I have worked with Phillips, and found her to be an excellent public official.

This will be another important choice for Nassau County voters. I hope they won’t decide to skip this year’s election, because any election, whether for dogcatcher or president, is important. If you stay home on Election Day, you get the kind of government you deserve.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column?

JKremer@liherald.com.

Really, what’s up with the whole world?

ave you noticed that the seams don’t meet the right way and the doorjamb is wobbly? Our house is unstable. The beams of this great edifice called America are slightly off plumb in a number of disturbing ways.Nothing at all is exactly as it was before the pandemic overwhelmed the United States. In small ways and profound ways, cultural and political forces are impeding the ordinary progression of life in America.

But then, what’s ordinary? Most of us have given up RANDI on the concept of KREISS going back to “normal,” and what passes for normal these days is disquieting.

It isn’t just the pandemic, as if one could write off a highly infectious novel virus that swept around the world, killing 700,000 people here at home. It is how the pandemic was handled from the time it was discovered, then covered up, then ignored, then addressed with inoculation and medical efforts that ranged from inadequate to state-of-the-art medicine. I just checked in to the CDC website and

saw that they have now broken-down categories of information into: What We Know and What We Are Still Learning.

That’s good. The fact that there is a learning curve in science seems to have challenged the efficacy of the coronavirus vaccines, which by any reasonable account have been remarkably successful in saving lives.

We are in a world where scientists are vilified for not having all the answers, the president is begging and bribing folks to take a shot that will keep them out of the hospital, and large swaths of people are bonding online and deciding that it is safer to throw away our protective masks, refuse the vaccine and embrace bizarre and debunked remedies for this deadly disease. With some few exceptions, there is no excuse for refusing a mask and a vaccine. Using horse de-wormer instead of monoclonal antibodies? It’s kind of like what Justice Potter Stewart said of pornography: I know crazy when I see it.

The problem is that those of us who have followed the science and had the vaccine, and perhaps the booster, by now can feel safe, but not completely safe. If we have young children or grandchildren, we

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see those who refuse the vaccine as a direct threat to the health of our family.

As we re-emerge into the world, the places we go are all changed. How did the “office” disappear in two years? Transportation is different from what it was, with some mask rules and some vaccine requirements on planes and trains. Some travel, like cruises, requires not just the time and money, but a willing suspension of disbelief.

If you can’t bear cooking one more meal at home and venture out, chances are the server and possibly the chef are new hires. The workforce is sliced and diced, and not many people are fully trained for the jobs they are doing.

If you talk to a friend of the heart for more than hi-and-how-are-you, chances are you’ll get into your mutual stress levels and anxiety. The psychiatrists don’t have enough hours for the people who need help, because we all need some help right now.

If you live in a community or apartment building of some kind, then you know about improvement projects being delayed because the painter shows up but there’s no paint. My son finally got his

he places we go are all changed. How did the ‘office’ disappear in two years?

new roof, but the roofer had no gutters to install. Costco is out of toilet paper again.

There are people who don’t have enough food, who can’t get to work, who have no health care and who don’t have proper shelter. We are living in a country that desperately needs new bridges and tunnels and roads. There is a good a plan to rebuild and, at this moment, it may not get passed by Congress. Not because we don’t need it. Not because most Americans don’t support it. But because the government is paralyzed by partisanship and ignorance and fear.

This morning I read in The Washington Post that in Anchorage, Alaska, people attended a public hearing on mask wearing with yellow Stars of David on their arms, equating the mask requirement to Nazi-era restrictions on Jews in Germany that led to the Holocaust and the death of some 6 million people.

I am worried for us.

Most disturbing is the elevation of lies for personal and political gain. For me, there is some comfort in bearing witness to this time. We must keep talking and writing, acknowledging the losses and summoning the strength to tighten the floor joists and secure the roof.

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

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Lessons learned during Hispanic Heritage Month

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ispanics are Nassau County’s fastest-growing ethnic population, County Executive Laura Curran noted in mid-September, the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated each year since 1988, and before that as Hispanic Heritage Week, beginning in 1968.

From Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we recognize the many rich cultural and economic contributions of Hispanic people to the United States. The celebration was first signed into law as a week by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, and expanded to a month by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican.

In 2016, the Herald explored Hispanic immigration to our region in a series, “The Changing Face of Long Island,” and we wrote this in a December editorial that year: “There is much talk about how Long Islanders are leaving for elsewhere because of the high cost of living. The Island, however, actually saw a net gain in population because of immigration. Suffolk’s population remained largely unchanged between 2000 and 2012, while Nassau’s increased by roughly 78,500 people, according to census data.

“Immigrants have been arriving on Long Island for more than six decades, but the pace of immigration has accelerated within the last 10 years, with an average of 20,000 Long Island immigrants annually receiving citizenship.

“Immigrants, it appears, are bypassing the big cities and settling in the suburbs.

That’s a good thing for Long Island.”

We should now add this: There is a false impression that most Hispanics are immigrants. While that might have once been true, it no longer is. Most Hispanics in the

United States were born here and are American citizens, having become deeply ingrained in the fabric of American society.

According to the New American Economy Research Fund, a bipartisan, nonprofit immigration advocacy group, there are 58.8 million Hispanic Americans in the U.S. Just over two-thirds of them — or 39.2 million — were born here, while 19.6 million were born outside the country.

Combined, Hispanic immigrants and U.S.-born Hispanics now comprise 18.1 percent of the U.S. population. By 2050, the Hispanic population in the U.S. is expected to double, to 106 million, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

In 2017, Hispanic households earned more than $1 trillion and paid some $252.2 billion in taxes, including $165.9 billion in federal income taxes and $86.3 billion in state and local taxes, the NEA Research Fund found.

At the same time, today’s most recently arrived Hispanic immigrants are better educated than those who landed here only a decade ago. Between 2005 and 2010, only 15.1 percent of Hispanic immigrants held a bachelor’s degree. Between 2012 and 2017, 28.5 percent did, roughly in line with the overall U.S. population.

Despite all of this, Hispanics are frequent targets of discrimination. A recent report by the Hispanic Marketing Council noted, “Fifty-five percent (but only 15 percent of non-Hispanics) said Latinos encounter frequent discrimination, while 67 percent of Hispanics strongly or somewhat agree that as a group they are discriminated against more than other ethnic minorities.”

In particular, we must recognize that

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letters HealNY brings needed funding To the Editor: I recently began a statewide “HealNY” tour of the state as we begin delivering the first funding from a $1.5 billion pool to combat the opioid epidemic. The funding — which will go to all 10 regions of the state — comes from different settlements that the state attorney general’s office negotiated following a March 2019 lawsuit against the various manufacturers and distributors responsible for the opioid crisis.

While the tour will stop in dozens of counties throughout October, all 62 counties across the state will receive funds from the various settlements.

For more than two decades, New Yorkers have experienced the dire and deadly effects of opioids. As we embark on this tour, we are ensuring every county gets financial help to recover from the devastation that opioids have

America’s Hispanic population is not monolithic — it is diverse, with a variety of cultures according to people’s countries of origin. A Mexican American, an Argentine American and a Dominican American might share the same Spanish language, but their cultures of origin are very different.

We saw the issue recently play out in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of his Broadway sensation “In the Heights,” a musical that speaks to the hopes and dreams of Hispanic people living in the close-knit New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights, overlooking the Hudson River, in view of the George Washington Bridge.

The film, released on HBO Max, was widely praised for its artistry, but criticized because it failed to include darkskinned Afro-Latinos, who comprise a significant portion of Washington Heights’s actual population, among the film’s leading characters. That is, the film treated Hispanics as members of a single culture.

Miranda took to Twitter to acknowledge the psychic pain the film may have caused, writing, “I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism, of feeling still unseen in the feedback … Without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy. In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short.”

There is a lesson here that all of us can take away: We must see Hispanic Americans as individuals, each with his or her own heritage that contributes to the American landscape, including here in Nassau County, one of the most diverse places in the nation.

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lthough I was raised in the United States as a Hispanic immigrant, born to immigrant parents, I have long been blasé about Hispanic Heritage Month. As a kid, I would stare curiously at the school calendar marking this month-long celebration and shrug it off as just another quirky, throwaway American holiday, like Groundhog Day or National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. Interesting to some, peculiar to many, and something that I didn’t particularly care for.

JUAn Perhaps it was the odd proposiLAsso tion that somehow, some way, you could condense the cultures and national histories of more than 600 million people under a catchall term like “Hispanic heritage.”

It’s true that there is some measure of shared experience, some invisible thread linking us Hispanics (for lack of a better term) together in this country we call home. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend the better part of my young adult life standing shoulder to shoulder with a diverse crowd of Hispanic community leaders and intellectuals, including academics, student leaders, attorneys and a

legislator. Each of these movers and shakers, with his or her own story and cultural identity, is proudly committed to improving the lives of fellow Hispanic Americans.

So you would think that, over the years, I would have shed my small-minded childhood indifference and come to have a deeper appreciation, even love, for this time to recognize the contributions of Hispanic Americans.

But I haven’t. I still don’t relish this special month.

I don’t have anything against Hispanic Heritage Month. I simply don’t understand the meaning of the term “Hispanic heritage.”

The conventional definition of “Hispanic” is broad enough to encompass people who trace their roots to Latin America and Spain. The term came into wide use in the 1970s, when there were issues with the U.S. census, and Hispanic organizations and leaders sought a term to identify the growing minority residing coast to coast. Hispanic was chosen as an imperfect but useful messenger to signal to those in the halls of power, and to neighborhoods across the U.S., that we were here, too, we mattered, and we were here to stay.

So this celebration, too, was a push for such visibility and inclusion. The month

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he term leaves the misguided impression that we have a fully integrated history.

Letters inflicted on them. The funds we are infusing into New York today and going forward will be used to invest in prevention, treatment and recovery. While no amount of money will ever compensate for the millions of addictions, the hundreds of thousands of deaths or the countless families torn apart by opioids, this money will be vital in preventing future devastation.

Opioid manufacturers and distributors were responsible for heavily marketing opioids to doctors, hospitals, health-care systems and others, which led to the over-prescription of the drugs across New York and the rest of the nation over the last two decades. The manufacturers included in our state lawsuit include Purdue Pharma and its affiliates, as well as members of the Sackler family (owners of Purdue) and the trusts they control; Janssen Pharmaceuticals and its affiliates (including its parent company, Johnson & Johnson); Mallinckrodt LLC and its affiliates; Endo Health Solutions and its affiliates; Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and its affiliates; and Allergan Finance LLC and its affiliates. The distributors named in the complaint were McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health Inc., Amerisource Bergen Drug Corporation

was intended to validate the reality that we Hispanic Americans have, since the beginning of America’s founding, added to the rich and diverse tapestry of the democratic experiment, anchoring us as members of the American popular concept of “the people.”

As President Lyndon Johnson declared, “The people of Hispanic descent are the heirs of missionaries, captains, soldiers and farmers who were motivated by a young spirit of adventure, and a desire to settle freely in a free land … This heritage is ours.”

And yes, that much is true. Hispanics have fought and continue to fight in the nation’s wars, contribute to its art and culture, and sit in the highest offices of political power as proud citizens and servants. But when examined more closely, the term “Hispanic heritage” brings with it a mess of ambiguity and confusion.

The term leaves the misguided impression that Latin America has a single, fully integrated history tracing its beginnings to Spanish and European colonialism.

Using this as the starting point for our story overshadows the bigger picture.

Multitudes of people from Europe, Africa and Asia collided with multitudes of others from pre-Columbian societies, not knowing that they would be caught in a

whirlwind of encounters, battles and unions that would dynamically entangle different people from vastly different regions and histories. This, in turn, sowed the seeds for cultural innovation and diffusion that would sprout into modern-day countries and societies unlike anything the world has ever seen.

Latin America, therefore, has no definitive maker’s mark etched into its diverse past, no single heritage.

For the sake of becoming a distinct, recognizable cohort in American demographics, we have regrettably traded away a part of reality we so-called “Hispanics” understand all too well but often fail to articulate. We are not one singular, panethnic group. According to Pew Research, most Hispanics prefer to use their country of origin to identify themselves.

Yet despite my serious qualms, I do now see the wisdom in devoting a monthlong celebration to exploring the unique complexity of our Latin American identities, and celebrating Hispanics who have and continue to serve the U.S. as one nation, one people, yet with feet still firmly planted in the pride and love of their distinct cultural histories.

All that I’d recommend is that if Americans are to get the most out of this month-long celebration, they start to think of us beyond the term “Hispanic.”

Juan Lasso is editor of the Valley Stream Herald.

FrAmework by Christina Daly

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Is congestion pricing the answer?

To the Editor: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s proposed congestion price tolling is politically sensitive. Congestion pricing may not kick in until January 2023. Final details of who will pay still need to be established. Elected officials will lobby for discounts or exemptions for police officers, firefighters, teachers, low-income workers, outerborough New York City residents, seniors, the physically disabled, small commercial delivery drivers, users of electric vehicles or other special niches.

These discounts or exemptions will likely be adopted to placate the constituents of elected officials running for reelection in 2021 or 2022. You can’t capture five years of toll revenues, estimated to be $1 billion per year (leveraged to raise $15 billion in support of MTA’s $51

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billion 2020-24 five-year capital plan), when you implement the program three years or more after 2020.

The late start for implementation, a downturn in the economy, more people telecommuting full- and part-time, and a series of discounts and exemptions to tolls could result in billions of lost

anticipated revenue.

LARRY PENNER Great Neck Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.

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