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PBA files suit to overturn state decision tions with the city “are pretty much nonexistent.” He also said he had had a few discussions The Long Beach Patrolmen’s with Phil Ragona, who stepped Benevolent Association, whose down as Long Beach’s police members have been working commissioner last month. Ragowithout a contract for over three na is to be replaced by Ron years, has filed suit in State Walsh, chief of the Nassau Supreme Court in Mineola, seek- County Police Department’s Suping to set aside a port Division. Wells state arbitrator’s rulsaid he hoped that ing that the uniononce Walsh is sworn ized officers are not in — on Jan. 15 — entitled to any pay talks between the raises. city and the PBA The ruling, by the will resume.

Public Employment Wells said he had Relations Board, also talked with Simwas made public in one Freeman, a forOctober. The board mer city corporation voted 2-1 against counsel who recentBrIan wElls raises for the PBA, ly left her job. “It has saying that Long PBA president been extremely frusBeach does not have trating,” Wells said, the money to meet dealing with several the union’s demands. The corporation counsels over the board’s three members included past few years. a representative of Long Beach, According to Wells, Long Terry O’Neill; an independent Beach was served with the court member, Arthur Riegel; and papers on Dec. 29. City officials Brian Wells, president of the declined to comment.

PBA. Wells cast the dissenting The PBA argues that the vote. board’s ruling should be set The PBA sought a 5 percent aside because “a relatively newly pay raise in 2015-16, and another enacted” section of state Civil 5 percent in 2016-17.

Service law is “unconstitutionWells said in an interview al” and “violates public policy,” over the weekend that negotiaContinued on page 3

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aVa lIthGow lEarnED how to use a video camera in preparation for the maiking of a documentary on the Holocaust. LBHS students will show the film at end of school year.

Teens to make Holocaust film L.B. students will interview survivors

By JaMEs BErnstEIn jbernstein@liherald.com

Sixteen Long Beach High School students are embarking on a journey that will take them back nearly 80 years, to a time when Jews were murdered, imprisoned in death camps and separated forever from families and loved ones during the Holocaust, one of the darkest periods in world history.

The students’ journey will culminate in a documentary

called “Names, Not Numbers.” The idea was generated 17 years ago by Tova Rosenberg, the director of special programs at Yeshiva University in Manhattan. Rosenberg said that over the intervening years, there have been 400 such projects, involving 6,000 students in the U.S., Canada and Israel. The Names, Not Numbers program is supported by a prominent national foundation that, for this cause, remains anonymous.

Gail Rusgo, of Lido Beach,

the director of general studies at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, now in Woodmere, organized the program for Long Beach High students to help educate them about the Holocaust. She selected students she knew “from around the neighborhood” or whose parents she knew. She chose both Jewish and nonJewish young people because, she said, diversity is important in the teaching of the Continued on page 3

egotiations with the city ‘are pretty much nonexistent.’

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Holocaust.

The program began at the high school on Dec. 20, when, Rusgo said, the first of several educational sessions began. The students will learn about the events, propaganda, and racist ideology that led to the Holocaust, and the atrocities that occurred in more than 20 countries before and during World War II, Rusgo said.

The students will eventually film interviews with Holocaust survivors, using documentary techniques they will learn from a filmmaker for CBS. Ava Lithgow, 15, one of the participating students, said she got involved in the project through her mother, Rachel, a friend of Rusgo’s and a vice president of the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, Israel. “I thought this was a good opportunity,” Ava said.

“In school, we never got educated about the Holocaust,” she said. Students learned about World War II, but not enough was said about the extermination of six million Jews, and others, by the Nazis.

“People don’t understand how big a deal this is,” Ava said. She added that when she gets to interview a survivor, she will focus on that person’s life before the war.

“I’d like to understand what their lives were like when they were children,” she said. “I’d like to ask them, ‘What was your favorite song?’”

Another student participant, Julianne Robinson, 18, has collected and refurbished surfboards and bicycles for children at the Martin Luther King Center in Long Beach. “I was interested in making a film about the Holocaust,” she said.

Julianne has studied the Holocaust at Temple Emanu-El in Long beach, she said, adding that she doesn’t believe students in public schools spend enough time learning about it. “I feel people don’t know the whole story,” she said.

When she gets the chance to interview a survivor, she said, she will ask how they would react to acts of anti-Semitism today.

Jeff Myers, Long Beach High’s principal, said the school has long been involved in teaching about the Holocaust. The school, Myers said, “has been an ardent

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Rachel lithgow talked to LBHS students about the Holocaust and the making of a documentary. supporter of creating inclusive environments and appreciating diversity for many years.”

Outside the classroom, he explained, many clubs and organizations work within the community on Holocaust-related activities. For the past few years, Myers said, the school has sponsored Holocaust educators during National Holocaust Remembrance Week, and has received a gold star for its participation in No Place to Hide, an initiative of the Anti-Defamation League that encourages activities in schools that challenge antiSemitism and racism.

“We’re always looking to increase awareness in our students about the Holocaust and other historical examples of genocide,” Myers said.

The documentary, Rusgo said, will be shown at the high school when it is completed at the end of this school year. “The teens will not only have acquired reallife skills . . .,” she said, “but they will also learn perhaps the most important life lessons: compassion, empathy, increased understanding of ‘others’ and exposure to cultures unbeknownst to them previously.”

LBPBA calls Civil Service law ‘vague’ continued from front page and the arbitration panel “exceeded its jurisdiction and lawful authority.”

According to the court papers, the PBA also argued that the board’s findings were “unreasonable and not supported by substantial evidence in the record, that the public member of the panel (Riegel) was biased against the PBA and in favor of the city” and that the decision “was arbitrary, capricious, irrational and an abuse of discretion.”

The board ruled not only that the PBA should not receive pay raises, but also that separation payments for new hires must be substantially reduced, because the city lacks the money to fund them.

Long Beach has been plagued by financial problems for years, the result, City Council members have said, of mismanagement by prior administrations.

Last February, the city hired a professional municipal financial expert, Donna Gayden, to straighten out its finances.

Under Gayden, Long Beach has developed a five-year plan to regain stability, but it is still relying on borrowing to pay debts.

The crux of the PBA’s argument is that state Civil Service law, on which the board relied, is vague. The law, according to the PBA’s suit, requires that, if the city is financially distressed, as is Long Beach, an arbitrator must base his or her decision on 70 percent of the city’s ability to meet the union’s demands.

“For a statute to not be deemed impermissibly vague, a reasonable degree of certainty is required so that individuals of ordinary intelligence are not forced to guess at the meaning,” the PBA papers state. The union adds that the arbitrator’s decision was “lopsided,” and was based on what PBA calls the vague Civil Service law.

“There’s no calculations as to how you can” come up with what constitutes 70 percent, Wells said. The PBA’s court documents state further said that “the [state] legislature has failed to provide instructions and guidance as to how to implement and calculate this specific weight.”

The Long Beach Police Department has about 60 members, 58 of whom are represented by the PBA.

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the long Beach PBA filed a suit in State Supreme Court to overturn a decision by an arbitrator mandating no pay raises.

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What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

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Guidance counselor Geoffrey Noss, far left, Robin Xiao, Jonathan Lelis De Sousa, Guidance Counselor Mariela Giammarino and Principal Jeffrey Myers.

Bright futures for QuestBridge recipients Long Beach High School seniors Jonathan Lelis De Sousa and Robin Xiao have been awarded QuestBridge National College Match scholarships based on their academic excellence and the completion of a rigorous application. Jonathan and Robin will attend Northwestern University and the University of Virginia, respectively, on full four-year scholarships.

From more than 18,500 applications that were submitted, QuestBridge selected 6,885 finalists. A record number of 1,464 students across the nation went on to earn distinction as Match Scholarship recipients.

Both students have taken an assortment of International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement courses and are involved in many areas of their school and community. Jonathan is a member of the National Honor Society and has participated in the Art Club and Math Club in previous years. He serves as captain of the cross-country team and was named All-Conference for two years. He is also a member of the track team and has earned numerous medals.

Jonathan plays guitar outside of school and performed with a group of friends during the Class Olympics. He is leaning towards a major in engineering

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and is exploring studies in physics as well.

Robin is an IB Diploma Candidate, president of the World Language and Art honor societies, an officer in the National Honor Society and an active member of the Key Club, Fashion Club, Math Club and Art Club. Prior to COVID-19, he volunteered through a local church, and he organized a food drive for his CAS project.

Earlier this school year, Robin won a Merit Award in the Long Island Arts Alliance’s Scholar Artist Awards Program. Last year, his work was showcased in the “Advanced Visions 16: High School Artists of Excellence Exhibition” at LIU Post and his photography has been selected for the Long Island Arts Council Show in Freeport in the past as well. He is interested in sustainable architecture and plans to pursue architecture and possibly engineering in college.

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Jonathan lelis de Sousa, along with Xiao, have numerous achivements that made the duo stand out among thousands of applications.

Martin Luther King Jr. Poster and Essay Contest

But he saved his fire for the department’s web site, which he suggested is out-of-date.

Ron Walsh, who will soon be sworn in “We need to bring it back to the 21st as Long Beach’s new police commission- century,” Walsh said. He said the site er, appeared before the public for the first needs to be updated in terms of informtime since he was chosen for ing the pubic about police the post, at a virtual meeting activities and how many of the city council Tuesday arrests the department has night. made.

Walsh, 55, who is now “I feel I’m going to be able chief of the Nassau County to hit the ground running,” Police Department’s Support Walsh said.

Division, was selected by the In other business, the city council over about a council upgraded to full-time dozen candidates, including the status of eight sanitation Phil Ragona, who had been workers who had been workwith the Long Beach departing part-time “for years,” said ment for 34 years and had ron Walsh city council president John come out of retirement about Bendo. five months ago to head the “What the city did was a 60-member force. Ragona resigned a few bit disgraceful,” Bendo said. He said the weeks ago after it became apparent the sanitation workers were working “excescouncil would choose Walsh, a veteran sive hours” and in some cases were makNassau County police officer. ing “less than minimum wage.”

Walsh thanked the council and Long “That was not acceptable,” Bendo said.

Beach City Manager Donna Gayden for The workers will no rceive health benputting their “faith and trust” in him. He efits as full-time employees. City officials said he has been attending some commu- said other sanitation workers will be put nity meetings and will attend more to on full-time status when Long Beach’s meet residents. “There’s a lot to learn,” financial situation improves.

Walsh said.

In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, the City of Long Beach invites elementary, middle and high school students from the barrier island to participate in honoring the legacy of Dr. King by submitting a poster or essay. The contest will help students reflect on Dr. King’s ideas and their impact on the community. Students in elementary school are invited to enter the poster contest, and middle school students have the option of entering either the poster or the essay contest. High School students can enter the essay contest.

The theme is: Unity, Service, and Collaboration during the Pandemic.

By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”

–Martin Luther King Jr. Entry Deadline: January 15, 2021 Submit to: City of Long Beach Events Office Re: MLK Jr. Day Long Beach Recreation Center 700 Magnolia Boulevard Long Beach, NY 11561 or email: lbevents@longbeachny.gov Winners will be announced on Monday, January 18, 2021 and displayed on the City’s website, social media, and

at City Hall. Cer tificates will be mailed.

Judging will be based on interpretation of theme, technical skill and originality.

Poster Contest: Posters should represent the theme of unity, service and collaboration. You may use paint, pencil, collage materials, digital illustration, photog raphy and more. Each poster must be at least 8 ½ x 11 but no larger than a 22” x 28” poster board.

Art must be the student’s own creation. Each entry must include the student’s name, school, grade, home/cell phone number, address and email address on the back of the poster.

E s s ay C o n t e s t : Essays should reflect on Dr. King’s dream and represent the theme of unity, service and collaboration during the pandemic.

Essays should be the student’s own words. No more than 500 words for high school students, and 300 words for middle school students. The cover sheet must contain the student’s name, school, grade, home/cell phone number, address, and email address.

For more information, contact the Events office at 516-705-7414.

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events and activities

community update Ongoing

Long Beach Writers’ Circle If you’re a writer and want to join other local writers serious about the craft, then come the Library’s Writers’ Circle on Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Library Board Meeting The Long Beach Public Library Board of Trustees meets at the library, 111 W. Park Ave., on the third Monday of every month. For more information contact info@longbeachlibrary.org.

Tuesday, Jan. 12 Board of Education Meeting

Covid-19 Food Pantry Distribution Center

The Board of Education meets on Tuesday, Jan. 14 atthe Long Beach Middle School, at 7 p.m. for a regular meeting.

Agendas will be posted online at www. lbeach.org.information.

The Nassau County-supported Covid-19 Food Pantry Distribution Center, located at 650 Magnolia Boulevard, will be open every Monday from 12- 4 p.m. for those in need. The Pantry is sponsored

by Long Island Cares, Inc., the Harry Chapin Food Bank. Families are welcome back monthly for food support.

Parent Survival Chat with Miss Nicole

Thursday, Jan. 7 Movement for Flexibility & Balance Designed to help relax and relieve stress by focusing on the breath (pranayama), Stephanie Durso’s popular class will help improve flexibility, balance, and concentration.

The exercises are done in a standing position, but seated chair modifications are available. We’ll finish off with a short guided meditation leaving you feeling peaceful and inspired. Please wear comfortable clothing and have a chair available. 1-3 pound weights are optional for a more challenging workout. The virtual event will take place from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Friday, Jan. 8 Film Discussion: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Join Library staff for our Friday Film discussion. This week they’re watching the 2013 black comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Rated R, 1hr 43min) which is available on hoopla with your library card. The virtual event will take place from 1-2 p.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

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Library celebrates Kappel’s 97th birthday

Put the kids to bed and come unwind and chat with Nicole and Jeannine, librarians and parents trying to navigate life at home with kids, work, and life... six feet apart. We’re hoping you need this as much as we do! Wine welcome.

The virtual event will take place from 9-10 p.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

On Dec. 8, the Long Beach Library celebrated the 97th birthday of Lester Kappel who has been working there since 1983. He has lived in Long Beach since he was seven years old and is a graduate of Long Beach High School, class of 1940.

National Student Debt Forgiveness (NSDF) Workshop Learn how to get some or all of your student loan debt forgiven. This is a free pre-recorded webinar; a representative from the National Student Debt Forgiveness (NSDF) company will answer questions during and after the presentation through chat. The virtual event will take place from 1-2 p.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Saturday, Jan. 9 Yoga for Health & Peace This advanced beginner Hatha yoga class is designed to strengthen and lengthen your muscles and free your mind. Instructor Stephanie Durso will

guide you into each pose and provide alignment cues for holding the pose and breathing deeply. The virtual event will take place from 10-11 a.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Sunday, Jan. 10 Treasure Mapping: Collage with Kathleen Regan Start the New Year on the right foot by creating a vision of your year ahead using the fun art of collage. Meditation and yoga teacher Kathleen Regan will show us how to manifest our desired goals for 2021 using upcycled materials in this stunning collage vision board. She will also demonstrate how to creatively visualize our desired reality

and generate a blueprint for achieving it. The virtual event will take place from 2-3:30 p.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Monday, Jan. 11 Strength Training & Ab Conditioning with Pat Cappeto This challenging workout is for active adults looking for a full-body workout.

We will target multiple muscle groups, from your arms and abs to your calves and thighs. The virtual event will take place from 9:30-10:30 a.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

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 dyanes@liherald.com

Martin Luther King Jr. Day in on Monday, Jan. 18.

Umemploment benefits have been extended.

State announced the Covid Rent Relief Program will be reopened for application with expanded eligibility criteria.

Covid cases in Long Beach top 2,000.

Winter high school sports begin this week.

Covid-19 cases rising in the city, to over 2,100 jbernstein@liherald.com

The covid 19 pandemic did not take any break for the holidays in Long Beach, where the infection rate has now gone above the 2,000 mark, its highest level yet, according to the latest figures supplied by the Nassau County Department of Health.

There are now over 2,100 cases of covid in Long Beach, up from 1,932 just before New Years’ Eve, and 1,654 just before Christmas, the health department figures show.

Covid infection rates have risen in most places in Nassau County, In Hempstead, there were 3,869 cases, ian DanBy among the highChairman, est in the county, L.B. Chamber of and in Freeport, there were 3,299 Commerce c a s e s. N a s s a u County itself had 93,106 cases. The rates in Nassau have been rising since late October.

John McNally, executive assistant to the Long Beach City manager, has been providing updates to residents at twice-weekly meetings of the city council.

McNally said earlier this week that the city continues to monitor the covid pandemic rates.

“We’re communicating information to residents as it becomes available,” McNally said. He said the city posts covid information on its website. The Long Beach police department and the State Liquor Authority monitor covid rules handed down by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Restaurants and bars must limit capacity in their establishments.

“There is a level of concern,” McNall said at a city council meerting Tuesday night. “We urge everybody to avoid gathering.”

He said the annual Polar Bear event in Long Beach has been cancelled this year because of the covid pandemic. Too many people gathering on the beach would present a covid hazard. “There’s no way to do a plunge,” McNally said.

Dr. Aaron Glatt, chairman of medicine at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital, in Oceanside, said in an interview that not enough people are adhering to covid regulations. As a result, he said, “We haven’t seen the peak yet, unfortunately.”

“I don’t have any simple answers,” Glatt said. “It’s a matter of wearing masks, social distancing and sanitizing.”

Ian Danby, chairman of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, asked about the latest numbers said, “Yes, I am alarmed, but not surprised. Long Beach is a place where come to hang out. So you’re going to have more offenders here. That includes people who are family-oriented and getting together, and maybe should not be.: “But I’m definitely worried,” Danby said.”

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran announced Tuesday that the county has partnered with Northwell Health to

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es, I am alarmed.

open Nassau’s first county distribution center at Nassau Community College in Garden City. She said vaccinations were to given out beginning Tuesday, “to those who fit New York State criteria.” Appointments for shots must be made online at www.nassaucountyny.gov/vaccine.

“We are ready, set, go with the County’s first vaccination center. This is the beginning of our local effort to join New York State and Nassau’s hospital networks to roll out the vaccine,” Curran said in a statement.

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Federal gov’t stalling offshore wind farms the federal governMent is holding up construction of offshore wind farms between Long Island and New Jersey because the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has yet to assign the final leasing grounds for them, as it was supposed to have done two years ago. Above, a view of the nation’s only offshore wind farm, off the coast of Rhode Island.

By Madeline arMstrong The final leasing grounds for offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean south of Long Island were supposed to have been designated in early 2019 so lease auctions could be held, but nearly two years later, they have not yet been assigned, slowing New York’s bid to acquire 70 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2030.

Assignment of New York Bight Offshore Wind Energy Areas, located between Long Island and New Jersey, has been indefinitely postponed without explanation, angering local elected leaders like U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, a Democrat from Garden City and a wind energy proponent.

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a division of the Department of the Interior, oversees assignment of offshore wind leasing grounds. Rice, who represents the 4th Congressional District, covering a wide swath of Nassau County’s South Shore, recently wrote to DOI Secretary David Ber nhardt to express her outrage that designation of the WEAs continued to be delayed.

She was joined by other elected leaders, including Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from Glen Cove who represents the 3rdCongressional District, and who was formerly Nassau’s county executive, as well as Rep. Jerrold Nadler of the 10th District and Rep. Tom Reed of the 23rd District. The representatives asked that the BOEM assign the WEAs so lease auctions could be held. To date, they have not received a response from either the BOEM or the DOI. That has local environmental advocates concerned and dismayed, as offshore wind does not emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere the way fossil fuel power plants that burn oil, natural gas and coal do, and so wind energy is not a cause of climate change, the slow heating of the Earth over time. Global warming is considered a particular threat to Long Island because it causes sea levels to rise and hurricanes to grow bigger.

“If we’re really going to fight climate change and transition to renewable energy, offshore wind has to play a key role,” said Adrienne Esposito, executive director of the Farmingdale-based Citizens Campaign for the Environment. “It is not a luxury item. It is a necessity.”

Esposito said she supports Rice’s letter.

“We really need a congressional representative to get involved, take action and support wind farms,” Esposito said.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, a state agency that promotes energy efficiency and renewable power, is also calling on BOEM to designate the final WEAs. “Our progress in catalyzing this gamechanging industry is limited without additional lease areas in the New York Bight — a needed solution only BOEM has the authority to execute,” read a NYSERDA statement. “We urge BOEM to issue final Wind Energy Areas for the New York Bight.”

When contacted, BOEM gave the following statement: “BOEM continues to

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this Map, froM the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, shows the potential wind energy that would be captured off the coast of Long Island. work with our government agencies and our stakeholders to assess how future offshore wind development could affect other ocean uses with the goal of reducing potential conflicts.” The BOEM said it was assessing possible conflicts, but it did not specify what they might be.

Esposito said she believes the federal government has been stalling the assignment process to assist the oil and gas industries. President Trump “has been clear he does not support wind,” she said, “and wants to continue advancing the exploration and development of oil and guess industries.”

Rice said Trump has never supported wind farms and has worked to stall other

renewable energy projects in New York.

In July 2019, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, legally requiring New York to obtain 70 percent of its energy supply from renewable sources such as wind, solar and geothermal.

According to Joe Martens, director of the New York Offshore Wind Alliance, a coalition of advocacy groups that support wind power, 27 percent of New York’s energy currently comes from renewable sources. “We have a long way to go in 10 years,” said Martens, “and offshore wind is one of the ways that we can make the transition.”

There are currently three projects proposed in the New York Bight, two of which — Sunrise Wind and Empire Wind — have begun the regulatory review and permitting processes, and have the potential to power hundreds of thousands of homes and bring in hundreds of millions of dollars, even billions, for the local economy. “As New York continues to build back its economy from the [Covid-19] pandemic,” read a NYSERDA statement, “offshore wind provides a massive opportunity to stimulate billions of dollars in investments and create thousands of family-sustaining jobs.”

The New York Bight wind farms would create about 32,000 jobs annually, Martens said. “I think this is a great opportunity for a whole new generation of workers,” said Roger Clayman, executive director of the Long Island Federation of Labor. “Our labor movement was not always environmentally sensitive, but the fact is we’re all on the front lines of climate change.”

When the Wind Energy Areas might be designated is unclear. “I don’t know if anybody could [know] unless they had a crystal ball,” Esposito said. Martens said that 6,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy would need to be generated by 2030 to help New York reach its goal of 70 percent renewable energy by that year.

Development of a single wind farm takes years. That is why it is crucial, the experts said, to designate the WEAs so leases can be assigned, and the years-long regulatory review process and construction can begin.

“I will openly concede that it will be a challenge,” Martens said, “but in New York anyways, we’re required to do it.”

Esposito urged Long Islanders to “speak up and speak out in favor of wind energy.” “Having a voice matters,” she said, “and we can’t stay silent and hope that things change.”

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News briefs Effective January 4, 2021 the City of Long Beach will transition to Dual Stream Recycling. This means that residents must place clean mixed paper in one container and other recyclables such as plastic, glass and metal in another.

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Two recycling trucks will pick up items separately. The City is actively working to secure funds for additional residential bins but at this time additional bins are not available.

Residential Recycling pickup will take place five days a week and has been divided into five zones.

LONG BEACH HERALD — January 7, 2021

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Herald Inside LI talks vaccines at webinar

By Nicole AlciNdor nalcindor@liherald.com

Last year, nearly 350,000 Americans died of Covid-19 — and more than 3.2 million total — making 2020 the deadliest year in U.S. history, according to the Associated Press. Help, though, is on the way.

In the weeks leading up to the New Year, the federal Food and Drug Administration approved two vaccines — the first by Pfizer-BioNTech and the second by Moderna —which have gone to health-care workers and will also go to residents of long-term care facilities during the early stages of distribution.

On Dec. 23, Herald Inside LI held a Zoom webinar featuring three doctors, all of whom recently received a first shot of vaccination, to discuss their experiences and what people can expect in the coming months.

“I urge people to take the vaccine because Covid-19 is a horrific disaster to human life,” said Dr. Aaron Glatt, chairman of the Department of Medicine, chief of infectious diseases and the hospital epidemiologist at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside. “We want to go back to hugging and seeing people, and the way we will do this is through the Covid-19 vaccines. The goal is to vaccinate everyone.”

Webinar attendees were encouraged to submit their questions for the panelists. One viewer asked if the vaccine could hurt fertility.

“There were some cases of women who got pregnant after getting the vaccine; however, there is zero evidence that the vaccine can cause infertility,” Glatt said. “I would tell a pregnant woman that it’s a personal decision if she wants to take the vaccine, but if she chooses to get the vaccine, she might be protecting herself more, as well as protecting others and [her] baby. [She] might even give [her] baby antibodies against the virus.”

Another viewer wondered whether people of color were more likely to experience side effects from the vaccine or lower efficacy.

“There were about 40,000 people of color that were represented in the experimental trials for these two vaccines,” said Dr. Zenobia Brown, vice president and medical director of population health at Northwell Health Solutions. “We have proven that the vaccines are safe for people in minority groups.”

Brown and Glatt agreed that although the PfizerBioNTech and Moderna vaccines were proven 95 percent effective in experimental trials, after people receive them, there is still a chance that they can contract the

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“When I get my second dose of the vaccine, I won’t become Superman. I don’t know how to play the piano now, and I won’t magically know how to play the piano after the second dose,” Glatt said. “We still need to be careful, and we still have to wear masks and social distance.”

“I cannot stress this enough: Social distance and wear masks, even if you get the vaccine,” Brown said. “My biggest fear is that people will not want the vaccine. I look forward to the day when more and more people will want to take the vaccines.”

For Dr. Nicolas Hernandez, the academic hospitalist at Northwell Plainview Hospital and another panelist, taking the vaccine was a decision that he made to protect his family, his patients and himself.

“I was scared when they gave me the Pfizer vaccine, but I’ve been a patient with Covid-19, I’ve had family

Herald Inside LI to host local college webinar With the Covid-19 infection rate rising during a second wave, many Long Island parents were concerned about the health and safety of their college-aged children who lived in university dorms during the fall semester.

In the coming weeks, before the spring semester begins, parents will have to choose whether to send their children back to school to live in campus dorms or off-campus apartments, or whether they should live at home and attend local schools.

Local colleges are accepting students on rolling admission to accommodate those who decide at the last minute to stay home for the spring semester. Many parents, though, are wrestling with

choosing the best options for their children.

Herald Inside LI will host a free live Zoom webinar, sponsored by Molloy College, on Thursday, Jan. 7, at 7 p.m., to discuss staying local for college. The webinar will feature college advisers, counselors and college students, who will share their thoughts on staying home this spring.

To register, go to LIHerald.com/StayingLocal. To sponsor a webinar or for more information, contact Amy Amato at aamato@richnerlive.com or (516) 5694000 ext. 224. For questions, email insideli@liherald.com.

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members that have had Covid-19, and I take care of patients with Covid-19, so I wanted to do my part,” Hernandez said, while adding that his only reaction to the first shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was temporary fatigue and soreness. “As a family physician, I recommend that all immunocompromised people should get the vaccine, and even if you are not up for the vaccine, still do your part.”

This webinar was the final episode of the first season of Herald Inside LI. To watch the recording of this episode and all others, go to LIHerald.com/Recordings and subscribe to the Herald Inside LI YouTube channel.

The next Herald Inside LI episode will take place on Thursday, Jan. 7, at 7 p.m. and will feature college advisers and counselors discussing students staying local for upcoming spring semester, rather than going away to school. To register, go to LIHerald.com/StayingLocal.

Kaminsky renamed committee chair

LONG BEACH HERALD — January 7, 2021

S t a t e S e n . T o d d K a m i n s k y issues concerning the environment — announced Wednesday that he was from protecting wildlife to fostering sustainable solutions to reappointed as Chair of tackling climate change. In the Senate Environmental addition to its fiscal and Conservation Committee legislative duties, the Comfor the 2021-2022 Legislamittee is also responsible tive Session by Majority for conducting oversight Leader Andrea-Stewart o f t h e N e w Yo rk S t a t e Cousins. Kaminsky De par tment of Environchaired the Committee in mental Conservation, the 2019-2020 Le gislative among other state agenSession. cies.

“I am grateful that LeadKaminsk y has been a er Stewart-Cousins reapleader on protecting the pointed me to chair the environment, and S e n a t e E nv i r o n m e n t a l a u t h o r e d N e w Yo r k ’ s Conservation Committee, nation-leading climate and am excited to further change law — the Climate foster New York’s continLeadership and Communiued leadership in tackling t y P ro t e c t i o n A c t — t o threats to our communitransition the state to nett i e s a n d t h e p l a n e t a t - todd zero carbon emissions by large,” Kaminsky said. “I KamInSKy 2050. He also passed legislook forward to the continState Senator lation to ban offshore drillued opportunity to protect ing, ensure illegal dumpLong Island’s natural resources and fight climate change — ers are held accountable and prohibit fo r o u r g e n e r at i o n a n d t h o s e t o plastic bags, in addition to securing record investments in clean water on come.”

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Town of Hempstead awards grants to local school districts

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The Long Beach school district is among 36 in Hempstead Town that will receive up to $150,000 from the federal Cares Act set up to congress to help municipalities suffering from the covid pandemic.

The funding was approved by the Hempstead town board Tuesday.

In total for the 36 school district, the grants amount to $5.4 million. In addition to Long Beach, grants will also to to school districts in Hempstead, Uniondale, Bellmore-Merrick and Oceanside.

The initiative was announced last month at a news conference.

“As the year is coming to an end, I would like to thank Senator (Chuck) Schumer one last time for his part in securing the funding for initiatives like this that have and continue to help tens of thousands of Hempstead residents,” Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin said last month. “Our schools stepped up to their responsibility of educating children in spite of the chal-

lenges arisen by the pandemic. One of the challenges has been equipping the schools according to protocols to protect students, staff members and their families.”

In October, Long Beach school officials said that covid related expenses could cost the district nearly $4 million.

The expenses included PPE, extra teachers and online resources for students. The district used funds from its unassigned fund balance or “rainy day fund” to make up the cost.

Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Jenifer Gallagher could not be reached for comment.

In the midst of the pandemic, the town, which has a population of more than 800,000 residents, was awarded $133 million from the Cares Act. More than $70 million of those funds were used for the town’s payroll, which Democratic lawmakers have questioned and have asked for a federal probe to investigate the use of those funds.

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LONG BEACH HERALD — January 7, 2021

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When Deborah Salant heard that victims of the coronavirus pandemic were being stored in refrigerated trucks in New York City, she knew she wanted to donate her family’s two burial plots at Greenfield Cemetery to those who could not afford to bury their loved ones during this pandemic.

She was not going to use the plots, which can fit four graves, she said, as she has no children of her own, and she plans to be buried with her grandparents and parents at the Nassau Knolls Cemetery in Port Washington.

“I’m sitting on this cemetery plot I’m not going to use,” said Salant, a 66-year-old Franklin Square resident, and she thought donating it to a family who lost a loved one to the coronavirus would ease the family’s trauma because they would not have to worry about what could happen to their relative’s body.

But when she spoke to a representative from Greenfield about transferring the burial rights to a family in need, Salant was surprised to learn that she would need to spend more than $12,000 on the site her great-grandfather purchased more than a century ago, and would not be able to transfer her rights to the property to a non-relative, under the Town of Hempstead code.

Feeling dejected, she then wrote to town officials who own and operate the Uniondale facility, asking them to change the law during the pandemic, and was ready to plead her case at the Dec. 8 board meeting when town officials announced that they had already unanimously passed a resolution to allow people to transfer their rights to families of Covid victims and suspend all costs associated with the transfer.

Her family’s debts on the property were also

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at a news conference with elected officials on Dec. 10, Deborah Salant spoke about how she donated two cemetery plots to families of Covid victims. expunged.

“I was just speechless that they accepted this,” Salant said. “Walking out, I feel like I was shaking.”

“She broke down in tears,” Town Supervisor Donald X. Clavin recounted at a news conference about the new policy on Dec. 10, “but we gave her the applause she deserves.”

The town is on track to double the number of funerals it held last year, he said, with state records showing that

there have been more than 2,200 Covid-related deaths in Nassau County since the pandemic began, and Clavin told Salant that her idea “is potentially going to help hundreds of people in this pandemic” by providing them with funerals at a town-owned cemetery that are half the cost of funerals at private cemeteries.

“You might say you’ll have an everlasting memory,” Clavin told Salant, adding that the town is “here to help people” and “here to do what’s right.”

Nassau resident could be first woman on moon Baldwin native Jasmin Moghbeli could become the first woman to step foot on the Moon.

NASA recently selected 18 astronauts from its corps to form the Artemis Team and pave the way for the next astronaut missions on and around the Moon as part of the Artemis program.

The members of the Artemis Team, according to a NASA news release, were introduced during the National Space Council meeting at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 9.

After completing more than two years of basic training, Moghbeli, along with her fellow candidates, graduated from the program in January and became eligible for spaceflight, including assignments to the International Space Station, Artemis missions to the moon, and ultimately, missions to Mars.

The NASA candidates were chosen from a record-setting pool of more than 18,000 applicants. Moghbeli was selected and joined the Astronaut Candidate Class in 2017.

The New York native was born in Germany but considers Baldwin her hometown. She attended Lenox Elementary School, later graduated from Baldwin Senior High School and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering with Information Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School.

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JasMin MoghBeli was helped into a spacesuit before underwater spacewalk training at the Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston.

She is also a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School and has accumulated more than 1,600 hours of flight time and 150 combat missions.

At the time of her selection in 2017, Moghbeli was testing H-1 helicopters and serving as the quality assurance and avionics officer for Marine Operational Test

and Evaluation Squadron 1 of the U.S. Marine Corps in Yuma, Ariz.

She has been awarded four Air Medals, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, three Navy and Marine Corp Achievement Medals and various unit commendations as well as other awards and recognitions.

NASA’s modern lunar exploration program will land the first woman and next man on the Moon in 2024, according to the release, and establish a sustainable human lunar presence by the end of the decade.

NASA will announce flight assignments for astronauts later, pulling from the Artemis Team. Additional Artemis Team members, including international partner astronauts, will join the group, as needed, officials said.

“We are incredibly grateful for the president and vice president’s support of the Artemis program, as well as the bipartisan support for all of NASA’s science, aeronautics research, technology development and human exploration goals,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a statement. “As a result, we’re excited to share this next step in exploration – naming the Artemis Team of astronauts who will lead the way, which includes the first woman and next man to walk on the lunar surface.”

The astronauts of the Artemis Team will help NASA prepare for the coming Artemis missions, which begin next year working with the agency’s commercial partners as they develop human landing systems; assisting in the development of training; defining hardware requirements; and consulting on technical development. They also will engage the public and industry on the Artemis program and NASA’s exploration plans.

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Oceanside begins winter sports practice

By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

For the first time since mid-March, Nassau County high school athletes participated in practice for their respective sports on Monday afternoon as the longanticipated season for low- and moderaterisk winter sports got off the ground despite rising Covid-19 cases.

Public high schools all across Long Island are moving forward to compete in bowling, gymnastics, track and field and swimming/diving, with events beginning as soon as Jan. 11. High-risk winter sports such as basketball, wrestling, hockey and competitive cheerleading remain on hold and are subject to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s guidelines.

Oceanside High School is one of few in Nassau with teams in all four sports permitted to start. Most won’t have the same look or feel, with coaches and student-athletes wearing masks in most cases and the possibility of virtual meets with teams located at different sites.

“We’re hoping to get at least an hour at practice every day, but it’s going to be complicated with taking out and putting away the equipment, and sanitizing it,” said longtime Oceanside gymnastics coach Andy Morris, who said the team’s schedule calls for all road trips. “We should have at least 20 girls, including six seniors who compete in all four events.”

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ErIc BErENShTYN, LEfT, and Michael Ormiston are two of the Sailors’ swim team captains who began practice Monday morning.

Nassau’s track and field schedules are in the process of being revamped after the county was notified by St. Anthony’s High School it would be unable to host meets inside its fieldhouse. Instead, Section VIII, the governing body for Nassau high school athletics, moved to Plan B, which is outdoor meets at local sites with lighting that are willing to host.

“The kids are excited to be training again and to have something to train for,” Sailors girls’ track and field coach Mike Howley said. “Things aren’t going to look

the way they usually look, but they’ve been preparing and waiting for the season to get here.”

Junior Jada King, who runs yearround and competes in the 800- and 1500meter races during the winter, said she’s been training with a mask on. “It’s much harder to breathe, but it’s manageable,” she said. “It’ll be tough having outdoor meets, but it’s better than nothing. We’re just excited to be together as a team.”

Oceanside boys’ swimming/diving coach John Madden said he expects to

carry a roster size between 25 and 30.

With practice at 5:30 a.m. Monday morning at the Friedberg JCC, Madden thought his team became the first in the county to start official preparation for the season.

Senior Mike Ormiston, a fourth-year swimmer who competes in the breaststroke, freestyle and relays, said it’ll be fun to start the morning with teammates and seeing many in the halls throughout the day. “We’re feeling pretty confident about the season,” he said.

On the state level, the date for the start of the high-risk winter sports has already been changed twice. It was moved from Nov. 16 to Nov. 30 and then to Jan. 4. The New York State Public High School Athletic Association said it will not put another potential start date on those sports and wait for authorization from the governor’s office.

“As the [COVID-19 infection] numbers continue to increase all across the state, those high-risk sports activities remain on hold until we see a decline and that’s not happening,” state budget director Robert Mujica said during the governor’s press conference on Dec. 11.

“We’re at the mercy of the governor’s guidelines,” Oceanside girls’ basketball head coach Jared Stoler said. “We’re optimistic, but also realistic. I’d like to say there will be some sort of season, but nobody knows.”

Island Harvest distributed food to those in need Hempstead Town officials handed out hundreds of boxes of food to residents in need last month, and announced a new program with Island Harvest to ensure that nobody within the town goes hungry as the coronavirus pandemic continues.

“This pandemic has brought many challenges to our table, and one of the most serious is the abundant concern for food,” said Town Supervisor Don Clavin. “No one should struggle to obtain a meal. We aligned with Island Harvest with one goal in common: Ensure no one in the Town of Hempstead goes hungry during this holiday season.”

The town board recently approved a $400,000 grant using funding from the town’s $133 million federal CARES Act fund for the food bank’s No One Should Go Hungry in Hempstead program, he said, which ran through the end of the month. The program began with Island Harvest distributing 4,500 health and shelf-stale food boxes to seniors at a variety of drop-off points and 15 lowincome senior housing sites. Seniors make up 16 percent of the town’s population and are the most likely to experience food insecurity, officials said, and the boxes included food support resources for them, nutrition information and the contact information for

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Island Harvest also hosted four food distribution events over the course of two weeks to provide families and students with 4,000 boxes of healthy food,, such as meat, fresh produce and dairy products. Additionally, the food bank distributed 400 shelf-stable food boxes per week to the Long Island Federally Qualified Health Centers in Elmont, Roosevelt, Hempstead and Freeport.

Many patients at these health centers are low-income, town officials said, and are at risk of becoming food insecure.

“Supervisor Don Clavin and the town board have been invaluable partners in helping us provide much-needed food assistance to thousands of Town of Hempstead residents who have suddenly found themselves in the unenviable position of not having enough to eat,” Randi Shubin Dresner, president and CEO of Island Harvest Food Bank, said in a statement. “Thanks to their support and advocacy, we’re helping make sure that no one goes without such a basic need as food, and on behalf of the people we serve, we thank them for their efforts.”

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A. You picked a bad time in the process to propose a change. I have experienced this ongoing type of problem, and usually ended up taking the clients and their designer to meet with the building officials who uphold their community’s laws, zoning and building regulations.

The first problem here is that you seem to be getonte eeper ting bad advice from your designer, because the state code specifically prohibits the use of an attic as living space above the second floor, unless your community and state authorities review and both authorities agree that the use is safe. You would also need to sprinkler the interiors of the house and have a safe means to escape to an area no more than 12 feet below the top floor.

Studies have shown that only five out of 100 people survived a fire in the top level above the second story in a wood-framed one- or two-family residence; 95 out of 100 died.

If your architect is experienced in your particular community, one of more than 70 jurisdictions in your county, each with their own zoning board and rules, you should take his advice. Your community has previously not approved attics as living space, and no licensed professional who is doing their job will support the idea of putting you or your children’s lives in jeopardy. Either take the architect’s advice and proceed, speak directly to your building official, stop the job while you apply for a local zoning variance and state variance decisions (which could take up to a year) and then proceed.

Keep in mind that if either one of the boards turns you down, you are prohibited from having a habitable third floor, and you will have to submit revised plans and reconstruct anything that doesn’t comply with the law. In my experience, your community is very strict, and has even delayed its final decision and then forced the owner to cut down (rebuild) the wishful height to the regulation height. If your “designer” isn’t licensed and legally qualified to advise you, he may actually be violating the law. In your state it’s a class E felony for him to hold himself out to be practicing without a license.

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t’s now nearly a year since the Trump administration learned that a deadly virus was making its way into our country. During that period, the White House and many governors have engaged in a political wrestling match over who was responsible for leading the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.

While you may not like the conclusion, it is clear that President Trump never took this crisis seriously, and is even less concerned now that his tenure is about to end.

It may be an uphill battle, but JERRY President-elect Joe Biden has made it kREMER clear that he is willing to aggressively step into that battle on Jan. 20, because the next six to nine months will determine whether the pandemic is beaten. There are two good reasons why there has to be a field general leading the fight. America can’t afford for this dark cloud to linger indefinitely because of the economic damage we have experienced. Moreover, what if there is another pandemic, caused by one

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Prior to the election, the president predicted that there would be many millions of vaccinations before the end of the year.

To date, fewer than three million people have been inoculated, and only 11 million doses have been distributed around the country. The slow rate of inoculations is due to the fact that many states are staggering under the weight of testing costs and the needs of responders. Local governments and health care institutions have been on their own for 10 months after being told by Washington that the virus was a state-by-state problem.

Biden has pledged to get inoculation numbers up to one million a day. That is comforting, but health care professionals estimate that even at that rate, it would take over a year to vaccinate every American. And to reach that pace, the federal government will have to take some draconian measures.

The Defense Production Act dates back to the Korean War. It gives the president the power to force companies to drop their private customers and produce what the country needs. Trump claimed he used

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the act to get General Motors to build more respirators, but GM claimed it came forward on its own to build them. The president didn’t aggressively use the act, for fear of offending his conservative base, which opposes government intervention.

Why is there a need for use of the act now? When you have a mass anti-virus campaign, you need more than a vaccine. The big pharma companies are spending billions of dollars to keep up with their competition and protect their stockholders. In addition to the vaccines, you need cotton swabs, syringes, packing materials, dry ice and other supplies, and those products aren’t manufactured by big pharma. That’s where the federal government comes in. Using the act, manufacturers can be forced to produce the goods that are needed to get a complete program in place.

While Biden is preparing to take on the vaccine program, the pandemic is exploding in numerous states that have a shortage of hospital gowns, masks and gloves and can’t cover the costs of doctors, nurses and other first responders. Bipartisan

ven ramping up to a million inoculations a day may not be enough.

Covid relief legislation finally signed last week by the president will inject some new money into the efforts of local organizations, but it won’t make up for the costs they have been incurring since last March.

The world is keeping a close eye on our national effort, and many friendly countries are trying to figure out why we’ve done such a terrible job of combating the virus. But our enemies are also keeping a close eye on our tragedy. In his latest book, “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World,” author and CNN host Fareed Zakaria claims that our enemies could create another health crisis in our country in as little as 24 hours. Are we capable of handling another one? You know the answer to that question.

The weeks and months ahead will determine how long America will suffer and how well we will heal. Happily, the incoming administration is prepared to pick up the ball dropped by the outgoing one.

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?

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Saving our sanity and our souls through books

reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The person who never reads lives only one.”

— George R.R. Martin

It nearly killed me. One of my grandkids said they “hate” books. They don’t read books except when one is assigned in school.

Given the options of smartphones, TV and computers, they don’t ever crack the cover of a novel or nonfiction adventure, even during RandI quarantine, when there’s so little to kREIss do.

Oddly, this kid gets good grades and likes school, which seems counterintuitive, because I can’t imagine anyone becoming an educated person in the world without reading books. It’s not like I haven’t tried. I have gifted and suggested books pitched toward this particular teen’s interests. I’ve read the same books they are assigned in class so we can talk about them. I keep tossing out lines and getting no bites.

My hope is that this child just hasn’t found the right books yet to get their attention. I know a few people who

became enthusiastic readers in adulthood. I wish that for this young person I love.

Granted, I was a book nerd from the time I could put eyes on paper. I remember, in first grade, begging my father for some money so I could buy books. It was like falling in love. My first loves were “Half Magic,”

by Edgar Eager, and “The Boxcar Children,” by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

If feels lame even to be defending reading when it seems so self-evident that through books we fire up our imaginations, we live other lives and we timetravel to places beyond our reach. We find comfort in finding common ground with writers. It is a bias, but I do believe that life is only halflived without books.

As part of my own life, I have led book groups for the past 20 years, and this year will do so again. For the first time, our group will be Zoomed, and so it’s open to anyone who contacts the Longboat Key Education Center (941383-8811, (charity@longboatkeyeducationcenter.com) wishing to sign up. We meet at 11 a.m. on Wednesdays, and began this week with the first of eight short books in eight weeks.

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I want to share my reading list because I call my class “Literary Gems,” and these are. We begin with “Hamnet,”

by Maggie O’Farrell. William Shakespeare had a son, Hamnet, who died when he was 11. Four years later, the bard wrote “Hamlet.” From these thin facts, O’Farrell weaves a rich story of grief and life in the throes of a plague.

Our second book is “We Have Always Lived in this Castle,” by Shirley Jackson. Murder, mayhem and the especially delicious brand of British madness abound in this story by the author of the most famous short story in the world, “The Lottery.” Next, we’ll read “The Boy in the Field,” by Margot Livesay, a luminous psychological thriller. Our last book for January is “Writers and Lovers,” by Lily King, a gorgeously written, rather ordinary story of a young woman finding her way, told with extraordinary beauty.

In February, we’ll read “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” by Ocean Vuong. This debut novel by a Vietnamese-American writer was described as “permanently stunning” by Ron Charles of The Washington Post. It is an original and exquisite amalgam of memoir,

or many of us, talking about them is as much fun as reading them.

letters and poetry. Next, we read “The Disappearing Earth,” by Julia Phillips, comprising an astonishing cast of characters, an unspeakable crime, all set in Kamchatka, on the Siberian peninsula.

Our third book next month is “Trust Exercise,” by Susan Choi, a brilliant send-up of students enthralled with themselves in an artsy university setting. The language is pitch-perfect. Our last selection is “Last Train to Key West,” by Chanel Cleeton. It is 1935, and a ferocious hurricane is barreling towards the Florida Keys. A helluva story of three women caught up in a story of murder, betrayal and salvation.

For many of us “bookies,” talking about the novels and nonfiction works is as much fun as reading them, like a delicious dessert after a remarkable meal.

So I hope some readers can join the book group. But no matter what, wherever you are at this moment, sheltering in place, working from home or venturing out, I want to share these special books with the hope that you connect with the authors and find solace and peace and joy in that connection.

Reading? The past year, when so much was lost, books brought joy into to my life. As the new year begins, they are the untapped treasure of 2021.

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

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Resolve to monitor your mental health in 2021

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et’s say it like it was: 2020 was miserable. It was a horrid year for us all. Everyone — everyone — was affected to one degree or another by the coronavirus pandemic, which washed over us like a merciless tidal wave, leaving fear, anxiety and death in its wake.

The speed at which the virus swept across the land was stunning, leaving us feeling helpless against a viral invader.

Nearly 4,700 people have died of Covid19 in Nassau and Suffolk counties — and an estimated 25,000 in New York City — since the coronavirus broke out in the greater metropolitan area in March, bringing grief to hundreds of thousands of lives here.

On top of those terrible — and terrifying — statistics, Long Island lost more than 100,000 private-sector jobs from November 2019 to November 2020, an 8.8 percent decline, according to the New York State Department of Labor. The biggest losses came in hospitality, 35,800 jobs; education and health services, 23,600; trade, transportation and utilities, 15,000; professional and business services, 10,000; and manufacturing, 8,000.

There is help available, however. If you are feeling anxious, depressed or suicidal, regardless of the reason, you can — you should — check out the state Office of Mental Health website, where you will find numerous resources to turn to for help.

There you will find the NY Thankful project, for which you are asked to write messages about all that you are thankful for. The very act of writing down all that is good in your life, it seems, helps relieve stress and anxiety. We suggest that you try it — if not on a state website, then on your own.

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Also listed on the site are the phone numbers of numerous agencies you can call to talk it out, whatever the issue might be. Call if you need to. There has, in the past, been a stigma associated with seeking help with mental health crises.

That should never have been the case.

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letters The pandemic’s empty chairs To the Editor: In a November speech, President-elect Joe Biden expressed his sorrow at the number of empty chairs that would appear at the dinner tables of many families this year because of the coronavirus.

Covid-19 has often been compared to the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed 675,000 Americans, a majority of them young adults, and infected one-third of the world’s population during its four waves. Masks were strongly recommended, but many protested against wearing them. People were quarantined, hospitals were full, and the death toll was overwhelming. Like Donald Trump, President Woodrow Wilson underplayed the severity of the virus. There was no vaccine, no Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and very few opportunities to work from home in that precomputer era.

that your mental health is connected to everyone else’s. What the coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated, in certain terms, is that we are all interconnected in a larger societal web. So — please — seek help if you need it.

If you make any New Year’s resolution, let it be that you will take care of yourself in 2021 — both your physical and mental well-being.

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s 2020 came to a close, the coronavirus surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death in the U.S. — a sobering reminder of the toll the virus continues to take.

We have learned a lot about Covid-19 over the past 10 months. Importantly, we know now that it isn’t just a lung and respiratory issue, as was thought early on. It is a systemic inflammatory disease that may affect many organs in the body, and when it comes to the heart, it can JeFFrey t. be especially serious. kuvin Covid-19 infection certainly does not affect everyone’s heart, but it turns out that you don’t even need to have significant symptoms to have heart-related issues.

The most direct, and at times the most complicated, impact of the virus on the heart is muscle inflammation, a condition called myocarditis. This can result in a variety of cardiac issues, including

muscle weakness and rhythm disturbances.

It is well known that other viruses — as well as some medications, chemotherapies and other medical conditions — can also affect the heart in similar ways.

In addition to direct toxic effects on the heart muscle, Covid-19 may cause blood clots, which can impact the heart, lungs and the brain, resulting in heart attacks, pulmonary emboli and stroke. We learn more every day, but it remains unclear whether traditional approaches to heart disease are applicable to patients with long-term complications of the coronavirus, like heart damage.

While many patients are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, others may become very ill, and some even succumb to the disease. We don’t know the exact number of Covid-19 patients with myocarditis, because some patients may have cardiac involvement without even knowing it.

Some of the symptoms of myocarditis include chest pain; shortness of breath; heart palpitations or irregular heartbeat;

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hronic heart conditions are showing up after even mild cases.

Letters One of the empty chairs of 1918 belonged to my family. My father, then 16, was playing in the streets of Manhattan with his brother, Irwin, 13. Irwin wasn’t feeling well, and my father carried him home piggyback, and his mother put him to bed. The next day he was dead. Ironically, his parents and older brother remained healthy, but they never recovered emotionally from Irwin’s death. It was especially devastating to my paternal grandmother, whose father fought in the Civil War, contracted tuberculosis and gave it to my grandmother and her sister, both of whom died young: a history of empty chairs. My father would occasionally see my sister and me drawing pictures or playing a game, and remark, “My brother and I used to do that.”

When the 2020 pandemic arrived, I immediately thought of Irwin. Did he suffer? Was his mother with him at the end?

Had he survived, I would have had an uncle and perhaps some cousins on my father’s side. Empty chairs span generations. Only one photo of my father and his brother remains, as my grandmother destroyed all the others in her grief.

Fortunately, I lost no family members in 202, but as I watched the statistics rise, I knew that each death was more than just a number. It reflected a deep loss and an empty chair at the table of many families. I hope they find solace in 2021 and beyond.

PAUlA RODEnAS Merrick

lightheadedness, dizzy spells or loss of consciousness, and extremity swelling.

The lingering effects of Covid-19 on the heart, particularly myocarditis, have been a hot topic in the sports community.

Several college and pro athletes with the virus have done the right thing by staying off the field this season — not only because of the risk of virus transmission, but because their doctors saw evidence of myocarditis on an MRI. The heart needs time to heal. We know that active inflammation of the heart can cause serious problems, even in highly trained athletes. And, during recovery, athletes should refrain from heavy exertion until they are assessed by a cardiologist.

And if an athlete can get asymptomatic, or subclinical, effects of the heart, so can we all.

Given new and emerging data, the exact risks and treatment protocols for Covid-related cardiac issues remain unclear. Who should undergo MRI testing of the heart — the best way to detect myocarditis — is a question that has not

been definitively answered.

As things stand now, a coronavirus infection alone does not warrant an extensive cardiac evaluation. If, however, patients are highly symptomatic and have abnormalities in specific laboratory tests, like electrocardiograms or echocardiograms, then highly specialized tests, like MRIs, might be warranted.

As the pandemic continues, as at all other times, it is important to recognize cardiac warning signs, which can be very similar to Covid symptoms.

Addressing cardiac risk factors, including cholesterol, blood sugar levels, blood pressure, sleep hygiene and obesity — is always prudent. In addition to improving quality and quantity of life, it is widely recognized that controlling cardiac risk factors can affect the course of Covid-19.

LONG BEACH HERALD — January 7, 2021

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Cardiac Covid: How the virus impacts the heart

Jeffrey T. Kuvin, M.D., is the de Roulet professor and chair of the Department of Cardiology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/ Northwell. He is the senior vice president of cardiology for Northwell Health’s Central and Eastern regions, chair of the Department of Cardiology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital, and co-director of the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital.

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Give Trump his due

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To the Editor: Re Carolann Perez’s letter to the editor, “How did we almost re-elect Donald Trump?” (Dec. 17-23): The writer said that Randi Kreiss was “brave enough” to have written about President Trump. On the contrary, Kreiss took every low pot shot at Trump that she could come up with, yet virtually denied him any credit whatsoever for his achievements, which were significant and many. And this is coming from someone who recognizes Trump’s failures and personality flaws.

Remember when Trump, early on, restricted travel between the U.S. and China, and President-elect Biden called him a racist and xenophobe? Yet soon after, Biden criticized Trump for not having taken this action sooner. What hypocrisy!

Would people have voted for Biden if the media had reported more thoroughly on the Hunter Biden scandal and its potential implications for the presidentelect? This was an election the true outcome of which we will likely never know with certainty.

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