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MLK Day activities on tap for weekend By BReNDAN CARpeNteR bcarpenter@liherald.com
Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations at the MLK Center in Long Beach will be spread over three days and will be filled with activities, starting Saturday. Sunday will feature a cleanup inside and outside the center that anyone can take part in at noon as a show of respect for the center named for King. Monday will feature the traditional march to honor King, starting at 11:30 a.m. at Laurelton Boulevard and West Park Avenue and ending in front of
the MLK Center. There will be a short rally outside the center after the march with a few yetto-be-announced keynote speakers. The usual ceremony in the gym will not happen because of Covid-19 restrictions. MLK Center Chairman Cedrick Coad said he does not expect a large turnout because of the weather and Covid, but said the commemoration is important. “It will be good as long as we keep the tradition going,” Coad said. “We know the importance of keeping the tradition alive.” Rabbi Jack Zanerhaft, of
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the mARtiN lUtheR King Center hosted a march with a sizable turnout last year. Temple Emanu-El, a frequent attendee and speaker at MLK Day events in years past, said he is “always honored to be a part of the celebration.” Zanerhaft said the temple celebrates King, as well, with a Shabbat the Friday before MLK Day. The Shabbat incorporates “music and guest speakers and always invites the African-
American community to join,” he said. This year’s, on Zoom, will be the sixth annual since Zanerhaft became rabbi. “It’s important that the Jewish community celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. and what he means to both communities,” Zanerhaft said. Zanerhaft said he believes the city, which generally collab-
orates with the MLK Center for the event, has helped promote and executive it in past years, noting the City of Long Beach “does a good job getting people to walk and march, which is symbolic of Dr. King and his peaceful protesting.” The city has also worked with the Long Beach School Continued on page 12
Women dominate City Council for first time in L.B. history By JAmes BeRNsteiN jbernstein@liherald.com
The City of Long Beach was founded 100 years ago by William Reynolds, a master builder and politician who developed the boardwalk and major parts of the barrier island. Today, women run the city. For the first time in Long Beach history, the City Council is dominated, 3-2, by women. Karen McInnis, 50, who has been on the council since 2019, was selected by the five-member council as its new president, at its first meeting of the new year on Jan. 4. Tina Posterli, a former mem-
ber of the Board of Education, was elected to the council in November. She was seated Jan. 4. Liz Treston has been on the council since 2019. The other two members are former President John Bendo and Roy Lester, who was elected in November. The city manager, Donna Gayden, who oversees all Long Beach operations, was hired in 2020, the city’s first female and first Black manager. McInnis, a chief financial officer at a nonprofit, the Association of American Publishers, said that at first she did not believe a woman-dominated council “was a big deal.” But,
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she said in an interview shortly after her selection, that “this shows a lot of progress from where we’ve come.” “It shows how we have evolved as a society,” McInnis said. Treston said the female-dominated cabinet was significant for her. “We are celebrating 100 years of being incorporated, and
to start out the year with the majority of the leadership team being women is notable. I also think it important for the young girls in our community to see women in leadership positions in the city,” Treston said. Posterli noted she was the only female candidate to run in the November election. ‘It’s significant that more
women in our community are empowered to run and ultimately win,” she said. “The participation of women in government is essential.” The council has had its share of women over the years. There has been Anissa Moore, who was a council president, Chumi Diamond, and Eileen Goggin, now a Continued on page 12
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Long Beach schools to continue requiring masks for all staff and students By Cristina arroyo rodriguez, sCott Brinton and James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who took office Monday, signed executive orders last Thursday morning directing local boards of education to vote in January on whether their districts should mandate mask use, while also lifting the mask mandate for all county agencies and the state’s temporary mask mandate in public places. The orders read in part, “. . . given the historical data on Covid-19 and the ongoing debate over whether masks are more harmful than beneficial to children and to school environments in general, we should protect the freedoms and statutory rights of students and parents by resting with the parents the decision whether their children should wear masks in school.” School boards must vote “to determine whether or not parents and children should be g ranted the constitutional right to reject mask mandates while in the classroom.” The orders further state, “More than half of all states in the nation have no set policy on masking at educational institutions, leaving the decision up to local governments to decide when and how to enforce mask mandates.” The orders were to take effect immediately. The Long Beach school board said in an announcement Friday that it w i l l “ c o n t i nu e t o u p h o l d the mask mandate that is presently in effect within the disLong BeaCh trict.” sChooL The Long Beach district said distriCt “The Long Beach Board of Education is not bound by the county executive’s recent pronouncement/authorization concerning the mask mandates. According to state law, such authorization rests with the empowered state authorities including the governor, State Education and/or the department of public health” “We will continue to uphold the mask mandate that is presently in effect within the district,” it continued. “Our primary concerns continue to be maintaining continuity of instruction Pre-K through 12 while providing for the health and safety of all within our school community,” the district concluded. The district was closed Friday and officials could not immediately be reached for comment. In a memo to local school districts, State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa issued a statement in reaction Thursday, saying, “Counties are required to enforce school masking regulations. The regulation, which applies to schools and many other sectors, requires local health departments to enforce school mask mandates. “Counties do not have the legal authority,” the commissioner continued, “to require boards of education to vote on specific issues. School officers take an oath to obey all legal requirements. The State Education Department expects school boards will follow all legal requirements, including the face-covering regulation.” William Biamonte, chief of staff to the County Legislature’s Democratic minority, said, “When ideology
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at a news conference Thursday, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed an executive order last Thursday morning requiring school districts to vote in January on whether to require masks in classrooms.
BLaKeman CaPtured the COUNTY Executive race by a slim margin over Democrat incumbent Laura Curran. trumps science and politics are prioritized over the common good of society, our most vulnerable residents stand to suffer the most. “County Executive Blakeman,” he continued, “can say that ‘Nassau is normal again’ all he wants, but as Omicron continues to spread like wildfire and hosptialize more children than any other Covid variant to date, this is a recipe for disaster.” Blakeman, a Republican, said he was directly opposing an order put in place in early December by Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, requiring mask use in
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public spaces. The state mandate was originally set to expire in mid-January, but Hochul recently extended it through Feb. 1. “As governor,” she said Dec. 10, “my two top priorities are to protect the health of New Yorkers and to protect the health of our economy. The temporary measures I am taking today will help accomplish this through the holiday season.” The governor said at the time that she expected the positivity rate would rise with the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. The legal counsel for county executive drafted the executive orders signed by Blakeman, said Chris Boyle, the county executive’s spokesman. Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the State Education Department said Thursday that local school boards cannot vote to violate either SED or State Health Department policy. Blakeman’s orders come at a time when Long Island’s Covid positivity rate — the highest in the state — is spiking at more than 25 percent, and a growing number of school districts are reporting increased transmission of the disease, with some, such as Long Beach, being forced to close certain schools because of staffing shortages. Hospitalization rates are rising, as well. Blakeman also announced that 20,000 test kits would be distributed at Tobay Beach for county residents who live south of Hempstead Turnpike, and at Eisenhower Park for those who live north of the turnpike on Saturday, Jan . 8 and Sunday, Jan. 9, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. or until supplies last. There will also be what Blakeman called a vaccination pod this weekend at Nassau Community College from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. by appointment only. Go to https://www.nassaucountyny. gov/. And the county will distribute KN95 masks to private and public schools for staff, especially teachers. Jeff Bessen contributed to this story.
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the Jack-up Barge is to be used to test soil samples to determine the best place to place an electric wire to connect to a wind farm.
You see a Jack-up barge, not a sea monster By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com
It is 113-feet-long, 70 feet wide, and has 175-foot legs that move up and down. And it will be visible in the waters off the barrier beach for the next few months. There is no need for fear because it is not any kind of sea monster. It is a Jackup barge that will be used as an important step toward eventually building what would be New York state’s largest offshore wind farm, if all government approvals are ultimately granted to Equinor, a company based in Norway, with U.S. offices. The proposed wind farm –years off if it is approved – is a $3 billion project called Empire Wind that includes plans to run an underground cable through Long Beach to a substation near the E.F. Barrett Power Station in Island Park. A precise location for the cable has not yet been determined. The Jack-up barge, is used to take samples of the underwater soil to test its strength and composition. The aim is
The wind turbines would be about 15 to help determine the bst location to run miles offshore. an electric wire to landfall. Long Beach would not be The barge called Aries involved in the approval proMarine – Ram XV, will be cess, but would help deteranywhere between 1/10thmine the location of the 1/2 of a mile of the coast. underground cable. THE barge is to start work John McNally, a spokesin Lido Beach this week, and man for the city, said if is to be in Long Beach in 20 Equinor wants to run a days. The work is expected cable to the power station to be completed by March. adrienne “the city will have a decision “This is part of an onto make.” going process,” said Ana esposito All permits sought and Fisyak, an Equinor spokes- Executive Director, approved so f ar were woman. “This will help us Citizens Campaign through state and federal evaluate the positions” for for the Environment authorities. landfall. The project has the Construction of the wind far is far off. The federal Bureau of whole-hearted support of Long Island’s Ocean Energy Management is to begin Citizens Campaign for the Environment an environmental review of the construction and operation of what would be called Empire Wind, of f Long Island’s South Shore. The review is expected to take two years, and the project would need state approval as well. Work on Empire Wind would begin no Long Beach update: sooner than 2025.
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according ng to its executive director Adrienne Esposito. “We strongly favor off-shore wind,” Esposito said earlier this week. “We need to transition away from fossil fuel. They (Equinor) need to do this assessment.” But The Long Island Commercial Fishing Association is strongly opposed to the project, claiming that fish, and fishermen, will be adversely affected. An Equinor spokesman, David Marks, had estimated that the project would cost about $3 billion, and said it would be the largest wind farm in New York state. It would produce more than 2,000 megawatts of power, Marks said, adding that the Long Beach portion of the project would supply power to about 800,000 customers.
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The Long Beach School District released updated covid guidelines for staff and students Tuesday that highlight new steps for quarantining and isolating. The new guidelines come after a statement from the Board of Education on Jan. 7 saying the board is “not bound” by newly elected County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s “pronouncement,” on mask mandates in schools. The board stated that the schools will “continue to uphold the mandate that is presently in effect within the district.” At a virtual school board meeting Tuesday night, schools superintendent Dr. Jennifer Gallaher, in response to a concern regarding the schools’ guidelines requiring masks, said “We follow what we are legally required to do and we feel that we are doing what is important to keep children safe and in school. Those are our two priorities.” “Our primary concerns continue to be maintaining continuity of instruction Pre-K through 12 while providing for the health and safety for all within our school community,” the Board said in its
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Long Beach School District released new guidelines for quarantining and isolating Tuesday. statement. The new guidelines consist of two parts. Part one focuses on an individual that tests positive, regardless of vaccination status. That individual must stay home for five days following a positive test. The day of the test is considered day zero. Once the student or staff member is
asymptomatic or has had no fever without the use of medication for 72 hours, they can return to school. Upon returning to school, the individual must go back to wearing a mask.. They also will not be allowed to participate in any before or after-school activities for five more days and must continue to isolate from other
out-of-school activities for five days. Part two focuses on if the student or staff member was exposed as a close contact rather than testing positive themselves, they can follow a different set of guidelines depending on vaccination status. A fully vaccinated person, not including booster shots, does not have to quarantine from school at all if they are asymptomatic. These cases recommend that the person in close contact should be tested on day five and if they develop ay symptoms at any time, they should stay home and begin following isolation protocols. If an unvaccinated person becomes a close contact, then they must stay home for five days and test on day five. A negative covid test on day five allows for a return to school if no symptoms are present. They must also follow the rules mentioned earlier upon returning to school. Gallagher said people should continue to “be aware that [the district] has been notified that there may be additional guidance specific to schools forthcoming soon” and that more changes to the guidelines may need to be addressed anyway. Gallagher also said that more at-home covid tests should be available soon.
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events and activities
Ongoing
Thursday, Jan. 20
Library Board Meeting
Children’s Play Hooray Class
The Long Beach Public Library Board of Trustees typically meets on the third Monday of every month. Check the website for specific dates and times, www.longbeachlibrary.org.
The public library will be having a children’s play hooray class in the auditorium from 10 to 10:45 am.
Friday, Jan. 21
Long Beach Soup Kitchen The Long Beach Soup Kitchen, 140 West Pine Street, is open 6 days a week 11:15 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. They offer Hot and Cold Meals TO GO. They offer a full pantry with canned goods and fresh produce. Mondays and Thursdays. All are welcome.
Chair Yoga The public library will be having a chair yoga class on zoom from 9 to 10 am.
Preschool Readiness The public library will be having a children’s preschool readiness storytime workshop on zoom from 10:30 to 11:15 am.
Meet The City Manager City Manager Donna M. Gayden will be holding “Meet The City Manager” virtual chat sessions. These meetings are an opportunity for residents to engage in a one-to-one dialogue with the City Manager; ask questions, share concerns, or express ideas on how to enhance the quality of life in our community. The virtual meetings will take place on Tuesdays from 2-4 p.m. Appointments are needed and are given on a first-come, firstserved basis. Please call the City Manger’s Office to make an appointment at (516) 431-7202 or email citymanager@longbeachny.gov. Information on how to meet will be provided after the appointment is confirmed.
Friday, Jan. 14 Chair Yoga The public library will be having a chair yoga class on zoom from 9 to 10 am.
Saturday, Jan. 15 Yoga for Health and Peace The public library will have a yoga class dedicated to working your muscles and clearing your mind on zoom from 10 to 11 am.
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Youth Drawing Club The public library will have a youth drawing club class on zoom from 4 to 4:45 pm.
Paint Night Courtesy Wikimedia Commons
Turn the eiffel Tower into art
The public library will have an acrylic paint night to paint the Eiffel Tower on zoom from 7 to 8:30 pm.
The public library will be having a paint night Friday on zoom from 7 to 8:40 pm. The class will have participants using acrylic paints to create their own version of the Eiffel Tower.
Monday, Jan. 17 Book Discussion The public library will have a book discussion about Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky on zoom from 2 to 4 pm.
Gentle Yoga The public library will have a gentle yoga class in the auditorium and on zoom from 10 am to 11 am.
Writers’ Circle The public library will have a writers’ circle on zoom from 11 am to 1 pm.
Betty White Trivia The public library will have a Betty White trivia celebrating her life on zoom from 7:30 to 8:30 pm.
Martin Luther King Jr. March The Martin Luther King Center and the City of Long Beach will be having the annual MLK Day march starting at Laurelton and West Park Avenue and ending at the MLK Center.
cardio class in the auditorium and on zoom from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm.
Wednesday, Jan. 19 Ask The Tech Guy
Tuesday, Jan. 18 City Council Meeting There will be a City Council meeting on YouTube starting at 7 pm.
Low-Impact Cardio The public library will have a lowimpact cardio class with Lori Rozell, a certified fitness instructor, on zoom from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm.
Low-Impact Cardio The public library will have a low-impact
The public library will have a session where people can ask the “tech guy” any technology-related questions in the second floor lobby from 2 to 3 pm.
Household Plants Growing Class The public library will have a class teaching how to grow and maintain household plants on zoom from 7 to 8:30 pm.
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Keep an eye out for upcoming events. Families with students in the public school district will be receiving take-home Covid tests. The city council will soon start considering a new budget for the next fiscal year. The public library will be having an art exhibit through Jan, 28. The L.B. Arts Council, in collaboration with Arts In The Plaza, is looking for Performance Artists.
Maybe it started with Eve and Adam B’Shevat, which means “the fifteenth in the Garden of Eden. The focus on day of the Hebrew month of Shevat”, trees is replete in the Torah ( Hebrew which will be celebrated this year on Bible). In ancient times trees played a January seventeenth. Think of it as a combination of central role in everyday life, and so ultimately they were incorporated in peo- Arbor Day and Earth Day. The production and source of dates, figs, olives, ple’s spiritual and religious realms too. almonds, and grapes, were Growing upward to the always at the heart of the heavens, these amazing livMid-Eastern festival. Howing compositions of bark ever, over the millennia this and branches provided moment on the liturgical needed shade in the sweltercalendar expanded in scope ing heat. They gave fruits to include a spiritual mindfor immediate consumption fulness of the beauty and and many were used for function of the entire envitheir juices for dying colors ronment. It feels like this on fabric and for drinking year Tu B’Shevat carries a either in their natural state deep, meaningful and unior fermented. versal message. Wood was essential for All of us are rightfully building-- homes, furniture, preoccupied with the panboats, chariots and a host abbi demic. Accordingly, our of other items. Moreover, trees, the ancients noted, ack aneRhaft world currently reflects our disregard for its care and were the habitat for birds wellbeing. and many other critters and The eruption of new creatures. During the golden age of the United dangerous viruses, extreme weather, Kingdom of Israel under Kings David melting ice caps, out of control wildand Solomon, and thereafter, “first fires, carcinogens in our air, water and fruits” were required to be brought to food are but a smattering of the serious the Grand Temple in Jerusalem. They consequences of our mistreatment of were an offering of thanks to the our God given natural resources. Let this biblical commemoration of Almighty for the miracle of growing edible products from seeds and for the trees make us remember to pause to progift of rainwater that was necessary for tect our planet for all future generations. a successful agricultural season. In order to determine a starting and cut off time for this ritual, a date had to Jack Zanerhaft is chief rabbi at Temple be determined. This was the origin of Emanu-El of Long Beach. the minor Jewish holiday called Tu
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has grown to over 75 breweries in 14 States with participants committed to supporting their local arts groups and to raising money for charity and live entertainment workers who, like so many, have been out of work during the pandemic. Bright Eye Beer answered the call when they were approached earlier last year, and decided that, in addition to supporting the “Curtain Up” charity efforts, they would donate $1 from each pint sold in the taproom to Artists in Partnership, Inc. because “it was important to them to support a local community partner”. Johanna Mathieson-Ellmer said, “ We can’t thank Luke, Molly, Keira and the staff of Bright Eye Beer enough for their generosity and support, and we look forward to our future collaborations and programs, and to a productive and healthy New Year.
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Girls Basketball: East Rockaway at West Hemp.....4:45 p.m. Girls Basketball: Lynbrook at Lawrence...................... 5 p.m. Boys Swimming: Wantagh vs South Side (at Jeircho) 7 p.m. Gymnastics: Valley Stream at Hewlett ........................ 7 p.m. Gymnastics: Sewanhaka at South Side ..................... 7 p.m. Girls Basketball: North Shore at Seaford ................... 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Westbury at Baldwin ....................... 7 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 14 Girls Basketball: Glen Cove at Sewanhaka ..................... 5 p.m.
Girls Basketball: Roslyn at Elmont ............................ 5 p.m. Wrestling: Freeport at Oceanside ..............................5:30 p.m. Girls Basketball: New Hyde Park at MacArthur................ 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Island Trees at Clarke ........................... 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Seaford at Lawrence ............................ 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball: V.S. North at South Side................. 7 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 15 Wrestling: Baldwin Tournament ........................................9 a.m. Boys Bakisetball: V.S. Central at East Meadow.............. 12 p.m. Boys Basketball: East Rockaway at West Hemp. ........... 12 p.m. Girls Basketball: Kennedy at South Side ..................... 12 p.m.
For the second time in three nights, Long Beach overcame a sluggish first half to secure a Nassau Conference A-1 boys’ basketball victory. The Marines trailed at Mepham by seven points at halftime Jan. 6 before scoring 17 in each of the last two quarters for a 54-41win. Sophomore point guard Mike Main led the offense with 19 points including a 9-for-11 performance from the foul line, and senior forward Bret Michaels scored 12 of his 18 points in the second half and grabbed 10 rebounds as Long Beach improved to 3-1 in A-1 and 5-4 overall. Senior forward Robert Tansey poured in a game-high 27 for the Pirates (2-7 overall), who lost their fourth conference game in as many tries. “We’ve had nice stretches in every game, but we’re just not as consistent as we need to be,” Mepham head coach Bob Kaible said. “Tonight was probably the best first half we’ve played all season. In the second half, we got away from running our offense at times and they really hurt us on the boards. They had too many second and third chances.” Behind Tansey, the Pirates enjoyed their second-highest scoring opening quarter of the season when they raced to an 18-12 lead. Tansey accounted for half of their points through the opening eight minutes and had 17 at halftime, 3 fewer than Long Beach. “I think we probably took those guys a little lightly and I give them credit for coming out strong,” Long Beach head coach Scott Martin said. “We had no weak-side help in the first half and the Tansey kid hurt us. But the third quarter has been our best quarter all season and that’s what I told the kids at halftime.” The Marines, who scored 20 thirdquarter points on the way to rallying for a 55-49 victory over Great Neck North two nights earlier, outscored Mepham by a 15-1 margin after senior Timmy Burns gave the hosts a 30-22 advantage early in the third with his second trey of the game.
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LONg BEach’S Jack Shields, center, worked in traffic during the Marines’ 54-41 comefrom-behind victory at Mepham on Jan. 6. Michaels, Main and junior Jack Shields were instrumental in the comeback, combining for all of Long Beach’s points in the third. Michaels had 7; Main and Shields 5 apiece. Main’s three-pointer with 3:15 remaining in the quarter put the Marines ahead for good at 32-30. “This is their gym and it’s a tight court and it took us a while to get going,” Martin said. “We moved the ball much better in the second half and started to take advantage of the mismatches Bret can
provide. He’s so versatile we can use him inside or outside depending how teams want to guard him.” As was the case against Great Neck North, Main sank 7 free throws in the fourth quarter to seal the outcome. “The biggest things we need to do are improve our rebounding and consistency,” Kaible said. “If we execute like we did in the first half tonight, there’s nobody we can’t beat.” The rematch is Feb. 2 at Long Beach.
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Karen McInnis is new council president continued from front page Nassau County judge, among others. But women had never dominated the council as they do now. “I didn’t get this on my own,” McGinnis said. “There were a lot of trailblazers before me.” She said Laura Curran, who in November lost her re-election bid to Republican Bruce Blakeman, was “a good role model” during her four years in office. McInnis, a Democrat, said she looks forward to working with Blakeman. McGinnis said her financial background at the non-profit and New Yorkbased publications, including Time Inc., qualifies her for the top spot on the council, where much of her time will be spent working on the city budget and working through settlement of a $131 million lawsuit against the city by a developer, Sinclair Haberman. “I’m very serious and missionfocused,” McInnis said. She said her management style would not differ greatly from that of John Bendo, who served two years as council president and has been a council member for four years. “There is no daylight between John and I,” McInnis said. Aside from the new city budget and the Haberman suit, McInnis said she sees a major challenge ahead — “communicating to the public the tremendous circumstances we’re in and the decisions that
year’s budget will be another challenge. McInnis said she would run the council in what she calls “the new normal.” That is, running it under a Covid-19 infection rate that rises and falls and rises again. But McInnis is a self-made woman. The daughter of a union carpenter, she was born in the Bronx and raised in Valley Stream. Divorced in 2005, she bought a house in Long Beach. In 2014, she remarried Terrance Blackburn, a PSEG field inspector. She worked her way through the University of Maryland at College Park and St. John’s, majoring in government. She was a waitress and a summer intern for Nassau County government offices. “I always loved government,” McInnis said.
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Mercy sees 12,000 Covid-19 patient surge Amid a surge in positive cases of the coronavirus due to the Omicron variant, physicians and administrators at Catholic Health’s Mercy Hospital have made a renewed push to urge residents to get their vaccinations and boosters and continue to wear masks. As of Tuesday, Nassau County’s sevenday average positivity rate stood at 24.8 percent, among the highest of any county in the state, according to health.ny.gov. But officials at Mercy said they have been able to handle the surge in cases thanks to the advances in treatment over the past two years of dealing with Covid-19. The hospital has returned close to 12,000 patients to their families during the recent surge, according to Dr. Jason Goblin, Catholic Health’s vice president and chief medical officer. “Due to our experience with Covid over the past two years, we are able to handle increases in capacity,” Goblin said. “We continue to encourage the public to get vaccinated and boosted, wear masks in public settings and continue with proper handwashing and social distancing.” State Sen. Todd Kaminsky and Assemblywoman Judy Griffin joined other Democratic elected officials in issuing a joint statementthanking Gov. Kathy Hochul for her stance on mask mandates, despite Republican County Executive
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STaTe Sen. Todd Kaminsky, at lectern, and Assemblywoman Judy Griffin, second from right, joined Senate and Assembly colleagues to support Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate in schools despite Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s recent executive order meant to fight those mandates. Bruce Blakeman’s attempts to over-ride them. “We are grateful Governor Hochul has required the simple precaution of masks in schools to keep our schools open and our kids safe,” the statement, released last Friday, reads. “At this point in the pandemic, the pediatric hospitalizations are spiking at dangerous levels, andit would be the height of irresponsibility to ignore Governor Hochul’s vital efforts to protect public health.” In a press briefing last Friday, Hochul
again noted how vital it was for people to continue wearing masks. “Those who underestimate me do so at their own peril, including the county executive of Nassau County,” the governor said. “I have the law of the state of New York behind me, and I will always exercise my authority and obligation to protect the health of the people of this state. Municipalities, such as counties, are creatures of the state. They have to follow state law.” During the briefing, Dr. Stephen Corwin, chief executive officer of New York
Presbyterian Hospital, said that the 1,200 cases in its hospital system are evenly split between unvaccinated people and those with two doses of a vaccine but no booster. Those numbers, Corwin said, are consistent across most of the state. “It’s very, very rare to see somebody admitted who has had a booster,” Corwin said. “Patients in the [intensive-care units] continue to be mostly those who are older and unvaccinated.” Despite the continuing pandemic, Mercy broke ground on a new Ambulatory and Family Care Center, where the focus will be primary and specialty care, on Nov. 22. The hospital received $7.3 million in New York state funding and a $1.3 million grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation for the 16,000-square-foot facility, which will offer expanded services for women and children that are now provided at Mercy. Pediatric specialists will provide services in allergy/immunology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, infectious disease, nephrology, neurology and pulmonology. The hospital also recently expanded its telehealth services by offering maternal-fetal care to high-risk expectant mothers. Mercy has also increased health care access and offers virtual services to expectant mothers who are diagnosed with diabetes, chronic hypertension, and/or pre-eclampsia, in addition to mothers who need genetic counseling.
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Town of Hempstead officials began their new term Jan. 4 at Town Hall. During the nearly two-hour inauguration, Supervisor Don Clavin, Town Clerk Kate Murray, Senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, and Councilmen Anthony D’Esposito and Dennis Dunne were sworn in following their re-election this past November. After the invocation by Rabbi Mordechai Kamentzky of Yeshiva of South Shore in Hewlett, Clavin was sworn in first by Nassau County Republican Committee Chairman Joseph Cairo. Months into Clavin’s first Christina Daly/Herald term as supervisor, the coronahempstead town CounCilman Anthony virus pandemic erupted and took a toll on Hempstead. Clavin D’esposito was sworn into office on Jan. 4. secured tens of millions of dolGoosby discussed her tenure in govlars in federal CARES Act funds that went to the community, including ernment and the plans that she has for millions for hospitals, schools, food her district moving forward. “I’m going banks, villages, fire departments and into my 22nd year, as I was elected seekcommunity organizations. The Town ing representation from my community Board also rolled out the first mobile vac- via a historical lawsuit,” Goosby said. “I’ve been sworn in on my plaza and cination unit in New York state, which has provided nearly 10,000 vaccine and that’s progress,” she noted. The Town booster shots to residents to help fight the Hall plaza was recently named for her. “My colleagues are of a different coronavirus pandemic. Clavin thanked many of the govern- party,” she continued, “but it didn’t matment officials in attendance for the help ter to them that I’m a Democrat and they that they have given him during his time aren’t. I’ve worked with wonderful people, in local government. “Today is really and I respect them and they respect me. about just saying thank you,” he said. We made a lot of progress in this town.” D’Esposito was then sworn in by State “We work together and for the betterment of all the residents, from the town’s Assemblyman Edward Ra. D’Esposito, a finances to bond upgrades to services retired New York Police Department through the pandemic. And it’s not just detective, has taught his Narcan training that it’s the men and women that I work program to town employees, community within the town. We do it together groups and residents throughout Hempbecause we’re one big team in the Town stead. And he has helped expand the Narcan training program, with the town of Hempstead.” Murray, who was sworn in next, led recently announcing distribution of creation of online accessible parking per- 10,000 Narcan kits in Hempstead. D’Esposito reflected on the town’s mits, posted one-stop passport shop events and established outdoor service accomplishments in recent years. “The trailers where residents can continue to last four years we’ve delivered budgets to access clerk’s office programs. Murray save taxpayers money, holding the line or became the first elected official in New lowering taxes,” he said. “We’ve been York to conduct weddings using online lauded by Wall Street, earning outlook video conferencing. In October, she upticks and credit upgrades. We expandreached a milestone when she performed ed programs and invested in our parks, beaches and marinas. Just this year, we’ve her 500th wedding ceremony. After reflections were offered by the invested $75 million in our roads. While Rev. Dr.Calvin Butts of Abyssinian Bap- other municipalities were unable to coltist Church, Attorney General Letitia lect garbage and recycle at the height of James swore in Goosby, who is the first- the pandemic, our sanitation crews ever African-American woman on the stepped up and kept the town moving.” Town Board, now entering her 22nd year Dunne, who served with the U.S. representing the 1st District. Marines during the Vietnam War, During her last term, Goosby assisted remains a leader among local American in supplying free PPE kits for businesses Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars and churches, secured personal air filters organizations, and has been pivotal in for residents at risk, aided in launching crafting legislation to create a permanent the outdoor dining initiative to help resi- property-tax exemption for Cold War era dents stay open during the pandemic and veterans, providing a tax reduction for elisponsored food pantries that donated gible recipients. He has also sponsored more than a million meals to residents in several pieces of legislation to restict vapneed. ing and vape products.
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Hempstead Town and National Grid announced a joint project, to build one of the first and largest clean hydrogen projects in the country. The HyGrid Project located in Point Lookout on Long Island will blend green hydrogen into the existing distribution system to heat hundreds of homes and provide fuel for municipal vehicles. This clean hydrogen project in Point Lookout will be one of the first in the nation, and the largest on the East Coast. “We believe that hydrogen can transform the energy industry, and we are on the forefront,” said Rudy Wynter, President of National Grid New York. “This will be the largest green hydrogen blending project for direct use by utility customers in the Northeast and one of the first in the country. The partnership, approved unanimously by Supervisor Donald Clavin, the bipartisan Hempstead Town Board and National Grid will expand the existing hydrogen facility at Point Lookout’s Energy Park, located at the Town of Hempstead’s Department of Conservation and Waterways. Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin said, “The Town of Hempstead continues to be a clean energy leader amongst municipalities, as we have demonstrated the use of wind, solar and green hydrogen, among an array of projects, at our Point Lookout Energy
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The Town of Hempstead and National Grid are collaborating to build one of the largest clean hydrogen projects in the country. Park.” When the Town of Hempstead’s hydrogen fueling station was introduced in 2009, it was the first on Long Island to provide locally produced green hydrogen for vehicles, demonstrating decarbonized transportation. The Town of Hempstead and National Grid will now expand the project to blend hydrogen for the purposes of transportation and also for heating
In particular, the existing wind and solar equipment at the site is critical to the generation of zero-emissions hydrogen fuel for vehicles. By using renewable power options such as wind and solar energy, hydrogen is zero carbon. “This is truly an exciting day for the future of clean energy on Long Island, as this partnership with National Grid will be a model for others across the nation,” Clavin said.
hundreds of homes and fueling vehicles. The HyGrid project will take place in an area with several environmental initiatives already in place in Point Lookout, including a solar and wind powered shellfish nursery, a self-relying “green energy” office, a wind turbine, solar car charging ports and the town’s recent expansion of the town’s fleet of fully electric and clean energy vehicles.
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Former Businessperson of the Year retires By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com
Tom Mauro went to work for the last time on Wednesday. The Oceanside resident and manager of Trader Joe’s on Long Beach Road entered the building last Wednesday morning and was greeted by signs, balloons, letters and the smiling faces of his employees. That night, “Captain Tom” was set to embark on his new adventure: retirement in Florida. “It’s been a blessing beyond words,” Mauro told the Herald, choking back tears. “It’s the greatest community in the world, the greatest company in the world and the greatest family in the world.” Mauro spent the past six years working as manager of the Oceanside Trader Joe’s and was named the 2016 Businessperson of the Year by the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce. Mauro, 65, was born in the Bronx and has worked in the supermarket industry most of his life, including time at Grand Union Supermarkets. From 1997 to 2007, Mauro moved to Israel, where he worked in humanitarian aid before returning to the states to help his extended family Still, Mauro said that his time at Trader Joe’s tops all of his other experiences, other than marrying his wife, Kathy, 40 years ago. “We’re not focused on experience. We’re focused on character,” Mauro said. “Everybody has success in them. Just do the best you can.” Mauro said he could feel a difference between Trader Joe’s and other supermarkets with how hands-on employees are. That motivated him to seek the manager position six years ago. Dozens of posters and letters from local students, including many from School No. 4 in Oceanside, line the area behind the registers. During Mauro’s time at the supermarket, he has worked with School No. 4 on in-person and recently virtual field trips to explain proper nutrition with students. During the pandemic, Mauro has been especially proud of the work that his staff has done to provide a place where customers felt their health was taken into account. Conversations with customers have been especially pushed to help them feel some sense of normalcy. “We’re here in this life to touch other people’s lives and to be there for one another,” Mauro said. Mauro helped to give to communities
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mauro assemBles wiTh his staff one more time before he retired to Florida after work. in need in both Oceanside and Long Beach as part of Trader Joe’s neighborhood donations program. In Long Beach, Mauro worked with Rabbi Eli Goodman of Chabad of the Beaches to provide food for older and homebound members of the community, which has been especially important over the past two years. “They’ve always been there. It’s never been a question of if, but rather how much,” Goodman said. “As we say in the Jewish vernacular, [Mauro] was a real mensch.” Mauro and Trader Joe’s have provided traditional meals for different Jewish holidays, helping families in need celebrate their faith. Retirement started immediately for Mauro, who got on a flight down to Springfield, Fla., where he and his wife plan to spend the rest of their lives, right after work last Wednesday. The Mauros do not have any children, but Tom said they are excited to be committed to each other—and relax—down in Florida. Mauro said the thing he will miss most about Oceansid is the love that people have shown him and others, noting, “It’s been life enriching and life changing the way you feel here.”
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A. Good thing you asked before you started. Instead of starting, you need to stop and take a few steps back. What you’re describing has multiple issues that you have to address. First, your state building code doesn’t allow the occupancy of a third floor in a single-family, woodframed dwelling. This is because of the many danonte eeper gers involved in surviving a fire at that level. In the process of getting the permit to occupy a third story, which you left out of the description of your investigation, you would need to have a licensed architect or engineer prepare plans that include specific methods of escape, including the correct size and number of windows, distances to exterior and interior levels below to escape to, sprinkler locations along the entire path of travel to get out of the dwelling, heights of ceilings and fire-rated materials to be installed. This is because, as I have often written, the chances of surviving a fire in the third floor of a wood-framed dwelling are statistically remote, only 5 percent. That means you or your loved ones could be among the 95 out of 100 who will die from smoke inhalation or burns. The plans for a finished third story are submitted to both your local building department, which will rightfully reject them, and to the State Codes Division for a public hearing, where your case will need to be represented by a code-knowledgeable professional. I have seen people represent themselves, which generally doesn’t go very well, since safety is the reason for the codes, and there are many laws and standards that the average owner is unaware of. The stair access must be 3 feet wide, and the tread must be at least 10¼ inches, while the risers cannot exceed 8¼ inches. The horizontal 2x4s you described are collar ties, and they serve the important function of holding the roof together, especially in high winds and under snow loads. Moving or removing them can be dangerous. The higher up, the less effective, and without first calculating several factors, it should not be done.
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ational Public Radio and ABC News warn, “Teachers are on the front lines in the Jan. 6 culture war.” Depending on where they work, teachers experience different political pressure when it comes to how to discuss with students the events that rocked the U.S. Capitol a year and a week ago. For younger children, important themes are community decision-making and fairness, the building blocks of a democratic society. In grades five to eight, students aLan learn about the foundations of the sinGer democratic process — rights and responsibilities, civic action and voting — along with injustices. In grades 11 and 12, students should follow congressional hearings, evaluate media coverage and discuss the implications of current events. For these grades, the anniversary of Jan. 6, with expanded media coverage, offered a teachable moment for more in-depth analysis. While students and teachers are entitled to their opinions about the implications of the events, discussion in class about them must be respectful, and speakers must support statements with evi-
dence. The teacher must prepare documents for evaluation, ask questions of student speakers and moderate discussion. The teacher must guide students through multiple sources with different perspectives so they can form their own questions, evaluate the sources and information, and arrive at conclusions supported by evidence. This process must not include deciding whether the Jan. 6 insurrection happened. It happened, and it was indeed an insurrection, intended to block certification of the presidential election. One difficulty in addressing the events of that day is the country’s partisan divide. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found that despite widely viewed video footage, 60 percent of Republicans claimed the attack on the Capitol was not violent or somewhat violent. Here, teachers should ask students to suggest additional documents to allow them to discuss and decide whether the events were violent or not. To be clear, more than 700 people have been charged with various crimes at the Capitol. The FBI estimates that about 2,000 people were part of the mob that breached the building after a pro-Trump rally at which then President Donald Trump and other speakers repeated
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unsubstantiated charges that the election was stolen. Some 140 law enforcement officers were injured during the attack, one died, and the Capitol sustained more than $1.5 million in damage. More than 160 of the rioters entered guilty pleas in exchange for lighter sentences. Seventy have been sentenced. Thirty-one were jailed and 18 received home detention. The longest prison term so far is five years. About 100 defendants have ties to extremist groups. Trump tweeted many times on the afternoon on Jan. 6, attacking then Vice President Mike Pence more than once. At 2:38 p.m. — more than an hour and a half after Trump supporters first breached the Capitol — Trump tweeted, “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!” At 4:17 p.m. Trump tweeted a video in which he told his followers, “I know your pain, I know your hurt. We love you, you’re very special. You’ve seen what happens, you’ve seen the way others are treated . . . I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.” Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, called what happened on Jan. 6 “an insurrection, incited by the president.” On Fox News, Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, said, “There’s no
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No wonder Democrats are in trouble To the Editor: Alan Singer’s analyses of why the Democratic Party is in peril of losing control of government (“Democrats election perils have little to do with ‘wokeness,’” Dec. 9-15) is yet another anti-Republican screed with selective omissions of facts. Nowhere in his op-ed piece does he mention the Southern border, which is a lawless catastrophe for our country as well as for Biden, Harris or whoever is supposed to be in charge. Singer fails to mention that with no clear mandate, a 50-50 Senate and a razor-thin majority in the House, Biden and company are trying to pass a multi-trillion-dollar package that can only be paid for with higher taxes. Nowhere does he mention the murder, mayhem and chaos that are a direct result of flawed policies in Democratic-run cities across the country.
Weakening support for Israel; kneeling to an Iran deal, which is a pathway to a nuclear weapon for a country with a malevolent, untrustworthy government; abandoning friends and weapons in Afghanistan; sitting idly by as China steals land in the South China Sea to build military outposts; closing down the Keystone Pipeline (while green-lighting Russia’s), which has led to soaring gas prices as we struggle to electrify, are just a few other omissions. Throw in the teaching of a flawed critical race theory, the 1609 Project, FBI surveillance of school board meetings, support of the corrupt and often violent Black Lives Matter movement and consideration of reparations for descendants of people who were slaves more than 150 years ago, and it’s quite understandable why the Democratic Party is in trouble. Its record of failure in one year is breathtaking. Most people who are, or will turn from, blue to red are neither racist nor violent. They abhor the Jan. 6 insurrection. They are pragmatic! And yes, like it or not, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted by a jury of his peers who heard all of the evidence. To become purple, we need moderate leaders on both sides of the aisle who listen to and respect one another. Ignoring reality when it conflicts with one’s point of view is a prescription for failure. DR. MEL YOUNg Lawrence
question the president formed the mob. The president incited the mob. The president addressed the mob. He lit the flame.” The New York Times published useful lesson ideas to aid teachers. It also recommends consulting the websites of Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance), Facing History and Ourselves and the Anti-Defamation League. The Times package includes documents with questions sorted by these themes: ■ Understanding what happened and reacting to it. ■ Investigating President Trump’s responsibility. ■ Exploring why democracy requires a peaceful transfer of power. ■ Understanding the roots of the riot. ■ Considering the role of the news media and the power of language. ■ Scrutinizing how social media can facilitate insurrection. ■ Putting Jan. 6 into historical context. Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on Twitter, @AlanJSinger1.
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letters Blakeman’s decision is ‘misguided’ To the Editor: The news generated by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s recent publicity stunt of signing an executive order allowing school districts to decide on mask-wearing is nothing more than a glaring example of misguided judgment and poor leadership. Surely Mr. Blakeman knows he cannot supersede Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate or the state education commissioner’s similar order. It is nothing more than playing to the cheap seats, on top of being quantifiably false (the idea that there is no science to support mask wearing as a Covid mitigation practice). It’s both an embarrassment and an invitation to those who believe such nonsense to cause disruption and only furthers divisiveness. It’s a sad day in Nassau County to be represented by a person willing to sow discord to be
remember the conditions in which students and teachers work. Twenty to 30 people are confined to a room for six to eight hours a day, with ventilation systems that are often decades old, unless a district has recently upgraded them. In short, students and teachers must spend hours a day within feet of one another, in rooms of stagnant air. One infected student or teacher could spread the coronavirus to dozens of people in a single day. Why not mask up? What, precisely, is Blakeman’s point here? Anyone who enters a school must wear a mask, period. Some parents say they worry about the potential psychological effects of their children wearing masks throughout the day. In studies since the start of the pandemic, however, children were found to be highly resilient, reporting few, if any, effects from mask wearing, and health experts across the country have weighed in, saying children are, generally speaking, doing just fine wearing masks. At the same time, as we reported in last week’s editorial, numerous studies indicate that mask wearing does, in fact, reduce the spread of the coronavirus. That is, there is no real downside to children wearing masks in school — and only an upside, the likely reduction of community spread of the coronavirus. Thus, it would be just plain wrong of any school district, for what could only be described as political reasons, to overturn the state’s mask mandate in a vote. Hochul quickly weighed in on the mat-
ter last week, saying that any school district that voted to overturn the mandate, ordered by both the State Education Department and the State Department of Health, could — and likely would — face the loss of state aid for education. She was right to weigh in aggressively. There will be those who say that the Omicron variant, according to studies, is less virulent and less deadly than previous strains of the coronavirus. They are correct. This variant is still, however, a virus with the capability to send the unvaccinated to hospitals. And people who believe that even a three-dose vaccination will entirely protect them from it should think again. The vaccinated are becoming infected as well. They might not experience the heavy symptoms that unvaccinated people do, but they can still get sick. Further, the risk of a vaccinated person being hospitalized by the Omicron variant is extremely low, but it is not zero. The bottom line: Blakeman appears to be playing a game of political brinkmanship, which has garnered him a good amount of publicity across the state and made him something of a hero to farright conservatives. That is why we find his first two weeks in office to be so disappointing. We honestly expected better of him. We hope and trust he will see the error of his ways and restore one of the best measures that we have to guard against the coronavirus — the mask mandate.
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n Christmas Day, NASA sent into space the James Webb telescope, which, if all works out as planned, will provide us with our first look into the beginning of time. The telescope will bring into focus the oldest stars in the universe, and examine the atmospheres of nearby exoplanets for signs of life. But who the heck was James Webb? He has largely been lost to history. He was a Marine Corps pilot, an aide to several members of Congress, JAMES undersecretary of to President BERNSTEIN state Harry S. Truman, president of a New York company, Sperry Gyroscope, and NASA’s second administrator. A pretty impressive biography. But just as Webb’s name has largely been forgotten, so has a tragic incident that occurred during his administration that almost ended America’s space program. On Jan. 27, 1967, three astronauts
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— Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, 40, Edward H. White, 36, and rookie Roger Chaffee, 31 — were killed on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida when a fire erupted in their command module during pre-flight training. At the time, it was the world’s worst space disaster. Little is said or written these days about the three astronauts and their destroyed Apollo 1 spacecraft. For one thing, there was the success of the moon landings beginning in 1969. And there have been other disasters — two space shuttles, Challenger, in 1986, and Columbia, in 2003, were lost, resulting in the deaths of 14 astronauts. The country was in shock after the ’67 fire in Apollo 1. NASA’s carefully cultivated image of infallibility had been badly damaged. There were calls from various corners to nix the space program, and let the Russians have the moon. It wasn’t worth human lives, some editorials in leading newspapers said. Webb saw it differently. But perhaps the most distinguishing factor of his leadership, something rarely seen in gov-
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ernment or politics these days, was that Webb publicly took the blame for the disaster, pulling no punches. “We’ve always known that something like this was going to happen soon or later,” he told the press at the time. “Who would have thought that the first tragedy would be on the ground?” Not only did he shoulder the blame, but Webb was determined to get all the facts and keep the space program moving forward. America, he thought, had to be first on the moon. He went to President Lyndon Johnson and asked that NASA be allowed to handle the investigation into the fire, promising to be truthful with the agency’s findings. Webb was grilled by various congressional committees, and kept the backlash away from NASA and the Johnson administration. As a result, Webb was assigned much of the blame, and NASA ultimately regained its “right stuff ” image. An investigation indicated that a faulty electrical wire inside the Apollo 1 command module likely caused the fire.
fter a tragedy, he was determined to keep the space program moving forward.
Webb retired from the space agency in October 1968, just as the Apollo program was nearing completion. Astronauts landed on the moon a year later. There were bumps along the way in Webb’s career. In 2015, a Seattle Times columnist revived talk that when Webb was undersecretary of state, thousands of gay men and women lost their government jobs in what was known as the “Lavender Scare.” There was never any evidence that Webb had anything to do with the firings, although people speculated he must have known about them. Perhaps the thing to remember about James Webb is that he kept the complex machinery of NASA humming so America could stay true to the goal that President John F. Kennedy set in 1962: to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade and bring him back safely to Earth. Much of the technology had not even been invented yet when Kennedy made that bold pledge, and many thought the goal was impossible. Webb was one of the believers. Jim Bernstein is editor of the Long Beach Herald. Comments about this column? JBernstein@liherald.com.
Choosing to read hope in the crystal ball
hat if we got knocked out of our socks by a brilliant turnabout in our national life? At the moment, “Happy New Year” rings hollow. We all know how heavy the baggage is that we dragged from December to January this year. But my hope is in the mystery of the future. We could never have predicted the dreadful twin plagues of Covid and civil unrest, and that is exactly why we can’t predict a change, a windfall of good RANDI karma and good KREISS timing. Twenty-two years ago, I wrote a New Year’s column for the Heralds offering my predictions for the year ahead, 2000. First, I suggested, sell all your stock. In my capacity as a person with little understanding of financial markets, I firmly believed that stores would become obsolete as online shopping became more popular. The markets would go south from there. As it turned out, if you just kept your stocks for these 22 years, you would have made a tidy bundle. So my first predic-
tion was dead on arrival. Even with the dot-com bust in the early 2000s and the Great Recession, the average annual return in the stock market was about 10 percent. I also predicted that that we would not go to war with Saddam Hussein. On the national front, I lamented the scandals in Congress, and said our officials would out one another until no one would be left in government. That one was particularly interesting: Apparently, the worst thing I could imagine about Congress 22 years ago was that folks were having sexual flings. Man, wouldn’t you take that scenario in a heartbeat? What if someone told you back then that on New Year’s 2022, our country would be stumbling ahead, staggered by more than 800,000 deaths from a virulent pandemic that shut down schools and services and sent millions into isolation and quarantine? Could you possibly have believed that political fighting, a violent attack on the Capitol and hordes of know-nothing anarchists would threaten the integrity of Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court? Would you have believed that a Marjorie Taylor Greene could exist
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if I described her to you back then? How about this one: Donald Trump would get elected president in 2016. Hell, 22 years ago, the twin towers were still standing in all their massive glory at the tip of Manhattan. Perhaps it’s best that crystal balls are cloudy. The unexpected is what I am counting on — that unpredictably good things may save us. As I think about the year ahead, my head and my heart do battle. Our hearts don’t heal according to a turn of the calendar page. My heart is aching for our losses. Some friends have died. My city is set back on its heels. Our kids are out of school yet again, as we enter the third year of the pandemic. Part of my head is worried about tomorrow. But I’m going with the part of my brain that knows unexpectedly beneficent events in the year ahead could heal the country and get us healthy again. We can go back to work, and bring back birthday parties and theater and family dinners. The virus could burn out. Our political leaders may find their best selves. Airplane travel will take off and people, too long sequestered in their homes, will embrace one another again.
nexpected events in the year ahead could heal the country and get us healthy again.
This could happen, and is no more unlikely than a raging global pandemic that stopped the clock for two years. I wish this for all of us in 2022: that we are off-the-charts lucky and blessed in our lives and work. In the meantime, the poet John Roedel offers this advice: “My heart is always sad about/something that happened yesterday/while my head is always worried/about something that may happen tomorrow, I lamented . . . “My gut squeezed my hand./‘I just can’t live with my mistakes of the past/or my anxiety about the future,’ I sighed . . . “My gut smiled and said: ‘In that case/ you should stay with your lungs for a while . . . “If you are exhausted about/your heart’s obsession with/the fixed past and your mind’s focus/on the uncertain future/ your lungs are the perfect place for you/ there is no yesterday in your lungs/there is no tomorrow there either/there is only now/there is only inhale/there is only exhale/there is only this moment/there is only breath/and in that breath/you can rest while your/heart and head work/their relationship out.” Let us say goodbye to 2021 hoping to be astonished, in a good way, by 2022. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
LONG BEACH HERALD — January 13, 2022
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The Webb telescope is up, but who’s James Webb?
January 13, 2022 — LONG BEACH HERALD
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