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Skudin takes on Portugal’s monster waves By BRENdAN CARpENtER bcarpenter@liherald.com
Will Skudin can routinely be found on his surfboard in the waves off Long Beach, waiting for one more good ride. But earlier this month, the 36-year-old Skudin, whose family name is synonymous with surfing in Long Beach, headed to Nazaré, Portugal, to compete in an annual challenge that attracts some of the world’s top surfers for a single day of monster rides. Skudin was one of 18 competitors on Feb. 10, and the only one from the U.S. It takes
a lifetime of dedication to get to compete at Nazaré, he said. Each of the surfers teamed up with a partner and took turns on the waves. Teammates each surfed twice, for 50 minutes at a time, and were permitted to switch whenever they wanted to save energy. The judges scored each surfer’s top two waves, and each pair’s scored were added for an overall score. Skudin and his British partner, Andrew Cotton, finished third out of nine teams. Nazaré saw 50-foot waves this time around, but Skudin said he has seen waves as big
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loNg BEACH REsidENt Will Skudin rode 50-foot waves in a competition in Nazaré, Portugal, earlier this month, the only American in the nine-team event. as 70 to 100 feet over the course of his career. He has been surfing competitively for most of his life, mostly in “paddle-in” events, in which contestants paddle themselves out to the waves. Nazaré is a tow-in event, in which the two teammates alternate towing each
other out with a personal watercraft and surfing. The event was once paddlein, but changed to tow-in in the winter of 2018 to make the surfers’ trips out to the waves safer and easier, since there’s nothing safe about paddling out to waves as big as Nazaré’s,
according to Skudin. “I grew up more with paddling myself in — it’s more man versus wild,” he said. “With tow-in, I love the team aspect. To be back in a competitive environment, and now with a team, it’s really fun.” Continued on page 4
North Park groups showcase Black art and business By JAMEs BERNstEiN jbernstein@liherald.com
Two of Long Beach’s largest Black organizations — the North Park Civic Association and the North Park Economic Development Corp. — have signed a lease for what they say will be the first permanent home for both in office space on the second floor of a building at 100 West Park Ave. The organizations have held meetings at local churches and other spots in the city for years, but this past weekend, officials invited the public and the press to the office space they said would be used for meetings,
events and exhibits as well as classroom training. Last Saturday afternoon, they held a “soft” opening, displaying the work of Long Beach artist Ronald McHenry Jr., 34, who teaches science to seventh- and eighth-graders in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn and is a minister at the Evangelical Revival Community Church on Riverside Boulevard. McHenry had four of his works on display, all showing leaders of the civil rights movement, including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, a giant of Congress and the civil rights era, whose courageous protests guaranteed him a
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Chief operating officer, N. Park Economic Development Corp. place in American history. McHenry’s work, which has been displayed at the Cruzada Evangelica Misionera Church in Long Beach, reflects his spirituality. His depictions of King and Lewis show men with wide-open eyes, looking toward the future. Alongside them are figures calling for justice.
McHenry started painting Teenage Mutant Ninja turtle figures when he was 2. His greatgreat-grandfather, Napolean McHenry, helped persuade King to visit Long Beach in 1968, when he walked the streets of the city just weeks before he was assassinated in Memphis. McHenry said he has had deep spiritual feelings all his life.
“One day my aunt took me to church and I felt a touch,” he said. “I went from painting turtles to painting Jesus.” Runnie Myles, president of the North Park Civic Association, said the organization would sponsor other events in the near future. “We will be spotlighting people in this community who Continued on page 9
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The giant electric truck rolled onto Long Island earlier this week, stopping at the MLK Center in Long Beach and at the Herald newspaper office in Garden City, seeking support for legislation to increase sales. Currently, the cap of five stores in New York State is, according to the lawmakers and the manufacturer, Rivian Automotive Inc. of Irvine, Calif., a significant impediment to the sales of electric vehicles in the state. State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Long Beach Democrat, and Assembly woman Patricia Fahy, a Democrat from Albany, are sponsoring a bill to increase the cap on direct sales. Kaminsky and Fahy said in a press release that, “Nearly 80% of zero emission vehicles purchased in the United States come from zero emission vehicle-exclusive manufacturers that sell directly to customers. The current cap of five stores is the most significant impediment to electric vehicle adoption in the State.” In an interview Wednesday, Kaminsky said Rivian should have the right to make direct sales to the public. In New York, cars must be sold through traditional dealerships. The one exception is Tesla, which received permission to open five showrooms after settlement of a lawsuit in 2014. Nineteen states have no cap on the number of direct-sales locations. Kaminsky and other lawmakers note that New York State is behind others in electric vehicle sales. New York has achieved only 3 percent of its goal of having 850,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2025. The Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association has been lobbying hard against removing the cap. It argues that consumers can negotiate lower prices by visiting different dealerships. They can also get their cars
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LesLie Hayward of Rivian Automotive, speaks to youngsters at the MLK Center in Long Beach. serviced if a particular dealership goes out of business. They argue also that they are fighting billionaires such as Elon Musk of Tesla. Kaminsky said that the bill, currently in the Transportation Committee, faces a tough road ahead., given the lobbying effort by the dealers association.” It’s not as easy proposition,” Kaminsky said. But, he said, ”It’s my objective” to get the bill passed this session. At the MLK Center on Tuesday, Leslie Hayward, a
spokeswoman for Rivian, talked to young people about electric vehicles and showd them the R1T truck, a 6,800 pound vehicle that is 217 feet long. Hayward drove the truck to the Herald office in Garden City and allowed reporters to tae it for a drive. The truck’s pickup was extraordinary and the ride was smooth and quiet. “New York is doing everything right, but they’re not allowing sales,” Hayward said.
Channel survey expected soon in Island Park By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com
Energy company Equinor is continuing surveys off the coast of Lido Beach and Long Beach as well as in Reynolds Channel this month, as part of the Empire Wind Project, in conjunction with the City of Long Beach, the Town of Hempstead and the Village of Island Park, with the hope of bringing renewable offshore wind energy to New York. Island Park residents may have seen the small lift boat, Smokey, which was deployed in January in Reynolds Channel. It will conduct geotechnical surveying through March, collecting data on the underwater soil and rock so that export cables can be laid to carry power from future offshore wind turbines to the electrical grid. Mott MacDonald, an engineering management and development firm and Equinor’s subcontractor, is overseeing the surveying. “We understand there are a lot of important stakeholders in local waters, with the marina and boaters there,” Ana Fisyak, Equinor’s community engagement manager, told the Herald. “We want to thank everyone for their flexibility while we get New York state to their clean energy goal of nine gigawatts.” Fisyak expects the surveying in Reynolds Channel to take only six or seven days if the weather cooperates. Smokey’s
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THe naTion’s firsT offshore wind farm, three miles off Block Island. Wind farms are expected to become common in the waters off Long Island in the near future. work in the channel is still awaiting the completion of a joint permit application, which requires sign-offs from the Army Corps of Engineers, the state departments of Environmental Conservation and Interior, and other agencies. The energy goal Fisyak referred to was set in July 2019 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former Vice President Al Gore when Cuomo finalized the nation’s largest off-
shore wind agreement, creating the Empire Wind and Beacon Wind projects, the second of which will be located in the Atlantic between Cape Cod and Long Island. Cuomo said at the time that he hoped the projects would be able to power 2 million homes and meet nearly 10 percent of the state’s electricity needs by 2025. The Empire Wind Project, a partner-
ship between Equinor and British Petroleum, will be located 15 to 30 miles southeast of Long Island and spans 80,000 acres, with water depths between 65 and 131 feet. Once completed in the mid-2020s, the project is expected to bring 1,260 megawatts of energy, enough to power roughly a million homes in New York. “It’s exciting to bring an entire new industry to Long Island,” Harrison Feuer, Equinor’s director of New York public affairs, said. “This used to be an area that had that sort of commanding industry, then Long Island became the first suburb in America. So I think bringing a new industry to the Island that can create good jobs and bring innovation is really exciting to be a part of.” Feuer is a former staffer for former U.S. Rep. Steve Israel and State Assemblyman Chuck Levine who lives on the North Shore. In a fact sheet sent out to residents, Equinor said that lights may be visible at night on Reynolds Channel during the surveying, and there may be some noise during the day. The will usually take place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Boaters will still be able to pass through the channel, but are asked to give the barges some distance, according to Fisyak. She encouraged Island Park, Lido Beach and Long Beach residents to contact her if they have any questions or concerns, at afis@equinor.com.
Skudin was lone U.S. surfer in Portugal continued from front page His partner, Cotton, who is from North Devon, England, was competing in his third Nazaré event, and this was the second time the two had teamed up. They surfed together in another big-wave contest in Nazaré in December, and finished seventh. The two met at a b i g - w ave event in Ireland in 2012, and decided then that they would someday team up. Cotton, 42, said it’s an “absolute no-brainer” that they’ll team wiLL Skudin up again, beLong Beach cause they feel like they just keep getting better together. “It’s like building a house,” Cotton said of their partnership. “Our first event was the foundation. This event was the walls, and for the next one, we’ll finish it.” Skudin shared Cotton’s enthusiasm about teaming up again, and added that he hoped to return to Nazaré as well.
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“I’m grateful and blessed to have the opportunities, and to be able to compete,” he said. “I’m still learning, though. You never stop learning.”
Andrew Cotton, Skudin’S British teammate, above, bombed down the face of a typical Nazaré wave. Skudin, near left, and Cotton teamed up in a bigwave event for the second time.
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L.B. resident indicted for fake vaccine cards bcarpenter@liherald.com
A Long Beach resident was charged Friday with distributing fake Covid vaccine cards to unvaccinated people. Steven Rodriguez, 27, is a a nurse at a clinic in Hempstead. The clinic was not named in an indictment filed by the U.S. Attorney’s officer. He was arrested along with Jia Liu, 26, a Queens resident and United States Marine Corps reservist. Liu was also charged previously with entering the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots. FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Michael J. Driscoll said that more than 300 stolen and fake cards were in circulation. He said that anyone who “defrauds the government in any way – and profit from pocketing the funds – will continue to be held accountable.” “As alleged, by deliberately distributing fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards to the unvaccinated, the defendants put military and other communities at risk of contracting a virus that has already claimed nearly one million lives in this country,” said that United States Attorney Breon Peace. “This Office remains committed to rooting out and prosecuting those individuals who threaten our public health and safety for
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Excelsior Pass, which is an app that displays a New York citizen’s vaccination status. According to cour t documents, Liu purchased blank COVID-19 Vaccination Cards from Rodriguez, and then forged and gave them to buyers and other co-conspirators for money. Liu also directed buyers to meet Rodriguez in person at the healthcare clinic he works at in Hempstead to purchase the cards. Rodriguez would meet the buyer, but instead of administering the vaccine he destroyed a vial of vaccine intended to be used to vaccinate a patient, which is another offense. He then gave a fake vaccination card to the buyer that he filled out to make it appear that the buyer had received a dose of the vaccine. He further made entries in the Immunization Databases that lied and said that the buyer had been vaccinated. They created more than 70 false entries in the Immunization Databases. Rodriguez and Liu promoted their scheme through messages on social media. They referred to vaccination cards using code names, such as “gift cards,” “Cardi Bs,” “Christmas cards” and “Pokemon cards.” If convicted, they face up to 10 years in prison.
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Alzheimer’s Support Group The public library and the Alzheimer’s Association will have an Alzheimer’s and dementia support group in the program room from 6:30 to 7:45 pm.
Library Board Meeting 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.
Friday, March 4 Chair Yoga
Long Beach Soup Kitchen
The public library will have a chair yoga class on zoom and in the auditorium from 9 to 10 am.
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.
Movin’ to Motown The public library will be having a Movin’ to Motown class in the auditorium and on zoom from 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm.
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. 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, Feb. 25 Youth Drawing Club The public library will have a youth drawing club session in the program room and on zoom from 4 to 4:45 pm.
Chair Yoga The public library will have a chair yoga class on zoom and in the auditorium from 9 to 10 am.
Saturday, Feb. 26 Black History at MLK Center Artists in Partnership, Inc. will have a free community program for Black History Month with a presentation
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Yoga to promote health and peace The public library will be having yoga classes to promote health and peace. The upcoming classes will be on Saturday, Feb. 26 and Saturday, March 5. Both classes will be in the program room and on zoom from 10 to 11 am. called “Harriet Tubman, Herself” at the MLK Center starting at 2 pm.
Yoga for Health and Peace The public library will have a yoga class to focus on health and peace in the program room and on zoom from 10 to 11 am.
Monday, Feb. 28 Writers’ Circle The public library will have a writers’ circle session on zoom from 11 am to 1 pm.
Gentle Yoga The public library will have a gentle yoga class in the grogram room and on zoom from 10 to 11 am.
Tuesday, March 1 City Council Meeting There will be a city council meeting on YouTube starting at 7 pm.
West End Arts There will be a West End Visual Arts Guild meeting at the public library in the program room from 6:30 to 8 pm.
Low-Impact Cardio The public library will have a lowimpact cardio class in the auditorium and on zoom from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm.
Wednesday, Mar. 2 NY Project Hope NY Project Hope will offer free and
anonymous counseling at the public library in the first floor lobby from 4 to 5 pm.
West End Book Club The West End Book Club will have a meeting in the public library’s West End branch from 7 to 8 pm.
Ask the Tech Guy The public library will have an “Ask the Tech Guy” session for residents to ask any technology-related question in the second floor lobby from 2 to 3 pm.
Thursday, March 3 Women During the Holocaust The public library will have a presentation on women during the Holocaust on zoom from 10 to 11 am.
The public library will have a yoga class to focus on health and peace in the program room and on zoom from 10 to 11 am.
Defensive Driving The Empire Safet Council will have a defensive driving class at the public library in the auditorium from 10 am to 4 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 city will be discussing possible changes to beach fees. Island Harvest will be holding a food drive at city hall until March 9.
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continued from front page are artists and other types who are leaders” in the new office space, Myles said. A number of Black artists and musicians in Long Beach are unknown to the larger community, he said, and the hope is that the office’s work will help them become better known. Anissa Moore, a vice president of the civic organization, said the space would be used for business meetings, and to help train people in such subjects as financial literacy. “Our purpose is to support the community,” said Moore, the first Black ever elected president of the Long Beach City Council in 2015, ronald Mchenry and the recently appointed deputy Nassau County executive for health and human services. “We want this space to be a symbol of the African-American community. You can’t have Long Beach without us.” G. Dewey Smalls, chief operating officer of the North Park Community Development Corp., said that Saturday’s event was “an artsy way” of showing off the new office space. “This is all about bringing the community together,” Smalls said. “We’re here. We’re open.” Joe Abate/Herald
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North Park CiviC Association Vice President Anissa Moore welcomed visitors to the association’s new office last Saturday.
Long Beach surges in county meet By TONy BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com
Fifty-yard freestyle county champion Jack Skarren, Frankie Moriarty and Joe Cash each accounted for 31 points to lead Long Beach to a third-place finish in the Nassau County boys’ swimming/diving championships held Feb. 9-12 at the Aquatic Center. The Marines, coming off a 5-2-1 regular season, were projected on paper to finish no higher than fifth, coach Lynn Volosevich said. But they landed just a few points from second and will send eight representatives to the New York State meet March 4-5 at Ithaca College. “I’m totally thrilled we took third in the county,” Volosevich said. “It’s even more impressive when you consider we have only a few club swimmers and graduated some heavy hitters from last season.” Long Beach set the tone in the county meet with what Volosevich described as an unexpected state-qualifying effort in the 200 Medley Relay. Senior Freddy Ramon, the class Salutatorian bound for Yale University, led off with the backstroke, followed by junior Finn Morris (breaststroke), senior Ty Thornton (butterfly), and senior Nikolai Alfasi (freestyle.) “As each of them hit their splits, I saw they were all doing their fastest times and it made me realize we were going to reach the qualifying time,” she said.
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COaCh LyNN VOLOSEVICh’S Long Beach boys’ swimming/diving team produced eight All-County finishers and state qualifiers. “They all swam great and I really think it sparked us for the whole meet.” Alfasi was also part of the 200 Freestyle Relay which finished second in the county and heads upstate with the fourthbest public school time. Skarren, a junior, preceded Alfasi in the leadoff spot and the back half featured Moriarty, a senior, and Cash, a sophomore. The foursome finished in 1-minute, 28.34 seconds.
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Skarren, a three-sport athlete (football and lacrosse), ranks in the Top 20 in the state in the 50 free. He won the county title with a time of 21.75. “He’s a very motivated student-athlete who hates to lose,” Volosevich said. “He explodes off the starting block and is very tough to catch.” Cash was All-County in the 200 (third place) and 500 freestyle, and Moriarty
earned All-County honors in the 100 free. Also headed to the state meet is senior diver Chris Buonocore, who broke a pair of longstanding program records this winter. He’s Long Beach’s new all-time leader in 6- and 11-dive scoring, surpassing 22-year marks held by Keith Griffin. “Chris has an unbelievable work ethic,” Volosevich said of Buonocore, who was third in Nassau with 487.2 points.
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Phillips announces audit of tax reassessment By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com
Nassau County Comptroller Elaine Phillips said she will begin an audit of the Department of Assessment on Feb. 15. Joined by County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who campaigned on transparency and change for the reassessment, Phillips reiterated her own promise to independently investigate the reassessment process and how to improve it. The audit will be Phillips’ first as comptroller and will focus on better understanding the re-assessment done under former County Executive Laura Curran in order to make changes going forward. Phillips said that the first task will be to audit the 2021 tax roll to see the methodology and process that was done for the mass appraisal. “When you go in and do an audit, you have to keep an open mind,” Phillips said. “Depending on the information that you find, the audit could evolve.” Phillips said the audit will seek to discover whether exemptions were applied correctly and how the five-year phase in may have affected the tax roll. In March 2020, the Legislature passed the Reassessment Phase-In Act with a fiveyear phase in for changes to a homeowner’s assessed value from their 2019-20 market value to the 2020-21 roll. An exemption base was then to be determined by taking the increase and multiplying it by .1 percent. In the first year of the reassessment,
Nassau CouNTy CompTroller Elaine Phillips said she will begin her independent audit of the tax reassessment.
CouNTy exeCuTive BruCe Blakeman, center, promised to keep his office and the Legislature out of the audit process.
80 percent of the exemption base was to be subtracted from a homeowner’s total assessment. Each year the percentage was to drop by 20 percent until the new values were fully implemented in 2024-25. Blakeman said that he has found identical properties in places like Massapequa, where one home was assessed at 40 percent more than another. “My predecessor engaged in a reassessment that wasn’t transparent and wasn’t done in a way that was fair to all the residents of Nassau County,” he said. “And because it wasn’t transparent, we still don’t know everything that went wrong.” Blakeman said that the information that comes from Phillips’ reports will be
relied upon heavily for a decision-making process. He also said that the county executive’s office and the Legislature will have no input, which will enable Phillips to have an independent review. Legislator Steve Rhoads, the chair of the new legislative committee for assessments, was also in attendance with vice chair Legislator John Ferretti. “What we wanted as a legislative majority was a process that was fair, that was accurate, and that was transparent,” Rhoads said. “Unfortunately, what we received over the course of the last four years was anything but.” Rhoads decried a lack of transparency during Curran’s administration, which
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saw many homeowners sue to find out how the algorithm used by the Department of Assessment calculated their home’s value. Phillips cautioned that this audit would take time, as the audit of the assessment review commission was published in December 2021 after three and a half years. She said she plans to have her department publish a report after they complete their review of the 2021 tax roll but could not provide a timetable. “I’m committed to transparency,” Phillips said. “I have my slogan that I am the independent protector of our taxpayers and I promise the people of Nassau County that I will live up to that.”
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Laura Kavanagh in a statement. “Our entire department is in mourning over the tragic death of this extraordinary Jesse Gerhard spent his younger years young man who always answered the call dreaming of becoming a full-time fire and never wavered in his sworn duty to fighter, following in the footsteps of his save others.” great-grandfather, who was a fire captain New York City Mayor Eric Adams also in Queens. issued a statement: “Firefighter Jesse He volunteered in 2009 with the fire Gerhard dreamed of being a Firefighter department in Islip, where he his entire life; and he lived was raised and where his famthat dream, bravely serving ily lives. Eight years later, he the residents of Queens by fulfilled his dream when he battling fires and rescuing was appointed a probationary New Yorkers from harm. The fire fighter. He had worked as heartbreaking loss of this an emergency medical technibrave young man who was so cian beginning in July 2014. committed to saving others is Gerhard entered the New a painful reminder of the danYork City Fire Academy in gerous and difficult work 2017 and was later assigned to New York City Firefighters do Station 10 in Manhattan and every single day.” Jesse Gerhard Station 47 in Far Rockaway, Gerhard’s father, Bruce Queens. Gerhard, of Islip, told local On Wednesday, Feb. 16, television reporters that he Gerhard, 33, died doing what he spent his felt “numb.” professional life preparing for: fighting “It’s just like out of the blue, how could fires to save lives. you think something like this could hapThe NYFD said Gerhard had suffered pen? You know it’s always inevitable and “a medical episode” fighting a two-alarm never think it could happen to your kid,” blaze at a house fire in Far Rockaway. He Gerhard said. had been working with Ladder 134 in Far “All he wanted to be was a fireman. His Rockaway. Officials said he’d been previ- life was a fireman, and all his friends ously honored for bravery. were firemen, and he lived in Long Beach Gerhard had recently moved to Long with all the firemen. He was a good kid. A Beach, the FDNY said. No other details really good kid.” were provided. At the volunteer firehouse in Islip, pur“As a Firefighter and an EMT, Jesse ple and blue bunting was spread across Gerhard served our city with incredible the building. A bouquet of flowers and a courage and valor, always rushing into condolence card were placed next to Gerdanger and risking his life to save oth- hard’s fire helmet and jacket. ers,” said Acting Fire Commissioner
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Sally McCutcheon, mom of 11, grandma of 22, dies at 88 Sara (Sally) Marie McCutcheon, a graduate of Long Beach High School and mother of eleven, grandmother of 22 and great-grandmother of seven, died Monday, at her home in Garden City. She was 88. She was raised in Long Beach and grew up with her sister, Elizabeth Burke and her brother, John McGlynn, now deceased. She was graduated from LBHS in 1950 and had been a member of the cheerleading squad. As a teen, she met George McCutcheon, a Long Beach lifeguard and in 1955 they were married at St. Ignatius Church. Soon after their marriage, she joined her husband in Hawaii, where he was stationed in the service, and she gave birth to their first child. They returned to Long Beach in 1957 and had ten more children, then moved to Garden City in 1978. Altogether, they raised eleven children, George (Clare), John (Bunny),
Joseph (deceased), James (Maureen), Maureen Coogan (Joseph), Karen, Michael (Lisa), Patricia (Deborah Petrowsky), Thomas, Christopher (Trish, deceased), and Annmarie Abbate (Joseph). Sally and George moved to Malverne in 1999 for a period as empty nesters before moving back to Garden City, while also spending winters at their second home in Vero Beach, Florida. She enjoyed playing golf, shopping and lunching out. Most importantly, she loved spending time with family and friends. Sally is survived by her husband, 10 children, 19 grandchildren, and 7 greatgrandchildren. Mass was to be Thursday, February 24, 10 am at St. Anne’s R.C. Church, Garden City, NY. Interment to follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY.
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There won’t be apartments coming to single-family home communities. At least not this year. Gov. Kathy Hochul has pulled a proposal intended to allow single-family homeowners to more easily rent out rooms and basements from her state budget, putting an end — at least for now — the controversial proposal that met with considerable opposition from local leaders. Those same leaders gathered outside an East Meadow home last Friday to celebrate the governor’s decision. Raheel Ahmad, who lives on the same street, told reporters he’s grateful housing on Long Island — where he relocated his family from Brooklyn six years ago — will stay the same. “It feels amazing,” Ahmad said. “This is why I moved here. I’m thankful for the elected officials who raised up for the residents and got a victory for us.” Hochul’s proposal would have allowed for the creation of “accessory dwelling units” — basements, attics, garages and the like which could be renovated and turned into a separate apartment unit. Hochul included ADUs as part of a broader $25 billion, five-year plan that was part of an effort to preserve up to 100,000 affordable homes across the state. “In the wake of the pandemic, it’s crucial that we tackle the housing crisis and make New York a more affordable place for all,” Hochul said at the time. “These bold steps are a major step forward in transforming our housing market, protecting affordability, and increasing the housing supply.” Hochul wanted to require municipalities to allow at least one ADU on owneroccupied residentially zoned lots, leaving details like size requirements and safety standards to individual local governments. It also would have created an amnesty program in New York City to allow for existing ADUs — where such a practice already is prominent — to be made legal. Yet, Hochul’s plan has been widely criticized, especially locally, where officials claimed it would put a strain on Long
Island resources — and be an end to suburbia. Thousands signed online petitions against the proposal, according to Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin. “The biggest investment in someone’s life is buying a house in the suburbs,” he said. “The governor’s attempt by throwing this in the budget to eliminate single housing is wrong.” Hochul’s plan would have removed “home rule,” Clavin added, meaning local governments could not determine zoning based on the character of the community and the wishes of those who live and work around it. But it’s not that ADUs don’t already exist in the Town of Hempstead, Clavin said. Zoning provisions are already in place intended to provide accessory apartments for senior citizens, and for parents looking to provide their adult children some independence, while still keeping them close to home. County legislator Tom McKevitt is the one who says he found the ADU proposal buried deep inside the 5,000-page budget. The opposition organized on Long Island is something he described as a great example of people at all levels of government coming together to preserve their quality of life. “We’re putting forth the word to the governor and to state representatives, ‘Do not try this again,’” McKevitt said. “’Do not put it in there. We’re going to be watching and protecting our communities.’” Although the governor has the state constitutional power to add policy to the budget process without much legislative oversight, Hochul’s attempt to add ADUs to the state through that process says all Town Councilman Chris Carini needs to know about the strength of the proposal. “This bill could not pass on its merits as a standalone bill and was hidden in the budget to force its passage,” Carini said, in a statement. “This was the same tactic used to pass bail reform. I was proud to join with other local officials to expose this smash and grab of our local zoning.” Brendan Carpenter contributed to this article.
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Family members oF Esther Kusnet surround her at the Beach Terrace nursing home to celebrate her 100th birthday.
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Esther Kusnet celebrates 100th birthday in L.B. The family of Esther Kusnet gathered at the Beach Terrace nursing home in Long Beach Feb. 16 to celebrate her 100th birthday. Her great-grandson, Hunter (left), her grand-daughter, Donna Honan (right) and Donna’s husband Brian, of Long Beach, congratulated the woman know as Bubbie.
Ms Kusnet was born in Massachusetts and met her husband, Alex, when he worked as a welder on the docks in Brooklyn. They lived in Bayside, Queens, for decades. Alex died in 1997. A dozen of Ms. Kusnet’s family members perished in the Holocaust. She taught her grandchildren about the horrors of the Nazi regime.
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LEGAL NOTICE CASE NO. 21527 RESOLUTION NO. 165-2022 Adopted: February 15, 2022 Councilman Muscarella offered the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING AND SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN PARKING SPACES FOR MOTOR VEHICLES FOR THE SOLE USE OF HOLDERS OF SPECIAL PARKING PERMITS ISSUED BY THE COUNTY OF NASSAU TO PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS AND THE REPEAL OF CERTAIN OTHER LOCATIONS, WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY, SET ASIDE AS PARKING SPACES FOR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS. WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 158-2022, adopted January 25, 2022, a public hearing was duly held on the 15th day of February, 2022, at the Town Meeting Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, New York, on the proposed establishment and setting aside of certain parking spaces for motor vehicles for the sole use of holders of special parking permits issued by the County of Nassau to physically handicapped persons, in accordance with Section 202-48 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, all as set forth in said resolution; and
WHEREAS, after due consideration, this Town Board finds it to be in the public interest to establish and set aside certain parking spaces for motor vehicles for the sole use of holders of special parking permits issued by the County of Nassau to physically handicapped persons; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that in accordance with Section 202-48 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, the following parking spaces be and the same hereby is set aside for the sole use of holders of special parking permits issued by the County of Nassau to physically handicapped persons: EAST ATLANTIC BEACH MOHAWK AVENUE - west side, starting at a point 238 feet north of the north curbline of West Beach Street, north for a distance of 20 feet. (TH-611/21) BELLEROSE TERRACE 239th STREET - west side, starting at a point 189 feet south of the south curbline of Jamaica Avenue, south for a distance of 14 feet. (TH-615/21) ; and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Town Clerk shall enter this resolution in the minutes of the Town Board and shall publish a copy of this resolution once in a newspaper having a general circulation in the Town of Hempstead, and shall post a copy hereof on the signboard maintained by her, and file in her office affidavits of such publication and posting. The foregoing resolution was seconded by Councilman Dunne and adopted upon roll call as follows: AYES: SIX (6) NOES: NONE (0) 129755
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Q. Our house is large and very old, with a third story that was partially finished before purchase. We finished the rest of the attic and put in a few bedrooms and a bath. Recently we hired an architect to enlarge our kitchen into our backyard and make a nice entrance to a porch and patio with a fireplace. The architect made the plans, after several meetings, changes, etc., and then put them into our building department to pull a permit. We next got a notice that our attic is in violation, and we had to either take out all the finishes and bathroom or file plans to get a state permit. Ask The None of this has anything to do with the kitchen Architect or patio, which we hoped to have by summer. We suspect our architect made this much more complicated for us, but now we can’t undo what he did. Naturally, he gets more money to do more plans and permits, which we also think is rather sneaky and uncalled for. Can we report onte eeper the architect for doing this to us, and can we pull back the permit so we can make all this go away and just do our kitchen?
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39 Valley Lane N, BA, FIRST TIME ON THE Market! Updated 5 Bedroom, 4 Bth Arlington Colonial. 3300 Sq ft, This home Features an Entry Foyer, Step Down Living Room, Formal Dining Room, Family Rm w/ Fpl & Quartz/Wood EIK. 4 Bedrooms on Upper Level Include Master suite w/ Vaulted Ceiling, Skylit Bth w/ Jacuzzi, Terrace & WIC. Full Fin Bsmt. 2 Car Att Gar. SD#14 ......... $1,279,000
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A. So you believe everyone is out to get you, including your architect, and you have the right to “pull back” your permit, ignoring the conditions of your house. It doesn’t work that way. Unfortunately, even though most local governments know that most homes have violations, the governments choose not to prosecute every homeowner, since it would be bad for the business of getting re-elected, so code violations go on without a word until you make the first move, which you did, by coming to the attention of the building officials whose job is public safety. Every day of the week, people ask if we can’t just look the other way. We absolutely can look the other way, but eventually who will believe us for lying or not doing our job? The issues of your home easily come up by simply bringing up satellite images, on-line accessible documents, including tax department records, showing what is in the home and whether the third floor was finished. Your building official doesn’t need the architect or you to figure out the truth about the illegalities in your home. When your architect shows the actual conditions, which he is required to do, including walls removed, walls finished in rooms that the building department has no previous record of, or other changes, he’s only doing his job. Imagine the scrutiny an architect would receive if a building official walked in to check the conditions and discovered that you and the architect had lied. I have stated in this column, many times, the statistic that only five people out of 100 will survive a fire on the third floor. Ninety-five people will die of smoke inhalation or burns. So do the right thing and follow through, whichever way you choose. I’m pulling for you.
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hile the state’s election districts were recently redrawn — gerrymandered — by a progressive-Democratic majority in the State Legislature for the purpose of favoring their party, gerrymandering is not a particularly new political weapon. Those on both sides of the aisle have used their power to redraw district lines, depending on who holds the majority. The practice goes back to the 1800s, but this year’s redrawing by is unprecedented, ronaLd j. and comes at a when the rosenberg time self-proclaimed progressives’ larger political agenda ranges from defunding police to “bail reform” to demonizing the successful entrepreneur, i.e., capitalism. As U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi pursues his gubernatorial primary quest, his former 3rd Congressional District is now unrecognizable. The progressive gerrymander has recreated his congressional borders into what they now humorously call the Long Island Sound District. It now stretches from Smithtown in Suffolk County, along the lightly populated North Shore, into the densely populated Bronx, and ends in Democratic West-
chester County. While several Long Island Democrats have announced their intentions to run for Suozzi’s vacated seat, they will face a growing number of New York City-based progressives who see their population density and massive Democratic enrollment in the city and its environs as bulletproof at the ballot box. The numbers speak for themselves. The Village of Northport, part of the new 3rd C.D., has some 8,000 residents. The City of New Rochelle, in Westchester, which is also part of the new district, has some 80,000. Now consider who is lining up to run in the 3rd District so far: Bronx State Senator Alessandra Biaggi, who defeated moderate Democrat Jeff Klein a number of years ago. In a December tweet, Democratic Socialist Congresswoman Alexandria OcasioCortez had nothing but praise for Biaggi. Also in the running is Melanie D’Arrigo, a self-described progressive who has been endorsed by former New York City Council Speaker Melissa MarkViverito, a city pol who once co-chaired the City Council’s Progressive Caucus. So these are the extremist candidates who stand a very good chance of assuming control of a new district designed to remove the potential of not just a Republican winning the seat, but of Long
Letters the Heralds in which he did not challenge the reader to think, to question, and to join him in creating a better community. Over the decades, his professionalism saw him literally on the front lines, reporting on everything from local events to major breaking news, and eventually overseeing the coverage that appears weekly in our local paper. Brinton has reported on not one, not two, but three once-in-a-lifetime events: the Sept. 11 attacks, Superstorm Sandy and the Covid19 pandemic. He further demonstrated his professionalism and class when the Merrick Life transitioned to the Merrick Herald, paying tribute to the decades of community journalism by the Laursen family. Scott was not only our source of news. He was a neighbor and a parent in our community. You may have waved hello to him as he jogged through the neighborhood. You may have stood behind him on the bagel line. But you always knew his byline stood for probing and honest journalism. This is one reader who will miss our local journalism, celebrity and who thanks him for his almost three decades of service to the Merrick-Bellmore community. KYLE STROBER Merrick
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Islanders having any representation focused on Long Island issues. The implications have not gone unnoticed. Great Neck-based Democratic primary hopeful Robert Zimmerman is now warning Democrats and Republicans that he is the political firewall that could prevent a progressive from representing the new district. As he raises money for the primary, Zimmerman is reciting a list of moderate, centrist Long Island Democrats who now support his effort. His strategy is that of a seasoned professional, leveraging his public relations experience to focus his message, which is, essentially, “I am your last best hope to confront this city theft.” Of course, that presumes the Republican Party won’t field a candidate who can confront and defeat whoever the Democrats nominate in this now unrecognizable district. But the reality is that the tortured borders of the 3rd are a calculated move by New York City-based progressives to dismantle Nassau and Suffolk counties’ ability to project political cohesion and regional advocacy. If successful, they will have effectively eliminated any chance that the Long Island congressional delegation will be a powerful force in the House of Representatives. Consider what that means. Will a
he ambush reveals a smug disdain for suburban values, people and needs.
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Bronx progressive/Socialist Democrat really work with a Long Island Republican to redress the loss of South Shore beachfront in a nor’easter? Will a Bronx progressive care about environmental damage along Smithtown’s coastline? Will a Bronx Progressive fight for infrastructure money for the Long Island Expressway? Because, after all, shouldn’t we all be punished for not using electric vehicles? And by the way, many constituents of this new Long Island Sound District have median incomes that progressives will find worthy of their most pungent demagoguery, because capitalism is an anathema to their political ideology. This ambush of Long Island by these progressives reveals a smug disdain for suburbia, its values, its people and its needs. To counter it, Long Island voters must recognize that we have been robbed of our voice in Congress. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, liberal or conservative. As a bicounty region, we have been mugged by those who cynically intend to walk off with one of our congressional seats. The answer is to recognize the ploy and respond appropriately on Election Day 2022. Ronald J. Rosenberg has been an attorney for 42 years, concentrating in commercial litigation and transactions, and real estate, municipal, zoning and land use law. He founded the Garden City law firm Rosenberg Calica & Birney in 1999.
LONG BEACH HERALD — February 24, 2022
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Redistricting is a process designed to fail
n chess, you can’t control the game unless you control the board. The same can be said about politics, and since the early days of the republic, state legislatures have had virtually complete control of the congressional and legislative redistricting process. After each census, states are required to draw new district boundary lines — a controversial process that far too often is steeped in partisanship. In fact, New York state lawmakers just approved those lines in recent weeks, making a number of changes, felt primarily when it comes to who represents us where in Congress. Nothing about redistricting is popular — especially when population declines force the Legislature to remove congressional districts completely, as New York had to do this year. That’s why then Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced in 2011 what would eventually become a state constitutional amendment removing redistricting powers from the Legislature — which drew district boundaries for itself — and putting it in the hands of an “independent” commission.
We use “independent” ironically because it really wasn’t. The majority and minority parties in the Legislature each appointed four members, and those eight members chose two more people who were not registered members of either party. This commission held hearings and then drew new district late last year. What its members couldn’t do was come to a consensus. Without what would essentially be a bipartisan agreement, the entire process was thrown back to the very Legislature that held the power to draw the maps in the first place. Even if the commission had somehow found a way to agree on a final set of maps, it still required approval from the Legislature. Even in that scenario, the Legislature would only need to reject the maps drawn by the commission twice before it regained its original power to draw the maps its members chose. It’s like buying your wife a bowling ball for your anniversary, with the finger holes drilled to fit your own grip. Did anyone really believe that an inde-
pendent commission could craft district maps on its own that the State Legislature would actually approve? The odds were stacked against the panel from the very start, creating not an independent commission, but simply the appearance of one, while the process of drawing maps remained the same as it has been for the past couple of centuries. Gerrymandering is an age-old problem, and it’s hard not to look at some of the new districts — like the stretching of U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi’s congressional district from northern Nassau County straight up past Little Neck Bay, and west to the East River and into Westchester County — and not see highly creative boundary drawing. Yet we can’t seem to get out of our own way to prevent it. A slight shift of a district line here, and a tuck there, can be the difference between true representation and an electorate skewed to support an elite few. Representation is the very essence of democracy. But if we’re not drawing district lines fairly, are we truly represented?
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letters Will train platform barriers work? To the Editor: In his letter “Rail Lines Need Barriers” (Feb. 10-16), Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan pointed out a need for barriers on various railroad platforms. What he did not address, however, is how barriers would affect traffic on those platforms. First, if barriers are installed, there will be significantly less space on the platforms, which means that fewer people will have access to them. Second, while the technology exists to make the trains stop at the exact location so that their doors will open at the openings of the platfor m doors, that will require that all trains be the same length, no matter what the requirements for travel may be. Should the two sets of doors not match up exactly (within an allowable tolerance of about 18 inches) the passengers may not be able to detrain. Similarly, if the platform doors open and the train doors don’t, there will also be a lot of unhappy people.
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merica has had many political dynasties over the past 75 years. I recall the Browns in California and the Landrieu family in Louisiana. There are many others, but none can compare to the Kennedy family and the dominant role it has played in our nation’s history. Sadly, almost all of the well-known Kennedys are gone, with the exception of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his legacy has taken a dark turn from that of the rest of his famous family. The Kennedys jERRy were known as activists who supKREmER ported important causes, from the Special Olympics to health care for all. With his name, the son of the late Sen. Bobby Kennedy, who represented New York, could have gotten involved in dozens of worthwhile efforts that would be a continuation of decades of family good deeds. But instead, RFK Jr. has become the hero of the anti-vac-
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cine movement, which is both puzzling and surprising. He travels around the country, spreading his gospel that vaccinations are a threat to your health. According to The Boston Globe, Kennedy preaches, “the COVID vaccine is dangerous for your children.” He claims it is “criminal malpractice to give a child one of these vaccines.” He has also called the Covid jab “one of the deadliest vaccines ever made.” And his fixation with vaccines isn’t limited to those created for the coronavirus. He argues, without proof, that vaccines in general are linked to autism, food allergies and a host of other medical problems. For many years he asserted that the inoculations for measles, mumps and rubella caused autism and other neurological disorders, and according to the Associated Press, he claims that public health officials “knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children.” Kennedy is the darling of anti-vax
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groups all over the country, and is welcomed into the homes of the wealthy and influential, where he rails against the shots with no medical backup for virtually anything he says. He claims he is doing this as a public service, but his anti-vaccine foundation, Children’s Health Defense, recently reported more than $6.8 million on hand. Kennedy states that there is no profit motive for his antvaccine activity. When asked if he was being paid for his efforts, Kennedy told Fox’s Tucker Carlson, “I am getting unpaid for this.” But records show that in 2019, he earned $255,000 from the foundation. Kennedy has used social media to spread his opinions, and has spent big dollars to back them up. His nonprofit is one of two buyers accounting for 54 percent of anti-vaccine content on Facebook. He has a large following on Facebook and Twitter, but his Instagram account was removed last year for “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about Covid vaccines.” To add to the strangeness of Kenne-
he son of a legendary New York senator busily spreads misinformation.
dy’s crusade, his 2021 book “The Real Anthony Fauci” promotes unproven Covid-19 treatments such as ivermectin, which is meant to treat parasites in animals, and the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, and he claims that the current vaccines have never been safety tested, even though the Food and Drug Administration requires three phases of testing that involves thousands of people before a childhood vaccine is approved. There is no shortage of stories about concerned parents who believe that all vaccinations are suspicious or dangerous. I do not challenge their beliefs. But considering the many positive paths that so many Kennedy family members have taken over the years, the one that RFK Jr. has taken is a disturbing one. He is a true believer in his misguided cause, but he bears no resemblance to his legendary late father. Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.
1950s sci-fi horror story still burns bright
ow did he know? How did Ray Bradbury know in 1951 that the tiny black and white televisions popping up in everyone’s living room had the potential to alter human experience? How did Bradbury, who died at age 91 in 2012, know that the little screens would lead to big screens that would eventually possess children’s minds in a way books could not? How did he foresee that people would stuff their heads with the cerebral equivalent of cotRANDI ton candy and KREISS abandon intellectual pursuits for lives devoted to video games? Bradbury was a visionary. He prophesied that many new inventions had the potential to threaten civilized life. What he saw as science “fiction” has come to pass. We are living amid modern advances that have ironically set us back as a people in pursuit of enlightenment and knowledge. We live in an era when the great works of literature are reduced to and diluted into mini-works and summaries, Cliff Notes and comic books.
I urge you and your teenagers to read “Fahrenheit 451,” Bradbury’s 1951 novel that warned the world that it was moving inexorably toward a time of more technology and less humanity, more autocracy, and less freedom of thought. He described a time when fringe groups of fanatics would dominate by using invasive surveillance and harsh laws to squelch any resistance. He never mentioned QAnon, but he knew it was coming. Reading “Fahrenheit 451” today, in the time of alternate facts, false flags, big lies and other threats to our democracy, has left me shaken. Bradbury set the book in a city of the future, but he was writing during the time of the McCarthy hearings, the Red Scare, emerging nuclear weapons and increased government intrusion into the private lives of citizens. He wrote a what-if tale of how a civilized people could lose their freedom by following false gods that pander to their darkest impulses. Seventy years ago he was writing about now, about selfserving political operatives and fake news and pseudo-patriots who tear down the scaffolding that holds up American democracy. “Fahrenheit 451” is a short novel
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about a future in which firefighters are tasked with burning books and the houses of people who hide them. When a woman stands defiantly in her doorway with her book in hand, they burn her, too. Books are banned because they “confuse” people with their ideas. Much of the population is beaten into acceptance of the new normal, with information and entertainment blaring at them from wall screens all day. No one walks outside. Everyone is suspect. It is a thriller about one man, Montag, a fireman who experiences a sudden awakening to the horrors he has perpetrated. His wife, a survivor of multiple suicide attempts, is addicted to the virtual world projected from the screens in her house. She and her friends are inured to authentic feeling, even within themselves. Montag goes on the run, with firemen in pursuit. Eventually he joins up with a rogue band of men — former professors and thinkers, now wanderers in the wilderness, each with large sections of books memorized for posterity. Bradbury’s hero wears a “sea clam shell” in his ear that presages the AirPod. Montag stops on the street to get money from a machine that didn’t exist
eventy years ago, Ray Bradbury was presciently writing about now.
in the 1950s. Overhead, supersonic aircraft drop bombs on cities. They are unmanned drones, much like the ones our government is using to assassinate terrorists thousands of miles away. He explores the risks of free thinking in a time of crushing conformity. In the world of “Fahrenheit 451” there is no privacy, no awareness of nature, simply the elevation of technology and the diminution of humanity. Why does Montag go rogue? What makes him realize that freedom of thought is worth dying for? His last job with the firemen is to burn down the house of a woman who is hiding books. When they arrive with their trucks and flame-throwers, she is standing in the doorway with a book in her hand, and she strikes the first match, killing herself as the house explodes around her. People will die for their books, Montag realizes. It’s something to think about when we read headlines every day about book bans and censorship of treasured literature. It’s something to act on when we see children who watch but don’t read in a time in America when only 25 percent of the population reads a book a year. Bradbury knew we need books to tell the story of ourselves and pass that story on to future generations. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
LONG BEACH HERALD — February 24, 2022
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