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Sibomana wins state mat title Long Beach eighth-grader rolls to 102-pound championship By ToNY BellissiMo tbellissimo@liherald.com
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loNG BeACH’s DuNiA Sibomana knocked off two previously undefeated opponents as well as the No. 1 seed to capture the state 102-pound wrestling championship last Saturday in Albany.
He is only 14 years old, but Dunia Sibomana has already experienced a life’s worth of tragedy and triumph. Last Saturday night at Albany’s MVP Arena, the eighthgrader from Long Beach added his name to the New York state wrestling history book when he capped a dominant weekend with a pin of No. 1-seed Ryan Ferrara, of Chenango Forks, in 1 minute, 32 seconds to capture the 102-pound Division I state championship.
Sibomana, who was seeded third, won his first three matches in the tournament by a combined score of 35-7. He’s the 17th state champ in Long Beach program history. “I really can’t believe it,” said Sibomana, who finished the season with 35 wins in 37 matches. “There was definitely so much competition, and I’m so excited to win.” Long Beach head coach Ray Adams said that Dunia’s road to the state title went through major contenders. “His quarterfinal and semifinal wins Continued on page 5
Chamber: Almost no one wants to pay for parking By BReNDAN CARpeNTeR bcarpenter@liherald.com
The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce this week released the results of a survey on the issue of parking meters in the city, saying it had found overwhelming opposition to a plan that was introduced by the City Council in the beginning of February. According to the chamber, 93.6 percent of survey respondents opposed the plan to install parking meters, primarily in the city’s central business district. Additionally, 95.8 percent said they would not be willing to pay for an annual permit to park in
designated spots in the business district. The chamber reported that 1,684 people had responded to the online survey, which was posted in early February, and 85.2 percent were Long Beach residents. In a statement on Wednesday, city spokesman John McNally said, “It’s a bit premature to be putting out a poll on a program that’s very much still in the development phase. “Nonetheless, I don’t think anyone thought it would be popular to charge for something currently free,” McNally added, “but we need better parking behavior to help our downtown businesses, and the City needs to
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said she wasn’t surprised by the results. There is concern among residents and business owners, she said, because not all of the information about the plan is available, which influenced people’s responses. The survey consisted of more than two dozen questions seeking to learn how difficult respondents found parking in the city,
whether they would be willing to pay for spots, whether they were aware of the plan and whether they supported it. According to the chamber, nearly 95 percent of those who responded said they believed that metered parking would actually reduce business activity, and nearly 90 percent said they Continued on page 14
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Lauren CLune with her 2022 Scolastic Art and Writing Certificate (above) and her ceramic pice, “Twig”
DaviD Crespo with his 2022 Scolastic Art and Writing Certificate (above) and his ceramic pice, “End of Day”
sienna hornberger with her two 2022 Scolastic Art and Writing Certificates (above) and her fashion design “Everything But The Fizz”
Three LBHS students recognized for art The Long Beach High School Vi s u a l A r t s d e p a r t m e n t announced that three students were recently recognized as part of the regional 2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards through the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. The program is the nation’s longest running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens. Lauren Clune received a Gold Key award for her ceramic piece,
“Twig;” David Crespo received an Honorable Mention for his ceramic piece, “End of Day;” and Sienna Hornberger received two awards — a Gold Key for her original fashion design, “Everything But The Fizz,” and an Honorable Mention for her fashion design titled “Field Trip To Childhood.” The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards were founded in 1923 and for nearly a century have inspired bold ideas in creative teens throughout the country.
This year, the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers will celebrate with awards and opportunities for exhibitions, publications and scholarships. The contest is open to students in grades 7-12. Student submissions of art or writing fall into one of 28 categories and are considered for Gold Key, Silver Key, Honorable Mention, American Vision Nominee and American Voices Nominee Awards. The awards are presented to students
along with celebration ceremonies and exhibitions in each region. Awards are based on core originality, technical skill and the emergence of a personal voice or vision. Clune and Hornberger each received a Gold Key award, meaning they automatically move onto the national competition with results being announced later in March.
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Harriet Tubman portrayed at MLK By JAMES BERNSTEIN jbernstein@liherald.com
Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who helped others escape and who served as a scout and spay for the Union during the Civil War, appeared at the Martin Luther King Center in Long Beach Saturday afternoon – at least in the guise of the actress and singer Christine Dixon. Dixon, 27, of Brooklyn and Hempstead, has spent several years performing as Tubman, a –civil-rights icon she has admired since childhood. In fact, Dixon said her performance Saturday marked the 640TH time she has played Tubman at venues across the country. She held a crowd of about 100 at the MLK Center entranced for more than two hours as she enacted Tubman’s struggle through slavery, dangerous travel out of the South on the Underground Railroad, and final victory as a free woman who managed to free her own mother from bondage. Dixon was introduced to the crowd by Johanna Mathieson-Elmer, executive director of Artists in Partnership of Long Beach, which sponsored the performance. The event was produced by Artists in Partnership, a non-profit cultural arts organization and Friends of Anissa Moore, Cheers @&;00, Bridgeworks coworking and Office Space and Leah Tozer/Daniel Gale Real Estate. The young actress began her show holding a lantern and singing about the Underground Railroad, which was actually a series of hideouts for escaping slaves. She employed humor in her performance, and took members of the audience onto the gym floor to act and sing along with her. One favorite was eight-year-old Raelin Coward of Long Beach, who was used for several performances during the afternoon. ‘’I am Harriet Tubman,’’ Dixon said at the outset. ‘I was born in America, but I am the daughter of a slave.” For those who knew little of Tubman, the afternoon was highly-educational. And for those who did, it was highlyentertaining. Tubman had16 siblings, but some of
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them disappeared. “What do you think happened to them,” she asked the crowd. ‘’That’s right,’’ she said. ‘’They were sold off.” Dixon carefully trace Tubman’s life through her marriage, escape from slavery, a horrible assault by a slave-owner that left her hospitalized for 13 months, her husband’s surprise marriage to a much younger woman during her absence, and her own second marriage to a younger man,. Tubman helped free thousands of slaves through the Underground Railroad. A $40,000 bounty was placed on her head by white slave owners. “My greatest achievement was freeing my mother,’’ Dixon quoted Tubman as saying at the end of her life. Dixon said she has portrayed Tubman times ‘’because of the message. I am educating people. What I teach you will not learn in school.” She will be giving future performances in Nassau County. For dates and times, visit harriettubmanherseld.com
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Sibomana captures state wrestling title came against previously undefeated opponents,” said Adams, referring to Sibomana’s 12-2 major decision over Mason Mangialino, of Comsewogue, in the quarterfinals on Friday afternoon and a 9-3 decision over second-seeded Luke Satriano, of Valley Central, in Saturday morning’s semifinals. “Dunia is not only a powerful and motivated kid, but he’s so coachable,” Adams added. “It was incredible to watch his journey unfold. It’s like a movie script.” At the Long Beach City Council meeting Tuesday night, Dunia was presented with a plaque by the council members and received a standing ovation from about 100 people in the crowd, which included members of the wrestling team. Long Beach Police Commissioner Ron Walsh said that on Friday, Dunia will be named police commissioner for a day in a celebration at police headquarters. Eight years ago, Sibomana was clinging to life in his homeland of the Congo, in Central Africa, after a group of wild chimpanzees attacked him and two family members playing near Virunga National Park, a vast animal preserve. His brother and cousin were killed, but Dunia survived, though he was left with life-altering facial injuries that included torn lips, a severely lacerated cheek, and muscle damage that made it hard to swallow or talk. Since arriving in the United States in
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Long Beach’s Dunia Sibomana, top, capped his state tournament run with a pin of top-seeded Ryan Ferrara, of Chenango Falls, in the finals. November 2015, he has undergone more than a dozen surgeries at Stony Brook University Hospital to restore his appearance and facial function, thanks to a nonprofit organization called Smile Rescue Fund for Kids. He has evolved from being unable to speak English to an Honor Roll student. “It’s just pure happiness and excite-
ment,” said his adoptive father, Miguel Rodriguez, who is Long Beach’s middle school wrestling coach and one of Adams’s assistants. “He deserves it.” Sibomana had approximately eight hours in between the semifinal and championship matches last Saturday. He stayed at the arena until lunchtime, grabbed a turkey and cheese hero, took an hour-long
nap and played some video games before heading back for the finals. “I couldn’t sleep last [Friday] night because I was so excited,” he said. “I tried my best to relax.” He was a little late to take the mat for the semis Saturday morning to face Satriano because “Mother Nature called,” Adams said. Satriano had defeated Sibomana twice a few years back in youth tournaments, but was no match this time on the big stage. “We gave him scouting reports on every opponent, and he just followed the game plans perfectly,” Adams said. “Coach [Leo] Palacio had the book on Ferrara in the finals. He saw a tendency that Dunia could take advantage of, and that’s exactly what led to the pin.” Sibomana celebrated with a back flip. “It’s the first time I did something like that after a match,” he said. “I couldn’t hold back my excitement.” On Feb. 13, he won the Nassau D-I 102pound title with a 14-2 major decision over Massapequa’s Carlos Arango in the finals. He became the 74th county champ in school history. Sibomana began wrestling four years ago with the Gladiators youth program, also coached by Rodriguez. Dunia is also passionate about soccer and track. “He has a ton of energy and is competitive in everything he does,” Rodriguez said. “He’s such an amazing kid.”
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Ongoing
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.
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.
Island Harvest Food Drive March 9 will be the last day for food donations for the Island Harvest Food Drive in City Hall.
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.
Thursday, Mar. 10 Meditation The library will have a meditation class on zoom from 2 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, March 4 Chair Yoga The public library will have a chair yoga class on zoom and in the auditorium from 9 to 10 am.
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.
Saturday, March 5 Yoga for Health and Peace The public library will have a yoga class to focus on health and peace in
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Beginnings restaurant will have a dinner with JJ from Cocomelon for children from 5 to 7 pm.
The Empire Safety Council will have a defensive driving class at the public library in the auditorium from 10 am to 4 pm.
Monday, March 7 Writers’ Circle
Sunday, March 6 Family Hamantash Bake There will be a family Hamantash bake at the Brodsky Center for Jewish Life at 570 W Walnut St. starting at 2 pm.
Troop 121 Pancake Breakfast The 22nd Annual Pancake Breakfast for Scout Troop 121 will be at 100 Main St. in East Rockaway from 9 am to noon. Souts in a Class A uniform eat free.
The public library will have a writers’ circle session on zoom from 11 am to 1 pm.
Peace Rally for Ukraine Temple Emanu-El of Long Beach will be hosting a rally for peace in Ukraine from 7 to 8 pm. The rally is co-sponsored by Long Beach religious and civic organizations.
Vitamins, Minerals, Supplements The public library will have a session teaching the importance of vitamins
and minerals for aging on zoom from 2 to 3 pm.
Tuesday, March 8 Teen Bullet Journaling The public library will have a session teaching teens how to keep a journal to keep themselves on track in the program room from 6:30 to 7:45 pm.
Wednesday, Mar. 9 Job Fair The public library will have a job fair in collaboration with the Long Beach Adult Learning Center Literacy Zone in the auditorium from 2 to 7 pm.
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.
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The city is in talks about parking meters in the center of town. 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.
Marijuana petition is invalid, L.B. City Clerk says continue to monitor state policy as it issues rules and regulations in the future. The Long Beach City Council TuesNate Epstein of Lido Beach had day night reported that the City Clerk worked on the petition drive. has declared that a citizens’ petition to “We feel short on our goal,” Epstein hold a referendum on whether to allow said. “Still, many of us” want the disthe retail sale of marijuana does “not pensaries. He said that many people he c o m p l y w i t h t h e l aw ’s had talked to during the requirements” and is invaldrive were unaware the id. council had opted out. A certificate from City He added that “90 percent Clerk David Fraser, attached of Americans believe marito the council’s re gular juana should be legal.” agenda, said that of 718 sigJames Mulvaney of Long natures on the petition, only Beach, who had run for city 391 “were valid.” council two years ago, said nate epstein The state’s Marijuana he has “bad arthritis” and is Regulation and Taxation Act Activisit now forced to drive to a disrequires petitions to be pensary in Carle Place for signed by registered voters “equal to at medical marijuana. least 10 percent of the total number of “I hope you will start to think of peovotes cast for governor at the last guber- ple who have a legitimate need for marinatorial election” in the city. Clerk’s juana and we won’t have to drive out of statement aid that the total number of town,” Mulvaney said. votes cast in Long Beach in the last elecJudy Vining, executive director of tion for governor was 12,613. Long Beach Aware, commended the The council voted unanimously in council for opting out of the state proDecember to opt-out of a state plan that gram. would have allowed for the sale of mari“This council had its finger on the juana. The council can decide at some pulse of the community,” Vining said. point to opt into the state program. She noted that many of the state’s Council members said they would municipalities had also opted out.
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the Long Beach City Clerk declared that a petition to hold a referendum on whether the city should establish a marijuana dispensary failed to collect enough signatures and is invalid. Long Beach and other municipalities had to decide by Dec. 31 whether they wanted to opt out of the programs. But they still have the right to opt in at a later date, if they wish. If a municipali-
ty had opted in, the decision is permanent. The state will not be issuing licenses to open dispensaries until 2023, giving those who opted out plenty.
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On March 1 the GOP announced their nomination of 1st District Congressman Lee Zeldin for New York state governor and former NYPD Deputy Inspector Alison Esposito for lieutenant. governor on the second day of the 2022 GOP Convention in Garden City Hotel, after over 85 percent of the county Republican delegations voted for Zeldin. “I want people to feel like they’re back in control of the government again…this is a rescue mission to save our state,” said Zeldin, a former senator, attorney, and Army Reserve major, who gained national attention by defending former President Donald Trump amid the 2019 Ukraine scandal impeachment hearings and contesting the 2020 election results. Zeldin stated that his day-one priority as governor would be ending all Covid mandates, re-employing anyone who lost their jobs to these, ending the masking “child abuse” in schools and strengthening parental choice. He also talked about “Backing the Blue,” enacting voter ID for elections, keeping zoning control local and standing with the Ukraine. County Executive Bruce Blakeman nominated Zeldin, urging Long Island residents to turn out to vote, stating, “My whole life I would’ve loved to be governor of this state, but I’m not the right candidate — this is a moment in history that we
have the opportunity to nominate someone that is the right person, at the right place, at the right time.” Three other GOP candidates were seeking the nomination for governor: former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, Andrew Giuliani, son of Rudy Giuliani who served in Trump’s White House, and millionaire fund manager Harry Wilson, whose home county Republican delegation of Fulton ultimately backed Zeldin. Zeldin had reached out to the 27-year NYPD veteran Esposito last year, tapping into the spiking crime and bail reform messaging that proved successful in the recent Nassau and Suffolk County elections. “The NYPD and other police around the state…have been turned into enemies,” said Esposito, a SUNY graduate, when accepting the nomination. “My officers have a fear in their eyes, but this is a different fear…the fear in the eyes now was of them losing their jobs and potentially their freedom,” she exclaimed. Esposito also criticized critical race theory, Covid mandates and “other shenanigans” regarding the lack of parental “choice” in schools. Other convention speakers echoed Esposito’s and Blakeman’s concerns, also adding high taxes, corrupt Democratic politicians, and undocumented immigrants. “New York Republicans are putting our money where our mouth is and proving to the people of this state that we are serious
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about ending the public safety crisis created by the Democrat Party,” said NYGOP Chairman Nick Langworthy in a Feb. 23 statement. Republicans also nominated global financier Paul Rodriguez, former Newsmax host Joe Pinion and litigation attorney Michael Henry to challenge Comptroller Thomas Dinapoli, Sen. Charles Shumer and Attorney General Leticia James, respectively. Republicans, however, have a historical uphill battle in statewide elections, where Democratic voters outnumber registered Republicans by a two-to-one margin. A Republican has not won a state race 20
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Revving up the electric Rivian truck By LISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
I’ve never driven a truck, never mind an electric truck – that is, until Rivian Automotive drove its truck, the world’s first electric pickup, to the Herald’s office in Garden City on Feb. 23, as they stump for a proposed New York state measure that could increase sales. The truck exterior of the vehicle looked smooth, shiny and futuristic, with retractable handles and cylindrical headlights. The vegan leather interior was accompanied with a new-car smell and looked alike to many trucks – except for its electric dashboard, where the gas gauge was replaced with a battery percentage, and it’s large, 15.6 inch touchscreen, where features like the backup camera picture were displayed clearer than ever. Electric vehicles could be the new norm sooner than later, as State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat who represents the 9th Senatorial District, and State Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy (D-Albany) are sponsoring a bill that will make EVs more available in the state. In 2021, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced finalized contracts for the state’s largest renewable energy and transmission project in 50 years, which included goals to derive 70 percent of state electricity from renewable resources by 2030. The project plans to put more EVs on
the road – in 2014, then Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed 850,000 by 2025 and two million by 2030 – as gas-powered transportation accounts for 30 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Farmingdale, Executive Director Adrienne Esposito. Switching to electric vehicles will reduce air pollution significantly. “Cars are mobile polluting machines,” Esposito said. “They produce carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter, all of which pollute our air, cause an increase in asthma, heart disease and respiratory ailments. Transitioning to electric cars will be good for the earth and good for our health.” Right now, New York has achieved only 3 percent of Cuomo’s goal. This is because in 2014, a state law prohibiting the direct sale of EVs from manufacturers, specifically Tesla at the time, was passed after lobbying efforts by car dealers, banded together as the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association. Nineteen states have no cap on the number of direct-sales locations, but New York has capped direct-sales locations at five Tesla locations. Kaminsky told the Herald that E.V. manufacturers such as the Rivian should be allowed to sell its vehicles directly to the public. Removing the state direct-sales location cap could accelerate the process of New York reaching its 2030 environmental goals.
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Currently, if New Yorkers want to buy an EV. that is not a Tesla, they must go through other states, such as California, Massachusetts, Colorado and Florida, which allow EV manufacturers to directly sell and open dealerships in its state. New York still restricts sales from companies like Rivian, Tesla and Lucid, but now, with more EVs entering the market, overwhelming feedback from environmental groups statewide, and a moredeveloped vision for a sustainable future, the state is considering legislation that would remove the restriction and increase the cap on direct sales of E.V.s.
The Automobile Dealers Association is pushing back on the legislation. “This is not about the environment or an ‘old fashioned’ group stuck in its ways,” the group’s communications person Nick Crispe said in an email. “This is about livelihoods and good paying jobs with healthcare and benefits in every community on Long Island with a network to provide electric vehicles to everyone who wants one. We are thrilled an excited by electrics and welcome the companies and their amazing vehicles but just ask that they play by the same rules.”
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Chamber says meter plan is not equitable continued from front page would shop elsewhere if they had to pay for parking. There are approximately 175 storefront businesses, and 83 merchants who own businesses that do not have storefront locations, in Long Beach, according to Tozer, who said that a lot of business owners didn’t fully understand the meter plan. She also said that the meters would not impact businesses outside the central business district, which makes the plan unfair. “[The chamber] isn’t against a parking plan, but it has to be equitable,” Tozer said. “I don’t think people would have an issue if it was.” She pointed out that the plan seems to allot about 60 percent of existing parking spots for people to pay and park all day. She noted that the plan “is a work in progress, but every type of business has to be looked at and heard.” Rich Rothberg, who grew up in Long Beach, remembers meters on Park Avenue, in the center of town, in the 1960s and early ’70s. He is in favor of them. “I think they’re a very good thing,” Rothberg said, “and will keep traffic moving by not having people sit in spots all day.” James Lynch, a co-chair of the chamber, said he has no issue with meters, but added that he wasn’t sure that they are the best idea right now, just as the coronavirus pandemic appears to be winding down — when, Lynch said, “businesses
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The Chamber of Commerce released results of a survey it conducted showing negative responses to potential parking meters in the central business district. are already fragile.” “They are needed,” he said of the meters. “But we have to make sure that this is fair and equitable for all residents and businesses.” There are four proposed yearly permit types for the meters. The first, “E,” would cost $200 per year and allow employees of a business located within a specific pay zone to park in any E-designated spot for up to 14 hours per day. An
“R4” permit, which would cost $250 per year, would allow residents to park in any central lot on Park Avenue or side street parking spot for up to four hours per day. A “C” permit, costing $250 per year for residents and $300 for non-residents, would allow parking either in the Long Island Rail Road garage or the lot behind it for up to a week. An “R” permit, which would cost $50 per year, would allow resi-
dents to use the municipal parking lot on the corner of Long Beach Road and Walnut Street. The meters would reportedly be in effect from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week. There have been two City Council work sessions on the matter, with more likely to be scheduled soon. The chamber also had a meeting with the city on Wednesday to discuss the plan.
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Masks are now optional in all Long Beach schools and buses for students and staff, as of Wednesday. The decision came after Gov. Hochul announced that the indoor mask mandate for schools was being lifted. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jennifer Gallagher sent an open letter to families making the announcement. The school board updated the reopening plan they released earlier in the school year to make sure that their own mask mandate ended when the states did, according to Gallagher. However, the mandate could not end if Covid numbers were not decreasing. “It is certainly wonderful news that Covid numbers have decreased enough to allow our students and staff to safely remove their masks if they choose to do so,” Gallagher said in the open letter. There has been a total of 9,545 confirmed Covid cases in Long Beach, with
31 new cases from February 15 to 22. The Covid numbers for the schools were not supplied. Gallagher shared an email from a parent in the district who raised a question on if students will feel comfortable with the new mandate-lifting. The unnamed parent mentioned students may feel uncomfortable taking off their masks if they got accustomed to using them and may also feel uncomfortable if they are wearing one but no one else is. The parent said they hope the change will not alienate some students. Gallagher addressed the possibility pf comfortability and asked for parents to talk with their children about their maskwearing choice as a family and “about respecting those who may have different choices.” The change will probably take some getting used to for students and staff, but Gallagher said she knows “that the community will rise to this occasion and support our children as we turn a new page on this pandemic.”
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LIRR station was built in Long Beach, the railroad sponsored a competition for the mural that best represented the Long Every month, the Long Beach Public Beach community. Diracle’s colorful winLibrary hosts a new art show, featuring 30 ning mural portrayed the beach with the to 40 paintings, many by artists who live names of local organizations on umbrelon the barrier island. las. Placing the artwork on the wall is no “It remained on the walls of the LIRR easy task, and it takes an eye for arrange- station for quite some time,” the Art ment. For 50 years, that has been the task League said in a statement. of a 5”2’ inch woman, Naomi Diracles, Diracles, who moved to Long Beach now 87, a life-long barrier island resident with her husband, Manny, who is now and an artist whose work has deceased, in 1964, had her been at libraries and art own studio in their home for shows across Long Island. decades. She has since moved Diracles has now retired to Island Park. She began from her volunteer post as painting, she said, when she Gallery Coordinator at the was 12 years old and living library, but, she says, never with her parents in Manhatfrom painting. In an intertan. Her parents had given view on the library’s secondher an oil painting set. She floor Monday, Diracles was naoMi has never stopped. asked why she had done the diraCles In Long Beach, her huswork for half a century? band urged her to attend an “I did not get paid,” she Artist art class with a neighbor at said, in her energetic voice. “I the Lindell elementary did it because I enjoyed art. I found I have school. At first, she balked, but went anyan eye for balance, color and size.” way. After, she said. “I realized I didn’t Tara Lannen-Stanton, the library know anything. I was working by director, said the library’s board of trust- instinct.” ees will honor Diracles at its meeting But she was a quick learner and soon March 21 with a certificate of apprecia- was giving art lessons of her own. tion. “She was tough when I took her classAnd, Kathleen Ramsey, president of es,” said Ramsey. “But I learned a lot of the Long Beach Art League – whose board things.” Diracles served on for several years – will Diracles studied art at the Art Students hold a fun-raiser this summer and donate League in Manhattan, Nassau County proceeds to Diracles’s favorite charity – Community College, Five Towns Music & an animal league of her choosing. Art an the School of American Artists in Diracles, who has worked in a variety Manhasset. of art mediums, prefers to work in collage Her work has been at libraries in Port these days. Some of her work was dis- Washington, Islip, Hewlett-Woodmere, played during the interview Monday – Freeport and she has had group exhibits three pieces whose theme was music. at the Shelter Rock Arts Gallery and the “I work in series,” she said. “This time Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts in the series was music.” Roslyn. The Art League considers Diracles’s If she has one regret, Diracles said, “It winning of an Long Island Railroad is that I can’t show nudes. I love nudes. It mural contest in the 1980s among its “his- is the human body. It’s nothing to be toric achievements.” Before the current ashamed of.”
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A. You’re not necessarily barking up the wrong tree to make an offer on a house like this, but it does show the age of the home. When people say, “They don’t build houses like they used to,” I usually think, thank goodness. What you’re seeing was common through the 1920s, when locust trees, known for their resistance onte eeper to decay and insects, were used as support columns. These trees have been used for structural support for many centuries. Their most well known use was for supporting the city of Venice when the swamp-dwelling inhabitants, who lived on small islands, stabilized and built the city. Using locust posts, they could conduct their marine merchant trade while protecting themselves from the regularly invading Goths, preparing for attacks by seeing them from the north from 20 miles away, long before an attack could take place. The Venetians rammed locust posts deep into the seabed and supported those beautiful Renaissance structures on them. In the James Bond film “Casino Royale,” there is an intense fight scene that takes place in a building under extensive renovation. At the end of the scene, the building, which actually was having the locust posts retrofitted, like most of Venice, collapses into the watery depths. From an architect’s perspective, knowing about the structural changes underway, this was very interesting as well as dramatic. If the locust posts aren’t split and cracked but are smooth and semi-straight, they should be fine to continue to do their job. If you see signs of weakness or are suspicious, contact a licensed architect or engineer who has experience with these conditions for a closer look. If you decide that the columns need changing, then the job requires building temporary walls in the basement on either side of the main beam to support the whole structure of the home before the columns are removed. Correctly calculated concrete foundations, called footings, will need to be installed by digging up the concrete floor where forms are set and the footings are placed. Whether steel or wood columns are installed, the anchors for them need to be properly placed and attached. The columns, when installed, should be connected, at the top and the bottom, to the footing and to the beam. This isn’t a small job, and requires an experienced company that protects the area from dust before cutting the concrete, orders the right strength of cement for placement in the formwork and knows what connectors to install top and bottom. Good luck!
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n addition to the world’s oldest (continuous since 1762) and largest St. Patrick’s Day parade up 5th Avenue in Manhattan on March 17, dozens of Long Island communities are looking forward to their local parades, including Mineola and Bethpage on March 6, Huntington on March 13, Rockville Centre on March 19, Glen Cove and Wantagh on March 20, and Bayside on March 26. New York state has more than 50 parades — not including other kinds of St. Patrick’s celebrations — in March. These JoHn will all be well by marcho’ConneLL attended ers and spectators, since most parades are returning after two years of Covid-caused hiatus. There are thousands of St. Patrick’s parades throughout the country, many thousands around the world, from Dublin to Tokyo. Principally a chance for Irish-Americans to show their ethnic pride, our local family-oriented events are welcome signs of spring, reasons to rejoice in the pandemically safer outdoors and great opportunities for downtown businesses, with so many people lining the streets. I’ve been watching or marching in such
wonderful events in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, for most of my long life. Sciatica and other maladies, however, have recently removed me from the line of march and sent me to the sidelines to cheer on my friends and fellow members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. While parades are fun, they say little about the important role Irish-Americans have played in the past and present of our country. I wish people knew more about the magnificent contributions Irish immigrants and Irish-Americans have made to the formation and preservation of the United States, and its ongoing exceptionalism. Science, government, education, the labor movement, the military, civil rights, justice, policing, the arts, music and literature, industry, business, journalism and many other fields would be profoundly the less but for what Irish-Americans have done and continue to do. March is Irish-American Heritage Month, a good time for all of us to learn about or remember some of the people who have made America great. Six of the last seven presidents — and half of all American chief executives — were of Irish ancestry, including Biden, Reagan, Kennedy, Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt and Grant.
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Letters Does Hochul have the right priorities? To the Editor: Replacement Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed legislation allowing farmers to grow marijuana in New York. That appears to be her priority over halting crime and rampant subway attacks. By permitting this bill, as well as an online betting bill, we are encouraging a generation of misfits. Is this how we develop the future leaders of our country? Perhaps our leaders in Albany, who passed the “no bail bill,” have been smoking this stuff just to test its efficacy. PAT KING Merrick
Conservatives, and individualism To the Editor: I’m a 72-year-old who already has one foot in the grave — a 1968 graduate of Mepham High School in Bell-
More than 25 percent of George Washington’s Revolutionary Army comprised Irish-Americans. Of the country that provided him with such brave soldiers, Washington said, “Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country’s most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation.” A hero of that war, Commodore John Barry, of Ireland, was the holder of the first commission in the new United States Navy. Two hundred fifty-seven recipients of the Medal of Honor were born in Ireland. Dan Daley was awarded two Medals of Honor for separate actions, and would have been given a third but for the fact that he already had two. Walt Disney, actor and dancer Gene Kelly, dancer Michael Flatley, playwright Eugene O’Neill and authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Malachy McCourt were/ are Irish-Americans. Bruce Springsteen is of partial Irish ancestry. John Ford has the most Academy Awards for best director, at four. Auto manufacturer Henry Ford had Ireland’s blood in his veins. The first woman to command a NASA space mission was Astronaut Col. Eileen Collins, an Irish-American. The first American woman to walk in space was
the Irish-American Dr. Kathryn Sullivan. Edward J. Flanagan was born in a wee stone cottage in County Roscommon, Ireland. He would become the Father Flanagan of Boys Town, in Omaha, Neb., and a beloved activist on behalf of children. Mary Harris, a.k.a. Mother Jones, was an advocate for child labor laws. Tough Kerryman Michael J. Quill was one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union. The list of Irish America’s contributors to the greatness of our nation goes on and on. The symbols of Irish America aren’t the stereotypical leprechauns, green beer, silly plastic hats and fake freckles; Irish America’s significance is better found in Washington’s words, the names of Irish Brigade troops on Gettysburg’s gravestones, Boys Town, NASA, the American labor movement and the Medal of Honor rolls. All Americans should celebrate IrishAmerican Heritage Month. Educators should teach about the heroic influence Irish-Americans have had. Librarians should create displays. Parents should show their children how deserving IrishAmericans are of honor. Many of the notable American heroes mentioned above have surely earned their own classroom lessons, from grade school to college. I wish all Herald readers and staff a happy St. Patrick’s Day! John O’Connell is a former executive editor of the Herald Community Newspapers. Comments? OConnell11001@yahoo.com.
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more, and a 1972 graduate of Hofstra University — but I’m really worried about what the future will be like in our society. Since 1980, I’ve watched the growth of a cold-hearted, survival-of-the-fittest Social Darwinist mentality among many Republicans in the conservative news media, on talk shows, in think tanks and policy institutes, and especially in Congress. More and more of these folks want to abolish every single federal government social program that helps the working class and middle class. I don’t think most Americans are aware of this. These people are now much more conservative than our Republican voters. What also scares the dickens out of me is the growth of an over-thetop, extreme hyper-individualism and libertarianism, in which so many of us believe that we have no responsibilities to one another, and only a concern for me-me-me and what I want to do. And we smugly and defiantly call this selfish and self-absorbed narcissism “personal choice.” STEWART B. EPSTEIN Rochester
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hese days, we smile or roll our eyes when we hear the term “fashion police,” but leading up to the Nixon administration, wearing the wrong outfit could land an otherwise innocent young woman in hot water. Dresses were required in Nassau County schools until 1970, when administrators finally allowed girls to wear pantsuits. It was a seemingly small change by today’s standards, but every single one mattered in the movement we celebrate every March as Women’s History Month. It was President Jimmy Carter who, in 1980, issued a presidential proclamation creating what was then National Women’s History Week. “Too often, women were unsung, and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed,” Carter said. “But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well.” By then, women were claiming their place. They were already earning more bachelor’s degrees than men, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, and roughly half of the master’s degrees. Four decades later, in the red-hot fields of science and engineering, women still trail men in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, according to the National Science Foundation. And women still earn just 84 cents of every dollar a man makes, according to a 2020 Pew Research study.
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letters Senator Brooks is doing great work To the Editor: Kudos to State Senator John Brooks and his staff for their work on trying to rein in the high cost of living on Long Island. Brooks has been a leader in the fight for affordable municipal water. His support for a legislative commission on the future of the Long Island Power Authority will open the door to reduced electric rates as well. If legislation creating the commission is passed, it will set out a roadmap for the “municipalization” of the electrical system. With full municipal ownership, electricity would be managed on a nonprofit basis, much like public water and public libraries. This is no far-fetched idea. Freeport and Rockville Centre have municipally operated power systems with rates 40 percent less than PSEG. If we take the profits out, electric rates will fall. Thank you, Senator Brooks. FRED HARRISON L.I. Food & Water Watch Merrick
But they have made steady, if sometimes agonizingly slow, progress. In the century since women finally earned the right to vote, they have become professionals, more financially independent, and more visible as business leaders. And women have worked their way into the leadership positions they have long deserved. Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981. Three years later, Geraldine Ferraro became the first female vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket. Jeannette Rankin of Minnesota might have been the first woman elected to Congress in 1916, but Shirley Chisholm broke yet another notable glass ceiling in 1969, becoming the first Black woman sent to Washington. And then, of course, Kamala Harris finally put a woman one step away from the Oval Office, a feat that can be topped only by whoever eventually becomes our first female president. It seemed only logical for Congress to expand the week first set aside by Carter into something more substantial, although Capitol Hill needed a little push. Thanks to the efforts of the National Women’s History Project — a nonprofit promoting “multicultural women’s history awareness” — Congress decreed the first Women’s History Month in 1987, issuing similar proclamations each year until 1995, when Bill Clinton started the tradition of simply
having presidents issue the proclamations on their own. The last girls who were compelled to wear dresses to school would be grandparents now. Some — especially of the younger generations, who never knew differently — might even take for granted a lot of what women have achieved. But as far as they have come, there’s still a long way to go. And to finally achieve full equality, women will depend on one another to pave the way, just as the female trailblazers of the past have done — Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Susan Ahn Cuddy, Billie Holiday, Rosalind Franklin, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Richardson. Don’t recognize a name? Then Women’s History Month is the perfect time to look it up and learn more about her. Three cheers for the women who are the leaders of our nation. Our inventors. Our entrepreneurs. Those who tend to our health, and fight our battles in court. And those whose names aren’t widely known — especially those who gave birth to us, raised us, and taught us right from wrong, shaping us into the people we are today. These women, in particular, may sometimes be taken for granted, but their contributions must never be forgotten. They make their own history, every day, in the families that ensure our society remains healthy and strong.
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y heart bleeds for the people of Ukraine, an emerging democracy pulled between West and East, a former Soviet republic that only gained its independence from the USSR in August 1991, amid the sudden and precipitous collapse of communism across Eastern Europe. Now Ukraine’s freedom is once again in jeopardy because of a war that it didn’t start. I was living in Eastern Europe in August 1991, serving in the Peace Corps in Bulgaria, a six-hour drive south of Ukraine Scott along Romania’s Black Sea coast. I BRINtoN fell in love and married in Bulgaria on Nov. 9, 1991, the second anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was born and raised on Long Island, and live here now, but Eastern Europe became an adopted homeland. Many Long Islanders have ties to Eastern Europe, including close to 13,000 people of Ukrainian descent, according to census data. We can see those ties in the Eastern Orthodox churches that dot the Island — St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Uniondale, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in East Meadow and St. Seraphim of Sarov Russian Orthodox Church in Sea Cliff, among others.
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Eastern Europe is a conglomeration of ancient cultures, at once set in their ways but ever morphing in response to the push and pull of powerful nations — historically, Russia and Germany. Eastern Europeans are survivors. Ukraine will survive Russia’s invasion, an act of war in violation of international law. The price that Ukrainians will pay for the takeover, ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, will be terrible, though. The impact will be felt by people across Eastern Europe. Most Americans can’t understand the fear of the old Soviet Union that many, if not most, Eastern Europeans carried with them during the Iron Curtain era (1945–91). They risked life and limb to secure their freedoms from the USSR in the late 1980s and early ’90s. They stood in solidarity, marching en masse in their capitals’ squares, demanding sovereignty. There was an electric unity among people across Eastern Europe in those heady days. They were afraid, but they stood in defiance of a nation that had for more than four decades tried to crush their independent spirit, their freedom of thought and religion, their very way of life. If Bulgaria had lost its newly won democratic freedoms to the communists, as was entirely possible in the early 1990s, oldschool apparatchiks might have “cleansed” Bulgaria of any American “sympathiz-
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ers.” In that case, anyone who had had contact with an American like me could have been in grave danger of just disappearing. This was not a wild conspiracy theory. It was a valid fear based on years of iron-fisted Soviet rule. Now, a little more than 30 years after the fall of communism, Putin, a former KGB foreign intelligence officer, threatens once again to upend stability in Eastern Europe, a region that has, through the ages, been shattered by war, including two World Wars. And, once again, Eastern Europeans fear for their future. In the U.S., war in Ukraine is far away. The images of a Stalinesque housing complex ripped apart by Russian artillery fire, repeated many times on American and European TV news networks in the first days of the war, are perceived very differently across Eastern Europe than they are here. The expansive structure, fortified by plain cement walls, could have been most anywhere in Eastern Europe. Such an attack sends a terrifying signal to people across the region — you could be next — even if the thought is a distant one. It is highly unlikely that Putin would roll tanks beyond Ukraine’s borders into NATO-allied nations, military analysts tell us. But before the war, most of them appeared uncertain that he would invade
he census counts close to 13,000 area residents who are of Ukrainian descent.
Ukraine, despite President Biden’s warnings to the contrary. In recent weeks the U.S. has sent some 14,000 troops to Germany and Eastern Europe to shore up the defenses of NATO allies such as Poland and the Baltic states, bringing the total number of American troops in Europe to nearly 100,000, according to The New York Times. Thus, once again, we see a dividing line drawn between superpowers in Eastern Europe. My wife and I were listening to Bulgarian National Radio Friday night, wanting to hear how Bulgaria, a NATO ally that condemned the invasion, was reacting. The news centered on two communities — hundreds of Bulgarian expatriates living in Ukraine (who needed to be evacuated) and hundreds of Ukrainian expats living in Bulgaria (many of whom planned to drive through Romania to meet refugees fleeing Ukraine and bring them to safety). Their route would become a “humanitarian corridor.” With U.S. troops moving within firing range of invading Russian forces, and tens of thousands of war refugees fleeing across Eastern Europe, we, as Americans, must pay close attention to this conflict and do all we can to shore up Ukraine, a fledgling democracy. Scott Brinton is a special assistant professor of journalism at Hofstra University, and editor and adviser to The Long Island Advocate, a student online publication. He is a former executive editor of the Heralds.
Ukrainian Jews flee a Russian attack, again
either Russia nor the Ukraine has ever been a welcoming homeland for the Jewish people. Despite the singing and dancing in “Fiddler on the Roof,” the play was set in 1905 czarist Russia in the Pale of Settlement, the lands of Eastern Europe, including what became Ukraine, where hundreds of thousands of Jews lived under the boot of the Russian Cossacks. It is estimated that more than 1.5 million Jews lived in what is now Ukraine on the eve of World War II, according to a story in The Forward last RANDI week. “Some one KREISS million of those Jews were killed in the Holocaust,” the newspaper reported, “but a 1989 census estimated that close to half a million still lived in Ukraine in 1989, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.” The story went on to say that under Soviet rule, Jews were persecuted and denied the right to emigrate, forced to hide much of their religious practice in a society “rife with anti-Semitism.” Last week, once again, with Russian tanks crossing the border, the dwindling
Jewish population was on the run. In a bizarre and nonsensical statement, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the invasion of Ukraine would remove Nazi influences, ignoring the fact that the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish. The story of the Jewish community in Ukraine today is a minor footnote to the greater story of a nation beaten into submission by a dictator on the march. The footnote, however, resonates with me, because many of my relatives fled Ukraine and came to America in the years before World War I. My grandfather Morris Brownstein, born in 1897, left Ukraine in 1912 on the SS Zeeland. We don’t know how he managed to travel from Russia to Antwerp, but he boarded a ship in Belgium for the long crossing. He was 15 years old, and he was alone. What we do know is that he made his way to Brownsville, Brooklyn, became a tailor’s apprentice and found and married Anna, a second cousin. In 1924 he applied for naturalization, was granted citizenship and was as proud of being a “yankee” as anyone who ever escaped oppression and found freedom on our shores.
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For his first decade in America, Morris lived in a tenement in Brownsville, probably without running water, possibly with dozens of other new arrivals. According to Wikipedia, Brownsville was predominantly Jewish from the 1880s until the 1950s. An estimated 25,000 people lived there by 1900. In the early 20th century, the majority of Brownsville’s residents were immigrants. By 1920, when Morris was living there, more than 80,000 of the area’s 100,000 inhabitants were Russian Jews, and Brownsville was known as “Little Jerusalem.” For decades, the Ukraine he left behind was a sovereign nation, pulled between the magnetic poles of the West and Russia. Historically, it has always been an uneasy homeland for Jewish people, from ancient persecutions to the pogroms of the 20th century. It seems unlikely that the nation has any chance of surviving the Russian invasion. I believe that if a 15-year-old boy can travel across Europe, book passage on a ship and make a new beginning in a new world, then those of us who have reaped America’s bounty must stand with the Ukrainians in their resistance to occupation in any way we can.
n 1912, Morris Brownstein, my grandfather, left Ukraine on the SS Zeeland.
We do not know yet what will be asked of us. When Grandpa Morris signed his naturalization papers, he pledged his heart and soul to the United States of America. He was a good citizen, a patriotic American, grateful to this country for blessings he never could have imagined as a child in war-torn Ukraine. The Forward added another footnote to last week’s invasion. According to Rabbi Shlomo Baksht, his staff was still looking into moving the 250 children from the three orphanages they run in Ukraine westward, away from the Russian border. His last message was that the effort was too late, and they were “hunkered down.” Of all the what-ifs we ponder in our lives, one of the most intriguing is what our lives would look like if our parents and grandparents and great-grands hadn’t left their homes and all that they knew of the world to risk dangerous ocean passages to begin new lives, learn new work and absorb new customs in a new land. The people of Ukraine will suffer mightily in the coming days and weeks, as Russia tramples their dreams of freedom. I think of the 15-year-old from Ukraine who made that harrowing trip 110 years ago, and I am so grateful. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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