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The race is on for three seats 10 candidates represent range of political affiliations are supporting incumbent council President John Bendo; Tina Posterli, president of the Long The race for three seats on the Beach Board of Education; and Long Beach City Council this Paulette Waithe, a Wall Street year has all the makings of a financial services professional. donnybrook, with Nassau CounThe new Long Beach United ty Democrats fieldslate is backing ing three candidates D e m o c r at s L e a h who are being Tozer, Bill Notholt opposed by a slate of and Kevin Heller. three members of To z er is a Long the new Long Beach Beach real estate United Party. One broker and a memcandidate is running ber of the Chamber as an independent. of Commerce. NothThe Democrats olt is a retired direcwill compete in a tor of wastewater June 22 primary. operations at the Three RepubliLong Beach Water cans are also vying Plant, where he for the seats, but worked for over 35 there was no plan by LAWRENCE C. years. Heller is a t h e L o n g B e a ch senior vice presiLEVY Republican Party for dent at an alternaExecutive dean, a primary as of tive asset manageearly this week.

Hofstra ment firm.

The general elecRoy Lester, a fortion will be held Nov. mer president of the 2.

Long Beach school board and a Candidates must secure peti- frequent critic of city policies, is tions to run for office. The peti- running on his own. tioning process began Tuesday, The city Republican Party and ends on March 25. Accord- candidates include incumbent ing to party leaders, more candi- Councilman Michael Delury, a dates may announce before that Democrat who has run as a date.

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By JAMES BERNSTEIN jbernstein@liherald.com

Courtesy Long Beach Public Schools

Celebrating Black History In February, Long Beach Middle School students learned about Black History Month, including displays throughout the building and lessons about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

‘We’re all looking out for Phil’

Friends care for one of their own, ill with cancer

By JAMES BERNSTEIN jbernstein@liherald.com

It all began in the summer of 1993, when men and women, then mostly in their 30s and 40s, began gathering on the beach at Magnolia Boulevard to play volleyball.

They were electricians, financial managers and local business owners, but none of that mattered out on the beach on summer afternoons and early evenings. They all lived in Long Beach, and they bonded over their love of volleyball on weekends and Wednesday nights in the spring and summer. They grew older, and closer, over the years, near the water and on the sand and under the warm sun.

Now they have a bigger reason to bond. One of their own, Phil Kendis, 49, of Long Beach, a wealth management adviser at Bank of the West in Manhattan, was diagnosed with inoperable tumors on his spine in 2019, and recently his condition has worsened.

Kendis now uses a wheelchair, and is spending $1,000 a week on an aide to help him with meals and dressing. His money is running out.

Kendis, who is single, has no close family members. So his boys of summer have taken over.

Steve Marrero, 51, who owns a mechanical contracting business, set up a GoFundMe page that in the past four months has

collected about $21,000. The goal, Marrero said, is $30,000, which would pay Kendis’s rent for one year.

But his friends have not stopped at fundraising. They have become his family.

“We’ve been making trips for him,” said Kevin Heller, 52, a senior vice president at a financial company and a member of the volleyball group. “We’ve been going to the bank for him, grocery shipping. This group of people has been taking care of him.”

The players describe Kendis as quiet and low-key, but very much involved with volleyball.

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The games began in the summer of 1993 cover everything, and Kendris has been he graduated from the University of Ari- paying out of pocket for the care he zona in 1993 with a major in French and a receives from an aide. He lives on the second floor of a house, which makes it all minor in business.

He moved to Long Beach about 10 but impossible for him to get outside. He manages to do some work on his computyears ago, and began showing er at home, but his friends up on the beach to play volleyworry about how long he’ll be ball. His friends say that able to do that. before his illness, he was “We go over and watch a extremely athletic, a natural, basketball game with him,” really a good guy. He played said Charlie Price, another lacrosse at UA and rugby in volleyball player, said. “This Europe, when he worked for is what Long Beach does.” overseas financial companies.

There is something, Price He first visited Long Beach said, about Long Beach that over 20 years ago. anThony fosters a sense of community.

Kendis was at Memorial “It’s the beach, the boardSloan Kettering Hospital in Cifarelli walk,” he said. “We’re always Manhattan earlier this week, resident outside.” and was unable to comment Bill Paradiso, 66, a local for this story.

“We’ve played together for about 20 business owner and a member of the volyears,” said Anthony Cifarelli, 59, a local leyball group, said that the players would electrician. “It’s like being little kids gather at what is now J.J. Cooper’s for again. But we’re a bunch of guys who all annual holiday parties. “Now we go over look out for each other. Now we’re all and bring him food,” Paradiso said of Kendris. “We cover each other’s back.” looking out for Phil.”

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e’ve played together for about 20 years.

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Tim Kramer, Phil Kendis, Andrew Hayes and William Paradiso. Kendis played until he became too ill.

Scott Mandel will not seek re-election Ten CandidaTes are competing for three seats on the Long Beach City Council.

Incumbent Scott Mandel is not seeking reelection.

continued from front page Republican before. According to Republican Party Committee Chairman Jim Moriarty , the other two candidates will be Daniel Creighton, an engineer, and John McQuade, who worked in recruiting and now runs the law office of his father, Francis X. McQuade.

Councilman Scott Mandell, who is up for re-election, said he had decided not to run again after serving three terms. Councilwomen Liz Treston and Karen McInnis are not up for re-election this year.

In the November general election, the first- and second-place finishers will earn four-year terms, while the third-place finisher will serve for two years.

“There’s been an awakening of political action since the election of Donald Trump,” said Lawrence C. Levy, executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, when asked why he believed there were so many candidates in Long Beach.

“The Trump election got people to pay attention, to realize that the person elected to the local school board might be the next member of Congress.”

Moriarty said he expected a highly competitive race in November. “We’re running because we really believe we have the best candidates who will put forward the best ideas,” he said.

Bendo, who joined the council in 2018 and has been president since last January, and his running mates will defend the administration under City Manager Donna Gayden, who last month marked one year in the job.

Bendo said in a statement that 2020 was “a year of major challenges, including the Covid 19 pandemic,’” and “uncovering years of fiscal mismanagement that have brought the City to brink of financial ruin.” He also said the council “had to reform a City government that was as transparent as a brick wall.”

“We brought in a new highly qualified City Manager with financial turnaround expertise, have instituted numerous policies and procedures to improve City operations, implemented boards and commissions to give our residents direct input into City management, and now hold public working meetings, taking City business out of smoke filled back rooms full of political hacks,” the statement read.

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In 2018, the city faced a huge payout scandal that was covered extensively by the Herald. Last year, Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas issued a scathing report accusing Jack Schnirman, city manager from 2012 to 2018 and now the county comptroller, of allowing millions of dollars in improper payments for accrued sick and vacation days to city employees when they left their jobs. No charges were filed against Schnirman, but the city has filed a suit against him. He has denied wrongdoing, but said he would not seek re-election as comptroller.

Tozer, who has run for the City Council before, said in a statement, “Our team has the courage to make the tough and necessary decisions to help Long Beach reach its full potential. We absolutely must pass a comprehensive plan and stem the tide of indecisive city councils that are paralyzed by politics.”

In a statement, Heller said, “We are launching a grassroots campaign — we are not backed by any party machine. We each have unique areas of expertise, and

we are unified in our desire to restore fiscal responsibility while enhancing the quality of life for Long Beach residents.

Lester, a bankruptcy attorney, is a well-known figure at City Council meetings, whether live or virtual. “Anyone who drives down the street or gets water from the tap knows our infrastructure is in need of some very costly repairs,” he said in a statement. “We just had a $131 million judgment handed against us — the result of a decades-old lawsuit,” he added, referring to a lawsuit filed by a developer who won a State Supreme Court judgment. “We are living off borrowed money and increasing taxes and, as a public, we are not presented with any concrete vision for a better Long Beach. As we are so frequently reminded ‘it’s the fault of the prior administration.’ I have been in Long Beach for a very long time and cannot remember any administration that did not use that mantra. But the truth is — being broke + excuse does not equal not being broke! Enough with the excuses.”

20 years on, activist still seeking social justice

By Damali RamiRez It’s 6 a.m., and the sun is just starting to rise, but Sergio Argueta has been awake for a while. He walks through the heavy, gray metal doors of Uniondale High School, rushing to set up for the day.

He settles down in his office, figuring out his schedule for the day, and listens to positive reframing videos to motivate him through the day.

Before he knows it, it’s 6:45 a.m., and he rushes to the main entrance.

“Good morning family! Have a great day,” he tells students as they walk through the metal detectors. As the dean of students, Argueta welcomes students with positive messages and friendly greetings.

That was how Argueta began his days before the coronavirus pandemic struck a year ago.

Looking back, Argueta, 42, said he misses his chaotic schedule. Covid-19 has forced students to shift to online learning, leaving Uniondale High School’s hallways virtually empty. Now he walks through them, missing students’ conversations and waves of laughter.

As students adjusted to the new online learning environment, Argueta had to find new ways to reach them. He recently requested his high school transcripts to show struggling students who visit his office that he was once in the same place.

He was an honor roll student throughout elementary school and lost interest in education around middle school. By high school, he was failing classes.

In his office, he reminds students that they can succeed in life and offers them resources.

Ideally, he tries to prevent student altercations early on, but understands there’s no uniform way to help students.

Some students require strict authority figures, and others need empathy and compassion.

Throughout his social worker career at Uniondale High, Argueta has found that the students who give him the most pushback or difficulties are often those who are looking for structure and discipline in life.

“As social workers or administrators, we often take on all these responsibilities, and we have an infant ego by thinking we

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have more power than we have,” he said. earn an associate’s degree from Nassau “I don’t control the world that my stu- Community College and a bachelor’s in dents live in. I wish I could, but I don’t.” sociology with a minor in political sciHe has lost more than eight scholars to ence from Hofstra University. He was violence, tragic accidents and health- awarded the Turner Fellowship at Stony related issues during his seven years of Brook University, where he earned a massocial work at Uniondale. Each death, ter’s in social work. He has served as an Argueta took personally and continued to an adjunct criminal justice professor at strengthen the empathy, compassion and Nassau Community College and is now love he gives to all his students who are at an adjunct professor in the Schools of risk. He said he is learning to accept that Social Work at Adelphi University and he cannot save all his students and must Millersville University in Pennsylvania. focus on being a positive resource.

Argueta struggled, however, to underArgueta continues to receive letters stand the administrative and bureaucratfrom students thanking him for all that ic process of running a nonprofit organihe’s done to save them. Some letters are zation when he headed STRONG Youth. from former students serving Sometimes employees time in upstate prisons saying wouldn’t get a paycheck reguthey wish they had listened to larly, or reimbursements fell him when they were there. through the cracks. He had When Argueta was 16 and not taken any business classthe gang leader of R.P., or es and didn’t know what a Redondel Pride, he never nonprofit organization was envisioned his future in combefore creating one. As the munity activism. He grew up years passed, the organizain Hempstead with his mothtion faced budget cuts and er in an apartment complex financial stress. and didn’t have the resources “I’m an organizer. I can get Sergio argueta to imagine a successful out on the streets, and I can future. organize. Now 20 years later, I “As you get older, you get have some good administrajaded, and you get jaded by understanding tive skills, but I didn’t have it when runthe odds you’re against,” he noted. “You ning the organization,” he said. begin to limit your vision based upon on In 2011, Argueta decided to leave what you don’t have and focus on what STRONG Youth and take a position on the you don’t have rather than the skills you board of directors. Rahsmia Zatar met do.”

Argueta while attending graduate school When he was the gang’s leader, he was at Stony Brook University. She joined the intoxicated by his power, he said. But organization in 2005 and became the when his friend Ricky was sent to prison assistant director in 2011. In 2012, Argueta in 1997 for manslaughter, he pleaded with promoted Zatar to executive director and Argueta to change his life. Argueta left watched the organization grow under her R.P when he was 18, graduated high wings. The group recently implemented school and enrolled in Nassau Communi- #BuildaLongerTable, a program for ty College. which youth members buy and deliver Three years after leaving the gang life- food to families and provide financial style, Argueta knew he wanted to create a relief for their rent. nonprofit organization that would target “She’s taking this thing to a bigger the region’s gang epidemic by educating, level than I’ve ever dreamed, and it makes empowering and providing resources in me nervous, but I have trust in her,” Argucommunities to offer alternatives for eta said. young people. He founded STRONG Youth Even as the dean of students and a in 2000 after alleged gang members bru- board member of STRONG Youth, Arguetally murdered Eric Rivera, a friend of ta still wants to do more to help the comArgueta and Uniondale resident. munity and his students. He’s currently Argueta, who became dean of students working with Long Island Advocates for at Uniondale High in 2019, went on to Police Accountability alongside civil

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The group consists of concerned Long Island residents “who believe change is possible and accountability must be taken by our law enforcement agencies and elected officials to see that change.” The 60-member group formed after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last year and recently wrote legislation that could be adopted by local lawmakers to pave the way for independent taxpayers to have oversight over Long Island’s police forces.

Brewington met Argueta 20 years ago and developed a close friendship as they worked on projects ranging from education to community empowerment and gang violence prevention.

Brewington said, “He was a dedicated young man committed to justice and overcoming the problems that existed in our society regarding racism.” He described Argueta as a powerhouse personality with a keen intellect and the heart of the most caring person in the world.

Argueta said he wants to pursue a doctorate in education with a focus on social justice and anti-racism. But first he’s changing his priorities regarding to his family and health this year. He said he wants to develop healthier habits.

“You can’t take care of the world if you can’t take care of yourself,” he said.

He moved to Long Beach with his family to protect his daughters from street violence, but he never forgets his roots. At first, he hesitated to leave Uniondale because he noticed “successful” people always leave and forget about their communities. He continues to advocate for and empower the communities he grew up in.

With his oldest daughter now 11, Argueta is adjusting his schedule to spend more time with her. Argueta understands she’s reaching the point of her life where she’ll need more adult guidance, and he doesn’t want her to follow the same path he did when he was he was a teenager.

He realizes his family and colleagues played a large role in all the success that he’s had in life. Whenever Argueta lost track of assignments or obligations, his family and colleagues were there to remind him and support him.

“I couldn’t have done any of this without my family,” he said.

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community update Ongoing

Monday, March 8

Library Board Meeting

Job Search Workshop: Update Your Resume

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.

Are you looking for a new job or career? Long Beach Public Library will be offering a series of free job search workshops to provide you with the tools you need for success.The virtual event will take place from 2-3 p.m.. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

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.

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

Meet The City Manager City Manager Donna M. Gayden will be holding “Meet The City Manager” virtual chat sessions. These meetings are an opportunity for residents to engage in a one-to-one dialogue with the City Manager; ask questions, share concerns, or express ideas on how to enhance the quality of life in our community. The virtual meetings will take place on Tuesdays from 2-4 p.m. Appointments are needed and are given on a first-come, first-served.basis. Please call the City Manger’s Office to make an appointment at (516) 431-7202 or email citymanager@longbeachny.gov. Information on how to meet will be provided after the appointment is confirmed.

Thursday, March 4 Meditation Unplug from the news and learn to relax and unwind in this unique online meditation class with Lisa Wisel, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT. Re-center with an embodiment meditation which focuses on the senses and aliveness. Feel the benefits immediately. The virtual event will take place from 2-2:45 p.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

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Women’s History Month skateboard design contest Barrier Island artists are invited to submit a design for consideration for a group show at Solid Gold Seaside on W. Beech Street. The exhibition will honor Women’s History Month with a theme of *female empowerment*. Artists should submit a design that can be produced on a skateboard deck (31”x8”, provided) if selected. Design concept due by 3/8, final art due 3/19. Email ehammer@longbeachny.gov with any questions.

Friday, March. 5 Chair Yoga This popular virtual Chair Yoga class focuses on a full-body practice from head to toe and will help strengthen your nervous system and reduce stress and stiffness. The virtual event will take place from 9-10 a.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Saturday, March 6 Yoga for Health & Peace This advanced beginner Hatha yoga class is designed to strengthen and lengthen your muscles and free your mind. Instructor Stephanie Durso will guide you into each pose and provide

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

18th Century Colonial Reenactment with James Cameron Get a glimpse of colonial life in this 18th century historical reenactment from historian and author James Cameron! Cameron plays John Rollison, an 18th century Virginian and free man of color. The virtual event will take place from 2-3.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Sunday, March 7 Love, Loss, and What I Wore: A Live Performance Join the library staff for a live virtual performance of Nora Ephron’s off-Broadway hit. As presented by the players of The Lantern Theater Company and Executive Producer Anne Bass, the play adaptation of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, written by Delia & Nora Ephron (author of Sleepless in Seattle) is warm, touching, humorous, and insightful.The virtual event will take place from 2-4 p.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary. org for more information.

Daylight savings time begins March 14.

School board meets March 9 at 7 p.m.

Dogs are not allowed on the boardwalk or beach.

For snow storm updates, call the Storm Emergency Hotline at 516-431-1000.

Work on the Long Beach Bridge continues this week.

Wiggles and Giggles Tummy Time Parenting Class An online parent education program that will help raise your awareness of tummy time opportunities in your little one’s daily routines.Beneficial for babies ages 1-6 months; even if they sleep thru the class. Earn a certificate of attendance and a “Born to Read” gift bag for your baby..The virtual event will take place from 9:30-10:15 a.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

Wed, March 10 Exercise and Expand your Brain Power with Brain Aerobics Fun for all ages! Learn basic MEMORY techniques: Short term/long term memory games; Positive thinking; Nutrition and strengthening the brain’s connections and building new brain cells; Meditation; New ways to train the brain to think...and more. The virtual event will take place from 1-2 p.m. on Zoom, visit the Long Beach Library’s website www.longbeachlibrary.org for more information.

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The 2021 Jovia Long Island Marathon will return to Eisenhower Park in East Meadow this Sept. 17 and 18.

L.I. Marathon to be held in person in September

By BRiaN STieGLiTZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

Long Island’s most anticipated running event will return this year with a new course — again.

The 2021 Jovia Long Island Marathon and all its accompanying racing events will return to Eisenhower Park in East Meadow this Sept. 17 and 18. While the event is typically held in May, Nassau County officials decided to host it five months later to allow more time to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

“As we continue to make significant progress in the fight against Covid-19, we’ve been able to allow some smaller races — with up to 300 participants — to come to our parks through the fall and winter,” said County Executive Laura Curran at a Feb. 25 news conference, at which she made the announcement.

Curran explained that the county has been able to host races by following safety and social-distancing protocols like introducing staggered start times and contactless check-ins, checking athletes’ temperatures and limiting the number of spectators.

Because the Long Island Marathon draws a much bigger crowd than the typical 5K and 10K races, attracting 5,000 people in 2019, county officials decided to hold the event in September “because we expect to have more vaccines . . . and that will mean more immunity in our community so we could get more participation,” Curran said.

For the second year, the race will be directed by Baldwin-based company Race Awesome, which is run by Corey Roberts and his wife, Stacey.

“At the end of the day, the realization is that it’s not just about producing a race,” Roberts said at the news conference. “There are so many services that Nassau County provides to the race to make it happen, especially from our health department.”

Past events have had roughly 12 medical tents along the route, all of which the county health department provided.

“The health department right now really needs to focus on vaccinations,” Roberts noted. “With that, we really took the time to think about how we can do this and do it safely with Nassau County.”

When Race Awesome took the reins to direct the 2019 marathon, it unveiled a new course that shut down parts of Merrick Avenue and Wantagh Parkway.

With the event in September, Roberts said he was reluctant to follow the same route and risk impacting the

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NaSSau CouNTy exeCuTive Laura Curran announced the changes to the marathon during a Feb. 25 news conference, at which she was joined by Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and Health Commissioner Larry Eisenstein. crowds heading to and from Jones Beach for their last beach trips of the summer.

The 47th marathon will feature a two-lap course that keeps runners in Eisenhower Park for more of the event and then send them through Mitchell Field, Museum Row and along the some of the pedestrian and bike lanes that the county installed in 2020.

“It will have less an impact on communities and downtown areas than previous years, while delivering athletes a full-distance marathon with a two-lap course,” Curran said.

Roberts added that having a more condensed course could allow runners more opportunities to compete alongside one another and give spectators a better chance to see runners.

The marathon will remain a qualifying event for the Boston Marathon. Everyone who registered for the 2020 event, which was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, will be automatically registered again for the 2021 event in September. Those who haven’t registered yet will be able to do so starting March 15 at www.runlongislandmarathon.com.

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RaCe aweSome wiLL direct the event again and designed a new course for the 47th race.

Black leaders talk future at Inside LI webinar agarcia@liherald.com

In celebration of Black History Month, Black leaders on Long Island gathered for the latest webinar of Herald Inside LI on Feb. 25.

Speakers included Phil Andrews, the president of the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce Inc.; Regina Armstrong, superintendent of Hempstead Union Free School District; Frederick Brewington, the owner and principal of Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington; Margo Cargill, the CEO of Titanium Linx Consulting Inc. and vice president of the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce; and Daniel Lloyd, founder and president of Minority Millennials Inc. Skye Ostreicher, of Herald Community Newspapers and RichnerLive, comoderated the discussion alongside DuWayne Gregory, senior vice president and director of diversity, equity and inclusion training for McBride Consulting and Business Development Group.

Lloyd, the youngest member of and only millennial on the panel, emphasized the importance that his and younger generations will play in advancing social justice in United States “The millennial and generation Z demographics are the largest, most educated and most diverse in the nation,”

Lloyd said. “What we’re seeing is that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “We know that the failure of America millennials and gen Z are understanding what justice is — the idea of a quali- — and Long Island in itself — is not allowing the full story to be told,” Brewty life and fairness.”

“As a superintendent of a school dis- ington said. “The importance of being trict, we see how people can look at us there not only as a role model but also as a resource, so that the as a school district when wonderful education that is we’re failing, they’re quick being taken on by millennito talk about it and advertise als and gen X is not wasted it,” Armstrong said, “but in regard to getting caught when we are experiencing in the same mistakes and successes, no one wants to the same history that has share it or they begin to critpulled people down.” icize the prog ress being “One of the big lacks is made and say, ‘That can’t be that we don’t have enough possible.’” mentorship opportunities,” “That hard work that Cargill said. “We can give they’re putting in is not them that guidance and that being recognized by people direction so they can avoid on the outside,” Armstrong those pitfalls.” continued. “It makes them PhIl ANDREWs As the vice president of feel as though they are less African American t h e Nassau Council of than.”

Chamber of Chamber of Commerce, CarThe Hempstead School gill understands the perDistrict makes it a goal to Commerce spectives and practices of show students a wide variety of career opportunities so they other communities. By relaying this understand what is possible — whether information to her own community, peoit’s a store worker or the owner of the ple there can adopt beneficial practices, too. business.

“It’s about information and sharing Brewington said he often invites young local people to his practice to that information, and being a mentor,” show them career possibilities. His Cargill said. “It’s about being part of an office commemorates several historical ecosystem that’s larger than just the Black figures, including Malcolm X and majority-minority communities.”

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Andrews helped develop a young membership program for the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce in which young people can meet with business owners and receive free training.

“We didn’t want young people sitting outside on an opportunity like this,” Andrews said. “We have to be at the table; we have to be involved. When we have a seat at the table, we can bring something away. We can’t sit back on these things. . . We have to be examples.”

“You can’t buy wisdom,” Lloyd said, referring to the need for mentorship on Long Island. Minority Millennials helps invigorate young members’ business dreams by allowing them to share the personal stories behind their business ideas.

“We, as a people, need to understand where that information is flowing and not just confine ourselves to what we like or what’s comfortable for us,” Cargill said. “Step outside the box and stay curious, because as you stay curious, that’s where you’ll find your niche and your next big idea.”

This episode was sponsored by McBride Consulting & Business Development Group and the Rockville Centre Coalition for Youth. This and all previous episodes of Herald Inside LI can be found at liherald.com/recordings.

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Long Beach high School’s Student Organization celebrated P.S. I Love You Day for the eighth year.

Schools celebrate P.S. I Love You Day Several Long Beach schools celebrated P.S. I Love You Day as a way to encourage kindness, caring and compassion. An assortment of activities and projects focused on thoughtfulness toward others and helped to connect students and staff members. Many participants wore purple in support of the program’s mission.

At Long Beach High School, the Student Organization coordinated P.S. I Love You Day efforts on Feb. 11 and 12. Members arrived early in the morning and decorated the building, placed notes on every desk and filled the commons area with displays of positive affirmations. Additionally, carnations were available for students to purchase for others.

The middle school organized numerous initiatives over the two days as well. A welcoming committee provided positive statements, purple ribbons

and uplifting messages to those entering the building. Students wrote kind notes that were affixed to lockers and doors and also composed letters to special people in their lives. Additionally, they shared characteristics that define good friends and combined their responses to create a “caring quilt” displayed in the hallway.

Lido and the Pre-K Center observed Kindness Week, which culminated with P.S. I Love You Day. Students decorated kindness rocks in a project sponsored by the Pre-K and Lido PTAs and completed “I Love My Selfie” posters. Students and staff members also shared hearts with words of encouragement. The other buildings hold lessons and activities throughout the year that take different forms, but encompass the same underlying messages of love, compassion and positive mindsets.

Long Beach MiddLe School was decorated with positive messages on Feb. 11 and 12.

Lido students painted kindness rocks on P.S. I Love You Day.

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he coronavirus impacted my business in many ways. Dance is a team sport as well as a passion and an art. Our dancers come to the studio and feel like they are in their second home. Times spent with their teachers and classmates are invaluable times. It is a time where you can let go of anything else that is bothering you throughout the day and just laugh and dance your stress away.

When the pandemic began, it was right in the middle of our competition season and everything shut down. Dances we worked so hard on never got to see the stage. Costumes and non-refundable competition fees went down the drain. Senior dancers eager to enjoy their final season dancing at Oceanside Dance Center were ripped of that experience (we always make it special for them). Our little

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ones who should have performed in their first dance recitals were not able to do so. This was also so hard on my staff, including myself. We cherish our time with our students.

However, one positive thing that the coronavirus did do was help us all — teachers and students — to realize how grateful we are to get to dance and let our emotions out on the floor, and to spend valuable time with each other and create lifelong friendships while doing what we love.

We are back in studio, and although things are a little different for the time being, we are able to express our emotions again through dance. I have received so many emails from parents saying how thankful they are. I am so happy to be open again so they can let go of their worries and have some normalcy.

hen we, like other businesses, had to close our business to customers last March, it was completely unexpected. But after the initial shock, we learned how to pivot. The first week was stressful, but I think it gave businesses the time to figure out how to move forward. We promoted our bakery and café menu to go immediately, and updated our website and social media accounts with links to make ordering easy.

We quickly realized that our customers wanted to support the small businesses in town. Many of our customers needed a break from working at home, or a quick walk in fresh air, and we became a destination. Stopping in for a quick cup of coffee or muffin became an easy way to break up the day. Our popular Afternoon Tea Events became boxed for

takeout; “A Tea Party in a Box” was extremely popular for Mother’s Day, and will remain an option for our customers. It has become a sweet gift that our customers have bought to celebrate birthdays.

Our Chamber of Commerce Business Women’s group for members, led by Committee Co-Chairs Maria Feliciano of Valley Bank and Iyna Caruso of Sweet Lime Ink Content Studio, has been a source of information and much-needed support for its members. Going forward, our brunch menu, which we had hoped to offer last April, will be available this March. I am so grateful for our customers and the Rockville Centre community that continues to support us.

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I found that a soulless business, and I wanted to be my own boss. I re-located to Long Beach and with my partner, Keri Venti, opened Wolf & Wing Interior Design, about 10 years ago.

My partner and I were young moms, and we had to maneuver around that. We were doing very well, and then last March, the Covid pandemic came along. We couldn’t get into people's homes to talk with them. And we prided ourselves on developing close personal relationships with our clients.So we developed virtual design consultations, called Shelter in Peace. We would do all or most of our work virtually, sending clients ideas on designs.

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allowed to go to a home. So we started to visit people, but of course still had to wear masks, as we still do, and to keep socially distant. We also had to meet with clients outside their homes. It was challenging because of the value we placed on personal relationships.

But some more restrictions have been lifted, and more construction workers are allowed to work.But getting materials has been and remains very difficult. Factories in China and elsewhere have been shut down, and prices on the materials have skyrocketed. Those issues have not gotten better. The shutdowns at the factories have slowed our work. But the interior design business is booming these days.

People are not spending their money to go to Aruba. So those people with cash are spending money redesigning their homes.

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verything is bedazzled and glittered, still, even through the pandemic. We still are making that work. I always compare the feeling of the dance studio to the feeling of Christmas. You know that feeling that you get when you’re excited and it’s like a nervous anticipation? That’s what Pat’s is. Pat’s is that exact feeling every time you walk in the building. I’ve felt like that with that building since I’m a kid. Then continuing that, I was a teacher, I was assistant director, and now I’m the director and owner. It’s just a cool thing that continued throughout my entire career.

I still get that same feeling I did when I was a student walking in there.

Unfortunately with Covid right now, I can’t meet with the parents . . . but that forced me a little bit to be on the phone, on email and talking with the parents a little bit more, so I still

feel like I have that connection with them, with Instagram, with Facebook and Snapchat. We still have that family relationship that my aunt started and I continued. I keep going with it because it’s not going anywhere. Forty-one years and this place is not going anywhere. A lot of my students do not go to in-person school — a lot of them are virtual. This is their only outlet, their only platform.

What did help me through the pandemic — the [Chamber of Commerce]. We all kind of worked together. I do the social media. The social media is one thing that’s helped through the pandemic. That was our lifeline. That’s how we all connected with each other; that’s how we knew what businesses were open. That’s how we knew what businesses needed things. So I was literally the monkey in the middle, the go-between between everything.

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A petition to rename a street after a famous deceased rapper from Long Beach has garnered a lot of attention from the Hip-Hop community and gained nearly 9,000 signatures.

A Change.org petition started by Long Beach native Dr. Patrick Graham, a Senior Policy Advisor with the City of Richmond, Va., is requesting that the City of Long Beach rename East Hudson Street’s block between Riverside Boulevard and Long Beach Road “KMD-MF DOOM Way” after the recently deceased artist who grew up in Long Beach. Daniel Dumile, better known in the Hip-Hop world as MF Doom, died on October 31.

“Hip-hop leaders credit Mr. Dumile as one of the most prolific rap artists of all time,” Graham wrote in the petition.

“His life served as an example of inclusive community building and growth through individual struggle. Long Beach profoundly influenced his adolescents.”

Though his cause of death was not revealed, Dumile’s wife Jasmine announced his death on Instagram on New Year’s Eve. “The greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and

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he biggest challenge we faced early on was trying to manage the fear of the pandemic, both in the community and among our employees [at Gala Foods].

Freeport is one of the hardest-hit areas by Covid, and our employees were afraid. We were short-staffed, like a lot of businesses, but as a grocery store, we had to stay open.

We all had to adapt overnight. We do regular sanitation. We started opening earlier at 7 a.m. for seniors; that way, they could shop without worrying about crowds.

We ramped up our website so people could do their online orders easily for pick-up or delivery.

Everyone really stepped up to help and a lot of great things came from these changes.

Through the chamber, we never stopped

having our meetings, whether doing them virtually or holding our luncheons in the summer to patronize our local restaurants and get guest speakers who could answer our questions about what was going on.

We did our best to keep everyone informed on all the resources available for them, and our office manager Monica [Bennett] does a great job getting the word out there with our newsletter and email blasts.

I’m amazed at how our community has been able to adapt in this crisis.

I don’t know anyone in the village who hasn’t lost someone to the pandemic. But the fact that we were able to hold on and help one another shows the resilience of Freeport.

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Rice has been a vocal critic of Cuomo’s alleged behavior since the accusaU.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, who repre- tions against him first surfaced last sents the South Shore’s 4th District, late week.

M o n d ay c a l l e d o n N ew On Feb. 27, she tweeted, York’s Democratic governor, “This is no joke. There must Andrew Cuomo, to resign be an independent investigaafter a third woman came tion into these allegations. forward accusing him of The accused CANNOT sexual harassment. appoint the investigator.

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Below it, she posted a New The accused is still trying to York Times story detailing control this process. Make the third woman’s accusathe referral to the AG with tions that Cuomo had inapsubpoena power ASAP.” propriately approached her State Attorney General at a wedding in 2019, wrapLetitia James, a Democrat, ping his hands around her will oversee the investigacheeks, as seen in a phototion into Cuomo’s alleged graph, and asking to kiss actions. She will have subher. The incident, according poena power. to The Times, was recorded Cuomo, who had called contemporaneously in text Kathleen rice for an independent counsel messages. to investigate the accusaU.S. representative “I was so confused and tions, has said that his shocked and embarrassed,” actions “have been misinterAnna Ruch, 33, told The Times. Ruch, preted as an unwanted flirtation.” who worked for the Obama administra“To the extent anyone felt that way, I tion and on President Joe Biden’s 2020 am truly sorry about that,” a statement campaign, was not employed by New by his office read.

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friend I could ever ask for,” Jasmine wrote. “Thank you for all the things you have shown, taught and given to me, our children and our family. Thank you for teaching me how to forgive beings and give another chance, not to be so quick to judge and write off. Thank you for showing how not to be afraid to love and be the best person I could ever be.”

Graham went on to explain Dumile’s influence on multiple people from all different backgrounds. He also acknowledged him as one of the greatest underground hip-hop artist of all time.

“Mr. Dumile represents the ability to grow through tragedy and unite people around common themes,” Graham wrote. “We need more individuals like him during this time of political and social divisions. Mr. Dumile still inspires many young people to view the potential of everyday life. Long Beach should be proud of its native son and honor him and his legacy on a street sign.”

Billboard announced that streams of MF DOOM’s music had risen by 870 percent following his death. The Petition can be found at www.change.org/p/longbeach-city-council-kmd-mf-doom-wayrenaming-the-street.

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Long Beach wrestlers finish 8-1

By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

Soon after receiving the unexpected news New York State approved high-risk sports, including wrestling, to begin Feb. 1, Nassau County wrestling coaches sprung into action and devised a plan to align conferences based on ability rankings as opposed to school size.

Eleven teams formed Conference I, led by defending county champion MacArthur and perennial powers Wantagh, Long Beach and Massapequa, and faced 9 of 10 rivals in a condensed season with no dual meet playoffs, and no county and state tournaments.

“The kids have taken everything in stride,” Long Beach coach Ray Adams said. “They’re grateful to have gotten the opportunity to compete at all. You’d never know by the intensity of matches and practices that there’s anything different about this season.”

The Marines, who placed fifth in Nassau last winter, made the most of the February long season, going 8-1 to finish in second place. Their signature win came Feb. 15 against MacArthur, 45-27.

“We just took things one match at a time and didn’t really talk about going undefeated or anything like that,” Adams said. “The kids worked hard every day and focused on the next opponent.”

Long Beach’s roster featured a handful of seniors with aspirations of competing at the collegiate level, including state qual-

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CapTaIN KEvIN LOpEz was a state qualifier and had a pair of All-County seasons.

DYLaN SOfIED, LEfT, and defending county champ Jeremiah Echeverria were two of Long Beach’s captains.

ifiers Jeremiah Echeverria and Kevin Lopez. Echeverria won the 113-pound Nassau Division 1 championship as a junior and reached the state final. He’s a threetime All-County wrestler who bumped up two weight classes on several occasions this season (to 138) to face desired competition. He pinned MacArthur’s Paul Lichter in 1 minute, 32 seconds at 138.

Lopez, with two All-County campaigns under his belt including a third-place finish at 113 last season, competed at 126, and was also no stranger to pins. He earned

pins in three straight matches between Feb. 13-17.

Echeverria, Lopez and Dylan Sofield (172) served as captains, Adams noted.

Sofield was a qualifying tournament champion a year ago and also picked up a key pin in the MacArthur match.

Senior Andres Castro made the most of his rise into the starting lineup at 118 and ranked among the team leader in pins, including four straight. He sparked the Marines early in matches along with junior Mason Franklin, who won four of

his first five bouts at 102, and Konner Rosensweis, a high-energy freshman who broke down each of his opponents.

Junior Wyatt Parker, who scored a huge upset win over Freeport’s Terry Ellis, competed at 138 and 145 along with sophomore Mike Berube and senior Romeo Alolor. Junior Yehuda Bitton held down the fort at 160, seniors Thomas Rooney and Peter Navarette took care of business at 189 and 220, and sophomore Ronald Washington recorded some clutch pins at 285.

Long Beach lifeguards to get new headquarters building

By JaMES BErNSTEIN jbernstein@liherald.com

The City of Long Beach this week is in the process of putting together a 900-square-foot headquarters building on Riverside Boulevard for lifeguards, to replace a small, cramped trailer that had been in use since Super storm Sandy in 2012.

The original lifeguard headquarters was destroyed by Sandy, as were eight beach comfort stations. All have since been replaced, with the exception of the lifeguard building.

City work crews are putting together four modules that will make up the headquarters. It will include locker rooms, a central shape up room to store lifeguards’ gear, a first aid room and a communications area.

There will also be a pull-down staircase that will lead to an observation deck that will provide lifeguards a panoramic view of the beach and the ocean.

“We have a to have a command post,”

said Paul Gillespie, Long Beach’s chief lifeguard. “We’ve been in that trailer” since Sandy. “We need something we can call our own headquarters. What we have now is not adequate.”

“We have had a lot of late after hours drownings,” Gillespie said. “We need this desperately” so lifeguards can utilize the observation deck to get a better view.

Joe Fabrizio, of the city’s department of public works, said the headquarters is expected to be completed by the opening of the beach season, on Memorial Day. Work crews are this week assembling the headquarters. The boardwalk this week was to be closed from Edwards to Long Beach boulevards for several days.

Fabrizio said the cost of the headquarters is $1.2 million. He said it is part of a larger, $3 million project to also make repairs at New York ands Neptune boulevards. FEMA is paying for 80 percent of the project and the city the remainder.

The city has about 150 lifeguards.

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■■ Roy■ G.■ Rowe■ Jr.,■ 47,■ of ■ Long■ Beach■ was■ arrested■ on■ Feb.■ 19■ at■ the■ 100■ block■ of ■ Wyoming■ Avenue■ and■ charged■ with■ operating■ a■ motor■ vehicle■ with■ a■ blood■ alcohol■content■.08■of ■1%,■DWI,■■criminal■ possession■ of ■ a■■ controlled■ substance,■ operating■ a■ motor■ vehicle■ with■ a■ suspended■ license,■ no■ license,■ and■ leaving■ the■scene■of ■a■property■damage■accident.

■■ Stephanie■Torres,■24,■of ■Bellmore■was■ arrested■ on■ Feb.16■ at■ the■ 200■ block■ of ■ West■Park■Avenue■and■charged■with■DWI. ■■ Sean■ T.■ Boyle,■ 46,■ of ■ Garden■ City,■ was■arrested■on■Feb.■15■at■the■200■block■ of ■ Neptune■ Boulevard■ and■ charged■ with■DWI. ■■ Tiffany■ Alexis■ Blackwell,■ 44,■ of ■ Rockville■ Centre,■ was■ arrested■ on■ Feb.■ 14■ on■ the■ unit■ block■ of ■ West■ Broadway■ and■ charged■ with■ operating■ a■ motor■ vehicle■

■■ Anne■M.■■Ervolina,■58,■of ■Stony■Brook,■ was■ arrested■ on■ Feb.■ 3■ at■ Delaware■ Avenue■ and■ West■ Beech■ Street■ and■ charged■ with■ operating■ a■ motor■ vehicle■ with■ blood■ alcohol■ content■ .08■ of ■ 1%,■ DWI■ with■ a■ previous■ conviction,■ operating■ a■ motor■vehicle■with■a■revoked■license,■circumventing■an■interlock■device,■operator■ leaving■the■scene■of ■a■property■damaged■ accident,■ and■ drinking■ alcohol■ in■ a■ motor■vehicle.

■■ Christopher■ P.■ Molloy,■ 34,■ of ■ Massapequa,■ was■ arrested■ on■ Feb.■ 1■ at■ West■ Park■ Avenue■ and■ Alabama■ Street■ charged■with■DWI.

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A cAr crAshed into a utility pole on Lido Boulevard and Greenway Road on Feb. 28.

■■ Robert■ R.■ Stockdale,■ 35,■ of ■ Long■ Beach,■ was■ arrested■ on■ Jan.■ 30■ at■ the■ unit■ block■ of ■ East■ Block■ Avenue■ and■ charged■with■petit■larceny.

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LEGAL NOTICE SURROGATE’S COURT NASSAU COUNTY PROBATE CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent File No. 2016-389585/c To Fabian Rudolph Scott, Wayne Scott, Michelle Scott, Adrian Scott, Anthony Sinclair, Nassau County Public Administrator and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and places of residence are unkown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law and next-ofkin of the said Sylvia T. Sinclair, deceased, and if any of the said above distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and/or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained.

GREETINGS A PETITION having been duly filed by Sabrina Riano of Laurelton Gardens Corp, residing at 131-42 234th St. Laurelton, NY 11422 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on

April 28, 2021 at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Sylvia T. Sinclair, lately domiciled at Beach Terrace Care Center, 640 West Broadway, Long Beach, NY admitting to probate a Will dated November 3, 2010 a copy of which is attached, as the will of Sylvia T. Sinclair, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary to Letters of Trusteeship to Letters of Administration c.t.a. Issue to Nassau County Public Administrator Further Relief sought (if any): Hon. Margaret C. Reilly, Surrogate Debra Keller Leimbach, Chief Clerk Dated, Attested and Sealed, February 17, 2021 This Citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear, it will be assumed that you consent to the proceedings, unless you file written verified objections thereto,. You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you.

Name of Attorney: Patricia Harold Esq Address 350 Old Country Road, Suite 101, Garden City NY 11530 Phone No. 516-222-0248 Patty@haroldlawny.com

A TRUE COPY OF THE WILL OFFERED FOR PROBATE MUST BE ATTACHED TO THIS CITATION Notice: This Citation is served upon you in accordance with the court’s order directing alternative service of process. No in-person appearances shall be held on the return date of the citation. If you wish to appear to answer or object to this proceeding, you may do so in writing in accordance with the annexed notice to cited parties.

Notice: 22NYCRR 207.7c: Proof of Service should be filed on or before the second day preceding the return date.

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Lido Beach Ventures LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on January 8, 2020.

Office located in Nassau County.

SSNY is designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to 52 Woodhail Street, Lido Beach, NY, 11561.

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that an Order granted by the Supreme Court, Nassau County, on the 5th Day of January, 2021 bearing the index number 488/20, a copy of which may be examined at the Office of the Nassau County Clerk located at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, grants me the right to assume the name of Bleu D. Kingsley. My present address is 19 East Beech Street, Long Beach, NY 11561. My date of birth is December 21st, 2001; my place of birth is Mineola, New York; the present name is Delaney Bleu Hunt 124867

Point Lookout Lido FD see busy end of February Within■ hours■ the■ Point■ Lookout■ Lido■ Fire■ Department■ responded■ to■ two■ separate■incidents■involving■a■car■crash■and■a■ golf ■car■on■fire.

According■ to■ the■ Point■ Lookout■ Lido■ Fire■ Department’s■ Facebook■ page,■ in■ the■ early■hours■of ■Sunday■Feb.■28■the■department■ was■ alerted■ to■ an■ auto■ accident■ at■ Lido■ Boulevard■ and■ Greenway■ Road■ in■ Lido.

“Initial■reports■stated■a■single■car■had■ hit■ a■ telephone■ pole■ at■ that■ intersection,■ the■ report■ said.■ “First■ Assistant■ Chief ■ James■Guerin■confirmed■the■accident■but■ the■ occupants■ were■ out■ of ■ the■ vehicle,■ they■ were■ evaluated■ by■ E.M.S.■ on■ scene■ and■transported■to■the■hospital.”

The■ crews■ secured■ the■ vehicle■ and■ notified■ the■ utility■ of ■ the■ damaged■ pole.■ As■of ■Sunday■afternoon■the■pole■had■been■

replaced,■the■report■added.■All■fire■department■ operations■ were■ under■ the■ command■ of ■ First■ Assistant■ Chief ■ James■ Guerin.

Later■ that■ day,■ at■ 3:17■ p.m.■ the■ department■ was■ a■ notified■ of ■ a■ golf ■ cart■ fire■ with■ a■ possible■ extension■ to■ adjacent■ houses■at■Cedarhurst■Avenue■and■Bayside■ Drive■ in■ Point■ Lookout.■ Again■ Chief ■ Guerin■ was■ first■ on■ the■ scene■ and■ confirmed■ that■ there■ was■ no■ extension.■ The■ fire■ was■ quickly■ extinguished,■ the■ report■ said.■ No■ injuries■ were■ reported,■ but■ the■ cart■was■heavily■damaged.■All■fire■department■ operations■ were■ under■ the■ command■ of ■ Chief ■ Of ■ Department■ Jared■ Siegelman.

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any people seem to confuse democracy and capitalism.

Some seem to think that capitalism defines our system of government. However, our governance is based on democratic principles, including the importance of voting. Capitalism is about economics, not governing.

Two central characteristics of capitalism are competition in the marketplace and the availability of information. Competition supports choice, and freely available information supports ROBERT informed choice.

Wander supermarSCOTT kets aisles and look at the shelves.

There are abundant choices of toothpaste, laundry soaps and paper products, with descriptions of ingredients and safety labels. Nevertheless, we as consumers must be aware; we must determine the truth in advertising.

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characteristic. We can choose which political party to support, which candidate to back and which policy proposals meet our criteria. However, we must seek the truth and become informed with facts.

Given such choices, why do so many fail to vote?

The 2020 presidential election campaigns spent almost $14 billion, and turnout, as a percentage of the voting-age public, was higher than any other in 120 years — yet one-third of eligible voters stayed away.

Some lacked access or were afraid of the unofficial “marshals” monitoring voting sites, and others were dissuaded from voting by disinformation spread through social media.

We need to do more to control disinformation efforts, reduce limitations to voting, help voters learn the truth and ensure the integrity of elections. We can choose to do more to ensure informed choices at the ballot box. But not choosing to do so is itself a choice, one that can lead to the demise of democracy.

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that we should “choose to act so the act of choosing remains possible.” By failing to exercise our right to vote and failing to ensure the integrity of information promoted by campaigns, we have not only lost our chance to choose, but also have chosen to act in a way that can lead to losing our right to choose.

That’s what happens in authoritarian regimes, even though they may not start that way. Hitler was chosen democratically in 1932 before consolidating power.

Putin was first elected by popular vote in 2000, and instituted constitutional changes in 2018 that allowed him to remain in power. In both cases, the people made choices that resulted in the loss of future choices because they didn’t stay informed or act on their concerns in time to avoid the consequences.

The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was the result of a disinformation campaign of falsehoods that persists to this day. For democracy to survive, for there to be “a more perfect union,” we need an informed citizenry that under-

ven in November’s momentous election, onethird of eligible voters sat out.

stands and appreciates critical thinking, information literacy and the instruments of democracy. We need objective journalism as the source of news.

We also need more flexibility in voting to meet the needs of our modern world.

Voting by mail and early voting are steps forward, but not the only steps that we can take. Why is general-election voting limited to the first Tuesday in November?

Wouldn’t it make sense to allow voting over several days, as in some other countries? What about holding elections on weekends, when fewer people would have to take time off from work in order to vote? In some countries, voting is mandatory, and fines can be imposed on those who do not vote.

Our vote is our voice. Voting is an act of choice and the exercise of our voice in expressing our values and priorities. We should make it easier to learn about candidates and issues, and vote. After all, our choice of leaders and policies is much more important than our brand of toothpaste.

Robert Scott is president emeritus of Adelphi University and the author of “How University Boards Work.”

Fighting the other epidemic: QAnon (Part 1)

ddly, the most offensive remark made by a politician lately (and there are a lot to choose from) came from Marjorie Taylor Greene last month, as she was desperately trying to hold on to her seat in the House of Representatives. Standing before a microphone on Feb. 4, Greene was backpedaling as fast as she could to put distance between herself and QAnon, the conspiracy group she supported. She had been elected to the House in Georgia’s 14th District on a wave of racist RANDI and anti-Semitic KREISS vitriol and innuendo.

In numerous speeches and tweets over the course of her campaign, Greene had allied herself with QAnon and its conspiracy tropes targeting numerous people in public life. By Feb. 4, she had been stripped of her committee assignments in the House because of her public remarks, and she feared being booted out of office altogether. So she stood before a microphone and announced to the world, “9-11 definitely happened.”

Thank you, Marjorie.

She proclaimed, “School shootings

happened.”

In what fractured reality, I wondered, do we find someone like her validating the epic public tragedies we have witnessed with our own eyes? We heard the cries of children with our own ears. We saw the bodies falling from the high floors of the towers.

Look around and take note: We are in a surreal place now, where the liars like Greene assume the roles of validating self-evident public truths.

In her Feb. 4 appearance, she tried to distance herself from QAnon, but it was a transparent, self-serving show. She kept her seat.

This is a woman who promoted violence against Q’s perceived enemies, at one point signaling support for the assassination of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Greene was duly elected by 74 percent of the voters in her district. That raises the questions, how and why.

My initial reaction was not to write about QAnon, to avoid shining a light on its dark activities and let it die a slow death. But it isn’t dying. A better tactic, I think, is to let in the air and light until the issues that gave rise to such a disturbing belief system are addressed.

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group of people who believe that there exists in public life a secret society of devil worshipers who kidnap and cannibalize children and engage in pedophilia.

Preposterous? The ideology metastasized across the web, pulling people into an alternative world where they followed hidden “clues” and “codes” signaling belief that former President Trump would create a “storm” on inauguration day, ushering himself back into power and bringing down President Biden. And of course, destroying Black Lives Matter and Jewish influencers and basically nonwhites of any variety.

How does a belief system like QAnon take hold? The problem isn’t politics, which just offers a stage. People are susceptible to theories that claim to explain the inexplicable uncertainties in all our lives.

According to a story by Kevin Roose in The New York Times on Feb. 4, QAnon operates in a different way, and on a different scale, than anything we’ve seen before. For starters, it is uniquely participatory. Followers congregate online to decode the latest QAnon posts and to discuss their theories about the news of the day, creating a communal bond with their fellow believers. Apparently, hundreds of thousands of people think, with complete

t satifies needs we all have to feel significant and part of something big.

sincerity, that the leaders of the Democratic Party may be killing innocent children. Combine those fantasies with a willingness to commit violent crimes in the name of the group, and there is a real threat.

Although there is plenty of ignorance to go around among Q followers, Roose wrote that they can’t be dismissed as stupid. The group satisfies needs we all have to feel significant and part of something big. When you don’t get that in other aspects of your life, the group becomes that much more important. Social media adds accelerant.

We have to address the psychological triggers and motivations if we want to mitigate the influence and potential dangers of this kind of thinking. Conspiracy theories will always thrive when people feel like they’re not in control of their lives and when political, religious and social groups offer shelter. According to NPR, although QAnon has been kicked off Twitter and Facebook, it thrives on various fringe platforms.

I don’t think anyone has a solution for eradicating groups like QAnon. But a good step forward is to better educate our children, creating a generation of more critical thinkers.

I’ll address that in Part 2 next week.

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t’s been over 27 years since Colin Ferguson stepped onto a Long Island Rail Road train in Mineola and started indiscriminately firing a 9mm pistol at passengers. Six were killed, including Dennis McCarthy, of Mineola, and 19 were wounded. Dennis’s son, Kevin, then 26 and a broker with Prudential Securities in New York City, took a bullet to the head, but survived. His left arm remains partially paralyzed.

That attack propelled Carolyn McCarthy, Dennis’s wife and Kevin’s mother, to run for Congress. McCarthy, then a nurse, was assailed as a political neophyte and a single-issue candidate, with her laser focus on gun control. Despite the odds against her, she won, and served in the House of Representatives from 1997 to 2015, retiring because of a cancer diagnosis.

Throughout her time in Congress, McCarthy ably represented her district, becoming a respected member of the House and a strong-willed politician. She was frustrated often by the lack of movement on common-sense gun-control legislation, such as an assault weapons ban, because of big-money special-interest groups like the National Rifle Association.

Still, she endured.

It boggles the mind, but in the 243-year history of this nation, only two women have represented Long Island in the House of Representatives. McCarthy, who was elected in the 4th Congressional District, on Nassau’s South Shore, was the first, according to the Congressional Archives.

The second is her successor, Kathleen Rice, who was previously the Nassau County district attorney, and whom

McCarthy strongly endorsed in the 2014 election against Republican Bruce Blakeman, the County Legislature’s former presiding officer and a current Town of Hempstead councilman.

There has never been a woman from Long Island elected to the U.S. Senate. In fact, only two New York women — Hillary Clinton and Kirsten Gillibrand — have ever served in the Senate since the election of the state’s first two senators, Philip Schuyler and Rufus King, in 1789.

Yes, only two. All other New York senators have been white men. That is a sad statement, given that women comprise more than half of our population, and that New York is a racially diverse state.

In March, Women’s History Month, we should take a moment to reflect on these facts — and understand that we really could use more women representing us in Washington, and at all levels of government.

There is no doubt that women often see the world differently than men. They understand, with far greater depth, the travails that they have faced in this country because of their gender — the implicit bias and outright discrimination.

Most often, women are the primary caretakers of our children, so they better understand the lack of government resources available to young mothers with babies and school-age children. They can see how frayed our social safety net is, particularly when compared with Western European nations and Canada.

Women elected leaders more often focus on domestic social issues — education, the environment, social equity — compared with their male counterparts in

letters LIRR procurement at a ‘snail’s pace’ To the Editor: Reports of more delays associated with the Long Island Rail Road’s $734 million procurement of 202 new M9 electric replacement cars in 2013 is nothing new. MTA LIRR, Metro North or NYC Transit Federal Transit Administration or locally funded commuter rail or subway car procurement is seldom completed on time, within budget and without contract change orders. There are clearly even more problems with this purchase.

The MTA’s own independent engineering consultant forecasts an October 2022 completion date.

There is no guarantee that this date will hold.

Eight years later, completion of the delivery of all new M9 and M9A cars is several years behind schedule. The oldest M3 cars will have to stay around longer than planned before all new cars arrive and are ready for commuters to board.

Instead of retirement, many M3 cars will

Congress, many of whom are often more concerned with international monetary policy and U.S. military intervention than funding school lunch programs and drugtreatment centers.

In fact, in the long history of the House of Representatives, only one woman, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, has chaired the Foreign Affairs Committee, and for only two years, from 2011 to 2013, according to the Congressional Archives. The Foreign Affairs Committee is considered among the premier assignments in the House, a center of international power and prestige.

Yes, we need our representatives to keep a watchful eye on global affairs — and a number of women in Congress do.

Of the 48 current members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, 12 are women — eight Democrats and four Republicans.

None are from New York.

At the same time, we need to balance international and domestic affairs, and women elected leaders play a key role in ensuring that we do. A record 144 women now hold seats in the House and Senate — but Congress remains a male-dominated institution, with men holding 73 percent of the seats.

That statistic needs to change, on both of the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle. We need greater balance in order to work toward a more perfect union, one in which our daughters, and their daughters, are given the respect they deserve.

This month, though, we can reflect on pioneering women elected leaders like Carolyn McCarthy, Kathleen Rice, Hillary Clinton, Kirsten Gillibrand, and now Vice President Kamala Harris.

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he coronavirus pandemic has tipped over the world as we know it, harming most New Yorkers in profound ways while laying bare societal inequities that have plagued New Yorkers for generations, like the disparities in access to child care. It has also strained government budgets to the breaking point, at a time when we rely on the government for help.

But there is light at the end of the tunnel, and we are inching our way to recovery.

On our way there, we can — and ToDD should — focus on issues kaminsky specific that Covid-19 magnified. That’s why I’m pushing to pass two major initiatives over the next few months.

My first initiative for Long Islanders is Universal Pre-K. UPK would provide 4-year-old children throughout Nassau County with free public preschool education. This would be a game-changer. New York City already has a robust universal

pre-K program. It’s about time Long Island children — and parents — received the same support. The science is clear: Investing in children before they start kindergarten has profound effects on their pre-literacy and pre-math skills.

Children in Tennessee’s state-funded pre-K program, for example, saw a 75 percent improvement in letter-word identification, a 152 percent improvement in oral comprehension, a 176 percent improvement in picture vocabulary and a 63 percent improvement in quantitative concepts, compared to children who were not in pre-K. Simply put, pre-K sets children up to succeed.

Universal pre-K would also be critical for parents and the economy. The pandemic highlighted how challenging — and stressful — full-time parenting with full-time work can be for families. UPK would speed up New York’s recovery by letting parents get back to work.

I am pushing hard for UPK to be done in this year’s budget, which is due April 1.

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ocusing on universal pre-K, and on making big companies fund recycling.

LeTTers remain for post Covid-19, East Side Access to Grand Central Terminal and increased reverse-peak service starting in December 2022. This assumes that the current project recovery schedule is met.

When it comes to purchasing new rail cars, the line of the “Dashing Dan” moves at a snail’s pace.

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

Brinton needs to move on To the Editor: Re Scott Brinton’s column “Finding peace, post-Trump” (Feb. 18-24): Brinton can’t get Trump off his mind. The 45th president captivates him even though is no longer the POTUS. We were never on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea. This is pure speculation. Many children were sent to the Mexican border alone or with non-relatives to be admitted and later request that their parents be admitted. Brinton is ignorant about the chicanery pulled by desperate people wanting to come to the United States to escape the misery of their Central and South American countries. Immigration detention centers were built under President Obama.

we deal with our trash.

We have a waste problem in America.

Trash is literally piling up; and it will drown our kids. According to a recent study, the U.S. produced more plastic waste than any other country in the world in 2016, about 92.6 billion pounds. If we don’t act soon, we will run out of places to put it. That’s why I have introduced legislation that would shift the responsibility, and the cost, of recycling from taxpayers to big companies.

Extended Producer Responsibility (also known as EPR) would boost recycling, curb waste and save tax dollars by shifting the end-of-life responsibility for packaging and paper products from local governments and taxpayers to corporate brand owners and producers. Right now, many products you put in the recycling bin aren’t actually recycled; there’s no market for them. This costs our municipalities millions of dollars, and keeps them on an unsustainable course. Under EPR, producers, like big companies, would cover the cost of recycling paper products and packages. This would moti-

vate them to produce fewer and more eco-friendly materials, all while funding our municipal governments.

So what would happen to the packaging from all those deliveries you’ve ordered while you’ve been stuck at home? My bill would require companies to pay our cities for their recycling while also incentivizing them to use less packaging.

And the best part? EPR would create thousands of new jobs on Long Island while saving taxpayers money. As we head toward recovery, it is crucial that we provide economic relief for local governments while generating good, wellpaying jobs. The bill, if passed, would be a win-win.

We are on the cusp of recovery from the pandemic. More of us are getting vaccinated every day. Now is the time for lawmakers to look beyond Covid-19, learn from what we have gone through, be bold and enact policies that not only help Long Islanders get back to work, but also secure a better future for our children. Why just get back to normal when we can get back to better?

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, of Long Beach, represents the 9th District.

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Trump did not wear a mask initially, and catered to mass rallies that may have increased Covid-19 infections. He should have listened to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many of his tweets were factually incorrect and insulting. He has a potty mouth.

Witnesses were not per mitted at Trump’s second impeachment trial in the Senate, only the lawyers. It was a rushed trial. Witnesses should have been allowed. The chief justice of the Supreme Court did not preside over the trial, because, in my opinion, he saw it as a farce.

Brinton may never feel normal again because Trump exposed a raw nerve in the body politic and the “deep state,” which consists of federal employees and civil servants who believe they know best about which policies benefit the United States, rather than the president.

Most of Trump’s tweets were stupid and incorrect. The media’s job was to identify them and show precisely why they were ill-informed or stupid.

Trump did accomplish a lot through legislation and executive orders, but Brinton cannot bear to read about his accomplishments on the internet, so he is fixated on Trump. Why doesn’t Brinton address the real problems facing President Biden going forward, instead of looking backward?

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