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Excited about a ‘normal’ Thanksgiving except we all got Covid tests before and isolated after the test, so we were very careful.” The coronavirus pandemic L a u r a S h o c k l e y, ow n e r altered the normal Thanksgiv- of Point Lookout & Wellness, is ing last year, forcing families taking a low-key approach to across the country to limit their Thanksgiving, as she did in gatherings — or not meet up at 2020. Her family, she said, all. Now many vaccinated peo- includes a number of young ple say they are children who are ready to return to unvaccinated. their usual holiday “If it was just festivities, though me, I wouldn’ t some still remain wor ry,” Shockley cautious about large said, “but I’m worget-togethers. ried about my stuDavid Fagan, a dents [at my busiLong Beach husness]. Many of them aNIssa MooRE are older,” making band and father of two, said the Covid- Community activist them potentially 19 vaccine would more susceptible to allow his family to infection. Shockley get together this year. “My fami- herself is vaccinated, but she is ly is going to get together planning a small, outdoor gathbecause we couldn’t last year,” ering of six or so friends. Fagan said. “Since we’re all vacIf she were to become ill with cinated, it allows us and gives Covid, she said, her business us the comfort to get together.” could suffer irreparable harm, Kim Ashmead, a for mer as her staff is small. Long Beach PTA member, said Point Lookout, she said, is “a her family would hold Thanks- safe place,” and she patronizes giving this year with friends at local restaurants and stores, but a vacation house in Massachu- avoids large gatherings. setts. She did the same last year. “The summer was not what I “Everyone is [now] fully vac- would like” in terms of busicinated, and some even have ness, she said. “We expanded boosters already,” Ashmead our yoga place, but we really, said. “Last year it was the same, Continued on page 14

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his year is going to be normal.

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thE EMERgENCy DEPaRtMENt remains closed after Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital abruptly shut it down Monday, citing a shortage of nurses.

Nursing shortage forces MSSN to close L.B. Emergency Dept. By JaMEs BERNstEIN and BRENDaN CaRPENtER jbernstein@liherald.com, bcarpenter@liherald.com

Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital said Monday that it would close its Emergency Department in Long Beach temporarily “due to staff shortages occurring as a result of the state vaccine mandate.” As of press time on Wednesday, the department remained closed. The announcement provoked alarm and anger in

Long Beach, and a rally outside the closed facility on a chilly Tuesday night attended by about 60 people. City Council President John Bendo told the crowd that hospital officials claimed they had a shortage of qualified nurses. “We’re here tonight to tell them we’re not buying it,” Bendo said. The surprise announcement came in a news release on Monday afternoon. The hospital said that the Emergency Department would

close at 3 p.m. “The decision to temporarily close the facility was made after all other options were exhausted,” MSSN’s statement read. The hospital said that Long Beach patients in need of emergency care would be directed to the main campus in Oceanside. An ambulance will be stationed around the clock at the closed Long Beach facility for the duration of the closure, the hospital Continued on page 16

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The Children’s raCe began first, starting at 8:30 am. The one-mile race saw children smiling and running hard. Grayson Schroeder, 13, a Long Beach resident, won the children’s race.

L.B. holds annual turkey trot on boardwalk

The 10K adulT race began shortly after at 9 am. Oscar Lorenzo was the first finisher of the adult race with a time of 34 minutes and 33 seconds. ChrisTin delaney Guille, a Long Beach resident, was the first female finisher. She posted a time of 39 minutes and 40 seconds.

State gives L.B. $4.6M to achieve fiscal stability ensure Long Beach is on firm footing to continue to grow and prosper.” City Council president John Bendo Long Beach has received an additional called it “a huge win for Long Beach resi$4.6 million in state funds, in large part to dents” and added they can “now can rest help it pay two firms to help the city dig a little easier knowing some of the buritself out of a financial hole and put it on den of financial recovery won’t rest solely a path to stability and to settle a case on their shoulders.” brought by the developer Haberman & Gayden thanked Gov. Kathy Hochul Haberman. and the restructuring board for “their The state Financial vote of confidence in Long Re s t r u c t u r i n g B o a rd , a Beach by making this grant. 10-member panel that offers Their investment will go a assistance to municipalities, long way to helping finally get awarded the money to the city the City on sustainable finanlate last week to help it pay cial footing.” M3 Partners and O’Melveny Settling The Haberman & Myers, both of New York. case is key to the city’s The fir ms were hired in regaining financial stability. April. The two firms have In January, a State Supreme deep experience in financial Court Judge in Nassau found re s t r u c t u r i n g . M o s h s i n Long Beach liable for $131 todd Kaminsky Meghji, M3 Partner’s managmillion in damages in a case ing partner, served as chief that dates back 31 years. The restructuring officer when developer sued after the city the giant retailer Sears filed for bankrupt- revoked a building permit for a luxury cy in 2018. condo project. The firms were hired under City ManThe grant is broken put this way: ager Donna Gayden. Gayden said she was hired to present the city with a balanced ■ $3,745,000 - for the City’s procurement budget, which she did last year. The bud- of legal, fiscal and other related services geted included a 1.8 percent tax increase, in order to address the court-ordered the smallest in years. She noted she also judgement in the Haberman case.

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developed a five-year financial plan for the city going forward. But, she said, the two firms were hired to help Long Beach develop long-term budget projections, along with the city, “to provide visibility on the severity of fiscal issues.” Additionally, the firms are tasked with assisting the city in executing a restructuring plan. The $4,6 million grant is the second Long Beach has received from the restructuring board. It had received $500,000 to help pay other city obligations. State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Long Beach Democrat who helped secure the funding, said in a statement: “I am delighted to have helped deliver five million dollars to the City, from New York State, to assist it in navigating out of the financial mess it finds itself in. I will continue to do everything in my power to

News brief Home repair $ available for needy elderly Low-income elderly residents in Long Beach can apply for funds to make functional home modification and limited repairs, according to an announcement from the United Way of Long Island. United Way said it has received a $1 million Housing and Urban Development Older Adults Home Modification Grant. The delivery of the HUD OAHMP grant requires a home assessment by a licensed occupational therapist (OT). United Way’s community partners, along with the OT’s will help identify the repairs most critically needed for seniors to facilitate aging in place. The types of repairs to these homes will include bathroom renovations (i.e. installing no-slip strips, grab bars, transfer benches) and accessibility features (i.e. lever handles on all doors and faucets, handheld shower heads, wheelchair ramps). “Seniors across Long Island have made their desire to live in their own homes resoundingly clear, which is why the work that United Way of Long Island does is so vital,” said U.S. Senate Majority Leader

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O’Melveny & Myers and MP 3 Partners have provided periodic updates to the city at regular council meetings. Wall Street has downgraded the city’s bonds and called for more stability in government. The City Council has just signed a new contract agreement with Gayden, extending her employment. Thurs night Dec 2

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Charles E. Schumer. “I was proud to support United Way’s federal funding application for their Safe At Home For Seniors program. $1 million is now on its way to help hundreds of seniors across Long Island with repairs and modifications to their homes so they can age in place and in dignity.” Long Island’s population is continuing to age; according to 2019 U.S. Census population estimates, there are more than 300,000 Long Islanders 65 years of age or older. The number of residents age 70 and older in Nassau and Suffolk counties is expected to increase by more than 220,000 over 25 years, according to Northwell Health. The delivery of the HUD OAHMP grant requires a home assessment by a licensed occupational therapist. United Way’s community partners, along with the OT’s will help identify the repairs most critically needed for seniors to facilitate aging in place.

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Isles fans raise the roof on their new ‘Barn’ UBS Arena opening ends a 20-year battle for team’s home base By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com

Islanders fans from across Long Island made the pilgrimage on Saturday to the team’s new home at UBS Arena in Elmont. Despite a disappointing game result — the Islanders lost to the Calgary Flames 5-2 — fans were elated to finally have a home for their favorite hockey team after years of uncertainty, recreating the exuberant cheering that so defined games at Nassau Coliseum, known affectionately as “The Barn.” The $1.1 billion arena at Belmont Park already means a great deal to fans who have watched the team through years when the Nassau Coliseum fell into disrepair and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn offered obstructed seating. The fanbase survived rumors of the team’s move to Quebec City or Kansas City in the 1990s and 2000s and has STeven finally been Ferraro rewarded with an Islanders fan arena that pays homage to both them and the players of yesteryear. “I’m 26 years old, and I’ve been waiting my entire life to see this building open,” Steven Ferraro, of Rockville Centre, said. “It was the Lighthouse and then whatever after, but the [new] building [is] absolutely fantastic, just gorgeous.” Ferraro said his favorite aspect of the structure so far is the Heineken Terrace above the main entrance, saying it’s unusual to have clublike atmosphere at a hockey game. The late John Kempf was remembered at the game by his wife and son, Christine and Sean Kempf, who carried around a cardboard cutout of him. A detective in the Suffolk County Police Department, John died in April 2020 after a battle with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease — a rare degenerative brain disorder. During his tough fight, Kempf got to speak to his all-time favorite Islander, John Tonnelli, on the phone. “It means everything to be here,” Sean Kempf said. “[My father] was a lifelong fan, and he passed that down to us.” Sean also said that his father was a huge fan of both Zach Parise and Zdeno Chara and would have been blown away if he had seen them both acquired by the Islanders in the off-season. Mark Martinez, of Levittown, said he became an Islanders fan along with his school friends when the team visited Summit Lane Elementary School when they were children. “When we were little, tickets were cheap and we would go to every game, and now we still go to every game. It’s a part of our friendship now,” Martinez said. In the upper deck, signs with the logos of Islanders fan meetup groups from San

’m 26 years old, and I’ve been waiting my entire life to see this building open.

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more Than 17,000 Islanders fans brought the old Nassau Coliseum energy to their new home at UBS Arena in Elmont. The Blue and Orange Army in Section 329 brought soccer-style chanting throughout the game. ISleS FanS goT pumped up before entering UBS Arena for the first time. Donovan Berthoud/Herald

Diego to the United Kingdom were placed above the raucous Section 329 crowd. The section, carried over from the Coliseum, serenades the team with soccer-style chants and drum playing throughout the game. The much-touted low roof of the building traps the noise, giving amazing moments like when the crowd sang along with Nicole Raviv during the national anthem. There were glimpses of what the atmosphere can be like when the team gets going, like when Richard Panik laid the first big hit or when the referees announced Brock Nelson’s first goal. Superfans Jake Basile and Nicholas Constantinidis, from Plainview, came to the game carrying cardboard cutouts of Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech’s face. The two started the “Pelech Posse” a few Continued on neXt page

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UBS Arena opens Nov. 20 to much fanfare years ago, now even selling merchandise to the over 8,000 followers of their Instagram page, “Bathtubjake.” “A lot of guys from the Barn days were kind of concerned about this not being home, but it really felt like it tonight,” Basile said. “This is genuinely a dream come true. It’s so surreal. The atmosphere was great. Not the result we wanted from the game, but the arena was absolutely amazing,” Constantinidis said. “It

felt like this is ours, this is our amazing, 21st-century arena. We finally joined the club.” Co-owner Jon Ledecky, who purchased the team with business partner Scott Malkin in 2016, spoke to and took pictures with fans outside the arena before the game. “You can hear the fans are so excited and they’re saying, ‘Thank you,’ which is great, but we’re saying it back, because without them and their support, this building doesn’t happen,” Ledecky said.

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NiCholas CoNstaNtiNidis aNd Jake Basile of the “Pelech Posse” with cutouts of their favorite Islanders defenseman, Adam Pelech.

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Calgary forward Brad Richardson scored the first goal at the new arena.

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L.B. city hears options on retail marijuana She defended marijuana use as a “way to wean off other drugs,” and added that it is “not a gateway drug.” Asked by Long Beach City Council president John A representative for the marijuana industry and a Bendo what the company has learned from past experiunion official who represents such workers, urged the ences elsewhere in the country, Brown said parking has Long Beach City Council at a public hearing last Wednes- been an issue. “We don’t wasn’t to be a disruption to other day night to allow retail sales of the product, saying the businesses,” she said. move would add tax revenues and create new Nikki Kateman, political and communicajobs. tions director for Local 338, which represents Long Beach is among a number of Nassome Cannabis workers, said starting pay in sau County municipalities which must the industry is now between $18 and $22 an decide, by Dec,. 31, whether to opt-out of prohour. viding a license for adult use of marijuana “These are not head shops you have seen dispensaries. in movies,” Kateman said. “These are clean, The hearing was the first of what are modern” facilities. expected to be a total of three such sessions. But Judy Vining, director of Long Beach James LyncH Under the state’s new Marijuana RegulaAware, asked the city to opt-out. tions and Taxation Act, municipalities that Resident “If not,” she said, “you can never again do opt-out by the Dec. 31 deadline still have the so. “But you can opt-in forever. We have no opportunity to opt back in at any time. Voters reason to rush to judgment.” She said state may also petition a municipality’s decision to take the guidelines are not yet clear. issue to the ballot at the next general election. She said various studies have shown that use by adults If no decision is made, municipalities will be automati- increase use by young people. cally opted-in to the retail marijuana marketplace. Long Beach Police Commissioner Ron Walsh, asked by The issue is generating considerable discussion in Nas- some in the audience for his opinion on the matter, said sau’s villages. So far, the mayors of the villages of Rock- the decision was up to the city council. ville Centre, Freeport, Atlantic Beach and Island Park say “If the city chooses to bring in marijuana, I will be askthey will opt out. ing for resources to mitigate the impact, whatever that Rebecca Brown, a spokeswoman for Green Thumb may be,” Walsh said. Industries, one of the nation’s leading cannabis retailers, Tina Posterli, a former member of the Long Beach said that opting in would provide Long Beach with a three School Board, said that the board had requested the city percent sales tax, and one percent to Nassau County. Such opt-out. a facility, Brown said, would add 25 to 30 new jobs in Long Nassau County legislatoer Denise Ford, who repreBeach, plus investment in a new building in the city. sents the Siouth Shore, also urged the council to opt-out. “We want to be a safe, respectable place,” Brown said. “We don’t know where the stores are going to be, or how “There will be no on-site consumption.” many there are going to be,” Ford said. But resident Chris-

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nikki kateman, of Local 338, which represents some Cannabis workers, testified that opting-in would add significant revenues to the city. tina Martin said there was too much fear about opting-in. “It’s pretty ridiculous that we’re afraid of this,” she said, adding that marijuana can be helpful. But resident James Lynch said the time was not right to introduce retail marijuana to Long Beach. “We’re just coming out of a pandemic,” Lynch said. “How are we going to police this? Are we going to be hiring more cops?” An analysis by the Rockefeller Institute of Government found that many municipalities are opting out because of a lack of guidance by New York State.

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events and activities

Ongoing

Thursday, Dec. 2

Library Board Meeting

Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support

The Long Beach Public Library Board of Trustees typically meets on the third Monday of every month. Check the website for specific dates and times, www.longbeachlibrary.org.

The public library will be hosting an Alzheimer’s and Dementia support group in the program room from 6:30 to 7:30 pm. Reservations are required.

Long Beach Soup Kitchen

Friday, Dec. 3

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.

Friday Film The public library will be showing Here Today in the auditorium from 1 to 3 pm.

Chair Yoga The public library will be hosting a chair yoga class in the auditorium and on zoom from 9 to 10 am.

Meet The City Manager City Manager Donna M. Gayden will be holding “Meet The City Manager” virtual chat sessions. These meetings are an opportunity for residents to engage in a one-to-one dialogue with the City Manager; ask questions, share concerns, or express ideas on how to enhance the quality of life in our community. The virtual meetings will take place on Tuesdays from 2-4 p.m. Appointments are needed and are given on a first-come, 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.

Farmers’ Market The Kennedy Plaza Farmers’ Market will be held at Kennedy Plaza in front of Long Beach City Hall every Saturday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. For additional information, visit ligreenmarket.org

Christmas Tree Lighting The City Christmas tree lighting will be held in Kennedy Plaza.

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Chanukah Sunday night with Menorah lighting The City of Long Beach, along with local Rabbis, will light a festive Menorah at Kennedy Plaza Sunday at 5 pm to kick off the holiday’s eight-day celebration. Jews around the world celebrate the holiday to mark a period of freedom from oppression and slavery. Live DJ DJ Pauly C will be performing live music at Lilly’s starting at 10 pm.

Saturday, Nov. 27 Music Hits Paul C. Cuthbert will be performing live music hits at The Ugly Duckling starting at 1 pm. Seating starts at 12 pm.

Friday, Nov. 26

Sunday, Nov. 28

Music and Beers

Holiday Drive

There will be live music and beers at Bright Eye Beer Co. from 6:30 to 11 pm. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Long Beach Soup Kitchen.

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Bright Eye Beer Co. will be hosting a holiday drive from 1 to 4 pm.

Dinner With The Grich Beginnings restaurant in Atlantic Beach will be hosting a dinner with The Grinch starting at 5 pm.

Monday, Nov. 29 Writers’ Circle The public library will host a writers’ circle on zoom from 11 am to 1 pm.

Gentle Yoga

Afternoon Games The public library will be hosting a board and card games time in the auditorium form 1:30 to 4:30 pm.

Wednesday, Dec. 1

Film Monday

Strength and Ab Training

Tuesday, Nov. 30 Low-Impact Cardio The public library will be hosting a low-impact cardio class in the

Defensive Driving Course The public library will be hosting a one-day, six-hour defensive driving course in the auditorium from 10 am to 4 pm.

auditorium and on zoom from 11:30 to 12:30 pm.

The public library will host a gentle yoga class in the program room and on zoom from 10 to 11 am.

The public library will be hosting a film Monday by showing The Great Gatsby in program room from 2 to 4:30 pm.

Saturday, Dec. 4

The public library will host a strength and ab training class in the auditorium and on zoom from 9 to 10 am.

Ask The Tech Guy The public library will be hosting a technology Q&A with the library’s tech guy in the second floor lobby from 2 to 3 pm.

HAvInG An evenT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest. All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to jbernstein@liherald.com

Keep an eye out for upcoming holiday events. The Long Beach Police Department will host anti-drug sessions beginning Nov. 18. The lighting of the City Menorah will begin Sunday, Nov. 28 at 5 pm. The L.B. Arts Council, in collaboration with Arts In The Plaza, is looking for Performance Artists. The City is seeking photos of Long Beach to be featured in the 2022 city calendar.

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Chanukah lights dispel darkness Chanukah comes a bit early this year. the Mount and looted all the money that The first candle is lit on Sunday evening was set aside to assist the poor, the orphans and the widows. the twenty-eighth of November. This was the spark that led to a full We know well the basic outline of the ancient historical events this holiday scale revolt, and against all odds-truly miraculously- the descendants of the commemorates. In the second century before the Com- twelve tribes defeated a larger and better mon Era, Jerusalem and its surrounding equipped enemy. Around the year 167 B.C.E. the Temple area was a semi autonomous suzerainty was finally taken back, and rededicated to of the Seleucid empire. its former glory, with the vicThough the very Helletory symbolized by the lightnized Syrian kingdom coling for eight straight nights lected taxes, had a military of the grand Menorah, the presence, and promoted seven branched candelabra. Greek culture, they allowed What is illustrative and the Israelites to rule theminstructive is that it was the selves and practice their relidenying of care for the less gion under the supervision fortunate that could no lonof the prevailing High Priest. ger be tolerated by citizens With the tension of batof Judaea, Samaria, Jerusatling the rival Egyptian lem and greater Israel. dynastic rulers and the This festival, joyously ascension of Antiochus IV, acknowledged for millennia things drastically changed during the winter time, symfor the Jews. The new king abbi bolizes so much. For examwas intent on suppressing Judaism and imposing the ack aneRhaft ple, the radiance of religious freedom dispels the darkness Gods of Olympus throughof forced beliefs. Also, that a out his monarchy. Reading small number of people proand studying the Torah was prohibited, Jewish holidays could no lon- moting equality can overcome a larger ger be observed, and to make a most group of evildoers. But perhaps most importantly, a sociemphatic statement he installed a large statue of Zeus in a prominent spot in the ety that is sincere and vigilant about its ability to sustain those in need is the most holy Temple. This inspired the pious among the significant feature of a just community. Hebrews, led by the Hasmonean families, This is a realization we can all celebrate. nicknamed the Maccabees, to begin to L’shalom. organize a revolt against their oppressors. Then something occurred that motivated the local population to move from Jack Zanerhaft is Chief Rabbi at Temple planning to action. The occupying sol- Emanu-El of Long Beach. diers entered the national synagogue on

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Zoom meetings transformed the way millions of people communicated during the coronavirus pandemic, and the Ocean-side JCC Zoom is still connecting members who wish to enjoy one another’s company virtually. Members of the Barry & Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center have met in person for months, but the JCC’s Women’s Talk group Kepherd Daniel/Herald still follows a hybrid meeting The OCeanside JCC Women’s Talk Group met virtually model, allowing certain group members join in discussions on Zoom throughout the coronavirus pandemic. by Zoom. kindness that were performed by strangThe women’s group has met at the JCC for nine years, giving older ers and fashion trends for adults ages 50 to women in the community a time to social- 70. And the group delved into the details of ize and share engaging discussions in a the Kyle Rittenhouse case. Gerri Schaffer has served as the group’s morning talk. moderator for the last nine years. “We Lisa Charschan, the JCC’s director of adult services, said the Zoom meetings are have been meeting since 2014, and I develinvaluable for connecting members, par- op questions based on all different types of ticularly those who are unable to leave topics, except politics,” Schaffer said. “We have a separate political group that meets their homes during the pandemic. “It’s a sweet group, and what I love on another day. We go for an hour, and we about it is that they’ve been consistently agree to disagree, but Zoom is one positive meeting, and they form these friendships thing that came out of Covid.” Different members have come and gone that they didn’t have before,” Charschan said. “They talk about women’s issues and throughout the group’s weekly meetings. current event topics, and the beautiful Mitzie Berger spoke about how the group thing about it is that since Covid started, has influended her life positively. “We have they were meeting on Zoom right away . . fun here,” Berger said. “My husband died .People who are still at home can Zoom in 20 years ago, and I was looking for a place and join the discussion so nobody is really to go, and my friend recommended I come here, and I love it and I can’t live without it. left home alone. “During the pandemic,” Berger said, “They feel a part of things if the weather is bad if they’re not feeling like going “they were gracious enough to supply the out,” she continued. “The snowbirds who Zoom for us, and then it turned into going go down to Florida can now Zoom in and back to the classes now, and we even had talk as well. So we’re really not losing one member Zoom in while she was in membership because they are still being Israel.” Berger continued on the positives of the active without physically coming into the discussion group and the JCC, noting, “I building.” The discussion for the week fit the holi- always say that the best place to meet day theme as the group engaged in a con- someone is to come here. The JCC is a versation on gratitude. Many group mem- place to make new friends. I’m 88 years old, bers expressed gratitude for their mothers and they gave me a place to live and be a part of.” and fathers. They also discussed acts of

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LBPD offers session of anti-drug abuse The Long Beach Police Department hosted its first presentation addressing alcohol and drug abuse for citizens last Thursday at the Housing Authority’s community room Over 40 people attended the session, including citizens, police officers and speakers. The presentation focused on informing parents how to help keep their children and their family drug and alcohol free, letting people know about local intervention services and Narcan training. Everyone who attended and signed up for the training received a free Narcan kit after the presentation. Kate Tormey, a licensed nurse, spoke about Narcan, how and when to use it and urged people to have it at their disposal and in their homes. “We want everyone to have this in their arsenal,” Tormey said. “It’s really about saving lives.” The presentation included five speakers with topics including how to limit access to drugs and alcohol, how to help those who need it and real-life experiences with addiction. Judi Vining, the executive director of Long Beach Aware, spoke first about limiting access, saying “prevention starts way before the use of Narcan.” Vining urged attendees to “move alcohol away from being next to the milk in

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the Long BeaCh Police Department hosted their first presentation about preventing drug and alcohol abuse last Thursday in the Housing Authority community room. the refrigerator,” making it harder for kids to reach it. Diana Tanzoch, clinical director at Long Beach Reach, transitioned the talk to how to help those who are already using. Tanzoch said the current states of covid, opioid use and mental health has created a “triple pandemic,” making it harder for those struggling to get help. She said the best way to help someone is

to also get involved in the treatment. “The best way to help your loved one come to treatment is for you to come and learn how to help them,” said Tanzoch. “Addiction is a family issue.” Mike Mechow, a Long Beach resident who struggled with addiction, spoke about his experiences and how he was able to quit. He has now been sober since 2009.

“I never wanted to get sober, and my addiction got worse,” Mechow said. I found out through [Alcoholics Anonymous] that I can live without alcohol. Now I have a life that I wouldn’t trade in for anything.” Rounding out the five speakers was Edward Rooney, a substance abuse counselor for the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. He spoke about wanting to be a factor of change in people’s lives and limiting the number of overdose deaths. Rooney also said how over 100,000 people died from opioid overdoes nationally this past year. In Long Beach, there have been six drug overdoses, with four more fatalities awaiting toxicology, from Jan. 1 to Oct. 26 this year. Last year across nearly the same time frame, there were five drug overdoses, according to Police Commissioner Ron Walsh. This year, the police department and fire department have administered Narcan 26 times, as well. There were 23 uses of Narcan last year. Police Sgt. Brett Curtis said the turnout was better than expected and was happy with the session. “It was great,” Curtis said. “It was larger than expected. Every seat was filled.” Curtis said there will be at least two more presentations across the city soon, most likely in the winter and spring. Dates and times for the future presentations have not been decided.

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The MLK CenTer in Long Beach held its annual Thanksgiving dinner Tuesday night, serving turkey and vegetables to dozens of people.

Long Beach residents hope for ‘nomal’ holiday “This year is going to be normal,” Moore said. “I look forward to this year really need a great holiday season.” Eric Krywe, a Long Beach High spending time with lots of family and School teacher and Lido Beach resi- friends. This year, we can open the door dent, goes with his family every year to to friends.” She said she would not require her his aunt and uncle’s house in New Jersey. Family members ride “dirt bikes guests to wear masks because they have received their Covid-19 and four-wheelers around vaccinations. “We know the farm with the kids,” he they are following protosaid. col,” she said. This year, there’s someErika Prafder, of Long one new he gets to see for Beach, looks forward to a the first time. “I’m super “ n o r m a l ” T h a n k s g iv i n g excited this Thanksgiving this year. The family last because my cousin just had year limited guests to five a new baby boy, and it’s the people because of the panfirst time we’ll meet him,” demic. They had dinner at Krywe said. “Thank God for eriKa Prafder Pfrader’s mother’s house in a return to normalcy.” Resident East Atlantic Beach. Anissa Moore, a former This year, the gathering Long Beach City Council president and community activist, had will take place in New Jersey, at the to suspend her nor mal Thanksgiv- home of a sister. “This year, we are ing plans last year because of the pan- back with a full family,” Prafder said. demic. Her gathering was limited to “We’re giving mom a break. Everyone immediate family only. has been vaccinated. We are praying This year will be different. Moore for the best outcome. We’re trying to said she would have about 20 family resume a normal holiday life. This is a members and friends over between family day and a food day.” Thanksgiving and Friday. continued from front page

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MSSN closes L.B. Emergency Department continued from front page said. It added that the closure would continue for up to four weeks, and could be extended, depending on staff availability. Nursing shortages have been reported in other parts of the country. In September, a New York state mandate took effect, requiring nurses to be vaccinated against Covid-19. In October, Gov. Kathy Hochul expanded it to include psychiatric workers. She said they and health care workers must have received at least one shot by Nov. 1. Mount Sinai South Nassau asked the state Department of Health for an extension of the mandate requirement, but the department turned down the request, saying the deadline for compliance with the mandate was Monday. The state health department is currently reviewing MSSN’s decision to close the Long Beach facility. City Manager Donna Gayden said that city officials had contacted “all stakeholders,” including state senators and Assembly members from the South Shore, as well as County Executive Laura Curran’s office. “We’re doing everything in our power to bring the parties together,” Gayden said. City Councilwoman Liz Treston expressed surprise and concern at the hospital’s announcement. “Mount Sinai South Nassau had months to prepare for the New York state mandate,” Treston said. She added, “Millions of dollars were given to MSSN after Superstorm Sandy to administer health care services to barrier island residents, and this is a complete abdication and relinquishment of their responsibility.” She was referring to federal funds administered by New York state to keep a medical facility open in Long Beach after the 2012 storm. Long Beach resident and community advocate Sam Pinto said that having a local emergency room is important for a barrier island, and “the citizens deserve better.” “Ever since Superstorm Sandy, many people have been advocating for a more robust medical service,” Pinto said. “This is unacceptable.” Ian Danby, chairman of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, agreed that it was important to keep the facility open, saying that it may be “too late once the person in need gets to the Oceanside

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MSSN Said the closure of the Long Beach Emergency Department could last a month or longer. In the meantime, patients will be sent to MSSN’s Oceanside campus, above. E.R.” “Everyone I know has either been to or known someone who has been to this E.R.,” Danby said. “It is crucial to have it open.” Judy Vining, director of Long Beach Aware, which offers education on drug and alcohol abuse, said the matter was “serious.” “I just saw this” online, Vining said. “I said, oh, wow! No E.R. on the barrier island in the wintertime.’’ Local civic groups had fought hard to keep a MSSN facility open in Long Beach, she said. “This puts us back to where we were after Sandy in 2012,” when the facility was flooded and closed, Vining said. She added that the announcement came three days before Thanksgiving, when people would be visiting friends and relatives in Long Beach. MSSN said in its announcement that over 99 percent of its staff is fully vaccinated, not counting those who sought religious or medical exemptions. It said also that it was actively recruiting experienced and qualified staff who can document either first-dose Covid-19 vaccinations or valid medical exemptions so the

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Emergency Department can resume full operations on or about Dec. 15. “We regret having to take this step, but the safety of our patients is always our No. 1 priority,” said Dr. Adhi Sharma, the hospital’s president. “This will allow us to shift nursing staff to the Oceanside campus to ensure that we maintain adequate staffing at the Emergency Department at our main campus,” Sharma added. “We are committed to serving residents of the barrier island,” he said.

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fter watching a boring sci-fi movie, I stared at the blinking orange hand signal outside the Lynbrook movie theater, waiting to cross heavily trafficked, four-lane Peninsula Boulevard. The white stick figure flashed, the seconds counted down to zero, and I found myself halfway across the road, wondering if this would be how I would die. I had just undergone my fourth knee surgery a few weeks before, and a fullleg brace and crutches were docCristinA ArroYo tor’s orders. The first time I had my roDriGUeZ ACL swapped for a cadaver ligament, I was a first-year doctoral student in industrial and organizational psychology, more than happy to return to class in person two weeks post-surgery, against doctor’s orders. “At least it’s your leg that’s the problem, and not your brain,” my program chair said by way of welcoming me back. Not only was this statement ableist in that it dismissed the worth of neurodivergent people, but also it showed a lack

of understanding in our leadership and institutions of what it means to live with or be a person with a disability. “I no longer want the disabled population to be an afterthought,” Nadia Holubnyczyj, the first person in a wheelchair to run for the Nassau County Legislature, said during this fall’s campaign. With the founding of the county’s new disability-awareness advisory group, she called for government “to shift their entire mindset, their language, planning and execution.” Indeed, my temporary mobility disability didn’t only affect my leg, but also changed my relationship with the world, and vice versa. First, I was following a pain management schedule that included prescription opioids, which affect memory, focus and cognitive speed. When you’re hugging a toilet bowl between fits of vomiting or falling asleep from chemically induced fatigue three times a day, it’s difficult to decide whether Edward Lawler or John Stacey Adams best explains reactions to pay inequity. Second, the cognitive labor of navigating a world not built for you, and even

temporary mobility issue changed my relationship with the world, and vice versa.

Letters fires out West. I am also grateful for our partners who share a common purpose and community spirit to connect more people with critical humanitarian support. And our financial supporters allow the Red Cross to deliver emergency relief 24/7, 365 days a year. A final word of thanks to our first responders — police, fire and EMS — whom we are proud to support as they protect and assist our communities every day. Wishing you all a happy and safe Thanksgiving. Let’s continue to look out for one another. JOSE DOMINguEZ CEO, American Red Cross on Long Island

Keep up the cancer reporting To the Editor: Regarding Scott Brinton’s column “A famed journalist enlightens us on cancer reporting” (Nov. 11-17): I want to thank Brinton and commend him for his cancer reporting. Although no cancer clusters have been officially designated on Long Island, I have found that there is a high incidence of cancer in communities here. I was diagnosed with acute myeloge-

built against you, is taxing. Where are the elevators in this Long Island Rail Road station? Are they currently in service? Will my crutches slip on the sidewalk? Where can I elevate my leg when at work? How much earlier do I need to leave? What detours should I take to avoid tripping and falling? Even though Holubnyczyj said she believes “there is no specific area of need that the county should be focusing on that would benefit the disabled,” she makes an exception for inequities in public transportation, which is one of the “hot spots” that need to be addressed. Besides planning the logistics of navigation, there is also the emotional strain of being treated as an inconvenience, a burden. “If it’s important to you, you’d attend,” an elected official said of whether to allow public meetings to be held on Zoom. “If you loved your children, you would make time,” said the president of a school club who holds monthly meetings exclusively in the evening. According to the 2018 American Community Survey, about 2 million New Yorkers, roughly 11 percent of the state’s

population, have a visible or invisible disability. And even after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, over 30 percent of reports filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were claims of disability discrimination. In the past five years, Nassau County has spent almost $1 million in ADA settlements, even though only about one in five report this kind of discrimination. My Ph.D. program chair accurately recognized that there was a problem, but it wasn’t my leg. My leg wouldn’t have been a problem if public transportation had reliable access, if workplaces provided proper accommodations, if public meetings offered remote participation and if that pedestrian crossing signal lasted a few seconds longer. The disability doesn’t lie within me, Nadia, or within the community of people with disabilities, but within our institutions. Cristina Arroyo Rodriguez is editor of the Baldwin Herald and has been a nonprofit organizational consultant in the areas of pay equity and diversity, equity and inclusion. She has lectured in psychology at Baruch College, Bronx Community College and the City University of New York, and has taught Master Executive classes for NYPD leadership at John Jay College.

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nous leukemia two and a half years ago. In my square-block area in North Merrick, there were four other people diagnosed with cancer. One of them lost her life. In Merrick, I know of five other people with blood cancers besides me. In the office where I worked in Roosevelt Field, there were two others besides me diagnosed with blood cancers. One of them lost her life. We were an office of only about 75 people. This is all anecdotal, but unless responsible reporters like Brinton and Dan Fagin bring this to the public’s attention, dangerous cancer-causing situations will not be addressed. Thank you for the work you do. PATRICIA FIFE North Merrick

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he social media posts generated by Long Islanders at the very first Islanders game at the new UBS Arena, the linchpin in a $1.3 billion transformation of Belmont Park, came fast and furious on Saturday, showing an excitement not seen since the Islanders’ four straight Stanley Cup wins in the early ’80s. The state-of-the-art arena is indeed a crown jewel of the New York metropolitan area sports scene. “Today is a monumental day for New York and the Islanders as we cut the ribbon on the world-class new UBS Arena,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said last week. “This is the first step in the newly redeveloped Belmont Park, which will serve as an internationally recognized destination for sports, entertainment, retail and hospitality.” It was only a few years ago that the

home of the Islanders was a real question mark. The team had moved out of the Nassau Coliseum in the Hub for the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and Long Island fans largely hated the venue, not only because of the distance they had to travel for games — it could be a four-hour round trip from points out East to Brooklyn and back — but also because the venue was made not for hockey, but for basketball. The new UBS Arena, finished on time and on budget, was constructed specifically for the Islanders, in Elmont, on Nassau County’s border with Queens, making it convenient for hockey fans from both Long Island and New York City. At the same time, the revitalization of Belmont Park is, no doubt, a boon for Long Island. The project, which will also include a 350,000-square-foot entertain-

LIRR, NICE Bus move toward greener future

he Long Island Rail Road and Nassau Inter-County Express Bus are making significant strides to reduce their carbon footprints, with the LIRR testing battery-powered trains on its Oyster Bay branch to replace the diesel locomotives that have rumbled across the North Shore in the past, and NICE planning to bring six electric buses online to replace compressed-natural-gas models. While on the electrified portion of the Oyster Bay branch, the LIRR trains run on the third rail. When they reach the non-electrified portion, they switch to battery power. At the same time that NICE adds the

electric buses, it will switch all 150 vehicles in its paratransit fleet to electric. Excellent! All of this was discussed last Friday during an hour-long talk on public transportation at Vision Long Island’s annual Smart Growth Summit, at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. We can only say bravo to Phil Eng, the LIRR president, and Jack Khouz, CEO of NICE Bus, for demonstrating a commitment to the environment by moving away from dirty fossil-fuel transportation to electric rail and bus lines. Diesel trains are especially awful for the environment, using one of the dirtiest of fuels. Diesel is also among the most car-

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ment and retail complex, a 250-room hotel and a community center in the future, is expected to create 10,000 jobs and generate $2.7 billion in economic activity when all is said and done. By 2024, the project is projected to sustain 3,200 full-time jobs, produce $858 million in annual economic activity and generate tens of millions of dollars in new yearly tax revenue for the region. We recognize that not everyone in Elmont is happy. Local residents have said they worry about increased traffic caused by the arena. Planners, however, have worked to mitigate traffic, building a new Long Island Rail Road station in Elmont, the first new full-time station in 50 years. Overall, the UBS Arena is a win-win for Long Islanders, whether or not you’re an Islanders fan.

letters Many thanks on Thanksgiving To the Editor: During this season of gratitude, I want to offer my heartfelt thanks to all our neighbors who make helping others a priority in their lives. Whether responding to the devastation caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, offering relief after the destructive home fires that occur nearly every day in Nassau and Suffolk counties or supporting others who need extra aid during Covid-19, our neighbors raise their hands to help in countless ways. Every day I am humbled by our Red Cross volunteers who share their time to help the most vulnerable prepare for and recover from life-changing disasters in their communities. And when needed, these selfless people put their lives on hold for weeks to lend a hand far from home after relentless hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and historic wild-

cinogenic substances on the planet, according to numerous federal agencies. Diesel trains simply shouldn’t exist in the 21st century. The LIRR began testing battery-powered trains on the Oyster Bay branch in April. Let’s hope the eight-month test period is successful, so the other three diesel branches — Montauk, Port Jefferson and Ronkonkoma — can become fully electrified as well. Of course, we must ask ourselves how the electricity to power our trains and buses is being generated — from fossilfuel power plants or renewable resources such as solar, wind and geothermal? Renewable is the way forward.

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he Event,” a 2015 found-footage documentary by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, opens with black-and-white images of mostly men marching in August 1991 through the streets of Leningrad, in the then Soviet Union, overturning a trailer and grabbing all manner of furniture to erect hastily constructed barricades. Worry was etched on the protesters’ faces. People had assembled in Leningrad’s central Palace Square and surrounding streets to stop an attempted coup d’état that, SCoTT they believed, was radiating from MosBRINToN cow, USSR’s capital, across the land. “The Event” is a hopeful but strangely haunting film that I watched last week on Zoom. Hofstra University’s Department of Comparative Literature, Languages and Linguistics and the History Department presented it, with a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Ben Rifkin, a Hofstra professor of Russian. I wanted to see the film because in August 1991 I was a Peace Corps volunteer stationed in Bulgaria, a Soviet satellite nation for 45 years, from the end of World War II through 1990, when it finally gained its freedom and turned to democracy. I cannot express the

chilling effect the coup attempt had on many Bulgarians, who worried about a sudden return to hardline communism. I wondered what, precisely, had happened in Moscow and other Soviet cities from Aug. 18 to 21, 1991, as the coup unfolded. I had never seen images of it before. The good people of Leningrad were concerned that Soviet Armed Forces tanks might roll against their city, and a sea of tens of thousands of people rallied, placing themselves in mortal danger to preserve the democratic reforms enacted under Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The fear of a possible attack on Leningrad was not irrational. Eight communist hardliners calling themselves the Committee on the State of Emergency, and various factions within the Soviet military, were behind the putsch, seeking to halt the impending breakup of the Soviet Union that would give sovereignty to its 15 outlying republics. Soviet tanks, in fact, rolled into Moscow, where tens of thousands of demonstrators stood in their way. Among them was Boris Yeltsin, the man who succeeded Gorbachev as president of Russia when the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991. I was on a train somewhere outside Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, with my then fiancée, Katerina, who was born and raised in Sofia, when we first heard the news of the coup attempt. Katerina’s face turned sullen. What

would we do if it succeeded? Most Americans cannot understand the fear of the then Soviet Union that many, if not most, Eastern Europeans carried with them in the backs of their brains. They risked limb and life 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. Then, seemingly in an instant, all their hard-won reforms appeared to be in jeopardy. If Bulgaria lost its newly won democratic freedoms to the communists, would the old-school apparatchiks “cleanse” Bulgaria of any American “sympathizers”? In that case, anyone who had had contact with an American like me would have been in grave danger of just disappearing. These were not wild conspiracy theories. They were valid questions based on nearly five decades of iron-fisted Soviet rule. Katerina and I planned an escape route to the U.S. through Greece if the coup held, which, thankfully, it did not. We were in our mid-20s at the time. We recently celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary, living, peacefully, on Long Island for the past 28 years, returning every few years to Sofia. Bulgaria remains a democracy to this day. The Soviet coup plotters were not especially well organized, according to various

he USSR in 1991 and the U.S. in 2021: similarities I never would’ve imagined.

reports, and most of the SAF military was not a party to the conspiracy. It’s said that the plotters spent most of the three days of the coup drunk. Seven of the eight organizers were imprisoned, and one committed suicide. Ilya Vinitsky, chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, was among the panelists last week. He was 22 and living in the Soviet Union at the time of the coup. It was a seminal moment in his life, a point of demarcation — there was life before the coup, and after. Now he asks his students, “Have you ever felt you lived through a historical moment?” Yes, I would respond, more than once. Most recently was the disorganized insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when thousands of pro-Trump rioters besieged our very seat of democracy to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election — that is, to attempt to overthrow our nation’s duly elected president, Joe Biden. Having lived through such a coup attempt while in a foreign land, I never imagined one here, particularly not one as violent as that of last January. Democracy is clearly a fragile thing. It requires an active, engaged citizenry that respects the rule of law. If it is not respected, then it must be enforced. Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.

Year of wonder, one Thanksgiving to the next

ast Thanksgiving we dined alone. I’m remembering an over-roasted turkey leg with a side of anxiety for me, a wedge of spinach pie for the vegetarian, hold the Thanksgiving cheer. We tried not to make too much of the day. We were veterans of isolation by then, still months away from our first vaccine. To see our kids and grandkids, someone would have had to risk flying, and the infection rates were daunting. Nevertheless, we watched millions RANDI of people choosing KREISS to travel, weaving through airport lines and hoping for the best. Spikes and surges followed. Sorry for the ruminating, but sometimes you must go back to appreciate how far you’ve come. A few months after Thanksgiving, our son and grandson caught Covid. We missed birthdays, anniversaries, proms and graduations. We were lucky; the nightly news featured Covid crises cascading across the country. Who will ever forget the pictures of refrigerator trucks parked outside New York City hospitals?

Today (and I won’t say fast forward, because it wasn’t), all of us have had vaccines and boosters. We’re all back to our jobs. Kids are back in school. As I swayed from despair to hope and back to trepidation, I coped, and that feels like enough. This Thanksgiving we will sit down with our family to start reweaving the ties that have stretched thin over the months of this pandemic. I have often written about gratitude for the small things that charge our days with interest and pleasure. This year my gratitude is singular, profound and unending. I am so thankful to the researchers and scientists and companies and governments and leaders who took on the virus and dug in for the fight. There were missteps and political machinations and failures along the way, but the development of vaccines, 90-plus percent effective, in only 11 months has been the stunning achievement of our lifetime. When we encountered a novel coronavirus transmitted easily through the air by breathing, talking and coughing, the World Health Organization said it did not expect a vaccine to become available in fewer than 18 months. Many virologists have said that the development of a safe and effective vac-

cine within 11 months was an extraordinary achievement. Please read “A Shot to Save the World,” by Gregory Zuckerman. Zuckerman tells the story of the unlikely heroes who worked together and separately, driven by the mission to find a vaccine. He describes the false starts and missteps, but also all that went right as researchers took on the challenge of their lives. It required unprecedented devotion, selflessness, fierce dedication to the job and a vision of success that transcended any one person’s ambition. It is a thrilling story. One of the salient points Zuckerman addresses is the idea that the new vaccines are too “experimental.” He says these discoveries are not one-day wonders, but blocks of research that came together over many years. They found daylight in the time of the pandemic because of the money and dedication and leadership that supported the effort. The work on AIDS informed this medical moon shot, and the Covid vaccines will inform research going forward. Zuckerman tells the story of Jason Schrum, the Moderna scientist who had worked at the company for only a short time. He came up with the actual modifica-

his year my family will gather again, and my gratitute is profound and unending.

tion to the mRNA molecule that is currently used in Moderna’s vaccine, Zuckerman writes. “That modification is the one that BioNTech uses also. It’s not the one from Katalin Karaka and Drew Weissman at the University of Pennsylvania. They’re really pioneers, and I’m not sure we would have these vaccines without them.” Zuckerman writes that not enough attention has been paid to the Chinese scientist who struggled in the early days of the pandemic to share the genetic sequence of the virus. “The guy’s a hero,” he writes. “He risked so much …” I thank them all, from the doctors and nurses to the supermarket workers to the teachers and parents of young children, to the bench researchers who put in the hours, day after day and month after month. This year at our Thanksgiving, there will be a too-big turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce. Leaves and grains for the vegetarian. We will hug and kiss our kids and grandkids, feeling safe enough with our jabs and boosters. Then we will feast on my apple cranberry crumble with a topping of gratitude for this country and countries everywhere where scientists are educated, supported and honored for their work. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Recalling two failed coups that will live in infamy

November 25, 2021 — LONG BEACH HERALD

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