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Group raises $85K for local businesses named the Herald’s 2020 Person of the Year because of all he has done to help the community in In recent months, Bryan and the past. He said that as the Lisa Lanzello and Mike and Ker- owner of a small business, Lanrie Habert have had Lynbrook zello Roofing and Remodeling in residents buzzing on social Hewlett, and as the president of media with their Facebook raf- the Lynbrook Titans football and fles, which have grown in popu- cheerleading prog rams, he larity and raised more than knows the importance of giving $80,000 for local businesses. back.

After the corona“Lynbrook has virus pandemic always been there brought with it for everyone,” he many obstacles for said. “I run the local business ownTitans program, ers, the Lanzellos and every time I and Haberts decidcalled somebody or ed to join forces to a local business for help. They came up a sponsor, they with the idea of have always been creating a raffle there, so this was a drawing on Faceno-brainer.” book Live, which kERRiE HABERt After the first cost each partici- Lynbrook resident raffle, the group pant $10 to reserve received several one of 100 available calls from residents spots. The Lanzellos and Haberts who wanted to donate items to bought $1,000 worth of gift cards raffle off, including gift certififrom four local restaurants, and cates, video game consoles and the winner of each drawing money to purchase gift cards. received a $250 gift card to one of They also hosted raffles live from the eateries. businesses to help promote them, The Lanzellos live in East including Prime 39 in Lynbrook, Rockaway with their children, which owner Bryant Postell was Damon, 13, Ariana, 11, Mason, 7, finally able to open in December and Gavin, 6, who attend Lynbrook Public Schools. Bryan was Continued on page 14

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Human Relations Day goes ‘Hamilton’ Lynbrook High School hosted its annual Human Relations Day on Feb. 11, and the Student Government Association organized virtual guest speakers on a range of topics, including addiction, bullying and more. This year’s theme was the Broadway hit “Hamilton.” From left above were Lexi Capitali, SGA Vice President Maeve Mooney, adviser Mary Kirby and Secretary Emma Leighley.

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After his mother, Hsien-Ying Yeh, received a grim diagnosis of cervical cancer, Irving Chou’s lone goal became to fulfill her dying wish: to return her to her native Taiwan before she dies.

Chou turned to friends, family and neighbors from his native Lynbrook for support through GoFundMe, and at press time, he had raised over $41,000 of his

$50,000 goal in a matter of days.

“It has been honestly overwhelming,” Chou, 25, said.

“Originally, we didn’t expect much support, if any at all.

Friends and family from all points in our lives have helped support our fundraiser, and we are grateful beyond words.”

Yeh, 56, was diagnosed with the illness in 2018. After her first set of treatments, it appeared she was headed toward remission, but the cancer metasta-

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She and her husband, TingFu Chou, immigrated from Taiwan to the U.S. in 1989 to provide a better life for their future children. They moved to Lynbrook when Irving was 5, and raised him and his younger sister, Sophia, in the village. Irving said his mother grew up poor and Continued on page 14

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Nothing — not even a pandemic — was going to stop teacher Mary Kirby and her band of 60 highly determined students from hosting Lynbrook High School’s annual Human Relations Day. The Student Government Association organized the event with the help of Kirby, its advisor, for the first time in a virtual format via Cisco Webex. The guest list featured a repertoire of celebrity speakers, including Sen. Mitt Romney’s campaign advisor, Kevin Madden; Julia Rae of “The Bachelor” fame; radio host Craig Carton; and “Impractical Jokers” star Joe Gatto.

Chosen for its uplifting message of determination and hard work, the hit Broadway show “Hamilton” was the theme for this year’s HRD. Hashtags of “#We’ll Be Back” and “#No one else was in the room where it happened” paid homage to the show’s catchy lyrics, while simultaneously portraying the reality of hosting an event amid a pandemic, where all speakers presented through a computer screen, and really, no one was in the room where it happened.

The Lynbrook High School concert choir prepared a promotional video for the day, where students danced and rapped to a parody version of the show’s opening song, “Alexander Hamilton,” the lyrics for which were written by chorus teacher Barry Wyner. “I believe strongly in the SGA and the good work they do for our school, so I’m always eager to help,” Wyner said. “Recording the song and video was a blast.”

While there was initially some doubt from the community over whether the tradition would be upheld, Kirby and members of the SGA worked for months to ensure that the day would happen, and that it would run seamlessly.

“What better time to put forth these messages of resilience and hope than now?” Kirby said. “In the hallways, I heard our students speaking with excitement for the first time all year. It was the first day for all of us where we had a true sense of normalcy, and it felt, finally, like Lynbrook High School again. I’m so happy we could bring that to the students.”

The SGA also followed its HRD tradition of giving back to LHS students and staff who they feel exhibit exceptional kindness every day of the year. Ten “Random Acts of Kindness” recipients were each awarded a gift card to a local store or restaurant, including Burger Shack, Savino’s or Doughology.

“I was pleasantly surprised to receive a gift for ‘Random Acts of Kindness,’” junior Rachel Edelstein said. “It is very much appreciated and a great example of how a small gesture can uplift someone. I think it’s an important tradition since everyone, now more than ever, needs kindness.”

Kirby expressed that this year’s starstudded guest list may have been one of LHS’ greatest, including the aforementioned celebrity speakers, as well as many other inspiring presenters, including a second-generation Holocaust survivor,

“impractical JokerS” Star Joe Gatto was one of the guest speakers.

Photos by Julia Swerdin/Herald

lynBrook HigH ScHool hosted its annual Human Relations Day on Feb. 11, in which the Student Government Association organized virtual guest speakers to discuss various topics. Taking part were, from left, Marti Candel, Heather Horowitz, Lexi Samelson, Carly Tucker and Mason Benvenuto.

LHS alumnus Jeff Sklar, the Rockville Centre Coalition, the Feal Good Foundation, the Henry Viscardi School for students with physical disabilities and Camp Anchor.

Waverly Park physical education teacher Brian Donaldson and beloved former LHS history teacher and lacrosse coach Larry Glenz also gave heartwarming presentations on love and loss. This was Donaldson’s third year speaking at HRD, where he told the story of his brother, Thomas, and his life and battle with glioblastoma brain cancer.

“It means the world to talk about Thomas,” Donaldson said, “to share his story and his ability to appreciate what he did have and not let cancer affect his positive outlook on life. The fact that I get to present in Lynbrook, where we grew up, makes it even more special.”

Smiling eyes of his former coworkers filled the computer screen as Glenz joined the Webex meeting to begin his presentation. Glenz’s son, Kevin, an all-American, three-sport athlete and LHS graduate, died in 2010, at the age of 27, from a heroin overdose. Since then, Glenz has devoted his life to spreading awareness of drug addiction and speaking in schools across the country. He also authored an autobiography, “Forgiving Kevin: A Son’s Addiction Becomes a Father’s Greatest Teacher,” detailing his relationship with his son and Kevin’s seven-year battle with addiction, recovery and relapse.

Glenz taught and coached in Lynbrook for 36 years, during which time his son began struggling with addiction. “The other coaches . . . they were my sounding board,” Glenz said.” I didn’t tell a lot of people about Kevin’s addiction, but those boys were right by my side.”

He choked up as he continued.

“I want to tell you how much I appreciate that,” he added.

Glenz said that he wrote “Forgiving

Kevin” to heal himself and to try to help others that are going through the same struggle.

“I feel Kevin’s arm around me,” he said. “I know he’s with me. His spirit stays with me all the time and strengthens me.”

Craig Carton, once America’s most listened-to talk show radio host, discussed with students his downward spiral into gambling addiction. After spending 20 years to build his career in sports radio and making millions on WFAN’s “Boomer and Carton Show,” he was arrested by the FBI in 2017 for his involvement in a ticketfraud scheme, misappropriating more than $5.6 million on personal expenses and gambling.

“I risked it all,” he said. “I threw it into the garbage because I allowed gambling to become more important to me than anything else in my life: family, fame, money. It was the life I’d always wanted and the life I worked so hard to achieve.

And I threw it away.”

After serving a year in prison, Carton swore off gambling and has now been clean for three years; he continues to rebuild his life and career, rejoining WFAN with co-host Evan Roberts on an afternoon radio show. He warned LHS students of the dangers of gambling and losing sight of what is important in life.

Madden was Romney’s senior campaign advisor, the deputy director of public affairs and national spokesman for the Department of Justice, and a communications strategist in the Office of the House Majority Leader. Madden spoke to LHS students about his early exposure to politics as a newspaper delivery boy and his work as a teenager on local community campaigns, learning skills of voter outreach and working together with a team to secure support for a candidate.

Madden then discussed the evolution of politics from the beginning of his

career to now, specifically the rising prominence of social media and young voter populations in political campaigning.

“It doesn’t feel like a job,”Madden said.

“Waking up every day knowing that my work will shape public debate and that everyone’s talking about the thing I’m working on is exhilarating. It’s very fulfilling.”

He now appears regularly on CNN as a political analyst and continues to work as an advocacy and communications strategist.

Although most fans recognize Rae from her time on “The Bachelor: Listen To Your Heart,” a love-and-talent crossover reality television show, she has a deeper history unknown to many. She recounted stories of her experience with the chronic, congenital disease cystic fibrosis. While her condition posed obstacles throughout her life, she never gave up on her dream of becoming a singer and helping others with CF to also achieve happiness.

Last year, she joined the debut season of “Listen To Your Heart.” The reality show, however, was not the dream she had envisioned; producers manipulated footage to portray her as a villain, she said, which opened doors to cyberbullying and internet threats over social media. Now, though, she is back and better than ever, continuing her philanthropic work with her nonprofit organization Singing at the Top of My Lungs, which funds music therapy programs in childrens’ hospitals, and recording her own original songs with revitalized optimism.

“I realized that life has continually showed me that no matter what obstacles you face, if you focus on what you know to be true about yourself and you work hard and let go of fear, your path will continue to unfold,” Rae said.

Students, staff, and administration expressed appreciation for both the presenters and the SGA’s hard work to organize HRD during such a difficult time.

“This event was such a success,” Principal Joseph Rainis said. “It was wellplanned, well-coordinated, and our members of SGA did a fabulous job of moderating the Webex calls. The speakers’ incredible experiences and lessons on life are invaluable.”

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News brief Lynbrook to host contested village election on March 16

By Mike SMollinS msmollins@liherald.com

Three candidates will vie for two trustee seats and two others will vie for village justice in the Lynbrook village election on March 16.

Incumbent candidate and current Deputy Mayor Michael Hawxhurst will look to retain his seat, while challenger Laura Ryder will run alongside Hawxhurst on the New Vision Party line, and David O’Neill will also challenge for trustee. Trustee Hilary Becker will not

seek re-election to the board.

Incumbent Village Justice William McLaughlin will be challenged by Josh Marguiles.

The election will be held at the Greis Park Recreation Center on March 16 from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Registered voters can also vote by mail. For an application, call (516) 599-8300, ext. 214, or visit bit. ly/3prC5sW. Check back for the Lynbrook/East Rockaway Herald’s election preview with candidate profiles and interviews in a later edition closer to election time.

Courtesy Art Mattson

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Lynbrook historical odds & ends: Horses and steam cars By arT MaTTSon

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Editors note: Lynbrook historical odds and ends is a column that takes a look back at some interesting facts and events

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By law, anyone who is paid to prepare or assists in preparing federal tax returns must have a valid Preparer Tax Identification Number, or PTIN. Paid preparers must sign and include their PTIN on the return. Not signing a return is a red flag that the paid preparer may be looking to make a fast buck by promising a big refund or charging fees based on the size of the refund.

Ghost tax return preparers may also: • Require payment in cash only and not provide a receipt.

• Invent income to qualify their clients for tax credits.

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• Direct refunds into their bank account, not the taxpayer’s account.

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In the 1890s, most American automobiles were powered by steam boilers.

The internal combustion engine was in its infancy, whereas steam power was well established. Electric powered cars were becoming available, but suffered from their inability to travel longer dist a n c e s .

T h e s e heavy, noisy machines c a l l e d “ s t e a m cars” were a terror in Pearsalls (Lynbrook’s name until 1894).

An example of the MaTTSon terror was found in the New York Times on July 29, 1891: “Mrs. George Hardy and Mrs. C.C. Martin were thrown from their horse drawn carriage while driving at Pearsalls, L.I. yesterday. The accident was caused by the horses taking fright at the steam cars. The women are recovering.”

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With all but one starter back in the fold from a team that reached the Nassau Class A girls’ basketball quarterfinals, Lynbrook hit the ground running to prepare for the eight-game season approved

by Section VIII. “I don’t want to say we’re not excited to play, because we certainly are,” Owls head coach Steve LoCicero said. “The only slight damper on this whole thing is finding out there aren’t any playoffs. The girls were excited about the possibility of going far and topping what they accomplished last season. But, they’re still pumped to be playing.”

Senior Kayla Schwizer sets the tone defensively from the center position.

She’s one of the team’s three captains and was the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2019-20 after averaging 6 blocked shots per game.

Another captain, senior Camilla Bahri, earned All-County honors and is expected to contribute around 15 points per game. She’s a guard with great accuracy from behind the arc and can also be an inside presence at times.

Junior Kyla Nembach is another double-digit scoring guard who excels at both ends of the floor. She’ll run the point along with sophomore Kaelynn O’Brien, who has developed a chemistry with Nembach. O’Brien is quick with a good handle under pressure.

Senior captain Leanna Sullivan is terrific in the paint and fully healthy after battling through a nagging injury last

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The Lynbrook boys opened Feb. 10 with a 52-40 home victory over Valley Stream South.

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community update Ongoing Covid-19 Testing Lynbrook residents are eligible to get tested for Covid-19 at the Valley Stream Pool parking lot, 123 W. Merrick Road in Valley Stream from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays. Rapid testing is available and no appointments are needed. Stay in your car and wait for directioins, and bring your identification and insurance card.

VFW Thrift Shop in East Rockaway Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3350 in East Rockaway has launched its Veterans’ Thrift Shop. The post is at 164 Main St. Due to the pandemic, the store’s schedule varies, but members are trying to open daily, including Sundays. For thrift shop information and hall rentals, call the post at (516) 887-8170, and ask for Pat, Gary, Tony or Gene.

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Nassau County Legislator C. William Gaylor is hosting two tax greiving webinars virtually at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. The tax grievance filing period is now underway. Anyone who disagrees with the assessed value of their homes covering the 2022-23 year is eligible to file a tax grievance. The filing period was recently extended another 60 days and now runs until April 30. To attend either of the workshops, visit nassaucounty.gov/ld6 and click the link on my home page to register.

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Join the East Rockaway Public Library for virtual family bingo at 4 p.m. Those interested in participating can call the library at (516) 599-1664, stop by the library to pick up bingo cards and register, or email dmiller@eastrockawaylibrary.org to receive the virtual link and to learn more.

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The Lynbrook Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools Dr. Melissa Burak, second from right, honored eight of the nine Lynbrook staff members who will retire this year at their February board meeting.

The Lynbrook Library will host its monthly board meeting at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, call (516) 5998630.

Lynbrook Board of Education The Lynbrook Board of Education will host its next meeting at 7:30 p.m. at Lynbrook High School, 9 Union Ave., Lynbrook. Virtual meetings can be found at lynbrookschools.org.

The East Rockaway Board of Education will host its next meeting at 7 p.m. at East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School, 443 Ocean Ave. Live stream recordings will be posted at eastrockawayschols.org. It will also host a budget work session on Jan. 12 at 6 p.m., preceded by a regular work session.

Lynbrook Village Election Polls will be open at Greis Park from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. as three candidates vie for two trustee seats on the village board and two others vie for the village justice position. For absentee ballot information, visit lynbrookvillage.net to

The East Rockaway VFW’s thrift shop is open for business.

Virtual tax grievance workshops are set for Feb. 19.

E.R Library hosts virtual bingo on Feb. 19.

Candidates for Lynbrook’s village election were announced.

The Lynbrook library board meets on March 9.

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Monday, March 22 Lynbrook Village Board Meeting The Lynbrook mayor and village board of trustees will host its next meeting at Village Hall, 1 Columbus Drive, at 7 p.m. It will also be streamed virtually. Visit lynbrookvillage.net or call (516) 5998300 for more information. It will also be Grievance Night.

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The home is at 36 Carpenter Ave., opposite the Lynbrook Library. The department’s Training Committee put together a training session of forcible entry, search and rescue, hose stretching, laddering and other firematic activities. Lynbrook Mayor Alan Beach and the village trustees were on hand to witness the session.

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Mary Trump leads quiet life in RVC Best-seller on her uncle, the former president, catapulted her into the spotlight

By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com

Although she is a member of a wealthy and well-known family, Mary Trump, niece of former President Donald Trump, has led a quiet life in Rockville Centre for the past two decades, putting her daughter through local schools, dining at North Village Avenue eateries and riding her bike through local parks.

Life was peaceful, she said. Then, last summer, her blockbuster best-selling book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” was published.

Instantly, Mary Trump, 55, became a household name, and she star ted appearing regularly on cable TV news programs.

Despite her virtually overnight fame, Trump generally shies away from the spotlight. She enjoys spending time at home, including reading the Rockville Centre Herald. “I’m a regular reader,” she said. “It keeps me up to date.”

In an interview with the Herald last Friday, Trump said she came to the village in 1998, from Garden City, because she had heard good things about the schools.

Amid the Co-vid-19 pandemic, she rarely ventures outside, and “has lots of stuff ordered.” She said she has not publicly encountered hostility from her uncle’s supporters on village streets.

But, she said, “I get some of that on Twitter.”

When she does leave the house, Trump wears double masks and sunglasses, and thus she is rarely recognized.

A clinical psychologist who earned a doctorate from Adelphi University, Trump no longer practices. Instead, she is working on a second book, about the trauma caused by the pandemic and how people might overcome it.

“Hopefully, the book will be timely and helpful,” she said, adding that she planned to include the trauma that has resulted from the attack on the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6.

“When I was wrapping up my first book, George Floyd was killed,” she said. Her first book had to include the killing of the unarmed Black man at the hands of the Minneapolis police last May. The recovery from the pandemic and the Jan. 6 insurrection will be slow, Trump emphasized. “It’s as if this country were at war, and we were all called up at the same time and we all came back at the same time,” she said. “That should be helpful — that we’re all in this together — but we have to mobilize resources” both psychological and social.

“And we’ve never been good in [this] country mobilizing psycholo gical resources.

“The trouble is in this long pandemic, we’ve forgotten how to be social beings,” she said, and getting back to

mary trump, niece of former President Donald Trump, has lived in Rockville Centre for the past two decades. normal “will depend on how dedicated we are and how the current administration responds to the crises.” She worries that once many people receive their Covid-19 vaccinations, they will believe everything is back to normal, and it really won’t be.

When her book was published, Trump said, her own life would have changed more had it not been for the sheltering that the coronavirus forced on her. “Everything’s at home now,” she said.

Asked if she regretted not having written the book sooner, to alert the public about her uncle’s behavior, she said, “If I had written it before, it wouldn’t have made a difference. Donald was getting away with everything.”

She acknowledged that it’s impossible to know whether her book played a role in his loss in November’s election.

“I hope it did,” she said.

Trump said that she and her uncle got along when she was growing up, but “I can’t say we were close.” He hired her to work on his second book, “The Art of the Comeback,” but neglected to inform his publisher, who had another writer in mind, ending her involvement in the project.

Donald Trump has insisted he won the election in a “landslide.” Does she believe he really believes that?

“It’s not that he believes it,” Mary Trump said. “But it’s that he can’t believe he lost. That’s not acceptable in my family. It’s hard to underestimate the [influence] my grandfather has had on Donald.”

In her book, she writes that Fred Trump Sr., ruled the family with an iron fist, and was extremely harsh to his oldest son — her father, Fred Trump Jr., whom the senior Trump had pegged to take over the family real estate busi-

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mary trump’s Best-seller, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” brought her widespread acclaim — and some derision on Twitter. ness. But as Fred Jr. drifted away from the business, becoming an airline pilot, his father turned to Donald, his second son. It wasn’t a happy choice, Mary Trump wrote: “When things turned south in the late 1980s” for the family business, “Fred could no longer separate himself from [Donald]’s brutal ineptitude,” but “had no choice but to stay invested.”

Fred Jr. died of a heart attack in 1981, at age 43.

Her uncle, she said, is “psychologically disordered” and became “more unhinged” after his election loss.

She described feeling “miserable” about the impeachment trial last week,

because many Republican senators did not appear to be listening, and some even consulted with the former president’s lawyers on the case.

Jan. 6, Trump said, “was not a joke.

People died. A police officer was murdered.” She believes her uncle must be held accountable for his role in riling up the mob before the riot.

Work on her second book, she said, will take up much of her time. And now that her daughter is away at college, she is thinking of moving back to Manhattan, where she attended Columbia University, to earn a master’s in English literature.

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The Power of Play: How to Make the Most of Your Children’s Playtime

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You may have heard that “play is the work of children” (famously touted by one of the first child development experts, Jean Piaget). Not only do we trust our kids to have fun while playing, but we also know that through play, they learn countless skills. But did you know that playing with your children is also one of the best ways to communicate? We’re breaking down the why, how, and what of creating growth and connection through play.

Why Should Children (and Parents!) Play?

Play isn’t a broad category for anything that’s “not learning;” on the contrary, play allows children to practice what they’ve learned and experiment with new skills and ideas. You may have noticed your children playing games that reflect other aspects of their life - your 6-yearold uses Legos to build a summer camp (he’s missing his camp friends), or your 8-year-old is always on a superhero mission (her new friends at school love Marvel). Watching your kids play can be like a window into their world. Better yet? Playing with your children will give you a foot-inthe-door; you’ll suddenly be an active participant in their most important work, and this role will give you credibility and insight when you need it to work through future situations.

You can see why play is central to a child’s development and that your role in play is crucial for building connection and communication, but what if you don’t like to play? You’re not alone. Many parents find that playing pretend or collecting your 100th Pokémon isn’t an enjoyable way to spend time – and that’s okay. You don’t have to love playing these games, and you’re not a “bad” parent if you’d rather do something else. Just keep three things in mind: 1. Negotiating is one of the skills that your child learns through experience, so feel free to collaboratively decide what’s on the agenda.

2. You don’t necessarily have to play for a long time for it to be meaningful, so opt for short 10-minute sessions of your least favorite games.

3. You get to choose what games and tools are in the house, so make the most of this power by choosing wisely!

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Giving your children space to play not only introduces some fun but also allows them to explore feelings, thoughts, and questions that may be too complex for words. It’s often easier to see what a toddler learns from play

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Play can happen spontaneously or at a planned time, with toys or without, alone or in groups – its versatility means that there are almost infinite tools available that market themselves as “the best.” Because play provides so much of your child’s foundational experience and creates a way to build connection and communication, it’s important to spend time thinking about the tools that you provide for playing.

Consider a few questions when building your home’s play toolbox: 1. Are there tools and opportunities for outside play?

2. Is this toy open-ended or is it limited in scope?

3. Do we have toys and tools that address various aspects of learning (social, emotional, physical, etc.)?

4. What are my child’s interests, and do we have ways for them to explore these?

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– fine motor skills, colors, object permanence. What’s more challenging is seeing the value that comes from an older child’s playtime: when kids play low-stakes games, they can freely practice high-importance skills. When play is self-directed without an adult agenda, children are more likely to persist when confronted with challenges. Practicing patience, persistence, and resilience ultimately lead to success and confidence-building. Similarly, risk-taking during games can help kids learn what it feels like to forge ahead even when scared and seek out resources during difficult situations. Playing with others is a prime space for navigating social roles and developing empathy.And when kids play with their parents? They learn that adults can have fun and make mistakes, and that communicating with their parents is not always adversarial.

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Engaging in playtime with your kids can be more powerful than you think! By seeing play for the skill-building practice that it is, getting involved with your kids when they do it, and expertly crafting your toy toolbox, you can unlock the power of play for your family!

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y focus is the health and wellness of all the employees. As it relates to Covid-19, I’m also responsible for our Covid testing units, and when our employees are ill, we send them Covid tests to take. If they’re positive, we advise them on isolation and when they’re able to return to work.

If staff members feel ill, we can test them on site. It’s open 12 hours a day, every day. If an employee lives with somebody and that person is experiencing Covid symptoms, that person can also be tested on site.

I also oversee the operations of the hospital’s Covid-19 vaccination point of distribution. I’m responsible for the logistics and layout of the vaccination program for the hospital. Over 1,000 team members at St. John’s have been vaccinated so far.

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We're running a very robust vaccination program. Were vaccinating our employees to protect not just them, but also the patients they’re taking care of. It’s also important to note that we're not just vaccinating employees here; we're also vaccinating health care workers in the community. If we don’t protect and take care of our health care workers, who's going to be around to take care of the patients?

This pandemic has impacted us tremendously. I’ve been a nurse for over 40 years, and never in my life have I experienced the impact of a pandemic. I’ve read books about pandemics and what to expect from them, but nothing I’ve read compares to what I’ve experienced with this pandemic.

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hen I wake up in the morning I say a prayer for God to give me the strength, to not have any fear and to continue providing the care that I’ve always done. That’s one of my biggest fears: How is that going to affect me if I do get it? I just say a prayer for myself and do the best I can.

When I get to work, it can be very emotional to see people suffering like that. It’s very hard, because there’s only so much you can do.

It still affects me, because I establish relationships with my patients. I have a lot of empathy for my patients, so it’s hard to see them suffer. I guess I have a thicker skin now because I have to be there for them.

They depend on us — they come in with the fear. It’s a lot more challenging, more physical

and more mental. But we have a lot of support among co-workers. We’ve all been through a lot and we’re there to support each other. Even the patients understand more what nursing is all about, and the families. It’s amazing to hear all this feedback from the patients.

They have more of an appreciation for anyone that’s in the field, that’s providing the care. It’s changed me in all different ways.

I have a lot more respect for patients. They come in and they have to muster up all this strength, and a lot of them are determined to fight it, and that gives me strength to help them.

When I walk in there, I get this energy. It’s a new day, it’s a new fight.

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It’s had an emotional toll on all of us.

What’s tough is that the families have to be left behind. On normal sick calls, a family member will come with us in the ambulance,

and they can stay with them in the emergency room. That was probably the toughest thing to deal with, because it may or may not be the last time they get to see their family members. In those situations, we try to be as compassionate as possible.

I had one daughter-in-law who had Covid-19, but thankfully she recovered from it.

I got the Moderna vaccine shot a while back.

I had reservations at first because of how quickly it was developed, but after doing my own research, I decided that the risks were well worth it versus not getting it.

My hope is that we have enough people to be inoculated so that we can at least knock this virus down. Hopefully in about a year or so, the economy gets going again so that we can get things back on track.

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I am very empathetic and sympathetic, but at the same time, I try to keep my emotions

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That seemed to be the cycle for much of March and April.

By the end of May, the call volume had slowed down considerably. We’re now seeing higher call volumes as a result of the holiday season, when people traveled, but we're nowhere close to how it was from March through May.

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Flowers by Mike and East Rockaway Florist owner Mike Graham, far right, donated flowers to the Island Assisted Living facility in Hempstead. Above, Graham with, from left, former Five Towns Kiwanis President Anthony Campanile, East Rockaway Kiwanis President Michaelene Abbot Cooper, Lynbrook Kiwanis member Paul Olivero, Lynbrook Kiwanis President Susan Desena and Island Park Kiwanis President Karen Davis.

E. Rock florist helps grow and spread love East Rockaway Florist and Flowers by Mike owner Mike Graham recently spread the love for Valentine’s Day by donating flowers to the Island Assisted Living facility in Hempstead.

To help celebrate the day of love, Graham provided flowers for residents in an event that was also sponsored by four local Kiwanis Clubs, including the Five Towns, East Rockaway, Lynbrook and Island Park. In addition to the East Rockaway location, Graham owns a Flowers by Mike in Oceanside.

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The coronavirus pandemic has, like never before, demonstrated to families that they must prepare now, not later, for any eventuality. Herald Inside LI recently held a webinar, “2021 Estate and Medicaid Planning,” to provide guidance to Long Islanders on how to do just that.

The event, sponsored by Family Care Connections LLC and by D’Angelo Law Associates, included guests Frank D’Angelo, of Family Care Connections, and his daughter, Stephanie D’Angelo, of D’Angelo Law Associates.

Stephanie, who has been a trust and estates attorney for 10 years, spent the first 30 minutes speaking on the importance of having a will. “Everyone should have a will, and if you have a bank account, it makes you able to distribute your finances,” she said. “If you don’t have a will, you will have to go through a process called administration—which means the law dictates where your money goes. With a will, you can distribute the assets in the way you want to.”

Be sure, she said, to store a will in a fireproof box when keeping it at home, and keep it in good condition, without staples or tears.

“We look to see if the will is in good

condition, and this impacts how we view the person’s intent, and just because you wrote something out does not make it a will,” she said. “People should create a will with an attorney that focuses and specializes in this area of law.”

D’Angelo advises married couples with children to meet with a trustworthy attorney to review their estate and draft a will. D’Angelo added that adult children with disabilities would require special treatment in a will.

“Look for a power of attorney for that person with disabilities, and you may have to get guardianship over that child if they can’t vouch for themselves by signing documents,” she said. “People can get a special-needs trust for their children to protect their child’s finances.”

D’Angelo said that despite the difficulty of talking about death, it’s vital for people to hold conversations about their wills with loved ones. “We all know that at some point our parents will be gone, and if your family doesn’t normally talk about things like this, go to an attorney and then reach out to your elderly loved ones,” she said.

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“Family Care Connections is a comprehensive service that aims to aid people who are facing many things that come with aging,” he said. “Generally, a home-care Medicaid application is processed in about one to two months tops, which includes eligibility and getting the care.”

For 2021, he said, a single individual who is 65 years or older must have an income of less than $2,382 per month to qualify for Medicaid. This applies to nursing home Medicaid, as well as assisted-living services, “This number went into effect last January, and the qualifications for Medicaid change every year at the beginning of the year,” he said. “If you make a higher income than the Medicaid qualifications, then you have the option to do a pooled income trust—which is a trust that can be set up with a nonprofit organization where you can put your income, and then you identify your monthly income and expenses, and expenses get paid through that income.”

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Lynbrook rallies behind cancer-stricken woman Continued from front page worked hard her whole life, and the move to Lynbrook came with the hope of giving her children opportunities that she didn’t have in her home country.

After adapting to life in the village, the family turned to fellow residents to help in one of their greatest times of need after Yeh was diagnosed. Chou said his mother has wanted to return to Taiwan for about 20 years, but after raising her children and working full-time as a bookkeeper, she never had the chance.

Now, he said, his mother hopes to make a one-way trip there to live out her final days in the country where she was raised. Thanks to the help of the Lynbrook community and others, he noted, she will get that chance.

“All the support has finally allowed us to experience a victory after so many losses, and has truly changed our lives,” Chou said. “My mom will be able to experience a peaceful passing, and our family will be able to remember that my mom was able to.”

The GoFundMe was also created because of a lack of medical coverage in Taiwan. Due to that, Yeh’s stay in hospice and her medical bills there will be paid out of pocket, which is drastically more than the family could finance on its own, according to Chou. The funds also will enable the family to help Yeh travel in comfort to Taiwan and cover her housing costs because she will have to quarantine

after being diagnosed with cervical cancer and given only a few months to live, Hsien-Ying Yeh said her dying wish was to return home to her native Taiwan to live out her last days.

After her son, Irving Chou, created a GoFundMe page, the community helped grant her request.

amid the coronavirus pandemic before she enters the hospital. According to the GoFundMe page, one of the biggest goals of the fundraiser is to enable Yeh to enjoy her final days in her home country.

On the GoFundMe page, Chou described how his mother displayed growth in her character by being a parent who “truly broke through her traditional outlooks to understand her children toward the end of her life.”

“Sending Mom to Taiwan means that I will say my final goodbye to her at the airport,” he shared on the GoFundMe page.

“With the amount of pain and emotional suffering she has endured, I only tearfully wish for her to receive her final wish.”

With donations coming in from various people, and continuing steadily as the Herald went to press, Yeh shared her appreciation to her community and anyone who donated to help her final wish come true.

“I really did not expect this kind of support,” she said. “When I mentioned this wish to my family, I was just expressing a thought in passing. But after receiving support from so many friends, families and even strangers, I now realize that my hopes have now turned into reality. I can’t even express how thankful I am. I just feel so blessed, and I’m excited to finally go back.”

To learn more about Yeh or to contribute to the GoFundMe, visit bit. ly/2OKpPaB.

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Residents’ raffles raise $85K for businesses Continued from front page

after two years of delays because of a gas moratorium and the coronavirus.

After Christmas, the Lanzellos and Haberts were set to take a break from the raffles when they learned of another Lynbrook institution that was struggling financially. The Knights of Columbus on Hempstead Avenue couldn’t pay its bills after being forced to halt parties and events in its hall because of coronavirus restrictions. The post needed $100,000 to pay its bills for 2021, and Lanzello came up with an idea. With his business having access to many suppliers, he contacted several of them to gather materials to build a new kitchen, which he raffled off in support of the Knights of Columbus.

The kitchen raffle brought in $22,000 for the Knights, and then they hosted another series of raffles to further help the cause.

Prizes included free lawn maintenance and landscaping for a year, installation of an underground sprinkler system, an outdoor pizza oven and fire pit that was donated by Lynbrook Village Trustee Robert Boccio, a free vacation, and a Valentine’s Day package. In all, they brought in $46,000 for the Knights and raised $86,500 between all the raffles for local businesses.

Bill Vincent, the grand knight of the Knights of Columbus, said he was grateful to the community for its efforts. In the past, the Knights have donated to various charities and supported Our Lady of Peace Church in Lynbrook, but with no rental money coming in and a monthly

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above, from left, Kerrie and Mike Habert, Knights of Columbus Grand Knight Bill Vincent, Bryan and Lisa Lanzello and Mayor Alan Beach after a fundraiser garnered $45,000 for the Lynbrook Knights of Columbus. electric bill of at least $800, this time the Knights needed the help.

“Bryan is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and he sees our need,” Vincent said. “He and his team have done a wonderful job. I cannot thank them enough for what they have done. It helps us out.

That’s six months worth of relief where we’re not worried so much now, and hopefully with the vaccine out, the restrictions will be lifted and we can get to 50 percent capacity here and people will start holding events.”

Lanzello said he couldn’t do it alone,

and he had plenty of help from Lisa and the Haberts, who ran around town often to purchase gift cards and drop off prizes — sometimes as many as 60 at a time.

Kerrie Habert said that though it was “a little bit chaotic” organizing the fundraisers while still working full-time in the village’s Building Department, she and Mike, a retired NYPD detective who works in the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, didn’t hesitate to help. She added that she was happy to be a part of it because the village has been great to them and their children, James, 18, and Mia, 16, over the

years.

“I think it was awesome that the community wanted to be a part of it,” she said.

“It’s really what makes Lynbrook such a special place. It was amazing. There’s really no other way to describe it. It was such a great thing to be a part of, giving back to businesses in the community.”

Amid the fundraising and giving back, there was also room for fun. During one of the raffles, Mike ate salami and joked that eating a lot of it can slow the coronavirus.

Sure enough, that bought him the nickname of “Mike Salami” from many of the virtual raffle attendees, and at the last event, Bryan purchased a large, uncut salami as a gift for him.

“It’s now in my refrigerator,” Kerrie said with a laugh.

Lanzello said the friendship between his family and the Haberts grew stronger during the events, and it felt good to help others. Kerrie said the community united during a chaotic and uncertain time amid the pandemic and the presidential election.

“Everyone came together to want to do good for people who needed help,” she said. “It was amazing. It was one of the best things I’ve ever been involved in, being able to give back to the places that I frequent that will thankfully still be here when this is over. It was a gift.”

The Knights of Columbus has also created a GoFundMe to help with its expenses. To read its story or donate, visit bit. ly/2ZgUOwM.

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ebruary is about far more than conversation hearts and romantic rendezvouses: the month of love also marks American Heart Month, which calls major attention to heart health. And for good reason: as the fifth largest and most important organ in your body, your heart beats a hundred thousand times a day, pumping blood to all of your organs and enabling you to perform everything from driving a car to performing downward facing dog. In other words, when your heart is in jeopardy — of the physical sort, mind you — so is your life.

Indeed, heart disease — which affects more than 43 million American women per year —is the number one killer in both men and women, rendering it a greater hazard than breast and prostate cancer.

While genetics may play a role in your predisposition to heart disease, a quarter of deaths from cardiovascular failure are preventable. Lifestyle changes can reduce your risk of heart disease by a whopping 80 percent. What’s more? Key tweaks to your daily activities allow for a richer, more fulfilling existence.

Here are some leading changes you can implement today to keep your ticker safe tomorrow.

Skip the pasta Italian might be more your thing, but the point is this: eating more fish — specifically low-mercury fish—can be a boon for your heart, thanks to its healthy doses of omega-3 fats.

Take it from the American Heart Association: “Omega-3 fatty acids fatty acids benefit the heart of healthy people, and those at high risk of—or who have —c ardiovascular disease.

Research demonstrates that omega-3 fatty acids decreases the risk of arrhythmias (abnormal heartbeats), which can lead to sudden death.” Further, upping your consumption of fish supports normal blood pressure.

Low-mercury is critical here, however. Mercury — a heavy metal found naturally in the environment and absorbed by fish — can irritate the lining of your blood vessels and serve as a potential cause of atherosclerosis, a hardening of the arteries that may render you more susceptible to stroke.

Salmon, freshwater trout, herring, tilapia and tuna are all excellent choices, while high-mercury choices like ahi and tuna, King mackerel and swordfish should be minimized.

Floss your teeth Studies have shown that periodontitis raises your risk of heart disease, in part because of inflammation and the increased thickness of blood vessels in the neck. While further research remains to be done, oral health — accomplished by brushing after meals and flossing once a day, preventative care and cleanings — is often indicative of how well a person takes care of themselves in general.

Forgo the salt Let’s get one thing out of the way: salt is critical for life. It’s an essential mineral for every cell in the body — it helps regulate your heartbeat, blood pressure, nerve transmission, muscle contraction, stomach acid and pH balance.

The problem, however, rests in the average American’s consumption of salt, which exceeds the daily recommendation of 1,100 to 3,300 mg of sodium each day for adults. (To picture this, one teaspoon of salt gives you 2,300 mg of sodium.) And, as you probably know, high amounts of salt in the

diet have been associated with high blood pressure, which can cause ischemic heart disease.

The solution lies not in removing salt from your diet completely but in finding the right balance of sodium to potassium — two components that work together in a unique way to regulate your water balance, which, in turn regulates your blood pressure. Indeed, studies demonstrate that when sodium is decreased and potassium is increased, blood pressure can drop.

In short, aim to increase the potassium in your diet by eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, which are rich in potassium and low in sodium. At the same time, be mindful of the type of salt you consume. Commercial salt goes through a dramatic metamorphosis before it reaches your dinner table — it’s heated, bleached, stripped of its minerals and oftentimes treated with anticaking agents that contain aluminum. Reach for unrefined salt that comes from the sea instead, and use it sparingly.

Dine early A wholesome diet is crucial for maintaining (or improving) heart health. But recent research suggests that it isn’t just what you eat but also when you eat that matters.

According to the American Heart Association, eating more calories earlier in the day and fewer calories at night may decrease your chances of stroke, heart attack or other heart and blood vessel diseases.

Take it from Marie Pierre St. Onge, a nutrition researcher at Columbia University. “We may not process sugars as well at night as we do during the day, and studies of shift workers have linked this schedule with a greater risk of obesity and heart disease than a typical day job,” she says, going on to cite that 30 percent of Americans skip breakfast. Which is a shame, given that eating breakfast is associated with lower weight, a healthier diet overall and a lower risk of heart disease.

Join the healthier side of the statistic by making your morning meal a priority. Aim to eat protein, fruits and/or veggies, and some heart-healthy omega-3s. One dish that hits all three? A slice of chia-seed or whole wheat toast topped with nut butter and a sliced banana.

Schedule in some ‘me time’ The link between chronic stress and heart disease cannot be underemphasized. Such negative stress has a profound impact on your body, from higher levels of stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol, to changes in the way your blood clots. What’s more, chronic stress — whether derived from a grueling work schedule or troubles at home — tends to spur lifestyle changes that may further increase your risk for heart disease, including over-eating, under-exercising, smoking and over-imbibing.

To mitigate the stress in your life, it’s imperative that you carve out time for you —and you alone. “Me time,” however that may be defined, allows you to catch your breath, decompress, assess where you are (physically, spiritually and emotionally) and enjoy life’s riches.

Above photo: Caring for your heart through a healthy diet and regular physical activity is the secret weapon. While many may assume that popping a few pills that your healthcare provider prescribed is enough to quell symptoms or prevent a heart attack, the real preventative power lies with real changes to your lifestyle,

Exercise matters Find a routine you’ll stick with

Exercise, along with heart healthy eating, is essential if you want to keep your ticker at its best. To get heart-healthy benefits, you need to get your heart rate up. There are dozens of activities you can do to help your heart. Whether it is a structured exercise program or just part of your daily routine, all physical activity adds up.

Consider these tips from personal trainers to get the most out of your exercise program.

Pick up your pace Aerobic exercises done 30 minutes a day is excellent for increasing your heart rate.

Climbing the stairs, a brisk walk, cross trainer exercise machine or treadmill, anything to get your heart rate up.

Any moderate-intensity exercise like swimming, jogging, zumba and yoga is good.

Exercising your heart muscle means exercising your body. You don’t need a gym, just a bit of motivation and a good pair of walking shoes.

Tone up Strength training is a great complement to aerobic training and helps to prevent age-related bone and muscle-mass losses.

Keep in mind that strength training doesn’t increase heart rate but does increase stamina. Use it to target areas where muscletone is needed and don’t forget the other muscle groups.

If you already do a vigorous aerobic routine or enrolled in an exercise class, then three days a week for 20 minutes a day is good.

For adults that are 65 and older or anyone with chronic conditions or limited mobility, you need the same amount of exercise as younger people — the activity can be less intense.

Use good judgment and follow your doctor’s advice.

Stick to a schedule If you “don’t have time” then fit shorter but more frequent periods of time, like 5-10 minutes several times a day throughout your day. Take the stairs, park your car further away from the door, and definitely count in those house chores such as mowing the lawn, vacuuming, or a short brisk walk around the block at lunch or for a break.

With any plan, start strength training slowly and build up to heavier weights and repetitions especially if you are new or out of shape. The old adage “no pain, no gain” is more often inappropriate and can be dangerous.

Stretching exercises done twice a week helps keep flexibility, which is very important.

Consider 10 minutes of stretching twice a week to improve your flexibility With any exercise program, it’s good to start slowly by warming up, then increasing the pace.

A good cooling down afterwards is also equally important.

Above photo: It’s easier than you might think to improve your health with exercise. You don’t have to jog for an hour a day. In fact, some studies have shown greater health benefits from light to moderate exercise simply because people are more likely to stick with it.

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Ranked “High Performing” in heart failure by U.S. News & World Report, Mount Sinai Heart at Mount Sinai South Nassau’s team of accomplished specialists includes (L to R) Dr. Kanner, Dr. Athan Smyrlis, Dr. Jason Freeman, Dr. Sherry Megalla and Dr. Pilar Haynes.

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ust before Valentine’s Day 2019, as her husband prepared a cozy fire, Linda McCabe, 74-year-old grandmother of three, felt short of breath. She went to the local urgent care center, which called 9-1-1 to transport her to Mount Sinai South Nassau’s Emergency Department.

Linda was admitted to the ICU with a rapid pulse, shortness of breath, sweating, and vomiting. Cardiologist Dr. Sherry Megalla ordered an angiogram that revealed she had heart failure and an EKG showed an irregular heart rhythm. Dr. Lawrence Kanner, Chief of Cardiology, Director of Electrophysiology/ Arrhythmia Services, performed an ablation to restore her heart to a normal rhythm.

Feeling better than she had in months, Mrs. McCabe went to a follow-up appointment that fall, where Drs. Kanner and Megalla diagnosed her with a coronary branch blockage, which delays the delivery of electrical impulses that make the heart beat efficiently. A defibrillator and pacemaker were implanted by Dr. Kanner to correct what could have resulted in worsening heart failure or even a fatal heart attack.

“This has changed everything…I feel really good,” said Mrs. McCabe. “I have to thank Drs. Kanner and Megalla. They are great doctors.”

In addition to Drs. Kanner and Megalla, the Mount Sinai Heart program at Mount Sinai South Nassau features a roster of accomplished cardiologists and cardiovascular specialists. This includes specialists from Mount Sinai Heart’s program at The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, including Noah Moss,

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It’s pretty safe to say that many people fell off the healthy eating wagon during 2020 — stress from the pandemic to remote learning at home for the kids to actual quarantining left lots of us reaching for the chips and cookies.

Regularly scheduled meal times also fell by the wayside as Zoom meetings and Google Classrooms took over the house.

As we settle in to 2021, let it be a reset for all kinds of things, including nutrition. Jessica Crandall, registered dietician, says this is a great time to get back to the basics of healthy eating. And, she adds, if you’ve gained weight during the past year for whatever reason, it’s important not to be tempted by fad dieting.

“Trendy things to avoid include keto, fasting and cleanses,” she said. “There is no quick fix! And there is little data to support longterm benefits for any of these trendy diets. A high-fat diet (like keto) is not recommended for anyone with cardiac issues. And the keto diet is often low in fiber, which has long studied and proven health benefits!

“Fasting can have a negative effect on your metabolism, making it harder to lose weight in the long term,” said Crandall. “It can make it difficult to get your nutritional needs met as well. And there is no scientific research to support the benefit of most cleanses. The best way to detoxify your system is to eat a balanced diet with as little processed foods as possible!

We all know that improving our diet can drastically improve overall health. Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet can reduce your risk for heart disease, reduce your risk for many types of cancer, and can help you experience a better quality of life and even live a longer life. Unfortunately, when many people think of improving their diet, they think of “going on a diet.”

They imagine something similar to a New Year’s resolution where they cut back on everything and make sweeping changes to their lifestyle. And while it is definitely a good idea to want to change your lifestyle and eating habits, most of us realize that “going on a diet,” as we tend to think about it, is really difficult and can even make us feel worse about

ourselves if we fail.

Instead, those drastic, sweeping changes should be thought of as an end-goal of a healthy nutrition plan, and instead of changing everything about your diet all at once, it’s much more manageable to make small improvements along the way to help reach that end goal of a healthier diet. Consider these some important tips to get back on track and focused on a heart-healthy lifestyle.

Drink more water. Water helps as an aid in digestion, and helps to flush bacteria from the bladder, normalizes blood pressure, stabilizes heartbeat, as well as maintaining hydration.

Eat more fiber. Don’t fear carbs! A highfiber diet helps you feel full, lowers cholesterol, helps control blood sugar levels and maintains bowel health/regularity. Good sources of fiber include whole fruits, vegetables, potatoes (especially the skin), beans/legumes, whole grains (such as brown or wild rice, quinoa, barley, farro and whole grain pasta).

Eat more plants. Purchase whole fruits and vegetables in their natural state and prepare as desired (raw, roasted or sautéed).

Include bean/legumes and nuts. Try to include at least one fruit or vegetable with each meal.

Eat enough for breakfast. Think of it as fueling your day! Having a good (as in balanced, with some fiber and protein) breakfast will help control your appetite throughout the rest of the day.

Eat fewer processed foods. Processed meats are high in sodium and usually high in saturated fat. Processed plant-based meats are also high in sodium and often high fat also.

Snack foods, sugary cereals and candy are nutritionally void and do not satisfy your hunger. Prepared foods — such as boxed, flavored rice mixes, instant potatoes and canned soups — have added sodium.

Above photo: Every choice you make to improve your nutrition matters. You don’t have to be perfect and you don’t have to completely eliminate foods you enjoy to have a healthy diet. The long term goal is to feel good, have more energy, and reduce the risk of heart disease, among other health risks.

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Such interest in real estate will be sold subject to any unpaid assessment thereon levied by said Village and any unpaid lien purchased and held by said Village, and all liens on property included in this sale are sold subject to the provisions of any federal or state law.

On December 29, 2020 Governor Cuomo signed into law the COVID-19

Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 that grants certain property owners certain rights under the Act, (see HYPERLINK “https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/orpts/rp1102ds_fill_ in.pdf” https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/orpts/rp1102ds_fill_ in.pdf , Owner Declaration of COVID-19 Related Hardship) The following is a list of lots, pieces and parcels of real estate to be sold, and the total amount of the taxes, interest and charges thereon: PARCEL ID

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1-2-5 1-3-2A.3&4 1-4-1 1-4-2 1-5-11 1-11-10.10A 2-1-9&.PT10 2-4-2 2-5-8 2-7-9 3-1-15 4-5-10 4-7-1 4-7-2 5-2-8 5-4-17 6-1-8 6-3-11 6-3-120 7-1-2 7-8-602 8-5-5.6 9-5-10 9-5-11 10-2-2 10-4-24 11-1-27 11-2-2 11-3-6 12-3-12 12-3-13 13-2-1&2 14-5-500.32 14-5-500.71 14-5-500.77 14-5-500.81 15-6-5 16-1-10 16-4-4 17-3-18 17-5-13 18-3-16 18-4-1 19-4-2 20-3-8 20-4-18 21-1-3 21-1-4 21-2-16.17 21-4-4 21-4-5 22-5-6 24-2-2 24-2-3 24-2-4 24-2-5A 24-3-18 24-4-5 25-1-4 26-2-15 27-2-3 28-5-4 28-6-10A 28-6-10D 28-7-12 28-7-19 29-3-5.6 29-4-1 29-4-2B 30-1-6 30-3-10 31-1-13.13A 32-2-10

48 LAKEVIEW AVE 96 LAKEVIEW AVE 224 -234 HEMPSTEAD AVE LAKEVIEW AVE 67 LAKEVIEW AVE 192 HEMPSTEAD AVE 140 LAKEVIEW AVE 167 LAKEVIEW AVE 143 LAKEVIEW AVE 69 DRIVING PARK AVE 36 CLIFFORD ST 144 HEMPSTEAD AVE 326 VINCENT AVE 318 VINCENT AVE 77 EDMUND ST 99 CHARLES ST 106 OCEAN AVE 48 ALLEN ST BUCKINGHAM PL 14 DEVINE ST 245 MERRICK RD 81 CHARLES ST 44 WASHINGTON AVE 48 WASHINGTON AVE 60 MONROE ST 52 MADISON ST 14 ATLANTIC AVE 274 -276 MERRICK RD 183 VINCENT AVE 33 PARK PL 35 PARK PL 40 ROCKLYN AVE 108 ATLANTIC AVE 32 112 ATLANTIC AVE 71 112 ATLANTIC AVE 77 114 ATLANTIC AVE 81 68 SHIPHERD AVE HUNTINGTON AVE 12 WYOMING AVE 443 OCEAN AVE 19 HAMPTON RD 251 FOREST AVE 176 ATLANTIC AVE 6 VINCENT PL 74 ROBERTSON RD 80 MELROSE AVE 106 (9) HORTON AVE 7 LOIS PL 616 -620 MERRICK RD 64 HORTON AVE 60 HORTON AVE 10 LEACH ST 5 ATLANTIC AVE 10 -12 BROADWAY 11 ATLANTIC AVE 15 ATLANTIC AVE 47 BROADWAY 53 ATLANTIC AVE E NEW YORK AVE 65 WRIGHT AVE 158 LYON PL 28 PICCADILLY DOWNS 27 PICCADILLY DOWNS CANTERBURY GATE 170 SCRANTON AVE 153 CANTERBURY GATE 219 SCRANTON AVE 304 PENINSULA BLVD 94 OLIVE DR 1 OLIVE PL 80 EVERGREEN AVE 131 -135 BROADWAY 88 BIXLEY HEATH

BILL BALANCE 4,860.94 3,224.28 16,532.29 1,187.49 2,636.43 4,209.94 3,043.40 6,123.40 1,472.03 1,935.52 3,190.37 3,139.50 2,633.34 4,819.10 3,179.06 3,286.46 5,093.44 4,907.44 187.75 4,616.82 7,452.31 2,469.01 6,893.56 4,942.32 2,726.87 2,206.84 8,096.70 9,789.88 5,302.69 5,604.93 4,674.94 20,147.72 1,896.60 935.04 935.04 2,227.91 5,169.23 2,907.97 2,861.69 2,975.57 3,081.72 3,791.45 2,401.29 2,523.38 4,244.82 2,950.14 1,630.30 3,789.53 6,468.79 2,466.86 5,645.38 5,976.92 1,415.50 7,023.16 13,974.82 9,690.68 34,899.55 8,503.68 228.49 2,376.42 1,867.69 5,930.42 3,333.38 443.28 3,084.11 2,245.35 4,510.22 2,760.79 2,004.49 5,634.16 6,487.42 11,649.85 3,484.30

32-6-13 32-7-1 32-9-14 33-1-65 33-1-70 34-2-6 34-2-1A 34-3-1 35-2-26 37-2-4 37-3-8 38-1-5 38-4-6&7 39-2-3 39-2-6 39-2-150 39-3-9 39-3-11 39-4-1A 39-7-1 39-7-105 40-1-49 41-3-21 41-3-24 41-4-14 41-4-21.32B 41-4-22A.25A 42-4-7 42-8-13D 43-1-103 44-1-13 44-3-9 47-3-15A 47-4-13A 48-3-7 49-1-4B 50-3-7 50-3-8A 51-2-5 51-7-7 52-1-2 52-1-3 52-1-4 52-1-3A 52-2-15 53-1-401 53-2-14 53-3-15 53-3-15A 53-4-19 54-4-10A 55-6-2 56-1-10.11 56-3-6 56-4-7A 56-5-12 57-4-23 58-6-4 58-6-5 59-1-28 59-4-13 60-2-21.20A 60-4-7 60-4-46 61-2-14 62-4-8

192 BIXLEY HEATH 169 BIXLEY HEATH 240 BIXLEY HEATH 343 PENINSULA BLVD 363 PENINSULA BLVD 15 NEW ST 12 OLIVE PL 288 -290 BROADWAY 57 OAKLAND AVE 5 MCKINLEY AVE 134 SPENCER AVE 300 PICCADILLY DOWNS 319 PICCADILLY DOWNS 33 FARNUM ST 10 HOLLYWOOD AVE 461 PENINSULA BLVD 1 A FARNUM ST 6 CATALPA AVE 7 CATALPA AVE 46 HOLLYWOOD AVE 477 PENINSULA BLVD 4 EVERETT ST 14 STARKS PL 8 STARKS PL 23 STARKS PL 570 BROADWAY APT 32B 596 BROADWAY APT 25A 175 DONNA CT UNION AVE 98 UNION PL 634 SCRANTON AVE 54 MARION ST 321 HENDRICKSON AVE 2 WINTHROP ST 45 HAWTHORNE ST 368 WHITEHALL ST 4 WEBSTER ST WEBSTER ST 50 STEVENSON ST 12 STUART ST 68 WHITEHALL ST 72 WHITEHALL ST 80 -82 WHITEHALL ST 78 WHITEHALL ST 140 HORTON AVE 81 MARSHALL AVE 238 HENDRICKSON AVE 54 WILSON AVE 56 WILSON AVE 78 TAFT AVE 191 CENTRAL AVE 2 HENDRICKSON AVE 47 MARSHALL AVE 33 MARSHALL AVE 11 WILSON AVE 14 WILSON AVE 15 CURTIS PL 150 SHERMAN ST SHERMAN ST 93 SMITH ST 51 PEARSALL AVE 181 WALNUT ST 178 WALNUT ST 1 GLOVER CIRCLE 68 NOBLE ST 431 VINCENT AVE

6,961.40 3,337.33 2,661.30 5,442.18 2,308.13 8,485.50 2,767.00 7,802.77 4,326.19 239.79 4,302.94 2,924.70 7,325.41 5,088.78 2,607.09 4,814.44 7,046.41 6,329.44 2,060.51 3,944.23 6,157.11 3,244.69 2,252.06 4,674.94 4,349.44 965.45 1,449.51 3,466.44 71.50 1,423.98 1,773.86 3,326.03 12,533.34 3,954.20 2,726.87 3,094.28 5,139.94 257.50 3,163.24 8,337.52 8,266.84 2,562.95 5,444.01 1,596.38 1,884.97 2,342.50 2,415.99 1,765.95 2,274.67 4,891.16 7,848.76 12,338.04 2,444.25 2,206.84 5,637.47 1,291.15 2,692.96 1,602.04 954.99 6,999.91 2,206.84 7,569.54 5,779.31 7,576.29 2,806.01 2,855.06

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES JOHN GIORDANO, VILLAGE ADMINISTRATOR 1120896 LEGAL NOTICE 2021 VILLAGE ELECTION NOTICE TO THE ELECTORS OF THE INC. VILLAGE OF LYNBROOK, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the following is a true and correct listing of the nominated candidates, as indicated on the nominating petitions filed with the Village Election Officer, for the offices to be filled at the Village Election to be held on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, pursuant to the provisions of the New York State Election Law: NAME OF CANDIDATE PUBLIC OFFICE PLACE OF RESIDENCE (4 YEAR TERM) LYNBROOK NEW VISION PARTY EMBLEM: STAR William J. McLaughlin Village Justice 21 Kowall Street Michael Hawxhurst Trustee 25 Dunne Place Laura Ryder Trustee 35 Pearsall Ave PEOPLE’S TRUSTEE PARTY EMBLEM: TREE David O’Neill Trustee 112 Tottenham Road TIME FOR UNITY PARTY EMBLEM: SCALES OF JUSTICE Josh Margulies Village Justice 88 Walnut Street NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN THAT the sole polling place, at the Lynbrook Recreation Center shall be open for voting at 7:00 A.M. and closed at 9:00 P.M. JOHN GIORDANO, VILLAGE ELECTION OFFICER LYNBROOK, NEW YORK 124696 Place a notice by phone at 516-569-4000 x232 or email: legalnotices@liherald.com

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS will hold HEARINGS on Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 7:00 P.M. in the Court Room at the Village Hall, One Columbus Drive, Lynbrook, NY 11563, to hear the following cases: PUBLIC HEARINGS #982 - Bruce Drantch - 3 Olive Place § 252-19 Rear Yards Required Rear Yard: 20 ft, Proposed Rear Yard:7 ft 1 in, #983 - Brian Palazzola - 4 Calvin Street § 252-18 Side Yards. Required Side Yard: 5 ft, Proposed Side Yard: 3 ft. 3 in. DECISION

- #980 - Laura Melucci 81 Whittier Street § 252-18 Side Yards. All interested parties should appear at the Public Hearing and may view case files at the Building Department on Monday thru Friday, between the hours of 8:00AM and 3:00PM. This meeting will be broadcasted live on YouTube channel, Lynbrook TV. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS Ginger Fuentes, Chair Person of the Board of Zoning Appeals Brian Stanton, Superintendent, Department of Buildings Lynbrook.Publish 1x 124713 To Place A Notice Call 516-569-4000 x232

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E.R. musician heads to All-Eastern Conference East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School senior Emma Pollackov has been accepted to this year’s National Association for Music Education’s 2021 All-Eastern Honor Ensemble Conference for mixed chorus.

Emma is one of 719 high school musicians from Con necticut, D e l aw a r e, M a s s a ch u setts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, PennCourtesy East Rockaway School s y l v a n i a , District R h o d e Island and East Rockaway HigH Vermont to School senior Emma participate Pollackov. in the conference.

This is her second honor this year, after being selected to the New York State School Music Association All-State Conference. Her participation in All-State is what qualified her application for All-Eastern.

Selected students will be participating in a “virtual weekend” experience from March 4-6. It will include keynote speakers, masterclasses with professional musicians, rehearsals with their conductors as well as opportunities to learn and network with colleges and universities of various types and participate in mock auditions.

Courtesy East Rockaway School District; compiled by Mike Smollins

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Hours: Early Mornings (6am - 10am), Weekends (8am-2pm), Afternoon and Evenings (2pm-10pm) Compensation: $14.00 per hour.

Benefits: Affordable Health Insurance, 100% Company Paid Dental Insurance, Eyeglass Plan, Tuition Reimbursement, and Pension Plan

We hire the smartest people who can solve the hardest marketing objectives with an arsenal of solutions and a smile through the journey. to join our outside sales team, contact Rhonda glickman. send your resume today. rglickman@liherald.com, 516-569-4000 x250.

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dlawlor@malverne.k12.ny.us Human Resources, Administration Building 301 Wicks Lane, Malverne, NY 11565 Malverne Union Free School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

CUSTOMER SERVICE F/T ARROW EXTERMINATING CO. NEEDS BRIGHT, MATURE PERSON

An EquAl OppOrtunity EmplOyEr

Malverne Union Free School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

ISLAND PARK UFSD Island Park, New York

Civil Service Positions

Qualifications: Candidates must hold a NYS Registered Professional Nurse License CPR Certification required Position requires Nassau Civil Service Commission Approval

Annual salary: $45,092

Please email Résumé to: liliana d'errico, Personnel clerk lderrico@valleystream13.com

GOOD SALARY & BENEFITS Pleasant Lynbrook Office • Clients • m-Clients • Malverne • 42194 Malverne Richner Communications Call 516-593-7770 3.125x 3" Richner Communications

School Bus Drivers Full-Time and Subs.

F/T position: approx. 30 hrs per week; M-F, some Saturdays Subs: on will call/as needed basis Salary: $18.24/hr Qualifications: Must have NYS CDL, Class B or C with appropriate passenger endorsement l Must pass a NYS DMV Physician’s Exam l Must pass m-Clients • pre-employment Malverne •US42194 Richner DOT drugMalverne screen & random drug thereafter 3.125x 3"screenings Richner Communications l Must pass NYSED Dept. Physical Performance Test Pg 1 School Monitors l Must pass fingerprint and background check by NYS Dept. of Criminal Justice Services & review by US FBI l

(Additional $350 annually if candidate holds a Bachelor's Degree) 5th_floor • Clients •

Application deadline: February 19, 2021

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Full Time, 11 Month Position Pediatrics Experience Preferred

• Heavy Phones • Diversified Office Duties • Computer Knowledge A Must • Phone Sales Experience A Plus

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Malverne UFSD Office of Human Resources 301 Wicks Lane, Malverne, NY 11565 or Call 516-887-6419

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• PCA/HHA Certification • Flu Shots • NYS Photo ID & SS Card • Immunizations • Physical Exam, Drug Test • 2 Reference Letters

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• High Hourly Pay Rate • Immediate Job Placement • Health, Dental, Vision, & Life Insurance ($5) • 1199 Union Benefits • Weekly/Overtime/Holiday Pay • Tuition Reimbursement • Member Wellness Benefits • Direct Deposit • Cases in Nassau Co & 5 Boroughs

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To apply online, please go to www. communitymainstreaming.org/about-us/career-opportunities/

If you have any questions, reach out to the HR Recruiter, Esther Seidman, at (516) 683-0710 ext. 256.

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We are actively seeking dedicated Direct Support Professionals to work with intellectual and developmentally disabled individuals in a new residential home in N. Merrick, New York!

RecRuiting a great sales team is Really simple.

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$18.50 NYC, $17 L.I., up to $13.50 Upstate NY!

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Phone: 347-713-3552

$18.50 NYC, $17 L.I. up to $13.50 Upstate NY! If you need care from your relative, friend/ neighbor and you have Medicaid, they may be eligible to start taking care of you as personal assistant under NYS Medicaid CDPA Program. No Certificates needed. 347-713-3553

Administrative Assistant For Cedarhurst Law Office

Command Of English Language And Computer Skills Mandatory Salary Commensurate With Experience. Email Resume To Siberlucky@aol.com BRANDS CYCLE & FITNESS HELP WANTED (WILL TRAIN)

*MECHANICS *SALES *COUNTER *SHIPPING *OFFICE / INTERNET. 1966 Wantagh Ave, Wantagh, NY 11793 1-800-649-3739. info@brandscycle.com

HANDYMAN WANTED

Must have clean driver's license.

Must be able to do light plumbing and carpentry. 4-day work week. $700 per week. 100% Medical & Dental, 401K, Uniforms, Paid Vacations, Sick and Holidays. Apply in person: MondayFriday between 9am & 7pm At: CALL-A-HEAD CORP. 304 Crossbay Blvd., Queens, NY 11693

HEAD TEACHER F/T NEEDED FOR 3K classroom- Ralph Hirschkorn Child Care Center, Far Rockaway. Friendly and supportive atmosphere.

Certified w/ MA- $62,295 BA & study plan-$40,456 email resume: rhccclynn@hotmail.com 718-327-1141 Medicinal Chemist: Angion Biomedica Corp in Uniondale, NY seeks a Medicinal Chemist to utilize synthetic methodologies and techniques and modeling tools to design and execute the syntheses of target compounds; conduct multi-step synthesis and optimization through effective reaction planning, troubleshooting, and systematic analysis; purify and characterize compounds using a variety of techniques; enable chemistry via new technologies and maintain lab instruments; potentially help set up and manage a synthetic chemistry lab; maintain all appropriate corporate standards for lab safety and hazardous material management; execute daily chemistry operations with an approach designed to minimize r isks and hazard waste streams; maintain lab notebook, instrument and inventory records in accord with department guidance and regulatory requirements. Must have a Ph.D. in Chemistry, Biochemistry or a closely related field. Mail resume to Angion Biomedica Corp, 51 Charles Lindbergh Blvd., Uniondale, NY 11553.

OFFICE/ FULL CHARGE BOOKKEEPER F/T

Office Manager, Quickbooks, Email, Microsoft-word/ People Skills. Customer Service. Beach Club/ Atlantic Beach.

Call: 516-239-2150 Or Email: catalinabeachclub1@gmail.com

$22.50 PER HOUR PLUS MEDICAL/DENTAL. Employment type: Full time /Overtime available Multiple Shifts Available LOOKING TO HIRE TODAY!!! No Lay offs!

WILL TRAIN. CALLAHEAD OFFERS 2 WEEKS PAID VACATION, HOLIDAY S , 4 0 1 K , A N D H E A LT H A N D DENTAL BENEFITS. PLEASE APPLY IN PERSON MONDAY- FRIDAY AT 304 CROSS BAY BLVD, QUEENS NY 11693 PRESS-ROOM/WAREHOUSE HELP Long Island Herald has IMMEDIATE openings for a FULL-TIME Pressroom/warehouse helper in Garden City. We are a busy print shop looking for a motivated and reliable individuals to assist in various duties in the shop. Forklift experience is a plus and heavy lifting is required. Hours vary, so flexibility is key.

Email resumes or contact info to careers@liherald.com RECEPTIONIST PT ROCKVILLE CENTRE LAZY BOY. Thursday & Fr iday 5-9PM, Every Other Saturday 10AM-6PM, Must Be Flexible To Cover Vacation Shifts.

Basic Computer & Phone Skills Necessary. Filing & Processing of Credit Cards and Finance Applications.

Fax Resume 516-766-1992 Email lzbgalleries@aol.com

ROUTES AVAILABLE AT CALLAHEAD Corp.

NO CDL required, 4 DAY WORK WEEK, (enjoy 3 days off). Run your own route. Year round No lay offs!

100% medical, dental, uniforms, 2 weeks paid vacation. 401K. Plus commission. Will train! 4am-2:30pm. .

Route driver $800.00 per week, includes $100.00 weekly bonus program. Plus 10-12 hours overtime. Apply in person Monday- Friday 9am-7pm at 304 Crossbay Blvd, Queens NY 11693

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VILLAGE OF ROCKVILLE CENTRE NEIGHBORHOOD AIDE PT 19.75 HRS PER WEEK, $20 PER HOUR. Must pass background check and physical. Valid NY Driver's License requir ied. Application Available At www.rvcny.gov/humanresources/files/ pre-employment-questionaire Return Application to RNugent@RVC.NY.US

Health Care/Opportunities CNA: MALE & FEMALE CAREGIVERS Will provide Proof of Negative COVID Test.

Exp. w/Dementia, Alzheimer's & Parkinson Patients. Caring & Dependable. Driver References Available. Derrick@917-363-8924

HEWLETT BAY PARK 40 Heron Dr, BA, NEW TO MARKET!! 10,000 Sq Ft Waterfront Property on an Acre of Parklike Grounds Tucked away in Cul de Sac. 5 BR, 5.5 Bth Contemporary. Soaring Ceilings.

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Ronnie Gerber 516-238-4299 OPEN HOUSES BY APPOINTMENT SUNdAY, 2/21/21 e s t. 1 9 1 1

3315 3RD STREET SOLD PRICE: $499,000

2544 YORKTOWN STREET SOLD PRICE: $395,000

43 N. Park Ave. Rockville Centre • 516-764-2601 REAL ESTATE Apartments Wanted

APARTMENT WANTED

Reliable, mature professional looking for a reasonably priced one or two bedroom apartment in a building or private home.

Excellent credit. Excellent references.

Same employer for 20 years. Would be willing to do upkeep for a frequent traveling homeowner. Please reply to HeraldApt1@gmail.com

Open Houses EAST ROCKAWAY 1 Thompson Dr, OPEN HOUSE BY APPT, 4 BR, 2.5 Bth Exp Ranch w/Open Layout in Waverly Park Area. Updtd EIK. O/S Prop w/Deck.

Att Gar. SD#20..$599,000 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman RE 516-238-4299

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Open Houses HEWLETT HARBOR ba, 236 Richards Lane 5 BR, 5.5 Bth Contemporary Home on an Acre Of Resortlike, IGP, Open Floor Plan. Full Fin Bsmt. Main Flr Master.

SD14...$1,499,00 Ronnie 516 238-4299 Douglas Elliman WOODSBURGH 185 BAY Dr, OPEN HOUSE BY Appt, 5/6 BR, 4.5 Bth Exp Ranch on Parklike 1/2 Acre Prop. Guest Q u a r t e r s , F u l l B s m t , 2 C a r G a r.

SD#14...$1,450,00 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299

House For Sale HEWLETT BAY PARK 40 Heron Dr, NEW TO MARKET!! 10,000 Sq Ft Waterfront Proper ty on an Acre of Parklike Grounds Tucked away in Cul de Sac. 5 BR, 5.5 Bth Contemporary. Soaring Ceilings. IG Pool, Hot Tub. 285' Vinyl Bulkhead Raised & Redone, Dock. 3 Car Garage...$4,650,000 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman RE 516-238-4299

70 Heron Dr, BA, 6 BR, Contemporary with Open Layout on an Acre of Parklike Property. Move Right in!

SD#14 .................................................... REDUCED $1,650,000

HEWLETT HARBOR NEW EXCLUSIVE! 7 BR, 4 Bth Exp Ranch w/ Full Fin Bsmt on Quiet St in SD#20. 2 Car Att Gar. Won't Last! ......... $1,198,000 105 Lake Dr, BA, NEW TO MARKET!! Spectaular Water & Golf Course Views. 4 BR, 4.5 Bth 4500 sq Ft Contemporary w/ Open Layout & Soaring Ceilings, 2 Car Gar, SD#14 $1,995,000 236 Richards Lane, BA, 5 BR, 5.5 Bth Contemporary Home on an Acre Of Resortlike Prop with IG Pool. Open Floor Plan.

Full Fin Bsmt. Main Flr Master. SD14 ... REDUCED! $1,499,000

WOOdSBURGH 185 Bay Dr, BA, 5/6 BR, 4.5 Bth Exp Ranch on Parklike 1/2 Acre Prop. Guest Quarters, Full Bsmt, 2 Car Gar. SD#14 ....................................................................... $1,450,000 EAST ROCKAWAY 1 Thompson Dr, BA, 4 BR, 2.5 Bth Exp Ranch w/Open Layout in Waverly Park Area. Updtd EIK. O/S Prop w/Deck. Att Gar. SD#20 ......................................................................... $599,000 WOOdMERE 1 Meadow Dr #2B, BA, NEW TO MARKET! Updated 2 BR Coop in Elevator Bldg. Spacious Rms, Hi Ceiling. Prime location........................................................................ $289,000 One phone call, one order, one heck of a good price to run your ad in any state, or across the country.

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Taxes: $10,902 Merrick $699,000 Ellen Drive. Splanch. 5 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Finished basement. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room and skylight. Custom garage doors.

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Bellmore $838,000 Judith Drive. Hi Ranch. 5, bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room and home office.

Taxes: $17,059.45 East Meadow $700,000 Gates Avenue. Colonial. 5 bedrooms 4 bathrooms. Finished basement with accessory apartment with separate entrance.

Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room and skylight.

Taxes: $13,567.35 East Rockaway $650,000 Waverly Avenue. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Eatin kitchen. Formal dining room. Spacious great room with fireplace. New central air conditioning.

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Taxes: $21,403.64 Valley Stream $508,000 Marlow Road. Cape. 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. L-shaped dining room. First floor master bedroom.

Taxes: $12,294.54 Rockville Centre $729,000 Tarence Street. Colonial. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms.

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Taxes: $22,590.04 Woodmere $765,000 Ocean Avenue. Farmhouse. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

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Taxes: $14,606.78 Source: The Multiple Listing Service of Long Island Inc,, a computerized network of real estate offices serving Nassau, Suffolk, Queens, and Brooklyn.

Q. A few homes in my neighborhood are much taller. What are the rules for how tall a house can be — like how many floors, and what’s legal? I mostly see only two stories, but the new ones are at least three stories. Is this a new thing that you can build taller? Was it just traditional to only build two stories until now?

A. Recently, influences have changed the thinking on allowed height. Hurricane Sandy’s flooding caused New York to promote house lifting in flood zones. Influence also came from the Federal Emergency Management agency, which, in essence, is a publicly funded insurance company, covering people in areas where regular onte eeper home insurance companies avoid the risk of insuring. to lift or build higher is to avoid huge flood insurance cost increases by building above flood levels, with the lowest level only allowed to be for a garage and storage, not living space. By making the first livable floor higher, above the flood level, insurance rates are kept lower. People have shown me that their rates went from $500 to $5,000 a year, increasing annually since Sandy in 2012.

Some homes are much higher than codes and incentives intended, due to misinterpretation of reasons to build higher and misrepresentation in the review process. For example, a home’s first floor is no longer a first floor if it’s higher than 6 feet above the ground. Over 6 feet high, the floor level automatically becomes a second floor, meaning the next floor above is a third floor, which requires zoning board approval, interior sprinklers, escape terraces and wind strengthening. I’ve seen home plans misrepresented as being two stories by not correctly showing the floor level heights or describing a second floor as a first floor, the next floor as a second floor that is really a third floor and even where a fourth floor is shown as a mezzanine or roof level balcony.

There’s a small country town in Tuscany, in central Italy, San Gimignano, that is famous for its skyline of towers that people built on their homes during medieval times. As the story goes, one prominent homeowner built a tall tower to watch for potential attackers. His neighbor jealously built a tower a little higher, and, not to be outdone, several adjacent homeowners began building towers higher and higher than one another. History repeats itself.

Thirty feet from the ground or the center of the road is your maximum roof height. The safety code intends to protect people from perishing in fires.

The first code chapter addresses wind resistance, since the taller you build, the more turbulence from adjacent buildings and wind destruction, not just to your building but also to adjacent buildings. With the 75-mph gusts of wind we’ve been known to have, wind, like flooding, is a real concern.

Manhattan towers aren’t wood and nails for a reason. Decisions to build higher have to take community safety and appearance into account, and until recently, they did.

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OpINIONS

e lost our sense of normalcy in recent years, didn’t we?

Nearly every morning of his presidency, Donald J. Trump treated us to one outlandish tweet after another, one more extreme, more incendiary, than the next, until finally that routine became our new normal.

We were conditioned, as if in a Pavlovian experiment, to jeer or cheer, depending on party affiliation, when his tweets appeared in big, bold letters on the TV news, usually first thing in SCOTT the morning. So we began each day BRINTON feeling angry and despondent, or elated and victorious, depending on whether we disagreed or agreed with the president’s rhetoric.

I, like so many others, felt fear in my heart when the U.S. appeared on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea. I felt helpless rage when babies, many the children of narco-violence refugees, were ripped from their parents’ arms and separated and caged in sterile detention facilities. I felt numb last summer when the president sent federal forces to disperse peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters near the White House with tear gas and rubber bullets so he could stage a photo op, holding up a Bible, then simply walk-

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And I felt mournful and depressed — and, again, helpless — as I watched him mock basic hygiene measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, and convene mass rallies to boost his already hyper-inflated ego, while hundreds of thousands of Americans died and the economy tanked.

Since he first announced his candidacy for president in June 2015, it has been all Trump all the time.

The circus should have ended Nov. 3, the day Joe Biden was elected our 46th president with the largest popular vote in the nation’s history — more than 81 million ballots cast for him. It didn’t, however. Trump sought, by any means necessary, to overturn an election that, by all official accounts except his, was an efficient and lawful exercise in democracy.

Many had predicted that violence would erupt. When you condition a dog to maul, it will when called on to do so. On Jan. 6, the mob of Trump supporters, conditioned by the president’s continual tweeting and provoked by his now infamous “fight like hell” speech, attacked, unleashing collective fury on a Congress that had gathered to count the Electoral College votes and once and for all certify the results of the election.

And so, last week, when we should have been focused on Covid-19 vaccine distribu-

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tion and economic stimulus, Trump was once again front and center in the national consciousness. None of us were happy about it. His detractors felt deep loathing.

His supporters, I imagine, were riled up, angrier than ever to see him tried in the Senate for the second time.

For those who oppose Trump, the impeachment trial was a necessary exercise in futility, knowing there likely wouldn’t be 17 Republican senators courageous enough to vote to convict him, but believing he should at least be shamed publicly for his role in the Capitol insurrection. For those who love Trump, meanwhile, the trial was yet another occasion to revel in his seeming invulnerability, no matter what he might have done.

The question is, how do we recover from the past five years of uninterrupted political turmoil, and now very real death and destruction? How do we find peace again?

I, for one, desperately want to feel normal again. I hate feeling angry and depressed. I need to start enjoying my life once more, without a sense of impending doom. I want to wake up feeling free — free of Trump and the angry mob of Jan. 6. We must end the coronavirus pandemic for any of us to feel entirely free again, but resolving our political differences would go a long way toward restoring our sense of normalcy.

ow do we recover from the past five years of uninterrupted political turmoil?

Personally, I want what we had in America long ago, before House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Fox News declared war on our political establishment in the 1990s, leading us down a slippery slope that, over time, sent us hurtling into the Trump presidency, which ended, predictably, with Capitol rioting.

I want what I had as a teenager and young 20-something back in the 1980s and early ’90s — the ability to debate critical issues — abortion, environmental regulation, monetary policy — with friends and acquaintances, of all political stripes, and then hang out over pizza and a game of basketball.

Politics played an important role in people’s lives back then, but it wasn’t the center of our universe. Trump, as the nation’s first shock-jock president, forced his firebrand politics into the very core of our being. His presidency became our national psychosis.

Setting politics aside, what I love about Biden thus far is this: He doesn’t need to be the center of our collective attention at all times. Day by day, he is quietly leading, offering straight talk, and perhaps — perhaps — that is how we recover from the recent years of fear and rage: four years of honesty and compassion.

Let the healing begin.

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.

Grab your ladle: The soup’s on the table

This column is back by popular demand. Well, in truth, only one reader, shivering through the freezing weather, remembered that I once wrote about winter soups, and asked me to do another one. My pleasure.

I cook every night, and over the years, I’ve gathered a collection of recipes, tweaked to a healthier way of eating. Mind you, we aren’t fanatics, but I’m happy to avoid any soup made with cream or excessive amounts of butter.

Also, there’s no meat in these prepRANDI arations.

KREISS These days, weeks and months through the pandemic, I have been making big, and I mean big, pots of soup, and then, before my husband can see how much is there, I siphon off a quart or more and hide it in the freezer. This neutralizes his portion-control issues and addresses my what-if fears, like if we both get sick at the same time, how will we eat?

But let’s not go down that dark path.

Let me share a few faves:

Manhattan clam chowder ■ 2 tablespoons olive oil ■ 1 large onion, chopped ■ 1 clove garlic, minced ■ 1 red or green pepper, diced ■ 2 celery stalks with leaves, diced ■ 2 small cans chopped clams, including juice ■ 2 bottles clam juice ■ 1 16-ounce can crushed tomatoes ■ 1 bay leaf ■ ½ teaspoon dried thyme leaves ■ ¼ teaspoon dried marjoram leaves ■ 1/8 teaspoon black pepper In large pot, heat garlic, add onion, celery, peppers and sauté. Drain clams and set aside. Add all other ingredients and simmer 30 minutes. Add clams and adjust seasoning. Serve with wedges of toasted homemade sourdough bread, which is another whole story.

Chicken tortilla soup

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2 tablespoons olive oil 1 cup chopped onion 3 cloves garlic, minced 8 cups chicken broth 1 large can chopped tomatoes 1 teaspoon cumin 1 can fat-free refried beans 1 can mild green chilies 1 tablespoon lime juice ¾ cup diced avocado ½ cup chopped cilantro ½ teaspoon pepper ¼ teaspoon salt Parmesan cheese

Sauté onion and garlic in olive oil. Add all the other ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes. Serve with tortilla chips broken into the soup. Add more spices and cheese to taste.

Mushroom barley soup ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

14 cups chicken stock or broth 1¼ cups pearl barley 3 tablespoons olive oil 3 cups chopped onions 1 pound fresh mushrooms, sliced 4 cloves garlic, minced

■ 1/3 cup chopped dried shiitake mushrooms ■ 1 carrot, peeled and thinly sliced ■ 1 parsnip, peeled and thinly sliced ■ 2 stalks celery, thinly sliced ■ Salt and pepper to taste Sauté garlic and onion in olive oil. Add fresh mushrooms and sauté 5 minutes.

Add sautéed mix with all other ingredients to large pot of chicken stock. Rinse barley before adding. Simmer for 1 hour.

Adjust spices.

Spinach egg drop soup (can be doubled) ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■

4 cups chicken broth or stock 1 bag fresh spinach 4 cloves garlic, minced Juice of 1 fresh lemon 1 egg, beaten Salt and pepper Fresh parsley or cilantro to taste

Sauté minced garlic. Add all ingredients except egg to broth and simmer 5 or 6 minutes. Just before serving, pour egg into simmering soup, forming the egg drop threads. Serve immediately.

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Vaccine distribution needs improvement

he rollout of New York state’s Covid-19 vaccine distribution has been, at times, disorganized, even chaotic, but in fairness, the state has received a mere 300,000 doses per week, while the need is significantly greater than that — there are nearly 19.5 million people living in the state, and more than 7 million of them are currently eligible to receive the vaccine.

Three hundred thousand represents 1.5 percent of the state’s population. The actual percentage of people receiving the vaccine, however, is less than 1 percent per week, as each person must receive two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine to achieve 95 percent immunity to the coronavirus.

So, at the current rate of vaccination, we would need more than 100 weeks — about two years — to vaccinate everyone in the state, and at least 60 weeks, or a little more than a year, to achieve “herd immunity.”

As is the case with all other states, New York’s weekly allocation is determined by the federal government. Last week, President Biden announced that his administration had finalized deals to buy 200 million more vaccine doses from Pfizer and Moderna by this summer, so it appears increasingly likely that he will be able to make good on a promise to ensure that all Americans who choose to be vaccinated can be.

These are frustrating months. Life-saving vaccines started streaming into the public in early December, but slowly. That is behind us, though. Now we must focus on the future.

We urge people to be patient as more vaccine is manufactured and sent out to the states. Your turn will come — soon. In the meantime, keep following the critical

Who’s next for an inoculation?

New York state began the second part of Phase 2b of its Covid-19 inoculation distribution plan on Monday. Those in the phase include women who are pregnant and people with: ■ Cancer, current or in remission, including 9/11-related cancers ■ Chronic kidney disease ■ Pulmonary disease ■ Intellectual and developmental disabilities, including Down syndrome ■ Heart conditions, including high blood pressure ■ Immunocompromised state (weakened immune system) ■ Severe obesity (body mass index of 40 safety protocols that we have heard repeated again and again over the past year — stay home as much as possible, keep at least six feet of distance between you and others, wear a mask (or two) when in public (KN95 masks are five-layered and tight-fitting), wash your hands often and use hand sanitizer when you cannot. And even after you receive the vaccine, be sure to continue these measures.

We were surprised to see that food bank workers were not included in New York’s staged vaccine distribution plan. Those who work at food banks, many of them volunteers, are doing God’s work, feeding the hungry and the poor. If they don’t show up to work, people don’t eat, lowering their immune systems, making them

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leTTers How long will Kreiss rant about Trump?

To the Editor: Re Randi Kreiss’s column “Post-inauguration: So how are we doing?” (Jan. 28-Feb. 3): Kreiss wonders “what the news outlets will rant about now” after President Trump. Nevertheless, she continues to kvetch about Trump, proving that old habits die hard.

Although evolving news events ensnare and threaten the objects of her affection on the left, she chooses not to focus on these realities, but rather to lick her chops over what she blindly sees as a change for the better.

In a column last July devoted to the dangers that the coronavirus posed to the elderly in nursing homes, Kreiss carefully chose not to mention Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order that Covid-19 patients be returned to nursing homes, although it had been well established by then that

kg/m2 or higher), obesity (body mass index of between 30 kg/m2 and 40 kg/ m2) ■ Sickle cell disease or thalassemia ■ Type 1 or 2 diabetes mellitus ■ Cerebrovascular disease ■ Neurologic conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease and dementia ■ Liver disease Previous phases included health care and emergency workers, educators, essential workers and those over age 65.

For more information and instructions on how to schedule your vaccine, go to the New York State Department of Health website, covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov. more vulnerable to disease, including Covid-19.

Clearly, food bank workers are among our most essential workers, and should have been included in any vaccine distribution plan. We are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and our state legislators to rethink the plan — and include them in the current round of inoculations, labeled Phase 1b.

Finally, when your turn comes to be vaccinated, be sure to schedule your inoculation as soon as you can. People have reported reactions that include muscle soreness and mild to moderate flu-like symptoms, but these side effects pale in comparison with the virus itself, which, strangely, leaves some unharmed, while ravaging — and killing — others.

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here are many benefits to getting older, although I often wish that I were a lot younger. When it comes to Long Island politics, I have pretty good recall going back to the mid-1950s.

As a fledging reporter for a weekly newspaper, I met County Executive A. Holly Patterson, and in later years had some battles with his successors Ralph Caso and Fran Purcell. I served in the Assembly with the late Tom Gulotta, another former county executive, and of course know U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, JerrY who also occupied the executive’s kremer office.

While all of those characters had different personalities, by and large they were good county executives who performed their jobs responsibly. They made sure the streets were plowed after snowstorms and the potholes on county highways were filled. They all had their challenges, and like all human beings, they made their share of mistakes.

All of this leads me to some observations about current County Executive Laura Curran.

Nassau County, like all suburban counties, isn’t an easy place to govern. It has a major police force, a large workforce and facilities all over the place. There are county parks and numerous recreation facilities. We are blessed with beautiful beaches and waterfront facilities, which require maintenance and supervision. But if I had to pick the toughest part of Curran’s job, it is managing the county’s finances, and that includes tax collections.

On the few occasions that I dealt with the county’s tax assessment system, I usually met with some department employee who worked with old yellow assessment cards that looked like they’d been used since the Civil War. The agency has never been easy to run, and its assessment of homes has been a source of anxiety for Curran, as it was for her predecessors. There is no way to make any aggrieved homeowner happy, and Curran has done the best she could to keep the system from imploding.

Long before she came to the job, the county was in deep financial trouble. For years and years, it ran up major deficits, and for political reasons kept deferring any increase in real estate taxes. Executive after executive tried to paper over the

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f she doesn’t know the answers, she promises to get them, and keeps her word.

LeTTers the elderly were most vulnerable to the disease. Thousands may have died as a result of Cuomo’s order, yet she made not a single reference to it in an article that begged for such reference.

That story never faded away, having now re-emerged with new vigor. State Attorney General Letitia James alleges that the deaths due to Cuomo’s inane decision were under-reported by some 50 percent. The elderly who acquired the infection in nursing homes, and who had been transported to hospitals for treatment and died there, were not included in nursing home death statistics. Creative accounting?

Cuomo made absurd excuses for the nursing home deaths, including blaming Trump, and now he is pointing his finger in every direction to blame others for the deceptive under-reporting. These events are current, but Kreiss, again, ignores them.

President Biden has made serious missteps already, even hinting that he will renege on promises he made to reach the White House. Yet Kreiss is already apologizing for him, “and the usual kinds of mistakes” she anticipates. If four years of Trump was hell for her, eliciting her relentless assault, will Biden, another beloved, elicit four upcoming years of sickening Kreiss apologia?

ROBERT RUBALSKY East Rockaway

growing deficits, but eventually the chickens came home to roost.

In 2000, the county was near bankruptcy. In order to save it from itself, the State Legislature created the Nassau Interim Finance Authority to monitor Nassau’s finances and serve as the equivalent of a control board. NIFA is similar to boards that have been created for New York City, Yonkers and Buffalo. It keeps a close eye on the county’s operations, and a mere threat from NIFA can give the county executive and the Legislature a major migraine. NIFA isn’t a paper tiger. It has the ability to force dramatic changes in the county budget and operations.

The past two years have been especially tough for Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Sales tax collections have been declining at the same time that mandated expenses have been ballooning. Expenses have increased dramatically during the pandemic, which no one could have anticipated. The county’s share of Medicaid expenses is dictated by the federal and state governments, and there’s no source of funds to counterbalance them. Just keeping the county afloat is enough to keep Curran busy.

The other criteria I use in judging any public official’s performance is their public personality. Curran is bright, outgoing and genuinely pleasant. She is out in the community frequently, and when she faces the press, she is confident and factual. If she doesn’t know the answers, she promises to get them, and keeps her word.

I’ve seen her speak outside Long Island, and she gets high marks from total strangers who think she comes across as very professional.

I’m aware of one other facet of Curran’s performance in office. She speaks her mind, and on occasion has tangled with Gov. Andrew Cuomo over county issues. It’s hard to govern a county of over one million people and not have differences with the people in Albany or Washington.

I have no dealings with the Nassau County government, so I’m not seeking any special favors. After four years of President Donald Trump and a lot of Washington ineptitude, it’s nice to focus on local competence for a change, and Curran is a good example of that.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column?

JKremer@liherald.com.

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Kreiss column was ‘preposterous’ To the Editor: Randi Kreiss’s column “When it comes to Trump, newspapers go BIG” (Jan. 14-20) was preposterous. Kreiss asserted that former President Trump incited his supporters to violence, yet she brought no examples and no proof.

I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt, because maybe she didn’t see his speech.

But even so, she wrote, “I sure hope we do more as a society than take away his freaking Twitter account.” So Kreiss wants us, as a society, to do more than censor someone’s opinion on a private app? That idea would be fascist.

Kreiss also brought up the man at the Capitol who wore a ocratic politicians support such behavior. In addition, the man wearing the Nazi T-shirt wasn’t in a position of power. But Louis Farrakhan has met with Democratic elected leaders, some of whom have potential ties to the Nation of Islam leader.

Kreiss’s description of the riots was full of misinformation and lacked context. There were tens of thousands of people there, perhaps as many as 100,000, but only hundreds were not peaceful. Furthermore, FBI investigations show that the violence was planned weeks in advance.

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The rioters’ behavior was unacceptable. However, was it acceptable that stores and businesses were looted and people were killed during the BLM protests, which were encouraged by then Sen. Kamala Harris?

Kreiss called the election “fully legitimate.” Yet in 2005, a bipartisan commission, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, concluded, “Absentee bal-

lots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” If that’s the case, then universal mail-ins are even less reliable, leaving me more skeptical about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

All misinfor mation needs to be brought to light, and reporting must have proper context.

MORDECHAI NEWMAN Oceanside

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