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Customer sold two dogs that died in days The puppy started coughing in the car, and the family initially thought it had kennel cough.

Marisa Soto said she was ini- When Soto got home, the dog had tially excited to welcome a new diarrhea, and she called a veteripuppy into her home as a birth- narian whom Shake A Paw had day gift for one of her daughters, recommended. When she took but when the dog — and a her to the vet, she was told that replacement — died, her exuber- everything should be fine, but ance turned into anger. the next day, the puppy stopped “We were lookeating and began ing to add another vomiting. Soto said dog into our lives,” she called back, but s h e s a i d . “ I t ’s was told the vet heartbreaking.” was too busy to see After conductthe dog again and ing a web search, that she should Soto, who lives in take her elsewhere.

Staten Island, Three days later, decided to buy the Betty died. dog from Shake A Soto said that Paw in Lynbrook. when she called In early August she Shake A Paw, the bought an 8-weekemployees were old Chiweenie — a apolo getic, excross between a MaRiSa SoTo plained that that Chihuahua and a an uncommon Shake A Paw customer was dachshund — occur rence, and which she and her offered her a children, Tristan, refund or a new 18, Arianna, 15, and puppy free of Gabriel, 9, named charge. After a disBetty. Soto said she cussion with her looked forward to adding the children, Soto decided to try puppy to her family, which also again, and they brought home an included a 15-year-old poodle and 8-week-old dachshund, which a rescue pit bull that is blind and can’t walk.

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Making a mark Waverly Park Elementary School fifth-grader MGbodichinma Agwu participated in a Dot Day activity for class and made a commercial. Story, more photos, Page 16.

Lynbrook woman gets 13 years in boyfriend’s murder of her mother

By MikE SMolliNS msmollins@liherald.com

A Lynbrook woman was sentenced to 13 years in prison for her role in her boyfriend’s barbell attack on her mother outside her Long Beach apartment, which led to her death two years later.

Francesca Kiel, 23, pleaded guilty before Supreme Court Judge Christopher Quinn on July 14 to first-degree man-

slaughter in the death of her mother, Theresa Kiel, a principal in the Malverne School District for more than 30 years. Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced the sentence on Sept. 24.

Francesca’s boyfriend, Ralph Keppler, pleaded guilty last December to charges of seconddegree murder, second-degree conspiracy and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Quinn sentenced him to 22

years to life in prison on June 30.

“Francesca Kiel and her boyfriend meticulously planned the attack and murder of her own mother, Theresa Kiel, in December 2016,” Singas said in a statement. “This was a particularly challenging investig ation, because the co-defendants had worked hard to cover their tracks both before and after the attack.”

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After the attack, Keppler left the scene According to authorities, Keppler beat and returned to his Lynbrook home that Theresa Kiel with a metal barbell outside he shared with Francesca. According to her New York Avenue apartment in Long authorities, leading up to the incident, Francesca purchased a GPS tracking Beach on Dec. 4, 2016, at about 10:30 p.m.

Singas said that Theresa Kiel and Kep- device that was placed in her mother’s pler were involved in a business dispute car. She also set up email alerts that notified her when her mother’s at the time of the attack. car was in the vicinity of The victim was inside the her home or work. Addientrance corridor of the tionally, she called a Long apartment complex when Beach taxi company on the she was attacked by Kepnight of the murder, the pler and struck several same taxi company times on the head and in that picked up Keppler in the face with the barbell. the vicinity of the murder Kiel suffered severe scene. brain damage, a shattered Keppler, who worked as skull and a depressed right a New York City correceye, and lost several teeth. tions officer, was arrested She was transported to at Rikers Island by memSouth Nassau CommuniCourtesy NCPD bers of the Long Beach ties Hospital in Oceanside franCesCa Kiel, 23, Police Department on Jan. and was in a vegetative state until she died on Nov. was sentenced to 13 years 24, 2018, on attempted murin prison for her role in a der charges. Those charges 10, 2018, at age 56. were upgraded when TheHer attorney, Thomas 2016 attack that led to resa Kiel died and Keppler Liotti, said in January 2018 her mother’s death. was fired from the departthat Keppler had invested ment. Francesca was $350,000 with her to develop an app for college students. Keppler was arrested on Nov. 11, 2018.

“Thanks to extraordinary detective attempting to get his money back, which Liotti claimed was a motive for the attack. work from the Long Beach and Nassau He had sent threatening emails and texts County police departments, we unraveled to Theresa before the assault, Liotti this case and brought Theresa’s killer to added. Reached by phone on Monday, Liot- justice,” Singas said. “Our condolences are with Theresa’s mother and brother, as ti said he was pleased with the sentence.

Francesca Kiel’s attorney, Geoffrey well her many friends and coworkers in Prime, had not responded to a request for the Malverne school system.” comment at press time.

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By Bridget downes bdownes@liherald.com

Herald: Baldwin is undergoing the Down-

Former Malverne deputy mayor and village trustee Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick is challenging incumbent New York State Assemblywoman Judy Griffin for a seat representing the 21st Assembly District.

The Herald asked Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick and Griffin questions focusing on issues pertinent to the residents of several South Shore communities.

town Revitalization Initiative, for which it received a $10 million state grant to revamp the long-struggling downtown area. How can you help bring about positive development, and encourage developers to build, in not just Baldwin, but other areas blighted with empty storefronts?

Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick: The manner in

Herald: The coronavirus pandemic has

devastated our local economy, shutting down businesses and causing steep losses in revenue. What could you do, especially as federal aid is unlikely moving forward, to help the economy recover and help get the funding to the people who need it most, like local business owners and residents?

Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick: Clearly, coro-

navirus has devastated our communities with its health consequences, as well as its economic impacts. Pressing the governor for the responsible reopening of society, especially businesses, is crucial to our recovery. Consistency in policy is also important to help many businesses that are suffering rebound and survive.

With regard to making funding available to businesses, I will press governments, including New York State and Nassau County, to follow the Town of Hempstead’s example on the disbursement of CARES funding and other relief. Hempstead Town has used CARES funding to open pop-up food pantries, deliver meals to senior citizens, furnish PPE kits to area businesses, outfit hospitals with Covid safety supplies, establish Covid testing sites, and more. Sadly, some other governments are merely utilizing CARES monies to plug their budget deficits.

Judy griffin: Covid-19 has negatively impacted us in many ways. First and foremost the many lives lost is a tragedy for our community, state and country. Secondly, the economic impact and fiscal crisis that we are facing as a result is unprecedented. We still have not received the essential aid we need from the federal government. All efforts must be made to explore and develop new revenue streams that can fund schools, municipalities, health services, etc. While we wait for the federal government to act, it is imperative to assess our spending and revenues in real time in order to make informed decisions. A mid-year fiscal report from Comptroller Tom DiNapoli in mid-October followed by a fiscal report from Governor Andrew Cuomo will provide essential information.

Residents, especially our seniors and essential workers, have been the hardest hit by the pandemic. I will continue to work diligently on unemployment issues, advocate for tax and rent relief as well as helping to fund health insurance initiatives to assist those that lost their benefits due to job loss as a result of Covid-19.

Judy Griffin Age: 57 Party: Democratic education: Bachelor of Science in Business Economics with minors in Political Science and Communication from the State University of New York at Oneonta Individual Assistance is vital during these times. I established a routine set of protocols for my staff to assist people with unemployment claims and other issues that adversely impacted their lives.

We also did continuous outreach to senior citizens via wellness checks and provided support where needed.

Established businesses throughout A.D. 21 have been hit extremely hard. We are so fortunate on Long Island to have organizations that advocate strongly for our local businesses and economic development. I regularly initiate communication with organizations such as LI Vision, Chambers of Commerce and many others to address our local needs at the state level. I initiated and hosted a series of Small Businesses Conferences on Zoom in collaboration with these organizations. I advocated directly to the governor for the reopening of bowling alleys, health clubs and malls and was successful. Next, it is imperative that we open movie theatres, comedy clubs, smaller live concert venues and increase seating in restaurants now that our Covid-19 numbers have flattened.

Although the State Liquor Authority has to perform due-diligence on overseeing that guidelines are followed, we must remain vigilant in ensuring that fines and closures are not punitive or excessive.

These hard working businessmen and women need our support and we must make sure that executive power is not overreaching. I co-sponsored a bill that was signed into law in June that establishes a state disaster emergency loan program.

Herald: Schools are struggling to balance

their budgets after seeing a small increase to Foundation Aid this year, and school officials are worried about possible cuts from the state coming later in the year.

Patricia CanzoneriFitzpatrick Age: 55 Party: Republican, Conservative education: Bachelor of Science in Accounting from St. John’s University College of Business Administration, Juris Doctor from St. John’s University School of Law How can you help local schools get the funding they need?

Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick: The Foundation Aid did not increase at all from 2019-20 to 202021 and the formulas have not been fully funded for years. The process of assigning school aid has become arbitrary. At the same time, Long Island homeowners cannot afford the property tax increases that will likely result if our state legislators cannot successfully fend off prospective education aid cuts. In the alternative, Long Island’s top-quality schools would confront severe cost cutting, which would erode our quality of education. New York State’s budgets cannot be balanced on the backs of students. All other alternatives must be explored, including the restructuring of state debt, allocation of federal CARES funding to our school districts, reordering the state’s spending priorities and more. griffin: Supporting our schools is one of

my main priorities. In the 2019 budget I was able to secure a record $198 million in funding to schools in the 21st Assembly District. I also got an additional $1.3 million for municipalities throughout the district.

This year’s budget was much more difficult for obvious reasons. If we do not receive emergency assistance from the federal government, we have to look closely at options to fund schools. As a result of schools closing, we had to take legislative action to ensure payments of state aid when schools fell below the required 180-day threshold. This enabled schools to get the essential funding they needed and was signed into law in June. I am also cosponsoring a bill to make sure that religious and private schools are also able to receive state funding despite not meeting

which we approach downtown revitalization and development must change if our region is going to move forward and realize the promise of economic prosperity.

One of the biggest obstacles to downtown revitalization is the uncertainty that developers face with respect to zoning, as well as local and state assistance.

I am an advocate of creating Economic Development Zones, that would set zoning, as well as governmental assistance parameters for entire neighborhoods or blocks, as opposed to the outdated practice of piecemeal redevelopment of individual parcels. Under an Economic Development Zone program, developers and the community would be made aware of the full package of proposed development inducements, zoning parameters and other factors (i.e. Industrial Development Agency benefits, federal revitalization grants, local government investment such as the complementary use of adjacent underutilized municipal/state parcels). Piecemeal and traditional revitalization approaches have proven cost ineffective for developers and arduously slow for those who live in surrounding neighborhoods. Baldwin residents have endured several downtown revitalization efforts, including the current overlay district, but I believe the more comprehensive approach which is detailed in the aforementioned Economic Development Zone approach would elicit a more prosperous result.

griffin: I was so proud to have a role in securing the $10 million DRI project for Baldwin. This wonderful community has been advocating for this for years. I am pleased to see all levels of government collaborating with the Local Planning Committee. NYS, Nassau County, and the Town of Hempstead have all played an active role. My staff and I will remain in close contact to see this project through.

The pandemic has not slowed development activity. Development in multi-family housing, shared office space, and health care facilities has been constant.

There is a growing demand, especially from our younger residents, for affordable, walkable communities with a mix of retail, business and access to mass transit. I am pleased to see the progress Bartone Development is making at the former Capri Motel. I will continue to find ways to encourage community and local government supported projects in our downtowns.

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Woman angered by puppies’ deaths marisa soto, of Staten Island, said that Shake A Paw, in Lynbrook, would not refund the money she spent on pet supplies after two puppies that she purchased died within days.

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This time, Soto said, she decided to take the dog to a veterinarian closer to home, which has cared for her other dogs.

A few days after the purchase, the puppy developed diarrhea, and was taken to the vet and euthanized. Both puppies died of parvo, a highly contagious virus that causes an infectious gastrointestinal illness in puppies and young dogs.

“The first one was really devastating to my daughter and to us because it was sort of shocking,” she said. “We’ve had dogs before, we’ve had puppies before, and that’s not something that has ever happened to us. The second one, I was more angry than anything else.”

A Herald reporter twice contacted Shake A Paw, where an employee took a message each time, but no one from the store had responded by press time.

Soto’s issue comes after the New York state attorney general’s office announced in March 2018 that it was investigating Shake A Paw stores in Lynbrook and Hicksville after receiving 30 complaints from customers across Long Island who said they were sold sick puppies. A representative for the attorney general’s office told the Herald in an email that the investigation was continuing.

The state Department of Agriculture and Markets also received four complaints about the store in 2017, and all were settled. “All four complaints were reviewed by the department and were either resolved or closed,” Lisa Koumjian, the department’s public information officer, told the Herald in 2018. “During the department’s most recent inspection of Shake A Paw, the company was found to be in compliance with the state’s pet dealer regulations.”

When Soto called Shake A Paw after the second puppy died, she said, she was reimbursed for the dog, but the store would not reimburse the $3,000 medical bill she received for the second puppy because, she was told, she took it to a veterinarian other than the one the store recommended. The store also did not refund $600 Soto was charged for puppy supplies, toys, vitamins and a cage.

Soto said she wasn’t angry with Shake A Paw employees, and noted that they were respectful and emotionally support-

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the sotto family’s second puppy, Dottie, right, and the family’s first puppy, Betty, left. ive. She was, however, upset that she did not get her money back, though she had no plans to pursue the matter further.

“It’s all done,” she said. “I just wanted to be over with it. It was kind of traumatizing.”

Photos courtesy Marisa Soto

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Advocates seek justice for Breonna Taylor

By Briana Bonfiglio bbonfiglio@liherald.com

Black women were front and center at the latest Black Lives Matter protest outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola on Sept. 24.

The protest primarily sought justice for 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was fatally shot by a Louisville police officer in March. Officer Brett Hankinson was indicted on Sept. 23 on three counts of wanton endangerment for bullets that flew into a neighboring apartment. There were no charges in relation to Taylor’s death.

One protester held a sign that read, “They charged the bullets that missed.”

Others said, “Jail killer cops,” “Shut down racism and white supremacy” and “No justice no peace.” Another said “Defund the police” on the front and “Refund social services” on the back.

Several local advocacy groups banded together to organize the rally, including the Long Island chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, LI United to Transform Policing and Community Safety, Nassau County Democratic Socialists of America, Long Island Black Alliance, NY02 Indivisible, Long Island Activists and Young Long Island for Justice. The protest began around 5:15 p.m. and led into a march about two hours later, after several Black Long Islanders spoke emotionally at the microphone.

Nia Adams, a Long Island organizer, said she took the death of Taylor “very personally” — “the last 24 hours have been very hard for me,” she said.

“The lesson that we are hearing out of Louisville is it is OK to break into a Black woman’s home,” she continued, “it is OK to murder a Black woman in her sleep, and it is OK to then attempt to slander and criminalize a Black woman after her death, and you will not be held accountable.”

She added that Taylor’s death is not an isolated incident. “This is a culture that needs to change,” she said. “We need to … divest [from police departments] and reinvest in community solutions — into health care, housing and education. These are the things that matter. These are the things that keep us safe.”

Shanequa Levin, founder of Women’s Diversity Network and member of LI United to Transform Policing and Community Safety, said she is “tired of having to give my kids ‘the talk,’” referring to the conversations Black parents have with their children to “teach them how to behave differently” when approached by a police officer.

“I can’t take my Black skin off,” she said, shouting. “I can’t do that. I’m Black every damn day, and you see that as a threat.”

Couple Devon Toney and Latoya Bazmore, community organizers from Brentwood, spoke about their own alleged experiences with police brutality. They said that they were beaten by Suffolk County police officers on the evening of Aug. 30 while hosting a barbecue at Ross Memorial Park in Brentwood for home-

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Many held signs in support of Black community members feeling hurt by the persistence of police brutality cases across the country.

shanequa levin, founder of Women’s Diversity Network and member of LI United to Transform Policing and Community Safety, vented her frustrations about how Black people are viewed in the United States. less, addicted and mentally ill community members. “I’m still traumatized by what went on that night,” Bazmore said, adding that she often sees people who are on the streets struggling being “brutalized by police.”

Protest organizers made several demands, including dropping charges made against Toney that night; charging, arresting and convicting “all killer cops”; divesting from Nassau County police; reinvesting in community safety programs; and providing slavery reparations for Black citizens.

Throughout the protest, the crowd took part in call-and-response chants, such as “Say her name, Breonna Taylor,” “When Black lives are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back” and “The people united, will never be defeated.”

“All I want us to do is continue what we doing,” Bazmore said. “Don’t ever lose the fight in you.”

PeoPle of all ages, but mostly young people in their 20s and 30s, gathered outside a Nassau County legislative building in Mineola to protest the lack of charges against Louisville police officers for the death of Breonna Taylor. nia adaMs, a racial justice advocate on Long Island, spoke candidly about how the Breonna Taylor case has affected her emotionally.

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Coaches talk high school, college sports delays

By Briana Bonfiglio bbonfiglio@liherald.com

High school and college sports coaches on the latest Herald Inside LI webinar discussed how Covid-19 has affected their programs — including new recruiting methods, alternatives to competitive gameplay and staying positive through it all.

The virtual panel was live-streamed on Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. and produced by RichnerLive, a division of Richner Communications Inc., publisher of Herald Community Newspapers. Herald Inside LI is a webinar series that aims to educate the community about navigating different aspects of life during the coronavirus pandemic.

Local athletic coaches and officials joined the most recent conversation, including Chuck Priore, head football coach at Stony Brook University; Danielle Santos Atkinson, head women’s basketball coach at Hofstra University; Michael Rubino, head football coach and athletic director at Valley Stream Central High School; and David Viegas, director of health, phys. ed. and athletics in the Hewlett-Woodmere Union Free School District.

Tony Bellissimo, sports editor of Herald Community Newspapers, offered opening remarks about the delay of fall sports because of Covid-19. “This has serious effects on schools and student-athletes,” he said, “especially the student-athletes in high school with an eye on playing at the next level.”

Skye Ostreicher, of RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers, moderated the event and asked the panelists questions — first, about their reactions to the delay of high school and college sports.

“It tears me apart to not see our kids and be at their games,” Viegas said, “but I think the focus had to be on getting us back into school, and now that we’re there, staying there, staying open.”

The other panelists agreed that though it must have been a tough decision for university officials to make, health and safety must be the top priority. “We need to make the most out of it and figure out how to move this process forward,” Priore said.

A big concern among high school athletes is losing game time that could be recorded and sent to college coaches, or

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CloCkwise from top left: David Viegas, director of health, physical education and athletics at Hewlett-Woodmere Union Free School District; Skye Ostreicher, Herald Inside LI moderator; Michael Rubino, head football coach and athletic director at Valley Stream Central High School; Danielle Santos Atkinson, head women’s basketball coach at Hofstra Universit;y and Chuck Priore, head football coach at Stony Brook University discussed how Covid-19 has impacted the college sports recruiting process on Sept. 23. that recruiters could attend to watch them play. However, the panelists each gave advice to those student-athletes looking to continue their sport in college. “We have learned different ways of recruiting and outreach,” Priore noted.

This means using online platforms to connect with colleges, rather than in-person meetings, tours or visits with college officials at competitions. Both Priore and Atkinson said they use social media to learn more about prospective players.

They also said that they would accept videos of players demonstrating their skills, even if they are not in a game and are recorded by a friend or family member.

College tours are also available virtually, Priore noted, as well as a wealth of information about the schools. Now that

prospective student-athletes are diving deeper into Stony Brook’s online information, “I honestly think the kids that we’re recruiting are benefitting from knowing Stony Brook better,” he said.

Priore added that being able to hop on a Zoom call for recruiting purposes has been advantageous for his football players looking to enter professional leagues.

“Today, we had 32 NFL teams on a Zoom call with [our athletics officials], showcasing our kids,” he said. “We’ve never had 32 NFL teams visit our campus, so our kids got more exposure this year than they normally would.”

For high school students, Atkinson encouraged Zoom calls for getting to know potential teammates and coaches at colleges. “They’re able to get on a call and

come face to face with our academic adviser, strength coach and student-athletes, which was a great change,” she said, “because that’s one of the most important things — who are the people that I’m going to be surrounded by during my time in college?”

Rubino said that Twitter is a great place for high school students to present themselves to coaches, as well, by adding information about the student’s academics and sports background. “It’s about marketing yourself in the best possible light,” he said. “Let [coaches] know what class you are and make it as easy as possible for them to recruit you.”

Although games are not being played, college student-athletes have already begun training in small groups within their teams, while following health and safety protocols, with practices on the horizon. The college coaches noted that during the shutdown, not all the players had access to a gym to continue conditioning before playing. Thus, they are still getting all players on the same page before they start playing in January.

“We had to stay in small groups as a football program, social distance and wear masks indoors,” Priore said. “From a training standpoint, our kids have really benefited.”

High school student-athletes, however, are mostly still waiting to practice with their teams. Coaches are formulating plans to make this happen in the future.

The panelists noted that without competitive sports in the fall, there is plenty of time to focus on academics, as well as maintain relationships with college officials to get recruited.

“It’s not canceled; it’s just postponed,” Viegas said. “They’ll get their opportunity; they just have to be patient.”

The panelists acknowledged that for student-athletes, many of whom have played every year since they were young, the change in plans could be overwhelming. Atkinson encouraged coaches and parents to discuss mental health with their student-athletes and to shed a positive light on the situation.

“Everyone is just trying to stay positive, follow the rules, wear your mask,” Rubino said, “and then hopefully in the next few weeks, we’ll start to see some high schools generate plans where we can follow [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidelines and get [teams] back together a little bit.”

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Harold Peterson, a longtime resident of Rockville Centre and Wantagh, was passionate about New York politics and spent the last decade of his life trying to instill change at the state level. He died on Sept. 23, 2020, at the age of 92, after suffering a heart attack.

Known to friends and family as “Hal,” Peterson had a strong interest in the “dysfunction” in Albany and became a guest columnist for Herald Community Newspapers in August 2010, highlighting the problems that persisted in New York State government. Judy Rattner, who was editor at the time, said that he approached her with the idea of writing a column focusing on fiscal refor m, and she thought it would be a topic of importance to readers.

“I thought it was something everybody could agree on, and it was nonpartisan and made a lot of sense,” Rattner said. “His intent was to root out corruption and greed in Albany.”

Peterson wrote more than three dozen columns between August 2010 and January 2015.

“He was a real gentleman,” Rattner

said. “He was always very pleasant to work with.”

In April 2011, he launched his own website, www.ReformAlbanyNowRegistry.com — a source of information for those interested in working to restore the state to a path of fiscal responsibility. That spring, he spoke at the Rockville Centre Public Library, along with experts charged with the oversight of New York’s public authorities and state and local agencies to address the need for reform.

At that time, he said state residents were in need of a “leaner, smarter, more efficient and affordable” state Harold government, and that both taxes and debt would continue to rise unless something is done.

Peterson continued to stay active in local politics until the end. Last week, he posted his final column on his blog taking Nassau County Executive Laura Curran to task for her proposed budget.

The post is dated Sept. 21, just two days before he died.

Peterson was born on July 25, 1928, to Fred and Evelyn Peterson in Ridgewood. According to the biography post-

ed on his website, he secured an entrance level job with the Standard Oil Company after high school working as a clerk in the coordination and economics department. He began taking evening classes at Columbia University until his Army Reserve unit was activated at the onset of the Korean War in 1950. He received a commendation for serving on the staff of a Brigadier General in the Corps of Engineering, and was discharged in 1952. He graduated from Hofstra University in 1955, earning a bachelor’s degree in business administration, and then joined the Executive Peterson Development Program of the New York Telephone C o m p a ny. I n 1 9 8 4 , Pe t e r s o n w a s appointed director of internal audit o p e r at i o n s o f t h e n ew ly fo r m e d NYNEX Corporation, dealing primarily with new acquisitions and the standardization of auditing procedures. He retired in 1990 after 36 years before turning his attention to local issues.

During retirement, he served on a special committee advising Nassau County’s Parks Department on the use

of a newly built swim complex; assisted the director of the Rockville Centre Library in studying the deployment and use of computer resources; and joined the staff of Wester n Suffolk BOCES, lecturing in libraries throughout Nassau and Suffolk Counties on the use of the Internet to build and manage investment portfolios.

In 1956, Peterson mar ried Mary Ellen Stapleton. They enjoyed a happy life together for nearly 60 years, according to their children, until her death in February 2016. The couple lived in Wantagh for 30 years, where they raised their children, then spent 21 years in Rockville Centre. They were the loving and devoted parents of Steven (Karen), Robert (Jann), Nancy (Steven) Onufrey and Kathleen (Raymond) Moore, adored grandparents of eight and great-grandparents of two.

Peterson was reposed at Clair S. Bartholomew & Son Inc. in Bellmore.

Funeral Mass was held Monday at St. Barnabas Roman Catholic Church in Bellmore, followed by interment at St. Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale.

I n l i e u o f fl owe r s, t h e f a m i ly requests donations to OneTreePlanted. org for $1 to pass his legacy forward.

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MSSN scores big with annual golf outing by bRiAnA bonfiGlio bbonfiglio@liherald.com

Mount Sinai South Nassau raised more than $280,000 for the Oceanside hospital’s Covid-19 relief fund at its 36th annual golf outing.

The sold-out event was a socially distanced affair and honored MSSN’s entire 3,565-person staff who worked and cared for patients during the worst of the coronavirus outbreak in the spring.

“It was truly a great day in recognition and celebration of our dedicated and courageous health-care professionals,” said Richard Murphy, president and CEO of Mount Sinai South Nassau. “I commend our golf committee for organizing an outstanding event and thank our sponsors for their generous and steadfast support.”

The golf outing’s co-chairmen, Rockville Centre residents Tony Cancellieri and Jeff Greenfield, led a 40-person committee of volunteers to organize the event, which was more challenging than the past 35 years. “We wanted to try to make people feel comfortable coming to the outing,” Cancellieri said. “And boy, did we hit a home run. It was a wonderful outing.”

The event attracted 280 golfers with strict health and safety protocols in place. There was no barbecue like in past years, but instead, a grab-and-go breakfast and a grilled lunch. Four separate golf sessions were held at the Seawane Club in Hewlett Harbor and the Rockaway Hunting Club in Lawrence — a morning and afternoon session at each location.

“We were very pleased with the turnout and the community’s continued support for the hospital, especially during this challenging time,” Cancellieri said. “After the long lockdown, many of our players were eager to get out on the course, and we demonstrated that you can have a safe outing if you put in place the proper procedures.”

Cancellieri also noted that it was only fitting to honor the hospital staff this year. Long Island’s South Shore was among the areas hardest hit by Covid-19. MSSN has treated more than 1,400 Covid-19 patients. Hospital beds surged to more than 500 during the pandemic’s peak in April. Now, the hospital has transitioned back to near-normal operations, with cleaning and safety measures in place.

The golf outing served to celebrate MSSN workers and raise money for the hospital’s Covid-19 fund, as the pandemic has brought on numerous extra expenses. In the past eight to 10 years, the golf outing had raised money for the hospital’s upgraded emergency department and exceeded the goal of $10 million.

The event’s major sponsors were L.E.B. Electric, Ltd., Signature Bank, Jeffrey Frisch, Long Beach Nursing & Rehabilitation, Neurological Surgery PC, Parking Systems, Park Strategies LLC, Professional Maintenance of LI, Ropes & Gray LLP and Squad Security Inc. Joe Calderone, MSSN’s senior vice president of corporate communications, said that beyond raising money, the show of support at the event was encouraging. “We didn’t really know how many people would participate,” he said. “It helps the morale of everybody here to know that the community supports them.”

Photos courtesy Mount Sinai South Nassau

timothy s. dRiscoll, justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York; Anthony Cancellieri, vice chairman of MSSN’s Board of Directors; Joe Calderone, MSSN’s senior vice president of corporate communications; and Michael Sapraicone, president and CEO of Squad Security, enjoyed the pleasant weather.

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he year 2020 has been like nothing any of us have experienced before. In March, we were getting ready to host our annual St. Patrick’s Day Party when the scope of the Covid-19 crisis began to become apparent. Something that was a problem in other far-off places became a major problem here in New York. The planes stopped flying, and people retreated to their homes.

Terms and phrases like “flatten the curve,” “social distancing” and “cover your face” became part of everyday life.

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As we get back on our feet, we will do so with the goal of keeping our members and guests at Post 1087 safe. This fall, the post, at 233 Woodlawn Road in West Hempstead, will be a polling place from Oct. 24 to Nov. 3. For those who choose to, they can also request a ballot by mail. We thank you for all your support.

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he pandemic has made me realize that I need to stay connected with people in different ways. I connect through Zoom meetings. We have also made a commitment to smaller groups of people meeting over Zoom.

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t seemed as though I was the busiest person on Earth. As my varied careers almost imperceptibly demanded increasing amounts of time, home became a place to temporarily crash while bolting between them. I didn’t plan that life, but one day I turned around and there I was, out of the house more than I was in it.

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My children learned remotely, my husband worked from home, and I was not scheduled for teletherapy. For the first time ever, my job description was to slow down, build relationships, laugh, play and relax. I had long conversations. I indulged my clients in decadent self-care. I showered my family with endless hours of attention. And I properly cared for myself. It was heaven on earth, and I decided to never return to a mayhem mindset.

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Between balancing her personal life, helping with her grandchildren and caring for her e l d e rl y m o t h e r, Christine Leder said she was relieved to turn to the Oceansidebased Seniors Helping Seniors for support.

T h e c o m p a ny provides non-medical help for seniors across the western par t of Nassau County by providing those in their 80s and 90s with a non-medical aide close to their age range to offer companionship and Courtesy Stuart Berr support.

“The thing that SeniorS Helping SeniorS in Oceanside pairs at-home aides drew me was that it with senior companions to help them with their needs. Above, was seniors helping volunteer Avarlon Bobb, left, and Franklin Square resident Eleanor seniors,” Leder, a Gensh.

Rockville Centre resident, said. “It’s engagement and responding to health been a very nice experience, and I hope it events at a distance by using sensors or continues this way.” medical management devices. Berr said Leder said her mother, Joan Rohrs, has there is a pendant that seniors can wear been involved in the program for nearly around their wrists that they can use to four years and has enjoyed it. Her aide communicate to an aide without being in takes her to physical therapy and doctor’s the same place as them. It can also conappointments, to the hairdresser, the nect them to a doctor in real-time and bookstore, other appointments and out to help avoid any unnecessary in-person vislunch. They typically spend a half-day its with their aide amid the coronavirus together a few times a week. pandemic.

Stuart Berr, who has owned the compa“It’s peace of mind and for their overny since March 2012, said he aims to hire all safety,” Berr said. “With Seniors Helppeople who have spare time and can ing Seniors, the idea is for them to live understand and connect with the people independently and safely with dignity they are helping. and respect.”

“As a companion, they’re being like With the pandemic causing many anyone else, like a neighbor down the seniors to feel reluctant to go into an street,” he said. “It really depends upon assisted living facility, Berr said, the penthe client’s needs entirely. It’s a personal- dant option can help them remain at ized service. You’re helping them get in home and still feel safe. The virus has also the car, you’re going at their speed.” caused the company to make some adjustThe aides usually go to the client’s ments, as anyone with Covid-19 symphome or assisted living facility, and are toms or who is returning from virus hot also available to take them out to various spots must quarantine and are advised places. He said the goal is for aides to not to work until a negative test is shown. become like family members. In past Hand washing, social distancing and cases, aides have taken their companions mask wearing have also been implementto Broadway shows, grocery shopping, ed. So far, he said, only one employee has parks, beaches and many other places. tested positive for the virus and she chose They are also available to work on house- to step away from the job for two months. hold chores such as taking out the garAs far as matching aides and seniors, bage, doing laundry and cooking, and can Berr said, he tries to provide a personal also remind their companions to take touch and find the right fit the first time their medication. The company now has so that no hiccups are experienced. about 20 employees who usually work one “You want someone that feels like part case at a time. of the family and is there for years,” he The company also introduced a new said. “I find people who have time and telecommunications technology, which find it rewarding.” helps aides and their companions mainTo learn more, visit seniorcarerockviltain relationships that are not in-person lecentre.com, or email stuartbshs@aol. through monitoring, providing social com.

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Students celebrate international Dot Day event Students from Lynbrook’s Kinderg ar ten Center, Marion Street and Waverly Park elementary schools joined with students from around the globe to celebrate International Dot Day on Sept. 15.

International Dot Day is inspired by Peter Reynolds’ book, “The Dot,” a story that encourages creativity and self-confidence, while motivating students to make a difference.

In honor of the international holiday, classes from each school read “The Dot” with their teachers, discussed the book and completed activities related to the story.

With guidance from Lynbrook Kindergarten Center’s art teacher, Carol Henderson, kindergartners created a project based on colorful dots and lines. They also discussed the quote, “A line is a dot that went for a walk,”

by artist Paul Klee and were given a set of instructions on the placement of their marks. The final steps were to add strips of colored paper, creating a three-dimensional element to the project. During the first week of school, their creations decorated the Kindergarten Center’s hallways.

At Marion Street School, first-graders in Claudia Hetzel’s class made their own dots using markers, while

third-, fourth- and fifth-g raders at Waverly Park explored ways that they could make their mark on the world.

The third-g raders displayed their ideas and their dots on a colorful board in the school hallway, while Shari Bowes’ fifth grade class completed a worksheet about how they could make a dif ference. Students then shared their responses in a Dot Day video.

Waverly Park elementary School, fourthgrader Luca Cali wore clothing covered in dots in honor of Dot Day.

Lynbrook kindergarten Center’s student, Timothy Flynn, created an art project for Dot Day.

first-grader kimberly nugent, Worked on a Dot Day activity with her class.

Photos courtesy Lynbrook Public Schools

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS will hold a WORKSHOP, on Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 7:00 P.M. in the Board Room at the Village Hall, One Columbus Drive, Lynbrook, NY 11563, to hear the following cases: WORKSHOP #974 - Mr. Michael Shipman, - 4 Brower Place § 144-5 Height of fences. Fences for all other lot lines shall not exceed four feet in height. Permitted: 4 feet Proposed: 6 Feet #975 Koram Holdings LLC/Ryu’s Martial Arts Inc. 309-311 Sunrise Highway § 252-54 Off Street Parking 1 parking space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area Required: 15 spaces, Proposed: 12 Spaces #976 Fadi Al

Mahmoud/225 Sunrise Corp - 225 Sunrise Highway. § 252-54 Off Street Parking 1 parking space for each 250 square feet of gross floor area Required: 11 spaces Proposed: 0 Spaces 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.

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 123306

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LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU CV XXVIII, LLC, Plaintiff against AMJAD QURESHI; SHEROZ QURESHI; NAYAB QURESHI, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on November 9, 2016.

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. on the 27th day of October, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Lynbrook, Town of Hempstead, County of

Nassau and State of New York.

Said premises known as 1 Olive Place, Lynbrook, N.Y. 11563.

(Section: 42, Block: 13001, Lot: 91 & 92) Approximate amount of lien $ 681,400.38 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale.

Index No. 002561-15.

Arthur Walsh, Esq., Referee.

Stern & Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 B Route 1 South Suite 330 Iselin, NJ 08830 (732) 582-6344 123174

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Q. My father built a dormer on our house in the ’70s, and we want to sell the house but are being told that the permit didn’t include the bathroom or bedrooms. We decided to go with an expediter instead of an architect because it’s a simple thing, and we didn’t want to spend more or make it more complicated. The expediter says we won’t need the insulation information or window changes the architects said we need. What can we Ask The expect? Is this really simple, Architect or complicated?

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A. Sometimes trying to make things simpler makes things more complicated. Not filling in all the blanks means that if the blanks are ignored, just like a student with a half-answered test paper, you’re going to fail in onte eeper your objective, which is to get the permit, get the plumbing, electrical and final building inspections and get the final certificate of completion. Although you may think this involves just making a few calls, what it really involves, if done legally and correctly, is accurate measuring, drawing and code documentation.

What does that mean, and why do you need all that? The original dormer permit, more correctly described as an “addition to the second floor,” was handled as an unoccupied shell (from the drawing you emailed me). That typical ploy was done to avoid paying taxes since it was considered storage by your town, which granted the permit, and your county, which taxes you for the character of the building.

By not being habitable space, like bedrooms, it was believed that the taxes would be lower, which they may have been until the house was reassessed.

Building officials, if they review your expediter’s documents consistently with their safety requirements for a habitable second floor in 2020, not the 1970s, will require that the window openings meet current, larger sizes. Had the addition been previously approved as habitable space, or if the reviewing plans examiner allows the windows under a code for existing buildings, you may be able to avoid putting in larger windows before you can get a sign-off and sell.

In a quirky twist of logic, since the house plans don’t show any insulation, you may be required to meet the current New York State Energy Code, dictated by federal energy mandates. That means more insulation than would even fit in the small rafters — undersized, according to the current code, for the addition.

You may be of the belief that an expediter, whom you believe will get this done more quickly and without meeting all the requirements, can get around all this, but they don’t, really. Expediters still need an architect’s or engineer’s signature and seal on plans, because expediters aren’t legally responsible if things are incorrect. Architects, unlike most other professions, are regularly circumvented, and nobody, officially or unofficially, says anything. Barbers no longer pull teeth instead of dentists. Would you do the same with lawyers, doctors or even airline pilots? Would you want to?

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y soul is aching.

As the Covid-19 death toll surpassed 200,000 last week, we mourned Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of America’s greatest daughters — an incredible mind with a voracious appetite for learning, a fearless, indomitable advocate for women’s rights and, quite simply, a good and decent human being, with an oldschool sense of politeness that enabled her to deliver a penetrating verbal jab without personal insult.

Her death at age 87 came only two months after the sCoTT passing of U.S. Rep. BRinTon John Lewis, who was 80. Together they represented a particular brand of leadership: strength obtained not through bullying, but through the depth of their moral conviction, their sense of justice and their commitment to telling the truth under all circumstances.

Each helped create a more equal society and a more perfect union, though they would likely say their work was far from over at their deaths. That would explain why they continued working through the pain of terrible illness. Surely they will go down in the annals of history as truly monumental figures. Their lives should serve as models for our own.

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Lewis spoke of “good trouble,” agitating not simply for the sake of agitating, but to move the “arc of the moral universe,” as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called it, further toward justice.

For both Lewis and Ginsburg, advocacy meant always speaking their minds, telling the truth as they saw it, without reservation, no matter the reaction, and the reaction was often harsh, brutal even.

Lewis was beaten more than once during the 1960s civil rights movement for marching peacefully.

Both were ridiculed, mocked. Yet always they maintained their composure.

For both, a deep and abiding religious faith — Ginsburg, Judaism, and Lewis, Christianity — informed their responses. They showed love and understanding toward even the most vehement of their detractors.

Lesser leaders might have thought of their critics as enemies, but not Ginsburg and Lewis. To them, their detractors were people who needed persuading, and they held out the hope that, with enough time and patience, those critics might realize the error of their ways.

The nation could learn a lesson or three from Ginsburg and Lewis. For decades, our political system has become increasingly partisan, to the point that people hate others without ever having met them, for no reason other than they belong to another

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political party.

As a society, we no longer take the time to reflect on the possible merits of one another’s positions. We assume hostile intent. That must end.

I know that’s a big ask in the middle of the most contentious presidential race in memory, but we should, at least, try, if only to honor the memories of Ginsburg and Lewis.

That doesn’t mean we cannot disagree with one another’s positions. That doesn’t mean we cannot criticize candidates’ policy platforms, or their records. We can. We should. There is no greater exercise of one’s civil liberties than to speak and write freely, as is one’s First Amendment right.

We should, however, train our slings and arrows on policies and practices, not on people. All liberals are not communists, any more than all conservatives are corporate raiders and robber barons. We should never throw around such invective in our political discourse. We should, like Ginsburg and Lewis, assume that those on the other side of the political aisle love their country, too, until proven otherwise. And we should be prepared to forgive those who trespass against us.

I was reminded of this last week. I recently wrote a column titled, “A maddening take of two presidencies,” criticizing President Trump’s response to the corona-

he nation could learn a lesson or three from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Lewis.

virus pandemic and comparing it with President Obama’s approach to battling the H1N1 flu pandemic early in his first term, noting that Trump admittedly lied to the American people about the deadliness of the Covid-19 virus, while in a speech at the start of H1N1, Obama laid out the facts, calmly and truthfully.

Five letters from Trump supporters came fast and furious, with three asking why I hate America, and one, as expected, calling me a communist. Three were unsigned. Their vociferous nature shouldn’t have surprised me given how heated the presidential race is, but it did. I was inclined to cry, not at the letters themselves, but at the state of our politics.

I thought, my goodness, these writers have no idea who I am — the proud son of a World War II Navy veteran, a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer who taught English and American democracy for two years in the Republic of Bulgaria, a formerly communist nation, and an Eagle Scout who learned right from wrong at the earliest of ages.

As a Peace Corps volunteer, I swore allegiance to the U.S. Constitution in the garden of the American ambassador’s stately residence in Sofia, Bulgaria, in August 1991. That sacred document guided me then, and it guides me now as a journalist.

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.

The porch: not just a place, but a place in time

early 50 years ago, we bought our house in Woodmere because it had a back porch. The seller was very clever. She whisked us through the front of the house and straight out to the porch, where she was sipping coffee and reading a book, as pink and white magnolia blossoms tapped against the screens. It was love at first sight.

Our porch is our summer place.

The pine walls let in the first chill Randi winds of autumn, kReiss so our porch season is limited. The limitation adds to its charm, since we begin thinking in April about the many dinners we will enjoy alfresco once summer comes. It is my favorite room in the house. Although we have perfectly good beds and couches inside, a porch nap, with the overhead fan stirring the air, is dreamy.

These warm autumn mornings, I drink my Bustelo brew and read the newspapers in my back porch, looking

out at the garden and listening to the birds and thinking how lucky I am to have a place that brings me such peace.

Sitting out there moves me out of the house and into the day, quietly, the way I like to begin. From the porch I can barely see any other homes; the privacy is complete.

When I sit out there, I notice things. Last week I saw cardinals sweeping back and forth across the yard and watched, day after day, until I spotted their nest nearby. I see other things, too, that aren’t there anymore, like my little kids screaming and jumping in and out of a kiddie pool.

In recent years, community developers have started building new “old-fashioned” towns in an effort to recreate one of the most precious pieces of Americana — the small, hometown neighborhood. The new communities have clean, narrow streets, variety in the home styles, built-in green space and — most important — ample porches.

The builders might as well save their money. Architects may erect nostalgic wraparound porches in darling Disneyesque communities, but there undoubtedly

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will be more Pelotons than rockers on those porches, and more cellphones and TV’s than pitchers of lemonade.

There is such a thing as porch culture, and I advocate strict adherence to its traditions. You simply cannot fake an oldtime porch. Our porch has no TV and no electric light.

In the evening, if we have dinner there, we experience the gradual fading of the day. We light candles. This has led to a remarkable phenomenon, which I refer to as porch therapy. In the glow of the candles, as the sun fades and the moon rises, people who sit in our porch are given to personal revelation. The mood invites intimacy, and we have heard, and told, our share of secrets.

The essence of porch culture was captured eloquently in an old favorite novel, “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”

by Rebecca Wells. She writes of four girls growing up in Louisiana in the late 1930s and early ’40s, and at one point she talks about their porch life: “An afternoon of iced tea and idleness.

Those Ya-Yas aren’t going anywhere . . .

They are lazy together. This is comfort.

n new ‘oldfashioned’ towns, more Pelotons than rockers on the porches.

This is joy . . . Not one wears a watch. This porch time is not planned. Not penciled into a DayRunner. . . . People took porches and porch time for granted back then. Everybody had porches; they were nothing special. An outdoor room halfway between the world of the street and the world of home. . . . And in the evening when the sun went down, the fireflies would light up over by the camellias, and that little nimbus of light would lull the Ya-Yas even deeper into porch reveries. Reveries that would linger in their bodies even as they aged.”

According to the website This Old House, “In American literature, the porch is a stage where the symbolism is often as thick as the summer air — a transitional space between the cocoon of home and the cacophony of the outside world.”

Another perfect example is the porch in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

For me, an ideal summer day begins with breakfast on the porch, includes a spell of reading and inevitably a nap, and then dinner with cicadas chirping their song into the twilight. Here we are in October, and that song feels ever more precious.

Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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e have to wonder what President Trump has against giving people more time to fill out the U.S. census, particularly given that it must be tallied amid the global coronavirus pandemic, making inperson interviews difficult, if not dangerous. But Trump apparently wants the census over with sooner rather than later.

The census was scheduled to end on Oct. 31, but in August, the U.S. Census Bureau suddenly reduced the time frame by a month. Last Thursday, however, U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh, in northern California, issued an injunction requiring the Census Bureau to continue tallying people through the end of October, according to NPR. The Trump administration filed an appeal in federal court Friday.

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Koh said that the administration’s shortened census time frame was likely to produce errors in the count. We agree.

We say this: Complete the census ASAP. No one, regardless of status, should be afraid to fill out it out. Federal law prohibits the Census Bureau from sharing any information it collects with any other government agency. Its sole purpose is to count the number of people living in each state to apportion the correct number of U.S. representatives to the states and allocate the proper amount of federal funding to them.

According to the Census Bureau, you should be counted where you were living and sleeping most of the time as of April 1. If you’re responding for your home, count everyone who lives and sleeps there

Restoring tax fairness for Long Islanders

n December 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, pushed by President Trump throughout his first year in office. The act limited the deduction for state and local taxes — previously unlimited — to $10,000. That section of the legislation alone cost middle-class taxpayers on Long Island and other hightax areas thousands of dollars, and in some cases, more than that.

Thanks to intrepid reporting by The New York Times, we now know what Trump paid in federal income taxes that year — $750. The year he was elected, he also paid $750. For 10 of 15 years before that, he paid nothing.

That is to say, while Trump was hurriedly ramming through a tax measure with little public debate, he was benefiting from a vast array of loopholes to evade paying his fair share of federal income

taxes.

Ask yourself how much you paid in federal income taxes those two years — likely thousands more, if not tens of thousands more. Should you not be entitled to a deduction as basic as the one previously offered for payment of state and local taxes?

We have editorialized on the unfairness of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act before — and we will continue to until it is addressed.

Essentially, the measure forces taxpayers on Long Island and in other high-tax areas to pay taxes on the state and local taxes they have already paid. The deduction was originally enacted to ensure that taxpayers would not be charged twice.

The act also nixed deductions for unreimbursed employee expenses, tax preparation fees and other miscellaneous deductions, according to the Tax Policy Center

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most of the time. That includes children, foster children, roommates, and any family members or friends who are living with you, even temporarily.

If someone is staying with you because of the pandemic, however, they should be counted where they usually live. This includes college students, who should still be counted at school. If they live in student housing, the college will count them. If they live off campus, they should respond for their off-campus addresses.

Completing the census takes no more than 10 minutes, and you can do so securely online at www.2020census.gov. To reach the U.S. Census Bureau for help, call (844) 330-2020 for English speakers and (844) 4682020 for Spanish speakers. Representatives are available daily from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

letters Stay vigilant, New York To the Editor: Covid-19 remains a force to be reckoned with throughout the country and around the globe, and we cannot drop our guard. While our numbers remain relatively flat, we continue to closely monitor the data daily, as always.

I urge New Yorkers to keep wearing masks, maintaining social distance and washing their hands, and local governments must continue to enforce state public health guidance. By staying vigilant and smart, we can beat the coronavirus together.

Last weekend, the State Liquor Authority and State Police Task Force visited 1,604 establishments in New York City and Long Island, and observed nine establishments that failed to comply with state requirements. One was in Queens, and eight were in Suffolk.

at the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution.

In short, the act eliminated some of the only deductions that middle-class Long Islanders had depended on in the past, while the president employed a litany of deductions available only to the rich — the rich who, we might add, sustained business losses.

Congress should have already rescinded the poorly considered SALT provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, but it hasn’t.

Democratic representatives like Tom Suozzi, in Glen Cove, and even members of the president’s own party like Republican Peter King, in Seaford, who is retiring at the end of the year, have spoken out, calling for a restoration of the SALT deduction. Ensuring that happens, however, will require sustained pressure on Congress and the White House.

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ecently, a unique mobile rally and car parade commemorated the 33rd anniversary of the closure of Willowbrook Psychiatric Hospital on Staten Island. Opened in 1947, Willowbrook was, by today’s standards, a horrific institution that warehoused people with developmental disabilities, mental illnesses or any other condition that made them look, act or learn differently. For those unfortunate enough to have been born with or develop a disability or mental illness during that era, placement at Willowbrook HaRVeY a life of weisenBeRG meant neglect, abuse and horrifying, inhumane conditions.

I have my own personal horror story of how mentally disabled people are treated. When I married Ellen, she had a son, Ricky, who could not speak or cry and who is now blind. I married Ellen because of the love she had for Ricky, who eventu-

ally had to be placed in a special school, Wassaic, in upstate New York. That broke our hearts.

A few weeks after we left Ricky there, we went back to visit him. He had lost half his body weight, was wearing four diapers and had a black tongue. We took him to a pediatrician, who cried when he saw Ricky’s condition. He was later placed in another facility, where he was put in a steaming hot tub and scalded.

Ricky is now 62 and living in a group home, where I visit him often. But I can never forget his wretched treatment, or what it did to him — and to all the members of his family, who love him. The unconditional love for a developmentally disabled child is like no other love imaginable.

Thankfully, we have evolved far from that unenlightened time, and have become a more empathetic human race.

On Long Island alone, there are about 5,000 people with developmental disabilities living in smaller group homes and

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receiving care that far exceeds anything we could have hoped for in the past.

But these changes didn’t come about by accident. The strides forward in the treatment of our special children and adults came only after a lengthy, wellfought battle, beginning with a recognition of this population as human, deserving of basic considerations.

That fight continues today. Organizations and individuals have taken on the challenging role of caring for and housing people with developmental disabilities who can no longer be cared for at home. It is the state’s responsibility to adequately fund those organizations and to ensure that these vulnerable people are cared for and protected, and have some quality of life.

Over the past several years, it has seemed as if state funding for this priority has been anything but a priority. Caregivers who choose a career in nurturing and providing basic care to our special people are so underpaid that they are

he fight for this often forgotten population of special people continues today.

LetteRs Of the 84,770 test results reported to New York state on Saturday, 866, or 1.02 percent, were positive.

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Trump perpetuates unfair housing To the Editor: The discriminatory Effects Standard (commonly known as disparate Impact) of the federal Fair Housing Act prohibits unjustified policies or practices that have a disproportionate adverse effect (disparate impact) on protected class members, even if those policies or practices were not motivated by a discriminatory intent.

The federal department of Housing and urban development states that the new rule “. . . still recognizes disparate impact as a viable theory of discrimination.” But it carefully and thoroughly sets such a high bar for plaintiffs seeking to use a disparate impact claim that, in reality, with this new rule, the discriminatory Effects Standard is effectively neutered.

Thus, Hud has taken another disgraceful and mean-spirited step to dismantle fair housing protections. When this new rule was first proposed last year, ERASE Racism and other civil rights advocates warned that it would likely sanction discrimination and perpetuate racial segregation. The final rule is even more damaging than we thought.

The new rule dramatically shifts the burden of proof to the plaintiff in housing discrimination cases and makes it much harder to bring cases to court. It aids defendants by

forced to work second jobs. What has happened to the progress we made and the empathy we gained? We are living in a time when fast-food workers are paid more than those who bathe, feed and dress those who can’t do it for themselves.

If this trend continues unchanged, we will certainly slip back to a time that we must vow never to return to.

Willowbrook closed in 1987 — not that long ago, and certainly well past the time when we all should have known better about what gives us our humanity and how it is inextricably tied to how we treat the most vulnerable among us.

If you agree with this and understand this message, please let your voice be heard by making sure Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to make our special people a priority in the state budget. We all know times are tough and spending is tight. But we simply can’t afford to return to one of our darkest hours. Cuomo can be contacted at https://www.governor. ny.gov/content/governor-contact-form, or by phone at (518) 474-8390.

Harvey Weisenberg, a longtime resident of Long Beach, served in the State Assembly from 1989 to 2014.

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neither requiring nor encouraging data collection. How convenient. No data, no proof.

Perpetuating segregation has been removed from the text as a component of the discriminatory Effects definition.

Long Island is still one of the most racially segregated metropolitan regions in the country. That fact should not surprise anyone. Real estate agents and brokers recently testified at a joint hearing of three State Senate committees that they had not discriminated based on race against prospective homebuyers of color, despite undercover videotapes capturing discriminatory actions against people of color.

ERASE Racism’s own lawsuits captured similar behaviors, in which white people were shown apartments and encouraged to apply, while black people were not, and were thus denied housing. disparate Impact is one of the few tools available to combat systemic racism that is perpetuated by governments and businesses.

Hud’s new rule on disparate Impact is a major step backward in fighting housing discrimination. It removes an important standard that has been used in key cases on Long Island and across the nation to combat residential discrimination. In a famous housing discrimination case in Huntington, for instance, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld use of the disparate Impact standard. A recent federal district Court ruling in Garden City showed that the use of exclusionary zoning ordinances reinforced residential segregation.

With this new rule, the Trump administration is substantially undermining fair housing. It is depriving opponents of housing discrimination of an important and vital tool.

ELAINE GROSS President, ERASE Racism

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Cuomo needs to fund the developmentally disabled

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