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‘The real work is now’ West Hempstead students win New York state science contest will be used to buy education equipment of their choice. “I did not think that the stuFor the second straight year, dents would have been state/ science research students from semifinalist winner two years in West Hempstead High School a row,” Sal Trupia, a science have won the Samresearch and chemissung Solve for try teacher, wrote in Tomorrow Educaan email. “I am tion Contest, which super proud of them. addresses the counThey are an extremetrywide academic ly intelligent and challenge of increashard-working group ing students’ pursuit of individuals.” of science, technolo“They have to gy, engineering and submit something math, or STEM, eduthat they can actualcation. The contest ly build because tasks students with a when they win, that’s simple prompt: How part of moving on to can STEM be applied the next phase,” said to help improve comJoseph Cangemi, the munities? high school’s direcS o p h o m o r e s SAL TRUPIA tor of STEM and Ethan Luong, Alicia Teacher business education. Maria and Dylan “The real work is Ramsahai and freshnow,” Trupia added. men Hayder Jahangeer and The next step is building and Farell Sanchez joined forces to testing a prototype, which will be conceptualize a device that can coded so that it sets off an alarm detect basement flooding. The and contacts the fire department, students then submitted a draw- as well as create a three-minute ing and description of the proto- video showcasing how the stutype to the contest in November. dents designed and built the The students learned a month device. The group estimates this later via email from Samsung will take about a month, Trupia that their project had won, and they were awarded $6,500, which CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

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THE DEC. 10 ribbon-cutting for On Point Pharmacy, previously known as Nordon Drugs, on Hempstead Avenue.

Malverne is open for business Village, chamber welcome the newcomers By LISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com

The continuing coronavirus pandemic has severely impacted businesses across the region, but in the Village of Malverne, thanks to the efforts of Mayor Keith Colbert, the board of trustees and the Chamber of Commerce, six new businesses have opened in the past six months, and another five are expected to open this year. The new establishments

include Bee’s Arts and Crafts, On Point Phar macy, the reopened Malverne Butcher Shop and Better Body Bootcamp, all on Hempstead Avenue; Peaceful Yo g a, on Church Street, and Two Of Us Event Planners, on Broadway. All have joined the Chamber of Commerce. Brenda Negron, owner of Bee’s and a native of Queens, moved to Malver ne last August and opened her store not long afterward. “I felt this instant connection with the

village,” Negron said, and when she spotted the empty storefront, she told her fiancé, “That’s going to be our next store,” and it was. Bee’s started off strong, Negron said, but with the Covid spike in late fall, children’s birthday party bookings slowed. She advises those with new businesses to be positive despite the pandemic, and to take safety precautions such as masking and hand CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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Town of Hempstead officials began their new term Jan. 4 at Town Hall. During the nearly two-hour inauguration, Supervisor Don Clavin, Town Clerk Kate Murray, Senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, and Councilmen Anthony D’Esposito and Dennis Dunne were sworn in following their re-election this past November. After the invocation by Rabbi Mordechai Kamentzky of Yeshiva of South Shore in Hewlett, Clavin was sworn in first by Nassau County Republican Committee Chairman Joseph Cairo. Months into Clavin’s first term as supervisor, the coronavirus pandemic erupted and took a toll on Hempstead. Clavin secured tens of millions of dollars in federal CARES Act funds that went to the community, including millions for hospitals, schools, food banks, villages, fire departments and community organizations. The Town Board also rolled out the first mobile vaccination unit in New York state, which has provided nearly 10,000 vaccine and booster shots to residents to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Clavin thanked many of the government officials in attendance for the help that they have given him during his time in local government. “Today is really about just saying thank you,” he said. “We work together and for the betterment of all the residents, from the town’s finances to bond upgrades to services through the pandemic. And it’s not just that it’s the men and women that I work within the town. We do it together because we’re one big team in the Town of Hempstead.” Murray, who was sworn in next, led creation of online accessible parking permits, posted one-stop passport shop events and established outdoor service trailers where residents can continue to access clerk’s office programs. Murray became the first elected official in New York to conduct weddings using online video conferencing. In October, she reached a milestone when she performed her 500th wedding ceremony. After reflections were offered by the Rev. Dr.Calvin Butts of Abyssinian Baptist Church, Attorney General Letitia James swore in Goosby, who is the firstever African-American woman on the Town Board, now entering her 22nd year representing the 1st District. During her last term, Goosby assisted in supplying free PPE kits for businesses and churches, secured personal air filters for residents at risk, aided in launching the outdoor dining initiative to help residents stay open during the pandemic and sponsored food pantries that donated more than a million meals to residents in need. Goosby discussed her tenure in government and the plans that she has for her district moving forward. “I’m going into my 22nd year, as I was elected seeking representation from my community via a historical lawsuit,” Goosby said. “I’ve been sworn in on my plaza and

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SUPERVISOR DON CLAVIN gave a speech following his inauguration. that’s progress,” she noted. The Town Hall plaza was recently named for her. “My colleagues are of a different party,” she continued, “but it didn’t matter to them that I’m a Democrat and they aren’t. I’ve worked with wonderful people, and I respect them and they respect me. We made a lot of progress in this town.” D’Esposito was then sworn in by State Assemblyman Edward Ra. D’Esposito, a retired New York Police Department detective, has taught his Narcan training program to town employees, community groups and residents throughout Hempstead. And he has helped expand the Narcan training program, with the town recently announcing distribution of 10,000 Narcan kits in Hempstead. D’Esposito reflected on the town’s accomplishments in recent years. “The last four years we’ve delivered budgets to save taxpayers money, holding the line or lowering taxes,” he said. “We’ve been lauded by Wall Street, earning outlook upticks and credit upgrades. We expanded programs and invested in our parks, beaches and marinas. Just this year, we’ve invested $75 million in our roads. While other municipalities were unable to collect garbage and recycle at the height of the pandemic, our sanitation crews stepped up and kept the town moving.” Dunne, who served with the U.S. Marines during the Vietnam War, remains a leader among local American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars organizations, and has been pivotal in crafting legislation to create a permanent property-tax exemption for Cold War era veterans, providing a tax reduction for eligible recipients. He has also sponsored several pieces of legislation to restict vaping and vape products.

HEMPSTEAD TOWN COUNCILMAN Anthony D’esposito was sworn into office on Jan. 4. TOWN CLERK KATE Murray being sworn in. SENIOR COUNCILWOMAN DOROTHY Goosby was sworn into office by State Attorney General Lettita James.

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Have you made New Year’s resolutions you’ll never keep? It’s a New Year -- the time we attend to the tick of the clock, reflecting on the previous year, resolving to do better this coming year. If you’re like most folks, the resolutions you made are repetitive -- year after year. You’ll lose those extra pounds, exercise more, save money, become better org aniz ed, more patient and spend more quality time with family and friends. Wonderful ideas! So how come it’s likely that in a week or two, you’ll give up on those resolutions. Are you just weak willed? Or could it be that you haven’t inda made the best resolutions? Let’s see what happens if you create positive goals, maintain an optimistic attitude and are kind to yourself. Here are my top 10 resolutions for the New Year.

■ I’ll resolve to switch my negative narrative (I can’t do …) to a positive one (but one thing I can do is …).

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■ I’ll believe I’m good enough by chasing away the idea that I need to be perfect, flawless, or faultless. I’ll remember that good enough is good enough. ■ I’ll acknowledge that I’m a work in progress. I may not have achieved everything I want to achieve, yet I can take pride in who I am right now.

■ I’ll remind myself that no matter how challenging my struggles are, I have much to be grateful for. ■ I’ll seek understanding and connection when I feel vulnerable and lost rather than numbing myself with drugs, drink, or food. ■ I’ll appreciate the best in myself rather than comparing myself to others to notice how I fall short.

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■ I’ll feed my thirst for knowledge by being curious, learning more about whatever piques my inter-

est. ■ I’ll remind myself that there’s no q u i c k w ay t h r o u g h l i f e ’s wo r s t moments, but those moments won’t be forever. ■ I’ll try to respond to criticism with grace and goodwill as I learn another way that people can perceive and do things. ■ I’ll scale back on all the things I

believe I have to do to make time for things I want to do. ■ I’ll forgive myself for all the things I didn’t do or didn’t do well. ■ I’ll forgive others for all the things they didn’t do or didn’t do well. What do you think of these types of resolutions? I like them. I believe that greater acceptance of yourself (and others) has the potential to create more meaningful change than focusing on what you do wrong. ©2022 Linda Sapadin, Ph.D., psychologist, coach and author specializes in helping people enhance their relationships and overcome procrastination and debilitating anxiety. Contact her at DrSapadin@ aol.com. Visit her websites www.BeatProcrastinationCoach.com and www. PsychWisdom.com.

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the 2021 film “Respect,” the remarkable true story of Aretha Franklin, the music icon and her journey to find her voice to become the “Queen of Soul.” Jennifer Hudson’s brilliant singing is extraordinary in the portrayal and creation of Aretha’s powerful voice. Rated PG-13; 145 mins. Eng. subtitles. Due to COVID masks must be worn by all and distancing is encouraged. Catherine Wellikoff at (516) 5990750 or via email at cwellikoff@nassaulibrary.org for more information.

Virtual Chapter Chat Read-Aloud with Miss Samantha Join the West Hempstead Public Library and Miss Samantha at 6:30 p.m. for a virtual reading of a few chapters of the book “Secrets of Topsea: A Friendly Town That’s Almost Always by the Ocean” by Kir Fox and M. Shelley Coats. After the reading, a discussion of the book will be held. Register online at the library’s website, https://www.whplibrary.org/.

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Intermediate Spanish Class Join the West Hempstead Public Library and Piedad Ramirez between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. for a virtual intermediate Spanish class. Call Piedad Ramirez for more information at (516) 481-6591 Ext.11 or via email at canaria@whplibrary.org.

Wednesday, Jan. 19 Virtual Conversation Circle Join the West Hempstead Public Library and Sandy Hindren for a virtual conversation circle between 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Chat with friends and neighbors as those who attend pose questions or topics and give everyone a chance to respond. Attendees learn from each other, share experiences and wisdom, and clarify goals and values. The conversations aim to foster deeper knowledge and understanding as we talk about money, improving society, medical issues, any concerns of the day, and all topics that arise. Have a topic you’d like to discuss? Join the conversation and share it with the group. Registrants will receive a copy of Sandy’s book, “7 Keys to Love.” Registration is required with an email address. A class link will be emailed to participants. Register online at the library’s website, https://www.whplibrary.org/.

Tai Chi Join West Hempstead Public Library and Eddie Hug between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. for a virtual tai chi class. Registration is required. This class is weekly and gives you 24/7 access to Eddie’s recorded

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Cubism to be explored at W.H. public library Malvernite Keith Rossein’s photo “The Fiery Sky” was featured at the Malverne Chamber of Commerce’s annual Art Walk in 2021. Join the West Hempstead Public Library on Monday, Jan. 24, between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. for a virtual class on Pollock, Picasaso and Cubism. video sessions (12 sessions). No class is scheduled for Nov. 24. Access to the courses costs $30. Please note: Your registration will NOT be approved until payment is received. Once your payment is received, you will be sent a link to join the class. Please make your check payable to WHPL and mail to West Hempstead Public Library Attn: Programs, 500 Hempstead Avenue, West Hempstead, NY 11552. Include on the check: Your name, address, phone number and the name of the class. Register online at the library’s website, https://www.whplibrary.org/.

Yoga with Joe Join the West Hempstead Public Library and Joe Cilmi between noon and 1 p.m. for a yoga class via Zoom. Registration is required. This class costs $30 and is weekly and gives you access to 12 of Joe’s recorded videos 24/7. Your registration will NOT be approved until payment is received. Once your payment is received, you will be sent a link to join the

class. Please make your check payable to WHPL and mail to West Hempstead Public Library Attn: Programs, 500 Hempstead Avenue, West Hempstead, NY 11552. Include on the check: Your name, address, phone number and the name of the class. Register online at the library’s website, https://www.whplibrary.org/.

Thursday, Jan. 20 Virtual Chapter Chat Read-Aloud with Miss Samantha Join the West Hempstead Public Library and Miss Samantha at 6:30 p.m. for a virtual reading of a few chapters of the book “Secrets of Topsea: A Friendly Town That’s Almost Always by the Ocean” by Kir Fox and M. Shelley Coats. After the reading, a discussion of the book will be held. Register online at the library’s website, https://www.whplibrary.org/.

Join the West Hempstead Public Library between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. for a virtual class on Pollock, Picasso and Cubism. Why would a woman have a blue face or two noses? Discover the meaning behind Picasso’s portraits and his influence on Jackson Pollock. A virtual tour of the Pollock-Krasner barn studio will follow the presentation. In celebration of Pollock’s birthday, create a unique Cubist face with Joyce Raimondo using cut paper collage. You will need a scissor. An art kit with supplies will be provided to registrants. Kits can be picked up on Thursday, January 20. Register online at the library’s website, https://www.whplibrary.org/.

Monday, Jan. 24 Monthly movie showing Join the Malverne Public Library between 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. for a showing of

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Several Broadway theater actors resided in Malverne during the 20th century. Halls Pond Park, the main park within W.H., was dedicated by Nassau County in 1961. The name, Malvern, comes from the Old English and means “green mall” or “green park.” West Hempstead, has a sizable Orthodox Jewish population and seven synagogues The holiday lighting of Malverne beganduring the late 1960s.

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SPEISER, A LIFELONG West Hempstead resident, with LION president John Di Leonardo.

West Hempstead resident honored after recovering By ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com

SPEISER RECOVERED THE frozen duckling from behind a trash bin in Halls Pond Park in West Hempstead, where LION believes became a New York State licensed wildlife rehabilitator by the end of 2021. “It’s been an amazing experience,” Speiser said, adding that those at LION have become family to him. “It’s a home away from home.” Since working with LION, Speiser has decided to become a vegan, meaning he does not consume meat or dairy products. “After working with hundreds of birds this year, I couldn’t bring myself to go back to eating meat,” he said, adding that witnessing how “smart” the birds are pushed him to go vegan. Speiser, who rescues animals weekly across New York City and Long Island for both LION and independently, has become a staple in both the duck and pigeon rescue communities, Di Leonardo said. “I never would have expected it, but I’m so grateful,” Speiser said.

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Elliot Speiser, a lifelong resident of West Hempstead, was recently named Volunteer of the Year by Long Island Orchestrating for Nature (LION), an animal advocacy organization that was founded in Malverne, after Speiser recovered the body of a dead domestic duckling found next to a trash bin at Halls Pond Park in West Hempstead. On Dec. 27, a park-goer at Halls Pond Park in West Hempstead reached out to John Di Leonardo, the president of LION, after finding the duck’s frozen body. “The duckling was still yellow and could not have been more than 2 weeks old. Without their adult feathers or a mother to keep them warm, they appear to have frozen to death,” Di Leonardo explained. Speiser recovered the duckling’s body and also rescued another live wild duck, which Speiser described as having a wet appearance, signaling sickness. Di Leonarado called Speiser an “outstanding resident of West Hempstead” for his actions. Di Leonardo said LION has reported the death of the Halls Pond Park duckling to the Nassau County SPCA and are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to those who they suspect abandoned the duckling. “Animals are my life,” Speiser said, adding that rescuing and helping mend injured and often abandoned animals has been a “beautiful” experience for him. Speiser said that this year alone, through his volunteer work with LION and as an independent rescuer, he has helped rescue and treat 100 birds. Speiser first contacted LION in January 2021 about another duck abandoned at Halls Pond Park that was rescued by the organization. The same week, Speiser began volunteering with LION and soon

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Baldwin Senior Basketball MoReNo Is looKINg to lead Baldwin to its eighth straight Nassau Class AA championship and has drawn interest from a handful of D1 college programs. She is a two-time All-County selection and was an impact player as a sophomore during the team’s last county title run. She scored 10 points in its 60-52 victory over Syosset in the Class AA final held March 8, 2020 at Nassau Coliseum, marking her seventh game that season scoring in double figures. She averaged 14 points as a junior.

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Girls Basketball: East Rockaway at West Hemp.....4:45 p.m. Girls Basketball: Lynbrook at Lawrence...................... 5 p.m. Boys Swimming: Wantagh vs South Side (at Jeircho) 7 p.m. Gymnastics: Valley Stream at Hewlett ........................ 7 p.m. Gymnastics: Sewanhaka at South Side ..................... 7 p.m. Girls Basketball: North Shore at Seaford ................... 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Westbury at Baldwin ....................... 7 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 14 Girls Basketball: Glen Cove at Sewanhaka ..................... 5 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Roslyn at Elmont ............................ 5 p.m. Wrestling: Freeport at Oceanside ..............................5:30 p.m. Girls Basketball: New Hyde Park at MacArthur................ 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Island Trees at Clarke ........................... 7 p.m. Boys Basketball: Seaford at Lawrence ............................ 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: V.S. North at South Side................. 7 p.m.

saturday, Jan. 15 Wrestling: Baldwin Tournament ........................................9 a.m. Boys Bakisetball: V.S. Central at East Meadow.............. 12 p.m. Boys Basketball: East Rockaway at West Hemp. ........... 12 p.m. Girls Basketball: Kennedy at South Side ..................... 12 p.m.

The Rocks are rolling again, while the Mules are still looking for that elusive win. Theresa Lynch had a career-high 22 points and 10 rebounds and eighth-grader Maya Motherway came off the bench to record 14 points and five assists as East Rockaway girls’ basketball avoided a third straight loss with a 59-45 win over visiting Malverne on Jan. 4. Riley O’Hagan scored 12 points and Mimi Bilardello added seven for the Rocks (3-3, 1-2 Conference B1), who ended 2021 with consecutive losses to Cold Spring Harbor and Oyster Bay. “We knew going into the game it was going to be a tough game regardless,” said East Rockaway assistant coach Fred Cange, who filled in for absent head coach Cheri Poland. “It was going to be a physical up-and-down game [and] a track meet. We had to get prepared and stick to the game plan and that’s what the girls did,” Cange added. It was a breakout game for both Lynch and Motherway, who reached a seasonhigh in points. Each of their previous bests was seven in a win over Oceanside on Dec. 9. “Them two stepping up was huge,” Cange said. “Those two girls in particular really put everything they had into practice and working on their game and it showed.” Princia Ulysse scored 18 points and Mikayla Johnson added 13 for the Mules (0-7, 0-4), who dropped their 19th straight game despite posting their best offensive output on the season. Malverne last won on Jan. 17, 2020. “We’re really a young team, so it’s just a lot of learning experiences,” said Malverne head coach Amanda Masson. “I thought we played really well, it was just the little things that were missing.” The Mules struggled from 3-point range, missing all 12 of their attempts from beyond the arc in the first quarter and the first three attempts of the second before Ulysse and Johnson finally connected on consecutive possessions near the midway point of the session. They finished 4-for-29

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MAlveRNe’s PRINCIA Ulysse, right, drove against East Rockaway’s Maya Motherway during a Conference B clash won by the Rocks on Jan. 4. on the night. “We actually handled the ball well and didn’t have as many turnovers as we usually do, but it was more missed shots,” Masson said. “Definitely free throws [too].” East Rockaway led 9-6 after the first quarter and maintained a three-point lead with just under four minutes left in the second before scoring the last seven points for a 26-16 halftime advantage. O’Hagan started the rally by burying a 3-pointer from the left arc with 3:13 left. Neither team scored again until the final minute, when Lynch put back an offensive rebound from down

low and Bilardello converted a layup after breaking up a pass in the defensive zone. Malverne’s Jamila Smith scored the first four points of the second half to cut the deficit to six, but East Rockaway responded with another offensive rebound conversion by Lynch and 3-pointers from Motherway and O’Hagan for a 34-20 lead with 5:37 left in the third quarter. Lynch collecting six more points during a 13-6 run that closed the third quarter that helped her team take a 49-31 lead. The teams meet again Feb. 4 at Malverne.

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Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who took office Jan. 3, signed executive orders last Thursday directing local boards of education to vote in January on whether their districts should mandate mask use, while also lifting the mask mandate for all county agencies and the state’s temporary mask mandate in public places. The orders read in part, “. . . given the historical data on Covid-19 and the ongoing debate over whether masks are more harmful than beneficial to children and to school environments in general, we should protect the freedoms and statutory rights of students and parents by resting with the parents the decision whether their children should wear masks in school.” School boards must vote “to determine whether or not parents and children should be granted the constitutional right to reject mask mandates while in the classroom.” The orders further state, “More than half of all states in the nation have no set policy on masking at educational institutions, leaving the decision up to local governments to decide when and how to enforce mask mandates.” The orders took effect immediately. In a memo to local school districts, State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa issued a statement in reaction Thursday, saying, “Counties are required to enforce school masking regulations. The regulation, which applies to schools and many other sectors, requires local health departments to enforce school mask mandates. “Counties do not have the legal authority,” the commissioner continued, “to require boards of education to vote on specific issues. School officers take an oath to obey all legal requirements. The State Education Department expects school boards will follow all legal requirements, including the face-covering regulation.”

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NASSAU COUNTY EXECUTIVE Bruce Blakeman signed an executive order requiring school districts to vote in January on whether to require masks in classrooms. William Biamonte, chief of staff to the County Legislature’s Democratic minority, said, “When ideology trumps science and politics are prioritized over the common good of society, our most vulnerable residents stand to suffer the most. “County Executive Blakeman,” he continued, “can say that ‘Nassau is normal again’ all he wants, but as Omicron continues to spread like wildfire and hospitalize more children than any other Covid variant to date. This is a recipe for disaster.” Blakeman, a Republican, said he was directly opposing an order put in place in early December by Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, requiring mask use in public spaces. The state mandate was originally set to expire in mid-Jan-

uary, but Hochul recently extended it through Feb. 1. “As governor,” she said Dec. 10, “my two top priorities are to protect the health of New Yorkers and to protect the health of our economy. The temporary measures I am taking today will help accomplish this through the holiday season.” The governor said at the time that she expected the positivity rate would rise with the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. The legal counsel for county executive drafted the executive orders signed by Blakeman, said Chris Boyle, the county executive’s spokesman. Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the State Education Department said Thursday that local school boards cannot vote to violate either SED or State Health Department policy. Blakeman’s orders come at a time when Long Island’s Covid positivity rate — the highest in the state — is spiking at more than 25 percent, and a growing number of school districts are reporting increased transmission of the disease, with some, such as Long Beach, being forced to close certain schools because of staffing shortages. Hospitalization rates are rising, as well. Blakeman also announced that 20,000 test kits would be distributed at Tobay Beach for county residents who live south of Hempstead Turnpike, and at Eisenhower Park for those who live north of the turnpike on Saturday, Jan . 8 and Sunday, Jan. 9, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. or until supplies last. There will also be what Blakeman called a vaccination pod this weekend at Nassau Community College from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. by appointment only. Go to https://www. nassaucountyny.gov/. And the county will distribute KN95 masks to private and public schools for staff, especially teachers. Jeff Bessen contributed to this story.

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On her second-to-last day in office, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran issued an executive on Dec. 30 to create a nine-member Nassau County Adviso■ Sex: biological status that is typiry Committee for Gender Inclusivity to cally categorized as male, female, or address gender identity discrimination intersex. in the county’s charter, administrative code and other regulations. The commit■ Gender: attitudes, feelings and tee would report behaviors that a given culture assoto the county ciates with a person’s biological sex. executive. Bruce Blake■ Gender identity: deeply felt, man, who inherent sense of being a boy, a man became county or male; a girl, a woman or female; executive Jan. 1, or an alternative gender. said he would not start the commit■ Gender expression: presentation, tee, saying the including physical appearance and executive order was intended to behavior that communicates aspects Laura Curran play to the press. of gender or gender role. Instead of creating the com–American Psychological Association mittee, “this administration will respect the [LGBQT] community by placing important stakeholders on the Human Rights Committee,” Blakeman said, cit- this vulnerable population.” ing the 15-member human rights comIndeed, the policy was the first in mission chaired by Bobby Kalotee. Nassau’s history to protect in EEO poliCurran’s executive order came three cy a class of “sex” against gender-idenyears after she enacted an Equal tity discrimination in the workplace. Employment Opportunity Commission The policy also protects employees who policy that upgraded sexual harassment report harassment and/or discriminaprevention measures, including having tion from retaliation and provides intera separate complaint form active training to educate all for sexual harassment and employees in identifying prompt investigations into and reporting instances of discrimination or harassdiscrimination and/or sexument allegations. al harassment. “We are working to eradiKilmicky, however, also cate all forms of discriminanoted that, despite these poltion in the workplace and to icies, transgender workers ensure equal employment may still face discriminaopportunity for all members tion. of our team,” Curran said “Across our nation, memduring a 2019 news briefing. bers of the transgender “This new policy will do community continue to more to protect the civil endure elevated levels of rights of our employees poverty, housing discriminathan has ever been done tion, workplace bias and a ARNOLD W. before.” risk of suicide and mental The chief executive of DRUCKER health challenges. They are t h e L G B T N e t wo rk i n Legislator the victims of fatal violence Hauppauge, Dr. David Kilmwith infuriating frequency,” icky, praised Curran’s work Legislator Arnold Drucker, in making the county safer and more a Democrat, said. inclusive throughout her tenure as He then added that Blakeman has county executive. “This long-overdue publicly expressed his commitment to policy change for Nassau’s transgender helping all Nassau residents, so Drucker people and families sends a clear mes- asserted, “Following through on the forsage that all county employees are enti- mation of this committee would put the tled to work in an environment that is power of action behind his words and safe and free from harassment and dis- bring us one step closer to fulfilling the crimination,” he said at the news brief- promise of ‘liberty and justice for all.’” ing. In October, Curran also signed into Jay Kaplan, the LGBTQ youth servic- law a bill that created a 15-member dises manager at the Bellmore-based Pride abilities advisory council, comprising for Youth, echoed the sentiment, saying, members with disabilities and people “This policy is the first in Nassau Coun- representing organizations that serve ty’s history to explicitly protect trans- and advocate for those with disabilities, gender people, and it is hopefully the tasked with providing recommendafirst of many policies that will be intro- tions to the county executive and legisduced to end discrimination against lature.

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Village, chamber welcome new businesses CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE washing to keep others in the community safe. “This pandemic shall pass,” Negron said. “Never give up. There is no room for failure, only success.” Being a member of the chamber has made a difference for Negron, helping her promote her business and become a part of the community. The village and the chamber “have been nothing but help,” she said, adding that Corbett has been especially supportive. Throughout the pandemic, the village board has kept up an effort to recruit new businesses. “In conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce, we’re dedicated to ensuring the vibrancy of our business community,” Corbett said. “I appreciate the working relationship with the Chamber of Commerce — the way they have been able to assist in bringing new businesses into the village.” John Strom, co-founder and chief operating officer of Lost Farmer Brewing Company in Mineola, plans to open a second location in Malverne this year. When Strom came across the available space in Malverne, researched it and talked to people who knew about the village, “It all seemed too good to be true,” he said. “We’re very excited, because I know a lot of people that grew up in the area, a lot of people that speak very highly of Malverne.” Lost Farmer, which is a small brewery, opened in Mineola last May. The Malverne location, which will open on Trinity Place this summer, will be an upgrade, allowing the company to seat more customers and manufacture beer at five times the volume of its Mineola operation. Other new businesses that plan to open in the village in the next four to eight weeks include Moch Driving School, Creative Focus Designs and MEA Beautique, all on Church Street, and American Bistro, on Hempstead Avenue.

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Students excel in STEM CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE said. The students’ idea stemmed from the flash floods caused by Hurricane Ida in September, especially the flooding that overran New York City and resulted in the deaths of eight people, who drowned in basement apartments.

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Talking STEM, HALB’s spelling bee winners As part of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach’s STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) pro g ram, Michael Beer, a Google engineer, presented a Zoom discussion with the eighth grade boys on “Being a Google Engineer: What is the Cloud, What Makes Working at Google Exciting, and What Projects Do

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Taking the guestwork out of life You actually get to eat at the schmorg, and smell the flowers, not to be forced to select them. You can arrive at your leisure rather than in obedience to the photographer’s demand, and pick your friends (and your relatives too) without reference to the “other side.” You needn’t worry where Aunt Zooey is seated (or even if she’s invited) ’cause you’re not the guy who made the list, nor can you be blamed if the band is too loud or if the valet parker loses a car, or if the “main” attraction arrives after 11. Yes, to be a guest at someone else’s catered event, especially after making one or more of your own, is to expeon rience the joy of the unpressured, and the absolute delight of the totally relieved. Only as a guest is “a mint” something to chew on and not a reminder of what the evening is costing. Only as a guest can you ignore the videographer and talk to whomever you like; can you reach for the ice completely oblivious to the centerpiece or reach for a second helping without contemplating taking out a second mortgage. Guests needn’t worry whether their suit can button or need to stroll from table to table making certain the soup is hot or that the “special meals” were served. Guests, for whom “green” refers to the salad and not the legal tender requested by maitre’d, need only pay compliments and not the piper nor the caterer. Guests get to observe the scene and be part of the scene without having to direct or produce the scene, and eventually can review the (inevitable) photos and tapes only to find themselves and not to determine who was miss-

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n Christmas Day, NASA sent into space the James Webb telescope, which, if all works out as planned, will provide us with our first look into the beginning of time. The telescope will bring into focus the oldest stars in the universe, and examine the atmospheres of nearby exoplanets for signs of life. But who the heck was James Webb? He has largely been lost to history. He was a Marine Corps pilot, an aide to several members of Congress, JAMES undersecretary of to President BERNSTEIN state Harry S. Truman, president of a New York company, Sperry Gyroscope, and NASA’s second administrator. A pretty impressive biography. But just as Webb’s name has largely been forgotten, so has a tragic incident that occurred during his administration that almost ended America’s space program. On Jan. 27, 1967, three astronauts

— Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, 40, Edward H. White, 36, and rookie Roger Chaffee, 31 — were killed on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida when a fire erupted in their command module during pre-flight training. At the time, it was the world’s worst space disaster. Little is said or written these days about the three astronauts and their destroyed Apollo 1 spacecraft. For one thing, there was the success of the moon landings beginning in 1969. And there have been other disasters — two space shuttles, Challenger, in 1986, and Columbia, in 2003, were lost, resulting in the deaths of 14 astronauts. The country was in shock after the ’67 fire in Apollo 1. NASA’s carefully cultivated image of infallibility had been badly damaged. There were calls from various corners to nix the space program, and let the Russians have the moon. It wasn’t worth human lives, some editorials in leading newspapers said. Webb saw it differently. But perhaps the most distinguishing factor of his leadership, something rarely seen in gov-

ernment or politics these days, was that Webb publicly took the blame for the disaster, pulling no punches. “We’ve always known that something like this was going to happen soon or later,” he told the press at the time. “Who would have thought that the first tragedy would be on the ground?” Not only did he shoulder the blame, but Webb was determined to get all the facts and keep the space program moving forward. America, he thought, had to be first on the moon. He went to President Lyndon Johnson and asked that NASA be allowed to handle the investigation into the fire, promising to be truthful with the agency’s findings. Webb was grilled by various congressional committees, and kept the backlash away from NASA and the Johnson administration. As a result, Webb was assigned much of the blame, and NASA ultimately regained its “right stuff ” image. An investigation indicated that a faulty electrical wire inside the Apollo 1 command module likely caused the fire.

fter a tragedy, he was determined to keep the space program moving forward.

Webb retired from the space agency in October 1968, just as the Apollo program was nearing completion. Astronauts landed on the moon a year later. There were bumps along the way in Webb’s career. In 2015, a Seattle Times columnist revived talk that when Webb was undersecretary of state, thousands of gay men and women lost their government jobs in what was known as the “Lavender Scare.” There was never any evidence that Webb had anything to do with the firings, although people speculated he must have known about them. Perhaps the thing to remember about James Webb is that he kept the complex machinery of NASA humming so America could stay true to the goal that President John F. Kennedy set in 1962: to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade and bring him back safely to Earth. Much of the technology had not even been invented yet when Kennedy made that bold pledge, and many thought the goal was impossible. Webb was one of the believers. Jim Bernstein is editor of the Long Beach Herald. Comments about this column? JBernstein@liherald.com.

Choosing to read hope in the crystal ball

hat if we got knocked out of our socks by a brilliant turnabout in our national life? At the moment, “Happy New Year” rings hollow. We all know how heavy the baggage is that we dragged from December to January this year. But my hope is in the mystery of the future. We could never have predicted the dreadful twin plagues of Covid and civil unrest, and that is exactly why we can’t predict a change, a windfall of good RANDI karma and good KREISS timing. Twenty-two years ago, I wrote a New Year’s column for the Heralds offering my predictions for the year ahead, 2000. First, I suggested, sell all your stock. In my capacity as a person with little understanding of financial markets, I firmly believed that stores would become obsolete as online shopping became more popular. The markets would go south from there. As it turned out, if you just kept your stocks for these 22 years, you would have made a tidy bundle. So my first predic-

tion was dead on arrival. Even with the dot-com bust in the early 2000s and the Great Recession, the average annual return in the stock market was about 10 percent. I also predicted that that we would not go to war with Saddam Hussein. On the national front, I lamented the scandals in Congress, and said our officials would out one another until no one would be left in government. That one was particularly interesting: Apparently, the worst thing I could imagine about Congress 22 years ago was that folks were having sexual flings. Man, wouldn’t you take that scenario in a heartbeat? What if someone told you back then that on New Year’s 2022, our country would be stumbling ahead, staggered by more than 800,000 deaths from a virulent pandemic that shut down schools and services and sent millions into isolation and quarantine? Could you possibly have believed that political fighting, a violent attack on the Capitol and hordes of know-nothing anarchists would threaten the integrity of Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court? Would you have believed that a Marjorie Taylor Greene could exist

if I described her to you back then? How about this one: Donald Trump would get elected president in 2016. Hell, 22 years ago, the twin towers were still standing in all their massive glory at the tip of Manhattan. Perhaps it’s best that crystal balls are cloudy. The unexpected is what I am counting on — that unpredictably good things may save us. As I think about the year ahead, my head and my heart do battle. Our hearts don’t heal according to a turn of the calendar page. My heart is aching for our losses. Some friends have died. My city is set back on its heels. Our kids are out of school yet again, as we enter the third year of the pandemic. Part of my head is worried about tomorrow. But I’m going with the part of my brain that knows unexpectedly beneficent events in the year ahead could heal the country and get us healthy again. We can go back to work, and bring back birthday parties and theater and family dinners. The virus could burn out. Our political leaders may find their best selves. Airplane travel will take off and people, too long sequestered in their homes, will embrace one another again.

nexpected events in the year ahead could heal the country and get us healthy again.

This could happen, and is no more unlikely than a raging global pandemic that stopped the clock for two years. I wish this for all of us in 2022: that we are off-the-charts lucky and blessed in our lives and work. In the meantime, the poet John Roedel offers this advice: “My heart is always sad about/something that happened yesterday/while my head is always worried/about something that may happen tomorrow, I lamented . . . “My gut squeezed my hand./‘I just can’t live with my mistakes of the past/or my anxiety about the future,’ I sighed . . . “My gut smiled and said: ‘In that case/ you should stay with your lungs for a while . . . “If you are exhausted about/your heart’s obsession with/the fixed past and your mind’s focus/on the uncertain future/ your lungs are the perfect place for you/ there is no yesterday in your lungs/there is no tomorrow there either/there is only now/there is only inhale/there is only exhale/there is only this moment/there is only breath/and in that breath/you can rest while your/heart and head work/their relationship out.” Let us say goodbye to 2021 hoping to be astonished, in a good way, by 2022. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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n his first week on the job, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman addressed the coronavirus pandemic in a way that can best be described as premature, if not downright foolhardy. Last week, Blakeman, a Republican from the Five Towns, signed a set of three executive orders, all of which were intended to loosen state regulations whose purpose was to protect public safety during this most recent surge of infections caused by the Omicron variant. Blakeman was clearly thumbing his nose at Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, who on Dec. 10 ordered mask wearing in public to reduce the spread of Covid-19 as it fans out like wildfire across New York state, and the nation. Before taking office, Blakeman had said he would not enforce the public mask mandate, as required by Hochul. Then, on Jan. 6, he took this political showdown one step further when he signed a surprise executive order directing local boards of education across Nassau to vote on whether to require masks in the schools. Refusing to enforce the mask mandate was bad enough. To require school districts to weigh in on a measure that is, incontrovertibly, intended to protect the health and safety of students — many of them unvaccinated — along with teachers and school workers, represents an abdication of his duty as county executive to protect Nassau’s most vulnerable. It’s been a while since Blakeman, 66, has been in school, but surely he must

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LETTERS Blakeman’s decision is ‘misguided’ To the Editor: The news generated by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s recent publicity stunt of signing an executive order allowing school districts to decide on mask-wearing is nothing more than a glaring example of misguided judgment and poor leadership. Surely Mr. Blakeman knows he cannot supersede Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate or the state education commissioner’s similar order. It is nothing more than playing to the cheap seats, on top of being quantifiably false (the idea that there is no science to support mask wearing as a Covid mitigation practice). It’s both an embarrassment and an invitation to those who believe such nonsense to cause disruption and only furthers divisiveness. It’s a sad day in Nassau County to be represented by a person willing to sow discord to be

remember the conditions in which students and teachers work. Twenty to 30 people are confined to a room for six to eight hours a day, with ventilation systems that are often decades old, unless a district has recently upgraded them. In short, students and teachers must spend hours a day within feet of one another, in rooms of stagnant air. One infected student or teacher could spread the coronavirus to dozens of people in a single day. Why not mask up? What, precisely, is Blakeman’s point here? Anyone who enters a school must wear a mask, period. Some parents say they worry about the potential psychological effects of their children wearing masks throughout the day. In studies since the start of the pandemic, however, children were found to be highly resilient, reporting few, if any, effects from mask wearing, and health experts across the country have weighed in, saying children are, generally speaking, doing just fine wearing masks. At the same time, as we reported in last week’s editorial, numerous studies indicate that mask wearing does, in fact, reduce the spread of the coronavirus. That is, there is no real downside to children wearing masks in school — and only an upside, the likely reduction of community spread of the coronavirus. Thus, it would be just plain wrong of any school district, for what could only be described as political reasons, to overturn the state’s mask mandate in a vote. Hochul quickly weighed in on the mat-

ter last week, saying that any school district that voted to overturn the mandate, ordered by both the State Education Department and the State Department of Health, could — and likely would — face the loss of state aid for education. She was right to weigh in aggressively. There will be those who say that the Omicron variant, according to studies, is less virulent and less deadly than previous strains of the coronavirus. They are correct. This variant is still, however, a virus with the capability to send the unvaccinated to hospitals. And people who believe that even a three-dose vaccination will entirely protect them from it should think again. The vaccinated are becoming infected as well. They might not experience the heavy symptoms that unvaccinated people do, but they can still get sick. Further, the risk of a vaccinated person being hospitalized by the Omicron variant is extremely low, but it is not zero. The bottom line: Blakeman appears to be playing a game of political brinkmanship, which has garnered him a good amount of publicity across the state and made him something of a hero to farright conservatives. That is why we find his first two weeks in office to be so disappointing. We honestly expected better of him. We hope and trust he will see the error of his ways and restore one of the best measures that we have to guard against the coronavirus — the mask mandate.

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ational Public Radio and ABC News warn, “Teachers are on the front lines in the Jan. 6 culture war.” Depending on where they work, teachers experience different political pressure when it comes to how to discuss with students the events that rocked the U.S. Capitol a year and a week ago. For younger children, important themes are community decision-making and fairness, the building blocks of a democratic society. In grades five to eight, students ALAN learn about the foundations of the SINGER democratic process — rights and responsibilities, civic action and voting — along with injustices. In grades 11 and 12, students should follow congressional hearings, evaluate media coverage and discuss the implications of current events. For these grades, the anniversary of Jan. 6, with expanded media coverage, offered a teachable moment for more in-depth analysis. While students and teachers are entitled to their opinions about the implications of the events, discussion in class about them must be respectful, and speakers must support statements with evi-

dence. The teacher must prepare documents for evaluation, ask questions of student speakers and moderate discussion. The teacher must guide students through multiple sources with different perspectives so they can form their own questions, evaluate the sources and information, and arrive at conclusions supported by evidence. This process must not include deciding whether the Jan. 6 insurrection happened. It happened, and it was indeed an insurrection, intended to block certification of the presidential election. One difficulty in addressing the events of that day is the country’s partisan divide. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found that despite widely viewed video footage, 60 percent of Republicans claimed the attack on the Capitol was not violent or somewhat violent. Here, teachers should ask students to suggest additional documents to allow them to discuss and decide whether the events were violent or not. To be clear, more than 700 people have been charged with various crimes at the Capitol. The FBI estimates that about 2,000 people were part of the mob that breached the building after a pro-Trump rally at which then President Donald Trump and other speakers repeated

unsubstantiated charges that the election was stolen. Some 140 law enforcement officers were injured during the attack, one died, and the Capitol sustained more than $1.5 million in damage. More than 160 of the rioters entered guilty pleas in exchange for lighter sentences. Seventy have been sentenced. Thirty-one were jailed and 18 received home detention. The longest prison term so far is five years. About 100 defendants have ties to extremist groups. Trump tweeted many times on the afternoon on Jan. 6, attacking then Vice President Mike Pence more than once. At 2:38 p.m. — more than an hour and a half after Trump supporters first breached the Capitol — Trump tweeted, “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!” At 4:17 p.m. Trump tweeted a video in which he told his followers, “I know your pain, I know your hurt. We love you, you’re very special. You’ve seen what happens, you’ve seen the way others are treated . . . I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.” Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, called what happened on Jan. 6 “an insurrection, incited by the president.” On Fox News, Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, said, “There’s no

t offers a teachable moment for indepth analysis, if discussed respectfully.

LETTERS more popular with a loud and uninformed minority. MICHAEL LUDWIG, PH.D. Rockville Centre Ludwig is director of Hofstra University’s health education master’s program.

No wonder Democrats are in trouble To the Editor: Alan Singer’s analyses of why the Democratic Party is in peril of losing control of government (“Democrats election perils have little to do with ‘wokeness,’” Dec. 9-15) is yet another anti-Republican screed with selective omissions of facts. Nowhere in his op-ed piece does he mention the Southern border, which is a lawless catastrophe for our country as well as for Biden, Harris or whoever is supposed to be in charge. Singer fails to mention that with no clear mandate, a 50-50 Senate and a razor-thin majority in the House, Biden and company are trying to pass a multi-trillion-dollar package that can only be paid for with higher taxes. Nowhere does he mention the murder, mayhem and chaos that are a direct result of flawed policies in Democratic-run cities across the country.

Weakening support for Israel; kneeling to an Iran deal, which is a pathway to a nuclear weapon for a country with a malevolent, untrustworthy government; abandoning friends and weapons in Afghanistan; sitting idly by as China steals land in the South China Sea to build military outposts; closing down the Keystone Pipeline (while green-lighting Russia’s), which has led to soaring gas prices as we struggle to electrify, are just a few other omissions. Throw in the teaching of a flawed critical race theory, the 1609 Project, FBI surveillance of school board meetings, support of the corrupt and often violent Black Lives Matter movement and consideration of reparations for descendants of people who were slaves more than 150 years ago, and it’s quite understandable why the Democratic Party is in trouble. Its record of failure in one year is breathtaking. Most people who are, or will turn from, blue to red are neither racist nor violent. They abhor the Jan. 6 insurrection. They are pragmatic! And yes, like it or not, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted by a jury of his peers who heard all of the evidence. To become purple, we need moderate leaders on both sides of the aisle who listen to and respect one another. Ignoring reality when it conflicts with one’s point of view is a prescription for failure. DR. MEL YOUNG Lawrence

question the president formed the mob. The president incited the mob. The president addressed the mob. He lit the flame.” The New York Times published useful lesson ideas to aid teachers. It also recommends consulting the websites of Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance), Facing History and Ourselves and the Anti-Defamation League. The Times package includes documents with questions sorted by these themes: ■ Understanding what happened and reacting to it. ■ Investigating President Trump’s responsibility. ■ Exploring why democracy requires a peaceful transfer of power. ■ Understanding the roots of the riot. ■ Considering the role of the news media and the power of language. ■ Scrutinizing how social media can facilitate insurrection. ■ Putting Jan. 6 into historical context. Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on Twitter, @AlanJSinger1.

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