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has in lowering cholesterol levels. Their protein And been shown to reduce triglyceride levels. boiled. they also make a delicious snack when
Enjoy a handful of plain walnuts or almonds, chop some up and sprinkle them on salads.
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kind of antioxidant heart? polyphenol, which is another What’s the formula for a healthy cholesterol. health, that helps to lower LDL (bad) Many factors contribute to your heart and including exercising regularly, not smoking a bigeating healthy foods. But some foods pack it comes ger nutritional punch than others when some to a healthy heart. Yes, every year, there’s rage, but new food item out there that’s all the Spinach of heartof all vegetacertain superfoods remain staples nutritious most the Spinach is of your lutein (a healthy diet that should be a daily part bles, packed with B vitamins, folate, iron, calcium nutrition plan. your carotenoid) magnesium, potassium,salad with You probably have some of these in make a on your and fiber. And it’s so versatile; olive oil or diet already. Add in others and you’re it, steam it then add a little garlic and chicken way to a happy heart. chop and freeze it to mix in with pasta, dishes, soups and more.
Blueberries of High in antioxidants, blueberries are one foods you the most powerful disease-fighting vitamin C. can eat. They also contain fiber and topping They’re great plain, in a fruit salad, or your whole-grain cereal.
Oranges Everyone knows oranges are rich in vitamin C, but did you know they also contain potassium, flavofolate (folic acid), fiber, carotenoids and that noids? Carotenoids are a type of antioxidant in contain the red, orange, and yellow pigments of a type fruits and vegetables. Flavonoids are
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Swiss chard in a This vegetable (a cousin to beets) comes leaves. variety of stalk colors with beautiful green Swiss chard is rich in potassium and magnesium it also that helps control blood pressure. And heartcontains lutein and zeaxanthin, two of olive oil healthy antioxidants. Sauté with a bit pepper until wilted and season with herbs and for a tasty treat.
Edamame The fiber in these green soy beans is helpful
Black beans and kidney beans beans Like spinach, black beans and kidney contain B-complex vitamins, folate, magnesium, fatty calcium and fiber, plus niacin and omega-3 for extra acids. Add them to soups and salads flavor and heart-healthy nutrients.
Salmon and tuna The American Heart Association recomand mends eating fatty fish, such as salmon These fish albacore tuna, at least twice a week. fatty are abundant in polyunsaturated omega-3 for heart acids, which help reduce risk factors blood disease including high cholesterol, high fatty pressure and high triglycerides. Omega-3 that acids can also help decrease inflammation improve contributes to chronic disease, and they cognitive and behavioral function.
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Oatmeal This heart-healthy grain is a smart breakfast up in the choice. Soluble fiber helps fill you includmorning, while oatmeal’s other nutrients, ing omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium, potassium, your folate, niacin and calcium help protect choheart. Studies suggest that oats can lower cerlesterol levels and may even help prevent tain cancers.
Flaxseed huge This low-carb whole grain packs a B6, nutritional punch. Flaxseed is high in vitamin mangaphosphorus, copper, folate, magnesium, nese, fiber, omega-3 fatty acids and phytonutrior ents such as lignans, which may help prevent Research forestall the onset of type 2 diabetes. the has also shown that flaxseed may decrease arrhythrisk of blood clots, stroke, and cardiac favormias. Grind up flaxseed and add it to your or ite heart-healthy hot or cold cereal, muffins bread.
Walnuts and almonds and If you’re counting carbs, walnuts your diet almonds are good additions to omega-3 because they contain fiber, along with fatty acids, vitamin E, magnesium, monounsatuphytosterrated and polyunsaturated fats and ols, which seem to decrease blood cholesterol.
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Vol. 29 No. 9
Phillips begins tax audit
Village gets town grant
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FEBRUARY 24 - MARCH 2, 2022
Hochul pulls zoning plan amid protests By lIsA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
Two weeks after the first Nassau County-based protest against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to require local governments to permit accessory dwelling units, which sparked opposition in suburban communities across New York state, Hochul pulled the plan on Feb. 17 from her proposed 2022-23 executive budget on Feb. 17. Accessory dwelling units, known as ADUs, are smaller, independent residences on the same lots as single-family
homes. Many Long Islanders expressed relief at the governor’s action. “I’m not surprised it was pulled,” Malverne resident Steph Jablonsky said. “I’m all for easing restrictions that are outdated or unreasonably tough, but when you talk about legalizing basement apartments, there’s more to it than just passing legislation. Housing is important, but it has to be safe. There are a ton of unsafe basements for people to live in, and they’re illegal for a good reason.” Hochul proposed the fiveyear, $25 billion zoning plan, in
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two wEEks AFtER rallying against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s housing proposal in East Meadow, county and town officials celebrated the removal of the plan from Hochul’s proposed executive budget on Feb. 18. the interest of creating more affordable housing, on Jan 5. There was backlash from local representatives at nearly every level, from Rep. Tom Suozzi, who is challenging Hochul, a fellow Democrat, for the party’s gubernatorial nomination, to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and Hempstead Town Supervisor Don
Clavin, both Republicans. Considered a lower-cost alter native for young and elderly people who want to move to or stay on Long Island, a law allowing ADUs would override the zoning regulations of local municipalities such as Malverne village, and many officials feared that would create overcrowded sub-
urbs and worsen parking and traffic problems. Hochul’s plan “would have decimated the environment, the services, our schools,” Clavin said at a news conference on Feb. 18 outside the same East Meadow home where the Feb. 3 rally took place. He highlighted the Continued on page 10
Push for Malverne street name change moves forward By RoBERt tRAVERso rtraverso@liherald.com
More than 130 Malverne residents submitted potential new names for Lindner Place, the village street that community members are organizing to rename due to its connection to Paul Lindner, a major figure in the early history of Malverne and a 1920s-era leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Nassau County. Voting on the top three to five potential new names took place between Feb. 9-16, and was open to all Malverne and Lakeview residents. The Lindner Place Renaming Committee, a group comprising 33 individuals and
organizations, which was counting the votes, had also compiled the history of the street and its namesake, and garnered the support of its 11 residents. The group plans to draft a proposal for a name change and introduce it to the village board at its next meeting in March. “For the past two years, I’ve been reviewing news articles and photographs from that time period,” Jamie Bellamy, a member of the renaming committee and a resident of Woodmere, said at a village board meeting on Feb. 2, “which not only confirm Lindner’s leadership role in the KKK, but also his violent and hateful participation in the
group.” At the meeting, Mayor Keith Corbett pledged to work with residents and village trustees to come up with a new name for the street. “We’re looking forward to working together to see this through,” Corbett said. Bellamy’s research, she said, revealed that Lindner took part in “cross burnings and hateful speech designed to intimidate those who the KKK and Lindner deemed as ‘less than’ and unworthy of being an American.” Nearly two years after lifelong Malverne resident T.J. Magno created an online petition in July 2020 calling for Lindner Place’s renaming, it has gar-
nered more than 5,650 signatures. The debate over the name was reignited after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis that May 2020 and the subsequent protests around the country, including in Malverne and Lakeview. The protests brought renewed focus on statues and streets honoring those known to
have held racist views. When the Malverne School District became the first New York school district ordered to desegregate in 1966, it had three elementary schools, Woodfield Road, Davison Avenue and Lindner Place. The Lindner Place school was later renamed the Maurice W. Downing Primary Continued on page 11