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Malverne’s ‘go-to guy’ Longtime village police Sgt. Thomas Winters dies at 55 Mayor Keith Corbett said. “He was intelligent, he was always friendly and above all, he was a There has been an outpouring consummate professional. Any of condolences from neighbor- job Tommy was given, he [gave] ing fire and police departments his all, and he always made sure over the past week after Mal- to protect and serve the memverne Police Departbers of his commument Sgt. Thomas nity.” Winters died suddenWinters was also ly of an unknown a lifelong member of cause on July 3. He the Elmont Fire was 55. Department’s Truck Winters was a Co. No. 1. Another of police officer in Malhis passions was verne for 21 years. Ly n b ro o k Ro l l e r Before joining the Hockey, in which he department, he served as a coach, worked with the b o a r d m e m b e r, New York City Police Sgt. thomas J. Winters friend and mentor Department’s Housfor several years. ing Bureau for 13 “As anyone who years, serving as a delegate for ever had the pleasure of crossing Police Service Area 9 in Raven- paths with Tommy will attest to, swood, Queens. Winters’s dedica- Tom was the go-to guy when tion to protecting the rights of things needed to get done,” the the officers he worked with Malverne P.D. stated in a news shaped his future as president of release. “There was never a task the Malverne Police Benevolent too large or too menial for Association, a position he held Tommy to tackle, and he did so for the past decade. without any fanfare or complain“Thomas Winters was one of ing.” the best police officers we had in Malverne resident Regina this department,” Malverne Continued on page 4
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HIGH-aCHIeVING GIrl SCoUtS, from left, Bernadette Kilkelly, Abigail Loiselle, Sara Bahri, Christina Franco, Amber Wilkins and Marisa Welch celebrated their Gold Awards at the East Rockaway Senior Center on July 8.
Malvernite among Girl Scouts to obtain the Gold Award By tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com
On July 8, the Girl Scouts of East Rockaway, Lakeview, Lynbrook and Malverne honored 2020 and 2021 Gold Award winners for their efforts to improve their communities with projects that made the most of their skills and leadership abilities. As adaptable as ever, the scouts moved their Gold Award ceremony to the East Rockaway Senior Center when they heard about the rain that Tropical Storm Elsa
was bringing with it. The Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting, recognizing excellence and leadership, requires the completion of two Girl Scout Senior or Ambassador Journeys or the earning of the Silver Award and one Senior or Ambassador program. Amber Wilkins, of Troop 2188 in Malverne, presented a PowerPoint to administrators at Malverne High School on the benefits of creating a debate club. “I felt it was important to debate the hard topics that people often don’t want to talk
about,” Wilkins said. East Rockaway’s Marisa Welch, of Troop 2245, focused her project on carbon dioxide emissions and their impact on climate change. As part of the project, Welch was able to persuade village officials to install bike racks to promote a healthier lifestyle for residents and a healthier planet. East Rockaway Mayor Bruno Romano appeared with Deputy Mayor Gordon Fox and Trustees Chris Bilello and Jack Felbinger to pay tribute to the girls. “I want to Continued on page 9
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School diStrict leaderS and County Legislator Vincent Muscarella, sixth from right, joined the West Hempstead Community Scholarship Fund for its annual awards ceremony at West Hempstead High School in June 11.
Scholarship fund honorees in W.H. Four seniors from West Hempstead High School are this year’s winners of the West Hempstead Community Scholarship Fund’s awards ceremony, which took place on June 11. Emily Oh, Edwin Gutierrez, Brenda Platero and Kayla Lugo, who are all college bound this fall, were honored by the group during an outdoor ceremony at West Hempstead High School. The WHCSF was joined by County Legislator Vincent Muscarella, who represents West Hempstead, as he awarded each winner a certificate of recognition. The students also received gifts from the group. Each scholar was recognized for excelling despite the challenges in a year of the coronavirus pandemic, economic loss and radical changes in their school environment. A 50-year-old tradition of support by the community for its students, the Scholarship Fund has awarded more than $400,000 in scholarships to more than 290 students. The WHCSF is supported by its volunteer trustees, local businesses and individuals who work throughout the year through events and other means to recognize and support students who excel in academics, community service and community spirit. For those interested in supporting or becoming a member of the West Hempstead Community Scholarship Fund, contact the group at: WHSCF, Inc. P.O. Box 2132 West Hempstead, N.Y. 11552. Courtesy West Hempstead Community Scholarship Fund; compiled by Nakeem Grant
MuScarella, above left, Emily Oh, Kayla Lugo, WHCSF President Tom Kemnitzer, Brenda Platero, Edwin Gutierrez and district Superintendent Daniel Rehman. honoreeS, froM left, Platero, Oh, Lugo and Gutierrez.
Remembering the ‘heart’ of the Malverne P.D. continued from front page Rochford recalled an incident on a hot summer day when she saw Winters helping an elderly woman with a child when her car became disabled. He immediately placed them in his air-conditioned police cruiser and brought them cold drinks from Nordon Drugs on Hempstead Avenue. “Although I doubt he realized I was watching, I immediately noticed what a kind soul he was,” Rochford recounted. “I hope and pray that others are as kind and generous to his family as he was to our village.” In 2017, Winters and Officer Brian Schmidt helped a woman who was in labor at her home on Atlas Avenue give birth to her son. “In many ways, he was truly the heart of the Malverne Police Department,” Corbett said. Winters was an avid New York Rangers fan, golfer and boater, but his biggest joy in life was his family. His wife, Julie, two sons, Brian and Christopher, and two daughters, Megan and Kelsey, were the light of his life, as described by the Police Department. Although he was known by many as a private person, Winters kept his colleagues up to date on his children’s lives. Corbett said that in recent years, during the swearings-in of young Malverne police officers, he would challenge each of them to become the next Thomas Winters. “No one will ever be able to fill the shoes that _______
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SGT. ThomaS WinTerS worked in the Malverne Police Department for 21 years. Tommy has left behind, but those officers became little brothers to him,” Corbett said. “He looked out for them and showed them how to do the job appropriately. To the entire Winters family, please know that this village is behind you and with you not just in the early days, but for the years to come.” The Police Department and the PBA created a GoFundMe page on July 7 to assist the family with funeral and burial costs. As of press time on Monday, it had raised $27,105. Winters’s funeral was scheduled for Wednesday at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre.
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Ongoing Our Lady of Lourdes thrift shop The Shop hours are 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each Wednesday; and 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the first and third Saturday of each month. The shop is located across from Our Lady of Lourdes School on Sheehy Place between Park Boulevard and Wright Avenue in Malverne (See our sign on lamp post). Come in and browse, buy at bargain prices; clothes, household goods, jewelry, misc. Donations gratefully accepted.
Farmers Market at Crossroads Crossroads Farm’s weekly farmers markets will be held each Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Thursday, July 15 Bilingual Meditation for Beginners Introducción a la Meditación/ Introduction to Meditation virtually with the West Hempstead Library from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. The session will be hosted by Claudia M. Preciado,certified primordial who specializes in sound meditation. Contact Piedad Ramirez at (516) 481-6591 ext. 11 or canaria@ whplibrary.org.
Virtual reading to dogs Calling all kids entering grades kindergarten, one and two. Practice reading this summer with the West Hempstead Library to a friendly dog trained to listen at 4 p.m. Bideawee volunteers and their precious dogs will be available for a 15 minute session. Participants can choose the book(s). Attending this program earns all registered Summer Reading Club participants minutes towards prizes. Please register for your turn, provide a valid email address and the library will forward the link the morning of the program.
Stargazing Party Learn about the night sky and see the moon and stars with the Malverne Library’s telescope from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. The library will also have crafts and games for the kids. All ages
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Court of Honor ceremony Local Eagle Scouts were honored by local elected officials during the Eagle Court of Honor Ceremony at St. Agnes Cathedral Parish Center on June 4. The honorees were Eagle Scouts Matthew Baxley, of Rockville Centre, Matthew Friedman, of West Hempstead, Luis JimenezFranco, of West Islip, Johnathon Kelly, of Rockville Centre, Thomas Norton, of Rockville Centre and Daniel Varney, of Rockville Centre. welcome. This is an in-person outdoor program. Registration is required. Call (516) 599-0750 ext. 303 or email malvernekids@malvernelibrary.org to register.
Saturday, July 17 Gotham Barbershop Block Party Gotham Barbershop, at 558 Hempstead Ave. in West Hempstead, will hold a free block party from 1 to 5 p.m. The event, which is open to people of all ages, will feature bouncy houses, cotton candy, popcorn, raffled prizes courtesy of Lost 4 Toys and more.
p.m. Characters will be chosen and emailed to participants prior to the event. Limited participation. For grades six to 12.
Tuesday, July 20 Virtual Stay & PlayHooray Before heading out this morning, Zoom into a Virtual PlayHooray class with Molly Mouse with the West Hempstead Library. Note an earlier start time of 9:30 a.m. All ages are welcome. Please register using a valid email address so the library can forward you the Zoom link.
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The Malverne Library’s STEM workshop will get younger kids excited about science, technology, engineering and math. The library will have a scavenger hunt, read a story and do a fun STEM activity from 1 to 2 p.m. This program will be led by a local girl scout working
on her Gold Award. Children in grades kindergarten to three. This is an inperson outdoor program. Registration is required. Call (516) 599-0750 ext. 303 or email malvernekids@malvernelibrary.org to register.
Wednesday, July 21 Move & Groove Outdoor Storytime at Westwood Park Join the Malverne Library for a fun outdoor music and movement storytime with stories, songs, rhymes and bubbles, from 10 to 10:30 a.m., or 11 to 11:30 a.m. Please bring a blanket or towel to sit on. Ages one and up. Registration is required. Call (516) 599-0750 ext. 303 or email malvernekids@malvernelibrary.org to register. To accommodate social distancing, spots are limited. Masks must be worn by everyone ages two and up.
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Risky Business will perform at the gazebo on Church Street in Malverne on July 16 at 7:30 p.m. Longtime Malverne Police Department Sergeant Thomas J. Winters died on July 3. Eitz Chayim was one of several shuls to earn a grant from the Orthodox Union this month. The Malverne Library will host a stargazing party on Thursday, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Send you letter to the editor to Nakeem Grant, at ngrant@liherald.com.
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Hempstead have partnered to provide the free sunscreen dispensers, which have been installed at Hewlett Point Park, Averill Park, Echo Park, Harold Walker Memorial Park, Rath Park, Roosevelt, Oceanside Park, Newbridge Road Park, Veterans Memorial Park and Forest City Park pools; Atlantic Beach East, East Atlantic Beach, Point Lookout Beach, Lido Park Beach, The Sands, Lido West Beach, and Slate Lane, Acorn Lane, Bluegrass Lane, Azalea Lane Pool, Jerusalem Avenue, West Village Green and Parkway pools in Levittown.
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East Rockaway villagE Trustees Jack Felbinger, far left, and Rich Bilello, Deputy Mayor Gordon Fox, Mayor Bruno Romano and East Rockaway Girl Scout Coordinator Madeline Pearson honored the Gold Award recipients. ize the benefits of incorporating literature into their children’s lives, and donated backpacks full of school supplies, books and games to the kindergartners. Loiselle’s fellow Troop 2000 member, Sara Bahri, called attention to science research opportunities for her classmates
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The West Hempstead Community Support Association honored Jamie Murphy, a recent West Hempstead High School graduate, with this year’s community service award on June 10. The group visited Murphy and her mother, Mia, at her home to personally award her with a scholarship. “It’s definitely helpful for college and it feels great to be recognized for doing some good in the community,” said Murphy, who will attend the University at Buffalo to study psychology this fall. “I just really appreciate the help.” The group recognized Murphy for her volunteerism with TOPSoccer, a program that she has been involved in for the past maureeN five years. TOPSoccer, or The Outreach Program for Soccer, is GreeNBerG a community-based training President, program for young athletes with WHCSA disabilities. “Making them happy and learning a sport that I loved to play as a kid . . . it’s unbeatable,” Murphy said. Murphy also thanked her mother for getting her involved in the community. “She gets me involved with so many things in the town and she wakes me up for
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West Hempstead HiGH senior Jamie Murphy, third from left, received the community service award from the West Hempstead Community Support Association on June 10. She was joined by, from left, her mother, Mia, Maureen Greenberg, Marge Von Holten, third from right, Dorothy Krimsky and Santos Welti. everything,” she said jokingly. “It isn’t difficult as a young woman to get out there and do what’s right and what’s helpful to others,” her mother said. “Having the comfort and confidence to take that step . . . others will follow.” WHCSA President Maureen Greenberg said that Murphy’s diverse background in volunteer work made her an easy choice. “It was important for us to see that someone who’s growing and getting out in the world is not just going down one road, but exploring other paths,” Greenberg said. “We’re happy to see that things are starting to
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NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED EXPERTISE, RIGHT HERE ON LONG ISLAND. Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside is proud to be recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a High Performing Hospital in multiple specialties, conditions, and procedures including urology, heart failure, diabetes/endocrinology, orthopedics, and COPD. This success is due to the tireless commitment of our physicians, nurses, and support staff who tackle and treat the most complex medical challenges every day.
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Mount Sinai breaks ground on new J-Wing By ToM Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com
On the morning of June 22, Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital celebrated the groundbreaking for its J-Wing on its Oceanside campus. The wing will serve as the cornerstone of hospital’s $400 million capital expansion to increase health-care services. The $130 million, four-story, 100,000square-foot J-Wing is projected to open in 2023. The chairman of Mount Sinai’s board of directors, Joe Fennessy, said the board re-evaluated old plans for the facility, updating the infrastructure to match the evolvi n g t re n d s i n health care. “We joe fennessy began to re-imagChairman, ine what this hospital should be, board of Directors and we realized to best serve the needs of our community, we had to be something different,” Fennessy said. “And that’s an entity that really focuses on more advanced and tertiary type services.” The expansion wing will feature larger operating rooms that can fit the stateof-the-art equipment needed for advanced cardiac surgery. The ground floor of the J-Wing will expand the emergency department by 12,000 square feet. Combined with the renovations currently being done on the existing department, the improved ED is designed to serve 80,000 patients a year, which will more than double the current 36,000. One person who was excited to see the proposed expansion of the emergency department was Rockville Centre resi-
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BoarD MeMBers anD local officials broke ground on the future home of Mount Sinai South Nassau’s J-Wing June on 22. dent Larry Ferazani. In December 2019, the cardiac emergency team conducted life-saving surgery on Ferazani after tests in the emergency room revealed he had had a heart attack. “If I was not in this emergency room with this team of incredible folks, I would not be here today,” Ferazani said. “I do feel like an expecting father, and you’re all my cousins and family here today,” said Andrew Triolo, the vice president of design, development and construction. He outlined plans for a threestory parking structure and a utility plant to provide heating, cooling and emergency power for the hospital. An $89 million Federal Emergency Management Agency-
funded project, the utility building will also provide storm resiliency. “The last 18 months have been very hard all around the world, and that makes days like today that much more special,” said Dr. Adhi Sharma, Mount Sinai’s chief medical officer, “because we should appreciate that tomorrow is not guaranteed.” Sharma lauded the board and design team for their efforts to adjust plans for the structure to account for Covid-19 issues. “What we learned during Covid, we wanted to apply to the design,” he said. New features include redone air handling to keep the environment clean, focusing on single-care spaces to limit
contact with other patients and a streamlined system of oxygen delivery. The J-wing’s expanded intensive care unit will help in the oxygen transportation process and in critical care and specialized services. “It’s a core value that we find a way,” Dr. Ken Davis, chief executive officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, said. Nine new operating suites for the surgical field will also expand the hospital’s advances in surgical technologies and equipment. “It’s amazing what the team has done,” Sharma said. “I think health care in general has shown our resilience, our ability to think on our feet and our ability to roll up our sleeves.”
Molloy names new V.P. of academic affairs After an extensive church, Dr. Michelle Piskulich was selected to the position of provost and vice president of academic affairs at Molloy College and will begin her appointment on Aug. 23. Piskulich was previously a senior associate provost at Oakland University, and the college’s search committee was assisted by the Storbeck Search firm, in selecting her out of nearly 100 applicants. Piskulich has extensive experience in leading and managing faculty initiatives and academic programs, overseeing areas that include faculty affairs, governance, online learning, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, academic human resources, academic space planning, outreach, professional and continuing education, and summer programs for a campus of 19,000 students and 2,500 fac-
In addition to her experience as senior ulty and staff. She impressed the search committee associate provost, Piskulich has held a with her breadth of experience in aca- range of leadership assignments, including Interim executive vice demic affairs and her collabpresident for academic affairs orative and interactive manand provost, with direct ner of engagement. Michael reports including academic Torres, vice president for deans in schools in the Coltechnology & institutional lege of Arts and Sciences, effectiveness and chair of the School of Business AdminisSearch Committee, said tration, School of Education Piskulich was a great fit. and Human Services, School “Michelle Piskulich demof Engineering and Computer onstrates a career of successScience, School of Health Sciful academic leadership that ences, School of Medicine, will assist Molloy College in achieving its goals,” he said, Dr. Michelle Piskulich School of Nursing, university libraries, graduate school, according to a Molloy College honors college, director of the news release, “and does so with direction and purpose, carried out Eye Research Institute, vice president of research, director of the Office of Instituwith a sense of humor and good will.”
tional Research and Assessment, and the executive director Macomb Community College outreach, among others. Piskulich previously served as associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, director of the Master of Public Administration program and Chair of the Department of Political Science, where she held a tenured faculty appointment. She was also president of the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), an organization that is the accreditation body for master’s degree programs in public policy, affairs and administration for 318 colleges and universities in 25 countries. Courtesy Molloy College; compiled by Mike Smollins
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ntil recently, I had never thought deeply how radical my parents were when I was a child. I’m not sure they realized it at the time. In 1972, when I was 5, they put me on a big yellow school bus whose primary route wound through Gordon Heights, in Suffolk County, a nearly all-Black neighborhood that was developed by Louis Fife in the 1920s. I was one of a handful of white children on the route. Two years later, my younger brother joined me on the bus. Growing up in the tiny country SCoTT hamlet of Yaphank, a nearly BRINToN all-white community, I had no notion of the frighteningly seismic socio-political events that were breaking out across the country at the time, including an anti-desegregation movement that swept the nation, roiling cities from Boston to Los Angeles and too many points in between, including the Village of Malverne. “This place was a virtual war zone in the late 1960s and early ’70s, where you had people standing in picket lines ready to kill each other over issues of integration,” then Malverne Schools Superintendent James Hunderfund told the Herald in 2019. “There was a sense of separatism, and
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that was prevalent in other places, but it was rampant here.” In Boston alone, 40 anti-desegregation riots and protests broke out between 1974, the year I turned 7, and 1988, when I was a junior and senior in college. Much of the sound and fury was stirred by a group called Restore Our Alienated Rights, or ROAR, led by its chair, Louise Day Hicks, who claimed she was defending white neighborhoods by pushing back against court-ordered desegregation school busing plans. Yet my parents put me on that bus, appearing unworried, as if there were nothing out of the ordinary in this seemingly simple act of parenthood. All these years later, I’m happy and proud they did. It is why, in large part, I grew up to be an antiracist, one who works to eliminate racism in American society through words and actions. I came to this realization when I recently read Ibram X. Kendi’s immeasurably hopeful book, “How to Be an Antiracist” (One World, 2019). In this compact 238-page text, which is one part instruction manual on how to live a life free of racial prejudice and one part personal remembrance and reflection, Kendi, 38, a journalist and university professor, dissects, point by point, the many and varied forms of bigotry while laying out his vision for a socially
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just society in which all people, regardless of skin color, can achieve equality and happiness. “If we ignore the odds and fight to create an antiracist world, then we give humanity a chance to one day survive, a chance to live in communion, a chance to be forever free,” Kendi writes. It isn’t surprising that my parents put me on that bus. My father, the son of Christian missionaries, grew up in Africa, in the Congo. One of only a handful of white children in his village — the others were his siblings — he spoke Lunda, a Bantu language, before English. He was steeped in African art and culture and mysticism. As an adult, he was a music teacher and visual artist, and African sounds and design concepts played a central role in his work throughout his life. He spoke of Africa only in the fondest terms, regaling family and friends with often humorous stories of life in the jungle. My maternal grandfather was a drycleaner who set up shop in a Black neighborhood in Bellport, also in Suffolk, and I spent many afternoons behind his counter, playing hide-and-seek with my brother between the clothes racks. Grandpa, whose parents emigrated from Italy, greeted customers as though they were old friends, no matter their color. Kendi grew up in Queens, and he
bram X. Kendi’s immeasurably hopeful book made me think of my parents.
reserves some of his best writing for the chapters describing his childhood. You can see and feel the streets he describes with a certain melodic beat, like a rap. “We certainly weren’t imitating anything on the Ave — to the contrary,” he writes. “The wider culture was avidly imitating and appropriating from us; our music and fashion and language were transforming the so-called mainstream . . . Fresh baggy jeans sagging down. Fresh button-down shirts or designer sweatshirts in the winter under our bubble coats. Fresh T’s or sports jerseys in the summer above our baggy jean shorts. Dangling chains shining like our smiles. Piercings and tattoos and bold colors told the mainstream world just how little we wanted to imitate them.” In this beautiful book, we see a Black child come of age in a nation that is perpetually seeking to define him, cordon him off, suppress him, but we also see this child grow into a man who overcomes the odds, and who confronts not only the racism that is pervasive throughout our society, but within him — yes, he admits, a Black person can be a racist. Only by confronting racism in all its forms can we find peace. “How to Be an Antiracist” does just that. 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.
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just booked a reservation to see the next full solar eclipse. Call me an optimist; I expect to be there. Save the date: April 8, 2024. You can see it in all its glorious totality from Mazatlán, Mexico, along a narrow diagonal path that enters the United States near San Antonio and moves across the country to Maine and Canada. I am embarrassed to say I missed the last big eclipse, in 2017, because I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to go to Nashville with me, where the viewing was expected to be RANDI superb. I mean, KREISS how shortsighted was that? I am in awe of astronomical phenomena, and that was possibly a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I didn’t go, even though I had a hotel booked. Failure of what? Energy? Determination? I did see a sliver of the eclipse from my home in Woodmere, along with my mail carrier, who was stopped in his tracks, looking skyward through a sun filter. Very meh experience, eclipse-wise.
The world has turned since then. When the pandemic began and we were all shut down and shut inside for long periods of time, I started looking upward and outward for comfort and inspiration. I set up my Celestron telescope and learned how to use it properly. One dark night, I saw the surface of the full moon, with craters and geographical features I hadn’t seen before. Last Dec. 21, I saw the convergence of Jupiter and Saturn and could distinguish the rings of Jupiter in the telescope. As the pandemic wore on and wore me down, I found a real freedom in the night sky, observing the constellations we all know. I watched the International Space Station fly by. I downloaded the NASA website so I could try to spot other space objects floating around overhead. One app visualized my own night sky at any given moment, based on my location as communicated through my phone. This may sound elementary to those well schooled in astronomy, but across the span of my educational experience, astronomy remains a black hole. I have a passion and interest to learn what I can, but I feel
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frustrated by how difficult the discipline is. I’m a word person, and astronomy is all about math and physics and chemistry. Still, I’m determined to learn what is within my reach. Speaking of black holes, I’ve read the simplest descriptions of the phenomenon over and over, and yet I don’t get it, or the concept of an expanding universe, or gravitational waves, or dying stars. So I let that go. I absorb what I can. I look at the night sky and know for certain that we are an infinitesimally small piece of the universe, and that other worlds and other beings are possible. I know that our daily gripes and strife and political conflicts are nothing in the cosmos. Whatever our thinking, our alliances and our behaviors, we have in common this minuscule life raft called Earth, and we don’t have it for long. Contemplating the galaxies that stretch for millions of light years in all directions makes me think we can do better with this transitory gift of life. End of lecture. I am comforted by gazing upward, and I wish the same for you. As part of my galactic journey, I just
missed the last big eclipse, but I’m planning to be looking up at the next one.
read “The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers,” by astronomer Emily Levesque. It was much more fun than Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time,” which was pretty much a black hole to me, not that I can visualize “a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing — [not even] light, can escape from it.” (Wikipedia) Levesque has traveled to every far-flung spot on earth to book “observation time” on the most advanced telescopes in the world, which are always perched on remote, dark-sky mountaintops. She shares her adventures at the observatories in Chile, where the lively tarantulas almost took the fun out of the moment. She talks about the freezing cold at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii, and the time a colleague thought he had discovered a new planet that turned out to be energy coming from a nearby microwave where someone was heating soup. She evokes the gorgeousness of the heavens and the privilege of being among those who roam the stars. Read the book. It’s a great escape into a world most of us don’t know. Then think about the Great Eclipse of April 2024. Save the date. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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letters Yes, Audubon needs a name change To the Editor: Re Scott Brinton’s column “Audubon Society confronts its racist namesake — sort of ” (July 1-7): I salute Brinton for his thorough analysis and ounce of bravery coming through in the Herald’s opinion pages. I think that his suggestion to change the name of the Audubon Society is proportionate, timely and overdue. I have a feeling that he will face a great deal of opposition, name-calling and resentment from political bodies and individuals, but I am with him all the way. AMNoN TISHLER Bellmore
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The best way to safely enjoy the water is to learn how to swim. Enroll your family in age-appropriate Red Cross water-orientation and learn-to-swim courses. Basic water safety rules are part of these classes. You’ll learn how to tell if a swimmer is in distress or drowning, and how and when to call for emergency help. You’ll also learn how to help someone in trouble in the water while keeping yourself safe. To find classes for you and your family, contact your local aquatic facility.
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A Red Cross water safety poll released in 2013 showed that nearly half of Americans said they had had an experience in which they were afraid they might drown, yet more than half planned to engage in activities that would put them at risk of drowning over the summer. Members of the Aquatic Sub-Council, part of the Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council, have developed the Circle of Drowning Prevention and Chain of Drowning Survival protocols to raise
awareness of the most important steps swimmers can take to reduce the number of preventable drownings. The Circle of Drowning Prevention shows the layers of protection that can help prevent potential drownings: ■ Pay close and constant attention to children you are supervising in or near water. ■ Fence in pools and spas with adequate barriers, including four-sided fencing. ■ Learn swimming and water-survival skills. ■ Make sure children, inexperienced swimmers and boaters wear U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jackets, and always swim in areas watched by lifeguards. The Chain of Drowning Survival illustrates the steps you should take when you spot someone in distress in the water: ■ Recognize the signs of a struggling swimmer, and shout for help. ■ Rescue and remove the person from the water without putting yourself in danger. ■ Call emergency medical services. ■ Begin rescue breathing or cardiopulmonary resuscitation if necessary, and use an automated external defibrillator, or AED, if available. ■ Transfer care to advanced life support if needed. For more, go to www.redcross.org.
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une was National Homeownership Month. For many, homeownership is a part of the American dream that is proving to be increasingly difficult to attain. Long Island home prices have hit historic highs for the second year in a row, reinforcing a 2019 report from New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli that found that nearly 40 percent of Long Island homeowners could not afford their homes. Homeownership should not be a luxury few can afford. Long Island’s niCoLe JeAn skyrocketing prices and a CHristiAn home longstanding history of redlining and housing discrimination make homeownership even more challenging for Black people and other people of color. This nature of division was a deliberate choice, and is built into the foundation of Long Island. In 2019, Newsday’s “Long Island Divided” explored the stark segregation and injustices on the Island, noting that 90 percent of Black residents live in just 62 of its 291 communities. Long Island’s racist past did not happen in a vacuum. The state and federal governments had an equal role in instituting racist housing policies. The Federal Housing Administration was a significant player in ensuring that Black Americans stayed out of white suburbs. Communities across the country were developed with the help of the FHA on the condition
that homes would not be sold to AfricanAmericans. Levittown was one of these communities, and it remains nearly allwhite today. Strategic segregation across Long Island set a precedent for the housing bubbles that we see today. Affordable housing on Long Island is often segregated in its own “community” or “development,” becoming a cluster lacking the integration or diversity that is the strength of any suburban community. There is also a stigma attached to the term “affordable housing,” which have been code words to refer to people of non-white descent or of lesser economic means. Yet another difficulty of homeownership on Long Island is a lack of standardized funding from New York state that would ensure affordability. The affordable housing resources that do exist are parceled out in a nonstructured way to local municipalities and some wellknown nonprofits, both of which operate using a business model that favors “profit” or “project completion” over sustained affordability that diversifies communities. Not only is homeownership on Long Island prohibitively expensive, but communities of color are often not afforded the same resources that are allocated to predominantly white, affluent communities. Ideally, all Americans would have equitable access to affordable homes, good education systems and other resources that allow communities to thrive. It is obscene that this is not the standard or even the norm in the U.S., let alone here
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on Long Island, home to “America’s first suburb.” In a proclamation during National Homeownership Month, President Biden said the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development would “advance affordable and sustainable homeownership” throughout the country and break the deep-rooted barriers that have prevented so many people of color in the U.S. from becoming homeowners. These barriers, alongside the economic hardships created by the coronavirus pandemic, are keeping many from the opportunity of homeownership. The Uniondale Community Land Trust is working hard to provide this resource in its community. Instead of creating a separate neighborhood of affordable housing, in Uniondale the goal is to integrate affordable housing within the existing neighborhood. With 225 community land trusts across the country, this affordable housing model allows residents to renovate and sell homes at lower-than-market prices while retaining ownership of their land
ffordable housing’ have been code words to refer to people of nonwhite descent.
through 99-year ground leases. This model helps create permanent affordable housing and gives community members agency over how their towns can grow and thrive. U-CLT is working diligently to build a project pipeline to provide homeownership opportunities for families making 60 to 80 percent of the area median income. As of 2020, the AMI in Nassau County was $126,600. The goal is to help provide fair, equitable housing here. Having access to stable, quality, affordable housing helps people become part of diverse communities, find and keep jobs, lead healthier lives, and take better care of their children. There is no question that opportunities to own homes make a serious positive impact in people’s lives. Creating sustainable, affordable housing is an excellent way to ensure that all can become homeowners in their lifetimes. Homeownership does not need to be unattainable. Current homeowners should be able to afford their homes. Providing people and communities with the resources they need to flourish must be a priority everywhere. Nicole Jean Christian is executive director of Uniondale Community Land Trust. To learn more about its efforts, go to www.uclt.org or email info@u-clt.org.
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Letters Kreiss’s column in the Herald, and enjoyed none more than “Five-day tour of the Big Apple’s thrills and chills” (July 1-7), about her trip to Manhattan with her daughter and grandchild. I totally relate, having recently ventured back into Manhattan, most recently visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOMA. I hope Randi caught the Alice Neel exhibit at the Met. I was unfamiliar with Neel, but wow, what a creative and gifted artist — from her earlier work of Communist party leaders, to motherhood, to people of color, to the architecture of her beloved Harlem and so much more. And, of course, all the wonderful art at MOMA. Sadly, somehow we missed Van Gogh and Calder, but will definitely go back sometime soon. But I have tickets to immersive Van Gogh, which I’m really looking forward to. Living in Long Beach — and really, anyplace on the Island — it can at times seem, if you let it, like a chore to go into Manhattan, but once there, I quickly realize everything I love and have missed
about the city. There’s nothing quite like that energy, and it feels so great to see it coming back. I just love walking around, taking in the sights and sounds. The streets seem to be as busy as ever. And once theater reopens, I believe Manhattan will be back 100 percent. Thanks to Randi for her oh-so-relatable columns, putting into words much of what I’ve felt, thought and experienced during Covid. LORRAINe CIeRI Long Beach
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Affordable homeownership for all must be a priority
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