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Studio comes ‘full circle’ Classes scheduled to resume at Yoga & Polarity Center in Malverne

By NakEEM GRaNT ngrant@liherald.com

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The science of firefighting Volunteers from the Lakeview Fire Department demonstrated the use of firefighting equipment, protective equipment and hoseline training during the Center for Science Teaching and Learning’s day camp at Tanglewood Preserve in Rockville Centre on Aug. 24.

The Yoga & Polarity Center, in Malverne, has helped people find balance in their lives for the past 30 years. Like many local businesses, however, it was forced to go virtual in March 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic took off.

“We changed the way we saw the world,” said Heather Principe, the center’s owner. “In my 71 years on this earth, I’ve learned that life takes and life gives back. Technologically, we’re in a new age. I think the possibilities now are greater than they’ve ever been.”

Principe, who took over at Yoga & Polarity in 1995, said that over the years, her classes have attracted people from Canada, Ireland, Switzerland and South America, among other countries. “Whether people know it or not, 32 Church Street in Malverne has been a center for learning internationally for many years,” she said. “It’s been delightful to be a part of Malverne.”

Principe, of Oceanside, runs the center’s polarity classes, which aim to balance the body’s energy through exercise and dietary restrictions. She recently partnered with Reiki of Long Continued on page 4

National Compassion Fund to aid Stop & Shop victims

By NakEEM GRaNT ngrant@liherald.com

Four and a half months after a deadly shooting at the West Hempstead Stop & Shop, there is renewed support for the victims. Several store employees sat in on a town hall meeting hosted by the National Compassion Fund on behalf of the Stop & Shop at the Long Island Marriott in Uniondale on Aug. 26.

A nonprofit organization that distributes charitable contributions in the aftermath of mass-casualty crimes, the National Compassion Fund, headquartered in Virginia, formed a steering committee

with Stop & Shop on Aug. 12 to help allocate funds for those affected by the April 20 shooting. While most of the employees who attended the meeting were reluctant to speak, many were curious to hear about the group’s efforts to help the victims.

“Obviously, it’s been a sad and sensitive time,” said Vanessa Lockel, executive director of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County and the committee chairwoman. “We’re grateful to have the assistance of the National Compassion Fund, who is coordinating this private charitable contribution for the victims at this time.”

At around 11:30 a.m. on April 20, 31-year-old Gabriel DeWitt Wilson, of Hempstead, allegedly walked into the West Hempstead Stop & Shop with a .380 caliber pistol, and shot and killed 49-year-old manager Ray Wishropp, of Valley Stream, and wounded two others who were not named. Wishropp was the father of seven children, including two daughters who attend Valley Stream South High School. There were an estimated 200 or more shoppers in the store at the time of the shooting, according to Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder.

Wilson was indicted on mur-

der, attempted murder and weapons charges on June 4.

“Gabriel was a troubled employee,” Stephen Fitzpatrick, commanding officer of the Nassau County Police Department, said in a previous Herald story. “He was having disputes with other workers and threatening them, and was brought into the management

offices several times.”

Wilson had met with the Stop & Shop’s manager and requested a transfer to another store about an hour earlier, according to Fitzpatrick. County police captured Wilson in Hempstead after a massive search later that afternoon.

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Fire departments march in local parade

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By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com

Normally a procession of multiple fire trucks and ambulances is an ominous sign, but on the evening of Aug. 21, it signaled the return of the Fourth Battalion Parade after a year’s hiatus.

Firefighters from Rockville Centre, East Rockaway, Lakeview, Lynbrook, and Malverne — the departments which make up the battalion — strode from Parking Lot 12 along Sunrise Highway in Rockville Centre in full dress uniforms and continued down Long Beach Road to the applause and adulation of dozens of residents.

The firefighters and their vehicles turned right onto Lakeview Avenue, left down Knollwood Road, and eventually into the side entrance to Fireman’s Field at South Side High School, where they were met with family, friends and local officials. All along the parade path, judges inspected the firefighters on their marching discipline, appearances and dress code.

Rockville Centre Fire Chief Jim Avondet said each department and its firefighters try to avoid a “gig” which means falling out of step during the march and leads to points deducted from a department’s score.

Avondet, who was elected to the position by his peers in April, added that he was excited at the chance to celebrate with the battalion in-person for the first time since 2019. “I couldn’t be prouder to march with and lead them,” Avondet said. “This is the kind of time where we put it together and have a little fun.”

Avondet was also referring to the drill competitions at Fireman’s Field in the early afternoon that preceded the march. Rockville Centre’s Woodland Engine Company took first place with a perfect score of 30 points.

In addition to the fun of having the departments together, the drill, march and barbecue that followed was all for a cause, as each department raised money for the Nassau County Firefighters Burn Center Foundation.

The foundation helps fund NUHealth’s Nassau County Firefighters Burn Center at Nassau University

memBers of The Rockville Centre Fire Department marched down Long Beach Road during the Fourth Battalion Parade, which supported the Nassau County Burn Center.

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Medical Center, which aims to provide quality burn care to victims.

“We supply them with specialty items and training,” former RVCFD Chief John Hennig said. He added that the departments were also able to supplement the purchases of infant thermometers and skin graft equipment.

The Burn Center also puts on a Burn Camp in Connecticut to provide victims with a place to be together and feel comfortable with others who have gone through similar challenges. All nine battalions in Nassau County contribute financially through a fundraiser that the departments host.

At this year’s post-march barbecue, the Burn Center set up a tent for residents to purchase shirts to

honor Charlie Jaeger, who Hennig described as a “driving force” behind the center. Jaeger died last September after 51 years of service to the department.

The proceeds went to the Burn Center that Jaeger was so active in.

The RVCFD will host a fundraiser for the Burn Center on Sept. 9 to mark the one-year anniversary of Jaeger’s death at the department’s headquarters on Centre Avenue.

Mayor Francis X. Murray, an active member of the RVCFD since 1972 saluted the men and women of the Fourth Battalion while also wearing his uniform. The mayor was flanked by State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, Assemblywoman Judy Griffin, Village Trustee Emilio Grillo and Village Administrator Nancy Howard.

Relationships 101 The basic principles of relationships are best learned when you’re just a baby. They’re taught by example, honed by repetition and absorbed into your bloodstream as you interact with others who live by the principles day in and day out.

The principles are simple. They are: ■ treat one another with kindness ■ listen to one another respectfully ■ speak to one another respectfully ■ pay attention to what people are telling you - directly and indirectly And since you are one of the people in the relationship, you must also ■ treat yourself with kindness ■ listen to yourself respectfully ■ speak to yourself respectfully ■ pay attention to what you are telling yourself Eli learned the principles of relationships while growing up in a crowded apartment in a poor neighborhood in

Brooklyn. Jimmy learned the principles while growing up in a well-educated family in a beautiful home in the Five Towns. Clearly, neither money nor formal education is the decisive factor.

Marcie, however, learned the principles only years after she was a full grown adult. Hence, they have special meaning for her today.

ples of relationships, will discord and dissension be a thing of the past? Sorry, that only happens in fairy tales. In real life, when people bump up against each other, there’ll be conflict. When people d i s a g r e e o n a m a t t e r, there’ll be tension and discord.

But conflict doesn’t need to lead to warfare! Clashes don’t need to end in character assassination! Hostilities don’t need to end in h u m i l i at i o n ! D i s a g re e ments can be resolved.

Compromises can be made.

S o , n e x t t i m e yo u r spouse disappoints you, remember the most fundamental principles of relaapadin tionships. Instead of screaming at him (or her), calling him names, blaming her for what’s gone wrong, tell him respectfully how you experienced what he did and what’s bothering you.

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■ When a friend says a kind word to her, she feels goosebumps on her arms.

■ When her spouse responds affectionately to her request, she feels elated.

■ When her child asks for her opinion and listens to what she says, she blinks away tears.

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It still seems somewhat of a miracle to her that when she expresses an opinion, she isn’t told how selfish, stupid or bad she is. Or doesn’t get bullied, shamed or blamed for her thoughts.

When you adhere to the basic princi-

into doing what she wants you to do.

Instead, tell her you’ll be happy to converse with her on this matter as soon as she can speak to you respectfully.

It’s easy to slide down the slippery slope to being mean when someone disappoints you. You blame them, treat them poorly, then make excuses to justify your own behavior.

But now that you know the basic principles of relationships, I trust that you, dear reader, will do your best to avoid sinking down to the lowest common denominator even if “he deserved it” or “I didn’t start it.” Instead, you’ll pay attention to the soft voice inside of you that’s whispering, “there’s gotta be a better way for us to get along.” ©2021 Linda Sapadin, Ph.D., psychologist, coach and author, specializes in helping people overcome procrastination and debilitating anxiety and fear. Contact her at DrSapadin@aol.com. Visit her websites: www.BeatProcrastinationCoach. com and www.PsychWisdom.com.

Yoga center to reopen in Malverne continued from front page Island owner Anu Butani, who now hosts her classes at the center.

The one component that has been missing, however, was yoga. The studio has been in need of a yoga teacher since the pandemic, so Principe contacted Peaceful Yoga owner Marianne Bochilo in May. Bochilo had started out as a yoga student at the center, taught there from 2008 to 2016, and has since held yoga hEAThEr classes at numerous libraries and PriNCiPE preschools Owner, around Nassau Yoga & Polarity County.

“I knew she Center was looking for a place, and I thought, why reinvent the wheel?” Principe said of Bochilo. “We have all the props, and Anu and I only need the studio for the weekends. I’m elated to know that local people will still have a place to do their yoga.”

Bochilo, of Rockville Centre, said her business had reached a pinnacle near the end of 2019. She was teaching yoga to people of all ages at different venues, and

Safety rules at the center ■ Participants must sign both the studio’s Covid policy and waiver prior to taking classes. They can print the waiver out and bring it to the studio, or sign online (preferred) at www.peacefulyoga.net.

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think the possibilities now are greater than they’ve ever been.

■ Those who are fully inoculated don’t have wear masks in the studio.

All non-vaccinated student must wear them until the beginning of a class, when they are on their own yoga mats, which will be six feet apart.

■ Participants must bring their own mats.

■ Arrive at class 15 minutes early for a brief screening process and to get set up and organized.

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couldn’t have been happier, she said. The pandemic, however, put a halt to all of her in-person classes.

“Right before the pandemic hit, my business was the best it had ever been,” Bochilo said. “Then, around mid-March

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on Sept. 8, with several new safety rules in place (above). Bochilo said she was happy to find a home for her program.

“I feel so humble, grateful and blessed, because it’s really full circle for me,” she said. “To start out as a student there, become a teacher, and now opening and running the studio, I feel blessed. I think now is the perfect time for the studio to be open, and for us to offer the tools that people need to navigate through life.”

A grand opening celebration is scheduled for Sept. 10, when residents can meet the teachers and check out the studio. Those interested in taking classes can register at www.peacefulyoga.net.

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last year, everything stopped.”

She decided to launch a YouTube channel, which focuses on different meditation techniques, chair yoga for seniors and children’s yoga. She also created a box of yoga cards with different exercises for kids to practice, called the Yoga Mindfulness Meditation Toolbox, and started selling them last November.

“The cards that I created were really to help children learn that self-regulation and resilience,” Bochilo explained.

“Unfortunately, our children have had to learn how to be resilient and how to strengthen their mind, but also their mental well-being. These are skills that will serve them for a lifetime.”

Yoga classes will resume at the center

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ThE yogA & Polarity Center, in Malverne, will resume yoga classes on Sept. 8.

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After-school activities The pros and cons of filling your kids’ schedule

By Emily Starbuck Gerson

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hen Robyn Parets’ two boys were young, she was torn in numerous directions, running all over Boston to take them to extracurricular activities.

Like many parents, she thought her kids needed to be involved in as many activities as possible. But one day at her 7-year-old son Noah’s soccer game, she noticed he was more interested in pulling grass than actually kicking the ball.

“That was a lightbulb moment for me; my kid didn’t love it and he wasn’t good at it,” she says. “Sso why am I even knocking myself to get to those games?”

Since her kids were little, Parets has owned Pretzel Kids, a nationwide kids yoga company that trains adults to teach yoga to kids, so she knew the importance of mindfulness and stress management. Following that aha moment, she focused on guiding her kids to just one activity each that they both were good at and liked — not just what all the other kids were doing.

In recent decades, there’s been increasing pressure on parents to involve their children in extracurriculars. Part of it is the competitive nature of getting into schools and college these days. Another factor is the need for after-school care with today’s working family. There are certainly mental, physical and developmental benefits to being involved in after-school activities like sports or the arts, but overscheduling kids can also do more harm than good.

Keeping your kids so busy outside of school that they lack free time for play or rest can lead to stress, anxiety and depression, says Dr. Harpreet Kaur, a licensed clinical psychologist for kids and teens.

“I think parents feel this pressure to prepare their kids for academic success and make them competitive college applicants and make them successful for a job, but they often miss out on that unstructured playtime that provides some of the skills that kids need to be successful anyway,” she says.

Extracurriculars enrich development There are plenty of compelling reasons to have kids involved in extracurricular activities. Kaur says extracurriculars help improve the overall functioning of children.

Encourage positive habits: Kids do best when they have structure and routine, she says, and those involved in extracurriculars perform better academically and are more likely to finish high school. “These children engage more with their parents and are more active in their community,” Kaur says. “They’re also less likely to engage in drug use or other criminal activities.”

Help develop skills and interests: Jennifer Fink, a nurse-turned-freelance writer, the mother of four boys, says an extracurricular activity “gives children a chance to develop their skills, learn more about their interests and connect with others who may share the same passions they do.”

Foster time-management skills: Fink

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has found that getting involved in extracurriculars can also help teach the kids time management.

“Sometimes a kid wants to do a lot of different things, and it may look like too much to us,” she says. "There’s some value in letting them try it and see how it goes. If all of those things are really important to the kid, they may find a way to make it work and learn time management skills in the process — things like how to get your homework done even when you’re playing on a sports team and taking a dance class.”

The downside of overscheduling Unfortunately, overscheduling kids in too many extracurricular activities can take a toll on both the children and their parents, and it’s becoming increasingly common — an alarming trend that Kaur has observed in her practice.

Interrupts valuable unstructured playtime: Kaur says there’s simply not enough information out there about how valuable play is.“Unstructured playtime promotes social skill development, and kids develop problem-solving skills,” she says. “It allows them to be creative thinkers and develop assertiveness, and they learn how to cope with negative emotions.

Kaur says unstructured playtime has become so deprioritized that an American Academy of Pediatrics report recently encouraged pediatricians to prescribe play to help make it more common for children again.

Triggers stress, anxiety and depression: When kids are too overscheduled and stressed, they’re more prone to anxiety, irritability, tiredness and destructibility, Kaur says. She adds that rates of anxiety and depression are already somewhat high in the general adolescent population, and “overscheduling kids just makes those rates increase.”

Devise a realistic plan If your family feels hopelessly overbooked and overstressed, here’s the good

news: There’s a lot you can do to regain a sense of balance.

Create a visual schedule: Kaur recommends that parents create some sort of visual reminder of everything that’s going on, whether it’s a calendar or list of activities, and to color code it by family member. “If one person has too many things going on in their schedule, it’s easy to identify, and it helps families be more aware when they’re creating schedules."

Schedule downtime: Another way to help busy kids, Kaur says, is to schedule at least an hour a week for family time to relax and have quality interactions together. This could be anything from cooking or playing a game to watching a movie as a family, she says.

Practice moderation: While it’s tempting to have your child involved in a million activities in order to look like a stellar college applicant, Kaur says, pay attention to what the children value and where their interests are, and consider picking just one or two activities that are meaningful. It’s wise to focus on quality over quantity and schedule in moderation, Kaur says.

Celebrate kids’ differences and talents: Parets has noticed that many parents fear their kids being “different” from other kids if they aren’t involved in certain activities, and they worry that their kids won’t get into college if they aren’t involved in everything under the sun. But in her experience, tuning into your child’s true talent and nurturing it, even if it’s not the most popular extracurricular, makes them happier and healthier — and there are colleges that are happy to accept someone who shines at one thing rather than is simply involved in 10 things, she says.

Above photo: Afterschool and summer enrichment programs have been a consistent source of support to young people and families who have been juggling a disrupted school routine, dealing with the health and related stressors created by the pandemic and managing the toll that Covid-19 is taking on their overall well-being.

Thriving once that final school bell rings "School” can be defined in many different ways these days, which means the after-school benefits might speak louder to you than others. The simple point is that school is just different than what kids and teens are accustomed to in our post-pandemic “normal” — they’re learning from teachers differently, however that might be; they’re doing homework differently, however that might be; they’re being tested differently, they’ve been socializing differently, etc.

In our new normal, kids may be needing the benefits of an afterschool program more than ever as a result. From online homework to the afterschool routine, and more, there is a lot to consider, and a lot that afterschool actitivies can do in order to help.

A good afterschool program can turn the aimless hours after school into productive learning time. That’s a big benefit, especially for kids who learn and think differently.

Create a sense of belonging If the afterschool program isn’t run by your school district or a local facility, it may be a way for your child to make some new friends. Being away from school can offer a break from any usual cliques or social concerns.

If the program is local or at school, it enables your child to connect with peers in a new setting. Kids in afterschool programs are more likely to be included and feel like they’re part of a group. These programs often have more adult supervision than playground time offers.

Improve social skills A good program promotes cooperation, support, and respect. This can help kids feel more secure about joining a game or starting a conversation. And if they slip up, a sympathetic staffer should be on hand to remind them to take turns or stop interrupting.

Academic support Some afterschool programs provide classroom support, including an opportunity to do homework.

This time can be very helpful for kids who struggle with homework at home or who can’t sit down to do it until late. Getting it done after school can make everyone’s evening more pleasant.

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“A lot of people see a list of all the great things that are being offered,” says Lee “and sign up for everything and then they realize it’s so unrealistic with their time constraints and all the schoolwork that they have.”That’s not good — as Newman notes, it’s no fun for kids “to have so many things that they have to drop out.”

An overload of extracurricular activities also doesn’t bring the perceived benefit a lot of parents and kids are looking for: a goodlooking college application. “What they’re really looking for is applicants who are well rounded and have focus. You can see they are pursuing a goal and they really like what they are doing,” Newman says.“And not just dipping their hand in this and that and the next thing so they can fill out more lines on the application.”

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By Harry Kimball he vast array of extracurricular activities offered to school-age children can be a headache for kids and parents both. They can help kids develop talents and passions and learn how to push themselves. And, of course, we want them to look like well-rounded, accomplished kids to college admissions committees. But we don’t want to run them ragged or turn them into stressed-out automatons. Even parents of young children,are feeling the pressure.

After school activities have also stepped in to supplant the unsupervised “free time” we’re no longer comfortable allowing our children to have, says Rachel Cortese, a speech-language pathologist and former New York City schoolteacher. And there is a consensus that children should have the opportunity to experiment with a variety of activities in well-delineated blocks — ”structured free time,” as it is called.

But how much should parents push their kids to engage — and how much is too much?

The benefits In general, says Cortese,“kids tend to do really well when they have structure, and part of that structure is having an afterschool schedule.” Educational and learning specialist Ruth Lee also extols some well-known benefits of getting kids together outside of the classroom for more activities — especially the physical kind.

“It gives kids social interactions,” she says, at the same time helping them “get out some of their energy so they can settle and go back to their work” after school. This is particularly important, she notes, as schools are cutting back on recess more and more.

For older kids, after-school activities can be very important as protection against more dangerous activities, says clinical psychologist Dr. Mary Rooney — particularly if parents are busy at work or with other children.“Once kids get into middle school and high school,” she says, “the hour or two after school is the highest risk time for dangerous behaviors like substance abuse, because

it’s the largest chunk of time when kids are unmonitored.”

And of course, more recreational activities outside of school, whether its sports, dance, theater, science, give kids another arena to demonstrate competence and mastery, which is important for their self-esteem and identity development —especially for kids who might be struggling in school.

The drawbacks But what about overscheduling? It is not to be taken lightly, says Dr. Susan Newman, a social psychologist and author of, among many others,“The Case for the Only Child.”

For one thing, Newman warns that mastery might suffer. “If you are spreading yourself too thin you’re not going to be able to focus and get really good at one thing.”

The school-life balance How many activities are too many? “Seven,” jokes clinical psychologist Dr. Jerry Bubrick. But really, it’s too much when afterschool activities start interfering with a child’s life. Bubrick notes that in the case of intensive commitments like sports or theater, even one activity can be too much.

Bubrick has a pretty simple calculus for how much is too much.“Can you still do your homework? Can you still get 8+ hours of sleep each night? Can you still be a part of your family? Can you still hang out with your friends? If the answer is ‘no’ to one or more of these, then it’s too much.”

Back to school: What’s a parent to do?

Know your child. “Kids come to us with different predispositions,” Cortese says, and the best activity “depends on the individual child.” And when it comes to scheduling, kids respond better to different kinds of structure. “One kid who is highly scheduled might do very well and another might need to dial it back,” says Cortese.

Courtey Child Mind Institute Above photos: Kids have lots of options these days, but an overscheduled child can go from busy to burned out in no time.

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Ongoing

West Hempstead Library every Tuesday from 4 to 6 p.m.

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.

Sunday, Sept. 19 Latin Jazz Concert Come and enjoy the West Hempstead Library’s first musical event to be held in their parking lot from 2 to 3 p.m.

Bring your own chair; masks required.

Monday, Sept. 20 Homemade Fried Rice

Farmers Market at Crossroads Crossroads Farm’s weekly farmers markets will be held each Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Back to School Supply drive State Assemblywoman Judy Griffin, who serves Malverne and West Hempstead, is holding backpack and school supplies collection drive until Aug. 31. Supplies can be dropped off at Griffin’s office at 74 North Village Ave., Rockville Centre. For more information, call (516) 561-8216.

Virtual Simply Stronger Every Tuesday, 9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

Marilyn Bunger continues her popular class in exercise and strength training virtually via Zoom software with the West Hempstead Library. This class is weekly and gives residents access to Bunger’s recorded videos 24/7. There are 18 sessions (July-September) Cost: $30.

Virtual Zumba Every Tuesday, 7 p.m. to 7:55 p.m.

Sandy continues this popular class virtually via Zoom software with the West Hempstead Library. This class is weekly and gives residents access to Sandy’s recorded videos 24/7. There are 18 sessions (July-September) Cost: $30.

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Grandparents Day celebration Celebrate Grandparents Day with the West Hempstead Library on Sept. 9 by creating a wooden family tree. these popular classes virtually via Zoom with the West Hempstead Library every Wednesday from 7 to 8 p.m.

This weekly class gives participants access to Hug’s recorded video 24/7.

The sessions, from July to September, is $30.

Felt Library Card holder (grades six to 12) Make a library card holder to celebrate Library Card Sign-Up Month with the West Hempstead. Kit includes starter supplies. Kit pickup is from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Virtual Yoga

Wednesday, Sept. 8 Virtual Tai Chi Instructor Eddie Hug will continue

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In honor of National Fried Rice Day, Chef Julie of Chefs of d’ Future hosts this Zoom program with the West Hempstead Library at 7 p.m. to teach people how to make homemade fried rice. Ingredients can be picked up anytime during the day on Sept. 20 (no exceptions.) This presentation will be recorded for anyone who cannot attend the program. West Hempstead Library cardholders only; one per household.

Joe Cilmi continues his popular class in simple yoga poses and breathing techniques via Zoom with the West Hempstead Library every Wednesday from 12 to 1 p.m. his weekly class

gives participants access to his recorded videos 24/7. The sessions, from July to September, is $30.

neighbors during this difficult time and stay connected from 2 to 3 p.m.

The chat will be led each Monday by Sandy Hinden.

Thursday, Sept. 9

Spanish conversation

Grandparents’ Day Stop by the West Hempstead Library for this Take and Make kit of a wooden family tree to fill out and decorate for Grandparents Day. This is available to West Hempstead cardholders; one per household.

Monday, Sept. 13 Virtual Conversation Circle Sit and chat with the West Hempstead Library for a spell with friends and

Brush up on your Spanish with others with the West Hempstead Library every Monday from 7 to 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 14 Basic everyday Spanish Instructor Pia Ramirez continues this series to learn basic Spanish every Tuesday from 3 to 4:30 p.m. with the West Hempstead Library.

Intermediate Spanish Join Claudia on Zoom and improve your Spanish-speaking skills with the

HaVInG an eVenT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest. All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number.

Submissions can be emailed to ngrant@liherald.com

Lakeview and Malverne’s fire departments took part in the annual Fourth Battalion Parade.

The West Hempstead Library has several virtual Spanish classes for all levels.

The Herald will highlight upcoming Sept. 11 ceremonies in next week’s edition.

This year, Grandparents Day falls on Sept. 9.

Send you letter to the editor to Nakeem Grant, at ngrant@liherald.com.

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Covid-19 vaccinations are now being administered at businesses, thanks to a new initiative by the Nassau County Department of Health.

On Aug. 27, Richner Communications Inc., parent company of Herald Community Newspapers, hosted a pop-up vaccination clinic at the company’s Garden City office in conjunction with the county-sponsored initiative — referred to by county officials as the “traveling vaccine pod.”

Nassau County communications specialist Vicki DiStefano said many people around the county still do not know where and how to get vaccinated. The new program — which brings vaccines directly to businesses for “in-house” vaccination — quickly grew in popularity, according to DiStefano. Covid infection rates have recently been on the rise in Nassau, hovering around 4 percent.

Interested RCI employees, as well as eligible friends and family, received their first doses of the Moderna vaccine. The second dose will be administered at the RCI office on Sept. 24. If employees had already received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine, they were also able to receive their second shot at the pop-up site.

“In Nassau County, 86.7 percent of adults 18 and older are vaccinated,” County Executive Laura Curran told the Herald, making Nassau the leading county in the state for vaccinations, and third in the country among large counties with a population of 1 million people or more.

The first business vaccination pod took place at Café Baci in Westbury on Aug. 3. “Since then, dozens of businesses have reached out to us,” Curran said, adding that officials have seen a solid uptick in the vaccination rate

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At A tRAVELiNg vaccination clinic hosted by Nassau County at the Herald Community Newspapers’ office in Garden City last Friday, nurse Jeanne Ost injected RCI pressman Richard Maitland with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. since the program’s start.

“With the Delta variant, we want to get everyone vaccinated,” Curran explained.

The pods are run by health department nurses, all of whom have been on the front lines of vaccine administration since earlier this year.

Pod manager and nurse Holly Marrano said, “We’re bringing the vaccine to local businesses to make it more

convenient for people to get vaccinated.”

“We are making this as easy as possible — no excuses,” Curran said. “No business is too big or too small.”

Any business interested in participating in the program and hosting a vaccine clinic for employees can reach out to the county health department at (516) 2279570, Monday through Friday.

Among the RCI employees who were vaccinated was Richard Maitland, 46, of Rockaway, Queens. Maitland has been working as a pressman for the company for nine years.

“I’ve been watching the news and seeing what’s going on,” Maitland said. “I’m seeing that it’s the unvaccinated that are transmitting the virus.”

Saying he was never against the vaccine, he thought getting it now was the right thing to do with the infection rate on the rise, and especially since the vaccination pod made it so convenient.

“No one is safe, and I don’t want to be that carrier who gets someone sick,” he added, calling to the Delta variant “round two” of the coronavirus.

“I don’t want to be part of the problem,” Maitland said. “I want to be part of the solution.”

That solution, according to Curran, is to vaccinate as many people as possible.

Covid-19 vaccines are not 100 percent effective in preventing the disease; however, county officials are finding that those who are vaccinated and do test positive for Covid are less likely to end up with a severe case that results in hospitalization.

Pod nurse Camille Laudando said the traveling vaccine clinic is all about “community outreach” and is the “definition of public health.”

“The vaccine is the most effective way to prevent Covid,” Curran said. “Our residents understand the value of the vaccine.”

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Can we reduce consumption by renting or If so, great! How do I do even better? If borrowing things, or buying them secondnot, what do I need to do differently? It’s hand? not about beating ourselves up for being A new year, a new beginning. May it imperfect humans, but recognizing that bring blessing, and may we be the blesswe’re works in progress, and having com- ing. From my family to yours, I wish you passion for ourselves, and others. a happy, healthy, peaceful and sweet new For those of us living outside of the year. land of Israel, Shmita is something we read about but don’t practice. Even in Susan Elkodsi is the rabbi for the MalIsrael’s, since her economy today is based verne Jewish Center, which is located at 1 on high tech, not agriculture, the concept Norwood Ave., Malverne.

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Me by nearly 500 donors — “We’re hoping to get more including $500,000 from Stop feedback on these proposed & Shop, whose corporate rules going forward.” offices are in Massachusetts.

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Janis Joplin lives again at Eisenhower Park A large crowd gathered at Eisenhower Park on Aug. 7 to experience the music of Janis Joplin, who died so many years ago. Lisa Polizzi, lead singer from the Janis Joplin Experience, shared heartfelt renditions of Joplin’s popular tunes alongside her band of talented musicians.

People sang along and they were inspired to get up and dance too.

The free concerts provided by the county are beloved by the community, with the Janis Joplin Experience perhaps one of the most popular.

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Sally Simeone danced the night away.

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Locals take part in Youth Summer Summit The Family and Children’s Association, a leading health and human services nonprofit organization on Long Island, held a culmination event for its 2021 Youth Summer Summit last month. A five-week program, the summit brought together 30 student leaders from the Village of Hempstead for leadership training, discussion and brainstorming with the goal o f c re at i n g a safer, healthier Hempstead.

The summit e l i c i t e d c iv i c engagement discussion with presentations by and dialog with local, county, state and Dr. Jeffrey federal gover nreynolDs ment of ficials CEO, including County Legislator Siela Family and Bynoe, who Children’s serves Lakeview, Association and State Sen. Kevin Thomas, who serves West Hempstead, among others. The event, which was held at the African American Museum of Nassau County in Hempstead, also gave the participants the opportunity to present their visions for substance use prevention and social justice in their communities, and how to best reach their peers in high schools and communities throughout Nassau County.

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The family anD Children’s Association Youth Summer Summit culminated last month with an event at Hempstead’s African American Museum of Nassau County. State Sen. Kevin Thomas, center, presented a citation to the FCA. duce communicators and effective youth influencers throughout the Village of Hempstead by providing the language, tools and skills needed to become prevention minded, civically engaged, and socially conscious,” said FCA President and CEO Dr. Jeffrey L. Reynolds. “We are grateful to Columbia Records, state and federal funders for the generous donation that made this summit possible.”

The guest speakers educated summit participants to on the responsibilities associated with their positions and

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resident may contact the Water District at (516) 483-1180 to obtain the necessary information to have live internet access to this public hearing via computer or telephone. A copy of the estimate of proposed expenditures and revenues is available for public inspection at the District office during business hours from September 2, 2021 through September 9, 2021. By order of the Board of Water Commissioners.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ARCHITECTURAL & SITE PLAN REVIEW BOARD HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BOARD OF ARCHITECTURAL & SITE PLAN REVIEW of the Inc. Village of Malverne will hold a PUBLIC HEARING at the Malverne Village Hall, 99 Church Street, Malverne, New York 11565 on Thursday, September 16, 2021, at 7:30 pm to hear the following cases: Alex Torres 55 Park Avenue: Residential “B” District Building Permit Application No. 2021-0426 Proposes to construct a 350 sq. ft. rear addition; demolish existing sunroom.

Casey Shamey & Cassidy Jones 31 Chestnut Street: Residential “B” District Building Permit Application No. 2021-0558 Proposes to construct a 792 sq. ft. second story addition.

engaged in interactive dialog. The Youth Summer Summit curriculum kicked off with a presentation and discussion of the vibrant history of Hempstead as a thriving commercial hub on the east coast, including a photo/video tour of its historical buildings and the contextual connection of the diverse cultures that make up Hempstead’s current demography.

The students were also introduced to the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America Youth Leadership Initiative program, which emphasizes the power of community coalitions to prevent substance misuse through collaborative community efforts. The course is designed to encourage youth to think critically about their roles as leaders in social change, and move forward with substance use and misuse prevention tools

A public health and social justice component led the students through a discussion of the dynamics of public health including what it is, how it is different from clinical medicine, who’s responsible for doing it, how it is done and how its interventions are used to improve the health of populations and save lives. The program was presented through guest speakers and video presentations and involved summit participant research and discussion.

The 2021 Youth Summer Summit was made possible in part through a $25,000 donation from Columbia Records/Sony Music.

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John Santiago 72 Webster Street, Malverne, NY; Residential “A” District Building Permit Application No. 2021-0182 Proposes to construct a 234 sq. ft. one-story addition over unfinished basement with rear landing and steps and 168 sq. ft. front covered porch.

Permeshwar Kalyan 124 Wright Avenue: Residential “B” District Building Permit Application No.: 2021-0294 Proposes to construct a two-story single-family dwelling and detached two car garage.

All interested parties should appear at the above time and place.

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516-395-5408. Ask for Chuck

Coach Realtors of Hewlett is proud to welcome our newest team member, Janice Sweet. Janice comes to us with over 20 years of experience with selling and rentals on both North and South shores of Nassau County. She raised her 3 children in her 46 year residency of Atlantic Beach while participating in community organizations. Janice is an experienced artist, stemming from FIT’s Apparel to Briarcliffe’s Graphic Design.

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Q. My wife and I bought a condo on the top floor in a tall building on the beach and have lived there for seven years. Now she wants to sell because she’s worried about what happened to the building in Surfside, Fla. What went wrong, and how can I persuade her to keep our home, short of hiring an engineer to come take a look and reassure her.

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ustom built one family home, currently configured and taxed as a two family house. This East

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Located in the Long Beach school district this home boast a lot size is 40 x 140.

Application for tax grievance for 2022/2023 has been submitted. Asking price is $1,375,000. Taxes are $27,707.43. Flood insurance is $919.41.

Rhonda Healy 1025 W. Beech Street Long Beach c: 516-236-7269 o: 516-431-6160

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Doorman Bldg with Elevator. Indoor Garage Pkg & Storage .......................... $599,000 395 Serena Rd, NEW! 5 BR, 2 Bth Col on O/S Property. Updtd EIKs. 3 BR Main Level, 2 Upstairs with OSE. SD#14. Possible M/D with Proper Permits. Near All ... $799,000 1610 Hilary Ct, BA, Beautifully Gut Renovated 4600 Sq Ft Colonial in Cul de Sac. 5 BR, 3.5 Bth with Full Fin Bsmt, 2 Car Att Gar. SD#20. Tax Grievance Filed ...........................................................................................REDUCED! $1,279,999 1390 Broadway #102, BA, REDUCED! 2 BR, 2 Bth Coop in Luxurious Hewlett Townhouse. LR/DR,Updtd Kit & Office/Den. Elevator, 24 Hr Drman, Valet Pkg, Pool.

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984 Singleton Ave, BA, NEW EXCLUSIVE! Expanded 4 BR, 2.5 Bth Colonial on Oversized Lot in Old Woodmere. Bsmt & 2 Car Det Gar. Near All. SD#14 ..... $899,000

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AMENITIES INCLUDE: • Shared Kitchen • Conference Room • Reception Area • Municipal Parking Open Houses HEWLETT 1610 Hilary Ct, , REDUCED! Beautifully Gut Renovated 4600 Sq Ft Colonial in Cul de Sac.5 BR,3.5 Bth with Full Fin Bsmt, 2 Car Att Gar. SD#20. Tax Grivance Filed.....$1,279,999 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299 HEWLETT BA 1534 Broadway #103,, NEW! Spacious 2 BR,2 Bth Condo in Luxurious Jonathan Hall. LR/DR, Large EIK, Laundry Rm, & Pantry. Terrace Facing into Courtyard. Doorman Bldg with Eleva t o r. I n d o o r G a r a g e P k g & S t o r age...$599,000 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299

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B s m t & C a r D e t G a r. N e a r All.SD#14...$799,000 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299

Ask The Architect

A. You should assure your wife that her concerns are very real and it is all right to be concerned. Validate her feelings and be understanding, because many people in the same situation, in taller buildings, are questioning the safety of where they live.

Questioning and confirming are what keep us safe, onte eeper no matter what the issue is or where we are.

Ignoring or dismissing a potential problem doesn’t make it go away.

Applying knowledge and reason leads to security.

Many people assume, with most things, that some qualified person simply took care of a problem, solved it correctly, and kept us safe. I often share my calculation process with clients, showing them the reasoning behind steps taken to calculate a beam, for example, for two reasons. One is so they understand how buildings work, and also so that when a substitution is requested, they understand why it was rejected.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of assumptions that work is being done with correctness and conscientiousness. With larger buildings, there are many safety procedures, including independent certification by qualified consultant engineering professionals. You might feel better if your building hired an engineer who could explain the building’s structural system and how it keeps you safe. If the people living in the Surfside condominiums could have questioned and acted with a maintenance program, which would have required spending money, things might have been different. The design, review, construction and maintenance all played a part in the failure.

Look at your own building’s track record and ask informed questions. If you have no knowledge of the building process, ask others who do. The more I learn about the investigation of the collapse, the more convinced I am of the reasons for never ignoring the smallest details of how these giant custom jigsaw puzzles fit together. Every failure I have ever learned about had at least two common denominators, confidence and naïveté.

If a reinforcing rod is shown on the drawings to be a specific diameter, don’t substitute a smaller size because it was more available or install separate pieces where a continuous rod was supposed to go. The pool deck of that building was a separate structure that should never have been tied into the columns of the taller adjacent building, just like a deck should have minimal or no attachment to a house. The right force, wind or water, can pull a vertical support column sideways, rendering the column useless and toppling the taller structure.

Listen to your wife and have a happy life!

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© 2021 Monte Leeper Readers are encouraged to send questions to yourhousedr@aol.com, with “Herald question” in the subject line, or to Herald Homes, 2 Endo Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530, Attn: Monte Leeper, architect.

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hirty years ago this week, I hopped on an electric train with a brightred engine, a nervous energy pulsing through my arms and legs straight to my fingers and toes, which fidgeted uncontrollably. My head was spinning.

I carried all I had in my arms — two gray suitcases of clothes, one violin in a worn brown case and one blue duffle bag with running shoes and toiletries. I was 24 and headed to the greatest adventure of my life, a twoyear bicultural SCoTT exchange that excited me, at BRINToN times vexed me and forever changed me.

I served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Veliko Tarnovo, a 5,000-year-old city in central Bulgaria with a medieval fortress that was flanked by white stucco houses, squeezed onto the steep hills above the winding Yantra River.

In the first week of September 1991, I left the safe haven of the training site the Peace Corps set up in Bankya, a spa resort 11 miles outside Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, and headed to Tarnovo, as it’s commonly known. After two and a half months of preparations, I still had no idea what to expect. I loved every minute of the next

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two years.

I was part of the first group of 26 Peace Corps volunteers to enter Bulgaria after the fall of communism there a year earlier. As was the case in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania between 1989 and 1990, thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets to protest communist rule. Todor Zhivkov — the longest-serving Soviet Bloc dictator in the post-World War II era, who reigned from 1954 to 1989 — was deposed without bloodshed. In July 1990, then President Petar Mladenov, a former communist leader, quit over accusations that he had ordered tanks to roll against protesters in December 1989.

People rejoiced after Mladenov’s resignation, The New York Times reported on July 7, 1990. “Never again a communist president in Bulgaria!” 5,000 protesters chanted in unison in central Sofia.

To be there, in this place burning with democratic idealism after more than four decades of repressed speech and thought, was the thrill of a lifetime for an American who had freedom of speech and assembly ingrained in him. Bulgaria felt so alive. I felt so alive. People were suddenly free. As an outside observer who was quickly acculturated to Bulgarian beliefs and practices (I married a Bulgarian), I internalized their joy, their relief and,

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sometimes, their fear of a return to communism.

On June 20 this year, most of the original 26 Peace Corps volunteers, our Bulgarian manager, Emil Patev, and my wife, Katerina, who was one of our language and culture trainers, gathered on Zoom to reminisce.

It was perhaps the strangest feeling I’ve ever experienced. Because of the intensity of the experiences that we shared, the names and faces of my fellow volunteers were indelibly etched in my mind. I pictured them as their younger selves, and then we appeared in little boxes on a computer screen, significantly older variations of ourselves, as if this were a “Dr. Who” episode. It was jarring at first.

Then we started to share what we took away from Bulgaria. Many spoke of the Bulgarian work ethic, the slower place of life, the neighborliness or the kindness they were shown by their colleagues at the schools where they taught — we were all English teachers.

Happy memories coursed through my mind — meeting my lovely wife for the first time, soaking in the sights and sounds that were so different than the United States, chatting with my students, who were 17 when I met them and 19 when they graduated from the Vasil Drumev High School of Mathematics and Natural

ecalling a lifealtering stint in Bulgaria after the fall of communism.

Sciences, as they attended a fifth year of high school for advanced studies.

That graduation, in June 1991, was among the most beautiful days of my life, aside from my wedding and the births of my children. It was a simple, short ceremony, full of music. The students poured flowers into their teachers’ hands, as is Bulgarian tradition. Katerina and I taught at the school together, and we came away with so many flowers that our tiny, rented apartment resembled a florist’s shop.

I’m occasionally asked to speak to young people about my Peace Corps experiences. They often ask about the challenges, or whether I had any regrets about signing up. I can sense their trepidation.

Volunteering for the Peace Corps is a monumental, life-altering decision.

I used to speak of the pluses and minuses. There is, no doubt, a financial sacrifice, because you’re volunteering for two years of your life, I would say. Perhaps that was the reporter in me wanting to give both sides of the story.

If they have a strong interest in joining, I tell them now, they should embrace any fears they might harbor and let the river of life take them wherever it might flow.

You needn’t know where it will end up. It could take you to magical lands you never imagined.

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.

In the eye of the western firestorm

e’ve been through a lot together, you and I. Now this.

As I wrote last week, my husband and I and Lillybee the dog headed out West to the Northern California mountains on Aug. 10. We drove from Denver through Cheyenne, Park City and Elko and arrived here in Tahoe-Donner on Aug. 20.

We’re in a rental house perched on stilts set into a hillside, a half-hour from anything, including our kids and grandkids, who live in a nearby town. They’re the reason we came, RANDI and they’re the reaKREISS son we’re still here, 10 days into a month-long stay.

We’re in the throes of a wildfire emergency, officially declared by President Biden yesterday. Smoke obscures views of the mountains. The grandkids’ school opening was delayed. The smell of smoke is in our clothes, our hair and even on the dog.

The Caldor and Dixie fires are raging around us, from 45 to 100 miles away. We’re told to stay inside, not exert ourselves and

keep the windows closed.

The obvious move is to leave ASAP, but that means driving back to Denver in our rental car through areas that are now smoky as well. Our children surely aren’t ready to abandon their family home. We hate to run, since the wind could change in a week, and it could be healthy to resume normal outdoor life. We don’t know when we’ll have the chance to sit down at the same table again.

Our kids must figure out if their life out here is sustainable going forward.

These fires aren’t going away, and it’s unlikely that it will be better next year. The snowpack has been lighter every winter, and the ground brush is drier. Tinder. No one has grass, just scrub around the homes, cut back for safety.

Back home, I know you’re struggling with the Delta variant and unusual heat.

We Long Islanders have had our shared disasters, mostly hurricanes, and there will likely be more this season.

This is something else. People who live up here are tough and self-reliant, but everyone is shaken by the hazardous air quality and the danger of encroaching

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fires. We all have alerts set on our phones should the conditions get more dangerous.

Ash falls out of the smoke clouds, irritating our eyes and throats.

We have captured some moments with the grandkids, some meals, a lot of time together playing Rummikub.

They seem able to be outside longer than we can, younger lungs and all that. But they are tuned in to our talk about the smoke and fire and what the options are. These kids just lived through more than a year of relative isolation during the pandemic, and so much of their hope was invested in this summer, to do the swimming and rafting and hiking that is their reason for putting up with life in the semi-wilderness. All of our kids and grandkids have tolerated so much constraint and disappointment. I hope it makes them stronger.

To summon my own resolve, I’ve been reading about people who live in places where the geography or the weather or the terrain is a constant challenge and threat.

Why do they stay? My husband and I can and probably will leave if the air remains unhealthy or the fires get worse; we have

ur kids must figure out if life out here is sustainable going forward.

that option. Our kids will make their own calculation of risk vs. benefit of life in these mountains.

People live on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Sicily, generation after generation, despite the inevitability of lava flows and ash that burn them out of their houses. They rebuild; they stay. Some say the reason is that the volcanic soil is fertile and produces the best olives and olive oil in the world.

People in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., know for sure that periodic super-floods will drive them from their homes, but they come back and they build again. Why does anyone live in New Orleans? Or on any barrier island?

Why didn’t we all flee after Hurricane Sandy?

Ultimately people look around and decide that the benefit outweighs the risk of living near a volcano or in a flood plain or on a fire-scarred mountaintop.

We would not have come to California now if we knew how the smoke and fire would look and feel and taste. The headline in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday read: “Caldor Fire Knocking on the Door of Tahoe Basin.”

The fire is knocking, and there isn’t much here to keep it out.

Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Get your teenagers vaccinated ASAP . . .

ome 87 percent of Nassau County’s adult population, ages 18 and up, has received at least a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bravo, Nassau! That’s a remarkable statistic, well ahead of the state average of 79.3 percent.

Nearly a million people have been vaccinated here, and we could soon reach that threshold.

But here’s the thing: Looking at all age groups in the county, only 73 percent of the total population has gotten at least one dose. That’s because children are ineligible, and only about 49 percent of teenagers, ages 12 to 18, had received a first dose as of last Friday, even though 16- and 17-year-olds have been eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine since April, and 12- to 15-year-olds since May. Clearly, we must focus our efforts on vaccinating teens. With school starting in many districts this week, and therefore with students starting to congregate in large groups five to six days a week, there is the potential for the virus to spread rapidly in this population, and then to be passed on to unvaccinated adults and even

to the relatively small number of vaccinated people who will get Covid despite being inoculated.

Nassau County government now has an excellent program that brings a team of vaccinators to a workplace on request. It’s all about making the vaccine readily available to people who are too busy or otherwise unable to break away from work to get inoculated. The Herald Community Newspapers took part last Friday afternoon, and the vaccination team did all the work.

Similarly, the county and the Town of Hempstead, each of which has a mobile inoculation unit, should bring the vaccination fight to our schools, one by one, starting in low-income areas, where parents may be unable to take their teens to a vaccination site because they’re working long hours and worry about taking time off.

We’ve already seen mobile units brought to a small number of school districts like Freeport, but the effort should be rapidly expanded to all 54 Nassau districts.

At the same time, parents should seek to have their teens vaccinated. With the

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chool’s starting this week. That’s a scary thought, given that we were supposed to have vanquished the coronavirus by now but simply have been unable to, despite our best efforts. This is one mean virus.

All parents of school-age children, whether they’re kindergartners or seniors in high school, should have a talk with them not only about avoiding strangers and saying no to drugs and

alcohol, but also about staying safe from Covid-19.

Remind them to wear their masks in school, as mandated now by New York state. Tell them to maintain social distancing, and to cover their mouths when they cough, and to stay home when they’re feeling sick. And don’t forget about handwashing — lots of handwashing with good old soap and water.

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Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine receiving full approval by the federal Food and Drug Administration for those 16 and over, we should all feel confident about its efficacy and safety. It will now be marketed as Comirnaty, according to the FDA. For those ages 12 to 15, the Pfizer vaccine will continue to be available under an emergency-use authorization.

The Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are likely to receive FDA approval for 12- to 17-year-olds in the coming months.

Clinical trials are still under way to test all three vaccines for children ages 5 to 11.

It’s uncertain when, precisely, they might receive approval under emergency-use authorization for this age group. It could be as early as this fall, though that seems unlikely now. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said that authorization would more likely come by late December.

The bottom line for parents: Have your children vaccinated as soon as humanly possible.

letters Happy birthday, President Johnson To the Editor: The late President Lyndon Johnson was born Aug. 27, 1908. Many remember him for succeeding President John F. Kennedy after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Others remember him for his domestic Great Society program, which included civil rights, Medicare, Medicaid, the War on Poverty and public broadcasting. There was also foreign policy, most notably the Vietnam War. Few remember that the success of public transportation can be traced back to one of Johnson’s greatest accomplishments, which continues to benefit many Americans today. On July 9, 1964, he signed the Urban Mass Transportation Act into

ate. There’s no need to scare young children. They need to be reassured that they will be safe in school. Meanwhile, teens might need a more frank discussion.

PBS Kids for Parents has an excellent primer on “How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus” that’s worth a quick read. You can find it at www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/how-to-talk-to-your-kidsabout-coronavirus.

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n the 1987 movie “The Princess Bride,” Vizzini, a Sicilian assassin, warns Wesley, also known as the Dread Pirate Roberts, “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders — the most famous of which is, ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’”

The United States fell into that classic blunder when it ignored 19th-century British debacles during the First AngloAfghan War (18391843) and the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) and pretended it could avoid the ALAn fate of the Soviet Union in the SovisinGer et-Afghan War (1979-1988).

A 1979 internal memo to the Soviet Union’s governing Politburo explained why “nation building” by the Soviet Union was doomed to failure. The reactionary forces described in the memo are now known as the Taliban.

“The Afghan reactionary forces,” the memo stated, “are very skillfully taking advantage of the almost complete illiteracy of the population, complex interna-

tional and intertribal conflicts, religious fanaticism and nationalism. Subversive actions, sabotage and the resistance of the overthrown class of exploiters are deepening the economic problems, lowering industrial and agricultural output, as well as hampering business activity, raising prices and reducing the influx of revenue into the state budget.”

The memo warned the Politburo that “the use of Soviet troops in repressing the Afghan counterrevolution would seriously damage the international authority of the USSR.” In his 2010 memoir “Decision Points,” former President George W. Bush tried to justify the 2001 decision to invade Afghanistan and the prolonged war that followed. This wasn’t just about revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, or a strategy to kill Osama bin Laden and destroy Al Qaeda.

According to Bush, “Afghanistan was the ultimate nation-building mission. We had liberated the country from a primitive dictatorship, and we had a moral obligation to leave behind something better. We also had a strategic interest in helping the Afghan people build a free

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erhaps every candidate for president should be a certified historian.

Letters law. It has resulted in the investment of several hundred billion dollars in public transportation under grants from the Federal Transit Administration, which before 1991 was known as the Urban Mass Transit Administration.

Even with Covid-19, millions of Americans continue using various public transportation alternatives, including local and express buses, ferries, jitneys, light rail, subways and commuter rail services. Investment in public transportation today contributes to economic growth, employment and a stronger economy. Dollar for dollar, it is one of the best investments we can make.

LARRY PENNER Great Neck Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.

State is now offering Excluded Workers Fund To the Editor: New York state’s Excluded Workers Fund, which is intended to provide much-needed relief to workers cut off from government unemployment bene-

society. The terrorists took refuge in places of chaos, despair and repression. A democratic Afghanistan would be a hopeful alternative to the vision of the extremists.”

The nation-building task was “more daunting” than Bush and his advisers anticipated because of their ignorance about Afghanistan and because they apparently never consulted either Wikipedia or the CIA World Factbook. It is a mountainous region of tribes, clans and linguistic groups, with millions of people who have little connection to those outside their locality or village. The constitution of Afghanistan, written in 2004 under U.S. auspices, recognizes 14 major ethno-linguistic groups. The largest is the Pashtun, who make up almost half of the population of the country and are the dominant group in the Taliban.

If only the Bush administration in 2001, or policymakers in the Obama and Trump administrations, had watched “The Princess Bride” or had access to the Soviet Politburo memo. I found it, quite easily, translated from Russian to English, on the website of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

The memo, “Our Future Policy in Connection with the Situation in Afghanistan,” became available to the public in 1993.

As President Biden made clear in a speech to the American public, “After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces [from Afghanistan] . . . There is no chance that one year — one more year, five more years or 20 more years of U.S. military boots on the ground would’ve made any difference.”

After the diplomatic, military and human disaster in Afghanistan, maybe there should be a constitutional qualification for becoming president of the United States: that a candidate be a certified historian. The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians could review all candidates the way legal organizations review potential judicial appointments.

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 at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.

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fits and stimulus checks during the pandemic, is now accepting applications.

Any workers who were not eligible for enhanced Covid-19 pandemic unemployment benefits can apply. The funds do not need to be paid back, and this relief is available regardless of immigration status.

Please visit https://dol.ny.gov/EWF for more information and to apply.

I thank state leaders for their efforts to maximize the scope of our Covid-19 relief initiatives. In the weeks ahead, I look forward to sharing information about the Excluded Workers Fund at community events and with our local faith and civic leaders to ensure that economic relief reaches the maximum number of Nassau residents possible.

CARRIé SOLAGES Nassau County legislator, Lawrence

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