Malverne/West Hempstead Herald 10-20-2022

Fall festival and car show

Hearing advice from Dr. Cardano

Narrow defeat for West

Farm is crowded for family fair

Hundreds gather for harvest season fun at Crossroads at Grossmann’s

By KYlE CHIN kchin@liherald.com

Crossroads Farm at Gross mann’s welcomed the harvest season with an all-day Fall Fam ily Fun Festival on Oct. 9. The farm was crowded with children and their parents, who took part in a wide variety of games and activities, including pumpkin picking, arts and crafts, face painting, a petting zoo, and sam pling fresh food and s’mores as well as enjoying live music.

The farm’s event coordinator, Annie Sunshine, said she was elated by the success of the

event. “I think the turnout was really good this year,” she said. “And it was affordable, only $10 for a family. The band is great.

The food trucks are great.”

A major focus of the fair was the pop-up petting zoo, brought in by Medford-based Long Island Pony Parties. Goats, chickens, rabbits and a pony named Poppy were on site for children to feed and pet.

Long Island Pony Parties was first contacted by the Rosa Lee Young Childhood Center in Rockville Centre, which was honored during the fair.

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Hempstead Lake State Park hosts fishing festival for fall

By KYlE CHIN kchin@liherald.com

People were free to cast their lines throughout Hempstead Lake State Park last Saturday, at the park’s annual Fall Family Freshwater Fishing Festival.

Food trucks, vendors, and information booths lined the path to McDonald Pond at the south ern end of the park. The state Department of Environmental Conservation had freshly stocked the park’s two bodies of water with about 1,000 rainbow and brook trout raised at the Connet quot Hatchery in Oakdale.

Heidi O’Riordan, who works with the department’s freshwater

fisheries unit, organized the day’s fishing programs. “There’s tur tles, there’s frogs, there’s sunfish in there,” she said of the park’s waters. “But we stock the trout for put and take fishery,” she added, referring to the introduc tion of a species for sport fishing. “The trout get raised for people who buy a fishing license, so we expect them to take them.”

The park also declared a free fishing day for the event, mean ing that visitors did not need a fishing license to take part. “We have several throughout the year,” O’Riordan said. “We do this to give people the opportuni ty, before they commit to buying their license, to see if fishing is

right for them.” She added that anyone interested in a fishing license can probably purchase one at their local Walmart, sport ing goods store or bait shop.

The DEC’S fisheries unit and the I Fish NY program supplied rods and bait. I Fish NY was started in the 1990s. “It was meant to be mostly for urban youth who don’t really get a chance to go out and go fishing,” explained Walter Burack, the pro gram’s regional director.

The program has expanded over the years, and now offers free lessons for students in grades 6 to 12 throughout the school year. “We’ve gone into schools in the wintertime, and taken entire

sixth-grade classes and came in over the course of two days,” Burack said. “We give a talk to the entire class about fishing, and about our resources, and about stewardship, and about regula tions, and about what we do.”

I Fish NY also partners with Scout troops, helping scouts look ing to earn fishing-related merit badges.

A number of fishing clubs and organizations from across Long Island assisted with the day’s programs. The Wantagh Knights of Columbus Fishing Club, and instructor Paul McCain, from River Bay Outfit ters in Baldwin, were among those who pitched in.

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AugusT lEVY HAD his face painted like a cat at Crossroads Farm’s Fall Family Fun Festival.

Petting zoo, face painting, s’mores and more

“The school actually contact ed us, and they asked us to come,” John Meyer, representing the animal farm, explained, “We’re from way out East, so we don’t normally get around these parts.”

Two food vendors were on hand to serve the hungry crowds. Sweet Anne’s Smoke house was serving up Alabamastyle barbecue, while Vegan cookery Healthy as a Mother offered creative, and delicious, alternatives to meat.

The cooks at Healthy as a Mother served a number of their signature dishes, most notably their vegan empanadas. Several of their items were sold out by early afternoon. Yesenia Ram dass, of Hempstead, founded the restaurant last year, and got con nected with the farm through Matt Korsky of Levittown’s Green Street Eatery, who has taken part in past farm events with his own food truck.

“Our good friends from Green Street Eatery recommended us, because the farm was looking for a vegan vendor, so we jumped at the opportunity,” Ramdass said.

“It was a great turnout,” she added. “We also have three children, so they’re running around having an awesome time.

We do a lot of these pop-ups.”

Visitors could also browse the organic offerings grown on the farm, as they can every weekend. In addition, a multitude of pumpkins grown in Suffolk County were arranged into a pumpkin patch, for fami lies to peruse in anticipation of Hallow een.

This year’s festival also recognized the 50th anniversary of the Rosa Lee Young Childhood Center in Rockville Centre.

Children got to know Poppy the pony on Oct. 9 at the annual event. Long Island Pony Parties brought Poppy, along with numerous goats, chickens and rabbits.

Assemblywoman Judy Griffin was on hand to recognize Laurie Drucker, Sun shine and Lisa Mack, for their work at the child center. Griffin also commended the entire farm staff for its efforts in organiz ing the event.

“It was lovely to see so many families, individuals and children enjoying the live

band, petting zoo, face painting, food and pumpkin patch,” Griffin said. “We are so fortunate to have a beautiful farm like this in our community.”

The farm will continue its slate of fall programs with a barnyard dance on Sat urday. Tickets were still available at press time.

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AnimAl hAndler Chris James, from Long Island Pony Parties, showed curious children a chicken at Crossroads Farm’s annual Fall Family Fun Festival.

Crowds flock to Malverne Fall Festival

Malverne Chamber of Commerce welcomes new and old members to annual event

By KYLE CHIN kchin@liherald.com

Malverne’s Church Street was packed to the gills on Sunday as the Malverne Chamber of Commerce’s annual Fall Festi val took over the street. The Chamber reported that the event was the most well attended it has been in years. The Cham ber also used the event to highlight a num ber of new businesses in Malverne.

Countless stands, food trucks, bouncy castles, and more crowded the street and the neighboring Reese Park. Around the block, the parking lot behind Connolly Sta tion Restaurant was filled with sleek vin tage automobiles. Stores all along Hemp stead Church Street and Hempstead Ave nue had their doors open, inviting in fair visitors from near and far.

“It’s bigger and better than we’ve ever had,” exclaimed Chamber president Maria Casini. “More cars than we’ve ever had. Hundreds of people on the street. That’s what it’s about. Getting people into town. Getting people into our stores. Getting to know the members.”

Last year the fair celebrated Malverne’s 100-year anniversary, but Casini believed that turnout was even better this year. “We didn’t think we could top it. I think we topped it,” she said.

Each year the annual vintage car show, organized by Jack Sorrentino, accompa nies the fall festival. Sorrentino, a broker for Newmann Realty and a Chamber trust ee, also reported that the car fair had an abundance of participants, with 100 vehi cles rolling into the parking lot.

“This started out way back when 29 years ago. It was only an antique classic car show. We always did it in this location. Then as the years went on it became incor porated with the fall festival,” Sorrentino explained.

This year, the car show also helped spot light a new member of the Chamber of Commerce. Raquel Busa is the founder of Maquina 37, an illustration and design company named after her mother’s sewing machine, or máquina in Spanish.

Busa was commissioned by Sorrentino to create a color book filled with vintage cars that the pair handed out for free. The coloring book was the third she had worked on.

“The first coloring book I did was a bilingual Spanish and English book. The second one I did was an LGBTQ coloring book for kids. So for my business, I really try to focus on under-represented commu nities,” Busa said.

Busa runs an online shop accepting commissions. While she mainly does line work, she also dabbles in collage and sew ing.

Another entrepreneur new to the fair was Mary Alston. Alston is the founder of MEA cr Beauty, and MEA cr Jewel. Alston recalled that she had been interested in hair and beauty since childhood, when she would give the women of her church makeovers. Alston opened a storefront on Church Street in February, where patrons can get a makeover by appointment.

“MEA cr Beauty is a hair business. I do

eyelash extensions, facials, all types of hair color, anything to beautify women. I also have a jewelry line, MEA cr Jewel, where you can purchase things I’ve designed online.”

One vendor who is not yet established in Malverne is Lost Farmer Brewing Company. Founded in Mineola, the brew ery is working on a second location on Hempstead Avenue in Malverne, which is tentatively scheduled to open this spring.

“I’m at the mercy of permitting. It took almost all year to get our federal and state licensing. They were so behind from 2020 and Covid,” explained founder John Strohm. “We’ve got beers in UBS Arena where the Islanders play. With the open ing of Malverne, with the continued growth of the company, we’re hoping one day to expand beyond Long Island an the city to all over the Northeast, and hope fully nationwide.”

LEora sImoN, agE six and little brother Rafi, age three, tried out their new bubble makers at the Malverne street fair.

staCY CaLvELLo aNd John Cappadona sampled some Moonshine from Steve Brosnihan of Springbrook Farm Distributors.

1934 tHrEE-wINdow CoupE owner Chuck Ristano, center, chatted with hobbyists John Ogno and Dennis Verriello at the Malverne’s annual vintage car show.

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BouNCY CastLEs wErE set up around the Malverne Long Island Railroad Station parking lot for the town’s annual fall festivities.

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Long Island fishing clubs share their skills

ment, the instructors also helped people prepare their fish to eat. “We also clean the fish,” O’Riordan said. “So if people catch a fish, they can bring it to us and we’ll clean it.”

The Texas-based Raptor Project was on site, displaying numerous owls, falcons and other birds of prey. For $10, park visitors could don a falconer’s glove and pose for a photo holding on of the majestic animals.

“We’ve done a lot of shows here over the years,” explained raptor handler Jonathan Wood. “Covid cut things down for a few years, but we travel all 50 states. We were just in Alaska. We travel all over the country. We do a lot of state fairs and stuff like that.”

Beyond fish and birds, visitors had a number of food vendors to choose from. Organizers set up a station where participants could try to catch pumpkins with their rods. Pumpkin decorating and other arts and craft stations were also set up by the Nassau County Police Department’s Law Enforcement Exploring program, in which young people can explore potential career paths.

O’Riordan estimated that about 2,000 people came to the park to fish throughout the day, a marked improvement from last year’s turnout, when cold weather and Covid concerns kept visi tors away. “It was a beautiful day today,” she said. “We’re really happy with how this turned out.”

eDDie irelanD, of the Knights of Columbus, center, explained the basics of fishing to Meiling Aiello during Hempstead Lake State Park’s annual fishing festival.

Karissa nash fisheD for trout alongside her daughter, Lucy, far right, at Hempstead Lake State Park’s annual Fall Family Fishing Festival.

The sTaTe DeparTmenT of Environmental Conservation’s I Fish NY program helped to gather fishing clubs for the festival.

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heiDi o’riorDan, of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, led event organizers in preparing fishing rods for park-goers before Hempstead Lake State Park’s Fall Family Freshwater Fishing Festival.

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Webinar series explores health, wealth, self

By MALLORY WILSON mwilson@liherald.com

“Are you going deaf?”

As annoying as they might be, those four words could very well be signs of hearing loss. And it’s not a bad idea to get it checked out.

Protecting your hearing is exactly what those who tuned in to the recent AARP Long Island webinar series found out, thanks to the expertise of Dr. Lawrence Cardano and Dr. Esther Fogel.

“Out of all the health problems known to the United States, hearing loss is the third-most common health problem amongst adults,” Fogel told those attend ing the recent webinar from Herald Inside LI. That makes hearing loss “even more common than diabetes or some other health problems.”

Nearly 30 percent of adults older than 65 have some degree of hearing loss, the audiologist said, and as many as half of adults older than 75 have hearing loss to some degree.

The free webinar was part of the Octo ber series “Health+Wealth+Self,” which concludes Thursday, Oct. 20 with a focus on protecting older Americans from cyber crime.

Sponsored by AARP Long Island, Ber nard Macias — it’s associate state director — stressed the importance of AARP empowering people older than 50.

“We strengthen communities,” Macias

said. “We advocate for what matters most, with a special focus on health, security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. So, if you’re going to remember anything about AARP, remember we’re all about health, wealth and self.”

Fogel is from Comprehensive Audiolo gy in Lynbrook, while Cardano sees patients at the Hearing Center of Long Island in Valley Stream. Both say getting

your hearing checked out can improve your quality of life. And there are signs anyone can look for when it comes to hear ing loss. Like if people around you seem like they’re mumbling, or you find your self asking people to repeat themselves.

Other signs include struggling to under stand people talking in noisy locations, missing words or phrases on the tele phone, or even hearing ringing, buzzing,

hissing sounds in your ears.

“There are a lot of things that can con tribute to hearing loss and put you more at risk for hearing loss,” Cardano said. “Any thing that affects your health, overall, can affect your hearing.”

Common risks, Cardano mentioned, include high blood pressure, obesity, inac tivity, high cholesterol, smoking and diabe tes.

Hearing loss can have even larger impli cations, the doctors said — like dementia.

“In order for the brain to function prop erly, it needs to receive all the sensory input from our surroundings,” Fogel said. “So, when we’re not hearing all the sounds that we should, the brain is not receiving all the signals that it should be hearing. And that can lead to cognitive decline.”

Don’t panic if you think your hearing might be diminishing, however. There are steps you can take to protect your hearing, such as having your hearing tested, limit ing your exposure to loud noises, eating healthy, and exercising.

And, if you are diagnosed with hearing loss, Cardano stressed, treat it early.

“All the research is telling us that if you have any hearing loss — even a mild hear ing loss — the easiest way to preserve your hearing clarity is to have it treated and have properly fitted and maintained hear ing aids,” Cardano said.

Register for the final webinar in the series set for Thursday, Oct. 20 at 6 p.m., by visiting LIHerald.com/self.

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DRS. LAWReNce cARDANO and Esther Fogel from Comprehensive Audiology in Lynbrook, joined Herald Inside LI recently for October’s ‘Health+Wealth+Self’ webinar series with Bernard Macias, the associate state director for AARP Long Island, and Michael Hinman, executive editor of Herald Community Newspapers.

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North Shore edges West Hempstead

By toNY BellissiMo tbellissimo@liherald.com

A much-anticipated matchup between the only two unbeaten teams in Nassau Conference IV football lived up to all the hype on a picture-perfect fall afternoon last Saturday.

West Hempstead, which won its first five games for the first time since 2011, put up quite a fight against visiting North Shore in front of a packed crowd for both sides but fell short against the defending county and Long Island champions, 14-7.

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CoMMitteD to plaY D-1 soccer at Providence College, Kolb is considered the frontrunner to earn a second Conference Player of the Year award in three seasons. The soon-to-be four-time All-County forward/midfielder has the Marines on the verge of the A3 title with a record of 10-1. She leads all of Nassau County in goals this fall with 24, including at least one in all 11 games, and has more than 50 in her career.

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Class B championship at Plainedge 7:30 p.m. Friday, oct. 28

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All the scoring came in the first half of a gritty, hard-hitting defensive struggle. Vikings senior quarterback Peter Liotta provided the difference with 1:48 remain ing in the second quarter when he raced 72 yards, with half of West Hempstead’s defense in pursuit, for a touchdown.

“It was a designed run,” Liotta said. “I was able to break outside, saw a lot of green in front of me and kicked into sec ond gear. We needed the momentum back. It was a really tough and fun game. We pre pared well all week and did our thing.”

Liotta’s eventual winning score came 47 seconds after the Rams pulled even on senior Jurrel Hall’s 55-yard touchdown catch on a beautifully thrown ball by senior quarterback Corey Pierre.

“That’s a play we practice a lot and were able to hit on,” West Hempstead head coach Dom Carre said. “I think the differ ence was we didn’t get the kind of push we needed in the run game and made too many mistakes.”

West Hempstead had a touchdown called back on a holding penalty early in the second quarter on a drive that eventu ally stalled at the North Shore 16. A pair of flags also hurt the Rams on their final pos session, which began at their own 6 after the defense, led by junior Daniel Guillen and senior Brendan Close, stopped Liotta on 4th-and-inches with 8:57 to go.

“It was a big test and a matchup that lived up to all the billing,” North Shore head coach Dan Agovino said. “West Hempstead runs a unique offense and is very talented and athletic. I think there’s a good chance we’ll see them again in the playoffs.”

Liotta rushed for 102 yards on 11 car ries. Senior Nicholas La Rosa added 79 yards, including a 22-yard touchdown run in the first quarter to open the scoring. Senior Michael Fleming connected on both extra-point tries.

Pierre and senior Jonathan Balthazard had 64 yards rushing apiece for the Rams, who defeated Seaford, Oyster Bay, Law rence, Cold Spring Harbor and Locust Val ley for their best start in more than a decade.

“Both teams played so tough,” Carre said. “It was the first time all season we couldn’t play power football. North Shore is strong up front.”

Daniel Sotiryadis had two sacks and fel low senior Ryan Freund a key forced fum ble and recovery for the Vikings (6-0), who host Cold Spring Harbor this Saturday at 2 p.m. in a rematch of last fall’s county title game won by North Shore, 21-14.

West Hempstead travels to Malverne on Friday for a 7 p.m. kickoff.

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QuaRteRBaCK CoReY pieRRe connected with Jurrel Hall on a long touchdown pass for the Rams’ lone score against North Shore.

Final stretch of LIRR’s $2.5B ‘third track’ done

By JUAN LASSO jlasso@liherald.com

It’s finally completed. The Long Island Rail Road line connecting New York City with Nassau County’s governmental seat and other points east now has a third track. And that could mean not only more trains along a nearly 10-stretch between Floral Park and Hicksville, but added ben efits to neighboring lines and traffic.

The Third Track Project, completed Oct. 3, is the latest addition to the LIRR’s rail network, giving the Metropolitan Transportation Authority the ability to carry more trains on the track, as well as better flexibility moving trains in both directions during peak hours.

For commuters, this could mean fewer service disruptions and delays along the busy line that connects to Ronkonkoma, Huntington, Port Jefferson, Hempstead and Oyster Bay, meaning potentially fewer riders on those lines passengers might choose as alternatives. For those choosing to drive, it eliminates grade-crossing at seven different intersections, meaning fewer delays whenever trains roll through.

Gov. Kathy Hochul celebrated the com pletion of the third rail alongside MTA executives at a garage next to the LIRR’s Westbury station.

“The completion of the historic third track project connects commuters with a more resilient and flexible railroad with frequent service, modern stations, ADA

accessibility, and more travel opportuni ties for Long Islanders and visitors,” said Hochul of the $2.5 billion construction project that finished $100 million under budget.

The project kicked off in 2019 after decades of battles over how such a track would be constructed. Many living around the affected areas — along with the local officials who represented them — bristled at the idea of having the new set of rails potentially cut through private property.

The current design began in 2016 under the backing of Hochul’s predecessor, Andrew Cuomo. This time, the plan didn’t involve taking residential property while adding other infrastructural perks includ ing landscape improvement, retaining walls, parking garages, improvements to rail bridges, and the removal of eight street-level grade crossings.

The plan also refurbished stations in Mineola, New Hyde Park, Carle Place, Merillon Avenue and Westbury.

The project was carried out in three phases with the first leg of track through New Hyde Park and Merillon Avenue fin ishing last August. The second stretch of track to Mineola completed weeks later, with the last section crossing the finish line at Hicksville.

There is still, however, minor station work left to complete.

Catherine Rinaldi, LIRR’s interim pres ident, says the rail system expansion couldn’t come at a better time as the new

Manhattan East Side terminal Grand Cen tral Madison — a heavyweight project in itself — comes into operation in the com ing weeks.

“When combined with the new termi nal at Grand Central Madison and the newly renovated LIRR concourse at Penn Station, LIRR customers will have more frequent service, upgraded stations with a host of modern amenities, and easier reverse peak trips,” Rinaldi said.

Courtesy Marc A. Hermann/MTA

GOv. KAthy hOchUL joined Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief executive Janno Lieber to announce the completion of the Long Island Rail Road’s 9.8-mile piece of track stretching from Floral Park to Hicksville that is expected to allow more trains, and ease congestion.

The third track’s ability will allow the two-way flow of trains on the mainline during the railroad’s busiest hours.

This, MTA chief executive Janno Lieber said, will be “a huge boon for Long Island businesses, since it will increase access to the region’s talent pool by enabling not only a 40 percent overall increase in LIRR service, but a huge uptick in reverse peak train frequency.

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A noteworthy milestone

South Shore Symphony celebrates an expressive 40 years

By Karen Bloom

rom their roots in the Five Towns back in 1983, the Rockville Centrebased South Shore Symphony has grown and flourished as a regional orchestra that commands attention. For much of that time — since 1991 — principal cellist Wayne Lipton, the orchestra’s president, has been instrumental in guiding the many phases of its

growth.

“We started to really blossom, added more musicians, when the Rockville Centre Guild for the Arts took us under their umbrella” in 1991, Lipton recalls. And he and his group have never looked back. The orchestra — which performed at South Side Middle School until its move to the then newly-opened Madison Theatre on the Molloy University campus in 2011 — soon become known for their fascinating, challenging repertoire.

WHERE WHEN

• Saturday, Nov. 12, 7 p.m.

• Madison Theatre, Molloy University campus, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre

• For tickets, visit MadisonTheatreNY.org or call the box office at (516) 323-4444

“We put everything into it,” Lipton says. “We attracted more musicians and a larger audience. Soon soloists were added into the mix of the all-volunteer orchestra. We kept adding new things.”

conductor Scott Jackson Wiley.

“Wiley is extraordinary,” Lipton says. “He’s done a wonderful job teaching us and moving us forward. His dedication and commitment to the highest musical standards has led us to deliver consistently powerful and moving performances of some of the greatest symphonic works. It takes a special person to commit to an orchestra for that span, and he’s truly deserving of recognition.”

As he will be on Nov. 12, when the orchestra celebrates their beloved conductor’s 25th season with a special concert in his honor. Fen Hsin returns as featured soloist to perform Brahms Violin Concerto. The program also includes ‘Brahms Variations on a Theme” by Haydn and Brahms Symphony No. 4.

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The fusion supergroup has enthralled audience with their special blend of Pink Floyd, Talking Heads and Phish since their inception some 10 years ago. What began as a lark for the four jam band musicians has turned into something much more. The band — with Eric Gould on bass, Richard James on keyboards, Zack Burwick on drums, and Cal Kehoe on guitar — has garnered a major following for their inventive combination of tunes from the namesake bands that inspired PTF. Although the music from each act is different, PTF has discovered that fusing the material together creates what the band describes as an ‘amazing story.’

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That included collaborating with the local dance company, Leggz Ltd. Dance, performing outdoors each summer in Rockville Centre, and concerts at St. Agnes Cathedral.

The real turning point occurred with the construction of the Madison Theatre.

“We were ecstatic to be offered a real home,” Lipton enthuses.

The feeling is mutual.

“The Madison Theatre is proud to partner with the South Shore Symphony,” says artistic director Angelo Fraboni. “We feature them in a variety of shows throughout the year. They’re always consistently excellent.”

“These are all pieces chosen by Scott as a statement of his classical background,” Wiley says. “It’s a strong classic repertoire. As an accessible Romantic composer with a big sound, Brahms is (a) tremendous showpiece for Ming. The Symphony is a tough one, a nice challenge for the orchestra, as is Variations on Hayden.”

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While the orchestra may have “South Shore” in its name, Lipton is quick to point out that this is a group of dedicated, highly skilled musicians representative of all of Long Island.

Also theatre

This relationship has challenged and opened up new ventures for the orchestra. Its members now perform in opera and musical productions. Also Broadwaystyle revues, which include the University’s CAP21 theatre arts students. And, of course, Leggz Ltd Dance’s holiday confection “The Nutcracker,” among their many versatile performances.

“We’ve had an opportunity to play with some amazing people,” Lipton says, including Keith Emerson, Neil Sedaka and Jimmy Webb.

“It’s a very special group,” he says.

That “special group” has committed to a special season. One of “the most ambitious yet,” according to Wiley.

Fraboni

“Tosca”

“Marriage

Collaboration with Fraboni has blossomed into highly-praised full productions of operatic standards such as “Carmen,” “Marriage of Figaro,” “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madame Butterfly.” A sustained cooperation with musical director Michael Bower and the Cathedral of Saint Agnes has led to memorable performances of major choral works such as Mahler’s Second and Third Symphonies, Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and many others, as well as most of the major concertos for organ and orchestra.

cooperation with musical director Michael Bower and the Cathedral of Saint Agnes has led to memorable performances of major choral well and relationship

Of special note is the orchestra’s relationship with virtuoso violinist Ming Fen Hsin — the orchestra’s music director in the ‘90s — who connected the South Shore Symphony with music director and

“I hope everyone takes advantage of all that we’ve pulled together this season to entertain you.”

Courtesy South Shore Symphony

Above photos: Whether playing the classical repertoire or joining Molloy’s CAP21 theatre arts conservatory students and Broadway performers in a Salute to Broadway, most recently on Oct. 9.

The Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze is back for a third year at Old Bethpage Village Restoration. The Halloween-themed event, which had its start in the Hudson Valley at Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-onHudson, features more than 7,000 illuminated, individually hand-crafted jack o’ lanterns displayed throughout the restored village. The pumpkins are carved into elaborate sculptural displays that light up the night, creating an family-friendly experience all ages will enjoy. Visitors stroll the pumpkin trail, past 19th-century buildings, and through historic barns to find themselves immersed in a fall wonderland.

Now through Nov. 6. Tickets must be purchased in advance, none available on-site. Tickets start at $32 for adults; $24 ages 3-17.

Children 2 and younger are free. Old Bethpage Village Restoration, 1303 Round Swamp Road, Old Bethpage. For tickets and information, visit PumpkinBlaze.org.

“We were ecstatic to be offered a real home,” Lipton enthuses. The feeling is mutual. partner artistic throughout

Linda Eder

The versatile songstress-musical theater star brings her powerful voice to NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury, for her latest cabaret turn, Friday, Oct. 28, 8 p.m. A best-selling recording artist with 14 solo albums to her credit, Eder brings a diverse repertoire spanning Broadway, standards, pop, country, and jazz. When Eder performs live in concert, audiences are awed by the ease of her transitions between genres, effortlessly displaying the full range of her incredible vocal gifts. For information/tickets, visit TheTheatreAtWestbury.com or LiveNation.com or call (516) 247-5200.

Author talk

Meet journalist Joe Calderone, author of “Don’t Look Back,” a thriller that takes readers into the hearts and minds of a FDNY family who lost their son during 9/11, and set out on a mission to find out what really happened to him and the other 342 firefighters who perished, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 6-9 p.m. Hosted by Tony Cancellieri and Mike Sapralcone, at the Coral House, 70 Milburn Ave., Baldwin. For information, call (516) 672-3205.

A Tribute to Long Island

Author, storyteller and radio nnouncer, Ron Baumbach, will take us on a stroll back to a simpler time, Sunday Oct. 23, at 2 p.m., at West Hempstead Public Library, 500 Hempstead Avenue. Enjoy a reflection of life in America and Long Island; the people, places and things of the 50s-70s. With a raffle for a signed copy of Baumbach’s book. No registration is required. Call (516) 481-6591 for more information

Super Smash Bros. tournament

Gamers grades 5 and up are invited to compete in a Super Smash Bros. tournament on Saturday, Oct. 22., 2 to 4 p.m, at the Malverne Public Library, at 61 St. Thomas Place. Snacks will be available and awards and prizes will go to the top winners. To register, go to tinyurl.com/ MalSmashBros, email teens@ malvernelibrary.org, or call teen librarian Jillian Murray at (516) 599-0750.

Teen Art Class

Take your first steps to making your own personal style of art as you create your very own superheroes and supervillains. The Malverne Public Library, at 61 St. Thomas Place,hosts an art class for grades 6 and up, Saturday, Oct. 22, 10 a.m. All supplies provided. To register, go to tinyurl.com/ MalArtClass, email teens@ malvernelibrary.org, or ask for Aidan Cunningham at (516) 599-0750.

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Let it Bleed

See Rolling Stones tribute band

Let it Bleed in action, Saturday, Oct. 22 8:30 p.m., at G’s, 157 Hempstead Ave., West Hempstead. The band rolls through the Stones’ greatest hits in what is sure to be a lively night not to be missed. For information, contact(516) 4148210.

Seasonal delights at Crossroads Farm

Crossroads Farm in Malverne is a landmark of Long Island agricultural tradition for many generations. Their mission is to create conscious communities by connecting them with nature and encouraging environmental stewardship. Crossroads’ farm stand is open 3-6 p.m. on Fridays; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, at 480 Hempstead Ave. Every Saturday, the farm also hosts a farmer’s market from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Reach the farm at (516) 881-7900.

On exhibit

Art has access to worlds beyond the one we know. Explore the next dimension as seen through eyes of artists throughout the centuries, at Nassau County Museum of Art’s current exhibition,“Other Worlds than This: The Supernatural in Art,” now through Nov. 6. The exhibit summons a celestial realm of demons, ghosts and extra-sensory phenomena as conjured by such Surrealists as Dalí, photographers who specialize in the occult, Old Masters including Goya, contemporary talents including Betye Saar, Luc Tuymans, Michaël Borremans and many others. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.

Pinkalicious

Bring the family to see the popular musical based Victoria and Elizabeth Kann’s beloved book about the girl who can’t stop eating pink cupcakes, presented by Plaza Theatrical Productions, Saturday, Oct. 29, 11 a.m.

Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor’s office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink from head to toe. $15. The Show Place at the Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Ave., Bellmore. For tickets and information, call (516) 599-6870 or PlazaTheatrical.com.

Howl-o-ween

Come see a spooky canine fashion show at the Broadway Tavern, Sunday, Oct. 30, 1 p.m. Pet owners are invited to bring their pooches to the tavern at 8 Broadway in Malverne for a ghoulish gathering of four-legged friends. Prizes will be awarded for the funniest and scariest dog costumes. Contact Broadway Tavern at (516) 792-6035 for more information.

Having an event?

Teen Pickleball

The West Hempstead Public Library offers an introductory pickleball program for teens, Sunday, Oct. 23., 2-3 p.m. Students from grades 6 to 12 can visit Pickleball Plus, 525 Eagle Ave., to learn about this fast growing sport. Call the library at (516) 481-6591 for more details.

Items on The Scene page 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 thescene@liherald.com.

Art talk

Join Nassau County Museum Director Charles A. Riley II, PhD, for a Director’s Seminar, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 4 p.m. He’ll discuss “The Persistence of Surrealism,” which highlights the drama and poetry of the Surrealist movement, along with masterworks of painting and sculpture. Participation is limited; registration required. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.

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Public Notices

LEGAL NOTICE

The independent audit of the

Operating transfer (out) (90) 2,595,290 Fund Balance

and is

for reviewing in the Central Office located at the Malverne Business Office. If you are interested, please contact the District Clerk ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT June 30, 2022

Board of Education

Malverne Union Free School District Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York

ANALYSIS OF GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE

Fund balance July 1, 2021 $ 11,721,588

Add: Revenues

Real property taxes 41,597,518

Other tax items 4,958,502

Charges for service 224,961

Use of money & property 53,835

Sale of property and compensation for loss 1,701

Miscellaneous 501,304

State sources 12,926,799

Medicaid reimbursement 80,059

Federal sources 1,589 60,346,268

Less: Expenditures

General support 6,401,154

Instruction 35,754,527

Pupil transportation 3,588,025

Employee benefits 11,487,684

Debt service 2,605,187 59,836,577

OTHER FINANCING SOURCES AND USES

Operating transfers in 264,829

Operating transfer (out (2,736,179) (2,471,350)

Fund Balance

Nonspendable fund balance: prepaids 20,082

Restricted reserves:

Unemployment insurance 99,639

Teachers’ retirement system contribution 974,789

Employees’ retirement system contribution 2,670,842

Liability 513,592

Employee benefit accrued liability 852,092

Capital 1,121,633

Repair 209,786 Debt 84,130 6,526,503

Assigned appropriated for subsequent year expenditures 345,000

Assigned unappropriated fund balance - encumbrances 292,038 637,038

Unassigned fund balance June 30, 2022 $ 2,576,306

ANALYSIS OF SPECIAL AID FUND FUND BALANCE

Fund balance July 1, 2021 $ -

Add: Revenues

Miscellaneous 8,579 State sources 412,700 Federal sources 2,470,375 2,891,654

Restricted Capital 1,939,206

Unassigned fund balance (deficit) June 30, 2022 $ (359,971)

ANALYSIS OF EXTRACLASSROOM ACTIVITIES FUND BALANCE

Fund balance July 1, 2021 $ 51,547

Add: Revenues Miscellaneous 179,652 179,652

Less: Expenditures Instruction 167,812 167,812

Assigned Unappropriated Fund Balance June 30, 2022 $ 63,387

ANALYSIS OF SCHOLARSHIPS FUND FUND BALANCE Fund balance July 1, 2021 $ 21,049

Add Revenues

Use of money and property 3 Miscellaneous 3,420 3,423

Less: Expenditures Instruction 4,600 4,600 Fund Balance

Restricted Scholarships 19,872

Assigned Unappropriated fund balance June 30, 2022 $1189890

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BY THE BOARD OF APPEALS

Pursuant to New York State Town Law Article 16, New York State Public Officers Law Article 7, and the Town of Hempstead Building Zone Ordinance, NOTICE is hereby given that the BOARD OF APPEALS of the Town of Hempstead will hold a public hearing in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Town Hall Plaza, One Washington Street, Hempstead, New York on 10/26/22 at 9:30 A.M. & 2:00 P.M. to consider the following applications and appeals:

exceeding horizontal maximum on both sides with lot area occupied variance., S/s Myrna Dr., 131.06’ E/o Hempstead Ave., a/k/a 808 Myrna Dr.

THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 2:00 P.M. 676/22. WEST

HEMPSTEAD - Claude Antonelli & Deborah S. Antonelli, Mother/Daughter Res. (2nd kitchen)., S/s Maxwell St., 100’ W/o Munson Ave., a/k/a 545 Maxwell St. 677/22. WEST

LEGAL NOTICE

Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Stern & Eisenberg, P.C., Woodbridge Corporation Plaza, 485B Route 1 South, Suite 330, Iselin, NJ 08830.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered May 26, 2022, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on November 16, 2022 at 4:00 PM.

Less:

Expenditures

General support 280,318 Instruction 2,368,211

Pupil transportation 100,457 2,748,986

OTHER FINANCING SOURCES AND USES

Operating transfer in 120,799 Operating transfer (out) (263,467) (142,688)

Assigned Unappropriated Fund Balance June 30, 2022 $ -

ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL LUNCH FUND FUND BALANCE

Fund balance July 1, 2021 $ 10,850

Add: Revenues Use of money and property 4 Miscellaneous 20,790 State sources 25,648 Federal sources 1,258,512 Sales 27,474 1,332,428

Less: Expenditures

Employee benefits 11,601 Cost of Sales 1,176,207 1,187,808

OTHER FINANCING SOURCES AND USES

Operating transfer in 20,000 Fund Balance

Nonspendable fund balance: inventory 466

Assigned Unappropriated fund balance June 30, 2022 $ 175,004

ANALYSIS OF CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND FUND BALANCE Fund balance July 1, 2021 $ 2,248,364

Less: Expenditures Capital outlay 3,264,419 3,264,419

OTHER FINANCING SOURCES AND USES Operating transfer in 2,595,380

THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 9:30 A.M. 670/22. WEST

HEMPSTEAD - Prit Singh, Variances, subdivision of lot, front width from & on street line to front setback line, side yards aggregate, construct dwelling with garage garage (demolish existing dwelling & detached garage)., E/s Jennings Ave., 120’ S/o Wadleigh Ave. 671/22. WEST

HEMPSTEAD - Prit Singh, Variances, subdivision of lot, front width from & on street line to front setback line, side yards aggregate, construct dwelling with garage., E/s Jennings Ave., 160’ S/o Wadleigh Ave. 672/22. - 673/22. WEST

HEMPSTEAD - Jennifer Simanowitz, Variance, lot area occupied, construct 2-story addition, 2nd story addition & 1st story addition all attached to dwelling; Variance, lot area occupied, construct shed., S/s Hawthorne St., 180’ E/o Euclid Ave., a/k/a 14 Hawthorne St. 674/22. WEST

HEMPSTEAD - Marvin E. Bethea & Karen Williams, Special exception to maintain accessory structure (detached deck)

HEMPSTEAD - Robert & Tamar Koppel, Variances, lot area occupied, side yards aggregate, construct 2-story addition & 2nd story addition both attached to dwelling., S/s Colonade Rd., 537’ W/o Knollwood Dr., a/k/a 607 Colonade Rd.

ALL PAPERS PERTAINING TO THE ABOVE HEARING ARE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AT THE BOARD OF APPEALS, TOWN HALL, 1 WASHINGTON STREET, HEMPSTEAD, NY 11550.

This notice is only for new cases in West Hempstead within Town of Hempstead jurisdiction.

There are additional cases in different hamlets, towns and villages on the Board of Appeals calendar. The full calendar is available at https://hempsteadny.gov/ 509/Board-of-Appeals The internet address of the website streaming for this meeting is https://hempsteadny.gov/ 524/Live-Streaming-Video

Interested parties may appear at the above time and place. At the call of the Chairman, the Board will consider decisions on the foregoing and those on the Reserve Decision calendar and such other matters as may properly come before it. 134766

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Please take notice, Temple B’nai Israel of Elmont, a religious corporation located at Congregation Shaaray Shalom, 711 Dogwood Avenue, West Hempstead, NY 11552 in the Town of Hempstead, gives notice of its intention to petition the Supreme Court of Nassau County of the State of New York at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of November 28th, 2022, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, for an order decreeing the dissolution of said Temple B’nai Israel of Elmont, and ordering the distribution of any and all assets belonging to said religious corporation, after providing for the ascertaining and payment of the debts of said corporation and the necessary costs and expenses of such proceedings of dissolution, shall be transferred and disbursed to and among various religious and/or not-forprofit organizations for their general and/or specific purposes, or for such other purposes as may be just and proper.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NASSAU COUNTY U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff against LANA GONTZES, et al Defendant(s)

Premises known as 140 Hempstead Avenue, Malverne, NY 11565. Sec 38 Block 11 Lot 103. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Malverne, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $848,804.88 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 010159/2015. For sale information, please visit www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832.

During the COVID-19 health emergency, Bidders are required to comply with all governmental health requirements in effect at the time of the sale including but not limited to wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing (at least 6-feet apart) during the auction, while tendering deposit and at any subsequent closing. Should a bidder fail to comply, the Referee may refuse to accept any bid, cancel the closing and hold the bidder in default.

Bidders are also required to comply with the Foreclosure Auction Rules and COVID-19 Health Emergency Rules issued by the Supreme Court of this County in addition to the conditions set forth in the Terms of Sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the Court Appointed Referee shall cancel the foreclosure auction. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.”

Nathan Jones, Esq., Referee NY2017CAL00006-1 134637

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT. NASSAU COUNTY. L & L ASSOCIATES HOLDING CORP., Pltf. vs. JOHN W. PANIN, et al, Defts. Index #602877/2020. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale entered March 10, 2022, I will sell at public auction on the north front steps of Nassau Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on November 1, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. prem. k/a

District 27, Section 35, Block 403, Lot 225. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Foreclosure auction will be held “rain or shine.” If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the court appointed referee will cancel the auction. LISA SEGAL POCZIK, Referee. LEVY & LEVY, Attys. for Pltf., 12 Tulip Dr., Great Neck, NY. #99782 134338

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff, Against PAYTON PRITCHARD A/K/A PAYTON N. PRITCHARD AS ADMINISTRATRIX HEIR AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SANDRA J. PRITCHARD, DECEASED, et al., Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 5/18/2022, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction rain or shine, on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. 11501 on 11/10/2022 at 2:00pm, premises known as 807 Iris Place, West Hempstead, NY 11552, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Lakeview in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York. Section 36 Block 606 Lot 15. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $371,052.71 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 005785/2015. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the Foreclosure Auction. Jerry Merola, Esq., Referee.

McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC, Suite 205, 10 Midland Ave, Port Chester, NY 10573 Dated: 8/17/2022 File Number: 16-302311 PCO 134358

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Help Wanted

CSC Holdings, LLC seeks a Manager Process Engineering to lead and execute assigned initiatives impacting Altice USA enterprise processes and customer experiences (CX), focusing on designing, viewing and improving the interactions with our customers. Utilize Business Process Management (BPM), Project Management (PM), and Six Sigma sub-methodologies: DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) and LEAN principles to evaluate the quality of relevant operational procedures, institute and document standard around business processes. Lead high visibility engagements with key business stakeholders, addressing complex interdepartmental challenges from inception to implementation with relevant controls and an after action review to measure business change impact. Communicate with technical experts, 3rd party vendors, and top-level executive leaders. Implement customer centric solutions, institute rigor and consistency around implementation, as well as drive success-based metrics KPIs including First Call Resolution (FCR), Repeat call and Repeat Service Visits, Average Handle Time (AHT) for assigned projects. Position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and 3 years of experience in customer experience (CX) roles. Experience must include a minimum of: 3 years of experience performing business analysis, identifying business requirements, designing and developing journey maps/process flows to enhance the customer experience; 3 years of experience working with business process re-engineering and process improvement tools and techniques; 3 years of experience with e-Business Process Management (BPM), Project Management (PM); 3 years of experience with internal audits to improve risk management, governance, and effectiveness of operations; and 3 years of experience with MS Project, Visio, Iserver, JIRA, Dbeaver, Adobe XD, Dreamweaver and Photoshop Requirements for this position include demonstration of either full vaccinations status against COVID-19 or company-provided weekly COVID-19 testing. Job location: Bethpage, NY. To apply, submit resume online at https://www.alticeusacareers.com/ and search by job title or enter job ID number 2022-35082.

CUSTODIAN FT/ PT Needed For Preschool in Far Rockaway. Salary/ $15 Hr. Call Lynn 718-327-1141 Or Email Resume rhccclynn@hotmail.com

CUSTOMER SERVICE FT-PT

Kevin Dignam State Farm Insurance Agency

Customer Service And Sales

Must Obtain Required License Great Growth Potential! email resume to: kevin@kevindignam.com

DRIVERS WANTED

Full Time and Part Time Positions Available!

Busy Print Shop in Garden City is Hiring Immediately for Full Time and Part Time Drivers. Must Have a Clean License and BoxTruck Driving Experience. Hours Vary, Night Availability is a Must. Please Email Resume to ehecker@liherald.com or Call (516)569-4000 x239

DRIVING INSTRUCTORS WANTED Will Certify And Train HS Diploma

NYS License Clean 3 Years Call 516-731-3000

Help Wanted

EDITOR/REPORTER

The award-winning Herald Community Newspapers group, covering Nassau County's North and South Shores with hard-hitting news stories and gracefully written features, seeks a motivated, energetic and creative editor/reporter to join our dynamic (and awesome) team! This education and general assignment reporting position offers a unique experience to learn from some of the best in the business. Historically, reporters who have launched their careers with us have gone on to The New York Times, Newsweek, Newsday, the New York Daily News, New York Post, CNN, BBC, NBC News and The Daily Mail, among many others. We look for excellent writers who are eager to learn, enhance their skills, and become well-established and respected journalists in our industry.

To apply: Send a brief summary in the form of a cover letter describing your career goals and what strengths you can bring to our newsroom, along with a resume and three writing samples to mhinman@riverdalepress.com

HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR

Richner Communications is looking for a hands-on Human Resources professional to oversee all HR functions on a strategic and tactical level. Exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and expanding Garden City, Long Island media company. This position has a flexible schedule, part-time job share would be considered.

Responsibilities: Talent acquisition: Source, screen, and interview potential candidates and manage new employee onboarding Benefits administration: Liaise with brokers, providers and facilitate enrollment and updating of coverage. Manage annual open enrollment and employee benefits review. Administration of 401(k) plan. Employee relations: Provide day- today support and problem resolution in regards to employee concerns, questions and policy issues. Performance management: Coach, counsel and recommend disciplinary actions Compliance: Maintain indepth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance Payroll: Process biweekly payroll through payroll vendor for population of 150 employees Requirements: Bachelor's degree, preferably in business or HR, or equivalent experience Minimum 5 years HR generalist experience Knowledge of Federal, State & Local regulations governing employment Experience with payroll processing Self-motivated, ability to prioritize and work well under pressure Customer-focused attitude, with high level of professionalism and discretion Excellent oral and written communication and quantitative skills Proficiency with Microsoft Office Qualified candidates should submit a resume and cover letter to: careers@liherald.com.

LEAD CARPENTER FT For Growing Home Improvement Company. Experienced. Must Have Own Transportation And Be Legal To Work. Call 516-849-7411

MEDICAL ASSISTANT FT Pulmonary Office. Lawrence And Rockville Centre. Experienced Preferred. Vital Signs, Patient Care, Phone Work, File And Prepare Charts. Pulmonary Function Studies A Plus. Email Resume To: southshore360@gmail.com Or Call 516-569-6966

OUTSIDE SALES

Richner Communications, One of the Fastest Growing Media, Event and Communications Companies on Long Island is Seeking a Sales/Marketing Candidate to Sell our Print Media Products and our Digital, Events, Sponsorships. Salary, Commission, Eligible for Health Benefits, 401k and Paid Time Off. Will Consider Part Time. Please Send Cover Letter and Resume with Salary Requirements to ereynolds@liherald.com or Call 516-569-4000 X286

Help Wanted

PRESS-ROOM/WAREHOUSE HELP

Long Island Herald has IMMEDIATE openings for a FULL-TIME Pressroom/warehouse helper in Garden City. We are a busy print shop looking for a motivated and reliable individuals to assist in various duties in the shop. Forklift experience is a plus and heavy lifting is required. Hours vary, so flexibility is key.

Email resumes or contact info to careers@liherald.com

RECEPTIONIST - FULL TIME

Receptionist (full-time) needed for Publisher and Self-Storage Facility located in Garden City. The ideal candidate should have excellent communications and customer service skills, be professional, dependable and have reliable transportation. Candidate should have computer knowledge and working knowledge of MS Office. Candidate MUST be reliable, punctual and be able to work a CONSISTENT schedule:

Monday and Wednesday 8am to 4pm Tuesday and Thursday 8am to 6pm Friday 8am to 5pm

Job Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Answering phones and greeting customers, assisting new customers by showing storage facility options and pricing, collecting payments from customers, contacting customers for late payments, applying payments and updating the customer files /data base and other general administrative responsibilities on an as needed basis. Hourly pay, plus eligible for Holiday Pay, PTO, Medical, Dental, 401k with company matching, plus other benefits. Qualified candidates should email their resume, cover letter and salary requirements. No phone calls please. Job Type: Full-time.

Salary: $15.00 /hour Email your resume to: careers@liherald.com

Help Wanted

TILE SETTERS/ HELPERS FT Wanted: Setters Must Have 8yrs. Experience. Call 516-665-2314 Or Email hiring@broadwaytileco.com

UP TO $21.09 NYC, $20.22 L.I., $15.20 Upstate NY! If you need care from your relative, friend/ neighbor and you have Medicaid, they may be eligible to start taking care of you as personal assistant under NYS Medicaid CDPA Program. No Certificates needed. 347-713-3553

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REAL ESTATE

Open Houses

FAR ROCKAWAY 10/23, 2-3:30, 33-47 Bay Ct, FIRST TIME ON MARKET! Enjoy The Waterviews in This Bayswater 4 BR, 1.5 Bth Split Tucked Away in Cul de Sac. Fin Bsmt. Att Gar. O/S Resortlike Yard on the

Home!..$719,000 Ronnie Gerber,

516-238-4299

HEWLETT H a RBOR

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HEWLETT

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1534 Broadway #205, BA, Extra Large 2000 Sq Ft, 2 Bedroom(Originally 3 BR),

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Fa R ROCK aWay

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Open Houses

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An architect fora sunroom?

Q. I’m buying a sunroom for my breakfast room on the back of my split-level house, about 8 feet off the ground. I’m being told by the contractor that I need an architect and sealed plans. Since it’s basically a kit of parts that will go on my existing deck, why do I need this? It seems like a lot of extra expense the sunroom people didn’t tell me about. If I already have a permit for the deck, it should be allowed, right? I haven’t bought the sunroom yet. I’m just trying to be sure I know the whole story before I do this, probably by spring, when the weather is better for construction. Any advice would be helpful.

A. Do things once, the best way. A deck isn’t hab itable, but a sunroom is, and a permit is required. Plans have to show struc tural support, energy and building code compliance. Rain, moisture and ice are your primary concerns.

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You need the whole story without the sales part. Just like any pur chase, issues you might not expect are still impor tant, like finding out what kind of oil to add to your snow blower before the engine seizes or that windows without factory tint ing can allow ultra-violet sunlight rays to fade your carpet. As an architect for a largely popular sun room manufacturer in the 1980s and ’90s, I experi enced many issues with their construction.

Pre-engineered panel systems are designed by the company, hopefully by engineers, and should come with plans, from the manufacturer, that can be sealed and signed by their in-house engineer. If not, plans may need to be drawn from scratch by an architect or engineer that you hire so those plans can be integrated with your house. Integrated means that the company generally just sells you a product and doesn’t necessarily give any indication of how to support the unit or how to attach the unit system to your house so that it won’t leak or move.

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This is the general failing of the system, since, as I experienced with most of the installations, the part I could detail was free of leaking or movement, but the units themselves leaked nearly every time. We could detail how the edges of the unit could be sealed and redundantly weather-stripped and flashed, but the frames around the glass and wall edges would unseal and leak. I even met with the corporate president/owner and identified the spe cific problems. Promises to correct leak issues were made but not kept, and eventually I gave up.

I looked at a two-year-old system while discuss ing other work for a home recently. The owner described the back-and-forth misery he and his family were experiencing with their sunroom and the company. Even 25 years after I gave up, the same company is still doing things the same way. You need a detail-oriented architect and installer, even if you think you don’t. The cost of doing things twice is much greater. Good luck.

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We bumped a meteor off course, so is the danger over?

one of the most popular movies about the apocalyptic notion of a giant meteor striking Earth and destroying civilization was “Deep Impact,” a 1998 disaster film in which a high school student and a scien tist discover that a huge rock from outer space is headed right toward our world.

A space crew is sent to destroy it with nuclear weapons, but succeeds only in blasting it in half, and winds up sacrificing their lives to destroy the larger half with their remaining bombs, saving Earth and its inhabitants.

JAMEs BERnsTEin

In the real world, of course, nothing so dramat ic has ever hap pened. But on Sept. 26, NASA successfully gave an asteroid a punch in the nose, knocking it off course. The asteroid posed no threat to Earth. NASA just wanted to test its capability to send an unmanned spacecraft, in a mission called DART, for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, to

make contact with a rock in space and set it off course.

Just in case the real thing ever hap pens, and we are faced with the possibility of extinction from beyond.

The asteroid Dimorphos was about 7 million miles from Earth. DART was launched last November, tasked with fly ing out to the asteroid, which has a diameter of about 560 feet, and crashing into it at about 14,000 miles per hour. The purpose of the test was to see if DART’s impact could push Dimor phos a bit off its orbit.

It worked. The test suc ceeded beyond NASA’s expectations.

“For the first time ever, humanity has changed the orbit of a plan etary body,” Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, said in a statement after the test.

NASA administrator Bill Nelson added, “This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the uni verse throws at us. “NASA has proven we are serious as a defender of the planet.”

And there is no question the planet

needs defense. In December 2019, Con gress established the U.S. Space Force, the newest branch of the armed forces in 73 years. The members of Congress believed the defense of space was a national secu rity imperative, not only because of the possibility of hostile missile attacks, but also the chances of the planet being struck by a massive space boulder.

WWe now have the capabil ity to see deeper into space than ever before, with the launch in 2021 of the James Webb Space Telescope, which conducts infrared astronomy. The Webb is the largest optical telescope in space, and its high resolu tion and sensitivity give it the ability to see objects too old, distant or faint to be detected by the older Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched in 1990.

While NASA is to be congratulated for its success with DART, we here on Earth should not become complacent that all such dangers from space objects can be handled so easily. No one is talking about Armageddon from space, and the notion of a manned space vehicle smashing into

a meteor remains the stuff of Hollywood. But some experts are cautiously hopeful that NASA and the Space Force continue to seek ways of looking out for dangerous objects out there. The sooner they are seen, the better our chances of destroying them.

“We do now track a majority of the larger ones,” said Andy Parton, president of the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Gar den City. “We have the capability of using bigger space vehicles than DART” to do battle with meteors. “But we must also remember this was a small test, and just a test at that.”

No one should forget the 66-foot Chely abinsk meteor that exploded in the atmo sphere over the southern Ural region of Russia in 2013, causing a bright flash and a hot cloud of dust and gas. The meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere undetected because its radiant, or source direction, was close to the sun. The blast caused extensive ground damage, and about 1,000 people sought medical attention.

As Parton said, “Somebody should always be watching.”

James Bernstein is editor of the Long Beach Herald. Comments? Jbernstein@ liherald.com.

America’s mayhem is playing on the world stage

‘The whole world is watching. The whole world is watching.”

If you know American his tory, or you remember it, “The whole world is watching!” is the unforget table chant shouted by thousands of young Vietnam War protesters as they were tear-gassed and beaten with clubs by the Chicago police during the 1968 Demo cratic National Convention that August.

The weekend before the convention, some 2,000 young people gathered in Chi cago’s Grant Park to protest. By the time the convention began, the crowd had swelled to 10,000. The police came to break up the protest, and they were brutal.

ised a nation of voters freaked out by the demonstrations that he would impose law and order. He won. Six years later, about to be impeached, he resigned in disgrace. The North Vietnamese had driven Ameri ca out of their country.

Department of Justice and Congress try to hold Trump accountable for alleged crimes.

RAnDi KREiss

A quick recount: The stodgy Vice Presi dent Hubert Hum phrey was about to be named the Democrats’ presi dential candidate, to run against Republican Rich ard Nixon.

The back ground: President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated five years earlier. His younger brother, Bobby, running against Humphrey for the Democratic nomina tion, had been assassinated two months before the Chicago convention. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in April, four months earlier.

I was 21, and I remember the despair of losing the leaders who inspired us to find our best selves. They championed civil rights, opposed the Vietnam War, and then they were gone. Shot and killed.

The fallout: According to the Guardian newspaper, “After four days and nights of violence, 668 people had been arrested, 425 demon strators were treated at tem porary medical facilities, 200 were treated on the spot, 400 given first aid for tear gas exposure and 110 went to hospital. A total of 192 police officers were injured

“… Images of police fir ing teargas and beating demonstrators with their nightsticks played on network television news. It looked like an oppressive fascist state and offered a view of a nation appar ently tearing itself apart.”

The kids never stopped shouting, “The whole world is watching,” even as police tore into them. It has been said that the extensive media coverage of the violence, beamed into American homes, helped propel a reckoning over the savage police overreaction. It seems that reckoning is still playing out in our politics and in our communities, 54 years later.

In the ’68 presidential election, Nixon appealed to a “silent majority.” He prom

The echoes: Last week, as I watched the Jan. 6 commit tee hearing, I thought about how vital the media has been in investigating and reporting the alleged crimes committed by our 45th pres ident and his enablers. Without an intense commit ment by reporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, we would not know what hap pened that day. This time the protesters carried the weapons, and erected a por table gallows. This time the protesters wanted to overthrow a righ teous election. These American citizens storming the Capitol were attacking the police.

The videos taken inside the Capitol’s hiding place during the insurrection reveal the chaos and the fright of the moment, with legally elected members of Congress fearing for their lives not far from a crowd gone berserk. As we go to press, we hear promises of further vio lence from Trump supporters who refuse to accept the peaceful transfer of power, the holy grail of our democracy. Various groups threaten ongoing disorder if the

The lines connecting 1968 and 2022 are unsettling. For me, the connection is my gut. It feels all wrong all over again. Kids were on the march then, demanding peace. Extremists today are threatening war. We lived then, and we live now, in a time of civil unrest.

After ’68, we edged into a relatively calmer passage of political life. But then along came Trump, who found common ground with a segment of angry and vio lent Americans. The new twist in the MAGA community, and from Trump him self, is the increasingly overt racism and antisemitism. What was never OK to say is slowly becoming OK in certain radical groups. The swastika and the Nazi salute are useful again, on the fringe.

In 1968 we were deeply hurt and disil lusioned by the successive assassinations of our leaders. We dreamt of peace and equality. As young idealists, we couldn’t bear that this was how our dreams would die.

Today, the dynamic is more toxic. The protesters are the ones with weapons. Their dream is absolute power. Their leader has debased the office of the presi dency and he just won’t go.

We are suspended in time, and the whole world is watching.

Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

e must also remember that this was a small test, and just a test at that.’

T he lines connecting 1968 and 2022 are unsettling. It feels all wrong all over again.

HERALD

editorial

Thank a crossing guard near you

they work outside in rain, sleet and snow, keeping our most precious commodity — our children — safe.

School crossing guards are unsung heroes. Underappreciated — and sometimes ignored by motorists — they put their lives on the line every day. And they are at constant risk of injury or even death caused by drivers who disregard them.

How does a crossing guard get hit? Maybe someone is late getting some where. Or they have others in the car dis tracting them. Or maybe they’re simply impatient. The reasons matter little when the outcome is devastating.

Most people would say they’ve never heard of a crossing guard getting hurt on the job. But that’s what happened two weeks ago in Glen Cove, when a guard, attempting to stop traffic to allow chil dren to cross a street near an elementary school, was hit by an SUV.

He remains in critical condition. And he’s not alone.

It’s difficult to find statistics on how many crossing guards are injured on the job each year, because most data focuses more on the children and pedestrians they protect. But one of the most common causes of injury, according to the New York State School Boards Association, is being hit by vehicles’ side mirrors. And those can be significant injuries.

Crossing guards have been killed — even on Long Island. One in Hempstead died in 2016 when he was hit by a truck.

And there were two separate incidents in California last year when crossing guards were struck by SUVs and died.

A child was hit, too, in one of the Cali fornia tragedies, but survived. In the other, the crossing guard pushed a group of children away from the pathway of an oncoming vehicle.

In February, a crossing guard in Mary land was struck by an SUV and killed after pushing a child out of the way.

All of these guards were nothing less than heroes. But why does this even hap pen? Are people on their cellphones, talk ing or texting? Are they changing the channel on their car radio? Arguing with another passenger? How are they so dis tracted that they fail to see a human being wearing reflective clothing in the middle of the street with an arm outstretched, directing them to stop?

It remains unclear why the 82-year-old Bayville driver hit the Glen Cove crossing guard on Oct. 6. He remained at the scene after the accident, and he had yet to be charged criminally this week, as police continued to investigate.

It isn’t hard to become a crossing guard. In Nassau County, anyone who’s at least 18 and doesn’t have a criminal record can apply. No experience is required. But as one police officer said, a crossing guard needs to be someone who likes children.

A city police department, like Glen Cove, handles the hiring. In the villages, it’s the purview of the Nassau County

letters

Now they’re booing Aaron Judge?

To the Editor:

Subject: on booing the Yankees’ Aaron Judge after his 62-home-run, MVP season. Yankees (and too many other sports) fans are rude, crude, cruel and ignorant fairweather friends, booing a player they pro fess to like, admire, respect and even “love” — as if he strikes out on purpose.

Players don’t make errors, drop passes, miss shots or throw interceptions on pur pose. Do these same “fans” boo their own Little Leaguers when they strike out?

Music lovers don’t boo the conductor if he drops his baton; nor do they boo the violinist if she drops her bow.

Grow up, fans, or stay home and boo to your hearts’ content in your own living rooms, where the objects of your unde served anger will not have to hear you.

RICHARD SIEGELMAN Plainview

Police Department.

In some parts of the country, school crossing guards receive health insurance, but not in Nassau County. Their working schedule is 90 minutes in the morning and again in the afternoon, when chil dren are on their way to, and then dis missed from, school. The unusual hours set this job apart from typical part-time work, and it’s hard to hold down another job at the same time.

Police say that while many guards are retirees, college students also take on the work. They take the job seriously, no mat ter their background.

Crossing guards obviously are impor tant — our schoolchildren need to be kept safe — and there is a shortage. Where they are needed but not available, police officers, or members of the auxiliary police, take their place.

Guards do more than help children safely cross the street. They remind driv ers of the presence of pedestrians, and just as important, they help children develop the skills to cross streets safely on their own in the future.

So the next time you see a school cross ing guard, give them a wave of gratitude — after you stop, without anger or impa tience, reminding yourself that you’ll get where you need to go eventually. That extra minute or two can save the lives of not only our children, but also the heroes standing in the middle of the street each weekday morning and afternoon, doing their utmost to keep those kids safe.

opInIons

Of course 2024 will be on this year’s ballot

In case you haven’t heard, there is an election on Nov. 8. Most elections are about the current candidates, who are seeking a variety of offices all over America. This one, however, will be the equivalent of two elections, because its results may determine whether the 2024 election will be the end of democracy as we know it. Some of you may think this is overdramat ic, but there are good reasons to view this one as a political twofer.

Many of us New Yorkers are oblivious to what is taking place all over the country.

tions will decide whether democracy lives or dies in 2024. As of now, there are almost 300 Republican candidates nation wide who maintain that Joe Biden was never legitimately elected president. They believe the lie about the stolen 2020 elec tion, but there is much more happening that we should all worry about.

are planning to or have lost their jobs in primary contests, won by the election cra zies. If the deniers win in six of the key states, they will have the power to poten tially reverse the national election tally two years from now.

Republican Senate candidate in Arizona, scrubbed his website to remove mentions of a national abortion ban and references to Christian themes.

JerrY kremer

One sage veteran of the partisan wars once told me that “America begins west of the Hudson River.” Nothing could be more accurate. Our local contests for Congress are dominated by such issues as abortion, inflation and crime, with scant mention of stolen elections and threats to the Con stitution, even though a few of the Repub lican candidates are election deniers or members of the Trump cult.

But if you lived in Michigan or Arizo na, you would understand why their elec

There are two positions in a state that have the power to throw out a public vote. One is governor, and the other is secretary of state. There are a number of Republicans running for governor who also deny Biden’s election. They have publicly stated that if elect ed they will “fix” the system by taking power away from local election boards. Doug Mastriano, the GOP candidate for governor of Pennsyl vania, has pledged flat out that if former President Donald Trump runs again and loses Pennsylvania, Mastriano will reverse the final results.

It is widely accepted that most of the incumbent secretaries of state around the country are independent and fair-minded. Not one of them has challenged the 2020 results, and they have staunchly defended their process from partisan attacks. But sadly, many of them have either retired,

Letters

Vote ‘yes’ for clean water, clean air and green jobs

To the Editor:

For 20 years, the North Shore Land Alliance has worked to pro tect nearly 1,300 acres of natural areas. The primary reason we pro tect land is to safeguard drinking water. Long Island’s sole-source aquifer requires pervious surfaces (like fields and forests) for rain and snow to seep through the ground to recharge our drinking water source. But a study by the Rauch Foundation found that nearly 70 percent of Nassau Coun ty’s surface is impervious (pave ment and buildings). We need open space to protect our ground and surface water.

On Nov. 8, New York state vot ers will have an opportunity to vote on Proposition 1, the Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act. This

historic legislation would protect open space, safeguard clean drink ing water, and update our aging water and sewer infrastructure while supporting nearly 100,000 good jobs.

In our community, we have 8,000-plus acres of natural areas left to protect. With passage of the Bond Act, we would have access to critical funding to conserve land in perpetuity and maintain our quality of life. Plus, with the wors ening effects of climate change, protecting open spaces, replenish ing our aquifers, and restoring bays and harbors is more impor tant than ever.

I hope 2022 will be the year that we truly value our natural resources and take urgently need ed action to protect our environ ment. On Election Day, please flip your ballot and vote “yes” on Prop 1. Let’s act now to ensure a healthy future for those who come after us.

LISA OTT President and CEO North Shore Land Alliance

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Another factor that bodes ill for America is the quality of the roster of Republicans running for the U.S. Senate. It is hard to imagine that Georgia’s Her schel Walker could be sit ting in a body that once boasted the likes of Everett Dirksen, Lyndon Johnson and Pat Moynihan. Can you envision Sen. Mitch McCon nell walking over to Senator Walker and saying, “Her schel, how do you feel about nuclear disarmament?”

Walker’s race, in which he has his par ty’s full support, is about power, and not about electing qualified candidates.

The platforms of a number of Republi cans in key races around the country are scary. Many, such as Mastriano, pledge to restore “Christian values” to governing. He has used veiled antisemitic themes against Josh Shapiro, his opponent. U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republi can, states that the church should be run ning the government. Blake Masters, a

The use of crime as an issue by Repub licans around the country is more than just a statement about criminals. It is a return to the dominant theme of the 1988 presidential election, when the party ran an ad campaign featuring a photo of con victed murderer Willie Horton that helped Vice President George H.W. Bush defeat the Democratic nominee, Michael Dukakis, who was portrayed as soft on crime. And in many Republican cam paigns, there are frequent references to billionaire George Soros, a major Demo cratic contributor, his very name serving as antisemitic code words.

Some political observers say that the tone of the Republican campaigns is just what a normal campaign should be like. But if the candidates who promise to over turn election results win and remake the fabric of our nation, the 2024 election will have been decided two years in advance.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strat egy firm. Comments about this column?

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