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Businesses react to state mask mandate staff has always been our top priority and will continue to be so.” Masks are once again The governor’s decision came required in all indoor public just days after the emergence of places in New York unless an the omicron variant in the state, establishment requires proof of along with a predicted winter full vaccination against the coro- surge of Covid-19 cases and hosnavirus, Gov. Kathy pitalizations stateHochul said on Dec. wide, threatening a 10. The mandate will hospital bed shortremain in place age like the one sufuntil Jan. 15, when fered last year at this Hochul said she will time. take another look at Although the perwhere New York c e n t a g e o f N ew stands and adapt the Yorkers fully vaccimandate to the cirnated continues to cumstances. increase, that rise T he owner of “is not fast enough Connolly Station in to completely curb Malver ne, Ger ry the spread of the Hughes, said he is virus, particularly taking business deci- MIKE SOFIKITIS among communities sions related to the Owner, with low vaccinapandemic day by tion coverage,” the Lake Park Deli day, but in the meanstate said in a time, he is following release on Dec. 10. guidelines issued by the state Since Thanksgiving, the stateand the Centers for Disease Con- wide seven-day average case rate trol and Prevention. has increased by 43 percent and “In accordance with new hospitalizations have increased guidelines . . . we are kindly ask- by 29 percent. ing our customers to please wear Last year on Long Island, a face mask while not eating or Covid-19 hospitalizations rose drinking,” the pub posted on its rapidly between Thanksgiving Facebook page. “The health and and mid-January, reaching a safety of our customers and CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

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THE OUTREACH PROGRAM for Soccer, a community-based program for children with physical and/or intellectual challenges, was founded by the Lee family of West Hempstead.

W.H. soccer named state Club of the Month By ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com

T h e We s t H e m p s t e a d Chiefs Soccer Club was named December Club of the Month by the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association for its “vibrant intramural and TOPSoccer Program,” a statement released by the ENYSA said. “West Hempstead is a very diverse and tight-knit community. Our high school-level trainers attend our schools as

well as some private schools. We truly believe in giving back so all of our board members and coaches are volunteers,” said the co-president of the club, Loraine Magaraci, in the statement about the West Hempstead soccer program. The club, established in 1978, was first run by Wes and Meg Westfal, who were succeeded by Jeff and Dani Oakden. Today, the organization is led by co-presidents John DeCristoforo and Loraine

Magaraci. The West Hempstead club currently features 130 travel team players as well as 154 intramural players, including DiCristoforo’s son, Kevin DeCristoforo, who is an AllCounty soccer player and three-year starter at West Hempstead High School. The West Hempstead Soccer Club was also chosen for the award because of the community’s TOPSoccer proCONTINUED ON PAGE 16

he growing Covid numbers, I fear, will certainly impact us negatively going forward.

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STUDENTS PERFORMED FOR the Malverne Board of Education during the Dec. 14 board of education meeting.

Student-musicians perform holiday melodies The Malverne Union Free School District’s Board of Education and administration received a wonderful treat from the Malverne Senior High School’s Select Choir and the Howard T. Herber Middle School’s Select Choir and Violin Ensemble during the Dec. 14 board of education meeting. Student musicians offered a holiday thanks to board members and administrators as they serenaded attendees with holidaythemed melodies. Courtesy Malverne Union Free School District; compiled by Jordan Vallone

STUDENTS FROM THE Howard T. Herber Middle School’s Violin ensemble played for the school board last week. MALVERNE SENIOR HIGH School’s Select Choir performed holiday melodies during the December board of education meeting.

Tracking genealogy at West Hempstead Public Library By LISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com

Jean King, the adult reference librarian at the West Hempstead Public Library, collects genealogy research as a hobby, and with her blog, “All About Relatives: Focusing on genealogy research with emphasis on New York State,” she helps others uncover their family history. King “is our genealogy treasure,” said Barbara Dreher, the library’s assistant director. “She’s had an interest in it for many years — a serious avocation.” King has delved into her own family history, researching her relatives and ancestors from Germany, France, Scotland, Ireland, Finland and Turkey for at least 20 years. She first became interested when the passenger lists of everyone who passed through Ellis Island were posted online in 2001. “I found a lot of relatives through that website,” she said, “then it got me startJean ing to poke around in all different places to find out more about my family.” Before creating her blog, King belonged to the Computer Genealogy Society of Long Island, where she wrote a monthly newsletter. When that group disbanded in 2013, she asked the West Hempstead library, where she has worked since 2005, about starting the blog. “I really liked finding the information and putting it out there for people to learn about,” she said. The blog was a slog for its first two years, with only 1,280 hits in 2014, the first full year, King recalled. In comparison, there have been 5,246 hits in the past 11 months, and more than 27,000 in the past eight years. It’s a hobby with an educational bent: King has introduced library patrons to genealogy websites and kept them informed about meetings and events in the state. She posts genealogy information weekly, sharing free-trial opportunities offered by subscription websites and sharing free webinars on research topics such as census, military and land records, organizational methods, specific ethnic groups, _______

historic newspapers, passenger lists and cemetery records. The blog has links to a number of historical societies in the state, the West Hempstead Obituary Index and a plethora of Nassau County library history. King is a board member of the Genealogy Federation of Long Island, which consists of 11 different regional-based genealogy organizations, so she often posts local genealogy club meetings on the blog. In 2005, she began teaching basic genealogy classes at the library, focusing on introductory methods of research. “Jean is always attending genealogy webinars, and incorporates the information learned into the classes and workshops she teaches,” said Elana Gensler, the West Hempstead library’s reference librarian. “She is well prepared, answers questions and has wonderful handouts.” King’s upcoming virtual class on Jan. 19 is an overview of FamilySearch.org. “I chose an introduction to FamilySearch.org because it is one of King the top four major genealogy websites that is used by genealogists and it is free,” she explained in an email. “I always like to promote free websites because genealogy can become an expensive hobby once you start ordering records or paying for a subscription website for a specific ethnic group.” King works closely with the West Hempstead Historical Society, which collects and preserves the community’s historical archives, including photos and maps, to post on the New York Heritage website, which collects history statewide. If you want to dig into your family history, the West Hempstead library might be the place to start. King has “sat with patrons for hours trying to locate their relatives in census records, obituaries, old newspaper articles, naturalization papers” and more, Gensler said. “I’ve been researching my own family tree for almost 15 years,” she added. “Jean has been a tremendous help and inspiration. She knows my family almost as well as I do. She always knows where to look, and lets me know when new records are digitized.”

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NORTHWELL HEALTH EMPLOYEES came in two-hour shifts to wrap gifts for children.

Northwell staff packs over 2,000 holiday gifts With holiday music blasting overhead, dozens of Northwell Health employees gathered together for a marathon giftwrapping session to ensure that schoolage children enjoy a happy holiday season. “I am so proud of each Northwell employee and all of our community partners who made this joyful event possible,” said Edward Fraser, vice president of C o m m u n i t y Re l at i o n s at N o r t h well. “Today, literally hundreds of our team members joined together to wrap thousands of gifts for children in the communities we serve. It is our belief that no child should be denied the gift of joy at the holidays.” Through an on-line platform operated by Northwell’s nonprofit project partner, Supplies for Success, employee donations were used to provide art supplies and other gifts for different age categories. No contribution was too great or too small. And, the results are impressive: more

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than $40,000 was collected for this worthy cause. All the wrapped gifts will be distributed to families who cannot afford them in four Long Island communities (Brentwood, Bay Shore, Freeport, Hempstead) as well as locales in Manhattan, Westchester and Staten Island. Along with the gift, the final item placed in each bag was a hand-written, holiday message by the staff member who packed it. At the bottom of their bags, students will find such joyful messages as, “Happy holidays,” or simply, “Enjoy!” The Northwell “elves” who participated in the gift-wrapping marathon, along with Mindy Richenstein, founder and president of Supplies for Success, said that the motto of the day was, “All children deserve the gift of joy at the holidays!”

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A Hallmark-style celebration lights up Malverne With nearly 2,500 people in attendance, Malverne hosted what village officials said was the biggest annual Holiday Lighting ever, supported by many local businesses and volunteers. “It was a great night in the Village of Malverne,” Mayor Keith Corbett said. “We have to thank our amazing volunteers, who continue to pull off the best holiday celebration in Nassau County every year. It was great to see all our friends and family and the entire community enjoy the holiday spirit that only Malverne can deliver.” The events leading up to the Holiday Lighting included a free showing of “The Addams Family 2” at the Malverne Cinema, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, and Bowling with Santa at SanDee Lanes in the village. The lighting ceremony began at 5 p.m., headed by volunteer Lighting Committee chairwomen Elicia Corbett and AnnMarie Cuocci, and then Corbett drew a name in a 50/50 raffle for a prize of $1,000. Cub Scout Pack 24’s color guard; the Pride of Malverne Marching Band; the Banjo Rascals, a Long Island-based entertainment group, and elves marched down Hempstead Avenue while Corbett rode a reindeer float and Santa and Mrs. Claus followed on their brightly lit sleigh float. After the parade, Corbett offered a holiday message at the village fountain before

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MALVERNE VILLAGE BOARD with Legislator Bill Gaylor and Assemblywoman Judy Griffin posing by Mayor Keith Corbett on the reindeer float. lighting the multicolored Christmas tree, a tradition more than three decades old. “It’s one of the things I grew up going to — the Malverne Lighting — from when I was young, as a kid,” Cuocci said, “and it’s still the best time.” The Rev. Humberto Chavez, of the Bridge Church, gave the invocation, and the Rev. James Stachacz, of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, blessed the crèche. Solo-

ists Kaylee Palmer, Michelle Cuocci and Benjamin Truncale sang “O Christmas Tree,” “First Noel” and “O Holy Night,” respectively. The Banjo Rascals continued playing at the gazebo, and the Downbeats, a group of Valley Stream North High School students, sang holiday-themed a cappella carols on Hempstead Avenue. Members of the Tap to Pointe Dance Center per-

formed on Church Street, and two more musical groups, the James A. Denver Ensemble and the T-Minus Ten Band, played at the Bridge Church Pavilion. A walk throughout the village offered Hallmark-like sightings, as residents enjoyed horse and buggy rides, s’mores, warming up by fire barrels, a polar bear slide and more. This year, the Lighting Committee thought of new, Covid-conscious ways to keep the event cheery, including the addition of Holiday Cafés set up along Church Street and Hempstead Avenue, cozy areas to eat and celebrate with family, friends and neighbors. The festivities continued on Dec. 5 with the village’s Winter Wonderland, at Crossroads Farm, and the Kids’ Scavenger Hunt throughout the village, two new ideas that may turn into annual traditions, the Mayor said. “We started doing a Winter Wonderland at the farm, which was in place of our Breakfast with Santa, and that has turned out to be a really fun event,” Elicia Corbett said. For the kids, “it’s more of a fun Christmas experience,” she added. At least 20 volunteers decorated their homes for the scavenger hunt. Children got out of their parents’ cars to grab Malverne Bakery gingerbread cookies, candy, toys and other prizes from 14 of the homes. “The homeowners really get into it — some of them are out there with fire pits and music,” Elicia Corbett said. “It’s really cute, and an amazing night for the village.”

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chance to respond. Attendees learn from each other, share experiences and wisdom, and clarify goals and values. The conversations aim to foster deeper knowledge and understanding as we talk about money, improving society, medical issues, and all topics that arise. Have a topic you’d like to discuss? Join the conversation and share it with the group. Registrants will receive a copy of Sandy’s book, “7 Keys to Love.” Registration is required with an email address. A class link will be emailed to participants. Register online at the library’s website, www.whplibrary.org.

Spanish Conversation Join the West Hempstead Public Library and Pia Ramirez between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. for a virtual class to practice your Spanish and read along with a bilingual book via Zoom. This class is appropriate for teens who want to practice their Spanish. Contact Pia Ramirez at (516) 481-6591 X 11 or via email canaria@ whplibrary.org for more information.

Beaded Snowflake Craft Join the West Hempstead Public Library for an all-day event to make a craft in the children’s area or take a craft kit home. Limit: 1 child while supplies last. To register, call (516) 599-0750 X 303 or email malvernekids@malvernelibrary. org and ask for children’s librarian Antoinette.

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Tuesday, Dec. 28 Virtual Simply Stronger Join the West Hempstead Public Library and Marilyn Bunger between 9:45 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. for another installment of her virtual exercise and strength training class via Zoom. Registration is required. The class is held weekly and gives you access to Marilyn’s recorded videos 24/7 for 13 sessions from October to December and costs $30. Your registration will not be approved until payment is received. Once your payment is received, you will be sent a link to join the class. Please make your check payable to WHPL and mail to West Hempstead Public Library. Register online at the library’s website, www. whplibrary.org.

St. Francis Hospital Outreach Bus Free Health Screenings Join the Malverne Public Library and the St. Francis Hospital Outreach Bus between 10 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. for free health screenings which include a brief cardiac history, blood pressure and a simple blood test for cholesterol and diabetes for adults 18 and older. No appointmnet is required, and flu shots are available. The bus will be in front of the Malverne Public Library or in the

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Make a snowflake craft at the W.H. Public Library Join the West Hempstead Public Library for an all-day craft event for children on Monday, Dec. 27. parking lot. Last screenings take place at 1:45 p.m. Contact Catherine Wellikoff to register at (516) 599-0750 or via email at cwellikoff@nassaulibrary.org.

and songs. Registration begins one week prior to the program. If the class is full, please add your child to the waitlist. If we have enough children, another class will be added following the first.

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New Year’s Confetti Popper (Grades 6-12) Join the West Hempstead Public Library between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. to make a New Year’s Eve confetti popper using a paper cup and a balloon. All kits must be picked up by December 31 at 12 p.m.

Stories and Songs for Babies and Toddlers with Miss Victoria Join West Hempstead Public Library and Miss Victoria between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. in the community room for stories

Joe the West Hempstead Public Library and Joe Cilmi between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. for a virtual class featuring yoga poses and breathing techniques. This class is weekly and gives you 24/7 access to Joe’s recorded videos sessions. Access to the courses costs $30. Your registration will not be approved until payment is received. Once your payment is received, you will be sent a link to join the class. Please make your check payable to WHPL and mail to West Hempstead Public Library Attn: Programs, 500 Hempstead Avenue, West Hempstead, NY 11552. Include

on the check: Your name, address, phone number and the name of the class. Register online at the library’s website, www.whplibrary.org.

Family Movie Join the Malverne Public Library between 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. for a TBA family movie during the holiday break. Masks must be worn for all indoor programs. To register, call (516) 599-0750 X 303 or email malvernekids@malvernelibrary.org and ask for children’s librarian Antoinette.

Virtual Conversation Circle Join the West Hempstead Public Library and Sandy Hindren for a virtual conversation circle between 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Chat with friends and neighbors as those who attend pose questions or topics and give everyone a

Join West Hempstead Public Library and Eddie Hug between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. for a virtual tai chi class. Registration is required. This class is weekly and gives you 24/7 access to Eddie’s recorded video sessions. Access to the courses costs $30. Your registration will not be approved until payment is received. Once your payment is received, you will be sent a link to join the class. Please make your check payable to WHPL and mail to West Hempstead Public Library Attn: Programs, 500 Hempstead Avenue, West Hempstead, NY 11552. Include on the check: Your name, address, phone number and the name of the class. Register online at the library’s website, www.whplibrary.org.

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Short story writer Nathan Englander was born and raised in West Hempstead. The late cartoonist Frank Springer went to Malverne High School. In 1956, the West Hempstead Public Library was founded and chartered. Malverne’s nickname is “The Mayberry of Long Island.” Francis T. Purcell, the former Nassau County Executive, attended high school in Malverne.

The importance of the Christmas nativity scene grandchildren how to assemble and sit- have experienced the darkness of uate the creche, but at the same time, night. Yet even then, God does not they also have the catechetical and rela- abandon us, but is there to answer our tional sensitivity to let children and crucial questions about the meaning of grandchildren make choices about life. Who am I? Where do I come from? where the shepherds, the sheep, the Why was I born at this time in history? Why do I love? Why do I three kings are to be suffer? Why will I die? It placed. was to answer these quesChildren are encouraged tions that God became to place the holy family — man. His closeness brings M a r y, Jo s e p h a n d t h e light where there is darkprince of peace — with ness and shows the way to their own hands into the those dwelling in the shadcenter of the creche. How ow of suffering (cf. Luke often children then enjoy, 1:79).” sometimes on their own We can drift through life and sometimes with brothdodging and repressing ers and sisters and family these critical existential m e m b e r s, m ov i n g a n d questions of life. We can interacting with the figulive blindly and superficialrines. How often their bibly. lical ima ginations and ishop Our Catholic belief in souls are set on fire with ohn arres the unity of the nativity God’s love as they play and the crucifixion, the with their family nativity creche and the cross, Bethsets. Pope Frances continued: “I would lehem and Golgotha, keeps our lives like now to reflect on the various ele- centered and focused on the things that ments of the nativity scene in order to really count in our short time on earth appreciate their deeper meaning. First, — the last things (death, judgment, there is the background of a starry sky heaven and hell) and a belief in the wrapped in the darkness and silence of eternal joy of heaven, our true home. Frances continues to press the exisnight. We represent this not only out of fidelity to the gospel accounts, but also tential questions: “The presence of the for its symbolic value. We can think of poor and the lowly in the nativity scene all those times in our lives when we remind us that God became man for the

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sake of those who feel most in need of his love and who ask him to draw near to them. Jesus, ‘gentle and humble in heart’ (Matthew 11:29), was born in poverty and led a simple life in order to teach us to recognize what is essential and to act accordingly. The nativity scene clearly teaches that we cannot let ourselves be fooled by wealth and fleeting promises of happiness. “We see Herod’s palace in the background, closed and deaf to the tidings of joy. By being born in a manger, God himself launches the only true revolution that can give hope and dignity to the disinherited and the outcast: the revolution of love, the revolution of tenderness. From the manger, Jesus proclaims, in a meek yet powerful way, the need for sharing with the poor as the path to a more human and fraternal world in which no one is excluded or marginalized.” May our prayer, silent contemplation and creative family catechesis of the nativity scene help us to be instruments of a gospel revolution of humility, charity, mercy, tenderness and solidarity with the sick, the poor and the suffering. May our commitment to “holiness and mission” bless our contemplative synodal listening and our eucharistic revival and evangelization. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your families!

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On Dec. 1, 2019, our holy father Pope Francis issued “Admirabile Signum,” an Apostolic letter on the meaning and importance of the nativity scene. It is a beautiful reflection that I draw on at Christmas, and one which I urge you to read and pray. In it, the holy father reminds us that the simple act of arranging our nativity set links us to the past, opens questions for the present and orients the future. It is an act that has an existential impact. Pope Francis said, “Setting up the Christmas creche in our homes helps us to relive the history of what took place in Bethlehem. Naturally, the Gospels remain our source for understanding and reflecting on the event. At the same time, its portrayal in the creche helps us to imagine the scene. It touches our hearts and makes us enter into salvation history as contemporaries of an event that is living and real in a broad gamut of historical and cultural contexts.” The beautiful scene of parents and grandparents setting up creches together with children and grandchildren is a powerful multi-dimensional experience of catechesis — the teaching and passing on of our Catholic faith and our belief in the Incar nation of Jesus Christ to the next generation. Parents and grandparents have that wisdom of teaching children and

Firefighters bring Christmas to wounded vets Nassau County Firefighters Operation Wo u n d e d Wa r r i o r s brought Christmas to wounded servicemen and women at rehabilitation units at Bethesda, Md., Fort Belvoir, Va. And Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune, both in North Carolina. The firefighters have done this every year since 2004. A contingent of Lynbrook, Malver ne and Stewart Manor firefighters brought Christmas to Fort Belvoir on Dec. 3. More than 200 soldiers and their children were treated to catered lunch and numerous gifts and presents. Firefighters also presented two Schwinn multi-pur pose exercise bicycles to the recovery unit. The firefighters also presented to Lt. Col. Daniel Keener with an American flag donated by Floral Park Eagle Scouts given to the firefighters to present to the wounded.

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NASSAU COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS Operation Wounded Warriors brought Christmas to wounded servicemen and women. Making the presentation to Lt. Col. Daniel Keener, the battalion commander of the Soldier Recovery Unit, second from left, was, from left, former Lynbrook Chief Kevin Bien, Santa Claus (Malverne firefighter Antonio Evola), LFD Ladies Auxiliary member Lynne Donnelly and Lynbrook Honorary Chief and NCFF-OWW Vice Chairman Steve Grogan.

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You cannot get enough of what you don’t really need. Brianna, a 28-year-old compulsive overeater, confesses: “I grew up in a house where food was abundant but love was scarce. Now, food has become my substitute for love. So, I eat and eat and eat until I’m sick. And then instead of love, I feel contempt for myself.” Mark, a 39-year-old alcoholic concedes: “I drink because it makes me feel better about myself … until the next morning. When I awake with a hangover, I feel like a total loser.” A n i t a , a 4 8 - ye a r- o l d shopaholic admits: “Shopping is my high. When I’m on a spree, I never ask myself if I need this item. I just buy it. I used to be a shop-till-I-drop person. Now online shopping makes it so much easier to spend my days buying and retur ning.” Each of these individuals turns to a quick fix to take away an immediate inda pain. The fix makes them feel better – for the moment. B u t i t s o l ve s n o t h i n g because they avoid dealing with the real problem. The more Brianna eats, the more she hates herself for being “fat, ugly and having zero self-control.” Feeling miserable, she turns to the only thing she knows that will soothe her – more food. “It’s a vicious cycle,” she admits, “one I have no control over.” The more Mark drinks, the angrier he feels about his dead-end job and troubled marriage. Resenting his lot in life, he returns to drink to deaden his pain and forget his troubles. The more Anita shops, the more out of control she feels. Looking at her stuffed closet, she recognizes how unfulfilled her life is. “I do nothing but shop and return. What kind of life is that?” But she doesn’t know what else to do with her life. So, she shrugs her shoulders and continues shopping. At least new things make her feel happy – for the moment. We cannot get enough of what we don’t really need. Brianna turns to food, but food will never satisfy her deep need

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Embrace the gift of life this Christmas By THE REV. MARK LUKENS We couldn’t have our Christmas pageant at Bethany Congregational Church this year because too many of our Sunday school children were quarantining. We had been gradually opening up again, gathering folks we hadn’t seen for awhile and with the vaccines and the boosters and all the other precautions, we hoped and prayed that we would be fully open with all the “smells and bells” to welcome the coming of our savior and our deliverance from this plague as well. But that isn’t going to happen, and it looks like our plans for a grand celebration of Christmas are going to have to wait until another year. It looks like Christmas will be a smaller, simpler affair this year and maybe that’s okay. Maybe, without all the distractions, we will be able to pay a little more attention to the signs in the sky, and listen for angel voices the way the shepherds did, not with ears exhausted from shopping and all the doing around the holidays, but with awe and wonder of the incredible gift that was coming into the world, the creator of all that is, born not in a cathedral to the sounds of a Christmas symphony, but in a stable, straining to be heard above the cries of Mary’s labor. Maybe, as we continue to try and hang on to our hope, our faith and our love dur-

ing this difficult time, we will begin to realize that is not the gifts that we bring, but the gifts that we were made to be, that matter. Maybe we can look around at the people we try to ignore the rest of the year and remember that God brought his gift of salvation from among poor and working people, from among those unknown and uncounted in the corridors of power. God burst into history, not as a conqueror, but as an infant dependent on the kindness of strangers in a word that was hurting, cynical and violent, not to condemn us for our sins, but so that we could lift each other up in his name, learn to love and honor each other and transform this hurting world into the kin-dom of God it was created to be. Christmas isn’t about supply chains or about the trappings, it’s about a God whose love cannot be controlled or deterred, a God whose will for us is to love with our whole being, a God who gave us himself as a gift so that we could do the same for one another. As it says in the Gospel of John, “The light came into the darkness and the darkness could not overcome it.” That is the God we celebrate on Christmas, a God whose love shines as a beacon of hope to his struggling, suffering children. When we make Christmas about the gospel of Jesus Christ, about feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, healing the sick and coming together, do it with love.

Museum artifacts: first telephone in F.S. By ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com

Franklin Square Historical Society member William Beach donated a telephone in 2004 to the historical society that Beach claimed was the first telephone brought to Franklin Square. According to both local tradition and reported by journalist John J. O’Neill, the telephone was located in the Kalb Hotel. It dates to the early twentieth century and is the first telephone ever used in Franklin Square, according to Beach. “This telephone would have been installed at some point in the beginning of the twentieth century,” said Dr. Paul Van Wie, president of the Franklin Square Historical Society, in a statement. The telephone was allegedly given to Beach’s mother when he and his family lived on Harrison Avenue, and his family kept the phone for decades because of its historical significance. The telephone is a Western Electric model, encased in an oak cabinet. It has been preserved at the Franklin Square Museum “in excellent condition,” Van Wie said in the statement. While some of the interior wiring of the phone has been removed, the phone features a hand crank, which, when operated, rings out a pair of bells. There is also a hand receiver on a wire, and an adjust-

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THE TELEPHONE IS an example of the technology available in the 20th century. able speaking mechanism fitted with brass hardware. The telephone measures twenty inches high, nine inches wide, and five and one half inches deep. “It is a fine example of the technology available to local people in the early twentieth century,” Van Wie said. More information on the Franklin Square Historical Society can be found at www.fshistoricalsociety.org.

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W.H. soccer club offers outreach program CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE gram, the Outreach Program for Soccer, which is a community-based program that works to provide children and young adults with physical and/ or intellectual challenges the opportunity to play soccer. In 2010, the Lee family of West Hempstead put together a one-day soccer clinic for these players “to see what kind of interest there would be” in West Hempstead for soccer, the statement read. The Lees’ daughter, Jessica, was 7 at the time. At the event, she wore a shirt that read, “Nothing Can Stop Us.” This led to the creation of the West Hempstead TOPSoccer Program, which Lee went on to lead. “Jessica has been such THE WEST HEMPSTEAD Chiefs Soccer Club was founded in 1978. an important and enthuTOPSoccer Buddy of the Year, and volunteered and made a major contribusiastic part of the program,” read the statement released by received the 2020 Marg McGory Award, tion to the TOPSoccer Program. “I believe that all kids should have the ENYYSA awarding the West Hempstead named after Marg McGory, a longtime advocate for those with special needs in same opportunities in life,” Lee said in a soccer club. Lee was honored as the 2019 National the Diocese of Rockville Centre, as Lee previous Herald story. “TOPSoccer helps

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make that happen. Seeing the players every week and their faces full of excitement, ready to play soccer, never fails to put a smile on my face.”

Business owners react to new mask mandates CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE post-2020 peak of 1,701 on Jan. 18. Mike Sofikitis, owner of Lake Park Deli in West Hempstead, said he worries as Covid-19 cases are spiking again and more people will end up staying home, that traffic in his deli will decrease, and his business will suffer as a result. “The

growing Covid numbers, I fear, will certainly impact us negatively going forward,” Sofikitis said. “I suspect more people will be working from home and not going to school.” Some leaders across the state, including incoming Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, said they would not

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A. Good question! The answer requires a number of other questions to be asked and answered to determine how concerned you should be about safety. Consider that newer buildings were constructed with more stringent requirements, while older buildings may have maintenance issues — especially buildings nearer to the onte eeper ocean — and may not have been repaired for decades. So age and location need to be known. If you know that your building has been well maintained, age may not be as much of a concern. Other than unusual items like cars and swimming pools, one of the heaviest things that buildings are designed for is paper, in filing cabinets and bookshelves, so libraries need to be extra strong to hold such extreme loads as large racks, shelves and stacks of books and papers. The required load design for balconies is the same as libraries: 100 pounds per square foot. Balconies have to not only hold the weight of people, but also carry their own weight, and heavy snow or ice, combined with high winds, without buckling. Typically, people gathering on a balcony should be similar to people gathering in the living room inside, and it’s rare to see people packed together in such a limited space without breathing room. You should use common sense, and social distancing would mean that you could limit people to being within a foot or so apart if you choose. Again, it’s rare to see people jammed into such a tight space, but that can happen if everyone rushes out to see something going on outside, like a fireworks display, for example. The safety factor of 100 pounds per square foot will generally hold, but only if the other maintenance conditions are met.

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e’re about to lose one of the most significant advances in health care made over the past decade unless Congress takes immediate action. That’s why I’m calling on Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Tom Suozzi to step up and protect lifesaving health coverage subsidies for New Yorkers. These expanded subsidies help families afford the cost of health coverage. By driving down costs, this relief ensures that Americans across LISA the country don’t lose their access TYSON to care. While this program has been an essential component of our response to the coronavirus pandemic, the impact of these benefits has been far greater. If made permanent, marketplace health insurance subsidies could cut the number of uninsured by 12 million nationwide next year, according to the Urban Institute. In New York alone, it

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would ensure that 163,000 people would have access to the benefits of health coverage who otherwise would not be covered. This could cut the number of uninsured by nearly 15 percent across the state. These expanded tax credits must be made permanent in this year’s final budget reconciliation package. As we continue to confront the worst public health crisis in over a century, these subsidies ensure that every community in our state can access basic care and take part in our ongoing recovery. Despite the impact of this relief, these subsidies will disappear if Congress doesn’t act soon. If they expire, the effects on working- and middle-class families could be devastating. A new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that premiums could double for the millions of Americans who buy their coverage on the marketplace. Another study by the Department of Health and Human Services found that premiums could rise by as much as $600.

As we’ve fought to recover from Covid-19 and its deadly mutations, marketplace subsidies have become an essential lifeline for thousands of New Yorkers. And while it’s hard to imagine a worse time to lose health coverage than in the middle of a global pandemic, these expanded benefits are currently set to expire by the end of next year. That’s why it’s so critical that leaders like Schumer and Suozzi work with their colleagues to protect these essential benefits for every American still struggling to afford health coverage. As director of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, I’ve seen our community go through decades of debate over how best to expand access to health care. While this conversation must continue, we cannot afford to lose a program that is providing coverage to so many right now. New York has long been at the forefront of efforts to protect the health and well-being of working families. From Teddy Roosevelt making the first national call to protect against “the haz-

amilies shouldn’t have to choose between paying bills and paying for health care.

ards of sickness” to his cousin Franklin Roosevelt creating the Social Security program, our state’s leaders have long fought to ensure that working people can live and age with dignity. In more recent times, our leaders in Congress fought to pass, and then defend, the Affordable Care Act. All of these efforts have improved the lives of countless families across our state and around the country. Now we have the chance to build on that legacy by protecting these lifesaving subsidies before they expire. This will not only ensure that thousands of New Yorkers can keep their health coverage, but also move us closer to the day when every American will have access to affordable, quality health care. No family should ever be forced to choose between paying the bills and paying for health coverage. These expanded marketplace subsidies must be made permanent now, because they ensure that millions of Americans don’t have to make that choice. It’s time for our leaders in Washington to act. Lisa Tyson, of North Bellmore, is the director of the Massapequa-based Long Island Progressive Coalition.

Kidney donor tells story of the gift she gave

ear Ms. Kreiss: “I read your article in the Herald about your friends’ son who needs a kidney (“Hoping for the gift of life in this season of giving” Dec. 9-15). I suspect people who read the column or see pleas like this in general don’t believe they can help because organ donation is so serious. It made me think that, as a kidney organ donor, it would help if I told my story. “I met ‘Jane,’ another parent, at my daughter’s RANDI school. I came to KREISS know her through her devotion to various class projects and activities. When I realized I hadn’t seen her in a while, I asked a mutual friend, who told me Jane’s husband was dying of kidney failure. “I called Jane to offer support, and she told me her husband’s best chance to survive was with a live kidney donation. I immediately felt the sense of urgency and thought, ‘I’ll get tested,’ not realizing I actually said it out loud. She

guided me to the program that was testing his potential donors. Turns out I was a match, and a very good one. “Now it was up to me to decide if I could really do this. All the bravado I had shown in getting tested started to wane a little bit now that it was a reality. What was I thinking? I had three kids of my own who needed me. I was in my late 40s, and while I was in decent physical condition and had no ailments, I was more than a little overweight. “And I didn’t even know this guy. “But somehow, I knew I was supposed to do this. I was given a lot of information and data about organ donation, and the more I read about it, the less I feared it. The clincher for me: Without a donor kidney, this man would die too young after spending the rest of his days tied to dialysis. “I went through many tests, and my results were all good. Then I was told that his brother was most likely going to be the donor, so for about nine months I was on the reserves list. Then, suddenly, his brother and sister were eliminated as donors for medical reasons. I was

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once again at bat. After almost a year of uncertainty, it was now a go. “At every stage of this process, my medical team (you have your own medical team that is separate from the recipient’s medical team) reminded me I could pull out at any time. But I was ready. All the delays just made me feel that if it was meant to be, it would happen. “When I woke up after the surgery, it was evening, and my dear brother was standing over me, holding a can of kidney beans (in case I needed a spare). I didn’t feel any pain but was tired. I was told the operation was a success, and that my recipient was doing well. “They always say the best way to get things working again after surgery is to get up and walk. So walk I did, every day, at least once an hour. I felt minimal pain. “The recipient’s new kidney began functioning beautifully right away. Each day he got stronger and stronger. We both healed well, and though he has other physical challenges unrelated to the transplant, his kidney is functioning

y recipient is healthy, and I’m healthier than I’ve been in years.’

very well and normally. “A question I am often asked is, ‘What if your kids or someone in your family needs a kidney? Now you can’t help them.’ To which I answer, ‘I am so confident that this is a safe process that I know someone else in my family would step up and donate. We’ll be OK.’ “My donation has only affected me for the good. It increased my faith. It gave me more confidence in myself, and it made me finally act on my desire to live healthfully. I have struggled with my weight since I stopped playing competitive sports in my 20s. I have since lost all my excess weight. I am now 56, but physically I feel like I’m 30. “My recipient is healthy, and I’m healthier than I’ve been in years. I feel so grateful for the opportunity to have done this. It changed my life forever, and for the better.” The donor has asked to remain anonymous to protect the privacy of the recipient. To find out more about donating a kidney to Scott Englander of Woodmere, whom I wrote about two weeks ago, email scottneedsakidney@ gmail.com. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Merrick pain doctor, Michael Belfiore, 58, was sentenced on Dec. 16 to 23 years in prison after he was convicted of selling opioid prescriptions to patients, many of whom were desperately addicted to opioids and often writhing in pain from a variety of injuries. Belfiore might have begun his career as a respected doctor, but he ended it ignominiously, as a common drug dealer. We were pleased that Belfiore was given a tough sentence, after he arrogantly fought the charges against him in 2014 and 2016, despite overwhelming evidence against him. His case should serve as a stiff warning for any doctor thinking of selling scripts for cash: The law will eventually catch up with you, and you will eventually be sent to prison for a long time. It’s about time the law caught up with the medical practitioners who, in part, at least, have fueled the opioid crisis that the nation, including Long Island, now faces. Belfiore’s case is especially egregious. According to federal officials, he wrote 5,000 prescriptions for 600,000 pain pills between January 2010 and March 2013. His case is, however, anything but unique. There are many like him. On top of that, too many doctors have overprescribed opioids for patients without giving proper thought to the possible long-term consequences of their actions. To be clear: This is not every doctor. Most physicians follow the rules. The doctors who have cavalierly prescribed opioids as

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LETTERS Questions Blakeman’s stance on mask mandate To the Editor: Our newly elected county executive, Bruce Blakeman, in one of his first acts, has rejected the recent New York state mask mandate. The announcement came at a time when Long Island’s positivity rate was increasing rapidly — it stood at more than 9 percent at press time — and was the highest in New York state. Here is what Blakeman, a Republican, recently told The New York Post: “Come Jan. 1, my administration will move Nassau forward with a common-sense approach that acknowledges the facts, science and progress made by our residents while also protecting businesses and jobs from any further damage created by government mandates. Nassau County is not in crisis and should not be painted with the same broad brush as the rest of the state. Ninety-seven percent of adults in Nassau County have received at least their first dose of the vaccine, and Nassau hospitals have adequate capacity to handle existing demand.”

their default practice, however, are partly to blame for the addiction pandemic that we find ourselves in now. The coronavirus pandemic has only worsened the opioid addiction crisis. In the first year of the pandemic, between April 2020 and April of this year, the U.S. recorded 100,000 opioid overdose deaths — 100,000! That meant an American died every five minutes of an overdose. President Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better legislation — which Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, effectively killed last weekend by refusing to vote for it — included $11 billion to fight the opioid crisis, which is now increasingly driven by fentanyl, a powerful opioid. There remains a chance that the legislation could eventually pass. If it does not, though, there will be any number of consequences for the nation, not the least of which will be reduced resources to cope with the opioid crisis. Shame on Senator Manchin. Earlier this year, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran directed $15.3 million to addiction prevention and treatment services from a $230 million settlement that New York state reached with the pharmaceutical manufacturer Johnson & Johnson for its part in causing the opioid crisis, which has plagued the U.S. since the late 1990s. With the settlement, Johnson & Johnson avoided a trial. Last summer, state Attorney General Letitia James filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the state against pharmaceu-

tical giants Teva Pharmaceuticals, Amerisource Bergen, McKesson Corp, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Allergan Finance and Cardinal Health. The outcome of that suit remains to be seen. We must also remember this: The opioid crisis gave rise 10 years ago to a heroin crisis. This is how we described it in an April 2010 story, “From painkillers to heroin addiction”: “Nassau County police say that prescription painkillers have flooded the local illegal drug market in the past decade, which is driving the recent spike in heroin use … “With the drugs readily accessible, painkiller and heroin addicts are getting younger and younger, according to the experts … In the past, the average age of the heroin addicts … was 24. Now, most are 18 to 23. Many begin using prescription painkillers at parties as young as 14 and 15. When the painkillers become too expensive — they sell for $80 per pill on the street — the teens graduate to heroin, which goes for as little as $5 a bag.” Not much has changed over the past decade — except the drugs have become more powerfully addictive and potentially deadly, and the crisis has only gotten worse, not better, as we had hoped. A two-pronged approach that mobilizes both police and therapists is needed to address the crisis. That requires money. Nassau County Executive-elect Bruce Blakeman will take office in a week. We urge him to prioritize funding for drug enforcement and addiction treatment.

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he war on local school boards, teaching and history is escalating as conservative activists and Republican politicians prepare for the 2022 congressional midterm elections. This year, 66 gag-order bills to prevent teaching about race and racism were introduced in 26 states, and at least 12 became law. Among the measures was Assembly Bill 8253, introduced in New York by Republican Assemblyman Colin Schmitt of upstate New Windsor, which, if passed, would ban ALAN students and teachers in SINGER K-through-12 schools from learning about The New York Times’s 1619 Project, which examined the nation’s beginnings through the lens of slavery. According to a report by the nonprofit PEN America, many of the bills mirror legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate by Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, and former President Donald Trump’s 2020 executive order “combating race and sex stereotyping.” Most include a provision prohibiting “divisive concepts.”

One frightening development is a shift in strategy by groups like the Proud Boys, whose members were involved in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The Proud Boys are now picketing school board meetings in protests against mask and vaccine mandates, and school curricula and reading assignments that they don’t like. This fall there were Proud Boy rallies on Long Island in Rockville Centre, Bay Shore and Patchogue. In New York, school board elections are scheduled for next May 17, six months before November’s congressional election. Filing petitions are due in most school districts on April 18. The New York State School Boards Association provides a booklet for people considering becoming school board candidates. On Long Island, insurgent candidates challenging coronavirus mask mandates and a fictionalized version of critical race theory won three seats on the Smithtown Board of Education last May. Now a Republican consulting firm is organizing classes to further polarize and politicize school board races. Among those offering the classes are a former Trump activist, a former contractor with the Nassau Coun-

he debate over mask mandates and history courses may continue next spring.

LETTERS So, Blakeman seems to say, don’t worry if you get the Covid virus as a result of his no-mask-mandate policy. Nassau is ready with your very own ICU bed. Blakeman also touts the 97 percent onedose adult vaccine rate. One dose has little effect on the new variant, and what about the children who are now contracting the virus in higher numbers? Yes, acknowledge the facts. Don’t make up your own. DR. ALLAN SIMON Lawrence

America’s ‘awakening’ To the Editor: Re Dr. Alan Singer’s column “Democrats’ election perils have little to do with ‘wokeness’” (Dec. 9-15): Singer is right: The Democrats’ dismal election showing in November had little to do with “wokeness,” but it had a lot to do with “awakening.” People are showing disgust over the deceit of progressive attempts to redefine American values and traditions. The failure of House Republicans to hold Rep. Paul Gosar in contempt for his thoughtless tweets about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was unfortunate. But why was no contempt shown for Rep. Maxine Waters, who in April called on her followers to “stay on the street” and “get more

ty government when it was under Republican control and a Republican Suffolk County legislator. The latest Long Island school district to erupt with a critical race theory controversy is Great Neck. Some residents accuse a Great Neck North High School 11th-grade English teacher of presenting in class that whites are racists and students need to understand white fragility and reject privilege. The local parents appear to be working with a national organization, Parents Defending Education, which claims it wants to ensure that American schools do not promote “harmful agendas.” The group’s website has slides that were supposedly shown in the English class. What is missing from their attack on teachings is any attempt to learn what actually took place in the classroom. Students read the book “Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which won a National Book Award. The slides were part of a lesson introducing students to the issues raised in the book, and by other authors who question or challenge what they perceive of as racism and white supremacy in the U.S. Students were asked to pledge to think about the issues raised in the book, not to agree with a par-

confrontational” if Derek Chauvin hadn’t been found guilty of murdering George Floyd? This could be interpreted as inciting others to riot, which is not protected speech, but there she was, on video, saying as much, similar to when she called on her supporters to harass Trump officials when they were having dinner at restaurants with their families. Waters was never sanctioned or censured over that, either, emboldening her to even more such calls for abuse. In August 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse naively and stupidly brought his AR-15-style rifle with him to the Kenosha, Wis., riots, where he said he intended to offer only medical aid. He was walking with a fire extinguisher to put out a fire set by the arsonists, within their view — not very smart — when he was attacked. He didn’t assault or threaten anyone, but they overreacted violently toward him, provoking his justifiable self-defense. Members of the “Republican rank and file” have not challenged local school boards over critical race theory, but rather parents of children being subjected to it. To espouse the belief that this country is essentially racist is a fraud, and is itself racist. No wonder parents object to this divisive propaganda of hate. The greatest contributor to climate change is China, not the United States, but the 2016 Paris Agreement would have given China a longer time frame to clean

ticular author. According to state Board of Regents Chancellor Lester Young, “The New York State Board of Regents policy on diversity, equity and inclusion is not an attempt to, in fact, teach critical race theory. Critical race theory is not our theory of action. Our theory of action is cultural responsiveness.” The official position of the state educational governing body, and the reality of what gets taught in the classroom, have not stopped conservative Republicans from mobilizing white families to stop CRT. Jay Worona, deputy executive director and general counsel for the New York State School Boards Association, has called the political assault on school boards a “false narrative.” Worona responded to the assault, “There are many people who are proclaiming that the curriculum is being designed to indoctrinate students to think in a particular way, as opposed to what we’ve done for eons, which is to teach critical thinking skills.” Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on Twitter, @AlanJSinger1.

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up its carbon pollution than the U.S. Former President Donald Trump wasn’t against such initiatives, but only wanted them to be implemented fairly and equitably, consistent with his belief that America stop being made the scapegoat for the world’s evils. As more Americans see the truth, the Democratic Party will continue to decline. ROBERT RUBALSKY East Rockaway

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