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Hochul lifts school mask mandate said, “and you see the spikes and the infection rates that really validated the rationale and the jvallone@liherald.com, rbethany@liherald.com logic behind ensuring that we G ov. K at hy H o ch u l a n - had those masks in place nounced last Sunday that the through those spikes — especialstate directive requiring chil- ly the Omicron variant.” dren to wear masks in schools On Sunday, in a joint stateand child care facilities would ment, superintendents from the end on Wednesday, after the Her- Bellmore-Merrick Central High ald went to press.

School District, the Hochul likened North Bellmore the Covid-19 panS ch o o l D i s t r i c t , demic to a “war that Bellmore Public has been unfolding Schools, the North for the last two Merrick Union Free years, where our School District and country has been the Merrick Union under siege by this Free School District unseen assailant — responded to one that has taken Hochul’s announcethousands of lives ment. of Americans and The statement JENNIFER TEppER read, “beginning on New Yorkers.”

In defense of the Bellmore t h i s We d n e s d ay, mask requirement March 2nd, masks she instituted, will be optional for Hochul said that when she was students and staff at school.” sworn into office six months ago, The superintendents noted her priority was to get children that they were aware that the back to school, but that wearing community would express a masks was the best to guarantee range of feelings about the their safety, especially since no changes. “It is critical that we pediatric vaccine was available maintain a respectful environuntil November. ment,” the statement read. “Our “We’re going to talk about priority will always be that our where we came from in these last six months,” the governor Continued on page 13

By JoRDAN VAlloNE and REINE BETHANY

Courtesy Zillow Group Inc.

WITH THE sAlE of a home for almost $2.5 million set to be finalized this week in Merrick, it is evident that South Shore real estate prices are on the rise due to high demand and low inventory.

This map of the Bellmore-Merrick shores shows hardly any homes for sale under $600,000, the median listing price on Long Island.

‘There’s just no inventory’

With real estate in short supply on South Shore, prices keep rising, and low bidders lose

By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com

Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Long Island real estate prices have been on the rise due to an influx of people seeking homes who are met with limited inventory. With the sale of a home for almost $2.5 million sale set to be finalized this week in South Merrick, the South Shore real estate market reflects the trends that are being seen elsewhere on the

island.

Real estate agent Tatyana Agron, who works with VI Properties, a Hewlett-based subsidiary of Compass Inc. that has overseen the sale, told the Herald that it will be the highest registered home sale Bellmore-Merrick has ever seen. The house, on Halyard Drive, will close for just under the $2.5 million asking price on March 4.

When a sale is registered, there is a government record of it. “We don’t know what we

don’t know,” Agron said, meaning that there is a chance that a higher-priced home may have been sold privately. “But from what we know, this is the highest-priced sale ever in Merrick — not just in recent times,” she added.

According to Agron, the sale in Merrick is nothing out of the ordinary in the current real estate market. “They’re definitely on the rise,” she said of home prices. “I don’t think buyers, sellers or brokers Continued on page 12

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at 127 Dosoris Lane, Glen Cove, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman stood with Long Island Ukrainian Americans on Feb. 26.

Long Island officials and Ukrainians rally

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Love, fear, and worry resonated in the air while Ukrainian Americans from Long Island patriotically sang for their native Ukraine, as a plea for the United States to take a stand in solidarity against Russia after the nation’s invasion of Ukraine.

“It is time for you to raise your voice as well and fight back together with us,” Volodymyr Tsyalkovsky, a Ukrainian American from Great Neck said on Saturday outside the Killenworth mansion in Glen Cove as he, fellow Ukrainan Americans, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley), who is running for governor, and Glen Cove Mayor Pamela Panzenbeck demanded that President Joe Biden expel the Russian diplomats from the compound that is used as a holiday retreat.

“We don’t need them here and let’s get this property back on the tax rolls, so the people of Nassau County and Glen Cove don’t have to finance thugs and dictators and people who invade innocent countries,” Blakeman said.

“To the people inside that compound, if you are watching us: I am your mayor, I am your neighbor, please do whatever you can to stop this mad man Putin from the actions he is taking,” Panzenbeck said. “It has gone too far. It can end now.”

Zeldin noted that precedent was set to possibly close the compound when former president Barack Obama seized Killenworth in 2016 as punishment for Russian interfering in that year’s presidential election.

Though the U.S. has imposed several sanctions on Russia, Blakeman said blocking Russia from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, a global banking system, should be made to deny Russia the ability to transfer funds and operate their economy.

“If we do not stop the Russian aggression now, [it] will flow into NATO countries which we have a treaty obligation to fight,” Blakeman said. “If we do so, then

— On Thursday, Russia began its assault on Ukraine with a series of missile strikes, reported CNN. — Early Friday, Ukraine’s capital was hit by a cruise or ballistic missiles, according to CNN. — As of Saturday, Oksana Markarova, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., said 198 Ukrainians have died, including three children, and 1,115 have been injured since the first attack.

oUtsiDe of the gates of Killenworth mansion in Glen Cove, protesters consoled a woman crying after the news conference to condemn and expel Russian diplomats from the compound.

American blood will be shed, so we have to stand firm and resolute.”

Zeldin added that the sanctions must be powerful enough to be a deterrent for Russia to not move forward. “I believe that Russia is now a state sponsor of terror with their actions,” Zeldin said. “I believe that Russia should be cut off with secondary sanctions on their banking system.”

A boycott of all Russian products was called forward by Blakeman and Zeldin.

“Get rid of your Russian vodka. Do not do anything that would support the Russian economy,” Blakeman said.

“Instead of relying on adversaries abroad, we can use domestic energy production to reduce that reliance,” Zeldin said.

Diana Smykiv, a 15-year-old from Mineola, and Diana Shykula, a 16-year-old from Levittown, have family in Ukraine and are worried about their safety. “Our families are put in danger,” Shykula said.

Smykiv’s aunt and cousins have been able to flee to Poland, but her grandpar-

ents are unable to travel because they do not have passports. “It’s just so scary,” Smykiv said. “You can’t do anything but think about it because you’re so scared that one day you will wake up and find out that someone has died.

On Thursday night after hearing about the Russian bombings, Shykula immediately tried to contact her friends in Ukraine to find out if they were okay. She was the first to person to break the news to her friends about the attack in country’s capital Kyiv. “When I first found out, I was in pure shock,” Shykula said. “I was texting all of my friends in Ukraine, and it took them a while to get back to me and I was really scared.”

Olga Tsymbalysta, of Levittown, came to the United States from Ukraine in 2004.

She still has family in the country and said she wants the war to stop. “They are regular people,” Tsymbalysta said. “It is not their faults. Sleepy Joe should do something about it and politicians should start talking. It needs to end.”

On Sunday, there will be a vigil in front

— On Saturday, the U. S., European Union and the United Kingdom agreed to block “selected” Russian banks from SWIFT abs to impose what they called “restrictive measures” on Russia’s central bank.

— The French navy intercepted the Russian cargo ship, ‘Baltic Leader,’ that was heading from Rouen, France to St Petersburg, Russia, in the English Channel on Saturday, BBC reported. of the gates of Killenworth mansion at 127 Dosoris Lane, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Participants are asked to bring no backpacks or coolers and to park at Glen Cove High School.

“Never has a conflict played out before our eyes quite like what we’ve seen over the past few days where average everyday Ukrainians have rose up to take courageous control of their destiny,” Zeldin said.

“We want the people of Ukraine to know, that here in Nassau County, we are behind you,” Blakeman said. “And it is also a message to our president that weakness invites danger and now is the time for America to be strong and to enact further sanctions.

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Bellmore-Merrick couples say ‘I do” on ‘TWOSday’ Tuesday is generally not a popular day of the week to get married. This year, however, it was the go-“two” date. Town Clerk Kate Murray presided over 22 weddings on Tuesday, 2-22-22, helping the happy couples gain memories that are sure to last a lifetime. Three couples from Bellmore-Merrick were part of the day’s festivities.

“A couple’s wedding day is always a special day of the year, but these 22 couples who are getting married on Tuesday, 2-22-2022 will certainly have an especially memorable experience on this once-in-alifetime date,” Murray said. “The Town of Hempstead is proud to play a small part in the lives of these 22 loving couples as they take their vows, and I wish them much health and happiness in the future.”

The nuptials took place in the historic courtroom at Old Town Hall, a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The room was decorated with balloons shaped in the number 2, and couples were given cookies shaped in the number 2, helping add to the festive and fun atmosphere of the day.

“As Supervisor, Kate Murray led the way on so many amazing town programs

BEllMORE RESIDENTS NICHOlAS Occhipinti and Sylvia Martinez were married last Tuesday.

Town of Hempstead Town Clerk Kate Murray officiated 22 weddings on the palindrome date.

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and services that became a model for future initiatives, and she has carried that incredible leadership to the Town Clerk’s Office,” Town Supervisor Don Clavin said. “I am proud to join with Kate as we celebrate a fun wedding date that is surely easy to remember.”

NEAR lEFT, MERRICk couple Stephen Boatwritight and Kelly Rubbins also wed last week.

MERRICk RESIDENTS kIRM Singh and Judith Aime, far left, were also married on Feb. 22.

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Chabad center set to host Purim celebration The Chabad’s Purim Party will include: — Megillah reading along with simultaneous multi-media Purim slideshow — Safed Kabbala Hebrew Letter Art — Drink freshly squeezed orange juice in a kibbutz — Enjoy shawarma, babaganash, falafel and other Israeli delicacies in the Tel Aviv shuk — Make your own Hamantashen at ‘Angel’s Bakery — Mud mask masking at the Dead Sea — Come in costume! Costume Contest!

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The Chabad CenTer for Jewish Life will host its 16th annual Purim celebration from March 15 through 16.

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Keeping with the Chabad’s tradition of creating incredibly fun and exciting holiday programs for the entire Jewish community, the Chabad of Merrick-Bellmore-Wantagh will be hosting its 16th annual Purim celebration! Purim commemorates the escape of the Jewish People from annihilation by the ancient Persian Empire, and is celebrated by the exchange of food packages between friends, giving charity to the poor, eating a traditional festive meal, and reading the story of Purim from the megillah — the Purim scroll.

“Every year, there’s a fun theme to make the Purim celebration even more exciting and memorable,” Rabbi Shimon Kramer said. “This year’s party will be ‘Israel-style’ and will combine Jewish traditions with a fun Israel feel.”

This year’s Purim holiday begins Wednesday evening, March 16 and continues through Thursday, March 17. Traditionally, one should attend a ‘megillah’ reading twiceonce in the evening and once during the day. The Chabad will host a megillah reading on Wednesday, March 16. at 7:30 pm. On Thursday, March 17, there will be 4 megillah readings throughout the day. The first will be held at the Chabad, outdoors at 8:15 am if weather permitting, and the second will be held at Ohav Sholom at 10:45 am. The final 2 readings will be held at the Clubhouse at the Merrick Park Golf Course during the Chabad’s Grand PurimIsrael Style celebration at either 5 or 6:15 pm. The RSVP is required at ChabadJewishLife.org/PurimIsrael.

“We are hoping to give everyone an exciting, meaningful and safe Purim celebration,” program director Chanie Kramer said.

For sponsorship opportunities and/or to make a reservation, visit ChabadJewishLife.org/PurimIsrael or call the office at 516-833-3057.

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community update Thursday, Mar. 3

session with the L.I. Chess Nuts. The event will be a joint program. Children in Grades 3 and up will join the tweens and teens age groups. Space is limited.

Contact Jane Sullivan at (516) 7856260 with any questions or concerns regarding the event.

Weight/ Strength Training with Desiree Durand Strength classes aim to improve daily living skills through better balance, strength, flexibility and agility. Offered through the North Bellmore Public Library from 11:15- 11:45 a.m. the classes promote progressive resistance where particpant’s training load is increased as their muscles become stronger. Strength classes are fun and challenging workouts. The low to medium intensity exercise classes are specifically designed to target the entire body utilizing a variety of traditional, functional, and strength exercises. Strength training can help attendees manage or lose weight, and it can increase metabolism to help burn more calories and enhance quality of life. Contact Vivian Kowalewski via telephone at (516) 785-6260 or via email at vkowalewski@northbellmorelibrary.org with any questions or concerns regarding the event.

Friday, Mar. 4 Open Classic Game Day Every Friday from 1:00-4:00 p.m. in the Bellmore Public Library, particpants can bring their own games and fellow players to the library! The Meeting Room is open for adults & seniors to play classic games like mahjong, bridge, canasta, chess, and more! Card tables will be set up.Contact cham@ bellmorelibrary.org with any questions or concerns regarding the event.

Saturday, Mar. 5 Boating Safety Certiciate Course Provided by the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, the North Bellmore Public Library will be hosting a boating safety course from 9:00 a.m. -3:00 p.m. in the community room. Guests can recieve their boating certificate the same day. Registration is mandatory through the library’s reference desk. The event is for ages 10 and up. Tickets are $50 for adults and $35 for participants under the age of 18. Amount must be payed by check or cash. To save time,

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Tuesday, Mar. 8 Kids Paint Night From 6:30 - 7:15 at the North Bellmore Public library, children in grades 2-6 can enjoy a lucky rainbow paint night with Alissa Howe. Registration begins Mar. 3. The event is drop-off only. Contact the North Bellmore Public Library at (516) 785-6260 with any questions or concerns regarding the event.

Wednesday, Mar. 9 AARP Foundation Taz-Aide Preparation

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D’esposito, Carini, Driscoll Attend PBA Breakfast Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito (right), Councilman Chris Carini (4th right) and Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll (3rd right) presented a Certificate of Recognition to Thomas Shevlin, President of the Nassau County PBA, during the organization’s Government Leadership Breakfast on Feb. 7. Also were fellow members of the Nassau PBA, Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and County Executive Bruce Blakeman.

there will be no lunch break. Guests are encouraged to bring their own lunch or snacks. Contact Jeanne Lettieri via telephone at 516-785-6260 with any questions or concerns regarding the event.

when his friends show up to help him clean everything up before their mother gets back from her trip. Contact the Bellmore Movies and Showplace for more showtimes or any questions at (516) 783-7200.

The Cat in the Hat

Monday, Mar. 7

Opening night for the Cat in the Hat at the Bellmore Movies and Showplace is at 7:00 p.m. The story takes place on a rainy day when two siblings are home alone with their pet fish while their parents are out of town. A tall cat wearing a hat appears and creates havoc in the house, leaving it destroyed

Picture Book Storytime From 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. at the North Bellmore Public Library’s Childrens Activity Room, children between the ages of 3-5 can enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays and a take-home craft each week.

The event meets Mondays, March 7, 21 and 28 at 10:00 a.m. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Registration is required. Contact Jane Sullivan via telephone at (516) 785-6260 or via email at juvprograms@gmail.com with any questions or concerns regarding the event.

Monday, Feb. 28 J Chess New and experienced players welcome to join the North Bellmore Public Library from 6:30- 7:30 p.m. for a

Join the Merrick Public Library from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. to prepare for taz-aide. Appointments are available every hour between the designated time.

Registtration is required. Attendees must bring their Social Security cards, NYS Drivers license or an I.D. and their prior year’s tax returns. Contact (516) 277-6112 for more information.

HAviNG AN eveNT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest.

All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to jvallone@liherald.com.

You can register to take a class to earn your Boating Safety Certificate on March 5 at the NBPL. North Bellmore Library will be organizing with Solely Sunshine between March 1 and 15.

Last Hope’s annual “Fix a Feral” Luncheon will take place on March 6 at the Main Event in Farmingdale.

From 7-9 p.m. on March 11 the NBPL is having an Irish History themed performace.

The 9-hole golf course at the Merrick Road Park Golf Course is open in the winter, weather permitting.

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Carrié Solages annouces run for Congress

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

After Kathleen Rice said she would not seek re-election, last month, three Democrats have now announced they are running for the 4th Congressional District seat that covers central and southern Nassau County.

Last week, County Legislator Siela Bynoe and former Town of Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen announced their candidacies; now County Legislator Carrié Solages has thrown his hat into the ring. He is expected to officially announce on Tuesday.

Solages, 42, an attorney, has served as a county legislator since 2012 and represents the 3rd Legislative District, which comprises Elmont, Valley Stream, south Floral Park, Inwood and parts of Lawrence and North Woodmere. He lives in

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Lawrence.

“I have great support,” he said and “based on my record and community service,” Solages expects to differentiate from his opponents he will be facing in the June 28 primary.

He said he thinks that people are tired of representatives who just go to Washington to be part of what Solages called “the side show.” He said he wants to be a leader and get things done, noting that he wants to solve the Nassau County property assessment issue Carrié through a federal mandate.

In his years as a county lawmakers, Solages has represented his diverse constituency with verve from overseeing the rapid deployment of

Covid testing sites for residents regardless of their insurance or immigration status to serving as the watch dog to protect resident interests during major projects such as the Belmont Arena and Elmont Long Island Rail Road station. He has been a consistent, strong advocate for safer roads, especially in Elmont and pushed for the rebuilt marina and an overhaul of the soccer field at Inwood Park.

The only stain on Solages is a 2017 arrest after a domestic squabble was resolved by non-criminal Solages charges.

Both Bynoe and Gillen think they are qualified to represent the congressional district.

“I am proud to announce I am run-

ning for Congress to represent the values, hopes and dreams of the extraordinary people of Nassau County’s CD-4,” Bynoe posted on Facebook. “Please join me in this grassroots campaign to make sure our community has the representation in Congress we deserve.”

“As the mother of four kids, I’m running for Congress because we need a Representative who rolls up her sleeves to get things done for people back home,” Laura Gillen said in a prepared statement. “As town supervisor, I found ways to work across the aisle and deliver results, while never compromising my principles. In Congress, I’ll work to help Nassau’s middle-class families by reinstating the SALT tax deduction, defending a woman’s right to choose, and tackling tough issues like gun violence, climate change, and ensuring our national security.”

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$2.5 million home sale sheds light on market Continued from front page expected this. And not only have prices been on the rise, but we are experiencing the lowest amount of inventory ever.”

The inventory is so low, she said, that most homes go into contract after the first open house. “Long Island has never experienced this before,” Agron said.

According to Realtor.com, the largest real estate website in the United States, which publishes home listings and details market trends, the median home price in Bellmore is $694,000. In Merrick it is slightly higher, at $699,000. The median listing price on Long Island is $600,000 — $50,000 higher than it was just a year ago.

The Halyard Drive property was built in 1975, and last sold for $1.5 million in 2007. Real estate data from Realtor.com shows that the house has been on and off the market a number of times since then, and its price has varied. A report from Greystone Properties Inc. shows that its highest listed price was over $3 million at

Courtesy Michael Sherack and One Key Multiple Listing Service

property priCes in Bellmore-Merrick have been on a steady rise over the past two years, and the coronavirus pandemic has been a contributing factor. one point in 2016. Most recently, it had been on the market for at least a year, Argon said, before going to contract.

She explained that there has been an influx of people moving to Long Island from urban areas, seeking more space and fewer Covid-19 restrictions. In New York

sold property prices, then and now Current sold property prices in BellmoreMerrick from One Key Multiple Listing Service:

Sold property prices in BellmoreMerrick in March 2020, according to One Key:

Bellmore - $632,000 merrick - $690,000

Bellmore - $535,000 merrick - $575,000

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City, for example, vaccination cards are required to enter a restaurant. This, Argon noted, along with other concerns, are reasons why families are seeking to live elsewhere.

Normally, the real estate market is at its busiest between late February and July, she said, because families like to settle into homes before the start of a school year.

More recently, however, this has not been the case.

“It’s just been busy for the last 12 months — the last two years, really,” she said. “There has been no slowdown — there’s just no inventory.”

The pandemic has complicated not only real estate inventory, but also open houses.

“It was weird at first,” Agron said. “In the past, there weren’t as many people trying

to go to an open house. Now there’s 10 or 20 buyers coming in — we’re trying to space people out more.”

She added that houses whose asking prices are less than $1 million attract the most potential buyers at open houses.

Higher-priced homes generally draw a smaller, more specific crowd. But inventory is low at all prices.

Additionally, Argon said that most closings — which once always took place in person — are now being done remotely, a major change in the industry.

What is happening in Bellmore-Merrick is happening all along the South Shore. Real estate agent Michael Sherack, who works in 60 communities across Long Island, said, “There seems to be an insane amount of demand for houses on Long Island, and there’s not enough inventory.”

Guilio Ferrante, an agent with Signature Premier Properties in Wantagh, added that the market is becoming increasingly competitive, creating bidding wars.

“It’s frustrating, and I feel sad for buyers looking for their dream home,” Ferrante said. “Nine times out of 10, they’ll get outbid.”

Agron said that, unfortunately, there seems to be no end in sight to the high prices. “I don’t think that anyone can project when this is going to end,” she said. “In realty, really no one knows when things will change.”

Maria Cestero contributed to this story.

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continued from front paGe schools are places where all students feel comfortable, welcome, and safe.”

Using a series of large diagrams during her announcement, Hochul illustrated her use of positivity rates, hospitalizations, guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and consultations with “the educational community, whose voices needed to be heard — our commissioner of education, our parents, our PTAs, our school superintendents, our school administrators, and our school unions,” in the process of deciding whether to continue to require masks.

From a high seven-day state average of 14,167 pediatric Covid cases on Jan. 10, with 38 children hospitalized, the numbers had dropped steadily for 48 days. The most recent seven-day average of pediatric cases was 226, and only seven children were hospitalized.

Hochul said that the current numbers represent “our lowest point in pediatric cases since July of 2021, and that was before the school year started. … We are in a much, much better place.”

The improved statistics were confirmed late Friday by a CDC report that broke down the number of Covid cases in New York by county. “They’ve come up with a calculation on what constitutes a low, medium or high community risk level,” Hochul said, “and 70 percent of our population now lives in an area considered low to medium risk.” The CDC recommendation is that, in those communities, children no longer need to be required to wear masks indoors, including those in day care.

“So, given the decline in our infection rates, our hospitalizations, our strong vaccination rates and the CDC guidance,” Hochul said, “my friends, the day has come.”

Jennifer Tepper, a parent of three young children in Bellmore Public Schools, was happy about the change.

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Gov. Kathy hochul used statistical diagrams to illustrate her decision to end the requirement for children to wear masks in schools and child care facilities.

“When the pandemic first began, all we truly wanted was to get our kids back in the classroom to get a proper education and socialization,” Tepper wrote in a Facebook private message to the Herald. “As time went on, I’ve definitely noticed how mask wearing can have a long term, negative effect on my children in particular — all three of them get speech and language therapy.”

Tepper added that she chose to have her children receive Covid-19 vaccinations, implying that it was time for them to stop wearing masks. “My 6 year old has never been in a classroom at her school without Covid,” she wrote. “It is time to learn to live with the virus. My kids couldn’t be happier about the masks being removed.”

Traci LoGiudice, a parent from Bellmore, wrote to the

Herald, “I am very happy the mask mandate is ending in schools.”

LoGiudice added that she felt it was time for parents to have a choice when it comes to mask wearing. “With the virus on the decline and most people double or triple vaccinated — masks are not needed,” she wrote.

In response to Hochul’s announcement, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said, “While I believe the governor’s decision to end her unconstitutional mandate is too little too late, I am happy that parents will soon have the power to decide what is best for their kids, and our students will finally be able to return to normal and see the smiling faces of their friends again.”

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If you have a lot of home equity and are 62 or older, a reverse mortgage can be a practical way to supplement your income. It can also pay for overdue home improvements, get rid of outstanding debt and more. Tapping your home’s value with a reverse mortgage is not appropriate for everyone, since it’s relatively expensive and can affect the legacy that you leave for your heirs. In some situations, though, it’s the best option for staying in your home while easing cashflow constraints.

A reverse mortgage is a loan secured by your property, just like a regular mortgage. The difference is that you don’t have to make any payments as long as one of the borrowers continues to live in and maintain the house. The principal can be paid over time, in installments if you wish or in a lump sum. Interest accrues on the outstanding balance, but the lender can never recover more than the value of the home.

Your risk is fixed, the bank’s is not. You must continue to pay your real estate taxes and homeowners insurance.

Depending on the type of reverse mortgage, you may receive equal monthly payments for a fixed amount of time. You may receive equal monthly payments for as long as least one borrower lives in the home. You may receive a line of credit up to a fixed amount, which can be

used like a checkbook or credit card. You may arrange a line of credit in addition to equal monthly payments. There are also a variety of interest rate options. Your mortgage professional can explain these options in detail.

Eligibility To qualify for a reverse mortgage, the borrower must be at least age 62.There are no minimum income or credit requirements. For most reverse mortgages, the money can be used for any purpose; however, the borrower must pay off any existing mortgage(s) with the proceeds from the reverse mortgage. A pending bankruptcy that has not be finalized may slow the process, but is not a disqualifier. Before borrowing, applicants must seek financial counseling from a source that is approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD). The counseling is a safeguard for the borrower and his/her family, to make sure the borrower completely understands what a reverse mortgage is and how one is obtained.

Understanding Potential Benefits A reverse mortgage can be a help to homeowners looking for additional income during their retirement years, and many use the funds to supplement Social Security or other income,

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ance owed on the loan are retained by the seller Cost And Fees Typically, the interest rate on a reverse mortgage will be less than a traditional mortgage.

Closing costs and other fees can be usually be included in the principal amount of the loan.

Lenders are required by Federal law to fully disclose all the proposed costs of the loan over the life of the loan.

Bottom Line The best way to determine if a reverse mortgage make sense for you is through a one-onone consultation with a qualified mortgage professional. Some questions to consider: √ How long do you intend to stay in your home? √ Are there opportunities to put the value stored in your home to better use — i.e. invested at a higher rate of return than the interest rate on the loan?

An experienced and knowledgeable mortgage professional can help you answer these questions and more by discussing with you your unique situation. As with any important decision, it’s important to make a educated choice.

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Crash in Merrick takes down power lines

MERRICK HERALD — March 3, 2022

By JORDAN VALLONE jvallone@liherald.com

On Feb. 28, a tractor trailer from Sprague Energy in Lawrence, carrying 11,000 gallons of fuel, crashed in Merrick, taking down power lines, causing road closures and traffic delays. The crash occurred near the intersection of Lansdowne Avenue and Sunrise Highway, in front of Kitchen Legacy just after 5 a.m.

According to the Nassau County Police Department, the tanker truck heading eastbound collided with a potentially illegally parked car carrier on Sunrise Highway. No one was inside the car carrier at the time of the crash.

The Merrick Fire Department, the NCPD’s Emergency Service Unit, PSEG Long Island and additional cleanup crews were on the scene, diverting traffic and assessing the damage. No injuries were reported. Officials said the driver of the tanker truck had a clean driving record.

The truck did not hit any buildings, however, there was some fuel spillage.

Friendship Engine and Hose Co. 2, which is part of the Merrick Fire Department, posted on Facebook that the department was alerted of the incident at 5:08 a.m.

The chief of the department arrived on the scene, confirming the incident. The company responded, alongside units from Merrick FD’s Empire Hose Co. 3, and Merrick Truck Co. 1 to control leaking fluids from the truck.

Photos by Neil Miller/Herald

A tRActOR tRAiLER from Sprague Energy in Lawrence, traveling eastbound on Sunrise Highway, struck a potentially illegally parked car carrier early this morning in Merrick.

A number of power lines down were taken down in the crash. According to the PSEG outage map, there were no related power outages related to the incident as of 8:30 a.m.

This is the second tanker truck accident on Sunrise Highway in two weeks. A truck crashed in Rockville Centre on Feb. 16, before exploding and engulfing the building it hit in flames.

Lansdowne Avenue was closed in both directions from the corner of Overbrook Place to Sunrise Highway. Sunrise High-

Arrest made in November bank robbery

By JORDAN VALLONE jvallone@liherald.com

On Feb. 24, a man was arrested for the robbery that took place at the Sterling National Bank in Merrick on Nov. 8, 2021.

Defendant Demetri Miller, 58 of Uniondale, is charged with three accounts of second-degree robbery and three Demetri accounts of third-degree robbery.

According to the Major Case Bureau

POLicE REsPONDED tO the scene at Sterling National Bank in Merrick, where a robbery occurred on Nov. 8.

Police responded to the scene at Sterling National Bank in Merrick, where a robbery occurred on Nov. 8. On Feb. 24, Demetri Miller was arrested and charged for the crime.

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robbery squad, the defendant entered the bank, approached the teller and handed a note demanding money. The teller surrendered an undisclosed amount of cash and the defendant fled on foot in an unknown direction.

Area school districts, in an abundance of caution, had entered a temporary lockout due to the robbery.

Miller Miller was arraigned on Feb. 25 at the First District Court in Hempstead.

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way had one lane open heading eastbound, causing significant traffic delays during the morning commute between Babylon Turnpike and Merrick Avenue.

Cars traveling westbound on Sunrise experienced little to no delays.

thE iNciDENt OccuRRED just after 5 a.m., causing road closures on Sunrise Highway and Lansdowne Avenue. The truck took down power lines, however, it did not strike the building.

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A. You’re not necessarily barking up the wrong tree to make an offer on a house like this, but it does show the age of the home. When people say, “They don’t build houses like they used to,” I usually think, thank goodness.

What you’re seeing was common through the 1920s, when locust trees, known for their resistance onte eeper to decay and insects, were used as support columns.

These trees have been used for structural support for many centuries.

Their most well known use was for supporting the city of Venice when the swamp-dwelling inhabitants, who lived on small islands, stabilized and built the city. Using locust posts, they could conduct their marine merchant trade while protecting themselves from the regularly invading Goths, preparing for attacks by seeing them from the north from 20 miles away, long before an attack could take place.

The Venetians rammed locust posts deep into the seabed and supported those beautiful Renaissance structures on them. In the James Bond film “Casino Royale,” there is an intense fight scene that takes place in a building under extensive renovation. At the end of the scene, the building, which actually was having the locust posts retrofitted, like most of Venice, collapses into the watery depths.

From an architect’s perspective, knowing about the structural changes underway, this was very interesting as well as dramatic.

If the locust posts aren’t split and cracked but are smooth and semi-straight, they should be fine to continue to do their job. If you see signs of weakness or are suspicious, contact a licensed architect or engineer who has experience with these conditions for a closer look. If you decide that the columns need changing, then the job requires building temporary walls in the basement on either side of the main beam to support the whole structure of the home before the columns are removed.

Correctly calculated concrete foundations, called footings, will need to be installed by digging up the concrete floor where forms are set and the footings are placed.

Whether steel or wood columns are installed, the anchors for them need to be properly placed and attached. The columns, when installed, should be connected, at the top and the bottom, to the footing and to the beam. This isn’t a small job, and requires an experienced company that protects the area from dust before cutting the concrete, orders the right strength of cement for placement in the formwork and knows what connectors to install top and bottom. Good luck!

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y heart bleeds for the people of Ukraine, an emerging democracy pulled between West and East, a former Soviet republic that only gained its independence from the USSR in August 1991, amid the sudden and precipitous collapse of communism across Eastern Europe. Now Ukraine’s freedom is once again in jeopardy because of a war that it didn’t start.

I was living in Eastern Europe in August 1991, serving in the Peace Corps in Bulgaria, a six-hour drive south of Ukraine Scott along Romania’s Black Sea coast. I BRINtoN fell in love and married in Bulgaria on Nov. 9, 1991, the second anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was born and raised on Long Island, and live here now, but Eastern Europe became an adopted homeland.

Many Long Islanders have ties to Eastern Europe, including close to 13,000 people of Ukrainian descent, according to census data. We can see those ties in the Eastern Orthodox churches that dot the Island — St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Uniondale, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in East Meadow and St. Seraphim of Sarov Russian Orthodox Church in Sea Cliff, among others.

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Eastern Europe is a conglomeration of ancient cultures, at once set in their ways but ever morphing in response to the push and pull of powerful nations — historically, Russia and Germany. Eastern Europeans are survivors. Ukraine will survive Russia’s invasion, an act of war in violation of international law. The price that Ukrainians will pay for the takeover, ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, will be terrible, though.

The impact will be felt by people across Eastern Europe. Most Americans can’t understand the fear of the old Soviet Union that many, if not most, Eastern Europeans carried with them during the Iron Curtain era (1945–91). They risked life and limb to secure their freedoms from the USSR in the late 1980s and early ’90s. They stood in solidarity, marching en masse in their capitals’ squares, demanding sovereignty.

There was an electric unity among people across Eastern Europe in those heady days. They were afraid, but they stood in defiance of a nation that had for more than four decades tried to crush their independent spirit, their freedom of thought and religion, their very way of life.

If Bulgaria had lost its newly won democratic freedoms to the communists, as was entirely possible in the early 1990s, oldschool apparatchiks might have “cleansed” Bulgaria of any American “sympathiz-

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ers.” In that case, anyone who had had contact with an American like me could have been in grave danger of just disappearing.

This was not a wild conspiracy theory. It was a valid fear based on years of iron-fisted Soviet rule.

Now, a little more than 30 years after the fall of communism, Putin, a former KGB foreign intelligence officer, threatens once again to upend stability in Eastern Europe, a region that has, through the ages, been shattered by war, including two World Wars. And, once again, Eastern Europeans fear for their future.

In the U.S., war in Ukraine is far away. The images of a Stalinesque housing complex ripped apart by Russian artillery fire, repeated many times on American and European TV news networks in the first days of the war, are perceived very differently across Eastern Europe than they are here. The expansive structure, fortified by plain cement walls, could have been most anywhere in Eastern Europe. Such an attack sends a terrifying signal to people across the region — you could be next — even if the thought is a distant one.

It is highly unlikely that Putin would roll tanks beyond Ukraine’s borders into NATO-allied nations, military analysts tell us. But before the war, most of them appeared uncertain that he would invade

he census counts close to 13,000 area residents who are of Ukrainian descent.

Ukraine, despite President Biden’s warnings to the contrary.

In recent weeks the U.S. has sent some 14,000 troops to Germany and Eastern Europe to shore up the defenses of NATO allies such as Poland and the Baltic states, bringing the total number of American troops in Europe to nearly 100,000, according to The New York Times. Thus, once again, we see a dividing line drawn between superpowers in Eastern Europe.

My wife and I were listening to Bulgarian National Radio Friday night, wanting to hear how Bulgaria, a NATO ally that condemned the invasion, was reacting. The news centered on two communities — hundreds of Bulgarian expatriates living in Ukraine (who needed to be evacuated) and hundreds of Ukrainian expats living in Bulgaria (many of whom planned to drive through Romania to meet refugees fleeing Ukraine and bring them to safety). Their route would become a “humanitarian corridor.”

With U.S. troops moving within firing range of invading Russian forces, and tens of thousands of war refugees fleeing across Eastern Europe, we, as Americans, must pay close attention to this conflict and do all we can to shore up Ukraine, a fledgling democracy.

Scott Brinton is a special assistant professor of journalism at Hofstra University, and editor and adviser to The Long Island Advocate, a student online publication. He is a former executive editor of the Heralds.

Ukrainian Jews flee a Russian attack, again

either Russia nor the Ukraine has ever been a welcoming homeland for the Jewish people. Despite the singing and dancing in “Fiddler on the Roof,” the play was set in 1905 czarist Russia in the Pale of Settlement, the lands of Eastern Europe, including what became Ukraine, where hundreds of thousands of Jews lived under the boot of the Russian Cossacks.

It is estimated that more than 1.5 million Jews lived in what is now Ukraine on the eve of World War II, according to a story in The Forward last RANDI week. “Some one KREISS million of those Jews were killed in the Holocaust,” the newspaper reported, “but a 1989 census estimated that close to half a million still lived in Ukraine in 1989, before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.” The story went on to say that under Soviet rule, Jews were persecuted and denied the right to emigrate, forced to hide much of their religious practice in a society “rife with anti-Semitism.”

Last week, once again, with Russian tanks crossing the border, the dwindling

Jewish population was on the run. In a bizarre and nonsensical statement, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the invasion of Ukraine would remove Nazi influences, ignoring the fact that the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish.

The story of the Jewish community in Ukraine today is a minor footnote to the greater story of a nation beaten into submission by a dictator on the march. The footnote, however, resonates with me, because many of my relatives fled Ukraine and came to America in the years before World War I. My grandfather Morris Brownstein, born in 1897, left Ukraine in 1912 on the SS Zeeland. We don’t know how he managed to travel from Russia to Antwerp, but he boarded a ship in Belgium for the long crossing. He was 15 years old, and he was alone. What we do know is that he made his way to Brownsville, Brooklyn, became a tailor’s apprentice and found and married Anna, a second cousin.

In 1924 he applied for naturalization, was granted citizenship and was as proud of being a “yankee” as anyone who ever escaped oppression and found freedom on our shores.

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For his first decade in America, Morris lived in a tenement in Brownsville, probably without running water, possibly with dozens of other new arrivals. According to Wikipedia, Brownsville was predominantly Jewish from the 1880s until the 1950s. An estimated 25,000 people lived there by 1900.

In the early 20th century, the majority of Brownsville’s residents were immigrants.

By 1920, when Morris was living there, more than 80,000 of the area’s 100,000 inhabitants were Russian Jews, and Brownsville was known as “Little Jerusalem.”

For decades, the Ukraine he left behind was a sovereign nation, pulled between the magnetic poles of the West and Russia. Historically, it has always been an uneasy homeland for Jewish people, from ancient persecutions to the pogroms of the 20th century. It seems unlikely that the nation has any chance of surviving the Russian invasion.

I believe that if a 15-year-old boy can travel across Europe, book passage on a ship and make a new beginning in a new world, then those of us who have reaped America’s bounty must stand with the Ukrainians in their resistance to occupation in any way we can.

n 1912, Morris Brownstein, my grandfather, left Ukraine on the SS Zeeland.

We do not know yet what will be asked of us.

When Grandpa Morris signed his naturalization papers, he pledged his heart and soul to the United States of America. He was a good citizen, a patriotic American, grateful to this country for blessings he never could have imagined as a child in war-torn Ukraine.

The Forward added another footnote to last week’s invasion. According to Rabbi Shlomo Baksht, his staff was still looking into moving the 250 children from the three orphanages they run in Ukraine westward, away from the Russian border. His last message was that the effort was too late, and they were “hunkered down.”

Of all the what-ifs we ponder in our lives, one of the most intriguing is what our lives would look like if our parents and grandparents and great-grands hadn’t left their homes and all that they knew of the world to risk dangerous ocean passages to begin new lives, learn new work and absorb new customs in a new land.

The people of Ukraine will suffer mightily in the coming days and weeks, as Russia tramples their dreams of freedom. I think of the 15-year-old from Ukraine who made that harrowing trip 110 years ago, and I am so grateful.

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

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Celebrate Women’s History Month

hese days, we smile or roll our eyes when we hear the term “fashion police,” but leading up to the Nixon administration, wearing the wrong outfit could land an otherwise innocent young woman in hot water.

Dresses were required in Nassau County schools until 1970, when administrators finally allowed girls to wear pantsuits. It was a seemingly small change by today’s standards, but every single one mattered in the movement we celebrate every March as Women’s History Month.

It was President Jimmy Carter who, in 1980, issued a presidential proclamation creating what was then National Women’s History Week.

“Too often, women were unsung, and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed,” Carter said. “But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well.”

By then, women were claiming their place. They were already earning more bachelor’s degrees than men, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, and roughly half of the master’s degrees. Four decades later, in the red-hot fields of science and engineering, women still trail men in bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, according to the National Science Foundation. And women still earn just 84 cents of every dollar a man makes, according to a 2020 Pew Research study.

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letters Senator Brooks is doing great work To the Editor: Kudos to State Senator John Brooks and his staff for their work on trying to rein in the high cost of living on Long Island. Brooks has been a leader in the fight for affordable municipal water. His support for a legislative commission on the future of the Long Island Power Authority will open the door to reduced electric rates as well.

If legislation creating the commission is passed, it will set out a roadmap for the “municipalization” of the electrical system.

With full municipal ownership, electricity would be managed on a nonprofit basis, much like public water and public libraries. This is no far-fetched idea. Freeport and Rockville Centre have municipally operated power systems with rates 40 percent less than PSEG. If we take the profits out, electric rates will fall.

Thank you, Senator Brooks.

FRED HARRISON L.I. Food & Water Watch Merrick

But they have made steady, if sometimes agonizingly slow, progress. In the century since women finally earned the right to vote, they have become professionals, more financially independent, and more visible as business leaders.

And women have worked their way into the leadership positions they have long deserved. Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1981. Three years later, Geraldine Ferraro became the first female vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket.

Jeannette Rankin of Minnesota might have been the first woman elected to Congress in 1916, but Shirley Chisholm broke yet another notable glass ceiling in 1969, becoming the first Black woman sent to Washington.

And then, of course, Kamala Harris finally put a woman one step away from the Oval Office, a feat that can be topped only by whoever eventually becomes our first female president.

It seemed only logical for Congress to expand the week first set aside by Carter into something more substantial, although Capitol Hill needed a little push. Thanks to the efforts of the National Women’s History Project — a nonprofit promoting “multicultural women’s history awareness” — Congress decreed the first Women’s History Month in 1987, issuing similar proclamations each year until 1995, when Bill Clinton started the tradition of simply

having presidents issue the proclamations on their own.

The last girls who were compelled to wear dresses to school would be grandparents now. Some — especially of the younger generations, who never knew differently — might even take for granted a lot of what women have achieved.

But as far as they have come, there’s still a long way to go. And to finally achieve full equality, women will depend on one another to pave the way, just as the female trailblazers of the past have done — Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Susan Ahn Cuddy, Billie Holiday, Rosalind Franklin, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Richardson.

Don’t recognize a name? Then Women’s History Month is the perfect time to look it up and learn more about her.

Three cheers for the women who are the leaders of our nation. Our inventors. Our entrepreneurs. Those who tend to our health, and fight our battles in court. And those whose names aren’t widely known — especially those who gave birth to us, raised us, and taught us right from wrong, shaping us into the people we are today.

These women, in particular, may sometimes be taken for granted, but their contributions must never be forgotten. They make their own history, every day, in the families that ensure our society remains healthy and strong.

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n addition to the world’s oldest (continuous since 1762) and largest St. Patrick’s Day parade up 5th Avenue in Manhattan on March 17, dozens of Long Island communities are looking forward to their local parades, including Mineola and Bethpage on March 6, Huntington on March 13, Rockville Centre on March 19, Glen Cove and Wantagh on March 20, and Bayside on March 26. New York state has more than 50 parades — not including other kinds of St. Patrick’s celebrations — in March. These JoHn will all be well by marcho’ConneLL attended ers and spectators, since most parades are returning after two years of Covid-caused hiatus.

There are thousands of St. Patrick’s parades throughout the country, many thousands around the world, from Dublin to Tokyo.

Principally a chance for Irish-Americans to show their ethnic pride, our local family-oriented events are welcome signs of spring, reasons to rejoice in the pandemically safer outdoors and great opportunities for downtown businesses, with so many people lining the streets.

I’ve been watching or marching in such

wonderful events in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, for most of my long life. Sciatica and other maladies, however, have recently removed me from the line of march and sent me to the sidelines to cheer on my friends and fellow members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.

While parades are fun, they say little about the important role Irish-Americans have played in the past and present of our country. I wish people knew more about the magnificent contributions Irish immigrants and Irish-Americans have made to the formation and preservation of the United States, and its ongoing exceptionalism. Science, government, education, the labor movement, the military, civil rights, justice, policing, the arts, music and literature, industry, business, journalism and many other fields would be profoundly the less but for what Irish-Americans have done and continue to do.

March is Irish-American Heritage Month, a good time for all of us to learn about or remember some of the people who have made America great.

Six of the last seven presidents — and half of all American chief executives — were of Irish ancestry, including Biden, Reagan, Kennedy, Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt and Grant.

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To the Editor: Replacement Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed legislation allowing farmers to grow marijuana in New York. That appears to be her priority over halting crime and rampant subway attacks. By permitting this bill, as well as an online betting bill, we are encouraging a generation of misfits.

Is this how we develop the future leaders of our country? Perhaps our leaders in Albany, who passed the “no bail bill,” have been smoking this stuff just to test its efficacy.

PAT KING Merrick

Conservatives, and individualism To the Editor: I’m a 72-year-old who already has one foot in the grave — a 1968 graduate of Mepham High School in Bell-

More than 25 percent of George Washington’s Revolutionary Army comprised Irish-Americans. Of the country that provided him with such brave soldiers, Washington said, “Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country’s most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation.” A hero of that war, Commodore John Barry, of Ireland, was the holder of the first commission in the new United States Navy.

Two hundred fifty-seven recipients of the Medal of Honor were born in Ireland.

Dan Daley was awarded two Medals of Honor for separate actions, and would have been given a third but for the fact that he already had two.

Walt Disney, actor and dancer Gene Kelly, dancer Michael Flatley, playwright Eugene O’Neill and authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Malachy McCourt were/ are Irish-Americans. Bruce Springsteen is of partial Irish ancestry. John Ford has the most Academy Awards for best director, at four. Auto manufacturer Henry Ford had Ireland’s blood in his veins.

The first woman to command a NASA space mission was Astronaut Col. Eileen Collins, an Irish-American. The first American woman to walk in space was

the Irish-American Dr. Kathryn Sullivan.

Edward J. Flanagan was born in a wee stone cottage in County Roscommon, Ireland. He would become the Father Flanagan of Boys Town, in Omaha, Neb., and a beloved activist on behalf of children.

Mary Harris, a.k.a. Mother Jones, was an advocate for child labor laws. Tough Kerryman Michael J. Quill was one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union.

The list of Irish America’s contributors to the greatness of our nation goes on and on. The symbols of Irish America aren’t the stereotypical leprechauns, green beer, silly plastic hats and fake freckles; Irish America’s significance is better found in Washington’s words, the names of Irish Brigade troops on Gettysburg’s gravestones, Boys Town, NASA, the American labor movement and the Medal of Honor rolls.

All Americans should celebrate IrishAmerican Heritage Month. Educators should teach about the heroic influence Irish-Americans have had. Librarians should create displays. Parents should show their children how deserving IrishAmericans are of honor. Many of the notable American heroes mentioned above have surely earned their own classroom lessons, from grade school to college.

I wish all Herald readers and staff a happy St. Patrick’s Day! John O’Connell is a former executive editor of the Herald Community Newspapers.

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more, and a 1972 graduate of Hofstra University — but I’m really worried about what the future will be like in our society. Since 1980, I’ve watched the growth of a cold-hearted, survival-of-the-fittest Social Darwinist mentality among many Republicans in the conservative news media, on talk shows, in think tanks and policy institutes, and especially in Congress.

More and more of these folks want to abolish every single federal government social program that helps the working class and middle class. I don’t think most Americans are aware of this. These people are now much more conservative than our Republican voters.

What also scares the dickens out of me is the growth of an over-thetop, extreme hyper-individualism and libertarianism, in which so many of us believe that we have no responsibilities to one another, and only a concern for me-me-me and what I want to do. And we smugly and defiantly call this selfish and self-absorbed narcissism “personal choice.”

STEWART B. EPSTEIN Rochester

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