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Assembly passes public water measure legislation in the Senate that aims to create a Nassau County Water Authority. When Claudia Borecky, coThe Assembly quickly passed director of the Merrick-based the legislation before May 1, but Long Island Clean Air, Water the rate hike has likely already and Soil, read over the State been passed to customers. The 26 Assembly’s bill that creates a to 30 percent increase may path for a public appear on ratepaywater authority, ers’ next bill. she knew it might While the not pan out, she Assembly bill prosaid. poses capping both “I didn’t think it future rate increaswas going to be es and rates for possible,” Borecky ClauDIa BoRECky expenses that have said, explaining Co-director, Long already been that the bill’s goal the SenIsland Clean Air, Water incurred, to cap rate increasate bill differs in es at two percent and Soil that it aims to elimmay be unconstituinate a special frantional. “Those rates were deter- chise tax the private company is mined years ago. They were obligated to pay. NYAW passes postponing payments — they’re those additional costs down to its for costs already incurred by customers, creating an unequal New York American Water.” burden that has been highlightThus, the years-long battle to ed by both critics and the compaform a municipal water provider ny’s representatives. to replace NYAW — which has The Assembly bill would form been repeatedly criticized for its a North and South Shore Water high rates — continues. Advo- Authority, which Borecky also cates, including CAWS members, criticized over the way it would gathered at the Theodore Roos- represent ratepayers. She said it evelt Executive and Legislative would be too “North Shore-cenBuilding in Mineola on April 26 tric,” with six representatives to decry a fast-approaching rate from the North Shore and four hike on May 1 and to call on the Assembly to pass corresponding Continued on page 11

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The wonders of a new season A student at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School in Merrick gently prepared to release a butterfly after learning about its life cycle. More photos, story, Page 10.

At 1.45%, Central tax levy increase is the lowest in years By aNDREW GaRCIa agarcia@liherald.com

Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District administrators held a public hearing on the 2021-22 district budget on May 5, the first in-person school board meeting held by the district since last year. Residents will vote on the budget next Tuesday. The district will present voters with a $170 million spending plan that comes with a 1.45 per-

cent increase in the tax levy — the total amount in taxes that will be collected from all district taxpayers. That’s the lowest increase in the past 10 years of district budgets, with the past four above 2 percent. Despite the smaller increase, Bellmore-Merrick is maintaining all student programs. The question remains, however, just how different hallways and classrooms will look after the district faced a flurry of unprecedented

circumstances and changes this school year. As of now, masks are still required, and plastic barriers still line students’ and teachers’ desks, among other sanitary requirements. One parent at the meeting said the barriers should be taken down, citing student complaints. “We are currently looking at our classrooms — we know that Continued on page 9

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About three dozen people met at Wantagh Elementary School early last Saturday morning for the first 5K run of the Wantagh Wellness Project, a community group dedicated to promoting healthy lifestyle choices among neighbors. The warm spring sun shone down on the runners as they made their way through Wantagh’s side streets before circling back to the elementary school parking lot. Wantagh Wellness Project founder Kyle Lennon, 39, finished in 22 minutes, neck and neck with Chris Jacobi, 40, his close friend from Merrick and a member of the North Merrick Runners. “That was faster than I planned on running,” Jacobi said with a laugh as they reached the school, to which Lennon replied, “My bad.” Lennon and his wife, Ilene, launched the Wantagh Wellness Project in January 2020, planning to host a variety of community events, but didn’t have much of an opportunity before the coronavirus pandemic swept across the country. Over the past year, however, they have managed the project as a Facebook group whose members share healthy recipes, exercise routines and other tips. “We try to show what a healthy lifestyle looks like,” Lennon said. “There’s so much chronic disease out there that is preventable, and we’re sick and tired of seeing people who are sick and tired.” Lennon’s inspiration grew out of his and his wife’s work in health care. He’s an emergency doctor at Northwell Health’s GoHealth Urgent Care in Massapequa, and Ilene is a physician’s assistant at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens. They both grew up in the Wantagh school district, and started dating at Wantagh High School. Now their three sons, Trevor, 10, Brody, 8, and Gavin, 6, go to the same elementary school where their parents met. “We try to encourage them to be healthy the best way we can,” Kyle said, adding that the key to a healthy lifestyle is more than just eating the right food and exercising. “It’s also about connecting with people and having community,” he said. “We love this town. It’s our hope that we could spread the word about living a healthy lifestyle with our neighbors. If we all do this together and hold each other accountable, we could prevent each other from getting sick.” When the pandemic hit, it halted Lennon and his wife’s plans in more ways than one. “As a doctor, it’s been really difficult and challenging at times,” he said. “When it first hit in March, there were times when I was afraid to go to work. I was [in] conflict with my role as a doctor and my role as a husband and father, because I didn’t want to put anyone in my family at risk.” Ultimately, however, he said he believed the coronavirus drew more attention to his cause. “I think the pandemic brought health to the forefront and made people realize that we can’t take our health for granted,” he said. The Wantagh Wellness Project also partners with Jennifer Martini, a Want-

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ThE WANTAGh WELLNESS Project hosted its first community 5K last Saturday at Wantagh Elementary School. Above, Joe DiVico, 44, and Marc Turner, 47, both of Merrick and members of the North Merrick Runners.

WANTAGh hIGh SchooL Principal Paul Guzzone attended the 5K. KyLE LENNoN ANd his wife Ilene, both of Wantagh, launched the Wantagh Wellness Project in January 2020 to promote healthy lifestyle choices among their neighbors.

agh fitness instructor who has hosted virtual yoga classes for the group and cohosted the 5K last Saturday. Also in attendance was Wantagh High Principal Paul Guzzone, who started his tenure last May. Guzzone, 35, grew up in Melville and now lives in Seaford. “It’s nice living so close,” he said, “because I get to be a part of the community and come to events like this.” Guzzone also shares Lennon’s interest in promoting wellness and prioritizing mental health. A former associate principal and director of school counseling at Oceanside High School, he served on that district’s Mental Health and Wellness task force. There he implemented a new course, Redefining Mental Health and Wellness, whose focuses included advocacy, mindfulness practices and stigmas.

Guzzone said that starting his tenure during the coronavirus pandemic was an overwhelming task. “It’s involved a lot of digging in to the community and having conversations with people who know the community the most,” he said. “I’m g e t t i n g t o k n ow Wantagh’s values and finding ways to keep those values and traditions alive under the confines of the pandemic.”

LENNoN ANd hIS close friend Chris Jacobi, 40, finished at the 22-minute mark.

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family together for a “charity night” to support their mission to end hunger. To register, please visit www.licares.org/ events/feed-the-need/. For more information about sponsoring this event, please contact Shawn Hirst at (631) 582-FOOD x104 or SHirst@licares.org.

Merrick Community Cleanup Join the South Merrick Community Civic Association and the Merrick Cleanup Crew for their second community spring cleaning. Volunteers will meet at the corner of Merrick Road and Hewlett Avenue at 9 a.m. All are asked to bring their own masks, gloves, pick-up sticks, rakes, etc. Garbage bags will be provided. For more information, contact SMCCA President Joe Baker at (516) 978-8310.

Thursday, June 17 An LGBTQ+ Pride Celebration through Word and Song

Tuesday, May 18 School Trustee and Budget Vote Your local school trustee election and budget vote will be held on May 18. You can register in person until five days preceding the vote at local elementary school district locations. Voting will be held at the following locations: Bellmore Union Free School District Shore Road School (2801 Shore Road) 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. North Bellmore Union Free School District Newbridge Road School (1601 Newbridge Road) 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Merrick Union Free School District Norman J. Levy Lakeside School (21 Babylon Road) 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. North Merrick Union Free School District North Merrick Public Library (1691 Meadowbrook Road) 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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MAMS students advance in essay contest Merrick Avenue Middle School students Alexa Addonizio and Lylah Cassidy recently won an Americanism Essay Contest. Students in Denise Schleith’s International Buddy Club submitted essays to the contest sponsored by the Merrick Chapter of the American Legion Auxiliary. They were tasked with answering, “How can we address the health and well-being of our veterans and their families?” day, May 14 for Merrick library cardholders and Friday, May 21 for all other cardholders. Masks must be worn during the program and patrons must maintain social distancing. Participants must fill out a health questionnaire on the morning of the program in order to attend. Register on the library website, www.merricklibrary.org.

Wednesday, May 26 Thursday, May 27 Time for Kids in the Garden: Garden Flowers

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”PRIDE SLAM 2021 An LGBTQ+ Celebration through Word and Song” is the theme of this year’s Pride Month Celebration sponsored by Westbury Arts in association with Pride for Youth. LGBTQ+ poets and musicians from Long Island and the greater New York area are invited to submit their original works for consideration for inclusion in the Zoom event to be held live at 7:30 pm. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, June 1. Submission should be sent to Rocco Lanzilotta at rocco@westburyarts.org. All artists will be notified no later than Sunday, June 6, whether or not their work has been chosen.

In-Person St. Baldrick’s Fundraiser Wellington C. Mepham High School will be hosting its 11th St. Baldrick’s fundraiser on May 27. This year’s event will be an in-person event following COVID protocols and will be covered live by Bellmore-Merrick Broadcasting. Partici-

pants must register on the district’s event page in order to attend the event. No walk ins will be permitted. For more information, please visit the event page, https://www.stbaldricks.org/events/ mypage/868/2021.

Tuesday, June 1 Elevate, Enlighten, Empower — A Virtual Pride Celebration PrideForYouth, a division of the Long Island Crisis Center, will host a virtual Pride Celebration at 7 p.m. The event will include performances, testimonials, special guests and more. Register at www.prideforyouth.org/pride2021.

Wednesday, June 2 Long Island Cares first virtual fundraiser The Harry Chapin Food Bank will continue its mission to end hunger on Long Island by hosting their first virtual fundraising event from 6 to 7 p.m. The hour-long event will include a threecourse dinner provided by Lessing’s Hospitality Group, as well party boxes delivered right to your door. There will be a silent auction and raffle prizes. Professional MC’s will host the event and Feeding America’s CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot will give opening remarks, the audience will also hear from other special guests. Tickets start at $35. You can tune in solo, have an office viewing party or get the whole

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Residents will vote on school budget May 18 our classrooms are not 100 percent conducive to learning because of barriers,” said Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum Michael Harrington, who will take over as superintendent in June when John DeTommaso retires. “We know that there’s a really awkward silence that we don’t like. . . We need kids to get back to connecting with one another and connecting with their teacher, and barriers are the first thing we’re looking at.” Locker access, which is still restricted in the district, is also being re-evaluated, according to Harrington. The district may adopt a plan that phases in locker use grade by grade, but the most important safety measure, he said, “is not having kids congregate. “I’m really confident that next school year will look quite different,” Harrington noted, saying evidence shows that transmission in schools has been low. “I think that’s just the natural evolution of this,” DeTommaso said. Re-opening committees, comprised of administrators, teachers, parents and more, have reformed after working together to plan the district’s reopening last May. The committees are focused on maintaining health and safety in the coming months. “We know that the reason why we were so successful this year, being back in school in person, was because of our reopening committees,” Harrington said.

“It’ll all depend on the guidance, but right now we’re working really hard to get families back in person. We believe in in-person instruction. . . We’re going to be prepared for the social-emotional and the academic support kids will need.” The district will also receive a significant boost in state and federal aid, thanks in part to the American Rescue Plan, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden in March. In addition to a $3 million increase in state aid compared to the current year, the district will also receive $1.7 million from the American Rescue Plan, as well as $425,001 from the Coronavirus Relief and Recovery Supplemental Appropriations Act. “It’s definitely great news for the district,” said Mikaela Coni, assistant superintendent for business, noting that the $2.1 million total nears the $2.2 million the district spent on reopening this year. A portion of the funds will be used to cover costs incurred by the district, including personal protective equipment, barriers, cleaning supplies and additional staffing — “an array of things,” Coni said. Thirty percent of the funds will also go towards addressing “learning loss” faced by students in the past year. Aside from the programs maintained, which include Summer Enrichment, school wellness centers, Prep Academy and the Bellmore-Merrick Electrical Program, new initiatives will also be coming to Bellmore-Merrick. Chromebook lap-

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tHis is tHe final budget overseen by Superintendent John DeTommaso, who will retire in June and leave the role to current Assistant Superintendent Michael Harrington, above. tops will be provided to every student and teacher from grades seven to 12, Chinese language instruction will expand into 12th grade, and drones will be purchased for the Technology 8 program, among other additions.

Broken down, 75.3 percent of the budget will be spent on the district’s programs, while 11.8 percent and 12.9 percent will go towards administrative and capital expenditures, respectively.

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Science takes flight at Levy Lakeside SStudents in Mrs. Savastano’s class at Levy Lakeside Elementary School in the Merrick School District recently completed a science unit on the life cycle of butterflies. The students first placed tiny caterpillars into cups with food and witnessed the caterpillar’s transformation into a chrysalis. Students then decorated their own butterfly box and checked on their chrysalides daily. When the butterflies emerged from their chrysalis, the students watched the butterflies take flight in the school garden, alongside fellow students from Alogna’s, Kassnove’s and Parodi’s classes. Courtesy Merrick School District

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As the conclusion to a science unit on the lifecycle of butterflies, Levy Lakeside teacher Mrs. Savastano prepares to release a butterfly as students from various classes observe.

A levy lAkeside student gently prepares to release her butterfly.

Students discover that ‘math is everywhere’ Kindergarten students from Chatterton Elementary School in the Merrick School District held a “Math is Everywhere” celebration to recognize that math can be found in all aspects of everyday life. As part of the celebration, students from Mrs. O’Donnell’s class went on a school scavenger hunt to discover where math could be found throughout the building. “Students learned that math is everywhere we look, like in our classroom, homes and even in the restaurants we eat in!” O’Donnell said. The kindergartners also designed posters to show off all the places where math can be found. They then shared their posters with the entire class and shared in a celebratory chant of “Math is Everywhere!” Students in Mrs. Shultz and Ms. Vernice’s classes also held similar math celebrations. Courtesy Merrick School District

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students in Mrs. O’Donnell’s class at Chatterton Elementary School held a “Math is Everywhere” celebration to recognize that math can be found in all aspects of everyday life.

students in Mrs. Shultz’s and Ms. Vernice’s class celebrated the usefulness of math in everyday life.

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Path to public water authority still hazy Continued from front page from within the Town of Hempstead. It would not include representatives of the villages NYAW also serves, including Valley Stream and Lynbrook. Borecky estimated that those six representatives would speak for roughly 5,000 North Shore residents, while the four others would speak for 114,000 residents in Hempstead alone. On Monday, Assemblyman David McDonough, a Republican from Merrick, said that plans for further legislation is still “under discussion.” “I want to see a match-up between the two bills,” McDonough said. The Senate had originally included the legislation in the state budget, a move that was blocked in the Assembly. Senators pushed for the legislation after a study ordered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and conducted by the Department of Public

Service reported that a public takeover of NYAW was not only feasible, but in residents’ best interests. The study was conducted after the DPS halted the sale of NYAW to Liberty Utilities, another private entity, in November 2019 for $608 million to determine whether municipalization of NYAW’s New York operations would be more beneficial to ratepayers. “All we’re asking for is clean, reliable and affordable water,” said David Denenberg, co-director of Long Island Clean Air, Water and Soil, at the rally. “The average [NYAW] private water customer will see our bills go up almost $400 a year — that’s more than public water customers pay a year.” “I thought we had our last rally,” Borecky said. “I just hope it’s the last summer of big bills.”

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’ve been here for 30 years. My sister and I have owned it for about 10 now. During the pandemic, we were pretty lucky that we didn’t have to close, but it was a tough couple of months. We didn't want our staff to get exposed to the public, so it was basically me, my sister and the baker. And that was it. We just struggled through it, and did the best we could. During the pandemic, we were donating to Nassau University Medical Center. People really weren’t having as many fundraisers then, but they’re starting to have more now. Now we’re starting to get a little bit more busy. You can tell that the size of the cakes are getting a little bit bigger, compared to in the beginning, when the pandemic first started and the cakes were very small. We’re getting

bigger cakes, which means they’re starting to have parties now. We have very loyal customers that have been great. We’re just a family-owned business, and family-owned businesses are starting to die out. Being a small mom-and-pop store is getting harder every year, and we’re glad that the East Meadow community support these local mom-and-pop stores. We’re just lucky. We’ve been here since 1976, so we’re pretty blessed that way.

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e closed for about a month — it was incredibly difficult. I ended up getting Covid right at the beginning, at the end of March or early April. I still have long-haul issues; I have 62 percent of my lung capacity, and it's been well over a year. So, Piccolo was closed for a month, and the team did amazing — it was like doing battle in the beginning. It was tough for me in the hospital, and what the nursing staff was dealing with was unbelievable. It's in the rearview mirror, but we still have a long way to go before this is behind us. We had to spend thousands of dollars on dividers, table covers, air purifiers and more — you can imagine how much money we spent to make Piccolo into a place for people to feel comfortable to come in during a pandemic.

Something I take a lot of pride in is our menu. A lot of restaurant owners had to cut their menu down to almost nothing. We have a loyal following, so when customers would call, there was no way we were going to say no to them. We take a lot of pride that when people are eating at Piccolo, it's the finest stuff money can buy. It's still not normal when you're wearing a mask the entire time you work. That was very uncomfortable for me. My kind of business is where people walk in and you give them a hug or a kiss — there's a human connection that's been built up over the last 40 years. Now, it can be a little uncomfortable and awkward. The appreciation I have for everyone connected to Piccolo — not just the staff — is immense. They kept Piccolo alive.

ur Massapequa location, which we opened first, has stayed pretty stable even through the Covid craziness. We kept the Bellmore location open for as long as we could, but it's a larger location and very eventheavy, so, unfortunately, we did close a few months ago. But we just reopened last week. With the restricitions slowly lifting one by one, it's helping us immensely. With things like the curfew easing and knowing there's a light at the end of the tunnel where there won't be a curfew soon, we were able to say, OK, now we can open and do this properly. Our Massapequa Park location is unfortunately still under construction, but we're holding back a little bit because we need staff — there's a major staff shortage in our

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industry right now. It's almost like one problem fixes itself and then another presents itself. We're hoping to open that location in midsummer. American Beauty in Massapequa is fully open, and in Bellmore we're open for limited hours. That's Tuesday through Saturday, and we're doing private parties. We'll be bringing back music, hip-hop brunches, drag queen Bingo and more. People are looking for reasons to celebrate, and we're giving them any and every event under the sun. If anyone has suggestions, we're all ears. Everyone just wants some normalcy and some reason to be happy, and we're trying to give it to them. I can't say enough good things about my staff. Without them, we have nothing; they're the heart and soul of our business.

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Among the AircrAft featured in the American Airpower Museum’s Memorial Day shows will be the Grumman TBM Avenger, a World War II era fighter plane. advanced supersonic jet aircraft to our present day.” Since everyone cannot be at Jones Beach on Saturday and Sunday, Clyman decided to stage this four-day salute so people on the beach, as well as those closer to home, can enjoy AAM’s warbirds. So, if you want to avoid the Wantagh Parkway crawl to Jones Beach, you can park instead for free in AAM’s lot and along New Highway. The Air Show will also feature a U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II, “The Warthog,” flying over Jones Beach. AAM has its own A-10, the nation’s premier close air support attack aircraft, and it will be display outside Hangar 3, with staff ready to answer questions about its special

features and armaments. Admission for adults is $15; seniors and veterans, $10; and children ages 5 to 12, $8. Tickets and pre-registration are not required, and admission is on a first-come, firstserved basis. The museum can now operate at 100 percent capacity, in accordance with New York’s May 19 lifting of pandemic capacity limits. However, there is still a need for social distancing, and guests must wear face masks and have their temperatures taken at the door. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on all four days, plus AAM will be open Monday, May 31, Memorial Day.

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hile some folks kept up with their fitness routines through zoom sessions and other forms of virtual workouts, even getting outside at times to work out, for many the pandemic meant too much sitting, TV binging and accumulating those dreaded pandemic pounds. Now, with vaccinations happening, and life seemingly on the rebound, the warm weather is an enticement to restart or even finally begin a consistent exercise program for the first time. On one hand: Hooray! It’ll be great to be back in the groove, take a class and see trainers/coaches and classmates I haven’t seen in forever! On the other hand: Yikes! What if I can’t keep up? What if I’ve lost everything I worked so hard to attain? First, know that hope is far from lost. But also realize that unless you’ve diligently kept up your training — perhaps with at-home workouts — you probably will have lost some effects, particularly cardiovascularly. Manage your expectations “Fitness takes longer to gain than it does to lose,” says Laurie P. Whitsel, vice president of policy research and translation for the American Heart Association. But try not to despair, she says. Life has been crazy lately, so you just have to forgive yourself and move forward. “If you’ve taken a break during Covid-19, that’s fine,” Dr. Whitsel says. “This is a stressful time. Maybe we’ve devoted more time to our families, or we’re adjusting to working a different way. So take time off; that’s OK. Then jump back in and do those wonderful things for your heart. You don’t want to give that up.” When workouts do get sporadic or cease completely, that starts the body into what’s known as the detraining effect — “an interesting area of research,” says exercise physiologist Fabio Comana. Some people, studies have shown, may lose training effects in a few days; for others, it may take a month or more. Just how quickly depends on factors like age, general health, the presence of underlying issues such as diabetes, and VO2 max (a measure of how much oxygen the body utilizes during intense workouts). “Let’s say you trained and had an amazing VO2 max in the 60s,” Comana says. “Then you stop. It may drop 10 percent, so you’re down to 54. That’s still high, and in dayto-day living you won’t be winded. But if you’re an older adult with a 25 VO2 max and have a 10 percent drop, it will compromise your activities of daily living.”

What you’ve lost you can get back Cardiovascular fitness tends to be lost more quickly than muscle strength, Comana says. Here’s why: “Muscle adaptations are architectural changes; that is, you’re building bigger muscles,” Comana explains. “But cardiovascular fitness is a mechanism for becoming more efficient, rather than a structure.” Added to that physical mix is what’s going on in our brains. “Any time we’re confronted with a decision” — whether to exercise or not, maybe — “our brains are doing a sort of analysis, weighing the benefits of the decision with the potential costs,” says neuroscientist Shannon Odell. “After falling out of the habit of exercising or of taking time to focus on fitness, that cost may feel extra high,” says Dr. Odell, who admits to slipping out of her own exercise routine. “And research suggests that our brains are wired to follow the path of least resistance, or to make choices that require the least amount of effort.” So, since not doing anything is easier than doing something, no wonder we may be kind of in limbo about how, when and — hearing how quickly we’ve lost fitness — why to start back. That said, please don’t make a U-turn from the door of your recently reopened gym/fitness studio and head back to your car. Ditto for refraining from plopping back down on your favorite sofa with a bag of chips and your favorite beverage. Because while getting back to your pre-pandemic level may seem like a looming mountaintop, you can do it. And once you reach the summit, you’ll see that breathtaking view and feel that sense of accomplishment all over again. Plus, your workout buddies are counting on you — to do it, and to motivate them to do it, too. “We tend to focus on weight,” Dr. Whitsel says, “but we really need to emphasize overall the benefits of physical activity, the mental health and well-being, the positive effect on the cardiovascular system, on your muscles; you’ll feel stronger, have better balance and flexibility, and reduce the risk of falls.” It’s all a matter of feeling safe, of getting started, of planning ahead, of not being hard on yourself if you’re out of breath long before you used to be.

Above photo: Before beginning a fitness routine after a long break from physical activity, experts say it’s best to set realistic expectations and ease into exercise to avoid injuries.

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Get (re)started and achieve results without frustration Exercise is a wonder drug, but you can’t feel the effects until you fill your own prescription. “In this time of Covid and stress, exercise can be a great relief for your body and your mind,” Dr. Laurie P. Whitsel says. “It’s more important than ever.” If you’ve been away from exercise, or just lax in consistency, Fabio Comana says the first thing to consider goes beyond physiology. “A lot of times when we’ve detrained, it may not be our choice; it may be circumstances,” he says. “Say you had no ability to work out for a month or two. You’ve not just detrained; you’ve changed your behavior.” Start to re-engage those behaviors that got you in shape; get back to exercising consistently, he says. Surprisingly, motivation doesn’t work as well as believing in yourself to accomplish something. “Where are you most likely to be successful?” he says. “The human brain doesn’t like uncertainty, but that’s what Covid has presented to us — uncertainty. The best way to overcome it is to develop structure.” Try a behavior once and evaluate it, he says. “If it’s something enjoyable and you could do it again, move it to two times and then to three. It’s building tiny habits and creating an automatic process.” Studies show the best way to stay motivated is by setting “small, difficult but still achievable goals,” Dr. Odell says. “So don’t expect yourself to hit that personal best the first week. Remember: Slow and steady.” The silver lining of all this? “We’ll probably recondition faster the second time than the first,” Comana says. Reaching your goal requires mak-

ing your comeback as successful as possible. Plan ahead: When you’ve scheduled a class and put it on your calendar, you’re more likely than not to show up. It’s a matter of holding yourself accountable. You wouldn’t schedule a haircut or a dental appointment and just not show up, would you? Lighten up on yourself: OK, you’ve been doing some neighborhood walking, maybe some crunches and push-ups, maybe some at-home workouts. Now you are ready to really push forward. f you don’t see results from your new workout routine right away, it can get frustrating, and you may be tempted to give up. But remember, it will only get easier with time. Listen to your body: If it’s telling you to slow down or take an option suggested by your instructor, go for it. “You’re feeling appropriate for where you are,” Dr. Whitsel says. “Don’t feel guilty; it’s all part of ramping back up.” Encourage each other: “It’s human nature to be competitive,” Comana says, “but the coach can change the mindshift from competitive to supportive. Pick up your neighbor; it’s fortunate for them and fortunate for you.” Additionally, he says, “Diminish the urge to peek over and see how the person next to you is doing.” And since social distancing keeps us from hugging or high-fiving each other at the end of class, it’s especially important to acknowledge classmates with a two-word call-out: “Great job!” Above photo: The key to returning to exercise safely after a long break is to take small steps and frequently change up your routine, according to fitness experts.

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s many as 50 million Americans have chronic pain. It interferes with their work, their activities of daily living, and almost every facet of their lives. Brian J. Snyder, M.D., is a partner and attending neurosurgeon with Neurological Surgery, P.C. (NSPC Brain & Spine Surgery), Rockville Centre, and a fellowship-trained, board certified expert in using neurostimulation to treat chronic pain, surgery for epilepsy, movement disorders, and refractory pain.

What options exist when nothing else works? Neuromodulation, or neurostimulation, is a group of procedures that involve placement of electrodes temporarily (an if successful), permanently in the nervous system. These treatment procedures What causes chronic pain? interfere with the message for pain being sent to Chronic pain can have many causes. It can be the brain. caused by prior injury, medical disease, or prior These procedures include: spinal cord stimulation surgery. Some patients may have chronic pain with Brian J Snyder, M.D. (SCS), dorsal roots ganglion stimulation (DRG), no apparent cause. peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS), occipital nerve stimulation (ONS), motor cortex stimulation (MCS), and deep brain What are some of the types of chronic pain? stimulation (DBS). • Low back pain (caused by arthritis, injury, etc.) – Some patients with chronic low back pain may have had prior surgery and persist with If a patient had an unsuccessful trial or implant for that pain. neurostimulation in the past, or has a device implanted that • Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS – formerly known as RSD) – doesn’t work very well, are they a candidate for one of these Caused by nerve or tissue damage, sometimes very benign in nature procedures? resulting in a severe pain syndrome. Yes. The technology has advanced substantially in the last several • Migraine and other headache/occipital neuralgia. years and there are new devices and new procedures that are allowing • Shingles (post-herpetic neuropathy).

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MERRICK HERALD — May 13, 2021

Don’t let sunburn derail your fun

Many people find it impossible to think about summer without conjuring visions of spending endless hours outdoors from morning until evening, whether beachside, on the open water or even floating in a backyard pool. Especially now, as we begin to emerge from the pandemic, outside — making up for 2020’s “lost summer” — is where we want to be. Although a certain measure of sun exposure is required for some natural functions of the body, it’s well documented that too much time in the sun can be hazardous to one’s health. That’s why summer frolickers need to exercise considerable caution each time they step outside. Each year more than three and a half million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in the United States. So whether you’re planning a trip to the beach, hitting the golf course, or enjoying a backyard cookout, remember to protect yourself from the sun. Banish The Burn Taking sunburn for granted can be a big mistake. Many people wouldn’t risk burns from a hot stove or open fire, but they won’t think twice about being unprotected under the very hot rays of the sun. Depending on the intensity of the sun and the amount of time spent outside, sunburn can be a first- or second-degree burn. In first-degree burns, damage affects the topmost layer of skin. However, sunburn can even affect deeper layers and cause blistering in addition to redness and pain.

Sunburn also can cause some irreparable damage that goes unseen. Medical experts stress that ultraviolet light from the sun can alter DNA, prematurely aging skin or even contributing to skin cancers. It can take years before symptoms become noticeable. Therefore, exercise caution when spending time in the sun — at every age. Always Protect Yourself Sunburn is one of the most easily prevented summertime ailments. It’s also important to note that sunburns are not just limited to the hot weather or when it is sunny outside. Ultraviolet damage can occur at any time of the year, and also from artificial UV sources, such as tanning beds. Preventing sunburn — preventing serious risk to your health — is simple. Seek the shade. The sun’s rays are usually strongest between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. If you are outside, find shade from a structure, a leafy tree, or a sun umbrella for protection. Also, try to arrange your schedule so that you can take advantage of the early morning and late afternoon for your outdoor activities. Otherwise, limit exposure to the sun and take frequent breaks in the shade. Cover up. Wear protective clothing that covers the arms and legs. Some outdoor gear is designed to offer sun protection. Tightly woven fabrics tend to help the most. Your clothes can be an effective form of protection from the sun’s harmful rays. Some

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outdoor clothing now carries an Ultraviolet Protection Factor (UPF) rating. The UPF rating lets you know how well the fabric shields your skin from ultraviolet (UV) rays. All fabrics block UV rays to some degree, but the most effective have a UPF rating from 15 (good) to more than 50 (excellent). For example, a white cotton t-shirt has a UPF of five. Blue jeans have a UPF of 1,700. In other words, densely woven and bright or dark colored fabrics offer the best defense from the sun’s rays. Light-weight, loose-fitting long sleeves and pants also help. Don’t forget a hat and sunglasses to protect your head and eyes and put sunscreen on exposed skin. Apply — and reapply — sunscreen. Apply sunscreen generously and reapply it regularly. The Sun Protection Factor (SPF) measures how long unprotected skin can be theoretically exposed to the sun’s harmful UV rays before causing damage. UVA rays can prematurely age your skin, causing wrinkles and age spots. UVB rays can burn your skin. Too much exposure to

either can cause skin cancer. Look for products that offer an SPF of 15 or greater. The American Academy of Dermatology actually recommends an SPF of 30 or greater. Make sure the product is broad-spectrum, meaning it protects against UVA and UVB rays. Apply sunscreen thoroughly, paying attention to the tops of feet, hands and other places that tend to go untreated. Reapply every two hours or more frequently, if necessary. Keep in mind that sunscreen is often not applied thoroughly or evenly, and it might wash off while you swim or sweat. That means sunscreen might be less effective than the SPF number might lead you to believe. Dermatologists suggest that along with the sunscreen’s SPF, you should choose a “broad spectrum” sunscreen that offers protection from UVA and UVB rays. It is important to reapply sunscreen frequently. Above photo: Have your time in the sun while sparing your skin from damage and harm to your health.

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Prevent injuries as you return to exercise, sports this summer

s gyms reopen and summer sports and outdoor activities ramp up following the easing of coronavirus restrictions, Mount Sinai South Nassau experts advise caution before jump-starting a new workout regimen. “It’s important to warm up first followed by stretching before starting exercise, especially if you have been on the couch for months due to the pandemic,” said Stelios Koutsoumbelis, MD, Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at Mount Sinai South Nassau. “We are concerned that people may rush back out without proper preparation, which could lead to a rash of stress fractures, muscle strains, overuse tendon injuries, and soft tissue tears in the knees, shoulders, elbows, hips, and ankles.” To prevent such injuries, Dr. Koutsoumbelis recommends taking these simple steps before exercising: √ Follow a schedule that sticks to the “10 percent rule” of increasing the intensity, volume, distance, and duration of workouts. Make time for rest and recovery after strenuous exercise. √ Warm-up first followed by stretching before practice or training. √ Diversify training by combining or alternating activities like walking, jogging, biking, or weightlifting. Improving your core strength, lower extremity balance, flexibility, and cardiovascular endurance can enhance your fitness. √ Listen to your body; if you feel pain, soreness, or tightness, stop! Early intervention with targeted conditioning and stretching exercises, or even physical therapy, is key to avoiding further injury. √ Eat healthy. Be sure to include fruits and vegetables and adequate portions of protein in your daily diet. If you or your child suffers an injury, don’t live by the rule “no pain, no gain.”

Dr. Koutsoumbelis, left, and orthopedic surgeons at Mount Sinai South Nassau use minimally invasive and arthroscopic surgical techniques that reduce post-operative pain and result in less scarring. Mount Sinai South Nassau’s sports medicine professionals are ready to help by applying their experience and expertise to develop a tailored plan that will lead to a faster recovery and prevent reinjury. If surgery is needed, the hospital’s orthopedic surgeons use minimally invasive arthroscopic and image-guided surgery to repair common and complex orthopedic sports injuries. “The benefits of minimally invasive and arthroscopic surgery include reduced post-operative pain, less scarring, a quicker recovery, and a faster return to normal activities,” said Dr. Koutsoumbelis. “Many of these surgeries can be performed on an outpatient basis.”

Minimally invasive procedures such as the Birmingham Hip resurfacing may eliminate the need for traditional hip replacement surgery, just as the Uni-Knee partial knee replacement and ImageGuided knee replacement procedures may help you avoid open surgery. Knee and shoulder injuries repaired at Mount Sinai South Nassau include torn cartilage and anterior cruciate, posterior cruciate, and medial collateral ligaments in the knee as well as instability, impingement, rotator cuff, or labrum tears and recurrent dislocations in the shoulder. Mount Sinai South Nassau’s orthopedic spine surgeons also use minimally invasive surgical approaches that provide short- and longterm relief from painful back problems, such as herniated discs and stenosis. To ensure you maximize the benefits of the treatment plans prescribed to you, Mount Sinai South Nassau Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s multi-disciplinary team of an experienced physiatrist and staff of physical and occupational therapists provides top-notch physical therapy and rehabilitation programs. Get a leg up on recovery and return to action sooner by calling Mount Sinai South Nassau Orthopedics at (866) 32-ORTHO or (866) 326-7846. For more information on orthopedics, go to www.southnassau.org/orthopedics.

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omen still tend to encounter more obstacles than men in pursuit of financial security. Women are still more likely to leave the workforce, at least temporarily, to raise children, resulting in lower contributions to employer-sponsored retirement plans; also to become fulltime caregivers of aging parents or other relatives. Those caregiving duties can exact a big financial toll: Wages, pensions (including 401(k) and similar plans) and Social Security benefits lost to caregiving can amount to more than $300,000 over a lifetime, according to the National Academy of Sciences.

Improve your financial outlook with these steps Take full advantage of retirement plans. If your employer offers a 401k or similar plan, put in as much as you can afford each year and increase your contributions when your salary goes up. Choose the mix of investments that can provide the most growth potential, given your individual risk tolerance. Also even if you contribute to a 401k, you may be eligible to find an IRA, which gives you more investment choices. Evaluate Social Security options. You can typically start taking Social Security benefits at 62. But

monthly checks will be much larger if you wait until “full” retirement age, likely between 66 and 67. Also consider whether you’d be better off by taking spousal benefits, if your spouse earned more money than you. You’re generally eligible for spousal benefits even if divorced as long as you were married at least 10 years and haven’t remarried. Look for unexpected income opportunities. Even after you’ve formally retired, find ways to receive some earned income. Perhaps you can work part-time or do some consulting. If you’re a caregiver, you might be able to receive some compensation for your work. Many local governments pay non-spouse caregivers who act as personal attendants, although the rules vary greatly by state and county.

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Creative ways to incorporate family fitness into your lifestyle We all know how important an active lifestyle is for long-term health and well-being. And now that the warm weather has arrived, there’s no reason not get outdoors and get moving. While eating a diet that is low in fat and high in whole-grain fiber, vegetables and lean proteins is important to our overall health, exercise remains one of the key factors in maintaining a healthy weight. However, many adults and children simply do not get enough exercise during the day. An active lifestyle is often hampered by the prevalence of digital devices or sedentary jobs that encourage more screen time than fitness time. But there are ways for the entire family to get fit. Exercising together is not just a great way for families to get healthy, but also a great opportunity to spend time together. The following are a handful of ways families can work together to incorporate more exercise into their daily lives. Tackle chores. Yes, tasks around the house can count as exercise. Working together not only gets you moving but also cuts down on the time it takes to tackle tasks around the house. Mowing the lawn, vacuuming the rugs, sweeping the floor -- all of these activities can get the heart pumping. Make it fun by setting chores to music or competing against one another to see who gets their task done first or the best. Compete in the pool. Swimming is a low-impact activity that works many muscles in the body. Taking a dip in the pool can be both relaxing and beneficial to your health. Compete with family members to make the most of the time spent in the water. Host relay swimming races, see how long each member of the family can tread water or create any other competitions that keep everyone in the pool moving. Create an outdoor obstacle course. Set up a series of obstacles in your yard and host your own triathlon. You can jump through tires, climb through tubes and scale trees. Make it fun by having adults try to ride tricycles or pair up an adult with a child for sack races. The opportunities for fun are only hampered by your imagination. Go for family bicycle rides. Traverse your neighborhood or

blaze new trails by riding bikes together. Young children can be strapped into trailers that are pulled behind the bike or ride in seats attached to the bike itself. This gives everyone a chance to enjoy the great outdoors and hone their cycling skills. Go hiking. Hiking is another fun family activity that also happens to make for great exercise. Choose a trail that may not be level and push everyone’s endurance to the test. Stroll the beach. We’re lucky enough to live close to the

beach, so take advantage of our many beaches and incorporate them into your fitness routine. Walking or running on sand offers more resistance than walking on pavement. Take a stroll at the seaside. Break up the walk by collecting shells or stopping by the water to observe marine wildlife. Above photo: Make exercise a family affair. Teach your children to embrace good fitness and nutrition habits while they are young.

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Finding fellowship through Rotary Club For 77 years, the Freeport-Merrick Rotary Club has fulfilled the Rotary International motto: “Service Above Self.” While a local chapter of the group, the services provided by the Freeport-Merrick club extend overseas. One international project that shows the club’s dedication is their support for engineering a well in a small Haitian village, Anse Pirogue. The well-creating process began in 2018, explained club vice president Marc Rigueur. Once the well-diggers struck water, infrastructure for the pump came next. The pump is successful, “but,” Rigueur said, “because the water’s brackish, it does have to be filtered.” The club is now fund-raising for the filtration system, he said, and hopes “to set up an infrastructure so neighboring towns can also benefit from it as well.” The club’s commitment to local projects shone when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. To keep their three-times-weekly schedule of meetings intact, the Freeport-Merrick Rotarians set up the first Zoom meetings in Rotary District 7255. “The Zoom meetings helped us provide emotional support to each other when things were hard,” club president Florence Marc-Charles said. “We had members whose mothers and friends were very affected by Covid.” The club’s activities forged ahead. Among other projects, it donated 4,000 face masks to the Freeport School District and 2,000 masks to Freeport Village Hall and financed 600 face shields for local hospitals and clinics. At Thanksgiving, it helped stock food pantry shelves at the Salvation Army and the BellmoreMerrick Central High School District Community Cupboard. For Christmas, it partnered with the Freeport school district to provide gift cards for 21 children living in shelters. This past March, the club raised $2,000 by holding a pop-up campaign, selling popcorn through the fundraiser sales site Double Good. “This is the end of the Rotary year,” Marc-Charles said, “so the funds raised will be allocated to the projects approved last July when the board submitted the [2020-2021] plan to the club.” “It’s a very effective organization,” said Jordan Pecora, who joined the club in late summer 2020. He enjoys both the fellowship and the club’s way of achieving projects “with our grit, our desire, and our creativity.” Rotary International has a strong structure that supports local clubs and maintains careful accountability. “Rotary does audit and make sure that whatever we say we are going to do, we get it done, and that the money is allocated appropriately,” Marc-Charles said. The Freeport-Merrick Rotary Club looks forward to expanding its outreach, members explained.

“We have set up our website and now have a Facebook account, so we can continue doing these things on a larger scale,” Rigueur said. “There have been many things we have been able to accomplish as a team, as a group, as a club,” Marc-Charles said. “It gives a lot of joy. That’s all I can say.” Club news and contact information can be found at www.freeportmerrickrotary.org.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO. 30-2021 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing was duly called and held May 4, 2021, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 30-2021, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 30-2021, amending Section 197-5 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, to include “ARTERIAL STOPS” at various locations. Dated: May 4, 2021 Hempstead, New York BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 125929 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO. 28-2021 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing was duly called and held May 4, 2021, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 28-2021, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 28-2021, amending Chapter 202 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, to include and repeal “REGULATIONS & RESTRICTIONS” to limit parking at various locations. Dated: May 4, 2021 Hempstead, New York BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARDOF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 125927

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL DISTRICT VOTE OF THE BELLMOREMERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual vote of the qualified voters of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, Nassau County, New York, will be held on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at the several polling places designated by the

Bellmore, Merrick, North Bellmore, and North Merrick Union Free School Districts, as follows: BELLMORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, at the Shore Road School, 2801 Shore Road, Bellmore, New York, between 6:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. MERRICK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, at the Norman J. Levy Lakeside School, 21 Babylon Road, Merrick, NewYork, between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. NORTH BELLMORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, at the Newbridge Road School, 1601 Newbridge Road, Bellmore, NewYork, between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. NORTH MERRICK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, at the North Merrick Public Library, 1691 Meadowbrook Road, North Merrick, New York, between 6:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. For the following purposes: PROPOSITION NO. 1 CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, is authorized to expend the sums in the General Fund Appropriate of one hundred seventy million, one hundred sixty thousand, four hundred six dollars ($170,160,406) to be raised through taxation in the several districts included with the Central High School District after first deducting the monies available from state aid and other sources. AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that registration shall be conducted at the several polling places stated above by the Boards of Registration of the several component districts as follows: the Bellmore Union Free School District at the District Office, Winthrop Avenue School, 580 Winthrop Avenue, Bellmore, New York, on all school days of the school year until five (5) days preceding the vote between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.; the Merrick Union Free School District at all district schools on all school days of the school year until five (5) days preceding the vote between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.; the North Bellmore Union Free School District at the Administrative Office, 2616 Martin Avenue, Bellmore, New York, and all district schools on all school days of the school year until five (5) days preceding the vote between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.; and the North Merrick Union Free School District at the Harold D. Fayette School, 1057 Merrick Avenue, Merrick, New

York, on all school days of the school year until five (5) days preceding the vote between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., and additionally on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, at the Harold D. Fayette School between the hours of 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for the purpose of preparing a register of the qualified voters entitled to vote at the school meeting and election for which such register is prepared, in the manner provided by law. The register, as so prepared, will be filed in the office of the clerk at each of the respective Union Free School Districts as set forth in this notice of meeting and such register is to be open for inspection at reasonable times for at least five (5) days prior to the date set for voting on the budget and election, except Sunday, and by appointment only between the hours 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on the Saturday prior to the election. AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a person shall be entitled to vote at the annual meeting and election who is a citizen of the United States, eighteen years of age, a resident of the Union Free School District in which he intends to vote for a period of thirty days next preceding the election he offers to vote and registered to vote for said election. A person shall be registered to vote if he or she shall have permanently registered with the Nassau County Board of Elections or with the Board of Registration of the component Union Free School District in which he resides. Only persons who shall be registered shall be entitled to vote. AND NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Boards of Registration of the several component Union Free School Districts will meet during the hours of voting on May 18, 2021 at the polling places in each of the Union Free School Districts for the purpose of preparing a register for district meetings or elections to be held subsequent to May 18, 2021; said register shall include (1) all qualified voters of the Union Free School Districts, who shall present themselves personally for registration; and (2) all qualified voters permanently registered with the Nassau County Board of Elections. AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for school purposes (school budget) and copies of propositions involving expenditure of moneys and the operation of the school system for the ensuing year, may be

obtained by any taxpayer in the District during the fourteen days immediately preceding the annual vote except Saturday, Sunday or holidays, at school district offices and any public within the district and on the district’s website. AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots for the school district election may be applied for at the Office of the Clerk of the District. Applications for absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk no earlier than thirty (30) days before the election. Furthermore, such application must be received by the District Clerk at least seven days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the election if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter or his/her designated agent. Upon receiving a timely request for a mailed absentee ballot, the District Clerk will mail the ballot to the address set forth in the application by no later than six (6) days before the vote. No absentee voter’s ballot will be canvassed unless it has been received in the office of the District Clerk not later than 5:00 P.M. (prevailing time) on the day of the election. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available for inspection at the Office of the Clerk until the day of the vote. AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the school district. Military voters who are qualified voters of the school district may submit an application for a military ballot. Military voters may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration, military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile transmission or electronic mail in their request for such registration, ballot application or ballot. Military voter registration forms and military ballot application forms must be received in the office of the District Clerk of the school district no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 22, 2021. No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is (1) received in the office of the District Clerk before the close of the polls on election day and showing a cancellation mark of the United States postal service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States government; or (2) received by the office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 p.m. on election day and signed and dated by the military

voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is associated to be not later than the day before the election. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT PATTIANNE GUCCIONE DISTRICT CLERK The above notice will be published in the Bellmore and Merrick Herald Life newspapers on Thursday, April 1, 2021, April 15, 2021, April 29, 2021 and May 13, 2021. 125733 LEGAL NOTICE AVISO DE VOTO ANUAL DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT CIUDAD DE HEMPSTEAD, CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK EL AVISO SE HA DADO AQUI que el voto anual de los votantes calificados del BellmoreMerrick Central High School District, el Condado de Nassau, Nueva York, se llevará a cabo el Martes, el 18 de Mayo de 2021, en los varios lugares de votación designados por el Bellmore, Merrick, North Bellmore y North Merrick Union Free School Districts, de la siguiente manera: BELLMORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, en la escuela Shore Road, 2801 Shore Road, Bellmore, Nueva York, entre las 6:30 a.m. y las 9:00 p.m. MERRICK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, en la escuela Norman J. Levy Lakeside, 21 Babylon Road, Merrick, Nueva York, entre las 7:00 a.m. y las 9:00 p.m. NORTH BELLMORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT en la escuela Newbridge Road, 1601 Newbridge Road, Bellmore, Nueva York, entre las 6:00 a.m. y las 9:00 p.m. NORTH MERRICK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, en la Biblioteca Pública de North Merrick, 1691 Meadowbrook Road, North Merrick, Nueva York, entre las 6:30 a.m. y las 9:00 p.m. Para los siguientes propósitos: PROPOSICIÓN NUMERO 1- PRESUPUESTO DEL DISTRITO CENTRAL DE LA ESCUELA SECUNDARIA SE RESUELVE, que la Junta de Educación del Distrito Central de la Escuela Secundaria de Bellmore-Merrick, Ciudad de Hempstead, Condado de Nassau, está autorizada a gastar las sumas Apropriadas del Fondo General de ciento setenta millones ciento sesenta mil cuatrocientos seis dolares ($170,160,406) que se recaudarán a través de dólares de impuestos en los distritos escolares incluidos en el Distrito Central de La Escuela Secundaria después de deducir los fondos disponibles de la ayuda

estatal y otras fuentes de ingresos. Y TAMBIÉN SE DA AVISO que el registro se llevará a cabo en los lugares de votación indicados anteriormente por Las Juntas de Registro de los varios distritos componentes de la siguiente manera: la Bellmore Union Free School District en la Oficina del Distrito, Winthrop Avenue School, 580 Winthrop Avenue, Bellmore, Nueva York, en todos los días de clases del año escolar hasta cinco (5) días anteriores a la votación entre el horario de 9:00 a.m. y las 3:00 p.m.; la Merrick Union Free School District en todas las escuelas del distrito en todos los días de clases del año escolar hasta cinco (5) días anteriores a la votación entre las horas de 9:30 a.m. y 3:30 p.m.; la North Bellmore Union Free School District en la Oficina Administrativa, 2616 Martin Avenue, Bellmore, Nueva York, y todas las escuelas del distrito en todos los días de clases del año escolar hasta cinco (5) días anteriores a la votación entre las horas de 9:00 a.m. y 3:00 p.m.; y la North Merrick Union Free School District en la escuela Harold D. Fayette, 1057 Merrick Avenue, Merrick, Nueva York, en todos los días escolares del año escolar hasta cinco (5) días antes de la votación entre las 9:00 a.m. y 4:00 p.m., y además, el miércoles el 12 de Mayo de 2021, en la Escuela de Fayette D. Harold entre las horas de 4:00 p.m y 8:00 p.m con el fin de preparar un registro de los votantes calificados con derecho a votar en la reunión de la escuela y la elección para la que dicho registro es preparado, en la forma prevista por la ley. El registro, como así preparado, será archivado en la Oficina del Secretario (District Clerk) en cada uno de los respectivos Distritos Unión Libre como se establece en este aviso y dicho registro sera abierto por inspección en horas razonables hasta cinco (5) días antes de la fecha establecida para votar sobre el presupuesto y la elección del distrito, excepto el Domingo y solo con cita entre las 9:00 a.m. y las 12:00 p.m. el sábado anterior de la elección. Y TAMBIÉN SE DA AVISO que una persona quien es cuidadano de Los Estados Unidos, tenga diez y ocho años de edad y es residente del Distrito Escolar de la Unión en el que se tiene la intención de votar a favor un período de treinta días antes de la elección y esta registrado para votar para la elección dicha tendrá derecho a votar. Una persona debera ser registrada para votar si el o ella han registrado

permanente con La Junta de Elecciones del Condado de Nassau (Nassau County Board of Elections) o con La Junta de Registro (Board of Registration) del distrito donde el o ella reside. Solamente las personas que estan registradas tienen el derecho para votar. Y ADEMÁS SE NOTIFICA que Las Juntas de Registro (Boards of Registration) de las varias escuelas componentes tendran una reunion el 18 de Mayo 2021 durante las horas de votación en los lugares de votación en cada escuela para el propósito de preparer el registro para que las elecciones tendran lugar despues del 18 de Mayo 2021; El Registro incluirá (1) todos los votantes calificados de las escuelas, quines se p r e s e n t á r a n personalemente para registro; y (2) todos votantes calificados permanente registrados con la Junta Electoral del Condado de Nassau (Nassau County Board of Elections). Y TAMBIÉN SE DA AVISO que una copia de la declaración de la cantidad de presupuestos que serán requerido para el proximo año escolar y copias de las proposiciónes involucrando gastos y la operación del systema del distrito para el proximo año, se puede obtener por cualquier contribuyente en el districto durante de los catorce dias inmediatamente anteriores del voto anual excepto Sabado, Domingo, o los dias de fiesta, en las oficinas del distrito y cualquier público dentro del distrito y en el sitio web del distrito. Y TAMBIÉN SE DA AVISO que pueden aplicar para la votación por ausencia para la elección del districto en la Oficina Del Secretario de Distrito (District Clerk). El secretatio de distrito debe recibir las solicitudes para boletas de voto ausente no antes de treinta (30) días antes de la elección. Además, la solicitud debe ser recibida por el secretario de distrito al menos siete días antes de la elección si la boleta debe enviarse por correo al votante, o el día antes de la elección si la boleta debe ser entregada personalmente al votante o su agente designado. Al recibir una solicitud oportuna de una boleta de voto ausente enviada por correo, el secretario de distrito enviará la boleta a la dirección indicada en la solicitud a más tardar seis (6) días antes de la votación. No se procederá al escrutinio de ninguna boleta de votante ausente a menos que se haya recibido en la oficina del secretario de distrito no más tardar que las 5:00 p.m. (hora

prevaleciente) el día de la elección. Una lista de todas las personas que solicitaron una votación por ausencia debe estar disponible para inspección en la Oficina Del Secretario de Distrito (District Clerk) hasta el día de la votación. Y TAMBIÉN SE DA AVISO de que los votantes militares que no están registrados actualmente pueden registrarse como votantes calificados del distrito escolar. Los votantes militares que sean votantes calificados del distrito escolar pueden presentar una solicitud para una boleta militar. Los votantes militares pueden designar una preferencia para recibir un registro de votante militar, una solicitud de boleta militar o una boleta militar por correo, transmisión por fax o correo electrónico en su solicitud de dicho registro, solicitud de boleta o boleta. Las formas de registro de votantes militares y las formas de solicitud de boletas militares deben ser recibidas en la oficina del secretario de distrito del distrito escolar no más tarde que a las 5:00 p.m. el 22 de abril de 2021. No se escrutará ninguna boleta militar a menos que (1) se reciba en la oficina del Secretario de Distrito antes del cierre de las urnas el día de las elecciones y que muestre una marca de cancelación del servicio postal de los Estados Unidos o de un servicio postal de un país extranjero, o mostrando un endoso fechado de recibo de otra agencia del gobierno de los Estados Unidos; o (2) recibido por la oficina del secretario de distrito no más tarde que las 5:00 p.m. el día de la elección y firmada y fechada por el votante militar y un testigo del mismo, con una fecha que se asocia a no ser mas tarde del día anterior de la elección POR ORDEN DE LA JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT PATTIANNE GUCCIONE SECRETARIO DE DISTRITO El aviso anterior se publicará en los periódicos Herald Life de Bellmore y Merrick el Jueves, el 1 de Abril de 2021, el 15 de Abril de 2021, el 29 de Abril de 2021 y el 13 de mayo de 2021. 125735 LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that an order granted by the Supreme Court Nassau County on the 23rd day of April, 2021, bearing Index No.: 602553-21, copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Mineola, New York, grants me the right to assume the name Rain Lauren Disa Weber. My present address is 1413 Little Whaleneck Road,

Three vie for two seats in North Merrick

MERRICK HERALD — May 13, 2021

Three candidates will appear on voters’ ballots in the North Merrick School District. They are vying for two seats. Incumbent Michelle Gordon, the board’s current vice president, is up for re-election, and Kathy Moran and Mary Keene are making their first runs for the board. Below are the backgrounds of each candidate, provided by the candidates themselves.

Michelle Gordon (Incumbent)

Kathy Moran

Courtesy Michelle Gordon

I have been a resident of North Merrick for 38 years where my husband and I have raised 3 children, Shawn, 35, Kelli, 33, and Shannon, 29, who attended the Old Mill Road School, Merrick Avenue Middle School, and Calhoun High School. In addition, to a son in law Steve, and a future son in law, Ricky. We are also the proud grandparents of 2 adorable grandsons ages 3 and 20 months (can’t forget them!). In 1996, when my youngest entered kindergarten, I applied for a job with the North Merrick School District as a lunch monitor. In 2000, I became the first paraprofessional at H.D. Fayette, earning the PTA Honorary Life Award for my work with the children. I continued in that capacity until 2003 when I briefly worked for the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District in the Personnel Department. In 2004, I returned to where my heart was, the North Merrick School District, where I worked as a Clerk Typist at the Camp Avenue School until my retirement in June of 2020. During my time at Camp Avenue I vol-

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My present address is: 2115 Lindgren Street Merrick NY 11566 / Mobile: 917-656-4987 The date of my birth is: 05-12-67 The Place of Birth is: Puerto Rico The Present name is: Elba Lissette Pagan Aponte a/k/a Lissette Pagan 125912 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and Municipal Home Rule of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing will be held in the Town Meeting

Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, New York, on the 25th day of May, 2021, at 10:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day to consider the enactment of a local law to amend Chapter 202 of the code of the Town of Hempstead to INCLUDE “REGULATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS” to limit parking at the following locations: MERRICK Section 202-11 ORR STREET (TH 113/21) East Side - TWO HOUR PARKING 8 AM TO 4 PM EXCEPT SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS - starting at a point 125 feet north of the roadway termination north for a distance of 48 feet.

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Courtesy Mary Keene

Kathy Moran

Mary Keene

unteered on the Safety Committee and spent numerous years on the Site Based Committee. In addition, I volunteered for the Camp Avenue Book Club during lunch hours. I was once again honored with the PTA Honorary Life Award at Camp Avenue and in 2014 I received a Support Staff Service Award from SCOPE Education Services. Now that I am retired, I would love to still have input in the district I have grown to love. This school district has made our neighborhood a wonderful place to raise children. I have seen the workings of the district as both a parent and a former employee, and I will promise to always have the children’s best interest at heart while practicing fiscal responsibility. It would truly be an honor to serve the district as a member of the Board of Education.

years ago to address the class sizes of our primary grades. A few years later, there was a pest problem at Old Mill that was even more appalling. I led a committee that forced the school district to call an emergency meeting and eventually put together a committee of stakeholders to address the problem. A few years later, I was very vocal in speaking out against ideas brought forward by our current superintendent because they were not in the best interest of our children or teachers. In July of 2017, I was very discouraged by the lack of information we were receiving from our school district and rumors floating around the Board of Education. I knew I had to try and do something. A friend and I started a grassroots movement called Concerned Residents of North Merrick (CRONM). We constantly FOILed for documents to get answers to our questions. Knowing how busy everyone was (between work and children) and how much we spend on taxes, CRONM decided to videotape board meetings and post them online so all residents would have access to the information. We even wrote summaries of the meetings to go along with the videos to maximize convenience for people. Most importantly, we wanted to increase voter turnout at board elections since these elections directly impact our wallets. As you just read, I am not someone who suddenly just arrived on the scene to run for a BOE seat. I have been advocating and involved for years. As a NM BOE trustee, I will always try my hardest to protect your tax dollars and advocate for our children and teachers so North Merrick continues to be a wonderful place to live and work.

Michelle Gordon (Incumbent)

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Merrick, New York 11566. The date of my birth is March 18, 1999. My present name is Rachel Lauren Disa Weber. 125898

Courtesy Kathy Moran

Mary Keene

As a resident of North Merrick for fifteen years, a mother of four children who attend Old Mill Road School, Merrick Avenue Middle School, and Calhoun High School, I am the perfect person to be the next North Merrick school board trustee. I have been a community advocate the last ten years, on the PTA nominating committee, PTA audit committee, a catechist at Sacred Heart, a volleyball coach, and I have attended almost every live board of education meeting, special meeting, and budget meeting the last four years. In addition, I have been speaking to neighbors about our always increasing school tax bill. With all my experiences, I have a strong pulse on the NM community and a very strong concern for North Merrick taxpayers. I began attending board meetings ten

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My family and I have lived in North Merrick for the past 11 years and have two children in our schools. For past three years, I have been on the North Merrick Board of Education, the last two as vice president. My tenure has resulted in many great accomplishments for our residents and students. The 2019-20 adopted budget was a 1.89 percent budget to budget increase — one of the lowest in the County. Our 2020-21 adopted budget was only a 1.42 percent budget to budget increase. This is the second lowest in 30 years. Both budgets, while conservative, were able to maintain current class size, current programs, clubs and after school activities. I like to think of these as preserving the integrity of our North Merrick School District. Our taxes and the children of North Merrick will always be my focal point. In the past three years, I have been instrumental in bringing additional programs to enhance our children’s learning experience, at no additional costs to the tax payers. As the sitting VP, I worked collectively with my other board members, administration and the teachers’ union to ensure the full-time re-opening of our schools after being on quarantine for the remainder of the school year last year. I believe my knowledge and dedication speak for itself and hope to return to the board to continue the great work we do here in North Merrick.

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president, Dr. James Shuart, was a hardworking, affable guy, a good administrator and a competent leader. I like to describe the time after Shuart’s retirement as the Rabinowitz era. In the early 2000s, the private-college scene changed drastically. The economy suffered numerous ups and downs, and college presidents couldn’t afford to sit idly by. Hofstra was known as a commuter school, and hadn’t attracted much attention beyond Long Island. At the outset, Rabinowitz recognized that something more dramatic had to be done to make Hofstra a destination for students outside the bi-county area. Any college that wants to attract new students must be ranked by the various college publications. Course offerings and campus environment are a very big deal to any prospective student, and it was important for Hofstra to expand its offerings and make the campus atmosphere attractive and safe. Rabinowitz embraced the challenge with vigor. Today, Hofstra is one of only three schools in the downstate area that offer degrees in engineering, medicine and law. If you tour the campus today, you’ll find six new schools: the Donald and Bar-

bara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell; the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies; the Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science; the Peter Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs; the Lawrence Herbert School of Communications and the newest of the campus buildings, the state-of-the-art Frank G. Zarb School of Business. Thanks to Rabinowitz’s dedication, the university is now known by rival schools around the country. One of his crowning achievements was Hofstra’s being the only college in the country to host three presidential debates. Few people know what a headache these debates are for any college that is chosen to stage one. Media from around the world descend on the campus, and the human and organizational demands of hosting such an event discourage most institutions from applying. Rabinowitz has not been content just to be the leader of a growing and successful institution. On numerous occasions he has been called on by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to head up state commissions, and he currently co-chairs the Long Island Regional Development Council, which has helped

hanks to Dr. Stuart Rabinowitz, the university is now known around the country.

deliver $727 million for over 900 projects. Some people would consider serving on these bodies a full time job, but Rabinowitz has managed those responsibilities without being distracted from the rigorous job of running a university. If you ask him what his greatest challenge has been in his years at Hofstra, he would probably say running a college in the middle of an ongoing pandemic. Providing an education for thousands of students — inside and outside the classroom — while keeping them safe is a herculean task for any college president, but Rabinowitz successfully steered the college through this monumental year-plus-long headache, often acting as if it were just another day on the job. Long Island has been blessed with many fine college presidents over the years. Rabinowitz would be the first to ask why he should be singled out for recognition, because that’s the Stu Rabinowitz many have come to know and respect. He will step down in August, leaving a lasting imprint not only on Hofstra, but on the entire Long Island community. Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.

Gotta get up, get out and do something bold

s poet Mary Oliver asks, “What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” In our (almost) post-pandemic lives, the question presses us for an answer. What will we do now that we faced the fact that our days are finite and fleeting? The remedy for a year of loss is a new season of action, and even daring. “Daring” is a relative concept. My ancestors never went west of the Hudson River. My dream is to go west, traveling across the country in the steps of the RANDI pioneers of the KREISS 1800s who headed for free land, independence and a new life in the wide-open spaces. I know I’m romanticizing the harrowing journey that could take up to a year and suck the life out of the voyagers. They raced west at 2 miles per hour, covering 20 miles a day — if they didn’t encounter an impassable river or hostiles hoping to raid their party. Some 250 years ago, a covered wagon was the cheapest way to move a household west, and there was strength in the num-

bers of wagons trundling across the prairies. For our Boomer trip, we plan to fly to Denver (skipping the flat parts) and then drive to California, about 16 hours. A wagon train is out of the question, so we booked an airplane and a rental car and will dine on fast food instead of jerky. In the old days, many of the westward travelers brought their cows and pigs along to keep them fed along the way. We will bring Lillybee the dog, who requires a reverse process in which we must feed her to keep her going. We have been to Komodo Island in Indonesia, the Arctic Circle in Norway and Table Mountain in South Africa, but this year, driving even partly across our own country feels thrilling. In some ways we are old school, or possibly just old. We bought an oversized road atlas that bumps the font up to something that is readable for us. My husband spends hours poring over the primary, secondary and scenic byways that could get us from Point A to Point B. I know we can use MapQuest and several other digital trip planners and maps, but this is way more fun. And anyway, on my computer the

AAA maps keep zooming in and out of control. One minute I’m looking at the road from Denver to Laramie and the next minute I’m in a hill town outside Bangkok. Along the way, we may not face Sitting Bull, who rightfully suspected that the emigrating hordes would kill his people and trash his world, but I expect we will be edified by the culture and politics of the places between the coasts. Read “edified” any way you like. Our first real challenge was booking plane tickets. Apparently, everyone is on the road. No exaggeration, the wait time to talk to a Delta agent was 3½ hours. Next, we needed a rental car. Very quickly we discovered that a reasonable car would cost way more than our flights. The pioneers didn’t even ride in their wagons because the terrain was a nightmare of ditches and holes and broken wheels. And while the western voyagers pushed ahead fearlessly, we piled on the insurance. Wagon train journeys cost as much as $1,000 for a family of four. Today, some rental car companies are charging that per day for large SUVs.

f you’re flying and driving these days, the rental car can cost as much as the airfare.

Then we booked a rental house up in a mountain town where wildfires are a constant threat over the summer and autumn. It may seem knuckle-headed to choose a fire zone for vacation, but it seems to run in the family. Our kids live there. At least we won’t face the pioneers’ hardships of limited diet and the threats of cholera, flu, dysentery, measles, mumps, tuberculosis and typhoid fever. Not that bouncing from McDonald’s to Burger King is a healthy regimen. We trust that our recent Covid-19 vaccines will still be effective in the coming months as we drive through areas where some folks don’t believe in either the disease or the inoculation. Our drive will take us from Denver through Wyoming and Nevada, into California. Part of me thinks we need not just a plan but also a plan B and a plan C. What if we get to Denver and we can’t get a rental car? What if we get to California but don’t feel like making the drive back to Denver for our flight home? What if we need to evacuate our rental house in the middle of the night? But the better part of me says westward ho. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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When will America grow up on guns? To the Editor: I just read Scott Brinton’s column “The story that haunts me all these years later” (May 6-12). In 1970, on my last day of a 415-day tour of duty in Vietnam, I learned of the killing of Jeffrey Miller. Awaiting the flight home, listening to the Knicks game (the “Willis Reed game”) on Armed Forces Radio, and reading the Army’s Stars & Stripes, I had survived my tour of duty. Meanwhile, Jeff, the younger brother of my great friend Russell Miller, was one of the four students killed by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University during a protest against the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. I had survived a more than year-long combat zone tour, and Jeff had lost his life while on a college campus. The irony is still palpable. Russ is a friend still. We have memories of

letters our Bronx neighborhood, Cub Scouts and stickball. Jeff was 20 years old when he died. Justice was not served in 1970. Perhaps the George Floyd case is a step forward, but gun culture remains a real barrier to advancement, to my mind, in American society. In Vietnam, I never fired my M-16 in anger or defense. When will we grow up as a nation? Thanks to Brinton for his piece. RICK HERMAN Lido Beach

‘Change the street, change the world’ To the Editor: The Herald’s Earth Day editorial, “L.I. is making strides on the environmental front” (April 22-28), noted encouraging progress in addressing three major environmental problems on Long Island. It rightly hailed remedial

actions to clean up the Northrop Grumman toxic plume in Bethpage, an outfall pipe that spews fish-killing effluent into Reynolds Channel off Long Beach and the huge amounts of nitrogen fertilizer spread on golf courses and home lawns. The editorial did not, however, call for targeting a far greater source of pollution that threatens public health across Long Island, New York state, the U.S. and the planet. The environmental damage highlighted by the Herald is vastly exceeded by the toll taken by everincreasing volumes of automobile traffic, and this destruction takes more forms than just the climate instability caused by burning fossil fuels. Cars pose immediate, daily threats to human life. Reckless driving resulted in 284 deaths in Nassau County in 2019 alone. Vehicle operators and passengers accounted for most of those fatalities, but crashes also killed several pedestrians and cyclists, including young children. Has this carnage become so commonplace that we have come to pay it no mind or view it as an inevitable byproduct of convenient transportation?

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ews sources are filled with reports of claims about “woke” universities and corporations (awake to racial injustice), complaints about critical race theory (that race is an invented category used to oppress people of color), and anti-racism training sessions (often designed to help white people experience being a member of a minority group). In addition, organizations and institutions are making plans to ensure DEI: diversity of membership, equity for all people roBert a. and inclusive practices to ensure that sCott Black and Brown people are not excluded. The partisan divide already evident in our society is being deepened by those who complain that this focus on race is motivated by “hatred” of America. For others, “woke” initiatives are urgent calls for a national reckoning of public policies and private prejudices that explain the vast differences in wealth and opportunity between whites and Blacks. Our history is replete with discrimination against Native American and Asian citizens as well. Unlike our own, the German government has supported reparations and museums to acknowledge public and private complicity in anti-Semitism, the Holocaust

and other war crimes. In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission did something similar. Here in the U.S., the National Museum for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., and other memorials were inspired by the Holocaust Museum in Berlin and the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, but are supported privately. The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington received $270 million from the federal government — the cost of one corporate Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The balance of the funding was raised privately. In America we have no federal acknowledgement of racism and slavery, and standard school curricula ignore this history while they celebrate such “achievements” as western expansion. Meanwhile, police officers use federally provided military equipment and weapons against Black motorists and pedestrians. In response, large crowds protest and called for change. Some have called for “defunding” the police, because armed forces on the streets belie a commitment to community protection. There is no denying the force of institutional racism in our country. The question is how to acknowledge and fix it. We need the courage to listen to the pleas and engage the truths. We need to foster an honest respect for history and differences. We need to take affirmative action to com-

t is not enough, Lyndon Johnson said, just to open the gates of opportunity.

Letters Cars not only steal lives; they also squander the precious time we are given on this earth. The average Long Islander spends 81 hours a year — the equivalent of more than three full days — sitting in traffic, according to an April 8 report in Newsday. Then there is the ugliness of much of Long Island’s commercial landscape, the result of our car-dependent way of life. One road in Nassau looks a lot like most other roads across the county: a series of shopping centers, strip malls and parking lots. Long Island once abounded in natural beauty; now it’s buried beneath endless pavement and honky-tonk signage meant to attract car travelers. It’s easy to say that nothing can be done and it’s too late to repair the wreckage. Maybe that’s so. But do we not owe our children and grandchildren at least an attempt to achieve alternatives to wasteful and deadly over-reliance on private automobiles? Suburban jurisdictions and individuals do have the power to fashion a more livable, sustainable future. We can promote and expand Long Island’s bus and train networks, develop hundreds of miles of protected bike paths and reconfigure residential areas to allow easy pedestrian access to shops and businesses.

pensate for past injustices and promote fair opportunities, based not on skin color but on the consequences of state, federal and private sanctions. President Lyndon Johnson introduced his idea of affirmative action 56 years ago by arguing that “Freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please. You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘you are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.” It is not enough, Johnson said, just to open the gates of opportunity. Those who have suffered discrimination must have the resources necessary to walk through the gates and take advantage of the opportunity. These resources include housing, nutrition, adequate schooling, safe neighborhoods and protection, not persecution, by the police. Arguments about white privilege and advocacy of anti-racist training can be instructive, but they are not sufficient. They do not make up for government policies that denied access to housing, education and business development, as occurred with the post-World War II G.I. Bill. They do not compensate for the pri-

vate prejudices that continue to limit opportunities in education and employment. They do not bring reparations to compensate for 400 years of discrimination. Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson, a Democrat, is the lead sponsor of H.R. 40, which would establish a commission to study reparations for slavery. She has said that bringing the bill to a vote in the House would be “cleansing” for the country, and asked her Republican colleagues not to “cancel” debate on the issue. The 13-member commission, Jackson explained, would “study the effects of slavery and racial discrimination, hold hearings … recommend appropriate remedies … and consider what form a national apology could take for the harm caused by slavery.” Those in favor of reparations argue that “today’s descendants of enslaved people and those who look like them continue to suffer from the lingering legacy of slavery and persistent racial inequities.” So, instead of accusations of white privilege and woke universities, let’s have a serious discussion of the past, how to acknowledge it and what to do about it. We need more history and less histrionics. Germans and South Africans were not afraid to confront their past. Surely we can do the same with honest listening and civil discourse. The truth shall, indeed, set us free. Robert Scott is president emeritus of Adelphi University and the author of “How University Boards Work,” Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.

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It was then New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s visionary transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, who memorably encapsulated all this by observing, “If you change the street, you change the world.” KEvIN J. KELLEY Atlantic Beach

3,070 days later, still no action on Sandy Hook To the Editor: Re “The heartache of gun violence continues” (April 29-May 5): The editorial stated, “Since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012, when we pledged to never allow another mass shooting like this to happen again after 26 were killed,” but the “we” applied only to the vast majority of the American public, and obviously not to all 535 members of Congress — as our elected leaders have now failed to pass common-sense gun-control legislation for an astounding 3,070 days since the tragedy. Unfortunately, the shooting death of a single beloved Stop & Shop store manager will surely not produce any gun-control

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laws if the 20 killings of 6- and 7-year-old first-graders in the Sandy Hook slaughter did not. But I wish it somehow could help shame Congress into attempting a do-over for their failure even to ban assault rifles after the Newtown, Conn., massacre. Dec. 14, 2020, was the eighth anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. To me, a retired elementary school teacher, it will

always be another “date which will live in infamy,” even though it did not take the 2,000-plus lives that led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to brand the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor with the phrase. RICHARD SIEGELMAN Plainview

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