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Foster, recounted.

Foster said he’s “I wanted to move on to the been training for about five next step,” Foster said. “At 15, I years, and that he took a break signed up for a [wrestling] school during the coronavirus quaranin Deer Park, and started going tine because he wanted to keep three days a week.” The school, his family safe. He recently startNew York Wrestling Connection, ed training in Queens once a is “probably the most reputable w e e k w i t h t h e S p a n i s h school in the area,” Foster said.

“The school has had a bunch Continued on page 14

By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com

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A community that never forgets Families, friends and neighbors of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001, attended the Merrick Fire Department’s annual ceremony at the firefighters’ memorial on Saturday. Story, more photos, Page 3.

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Circle of Hope founder dies at 56

By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com

Cindy Knoll

Because of her affable nature, Cindy Knoll was everybody’s best friend. She was perhaps best known for one thing: getting people to passionately support a good cause. She was an influential member of the community who helped countless cancer

patients get through their struggles by sharing her own.

Knoll died of brain cancer on Aug. 31, at age 56.

As a breast cancer patient and a mother of three children, treatment and recovery were a struggle for Knoll. She relied on her own mother for help with her then 1-year-old daughter. She

had the support of her family, but envisioned a community web of support for all local cancer patients to ensure that they would have the help Knoll’s mother provided her.

In 2012, Knoll cofounded the Circle of Hope, at the Chabad of Merrick-Bellmore-WantContinued on page 11

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MERRICk FIRE DEpARtMENt Ladies Auxiliary members stood beside volunteers as they saluted during the National Anthem at the 9/11 ceremony on Saturday.

Merrick F.D. marks 9/11 20th anniversary

By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com

It was an emotional evening, but one in which the community again stood together. Twenty years ago, the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center shook the Merrick community, which lost residents in the recovery efforts. On Saturday, the Merrick and North Merrick fire departments remembered the fallen at their annual ceremony.

More than 100 residents filled the street at the corner of Sunrise Highway and Merrick Avenue, where the Merrick firefighters’ memorial stands alongside a steel girder that once supported one of the towers. Dozens of firefighters solemnly stood by.

After Merrick Fire Department volunteer Tom DiBlasi read the poem that is engraved on the memorial, emcee Paul Waterman, an ex-chief of the department, delivered a somber speech that recounted his times with the men he once served beside.

“Twenty years is an awfully long time, perhaps to some a lifetime,” Waterman said. “Twenty years ago, our lives were changed forever. Time’s passing, yet for

us, there will be no forgetting Sept. 11.”

“I often think back on these gentlemen who made such an impact on our community, our city and our country 20 years ago; men who gave all who they were,” Waterman continued. “I had the privilege of knowing them, and in our firehouse culture, I had the privilege of laughing hysterically with them, and I had the privilege to learn from them. They were good, decent men who loved their families, contributed their talents to this community and really made the world a better place to live because of who they were.”

Wreaths were laid for ex-chief Ronnie Gies and ex-captain Bryan Sweeney, who gave their lives on that day.

“I remember him for the person he was,” said First Assistant Chief Ronnie Gies about his father. “He was a great person — he’s all of our heroes. He was amazing. He makes it tough every year because we miss him a lot.”

Nassau County Legislator Steve Rhoads, who is also a volunteer firefighter, added that the enduring lesson from Sept. 11 is “that we must never be afraid to recognize evil for what it is, to call it by name and to be united in our standing against it.”

FIRst AND sECoND assistant chiefs Ronnie Gies and Tom Basso, left, attended the ceremony.

A MAssIvE AMERICAN Flag, bottom left, hung parallel to Sunrise Highway. It grabbed the attention of many passersby, who honked in support of the department.

MERRICk REsIDENt suMMER Rizzo, center left, enjoyed the shining sun with Bodhi.

Ex-ChIEF pAul WAtERMAN was the evening’s emcee.

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Merrick man sentenced to 21 years for wife’s strangulation A Merrick man was sentenced on Monday to 21 years for the strangling death of his wife in February 2020 after an argument inside of their home, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s office.

John Gerges, 61, pled guilty before Judge Tammy Robbins in a Nassau County courtroom to first-degree manslaughter on July 20. Gerges was sentenced to 21 years and five years post-release supervision.

“A trivial argument sparked a violent attack that cost Marvat Gerges her life,” said acting District Attorney Joyce A. Smith. “Gerges committed the ultimate act of domestic violence and will now spend the next 21 years behind bars paying for his horrific crime.”

Smith said that in the early morning

hours of Feb. 22, 2020, Gerges strangled his wife, Marvat Gerges, 58, inside their Merrick home following a 3 a.m. verbal altercation over the cleanliness of their home.

Marvat was homebound with severe arthritis, and was found in the guest bedroom with marks around her neck by the couple’s adult son at roughly 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 22. The son called 911 immediately and Marvat was later pronounced dead.

Gerges was not home at the time his son found the body and did not return to the home until the following morning when he was questioned and later arrested by Nassau County Police Department detectives.

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An estimAted 2,000 people turned out for the Town of Hempstead’s 9/11 ceremony, held Saturday in Lido Beach.

Photos by Scott Brinton/Herald

Hempstead Town salutes 9/11 heroes

By JAmes Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com

Sept. 11, 2021, dawned as a stunningly beautiful late summer morning, the sky an azure blue and the sunshine a bright yellow — just as it was on the same day 20 years ago.

At the Hempstead Town Park at Lido Beach, there was a standing-room only crowd that gathered before a makeshift stage on the sand and also filled a wooden walkway leading from the parking lot.

The crowd, estimated by officials at about 2,000, had come to observe a milestone anniversary — the 20th year since two commercial jetliners were hijacked by terrorists, who used them as missiles to slam into each of the mAriAnee twin towers of the World Trade tABorsky Center, killing almost 3,000 peoMerrick ple.

The mood on the beach was somber.

“It was the day America lost its innocence,” said Marianee Taborsky, of Merrick, who came with her husband, Kevin. They embraced before taking seats set up on the beach. She had heard reports of the attack that morning and turned on her TV. “I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “This doesn’t happen to us. This was America.”

Speakers, including New York state’s new lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin, a former state senator from Harlem, spoke not only about the terror of that day, but also of the sacrifice of 9/ll responders. Others, including New York City police officers and Long Island legislators, talked of losing fathers, nephews and other relatives.

“I plan on being here every year that I am lieutenant governor,” Benjamin said. His predecessor, Kathy Hochul, now governor, had spoken at the Lido Beach ceremony last year.

Some of the loudest applause of the day came for New York Police Department Detective Vincent DeMarino, whose father, also Vincent DeMarino, of Valley Stream, a deputy chief in the city police department, died of can-

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t was the day America lost its innocence.

memBers of the Rockville Centre Fire Department served as the color guard at the Town of Hempstead’s 9/11 ceremony on Saturday to mark the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa. cer after working at the ruins of the World Trade Center.

Detective DeMarino was 9 on Sept. 11, 2001. He sat in class while other students were pulled out by their parents after the attacks. When he got home, he said, his mother explained to him that two planes had hit the trade center. She told him his father was “fine.”

“But she didn’t know that until he came home after 2 in the morning,” on Sept. 12, he said.

He said he father had been “the Energizer bunny, always busy” and chatty. “But after that day, he just sat down,” DeMarino said. In 2018, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor “directly linked to his work at ground zero,” he said. His father died 13 months later.

“He took his work at ground zero head on,” DeMarino said. “This was my dad. Share your story too.” The

crowd rose to its feet.

Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin noted that last year the observance was held in the Lido Beach parking lot, and the crowd was limited because of the coronavirus pandemic. This year, he said, the event could safely be held on the beach.

The 9/11 terrorist attacks “took a toll on the country,” Clavin said, but they also brought “unity and bravery.”

Many of the first-responders sat quietly. Among them was Pat Antonacci, of Levittown, an NYPD detective who said he worked at ground zero for a few months. “It was horrific,” he said.

His wife, Maryann, said, “It took a toll on him. He Continued on neXt page

Hempstead Town holds 9/11 ceremony didn’t talk about it. He didn’t even smile for months.”

Hempstead Town Councilman Bruce Blakeman spoke of losing his nephew, Sgt. Tommy Jergens, a New York state court officer from Valley Stream. He died when the towers collapsed.

“Some people dread this day,” Blakeman said. “We know we are going to have to relive the pain and the horror of that day.” He said his nephew joined the Boy Scouts, the U.S. Army and the state court system because “the kid always liked

amoNg tHe atteNdees was Todd Gleason, 61, of Island Park, a crane operator who removed the last piece of World Trade Center steel from ground zero.

to wear uniforms.”

“We never got to say goodbye,” Blakeman said. Only his shield was found.

At the end of the ceremony, a number of people tossed white carnations into the choppy surf of the Atlantic Ocean. One of them was Cara Donaldson, of Plainview, a psychologist.

“Throwing flowers means casting my prayers to Mother Nature and God,” she said. The pain of 9/11, she said, “never ends, even 20 years later.”

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Photos by Scott Brinton/Herald

New York Police Department Detective Vincent DeMarino spoke of his father, also Vincent, of Valley Stream, who died in December 2019 of a brain tumor directly linked by his doctors to his work as a first responder at ground zero in the months after the 9/11 attacks.

HemPstead towN suPervisor Don Clavin led the ceremony.

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events and activities

community update Friday, Sept. 17

Come to the library for some stories, rhymes, and songs. This program is subect to good weather conditions. You may be contacted on the morning of the program via email in the event of inclement weather. Begins at 10:30 a.m. and will conclude at 11:00 a.m.

Outdoor Concert at the Bellmore Memorial Library The Bellmore Memorial Library is hosting Santana tribute band, Milagro, on Sept. 17 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Please bring your own lawn chairs.

First-come-first-served seating. No tickets. The first 100 patrons to register join the guestlist. When the guestlist is filled, registering patrons will be waitlisted. Waitlisted patrons may still come to see the show. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be moved inside. Due to capacity, those on the guestlist will be given piority to see the show inside. Check-in will begin at the front of the library (Bedford Ave.) at 6:00 pm on the evening of the concert.

Please contact cham@bellmorelibrary. org with any additonaly questions.

Wednesday, Sept. 22 NUMC Mobile Mammography Van Nassau County Legislator Steve Rhoads is bringing the NuHealth/NUMC Mobile Mammography Van to the Merrick Library to provide breast cancer screening for woman age 40 and over. The van will be in the parking lot across from the library from 8:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m. Please call 516-571-6219 for an appointment.

Tuesday, Sept. 28 South Merrick Community Civic Association meeting

Community Garage and Bake Sale at the Community Presbyterian Church The Community Presbyterian Church in Merrick, located at 2101 William Place, Merrick, is hosting a community garage and bake sale from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Loads of merchandise available, including collectibles, jewelry, Christmas decorations, housewares, home decor, furniture, kitchen, and toys ang games. There is something for everyone! Event is handicap accessible, and will take place, rain or shine. Please call 516-378-7761 with any questions or concerns.

Saturday, Sept. 18 Community Garage and Bake Sale at the Community Presbyterian Church The Community Presbyterian Church in Merrick, located at 2101 William Place, Merrick, is hosting a community garage and bake sale from 10:00 am to 4:00 p.m. Loads of merchandise available, including collectibles, jewelry, Christmas decorations, housewares, home decor, furniture, kitchen, and toys ang games. There is something for everyone! Event is handicap accessible, and will take place, rain or shine. Please

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The South Merrick Community Civic Association will meet at the Merrick Golf Club house at 7:30 p.m. Guest speakers will include Legislator Steve Rhoads and Councilman Chris Carini.

All residents are welcome to attend.

Please call 978-8310 for more information.

Courtesy Joe Baker

New garden beautifies the neighborhood Fresh flowers have been planted at the corner of Lindenmere Drive and Shore Drive next to Cammanns Pond Park, courtesy of the South Merrick Community Civic Association. To join the Friends of Cammanns Pond Committee, call Civic President Joe Baker at (516) 978-8310. call 516-378-7761 with any questionss or concerns.

Sunday, Sept. 19

This event takes places every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., weather permitting. Visit www.nassaucountyfairs com for more information.

The Nassau County Fair

Farmers Market - Garden at St. Francis

The Merrick Chamber of Commerce and Nassau County Fairs presents a weekly market fair for fine goods and crafts.

Join the St. Francis Episcopalian Church in North Bellmore every Sunday for a farmer’s market with organic pro-

duce grown in their garden! Lots of fresh vegetables to choose from, and a great volunteer opportunity for anyone

Tuesday, Sept. 21 Toddler Time in the Garden at the Merrick Library For children ages 18 months to 3 years.

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

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

The TOH is hosting a baseball clinic with NY Mets legend Mookie Wilson on Sept. 19 at Salisbury Park.

The North Bellmore Library will hold a free English Language Learners class this fall, starting Sept. 28.

The North Merrick Fire House on Camp Avenue will have a free CRP/AED class on Friday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m.

The Nassau County Fair is held weekly on Sundays near the Merrick Long Island Rail Road station.

The Bellmore and Merrick Street Fairs are slated for Sept. and Oct., respectively.

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Wantagh Senior Football a standout lineBaCKeR and offensive lineman, Casey helped the Warriors capture the Nassau Conference IV championship last season while leading them in tackles for a second straight campaign and serving as a captain. The two-time All-Long Island and All-County selection is looking for a third straight season with over 100 tackles. As a junior, he was runner-up for the Piner Award, presented to Nassau’s most outstanding linebacker. Twenty of his tackles last season came in playoff wins.

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Girls Volleyball: Lynbrook at South Side ................4:30 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Uniondale at Baldwin.......................4:30 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Elmont at Calhoun...........................4:45 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Hewlett at South Side......................4:45 p.m.

Girls Volleyball: Carey at Long Beach ......................... 5 p.m.

Football: Farmingdale at Oceanside .......................... 6 p.m.

Football: Hicksville at Freeport ................................... 6 p.m.

saturday, sept. 18

Girls Soccer: Mepham at South Side........................ 9 a.m.

Girls Volleyball: Clarke at West Hempstead .............10 a.m.

Girls Soccer: Seaford at V.S. South .........................10 a.m.

Girls Soccer: Long Beach at Lynbrook ....................10 a.m.

Football: Glen Cove at Baldwin ................................. 2 p.m.

Football: Sewanhaka at Elmont...................................... 2 p.m.

Football: Carey at Calhoun ............................................. 2 p.m.

Football: MacArthur at V.S. Central ................................. 2 p.m.

Football: South Side at V.S. South .................................. 2 p.m.

Football: Wantagh at Bethpage....................................... 2 p.m.

Football: V.S. North at Hewlett ........................................ 2 p.m.

Football: West Hempstead at Seaford ............................ 2 p.m.

Football: Malverne at Clarke ........................................... 2 p.m.

Football: Carle Place at East Rockaway .......................... 2 p.m.

Football: Westbury at East Meadow................................ 2 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Farmingdale at Oceanside ....................... 5 p.m.

Mepham girls’ soccer is looking to rebound off an injury-plagued season back into championship contention this fall.

The Pirates battled through adversity with little roster depth to a 3-7-1 record in the spring campaign one season removed from reaching the county finals. With a healthier team in place this fall, coach Janine Bizelia is hoping for a far brighter end to the end of 2021 that can establish a winning culture for the future.

“Everyone suffers from injuries and we just got hard all in one season,” Bizelia said. “We’re hoping this year is better for us on the injury front and we can get more results.”

Bizelia retur ns two experienced seniors who will be competing on the collegiate level next year in striker Luciana Setteducate (Stony Brook) and goalie Hailey Stork (Marist) who were integral parts of leading Mepham to the 2019 county championship game.

Setteducate, who first reached varsity as a seventh grader, provides versatility to the offense with an ability to play forward or midfield. The All-State player often played more of a defensive role as a junior to account for some of the team’s injuries and Bizelia hopes she can return to being an offensive force for her final high school season.

“When she gets the ball and she is playing up top there are always three girls around her,” said Bizelia of Setteducate. “She can strike the ball left foot or right foot.”

Other impor tant pieces of the Mepham offense include senior forward Giovanna Barrett, who will play up top when Bizelia utilizes a 4-5-1 formation.

Seniors Olivia Brill and Alyssa Schimmenti will also be key focal points of the offense either at midfield or forward.

The backline is anchored by Stork, who missed much of the spring season and is looking to return to her 2019 form when she recorded 16 saves in Mepham’s 3-2 overtime win against North Shore in the Class A semifinals. Patrolling the net in front of Stork is senior Adriana Iemma, a four-year varsity player, and freshman Addison Chiarello.

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MephaM’s niCole lutz, right, had MacArthur’s Hailey Metzger on her heels during the Conference A-1 opener for both teams Sept. 9.

The first two weeks of Mepham’s season are being led by longtime assistant coach Keri Wisey while Bizelia spends time away from the team for maternity leave.

“Keri is amazing,” said Bizelia of her lieutenant on the sidelines. “We call her associate head coach since we both work great together.”

Mepham kicked off the season with a 2-1 home loss to MacArthur, last season’s Class A runner-ups before battling Plainedge to a 0-0 tie Saturday. The

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Pirates are next in action at defending Class A champion South Side Saturday at 9 a.m. followed by a neighborhood battle versus Wantagh at home on Tuesday at 4:45 p.m.

With a playoff berth guaranteed competing in Conference A1, Bizelia is looking for the team peak at the right time in October and can be positioned for an extended postseason run.

“Over time they will start gelling together,” Bizelia said. “If we stay injury free we could surprise some teams.”

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Cancer support group founder dies at 56 agh, with other breast cancer survivors. The initial focus was female breast cancer patients, and the goal was to provide resources for them and their families in the form of emotional support, financial assistance and preventive health seminars.

The initiative kicked off at a formal women-only dinner, dubbed Journey for a Purpose, in October 2012 in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Chanie Kramer, a Chabad co-director and the wife of Rabbi Shimon Kramer, still fondly remembers the massive turnout of more than 300 women.

“It was a large amount of women who wanted to be a part of the Circle of Hope,” Kramer recalled. “Why? Because Cindy put her name to it. She said, ‘We’re gonna do something good, something positive,’ and women wanted to be involved in something good … Certain people have that ability to get people together.”

The kickoff event raised $55,000 and featured a runway show sponsored by Runway Couture, with several models who were breast cancer survivors.

“That first year, Cindy and I did everything,” Lisa Fessler, a breast cancer survivor and a Circle of Hope cofounder, recounted. “We pounded doors, we got donations. It was a huge success … Cindy was so loved.”

The organization also created a wig bank at the Chabad, for which Fessler made the first donation. It is still available to local cancer patients.

Hurricane Sandy hit the hamlet shortly after the dinner, delaying plans and interrupting the excitement.

Knoll didn’t back down, however. The community slowly got back on its feet, and the Circle of Hope continued to grow.

Knoll, a connoisseur of cuisine who loved to cook, wanted food to be part of the help that Circle of Hope provides. Cooking was a big part of who she was — pre-

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Chanie Kramer, far left, Cindy Knoll and Lisa Fessler attended a spin class fundraiser for Circle of Hope. paring a home-cooked meal for her family was always a priority, Chanie Kramer said. She understood how difficult that lifestyle can be to maintain when undergoing cancer treatment.

She started Cooking for Hope at the Chabad, in which students and volunteers prepare meals for local cancer patients. Once a month, the meals are made and stored for families to receive week after week. Knoll was always excited to share her “treasure trove of recipes,” Kramer recalled.

In addition to the wig bank, Circle of Hope expanded last year to include a clothing bank, with specialized clothing for cancer patients. Founded by Loraine Alderman, of East Meadow, the clothing bank now saves

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patients the added stress of finding the right, comfortable clothing.

Journey for a Purpose returned in subsequent years, with honors for women including a Survivor Award and a Community Service Award. The turnout was consistently in the hundreds.

The support group, which had been catering to women with breast cancer, also grew to accept men and others with any illness. “We thought, it can’t just be about women,” Fessler said. “We wanted to open it up to all people who need our help.”

At the meetings, Knoll was the “ultimate hostess,” Kramer said. “She ran the meetings. Everybody looked up to her … she brought everyone together.”

Other smaller fundraisers were held to support Circle of Hope. The last one Knoll attended before her health deteriorated was Spin for Hope at iSpin in Bellmore, where guests took part in a spin class to raise money.

“She was larger than life,” said Fessler, who attended the event with Knoll.

“She had the gift of bringing out the best in people,” said Joy Jellinek, a childhood friend of Knoll’s who lives in Bellmore. “She understood relationships and people.

She did so much for strangers. She touched so many lives — it’s hard to actually describe her.”

At the Chabad, Knoll’s influence will not be forgotten.

An interior designer, she designed the Chabad’s mikvah, which is open to all Jewish women in the community.

“She knew how to make things look beautiful,” Kramer said.

“It’s such a great loss,” said Rabbi Kramer. “She’s done so much for the community — she was a close friend and a great partner. She enjoyed seeing other people happy.”

“She is never going to be forgotten,” Chanie Kramer said.

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From atop “Merrick Mountain” at the Norman J. Levy Preserve, Howard Knepple saw a harrowing sight on Sept. 11, 2001: A billow of smoke enveloping the sky above New York City after a second plane collided into the World Trade Center. Days later, smoke could still be seen rising from the ashes, he said.

Knepple, 56, a Merrick resident who has a hobby for nature photography, captured a staggering glimpse of the moment from the Merrick vantage point 19 years ago. Every year, he shares the striking photograph on social media contrasted with shots from before and after the Twin Towers collapsed.

In an interview with the Herald life, Knepple reflected on the unforgettable day. “I remember feeling a lot of anger; a lot of shock,” he said. “Once the second plane hit, we knew it was no accident.”

Knepple was asleep when the first plane hit, and recalled waking up to the climactic news. He knew the highest point of the preserve — popularly known as “Merrick Mountain” — allows a sweeping view of Manhattan. When he reached the top, he could see the cloud of smoke reaching all the way to the ocean.

After taking the photo, Knepple grabbed a single red rose that he happened to have in his car that day and left it at a sign pointing towards the city. This

inadvertently became a tribute spot — when he returned, dozens of visitors had also left flowers in the same place.

Hundreds in Merrick attended candlelit vigils over the following days. Three of Knepple’s cousins, who were firefighters in New York City, were off duty on the day of the attacks but assisted at Ground Zero. He is not aware if they have suffered from resulting health complications, he said.

With the same Olympus camera, Knepple snapped a picture of the aftermath five days later — the iconic towers absent from the grey sky.

As September approaches every year, Knepple re-shares the photos with fellow residents on social media, and the same emotions return. “It’s just a sad time when those [photographs] were taken,” he said. “Whenever I go back up there and I look at the sky, I’m thinking about 9/11 and those towers.”

Knepple’s photos — before, during and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — offer a stark reminder of what was lost that day.

“We can never forget this,” he said. “It’s got to be something we remember and keep preventing in the future.”

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MERRICk REsIDENt HoWARD Knepple captured an image of the harrowing events of Sept. 11, 2001 from the top of Norman J. Levy Preserve. For the 20th anniversary of the attacks, Knepple added another photo from the same location that shows the Freedom Tower standing tall.

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“Prior to Covid, he was traveling out to Deer Park at least twice a week,” his father said. “His mom and I would be taking him there, alternating, dropping him off at 5:30 p.m. and not picking him up until 10 p.m.” Jaden explained that his training sessions can last anywhere from four to six hours. Additionally, he said, he works out in a gym three to five times a week.

“It’s unreal,” Jerry said of his son. “He’s lifeguarding full-time, training during the week — it’s just incredible.

I’m so proud of this kid.”

Asked what it takes to become a successful professional wrestler, Jaden said that there’s a lot to it. “It’s the way you hold yourself,” he said. “When you know what you want to get out of wrestling, and you’re doing almost, if not everything, in your power to achieve that — those are the people you would hold in the regard of being a professional.”

While having a contract or working with a big company is the goal for many, making connections and learning the ins and outs of the business is equally important, according to Foster. “There are people who get a WWE tryout,” he said. “If you can go in and take feedback, succeed and learn from the experience, you can take that and put it into wrestling.”

“A lot goes into the shows,” he added. “We set it all up.

To have someone” — a wrestler from a different company or gym — “come in and help out, that’s a true professional.” “[Wrestling] creates this sense of brotherhood and family,” he said. “We’re in this together.”

He works for a few different companies, and takes part in shows regularly, usually one or two every weekend. They take place at NYWC or at other gyms in the area or in nearby states. “We usually do shows out of our

Jaden foster dived off the ropes during one of his wrestling shows.

Courtesy Jaden Foster

building in Deer Park,” he said.

His father described the shows as “quite remarkable,” and the typical crowds as “quite colorful.”

“He has no hesitation to climb up the ropes to do a front flip or back flip,” Jerry said of his son’s wrestling skills. “As long as he doesn’t get hurt — which he usually doesn’t — I’m all for it.”

Jaden says he believes that starting to train when he was young has helped him. “Having the experience under my belt definitely helped,” he said, “[and] as long as I can take care of my body long enough, it won’t affect me at all.

His mother, Beth Foster, said that her son is well rounded, and has lots of interests aside from wrestling.

“He’s teaching himself all these different things,” she said. “He taught himself how to play the guitar, he loves to cook — he’s very respectful, just a really good kid.

“He’s definitely serious about it,” she added of wrestling. “I’d say he’s dedicated, for sure. Since they reopened his gym, he goes every chance he can get. We totally support him, because this is what he wants to do.”

Foster has an upcoming show on Sept. 19 in Deer Park, and another one on Oct. 2. He’s on Instagram, at @ jaden.valo, and on Twitter, @jadenvalo.

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Q. Our central air conditioning unit sits next to the rear corner of our house, and even though it’s 25 feet from our patio, where we entertain, it still makes a lot of noise when it runs. During a recent barbecue with friends, it became the topic of conversation, and my friend recommended either building a “sound wall” around it or moving it to the side of the house, just around the corner, which makes me wonder why they didn’t just put the unit there in the first place. It doesn’t make sense, and really would have solved the problem. What do you think?

A. I think you’re lucky to be inquisitive and not take the first advice you got, because your friend’s advice may have caused you a lot of needless aggravation. For a few decades, the rules in most local communities have not only restricted where a central air conditioning condenser unit can be placed, but also require a building permit onte eeper and a zoning hearing process if the unit is intended to stay where someone who should have known better installed it.

In the process of starting a large design project with new residential clients, we architects are stuck with having to check for extraneous issues that will hinder a smooth permit process, and those units become a sticking point. Unless there will be 5 to 8 feet of clearance to a side property line, depending on the community, you may want to avoid the extra couple of thousand dollars and wasted time detouring through a zoning variance process just because a friend or uncaring air conditioning company recommended putting the unit where it has been clearly discouraged from being placed for the last 30 years. I see this problem nearly every day, and realize that the installers either know about the problem or must have recently emerged from living under a rock, because there’s almost no way not to know if you do this for a living.

The sound wall can work, but be sure to check with a manufacturer about air clearances, because the unit needs air flow to properly dissipate heat.

Walls also require foundations, and can be expensive if the wall will be built to last. Also, the wall or fence requires a permit at the same time as the A.C. unit, no matter where you place both. Even fences around A.C. units require permits.

The reason for keeping side yards clear is the noise echo between houses. Neighbors must have once brought this to the attention of their local government, because this wasn’t always an issue. Units hinder emergency workers who need access to side yards with fire hoses to prevent flames from spreading. You could also research and replace old equipment with a new, quieter model for a lot less money than a wall or permit — or just turn up the music and talk louder to mask the sound, for no cost at all.

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y wife called soon after 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, her voice measured but tense. I was halfawake, preparing myself for the day, while our then 1½-year-old daughter slept in the next room of our Long Beach apartment.

“Turn on the TV,” Katerina said.

There were the twin towers ablaze in fireballs, black smoke pouring from the structures. Like so many of us, I could only stare, mouth agape, in stunned disbelief.

My wife was at SCoTT Lawrence Middle School, where she BRINToN teaches to this day.

The teachers didn’t have a TV to know precisely what was happening, so she called me to find out. She was sitting with a colleague whose husband worked at the World Trade Center. I stuttered as I relayed what I was seeing.

I can’t recall which station I was watching, but I remember the frantic, frightened voice of a telecaster in a helicopter that whirred from a distance above the twin towers.

Then, suddenly, the unexpected happened at 9:59 a.m.: The south tower col-

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lapsed. The image of its shiny metal exterior cascading down, and then a massive gray ash plume spiraling back up hundreds of feet into the air, was seared into my mind. It haunts my thoughts to this day.

I gasped. Then I had to explain to my wife what had just happened, and she had to tell her colleague, who was overcome by fear and sorrow. As I write this 20 years later, a chill radiates up my spine into my brain.

At 10:28 a.m., the north tower fell. We, as a nation, had just witnessed the mass murder of 2,606 people in the twin towers live on TV. I’ve been covering the aftermath of the attacks since that day. Last Saturday I photographed the Town of Hempstead’s moving 9/11 ceremony, held, as it always is, at Lido Beach Park, where people gathered by the Atlantic Ocean on the day of the attacks to catch a glimpse of the smoke plumes from the towers.

NYPD Detective Vincent DeMarino, whose father, also Vincent, of Valley Stream, an NYPD officer who died in 2019 of brain cancer because of his time spent at ground zero, encouraged attendees to tell their stories of that terrible day. In doing so, we keep the collective memory of the attacks alive so we “never forget.”

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And so, I tell my story here.

After collecting myself, I readied my daughter and headed to my wife. As I drove on West Park Avenue through Long Beach on the way to Lawrence, I spotted the smoke plumes through a break in the houses, just as I was entering the city’s West End. The plumes were like giant ribbons stretching to the heavens. “My God!” I said to myself, realizing that nothing would ever be the same.

My wife was released from her duties after the children were sent home, and we met up on a side street in Lawrence. I could see the fear and horror in her eyes. We realized we had no cell service, but I told her that everything would be OK. I wondered whether that was true.

My wife drove our daughter back to our apartment, and I went to work just down the street at the Heralds’ office at the time, in Lawrence. From there I took dictation from reporters who had been dispatched to train stations along the Babylon and Far Rockaway branches of the Long Island Rail Road. They were interviewing survivors who had hurried out of Manhattan, white ash and sweat coating their dark business suits. They poured out of the trains like frightened war victims.

I worked until 3 a.m. the next day to

’ve been covering the aftermath of the attacks since that awful September day.

produce a paper. I remember stepping out of the office onto the empty sidewalk on Central Avenue around midnight and staring into the black sky. I heard F-16 fighter jets streaking overhead. They flew low, but I couldn’t see them.

I felt drained and hollow. I was unprepared for the sense of sorrow that I — and the nation — would feel in the coming years. I reported on 13 funerals and memorial services in the months after Sept. 11, training my camera’s zoom lens on the grieving family members and friends of the victims. I hated shooting photos of those in such deep mourning.

Now, though, my sense is that those pictures are an important part of history.

They are documents that tell us about the price of terrorism. They show us, in no uncertain terms, why we must, as a nation, work toward world peace. I have reported on those annual ceremonies ever since.

At last Saturday’s, I could hear the anger and sorrow of the family members and friends of 9/11 victims as they spoke.

There is no peace that can come from such an attack, only acceptance.

Never, ever forget.

Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication.

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Season of fire and flood slips into September

t has been a season of extremes, but after the floods and the fires and the winds and the Covid surges and the ICUs getting slammed and the little ones getting sick, and the heat waves searing the country, north, south, east and west, one drumbeat persists: Get the vaccine. Wear a mask. Take a booster. It’s easy and necessary.

I can’t offer wiser words than these. If everyone who could have gotten the Covid-19 vaccine had done so, thousands of lives would have been saved. FamiRANDI lies would have KREISS avoided devastating illness and loss and broken businesses. But there being no percentage in looking back, there is still opportunity for people who have been reluctant to step up now and make themselves and their families safer from the virus.

As autumn spins into view, we are clearly in the crosshairs of various unprecedented forces, meteorological, medical, political and cultural. I don’t know anyone who isn’t feeling anxious.

Please, if you are among the sanguine and

secure, let me know your secret.

The meteorological stressors seem an apt metaphor for the general distress of observing our country in the clutches of destructive forces: a defeated president who won’t go away, a clutch of sycophants who will sell their souls for another year in office and, unbelievably, millions of folks who feel so angry and disenfranchised that they would rather risk a tussle with Covid — or possibly a fatal encounter with Covid — than get an inoculation that will keep them safe. The difference is that, unlike the random violence of tornadoes and floods that have plagued us this summer, the political disturbances in the field have intentionality.

The past administration targeted climate change initiatives and women’s rights and diversity. For four years we suffered a vacuum of moral leadership; the center frayed, and we haven’t yet repaired the damage that was inflicted on our departments of justice and state and housing and health.

President Biden, love him, hate him or ignore him, is pushing against a tide of irrational vitriol that would overturn a legal election and let chaos reign. In the

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name of “freedom,” people are rejecting a vaccine that can save the lives of the children they love.

Somehow this all intertwines with the catastrophic weather we have endured this summer. When nature goes wild, some part of us knows to hunker down and ride it out, because when the storm passes, the sun will shine again. Order will be restored. But on the political front, there is no such guarantee.

We are not done with hurricanes this season. As The Weather Channel warns: “We may still expect storms bringing exceptionally high waves … The sea may be white with driving spray; visibility very seriously affected…” It goes on to say that even large vessels may disappear for long periods of time in the deep troughs between the heaving seas.

A fearsome description. But such storms can be survived. More frightening is our current political and pandemic cyclone. Our ship of state is also disappearing into deep troughs, and who knows if it can rise again?

We must not take our eyes off this prize.

Everything, including the actual weather, is conspiring to distract us from monitor-

lease, if you’re among the sanguine and secure, let me know your secret.

ing the attacks on voting rights and women’s rights. We need energy and focus to stay vigilant.

We cannot do any of the important work that needs to be done unless we get the vaccine available throughout the country. Our hospitals and medical teams need relief, and we can help return to some normalcy if we get inoculated. If we get our kids inoculated.

On the weather front, how many 500year storms do we need to survive before the anti-science refuseniks realize it is still within our power to curb the emissions and toxins that affect our climate?

The storms, the pandemic and the politics seem pulled into a tightening vortex, playing out here and now. My sense is that our time, this particular time and place, autumn 2021, will stand out in history. It will be important, someday, to have the story of these troubling days set in print.

What we can’t know, or even surmise, is how this unsettling season will evolve.

The hurricanes will eventually blow out to sea. We will pick up the pieces. But after this season of political madness, who will remain standing? Each of us can do something: get the vaccine, wear a mask and, when it’s time, vote as if our democracy depended on it.

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

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ore than 80 percent of Nassau County adults have received at least their first dose of a Covid19 vaccine. That’s excellent.

Overall, about 68 percent of Nassau residents who are eligible for the vaccine — that is, anyone over age 12 — are now fully vaccinated. That’s good, but not great.

Not great because that leaves 30 percent — a sizable number — who are yet to complete their vaccination regimens. And here’s the thing: Not all communities are equal in the race to vaccinate as many people as humanly possible.

The vaccination rate is just above 50 percent in Cedarhurst, Elmont, Freeport, Inwood, Lawrence, Mill Neck, Old Westbury and Uniondale. In other communities, it actually falls below 50 percent. In the 11549 ZIP code of Hempstead, it’s 26

percent; Greenvale, 35 percent; and Roosevelt, 48 percent.

In any number of other communities, the rate hovers in the 60 percent range.

Compare that with the rate in the 11020 ZIP code of Great Neck, where it’s 80 percent; Jericho, 78 percent; Plainview, 78 percent; the 11040 ZIP code of New Hyde Park, 75 percent; Mineola, 74 percent; Port Washington, 74 percent; Williston Park, 74 percent; Merrick, 73 percent; and Syosset, 73 percent.

It becomes clear, based on these statistics, compiled by the federal and state governments, that there is a wide disparity in vaccination rates between many of the county’s more affluent communities and its low-income neighborhoods. County health officials must ask why people in working-class areas have fallen so far

behind in being vaccinated. Do they not have the time to get their shots because they are working three jobs? Do they lack access to health-care facilities? Is transportation a problem? Is English a barrier?

In certain communities, Cedarhurst and Lawrence in particular, religious conviction may play a role, and Jewish spiritual leaders from throughout the Five Towns recently released a video, which is at times serious and others humorous, encouraging their congregants to get vaccinated. We applaud that effort.

Such targeted campaigns are clearly needed in any number of neighborhoods throughout the county. The race to achieve herd immunity — when 75 to 80 percent of all county residents have been vaccinated — will be won one community at a time.

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And don’t forget your flu shot this year

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ith all the highly necessary talk about the Covid-19 vaccine, it would be easy to overlook the flu shot, which each of us should get every year, but only about half of us do.

With the coronavirus pandemic still raging, it’s more important than ever to get a flu shot this year. Then, if you do get sick, you can rule out the flu. Even if you do get the flu after receiving the shot, it’s likely to be a mild to moderate case, not the type that can knock you off your feet and send you to the hospital.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 12,000 to 60,000 people died of the flu in the U.S. each year between 2010 and 2020. That doesn’t come close to the more than

650,000 deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic since March 2020, but it is still a heavy death toll.

Everyone 6 months of age and older should get a flu shot every season, with rare exceptions, according to the CDC. People with underlying health complications should be particularly vigilant about getting the vaccine. Throughout the pandemic, we have seen how those with medical conditions are far more likely to succumb to a virus.

September and October are the best time to be vaccinated against the flu, the CDC says. Ideally, everyone should be vaccinated by the end of October.

Flu vaccines are offered in many doctors’ offices and clinics, as well as at many pharmacies and urgent-care cen-

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letters Honoring those we lost on Sept. 11, which ‘seems like yesterday’ To the Editor: Many of us have our own stories that carry the memory of one or more of the 2,977 family members, friends or neighbors taken from us in an inexplicable act of hatred 20 years ago. Those of us old enough to remember Sept. 11, 2001, know that evil exists because we saw and felt it, and many continue to live and suffer with its effects. As President George W. Bush said in his address to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 20, 2001, we were “a nation awakened to danger and called to defend freedom.”

Sept. 11 seems like yesterday, yet the calendar tells us that the memories and the scars are now 20 years old. It’s stunning to think that there is a generation of Americans who have no memory of that day other than what they have seen on video or learned

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You need a flu vaccine every year for two reasons. First, your immunity protection from vaccination declines over time, so an annual inoculation is needed for optimal protection, according to the CDC. Second, flu viruses are constantly changing. The composition of flu vaccines is reviewed annually by CDC officials, and is updated to protect against the viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming flu season.

It takes about two weeks after your shot for antibodies to develop in the body and provide protection against influenza virus infection. That’s why it’s best to get vaccinated before flu viruses start to spread in your community.

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ears ago, my wife and I walked onto a Martha Vineyard’s beach with my Cornell University advisee and his parents, only to be confronted by a white man asking where we thought we were going. My advisee’s father, a professor at a prestigious medical school, who was African-American, replied, “I could ask you the same. I own this beach.”

That wasn’t my first experience with racism, but it highlighted how education, expertise and wealth can be denied by the color of one’s roBert skin.

My first memosCott ry of how race can distort reality is of when a friend and I were wrestling on the sidewalk on Third Avenue in Mount Vernon, N.Y., on the way home from school. We were having fun, but a passerby told us to stop. “Blacks and whites shouldn’t fight,” she said, instead of just saying that kids shouldn’t fight. My neighbor and I were simply playing, and unlike that lady, we could see each other merely as friends.

I’m not colorblind. I see color and shades of color, but I try to see people for who they are as individuals. This is called

respect. When I was at camp as a 9-yearold, I remember small signs that lined the paths. Each said, “Others,” meaning think of others, welcome others, respect others. We put similar signs around the Adelphi University campus when I was president.

Respect is a two-way exchange. Racism denies respect. Racism rejects the humanity of another person or group. We should understand that demands for respect and dignity are not demands for privilege and standing. We should teach in our schools and houses of worship, and certainly in our homes, that others should be respected even when they look different from us.

Respect is different from tolerance. Tolerance is passive acceptance. Respect is an active engagement with another person as an equal. Respect requires action, while tolerance requires no commitment.

In our society, many people grow up in communities lacking diversity because of decades of laws and regulations that, even when overturned, had set a foundation for segregated housing and divided communities. Yet the children who grow up in these towns and villages will most likely one day supervise, or be supervised by, or be a neighbor of, someone of a different

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s a Black friend and I wrestled on a sidewalk long ago, a woman admonished us.

Letters in school.

One of the enduring lessons of that day was that we must never be afraid to recognize evil for what it is, call it by name and be willing to fight together as one against it. It is that lesson that makes the events unfolding in Afghanistan so alar ming and disheartening to watch, as some of the very organizations responsible for the horrors of that day celebrate our haphazard withdrawal. What have our leaders forgotten?

But those of us old enough to remember Sept. 11 also remember that goodness exists. That must be recognized, too. We remember the heroes who rushed toward danger to save thousands of lives, giving their own lives in the process or now suffering from 9/11-related illnesses. We see that goodness today in our first responders, health care workers and so many others these past 18 months, in ways large and small, as we have tried to help one another through this unprecedented fight against Covid-19.

Patriot Day, 9/11, is important as our opportunity to “never forget” the evil inflicted on so many, and at the same time, embrace our capacity for good. It is our opportu-

ethnic or racial background. If they don’t learn the value of respect for others in their homes or schools, where will they?

In 1944, the Carnegie Corporation funded research by Swedish Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal to study race relations in the United States. In his report, entitled “An American Dilemma,” he noted the contradictions of American democracy. The “dilemma” refers to a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the cruel realities of racial discrimination.

The U. S. military was still segregated in the 1940s.

Myrdal was quoted as saying that Americans “of all national origins, regions, creeds, and colors” hold in common “the ideals of the essential dignity and equality of all human beings, of inalienable rights to freedom, justice, and opportunity.” And yet, he said, these ideals were compromised by the pervasive violations of the dignity of Black Americans by public policy and private privations.

The legacy of slavery and restrictive covenants robbed Black people of wealth and opportunity. They were denied G.I. Bill benefits given to white veterans, which created much of the white middle class and ensured home ownership, the bedrock of American economic wealth.

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nity to honor those we lost through service to people, but just as important, to take the time to make sure that our children and grandchildren understand what happened that day and why it is important that we must respect one another and be vigilant and united in defense of our values and way of life.

God bless the lost and the families left behind. May God bless those we continue to lose and those suffering from 9/11-related illnesses. May God bless our military, police and first responders who keep us safe and protect our freedom. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.

STEVE RHOADS Nassau County legislator

CorreCtion The author of last week’s column “In celebration of teachers” was misidentified. The column was written by Robert A. Scott, not Alan Singer.

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Schools were segregated. There was a systematic denial of respect, opportunity and equal access before the law.

A modern-day Myrdal would find many of these same dilemmas today.

Housing and school segregation persist, restrictions on voting are flourishing, systemic racism is common, and respect as people and as citizens is refused to Black Americans. The history of racial discrimination is being denied even as it continues by those who deny it.

Mutual respect is essential to social cohesion and civil discourse. To deny the humanity of millions of our neighbors is to limit our nation’s capacity to fulfill its ideals.

These are difficult times. My hope is that, even in times like these, families, clergy and teachers will prepare children with the basic values of civility, sincerity and respect for others. We should each know that we are the “other” to some, and that others deserve the respect that we believe is due to us. Our national values — freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, democracy itself — will wither without mutual respect.

Dr. Robert A. Scott is president emeritus and university professor emeritus of Adelphi University and author of “How University Boards Work” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018; Eric Hoffer Awardee, 2019).

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