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A.B. residents question motive for eminent domain proposal includes tennis and pickleball courts and a basketball court.

Eminent domain is the legal A public hearing on Monday, right of a government to buy prito collect public opinion on vate land within its borders and whether the Village of Atlantic to compensate the owner of the Beach should land. obtain two vacant The parcels parcels of land by have been vacant eminent domain, for two years, and unearthed bubin November, the bling local controChabad of the versies ranging Beaches, in Long from charges of Beach, purchased anti-Semitism to them for $950,000, whether the Rabbi Eli Goodmoney would be man explained. better spent elseGoodman said where. during and after One of the tarthe hearing that geted properties is he sensed discrim2025 Park St., desination in the proJeffrey Bessen/Herald p o s e d e m i n e n t i g n at e d Pa rc e l One, w h i c h AttoRNEY JoShUA domain action. “It includes a vacant RikoN introduced the wasn’t until after s t r u c t u r e t h a t Atlantic Beach eminent we bought the would be trans- domain proposal. property that this formed into a comcame up,” he told munity center and the Herald. “All we used as a recreational facility want to do is have something for with beach lifeguard operations. the community.”

Parcel Two, at 2035 Park, would When Atlantic Beach Mayor be used as a community park, George Pappas said at the beginwith open space, seating and ning of the hearing that the purlandscaping. The two properties pose was to collect “feedback and total 18,500 square feet, and are comments from the public, so we adjacent to an existing villageowned recreational facility that Continued on page 14

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

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lUiS AlVAREZ, A member of United Methodist Church of Sheepshead Bay, far left; Sasha Young, director of Gammy’s Pantry in Lawrence; and Syd Mandelbaum, founder of Rock and Wrap It Up, prepared for the Christmas Eve event at the Five Towns Community Center.

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Rock and Wrap It Up, the Cedarhurst-based food recovery and anti-poverty think tank, staged its 31st annual Gift Giving on the morning of Dec. 24, and Gammy’s Pantry, of Lawrence, had its third annual Three Kings Day on

Jan. 6 and 7. The organizations teamed up for the events to give back to the community.

RWU distributed over 10,000 gifts, 8,300 of them donated by Publishers Clearing House in Jericho, a partner with the nonprofit for nine years, and the rest donated by other businesses, clubs, school organizations and indi-

viduals.

Volunteers played a major role in the giving effort, wrapping presents a week before at the Woodmere firehouse, where RWU has been wrapping gifts for 14 years.

On the morning of the RWU event at Gammy’s Pantry, housed in the Five Towns Continued on page 15

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Hewlett-Woodmere retains state mask mandate jbessen@liherald.com

Not long after Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed executive orders on Jan. 6 requiring local boards of education to vote in January on whether their districts should mandate mask use, while also lifting the mask mandate for all county agencies and the state’s temporary mask mandate in public places, reaction, especially regarding schools, came fast and furious.

Lawrence Board of Education President Murray Forman, who served as part of Blakeman’s transition team, said the board is researching the issue. “It is not clear to me who is the ultimate arbiter, State Education Department or the Department of Health. Right now we have to see what the story is,” Forman said.

The orders read in part, “. . . given the historical data on Covid-19 and the ongoing debate over whether masks are more harmful than beneficial to children and to school environments in general, we should protect the freedoms and statutory rights of students and parents by resting with the parents the decision whether their children should wear masks in school.”

School boards must vote “to determine whether or not parents and children should be granted the constitutional right to reject mask mandates while in the classroom.”

The orders were to take effect immediately.

After saying that the district would await further guidance, Hewlett-Woodmere School District Superintendent Dr. Ralph Marino emailed the community on Jan. 10. “We have advised that the mask mandate is a law in the State of New York that can only be repealed by a legislative act, rescinded by the Department of Health or rendered invalid by a court,” Marino wrote. “Local officials do not have the authority to make the mandate option-

al for schools or require Boards of Educa- Hewlett-Woodmere board, said, “I’m sorry, tion to pass a new resolution regarding I don’t have one,” regarding an opinion on masks.” He added the district will contin- whether to mandate mask use.

William Biamonte, chief of staff to the ue to adhere to the state mask mandate County Legislature's Democratic minority, until its current expiration date of Jan. 15.

“The idea that we are still arguing over said, “When ideology trumps science and something as simple as masks in the mid- politics are prioritized over the common good of society, our dle of this current most vulnerable resisurge, when in my dents stand to suffer own district we have the most. dozens of teachers “County Executive and hundreds of stuBlakeman,” he condents quarantined tinued, “can say that with more every day, ‘Nassau is normal is beyond absurd,” again’ all he wants, Ric Stark, president but as Omicron conof the Hewlett-Woodtinues to spread like mere Faculty Associwildfire and hosptialation, wrote in an ize more children email. “Whether the than any other Covid county executive variant to date, this is actually has the a recipe for disaster.” authority to override State Education the gover nor is a Commissioner Betty question I leave to Rosa noting the state people smarter than Health Commissionme.”

“The safety of our Christina Daly/Herald er's decisions of Aug. 26 and Dec. 10 of 2021, teachers, students, NaSSau couNTY ExEcuTivE Bruce stated that counties entire staff is paraBlakeman signed an executive order are required to mount with this Omienforce school maskcron variant being so on Jan. 6 requiring school districts to ing regulations. She contagious we need to vote in January on whether to require added that the health keep everyone safe,” masks in classrooms. commissioner can said Rachel Kreiss, president of the Lawrence Teachers Asso- direct the local health department to ciation. “Ask any medical expert, masks enforce the regulation under the public health law. are keeping us safe.”

“Counties do not have the legal authoriThe county will distribute KN95 masks to private and public schools for staff, espe- ty to require boards of education to vote cially teachers. “Any personal protective on specific issues. School officers take an equipment that staff members are willing oath of office to obey all legal requireto use voluntarily that is provided by the ments,” Rosa said in her statement. "The county, federal or the state is always very State Education Department expects much appreciated,” Forman said. Kreiss school boards will follow all legal requirealso said she appreciates receiving the ments, including the face-covering regulation.” masks.

Blakeman, a Republican, said he was Debra Sheinin, president of the

directly opposing an order put in place in early December by Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, requiring mask use in public spaces. The state mandate was originally set to expire in mid-January, but Hochul recently extended it through Feb. 1.

“As governor,” she said Dec. 10, “my two top priorities are to protect the health of New Yorkers and to protect the health of our economy. The temporary measures I am taking today will help accomplish this through the holiday season.”

The governor said at the time that she expected the positivity rate would rise with the rapid spread of the Omicron variant.

The legal counsel for the county executive drafted the executive orders signed by Blakeman, said Chris Boyle, Blakeman's spokesman.

Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the State Education Department said Thursday that local school boards cannot vote to violate either SED or State Health Department policy.

Blakeman’s orders come at a time when Long Island’s Covid positivity rate — the highest in the state — is spiking at more than 25 percent, and a growing number of school districts are reporting increased transmission of the disease, with some, such as Long Beach, being forced to close certain schools because of staffing shortages. Hospitalization rates are rising, as well.

On Jan. 8 and Jan. 9, the county distributed 40,000 Covid tests kits at Eisenhower Park and Tobay Beach. There was also a vaccination pod at Nassau Community College on the same days. Boyle said, the county is working to do it again in the near future.

Cristina Arroyo and Scott Brinton contributed to this story.

Nonpublic schools: Where are our Covid tests?

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

While Covid test kits were distributed by public school districts to its families last week, non- public school administrators are wondering when they would receive the immediately needed test kits.

“Omicron will go away, but I need the tests now,” Hebrew Academy of Long Beach Lower School Principal Richard Altabe said on Monday morning. He added that there are a half million nonpublic school students across the state.

Lawrence School District Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen said the New York State Department of Health only pulled the enrollment number of public schools to know how many test kits to send to each district. Nassau BOCES distributed the kits to the public school districts. Lawrence distributed the kits to its public school families on Jan. 6.

The test kits also have an issue. The stated expiration date on the box is Jan., 31, 2022. Initially, school districts were told that the federal Food and Drug Administration said the kits were still good for 90 days after that date. Now, Pedersen said that according to a Jan. 7 email that threemonth extension was rescinded.

“Distribution of test kits to private schools in New York state is ongoing,” Jordan Guerrein, spokesman for the New York State Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services wrote in an email.

He noted that distribution is based on school enrollment and it will be one kit per students. Each kit has two tests.

Guerrein added that distribution of the kits to non-public schools started last week and most school will receive the tests this week. The schools, which request the kits through state's Covid report card website, will be notified before delivery.

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ThE LawRENcE SchooL District distributed Covid test kits to its families last week.

Most nonpublic schools were still waiting to receive theirs.

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“At St. John’s, we make it a point to treat our patients with dignity and respect, while also involving them in decisions about their healthcare,” Jerry Walsh, St. John’s chief executive officer stated in a news release. “I am extremely proud of all of our St. John’s Team Members for incorporating a personcentered approach in the way we deliver healthcare to our patients.”

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’The Last Duel’ At 2 and 7 p.m., the film “The Last Duel” will be shown in Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library’s Gold Hall. The movie is rated R and runs 2 hours, 32 minutes. Directed by Ridley Scott it stars Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer and Ben Affleck. It is based on the true story of France’s last trial by combat in the Middle Ages. Told in multiple Rashomon-style points of view.

HWPL, 1125 Broadway, Hewlett.

Peninsula Public Library The listed online programs are free and open to the public. Advance registration is required. Register by calling (516) 239-3262, or go to the Eventkeeper calendar on the PPL’s website: https:// www.peninsulapublic.org/ An email with login details will be sent before each program. For more information email Janet Schneider at jschneider@ peninsulapublic.org. PPL, 280 Central Ave., Lawrence.

Fossil Hunter From noon to 1 p.m., professor Bill Thierfelder talks about fossil hunter Mary Anning during this virtual lecture from Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Join Zoom at, https://bit.ly/3GhuVRb.

Thursday, Jan. 13 Canasta, Mah Jongg At Temple Hillel, 1000 Rosedale Road, North Woodmere, mah jongg from 10 am to noon. Canasta classes from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Bring your game and play all day. $8 per game- donation.

Free coffee and cake. Call Naomi Rivlin for information at (516) 791-8329.

Balance & Breath From 11 a.m. to noon. Lisa Zimmerman leads a virtual class on balance and breath. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. To join Zoom, go to https://bit. ly/3qTJWT8.

Mah jongg strategies In this two-part series beginning on Jan. 13 and continuing on Jan. 20, both at 11 a.m. Mah jongg instructor Donna Miller-Small will share tips and tricks for better play. Knowledge of the game is required; this is not a learn-to-play class. Attendees should have a 2021 Mah Jongg card on hand. Peninsula Public Library.

Friday, Jan. 14 Fitness Class From 7 to 8 p.m., the Gural JCC offers a Zoom fitness class with Chair exercises to keep you healthy and fit during the winter months. Meeting ID: 826 6349 6879, Passcode: 964952 1000.

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St. John’s welcome first baby of 2022 Four days into the New Year, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway had its first delivery of 2022 as Gaverson Paul, 8 pounds, 21 inches long, was born to Rose and Guypson Paul, who live in the Queens community. The family received diapers, baby care essentials, a stroller and car seat, a diaper bag and clothing from the hospital and a baby monitor donated by Jzanus–a Long Islandbased company.

Day of Service Feed The Need: Get Food to Local Pantries. Pick up donated food from various locations in our community; bring to The Gural JCC to sort and package for delivery to local pantries. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., multiple shifts available. Open to volunteers 6+ if vaccinated. To register, go to https://bit.ly/3ngXfvz.

Tuesday, Jan. 18 Cafe Europa From 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.,the Gural JCC holds its Cafe Europa program for older adults in-person at Congregation Beth Sholom, 390 Broadway, Lawrence.

Email Judy Goldberg at judy.goldberg@ guraljcc.org for more information.

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HAFTR Middle School swept the top four spots and claimed the middle school crown at the 2021 CIJE Robotics Tournament hosted at HAFTR’s Lawrence campus on Dec. 16. The team is coached

by Gittel Grant.

Hewlett High school junior guard Riley Weiss scored 53 points in the Jan. 8 72-60 win over South

From 12:30 to 4 p.m., single deck pinochle at Temple Hillel, 1000 Rosedale Road, North Woodmere. $8 donation. Free coffee and cake call. For more information call Brian Berger at 1 (347) 996-2532.

Banning The Bomb At noon, the National Council of Jewish Women-Peninsula Section presents a virtual program with Seth Sheldon, the U.N. liaison for the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons. To RSVP call (516) 569-3660 or email office@ncjwpeninsula.org by Jan. 14.

Zoom link will be sent on Jan. 17.

In-Person Gametime At 1 p.m. on Jan. 18 & 25, join us inperson in the library’s downstairs Bentley Room for this independent weekly series. Canasta, mah jongg and Scrab-

ble games are available. Seating is limited and is first come, first seated. Peninsula Public Library, 280 Central Ave., Lawrence.

Reclamation District The Greater Atlantic Beach Water Reclamation District Board of Commissioners holds its weekly meeting at 5 p.m., at 2150 Bay Blvd. in Atlantic Beach.

Wednesday, Jan. 19 Canasta, Mah Jongg At Temple Hillel, 1000 Rosedale Road, North Woodmere, mah jongg from 10 am to noon. Canasta classes from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Bring your game and play all day. $8 per game- donation.

Free coffee and cake. Call Naomi Rivlin for information at (516) 791-8329.

Side. Averaging 42.7 points per game, it was Weiss’s third game with more than 50.

Go to https://bit.ly/3eQLKXm,to sign up for the Gural JCC’s MLK Day of Service on Jan. 17, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., two 2.25-hour shifts at 20-7 Grove Ave. Cedarhurst.

Dino Tomassetti’s next court date is Jan. 19. He

Support group for adults with disabilities through the Gural JCC. Upcoming meetings: virtual support Group. On Zoom from 5 to 6 p.m. Contact Marisa Ruggiero for Zoom info sent day of.

For more information, contact Marisa Ruggiero, marisa.ruggiero@guraljcc.org.

Thursday, Jan. 20 Canasta, Mah Jongg At Temple Hillel, 1000 Rosedale Road, North Woodmere, mah jongg from 10 am to noon. Canasta classes from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Bring your game and play all day. $8 per game- donation.

Free coffee and cake. Call Naomi Rivlin for information at (516) 791-8329.

Pre-War Expressionism At 11 a.m. professor Dennis Raverty will present a virtual illustrated lecture on “The Mystical and Tragic Art Pre-War Expressionism. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. To join Zoom, go to https:// bit.ly/3Gl2sdx.

Mah jongg strategies At 11 a.m. Mah jongg instructor Donna Miller-Small will share tips and tricks for better play. Knowledge of the game is required; this is not a learn-to-play class. Attendees should have a 2021 Mah Jongg card on hand. Peninsula Public Library.

is charged with two counts of attempted murder in the alleged Christmas Day shooting of his parents in Hewlett Harbor.

The nomination of Far Rockaway resident Deborah Lipstadt to be the special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism with the rank of ambassador was resubmitted to the U.S. Senate.

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DaLLYSSHa MOrENO

Baldwin Senior Basketball MOrENO IS LOOKINg to lead Baldwin to its eighth straight Nassau Class AA championship and has drawn interest from a handful of D1 college programs.

She is a two-time All-County selection and was an impact player as a sophomore during the team’s last county title run. She scored 10 points in its 60-52 victory over Syosset in the Class AA final held March 8, 2020 at Nassau Coliseum, marking her seventh game that season scoring in double figures.

She averaged 14 points as a junior.

gaMES TO waTcH Thursday, jan. 13

Girls Basketball: East Rockaway at West Hemp.....4:45 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Lynbrook at Lawrence...................... 5 p.m.

Boys Swimming: Wantagh vs South Side (at Jeircho) 7 p.m.

Gymnastics: Valley Stream at Hewlett ........................ 7 p.m.

Gymnastics: Sewanhaka at South Side ..................... 7 p.m.

Girls Basketball: North Shore at Seaford ................... 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: Westbury at Baldwin ....................... 7 p.m.

Friday, jan. 14 Girls Basketball: Glen Cove at Sewanhaka ..................... 5 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Roslyn at Elmont ............................ 5 p.m.

Wrestling: Freeport at Oceanside ..............................5:30 p.m.

Girls Basketball: New Hyde Park at MacArthur................ 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: Island Trees at Clarke ........................... 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: Seaford at Lawrence ............................ 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: V.S. North at South Side................. 7 p.m.

Saturday, jan. 15 Wrestling: Baldwin Tournament ........................................9 a.m.

Boys Bakisetball: V.S. Central at East Meadow.............. 12 p.m.

Boys Basketball: East Rockaway at West Hemp. ........... 12 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Kennedy at South Side ..................... 12 p.m.

South Side scored the first nine points at Hewlett last Saturday afternoon and led from start to finish to keep pace with the frontrunners in Nassau Conference A-3 boys’ basketball with a 62-49 road victory.

Junior Robert Pericolosi scored a game-high 18 points and five others contributed at least five as the Cyclones upped their record to 4-0 in conference games and 8-2 overall. The Bulldogs (2-3 in A-3; 8-4 overall), who cut a 12-point first-quarter deficit to four at halftime, got 15 points from junior Ryan Weiss and 11 from sophomore Luke Rochler.

“It’s always a hard-fought and physical game when we play Hewlett and today was no different,” South Side head coach Jerry D’Angelo said. “We’ve played each other twice every season and also sometimes in the playoffs for the past 15 years. They’re always well-coached and with the exception of the second quarter I thought we did a really nice job at both ends of the floor.”

Hewlett opened the season with a sixgame winning streak and will try to get back on track when it closes the first half of the A-3 slate against Division.

“Offensively I thought we got away from our game plan at times and free throws hurt us,” Bulldogs head coach Bill Dubin said. “We had a nice second quarter to get back in it, but for as long as I’ve been coaching 15 years South Side is a team that’s always been able to grind out games.”

Senior Luke Schwartzberg (9 points) got South Side’s engine rolling by knocking down the game’s first shot from behind the arc. Sophomore Ryan Kennedy (7 points) added a basket and Pericolosi a pair as the Bulldogs struggled to find their way offensively in the early going. Their first points didn’t arrive from Weiss until 2:45 remained in the quarter.

The Cyclones, who entered with conference victories over Division, Roosevelt and Kennedy by 25-, 20- and 26-point margins, respectively, raced to a 14-2 advantage late in the first quarter Saturday before Hewlett clawed its way back into it.

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HEwLETT juNIOr rYaN Weiss drove to the basket for two of his 15 points in last Saturday’s 62-49 home setback to South Side.

Senior Ian Panzarella scored 7 of his 8 points in the second quarter and the Bulldogs withstood treys by Schwartzberg and Josh Garelle to get as close as two and trailed 26-22 at halftime.

“We had a little lull and got caught up in the pace Hewlett wanted to play,” D’Angelo noted. “We were able to refocus and we did a better job rebounding in the second half.”

The Cyclones scored 10 of the first 13

points of the third quarter to reestablish a double-digit lead. Junior James Murphy (9 points) and seniors Patrick Erickson (6) and Chris Goldstein (5) all made key baskets in the second half to keep Hewlett from making a serious run.

“I believe we’re in the toughest conference in the county and we are what our record says we are and that’s 2-3,” Dubin said. “Every game is important.”

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By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

A new year brings a fresh start to many things and though demolition of the older playground equipment at Zion Park in Lawrence occurred late last year and the new equipment which was delivered on Dec. 14, a refurbished park with updated play apparatus will be ready for 2022.

Zion Park in the village will have new structures of slider and climbers in what is called the two- to fiveyear-old section of the playground. Also in that space will be two new spring riders and a T-swing was added, said Trustee Paris Popack, who along with Deputy Mayor Jeff Landy, spearheaded the park’s redesign.

“Behind the white brick wall will be an obstacle course and on both sides of that will be a 25-yard dash,” said Popack, adding that the obstacle course is called champions trek.

In the redesigned five- to 12-year-old section will be a rock walk, a spiral slide and a spatial spiral climbing tower. All of the new equipment is compliant with the American Disabilities Act and protective ground covering will be installed or “poured and cured” as Popack said.

The playground’s redesign included moving the swings toward the section of the park that fronts Central Avenue, another bay of swings was added that has parents and children facing each other. The $250,000 project will hopefully be expanded in the future with a 35’ x 35’ water park, along with a comfort station for Nassau County police and the volunteer auxiliary similar in style to the one in Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park.

There was a lot of suggestions and complaints,”

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ThE champioNS TREk obstacle course that will include two 25-yard race strips.

Popack said, about resident wanting a “bigger, better,” playground with “more excitement.” The idea of an improved playground was discussed for the past few years, especially as the population of children in Lawrence ballooned and the older, cramped playground appeared to outgrown its usefulness.

“As someone who has a young child it means everything,” Landy said. “Another one of the gems in the crown of Lawrence.” He noted it will be a destination place where parents take their children and grandparents take their grandchildren.

Landy credited Popack with the heavy lifting.

“Paris did an incredible job, no one could have done a

better job,” he said, adding the redesign creates a flow that did not exist before. Landy also gave a shout out to Mayor Alex Edelman for being the executive to make it all work.

Edelman called it a “united effort” from all the trustees and noted that Popack was at the forefront of finding the “best equipment” that was “reasonably priced.”

“Last year we noticed that the poles were rusty and we jumped in to fix the problem before we had a problem,” Edelman said, adding that it was important for the safety of the children and for people to enjoy the park.

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What was once called an eyesore and a danger to the surrounding homes is one step closer to being a memory as remediation of the 4.85-acre site that was once home to Rockaway Metal Products Inc. at 175 Roger Ave. in Inwood is expected to begin this month.

The extensive work which is expected to take roughly three months includes the removal of underground petroleum storage tanks and contaminated drywalls; the excavation and off-site disposal of roughly 1,735 cubic yards of petroleum contaminated soil; crushing uncontaminated site concrete and importing clean soil that meets the established soil cleanup objectives for use as backfill and to establish required grade; treating groundwater primarily contaminated with volatile organic compounds through the application of chemical reducing agents directly into the groundwater as needed; collection and analysis of end-point soil samples and post-remedial groundwater samples to evaluate the effectiveness of the remedy; and the installation of a composite cover system that consists of what is called hardscape (buildings, asphalt or concrete) and at least two feet of clean soil in areas without hardscape, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. “[The] DEC is overseeing the investigation and cleanup activities to address contamination at 175 Roger Ave. as part of the Brownfield Cleanup Program to ensure the protection of public health and the environment,” DEC officials wrote in an email. “The applicant is currently preparing to start site redevelopment, which is expected to begin later this month or early next month.”

Sheet metal fabrication began at the site in 1961. From roughly 1971 to 1987, Rockaway Metal Products used the property. When the company left it was discovered that the company had disposed of and improperly stored hazardous waste material. In 1993, the federal Environmental Protection Agency conducted what is called an emergency removal action and removed the barrels of waste.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, along with the state’s Department of Health, determined that the site “poses a significant threat to public health or the environment.” Chemicals tetrachloroethene known as PCE and trichloroethene commonly called TCE were found in the groundwater at levels surpassing water quality standards. There were also higher than usual levels of metals such as cadmium, chromium, lead and mercury.

Nassau County inherited the property in 1995. The site was part of the state’s Brownfield Cleanup Program from 2008 to 2013. After years of being a community hazard, the 155,000-square foot, one story building was demolished in 2018. Current applicants Inwood 175 LLC and AJM Capital II LLC bought the property from the county one year earlier.

“New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued the cleanup notification once we complete the transaction with Nassau County they can begin,” said Alex Sands, of AJM, a commercial real estate investment firm based in Great Neck. The site will be used as a warehouse.

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Eminent domain plan raises questions AtlAntic BeAch resident Michael Simao, far left, spoke at the Jan. 10 eminent domain public hearing.

continued from front page can take all your opinions and questions in,” he got more than he bargained for, with the first four speakers endorsing the eminent domain idea. Then, 49-year resident Phyllis Jonas asked how the village would pay for the land, and noted that it would most likely have to borrow the money. Jonas also asked about the money that would be needed to maintain the building and the surrounding land.

Another longtime resident, Richard Libbey, who has had a number of issues with the village over the years, opposed the eminent domain proposal, and recommended other locations for a community center. “The idea of a community center at that location is horrible,” Libbey said.

“I could give you five other locations that the village could build on and not pay for the land, probably. He suggested building on property by the Plaza closer to the ocean and constructing a swimming pool.

Libbey also mentioned land between Hamilton and Ithaca avenues, near the Atlantic Beach Fire Rescue building and what he called a “big open field” across the street, by the entrance to the Atlantic Beach Bridge.

More hearing attendees expressed opposition to the eminent domain proposal, including Alek Squeri, a village lifeguard, who called the planned community center “unnecessary.” “What the life-

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guards need are better wages,” Squeri said. “Competitive wages, not the lowest wages on the whole strip.”

John Squeri, Alek’s father, was upset that the village would consider “taking people’s property.” “Make them an offer.

Shame on all of you,” he said to the board of trustees.

Another resident, Kevin Kelly, noted that it was difficult to judge the village’s plan without a specific proposal. “We can’t ask questions,” Kelly said. “What are the specifics?” Kelly added that the

Park Street parcels are “not an ideal location,” for a park.

During his allotted three minutes, Goodman noted that government use of eminent domain is typically a “last resort: You want to build a road, a highway, train tracks, and you have no other choice.”

“The fact is, if the community really wanted this property, it was left vacant for two years, there was plenty of opportunity to build a community center,” Goodman said. “This is anti-Semitism. This is clearly something that we don’t even want

to talk about, and therefore this could go many, many years in the courts.”

In total, 16 people spoke in person at the hearing, which was also livestreamed.

Comments are being accepted until Jan. 24, and can be emailed to plaza65@aol. com or mailed to the Incorporated Village of Atlantic Beach, 65 The Plaza, Atlantic Beach, N.Y. 11509.

Have an opinion on the eminent domain proposal? Send a letter to jbessen@liherald.com.

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Rock and WRap It Up volunteers Mylana O’Reggio and Taylour Peters at the Five Towns Community Center on Dec. 24.

Two weeks later, Three Kings Day brought nearly 550 families to the community center, where they received at least 1,000 toys and 1,000 adult gifts from RWU, and hundreds of food items from Gammy’s Pantry.

Volunteers Maria Rosa Guzzardi and Maria Artusa helped recite La Befana, Three Kings Day folklore, and created special costumes for the event.

Gammy’s hosted two other events in the holiday season, separately from RWU. They celebrated Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, the Epiphany, the legend of La

Befana and the 12 Days of Christmas. “It is very important to us, living in such a rich, culturally diverse area, to be inclusive, and to celebrate each other’s ideals and special events,” the pantry’s director, Sasha Young, said.

Rock and Wrap It Up and Gammy’s shared the remaining donated gifts with five different agencies to give out at the United Methodist Outreach of Far Rockaway, St. Johns Baptist Church of Rockaway Park, United Methodist Churches of Sheepshead Bay and Bushwick and the United Methodist Church of White Plains.

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Community Center, at least 270 families came out, and volunteers worked to accommodate them over the course of nearly eight hours, averaging one family per minute, Syd Mandelbaum, founder of RWU, said. Five tables were set up, and managed by RWU and Gammy’s volunteers, in the gym of the community center, and gifts were categorized by children’s gender and age. There were over 6,000 adult gifts as well, such as winter clothing. Each family was given eight to 10 gifts, depending on how many children there were.

Many of the families who came to the pantry spoke only Spanish, but bilingual volunteers helped bridge the language barrier. At least a dozen women burst into appreciative tears when they received the donations, Mandelbaum said. “It takes a village to feed a village,” he added. “It’s a labor of love.”

Mandelbaum offered a prayer before starting the event, which he described as God’s work. “We are his people on earth for that day, trying to share as much joy and love as possible,” Mandelbaum said.

RWU does not require families to show proof of need to receive donations, because Mandelbaum believes that is unnecessary. “We’re blessed to have that large amount that we can give to any and everyone that walks through the door,” he said.

Saul Lerner, an RWU board member and a volunteer for 20 years, noted the success of the event. “We helped a lot of people,” Lerner said, “and that’s the name of the game.”

The giving was done in the Rockaways for 20 years, but RWU has hosted the event in Lawrence for the past two years, and there was a significant increase in the number of participants this year, Lerner said, adding, “I’m hoping next year even more people know about us, because we have plenty of stuff for people who need it.”

Taking the guestwork out of life You actually get to eat at the schmorg, and smell the flowers, not to be forced to select them. You can arrive at your leisure rather than in obedience to the photographer’s demand, and pick your friends (and your relatives too) without reference to the “other side.”

You needn’t wor ry where Aunt Zooey is seated (or even if she’s invited) ’cause you’re not the guy who made the list, nor can you be blamed if the band is too loud or if the valet parker loses a car, or if the “main” attraction arrives after 11.

Yes, to be a guest at someone else’s catered event, especially after making one or more of your own, is to experience the joy of the unpressured, and the absolute on delight of the totally relieved.

Only as a guest is “a mint” something to chew on and not a reminder of what the evening is costing.

Only as a guest can you ignore the videographer and talk to whomever you like; can you reach for the ice completely oblivious to the centerpiece or reach for a second helping without contemplating taking out a second mortgage.

Guests needn’t worry whether their suit can button or need to stroll from table to table making certain the soup is hot or that the “special meals” were served.

Guests, for whom “green” refers to the salad and not the legal tender requested by maitre’d, need only pay compliments and not the piper nor the caterer. Guests get to observe the scene and be part of the scene without having to direct or produce the scene, and eventually can review the (inevitable) photos and tapes only to find

themselves and not to determine who was missing or overlooked.

Yet, being a guest at someone else’s event is a sweet treat far beyond the sweet breads or baby lamp chops.

To be invited to someone else’s passage of rite is to be asked to share a most meaningful moment in their lives; it’s an opportunity to be part of, not some faceless global history, but of the personal history of someone you know.

Recently, Janet and I attended two very, very different weddings of the children of dear friends. Yet as dramatically different as were the crowds or the rooms or the menus, the atmosphere were the same: the parents were all equally overcome with mixed oldman emotions, the brides were encased in regal aura as the grooms stood by with pride, humility and total joy.

And suddenly we realized that at someone else’s celebration, someone you care for r admire or love, you’re not a guest at all: you’re a participant. You’re a part of their life as they shared that life with you.

As each couple emerged from the marriage ceremony, I realized I wasn’t just attending and watching, I was feeling, feeling their excitement and nervousness and love.

A golden rule is said to be, “love they neighbor as thyself.” Joyous events, especially wedding, enable you to “love your neighbor’s child as your own” and “feel your neighbor’s joy as your own” and that, my friends, makes your own life one joyous event.

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LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF HEWLETT HARBOR PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Zoning Appeals of the Incorporated Village of Hewlett Harbor will hold a public hearing via ZOOM on January 27 at 7:00pm. All residents and professionals wishing to attend are directed to contact Village Hall at 516-374-3806 for further ZOOM information/instruction or visit our website at www.hewlettharbor.org.

All interested parties will be given the opportunity to be heard on the following application for variance relief: Continuation…

Mr. Joseph Reizis 976 Wateredge Place Hewlett Harbor, NY 11557, is requesting a rear yard Inground swimming pool, pool paving, circular driveway, and cabana.

Applicant requires relief from Village Zoning Code ordinance 145-19. Village Zoning Code 145-19 states: The maximum permitted lot coverage shall not exceed 25% in a residential “BX” district.

Applicant is requesting a 41.6%% lot coverage.

Village Code 145-19 states: the maximum permitted front yard surface coverage shall not exceed 23% in a residential “BX” district.

Applicant is requesting a 48.9% front yard surface coverage. Village Zoning code 145-25. A states: The minimum side yard setback for an accessory structure in a residential “BX” district shall be a minimum 15’. Applicant is requesting a 10.63’ rear yard setback for cabana.

Mr. & Mrs. Alex and Michelle Liechtung 165 Schenck Circle North Hewlett Harbor, NY 11557, is requesting to build a new inground pool, pool equipment, pavers, and chain link fence. Applicant requests relief from Village Zoning code Ordinances 53-7, 145-19 and 145-49.

Village Zoning Code 53-7 states: No chain link or wire mesh fences are permitted on any property located within the Village. Village zoning Code145-19 states: The minimum front yard setback in a residential “B” district shall be maintained at a minimum of 25 feet. Applicant is proposing a 15-foot front yard setback for pool equipment.

Village Zoning Code 145-49 states: No swimming pool or part thereof shall be

constructed in the front yard.

Applicant is proposing to install swimming pool on the Schenck Circle South front yard area. This property has three front yards.

Mr. Anthony Goscott 293 Pepperidge Road Hewlett Harbor, NY 11557, is requesting a front yard circular driveway.

Applicant requests relief from Village Zoning Code Ordinance 145-19. Village Zoning Code Ordinance 145-19 states: The maximum permitted front yard surface coverage shall not exceed 23%.

Applicant is requesting a 36% front yard surface coverage.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS STEVEN GOLD, CHAIRMAN ZONING BOARD MICHAEL RYDER Village Clerk Dated: Hewlett Harbor, New York January 6, 2022 129156

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING AND ANNUAL REORGANIZATION MEETING OF BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE INWOOD FIRE DISTRICT, INWOOD, NEW YORK, 11096.

There will be a General Meeting and Annual Reorganization Meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Inwood Fire District as follows: Time:6:30 P.M. Thursday, January 13, 2022 Place:DISTRICT OFFICE Rose Lynch District Clerk 129165 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2022 IN THE INWOOD FIRE DISTRICT, IN THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special Election of the qualified voters of the Inwood Fire District (hereinafter called the “Fire District”), in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, will be held at Fire District Headquarters, 188 Doughty Boulevard in Inwood, New York, in the said Fire District, on Tuesday, February 8, 2022. The polls shall open at 6:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) and shall remain open until

9:00 o’clock P.M. (Prevailing Time) or as much longer as may be necessary to enable the voters then present to cast their votes.

NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that pursuant to the resolution adopted by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Fire District on December 9, 2021, the following Proposition will be submitted to the qualified voters of the Fire District for approval or disapproval: PROPOSITION Shall each of the following described Bond Resolutions adopted by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Inwood Fire District, in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, on December 9, 2021, be approved: (a) authorizing the construction of a single story, 2,900 square foot building addition and alterations and improvements to Fire District Headquarters located at 188 Doughty Boulevard, Inwood, New York and the site thereof, substantially as described in the report prepared for the Fire District by Frank Relf, Architect, including original furnishings, equipment, machinery, apparatus and ancillary or related site, demolition and other work required in connection; stating the estimated maximum cost thereof is $2,800,000, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and to the financing thereof; appropriating said amount therefor; authorizing the issuance of bonds in the principal amount of not to exceed $2,800,000 to finance said appropriation; and providing for the levy and collection of taxes to pay the principal of said bonds and the interest thereon as the same become due and payable, and (b) Bond Resolution of the Inwood Fire District (“Fire District”), in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, adopted December 9, 2021, authorizing the acquisition of a fire truck, including apparatus and equipment used in connection therewith, to be used by the Fire District; stating the estimated maximum cost of the Project is $2,000,000, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and to the financing thereof; appropriating

said amount therefor; authorizing the issuance of bonds in the principal amount of not to exceed $2,000,000 to finance said appropriation; and providing for the levy and collection of taxes to pay the principal of said bonds and the interest thereon as the same become due and payable.

The Proposition shall appear upon the ballot to be used for voting in substantially the following form: PROPOSITION ___ YES __ NO Shall the bond resolutions of Inwood Fire District, in the Town of Hempstead, adopted on December 9, 2021, (i) authorizing the construction of a single story, 2,900 square foot building addition and alterations and improvements to Fire District Headquarters located at 188 Doughty Boulevard, Inwood, New York and the site thereof, substantially as described in the report prepared for the Fire District by Frank Relf, Architect, including original furnishings, equipment, machinery, apparatus and ancillary or related site, demolition and other work required in connection therewith, at the estimated maximum cost of $2,800,000 and the acquisition of a fire truck, including apparatus and equipment used in connection therewith, to be used by the Fire District, at the estimated maximum cost of $2,000,000; (ii) stating that the estimated total cost thereof is $4,800,000 and appropriating said amount therefor; and (iii) authorizing the issuance of bonds in the aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $4,800,000 to finance said appropriation and providing for the levy and collection of taxes to pay the principal of said bonds and the interest thereon as the same become due and payable, be approved All residents of the Fire District who were duly registered to vote with the Nassau County Board of Elections on or before Tuesday, January 18, 2022, shall be eligible to vote at said Special Election.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS DATED: December 9, 2021 ANTHONY RIVELLI FIRE DISTRICT SECRETARY 129166

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Q. A few contractors have looked at my attic so I can finish it for more bedrooms and a family room.

The 1920s house has a very large attic with stairs to the second-floor landing. The attic stairs are much steeper and narrower, and the contractor says the walls will need to be taken down and wider and longer stairs put in. Is this necessary? The stairs are already there, and even though they’re steep, they work. Also, one of the contractors said that the horizontal 2x4s going across the attic, which are too low to walk around, could be removed or raised. Is that true? He said we could put them higher and add more so we can add finished wallboards to them. Do you agree, and is there anything I should know about doing this before we start?

ou will love coming home to this beautiful and dramatic 3 bedroom Townhouse in the exclusive community of Meadowbrook Pointe. Enjoy the gorgeous master suite on the main floor with cathedral ceilings. The vaulted living room with fireplace is exquisite and the eat in kitchen with breakfast room leads to a private patio and yard. The upper den looks over the sprawling floor below and has an additional 2 bedrooms and full bath. This home boasts a one car attached garage and 2 car driveway.

You are close to the clubhouse, pool and gym. This is a private community with 24 hour gatehouse. $1,099,000.

A. Good thing you asked before you started.

Instead of starting, you need to stop and take a few steps back. What you’re describing has multiple issues that you have to address.

First, your state building code doesn’t allow the occupancy of a third floor in a single-family, woodframed dwelling. This is because of the many danonte eeper gers involved in surviving a fire at that level. In the process of getting the permit to occupy a third story, which you left out of the description of your investigation, you would need to have a licensed architect or engineer prepare plans that include specific methods of escape, including the correct size and number of windows, distances to exterior and interior levels below to escape to, sprinkler locations along the entire path of travel to get out of the dwelling, heights of ceilings and fire-rated materials to be installed. This is because, as I have often written, the chances of surviving a fire in the third floor of a wood-framed dwelling are statistically remote, only 5 percent.

That means you or your loved ones could be among the 95 out of 100 who will die from smoke inhalation or burns.

The plans for a finished third story are submitted to both your local building department, which will rightfully reject them, and to the State Codes Division for a public hearing, where your case will need to be represented by a code-knowledgeable professional. I have seen people represent themselves, which generally doesn’t go very well, since safety is the reason for the codes, and there are many laws and standards that the average owner is unaware of.

The stair access must be 3 feet wide, and the tread must be at least 10¼ inches, while the risers cannot exceed 8¼ inches. The horizontal 2x4s you described are collar ties, and they serve the important function of holding the roof together, especially in high winds and under snow loads. Moving or removing them can be dangerous. The higher up, the less effective, and without first calculating several factors, it should not be done.

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n Christmas Day, NASA sent into space the James Webb telescope, which, if all works out as planned, will provide us with our first look into the beginning of time.

The telescope will bring into focus the oldest stars in the universe, and examine the atmospheres of nearby exoplanets for signs of life.

But who the heck was James Webb?

He has largely been lost to history. He was a Marine Corps pilot, an aide to several members of Congress, JAMES undersecretary of to President BERNSTEIN state Harry S. Truman, president of a New York company, Sperry Gyroscope, and NASA’s second administrator. A pretty impressive biography.

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Little is said or written these days about the three astronauts and their destroyed Apollo 1 spacecraft. For one thing, there was the success of the moon landings beginning in 1969. And there have been other disasters — two space shuttles, Challenger, in 1986, and Columbia, in 2003, were lost, resulting in the deaths of 14 astronauts.

The country was in shock after the ’67 fire in Apollo 1. NASA’s carefully cultivated image of infallibility had been badly damaged. There were calls from various corners to nix the space program, and let the Russians have the moon. It wasn’t worth human lives, some editorials in leading newspapers said.

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“We’ve always known that something like this was going to happen soon or later,” he told the press at the time. “Who would have thought that the first tragedy would be on the ground?”

Not only did he shoulder the blame, but Webb was determined to get all the facts and keep the space program moving forward.

America, he thought, had to be first on the moon.

He went to President Lyndon Johnson and asked that NASA be allowed to handle the investigation into the fire, promising to be truthful with the agency’s findings.

Webb was grilled by various congressional committees, and kept the backlash away from NASA and the Johnson administration.

As a result, Webb was assigned much of the blame, and NASA ultimately regained its “right stuff ” image. An investigation indicated that a faulty electrical wire inside the Apollo 1 command module likely caused the fire.

fter a tragedy, he was determined to keep the space program moving forward.

Webb retired from the space agency in October 1968, just as the Apollo program was nearing completion. Astronauts landed on the moon a year later.

There were bumps along the way in Webb’s career. In 2015, a Seattle Times columnist revived talk that when Webb was undersecretary of state, thousands of gay men and women lost their government jobs in what was known as the “Lavender Scare.” There was never any evidence that Webb had anything to do with the firings, although people speculated he must have known about them.

Perhaps the thing to remember about James Webb is that he kept the complex machinery of NASA humming so America could stay true to the goal that President John F. Kennedy set in 1962: to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade and bring him back safely to Earth.

Much of the technology had not even been invented yet when Kennedy made that bold pledge, and many thought the goal was impossible. Webb was one of the believers.

Jim Bernstein is editor of the Long Beach Herald. Comments about this column?

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Choosing to read hope in the crystal ball

hat if we got knocked out of our socks by a brilliant turnabout in our national life?

At the moment, “Happy New Year” rings hollow. We all know how heavy the baggage is that we dragged from December to January this year. But my hope is in the mystery of the future. We could never have predicted the dreadful twin plagues of Covid and civil unrest, and that is exactly why we can’t predict a change, a windfall of good RANDI karma and good KREISS timing.

Twenty-two years ago, I wrote a New Year’s column for the Heralds offering my predictions for the year ahead, 2000. First, I suggested, sell all your stock. In my capacity as a person with little understanding of financial markets, I firmly believed that stores would become obsolete as online shopping became more popular. The markets would go south from there.

As it turned out, if you just kept your stocks for these 22 years, you would have made a tidy bundle. So my first predic-

tion was dead on arrival. Even with the dot-com bust in the early 2000s and the Great Recession, the average annual return in the stock market was about 10 percent.

I also predicted that that we would not go to war with Saddam Hussein.

On the national front, I lamented the scandals in Congress, and said our officials would out one another until no one would be left in government.

That one was particularly interesting: Apparently, the worst thing I could imagine about Congress 22 years ago was that folks were having sexual flings.

Man, wouldn’t you take that scenario in a heartbeat? What if someone told you back then that on New Year’s 2022, our country would be stumbling ahead, staggered by more than 800,000 deaths from a virulent pandemic that shut down schools and services and sent millions into isolation and quarantine?

Could you possibly have believed that political fighting, a violent attack on the Capitol and hordes of know-nothing anarchists would threaten the integrity of Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court? Would you have believed that a Marjorie Taylor Greene could exist

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if I described her to you back then? How about this one: Donald Trump would get elected president in 2016.

Hell, 22 years ago, the twin towers were still standing in all their massive glory at the tip of Manhattan.

Perhaps it’s best that crystal balls are cloudy.

The unexpected is what I am counting on — that unpredictably good things may save us.

As I think about the year ahead, my head and my heart do battle. Our hearts don’t heal according to a turn of the calendar page.

My heart is aching for our losses. Some friends have died. My city is set back on its heels. Our kids are out of school yet again, as we enter the third year of the pandemic.

Part of my head is worried about tomorrow. But I’m going with the part of my brain that knows unexpectedly beneficent events in the year ahead could heal the country and get us healthy again. We can go back to work, and bring back birthday parties and theater and family dinners. The virus could burn out. Our political leaders may find their best selves. Airplane travel will take off and people, too long sequestered in their homes, will embrace one another again.

nexpected events in the year ahead could heal the country and get us healthy again.

This could happen, and is no more unlikely than a raging global pandemic that stopped the clock for two years.

I wish this for all of us in 2022: that we are off-the-charts lucky and blessed in our lives and work. In the meantime, the poet John Roedel offers this advice: “My heart is always sad about/something that happened yesterday/while my head is always worried/about something that may happen tomorrow, I lamented . . .

“My gut squeezed my hand./‘I just can’t live with my mistakes of the past/or my anxiety about the future,’ I sighed . . .

“My gut smiled and said: ‘In that case/ you should stay with your lungs for a while . . .

“If you are exhausted about/your heart’s obsession with/the fixed past and your mind’s focus/on the uncertain future/ your lungs are the perfect place for you/ there is no yesterday in your lungs/there is no tomorrow there either/there is only now/there is only inhale/there is only exhale/there is only this moment/there is only breath/and in that breath/you can rest while your/heart and head work/their relationship out.”

Let us say goodbye to 2021 hoping to be astonished, in a good way, by 2022.

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

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n his first week on the job, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman addressed the coronavirus pandemic in a way that can best be described as premature, if not downright foolhardy.

Last week, Blakeman, a Republican from the Five Towns, signed a set of three executive orders, all of which were intended to loosen state regulations whose purpose was to protect public safety during this most recent surge of infections caused by the Omicron variant.

Blakeman was clearly thumbing his nose at Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, who on Dec. 10 ordered mask wearing in public to reduce the spread of Covid-19 as it fans out like wildfire across New York state, and the nation.

Before taking office, Blakeman had said he would not enforce the public mask mandate, as required by Hochul.

Then, on Jan. 6, he took this political showdown one step further when he signed a surprise executive order directing local boards of education across Nassau to vote on whether to require masks in the schools.

Refusing to enforce the mask mandate was bad enough. To require school districts to weigh in on a measure that is, incontrovertibly, intended to protect the health and safety of students — many of them unvaccinated — along with teachers and school workers, represents an abdication of his duty as county executive to protect Nassau’s most vulnerable.

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letters Blakeman’s decision is ‘misguided’ To the Editor: The news generated by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s recent publicity stunt of signing an executive order allowing school districts to decide on mask-wearing is nothing more than a glaring example of misguided judgment and poor leadership. Surely Mr. Blakeman knows he cannot supersede Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate or the state education commissioner’s similar order.

It is nothing more than playing to the cheap seats, on top of being quantifiably false (the idea that there is no science to support mask wearing as a Covid mitigation practice). It’s both an embarrassment and an invitation to those who believe such nonsense to cause disruption and only furthers divisiveness.

It’s a sad day in Nassau County to be represented by a person willing to sow discord to be

remember the conditions in which students and teachers work. Twenty to 30 people are confined to a room for six to eight hours a day, with ventilation systems that are often decades old, unless a district has recently upgraded them. In short, students and teachers must spend hours a day within feet of one another, in rooms of stagnant air. One infected student or teacher could spread the coronavirus to dozens of people in a single day.

Why not mask up? What, precisely, is Blakeman’s point here? Anyone who enters a school must wear a mask, period.

Some parents say they worry about the potential psychological effects of their children wearing masks throughout the day. In studies since the start of the pandemic, however, children were found to be highly resilient, reporting few, if any, effects from mask wearing, and health experts across the country have weighed in, saying children are, generally speaking, doing just fine wearing masks.

At the same time, as we reported in last week’s editorial, numerous studies indicate that mask wearing does, in fact, reduce the spread of the coronavirus.

That is, there is no real downside to children wearing masks in school — and only an upside, the likely reduction of community spread of the coronavirus.

Thus, it would be just plain wrong of any school district, for what could only be described as political reasons, to overturn the state’s mask mandate in a vote.

Hochul quickly weighed in on the mat-

ter last week, saying that any school district that voted to overturn the mandate, ordered by both the State Education Department and the State Department of Health, could — and likely would — face the loss of state aid for education. She was right to weigh in aggressively.

There will be those who say that the Omicron variant, according to studies, is less virulent and less deadly than previous strains of the coronavirus. They are correct. This variant is still, however, a virus with the capability to send the unvaccinated to hospitals. And people who believe that even a three-dose vaccination will entirely protect them from it should think again. The vaccinated are becoming infected as well. They might not experience the heavy symptoms that unvaccinated people do, but they can still get sick. Further, the risk of a vaccinated person being hospitalized by the Omicron variant is extremely low, but it is not zero.

The bottom line: Blakeman appears to be playing a game of political brinkmanship, which has garnered him a good amount of publicity across the state and made him something of a hero to farright conservatives. That is why we find his first two weeks in office to be so disappointing. We honestly expected better of him. We hope and trust he will see the error of his ways and restore one of the best measures that we have to guard against the coronavirus — the mask mandate.

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ational Public Radio and ABC News warn, “Teachers are on the front lines in the Jan. 6 culture war.” Depending on where they work, teachers experience different political pressure when it comes to how to discuss with students the events that rocked the U.S. Capitol a year and a week ago.

For younger children, important themes are community decision-making and fairness, the building blocks of a democratic society.

In grades five to eight, students aLan learn about the foundations of the sinGer democratic process — rights and responsibilities, civic action and voting — along with injustices.

In grades 11 and 12, students should follow congressional hearings, evaluate media coverage and discuss the implications of current events. For these grades, the anniversary of Jan. 6, with expanded media coverage, offered a teachable moment for more in-depth analysis.

While students and teachers are entitled to their opinions about the implications of the events, discussion in class about them must be respectful, and speakers must support statements with evi-

dence. The teacher must prepare documents for evaluation, ask questions of student speakers and moderate discussion.

The teacher must guide students through multiple sources with different perspectives so they can form their own questions, evaluate the sources and information, and arrive at conclusions supported by evidence. This process must not include deciding whether the Jan. 6 insurrection happened. It happened, and it was indeed an insurrection, intended to block certification of the presidential election.

One difficulty in addressing the events of that day is the country’s partisan divide. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found that despite widely viewed video footage, 60 percent of Republicans claimed the attack on the Capitol was not violent or somewhat violent. Here, teachers should ask students to suggest additional documents to allow them to discuss and decide whether the events were violent or not.

To be clear, more than 700 people have been charged with various crimes at the Capitol. The FBI estimates that about 2,000 people were part of the mob that breached the building after a pro-Trump rally at which then President Donald Trump and other speakers repeated

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unsubstantiated charges that the election was stolen.

Some 140 law enforcement officers were injured during the attack, one died, and the Capitol sustained more than $1.5 million in damage. More than 160 of the rioters entered guilty pleas in exchange for lighter sentences. Seventy have been sentenced. Thirty-one were jailed and 18 received home detention. The longest prison term so far is five years.

About 100 defendants have ties to extremist groups.

Trump tweeted many times on the afternoon on Jan. 6, attacking then Vice President Mike Pence more than once. At 2:38 p.m. — more than an hour and a half after Trump supporters first breached the Capitol — Trump tweeted, “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!”

At 4:17 p.m. Trump tweeted a video in which he told his followers, “I know your pain, I know your hurt. We love you, you’re very special. You’ve seen what happens, you’ve seen the way others are treated . . . I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.”

Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, called what happened on Jan. 6 “an insurrection, incited by the president.”

On Fox News, Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, said, “There’s no

t offers a teachable moment for indepth analysis, if discussed respectfully.

Letters more popular with a loud and uninformed minority.

MICHAEL LUDWIg, PH.D. Rockville Centre Ludwig is director of Hofstra University’s health education master’s program.

No wonder Democrats are in trouble To the Editor: Alan Singer’s analyses of why the Democratic Party is in peril of losing control of government (“Democrats election perils have little to do with ‘wokeness,’” Dec. 9-15) is yet another anti-Republican screed with selective omissions of facts. Nowhere in his op-ed piece does he mention the Southern border, which is a lawless catastrophe for our country as well as for Biden, Harris or whoever is supposed to be in charge.

Singer fails to mention that with no clear mandate, a 50-50 Senate and a razor-thin majority in the House, Biden and company are trying to pass a multi-trillion-dollar package that can only be paid for with higher taxes. Nowhere does he mention the murder, mayhem and chaos that are a direct result of flawed policies in Democratic-run cities across the country.

Weakening support for Israel; kneeling to an Iran deal, which is a pathway to a nuclear weapon for a country with a malevolent, untrustworthy government; abandoning friends and weapons in Afghanistan; sitting idly by as China steals land in the South China Sea to build military outposts; closing down the Keystone Pipeline (while green-lighting Russia’s), which has led to soaring gas prices as we struggle to electrify, are just a few other omissions.

Throw in the teaching of a flawed critical race theory, the 1609 Project, FBI surveillance of school board meetings, support of the corrupt and often violent Black Lives Matter movement and consideration of reparations for descendants of people who were slaves more than 150 years ago, and it’s quite understandable why the Democratic Party is in trouble.

Its record of failure in one year is breathtaking. Most people who are, or will turn from, blue to red are neither racist nor violent. They abhor the Jan. 6 insurrection. They are pragmatic! And yes, like it or not, Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted by a jury of his peers who heard all of the evidence.

To become purple, we need moderate leaders on both sides of the aisle who listen to and respect one another. Ignoring reality when it conflicts with one’s point of view is a prescription for failure.

DR. MEL YOUNg Lawrence

question the president formed the mob.

The president incited the mob. The president addressed the mob. He lit the flame.”

The New York Times published useful lesson ideas to aid teachers. It also recommends consulting the websites of Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance), Facing History and Ourselves and the Anti-Defamation League. The Times package includes documents with questions sorted by these themes: ■ Understanding what happened and reacting to it.

■ Investigating President Trump’s responsibility.

■ Exploring why democracy requires a peaceful transfer of power.

■ Understanding the roots of the riot.

■ Considering the role of the news media and the power of language.

■ Scrutinizing how social media can facilitate insurrection.

■ Putting Jan. 6 into historical context.

Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on Twitter, @AlanJSinger1.

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