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Masks are coming off significantly decrease, and are encouraged by the decisions being made in the best interests Gov. Kathy Hochul announced of our children,” Ari Solomon, on Sunday that the state directive executive director of the Hebrew requiring children in schools and Academy of the Five Towns and child care facilities to wear Rockaway, wrote in an email. “We masks indoors would end on appreciate the support and partWednesday. nership of our “With more New school community Yorkers getting vacand neighbors in cinated, and the helping us get to this steady decline over point.” the past several Hochul said she weeks in cases and based her decision hospitalizations from on the analysis of Omicron, we are several key Covid-19 now entering a new data trends, and conphase of the pansultations with demic,” Hochul said health and education at a news conference. experts as well as “Because New Yorkparents, teachers and ers have stepped up, school administrawe can confidently DR. ANN tors. The announceremove the statewide ment also followed mask requirement in PEDERSEN recent changes in our schools. This is a Lawrence metrics used by the huge step forward superintendent Centers for Disease for our kids and comControl and Prevenmunities, and I am tion to determine grateful to the students, educa- communities’ risk and transmistors and parents for their dedica- sion levels. tion to keeping us all safe — Hochul defended her pro-mask we ’ve re a ch e d t h i s m i l e - stance, saying that when she was stone because of your hard sworn into office six months ago, work.” her priority was to get children In the Five Towns, the reaction back to school, but that wearing to the news was largely positive, masks was the best guarantee though there were expressions of that they would be safe, especially caution as well. “We are happy to since no pediatric vaccine was see Covid numbers continue to Continued on page 11

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THE 2021-22 SkYliNE Conference champion Yeshiva University men’s basketball team.

The ‘Macs’ are going dancing Y.U. wins conference, heads to NCAAs

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

It was “Showtime” Yeshiva University-style as Lawrence native Gabriel Leifer, playing his final game in the Max Stern Athletic Center in Manhattan, alley-ooped a pass to senior guard Ryan Turell, who punctuated a 23-6 secondhalf run with a dunk that gave the 20th-ranked Maccabees a commanding 48-22 lead over Manhattanville with 11 minutes remaining in regulation and sent the capacity home crowd into a frenzy.

Y.U.’s defense set the tone for its 74-40 victory over the Valiants (17-9) last Sunday,

securing the Maccabees’ (25-3) third Skyline Conference championship in the past four seasons and an automatic berth in the NCAA Division III basketball tournament, known as “the Dance.” Y.U. will play No. 13 Johns Hopkins (22-3) in the first round on Friday, at 1 p.m., at Stockton University in New Jersey.

“I think we came out with real purpose on defense,” said Y.U. head coach Elliot Steinmetz, of Woodmere. “We spent a lot of time on scouting. We had a good film session [on Feb. 26], and I think our guys were really locked in in terms of what we were looking to take away, and it

showed.”

Y.U. limited Manhattanville’s passing in the first 20 minutes, and contested nearly every shot. The Maccabees led 25-16 at halftime — the combined score roughly their point total in any given half, but the margin was kept relatively low by several Y.U. misfires.

As it has done so often during the season, Y.U. showed why it is a second-half team, as Turell (16 points) nailed a 3-pointer, junior swingman Matan Zucker (10 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals) swished a shot and junior guard Ofek Reef (12 points) Continued on page 12

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

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

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

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

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

In his years as a county lawmakers, Solages has represented his diverse constituency with verve

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

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

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

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

“As the mother of four kids, I'm running for Congress because we need a Representative who rolls up her sleeves to get things done for people back home,” Laura Gillen said in a prepared statement.

“As town supervisor, I found ways to work across the aisle and deliver results, while never compromising my principles. In Congress, I’ll work to help Nassau’s middle-class families by reinstating the SALT tax deduction, defending a woman’s right to choose, and tackling tough issues like gun violence, climate change, and ensuring our national security.”

NASSAu couNTY LeGISLAToR Carrié Solages has thrown his hat into the ring for the 4th Congressional District seat.

H-W school budget up slightly, tax levy down

By LISA MARGARIA

Proposed hewlett-woodmere 2022-2023 budget numbers:

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As the old Blood, Sweat & Tears song “Spinning Wheel” noted, “what goes up must come down,” the proposed 2022-2023 Hewlett-Woodmere School District budget has a slight increase of nearly $1.3 million, while the tax levy percentage which is at 1.95 percent for the current budget has declined to a tentative 1.02 percent.

“The Board felt the community had suffered through the pandemic in many different ways – and wanted to further reduce the tax levy as a means to be sensitive to the struggles the community has endured through Covid,” Assistant Superintendent of Business Marie Donnelly wrote in an email. The current budget is $129.36 million. The proposed budget is $130.58 million, a less than 1 percent uptick in spending.

The tax levy is the amount of money the school district collects through property tax. School districts were mandated by the state not to have a tax cap higher than 2 percent for the 2022-2023 budget year. The projected tax levy is $108,577,100.

As the district develops its new fiscal plan before the budget vote on May 17, it considers health insurance rates, funding sources, the tax cap calculation, budget and tax levy history, budget considerations and constraints and form several budget drafts over an eight-month budget

Budget: $130, 586, 214 Increase: $1,227,958 Percentage increase: 0.95 percent Increase in state aid: $2,324,336

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The hewLeTT-woodMeRe SchooL District’s Board of Education briefly discussed the budget for the 2022-2023 school year at the Feb. 16 regular meeting. development process.

As the majority of the district’s budget is funded through taxpayer dollars, Board of Education President Debra Sheinin said that transparency is important. “At any time, they [community members] should be able to review how the District funds are spent, as well as access reports that provide feedback on the performance of the District,” Sheinin wrote in an email. “In addition to the opportunity for public comments at the budget sessions,

the Board also presents an opportunity for the public to comment on the budget at the Public Budget Forum, held in March prior to the Board’s adoption of the budget.”

The forum is on March 22 at 7 p.m.

There are budget development meetings on March 9 and 17, at 6:30 and 7 p.m., and the board votes on adopting the budget on April 6 at 7:15 p.m. All the meetings take place at the Woodmere Education Center, 1 Johnson Place, in Woodmere.

“While costs continue to increase for the District, we are mindful of the fact that our community has suffered through the effects of the pandemic over the last 2[-plus] years and try to minimize the impact our budget has on the community via the tax levy,” Marino stated in an email. “Each year, we strive to balance what we ask for from our community with continuation of the wonderful programs and opportunities we provide to our students.”

At Hewlett High School there are elective and college-level courses, team concept and exploratory subjects at Woodmere Middle School, expanded access to digital resources and devices, and a bevy of academic, art, athletic and music programs.

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Chabad praying for the Ukrainian people By lISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com

The Chabad of Hewlett along with many other Five Towns congregations, are praying for the safety of those in Ukraine after Russia invaded on the country on Feb. 17. The Chabad’s own Rabbi and Hewlett Bar Mitzvah club teacher, Menachen Lessoff, is stuck in Ukraine, as of press time, after arriving there more than two weeks ago to marry Daniela Brez. The wedding took place on Feb. 16 in Dnipro, Ukraine.

On Sunday, during the weekly Tefillin Club gathering, Chabad of Hewlett members gathered to pray for the Ukrainian people, especially for those in the Jewish community. Lessoff gave members a “live update,” said Chabad of Hewlett Rabbi Nochem Tenenboim, over a WhatsApp voice call, of his experiences in Ukraine, involving shelters and emergency sirens in Eastern Ukraine. Since the war broke out, Lessoff said he has been helping the Ukrainian-Jewish community that is in need.

There are roughly 300,000 Jewish people in Ukraine, according to the American Jewish Committee, a global advocacy organization for the Jewish people. The nation is led by President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish. Tenenboim has kept in contact daily with several Chabad rabbis in Ukraine since the invasion.

On top of money and supplies, the

Chabad of Hewlett is sending shipments of Mezuzahs – a piece of parchment called a klaf contained in a decorative case and inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah meant to protect the home – in response to requests by Chabads in Western Ukraine.

Since the invasion, the United States has imposed several sanctions on Russia.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman wants to see more calling for a boycott of Russian products. “Get rid of your Russian vodka,” Blakeman said during a Feb. 26 rally in Glen Cove, attended by Long Island Ukrainian Americans. “Do not do anything that would support the Russian economy,” “We want the people of Ukraine to know, that here in Nassau County, we are behind you,” Blakeman added. “And it is also a message to our president that weakness invites danger and now is the time for America to be strong and to enact further sanctions.”

“In our community we have a lot of people who still have family in Ukraine,” Tenenboim said, “and they’re very worried and concerned.”

The Chabad of Hewlett is encouraging everyone to pray for and become involved in assisting the Ukrainians. To send donations, go to https://www.jewishhewlett. com.

Latissha Dass contributed to this story

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CHABAD OF HEWlETT’S latest Tefillin club meeting where Rabbi Nochem Tenenboim led a prayer for the Ukrainian people.

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ki’s story of hope to implement this project. Zheng said, “With the pandemic affecting many, we wanted to create something artistic to provide hope and a positive outlook for the future.” “We decided to create a paper crane exhibit in the sky walk to ultimately represent unity and positivity and establish a positive social change within our school community,” Chaudry added.

During this project, the students were guided by Karen Cunningham, art teacher and Art Club adviser, who was amazed by their work. “I Havre think the idea was brilliant.

Carrie Zheng and Zoe Ng along with many other art club members have done well creating this exhibit,” Cunningham said.

More than 600 paper cranes are currently on display at Hewlett High School.

As the Art Club continues to work towards hanging a thousand origami cranes, its current progress has already uplifted the spirits of many. As students and faculty pass by the origami cranes each school day, they are reminded to look towards the future with hope and peace.

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Hewlett High School’s Art Club has been hard at work crafting hundreds of origami cranes for hope, peace, and decoration throughout the school.

The initiative was kickstarted by seniors Tahreem Chaudhry, Zoe Ng, and Carrie Zheng. They were inspired by the work of Sadako Saski, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing in 1945, who developed leukemia due to radiation poisoning. Saski, an 11-year-old girl, made origami cranes in the hopes that she would recover after folding her 1,000th paper crane. Saski, iral unfortunately, died soon after but her le g acy lives on through the story of hope that inspired these students.

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events and activities

community update Accessing Programs

leads a virtual class on balance and breath through the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. To join the Zoom, go to, https://bit.ly/3Hz06Yn.

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 Roxanne Spodek at programming@ peninsulapublic.org. PPL, 280 Central Ave., Lawrence.

Musical Shakespeare From 11 a.m. to 12:12 p.m., Marc Courtrade presents an illustrated virtual lecture on “Shakespeare in Broadway Musicals.” Peninsula Public Library. To join the Zoom, go to https://bit. ly/3IyEhct.

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.

Thursday, March 3 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.

‘The Great War’ From 11 a.m. to noon, professor Dennis Raverty discusses the “Great War” and Dadaism. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. To join the Zoom, go to https:// bit.ly/3t0AHl2.

Gun Safety The National; Council of Jewish WomenPeninsula Section in partnership with Mom Demand Action for Gun Sense in America will host a virtual discussion “Guns on Long Island-How Safe Are You?” at 7 p.m. Please register for the Zoom event at (516) 569-3660 or office@ncjwpeninsula.org.

Basketball All In One Athletics and the Gural JCC are partnering on a basketball program for boys 7 to 13 on Thursdays from March 3 to May 26 (with some days off) at 4:15 to 6:15 p.m. with homework help and Sundays from March 6 to June 19 at 2 to 3:30 p.m. (with some days off). The Thursday program is $500 and the Sunday program is $600. Both program are at the JCC’s Harrison-Kerr Family Campus, 140 Central Ave., Lawrence. Contact Lisa Stein

‘The Many Saints of Newark’ Courtesy Five Towns Kiwanis

Kiwanis raises scholarship money The Five Towns Kiwanis Club held at its annual Giacomo Campanile Scholarship Breakfast at the Woodmere firehouse in December. Four $500 scholarships are given to graduating seniors from Hewlett, Lawrence and Lynbrook high school and one representing the Woodmere Fire Department. From left were Stuart Bodner, Anne DeMichael, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, Kiwanis President David Vines, Barry Ringelheim, Martin Schwartz, Anthony Campanile, Danny Ditkowich, and Kiwanis Lt. Gov. Seth Blau.

At 2 and 7 p.m., the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library will show the movie “The Many Saints of Newark,” the prequel to the award-winning TV series “The Sopranos.” lt stars Starring Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr. and Vera Farmiga.

Rated R, it runs 2 hours.

Thursday, March 10 Canasta, Mah Jongg

at lisa.stein@guraljcc.org or (516) 5696733 x201.

Sunday, March 6 ‘Frost/Nixon’ At 2 p.m., the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, 1125 Broadway, Hewlett, will show the 2008 film “Frosty/Nixon” starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon in Gold Hall. Rated R the movie runs 2 hours, 2 minutes.

insula Public Library. To join the Zoom, go to https://bit.ly/35pXBKC. To reserve a print copy of the book, go to https://bit.ly/3IB3WkK.

Tuesday, March 8 ‘The Queens of the Boulevards’

Monday, March 7

From noon to 1 p.m., Professor Ron Brown discusses “The Champs-Elysees: The Queen of Boulevards” in a hybrid illustrated virtual lecture through Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. In the Boehm Room or to join the Zoom, go to https://bit.ly/3stikGd.

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From 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Candace Plotsker-Herman will lead a virtual discussion on the Sarit Yishai-Levi novel “the Beauty Queen of Jerusalem.” Pen-

The Town of Hempstead’s Industrial Development agency gave preliminary approval to Hewlett’s Isaiah Moultrie to build a 48-unit, fivestory mixed-use building in Inwood.

Hindi’s Libraries cofounders Dovid Kanarfogel, and Leslie Gang were guests on NBC’s “Today Show” on March 2.

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.

Play Pinochle 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.

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.

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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.

Friday, March 11 “Dead Again’ The 1991 movie “Dead Movie” will be shown in Gold Hall at 1 p.m. as part of the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library’s Flashback Friday series. Directed by Kenneth Branagh it stars him along with Emma Thompson and Andy Garcia.

Rated R, it runs 1 hour, 47 minutes.

Balance & Breath From 11 a.m. to noon, Lisa Zimmerman

The New York Institute of Technology’s President’s List includes Hewlett residents Cameron Ostrin, Kameline Pavez and Kaitlyn Snyder, and Natifia Murray from Woodmere.

Woodmere resident Cindy Grosz is taking her radio show “The Cindy Grosz Show” nationwide as it becomes syndicated on March 6.

Lawrence High School class of 1971 will hold a 50th year reunion in September. Go to the Lawrence 71 Facebook group page for more information.

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The English language is rich in choices. Hence, we can express the same thought in many different ways.

So keep in mind that how you express yourself will influence your emotions and self-assuredness — especially when you’re feeling frightened.

“I’m scared to death,” shrieked Karin. “My daughter complained about chest pains yesterday. I don’t know whether she’s got a heart issue, a breathing problem, or what. I don’t know what to do, what doctor to go to, and I’m scared to death about what they might find. Maybe she’s suffering from major heart disease.”

Now consider how Karin might have expressed her concerns using less fear-inducing language. “Dara’s been complaining about having chest pains. I want to have her checked out to see if there’s a medical problem or something else. It could be stress or anxiety. She’s not happy with school.

But I’m ambivalent about which doctor to see first. I’m wavering between her pediatrician, a cardiologist, or maybe a psychologist. I’m still undecided, but my husband and I will talk

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Both of these assertions express concern about a potentially serious but ambiguous situation.

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Jordon expressed his fears in a “What-If ” manner. He avoids going to doctors, fearing they might discover medical issues he doesn’t want to know about. What if the doctor finds something wrong with me?” he wonders. “What if it’s cancer like my brother had? What if I can’t continue to work?” Rather than providing solu-

tions, his fear questions stoke more worries.

A healthier alternative is to turn “What if” questions into statements. Jordon could own up to his fears by saying, “I’m frightened that the doctor might find something wrong with me. I worry about having a terminal illness like my brother had. If I can’t continue to work, my family will be in major financial straits. I should get myself checked out apadin soon to find out what’s going on.” Change unanswered questions into statements and they don’t leave you hanging in the wind with agonizing alarm and dread.

To ground his fears, Jordon could also have answered the “what if ” questions he raises. Either his worries would go away, or even if the worst-case scenario turned out to be true, he could plan a course of action.

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There’s a big difference between asking questions you don’t even try to answer and answering the questions you raise in a resourceful manner. ©2022 Linda Sapadin, Ph.D., psychologist, coach and author specializes in helping people overcome procrastination and debilitating anxiety and fear. Contact her at DrSapadin@aol.com. Visit her websites www.BeatProcrastinationCoach.com and www.PsychWisdom.com.

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

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

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

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

meet medical expenses, pay for in-home care and make home improvements. There are also flexible ways to receive the money from the reverse mortgage: a lump sum, a monthly payment, a line of credit or a combination.

A reverse mortgage can supplement your income while allowing you to remain in your home . The proceeds are usually not taxable since they are a loan not income (consult your tax advisor). In most cases, proceeds may be used for whatever purpose you deem appropriate, whether it be retirement income, health care, travel, home improvement or spoiling the grandchildren.

Repayment Terms If you and your spouse are co- borrowers and one of you moved or passes away, the loan is still not payable as long as one borrower continues to reside in the home. In the event both or single borrower passes away, the estate has one year in which to sell the house and repay the balance including interest, or refinance. Again, the estate is only liable up to the value of the house. If the house value declines below the balance of the loan interest, the lender takes the hit, not the estate. In the event the borrower(s) moves or sells the home, the loan becomes payable immediately. Any proceeds above the bal-

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“We’re going to talk about where we came from in these last six months,” the governor said, “and you see the spikes and the infection rates that really validated the rationale and the logic behind ensuring that we had those masks in place through those spikes, especially the Omicron variant.”

Her nemesis in the debate over mask mandates was Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who signed three antimask executive orders in January, including one that sparked a legal battle. On Jan. 31, a state appellate court ruled that Hochul’s mask mandate for indoor places, such as businesses, stores and schools, would remain in effect until March 2.

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

Ric Stark, president of the HewlettWoodmere Faculty Association, said he hoped Hochul would answer a few lingering questions, including whether the state requirements governing those who test positive for Covid-19 would be adjusted. As things stand now, someone who tests positive must quarantine for five days, and an unvaccinated student must quarantine if

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“And remember that many of our younger students are not vaccinated,” Stark wrote in an email. “If that regulation remains in effect and all that happens on Wednesday is that masks can become optional, then it is possible we may again see entire classes quarantined at once. In my view, the governor jumped the gun terribly by not providing answers to these and other questions before simply announcing an end to the mask mandate 72 hours ahead of time. School districts need clarity and time to prepare, and were given neither.”

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the two-year anniversary of when schools first closed as the coronavirus pandemic spread.

“I’m optimistic,” Pedersen said, noting that’s masks will be optional. “I think we really reached that point where we need a reprieve from the virus. The biggest emotion is one of relief and gratitude. Now we can reflect on how challenging this was for everyone, and the kids keep doing it, and they’ve been amazing.”

At The Brandeis School in Lawrence, masks will also be optional Head of School Raz Levin wrote in a letter to parents.

“Parents may still choose to provide face coverings for their children, and extra masks will also be available in the front office for those students who wish to continue wearing them,” he wrote.

Lawrence Teachers Association President Rachel Kreiss said that ending the mask mandate, “will hopefully be the beginning of a return to ‘normalcy.’ It’s hard to know what this will mean in terms of infection rates since we have just returned from a vacation,” she wrote in an email. “It’s imperative that everyone respects the choices that the faculty and students make in regards to continuing to wear a mask or to take it off. No one should be judged for their choice.”

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“We knew we had to come from the start,” said Leifer, a forward. “In every championship I’ve played in in the conference, we’ve always had to play from behind.

I didn’t want to do that this year, and the team didn’t want to do that this year. We wanted them to play from behind, keep the lead and keep building on it, and that’s what we did.” Leifer had 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 points.

Yeshiva, seeded No. 3 in the Skyline tournament, stormed through it with three consecutive wins — 101-66 over SUNY Purchase in the quarterfinal, 89-62 over Mt. St. Vincent in the semifinals and the championship victory.

“This is the reason I came back to play in the game today, and play in the tournament — it’s awesome, it means everything,” said Leifer, a graduate student who said this would be his last season. “We worked hard. We had our ups and downs this year. More ups and downs than we’ve had in any of my other years.”

Leifer noted that after Yeshiva’s headline-making Dec. 30 home loss to nationally ranked Illinois Wesleyan University (now No. 5) and the end of the Maccabees’ 50-game winning streak, there was some

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Lawrence native GabrieL Leifer blocked a Chris Brown shot attempt in the first half of Yeshiva University’s 74-40 Skyline Conference championship win. tension in the locker room. There were also conference losses to SUNY Farmingdale and St. Joseph’s College of Long Island, as well as the program’s first win over a nationally ranked team, when Y.U. tagged then No. 5 University of St. Joseph, in Connecticut, with its first loss of the season.

“But we pulled it together and played our best game of the season when it count-

ed the most,” Leifer said. “It wasn’t the best first half, but we closed it and we played defense, which we didn’t do so much the whole year. But it’s amazing. It’s an honor to play here, and it’s been a joy, and this is why I came back.”

The school also put on a show in the three conference playoff home games with special guests: New England Patriots

owner Robert Kraft at the quarterfinal game, former ESPN and CBS reporter Bonnie Bernstein at the semifinal and, at the final, Marc Lasry, an owner of the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks, joined by former NBA players Amar’e Stoudamire and Enes Kanter Freedom.

Being what school President Ari Berman called “the flagship Jewish university,” Yeshiva, its students and its athletic teams represent not only the school, but also the Jewish people. “The people were excited being part of this event, because they knew it was more than just the school,” Berman said. “It was something that touches deep inside, and they wanted to support this team, and be a part of it and be a partner to this team, and it’s been amazing.”

The Maccabees basked in the glow of winning, collecting the conference trophy, taking part in the traditional cutting of the net and posing for photos with family and friends. After one season cut short by Covid and another only seven games long, Steinmetz wanted his team to take it all in.

“I told our guys it’s important to have perspective to remember where we were two years ago, to remember where we were a year ago — not even having a real season — and then to recognize the opportunity that we have here to actually go and play through the end,” he said. “I really want them to understand that and take it to heart.”

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Ryan Weiss’s offseason calculation had paid off in spades.

Adding an enhanced dribble drive to his chiefly perimeter-based offensive arsenal, the two-time All-County Hewlett shooting guard – drawing frequent fouls on forays to the paint – led Nassau County boys’ basketball burying 97 free throws this season.

But in the last half-minute of a second overtime period at Roslyn Feb. 18, the Bulldogs couldn’t rest on the junior’s recent statistical benchmark – they needed a half-dozen more free throws. Weiss – who also led Nassau with 27.5 points per game and 84 3-pointers – delivered, making six free throws in the final 30 seconds to send No. 11 seed Hewlett to an 80-79 double-overtime win against sixth-seeded Roslyn in the second round of the Nassau Class A playoffs.

“Ryan increased his repertoire this offseason” said Hewlett head coach Bill Dubin. “He improved on driving to the basket, and it showed. You don’t get so many free throws shooting only jump shots.”

Leading his team’s 19-of-21 performance from the foul line, Weiss – whose tying layup ended the initial overtime period – was 12 for 12 from the stripe en route to a season-high 46 points in Hewlett’s marathon win. Seniors Nick Morgan and Evan Greenberg added 13 and nine points respectively for Hewlett, which outscored Roslyn 18-5 in the fourth quarter to force extra frames. Morgan had a pair of late, clutch 3-pointers to go with Weiss’s game-high six treys.

“We’re a great fourth-quarter team,” Dubin

said. “That’s from our conditioning at practice.

Going into any fourth quarter, this team’s pretty confident.”

Confidence, in any quarter, would hardly be enough for Hewlett in the Class A quarterfinals Feb. 23 at No. 3 seed Garden City, as the Bulldogs – perhaps still lagging from their long night at Roslyn – failed to find a rhythm facing the Trojans’ standard zone defense, and fell 70-32 to the Conference A2 champions. “They shot well and we didn’t,” Dubin said. “[Garden City’s] defense wasn’t anything special. We just shot well below our average.”

Hewlett (14-8, 6-6 Conference A3) wrapped the regular season boasting the league’s second-leading offense, scoring 69.7 points per game and finishing fourth in A3 to reach the playoffs for the 16th time in 17 seasons. The Bulldogs had bounced nicely off a COVID-compromised 0-4 spring to start 6-0 this winter. “We lost a whole year last season,” Dubin said. “We weren’t permitted to do regular on-court activities. It took a while to regroup, but we did.”

Senior guard Ian Panzarella was second this season among Hewlett’s starting scorers averaging 7.1 points, while junior forward Jace Apter put up a promising 8.3 ppg in limited action. Senior Mark Winkler, adapting his All-County quarterback skills to pilot Hewlett’s offense at point guard, finished tied with Morgan for second on the club with 15 3-pointers.

“No one expected much from us in this tough conference,” Dubin said. “They said we’re a oneman team. But it’s a testament to these kids, quite a few stepped up and played good basketball. They bought in and made a success of the season.”

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As I’ve written before, throughout high school my teachers would often complain “silence is not Goldman.”

Truth be told, I was a bit of a blabbermouth (though I prefer the term loquacious), who was forever being told to just … “be quiet.”

Over the years, I’ve frequently thought about that expression “be quiet” as I’ve come to appreciate it within the context of a “quiet moment,” a “quiet interlude” and the ever elusive “peace and quiet.”

Further more, as I’ve watched myself and others try to get quiet, keep quiet, wait for quiet and quiet down, I’ve also come to understand that quiet is not silence; that silence is the on absence of all sound while quiet is the absence of noise and stress and extraneous chatter. Silence is a void, while quiet fills a void, but does so with a calm that slips inside and surrounds you from within.

Quiet lets the baby sleep. Quiet allows you to collect your thoughts.

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Quiet enables you to embrace the moment in comfort and relaxation.

Quiet is being left undisturbed to write as verse, shed a tear, recall a melody, sip a cup of tea or lose yourself between the comforting covers of as compelling book.

“Quiet” conjures up images of a library, a hospital, a study hall or a sanctuary; places whose quiet atmosphere nurtures the mind, heals the body, boosts the intellect or safeguards the soul.

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NASSAU HERALD — March 3, 2022

Two men and a woman were arrested on Feb. 21 by Nassau County police for seven alleged robberies of merchandise from two Marshalls department stores between Jan. 5 and Feb 21.

As the investigation progressed, Fourth Squad detectives saw a gray colored 2002 Nissan Maxima moving east on Fulton Street at Cathedral Avenue in Hempstead at 1:45 p.m. on that Monday.

Police stopped the car and arrested Rodney Galloway, 53, of Prospect Avenue, Westbury; Michele Brown, 24, of St. Pauls Street, Baldwin; and Willie A. White, 55, of Hilton Avenue, Hempstead.

On Jan. 5, 8, 10, 19, 22, 31, the three allegedly removed merchandise valued roughly at approximately $8,200 from the Marshalls at 345 Rockaway Tpke., in North Lawrence, police said. On Feb. 21, the trio also allegedly stole items valued around $2,028 from the Marshalls at 600 Hempstead Tpke., in Elmont, according to police.

Galloway is charged with four counts of third-degree grand larceny, fourthdegree attempted grand larceny and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property Brown is charged with two counts of third-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree attempted grand larceny and fourth-degree criminal possession stolen property. White is charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property.

Galloway’s next court date was March 2. Michael Thomas Nolan is representing him. Brown’s next court date is March 16.

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129808 LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF HEWLETT HARBOR NOTICE OF MONTHLY MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Hewlett Harbor will meet via Zoom on Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 7:00PM, Eastern Standard Time, for the purpose of holding the Village’s regular monthly meeting.

An agenda for the meeting will be made available to the public on the Village Website.

Due to social distancing guidelines, occupancy of Village Hall is limited.

Therefore, all public Board of Trustees meetings until further notice will be conducted via Zoom. All residents wishing to attend or speak should visit the Village website at www.hewlettharbor.org for further Zoom instructions.

Dated: Hewlett Harbor, New York February 18, 2022

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF HEWLETT HARBOR MICHAEL RYDER VILLAGE CLERK 129753 LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF CEDARHURST LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cedarhurst will hold a public hearing on Monday, March 7, 2022, at 8:00 pm in Village Hall, 200 Cedarhurst Avenue, Cedarhurst, New York for the purpose of Amending Section 250-9 Parking or standing for periods longer than time indicated by signs.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT all interested persons will have an opportunity to be heard at said hearing.

Dated: Cedarhurst, New York Salvatore Evola February 23, 2022 Village Administrator

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LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF CEDARHURST LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cedarhurst will hold a public hearing on Monday, March 7, 2022, at 8:00 pm in Village Hall, 200 Cedarhurst Avenue, Cedarhurst, New York for the purpose of Adding Article V-A SCOFFLAWS and Section 250-54A Authorization; Notice; Tampering; Release; Penalties.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT all interested persons will have an opportunity to be heard at said hearing.

Dated: Cedarhurst, New York Salvatore Evola February 23, 2022 Village Administrator

By Order of Mayor Benjamin Weinstock and Board of Trustees 129834 LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF CEDARHURST LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cedarhurst will hold a public hearing on Monday, March 7, 2022, at 8:00 pm in Village Hall, 200 Cedarhurst Avenue, Cedarhurst, New York for the purpose of Amending Section 250-34 Time Limit parking; grace period.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT all interested persons will have an opportunity to be heard at said hearing.

Dated: Cedarhurst, New York Salvatore Evola February 23, 2022 Village Administrator

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LEGAL NOTICE Village of Lawrence Legal Notice NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Appeals of the Incorporated Village of Lawrence will hold a work session beginning at 6:45 P.M. followed by a public meeting on March 9, 2022 at the Lawrence Village Hall, 196 Central Ave., Lawrence, New York 11559 beginning at 7:30 P.M. to conduct the following Public Hearings and to attend to such other matters as may properly come before the Board:

“Eckstein, 175 Ocean Ave. - Section 212-13.D (1) of the Village Code states, the minimum rear yard setback for a building in Residential District AA is 60 ft.

The applications and accompanying exhibits are on file and may be inspected at the Village Office during normal business hours between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. If anyone needs special accommodations for a disability, such person should contact the Village Clerk at least 5 days before the hearing.

All interested parties will have the opportunity to be heard

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LEGAL NOTCE SURROGATE’S COURT, NASSAU COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO:Office of the New York State Attorney General Grassi & Co. Jasper Surety Zelda Boreisha Arthur Horlick Lillian Summer Sally N. Katz Barbara Beth Dvora Kriedman and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law and next-ofkin of the said Annette Shapiro, deceased, and if any of the said distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and/or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained A petition having been duly filed by Nassau County Public Administrator, who is domiciled at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York 11501.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on April 27, 2022, at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why the account of Nassau County Public Administrator, a summary of which has been served herewith, as Administrator of the estate of Annette Shapiro, should not be judicially settled.

[X] Further relief sought (if any):

1.Releasing and discharging the Petitioner from all liability, responsibility and accountability as to all matters set forth in the account of proceedings; 2.Allowing the commissions of the Petitioner in the amount of $ 15,537.94 pursuant to SCPA 2307(1) and the reasonable and necessary expenses of the office in the amount of $ 3,845.98 pursuant to SCPA 1207(4); 3.Fixing and determining the attorney’s fees of Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC attorney for petitioner in the amount of $ 24,000.00 as and for legal fees and $ 661.00 as and for disbursements, for a total of $ 24,661.00, of which $ 661.00 has been paid for disbursements and $ 24,000.00 is unpaid; 4.Fixing and determining the accounting fees of Grassi & Co, CPA’s, PC in the amount of $ 3,000.00, NONE of which has been paid and $ 3,000.00 is unpaid; 5.Releasing and discharging the surety; 6.Directing each of you claiming to be a distributee of the Decedent to establish proof of your kinship, and show cause why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship or deposited with the New York State Comptroller on account for the unknown next of kin of Annette Shapiro, decedent, should said alleged distributees default herein or fail to establish proof of kinship; and 7.Granting such other and further relief as to the Court is just and proper.

Dated, Attested, and Sealed, February 17, 2022 (Seal) HON./s/ Margaret C. Reilly, Surrogate Debra Keller Leimbach Chief Clerk Richard T. Kerins, Esq. Signature of Attorney Print Name of Attorney Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC Firm Name (516) 538-1111 Telephone 254 Nassau Boulevard South, Garden City South, New York 11530 Address rkerins@mmkolaw.com Email (optional) NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

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LEGAL NOTICE CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT, NASSAU COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO:New York State Attorney General Nancy Policano Dominic Zuzzi Grassi & Co. Jasper Surety Agency, LLC Anthony Policano and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law- and next-ofkin of the said JOSEPHINE MILANO, deceased, and if any of the said distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and/or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained.

A petition having been duly filed by Public Administrator of Nassau County, who is domiciled at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York 11501.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on April 27, 2022, at 09:30 a.m. in the forenoon of that day, why the account of Public Administrator of Nassau County, a summary of which has been served herewith, as Administrator of the Estate of Josephine Milano, should not be judicially settled.

[X] Further relief sought (if any): 1.Releasing and discharging the Petitioner from all liability, responsibility and accountability as to all matters set forth in the account of proceedings; 2.Allowing the commissions of the Petitioner in the amount of $ 26,673.52 pursuant to SCPA 2307(1) and the reasonable and necessary expenses of the office in the amount of $ 7,224.51 pursuant to SCPA 1207(4); 3.Fixing and determining the attorney’s fees and disbursements of Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC attorney for petitioner in the amount of $ 43,000.00, NONE of which has been paid and $ 43,000.00 is unpaid; 4.Fixing and determining the accounting fees of Grassi & Co, CPA’s, PC in the amount of $ 3,755.00, of which $ 755.00 has been paid and $3,000.00 is unpaid; 5.Fixing and allowing the claim of Anthony Policano in the amount of $25,000.00, NONE of

which has been paid; 6.Releasing and discharging the surety; 7.Directing each of you claiming to be a distributee of the Decedent to establish proof of your kinship, and show cause why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship or deposited with the New York State Comptroller on account for the unknown next of kin of Josephine Milano, decedent, should said alleged distributees default herein or fail to establish proof of kinship; 8.Granting such other and further relief as to the Court is just and proper, and that process be issued to all necessary parties who have not appeared to show cause why the relief requested should not be granted; and that an order be granted directing the service of process pursuant to the provisions of SCPA Article 3 upon such persons named in Paragraph (6) whose names or whereabouts are unknown and cannot be ascertained or who may be persons on whom service by personal delivery cannot be made.

Dated, Attested, and Sealed, February 10, 2022 Seal HON. s/ Margaret C. Reilly, Surrogate Debra Keller Leimbach Chief Clerk Richard T. Kerins, Esq. Attorney Name Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC Firm (516) 538-1111 Telephone 254 Nassau Boulevard South, Garden City South, New York 11530 Address rkerins@mmkolaw.com Email (optional) NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

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

There will be a General Meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Inwood Fire District as follows:

Time: 7:00 P.M. Date: Thursday, March 10, 2022 Place: DISTRICT OFFICE Rose Lynch, District Clerk 129832 Search for notices online at: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com

LEGAL NOTICE AT A SPECIAL TERM OF THE SUPREME COURT, PART 17 HELD IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NASSAU AT 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NEW YORK 11501 ON THE 8TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2022 Present: DAVID P. SULLIVAN, J.S.C. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE ___________________ INDEX NO:601511-22 ELEANOR FISHMAN PETITIONERS AGAINST TEMPLE-INLAND MORTGAGE CORPORATION RESPONDENT ___________________ On the reading and filing of the petition of the Petitioner verified the 3 day of February, 2022 and the official search of the duly authorized title company All State Abstract dated December 10 ,2021, showing no assignments of record, and the Affidavit in Support of Eleanor Fishman verified the 3 day of February, 2022; and the Affirmation in Support of Joan Ferrari, Esq affirmed February 3, 2022 and it appearing therefrom, that a certain Mortgage dated May 17, 1993 given by Eleanor Fishman and Stuart Fishman as mortgagors to respondent TempleInland Mortgage Corporation , as mortgagee in the principal amount of $100,000.00 secured by the Premises hereinafter described, and recorded in the real property records of Nassau County on July 12, 1993 in liber 15320 page 503 remains of record, and it appearing to my satisfaction that the petitioner has made reasonable efforts to ascertain, but has been unable to ascertain the location of a principal and/or an officer of Respondent TempleInland Mortgage Corporation, or its successor, if any, in order to execute a Satisfaction of said Mortgage; NOW, upon the motion of Joan Ferrari a member of Ferrari & Wallace, LLP, attorneys for petitioners.

ORDERED, that all persons interested in the said Mortgage be and they are hereby ORDERED to show cause at a term of this court appointed to be held at the Nassau County Supreme Court Courthouse located at FP3 100 Supreme Court Drive NY 11501 on the 5th day of April, 2022 at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon or as soon

thereafter as counsel can be heard, why said Mortgage should not be discharged or record, and it is further ORDERED that this order shall be published 1 X a week for 4 successive weeks in NASSAU HERALD, a newspaper published in the Village of Hewlett, Town of Hempstead County of Nassau. *There shall be no appearances on the return date of the instant motion. Submission of papers only.

ENTER: Signed this 8th day of February, 2022 , at Mineola, New York. /s/ DAVID P. SULLIVAN JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT NASSAU COUNTY NEW YORK ENTERED Feb 10 2022 Nassau County, County Clerk’s Office 129734 LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU ___________________ THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-I3, Plaintiff, vs.

Any unknown heirs to the Estate of SHARON SUSSMAN A/K/A SHARON M. SUSSMAN, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, creditors, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest, as well as the respective heirs at law, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest of the aforesaid classes of persons, if they or any of them be dead, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff; ERIC SUSSMAN; ADAM SUSSMAN; LAUREN SUSSMAN; ZACHARY SUSSMAN; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; and “JOHN DOE” and “MARY DOE,” (Said names being fictitious, it being the intention of plaintiff to designate any and all occupants, tenants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises being foreclosed herein), Defendants.

Filed: 4/17/2019 Index No.: 605283/2019 SUMMONS AND NOTICE

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Getting ‘Greased’ at the Ogden school dance The 1950s were in full swing at the Ogden Elementary School Father/Daughter dance on Feb. 17, sponsored by its Parent Teacher Association.

The annual dance had Ogden’s girls out with their special adult. The event is all inclusive with the young ladies accompanied by dad, grandpa, uncle, big brother or even mom. The men wore leather jackets with popped collars and fitted jeans and daughters showed up in their poodle skirts, ’50s style dresses, and Pink Lady jackets. The cafetorium was transformed into a diner of that era with tables ends flanked with classic cars to look like a drive-in eatery from that era.

The gym took on the appearance of a sock hop with the walls decorated with vinyl records and a jukebox. DJ Pace kept everyone dancing with music and themed dances. Ogden parent and photographer, Steve Myaskovsky, took professional pictures that will be framed and given to attendees.

Desserts and drinks were donated by Hewlett-Woodmere Business Association members. Hart and Soul Dance school donated the balloons and Myaskovsky donated all proceeds back to the PTA. –Jeffrey Bessen

Photos by Christina Daly/Herald

The annual FaTher/DaughTer dance at Ogden Elementary School included Pink Ladies, Greasers, Poodle Skirts, 1950s music and a Twist dancecompetition

FourTh-graDer amy ShTeinberg shared a slow dance with her dad, Boris, as ‘Daughters’ by John Meyer played.

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Mortgaged Premises: 25 Dartmouth St Rockville Centre, NY 11570 Mortgage Servicer: Specialized Loan Servicing LLC Mortgage Servicer Phone #: 1-800-306-6062 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT

THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is for the foreclosure of: Mortgage bearing the date of May 5, 2006, executed by Sharon M. Sussman, a married woman to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nomine for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to secure the sum of $200,000.00, and interest, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Nassau County on May 24, 2006 in Book 30534 Page 483 Instrument No. 2006052401798.

That Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nomine for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. duly assigned said Note and Mortgage to The Bank of New York Mellon fka The Bank of New York, as trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWABS, Inc., AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2006-I3 by Assignment dated April 27, 2012 and recorded on June 19, 2012 in the Office of the Clerk of Nassau County in Book 37363 Page 497 Instrument No. 2012061901836.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the

sale of the Mortgaged Premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

Plaintiff designates Nassau County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is situated.

Section: 38.

Block: 214 Lot: 29, 30 DATED: 4/2/2019 Rochester, New York NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the Mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your Mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY

SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. SCHEDULE A LEGAL DESCRIPTION ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Rockville Centre, Nassau County, New York known and described as lots numbers 29 and 30 in block 3 on a certain map entitled “Map of Hillside Park Additional No. 1, Rockville Centre, Nassau County, New York, Surveyed August 25, 1920, Edward S. Voorhis, C.E., Rockville Centre” and duly filed in Nassau County Clerk’s Office on February 22, 1924 as filed no. 539.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ukrainian Jews flee a Russian attack, again

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you, Senator Brooks.

FRED HARRISON L.I. Food & Water Watch Merrick

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

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

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

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

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

having presidents issue the proclamations on their own.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’ve been watching or marching in such

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

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

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

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

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Letters Does Hochul have the right priorities?

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

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

PAT KING Merrick

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

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

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

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

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

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

the Irish-American Dr. Kathryn Sullivan.

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

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

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

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

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

Comments? OConnell11001@yahoo.com.

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

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

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

STEWART B. EPSTEIN Rochester

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