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Send those kids to camp Summer programs return, with reopenings beginning in June indoors, there should be proper ventilation, including opening doors and windows when possiAs Covid-19 vaccinations con- ble.” tinue to be administered and On May 10, the U.S. Food and with summer a month away, Five Drug Administration approved Towns camps have begun to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for finalize their safechildren and teenty protocols for the agers from ages 12 reopening of a to 15. seasonal tradition.

After being The Centers for closed last sumDisease Control mer due to the and Prevention pandemic, Lawhas released safety rence Woodmere protocols and Academy’s sumguidelines for mer day camp is summer camps set to reopen on this year, and has June 28. There strongly recomwill be a few difmended that all ferences between CANDICE staff members the last time camp and campers get MoRgENlANDER was open, in 2019, vaccines if they LWA day camp director and now, camp are eligible. director Candice “The CDC Morgenlander would like camps to follow the noted. same social distancing protocols “Usually we would have offthat are currently being used by campus trips for campers aged schools, including keeping at third grade and up, but that has least three feet between children been canceled for this year,” and at least six feet when eating Morgenlander said. “Rather and drinking,” CDC Director Dr. than them leaving the campus, Rochelle Walensky said in a I’m planning to bring more spestatement on the agency’s web- cial events onto the campus.” site. “Additionally, most camp LWA summer campers range activities should be held outdoors, and if it is necessary to go Continued on page 10

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StEllA K. ABRAHAM ninth-grader Talya Lippman received her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from Onsite Medical Solutions nurse Juliet Melillo at HALB last Sunday.

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Talya Lippman, a freshman at Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, was one of the first young people who entered the g ym at the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach’s Hirt Family Campus in Woodmere last Sunday.

Lippman sat demurely on a folding chair, waiting to receive her first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the Covid-19 virus.

“It means a lot to me to get vaccinated — not just for me, but to help lessen the spread of Covid,” she said. “I’m very excited. A lot of my friends got Covid. Now we’re getting vaccinated, and to go through this together is a new experience.”

Lippman was among roughly 300 students, adolescents and teens between ages 12 and 15, who got their initial inoculation through a collaboration between HALB and the Hebrew Academy of the Five

Towns and Rockaway, aided by the UJA-Federation New York, which brought in Onsite Medical Solutions to administer the shots. SKA, in Hewlett Bay Park, is one of four schools under the HALB umbrella. In three weeks the students will get their second shot.

“UJA is dedicated to rebuilding New York in the aftermath of the pandemic,” spokeswoman Rina Cohen wrote in an email, noting the Continued on page 12

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Driving toward upgraded road safety jbessen@liherald.com

Speeding on Park Street, the main thoroughfare that runs through Atlantic Beach is not a new problem, however in the past few years the issue has become more pronounced and spurred roughly 70 residents to hold a rally at the intersection of Albany Boulevard and Park Street, the gateway to the village, in November.

Though the speed limit was lowered from 30 mph to 25 on the two-way fourlane 1.5-mile stretch of Park Street from the Atlantic Beach Bridge to Long Beach speeding remains a common occurrence.

“What’s negative news is the absence of any visible initiatives to calm traffic on Park Street, despite our quite significant rally last November,” Kevin Kelly stated in an email.

Atlantic Beach Mayor George Pappas acknowledged that “nothing has happened” since the November rally, he said.

“We are trying to get speed indicators, permanent ones from the county’s Highway Division and temporary ones through Denise Ford’s office,” Pappas said Ford, the county legislator whose district includes Atlantic Beach, said that Atlantic Beach will get the temporary then the permanent speed indicators, noting the speeding problem could possibly be mitigated by having the traffic signals

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TRaFFic hEadEd wEST on Park Street between Ithaca and Hamilton avenues in Atlantic Beach. along Park Street timed properly and installing preemptors that signals when a vehicle is at a traffic light.

She also pointed to the expected redesign of Park Street that would narrow the roadway with a two-way bicycle lane and add a traffic signal by Capri Drive near the Water Club houses in East Atlantic Beach and include supplemental drainage to reduce flooding that was part of the original storm recovery plan. That could

be in the fall, Ford said.

In an effort to improve cyclist safety -- a male bicyclist was seriously injured after being hit by a car on the Atlantic Beach Bridge last August -- and there have been other incidents, Kelly and others proposed dedicating space on the bridge’s six lanes to bicycles, scooters and roller skaters. The idea is to place cones or other barriers along the lane closest to the existing walkway as a protection along the

space. Three lanes could be simultaneously designated using signs or traffic signals for vehicles traveling south in the morning and north in the late afternoon and evening, Kelly said. “That would still leave two lanes for motor vehicles traveling in the opposite directions and would not result in any increased congestion,” he stated in a letter to Vincent Grasso, the executive director of the Nassau County Bridge Authority. The space is proposed for May to October.

“We were told that the walkway is too narrow to lawfully permit cycling – even though far more cyclists currently ride their bikes along the walkway rather than obeying the posted order to walk their bikes,” Kelly wrote in his letter.

Proposals have been presented for bike lanes, Grasso said. “According to our engineers, based on the width of the bridge that goes from 10 lanes to six lanes it is not safe enough for bike lanes,” he said, adding that the bridge authority’s lawyers, applying the engineers’ advice, agreed.

Grasso noted that the grid design of the bridge could cause control trouble for bike tires. One arm on each side of the tollbooths was shortened to accommodate cyclists, he said. Cyclists must walk their bikes across the bridge.

Have an opinion on Atlantic Beach road safety? Send letter to jbessen@liherald.com.

Mixed reactions for Inwood flood plans Jeffrey Bessen/Herald

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

Opinions are mixed on a $3.3 million road raising and stormwater drainage project the Town of Hempstead has sent out to bid that will be paid with federal and state money through the Governor’s Office for Storm Recovery. The work is anticipated to curb high-tide flooding in a portion of Inwood by installing check vales, drains and raising the roadways.

Floodwaters after high tides and storms have weakened the asphalt roads and damaged the curbs and sidewalks. In addition, compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act is woefully out of date. The work is planned for Bayswater Boulevard, Davis Avenue, Chestnut, Maple and Walnut roads and Peppe Drive.

Bids are expected back by month’s end.

Waqas Chaudhry has lived on Bayswater Boulevard immediately next to the town’s Inwood Marina for 10 years. “With (Hurricane) Sandy we had four to five feet of water and lost everything,” he said as he chipped golf balls into a net on his front yard. “Every high tide the water rises up to the cars.”

Chaudhry said that he is looking forward to the road raising as the constant flooding is “for us a real problem a recurring problem at high tide.” “I’m all for it,” he said, “I’m looking for it to help a lot.”

high TidE oR rain, water problems persist along Bayswater Boulevard in Inwood.

A block down on Bayswater Boulevard, Bella Mikhaylova said she was not living in Inwood when Sandy struck, but she heard about it. “It floods everywhere around here,” she said, “they should do it, it will benefit the community.”

On Facebook, a few area residents questioned the results of similar work in other communities. “I saw this happen in Rockaway,” Inwood resident Elisa Hinken posted. “Many homes even lost their basement level access. Plus during tidal floods this will not mitigate any flooding..”

Bev Arate pulled no punches. “This is

a joke,” she posted. “Wasted taxpayer money. I live here, this won’t work.”

Abby Schmidt, who lives in Meadowmere Park, another community hit hard

by Sandy flooding, was adamant in her opposition to the project. She stated in her post that she conducted much research before the town raised the streets in Meadowmere Park.

“Whatever you guys do, refuse those yard, driveway drains,” Schmidt posted.

“If they are planned for a home, they’ll only cause flooding in that part of the property from rain when the tide is too

high to let water out! And, when those flex valves fail and the tide comes through, your property will flood! You as a homeowner can refuse these to be put on your property.

Many Meadowmere, Seaford and East Rockaway property owners who had these filled them in at their own cost after the fact. Some are still here and fill with tide water with moon tides.

Town officials said that all residents whose properties are affected, such as with the installation of a drain, approved of the work after being told of the details during the planning phases. Town spokesman Greg Blower noted that the project “incorporates designs and techniques that have been successfully applied in other areas of the township, and are critical for the safeguarding of these communities.”

“Projects that implement upgrades to stormwater drainage and roadways provide much needed infrastructure improvements to coastal communities, particularly those that were hammered

by Superstorm Sandy and frequently experience high-tide flooding,” Blower said. “The goal is for these enhancements is to deliver neighbors with much-needed relief from experiencing frequent flooding and to help strengthen shoreline neighborhoods in preparation for future coastal storms.”

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THE TypE oF water well that Lawrence resident Gary Caparelli installs.

Digging deeper to save money on the South Shore

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A Lawrence resident might have a solution for homeowners paying the constantly increasing bills generated

by New York American Water, proposing an alternative method for outdoor water usage for South Shore residents without having to pay a high monthly bill.

For roughly 40 years, Caparelli has run his own company, GCI Irrigation Engineering, in Lawrence. During this time, he has installed water wells for residents across Long Island’s South Shore.

“My colleague and I have been irrigation contractors for over 40 years from Massapequa to the Five Towns,” Caparelli said. “Early on, we recognized the need for a more efficient and economical way to supply irrigation quality (not potable) water for sprinkler systems along the South Shore homes. We discovered that installing shallow water wells met this demand.”

Caparelli described what the water well is and how it’s installed. “Today’s wells consist of a pipe and well screen driven or placed into the ground down to depths of 25 to 30 feet,” he said.

“Since all of the South Shore areas have a deep, sand sub-strata, driving a well point down into the water table is met with very little resistance from rocks, boulders or hard-pan. Connected to an electric pump, this system can supply a lawn sprinkler with free irrigation quality water.”

Steve Stempler runs the Five Towns Sprinkler Service. He also installs water wells throughout the Five Towns and other surrounding areas. He noted the financial benefit of having a water well installed. “With water rates from New York American Water at over

$10.00 per thousand gallons and double that for city residents, an irrigation well for your lawn sprinkler is almost a necessity,” Stempler said. “The average “payback” from owning a well/pump system is two to three years.”

A NYAW rate hike that took effect May 1 is expected to increase customers’ bills up to 30 percent. It will affect NYAW’s more than 124,000 customers in Nassau County.

To help mitigate the rise in cost, the state senate introduced legislation that would eliminate NYAW’s special franchise tax, which constitutes between 31 and 50 percent of customers’ monthly bills. Additionally, it would create the Nassau County Water Authority, a new public benefit corporation that would be authorized to take over public and private assets.

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat who represents the Five Towns, cosponsored the bill. “American Water customers pay some of the highest water rates in the state and that needs to change,” he said. “By setting a path to rate relief and municipalization, we can save real dollars for Long Islanders, and that is precisely what this bill does.”

Caparelli added that the installation of a water well can also help with water conservation. “The source of your drinking water in Nassau is pumped from wells 800 to 1,500 feet deep,” he said. “This supply is also filtered and chlorinated prior to entering your home and delivered through a complex distribution system. Putting costly, treated water on your grass simply does not make sense if a viable alternative exists.”

Have an opinion on water costs in the Five Towns. Send letter to jbessen@liherald.com

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Truck pulled out of water Inwood Fire Department volunteers and members of the Nassau County police Emergency Services Unit responded to a possible water rescue at Inwood Park at 1:53 p.m. on May 16.

A truck and a boat had rolled into the water, according to Inwood fire officials. All the boat’s passengers had gotten safely out of the water near the dock by the boat launch. An Inwood department diver performed a “safety sweep” and fastened the truck to a winch then used by the police to pull the truck, the boat and boat trailer out of the water. No injuries were reported.

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Four Queens men were indicted on murder charges and other crimes for the beating death of Nazareth Claure, 31, a one-time Hewlett resident who was killed on April 11, and three days later her remains were found in the trunk of a car during a NYPD police traffic stop in Inwood.

Allan Lopez, 22, aka Sergio, Jose Sar miento, 21, Rigeo Yohairo, 20, and Anander Henriquez, 28, Claure’s boyfriend, all of Far Rockaway, were arraigned on May 11 before Queens Supreme Court Justice Michael Aloise on a seven-count indictment that charged them with second-degree murder and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

Lopez, Sarmiento and Yohairo are also charged with concealment of a human corpse and tampering with physical evidence. Henriquez is also charged with aggravated criminal contempt. Lopez is also charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

The next court for all four men is July 27.

If convicted all face up to 25 years-to-life in prison.

“This was a cruel, ruthless killing,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz stated in a news release. “As alleged, the defendants attacked the victim and beat her to death with a machete and a (baseball) bat. A young boy is now without his mother and a community is grieving. The accused are in custody and will face justice in our legal system.”

On April 11, between 9 and 11 p.m., Lopez, Sarmiento, Henriquez and Yohairo allegedly attacked Claure, officials said.

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novel “Hamnet.” At 2 p.m. Join Zoom meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/81534410722.

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. Peninsula Public Library has no adult programs scheduled from May 17 to 31.

JCC Youth Council Get involved with the Gural JCC Youth Coalition Council. Teens 13 to 17.

Meetings 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., on Zoom.

For more information contact marisa. ruggiero@guraljcc.org.

Thursday, May 27 Sharper Training Sharper Training presents an introduction to using the iPad and iPhone at 11 a.m. through the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Join Zoom meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/88456370766?pwd=VlBhcGN0e UpKN0VUaXdkdmNLNDhVdz09

Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library Throughout May, Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library has an all-day program dedicated to the learning and loving or animals. Jason will teach the audience about Princess the toad, Tickles the hedgehog and lots of other fun creatures including mice, lizards, bunnies, crabs, and baby animals.

Thursday, May 20 German Art Professor Dennis Raverty discusses the Reformation and German Renaissance art at 11 a.m. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Join Zoom meeting https://us02web.zoom us/j/85970672036?pwd=UkZrYTlJTG5r ZldieTR3Y3lYYU9jZz09.

Yoga & Meditation Lisa Zimmerman presents a session on upper body yoga and meditation at 2 p.m. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library.

Join Zoom meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/86840142850?pwd=SzhiRW9rV3 grTXZKaEx0eEpGTEliUT09.

Tuesday, May 25 Covid Support The Gural JCC’s a weekly Zoom support group offers coping strategies. 9 a.m.

Pre-registration required. Contact Lisa Barnett, (516) 569-6733 x 210, lisa. barnett@guraljcc.org.

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Sweet swinging Siach student Inwood resident Rabbi Mordechai Stein, pitching, and his fifth-graders from Talmud Torah Siach Yitzchok in Far Rockaway, made one of their occasional visits to the open space on Bayswater Boulevard in Stein’s home community to play baseball. Another Inwood resident Yitzy Orlansky, above, smacked a double in one of his at bats during the game on May 13.

Parkinson Support At noon with Cathy Byrne, coping strategies, education and support. Contact Byrne at cathy.byrne@guraljcc.org or (516) 569-6733 x220 for details.

Reclamation District At 5 p.m., the Greater Atlantic Beach Water Reclamation District meets via a telephone conference because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Walking Club The Gural JCC wants to talk a walk with its Walking Club at 10:30, weather permitting. Meet at Grant Park in Hewlett at the entrance on Sheridan Avenue.

For more information contact Susan Sachs at susan.sachs@guraljcc.org or (516) 569-6733 x230.

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Kadima A Zoom Coffee and Conversation with social worker Jill Alper, for divorced and widowed men and women looking for additional support and socialization in a warm, welcoming and safe circle. At 7 p.m. through the Gural JCC. Join on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/898 75403242?pwd=bWZkSGhncEordGVM aEdJYmZqa3Ewdz09#success.

Hewlett-Woodmere Little League is working on bringing back softball for girls. For a possible fall league email child’s name, school, grade as of September 2021, phone number to Msavin1984@ yahoo.com.

Cedarhurst resident Jacob “Coby” Fliegelman is the valedictorian of Tour College’s Lander Col-

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Can’t find your glasses? Lost your cell phone? Or have you forgotten the name of someone you just met? . Dr. Shelley Pazer will keep you thinking and feeling your very best - at any age - through useful lifestyle tips and encouraging, interactive activities that will boost your memory and sharpen your thinking.

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Great Decisions At noon, Stanislao Pugliese presents the Great Decisions series through Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Join Zoom meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/84391298385?pwd=MFEwQkxZb 2RSd1VqdDNWa3hYSEZOUT09.

Pizza At Chabad Hewlett Chabad has pizza for Hewlett High School students every Wednesday at your lunch time @ Chabad House, 40 Everit Ave., Hewlett. Just text (516) 592-8503, how many slices wanted and at what time.

HWPL Readers The Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library Readers discuss Maggie O’Farrell’s

lege of Arts and Science Men’s Division. The virtual graduation ceremony is May 30.

On Sunday, May 23, the official grand opening of the Mark Ramer Chesed Center will take place at in Hewlett. It honors the memory of the late Atlantic Beach resident.

The Monday, May 24 Woodsburgh village meet-

Lisa Zimmerman presents a session on upper body yoga and meditation at 2 p.m. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library.

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SHOP Volunteers

Volunteers needed on a regular weekly basis to assist at the Gural JCC’s kosher food pantry, unloading items, stocking shelves and filling orders for client pick up. To sign up, go to https:// bit.ly/3tHz4Xv.

Memorial Day

On Sunday, May 30, the LawrenceCedarhurst parade steps off from Frost Lane and Central Avenue in Lawrence at 10 a.m. There is expected to be a brief ceremony at Cedarhurst Park.

There will be no Inwood parade this year. Hewlett-Woodmere will have a ceremony at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, May 31 at the Veterans Memorial Triangle at the intersection of Broadway and West Broadway in Hewlett.

ing will be held at 8:30 p.m., not 7 p.m. Call Village hall (516) 295-1400 or email villages3@optimum. net for meeting link.

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway hosted a celebration and remembrance of Covid19 with live music and reflections on May 18.

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Jewish schools to receive more STEM money from the state To help support the STEM (science, technology, education and math) learning occurring in yeshivas and Jewish day schools across New York state, the new budget includes $40 million – a $10 million increase from the previous fiscal plan – for that educational programming. The amount represents a record investment in students at local non-public schools.

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat who represents the Five Towns, noted that the money performs two services aiding to boost learning and reducing the educational cost. “Every child deserves a first-rate education — and our local yeshivas provide that and more,” Kaminsky stated in a news release. “I was proud to help secure a record investment in STEM for our local Jewish day schools this year, helping propel our children to the careers of tomorrow. Importantly, the more aid we secure for our yeshivas from Albany, the less parents are called upon to shoulder the tuition burden.”

Hebrew Academy of Long Beach Executive Director Richard Hagler said the Woodmere school is appreciative of the money. “This funding will go a long way in preparing our students for the jobs of tomorrow and spurring a lifelong love for sciences, math and technology,” Hagler said in the release, noting what he said was Kaminsky’s “unwavering support for and commitment to education and our yeshiva.”

The Orthodox Union’s Teach Advocacy Network Executive Director Maury Litwack, whose organization who rallies every year in Albany for more money for STEM education, thinks the funding is “historic and groundbreaking in America, and what it does and continues to do for Long Island yeshivas and day schools is monumental,” he stated in the release.

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‘Future of Space’ found at Cradle of Aviation former nasa astronaut William Shepherd opened the new exhibit at the Cradle of Aviation Museum May 10.

By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com

William Shepherd, raised in Babylon, in Suffolk County, has strayed a bit far from his roots over the years: He has zoomed around the globe multiple times on the space shuttle as a NASA astronaut, and became the first commander of the International Space Station.

If Shepherd, now 71 and retired from NASA and a Navy career, has learned anything from his space travels, it’s this: Something extraordinary — even alien life — could be out there.

If aliens were to arrive here, the andrew Parton first thing they might see of us, President, Shepherd said in Cradle of Aviation an interview at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City last week, would be space junk.

“My sense is that if there is ever some kind of crossing with another species, the first thing they would see would be stuff we discarded,” like the hundreds of usedup space communications or weather satellites still flying around.

Shepherd’s mind was very much on space and the future last week. He traveled from his home in Virginia to be at the Cradle May 10 for the opening that day of its newest exhibit, “The Future of Space.”

Shepherd spoke to the media, schoolchildren and at a dinner reception for invited guests that evening. He had donated his flight suits and other NASA gear he had collected over the years to the Cradle, which has included the items in its new exhibit.

The exhibit, Shepherd said, is designed to stimulate minds, young and older, with what is to come in the cosmos in the decades ahead.

The time was ripe, Cradle officials said, for such an exhibit. The most stunning of recent events took place Feb. 18, when NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars. Ingenuity, Perseverance’s helicopter, has made a number of flights on the Red planet since.

Elon Musk’s Spacex, a privately held company, launched its Dragon spacecraft on March 2020, to resupply the space station. Other Spacex voyages are planned.

And NASA is thinking of a return flight to the moon, aboard a vehicle called Artemis, with a planned launch in 2024.

Artemis’s crew will include a woman and a person of color. They will be the first of their gender and race to step foot on the moon.

Much of the enthusiasm for space flight waned after Americans first landed on the moon in 1969. It revived in the 1980s with the launch of the space shuttle, but after two shuttles exploded in flight, killing 14 astronauts, the shuttle program ended.

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“The future is now,” Parton said in an interview. “There is going to be a lot happening in space.”

In the interview, Shepherd said he does not see Mars as a “final destination” of the space effort.

“We are trying to figure out where humans fit in the universe,” he said. “We won’t get any direct answers right away, but we will get some clues.”

The vehicles that will travel to Mars in the future, Shepherd said, will likely be much larger than now, and the effort to get them there will be international.

The exhibit itself takes up a large corner of the Cradle. It includes models of Spacex rockets, a 12-by-12 Martian landscape, complete with tiny hills, all designed by Rod Leonhard, a graphic artist and photographer, from Hewlett; an intricate model of the Space Station, which took two years for Matt Arnold, of Port Washington, to construct.

Part of the exhibit includes a 12-by-12 Martian landscape designed by a Hewlett graphics expert, Rod Leonhard.

The exhibit introduces augmented reality, an interactive experience in which objects that a model of the International Space Station, reside in the real world are designed by Matt Arnold of Port Washington, in a enhanced by computer-generated two-year effort. perceptual information. decades. It features dozens of famous A visitor can download an app to a cellphone and use AR to put images World War I and World War II aircraft of him or herself on Mars, or even “cre- built by Grumman and the Fairchildate and dance with little aliens on the Republic Corporation of Farmingdale, as planet,” said Leonhard, who demonstrat- well as general aviation models. It also has models of airplanes from the begined the technology for this reporter.

Long Island played a large role in the ning of flight, balloons, components and early days of space flight. The biggest role gear by other manufacturers. And there is an original Lunar Module, LM-13, which belonged to Grumman Corporation of Bethpage, now Northrop Grumman, was intended for the Apollo 19 mission to which built the lunar lander that took Copernicus Crater in 1973. That mission Apollo astronauts to the moon. Grumman was canceled for budgetary reasons.

“We’re going to honor the old, but celealso constructed the space shuttle’s wings. Dozens of subcontractors built brate the new,” said Jennifer Baxmeyer, electronics and other components for the the Cradle’s executive director. The plan is to build out the exhibit in years to shuttle.

The Cradle honors Long Island’s come, adding what is new in space and achievements in aviation over the science, she said.

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Kids prep for camp as programs reopen continued from front page from ages 2 to 15.

Similar to protocols adopted by schools, Morgenlander explained, parents and staff members will answer a health questionnaire before campers arrive for the day.

“As of now, my staff will be masked inside and outside,” she said. “However, my campers will be allowed to remove their masks when outside. We also have an air conditioned facility, so that’s great.”

When it comes to vaccinations, Morgenlander said the camp is not mandating them. As of now, vaccines are not mandatory for any camps in Nassau County. “We follow the directive of the county Health Department when it comes to this matter,” she said. “Most of my staff is in the education field, and they’re already vaccinated. As far as my campers go, that’s up to their families and the Department of Health.”

Camp enrollment is below its usual numbers, Morgenlander said. “I’m down about 70 kids from where I would typically be,” she said. “Truthfully, with the way things are right now, I’m very comfortable with that lower number right now, since I’ve had a tremendous enrollment over the past month.”

Hillel Day Camp, which uses the Lawrence campus of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, is set to open on June 28 and end on Aug. 18. The camp’s director, Evan Liebowitz, did not want to elaborate on the protocols.

“We are still in the process of finalizing, so I don’t want to go into depth on our guidelines yet,” Liebowitz said. “We recognize the importance of camp, but we need to do it in a safe manner in accordance with the Health Department recommendations and guidelines.” He added that before the pandemic, Hillel typically averaged

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Lawrence woodmere academy’s summer day camp is set to return in late June. Hailey Haber, front, and Ava Spinner tried out the the slip-and-slide at the camp in 2018. roughly 900 campers and 300 staff members each summer.

Leibowitz noted that safety protocols are always subject to change before the start of camp. “What we have in place now can be very different from what will be in place two days before camp,” he said.

Hebrew Academy of Long Beach’s AVNET summer camp is also set to reopen on June 28. School officials had not responded to a request for comment at press time.

Despite the adjustments that have had to be made

amid the pandemic, Morgenlander said she was excited for the campers to return this summer. “Although things are different for this summer, I still think it’s going to be great and fun for everyone,” she said. “My first priority is the safety of my staff and campers. My second biggest priority is for everyone to have fun.”

Have an opinion on summer camps reopening? Send a letter to jbessen@liherald.com.

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Cohen said that the UJA anticipated that its day school initiative, which began on May 10 — the first day the Pfizer vaccine was approved for 12- to 15-year-olds — could reach more than 1,500 students in 10 days. Up to now, the organization has helped bring vaccines to communities that were hit especially hard or where there were barriers to access, with more than 20 pop-up vaccine sites, including the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC in the Five Towns in February.

Adults and young people alike are eager to reconnect with friends and go places. Yeshiva of South Shore eighthgrader Adir Sacknovitz was the last person in his family to get vaccinated, but was no less excited. “I can go to [summer] camp and sports games,” he said, waiting his turn in the HALB gym.

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Onsite Medical sOlutiOns nurse Tanya Vowes administered the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to Yeshiva of South Shore eighth-grader Adir Sacknovitz at HALB last Sunday. ing homes and schools.

“HAFTR and HALB came together to do this as community event, and it’s fabulous we were able to do it,” said Ari Solomon, HAFTR’s executive director. “We want to make our community safer, and then we can get back to normal.” Solomon and HALB Lower School Principal Richard Altabe coordinated the inoculation event.

Not long after the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for young people,

Atlantic Beach resident David Sharin made appointments for his son Matthew, 15, and his youngest daughter, Julia, 12, at Aqueduct Racetrack last Saturday.

“Psyched to get all of my family fully vaccinated,” David said, noting that he, his wife, Elissa, and their older daughter, Amy, had already been vaccinated.

The Mount Sinai South Nassau and Town of Hempstead Vaxmobile will make a stop at the Five Towns Community Center, at 270 Lawrence Ave. in Lawrence, on

May 25, from 3 to 6 p.m., to inoculate those 12 and older. “We’re super-excited, staying focused on ensuring access to all in our community,” said Sasha Young, the center’s food pantry director and youth services coordinator. No signup is necessary to get vaccinated; the shots are first come, first served.

As a complete reopening and a return to normal life becomes more of a reality, public school districts in the Five Towns are restrained in their approaches. “The district eagerly awaits guidance from the state regarding the 2021-2022 school year,” Hewlett-Woodmere Superintendent Dr. Ralph Marino Jr. wrote in an email.

“Once the guidance is shared with us, the district will work collaboratively to plan for the new year.”

Lawrence Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen said that a requirement to wear masks remains in effect as the district aims to hold a “safe in-person high school graduation” and moving-up ceremonies.

“We are hopeful that full reopening can take place,” Pedersen said. “Vaccines are a way to best ensure one another’s safety, but families will have to make those decisions. They are not being mandated as yet for school entry.”

For more information on the vaccinations being given by the Vaxmobile at the Community Center, email syoung@fivetownsmail.org.

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elcome summer! It will look and feel a bit different from last summer as we begin to emerge from the pandemic. This past year sure was tough on everyone and it also forced many of us to re-think family outings, vacations or even easy ways to entertain the kids while at home.

For some, this summer will offer more opportunities for kids outside the home. But other families may be more cautious about forging full steam ahead.

Still summer beckons. Kids are ready to jump in the pool, play outside (and sleep in!), while parents are eager for barbecue dinners and easy-going evenings on the patio. Taking advantage of warm temperatures, outdoor activities and time together as a family is certainly appealing, but what happens when the boredom sets in and amusement parks and road trips are the main requests? Summer can be a respite, but also a conundrum if you’re trying to find activities to keep your family entertained.

According to a NerdWallet and Harris Poll survey, families tend to ramp up spending when warm weather hits. Parents of kids ages three to 17 plan to spend an average of $471 per child on summer activities. The majority of parents with children younger than 18 — more than 80 percent — who plan to take a summer vacation, spend an average of $2,256.

But summer isn’t just about opening up your wallet. There are plenty of ways to enjoy the season to everyone’s benefit — without spending fortune.

Turn passions into summer projects Let’s face it, when it comes to summer and kids, free time can eventually turn into boredom. Try positioning summertime as an opportunity to pursue different, out-of-the-box interests, hobbies or projects that there isn’t time for during the school year.

“Help your kid identify a passion project for the summer,” says Cherie Lowe, personal finance author and blogger. For example, a child who loves history at school might enjoy building a medieval castle from cardboard recycling as a budget-friendly summer activity.

For budding artists, try mimicking the masters in an outdoor window painting contest at your home. Bonus: Once the masterpiece is complete, you can have fun washing off the paint and get sparkling clean windows in the process!

To get ideas for a project, Lowe suggests looking for library books, finding online videos,

using social media or talking to friends who could be subject matter experts on a chosen area of interest. If it’s super hot and your family has a passion for water and DIY projects, look for water-based activities to cool down. One fun example: “Build your own sprinkler,” Lowe says.“For about $10 you can buy PVC pipe to construct an elaborate sprinkler for the backyard. We’ve done this and added to it each year,” Lowe says.

Tap into area parks Sunshine and warm weather encourage people of all ages to get outdoors, and local parks are an excellent resource. To take advantage of what our parks have to offer and create a “parks plan” to guide you. Make it your goal to explore parks that may be unfamiliar to you, even consider a day trip to a park on the North Fork for example.

Host themed potlucks with family and friends You might be tempted to eat out more during the summer months, especially now to show support for the restaurant industry hardhit by the pandemic, but it’s also the season to fire up the grill.

Enter the potluck: Planning communal outdoor gatherings with neighbors, friends and family and sharing in food and games can be an enjoyable summer activity, to supplement dining out. Especially since we missed out on that sort of socializing last summer, it will take on a renewed appeal this year.

Make your summer potluck dinners even more memorable by planning them e neighborhood events, celebrations or recreational backyard sports tournaments. You could also create theme nights such as “eating around the world,” where everyone brings dishes from different countries.

Have fun with a cause Summer doesn’t have to be about selfentertainment. Families can also find gratification and summer fun by volunteering their time. Choose a cause or activity that suits your family’s interests, ages and lifestyle. For example, nonprofit building or renovation projects or volunteering at a community garden can be inspiring, memorable and skill-building. n Above photo: With a little imagination you can schedule a whole season of appealing activities to suit you and your family.

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ummer is fast approaching — and while we’re not back to “normal” just yet, we’re looking forward to a more relaxing, less stressful season as we start to emerge from the pandemic. We all want to have fun — even if we’re staying close to home.

Families surely want to pack more play into your day. And there are plenty of ways do to just that. These ideas aren't just for the kids — they're fun and engaging activities for the whole family.

After all, grown-ups need time to play, too.

So set aside school, work and stress; turn your attention on ways to play with kids this summer. √ Build a toy car racetrack out of old boxes, paper towel rolls and other repurposed materials. √ Make a target with chalk on a blackboard or the sidewalk, and then throw wet sponges at it until it disappears. √ Set up a glow-in-the-dark ring toss.Use dollar-store glow necklaces or bracelets as rings. √ Organize a massive water gun battle. √ Or maybe your kids prefer a water balloon war. Fill them up before starting and keep them in buckets. Make sure the kids wear their swimsuits. √ Have a hula-hoop contest — see who can keep the hoops spinning longest and who can twirl the most hoops. √ Learn a fun new skill as a family: Try juggling, skateboarding, French braiding or whatever strikes your fancy. √ Grab your camera and take photos of plants and animals using different filters and frames, and then compare the results. √ Paint the sidewalk with water. See how fast the sun makes your art disappear. √ Get some pots and pans for drums, dress up and have a parade. √ Catch fireflies in a glass jar and watch them shine before letting them fly away. √ Go on an alphabet treasure hunt. See if you can find things that begin with every letter in nature. √ Create your own pop-up playground from old cardboard boxes, fabric pieces and other recycled materials. √ Draw a game board on the sidewalk and make up the rules. Kids can

become life-size pieces in a game of your own invention. √ Host silly relay races. Have the kids hop on one foot, walk backward, gallop like a horse, skip — the more ridiculous the challenge, the better. √ Create a short stop-motion film using dolls, stuffed animals or action figures.

There are lots of apps that make this easy. √ Go through your recycling bin to see what you can turn into a boat. Add sails and decorations, and then float it in pool, river or tub. √ Have a car wash for your toys, bikes and scooters. Make sure to get really wet! √ Play flashlight tag. While the other players hide, whomever is "it" must find and "tag" them with the beam while saying their names. √ Host a fancy tea party for your stuffed animals. √ Go on a neighborhood wildflower walk—do some research in advance so you can identify some of the blooms. √ Rifle through the dress-up bin and have a photo shoot with your little princess, pirate or superhero. √ Indoor campout: Set up a tent in the living room, make oven s'mores, turn off all the lights and download a campfire app for your tablet. √ Set up a scavenger hunt in the backyard or local park. Give the kids maps or clue sheets for extra fun. √ Put on a show! Make up your own or adapt one of your favorite books, movies or TV series. Craft sets and costumes for extra fun. √ Head to the beach and build an enormous sand castle. √ Play a rousing game of themed charades — see what kinds of wacky themes you can come up with. √ Organize a family game night and pull out old standards like Monopoly, Scrabble and Pictionary. Winners can earn points to cash in for small prizes or extra scoops of ice cream. √ Collect items from nature and make a collage. Add paint or leave it au naturale. n Above photo: Document your world. Turn your eye to what’s happening all around you.

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or many of us, some of our fondest memories of growing up come from camping with our families.

You just have to smile when you recall the fun of jumping into a cool lake on a hot summer day, chasing fireflies under a starry night sky, or making S’mores around an open campfire.

For nature lovers, perhaps nothing is more enjoyable than packing up the camping gear, traveling to a favorite campsite and getting away from it all while sleeping under the stars. Such an experience can be transformative, turning first-time campers into lifelong enthusiasts.

Even if you’re not a hardcore outdoors person, you can enjoy some special bonding time outdoors with the kids.

Spending some nights out under the stars makes for a beautiful and peaceful summer activity. You don’t need a big cabin or a camper, either. You can do a lovely trip in a simple tent.

Today’s modern tents are a lot nicer than the ones you may be used to. They can be divided into rooms, have hightech, waterproof and wind-proof fabrics, and connections for lights and fans.

Sleeping Capacity: Choose a tent with plenty of room for you and your family. You may consider increasing your tent capacity by at least one person if you or your family are people of size, are claustrophobic, toss and turn at night, need more room to sit or sleep comfortably, or if you’ll be with small children or dogs.

Types Of Tent: Cabin-style tents have near vertical walls to maximize peak height and livable space. Some cabin tents may also have awnings and vestibule-style doors that make them more like a house than a tent. Dome tents stand up better to storms with a tall part in the center and walls that slope down to the ground. It reduces the space inside the tent, but it’ll stand up in high winds.

Pay attention to tent floor length. Look for a floor length of more than 90 inches if you’re camping with anyone more than 6 feet tall. Also consider the number of doors. More than one door will keep you from climbing over each other in the night if someone has to get up for a bathroom break or rises early for fishing, hunting or hiking.

Tent Materials: Look for higher-denier fabrics on your tent, which are more ruggedthan lower-denier fabrics. This is especially true for outer parts like rain flies and canopies.

You’ll also want to pack a few extra repair kits and seam tape to keep your tent waterproof in case of rain.

Look for mesh panels set into the doors, ceilings and walls of the tent for adequate ventilation. The panels should be set up to take advantage of cross ventilation in the tent.

Camp Like A Pro Parents who have never before taken their children camping may benefit from employing a few strategies to make the trip as fun as possible.

Make a trial run in the backyard. A night camping in the backyard won’t be exactly the same as a night in the woods, where wildlife, and particularly insects, may be less welcoming hosts. But a backyard camping night can acclimate children to their sleeping bags and their tents. A fun night sleeping under the stars in the backyard also may make kids more enthusiastic about an upcoming camping trip in the woods.

Go over safety early and often. Use every opportunity to explain camping safety measures to youngsters in advance of your trip. Emphasize the importance of staying together in the woods, and teach youngsters how to identify potentially harmful plants like poison ivy, making sure they know to avoid coming into contact with these and other poisonous plants. Contact your local parks depart-

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Let kids help when choosing camping equipment.

Youngsters may be more excited about camping if they’re allowed to choose certain equipment, including their sleeping bags and tents. Before visiting your nearby camping retailer, explain to kids that tents come in various styles because they’re designed to protect campers from certain elements that may be more common in certain areas than others. Such an explanation can make it easy to explain to youngsters why you’re purchasing certain items, even if those items weren’t kids’ top choices.

Plan the family menu in advance. Plan the menu in advance so you can ensure everyone will continue to eat healthy. But make sure to include a few kid-friendly camping classics, like s’mores, in the meal plan as well. n Above photo: Camping with youngsters can be an outing everyone will cherish for a lifetime.

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Conclusive Research has proven the existence of what many educators refer to as “Summer Slide”, or the unfortunate decline in a student’s abilities after two-and-a-half months summer learning hiatus.

June is routinely seen as the ‘end’ of the school year and September as the ‘start’ of another. Such jargon sets families up to view summer as an educational pause.

Unfortunately, in ‘pausing’ a child’s education, regular practice of newly learned skills is often neglected, and as a result, students can return to school as much as three months behind where they left off in June.

Engaging kids in appealing summer learning activities — besides their required reading lists — motivates them to continue their growth in reading and learning throughout the summer, and even helps students become excited about returning to school and starting the year off strong.

Consider these ways to make reading a natural part of summer fun.

Take your child on regular trips to the library. Taking a trip to the library is a fun reading centered activity that children love.

Make regular visits to the library and let your child spend as much or as little time as they want picking out books to take home. Also explore the summer programming options while you are there, whether in-person or online.

Make reading part of the summer routine. Now, this can be a hard sell next to television, video games, and other modern distractions, especially as screen time has proliferated during the pandemic. If you’re having trouble, try this strategy: 30 minutes

of reading can earn your child one ticket, which he can then trade in for 30 minutes of screen time.

Lead by example. Make reading a part of your own summer routine.

One of the biggest factors that determine if a student will be a lifelong reader is seeing someone in their family set that example.

Keep lots of reading material around the house and focus on reading more than other distractions.

When reading, ask your child lots of questions. Reading lots of different books, silently or aloud, with someone else helps children build phonic skills and read fluently. But, talking about books, answering questions, and re-telling stories helps a child develop their ability to understand language.

Make a “Summer Fun Journal.”

Combine your child’s favorite summer activities with writing prompts. Have your child pick out or craft a summer fun journal, and when you take them to their favorite restaurant, or on a trip to Grandma’s, they can write a short entry in their journal afterwords.

Prompt your child to use academic concepts when talking about the things they love. If your son or daughter is dying to tell you about the levels he just beat in his game, ask him to “explain” the level, and “describe” the “main character,” or ask her to “retell” the story of a movie or favorite show Read everything, everywhere. Have your child read billboards, signs, and pamphlets. If you go on a trip to a theme park, have your child be responsible for the map and have them read the rules and names of rides. n Above photo: The key to success with summer reading is to help make the reading part of the fun — making the library an exciting destination and combining literacy skills with the things your children already love. It’s possible to keep the focus on learning while enjoying the relaxed summertime pace.

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By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com

Cedarhurst resident Sharona Beck was inspired to pay it forward to Hatzalah of the Rockaways & Nassau County after the volunteer ambulance corps helped save her life last year, as well as responding to other emergencies.

Last March, Beck battled Covid-19 and credited Hatzalah with saving her life during her bout with the virus that has caused a global pandemic. “I was totally dehydrated and didn’t have any liquid in my body,” she said. “The hospitals were filled by that point and they were able to get me an IV.” Hatzalah is a volunteer emergency medical corps based in Far Rockaway with a garage on Broadway in Woodmere. Hatzalah consists of more than 150 emergency medical technicians, paramedics and doctors, and claim an average response time of roughly two minutes, according to information on the organization’s website.

Beck runs her own real estate company, Sharona Beck Realty, with offices in Cedarhurst and West Hempstead that specialize in real estate across Long Island’s South Shore. She recently gave a $12,000 donation to Hatzalah of the Rockaways and Nassau County. Beck said that the money comes exclusively from her business “All the guys have jobs and families but they still drop things at the drop of a hat when someone calls them,” she said. “It doesn’t matter what the person's background is, they know that a human life is a human life. They are so good natured and willing to help everyone.”

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SHARonA BEck, cEnTER, made a $12,000 donation to Hatzalah of the Rockaways & Nassau County on May 11.

She recalled another example of Hatzalah’s dedication to helping others in an emergency situation.

“Years ago, I had a party in my backyard and something happened to one of my guests,” she said. The person fainted. “One of the Hatzalah guys broke their ankle running into my house, they didn’t tell me about that until after the fact. That’s the kind of people they are, doing whatever it takes.”

Hatzalah of the Rockaways and Nassau County representatives released a statement thanking Beck for the donation. “We greatly appreciate when community businesses step up and understand the importance of

having a voluntary ambulance based in their local community,” the statement said. “It's great to have a local business help promote a vital community resource like Hatzalah.”

Being philanthropic and supporting civic-oriented organizations is vital to Beck. “Doing charity and doing good for the community has always been important to me,” she said. “I just feel it’s important to give back and always pay things forward.”

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BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS Michelle Blandino, Village Clerk 126005

PUBLIC & LEGAL NOTICES To place a notice here call us us at 516-569-4000 x232 or send an email to: legalnotices@liherald.com

LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held as to the following matter: Agency:Board of Appeals Village of Hewlett Bay Park Date: June 1, 2021 Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place: Zoom Videoconference Subject: Application of Levi Cohen and Jeffrey Silber, as Trustees of the Harry Silber Revocable Trust, , 115 Everit Avenue, Hewlett Bay Park, New York, to maintain 6 air conditioning units, which requires variances of Village Code §146-10, in that the air conditioner condensing units will be 17.5 feet from the side property line, where a minimum of 30 feet is required, Premises also are known as Section 42, Block 19, Lot 8 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map. Due to public health and safety concerns related to COVID-19, and pursuant to the Governor’s Executive Orders, the Board will not be meeting in person on June 1, 2021. The meeting and the public hearings will take place via teleconferencing and videoconferencing through Zoom.

The meeting will be recorded, and a transcription will be provided at a later date.

The Zoom login information is: Meeting ID: 811 9696 5245 Passcode: 951335 Or dial by your location: Plans and other materials associated with the application may be reviewed at Village Hall prior to the meeting, during regular business hours, upon making an appointment.

Through Zoom, the public will have the opportunity to see and hear the meeting and hearing live, and upon recognition by the Board, may present comments.

Comments also may be submitted prior to the meeting, but not later than 3:00pm on June 1, 2021, by regular mail to Village Hall or email to the Board at bstolar@msek.com.

Public comments submitted by email must identify the application to which the comments apply.

Dated: May 11, 2021

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS Michelle Blandino, Village Clerk 126004

LEGAL NOTICE INC. VILLAGE OF CEDARHURST LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Board of Zoning Appeals of the Village of Cedarhurst will hold a public hearing on 05/27/2021 at 8:00 PM in the Village Hall, 200 Cedarhurst Avenue, Cedarhurst, NY for the following: Petition of Daniel GoldfarbThe Cheese Store Premises: 532-544 CENTRAL AVE Sec/Blk/Lot 39/262/10 Case # 2021-012 COMBINING OF TWO RETAIL STORES. ( THE CHEESE STORE ) Variance from: 265-86 D.(2) Prohibited uses; exceptions; special exception.

Anything in this Code to the contrary notwithstanding, the erection, expansion, use and/or occupancy of a building which is engaged in the sale, preparation and/or service of food for consumption on and/or off the premises, including but not limited to restaurants, bars, catering establishments, supermarkets, groceries, delicatessens, fast-food establishments, convenience stores, cafeterias and institutional kitchens, are prohibited, PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that all interested persons will have an opportunity to be heard at said hearing.

Dated: May 19, 2021 Cedarhurst, NY Benjamin Weinstock Mayor Salvatore Evola Village Clerk-Treasurer

By Order of the Board Of Zoning Appeals 126010

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LEGAL NOTICE INC. VILLAGE OF CEDARHURST LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Board of Zoning Appeals of the Village of Cedarhurst will hold a public hearing on 05/27/2021 at 8:00 PM in the Village Hall, 200 Cedarhurst Avenue, Cedarhurst, NY for the following: Petition of SAMUELS NEIL & RACHEL Premises: 348 CARVEL AVE Sec/Blk/Lot 39/345/258 Case # 2021-010 ADDITIONS / ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ONE FAMILY DWELLING $200 FEE FOR PLAN REVIEW TRANSFERRED FROM APP. # 2020-132 R#3919 Variance from: 265-38 C. Building area.

The total building area, including all accessory buildings, shall not exceed 30% of the lot area.

265-41A Side yards.

A side yard is required along each side of a building.

The side yards along the sides of a building used exclusively as a singlefamily dwelling shall have an aggregate width of no less than 16 feet. Neither side shall be less than six feet in width, except on corner plots, the side yard shall be six feet.

265-40 A Front yards A front yard of 25 feet shall be required.

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

Dated: May 19, 2021 Cedarhurst, NY Benjamin Weinstock Mayor Salvatore Evola Village Clerk-Treasurer

By Order of the Board Of Zoning Appeals 126011 LEGAL NOTICE INC. VILLAGE OF CEDARHURST LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Board of Zoning Appeals of the Village of Cedarhurst will hold a public hearing on 05/27/2021 at 8:00 PM in the Village Hall, 200 Cedarhurst Avenue, Cedarhurst, NY for the following: Petition of ASSOR SIMON & TOBY Premises: 528 CENTRAL PL Sec/Blk/Lot 39/268/17 Case # 2021-011 NEW SECOND FLOOR ADDITION AND INTERIOR RENOVATIONS Variance from: 265-42 Rear yards.

A rear yard of not less than 25 feet shall be required on every plot.

265-41 Side yards.

A side yard is required along each side of a building.

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

Dated: May 19, 2021 Cedarhurst, NY Benjamin Weinstock Mayor Salvatore Evola Village Clerk-Treasurer

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Service on the Far Rockaway branch will be suspended in both directions starting on May 22 due to a switch being replaced in Valley Stream, Long Island Rail Road officials said.

The work began on Saturday, May 15 to Sunday, May 16 and will continue from Saturday, May 22 to Sunday, May 23. Heading west customers at stations Far Rockaway through Gibson will board buses or vans, and then transfer to westbound trains at the Valley Stream station. Buses will depart up to 30 minutes earlier than usual train times.

Customers traveling east can board Long Beach-bound trains to Valley Stream and exit for bus service at the stations Gibson through Far Rockaway. Plan for up to 30 minutes of additional travel time. During the overnight periods, some buses will run between Far Rockaway and Jamaica.

Along the Long Beach branch, westbound trains will depart up to 20 minutes earlier than usual train times. Additionally, all eastbound and westbound Long Beach trains will stop at Valley Stream, Rosedale, Laurelton and Locust Manor.

All eastbound and westbound trains along the West Hempstead branch will originate and terminate at Jamaica Station,

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FAR RockAWAy LIRR service will be suspended in both directions this weekend due to track work. and run express between Jamaica and Westwood Station (no stops at Valley Stream).

There will be no train service to or from the St. Albans station. As an alternative, customers traveling from points west of St. Albans will board eastbound Babylon trains and detrain at Lynbrook, where a bus will take them west to St. Albans.

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Place: Zoom videoconference Subject: Application of Kevin & Elana Lifshitz, 142 Cedar Ave, Hewlett Bay Park, New York, to construct an inground swimming pool with spa, patio, and equipment, which construction requires variances of: (a) Village Code §146-9(C)(3), in that the maximum combined lot coverage will be 11,720.08 sf, where a maximum lot coverage of 10,453.36 sf is permitted, and (b) Village Code §146-9(C)(8)(h), in that the pool rear yard setback will be 25 feet, where a minimum of 35 feet is permitted. An application to construct a pool house pavilion, which construction will require variances of: (a) Village Code §146-9(C)(3), in that the lot coverage will be 12,620.08 sf, where a maximum of 10,453.36 sf is permitted, (b) Village Code §146-12(C) in that the rear height setback ratio will be 1.36, where the maximum is 0.80, and (a) Village Code §146-19, in that the rear yard setback will be 14 ft 4 in, where a minimum of 35 feet is required. Premises are designated as Section 41, Block A, Lot 204 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map. Due to public health and safety concerns related to COVID-19, and pursuant to the Governor’s Executive Orders, the public hearings will take place via teleconferencing and videoconferencing through Zoom.

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Comments also may be submitted prior to the meeting, but not later than 3:00pm on June 1, 2021, by regular mail to Village Hall or email to the Board at bstolar@msek.com.

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bond or certified check representing five (5%) percent of the bid price.

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While The Jewish Star's circulation has primarily been on Long Island, it is about to embark on a major expansion into New York City.

The Jewish Star is an 18-year-old division of Richner Communications Inc., a 140-employee family-owned company that publishes more than 30 community newspapers and shopping guides on Long Island and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Riverdale Press. It maintains its own printing operation and more.

Interviews will be conducted over the next few weeks so candidates should respond in a timely manner - with a cover letter, resume, writing samples and salary objectives, to: Jobs@TheJewishStar.com

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ALFREDO’S CONSTRUCTION

A. Somebody named Murphy once said, “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.” Someone named Stein responded to that by saying, “Murphy was an optimist!” You can now quote Leeper’s Law: The act of simplifying often leads to further complication. In the process of trying to make things easier, you may have unanticipated problems onte eeper that can surprise you.

I started writing this column because I saw people making the biggest investment of their lives without truly understanding the process or what to expect. Documentation and planning shouldn’t be taken for granted. Part of a licensed professional’s job is consumer protection, on top of combining artistic needs, structure, function and systems.

From your perspective, we need to only provide the planning for the affected areas. That seems simple enough. But then things get more complicated, because our plans are reviewed by so many others who all have their particular point of view.

Building officials see your home or business differently than you do. Years ago, when everything was done with paper and pencil, we submitted plans and they got reviewed at face value, such as only looking at the room you want to add. Then computers compiled information that allowed officials to quickly locate the whole property history and possible illegal uses that were previously recorded. After a while, it became a regular assumption of government that people were all trying to get away with something most of the time, and the extra level of scrutiny led to officials asking for more and more information, mainly because some owners ruined trust for everybody.

You are automatically under suspicion for illegal two-family use, illegal sheds, decks, pools and fences, or the lack of a permit for your air conditioner or finished basement or attic. Add to that the zoning information, “clear sight triangle” to avoid blocking drivers from seeing across your property, energy code analysis for even your simple addition, plus light and ventilation charts to show your window changes and there you go, not so simple anymore. Simple would be great, if it were also reality.

Your home may have had a violation that was never cleared from a suspicion of a former owner who rented the basement, or a long-term house guest who caused a neighbor to secretly report you, without any need for proof. It happens more often than you imagine, and then things get complicated just proving that there’s no illegal use, or you have to hire a professional to produce plans for more than you expected. You could start out simply, but be prepared for the rest. Good luck!

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s I made my way along Bay Parkway, headed to Jones Beach Field 3 on a recent Wednesday, I more than half-expected the worst. I anticipated a mile-long line and a five-hour wait, during which I would be spoken to brusquely by exhausted state government employees. At the end of it all, I would have a needle stuck in my arm.

So I was pleasantly surprised when I arrived at Field 3 at 7:50 a.m. for an 8:00 appointment, and there was no line. A National Guardsman, dressed in SCoTT olive green fatigues with an olive green BRINToN mask, met me at the gate, asked whether I had an appointment and waved me through to a check-in post, where I showed my ID. That was it. I was in. No hours spent idling in line. I was about to receive the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, is 95 percent effective in preventing Covid-19.

As it turned out, the vaccination experience was nothing like what I’d half-expected. I marveled at the assembly-line efficien-

cy with which doses were administered by friendly government employees. Lines of orange cones led me to a large white tent that fit four cars at a time. There were a half-dozen or so such tents. The entire operation looked like a cross between a giant car wash and a fast-food eatery, with lots of military personnel directing traffic.

I pulled up to my slot. I was asked a series of simple questions. I showed my ID again. I was told to pull down my sleeve, and I was injected.

Then I was told to pull over to a waiting area and sit for 15 minutes to check for a reaction. Feeling nothing out of the ordinary, I drove home.

End of story.

I returned three weeks later for the second dose, feeling good. I was waved through the check-in. Just as I was about to pull my car into the big tent, a man hurried over to ask if I’d been checked in.

“No,” I responded, a little timidly. He removed four cones and asked me to pull over, and I thought, OK, here we go. As I had half-expected at the outset, I’ll be waiting here for hours until someone lumbers over to let me through.

As it turned it, I waited two minutes before someone arrived with a tablet in hand. He asked me to show ID. That was it.

I pulled back in line, and 20 minutes later I

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was, as they say, fully vaccinated.

Neither time did I even feel the pinch of the needle as it entered my arm. Clearly, after having injected so many hundreds of people at this point, the vaccinators are highly skilled at the fine art of delivering a pain-free shot. Neither time did I experience any significant side effects from the inoculation, either — only a little tiredness.

Feeling confident I was safe from the coronavirus, I recently headed to New York City for the first time since December 2019. My wife and I went with our daughter to check out the apartment she’ll be living in during her senior year at NYU. (They, too, are vaccinated.)

It was a momentous occasion. Like hundreds of thousands of college students across the country, Alexandra had spent the previous 15 months cooped up in her bedroom, staring at a computer screen, disconnected from all the wonderful vibrancy that a young person can feel studying and living away from home.

Suddenly, because of the marvels of modern science, there was hope that she wouldn’t continue to miss out on the full “college experience” before she graduates.

Suddenly, there was hope for us all.

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o hourslong waits.

No brusque, exhausted state employees. And no side effects.

existential experience. On the way home, I paid close attention to the whir of the train speeding across the landscape, the way the sunshine streamed through the car windows, the loud beep before its doors automatically closed, the frenetic chatter of excited passengers, many of them likely having visited the city for the first time in months.

Last spring, as the pandemic raged, I shot a photo essay on the emptiness of the LIRR. I counted a handful of riders that May day. People kept to themselves, seemingly afraid. If they hadn’t had to be there, they wouldn’t have been. It felt surreal, post-apocalyptic. Never had I seen the LIRR so empty during rush hour on a weekday.

Riding the LIRR this May was celebratory, joyful. The world had not ended.

Human ingenuity had prevailed.

We mustn’t get ahead of ourselves, I know. We have a ways to go before our society can return entirely to our pre-pandemic ways. And the sooner each of us commits to being vaccinated, the sooner we’ll arrive at that happy place.

So, if you haven’t already done so, get the shot. It’s a lot easier than you might expect.

Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.

From one end of the pandemic to the other in a sheet pan

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ome folks say that the wheel was the greatest invention ever. Others point to the printing press, the internal combustion engine or the light bulb, but I think that during the pandemic, the ordinary sheet pan changed our lives forever.

My tongue is only partially in my cheek when I say that the basic 14-by-20-by-1inch pan has transformed my day-today routine. You can buy two pans for under 30 bucks.

And then you can give away most of your other pots and pans, especialRANDI ly the large, heavy, KREISS hard-to-clean roasting pans.

Paula Zuccotti, a London-based expert on consumer behavior, attempted to document the things people turned to during the pandemic. She asked contributors from around the world to photograph their lockdown essentials.

Thousands of people sent her photos of the objects that got them through. They ranged from watercolor paints to stuffies to the usual devices, to some unusual devices, to musical instruments, garden trowels, yarn, VR headsets, paddles, running shoes, hand-tied flies, live plants and herbs of all

kinds. If I knew about the project, I would have sent a photo of my sheet pan.

During Covid-19, as my husband says, if I didn’t cook it, we didn’t eat it. Meal planning and preparation was a diversion.

Eventually, though, it felt burdensome to think about food even though that was all there was to keep us busy and reasonably healthy in our isolation.

Somewhere along the way I remembered the two sheet pans I’d bought. When I went online for recipes, I realized I was late to the party; apparently the sheet pan craze has been rocking for some time, and people have been using this super-easy method to cook everything from scrambled eggs to filet mignon.

Even babies are cashing in on the boom, with Mom and Dad preparing entire meals of diced chicken or meat, veggies and maybe some polenta baked on one sheet and enjoyed for a few days.

The sheet pan is really the repurposed jelly roll pan of old. But now my pans hold our entire dinner. The preparation is minimal and the cleanup is, well, one pan.

One of the best things about the ascendency of the sheet pan is that it doesn’t matter if you’re left or right, liberal or conservative, vaccinated or not. It’s possible that both Liz Cheney and Kevin McCarthy use sheet pans to cook. It’s possible that Dr.

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Anthony Fauci enjoys healthy meals a la sheet pan and that Mitch McConnell whips out his sheet pan to prepare a homemade meatloaf. (Nah, that probably doesn’t happen.)

One of my favorite sheet pan recipes from Epicurious:

uring Covid-19, as my husband says, if I didn’t cook it, we didn’t eat it.

■ 3 pints grape tomatoes, halved ■ ¼ cup olive oil ■ 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar ■ 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced ■ 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon dried oregano ■ 2 teaspoons kosher salt, divided

■ 4 pieces thin-sliced, skinless, boneless chicken breast, or 2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts (about 1 pound) ■ 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper ■ 10 ounces fresh mozzarella, thinly sliced into rounds ■ ½ small red onion, thinly sliced into rounds ■ ½ cup peperoncini (about 3 ounces), thinly sliced Preparation: 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Toss

tomatoes, oil, vinegar, garlic, 1 tablespoon oregano and 1 teaspoon salt on an 18-by-13 rimmed baking sheet.

2. Cut chicken into slices.

3. Season chicken on all sides with pepper and remaining 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon oregano. Add chicken to tomato mixture. Roast until chicken is almost fully cooked through and tomatoes are starting to burst, 8 to 10 minutes. Arrange mozzarella rounds over chicken and tomatoes. Return to oven and roast until cheese is melted and chicken is fully cooked through, 2 to 4 minutes. Top with onion and peperoncini.

Another recipe, for baked feta cheese pasta, went viral on TikTok and turned out to be worth every bit of the hype.

When I prepare fish, I love that I can cook a piece of salmon, the asparagus, butternut squash and the roasted potatoes all in one sheet pan. If I want to separate the fish, I just put it in a little aluminum foil boat right on the sheet with the other parts of the meal. Then I lift it out when it’s done and leave the veggies in for a few more minutes.

What object helped you through this past year? I would love to hear from you.

Someday there will be a museum of the pandemic. Get your entries ready.

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

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his week, the nation will mark the first anniversary of the death of George Floyd at the hands of exMinneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murder, among other charges.

Never has the death of an unarmed Black man at the hands of police reverberated so loudly and so powerfully here on the streets of Nassau County. Protests that in the past were largely confined to big cities came to our suburban streets last June — and rightly so.

It was critical that the protests play out across the country, in all sorts of neighborhoods, to send a clear message that Floyd’s death was unacceptable and that we, as a nation, are demanding change.

Sadly, however, killings of unarmed Black men have continued since Floyd died. That is why we need the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act to be signed into law. The measure passed the House of

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Representatives, but has yet to pass the Senate.

The bill would: ■ Lower the criminal intent standard — from willful to knowing or reckless — to convict a law enforcement officer for misconduct in a federal prosecution.

■ Limit qualified immunity as a defense to liability in a private civil action against a law enforcement officer. Qualified immunity generally grants government officials performing their jobs immunity from civil lawsuits.

■ Grant administrative subpoena power to the Department of Justice in patternor-practice investigations, which examine patterns or practices of excessive force and biased policing by law enforcement officers.

How none of these measures is on the books as part of federal law now is confounding, particularly after all that has transpired over the past year.

It’s about time that the Senate acts on the legislation — and passes it. We urge our readers to write to their senators in support of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

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assau County has been slowly, surely returning to normal life following 15 months of trying restrictions intended to contain an out-of-control virus, and we can say with certainty that those restrictions saved lives. This week the county will take a giant leap forward in the ongoing effort to reopen its economy.

The capacity restrictions on businesses, from retail stores to fitness centers, were to be lifted on Wednesday, so we expect crowds will return to shops and amusement parks, and we hope business will boom. At the same time, indoor social gatherings of 250 people will be permitted,

up from the current 100, and outdoor residential gatherings of up to 500 will be allowed. All good news for couples seeking to marry in June.

We have seen how life is getting back to the way things were. Long Island Rail Road cars are filling up, and so are our parkways. Traffic jams are back. So are lines to be seated at popular restaurants.

Never in your life did you think you would be thankful for the day that heavy traffic and standing-room-only cars on the LIRR were back, but that speaks to the upside-down nature of the coronavirus pandemic, which altered our reality.

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letters Hewlett-Woodmere community emerges stronger To the Editor: I hope this letter finds the members of the HewlettWoodmere community safe and well. I would like to thank everyone who took the time to vote both in-person and via absentee ballot in the recent school budget election. We appreciate the support the community continues to place in us to provide the children of HewlettWoodmere with exceptional programs and services.

Thank you, also, to everyone who shared their thoughts and opinions with us throughout the many live and virtual meetings and conversations that helped to shape our budget for the 2021-22 school year.

I think we can all agree that Hewlett-Woodmere is a wonderful place to learn, live and work. The passage of

the Covid-19 vaccines. As of press time, Nassau County officials were reporting that some 70 percent of residents here had been vaccinated. That is excellent news, because it means we should, at the very least, be able to achieve herd immunity at the local level by summer’s end, and perhaps much sooner.

We encourage readers to post photos of themselves on social media receiving their vaccine inoculations. Spread the message far and wide: The vaccines are safe. They are effective. And once you’re vaccinated, you are largely free to return to life as you knew it.

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oom and other online video conferencing applications are exposing the underlying racism that infects American society, including in its schools. A Jersey City high school science teacher was recently suspended after students videoed racist rants in which he insulted AfricanAmerican students in his class who defended the Black Lives Matter movement.

A teacher in Palmdale, Calif., got into trouble when she thought a Zoom meeting with a parent was aLan over and launched into a racist rant sinGer accusing Black people of always lying. She was suspended and then resigned. A Georgetown University professor resigned and another was fired after they were caught on a video disparaging Black students.

The entire Board of Education of the school district in Oakley, Calif., resigned

after a board meeting at which they cursed when describing parents. Twothirds of the children in this district are Latino.

A white police officer upstate in Albany either forgot to turn off his body camera or accidentally activated it before launching into an anti-Black racist rant. He was suspended without pay, and his department has started the procedure to terminate him.

The Albany police department is also accused of systematic racism.

Between July 9, 2019, and July 9, 2020, 97 percent of the people ticketed or arrested in the jurisdiction for marijuana-related offenses were Black.

The police chief and a patrolman in Hamilton, Ga., were removed after body camera footage showed them making racist comments about slavery and the mayor of Atlanta, who is a Black woman. They made the comments just before going on patrol at a Black Lives

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t’s not just police officers; teachers, professors and board trustees behave badly too.

Letters the budget will allow the district to continue to provide extraordinary learning experiences for our students and the excellent programs and services valued most by our community.

I cong ratulate our elected Board of Education members, Debra Sheinin, Judy Menashe, Dr. Jonathan Altus, Shari Amitrano and Francois Tenenbaum.

Thank you, also, to Tatyana Kopp and Ramsha Ansari for your candidacy. It is so wonderful that many of our community members are willing to share their time and talents to help shape the district’s future.

As of now, we are still awaiting guidance from the state on school requirements for 2021-22.

Once we receive them, we can begin collaborating on a plan for the new school year, with the health and safety of our students a n d s t a f f p a r a m o u n t . M o re information will be shared with the community as our plans and guidance from the state emerge.

Our district calendar will be available for viewing in late summer. In the interim, the dist r i c t We b s i t e ( w w w. h ew l e t t woodmere.net) and Facebook page (Hewlett-Woodmere Public Schools) are great sources of information!

Once again, thank you to the community for continuing to

Matter rally. An assistant to the local mayor commented, “I’m not sure if he was stupid enough — obviously he was stupid enough — not to know it was still working and that he still had it on. The words just rolled out of their mouths.

There was no hesitation.”

Neither racism nor tech trouble is new during the pandemic; as with police misbehavior, educator misbehavior is just becoming easier to expose. In 2018, a Florida teacher was videoed telling a student from Haiti that she was from a “third-world island country where they don’t have doors.” In 2019, a photo of four teachers and an elementary school principal from Palmdale, Calif., laughing while holding up a noose was posted on social media.

Teachers and police officers are entitled to due process, but on-the-job racist rants must be grounds for immediate dismissal, with no second chances. This is not a freedom-of-speech issue, but rather an issue of disqualifying behav-

ior. Racists cannot be police officers or teachers.

There are more than 3.5 million kindergarten to 12th-grade teachers and 800,000 police officers in the United States. These videoed incidents involve a minuscule number of teachers and police officers. The greater problem is school boards and state legislatures that seek to whitewash American history by ignoring or minimizing the role racism in the past and present has had and continues to have in shaping this country, and police departments that target African-Americans. Conservatives disparage “cancel culture,” but they are the ones who want to ban teaching the underside of American history and protect misbehaving police officers.

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 the editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.

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Group home Covid rules need updating To the Editor: I have called and written numerous times in regard to our son, age 33, who is fully vaccinated and lives in a group home in Smithtown.

The New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities has ignored and neglected its responsibilities to update the guidelines to allow p e o p l e w h o a r e yo u n g a n d healthy and fully vaccinated to go out and about and live their lives like everyone else.

Parents are under strict guidelines, and it is extremely difficult to get an appointment to visit their sons or daughters inside the group homes. Quarantine rules regarding exposure to someone with Covid are outdated and antiquated and should be abolished. Day programs have not opened to full capacity, and

Another stop for the Mount Sinai South Nassau-Town of Hempstead Vaxmobile — Rockville Centre

residents of group homes are languishing.

It is the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities’ job to care for and protect vulnerable citizens. The OPWDD has created a stunning and dishear tening neglectful situation. How long will it con-

tinue to ignore our pleas for our loved ones?

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