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Making reading cool Lawrence School District promotes language literacy ing and wellness needs of students divided into three groups: kindergarten to third grade, A teacher once told a class- fourth to sixth grade and sevroom full of seventh-graders that enth to 12th grade. The students if they could read, who took part in they could rule the Romie’s Mentally world. T he LawStrong event rence School Disreceived kits that trict’s goals might included notepads, not be quite as lofty, pencils and stress but it plans to balls to help them ensure that its stureduce stress. dents — from kin“We’re focusing dergartners to high very much on menschool seniors — can tal health and the read and are readtotal emotional welling. being of the chilOutside the dren,” Lawrence Broadway Campus Superintendent Dr. that houses both Ann Pedersen said. Lawrence Elementa“This is a celebrary School and the tion of their acamiddle school, the demic strengths as DR. ANN district held its Midreaders and hoping Summer Check-In pEDERSEN we can make readon Aug. 10, at which Lawrence ing seem cool.” students were invitBy doing so, Lawsuperintendent ed to pick out books rence aims to attack for free, have a snack the so-called “learnand receive a Lawrence Reader ing gap” created by the coronaviT-shirt. rus pandemic’s interruption of The event, with books donat- traditional in-school learning, ed by the nonprofit, Freeport- which has left students dealing based Book Fairies, was syn- with a challenging mix of in-perchronized with a district virtual son and remote instruction. program featuring Dr. Romie Mushtaq addressing the learnContinued on page 14
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TzIpoRA AND AARoN Shapiro, the couple who own Tassel Children’s Shoes in Cedarhurst, are the first recipients of the Main Street Recovery Grant. With them at far right was Nassau County Executive Laura Curran.
Boosting business in Nassau By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
The first step in Nassau County’s new program to boost downtown businesses took place at the intersection of Cedarhurst and Central avenues in Cedarhurst on Aug. 12, when County Executive Laura Curran presented the owners of Tassel Children’s Shoes with a facsimile $10,000 check. The store’s owners, husband and wife Aaron and Tzi-
pora Shapiro, are the first recipients of what is called the Main Street Recovery Grant, and is part of the county’s new Small Business Technical Assistance and Planning program. The program is using $1.5 million of the federal gover nment’s American Rescue Plan to offer grants to academic institutions, businesses, business support organizations, chambers of commerce and nonprofits, and is part of Nassau’s array of economic
recovery initiatives. Open for the past five years, Tassel Children’s Shoes, at 92 Carman Ave. in Cedarhurst, had to close in March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic spread rapidly, and then, like many businesses, reopened a few months later, as Covid restrictions were lifted in phases. “We reopened as soon as we could, and business has been good,” Aaron Shapiro told the Herald as he stood Continued on page 14
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thE PIzzA dANcE band of Amelio Morelli, left, Nino Gugliemo and Tony Modica performed throughout the fair.
Sunny skies, big smiles propel Inwood Day By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
Inwood Day began with planning, shopping and then there was set up and it all came together for a four-hour feast of fun on the very sunny grounds of the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence on Sunday. A dunk tank invited everyone try and put an Inwood firefighter in the water, which Katelyn Collado did with a toss and Anthony Castadna splashed off the sitting board. Longtime Inwood resident and nurse Elisa Hinken conducted blood pressure screenings under one of the large tents and an array of businesses and groups lined the area. Inwood native Marlon Townsend promoted his MPT Enterpryze public relations consulting business. Cedarhurst native and Valley Stream resident Josseline Jimenez sold her Zesty food products, including the tasty pizza. There was inflatables for the children, a DJ and the Mariachi Local pumping out music and burgers, chicken, hot dogs, beans, rice and cold beverages. Nassau County Board of Elections voter outreach and education demonstrator Abraham Haygood showed the proper way to use a voting machine. Early voting gets under way Oct. 24 and ends Oct. 31. The general election is Nov. 2. Go to nassauvotes.com for more information. Along with the coordination of Inwood residents David Hance, Byron Alvarado Valiente and Sasha Young, there was support from the Acosta, Bran, Galante and Gebauer families, Gammy’s Pantry, the Islamic Council of North American Relief, State Assemblywoman Melissa Miller and County Legislator Carrié Solages. Young said $15,000 was raised for the event and appreciated the assistance. “This was done by the community and volunteers,” she said.
toNY NAvE wAS at the grill all day cooking the hamburgers. State Sen. Todd Kaminsky had a booth and attended the fair. County Executive Laura Curran danced, and Miller, who also had a booth, Solages and Town of Hempstead Councilman Bruce Blakeman were all there as well. The eighth annual Inwood Day was dedicated to longtime Inwood businessman and community advocate Pete Sobol, who died in February at 64. Sobol served on the Community Center board and as interim executive director. “The one and only way to honor Pete and his legacy is by doing the work every day in the community,” said Five Towns Community Center Executive Director K. Brent Hill.
INwood FIREFIghtER ANthoNY Castadna was knocked into the dunk tank water on a throw by Katelyn Collado.
cRAFtS ANd PAINtINgS were on sale at Inwood Day and from left Isabella Iaseboli, Kathy Leon, Valeria and Massimo Perella, Tony Modica and Mariarosa Guzzardi.
Village trustee’s Facebook post creates a stir By JEFFREY BESSEN
Ari Brown’s emailed statement Few things should be compared to the Holocaust, but pre-Holocaust, 1938, is the “how did they let this happen” comparison. Those were the times when the foundations of free speech and freedom were destroyed.
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Freedom of speech is enshrined in the United States Constitution and freedom of expression is upheld as a basic human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. However, there are limits to the right of free speech ranging from what is called dangerous speech such as not yelling fire in a crowded venue to what is considered treasonous speech by individual countries. With the advent of social media there are a great many forums where people feel the need it to offer an opinion on the issues of the day. And that free speech creates its own set of consequences. Ari Brown, an elected trustee of Cedarhurst village and the appointed deputy mayor, posted a reaction to another Facebook post concerning Covid vaccinations. Brown's July 28 post: “I grew up in a home where I heard the horror stories of the holocaust first hand. We used to wonder to ourselves as kids “how did they let this happen? History repeats itself ” was in response to Cedarhurst dentist Dr. Gila Jedwab’s anti-vaccine post on the same day. After seeing Brown’s post The Forward's senior political reporter Jacob Kornbluh tweeted: “Ari Brown, deputy mayor of the Village of Cedarhurst in the Five Towns, compares the U.S. coronavirus vaccination drive to the Nazi-era Holocaust.” Then the Jerusalem Post posted an online story noting both posts by Brown and Jedwab, a previous Brown post and the rising Covid rate in Nassau County. There was no mention of contacting Brown for comment, who was contacted by the Herald and emailed a statement. (See box.) Brown told the Herald that his post-
In a response to a Facebook posting, I wrote, “I grew up in a home where I heard the horror stories of the Holocaust first hand. We used to wonder to ourselves as kids, “how did they let this happen? History repeats itself.”
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CEDARhuRSt DEPutY mAYoR Ari Brown’s Facebook post created a small kerfuffle over its meaning. ings are “my own personal opinion,” and said he is not speaking for Cedarhurst village and what he wrote has nothing to do with the Holocaust. Cedarhurst Mayor Benjamin Weinstock, who appointed Brown deputy mayor, said, “There is nothing more fundamental than expressing you opinion. I don’t agree with his position, I would never deny him the right to say it.” Weinstock said that the village doesn’t have a written policy on restricting the speech of its elected or appointed officials, and he noted that Brown never implies he is speaking for the village. In Lawrence, there is also no formal policy restricting speech nor any policy regarding social media. “We don’t have a written policy, but there is an agreement that the trustees will check through the village office,” Mayor Alex Edelman said, before speaking on a specific village issue.
Infections as of Aug. 12
I used to wake up in the middle of the night hearing my mom cry out from the horrors, being separated from her mother as a child. I sat across the table from my grandmother, and heard about how she and mom had to escape Milan and hide in Sicily and then flee on a ship, with 1,000 other refuges on a secrete route to America, only to be interned by President Roosevelt in Oswego, NY. This was all documented in the book called “Haven,” by Ruth Gruber, whom was appointed by Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes. I used to say, “Boobi (grandma), how did you all let this happen?” She replied, it happened, little by little, until one day we woke up and we were prisoners.” In truth, she said that in Yiddish, but I’m paraphrasing in English. My boobi told me that the first things that they did were to create a fear of “infectious epidemics,” and that the Jews were the “spreaders of disease,” sounds awfully familiar. She told me that to prevent this spread, “papers were created, Jewish businesses labeled ‘unessential,’ a total lockdown of any free speech, people tagged and labeled in many physical and governmental ways, and eventually separated into camps. Some were separated into physical camps, but all were separated into different camps of thought, “the clean and the dirty.” I hear about papers, mandates, the spread, prevention … all sounds like it’s for the better good; then why is it that millions of unvaccinated are illegally crossing our borders and are being bussed throughout our country, while our legal citizens are being locked down and mandated into submission? One wants to get vaccinated, once, twice, 100 times, that’s great and good for them. If others choose not to, “My body, my choice,” good for them too. How did we let this happen that these basic freedoms were questioned and taken from us?
7,983 (latest county figures) Infections as of Aug. 5 7,8270
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Curran gears up early for fall campaign By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com
Laura Curran has apparently decided not to wait until after Labor Day, the traditional beginning of fall political campaigns, to kick-start her drive for a second term as Nassau County executive. Curran, 53, a Democrat, held a rally on a sweltering Saturday afternoon outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola, where bottled water was handed out with blue campaign signs. The county executive announced her intention to run for re-election in May. After her 20-minute speech to about 100 supporters Saturday, Curran acknowledged that it is early to campaign. “The election is three months off,” she said. “But it’s important for people to know where we are going. We will be persistent to build back” after the pandemic. Curran said her fall campaign would focus on “fully funding” law enforcement, expanding access to mental health, developing multi-year plans for a balanced budget, supporting small businesses and promoting job growth. Her opponent in the fall campaign will be Hempstead Town Councilman Bruce Blakeman, 65, a Republican who lives in Atlantic Beach. Blakeman has run for several offices before, including for a seat in Congress. Blakeman has said his campaign will be all about taxes. Curran, who lives in Baldwin, worked as a reporter for The New York Daily News and New York Post and as an editor at Herald Community Newspapers and was a Baldwin Board of Education member before winning a seat in the County Legislature. In 2017, she defeated Republican Jack Martins to become the first woman to be elected Nassau County exec-
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Laura Curran spoke to about 100 supporters outside county office building on a sweltering Saturday afternoon. utive. On Saturday, Curran was endorsed by John Durso, president of the 250,000-member Long Island Federation of Labor. “I’m proud to lend my support to someone who is one of us,” Durso told the crowd. He said the federation’s support for candidates has not always been unanimous. “But this time,” Durso said, “it’s Laura.” Her friend and neighbor, Naala Royale, owner of a Rockville Centre restaurant, told the crowd that Curran “lives in a normal house, walks her dog and sometimes holds press conferences on her front lawn. For us, that’s
Laura.” In her speech, Curran outlined a series of programs on which her campaign would be based. One program includes fighting crime. She noted that she, Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and other officials recently broke ground on a new $54 million, 89,000-square-foot police academy on the Nassau Community College campus in Garden City. She emphasized that Nassau was recently named the safest community in the United States by U.S. News and World Report. “That doesn’t happen by accident,” Curran said. It came about as the result of work by her administration, the police department and residents. But her veto of a bill earlier this month to give first responders the right to sue under the county Human Rights Law when they face harassment disappointed police union leaders, including Nassau Police Benevolent Association President James McDermott. Curran cited a new opinion by the office of state Attorney General Letitia James questioning the constitutionality of the bill. Under her administration, Curran said, the county had received its first positive bond rating from Wall Street in 15 years. Moody’s revised its outlook on the county to positive from stable while affirming its A2 rating, citing three straight years of improved financial results. Curran also said the county had recently reached a critical milestone in the Bay Park Conveyance Project with the County Legislature’s unanimous approval of a design-build contract with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Western Bays Constructors Joint Venture. The $439 million Bay Park Conveyance Project is designed to restore the ecosystem and water quality in the Western Bays by conveying treated effluent from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant to the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant’s ocean outfall pipe through underground tunnels.
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High school football camps kick off Aug. 23 By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com
Three months and three weeks after Massapequa, Garden City, Manhasset and Wantagh captured Nassau football championships, all 53 programs in the county will start preparing for a new season Aug. 23. All scrimmages, two regular-season games, one round of playoffs and the Long Island championships were eliminated this past spring as the 2020 season was delayed six months. It’ll be back to the eight-game grind and eight playoff teams per conference this fall. Conference IV, which has 13 teams, will begin the season one week before the rest of the county and all but three of its schools won’t have the benefit of a scrimmage. A handful of games, including West Hempstead at Malverne, are set for under the lights on Friday, Sept. 3. A full schedule will kick off the following weekend, with the majority of games taking place Saturday, Sept. 11. Garden City, which has captured five straight Conference II titles, is the only defending county champion seeded No. 1 in its respective conference. Massapequa is No. 2 in Conference I behind Oceanside, Manhasset, the reigning Rutgers Cup champ, is ranked sixth in Conference III, while Wantagh is seeded second behind Plainedge. With Wantagh’s jump to III, North Shore earned the No. 1 seed in IV.
10 Games To Watch Sept. 18 Sept. 24 Oct. 2 Oct. 2 Oct. 9 Oct. 9 Oct. 23 Oct. 23 Oct. 23 Oct. 30
MacArthur at V.S. Central Plainedge at South Side Carey at Elmont Massapequa at Oceanside South Side at Wantagh Clarke at Seaford Carey at Baldwin MacArthur at Garden City Wantagh at Plainedge Calhoun at Mepham
Garden City opens against an unfamiliar opponent. Baldwin, in Conference II for the first time, visits the Trojans on Sept. 11. Massapequa travels to East Meadow, Manhasset visits Bethpage, and Wantagh hosts Valley Stream North.
Five teams switch conferences
Of the five programs taking on new conference rivals this September, more than half joined Conference II: Baldwin, Herricks and Glen Cove are seeded No. 9, 10 and 13, respectively. It’s the first time Baldwin will not play in the top conference. Wantagh is back in its longtime stomping grounds of Conference III, which includes South Side again after the
Cyclones were in Conference II last season.
Notable coaching changes
For the first time since the late 1980s, someone other than Stephen Carroll is leading Baldwin as its head coach. Frank Chimienti, former head coach at Valley Stream Central and an assistant at Freeport for the past five seasons, has taken over the helm and is thrilled about the energy displayed by the Bruins during summer workouts. “It’s not like I’m taking over a program in need of a rebuild,” Chimienti said. “Baldwin has such a great tradition and there’s a lot of talent around.” Making their head coaching debuts in September will be Frank Baglivo at Clarke and Kevin O’Hagan at East Meadow. A former assistant under Rob Perpall at Seaford, Michael Corcoran returns to lead the Vikings.
OcEaNSIdE quarTErBack charLIE McKee won the Thorp Award last season, given to the top player in Nassau County.
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Booking it forward with Hindi’s Libraries By OLIVIA RAMSEUR nassaueditor@liherald.com
Peninsula Public Library was not the quiet study space it usually is, but its front lawn was full of books, blankets, food, and music for Hindi’s Libraries Book it Forward with Ariel community book drive on Aug. 11. Hindi’s Libraries was founded as a tribute to Dr. Hindi Krinsky by her husband, Dovid Kanarfogel, and Leslie Gang. “After a former colleague of mine passed away in August of 2018, the community got together to find ways to assist the family,” Gang said. “... Everyone knew that [her] kids were passionate about reading. They always had books in their hand, so we knew that whatever we would do as a tribute would be in some form of literacy and reading.” They decided to collect one book from each student to fill a freestanding library at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, where Krinsky taught, and ended up with more than 500 books. Weeks later, they were receiving books as donations from other schools and communities. “Word was getting out that [we] were collecting children’s books and doing something great with them,” Gang said. “So we evolved into what is now an international nonprofit.” The Book it Forward event was hosted by Ariel Paskal, 13, a Woodmere Middle School eighth-grader , for her bat mitzvah service project. “I started working with [Hindi’s Libraries] because I really fell in love with reading and books and literature,” Paskal said. “So that’s what I wanted to do for my mitzvah project because I feel that every child should have a chance to read.” Hindi’s Libraries has partnered with
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Free coffee and cake. Call Naomi Rivlin for information at (516) 791-8329.
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Rembrandt
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.
At 11 a.m., professor Dennis Raverty presents an illustrated lecture on Rembrandt and the Jewish face of Jesus. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Join Zoom https://bit.ly/2XBiz59.
Meditation At 2 p.m., Lisa Wisel leads a class on meditation. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Jon Zoom https://bit. ly/3iSJhOQ.
Thursday, Aug. 19
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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.
Matinee Idol At 11 a.m. Max Alvarez discusses the life, career and times of iconic film actress Mae West. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Join Zoom https://bit. ly/3A7o3mc
Yoga & Meditation At 2 p.m., Lisa Zimmerman leads a class on upper body yoga and meditation. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Join Zoom https://bit.ly/2VWig42.
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Marking history in Hewlett Outside of Hewlett House on East Rockaway Avenue in Hewlett, circa 1740, now the home of 1 in 9: The Long Island Breast Cancer Action Coalition, a restored historical marker was installed with the help of Nassau County legislators and Peninsula Kiwanis. From left County Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello; Past President of Peninsula Kiwanis, Dominic Curra; President of Peninsula Kiwanis, Michael Gliner; Legislator Howard Kopel; Hewlett House Director, Geri Barish; Town of Hempstead Councilman, Bruce Blakeman; Peninsula Kiwanis Member, Frank Tavella; and Legislator Bill Gaylor.
Tuesday, Aug. 24
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Covid Support
Monday, Aug. 23
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.
Survivor Support
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At 8 p.m., the Gural JCC presents A second generation Holocaust support group on preserving their parents’ legacy. Discussion, education and projects to preserve the cherished memories. Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 875 9907 2256 Passcode: 462458 Judy Goldberg judy.goldberg@guraljcc.org 516-569-6733 ext. 224
At noon, Mary Dono presents an illustrated lecture on the artwork of Charles and Ray Eames. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Join Zoom https://bit. ly/2W1kfo4.
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.
A The Greater Atlantic Beach Water Reclamation Districts meets by phone on Tuesday, Aug. 24 at 5 p.m. The district’s number is (516) 239-6777. The Lawrence Board of Education meeting for Aug. 16 was rescheduled for Monday, Aug. 31 at Lawrence High School , 2 Reilly Road, Cedarhurst at 8 p.m.
The eighth of Cedarhurst village’s Tuesday night summer concert series has a 7 p.m. pre-show Warren Levi Martial Arts. At 8 p.m., The Cameos, New Jersey’s favorite oldies group.
Wednesday, Aug. 25 Canasta, Mah Jongg At Temple Hillel in North Woodmere, 1000 Rosedale Road, canasta classesfrom 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mah jongg classes from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Bring your game and play all day. $8 per gamedonation. Free coffee and cake. Call Naomi Rivlin (516) 791-8329.
Walking Club The Gural JCC wants to talk a walk with its Walking Club at 10:30, weather per-
mitting. 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.
Netflix At noon, Brian Rose discusses how steaming service Netflix is disrupting the entertainment business. HewlettWoodmere Public Library. Join Zoom https://bit.ly/2XtUhtD.
Thursday, Aug. 26 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.
Gural JCC Vice President Yehudah Mor received the Robert S. Boas Community Leadership Award from the UJA Federation on Aug. 11. Lawrence High School class of 1980, 40th year reunion at the Inwood Country Club, Oct. 16. For Tickets, go to Eventbrite LHS class of 1980. North Woodmere resident Frances Breitstone
From Monday, Aug. 23 to Friday, Aug. 27, a one week summer camp run through the Gural JCC for children with special needs 6 to 14. Arts and crafts, Adventureland Amusement Park, $300, scholarships available. To register email marisa.ruggiero@guraljcc.org or call (516) 569-6733.
Lawrence Village The Lawrence board of trustees will meet on Monday, Aug. 30 at 8 p.m., at Village Hall, 196 Central Ave., in Lawrence.
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‘Women of Distinction’ are highlighted by Griffin
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member and director of the North Woodmere-Valley Stream Auxiliary of AHRC, helping with fundraising and raising awareness of the needs of people with developmental disabilities. “The impressive effort these women have made to positively impact their families, their careers, their neighbors and their communities truly goes above and beyond expectation,” Griffin stated in a news release. “Their unique contributions create a beautiful ripple effect, which encourages others to join them in their endeavors. One thing that really resonated with this glorious class of women, is how important their families are to them or have impacted them to be the women they are standing before us.” Also honored were: Erika Elizabeth Hill from Baldwin, Rosemarie Olivera of East Rockaway, Patricia Fulton-Lawrence from Freeport, Jessica Kern of Lynbrook, Dr. Carol Hassett from Malverne, Christine Schaefer of Oceanside, Elizabeth “Liz” Dion from Rockville Centre, Michelle James Wettstein of South Hempstead and Lt. Yvonne Armstrong from West Hempstead. –Jeffrey Bessen
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Martha Carney, of Hewlett, was one of the 10 women that State Assemblywoman Judy Griffin (DRockville Centre) highlighted with her third annual Women of Distinction ceremony that took place on July 22. The women were recognized for their civic contributions and being role models. Carney, a Hewlett resident for 45 years, originally was active in two Parent-Teacher Associations: the Hewlett-Woodmere School District and the Special Education PTA in the Lawrence district. Through the years, she served in several leadership positions in both units until her younger son transferred into the Rosemary Kennedy Center in Wantagh, where Martha then served as PTA president for many years. With her children comfortable in their programs, Carney then fulfilled her dream of earning a college degree, which did at SUNY College at Old Westbury, with a degree in journalism that led to a 25-year career in public relations in the notfor-profit arena. She served on the executive board of Nassau Association for the Help of Retarded Children for 26 years and has continued serving on the Advocacy and Employment Services Committees. Carney is a 30-year
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County launches $1.5 million grant program continued from front page with his wife and Curran at the Cedarhurst corner. “We’ll use the money for inventory, payroll.” Ensuring that a broad spectrum of support services are available to local businesses that lost revenue during the pandemic is the Small Business Technical Assistance and Planning program’s aim. Along with money, services include planning, promotional activities and technical assistance. Curran noted the input of the organizations and institutions that have worked with the county to help businesses throughout the pandemic, including Hofstra University, the Long Island Association, the Long Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce and Vision Long Island. They had helped businesses adapt, pivot and remain afloat, she said. “In many cases, the county has used their input to provide targeted support and advocacy,” Curran said, “so that includes advocating the state for smart reopening, including free PPE kits, loan programs and our highly successful restaurant recovery program.” Roughly 250 restaurants, she added, had received a total of nearly $2 million in grants. Curran noted that Nassau’s downtowns were “bustling,” and cited the volume of traffic in Cedarhurst — pedestrian and vehicular — as proof that the
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Cedarhurst Business improvement District Executive Director Sharona Hoffman, Deputy Mayor Ari Brown and Nassau County Executive Laura Curran with the facsimile check. county was “open for business. If you’re looking for a job,” she said, “now is the time to get that job.” Curran underscored the success of Cedarhurst’s Business Improvement District, noting that 20 years ago, the downtown had a vacancy rate of 20 percent.
Now, Deputy Mayor Ari Brown, Cedarhurst’s liaison to the BID, said, the occupancy rate is just under 100 percent. “We make the effort, from putting flowers along Central Avenue to everyone working together,” Brown told the Herald. Luis Vasquez, chief executive officer
of the Long Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, said he appreciated that his organization, and the ethnic group it represents, were included in the grant program’s launch. “This is going to help our businesses, Hispanic businesses,” Vasquez said. “It’s a God-given, because we need it. One of the things that we really suffer in our communities is that basically we are ignored.” Long Island Association President Matt Cohen called the program “a shot in the arm” to aid in the economic recovery. Curran said that 66 cents of every dollar spent in a community will benefit that community. Eric Alexander, director of Vision Long Island, a regional “smart growth” planning organization, noted the partnership between business and government during the pandemic in praising the grant program. “Everyone [is] pulling together and putting these government resources [together], getting government dollars to the local community, assisting the local community to do what they do best,” Alexander said, “which is fill our main streets and really making people happy, because coming to a main street, there’s a sense of place, it’s tied to our values, it’s healthy and we shop local.” To apply for the Small Business Technical Assistance and Planning program, call (516) 572-2888 or go to Nassau County’s Boost Nassau portal at www.nassaucountyny.gov/boostnassau.
In Lawrence, they’re making reading cool continued from front page The district’s Reading, Reading, Reading initiative aims to illustrate that reading is valued, and adds to important life skills that extend to every subject. Lawrence Early Childhood Center Principal Lisa Tariq, who is also the district’s director of special programs, called the book fair “a complete success.” “Lawrence focuses on reading, as it is important for the whole child developing physically, academically and emotionally,” Tariq said, adding that the hope is that children will unplug from electronic devices and read during the summer. “[Reading] develops imagination and communication and language development.” When schools closed in March 2020 because of the pandemic, Pedersen said, the district was quickly up and running with online instruction. She acknowledged that the beginning was “bumpy,” but said that issues were “smoothed out,” and teachers continued connecting with their students, occasionally setting aside lessons just to talk with them, and that connectiveness has helped keep students on track. Reading, according to a consensus of experts and their research, expands people’s minds and their vocabulary, spurs creative thinking and enhances the ability to concentrate, while helping to reduce stress.
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reading was the primary theme of the Lawrence School District’s Mid-Summer Check-In event on Aug. 10. From left were Lawrence Primary School Principal Kristen Mcloughlin, Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen, Lawrence Early Childhood Center Principal Lisa Tariq and Lawrence Middle School Principal Willis Perry. Lawrence Middle School librarian Jillian Abbatangelo, who’s known to her students as Ms. Abby, created a weekly newsletter called “S’Mores” that promotes reading and includes links to authors of book the students have read. “What we’re hoping for is that the students read better, write better and succeed,” Abbatangelo said, noting that more-engaged people
become better citizens. “Just like a sport, the more we practice, the better we get.” Abbatangelo said she has built relationships with her students over the years, and many come back to visit and share with her what they are doing in their post-scholastic life. “It’s amazing what you can develop with them, the relationships you can build, the growth you
can see,” she said, adding that she views herself as a “co-parent” who encourages parents to contact her in a dual effort to help ensure that students are learning and reading. “They’re all my children,” Abbatangelo said.
MSSN to welcome a new president
NASSAU HERALD — August 19, 2021
Dr. Adhi Sharma will become president of Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside on Sept. 1, the medical center’s board of directors announced Tuesday. Sharma, an emergency medicine physician who helped steer MSSN’s Covid-19 response as its chief medical officer, will succeed Richard Murphy, who will retire at the end of the year. Murphy has served as president for nine years and has worked in leadership roles in the health care field for more than four decades. Over the past 18 months, Sharma was the clinical “quarterback” of MSSN’s pandemic response, while also serving as the hospital’s executive vice president for clinical and professional affairs. Under his guidance, the hospital increased capacity to 500 beds as it cared for more than 4,890 Covid-19 patients during the pandemic. Sharma also helped devise a strategy to meet daily unforeseen challenges, such as redeploying staff to meet the surge in Covid-19 patients, an equipment shortage and care for patients stricken by a disease for which there is no known cure. “Dr. Sharma has proven he is the kind of leader we need to continue our expansion of leading-edge clinical program growth,” said Joseph Fennessy, of Wantagh, co-chair of the hospital’s board of directors, which conducted a months-long search for a new hospital president. “Mount Sinai South Nassau is posed to expand services to the South Shore so our patients and their families don’t always have to travel into the city for the advanced care they need. Dr. Sharma shares the board’s vision to bring more top-quality care close to home.” Anthony Cancellieri, of Rockville Centre, co-chair of the hospital’s board, said Sharma “has the confidence of the board, the health system and, most importantly, the front-line staff to lead us going forward. He showed his mettle during the pandemic every day, and we know he is the right leader for the job.” Sharma said he was honored to be selected and will continue to help the hos-
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Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital Chief Medial Officer Dr. Adhi Sharma, left, will succeed Richard Murphy as president on Sept. 1. pital grow into a major regional medical center on the South Shore. “It is with great humility and appreciation for the dedicated clinical and support staff at the hospital that I have accepted the role as president for Mount Sinai South Nassau,” Sharma said. “The hospital is one of the leading facilities on Long Island, and its relationship with the Mount Sinai Health System has only enhanced its standing within the communities it serves. Together with the board
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and the clinical leadership, I look forward to setting a vision for the hospital that will carry it well into the 21st century.” Mur phy, who led the hospital’s response after Superstorm Sandy and during the pandemic, helped launch a $400 million capital construction program to modernize the Oceanside hospital and helped guide the facility to an affiliation in 2019 with the world-renowned Mount Sinai Health System. Murphy praised the selection of Sharma and said he would work during the coming months to ensure a smooth transition. “It has been my privilege to serve as CEO for Mount Sinai South Nassau,” Murphy said. “I’m appreciative of the board of directors and medical staff leadership for the support they have given me through the many challenges we have faced, including most recently the hospital’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.. . . Dr. Sharma is an excellent choice to be my successor. He has the confidence of the medical staff and the entire hospital community, including the leadership of the Mount Sinai Health System.” Murphy was praised for his work and dedication by Fennessy, Cancellieri, Kenneth Davis, the chief executive officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, and Arthur Klein, the president of the Mount Sinai Health Network. Expansion projects on the hospital’s main campus in Oceanside include a new four-story patient wing that will expand the Emergency Department, add
nine new operating rooms and 40 critical care beds, a three-story parking structure and a new central utility plant. Also planned is a $40 million Medical Arts Pavilion at the hospital’s Long Beach campus, and a multi-specialty health care center in Wantagh that will provide an array of specialty services in one location to South Shore residents in eastern Nassau County. Sharma has been responsible for facilitating medical staff interactions with hospital administration and the governing board, and for ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of quality medical care consistent with the hospital’s mission. He also has been instrumental in identifying opportunities for service line development and expansion, as well as the recruitment and retention of specialist physicians. Sharma is a graduate of New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y., and completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi/Montefiore Medical Centers. He completed a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at NYU/Bellevue. He is board certified in emergency medicine and medical toxicology. He also holds a master’s degree in health care administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Courtesy Mount Sinai South Nassau; compiled by Mike Smollins.
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395 Serena Rd, NEW! 5 BR, 2 Bth Col on O/S Property. Updtd EIKs. 3 BR Main Level, 2 Upstairs with OSE. SD#14. Possible M/D with Proper Permits. Near All ................................................................................................ $799,000 1610 Hilary Ct, BA, Beautifully Gut Renovated 4600 Sq Ft Colonial in Cul de Sac. 5 BR, 3.5 Bth with Full Fin Bsmt, 2 Car Att Gar. SD#20. Tax Grievance Filed ..............................................................................REDUCED! $1,279,999 1390 Broadway #102, BA, 2 BR, 2 Bth Coop in Luxurious Hewlett Townhouse. LR/DR, Updtd Kit & Office/Den, Elevator, 24 Hr Drman, Valet Pkg, Pool. Priv Storage Area. Great Location Near Shops & Trans .........REDUCED! $349,000
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2808 Willard Ave, BA, NEW TO MARKET! 3 BR, 2 Bth Split on 1/4 Acre in Cul De Sac. LR, FDR, EIK, Den & FBsmt. Att Gar. Low Taxes. Oceanside SD. Won’t Last............................................................................................ $629,000
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WOODMERE BA 984 Singleton Ave, NEW To Market! Expanded 4 BR, 2.5 Bth Colonial on Oversized Lot in Old Woodmere. Bsmt & 2 Car Det Gar. Near All.SD#14...$899,000 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299
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ou’ll find lots of natural light in this center hall colonial that features an elegant entryway with a 20’ high ceiling. French doors connect the formal living room to the cozy den, which has a fireplace, bay window and more French doors that take you to the backyard retreat. The eat-in kitchen has a bay window overlooking the inground pool. There’s a formal dining room and a bonus room off the kitchen. Upstairs you’ll find the primary bedroom with en-suite bathroom and walk-in closet, plus 2 additional bedrooms and a spa bathroom. This home also boasts a new gas boiler and a new roof! Don’t miss this one!
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Long Beach $750,000 W. Walnut Street. Colonial. Westholme section. 3 bedroooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Eat-in kitchen with granite countertops. Formal dining room. Spacious backyard entertaining space. Walk to beach and boardwalk, near schools, shopping, dining, LIRR. Taxes: $9,423.93
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Hewlett Harbor $1,090,000 Wateredge Place. Split Level. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Eat-in kitchen with granite countertops, Cathedral ceilings. Formal dining room. Den/family room. Master bedroom suite with his and hers closets. Secluded property with water view. Security system. Taxes: $27,426.80
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East Rockaway $718,000 Grant Avenue. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Updated kitchen with granite countertops. Home office. Park-like backyard. Taxes: $14,820.56 Elmont $680,000 Baylis Avenue. Split Ranch. 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Finished basement. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Master bedroom with Jacuzzi tub. Den/family room. Enclosed sun room with large deck. Near shopping and transportation. Taxes: $14,563.67
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A. Living near a onte eeper shoreline, with dynamic high- and low-tide water movement, means taking greater precautions to make construction last longer and perform better. First, there’s the base, way below the floor slab, which must allow water to run through it to avoid collapse. The base is made of compacted stones that allow water to flow between so they don’t form an obstruction, working kind of like a filter. I generally design such a base with landscape filter cloth beneath it, to keep individual stones from sinking when the natural underground current of tide water rises and withdraws, pulling the ground material with it as it flows in and out. I rarely, if ever, see this done, and can assure you that if I’m not standing over the work when it’s being carried out, workers will ignore this “crazy” design, hence a reason for failure. Everyone is an expert, as I am sure you’ve come to know, but ignoring ground and soil dynamics makes it a gamble as to what you’re going to get. It isn’t reassuring when someone says they do this all the time, especially if they can’t give technical reasons for what they do. Floor slabs, just like beams, should be designed for the concentration of the loads they will carry, not just general practice, especially because the steel reinforcing is part of the formula. If the concrete or the reinforcing is undersized for the load, it will, in correct terminology, yield, or give way, not necessarily completely fail. The coating and placement of steel is extremely important. Except for major roadway and transit construction, I rarely see it done to legal standards. Most often, uncoated, rusted steel is placed randomly or tied in ways that defy the reason it was prescribed. If uncoated steel is too close to a surface, it corrodes faster as salt water gets sucked like a sponge into the concrete, allowing steel to wet and dry in a cycle guaranteed to rust. You’re right to be concerned. Good luck!
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Q. I’m wondering if our garage floor, which was completely removed and replaced with a new concrete floor, is strong enough for our cars and my pickup truck. We did it to get rid of the old floor, which was cracked and had sunk. Our mason told us he does this all the time, but it just seems like the floor is too thin and could break. Is there any way to know if it’s strong enough? It’s 4 inches thick, very flat and they put wires in, not thick Ask The rods, that crisscross in a grid. Architect Also, the wires were rusted when they went in and I wonder how long they could last, especially because we live in a development along one of the canals on the South Shore, and after what happened in Surfside, Fla., we aren’t as confident.
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n the early morning of April 28, I tiptoed into my dew-coated backyard in Merrick to watch as an orange sun slowly migrated upward, sending its rays streaming through the hundreds of flower-covered branches on the three cherry and two apple trees that my wife and I planted nearly 20 years ago when we first moved in. It is a glorious moment that I await each year, when I can stand and breathe in the sheer beauty of those life-sustaining flowers, all white and pink. Each is such a tiny, SCoTT seemingly insignificant thing. CollecBRINToN tively, however, these flowers constitute a powerful force. This is the natural world reborn in what was once a virtually lifeless suburban backyard. When my wife and I moved in, our yard was all lawn except for a handful of hydrangea, holly and Japanese yew bushes, two scrawny dogwood trees and one ornamental cherry around the edges. In the early years in our home, we ripped out about half of the lawn to make way for many more trees, bushes and flowers, a number of them native species. We wanted to recreate, in a sense, the back-
yards that we knew as children. I grew up in rural Yaphank, in Suffolk County, surrounded by a dense forest of white pine and oak trees. My wife was raised in Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, but spent many days in her family’s village of Rajdavitsa, amid cherry orchards full of wildflowers. We wanted trees through which squirrels and birds could scurry and construct their nests. We wanted a natural habitat. Two decades later, I’m proud to say that we have one. The cherries that we planted are more than 20 feet tall, and the apples, over 30 feet. All were purchased as one-foot bare-root saplings for a couple dollars each from the Arbor Day Foundation. We also planted four arborvitae, three maples, two white pines, two dwarf Alberta spruces, a Japanese maple, many more hydrangeas and hollies, boxwoods, barberries, red osier dogwoods, butterfly, raspberry and blackberry bushes, forsythias, fountain and maiden grasses, euonymuses, lilies, lilacs, hostas, black-eyed Susans, peonies and purple cone flowers, among others. Where once there was no wildlife, now we have bees and butterflies and birds — red cardinals, blue jays, European starlings, grackles, house sparrows, Baltimore orioles and my wife’s favorite, mockingbirds. We’ve even had birds build nests in
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our trees, including a robin and a mourning dove. I love that. There are also squirrels, which eat our apples and, occasionally, our tomatoes, as well as raccoons and opossums here and there. This year we certified our yard as a Wildlife Habitat with the National Wildlife Federation. We started the simple process by answering a few quick questions: Does your yard provide shelter and food for wildlife? Is there a water source from which wildlife can drink? Are you committed to natural yard maintenance, without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers? Then you pay a fee — certification is a fundraiser for this nonprofit environmental organization. Finally, NWF sends you a beautiful green metal sign, which we staked in our front yard’s center bed for all our neighbors to see as they’re out walking their dogs or jogging by. The sign sends a message that our yard is a safe place for wildlife. Between 1982 and 2001, 34 million acres of open space, an area the size of Illinois, were lost to development — roughly four acres per minute, or 6,000 acres a day. More than 10 million of those acres were covered over to make way for houses, buildings, lawns and pavement between 1982 and 1997, according to the U.S. Forest Ser-
here once there was no wildlife, we now have all that we hoped for.
vice, which projects that America will lose another 26 million acres to development by 2030. Each of us has a choice: We can leave our yards as lawn and pavement, or start planting to restore at least some of what has been lost. Collectively, we could reshape suburbia from a traditionally wildlife-averse landscape to a habitat that welcomes wild creatures of all shapes and sizes. The family from which we purchased our home were the original owners of the house, which was constructed shortly after World War II. It was among the first homes built in the area. The couple, in their early 80s when we bought it from them, spoke of a time when farmland stretched from the block just north of us to Merrick Road. That plot is now a shopping center. South of our home was covered by wetlands — what people in the mid-20th century thought of as swamp. It’s now all homes, the wetlands filled in to construct row upon row of split-level ranches, many double or triple their original size. We cannot undo the past. We can, however, commit to a more sustainable future. To learn more about how you can certify your yard with the National Wildlife Federation, go to nwf.org. 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.
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f there’s one thing that is quintessentially American, it’s the all-you-caneat, stuff-yourself-till-you-die buffet. Now, as the Delta variant spreads, shutting down buffet venues across the country, many folks are missing the opportunity for unrestrained gorging, which is a kind of sport coast to coast. This is a small grievance, to be sure, considering the misery that Covid has wrought, but it’s one of the pandemic lifestyle changes that bite. Like not being able to see your doctor in person or having RANDI to move your book KREISS group online or canceling your plans to see friends or family. With Covid unbound, we have to carefully consider whether to dine out, unless it is a well-spaced outdoor setting. Dozens of buffet restaurants have gone belly up, and the rest are struggling to create safer dining opportunities. Not that buffets have ever been the healthy go-to choice for a meal. The basic idea is that you can abandon any reasonable eating habits you may have acquired and just shovel in as much food as you want to with-
out anyone saying “enough.” In fact, some folks have taken to competing at a few of the big buffet emporia to see if they can get kicked out for eating too much. No such thing. You. Cannot. Eat. Too. Much. No one wants to be reminded that there has always been a direct path from the buffet line to the IV line in the E.R. We Americans want our super-sized meals, damn the glucose and cholesterol readings. If you dine out at a traditional restaurant, it gets awkward to order three desserts, but a buffet makes it not only possible but easy. Now, with Covid, buffet restaurants are struggling to survive, except in the South, where Texas, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee vie for the best attendance award. There is guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Avoid offering any self-serve food or drink options, such as buffets, salad bars and drink stations. This limits the use of shared serving utensils, handles, buttons or touch screens and helps customers to stay seated and at least 6 feet apart from people who do not live in their household.” Right. In Florida, where masks are a sign of weak-minded liberalism, many buffets are
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still in business. Oh sure, there may be a server behind the dessert bar, helping you to the pie, but you’re jammed in with a million other unmasked people. Historically, Las Vegas has always offered the biggest, cheapest buffets. If you were willing to leave your life savings at the roulette table, the hotel was willing to feed you into a coma. The Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace was the ultimate food experience for thousands of tourists. According to a review, it served more than 3,000 people a day across nine stations, featuring hundreds of items including nigiri sushi, dim sum, rotisserie chicken, 12-hour roasted American wagyu, paella, lobster bisque, snow crab legs, chicken and waffles, gnocchi, pizza, deviled eggs, pho, miso soup, Penang curry, cheeseburger sliders, soba noodles, poke, foie gras PB&J, oysters on the half-shell, shrimp and grits, pozole, tofu, General Tso’s chicken, avocado toast, peppercorn-crusted prime rib and more. According to its website, Caesar’s has reopened its buffet after making renovations and (one would hope) installing safety measures to avoid serving up a superspreader for dessert.
n Florida, masks are a sign of weak-minded liberalism, and buffets survive.
I don’t want to come off as a buffet snob. I’ve put in my time at the bacon station at many breakfast buffets. On the road, a cheap hotel buffet was an acceptable choice. You could always find something to eat. Here on Long Island, private tennis, golf and social clubs drew new members to their opulent buffets. I loved being a guest at these places, which offered delicious food and the all-you-can-eat ethos, although with more savoir faire than a Golden Corral. Buffets have been so abundant and ubiquitous that people learned to brainstorm the most effective methods of getting the best choices of expensive cuts of meat and seafood without wasting stomach space on the dinner rolls. My own son-inlaw nailed down the tactical approach to buffets years ago: Eat protein first. Don’t bulk up on salad. Go to the lobster and the shrimp and hold off on the carbs. No one ever made any profit on his buffet dinners. Now most buffets are the stuff of nostalgia. My most memorable one was a lunch for President Ronald Reagan when he and Nancy visited Temple Ohr Torah in North Woodmere. The centerpiece was a bust of the president, done in chopped liver. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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o the climate deniers, we say this: Wake up. July was the hottest in the past 142 years, since humans started recording climate data, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. July had previously been the hottest month ever recorded in 2016, 2019 and 2020. What we are seeing now is climate change play out in real time, as predicted by scientists dating back to the 1960s and the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. As a nation, we have largely ignored the crisis, pretending it wasn’t happening, hoping the scientists had got this one wrong. They didn’t. We can see that now. We can see it in the massive wildfires that have consumed swaths of the American West and southern Europe. California and Colorado may be on fire, but so are Italy and Greece. No fewer than nine wildfires are now ravaging California. Exacerbated by extreme drought, the Dixie Fire has burned since July 13 and scorched more than half a million acres in Plumas and Butte counties. Need we say more? The climate crisis is particularly worrisome for Long Islanders. We, after all, live on an island surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Long Island Sound, which are predicted to rise because ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica are melting into the seas, causing water levels to rise, inch by inch, foot by foot, over decades. The 195-member United Nations International Panel on Climate Change recently released its sixth Assessment Report, offering the consensus findings and opinions of thousands of the world’s leading climatologists. The warnings are dire. When the IPCC began its work 33 years ago, it built some small level of doubt into its reports that maybe, just maybe, humans weren’t the cause of the Earth’s rapidly rising temperatures. Not anymore. In its most recent report, issued only weeks ago, the IPCC stated, “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” As a result, the report continues, “Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.” Climate change works like this: We humans burn fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — to generate electricity and heat our homes and businesses. We also burn gasoline — which is made from oil — to power our cars, buses and trucks. That produces lots of carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change, which traps infrared heat that is radiated into
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space from the Earth’s surface, warming the entirety of the planet. On average, human activities send 40 billion tons — tons — of carbon into the atmosphere each year. And here’s the thing: Despite our growing knowledge and awareness of the climate crisis, that volume of carbon continues to increase. Between 2014 and 2016, amid negotiations over the Paris Climate Agreement, carbon emissions leveled off, giving us some hope that perhaps we might be headed in the right direction. But those emissions started to rise again in 2017, the year President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, and they continued to increase in 2018 and 2019, before falling last year during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when everyone stayed home, according to The World Counts, a website that
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he Smithtown School District will restrict the use of 34 BrainPop instructional videos in classrooms because they introduce topics like Black Lives Matter and human sexuality. The restriction is in response to a couple who complained at the district’s July Board of Education meeting that the videos were biased against conservatives and “no more than a call for revolution, for our young people to protest,” according to Newsday. A BrainPop spokesperson responded via ALAn email that “we created the video on sinGer the Black Lives Matter protests to provide parents and educators a resource for explaining the protests and movement in kid-friendly terms. The video, which features a cartoon robot named Moby, “doesn’t call for or encourage a revolution.” BrainPop videos discuss over a thousand topics in math, science, social studies and English. They are used in almost three-quarters of U.S. school districts. Not coincidently, there were also complaints about BrainPop at a July school board
meeting in the Three Village School District. A speaker charged that the videos had “BLM all over it, along with Pride and videos that say if you’re white, you’re basically an oppressor.” You can watch the nine-minute offending BrainPop Black Lives Matter video on You Tube. In the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump carried every election district in Smithtown, some by over 30 percentage points, earning Smithtown the nickname Trumptown, New York. Smithtown also returned Lee Zeldin to Congress. Zeldin, one of the most conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives, voted against establishing a commission to investigate what happened in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, supported Trump’s claims that the election was somehow stolen from him and asked the Supreme Court to overturn the result. In May, Smithtown voters elected three conservative candidates affiliated with the pro-Trump group Long Island Loud Majority to the Board of Education. While it’s unclear whether the group represents a majority of Long Islanders, it is definitely loud when disrupting school board meetings, at which members often
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he campaign in Smithtown against diversity efforts first drew attention in January.
LeTTers He’s not buying what developers are selling To the Editor: I listened in astonishment on Aug. 4, at Lawrence High School, as a group of what I would call hucksters tried to convince the gathered citizens of Cedarhurst and Lawrence that adding 350 or so more cars to an already gridlocked location — Pearsall Avenue and Rockaway Turnpike — would actually reduce congestion. They presented beautiful photos and descriptions of a wonderful life for the potential new residents. They wore tailored suits, some of the developers were nicely tanned, and they brought out the “experts” to weave a story that only their mothers would love. The report outlining a “traffic study” was singly comical, and drew laughter from the crowd — add more cars, get less traffic. The $6 million “bribe” to the Village of Cedarhurst, if accepted, would amount to blood money, because some people would certainly die or be seriously injured as a result of the increased gridlock. That money would best be put into a fund for victims’ compensation, as well as a directed insurance policy. Hopefully our elected officials were not fooled. DR. ALLAN SIMON Lawrence
attack staff and student speakers. They have also been accused of propagating anti-Semitic tropes. During the school board campaign, the group circulated a newsletter attempting to connect opposition school board candidates with George Soros, a progressive and a Jew who has been targeted by anti-Semitic forces in Europe. The Smithtown campaign against Black Lives Matter and diversity efforts first drew public attention in January, when parents complained about the speaker at the district’s Family Literacy Night. Broadway actress Diamond Essence White read a children’s book called “Not Quite Snow White.” White, who is Black, is an outspoken supporter of Black Lives Matter. Smithtown Superintendent Mark Secaur apologized to protesting parents for the invitation to a “polarizing” personality. After the Long Island Loud Majoritybacked candidates were elected to the school board, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction and administration, who had guided its diversity and equity efforts as a member of the district’s Equity Team, resigned. She had been criticized by parents and LILM,
which argued that diversity and equity were really subterfuge to promote critical race theory. The push to take over local school boards is part of a long-term strategy of the conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council to reshape American education and society by taking control of local governing bodies. Opposition to critical race theory has replaced opposition to the 1619 Project as the main mobilizing point for conservatives across the country. In response to the assault on CRT and the 1619 Project, the Zinn Education Project is organizing teachers to pledge to “teach the truth” and participate in Days of Action. It also provides sample lessons. In Smithtown and other Trump-supporting communities across the U.S., however, school boards and frightened administrators apparently don’t want teachers to “teach the truth.” Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.
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Pulling out is a mistake To the Editor: I voted for Biden with enthusiasm, but in May wrote to the Herald opposing his decision to withdraw the last remaining 2,700 American military from Afghanistan — citing the setback it would be for women and girls there. Remember that it is now 20 years without major Taliban presence. A whole new generation of Afghans has evolved, with the internet creating a more democratic environment through social communication. Afghanistan has changed and policy should have changed too. Our American presence there is not for nation-building, but the Afghans have been building their own nation. They just needed what we had made available and now have pulled out from under them. For the decades since the end of World War II, we have left tens of thousands of our military personnel in Germany and Japan. We could afford to leave 2,700 for another unspecified number of years. BOB PRAVER Glen Cove
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