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Use of public-records law is seen as excessive by village officials to the villages come from property owners and surveyors, typically before they begin site conAn unusually high number of struction.

Freedom of Information Law The number of requests varrequest for public records has ies across the Five Towns. In compelled the Village of Hewlett Cedarhurst, Village AdministraHarbor to hire another employee tor Sal Evola said there are 10 or and g enerated a so FOILs each pending lawsuit. month, seeking, for Enacted in 1967, example, records of t h e F re e d o m o f lawsuits or mainteI n fo r m at i o n A c t nance records assoallows citizens ciated with property access to informabeing developed. tion that is considLawrence Village ered critical to the Administrator Ron functioning of a Goldman said that democratic society the Building DepartMERIk aaRoN by giving them the ment receives dozright to request Hewlett Harbor ens of FOIL rerecords from any village attorney quests each year, government agency. and a dozen more Described as the are directed to the law that “keeps citizens in the village, with that number know about their government” increasing during the last three on the FOIA website, what has village elections. become known as “foiling” for Atlantic Beach officials said information is now standard the village itself receives very practice for journalists prospect- few FOILs, but the Building ing for stories and searching for Department fields roughly 20 per information at all levels of year. municipalities, and for civic Surprisingly, three of the organizations keeping tabs on smaller Five Towns villages, local issues. In the Five Towns, Hewlett Bay Park, Hewlett Neck many of the Freedom of Infor- and Woodsburgh, receive as mation Law requests submitted Continued on page 18

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

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For the love of books The Peninsula Public Library, in Lawrence, celebrated its youthful summer readers with an outdoor party on Aug. 25. From left were Elian Wertzberger and Ava, Daniella and Joey Gordon. Story, more photos, Page 23.

Escaping from Afghanistan

U.S. groups, 5 Towns rabbi aid in family’s return

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

After a harrowing 18 days in Afghanistan last month, a woman from Westchester County, traveling with two of her three children, returned safely to the U.S., after an experience that could have been a plotline for a Hollywood movie.

A rabbi emeritus from the Five Towns, three Westchesterbased grass-roots organizations, the office of a United States sen-

ator, a former secretary of state and the American State Department joined forces to help her.

The woman, who has been identified only by her initials, M.G., due to security concerns, traveled to Herat, Afghanistan, in late June — against the advice of her family — to visit her mother, who suffered a stroke last year. She took her younger children, a girl, 9, and a boy, 7.

She planned to return home on Aug. 4.

Taliban fighting near the Herat airport forced the cancellation of their flight home, but it was rescheduled for a week later.

There were battles between the local militia and Taliban forces in Herat on Aug. 11. M.G’s children went to bed that night to the sounds of machine gun fire and grenades, according to Jeff Swarz, of the Interfaith Council of New Americans Westchester.

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Lawrence returns to in-person only instruction jbessen@liherald.com

Making official what has been known and now mandated by the new governor, Lawrence School District Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen said that when the school doors opened on Thursday, students, teachers and staff will be wearing masks.

“We will be returning to in-person instruction and it’s the only instructional model being offered there is no hybrid or remote, there is in-person learning … and our students will be wearing masks, our teachers and staff are going to be wearing masks,” Pedersen said at Monday’s Board of Education in the Lawrence High School cafeteria, where all the attendees were wearing masks.

“But we anticipate smiles underneath those masks and we know that getting back to some of the routines … is really a very important thing, so all systems are go and we are ready to move in to the new school year with much anticipation and much delight to have all the learners back,” she added.

With the understanding that the coronavirus pandemic continues, that the Delta variant of Covid remains an issue and children younger than 12 cannot be vaccinated yet, no one knows what will happen. “In regards to what the school

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TEaChER SuSaN huRwiTz, left, and school psychologist Stephanie Bezalel, right, were congratulated by Lawrence Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen for earning tenure. year will look like, there is always uncertainty with any school year and in the times of Covid it will certainly mean more uncertainty,” Pedersen said.

Trustee Michael Hatten asked about how the masking decision came about.

Pedersen noted that before Gov. Kathy Hochul announced her universal mask mandate for schools, the district made parents aware that masks would be worn.

“All indications are that it is the safest way,” Pedersen said.

Trustee Tova Plaut, who is also involved in running a school, said she is appreciative of what was done. “I just want to compliment you, Dr. Pedersen, because I know how much work went into formulating all those plans,” Plaut said.

Before school reopens on Sept. 2, district teachers had two days of training

Stephanie Bezalel, a school psychologist at the Lawrence Primary School at the Number Two School, Susan Hurwitz, a teacher at Lawrence Elementary School and Jessica McComsey, a math teacher at the high school were recognized for earning tenure.

Christine Moore, the district’s director of Special Education who also served as the principal of the Lawrence Primary School at the Number Two School and a teacher, art teacher Christine O’Malley, music teacher Ronaldo Whittaker and reading teacher Melissa Sherman were acknowledged as they have retired.

obituary

Longtime Lawrence resident Elliot Spanierman, 87

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

Elliot Spanierman, a resident of Back Lawrence for nearly 40 years, who retired to Bal Harbour, Florida, died on Aug. 15. He was 87. His family remembers him as the beloved and dashing husband of Leatrice Slote Spanierman, who served as editor of the Nassau Herald for 30 years and became the first executive editor of what is now Richner Communications.

Born on March 24, 1934 and originally from the Bronx, Spanierman founded a newspaper distribution business at age 12 and employed many of his schoolmates. He was lauded as the youngest entrepreneur in the field. The business lasted five years.

Spanierman had the distinction of scoring the highest in the nation on an aptitude test as a Navy recruit and served in that military branch from June 1952 to February 1954. He graduated with honors from New York University School of Finance in 1957, while working full-time nights and weekends.

He applied his education as a plastics and button manufacturer, and served his profession as a board member of the Plastics Products Manufacturers Association. On his daily commutes from Lawrence to the city on the Long Island Rail Road he was part of a large group of friends who entertained themselves and fellow commuters with their gin rummy games.

Spanierman was also very active on the fundraising circuit in support of the Five Towns community and its agencies, local hospitals, UJA-Federation,

Woodmere Academy (now Lawrence Woodmere Academy), and other groups. Tall, dark and handsome in his tuxedo, you could find him on many Saturday evenings squiring Leatrice at charity balls and community events.

Later on in his career and then in retirement Spanierman took joy in spending the winters with his wife, children and grandchildren at his vacation home at Casa De Campo, in the Dominican Republic.

“He was known as the mayor of the beach because of his warm, generous and gregarious personality and was also known as the king of his Jacuzzi,” his daughter, Brooke S. Spanierman, said. In Bal Harbour he was considered “the mayor of the pool,” she added. “[Dad] was famous for having golden hands; he loved to construct and repair, and there was nothing he could not fix,” said his son, Dr. Clifford S. Spanierman, who added that, “his true passion was for his family.”

A Zoom memorial in celebration of Spanierman’s life, produced by his children and grandchildren, was held on Aug. 22, and was viewed by many of his friends from the Five Towns. Clifford Richner, former Herald publisher, described it as a beautiful tribute that spoke volumes about a man who was truly cherished by his family and friends.

Spanierman is survived by his wife Leatrice, his son Dr. Clifford S. Spanierman; his daughter Brooke S. Spanierman, an attorney; and his grandchildren Alessandro Masolo, Alessia Masolo, Remy Spanierman and Cole Spanierman.

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FoRmER FivE TowNER Elliot Spanierman was known for his generosity, intelligence and warmth.

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that Pedersen said focused on the work of teaching to the whole child. The training addressed the social, emotional and academic needs of the learners.

In business matters, the board set the tax levy – the amount of money collected from property taxes – at $89,066,050. Brett Kornblum, the assistant principal at Lawrence Middle School, is the district’s new director of health, physical education and athletics.

There is a 30-day comment period on the Preliminary Smart Schools Investment for use of the remaining money given to the district. The comment period ends on Sept. 29. Comments can be sent to jfeder@lawrence.k12.y.us.

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M.G.’s husband, in touch with her from their home in Westchester, told her to go to a friend’s house near the airport to hide. Before the Taliban could conduct house-to-house searches for perceived enemies, her husband’s brother, in Kabul, and his brother’s father-in-law, in Herat, devised what Swarz called a “bold escape plan.” M.G.’s brother-in-law had been a logistics manager for a subcontractor to the U.S. Army, covering 13 provinces, and a translator and interpreter for the Army and the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

From Herat to Kabul

Risking all of their lives, the father-inlaw took M.G. and her children with his family from Herat to Kabul, nearly 400 miles away — roughly the distance from New York City to Buffalo. Kabul was at that point still a free city, not yet under Taliban control.

“They made a run for Kabul,” Swarz said, noting that this was nothing short of death-defying. “The roads are horrible. A seven-hour trip in America is two days in Afghanistan.” M.G. has an American Green Card and her husband, who has a Special Immigrant Visa that allows him to be in the U.S., is known to the Taliban.

He, too, served as a translator for NATO forces. These circumstances endangered their lives.

During the two-day trip — Aug. 14 to 15 — the family had to pass through Talibanmanned checkpoints to leave Herat, and relied on local villagers for their safety. In an effort to reduce the danger, they drove all night and arrived in Kabul at 2 a.m.

M.G. and her children hid in her brotherin-law’s house. The city fell to the Taliban later that day, and the roads into Kabul were closed.

Support from the U.S.

The Interfaith Council of New Americans Westchester, Hearts & Homes, the Westchester Jewish Coalition for Immigration, Keeping Our Promise and several other groups were made aware of M.G.’s situation, and beseeched the State Department to help bring her and her children home.

“Among the most commonly cited lines

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THE CiviliAN EvACUATioN at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Aug. 21, five days before the attack that killed as many as 170 Afghan civilians and 13 U.S. service personnel. in both Jewish and Muslim tradition are variations on the conviction, ‘One who saves a single life, it is as though that person saved the entire world,’” said Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, rabbi emeritus of Temple Israel of Lawrence and now the rabbi at Temple Israel of New Rochelle.

Rosenbaum is also president of the North American Board of Rabbis, and is well known to national elected officials.

He suggested calling U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and the call reached Gillibrand’s senior adviser, Geri Shapiro, who had worked for Hillary Clinton when the former first lady was a senator from New York. Emails were sent to Clinton, who is also a former secretary of state, and her team made calls to the State Department.

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“It’s not unusual for rabbis to have a on Aug. 21. A day later — four days before network of connections beyond congrega- the attack on the airport that killed as tional boundaries,” explained Rabbi many as 170 Afghan civilians and 13 U.S. Michael Zedek, of the Emanuel Congrega- service personnel — she and her children tion in Chicago, the senior vice president were back at home. of the North American Board of Rabbis, Throughout August, there were thouwho also made calls on M.G.’s sands of similar dramas behalf. “It’s what we’re supinvolving people seeking to posed to do — bridge buildleave Afghanistan. “Saving ing.” Zedek said this was the lives is the biggest mitzvah in first time he had been Judaism,” Rosenbaum said, involved in something so bold aiming to put all this effort and immediate, and noted, into context. “We know first“The world never has a shorthand what it means to have age of humanitarian chaldoors closed on us,” he added, lenges and crises.” referring to the infamous 1939 On Aug. 17, M.G. was “Voyage of the Damned,” instructed by the U.S. Embaswhen more than 900 Jewish sy to go to Hamid Karzai refugees left Germany on the Inter national Airport in RAbbi miCHAEl Motorschiff St. Louis, a GerKabul. She and her children man ocean liner, and were waited for 12 hours, but did ZEDEK refused asylum in Cuba, the not make it through the two Emanuel U.S. and Canada. The ship gates that were then opened Congregation retuned to Europe, and once a day by the U.S. miliroughly a quarter of those tary. The following day the onboard were killed in confamily got inside the airport, and the wait centration camps during World War II. to get on a flight began.

As of press time, M.G.’s brother-in-law On Aug. 19, they boarded a flight, and was still trying to get a Special Immigrant arrived safely in Qatar the next day. M.G. Visa to leave Afghanistan. called her husband on a borrowed phone

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Five Towners are named outstanding athletes The first Jewish Orthodox person drafted by Major League Baseball and the first female tennis player to win four Nassau County championships were named the Michael Freedman Outstanding Jewish High School Athletes of the Year for 2022 by the Great Neck-based Jewish Sports Heritage Association, a nonprofit organization celebrates the accomplishments of Jewish athletes and aims to increase awareness in an overlooked area of Jewish achievement.

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community update Accessing Programs

Self-Defense On Monday, Sept. 13 from 7 to 9 p.m., the Gural JCC hosts an in-person selfdefense class and positivity puzzle class taught by Warren Levi Martial Arts followed by the creation of a Life puzzle of positivity. Draw on the pieces what makes you happy! Fee: $8. Snack provided. Contact Marisa Ruggiero, at marisa.ruggiero@guraljcc.org or (516) 569- 6733 ext: 21.

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. The library will closed on Sept. 6 and 6 for Labor Day and closed on Set. 7 for Rosh Hashana. HewlettWoodmere Public Library will be closed as well.

Lost Cities At noon, on Tuesday, Sept. 14, Professor Ron Brown presents Great Religions and Cities series with a discussion on the historical city of Petra in Jordan.

Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Join Zoom at https://bit.ly/3gN9wVv.

Short Story Club

Thursday, Sept. 2 Canasta, Mah Jongg At Temple Hillel, 1000 Rosedale Road, North Woodmere, mah jongg from 10 am to noon. Canasta classes from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Bring your game and play all day. $8 per game- donation.

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

MOMA Highlights At 1 p.m., art history professor Mary Vahey presents a virtual illustrated lecture on the highlights of the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Peninsula Public Library. Registration required. Go to https://bit. ly/3B9yQN0.

Tuesday, Sept. 7 Covid Support The Gural JCC’s a weekly Zoom support group offers coping strategies. 9 a.m.

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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.

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Swinging before the storm

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Several golfers, including this foursome, played the course at the Lawrence Yacht & Country Club on Aug. 21, hours before Tropical Storm Henri dropped several inches of rain across Long Island and caused flooding in both Nassau and Suffolk counties and the storm’s winds brought down trees in some areas.

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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.

At 11 a.m., Max Alvarez discuss iconic matinee idols Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Join Zoom https://bit. ly/3DxuH7J.

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Upcoming Events 9/11 Remembrance At 4 p.m., on Sunday, Sept. 12, the annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony will ne held in Andre J. Parise Cedarhurst Park. It is the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

Central Park At 3 p.m., on Monday, Sept. 13, this Zoom presentation, travel lecturer Sheila Taub will discuss how New York’s Central Park took its place among the grandest public parks in the world. Peninsula Public Library. Join Zoom at https://bit.ly/3mO4JqD.

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At 4 p.m., on Tuesday, Sept. 14 Mira Rosenfeld Sennett will lead a discussion of Dr. Edith Eger’s memoir “The Choice.” Peninsula Public Library Join the Zoom at https://bit.ly/3gPShmp.

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

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Family celebrates supercentenarian’s birthday

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Three generations of Henrietta Dobin’s family surrounded the supercentenarian and celebrated her 110th birthday last month. A supercentenarian is a person who has reached at least a decade over a century old.

Dobin’s two children, three grandchildren, and five great grandchildren gathered at The Bristal Assisted Living in North Woodmere to celebrate their beloved family member on her birthday, Aug. 17. Friends of Dobin were also in attendance, including 107-year-old Belle Littenberg.

Dobin was born in 1911 and grew up during the Great Depression. Having lived through many historical events, Dobin continues to enjoy her healthful life, even through the recent events of the worldwide Covid-19 outbreak.

In 1930, Dobin married her husband at the age of 17. Since then, she has attended Camp Siegfried, worked, befriended many, including writer and playwright Sinclair Lewis, and became a mother, and more.

“I've been to almost every country in the world,” she said in an interview with The Bristal. To keep herself busy in recent years, Dobin has retired from world traveling and enjoys painting, the-

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HenRIettA DoBIn, SIttInG, marked her 110th birthday with three generations of family. ater arts, watching Jeopardy!, and playing games like bingo in her free time. Up until recently, she also played golf and volunteered at the Nassau County Museum of Art until she was 108.

Dobin’s artistic abilities and love for the arts may run in the family, all the way

through to some of her great grandchildren. Melanie, 19, and Jenna, 17, are said to be “very fine artists” by their grandmother Anita — Dobin’s daughter in law.

Great-grandson Eitan, 20, also shares the same tremendous love for theater as her. “She always exposed us to art,” he

said, “and when it came time for me to take a path studying and creating theatre, she was always very supportive. She knew how much I loved it and she was always excited to hear about the show that I was in and what I was doing next.”

Dobin continues to encourage her family to follow their dreams. Eitan currently studies theater at Marymount Manhattan College.

Dobin’s family all live near her the facility in North Woodmere. One of her grandsons, Richard Markowitz, gets to be closest to her for most of the week. Markowitz has been a doctor at the Bristal for nearly 20 years.

“I have told my grandma to keep going because she is good for business!” Markowitz joked in the comments of his recent Facebook birthday-post for his grandmother. Ironically, Dobin is the oldest patient he has had in his care. “I would say she definitely looks 20 years younger than she is,” Markowitz said.

Both Michael and Richard Markowitz agreed that, while reminiscing on memories with their grandmother, it is hard to speak of just one memory. “She was always there, being part of our lives,” Richard said. Michael agreed: “She’s a wonderful woman. There’s so many memories and it would take so long for me to spell it out to you. It would fill the entire page.”

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By RaBBi Zalman WoloWik Is your relationship with God business or personal? Do you look to “check off the boxes” in your Jewish life or are you interested in a personal relationship with God? I will tell you why I am asking myself and others this question on the eve of this specific new year of 5782.

This coming new year is a Sabbatical year, the final year of the seven-year cycle described in the Torah. Many people are aware that the Sabbatical year is a year of agricultural rest for Jewish farmers in the Land of Israel. Less well known is that it is also a year of relinquishing monetary debts, as it is written (Deut. 15:1-2) “At the end of seven years you will make a release... to release the hand of every creditor from what he lent his friend; he shall not exact from his friend or his brother, because the time of the release for the Lord has arrived.”

This aspect of the seventh year is known as shemitat kesafim, “release of money [debts]” which means that at the very end of the seventh year, the last moment of it, monetary debts between

rather than having the shame of accepta Jewish creditor and debtor are autoing these blessings as charity. matically waived. There is however a The repayment we make to God for halachic mechanism known as a prozHis blessings are in keeping with the bol which one may use to protect debts nature of the blessings. For the blessing owed to him by filing the debts with a of children, we pay God rabbinic court. Because back by bringing them up only debts owed to indiin Torah-true tradition; viduals are released, a for the blessing of life, we debt held by a court is pay God back by leading protected. a Torah-true life; for the Everything in Judablessing of material susism operates on a physitenance we pay God back cal plane as well as a by giving a part of our spiritual plane. Thereearnings (10 to 20 percent fore, every detail of pracat least) to tzedakah. tical observance has a However, we the debtcorresponding spiritual ors may at times be neglitruth. The laws of releasgent in repaying our debt ing debts are no exception. I want to share with RaBBi Zalman WoloWik to God. Aware of human weakness, the merciful you a teaching of the God instituted a Shemittah, which autoLubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem matically wipes out debts in heaven just M. Schneerson of blessed memory who as it does on earth. explained these laws according to their But if you remember, this only works spiritual meaning as applicable to each with personal debts, not debts held by of us. the court. How do we prevent God from In our relationship with God, we are filing our debts with the Heavenly debtors and He is the Creditor. He blessCourt, so to speak? How do we make es us “on credit” and in His goodness sure that the debt remains a personal allows us to pay Him back so desires

debt so that it will be released?

God mirrors to us the same relationship that we choose to have with Him. We can choose whether to have a business-like relationship with Hashem or to have a personal relationship where we actually want to bring pleasure to Him through our actions.

And this is why I am asking this question today. Do we view religion as a formality, a technical duty, even a burden? Or is Judaism deeply personal to us? Is it something that we put our hearts into? Is it something we think about more than three days a year or at life cycle events? It’s entirely our decision.

This year I want to encourage each of us to deepen our personal connection with Hashem and His Torah by taking a moment prior to this Rosh Hashanah to reflect on our lives and God’s constant presence with us.

May you be inscribed for a healthy, happy, sweet new year.

Rabbi Zalman Wolowik is the director of the Chabad of the Five Towns in Cedarhurst.

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By RaBBi Nochem TeNeNBoim As the Jewish people prepare to turn the calendar to the new year 5782 this Rosh Hashanah — which begins at nightfall Sept. 6 — there is little in our lives that seems to be a sure thing.

Two years ago, there was no reason to believe that life wouldn't continue on its predictable path. Then the pandemic hit.

Two months ago, there was no reason to believe that the pandemic wasn’t well on its way out. Then the Delta variant struck.

Two weeks ago there was little reason to doubt the safety of our town, but suddenly we seemed to be in the path of a hurricane.

Much that we have leaned upon; relied upon; depended upon has shown itself not to be dependable: our

of the shofar — the instrument made jobs, our homes, even our health may have been in jeopardy in recent years, from a ram’s horn whose sound reminds us of the trummonths and weeks. pets sounded at a king's But there is one coronation. thing we can always I am a firm believer count on: God. in the adage that He is with us when “Where there’s a will, the sailing is smooth there’s a way!" That’s and when the going gets why at Chabad of rough. He lifts us up Hewlett, we’ll listen to when we are downtrodthe shofar safely — but den and He brings us in person — in a hope when all seems 15,000-square-foot openlost. air space. We’ll demonOn Rosh Hashana, strate that yes, we might the Jewish New Year, RaBBi Nochem have had to work a bit we reaffirm our comTeNeNBoim harder than usual to mitment to God, despite attend synagogue this whatever challenges Rosh Hashana, and we might have had may arise. We demonstrate that coma tougher year than usual, mitment by praying and celebrating, and above all by listening to the sound but we're confident and optimistic

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This Rosh Hashana, we’re showing that our commitment to God is as unshaken as His is to us. I encourage you to join us — you’ll feel welcome whether it’s your first time at High Holiday services or your 100th.

Wishing you a happy and healthy year!

Rabbi Nochem Tenenboim spiritual leader at Chabad of Hewlett, a local Jewish organization, which will be holding open-air Covid-safe services on Rosh Hashana Tuesday, Sept. 7 and Wednesday, Sept. 8. and on Yom Kippur Sept. 15 and 16 For more information, visit JewishHewlett.com/HighHoliday.

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develop vaccines against the virus in a miraculously short time. And yet, many misguided people still According to the Jewish tradichoose to listen to conspiracy theotion, this Saturday, Sept. 4, just ries and refuse to be vaccinated. before Rosh Hashana, the beginning They decline to accept of the Jewish New God’s gift and to heed Year, we read in the God’s call: “Choose Torah the words from life!”

Deuteronomy 30:19: “I “Choose life—so call heaven and earth that you and your offto witness about you spring shall live...” this day: I have put Get the vaccine, so before you life and you, your loved ones death, blessing and and everyone around curse. Choose life — you may live. so that you and your We mourn the loss offspring shall live ...” of many dear people. I In a few days we personally mourn the are going to experiRaBBi Claudio KupChiK loss of my dear father, ence our second panAbraham Meir ben demic Rosh Hashana.

Simcha Leib uBatia z”l, who died of As the Unetane Tokef prayer reads, Covid-19 last May before he could be we ponder “who shall live and who fully vaccinated. shall die” as the world is metaphoriMay we stop losing our loved cally judged by God once again on ones due to the pandemic. the anniversary of its creation. We May we all choose to be vaccinatremember the many very dear peoed. May we all choose life … ple we have lost and we are deeply Leshanah Tovah Tikatevu. May concerned by the renewed spread of we all be inscribed in the book of the Covid-19 virus mainly among life. the unvaccinated.

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Relationships 101 the decisive factor.

Marcie, however, learned the principles only years after she was a full grown adult. Hence, they have special meaning for her today.

• When a friend says a kind word to her, she feels goosebumps on her arms.

• W hen her spouse responds affectionately to her request, she feels elated.

• When her child asks for her opinion and lisinda tens to what she says, she blinks away tears.

It still seems somewhat of a miracle to her that when she expresses an opinion, she isn’t told how selfish, stupid or bad she is.

Or doesn’t get bullied, shamed or blamed for her thoughts.

When you adhere to the basic principles of relationships, will discord and dissension be a thing of the past?

Sorry, that only happens in fairy tales. In real life, when people bump

up against each other, there’ll be conflict. When people disagree on a matter, there’ll be tension and discord.

But conflict doesn’t need to lead to warfare!

Clashes don’t need to end in character assassination! Hostilities don’t need to end in humiliation! Disagreements can be resolved. Compromises can be made.

So, next time your spouse disappoints you, remember the most fundamental principles of apadin relationships. Instead of screaming at him (or her), calling him names, blaming her for what’s gone wrong, tell him respectfully how you experienced what he did and what’s bothering you.

Next time your teen treats you disrespectfully, instead of getting into a tug of war, drop the rope! Don’t be bullied into doing what she wants you to do. Instead, tell her you’ll be happy to converse with her on this

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matter as soon as she can speak to you respectfully.

It’s easy to slide down the slippery slope to being mean when someone disappoints you. You blame them, treat them poorly, then make excuses to justify your own behavior.

But now that you know the basic principles of relationships, I trust that you, dear reader, will do your best to avoid sinking down to the lowest common denominator even if “he deserved it” or “I didn’t start it.”

Instead, you’ll pay attention to the soft voice inside of you that’s whispering, “there’s gotta be a better way for us to get along.” ©2021 Linda Sapadin, Ph.D., psychologist, coach and author specializes in helping people overcome procrastination and debilitating anxiety and fear. Contact her at DrSapadin@aol.com. Visit her websites www.BeatProcrastinationCoach.com and www.PsychWisdom.com.

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The basic principles of relationships are best learned when you’re just a baby. They’re taught by example, honed by repetition and absorbed into your bloodstream as you interact with others who live by the principles day in and day out.

The principles are simple. They are: • treat one another with kindness • listen to one another respectfully • speak to one another respectfully • pay attention to what people are telling you - directly and indirectly And since you are one of the people in the relationship, you must also • treat yourself with kindness • listen to yourself respectfully • speak to yourself respectfully • pay attention to what you are telling yourself Eli learned the principles of relationships while g rowing up in a crowded apartment in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn. Jimmy learned the principles while growing up in a well-educated family in a beautiful home in the Five Towns. Clearly, neither money nor formal education is

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For the second consecutive year because of the coronavirus pandemic the St. John’s Episcopal Hospital fifth annual Community Wellness and Back to School event had 500 pre-registered children received backpacks with school supplies including hand sanitizers, face masks, pencils, notebooks, crayons and other essential items.

Parents and guardians were also able to schedule their child's well visits on site at the Far Rockaway hospital.

Determined to hold the event, St. John’s applied proven safety standards and staggered attendance by asking the public to select specific time slots to pick-up their “Grab-And-Go” bags. This helped to ensure order and continue to maintain social distancing, hospital officials said.

“While we’re still faced with these challenging times, we wanted to push forward and host this event for the benefit of the community, especially the children,” Renee Hastick-Motes, vice president of External Affairs at St. John’s said in a news release. “Back to school is always an exciting time for kids and we wanted to continue to be a part of that excitement. Healthcare is the best back to school supply.”

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital is the only hospital on the Rockaway Peninsula and for more than 110 years has provided care to southern Queens, the Five Towns and other communities in , southwestern Nassau County.

The 257-bed facility provides people of all faiths with comprehensive preventative, diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitative services, regardless of ability to pay.

Donations from hospital staff, community members, local organization, and the St. John’s Episcopal Hospital Auxiliary were used to buy the backpacks and supplies.

“In everything that we do, we always have the community's best interest at heart,” Jerry Walsh, the hospital’s

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St. John’S Vice President of External Affairs Renee Hastick-Motes handed out backpacks at the Community Wellness and Back to School event. chief executive officer stated in the release. “We were determined to continue our mission especially during these trying times. And, by seeing the smiles on the faces of families and children I believe that we were able to make a positive impact on their lives.”

To schedule an appointment for your child with a St. John’s Medical Group pediatrician at 495 Beach 20th Street in Far Rockaway, call (347) 619-5950.

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But Hewlett Harbor, a village with a population of just 1,500, has been inundated for the past three-plus years with FOIL requests from resident John Novello and others. In 2018, Novello ran for village trustee, and more recently he directed the election campaigns of candidates for the village boards in Hewlett Harbor and Lawrence. In two unrelated legal matters, Novello has pleaded guilty to grand larceny and mortgage fraud, and is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 27.

Novello and others generated so many FOIL requests that Hewlett Harbor has collected them in two accordion folders, and village officials said they used three reams of paper in responding to them, some of which have spawned pending lawsuits.

What was FOILed? Lists of those who voted in past elections, and of those who voted in last September’s election.

Absentee ballot applications, and village meeting minutes. One request asked for all the records pertaining to a dozen different things, ranging from the scheduling and cost of a village board meeting that was not held in Village Hall, to whether a non-resident of the village can serve as an elected official.

Those are considered legitimate concerns, but, according to Hewlett Harbor

officials, the constant stream of FOIL requests resulted in hours of work devoted to responding to the requests, the appeals and the legal actions that otherwise would have been focused on village operations.

Village attorney Merick Aaron, a Hewlett Harbor resident who has served as the chief FOIL officer for the Town of Hempstead, said that citizens are entitled to a wide range of information, but do not have the right to disrupt the function of government. “It was excessive, in my opinion,” Aaron said of all of the FOIL requests. “It takes time to copy and collate the documents, and it is slowing down the operation of the village. We denied some information, because we thought it was an invasion of privacy. It got to the point of slowing down the village that they wound up hiring a third person part-time. That is a waste of taxpayer dollars.”

Aaron noted that in some instances, such as the counting of ballots, Novello already had access to the information he was requesting. In another instance, his FOIL request yielded more votes for the already victorious incumbents in last year’s village election.

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As you know, the Freedom of Information Law requires that an agency respond to a request within five business days of its receipt. I would appreciate a response as soon as possible.

If for any reason any portion of my request is denied, please inform me of the reasons for the denial in writing and provide the name and address of the person or body to whom an appeal should be directed.

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what were characterized as frivolous FOIL requests. “Unfortunately, FOIL does not provide an exception for ‘frivolous requests’ or otherwise specifically address alleged abuses of the law which may tend to harass or overburden an agency,” Kristin O’Neill, the committee’s assistant director, wrote. “Not only is the law silent on the issue of alleged frivolous use by FOIL requesters, but there is also very little in the way of case law regarding allegedly ‘abusive’ use of FOIL.” John Ciampoli, who is representing Novello as the pending FOIL litigation is decided in Nassau County Supreme

Court, said that he has been on both sides of the issue, representing government agencies and individuals. “That’s why they have that big building in Mineola,” Ciampoli said, referring to the courthouse. Novello is suing the village for access to more information.

Asked if the number of FOILS submitted to Hewlett Harbor was excessive, Ciampoli said, “No, I think what we’ve done is structure it to be as un-onerous as possible.”

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Covid-19 vaccinations are now being administered at businesses, thanks to a new initiative by the Nassau County Department of Health.

On Aug. 27, Richner Communications Inc., parent company of Herald Community Newspapers, hosted a pop-up vaccination clinic at the company’s Garden City office in conjunction with the county-sponsored initiative — referred to by county officials as the “traveling vaccine pod.”

Nassau County communications specialist Vicki DiStefano said many people around the county still do not know where and how to get vaccinated. The new program — which brings vaccines directly to businesses for “in-house” vaccination — quickly grew in popularity, according to DiStefano. Covid infection rates have recently been on the rise in Nassau, hovering around 4 percent.

Interested RCI employees, as well as eligible friends and family, received their first doses of the Moderna vaccine. The second dose will be administered at the RCI office on Sept. 24. If employees had already received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine, they were also able to receive their second shot at the pop-up site.

“In Nassau County, 86.7 percent of adults 18 and older are vaccinated,” County Executive Laura Curran told the Herald, making Nassau the leading county in the state for vaccinations, and third in the country among large counties with a population of 1 million people or more.

The first business vaccination pod took place at Café Baci in Westbury on Aug. 3. “Since then, dozens of businesses have reached out to us,” Curran said, adding that officials have seen a solid uptick in the vaccination rate

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At A tRAVELiNg vaccination clinic hosted by Nassau County at the Herald Community Newspapers’ office in Garden City last Friday, nurse Jeanne Ost injected RCI pressman Richard Maitland with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. since the program’s start.

“With the Delta variant, we want to get everyone vaccinated,” Curran explained.

The pods are run by health department nurses, all of whom have been on the front lines of vaccine administration since earlier this year.

Pod manager and nurse Holly Marrano said, “We’re bringing the vaccine to local businesses to make it more

convenient for people to get vaccinated.”

“We are making this as easy as possible — no excuses,” Curran said. “No business is too big or too small.”

Any business interested in participating in the program and hosting a vaccine clinic for employees can reach out to the county health department at (516) 2279570, Monday through Friday.

Among the RCI employees who were vaccinated was Richard Maitland, 46, of Rockaway, Queens. Maitland has been working as a pressman for the company for nine years.

“I’ve been watching the news and seeing what’s going on,” Maitland said. “I’m seeing that it’s the unvaccinated that are transmitting the virus.”

Saying he was never against the vaccine, he thought getting it now was the right thing to do with the infection rate on the rise, and especially since the vaccination pod made it so convenient.

“No one is safe, and I don’t want to be that carrier who gets someone sick,” he added, calling to the Delta variant “round two” of the coronavirus.

“I don’t want to be part of the problem,” Maitland said. “I want to be part of the solution.”

That solution, according to Curran, is to vaccinate as many people as possible.

Covid-19 vaccines are not 100 percent effective in preventing the disease; however, county officials are finding that those who are vaccinated and do test positive for Covid are less likely to end up with a severe case that results in hospitalization.

Pod nurse Camille Laudando said the traveling vaccine clinic is all about “community outreach” and is the “definition of public health.”

“The vaccine is the most effective way to prevent Covid,” Curran said. “Our residents understand the value of the vaccine.”

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Peninsula Public library’s end of summer reading program party included a variety of activities for the children.

Celebrating reading at Peninsula Public Library Six tables were set up on the front lawn of Peninsula Public Library in Lawrence with assorted items and activities on Aug. 25 to celebrate the nearly 140 children who took part in the library’s summer reading program that ran from June 8 to the end of August with the kids to encouraged to keep reading.

The program geared for children aged 4 to 13 is centered on the theme “Tails and Trails,” which is a play on the word tails for fairy tales, folk tales, tall tales and animal tails. Each year, the Nassau Library

System creates a different summer reading theme. The participating libraries in the county craft graphics and handouts related to the theme.

There were animal puzzles, corn hole to play, hula hoops and jump ropes, a trivia contest, certificates were awarded and raffle prizes won that ranged from board games, an Etch a Sketch to a skateboard during the two-hour event.

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Moishe lew, left and brother, Shmuel, approached one of the tables with some trepidation. sarah bergMan tried to spin the hula hoop in the fashion children’s librarian Pat Murphy showed her.

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New water maiNs and hydrants will be installed on certain streets in Inwood.

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that in accordance with Town Law Section 181-b (1) and pursuant to General Municipal Law Section 35, (2a) the fiscal affairs of the Hewlett Bay Fire District in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, for the period beginning on January 1, 2020, and ending on December 31, 2020, have been examined by Independent Certified Public Accounting firm of Craig, Fitzsimmons & Meyer, LLP - Smithtown, NY. A copy of their independent audit report has been filed with the New York Office of the State Comptroller where it is available as a public record for inspection by all interested persons. In accordance with Town Law Section 181-b (4) the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Hewlett Bay Fire District in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, has prepared a written corrective action plan in response to the management letter issued because of the above referenced independent audit.

This corrective action plan is available for inspection by all interested persons at the Hewlett Bay Fire District Office, 1180 Broadway, Hewlett, New York, 11557.

127311 LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Ocean House East LLC (“LLC”).

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New Y127314ork (“SSNY”) on December 12, 2002. NY office location: Nassau County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Ocean House East LLC, 930 Broadway, Woodmere, NY 11598.

Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

127314 LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Limited Partnership.

Name: Sea Park East L.P. (“LP”). Certificate of Limited Partnership filed with the Secretary of

State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on April 24, 2003. N.Y. office location: Nassau County.

The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LP upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to c/o The LP, 930 Broadway, Woodmere, NY 11598. The latest date upon which the LP shall dissolve is December 31, 2050 unless sooner dissolved by mutual consent of the partners or by operation of the law.

Name/address of each general partner available from SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Surf View East LLC (“LLC”).

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on December 12, 2002. NY office location: Nassau County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to Surf View East LLC, 930 Broadway, Woodmere, NY 11598.

Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

127316 LEGAL NOTICE Bill HN 2101 A local law to amend Chapter 27 of the Code of the Village of Hewlett Neck, in relation to residency requirements for appointed Village officers.

Section one.

Section 27-1, is hereby amended to read as follows: : “27-1. In addition to any other requirements or prohibitions provided by statute or law, and in lieu of any other residency requirements imposed by law, no person shall be eligible to be appointed as Village Clerk, Deputy Village Clerk, Village Treasurer, Deputy Village Treasurer, and Associate Village Justice, who is not a resident of Nassau County.

Section two. Any local law or provision of the Code of the Village of Hewlett Neck in conflict with this local law is hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict,

except that such repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed in violation of such local law, ordinance or resolution prior to the effective date of this local law.

Section three. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article, or part of this local law shall be adjudged to be invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate any other part of this local law, or the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.

Section four. This local law shall take effect immediately upon adoption and filing pursuant to the Municipal Home Rule Law. 127308

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF GENERAL MEETING OF BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE INWOOD FIRE DISTRICT, INWOOD, NEW YORK. There will be a General Meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Inwood Fire District as follows: Time:7:00 P.M. Date:Thursday, September 9, 2021 Place:DISTRICT OFFICE Rose Lynch, District Clerk 127307 LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF HEWLETT HARBOR NOTICE OF MONTHLY MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Hewlett Harbor will meet via Zoom on Thursday, September 9, 2021 at 5:00PM, Eastern Standard Time, for the purpose of holding the Village’s regular monthly meeting.

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

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

Therefore, all public Board of Trustees meetings until further

notice will be conducted via Zoom. All residents wishing to attend or speak should visit the Village website at www.hewlettharbor.org for further Zoom instructions.

Dated: Hewlett Harbor, New York August 23, 2021

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF HEWLETT HARBOR MICHAEL RYDER VILLAGE CLERK 127217

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS SEALED BIDS are being accepted by the Nassau County Bridge Authority, for the 2022 Pass Cards Order.

Instructions and Specifications may be obtained at the Atlantic Beach Bridge Administration Building at the Southern End of Route #878, Lawrence, New York, between the hours of 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday.

Bids will be publicly opened at 11:30 AM. on Wednesday, September 22, 2021. Bids must be addressed to the Board of Directors, Nassau County Bridge Authority, P.O. Box 341, Lawrence, New York, 11559, and submitted in a sealed envelope marked “proposal” no later than 11:00 AM on the date above stated. No bid may be withdrawn after its acceptance or for a period of sixty (60) days after being publicly opened and read.

The Board of Directors of the Nassau County Bridge Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids in the whole or in part and to waive any informality in the bids and to accept the bid and award the Contract to the lowest, responsible, formal Bidder deemed most favorable to the interests of the Nassau County Bridge Authority therefore, pursuant to Section 103 of the General Municipal Law. Dated:August 23, 2021 Lawrence, NY Nassau County Bridge Authority By: Vincent Grasso Manager 127305 Place a notice by phone at 516-569-4000 x232 or email: legalnotices@liherald.com

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Inwood gets new piping Along Bayswater Boulevard, Chestnut Street, David Avenue, Peppe Drive and Walnut Road in Inwood 3,500 feet of new eight-inch ductile iron water main and 1,000 feet of six-inch water main will be installed by New York American Water.

The project, which costs $950,000 NYAW officials said, will also replace seven fire hydrants and 80 utility-owned services.

The work is scheduled to begin on Aug. 26, weather permitting, and take roughly seven weeks to complete.

Final road restoration will be completed by the Town of Hempstead’s road raising project. Work will be done between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Residents should note that sections of the street where construction is taking place may be closed to traffic during these working hours. NYAW said

it will coordinate with homeowners to minimize disruptions.

“New York American Water is committed to upgrading our infrastructure and replacing aging water main is an important part of that commitment,” NYAW Director of Engineering John Kilpatrick stated in a news release. “Modernizing our water distribution system improves water quality as well as system pressures for our customers.”

NYAW provides wastewater services to nearly 335,000 people. Residents with a concern or question about the planned work is encouraged to call NYAW customer service center at (877) 426-6999.

–Jeffrey Bessen

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Ask The Architect

A. You should assure your wife that her concerns are very real and it is all right to be concerned. Validate her feelings and be understanding, because many people in the same situation, in taller buildings, are questioning the safety of where they live.

Questioning and confirming are what keep us safe, onte eeper no matter what the issue is or where we are.

Ignoring or dismissing a potential problem doesn’t make it go away.

Applying knowledge and reason leads to security.

Many people assume, with most things, that some qualified person simply took care of a problem, solved it correctly, and kept us safe. I often share my calculation process with clients, showing them the reasoning behind steps taken to calculate a beam, for example, for two reasons. One is so they understand how buildings work, and also so that when a substitution is requested, they understand why it was rejected.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of assumptions that work is being done with correctness and conscientiousness. With larger buildings, there are many safety procedures, including independent certification by qualified consultant engineering professionals. You might feel better if your building hired an engineer who could explain the building’s structural system and how it keeps you safe. If the people living in the Surfside condominiums could have questioned and acted with a maintenance program, which would have required spending money, things might have been different. The design, review, construction and maintenance all played a part in the failure.

Look at your own building’s track record and ask informed questions. If you have no knowledge of the building process, ask others who do. The more I learn about the investigation of the collapse, the more convinced I am of the reasons for never ignoring the smallest details of how these giant custom jigsaw puzzles fit together. Every failure I have ever learned about had at least two common denominators, confidence and naïveté.

If a reinforcing rod is shown on the drawings to be a specific diameter, don’t substitute a smaller size because it was more available or install separate pieces where a continuous rod was supposed to go. The pool deck of that building was a separate structure that should never have been tied into the columns of the taller adjacent building, just like a deck should have minimal or no attachment to a house. The right force, wind or water, can pull a vertical support column sideways, rendering the column useless and toppling the taller structure.

Listen to your wife and have a happy life!

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hirty years ago this week, I hopped on an electric train with a brightred engine, a nervous energy pulsing through my arms and legs straight to my fingers and toes, which fidgeted uncontrollably. My head was spinning.

I carried all I had in my arms — two gray suitcases of clothes, one violin in a worn brown case and one blue duffle bag with running shoes and toiletries. I was 24 and headed to the greatest adventure of my life, a twoyear bicultural SCoTT exchange that excited me, at BRINToN times vexed me and forever changed me.

I served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Veliko Tarnovo, a 5,000-year-old city in central Bulgaria with a medieval fortress that was flanked by white stucco houses, squeezed onto the steep hills above the winding Yantra River.

In the first week of September 1991, I left the safe haven of the training site the Peace Corps set up in Bankya, a spa resort 11 miles outside Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, and headed to Tarnovo, as it’s commonly known. After two and a half months of preparations, I still had no idea what to expect. I loved every minute of the next

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two years.

I was part of the first group of 26 Peace Corps volunteers to enter Bulgaria after the fall of communism there a year earlier. As was the case in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania between 1989 and 1990, thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets to protest communist rule. Todor Zhivkov — the longest-serving Soviet Bloc dictator in the post-World War II era, who reigned from 1954 to 1989 — was deposed without bloodshed. In July 1990, then President Petar Mladenov, a former communist leader, quit over accusations that he had ordered tanks to roll against protesters in December 1989.

People rejoiced after Mladenov’s resignation, The New York Times reported on July 7, 1990. “Never again a communist president in Bulgaria!” 5,000 protesters chanted in unison in central Sofia.

To be there, in this place burning with democratic idealism after more than four decades of repressed speech and thought, was the thrill of a lifetime for an American who had freedom of speech and assembly ingrained in him. Bulgaria felt so alive. I felt so alive. People were suddenly free. As an outside observer who was quickly acculturated to Bulgarian beliefs and practices (I married a Bulgarian), I internalized their joy, their relief and,

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sometimes, their fear of a return to communism.

On June 20 this year, most of the original 26 Peace Corps volunteers, our Bulgarian manager, Emil Patev, and my wife, Katerina, who was one of our language and culture trainers, gathered on Zoom to reminisce.

It was perhaps the strangest feeling I’ve ever experienced. Because of the intensity of the experiences that we shared, the names and faces of my fellow volunteers were indelibly etched in my mind. I pictured them as their younger selves, and then we appeared in little boxes on a computer screen, significantly older variations of ourselves, as if this were a “Dr. Who” episode. It was jarring at first.

Then we started to share what we took away from Bulgaria. Many spoke of the Bulgarian work ethic, the slower place of life, the neighborliness or the kindness they were shown by their colleagues at the schools where they taught — we were all English teachers.

Happy memories coursed through my mind — meeting my lovely wife for the first time, soaking in the sights and sounds that were so different than the United States, chatting with my students, who were 17 when I met them and 19 when they graduated from the Vasil Drumev High School of Mathematics and Natural

ecalling a lifealtering stint in Bulgaria after the fall of communism.

Sciences, as they attended a fifth year of high school for advanced studies.

That graduation, in June 1991, was among the most beautiful days of my life, aside from my wedding and the births of my children. It was a simple, short ceremony, full of music. The students poured flowers into their teachers’ hands, as is Bulgarian tradition. Katerina and I taught at the school together, and we came away with so many flowers that our tiny, rented apartment resembled a florist’s shop.

I’m occasionally asked to speak to young people about my Peace Corps experiences. They often ask about the challenges, or whether I had any regrets about signing up. I can sense their trepidation.

Volunteering for the Peace Corps is a monumental, life-altering decision.

I used to speak of the pluses and minuses. There is, no doubt, a financial sacrifice, because you’re volunteering for two years of your life, I would say. Perhaps that was the reporter in me wanting to give both sides of the story.

If they have a strong interest in joining, I tell them now, they should embrace any fears they might harbor and let the river of life take them wherever it might flow.

You needn’t know where it will end up. It could take you to magical lands you never imagined.

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.

In the eye of the western firestorm

e’ve been through a lot together, you and I. Now this.

As I wrote last week, my husband and I and Lillybee the dog headed out West to the Northern California mountains on Aug. 10. We drove from Denver through Cheyenne, Park City and Elko and arrived here in Tahoe-Donner on Aug. 20.

We’re in a rental house perched on stilts set into a hillside, a half-hour from anything, including our kids and grandkids, who live in a nearby town. They’re the reason we came, RANDI and they’re the reaKREISS son we’re still here, 10 days into a month-long stay.

We’re in the throes of a wildfire emergency, officially declared by President Biden yesterday. Smoke obscures views of the mountains. The grandkids’ school opening was delayed. The smell of smoke is in our clothes, our hair and even on the dog.

The Caldor and Dixie fires are raging around us, from 45 to 100 miles away. We’re told to stay inside, not exert ourselves and

keep the windows closed.

The obvious move is to leave ASAP, but that means driving back to Denver in our rental car through areas that are now smoky as well. Our children surely aren’t ready to abandon their family home. We hate to run, since the wind could change in a week, and it could be healthy to resume normal outdoor life. We don’t know when we’ll have the chance to sit down at the same table again.

Our kids must figure out if their life out here is sustainable going forward.

These fires aren’t going away, and it’s unlikely that it will be better next year. The snowpack has been lighter every winter, and the ground brush is drier. Tinder. No one has grass, just scrub around the homes, cut back for safety.

Back home, I know you’re struggling with the Delta variant and unusual heat.

We Long Islanders have had our shared disasters, mostly hurricanes, and there will likely be more this season.

This is something else. People who live up here are tough and self-reliant, but everyone is shaken by the hazardous air quality and the danger of encroaching

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fires. We all have alerts set on our phones should the conditions get more dangerous.

Ash falls out of the smoke clouds, irritating our eyes and throats.

We have captured some moments with the grandkids, some meals, a lot of time together playing Rummikub.

They seem able to be outside longer than we can, younger lungs and all that. But they are tuned in to our talk about the smoke and fire and what the options are. These kids just lived through more than a year of relative isolation during the pandemic, and so much of their hope was invested in this summer, to do the swimming and rafting and hiking that is their reason for putting up with life in the semi-wilderness. All of our kids and grandkids have tolerated so much constraint and disappointment. I hope it makes them stronger.

To summon my own resolve, I’ve been reading about people who live in places where the geography or the weather or the terrain is a constant challenge and threat.

Why do they stay? My husband and I can and probably will leave if the air remains unhealthy or the fires get worse; we have

ur kids must figure out if life out here is sustainable going forward.

that option. Our kids will make their own calculation of risk vs. benefit of life in these mountains.

People live on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Sicily, generation after generation, despite the inevitability of lava flows and ash that burn them out of their houses. They rebuild; they stay. Some say the reason is that the volcanic soil is fertile and produces the best olives and olive oil in the world.

People in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., know for sure that periodic super-floods will drive them from their homes, but they come back and they build again. Why does anyone live in New Orleans? Or on any barrier island?

Why didn’t we all flee after Hurricane Sandy?

Ultimately people look around and decide that the benefit outweighs the risk of living near a volcano or in a flood plain or on a fire-scarred mountaintop.

We would not have come to California now if we knew how the smoke and fire would look and feel and taste. The headline in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday read: “Caldor Fire Knocking on the Door of Tahoe Basin.”

The fire is knocking, and there isn’t much here to keep it out.

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

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Get your teenagers vaccinated ASAP . . .

ome 87 percent of Nassau County’s adult population, ages 18 and up, has received at least a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bravo, Nassau! That’s a remarkable statistic, well ahead of the state average of 79.3 percent.

Nearly a million people have been vaccinated here, and we could soon reach that threshold.

But here’s the thing: Looking at all age groups in the county, only 73 percent of the total population has gotten at least one dose. That’s because children are ineligible, and only about 49 percent of teenagers, ages 12 to 18, had received a first dose as of last Friday, even though 16- and 17-year-olds have been eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine since April, and 12- to 15-year-olds since May. Clearly, we must focus our efforts on vaccinating teens. With school starting in many districts this week, and therefore with students starting to congregate in large groups five to six days a week, there is the potential for the virus to spread rapidly in this population, and then to be passed on to unvaccinated adults and even

to the relatively small number of vaccinated people who will get Covid despite being inoculated.

Nassau County government now has an excellent program that brings a team of vaccinators to a workplace on request. It’s all about making the vaccine readily available to people who are too busy or otherwise unable to break away from work to get inoculated. The Herald Community Newspapers took part last Friday afternoon, and the vaccination team did all the work.

Similarly, the county and the Town of Hempstead, each of which has a mobile inoculation unit, should bring the vaccination fight to our schools, one by one, starting in low-income areas, where parents may be unable to take their teens to a vaccination site because they’re working long hours and worry about taking time off.

We’ve already seen mobile units brought to a small number of school districts like Freeport, but the effort should be rapidly expanded to all 54 Nassau districts.

At the same time, parents should seek to have their teens vaccinated. With the

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chool’s starting this week. That’s a scary thought, given that we were supposed to have vanquished the coronavirus by now but simply have been unable to, despite our best efforts. This is one mean virus.

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alcohol, but also about staying safe from Covid-19.

Remind them to wear their masks in school, as mandated now by New York state. Tell them to maintain social distancing, and to cover their mouths when they cough, and to stay home when they’re feeling sick. And don’t forget about handwashing — lots of handwashing with good old soap and water.

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Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine receiving full approval by the federal Food and Drug Administration for those 16 and over, we should all feel confident about its efficacy and safety. It will now be marketed as Comirnaty, according to the FDA. For those ages 12 to 15, the Pfizer vaccine will continue to be available under an emergency-use authorization.

The Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are likely to receive FDA approval for 12- to 17-year-olds in the coming months.

Clinical trials are still under way to test all three vaccines for children ages 5 to 11.

It’s uncertain when, precisely, they might receive approval under emergency-use authorization for this age group. It could be as early as this fall, though that seems unlikely now. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said that authorization would more likely come by late December.

The bottom line for parents: Have your children vaccinated as soon as humanly possible.

letters Happy birthday, President Johnson To the Editor: The late President Lyndon Johnson was born Aug. 27, 1908. Many remember him for succeeding President John F. Kennedy after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Others remember him for his domestic Great Society program, which included civil rights, Medicare, Medicaid, the War on Poverty and public broadcasting. There was also foreign policy, most notably the Vietnam War. Few remember that the success of public transportation can be traced back to one of Johnson’s greatest accomplishments, which continues to benefit many Americans today. On July 9, 1964, he signed the Urban Mass Transportation Act into

ate. There’s no need to scare young children. They need to be reassured that they will be safe in school. Meanwhile, teens might need a more frank discussion.

PBS Kids for Parents has an excellent primer on “How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus” that’s worth a quick read. You can find it at www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/how-to-talk-to-your-kidsabout-coronavirus.

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n the 1987 movie “The Princess Bride,” Vizzini, a Sicilian assassin, warns Wesley, also known as the Dread Pirate Roberts, “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders — the most famous of which is, ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’”

The United States fell into that classic blunder when it ignored 19th-century British debacles during the First AngloAfghan War (18391843) and the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) and pretended it could avoid the ALAn fate of the Soviet Union in the SovisinGer et-Afghan War (1979-1988).

A 1979 internal memo to the Soviet Union’s governing Politburo explained why “nation building” by the Soviet Union was doomed to failure. The reactionary forces described in the memo are now known as the Taliban.

“The Afghan reactionary forces,” the memo stated, “are very skillfully taking advantage of the almost complete illiteracy of the population, complex interna-

tional and intertribal conflicts, religious fanaticism and nationalism. Subversive actions, sabotage and the resistance of the overthrown class of exploiters are deepening the economic problems, lowering industrial and agricultural output, as well as hampering business activity, raising prices and reducing the influx of revenue into the state budget.”

The memo warned the Politburo that “the use of Soviet troops in repressing the Afghan counterrevolution would seriously damage the international authority of the USSR.” In his 2010 memoir “Decision Points,” former President George W. Bush tried to justify the 2001 decision to invade Afghanistan and the prolonged war that followed. This wasn’t just about revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, or a strategy to kill Osama bin Laden and destroy Al Qaeda.

According to Bush, “Afghanistan was the ultimate nation-building mission. We had liberated the country from a primitive dictatorship, and we had a moral obligation to leave behind something better. We also had a strategic interest in helping the Afghan people build a free

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erhaps every candidate for president should be a certified historian.

Letters law. It has resulted in the investment of several hundred billion dollars in public transportation under grants from the Federal Transit Administration, which before 1991 was known as the Urban Mass Transit Administration.

Even with Covid-19, millions of Americans continue using various public transportation alternatives, including local and express buses, ferries, jitneys, light rail, subways and commuter rail services. Investment in public transportation today contributes to economic growth, employment and a stronger economy. Dollar for dollar, it is one of the best investments we can make.

LARRY PENNER Great Neck Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.

State is now offering Excluded Workers Fund To the Editor: New York state’s Excluded Workers Fund, which is intended to provide much-needed relief to workers cut off from government unemployment bene-

society. The terrorists took refuge in places of chaos, despair and repression. A democratic Afghanistan would be a hopeful alternative to the vision of the extremists.”

The nation-building task was “more daunting” than Bush and his advisers anticipated because of their ignorance about Afghanistan and because they apparently never consulted either Wikipedia or the CIA World Factbook. It is a mountainous region of tribes, clans and linguistic groups, with millions of people who have little connection to those outside their locality or village. The constitution of Afghanistan, written in 2004 under U.S. auspices, recognizes 14 major ethno-linguistic groups. The largest is the Pashtun, who make up almost half of the population of the country and are the dominant group in the Taliban.

If only the Bush administration in 2001, or policymakers in the Obama and Trump administrations, had watched “The Princess Bride” or had access to the Soviet Politburo memo. I found it, quite easily, translated from Russian to English, on the website of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

The memo, “Our Future Policy in Connection with the Situation in Afghanistan,” became available to the public in 1993.

As President Biden made clear in a speech to the American public, “After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces [from Afghanistan] . . . There is no chance that one year — one more year, five more years or 20 more years of U.S. military boots on the ground would’ve made any difference.”

After the diplomatic, military and human disaster in Afghanistan, maybe there should be a constitutional qualification for becoming president of the United States: that a candidate be a certified historian. The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians could review all candidates the way legal organizations review potential judicial appointments.

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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fits and stimulus checks during the pandemic, is now accepting applications.

Any workers who were not eligible for enhanced Covid-19 pandemic unemployment benefits can apply. The funds do not need to be paid back, and this relief is available regardless of immigration status.

Please visit https://dol.ny.gov/EWF for more information and to apply.

I thank state leaders for their efforts to maximize the scope of our Covid-19 relief initiatives. In the weeks ahead, I look forward to sharing information about the Excluded Workers Fund at community events and with our local faith and civic leaders to ensure that economic relief reaches the maximum number of Nassau residents possible.

CARRIé SOLAGES Nassau County legislator, Lawrence

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