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Honoring those we lost 9/11 remembrance ceremony set for Sunday in Cedarhurst Park crashed into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, where Since 2002, the Village of 2,753 people were killed. The towCedarhurst has hosted a 9/11 ers and 7 World Trade Center all ceremony in Andrew J. Parise collapsed.

Cedarhurst Park, honoring those American Airlines Flight 77 who died in the terslammed into the rorist attacks who Pentagon in Washlived in the Five ington, D.C., killing Towns or nearby 184. Near Shankscommunities: Thomville, Pa., 40 passenas E. Jurgens, Neil gers and crew memLevin, Kevin bers on United O’Rourke, Bettina Flight 93 died after Browne Radbur n, they tried to regain Joseph Rivelli Jr., control of the plane Howard Selwyn and from terrorists, who, Ira Zaslow. it is believed, On Sunday at 4 crashed the aircraft p.m., Cedarhurst intentionally, never BRuCE and Lawrence vilmaking it to their lage officials, mem- BlAkEMAN intended target, bers of the Law- Councilman, Town which remains rence-Cedarhurst unknown. of Hempstead Fire De par tment “It was such a sad and American time, not just for our Legion Post 339, Lawrence family, but for so many families,” School District staff and stu- said Town of Hempstead Coundents and local religious leaders cilman Bruce Blakeman, who will gather for the 20th annual grieved the death of Jurgens, his memorial tribute to the 2,977 nephew, “and it’s hard to explain who died on Sept. 11, 2001. to people just how horrible it The attacks, orchestrated by was, but we have to do that, Al Qaeda, involved four hijacked because we need people to know airplanes. American Airlines what evil is all about, and how Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 were intentionally Continued on page 14

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

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REBECCA ADlER wAS this year’s recipient of the Kevin O’Rourke Scholarship, given by the O’Rourke family and the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department to a Five Towns student or students in memory of the firefighter who died on Sept. 11. From left were Adler’s father, Meyer, Rebecca, her mother, Cindy, and her sisters, Kira and Ella.

Kevin O’Rourke remembered Scholarship honors his firefighting service

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

A scholarship named for a Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department volunteer firefighter who went to work for the New York City Fire Department and died on Sept. 11, 2001, has added a lasting legacy to a lifetime of selfless work.

Kevin O’Rourke, 44 at the time of his death, was rescued by a firefighter as a child, and was inspired to join the volunteer LawrenceCedarhurst de par tment, where he served from 1975 to 1982. He was a dispatcher in 1978 and was elected to lieut e n a n t t h a t ye a r, t h e n became a captain two years later. He also served as a

lieutenant and captain of the department’s Hose Company 1. When he moved to Hewlett, he joined the Hewlett Fire Department.

In 1984, O’Rourke left the Hewlett volunteer department to become a New York City firefighter. He was assigned to Engine Company 239. In 1987, as part of a nonContinued on page 14

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There are few days on which I wake up thinking that today is very special.

When I woke on the morning of 9/11 in 2001 it had all the feeling of just another late summer day. I showered, dressed, had breakfast and kissed the wife and kids on the way out the door and drove off to work.

Nothing unusual at work until the frightened voice of my secretary pleading with me to rush into the main office. “Look at the TV,” all the office staff shouted, “An airliner has crashed into the World Trade Center.” I looked and the upper portion of Tower One was on fire belching an enor mous cloud of black smoke.

I don’t know why, but I immediately thought of that long passed day when two airliners crashed over Manhattan showering bodies and plane parts down on to the neighborhoods of the city. The office phones has stopped ringing as if this ongoing tragedy had stopped all of our business, local, national and international to stop so as to allow everyone to bear witness.

As we all watched, a second airliner crashed into Tower Two causing an immense red fireball. “We are under attack,” I shouted. What were the odds of two airliners accidentally crashing into these two towers in broad daylight? “This is no crazy accident” I

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50-YEAR ATLANTIc BEAch Fire Rescue member Julian Goldstein headed to the emergency unit’s headquarters after learning about the 9/11 terrorist attach 20 years ago. again shouted, “We are under attack.”

I lived in the small village of Atlantic Beach and was an emergency medical technician in Atlantic Beach Fire Rescue. “I have to get to my rescue squad,” I said as I ran out of the building. I didn’t thing that the towers would collapse, but I had no doubt that the number of dead and injured would be very high.

I also knew that the New York City Fire de par tment response system would kick in resulting in every Man-

hattan fire company called to the scene.

Fire department battalions in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn would now be called into Manhattan to cover the units now at the scene.

But I now learned that the towers had collapsed resulting in some of these out of borough units also being called to the scene. This, I thought, could result in Nassau County fire and rescue departments being called into the city to fill now vacant fire stations.

I found a dozen members of my res-

cue squad at our headquarters. Everyone was anxious to be doing something, but to do what, because our training instructed us to wait for orders. David Wolfe could not wait and impulsively got into his car and took off for the city.

My head was filled with thoughts of all the times I had visited Tower One. I raised money for our local hospital, South Nassau Communities Hospital, (now Mount Sinai South Nassau) by auctioning off my guided tour of New York City, which tour always included a trip to the observation deck of that beautiful building.

We checked our equipment over and over and did the same with our rescue vehicle and its equipment. We waited for the call to be of service, but the call never came. In my head I could hear Winston Churchill during a speech to his nation during World War II saying, “Those who wait also serve.”

Many hours later we were all sent home. We were disappointed and frustrated, but yet, we were proud of the fact that we were ready and prepared to serve those in need had we been called to act.

As it turned out, 9/11 proved to be a very special day that both I and this nation as a whole can ever forget.

Goldstein is a 50-year member of Atlantic Beach Fire Rescue.

Capturing an imaginable day on film

By SEYMOUR LEVY nassaueditor@liherald.com

It was approximately 8:50 a.m. on a spectacular picture perfect New York City September morning, as I ascended the steps of the Canal Street subway station in lower Manhattan.

It was then that I noticed a crowd of spectators all pointing upward, southward towards Manhattans tip. Then I saw it. Thick black smock and flames emanating from the top floors of one of the Twin Towers.

“I think a plane hit the building,” one of the bystanders said. I thought to myself, could this be possible on such a crystal clear day? My next thoughts were, how are the firemen ever going to get to reach those trapped in this inferno? As I gapped in awe, I saw it happen. Another plane smashed into the second tower emitting a gigantic fireball and explosion. Is this really happening? Is this some sort of special effect Hollywood production I’m seeing?

Next I ran to my office at 100 Sixth Ave., four blocks north of the Canal Street station, where being an advertising agency art director, and photography being my avocation, I kept a camera at my desk. I grabbed the camera, a

Minolta Maxxum 6000si film camera, and raced outside my building and started documenting the devastation on film (the images were converted to digital).

With my telephoto lens I was able to zoom in on the flaming towers. Then the screaming directly behind me began. “They’re jumping, oh my God, they’re jumping from windows!”

I turned around and began focusing my camera on the horrified expressions of the onlookers witnessing the calamity.

I was transfixed to the spot when I next saw one of the towers begin to buckle. It was as if some enormous invisible hand was pressing downward, crumbling the building with its sheer power. In mere seconds, in an awesome cloud of pulverizing smoke, suddenly there was no more World Trade Center.

I was witnessing the impossible!

I was able to capture these terrible few moments on film with quick succession photos. And in the midst of chaos, the police sirens and the truck horns shrieking, as they madly headed downtown in the inferno.

Levy, a Woodmere resident, has photos in the 9/11 Museum in Manhattan and in the Smithsonian.

Photo by Seymour Levy

BYSTANDERS wATchED ThE Twin Towers explode. The photo is on permanent exhibit at the 9/11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero.

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20 years later, 9-11’s memories continue to sting

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By JeFFReY BeSSeN jbessen@liherald.com

Twenty years ago I was completing my first year as a reporter for three community weeklies in Suffolk County: the Long Island Advance, Suffolk County News and Islip Bulletin.

It was a Tuesday, the kind of day that you wish for: sunny with a beautiful blue sky and warm.

That Sept. 11 in 2001 was the day, I was completing that week’s stories and then the peaceful morning was shattered.

We heard a radio report that an airplane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers belonging to the World Trade Center complex in lower Manhattan. Being New Yorkers, we first thought it was a small plane that had lost its bearings.

Then it was reported that another plane struck the other tower. It seemed surreal. No one yet knew the extent of what was unfolding. I had to go to the Yaphank firehouse to collect photographs I needed for a story.

When I got there the dispatcher on duty was monitoring communications that signaled that something very huge

I drove by the Internal Revenue Serhad happened. Suffolk County fire departments were talking about sending equip- vice that was also in Holtsville and saw ment and people to New York City. One that the federal campus was being evacuated. young Yaphank volunteer I visited then State Assemexclaimed “we are at war.” blywoman Debra Mazzarelli in Turned out he was right, but her Patchogue office to get her that’s another story. sense of what was unfolding.

I collected the photos and Later in the day, I drove out headed back to the office in to the county of fices in Patchogue. Cell phones were Yaphank for a news confernot as ubiquitous as they are ence where then Suffolk Countoday, so I did not speak with ty Executive Robert Gaffney my editor until my return. d i s c u s s e d t h e c o u n t y ’s It was decided that our focus would be what has come Jeffrey Bessen/Herald response and first heard the phrase “search and recovery,” to be called 9/11. All the sto- JeFFReY BeSSeN instead of “search and resries that were on the front and iS a senior editor cue,” which meant that now in the first half of the papers for Herald only dead people would be would move to the second half Community found. and features, including my Newspapers and On my return trip to the story celebrating the Yaphank office, Building No. 7 of the Fire Department’s 75th anni- editor of the tower complex collapsed. versary were held until the fol- Nassau Herald.

In the days and weeks following week.

I left the office and went out into the lowing, I wrote a string of obituaries. I coverage area. I found a man in Holtsville was on the phone with a widow of a watching the news on television. We FDNY firefighter who was also a Bayport spoke about what we thought had volunteer firefighter. Her sadness and anger still stings me when I realized she occurred.

was too emotional to speak and I asked her if there was anyone else I could speak with and she yelled “no, there is no one else.” She hung up and I kicked an old metal file cabinet. Don’t do that, it hurts.

A year later, I stood in the kitchen of a couple who lost a son in one of the towers.

I knew the man from covering the Patchogue-Medford High School football team. At the games, Sam, a coach emeritus, would be in his bent over stance watching the game, now he was hunched over and looked much older. His wife had to leave the room when I spoke to Sam. These are my indelible images from a day, a time, when I could truly say that the world I lived in the was ruptured.

Living near the water and being in the flight path of four airports, the silence from not hearing planes in those first days after the attack was deafening. Having to call families whose loved ones were murdered was heart wrenching. Covering 9/11, year after year, takes a piece of you.

That is nothing compared to what families lost that day. This is why my memories of that day remain so vivid and we remember those killed in the attacks, minus the hijackers, every year.

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New MSSN president outlines goals

By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com

Dr. Adhi Sharma took over as president at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside on Sept. 1 after previously serving as its chief medical officer and its executive vice president for clinical and professional affairs.

Sharma succeeds Dr. Richard Murphy, who was president for nine years and had worked in health-care leadership roles for more than four decades. Sharma was chosen by the hospital’s board of directors after a six-month search and will be the hospital’s first physician leader, as the presidency has typically been a chief executive officer role led by those with business backgrounds.

As he prepared to take over the role, Sharma sat down for a question-and-answer session with the Herald.

Herald: What are your thoughts and feelings on taking on a new role?

Sharma: There are a lot of emotions. Specifically, I’m cer-

tainly humbled by the trust that’s been put in me, and the staff that we have here has been so amazing. I’m excited to take on the role and eager to continue the momentum that we have built up this year to keep going forward. When we came out of the pandemic, a lot of hospitals came out not as strong as they went in, and we actually came out stronger. That was because of our ability to respond and the close-knit group of staff we have that really stepped up to the plate. Everybody worked side by side, so we came out with a lot of momentum, and we’re very eager to keep that momentum going forward.

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ON SEPT. 1, Dr. Adhi Sharma, left, took over as president of Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside, at left, from Richard Murphy.

Herald: Can you describe your roles and duties and how they compare to what you were doing previously?

Sharma: My role [before Sept. 1], I was chief medical offi-

cer and executive vice president [of the hospital], so I had a number of areas that I provided oversight for, including [information technology]. I worked closely with nursing, all of the quality and regulatory components, as well as patient experience components, so there were a lot of areas that I oversaw.

It will be an interesting transition to let go of everything that I’ve been involved with at the level that I’ve been involved . . . I will have to backfill my current role, and once I do that, that’s when that transition will occur.

As long as I’m serving two roles, I’ll end up staying closer to the projects that I’m involved with now. [This role] reflects where health care is today. We are much more focused on quality of care, clinical programming and population health, and much less focused on contracting and all the business elements of health care.

Herald: What are some of your major goals going forward?

Sharma: The main goal is in three parts. The first is to

keep that forward momentum, so all of the projects we have going come to fruition, and to see them to completion and any hiccups or obstacles, we have to make sure we overcome those. The second is to steward the integration with the system [that comes with the planned $400 million expansion], that’s a very high priority for us . . .

The third is to continue to provide the care we’re known for to keep our staff engaged through this process and make sure their wellness is being minded. Because of the pandemic, there’s a lot of fatigue setting in for our staff . . . Getting our staff and our community to whatever the next phase of this is . . . will be the third priority — to see us through the pandemic.

Herald: What are your thoughts on your predecessor Richard Murphy, and has he given you any advice?

Sharma: He’s been mentoring me for this role for the last six years. I’ve been working very closely with him. I first started working with him in 2007, so I’ve known him a

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long time . . . While I’ve been here, he’s been working very closely with me. He’s an excellent role model for any hospital leadership. It’s easy to oversimplify this sentence, but the gravity of it cannot be underestimated: He gets it. I’ve worked with a lot of CEOs, and he’s a CEO that gets it . . . It’s so easy for . . . a non-clinical CEO to just look at numbers, look at volumes, look at budget reports, things like that. He doesn’t just do that. He always sees the big picture, and he always sees the totality of that picture.

Herald: What specific challenges do you face taking on this new role during a pandemic, especially with the Delta variant?

Sharma: There are going to be interesting challenges

related to this [vaccine] mandate [for health care workers] and what that’s going to mean for health care. I support that mandate. I think it’s the right thing to do for health care. It’s the right thing to do for our patients, it’s the right thing to do for our staff, so it was great that we were able to get that mandate in New York state. There are staff that may find it so objectionable that they leave health care, so we may see a concern with staffing as it relates to people who just opt to not get vaccinated.

That’s going to be a challenge. I think that Delta has shown us that even when you think you’re out of the woods, you’re really not.

Herald: Community outreach has always been a part of the hospital. What plans do you have to continue that?

Sharma: Community outreach is more important than ever. Getting information to people, that’s been a high priority for us. Our Truth in Medicine polls have been a great vehicle for us to really just assess what the pulse is of the community . . . We’re very eager to partner with our communities, partner with our elected officials to get education to our communities. The most important thing in health care is that people are educated . . . If we have food deserts in our community, if we have access issues in our community, we want to see how we can solve those problems. The [Covid-19] ‘Vaxmobile’ is a great example of solving an issue of access to vaccines.

We’ve learned a lot about our community through this pandemic, and we want to put all that knowledge to work. There are some silver linings in this pandemic, and our relationship with the community has never been tighter.

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Upcoming Events

Peninsula Public Library

Yahoi Kusama

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.

At 11 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 21, Professor Thomas Germano presents an illustrated lecture on Yahoi Kusama at the New York Botanical Garden. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Join Zoom at https://bit.ly/2YAPyqL.

Human Journey At noon, Wednesday, Sept. 22, Professor Bill Thierfelder presents an illustrated lecture on the human journey.

Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Join Zoom at https://bit.ly/3l3SSCe.

‘Promising Young Woman’

Thursday, Sept. 9 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.

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

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

Join Zoom at https://bit.ly/3kUrcj2.

Sunday, Sept. 12 5Towns 5K At 10 a.m. the Beit Halochem International 5Towns 5K will take place in North Woodmere Park. Proceeds benefit disabled military veterans. To register, go to https://bit.ly/3yLcz6R.

9/11 Remembrance At 4 p.m., on Sunday, Sept. 12, the

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A red, white and blue night The Cedarhurst village summer concert series finished with a bang in Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park on Aug. 31 as the American Bombshells singing group saluted military veterans with their modern-day twist on the Andrew Sisters vocal group. Magic by Ben Cohen was the pre-show under the park’s gazebo. annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony will ne held in Andre J. Parise Cedarhurst Park. It is the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

Monday, Sept. 13

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.

Tuesday, Sept. 14

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.

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

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

Parkinson Support

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

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

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 At 2 p.m., on Tuesday, Sept. 14, the Short Story Club discusses “Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald. HewlettWoodmere Public Library. Join Zoom at https://bit.ly/3BvAets.

’The Choice’ 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.

Hewlett Harbor village’s board of trustees holds its monthly meeting on Thursday, Sept. 9 at 5 p.m. through Zoom, Go to hewlettharbor.org.

The Atlantic Beach village board will meet on Monday, Sept. 13 at 7:45 p.m. at Village Hall, 65 The Plaza in Atlantic Beach.

Lawrence village holds a special meeting on Friday, Sept. 10 at 11:30 .m. in Village Hall, 196 Central Ave., Lawrence.

Cedarhurst village holds a board of trustee meeting on Monday, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. at Village Hall, 200 Cedarhurst Ave., Cedarhurst.

At 2 and 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 22, the film “Promising Young Woman will be shown in Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library’s Gold Hall. HWPL< 1125 Broadway, Hewlett. Rated R, 1 hour, 53 minutes. It stars Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham and Alison Brie. A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path. Nominated for five Academy Awards, it won for Best Original Screenplay. . Join Zoom at https://bit.ly/3l3SSCe.

Rita Hayworth At 11 a.m., on Friday, Sept. 24, Marc Courtrade discuses the career and life of Rita Hayworth, an actress, dancer and producer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era’s top stars, appearing in 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term “The Love Goddess” to describe Hayworth after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II. Peninsula Public Library. Join Zoom at https://bit.ly/2YAOsLF.

‘My Favorite Year At 1 p.m., on Friday, Sept. 24, the movie “My Favorite Year” will be shown at Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library’s Gold Hall. HWPL is at 1125 Broadway, Hewlett. 1 hour, 50 minutes, it’s rated PG and stars Peter O’Toole, Mark LinnBaker and Jessica Harper.

The Greater Atlantic Beach Water Reclamation District holds its weekly meeting by phone on Tuesday, Sept. 14 at 5 p.m. The district’s phone number is 239-6777.

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As part of the on‐going Airport Noise Compatibility Planning Studies (Part 150 Study), the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Port Authority) has completed the Draft Noise Compati‐ bility Program (NCP) pursuant to the requirements of 14 CFR Part 150 for both JFK and LGA. No‐ tice hereby is given that the Draft JFK and LGA NCP documents are available online from Septem‐ ber 1, 2021 to October 15, 2021 at:

Draft JFK NCP: http://panynjpart150.com/JFK_DNCP.asp

Draft LGA NCP: http://panynjpart150.com/LGA_DNCP.asp

Written comments on the Draft JFK and LGA NCPs should be sent to: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, 4 World Trade Center, 150 Greenwich Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10007, Attn: Kelly Mitchell. In addition, comments may be emailed to NYPART150@panynj.gov.

All comments must be postmarked by October 15, 2021.

VIRTUAL PUBLIC INFORMATION WORKSHOPS AND PUBLIC HEARINGS ON THE DRAFT NCPs

SYlvia KamiNEtSKY WaY was unveiled at the intersection of Cliffside Avenue and Nutley Place in North Woodmere on Sept. 5.

Preserving a civic servant’s legacy

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

The intersection of Cliffside Avenue and Nutley Place in North Woodmere was cordoned off to vehicular traffic for the street dedication for Sylvia Kaminetsky on Sept. 5, but the Sunday ceremony was open to everyone and many attended to remember the local civic servant who died on Nov. 12 of last year at 87.

Attendees sat in chairs arranged in split rows, stood by the chairs or on the sidewalk, as elected and community leaders spoke about Kaminetsky in those respectful tones reserved for people who are world renowned. Her stamp was left on Hadassah, Franklin General Hospital in Valley Stream, now Long Island Jewish Valley Stream, the North Woodmere Republican Committee and Temple Hillel, along with numerous community projects.

Kaminetsky’s world was not global, however the impact she had on her family and the community continues to ripple.

“My grandmother was a loving, caring grandmother,” grandson Aaron Samuels said. “She was so involved in the community, always going to some board meeting.

She was so inclined to get involved. That is a big part of why this dedication is happening.”

Calling it a “beautiful street dedication,” Town of Hempstead Supervisor Donald Clavin noted the passion of Kaminetsky and her husband, Irv, to be involved in the community and said the duo “had a very special bond.” The couple was married for 67 years.

Councilman Bruce Blakeman recounted that the Kaminetskys were among the group that included his father, then State

Assemblyman Robert Blakeman, former U.S. Senator Alfonse D’Amato then a town official (who attended the ceremony), and others who joined forces to transform the Valley Stream landfill into what is now North Woodmere Park, a Nassau County facility.

“We are recognizing someone who did so much to help their community, who always had her hand out to help others,” Councilman Anthony D’Esposito said.

“Someone, for years, who made Irv look good. We are preserving a legacy.”

There were words from Rabbis Steven Graber of Temple Hillel, Mordechai Kamenetzky (no relation) of Yeshiva of South Shore, Yehuda Septimus of Young Israel of North Woodmere, Nochem Tenenboim of the Chabad of Hewlett and Zalman Wolowik from the Chabad of the Five Towns. Tenenboim blew the shofar, the traditional ram’s horn sounded at Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, in honor of Kaminetsky.

Retired St. Joachim’s Church Monsignor Paul Rahilly blended the Catholic and Jewish religions, when he said that the light rain was Sylvia’s Catholic side coming out as the Holy Water Catholics use to bless themselves. That remark generated gentle laughter.

Just before the street sign, Sylvia Kaminetsky Way, was unveiled, Irv spoke.

“Everything said about Sylvia is the truth,” he said as he thanked everyone and recalled how they met. Sylvia, then 17, coming from Cleveland, remaining in New York and having her and his sisters promoting the union. “It was a great run,” Irv said referring to the marriage.

“I want to thank all the people that made [the street dedication] happen,” he added, choking back tears.

Information and an opportunity to comment on each of the Draft NCPs will be provided to the public through Public Information Workshops and Hearings.

FORMAT: The Public Information Workshops and Public Hearings will be conducted virtually via the Zoom platform and will be recorded for record keeping purposes.

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Public Information Workshop: Public Information Workshop: DATE: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 DATE: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 TIME: 5:00 P.M. – 6:30 P.M. TIME: 5:00 P.M. – 6:30 P.M.

Public Hearing: Public Hearing: DATE: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 DATE: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 TIME: 7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. TIME: 7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.

Registration for the JFK Workshop Registration for the LGA Workshop and Hearing: https://bit.ly/jfkpart150 and Hearing: https://bit.ly/lgapart150

ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Advance registration is required to obtain workshop and hearing log‐in information and for all who wish to make oral comments during the virtual Public Hearing. If you do not have internet access and wish to participate, please call the Port Authority Noise Office at (212) 435‐3880 to register and to receive workshop and hearing access infor‐ mation. Please note that the deadline to register to speak at the Public Hearing is by 9:00 p.m. on September 29, 2021 for JFK and by 9:00 p.m. on October 6, 2021 for LGA. The Public Hearing will close only after all registered speakers have had the opportunity to speak.

CONTENT: Each virtual Public Information Workshop will begin with a presentation that will in‐ clude information regarding the 14 CFR Part 150 process and details on the noise abatement, land use, and program management measures recommended in the Draft NCP document. Workshop attendees will be able to ask questions and engage with the Project Team. During each Public Hear‐ ing, the public will have an opportunity to provide oral comments on the Draft NCP document. All comments will be recorded by a stenographer and included in the Final NCP documents. Each speaker will be granted the same time limit to speak, which will be 1 to 3 minutes, depending on the number of speakers registered at the start of the hearing.

The Public Information Workshop presentations will be available on:

JFK: September 27, 2021 at: http://panynjpart150.com/JFK_PIW.asp

LGA: October 4, 2021 at: http://panynjpart150.com/LGA_PIW.asp

All comments (written and oral), along with responses developed by the Port Authority, will be included in the Final JFK and LGA NCPs and will be considered by the Federal Aviation Administra‐ tion (FAA) in their decision‐making process on the Port Authority‐recommended measures con‐ tained in these Final NCP documents.

Upon written request to the Port Authority at the address provided above, a hardcopy, CD‐ROM, or flash drive of either the Draft JFK or LGA NCP documents and workshop presentations will be provided for those who specifically indicate that they do not have a computer or access to the internet.

Chinese, Greek, Spanish, and American Sign Language interpretation services for the Public Infor‐ mation Workshops and Hearings are available upon advance request. To make arrangements for such services, contact the Port Authority Noise Office at NYPART150@panynj.gov or at (212) 435‐ 3880 no less than one week prior to the Public Information Workshops, which is September 22, 2021 for JFK and September 29, 2021 for LGA.

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By ANDREW COEN sports@liherald.com

A veteran-laden Hofstra women’s soccer team is fueled for a return to the NCAA Tournament this fall after its abridged spring season ended in heartbreak.

Hofstra, which entered September ranked 25th in the national coaches poll, returned nearly every starter from a 7-1-1 team where the Pride led the nation in scoring per game, but were denied a chance to compete on the sport’s biggest stage following a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to Elon in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) semifinals. The rare spring season due to the pandemic created a far shorter than normal offseason.

“Last season came to an abrupt end and were deeply disappointed, but the fortunate thing this year was it was a quick turnaround,” said 16-year head coach Simon Riddiough, MAtthEW VOWiNkEL LED the Pride with 6 whose team opened with a 4-1 start goals and 5 assists on the way to earning Allafter wins against Stony Book, Alba- CAA First Team honors. ny, Brown and Columbia along with a “She is a supreme athlete,” said Riddinear upset of seventh-ranked Penn State in 2-1 defeat. “It is good to get back ough of Pearse. “We’re excited about her future.” at it.”

Another backyard product that RiddiThe Pride were tabbed as the unanimous CAA favorite with three players ough hopes makes strides this fall is junior forward Cailey Welch, a former earning pre-season conference player of the year accolades including senior for- standout at North Shore High School who ward Miri Taylor, fifth-year midfielder has battled back from injuries.

Lucy Porter and junior defender Anja Suttner. Forward Lucy Sheppard and mid- Pride men eye CAA crown The Hofstra men’s soccer team will fielder Jordan Littleboy, who like Porter are using an extra year of eligibility look to get over the hump this fall of allowed because of last year’s shortened achieving its NCAA Tournament aspiseason, received preseason All-CAA hon- rations following three years of near misses. orable mention nods.

The Pride were knocked off in the Porter, a reigning First Team-All American, notched her first goal in a 3-0 CAA finals by James Madison in penalty win at Columbia Sept. 2. Heavy defensive kicks last April making the third season a focus on Porter has paved way for seven row its season ended in a shootout to the different scorers led by four goals apiece Dukes on the conference tournament from Taylor and Sheppard. Freshmen stage.

“It is tough to take, but it makes you Georgia Brown and Ellen Halseth have stronger,” said 33-year head coach Richboth notched two goals.

Brown, a freshman from England, pro- ard Nuttall. “I feel like we have a well-balvides Hofstra with a bright future along anced team this season.”

Hofstra returns 10 starters from last with local newcomers Leah Iglesias (Carle Place) and Olivia Pearse (Seaford), who season’s 5-2-3 team including preseason scored her first career goal in Hofstra’s 4-0 All-CAA selections Matthew Vowinkel, George O’Malley, Storm Strongin and win against Brown on Aug., 27.

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LuCy PORtER RANks third on Hofstra’s all-time goal-scoring list with 41 and is considered one of the top 15 collegiate players in the nation according to Top Drawer.

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Vowinkel enters his final collegiate season as a graduate student ranked sixth in program history with 29 career goals and was drafted in the third round of 2021 Major League Soccer SuperDraft by FC Cincinnati. The Chaminade High School graduate headed in a goal off a cross from Strongin in Hofstra’s season-opening victory at Rhode Island on Aug. 26.

Strongin, a fellow grad student who began the season with 15 career assists, will be another key facet of the offense along with Stefan Mason, Ryan Carmichael and Jason Ramirez. Mason tallied the lone goal in Hofstra’s 1-0 win at Stony Brook on a penalty kick.

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O’Malley anchors the backline in his third season as team captain along with local defenders Mason Tatafu and Shane Salmon in front of Speel in net. Salmon, a junior from West Hempstead, was a twotime All-Catholic League selection at Kellenberg, while Infuso, a sophomore, hails from Merrick and played four years at Bellmore JFK. Hofstra commences its CAA schedule at Northeastern on Sept. 11. Its first CAA home match is on tap for Sept. 18 versus Drexel. The schedule includes nine total matches at Hofstra Soccer Stadium highlighted by a CAA finals rematch against JMU on Oct. 23.

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I left my house the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, to report to work as the store manager of Sports Authority on Woodhaven Boulevard in Queens. As I pulled up to my store the second plane, United Airlines flight 175, crashed into the World Trade Center’s south tower. Not fully understanding what was going on, I turned on the radio, tuning on the news.

After learning of the catastrophe, I sent my employees home and closed the store. I reported to my firehouse, Inwood fire headquarters, and waited for orders. I recall sitting on the patio of the fire department and F-16 fighter jets were flying overhead, they certainly were impressionable and loud. The Nassau Country Fire Marshals were dispatching various volunteer departments to cover Fire Department of New York City stations to standby as they were called onto the scene. Some of our apparatus was staged at the Belmont racetrack and eventually to various city houses. Inwood Ex-Chief Thomas Lynch drove one of our engines, with a crew, to one of the Queens stations Inwood Rescue 318 went to the scene downtown. A group of members, myself included went to relieve our members on the rescue truck. We then got an assignment to report to Liberty Street to help the city crews. The memory that sticks in

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As we passed Ten House, 10 Truck and 10 Engine located at 124 Liberty Street, we were amazed to see the complete front of the building demolished. We proceeded to the pile. We formed a line up to the top of the pile, and handed up tools, air packs and water. If we were lucky, we found air conditioning ducts or structural steel to walk on. This gave us firm ground which helped from sliding down.

We worked hand and hand with the city. If a firefighter was found, only members from that fire company, and only that company, would extricate the body. It was a solemn display of brother- hood that I will never forget. Another picture that is embedded in my mind the steel structures stick up from the pile of rubble. They looked like giant wafers sticking out of the ground.

While our team was working on the pile, we were told that Nassau County Emergence Services were just above us cutting rebar and trying to extract a body.

We found out later, one of our own members, Ex-Chief Anthony Rivelli Sr., was part of the Emergency Services Unit team. There was an enormous sense of camaraderie among the “vollies” and the members of New York City Fire Department. Many Inwood members are also members of FDNY and receive valuable training from both.

Two very dear friends of mine were lost that dreadful day, Joseph Rivelli Jr. and Thomas Jurgens. Joey is the cousin

of Anthony Rivelli Sr. and was assigned to Ladder Truck 25 and Tommy is the nephew of current Town of Hempstead Councilman Bruce Blakeman. Jurgens was on duty as a senior court officer.

Tommy also held the rank as captain and was an emergency medical technician with the Meadowmere Park Fire Department. Another Five Towns first responder lost that day was Kevin O’Rourke assigned to Rescue 2.

Shortly after 911, Inwood, along with many other volunteer fire departments opened their houses to the city fire departments for refreshments and meals after funeral services.

On Sept. 11, 2002, the first-year anniversary of the tragic event, a group of our members went into the city, in full dress uniforms and we marched, with respect, to Ground Zero for the reading of the names of those who perished that day.

Every year since then, many towns, villages and departments gather to remember and pay their respect to the souls we lost that day, thus the words, “Never Forget!”

Parise is an Inwood Fire District commissioner since 2018, his second stint having been a commissioner from August 1990 to August 2000. He joined the Inwood Fire Department in February 1991 and has been a lieutenant, captain, deputy chief and department chief.

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Remembrance ceremony set for Sunday continued from front page we have to fight evil each and every day.”

Jurgens, a Meadowmere Park volunteer firefighter, was a court officer in lower Manhattan. He responded to the need to rescue people at Tower Two, and was there when the building fell.

“And that would be the legacy of my nephew as an Army veteran, as someone who was a court officer, as someone who was a volunteer firefighter whose goal in life was to protect life and to protect the community,” Blakeman said, recalling how Jurgens loved wearing uniforms from the Boy Scouts, his Valley Stream Central High School football team, one from the Army and others. “So if we get something out of it,” Blakeman added, “we should all be mindful of how important it is to give back to the community.”

Cedarhurst Mayor Benjamin Weinstock, who has attended many of the remembrances and presided over the past six, recalled leaving an office building in Hauppauge after a business meeting on Sept. 11, and finding out about the attacks when he saw a UPS driver in tears and asked her what was wrong.

“It’s really important to me to instill memories in our younger generation of events they didn’t witness and experience the way we were exposed,” Weinstock said, explaining why it’s vital to hold the annual event and echoing Blakeman on evil.

Weinstock said that Sept. 11 helped him comprehend the sentiments brought on by the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 that pushed the United States into World War II. “I understand how evil evil can be,” he said. “From the experience, we recognize evil, to combat evil, and we always have to be able to prevent that from spreading.”

Noting that nearly 3,000 people died on Sept. 11, Lawrence Mayor Alex Edelman said the tragedy possibly directly affected roughly 25,000, counting the relatives and friends of the dead, and indirectly impacted the entire country.

“It hit everybody when it was least expected; the

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lawreNce-ceDarhurst Fire DepartmeNt members presented the colors at the Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony in 2019. world was at peace,” Edelman said. “It was an attack on our homeland. Such a tragic day. Ask anyone, they’ll remember the exact time they heard about it. I remember driving on the Belt Parkway. Cars literally stopped. It was unbelievable. The shock was unbelievable. It will last with me, forever that’s for sure.”

John Feal, an advocate for first responders, will be the guest speaker in Cedarhurst on Sunday. A Commack resident, Feal is retired from the construction business. A demolition supervisor at ground zero, he was injured

when a falling steel beam landed on his foot.

Deacon Dan Otton will represent the Catholic churches of the Five Towns: Our Lady of Good Counsel in Inwood, St. Joachim’s in Cedarhurst and St. Joseph in Hewlett. He will give the invocation. Cedarhurst resident Rabbi Benjamin Samson will give the benediction.

Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park is at 257 Cedarhurst Ave., at the intersection of Summit and Cedarhurst Avenues.

O’Rourke scholarship memorializes firefighter continued from front page member detail assigned to Squad 1, O’Rourke made a rescue and received an award for his effort and a transfer to Squad 1, where he worked for eight years.

“Kevin was a great fireman, a great guy who would give you the shirt off his back, salt of the earth, quite a person — he left footprints in the sand for people to follow,” said Michael Sperber, a lifelong friend and current chairman of the LCFD board of commissioners.

O’Rourke was transferred by FDNY to the Elite Rescue Company 2 in Brooklyn in 1994, which he was working for when he died. In 17 years as a New York City firefighter , he received seven service awards and three unit citations.

Established in 2002, the Kevin O’Rourke Scholarship has averaged $2,000 annually, and been given to one or more young people.

The LCFD initially asked the Lawrence School District for potential recipients, but written requests from fire department tom FoY members are now submitted to the depart- LCFD chief ment chief and the board of commissioners. O’Rourke’s family attends the scholarship ceremony at the LCFD firehouse every year.

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scholarship. Foy did not know O’Rourke, but has heard many of his colleagues speak highly of him.

In Crown Heights, where Rescue Company is headquartered O’Rourke became a one-man bicycle shop, repairing the bike tire of the neighborhood children and teaching them fire safety techniques such as “stop, drop and roll.”

Through the years, the Lawrence-Cedarhurst department has honored O’Rourke’s memory. The 2012 firehouse extension was dedicated to him. There are two street signs, Kevin O’Rourke Way, one at the intersection of Broadway and Washington Avenue and another at the intersection of Central and Washington avenues, both in Lawrence.

Outside the firehouse, flanked by two flower pots there is a stone monument that notes his service to the LCFD and FDNY, along with a traditional Irish blessing: “May the roads rise to meet to you, may the winds be always at your back and until we meet again, may God hold you in the hallow of his hand.”

Rebecca Adler, daughter of the LCFD’s second assistant chief, Meyer Adler, was this year’s Kevin O’Rourke scholarship recipient in July. “I’m very honored,” her father said. “It’s a way of remembering Kevin’s legacy and continuing in the fine tradition of community service.”

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LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held as to the following matter: Agency:Board of Zoning Appeals Incorporated Village of Atlantic Beach Date: September 23, 2021 Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place: Village Hall, 65 The Plaza, Atlantic Beach, New York Subject:Case#21-06-5699 - Daniel Turkel and Sara Shafram, 101 Vernon Avenue, Atlantic Beach, New York 11509.

Applicant proposes to construct a 16’ X 32’ inground swimming pool in the front yard setback where Village Code 250-84(A) (1) requires that no outdoor swimming pools shall be installed or maintained unless: such pool is installed wholly in the rear yard of the premises.

(A)(2) Proposed fence height six feet where five feet is permitted. (A)(8) Pool equipment shall be located five feet from the side and rear property line, proposed pool equipment is located in the front yard setback.

Premises are also known as Section 58, Block 63, Lots 66 & 72 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map. At the said time and place, all interested persons may be heard with respect to the foregoing matters.

All relevant documents may be inspected at the Building Department, 65 The Plaza, Atlantic Beach, New York, during normal business hours.

Dated:September 2, 2021

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS Emily Siniscalchi, Village Clerk 127397 LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held as to the following matter: Agency:Board of Zoning Appeals Incorporated Village of Atlantic Beach Date: September 23, 2021 Time:7:00 p.m.

Place:Village Hall, 65 The Plaza, Atlantic Beach, New York Subject:Case#21-04-5647 - Joseph Aaron and Joseph Bruckner, 71 Wayne Avenue, Atlantic Beach, New York 11509.

Applicant proposes to construct a 18’ X 30’ inground swimming pool in the front yard setback where Village Code 250-84(A) (1) requires that no outdoor swimming pools shall be installed or maintained unless: such pool is installed wholly in the rear yard of the premises.

(A)(2) Proposed fence height six feet where five feet is permitted. (A)(8) Pool equipment shall be located five feet from the side and rear property

line, proposed pool equipment is located in the front yard setback.

Premises are also known as Section 58, Block 38, Lots 5-8 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map. At the said time and place, all interested persons may be heard with respect to the foregoing matters.

All relevant documents may be inspected at the Building Department, 65 The Plaza, Atlantic Beach, New York, during normal business hours.

Dated: September 2, 2021

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS Emily Siniscalchi, Village Clerk 127396

LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held as to the following matter: Agency:Board of Zoning Appeals Incorporated Village of Atlantic Beach Date: September 23, 2021 Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place: Village Hall, 65 The Plaza, Atlantic Beach, New York Subject:Case#21-06-5698 - Avigdor and Jordana Moche, 67 Broome Avenue, Atlantic Beach, New York, 11509.

The applicant proposes an average grade change from 2’.9-5/8” 3’.3- 1/2” and is seeking relief from Village Code section 250-18.1.

Grading. For all lots upon which any proposed grade change is in excess of two feet, where the total area of the lot containing the proposed work is in excess of 100 square feet and where the grade is permitted to be increased up to two feet, the grade shall not be permitted to be increased to within 10 feet of the front, side and rear property lines. No person, firm, or corporation or entity shall alter the grade of any parcel of land without first having obtained the approval of the Board of Zoning Appeals.

Premises are also known as Section 58, Block 59, Lots 21-23 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map. At the said time and place, all interested persons may be heard with respect to the foregoing matters.

All relevant documents may be inspected at the Building Department, 65 The Plaza, Atlantic Beach, New York, during normal business hours.

Dated:eptember 2, 2021

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS Emily Siniscalchi, Village Clerk 127395 LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held as to the following matter:

Agency:Board of Zoning Appeals Incorporated Village of Atlantic Beach Date:September 23, 2021 Time:7:00 p.m.

Place:Village Hall, 65 The Plaza, Atlantic Beach, New York Subject:Case#21-06-5702 - Jonathan Meyer, 68 Daytona Street, Atlantic Beach, New York, 11509 Applicant proposes to construct an open roofed porch and is seeking relief from Village Code Section: 250-21 Lot coverage.

The lot coverage shall not exceed 30% of the lot area, proposed lot coverage 36.75%.

Premises are also known as Section 58, Block 18, Lots 38-40 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map. At the said time and place, all interested persons may be heard with respect to the foregoing matters.

All relevant documents may be inspected at the Building Department, 65 The Plaza, Atlantic Beach, New York, during normal business hours Dated:September 2, 2021

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS Emily Siniscalchi, Village Clerk 127398

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 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 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 PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and Municipal Home Rule of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing will be held in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, New York, on the 23rd day of September, 2021, at 10:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day to consider the enactment of a local law to amend Section 197-5 of the code of the Town of Hempstead to INCLUDE “ARTERIAL STOPS” at the following locations: ELMONT BIELING ROAD (TH 345/21) STOP - all traffic traveling westbound on Parkhurst Road shall come to a full stop.

FRANKLIN SQUARE JEFFERSON STREET (TH 340/21) STOP - all traffic traveling westbound on Fenworth Boulevard shall come to a full stop.

JEFFERSON STREET (TH 340/21) STOP - all traffic traveling eastbound on Fenworth Boulevard shall come to a full stop.

MERRICK WILLIS AVENUE (TH 339/21) STOP - all traffic traveling northbound on State Street shall come to a full stop.

WILLIS AVENUE (TH 339/21) STOP - all traffic traveling southbound on State Street shall come to a full stop.

NORTH BELLMORE REGINA AVENUE (TH 330/21) STOP - all traffic traveling northbound on King Street shall come to a full stop.

REGINA AVENUE (TH 330/21) STOP - all traffic traveling southbound on King Street shall come to a full stop.

NORTH VALLEY STREAM BLOSSOM ROAD (TH 310/21) STOP - all traffic traveling westbound on North Drive shall come to a full stop.

OCEANSIDE NASSAU ROAD (TH 348/21) STOP - all traffic traveling westbound on Weidner Avenue shall come to a full stop.

NASSAU ROAD (TH 348/21) STOP - all traffic traveling eastbound on Weidner Avenue shall come to a full stop.

SEAFORD OXFORD PLACE (TH 302/21) STOP - all traffic traveling southbound on South Seamans Neck Road shall come to a full stop.

SOUTH SEAMANS NECK ROAD (TH 302/21) STOP all traffic traveling eastbound on Oxford Lane shall come to a full stop.

TONOPAH STREET (TH 305/21) STOP - all traffic traveling southbound on Neptune Avenue shall come to a full stop.

TONOPAH STREET (TH 305/21) STOP - all traffic traveling northbound on Neptune Avenue shall come to a full stop.

WANTAGH PARK AVENUE (TH 351/21) STOP - all traffic traveling southbound on Jeffrey Court shall come to a full stop.

WOODMERE GREEN PLACE (TH 249/21) STOP - all traffic traveling westbound on Lakeside Drive shall come to a full stop.

ALL PERSONS INTERESTED shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposal at the time and place aforesaid.

Dated: September 9, 2021 Hempstead, New York

BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 127376 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and Municipal Home Rule of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing will be held in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Hempstead, New York, on the 23rd day of September, 2021, at 10:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day to consider the enactment of a local law to amend Section 202-1 of the code of the Town of Hempstead to INCLUDE and REPEAL “PARKING OR STANDING PROHIBITIONS” at the following locations: (NR) CEDARHURST OAKLAND AVENUE (TH 347/21) West Side - NO STOPPING ANYTIME starting at the north curbline of Peninsula Boulevard north for a distance of 117 feet.

EAST MEADOW EAST MEADOW AVENUE (TH 301/21) West Side NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the north curbline of Poe Avenue north for a distance of 32 feet.

INWOOD WALCOTT AVENUE (TH

311/21) West Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the south curbline of Merril Place south for a distance of 35 feet.

WALCOTT AVENUE (TH 311/21) West Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the north curbline of Merril Place north for a distance of 40 feet.

MERRIL PLACE (TH 311/21) North Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the west curbline of Walcott Avenue west for a distance of 30 feet.

MERRIL PLACE (TH 311/21) South Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the west curbline at Walcott Avenue west for a distance of 30 feet.

LIDO BEACH FAIRWAY ROAD (TH 350/21) East Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the north curbline of Lido Boulevard north for a distance of 50 feet.

FAIRWAY ROAD (TH 350/21) West Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the north curbline of Lido Boulevard north for a distance of 40 feet.

(NR) LYNBROOK SOUTH FRANKLIN AVENUE (TH 319/21) West Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER starting at the north curbline of Central Place north for a distance of 30 feet.

CENTRAL PLACE (TH 319/21) North Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the west curbline of South Franklin Avenue west for a distance of 25 feet.

CENTRAL PLACE (TH 319/21) South Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the west curbline of South Franklin Avenue west for a distance of 30 feet.

NORTH VALLEY STREAM CORONA AVENUE (TH 316/21) East Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the north curbline of Kelly Court north for a distance of 30 feet.

CORONA AVENUE (TH 316/21) East Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the south curbline of Kelly Court south for a distance of 27 feet.

CORONA AVENUE (TH 316/21) East Side - NO STOPPING ANYTIME starting at a point 27 feet south of the south curbline of Kelly Court then south for a distance of 75 feet.

LINDEN STREET (TH 242/20) North Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the east curbline of Franklin Avenue east for a distance of 49 feet.

LINDEN STREET (TH 242/20) NO PARKING ANYTIME - starting at a point 49 feet east of the east curbline of Franklin Avenue east to the west

curbline of Scott Drive.

NORTH DRIVE (TH 310/21) South Side - NO STOPPING ANYTIME starting at a point 132 feet east of the east curbline of the apex of Clarendon Drive/North Drive east for a distance of 109 feet.

UNIONDALE ARGYLE AVENUE (TH 216/21) North Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the east curbline of Nassau Road east for a distance of 65 feet.

ARGYLE AVENUE (TH 216/21) South Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the east curbline of Nassau Road east for a distance of 50 feet.

WEST HEMPSTEAD MAPLE STREET (TH 331/21) North Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the west curbline of Woodfield Road west for a distance of 45 feet.

MAPLE STREET (TH 331/21) South Side - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER - starting at the west curbline of Woodfield Road west for a distance of 45 feet.

ALSO, to REPEAL from Section 202-1 “PARKING OR STANDING PROHIBITIONS” from the following locations: NORTH VALLEY STREAM LINDEN STREET (TH 683/64) North and South Sides - NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER starting at the east curbline of Franklin Avenue east for a distance of 42 feet.

(Amend: 1/5/65) ALL PERSONS INTERESTED shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposal at the time and place aforesaid.

Dated: September 9, 2021 Hempstead, New York

BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 127374 LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held as to the following matter: Agency:Board of Trustees, Village of Hewlett Neck Date: September 30, 2021 Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place:Village Hall, 30 Piermont Avenue, Hewlett, New York Subject: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.

At the said time and place, all interested persons may be heard with respect to the foregoing matters.

The proposed law is an Unlisted Action pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act, as to which the Board has determined

that the law would not have a significant environmental impact.

Any person having a disability which would inhibit attendance at or participation in the hearing should notify the Village Clerk at least three business days prior to the hearing, so that reasonable efforts may be made to facilitate such attendance and participation.

All relevant documents may be inspected at the office of the Village Clerk, 30 Piermont Avenue, Hewlett, New York, during regular business hours.

Dated:September 2, 2021

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Michelle Blandino, Village Clerk 127392 LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF HEWLETT HARBOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Board of the Incorporated Village of Hewlett Harbor will convene and hold a public hearing via ZOOM Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 5:00pm. All residents and professionals wishing to attend are directed to contact Village Hall at 516-374-3806 for further ZOOM information/ instruction or visit our website at www.hewlettharbor.org.

All interested parties will be given the opportunity to be heard on the following applications for relief: 1)Mr. Kim Volman of 1300 Seawane Drive Hewlett Harbor, New York 11557 has applied to the Planning Board for site plan, elevation plan and landscape design review of his 2nd floor additions and alteration proposal.

2)Mr. Robert Hoberman of 1325 Harbor Road Hewlett Harbor, New York 11557 has applied to the planning Board for site plan and elevation plan design review of 68 solar panels.

At said hearing, all interested parties will be given an opportunity to be heard. Copies of the proposed application will be available at the Village Hall at least five (5) days before the public hearing and may be seen during the regular business hours.

Those persons planning to attend the meeting and who require special accommodations because of a disability are requested to notify the Village Clerk no less than 48 hours prior to the meeting.

Dated: Hewett Harbor, New York September 2, 2021

BY ORDER OF THE PLANNING BOARD OF THE VILLAGE OF HEWLETT HARBOR TED MAY Planning Board Chairman MICHAEL RYDER Village Clerk 127393

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Immediate Openings Available Elementary School Nurse Candidates must hold a NYS Registered Professional Nurse License CPR Certification required

NYSED Fingerprint Clearance required.

Candidates should email a letter of interest and resume to: Mr. Darren Raymar, Principal of Covert School draymar@rvcschools.org

We hire the smartest people who can solve the hardest marketing objectives with an arsenal of solutions and a smile through the journey.

Per Diem Substitute Teachers Candidates must hold a High School or College Diploma $125 Daily

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Classroom Aides Noon Aides Substitute Noon Aides

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Candidates should email a letter of interest and resume to: Mr. John Murphy Principal of South Side High School jmurphy@rvcschools.org

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Apply on-line today or download exam information at: https://www.cs.ny.gov/jobseeker/

Part time teacher Aides at South Side High School Salary: $15.00 per hour

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Part-Time, Hours 9-2

P/T and F/T Shifts Available Flexible Hours

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CROSSING GUARDS Needed For

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TRAINED SURVEYORS

wanted in small firm with large opportunity to advance. Applicants must be career oriented with excellent work ethic, attention to detail and the desire to become licensed. Work directly for licensed Land Surveyor. Experience with Total Stations, RTK GPS and Civil 3D software a big plus.

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his oversized center hall colonial is located in the desirable Village of Rockville Centre on a large 75’ x 162’ lot with expansive fenced back yard ideal for entertaining or private relaxation. The first floor features a large formal dining room, grand living room with wood burning fireplace, updated eat in kitchen with granite countertops, stainless-steel appliances, gas stove, a den with gas fireplace, French doors that open to a paver patio, an office with a closet and separate side-entrance and a half bath. The second floor includes a master suite with full master bathroom, as well as three additional king or queen-sized bedrooms with large closets plus an additional full bathroom. This home also boasts a partially finished basement that includes ample storage. You will also enjoy hardwood floors, crown molding, gas heat, central air and in-ground sprinkler system. Call Christine Ferramosca at 516-835-8468 to make an appointment to view this lovely home.

REAL ESTATE Real Estate Attention Sportsmen! NY-VT Border, Minutes to Bennington, VT. 30 acres, Only $99,900! Open and wooded, trails throughout property. Abundant wildlife, great views with southern exposure. Town road, power, telephone, Owner Financing 802-447-0779

Open Houses EAST ROCKAWAY 9-12, 12-1:30, 54 Rose Lane, REDUCED! PROPERTY LOVERS DELIGHT! 3 BR, 2.5 Bth Split on Over 1/2 Acre Parklike Property in Waverly Park Area.Updtd EIK, Den/Fpl/Vaulted Ceiling, FDR & Mstr Ste/Updtd Bth & Sitting Rm. 2 Car Gar. SD#20...$899,000 R o n n i e G e r b e r, D o u g l a s E l l i m a n 516-238-4299 EAST ROCKAWAY 9/12, 2-3:30, 33 Murdock Rd, NEW EXCLUSIVE! 5 BR,3.5 Bth Col on Beautiful St in SD#20. Large Gran/Wood EIK, LR/Fpl ,FDR/Fpl ,Den & Sun Rm.Mstr Ste w/ Vaulted Ceiling, New Bth, WIC & Terr. Bsmt....$999,000 Ronnie Gerber, Dougals elliman 516-238-4299 HEWLETT 9-12, 11:30-1, 11610 Hilary Ct, REDUCED! Beautifully Gut Renovated 4600 Sq Ft Colonial in Cul de Sac. 5 BR,3.5 Bth with Full Fin Bsmt, 2 Car Att G a r . S D # 2 0 . Ta x G r i v a n c e Filed.....$1,225,000 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299 WO O D M E R E BA 4 C L U B S I D E D r, Renovated 3 BR,3.5 Bth Townhouse in Cedar Glen. Updtd Gran/Wood EIK & Bths.

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984 Singleton Ave, BA, NEW! Expanded 4 BR, 2.5 Bth Colonial on Oversized Lot in Old Woodmere. Bsmt & 2 Car Det Gar. Near All. SD#14.. ............................. .$899,000 4 Clubside Dr, BA, REDUCED! Renovated 3 BR ,3.5 Bth Townhouse in Cedar Glen.

Updtd Gran/Wood EIK & Bths. HW Flrs. Fin Lower Level. Att Gar.Community Pool & Tennis. Near All. SD#14 .................................................................................. .$685,000

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267 Channon Rd, BA, REDUCED! 7 BR, 4 Bth Exp Ranch Full FBsmt on Quiet St in SD#20. 2 Car Att Gar .....................................................................................$1,100,000

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Doorman Bldg with Elevator. Indoor Garage Pkg & Storage... ...................... $599,000 395 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, 11;30-1, 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!..... ............................................................................................... $1,225,000 1390 Broadway #102, BA, REDUCED! 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... ............................. $349,000 , 33 Murdock Rd, 2-3:30, NEW EXCLUSIVE! 5 BR,3.5 Bth Col on Beautiful St in SD#20.

Large Gran/Wood EIK, LR/Fpl, FDR/Fpl, Den & Sun Rm. Mstr Ste w/ Vaulted Ceiling, New Bth,WIC & Terr. Bsmt... .......................................................................... .$999,000 54 Rose Lane, 12-1:30, REDUCED! PROPERTY LOVERS DELIGHT! 3 BR, 2.5 Bth Split on Over 1/2 Acre Parklike Property in Waverly Park Area. Updtd EIK, Den/Fpl/Vaulted Ceiling, FDR & Mstr Ste/Updtd Bth & Sitting Rm. 2 Car Gar. SD#20. ........ ..$899,000

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WATERFRONT LAND for sale! Great Opportunity to Build Multiple Homes on One Acre Including 5 Lots. Permits & Bulkhead Required.SD#15... ............................ .$599,000

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CEMETERY PLOT FOR TWO For Sale: Pinelawn Cemetery. Garden Of Normandy North. Negotiable. 516-872-1508

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Q. We noticed a chip in our porcelain bathtub, made by the tile guy when our bathroom was renovated about three months ago. The tile company sent someone to repair it, because we didn’t want to replace it, which costs much more. We had kept the old tub, which was fine, so we didn’t have to replace the plumbing. We aren’t satisfied with the repair because, even though the color matches, the texture is slightly different, and we still notice it. Guests may not say anything, but we see it and don’t like it. What would you do?

That’s what should be done. Don’t waste time, just recover the tub and move on. Good luck.

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We have a new governor, Kathy Hochul, who has hit the ground JERRY running, and established herKREMER self as a major political figure.

She has appointed a number of highly experienced staff members, and will make many more changes in order to erase the Cuomo footprint. Her new head of the Department of Financial Services is Adrienne Harris, who has worked as a special assistant to the White House and a senior adviser in the U.S. Treasury Department. DFS is a

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complex agency, and needs a level-headed leader.

Hochul has not been reluctant to wade into controversial areas. She has signed an executive order to require masks in all schools, and is pushing hard to get unvaccinated New Yorkers to get their shots as soon as possible. She called a special session of the Legislature to extend the eviction moratorium and also to move forward on the legalization of marijuana. Up to this point, the state had done a miserable job of distributing federal funds to New Yorkers who are behind on their rent.

Like many appointed public officials who plan to seek election to their new positions, she has a short time to establish herself as a strong governor, in the hope that she can ward off a 2022 primary challenge. The legislative leaders are making a sincere attempt to work with her, many out of relief that the Cuomo era is over. But time will tell whether they can work as an effective team, because Albany is a place where egos can collide on a moment’s notice.

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While many of us were lounging on a beach or escaping on a golf course, politicians around the country were doing loads of mischief. Despite the fact that at least six states were all but drowning in Covid cases thanks to the Delta variant, their governors were busy banning mask mandates and telling everyone to make believe the disease had disappeared. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose state is racking up new cases, is actively battling school districts and cruise lines, who are just trying to keep people of all ages from getting sick.

The so-called red state governors are having a field day passing laws intended to restrict people from voting and to ban virtually all abortions. To date, over 400 laws have been introduced in 38 states to restrict the general public’s, and especially minorities’, opportunities to vote. The Texas legislature has passed a law banning abortions six weeks after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Having four daughters, I’ve learned that most women don’t even know they’re pregnant at that stage.

In June, a number of states with

ed state governors are having a field day passing restrictive voting laws.

Republican governors decided that people were declining to go to work because they were getting an extra $300 in federal unemployment benefits. Assuming that those people were all a bunch of slackers, state officials decided to stop giving out the federal dollars, assuming that this would force the recipients to leave home and go back to work. Their judgment has proven wrong, as unemployment statistics haven’t changed, and the people who were staying home continued to do so.

A final note about who’s running for public office these days. It seems that during the past year, there were 23 new people elected to the State Legislature. Only six had any government experience, and four had held a job in the private sector.

That left 13 who came into public office with few if any credentials. There’s no moral to this story. It’s just circumstantial evidence that it’s hard to find experienced people to run for office, and that’s a big loss for all of us.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column?

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A dog’s tale: the view from inside the canine carry-on

can’t stretch out, I can hardy breathe, but even inside this dog carrier, the air is better than the smoke out in Lake Tahoe. As the family pet, I went along on the summer vacation out West. Think of me as your four-legged eyewitness to one family’s encounter with environmental disaster.

As my human reported last week, we headed to Tahoe last month to visit kids and grandkids. We expected a month of R&R on the Truckee River. My human dad, superanxious about the RANDI trip, fixated on my KREISS food and my, um, movements. I’m not talking Beethoven. He carried blue New York Times plastic bags across the country because those are his favorite disposables.

We flew to Denver and drove 16 hours to Tahoe. A different hotel every night, weird hallway smells, walks on scorching asphalt and very super-sized people not wearing masks, which I resent because if something happens to my humans, I’m toast.

In Tahoe, we stayed at my sister’s house and at a rental house in the moun-

tains. My sister has a new, irritating puppy. He ate my food and chewed up my travel bed. He sneaked up on me and jumped on my back for reasons I don’t understand. The rental house was worse.

At night I walked outside in blackout conditions, the heavy musk of bear in the air.

Then smoke from the fires swept into Tahoe and smothered our air. People have no idea how ash and the absence of any poopworthy grass can affect a dog.

Then the humans started to misbehave. Tensions escalated into tiffs, and sniping ensued. Someone growled, “Who’s idea was it to come out here, anyway?”

And, “Who peed in the kitchen?”

The humans clearly had no idea what to do. Some knucklehead decided that an escape to San Francisco would work. Did I have a say?

New hotel room, new “pet relief ” area.

So stressful. My human dad brought along the blue plastic Times bags because sometimes even humans need comfort toys.

The San Francisco air was clear and in the “healthy” range on www.airnow.com.

While I cooled my paws in the hotel, my people walked the Embarcadero and

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toured the Botanical Gardens. But it was all an illusion of relief.

Back in Tahoe, air quality misery was now compounded by “extremely high and dangerous risk of fire.” CalFire texted that news to people’s phones every few hours.

We moved yet again, from the rental house back to my sister’s house, just for safety, to be under one roof.

That meant back to the devil dog.

Family tensions erupted again. Light the grill or don’t risk a spark? Walk me around the block or let me roam the yard? Take the kids to town or hide from the smoke? Everyone was supercharged, and displaying all the symptoms of loving but dysfunctional families everywhere. Lots of shouting, some crying, endless couldhave, should-have, and who’s feeding the dogs? I’m here to tell you that either no one fed me or everyone fed me. I hate when the humans become unreliable.

After a few days of simmering under one roof, my humans decided to leave, give up the rental house a month early, return our car to the wrong location (Reno instead of Denver) fly out of Reno ASAP, and then home.

So I’m writing on the RNO-to-DEN leg.

ither no one fed me or everyone fed me.

I hate when the humans become unreliable.

I heard news of hurricane-remnant flooding in New York, but we’re homeward bound, escaping the fires and ready for the wind and rain. A leg up to my compatriots splashing through flooded streets.

Tomorrow we fly back to the God-blessAmerica-I-hope-I-never-travel-again-better-than-a-mound-of-peanut-butter-glorious East Coast. We worry about the family we left in Tahoe, and yeah, even the new puppy. How’s a little guy supposed to feel safe outside and comfortable inside when Noah’s Ark is burning? My humans’ grandkids just sent a photo of a bear looming at the edge of their property.

Who’s going to tell the little guy to stay away?

The kids have several plans in play while hoping for shifting winds. Meanwhile, we fly east.

It is undignified to travel inside a “doggie carry-on” bag, but I fell for the old peanut butter trick. She who shall not be named tossed a peanut butter cookie into the bag, and I dived for it. Again.

Over the past three weeks I have slept in nine different beds. Now we’re cruising at 34,000 feet and I’m in a canvas tote, stuffed under the seat of some overstuffed dude. Nothing seems quite right, even in a dog’s world.

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

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he Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., set off a cascade of worldwide catastrophes over the subsequent two decades — the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and many other terrorist attacks, in multiple countries. September 2001 seems like a lifetime ago, but for those old enough to remember that terrible year, it remains a haunting memory, a fever dream that we try to lock in the backs of our brains but is ever-present.

For those of us in Nassau County that day, we could only watch in horror as grayblack smoke plumes spiraled out of the twisted, shattered remains of the twin towers upward into an otherwise perfect azure sky. The plumes were visible from points across the county.

Shortly after the attacks, people started to gather on the beach in Lido and at the Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick — the highest point on the South Shore — to watch the billowing smoke, staring silently in stunned disbelief.

The United States homeland was under attack for the first time since World War II, and at that moment, we had no idea who the invader was, or the future suffering in distant lands that the attacks would bring.

It was all incomprehensibly terrifying.

In a front-page story in the Heralds’ Sept. 13-19 issue, “Terror at the Towers,” reported by Scott Brinton, Carrie James, Laura Lane, Jeff Lipton, Larry Maier and Cindy Roth, this is how we described the scene: “A wave of fear and despair raced across [Nassau County] Tuesday morning

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’m really scared. It’s so scary if we have something of a World War III. I’m really, really scared.

Rollen Cajoles after terrorists slammed two hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center, sending the Twin Towers crumbling into Lower Manhattan.

“In the afternoon, surviving victims of the attack filtered into Nassau by Long Island Rail Road, like refugees from a war zone. Many, who were still shaking dusty, white debris from their clothes, were not from the area but had taken the first train they could out of the city and gotten off at the first possible stop.”

We sent our reporters to the train stations to meet the survivors of the attacks.

Sylvia Melendez, who worked in Lower Manhattan, described the chaos after the towers crashed to the ground. “The rush of clouds of debris forced everyone out into the streets,” she said. “Everyone was running away.”

Here in Nassau, people were glued to their TVs and radios, watching and listening, hoping for the best but fearing the worst. “I’ve been listening all morning,” Luisa DeGirolamo, who worked at La Margherita Pastry Shop in Bellmore Village, said. “I’m devastated. I can’t get over it.”

Rollen Cagoles, of East Meadow, said, “I’m really scared. It’s so scary if we have something of a World War III. I’m really,

letters A letter to Governor Hochul To the Editor: Congratulations and good luck to Gov. Kathy Hochul. She has been thrust into a role that is critical to the 19.45 million people who live, work and play in the Empire State. Here on Long Island, we are especially hopeful for her good work.

The challenges on Long Island are many. Our aging infrastructure needs serious attention. As the nation’s first suburb, we are living with an antiquated system that requires an upgrade. Our increasingly overburdened roadways, bridges and tunnels are dismal.

The environmental infrastructure is failing.

Drinking water has challenges, including the quality and quantity. Surface water contamination is rampant from nitrogen and other pollutants entering our creeks, bays, harbors and the Long Island Sound. Our air is polluted with toxins too small to see with the naked eye. We are vulnerable to sea level rise, climate change and the inevitable next big storm. The fact is, we aren’t ready.

Our environment is too important for the noaction tendencies of the past to continue. Our

really scared.”

Many parents rushed to their children’s schools to pick them up and take them home, fearful of further attacks. “A lot of people came and pulled their kids out because they didn’t want them to be in a place with a large group of people,” said Pat Brace, PTA president of Bowling Green Elementary School in East Meadow.

“They thought they would be a target.”

Nassau police doubled patrols around municipal buildings, schools, houses of worship and transportation lines. Police also diverted westbound traffic away from New York City. Motorists who had to travel major thoroughfares were advised to stay home.

The military closed down the airspace over Long Island, with unlighted F-16 fighter jets streaking overhead above John F. Kennedy International Airport into the night of Sept. 11 to 12.

Nearly 500 Long Islanders died in the attacks at the World Trade Center or later succumbed to 9/11-related illnesses. Each one was a life extinguished too soon. We must remember all of them — their essential goodness, their essential humanity.

In the coming days, there will be solemn ceremonies in remembrance of the dead.

Consider attending one to show your support for the victims, or stop and pause for a moment at 8:46 and 9:04 a.m. on Saturday and reflect on or say a prayer for the victims. In this way, you will help to keep their memories alive for generations to come. “Never forget” should never become a trite slogan. It should be a motto by which we live.

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hen talking with my grandkids about returning to school this fall — to the building, with other kids, not the dining room table — I was reminded of a school day of my own years ago.

“Bobby.” I heard my name called on the second-floor landing of A. B. Davis High School in Mount Vernon, N.Y. The caller was Mr. Leone, Joseph Leone, my biology teacher and college adviser. “Why haven’t you signed up for ALAn the SATs?” he asked. sinGer Neither of my parents had attended college, my mother had died eight years earlier, and my father, a vacuum cleaner salesman, had his hands full with two active kids. When I think about the controversies surrounding school openings this fall, I think, too, of the critical role of teachers in the lives of their students.

That certainly was the case for me.

Mr. Leone wasn’t alone in affecting my life for the better. I was going to drop out of college after my first year not only because of the cost, but also because I

questioned why I was there. I entered to be a minister, but had become disillusioned with organized religion. My college adviser, Mildred Martin, helped me sort through the financial and philosophical questions and urged me to appeal my financial aid award, and I continued as her student.

Other teachers stand out as well. Miss Calabrese and Miss King, in elementary school, “Pop” Phillips in high school, Mark Ebersole in college, and Kay Moore and Robin Williams in graduate school.

The past year of living and learning with Covid in our path and in our shadows revealed the inequalities of access to teachers like the ones I’ve known. When teachers are diverted from their main responsibilities, teaching and advising, they can’t fulfill their roles to the fullest. It is especially difficult for them to be effective when students lack access to broadband and Wi-Fi, a quiet place to study, and supportive adults to help them with difficult assignments.

A distinguished psychologist once said that we human beings are the “teaching species.” All species must learn enough to leave the nest, but humans turned teaching into a “calling,” a vocation dedicated to preparing the next generation

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was going to drop out of college after my first year. I questioned why I was there.

Letters looming issues need real solutions, not lip service. We need to address the Island’s solid-waste crisis, illegal dumping and the associated increases in disposal costs.

Hochul hasn’t been handed the reins of the state at our finest hour. New Yorkers suffer with an unsustainable tax burden that’s accelerating the exodus of high-net-worth people, employers and job creators. The growing disparity in income and wealth, an increasing immigrant population and the associated educational and health care challenges are monumental. And our young workforce and empty-nesters are leaving because of a lack of affordable housing.

Leaders in the past have forsaken us in favor of book deals, their own selfish agendas and their next election. Indeed, some are in prison for their bad behavior, but the reality is, the good people of New York have been sold out, and that’s why we require Hochul’s earnest leadership.

We have hope in her vision, fortitude and ability to make the really tough decisions. We’re counting on her. Most important, please know that we are here for you, governor. Long Island and the state of New York have immense resources, none greater than their residents.

There will be vocal naysayers who attempt to stop Hochul from addressing these vexing challenges. There are people who talk a lot, and there are people who get stuff done. To Hochul, I say this:

with knowledge, skills and values. As a result, teachers have a moral, social, civic and historical responsibility for not only educating each new generation but also, in this way, creating the future.

We must remember the vocation, the calling, of teaching. As the historian Jacques Barzun said, “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

At the beginning of our nation, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson stated that public education was at the heart of democracy.

“The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it,” Adams wrote. “There should not be a district of one mile square without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”

Jefferson expressed similar sentiments. It is unfortunate, therefore, that some local school boards see teachers simply as employees, instead of as those who inspire discovery and awaken students’ imaginations, as Mark Van Doren and Robert Frost said.

But while the Founders argued that schooling was a local responsibility, they were adamant about the public benefits

to the nation. They believed that education should be public; is critical to democracy because it prepares an informed citizenry, able to ask questions; is important because it prevents aristocracy and promotes meritocracy; should be free from religion and ideology; should be equal and equally available to all citizens; and is a public investment that is worth the cost.

While the ideals of the Founders foundered on the compromises made to create a republic, they nevertheless created within the Constitution the mechanisms for correcting early mistakes and providing the means for continuing the pursuit of a “more perfect union,” which we have shown the ability to do.

As we help our kids and grandkids, or relatives or neighbors’ kids, prepare for a new school year, let us acknowledge the noble profession of teaching, perhaps by remembering our own teachers, and do what we can to fulfill the Founders’ aspirations for true equality of education in America.

Robert A. Scott, Ph.D., is president emeritus of Adelphi University; the author of, or contributor to, 18 books and monographs; and the author of hundreds of articles on higher education and social issues. His latest book is “How University Boards Work” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018; Eric Hoffer Prize awardee, 2019).

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Please be the latter. Be bold. We heard you say you’d “fight like hell for New York,” and that’s exactly what Long Island needs.

WILL FLOWER Bayville

Cuomo should be impeached To the Editor: Re Robert Rosenberg’s column “History repeats itself in Albany — again and again” (Aug. 26-Sept. 1): I agree with Rosenberg’s opinions, and would add that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo would indeed get the last hurrah and make “the State Legislature and state government look like a ship of fools” if it gave him a free pass on the nursing home deaths scandal and his subsequent cooking of the books to make it appear less egregious than he would have had us believe. Interestingly, Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed immediately that these deaths were undercounted by some 12,000.

By ordering nursing homes to accept Covid-19 patients, Cuomo, threatening owners with penalty if they did not comply, exposed many more confined elderly to the virus, potentially causing their deaths. With all due respect, I consider manslaughter to be an even more serious

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crime than the sexual harassment charges that forced Cuomo’s resignation.

Given the present state of affairs, it is now the State Legislature (and, ultimately, the State Senate) that is on trial, and it remains to be seen whether playing politics will take precedence over what must be done in the name of justice. How can

anyone trust Cuomo now? He contends that he will not seek future political office, but only impeachment would close the book on that possibility, definitively and conclusively.

ROBERT RuBALSKY East Rockaway

NASSAU HERALD — September 9, 2021

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