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asha Young, of Inwood, created Gammy’s Pantry over two years ago, inspired by her grandmother Betty Young, whom she called Gammy. From a small space inside the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence, which offered food to those who needed it, Young expanded the pantry to include clothes in 2019. When the coronavirus pandemic struck, she ramped up the pantry’s operations, and it became part of a Long Island Cares site that now distributes even more food to people victimized by the economic downturn. Along the way, Young has inspired and mobilized a group of roughly 30 teenage volunteers to help her manage the philanthropic activities at the community center. They have created a community garden, and advocated for the Nassau County Police Department to re-establish Police Athletic League programs at the center. For these and many other volunteer endeavors, the Herald is proud to name Young its 2020 Person of the Year. A native of Martinsburg, W.Va., Young, 43, grew up with a strong sense of what is important in life. Her family included educators, high school principals and employees of the DuPont chemical company. “I learned to be responsible, respectful, to leave someplace better than you found it,” she said. Young learned a particularly valuable lesson in elementary school. When she was in third grade, her teacher took her and some other children to a homeless shelter.“A good friend of mine lived in the shelter, and I didn’t know he had a whole different life,” she recalled. “It was an eyeopener.” After her parents separated, Young said, Gammy helped raise her, and instilled in her the values she still holds dear. “Just
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the way she lived every day — she always looked for the good in everyone, and treated everyone the same,” Young said. “She took care of every little thing on the property, and you couldn’t kill an ant.” Betty Young died on Christmas Day 2018. Sasha, who has a degree in psychology from American Public University, an online institution headquartered in Charles Town, W.Va., moved to New York in 1995. She and her partner, Robert Acosta, have three daughters: Genesis Acosta, 26, who was adopted, and twins Alexandra and Alexis Acosta, 15, who are sophomores at Lawrence High School. The pantry grew from a toy collection for families in need that Young and another parent, Dan Segarra, began at the Number Two School about eight years ago. Nerthi Sanchez, who runs the Middle School Program at the community center, has seen Young in action for the past five years. “All of her endeavors stem from a deep-rooted love for God and mankind,” Sanchez said, noting Young’s grandmother’s influence on her — and emphasizing that all of this is volunteer work. “The pandemic hit hard, [exacerbating] food insecurities throughout this and other communities across our great nation,” Sanchez said. “She instinctively sprang into action, combating food insecurities at a higher level.” In 2020, Young collaborated with local organizations such as the Cedarhurstbased Rock and Wrap It Up!, run by Syd Mandelbaum, Five Towns stores such as Trader Joe’s and Wall’s Bakery and others, and food poured into the community center. In June, Gammy’s Pantry joined forces with Long Island Cares, the Freeport-based hunger assistance organization. The need was obvious, and the numbers are sobering. In November, the Long Island Cares site at the community center served 1,467 adults, 2,643 children and 268 seniors, according to the figures that are Continued to page 10
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Facing down anti-Semitism SIBSPlace says goodbye to Suzanne Kornblatt For more than 15 of the 20 years that Hewlett-based SIBSPlace has existed, Woodmere resident Suzanne Kornblatt had overseen the free afterschool therapeutic program, headquartered in a medical office building in Hewlett. (SIBSPlace is now in Rockville Centre). The program helps children and parents understand their emotions while dealing with the catastrophic illness of a family member. Kornblatt stepped down from her position as executive director.
Survivorship in Brothers and Sisters was the inspiration of Hewlett Harbor resident Michael Schamroth, according to Arlene Basner, of Woodmere, who, along with her husband, Norman, was also a founding member. SIBSPlace was developed in partnership with South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, now Mount Sinai South Nassau. Jeffrey Bessen/Herald
Suzanne Kornblatt, who retired as executive director of SIBSPlace sorted through gift envelopes at the 2019 holiday party.
In the face of a spike in anti-Semitic incidents across the metropolitan area, Long Islanders joined together in a solidarity march in Mineola. Marching in weather that brought spring to mind more than winter, more than 2,000 ranging from elected officials to religious leaders walked a halfmile on County Seat Drive to the Theodore Roosevelt Legislative building on Franklin Avenue to show support for the Jewish community and their opposition to hate. The Jan. 12 march was the second consecutive such event in the metropolitan area, following an onslaught of anti-Semitic attacks in December. On.
Jan. 4, 25,000 people marched through Manhattan and Brooklyn in an effort to show solidarity after the assaults. Among them, a Queens man verbally abused and physically threatened three people, including a rabbi and an 11-year-old, in the North Lawrence Costco; three civilians and a police detective were killed, along with two armed suspects, in a shootout in a Jersey City kosher supermarket; and five people were stabbed in upstate Monsey at a Hanukkah party at a rabbi’s house, all in December 2019. Christina Daly/Herald
Temple Israel of Lawrence was well represented at the march against anti-Semitism in Mineola.
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$130M Nassau Expressway project was completed There are no more alternate traffic patterns or construction delays for drivers on State Route 878, also known as the Nassau Expressway, after the completion of a roughly 14-month-long construction project that cost the state $130 million. Since the work on a .57-mile section between Burnside Avenue, in Inwood, and Rockaway Turnpike, in Lawrence, was completed residents have already noticed improved traffic flow on the state road, which stretches from Ozone Park, Queens, to the
Atlantic Beach Bridge and is used by roughly 56,000 vehicles per day, according to state officials. The project, which began in October 2018, included raising the road three to four feet to reduce flooding, and the installation of a new multiuse pedestrian path, a state-of-theart drainage system and synced traffic signals as well as additional turning lanes. Matthew Ferremi/Herald
Traffic flow has vastly improved on the renovated portion of the Nassau Expressway, many commuters, business people and residents say.
HES celebrated 90th anniversary and MLK Hewlett Elementary School had two commemorations in one as the school celebrated HES’s 90th anniversary and the achievements of Rev. Dr. Main Luther King Jr., through its Brother-Sisterhood assembly. Students sang songs dedicated to King as they learned about what he accomplished. He was born in 1929, the same year that HES opened. Principal Colleen O’Hara said that sev-
eral activities were held to mark the anniversary from a 90s-themed day to fifth-graders who designed an anniversary logo. “It’s truly an honor to be the principal of the school during the 90th anniversary,” she said. Matthew Ferremi/Herald
Hewlett Elementary School Principal Colleen O’Hara at the Brother-Sisterhood assembly celebrating Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the school’s 90th anniversary.
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Great season for Yeshiva University The Yeshiva University men’s basketball team that included Five Towns residents Elliot Steinmetz, the head coach, and players Alon Jakubowitz, Gabriel Liefer and Sammy Mandel, went on a 29-game winning streak after losing an early season game and continued winning into the quarterfinals of the Division III playoffs that were halted because of the coronavirus pandemic. Steinmetz, a Woodmere resident, won his 100th career game at Y.U. during the streak as the Maccabees were led by 6-foot-5 senior forward Gabriel Leifer, of Lawrence, who averaged nearly 17 points and 13 rebounds per game. Jakubowitz also lives in Woodmere and
Mandel is a Lawrence resident. The team captured its second Skyline Conference championship and earned its second bid to the NCAA hoops playoffs. The nationally ranked Maccabees (29-1) made the D-III Sweet 16 for the first time but the game against Randolph-Macon was never played because of the pandemic. Jeffrey Bessen/Herald
Yeshiva University played a suffocating defense that helped key n offense that averages nearly 87 points a game. From left, Maccabees Eitan Halpert, Bar Alluf, Gabriel Leifer and Caleb Milobsky surrounded a SUNY Old Westbury player.
Building a family legacy of giving A scholarship fund established more than a decade ago in memory of a brother and son has become a fundraising foundation that helps to support the educational needs of students in need. Lawrence residents Deion Wright, who began the DJ Wright Memorial Scholarship Fund in 2009 in memory of his older sibling Daniel (DJ), and Lori Wright, Deion and Daniel’s mother, have grown the fund into a board-governed foundation
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that includes an annual October fundraiser and other events to promote the foundation. Deion has a younger brother Dylan, a rapper who goes by the name Lil Benny, and is signed to Five Towns native Steve Madden’s 5Towns Records label. Daniel died in a Pennsylvania car accident in 2008. Facebook
Lori Wright and Deion Wright outside the Alex and Ani store in the Roosevelt Field Mall at a DJ Wright Memorial Scholarship Fund event.
Max’s Appetizing exits the 5 T after 73 years From Woodmere to Hewlett and now to New Hyde Park, Bobby Leshansky moved Five Towns mainstay Max’s Appetizing & Kosher Deli further west to help ensure survival of a business that began nearly 73 years ago. Max’s Appetizing & Kosher Deli in Hewlett moved to 3315 Hillside Ave. in New Hyde Park. The Woodmere on Broadway store was opened by Leshansky’s parents, Jerry and Daisy Leshansky, in 1947 serving the community with traditional dishes, such as chopped liver and matzah ball soup as well as prime rib, veal cutlets and brisket. Leshansky moved the business to 1483
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LWA welcomed new headmaster Lawrence Woodmere Academy welcomed new Headmaster Brian O’Connell who in turn stood outside the nonsectarian private school in Woodmere and shook hands or fistbumped his new charges as the walked into the building in early March. O’Connell the former principal of Scholars’ Academy, in Rockaway Park, said that the first few weeks would be about assessment and becoming familiar with the culture of LWA, a school that traces its history to the 19th century and is the product of a 1990 merger of Lawrence Country Day
School, founded in 1891, and the Woodmere Academy, established in 1912. At a morning school assembly, O’Connell detailed a portion of his background, which includes attending St. Francis de Sales Catholic Academy, in the Belle Harbor section of Rockaway, and establishing the Scholars’ Academy Middle School, then the high school. Jeffrey Bessen/Herald
Lawrence Woodmere Academy Headmaster Brian O’Connell welcomed students to the school on his first day. At far left was interim Head of School Mary Barton.
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid19 a global pandemic and gathering places such as schools and houses of worship closed to help slow the spread of this coronavirus strain. Local and state governments have put initiatives in place to mitigate the pandemic. The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut announced that all bars and dine-in restaurants in the states would close, though takeout service would still be available. Gyms, movie theaters, casinos and racetracks were also closed. Many Five Towns synagogues took
their cue from a letter sent out by the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County in that strongly urged congregants to work from home, no play dates though schools are closed and shuls will be closed for prayer gatherings. Schools began preparing teaching its students remotely and meetings were either livestreamed or went to the Zoom platform.
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Liane Feuer, like other business owners, sought to keep her Haber Travel Service in Lawrence float during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Coronavirus begins to infect lives Not yet a pandemic, the coronavirus, Covid-19, began to impact peoples lives as schools, synagogues and organization started to heed the advice of medical experts to be sixfeet away from people – social distancing – to be aware that coughs and sneezes can transmit droplets that could infect others, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the letters CDC becoming ubiquitous through the past year. As with many airborne viruses, people with compromised immune systems are especially vulnerable. Cases
were being reported and the virus began dominating conversations. In the Five Towns, schools, shuls and organizations sent out letters with information on how to remain healthy during the outbreak. The HewlettWoodmere and Lawrence public school districts discussed the possibility of closing and said that all necessary precautions were being taken. Wikipedia
Coronavirus spreads through close person-to-person contact, especially coughs and sneezes.
Feeding the local heroes and friends Blair Freiberg-Longaro, a Hewlett resident who grew up in Lawrence, began on March 20 what she called the “Feeding local heroes and friends” Facebook group, which grew into a cottage industry of donors. Support for restaurants in the Five Towns and other South Shore communities blossomed in a brief time to hundreds of contributors paying for meals — breakfast, lunch and dinner — to be delivered to essential businesses and services, ranging from doctors’ offices to CVS, hospitals, and police precincts, amid the coronavi-
rus outbreak. Meals bought in several Five Towns eateries and in East Rockaway and Lynbrook have been delivered across those communities and in Malverne, New Hyde Park, Oceanside and Valley Steam, to show appreciation for the people providing needed services during the health crisis. Facebook
Hewlett resident Blair Longaro created the ‘Feeding local heroes and friends’ group that has purchased and delivered food to businesses and service-oriented entities
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It’s game over for spring athletes The meets, games and matches of spring were not be played, after any hopes for even a modified season were dashed, when health and safety concerns focused on the coronavirus pandemic led athletic administrators and school superintendents in Nassau and Suffolk counties to announce the cancellation of the high school sports season. The student-athletes who play badminton, baseball and lacrosse and run track will lost a year of not only playing a sport they love, but also the camaraderie of being on team.
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The ban on playing sports continued through the fall as middle school athletics were canceled and as of press time no fall or “high risk” winter sports such as basketball and wresting have been played. Nassau County is planning a modified “low risk” schedule of bowling, gymnastics, swimming and winter track to start on Jan. 4. Courtesy Sofia Maravilla
Lawrence High School senior and badminton player Sofia Maravilla was one of many scholastic athletes who lost out on their spring sports season.
Schools and school districts across New York state went remote and faced what one parent called “a Herculean task” of teaching the students over platforms such as Google Classroom and iTutor. Administrators, teachers and students needed to adjust to a new norm of classes being interrupted by internet issues, finding space in one’s home to set up and not being face to face. Throughout the remainder of the school year and then beginning of the
2020-21 school year people should apply Inwood resident Veronica Casamassima’s perspective. “Teachers are working superhard, and all internet services and broadband providers are overloaded,” Casamassima said. “All teachers are really faced with a Herculean task in transferring all their materials to a brand new technology.”
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Hewlett High School student Shari Nudelman’s math work on her laptop.
Covid? There’s an app for that Paul Shelden’s music-filled life Paul Shelden was a musician who performed with big stars, but his most important role was as a husband and father who thought nothing of sticking his arm down a restaurant toilet to retrieve his son’s pen, and who always made sure his daughter’s school projects were completed. Shelden, a resident of Hewlett for 28 years and a professor emeritus of music at Brooklyn College, died at home in April of complications of Covid-19. He was 79. Inspired by his experience playing under the direction of the legendary Leonard Bernstein as a student at the Juilliard School in Manhattan, Shelden
spent decades producing and conducting concerts for young people as assistant director of the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. He introduced classical music to hundreds of thousands of public-school students in Brooklyn.
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Longtime Hewlett resident and professor emeritus Dr. Paul Shelden played a soprano saxophone he designed that was made by his company, Diplomatte Musical Instruments.
Being quarantined during the coronavirus pandemic wasn’t an obstacle for the scientific ingenuity of Lawrence siblings Yair and Yiela Saperstein, along with their colleagues from the startup company avoMD, which is in the business of disseminating medical information and has an app of the same name. An enhanced version of the avoMD app took first place — and a $20,000 prize — in the annual Columbia Venture competition, which is a contest between startup companies and invites contestants from the Columbia University community, including alumni who graduated
within the past five years. AvoMD also includes Laurence Coman, its chief financial officer, app creator Dr. Joongheum Park, who initially used the app to help doctors improve their diagnoses of patients by ensuring that they have access to the most up-to-date information and helping them create treatment plans, and Dr. Shawn Ong. They tweaked the app for the coronavirus pandemic, as the guidelines for treating Covid-19 were rapidly evolving. Courtesy avoMD
Startup venture avoMd’s top officers clockwise top, from left, Dr. Shawn Ong, Yiela Saperstein and Laurence Coman. Below, Dr. Joongheum Park, left, and Dr. Yair Saperstein.
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Graduations were different in 2020 No matter what level of school a student was graduating from 2020’s graduation ceremonies were like no others as the coronavirus pandemic compelled schools to get creative with honoring the students moving on whether it was from kindergarten to first grade or from high school to college. Hewlett High School had multiple graduation ceremonies as students sat socially distant on the campus’s athletic field. Lawrence High put together a virtual commencement. Lawrence Woodmere Academy officials visited seniors’ homes to honor them and Brandeis School eighth-
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graders tossed their mortarboards in the air on the front lawn of the Lawrence school. There were also many drive-thru celebrations as parents of children moving up or graduating decorated their vehicles to celebrate their child or children and the parades were held around the individual schools.
What was expected to be a small protest involving perhaps 50 people swelled to a crowd of nearly 400 on a Sunday as children, adults, Jews and nonJews, blacks, whites and Latinos marched from Andrew J. Parise Park in Cedarhurst to Lawrence and back to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement and their opposition to racism, chanting “No justice, no peace!” and “Black lives matter!” Participants gathered in Cedarhurst Park, on Cedarhurst Avenue, and headed to Central
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All six graduation ceremonies at Hewlett High School had students sitting at least six feet apart from each other.
Avenue. Marching west along Central, through Cedarhurst and Lawrence, they kept to a pledge made to village officials that they would refrain from chanting, but when the march turned north at the corner at Central and Rockaway Turnpike, the chants began. Co-organizer Shua Auerbach, one of the organizers, said: “I think . . . having this march definitely opens up a lot of awareness and support in the community, and I think it’s a very positive thing. Jeffrey Bessen/Herald
March organizers Shua Auerbach, left, and Lina Mavruk led the procession on Cedarhurst Avenue.
Planning to reopen schools Amid pandemic, business owners are optimistic Despite social distancing protocols that impact the capacity of businesses and restaurants, Five Towns business owners are feeling optimistic about their economic survival amid the coronavirus pandemic. When Long Island entered Phase 3 of reopening on June 24, restaurants were allowed to use 50 percent of their capacity for indoor dining. Masks were and still are required for entering diners, but can be removed once they are seated. Outdoor dining was permitted when Long Island entered
Phase 2 of reopening on June 10. The region moved into Phase 4 on July 8, with museums, aquariums and other “low-risk” cultural establishments were allowed to reopen.
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Social distancing protocols were in place at Woodro Kosher Delicatessen and Restaurant in Hewlett as store manager Nochum Bobrino, right, completed the order of customer John Ippilito.
In what had become a familiar setting amid the coronavirus pandemic, the New York State Board of Regents met virtually on July 13 to discuss the findings of a task force made up of parents, school officials, students and teachers that was convened in June to collect opinions on how to reopen schools. The Board of Regents recommended that school districts create plans for in-person instruction, remote instruction and what is being called hybrid instruction, a mix of in-person and distance learning. The guidance given on Monday was distributed to school districts. District reopening
plans had to be submitted to the State Education Department by July 31. Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa noted that the recommendations came after four virtual Board of Regents meetings in June. “Life has changed radically for New York’s students, parents and educators during the unprecedented Covid-19 emergency, and we have to provide flexibility to districts in our new normal,” Rosa said.
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Officials at Ogden Elementary School, in the Hewlett-Woodmere School District, said they hoped to welcome back children in September.
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Teens tackle tough issues Citing a desire to improve their community and help others, a group of nearly 30 teenagers, all Lawrence High School students, are part of a teen advocacy group at the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence. Group members, all volunteers with the center’s Gammy’s Pantry, overseen by Inwood resident Sasha Young, is focused on a wide-ranging agenda that includes addressing educational inequities; preventing bullying, child trafficking, dating violence, gang recruitment and suicide; increasing employment opportunities for young people; establishing a Police
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Athletic League or Explorer program at the Community Center; mentoring local youth; improving relations between the local community and police; and LGBT issues. Two group members, Alexis Acosta and Edwin Rodriguez, presented its initiatives to Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder during a July 30 meeting at police headquarters.
School administrators public and private are now working on exactly what to do after Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave school districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties, along with the rest of the state, permission to reopen. The governor said he based his Aug. 7 decision on low infection rates recorded in every region.“Everywhere in the state, every region is below the threshold that we established,” he said in a conference call with reporters. “If there’s a spike in the infection rate, if there’s a matter of concern in
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Colleen Rivera, left, and Taesheyl Thomas sorted over-the-counter medications at the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence on July 29.
the infection rate, we can revisit.” The State Education Department is leaving the specifics of how to reopen New York’s 749 school districts to the districts themselves. They are empowered to make decisions about what in-person learning will look like, how much remote learning will be offered and how to implement safety protocols. Masks are mandated, and students are required to have one with them at all times. Jeffrey Bessen/Herald
Lawrence School District Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen explained the reopening plan at Monday’s Board of Education meeting.
Covid-19 remains a threat Don Buchalter, Lawrence village justice nearly 40 years Donald Buchalter had a role in nearly every case adjudicated in the Lawrence Village Hall courtroom, from its establishment in 1968 until his retirement in 2018. Buchalter died on Aug. 26. He was 83. He was appointed the village’s first prosecutor 52 years ago by then Mayor Jay Gordon — who became his brother-in-law. (The two men’s wives, Barbara Gordon and Judith Buchalter, are sisters.) Buchalter became village justice in
1980 succeeding Cal Polivey, the original village justice. The village courtroom was named in Buchalter’s honor on Nov. 19, 2018 — Judge Donald J. Buchalter Day in Lawrence.
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With schools and business reopening roughly six months after the coronavirus pandemic shut down the area economy, and residents regularly venturing out — albeit with face masks and frequently sanitized hands — local physicians warned that Covid-19 remained a genuine threat. Dr. Marc Sicklick, a Lawrence resident with a Cedarhurst practice who specializes in allergies, asthma and immunology, recently wrote a three-page letter that was emailed by the Village of Lawrence to residents. Sicklick noted that there had been an uptick of cases in Nassau County and
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Judy and Donald Buchalter in the village courtroom named in his honor in 2018.
in the Five Towns, and said he was joining the nearly unanimous chorus of doctors who are “warning and begging people” to take the pandemic seriously. “My take is that we have to get across that this is not over,” Sicklick told the Herald. “There is a prevalent feeling in this community that the pandemic is done.” We are in fact in the middle of the pandemic, he said, and facing a possible second wave. Jeffrey Bessen/Herald
Proper social distancing and mask wearing outside the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence in May.
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Hewlett-Woodmere staff, parents and guardians, and of course, our wonderful students,” Superintendent Dr. Ralph Marino Jr. wrote in a district-wide letter on Oct. 9.“Seeing the happiness on the students’ faces as they returned to our buildings full-time makes all of the hurdles we have scaled worthwhile.”
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In-person learning is back in session across the Hewlett-Woodmere School District. Above, Megan Kearney taught her class at Ogden Elementary School on Oct. 5.
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With early voting getting underway across New York state on Oct. 24, hundreds of people lined up outside the Lawrence Yacht & Country Club, waiting as long as three hours to cast ballots. Early voting was introduced in the state last year as part of a series of reforms intended to create more access to voting for people who struggle to get to the polls on Election Day. A total of 211,898 people voted at sites across the state on Oct. 24 — 1.7
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the second week there was no job; by the third required to be reported to Long Island Cares. week, no car. It’s a horrendous crisis.” Young was furloughed The site is open to anyone in from her job as an aide in the the Town of Hempstead. Many Lawrence School District in of those who use it are from the April. Called to return in SepFive Towns and Valley Stream. tember, she said her work at the Young said that Gammy’s PanOF THE community center was more of try serves up to 150 people at a a priority. time and collects food for many In addition to providing more at home. food and clothes for those in It’s shocking — it hit everyone,” she said of the pandemic. “No matter if need, she and her army of teen volunteers oryou live in a huge house or drive a fancy car. By ganized an outdoor Easter party, and a Halloween party at which children trick-or-treated, this year. The lighting of a Christmas tree and a menorah outside the community center have become annual traditions. The facility’s executive director for just over a year, K. Brent Hill, has worked with Young to strengthen the relationship between the center and Gammy’s Pantry. He obtained two grants totaling $40,000 that helped purchase needed supplies, including a refrigerator for the pantry. “I think Sasha has great attributes, and really motivates people,” Hill said. “Her spirit is so giving that people want to join in the efforts. She connects with people regardless of their background. She’s the gift that keeps on giving. She gets young people involved, older people involved and gets people who have received food motivated that they want to help, too.” Young also helped save a life this year. On Oct. 7, she and a few of the teen volunteers came to the aid of a woman who regularly comes for food at Gammy’s Pantry and Long Island Cares.The woman was outside the ComCHOOSE WHICH RAFFLE YOU ENTER munity Center and was unable to speak, and DISNEY WORLD STAR WARS ADVENTURE then fell into unconsciousness, apparently having a heart attack. BEATLES MEMORABILIA Young, who is certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, began administering it before $10,000 TOWARDS HAFTR TUITION emergency responders arrived, and LawrenceWEDDING PACKAGE Cedarhurst Fire Department medics revived the woman with a defibrillator. She survived. “It was teamwork in its finest,” Young said. “It’s always how the dream works, but this time it RYAN KEELEY PAINTING saved a life.” She could just as well have been describing her volunteer work. “Sasha is the biggest thing to happen to this community in a long time,” said Pete Sobol, who has been involved with the community center for 25 years, serving as interim executive director, board presiGAMING PACKAGE dent and trustee said.“I no longer pray for her; I pray to her. She’s a saint.” GAMING PACKAGE
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Three injured in house fire The Meadowmere Park and Lawrence Cedarhurst fire departments, along with at least 13 other departments totaling 125 firefighters, battled to extinguish a three-house fire in Meadowmere Park for two and half hours on Nov. 1, officials said. It is believed to be a gas explosion from the home at 3 South Street between West and East avenue, according to LCFD, that impacted two other homes, 1 and 5 South Street, officials said. All three houses were destroyed, officials said. Neighbors say the explosion sounded like a bomb. The fire call came in at 5:39 a.m.
For Five Towns native and longtime Hewlett High School chemistry teacher Ilene Gabel, the majority of her life has been spent attending and working in the Hewlett-Woodmere School District. Gabel, 70, retired from the school district on Oct. 30 after a near 50-year teaching career that began in 1971. “I don’t think retiring during a pandemic is advisable especially when you’re putting in 16 to 18 hour days and then it comes to a screeching halt,” said the Woodmere native who lives in Oceanside. “It’s rough, but I know it will take time to
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Looking north on West Avenue in Meadowmere Park at the three houses damaged in a gas explosion fire on Nov. 1.
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Hewlett High School chemistry teacher Ilene Gabel, second from left, retired on Oct. 30 after a nearly 50-year career. She was inducted into the HewlettWoodmere Alumni Association Hall of Fame in 2018.
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A. Set up an electric fireplace in front of the real one, or play the Yule log rerun on your TV. A client once complained of the same problem, and after much searching, I asked them to build a fire so I could observe their method. They started the fire too far forward, so the smoke climbed the walls onte eeper and smoked out the room, setting off the smoke detector. Rule No. 1: Make sure the fire is directly under the flue opening and centered in the fireplace. There are many reasons why a fireplace doesn’t function. Some are obvious; some aren’t. Here are some possible reasons why yours doesn’t work. 1) The chimney is too narrow compared with its height. 2) The opening is too wide and not high enough. 3) The opening is too high and not wide enough. 4) There’s no fresh-air intake near the fire to draw air upward. 5) The flue has cracks that haven’t been detected. 6) The chimney isn’t two feet taller than the closest part of the roof within a 10-foot area, so breezes aren’t carrying smoke away, but instead a vacuum builds and forces air down the chimney. Winds rolling over your chimney from the upside roof slope also blow smoke downward in your chimney. 7) The flue has an angle bend in it that’s too sharp. 8) The wood selected isn’t properly seasoned. 9) Your fire starter is too wet or too dense. 10) The chimney has an animal living in it and must be cleaned out and capped. 11) The chimney is wet on the inside, either from openings in the exterior surface or the mortared crown or because it has no cap. This isn’t a likely reason for the smoke problem, but there’s a remote possibility. Since a fire needs fuel, oxygen and heat to burn, these reasons are basic to why you haven’t had success. The formula for a great fire is the right type of starter (an easy-burning tinder) at the bottom, air space between everything of one-half to threequarters of an inch, and a dry, soft wood like pine above the tinder. Add oak or other hardwoods after the fire is going to create more brightness. Updraft is also essential. I’m certain that one of these reasons is causing your problem. Don’t use any treated or dressed lumber that can give off poisonous gases and creosote. Be safe and attentive. Good luck!
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n a year when so much has gone awry — so many lives lost, businesses battered, jobs vanished — it strains the imagination to think what we might be thankful for, particularly as the nation enters its second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The coming months will likely be, as President-elect Joseph Biden has said, a “dark winter.” Thanksgiving is, however, all about the audacious nature of hope. The holiday, first celebrated in the fall of 1621, commemorates the struggle that the original Pilgrims faced and, against all odds, overcame in the New World — and the kinship they felt with the Native Americans who rescued them, helping to provide sustenance to a relatively small band of people who otherwise might have starved. The roughly 50 colonists at the original harvest celebration in Plymouth, Mass., were outnumbered by Native Americans two to one, according to History.com. The 100 Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower had seen much death between 1620 and 1621: Some 78 percent of the women died during the first winter. Yet they persevered, and survived. So shall the American people today — thanks in no small measure to our heroes
— the doctors, nurses, EMTS, firefighters, police officers, teachers, teachers’ aides, sanitation workers, railroad workers, subway and bus drivers, custodians, cooks, waiters and waitresses, supermarket employees and so many others — who have kept us safe, our education system up and running, and our economy moving. When many others were able to work from home, they put their lives on the line to do their jobs. As a society, we should take a moment and reflect on their sacrifices over the past nine months. We can also be thankful for our family and friends. We may not be able to shower them with hugs and kisses as we might want, but we can keep them in our thoughts and close to our hearts. And we can be thankful for the miracles of modern science. Only 100 years ago, the 1918 pandemic ran wild for two years, killing 50 million worldwide, including 675,000 in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Thanks to technology that allows many of us to work remotely and socially distance, to date we have seen a tenth of the 500 million cases that the world did in
1918-19, and because of modern medical technology, the death toll thus far is onefiftieth what it was then. So, while the number of infections and deaths today is unacceptably high, it is not close to the level of suffering experienced a hundred years ago — and let us hope and pray that it remains that way. Likely, it will. On Saturday, the innovative New York company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals received emergency-use authorization for its experimental antibody treatment for the coronavirus. President Trump received the treatment, and by all accounts it was highly effective. The drug is designed to prevent patients from becoming severely ill by imitating the body’s natural defense system. We can only say, wow! If all goes well, the Regeneron treatment should prevent many deaths, enabling health officials to safely roll out at least one of the vaccines now in the pipeline without undue political pressure. By April, we could indeed round the corner on this terrible pandemic, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Yes, there has been much despair this year, but there is much hope as well.
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e are pleased that Nassau County Executive Laura Curran is once again promoting small businesses ahead of the holiday season — which is vital this pandemic year. Last Friday, Curran and county Industrial Development Agency Chairman Richard Kessel came to Rockville Centre to promote an innovative contest, aptly titled the Shop Safe, Shop Local Scavenger Hunt, and we are encouraging readers to take part in it. The contest, which will be held for one week starting Saturday, will work like this: Complete four of eight tasks in your community, like buying breakfast at a local eat-
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ery or making a purchase at a local shop, and take a photo of yourself — masked — at each location, along with the product you purchased and your receipt. Then email it to scavengerhunt@nassaucountyny.gov or share it on Facebook. The first person who finishes all four tasks and registers them on each day of the contest will receive a $100 gift card. All purchases must be made at small businesses in a single community on the day of the contest. Online and delivery orders are eligible. The complete set of
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pandemic. But while Last’s exhortation that we must “treat others as you’d want to be treated yourself ” was well-intentioned, I believe it would fall on deaf ears when directed not only at those who, at this late date, scoff at the wearing of masks and social distancing, but also those who deliberately promote and take part in large, illegal social gatherings with no consideration of taking measures to counter the spread
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he coronavirus pandemic has created a variety of hardships that have left families and children in distress. Social isolation. A mounting death toll. An estimated 8 million Americans falling into poverty. We have entered uncharted territory, and uncertainty continues as cases continue to rise across the U.S. Grief is a normal reaction — grieving not just the loss of life, but also the loss of normalcy and freedom when a disaster occurs. So what happens when we add even more stress to families sharon and their children, skariah particularly when schools close? The trickledown effect of all this misfortune can dramatically weigh on kids, especially if they don’t have access to mental health resources at home. Typically, mental health symptoms are identified at school, by their teachers and peers, social workers and guidance counselors. Children need a routine and consistency. Remote learning and social isolation will continue to uproot them. Children
with autism also face challenges with irritability, anxiety and behavioral disturbances. And the erratic nature of schools’ opening and closing (albeit temporarily) can have a lasting effect. A recent study in JAMA Pediatrics showed that more than 22 percent of students in the Hubei province of China reported symptoms of depression, and more than 18 percent had anxiety symptoms, when schools closed for over a month. A second study, in the Journal of Pediatrics, determined that younger children (ages 3 to 6) were more inclined to show fear or clinginess, where older kids (6 to 18) were more likely to show inattention and persistent inquiry. Clinging, inattention and irritability were the severe psychological conditions demonstrated by children in all age groups. School closures — short or long — are unfortunately bound to happen until a safe and effective vaccine is available. Prepare to take care of your child now. First, children need outlets. In early childhood, play is important for development in the physical, verbal and emotional domains. Build that imaginary fort,
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he trickledown effect of all this misfortune can dramatically weigh on kids.
LeTTers of the virus. The time for these selfish and greedy individuals to be reasoned with has long passed. These people should be penalized for their actions, which continue to put the rest of us at even greater risk of acquiring the disease, and severe penalties should also be meted out to participants in these gatherings, not just their greed-bound organizers. If anything, these miscreants should consider the 17th-century English poet John Donne’s poem, telling us not to ask “for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.” They might also be reminded that, indeed, “no man is an island,” as Donne wrote. It appears, though, that they do not realize or accept this concept, even though we are all in this fight — together. ROBERT RUBALSkY East Rockaway
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Fourth — and most important — pay attention. Younger children can’t always express their distress, anxiety or fear. Their behavior may regress. Look for the signs, which include an increase in crying or neediness, more temper tantrums or somatic symptoms (headaches, stomach aches) than normal. Older children may also show increased anger and irritability. If you think your children or adolescents may need a mental health professional, don’t hesitate. They are acting that way because they need help. So watch out for them to verbalize any suicidal thoughts, ongoing sleep disturbances, a decline in overall functioning (hygiene, grooming), aggression or worsening substance use. If you see these signs, seek treatment. Following these steps may help keep children mentally fit during one of our harshest times. Nothing can replace life as we knew it pre-Covid, but you can manage this new normal and keep your kids safe, too.
Special features The op-ed, or opposite the editorial, page features a weekly Framework photo, which is chosen by our photo editor. The Framework offers a creative, at times humorous outlet for our photography staff. In this spot, we also publish photos sent to us by readers, featuring them on vacation, reading the Herald at various international landmarks. We call it Herald Around the World. At times, a correction box might appear on the op-ed page. We strive each week for the highest standards of accuracy and accountability. When we make mistakes in our reporting, we believe we must own up to them and correct the record.
Sharon Skariah, M.D., is the director of child and adolescent psychiatry for Zucker Hillside Hospital. She is also an assistant professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/ Northwell.
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the United States, and amid big treatment strides, the disease continues to ravage African-American and other minority communities with a particular vengeance. Black, Asian, Native American and Hispanic patients still die far more frequently than white patients, even as death rates have plummeted for all races and age groups.” As Covid-19 continues to spread aggressively nationwide, it is crucial that government officials at all levels — federal, state and local — address the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on people of color. Immediate attention should be paid to issues such as the availability of testing facilities in communities of color, access to health care, inequitable treatment once access is provided and priorities for providing vaccines once they are available. The evidence is clear: Government owes it to all Americans to ensure fair and equal access to health care, regardless of race, in this pandemic — and always.
To the Editor: The Washington Post last Friday published a new analysis of the impact of Covid-19 on people of color. It reported, “Nearly nine months after the virus exploded in
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encourage storytelling, toast s’mores in your backyard. For adolescents, it’s important that they develop their own sense of identity but also explore peer relationships. Encourage this — in a socially distanced, safe way. Second, seek normalcy. The goal is to foster continued development, even if your children can’t attend school in person. They want to feel safe — an important tool for parents to use during the crisis. Make sure you provide protection and consistency in an otherwise uncertain time. Talk to them about their feelings. Ensure their safety by creating an atmosphere of stability. Third, adapt to the environment. Summer may be gone, but you can still enjoy the outdoors safely during the fall, and even on some nice winter days. When the extreme cold sets in, continue building on the elements of safety and fun you have already introduced. Have family game nights. Schedule a movie night. Cook and bake together as a family. Designate a reading hour. Although it may be colder, it’s important to get exercise, so go for a walk or a hike or a brisk bike ride. There are also online exercises for kids, like yoga and others.
BALDWIN HERALD — November 26, 2020
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