Oyster Bay Herald 05-07-2021

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COMMUNITY UPDATE Infections as of May 4

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LVCSD offers $90 million spending plan

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track as well as other improvements: the installation of heating and air conditioning units in A new artificial-turf field and the Ann MacArthur and Bayan eight-lane track with steeple- ville Primary schools, renovachase barriers and double run- tions of faculty restrooms at ways would be installed at Locust Valley InterLocust Valley High mediate School, and School if residents the addition of LED approve Proposition lighting in class2 on May 18, when rooms and drop ceilthey vote on the ings at Bayville Locust Valley CenIntermediate. tral School District’s Rick Pisciotta, p ro p o s e d 2 0 2 1 - 2 2 the treasurer of Falbudget. con Pride, the disThe Board of trict’s booster club, Education adopted said the community the roughly $90 milhas wanted the turf lion spending plan field for some time. o n Ap r i l 2 0 , a n It was included in increase of roughly the budget five years $1 million or 1.47 perago as part of a cent, over the cur- DR. KENNETH bond that did not rent budget. The estipass. And a new m a t e d t a x l e v y GRAHAM track was initially increase is 1.27 per- Superintendent, included in the budcent, below the dis- LVCSD get in 2019 before trict’s maximum consultants told the allowable tax district that the increase under the state tax cap existing track had several years of 1.34 percent, and the smallest of useful life remaining, so it increase in five years. was pulled when the board finalProposition 2, for facilities ized the spending plan and other improvements, would utilize $3.7 projects were prioritized instead. million in capital reserve funds, Of the turf field, Pisciotta carry no cost for taxpayers and would fund the turf field and CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com

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The beauty of spring There are several special locales to visit on the North Shore during the spring, including the Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, where monarch butterflies can be found in the wildflower gardens.

Peter Thais wins prestigious Coca-Cola Scholar Award

By GEORGE WALLACE newsroom@liherald.com

Peter Thais, 17, a senior at Oyster Bay’s St. Dominic’s High School, has been named a 2021 Coca-Cola Scholar, an honor that comes with a $20,000 college scholarship. He is the only student from Long Island among the 150 awardees, and one of only five New York state seniors

chosen from nearly 100,000 applicants by the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation.

“As a member of the 33rd class of Coca-Cola Scholars, Peter Thais not only exemplifies superior leadership, service, and academics — he is a change agent, positively affecting others in the community,” said Laura O’Brien, spokeswoman for the scholarship program.

“As a young adult reaching out to share his voice, Peter has really set himself apart,” Nicole Milkowski, assistant principal at St. Dominic’s, added. “Peter has shown a passionate interest in climate change mitigation, in the context of Indigenous rights; in community involvement and empowering youth leadership, and of course in scholarship, CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

he tax levy increase is the lowest in five years, lower than many districts in the surrounding area.

Pandemic restrictions to ease in tri-state area Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced on May 3 a significant easing of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions on the region's businesses, venues and gatherings, given significant progress in vaccinations and sustained reduction in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations.

The announcement comes after all hair salons, barber shops and other personal care services were given the green light to expand to 75 percent capacity on May 7. Cuomo also announced on April 28 that food and beverage service and catered event curfews would end this month.

"The tide is turning against Covid-19 in New York, and thanks to our increasing vaccination rates, as well as our successful, data-based regional approach, we're able to take more steps to reopen our economy, help businesses and workers, and keep moving towards returning to normal," Cuomo said.

He added that New Yorkers should continue to take proper precaution in order to keep moving in a positive direction.

“So, let's be safe and for anyone who has yet to be vaccinated, please do so as soon as you can,” Cuomo said. “With the addition of walk-in appointments, we've made it as easy as every to get your shot, so there are truly no excuses."

Effective May 19, most business capacities, which are currently based upon percentage of maximum occupancy, will be removed in New York and New Jersey.

Businesses will only be limited by the space available for patrons or parties of patrons to maintain the required social distance of six feet. This new distancebased maximum capacity will apply across commercial settings, including retail, food services, gyms and

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GOV. ANDREW CUOMO announced on May 3 a significant easing of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. fitness centers, amusement and family entertainment, hair salons, barber shops and other personal care services, among other settings. It will also apply in houses of worship.

In New York beginning May 10, the outdoor social gathering limit will increase from 200 to 500 people.

Beginning May 19, the indoor social gathering limit will increase from 100 to 250 people. Also, the outdoor

residential gathering limit of 25 people will be removed, reverting to the social gathering limit of 500 people with space for appropriate social distancing.

Indoor residential gathering limits will increase from 10 to 50 people. In New York, any event gatherings in excess of the social gathering limits may only occur if all individuals present have proof of full vaccination status or recent negative Covid-19 test result.

Congregate commercial and social events in New York—such as those at venues that host sports competitions, performing arts and live entertainment, and catered receptions can exceed the social gathering limits of 500 people outdoors or 250 people indoors if all attendees over the age of four present either proof of full vaccination status or recent negative Covid-19 test result and the required social distancing can be accommodated.

Starting May 19, large-scale indoor event venues will operate at 30 percent capacity, which is an increase from the current 10 percent capacity limit. Large-scale outdoor event venues will operate at 33 percent. Social distancing, masks, and other applicable health protocols will still apply, including the requirement of attendee proof of full vaccination or recent negative Covid-19 test result.

While most industry capacity restrictions will be lifted, industry-specific requirements will remain in effect for a longer period of time, including state or local health authority event notification, health s c re e n i n g , c o n t a c t i n fo r m at i o n f o r t r a c i n g , enhanced air handling and building system standards, hand hygiene and environmental cleaning and disinfection protocols.

The state will continue to provide additional guidance on these provisions as they apply to each industry.

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All aboard! O.B. Railroad Museum to open at new location

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“The museum, by moving to the station, The Oyster Bay Railroad Station and Museum will reopen at its new location on will provide patrons with a unique opportuniMay 15 at 1 Railroad Plaza, adjacent to the ty to experience a venue that is rich in histoentrance to Theodore Roosevelt Memorial ry.” said John Specce, the museum’s president.

The museum also operates a display yard, Park. At the end of September 2020, the museum vacated its Visitor Center at 102 on Bay Avenue, where both historic and modAudrey Ave. and moved its operations to the ern full-size railroad equipment can be viewed up close with historic landmark presivisitors given the oppordential station. tunity to explore the This significant move Oyster Bay Railroad interiors. An added was coordinated in conMuseum attraction is a fully-operjunction with the comational turntable. plete restoration of the The Oyster Bay Railwestern and southern 1 Railroad Plaza, Oyster Bay road Museum is open facades of the station Saturdays and Sundays, building. Over the last Open Saturday and Sunday noon to 4 PM. Visit the four months, board beginning May 15 website at www.obrm. members and volunorg for additional inforteers have concentrated Noon to 4 p.m. mation and cur rent their efforts in upgradupdates on activities ing the interior to www.obrm.org and events. accommodate various The museum is a displays and exhibits nonprofit organization, along with dedicated areas for a museum gift shop and informa- fully accredited with the New York State Education Department, and operates the station tion center.

The Oyster Bay Railroad Museum brings through a contract with the Town of Oyster another venue to the period circa 1902, when Bay, a long-time supporter of its mission. To Theodore Roosevelt was president. It was a make a donation and/or obtain more infortime when he traveled to and from his home at mation regarding the museum, please visit Sagamore Hill to Manhattan, Washington, the website at www.obrm.org.

D.C., and beyond by train.

Photos courtesy O.B. Railroad Museum

THE OYSTER BAY Railroad Museum will reopen at a new location on May 15.

IN 1902, WHEN Theodore Roosevelt was president, he traveled by railroad, leaving from Oyster Bay.

Scholarship winner committed to giving ‘back to the land’ CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE particularly in our very rigorous STEM planned course of study in biology.”

How hard is it to win this award? Fewer than 200 Long Island students have won since the foundation created it in the late 1990s. Some students from the North Shore have been among the winners. Oyster Bay High School students have won twice: Evan R. Fleck in 1994 and Alex Urdea in 1998. A Locust Valley High School student, Lawrence Hoffman, won in 2000, and in the early 2000s, North Shore High School boasted six scholarship winners, and Glen Cove High School one.

“I found out about [winning] a week or two ago, and I was surprised, really,” said Thais, who is bound for Cornell University this fall. “It’s an exceptional scholarship, really prestigious. The Coca-Cola Scholar Award not only makes me feel more comfortable attending Cornell, but has me excited for the future.”

Thais and his family are members of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, from the Akwesasne Reservation in northeastern New York. Since moving to Glen Cove, they have kept “one foot in each location” at both the reservation and on Long Island, Peter said. His primary interest is indigeneity and climate change mitigation, and he said he hoped to make that his focus at Cornell.

“Essentially, prior to colonization, Indigenous people walked Mother Earth with a high degree of respect for the land,” Thais noted. “In the era of industrialization, we have come to an awareness that we need to give back to the land, so that all animals can live in a symbiotic manner.”

He is also an advocate of a return to a healthier and more sustainable traditional diet, and other practices that would reduce our carbon footprint.

His in-school activities include National Honor Society, Mock Trial and Model United Nations. He is a Bayhawk Leader at St. Dominic, serving as a mentor while helping freshman adapt to school. He is also a three-sport athlete, and captain of the varsity swim team.

Outside school, Thais has been equally active. He was

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ST. DOMINIC HIGH School senior Peter Thais won a $20,000 scholarship from the Coca-Cola Scholarship Foundation, the only student from Long Island to do so. a keynote speaker for the Intertribal Agricultural Council in 2019, and at the National Tribal Leadership Climate Change Summit on April 1. He has attended the Native Earth Camp, hosted by SUNY Environmental Sciences and Forestry; was a Haudenosaunee youth delegate to the Youth Climate Action Summit at the United Nations, where he was a member of the Indigenous Caucus; and

he was a panelist at the Nature Conservancy conference in Manhattan.

“With the growing urgency of climate change, it’s important that anyone with knowledge from the Indigenous community help to contribute to the discussion,” he said.

As a Coca-Cola scholar, he joins an active fraternity of scholarship winners going back 33 years, thanks to the foundation, which actively encourages the members to interact. “It was quite impactful to me,” said Fleck, a 1994 OBHS graduate who is now a partner at Milbank LLP and a member of the law firm’s Financial Restructuring Group in Manhattan. “I knew I was going to be going to Penn, but it gave me a mandate to continue. These people were giving me so much money, I felt I had an obligation. So, I’ve remained in contact with the scholarship foundation, attended awards banquet and their annual selection weekend and continued to do community service with them.”

Thais shared Fleck’s enthusiasm for the collegiality he sees among the Coca-Cola Scholar winners. “The funding is important, yes, but to interact with the other winners, every one of them, to share their dedication and passion, inspires me to go further on my path,” he said. “And maybe I can help them in their path, too.”

In an age when Greta Thunberg, an 18-year-old from Sweden, has shaken up the world’s conversation about global warming, and Amanda Gorman, a 23-year-old from Los Angeles, transformed the world of American poetry in six minutes at President Biden’s inauguration, is there something going on with today’s youth?

“I’m really impressed with this generation — I think they’re risk takers,” said Milkowski, who has been in education since 1998. “Of course, teenagers are teenagers.

Peter’s just an extraordinary one. His accomplishments are not the norm.”

Thais doesn’t quite see himself that way. “To be quite honest, I’m proud of our generation for stepping up to the plate,” he said, admitting that he had walked past Thunberg at the UN but didn’t meet her. “But for all the youth involvement we do see, there’s much more work to be done.”

Budget boasts no cuts to programs or staff said, “We are one of less than a dozen districts in the county without one. Our current field doesn’t get used much at all, because there is always a concern that it will be ripped up. There are a lot of divots, which makes for uneven playing and is dangerous for the athletes.”

LVCSD sports teams have been using a field in Centre Island, operated by the Town of Oyster Bay. Students are either bused there or drive. Because the district does not own it, Pisciotta said, there is no security, and there is competition for time with other youth organizations. The girls’ field hockey team and the boys’ and girls’ lacrosse teams have to play on turf, so they are bused to the Centre Island field.

Pisciotta said that the district’s existing track is in dire need of replacement. “It’s at the end of its life and only has six lanes,” he said. “If we want to host the sectional finals, for example, you have to have eight lanes.

To put our hat in the ring for the playoffs, we would need steeplechase capabilities and increased areas for the long jump, triple jump and high jump. The support for the new track and turf field is overwhelming among parents.”

T he proposed budg et does not increase class sizes or cut programs or staff. Although there was an expecta-

tion that the district would receive less state aid from Albany, Superintendent Dr. Kenneth Graham said those funds were not reduced, and the district will receive roughly $4 million. It will also receive $1.1 million from the federal American Rescue Plan, which must be used by September 2024. The district is awaiting guidance from the state on how those funds can be used.

The budget will fund window and wall replacements and electrical panel upg rades at the middle and high schools, and installation of additional security cameras and other security equipment districtwide. Curriculum enhancements are also planned, including 15 new high school courses for college credits, a career exploration program offering students internships and externships, and the addition of bowling, boys’ varsity volleyball and unified basketball, with athletes with and without intellectual disabilities playing on the same team.

Graham said the budget reflects the feedback he received from a survey conducted last November. And, he added, “The tax levy increase is the lowest in five years, lower than many districts in the surrounding area. This is a very fiscally responsible budget for our taxpayers.”

Residents will also vote for Board of Education trustees. Two incumbents —

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Some benefits for students if budget passes ■ An instructional technical coach

Proposed budget: $89,991,981

■ Small class sizes maintained

Tax levy increase: 1.27 percent

■ Pilot program of Promethean boards in classrooms expanded to benefit more students

State aid: roughly $4 million Federal Covid funding: $1.1 million over four years

current board President Brian T. Nolan and George Vasiliou — are running for re-election for the two open seats.

The Locust Valley Library budget will also be on the ballot. The library, which estimates it will need $85,000 for materials and $51,000 for technological expenses, is proposing a 2021-22 spending plan totaling roughly $1.5 million.

Voting will take place from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Ann MacArthur Primary School, Bayville Intermediate School and the Brookville Reformed Church.

■ Installation of security cameras and other security equipment districtwide ■ Career exploration program offering students internships and externships ■ Addition of bowling, boys’ varsity volleyball and unified basketball ■ Increased furniture to allow for different configurations in the classrooms.

■ A new hire — director of guidance and counseling, to help with college and career placement.

■ Science research program redesign — enable a teacher to have more time to work with students so they can do competiitions more effectively.

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Seasonal beach parking sticker sales and the free distribution of stickers to senior citizens in the Town of Oyster Bay will begin on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Tobay Beach, Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park and Beach in Oyster Bay and Tappen Beach in Glenwood Landing. The beach has restricted access to residents only.

On May 29, sticker sales will also be available at Centre Island Beach, Stehli Beach in Bayville and Ransom Beach

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in Bayville. To purchase a beach parking sticker, residents must present their vehicle registration and bring the vehicle they plan to drive to the beach since parking stickers are placed on the vehicle at the time of purchase.

Seasonal parking stickers are $60, which pay for themselves following three visits.

Free beach parking is offered to town senior citizens age 60-plus, the disabled and those on social security disability.

Throughout the pandemic, healthcare workers, first responders, grocery and pharmacy personnel, and so many others, have been dedicated to supporting and assisting our community. They are true heroes who deserve our respect, praise and recognition.

As many remain on the front lines in 2021, we invite you to nominate a Hometown Hero to be featured in Herald newspaper editions throughout the year.

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WHAT’S NEWS IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM

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Oyster Bay High School track and cross country athlete Riley Keffer has committed to competing at the collegiate level. Riley will head to New Jersey in the fall to wear the blue and gold for the Georgian Court University Lions. He is the reigning champion of Section 8 County Class C in the 1000-meter run.

In cross country, Riley helped lead the team to three consecutive undefeated division championships and an undefeated conference championship. Since joining the team as a freshman, he has helped the team earn a record of 44 wins and only six defeats. He is a two-time state qualifier as a member of the team.

This year, Riley placed 11th in Nassau County, leading the team to a second-place finish out of 18 teams. He was the recipient of the Section 8 Sportsmanship Award, which he earned at the New York state meet in 2019.

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TOWN OFFICIALS, PLANTED trees in celebration of Arbor Day at The Farm in Oyster Bay. They were joined by members of the Girl Scouts “Under Garden” program, which provides scouts with an opportunity to take a leadership role in various gardening efforts, as well as learn about advantages of organic gardening.

Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino, Councilwoman Michele Johnson, Councilman Lou Imbroto, Councilman Tom Hand, Councilwoman Laura Maier and Town Clerk Rich LaMarca joined with local community representatives at various locations throughout the Town,

including in Oyster Bay in celebration of Arbor Day, where they assisted in planting a dozen new trees. The trees were planted at local parks to further beautify the community and celebrate Arbor Day, which reminds of the importance to celebrate nature.

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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

COMMUNITY UPDATE Friday, May 7

Wednesday, May 12

Yoga with Morgan Rose

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Enjoy 15 weeks of all-levels yoga with Morgan Rose. You can join the live Zoom class on Fridays at 9 a.m. and/or watch the recording as many times as you like within the week. Classes run each Friday from May 7 through Aug. 27, with the exeption of July 16 and 23. Register at bayvillefreelibrary.org to receive the Zoom information and weekly recording link. The fee for this series is $60 payable by check only to The Bayville Free Library.

Your check will be held until the classes begin.

Through the Locust Valley Library, 10 a.m.

Discuss “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World” by The Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. In this nonfiction exchange between two of the world’s most noted spiritual thinkers, with the theme that fear, anger, and hatred exist internally as much as externally, the 14th Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu discuss the challenges of living a joyful life. Contact Janet Robertson: jrobertson@locustvalleylibrary.org to register.

Saturday, May 8

A virtual presentation through the Locust Valley Library. Learn tips on healthier ways to grill and what dishes to bring on picnics and to the beach. Find out how to get the best seasonal vegetables and fruits, and how to make the most scrumptious salads and dressings. Know how to hydrate yourself with sassy water and smoothies. The most popular summertime recipes are explained during this online workshop. Presented by Lisa Zimmerman, founder of Evolve Wellness. Register at locustvalleylibrary.org. The deadline to register is May 12 at 11 a.m.

Healthy Summer Entertaining

North Shore Community Food Drive North Shore High School, 450 Glen Cove Ave., Glen Head, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hosted by the North Shore Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Gold Coast Business Association and the North Shore Kiwanis Club. Covid-19 safety protocols will be enforced. Masks required for pick-up.

Trunks should have room for food items.

Call (516) 521-8274 with questions.

Outdoor Spring Flea Market First Presbyterian Church, 60 E. Main St., Oyster Bay, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

All appropriate Covid safety protocols will be observed as the community is invited into the parking lot to browse and shop a varied selection of wares.

Fair weather only.

Bone Marrow Drive Be the Match is partnering with the Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club for a bone marrow drive, 113 Glen Cove Avenue, from noon to 3 p.m. Contact Vasilianna Fakiris at vfakiris@optonline.net for more information.

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Virtual Upstanders Awards & Online Auction Join the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County on Monday, May 10, at 7 p.m., for the virtual Upstanders Awards featuring an online auction. For the past 11 years, the Friedlander Upstander Awards have been presented to students who have intervened during a bullying incident or act of intolerance. Award recipients are are rewarded with an educational scholarship of $5,000 provided by the Claire Friedlander Family Foundation. For more information contact Deborah Lom, Director of Development at (516) 571-8040 or dlom@hmtcli.org. at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park with one local photographers. For more information, call (973) 281-4503.

Monday, May 10 Virtual Class: Tai Chi Through the Gold Coast Public Library, 11 a.m. Join Linda Cafiero for the online class. Register at goldcoastlibrary.org.

Sunday, May 9

Tuesday, May 11

Mini photo sessions at T.R. Park

Virtual Trip to Iceland

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park, 25 West End Ave., Oyster Bay. Starting at 9 a.m., participants can capture themselves and their loved ones, including pets, with a free 30-minute photoshoot

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A virtual program through the Oyster Bay Library, 9:30 a.m. A short visit to Iceland’s capital and nearby areas is akin to visiting multiple US National Parks in just a few days. There are majestic falls, geo-

thermal pools, black sand beaches, shooting geysers, several UNESCO world heritage sites, spectacular volcanoes Iceland is one of the most volcanically active places in the world - and the fissure where European and North American tectonic plates meet. We’ll visit the capital and travel along two major tour routes: the Golden Circle loop of historical, geologic and cultural sites east of Reykjavik and then the Southern Coast for its beaches and waterfalls. Go to oysterbaylibrary.org to register.

Virtual Program: Meet the Author Through the Glen Cove Library, 2 p.m.

Participate in a virtual visit on Zoom with Sue Miller, author of “Monogamy.” An engrossing novel, Miller depicts the intricacies of marriage, parenting and domestic life with vibrant prose and realistic character portrayals. Register at glencov-

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Haunted History: Bog Bodies A virtual program through the Bayville Free Library. Archaeologist Patty Hamrick returns to discuss Bog Bodies, the eerily well-preserved remains of hundreds of people – men, women, and children – found in the swamps and peaty wetlands of northern Europe. One startling thing that archaeologists have learned is that most of the bog bodies died violently before their burials hidden beneath the peat. In this program, we will discuss who the bog bodies were during life, how they died, and the science behind their amazing preservation. Register at bayvillefreelibrary.org to receive the Zoom link.

The City of Glen Cove Summer Camp registration is now open.

Glen Cove’s Shed Your Meds Day will be on May 8 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Town of Oyster Bay Board of Trustees meets on May 18 at 10 a.m.

The Glen Cove City Council meeting is on May 11 at 7:30 p.m.

The Village of Sea Cliff Board of Trustees meeting is on May 10 at 7 p.m.

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LAST YEAR, THE kayak tours were a big hit among residents.

Kayak Cruise is soon Special event pricing is $55 for a singleseat kayak rental and participation fee and $65 for a double-seat kayak. Proceeds from the event will be split between the two organizations in support of their outreach programs.

The number of registrants will be limited due to Covid-19, and every participant must wear a mask when on shore.

Participants may arrive between 8 and 9 a.m. to sign in and get on the water to avoid social distancing issues.

A paddle, donated by West Marine, will be raffled off to one participant.

To register and arrange for a kayak rental, visit: www.classy.org/event/ kayak-conservation-cruisespring-2021/e336027

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Friends of the Bay and The WaterFront Center are partnering for the second year on Kayak Conservation Cruises. The first of three for 2021 is scheduled for Saturday, May 15, from 9 to 11 a.m. (rain date: May 16).

For the first time the event will be held in Cold Spring Harbor, launching from the Village of Laurel Hollow Beach, where parking will be available.

Participants will depart at 9 a.m. for a two-hour guided tour led by Breann Ross, a naturalist from The WaterFront Center, and Bayville resident Bill Bleyer, author, historian and president of Friends of the Bay. The tax-deductible participation fee for those with their own kayaks is $20 per adult and $10 for children under 15.

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All Huntington and Oyster Bay residents are encouraged to become Oyster Gardeners this summer at one of five gardens in their community. Attend the Saturday, May 8 presentation at the Huntington Public Library (via Zoom) at 10:30 a.m. to learn more and sign up to raise oysters this season in Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor.

The Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Protection Committee invites residents to play an active role in protecting their local waters by becoming Oyster Gardeners this season. Oysters serve as "ecosystem engineers" improving water quality, enhancing habitat and protecting shorelines from damaging storms. Since 2017 hundreds of families, individuals, Boy and Girl Scouts, church groups, yacht, bathing and garden clubs have raised and planted tens of thousands of oysters on a protected spawner sanctuary in Cold Spring Harbor.

The Oyster Gardening program is an outreach tool of the intermunicipal Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Protection Committee to educate and engage residents in conserving their natural resources.

The Zoom session will be followed by an in-person visit to the site of the garden at West Neck Beach to learn first-hand.

Visit: www.oysterbaycoldspringharbor. org or contact Rob Crafa, coordinator, Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor

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on a recent Thursday at the Nassau County Police Academy in North Massapequa, recruits practiced arresting a suspect during a felony car stop, in which the vehicle that was pulled over had reportedly been used in a crime.

Photos by Scott Brinton/Herald

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A Signal 15 comes in over the radio: A stolen vehicle used in a felony — perhaps a bank robbery, maybe a kidnapping — has been pulled over. Officers must quickly assess the situation: Is the vehicle occupant armed? Hostile? Ready to run?

With so many unknowns, officers are trained to follow step-by-step procedures to take the suspect into custody without a fight. The objective of this high-stakes, potentially deadly scenario is to “keep everyone safe,” Officer Arthur Zanelli, a Nassau County Police Academy instructor, said on a recent Thursday, just before academy recruits ran through a mock felony car stop. “You want [the suspect] to have his day in court.”

De-escalation, talking a suspect through the car stop with specific instructions that leave no room for error, is the key to everyone walking away unharmed, according to Zanelli.

The recruits practiced talking suspects through a stop, instructing them precisely how and when to leave their vehicle.

There were four recruits in two police cruisers, whose objective was to bring in two suspects in a single vehicle, one of whom ran off, while the other stayed and was captured.

It was a mock exercise, but the nervous tension was palpable as of ficers approached the vehicle, their dummy guns drawn. Communications is key in this scenario, Zanelli said, and the recruits called out to one another throughout the exercise.

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officerS practiced drawing their guns. The objective, police academy instructors said, is to avoid firing a weapon, to ensure that police, the public and the suspect all stay safe. officer arthur Zanelli, above ran recruits through their paces during the mock exercise. officerS muSt give suspects step-by-step instructions on how to proceed when exiting a vehicle during a felony car stop.

Recruits practice to make the perfect arrest detective work begins. Who is this person? Did he or she commit the felony in question? It might very well not be the bad guy, Zanelli noted. It could, for example, be a relative who had nothing to do with the crime in

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question, but that person must be treated as a suspect until proven otherwise.

The felony car stop, he noted, is among the most dangerous scenarios that a police officer might encounter in the field.

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A recruit prActiced placing handcuffs on a suspect, who was played by an actual police officer for this exercise.

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MEMBERS OF FRIENDS of the Bay and the North Shore Baymen’s Association helped in the beach cleanup effort.

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esidents participated in an Oyster Bay Harbor and beach cleanup on April 17 that was co-sponsored by the Town of Oyster Bay, the North Oyster Bay Baymen’s Association and Friends of the Bay. “This great environmental cleanup initiative featured volunteers and town employees rolling up their sleeves and working side-by-side to remove litter and

debris from the beaches and shoreline areas along Oyster Bay Harbor,” Saladino said. “Residents of all ages pitched in to help make a difference in our community.”

Participants went to Theodore Roosevelt Beach in Oyster Bay, Stehli Beach in Bayville and Centre Island Beach in Bayville to clean the beach, preparing it for the upcoming season.

TEACHING THE IMPORTANCE of keeping our waterways clean was a family affair for some.

PEOPLE OF ALL ages participated in the cleanup.

LOOKING BETWEEN THE rocks was important to find hidden pollutants.

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Glen Cove Hospital/ Northwell Health Medical Unit 2 South

s a nurse in the Population Health Department of St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, Kerinth Afflick follows up with patients after they are discharged from the hospital and helps to make sure they are getting and taking their medications and they are making and getting to their follow up visits to doctors.

“When you first become a nurse you are so young, and a little ignorant,” said Afflick, who will admit to being in her early 50s. She has been a nurse for 28 years. “You learn. You learn patience, learn to listen, listen to problems and follow up. You become a psychiatrist as the patients need someone to speak with and you become a great listener.”

There was one patient, she said who was undocumented that Afflick assisted to ensure they were aware and used all the resources available to them for more than two years.

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There are some other patients who, because of the coronavirus pandemic, are alone.

“One patient didn’t use our pharmacy (St. John’s has an in-house pharmacy), they were isolated because of Covid,” she said. “They tried to rely on CVS and we called CVS and asked them to please deliver the meds.” Which was done.

Afflick said for her being a nurse is about giving back. “It’s not about the thank you so much as making sure that [the patients] are OK."

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’ve been a registered nurse for just over a year, I entered the field after many years as a short story writer, translator, teacher, even a bartender. Originally from Louisville Ky., I met my girlfriend and moved to Manhattan about 10 years ago. I entered an accelerated nursing program at Mount Sinai about 18 months ago — before Covid happened — but recognized this capacity for being a nurse about 10 years ago by caring for my dying father.

So, I got my license in February 2020, Covid happened, and we moved out here. My girlfriend has a home in Locust Valley. That means I’m new to nursing and at 45, working in what has essentially become a Covid ward, keeping up with younger nurses. I don't know if that’s good luck or bad, however, with the experience and expectations of someone at my stage in life, it wasn’t a shock. Anyhow we

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Becoming a nurse, I’ve learned we're all human. Our time on earth is precious and finite. And I’ve learned that it’s possible to be removed, dispassionate, but remain passionate about treating people with humanity.

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Relief Staff Nurse, Fresinius

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My amazing sister, Eva Jones, RN, is the exemplary model of a nurse who is compassionate, caring and expertly skilled. With 35 years of dialysis experience, working for both major national dialysis companies, Davita and Fresinius, Eva offers the ultimate level of competence, bringing heart and kindness to ensure her patients’ smoothest and most comfortable sessions three times per week.

They feel her love and confidence and are glad Eva’s in charge.

Through pandemic Eva worked in a Covid-only outpatient dialysis clinic every day, sometimes up to 105 hours in a twoweek period, perpetually short staffed because other staff called out. She opened the clinic at 4 a.m., leaving at 10 or 11 p.m.

Think about that. When a situation lands in your lap and you step up to the plate to do what is necessary, that’s an extraordinary person with a conscience. Thank God for nurse angels like Eva Jones!

Kayla Rein is my hero, my nurse, You may consider me biased because Kayla is my granddaughter. She worked tirelessly, 12 hour overnight ER shifts throughout the height of the pandemic and continues to do so today! I was there for her offering moral support along the way.

Little did I know I, myself, would become an ER admittance in mid-January — due to a DVT. I witnessed first-hand the arduous, hard-working nursing staff. Needless to say, I was the “lucky” one, having granddaughter to attend to my unexpected needs.

Thank God for our outstanding nurses and all other health care workers who routinely go above and beyond — day in and day out!

— Virginia Rein-Biehl, Oceanside

Ross Rieman

Phyllis Imbriano

Northwell LIJ/Northwell Forest Hills

Phyllis Imbriano was honored by Tiegerman Schools at their gala on March 25.

Phyllis has worked with Tiegerman for 21 years; as the school Nurse at Tiegerman Preschool, Elementary School, UPK and A.L.L. for Kids, also serving as the full-time nurse at Glen Cove Preschool/ Elementary School.

Among the many tributes to Phyllis: “When my daughter Grace was younger, she attended Tiegerman Elementary School.

Nurse Phyllis took great care of her and the other students. As a parent of a special needs child, you are always anxious when you get a call from the school! The first thing Nurse Phyllis would say is,“Grace is fine. I am calling about...”. I loved how aware she was and I can imagine she had the same sensitivity for the other students. I never worried about my child in school because I knew how supportive Nurse Phyllis and the staff were.”

Healthcare heroes don’t just touch the lives of their patients, but also the lives of their loved ones. From the perspective of a family member and also a future wife, we are amazed at the dedication, commitment and sacrifice Ross Rieman has devoted to saving lives, not only in the emergency room as a nurse practitioner at both Northwell LIJ and Northwell Forest Hills, but also as a volunteer (Second Assistant Chief) in the Woodmere Fire Department.

In a hospital located at the epicenter of the pandemic, Ross tirelessly attended to Covid-19 patients in an overflowing emergency room without regard to his own welfare. He took extra shifts when his dedicated colleagues were ill with Covid-19. When not treating patients, Ross served his community through the fire department, ensuring that people who experienced Covid-19 symptoms received the care they needed.

Ross is the epitome of what a true healthcare hero represents.

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NYU Langone Winthrop Hospital Jennifer Ryan, my wife, was a true a beacon of selflessness and compassion throughout the grimmest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jennifer provided outstanding to patients afflicted with Covid-19 in a homecare setting.

The courageous, compassionate care delivered by Jennifer and her homecare colleagues was instrumental in reserving local hospital capacity and resources for the most critically ill patients at the apex of the pandemic.

I salute and commend these true American heroes!

— Brendan Ryan, North Merrick

My mother, Mary Stillwagon (BSN-BC, MS, Lac.), retired from a 40+-year tenure at Glen Cove Hospital Northwell Health in May 2020.

She started her healthcare journey in the ICU at Glen Cove Hospital and continued her career there up until last year, amidst the pandemic. Mary also went on to receive her Masters in Science and became a Licensed Acupuncturist in 2005, all while working full time at the hospital.

What nurses do for the world is truly amazing. Mom worked hard and sacrificed to ensure the comfort, care and treatment of each patient she oversaw. She treated countless patients, worked alongside hundreds of other healthcare professionals and always did it with grace, relentless dedication, and love in her heart.

On behalf of our family, her friends, and associates, Thank You, Mary. Your retirement is well deserved! Now it’s time for us to take care of you.

— Laura Stillwagon, Glen Cove

Priti Chohan

South Shore University Hospital I am so proud of the selflessness and dedication my daughter, Priti Chohan, BSN, MBA, RN, Patient Care Services Manager at South Shore University Hospital, has shown throughout the pandemic. She has stepped in countless times to assist her team on the front-line, maintaining order in such a hectic environment, and sacrificing time on the personal and familial front to give to caring for those affected.

Most importantly, she has given her time to support her team, who were exposed to the virus and on the front-line daily.

Healthcare is truly a special calling, deeply rooted in compassion and empathy Therefore, I would like to extend my gratitude to all the courageous essential workers who have helped to support our community throughout this tumultuous time.

— Sudesh Chohan, Huntington

Susan Atwell

Mount Sinai Hospital Susan Atwell is a special person in my life.

She is a registered nurse, RN BsN, who works in the PACU (Recovery) Department of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She has been the most dedicated and determined nurse for her patients for the past 11 years at Mount Sinai Hospital. She began her nursing career 36 years ago with that same determination to help others in need, and it has only grown stronger through the years.

In addition, Susan, who lives in Woodmere, is a devoted mother of three incredible children, Robert, Christine and Matthew. She raised them by herself while holding a fulltime nursing job. She is the happy grandmother of an adorable 1-year-old little guy, Daniel, too! Susan is my real hometown hero. I am very privileged to be her friend.

— Donna Shulman, Hewlett

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I am so grateful for Megan during that time and I know that I healed so well in large part to the level of care Megan provided.

Even after thewounds were healed, Megan would consistently check up on me. It was so nice that Megan continued to care about me.

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e had always known that nurses were heroes; the women and men who offered us a modicum of comfort at our darkest hours while quietly monitoring our heart rate, blood pressure and medications prescribed by our doctors. They watched over us, soothed our pain with a smile.

We never really knew, however, what heroes they were until the coronavirus pandemic struck Long Island in March last year, sending already tired hospital staffs into overdrive. Nurses were at the very front lines of the crisis, and the physical and mental toll that they endured was unimaginable to most.

Nurses were, of course, accustomed to death. It is part of medicine. No amount of training, however, could have prepared them for the onslaught of Covid-19 cases that they would see between March and June 2020 — or the rapidly rising death toll.

With family and friends barred from entering hospitals during this grave period, nurses were often the very last people that the dying saw before they took their last breaths. 2020 and 2021 have very much been a battle for survival, and our nurses have fought it valiantly.

Many of them have been infected with Covid-19 themselves. Some have died.

We cannot thank our nurses enough for all that they did for us last year, but we should try. In this photo essay by Herald Photo Editor Christina Daly, we make the attempt, showing you, our readers, some of the faces who carried on through all the confusion and fear and heartache to protect and preserve life.

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1: Nurse Danielle Frantino, front, is in the Emergency Services Unit at Northwell Health Glen Cove Hospita Nurse Cel Christian Lumbera is her left.

2: Nurses Jaya Roy and Maria Cardone, of the Rehabilitation Unit at Northwell Health Glen Cove Hospital.

3: At Northwell Health LIJ Hospital in Valley Stream, nu educator Savita Amin reviewed notes with nurses De Pellitteri, Christine Luongo and Emily John, of the Pa Services Unit.

4: Taking in a lighter moment outside Northwell Health Hospital were Patient Services nurses Villaflor Andre Pascual, Ivana Klanac-Stern, Ann Marie Distanislao, Sheleema Harinandan, Benyanoot Rodthong, Emily Jessica Ruggierro, Debra Pellitteri, Saige Amoruso an Catherine Naranjo.

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shortly after, with her family still in the parking lot. Asha said the experience made her cherish her time with her family.

10: Chris Frasco, left, and, Frank Masi, nurses at NYU Langone Hospital in Mineola.

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8: Nurse April Dones, of the Maternity Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Mount Sinai South Nasau, was all smiles behind her mask recently.

9: Nurse Asha Ali, of NYU Langone Hospital, spoke of a 40-year-old patient who arrived at her unit struggling to breathe. The patient grasped her hand and told her, “You are you my angel.” The patient died of Covid-19

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TheIr own words TRUE In HEROES: IN THEIR OWN WORDS SARAH AVIS

JEANINE CAPPELLO

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital

Operations Manager, Mercy Hospital Family Care Center

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eing an emergency room nurse Sarah Avis said is like “trying to thrive in controlled chaos.

You have zero patient info, teamwork is critical and you trying to find the missing piece of a puzzle.”

When Avis, 34, was young her mother was very ill. “I like how there was people to help in my mother’s time of need,” she said, explaining why when she went to college she chose nursing as her profession.

Now eight years in, Avis views the role of nurse as multifaceted. “It means just being there through an extreme time and making someone as comfortable as possible and being someone they can trust,” she said, “especially during Covid. Families are limited. We play the role of caregiver, friend, family member. It can be hard. As a nurse you are supposed to have an emotional barrier. We see so much certain

trauma and a lot of grief, it’s emotional. As a nurse you also want to be there. It is very challenging.”

Recently, Avis witnessed “a young life lose. “It was extremely emotional,” she said, describing how a family member sank to the floor. There was hugging to console this person and more family handholding and hugging. Sometimes just being a presence is very challenging for a very busy ER.” St. John’s emergency department serves nearly 49,000 patients annually.

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always wanted to be a nurse. My uncle was a physician, so growing up I used to go into work with him and see him taking care of all the patients. At 14-years-old I was a candy striper, later I volunteered in a local hospital feeding babies, and then I went and started as a PCA. And through that, I put myself through nursing school.

My first job was at an Ob-Gyn office and there were a lot of young women there with teen pregnancies in the community I was working in, and I just really took a passion to it.

So, I grew in it and became a part of the Nassau County Perinatal Service Network, where we focus on the underserved communities to make sure they have easy access to prenatal care.

Covid hit our population very hard. A lot of our patients are living in multi-family

households, and Covid just ran rampant. A lot of them don’t have access to healthcare, so we really made sure we advocated for them.

Through a grant, we were able to provide our patients with PPE. We were also able to provide our patients with food. A lot of patients were out of work because of Covid, so there was no food for their families.

Not only do we treat the patient, but we treat the family. We watch the children grow and then they have kids again and they trust us and want to come back to us.

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started off in banking, but switched to nursing because I love taking care of people.

Today, nursing is very challenging due to the pandemic. At the beginning, during spring 2020, we nurses were in-service constantly, getting educated by our supervisors about Covid-19. That’s what pulled us through.

On the job, we wear a mask, goggles, surgical headwear, and a disposable gown.

Every time we leave a patient’s room, we discard the mask and gown, and wash the goggles. It’s uncomfortable, but to fight the virus, we have to start with our first-line workers for the protection of the residents.

Our staff members are all tested for Covid-19 twice a week, in a little unit that does the nasal swabbing here on site.

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Emergency Nurse, Long Island Jewish Valley Stream because we have to control interaction from the outside. But we do help our patients communicate with loved ones virtually.

The virtual chats are scheduled with our recreation person. A nurse or aide can hold a cell phone so a patient can speak using FaceTime. We can also have the family members visit on-site, but not inside the facility. They stand in the entrance foyer between the double glass doors. The inner glass door is locked and the resident is brought down to sit on the inside. Then they talk with their loved ones on cell phones while smiling at them through the glass.

We are trained to let our residents know what’s going on, but to keep them comfortable, and to give them respect and dignity at all times. Remember, this is their home.

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have a brother with Down syndrome so I was kind of a nurse even in my childhood, and I kind of grew up with him, favoring caring for people with a personal touch.

I went to nursing school and graduated in 1987, during the AIDs epidemic. I graduated from St. Vincent’s School of Nursing, and worked in the East Village where the AIDs epidemic was really fired up, so I had seen a lot of death and dying back in the 1980s. I thought I’d never see it again. And then Covid came.

The first wave was very heavy in our Emergency Department, but we pulled through. The Northwell Health system quickly got it together, and we were very organized.

We have a tiny Emergency Department, and as the volume increased we transferred out to the North Shore facilities.

The wisdom that I brought having had been

through something terrible like this before was that I knew I had to dress in the full PPE, the personal protective gear. Back in the 1980s we didn’t know it was sexually transmitted so we were wearing all sorts of hats and gowns and face masks. So I guess that was the little bit of wisdom there that I had. I also gave a little support to the newer nurses, letting them know that we’re going to get through this.

But it was also very overwhelming for myself. People were coming into triage and they could barely say their name, and then they would just drop dead in front of you. It was very scary. We did the best we could with what we had.

But even when it got overwhelming you still had to stop and give that extra personal touch, whether it was giving my phone charger to them so they could try and call a family member.

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chose to become a nurse because I wanted to work in the medical field and be at the bedside caring for patients. Growing up, I was inspired by the nurses I met and saw first-hand how they took care of people, not only physically, but also emotionally.

The nursing profession means teamwork. I am beyond lucky to work in an area that has incredible teamwork. I would not be able to provide the best care without the help of our amazing patient care technicians and unit clerks, also amazing doctors and physician assistants who have taught me so much over the years.

I have been an Emergency Department nurse at MSSN for nearly 10 years, also a member of the ED’s Unit Based Council and ED Trauma Committee for more than five years. We are always working on creating new ways to provide excellent nursing care for our patients.

The nursing profession has taught me a

lot about life. I enjoy helping people and find myself helping others inside and outside of the hospital. I see first-hand how fragile life can be, so I try to keep a positive mindset and take care of myself physically and emotionally.

We never know what is going to come through those ED doors and we must be prepared for anything and everything. We laugh together and we cry together. We lift each other up when we are feeling down or scared and celebrate the happy moments with each other.

Nursing has always been a profession that is challenging yet rewarding. Emergency nursing is typically fast-paced and can be stressful.

When the Covid-19 pandemic arrived in March 2020, we were challenged in ways we had never imagined. Our team came together — we cared for our patients, we cared for their family members and we cared for each other.

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’m from Harlem and lived in Queens near Valley Stream. My first degree was in finance, but when my father went into a hospital with a stroke it struck me that hospital workers had good intentions, but there was not enough help, and I was drawn to nursing.

It helps that I come from a family with a lot of doctors and nurses in it, so I asked a lot of questions, did some research, and seven years ago became a licensed nurse. For me nursing is a great field if you are the kind of person who cares. The money’s good, you can go anywhere in the country and you can help a person just by holding their hand.

I worked at the Nassau County Correctional facility, and then two years ago I came to work at the Emergency Room at Nassau University Medical Center. We get it all. Helicopters come in and out, drownings, stabbings, shootings,

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HAYDEE LAJERA

MITCH MARAVILLA

Director of Nursing, Lynbrook Restorative Therapy & Nursing

Medical/Surgical/ Oncology Unit, Mount Sinai South Nassau

’ve been in long-term care nursing for 28 years, and Director of Nursing for 15 years. I consider being a nurse as a calling. It requires dedication and compassion because, while we take care of patients' and residents’ physical needs, we must also address their emotional and spiritual needs.

During this pandemic, our dedication to our profession was put to the test. We could not stay home from work to avoid the deadly virus.

Some of us isolated ourselves from our families for fear of exposing them. Many of us got Covid and some died.

As the Director of Nursing, I had to care for my staff. They feared catching Covid and infecting their own families. I ensured that they were educated and had enough PPE, encouraged them, cried with them when they were emotionally drained, and sometimes bought them food or sewed masks for them.

For our residents, I crocheted hats and scarves during the winter, which made them smile.

When nursing homes were closed to visitation, nurses brought phones and tablets to Covid-positive patients so that their families could say goodbye to them. I once held a patients’ hand as she took her last breath and told her son who lived in another state that she died peacefully. One day I had to “sneak in” a priest to administer a patient’s last rites.

Now our facility is Covid-free. We have passed several inspections and continue to follow all infection control guidelines from the CDC and the New York State Department of Health. We have vaccinated most of our employees and residents, and hope the public will do the same so this pandemic will end soon.

car accidents.

In the last year Covid took over. That was challenging in part because I took the pandemic personally. My cousin, Marilyn Howard, a mentor to me, was the first school nurse in New York City to die of Covid.

Emergency room work has made me an even more compassionate person. You need a tough exterior, but still care. But I have plenty of support for that at home. My wife is also a nurse. We talk to each other about all these issues.

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hen I was in high school, my dad was sick and in and out of the hospital. I had to help my mom take care of him, and that’s when I decided to take up nursing in college.

The nursing profession is a calling. It is indeed a tough and stressful job. You need to have a certain virtue to become a good nurse.

We call those virtues “TLC,” tender, loving care.

It requires a lot of patience and dedication.

Even if you are an experienced nurse, you don’t assume that you know everything. Every day is a continuous learning process.

I’ve learned a lot in two decades of being a nurse. It’s made me stronger, resilient and appreciative of those people around me, such as my friends, family and co-workers, as well as my patients and their families.

When the pandemic started, our floor was turned into one of the Covid-19 units. I was so scared. I’ve never been in this kind of

overwhelming situation in my entire career.

I was physically, mentally and emotionally drained. There was a time when one of my patients could barely breathe, and I remember him saying, “Help me. Help me. I feel like I’m drowning.” As I waited for the rapid response team, I held his hand and encouraged him. I felt hopeless and prayed for him. I was his only support. It was also devastating when some of my co-workers got sick with Covid, including my husband, who is also an employee at the hospital.

Our unit has remained the Covid floor for the hospital, but this year has been more manageable. I’m proud and privileged that I am a part of the process. Nursing is tough, but when you think of the lives you have touched, the lives you saved, it’s such a wonderful feeling. It’s priceless.

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TRUE In HEROES: IN THEIR OWN WORDS TheIr own words DIANE PAEZ

LYSTRA BULLEN

Glen Cove Hospital ER/ Northwell Health

Oceanside Care Center

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’ve been a nurse for 33 years, first at St. Vincent in Manhasset on a ventilator floor, labor and delivery, post-partum care and in the emergency room at Glen Cove the last decade.

I know it’s a cliché, but I think nursing found me. I was an average student in high school and didn’t have a lot of confidence. That all changed in nursing school. I felt like this was where I needed to be. The book part’s a large component, but taking care of people is not something you learn in a book. It comes from having empathy for others, understanding that it’s not just people, it’s somebody else’s mother, somebody’s child.

This whole last year has been difficult. It’s the first time I felt I don’t know if I can make it.

I have another eight years and I hope I can get through it.

We’re not a trauma hospital, but an emergency room sees everything, and beginning

last March Covid is all we saw. It was scary at first — new information every day about PPE, about treatment. But we got better at it. And the community support was really special, like a parade. Maybe the parade’s moved on, but we’re still here doing the work.

Still, nursing is an excellent career, so many kinds of jobs. It doesn’t have to be all high drama. Financially it’s great, you can’t be outsourced. There will always be a place for nurses.

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LORRAINE RIXFIELDS

M

y job as a Certified Nursing Assistant is really a story about my dad. After my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, my sister took him in, but he would do unpredictable things like leaving the house unannounced.

Within a short time after we put him in a nursing home, he was totally different. When I visited him, he would say, “I ain’t givin’ no trouble,” and I could tell he was getting good care.

About a year after he entered the nursing home, I decided to help others like the home helped my father, and I became a CNA. My job is hands-on. I bathe the patients, feed them, take them to the bathroom, talk to them, and learn the little things that help them feel calm.

My work takes dedication because, when people can’t do self-care anymore, they go through a kind of depression. They miss their families. They may have underlying medical

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

BARBARA SIMMS Nurse Practitioner, Mercy Hospital

Nassau University Medical Center

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was a medical assistant for 20 years in a family practice office in Seaford. When my daughter went to college I decided to go back to school to be a nurse. Everyone thought I was a nurse, anyhow. I managed to get my degree and 15 years ago, became a regular staff nurse at NUMC’s pediatric unit. I just got this position as assistant nurse manager at the end of January.

I love going to work. It's a job that I wouldn’t mind being at forever.

In a pediatric unit, we get a little bit of everything. I also float to the nursery, neo-natal.

So, I’ve gotten to see a variety of patients, newborn to age 21. When I was a medical assistant I dealt with adults, but in pediatrics you’re dealing with the parents too, making sure they’re knowledgeable ofwhat’s going on with their child.

When Covid hit there was so much we didn’t

conditions. We have to be very patient and sensitive. We approach each one individually and build bonds, step by step.

When the pandemic began, everyone’s heart was bleeding for our patients. Families couldn’t visit in person anymore. Patients coming back from the hospital had to be isolated for Covid testing.

But the patients understood because they watched the news, and they respected our explanations. They wanted their families to be safe, so they accepted window-side visits, video chats, and phone calls. These protocols are still in effect at this time.

The nurses and CNAs have had to work extra hard to give the patients what they need.

It’s been trying, but because we know our patients so well, everyone has adapted.

know. I took out my sewing machine and made caps and masks for whoever needed them. The load was so heavy, we were stressed out, but we had to put that aside.

But the pandemic also put us in the public eye in an incredible way. Recently I pulled into a gas station in my scrubs and a man at another pump, a total stranger, shouted out, “Thank you!” That’s the kind of thing that makes you feel appreciated as a nurse.

I

worked in the airline industry in human resource management and I had a sister that worked here (Mercy Hospital) as a nurses’ aide.

My sister was diagnosed with cancer while she was an employee here, and she had a tough battle for seven years.

She was an employee here, a patient here, and she passed away here.

After she passed away, I made the decision to become a nurse. And going to nursing school, I knew that I only wanted to work at Mercy because I felt that it was paying back for what I felt they did really well for my sister.

I started nursing school in 2005 when I was 39, and I came straight here in 2008 and I’ve been here ever since. My mother went into nursing at the age of 40, so I think that let me know that no matter what the age, if you want to change, you can change.

When Covid hit, my patient was the first

patient on the floor to get it. For me I think it was just trying to do the best that you can to keep your patients OK. And Covid was an eyeopener as far as seeing how fast a patient can decline, unfortunately.

I think for most nurses, when you go into nursing you don’t go into it looking for someone to praise you for what you do or sacrifice. You do it because it’s something in your heart.

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■■ Louis■C.■Clark■Sanctuary, 8 acres in Old Brookville (Valentines Lane) The sanctuary protects a freshwater marsh and swamp that is part of the Cedar Swamp Creek watershed. The swamp is characterized by cattail, buttonbush, red maple and tupelo.

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Public Notices

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION OF THE LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT LOCUST VALLEY, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Public Hearing of the qualified voters of the Locust Valley Central School District, Nassau County, Locust Valley, New York will be held in the Auditorium of the Locust Valley Middle School/High School, 99 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, New York, in said school district on May 4, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. prevailing time, for the transaction of business as authorized by the Education Law, including the following items: 1. To present to the voters a detailed statement (proposed budget) of the amount of money which will be required for the 2021-2022 fiscal year.

2. To discuss all the items hereinafter set forth to be voted upon by voting machines at the Budget Vote and Election to be held on Tuesday, May 18, 2021.

3. To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting pursuant to Education Law of the State of New York and acts amendatory thereto.

A copy of the proposed budget shall be made available, upon request, to residents of the school district beginning April 27, 2021 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, except Saturday, Sunday or holidays, at the office of the District Clerk, Administration Building, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, New York 11560.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that said Budget Vote and Election will be held on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, in the three (3) Election Districts, described below, at which time the polls will be open to vote by voting machine upon the following items: 1.Proposition One (1): To adopt the annual budget of the School District for the fiscal year 2021-2022 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District.

2.Proposition Two (2): To approve the following resolution to appropriate and expend funds from the Capital Reserve Funds as designated: RESOLVED: Shall the Board of Education be authorized pursuant to Section 3651 of the Education Law to appropriate and expend the maximum estimated total amount of $3,705,000, withdrawn

as follows: $249,145 from the Capital Reserve Fund established by the voters on May 19, 2009; $1,382,747 from the Capital Reserve Fund established by the voters on May 15, 2012; and $2,073,108 from the Capital Reserve established by the voters on May 19, 2015, which actions shall result in no additional increase to the taxpayers of the District, for the following projects: Capital improvements of a health and safety nature to various Locust Valley Central School District buildings and properties as substantially described in the Architect’s cost estimate summary, prepared for the District by Campbell Cassetta Architects PC (the “Summary”) which Summary is on file and available for public inspection at the office of the District Clerk. Such improvements consisting of track replacement and turf installation at Locust Valley Middle School/High School, library heating and air conditioning units at Ann MacArthur Primary School and Bayville Primary School, faculty restroom renovation at Locust Valley Intermediate School, and installation of drop ceilings and LED lights in classrooms at Bayville Intermediate School, as well as original equipment, machinery, apparatus and ancillary or related work required in connection therewith, provided that the details and costs of the components of the capital improvements as set forth in the Summary may be reallocated among such components as the Board of Education shall determine to be in the best interest of the District.

3. Locust Valley Library Service Area Residents Only Vote for Proposition Three (3): To adopt the resolution for the Locust Valley Library appropriation submitted for the fiscal year 2021-2022, in the amount of $1,487,174 to appear on the voting machines on May 18, 2021, and that the Board of Education of the Locust Valley Central School District be authorized to levy the necessary tax therefore on the taxable property only of former Union Free School District No. 4, Town of Oyster Bay, New York.

4.To elect two (2) members of the Board of Education as follows: a) one (1) member for a three-year term commencing July 1, 2021 and expiring on June 30, 2024; and b) one (1) member to fill the remainder of the term of a vacant seat until June 30, 2021 and then a full three-year term commencing July 1, 2021 and expiring on June 30, 2024.

Vacancies on the Board of Education are not considered separate, specific offices; candidates run at large.

The candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be entitled to fill the remainder of the term of a vacant seat until June 30, 2021 and then a full three year term commencing July 1, 2021 and expiring on June 30, 2024.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required to fund the School District’s budget and the Locust Valley Library’s budget for 2021-2022, exclusive of public monies, may be obtained by any resident of the District between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. beginning April 27, 2021, except Saturday, Sunday or holidays, at the District Office, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, New York 11560 and at each school house in the District.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Chapter 258 of the Laws of 2008, Section 495 was added to the Real Property Tax Law, and requires the School District to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report. Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how much the total assessed value on the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted, identified by statutory authority, and show: (a) the cumulative impact of each type of exemption expressed either as a dollar amount of assessed value or as a percentage of the total assessed value on the roll; (b) the cumulative amount expected to be received from recipients of each type of exemption as payments in lieu of taxes or other payments for municipal services; and (c) the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted. The exemption report shall be posted on any bulletin board maintained by the District for public notices and on any website maintained by the District.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education shall be filed with the Clerk of said School District at her office in the Administration Building, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, New York 11560, not later than April 19, 2021, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., prevailing time. Vacancies on the Board of Education are not considered separate, specific offices; candidates run at large.

There is a seat available

which is vacant due to the resignation of the prior Board of Education member. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be deemed elected to fill the remainder of the term of the vacant seat until June 30, 2021 and then a full three year term commencing July 1, 2021 and expiring on June 30, 2024.

Nominating petitions shall not describe any specific vacancy upon the Board for which the candidate is nominated; must be directed to the Clerk of the District; must be signed by at least 37 qualified voters of the District (representing the greater of 25 qualified voters or 2% of the number of voters who voted in the 2019 annual election); must state the name and residence of each signer, and must state the name and residence of the candidate.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law and has voted at an annual or special district meeting within the last four (4) calendar years, he or she is eligible to vote at this election. If a voter is registered and eligible to vote under Article 5 of the Election Law, he or she is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register.

The Board of Registration will meet for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law in each of the three election districts, on May 8, 2021, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., prevailing time, at the Office of the District Clerk, to add any additional names to the Register to be used at the aforesaid election, at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such Register, provided that at such meeting of the Board of Registration he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of said Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such election for which the register is prepared.

Additionally, registration shall be conducted for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law through May 11, 2021, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, on all regular days during which the office of the District Clerk is in operation, located at 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, New York 11560,

at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such register, provided that at such time he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of said District Clerk to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such election for which the register is prepared. The register so prepared pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law will be filed in the Office of the District Clerk, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, New York 11560 and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District beginning on Thursday, May 13, 2021, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, on weekdays, and each day prior to the day set for the election, except Sunday, and on Saturday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., and at the polling place(s) on the day of the vote.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the Locust Valley Central School District by requesting and returning a registration application to the District Clerk in person, by mail to Office of the District Clerk, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560, by email to shammerschmidt@lvcsd.k 12.ny.us or fax sent to 516 277-5098.

The request for the registration application may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the registration application by either mail, fax or email. Military voter registration application forms must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 22, 2021 in order to be issued a ballot for the 2021 Budget Vote and Election.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, those military voters who are qualified voters of the Locust Valley Central School District, may request an application for a military ballot from the District Clerk in person, by mail to Office of the District Clerk, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560, by email to shammerschmidt@lvcsd.k 12.ny.us, or fax sent to 516 277-5098. In such request, the military voter may indicate their preference for receiving the application by mail, fax or email. A military voter must return the original military ballot application by mail or in person to the Office of the District Clerk at 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560.

In order for a military voter to be issued a military ballot, a valid military ballot application must be received in the

office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m., on April 22, 2021.

Military ballot applications received in accordance with the foregoing will be processed in the same manner as a non-military ballot application under Section 2018-a of the Education Law. The application for military ballot may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the military ballot by mail, fax, or email.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, a military voter’s original military ballot must be returned by mail or in person to the office of the District Clerk at 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560. Military ballots shall be canvassed if they are received by the District Clerk before the close of polls on May 18, 2021 showing a cancellation mark of the United States Postal Service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States Government; or received not later than 5:00 p.m. on May 18, 2021 and signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is ascertained to be not later than the day before the election.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law of the State of New York, the Board of Registration will meet on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, at each of the three (3) separate election districts to prepare the Register of the School District to be used at the Budget Vote and Election to be held in 2022, and any special district meetings that may be held after the preparation of said Register, at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such Register provided that at such meeting of said Board of Registration he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of such Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at the school election for which said Register is prepared, or any special district meeting held after May 18, 2021.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots will be obtainable during school business hours from the District Clerk beginning April 1, 2021. In accordance with Education Law § 2018-a, completed applications may not be received by the District Clerk earlier than April 19, 2021 and such applications must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election if

the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the election, if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter or the agent named in the absentee ballot application.

Absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk not later than 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021.

A list of persons to whom absentee ballots are issued will be available for inspection to qualified voters of the District in the office of the District Clerk on and after Thursday, May 13, 2021, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on weekdays prior to the day set for the annual election and on May 18, 2021, the day set for the election. Any qualified voter may, upon examination of such list, file a written challenge of the qualifications as a voter of any person whose name appears on such list, stating the reasons for such challenge. Any such written challenge shall be transmitted by the District Clerk or a designee of the Board of Education to the inspectors of election on Election Day. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a rule adopted by the Board of Education in accordance with §2035 of the Education Law, any referenda or propositions to amend the budget, or otherwise to be submitted for voting at said election, must be filed with the District Clerk, Board of Education at the Administration Building, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley in sufficient time to permit notice of the proposition to be included with the Notice of the Public Hearing, Budget Vote and Election required by Section 2004 of the Education Law but no later than March 4, 2021, at 4:30 p.m., prevailing time; must be typed or printed in the English language; must be directed to the Clerk of the School District; must be signed by at least 153 qualified voters of the District (representing 5% of the number of voters who voted in the previous annual election); and must legibly state the name of each signer.

However, the School Board will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any proposition the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, which is unlawful or any proposition which fails to include a specific appropriation where the expenditure of monies is required by the proposition, or where other valid reason exists for excluding the proposition from the ballot.

SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICTS AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Election Districts have been established in the School District.

The boundaries of the Election Districts, as adopted by resolution of the Board of Education, and the place in each election district for voting shall be as follows: Bayville Election District Bayville Intermediate School, 50 Mountain Avenue, Bayville (description of election district: former Union Free School District No. 6, Town of Oyster Bay, New York) Brookville Election District: Community Hall of the Brookville Reformed Church, 2 Brookville Road, Brookville (description of election district: former Union Free School District No. 3, Town of Oyster Bay, New York) Locust Valley Election District Ann MacArthur Primary School, 100 Ryefield Road, Locust Valley (description of election district: former Union Free School District No. 4, Town of Oyster Bay, New York) Dated: Locust Valley, New York March 31, 2021

By Order of the BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT Locust Valley, New York Susan Hammerschmidt, District Clerk 125319 LEGAL NOTICE AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA, VOTO PRESUPUESTARIO Y ELECCIÓN DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR CENTRAL DE LOCUST VALLEY, LOCUST VALLEY, CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK POR LA PRESENTE SE HACE AVISO, que una audiencia pública de los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Central de Locust Valley, condado de Nassau, Locust Valley, Nueva York se llevará a cabo en el Auditorio de Locust Valley Middle School/High School, 99 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York, en dicho distrito escolar el 4 de mayo de 2021 a las 7:30 pm tiempo vigente, para la transacción de negocios según lo autorizado por la Ley de Educación, incluidos los siguientes elementos: 1. Para presentar a los votantes una declaración detallada (proyecto de presupuesto) de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año fiscal 2021-2022.

2. Discutir todos los puntos que se establecen a continuación para ser sometidos a votación por máquinas de votación en

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la Votación y Elección del Presupuesto que se llevará a cabo el martes 18 de mayo de 2021.

3. Tramitar cualquier otro asunto que venga debidamente antes de la reunión de conformidad con la Ley de Educación del Estado de Nueva York y leyes que la modifiquen.

Se pondrá a disposición de los residentes del distrito escolar una copia del presupuesto propuesto, previa solicitud, a partir del 27 de abril de 2021. entre las 8:30 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m., hora predominante, excepto sábados, domingos o feriados, en la oficina del Secretario del Distrito, Edificio de Administración, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York 11560.

Y AVISO ADICIONAL SE OTORGA POR LA PRESENTE que dicho Voto y Elección del Presupuesto se llevará a cabo el martes 18 de mayo de 2021, entre las 6:00 am y las 9:00 pm, hora prevaleciente, en los tres (3) Distritos Electorales, descritos a continuación, en cuyo momento las urnas estarán abiertas para votar por máquina de votación sobre los siguientes elementos: 1.Proposición Uno (1): Adoptar el presupuesto anual del Distrito Escolar para el año fiscal 2021-2022 y autorizar la porción requerida del mismo para ser recaudado por impuestos sobre la propiedad imponible del Distrito.

2.Proposición Dos (2): Aprobar la siguiente resolución para asignar y gastar fondos de los Fondos de Reserva de Capital según se designe: RESUELTO: ¿Deberá autorizarse la Junta de Educación de conformidad con la Sección 3651 de la Ley de Educación para asignar y gastar el máximo estimado monto total de $3,705,000, retirado de la siguiente manera: $249,145 del Fondo de Reserva de Capital establecido por los votantes el 19 de mayo de 2009; $1,382,747 del Fondo de Reserva de Capital establecido por los votantes el 15 de mayo de 2012; y $2,073,108 de la Reserva Capital establecida por los votantes el 19 de mayo de 2015, acciones que no resultará en un aumento adicional para los contribuyentes del Distrito, para los siguientes proyectos: Mejoras capitales de naturaleza de salud y seguridad a varias escuelas Locust Valley Central School Edificios y propiedades del distrito como se describe sustancialmente en el resumen de estimación de costos del arquitecto, preparado para el distrito por Campbell Cassetta Architects PC (el “Resumen”), cuyo

resumen está archivado y disponible para inspección pública en la oficina del secretario del distrito. Tales mejoras consisten en el reemplazo de pistas e instalación de césped en la escuela secundaria / preparatoria Locust Valley, unidades de calefacción y aire acondicionado de la biblioteca en la escuela primaria Ann MacArthur y la escuela primaria Bayville, renovación de los baños de la facultad en la escuela intermedia Locust Valley e instalación de techos falsos y LED. luces en los salones de clase en la Escuela Intermedia Bayville, así como equipo original, maquinaria, aparatos y trabajos auxiliares o relacionados requeridos en conexión con ellos, siempre que los detalles y costos de los componentes de las mejoras capitales como se establece en el Resumen se puedan reasignar entre componentes que la Mesa Directiva de Educación determine que son en el mejor interés del Distrito.

3. Solo para residentes del área de servicio de la biblioteca de Locust Valley - Vote por la propuesta tres (3): Adoptar la resolución para la asignación de la biblioteca de Locust Valley presentada para el año fiscal 2021-2022, por la cantidad de $1,487,174 que aparecerá en las máquinas de votación en mayo 18, 2021, y que la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Central de Locust Valley esté autorizada a cobrar el impuesto necesario, por lo tanto, sobre la propiedad sujeta a impuestos únicamente del antiguo Distrito Escolar Union Free No. 4, Ciudad de Oyster Bay, Nueva York.

4.Elegir dos (2) miembros de la Junta de Educación de la siguiente manera: a) un (1) miembro por un período de tres años que comienza el 1 de julio de 2021 y termina el 30 de junio de 2024; y b) miembro de un (1) para llenar el resto del plazo de un asiento vacante al 30 de junio 2021 y luego un plazo total de tres años del 1 de julio, 2021 y expira el 30 de junio 2,024.

Las vacantes en la Junta de Educación no se consideran cargos específicos separados; los candidatos se presentan en general. El candidato que reciba el mayor número de votos tendrá derecho a llenar el resto del plazo de un asiento vacante hasta el 30 de junio de 2021 y luego un plazo total de tres años del 1 de julio, 2021 y finalizará el 30 de junio de 2024.

Y NUEVO AVISO SE DA POR MEDIO DE LA PRESENTE, que una copia de la declaración de la Cualquier residente del

Distrito puede obtener la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para financiar el presupuesto del Distrito Escolar y el presupuesto de la Biblioteca de Locust Valley para 2021-2022, sin incluir el dinero público, entre las 8:00 am y las 5:00 pm a partir del 27 de abril de 2021, excepto los sábados, domingos o feriados, en la oficina del distrito, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York 11560 y en cada escuela del distrito.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que de conformidad con el Capítulo 258 de las Leyes de 2008, la Sección 495 se agregó a la Ley del Impuesto sobre la Propiedad Inmobiliaria, y requiere que el Distrito Escolar adjunte a su presupuesto propuesto un informe de exención.

Dicho informe de exención, que también pasará a formar parte del presupuesto final, mostrará cuánto está exento de impuestos el valor total tasado en la lista de tasación final utilizada en el proceso presupuestario, enumerará todos los tipos de exenciones otorgadas, identificadas por la autoridad estatutaria, y mostrar: (a) el impacto acumulativo de cada tipo de exención expresado ya sea como una cantidad en dólares del valor tasado o como un porcentaje del valor tasado total en la lista; (b) el monto acumulado que se espera recibir de los beneficiarios de cada tipo de exención como pagos en lugar de impuestos u otros pagos por servicios municipales; y (c) el impacto acumulativo de todas las exenciones otorgadas. El informe de exención se publicará en cualquier tablero de anuncios mantenido por el Distrito para avisos públicos y en cualquier sitio web mantenido por el Distrito.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que las peticiones que nominan candidatos para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación deberán presentarse ante el Secretario de dicho Distrito Escolar en su oficina en el Edificio de Administración, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York 11560, a más tardar el 19 de abril de 2021, entre las 9:00 am y las 5:00 pm, hora prevaleciente. Las vacantes en la Junta de Educación no se consideran cargos específicos separados; los candidatos se presentan en general. Hay un asiento disponible que está vacante debido a la renuncia del anterior miembro de la Junta de Educación. El candidato que reciba el mayor número de votos se considerará elegido para ocupar el resto del período del puesto vacante hasta el 30 de

junio de 2021 y luego un período completo de tres años que comienza el 1 de julio de 2021 y vence el 30 de junio de 2024.

Peticiones de nominación no describe ninguna vacante específica en la Junta para la cual el candidato está nominado; debe ser dirigido al Secretario del Distrito; debe estar firmado por al menos 37 votantes calificados del Distrito (que representan el mayor de 25 votantes calificados o el 2% del número de votantes que votaron en la elección anual de 2019); debe indicar el nombre y la residencia de cada firmante, y debe indicar el nombre y la residencia del candidato.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que se requiere el registro personal de votantes de conformidad con la §2014 de la Ley de Educación o de conformidad con el Artículo 5 de la Ley de Elecciones. Si un votante se ha registrado hasta ahora de conformidad con §2014 de la Ley de Educación y ha votado en una reunión anual o especial de distrito dentro de los últimos cuatro (4) años calendario, él o ella es elegible para votar en esta elección. Si un votante está registrado y es elegible para votar bajo el Artículo 5 de la Ley de Elecciones, él o ella también es elegible para votar en esta elección. Todas las demás personas que deseen votar deben registrarse.

La Junta de Registro se reunirá con el propósito de registrar a todos los votantes calificados del Distrito de conformidad con la §2014 de la Ley de Educación en cada uno de los tres distritos electorales, el 8 de mayo de 2021, entre las 9:00 am y la 1:00 pm, hora prevaleciente, en la Oficina del Secretario de Distrito, para agregar cualquier nombre adicional al Registro que se utilizará en la elección antes mencionada, momento en el cual cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que su nombre se coloque en dicho Registro, siempre que en dicha reunión de la Junta de Registro se sabe o se prueba a satisfacción de dicha Junta de Registro que tiene derecho a votar en esa elección para la cual se prepara el registro.

Además, el registro se llevará a cabo con el propósito de registrar a todos los votantes calificados del Distrito de conformidad con la §2014 de la Ley de Educación hasta el 11 de mayo de 2021, entre las 8:00 am y las 4:00 pm, hora prevaleciente, en todos los días regulares durante los cuales la oficina del Secretario de Distrito está en funcionamiento, ubicada en 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York

11560, momento en el cual cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que se coloque su nombre en dicho registro, siempre que en el momento en que se sepa o se pruebe a satisfacción de dicho Secretario de Distrito que tiene derecho a votar en ese momento o en el futuro en la elección para la que se prepara el registro. El registro así preparado de conformidad con §2014 de la Ley de Educación se archivará en la Oficina del Secretario del Distrito, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, Nueva York 11560 y estará abierto para la inspección de cualquier votante calificado del Distrito a partir del jueves, 13 de mayo de 2021, entre las 9:00 am y las 4:00 pm, hora predominante, los días laborables y todos los días anteriores al día fijado para la elección, excepto los domingos, y los sábados entre las 9:00 am y 1:00 pm, y en los lugares de votación el día de la votación.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que los votantes militares que no están registrados actualmente pueden solicitar registrarse como votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Central de Locust Valley solicitando y devolviendo una solicitud de registro al Secretario del Distrito en persona, por correo a la Oficina de la Secretario de distrito, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560, por correo electrónico a shammerschmidt@lvcsd.k 12.ny.us o por fax al 516 277-5098.

La solicitud de la solicitud de registro puede incluir la preferencia del votante militar de recibir la solicitud de registro por correo, fax o correo electrónico.

Los formularios de solicitud de registro de votantes militares deben recibirse en la oficina del secretario de distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 pm del 22 de abril de 2021 para poder emitir una boleta para la votación y la elección del presupuesto de 2021.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, aquellos votantes militares que son votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Central de Locust Valley, pueden solicitar una solicitud para una boleta militar al secretario del distrito en persona, por correo a Oficina del Secretario de Distrito, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560, por correo electrónico a shammerschmidt@lvcsd.k 12.ny.us, o por fax al 516 277-5098. En dicha solicitud, el votante militar puede indicar su preferencia de recibir la solicitud por correo, fax o correo electrónico. Un votante militar debe devolver la solicitud de boleta militar original por

correo o en persona a la Oficina del Secretario de Distrito al 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560. Para que un votante militar reciba una boleta militar, se debe recibir una solicitud de boleta militar válida en la oficina del secretario de distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 pm del 22 de abril, 2021. Las solicitudes de boleta militar recibidas de acuerdo con lo anterior se procesarán de la misma manera que una solicitud de boleta no militar según la Sección 2018-a de la Ley de Educación.

La solicitud de boleta militar puede incluir la preferencia del votante militar de recibir la boleta militar por correo, fax o correo electrónico.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, la boleta militar original de un votante militar debe ser devuelta por correo o en persona a la oficina del Secretario de Distrito en 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley, NY 11560.

Las boletas militares serán escrutadas si son recibidas por el secretario de distrito antes del cierre de las urnas el 18 de mayo de 2021 mostrando una marca de cancelación del Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos o del servicio postal de un país extranjero, o mostrando un endoso fechado de recibo por otra agencia del gobierno de los Estados Unidos; o recibido a más tardar a las 5:00 pm del 18 de mayo de 2021 y firmado y fechado por el votante militar y un testigo del mismo, con una fecha que se determina que es no más tarde del día anterior a la elección.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que de conformidad con la §2014 de la Ley de Educación del Estado de Nueva York, la Junta de Registro se reunirá el martes 18 de mayo de 2021, entre las 6:00 am y las 9:00 pm , tiempo prevaleciente, en cada uno de los tres (3) distritos electorales separados para preparar el Registro del Distrito Escolar que se usará en la Votación y Elección del Presupuesto que se llevará a cabo en 2022, y cualquier reunión especial del distrito que pueda realizarse después de la preparación de dicho Registro, momento en el cual cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que se coloque su nombre en dicho Registro siempre que en dicha reunión de dicha Junta de Registro se conozca o se pruebe a satisfacción de dicha Junta de Registro que es o posteriormente con derecho a votar en la elección de la escuela para la cual se prepara dicho Registro, o en cualquier reunión especial del distrito que se lleve a cabo después del 18 de mayo de 2021.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA UN AVISO ADICIONAL, las solicitudes para boletas de voto ausente se podrán obtener durante el horario escolar de la escuela. Secretario de distrito a partir del 1 de abril de 2021. De acuerdo con la Ley de educación § 2018-a, el Secretario de distrito no puede recibir las solicitudes completadas antes del 19 de abril de 2021 y dichas solicitudes deben ser recibidas por el Secretario de distrito al menos siete (7) días antes de la elección si la boleta se enviará por correo al votante, o el día antes de la elección, si la boleta se entregará personalmente al votante o al agente nombrado en la solicitud de boleta de votante ausente. El secretario de distrito debe recibir las boletas de voto ausente a más tardar a las 5:00 pm, hora prevaleciente, el martes 18 de mayo de 2021.

Una lista de las personas a las que se emiten las boletas de voto ausente estará disponible para su inspección para los votantes calificados del Distrito en la oficina del secretario de distrito el jueves 13 de mayo de 2021 y después de esa fecha, entre las 9:00 am y las 4:00 pm los días de semana antes del día establecido para la elección anual y el 18 de mayo de 2021, el día establecido para la elección.

Cualquier votante calificado puede, al examinar dicha lista, presentar una impugnación por escrito de las calificaciones como votante de cualquier persona cuyo nombre aparezca en dicha lista, indicando las razones de dicha impugnación.

Cualquier impugnación por escrito será transmitida por el Secretario del Distrito o una persona designada por la Junta de Educación a los inspectores de la elección el Día de la Elección.

Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que de conformidad con una regla adoptada por la Junta de Educación de acuerdo con la sección 2035 de la Ley de Educación, cualquier referéndum o propuesta para enmendar el presupuesto, o de otra manera que se someta a votación en dicha elección, debe ser presentada ante el Secretario del Distrito, la Junta de Educación en el Edificio de Administración, 22 Horse Hollow Road, Locust Valley con tiempo suficiente para permitir que la notificación de la propuesta se incluya con el Aviso de Audiencia Pública, Voto de Presupuesto y Elección requeridos por la Sección 2004 de la Ley de Educación, pero a más tardar el 4 de marzo de

2021, a las 4:30 pm, hora vigente; debe estar mecanografiado o impreso en el idioma inglés; debe ser dirigido al Secretario del Distrito Escolar; debe estar firmado por al menos 153 votantes calificados del Distrito (que representan el 5% del número de votantes que votaron en la elección anual anterior); y debe indicar de manera legible el nombre de cada firmante.

Sin embargo, la Junta Escolar no considerará ninguna petición para presentar a los votantes ninguna proposición cuyo propósito no esté dentro del poder de los votantes determinar, que sea ilegal o cualquier proposición que no incluya una apropiación específica donde el gasto de dinero es requerido por la propuesta, o cuando exista otra razón válida para excluir la propuesta de la boleta.

DISTRITOS DE ELECCIÓN ESCOLAR Y POR LA PRESENTE SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que se han establecido Distritos Electorales en el Distrito Escolar.

Los límites de los Distritos Electorales, adoptados por resolución de la Junta de Educación, y el lugar en cada distrito electoral para votar serán los siguientes: Distrito Electoral Escuela Intermedia de Bayville, 50 Mountain Avenue, Bayville (descripción del distrito electoral: anterior Distrito Escolar Union Free No. 6, Ciudad de Oyster Bay, Nueva York) Distrito Electoral de Brookville: Salón Comunitario de la Iglesia Reformada Brookville, 2 Brookville Road, Brookville (descripción del distrito electoral: antiguo Distrito Escolar Union Free No. 3, Ciudad de Oyster Bay, Nueva York) Distrito Electoral de Locust Valley Escuela Primaria Ann MacArthur, 100 Ryefield Road, Locust Valley (descripción del distrito electoral: antiguo Distrito Escolar Union Free No. 4, Ciudad de Oyster Bay, Nueva York) Fecha: Locust Valley, Nueva York 31 de marzo de 2021 Por orden de la JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR CENTRAL DE LOCUST VALLEY Locust Valley, Nueva York Susan Hammerschmidt, Secretaria de Distrito 125321 LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE: INC. VILLAGE OF LAUREL HOLLOW - PLANNING BOARD NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing will be held by and before the Planning Board of the Inc. Village of Laurel Hollow, Nassau County, New York, on .

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Trio spreads ‘Seeds of Faith’ in N.S. MOJDEH HASSANI, LEFT, Fredda Klopfer and Lisa Larsen Hill have become friends through Seeds of Faith for Women.

By GEORGE WALLACE newsroom@liherald.com

Seeds of Faith for Women, and its sister organization, Daughters of Abraham, enters its third year of on the North Shore with a firm sense of purpose, a solid base of membership and an expanding vision of its role in fostering similar groups around Long Island, say its members, who are primarily from the North Shore.

Nasrin Mesbah, of Oyster Bay, who became involved with the group through her friend Mojdeh Hassani. Mesbah sings praises to the group’s orientation toward sharing beliefs in an informative, personal way.

"While I have never been in a group exactly like this before, I have been part of Iranian groups that celebrate all the religions there — Muslim, Jewish, Christian, even Zoroastrian and Bahai," she said. "This group is so nice — we learn a lot about each other’s cultures, celebrations, our shared beliefs. Since I've been involved, my interest has only grown."

Seeds of Faith has four branches: ■ A Biblical Fiction Book Club with three chapters: Sea Cliff Methodist Church, Manhattan Congregational Church and Lake Ronkonkoma Methodist Church.

■ A branch for public speaking and women's retreats.

■ An annual event that features awardwinning authors.

■ Daughters of Abraham, which includes more than 30 women from Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths.

Seeds of Faith, a nonprofit, was founded in 2017 after one of its co-leaders, Lisa Larsen Hill, read a book by Tessa Afshar, entitled "Pearl in the Sand," which retold as historical biblical fiction the story of Rahab, a prostitute who hides two Israeli spies who come to Jericho.

"I gave 15 copies to my church, Sea Cliff Methodist Church," Larsen Hill, of Glen Cove, recalled. "What impressed me was she was a prostitute, would have been stoned, but she ends up marrying one of the Israeli lineage, which is the lineage of Christ."

Courtesy Lisa Larsen Hill

Larsen Hill also leads Daughters of Abraham, with co-founders Fredda Klopfler and Hassani.

While there are some people who belong to both a Biblical Fiction Book Club and the Daughters of Abraham, each has its own mission and target audience.

The book inspired Larsen Hill to try her hand at historical biblical fiction too.

The result was an Old Testament story about five women who changed the course of history. This quickly led to speaking engagements, sermons and the bigger idea of creating the Biblical Fiction Book Club, and from there, an interfaith group for women to share their religions' stories.

"I wanted more than a book group; I wanted a way for women to share personal stories, what their faith means to them, how these stories connect to their lives," Larsen Hill explained. "We wanted to create a safe space to tell each other our stories — a place where there's sometimes tears, and sometimes laughter. We wanted an opportunity to plant seeds of faith."

"I'm delighted that ‘Pearl in the Sand’ was seminal for her," said Afshar, the

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Tues. May 25, 2021 at 6:00 P.M. to consider the following: “P4-2021 & T15-2021 ~ Public hearing on the application of Chris Spanos, 6 Woodgreen Way, Laurel Hollow, for approval to remove 9 trees which are either considered too close to the house or in declining health. This parcel of land is known as Section 14, Block 25, Lot 21 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map. Said public hearing shall

either be held at the Village Hall, 1492 Laurel Hollow Road, Laurel Hollow, New York or via Zoom Videoconference where a link will be posted on the Village website for public access.

Please check our website prior to the meeting for details.

All relevant documents submitted in connection with this application are on file at the Village Clerk’s Office in the Village Hall. If you wish to inspect the documents,

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All persons interested will be given an opportunity to be heard at said time and place.

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author of the book. "I run into plenty of book clubs and book groups, but never one where they're reading books not just to read, but to create meaningful community, to encourage each other and welcome each other on a deeper level."

Two years later Daughters of Abraham was founded. "With Fredda and Mojdeh, we formulated a clear idea of our purpose, with some principles behind it, and launched Daughters of Abraham in 2019," Larsen Hill said. "There was so much divisiveness then, we wanted a safe space to express our thoughts, to create respect and not prejudge, and honestly to build trust."

Klopfer, who was principal of the Glen Head Elementary School until July 2019, recalled how the three came together to form Daughters of Abraham. In June 2019, Rabbi Irwin Huberman, from Congregation Tifereth Israel in Glen Cove, was leading a class where he shared the Bible story of Abraham and Sarah, which involves Sarah's infertility, the surrogacy of Hagar, and the resulting birth of halfbrothers Ismael and Isaac. When the two grow to adulthood, there is friction over inheritance, and Sarah asks Hagar to leave. The story goes that God said to Hagar, “You too will be father of a nation.”

"My friend Mojdeh Hassani, who I had hired as a special education teacher at Glen Head, and I talked about what the Quran had to say about that story, and we wrote and put on a biblio-drama at Tifereth Israel, from Hagar's point of view," Klopfer said. "Lisa saw the play and came running over. She said, ‘I need to talk to you. I'd like to start a group for Christians, Muslims and Jews that explores each other's stories.'"

Hassani, who lives in Sea Cliff, said that one of the things that binds them is the fact that all three are storytellers. "We wanted to tell our faith through storytelling," she said. "Storytelling makes it nonjudgmental. These stories may come from

the Quran, or the Old or New Testament, but they were passed down to all of us from our parents and grandparents. It's not about doctrine, it's about understanding that we're all one circle. Stories resonate."

While there is something of education and mutual understanding to be gained from being part of the organization, the women said there is another important ingredient to its purposes.

"The main thing we've tried to do is to support each other through rough times," Hassani said. "There's a lot we're all going through, and we can help each other by sharing our spiritual practices. It's a sharing group, yes, but it's a support group.

We're learning from each other how to deal with things."

Dee Jae Diliberto, a member of Seeds of Faith’s board of directors and a recent law school graduate, took an interest in the organization after hearing Larsen Hill give a presentation on a Bible story that she found inspirational in her profession.

"It was the story of daughters of Zelophehad, about the evolution of law and the legal position of women in society, specifically a woman's right,” said Diliberto, of Manhasset. "I had heard a lot of sermons, but to hear a presentation that relates Bible stories to contemporary issues inspired my intellectual curiosity."

Diliberto, who raised four children who went to local Quaker schools where they teach non-denominational celebration of all faiths, finds Seeds of Faith's philosophy a natural fit. And she has seen plenty of enthusiasm and friendships evolve since day one, when she joined the group. "There's plenty of desire to share, and hearing other people inspires people to share intimate and sometimes very painful experiences," she said.

Mesbah agreed, adding that the group is not political. “It's not Democratic or Republican,” she said. "It's just human."

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The location was the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Park in Uniondale. Curran started the day’s ceremony by thanking Catanese, saying, “Ernest Catanese and his wife are really the reason this park is here.”

In 2009, Catanese and his wife, Marie, won a five-year fight to turn the trashy northwest corner of Uniondale Avenue and Nassau Road into the flowering little park. The pretty, well-maintained space is only one of many civic projects that the couple had taken part in since moving to Uniondale in 1955. Marie died in 2019.

On Arbor Day, after thanking Catanese, Curran outlined the campaign, which aims to plant 500 trees in Nassau County during 2021. “As we speak right now,” she said, “of those 500 trees, we already have 207 in the ground. We expect to have 233 in the ground by the end of today, and by the end of Tuesday, 270.”

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Thomas spoke to the meaning of Arbor Day, saying it “calls attention to the increased importance of reforestation, not only in our national forests, but also

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Catanese took the microphone briefly to say, “When I grew up in Manhattan, I had to walk three blocks to see a tree, so this is really great. My wife deserves

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Tree Advisory Board Chairman Lawrence Fernandez further explained the planting campaign: “We’re studying and putting together recommendations for trees that will grow in narrow sidewalk areas.” Trees die, he said, “because they’re living in a space that’s too small, or if they happen to do well, they break the sidewalk.” As part of the campaign, tree experts are inspecting locations around Nassau to deter mine which types of trees will best fit different surroundings.

For sunny MLK Jr. Peace Park, the board chose a Southern magnolia, native to King’s home state of Georgia. “This is a hardy Southern tree,” Curran said, “and I think it will carry forward that spirit of perseverance that is embodied by the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Paul Gibson, president of the Uniondale Community Land Trust, was asked

by Curran to add a few words. The UCLT rehabilitates blighted homes to create affordable housing, and said Gibson, “We preserve the trees that we can, and if we can’t, we plant new ones.”

The day’s ceremony concluded with Curran, Thomas and Catanese shoveling dirt into the prepared pit where the magnolia sat, its buds full with the promise of blossoms to come.

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covered the Bellmore-JFK High School Homecoming parade in the fall of 2004, photographing the revelers and floats as they headed from the Bellmore Long Island Rail Road station off Sunrise Highway to the Bellmore Avenue school. It was a sunny day, full of carefree teenagers.

I could never have imagined then that day would haunt me still.

All journalists who’ve been in the profession a while have stories they can’t shake. You might think you SCOTT had locked them away at the back BRINTON of your brain, but they reappear without warning, leaving you in a state of disbelief or sadness or anger. Thinking back on that Homecoming parade leaves me feeling all three.

Covering the recent West Hempstead Stop & Shop shooting, in which 49-yearold Ray Wishropp, a father of seven from Valley Stream, was killed and two others were injured, sent the memories of that parade streaming back.

That day, I snapped photos of Carol Kestenbaum, a 17-year-old JFK senior, as she drove the Homecoming king and queen in her white convertible. A little

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more than two years later, Kestenbaum was shot dead while studying education at the University of Arizona. She had warned a friend that the young man she was dating seemed unhinged.

The 22-year-old found out about the warning, killed Kestenbaum and her best friend, Nicole Schiffman, another Kennedy High graduate who was studying journalism at the University of Maryland, and then took his own life. Schiffman had come for the weekend to celebrate Kestenbaum’s 20th birthday.

They were among the tens of thousands of Americans who have died in a perpetual cycle of gun violence in this nation. I held back tears when I covered their funerals on a cold winter day in 2007. They were buried side by side at New Montefiore Cemetery in West Babylon.

I knew Carol’s mother, Rita Kestenbaum. In 1999, she won a seat on the Hempstead Town Board. She lost it in the next election, but remained active in local politics for years after that. At the JFK Homecoming parade, she walked behind her daughter’s car from the train station to the school, beaming with pride.

Her daughter was the first person I knew to die of gun violence. Her death leaves me feeling unsettled to this day, understanding how suddenly and sense-

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lessly a life can be taken in this country.

Wishropp was a Stop & Shop manager.

Nassau County police said his alleged killer, a 31-year-old Hempstead man, had sought a transfer to another supermarket.

When he didn’t get it, he left the store, but returned 40 minutes later and started shooting.

I’m a runner. Last Saturday, I ran to the top of the giant hill at the Town of Hempstead’s Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick, where there’s a human sun clock dedicated to Carol Kestenbaum. You stand in the middle of the circle, where a rectangular stone block forms the centerpiece of this hallowed ground. The 12 months are marked on it. On a sunny day, if you stand on the month you’re in and raise your hand straight to the sky, your shadow will point to a number from one to 12, giving you the approximate time of day.

“The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time,” reads the plaque in honor of Kestenbaum.

I sat enjoying the 63-degree weather on a sunny, windless day. The azure sky stretched out before me, with wispy cirrus clouds high above. I could hear the creaky windmill to my left spinning, its moving blades forming a frenetic shadow on the seashell-coated path before me. In a grassy patch to my right, a family — a mother and father, their children and the

he deadly Stop & Shop shooting took me back to a Bellmore Homecoming.

kids’ grandparents — had spread out a blanket to sit and talk and laugh.

It all felt so normal, peaceful, a world away from the chaos of gun violence that had erupted at the West Hempstead Stop & Shop April 20 and in Arizona all those years ago. Kestenbaum, who wanted to become a teacher, would have loved the sound of children at play, I imagined.

Then a loud shot rang out, I believe from the gun range just across the Meadowbrook Parkway in Freeport, piercing the quietude, an eerie reminder that guns are never far away in America.

As I ran down the hill to head home, I heard three more pops of a gun in rapidfire succession. Then again, and again.

The shots continued as I ran out of the park. I had heard them many times before while at the preserve, but had never paid much attention to them. Now I wanted them to just go away, never to be heard again.

I only wish our elected leaders at the federal and state levels might sit in Carol Kestenbaum’s circle, soaking up the normalcy of everyday life and imagining this young light of the world extinguished in a heartbeat.

How would they vote on gun-control legislation then?

Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication.

Comments about this column? SBrinton@ liherald.com.

Why are young girls mean to one another?

ime-travel with me. The year was 1957. We had just moved to Cedarhurst from Queens, and it was the first day of class at Number Three School on Broadway. I slid into my chair in Mrs. Haggerty’s sixth-grade classroom, and knew I would fall out of the same chair, dead, in a minute if I couldn’t get away from the stares and whispers of the other girls.

After a few minutes of mounting distress, I burst into tears, thus condemning myself to an entire school year of teasRANDI ing and ostracism KREISS and bullying. You can’t cry. It just feeds the frenzy. In 1957 there was no counseling, no help, just day after day of preteen hell.

I was actually one of the few, possibly the only, sixth-grader in America to get the “black spot” from a clique of girls in the class. Do you know your “Treasure Island”? The pirates passed a piece of paper with a black spot on it to someone about to be killed. So, did It make it better that I was the target of a literary group of

mean girls? When I opened the folded-up note left on my desk and saw the black spot, I knew I was doomed.

I wasn’t your regulation kid. I couldn’t help that. The other girls were consumed with “American Bandstand,” a daily live TV dance show out of Philly.

They followed that program, and the real-life teens who appeared on the show, with a devotion I could neither fathom nor fake. I just wanted to come home after school, cut up a few oranges and retreat to my room with a book.

Reading “Gone With the Wind,” I consumed a small grove.

Eventually I made friends and kept friends and got married and had children and then grandchildren. What is a troubling issue in my granddaughters’ lives?

Mean girl power plays, cliques and the popularity drama humming beneath the radar of most parents and teachers. Girls are still forming exclusive groups in elementary and junior and senior high school; they are still finding someone to be “it”; they are still causing other girls enormous emotional stress and anxiety.

And it is mostly girls. Boys interact in entirely different ways. Of course, there

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are bullies and guys’ cliques, but girls seem to deploy meanness in more creative and devastating ways.

I asked a few of my friends if they remember if they were mean girls in school, and every one of us recalled whether we were in the cool, mean group or with the uncool outsiders. And everyone who copped to being mean acknowledged that they knew it was wrong, but they were afraid that if they didn’t join the power clique, they would become a target. Pretty savage equation, isn’t it? Meanness equals survival.

In the decades since I survived the black spot, psychologists, educators and parents have studied the relationships among young girls and defined the behaviors and the interactions. But the meanness still exists in the whispers and the pacts to leave someone out and the comments on someone’s unacceptable clothes or habits or affect. There are attempts at discussion groups and sensitization groups and psychological services in the schools, but the toxic comments have leapt to the internet, where it is so much easier to target a classmate, anonymously and persistently.

hen I opened the note and saw the black spot, I knew I was doomed.

“Mean Girls,” the show and the movie, was hilarious, intuitive and sharp in its send-up of the popular girls who reigned supreme at a typical American high school. The production, which was, first of all, entertainment, glossed over the real pain young girls feel as victims of a meangirl power surge.

Rosalind Wiseman, author of “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” urges parents to look at their own behavior, how they talk about neighbors or friends and the capacity they model for accepting people into their circle.

Other suggestions she offers: Stay engaged with your child. Realize it isn’t only other kids who are the mean girls.

Contact the school and calmly convey your concerns. Band together with other parents to discuss the issues.

I’m not sure what to say to my own granddaughters. Perhaps remind them to keep talking to the trusted adults in their lives. Perhaps remind them that they are surviving a once-in-a-generation pandemic with courage and grace, and they can survive this, too. Look at me. I got the black spot 64 years ago and I’m still here. I don’t even remember the names of the girls who tried to ruin my sixth-grade life.

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

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That’s good, but not necessarily great.

Here’s why: Officials at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the vaccination rate has slowed in recent weeks, and if the percentage of inoculated Americans continues to drop each week, we may be unable to reach herd immunity by summer’s end.

That would be bad. So much of what we held dear during pre-pandemic times — the ability to work and earning a living, visit family members and friends, take in a ball game or concert — hangs in the balance.

Mercifully, we have seen a major drop in the number of infections across New York state over the past month. That trend, officials said, is due in large part to widespread vaccination of New Yorkers. It also may partly be a function of the slowing spread of the virus as warmer weather sets in. Officials had predicted that winter would bring the highest levels of infection and death, and it certainly did, peaking on Jan. 8, when the U.S. saw 259,564 new Covid-19 cases.

Following that peak, health officials said, we would see a decrease in cases, with summer predicted to bring the lowest levels of infection since the pandemic erupted here in March of last year.

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LETTERS Why is everything political?

To the Editor: I see that the Town of Oyster Bay has put up banners in Teddy Roosevelt Park to honor the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of their country. What a great gesture to honor these individuals, but did Supervisor Joseph Saladino really have to put his name on these banners? Can’t anything be done without a political motive? Besides, unless Saladino paid for them out of his own pocket, shouldn’t the banners just say “Town of Oyster Bay”? That would have been more appropriate.

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Walk in or schedule an appointment All New York state mass vaccination sites are now open to eligible New Yorkers ages 16 and over for walk-in vaccinations on a first-come, first-served basis. Walk-in appointments are reserved for first doses only, with second doses to be scheduled automatically after administration of the initial shot. All vaccine providers are encouraged to allow walkin appointments for those eligible.

People who would prefer to schedule Region and Southern Tier have already fallen below 1 percent, with Long Island not far behind, at 1.4 percent.

All of this, of course, is excellent news. But will it lead to vaccine complacency, with unvaccinated New Yorkers falsely believing that the virus is gone for good, leading them to think they don’t need the shot?

To be clear, even if we see the positivity rate drop below 1 percent — as it did last summer — the virus will not be gone unless we reach herd immunity. Unless a substantial majority of the state is vaccinated, we will risk the possibility that the virus will lurk among us and return with a vengeance, as it did this past winter.

So, we are pleading with those who are on the fence about whether to be vaccinated to get the shot. This is truly a matter of life and death for thousands of your fellow citizens. Beyond that, all of our livelihoods depend on our ability to earn a living in a thriving economy. Our economy will not be fully rid of the current governmental constraints until the virus is at last vanquished.

an appointment at a state-run mass vaccination site can do so on the Am I Eligible app or by calling (833) 6974829. They may also contact their local health department, pharmacy, doctor or hospital to schedule an appointment where vaccines are available, or visit vaccinefinder.org to find information on vaccine appointments near them.

Source: Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo

State vaccinations by the numbers Total doses administered: 15,643,329 Doses administered over the previous 24 hours: 93,940 Doses administered over the previous seven days: 1,208,303 Percentage of New Yorkers with at least one dose: 46.5 Percentage of New Yorkers with completed vaccine series: 34.9 Statistics as of Sunday, May 2. Source: New York State Department of Health

Each of us will play a small but integral part in defeating the coronavirus.

Winning the war will depend on whether average New Yorkers cast aside their lingering doubts and political allegiances and get the shot, which is free and accessible to anyone over age 16.

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t was recently reported that a group of Rockville Centre parents accused a high school social studies teacher of criticizing police during class, and wanted her to be reprimanded.

The district superintendent, without referring to the specific incident, wrote to parents, “Lessons and activities that create divisiveness or that marginalize anyone have no place in our schools.”

The teacher did not attack police officers or call for police departments to be defunded. To ALAN engage students in a discussion SINGER about police actions after the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, she shared statistics about police killings of Black men.

The superintendent is right that no lessons should marginalize a racial, ethnic or religious group, but it had better be OK to “marginalize” neo-Nazis and white nationalism. If the superintendent’s policy were implemented, that would mean eliminating from discussion any controversial issue that might challenge students to think, like women’s reproductive rights, racism in American society, climate change denial or citizenship opportunities for Deferred Action

for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, recipients. It would allow a small group of parents to censor the curriculum, intimidate teachers into silence and cripple students’ education.

The irony is that the Rockville Centre teacher was following guidelines outlined in the New York state social studies framework. An essential component of social studies education is teaching students to “respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives; synthesize comments, claims and evidence made on all sides of an issue, and resolve contradictions when possible; and determine what additional information or research is required to deepen the investigation or complete the task.”

The Rev. Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at South Side High School in March 1968. Would he be banned today because his ideas on racism, militarism and poverty would make certain parents uncomfortable?

Other cases involving teachers’ rights and responsibilities have recently been in the news. In San Clemente, Calif., a fourth-grade teacher was investigated after she took part in the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol in Washington. She was temporarily suspended, and then reinstated after an investigation found no evidence that she acted illegally in Washington or

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LETTERS Keep up the vaccinations To the Editor: Last week Nassau County reached a vital milestone in our quest to defeat the pandemic: Half of the county population had received at least one shot, including two-thirds of adult residents.

I am proud of the collective effort being made by the Nassau Department of Health, hospitals and community partners to get shots into the arms of residents. If we keep up our vaccination progress, we will save more lives, get our economy fully reopened sooner rather than later and enjoy a normal summer. We can do it, Nassau!

LAURA CURRAN Nassau County executive

New York is making progress on infections To the Editor: Last week, the statewide Covid-

that she brought her political views into the classroom. I think her conspiracytheory politics are crazy, but she has the right to be a teacher. The same principles that protect her also protect the teacher in Rockville Centre.

The Oneonta City School District upstate has a somewhat different issue that officials there are trying to sort out. Former students reported that a middle school social studies teacher gave them the finger and screamed obscenities when he drove by residents protesting the police shooting of a young African-American man. This case is difficult, because the teacher was acting, no matter how reprehensibly, as a private citizen. The district is now investigating him to determine whether there is evidence that his political views creep into his teaching, with students reporting that in lessons on the Civil War, he denied slavery played any role.

If the accusations about his teaching are substantiated, he is directly contradicting the state framework that reads, “Westward expansion, the industrialization of the North and the increase of slavery in the South contributed to the growth of sectionalism. Constitutional conflicts between advocates of states’ rights and supporters of federal power increased tensions in the nation;

attempts to compromise ultimately failed to keep the nation together, leading to the Civil War.” In a joint statement, the president of the local chapter of the NAACP and a school board vice president said, “We are disheartened to hear of the allegations that an Oneonta City School District teacher drove by the demonstration in Muller Plaza on Sunday, yelling obscenities and flipping off the crowd . . . While people have the right to disagree with the demonstrators, it is important that those who work for the OCSD remember that while they are entitled to their opinions, they represent the district, and their actions reflect on their competency in the classroom.”

The teacher is entitled to due process, but it appears he should have been investigated a long time ago. School administrators need to examine his lesson plans and monitor his teaching. If the district finds that racism not only shapes his politics, which is his right, but also affects how he teaches, he should be removed from the classroom, and the state should suspend his teaching certification.

Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies.

FRAMEWORK by Christina Daly

19 positivity rate dropped to 1.49 percent, falling below 1.5 percent for the first time since Oct. 28.

Every single day, New York state is moving forward in the race between the infection rate and the vaccination rate. More New Yorkers are getting vaccinated and hospitalizations are declining, which is good news, but we need New Yorkers to stay vigilant to ensure that we don’t lose any of the progress that we have made.

Washing hands, wearing masks and staying socially distant are critical behaviors that each of us can practice, individually and in our communities, to slow the spread. In the meantime, New York is continuing to make the vaccine more accessible, and opening more pop-up sites. Spring is here, and we’re making progress, but there is a way to go before we reach the light at the end of the tunnel.

GOV. ANDREW CUOMO

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OYSTER BAY HERALD — May 7, 2021

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