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Officials talk pandemic, vaccines Kellyanne Brady, clinical director and adjunct professor at the Health and Wellness CenMedical professionals and ter at Molloy College, spoke of elected officials gathered virtu- the importance of focusing on ally for a panel discussion host- mental health during the paned by the Oceanside Library on demic.

Jan. 27, focusing on the corona“It’s really important during virus. this time to keep an eye on your The group dismental health, to cussed the local notice any sensaeffects of Covid-19, tions of feeling the vaccines and more sad, feeling the distribution less willing to get plan, while providout of bed, or you ing Oceanside resifind yourself losdents with infori n g i n t e re s t i n mation and things that you resources to help normally enjoyed them during this doing,” Brady said, troubling time. urging those who Dr. Jacqueline are feeling these Moline, vice presieffects to reach out dent of occupa- kEllYANNE BRADY to mental health tional medicine, Molloy College services. epidemiology and State Assemblyprevention at wo m a n M e l i s s a Northwell Health, discussed the Miller, a Republican from Atlanvaccines’ effects and people’s tic Beach, also spoke during the concerns about them. session, and said she was “The technology for mRNA, unhappy with how the vaccines messenger RNA vaccines, has have been distributed so far, notbeen around for decades, and it ing that it “has not been a very actually was used in the first smooth process.”

SARS,” Moline explained.

New York is still in phase 1B “They were beginning to devel- of the vaccine distribution op a vaccine for the first SARS using this technology.”

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Courtesy Jacqueline Xerri

oCEANSIDE NATIVE JACqUElINE Xerri wrote and directed the short film “Monkey Bars,” which she shot in her hometown. Above, Xerri and the film’s star, Milly Shapiro.

OHS alum’s movie ‘Monkey Bars’ to stream this month

By MIkE SMollINS msmollins@liherald.com

When it was time to shoot and direct her production company’s first film, Jacqueline Xerri said it was a nobrainer to come to her native Oceanside.

The town she grew up in is part of every scene of Xerri’s 18-minute short, “Monkey Bars,” which is set to debut at an independent showcase this month. She filmed it last February at School No. 9E,

School No. 8 and in the parking lots of Oceanside shopping plazas.

“It was actually a main part of the movie,” she said of her hometown. “I knew that I had this personal connection to School No. 8 because we used to hang out there, but it was also a necessary part of the movie to really have a genuine portrayal of the story.”

“Monkey Bars” follows a young girl and her two best friends as they embark on

what Xerri described as a “questionable” night out with some older boys whom they meet on Facebook. The story explores the stark contrast between the main character’s naive infatuation with a troubled boy and the heartbreaking reality of the night, she said.

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O’side native makes directorial debut her partner, Stephen Musumeci. It stars Milly Shapiro, who is best known for her starring role in the 2018 horror film “Hereditary.”

Xerri’s film is to debut at the Cinema Femme Shorts Fest February Showcase, where it will stream online throughout February. It will also stream on NoBudge, a website that features independent films, on March 12.

Xerri said she has been interested in filmmaking since she was 10, and she began making short films with her friends when she was a student at Oceanside High School. After graduating from OHS in 2015, she graduated from Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts in 2019 and then formed her production company, Big Blue Pictures.

After she and the crew finished filming in February — just before coronavirus cases started to steadily climb in New York — they saw the quarantine as a chance to edit their film until they perfected it. Though it only took two weeks to shoot the project, the arduous editing process required nearly a year. Xerri said FSU permitted her to use equipment at the school in Tallahassee to finalize the film, and she was grateful to the Oceanside School District for allowing her to shoot scenes at the schools, to her cast and crew, and FSU. With the short to be released to the public for the first time this month, Xerri said, she felt a whirlwind of emotions.

“It’s definitely scary,” she said. “To share it with everybody is exciting, but it’s a little nerve-racking. It’s really just a matter of being able to be confident, put yourself out there and believe in the project and the story that you’re telling.”

In addition to Musumeci, Xerri said fellow FSU alumni were also instrumental in bringing the project to life, including Director of Photography Robert Bevis and Producer Raymond Knudsen, and she said she was thankful to Jon Violette for scoring the film. Musumieci said he hoped the movie’s emotional tone and thematic messages would spark conversations among viewers, and he was excited to see how the public reacts to it, though he added that the long process of producing and finishing the film was tiresome.

“I heard someone once reference about this process that it kind of gets to the

point that when you put it out, it’s like when you don’t want to look at your ATM balance and you take the receipt and leave,” he said about the continual editing. “. . . But now having been almost six months, seven months since kind of wrapping that process and moving onto other things, I can sort of look back and fully appreciate what we did.”

While Shapiro brings name recognition to the film, the other actors are less well known. Oceanside resident John Ryder, who graduated from OHS in 2015 with Xerri, said he wanted to get into acting for many years, and when Xerri offered him his first chance to audition for a role in a film, he couldn’t pass it up.

“I grew up in Oceanside, so filming at the places where I used to hang out and do this kind of stuff was kind of like a time machine,” he said. “I think my experience of actually being in the town and the timeframe that I grew up in for the film was just perfect.”

Ryder, who landed the role of Rick in the film, described Xerri as an “amazing” director, and though he joked there were some unexpected nuisances — like wearing a microphone on his waist at all times — he said he had a blast shooting the short, and hopes to work with Xerri again some day.

Xerri is now working on developing her first feature film, and will begin shooting a horror short in February, in addition to her role as a freelance video editor. Her goal, she said, is to grow Big Blue Pictures and collaborate with other artists. She said she thought the performances by the “Monkey Bars” actors were “really honest,” and she hoped her message resonated with audiences.

“When you’re young, you take a lot from the movies you see and the shows you watch, and that can often create an idea of what romance is,” she said.

“There sometimes is a disconnect when it comes to applying that idea to your own life, and I guess it’s easy to get ahead of yourself, so I guess for people watching this movie, whether you’re young or whether you’re old, just take a step back and try to look at things a bit more objectively.”

To learn more or purchase a ticket to the Cinema Femme Shorts Fest February Showcase, visit cinemafemme.com/shortfestival.

“Monkey BarS” waS filmed in many places in Oceanside, including School No. 8.

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Star Milly Shapiro is most famous for her starring role in the horror film “Hereditary.”

Library panel focuses on pandemic’s toll mendations of the Centers for Disease schedule, and phase 1C is projected to Control and Prevention, has accused the start in March or April. Miller explained federal government of not expanding the how phase 1A was set up to focus on supply of vaccines to match the expanhigh-risk medical workers, which includ- sion of eligibility. “I happen to be Chrised emergency room staff, intensive care tian. This is a loaves and fishes situaunit staff, and pulmonary department tion,” Cuomo said.

Nassau County Legislator Denise staff. Phase 1B, which included first responders like police officers, firefight- Ford, a Republican from Long Beach, said reaching seniors livers, and EMS workers, was ing at home is one of the originally designated for biggest challenges. “Our individuals 85 and older.

Office of Aging is work“Then they opened it up ing, setting up a telephone to 75 and up, and that more line that will be manned or less bottlenecked the by people,” she said. “It entire system,” Miller won’t be a recording,” The said.” Phase 1B opened to hope is that this will assist include individuals aged seniors in setting up 65 and over on Jan. 11. appointments, ensuring Miller explained that on that doses continue to be the state level, every week used, she added. an order is placed based Hempstead, the largest on need. The federal govCourtesy Town of Hempstead town in the U.S., received ernment, as part of project town CounCilMan $133 million in federal Warp Speed, surveys each anthony D’Esposito.

CARES Act funding that it state and the manufacturhas put toward helping ers to ensure that the latlocal businesses, including ter is going to have enough vaccine to deliver according to the orders several in Oceanside, Hempstead Town coming in from the states. Each state has Councilman Anthony D’Esposito said, an allocation allotment based on popula- noting that the goal was to continue helption, and New York’s number is around ing businesses survive the pandemic.

“We spent about $3.5 million on [per400,000 vaccines per week. But after including the 65 and older crowd, the sonal protective equipment] kits that pool of eligible New Yorkers is up to were delivered to business owners, churches, libraries and many other placaround 7.5 million people, Miller said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who expanded es,” D’Esposito said. the age eligibility based on the recom-

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NFL invites four MSSN staffers to Super Bowl In recognition of their tireless efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic, the NFL is sending four Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital employees to participate in the league’s Super Bowl experience for frontline workers.

The four hospital employees — two physicians, an Emergency Department nurse and a respiratory therapist — are among the 7,500 vaccinated health care workers who will receive free tickets from the NFL to the big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa on Sunday as part of the NFL’s salute.

A Rockville Centre resident and grateful patient of MSSN is helping to make the trip possible by sponsoring the hotel and travel expenses for the nurse and respiratory therapist.

The four hospital employees who will participate in the game day experience are Emergency Department Nurse Eileen Carolan, Director of Respiratory Therapy Iris Halem, Dr. Frank Coletta, the chief of critical care and pulmonary medicine and MSSN Chief Medical Officer Dr. Adhi Sharma.They all have received their first and second doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.

“This is a dream come true,” Carolan said, according to a news release. “I’m a big football fan and I never thought I’d get to attend a Super Bowl. After the challenges of the last year, this will be a welcome break.”

MSSN President and CEO Richard J. Murphy said the four employees represent the best of the hospital.

“They have been leaders in the fight against the virus since the start of the pandemic last February and we are proud they will be able to represent Mount Sinai South Nassau at the Super Bowl,” he said, according to the news release. “Like so many other members of the hospital’s staff, they worked tirelessly, sometimes around-the-clock, putting the needs of our patients before their own family and putting themselves in harm’s way to provide care for our community.

We are very grateful to the NFL for recognizing them and all health care workers at the Super Bowl.”

The facility’s staff members will be included among the about 7,500 other

Courtesy MSSN

Larry Ferazani, a Rockville Centre resident and grateful former patient of Mount Sinai South Nassau and his wife, Christine, made a special visit to the hospital to thank health care heroes after covering travel and hotel expenses for them at the Super Bowl. Above, from left, MSSN’s Director of Respiratory Therapy Iris Halem, the Ferazanis, MSSN Chief Medical Officer Dr. Adhi Sharma and Dr. Frank Coletta, chief of critical care and pulmonary medicine. health care heroes at this year’s Super Bowl and around the country that the NFL will recognize through a variety of special moments both in the stadium and during the CBS broadcast of the game.

Each of hospital’s four staff members chosen played a different role to support the more than 1,600 Covid-19 patients treated at MSSN during the pandemic.

A full-time Emergency Department nurse for the hospital since 1990. Carolan cancelled a planned vacation last spring so that she would not miss a single shift during the height of the first patient surge. Throughout the duration of the pandemic, she has served at the hospital’s on-campus and Long Beach-based emergency departments.

When the first Covid-19 patients arrived, Halem’s role as director of respiratory therapy took on a new urgency.

She worked side by side with nurses and doctors to provide respiratory treatments to severely ill patients. During the height of the pandemic in April,. Halem was coordinating the care of 97 patients on

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ventilators and 110 on bi-pap therapy.

As chief of critical care and pulmonary medicine, Coletta oversees the treatment of the most critically ill Covid-19 patients. He has spearheaded the training of hospital physicians, physician assistants and medical residents from all medical disciplines to assist critical care, emergency medicine and respiratory physicians as they treated the more than 1,600 hospitalized Covid-19 patients.

Sharma has provided steadfast leadership in MSSN’s ongoing response to Covid-19, overseeing the medical staff ’s response to the pandemic and coordinating with the Mount Sinai Health System to ensure the hospital’s patients and staff had access to the latest therapies, equipment and research. Sharma helped lead the hospital and its clinical staff to meet daily unforeseen challenges, reallocating resources and redeploying staff to MSSN as needed during the yearlong and unprecedented public health crisis.

According to the NFL, all the health care workers at the Super Bowl will have

received both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. It is using this special initiative as an opportunity to promote the importance of vaccination and appropriate health practices, including wearing masks in public settings.

The limited attendance for Super Bowl weekend and the game itself has been cleared by public health officials, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Florida Department of Health, and area hospitals and health care systems. The officials reviewed and provided feedback on the NFL’s comprehensive plans to enable the league to host vaccinated health care workers and fans safely and responsibly.

Super Bowl Covid-19 protocols include mandatory mask wearing, social-distancing, podded seating, touch-less in-stadium experiences at concessions, restrooms and security checkpoints, as well as controlled entry and egress.

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Wednesday, Feb. 17

Kiwanis Super Bowl Sunday Pancake Breakfast

Virtual Simply Stronger

Join the Kiwanis Club on Super Bowl Sunday from 9 a.m. to noon at IHOP in Oceanside, at 2971 Long Beach Road and fuel up for the big game. Proceeds go to Kiwanis and attendees willhave the option to dine in or take out their meals.

The Island Park Library will provide virtual certified personal trainer Marilyn Bunger, who will teach a low impact exercise class from 11 a.m. to noon. Please use hand weights. Limit of 20 people per session. Register at islandparklibrary.org or call (516) 432-0122.

Monday, Feb. 8

Monday, Feb. 22

Monday Meditation

Island Park Board of Education The Island Park Public Schools Board of Education will host its next board meeting at 7 p.m. at Lincoln Orens MIddle School, 150 Trafalgar Blvd. It will also be streamed online. For information on how to live stream or phone in, visit www.ips.k12.ny.us.

Join Pat Anderson for a relaxing session of meditation vitually to begin your week on the right foot at 2 p.m.

For more information and the virtual link, visit oceansidelibrary.com.

Parents Reading and Recording for Dr. Seuss Day Record yourself reading the Dr. Seuss book we provided and follow these guidelines: Record on an iPhone, if possible. Announce the title of the book before you start reading. Do not say your name in the recording.

Once the recording is complete, email it to jprogram@oceansidelibrary.com.

The recording will be posted to the library’s social media pages. For more information, contact the Youth Services Department at (516) 766-2360, ext. 2, or email jprogram@oceansidelibrary.com

Grab & Go Craft This week’s craft is a Valentine’s Day heart. Stop by the Island Park Library to pick up a craft. You can also call the library or email iplchildrens@ islandparklibrary.org to arrange a pick up time.

Virtual Tai-Chi and Chi Cong Join the Island Park Library virtually for this program at 10:15 a.m. Register at islandparklibrary.org or call (516) 432-0122.

Tuesday, Feb. 9 Oceanside Garden Club Presents: Bird Habitats for Your Home

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A ‘super’ sized breakfast The Oceanside Kiwanis Club hosts its annual Super Bowl pancake breakfast on Sunday. Two years ago, Sean Horbach, 4, was a very hungry attendee.

A discussion on how to enhance your bird feeding in the winter. Presented

by Wild Birds Unlimited from Syosset.

The Oceanside Garden Club and Oceanside Library host this program at 7 p.m. For more information and the virtual link, visit oceansidelibrary.com.

Play Hooray Videos Watch Molly Mouse from home! Since we can’t meet in person right now, enjoy these 20-minute videos from PlayHooray in your home, at your convenience. Videos will be made available on the Island Park Public Library’s website. Register at islandparklibrary.org or call (516) 432-0122.

Virtual Chair Yoga This class provides instruction and practice for people who feel they may not be flexible enough for standard

yoga, and will be held virtually from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Register at islandparklibrary.org or call (516) 432-0122.

Wednesday, Feb. 10 Oceanside Board of Education The Oceanside Board of Education will host its next public meeting at the School No. 6 auditorium at 7:30 p.m.

It will also be held virtually on YouTube. To submit questions, email mbarbella@oceansideschools.org under the Subject Line “Public Meeting” before 5 p.m. the day of the board meeting.

Thursday, Feb. 11

Meeting The Village of Island Park hosts its monthly board meeting at 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 127 Long Beach Road.

For more information or the agenda, visit villageofislandpark.com.

Saturday, Feb. 13 Saturday Vinyasa Yoga with Dot Scott Start your weekend off on the right foot and grab a mat and some blocks (use whatever you can around the house for support) and join the Oceanside Library for an online session with Dorothy Scott from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. For more information and the virtual link, visit oceansidelibrary.com.

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The Kiwanis Club Super Bowl pancake breakfast is set for Feb. 7.

Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday with library activities on Feb. 8.

The Oceanside Garden Club meets Feb. 9.

Oceanside (Feb. 10) and Island Park (Feb. 11) BOEs are set to meet.

Sen. Todd Kaminsky hosts a cyberbullying roundtable on Feb. 11.

Oceanside Sanitation District No. 7 will host its next board meeting at 7 p.m. at sanitation headquarters, 90 Mott Street, in Oceanside. It will also stream on the district’s YouTube channel.

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Herald Inside LI hosts cutting expenses webinar

By Nicole AlciNdor nalcindor@liherald.com

The Covid-19 pandemic caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs in 2020, and as a result, many found that their worst financial fears became their reality.

Even though many Americans never lost their jobs and some have found new ones, a growing number of people have been preoccupied by fear because they worry about being able to keep their jobs during the worst economic c a l a m i t y s i n c e t h e G re at Depression.

For many, pulling money from their savings accounts is the only way to survive, while others wished they had saved more emergency money, or they don’t know where to begin to start cutting expenses.

With many Long Islanders grappling with these financial concerns, Herald Inside LI held a free infor mational Zoom webinar on Jan. 28 to discuss reducing expenditures.

The webinar, which was sponsored by Edward Jones, Emigrant Mortgage, EmPower VeroNicA Solar, Maidenbaum Property Ferrero Tax Reduction Group and Geico, featured a panel of Assistant Vice expert speakers, who discussed President, simple ways to save money. DisEmigrant Mortgage cussion topics ranged from paying off credit card debt and getting finances in order to information about how to refinance loans with lower rates, ways to save on electric bills and how to grieve property taxes.

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n the same way that you would plan a Super Bowl dinner for friends and family, I recommend that people plan if they want to budget.

The importance of an emergency fund

“Last year, it was eye-opening to see how many people lost their jobs, and many people learned the hard way that having emergency funds set aside is so important,” said Marie Taylor, a 20-year financial adviser at Edward Jones. “People need to know that you’re never too young to start saving because people can go into foreclosure if they can’t make payments.”

As someone who helps people manage people’s finances on a daily basis, Taylor said her usual approach when helping new clients to start a budget worksheet is to help them understand their savings, investments and income. The worksheet, she said, includes four key questions: ■ Where am I today?

■ Where do I need to go?

■ Can I get there?

■ What do I need to reach that goal?

“I tell my clients that it’s important to look at where your money is coming from and to make sure they know the risks, recognize strategies and that they should understand what their goals and aspirations are,” Taylor said. “It’s also important that people make sure that they have a financial adviser that is focused on the people they serve. If a financial adviser is not explaining costs or checking on your investments, and they are telling you what they think you need while failing to find out your background information, you might want to get a different financial adviser.”

Making a plan

Another guest panelist, Veronica Ferrero, who is the assistant vice president and community lending

Courtesy Herald Inside LI

HerAld iNside li held a free Zoom webinar on how to reduce expenses amid the coronavirus pandemic last Thursday. coordinator at Emigrant Mortgage Company Inc., said her job involves helping people to create a plan that reviews their credit report to see if it is up to date and without errors. She also looks at credit cards to make sure the interest rate is the lowest possible.

“Whenever someone closes or opens a savings account, it will affect their credit score,” she said. “A lot of people have credit cards that they don’t use, and they don’t realize that this will affect their credit score and that they should be diligent about paying their credit card payments when they are due.”

Ferrero also said she spends time evaluating her clients’ mortgages to aid them in discovering new ways to save in various areas, such as in their utility, phone and car insurance bills. She also aids people in looking at their long-term goals and deciding if taking out a home equity mortgage or line of credit would be the most sensible decision, based on a case-by-case analysis. With the ongoing pandemic, she also said, interest rates are low, and now is an opportune time to refinance and renovate homes.

“In the same way that you would plan a Super Bowl dinner for friends and family, I recommend that people plan if they want to budget, and through my job, I want to help people to realize through an analysis process, specifically where their money goes on a monthly basis,” she said. “This is a challenging process, but most people are glad when they do this, and they are better able to see where they can better save money.”

Taylor and Ferrero both added that people should look for interest rates on their student loans to help budget better.

“It’s important to do research on programs and to look for companies to help you to do this,” Ferrero stressed.

“Speak to someone who will sit down and listen to you and be disciplined about this, and don’t get distracted,” Taylor said.

Tara McDermott, director of customer experience and stakeholder relations at EmPower Solar, said her company serves about 3,000 clients. EmPower Solar aims to help consumers save on electric bills by help-

ing them install solar panels.

“Now, more than ever, people are more conscious of an increase in electric bills because people are spending more time in their homes, and therefore they are using up more energy due to the pandemic,” she said.

“The average home on Long Island pays $250 a month on their electric bill, and our goal is to get homeowners to save money through the installation of solar panels on their roof. About one in every 22 houses on Long Island have solar panels now.”

Having solar panel consultation with EmPower Solar, McDermott said, is free. It will take place over Zoom to discuss how much solar panels will cost on a case-by-case basis and answer any other questions for those considering going solar.

“We stress to our clients that having solar panels does not increase taxes, but third-party studies have shown that it does add about $20,000 to the value of the home,” she said. “Around 15 percent of clients have a battery backup system for their solar panels—which will allow them to power their house during a power outage for an unlimited amount of time. This is great because clients can be prepared for an emergency, similar to another Superstorm Sandy.”

Filing a grievance

As the Zoom meeting was ending, guest speaker Mark Miller, in-house counsel at Maidenbaum Property Tax Reduction Group, made a few remarks. “All residential homeowners should file a grievance, and anybody who has a renovation on their house should file and see if they qualify, but they should keep in mind that solar panels don’t count as a renovation in these instances,” he said. “Also, if you double your house size through renovation, you won’t get the home improvement exemption. You might be considered a whole new property at that point.”

The recording for this cutting expenses webinar can be found at liherald.com/recordings. The next Herald Inside LI webinar will be Thursday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m., and will look at estate and Medicaid planning.

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By Mike SMollinS msmollins@liherald.com

The coronavirus pandemic couldn’t keep Oceanside Kiwanis from tackling one of its biggest events of the year, its annual Super Bowl Sunday pancake breakfast.

The event is scheduled for this Sunday, Feb. 7, from 9 a.m. to noon and attendees can fuel up for the big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers with pancakes and other food.

The event will take place at IHOP in Oceanside, at 2971 Long Beach Road, and when guests say they are there on behalf of Oceanside Kiwanis, portions of the proceeds automatically go to the club.

Attendees will have the option to eat in or takeout their breakfast.

“We’re very excited to still be able to host a pancake breakfast — even during the pandemic,” Kiwanis President Seth Blau said. “It’s important for our club to keep our traditions alive and to still be able to fundraise to support our programs for the kids and the community.”

In addition to the breakfast, guests who dine in will have the ability to participate in Kiwanis’s 50/50 and Valentine’s Day raffles, and there will also be a children’s raffle board.

Proceeds of the event will go toward the Kiwanis Club scholarships and other programs.

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oceanSide kiwaniS will host its Super Bowl Sunday pancake breakfast on Sunday. Pancake Chef Leo Bonacasa, center, replenished Bob Transom, left, and Joe Cibellis’s trays with pancakes at last year’s event.

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A massive nor’easter out of the west swept across Long Island early Monday as the Herald went to press, and prognosticators said it could drop up to a foot or more of snow across the area by Tuesday, with wind gusts expected to reach 30 to perhaps as high as 60 miles per hour.

Oceanside and Island Park were two areas hit hard by the storm. Both of the school districts closed Monday and Tuesday. Messages stated that the Oceanside and Island Park school district websites

would update residents on more closures or potential re-openings for the rest of the week.

Nassau County and town officials urged people to stay off the roads during the storm if they could. Road conditions were already “treacherous” by Monday morning.

“Wind is going to play a significant role in this storm,” said County Executive Laura Curran during a news conference Sunday. “We’re talking about blizzard-like conditions .... It’s going to be heavy, wet snow with a lot of wind.”

The biggest snowfall was expected

between 10 a.m. and 11 p.m. Monday. The South Shore was expected to be “most vulnerable,” the county executive said.

“As the day goes on, conditions are going to get more dangerous for driving,” Curran said.

Two to five inches were expected to fall

by the time of the morning commute at 9 a.m., and snow was expected to accumulate throughout the day after that.

Delays and service disruptions were also expected on the Long Island Rail Road and NICE Bus routes.

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a powerful nor’eaSter hit Oceanside and Island Park on Sunday into Monday. a foot of snow was expected to fall as the Herald went to press.

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Less than a week after high-risk high school sports in New York state such as basketball, football, wrestling, volleyball and competitive cheer were given the OK to proceed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran relayed the necessary guidance put in place by the state and approved by local health officials.

At a Jan. 27 news conference at Bay Pa rk i n E a s t Ro ck aw ay, C u r r a n announced the high-risk sports guidelines that, once met, will clear the way for public and parochial schools to begin practicing for basketball, wrestling and cheer on Feb. 1, and holding games and matches as soon as Feb. 8.

“I’m excited to get our kids back on the fields, courts and the rinks they love so much and to bring a little normal back into their lives,” Curran said.

Some of the mandatory guidelines put in place countywide by Suffolk aren’t being mirrored by Nassau. Instead, those decisions were left to individual school districts in Nassau. These include weekly Covid-19 testing for participating athletes, coaches and others in daily contact with the teams, temperature monitoring before practices and games, and no more than two spectators per athlete for home teams.

Masks must be worn at all times, unless players are unable to tolerate such a covering for the physical activity, and a minimum of 6 feet in distance between individuals must be followed at all times, with the exception of participating athletes. No sharing of equipment or drinks will be permitted, and facilities must provide sanitizer for all in attendance and be limited to 50 percent of the maximum occupancy of a particular area, inclusive of employees, patrons, players and spectators.

Curran said the Nassau County Department of Health would conduct spot compliance checks at random schools to ensure safety guidelines are being followed.

On Jan. 26, Nassau’s athletic directors held a meeting with Section VIII, the governing body for high school athletics in the county, to discuss a return to play for basketball, wrestling and cheer. Section VIII also conducted a conference call with school superintendents that same morning.

Section VIII Executive Director Pat Pizzarelli said with athlete participation the primary goal this winter, there would be no playoffs for basketball and no postseason for wrestling. Basketball teams will play an eight-game season, while wrestling will conduct dual meets only.

“We want the largest number of kids playing in the most number of games, and this was the way to do it,” Pizzarelli

said.

Baldwin has already decided to have all high-risk athletes and coaches tested weekly and will not be permitting spectators, Athletic Director Ed Ramirez said.

The district is planning to livestream basketball games and wrestling matches. “I’m excited to see our winter student athletes, especially our seniors, back competing,” Ramirez said. “Although they will not get the full experience, they have an opportunity to represent their school one last time, be with their teammates and enjoy their passion.”

The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District does not plan to mandate testing, Athletic Director Eric Caballero said. It will allow two spectators per home athlete, with no fans from visiting teams permitted. The Sewanhaka Central High School District is following the same criteria for testing and spectators, said Athletic Director Matt McLees.

The Valley Stream Central High School District will not allow fans for basketball and wrestling, but Athletic Director Scott Steuber said the topic will be revisited for sports set to begin March 1, such as football, soccer, volleyball and field hockey.

“I’m thrilled that we’re going to be starting all of our sports,” Pizzarelli said. “We haven’t had any Covid spread with the sports that began Jan. 4. Now we’re starting basketball and wrestling. BaSkETBaLL, aLONg wITh other high-risk winter I’ll be honest, I’m concerned cheer, were cleared to begin practicing Feb. 1. about wrestling. I spoke to our athletic administrators. They need to stress to their coaches they need to be diligent in keeping the safety of our student-athletes as the No. 1 priority, which is what we always do in athletics.”

Pizzarelli added each school district would make a determination whether to compete in the high-risk winter sports or not. He said only Uniondale, which is in full remote learning mode, has opted out so far. Lawrence flipped its decision on winter sports and will be competing.

Traditional fall sports, including football, soccer, girls’ tennis, cross-country, volleyball, field hockey and girls’ swimming, are slated to begin practice March 1. Spring sports, such as lacrosse, baseball, softball, boys’ tennis, track and field, girls’ badminton and boys’ golf, are set to start April 22.

NaSSau COuNTY ExECuTIvE Laura Curran said individual school districts could decide on Covid-19 testing for athletes and coaches.

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have been working for Mount Sinai for the last four years, and I have been a nurse for nine years now.

I have been fighting the Covid-19 pandemic as a nurse since the virus first began to surface last March. At the beginning, I was working in primary care offices with doctors, seeing patients every day. I was involved in doing Covid testing at a site Mount Sinai opened in Lawrence in the Five Towns.

We soon switched the program to a tent at the hospital. The program at Lawrence was a huge success. We wanted to expand it. We had very sophisticated analyzing equipment. At the beginning, we were seeing 30 to 40 people a day. Now, we’re seeing 80 to 90 a day. We pulled people from other parts of the hospital to help out. They were the very best people.

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I got to see patients. In the beginning, I was very frightened. When I went to the ER tent at the hospital, it looked like something you would see in a movie. Alarms were going off — for two weeks. It scared the living daylights out of me. But I got over it.

How did all of this affect me? It gave me the opportunity to help out the community.

It gave me the opportunity to meet so many great people I might never have met otherwise.

I do dream about the patients to this day. In my dreams, I see them gasping for air. Some of them did not survive. I have more respect for living life to the fullest. Life is precious.

ur church services residents in Roosevelt, Hempstead, Baldwin, Freeport and Uniondale.

This pandemic has disproportionately impacted our communities — communities of color. It’s ravaged and devastated us. The vaccine has been out for more than six weeks now, but Blacks and Latinos have had to go through hurdles to have access to it.

Northwell Health reached out to us last year to open up a free testing facility, so I’m grateful that they came back to us now to ask if we could host a vaccination site for our residents.

We reached out to our communities to let them know what was going on. There’s always been a communication breakdown with Black and Latino communities since the pandemic began. Our communities get overlooked. I live in Elmont, but didn’t even know they had a

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I’m a Covid-19 survivor. I got sick and was hospitalized in March. My own father-in-law passed away from this disease. We’ve had members of our congregation get sick, recover or who passed away from Covid.

It means a lot to see people who look like me be able to receive the vaccine.

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At that time, the hospital was still entrenched in the late stages of the initial Covid-19 patient surge, and the mere thought of a vaccine was just wishful thinking.

In November, as the likelihood increased that a vaccine would be approved for emergency-use authorization, we fine-tuned our plan and began to put components into place. Though we didn’t yet know the process

of distribution and handling of vaccines, we wanted to be as prepared as possible to mobilize our plan to the best of our ability and adjust it on the fly if the vaccine arrived on short or without advance notice.

By December, we were completely prepared for the arrival of the vaccine, so that when it came the morning of Dec. 15, we were ready to distribute it in coordination with the rules and requirements of the state. Our plan has proven to be nimble so that it could manage the special requirements of two vaccines.

Essential to the smooth implementation of our plan has been the selfless, passionate service of nearly a dozen retired MSSN nurses who answered the call to serve countless hours at our Covid-19 Vaccination Center to administer the vaccine. They have been vital.

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[The pandemic] has affected everybody, psychological and physical. I had caught the virus last year, which was unknown then, because it was probably at the end of February, and what I learned then — it’s invaluable, because we didn’t have knowledge then. Then through the year, we were more prepared in the hospital; now we have everything. We can help somebody that has the virus.

Based on my coworkers, they didn’t want to have the vaccine based on wrong information.

When I spoke with them, a couple months ago,

I was trying to explain then that the benefits are better, having the vaccine, than not having the vaccine. Because you not only protect yourself, but you are protecting your family members and all the coworkers and everybody that comes in touch with us.

The first question was, ‘What are the side effects?’ And I was being very honest. I’m not a professional; I can only say for what I read. The benefits are that you, as a person, are to be more safe with the vaccine. They changed their mind. The side effects are annoying, but based on my own experience, basically it’s nothing.

Don’t doubt about it. Don’t even think that something will go wrong, because tests have been done, studies have been done and [are still being done], so if you get the side effect, it will be minimal, [even] in extreme cases.

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Each celebration coincided with something they could do for others, including cards for local heroes, the Kind Coins for Mexico fundraiser or contributing to the food drive.

School No. 5 finished a week of celebrating the great kindness challenge with a large collection of coins totaling about $800 as part of a fundraiser to build a school in Mexico.

The students, staff and families also donated piles of non-perishable food for the Oceanside Community Service food pantry.

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Students at Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School kicked off their People As Reading Partners, or PARP, program with a virtual visit from author and storyteller Heather Forest.

PARP is an annual initiative organized

by Library Media Specialist Esta Jacobskind and sponsored by the Island Park PTA. It encourages reading at home and with families.

This year’s PARP theme is “My Other

Bike is a Magic Carpet,” representing the ability to explore the world through books. Hegarty students studied Forest’s stories before her visit. Her “Wisdom Tales From Around the World” anthology includes folktales, parables and proverbs from across the globe, thus tying in with the PARP theme.

Courtesy Island Park Public Schools; compiled by Mike Smollins

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School Social worker Colleen Kunz presented the No Name Calling pledge to a class at Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School.

No Name-Calling Week in I.P. schools Good character is a year-round commitment in Island Park schools. That idea and theme was recently emphasized during No Name-Calling Week from Jan. 19 to 22.

During the week, students participated in a variety of activities that promoted awareness of the impact of words and the importance of having compassion.

Lincoln Orens Middle School counselor Andrea Porzelt and social worker Allison Janofsky, as well as Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School psychologist Colleen Kunz and social worker Felicita Carranza coordinated initiatives that focused on pos-

itive behaviors and actions.

Both buildings featured theme days based on the six pillars of character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. Students and staff members dressed in colors representative of these qualities and students signed No Name-Calling Week pledges.

The six pillars were on display in the hallways to further instill a positive learning environment and culture of kindness.

Courtesy Island Park Public Schools; compiled by Mike Smollins

News brief Virtual round table on cyberbullying set to be live streamed on Feb. 11 State Sen. Todd Kaminsky will host a virtual round table on cyberbullying on Feb. 11 at 5 p.m.

The forum will address the causes and manifestations of the cyberbullying threat to students and provide recommendations on how to best address the issue.

“Cyberbullying is a serious threat to our children in today’s world, and I am committed to doing all I can to stamp out this menace to our youth and their wellbeing,” Kaminsky said, according to a news release. “At my Senate roundtable, we will convene an expert panel of educators, students, law enforcement officials

and other stakeholders to discuss this serious issue in our schools — and how we can put an end to it.”

A 2020 study conducted by the Cyberbullying Research Center found that one in five students between the ages of 9 and 12 had seen, perpetrated or been a victim of cyberbullying. Kaminsky is the sponsor of legislation to establish a commission on the effects of cyberbullying in New York as well as measures that can be taken to address it.

To access the live stream, visit Kaminsky.nysenate.gov, or facebook.com/senatorkaminsky.

O’side schools transportation deadline is April 1 The Oceanside Sanitation District’s Transportation Office has announced that all requests for transportation to non-public schools for the 2021-22 school year must be received on or before April 1.

Transportation will be rejected based on a late registration card. All cards must be received by April 21.

In keeping protocol with Covid-19

procedures, all cards must be mailed and received by April 1 to the transportation office: Rahcel Blackman Ocenaside Transportation UFSD Oceanside, 11572 For additional information, call (516) 678-1211, or email rblackman@ oceansideschools.org.

Courtesy Island Park Public Schools

author and Storyteller Heather Forest visited Francis X. Hegary Elementary School as part of the People As Reading Partners, or PARP, event.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: NASSAU COUNTY. L&L ASSOCIATES HOLDING CORP., Pltf. vs. JSU PROPERTIES, LLC, et al, Defts.

Index #607332/2019. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale dated Feb. 10, 2020, I will sell at public auction on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Dr., Mineola, NY on Feb. 16, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. prem. k/a School District 11, Section 43, Block 220, Lot 1 4 7 .

12/31-4X:#98670Foreclos ure auction will be held “rain or shine.” If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the court appointed referee will cancel the auction.

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LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT, The Board of Fire Commissioners (BOFC) of the Oceanside Fire District of the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, on the 26th day of January, 2021, has adopted a Resolution, published herewith and this resolution shall not take effect until thirty (30) days after its adoption, nor until approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of electors of such Fire District affected, qualified to vote at the Annual Election of Fire District Officers, voting on such proposition, if within thirty (30) days after its

adoption and publication there is filed a petition signed and acknowledged, or proved in the same manner as a deed to be recorded, by resident taxpayers of said Fire District, owning taxable real property aggregating at least onequarter (1/4) of the assessed valuation of all taxable real property of the ire District, as such valuation appears on the latest completed assessment roll of the Town of Hempstead, in which the Fire District is located, protesting against such resolution and requesting that it be submitted to the qualified electors of the Fire District affected, for approval.

THE BOFC OF THE OCEANSIDE FIRE DISTRICT OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, STATE OF NEW YORK, HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS;

WHEREAS the BOFC has determined it to be in the best interest of the Fire District to purchase one new Chevy Tahoe to be used as a Chief’s Vehicle.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the net sum of $70,000 be withdrawn from the Capital Reserve Fund established for the purpose of such expenditures and that such expenditure is subject to permissive referendum.

The unencumbered balance in that account as of January 26, 2021 was approximately $942,643.24.

Dated: January 26, 2021 BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS OCEANSIDE FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD ATTEST: TRICIA SCHIELDS District Secretary OCEANSIDE Fire District 124567

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Taxes: $12,578 Island Park $490,000 Brighton Road. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms.

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Two family rooms, one with vaulted ceiling and terrace.

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Taxes: $9,402.04 Long Beach $650,000 Monroe Boulevard. Duplex. 6 bedrooms, 2.55 bathrooms.

Eat-in kitchen. First floor master bedroom. Skylight. Many updates. Taxes: $17,196.96

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Baldwin $465,000 Grand Terrace Avenue. Fieldstone/brick Cape. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Updated eat-in kitchen with custom cabinets, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. Formal dining room. Den/family room.

Oak floor in living room. Open front porch and brick patio.

Park-like backyard.

Taxes: $11,674.67 Bellmore $575,000 Florin Court. Contemporary. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Eat-in kitchen with quartz countertops and stainless steel appliances. Open layout. Entry off kitchen to Trex deck. Master with full bathroom, walk-in closet and bonus room. Home office.

Deeded dock rights. 2 car garage.

Taxes: $9,307.31

Malverne $435,000 Nassau Avenue. Ranch. 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom. Eat-in kitchen. Large formal dining room. First floor master bedroom. Taxes: $12,145.77 Rockville Centre $950,000 Berkshire Road. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 4.555 bathrooms.

Finished basement. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room.

Den/family room. First floor master bedroom. Skylight.

Taxes: $35,391.23 Valley Stream $775,000 Kearny Drive. Split Level. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Eatin kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room and home office. Near shopping and transportation.

Taxes: $16,718 Woodmere $563,000 West Broadway. Colonial. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Eatin kitchen. Taxes: $16,816.54 Source: The Multiple Listing Service of Long Island Inc,, a computerized network of real estate offices serving Nassau, Suffolk, Queens, and Brooklyn.

Q. Why do my replacement steps need to be lower than my house foundation? I live near the water, and we dug a hole to put in a new foundation for the front steps that will be bigger than the old ones. We found the groundwater came up at 30 inches, so we stopped digging, but the inspector said our plans showed 36 inches minimum. The house foundation is at 30 inches also, so why are we digging lower?

They did it, but I can’t understand.

A. This is a very uplifting topic. The deep question and answer are actually simple and not too deep after all.

Science, if followed, can aid in survival against the forces of nature that perpetually exist.

The reason your foundation needs to be lower is that water, when it freezes, expands as ice.

So what does that have to onte eeper do with a big ol’ heavy chunk of concrete, you may ask? Well, the ground absorbs rain droplets, humidity and underground streams, all various forms of water just waiting to expand when the temperature drops below 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius. Frost begins to form, first at the surface and then further and further down below ground level the longer the air temperature remains at or below freezing.

In this part of the world, the average depth of freezing consistently reaches 3 feet, and only slowly thaws when the air temperature rises. The foundation should always have a wide base, or footing, that spreads out at the bottom, and needs to be below the 3-foot depth to resist the phenomenon of heaving. This is because, as the frost builds and expands, the moisture, in all its various forms (I just mentioned), begins to expand and crowd out the foundation of your home, or front steps, or anything else in its way.

Think of it like a big zit being forced to the surface from all directions.

When this happens, all the man-made structures in the ground begin to lift, sway, crack and separate in different directions. You have about as much chance of preventing it as you would of standing against a strong tidal wave on the beach, but since the heaving happens in slow motion, it seems to not be well recognized, because this problem comes up all the time on construction sites. Believe it or not, even large buildings, like skyscrapers and shopping malls, are vulnerable to uplift from soil expansion, so it’s not just your front steps or your comparatively smaller building. Workers who don’t understand the science can create some easily avoidable problems.

The reason your house foundation is closer to the surface is probably because it’s tied to deep piers, called piles, that may go down 25 feet below the surface. The adjacent concrete foundation, anchored to the piles, should still have gone down to 36 inches, but at least the existing footings are held to something that may resist the uneven lifting.

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f you spend any portion of your day watching the news on television, you’re no doubt confused about what is taking place in Washington. In a moment of reflection, it dawned on me that we are living in two worlds. One world is the happenings in Congress, and the other is the real world.

While President Biden is busy trying to launch his new government, the Senate will be tied up for weeks deciding whether to convict former President Trump JERRY for his conduct on Jan. 6, the day KREMER of the riot at the Capitol. The final result is totally predictable. Most of the Republican senators, who worry only about their careers, will not vote to convict him.

By and large, Congress is detached from people on the street. Politicians like Senators Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell are focused on protecting Trump, who has threated to promote

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primary contests against anyone who displeases him.

But at the impeachment trial, all those cowards who won’t vote to convict Trump will, along with the public, be forced to watch hours of video of the horrors of the Jan. 6 mob attack. And they will have to hear witnesses who will state, “President Trump told me to do it.”

To paraphrase the late, great boxer Joe Louis, they can run but they can’t hide.

So let’s turn to the real world. Thanks to the courage of Twitter and Facebook, Trump is without a platform to continue his lies about a stolen election. There has been no public uprising against the social media platforms. It’s really comforting to have a day without tweets from an out-of-control narcissist. And it feels good to have a president who is showing up for work each day.

Unlike Trump, Biden isn’t hiding from the Covid pandemic. The federal government is taking over the responsibility of getting vaccines out to people. We are hearing what the govern-

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ment is doing to tackle this plague, and not ignoring the dangers of a virus that has killed over 400,000 people. Biden will tell us the truth, which is a welcome change.

It is clear that the 74 million people who voted for Trump aren’t just sitting around, mourning their loss. In the weeks after the Capitol uprising, 30,000 Republicans reportedly changed their party registration in disgust over Trump’s conduct. That may not seem like a big number, but many of them were residents of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona, key political states.

Many of the same people who refused to wear masks, and made fun of Biden during the campaign when he appeared in one, are lining up to get their vaccinations, while anxiously awaiting new legislation that will provide stimulus money for struggling businesses and increased unemployment benefits. And in the near future, Biden will be offering a new health insurance proposal.

Trump will likely escape any penalties for the Jan. 6 attack, but many of

hanks to the courage of social media, Trump is without a platform to continue his lies.

his people who broke into the Capitol will face the possibility of prison terms. Many Trump voters may have second thoughts about sticking with a man who encouraged an event that resulted in the deaths of five people.

The talking heads on TV speak as if Trump voters are some sort of solid block, but most of them want the same things that Democratic voters want.

The rural red states have plenty of areas badly in need of a little love.

They are suffering with limited resources. They lack internet access and are saddled with poor schools, just like inner cities. Their local hospitals are overwhelmed and in danger of failing. Their need for a little TLC can be met by a caring president, and the dynamic will change.

So I’m not going to let the immoral conduct of 45 senators distract me. I’m focused on the real world.

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

Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.

Creating your pandemic time capsule

f time is really relative and there are time travelers out there from the future thinking about where to visit, do not, I repeat, do not go back to 2020.

We just closed the door on that baby, and it was hard to get on with our lives.

If you don’t believe me, just open the time capsules we leave behind.

We’re preserving the artifacts of our lives so that people in the future can better understand who they are and what brought them to their moment.

RANDI I’ve been thinkKREISS ing about what I will put into my pandemic time capsule, which is a big cardboard box in my bedroom closet.

Into it goes anything that I think is evocative of living through the pandemic.

Some of the things I put in the box are what you’d imagine: a roll of toilet paper, pictures of us and our friends in masks, a bottle of hand sanitizer, an envelope with several strands of hair, eight inches long and gray. I started keeping a pandemic diary over the summer, and I threw that into the cardboard

capsule in August, when I was depressed by the numbers and didn’t feel like writing daily entries anymore.

I tossed into the box some of the newspaper front pages I saved: “CDC details first U.S. case of novel virus spreading in China.” “FDA grants historic authorization to a Covid-19 vaccine.”

“Winter is coming: Why America’s window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing.”

We cannot be reliable memory keepers if we don’t include politics. The ferocity of the pandemic was fueled by President Trump and his people.

They hid the truth from the American people, fudged the alarming numbers, silenced the scientists and failed to do what was necessary to get ahead of the surges. So, I would put into my box another front page, from The New York Times: “Biden Beats Trump.” The world changed in a moment.

I would also save my “screen use” statement from Verizon, indicating an average of 60 minutes a day pre-pandemic, and six hours a day as of last week.

I asked some friends and family what they would put in a pandemic time cap-

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sule. Photos of people in ICUs on ventilators, my sister said. My grandson suggested something with the Netflix logo, a friend suggested photos of her grandkids, with and without masks as the year progressed, and another friend suggested a can of tuna and a packet of yeast. Someone said she’d put an old paintbrush in the capsule, since it helped save her life. I’ll include the hard-copy calendar I keep with notations for Zoom meetings and virtual doctor’s appointments and copies of our living wills, executed as the pandemic surged.

I will include photographs — real, printed photographs — of the loving friends who died this year, some of Covid-19, some of other diseases. I have the receipt from some enterprising death company welcoming me to a “virtual shiva.”

I will toss in my appointment card for my second Pfizer vaccine shot, as soon as I get inoculated.

When I surveyed some friends about what should go into the time capsule, one suggested Trump himself. Another said she would like to bury the anxiety and constant fear many felt as the former president bungled the response to

’ll put in pictures of us and our friends in masks, a bottle of hand sanitizer . . .

the pandemic, and we realized the unthinkable: that upward of a half-million Americans could die. One friend said he would put in Hershey’s Chocolate Nuggets, which he swears are better than Xanax.

Food has loomed large for everyone — getting it, hoarding it, cooking it, donating it. What time capsule would be complete without takeout menus and a list ranging from GrubHub to UberEats?

These were companies I never heard of before 2020.

I would save the books I picked last year at random for my Zoom book group this winter. Somehow, they’re all relevant to living through a pandemic. I suppose that’s because all good literature distracts us and helps heal our fractures.

For a few weeks, I kept a notepad at my bedside and wrote down the dreams I was having in the worst days. They were all the same: I walk into a room and no one is wearing masks, and I know, I absolutely know, that I will get sick. I couldn’t have had that dream in 2019. I’ll put the notepad in my time capsule.

My best hope is that we can seal our capsules very soon and leave their memories and lessons to history.

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

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Recalling injustice during Black History Month

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uring February, Black History Month, we celebrate the great African-American political and civil rights leaders, scientists, artists, poets, movie stars and athletes.

But we must also pause to recall America’s dark past, stained by horrific acts against Black and brown people, at times perpetrated by our own government.

As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, it’s critical that we look back at the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” to understand the distrust that many African-Americans feel toward our government and medical institutions.

That distrust may be a contributing factor in the significantly higher Covid-19 infection rate and death toll seen among Black and brown people.

The Tuskegee study was supposed to last six months. It carried on for 40 years, from 1932 to 1972, a collaboration between the U.S. Public Health Service and Tuskegee Institute, a historically Black college in Alabama. The study of 600 poor Black sharecroppers examined 399 with syphilis and 201 without the disease. Study participants were told they were being treated for “bad blood,” a colloquialism for syphilis, anemia and fatigue, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In truth, they weren’t being treated at all — even after 1945, when penicillin was accepted as “the treatment of choice for syphilis.”

In fact, the study looked at what would happen if syphilis were to go untreated — but the participants never knew that. It wasn’t until 1972, when an Associated Press story disclosed the study, that it

ended.

Is it any wonder that many AfricanAmericans might distrust the continual exhortations of our federal, state and local governments to be inoculated against the coronavirus as soon as they can?

According to the CDC, nationally, there have been 1.4 times more Covid-19 cases among African-Americans than white people over the past 11 months. The hospitalization rate is 3.7 times greater among Black and brown people. And the death rate is 2.8 times greater.

There are reasons for these dispiriting statistics beyond distrust of government and the medical system — systemic racism is chief among them, the CDC says.

Lack of access to health care is another, and occupation is another: Many people of color work in the service industry, requiring them to show up in person rather than work from home via Zoom and email. Finally, there’s the question of housing. Many Black and brown people live in tighter quarters, in more densely populated areas, than white people. The coronavirus requires density to spread widely.

In 2019, the Herald undertook a yearlong investigative series examining the many forms that systemic racism takes in Nassau County. We called it “The Racism Around Us.” Infant mortality is a leading indicator of a community’s well-being, according to the county Department of Health. When children are dying in high numbers at birth, there are probably myriad other health concerns in a community.

In the majority of white communities

letters LIRR questions remain unanswered To the Editor: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s success is New York’s success, and a strong LIRR makes for a strong Long Island. Critical planning is needed for the year ahead to stamp out fraud and abuse, smartly rehabilitate the East River tunnels and get Elmont’s new train station up and running. Long Islanders depend on the MTA to provide an affordable, dependable and hassle-free commute, and the LIRR must live up to that obligation, especially as riders return to work in New York City. The MTA has its work cut out in 2021, and I will continue to hold agency officials to account. Our region’s future depends on it.

I recently pressed MTA officials on the steps they’re taking to clamp down on fraud and waste, and urged MTA leadership to finish installing biometric clocks for employees to log hours in the coming year. Indeed, fraud has been a perennial problem for the MTA, and yet the agency has yet to adequate-

across Nassau, the infant mortality rate ranged from 0 to 3 in 1,000 births in 201416, according to the New York State Department of Health. In most communities of color, the infant mortality rate was three to nine times that.

County officials identified nine communities of color as well as those with large minority populations — Elmont, Freeport, Glen Cove, Hempstead, Inwood, Long Beach, Roosevelt, Uniondale and Westbury — each with measurably greater health concerns than nearby white communities. They have been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, mirroring national statistics for infection and death rates.

“Blacks are bearing a disproportionate burden of Covid-19 in Nassau County,” said Elaine Gross, president of the Syosset-based ERASE Racism, “and the county must address two related challenges.

First, it must increase health care access and Covid-19 testing in Black communities. Second, it must combat the structural racism that fuels the disparities.”

Sarika Kuman, Long Island regional organizer for the National Institute of Reproductive Health, put it this way: “One’s quality of life should not be determined by your zip code, but in Nassau County it is. From infant mortality to pandemic fatality rates, the common thread is Long Island’s structural inequities.”

During Black History Month, we must never forget the racial injustices of our collective past so they are never repeated again, and so we might commit to rooting out the daily injustices — large and small — in our present society.

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our hundred years ago, the Catholic Church — then the arbiter of what ideas could be expressed and promulgated — banned books by scientists who claimed the Earth revolved around the sun because that theory conflicted with the orthodoxy of the time, i.e., the Bible and the Magisterium, the teaching authority of the pope and bishops.

Even if astronomers’ heliocentric theories were true, the powerful elite could not allow such disturbing words to be read — at least not in the JoHn vernacular — for such heresies o’ConneLL fear would confuse the masses and undermine the authority of those in charge.

These days it isn’t the princes of Rome that rule on what ideas are true and what news is allowed to be heard, but rather a decidedly secular hierarchy: the doyens of Silicon Valley, the media masters in New York and California, and their agents in Congress and government offices in Washington.

The current ideological conflict is often described as a battle between liberals and conservatives, but that’s last century’s war. Today’s cancel-culture college of cardinals shouldn’t be confused with liberals.

Real liberals aren’t hate-filled, intolerant, angry anarchists, no more than real conservatives are rich, white supremacist nativists. Genuine liberals are First Amendment absolutists ardently supportive of our liberties: a free press, freedom to practice our religions, freedom to peaceably assemble, the freedom to petition the government to better serve us, its sovereign, and to speak freely without fear of violent attack or suppression.

Authentically liberal Americans wouldn’t tolerate censorship of disagreeing — even disagreeable — voices. They’d defend those voices.

The indisputably liberal Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1927 that “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” A monopoly-busting, free-speech advocate, Brandeis would, I’m sure, see today’s corporate social media lords’ cancel-culture censorship as antithetical not only to the Constitution but to American civil liberties.

Traditional liberalism fights for an individual’s right to freely express ideas, popular or unacceptable, commonly believed or held only by that individual, true or not, whose supporting “facts” are from presumably credible sources or

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ruly liberal Americans wouldn’t tolerate censorship of disagreeing voices.

Letters ly abide by its inspector general’s recommendations to stamp out overtime abuse.

In December, five MTA employees were arrested on fraud charges for having logged “almost physically impossible amounts of overtime,” according to federal prosecutors. According to state payroll records, overtime hours logged by MTA employees soared 46 percent between 2014 and 2019. I urged agency officials to focus on reining in overtime and restoring riders’ trust in 2021.

I also inquired about plans to repair the East River tunnels this year. Hundreds of millions of gallons of water inundated the tubes during Superstorm Sandy and left them in disrepair. A report by the state comptroller found that the number of trains delayed or canceled because of problems with the tubes and their switches had increased 72 percent since Sandy, and accounted for a significant number of the LIRR’s on-time problems.

Finally, I’ve been a strong proponent of the new Elmont train station’s development as an integral component of the Belmont Park Redevelopment Plan. In addition to providing a regular, full-time public-transit option to and from the new arena, hotel and retail village, the LIRR hub will also serve as an additional com-

aren’t reliably sourced at all.

Some of President Biden’s inaugural speech was right out of a traditional liberal’s handbook. In his president-as-conciliator role, he said, “We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors.

We can treat each other with dignity and respect.

We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature.”

Eschewing the inciteful far-left rhetoric of many of his party-mates in Congress, the press and Hollywood, the president warned: “[W]ithout unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury. No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. … Let us listen to one another. Hear one another. See one another. Show respect to one another. Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.

Every disagreement doesn’t have to be a cause for total war.”

Left-wing extremists hope Biden’s words are just political speechifying.

Unlike reasonable liberals — and conservatives, for that matter — who are committed to social justice, equal opportunity and free speech, the goal of the radical left is to redefine what’s just, to tilt the playing field based on group identity, to amplify the speech of loud leftists and to silence contrary voices.

How fairly the national press reports on the Biden presidency will be important

to the future of the nation and to the survival of journalism itself. According to a Gallup survey five months ago, only 9 percent of Americans trust the media “a great deal.” Sixty percent trust them “not very much” or “none at all.” According to Gallup, the percentage of those who don’t trust the media at all went up five points in one year.

News consumers have turned to social media for information. Some wanted to connect on the new social app Parler before Big Tech suppressed it. Yes, the same Big Tech, the new Magisterium, that decides what can be posted and who can post.

I would have preferred that Biden had lost, but the election is over. That virus has left the lab. Disappointed, I must now only hope that he will serve America as a true liberal and reject many Democrats’ condescending intolerance. A sovereign people will oppose authoritarian politics that orders citizens to agree or shut up.

Half the country is vexed by the prospect of a Biden-Harris administration unchecked by the House or the Senate.

That situation can be changed in two or four years. But many Americans are even more troubled by the anarchy brought by Antifa and the radial left, which revels in “woke” group-think and seeks to crush the individualism that has made America great.

John O’Connell is a former executive editor of the Herald Community Newspapers. Comments about this column? OConnell11001@yahoo.com.

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muting option for area residents — which the community has needed for years.

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Executive orders are no help To the Editor: Last week, President Biden signed numerous executive orders that will end thousands of union jobs. one of them orders the closure of private federal prisons contracted by the U.S. Department of Justice. The idea of privately contracted federal prisons came from a previous Democratic administration. It was part of Vice President Al Gore’s so-called “reinventing of government” plan that instituted contracted federal prisons.

It was Gore’s and President Bill Clinton’s idea that paying a contracted facility would reduce costs, cut the federal work force and save retirement money, because federal workers wouldn’t be employed at these facilities. With these closures, private prison guards will be on the unemployment lines, and joining them will be construction workers building the border

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wall and Keystone pipeline employees.

And it was reported that another signed executive order ending drilling on federal lands will result next year in still more lost union jobs.

So much for helping hard-working

middle-class Americans.

STEVE GRoGAN Lynbrook Grogan is a retired Department of Justice employee.

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