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By Tom CARRozzA tcarrozza@liherald.com

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Empowering kids Oceanside High School teacher Talia Madden recently published her first children’s book, which follows six kids as they decide which color to paint their treehouse. Story, Page 3.

Three defendants in OHS senior’s stabbing plead guilty Three of the seven Long Beach defendants in the trial over the 2019 stabbing of Oceanside High School student Khaseen Morris pleaded guilty to felony charges of second-degree gang assault and misdemeanor assault on Jan. 31.

Long Beach residents Sean Merritt, Marquis Stephens Jr. and Javonte Neals, each 20, made their pleas at Nassau County Court in Mineola. The three will

be sentenced on April 11 by Nassau Supervising Judge Teresa Corrigan. Corrigan said that Stephens would be sentenced to a year in jail, and Merritt and Neals would receive 60 days and five years’ probation because of their plea deals.

All three will be granted youthful offender status, which seals the youth offender record and does not have to be reported on any applications for college or

work as a criminal conviction.

This came despite heavy opposition from Nassau District Attorney Anne Donnelly’s office.

Morris was 16 on Sept. 16, 2019, when his stabbing, in the parking lot of a strip mall on Brower Avenue, was broadcast over Snapchat. Charg es remained pending for four other Long Beach boys and Morris’s alleged killer, Tyler Flach, 21, from Lido Beach.

If not for a call made by her father in 2002, there is a chance that Oceanside native Lauren Streifer would not have become the CEO of her own company and founder of her own publishing house.

The call led her on an adventure from Long Island to Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans and eventually to Australia, where she now lives. It also inspired her to share her love of literature with the world, as Streifer released her new children’s book “This Small King.”

Streifer, 37, spent the first 17 years of lauren her life in Oceanside g rowing up on Woods Avenue. While she attended Oceanside High School, she entered foster care. “My parents were both supportive emotionally and academically, but they had personal challenges,” she said. “It just made living there unworkable.” Despite that challenging time, she held on to special memories of reading together with her parents before bed-

time.

When Streifer became a godparent to her friend’s children in just before the pandemic, she wanted to bond with them over literature, as well. she looked for children’s stories about the “sense of safety and love” that she felt during those moments before bedtime as a child. When she couldn’t find the perfect books for that, she decided to write them herself and created her own publishing house to provide that feeling of togetherness and love for children around the globe.

A member of the OHS class of 2002, S t re i f e r r a n t h e Op-Ed section of the school newspaper. “I felt really accepted Streifer and supported by Oceanside High School and by my friends which is how I think I survived some of the challenges I had,” she said. “I was given every opportunity to be myself. Even though my life was so tumultuous, I had that sense of safety and support.”

In 2002, Streifer applied to colleges while still in foster care.

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Madden’s first BooK reignites the passion she has always had for writing.

O’Side teacher publishes children’s book

By Kepherd daniel kdaniel@liherald.com

An Oceanside High School teacher has made her way into the publishing world. Talia Madden, 34, recently published a children’s book, titled “The Colors They Shared.”

“I started writing as a hobby from the time I was a kid, and it was always a passion,” she said.

Madden, a social studies teacher, almost decided pursuing professional writing as a career, but health issues early on altered her path. “I began studying English when I went to college,” she said. “And I considered on some level entering into that field. But when I was 16, I was diagnosed with lupus and this was at a time when I needed good healthcare because of my lupus diagnosis. I became really fearful. And I decided to get a job where I could guarantee having access to healthcare that would allow me to pay for my medical bills.

“I switched to history education, which I’m grateful for and I love what I do,” Madden added. “I can’t imagine not being a teacher. But I completely abandoned writing as an option and possible profession, because of those fears associated with how I can pay for my medical bills.”

Lupus is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the body’s immune system attacks tissues and organs.

Madden has two young children, Maya, who will be four, and Jake, who will turn two years old soon. Madden said her children brought her back to her passion. “Having my daughter, I am always telling these bedtime stories.

And they kept getting more complex and more interesting, as she got older,” she said.

“I started thinking about the kids in my class, and what colors do they like? And I turned it into a story. And the story kept evolving night by night, and Maya kept asking for it. This past summer, my friend in early education overheard me telling her the story and she said, ‘What is that story?’ And it was just something I made up, but she said I should write it down. At that moment, I decided to go to a coffee shop with a notebook and started storyboarding. I started researching the process of creating this book, and that’s where it started.”

Madden enlisted friends and family to help with the

copy-editing process. She was able to find her illustrator, Lisa Wee, online. “I would never consider myself an illustrator,” Madden said. “I decided to find someone who captured what I envisioned in my head. Since I couldn’t be the one to do the drawings, this person had to have my vision and she did.”

The book is available on Amazon, and Madden is working on getting the book into local stores.

She is spreading the word about her new book and thanked the friends and family who pushed her to self-publish. “I could have just written it for my kids, and I’m thankful for the people that believed in me when I didn’t have the strength to believe in myself,” she said.

Madden’s husband, John, a guidance counselor at Oceanside High School, and Dr. Beth Zirogiannis, the school’s director of English, were among those who encouraged her.

Madden explained that the book follows six friends who try to determine what color their school tree house should be. They discover that they all have opinions on what color they want and are all stuck on that color. Ultimately, they decide to incorporate each other’s color ideas.

The book’s core lesson focuses on teamwork and collaboration, and Madden spoke about the deeper message the book holds that all readers, Madden’s BooK has a simple plotline, with an underlying deep young and old, can understand. message.

“Yes, it’s a story about kids painting a tree house, but it doesn’t mean just that,” she said. common goal, we all identify problems but, like the book, “It’s the idea of being a solution and empowering our when it’s time to create solutions we become stuck in our children. This book is a story of empowerment for young ‘colors’ that we can’t come up with the solutions. It’s a kids, that they can be the creators of the change. As an message to kids and adults — to kids, you are ‘solutioneducator, I’ve seen that our children are unbelievable aries’ that deserve to be empowered, but also to adults, problem-solvers, but we don’t ask them to solve prob- learn from your children.” lems.

Madden discussed why the book is important to her, “In the book, these kids identified a problem and had which circles back to the passion she had at a young age. to work to find a solution. But got stuck in their own “This is because of 16-year-old me. This was something I mental space on how to find a solution. If you go even stopped doing and didn’t pursue and now I’ve come back deeper with adults, have we as a nation shown that we to it,” she said. “That’s what a passion does, it’s so much are able to work together to find solutions? We all have a deeper than what you can control.”

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Teachers in the Island Park School District are taking part in an innovative program made possible through a state grant.

During the last school board meeting, Superintendent Vincent Randazzo provided an update of the New York State Education Department’s Smart Start Grant, which will be adminstered by Assistant Superintendent Dr. Alison Offer man-Celentano. The grant is designed to develop, implement and share innovative programs that provide professional development and support to increase expertise in computer science, engineering and educational technology for teachers in grades K-8.

Lincoln Orens Middle School is among 20 schools participating in the grant through a partnership with BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services). Through this partner-

ship, five teachers from Island Park may participate in the grant each year for the next five years. Teachers will attend workshops and work closely with staff developers from New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) to support their project development, as well as have the opportunity to explore courses at NYIT to enhance their learning on how to be an effective professional developer in “turnkey” training.

Three of the projects being worked on by fifth-grade students through the Smart Start Grant include aeroponic gardening, using tower garden techniques, improving the quality of fresh food through transportation improvements and building students’ background knowledge of architectural engineering by having them create and design threedimensional pop-up art in the shape of famous structures.

Once projects are finalized, participating teachers will train and share turnkey project blueprints with fellow teachers.

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O’Side student’s podcast ‘questions the world’ kdaniel@liherald.com

An Oceanside student has taken a passion project to a whole new level. Fifteen-year-old Ariella Rukhlin began a podcast last spring with the goal to tackle some of life’s most interesting scientific questions.

Rukhlin’s podcast, entitled “Chit-Chatting and Questioning the World,” incorporates her passion for science and curiosity about the world. She was able to launch her podcast after her teacher, Talia Madden, gave her students a unique opportunity to explore what they love the most.

“I started the podcast last year, around March as a part of a passion project Ms. Madden started, where we could do anything we’re passionate about for a month in our class,” said Rukhlin. “I didn’t want to take it as a joke.”

She explained that her podcast was born because, “I’m curious about random things.

It’s always hard for me to find something specific that I want to focus on. I had the idea of doing this podcast where I would interview people and talk about random things. At first, it sounds arbitrary but then I got into the groove of it.”

Rukhlin’s podcast comes out every month with a new episode on the third Wednesday of each month, giving her time to balance school and plan each episode and to book guests. So far, she has booked a host of unique talent, including the drummer for singer Adele, Derrick Wright, and senior vice

president of the San Diego Padres, Tom Seidler.

“I interview people of different professions and my main topics are scientific phenomenons, like genetic engineering or optogenetics and I also talk to people and interview them about their lives and what they do for their jobs,” said Rukhlin. “I’ve gotten to interview really incredible people… I really liked Adele and I wanted to learn about the magic behind her performances. There’s a lot of work that goes into it that her drummer puts in, and he explains that in the episode.

“Tom Seidler talked about his experience of running that whole business with the Padres,” she added. “I got to interview a geneticist and we talked about genetic modification and CRISPR, a powerful tool for editing genomes.”

Last month’s episode, she said, featured Edward Boyden, who pioneered optogenetics and expansion spectroscopy, expanding the brain to see neurons and proteins responsible for Alzheimer’s Disease and blindness.

“In that episode, we talked about how blindness was reversed in a man using expansion spectroscopy and optogenetics,” she said.

“One of my favorite episodes was The Fermi Paradox, which is the phenomenon that there might be aliens out in space. That was the first one that was a big hit that I did with my uncle.”

Rukhlin’s podcast has an audience of 730 listeners, and although she’s only 15, the mature and complex topics she discusses with her guests draw an audience ranging

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FiFteen-year-old ariella ruKhlin is making her way into the podcast world. from 15 to 30 years old. With episodes posted monthly, Rukhlin keeps her listeners engaged with posts on her social media accounts, such as Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok and Youtube, where she includes podcast clips and random interesting facts.

Rukhlin explained some of the hesitancy she had when she started podcasting and the people that inspired her to continue, as well as other podcasts that inspire her to continue.

“Miss Madden and her husband, who is

my guidance counselor, are a huge inspiration,” she said. “I was a little nervous, and they encouraged me to keep going.”

“I look up people that are interested in the topic that I’m going to do and research about them in advance. I find their Instagram and their email and send them a personalized message, introducing myself as a high school student that’s curious and interested in random things. At first, I didn’t do that because I thought that would be a disadvantage. People who are famous get tons of requests for interviews. But if anything, it has been an advantage because they’re used to getting these emails, but not from a high schooler and that increased the number of people who answered me.”

Rukhlin does all the preparation for her podcast herself and recently hired an editor to help her. Although Rukhlin makes some money from her podcast, she said there’s more to it than just the money. “I would love for more people to listen because I feel a lot of people my age are curious about random things. Creativity can help you in so many different ways. My uncle told me to make sure I stay curious because he said there are so many jobs requiring curiosity which is what my podcast is all about. My slogan is to ‘Stay curious.’ I want to grow my platform because I want other people to learn.”

Rukhlin’s podcast, “Chit-Chatting and Questioning the World,” can be found on Spotify and Apple Podcasts with 12 episodes currently posted.

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News brief The Town of Hempstead invites residents to be a part of 2022 winter festivities filled with sports, arts and crafts, and dance. Town Officials encouraged residents to sign up this January to participate in the array of cultural arts programs and recreation fitness the Town of Hempstead has to offer.

Physical fitness program registration began on Tuesday, Jan. 25th at 9 a.m. at hempsteadtownparks. com. Each activity will include 12 weekly lessons that are packed with informative techniques and tips pertaining to the class of your choosing.

“Particularly during these times, it’s even more crucial to enhance physical and mental health,” Sup. Donald Clavin said. “With many readily available programs at Hempstead Town, residents can find a variety of options that can help them on their health and fitness journeys.”

From as young as five years old, the youth programs presented by the town are among the finest in the state. The Town of Hempstead is enriched with countless sports and programs from tennis to self-defense, hula hoop fitness to competitive chess and much more.

The physical fitness programs offer an array of creative and fun ways to exercise and enhance the body and mind, offering classes like “Pound Fitness,” a musically inspired way of intense movement through weighted drumsticks. Through

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meditation, exercise, and even aquatic workouts, residents can optimize their health and fitness journey through the services offered.

Aside from physical activities, the Town of Hempstead also offers a variety of cultural arts programs that can assist in perfecting a craft or finding a new hobby. From oil painting to salsa dancing, there are programs for residents of an array of ages and interests.

For all residents interested in the cultural arts programs, registration began on Wednesday, Jan. 26 at 9 a.m. at hempsteadtownparks.com.

“We are committed to promoting health and wellness here at the Town of Hempstead,” Clavin concluded. “We will continue to offer and expand our seasonal activities for residents throughout America’s largest township for many years to come.”

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Oceanside resident Angela Marshall was appointed as the new Executive Manager for Communications for the Nassau BOCES Board of Education on Friday.

She takes over the agency’s communications office and will serve on the district’s superintendent’s extended cabinet.

“Ms. Marshall’s work with the district superintendent is exemplary,” District Superintendent Dr. Robert Dillon said in a release. “She always goes above and beyond,” said Nassau BOCES Board President Susan Bergtraum. “She more Angela than deserves this promotion.

Marshall heads up many special projects and is responsible for overseeing internal and external communications, crisis communications, branding, government relations and strategic planning. She will also act as the agency’s

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community update Thursday, Feb. 10 Toys & Tykes Storytime Bring your little ones to the Island Park Library for this fun and interactive storytime with Ms. Dee. Register online at the library website. Starts at 10:30 a.m.

St. Francis Outreach Bus The Oceanside Library hosts free health screenings in the library side parking lot.

Includes a brief cardiac history, blood pressure, and a simple blood test for cholesterol and diabetes for adults 18 and over. Free flu shots available. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Beatles: Rare Clips The Oceanside Library hosts this in-person lecture covering the history of The Beatles’ business “Apple Corps.” Face cvoerings required for entry. Starts in Meeting Room 1 at 2 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 11

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I.P. Schools Honor Students of the Month Island Park students with Francis Hegarty Principal Cynthia Cameron and LOMS’s Bruce Hoffman.

Virtual Chair Yoga Hosted by Oceanside Library, Join instructor Marianne Bochilo on Zoom for yoga which works your muscles and joints to increase flexibility/mobility, circulation, strength, and balance. Starts at 11 a.m.

Vaxmobile at the Island Park Library Mount Sinai South Nassau and ther Town of Hempstead bring the Vaxmobile to the Island Park Library’s parking lot from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. To schedule an appointment, call the MSSN Dept. of Community Health at 516-377-3333.

Saturday, Feb. 12 Saturday Vinyasa Yoga with Dot Scott Join Dorothy Scott for a relaxing class that encompasses basic yoga poses which focus on lengthening the body’s muscles.

Zoom link available on the Oceanside Library website. SClass is for adults only and a $10 cash fee is required. Starts at 9:30 p.m.

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Easy Tai-Chi and Chi Cong with Judy Stretch your muscles without putting stress on your knees, feet, thighs or back in this Chinese exercise that focuses on breathing. At the Island Park Library.

Starts at 10:10 a.m.

Mah-Jongg At the Island Park Library. All participants must be fully vaccinated and must show proof of full vaccination. Starts at 11:30 a.m.

Blood Drive The Oceanside Library celebrates American Heart Month with this blood drive in Meeting Room 1. Register online at the library website or call 516-478-5023.

Appointments preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. Starts at 3 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 15 Virtual Fit and Fabulous Oceanside Library is inviting you to get your feet moving with Helene Just in this

exercise program designed to increase strength, tone, balance, and stamina that can be done either sitting or standing.

Prepare with comfortable clothes and footwear and bring a set of light weights and exercise bands. Starts at 11:00 a.m.

the film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy-award winning musical about social anxiety, self-discovery, and acceptance following the suicide of a classmate.

Starts at 2 p.m. in Meeting Room 1.

Canasta The Island Park Library hosts Canasta.

Starts at 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 16 Virtual Tai Chi Oceanside Library presents virtual Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall prevention in collaboration with the New York State Dept. of Health. A certified Tai Chi instructor, trained by the NYS Dept. of Health and the Tai Chi for Health Institute teaches Tai Chi for Arthritis for people over age 60 (or over age 18 with disabilities). Starts at 10 a.m.

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Wednesday Afternoon Movie: Dear Evan Hansen Oceanside Library hosts this screening of

The NAMI mental health support group meets twice a month.

The Island Park Library has a Take & Make DIY all week.

Jessie’s on the Water hosts live music Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m.

AARP’s Cars and Coffee meets Feb. 14 at 9 a.m. at 3118 Lawson Blvd.

Oceanside Jewish Center hosts its care support group Feb. 18 at 7 p.m.

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ToWn of HeMpsTead Supervisor Don Clavin discussed the criticisms he and the other the officials have towards Governor Kathy Hochul’s zoning proposal in the New York State budget.

Board requested Gov. Hochul entirely remove the provision from the state budget. The letter reads: “We do not need New York State meddling in the local zoning affairs of the Town of Hempstead, or any community with Nassau County. Our town Building Department, Board of

Appeals and Town Board – working with other municipal departments – have enforced local building codes and zoning laws for generations.”

Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin at the conference said the provision was “sneaky,” and “a true attack on

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Hempstead Town and Nassau County officials – and some South Shore residents – are up in arms over a zoning proposal within Governor Kathy Hochul’s 2022-2023 New York State Budget.

Dozens of officials gathered outside of an East Meadow home Feb. 3 to advocate against “Section AA” of the proposed budget, which would effectively eliminate single-family zoning across New York State.

If the budget is approved, the provision would allow single-family homes to be turned into Accessory Dwelling Units or apartments across New York State. This would allow basement, garage or attic apartments in single-family homes to be constructed on the property.

Officials indicated that the provision could result in an increase in traffic, a strain on resources and infrastructure, and overcrowding in public schools.

“It’s an attack on the suburbs, it’s an attack on the suburban way of living,” County Executive Bruce Blakeman said at the conference. “...This is a power grab

by New York City politicians and we’re not going to take it.”

Officials also called on residents to contact Gov. Hochul’s office and reject the proposal. A Feb. 4 letter to Gov. Hochul signed by the Town of Hempstead Town

suburbia.” “The governor is attempting to basically mandatorily require anybody who wants it to put an accessory unit on their house,” Clavin said. “...We are not standing for it.”

Lawrence Levy, dean of Hofstra’s National Center for Suburban Studies, said the provision could serve as a solution to the affordable housing crisis. “It's easy to understand why the folks running the county, towns and villages don’t want Albany telling them what to do but the potential law reflects the frustration with advocates for more and better affordable housing,” Levy said. “This could be one of the solutions to the lack of affordable places to live and an opportunity for homeowners to get a little more revenue to defray the high cost of property taxes.”

Others disagree with the politician's push against the provision. Lisa Tyson, director of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, said in a statement that Blakeman and the rest of the officials against this provision are “dragging Long Island back to the 1950s.” “They want to keep Long Island wealthy and white, at the expense of everyone else,” Tyson said in a statement. “Everyone knows there is an affordable rental housing crisis on Long Island.”

If the budget is approved by the legislature, the provision would take effect April 1 of this year.

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Oceanside clings to playoff hopes

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Clarke Senior Wrestling SOrIaNO IS SEEKINg a third Nassau County championship and is ranked No. 1 at 138 pounds heading into this Saturday’s big stage. A five-year member of Clarke’s varsity, he’s a two-time AllState finisher headed to Drexel University, a D1 program. So far this season, he’s won 30 of 31 matches and three tournaments, the Battle at the Beach, Sprig Gardner and Dan Whickham. He was named Most Outstanding Wrestler in all three events.

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Girls Basketball: Carle Place at Malverne .............5:30 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Lawrence at Lynbrook.................6:30 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Baldwin at Plainview ...................6:45 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 11

Girls Basketball: Garden City at Carey...................4:45 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Plainedge at V.S. South.................... 5 p.m.

Boys Basketball: Glen Cove at Sewanhaka ................ 5 p.m.

Boys Basketball: Roslyn at Elmont .................................. 5 p.m.

Girls Basketball: West Hemp at Malverne ..................5:30 p.m.

Boys Basketball: East Meadow at V.S. Central ...........6:45 p.m.

Boys Basketball: Malverne at West Hemp. ...........6:45 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Jericho at Mepham. ............................ 7 p.m.

Girls Basketball: V.S. North at South Side...................... 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: New Hyde Park at MacArthur ............... 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: Manhasset at Kennedy ........................ 7 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Wantagh at Island Trees ........................ 7 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 12 Girls Basketball: V.S. Central at East Meadow ............... 12 p.m.

Boys Basketball: Hempstead at Freeport ...................... 12 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Carle Place at East Rockaway........... 12 p.m.

Boys Basketball: Syosset at Oceanside ........................ 12 p.m.

Oceanside’s chances of qualifying for the Nassau Class AA boys’ basketball playoffs grew dimmer last Friday night when it dropped a fourth straight game, falling 59-50 at Farmingdale.

The Sailors were within a possession with 28 seconds remaining in regulation but Dalers’ eighth-grade phenom Dylan Mingo’s impeccable performance from the foul line in crunch time sealed the outcome. Mingo hit all 13 of his free throw attempts on the evening and finished with a game-high 26 points as Farmingdale (7-5 in Conference AA-1) punched its playoff ticket.

“We’ve had a tough two weeks,” Oceanside head coach Ed Risener said. “We’ve battled every night and lost some close ones. We’re searching for a win right now and we have to win-out to make playoffs.”

Junior Logan Lyson (17) and senior Liam Hannon (12) scored in double figures for the Sailors, who slipped to 4-7 in AA-1 and 6-10 overall. Heading into this week’s action, the only road to the postseason for Risener’s squad is with wins over Port Washington, Uniondale and first-place Syosset. The latter is the only remaining undefeated boys’ team in all of Nassau.

“Would we rather be 7-4 instead of 4-7?

Of course,” Risener said. “We start four juniors and we’re still learning how to win and looking for that game where we get three or four kids scoring in double figures. The good thing is, we still control our own destiny. We don’t have to rely on anyone else. It all comes down to what Oceanside does.”

The Sailors scored just 11 points over the final 16 minutes Jan. 26 when they dropped the first meeting against Farmingdale at home, 58-36, after leading 25-20 at halftime. For the rematch, Risener switched from primarily a zone defense to man-to-man and saw better results at both ends of the floor.

“We played really well defensively and also had improved offensive flow,” Risener said. “Logan and Liam did a nice job in the paint. They’re interchangeable at power forward and center, and work in tandem.”

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Oceanside led 14-10 after a strong opening quarter but was unable to keep the momentum going in the second. Mingo, Ryan Woodland (10 points) Jordan Smikle (9), Jaden McFarlane and Jake Mangio all chipped in as Farmingdale awoke and grabbed a 26-21 halftime lead.

The Sailors hung close but couldn’t vault back in front. Risener said shooting 1-for-13 from behind the arc was uncharacteristic and a deciding factor along with Mingo’s perfect display from the line.

“If we don’t make the playoffs, we’ll

look back on these last two games,” Risener said. “Right now, all we can do is look ahead.”

Oceanside which features junior Jacob Raphan at point guard and classmates Anthony Rodriguez and Matt Amitrano in the starting backcourt as well, lost a 57-55 heartbreaker at home to Hempstead on Feb. 1. The Sailors couldn’t make a 14-point halftime lead stand up. Hannon scored 16, while Raphan and Rodriguez added 14 apiece. Rodriguez sank four treys and leads the team with 31 threes.

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Oceanside native teaches manners in new book Being conservative with her spending because of her situation, she applied to just four schools. At that point she was living in East Rockaway with her father who decided to call Tulane’s admissions office because Streifer was offered a full scholarship from Penn State, but not the New Orleans university. That’s when Streifer and her father found out that she had received a full ride offer from Tulane, but it had been sent to the old address in Oceanside. “If my father hadn’t made that phone call, I would have gone to Penn State and been cold,” Streifer joked.

Streifer was excited to get the opportunity to get away from home and experience more of the world. At Tulane, Streifer studied international relations and English, looking for a chance to see more of the world outside of the states. She studied abroad in Melbourne, Australia, in her junior year, which was perfect since she had an internship at the country’s consulate in New York while at Tulane.

When Hurricane Katrina hit during her senior year, it led to a life-altering decision for Streifer. “We had two weeks to decide where we wanted to go to school because our school was closed,” Streifer explained. “Every school in America offered free study, but we had a very short window to decide and I heard about a university in Florence, Italy, giving free school to affected students.” With the help of the East Rockaway and Oceanside communities, Streifer was able to move to Florence and attend school there. “Living in Italy definitely showed me what amazing, magical things you can do with your life if you look outside of where you normally are,” Streifer said.

“That set me on the course of being this kind of global explorer.”

Streifer moved to Australia after graduating from Tulane, and earned a masters’ in management diploma-

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the first in a series of four, “This Small King” tells the tale of how kindness, rather than bossiness, can bring people together. cy and trade from Monash University in 2006. She spent the next 13 years ingrained in Australian trade and commerce with time at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), talent relations at Nova Australia and executive director of Roads Australia – the nation’s body for transportation infrastructure. In 2019, Streifer started and became the chief executive of Streifer & Co., which fosters relations between CEOs across different industries and governments.

In early 2019, Streifer left her job as an executive at

Roads Australia to return to her English background, writing stories for her friends’ children while on a yearlong excursion through about 40 countries. One of those stories was inspired by one of Streifer’s friends from Atlanta whose child was being a little too bossy around the house. So, Streifer decided to write a story about a king who governs rudely and terrorizes the town until he realizes that he can achieve more through kindness.

That is how “This Small King” and the “This Big” series was born.

“I never thought that I would be an author. It was purely and accident and now we have one book finished and another three in the pipeline,” Streifer said. “This is a big part of my life now, but I never expected it.”

The huge leap of faith by Streifer, though scary at the time, has proved to be an important moment for her both professionally and creatively. “Making that jump was really hard, but it’s the best thing that I ever did,” Streifer said. “It set off kind of the next series of my life.”

Through late 2019 and early 2020, Streifer met with several large publishing companies like Penguin and Random House. After a pessimistic meeting in Brooklyn in 2020, Streifer was approached by another author who told her he thought her book was beautiful and advised her to start her own publishing house. And in May 2020, Streifer founded One in a Million Publishing. Now, with the first book in the series released, Streifer and One in a Million have started looking into turning the stories into animated films.

The series, inspired by Streifer’s travels, will see a diverse cast of children from all over the world learning important lessons about growing up when it is fully released. ‘This Small King” is available now on independent books platform Oakie Bees, and the second book in the series — “This Big World” — will arrive in November 2022.

Music to Lift Our Spirits

Florence Price Symphony No 1 The South Shore Symphony Orchestra, under the musical direction and baton of Scott Jackson Wiley, will be performing in Madison Theatre in Rockville Centre on Saturday, February 12th at 7:30 pm. The performance will include Symphony No 1 in E minor by the American composer Florence Price. The composer was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1887 and during her career won many accolades.

Price’s First Symphony won critical acclaim and became the first symphony by an African-American female composer to be performed by a major American orchestra in 1933.

Florence Price Symphony Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major op.No 61 1 The composer in Little Rock, in 1887asand during virtuoso violinist was Wenborn Qian hailed byArkansas China Daily “one of herChina’s career won many accolades.young Price’sviolinists.

First Symphony won critical most promising ” Ms. Qian hasacclaim been andabecame the first with symphony by an African-American female composer first violinist the Metropolitan Orchestra since 1997, to be performed by a major American orchestra in 1933. where she continues to serve as the acting Assistant Concertmaster, as well as violin professor at Mannes College of Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major op. 61 Music at the New School University.

Violinist Wen Qian has been a first violinist with the Metropolitan

Saturday, February 12th at 7:30 pm.

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News brief

Town secures $300,000 state grant to for Shellfish Restoration Program Town Board received $300,000 in new grant funding from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to support the Town of Hempstead’s Shellfish Restoration Program – a project designed to enhance the health of the township’s marine ecosystems through the restoration of oyster beds.

The landmark conservation project will see the addition of Eastern Oyster beds to Town of Hempstead managed portions of Jamaica Bay off the coast of Inwood, with the goal of creating a self-sustaining population of the species in the near future.

The presence of “ecosystem engineers” like Eastern Oysters have been noted by researchers to provide a host of benefits to the environments they are found in, including filtering and removing algae along with other suspended sediments, enhancing the filtration and clarity of the water column, and supporting the development of crustacean and fish populations.

“The Town of Hempstead is home to a wide array of unique and diverse ecosystems, and we take our obligation to safeguard these environments extremely seriously,” said Sup. Don Clavin. “I am excited for the opportunity to continue our township’s conserva-

tion efforts through the implementation of these beneficial oyster beds.”

The multi-year effort at bolstering the local oyster population will be undertaken by staff from the Town of Hempstead Department of Conservation & Waterways with support from the Billion Oyster Project and the Hudson River Foundation who will assist in the monitoring and deployment of the reefs.

“The Town of Hempstead has a long history of environmental stewardship, and I am ecstatic that we are continuing that tradition,” said Senior Councilmember Dorothy Goosby.

The project, expected to take place over a five-year period, is part of a larger effort by various conservation stakeholder groups to form a network o f s e l f - s u s t a i n i n g oy s t e r b e d s throughout the Jamaica Bay area – a key component in New York waterway revitalization efforts.

Councilmember Christopher Carini added, “Hempstead Town’s coastal location provides the township with a wealth of diversity when it comes to aquatic wildlife, and I am proud to join my colleagues on the Town Board in recommitting ourselves to supporting their ongoing enhancement.”

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Sup. Don Clavin joined with staff from the Department of Conservation and Waterways and members of the Town Board to announce the $300,000 grant the Town of Hempstead secured from New York State to support the township’s shellfish restoration program.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

BY THE BOARD OF APPEALS Pursuant to New York State Town Law Article 16, New York State Public Officers Law Article 7, and the Town of Hempstead Building Zone Ordinance, NOTICE is hereby given that the BOARD OF APPEALS of the Town of Hempstead will hold a public hearing in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Town Hall Plaza, One Washington Street, Hempstead, New York on 2/16/22 at 9:30 A.M. to consider the following applications and appeals: --------------------------------THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 9:30 A.M. 149/22. OCEANSIDE Marie T. Mitchell, Renewal of grant to maintain 6’ high PVC fence forward of dwelling which may substantially obstruct line of sight., N/E cor. Cornwell Pl. & Foxhurst Rd., a/k/a 2649 Cornwell Pl. N.C.P.C. Local determination.

152/22. OCEANSIDE 3600 Long Beach Rd. LLC, Renewal of grant to maintain one doublefaced, illuminated ground sign, overall size 240 sq. ft.; 19’ high, 6’6” clearance; setback 15’ from Long Beach Rd., W/s Long Beach Rd., 743’ N/o Daly Blvd., a/k/a 3544 Long Beach Rd. N.C.P.C. Local determination.

161/22. OCEANSIDE Donald & Doreen Kuzda, Variance, side yard, maintain porch attached to dwelling., W/s Terrell Ave., 105’ N/o Terrell Ave., a/k/a 2774 Terrell Ave. N.C.P.C. Local determination.

ALL PAPERS PERTAINING TO THE ABOVE HEARING ARE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AT THE BOARD OF APPEALS, TOWN HALL, 1 WASHINGTON STREET, HEMPSTEAD, NY 11550.

This notice is only for new cases in Oceanside within Town of Hempstead jurisdiction.

There are additional cases in different hamlets, towns and villages on the Board of Appeals calendar. The full calendar is available at https://hempsteadny.gov/ 871/Hearing---021620222 The internet address of the website streaming for this meeting is

https://hempsteadny.gov/ 524/Live-Streaming-Video Interested parties may appear at the above time and place. At the call of the Chairman, the Board will consider decisions on the foregoing and those on the Reserve Decision calendar and such other matters as may properly come before it.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: NASSAU COUNTY. WINDWARD BORA LLC, Pltf. vs.

VINCENT FERNICOLA A/K/A VINCENT FERNICOLA JR., A/K/A VINNIE FERNICOLA A/K/A VINCENT FERNICOLA, SR., et al, Defts.

Index #612243/2018. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale dated Nov. 20, 2019, I will sell at public auction on the north front steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 2:30 p.m., prem. k/a 81 Bellevue Avenue, Oceanside, NY a/k/a Section 38, Block 365, Lot 33 & 34 a/k/a Lots 33 and 34 as shown on a certain map entitled, “Map of Fairview Manor, situated at Oceanside, Nassau County, New York, surveyed June 16, 1975

by Thomas H. Beeson, C.E.” and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Nassau County on July 25, 1925 as Map No. 569, Case 3488. Approx. amt. of judgment is $69,696.17 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Said Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale forecloses a Second Mortgage.

Foreclosure 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 foreclosure auction.

MARK RICCIARDI, Referee. THE MARGOLIN & WEINREB LAW GROUP LLP, Attys. for Pltf., 165 Eileen Way, Ste. 101, Syosset, NY. #99093 129490

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO. 7-2022 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing was duly called and held January 25, 2022, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 7-2022, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 7-2022, amending Section 197-5 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, to include “ARTERIAL STOPS” at various locations.

Dated: January 25, 2022 Hempstead, New York

BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 129506 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD LOCAL LAW NO. 6-2022 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution, the provisions of the Town Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, both as amended, a public hearing was duly called and held January 25, 2022, by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead on the proposed adoption of Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 6-2022, and following the close of the hearing the Town Board duly adopted Town of Hempstead Local Law No. 6-2022, amending Section 202-1 of the Code of the Town of Hempstead, to include “PARKING OR STANDING PROHIBITIONS” at various locations.

Dated: January 25, 2022 Hempstead, New York

BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. Supervisor KATE MURRAY Town Clerk 129505

LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC, V. CHARLES F. GILLEY AKA FATHER CHARLES F. GILLEY, HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF LORRAINE MARY GILLEY, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated November 25, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC is the Plaintiff and CHARLES F. GILLEY AKA FATHER CHARLES F. GILLEY, HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF LORRAINE MARY GILLEY, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on February 28, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 315 OCEANSIDE PARKWAY, OCEANSIDE, NY 11572: Section 54, Block 506, Lot 73 & 74: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE OCEANSIDE, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 006828/2016. Janine T. Lynam, Esq. - Referee.

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 129330 Place a notice by phone at 516-569-4000 x232 or email: legalnotices@liherald.com

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Q. A few homes in my neighborhood are much taller. What are the rules for how tall a house can be — like how many floors, and what’s legal? I mostly see only two stories, but the new ones are at least three stories. Is this a new thing that you can build taller? Was it just traditional to only build two stories until now?

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abulous sprawling Colonial in the heart of Rockville Centre, perfect for extended family living. Welcoming grand foyer with bridal staircase opens up to a formal living room with fireplace, banquet sized formal dining room and oversized den. The first floor master is en-suite, plus an additional bedroom and full bath complete the first floor. The second floor has an oversized master en-suite, with an additional bedroom with a balcony and full family bath. Two car detached garage, corner lot 100x100, gas heat, and CAC. The full basement has an egress walkout and had previously been a Doctor's suite which is perfect for your home office.

A. Recently, influences have changed the thinking on allowed height. Hurricane Sandy’s flooding caused New York to promote house lifting in flood zones. Influence also came from the Federal Emergency Management agency, which, in essence, is a publicly funded insurance company, covering people in areas where regular onte eeper home insurance companies avoid the risk of insuring.

The incentive to lift or build higher is to avoid huge flood insurance cost increases by building above flood levels, with the lowest level only allowed to be for a garage and storage, not living space. By making the first livable floor higher, above the flood level, insurance rates are kept lower. People have shown me that their rates went from $500 to $5,000 a year, increasing annually since Sandy in 2012.

Some homes are much higher than codes and incentives intended, due to misinterpretation of reasons to build higher and misrepresentation in the review process. For example, a home’s first floor is no longer a first floor if it’s higher than 6 feet above the ground. Over 6 feet high, the floor level automatically becomes a second floor, meaning the next floor above is a third floor, which requires zoning board approval, interior sprinklers, escape terraces and wind strengthening. I’ve seen home plans misrepresented as being two stories by not correctly showing the floor level heights or describing a second floor as a first floor, the next floor as a second floor that is really a third floor and even where a fourth floor is shown as a mezzanine or roof level balcony.

There’s a small country town in Tuscany, in central Italy, San Gimignano, that is famous for its skyline of towers that people built on their homes during medieval times. As the story goes, one prominent homeowner built a tall tower to watch for potential attackers. His neighbor jealously built a tower a little higher, and, not to be outdone, several adjacent homeowners began building towers higher and higher than one another. History repeats itself.

Thirty feet from the ground or the center of the road is your maximum roof height. The safety code intends to protect people from perishing in fires. The first code chapter addresses wind resistance, since the taller you build, the more turbulence from adjacent buildings and wind destruction, not just to your building but also to adjacent buildings. With the 75-mph gusts of wind we’ve been known to have, wind, like flooding, is a real concern. Manhattan towers aren’t wood and nails for a reason. Decisions to build higher have to take community safety and appearance into account, and until recently, they did.

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HEWLETT 1534 Broadway #103, BA, BRAND NEW GUT RENOVATION! Spacious 2 BR, 2 Bth Condo in Luxurious Jonathan Hall. LR/ DR Opens Into Large Gran/Wood EIK w/ Island & Stainless Steel Appl. Laundry Rm, & Pantry. Mstr Ste Boasts New Bath & Huge Walk in Closet. Terrace Facing into Courtyard. Doorman Bldg with Elevator. Indoor Garage Pkg & Storage ........................... $850,000 156 E Rockaway Rd, BA, Rental of a Renovated 2 Bedroom, 1.5 Bth Apt with Spacious Gourmet Kitchen Use of Patio & Outdoor Space .................................................................................... $3,200

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his will be my last Herald column, at least for a while. After 28 wondrous and wonderful years, I am leaving the Herald Community Newspapers on Friday. It is a bittersweet moment.

I am moving on to focus on my teaching at Hofstra University, where I will be fulltime this spring and undertake a long-term research project. I am honored, excited and humbled — my two research partners are both Fulbright Scholars.

I have taught at Hofstra for 13 years, and it is where I belong at this moment in my life.

ScoTT Serving as the Heralds’ executive bRINToN editor for the past five-plus years has been the honor of a lifetime, particularly over the past two, as I have had the privilege to lead an incredibly talented team of journalists, some veterans and many early-career reporters, through the coronavirus pandemic, which, thankfully, mercifully, appears to be abating.

I began with the Herald as an entry-level reporter three months after completing Peace Corps service in Bulgaria, and have remained with the company ever since. I must thank my publishers, Cliff and Stuart Richner, for all their support and kindness through the years. I must also thank so

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many of my colleagues, in particular Tony Bellissimo, Lori Berger, Jeff Bessen, Karen Bloom, Rhonda Glickman, Jim Harmon, Laura Lane, Jeff Lipton, John O’Connell, Tony Rifilato and Mike Smollins.

Most of all, I must thank my lovely wife, Katerina, and my two amazing (adult) kids, Alexandra and Andrew.

When I first took the job, I didn’t intend to stay so long.

Mentored by two of Long Island’s best community journalists, Leatrice Spanierman and Randi Kreiss, I quickly learned the critical role that hyperlocal reporting plays in our society, and I fell in love with the work. I will forever be grateful for all they taught me.

One of my first Herald investigative series, in the mid-1990s, was on a park that was supposed to have been built at the Five Towns Community Center in North Lawrence, but had not been. I was in the office of Jonathan Davis, then the center’s executive director, for another story when I spotted a set of blueprints on a table. Curious, I asked about them, and Davis explained that they were for a park that should have been built in the center’s back field. Nassau County had promised to construct it 20 years earlier, but never did.

Davis explained that North Lawrence, a community of color, had no real park where kids might play. I hit the local streets, talk-

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ing to teenagers about the need for such a play area. The story ran on the front page and quickly caught the attention of Tom Gulotta, then the county executive. I’ll never forget the call from Dave Vieser, his press secretary, who said that Gulotta had read my stories on the lack of a park and wanted to build one at the 5TCC, which he did.

As a recently returned Peace Corps volunteer looking to do good for the world, I was hooked on this journalism thing. Many more stories — 4,000 — and investigative series — 25 — followed over the years. One series, on plans to demolish the 300-year-old Hewlett House, also in the mid-1990s, grabbed the attention of Bruce Blakeman, who was then the County Legislature’s presiding officer and is now the county executive. He had an idea to preserve the white-shingled farmhouse, on a bend in the road across the street from Hewlett High School, as a breast cancer resource center. It has been the home of 1 in 9: The Long Island Breast Cancer Action Coalition for more than two decades.

My greatest reporting challenge was a 44-part series I undertook from 2001 to 2003, examining the health and environmental threats posed by Freeport Electric’s 30-yearold Power Plant No. 2, which sits on the edge of Emory Creek in Freeport, just west of the Meadowbrook Parkway. I met some of

rom entrylevel reporter to leading the team over 28 eventful years.

the best people I know while reporting that story — civic activists Joe Kralovich and Bob Young, then State Sen. Charles Fuschillo and then Long Island Power Authority Chairman Richard Kessel. The lengths they went to to shut down the plant, with no pollution controls, and replace it with a modern, clean-burning natural-gas model cannot be understated.

I run at the Town of Hempstead’s Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick at least a couple of days a week. The plant is visible from most points on the preserve’s west side, and looking out on it, I marvel at the good that was done by a group of about 300 concerned citizens, who worked tirelessly to ensure that the diesel plant never spewed its acrid exhaust into local neighborhoods again.

At the height of the George Floyd protests in June 2020, I was covering a protest in Merrick when I shot a Twitter video of 7-year-old Wynta-Amor Rogers. Nearly instantly, it went viral, garnering more than 23 million views in seven days. I was shocked, but it showed the power of streetlevel reporting to connect with people worldwide.

One thing I know: Local journalism does indeed matter.

Scott Brinton is the Heralds’ departing executive editor, set to become a full-time professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.

Grab a slice of life at your nearest pizzeria

o wonder I’m feeling full. In the past year I consumed 23 pounds of pizza. That’s an average figure, of course, according to PMQ, the largest pizza industry media company, but it feels about right to me.

Between the freezing cold, the isolation and the dreaded question, “What’s for dinner?” we’re all busting out of our pants. Forget Covid; we’re going to eat ourselves to death.

Especially during the pandemic, pizza has been the go-to food for ordering in, since it RANDI moves from the KREISS superheated baking oven into the box and then onto our plates untouched by human hands. I do believe I ate more pizza between 2020 and 2022 than in the five years before. It not only felt safe but, in a happy coincidence, it tasted delicious and comforting and indulgent.

When you’re contemplating a possible early demise from a fearsome plague, I say bring on the pizza pie.

On Wednesday we celebrated National Pizza Day, a tribute to this perfect food com-

prising bread, cheese and dozens of toppings that may include pepperoni, peppers, mushrooms, onions, sausage and eggplant.

I refuse to mention outlier toppings like pineapple or clams, which honestly are a sacrilege, a violation of the single food that is on everyone’s last-meal list. Someone I know has asked his family to slip a pizza into his own box when the time comes, so he will have nourishment for his journey to the great beyond.

Hey, the ancient Egyptians did it.

There is no exaggerating the popularity of pizza in our culture. At this pivotal time in America, when people cannot and will not agree to take proven, lifesaving vaccines, when they cannot decide whether to read a book or burn it, when they refuse to wear masks that will keep them safe from a deadly virus, when, ladies and gentlemen, America is basically coming apart at the seams, behold the pizza. In all its round deliciousness, it pulls us together, completing the circle of life.

National Pizza Day helps us appreciate that this humble food may be the last thing holding us together. I have never encountered a human being who disliked pizza.

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And we all claim rights to its origins. The common wisdom is that it came to us from Italy, possibly as early as the time of the Romans, when people ate panis foccacious, the beta version of modern-day focaccia and the precursor to pizza. According to Wikipedia, Persians were baking flatbreads with cheese and dates on top as early as the sixth century B.C. In Ancient Greece, citizens made a flatbread called plakous that was flavored with toppings like herbs, onion, cheese and garlic.

Some have suggested that the origins of modern pizza can be traced to pizzarelle, Passover cookies eaten by Roman Jews after they returned from the synagogue on that holiday. Israeli leader Abba Eban famously wrote, “Some scholars think pizza was first made more than 2,000 years ago when Roman soldiers added cheese and olive oil to matzah.”

Nice try, Mr. Eban, but no way. Pizza comes our way from Naples. It was always the basic food of the poor in southern Italy, and it was there that people first discovered the delights of adding tomatoes to the flatbread they baked. It was only a matter of time until someone thought to slice some

t is, after all, something whose greatness we can all agree on. But please, no pineapple.

nice mozzarella on top.

Today it’s the big chains that do the booming pizza business, bouncing back nicely from Covid lockdowns and accommodating the situation with advanced delivery options. Privately owned pizza places are also climbing out of the pandemic slump with more business and much higher prices. A pizza that sold for $1.50 in 1950 can go for $25 today, depending on the toppings.

In Naples, people eat pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner, which seems like a fine idea to me. It first came to America in the early 1900s. In 1943, Chicago deep-dish pie was created, a misguided attempt to improve on the original.

Today, some folks prefer “healthy” pizza, with kale and cauliflower crusts. Totally unacceptable.

It is a fine thing to open that cardboard box and slide out a greasy slice. We can agree on this, right? And no frozen pizza, no bagel pizza, no flatbread pizza or any other adulteration will suffice. In addition, and for all time, let’s agree that the best pizza topping is pepperoni, made from mysterious cured pork and a random mix of spices.

Tell me that bright red color doesn’t scream “health food.”

Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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We should be discussing accessory apartments

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s part of a five-year, $25 billion plan to increase New York state’s stock of affordable housing, Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed legislation on Jan. 5 to permit accessory “dwelling units,” more commonly known as accessory apartments, across the state.

Nassau’s new county executive, Republican Bruce Blakeman, held a news conference last week outside an East Meadow home, surrounded by a cadre of likeminded GOP leaders, to denounce Hochul’s proposal, saying it threatens to “destroy” suburbia and turn the county “into the sixth borough of New York City.”

U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat who plans to challenge Hochul in the gubernatorial primary, also came out against the proposal, calling it “radical.”

Both acted as if accessory apartments exist nowhere on Long Island. Funny thing is, there are many towns across the Island that allow them. In fact, most of Suffolk County permits them — and we haven’t heard folks out there complain that these housing units are wreaking havoc on their suburban way of life, whatever that might mean.

According to a 2017 map developed by the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center, using data supplied by the Long Island Index, accessory apartments are allowed in these Suffolk towns: Babylon, Brookhaven, East Hampton, Huntington, Islip, Riverhead, Shelter Island and Southold.

They are allowed on a limited basis in Southampton, and Smithtown permits them for family members and domestic staff. Only about a dozen tiny villages across Suffolk prohibit them.

letters Rail lines need barriers To the Editor: The tragedy of Michelle Go, the young woman who was fatally pushed in front of a moving train in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority system last month, was preventable.

The most basic protections for commuters — platform doors and barriers — are both much needed and long overdue at the busiest Long Island Rail Road and Metro North stations throughout the system. I recently traveled from Metro North in Westchester to the LIRR station in Syosset to call on the MTA to step up and protect LIRR and Metro North passengers and install barriers before anyone else is injured or killed.

Preventing tragedies like the death of Michelle Go ought to be the top priority of New York public servants. As the MTA receives an infusion of new funds from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and

Different government agencies manage permitting for accessory apartments. In Babylon, it’s the Accessory Apartment Review Board; in Huntington, the Accessory Apartment Bureau; in Islip and Southold, the boards of zoning appeals; in Brookhaven, East Hampton, Riverhead and Shelter Island, the building departments.

“Affordable accessory apartments” have been allowed in East Hampton in one form or another since 1984, but in 2016, the town loosened its zoning laws, allowing an even greater number of them.

Strangely, it seems, local governments in Suffolk have embraced the notion of accessory apartments, while in Nassau, most of our local governments have either allowed them in limited circumstances only or banned them outright. Why? Let’s begin with why they’re so popular in Suffolk. According to a 2017 study by the Long Island Index — “Home Remedies, Accessory Apartments on Long Island: Lessons Learned,” by former Newsday reporter Elizabeth Moore — if just 10 percent of the Island’s single-family homes had legal accessory apartments, that could help solve our housing crisis by increasing the stock of safe, affordable apartments available to young people and older adults.

“Accessory apartments have proven their worth as the most affordable type of rental housing in the region,” the Index stated. “They can be easily accommodated because they don’t require large infusions of capital, new roads, new sewers or expansion of the electrical grid. Instead, existing neighborhoods absorb the rentalseeking population like a sponge, while

stabilizing finances for tax-strapped homeowners. They also provide affordable housing that is blended throughout the community rather than clustered, and having a resident homeowner usually means that they are better maintained than rentals with absentee owners.”

Long Islanders pay among the highest taxes in the country, which are most likely to destroy the Island’s suburban way of life, not accessory apartments. High taxes, coupled with high mortgage and rental costs, have been driving young people out of the region to less costly parts of the country since the 1990s, and even earlier than that. They are also forcing older adults — retirees on fixed incomes — out of their homes.

Accessory apartments are a low-cost alternative for young people looking to strike out on their own. Many young people from around the country, even the globe, come to Long Island to study at our prestigious universities, but too many never stay past graduation because they simply can’t afford to live here. That’s a shame, because our region could use their talents as we strive to become one of the nation’s high-tech corridors.

Accessory apartments also give older adults, particularly those on fixed incomes, a way to offset their high property-tax burden, allowing them to stay put.

Talk about a win-win.

Yet politicians like Blakeman and Suozzi eschew them because, some worry, accessory apartments might add a few extra cars to our blocks and a few extra kids to our schools. We encourage them to rethink their positions, considering all of the facts at hand.

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uring my time as an elected official, I was frequently asked whether being a state legislator was one of the toughest public jobs. My position was very demanding, but being a village mayor or a school board president is right up there in the ranks of jobs closest to the people. A state legislator will meet constituents at supermarkets, community events and many other places on weekends, but your mayor or school board official is confronted by the public on a 24/7 JerrY basis.

The follow-up kremer question was, what job has the potential to get the most done in the shortest amount of time? I always went with county executive. I have interacted with eight people who have held that job, dating back to the late A. Holly Patterson. Some of the executives were go-getters, and were effective at getting the job done. Others were caretakers, focused on serving out their terms and collecting a pension.

The new county executive, Bruce Blakeman, will have an opportunity to make his own history, because the county faces so many challenges.

The coronavirus pandemic has taken a great toll on small businesses in Nassau County, and too many innocent people have died. Our health challenges are not over, and the statistics prove it. Blakeman, whom I have known and respected for many years, will face a number of new headaches in addition to the Covid fallout, and here are just a few.

There is no doubt that at the top of the list is the archaic way that homes and businesses are assessed.

Blakeman’s predecessor, Laura Curran, did the best she could with a temporary plan, but the system needs a permanent solution, and to date the challenge has proven unsolvable.

Next in line are the Mitchel Field property and the Nassau Coliseum. The land surrounding the arena is extremely valuable. There have been numerous discussions about the development of that property, but nothing has been finalized. The opening of the UBS arena at Belmont Park may have made the Coliseum obso-

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he Coliseum complex, assessments and mass transportation, to name three.

Letters Jobs Act, I am calling on our local transportation leaders to find the political will to do the right thing.

Last week, the State Legislature approved new congressional districts that added portions of the Metro North to the district I hope to represent.

In Congress, I would work to make sure even more resources are available to the MTA, LIRR and Metro North to protect the hardworking men and women who rely on the system to get them to and from work without incidents like what happened to Michelle Go. What happened to her should never happen to another New Yorker — and installing barriers would see to that.

JOSH LAFAzAN Woodbury Lafazan is a Nassau County legislator running for the 3rd Congressional District seat.

Train station needs more seating To the Editor: Manhattan State Senators Brad Hoylman and Robert Jackson, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried,

lete, but some fresh thinking could make it a viable public asset. Young people are desperate to remain on Long Island, but most developers focus on luxury housing with high-end prices. The Mitchel Field land could be the solution, a way to keep hundreds of our youth on the Island.

The county’s mass transportation needs a fresh look.

Any bus system has to be reexamined periodically to determine whether it is accommodating the workers who need to travel from distant points to get to their jobs. Bus operators want only profitable routes, but sometimes buses have to go where the jobs are, and that takes some imagination, and comes at a cost. To assume that the current bus system is perfect would be a mistake. An objective look at the operation is in order even if it steps on some toes. A look at the county’s day care program goes hand in hand with getting people to work.

A potential job windfall for the region is waiting to be unleashed. At this moment, Amazon and other tech companies are buying numerous properties, planning to turn them into training sites

for delivery jobs. At the same time, they are gobbling up large office buildings in the five boroughs, creating high-paying positions for engineers and technicians.

Why not have a sit-down with these companies to get them to expand their footprint in Nassau County, beyond package services? We have great rail service and a quality of life that you don’t get in the city.

Thanks to President Biden’s infrastructure law, communities all over the country will be eligible for funding to improve roads and bridges. Our county has hundreds of miles of roadway that could use upgrade, whether in technology or maintenance. An updated infrastructure plan could merit fresh federal dollars and make our communities safer. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The list of things we need to get done is endless, and beyond the reach of just one person. But there are plenty of opportunities for Blakeman to write a positive chapter in our county’s history book.

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.

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Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, New York City Council Member Erik Bottcher and U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler sent Amtrak a letter requesting that additional seating be installed in the $1.6 billion Penn Station Moynihan Train Hall.

There is currently only very limited seating in a small waiting area for ticketed passengers. Just as bad, there is no seating for Long Island Rail Road riders waiting on the $300 million West Concourse level for arriving trains. There are also no restroom facilities adjacent to the West Concourse. When there are periodic delays in service due to signal or other problems in either the Hudson or East River tunnels, thousands of LIRR and New Jersey Transit commuters must stand for long periods.

Adding adequate seating would be inexpensive and easy to accomplish. It would go a long way toward attracting more riders to return to the rails following the coronavirus pandemic.

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

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