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Black beans and kidney beans beans Like spinach, black beans and kidney contain B-complex vitamins, folate, magnesium, fatty calcium and fiber, plus niacin and omega-3 for extra acids. Add them to soups and salads flavor and heart-healthy nutrients.

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Oatmeal This heart-healthy grain is a smart breakfast up in the choice. Soluble fiber helps fill you includmorning, while oatmeal’s other nutrients, ing omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium, potassium, your folate, niacin and calcium help protect choheart. Studies suggest that oats can lower cerlesterol levels and may even help prevent tain cancers.

Flaxseed huge This low-carb whole grain packs a B6, nutritional punch. Flaxseed is high in vitamin mangaphosphorus, copper, folate, magnesium, nese, fiber, omega-3 fatty acids and phytonutrior ents such as lignans, which may help prevent Research forestall the onset of type 2 diabetes. the has also shown that flaxseed may decrease arrhythrisk of blood clots, stroke, and cardiac favormias. Grind up flaxseed and add it to your or ite heart-healthy hot or cold cereal, muffins bread.

Walnuts and almonds and If you’re counting carbs, walnuts your diet almonds are good additions to omega-3 because they contain fiber, along with fatty acids, vitamin E, magnesium, monounsatuphytosterrated and polyunsaturated fats and ols, which seem to decrease blood cholesterol.

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Hochul drops zoning proposal

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Channel survey expected soon in Island Park local waters, with the marina and boaters there,” Ana Fisyak, Equinor’s community engageEnergy company Equinor is ment manager, told the Herald. continuing surveys off the coast “We want to thank everyone for of Lido Beach and Long Beach their flexibility while we get as well as in Reynolds Channel New York state to their clean this month, as part of the energy goal of nine gigawatts.” Empire Wind Project, in conFisyak expects the surveying junction with the City of Long in Reynolds Channel to take only Beach, the Town of six or seven days if Hempstead and the the weather cooperVillage of Island ates. Smokey’s work Park, with the hope in the channel is of bringing renewstill awaiting the able offshore wind completion of a energy to New York. joint permit appliIsland Park resication, which dents may have requires sign-offs seen the small lift f ro m t h e A r my boat, Smokey, which Corps of Engineers, was deployed in HARRIsoN FEUER the state departJanuary in Reyn- Director of New York ments of Environolds Channel. It will Public Affairs, Equinor mental Conservaconduct geotechnition and Interior, cal surveying and other agencies. through March, collecting data The energ y goal Fisyak on the underwater soil and rock referred to was set in July 2019 so that export cables can be laid by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and forto carry power from future off- mer Vice President Al Gore shore wind turbines to the elec- when Cuomo finalized the trical grid. Mott MacDonald, an nation’s largest offshore wind engineering management and agreement, creating the Empire development firm and Equinor’s Wind and Beacon Wind projects, subcontractor, is overseeing the the second of which will be surveying. located in the Atlantic between “We understand there are a lot of important stakeholders in Continued on page 14

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GABRIEllA RElUzCo, lEFT, and Sydney Tavroff look to raise awareness of the lack of child care with their winning DECA essay.

OHS juniors raise awareness of the challenges of child care

By KEPHERD DANIEl kdaniel@liherald.com

Sydney Tavroff and Gabriella Reluzco have more in common than being 16-yearold juniors at Oceanside High School. They both want better — and less expensive — options when it comes to caring for children of working parents. Especially in the new pandemic era. The duo will join two dozen of their classmates on a trip to Rochester on March 11

to make their case with the career and technical student organization DECA as part of a statewide communityawareness essay competition. “We both have a background in child care, and we wanted to find an issue that we both felt for,” said Reluzco, who, along with Tavroff, is considering a career in the medical field. Tavroff wants to become a pediatric physician’s assistant. Reluzco provides children’s health and wellness

services for several charities, and Tavroff volunteers to babysit three times a week, works with an organization that raises money to send children to summer camp, and has even volunteered at Cohen’s Medical Hospital. “We were going through ideas, and it took us a little while, because it’s difficult to spread awareness, especially right now because of Covid,” Re l u z c o s a i d . “ B u t t h e moment we were talking Continued on page 14

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Mount Sinai names director of plastic surgery

I S L A N D P A R K S C HO O L D I S T R I C T FRANCIS X. HEGARTY SCHOOL 1 0 0 R a d c li ff e R o a d Is l a n d P ar k , N . Y . ( 5 1 6 ) 4 3 4 - 26 7 1/ 7 2

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UNIVERSAL PRE-KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION Wednesday, March 2, 2022

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Dear Parents and Community Members, A spot is still available for parents interested in enrolling their eligible child in the district’s Universal Pre-Kindergarten. In order to register for the remainder of 2021-2022 classes: 1. Child must be 4 years of age by December 1, 2021 2. Please submit the following: (a) original birth certificate (b) three (3) proofs of residency (c) immunization records and current physical You can register your child for the current school year on March 2, 2022 by: ● Visiting the District Student Registration page (under District Information) on our

website and clicking on the FamilyID button to access documents. Families can submit a registration packet for the waitlist on FamilyID on March 2, 2022 between 9 AM and 3 PM.

● Visiting the District Student Registration page (under District Information) on our

website and downloading the registration packet for the waitlist for drop off at the Francis X. Hegarty School on March 2, 2022 between 9 AM and 3 PM.

● Picking up a packet for the waitlist at Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School

(Radcliffe Rd. entrance) between 9 AM and 3 PM now for drop off on March 2, 2022 between 9 AM and 3 PM.

Completed packets will only be accepted on March 2, 2022. District website: http://www.ips.k12.ny.us

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Last Wednesday, Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside appointed George Xipoleas, MD, as its Director of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Xipoleas, a board-certified plastic surgeon, is a partner in Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, which is the largest and oldest private and academic plastic surgery practice in the United States. “Dr. Xipoleas is recognized for his excellence in the treatment of conditions and deformities related to trauma, cancer, and a wide range of elective cosmetic procedures,” Dr. George said Rajiv Datta, MD, Chair of the Department of Surgery at Mount Sinai South Nassau. “We know that our patients who need his expertise will receive patient-focused, standard-setting surgical care that is instrumental in ensuring their physical and aesthetic quality of life.” “I am honored to take on this new role. I believe wholeheartedly in Mount Sinai South Nassau’s mission to provide patients with quality and compassionate care. I am proud to be a part of a hospital that is so committed to providing the

highest standards of health care,” said Dr. Xipoleas. Dr. Xipoleas is recognized as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor, as well as a New York Super Doctor. He specializes in a wide range of reconstructive procedures including breast reconstruction (oncoplastic, implant-based, and autologous tissue-based), lower extremity reconstruction, Mohs reconstruction, and lymph node transfer for lymphedema. His areas of cosmetic expertise include breast augmentation, breast reduction, breast lift, abdominoplasty, fat transfer, and nonsurgical and surgical facial rejuvenation. Xipoleas A graduate of SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemical Sciences, Dr. Xipoleas earned his MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine (now Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai). He completed his plastic surgery residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital and expanded his training as a fellow at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (now New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai), specializing in aesthetic surgery.

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Estimados padres y miembros de la comunidad, Todavía hay un lugar disponible para los padres interesados en inscribir a su hijo/a elegible en el Pre-Kindergarten Universal del distrito. Para registrarse para el resto de las clases de 2021-2022: 1. El niño debe tener 4 años antes del 1 de diciembre de 2021. 2. Envíe lo siguiente: (a) partida de nacimiento original (b) tres (3) comprobantes de residencia (c) registros de vacunación y examen físico actual Puede inscribir a su hijo/a para el año escolar actual el 2 de marzo de 2022 por: ● Visitando la página de Registro de Estudiantes del Distrito (bajo Información del

Distrito) en nuestro sitio web y haciendo clic en el botón FamilyID para acceder a los documentos. Las familias pueden enviar un parquet de registro para la lista de espera en FamilyID el 2 de marzo de 2022 entre las 9 AM y las 3 PM.

● Visitando la página de Registro de Estudiantes del Distrito (bajo Información del Distrito)

en nuestro sitio web y descargando el paquete de registro para la lista de espera para dejar en el Francis X. Hegarty School el 2 de marzo de 2022 entre las 9 AM y las 3 PM.

● Recogiendo un paquete para la lista de espera en la Escuela Primaria Francis

X. Hegarty (Entrada de Radcliffe Rd.) Entre las 9 AM Y las 3 PM. Ahora para dejar el 2 de marzo de 2022 entre las 9 AM y las 3 PM. Los paquetes completos solo se aceptarán el 2 de marzo de 2022. Sitio web del distrito: http://www.ips.k12.ny.us

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What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

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ANtHoNy BRIgugLIo AND his sons recently cleaned up the retaining walls in front of Florence A. Smith Elementary School No. 2.

ANtHoNy BRIgugLIo BuILt the wall in front of Florence A. Smith Elementary School No. 2 in 2006.

Dad returns to clean up school wall he built By KEPHERD DANIEL kdaniel@liherald.com

ANtHoNy BRIgugLIo AND his sons clean the retaining wall at Florence A. Smith Elemetnary School No. 2 ALL of tHE Anthony Brigugio’s attended Florence A. Smith Elementary School No. 2.

Whoever said “beauty only happens once” never met Anthony Briguglio. The Oceanside school dad recently spent time with his sons beautifying the brick retaining walls at Florence A. Smith Elementary School No. 2. But this wasn’t only familial territory for Briguglio, but familiar as well. Briguglio built these very walls outside the main office back in 2006, when his oldest sons Anthony and Michael — now 24 and 22 — attended school there. Since then, School 2 teachers have planted flowers and shrubs in front of it, and decorate it for holidays. Briguglio returned with not only Anthony and Michael, but also Joseph,18, and Dominic — his youngest at 11, who is the last to attend School 2. With Dominic graduating this year, Briguglio wanted to give back once again, beautifying the entrance area. “The school was putting the yearbook together for the sixth graders,’’ Briguglio said. “I asked if I could get a picture in the yearbook since Dominic is the last child and we never did anything with the other boys. Then we thought, why not go to the school and clean up the walls before we take a picture for the yearbook?” The owner of Briguglio Construction, the Oceanside native is a mason and attended School 2 himself more than 45 years ago. His wife Caryn also is an Oceanside native, along with both of their parents. Briguglio picked up masonry from his father, and feels a community obligation to give back to an institution that already has given so much to him and his family. “I pick my boy up every day and (the retaining walls) haven’t been cleaned in so long,” Briguglio said. “I wanted to make it feel like home.”

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Lucci and Blakeman advocate heart health ldass@liherald.com

SOAP OPERA ACTRESS Susan Lucci, left, and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman discuss the importance of heart health on Thursday outside the Nassau County Legislative and Executive Building. Francis Hospital and Heart Center in Rosyln where Dr. Schlofmitz was her doctor in 2018. She had a blockage of her arteries and had to have surgery to place stents. “Many people when they have problems with their hearts keep it to themselves and Susan was brave enough to come out and talk about her history and symptoms, not once but twice,” Dr. Schlofmitz said. “If anybody has symptoms see your doctor. Get checked out.” Last year, Lucci underwent a second procedure after she recognized the symptoms again. “You need to be diligent and keep working on this your whole life,” Dr. Schlofmitz said.

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NASSAU COUNTY ExECUTIVE Bruce Blakeman, left, Emmy Award winner Susan Lucci, and Dr. Richard Schlofmitz, cardiology chairman at Catholic Health St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center, recognized February as Heart Health Month.

New infections from Feb. 2-14

Total infections since Jan. 1 2,915

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Adorned in red, Emmy Award winning actress Susan Lucci, a Garden City resident, stood beside Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and Dr. Richard Schlofmitz, the chairman of cardiology at Catholic Health St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center, to bring awareness of February as American Heart Health Month at the Nassau County Legislative and Executive Building in Garden City on Thursday. “I have learned, since being the national ambassador for the American Heart Association Go Red for Women Movement, is that heart disease is the number one killer of women more than all cancers put together,” said Lucci. “It kills one in three women every year. It kills one woman every 80 seconds.” Blakeman announced that the dome of the county’s building will be lit red on Thursday night to symbolize the importance of heart health. “Heart disease is the leading killer in Nassau County and while that is alarming, according to the state, we have one of the lowest percentages by population in the state of deaths from heart disease,” Blakeman said. “However, that’s no reason to be complacent.” Like many before her, Lucci had ignored her symptoms of possible heart related complications until she had to be rushed into the emergency room at St.

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Electeds rejoice in ADU victory over Hochul mwilson@liherald.com

There won’t be apartments coming to single-family home communities. At least not this year. Gov. Kathy Hochul has pulled a proposal intended to allow single-family homeowners to more easily rent out rooms and basements from her state budget, putting an end — at least for now — the controversial proposal that met with considerable opposition from local leaders. Those same leaders gathered outside an East Meadow home last Friday to celebrate the governor’s decision. Raheel Ahmad, who lives on the same street, told reporters he’s grateful housing on Long Island — where he relocated his family from Brooklyn six years ago — will stay the same. “It feels amazing,” Ahmad said. “This is why I moved here. I’m thankful for the elected officials who raised up for the residents and got a victory for us.” Hochul’s proposal would have allowed for the creation of “accessory dwelling units” — basements, attics, garages and the like which could be renovated and turned into a separate apartment unit. Hochul included ADUs as part of a broader $25 billion, five-year plan that was part of an effort to preserve up to 100,000 affordable homes across the state. “In the wake of the pandemic, it’s crucial that we tackle the housing crisis and

make New York a more affordable place for all,” Hochul said at the time. “These bold steps are a major step forward in transforming our housing market, protecting affordability, and increasing the housing supply.” Hochul wanted to require municipalities to allow at least one ADU on owner-occupied residentially zoned lots, leaving details like size requirements and safety standards to individual local governments. It also would have created an amnesty program in New York City to allow for existing ADUs — where such a practice already is prominent — to be made legal. Yet, Hochul’s plan has been widely criticized, especially locally, where officials claimed it would put a strain on Long Island resources — and be an end to suburbia. Thousands signed online petitions against the proposal, according to Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin. “The biggest investment in someone’s life is buying a house in the suburbs,” he said. “The governor’s attempt by throwing this in the budget to eliminate single housing is wrong.” Hochul’s plan would have removed “home rule,” Clavin added, meaning local governments could not determine zoning based on the character of the community and the wishes of those who live and work around it. But it’s not that ADUs don’t already exist in the Town of Hempstead, Clavin said. Zoning provisions are already in place

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officials gather outside of a home in East Meadow to celebrate Gov. Kathy Hochul taking the single-family zoning proposal — which would have potentially allowed owners of single-family homes to rent out spare rooms and basements — out of the state budget. intended to provide accessory apartments for senior citizens, and for parents looking to provide their adult children some independence, while still keeping them close to home. County legislator Tom McKevitt is the one who says he found the ADU proposal buried deep inside the 5,000-page budget. The opposition organized on Long Island is something he described as a great example of people at all levels of government coming together to preserve their quality of life. “We’re putting forth the word to the governor and to state representatives, ‘Do not try this again,’” McKevitt said. “’Do not put

it in there. We’re going to be watching and protecting our communities.’” Although the governor has the state constitutional power to add policy to the budget process without much legislative oversight, Hochul’s attempt to add ADUs to the state through that process says all Town Councilman Chris Carini needs to know about the strength of the proposal. “This bill could not pass on its merits as a standalone bill and was hidden in the budget to force its passage,” Carini said, in a statement. Brendan Carpenter contributed to this article.

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community update Thursday, Feb. 24

12. Teens will make dog treats at home to donate to Ruff House Rescue. Registration starts on Feb. 28. Event takes place on Mar. 1 at 9:30 a.m.

Lego Club For children from kindergarten to fourth grade. Come to the Island Park Library and create whatever your imagination inspires. A wide variety of Legos will be provided to each participant. Register online at the library website. Starts at 1 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 2 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 Starts at 10 a.m.

Intermediate Microsoft Excel In this hands-on class at the Oceanside Library, you can learn more about the world’s most popular spreadsheet program, including functions, working with ranges, macros, charting and more. Computers will be available but participants can bring their own laptops with the program on it. Register online at the library website. Starts at 6:30 p.m.

Scrabble The Island Park Library hosts this in-person card game. Register at the library front desk. Must bring a mask and proof of vaccination. Starts at 1 p.m.

Wonderful World of Birds Join CEED Educator and Ranger Eric Powers at the Island Park Library to explore a wide variety of adaptations with live bird ambassadors provided by the Long Island Parrot Society. Register online at the library website. Starts at 6:30 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 25 Cup Speed Stacking Island Park resident Gail Weintraub will teach you the fast-paced sport of cup stacking. Participants will learn how to stack cups in sequences, increasing speed and stacking more cups as you learn. Register online at the Island Park Library website. Starts at 11 a.m.

Movie: Chostbusters Afterlife Watch at the Island Park Library. Starring: Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Dan Aykroyd. The latest in the iconic paranormal comedy series Starts at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 26 Virtual Vinyasa Yoga Dorothy Scott leads this relaxing class at the Oceanside Library that encompases basic yoga poses which focus on lengthening the body’s muscles. Register online

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Vaxmobile comes to the Oceanside Library The Mount Sinai South Nassau Vaxmobile will be at the Oceanside Library on Feb. 28 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the library website. Starts at 9:30 a.m.

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Mount Sinai Vaxmobile Poetry Open Mic Come to the Oceanside Library for lively literary events that bring together establishment poets and writers as well as talented new voices. Starts at 2 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 28 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. Starts at the Island Park Library at 10:10 a.m.

The Vaxmobile makes a visit to the Oceanside Library. Starts from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Register at the library website.

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.

Special Needs Dance Party with DJ Kevin Come to the Oceanside Library for a socially distanced dance party. Join DJ Kevin as he plays the newest beats to dance to. Starts at 7 p.m. in meeting

Tuesday, Mar. 1 Love for Our Elders Community Service Teens from grades 6 to 12 can perform community service by sending out letters to seniors as part of the Love for Our Elders organization. Registration starts on Feb. 28. Event takes place on Mar. 1 at 9 a.m.

Homemade Dog Treats Community Service The Oceanside Library hosts this community service event for teens in grades 6 to

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 Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. AARP’s Cars and Coffee meets Nov. 14 at 9 a.m. at 3118 Lawson Blvd. Oceanside Jewish Center hosts its care support group Nov. 18 at 7 p.m.

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Nassau County Comptroller Elaine Phillips said she will begin an audit of the Department of Assessment on Feb. 15. Joined by County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who campaigned on transparency and change for the reassessment, Phillips reiterated her own promise to independently investigate the reassessment process and how to improve it. The audit will be Phillips’ first as comptroller and will focus on better understanding the re-assessment done under former County Executive Laura Curran in order to make changes going forward. Phillips said that the first task will be to audit the 2021 tax roll to see the methodology and process that was done for the mass appraisal. “When you go in and do an audit, you have to keep an open mind,” Phillips said. “Depending on the information that you find, the audit could evolve.” Phillips said the audit will seek to discover whether exemptions were applied correctly and how the five-year phase in may have affected the tax roll. In March 2020, the Legislature passed the Reassessment Phase-In Act with a fiveyear phase in for changes to a homeowner’s assessed value from their 2019/20 market value to the 2020/21 roll. An exemption base was then to be determined by taking the increase and multiplying it by .1 per-

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CounTy ExECuTivE BruCE Blakeman (center) promised to keep his office and the Legislature out of the audit process. cent. In the first year of the reassessment, 80 percent of the exemption base was to be subtracted from a homeowner’s total assessment. Each year the percentage was to drop by 20 percent until the new values were fully implemented in 2024/25. Blakeman said that he has found identical properties in places like Massapequa where one home was assessed at 40 percent more than the other. “My predecessor engaged in a reassessment that wasn’t transparent and wasn’t done in a way that was fair to all the residents of Nassau County,” he said. “And because it wasn’t transparent, we still don’t know everything that went wrong.” Blakeman said that the information that comes from Phillips’ reports will be

relied upon heavily for a decision-making process. He also said that the county executive’s office and the Legislature will have no input, which will enable Phillips to have an independent review. Legislator Steve Rhoads, the chair of the new legislative committee for assessments, was also in attendance with vice chair Legislator John Ferretti. “What we wanted as a legislative majority was a process that was fair, that was accurate, and that was transparent,” Rhoads said. “Unfortunately, what we received of the course of the last four years was anything but.” Rhoads decried a lack of transparency during Curran’s administration which saw many homeowners sue to find out how

nassau CounTy CompTrollEr Elaine Phillips said she will begin her independent audit of the Dept. of Assessment. the algorithm used by the Department of Assessment calculated their home’s value. Phillips cautioned that this audit would take time, as the audit of the assessment review commission was published in December 2021 after three and a half years. She plans to have her department publish a report after they complete their review of the 2021 tax roll but could not give a timetable yet as to when. “I’m committed to transparency,” Phillips said. “I have my slogan that I am the independent protector of our taxpayers and I promise the people of Nassau County that I will live up to that.”

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A fuel tAnker crashed into a building, overturned and exploded, leading to a fire on Wednesday morning in Rockville Centre.

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Clean up continues in Rockville Centre on Thursday after a 12,000-gallon tanker truck crashed into a vacant building Wednesday morning. Four people were hurt in the aftermath of the accident, including three firefighters and the driver of the truck. The driver was treated and released from the hospital along with two firefighters, while another injured firefighter was treated at the scene, according to village spokeswoman Julie Grilli. The gas tanker was headed eastbound on Sunrise Highway at about 1:11 a.m. on Wednesday when it collided with the vacant La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries store, which has been permanently closed for months. The crash caused an immediate massive fireball and part of the building to collapse. The truck and building caught fire, and black smoke billowed into the air as the fire spread to the sewers. About 25 Fire Departments from surrounding areas rushed to the scene, along with the village’s Fire and Police departments, its Department of Public Works, Office of Emergency Management and other village employees. The Department of Environmental Conservation, the Department of Transportation and the Coast Guard were also on the scene. Baldwin Fire Chief Anthony Hopkins who was at the scene with Ladder Company Two and Hose Company One, expressed his admiration of fellow volunteer firefighters, “Strong work RVCFD Command!” “We are thankful to the surrounding fire departments who came out and supported us,” Grilli said on Thursday. “We’re proud of the Rockville Centre Fire Department, the largest all volunteer department in the state, and thankful for our village employees, as well as help from the county and state agencies.” The crash caused several power outages, but Grilli said electricity was restored to all homes and businesses near the accident site as of 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Power was initially cut to remove fuel that spilled underground, where the electric units for the area are stored. The DEC remained on the scene Thursday to remediate the area. Sunrise Highway was closed in both

directions for nearly 24 hours. As of Thursday, one eastbound lane on the highway was closed from Ocean Avenue to North Village Avenue, and from Merrick Road to South Centre Avenue, Grilli said. There was also a closure from King Kullen on Centre Avenue to Sunrise Highway because a traffic light needs to be repaired. Grilli said the village was waiting to get an update from the DOT about the road closures, and she hoped they would be up and running again by Friday. In a statement on Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul said the DEC deployed environmental conservation police officers and oil spill responders, which included a drone pilot, to assess the potential environmental damage to Mill River and surrounding areas. They were also tasked with pumping out, cleaning and flushing the impacted drainage system. The DOT is also assessing damage to the drainage system, pavement and a traffic signal, and additional information will be provided as it becomes available, Hochul said. “At my direction, multiple state agencies, including the Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Transportation, Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services and New York State Police responded overnight to an incident in Rockville Centre, where a tanker truck crashed into a building along State Route 27 (Sunrise Highway),” Hochul said in the statement. “The crash resulted in a fire and an estimated 9,000 gallons of fuel spilled.” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said that power was lost at 500 homes and businesses, including St. Agnes Cathedral, St. Agnes School and Riverside Elementary School, which were all closed Wednesday. Additionally, all lanes on Sunrise Highway between North Centre and North Park avenues were closed for several hours. A Twitter user named John Leavitt posted a series of videos of the tanker fire and wrote that he heard an explosion at the corner of North Centre Avenue and Sunrise Highway then observed the large tanker on fire. Grilli said police were still investigating the cause of the incident and had not released findings as of Thursday afternoon.

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Quiet, please really do bring a quiet tranquility to every scene and situation. “Quiet” implies nobility and elegance, a muted dignity that exudes the smoothness of silk. Those with a quiet “quiet way about them” are the ones who guide us, inspire us and lead us with subtlety and understatement, who hold our hand rather than shake our shoulders, who share the soft oldman truth rather than beat us with hard facts. As I’ve grown older, while I still talk a lot (even, perhaps, too much) I have indeed, based on all of the above, seen the value of striving to “be quiet,” to trying to be the one who provides calm, who allows the next person to catch their breath and take a second to not just “smell the

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roses,” but to actually see, touch and experience them. One should, in fact, really try to “be” quiet; to give the next guy a respite from the raucous racket that imposes itself, not just on the ear, but on the spirit. To try and “be” quiet is to attempt to bring to the world a bit of serenity and sobriety. In my own case, I haven’t been overly successful, and, unfortunately, to date, not only is “silence not Goldman,” all too frequently neither is “quiet.” Yet, the effort to “be quiet” must continue, or the political, social and moral “noise” that constantly bombards us, will over take us. Yes, we must continue to strive to be quiet in the deepest sense of the term, for in the search for “peace and quiet” we may obtain the “quiet” that brings real peace. ©2022 Ron Goldman

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Quiet enables you to hear the sermon, enjoy the show and learn from a dynamic teacher or a tender-voiced nana. Quiet enables you to embrace the moment in comfort and relaxation. Quiet is being left undisturbed to write as verse, shed a tear, recall a melody, sip a cup of tea or lose yourself between the comforting covers of as compelling book. “Quiet” conjures up on images of a library, a hospital, a study hall or a sanctuary; places whose quiet atmosphere nurtures the mind, heals the body, boosts the intellect or safeguards the soul. Though the loud (and abrasive) insist “it’s always the quiet ones you have to look out for,” those with a quiet temperament and easygoing demeanor

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As I’ve written before, throughout high school my teachers would often complain “silence is not Goldman.” Truth be told, I was a bit of a blabbermouth (though I prefer the term loquacious), who was forever being told to just … “be quiet.” Over the years, I’ve frequently thought about that expression “be quiet” as I’ve come to appreciate it within the context of a “quiet moment,” a “quiet interlude” and the ever elusive “peace and quiet.” Further more, as I’ve watched myself and others try to get quiet, keep quiet, wait for quiet and quiet down, I’ve also come to understand that quiet is not silence; that silence is the absence of all sound while quiet is the absence of noise and stress and extraneous chatter. Silence is a void, while quiet fills a void, but does so with a calm that slips inside and surrounds you from within. Quiet lets the baby sleep. Quiet allows you to collect your thoughts.

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Pandemic has made child care Equinor to survey Reynolds nearly unaffordable for many Channel for Empire Wind farm

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about it, we saw a bunch of statistics on the inaccessibility of child care on Long Island, and we realized that we had to do the topic, because it’s such a big issue that no one really touches on.” Child care simply isn’t something that’s discussed much, Tavroff added. “You see a lot of other issues that are more out there,” she said. Their primary essay focus was not only on raising awareness of the lack of child care facilities, but also on its high cost, and its unaffordability to many. “It’s expensive, and a lot of [child care facilities] are closed because of Covid,” Reluzco said. “We talked to child care facility owners within our community, and [Sydney] talked about how there are so many changes because of Covid. They lost a lot of kids, and they had to let go of a lot of employees, which is a big issue.” Both researched Long Island and New York state child care statistics. They found that more than a quarter of child care facilities remain closed because of Covid, according to a CNBC report. Much of their research coincided with one of the spikes in coronavirus cases, so they took to social media to share just how limited access to child care had become. “We decided because of Covid to create an Instagram page where we advocated for child care accessibility,” Reluzco said. The two also found that New York ranked fifth among states with the least affordable

child care in the country. “Child care costs are rising by $730 each year, and … 48 percent of lower-income households reported that they don’t have the ability to return to their [pre-pandemic] child care arrangement,” Reluzco said. Thanks to their DECA essay, Tavroff and Reluzco now aspire to start a club focused on finding and promoting accessible child care. “We had a goal of using the information we found to start a club to prepare kids for babysitting, with CPR and first-aid certification,” Tavroff said. “Last summer, I did an online class through the Red Cross where I was CPR- and first aid-certified. It was a few hours, and then you went on to hands-on training. We would want to be able to bring that kind of training to students.” An army of well-trained new child care providers could then be sent out into the community helping working parents. “They will have students that are willing to help and are qualified,” Tavroff said. “We both believe there are so many skills that can also be taught — not just CPR certification, but education on nutrition and allergies,” Reluzco said. “I think that it would help if they had that necessary training so that parents feel comfortable with them looking after their kids.” If their essay advances past the state competition in Rochester, Tavroff and Reluzco would move on to the International Career Development Conference in Atlanta in April, a global DECA competition.

Continued from front page Cape Cod and Long Island. Cuomo said at the time that he hoped the projects would be able to power 2 million homes and meet nearly 10 percent of the state’s electricity needs by 2025. The Empire Wind Project, a partnership between Equinor and British Petroleum, will be located 15 to Scott Brinton/Herald 30 miles southeast of Long the nation’s first offshore wind farm, three miles off Island and spans 80,000 acres, with water depths Block Island. Wind farms are expected to become common between 65 and 131 feet. in the waters off Long Island in the near future. Once completed in the mid2020s, the project is expected to bring 1,260 megawatts man Chuck Levine who lives on the North of energy, enough to power roughly a mil- Shore. lion homes in New York. In a fact sheet sent out to residents, “It’s exciting to bring an entire new Equinor said that lights may be visible at industry to Long Island,” Harrison Feuer, night on Reynolds Channel during the Equinor’s director of New York public surveying, and there may be some noise affairs, said. “This used to be an area that during the day. The will usually take place had that sort of commanding industry, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Boaters will still be then Long Island became the first suburb able to pass through the channel, but are in America. So I think bringing a new asked to give the barges some distance, industry to the Island that can create good according to Fisyak. jobs and bring innovation is really excitShe encouraged Island Park, Lido ing to be a part of.” Beach and Long Beach residents to conFeuer is a former staffer for former tact her if they have any questions or conU.S. Rep. Steve Israel and State Assembly- cerns, at afis@equinor.com.

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I listen intently to many stories, helping people of all ages and walks of life as they struggle with challenging issues in their lives. Roger has been laid off from his company after being a loyal worker for nineteen years. He’s highly anxious about how and when he’ ll obtain another position. Emily is feeling bored and restless. Her kids are almost grown and she’s looking for something interesting to do but has no idea what that could be. Jacob is angry and resentful. He knows he has to confront his wife about what’s been bothering him, yet he keeps putting it off, fearing her reaction. Mike desperately wants to overcome his shyness, which makes it difficult for him to make friends or ask anyone out on a date. Ashley is a psychologist who wants to start inda her own business but hasn’t mustered up the courage to take the leap. Each of these individuals is experiencing discomfort and anxiety. I work with them to find ways to lower the intensity of these feelings. To their surprise, I often suggest that they might feel thankful for the conflict in their lives. “What are you talking about,” is the typical response I get! “Well,” I respond, “imagine a life without conflict. What kind of story would that be?” “She woke up to the sun shining. It was a lovely day. Everything worked out just right. No troubles at all. At day’s end, she lay her head on the pillow and fell into a tranquil sleep.” “He arose to a beautiful day with nothing challenging to do. A day, like all other days, to take it easy and do nothing that creates any angst.” Good for a fairy tale, perhaps. Not good for real life. Even if a life like this could exist, wouldn’t a person sooner or later get bored, feeling like Brittany, who wonders why she’s unhappy when she has everything one could want in life? Yes, everyone has a story! Except maybe for meddlers whose own lives are so dull, they sink their teeth, energy, and admonitions into other people’s stories. Feel sorry for

these folks and be grateful that your life generates stories that empower you to master challenges and conflicts. That’s how we grow! We don’t grow minding other people’s business. Even if the story unfolding in your life is something you wouldn’t wish upon yourself, pay attention to it. It’s yours. You will be challenged to address day-to-day tensions, fears, and conflicts without collapsing or losing faith in yourself. Remember, you’re growing, learning, developing. You’re becoming stronger and wiser as yo u c o n f ro n t yo u r str ug gles, not avoid them. Now let’s take another look at Roger’s story. Not only did he need to deal with losing his job, he also had to deal with feelings of vulnerability, helplessness, confusion, depression, anger, resentment, rejection. He admitted that he apadin had to work hard not to freeze up or shut down or close out the world around him. He knew he must hold on to the belief that “I’ll be able to handle this. Maybe not right away. Maybe not with grace. Maybe not without the help of others. But I will handle it.” His life’s journey has continued. He’s gotten a new job. Not the best job, hence, he’s still looking, considering retur ning to school for an advanced degree. His story is still unfolding. His struggles have made him stronger. He’s smiling these days. He’s given himself credit for h a n d l i n g ch a l l e n g e s h e n eve r thought he could! Those rare folks with no conflicts in their lives don’t develop this inner strength. In contrast those who take on challenging conflicts, whether out of choice or not, emerge with strength of character. They build their self-muscle! So, dear reader, as strange as it may seem, I ask you to consider being grateful for the trials and troubles you’re facing in your life!

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©2022 Linda Sapadin, Ph.D., psychologist, coach and author specializes in helping people overcome procrastination, debilitating anxiety and fear. Contact her at DrSapadin@aol.com. Visit her website www.PsychWisdom.com.

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LEGAL NOTICE New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Notice of Complete Application Date, 12/17/2021 Applicant: OCEAN HAMPTON LLC 3564 HAMPTON RD OCEANSIDE, NY 11572 Facility: OCEAN HAMPTON LLC PROPERTY 3564 HAMPTON RD OCEANSIDE, NY 11572 Application ID: 1-2820-01908/00005 Permits(s) Applied/or: 1 Section 401 - Clean Water Act Water Quality Ce11ification 1 - Article 25 Tidal Wetlands 1 - Article 15 Title 5 Excavation & Fill in Navigable Waters Project is located: in HEMPSTEAD in NASSAU COUNTY Project Description: Applicant proposes to remove current shoreline structures including bulkhead and rip-rap and replace with all steel bulkhead, 18 inches seaward. Two wooden docks to be removed and not replaced. In addition, dredge to a depth of -15 ft MLW, except area B which -will be overdredged an additional 6 inches, yielding approximately 4,100 cubic yards of dredged material. Most spoil will be trucked offsite to an approved DEC facility. The remaining material will be used as backfill for the new bulkhead. The project is located at 3564 Hampton Road, Oceanside, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, Hog Island Channel. Availability of Application Documents: Filed application documents, and Department draft permits where applicable, are available for inspection during normal business hours at the address of the contact person. To ensure timely service at the time of inspection, it is recommended that an appointment be made with the contact person. State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) Determination Project is an Unlisted Action and will not have a significant impact on the environment. A Negative Declaration is on file. A coordinated review was not performed. SEQR lead Agency None Designated State Historic Preservation Act (SHPA) Determination The proposed activity is not subject to review in accordance with SHPA. The application type is exempt and/or the project involves the continuation of an existing operational activity. Coastal Management This project is located in a Coastal Management area and is subject to the

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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 3/2/22 at 9:30 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. to consider the following applications and appeals: --------------------------------THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 9:30 A.M. 179/22. - 180/22. NR ISLAND PARK - Lance Somerfeld, Variances, lot area occupied, rear yard, maintain wood deck attached to dwelling; Maintain shed not permitted in side yard., E/s McKinley Ave., 195’ N/o Warwick Blvd., a/k/a 190 McKinley Ave. N.C.P.C. Local Determination. 193/22. 195/22. OCEANSIDE - Marina Angelides, Mother/Daughter Res.(2nd kitchen); Variances, lot area occupied, side yards aggregate, construct 2-story addition attached to dwelling; Special exception to maintain shed not permitted in the side yard & with less than required side yard setback., W/s Carrel Blvd., 560’ S/o Dot Ct. E., a/k/a 3818 Carrel Blvd. N.C.P.C. Local Determination. THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 2:00 P.M. 200/22. 201/22. OCEANSIDE - Long Beach Brewing Company, Inc.,

Special exception to use part of premises for public assembly & amusement for cabaret use in existing building (rehearing case 588/20); Waive off-street parking (rehearing case 589/20)., W/s Lawson Blvd., 400’ S/o Unnamed St., a/k/a 3350-A Lawson Blvd. S.E.Q.R. determination not made. 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 Island Park and 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 athttps://hempsteadny.go v/875/Hearing---0302202 2 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. 129706 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com TO PLACE AN AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com TO PLACE AND AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232

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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 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com TO PLACE AN AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com TO PLACE AND AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232

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Q. Our house is large and very old, with a third story that was partially finished before purchase. We finished the rest of the attic and put in a few bedrooms and a bath. Recently we hired an architect to enlarge our kitchen into our backyard and make a nice entrance to a porch and patio with a fireplace. The architect made the plans, after several meetings, changes, etc., and then put them into our building department to pull a permit. We next got a notice that our attic is in violation, and we had to either take out all the finishes and bathroom or file plans to get a state permit. Ask The None of this has anything to do with the kitchen Architect or patio, which we hoped to have by summer. We suspect our architect made this much more complicated for us, but now we can’t undo what he did. Naturally, he gets more money to do more plans and permits, which we also think is rather sneaky and uncalled for. Can we report onte eeper the architect for doing this to us, and can we pull back the permit so we can make all this go away and just do our kitchen?

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elax on the wraparound porch and enjoy the character of this Victorian home with all the updates. There is a huge extended designer kosher kitchen with stainless steel appliances, radiant heat, separate pantry and loads of cabinets. You will enjoy four bedrooms including a master suite with walk in closet and radiant heated bath. The fabulous private patio is perfect for entertaining and you will love the enclosed yard. This home boasts a 2 car detached garage with spacious attic storage, full Basement. SD#14 and its convenient to shops, LIRR and houses of worship. Call me to arrange a private viewing. You won't be disappointed!

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39 Valley Lane N, BA, FIRST TIME ON THE Market! Updated 5 Bedroom, 4 Bth Arlington Colonial. 3300 Sq ft, This home Features an Entry Foyer, Step Down Living Room, Formal Dining Room, Family Rm w/ Fpl & Quartz/Wood EIK. 4 Bedrooms on Upper Level Include Master suite w/ Vaulted Ceiling, Skylit Bth w/ Jacuzzi, Terrace & WIC. Full Fin Bsmt. 2 Car Att Gar. SD#14 ......... $1,279,000

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A. So you believe everyone is out to get you, including your architect, and you have the right to “pull back” your permit, ignoring the conditions of your house. It doesn’t work that way. Unfortunately, even though most local governments know that most homes have violations, the governments choose not to prosecute every homeowner, since it would be bad for the business of getting re-elected, so code violations go on without a word until you make the first move, which you did, by coming to the attention of the building officials whose job is public safety. Every day of the week, people ask if we can’t just look the other way. We absolutely can look the other way, but eventually who will believe us for lying or not doing our job? The issues of your home easily come up by simply bringing up satellite images, on-line accessible documents, including tax department records, showing what is in the home and whether the third floor was finished. Your building official doesn’t need the architect or you to figure out the truth about the illegalities in your home. When your architect shows the actual conditions, which he is required to do, including walls removed, walls finished in rooms that the building department has no previous record of, or other changes, he’s only doing his job. Imagine the scrutiny an architect would receive if a building official walked in to check the conditions and discovered that you and the architect had lied. I have stated in this column, many times, the statistic that only five people out of 100 will survive a fire on the third floor. Ninety-five people will die of smoke inhalation or burns. So do the right thing and follow through, whichever way you choose. I’m pulling for you.

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merica has had many political dynasties over the past 75 years. I recall the Browns in California and the Landrieu family in Louisiana. There are many others, but none can compare to the Kennedy family and the dominant role it has played in our nation’s history. Sadly, almost all of the well-known Kennedys are gone, with the exception of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his legacy has taken a dark turn from that of the rest of his famous family. The Kennedys jERRy were known as activists who supKREmER ported important causes, from the Special Olympics to health care for all. With his name, the son of the late Sen. Bobby Kennedy, who represented New York, could have gotten involved in dozens of worthwhile efforts that would be a continuation of decades of family good deeds. But instead, RFK Jr. has become the hero of the anti-vac-

cine movement, which is both puzzling and surprising. He travels around the country, spreading his gospel that vaccinations are a threat to your health. According to The Boston Globe, Kennedy preaches, “the COVID vaccine is dangerous for your children.” He claims it is “criminal malpractice to give a child one of these vaccines.” He has also called the Covid jab “one of the deadliest vaccines ever made.” And his fixation with vaccines isn’t limited to those created for the coronavirus. He argues, without proof, that vaccines in general are linked to autism, food allergies and a host of other medical problems. For many years he asserted that the inoculations for measles, mumps and rubella caused autism and other neurological disorders, and according to the Associated Press, he claims that public health officials “knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire generation of American children.” Kennedy is the darling of anti-vax

groups all over the country, and is welcomed into the homes of the wealthy and influential, where he rails against the shots with no medical backup for virtually anything he says. He claims he is doing this as a public service, but his anti-vaccine foundation, Children’s Health Defense, recently reported more than $6.8 million on hand. Kennedy states that there is no profit motive for his antvaccine activity. When asked if he was being paid for his efforts, Kennedy told Fox’s Tucker Carlson, “I am getting unpaid for this.” But records show that in 2019, he earned $255,000 from the foundation. Kennedy has used social media to spread his opinions, and has spent big dollars to back them up. His nonprofit is one of two buyers accounting for 54 percent of anti-vaccine content on Facebook. He has a large following on Facebook and Twitter, but his Instagram account was removed last year for “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about Covid vaccines.” To add to the strangeness of Kenne-

he son of a legendary New York senator busily spreads misinformation.

dy’s crusade, his 2021 book “The Real Anthony Fauci” promotes unproven Covid-19 treatments such as ivermectin, which is meant to treat parasites in animals, and the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, and he claims that the current vaccines have never been safety tested, even though the Food and Drug Administration requires three phases of testing that involves thousands of people before a childhood vaccine is approved. There is no shortage of stories about concerned parents who believe that all vaccinations are suspicious or dangerous. I do not challenge their beliefs. But considering the many positive paths that so many Kennedy family members have taken over the years, the one that RFK Jr. has taken is a disturbing one. He is a true believer in his misguided cause, but he bears no resemblance to his legendary late father. 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.

1950s sci-fi horror story still burns bright

ow did he know? How did Ray Bradbury know in 1951 that the tiny black and white televisions popping up in everyone’s living room had the potential to alter human experience? How did Bradbury, who died at age 91 in 2012, know that the little screens would lead to big screens that would eventually possess children’s minds in a way books could not? How did he foresee that people would stuff their heads with the cerebral equivalent of cotRANDI ton candy and KREISS abandon intellectual pursuits for lives devoted to video games? Bradbury was a visionary. He prophesied that many new inventions had the potential to threaten civilized life. What he saw as science “fiction” has come to pass. We are living amid modern advances that have ironically set us back as a people in pursuit of enlightenment and knowledge. We live in an era when the great works of literature are reduced to and diluted into mini-works and summaries, Cliff Notes and comic books.

I urge you and your teenagers to read “Fahrenheit 451,” Bradbury’s 1951 novel that warned the world that it was moving inexorably toward a time of more technology and less humanity, more autocracy, and less freedom of thought. He described a time when fringe groups of fanatics would dominate by using invasive surveillance and harsh laws to squelch any resistance. He never mentioned QAnon, but he knew it was coming. Reading “Fahrenheit 451” today, in the time of alternate facts, false flags, big lies and other threats to our democracy, has left me shaken. Bradbury set the book in a city of the future, but he was writing during the time of the McCarthy hearings, the Red Scare, emerging nuclear weapons and increased government intrusion into the private lives of citizens. He wrote a what-if tale of how a civilized people could lose their freedom by following false gods that pander to their darkest impulses. Seventy years ago he was writing about now, about selfserving political operatives and fake news and pseudo-patriots who tear down the scaffolding that holds up American democracy. “Fahrenheit 451” is a short novel

about a future in which firefighters are tasked with burning books and the houses of people who hide them. When a woman stands defiantly in her doorway with her book in hand, they burn her, too. Books are banned because they “confuse” people with their ideas. Much of the population is beaten into acceptance of the new normal, with information and entertainment blaring at them from wall screens all day. No one walks outside. Everyone is suspect. It is a thriller about one man, Montag, a fireman who experiences a sudden awakening to the horrors he has perpetrated. His wife, a survivor of multiple suicide attempts, is addicted to the virtual world projected from the screens in her house. She and her friends are inured to authentic feeling, even within themselves. Montag goes on the run, with firemen in pursuit. Eventually he joins up with a rogue band of men — former professors and thinkers, now wanderers in the wilderness, each with large sections of books memorized for posterity. Bradbury’s hero wears a “sea clam shell” in his ear that presages the AirPod. Montag stops on the street to get money from a machine that didn’t exist

eventy years ago, Ray Bradbury was presciently writing about now.

in the 1950s. Overhead, supersonic aircraft drop bombs on cities. They are unmanned drones, much like the ones our government is using to assassinate terrorists thousands of miles away. He explores the risks of free thinking in a time of crushing conformity. In the world of “Fahrenheit 451” there is no privacy, no awareness of nature, simply the elevation of technology and the diminution of humanity. Why does Montag go rogue? What makes him realize that freedom of thought is worth dying for? His last job with the firemen is to burn down the house of a woman who is hiding books. When they arrive with their trucks and flame-throwers, she is standing in the doorway with a book in her hand, and she strikes the first match, killing herself as the house explodes around her. People will die for their books, Montag realizes. It’s something to think about when we read headlines every day about book bans and censorship of treasured literature. It’s something to act on when we see children who watch but don’t read in a time in America when only 25 percent of the population reads a book a year. Bradbury knew we need books to tell the story of ourselves and pass that story on to future generations. Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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n chess, you can’t control the game unless you control the board. The same can be said about politics, and since the early days of the republic, state legislatures have had virtually complete control of the congressional and legislative redistricting process. After each census, states are required to draw new district boundary lines — a controversial process that far too often is steeped in partisanship. In fact, New York state lawmakers just approved those lines in recent weeks, making a number of changes, felt primarily when it comes to who represents us where in Congress. Nothing about redistricting is popular — especially when population declines force the Legislature to remove congressional districts completely, as New York had to do this year. That’s why then Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced in 2011 what would eventually become a state constitutional amendment removing redistricting powers from the Legislature — which drew district boundaries for itself — and putting it in the hands of an “independent” commission.

We use “independent” ironically because it really wasn’t. The majority and minority parties in the Legislature each appointed four members, and those eight members chose two more people who were not registered members of either party. This commission held hearings and then drew new district late last year. What its members couldn’t do was come to a consensus. Without what would essentially be a bipartisan agreement, the entire process was thrown back to the very Legislature that held the power to draw the maps in the first place. Even if the commission had somehow found a way to agree on a final set of maps, it still required approval from the Legislature. Even in that scenario, the Legislature would only need to reject the maps drawn by the commission twice before it regained its original power to draw the maps its members chose. It’s like buying your wife a bowling ball for your anniversary, with the finger holes drilled to fit your own grip. Did anyone really believe that an inde-

pendent commission could craft district maps on its own that the State Legislature would actually approve? The odds were stacked against the panel from the very start, creating not an independent commission, but simply the appearance of one, while the process of drawing maps remained the same as it has been for the past couple of centuries. Gerrymandering is an age-old problem, and it’s hard not to look at some of the new districts — like the stretching of U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi’s congressional district from northern Nassau County straight up past Little Neck Bay, and west to the East River and into Westchester County — and not see highly creative boundary drawing. Yet we can’t seem to get out of our own way to prevent it. A slight shift of a district line here, and a tuck there, can be the difference between true representation and an electorate skewed to support an elite few. Representation is the very essence of democracy. But if we’re not drawing district lines fairly, are we truly represented?

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hile the state’s election districts were recently redrawn — gerrymandered — by a progressive-Democratic majority in the State Legislature for the purpose of favoring their party, gerrymandering is not a particularly new political weapon. Those on both sides of the aisle have used their power to redraw district lines, depending on who holds the majority. The practice goes back to the 1800s, but this year’s redrawing by is unprecedented, ronaLd j. and comes at a when the rosenberg time self-proclaimed progressives’ larger political agenda ranges from defunding police to “bail reform” to demonizing the successful entrepreneur, i.e., capitalism. As U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi pursues his gubernatorial primary quest, his former 3rd Congressional District is now unrecognizable. The progressive gerrymander has recreated his congressional borders into what they now humorously call the Long Island Sound District. It now stretches from Smithtown in Suffolk County, along the lightly populated North Shore, into the densely populated Bronx, and ends in Democratic West-

chester County. While several Long Island Democrats have announced their intentions to run for Suozzi’s vacated seat, they will face a growing number of New York City-based progressives who see their population density and massive Democratic enrollment in the city and its environs as bulletproof at the ballot box. The numbers speak for themselves. The Village of Northport, part of the new 3rd C.D., has some 8,000 residents. The City of New Rochelle, in Westchester, which is also part of the new district, has some 80,000. Now consider who is lining up to run in the 3rd District so far: Bronx State Senator Alessandra Biaggi, who defeated moderate Democrat Jeff Klein a number of years ago. In a December tweet, Democratic Socialist Congresswoman Alexandria OcasioCortez had nothing but praise for Biaggi. Also in the running is Melanie D’Arrigo, a self-described progressive who has been endorsed by former New York City Council Speaker Melissa MarkViverito, a city pol who once co-chaired the City Council’s Progressive Caucus. So these are the extremist candidates who stand a very good chance of assuming control of a new district designed to remove the potential of not just a Republican winning the seat, but of Long

Letters the Heralds in which he did not challenge the reader to think, to question, and to join him in creating a better community. Over the decades, his professionalism saw him literally on the front lines, reporting on everything from local events to major breaking news, and eventually overseeing the coverage that appears weekly in our local paper. Brinton has reported on not one, not two, but three once-in-a-lifetime events: the Sept. 11 attacks, Superstorm Sandy and the Covid19 pandemic. He further demonstrated his professionalism and class when the Merrick Life transitioned to the Merrick Herald, paying tribute to the decades of community journalism by the Laursen family. Scott was not only our source of news. He was a neighbor and a parent in our community. You may have waved hello to him as he jogged through the neighborhood. You may have stood behind him on the bagel line. But you always knew his byline stood for probing and honest journalism. This is one reader who will miss our local journalism, celebrity and who thanks him for his almost three decades of service to the Merrick-Bellmore community. KYLE STROBER Merrick

Islanders having any representation focused on Long Island issues. The implications have not gone unnoticed. Great Neck-based Democratic primary hopeful Robert Zimmerman is now warning Democrats and Republicans that he is the political firewall that could prevent a progressive from representing the new district. As he raises money for the primary, Zimmerman is reciting a list of moderate, centrist Long Island Democrats who now support his effort. His strategy is that of a seasoned professional, leveraging his public relations experience to focus his message, which is, essentially, “I am your last best hope to confront this city theft.” Of course, that presumes the Republican Party won’t field a candidate who can confront and defeat whoever the Democrats nominate in this now unrecognizable district. But the reality is that the tortured borders of the 3rd are a calculated move by New York City-based progressives to dismantle Nassau and Suffolk counties’ ability to project political cohesion and regional advocacy. If successful, they will have effectively eliminated any chance that the Long Island congressional delegation will be a powerful force in the House of Representatives. Consider what that means. Will a

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Bronx progressive/Socialist Democrat really work with a Long Island Republican to redress the loss of South Shore beachfront in a nor’easter? Will a Bronx progressive care about environmental damage along Smithtown’s coastline? Will a Bronx Progressive fight for infrastructure money for the Long Island Expressway? Because, after all, shouldn’t we all be punished for not using electric vehicles? And by the way, many constituents of this new Long Island Sound District have median incomes that progressives will find worthy of their most pungent demagoguery, because capitalism is an anathema to their political ideology. This ambush of Long Island by these progressives reveals a smug disdain for suburbia, its values, its people and its needs. To counter it, Long Island voters must recognize that we have been robbed of our voice in Congress. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, liberal or conservative. As a bicounty region, we have been mugged by those who cynically intend to walk off with one of our congressional seats. The answer is to recognize the ploy and respond appropriately on Election Day 2022. Ronald J. Rosenberg has been an attorney for 42 years, concentrating in commercial litigation and transactions, and real estate, municipal, zoning and land use law. He founded the Garden City law firm Rosenberg Calica & Birney in 1999.

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Priced from $760,000 to over $1,000,000* Sales Gallery Open Daily 10am — 5pm One Charles B Wang Blvd. Plainview, NY 11803

516.619.8135 *The Essington

*Clubhouse Lounge

*Prices, taxes and availability subject to change without notice. The complete terms are in offering plans available from the Sponsors File No. CD16-0218, CD16-0219, CD16-0342, CD16-0343, CD16-0348 and CD17-0106. *Actual onsite photos. Equal housing opportunity.

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