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O’side divided on full-time return to school dents have been following either a fully remote or hybrid model, in which they come to school two Many parents of students in or three times a week, depending the Oceanside School District on the week, and work remotely have expressed frustration that the rest of the time. The classes their children have not been able have been divided into blue and to return to full-time white groups, which in-person instrucalternate in-person tion, but Superintenand at-home days. dent Dr. Phyllis HarWith many neighrington said that boring districts administrators are inviting seniors back not yet ready to welfor full-time in-percome them back. son instruction, sev“We created a eral Oceanside parreopening plan ents have expressed based on the guidefrustration that the lines given to us by district hasn’t folthe health experts in lowed suit. Caryn N a s s a u C o u n t y, ” Briguglio, who has H a r r i n g t o n e x - Dr. PHylliS two sons in the displained. “We were HarriNGToN trict, Joe, a senior at obligated to adhere OHS, and Dominick, Superintendent, to those, and we have a fifth-g rader at done so very success- Oceanside School School No. 2, said fully. Those guide- District she was frustrated lines included cerbecause Harrington tain protective meaand the Board of sures we had to have in place in Education said they would reorder to mitigate and minimize evaluate bringing students back the number of confirmed cases in the winter, but so far nothing or the spread of the virus. None has changed. of those regulations or guide“All she keeps saying is she’s lines have changed; nothing has waiting for that green light,” changed. At this point, we are Briguglio said of Harrington. still following those guidelines.”

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They’ve hit the right notes Oceanside High School students, from left, Samantha Civil, Samantha Santiago and Sophie Stakhov were selected for the prestigious All-Eastern Virtual Honors Music Ensembles, which are later this month.

Friedberg JCC celebrates Purim with pandemic precautions

Events bring young people, seniors together safely

By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com

In normal years, Purim is celebrated with large family gatherings at which relatives exchange Purim baskets, wear costumes and share a meal.

Purim, or the Festival of Lots, commemorates the survival of Jews who, in the fifth century BCE, were marked for death by their Persian rulers.

With the threat of the corona-

virus still looming this year, it was more difficult for people to enjoy the company of their loved ones, especially seniors, during the celebration Feb. 25 and 26. Oceanside’s Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center marked the occasion by coordinating food basket deliveries to seniors in the communities the JCC serves.

Executive Director Roni Kleinman said that celebrating Purim safely was an important

part of the center’s mission, so volunteers delivered the baskets.

The proceeds of this year’s sales in the JCC’s four Early Childhood Centers have been directed to projects like the basket deliveries.

“So instead of making it a fundraiser for Friedberg, we made it a fundraiser for the community,” Kleinman said.

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Many residents, elected officials favor municipalization of private utility

By Mike Conn and AlyssA seidMAn mconn@liherald.com, aseidman@liherald.com

South Shore residents spoke forcefully at a public hearing that reviewed the state’s study to examine a potential public takeover of New York American Water’s private infrastructure on Long Island, making it clear they want public water.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced legislation to begin the study Feb. 3. Last Thursday’s virtual forum allowed residents within NYAW’s Lynbrook and Merrick service areas to share their thoughts with Rory Lancman, special counsel for ratepayer protection, who will oversee the study, and commissioners Diane Burman and Tracey Edwards of the New York State Public Service Commission.

The meeting came roughly a month after a study by Walden Environmental Engineering determined that NYAW ratepayers within the Town of Hempstead would see savings between $70 and $383 a year if the town acquired a portion of the private utility’s Nassau operation. In some cases, NYAW customers pay five times more for water than residents serviced by a municipally owned entity.

The PSC is also determining whether NYAW should be permitted to sell its Long Island infrastructure to Liberty Utilities for $608 million, a tentative deal that was reached in November 2019.

State Senators Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, and John Brooks, a Democrat from Seaford, were the first to speak at Thursday’s hearing; they both said they favored a public water takeover. (see box) Then it was the public’s turn.

Claudia Borecky, the co-director of Long Island Clean Air Water and Soil, a Merrick-based advocacy group, cited two instances in which ratepayers had benefitted from the sale of a NYAW property, and therefore, in the event of a public takeover, argued that residents should not have to pay for what they already own.

A June 2014 PSC order authorizing the sale of NYAW’s Lynbrook headquarters ruled against company shareholders retaining any profit from the sale of the asset, Borecky said. The same was true of a 2019 sale of NYAW’s Prospect Avenue property to the Village of Sea Cliff, which resulted in North Shore customers splitting a $1.6 million credit on their future water bills.

“It is our view that to be fair and equitable, New York state should compensate New York American Water ratepayers by funding a public takeover . . . and finally give us equal protection under the law,” Borecky said.

Baldwin resident Jack McCloy highlighted the pricing disparity between publicly- and- privately-owned water despite being sourced from the same aquifer.

McCloy said that he pays more than $100 for about 11,000 gallons of water, while his mother, a Melville resident, pays only $8 to the South Huntington Water district, a public entity, despite using the same amount.

Susan Melnick, of Merrick, added that the bills are inexcusable because of the

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lAst thursdAy, rory Lancman, special counsel for ratepayer protection at the state Department of Public Service, hosted a virtual hearing at which South Shore residents aired their grievances about New York American Water, the private utility currently under the scrutiny of a state-led feasibility study. quality of the water itself. “My water often is brown, not beige or discolored but brown — sometimes it has an odor,” she said.

Resident Rich Erben was critical of the company’s tiered conservation rate system, which divides customers into four tiers based on the amount of water they use. The more a customer uses, the higher the rate they pay. “It may be OK if you’re one person – I’m a family of five,” he said.

“What’s taking place is really criminal.”

Some speakers expressed their disappointment with Hempstead officials who earlier this year opposed a local takeover of NYAW, arguing that resulting savings would be “diminutive” compared to an almost $500 million cost to acquire the system.

Supervisor Donald “Clavin scoffed at the results of [Walden’s] feasibility study, saying that a public takeover would significantly increase residents’ tax bills,” said Baldwinite Beverly Visconti. “Is he forgetting about those who already pay significant taxes for New York American Water?”

Merrick resident Fred Harrison also acknowledged the town’s reluctancy and recommended the formation of a South Shore water authority to oversee the system, should it be municipalized.

Barbara Hafner, of West Hempstead, added, “After looking at what happened in Texas and the privatization of their utilities, we need to rethink our utilities.”

Residents who missed the meeting but want to comment can fill out a form on the department’s website, or visit www. dps.ny.gov, click on “Search,” enter Case No. 20-W-0102 in the “Search by Case Number” field and click on “Post Comments.”

elected officials express their support “It is no exaggeration when I say that the number one complaint by volume I’ve received over the past three years is from American Water customers who are astounded by the bills they’ve received.

Having a municipalization study is very important, and I think the question we have to figure out is can the Town of Hempstead do this? I hope the answer is yes, but if they don’t, we need to figure out a structure that could work to help lower ratepayer bills. Anything we do has to result in the significant rollback of rates for my ratepayers who are disgusted and overwhelmed, and this is on top of the really difficult cost of living here on Long Island.”

“It’s critically important that we give the folks that are now provided service from New York American Water the opportunity to discuss some of the many concerns they have, from a rate [and] service standpoint. I have concerns about the infrastructure of the system and who is the actual owner [and] about the pricing programs that are currently in place. This gives us an opportunity to truly evaluate how well New York American Water is serving our community, the option to [sell to] Liberty and perhaps, more importantly, the opportunity to have a municipal program in place, which I strongly favor.”

–State Sen. John Brooks, 6th District

–State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, 9th District

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ware from community spread within our collective electronic equipment.

So as a requirement of my employment, I watched with great interest a short video presentation explaining my responsibility to protect our collective computing activities.

Surprisingly, I was riveted to the message, although it was scarier than a psychological thriller (not my favorite genre). In fact, despite the way I teach students that fear tactics in advertising can sometimes shut down a consumer’s attention and alienate the viewer, the video’s techniques kept me carefully watching. After all, it’s hard to ignore skull and crossbones (“the bad guys”) moving through wires (the network) in order to kidnap information to sell it fraudulently to the highest bidder.

Yet despite the anxious approach, the entire message was simplified and cleansed to one quick phrase: “stop, look and think”.

Let’s face it — we are bombarded everyday with attempts to capture our personal information via phones, texts and emails.

But if you had to summarize awareness in a fundamental way, it’s really does come down to “stop, look and think”.

So after the video was done and I was reminded not to share or use someone else’s flash drive, I thought about “stop, look and think” beyond the confines of the digital landscape. Could these simple rules be effective in other areas of our world?

If more of the world’s citizens applied “stop, look and think” before taking action I believe the world could be a better place. I suspect there could be more acceptance of differences, greater tolerance and fewer mistakes.

And then, when we were finished with the world, we could apply the credo to our smaller lives – putting oneself in someone else’s place, providing help where it is needed, appreciating the strengths and weaknesses of being human.

Suddenly that “stop, look and think” which was applied to protect the fragility of data, wouldn’t be such a bad idea for our dayto-day approach in our carefully constructed lives as well.

A contributing writer to the Herald since 2012, Lauren Lev is an East Meadow resident and a direct marketing/advertising executive who teaches advertising and marketing communications courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology/SUNY, LIU Post and SUNY Old Westbury.

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83-year-old woman struck and killed by bus in O’side

By Mike SMollinS msmollins@liherald.com

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a bus on Feb. 24 at 8:03 a.m. in Oceanside.

According to detectives from the Nassau County Police Department’s Homicide Squad, an 81-year-old woman was fatally struck by a 2016 Ford school bus traveling eastbound on Weidner Avenue

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Oceanside Library to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday — virtually The Oceanside Library is set for a day of whimsy as it celebrates the annual Dr. Seuss Birthday Bash — this time virtually — on March 7, starting at 10 a.m.

The schedule includes many activities, such as sculpting, doodling, crafting, special guest read alongs, lectures and nore. Assmeblywoman Melissa Miller is also set to participate, joining at 10 a.m. for a read along storytime.

For more information, visit oceansidelibrary.com and click on the events calendar. Stop by the library to pick up a Dr. Seuss Birthday Bash goodie bag while supplies last.

Courtesy Oceanside Library; compiled by Mike Smollins

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A Schedule of events for the Oceanside Library’s celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday on March 7.

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while she was attempting to cross Nassau Road from the north.

As a result of the collision, the pedestrian suffered a traumatic head injury and was trasnsported by an NCPD ambulance to a local hospital. A physician pronounced her dead at 8:28 a.m.

There were no other injuries reported and the driver remained at the scene. An investigation is ongoing.

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The 2021 Jovia Long Island Marathon will return to Eisenhower Park in East Meadow this Sept. 17 and 18.

L.I. Marathon to be held in person in September

By BRiaN STieGLiTZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

Long Island’s most anticipated running event will return this year with a new course — again.

The 2021 Jovia Long Island Marathon and all its accompanying racing events will return to Eisenhower Park in East Meadow this Sept. 17 and 18. While the event is typically held in May, Nassau County officials decided to host it five months later to allow more time to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

“As we continue to make significant progress in the fight against Covid-19, we’ve been able to allow some smaller races — with up to 300 participants — to come to our parks through the fall and winter,” said County Executive Laura Curran at a Feb. 25 news conference, at which she made the announcement.

Curran explained that the county has been able to host races by following safety and social-distancing protocols like introducing staggered start times and contactless check-ins, checking athletes’ temperatures and limiting the number of spectators.

Because the Long Island Marathon draws a much bigger crowd than the typical 5K and 10K races, attracting 5,000 people in 2019, county officials decided to hold the event in September “because we expect to have more vaccines . . . and that will mean more immunity in our community so we could get more participation,” Curran said.

For the second year, the race will be directed by Baldwin-based company Race Awesome, which is run by Corey Roberts and his wife, Stacey.

“At the end of the day, the realization is that it’s not just about producing a race,” Roberts said at the news conference. “There are so many services that Nassau County provides to the race to make it happen, especially from our health department.”

Past events have had roughly 12 medical tents along the route, all of which the county health department provided.

“The health department right now really needs to focus on vaccinations,” Roberts noted. “With that, we really took the time to think about how we can do this and do it safely with Nassau County.”

When Race Awesome took the reins to direct the 2019 marathon, it unveiled a new course that shut down parts of Merrick Avenue and Wantagh Parkway.

With the event in September, Roberts said he was reluctant to follow the same route and risk impacting the

Courtesy Arthur Raslich

NaSSau CouNTy exeCuTive Laura Curran announced the changes to the marathon during a Feb. 25 news conference, at which she was joined by Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and Health Commissioner Larry Eisenstein. crowds heading to and from Jones Beach for their last beach trips of the summer.

The 47th marathon will feature a two-lap course that keeps runners in Eisenhower Park for more of the event and then send them through Mitchell Field, Museum Row and along the some of the pedestrian and bike lanes that the county installed in 2020.

“It will have less an impact on communities and downtown areas than previous years, while delivering athletes a full-distance marathon with a two-lap course,” Curran said.

Roberts added that having a more condensed course could allow runners more opportunities to compete alongside one another and give spectators a better chance to see runners.

The marathon will remain a qualifying event for the Boston Marathon. Everyone who registered for the 2020 event, which was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, will be automatically registered again for the 2021 event in September. Those who haven’t registered yet will be able to do so starting March 15 at www.runlongislandmarathon.com.

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RaCe aweSome wiLL direct the event again and designed a new course for the 47th race.

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Black leaders talk future at Inside LI webinar

By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com

In celebration of Black History Month, Black leaders on Long Island gathered for the latest webinar of Herald Inside LI on Feb. 25.

Speakers included Phil Andrews, the president of the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce Inc.; Regina Armstrong, superintendent of Hempstead Union Free School District; Frederick Brewington, the owner and principal of Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington; Margo Cargill, the CEO of Titanium Linx Consulting Inc. and vice president of the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce; and Daniel Lloyd, founder and president of Minority Millennials Inc. Skye Ostreicher, of Herald Community Newspapers and RichnerLive, comoderated the discussion alongside DuWayne Gregory, senior vice president and director of diversity, equity and inclusion training for McBride Consulting and Business Development Group.

Lloyd, the youngest member of and only millennial on the panel, emphasized the importance that his and younger generations will play in advancing social justice in United States “The millennial and generation Z demographics are the largest, most educated and most diverse in the nation,”

Lloyd said. “What we’re seeing is that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “We know that the failure of America millennials and gen Z are understanding what justice is — the idea of a quali- — and Long Island in itself — is not allowing the full story to be told,” Brewty life and fairness.”

“As a superintendent of a school dis- ington said. “The importance of being trict, we see how people can look at us there not only as a role model but also as a resource, so that the as a school district when wonderful education that is we’re failing, they’re quick being taken on by millennito talk about it and advertise als and gen X is not wasted it,” Armstrong said, “but in regard to getting caught when we are experiencing in the same mistakes and successes, no one wants to the same history that has share it or they begin to critpulled people down.” icize the prog ress being “One of the big lacks is made and say, ‘That can’t be that we don’t have enough possible.’” mentorship opportunities,” “That hard work that Cargill said. “We can give they’re putting in is not them that guidance and that being recognized by people direction so they can avoid on the outside,” Armstrong those pitfalls.” continued. “It makes them PhIl ANDREWs As the vice president of feel as though they are less African American t h e Nassau Council of than.”

Chamber of Chamber of Commerce, CarThe Hempstead School gill understands the perDistrict makes it a goal to Commerce spectives and practices of show students a wide variety of career opportunities so they other communities. By relaying this understand what is possible — whether information to her own community, peoit’s a store worker or the owner of the ple there can adopt beneficial practices, too. business.

“It’s about information and sharing Brewington said he often invites young local people to his practice to that information, and being a mentor,” show them career possibilities. His Cargill said. “It’s about being part of an office commemorates several historical ecosystem that’s larger than just the Black figures, including Malcolm X and majority-minority communities.”

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Andrews helped develop a young membership program for the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce in which young people can meet with business owners and receive free training.

“We didn’t want young people sitting outside on an opportunity like this,” Andrews said. “We have to be at the table; we have to be involved. When we have a seat at the table, we can bring something away. We can’t sit back on these things. . . We have to be examples.”

“You can’t buy wisdom,” Lloyd said, referring to the need for mentorship on Long Island. Minority Millennials helps invigorate young members’ business dreams by allowing them to share the personal stories behind their business ideas.

“We, as a people, need to understand where that information is flowing and not just confine ourselves to what we like or what’s comfortable for us,” Cargill said. “Step outside the box and stay curious, because as you stay curious, that’s where you’ll find your niche and your next big idea.”

This episode was sponsored by McBride Consulting & Business Development Group and the Rockville Centre Coalition for Youth. This and all previous episodes of Herald Inside LI can be found at liherald.com/recordings.

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Monday, March 22

Virtual Cranberry Ricotta Cake

Island Park Board of Education

At your leisure, watch a video as the baking coach instructs you in a Cranberry Ricotta Cake workshop. Make this delicious cake that is a cross between pound cake and cheesecake!

Limit of 24 participants. $3 fee must be paid upon pick-up of ingredients at the Library. The library will email you when it is ready for pick-up. Sign up online at islandparklibrary.org through our calendar (right-hand side of screen). Visit islandparklibrary.org for more information and the video link.

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

Wednesday, Mar. 24 Oceanside Board of Education The Oceanside Board of Education will host its next public meeting at the School No. 6 auditorium at 7:30 p.m. It will also be held virtually on YouTube. To submit questions, email mbarbella@ oceansideschools.org under the Subject Line “Public Meeting” before 5 p.m. the day of the board meeting. The board is also hosting a special meeting on March 3, which will be its third budget workshop.

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

Friday, March 5 Virtual Chair Yoga Join Marianne Bochilo for a relaxing session of online chair yoga, from the comfort of your home presented by the Oceanside Library at 12:30 p.m. For more information and the virtual link, visit oceansidelibrary.com.

Saturday, March 6 Saturday Vinyasa Yoga with Dot Scott Start your weekend off on the right foot and grab a mat and some blocks (use whatever you can around the house for support) and join the Oceanside Library for an online session with Dorothy Scott from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. For more information and the virtual link, visit oceansidelibrary.com.

Sunday, March 7 Dr. Seuss’s Birthday Celebration Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday, virtually, with the Oceanside Library on March 7.

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One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish The Oceanside Library is set to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday with a virtual event on March 7 at 10 a.m. Above, the library got in the spirit for the celebration in person in a previous year before the pandemic. virtual activities, starting at 10 a.m., including read alongs, lectures and more. For more information and the virtual link, visit oceansidelibrary.com.

Monday, March 8 Virtual Tai-Chi and Chi Cong Join the Island Park Library virtually for this program at 10:15 a.m. Register at islandparklibrary.org or call (516) 432-0122.

Family Baking Program: Irish Soda Bread Join the Island Park Library virtually for the family baking program with a special St. Patrick’s Day treat, Irish soda bread.

Video will be available starting March 8,

and kits will also be available with all the ingredients you will need. You must register in order to receive a kit. The kit costs $3. The library will call you when the kits are available for pick up. One kit per family. Visit islandparklibrary.org to find the link to the virtual video.

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

Tuesday, March 9 Play Hooray Videos Watch Molly Mouse from home! Since

The Oceanside sanitation board meets March 4.

Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday at the libraries on March 7.

This month’s baking program features a St. Patty’s theme.

Make a dancing leprechaun at the I.P. Library on March 8.

Play Hooray videos are available at the Island Park Library.

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

Thursday, March 18 Village of Island Park Board Meeting The Village of Island Park hosts its monthly board meeting at 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 127 Long Beach Road.

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

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he coronavirus impacted my business in many ways. Dance is a team sport as well as a passion and an art. Our dancers come to the studio and feel like they are in their second home. Times spent with their teachers and classmates are invaluable times. It is a time where you can let go of anything else that is bothering you throughout the day and just laugh and dance your stress away.

When the pandemic began, it was right in the middle of our competition season and everything shut down. Dances we worked so hard on never got to see the stage. Costumes and non-refundable competition fees went down the drain. Senior dancers eager to enjoy their final season dancing at Oceanside Dance Center were ripped of that experience (we always make it special for them). Our little

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ones who should have performed in their first dance recitals were not able to do so. This was also so hard on my staff, including myself. We cherish our time with our students.

However, one positive thing that the coronavirus did do was help us all — teachers and students — to realize how grateful we are to get to dance and let our emotions out on the floor, and to spend valuable time with each other and create lifelong friendships while doing what we love.

We are back in studio, and although things are a little different for the time being, we are able to express our emotions again through dance. I have received so many emails from parents saying how thankful they are. I am so happy to be open again so they can let go of their worries and have some normalcy.

hen we, like other businesses, had to close our business to customers last March, it was completely unexpected. But after the initial shock, we learned how to pivot. The first week was stressful, but I think it gave businesses the time to figure out how to move forward. We promoted our bakery and café menu to go immediately, and updated our website and social media accounts with links to make ordering easy.

We quickly realized that our customers wanted to support the small businesses in town. Many of our customers needed a break from working at home, or a quick walk in fresh air, and we became a destination. Stopping in for a quick cup of coffee or muffin became an easy way to break up the day. Our popular Afternoon Tea Events became boxed for

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THEIR FRONT-LINE STORIES IN THEIR OWN WORDS MELANIE VAUGHAN

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started my business in New York City in 2001, after working in the advertising industry.

I found that a soulless business, and I wanted to be my own boss. I re-located to Long Beach and with my partner, Keri Venti, opened Wolf & Wing Interior Design, about 10 years ago.

My partner and I were young moms, and we had to maneuver around that. We were doing very well, and then last March, the Covid pandemic came along. We couldn’t get into people's homes to talk with them. And we prided ourselves on developing close personal relationships with our clients.So we developed virtual design consultations, called Shelter in Peace. We would do all or most of our work virtually, sending clients ideas on designs.

As time went on, some Covid restrictions were lifted, and one construction worker was

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allowed to go to a home. So we started to visit people, but of course still had to wear masks, as we still do, and to keep socially distant. We also had to meet with clients outside their homes. It was challenging because of the value we placed on personal relationships.

But some more restrictions have been lifted, and more construction workers are allowed to work.But getting materials has been and remains very difficult. Factories in China and elsewhere have been shut down, and prices on the materials have skyrocketed. Those issues have not gotten better. The shutdowns at the factories have slowed our work. But the interior design business is booming these days.

People are not spending their money to go to Aruba. So those people with cash are spending money redesigning their homes.

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verything is bedazzled and glittered, still, even through the pandemic. We still are making that work. I always compare the feeling of the dance studio to the feeling of Christmas. You know that feeling that you get when you’re excited and it’s like a nervous anticipation? That’s what Pat’s is. Pat’s is that exact feeling every time you walk in the building. I’ve felt like that with that building since I’m a kid. Then continuing that, I was a teacher, I was assistant director, and now I’m the director and owner. It’s just a cool thing that continued throughout my entire career.

I still get that same feeling I did when I was a student walking in there.

Unfortunately with Covid right now, I can’t meet with the parents . . . but that forced me a little bit to be on the phone, on email and talking with the parents a little bit more, so I still

feel like I have that connection with them, with Instagram, with Facebook and Snapchat. We still have that family relationship that my aunt started and I continued. I keep going with it because it’s not going anywhere. Forty-one years and this place is not going anywhere. A lot of my students do not go to in-person school — a lot of them are virtual. This is their only outlet, their only platform.

What did help me through the pandemic — the [Chamber of Commerce]. We all kind of worked together. I do the social media. The social media is one thing that’s helped through the pandemic. That was our lifeline. That’s how we all connected with each other; that’s how we knew what businesses were open. That’s how we knew what businesses needed things. So I was literally the monkey in the middle, the go-between between everything.

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NCPD Commissioner Patrick Ryder tweeted about Atmore’s historic For the first time in p ro m o t i o n o n Fe b.

Nassau Police Depart25. “Today a piece of hisment history, a Black tory was made in the Naswoman has been promotsau County Police Departed to the position of chief m e n t , ” Ry d e r w r o t e. of support.

“Two-star Chief Lor na Lor na Atmore, a Atmore was promoted to 25-year member of NCPD, three-star chief of supwas promoted to the chief port. She is the first Afriof support position on can-American woman to Courtesy NCPD Feb. 25. She succeeds serve in this position.”

LoRnA ATMoRE Is the Chief Ronald Walsh, who Before her promotion, recently left to serve as first Black woman to serve Atmore worked as an offiLong Beach police com- as the Nassau County cer and eventually serPolice Department’s chief missioner. geant in the 3rd Precinct.

Atmore is now com- of support.

She also led the Detective mander of the Support Squad in the 7th Precinct D iv i s i o n , o n e o f t h e and was later promoted to department’s largest units that includes captain, inspector and deputy comthe 911 center, information technology manding officer in the 4th Precinct, and the upcoming police body camera before being promoted to deputy chief pro g ram. With the new position, of the support division.

Atmore is fifth in line for command of An expanded story on Atmore will the department. appear in the March 11 issue.

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he biggest challenge we faced early on was trying to manage the fear of the pandemic, both in the community and among our employees [at Gala Foods].

Freeport is one of the hardest-hit areas by Covid, and our employees were afraid. We were short-staffed, like a lot of businesses, but as a grocery store, we had to stay open.

We all had to adapt overnight. We do regular sanitation. We started opening earlier at 7 a.m. for seniors; that way, they could shop without worrying about crowds.

We ramped up our website so people could do their online orders easily for pick-up or delivery.

Everyone really stepped up to help and a lot of great things came from these changes.

Through the chamber, we never stopped

having our meetings, whether doing them virtually or holding our luncheons in the summer to patronize our local restaurants and get guest speakers who could answer our questions about what was going on.

We did our best to keep everyone informed on all the resources available for them, and our office manager Monica [Bennett] does a great job getting the word out there with our newsletter and email blasts.

I’m amazed at how our community has been able to adapt in this crisis.

I don’t know anyone in the village who hasn’t lost someone to the pandemic. But the fact that we were able to hold on and help one another shows the resilience of Freeport.

When frustrated, how do you behave?

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How do kids behave when they’re frustrated and angry? Little ones scream, cry, hit, bite, and throw whatever’s in their way. Older ones act more destructively – cursing, teasing, taunting, bullying, breaking stuff, slamming doors, punching, pulverizing, and pounding whatever or whoever is in their way.

Anyone who is a parent knows this!

When their kid can’t do, can’t go, can’t buy what they “need,” parents feel the full range of their kids’ frustrations. Bad behavior is certainly not confined to “bad kids.”

In the era of Covid when frustrations abound and choices are checked, many kids act up. A cherubic face is no guarantee that its owner’s actions are angelic.

Though teens are older and smarter, they’re typically too wrapped up in their wants to listen to their parents, to do what others inda expect, or even to care about their own safety. They feel entitled. They want what they want now.

They’re uninterested in the big picture.

But they’re still kids. We don’t give up on them. We continue to teach them ways to calm themselves down and to cope constructively with frustration .

But what should we make of adults who, when frustrated, behave like kids or even toddlers? Who scream, cry, hit and throw things? Who name call? Who unfairly blame? Who intimidate? Who hurl cruel insults? Who insist that their viewpoint is

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Unless, of course, their bad behavior gets so out of hand that the cops are called. Or a child, who has become “the parent to his parent,” plaintively cries out – “stop it!”

If your marriage is holding on by a string, if your parenting skills are wanting, if your reputation is tarnished, in part, because of how you behave when frustrated, it’s time to learn new skills.

Be gin by identifying what’s triggering your frustration. Now, here’s the critical step. Do whatever you can to calm yourself down. Take a deep breath. Take another apadin one. Then think about what you can do now (if anything) to make things better. Avoid thinking about what should have been done. Focus on what you can control now. Of course, we all want things to go our way. Why not?

But often, they won’t. So, instead of making yourself and everyone around you miserable, start acting like an adult. Behaving badly when you’re a kid is one thing.

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JCC puts a safe twist on Purim 2021 kets this year in order to adhere to social distancing guidelines. Staff members in gloves and masks filled 400 baskets with everything from grape juice to hamantaschen pastries, for seniors as well as the Early Childhood Centers. “It was an adventure,” Kleinman said.

Gloria Lebeaux, the center’s director of social work services, said that 55 baskets filled with food and toys were delivered to about 100 seniors, many of whom have had to take extra precautions in the pandemic. Lebeaux said she had received heartfelt emails from the recipients, who were grateful to have traditional holiday snacks when in many cases they didn’t feel safe going out and risking their health to get them.

The JCC partnered with the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park, whose students helped deliver the baskets.

“They’re seeing the next generation, the future of Judaism, still continuing the legacy and still just seeing that the religion is being carried on,” said Alison Fixler, the director of the Early Childhood Center at the JCC’s Lynbrook

branch. “For the members of the community who have witnessed atrocities done on the Jewish people throughout their lives, it means something to see the next generation continue to proudly continue traditions.”

Fixler made deliveries in Long Beach on Feb. 25, and said it was an extraordinarily positive experience for both the volunteers and the recipients. She said she was met with masked smiles and joyful tears by many of the people she visited. Recipients stood in their doorways, socially distanced from the volunteers, and savored their conversations. “I don’t know what they craved more, the human interaction or the treats,” Fixler said.

“Probably both equally.”

For the JCC, the continuity of Jewish tradition is extremely important, so having this event serve as something of an intergenerational connection effort was encouraging for the seniors in the community. Judging by her conversations with the recipients, Fixler said, they much appreciated that young people would take a day to help and socialize with strangers for whom the interaction meant so much.e

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Courtesy Friedberg JCC

The Friedberg JCC, in Oceanside, celebrated Purim with costumes and by having its younger congregants make gift baskets for seniors.

A divergence of opinions on returning to school ConTinued From FronT page “I’m not really sure what that green light is. When sports are allowed to be played, we should be allowed in schools. That to me is the green light.”

Briguglio added that she was upset that many senior events haven’t been held despite the pandemic, and that there had been a lack of communication from the district about the next steps.

Erin Marine shared similar sentiments, noting that her two children, a son, Jared, a junior at OHS, and a daughter, Taylor, an eighth-grader at Oceanside Middle School, are both participating in the hybrid model. Marine said that Taylor needs special attention and courses in school, and that not being in the building full-time is hurting her academically.

“I think that the kids are safer in school than they are outside of school,” Marine said. “You can only keep kids cooped up for so long, and when they’re in school, they respect the teachers and respect the guidelines. I think most of the kids want to be in school, and now that they’re not in school, they’re begging to go back to school because they want that normalcy.”

She added that if the district offered an option to return to school, not every parent would choose it, so officials wouldn’t have to prepare for a 100 percent return.

Harrington said that administrators are aware that some members of the community are pushing for a return to fulltime, in-person learning, and that they were monitoring data closely and preparing a simulation of what would happen if they gave parents that option and added more students. She said that bringing all students back would mean the schools

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oCeanside sChools superinTendenT Dr. Phyllis Harrington said she had not approved students’ full-time return to school because guidelines from the Nassau County Department of Health have not changed since September. would no longer have the capacity to space desks six feet apart, and added that while many neighboring districts have decided to do that, it is not in keeping with Nassau County Department of Health guidelines.

Harrington said that if students return and a positive Covid-19 case is confirmed, the first thing the Health Department will ask is if the students were kept six feet apart.

“That answer is no,” she said. “If that is no, the surrounding students who are

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three feet apart all have to quarantine for three days. That rule has not changed.

Multiply that by eight or nine, because every high school kid and every middle school kid is in multiple classrooms. So for every one case, you’re now quarantining 40 to 50 kids. That’s the risk some districts are taking.”

Even with classes being split, as they are now, Harrington said, the district has at least one confirmed case each day.

As for updating the community, the district regularly sends letters to parents

and updates news on its website, and Harrington said she aimed to post a video with OHS Principal Dr. Brendan Mitchell in the near future to address the plans and status of each senior event this spring — information that is also on the website. Harrington added that she understood that with the return of sports, parents wanted more normalcy, but she was unsure how Gov. Andrew Cuomo decided to allow those activities when students can’t be closer than six feet apart in a classroom.

While many parents have expressed hope for a full-time return, one parent, who asked that her name not be used, citing fear of backlash from the community, said her child had experienced significant anxiety as a result of the pandemic and would not like to return to school.

“My child is afraid to go to school out of fear of bringing the virus home to me or the rest of our family,” she said. “It affects people differently. There are kids now, like my child, who have long-term health effects.”

She added that her family would like Harrington to keep the remote-schooling option available when a full-time return is approved.

Harrington said that staff, students and parents have done an “incredible job” so far, and that they should remain vigilant. She added that she hoped things would change soon and that students would be invited back full-time.

“If the DOH changed their guidelines tomorrow, we would bring all kids back,” she said. “We are continuing to follow the health experts’ requirements that were in place in September, and have not yet changed.”

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HealtH teacHer Sara Dowler’s OHS students participated in a six-week series of workshops on meditation and yoga.

Students learn to ‘keep calm and do yoga’ There’s more to yoga than unrolling a mat and engaging in complicated poses.

Athena Levesque, a 500-hour certified yoga instructor who offers classes through her business, Yoga with Athena, explained that yoga has benefits for the mind as well as the body. It can be an excellent coping tool for reducing stress and anxiety — something everyone can use in these challenging times.

Levesque is now wrapping up a workshop series on meditation, which falls under the umbrella of yoga, that she’s been teaching online to students at Oceanside High School. The students are participating as part of Sara Dowler’s Redefining Mental Health elective course.

“So many people think meditation isn’t for them because they think it can only be done sitting in a cross-legged position for one hour with a totally clear mind,” Levesque said, according to a district release. “I’m offering that meditation can look different than that to empower students to try it in their own way, on their own time.”

Her idea in offering the workshop series was that teenagers already deal with the challenges of balancing academics, activities, part-time jobs, their family and social lives. With Covid-19 ratcheting up levels of stress, anxiety and depression worldwide, giving young people effective tools can help them improve sleep habits, attention span, ability to regulate their emotions and maintain a more even-keeled equilibrium.

The students are enjoying the workshop.

“It has always been hard for me to sit still, so I never considered meditation as a way to calm my nerves,” OHS student Ioanna said, according to the release.

“However, this class has deepened my understanding and now I’ve made it my own.”

Elementary school students are also having fun with a yoga workshop tailored to their current classroom set-up.

Through a program called Yogi Beans, offered through PTA Arts in Education, the students are learning poses that

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It was “cool and fun” said Ava, a firstgrader in Ms. For misano’s class at School No. 4, according to the release. “I liked being a mountain,” added Jude, while Joshua simply said that it was “amazing.”

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EAST ROCKAWAY 1 Thompson Dr, BA, 4 BR, 2.5 Bth Exp Ranch w/Open Layout in Waverly Park Area. Updtd EIK. O/S Prop w/Deck.

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A. With enough money spent, all things are possible. Hopefully you chose for the location, school district, taxes and all the long-term reasons instead of just because the house has “good bones,” an expression most often used by people who have no idea what that really means but like the sense of substantial structure it suggests. onte eeper You can open all the walls, as long as it’s done correctly, having the work planned by a licensed professional who uses proper engineering to check the loads, load paths, predicted behavior of wind, snow, fire and floods to design the changes. All too often I’m escorted into the main area of a house where the owner bounces their heels on the floor to show me how the floor shakes, or points to the cracks in the ceiling or the easily noticeable sag in the main beam running above their kitchen, dining room or living room.

I always ask if they know who planned the work, and generally they say either that it was done by the contractor or the people before them. Either way, they want it corrected as part of the work. But I have to inform them that this time the beam will be calculated, not guessed at, and the reason for the sag was because of the fear of spending money to hire a trained professional instead, assuming that anyone can do this.

The other extreme that amateurs take when designing a beam is over-design, which just costs more, although sometimes the beam is actually so heavy that it sags from its own weight. That’s where equilibrium comes into play. Only you can decide the cutoff point where the dollars are too much. The technology part is really the simplest, since many functions are becoming wireless, and items like foam insulation (which also acts as a vapor and air barrier), heat pumps, reflective surfaces for passive energy allowance, energy recovery, radiant systems with sensors, water-conserving plumbing fixtures, backflow devices for water safety, rooftop solar with back-up batteries and microgrid software are more advanced and have more functions than you may fully appreciate.

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Some lacked access or were afraid of the unofficial “marshals” monitoring voting sites, and others were dissuaded from voting by disinformation spread through social media.

We need to do more to control disinformation efforts, reduce limitations to voting, help voters learn the truth and ensure the integrity of elections. We can choose to do more to ensure informed choices at the ballot box. But not choosing to do so is itself a choice, one that can lead to the demise of democracy.

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that we should “choose to act so the act of choosing remains possible.” By failing to exercise our right to vote and failing to ensure the integrity of information promoted by campaigns, we have not only lost our chance to choose, but also have chosen to act in a way that can lead to losing our right to choose.

That’s what happens in authoritarian regimes, even though they may not start that way. Hitler was chosen democratically in 1932 before consolidating power.

Putin was first elected by popular vote in 2000, and instituted constitutional changes in 2018 that allowed him to remain in power. In both cases, the people made choices that resulted in the loss of future choices because they didn’t stay informed or act on their concerns in time to avoid the consequences.

The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was the result of a disinformation campaign of falsehoods that persists to this day. For democracy to survive, for there to be “a more perfect union,” we need an informed citizenry that under-

ven in November’s momentous election, onethird of eligible voters sat out.

stands and appreciates critical thinking, information literacy and the instruments of democracy. We need objective journalism as the source of news.

We also need more flexibility in voting to meet the needs of our modern world.

Voting by mail and early voting are steps forward, but not the only steps that we can take. Why is general-election voting limited to the first Tuesday in November?

Wouldn’t it make sense to allow voting over several days, as in some other countries? What about holding elections on weekends, when fewer people would have to take time off from work in order to vote? In some countries, voting is mandatory, and fines can be imposed on those who do not vote.

Our vote is our voice. Voting is an act of choice and the exercise of our voice in expressing our values and priorities. We should make it easier to learn about candidates and issues, and vote. After all, our choice of leaders and policies is much more important than our brand of toothpaste.

Robert Scott is president emeritus of Adelphi University and the author of “How University Boards Work.”

Fighting the other epidemic: QAnon (Part 1)

ddly, the most offensive remark made by a politician lately (and there are a lot to choose from) came from Marjorie Taylor Greene last month, as she was desperately trying to hold on to her seat in the House of Representatives. Standing before a microphone on Feb. 4, Greene was backpedaling as fast as she could to put distance between herself and QAnon, the conspiracy group she supported. She had been elected to the House in Georgia’s 14th District on a wave of racist RANDI and anti-Semitic KREISS vitriol and innuendo.

In numerous speeches and tweets over the course of her campaign, Greene had allied herself with QAnon and its conspiracy tropes targeting numerous people in public life. By Feb. 4, she had been stripped of her committee assignments in the House because of her public remarks, and she feared being booted out of office altogether. So she stood before a microphone and announced to the world, “9-11 definitely happened.”

Thank you, Marjorie.

She proclaimed, “School shootings

happened.”

In what fractured reality, I wondered, do we find someone like her validating the epic public tragedies we have witnessed with our own eyes? We heard the cries of children with our own ears. We saw the bodies falling from the high floors of the towers.

Look around and take note: We are in a surreal place now, where the liars like Greene assume the roles of validating self-evident public truths.

In her Feb. 4 appearance, she tried to distance herself from QAnon, but it was a transparent, self-serving show. She kept her seat.

This is a woman who promoted violence against Q’s perceived enemies, at one point signaling support for the assassination of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Greene was duly elected by 74 percent of the voters in her district. That raises the questions, how and why.

My initial reaction was not to write about QAnon, to avoid shining a light on its dark activities and let it die a slow death. But it isn’t dying. A better tactic, I think, is to let in the air and light until the issues that gave rise to such a disturbing belief system are addressed.

Briefly, QAnon is an internet-based

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group of people who believe that there exists in public life a secret society of devil worshipers who kidnap and cannibalize children and engage in pedophilia.

Preposterous? The ideology metastasized across the web, pulling people into an alternative world where they followed hidden “clues” and “codes” signaling belief that former President Trump would create a “storm” on inauguration day, ushering himself back into power and bringing down President Biden. And of course, destroying Black Lives Matter and Jewish influencers and basically nonwhites of any variety.

How does a belief system like QAnon take hold? The problem isn’t politics, which just offers a stage. People are susceptible to theories that claim to explain the inexplicable uncertainties in all our lives.

According to a story by Kevin Roose in The New York Times on Feb. 4, QAnon operates in a different way, and on a different scale, than anything we’ve seen before. For starters, it is uniquely participatory. Followers congregate online to decode the latest QAnon posts and to discuss their theories about the news of the day, creating a communal bond with their fellow believers. Apparently, hundreds of thousands of people think, with complete

t satifies needs we all have to feel significant and part of something big.

sincerity, that the leaders of the Democratic Party may be killing innocent children. Combine those fantasies with a willingness to commit violent crimes in the name of the group, and there is a real threat.

Although there is plenty of ignorance to go around among Q followers, Roose wrote that they can’t be dismissed as stupid. The group satisfies needs we all have to feel significant and part of something big. When you don’t get that in other aspects of your life, the group becomes that much more important. Social media adds accelerant.

We have to address the psychological triggers and motivations if we want to mitigate the influence and potential dangers of this kind of thinking. Conspiracy theories will always thrive when people feel like they’re not in control of their lives and when political, religious and social groups offer shelter. According to NPR, although QAnon has been kicked off Twitter and Facebook, it thrives on various fringe platforms.

I don’t think anyone has a solution for eradicating groups like QAnon. But a good step forward is to better educate our children, creating a generation of more critical thinkers.

I’ll address that in Part 2 next week.

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

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t’s been over 27 years since Colin Ferguson stepped onto a Long Island Rail Road train in Mineola and started indiscriminately firing a 9mm pistol at passengers. Six were killed, including Dennis McCarthy, of Mineola, and 19 were wounded. Dennis’s son, Kevin, then 26 and a broker with Prudential Securities in New York City, took a bullet to the head, but survived. His left arm remains partially paralyzed.

That attack propelled Carolyn McCarthy, Dennis’s wife and Kevin’s mother, to run for Congress. McCarthy, then a nurse, was assailed as a political neophyte and a single-issue candidate, with her laser focus on gun control. Despite the odds against her, she won, and served in the House of Representatives from 1997 to 2015, retiring because of a cancer diagnosis.

Throughout her time in Congress, McCarthy ably represented her district, becoming a respected member of the House and a strong-willed politician. She was frustrated often by the lack of movement on common-sense gun-control legislation, such as an assault weapons ban, because of big-money special-interest groups like the National Rifle Association.

Still, she endured.

It boggles the mind, but in the 243-year history of this nation, only two women have represented Long Island in the House of Representatives. McCarthy, who was elected in the 4th Congressional District, on Nassau’s South Shore, was the first, according to the Congressional Archives.

The second is her successor, Kathleen Rice, who was previously the Nassau County district attorney, and whom

McCarthy strongly endorsed in the 2014 election against Republican Bruce Blakeman, the County Legislature’s former presiding officer and a current Town of Hempstead councilman.

There has never been a woman from Long Island elected to the U.S. Senate. In fact, only two New York women — Hillary Clinton and Kirsten Gillibrand — have ever served in the Senate since the election of the state’s first two senators, Philip Schuyler and Rufus King, in 1789.

Yes, only two. All other New York senators have been white men. That is a sad statement, given that women comprise more than half of our population, and that New York is a racially diverse state.

In March, Women’s History Month, we should take a moment to reflect on these facts — and understand that we really could use more women representing us in Washington, and at all levels of government.

There is no doubt that women often see the world differently than men. They understand, with far greater depth, the travails that they have faced in this country because of their gender — the implicit bias and outright discrimination.

Most often, women are the primary caretakers of our children, so they better understand the lack of government resources available to young mothers with babies and school-age children. They can see how frayed our social safety net is, particularly when compared with Western European nations and Canada.

Women elected leaders more often focus on domestic social issues — education, the environment, social equity — compared with their male counterparts in

letters LIRR procurement at a ‘snail’s pace’ To the Editor: Reports of more delays associated with the Long Island Rail Road’s $734 million procurement of 202 new M9 electric replacement cars in 2013 is nothing new. MTA LIRR, Metro North or NYC Transit Federal Transit Administration or locally funded commuter rail or subway car procurement is seldom completed on time, within budget and without contract change orders. There are clearly even more problems with this purchase.

The MTA’s own independent engineering consultant forecasts an October 2022 completion date.

There is no guarantee that this date will hold.

Eight years later, completion of the delivery of all new M9 and M9A cars is several years behind schedule. The oldest M3 cars will have to stay around longer than planned before all new cars arrive and are ready for commuters to board.

Instead of retirement, many M3 cars will

Congress, many of whom are often more concerned with international monetary policy and U.S. military intervention than funding school lunch programs and drugtreatment centers.

In fact, in the long history of the House of Representatives, only one woman, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, has chaired the Foreign Affairs Committee, and for only two years, from 2011 to 2013, according to the Congressional Archives. The Foreign Affairs Committee is considered among the premier assignments in the House, a center of international power and prestige.

Yes, we need our representatives to keep a watchful eye on global affairs — and a number of women in Congress do.

Of the 48 current members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, 12 are women — eight Democrats and four Republicans.

None are from New York.

At the same time, we need to balance international and domestic affairs, and women elected leaders play a key role in ensuring that we do. A record 144 women now hold seats in the House and Senate — but Congress remains a male-dominated institution, with men holding 73 percent of the seats.

That statistic needs to change, on both of the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle. We need greater balance in order to work toward a more perfect union, one in which our daughters, and their daughters, are given the respect they deserve.

This month, though, we can reflect on pioneering women elected leaders like Carolyn McCarthy, Kathleen Rice, Hillary Clinton, Kirsten Gillibrand, and now Vice President Kamala Harris.

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he coronavirus pandemic has tipped over the world as we know it, harming most New Yorkers in profound ways while laying bare societal inequities that have plagued New Yorkers for generations, like the disparities in access to child care. It has also strained government budgets to the breaking point, at a time when we rely on the government for help.

But there is light at the end of the tunnel, and we are inching our way to recovery.

On our way there, we can — and ToDD should — focus on issues kaminsky specific that Covid-19 magnified. That’s why I’m pushing to pass two major initiatives over the next few months.

My first initiative for Long Islanders is Universal Pre-K. UPK would provide 4-year-old children throughout Nassau County with free public preschool education. This would be a game-changer. New York City already has a robust universal

pre-K program. It’s about time Long Island children — and parents — received the same support. The science is clear: Investing in children before they start kindergarten has profound effects on their pre-literacy and pre-math skills.

Children in Tennessee’s state-funded pre-K program, for example, saw a 75 percent improvement in letter-word identification, a 152 percent improvement in oral comprehension, a 176 percent improvement in picture vocabulary and a 63 percent improvement in quantitative concepts, compared to children who were not in pre-K. Simply put, pre-K sets children up to succeed.

Universal pre-K would also be critical for parents and the economy. The pandemic highlighted how challenging — and stressful — full-time parenting with full-time work can be for families. UPK would speed up New York’s recovery by letting parents get back to work.

I am pushing hard for UPK to be done in this year’s budget, which is due April 1.

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ocusing on universal pre-K, and on making big companies fund recycling.

LeTTers remain for post Covid-19, East Side Access to Grand Central Terminal and increased reverse-peak service starting in December 2022. This assumes that the current project recovery schedule is met.

When it comes to purchasing new rail cars, the line of the “Dashing Dan” moves at a snail’s pace.

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

Brinton needs to move on To the Editor: Re Scott Brinton’s column “Finding peace, post-Trump” (Feb. 18-24): Brinton can’t get Trump off his mind. The 45th president captivates him even though is no longer the POTUS. We were never on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea. This is pure speculation. Many children were sent to the Mexican border alone or with non-relatives to be admitted and later request that their parents be admitted. Brinton is ignorant about the chicanery pulled by desperate people wanting to come to the United States to escape the misery of their Central and South American countries. Immigration detention centers were built under President Obama.

we deal with our trash.

We have a waste problem in America.

Trash is literally piling up; and it will drown our kids. According to a recent study, the U.S. produced more plastic waste than any other country in the world in 2016, about 92.6 billion pounds. If we don’t act soon, we will run out of places to put it. That’s why I have introduced legislation that would shift the responsibility, and the cost, of recycling from taxpayers to big companies.

Extended Producer Responsibility (also known as EPR) would boost recycling, curb waste and save tax dollars by shifting the end-of-life responsibility for packaging and paper products from local governments and taxpayers to corporate brand owners and producers. Right now, many products you put in the recycling bin aren’t actually recycled; there’s no market for them. This costs our municipalities millions of dollars, and keeps them on an unsustainable course. Under EPR, producers, like big companies, would cover the cost of recycling paper products and packages. This would moti-

vate them to produce fewer and more eco-friendly materials, all while funding our municipal governments.

So what would happen to the packaging from all those deliveries you’ve ordered while you’ve been stuck at home? My bill would require companies to pay our cities for their recycling while also incentivizing them to use less packaging.

And the best part? EPR would create thousands of new jobs on Long Island while saving taxpayers money. As we head toward recovery, it is crucial that we provide economic relief for local governments while generating good, wellpaying jobs. The bill, if passed, would be a win-win.

We are on the cusp of recovery from the pandemic. More of us are getting vaccinated every day. Now is the time for lawmakers to look beyond Covid-19, learn from what we have gone through, be bold and enact policies that not only help Long Islanders get back to work, but also secure a better future for our children. Why just get back to normal when we can get back to better?

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, of Long Beach, represents the 9th District.

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Trump did not wear a mask initially, and catered to mass rallies that may have increased Covid-19 infections. He should have listened to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many of his tweets were factually incorrect and insulting. He has a potty mouth.

Witnesses were not per mitted at Trump’s second impeachment trial in the Senate, only the lawyers. It was a rushed trial. Witnesses should have been allowed. The chief justice of the Supreme Court did not preside over the trial, because, in my opinion, he saw it as a farce.

Brinton may never feel normal again because Trump exposed a raw nerve in the body politic and the “deep state,” which consists of federal employees and civil servants who believe they know best about which policies benefit the United States, rather than the president.

Most of Trump’s tweets were stupid and incorrect. The media’s job was to identify them and show precisely why they were ill-informed or stupid.

Trump did accomplish a lot through legislation and executive orders, but Brinton cannot bear to read about his accomplishments on the internet, so he is fixated on Trump. Why doesn’t Brinton address the real problems facing President Biden going forward, instead of looking backward?

SID KRIMSKY West Hempstead

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