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I. P. gets $33 million for drainage the village board of trustees for their assistance in acquiring the funds.

State and Island Park officials “This money is a continuahave secured $33 million from tion of our road to recovery the Federal Emergency Manage- since the devastation caused by ment Agency to upgrade the vil- Superstorm Sandy,” McGinty lage’s drainage system in Sep- said. “Nothing can stop an Island tember to help P a rke r, a n d t h e strengthen its flood proof is our contindefenses. ued revitalization, Construction will renewal and renaisstar t on Suf folk, sance that is happenHastings, Deal, Rading in our great vilcliffe and Quebec lage.” roads and will State Sen. Todd encompass road Kaminsky, a Demorehabilitation and crat from Long reconstruction, Beach who is runalong with installaning for Nassau tion of tidal flex MiChAEl County district valves along the attor ney, said he waterway, which will MCGiNTy fought for the fundhelp limit property Mayor, Island Park ing in 2017 when he damage caused by s h owe d a p h o t o floods. Additionally, b o a rd o f s eve re drainpipes will protect homes flooding at Island Park’s Francis and businesses throughout the Hegarty Elementary School at a village. hearing in Albany.

Island Park Mayor Michael “Eight years after SuperMcGinty said the current drains storm Sandy ravaged our comare not equipped to handle munities, constant flooding still severe flood waters caused by plagues Island Park,” Kaminsky high tides and nor’easters that said. “This project is imperative have forced the closure of local so that people can do normal schools in recent years. McGinty things, like walk their kids to thanked U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice and Continued on page 13

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PETER’S ClAM BAR’S annual clam-eating contest took place Sunday in Island Park. Butch Yamali, the restaurant’s owner, was seated at right. Standing, from left, were Town of Hempstead Clerk Kate Murray, Councilman Anthony D’Esposito and Supervisor Don Clavin.

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By KEPhERd dANiEl Kdaniel@liherald.com

Hundreds of spectators from aross Long Island gathered for the annual clam-eating comtest hosted by Peter’s Clam Bar in Island Park last Sunday. The friendly competition returned after it was on hold last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. This year the contest brought out some of the Island’s toughest stomachs.

Firefighters from Island

Park, Glen Cove, Merrick and as far away as Southampton gathered to test their intestinal fortitude. First place went to Thomas DiBlasi, of the Merrick Fire Department, after he devoured 78 clams in the first round and 141 clams in total to win $2,500 for his firehouse. Alex Araya, of the Islip Fire Department, and Mike Leitke Sr., of the North Lindenhurst Fire Department tied for second, both polishing off 15 clams in the final round.

Peter’s owner Butch Yamali started hosting the contest after the Island Park Fire Department was decimated by Superstorm Sandy.

“It was a dark time after Sandy,” said Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, a former Island Park fire chief.

“There was a lot of damage here, a lot of abandoned houses, unfortunately. The fire departments, whether it was Island Park, whether it was Long Beach, whether it was Continued on page 4

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Oceanside director leads ‘Elephant Man’

OCEANSIDE/ISLAND PARK HERALD — August 19, 2021

By Kepherd daniel kdaniel@liherald.com

Director Tarmo Kirsimae, of Oceanside, is bringing “The Elephant Man” to the Merrick Theatre & Center for the Arts. The Tony Award-winning play will be performed Friday, Aug. 27.

The play tells the real-life experiences of John Merrick, a man who suffered from a rare disease that left him severely disfigured.

“It was extremely innovative,” Kirsimae said. “John Merrick, who was a real person, lived in Victorian England in the late 1800s, and what was innovative about the play is that the actor uses his body to make contortions and imply the deformities that John Merrick had.

“Part of the show,” he continued, “is that we use actual enlarged photographs of John Merrick on the back wall of the theatre that were taken when he was living in London Hospital, where he lived for six years until his death at age 27.

We will be showing photographs on a slide, and Brian DiRaimondo, who will be playing the Elephant Man, will contort his body to what John Merrick really looked like.”

Seven actors will perform in Kirsimae’s rendition of “The Elephant Man,” including DiRaimondo, Peter Konsevitch, Joe DiPietro, Chris Tyrkko, Angela Pokorny, Kayla Sackler and Denise Hagen. Like many events over the past year, the play was put on hold last summer because of Covid-19, and as many begin heading out, theater lovers have been yearning to get back to seeing live performances again, according to Kirsimae.

“I think people are really champing at the bit to see live theater,” Kirsimae said. “We’ve been working slowly and steadily since the end of May. We have a very strong cast. I’ve done a lot of research and impart as much as I can to the actors. People dressed very differently than we do now and spoke very differently, so trying to take actors from 2021 and into 18th century England, obviously, I need everybody to do a British accent.”

What will be a treat for theater lovers is that this play is not performed often, and Kirsimae said he believes that the play will not only be an innovative breath of fresh air but also offer a unique perspective on life, which he hopes the audience will walk away with.

‘The elephant Man’ The play opens at 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 27 at the Merrick Theatre & Center for The Arts and will show through the weekend on Aug. 28 and and 29. Showings will continue the following weekend on Friday, Sept. 3 through Sept. 5. Tickets are $25 and $23 for students and seniors and can be purchased by calling (516) 8686400.

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The elephanT Man won the Tony Award For Best Play in 1979 and will be brought back in 2021.

“I hope they learn something about Merrick,” Kirsimae said. The play is “full of all kinds of symbolism and themes. It addresses the role of science and the role of religion, particularly how those two opposite components were interfacing in Victorian England. I would hope that it would conjure some existential questions about the role of society, science, religion, the human condition, all of those things. I hope that it makes people think, how do we define what normal is. It’s thought-provoking.”

acTor Brian diraiMondo will be creating the unique portrayal of the Elephant Man, right. afTer pracTicing all summer, these Long Island actors are ready to recreate the Elephant Man, below.

A new clam-eating champion is crowned conTinued from page 1 Oceanside, our fire departments became everything — community centers, emergency operation centers — because our [village] halls were completely flooded.”

Yalami and D’Esposito were speaking in August 2013, almost a year after Sandy hit. They had both grown up in Island Park. “Butch wanted to give back to the local firehouses,” D’Esposito said. “We happened to be watching the hot dog-eating contest [at Coney Island]. Butch said, ‘Why don’t we do it with clams?’ and here we are.”

Long after proceeds from the clam-eating contest had helped South Shore fire departments recover from Sandy, the feeding frenzy continued.“The first two years we did it for different firehouses, Island Park, Oceanside. Whatever money we raised, we split it amongst the fire departments as they were rebuilding during Sandy,” D’Esposito said. “Once everything was rebuilt and there was no need for the fire departments to get the money, we said we have to keep doing this, so we moved it to first responder charities.”

Among the organizations that have benefited from the contest are the Nassau County Firefighters-Operation Wounded Warriors and the Nassau County Firefighters Museum and Education Center in Uniondale. This year funds are going to the Nassau County Firefighters Pipes and Drums, a non-profit organization.

Photos by Christina Daly/Heraldt

This year’s conTesT benefited the Nassau County Firefighters Pipes and Drums, a nonprofit organization. afTer wolfing down a plate of clams, firefighters took a breather, near left.

“Over 40,000 clams have been donated

by Butch since the contest has been going.

There’s a lot of generosity that comes from right here at Peter’s,” D’Esposito said. “Coney Island has hot dogs. We have clams.”

Before The clams could be devoured, they first had to be shucked, far left.

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Curran gears up early for fall campaign

By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com

Laura Curran has apparently decided not to wait until after Labor Day, the traditional beginning of fall political campaigns, to kick-start her drive for a second term as Nassau County executive.

Curran, 53, a Democrat, held a rally on a sweltering Saturday afternoon outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola, where bottled water was handed out with blue campaign signs.

The county executive announced her intention to run for re-election in May. After her 20-minute speech to about 100 supporters Saturday, Curran acknowledged that it is early to campaign.

“The election is three months off,” she said. “But it’s important for people to know where we are going. We will be persistent to build back” after the pandemic.

Curran said her fall campaign would focus on “fully funding” law enforcement, expanding access to mental health, developing multi-year plans for a balanced budget, supporting small businesses and promoting job growth.

Her opponent in the fall campaign will be Hempstead Town Councilman Bruce Blakeman, 65, a Republican who lives in Atlantic Beach. Blakeman has run for several offices before, including for a seat in Congress.

Blakeman has said his campaign will be all about taxes.

Curran, who lives in Baldwin, worked as a reporter for The New York Daily News and New York Post and as an editor at Herald Community Newspapers and was a Baldwin Board of Education member before winning a seat in the County Legislature.

In 2017, she defeated Republican Jack Martins to become the first woman to be elected Nassau County exec-

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Laura Curran spoke to about 100 supporters outside county office building on a sweltering Saturday afternoon. utive.

On Saturday, Curran was endorsed by John Durso, president of the 250,000-member Long Island Federation of Labor.

“I’m proud to lend my support to someone who is one of us,” Durso told the crowd. He said the federation’s support for candidates has not always been unanimous. “But this time,” Durso said, “it’s Laura.”

Her friend and neighbor, Naala Royale, owner of a Rockville Centre restaurant, told the crowd that Curran “lives in a normal house, walks her dog and sometimes holds press conferences on her front lawn. For us, that’s

Laura.”

In her speech, Curran outlined a series of programs on which her campaign would be based. One program includes fighting crime. She noted that she, Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and other officials recently broke ground on a new $54 million, 89,000-square-foot police academy on the Nassau Community College campus in Garden City.

She emphasized that Nassau was recently named the safest community in the United States by U.S. News and World Report. “That doesn’t happen by accident,” Curran said. It came about as the result of work by her administration, the police department and residents.

But her veto of a bill earlier this month to give first responders the right to sue under the county Human Rights Law when they face harassment disappointed police union leaders, including Nassau Police Benevolent Association President James McDermott. Curran cited a new opinion by the office of state Attorney General Letitia James questioning the constitutionality of the bill.

Under her administration, Curran said, the county had received its first positive bond rating from Wall Street in 15 years. Moody’s revised its outlook on the county to positive from stable while affirming its A2 rating, citing three straight years of improved financial results.

Curran also said the county had recently reached a critical milestone in the Bay Park Conveyance Project with the County Legislature’s unanimous approval of a design-build contract with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Western Bays Constructors Joint Venture. The $439 million Bay Park Conveyance Project is designed to restore the ecosystem and water quality in the Western Bays by conveying treated effluent from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant to the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant’s ocean outfall pipe through underground tunnels.

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High school football camps kick off Aug. 23

By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

Three months and three weeks after Massapequa, Garden City, Manhasset and Wantagh captured Nassau football championships, all 53 programs in the county will start preparing for a new season Aug. 23.

All scrimmages, two regular-season games, one round of playoffs and the Long Island championships were eliminated this past spring as the 2020 season was delayed six months. It’ll be back to the eight-game grind and eight playoff teams per conference this fall.

Conference IV, which has 13 teams, will begin the season one week before the rest of the county and all but three of its schools won’t have the benefit of a scrimmage. A handful of games, including West Hempstead at Malverne, are set for under the lights on Friday, Sept. 3. A full schedule will kick off the following weekend, with the majority of games taking place Saturday, Sept. 11.

Garden City, which has captured five straight Conference II titles, is the only defending county champion seeded No. 1 in its respective conference. Massapequa is No. 2 in Conference I behind Oceanside, Manhasset, the reigning Rutgers Cup champ, is ranked sixth in Conference III, while Wantagh is seeded second behind Plainedge. With Wantagh’s jump to III, North Shore earned the No. 1 seed in IV.

10 Games To Watch Sept. 18 Sept. 24 Oct. 2 Oct. 2 Oct. 9 Oct. 9 Oct. 23 Oct. 23 Oct. 23 Oct. 30

MacArthur at V.S. Central Plainedge at South Side Carey at Elmont Massapequa at Oceanside South Side at Wantagh Clarke at Seaford Carey at Baldwin MacArthur at Garden City Wantagh at Plainedge Calhoun at Mepham

Garden City opens against an unfamiliar opponent. Baldwin, in Conference II for the first time, visits the Trojans on Sept. 11. Massapequa travels to East Meadow, Manhasset visits Bethpage, and Wantagh hosts Valley Stream North.

Five teams switch conferences

Of the five programs taking on new conference rivals this September, more than half joined Conference II: Baldwin, Herricks and Glen Cove are seeded No. 9, 10 and 13, respectively. It’s the first time Baldwin will not play in the top conference. Wantagh is back in its longtime stomping grounds of Conference III, which includes South Side again after the

Cyclones were in Conference II last season.

Notable coaching changes

For the first time since the late 1980s, someone other than Stephen Carroll is leading Baldwin as its head coach. Frank Chimienti, former head coach at Valley Stream Central and an assistant at Freeport for the past five seasons, has taken over the helm and is thrilled about the energy displayed by the Bruins during summer workouts.

“It’s not like I’m taking over a program in need of a rebuild,” Chimienti said. “Baldwin has such a great tradition and there’s a lot of talent around.”

Making their head coaching debuts in September will be Frank Baglivo at Clarke and Kevin O’Hagan at East Meadow.

A former assistant under Rob Perpall at Seaford, Michael Corcoran returns to lead the Vikings.

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The Oceanside chamBer of Commerce recently held a networking evening at the Old Spirti Distillery in Oceanside. Joining in the fun were, from left, Andrew Mallor, chamber vice president, Tom Lanning, board of directors member; Roman Fuzaylov and John Dianellos, the distillery’s owners; Bob Transom, community services vice president; Ed Scharfberg, chamber president; and Stu Berr, chamber secretary.

The enTire vOda-maKing process takes place at Old Spirt Distillery’s Oceanside plant, left.

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Members of the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce gathered together for a summer mixer at Old Spirit Distillery in Oceandie. Business owners from across the Island came together to enjoy an evening of food, networking and received a tour of Nassau County’s first and only distillery.

Roman Fuzaylov and John Dianellos, owners of Old Spirit Distillery, showcased the equipment used to make their world-

famous vodka, ranging from milling machines to filtration systems, while explaining the fermentation process that their vodka goes through. “Usually it takes four to five days to ferment the yeast before we run it through the centrifuge,” Fuzaylov said. The tour showed the entire vodka-making process all the way to the bottling, which is done on site.

The chamber, which has 143 members, is just starting events again after the coronavirus pandemic, and event proceeds will go to Oceanside Community Services.

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events and activities

community update Ongoing

Certified personal trainer Marilyn Bunger teaches a low-impact exercise class. Register online at the Island Park library website. Event starts at 11 a.m.

Summer Gazebo Readings The Oceanside Kiwanis Club hosts Summer Gazebo Readings at the Schoolhouse Green every Monday from June through August at 7 p.m. Social distancing regulations are still in effect and the microphone will be cleaned between readings.

Masks required for those who aren’t vaccinated.

Scrabble Show up to the Island Park library at 1 p.m. (masks and proof of vaccination required) for a spot in the Scrabble game.

Creative Writing The Oceanside library hosts its creative writing program at meeting room #1 at 7 p.m.

NAMI Support Group The NAMI Queens/ Nassau National Alliance on Mental Illness)is offering a support group for family members of persons with mental health concerns, free of charge, beginning July 6.

The group will meet, virtually, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., the first and third Tuesday of each month. To register or get information, e-mail, dsills@namiqn.org.

Upcoming Monday, Sept. 13 Sophisticated Singles at the Friedberg JCC This weekly discussion group, led by motivational speaker Irwin Pfeffer, covers issues related to being a single senior.

Contact Lisa Charschan at 516-6344169 or lcharschan@friedbergjcc.org to register. Continues Mondays at 7 p.m.

Backyard Games The Island Park library rents out lawn games such as bocce, cornhole, giant Connect Four, Giant Jenga, Jazzminton, and Kan Jam. Pick up games from the library on Thursday and return them on Monday.

August Take & Make Create a safari animal magnet to decorate your refrigerator with. Register online at jprogram@oceansidelibrary.com to reserve a craft kit for your child. Pickup available from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 19 Virtual Yoga Join Linda Salamone for this virtual Zumba Gold event from the Oceanside library. Zoom link available on the library website. Starts at 10 a.m.

Family Movie: Soul The Island Park Public Library hosts a screening of Soul at 2:30 p.m. Social distancing is required. Limit of 25 attendees.

Register at the front desk to reserve a spot.

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Tall Tale Storycrafts The Oceanside library hosts a fairy tale-themed arts and crafts session at 10 a.m.

Tall Tales Storycraft Enjoy some tall tales and fairy tales and then paint your own lion picture with your kids through the Oceanside library. Register to reserve a craft kit. Zoom link available on the library website. Event starts at 10 a.m.

Movie Screening: The Courier The Island Park Library hosts this screening of the film The Courier (Rated PG-13).

Register at the front desk to reserve a spot. Starts at 2:30 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 23 Grab & Go Crafts Pick up craft kits at the Island Park library to create a 3D floating speed boat. Call the library or email iplchildrens@island-

parklibrary.org to arrange a pick up time.

Event starts at 9:30 a.m.

Suicide Prevention Bookmarks In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month, students from grades 6-12 can register with the Oceanside Library to create bookmarks with encouraging messages. Register online at the library website. Pick up kits from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Canasta & Mahjong Card players are welcome back at the Oceanside library at meeting room 2. Due to NYS requirements, all patrons must be fully vaccinated with proof of the same.

Starts at 10 a.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 24

Virtual Chair Yoga with Sandye This virtual class from the Island Park library provides instruction and practice for people who feel they might not be flexible enough for standard yoga. Register at the library website. Event starts at 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 25 Virtual Tai Chi Tai Chi is an evidence-based falls prevention program led by Allison Anderson, Trauma Injury Prevention Coordinator at Mount Sinai South Nassau. Zoom link available for this virtual event at the Oceanside library website. Starts at 10 a.m.

Simply Stronger

Oceanside Kiwanis’s summer gazebo readings are on Mondays.

The NAMI mental health support group meets twice a month.

Island Park Library hosts grab and go cooking throughout August.

The Oceanside Library hosts a tye-dyed t-shirts event Aug. 24 at 3 p.m.

The Oceanside Library screens News of the World Aug. 25 at 2 p.m.

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SyracuSe BaSketBall Star Eric Devendorf hosts a basketball camp at the Freidberg jCC in Oceanside rom Aug. 23 to 27.

Syracuse University hoops star to host camp at Freidberg JCC Syracuse University Basketball star Eric Devendorf is coming to the Freidberg JCC in Oceanside to host a basketball camp.

Fresh off the million-dollar win in The Basketball Tournament earlier this month on ESPN, Devendorf and friends will be conducting a one-week, half-day camp for 8 to 14-year-

olds on the fundamentals of basketball.

There are a few spots still open to join the camp, which runs from Aug. 23 to 27 from 9 a.m. to noon. Players can sign up for individual days for the full week.

For more information, call Jordan at (516) 322-4710.

Towers

Oceanside received a new touch of style after the grand opening of the store “For the Love of Shoes,” at 3208 Long Beach Road. The new business aims to bring a host of stylish apparel to Oceanside residents, something that business owner Karen Rackett said she has wanted to do for years.

“I made a decision this February, and I needed to do what I wanted to do. I couldn’t wait anymore,” Rackett said. “I’ve always wanted to open my store, even as a child. I worked in clothing, I worked in shoes, I worked the last 13 years in jewelry, and I wanted to bring back shoes to this area because we’re lacking styles that women want and need.”

For now, the business carries many stylish brands, including Chinese Laundry, Yellow Box, Steve Madden, Seychelles and Tidal, which is made in America. The business has more brands coming and over time will expand to include options for everyone.

“We primarily sell [to] women, and I’m bringing kids’ [shoes], and more is coming. I want to keep growing. My end goal is to have something for everybody and get a bigger location,” Rackett said.

While Rackett plans to expand the size of the location, she plans on staying in Oceanside because ofFuneral the community’s support of small busiHome Inc.

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karen rackett and her husband, Darren, celebrated the grand opening of their new store, For the Love of Shoes. nesses. “This area is an area that supports their local business, hands down,” Rackett said. “I want it to be in Oceanside. It’s full of trendy people that are trendy, and I worked in Oceanside for 10 years.

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Drainage system designed to strengthen flood defenses Continued from page 1 school instead of being handed on a human chain through water. This substantial investment in the local infrastructure is necessary, and I’m glad it’s finally moving forward.”

The “human chain” was a reference to instances when standing water after floods forced parents to hand their children to firefighters through their car windows to send them to school safely.

The project has already gone out to bid and is expected to be completed in 30 months.

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13. Leaders of the largest health system in New York City made the decision amid increases in cases caused by the rapid spread of the Delta variant and as an added measure to protect faculty and staff.

Dr. Kenneth Davis, president and CEO of Mount Sinai Health System, said in an internal message to all staff: “Over the past weeks and months, we have worked hard to encourage every

member of our Mount Sinai family to get vaccinated against Covid-19 to protect you, your patients, your co-workers, your families and your communities. We are grateful for those of you who got the vaccine . . .”

“As a hospital, a school and a health care provider, we have responsibilities not only to each other, but to the communities we serve. And the right thing to do for our communities—and our Mount Sinai family—is to make sure we are all vaccinated against Covid-19. Vaccines are simply the best protection we have against this virus, and our patients deserve the best.”

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LEGAL NOTICE CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT, NASSAU COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO:Jasper Surety Grassi & Co. Theresa Siegel Attorney General of the State of New York and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law and next-ofkin of the said Grace Tenbroeck, deceased, and if any of the said distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and/or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained A petition having been duly filed by Public Administrator of Nassau County, who is domiciled at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York 11501, United States.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on September 8, 2021, at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why the account of Public Administrator of Nassau County, a summary of which has been served herewith, as Administrator of the estate of Grace Tenbroeck, should not be judicially settled.

[X] Further relief sought (if any): 1.Releasing and discharging the Petitioner from all liability, responsibility and accountability as to all matters set forth in the account of proceedings; 2.Allowing the commissions of the Petitioner in the amount of $ 18,096.90 pursuant to SCPA 2307(1) and the reasonable and necessary expenses of the office in the amount of $ 4,698.96 pursuant to SCPA 1207(4); 3.Fixing and determining the attorney’s fees and disbursements of Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC, attorney for petitioner, in the amount of $ 28,225.00, of which $ 4,225.00 has been paid and $ 24,000.00 is unpaid, and disbursements in the amount of $110.56, all of which has been paid; 4.Fixing and determining the accounting fees of Grassi & Co, CPA’s, PC in the amount of $ 3,250.00, of which $ 250.00 has been paid and $ $3,000.00 is unpaid; 5.Releasing and

discharging the surety; 6.And why each of you claiming to be a distributee of the decedent should not establish proof of your kinship; and why the balance of said funds should not be paid to said alleged distributees upon proof of kinship, or deposited with the New York State Comptroller on account for the unknown next of kin of Grace Tenbroeck, decedent, should said alleged distributees default herein, or fail to establish proof of kinship; 7.Granting such other and further relief as to the Court is just and proper.

Dated, Attested, and Sealed, July 28, 2021 Seal HON. Margaret C. Reilly, Surrogate s/ Debra Keller Leimbach, Chief Clerk Richard T. Kerins, Esq. Attorney Name Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC Firm (516) 538-1111 Telephone 254 Nassau Blvd. , Garden City South, New York 11530 Address NOTICE: THIS CITATION IS SERVED UPON YOU IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COURT’S ORDER DIRECTING ALTERNATIVE SERVICE OF PROCESS. NO IN-PERSON APPEARANCES SHALL BE HELD ON THE RETURN DATE OF THE CITATION. IF YOU WISH TO APPEAR TO ANSWER OR OBJECT TO THIS PROCEEDING, YOU MAY DO SO IN WRITING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ANNEXED NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES. NOTE: 22 NYCRR 207.7(C): PROOF OF SERVICE SHALL BE FILED ON OR BEFORE THE SECOND DAY PRECEEDING THE RETURN DATE. 126973

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU The Bank of New York Mellon as Trustee for CIT Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-1, Plaintiff AGAINST Santiago Ramirez; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated May 12, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York, 11501 on September 14, 2021 at 2:30PM, premises known as 3068 Morrow Road, Oceanside, NY 11572. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Oceanside, Town of Hempstead, County of

Nassau, State of NY, Section 43 Block 350 Lots 53 and 54. Approximate amount of judgment $591,771.36 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 006490/2015. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District.

Keith Patrick Brown, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: July 1, 2021 127017

LEGAL NOTICE At an IAS Part 4 of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, held in and for the County of Nassau, at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York on the 26th day of July, 2021 PRESENT: HON. RANDY SUE MARBER -------------------------------X Index No. 608873/21ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE In the Matter of the Application of CHARLES LYON, individually and as a member of CACDD, LLC and CACDD, LLC, Petitioners against CATERINA SGROI also known as CATERINA SCROI, CARLO SGROI, AND JULIA PROSCIA, and if he or she be deceased, then any and all persons who may claim an interest as personal representatives,successor s, and/or assigns, Respondents For an Order under Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law §1921 Canceling and Discharging of Record, the Mortgage made by Charles Lyon and Anna Lyon, his wife, mortgagors, to Caterina Sgroi also known as Caterina Scroi, Carlo Sgroi, and Julia Proscia, mortgagees, dated June 15, 1981 and recorded on June 22, 1981 in the Office of the Nassau County Clerk at Mortgage Liber M 10315 at Pages 359-362, encumbering property located in the County of Nassau, State of New York at Section 38, Block 378, Lots 40 and 41 in Oceanside, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, also known as 2851 Woods Avenue, Oceanside, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, New York, also known as 315 Woods Avenue, Oceanside, New York -------------------------------X Upon the reading and filing of the Verified Petition of Charles Lyon, verified on July 1, 2021,

the affirmation of Frank D. Arcuri, affirmed on July 8, 2021, and the exhibits annexed thereto, LET, the Respondents Caterina Sgroi also known as Caterina Scroi, Carlo Sgroi, and Julia Proscia, and if he or she be deceased, then any and all persons who may claim an interest as personal representatives, successors, and assigns, show cause before this Court, at the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York, at IAS Part 4 thereof, on the 30th day of September, 2021, at 9:30 A.M., on submission only (No Appearance), or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, why an Order should not be made and entered in the above-captioned action, pursuant to Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law §1921(2), granting the Petitioners the following relief: a.Cancelling and discharging of record the Mortgage made by Charles Lyon and Anna Lyon, his wife, mortgagors, to Caterina Sgroi also known as Caterina Scroi, Carlo Sgroi, and Julia Proscia, mortgagees, dated June 15, 1981 and recorded on June 22, 1981 iin the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), dated June 15, 1981, and recorded on June 22, 1981 in the Office of the Nassau County Clerk at Mortgage Liber M 10315 at Pages 359-362, encumbering property located in the County of Nassau, State of New York at Section 38, Block 378, Lots 40 and 41 in Oceanside, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, also known as 2851 Woods Avenue, Oceanside, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, New York, also known as 315 Woods Avenue, Oceanside, New York; b.Directing the Nassau County Clerk, upon presentment of a certified copy of the Court Order and/or Judgment and payment of applicable fees, to mark said Mortgage upon its records as canceled and discharged; c.Further ordering and directing that the debts or other obligations secured by the Mortgage be canceled; and d.Granting Petitioners such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper, including costs and disbursements of this action.

SUFFICIENT CAUSE APPEARING THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that service upon Respondents Caterina Sgroi also known as Caterina Scroi, Carlo Sgroi, and Julia Proscia, and any and all persons who may claim an interest as personal representatives,

for burglary and larceny The Nassau County Police Department’s Fourth Squad reported the arrest of Brian Maloney for a burglary that occurred on August 16.

According to detectives, officers were dispatched for a domestic disturbance that occurred in Oceanside. Upon arrival, the officers located an adult female victim who informed them that her boyfriend had entered the residence without her permission.

A police canvass was conducted and

with the assistance of a K-9 unit, defendant Brian Maloney, 36, was found nearby and placed under arrest without further incident. He was found to have several items in his possession that belonged to the female victim.

A Nassau County Police ambulance transported Maloney to a nearby hospital for assessment and treatment. Maloney is charged with Burglary 2nd degree and Petit Larceny. He will be arraigned when medically practical.

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Public Notices

successors, and assigns, if he or she be deceased, pursuant to New York Civil Practice Law and Rules 316 by publication of a copy of this Order which contains a brief statement of the nature of the action and relief sought and a brief description of the real property, one (1) time in each of four (4) successive weeks in one (1) local newspaper, published and distributed in the County of Nassau, State of New York, most likely to give notice to the person(s) to be served, namely: Oceanside/Island Park Herald, 2 Endo Blvd., Garden City, NY (516) 569-4000, and upon Julia Proscia at her last known address at 6049 Balboa Circle, Apt. 106, Boca Raton, Florida, by certified mail, return receipt req. AND by regular mail, by August 2, 2021 (with the publication directed hereinabove to be completed w/in 60 days of the date of this Order shall be deemed good and sufficient service.

ENTER: (s) Hon. Randy Sue Marber, J.S.C. SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU --------------------------------x In the Matter of the Application of Charles Lyon, Individually and as a

member of CACDD, LLC And CACDD, LLC Plaintiff/Petitioner, - against Index No. 608873/21 Caterina Sgroi also known as Caterina Scroi, Carlo Sgroi, and Julia Proscia, et al., Defendant/Respondent.

--------------------------------x NOTICE OF ELECTRONIC FILING (Mandatory Case) (Uniform Rule § 202.5-bb) You have received this Notice because: 1) The Plaintiff/Petitioner, whose name is listed above, has filed this case using the New York State Courts E-filing system (“NYSCEF”), and 2) You are a Defendant/Respondent (a party) in this case.

“If you are represented by an attorney: Give this Notice to your attorney. (Attorneys: see “Information for Attorneys” pg. 2).

“If you are not represented by an attorney: You will be served with all documents in paper and you must serve and file your documents in paper, unless you choose to participate in e-filing.

If you choose to participate in e-filing, you must have access to a computer and a scanner or other device to convert documents into electronic format, a connection to the internet, and an email address to receive

service of documents.

The benefits of participating in e-filing include: “serving and filing your documents electronically “free access to view and print your e-filed documents “limiting your number of trips to the courthouse “paying any court fees on-line (credit card needed) To register for e-filing or for more information about how e-filing works: “visit: www.nycourts.gov/efileunrepresented or “ contact the Clerk’s Office or Help Center at the court where the case was filed. Court contact information can be found at www.nycourts.gov To find legal information to help you represent yourself visit www.nycourthelp.gov Information for Attorneys (E-filing is Mandatory for Attorneys) An attorney representing a party who is served with this notice must either: 1) immediately record his or her representation within the e-filed matter on the NYSCEF site www.nycouort.gov/efile ; or 2) file the Notice of OptOut form with the clerk of the court where this action is pending and serve on all parties.

Exemptions from

mandatory e-filing are limited to attorneys who certify in good faith that they lack the computer hardware and/or scanner and/or internet connection or that they lack (along with all employees subject to their direction) the knowledge to operate such equipment. [Section 202.5-bb(e)] For additional information about electronic filing and to create a NYSCEF account, visit the NYSCEF website at www.nycourts.gov/efile or contact the NYSCEF Resource Center (phone: 646-386-3033; e-mail efile@nycourts.gov ).

Dated:July 27,2021 ___________________ Frank D. Arcuri, Esq. Name 1937 Williamsbridge Rd. Bronx, NY 10461 Address Arcuri Law Offices PLLC Firm Name 718-319-8900 Phone fa@arcurilawny.com E-Mail To:Caterina Sgroi ___________________ CarloSgroi ___________________ Julia Proscia ___________________ 126917 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com

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2808 Willard Ave, BA, NEW TO MARKET! 3 BR, 2 Bth Split on 1/4 Acre in Cul De Sac. LR, FDR, EIK, Den & FBsmt. Att Gar. Low Taxes. Oceanside SD. Won’t Last............................................................................................ $629,000

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Upstairs you’ll find the primary bedroom with en-suite bathroom and walk-in closet, plus 2 additional bedrooms and a spa bathroom.

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Long Beach $750,000 W. Walnut Street. Colonial. Westholme section. 3 bedroooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Eat-in kitchen with granite countertops. Formal dining room.

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Hewlett Harbor $1,090,000 Wateredge Place. Split Level. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

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East Rockaway $718,000 Grant Avenue. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Updated kitchen with granite countertops. Home office. Park-like backyard.

Taxes: $14,820.56 Elmont $680,000 Baylis Avenue. Split Ranch. 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

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

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A. Living near a onte eeper shoreline, with dynamic high- and low-tide water movement, means taking greater precautions to make construction last longer and perform better. First, there’s the base, way below the floor slab, which must allow water to run through it to avoid collapse. The base is made of compacted stones that allow water to flow between so they don’t form an obstruction, working kind of like a filter.

I generally design such a base with landscape filter cloth beneath it, to keep individual stones from sinking when the natural underground current of tide water rises and withdraws, pulling the ground material with it as it flows in and out. I rarely, if ever, see this done, and can assure you that if I’m not standing over the work when it’s being carried out, workers will ignore this “crazy” design, hence a reason for failure.

Everyone is an expert, as I am sure you’ve come to know, but ignoring ground and soil dynamics makes it a gamble as to what you’re going to get. It isn’t reassuring when someone says they do this all the time, especially if they can’t give technical reasons for what they do. Floor slabs, just like beams, should be designed for the concentration of the loads they will carry, not just general practice, especially because the steel reinforcing is part of the formula. If the concrete or the reinforcing is undersized for the load, it will, in correct terminology, yield, or give way, not necessarily completely fail.

The coating and placement of steel is extremely important.

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Q. I’m wondering if our garage floor, which was completely removed and replaced with a new concrete floor, is strong enough for our cars and my pickup truck.

We did it to get rid of the old floor, which was cracked and had sunk. Our mason told us he does this all the time, but it just seems like the floor is too thin and could break.

Is there any way to know if it’s strong enough? It’s 4 inches thick, very flat and they put wires in, not thick Ask The rods, that crisscross in a grid.

Architect Also, the wires were rusted when they went in and I wonder how long they could last, especially because we live in a development along one of the canals on the South Shore, and after what happened in Surfside, Fla., we aren’t as confident.

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n the early morning of April 28, I tiptoed into my dew-coated backyard in Merrick to watch as an orange sun slowly migrated upward, sending its rays streaming through the hundreds of flower-covered branches on the three cherry and two apple trees that my wife and I planted nearly 20 years ago when we first moved in.

It is a glorious moment that I await each year, when I can stand and breathe in the sheer beauty of those life-sustaining flowers, all white and pink.

Each is such a tiny, SCoTT seemingly insignificant thing. CollecBRINToN tively, however, these flowers constitute a powerful force.

This is the natural world reborn in what was once a virtually lifeless suburban backyard. When my wife and I moved in, our yard was all lawn except for a handful of hydrangea, holly and Japanese yew bushes, two scrawny dogwood trees and one ornamental cherry around the edges.

In the early years in our home, we ripped out about half of the lawn to make way for many more trees, bushes and flowers, a number of them native species. We wanted to recreate, in a sense, the back-

yards that we knew as children. I grew up in rural Yaphank, in Suffolk County, surrounded by a dense forest of white pine and oak trees. My wife was raised in Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, but spent many days in her family’s village of Rajdavitsa, amid cherry orchards full of wildflowers.

We wanted trees through which squirrels and birds could scurry and construct their nests. We wanted a natural habitat.

Two decades later, I’m proud to say that we have one. The cherries that we planted are more than 20 feet tall, and the apples, over 30 feet. All were purchased as one-foot bare-root saplings for a couple dollars each from the Arbor Day Foundation. We also planted four arborvitae, three maples, two white pines, two dwarf Alberta spruces, a Japanese maple, many more hydrangeas and hollies, boxwoods, barberries, red osier dogwoods, butterfly, raspberry and blackberry bushes, forsythias, fountain and maiden grasses, euonymuses, lilies, lilacs, hostas, black-eyed Susans, peonies and purple cone flowers, among others.

Where once there was no wildlife, now we have bees and butterflies and birds — red cardinals, blue jays, European starlings, grackles, house sparrows, Baltimore orioles and my wife’s favorite, mockingbirds. We’ve even had birds build nests in

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our trees, including a robin and a mourning dove. I love that. There are also squirrels, which eat our apples and, occasionally, our tomatoes, as well as raccoons and opossums here and there.

This year we certified our yard as a Wildlife Habitat with the National Wildlife Federation. We started the simple process by answering a few quick questions: Does your yard provide shelter and food for wildlife? Is there a water source from which wildlife can drink? Are you committed to natural yard maintenance, without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers?

Then you pay a fee — certification is a fundraiser for this nonprofit environmental organization.

Finally, NWF sends you a beautiful green metal sign, which we staked in our front yard’s center bed for all our neighbors to see as they’re out walking their dogs or jogging by.

The sign sends a message that our yard is a safe place for wildlife.

Between 1982 and 2001, 34 million acres of open space, an area the size of Illinois, were lost to development — roughly four acres per minute, or 6,000 acres a day. More than 10 million of those acres were covered over to make way for houses, buildings, lawns and pavement between 1982 and 1997, according to the U.S. Forest Ser-

here once there was no wildlife, we now have all that we hoped for.

vice, which projects that America will lose another 26 million acres to development by 2030.

Each of us has a choice: We can leave our yards as lawn and pavement, or start planting to restore at least some of what has been lost. Collectively, we could reshape suburbia from a traditionally wildlife-averse landscape to a habitat that welcomes wild creatures of all shapes and sizes.

The family from which we purchased our home were the original owners of the house, which was constructed shortly after World War II. It was among the first homes built in the area. The couple, in their early 80s when we bought it from them, spoke of a time when farmland stretched from the block just north of us to Merrick Road.

That plot is now a shopping center. South of our home was covered by wetlands — what people in the mid-20th century thought of as swamp. It’s now all homes, the wetlands filled in to construct row upon row of split-level ranches, many double or triple their original size.

We cannot undo the past. We can, however, commit to a more sustainable future.

To learn more about how you can certify your yard with the National Wildlife Federation, go to nwf.org.

Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.

All you can eat? Amid a tenacious virus, not so much.

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f there’s one thing that is quintessentially American, it’s the all-you-caneat, stuff-yourself-till-you-die buffet.

Now, as the Delta variant spreads, shutting down buffet venues across the country, many folks are missing the opportunity for unrestrained gorging, which is a kind of sport coast to coast.

This is a small grievance, to be sure, considering the misery that Covid has wrought, but it’s one of the pandemic lifestyle changes that bite.

Like not being able to see your doctor in person or having RANDI to move your book KREISS group online or canceling your plans to see friends or family. With Covid unbound, we have to carefully consider whether to dine out, unless it is a well-spaced outdoor setting.

Dozens of buffet restaurants have gone belly up, and the rest are struggling to create safer dining opportunities. Not that buffets have ever been the healthy go-to choice for a meal. The basic idea is that you can abandon any reasonable eating habits you may have acquired and just shovel in as much food as you want to with-

out anyone saying “enough.” In fact, some folks have taken to competing at a few of the big buffet emporia to see if they can get kicked out for eating too much. No such thing. You. Cannot. Eat. Too. Much.

No one wants to be reminded that there has always been a direct path from the buffet line to the IV line in the E.R. We Americans want our super-sized meals, damn the glucose and cholesterol readings. If you dine out at a traditional restaurant, it gets awkward to order three desserts, but a buffet makes it not only possible but easy.

Now, with Covid, buffet restaurants are struggling to survive, except in the South, where Texas, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee vie for the best attendance award. There is guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Avoid offering any self-serve food or drink options, such as buffets, salad bars and drink stations. This limits the use of shared serving utensils, handles, buttons or touch screens and helps customers to stay seated and at least 6 feet apart from people who do not live in their household.”

Right.

In Florida, where masks are a sign of weak-minded liberalism, many buffets are

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still in business. Oh sure, there may be a server behind the dessert bar, helping you to the pie, but you’re jammed in with a million other unmasked people.

Historically, Las Vegas has always offered the biggest, cheapest buffets. If you were willing to leave your life savings at the roulette table, the hotel was willing to feed you into a coma. The Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace was the ultimate food experience for thousands of tourists. According to a review, it served more than 3,000 people a day across nine stations, featuring hundreds of items including nigiri sushi, dim sum, rotisserie chicken, 12-hour roasted American wagyu, paella, lobster bisque, snow crab legs, chicken and waffles, gnocchi, pizza, deviled eggs, pho, miso soup, Penang curry, cheeseburger sliders, soba noodles, poke, foie gras PB&J, oysters on the half-shell, shrimp and grits, pozole, tofu, General Tso’s chicken, avocado toast, peppercorn-crusted prime rib and more.

According to its website, Caesar’s has reopened its buffet after making renovations and (one would hope) installing safety measures to avoid serving up a superspreader for dessert.

n Florida, masks are a sign of weak-minded liberalism, and buffets survive.

I don’t want to come off as a buffet snob.

I’ve put in my time at the bacon station at many breakfast buffets. On the road, a cheap hotel buffet was an acceptable choice. You could always find something to eat.

Here on Long Island, private tennis, golf and social clubs drew new members to their opulent buffets. I loved being a guest at these places, which offered delicious food and the all-you-can-eat ethos, although with more savoir faire than a Golden Corral.

Buffets have been so abundant and ubiquitous that people learned to brainstorm the most effective methods of getting the best choices of expensive cuts of meat and seafood without wasting stomach space on the dinner rolls. My own son-inlaw nailed down the tactical approach to buffets years ago: Eat protein first. Don’t bulk up on salad. Go to the lobster and the shrimp and hold off on the carbs. No one ever made any profit on his buffet dinners.

Now most buffets are the stuff of nostalgia. My most memorable one was a lunch for President Ronald Reagan when he and Nancy visited Temple Ohr Torah in North Woodmere. The centerpiece was a bust of the president, done in chopped liver.

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

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U.N.: Climate change is real, and it’s getting uglier

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o the climate deniers, we say this: Wake up.

July was the hottest in the past 142 years, since humans started recording climate data, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. July had previously been the hottest month ever recorded in 2016, 2019 and 2020.

What we are seeing now is climate change play out in real time, as predicted by scientists dating back to the 1960s and the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. As a nation, we have largely ignored the crisis, pretending it wasn’t happening, hoping the scientists had got this one wrong. They didn’t. We can see that now.

We can see it in the massive wildfires that have consumed swaths of the American West and southern Europe. California and Colorado may be on fire, but so are Italy and Greece.

No fewer than nine wildfires are now ravaging California. Exacerbated by extreme drought, the Dixie Fire has burned since July 13 and scorched more than half a million acres in Plumas and Butte counties. Need we say more?

The climate crisis is particularly worrisome for Long Islanders. We, after all, live on an island surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Long Island Sound, which are predicted to rise because ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica are melting into the seas, causing water levels to rise, inch by inch, foot by foot, over decades.

The 195-member United Nations International Panel on Climate Change recently released its sixth Assessment Report, offering the consensus findings and opinions of thousands of the world’s leading climatologists. The warnings are dire.

When the IPCC began its work 33 years ago, it built some small level of doubt into its reports that maybe, just maybe, humans weren’t the cause of the Earth’s rapidly rising temperatures. Not anymore. In its most recent report, issued only weeks ago, the IPCC stated, “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” As a result, the report continues, “Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.”

Climate change works like this: We humans burn fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — to generate electricity and heat our homes and businesses. We also burn gasoline — which is made from oil — to power our cars, buses and trucks.

That produces lots of carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change, which traps infrared heat that is radiated into

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space from the Earth’s surface, warming the entirety of the planet.

On average, human activities send 40 billion tons — tons — of carbon into the atmosphere each year. And here’s the thing: Despite our growing knowledge and awareness of the climate crisis, that volume of carbon continues to increase.

Between 2014 and 2016, amid negotiations over the Paris Climate Agreement, carbon emissions leveled off, giving us some hope that perhaps we might be headed in the right direction. But those emissions started to rise again in 2017, the year President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, and they continued to increase in 2018 and 2019, before falling last year during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when everyone stayed home, according to The World Counts, a website that

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tracks carbon emissions.

That we could, in fact, reduce our emissions dramatically during the pandemic should be cause for hope — not celebration, but hope. We are capable of limiting, even reducing our carbon output. We can seek and find alternatives to the old ways if we resolve to do so.

The continued warming of the Earth through the middle of the century is all but inevitable, according to the IPCC report. Ensuring that climate change does not continue past that point is, however, possible.

“Strong and sustained reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases would limit climate change,” the report states. Now, not later, is the time to commit to those reductions.

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he Smithtown School District will restrict the use of 34 BrainPop instructional videos in classrooms because they introduce topics like Black Lives Matter and human sexuality.

The restriction is in response to a couple who complained at the district’s July Board of Education meeting that the videos were biased against conservatives and “no more than a call for revolution, for our young people to protest,” according to Newsday.

A BrainPop spokesperson responded via ALAn email that “we created the video on sinGer the Black Lives Matter protests to provide parents and educators a resource for explaining the protests and movement in kid-friendly terms. The video, which features a cartoon robot named Moby, “doesn’t call for or encourage a revolution.”

BrainPop videos discuss over a thousand topics in math, science, social studies and English. They are used in almost three-quarters of U.S. school districts. Not coincidently, there were also complaints about BrainPop at a July school board

meeting in the Three Village School District. A speaker charged that the videos had “BLM all over it, along with Pride and videos that say if you’re white, you’re basically an oppressor.”

You can watch the nine-minute offending BrainPop Black Lives Matter video on You Tube.

In the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump carried every election district in Smithtown, some by over 30 percentage points, earning Smithtown the nickname Trumptown, New York. Smithtown also returned Lee Zeldin to Congress. Zeldin, one of the most conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives, voted against establishing a commission to investigate what happened in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, supported Trump’s claims that the election was somehow stolen from him and asked the Supreme Court to overturn the result.

In May, Smithtown voters elected three conservative candidates affiliated with the pro-Trump group Long Island Loud Majority to the Board of Education.

While it’s unclear whether the group represents a majority of Long Islanders, it is definitely loud when disrupting school board meetings, at which members often

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he campaign in Smithtown against diversity efforts first drew attention in January.

LeTTers People have a right to choose To the Editor: Re Jerry Kremer’s column “The political losers are killing your neighbors” (Aug. 5-11): I am amazed, and want to know what planet Kremer comes from.

First it was Trump derangement syndrome, and now it’s Republican derangement syndrome. He says the so-called health haters should be treated the same way as people who were arrested on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6.

Kremer speaks of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who flipped-flopped from day one, saying you have nothing to fear from Covid-19, starting with no masks. Then it was masks. Then it was two masks.

Kremer mentioned conservative Fox host Tucker Carlson, who rails against vaccines. Last time I looked, we had freedom of speech in this country, but apparently, only if you agree with the left, according to Kremer.

Then there’s Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom Kremer tries to smear because he did an amazing job during the coronavirus pandemic while other governors fiddled. Notice that Kremer never mentions California, New Jersey and New York, all states controlled by Democratic administrations, which were disaster

attack staff and student speakers. They have also been accused of propagating anti-Semitic tropes. During the school board campaign, the group circulated a newsletter attempting to connect opposition school board candidates with George Soros, a progressive and a Jew who has been targeted by anti-Semitic forces in Europe.

The Smithtown campaign against Black Lives Matter and diversity efforts first drew public attention in January, when parents complained about the speaker at the district’s Family Literacy Night. Broadway actress Diamond Essence White read a children’s book called “Not Quite Snow White.” White, who is Black, is an outspoken supporter of Black Lives Matter. Smithtown Superintendent Mark Secaur apologized to protesting parents for the invitation to a “polarizing” personality.

After the Long Island Loud Majoritybacked candidates were elected to the school board, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction and administration, who had guided its diversity and equity efforts as a member of the district’s Equity Team, resigned. She had been criticized by parents and LILM,

which argued that diversity and equity were really subterfuge to promote critical race theory.

The push to take over local school boards is part of a long-term strategy of the conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council to reshape American education and society by taking control of local governing bodies. Opposition to critical race theory has replaced opposition to the 1619 Project as the main mobilizing point for conservatives across the country.

In response to the assault on CRT and the 1619 Project, the Zinn Education Project is organizing teachers to pledge to “teach the truth” and participate in Days of Action. It also provides sample lessons.

In Smithtown and other Trump-supporting communities across the U.S., however, school boards and frightened administrators apparently don’t want teachers to “teach the truth.”

Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.

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areas during the pandemic.

Governor Cuomo sent elderly patients to their deaths by executive order, placing them in nursing homes while a hospital ship stood empty and the Javits Center was vacant of patients. Nor is there mention of former President Barack Obama’s 60th birthday bash, a super-spreader event in the making, as the liberals would say. Democratic politicians and supporters flew in on private planes, causing a huge carbon footprint, but people like me are the problem.

So, yes, politicians are killing your neighbors by trying to suppress people’s right to choose and make their own decisions about themselves and their families.

MICHAEL APPICE Westbury

Pulling out is a mistake To the Editor: I subscribe to perhaps 90 percent of President Biden’s programs, but pulling out all troops from Afghanistan is a terrible mistake. We are talking about only several thousand troops — and our action has prompted allied nations to withdraw their troops as well.

Over the past several years, the existence of this limited military presence

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has permitted the education of girls, many of whom would otherwise not have had this schooling opportunity. Without this presence, the Taliban will pull these girls out of school. They will be forced into early marriage, become teenage

mothers and doom their chances of being a meaningful part of the Afghan social fabric.

BOB PRAVER Glen Cove

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