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OSD students engage in 9/11 service

By KEPhERd daNIEl kdaniel@liherald.com

Courtesy Oceanside School District

STudENTS IN ThE Oceanside School District have pledged to perform acts of community service during the 2021-22 school year to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Oceanside School District officials have made the 2021-22 school year a time to reflect on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in a jetliner above Shanksville, Pa. Oceanside schools held several events on the 20th anniversary weekend of the attacks.

Now Social Studies District Director Mitch Bickman and social studies teachers Jason Manning and Todd Nussen are

looking to the rest of the school year to ensure that students remember the attacks and commit to making the world a better place. The curriculum that they have developed centers on community service and extends from elementary through high school.

Manning and Nussen had attended a recent National Council of the Social Studies conference, at which they heard a presentation by the National September 11 Museum & Memorial, which resonated with them.

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Town renames Delaware Avenue for post-Sept. 11 hero

By ToM caRRozza tcarrozza@liherald.com

Two weeks after ceremonies marked the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Town of Hempstead honored another fallen hero. On Sunday morning, Delaware Avenue, in Island Park was ceremonially renamed for retired New York City firefighter and Long Beach volunteer fire captain John R. Elges. His son, John, and his family live in the village.

Dozens of Island Park residents and firefighters, along with Long Beach firefighters, in bunker gear and in uniform, crowded the corner of Delaware

and New York avenues. The ceremony began with the sound of bagpipes piercing the cool morning air as the FDNY Ceremonial Unit marched toward the podium in the middle of the intersection, in front of Elges’s family members and friends.

John Elges, the firefighter’s son, thanked the community and firefighters for honoring his father. “You guys went above and beyond, as always, and it means so much to me and my family. …

As I stand here and look around and see familiar faces in the crowd, it’s overwhelming, and you guys are in our hearts.”

“Those of us who have served on the job know that there is no

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ou guys went above and beyond, as always, and it means so much to me and my family.

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John R. Elges’s son greater credit to yourself than when someone calls you a ‘cop’s cop’ or a fireman’s fireman,’” Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito said. “You ask any-

one who knew John Elges, and they’d say he was a fireman’s fireman. He cared about his guys, his firehouse, his service, his community, and most importantly, his family. We’re here to make sure that legacy lives forever.”

“This community, the local Fire Department, and friends and neighbors all deserve recog-

nition for being here for this renaming, so a memory is not lost and a life is not forgotten,” Town of Hempstead Supervisor Don Clavin added. “Our job is to remember and never forget, and also respect all of our men and women in uniform.”

Elges took part in the rescue and recovery work at the World Continued on page 16

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Students observe Suicide Prevention Month

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By Kepherd daniel kdaniel@liherald.com

The Oceanside School District has been working to raise awareness about suicide prevention, during September, Suicide Prevention Month, and on Sept.

24, students and staff were asked to wear purple, which is the color of suicide prevention.

A table was placed in the main lobby of Oceanside High School with information about starting the conversation around providing support and directing help to those who need it to prevent suicide. A QR Code was also available at the desk for students and staff, and when they scanned it with their smartphones, they would connect to a Google document with different numbers that they could call for support if they were experiencing mental-health issues, including the Bellmorebased Long Island Crisis Center Hotline.

Awareness ribbons were sold for a dollar, and the money will go back to the Oceanside High School Youth Council to fund more awareness programs. Additionally, students created a “Chain of Hope,” on which they and staff wrote messages of support to share. Students passing by the table were able to write their words of hope and support.

The Youth Council put together the events of the day, and the council’s secretary, Ellie Zevon, spoke on the message behind the Chain of Hope. “Everybody is filling a sheet with an inspirational message, stating we are all united as one,” Zevon said. “Nobody is by themselves in this world.”

Fifty people attended the first meeting of the Youth Council, and council members put together Suicide Prevention Day. Zevon discussed the programs that the Youth Council plans to complete throughout the year and some of the resources that the school has nade available for students. “Our club is interesting because we wait for things to pop up that will be really great for our environment. Anything

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StudentS recently looKed over a suicide-prevention display and wrote messages of hope on it in the Oceanside School District. that has a connection to mental health we work with,” Zevon said. “We’re also going to be working with another non-for-profit program in the future.”

The school district has several social workers, psychiatrists and guidance counselors, “but sometimes not everyone is comfortable going to them,” Zevon said.

“That’s another reason we have the Youth Council. All the officers have their information up. Anyone can come and speak with everyone at any moment. We’re there for anyone who needs it.”

On Sept. 25, Oceanside SAFE also hosted a suicide-prevention even on the School House Green.

the diSplay included uplifting messages, left. the “chain of Hope” compiled messages of love from students and teachers, bottom right. the youth council, an O’side High School club, created the display.

News brief Mount Sinai, local officials partner to provide breast cancer screenings to county residents

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Senator Todd Kaminsky and Mount Sinai South Nassau, joined with Assembly Members Judy Griffin, Michaelle Solages, and Melissa Miller, in conjunction with the Rockville Centre Breast Cancer Coalition, to cosponsor a no-cost breast cancer screening on October 24 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The screenings, recommended for all women over the age of 40, will be available at Mount Sinai South Nassau Center for Women’s Imaging at 440 Merrick Road in Oceanside.

To make an appointment, residents can call 516-255-8220. “Regular screenings are critical in finding breast cancer early, when it is the easiest to treat,” Senator Kaminsky said.

Courtesy Todd Kaminsky “I’m proud to partner w i t h M o u n t S i n a i Senator todd KaminSKy and assemblywomen Judy Griffin, South Nassau and the Michaelle Solages, and Melissa Miller partnered with Mount Rockville Centre Breast Sinai South Nassau to provide breast cancer screenings on Cancer Coalition to October 24. offer this immensely important service to uninsured or underinsured. For those our community members. My hope is that who are insured, their insurance will be this offering will allow us to save lives and billed for the mammography; however, to give every resident of Nassau County they will not be responsible for any the ability to take control of their health.” remaining balance or out of pocket costs.

Appointments are required and will be Residents looking to participate are available on a first come, first served encouraged to bring any prior mammobasis. The breast cancer screenings are graphic films and reports on disc for a full open to both insured and those who are health analysis.

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The holocausT memoRial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove, which has been vandalized in anti-Semitic acts at times.

Bridging the Holocaust understanding gap

By Roksana amid newsroom@liherald.com

New York has the highest Jewish population outside of Israel. With that in mind, many young New Yorkers are misinformed about the Holocaust at the same time that the state is seeing a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

A recent, first-of-its-kind survey, conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Ger many, found high levels of inadequate Holocaust education among young people in all 50 states. In New York, 58 percent of Millennials and Gen Zers — those born between 1981 and 1996 and 1997 and 2010, respectively — could not name a single World War II concentration camp, death camp or ghetto, according to the survey. Sixty percent of New York young people also did not know that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, and 57 percent reported seeing Holocaust denial or distortion on social media and elsewhere online.

Dr. Stacie Locascio, a certified BrainCore Neurofeedback provider and mother of two from Glen Cove, said, “It’s absolutely shocking, and that just shows you how much anti-Semitism there is out there. I think [young people] are probably getting it from social media, which they probably believe more than they believe their teachers.”

Social media has become a politically charged platform to spread misinformation, and the extent of that misinformation is cause for concern to Holo-

Courtesy Andrea Bolender

andRea BolendeR, acTing executive director of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove. caust educators like Andrea Bolender, who is acting executive director of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove.

“Education has changed over the years. I remember when I was in high school — you know, a hundred years ago — that you could take a Holocaust elective for a whole semester, and I think education has changed,” Bolender said.

Elected leaders like State Sen. Todd

Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, are working to ensure New York schools provide adequate Holocaust education. Kaminsky said he believes there are schools on Long Island that are doing a good job of educating students about the horrors of the Holocaust, but he stressed the need for schools to undergo audits to see how students are being educated, and whether school curricula need to be amended.

“It’s not just enough to mandate it in the law that Holocaust education should be taught. We actually have to make sure it’s being taught, and it’s clearly not, or not well,” Kaminsky said in an interview with The Long Island Advocate. “And so, something has to be done, and we need to know where the problems are and direct our resources there.”

A bill proposed by Kaminsky to authorize the state education commissioner to undertake a study of which school districts are teaching about the Holocaust and which are not is currently under review in committee in the State Legislature. Kaminsky is now running for Nassau County district attorney.

Bolender said that without in-depth education about the past behaviors that led to the Holocaust, history could repeat itself. Bolender said young people must understand the context behind the history.

“That’s what we do here at the Holocaust [Memorial and Tolerance Center].

We identify the period of hate, which

behaviors will lead up to a genocide, but also examine the roots of anti-Semitism. A lot of people think it started with World War II,” she said.

In 2019, anti-Semitic hate crimes rose by 14 percent across the United States, according to the FBI. New York was among the states where they were on the rise. On Long Island, swastikas have been etched into sidewalks in Oceanside, Ku Klux Klan stickers placed on poles in Bay Shore and swastikas spraypainted at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center.

Bolender shared that most youths who have vandalized the Holocaust museum have not been Glen Cove locals. As a consequence, most must perform community service and take part in Holocaust education, including the meaning of Nazi symbols.

“We have to spend a little more time developing their emotional intelligence, not just their mathematical and science intelligence,” Bolender said of today’s students. “Emotional intelligence will get you much further in life and make you a better human being. Isn’t that what we all want for our kids, for someone to say they were a good person Locascio said parents play a key role in their children’s emotional development, especially regarding current events in the Middle East.

“I think their parents just need to pay a little bit more attention to what their kids are doing, thinking and who they’re hanging out with,” she said.

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events and activities

community update Ongoing

Virtual 3D Zebra Create a fun zebra in a guided, virtual session through the Oceanside Library.

Zoom link available on the library website.

Starts at 6 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.

Wednesday, Oct. 6 Simply Stronger Personal trainer Marilyn Bunger teaches a low-impact exercise class at the Island Park Library. This class is a hybrid program with some participants meeting on library and others on Zoom. Register online at the library website. Starts at 11 a.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.

Poetry Chat Find fun and interesting ways to describe ordinary objects and create a new perspective about them. Register for this hybrid program through the Oceanside Library website. Starts at 7 p.m.

October Take & Make Use crayons or markers to color an October tote bag perfect for trick or treating.

Bags can be picked up at the Oceanside Library website. Register by calling 516766-2360 or email jprogram@oceansidelibrary.com.

Pajama Storytime

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Thursday, Sept. 30

Oceanside NARCAN Training

Literacy Nassau

The Oceanside Library hosts a NARCAN training session on Monday, October 4 at 7 p.m.

This class is for English language learners. Register online at www.LiteracyNassau.org. The Oceanside Library hosts this event in-person at meeting room 3. Starts at 10 a.m.

Grab’n’Go Cooking with Chef Rob Scott Chef Rob teaches this cooking class on how to make harvest apple brownies on Zoom through the Island Park Library website. Video goes live on the morning of Sept. 23. Link available on the library website.

Friday, Oct. 1 Virtual Chair Yoga Marianne Bochilo leads a relaxing session of online chair yoga from the comfort of your home. Zoom link available on the Oceanside library website. Event starts at 11 a.m.

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

Register at the front desk to reserve a spot. Starts at 1:30 p.m. Masks required.

Saturday, Oct. 2 PSAT/SAT Crash Review The Oceanside Library hosts this virtual program for students in grades 7 to 12.

Register online at the library website.

Starts at 12 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 3 Fire Safety Day The Island Park Library hosts a firetruck visit in its parking lot for fire safety tips

from the Island Park Volunteer Fire Department. Starts at 10 a.m. No registration required.

Monday, Oct. 4 Virtual Ta-Chi and Chi Cong Tai-Chi will stretch your muscles without putting stress on knees, feet, thighs, or back. This is an online program and the Zoom link will be emailed upon registration. Register online at the Island park Library website. Starts at 10:10 a.m.

Baby Sitting 101 The Oceanside Library hosts this in-person babysitting class on the responsibilities and skills needed for childcare. Topics include safety/first aid, feeding, diaper changing, dealing with behavioral

issues, etc. Register online at the library website. Starts at 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 5 Fit & Fabulous Get your feet moving and your hands clapping with instructor Helene Just in this virtual exercise program. No registration required. Zoom link available on the Oceanside Library website. Starts at 10 a.m.

Canasta The Island Park Library hosts games of canasta from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. All participants must be fully vaccinated with proof of vaccination. Masks not required. Register by calling the library at 432-0122.

The NAMI mental health support group meets twice a month.

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

Barnum Ballroom hosts a Ryder concert on Oct. 1 at 7 p.m.

Jessie’s on the Water hosts Pagman & Robin on Oct. 2 at 7 p.m.

AARP’s Cars and Coffee meets Oct. 3 at 9 a.m. at 3118 Lawson Blvd.

Put on your favorite cozy pajamas and join Ms. Sarah at the Island Park Library for some bedtime stories. Take a favorite autumn treat home, too. Register at the library website. Starts at 7 p.m.

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MSSN to hold free breast-cancer screeing Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside will hold a free breast-cancer screening on Sunday, Oct. 24, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Screenings are recommended for all women over age 40.

Screenings will be available at the

MSSN Center for Women’s Imaging, 440 Merrick Road in Oceanside.

Women can call (516) 255-8220 to make an appointment. Appointments are required and will be available on a firstcome, first-served basis. Breast-cancer

screenings are open to the insured, uninsured and underinsured. Women taking part are encouraged to bring any prior mammographic films and reports on disc for full health analysis. State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, Assembly Mem-

bers Judy Griffin, Michaelle Solages and Melissa Miller, and the Rockville Centre Breast Cancer Coalition are cosponsoring the event.

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By BRiaN KachaRaBa sports@liherald.com

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Mepham Junior Football oN sept. 18, LaSpina made national headlines when she became the first female football player in Long Island history to score a touchdown. She caught a 4-yard scoring toss from quarterback Peter Mayo to put the finishing touch on Mepham’s 49-21 victory over Roslyn. She had two other receptions in the game and totaled 45 yards.

LaSpina, also a key member of the school’s Long Island champion softball team, began playing football as a seventh grader at Grand Ave.

games to watch Friday, oct. 1

Girls Soccer: Massapequa at East Meadow .........4:15 p.m.

Girls Tennis: Lynbrook at Oceanside......................4:30 p.m.

Girls Tennis: South Side at Long Beach.................4:30 p.m.

Girls Volleyball: East Rockaway at Mepham ..........4:30 p.m.

Field Hockey: Sewanhaka at East Meadow...........4:30 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Hewlett at V.S. North ........................4:45 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Kennedy at South Side....................4:45 p.m.

Football: East Meadow at Farmingdale .....................6:30 p.m.

Football: South Side at Manhasset ...........................6:30 p.m.

Football: Lawrence at Island Trees .............................6:30 p.m.

saturday, oct. 2

Girls Soccer: South Side at Garden City ................... 1 p.m.

Football: Garden City at Long Beach......................... 2 p.m.

Football: Sewanhaka at Baldwin ............................... 2 p.m.

Football: Carey at Elmont ............................................... 2 p.m.

Football: East Rockaway at Clarke .................................. 2 p.m.

Girls Volleyball: Long Beach at South Side................ 2 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Clarke at Carey..................................... 2 p.m.

Football: Massapequa at Oceanside .............................. 3 p.m.

Football: Hempstead at Freeport .................................... 3 p.m.

Football: New Hyde Park at V.S. Central .......................... 3 p.m.

Football: Hewlett at V.S, South ........................................ 3 p.m.

Football: Seaford at North Shore .................................... 3 p.m.

Football: Herricks at Calhoun ......................................... 3 p.m.

There’s an old adage in sports that says defense wins championships. The way things have gone for the Oceanside girls’ soccer team so far, that could be proven true again by the end of the season.

With Conference AA1 foes Massapequa (23 goals) and Syosset (18) already off to good starts thanks to its explosive offenses, the Sailors have done things a little more methodical during their 4-0 start by scoring only eight goals and allowing just one. That came with just over 24 minutes gone in the season-opener against Plainview JFK and was since followed by three straight shutouts, including a hard-fought 1-0 victory at Syosset in the second contest on Sept. 13.

The four victories matched Oceanside’s total from the spring (4-5-5) and a big reason why has been the seasoned defensive corps of Lily Johnson, Gianna Fucile, Alyssa Strandberg, Olivia Nestico and Sara Brobston as well as goalkeeper Natalie Medigno. Fucile (2) and midfielders Emme Schnell and Olivie Deserio have also contributed offensively by combining for half the team’s goals this season.

“I said to my girls that I felt I had one of the best defenses in the entire conference,” coach Marianna Winchester said.

“But on the other end, the key word is finishing. Giving up one goal, that’s quite a show on my defensive end and I’m proud of that, but when I compare it to the other schools on that attack part of it, most of them right now are in double digits or scoring 18 goals and we’ve only scored eight.”

Winchester lamented several offensive opportunities that were missed during the four games that could have given the Sailors more breathing room on the scoreboard. All five of Oceanside’s goals in the third and fourth matches have come after halftime.

“The crosses are perfect, the corners are perfect, it goes across the mouth of the goal and they just can’t get a foot on it,” she said. “They’re a step or two behind or they’ll shank it.”

Medigno secured the starting role this season after splitting time with current backup Sophie Weissman last spring and rewarded Winchester’s confidence in her

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seNioR captaiN emme Schnell scored one of Oceanside’s two goals Sept. 22 in a shutout victory over Port Washington as the Sailors earned a fourth straight win. by recording 25 saves, with more than half coming against Syosset (13).

“The Syosset game was the one she was phenomenal in,” Winchester said. “They had all of their guns up there and she was punching over the crossbar [and] making diving saves. She had a great game.”

Victoria Gamarra and Julie Strainese scored in the victory over Plainview and Nora Nestico and Samantha Olewnicki scored two of the Sailors’ three secondhalf goals in the 3-0 win at East Meadow

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on Sept. 17. Nestico scored again five days later during a 2-0 win at Port Washington.

“She’s very quick and very feisty down there,” Winchester said of Nestico. “She’s done a good job.”

Oceanside battled Massapequa for the first time on Monday and faced Plainview again on Wednesday ahead of its rematch versus Syosset on Friday.

“This week will be our test,” Winchester said. “These teams now know how we play.”

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Pharmaceutical companies have spent the most of any industry on federal lobbying this year. Combined, they have spent U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, of the 4th Dis- $171 million in 2021, more than twice the trict, was one of three moderate Demo- amount of the next highest spending crats who voted against a key provision industry, and their lobbying expenditures that would lower prescription drug prices have increased since 2013, topping at $309 in President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion infra- million in 2020. structure package, known as the Build In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Back Better Act, in the House of Energy Pelosi signed by Rice and nine other modand Commerce Committee. The others erate Democrats in May, Peters argued were Rep. Kurt Schrader from Oregon that reduced drug prices would hamper and Rep. Scott Peters from California. research and development of new mediOn Sept. 15, the three Democratic cines in the pharmaceutical industry, votes, in addition to the unanimous disap- echoing the statement that the leading proval from the Republicans, pharmaceutical federal lobbytied the vote 29-29 in the coming contributor this year, mittee, blocking the plan that PhRMA, published in an open would allow Medicare proletter that was signed by the grams to negotiate lower heads of major pharmaceuticosts for prescription drugs cal companies. instead of pharmaceutical While Peters and Schrader companies setting their own have received large campaign prices with little competition. contributions from pharmaThis drug pricing proviceutical PACs and employees sion is based on H.R. 3, the throughout their political Elijah E. Cummings Lower careers, collecting $860,465 Drug Costs Now Act, which Kathleen rice and $614,830, respectively, passed with zero opposition Rice has only received $6,150 in 2019. The Congressional this cycle, as her major Budget Office found that this bill would donors are tied in the financial services save the government $456 billion over 10 industry. years and reduce drug prices by 57 perGrowing up in Garden City, Rice origicent to 75 percent. nally registered as Republican in 1984 and Before the vote, Rice, who represents a did not vote until 2002. She switched parswath of the South Shore, acknowledged ties in 2005, when she was elected as Nasthat the Build Back Better Act would sau County district attorney as a Demoimprove the lives of Long Islanders, but crat. During her tenure, she formed Nasshe said she does not support advancing sau’s first-ever Medicaid and public assisprovisions “that are not fiscally responsi- tance fraud unit, which has secured milble and jeopardize the bill’s final pas- lions of dollars in restitution for Nassau sage.” In a letter sent after the vote, how- taxpayers. ever, Rice shifted her stance, saying that On Sept. 22, protesters held a rally in she supports H.R. 3, but she does not front of Rice’s office in Garden City to think the act would pass the Senate. allow patients to speak out against high According to Data for Progress, 90 per- drug prices and share their stories. Many cent of Rice’s constituents support the said Rice “betrayed” voters with her vote. provision that she voted against.

Despite the failed vote, Democratic Schrader and Peters offered their leaders said they are looking to push the own alternative drug pricing plan before price control legislation through different the vote, which was co-sponsored by Rice. committees before floor debate on the Their proposal limited Medicare to nego- social spending package, including tiate prices on only older drugs that are through the Ways and Means Committee, off patent but do not have any generic which shares jurisdiction over health polcompetition—a sliver of what the original icy and backed the plan, and the Rules provision proposed.

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The Kenny Marino Scholarship Fund Committee and Local Daisy Scout Troop 2075 gathered recently at the Oceanside Fire Department to donate $1,000 to the family of Sophia Smaragdas, who died in recent weeks unexpectedly at the age of 5.

The scholarship committee runs the Kenny Marino Golf Outing every year, and the money raised goes directly to the Kenny Marino Scholarship Fund in honor of the Oceanside Fire Department member who died on 9/11. The department then gives scholarships out to graduating Oceanside High School seniors. The Daisy Scout troop, which included Sophia, had raised the $500 to give to the scholarship fund before she had died.

Gary Fish, a scholarship committee member and former department captain, said the Marino family decided to donate the $500 to Sophia’s family, as well as offer an additional $500. “The Girl Scout troops did a lemonade stand in memory of Kenny Marino and they raised $500,” Fish said. “They came to the Fire Department meeting to donate the money, and I told Mrs. Marino what they did, and she donated an additional $500, [for a] total $1,000 donation to the family.”

Scout Troop 2075, which included scouts Persayis Ostmeijer and Giavanna Marciano, who ran the lemonade stand with Sophia, attended the ceremony at which the donation to the Smaragdas family was made. Daisy Troop leader and friend of Sophia’s family Vicky Marciano spoke about how the scouts and Fire Department members came together to help.

“The girls were going to take part in the 9/11 ceremony,” Marciano said. “We wanted them to do something that had to do with 9/11, and so we thought of doing a

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Scout troop 2075 and the Kenny Marino Scholarship Committee gathered at the Oceanside Fire Department recently to donate $1,000 to the family of Sophia Smaragdas, an Oceanside 5-year-old who died unexpectedly recently. lemonade stand to raise money for the Kenny Marino family. We went along with that, and the three girls, Giavanna, Persayis and Sophia, raised $500. Two days later, Sophia passed away unexpectedly. Gary took the ball from there and said, “No, we’re not taking the money, and we’re going to donate it right back to the family.”

Marciano and members of the committee presented the checks to the family. Members of Sophia’s family, including her aunt Dana Walsh Sivak and uncle Kevin Stivak, attended and presented the checks, along with members of the scholarship committee.

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Walsh Sivak spoke to attendees. “We’ve been fortunate to be a part of the Oceanside community since my sister and I were kids,” she said. “The outpouring of the community is basically all that’s sustained us during this time. We’re grateful that Sophia, two days before her passing, was able to do something really kind and raise money for such a worthy cause. For you to turn around and do this for my sister’s family too means a lot. I’m glad that Sophia had a chance to leave her mark on this world and to share how special she was with so many of you here. Thank you.”

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Oceanside schools focusing on service this year Continued from front page Lessons are to be tailored to students’ ages. Elementary school students, for example, will examine what it means to be a hero. “The 9/11 museum has different vetted lesson plans that teachers use,” Bickman said, “and we found one on what it means to be a hero, and we thought that was a great way to introduce kids to 9/11.

We talked about the idea of what it means to be a hero, and the kids crafted the flowers that were displayed at the grounds of the high school during the week of 9/11.”

Nussen said the teachers wanted to make Oceanside schools’ remembrance of 9/11 this September into a “communitywide effort.” “I think there [was] an uplifting theme of unity, charity and service, and that’s what we wanted to capture,” he said. “We wanted kids to understand the history but also capture those really important themes 20 years later and make sure this idea of ‘never forget’ is actually followed.”

Bickman noted that for students now in school, 9/11 is not a memory, but history, so programs to remember the day are critical. “It moved from a day that many of us have in our memories to an historical event,” he said. “That shift is pretty significant, especially considering it’s the 20th anniversary and the generation that we’re educating has no recollection of the day.”

Oceanside school officials, though, wanted to do more than remember 9/11.

They wanted to encourage students to act to help others. “Our 1,800 students made a pledge of something they could do as an act of service either on 9/11 or the days and weeks after,” he said, “everything from helping a neighbor mow their lawn to letters thanking first responders or healthcare workers for what they’ve been doing throughout the pandemic. We asked kids to reflect on the day and asked what they can do in their lives.”

Every club in the district was asked to take part in the effort. “Some acts will be fundraising, others will be volunteerism, but each club has been asked to come up with one thing that they could do to give back to their communities and beyond. We are challenging students to think about what they can do throughout this year, beyond the pledges they made on 9/11.”

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Island Park photographer and resident Maximillian Boncina recently published a coffee table book in France and is having his photographic art displayed at a Long Island gallery.

Boncina’s photography has been exhibited in Manhattan venues, including the Duggal Visual Solutions showroom in the Flatiron District, and he has done commerial work for companies that include Nike, Neiman Marcus and David Yurman. Boncina spoke about his recently published art book, which was released Sept. 16, and how it came together.

“I’m very thrilled by it,” Boncina, INSERT AGE HERE, said. “The book came together through years of exploring, locally and abroad. I met some incredible people over the last five to six years through photography and exploring.”

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Boncina and four European urban explorers, including two friends from France, one from Scotland and one from the Netherlands. “I made some close ties in Europe,” Boncina said. “We collaborated during the pandemic on the book, and it came out incredible. It’s 256 pages and is a large-scale coffee table book.”

The book showcases photographic artwork of abandoned locations throughout the globe, often with nude models. His writing accompanies the images, explaining where the pictured locations are. “I’ve been showing it off on my website, maxbonphotography.com, as well as on my Instagram, max.bon,” Boncina said.

The book is titled, “Urbex: Le Monde Oublié, ‘’ which means ‘Urbex: The Lost World.” It also can be found on Amazon by searching “Max Boncina.”

Boncina also has his photography work displayed at at the Cambridge Art Gallery in Glen Head. Opening night was Sept. 23. “It was a wonderful night,” Boncina said. “ We had a large strong group

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LEGAL NOTICE The nature of this action is for renewal of the money judgment that the Nassau County Clerk entered against Defendant in favor of Plaintiff on March 1, 2011 in the original amount of $748,995.54 At IAS Part 4 of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, held at the Courthouse, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York, on the 19th day of August, 2021.

PRESENT: HON. RANDY SUE MARBER J.S.C. -------------------------------X STEWART TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff, - against GERARD P. TIMONEY, Defendant.

-------------------------------X Index No.: 603195/2021 ORDER DIRECTING ALTERNATIVE SERVICE UNDER CPLR 308(5) Upon reading and filing the affirmation of Amy E. Abbandondelo, dated July 15, 2021, in support of the ex parte motion by Plaintiff Stewart Title Insurance Company (“Stewart”) seeking an order directing the alternative service of process upon Defendant Gerard P. Timoney (“Timoney”) and extending the time to complete service, and the exhibits annexed thereto, including the verified complaint, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that service of the summons and the verified complaint in this action upon Timoney by personal service under CPLR 308(1), (2), and (4) is impracticable, and that

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on a rainy night. A lot of people interested in art and photography came out.”

Closing night will be Oct. 9, and Boncina said he has high hopes for the event. “I’ve been able to take the images of these abandoned locations and have a model within the subject, and that’s the works that they have in the gallery were all about.

Large-scale, photographic works of a model in these abandoned locations, and it’s beautiful stuff.

It’s my work and I’m so thrilled about it. I want to make the closing night even better.”

Boncina said he plans to hold a book signing in Island Park, at East Rock Cof fee, likely in October. “We’ve been happily living in Island Park for about 17 years and we love it,” he said.

“My wife helps me a lot, manages me and handles all the emails.”

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Boncina’s photography has been displayed at the Cambridge Art Gallery in Glen Head.

MaxiMilian Boncina’s new book, “‘Urbex: The Lost World.”

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Most of the time, people complain about taxation but rarely, if ever, do they collectively attempt to do anything about it. The methods for deciding value, or even using value as a gauge for tax increases, are questionable, especially because we used to be taxed based on square feet. As we transition into not leaving our homes, communicating digitally, the tax system perpetuates without challenge.

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You’ll need your property survey, which is a map of your lot, house size and location, but you’ll also discover that surveyors generally don’t provide the dimensions of porches, sidewalks, driveways or steps. Get out a tape measure and accurately document the property’s hard surfaces if you’re in a community that requires impervious-area information. When you hire an architect or engineer, that’s what we have to do.

The only way to answer questions about removing walls is to assess the whole house: where to disperse loads, how to brace exterior walls against wind shear, how to handle snow loads and wind uplift, where pipes and wires would be relocated, how the spaces function and will be finished.

Package all this to be reviewed by building officials and receive permission to build — sounds simpler than it is, especially when workers leave details out or change something and we start adjusting all over again, only after much discussion, time and money.

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Taxes: $13,468 Franklin Square $675,000 Seminole Road. Cape. 5, bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Partial finished basement with wet bar and butler’s pantry. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. First floor bedroom. 3 seasons room. Large park-like yard. Central air conditioning.

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Baldwin $677,000 Charing Cross Road. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

Finished basement. Updated kitchen. Formal dining room with French doors to patio. Den/family room and office.

Attached garage. Large rooms. Near LIRR and Loft Pond.

Taxes: $13,903.83 Bellmore $760,000 Karen Street. Splanch. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Gourmet chef’s eat-in kitchen with custom cabinetry, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances with induction cooktop. Open floor plan with vaulted ceiling. Formal dining room. Den/family room. Entertaining backyard with pool and deck. Central air conditioning.

Taxes: $16773.45 East Rockaway $565,000 Riverside Road. Colonial. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Eat-in kitchen with granite countertops. Living room with fireplace.

Formal dining room. Den/family room. Deck, pergola and patio. Many updates.

Taxes: $6,705

Freeport $510,000 Wilshire Court. Splanch. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Eatin kitchen. Spacious living room/dining room with vaulted ceiling. Master bedroom with sitting room. Den/family room. Gunite inground swimming pool with brick patio and built-in barbecue. Close to Nautical Mile. Taxes: $8,744 Island Park $800,000 Redfield Road. 2 Story. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Updated eat-in kitchen with granite countertops. Living room/dining room with vaulted ceilings. First floor master bedroom with skylights in master bathroom. Radiant flooring throughout.

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Taxes: $10,087.92 Lawrence $1,770,000 Auerbach Lane. Colonial. 6, bedrooms, 5 bathrooms.

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was mowing my backyard lawn in Merrick last Saturday when I was suddenly struck by the strange sensation that I had missed the bus to my race — that I should, at the moment, have been running a 5K or a 10K at a frantic pace instead of plodding along, mower in hand.

The temperature was a perfect 72 degrees, with no wind. Sunshine streamed down.

The leaves on the trees were halfbrown and turning crisp. Fall was clearly in the air.

Year after year, from my early adolescence to my SCoTT young adulthood, I ran cross-country BRINToN every fall, from middle school through college, missing only two seasons in high school. I was conditioned to gear up for the racing season as September neared an end. When the fall air and the angle of the sun in the sky turned just so, I had to be ready to run — hard.

The nervous anticipation I felt as the racing season approached was embedded in my brain, and every now and again it pops up, even now, more than three decades later. Such was the case on Saturday.

That got me thinking about how screwy the past 18 months must have been for our

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young athletes, how all of the coronavirus delays and cancellations in their sports seasons must have messed with their heads, whether they were elementary-age kids a few years into athletics or college competitors. When you’ve participated for years in a sport, there is an intuitive sense you feel for its up-anddown rhythms and welltimed rituals.

As a cross-country runner, I knew I had from midSeptember to late October to qualify for season-ending championships in early November, a narrow window within which to achieve that year’s goals, for sure. It was six straight weeks of focused energy, of exacting routines and, potentially, of great disappointment or glory on the field of play.

I was never a star runner, though in college I did eventually achieve my goal of breaking 17 minutes in the 5K, running it in 16:40, and 5 minutes in the mile, finishing it in 4:31. What cross-country, and track in college, gave me was a sense of belonging, camaraderie, place. That’s important for a young person. Athletics also gave me a routine — I knew where I had to be after school and on Saturday. My schedule revolved around sports.

I thought about how disruptive the pandemic must have been over the past year and a half to the routines of tens of thousands of young athletes, and the joy they

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must be feeling as they return this fall for their regularly appointed seasons.

Then I thought about Bulgaria. From 1991 to 1993, I served in the Peace Corps there, teaching English at the Vasil Drumev High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Veliko Tarnovo, an ancient city in central Bulgaria. There were no after-school athletics in Bulgarian schools. If you wanted to play sports, you attended a specialized high school, open only to those displaying natural athletic ability.

At Vasil Drumev, there wasn’t even much of a gym program. The students, in grades seven to 12, hung out in the school courtyard during a free period when the weather permitted, playing basketball or volleyball. Boys did most of the playing. Girls often sat on the sidelines, chatting. There were no grass fields, no bleachers or scoreboards, only two basketball hoops set on one downwardsloping asphalt court, which, in the U.S., would no doubt have been a lawsuit waiting to happen.

One day, I asked my students what they did after school without sports or even clubs. Mostly, they said, they walked around town with friends, stopping for coffee at a café, where they would sit for an hour or two before heading home to finish homework and eat dinner with their fami-

’d never suggest that we do away with them, but they do have a downside.

lies. Afterward, they might watch TV on the handful of channels that were available then, and they were usually in bed by 10 p.m. It all sounded shockingly stress-free.

High school and college athletics in the U.S. can be wonderful, but the competitions are frequently high-stress events. The emphasis is too often on winning, on beating the competition, on rising to the top.

Even youth athletics can be anxiety-provoking, which I found as a volunteer soccer and track coach when my kids were younger.

I hope the pandemic might give us pause to think more deeply about our high school and college athletic programs. I would never suggest that we do away with them and adopt a Bulgarian-like system. As a former interscholastic athlete, I see the intrinsic value in sports. I also see the downside — the over-programming of students’ schedules, the often intense rivalries that can develop between teams and lead to divisions among young people, and the prioritization of victory over young athletes’ health, including their mental health.

Pushing young people beyond their limits to the point of a physical or mental breakdown in order to win a trophy is never worth the cost. Never.

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.

It’s fall 2021. Can summer 2022 be far behind?

y earliest memory of a family vacation adventure ended with my mother and father falling into each other’s arms and sobbing. I was 7 years old. They were 31. We traveled 11 hours in our black Oldsmobile to a rental my dad had found in the newspaper known as Stony Hill Farm. It was in the armpit of New Hampshire, and we had dreamt of it, talked about it, and planned for it over an entire grim New York winter.

I can still see the scene where we drove onto the property. I was sweating RANDI in the back seat KREISS with my 3-year-old sister and my Grandma Annie.

We had turned off the main road, and when we saw the sign for Stony Hill, we were thrilled that all the days of our two-week vacation lay ahead. Then we saw the “cottages” — tiny, shabby huts that were more than chicken coops but not acceptable dwellings for humans who could walk upright.

We moved in, but not really. At 4 a.m. my parents woke us up, and we jumped into the car and fled, presumably skipping out on

our reservation and any financial commitments to the scamming “resort” owner.

The story came back to me this week as I started fantasizing about finding a rental for a few weeks in Maine next summer. I know it’s crazy early for planning anything, but I’m dreaming. I need to buy into a future when we can travel again without risking our lives. In case you’re wondering, everyone is going to Maine; it’s become the “it” place for summer. Ogunquit is the new East Hampton.

Part of Maine’s popularity has been its shabby chic, inexpensive cachet.

No more. Long gone are the days when early colonists fed lobsters, considered trash food, to their prisoners.

Since my early trauma in New Hampshire, the renting of vacation properties has become big business on Vrbo, Airbnb, HomeToGo and other platforms that bring owners and renters together — not without issues. The companies have gotten so big, and so many people are looking to escape, that the fees have soared and the potential for scams is always present. That said, we’ve found reasonably good vacation apartments and houses over the past 30 years, and I was looking to Maine for our

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getaway.

Maine may still be shabby, but the prices are for the rich and famous. For the uninitiated, when you rent on the platforms, for any time from one night to several months, you get to see photos and a list of amenities and house rules and availability.

I am now the world’s expert on deciphering what the house descriptions and photos actually reveal. Wherever you wander, I offer this as a pubic service: When reading about a property, look no further if you see the words “cozy” or “adorable.” This is online speak for cramped. You may have to crawl into the dormer bedroom. If the list of amenities includes “washing machine available,” it may be coin-operated. You don’t want to play your washer like a slot machine.

“Basic” kitchen supplies is a red flag.

Expect only salt and pepper. “Evolving” neighborhood also not a positive.

Study, study, study the photos. The angles can make a 6-by-8 room look like a football field. We nearly booked one appealing place until we looked at a photo of a bedroom and spotted what turned out to be a toilet right next to the bed. Another place had beautiful

s you search for a future vacation rental, pay very close attention to details.

wood floors, white walls and spiffy-looking appliances, but no other furniture aside from beds in otherwise empty bedrooms and living areas.

“Waterfront” can mean anything from waves crashing on a beach in front of the house to a glimpse of a canal from an attic window.

You must read all — every one — of the house reviews posted by renters. People will write on and on about how perfect the house is and then, perhaps prompted by conscience, add something like, “Just one little thing. There were mice in the walls.

But, really, the owner took care of it immediately.”

One house looked very promising until I read a review that said, “This was a spectacular house with a beautiful view of the bay.

I would definitely go back again except for the man living in the basement.”

Now I’m pursuing non-Maine properties, slightly off the grid, with more acceptable prices. Canada is a possibility if it stays open to travelers from the U.S. I did see a nice house in South Dakota. It boasted “stunning mountain views” and a “chef ’s kitchen.” But one reviewer complained of bears breaking into cars, more than once. There’s always something.

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ere we are, nine years after Superstorm Sandy pummeled Nassau County’s South and North Shores, still waiting for the federal and state governments to take meaningful action to harden our coastal infrastructure to withstand the likes of such a storm in the future.

For sure, strides have been made. The City of Long Beach has a new, much sturdier boardwalk, constructed of hardwood rather than pine. Smart move. It also has new dunes, with cord-grass plantings, to hold back the ocean. And here and there, small flood-mitigation projects have been undertaken in various communities.

We have yet to see the types of largescale hardening projects that were promised in Sandy’s wake, however. Check valves, for example, were supposed to be installed on storm drains that let out into the bays in any number of communities, but they are yet to materialize. Check valves prevent the tide from flowing backward into storm drains and flooding streets.

During Sandy, backflow caused by the storm’s rush of seawater flooded hundreds of blocks nowhere near the bays.

Our communities need check valves.

Where are they? Our new governor, Kathy Hochul, needs to answer us on this one.

For that matter, where are the streetraising projects? Is there any word on a $300 million proposal by Freeport Mayor Robert Kennedy to construct tidal floodgates across Jones Inlet? He first proposed the idea five years ago. So far we’ve had nothing but studies.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently released a draft report of its Nassau County Storm Risk Management Study, which suggests elevating more than 14,000 homes across the South Shore, at a cost of $3.8 billion, to mitigate the risk of flood damage during big storms, which are only expected to grow more powerful in the coming decades because of climate change.

Global warming not only heats up the atmosphere, but also increases sea surface temperatures. Warmer oceans provide greater energy for hurricanes to feed off.

So, yes, we need to act, as the study asserts.

At what point, though, do we stop studying and start taking decisive action?

The risk management study began in

2016. It is not expected to be complete until 2023 — more than a decade after Sandy ravaged our shorelines.

Beyond that, it’s unclear where the billions of dollars in funding to elevate thousands of homes would come from. This isn’t right. People deserve answers from our elected leaders.

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach who heads the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee and is running for county district attorney, recently expressed frustration with the lack of action on the storm-hardening front. Speaking of the Army Corps study, he said, “This study, while welcome, needs to become more than just paper and evolve into funding and real deliverables as soon as possible. This must go from concepts to actual, physical storm hardening — and that’s what matters as sea levels rise and storms intensify. Time is of the essence.”

We agree. So we are pleading with Hochul and local elected leaders across Nassau to take definitive action and push for more than studies. We need projects now, before it’s too late.

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air and festivals season is upon us again. Last weekend, the Chamber of Commerce of the Bellmores staged its famed Family Street Festival, touted as the largest such fair in Nassau County, annually attracting as many as 100,000 people. This year, the crowds were back, despite the coronavirus, thronging Bedford Avenue.

It was, on one hand, a much-welcome relief to see people back together, laughing, smiling, chowing on roasted corn and zeppole. On the other, it was more than a little concerning that so many people were elbow to elbow in relatively close quarters. Social distancing — and masking — were out.

In no way are we suggesting canceling such festivals. We need them now to help rebuild our tattered spirits. We would like to see more people wearing masks during such events, however.

Yes, folks are outdoors, so ventilation isn’t a problem. Yes, many Nassau adults are vaccinated. We should make every attempt, however, to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in all ways possible, and masking helps.

By the way, the Bellmore chamber wasn’t the only organization holding a

festival over the weekend. Huntington Mobilization for Sustainability did as well. The Huntington Environmental Festival brought together conservation groups from across Long Island to teach about subjects ranging from electric cars to geothermal energy, composting and more.

What a wonderful idea! We suggest

that other groups, like our chambers of commerce, incorporate their own environmental corners into their festivals and fairs in the coming years. Long Island juts into the Atlantic Ocean, so it’s vulnerable to the effects of climate change (see editorial above). We need all the environmental education we can get.

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friend was lamenting the antivaccine movement and those who advocate their freedom from mandates, government or otherwise, to become vaccinated against Covid-19. After commenting on the irony of “pro-life” advocates wanting freedom from life-saving vaccines, my friend said, “What’s up with them?”

Fortunately, about 75 percent of the adult population in the U.S. has been vaccinated at least once.

Vaccination coverage, however, varies widely across roBert the country and among different sCott racial and ethnic groups. Black and Hispanic people are less likely than whites to have received vaccines, leaving them at high risk, especially with the Delta variant. As of September, nearly 60 percent of white people had received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared with only 10 percent of Black people, 17 percent of Hispanics, 6 percent of Asians, 1 percent of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, and under 1 percent of Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.

The low rate of vaccination among Blacks may be explained in part by their history with American health care. From

the time of slavery through the Jim Crow era, the Flexner reforms of medical education and medical care that disenfranchised Black citizens, through the syphilis “experiments” and segregation, Black people have been discriminated against, and have good reasons to be skeptical of government and corporate health care.

In recent months, however, owing in large part to citizen and community advocacy, vaccinations are reaching larger numbers of Black and Hispanics.

Nevertheless, there are elected officials and activist groups who argue against sensible public health measures such as vaccinations and mask-wearing. Unfortunately, these zealots brook no questions about their assertions and assumptions.

Their responses to questions like “Why not?” often is, “You just don’t get it.”

Perhaps one of the major challenges in our country is that we hesitate to engage those with other views. We have conservatives who think in terms of conserving privilege instead of promoting policies for the common good, and liberals whose lifestyles or attitudes at times belie their principles of equality and inclusion.

A former state senator in New Jersey was known for his familiar refrain: “We can disagree without being disagreeable.”

I sometimes wish this phrase were posted on every street corner in America.

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s members of a society — family, village or nation — we are free, but with responsibilities.

Letters Support the Climate Act To the Editor: Regarding the story “U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reveals findings of Back Bays Study” (Sept. 16-22): It is astonishing that an article about the high risk of flood damage faced by South Shore residents does not mention climate change. Why are our local elected officials supporting a plan to spend $3.8 billion in taxpayer money on resiliency measures such as “elevating more than 14,000 homes”? We know from the science that without addressing the source of the problem — climate change caused by fossil-fuel emissions — resiliency measures will ultimately fail.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and State Sen. Todd Kaminsky must realize that the real solution is a transformation to a renewable economy. The State Legislature must pass the Climate and Community Investment Act, which will create jobs and revenue by making corporate polluters pay their fair share to mitigate the damage they have done to our communities.

If our leaders truly want to combat the disastrous effects of climate change on the South Shore, and benefit every

Those who object to vaccinations not only put themselves in harm’s way, as many have learned, but also put the health of others in jeopardy. They must acknowledge responsibility for illness and death when not following the guidance of science-based public health protocols. How ironic it is that many who argue for the rights of the unborn act against the rights of the living to be protected from disease.

The anti-vaxxers might think they are making a political or perhaps theological choice, but in fact they are making a moral choice.

They are asserting a set of values that can harm and kill others. We are taught to love one another, even the meekest among us, but anti-vaxxers often prefer antipathy to empathy.

A defense offered by some is that mandates violate their freedom. Yes, a democracy honors freedom and provides that its citizens are free to question orthodoxy, to express opinions without fear of consequence, within the boundaries of law.

Consequently, members of a democracy must exercise freedom with responsibility, not freedom unfettered from concern for others.

Those who refuse to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle may cite their freedom to feel the air flow through their hair, but to do so is to ignore the societal

costs incurred when they crash. Society pays for their irresponsible behavior. The same is true for anti-vaxxers.

Freedom isn’t a simple concept. We can be free “from” bondage and free to exercise our will, but as members of a society, whether it be a family, a community or a nation, we are free, with responsibilities. Freedom “with” derives from our founding principle expressed as “We the people.” “We,” not “I.” To flout this freedom is to fail to understand the different ways of knowing what we think of as truth. Public-health policy depends on truth as established by science, through rigorous experimentation and replication. Those opposed to vaccine mandates cling to a truth based on faith, which cannot be replicated, or a truth based on fear of authority and suspicion of government, which may at times be justified. These forms of truth generally focus on “I” instead of “we.”

As American citizens with equal voices and residents of the world community, we must bear witness to the health and safety of others as well as ourselves. We must engage in boundary-spanning discussions and promote education about public health. We must honor the humanity of our neighbors and fellow citizens if we are to have a viable democracy.

Dr. Robert A. Scott is president emeritus and university professor emeritus of Adelphi University and author of “How University Boards Work” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018; Eric Hoffer Awardee, 2019).

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South Shore resident, they must support the CCIA. LAURA MAFFEI Cedarhurst

Lead by example on the climate crisis To the Editor: Those attending the United Nations General Assembly could lead by example when it comes to global warming.

Hundreds of heads of state, ambassadors, military attachés and security personnel can give up limousines taking them to and from their embassies, hotels or residences to the U.N. These motorcades contribute to gridlock and increase air pollution.

Join several million New Yorkers by riding the subway or bus. Enjoy some fresh air and walk several blocks from any nearby subway or bus stop. Mingle with ordinary people to develop a better understanding of America and its people.

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