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Oceanside High unveils new science rooms by KePherD DaNIel kdaniel@liherald.com

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MeMbers oF the Oceanside Board of Education each cut a ribbon opening the high school’s new science classrooms.

Oceanside High School officials held a ribbon-cutting for a set of new science classrooms that were completed this year, at a cost of $3 million. The rooms, which officials said were sorely in need of an upgrade, were the first phase of the school’s five-phase plan to renovate several instructional areas around the school. “Those that remember our science labs, as what they were, know this was a long time coming,” Superintendent Phyillis

Harrington said. Harrington thanked the Board of Education and the community for their support for the project. “I want to remind the people that this project was done with the money that is kept in an account, that comes from unspent money that we have each and every school year,” she noted. About 45 percent of the $3 million was returned to the district in the form of state aid for capital projects. “This was a very big project Continued on page 12

First Presbyterian Church celebrates 150 years in service by toM carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com

Parishioners at the First Presbyterian Church in Oceanside are preparing to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the institution in early November. The church, which is the oldest house of worship in the community, has continued to be a beacon for local residents, especially through the pandemic. Despite the pandemic and a decline in church attendance across the nation, First Presbyterian has grown and is as strong as ever today, church officials said. The Rev. Russ Roth said the

church has seen strong attendance in the past few years, even after shifting to virtual services in the first year of the pandemic. Church staff members have taken precautions, such as closing off half the pews and distancing people in each pew. Roth said the church would continue to stream services on Facebook to allow the congregation to attend from home, even after the pandemic. “As people came back, we would actually run out of space,” Roth said. “People really had the desire to come back and really experience mass here.” Roth attributes the church’s active congregation of about 60 to 80 people online and 40 to 50

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people in person to the inclusive message of the clergy. “One of the things about this congregation is that it is very welcoming,” Roth said. “Some of it is people who are looking for hope.” And this is not the first time the church has been an impor-

tant pillar of the community during tough times. When Superstorm Sandy hit a decade ago, the church offered fuel, food, water and a place to charge phones. The church still acts as a disaster relief site for the community. Throughout the pandemic, deacons and youth of the church have made a habit of calling members of the congre-

gation to check in with them. “It’s like a second family,” parishioner Stacia Liossatos said. A Merrick resident, Liossatos has belonged to the Oceanside church for close to 50 years. When her daughter suffered burn injuries a few years ago, the congregation rallied by donating money and medical Continued on page 15

Schumer endorses Curran for county executive By Mallory Wilson mwilson@liherald.com

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer lent his support on Saturday to Laura Curran, a Democrat, as she runs for re-election as Nassau County executive. Schumer joined New York State Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs in supporting Curran during a news conference Eisenhower Park in East Meadow. Jacobs introduced the two elected leader, calling Schumer a competent individual and Curran, of Baldwin, an authentic person. “It’s my great pleasure to introduce our county executive, someone who has demonstrated courage, who is authentic. The voters like her, the voters know her,” Jacobs said. “...We’ve got an important election coming up, and I have no greater confidence in anyone being able to win and win big as our great county executive and my friend, Laura Curran.” Curran, who first became county executive in 2018 and was the first woman to hold that position, is running for her first re-election as county executive against Bruce Blakeman, who is a Town of Hempstead councilman representing the 3rd District, and who was the County Legislature’s presiding officer in the late 1990s. “I do not take any support for granted, and I am especially grateful to have the support of Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer,” Curran said. “You have been an incredible partner to Nassau County for

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U.s. sen. ChUCk Schumer stopped by Eisenhower Park on Saturday to endorse County Executive Laura Curran. the last four years and before.” Curran called Schumer’s office accessible and understanding of “the needs of our residents, of our families, of our working families and of our small businesses.” “Senator Schumer has always delivered for our residents,” she continued. “Right here behind us, you see the Boost Nassau Resource Center, and that is something that we were able to do because we’re using money from the federal government that Chuck Schumer got for us, and we’re pushing it out to our taxpayers, we’re pushing it out in grants to our small busi-

nesses, we’re pushing it out to our nonprofits that were not able to raise money…” She noted how these funds also went to other areas of need such as helping the hungry and veterans get the mental health services they need. “These funds, these resources put the money where it belongs, so I am incredibly grateful for your advocacy for us,” Curran said. “Not just for your advocacy but for understanding middle class concerns, working family concerns. Your endorsement for me today, again I do not take it for

granted. I am very grateful for it, and I am looking forward to working together for the next four years.” Schumer backed Curran when she first ran for the county executive position in 2017 after she had served as a county legislator in the 5th District “This is one endorsement that I didn’t have to wrestle over in any way,” Schumer said. “Not only do I endorse Laura Curran, but I do it enthusiastically, 100 percent, with no doubt whatsoever. She has done a great great job here, and you know her biography.” Schumer spoke about how Curran is not originally from Nassau, but is instead from Canada, and how that has never stopped her from caring about the county. “She came to Nassau County about 30 years ago and saw the wonder of this place and grew to love it and nurture it and grow with it and then serve it,” he said. “I am happy to do this.” He credited Curran with using federal pandemic relief funding in the way it should have been allocated, making sure it went to small business owners, housing assistance programs, veteran mental health programs and schools. “While my job is to get money for this county, you don’t feel good about it unless you know it’s going to be spent honestly, wisely and aimed at helping the working families,” he said. “That’s what Laura has done with the money.” Election Day is Nov. 2.

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The public is asked to call Crime Stoppers if they have any information about any crimes.

Roosevelt man charged with DWI in Island Park A Roosevelt man was arrested for aggravated driving while intoxicated because he was driving drunk with with a 2-year-old child in the car around 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 3 in Island Park, Nassau County police said. Jose Urquia Dominguez was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated under Leandra’s Law and and multiple traffic violations. He was to be arrainged in First District Court Oct. 3. The results of the arraigment were not available at press time. According to police, a 4th Precinct officer on patrol observed a vehicle failing to maintain lanes while traveling south on Austin Boulevard near the Long Beach Bridge. The officer stopped the car on Austin Boulevard and Railroad Place. An investigation revealed the Dominguez was driving under the influence of walcohol, and he was arrestd without incident. There were no injuries reported. The defendant was traveling with a 30-year-old female passenger along with her female 2-year-old and a 36-year-old male passenger. The child was released to her mother.

Police report burglary at Oceanside business

Fourth Squad detectives reported a burglary that occurred on Friday, Sept. 24 in Oceanside. The crime was reported at 6:20 p.m. According to detectives, officers responded to First Manufacturing Company, at 3800 West Oceanside Road, for the report of a burglary. An investigation determined that an unknown subject used a rock to break a window and enter the commercial building. Once inside, the unknown male was observed on video removing a leather jacket and an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspect was wearing a gray sweatshirt, a black baseball-style hat, black pants and a backpack. The subject was then observed on video fleeing in an unknown direction.

Man arrested for bribery and impersonation An East Rockaway man was arrested for bribery in Oceanside on Sept. 30 at 6:15 p.m., according to Nassau County police. Kevin Meyer, 32, was arrested without incident and charged with thirddegree false impersonation. He will be arraigned when medically practical. According to police, officers responded to a call for a male slumped over a steering wheel in front of a Pearl Street home. Officers found Meyer in an incoherent state. During the investigation, officers warned Meyer about providing false information regarding his identification. Meyer continued to provide the officers with the wrong name and date of birth after reportedly being warned. The suspect then offered the police money to gain favor, officials said.

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Girl Scouts of Nassau County kicks off annual Mags & Munchies entreprenuerial program Girl Scouts of Nassau County announced that their annual Mags & Munchies program returned on Oct. 1 and runs through Nov. 12. Through this program, Girl Scouts sell various products, including magazines, and delicious nuts, snacks, and chocolates. The program presents Girl Scouts with an opportunity to give back to their communities—while providing girls with entrepreneurial, goal-setting, and decision-making skills—in preparation for the start of the Girl Scout Cookie selling season. Girls build an online shop, where they create an avatar that looks just like them and record a message for their virtual likeness to deliver to friends and family. They also upload their own personal videos, earn virtual rewards for their avatars and track their progress. In addition, the Girl Scouts continue to support Operation Stop Hunger on Long Island as part of its ongoing efforts to support Long Islanders facing food insecurity. Each Mags & Munchies purchase will give customers the option to donate $6.00 to the organization, and the Girl Scouts will match each donation by delivering nut or snack items to local food pantries on Long Island.

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Island Park has a new children’s librarian By Kepherd daniel kdaniel@liherald.com

The new children’s librarian at the Island Park Library is settling into her new role. Sarah Campbell became the children’s librarian July 6, and has been a librarian for nearly 20 years. She talked about how she ended up at the Island Park Library and how knew she wanted to become a librarian. “I started in the public libraries in Baldwin,” Campbell said. “For 15 years I was in school libraries for three different districts, and when the pandemic hit, it was time for a change and it was time for me to be back closer to home because I was working in Suffolk County. I relocated originally back to Oceanside Library, and I was working part-time for them for the last year and then as of July, this position opened up and here I am.” Campbell knew in college that she wanted to be close to the books. “ I changed my major and I ended up going for English,” Campbell said. “Once I changed my major, I really set my sights on the book world. I started going to trade shows and book fairs every year, and I really loved all that I got into.” “I went into publishing and was working for one of the scientific publishers in New York City for almost 10 years. I came back out to Long Island work for Double Day publishing in Garden City, and while I was at Double Day, I realized I was on the

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Sarah CampBell iS the new children’s librarian at the Island Park Library. wrong end of the books and I wanted to be on the user end and that was what made me decide if I was going to be on the user end, it’s either going to be teaching or library.” Campbell, a fourth-generation Long Islander, was 34 years old when she went back to school in 2005 for her master’s degree in library and information science at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University. She grew up in Malverne and

graduated from the Malverne High School, in the class of 1989. She got her teaching certification and was able to become a school librarianm and she believes it was very helpful after she had children, enabling her to achieve a worklife balance. “Having kids directed me towards the teaching because I wanted to be on their schedule, and that worked out for the time that they were very young and growing up,” she said. Campbell has two sons, Daniel and Dylan, both of whom attend Oceanside High School. “My boys are both teenagers now, and so now that they’re older and self-sufficient, I don’t really have to be on their schedule,” she noted. Campbell is an Oceanside resident and worked in two of the Oceanside elementary schools during and through the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. She is also a huge fan of the Oceanside Sailors football team. Campbell described how last year’s pandemic changed her outlook and moved her from the classrooms to the library. “When the pandemic hit, the

classroom for a librarian became a very uncertain space,” she said. “I started hearing about all the restrictions that were going to be on the teachers in the classroom, and they were turning my library into a faculty lounge, and I would have to be pushing carts of books around the school building. That’s when I thought I’m going to go where the books stay, and it might be a good time to consider going back to where I started because libraries are much more wide-open spaces and generally more open to the public.” So, she left the school world to become a public librarian. Island Park residents are “great people,” she said. The community “is such a nice community and the people are so welcoming. Sometimes the kids come right up to me and are more outgoing and able to express to me what their interests are, but sometimes the parents come in with something in mind for their child. You really have to be ready to interact with both, and that was something that I think all those years during my year’s teaching I was missing.”

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Nassau D.A. candidates trade accusations By James Bernstein and scott Brinton jbernstein@liherald.com, sbrinton@liherald.com

The race for Nassau district attorney has quickly become one of the most hotly contested in the county, with Democratic State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, of Long Beach, and Republican Anne Donnelly, of Garden City, trading blistering verbal barbs in a series of TV commercials. The spots, running on CNN and other cable networks, began three weeks ago, when Donnelly, a 3 0 - ye a r c a r e e r prosecutor in the Nassau district attorney’s office, aired one featuring a Syracuse woman, identified in the commercial as Jennifer P. The woman, Jennifer Payne, said her daughter’s killer was released without bail because of the state’s bailreform law, which Kaminsky voted for in the Senate. The State Legislature first passed the bailrefor m measure in 2019, restricting anne Donnelly, the the use of cash bail and pretrial detention in misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases. It did, though, give judges discretion to assign bail in almost all violent felony cases and certain nonviolent cases, such as witness tampering, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. In Donnelly’s commercial, Payne holds a framed photograph of her daughter, Sarah Tombs, who was 22 at the time that she died. The man who allegedly shot her, Darien Shellman, then 24, a mall security guard who was a Navy veteran with no prior criminal record, was charged with second-degree (unintentional) manslaughter after, he claimed, his gun went

off when Tombs, his girlfriend at the time, grabbed the weapon and a bullet struck her in the head, killing her, according to Syracuse.com. Shellman had been held in jail on $75,000 cash bail or $150,000 bond following Tombs’s death in April 2019, but was released on Jan. 9, 2020, under the new bail-reform law, eight days after it took e f f e c t , a c c o r d i n g t o S y r a c u s e. com and CNYCentral.com. Under the original bail-reform law, unintentional manslaughter was among the alleged crimes for which defendants were automatically released. The Legislature amended the law in April 2020, a little more than three months after the measure took effect, to include a greater number of crimes fo r wh i ch b a i l could be assigned, including any alleged crimes in which someone had been killed, according to the Courtesy Anne Donnelly Brennan Center. Although bail Republican candidate. could have been reassigned in this case, it never was, and Shellman recently accepted a plea agreement for which he will serve no prison time, according to Syracuse.com. Kaminsky noted that the district attorney who offered the plea deal is a Republican. Kaminsky has repeatedly said he voted for the bail-reform bill, but was not a prime sponsor, and he did not write it, as Republicans, including Donnelly, have incorrectly claimed. He also emphasized that he voted for the amended law giving judges back the discretion to assign bail in crimes such as second-degree manslaughter. Kaminsky recently rolled out a commercial of his own, saying Donnelly had

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toDD KaminsKy, the Democratic candidate for Nassau County district attorney. “botched” a case involving a woman accused of plotting to kill her husband, saying Donnelly had lied to the judge in the case. At one point in the 2010 case against Susan Williams, a Garden City mother, a mistrial was declared after a taped phone conversation between Williams and her daughter was erroneously played for a jury. In the commercial, Kaminsky blamed Donnelly for the error, and said she had changed an agreement sent to the judge. Williams was ultimately found guilty in the case, but Kaminsky stressed that there “was a mistrial. That’s a serious thing.” Asked for a response, Donnelly wrote in an email, “It is no surprise that [Kaminsky] would lie about my unblemished record as a prosecutor. It is sad that Senator Kaminsky is embarrassing himself this way, and the voters always see through a politician’s lies.” So far in the campaign, Kaminsky has emphasized his law-enforcement background. In 2008, he joined the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, and worked for six years as an assistant U.S. attorney.

There he became acting deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section. He had been an assistant district attorney in the Queens County D.A.’s office, prosecuting domestic violence cases, robberies, shootings and other violent crimes. Donnelly resigned from the Nassau County district attorney’s office to run for the top job, as she was required to do, but she has emphasized her extensive law-enforcement background. She was most recently deputy chief of the office’s Organized Crime and Rackets Bureau. She was also liaison to the Nassau County Correctional Facility. She formerly oversaw public corruption trials as acting chief of the public corruption bureau, once served as the deputy chief of the economic crimes bureau and was a senior trial assistant in the rackets bureau, as well as a felony-screening supervisor. In the most recent financial filing, Kaminsky said he had raised $1.7 million for his campaign. A spokesman for Donnelly said she had raised more than $386,000. Both Kaminsky and Donnelly said they planned to run more TV commercials in the coming weeks.

Publication: Nassau is America’s safest county Nassau County has been named the “Safest Community in America” by U.S. News & World Report for the second straight year. The publication’s ranking is based on crime, public safety capacity and injuries. Individual metrics on which counties were assessed included violent crime rate, property crime rate, vehicle crash fatality rate, the share of public safety professionals within a population, and per capita spending on health and emergency services. Crime in Nassau has continued to decline to historic lows in recent years, down 10.5 percent over the past year and 36 percent over the past decade. Over the last 12 months, homicides have dropped 22.2 percent; bur-

hile crime has spiked in other parts of the country, Nassau County is safer than ever.

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Nassau County executive glaries, 15 percent; and grand larcenies, 11 percent. “While crime has spiked in other parts of the country, Nassau County is safer than ever,” County Execu-

tive Laura Curran, a Democrat who is up for re-election, said. “Nassau’s success in holding crime down shows that intelligence-led, community-oriented policing works. It also shows that Nassau has the finest Police Department in the nation.” Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said, “The hard-working, dedicated men and women, both sworn and civilian, of this Police Department, along with our Intelligence-led Policing Model, have brought our crime rate to historically low levels over the past 10 years. A 31 percent drop in major crime over the past 10 years, combined with another 7.4 percent year-todate, is a true testament to the excellent work being done daily.”

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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.

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.

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All participants must be fully vaccinated and show proof of vaccination. Masks are not required. Sign up at the Island Park Library. Starts at 1 p.m.

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.

Join the Oceanside Library Students Rebuild Team for the World Needs Challenge. Participants can choose to focus on clean oceans, humanitarian aid for refugees, hunger relief, overcoming bias and arts activism. Register at the library website. Starts at 7 p.m. in meeting room one.

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.

Thursday, Oct. 7 Literacy Nassau 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.

Historic Haunts of Long Island (Virtual) Historian Kerri Ann Flanagan Brodsky and her ghost-hunting partner medium Joe Giaquinto share stories of the encounters they have had while investigating some haunted Long Island sites. Register at the Island Park Library website for the Zoom link. Starts at 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 8 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

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Members of the Island Park community are invited to attend the meeting in the community room. Starts at 7 p.m.

A Hum at the O’Side Garden Club The Oceanside Library hosts a Zoom event where residents will learn about the importance of bees as pollinators. Starts at 7 p.m. on Oct. 12. 11 a.m.

Movie Screening: The Fast and the Furious The Island Park Library hosts this screening of the film The Fast and the Furious (Rated PG-13). Register at the front desk to reserve a spot. Starts at 1:30 p.m. Masks required.

Saturday, Oct. 9

Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving The Island Park Library hosts this in-person defensive driving course. Save 10 percent on your auto insurance over three consecutive years or reduce up to four points on your driving record by attending the class. Masks required. Starts at 10 a.m.

Saturday Vinyasa Yoga with Dot Scott

Tuesday, Oct. 12

Join Dorothy Scott for a relaxing class that encompasses basic yoga poses which focus on lengthening the body’s muscles. Zoom link available on the Oceanside Library website. Starts at 9:30 a.m.

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Sunday, Oct. 10

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.

Virtual Chair Yoga with Sandeye This class from the Island Park Library provides instruction and practice for people who feel they may not be flexible enough for standard yoga. Register online at the library website. Starts at 12:30 p.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.

Wednesday, Oct. 13 Simply Stronger Personal trainer Marilyn Bunger teaches a

The NAMI mental health support group meets twice a month. The Island Park Library has a Take & Make DIY all week. AARP’s Cars and Coffee meets Oct. 10 at 9 a.m. at 3118 Lawson Blvd. Oceanside Library virtual Medicare Seminar starts at 7 p.m. on Oct. 12. South Shore Craft Brewing Company hosts Zactoberfest on Oct. 16.

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Lynbrook Fire Department chiefs recently guest bartended at EGP Land and Sea in Island Park to raise money for wounded warriors. Taking part were, from left, Third Assistant Chief Scott Bien, First Assistant Chief Chris Kelly, Chief John Donald and Second Assistant Chief Dan Ambrosio.

LFD, EGP raise money for county wounded warriors EGP Land and Sea in Island Park recently donated trays of food for the Lynbrook Fire Department’s Wounded Warriors Concert and Block Party fundraiser on Sept. 25, which benefited Nassau County Firefighters Operation Wounded Warrior. During “Monday Night Football” on Sept. 27, Lynbrook’s fire chiefs returned the favor and volunteered as guest bartenders at the restaurant, which is owned by Tim O’Hagan, an East Rockaway vil-

lage trustee. Patrons tipped the four chiefs $400, which was also donated to NCFF-OWW, a non-profit charity that helps support veterans injured in the line of duty. Chiefs who took part included Chief of Department John Donald, First Assistant Chief Chris Kelly, Second Assistant Chief Dan Ambrosio and Third Assistant Chief Scott Bien. Courtesy LFD; compiled by Mike Smollins

Models from across the country will hit the stage at the second annual “Show Your Shine” fashion show to support the Limb Kind Foundation on Oct. 9. In all, 24 models who have limb loss or limb differences will participate in the fundraiser event from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Gatsby at Jones Beach to fundraise for the Oceanside-based foundation. A team of volunteers from Rockville Centre helped organize the event. Money raised will go toward future trips across the world for children who have dealt with limb loss to receive free prosthetics by a team from the foundation. Actress Zyra Gorecki, who is one of the stars in the new NBC series “La Brea,” will also participate in the show. “As an amputee myself, I am honored to be a part of an event that will raise funds to bring kids in other countries comfortable, life-changing prosthetics,” Gorecki said, according to a news release. “Everyone deserves to stand on two good legs.” Those taking part in the event range in age from 2 to 65 and the goal is to demonstrate that beauty comes from within. The models come from more than a dozen states, which includes New York, Texas, Ohio, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Maine.

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oceansiDe resiDent rob Schulman, founder and president of Limb Kind Foundation, right, kicked off the inaugural Show Your Shine fashion show last year with Jill Smith, of Rockville Centre, his sister and the event coordinator. Strict Covid-19 protocol and safety measures will be followed at the event. The Limb Kind Foundation is a nonprofit charity with a mission to improve the lives of children with limb loss both domestically and internationally by strengthening the amputee community and providing pediatric prosthetic care to all giving the opportunity for children to walk, run, play and perform activities of daily living like any other child, regardless of financial burden or situation. Compiled by Mike Smollins

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Mepham Senior Football it Was a memorable Homecoming game for Honerkamp and the Pirates on Sept. 25. The senior quarterback, in just his fourth start, rushed for five touchdowns and threw for a pair of scores to lead Mepham to a 63-30 win over Glen Cove. He averaged 12.2 yards per carry on 11 attempts and completed 6 of 9 passes for 151 yards in the first half. In last Saturday’s loss to MacArthur, Honerkamp rushed for his 10th touchdown of the season as the Pirates suffered their first loss in four games.

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Girls Soccer: Mepham at Wantagh........................4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer: Malverne/ER at Elmont....................4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer: V.S. South at Calhoun ......................4:45 p.m. Girls Soccer: Sewanhaka at Lawrence ..................4:45 p.m. Boys Soccer: Oceanside at Uniondale ....................... 5 p.m. Football: Port Washington at Oceanside..................... 6 p.m. Football: Massapequa at Freeport ............................. 6 p.m. Football: Manhasset at Hewlett ...................................... 6 p.m. Girls Soccer: South Side at Massapequa .................6:30 p.m. Boys Soccer: Lawrence at Seaford................................. 7 p.m. Football: Sewanhaka at Glen Cove ................................. 7 p.m. Football: Carey at MacArthur........................................... 7 p.m.

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football: Elmont at Herricks..................................1:30 p.m. Football: Plainview at East Meadow .......................... 2 p.m. Football: Mepham at Baldwin ................................... 2 p.m. Football: V.S. Central at Garden City ............................... 2 p.m. Football: South Side at Wantagh .................................... 2 p.m. Football: V.S. North at Kennedy....................................... 2 p.m. Football: Clarke at Seaford.............................................. 2 p.m. Football: North Shore at East Rockaway......................... 2 p.m. Football: Malverne at Lawrence ...................................... 2 p.m. Football: Calhoun at New Hyde Park .............................. 2 p.m. Football: Lynbrook at Mineola ........................................ 2 p.m.

A last-minute touchdown drive to close the first half last Saturday gave Oceanside a one-point lead over visiting Massapequa in a much-anticipated Nassau Conference I football showdown between the top two seeds that was ultimately determined by turnovers. The Sailors committed three costly giveaways in the second half, and the defending county champion Chiefs turned two into touchdowns on the way to a 26-21 win before a standing-roomonly homecoming crowd of approximately 2,500 at Oceanside. “This is the second game in the past three weeks we had problems holding onto the ball,” Oceanside head coach Rob Blount said. “Give Massapequa credit, but we have to be better. We can’t turn the ball over like that and expect to win big games like this.” Both teams entered the game 3-0, and both senior quarterbacks delivered. Massapequa’s Ryan Heidrich went 18 of 30 passing for 205 yards and three touchdowns and also rushed for the eventual game-winning touchdown with 3:03 remaining. Oceanside’s Charlie McKee was 31-for-43 for 347 yards and three touchdowns with one interception. McKee directed a 51-second scoring drive to make it a one-possession game again after Heidrich gave the Chiefs a 26-14 cushion with his 4-yard touchdown run. Senior Michael Mecca’s 15-yard touchdown reception made it too close for comfort for Massapequa, which had to withstand the ball in McKee’s hands for the final 26 seconds. “We weren’t counting anything until the clock hit zero,” Massapequa head coach Kevin Shippos said. “We’ve had some great battles with Oceanside in recent years and both teams have come out on the wrong end. Today we were able to take advantage of our opportunities. We made big plays in big spots.” Massapequa, which defeated the Sailors 36-29 in last season’s county final May 1, converted all eight of its fourthdown attempts last Saturday including two on a game-opening drive capped by Heidrich’s 5-yard scoring toss to senior Michael D’Alessandro.

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seNioR RoNNie KRaeMeR had a 19-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter of Oceanside’s 26-21 defeat to Massapequa last Saturday. Oceanside pulled even early in the second quarter with an unlikely fourthdown conversion with McKee hitting senior Ronnie Kraemer for a 19-yard touchdown on 4th-and-11. The teams then traded touchdowns in the final 90 seconds of the half, with junior Nicky Cairo securing a 2-yard toss from McKee to cap an 80-yard drive. The Sailors led 14-13 at halftime following Frank Morizio’s extra point. Momentum shifted on the opening snap of the second half when following a

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McKee completion to the 35, the Chiefs recovered a fumble. Ten plays later, senior Jared Howes secured a 13-yard touchdown pass from Heidrich and Massapequa took the lead for good at 20-14. Senior Luke Ciolino had an interception and D’Alessandro’s a fumble recovery in the fourth quarter for the Chiefs, who are the only remaining undefeated team in Conference I. Oceanside will try to get back on the winning track when it hosts Port Washington on Friday at 6 p.m.

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Howard Weitzman, Nassau County’s comptroller from 2002 to 2009 who was known for challenging establishment politics through the power of the audit during this time in office, died Sept. 27 of a rare blood disorder called amyloidosis. He was 75. Born in Brooklyn in 1945, Weitzman was known as a loving husband to his wife of 52 years, Suzanne, and father to their daughter, Catherine Diamond, and sons Peter and Matthew Weitzman. Howard Weitzman was raised in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn and later Laurelton, Queens. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and went on to graduate from Queens Colle ge with a de g ree in accounting, becoming a certified public accountant. Weitzman was said to have “reveled” in his role as “Nassau’s fiscal watchdog” when he was comptroller. He was also known for his personal approach to politics, holding town hall meetings in houses of worship and schools to meet with constituents from across Nassau to hear their concerns. His local approach to county politics stemmed from his time

as a trustee and mayor of Great Neck with eliminating special districts] are Estates from 1989 to 1995. He and his not large when divided by each home . . . wife had lived there for 35 years before in these times of extreme fiscal pressure on Nassau County taxpayers, all moving to Roslyn in 2013. As comptroller, Weitzman was relent- savings are worth pursuing. The outdatless in pursuing investigations of Nas- ed patchwork quilt of special districts is no longer viable in this day sau’s many special districts, and age when they cost resiincluding sanitation and dents money without providwater districts. In all, Nasing any benefit.” sau has more than 200 such Weitzman was first electdistricts, and Weitzman said ed comptroller in 2001 on a he was convinced they were ticket with Tom Suozzi, then key to helping rein in govan up-and-coming political ernment overspending. leader who had previously “Nassau residents can served as the Glen Cove pay two or three times as mayor and is now a U.S. conmuch for the same service gressman representing the depending on the district in 3rd District. They were which they live,” Weitzman Howard Weitzman swept into office following said in a published report in years of fiscal mismanage2010. “Our audits unveiled millions of dollars of waste by some ment at the county level, with a clear mandate to eliminate waste and abuse. special districts, and a general lack of Weitzman lost the comptroller’s post accountability, transparency and overto Republican George Maragos in 2009. sight.” Eliminating many of the special dis- Illness was said to have hindered tricts, Weitzman contended, could save Weitzman’s campaign. He then chaltaxpayers tens of millions of dollars lenged Maragos in 2013 and was again defeated. annually. In 2016, Weitzman was appointed to Speaking with the Herald in 2008, he said, “While the savings [associated the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a

fiscal oversight board created by the New York State Legislature in 2000 to monitor and oversee the county’s finances following a debt crisis in the late 1990s that nearly bankrupted Nassau. Weitzman had also been a board member of the American Jewish Committee, a treasurer of Temple Israel of Great Neck and a board member of the United Community Fund of Great Neck. An avid adventurer, he traveled the world with his family, with he and his wife taking trips to Cambodia, Australia and Italy when their children were grown. He was also an avid boater who was a member of the Shelter Bay Yacht Club. In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by a sister, Leslie Kornfeld, and her husband, Edward; four grandchildren, Leo, Max, Morris and Ema, and many cousins, nieces and nephews. A funeral service was held last Thursday at Temple Israel of Great Neck, with burial following at Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens. Riverside-Nassau North Chapels made the arrangements.

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Former Nassau comptroller Howard Weitzman dies

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to accomplish in the short window that we had,” Harrington said, “and you compound that with the results of Covid, which have caused us to have to wait for a lot of orders and in some cases are still waiting for.” Classes started using the new science labs in September. Dr. Matthew Christiansen, the district’s director of science for grades kindergarten through 12, said, “The entire team from the district office all the way down to the teachers were really involved in making sure that these instructional spaces were what we wanted . . . We definitely wanted to make sure they were spaces that the teachers would enjoy and allow the students the ability to collaborate and work together to really meet their educational goals.” Biology teacher Maureen Bodkin said, “One of the things I say I love about teaching science is that it’s a collaborative subject, and I love a noisy classroom. I love when the kids are talking and working, and this setup really lends itself well to having that sort of educational collaboration, with the kids being able to talk to each other and the kids having easy access to the materials.”

tHe Classrooms Had not been upgraded in years. Samantha Weintraub was among Bodkin’s students who took classes in the old science classrooms. “Because there are four people at the table, you’re not screaming across the room to ask for help,” she said. “It’s nice to talk to people next to you.” “The science rooms have not been updated pretty much since the construction of the building,” Christiansen said. “A lot of the things were no longer working and becoming unusable space.” Construction was a two-year-long process.

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Hofstra’s first woman president is inaugurated By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com

Hofstra University inaugurated its ninth — and first woman — president on Oct. 1 in grand fashion. Dr. Susan Poser now leads the institution — she first assumed her duties on Aug. 1. This is Poser’s first foray into guiding a university as a president. She was previously the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois Chicago, a Carnegie Research One university with 16 colleges, including seven health science colleges and more than 35,000 students, from 2016 to 2021. Poser joins a tighter-knit community at Hofstra, with roughly 10,000 students. Poser succeeds Stuart Rabinowitz, who retired this year after serving as president for 20 years. Under his lead, the university grew to include schools of medicine, nursing and physician studies, engineering and government, putting Hofstra on the map as an internationally competitive institution. Celebrations leading up to the inauguration were held throughout the week in the form of symposia that looked toward the future of education at Hofstra. From “Building and Bridging Our Future Together” to “Innovative Experiential Learning Opportunities in Engineering and Computer Science,” each featured experts in their respective fields lending their advice to fellow professionals and students alike. A keynote address by New York Times columnist and best-selling author Charles Blow kicked off the week. Throughout her two months at her post so far, Poser has also made her presence known on campus. She has often been seen touring around, stopping to chat with groups of students. After the singing of the Hofstra alma mater “Blue and Gold” by the Inauguration Vocal Ensemble, as well as welcomes from several of the university’s student and faculty leaders, Poser was congratulated by three close friends and colleagues. “To me and many others, [Poser] has always been a light from which many have been lit — a shining light that no one would dare, or could, dim,” said Daniel Dawes, director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine and a professor of law, policy and management. Dawes is one of Poser’s former students. As a first-generation immigrant student at the University of Nebraska, Poser, then a professor, took Dawes under her wing, he said. He was a young, anxious student who was 1,400 miles from home, but felt welcomed and accepted by Poser in the intimidating environment of law school. “I, for one, am frankly jealous of you all, because you get to bask in the warm glow of her light,” Dawes said. “But I’m also immensely excited to watch Hofstra shine brighter than ever before.” Barbara Wilson began a new position at the University of Illinois around the same time that Poser did, and their careers flourished together. In 2016, Wilson became the executive vice president for academic affairs, and the two worked

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hand in hand over five years on academic affairs. This year, Wilson was named the president of the University of Iowa a short five months after Poser received her promotion at Hofstra. “During the time we were in these positions, we navigated some sticky state politics; we managed a financial crisis in the state of Illinois that underfunded higher education pretty significantly; we managed the onslaught of Covid-19 and the challenging racial and equity issues, particularly after the murder of George Floyd,” Wilson said. “It was not an easy time. “Everyone that worked with Susan could see that she was destined to be a president,” Wilson said. “There is no shortage of persons who want to be the president of a university,” said Harvey Perlman, a professor of law and former chancellor at the University of Nebraska. “My experience, however, tells me there is a much smaller number of persons who want to do president of a university. “You have chosen wisely,” Perlman told the Hofstra community. “You have a new president who wants to do president, not just be one.” In her address, Poser reflected on Hofstra’s history of independence and innovations in education and student relations. “What a time we are living in, and what a time for higher education,” Poser said. “The pleasure of our renewed togetherness is real, but it cannot mask the challenges ahead.” Before Covid, the challenges were already apparent, she said: There were fewer high school graduation expectancies, skepticism about the value of a college education and new world of students who have always lived in a digital environment. “How we address these changes over the coming years will determine Hofstra’s future and the future of our students,” Poser said. “The idea of the pandemic as a portal or gateway serves as a useful metaphor to frame the challenges that we in higher education have before us,” Poser added. “If the pandemic is a portal, how will Hof-

DR. SuSAN PoSER was inaugurated as the ninth and first female president of Hofstra University on Oct. 1. CloSE CollEAGuES of Poser’s spoke at the inauguration, including Harvey Perlman, former chancellor and law professor at the University of Nebraska.

stra walk through it? What will we take, and what will we leave behind? What world are we ready to fight for? What kind of university and community do we want to imagine on the other side?” At UIC, Poser oversaw many accomplishments, including the acquisition of the John Marshall Law School as the first and only public law school in Chicago. She also focused on supporting faculty and enhancing diversity through several initiatives, including the creation of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence. She played a key role in creating two new cultural centers on campus, one focused on Arab American students and another on students with disabilities. Before becoming provost at UIC, Poser was the dean of the College of Law at the University of Nebraska from 2010 to 2016, the associate to the chancellor from 2007 to 2010 and a law professor for more than 15 years. While dean, the College of Law moved up 35 points in the “U.S. News & World Report” rankings. Poser grew up in New York City and majored in ancient Greek at Swarthmore College, graduating with honors. She earned a law degree and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.

Before starting her academic career, she clerked for the Dolores Sloviter, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia and served as the Zicklin Fellow in Ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Poser is also a recently appointed member of the Long Island Association Board of Directors, which will allow her to further engage with the Long Island community. Poser is married to Dr. Stephen DiMagno, an organic medicinal chemist, and they have two adult daughters. “I am so optimistic that if we come together, with pride and purpose,” Poser said, “we can do these things. Hofstra is beautifully positioned as a university — small enough to offer every student the opportunity to know their professors, participate in a wide variety of activities and influence their surroundings, and large enough to offer an array of academic and career opportunity for undergraduate, graduate and professional students. If we have the commitment, the discipline and the energy, we will prosper as never before.”

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street and established as Christian Hook, a church school. In 1867, the church school was reorganized under the support of the Freeport Church. From that year, its minister, the Rev. Marcus Burr, would preach in the morning in Freeport and then walk four miles to Christian Hook to hold Sunday afternoon services. When the current church building was constructed in 1871, Burr left his position in Freeport to become the first minister of what the community referred to as “the little white church on the corner.” The church will host a dinner on Nov. 6 in the Fellowship Hall in its lower hall. On Nov. 6, parishioners will meet at the Freeport Church and drive the four miles in recognition of Burr’s walk ahead of their 150th anniversary dinner.

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and physical therapy and rehabilitation, he said. “A lot of families have put off coming to the skilled nursing facility after a stay at the hospital for fear that the nursing home has exposure and their loved one now, who was in the hospital, may be better off going home,” added Moritz, administrator at the Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation. Schumacher, director of business development at the Oyster Bay Senior Campus, noted that such fears have also extended to the assisted living world. At the height of the pandemic, she said, “unless there was a true crisis, families were holding off because of the fear of contracting Covid . . . in congregant living, but also the inability to visit their loved ones.” As the panelists reviewed the protocols in place at each of their facilities—whether they be for handling unvaccinated patients or those who have Covid, ensuring safe visits from family members, cleaning processes for high-touch surfaces, adapting social experiences for those in assisted living—the clearest takeaway was the importance of communication — of knowing where to go for the most current information and finding the right experts to ask. A replay of the Herald Inside LI webinar “Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe” is available now. You can find it at http:// www.richnerlive.com/insideli/.

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First Presbyterian ChurCh is Oceanside is celebrating a milestone this year. “The little white church on the corner” will turn 150 in early November.

Keeping our loved ones healthy and out of harm’s way— especially the senior members of our communities — has always been a priority, but perhaps never more so than during the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout this unprecedented time we’ve faced new challenges, constant changes and a perpetual wave of questions. So the Herald Inside LI webinar “Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe” brought together a panel of local experts on Sept. 30 to help find answers. The webinar was produced by RichnerLIVE and sponsored by Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, Emerge, Harbor House, Oyster Bay Manor and Glen Cove Hospital Northwell Health. Dr. John Colletta, Dr. Usman Khan, Madeleine Moritz, Melissa Schumacher and Erika Weber gathered virtually to share their insights and expertise on topics ranging from safety protocols in hospitals and emergency departments to special precautions for patients with dementia in skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers. “We understand that it causes a lot of anxiety for people to come” to the emergency department, Colletta, the Glen Cove Hospital Emergency Department chair. “What we have seen is people are holding off on their medical care. They’re just not going.” No one should put off a trip to the emergency room, or even a regular doctor’s visit

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Administrative Assistant

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For Cedarhurst Law Office

Malverne Union Free School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Franklin Square UFSD has the following positions available: part time SUbStitUte cleanerS neeDeD Various Shifts As Needed $18.25/Hour Experience A Plus But Not Required. if interested, please contact and email resume to our personnel Office at

APPLIANCE REPAIR TECHNICIAN F/T, Experience And Clean License A Must. Uniform And Truck Provided. Benefits Salary Based On Experience Call 516-764-7011

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CLERICAL: F/T, MONDAY-FRIDAY 9am-4:30pm, Benefits English / Spanish Speaking A MUST • Clients • m-Clients • Malverne • 42194 Malverne Richner Communications Mail-Order Pharmacy, Valley Stream. jcentrella@franklinsquare.k12.ny.us 3.125x 3" Richner Communications Fax Resume 516-561-6483

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CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSOCIATE Full or Part Time Richner Communications, a multi-media company based in Garden City, has an excellent opportunity for a customer service associate in our mailing and circulation department. Responsibilities include, computer input, data maintenance, customer service-phones and emails, and general office functions. Strong knowledge of Excel required. Knowledge of database maintenance and postal regulations a plus. Qualified candidates must be computer literate, dependable, organized, energetic, detail orientated and able to work well under deadlines. Please send Resume and Salary requirements to:

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LYNEER STAFFING SOLUTIONS Hiring Mail Sorters, Data Entry $15.00, Forklifts $17.50, Mystery Shoppers Ages 21-25 $20.00. 860 Long Island Ave., Deer Park NY 11729 631-586-4699 MARKETING ASSOCIATE needed to help build brand awareness and bring in new clients. Candidate must be skilled and experienced in digital and print marketing. Must be personal enough to meet with major retail company executives. Submit resume to Steven Greenberg, sgreenberg@thegreenberggroup.com

MERRICK BEFORE/AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM seeking mature individuals to supervise elementary school aged children from 2:45 pm to 5:00 or 6:00 pm weekdays. Experience helpful. If interested email merr ickbasp@aol.com or call (516)379-4245.

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Apply on-line today or download exam information at: https://www.cs.ny.gov/jobseeker/

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Leave Opening Fallsburg School District Mathematics Teacher

Fallsburg Jr/Sr High School is seeking a qualified math teacher to fill a high school leave replacement vacancy available immediately through Nov 29, 2021. Candidates from all New York regions are encouraged to apply as this position can be taught virtually from a remote setting. An experienced candidate may perform all duties of the job virtually through synchronous teaching. Salary: $105 to $125 per day, increases to $250 per day after 10 days

Open F/T & P/T Positions Experience Preferred Virtual Work Environment Make Money From Home Call For Confidential Interview 516-484-2999 Receiving, Shelf Restocking, Floor Sales And Checkout Needed For Liquor And Wine Store In Rockville Centre $14.00 To Start, Negotiable With Previous Experience Must Be Available For Evening And Day Shifts, Weekdays And Weekends. Must Have Good Math Skills, Neat Appearance And Be A Good Communicator

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Karen Elefante is a real estate agent affiliated with Compass. Compass is a licensed real estate broker and abides by equal housing opportunity laws.

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WOODMERE 10/10, 2-3:30, 4 CLUBSIDE Dr, Renovated 3 BR,3.5 Bth Townhouse in Cedar Glen. Updtd Gran/Wood EIK & Bths. HW Flrs. Fin Lower Level. Att Gar.Community Pool & Tennis.Near All. SD#14...$649,000, Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299

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VALLEY STREAM 10/10, 12pm-2pm, 74 Gibson 1B, FIRST TIME ON MARKET! Lovely 1 Bedroom Coop on First Floor. LR, DR, Kitchen & Bath. HW Flrs. Convenient to LIRR & Shops. SD#24...$199,000 Ronnie Gerber 516-238-4299

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REAL ESTATE SALESPERSONS WANTED

The Bellmore-Merrick Child Care Is Looking For Qualified Staff For The 2021-2022 School Year We Are Looking For: After-School Staff (2:30pm-5:30pm) 5 Days Per Week Competitive Pay With Paid Time Off

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Verdeschi & Walsh Realty 1025 W. Beech St. | Long Beach, NY

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Q. I hired a carpenter to rebuild my garage because it was rotted and leaning. The roof was OK, so we kept it, but all the walls were stripped away and replaced. In the middle of the job, an inspector showed up and stopped it, saying we needed a permit. I hired an architect, he made a plan and we filled in the permit. Now the plans have been rejected because, according to the inspector, they have to show fireproof walls and roof. That’s crazy! Nobody has that, so why am I being made to do this? It’s expensive, and I shouldn’t have to do it. I think they’re making me pay for starting with no permit, right? A. Not exactly, but you have to look at the big picture. You may feel like you’re getting burned, but the building code is actually named The Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code. Fire prevention is a primary reason that the building laws exist.

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In many cases, building departments allow onte eeper existing garages to have minor repairs without a permit, but only for things like replacing a garage door, a rotted section of wall base plate, shingles or siding, although you should always verify before starting. You described a near-complete rebuild, only saving the roof part of the garage, and your building official has determined that, beyond 50 percent change, the code for new buildings applies. Even though your zoning code allows a free-standing accessory structure to be 2 feet to 4 feet from a property line, depending on your community, garages that are closer than 5 feet to a property line must have materials that are rated to prevent flame spread for an hour.

This is especially important in places where there’s a volunteer fire department that must take the time to assemble from all over the community before even heading off to put out the flames. In that precious time, without flame-retardant materials, the structure may not just become completely engulfed, but also spread fire to adjacent houses and other structures. Unless you never catch the news, you can clearly see how vulnerable whole towns and cities are, and just because we don’t live next to a forest, the unthinkable can still happen. As for cost, aluminum siding, which actually still exists, may cost less, can be painted to match the house and lasts an average of 35 years. Fiber cement siding also does the job, but costs more. Other choices include stucco over cement board and steel panels, all more costly. Aluminum or cement board eaves, gutters and roofing are also required, and even though most of the home construction industry doesn’t read or know the regulations, the requirements still exist, and cost the most when they aren’t adhered to and the work has to be done twice. So don’t feel like you’re being singled out or being held to the fire. The rules exist for all of us. Good luck! © 2021 Monte Leeper Readers are encouraged to send questions to yourhousedr@aol.com, with “Herald question” in the subject line, or to Herald Homes, 2 Endo Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530, Attn: Monte Leeper, architect.

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ctober is a unique month. It’s time for apple picking, watching the trees change color and, if the weather permits, taking long car trips to interesting places. Depending on where you live, it’s also the time for candidates for public office to make their final arguments as to why you should vote for them on Nov. 2. And if you live in Nassau County and are a registered voter, you’re seeing that lastminute blitz to make sure you show up on Election Day. JERRY Unlike years when we elect a KREMER president, in politics this is considered an off year, with most of the campaigns involving candidates for local office. The biggest races in our county are for county executive, district attorney and comptroller. County Executive Laura Curran is favored to be re-elected, due to her professionalism and support from both political parties. That leaves the contests for district attorney and comptroller.

The hottest competition will be for the office of district attorney. Mailboxes all over the county are being flooded with materials promoting the candidacy of State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, and Anne Donnelly, a Republican and an assistant D.A. This one campaign could wind up costing the candidates as much as $6 million, and possibly more. Having once represented the South Shore of Nassau County in the State Assembly, I have gotten to know Todd Kaminsky, and have watched his political career rise rapidly. Our career paths are somewhat alike. I started out as a city attorney in Long Beach, and he started out as a federal prosecutor. I prosecuted local slumlords, and as a federal prosecutor he was given the opportunity to prosecute high-profile criminals. In my late 20s, I got a chance to run for the State Assembly, and he got his opening to run for the State Senate. To the benefit of Long Island taxpayers, Kaminsky has been a hard-working legislator who has been a leader on criminal and environmental issues. He was the principal sponsor of a law to take pen-

sions away from corrupt elected officials. He has gotten tougher drunken-driving laws and battled opioid manufacturers and doctors who dispense drugs too freely. During my time in Albany, I passed many laws in similar areas, and like Kaminsky was the leader of the Long Island legislative delegation in Albany. I applauded his decision to run for district attorney, because he has been a strong voice on so many issues of concern to the public. The State Senate leaders turn to him for advice on criminal and environmental law issues. He is responsible for the $3 billion environmental cleanup bond that will be on the ballot in 2022. Donnelly, who claims that Kaminsky was the “author” of the bailreform law, has criticized him. I know for a fact that he was not its author, and he has battled his own party on this issue. Politics is a tough and unforgiving business. If you stay in one elected position for a long period of time, you are accused of being part of the “establishment.” If you run for higher office a few years after getting elected to a different job, you are accused of being too “ambi-

eciding who leads Nassau County is a great reason to go to the polls next month.

tious.” I had the chance to run for statewide office twice, but a family tragedy prevented that from happening. I know Kaminsky’s opponent to be a long-term veteran of the D.A.’s office. In the end, it will be up to the voters to decide whom they want for district attorney. There is another countywide contest on the ballot, for the important job of county comptroller. While the public focus has been on the D.A.’s race, the job of keeping an eye on taxpayers’ money is also crucial. Former Republican State Sen. Elaine Phillips is challenging Democrat Ryan Cronin for that position. I have worked with Phillips, and found her to be an excellent public official. This will be another important choice for Nassau County voters. I hope they won’t decide to skip this year’s election, because any election, whether for dogcatcher or president, is important. If you stay home on Election Day, you get the kind of government you deserve. Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.

Really, what’s up with the whole world?

ave you noticed that the seams don’t meet the right way and the doorjamb is wobbly? Our house is unstable. The beams of this great edifice called America are slightly off plumb in a number of disturbing ways.Nothing at all is exactly as it was before the pandemic overwhelmed the United States. In small ways and profound ways, cultural and political forces are impeding the ordinary progression of life in America. But then, what’s ordinary? Most of us have given up RANDI on the concept of KREISS going back to “normal,” and what passes for normal these days is disquieting. It isn’t just the pandemic, as if one could write off a highly infectious novel virus that swept around the world, killing 700,000 people here at home. It is how the pandemic was handled from the time it was discovered, then covered up, then ignored, then addressed with inoculation and medical efforts that ranged from inadequate to state-of-the-art medicine. I just checked in to the CDC website and

saw that they have now broken-down categories of information into: What We Know and What We Are Still Learning. That’s good. The fact that there is a learning curve in science seems to have challenged the efficacy of the coronavirus vaccines, which by any reasonable account have been remarkably successful in saving lives. We are in a world where scientists are vilified for not having all the answers, the president is begging and bribing folks to take a shot that will keep them out of the hospital, and large swaths of people are bonding online and deciding that it is safer to throw away our protective masks, refuse the vaccine and embrace bizarre and debunked remedies for this deadly disease. With some few exceptions, there is no excuse for refusing a mask and a vaccine. Using horse de-wormer instead of monoclonal antibodies? It’s kind of like what Justice Potter Stewart said of pornography: I know crazy when I see it. The problem is that those of us who have followed the science and had the vaccine, and perhaps the booster, by now can feel safe, but not completely safe. If we have young children or grandchildren, we

see those who refuse the vaccine as a direct threat to the health of our family. As we re-emerge into the world, the places we go are all changed. How did the “office” disappear in two years? Transportation is different from what it was, with some mask rules and some vaccine requirements on planes and trains. Some travel, like cruises, requires not just the time and money, but a willing suspension of disbelief. If you can’t bear cooking one more meal at home and venture out, chances are the server and possibly the chef are new hires. The workforce is sliced and diced, and not many people are fully trained for the jobs they are doing. If you talk to a friend of the heart for more than hi-and-how-are-you, chances are you’ll get into your mutual stress levels and anxiety. The psychiatrists don’t have enough hours for the people who need help, because we all need some help right now. If you live in a community or apartment building of some kind, then you know about improvement projects being delayed because the painter shows up but there’s no paint. My son finally got his

he places we go are all changed. How did the ‘office’ disappear in two years?

new roof, but the roofer had no gutters to install. Costco is out of toilet paper again. There are people who don’t have enough food, who can’t get to work, who have no health care and who don’t have proper shelter. We are living in a country that desperately needs new bridges and tunnels and roads. There is a good a plan to rebuild and, at this moment, it may not get passed by Congress. Not because we don’t need it. Not because most Americans don’t support it. But because the government is paralyzed by partisanship and ignorance and fear. This morning I read in The Washington Post that in Anchorage, Alaska, people attended a public hearing on mask wearing with yellow Stars of David on their arms, equating the mask requirement to Nazi-era restrictions on Jews in Germany that led to the Holocaust and the death of some 6 million people. I am worried for us. Most disturbing is the elevation of lies for personal and political gain. For me, there is some comfort in bearing witness to this time. We must keep talking and writing, acknowledging the losses and summoning the strength to tighten the floor joists and secure the roof. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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ispanics are Nassau County’s fastest-growing ethnic population, County Executive Laura Curran noted in mid-September, the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated each year since 1988, and before that as Hispanic Heritage Week, beginning in 1968. From Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, we recognize the many rich cultural and economic contributions of Hispanic people to the United States. The celebration was first signed into law as a week by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, and expanded to a month by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. In 2016, the Herald explored Hispanic immigration to our region in a series, “The Changing Face of Long Island,” and we wrote this in a December editorial that year: “There is much talk about how Long Islanders are leaving for elsewhere because of the high cost of living. The Island, however, actually saw a net gain in population because of immigration. Suffolk’s population remained largely unchanged between 2000 and 2012, while Nassau’s increased by roughly 78,500 people, according to census data. “Immigrants have been arriving on Long Island for more than six decades, but the pace of immigration has accelerated within the last 10 years, with an average of 20,000 Long Island immigrants annually receiving citizenship. “Immigrants, it appears, are bypassing the big cities and settling in the suburbs. That’s a good thing for Long Island.” We should now add this: There is a false impression that most Hispanics are immigrants. While that might have once been true, it no longer is. Most Hispanics in the

United States were born here and are American citizens, having become deeply ingrained in the fabric of American society. According to the New American Economy Research Fund, a bipartisan, nonprofit immigration advocacy group, there are 58.8 million Hispanic Americans in the U.S. Just over two-thirds of them — or 39.2 million — were born here, while 19.6 million were born outside the country. Combined, Hispanic immigrants and U.S.-born Hispanics now comprise 18.1 percent of the U.S. population. By 2050, the Hispanic population in the U.S. is expected to double, to 106 million, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates. In 2017, Hispanic households earned more than $1 trillion and paid some $252.2 billion in taxes, including $165.9 billion in federal income taxes and $86.3 billion in state and local taxes, the NEA Research Fund found. At the same time, today’s most recently arrived Hispanic immigrants are better educated than those who landed here only a decade ago. Between 2005 and 2010, only 15.1 percent of Hispanic immigrants held a bachelor’s degree. Between 2012 and 2017, 28.5 percent did, roughly in line with the overall U.S. population. Despite all of this, Hispanics are frequent targets of discrimination. A recent report by the Hispanic Marketing Council noted, “Fifty-five percent (but only 15 percent of non-Hispanics) said Latinos encounter frequent discrimination, while 67 percent of Hispanics strongly or somewhat agree that as a group they are discriminated against more than other ethnic minorities.” In particular, we must recognize that

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America’s Hispanic population is not monolithic — it is diverse, with a variety of cultures according to people’s countries of origin. A Mexican American, an Argentine American and a Dominican American might share the same Spanish language, but their cultures of origin are very different. We saw the issue recently play out in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of his Broadway sensation “In the Heights,” a musical that speaks to the hopes and dreams of Hispanic people living in the close-knit New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights, overlooking the Hudson River, in view of the George Washington Bridge. The film, released on HBO Max, was widely praised for its artistry, but criticized because it failed to include darkskinned Afro-Latinos, who comprise a significant portion of Washington Heights’s actual population, among the film’s leading characters. That is, the film treated Hispanics as members of a single culture. Miranda took to Twitter to acknowledge the psychic pain the film may have caused, writing, “I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism, of feeling still unseen in the feedback … Without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy. In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short.” There is a lesson here that all of us can take away: We must see Hispanic Americans as individuals, each with his or her own heritage that contributes to the American landscape, including here in Nassau County, one of the most diverse places in the nation.

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lthough I was raised in the United States as a Hispanic immigrant, born to immigrant parents, I have long been blasé about Hispanic Heritage Month. As a kid, I would stare curiously at the school calendar marking this month-long celebration and shrug it off as just another quirky, throwaway American holiday, like Groundhog Day or National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. Interesting to some, peculiar to many, and something that I didn’t particularly care for. JUAn Perhaps it was the odd proposiLAsso tion that somehow, some way, you could condense the cultures and national histories of more than 600 million people under a catchall term like “Hispanic heritage.” It’s true that there is some measure of shared experience, some invisible thread linking us Hispanics (for lack of a better term) together in this country we call home. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend the better part of my young adult life standing shoulder to shoulder with a diverse crowd of Hispanic community leaders and intellectuals, including academics, student leaders, attorneys and a

legislator. Each of these movers and shakers, with his or her own story and cultural identity, is proudly committed to improving the lives of fellow Hispanic Americans. So you would think that, over the years, I would have shed my small-minded childhood indifference and come to have a deeper appreciation, even love, for this time to recognize the contributions of Hispanic Americans. But I haven’t. I still don’t relish this special month. I don’t have anything against Hispanic Heritage Month. I simply don’t understand the meaning of the term “Hispanic heritage.” The conventional definition of “Hispanic” is broad enough to encompass people who trace their roots to Latin America and Spain. The term came into wide use in the 1970s, when there were issues with the U.S. census, and Hispanic organizations and leaders sought a term to identify the growing minority residing coast to coast. Hispanic was chosen as an imperfect but useful messenger to signal to those in the halls of power, and to neighborhoods across the U.S., that we were here, too, we mattered, and we were here to stay. So this celebration, too, was a push for such visibility and inclusion. The month

he term leaves the misguided impression that we have a fully integrated history.

Letters inflicted on them. The funds we are infusing into New York today and going forward will be used to invest in prevention, treatment and recovery. While no amount of money will ever compensate for the millions of addictions, the hundreds of thousands of deaths or the countless families torn apart by opioids, this money will be vital in preventing future devastation. Opioid manufacturers and distributors were responsible for heavily marketing opioids to doctors, hospitals, health-care systems and others, which led to the over-prescription of the drugs across New York and the rest of the nation over the last two decades. The manufacturers included in our state lawsuit include Purdue Pharma and its affiliates, as well as members of the Sackler family (owners of Purdue) and the trusts they control; Janssen Pharmaceuticals and its affiliates (including its parent company, Johnson & Johnson); Mallinckrodt LLC and its affiliates; Endo Health Solutions and its affiliates; Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and its affiliates; and Allergan Finance LLC and its affiliates. The distributors named in the complaint were McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health Inc., Amerisource Bergen Drug Corporation

was intended to validate the reality that we Hispanic Americans have, since the beginning of America’s founding, added to the rich and diverse tapestry of the democratic experiment, anchoring us as members of the American popular concept of “the people.” As President Lyndon Johnson declared, “The people of Hispanic descent are the heirs of missionaries, captains, soldiers and farmers who were motivated by a young spirit of adventure, and a desire to settle freely in a free land … This heritage is ours.” And yes, that much is true. Hispanics have fought and continue to fight in the nation’s wars, contribute to its art and culture, and sit in the highest offices of political power as proud citizens and servants. But when examined more closely, the term “Hispanic heritage” brings with it a mess of ambiguity and confusion. The term leaves the misguided impression that Latin America has a single, fully integrated history tracing its beginnings to Spanish and European colonialism. Using this as the starting point for our story overshadows the bigger picture. Multitudes of people from Europe, Africa and Asia collided with multitudes of others from pre-Columbian societies, not knowing that they would be caught in a

whirlwind of encounters, battles and unions that would dynamically entangle different people from vastly different regions and histories. This, in turn, sowed the seeds for cultural innovation and diffusion that would sprout into modern-day countries and societies unlike anything the world has ever seen. Latin America, therefore, has no definitive maker’s mark etched into its diverse past, no single heritage. For the sake of becoming a distinct, recognizable cohort in American demographics, we have regrettably traded away a part of reality we so-called “Hispanics” understand all too well but often fail to articulate. We are not one singular, panethnic group. According to Pew Research, most Hispanics prefer to use their country of origin to identify themselves. Yet despite my serious qualms, I do now see the wisdom in devoting a monthlong celebration to exploring the unique complexity of our Latin American identities, and celebrating Hispanics who have and continue to serve the U.S. as one nation, one people, yet with feet still firmly planted in the pride and love of their distinct cultural histories. All that I’d recommend is that if Americans are to get the most out of this month-long celebration, they start to think of us beyond the term “Hispanic.” Juan Lasso is editor of the Valley Stream Herald.

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Is congestion pricing the answer? To the Editor: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s proposed congestion price tolling is politically sensitive. Congestion pricing may not kick in until January 2023. Final details of who will pay still need to be established. Elected officials will lobby for discounts or exemptions for police officers, firefighters, teachers, low-income workers, outerborough New York City residents, seniors, the physically disabled, small commercial delivery drivers, users of electric vehicles or other special niches. These discounts or exemptions will likely be adopted to placate the constituents of elected officials running for reelection in 2021 or 2022. You can’t capture five years of toll revenues, estimated to be $1 billion per year (leveraged to raise $15 billion in support of MTA’s $51

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