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Castleton science teacher James Scannell showed off the outdoor research center’s many unique features, including the raised outdoor ponds, and this curious kindergartner got a chance to see the turtles.

The future is greener for Oceanside students

School district opens new outdoor research center

By KEPHERD DANIEL kdaniel@liherald.com

The Oceanside School District cut the ribbon on its brand new Outdoor Research Center, called “ORCA,” in the arboretum on Oct. 6.

Since October 2020, students from Oceanside High School Castleton, the district’s alternative high school, have worked with their

teachers to create a unique outdoor learning center that sits adjacent to the district office parking lot. The community pitched in to get the center ready, with residents volunteering to help weed, plant and mulch. Oceanside Sanitation donated tree stumps.

“This has been a g roundbreaking, remarkable moment for us,” Castleton PrinContinued on page 27

There’s no place like Oceanside and Island Park — but you don’t need us to tell you that.

Whether you hail from Oceanside or Island Park, both communities are places worth being immensely proud of.

Both are communities with much to offer, including outstanding recreation. Tee off at the Middle Bay Golf Course or go for a walk on Masone Beach.

In Oceanside and Island Park, there’s something for everyone.

Residents of the neighboring towns come together in times of need, because they want the best for not only themselves and their families, but also for the people around them — their neighbors, their children and their friends.

The Oceanside/ Island Park Herald is your community newspaper. There is no other publication or news outlet that knows these neighborhoods, the people and the things they care about, better than we do. We are there for you in the best of times and the worst of times — no matter what.

This week’s Herald is being mailed to every home in both communities, and includes a copy of our popular annual magazine, Living In Oceanside and Island Park. It’s filled with great information you can use throughout the year, and it features the many acts of kindness that make Oceanside and Island

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Oceanside Fire Department’s held its Fire Prevention Day at the at Fireman’s Field on Sunday. Residents young and old met with firefighters and kids had blast the friendly faces to run towards if a fire occurs.

It was also a chance for the depart-

ment to recruit potential volunteer fire fighters and explain the numerous other benefits such as learning life saving information during training, pensions programs and life insurance.

— Kepherd Daniel

The department showed what needs to be done to take a car apart after an accident to save the people inside.

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Fire Prevention Day in Oceanside gave residents a demonstration on operating the water hose.

Fire fighter demonstrated what to do in the event of a propane tank leak.

Future fire fighter Valentino Concepcion, 2 of Island Park enjoyed the department fire truck.

Oceanside Fire Department showed what a day in the life is like of a fire fighter.

The crowd looked on as the department gave the car fire demonstration.

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Oceanside library takes a wine tasting trip In addition to exploring wineries, wine tasting, having lunch, and a stop at Briermere Farms, a day out of the Library with a focus on the importance of books, was a great way for staff and patrons to enhance their local library experience.

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Oceanside Library patrons enjoyed a bus trip a to Pindar and Duck Walk vineyards. Head of Adult Services and Information Librarian Nadine Buccilli and Head of Adult Programming and Community Outreach Debbie Keehner kept everyone engaged with “Banned Book” games, discussions, and raffles.

Library patrons had a blast on their wine tasting bus trip.

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It was a great day for a taste of wine.

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By DAVID PATALANO sports@liherald.com

WILL TOLLIVER Carey Senior Football WELL ON HIS way to a third straight All-County football season, Tolliver had a career night Sept. 22 while leading the Seahawks to a 41-29 victory at Long Beach. He scored five touchdowns, four rushing and one on special teams as Carey completed the first half of its Conference II schedule undefeated. Tolliver had touchdown runs covering 56, 5, 5 and 2 yards and capped his memorable performance with a 27-yard blocked punt return for a score.

GAMES TO WATCH Thursday, Oct. 12 Girls Volleyball: Lawrence at Clarke ........................... 5 p.m.

Football: Calhoun at MacArthur ................................ 6 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 13 Girls Volleyball: North Shore at Oceanside ................ 5 p.m.

Football: Farmingdale at Oceanside ......................... 6 p.m.

Football: Lynbrook at South Side .............................. 6 p.m.

Football: Kennedy at Hewlett .................................... 6 p.m.

Football: North Shore at West Hempstead ...........6:30 p.m.

Football: Uniondale at V.S. Central ............................ 7 p.m.

Football: C.S. Harbor at Malverne ............................. 7 p.m.

Football: New Hyde Park at Long Beach ................... 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 14 Boys Volleyball: Mepham at Long Beach............11:45 a.m.

Boys Volleyball: South Side at Garden City ........11:45 a.m.

Football: Syosset at Freeport..................................... 2 p.m.

Football: V.S. South at Seaford.................................. 2 p.m.

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

Football: Floral Park at Wantagh................................ 3 p.m.

Football: East Rockaway at Locust Valley .................. 3 p.m.

Football: Mepham at Manhasset .............................. 2 p.m.

Football: Wantagh at Lynbrook .................................. 2 p.m.

Football: Long Beach at Sewanhaka......................... 2 p.m.

Football: Elmont at New Hyde Park ........................... 2 p.m.

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Oceanside’s boys’ soccer team has had its share of ups and downs so far as it reaches the midway point of the season.

The Sailors currently sit in ninth place in the conference at 3-3-1, but coach Patrick Turk believes that the team has yet to reach its full potential.

“We don’t really feel like the losses represent what the team is capable of and who we are,” Turk said. “We can do things a little bit better and we can compete with anybody. We’ve just had momentary lapses that have caused our three losses, but we have not been straight up beaten. It’s been quite a rollercoaster over the season.”

Oceanside is coming off of a 4-0 win over Academy Charter on senior night, which hopes to give the team momentum and point them in the right direction.

“We were able to get all our seniors in so anytime that happens, it’s obviously a great pleasure as a coach,” Turk said.

“From there, we’re feeling good as a team going into a tough week.”

Leading the Sailors in goals is Giacomo Vacchio with eight. He has been on a roll after finding the back of the net in the second game in the season and scored two in the last game. Behind Vacchio with three goals is Sean Mahoney. Joe Zweben has been rock solid in goal so far, recording 46 saves in the team’s seven games.

Derek Gromling and Jesse Cohen have made their presence known this season with creating the primary assists on a handful of goals.

Parker Roth, who also scored against Academy Charter, Anthony Picillo, and Luke Brosakas have also been impactful on the score sheet. Aidan Guchek has been a very solid defender in 2023 while Tyler DiCiantis has been a breakout player. “[DeCiantis] is our utilityman, he’s been, um, finding success in each spot we put him in,” Turk said. “He’s so dangerous in the middle. If you, if you were to ask him, he would tell you he really enjoys playing midfield but we can deploy him in anyway we need. He can play up

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Sean Mahoney and the Sailors are looking to finish strong and earn a playoff berth after an up-and-down 3-3-1 start. top, in the back and in the midfield.”

Oceanside’s next two games include matchups against Port Washington and then a trip to Plainview.

“We want to take it to Plainview. We feel like we owe them after they got us in the counties last year, but, we’re going to take it one game at a time,” Turk said.

“Our goal is at the end of the season to qualify for the playoffs and we want a

good seed. We’re just trying to climb up and we’re correcting the mistakes we have made in the past. It’s super encouraging, not just as a player, but as a coach to, to know that we were in it with every team.”

The path to the playoffs is right there for the Sailors. If they play to their potential, they very well could find themselves in another deep postseason run.

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Mount Sinai celebrates intensive care workers cream.

Mount Sinai South Nassau staff, families and children were decorated picture frames, pumpkins, and painted stained-glass leave sun catchers, while listening to live music. Some children served as magician assistants, giggling to the tricks and having fun while being amazed.

In between the fun and food, families and children were thrilled by Steppin Out Ponies and Petting Zoo, feeding and petting the ponies, goats, sheep, and baby alpacas: Stewie and Harvey, as well as rabbits and ducks.

Mount Sinai South Nassau’s New Beginnings Center has a “five-star” rat-

ing for patient safety and quality care from Healthgrades. The program features 26 private family and newborn rooms with first-class hotel-like accommodations, spacious labor and delivery rooms, and a six-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The unit is equipped with dedicated medical technologies and staffed by board-certified neonatologists and specially trained registered nurses.

For mothers requiring a cesarean section delivery, the program has a dedicated state-of-the-art surgical suite to ensure that they experience a model of family-centered care.

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Layla Carey feeds Stewie the Alpaca.

Dees’ Nursery earns $17,000 from PSEG Long Island A fixture in Oceanside for more than 60 years, Dees’ recently replaced its inefficient lighting with LEDs, which earned the business $17,100 in rebates from PSEG Long Island.

“We are very happy that we teamed up with PSEG Long Island to change our inefficient lighting fixtures to LED fixtures,” said Joseph DiDominica, owner of Dees’ Nursery and Florist. “Not only does the lighting provide more illumination throughout our store, but we are also saving on our monthly energy costs. PSEG Long Island’s rebates have made our decision a ‘no brainer’ for our business”

PSEG Long Island congratulated Dees’ Nursery and Florist for earning significant financial savings with the installation of energy-efficient lighting throughout its nursery buildings.

“We’re proud to support Dees’ Nursery and Florist’s commitment to saving energy and the environment by making upgrades in its buildings,” said Michael Voltz, director of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for PSEG Long Island.

“Replacing the lighting is a small change a business can make that will save money and energy.

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From left are Michael Voltz and Steve Veccia of PSEG Long Island, Joseph DiDominica of Dees’ Nursery and Andrew Cacioppo, also of PSEG Long Island.

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OCEANSIDE/ISLAND PARK HERALD — October 12, 2023

There was so much fun, love, and laughter that not even a steady rain could put a damper on Mount Sinai South Nassau’s second annual Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Reunion held recently at the hospital’s administrative campus in Hicksville.

Children and their families enjoyed a wonderful afternoon filled with fun activities, great food, sweet treats, and adorable animals. The celebration included arts and crafts, a visit with Chase from Paw Patrol, a magic show, and live music. There was plenty of food and tasty sugary treats for everyone, including pizza, chicken meals, and wraps as well as donuts and ice

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Oceanside gets ‘Smart’ about social media

By KEPHERD DANIEL

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Oceanside School District is looking to get parents up to speed with how their kids are using social media and they have started by introducing parents to Smart Social.

Smart Social is a website and app that helps keep students safe on social media.

The app’s goal is to help students avoid social media mishaps by teaching them to use social media with a purpose and make a plan. The app provides access to free resources, including expert tips and app guides. Smart Social also offers a webinar that provides access to over 30 workshops that teach online safety.

The app has a strong presence in school districts on the West Coast and Oceanside is among the few districts that have started offering smart social services to parents school officials anticipate the app’s popularity to grow.

“We’re always looking for ways to support our students and our families and navigate the world of social media and being their best selves,” said Diane Provvido, Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction and Research.

The District has rolled out the implementation of the app through the Parent University. Parent University is a collaboration of administrators, faculty members, and parents. The program offers parents, workshops and seminars that cover a wide range of parenting topics.

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Oceanside School District is taking the smart approach to Internet safety to keep students safe.

Parent University implemented a community survey to gauge the topics that parents were interested in learning more about. One of the topics that was highly voted on was how parents could help students harness the powers of social media.

“When this came to us, we knew that it would meet the survey results that there are parents a good portion of our parents who are looking for more information on this topic,” Provvido said.

Every family in Oceanside has the opportunity to register and have a membership on the Smart Social site. Over 500

families have already registered. The district’s goal is to get as many parents registered to have access to the site’s materials and the live webinars. The district hopes to get feedback on smart social through PTA meetings and find the best videos to promote the specific school communities.

“The district really heard what we were and what parents needed,” said Oceanside parent Lori Dawson. “I know for myself, I’ve watched a couple of videos and it’s teaching me how to use these apps so that I know what my kids are looking for and we can have that healthy balance

of screen time and enjoy it together as a family.”

In Oceanside, all students have a smart device available to them. Kindergarteners and 7th and 8th graders are issued iPads.

High school students and students in grades one through six are issued a Chrome book.

“If they didn’t have a device already at home, they have one in school, so it’s not going away,” said Oceanside school board member, Laura Lisi. “It’s not going away so we have to figure out how to make the best of it and embrace it.”

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Mullaney: Leadership starts with just listening

By BRENDAN CARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com

Patrick Mullaney spent his entire life as a registered Democrat. But he hopes voters will send him to Mineola to represent them on the Nassau County Legislature not as a Democrat, but instead as a Republican.

Why? Mullaney wants to promote conversation and unity — on both sides.

“There’s a gap that needs to be bridged,” Mullaney told reporters as part of a recent Herald Roundtable session.

“I know it’s in politics and government, but I believe that gap transcends that, and is heavily in society.”

Mullaney has lived in Long Beach for the past 30 years, involved in a number of community organizations— all while a member of the New York City Fire Department, where he is now a special ops lieutenant.

This is his first real experience politically, but Mullaney says that’s a good thing: It allows him to come in fresh, new, and more relatable.

“I think coming into politics from a fresh perspective can sometimes be a benefit,” he said. “Now you’re coming at it from a fresh angle — more of a constituent point of view, rather than somebody who’s been involved. I think it’s a nice combination that puts me in a unique spot to make a difference, and to make an impact.”

Something Mullaney would want to tackle as a legislator is holding the line on taxes for the people he would represent in Long Beach, Oceanside, Island Park, Atlantic Beach, East Atlantic Beach and Lido Beach. The one downside of not coming from a political background is he hasn’t had the opportunity to “really sit down and see” the county budget in full. He can only see it as any of the rest of us could.

Yet, that also gives him insight, Mullaney said. Living day-to-day outside of the government sphere allows him to see first-hand how hard it is to live in Long Beach

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Patrick Mullaney doesn’t have a storied career in politics, which he says will help him see things from the point of because of the costs. He believes the current administration led by Bruce Blakeman has done a nice job of not raising county taxes, but that Long Island is still becoming pretty tough to live on.

But Mullaney isn’t a fan of Equinor’s offshore wind project, which would construct wind turbines miles offshore as a way of generating electricity for the region.

Still, he isn’t totally against it, either. For now, however, Equinor needs to be put on hold until the company does a better job of addressing negative perspectives on the project.

“It needs to be discussed more,” Mullaney said. “They haven’t said anything to sway people. So, until it comes back further in the middle between good and bad, I’m against it.”

Mullaney also advocates for more police resources to

create better community relations, and more officers walking beats instead of simply driving through them.

He wants more forums between the departments and the community members they protect, but he also wants officers to just be able to walk up to someone and chat with them more.

Mullaney also wants to focus on hate crimes — especially those of an antisemitic nature through words and graffiti.

“We need to continue on the trend that we’re on (of condemning such acts) and keep it in the forefront of people’s minds,” he said. “If someone don’t fall in a particular category that they think could make them a victim of hate crime, they may not think about it. But if you keep reminding people that it does exist, you potentially increase their sensitivity.

“We need to couple that with promoting much more communication on it.”

Beyond all that, Mullaney wants to address overdevelopment and affordable housing. Most of his experience is with Long Beach, but he has seen around the island that changes need to happen.

“The needs of Rockville Centre or Manhasset versus the needs of Long Beach are very different, because they’re very different communities,” Mullaney said. “We definitely need affordable housing. I have two kids, and my parents just had to move in with my wife and I … because they just couldn’t afford their home anymore. It’s definitely something that has to be addressed.”

“Your number one job is to listen to people,” Mullaney said, “and get back to them.”

Pace ready to continue being county’s advocate

By BRENDAN CARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com

Alexis Pace wouldn’t say she has had the longest career in politics. She would say, however, that she’s been a community advocate for quite some time.

And that’s all thanks to Pace’s daughter. Without her, Pace says she wouldn’t be where she is today — running for a seat with the Nassau County Legislature.

Pace’s daughter was born with Down syndrome, and when it was time for her to start school, the family faced some resistance. Pace had to be her daughter’s numberone advocate, which ultimately taught her a lot.

“She showed me how to really fight for people who don’t have a voice,” Pace said. “My daughter literally can’t speak. What that means for families is I know how intimidating it can be when you have the world or things stacked against you, and you need somebody to be able to be a strong, fierce advocate.”

She doesn’t want people to think she’s just a special needs advocate, though.

Pace has been on numerous school boards, including as co-president of the Special Education PTA, and vice president of the Central Council PTA. She has been on the Long Beach school board since 2021. Working through these groups has given her insight into what exactly she wants to address in Mineola.

“The inequities that I saw really motivated me to take a step further,” Pace said. “I’m always looking to fill gaps, be a community advocate, and be the voice of people that just don’t have one. I would say that’s the best way to describe who I am as a person.”

A lot of that starts with millions of dollars of Covid-19 relief money that had been earmarked for Nassau County. Some funding has gone out, but not among the communities Pace hopes she’ll have a chance to represent.

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Alexis Pace says learning to be her daughter’s full-time advocate has prepared her to be Nassau County’s advocate as well.

Biking in and around Long Beach, East Atlantic Beach, Atlantic Beach and Lido Beach rivals driving as the main form of transportation. Biking is these areas can be a tad tricky — and dangerous — since a lot of the lanes are on the sides of the streets, except for the Long Beach boardwalk.

Pace wants to work on expanding the areas for bikers, and making them safer.

“When I say bike lanes, I don’t mean taking away lanes of traffic,” she said, “but specifically working on making our area more comfortable for bikers and for walkers.”

As a school board member, Pace has seen how many middle and high school students live too close to their respective schools to get a bus. So, they walk or ride in the mornings and afternoons, which in turn has created significant safety issues since current traffic patterns don’t

necessarily support pedestrian-friendly travel.

She also has an eye on safety and policing. She would like to see more police officers hired, but also more emphasis on addressing their mental health — especially after working so many hours during the pandemic when most everyone else was inside.

Additionally, for nearly the past year entirely, Equinor, Empire Wind and alternative energy has been a backand-forth discussion — and sometimes argument. A plan was made to build giant wind turbines off the coast of Long Beach that would bring power for those living in its wake. There are people for it and against many parts of it — like cables running under streets — if they’re not against the project altogether.

Pace’s big thing? How details are getting out.

“I immediately identified that there were some serious issues with the way the information was being shared with the public,” she said. “When you have a project of this magnitude that is going to be so different than what people are accustomed to, no matter what, it causes some level of fear, questioning and anxiety. It’s just human nature.”

Her issue with the way it has been rolled out is that without the input from Equinor and some of the other key people that can be objective, it has allowed so much noise on each side, completely politicizing the topic. It is no longer, in her estimation, about the project anymore, but about people’s agendas — which she is adamantly against.

Pace is running for Denise Ford’s seat, and commends the long-time public figure’s advocacy for regular breast cancer screenings and mammography vans in and around Long Beach. Pace was diagnosed with breast cancer last October and had her mastectomy a month later.

Her one-year anniversary of the surgery? Election Day, Nov. 7.

Thousands expected for breast cancer walk A wave of pink will wash over the South Shore this weekend, bringing awareness to breast cancer.

Jones beach will see thousands walking for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer on Sunday. Hosted by the American Cancer Society and presented by Teachers Federal Credit Union, the walk is anticipated to be one of the biggest in the country, expected to attract more than 60,000 participants, raising more than $2 million.

According to Katie Schafer, executive director for the Long Island region of the non-profit organization.

“It really just brings together all walks of life here on Long Island,” said Katie Schafer, executive director for the cancer society’s local region.

The event, celebrating its 30th anniversary, sees all sorts of participants come together to raise awareness and fund research for breast cancer. Companies, families and cancer survivors all unite to make a difference at Jones Beach, Schafer said, because the disease is all too familiar.

“Everyone you talk to knows somebody who has been diagnosed with breast cancer,” she said.

Joanne Ameruoso is someone who knows all too well. Her grandmother, aunt and mother all died from breast

cancer. The Merrick resident was angry after her mother’s death in 2013 because her mom refused to seek treatment and did not tell her about the disease until a few days before she died.

“My mom passed away from breast cancer because she was afraid of it so much that she chose to ignore it when she discovered it.” Ameruoso said.

K n o w i n g h e r f a m i l y h i s t o r y, Ameruoso sought to get genetic testing.

She was negative for the BRCA gene, which puts women at a much higher risk. But when her doctor told her she was a ticking time bomb due to her family history, Ameruoso took preventive measures.

“I’m not going to be another victim of this breast cancer,” she said.

Ameruoso underwent a double mastectomy in 2016. In the process, she learned she had Lynch syndrome, an inherited genetic disorder that increases risk for several cancers, including stomach, colon, liver, brain, skin and endometrial. Acting early showed Ameruoso how important it is to get screened and research family genetics.

“We have to stay educated,” she said, “because, God forbid, you find out when it’s too late.”

Ameruoso has been an advocate for breast cancer awareness for more than 20 years now. She has participated in breast cancer walks and even wrote a memoir, “Faith Over Fear,” about how

Walkers place tokens on the turning point fence at last year’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk.

More than $2 million is expected to be raised for this year’s walk, taking place on Jones Beach.

Courtesy Katie Schafer

her mom’s fear of breast cancer became her fight. The book — written while she was coping with her mother’s death — aimed to help women overcome the fear associated with cancer.

For Ameruoso, it is important to be proactive in raising awareness.

“This is a time for us to come together and really show the people working behind the scenes all year long to continue the fight against breast cancer and all cancers,” she said.

Breast cancer walks have made significant monetary contributions to

research and breakthroughs for treatment medications such as tamoxifen and trastuzumab, more commonly known by its brand, Herceptin.

“Since 1993, we’ve seen a 42 percent reduction in cancer mortality,” Schafer said. “And that is just because of walks like these.”

The Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk at Jones Beach will take place at Field 5, with a rolling start between 7 and 10 a.m.

For more information — and to register — visit ACSEvents.org.

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Jackson determined to stop Long Island ‘exodus’

By BEN FIEBERT bfiebert@liherald.com

Ben Jackson is not only concerned about the cost of living in his community, but also the cost of the fentanyl drug crisis. Those concerns prompted him to seek the Nassau County Legislature seat that would otherwise be held by Debra Mulé after redistricting from earlier this year goes into effect.

President of the Freeport Chamber of Commerce for more than two years, Jackson wants to use his time in Mineola to create a safer community for his family and neighbors.

“I just see that things could be better,” Jackson told reporters at a recent Herald Roundtable session.

“While I am walking around and talking to people, I hear concerns.”

Jackson started Ben’s General Contracting Corp., 43 years ago. He’s also on the board of Freeport for Veterans, and spends time working with Friends of Freeport, where he helps people impacted by different disasters like Hurricane Sandy.

Disasters like that cost the neighbors Jackson cares about money, which is why he says it’s vital to “hold the line” on property and sales taxes. Jackson deals with finances all the time — especially with his business — but also sees how the government just “throws money away.”

“I think with further research into where the tax money goes towards,” he said, “things can be done a bit more efficiently.”

People are leaving New York state — and Long Island — in massive numbers, with cost of living shouldering most of the blame. Jackson describes these departures as an “exodus,” which is why he

Courtesy Ben Jackson

Ben Jackson says he would ‘hold the line’ on taxes if he were elected to the Nassau County Legislature, but he would ensure critical areas like education and law enforcement continue to be properly funded. would focus on this particular issue if elected. If his children and mother are struggling to afford to live on Long Island, then he could only imagine what it’s like for others. That makes affordability a personal issue

for him.

“And once people leave, taxes go up,” Jackson said.

“You have fewer people paying sales tax and property tax, so I think the quality of life issues and the cost of living are two things that concern me very much.”

While he’s all for holding taxes exactly where they are now, Jackson also wants to ensure critical areas like education and crime prevention are properly funded. He described the Nassau County Police Department as one of the best police departments in the country. But with statewide bail reform laws put in place last year, he feels officers here have their hands tied behind their backs.

It’s not that reform isn’t needed, Jackson said. It’s just this particular take on bail reform is just too drastic.

“We need to allow our judges to judge,” he added.

With fentanyl overdoses on the rise, government must do more to combat drug dealers, Jackson said.

Although this issue is being fought on the federal level, Jackson still believes he should have a voice in this as a legislator.

While he praises the efforts Mulé has undertook since taking office, Jackson says more can be done.

That includes being more vocal about why drugs are continuing to cross the southern border into the United States, and how it can be stopped.

“I know I am not going to change the world,” Jackson said, “but I have to start somewhere.”

Mulé wants to finish revamping old infrastructure

By BEN FIEBERT bfiebert@liherald.com

From the Kellogg House renovations to the crumbling infrastructure in her district, Debra Mulé has set her priorities for a potential fourth term.

The Democrat currently represents the Nassau County Legislature’s fifth district, but after censusfueled redistricting, Mulé moves to the sixth district that encompass parts of Baldwin, Oceanside and Freeport.

The infrastructure issues hit Mulé’s district through a number of sinkholes, so she’s planning to work to get funding for underground piping through another term. Despite being in the minority, Mulé believes she can continue finding common ground among her colleagues from across the aisle to fix these urgent issues.

“What is happening is, we have aging infrastructure,” Mulé told reporters at a recent Herald Roundtable session. “So, sewer pipes are getting cracks in them, and the dirt that’s underneath the pavement is going in the cracks. And with nothing to hold up the pavement, you get sinkholes.”

Infrastructure in some places is about 80 years old, Mulé said. After a sinkhole opened on Grand Avenue in late June, Mulé sent letters to U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, Gov. Kathy Hochul, U.S. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman in the hopes funding these infrastructure capital projects would become a priority.

“There’s going to be sinkholes everywhere if we don’t take care of this,” Mulé said.

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Debra Mulé is on a mission to fix the nearly century-old roads and buildings, if she’s elected to continue serving in the Nassau County Legislature in a new district.

One way to tackle the issue is through something called the Complete Streets Project. A portion of

Grand Avenue received a complete redo of the road with new paving, paver stones, decorative lighting, and curb bump outs. This project, according to Mulé, will be completed within the next couple of weeks.

“I am very proud that I got this project through the legislature because there was a small, but vocal, minority who was against it,” she said. “But I persevered, and now the project is nearly completed.”

Another renovation project that has Mulé’s attention is the Kellogg House in Baldwin. It was once the home of Civil War veteran George Sumner Kellogg that became an antique shop not long after he died in 1918. It has been out of operation for the past couple of decades, however, and has become an eyesore to many.

“The Kellogg House, which is the only designated historic house in Baldwin, has been looking terrible for a long time,” Mulé said. “This became my new priority.”

The roof, windows and exterior already have been replaced or restored, and now Mulé wants to focus on the interior. Once that’s done, Mulé plans to work with the county to find possible community uses for the Kellogg House.

And then there’s the Oakwood Beach Club, something else that many have described as an eyesore in Baldwin Harbor. The beach club has been out of business for more than a decade, and crime has grown on the Milburn Avenue property. If re-elected, Mulé says she’ll focus on making it right.

“There are environmental concerns on this property because it is on very sensitive land,” Mulé said. “It’s 3 acres of waterfront property, so it really could be quite stunning — and something special.”

Lung Force walk makes debut on Long Island

Christopher Griffith/Herald photos

The inaugural Lung Force Walk, an American Lung Association event, took place on Oct. 7 in Eisenhower Park.

The event raises funds and awareness for vital lung disease, research, education and advocacy. Lauren Nelson and Christina Nelson walk in memory of Bill Nelson, who died in March of this year.

The event brought together a lot of community members, who walked for the good cause. lung cancer. It’s not just a smoker’s disease.”

Event speakers at this weekend’s walk included Dr. Nagashree Seetharamu of Northwell Health and lung can-

Carol Silva, a longtime former News12 morning anchor and lung cancer survivor, with Dr. Nagashree Seetharamu, the honored medical professional. cer survivor Carol Silva, who was also a longtime anchor for News12.

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John and his mom, Mary Neary, hold a picture of John’s father, who died from lung cancer in 2021.

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OCEANSIDE/ISLAND PARK HERALD — October 12, 2023

Anyone can get lung cancer.

That’s what the American Lung Association wants people to know, and this past Saturday, walkers put their lungs to the test, and took part in the inaugural Lung Force Walk on Long Island in Eisenhower Park.

The event, which raises funds and awareness for vital lung disease, research, education and advocacy, kicked at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 7.

Alongside the walk, those participating in the event enjoyed a range of activities throughout the morning, as well as infor mational tents set up around Field 6 of the park in East Meadow, where people could learn about lung health and lung disease.

Funds from the Lung Force Walk will support the lung association’s annual work in research, educational initiatives, and its advocacy work on state and federal levels Emily Amitin, a development director with the lung association’s metro New York and Northern/Central New Jersey area, says the Lung Force Walk came about when organizers realized many people didn’t know how dangerous some lung inflictions — especially cancer — are.

“Through a lot of our surveying, we realized that while cancer was top of mind for individuals, people don’t know that it’s the number one cancer killer nationwide of both men and women,” Amitin said. “Anyone with lungs can get

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Ali looks to improve quality of life for all

By JUAN LASSO jlasso@liherald.com

If there is anyone who is tough on crime, Sheharyar Ali says he is.

Running for the Nassau County Legislature seat currently held by Carrié Solages, the prosecutor has wielded the law through district attorneys in both Nassau County and Brooklyn, bringing justice and holding criminals accountable.

Ali is from Brooklyn, but spent the better part of his childhood and young adult life in Elmont. The 30-yearold father of two firmly believes in the promise of his district as one suitable for families to raise their children in peace while enjoying the benefits of sitting at the gates of New York City.

But he believes that promise is under threat.

“I feel, over the years, that suburban quality of life has been affected. It’s getting more congested,” Ali told reporters during a recent Herald Roundtable session.

“The quality of life is just degrading. And instead of packing up my bags and moving, I decided to do something about it and actually step into a race and make a positive impact on the community.”

Ali’s aim is squarely on the island’s affordability crisis, looking to ease the tax burden by cutting down on excessive spending and holding down the tax rate.

“The county has a huge surplus,” Ali said. “We have the money. There’s no reason why we should be raising people’s taxes.”

Ali is also keen on investing in affordable housing that respects the home rule of local zoning boards while still meeting the needs of “longtime homeowners, recent homeowners, and young people looking to buy a

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Political newcomer Sheharyar Ali feels he’s the right person to lead efforts to bring crime rights down, thanks to his work with prosecutors in both Nassau County and Brooklyn. He’s running for the Nassau County Legislature seat currently held by Carriè Solages. home and stay in Nassau County.”

While a relative newcomer to the political scene, Ali has made waves in his community as something of a local hero. When the distribution of baby formula dried nationwide last year, Ali worked with his brother

Hamza Akram to collect nearly 300 bottles of baby formula to distribute at the Masjid Hamza Islamic Center Mosque in Valley Stream.

In response to the overwhelming need, Ali contacted county agencies to give out shipments of formula to shelters across the county through a partnership between the Nassau County Office of Asian American Affairs, and the Nassau County Department of Social Services.

“I’m a Muslim American. And there’s a huge influx of a Muslim American population in my district,” Ali said. “I feel like it’s a population that’s been ignored for a very, very long time. So, there’s excitement now people feel like they have a voice. People feel like they’re being heard, and they’re being represented.”

The increase of police patrols to protect mosques and other sensitive areas has been nothing but a win in the eyes of Ali. He’s worked closely with the Nassau County Police Department to have officers come out and speak to the students at the Hamza Academy in Valley Stream to show children a human face behind the badge.

He believes ensuring an atmosphere of safety ultimately starts with forging “a positive relationship of mutual trust and respect between the police, the local legislator, and the community.”

“That’s how you have a safe neighborhood,” Ali said, “and a safe community.”

Solages prides himself in getting things done

By NICOLE WAGNER nwagner@liherald.com

Chances are likely that those living around Elmont and Valley Stream will recognize Carriè Solages around town — even if he’s wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses.

The 12-year county legislator has connections all throughout the district. Throughout his tenure, Solages has made it a point to live in various areas to get acquainted with the communities he serves. He has lived in north and south Valley Stream, Elmont, and currently calls Lawrence home.

“I’m a product of my community,” Solages told reporters during a recent Herald roundtable session.

The legislator is no stranger to reaching across county borders for help. He highlighted the importance of working with government officials outside of Mineola’s reach to serve the community, like when he worked with Queens borough president Donovan Richards to fix issues surrounding flooding in the Five Towns.

“I’m leaving the area better than it was when I came here,” Solages said. His infrastructure legislation was a project with Richards to remedy flooding problems that involved the Five Towns’ neighboring borough.

Formed relationships and reaching not just across county borders, but all the way up to the Assembly and state Senate in Albany, are important to circumvent any stalemates in the legislature. In 2022, Solages and his fellow Democrats in the minority helped expand the eligibility pool for tax benefits with a proposal sent to Albany. He said the support for the expansion is one of his greatest achievements since being elected.

“That’s one clear thing that any person who is running for office in Nassau County must address: the property taxes,” Solages said. “Help people get benefits, reductions, and other opportunities to have a fighting

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Carriè Solages aims to increase housing stock, consider implementation of a civilian review board for the police department, and improve infrastructure in Nassau County if re-elected to the county legislature. chance in this very unsustainable financial situation.”

As the price to live in Nassau rises, Solages says the solution is to increase the housing supply. When Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed a housing plan that would create or preserve 100,000 affordable homes across the state, Solages described it as poorly packaged with the “affordable housing” label. The plan received pushback in Nassau, with Hochul eventually backtracking on the idea.

But that doesn’t mean Solages didn’t do his part to try

and salvage what the governor wanted to do. He reached out to Hochul, telling her if the plan was packaged as “increased housing stock,” it might be successful.

“The average person, who does not have the salary that I have as an attorney, they’re looking at paying $4,500 to $5,000 a month for rent,” Solages said. “That’s not realistic. That’s not sustainable. So, we have a problem here on our hands, and we must address it.”

Solages says he takes a conservative stance despite his political standing, supporting quality of life initiatives when it comes to public safety. He secured funds in 2017 to implement ShotSpotter technology in Elmont.

The gunshot sound detection device received mixed reactions from the community with concerns it could drive away economic development.

“I also secured funding for license plate readers all across the border,” Solages said. “So that when offenses occur between the border — between those who live in New York City looking for quick opportunities to make money by robbing or taking advantage of people here in Nassau County — our borders are protected.”

Solages believes the goal of public servants is to provide safety for their communities. He highlighted the inequities of arrests and agreed with the message of abolitionist Frederick Douglass that it is easier to educate a person properly than it is to fix a broken person.

“Nevertheless, we have to make the right investments in law enforcement due to the proximity that we have to New York City,” Solages said. “But to be very clear, the crime rate has gone down here in Nassau County, and we have the safest suburban community of its size.”

It’s a tight rope walk, between supporting law enforcement and bringing to light the inequities of arrest records. He posed that in his next term, he would explore the implementation of a civilian review board for the police department.

Study Area a nature haven

Plenty of information is available for nature lovers.

Many bird species, including Canada Geese fill the preserve.

Photos courtesy Janet Prete

Photographers get plenty to shoot at the Marine Study Area in Oceanside.

“If a disease attacks the field, the entire ecosystem is destroyed,” said Farina. “In the salt marsh, if a disease attacks one of the plants, there are hundreds more that are producing energy for the rest of the organisms.”

There are plants on the surface, but there is also phytoplankton in the water.

The salt marsh ecosystem is not dependent on weather; it’s dependent on the ocean.

The salt marsh continued to be bright emerald green all of last year because it got constant nutrients from the ocean.

Farina, who has been working at the study area since the late 1990s, said he has seen some changes attributable to climate change. When he first started, 70 percent of the marsh would go underwater daily with high tides. Now, he said, it is closer to 80 percent of the 52-acre preserve. The marsh grasses that are straight and upright have adapted to going underwater twice a day with high tide. The grasses that have flattened down are in the supratidal zone, and they only go underwater when there is a full moon and a new

moon, every two to two and a half weeks.

Over the last 20 years, the supratidal zone has been taken over by the zone that goes underwater every day, twice a day. The salt marsh adapts to these changes, but on Long Island, the construction of houses limits the horizon into which the salt marsh can spread. This causes more and more of the marsh to remain underwater all the time, and become unproductive.

Farina said, climate change can also be seen in the changes in biological organisms. Farina explained how salt marsh sparrows nest in the saltwater grass and if the water gets too high on a regular basis, they die, and the population drops.

Sparrows are an indicator species in which we can see the effects of rising oceans due to climate change. Brian Doherty, who often visits the area for photography, appreciates the beauty and the fragility of the marsh.

“This place is an amazing place,” said Doherty. “There’s very few places like this because it’s a natural marsh. There’s very little of this left.”

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OCEANSIDE/ISLAND PARK HERALD — October 12, 2023

Just beyond the gravel parking lot of the Marine Nature Study Area in Oceanside is the unexpected beauty of the pristine salt marsh. The marsh is a favorite stop for photographers and casual walkers alike and serves as an outdoor classroom for school children and graduate students. The study area is home to a wide variety of birds and fish, including great egrets, green egrets, yellow-crowned night herons, ospreys, owls, turtles, and Canada geese. Debbie and Dennis Baer come often from Old Bethpage.

“I think it’s beautiful,” Debbie said.

“Every time you come here you see something different.”

During Covid, visitation to the area went up. Those looking for a safe outdoor space discovered a new hobby, and there are now more visitations on a regular basis than there was prior to Covid.

The staff, responsible for surveying the fish and birds in the marsh daily, are also patient in explaining the ecology of the marsh. Conservation and Wildlife Biologist Michael Farina surveys fish twice a day by counting what comes into a net he drops over a footbridge. The most common fish in the study area is Atlantic Menhaden, which are plant eaters. Menhaden is the primary food source for everything that is out in the bay, from birds to bigger fish to whales and sharks.

The bays are the nursery for the fish before they move into the ocean.

The Long Island salt marsh is the generator for food along the Atlantic shore.

The salt marsh is one of the most productive environments on the planet because of its diversity of plants. The more types of plants there are, the higher the productivity of the ecosystem. Farina draws a comparison to a cornfield, known as a monoculture because it only contains one kind of plant.

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Multi-faceted American jazz pianist and composer Emmet Cohen is one of his generation’s pivotal figures in music. Enjoy his jazz stylings when he brings his talents to the Landmark stage. A recognized prodigy, Cohen began Suzukimethod piano instruction at age 3.

His playing quickly became a mature melding of musicality and technique.

Downbeat observed that his nimble touch and harmonic vocabulary indicate he’s above any convoluted technical showmanship. In constant demand, he leads his namesake ensemble — the Emmet Cohen Trio — and is a vibrant solo performer.

Possessing a fluid technique and extensive repertoire, Cohen plays with the command of a seasoned veteran and the passion of an artist fully devoted to his medium. He headlines regularly at Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Village Vanguard, among other prestigious venues.

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mmersive art experiences continue to shake up traditional perceptions of “art.” Now Claude Monet, the beloved transformational Impressionist, gets the Van Gogh treatment (which has enticed visitors in various forms since 2021).

“Beyond Monet: The Immersive Experience” gives guests a glimpse into the emotions and perspectives of the leading figure of Impressionism. Created by the same team that brought “Beyond Van Gogh” to Long Island, it’s full of infinite potential for wonder, and sheds new light on what the world thought it knew about Claude Monet.

The experience showcases more than 400 of Monet’s iconic classics, including “Water Lilies,” “Impression, Sunrise” and “Poppies at Argenteuil.”

“Beyond Monet,” which opened Oct. 7, has settled into the same space at Samanea New York — the By retail/ Karen Bloom WHERE entertainment complex that was formerly the site of the Mall at the Source in Westbury — that just recently housed the Can art change thelatest world? a question WHEN Van Gogh exhibit. This showcaseIt’s was again created

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• Samanea New York, 1500 Old Paquin, Paquin’s exhibitions and theatrical president. “It has Country Road, Westbury elevated artwork to the next level, allowing us to form new “When We All Stand,” Museum Art’sjust new relationships withHofstra notableUniversity masterpieces that of were notexhibition, examines possible in of previous the collective power the artsyears.” in society.

InAlexandra the process our relationship to these assistant artists —director in this case, Monet — is forever changed.

Curated by Giordano — the museum’s of exhibition and all-encompassing experience combines projection, music and sound effects in a collection The — the exhibit underscores artists’ civic responsibility andoriginal influence. re-imagining of role Monet’s including the artist’s “It highlights the vital that treasured artists havecreations, in activating democratic valuesown thatthoughts and words into the narrative and musical score. promise equality and freedom, encouraging civic engagement, and cultivating unity,” “When you stand inside ‘Beyond Monet,’ you truly feel like you are part of Monet’s Giordano passionate says. “Artists often charge and expose that may otherwise be Fanny Curtat, quest forlead thethe effervescent beauty oftruths the world,” says art historian ignored. The artists in this exhibition take a stand and call out injustices through their art perspectives to who consulted on the project.“Experiences like these create fresh and original and activism on issues such as immigration, gender, reproductive rights, mass incarceration, interact with art in dynamic and fascinating ways.” voting rights, racial bias,atgun violence, combine thefront making It’s a look Monet’s art and freedpromises from itsunfulfi frameslled. thatThey putsallthe observer and center, of art withincorporating public serviceboth that still has and a grassroots in the400 hope of mobilizing theiralive, appear, and moving approach images. Some masterpieces come disappear, ow across multiple surfaces,create the minutia of details enveloping heightened communities and theflnation to ignite movement, awareness, and inspire othersvisitors’ to stand withsenses. them.”The show is projected on every surface around you, making you feel as though you have stepped directly into aJuly painting.

This exhibit, which runs through 28, is in conjunction with Hofstra’s Monet’s art appears disappears, guests’upsenses and allowing them to 13th presidential conference on theand Barack Obama heightening presidency coming in April.

“We were interested in the idea that the artist has a civic responsibility,” says museum director Karen Albert. “The initial idea for this exhibition was inspired by an Obama Administration White House briefing that took place on May 12, 2009,

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Friday, Oct. 13, 8 p.m. $48, $43, $38. Jeanne Rimsky 13 Theater at Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main St., Port Washington. (516) 767-6444 or LandmarkOnMainStreet.org.

become one with his expressive brush strokes and blurred shapes and colors that capture the natural light and forms of the impressionist style of painting.

“You’re immediately immersed in a fantasticalPat McGann Pat McGann is quickly rising as one ephemeral landscape,” Curtat says.

We may think we know Monet, but accordingoftothe sharpest stand-ups on the comedy scene. A relative latecomer Curtat, that’s not necessarily so. comedy, he began doing stand“This is an opportunity to go beyond the mythtoand uptoat 31 after realizing he was not the easy beauty of his works,” she adds. “We tend very forget how radical and challenging his painting was at good the at selling packaging.

Blazin’ pumpkins hustled his way to become the time. He’s so widely known, but there’s somethingHe almost The Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze Chicago, deceptive with that level of notoriety — especially house when emcee at Zanies is back at Old Village an artist is so famous that they are overlooked. This is a he distinguished himselfBethpage where as Restoration.

The Halloween-themed unique opportunity for people to not only see more facets adept at especially working the event which of his work, but learn more about just how radicalcrowd. his A husband and— father ofhad its start in the Hudson Valley at Van Cortlandt work was for the period. three young children, McGann’s Manor in Croton-on-Hudson — “Today, we may take for granted these ‘easy’ appeal stems from his quick wit more contemplations, but they were scandalous when they and relatable takefeatures on family lifethan 7,000 illuminated, hand-crafted jack o’ were first unveiled. He went on to open the door to andsomarriage. In individually 2017, McGann displayed much — not just in terms of the progression of artbegan history, touring aslanterns the opening act throughout the restored village. but also in terms of subjective vision and freedom for of Sebastian Maniscalco, movingThe pumpkins are carved into elaborate sculptural expression.” with him from clubs to theater, displays Different elements — scenes — take visitors on to arenas, including four that sold-light up the night, creating a family-friendly experience.

Monet’s journey and the themes that comprised his out shows at Madison Square Visitors strollshort, the immersive pumpkin life’s work. After entering the Garden Gallery, the Garden.

Prism McGann’s relatively trail, past 19th-century buildings and transports everyone into the exhibit’s biggest feature area. but impressive resume, includes Taking inspiration from Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris — Montreal’s famedthrough Just Forhistoric Laughsbarns, fully enveloped in a fall wonderland, complete the designated home of Monet’s masterpieces —Festival, guests Gilda’s LaughFest, The with an all-original can freely roam the Infinity Room to absorb the artist’s Great American Comedy Festival, soundtrack, synchronized bright and colorful paintings. and more. McGann still calls lighting, and special Monet’s stunning imagery encompasses everyChicago surface home. effects. New this year: Go ‘under the sea’ with a giant pumpkin-octopus. of the room. It is a haven for awakening the senses as by a$35, ‘gourd-geous’ the ebb and flow of the artwork is accompanied by the Feb. 11,Be8 wowed Saturday, p.m. $40, mythical Montauk mermaid. Meet the rhythm of Jean-Sébastien Coté’s original symphonic score. $30, $25. The Paramount, 370 Minions-like (800) friendly Pumpkin Pals.

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It’s the 19th century meeting up with the 21st century Now through Nov. 5. Tickets start in another compelling artistic journey. at $19 and must purchased in Courtesy Paquin Entertainment advance. Old Bethpage Village Monet’s masterpieces come to life through projection Restoration, 1303 Round Swamp technology that uses over 4 trillion content pixels in the Road, Old Bethpage. For tickets and multi-dimensional projections. information, visit PumpkinBlaze.org.

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Art classes Nassau County Museum of Art welcomes those interested in improving their art skills or those who simply want to explore their creativity to participate in one of their many stimulating classes.

The fall schedule includes Watercolor Florals: Beginner to intermediate levels (adults and teens 16+), Thursdays, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Nov. 2-Dec. 14. $300, $270 members. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. For information and to register visit NassauMuseum.org or call (516) 484-9338.

Breastfeeding Support Group Mercy Hospital offers a peer to peer meeting for breastfeeding support and resources, facilitated by a certified breastfeeding counselor, every Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

Bring your baby (from newborn to 1 year) to the informal group setting. All new moms are welcome, regardless of delivering hospital. Registration required. Call breastfeeding counselor, Gabriella Gennaro, at (516) 705-2434 to secure you and your baby’s spot.

Mercy Hospital, St. Anne’s Building, 1000 North Village Ave., Rockville Centre. For information visit CHSLI.org.

Bird walk The South Shore Audubon Society welcomes all to join its members for a bird walk, at Point Lookout Town Park and Lido Preserve afterwards, Sunday, Oct. 15, starting at 9 a.m. Walk leaders, other birders and nature enthusiasts are happy to share their knowledge and experience with you.

Bring binoculars. The group meets in the southeast corner of the large parking lot on the south side of Point Lookout Town Park, (closest to the private homes of the village of Point Lookout and the beach), then walk east along the beach toward Jones Inlet. After returning to the parking lot, drive west on Lido Boulevard to Lido Beach Passive Nature Preserve on the north side of Lido Boulevard to walk through the bay marsh. To register, text your name and contact information to (516) 467-9498. Also text regarding questionable weather conditions.

For more information, visit SSAudubon.org.

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Westbury House Tour

Enjoy the spirit of the season at a Howloween Masquerade Gala benefiting Freeport-based Bobbi and the Strays animal rescue, Thursday Oct. 26, 7 p.m.-12 a.m., at Russo’s on the Bay. $125 ticket price includes four-course dinner, dancing, entertainment and raffles. All funds raised support sheltering and medical needs of the rescued dogs and cats. 162-45 Cross Bay Blvd., Howard Beach.

For information, call (917) 2139840 or (718) 845-0779.

For many years visitors to Westbury House at Old Westbury Gardens asked what was beyond the first floor corridor. Now beyond the door and discover “secrets of the service wing,” during a 60-minute guided tour, Friday, Oct.13, noon-1 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 15, 1:30-2:30 p.m. and 3-4 p.m.; Monday, Oct. 16, noon-1 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 18-19, noon-1 p.m. Be introduced to the intensive labor required to create the lifestyle experienced by the Phipps family and their guests; tour the many rooms that were “behind the scenes” to create the formal dining experiences of early 20th century. Go along the corridors to the butler’s pantry and silver cleaning room then descend the 17 steps to the kitchen, scullery, and wine storage rooms located on the ground floor. Reservations required. 71 Old Westbury Rd., Old Westbury. For information contact (516) 333-0048 or visit OldWestburyGardens.org.

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Spooky Fest is back

Grab your lunch and join Nassau County Museum of Art Docent Riva Ettus for her popular “Brown Bag Lecture,” now back on-site at Nassau County Museum of Art, Thursday, Oct. 19, 1 p.m. Enjoy an in-depth presentation on the current exhibition “Modigliani and the Modern Portrait.” Participants are invited to ask questions at the end of the program and to join the 2 p.m. public tour of the exhibit. 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.

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A Halloween experience not to be missed, Spooky Fest is an outdoor adventure perfect for families who don’t want to be scared — or maybe just a little. Join in the fun at the Center for Science, Teaching and Learning, every Friday, Saturday and Sunday throughout October. Along the way in the updated and beautifully lit up, Enchanted Walk you will see dinosaurs, aliens and friendly witches, costumed characters and more.

Get your fortune told, make a craft and danceg with the Halloween DJ, along with face painting and the new Amazing Glow tent. For those who want to get a little scared, venture into the Dino Woods. Be on the lookout for the Zombie Robotic Dinosaurs. 1450 Tanglewood Road, Rockville Centre. Visit CSTL.org for more information.

The Word Enjoy the power of words at The Word: A Festival of the Spoken and Written Word, Saturday, Oct. 14, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Hear established poets read from their works throughout the day, including poets laureate from Nassau, Suffolk and Queens. With come-one-comeall open mics, including one designated for teenagers. The event will also feature mini workshops, and radio station WHPC 90.3, the voice of Nassau Community College, will also be on hand. Anissa Moore, Poet and Deputy County Executive, Health & Human Services also participates, with a poem of her own. Oceanside Schoolhouse Green, 65 Foxhurst Road.

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Hang out with the “The Italian Chicks,” when these three dynamic women arrive at the Landmark stage, Sunday, Oct. 22, 3-5:30 p.m., with their comedy revue. Maryann “Boom Boom” Maisano, Cara Amore and Gianna Messina make up this eclectic trio of multitalented women who draw on the foibles of their Italian-American traditions in their show – a blend of comedy, acting and song. Maisano, the show’s producer and headliner, has described their performance “as part meatball, part cannoli — a passionate comedy with a little drama.” More than simply a “girl’s night out,” this is a celebration of food, family and culture. Whether you’re Italian or not they’ll have you roaring with laughter. You don’t want to miss this hilarious show — filled with an enthusiastic blend of comedy, characters, music, and song parodies that will make you remember things you paid your shrink to forget. When Maisano is on stage, you know it! A singer, songwriter, musician, comedian, writer, and actor, she’s the consummate entertainer. Thus her nickname “Boom Boom” — as she doesn’t know when to slow nominated for a Grammy. She has opened for comedy greats such as Joy Behar and Ray Romano. $39, $29, $19. Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main St., Port Washington. (917) 567-5842 or LandmarkOnMainStreet.org.

On exhibit View the landmark exhibition “Modigliani and the Modern Portrait,” at Nassau County Museum of Art. Devoted to the way that Modigliani powerfully re-defined the art of portraiture, the show includes his masterworks along with paintings and drawings by his Parisian contemporaries (Picasso, van Dongen, Laurencin). Modigliani’s enduring influence on artists even in our own time is shown in a selection of Contemporary paintings by such important figures as David Hockney, Eric Fischl, Elizabeth Peyton and others. The exhibition is being curated by Dr. Kenneth Wayne, founder of The Modigliani Project, which authenticates paintings and drawings (two of the works in the show have been recently approved by the committee). Through Nov. 5.

Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.

Familis are invited to a fangtastic night filled with eerie surprises, gallery trick or treating and a monster-led dance party at the annual Halloween celebration, Saturday, Oct. 21, 6-9 p.m.

Arrive at the Museum in your most creative and dazzling costume (adults too) and stop at activity stations throughout museum for themed-craft projects and more. Get ready for some mysterious encounters as you enter the unknown in the “Outta This World Spooky Space,” where guests can explore an imaginary planet. Show off your spooktacular dance moves on our Monster Mash Dance Floor and then pump up your energy by making a gooey snack to sink your teeth into. Stop by the LICM Theater for Uncle Vlad’s Pumpkin Patch. Uncle Vlad returns with more stories and songs to share with his nephew Chad, and his fellow friendly creatures of the night. The theater add-on features puppet artists Kyle Mahoney, Sebastiano Ricci, Carrie Heffernan and Austin M. Costello. Tickets required. Long Island Children’s Museum, Museum Row, Garden City.

(516) 224-5800 or LICM.org.

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By PARKER SCHUG pschug@liherald.com

It’s an event that’s not just about recognition, but about celebrating — and giving heartfelt thanks — to those who have been “guardians of Long Islanders’ well-being.”

Those were the words of Amy Amato, executive director of RichnerLive, to kick off the second annual Herald Long Island Excellence in Healthcare Awards.

It was not only cocktail, dinner and dessert, but a night of awards, handed out by ABC-7 investigative reporter Kristin Thorne at The Heritage Club at Bethpage on Sept. 27. A portion of ticket proceeds — as usual with RichnerLive events — went to a local charity. For this event, that recipient was Mental Health Association of Nassau County.

Tara Buonocore-Rut, president and chief executive of CenterLight Healthcare Pace, was among the recipients.

“It’s such an honor, it’s really not an honor for me,” she said. “It’s an honor for my team and all the work that we do to care for the elderly.”

Edwin Chavez/Herald photos Ann Cella, chief nursing officer at St. Francis From St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center and Catholic Health — bottom row, from left, honorees Ann Cella and Novlet Hospital & Heart Center, was humbled by her Davis with their guests. award.

“I feel like I’m almost not in the same league as all of these people,” she said.

Carol Gomes, chief executive and operating officer at Stony Brook Hospital, says health care is not an industry of individuals, but rather of the collective.

“I’m so glad that health care has prominence in the public eye,” she said. “I don’t really consider this really an honor for me, but rather, it’s health care as a team sport.”

Jay Itzkowitz, department chair of emergency medicine for Mount Sinai South Nassau, says his Excellence in Healthcare award is “all about what we can do to help the community and patients,” while Colleen Merlo — chief executive of the Association for Mental Health and Wellness — says awards like this help bring to light issues that might remain in the dark otherwise.

“People are really struggling with their menTim Baker/Herald tal health right now,” Merlo said. “To be able to Cristina Cellucci from Mount Sinai South bring attention to the fact that there are services Nassau, with RichnerLive chief executive available is really important to me.”

Honoree professor Chad Bouton and his patient Keith Thomas.

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Jeffrey Reynolds, president and chief executive of the Family & Children’s Association, hand. everybody knows what everybody’s doing. We’re sort commended his employees.

“I’m so proud of Chad,” Thomas said. “He’s been of like semi-competitors. But not when we all get “While I’m here accepting the award, they’re out in nothing but nice to me and my family, and my friends.” people’s homes helping sick kids, and helping seniors,” together.”

Peter Igarashi, dean of Renaissance School of MediThe Herald Long Island Excellence in Healthcare he said. cine at Stony Brook, was also honored in the educaAwards were sponsored by Mount Sinai South Nassau, Kerri Anne Scanlon, executive director of Glen tional category.

Northwell Health, New Horizon Counseling Center, Cove Hospital was honored for her leadership.

“I think it’s a recognition of all the hard work that Long Beach Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, The “To be recognized in what you do and love means the faculty and staff at Stony Brook Medicine does,” Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation and Nursing Centhe world,” she said. he said. ter, Catholic Health’s St. Francis Hospital & Heart CenAmy Silva-Magalhaes, chief operating officer of Chad Bouton, vice president of advanced engineerter, CenterLight Healthcare Pace, Stony Brook MediThe Bristal Assisted Living, was celebrated by her coing — and director for bioelectronics in medicine at cine, Mental Health Association of Nassau County, and workers. the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research — was the New York State Nurses Association.

“I know I speak for many of us here, we certainly named innovator of the year.

Other sponsors included St. Joseph’s University don’t do it alone,” she said. “It takes a great team “I always say we do the work we do for our New York, the New York Institute of Technology’s Colbehind the scenes to be able to support us.” patients,” he said. “Our patients are the pioneers. They lege of Osteopathic Medicine, Theralympic Speech, David Battinelli, the executive vice president and are doing new studies that have never been done Family & Children’s Association, Speech Language physician-in-chief at Northwell Health — and dean before. They’re quite brave.”

Place, Options for Community Living Inc., the Nassau and professor at the Zucker School of Medicine at HofOne of Bouton’s patients, Keith Thomas, was in County Medical Society, The Bristal Assisted Living, stra/Northwell — was one of the six educational speattendance. He had been paralyzed from the chest Genesis Fertility & Reproductive Medicine, Cold cial award recipients. down following a diving accident in 2020. Bouton Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Stroke & Brain Aneu“It’s our local community, so it’s one thing to be served as investigator of the clinical trial, which has rysm Center of Long Island, FirstNet Built With AT&T, honored,” Battinelli said. “But it’s really more imporrestored feeling and movement to Thomas’s arm and and Always and Forever Rose Floral Arrangements. tant to be out with everybody else and make sure

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Honoree retired Chief Master Sgt. Edward Schloeman, far right, and his guests.

Dr. Mark C. Drakos, Hospital for Special Surgery.

Flora R. Bienstock, center, and the New Horizon Counseling Center team and guests at the photo booth.

Honoree Carol Gomes, of Stony Brook Medicine, saying a few words at the podium.

Dr. Kimon Bekelis, right, from Catholic Health and the Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Center of Long Island.

Event host, WABC-7’s Kristin Thorne.

Dr. Peter Igarashi, far right, from Stony Brook Medicine.

The team from the Mental Health Association of Nassau County.

The team from one of the event’s Platinum Sponsors, New Horizon Counseling Center.

Honoree Dr. David Battinelli, right, from Northwell Health.

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By KEPHERD DANIEL kdaniel@liherald.com

Only 11 schools nationwide were selected to be a 2023 School of Distinction by the Association for Middle-Level Education and Oceanside Middle School was among those who were recognized. The middle school completed a rigorous review process that measured its implementation of best practices and continuous improvement plans. While adolescents most certainly need a rigorous and comprehensive, academic experience They also really need this sense of community and the relationships that they experienced at the elementary school

level which is what Allison GlickmanRogers, the school’s principal, says they provide.

“They need to find that sense of belonging here at school,” she said. “They need to make connections and have relationships and that all comes before students can access the academics of school.”

The school’s student organizational structure is based on teaming. About 120 students share the same English, Social Studies, Math and science teachers and school counselor. All students are part of a team and ‘loop’ with their team for two years which guarantees that students

have a “small school” feeling within the middle school and creates a sense of community between their fellow students but also with teachers and students’ families.

“It allows students to get to know each other and the better people know each other, the kinder they are and that helps promote empathy, a safe and caring school community, but also allows adults to get to know students and their families so they can best meet their needs,” said Glickman-Rogers.

Glickman-Rogers also cited the Middle School’s Advisory Daily initiative. A small group of students from both 7th and 8th grade and a teacher participate in ser-

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Winners will have their design printed as wrapping paper in the Herald and will be featured in an article in their local Herald paper.

Entry format: Please use an 8 1/2 by 11 inch piece of unlined paper All entries should have the student’s name, age, address, telephone number, email, grade and school printed on the back. Design can be reflective of all religious holidays. Entries will not be returned.

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Wrapping Paper Contest Herald Community Newspapers 2 Endo Boulevard, Garden City, NY 11530 OR Scan and email to: mkaur@liherald.com (must be a high-res jpg) No Photos of Artwork Will Be Accepted.

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Group Guidance sessions at the Middle School give students a chance to share what’s on their minds. vice-learning projects. “We have a really good connection with all of our teachers, and everyone is friendly and helps each other,” said student Isabella Delgado.

AMLE’s Schools of Distinction program recognizes exemplary schools and supports them through a process of strategic vision setting to help foster ongoing growth and success.

“I really can never imagine teaching in any other school,” said social studies teacher Eric Simonson, who has worked at the Middle School for five years. “The feeling of a family and community that you get in this building.”

The school also boasts a group guidance program where a group of students connect with the same counselor for two years, and attend a group guidance session once every six days The sessions promote self-awareness, social awareness, responsible decision-making, communication skills, and goal setting.

“I love group guidance,” said student Ava Lopez. “It’s like a very safe place. And the everyday activities are fun. In the end, you just feel very open, and everyone understands you.”

While the students are learning, the counselor can establish a rapport with the students, which makes the students much more comfortable to seek out their counselor when they need to, and the kids can see their counselors regularly.

“These are hallmarks of this middle school, and we’re so grateful to the support of the community and our Board of Education who will stand by these structures,” said Glickman-Rogers. “Teaming and looping, group guidance and advisory, all of these things are created and facilitated to give our kids exactly what they need during these adolescent years because they need to be in this type of supportive environment as they transition from the elementary school, which is a very big transition.”

Middle School students receive a 42-minute lunch period that includes recess and student activities at recess just continue to improve, with basketball courts, picnic tables, and outdoor backyard games for kids.

“We have a lot of fun and I think that’s where we really build the community here,” said teacher Mike DeMarco. “I think that’s what makes this worthy of a school of distinction because all these kids have an adult in the building that they trust, they can go to, they can talk to if things are not going so great and we do a lot of community building to get to that point.”

By JASMINE SELLARS Intern

T he Island Park T heatre Group has enchanted audiences with its captivating perfor mances, showcasing local talent and fostering a sense of community like no other.

They have produced shows inspired by classic films like The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Annie, seve r a l B ro a dw ay re n d i t i o n s, a n d more. However, the Covid-19 pand e m i c p o s e d u n p re c e d e n t e d ch a l lenges that have led to a decline in m e m b e r s h i p, l e av i n g t h e t h e a t r e group without a venue and participants.

“It’s pretty much wiped us out,” s a i d Re n e e S o c h i , p r e s i d e n t a n d musical director of the Island Park T heatre Group. “Our venue was a m i d d l e s ch o o l a n d we u s e d t h e i r auditorium. After Covid-19, none of the schools would allow outsiders into their buildings because they had to clean it. So, we didn’t we didn’t own a building or a space.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the theatre has lost countless of its loyal perfor mers, as many Island Park residents have moved out of

t o w n a n d s e ve r a l c h i l d r e n h ave from the adults. We treated everyone relocated to other theatre g roups fairly and the kids were not coddled or treated like babies. They were and perfor ming arts schools.

“Everybody has moved on,” said treated like professional actors and they learned the right way Sochi. “Those children to do things. And it was w h o w e r e 1 0 ye a r s o l d really a great experience. when they left us are now It’s wonderful to watch 14-15 years old. And after them grow as perfor mers doing shows with us, and see them come into they’ve gone on to do their own and then take shows with their schools leading roles as they get and other groups that are older.” regional theaters and are RENEE SochI Before joining the theabl e t o h ave a ve nu e o r Head of Island Park atre group in 1991, Sochi, own their own building. Theatre Group has been a singer for most Island Park was a family of her life. After performthing, so the money that ing as an opera singer in we made from the show in the previous year is what started college and singing for her church.

Her experience as a seasoned vocalist us up for the next one.”

Fo u n d e d i n 1 9 9 0 , t h e t h e a t r e and piano and voice teacher gave her group gained popularity in the Island the confidence to join the theatre Park community for its exceptional when she was asked to play the lead productions and family-oriented envi- role of Maria in The Sound of Music.

“I thought okay, sure, why not?” ronment. For over three decades, hundreds to thousands of children, par- said Sochi I just fell in love with the ents and theatre-lovers have per- people who were involved and started formed in various shows within the perfor ming ag ain. When I star ted group and gained professional insight having children. My husband got up on sta g e and he star ted doing it into the theatre field.

“The children learned how to put because I was home with the kids. So together a show and behave on stage it was definitely a family thing.”

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Though the onset of Covid-19 has slowed the theatre’s eng a g ement, Sochi says the Island Park community is hoping to host fundraising events to pull people together. “ We a r e h o p i n g t o d o s m a l l things,” she said. “I know that my church is starting to do some fundraising and reaching out into the computer community. So I’m going to be reaching out to some of the people that have performed with us over the years and asking them if they would like to come and help us do some singing.”

Sochi says that the performers in the theatre group who are still holding on are eager for the chance to perfor m again soon. Their jour ney through the challenges of the pandemic has shown that even in the face of adversity, the show must go on.

“Most of us are very passionate about the theatre,” she said. =“We love the theatre. It’s very hard not performing to not be performing. You have to just wait for the opportunity to get up, get out there and do it. I’m hoping to keep inspiring younger generations to keep performing and getting out there and giving performing a try.”

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The employee, a 51-year-old man, was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, police said.

Masone was charged with burglary, assault and criminal mischief. He was scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court Oct. 9.

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Castleton students leave lasting legacy cipal Franky Simmons said. “Our arboretum has not just received a facelift — it has gone through an ecological metamorphosis orchestrated by our young minds invested in a greener future.”

The district has had an arboretum for decades, but it required much-needed remodeling. Florence A. Smith, the principal of Oceanside School 2, originally donated the plot of land in 1984. The original arboretum was developed and cultivated by Geoffrey Fennimore, former Oceanside High School English teacher, board member and the school’s horticultural club advisor, and former vice principal Dom Maresca, with help from Tommy DeDominica of Dees Nursery.

“It was just kind of a great place to be outdoors,” Castleton science teacher James Scannell said. “Now with the help of the administration, the students and fellow staff, we’ve been able to convert it into a much more user-friendly place where the students can actually receive lessons outside as well as enjoy nature.”

ORCA was developed by the students of Castleton to be used by the entire district for outdoor engagement and authentic learning. Students built signs, picnic tables and a new shed, and they are creating a greenhouse.

Students in kindergarten to sixth grade will benefit from the outdoor classroom and be able to use various outdoor resources for outdoor lessons.

Castleton students will prep the site before the younger students visit for their lessons. Castleton student council president Isabella Robateau helped create the center with other students and said she was inspired to build her own outdoor garden space.

“I learned a lot like how to do a lot of things, and I hope that I can make my own garden beds now that I know how to do these things,” she said. “The whole idea behind this is very cool. The little kids who come here can learn and have a different type of classroom. It was a very fun experience.”

Outdoor resources include a river stream table, where students will learn about erosion. The space also has tanks

that will hold koi fish, crayfish and turtles. The new research center also features a large-screen Smart TV for learning and Wi-Fi. “It started as a big project for the kids to do, and it turned into something where the kids can come and get out of the classroom, see everything with their own eyes, touch with their own hands, and look at what’s going on in nature,” technology teacher John LaCascia said.

“They’re going to be able to come out here and learn about the different natural sciences and what goes on in the natural world and the environment. It’s going to have a lot of lesson material.”

Castleton students will continue to improve the ORCA, building bird and bat houses, a pollinator lawn for bees and butterflies, and many other additions.

“We have plans to grow as time goes on,” Scannell said. “We’ll add more garden beds, more trees. We don’t want to set it up and forget about it.”

Students volunteered to spend many days constructing the ORCA, even volunteering to work on cold winter days and light rainy days as well, but were never discouraged.

“I think it’s amazing how some students volunteered, and it taught good skills in communication and how to push harder,” Castleton senior Angelina Fragoso said. “Instead of going home, we went right to work with Scannell. We got the experience as students to build an environment that can be calming and even help with mental health as well.”

The next phase of the ORCA will be to expand to include seventh through 12th-grade lessons. Although Castleton’s seniors who worked on the ORCA won’t receive their classroom lessons in the arboretum, the students loved the experience of creating a space that will be used by other students for years to come.

“The main reason why I volunteered was because there aren’t always times to get opportunities in life like this,” Fragoso said. “I think it’s good to spend your time on things that are fun because you get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for stuff like this.”

The arboretum looks a lot different now then it did when students began working on it back in Oct. 2020.

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School board Vice President Michael D’Ambrosio cut the ribbon for the new an improved outdoor research center.

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LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF NASSAU THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC. CHL MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH TRUST 2007-8 MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-8 Plaintiff, v.

DANA SELGADO, ET AL. Defendants NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the Office of the County Clerk of Nassau County on November 12, 2019, I, George Esernio, Esq., Esq. the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell in one parcel at public auction on November 8, 2023, at The North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, County of Nassau, State of New York, 11501 at 2:30 PM) the premises described as follows: 338 Virginia Avenue Oceanside, NY 11572 43-298-98 ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 611233/2018 in the amount of $639,701.71 plus interest and costs.

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BY THE BOARD OF APPEALS Pursuant to New York State Town Law Article 16, New York State Public Officers Law Article 7, and the Town of Hempstead Building Zone Ordinance, NOTICE is hereby given that the BOARD OF APPEALS of the Town of Hempstead will hold a public hearing in the Old Town Hall, 350 Front Street, Room 230, Second Floor, Hempstead, New York on 10/18/23 at 9:30 A.M. & 2:00 P.M. to consider the following applications and appeals: --------------------------------THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 9:30 A.M. 607/23.

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OCEANSIDE Louis Balsamo, Variance, lot area occupied, maintain wood deck attached to dwelling; Maintain pool & pool equipment with less than required side & rear yard setbacks; Special exception to maintain shed higher & larger than permitted, exceeding horizontal maximum, with less than required rear yard setback & lot area occupied variance; Special exception to maintain 2nd accessory structure (shed) higher & larger than permitted, exceeding horizontal maximum, with lot area occupied variance., E/s 4th St., 128.03’ S/o Waukena Ave., a/k/a 3351 4th St. ALL PAPERS PERTAINING TO THE ABOVE HEARING ARE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AT THE BOARD OF APPEALS, TOWN HALL, 1 WASHINGTON STREET, HEMPSTEAD, NY 11550.

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Approximate amount of judgment $543,306.74 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 010834/2015.

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Richner Communications, One of the Fastest Growing Media, Event and Communications Companies on Long Island is Seeking a Sales/Marketing Candidate to Sell our Print Media Products and our Digital, Events, Sponsorships.

Earning potential ranges from $31,200 plus commission and bonuses to over $100,000 including commissions and bonuses.

Compensation is based on Full Time hours Eligible for Health Benefits, 401k and Paid Time Off. Please Send Cover Letter and Resume with Salary Requirements to rglickman@liherald.com or Call 516-569-4000 X250

Receptionist needed for Publisher and Self-Storage Facility located in Garden City. The ideal candidate should have excellent communications and customer ser vice skills, be professional, dependable and have reliable transportation. Candidate should have computer knowledge and working knowledge of MS Office. Candidate MUST be reliable, punctual and be able to work a CONSISTENT schedule: Job Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Answering phones and greeting customers, assisting new customers by showing storage facility options and pricing, collecting payments from customers, contacting customers for late payments, applying payments and updating the customer files /data base and other general administrative responsibilities on an as needed basis. Hourly pay $15 to $17 plus eligible for Holiday Pay, PTO, Medical, Dental, 401k with company matching, plus other benefits. Qualified candidates should email their resume, cover letter and salary requirements. No phone calls please.

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SD#14.Near All. Must See This Unique Home!..REDUCED $2,700,000 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas elliman 516-238-4299 WOODMERE BA, 504 Saddle Ridge Rd.,Move Right Into This Renovated 4 BR, 2 Bth Split with Open Layout in Prime Location! Granite/Wood EIK Opens to Dining Room & Living Room. Lower Level Den. HW Flrs, Gas Heat, CAC. Oversized Property! SD#14.Near All!..$950,000 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299

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Florida Real Estate DELRAY BEACH, FL: For Sale, opportunity before it hits the market! Single Story Ranch Condo. Beautifully appointed in desirable Emerald Pointe gated community, Approx 1800 Sq Ft. Furnished, All Appliances, 2 Bed / 2 Bath, Eat-In Kitchen, Walk-In Closets, Great Interior Storage and Exterior Storage Room, Screened-In Porch with Dual Interior Access, New Rheem HVAC Jan 2019, Ceiling fans throughout, 4 Private Parking Spots, Clubhouse with Auditorium, Pool, Gym, Tennis, Pickleball (TBD), Game and Card Rms, Interior Walking-Paths, Pet Friendly, 55+ Community, Easy access to Palm Beach International and Ft Lauderdale Airports. Exciting Downtown Delray offers beautiful Beaches, Shopping, Restaurants, and Nightlife. Asking $309,999. Call David at 248-240-8154 SWCGRPMI@gmail.com

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It boasts a beautiful backyard with plenty of room for a pool. This home invites you in with an attractive foyer, powder room, living room, dining room and family room with fireplace. It has a custom gourmet eat-in kitchen with granite countertops/ backsplash, Italian Aran World wood cabinets, stainless steel appliances including Wolf dual gas range, Sub-Zero big refrigerator plus sunroom and more. There are 7 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms (2 new with radiant heat), hi ceiling, basement, exercise room, full attic, 2 car attached garage, big Trex deck, brick patio and guest suite with bath. Primary bedroom has bathroom with steam shower, balcony and European custom built-in closets. There is a new washer/dryer, new boiler/ hot water heater, new central A/C compressor and much more. Asking $1,699,000

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Amazing Architectural Details, Soaring Ceilings, Stained Glass Windows. 5 BR, 6.55 Bths. Sprawling 1.3 Acre Prop with IG Gunite Pool. SD#14. Near All. Must See This Unique Home! .................................................... REDUCED...$2,700,000

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332B Peninsula Blvd, BA, Move Right Into This Updated 3 Br, 2.5 Bth Coop Townhouse. LR, DR, Gran/Wood Kit w/ Stainless Steel Appl. Trex Deck Off LR. Primary Ste Features Updtd Bth & WIC. Att Gar Plus 1 Pkg Spot incl in Maintenance. W/D. Pull Down Attic. SD#15. Convenient to Shops, Trans & Houses of Worship ......................................................................... $449,000

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504 Saddle Ridge Rd, BA, Move Right Into This Renovated 4 BR, 2 Bth Split with Open Layout in Prime Location! Granite/ Wood EIK Opens to Dining Room & Living Room. Lower Level Den. HW Flrs, Gas Heat, CAC. Oversized Property! SD#14.

Near All! .................................................... REDUCED! $950,000

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1267 Peninsula Blvd, BA, NEW! 5 BR, 2 Bath Exp Cape in SD#14 (Hewlett Woodmere) Living Room, FDR & Updtd Gran/ Wood EIK w/ Vaulted Ceiling. 2 Main Flr BRs & Updtd Bth. Upper Level 3 BRs & Updtd Bth. 1.5 Car Det Gar Plus 4/5 Car Drivewy. Priv Yd w/ Deck. HW Flrs, Gas Ht. Near Shops, LIRR, Trans & Houses of Worship .......................................... $599,000 1534 Broadway #205, BA, Extra Large 2000 Sq Ft, 2 Bedroom (Originally 3 BR), 2 Bath Condo in Prestigious Jonathan Hall with Doorman & Elevator. Updtd Wood/Quartz Kit, LR & DR. Washer/Dryer in Unit. Underground Pkg. Loads of Closets. Terrace Faces Back. Easy Ranch Style Living .........BIG REDUCTION!! MOTIVATED SELLER! $579,000

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Licensed RE Salesperson

516-477-2378

erica.nevins@remax.net

A. Continuing from last week, the design of how a building will look is sometimes decided by the building owner, and sometimes the owner lets the architect be artistic in creative and inventive ways. Unfortunately, not all architects are given the opportunity to create as much as they would like to, because either local governments won’t onte eeper allow it or the owner wants something particular.

Some communities have special committees, called boards, to look at the architect’s design and then create parameters for what can be done.

Sometimes this is a good thing, and sometimes the architect doesn’t have any choice but to change the design to something less daring, challenging or artistic. That’s why people travel away from where they live to see special buildings in places where the buildings are thought of as works of art instead of just average.

In some communities, the architect can only use certain materials, so the new building matches the ones around it, and some areas require that the building be raised higher to prevent being flooded.

It’s possible to use the same materials in different ways, but some community governments don’t encourage this. The outside appearance is sometimes very fancy and artful, and the materials chosen may have symbolic meaning, such as the opera house that looks like a series of sails on sailboats next to the harbor in Sydney, Australia, or a power plant with a roof that doubles as a ski slope in Copenhagen, Denmark.

In some places you can see several buildings that stand in an area like works of art in a gallery. If you walk along the Highline in Manhattan, for example, it’s like walking through an art gallery, where you can see many artful and experimental uses of concrete, wood and steel.

Unique buildings, the ones intended to be unusual on purpose, are often much more expensive to build, and that’s another reason why you only see unusual designs in special places, where the cities and towns want to have them. Columbus, Indiana, home to Cummins Engines, is a city that has many unique designs, but only because the local government wants to have their city be a home to special buildings. In some communities, such as Italian towns and cities, the buildings are very old, but are not allowed to be changed on the outside because it would change the character of the places where tourism is their number one means of income.

Ask The Architect

Asya Bangiyeva Licensed Real Estate Sales Person Cell: 646-388-2208 Office: 516-223-2525 CB American Homes 493 Atlantic Ave. Oceanside, NY 11572

Ronnie Gerber 516-238-4299

Say I want to build a skyscraper, Part 2 Q. I’m doing a report for school on how buildings get designed. If you design a skyscraper, what are the things you have to do, and is it different for different kinds of buildings? Like, what do you have to do for a school or a house or a store to figure out what it will look like and how it gets built? My mom helped me with this question, but then we thought you might have more to say about it.

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he removal of Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House of Representatives, led by perennial malcontent Matt Gaetz, was disgraceful, and will have lasting negative implications for Congress and the nation.

A vote to remove a speaker during his or her term of office is virtually unprecedented.

The last time it was attempted was in 1910, over a century ago, and that vote was unsuccessful.

Speaker Joe Cannon was not removed. In fact, pETER during my 28 years in ConKinG gress, my office was in the Cannon House Office Building, named after Speaker Cannon. History can be its own reward.

The speaker of the House is second in line to succeed the president. He or she heads a powerful arm of government, and is elected by a vote of the entire House. Throughout our history, the tradition has been that the majority party votes at a party conference to select its candidate for speaker, and the minority party does the same. Both candidates are then nominated on the floor of the House. When the full

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House votes, no matter how close the inter-party vote is, the candidate of the majority party is elected speaker. This reflects the will of the American people to have the House run by someone the majority party has selected.

To remove the speaker — to “vacate the chair” — is such an extraordinary action that it should be based on criminal conduct or serious acts of moral turpitude by the speaker.

It should not be a political decision. Yet that’s exactly what happened last week, when eight far-right Republicans allied themselves with 208 Democrats to remove McCarthy, who had the support of 96 percent of Republicans.

This was strictly a power play by Gaetz and his gang of hostage-takers.

There isn’t one significant issue that these eight outliers have in common with the 208 Democrats and their minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries. This was a defeat for tradition and a victory for Gaetz and his unbridled ambition and lust for national publicity.

Gaetz accused McCarthy of conspiring with Democrats because McCarthy forged a bipartisan coalition with them to keep the government open after the Gaetz crowd refused to support Republican legislation to prevent a shut-

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down. This was an obvious ploy by Gaetz to set McCarthy up for failure. If McCarthy hadn’t passed bipartisan legislation to keep the government open, Gaetz would have accused him of poor leadership. When the speaker did the responsible thing, Gaetz virtually accused him of collaborating with the enemy. This is the ultimate hypocrisy, because Gaetz gave congressional Democrats power and influence they would not have had otherwise.

I’ve known McCarthy since he was first elected to Congress in 2006. I saw him work his way up through various leadership positions, and have always been impressed by him. Most important, he always kept his word to me. As speaker, he overcame massive political obstacles to get serious legislation through the House.

The reality is that Democrats control the White House and the Senate, while Republicans have a small majority in the House. Keeping that majority together required the skills of a juggler and a magician, plus extraordinary patience. The 221 House Republicans constitute a wide variety of philosophical and geographic views and beliefs. For instance, a Republican from rural Mississippi would have a

evin McCarthy’s removal was strictly a power play by a gang of hostage-takers.

very different agenda from a blue-collar conservative Republican representing suburban Long Island. It was McCarthy’s arduous and unenviable task to find common ground while accommodating these disparate agendas. (Let me commend Long Island Representatives Andrew Garbarino, Anthony D’Esposito and Nick LaLota for always taking their jobs seriously by working with McCarthy to get results for their districts and our region, and not grandstanding or taking cheap shots.)

McCarthy has decided not to run again for speaker. I certainly can’t blame him, though his talents and abilities will be sorely missed. I don’t in any way envy his successor. Not only will he or she have to work with a razor-thin majority, but now that the unwritten tradition of not removing a speaker for personal political aggrandizement has been shattered, the next speaker will also have to operate under the constant threat that a disgruntled minority of the majority might conspire with the minority party to create chaos.

Congress won’t be the same. Thanks for the terrific job, Kevin, and doing what you could to preserve sanity!

Peter King is a former congressman, and a former chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Comments? pking@liherald.com.

Once more, Israel goes to war

ike everyone in our community and all right-minded people in the world, I am horrified by the heinous terrorist attacks that occurred in Israel beginning last weekend. The deliberate, premeditated slaughter of hundreds of civilians, on one of the holy days of the Jewish year, by a genocidal terrorist group is beyond description in words.

We know that in wars fought in civilian areas, civilians are, unfortunately, killed. But to specifically plan for the wholesale, deliberate HoWARD murder of famiBREssLER lies in their homes, concertgoers and others, and the kidnapping of old people, children and women to use as bargaining chips or psychological warfare props boggles the civilized mind — and thrills only the diseased one.

This attack was a terrible blow to Israel and Jews worldwide. It is reminiscent to me of the Yom Kippur War. I was too young to understand what was happening when that war began in October 1973, but I remember the sense of fear that hung over the adults around me, and the nervous prayers led by my kindergarten teachers. That same feeling of desperately needing but not being able to access information, because of the holiday, afflicted me last weekend.

Everyone was adding bits of information they had picked up from newspapers or messages conveyed by neighbors, and the news just kept getting worse. Our enemies had wounded us, and more pain was likely to come. But unlike the war 50 years ago, I do not truly fear for Israel’s survival. She is strong, and if our enemies were looking to capitalize on the disunity that

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has racked Israel for many months, they may have scored a blow, but they have badly miscalculated, because when the threat comes from without, the core within hardens.

This past Shabbat, Shemini Atzeret, we read Kohelet. And Kohelet instructs us that there is a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to wail and a time to dance. But what happens when those things need to be done at the same time?

Simchat Torah is always a time of rejoicing and dancing, singing and glorifying. But this Simchat Torah was also a time to weep and wail. So our celebrations were tempered and our vigilance heightened, but we did dance. And we did sing. Because to do otherwise would be to allow our enemies to take even more than they already have. And for what they have taken, we will extract a price.

here is a time for war, and a time for peace. One day it will be time for peace.

There is a time to kill, and a time to heal. Unfortunately, we are now forced to do the former, and in the process we are doing the latter.

There is a time to wreck, and a time to build. Now we will wreck the infrastructure and, we hope, the leadership of our enemies, and continue to build our homeland.

There is a time to rend, and a time to mend. We rent our spiritual clothing these past days, and hopefully we are mending our people.

There is a time to love, and a time to hate. We are showing our love to our brothers and sisters, and venting our hatred on those who seek to destroy our brothers and sisters.

There is a time for war, and a time for peace. Now is the time for war.

One day it will be time for peace.

Howard Bressler, an attorney who lives in West Hempstead, is the author of “Wrong Conclusion, No Resolution: United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334’s Erroneous Conclusions on the Legality of Israeli Settlements in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.”

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In Israel, war ends politics, diplomacy as usual

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amas’s Saturday-morning assault on Israel was more than just a shocking demonstration of barbarism. The toll of Israeli dead and wounded — not to mention those kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip by these murderers — is sickening. And it should alarm and enrage civilized people everywhere.

The full extent of the horror on the southern border — coupled with a barrage of thousands of rockets and missiles fired at Israeli villages, towns and cities — is yet to be determined. Nor can we be sure what will follow after the first day of what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rightly characterized as a “war.” And whether it will spread to include Iran and its Hezbollah terrorist auxiliaries in Lebanon.

But we do know this: It is an event that changes the Middle East. All the rules that have governed the way Jerusalem deals with its terrorist foes and their Gaza stronghold since it fell under Hamas control in 2006 — in which the Israeli government and military have always sought to limit the conflict — must now be thrown out.

Above all, it must be an end to politics and diplomacy as usual in Israel, the diaspora and the West.

Whatever strategies and tactics that the Jewish state adopts as it seeks to reassert control over its border, rescue those held hostage, and punish those responsible for these crimes, some basic principles must govern the response to these events.

The first is that the Jewish people, and those who care about Israel, must unite.

After a year of political division and a culture war that threaten to tear Israeli society asunder and undermine its economy and security, those arguments must cease — there and elsewhere. The magnitude of this crisis is comparable to that of Israel’s wars in 1948, 1967 and 1973, and so must be the response of those who claim to be Israel’s friends and supporters.

It may be difficult to imagine the current politically fractured, more heavily assimilated Jewish community of the United States, that is far more alienated from Israel than it once was, coming together as it did during those days. But nevertheless, that is the model that the Jewish world and sympathetic non-Jews must follow. It must be clear to the world that when Israel is under attack and Jews are being murdered, the solidarity of the Jewish people and decent people everywhere with Israel must be unquestioned.

Second, there must be no tolerance or acceptance of the usual narratives and biased media coverage of the conflict, which focus more on Israel’s responses than on Palestinian terrorism itself, and which often seek to demonize the Jewish

state’s justified measures of self-defense.

Those who seek to wipe Israel off the map — whether by terrorism or political means — are engaging in a global attack on the Jewish people. The rising tide of antisemitism that is sweeping across the world in recent years is driven in large part by anti-Zionist propaganda. Anything that seeks to legitimize the goals of the terrorists to destroy Israel must be rightly labeled not just as hateful, but as a form of antisemitism that must not be normalized or allowed to be represented as part of mainstream opinion in the West.

If Hamas cared about the safety of the Palestinian Arabs languishing under their tyrannical Islamist rule in Gaza, they would not have started this war. They will, no doubt, continue to use the people under their control as human shields. That is a tragedy, but worries about the suffering of Palestinians caused by Hamas’s actions cannot be allowed to color the responses to efforts to save Israeli hostages and take out the terrorists and their military infrastructure.

The civilized world must fully support Israel’s counterattack. Any talk of proportionality or the need for restraint on the part of Israel as it copes with this assault on its citizens should be rejected.

Such bloody terrorism is not a natural response to Palestinian frustration or an effort — as Hamas falsely asserts — to prevent harm from being done to the mosques on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.

When Hamas talks about ending the “occupation,” it is not speaking about pushing Israel back to the 1967 armistice lines, or complaints about Jews living in the heart of their homeland in Judea and Samaria or Jerusalem. As far as Hamas and other Palestinian groups are concerned, “occupation” refers to the existence of Israel within any boundaries.

Their goal is not freedom for their people. If that was what they wanted, the Islamists, as well as their supposedly more “moderate” opponents, would have accepted any one of the compromise peace offers extended to them in the past. What they want to do is to kill Jews and eliminate the Jewish state.

Sadly, such sentiments are also part of mainstream Palestinian political thought and culture. The shameful scenes in which Palestinians have been shown celebrating terrorism and exulting over the dead bodies of murdered Jews or hostages must not only not be forgotten, conclusions should be drawn about what this means in terms of the future of the conflict and what the goals of diplomacy should be.

Any reporting about this war that doesn’t make that clear isn’t merely biased against Israel, but constitutes an adoption of terrorist talking points that legitimize

their wrongful insistence on continuing their century-old war on Zionism that has become inextricably tied up with Palestinian national identity.

Third, Hamas and its allies must gain no political or diplomatic benefit from their crimes.

The current imperative for American foreign policy, and that of other nations, must be to ensure that this unprovoked and appalling tragedy is not exploited by the forces that have launched this war.

Any discussion in the current context of redoubled efforts to resurrect a two-state solution to the conflict — that Palestinians have repeatedly rejected over the past decades — must end. On the contrary, the existence of the terrorist-run independent Palestinian state in all but name in Gaza is proof that such a plan is a guarantee of more suffering and bloodshed.

Hamas — no doubt acting with the knowledge and support of Iran — seeks to derail the widening circle of peace in which Arab states have embraced normalized relations with Israel. This war is clearly, at least in part, a response to efforts to involve the Palestinians in negotiations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. The Jewish state’s burgeoning alliance with the desert kingdom is the result of rational assessments of the national interests of both Middle Eastern countries and their mutual fears about Tehran’s quest for regional hegemony and a nuclear weapon.

This war is a reminder that the Palestinians must no longer be allowed to hold Arab nations hostage to their intransigent refusal to accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state.

There will be time enough in the days and weeks ahead to fully assess how much responsibility those who have sought to appease both the Palestinian terror organizations and Iran must bear for this tragedy.

The same is true with respect to assigning blame for what can only be termed a catastrophic failure on the part of Israel’s security establishment.

But for now, the priority must be to ensure that Israel’s borders are protected, its people’s safety ensured, and that those responsible for these criminal acts are severely punished and no longer able to launch attacks on the Jewish state with impunity. Any other response from individuals, organizations and their leaders, politicians or governments is unacceptable.

May God watch over the people of Israel and those tasked with their defense. May their efforts be victorious. And may the hateful enemies of the Jewish state be made to understand that their crimes and evil intentions will no longer be tolerated by the civilized world.

–Jewish News Syndicate

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wenty years ago, I became one of the more than 4 million women in America who are breast cancer survivors. As I reflect on this milestone, my heart is brimming with gratitude and a renewed drive to raise awareness about the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in women in the United States.

At age 36, I discovered a lump in my breast as I was traveling with family to St. Kitts for a birthday celebration.

As soon as I got home, I scheduled a doctor’s sieLA A. appointment to embark on furBYnoe ther exploration.

Following a mammogram, a sonogram and a needle-stick biopsy, my worst fears were realized — it was breast cancer.

The discovery added a great deal of uncertainty to a particularly active chapter of my life. At the time I was working full-time as the assistant executive director of the North Hempstead Housing Authority, and studying for a master’s in public administration at LIU Post.

Amid this personal adversity, however, my thoughts turned to softening the

impact of this news for my friends and loved ones. When it came time to break the news to my family, I put on my bravest face and told them, “I have a plan in effect, and everything’s going to be all right.” But despite my confident presentation, there were many hurdles.

After I started a course of chemotherapy early in treatment, I was treated for a rare allergic reaction that sent me into anaphylactic shock. Later I was hospitalized with neutropenia, a serious condition in which my neutrophils — a type of white blood cell — dropped to dangerously low levels. As my support circle reassured me that I would rebound, my thoughts turned to the Bible, and Jeremiah 29:11.

“For I know the plans I have for you,” the Lord declares. “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

I soon learned that those plans included a tremendous groundswell of love and support. One of the examples I will always carry with me is the generosity of my family and friends — and my colleagues at the North Hempstead Housing Authority. As a relatively new employee, I had accrued only a small amount of sick leave, and it was being consumed quickly amid my treatment.

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But Loreen, Dolly, Frann and Susan donated their time off to ensure my continued care and give me some muchneeded peace of mind. I will be forever grateful to these women — my friends for life — for their generosity.

After completing chemotherapy and radiation, I finished my master’s, continued my advocacy for affordable housing in 15 years at the helm of the Huntington Housing Authority, served on the Westbury Board of Education, and since 2014 have been blessed with the humbling privilege of representing the residents of Nassau County’s 2nd Legislative District.

All of this was made possible by the love and support of my friends and family, the expertise of outstanding medical professionals, and the practices that led to prompt detection and treatment.

For Black women, that is especially crucial. According to the American Cancer Society, we are more likely than white women to develop breast cancer before age 40, as I did. Furthermore, Black women have the highest death rate from breast cancer among any racial or ethnic group. A large factor in that sobering statistic is the fact that one in five of us develop triple-negative breast cancer, which tends to grow and spread

iven its prevalence among Black women, I’m now all about advocacy.

faster, has fewer treatment options, and usually has a worse prognosis.

Given these troubling statistics and the prevalence of this disease on Long Island, advocacy has been a significant part of my life as a survivor. My office will partner with NuHealth to bring the Nassau University Medical Center breast cancer screening van to the Lakeview Public Library, at 1120 Woodfield Road in Rockville Centre, on Oct. 26, and to Magnolia Gardens, at 899 Broadway in Westbury, on Nov. 2.

From 8:15 a.m. to noon on both dates, women over age 40 who have not been screened in more than a year can receive services including a breast exam by a nurse, a mammography, and self-examination instructions like the ones that led me to the discovery of my own breast cancer. Appointments are free for uninsured women based on eligibility guidelines, and you can make an appointment by calling my office, at (516) 571-6202, while supplies last.

If you have not undergone testing in some time, please heed the lessons of my own experiences and avail yourself of this opportunity. I am living proof that abundant life can be on the horizon after a breast cancer diagnosis — but we must take a courageous first step to begin that journey.

Siela A. Bynoe, of Westbury, represents Nassau County’s 2nd Legislative District.

Letters Make LIPA a public utility To the Editor: Re last week’s story “Rallying for public power, but PSEG pushes back”: As the “Reimagine LIPA” campaign affirms, simply municipalizing the utility — making LIPA completely public — will save Long Island ratepayers money. In addition, other actions would further lower electricity rates as restructuring proceeds: Borrowing by the authority should be curtailed, and payments in lieu of taxes, and taxes themselves, should be sunsetted by the Legislature. There should be a legislative mandate to move LIPA toward obtaining a nonprofit power supply, no longer forced to pay a premium for purchasing from for-profit power suppliers like National Grid.

In addition — and this can begin now — LIPA should act on behalf of its customers and take on the fossil fuel industry directly, by initiating a climate lawsuit against the industry — Exxon-Mobil, Shell, Chevron, BP and their trade organizations. Fossil fuel companies, like the tobacco companies, have known for over 50 years that their products were dangerous. In the case of fossil fuels, the companies, through their own studies, knew

their products were damaging the environment, causing global heating, and having negative health impacts on people.

This information was suppressed, covered up, and propaganda was released that denied the negative impacts of fossil fuels on health and the environment. Fossil fuel companies have consciously spread messaging that denies the reality of humaninduced climate change. The behavior of the industry amounts to consumer fraud.

LIPA has determined that it has spent over $70 million in “resiliency” spending in 2023, improving infrastructure to address climate change threats — e.g., elevating substations and re-engineering circuits to better handle outages. LIPA estimates that as of this year, it has spent more than $930 million on “storm hardening,” critical expenditures to combat increasingly damaging impacts of severe and chaotic weather events linked to climate change, due largely to fossil fuels.

LIPA and its ratepayers deserve redress and compensation from the fossil fuel industry for these costs. LIPA should join other plaintiffs around the nation and initiate its own lawsuit to hold these companies accountable for the price we, the public, have had to pay.

JIM BROWN Secretary, Green Party of Nassau County Island Park

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