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Playwright turns real life into a show

Parade fan is invited to participate

By KARINA KoVAC kkovac@liherald.com

Rebecca McKeegan, 21, has awakened bright and early to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with her family for as long as she can remember. She loves the floats, the performances of songs from Broadway plays and seeing how each parade is different from the last, which has made the event a longstanding tradition in her home, as it is in homes across the country.

But this year’s parade was to be particularly special for McKee g an, because she was scheduled to take part in it, as part of the McDonald’s Thank You Crew program, helping to wrangle the iconic Ronald McDonald float. The program honors McDonald’s employees who go above and beyond their work duties to put a smile on customers’ faces.

McKeegan, who has lived in Oceanside for 17 years and worked at the McDonald’s in town for four years, said that on every shift, she “makes sure that the customer is always feeling validated and feeling welcome.”

She does that, she added, by “making sure I know the customer’s order is sufficient and proper.

I’m always listening to the customer’s order.” She also goes above and beyond by getting to know many customers by name and their usual order, making the beginning, middle or end of their day easier. “I feel Continued on page 2

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felt myself coping with PTSD effects.”

With other members of her LIU Post senior and Ocean- family coping in different ways, side native Rebecca Goldfarb, Goldfarb looked inward, and 21, has been performing profes- asked herself, Is there somesionally on television and in thing wrong with me? Why am I film and theater for eight years. the only one in this situation Now, for the first time, she is feeling this way? She eventually starring in a play realized that she she wrote, “5 Jews in wasn’t the only one a Near Death Expeaffected. Others just rience (That Shock“grappled with it ingly has Nothing to dif ferently,” she do With Antisemisaid. tism!).” The comedyExploring mental drama focuses on an health, and how it American Jewish differs from person family stuck to person, was the between the past and basis for the main . the present as its characters. “Just the members undergo a REBECCA fact that five people traumatic experi- GolDfARB could go through the ence together and exact same thing perceive it different- Playwright, actor together, at the exact ly. same moment in It is based on a time, and still all true-life experience: Goldfarb leave in such different ways, I and her family were involved in thought was really something a car accident a few years ago that should be shared about that left her with post-traumatic mental health,” she explained. stress disorder. “I think what In the show, the family is prereally inspired me to want to paring for an upcoming celebrawrite something about it was, tion of a bat mitzvah, but, coming out of the accident, I unable to move on from the was the only one in my family trauma of the accident, her who had to seek help from a therapist,” she said, “and really Continued on page 9

By KARINA KoVAC kkovac@liherald.com

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he goal is more to see them as everyday people

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DIRECToR BRuCE BIDER at his piano, which he’ll be playing in the show ‘Dames at Sea.’

Local theater guild ends 25-year hiatus

By KARINA KoVAC kkovac@liherald.com

What’s a performer without a stage? Not very happy. But that’s changed now that the Theater Guild of Oceanside is back after a 25-year hiatus. Starting in the early 1960s with plays, the company branched out into musicals in 1986 with a production of “The Music Man.” After the

organization disbanded in 1997, a few dedicated theater lovers are now working to bring the guild back bigger and better than ever.

Its first show, “Dames at Sea,” is a spoof of 1930s movie musicals. It tells the story of a young dancer from Utah who comes to New York with dreams of being on Broadway. But with the Great Continued on page 3

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Parade lover is invited to be a float wrangler continued fRoM fRont page like it’s very important to know the customer’s name,” she said. “I’ve really made great connections with customers, and I know every single customer that comes in the morning.”

And those customers have told her how much they appreciate the personal touch. “Every customer that comes back tells me, ‘It makes me feel super special to know that you know my order’ and it makes them feel so important. And it makes me so happy that I can make them feel like they have an important place to go to every morning that their orders are going to be taken care of.”

So, when McKeegan was chosen to represent the Oceanside McDonald’s beneath the Ronald McDonald float, she enthusiastically agreed. “I am super, super excited,” she said. “I feel so honored and so special to know that I get to represent my town, and that I get to be on TV, and I’m just really, really excited and very, very happy that I got chosen.”

Every Thanksgiving morning, her family watches the parade together from start to finish, a tradition they “can’t miss,” she said.

What McKeegan loves most is how it stays the same, yet changes each year. “It’s new every year, which makes it more fun,” she said, “and

one of my favorite aspects of the parade is to see what Broadway show they bring.”

Thanksgiving is a time for feeling grateful for what you have, remembering the past and thinking about the future, but most important, McKeegan said, “bringing together family and appreciating the life that we have and the people that are in our lives.”

“You never know exactly what’s going to happen to you,” she said, “so you just have to be thankful for everything that you have and everything that you’ve grown up with. And Thanksgiving is a really big part of my life, because it makes me appreciate more, not only every day, but I also appreciate everything that I live for. But it makes me appreciate the people that stand behind me and support me in everything.”

She said she was grateful to McDonald’s for the chance of a lifetime. “They treat my wonderfully,” McKeegan said. “I can’t complain.”

The staff, she said, does “a wonderful job of just bringing the best out of their people. Even in the (most) stressful and most hard times, you still get appreciated for all your dedication and your hard work.”

In total, 20 to 25 McDonald’s employees in the metropolitan area were invited to take part as float wranglers.

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Rebecca McKeegan, who works at the Oceanside McDonald’s, was set to represent Oceanside at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

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Cast members become tight-knit friends Depression looming, her plans must change.

The musical’s director, Bruce Bider, has a long history with the guild, “My history of TGO goes back to being a student, sitting in the audience, watching,” he recalled. “I remember the first TGO show I saw was ‘George M.’ in 1975, and I continued watching.” Seeing the magic theater can bring, Bider got involved as a pianist when he was in high school, and then directed some shows in the ’90s before the “group just ran out of steam.”

Bider and Oceanside schools Superintendent Phyllis Harrington started talking last year about bringing the guild back. “Dr. Harrington had the vision last spring to (come back) — I guess she just had her finger on the pulse of what was going on,” Bider recalled, “and she said to me, ‘You know, I think it’s time to bring back TGO,’ and I said, ‘Sign me up.’”

The guild is sentimental to Harrington for numerous reasons, but the most significant is that she met her husband at a show over three decades ago. “I am thrilled that we have been able to revive the Oceanside Theatre Guild as it has been a goal of mine for many years,” she wrote in an email. “Community theatre is a wonderful way to bring people of all ages together to enjoy the magic of live theatre. I personally have extremely fond memories of the Oceanside Theater Guild as it is the place I met my husband over 30 years ago in a guild production of Cabaret.”

“Dames,” which will be performed Dec. 3 and 4, is a “Valentine to the movie musicals of the 1930s,” Bider said, “and to get people into character, I passed around some of my DVDs that this show is based on, like ’42nd Street,’ ‘Gold Diggers of 1933,’ ‘Footlight Parade’ — the 1920s Warner Brothers backstage musicals, they’re known as.”

To get into character, Bider borrows from his predecessor, Sally Buckstone, the original director of the guild. When he was in high school, Buckstone pushed Bider to explore his characters deeper by asking probing questions about their relationships to other characters and their motivations. “That always stuck with me,” he said, “so when I started directing, that was one of the tools of the trade that I kept.”

One member of the cast, Kasey Ziff, is following in her children’s footsteps. One is a sophomore at the high school and another is at Elementary School No. 3, and Ziff said they both “had the opportunity and pleasure to work with Mr. Bider” before she did. With her husband playing bass for the show and one of her daughters helping build the set, Ziff said she was appreciative of the relationships she’s forged with her castmates.

“I think one of the things that has made it such an incredible experience, and has actually brought more of my character to life, is just getting to spend time with everybody here and getting to know everybody here,” she said. “The more close and comfortable we become with each other, the easier it is for us to jump into those characters.”

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Some of the members of the Theater Guild of Oceanside who will be performing ‘Dames at Sea’ the first weekend in December.

Showtimes Saturday, Dec. 3, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 4, at 3 p.m., in the Oceanside School 6 Theater.

Ed and Julia Sollinger are a father-anddaughter combo performing together once again. “We’ve done a few shows together,” Ed said.

“But this is the first time in the theater guild,” Julia added.

Performing together, her father said, “is so amazing, I can’t say enough about it. Plus all my family comes to see it. It’s just been great to be able to share that. It’s the best bonding experience.”

In addition to their twice-weekly rehearsals, the cast gathers outside the theater to do in-depth character studies.

Bider says he hasn’t seen this level of commitment in a long time. “I have never, ever seen a cast as sacrificial of their own time,” he said. “Beyond what I asked for, they get together on Sundays without me, to practice.”

Casting took place in August, with roughly 16 interested actors vying for the roles and nine getting them. Rehearsals started after Labor Day. The beauty of “Dames,” Bider says, is how flexible the musical is.

“I knew that no matter how large or small a turnout we had at auditions, we could work with it,” he said, “and it’s also a very doable show because there are only two main scenes in it. So I thought it was a good comeback show to start off with,”

he said.

It’s also a comeback for one actor in particular — Jeff Gedacht, who has a history with Bider, having preformed in some of his previous shows. Gedacht found out about the return on Facebook, and immediately wanted to try out.

“I said, ‘I think you listed up to 40 years old, (but) I’m 42,’” he recounted, “so I contacted Bruce, and he said, ‘Why don’t you come down? There’s an outside chance that we’re going to put additional roles in the show.’ And I must say, I’m very fortunate, because I have a very nice part, and I’m hoping to get a lot of laughs.”

“I would want to add that I’ve been doing community theater maybe 15 years now, but it never ceases to amaze me the amount of talent that’s out there,” Gedacht said. “There are so many great people that have regular professions that you know, that have the talent to be on Broadway or close to it. It’s just a great value for people to get out. It’s not expensive, it’s local, you don’t have to kill yourself to go into the city. It’s really terrific.”

Another cast member who doubles as the show’s choreographer, Rebecca Richter, has also worked with Bider: He directed a musical in which she performed in 2018. “Since then I haven’t performed on stage,” Richter said, “and then Mr. Bider reached out to me about the show and choreographing it, because I helped choreograph a lot of the numbers in the musicals at the high school. It’s been exciting to come back and be on the stage and make my return.”

Actor Michael Ruggiere, who lives in Brightwaters, in Suffolk County, commutes to Oceanside for the opportunity to be in the guild, saying he fell in love with

the process of being a performer. “Performance serves two purposes,” he said.

“One is creative, and their interpretation of the script and the analysis of it, and the second role is as anthropologists, and all the research.

“It’s safe to say that performers are doctors of humanity in a certain way,” Ruggiere added, his voice filling with passion as he talked. “With this show in particular, I love the fact that it’s a spoof of the 1930s musical comedies, because there are so many reference points to go by. It’s also interesting to see how movie musicals were made at that time, and how it’s translated now, because at the time it’s innovative, and what you can do with it now, you’re seeing it in living color.”

The “lady behind the scenes, driving the car,” Bider joked, is Producer Maria Bavaro, who is active in Oceanside’s Department of Community Activities.

The guild is one of the department’s programs.

Bavaro said she appreciates the passion everyone in the show has when it comes to bringing the theater guild back bigger and better. “And to not only shine on the stage, but kind of shine in general to the community and say, ‘Look what we can do — look what we can do when you get us all together,’” she said. “It’s not only an opportunity for the actors to shine, and everyone to shine, but (for) the community to come out and see what everyone is capable of.”

Bider added that the show is familyfriendly and for any age demographic. “It gives us a platform to perform, to create,” she said, “and it’s a wonderful entertainment resource to the community and a wonderful outing for the whole family.”

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Being a journalist can be a difficult task, working long hours to perfectly craft an article due by a quick deadline, choosing stories to write about that are engaging to the reader, and the overall endless pursuit of truth.

However, students at Elementary School No. 4 are putting the time in to hunt stories and hone in on the craft of writing articles in their Newspaper Club, which is published online at The Hummingbird Post.

Sixth-grader Eliana started attending the club last year and said she is enjoying going around the school looking for stories and collaborating with her peers. “We go over events that are coming up and we assign people to different stories to cover the events and sometimes to interview or while working on a story we’ll all kind of work together and figure out who’s going to do what,” she said.

This year the fourth graders had a personal narrative publishing party in the auditorium, sitting and listening to the students reporters Eliana and Aiden took notes and interviewed the kids asking what they learned and what they thought of the experience.

She appreciated hearing more about the students, “I really like how all the kids learned something so important they learned that they actually enjoyed writing and grow as a writer and being like ‘oh you know writing really calms me down I really

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The elemeNTARy SChOOl No. 4 Newspaper Club hold up their press passes and professional reporters’ notebooks, ready to take on any story. enjoyed this.’ So, it was kind of surprising to see because you know kids can be like oh, I don’t like school or things like that,” she commented.

Ashley, another reporter, said the group participates in story pitching meetings where the students decide what is newsworthy and what isn’t. Some writers, like Anthony, picked a beat for themselves such as social studies with a focus on history while mostly everyone in the group is general assignment.

One reporter Liam expanded on his article about the best road trip snacks and drinks by interviewing and surveying students and staff around the school. “I found that some liked pretzels, some liked cupcakes,” he said. The polling data made the article a hard news story at a time while

some students were dabbling in the paranormal.

Going around the basement to take pictures of empty classrooms, a group of journalists noticed a white light in the health and wellness teachers office. They then started writing about how the school was haunted, when fifth and sixth grade teacher Mary Ralph asked them to provide more facts and information about the sighting.

“I said that we have to do real news, we can’t have things saying it’s a ghost. We have to make sure that if there are going to be stories that are not true, we have to tell our readers,” she said.

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That’s right, girls can play hockey, too Islanders’ elite travel program celebrates Title IX

By MALLORY WILSON mwilson@liherald.com

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t’s just 37 words long, but its impact has lasted 50 years and counting.

The civil rights law known as Title IX opened the doors to legal equality for women in educational institutions — including sports — and was celebrated at Garden City’s Cradle of Aviation last week when more than 100 girl ice hockey players and their parents gathered to talk about how this federal legislation afforded these girls the opportunity to play a sport that has typically been male-dominated.

They are members of the New York Islanders Girls Elite Hockey program run at the Northwell Health Ice Center in East Meadow — the same facility used by the cherished local NHL squad. The teams include have girls ranging in age from 8 to 19, started in 2016 by Alexis Moed, the general manager of the Premier Hockey Federation’s Connecticut Whale.

“It was just my feeling that things weren’t being done the best way that they could be, or the way that was the most beneficial to the players,” Moed said. “So, I took all of my experiences and what I went through, and taking everything that I didn’t have growing up, and putting it together for them in the program.”

The young players come from all over Long Island. Some started with Girls Elite Hockey, while others might have first dropped pucks in boys’ leagues before eventually finding themselves with the newer league. Either way, the consensus is clear — they like where they are, and they like having their own league.

Debbie Curry started playing with an Oyster Bay town league before joining a travel hockey team with the Long Island Sharks in New Hyde Park. But after three years playing with them, the 12-year-old goalie from Seaford was let go.

“She was so dedicated, and we were very involved,” her dad, Keith Curry said. “And then she got cut along with most of the other girls on the team.”

Moving Debbie to Girls Elite Hockey was the best thing to happen to her, said her mom, Christie.

“She always had a target (on) her for being a girl in a boy sport,” Christie said.

“Here she can be recognized and have a chance to go somewhere with hockey in the future because they’re giving the girls a chance to shine. I’ve never seen her so happy, and she can just be herself.”

Debbie wants to eventually go pro, and feels like this Islanders group gives her that chance because “they accepted me much quicker than the boys did.”

Being accepted and feeling more comfortable were common themes.

“I felt welcome on the boys’ teams I played with, but there were definitely some boys who would tell me that they were better than me because I was a girl,” said Emily Stein, a 12-year-old from Bellmore. “It’s so much better with girls because you feel more comfortable. And

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MeMBeRS Of the New York Islanders Girls Elite Hockey program joined their parents and coaches celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX last week with a panel of women who spoke about how the groundbreaking law shaped their professional careers.

JAMIe heRSch, Of the NHL Network, asked each panelist a list of questions for them to give their input on.

it’s like a second family.”

Adrianna Morabito says she can compete at the same level as boys, but camaraderie is what led the 12-year-old Wantagh player to the all-girls league.

“At any other organization, I could’ve been at 12U and quit because I didn’t like anyone on my team,” she said. “But because I was here, the friendships have been really good, and they’ve made me a much better player.”

Last week’s panel, moderated by Jamie Hersch of the NHL Network, presented perspectives of Title IX’s impact from women in different fields. Among those joining Hersch were Girls Elite Hockey founder Moed along with UBS Arena humen resources head Lea Del Rosario, Dr. Amy West from Northwell Health Orthopedic Institute in New Hyde Park, and Kelly Nash, the head coach of Long Island University’s women’s ice

AdRIANNA MORABItO, 12, far left, and teammates Megan McCarthy, 14, and Emily Stein, 12, joined those participating in a panel to talk about Title IX’s impact on women in sports at the Cradle of Aviation in Garden City. hockey team.

“I’m surprised that there hasn’t been more growth in the last 50 years,” Moed said. “But we recognize that the change can be slow. And we’re all committed to pushing that along.”

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There were a number of unhappy people attending last week’s meeting in Mineola of the committee in charge of creating districting maps for the Nassau County Legislature. A final decision was expected as early as this week.

GOP, Dems can’t agree on district maps As comments close, voters beg for more time to decide

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what the people are saying

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Nassau County Republicans and Democrats remained far apart when it comes to redistricting the county legislature. And as a final map is expected to be released this week — if not already — some who gathered to see drafts proposals in Mineola seemed displeased, too.

Redistricting happens once every decade, coinciding with the census, and happening at all levels of government. Battles raged earlier this year over statewide maps determining congressional districts and state officeholders. And it was no different last week when the public had a chance to speak out about the maps used to determine who will represent them in the county legislature.

It was, of course, a meeting that also included claims of “gerrymandering,” from people like SUNY Binghamton political science professor Daniel Magleby, who defined the term as districting that typically gives one political party “an unfair advantage by diluting opposition’s voting strength.”

“This is a textbook, example of what a packing gerrymander looks like,” Magleby said of the maps, comparing them to the last time the county redistricted, and what he described as an “extreme partisan gerrymander and an outlier relative to this ensemble of maps.

“Both maps — the 2013 map and the Nov. 10 Republican proposal — show patterns of systematic bias against Democratic voters in ways that underweighs their influence on elections in this county.”

Even Francis Moroney, chair of the committee in charge of reviewing the maps, agreed with Magleby.

“We all know that their proposal is blatantly illegal,” he said. “So it is not surprising that they are trying to shield the map from public view, and it made it impossible for the public to understand why they are proposing what they are proposing. We cannot ignore the fact that the severe seg-

POlITICal sCIeNCe PrOfessOr Daniel Magleby tells a Nassau County Legislature redistricting committee last week its maps from both Democrats and Republicans show clear gerrymandering. Final maps determining who will represent who at the county level are expected as early as this week. regation and discrimination in Nassau County is a result of gerrymandered maps.”

But if there was a lack of transparency on the Republican side, it wasn’t much different than what was happening on the Democratic side, said committee member Peter Bee. “They ambush you,” he said. “That’s their job. They’re trying to paint a picture that doesn’t exist. From our point of view, a Democratically controlled Assembly, a Democratically controlled Senate, to the Democratic governor enacted a law that said redistricting shall be done in a particular manner.”

The main goal, Bee explained, is “one person, one vote,” that is that “each legislator should represent roughly the same number of people.”

“I think our map has a smaller deviation in population than does the Democratic map,” Bee said. “The state law also says that you are not to deny racial or language minority groups their participation in politics. We do not think that our mapping has done so.”

But each map has its flaws, according to

civil rights lawyer Frederick Brewington, describing those problems with terms like “stacking,” “packing” and “cracking,” which he says creates an unequal balance of power.

“It’s very important for you to understand that the reason why so many people are here, there is no hope that you’re going to do the right thing,” Brewington said.

“But there is hope that we can take this to a place where they will say that you did them wrong. And as a result, we made the record for you, so you can’t say you weren’t warned.”

Brewington implored the committee to think of voters when designing the maps, while also looking inward.

“When you take a look at your own map, please, everybody, look at it in the mirror,” he said. “Look at yourself and evaluate whether or not am I, as a human being with authority and power, will hand this map over to the legislature so that they can do their dirty work?

“And if that’s your vote, shame on you.

But God bless.”

The committee was expected to finalize its maps on Monday.

Proposed redistricting maps for the Nassau County Legislature has drawn mixed reactions from some of the people it would represent.

“Possible 10,000 simulated maps using the gold standards method known as ensemble it was found to be more extremely gerrymandered in favor of Republicans that all of the maps run methodology recognized by the courts. The mapmaker then attempted to debunk the methodology by saying that it doesn’t take public comment into consideration, but neither do his maps. When asked if he believes a map would comply with the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, he said, ‘I don’t have to apply the law to this map.’”

–Arlo Fleischer, Nassau County Civil Liberties Union organizer

“Last time I spoke to this body, I asked you to redistrict by the interest of the people, not party. It seems that that has gone by the wayside.

You’re dividing communities. You’re diluting our community representation and our ability to get anything done for our community. I look to our neighbor over in South Hempstead — they’re even smaller than us, and they are three parts. That’s crazy. How you divided up Freeport? Oh my gosh, crazy. I know firsthand the difficulty of trying to get something done when you are divided up.”

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Dealing with PTSD, she wrote a play about it character finds it difficult to enjoy herself in the party atmosphere.

“It’s almost like this balance between them being pulled in two different directions of ‘OK, we have to move forward. We have this great, exciting thing coming up,’” Goldfarb said, “But also, I’m still having post-traumatic stress disorder. So how can I just move forward if so much of me is stuck in this past moment that occurred?” Together the family will have to accept and acknowledge the past in order to be able to create new, better memories.

Drawing inspiration from the experience felt “very real and authentic, especially for me,” she said. “In this story, specifically, there’s a lot of real-people influences from my own family, and finding different parts that are very much of them, but also finding pieces of myself in them as well. So it really helps find that kind of empathy to develop those characters.”

Goldfarb also wanted to right some of the wrongs in the media about the representation of Jewish people. “In this story, yes, it’s in the title these people are Jewish,” she said, “but the goal is more to see them as everyday people, to make it relatable and get rid of those stereotypes a little bit.” The story is relevant to anyone watching, though, because, she added, “At the end of the day, every single person can think of at least one person that means so much to them, and when something happens that changes the course of their lives, like trying to find a way to work through it together.”

Goldfarb got involved in theater while trying to emulate her older brother, Eric, who started acting before her but later lost his interest. She has fond memories of watching him perform. “I remember sitting in the audience watching him,” she recalled, “and I would always try to run up on the stage after, and I was so desperate to

see what was backstage, like that blew my mind.”

She began her journey while attending Elementary School No. 8, and was appreciative of the teachers who let her pursue her dream instead of penalizing her for missing class days. “Working professionally from a young age, there would be a lot of times I would have to miss school or leave early,” she said, “and I was just very fortunate that all of the faculty and all of my teachers were extremely supportive.”

Teachers asking her about her roles and showing an interest in her passion kept the energy going. “It just made me feel even better about what I was doing,” she said, “and it made me happier to go to school and do my work.” Dabbling in directing skits at the Oceanside Library helped her hone her skills.

“As a community they’ve been so supportive over the years — especially the Oceanside Library,” Goldfarb said. “They gave me a lot of opportunities to perform and put on and direct my own shows in high school. It was really exciting to be in that space and really be an adult for, like, the first time in this industry.”

Goldfarb is now nearly finished with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theater, and will likely pursue a master’s in the future. “I think the ideal dream would be, once I graduate, to really work in the field,” she said.

“And then, once I’m older and kind of want to focus on family and things like that, I would love to get my MFA and be able to teach in the future in a university setting.”

In the short term, she wants to do more acting and writing. “I think, writing, kind of being almost like a Lin Manuel Miranda, like writing my own musical or play and getting that to premiere on Broadway, or vice versa,” she said. “Like having my own screenplay that I write and getting that produced into a feature or a miniseries or something like that, I think, would be really exciting, because I really do love writing. But of course, you know,

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Rebecca GoldfaRb, 21, behind the scenes at the Long Island University Post Theater Company, where her play will be performed on Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m., and Dec. 3 and 4, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. performing has been my passion forever.”

Goldfarb is already brewing up more ideas for the future. “My own grandfather was a Holocaust survivor,” she said, “so I really want to be able to share his story in some kind of medium.”

“5 Jews in a Near Death Experience (That Shockingly has Nothing to do With Antisemitism!)” will be performed Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m., and Dec. 3 and 4, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., at the Post Theater Company on LIU’s campus.

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LIPA looks to power future with scholarships Looking for a career? Long Island Power Authority might have it for you — and the utility is putting money behind it through a new scholarship program with Nassau and Suffolk County community colleges.

The LIPA scholarship is designed to provide education and training for students from households with incomes below Long Island’s median, which is about $100,000 for a family of four.

The scholarship represents a $350,000 commitment over the next five years. It will provide 50 full scholarships for students to attend one of the community colleges and earn an associate’s degree or certificate that’ll help them pursue a career in the electric utility or clean energy sectors.

“Electricity is the clean fuel of the future,” said Thomas Falcone, LIPA’s chief executive, in a release.

In fact, Falcone points to various studies he says predicts electricity will provide more than 70 percent of New York’s energy needs by 2050 — and be entirely carbon-free.

The 50 scholarships LIPA will offer over the next five years are intended to ensure there will be an adequate, homegrown workforce to support it, the utility leader added.

Falcone was joined in the announcement by Maria Conzatti, interim president of Nassau Community College, and Edward Bonahue, president of Suffolk

Nassau CommuNity College is one of the two schools that are working with Long Island Power Authority to give scholarships to students looking to get into the electrical and power fields. LIPA predicts electricity will account for 70 percent of New York’s power needs by 2050.

What awardees get Winning a Long Island Power Authority scholarship allows students to: ■ Get money toward earning an associate degree or certificate program at either Nassau or Suffolk County community colleges.

■ Attend LIPA workforce seminars with utility executives and experts.

■ Receive job placement support for available positions at LIPA, PSEG Long Island, and other LIPA contractors and suppliers.

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County Community College.

“The Long Island Power Authority’s generous scholarships will help us recruit and sustain students entering the STEM fields,” Bonahue said, “transforming our workforce and our region’s economy.”

The curriculum offered at both schools are expected to include courses relevant to the work LIPA does now — and is expected to do — to meet the clean energy goals set by New York’s Climate Act. Signed in 2019, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act requires New York to reduce greenhouse emissions 40 percent by 2030, and no less than

85 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels. The law is designed to help guide New York toward carbon neutrality — achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

Also, the courses are expected to showcase LIPA’s mission of providing clean, reliable and affordable energy to not only Long Island, but also the Rockaways.

Graduates using LIPA scholarship funds are expected to get a competitive edge when it comes time to apply for jobs at the Long Island Power Authority, along with PSE&G Long Island, which plans to hire hundreds of entry-level workers over the next five years.

The five-year program will provide annual funding for 10 full-time, two-year scholarships.

Scholarship recipients will come from low- to moderate-income students who reside in disadvantaged communities — identified by New York’s Climate Justice Working Group — planning to attend either Nassau Community College or Suffolk County Community College.

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It’s a musical journey featuring foundational tunes from the Crests, Belmonts and Flamingos through the vocal artistry of Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, and The Four Seasons all the way to ‘DooWopified’ versions of modern hits from Michael Jackson, Jason Mraz, Maroon 5, and Sam Smith.

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Now that we’ve enjoyed the big feast, all the spectacle and delights of the festive season have arrived. Yes you can head out and start that holiday shopping — or venture out to explore some of the many holiday-themed events nearby.

Sunday, Nov. 27, 3 p.m. $40-$65.

Madison Theatre, Molloy University campus, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre. (516) 323-4444 or MadisonTheatreNY.org.

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The famed lush grounds that define Old Westbury Gardens are festively lit up for the holiday season.

The walk-through seasonal light show, “Shimmering • Garvies Preserve Native Feasting Native American-style Solstice,” returns for a second year, opening Friday, American Festival, Early on in our nation’s history Native Americans through Jan. 1.

Nov. 26, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. handed down time-honored practices to rejoice This year more visuals have been added, including 50 Barry Drive, Glen Cove over nature’s bounty at harvest time, even though it a re-designed interactive area with three new exhibits • For information, contact (516) 571-8010 or certainly wasn’t Thanksgiving as we know it. Yet, there to engage adults and children alike; seasonal music GarviesPointMuseum.com was plenty of feasting and festivities as these early throughout the expanded illuminated path, along with Americans gathered to commemorate their harvest an illuminated water element on the West Pond. Also the • Old Westbury Gardens before preparing to settle in for the approaching winter.

Garden of Appreciation will be turned into a comfortable Shimmering Solstice, An annual holiday event — one that has been warming area with a concession stand for seasonal select dates through popular here for more than 25 years now — takes snacks and drinks.

Jan. 1, beginning 5:30 p.m. place at Garvies Point Museum and Preserve yearly The custom-built experience — created by 71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury around Thanksgiving.

Lightswitch, a collective of internationally recognized • For tickets/ Saturday’s hands-on program — held both indoors lighting, media, and visual designers — has been information, contact and out — gives visitors a first-hand look at Native specially fashioned to highlight Old Westbury Gardens’ ShimmeringSolstice.com or American life through a glimpse of how the state’s uniquen characteristics.

OldWestburyGardens.org earliest inhabitants lived. Everyone can participate in “Shimmering Solstice was designed to be a or (516) 333-0048 tool and pottery-making, stone drilling and the use of celebration of our space,” says Maura Brush, director the atlatl (a spear-throwing tool). Primitive fire building of horticulture at Old Westbury Gardens. “The features (without matches!) and some on-site cooking are among other activities that define Old Westbury Gardens such as the formal allées, ponds, and always enjoyed by all who take part. statuary are all illuminated so visitors can view them in a completely Families can also explore the process of creating “dugout” canoes, different light. Instead of flowers, the gardens will be blooming with along with corn grinding and storytelling (at 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m.) with light. This is truly an enchanting combination of the beauty of the Chief Redfeather of eastern Long Island’s Montaukett tribe. Also check gardens and the magic of the season.” out displays of artifacts from the museum collection and the authentic The family-friendly experience is intended to be explored at your own reproduction of a wigwam, always a favorite with kids and parents. pace. For the exciting finale, everyone will be dazzled to see Westbury While there, be sure to take a look at the museum’s permanent House’s south facade come alive with magical lights and seasonal exhibits, which showcase Long Island’s Native American culture and sounds. And this year an exciting twist is promised, according to the archaeology, as well as the geology of Long Island and New York state. design team.

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Photos: Garvies Point Museum’s annual Native American Fall Festival is a seasonal tradition.

Photo: Old Westbury Gardens’ meandering paths along the famed Walled Garden, the Rose Garden, and the South Lawn are aglow with holiday splendor.

Straight No Chaser It’s been 25 years since Straight No Chaser introduced their signature style of a cappella to the world. If the phrase ‘male a cappella group’ conjures up an image of students in blue blazers, ties, and khakis singing traditional college songs on ivied campuses ... think again. These gents are neither strait-laced nor straight-faced, but neither are they vaudeville-style kitsch.

They have emerged as a phenomenon with a massive fan base and a long list of accomplishments including two RIAA Gold Certified albums, over 1.5 million concert tickets sold, over 1 billion streams on Pandora, and over 2 million albums sold worldwide. SNC is the real deal, the captivating sound of nine unadulterated human voices coming together to make extraordinary music — and with a sense of humor Now, these delightful fellas are on tour celebrating their milestone anniversary.

Tuesday, Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m. $99.50, $79.50, $69.50, 59.50, $25. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. (800) 745-3000 or Ticketmaster.com or ParamountNY.com.

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Join the Oceanside Community Warriors for weekly community cleanups around the hamlet every Sunday. Contact Oceansidewarriorsny@gmail.com for information on the location of their next cleanup.

Dec. 3 ‘Dames at Sea’

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The actor-entertainer bring his “Standards & Stories” concert to Tilles Center, Friday, Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m., performing a selection of his favorites from the Great American Songbook while interweaving stories about his life and personal connection to the music. In this joyous evening of glorious songs and personal storytelling, on the LIU Post campus, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville, Danza combines timeless music with wit, charm, storytelling, and a dash of soft shoe and ukulele, backed by a four-piece band.Tickets are $62, available at TillesCenter.org or (516) 299-3100.

Back after a 25 year hiatus, the Theatre Guild of Oceanside is proud to show the public “Dames at Sea,” Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 3 and 4, at Oceanside School 6 Theater.

Book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller, music by Jim Wise. Tickets are $15 for seniors, students and district staff and $20 for the general public. Tickets are available at ShowTik4U.com, search for ‘Oceanside.’

Plaza Theatrical continues its season with “Grumpy Old Men: The Musical,” Saturday, Nov. 26, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 27, 2:30 p.m.; Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2 p.m. Also Dec. 1-4. Based on the beloved 1993 film, which starred Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau and Ann-Margret, this stage adaptation captures the lovably crotchety characters through twinkling humor, great songs, and the affectionate depiction of a small town that feels like home to everyone. It’s performed at Plaza’s stage at the Elmont Library Theatre, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. $49, $45 seniors. Elmont. For tickets, call (516) 599-6870 or visit PlazaTheatrical.com.

Letters to Santa Drop off your letter for Santa in the Island Park Library’s special mailbox with express delivery to “The North Pole!” Each letter with a legible name and address will be answered by Santa before the holiday. Pick up a helpful form at the library, 176 Long Beach Rd., or write your letter on your own from Nov. 25 to Dec. 16.

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Santa run with OFD Santa will visit Oceanside early this year on Dec. 11 with the help of the Oceanside Fire Department. Follow the route using a digital tracker on the fire department’s Facebook page and come visit Santa in real life as he makes stops in Oceanside along the way. Santa’s first flight will begin at 4 p.m. from OFD headquarters.

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Holiday fun Visit the streets of 19th century London during the darkest days of the year, in this adaption of the classic “A Christmas Carol,” with the Experiential Theater Company, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 25-26, 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.; also Wednesday, Nov. 30, 10:15 a.m. and noon, on the Long Island Children’s Museum stage. Meet the Cratchit family, Mr. Scrooge, and the ghosts of past, present and future in this interactive show that weaves together music, humor, puppetry and collaboration.

Celebrate the change of seasons through this beloved literary tale. Performances continue through December.

Long Island Children’s Museum, Museum Row, Garden City.

(516) 224-5800 or LICM.org.

Join Nassau County Museum Director Charles A. Riley II, PhD, for a Director’s Seminar, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 4 p.m.

He’ll discuss “Photography: Beauty and Truth,” in a session that examines the intensely emotional approach to photography taken by many of the greats, including Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, and the analytic, formal path of the Bechers, Struth, Hofer and many Contemporary artists. Participation is limited; registration required. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.

Equinor’s Empire Wind Project meeting Curious about the Equinor Offshore Wind Project? Bring your questions to the Equinor team, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 6:30-8 p.m., at Lincoln Orens Middle School Auditorium, 150 Trafalgar Blvd., Island Park.

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Hofstra law dedicates Abrams Fensterman Lobby For 16 years, the law firm provided money to support students at Hofstra University’s Maurice A. Deane School of Law. And now the lobby there will be named after the firm.

The dedication of the new Abrams Fensterman Lobby is part of Hofstra Law’s Vision 2020 campaign. Samuel Ferrara, executive partner at the Lake Success-based firm, was a member of the campaign’s leadership board.

“We as a firm are truly honored by this recognition from Hofstra Law,” said Howard Fensterman, the firm’s managing partner, in a release. “We are proudly committed to continuing our support of the law school and their talented and dedicated students.”

The first law school campaign was successfully completed more than 22 years ago — around the same time Abrams Fensterman was founded, and has since raised nearly $22 million, surpassing its initial goals of $12.5 million, and even its “stretch” goal of $17.5 million. The campaign was created as part of the law school’s 50th anniversary.

Funds were raised through alumni, friends, organizations, faculty and staff members. Hofstra also hosted a hall of fame and 50th anniversary celebration that supported the campaign.

Money is used to fund recruitment efforts as well as provide scholarships while expanding cutting-edge programs in areas such as legal technology. Funds

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The main enTryway into the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University is now known as Abrams Fensterman Lobby after the Lake Success-based firm that has provided money and instruction at the school. Joining in the dedication were, from left, Abrams Fensterman managing partner Howard Fensterman, Hofstra Law dean Gail Prudenti, and Abrams Fensterman executive partner Robert Abrams. were also used to create new interdisciplinary programs within Hofstra’s graduate schools.

The current campaign has been underway the last four years and has

been credited with increasing support to more than 200 named scholarships and fellowships. That includes the Dean’s Legal Tech Fellowship Program for law and engineering students to work on arti-

ficial intelligence projects within the school’s research lab while adding five new legal tech courses to the curriculum.

The campaign also supported faculty scholarship and hiring, and adapted to virtual and hybrid teaching during the coronavirus pandemic with upgraded “lecture capture” technology in newly modernized classrooms with a new student lounge and public event spaces.

Attorneys from Abrams Fensterman — including more than two-dozen Hofstra Law alum — routinely serve as adjunct professors and guest speakers.

They also participate in the law school’s mentorship programs and mock interview events.

The firm was founded in 2000 and has offices in Brooklyn, White Plains, Albany and Rochester.

The Abrams Fensterman Lobby is a multifunction space where students study, collaborate, and gather for law school receptions and communityfocused events.

“We are grateful for visionaries like Howard Fensterman, and everyone at Abrams Fensterman for their investment in Hofstra Law and their commitment to mentoring, training and hiring our students,” said Gail Prudenti, dean of Hofstra Law, in a release. “Their support ensures these efforts will continue to grow far into the future.”

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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 11/30/22 at 9:30 A.M. to consider the following applications and appeals: --------------------------------THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 9:30 A.M. 761/22.

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LEGAL NOTICE CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT, NASSAU COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO:Basil Bozonelis, Phoebe Speck, Jennifer Bojonell, Hilarie Bojonell, Jeoffrey Bojonell, Phoebe Gregor, Valerie Johnides Kane, Helen Castorino, Office of the NYS Attorney General and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law

and next-of-kin of the said JOAN SMITH, deceased, and if any of the said distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and/or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained.

A petition having been duly filed by Nassau County Public Administrator, who is/are domiciled at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York 11501.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on January 18, 2023, at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Joan Smith lately domiciled at 3202 Ocean Harbor Drive, Oceanside, New York 11572, United States admitting to probate a Will dated December 11, 2018 (and Codicil(s), if any, dated _____________), a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Joan Smith, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: [ ] Letters Testamentary issue to ___________________ [ ] Letters of Trusteeship issue to ___________________ f/b/o ___________________ f/b/o ___________________ f/b/o ___________________ f/b/o ___________________ [X] Letters of Administration c.t.a issue to Public Administrator of Nassau County [X] Further relief sought (if any): Filing of a bond be dispensed with.

Dated, Attested, and Sealed, 11/02/2022 ___________________( Seal) HON.HON. MARGARET C. REILLY Surrogate s/ Debra Keller Leimbach ___________________ Chief Clerk ___________________ Signature of Attorney Richard T. Kerins, Esq. Print Name of Attorney Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC Firm Name (516) 538-1111 Telephone 254 Nassau Boulevard South, Garden City South, New York 11530 Address rkerins@mmkolaw.com Email (optional) NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief

requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NASSAU COUNTY FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff against LORETTA O’GRADY A/K/A LORETTA M. O’GRADY A/K/A LORETTA MILITO, et al Defendant(s) Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein Such & Crane, LLP, 1400 Old Country Road, Suite 103N, Westbury, NY 11590.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered November 13, 2019, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on December 8, 2022 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 72 West Cortland Avenue, Oceanside, NY 11572. Sec 43 Block 333 Lot 62, 63 and 64. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Oceanside in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York.

Approximate Amount of Judgment is $568,831.32 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 002788/2015.

The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 10th Judicial District’s Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules.

The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the Court Appointed Referee shall cancel the foreclosure auction.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.”

Donald Henderson, Esq., Referee AYSJN042 135048 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CVI CGS MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST I, Plaintiff, vs. FRANK MORIZIO, JR. A/K/A FRANK MORIZIO, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on July 3, 2018 and an Order Extending Sale Deadline and Other Relief duly entered on February 9, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau

County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on December 1, 2022 at 4:30 p.m., premises known as 84 Virginia Avenue, Oceanside, NY 11572. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 43, Block 387 and Lot 21.

Approximate amount of judgment is $636,601.18 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #007051/2015.

This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale.

Thomas McNamara, Esq., Referee Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff, Firm File No. 213045-2 135052

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU The Bank of New York Mellon as Trustee for CIT Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-1, Plaintiff AGAINST Santiago Ramirez; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered May 18, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York, 11501 on December 6, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 3068 Morrow Road, Oceanside, NY 11572. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Oceanside, in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section 43 Block 350 Lots 53 and 54.

Approximate amount of judgment $591,771.36 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 006490/2015.

The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.”

Keith Patrick Brown, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC

Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: October 21, 2022 135046 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc. 2007-AHL1, Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-AHL1, Plaintiff AGAINST Michael Palmeri; Carol Palmeri a/k/a Carol A. Palmeri a/k/a Carol Ann Palmeri; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered April 17, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on December 6, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 3068 Xavier Place, Oceanside, NY 11572. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, at Oceanside, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section 54 Block 507 Lot 13. Approximate amount of judgment $920,711.22 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 000590/2017.

The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.”

Darrem Aronow, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: October 11, 2022 135050 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee, for Carrington Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2005-NC5 AssetBacked Pass-Through Certificates, Plaintiff AGAINST Joseph Mosey; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered March 15, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on

December 13, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 224 Pennsylvania Avenue, Island Park, NY 11558. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, at Island Park, Long Beach, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section 43 Block 92 Lots 19-21. Approximate amount of judgment $422,368.13 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 004383/2014.

The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.”

Janine T. Lynam, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: October 17, 2022 135324 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST KIMBERLY J. MORAN, THOMAS J. MORAN, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered December 4, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on December 13, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 527 DERBY DRIVE EAST, OCEANSIDE, NY 11572. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in Oceanside, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section 54, Block 222, Lot 59. Approximate amount of judgment $206,952.03 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #616322/2018.

The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 mitigation protocols and a s such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the court appointed referee will cancel the foreclosure auction.

Foreclosure

Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine”. Mark Ricciardi, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 18-007850 73646 135227 LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK INDEX NO. 613285/2021 COUNTY OF NASSAU ___________________ BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, vs.

DOREEN ALBANESE, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF MURIEL R. DI NICOLA, if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF MURIEL R. DI NICOLA; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN

DEVELOPMENT; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

Plaintiff designates NASSAU as the place of trial situs of the real property SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 3232 ELLIOTT BOULEVARD, OCEANSIDE, NY 11572 Section: 43, Block: 212, Lot: 4, 5 & 6 ___________________ To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State.

The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. Your failure to appear or to answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $544,185.00 and interest, recorded on November 19, 2007, in Book M 32512 at Page 547, of the Public Records of NASSAU County, New York., covering premises known as 3232 ELLIOTT BOULEVARD, OCEANSIDE, NY 11572.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

NASSAU County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME

OCEANSIDE/ISLAND PARK HERALD — November 24, 2022

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Over 400 seniors take part in interview day The high school’s Counseling Department once again teamed up with the English Department and library to hold Senior Interview Day on Nov. 4. The collaboration helps prepare seniors for imminent college and workplace interviews with instruction on preparing resumes, interview etiquette and post-interview follow-up. Volunteers within the district and business community helped conduct the interviews.

Patrick Aggarwal, the owner of Farmer Joel’s, participated at the request of NCAA advisor and former English teacher Frank Luisi. Aggarwal said that in today’s labor market, students will be choosing where they want to work as much as being chosen.

“They have their youth and their education and want to put themselves in the right hands to foster their growth,” he said.

The students met in groups with volunteers who spoke about college admissions and the workplace to prepare the students for their one-on-one interviews.

— Karina Kovac

Courtesy Oceanside school district

oHs socIal studIes teacher Gavin Kalner met with a group of students to prepare them for their one-on-one interviews on Senior Interview Day. The room shown is the multi-purpose room in the new OHS wellness center

Public Notices

If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated:October 28, 2022 ROBERTSON, ANSCHUTZ, SCHNEID, CRANE & PARTNERS, PLLC Attorney for Plaintiff Oluwatobi Adedokun, Esq. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 135276

LEGAL NOTICE Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court Of The State Of New York County Of Nassau Action to Foreclose a Mortgage Index #: 603698/2022 Mortgage Assets Management, LLC F/K/A Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc., Plaintiff, vs unknown Heirs Of Samuel Carattini If Living, And If He/She Be Dead, Any And All Persons Unknown To Plaintiff, Claiming, Or Who May

Claim To Have An Interest In, Or General Or Specific Lien Upon The Real Property Described In This Action; Such Unknown Persons Being Herein Generally Described And Intended To Be Included In Wife, Widow, Husband, Widower, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assignees Of Such Deceased, Any And All Persons Deriving Interest In Or Lien Upon, Or Title To Said Real Property By, Through Or Under Them, Or Either Of Them, And Their Respective Wives, Widows, Husbands, Widowers, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors , Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assigns, All Of Whom And Whose Names, Except As Stated, Are Unknown To Plaintiff, United States Of America Acting Though The Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development, United States Of America Acting Though The IRS, People Of The State Of New York; John Doe (Those unknown tenants, occupants, persons or corporations or their heirs, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors claiming an interest in the mortgaged premises.), Defendant(s).

Mortgaged Premises: 2922 Oceanside Road Oceanside, NY 11572 To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if

the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of servi ce (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Nassau.

The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. TO Unknown Heirs of Samuel Carattini, Defendant In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. David P. Sullivan of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated the Twenty-Seventh day of October, 2022 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, in the City of Mineola. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, dated May 31, 2012, executed

by Samuel Carattini (who died on December 14, 2020, a resident of the county of Nassau, State of New York) to secure the sum of $525,000.00.

The Mortgage was recorded at Book 37646, Page 879 in the Office of the Nassau County Clerk

on August 31, 2012. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed May 3, 2021 and recorded on May 24, 2021, in the Office of the Nassau County Clerk at Book 45450, Page 315; The property in question is described as follows: 2922 Oceanside Road, Oceanside, NY 11572 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: November 4, 2022 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose.

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New interim president at Francis X. Hegarty school Island Park Board of Education appointed Adam Frankel as the acting interim principal of Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School at the Nov. 14 board meeting. Frankel has served as an elementary principal for over 15 years in both large and small school districts across Long Island.

Frankel has been deemed a proven instructional leader, serving most recently in roles of Director of Elementary Education and Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction.

In his new role, Frankel is looking forward to working together with teachers and staff to continue to support learning opportunities for Francis X. Hegarty students.

Superintendent of Schools Vincent Randazzo shared, “We are excited to have Mr. Frankel join the Francis X. Hegarty family. His expertise will assist in expanding the success of the school.”

— Karina Kovac

Island Park school district

Island Park Board of Education appointed Adam Frankel as the acting interim principal of Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School at the Nov. 14 board meeting.

News brief Island Park elementary school students sing and give gifts to local veterans Island Park students at Francis X. Hegarty enjoyed celebrating at a Veterans Day Assembly on Nov. 10. The tribute started with the “Pledge of Allegiance” and singing of “God Bless America.”

Third graders presented handmade cards to the local veterans who visited. First graders showed their appreciation with a poem presentation.

One highlight of the program was the student performance of “Veterans, We Love You.” Additionally, the honored guests enjoyed seeing the displays of student artwork expressing thanks and gratitude for their service.

— Karina Kovac

Photo courtesy of Island Park Public Schools

Handmade cards were given to the veterans in appreciation.

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Q. I saw an article in a magazine about how I may be able to add air and water purifiers in my office to minimize sickness and infections. Is this for real? Can air purifiers limit things like Covid, and does it pay to put in a full water purifier instead of just having a bottled-water cooler station, even in my home or in my office (for my employees)?

A. There is a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about levels of purification and, depending on the source of the information, like an advertisement instead of research reports, the facts are unclear. I couldn’t tell anyone, definitively, what works best, or even the specifics as to why, only that there are systems that are required and units that do onte eeper have benefits for employers and homeowners, according to industry reports.

For example, it almost always comes up during the design phase of offices and retail spaces that the owner wants to put in a bottled-water cooler instead of a drinking fountain, but the plumbing code, which is a law, states that two drinking fountains or a dual unit, the high and low kind, are required to be installed. (The reason for the low drinking fountain is to avoid discrimination, along with many other regulations, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into federal law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.) A bottle station is nice to have but not required.

Water purification will be a healthy solution for your employees and family, since it removes chlorine, sediments and multiple trace minerals. There are many different types of purifiers on the market. For commercial purposes, consider a cartridge-type purifier specific to your commercial space, and for a residence, a whole-house system such as the ones from PurifiedSolutions.net, which use a seven-stage reverse-osmosis process. Just remember, these systems all require the replacement of filters, so factor in replacement costs so you aren’t surprised later.

As for the bigger question, air purification, it is a much broader and more questionable issue, since different systems filter air in different ways, and even though advertisements tout all the wonderful particulates that can be removed, virus particles aren’t necessarily one of them. Smoke from cigarettes and dust have a much larger mass, and are more easily removed with high-efficiency particulate air, or HEPA, filters than bacterial or viral-laden particles.

Even though microscopic-sized allergens can be removed, unless they are treated with either damaging light or chemical containment, just catching the allergens doesn’t necessarily get rid of them. Make sure you find out what the filtration unit will do from an independent testing source report before spending the money on one.

Recent studies do show the workplace benefits for having enhanced ventilation and filtration. Some 90 percent of maintenance costs are for keeping people productive at work, increasing profits by reducing infection, sickness and missed days by employees.

Choose systems wisely and it will benefit you. Good luck!

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ike most people, I don’t like Trump. I’ve disdained him ever since then-developer Donald demanded drastic concessions at my beloved Jones Beach State Park so he could build a catering hall at the main mall to make more big bucks. He revealed an unappealing, obnoxious acquisitiveness.

It was all about his deal, with a disregard for the good and welfare of generations of us lesser mortals.

Worse, he wanted residents and state officials to believe he was doing us all JOHN a favor, but his was O’CONNELL mendacity obvious. It took Superstorm Sandy to sweep away his avaricious plan and his oily conceit.

And yet I voted for him in 2016. His promises, the possibility of gaining originalist Supreme Court nominees and his declared support of conservative causes were consistent with my social, cultural and political preferences. We Trump voters realized it would take an arrogant bully to barge through the rock-solid bureaucracy that Washington had become. He’d be our bully, as it were.

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Trump’s personality, I had absolutely zero doubt about how duplicitous and deceitful Hillary Clinton was. Trump was openly, shamelessly vain. Clinton was a backstabbing, secretive, supercilious, lying, characterless cypher. I could trust him to act to benefit my country as long as it also served himself. I couldn’t trust her (and her malign cabal) with anything, least of all my country. And more important, I opposed all of the national policies she embraced.

Now he’s running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. I wish it were not so. Trump is a minor-league version of literature’s classic tragic figure: a man who — while accomplishing great things — destroys himself with his own hubris.

If Trump gets the GOP nomination (and I think that’s a big if), whom the Democrats choose will be critical for the country. Obviously it shouldn’t be President Biden. If they pick a far-left version of Trump, someone like California Gov. Gavin Newsom or Biden’s useless transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, most voters, sick of liberal Democrats’ failed leadership, will gag violently and go for Trump. (Even if, again, he can’t win the popular vote, he could prevail in the Electoral College.) Can you imagine a Butti-

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gieg-Ilhan Omar ticket vs. Trump-Kristi Noem or Trump-Nikki Haley or TrumpJoni Ernst or Trump-Winsome EarleSears? Any of those GOP teams would destroy Buttigieg-Omar.

I mean, really, look at how unappealing the Democrats’ presidential and vice-presidential bench is: Kamala Harris, Adam Schiff, AOC, Stacey Abrams, John Fetterman, Cory Booker, Hillary, Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand (New York’s invisible senator), Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bill de Blasio and others who are so light they defy gravity. Puhleeze! How about the quintessentially Democratic bicoastal, affirmative-equity pairing, Harris-Hochul?

Non-radical Americans, i.e., almost all of us, want someone smart, articulate and tough who’ll try to keep us out of wars, reduce inflation, faithfully and fairly execute the laws, defend the Constitution, support the police, keep taxes as low as possible, respect and care for our veterans, spend prudently, regulate only when required, maintain a strong national defense, trade well but with a sharp eye on national security, curb the domestic abuses of the so-called intelligence community, and put a hard stop on our dangerously wide-open southern border.

rump is a minorleague version of literature’s classic tragic figure.

Someone who salutes America’s greatness. That definitely won’t be the Democrats’ platform in 2024. It certainly will be the GOP’s agenda, and Trump would sell it. He’s usually good at selling things (his Jones Beach fiasco notwithstanding). I mean, he sold the Abraham Accords, a peace treaty among Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, for heaven’s sake.

We will be voting again in 24 months (unless I missed something and early voting starts next week). Actually, the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary are in January 2024. No one knows what will happen in the world between now and then. Will Biden finish his term?

Will Kamala visit the wizard in Oz and get what she needs? How disastrous will Trump’s self-inflicted stumbles on the campaign trail be? Will better, brighter lights shine in either party?

For newsies like me, it will be a fascinating and important two years. I hope everyone, young folks particularly, find serious, un-opinionated journalism and read and think critically about all the politics. We must use these two years to brush up on our civics studies and see how America is supposed to work. Then learn how it really works, and vote to try to make it better than that.

John O’Connell is a former executive editor of the Herald Community Newspapers.

Comments? oconnell11001@yahoo.com.

Flying the not-so-friendly skies

wrote to Pete Buttigieg this week. I thought that the head of the U.S. Department of Transportation should know what’s up.

Last week, Secretary Buttigieg announced some $600 million in fines against the airlines for bad behavior during the continuing pandemic.

It’s a start.

Apparently, the airlines took billions of bailout dollars, and failed to pass on the goodwill or the big bucks to their customers. In fact, they canceled or delayed oodles of flights and didn’t RANDI refund the fees to KREISS passengers. Sometimes — and this took chutzpah — they rebooked folks on other flights without finding out whether those new bookings were good for the travelers.

I hate to pick on JetBlue, but I must, because that’s the only airline I’ve flown recently.

But let’s back up the plane. My bias is that my airline experience began when flying was a special treat. When we went

on our wedding trip in 1968, we flew Eastern Airlines to Bermuda. I wore a matching coat and dress, white gloves, high heels and a hat. The “stewardesses” wore perky outfits and heels and little chapeaus, and they were all super-attractive and into providing excellent service to the customers.

Seen through today’s lens, it was sexist and white and stiffly formal. We enjoyed tasty little meals served on individual trays, even in coach, and the crew happily did all the heavy lifting. We have fallen out of the sky, in terms of standards for passengers and crew.

Two weeks ago, I flew JetBlue back and forth from New York to Florida. While I was waiting for my flight, an announcer at the gate said that the flight before mine, on the same route, would be turbulent, passengers should expect to stay seated, and there would be no bathroom breaks. This is bad, I thought. I’m about to get on this flying tube to ride 1,500 miles at 600 mph at 36,000 feet into a hurricane. I nearly bolted, but I talked myself down.

Turns out, we were on time, and there were no violent outbursts by passengers or inappropriate behavior by crew members.

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But that’s a low bar, right? The crews are nice enough, which isn’t nice enough.

No crew member offers a hand to help place a suitcase in the overhead bin. Then they try to sell you stuff. You get your drink when the wagon rolls by, and a dismal choice of snacks. Heaven help us, the Terra Blue potato chips, basically the most compelling reason to fly JetBlue, are gone.

Supply chain issues? The airlines got a gazillion dollars from the government.

Open a damn potato chip factory!

My real and serious issue is with the JetBlue website and its reservation process.

In recent months, the website has been buggy. The fees for “extras,” like being able to bring a carry-on in “basic blue,” are excessive.

When I needed to change my flight on the return, it took two hours online to book the change and pay for a seat. Then I got a message that I had the flight but no seat. I tried to call. It was a 90-minute wait to speak to a person, and I was informed that booking or changing or canceling a flight on the phone with a human being would cost me $25.

ne slight after another led me to drop a line to Secretary Buttigieg.

That’s when I decided to write to Buttigieg.

First, no customer should have to wait 90 minutes to speak to an agent. If they can’t run the airline better than that, with all the money they got from us, they should shut down and turn the planes into affordable housing.

Second, how dare they charge $25 to speak to someone to book a flight? I know many people, especially older folks, who don’t use computers. They don’t know how to book a flight online. They need to talk to a real person, and they can’t wait 90 minutes on the phone. This is unfair to fliers who don’t have the necessary technology skills. Why should they be penalized with a $25 fee for what should be a basic service to a paying customer?

Years ago, I wrote to JetBlue in the name of my dog, requesting frequent flier points for her even though she traveled under the seat. They had a sense of humor. They said they couldn’t offer points, but they did give Zoe and me a free flight. Just like that. Goodwill.

JetBlue needs to drop the $25 phone fee, hire enough agents to reduce the phone wait time, and please, please, bring back the Terra Blues.

Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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50 years of a better world thanks to Title IX

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e’s a man you’ve likely never heard of. The son of an Indiana State University basketball coach who excelled in sports himself — primarily as a boxer and a collegiate baseball player — Birch Bayh was sworn in as a U.S. senator from his home state on Jan. 3, 1963.

Bayh spent 18 years in that office, becoming the only non-Founding Father to author two amendments to the U.S. Constitution: the 25th Amendment, handling presidential succession, and the 26th, which lowered the federal voting age to 18.

But it was his days playing sports that occupied the senator’s mind. Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 tackled all kinds of discrimination when it came to employment and public accommodation, it bothered Bayh that the bill failed to address sex discrimination at schools.

He set out to change that, crafting the 37 words that would make up what we now know as Title IX: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”

While we might see Title IX today as a law focused on sports, what Bayh and his House counterpart, U.S. Rep. Edith Green, pushed through Congress did more than that. No more could schools legally favor one gender over another in any respect, including pay and employment opportunities. If it was good enough for a man, it was good enough for a woman.

But yes, some of the most visible impacts came in the world of sports,

changing what was once a male-dominated enterprise into something that could be enjoyed by anyone. Like Elizabeth Serra, who just finished her first season with the Woodland Middle School football team in East Meadow.

Elizabeth scored 16 points as a kicker, and even broke a tie to give Woodland a final win over the Seaford Vikings. Yet being the only girl on the team didn’t faze her a bit.

“I was a little bit nervous, but then I realized what I really wanted to do,” the 13-year-old said. “I just really wanted to play football. So it didn’t really bother me that much.”

Even a few years ago, a girl kicking field goals for a football team was considered a novelty. Today it’s just another day on the gridiron. Elizabeth is far from alone.

Before Title IX, just 300,000 girls took part in high school sports, according to a report last summer by NPR. Today that number is 3.5 million. And while Title IX focuses on schools, it has a much wider reach.

Like with the New York Islanders Girls Elite Hockey program, started in 2016 by Alexis Moed, the general manager of the Connecticut Whale, a team in the womenfocused professional Premier Hockey Federation. Working with the NHL’s Islanders, the league is filled with girls ages 8 to 19, all playing on the same ice at the Northwell Health Ice Center in East Meadow as the four-time Stanley Cup champions.

The league has become a second home for Debbie Curry, a 12-year-old from Seaford, who started her hockey career on boys’ teams.

letters Thanks to all who uplift and help others To the Editor: In this season of hope and gratitude, I want to express my heartfelt appreciation to all Long Islanders who give of themselves to help others here in Nassau and Suffolk counties, and beyond.

Nearly every day, Red Cross volunteers are at the scene of fires, floods and other disasters that occur all too regularly on Long Island, providing urgent assistance to those coping with loss and uncertainty. In addition to responding to local emergencies, this past year, many of my colleagues traveled far from home to offer a helping hand following wildfires in California, tornadoes and flash floods in Kentucky and, most recently, Hurricanes Ian and Nicole in Florida.

Our volunteers also work to prevent future disasters by installing free smoke alarms, providing fire

“She always had a target (on) her for being a girl in a boy sport,” Debbie’s mother, Christie, said. “Here she can be recognized and have a chance to go somewhere with hockey in the future, because they’re giving the girls a chance to shine.

“I’ve never seen her so happy, and she can just be herself.”

Title IX has helped girls come a long way, but the fight is far from over. Many schools still don’t know how to properly enforce Title IX compliance, while others have chosen to cut programs rather than expand them to include everyone. Retaliation runs rampant, and the U.S. Department of Education believes there are more areas of improvement needed, including the end of discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or sex characteristics.

Birch Bayh died in 2019, at age 91. But he lived long enough to see the impact his 37 simple words had on the lives of millions. An impact that literally brought him to tears.

Kelly Krauskopf is an assistant general manager of the Indiana Pacers. But in 2000, she made her mark helping to bring the Indiana Fever into existence in the WNBA. They sold out their first game with 16,000 people filling the arena, and Krauskopf invited Bayh to join her on the hardwood before the tipoff.

“I said to him, ‘Look at this place. Can you believe this?’” she told the Indianapolis Star. “‘This would never have happened had it not been for you.’

“He looks at me and he has these big tears in his eyes. And he said he had no idea (Title IX) would have this kind of impact. It was just one of the coolest moments.”

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assau County continues to hold Big Pharma accountable in the courts for the wave of destruction that the pharmaceutical companies’ highly addictive opioid drugs unleashed on families and children across the country, and right here in our own backyards.

On Nov. 7, the county took the first legislative step toward approving a $68.25 million settlement with Actavis LLC and Actavis Pharma Inc., Watson Laboratories Inc., Anda Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries DeLia Ltd., and Teva DeriGGi-wHitton Pharmaceuticals USA. Once this settlement is approved by the full Legislature and County Executive Bruce Blakeman — which I anticipate will occur this month — it will supplement the $70.4 million the county has already received through various Big Pharma settlements.

Drawing from the funds now at the county’s disposal, Blakeman in mid-September announced plans to distribute $15 million per year for the next four years to agencies that offer addiction prevention, treatment or recovery services. Approxi-

mately $2.4 million per year was immediately earmarked, with the lion’s share going to Nassau University Medical Center. The remaining $12.6 million per year will be awarded to agencies that respond to a Request for Expressions of Interest that closed on Monday.

Above and beyond Blakeman’s announced plans, there is still approximately $10.4 million that has not been designated. The Teva Pharmaceutical settlement will add significantly to that sum, as will the proceeds of future settlements as additional pharmaceutical companies are held responsible for their gross negligence and complicity in this ongoing public health crisis.

While I have consistently expressed my frustration with the slow pace of allocating these funds, this influx of new resources gives us a golden opportunity to proactively plan for how we can get life-saving resources where they need to be as expeditiously as possible. My frustration is amplified by my concern for all our friends, loved ones and neighbors who are suffering at this very moment.

I’m a mother of three daughters who are now young adults, and the opioid drug crisis remains one of my greatest fears. We have had countless conversa-

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e have a golden opportunity to get life-saving resources where they need to be.

Letters safety and emergency preparedness education and teaching first aid and CPR. Through our Service to the Armed Forces program, a dedicated Red Cross team provides 24/7 support for military members, veterans and their families at home and around the world.

The life-changing work our volunteers carry out day in and day out would not be possible without our financial donors and our civic-minded partners. I want to recognize them as well for their generosity and community spirit.

Finally, I want to give special thanks to our military heroes, who sacrifice so much, and to our first responders, who work to ensure our safety and well-being.

As we enter this holiday season, let’s give special thanks to all those who make our communities stronger and safer all year long.

Wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving!

JOSE DOMINGUEz CEO, American Red Cross on Long Island

Shop local this weekend To the Editor: In these difficult economic times, as a result of inflation, it is especially important to patronize your neighborhood

tions as a family to instill vigilance as they navigate the world. As parents, we do so motivated by awareness of the stark reality that addiction is an indiscriminate killer — that there is no race, creed, religion, sex or economic background that substance abuse does not impact.

In Glen Cove, I have grown close to a group of women who have established a local chapter of Families Anonymous, an organization that gives people navigating the trauma of living with a loved one suffering from addiction a safe space to meet and share their experiences, strength and hope with one other. I have introduced friends to Families Anonymous, and the warmth, support and generosity of spirit they received was truly remarkable, and life-affirming.

Several members of the organization came to the Legislature on Oct. 24 and courageously shared their stories. They have seen their children arrested and sent to prison, and fought with insurance companies to secure long-term treatment upon their release. Several have seen their loved ones come through the tempest one day at a time and achieve longterm, sustainable sobriety. Sadly, far too many have endured the unthinkable trag-

businesses. Do it not only on annual Small Business Saturday, Nov. 26, but every day of the year.

I don’t mind occasionally paying a little more to help our local stores survive.

The employees go out of their way to help find what I need. Customer service is their motto.

Independent mom-and-pop stores don’t have bulk-buying purchasing power that Amazon or large national chain stores have. The owners can’t negotiate lower prices from suppliers.

They’re at the mercy of those suppliers, especially third-party brokers, who control the prices they have to pay for merchandise. That’s why they sometimes charge a little more. But it’s worth the price to avoid the crowds and long lines at larger stores in exchange for the convenience and friendly service your neighborhood store offers.

Remember, these people are our neighbors. They work long hours, pay taxes and keep as many employed as possible.

Many maintain the tradition of offering job opportunities to students during the holidays and over the summer.

Customers also patronize other commercial establishments on the block.

Foot traffic is essential for the survival of any neighborhood commercial district. If we don’t patronize our local stores and restaurants to shop and eat,

edy of losing a child to the disease of addiction.

What they shared offers some important insights into our next steps. With the funds from our opioid lawsuit settlements, Nassau County would be wise to look closely at supporting organizations that provide drug rehabilitation programs with longer terms of stay beyond the customary 28-day term; dual-diagnosis approaches that get to the complicated and often intertwined root causes of the disease; and aggressive early-intervention strategies.

It is also crucial to keep talking openly about addiction, so we can continue chipping away at the stigmas that can hinder people from seeking the help they need.

Addiction is a public health crisis, not a moral failing.

Thanks to its advocacy and willingness to confront Big Pharma in the courts, Nassau County has created tremendous opportunities for progress.

Armed with these resources and more on the way, it is more important than ever for us to work together as parents and leaders to act on decisions that will make a significant, lifesaving impact on the trajectory of the opioid addiction crisis.

Delia DeRiggi-Whitton, of Glen Cove, a Nassau County legislator representing the 11th District, is the ranking member of the legislature’s Committee on Health & Social Services.

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they don’t eat, either. We help keep our neighbors employed and the local economy growing.

The owners of independent, momand-pop stores are the backbone of our

neighborhood commercial districts.

Show your support by making a purchase.

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Millions in opioid-fighting funds are still available

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