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Responding to a Herald inquicarroyo@liherald.com, sbrinton@liherald.com, msmollins@liherald.com ry on Facebook, resident Mike Boranian expressed shock over The debate over masking chil- Blakeman’s announcement. “I’m dren in schools has intensified in kind of surprised Blakeman, who Rockville Centre since County only won by 3,000 votes or so, is Executive Br uce going down this Blakeman held a ro a d , ” B o r a n i a n news conference on wrote. “Another oneJan. 6, at which he term county exec on signed executive the horizon.” orders directing local In an email to the boards of education Herald, Sarah Horto vote later this vitz shared a letter month on whether she wrote to the their district should school district’s actmandate mask use. ing superintendent, The order also liftRobert Bartles, and ed the mask mandate the board, in which for all county agenshe questioned cies and the state’s Blakeman’s authoritemporary mask ty to outlaw the mask mandate in public rule and urged the places.

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State education has been met with “While I believe mixed reviews from commissioner any steps taken to local parents, some remove masks from of whom said they were uncom- children in schools at a time fortable sending their children to when the county positivity rate is school without face coverings, over 26 percent strikes as an while others said they believed effort to force remote schooling parents should have a choice and [is] highly irresponsible in when it comes to mask use. light of that,” Horvitz wrote, “an Calls requesting comment additionally critical question is from Rockville Centre school CONTINUED ON PAGE 13

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A snowy tribute Marty Bevilacqua built a snow sculpture of a bear and a cub last Friday on his front lawn on North Village Avenue in memory of his son, Mark, who died in a motorcycle accident on Sunrise Highway in 2015, at age 20.

Increase in Covid cases at Mercy Physicians urge masking, booster doses

By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com

Amid a surge in positive cases of the coronavirus due to the Omicron variant, physicians and administrators at Catholic Health’s Mercy Hospital have made a renewed push to urge residents to get their vaccinations and boosters and continue to wear masks.

As of Tuesday, Nassau County’s seven-day average positivity

rate stood at 24.8 percent, among the highest of any county in the state, according to health.ny.gov.

But officials at Mercy said they have been able to handle the surge in cases thanks to the advances in treatment over the past two years of dealing with Covid-19.

The hospital has returned close to 12,000 patients to their families during the recent surge, according to Dr. Jason Goblin, Catholic Health’s vice president

and chief medical officer. “Due to our experience with Covid over the past two years, we are able to handle increases in capacity,” Goblin said. “We continue to encourage the public to get vaccinated and boosted, wear masks in public settings and continue with proper hand-washing and social distancing.”

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John Daniel Hawke, Jr., the 28th U.S. comptroller of the currency, formerly of Rockville Centre, died in his home in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 3 surrounded by his family. He was 88.

Hawke was born in New York City on June 26, 1933, the son of Olga Buchbinder and John Daniel Hawke, who lived in Rockville Centre. Hawke went on to become an accomplished lawyer who served in all three branches of the U.S. government, He was once called “the dean of American bank lawyers” by the New York Times.

Known to most everyone as Jerry, he was a loving father and grandfather, devoted husband and brother, loyal partner and friend, confident cook and beautiful writer. His dry wit, keen intelligence and moral standard were evident in all he undertook.

Hawke grew up in Rockville Centre and attended South Side High School. As a boy, he accompanied his father, a civic leader, on his rounds as an air raid warden. A child of the Great Depression and the second World War, he still enjoyed a charmed childhood, taking pride in becoming an Eagle Scout and a summer camp bugler.

Hawke graduated from Yale University, where he majored in English. A member of Elihu, one of the university’s senior societies, he bonded with the friends he made there, and their spouses, for life.

After college, he joined the U.S. Air Force at Eglin Field, Fla., as a second lieutenant and worked as a public information officer. He and his desk mate Hunter S. Thompson talked about becoming writers and debated literature. Years later, Thomp-

son would telephone him by collect call in under Chairman Arthur Burns.

In the early 1980’s, his law practice took the middle of the night to inquire whether he still considered “The Great Gatsby” to off, attracting many of the country’s largbe the greatest American novel. Hawke est banks and financial institutions as cliconsidered becoming a teacher and flirted ents and putting Hawke at the center of with an offer to teach English at Oxford, some of the most consequential matters in but chose a different path, which at times the industry. In 1985, Hawke argued the case Board of Governors of the Federal he regretted.

Reserve v. Dimension FinanGraduating at the top of cial Corporation before the his law school class, he was U.S. Supreme Court and editor-in-chief of the Columsecured an 8-0 victory. He bia Law Review, and a law authored a treatise on bankclerk to Judge E. Barrett Preting re gulation and was tyman on the U.S. Court of appointed to a blue-ribbon Appeals for the District of panel to study the role of the Columbia Circuit. futures market in the 1987 In the early 1960s, Hawke stock market crash. A mentor worked as counsel to the to a generation of up and comSelect Subcommittee on Eduing banking lawyers within cation in the House of RepreJohn Daniel Hawke the law firm, he also taught sentatives. As he set off for a banking law at Georgetown trip to San Francisco in 1961 Law School and Boston Unifor field hearings on the arts, staffers in Congressman Jack Shelley’s versity School of Law, where he was chairoffice asked him to deliver a box of sugar man of the Board of Advisors at the cookies from the Longworth House Office Morin Center for Banking Law Studies.

The experiences primed Hawke for two Building cafeteria to their colleague Josephine Marie Reddan. He did, and he fell in major presidential appointments at the love at first sight. They married on June peak of his career. President Bill Clinton 15, 1962, had four children, and enjoyed a named him under secretary of treasury wonderful life together until her death in for domestic finance in 1995. He oversaw financial policy and legislation, with fre1991.

Hawke practiced law at Arnold & Por- quent trips to Capitol Hill to testify, ter for nearly 60 years, with intervening worked on the debt ceiling showdown with stints in government. He established the Congress in 1996 and helped roll out the firm’s financial institutions practice and newly redesigned $20 bill. A memorable served as chairman of the firm from 1987 moment was holding down the fort when until 1995. Previously, Hawke was general the historic treasury building caught fire counsel to the Board of Governors of the in the summer of 1996 while Secretary Federal Reserve System from 1975 to 1978 Robert Rubin was on business abroad.

When Hawke called the secretary to brief him on the fire, he said, “Bob, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that the building is on fire. The good news is that it wasn’t the British.”

In 2001, the department bestowed its highest honor upon him: the Alexander Hamilton Award.

Hawke served as the country’s 28th comptroller of the currency from 1998 to 2004, where he administered a network of more than 2,000 national banks, comprising more than half of the assets of the commercial banking system. He was a director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Upon leaving the OCC, Hawke returned to Arnold & Porter, staying active until well into his 80s. Last April, Hawke stepped down from the board of M&T Bank, where he served as a director for nine years and as chairman of the bank’s Risk Committee.

Hawke is survived by his four children, Daniel of Cabin John, Md, Caitlin, of New York City, Anne, of Washington, D.C., and Patrick, of Baltimore; his daughter-in-law Jessica Blake Hawke; his son-in-law John Kada; his three grandchildren, Spencer, Camerynn and Clare; his twin siblings, Roger Hawke, of New York City, and Mary Todebush, of Cutchogue; and his longtime companion, Beverly Baker, of Washington, D.C. A private burial will be held on Martha’s Vineyard at Oak Grove Cemetery in Vineyard Haven, and the family plans to convene a memorial service later this year.

Longtime RVC CYO coach ‘Captain Jack’ dies at 84 John Henry “Jack” Barthel died peacefully on Dec. 30 after a short illness. He was 84.

Barthel was a longtime Rockville Centre resident and lived in Cutchogue at the time of his death.

Born in Brooklyn on Oct. 27, 1937, to Henry J. Barthel and Florence K. (nee Hanley), Barthel was a Flatbush kid who loved street games. He was particularly fond of his grandfather, “Pop” Hanley, who’d been a Lower East Side Irish orphan at the turn of the century, a ward heeler, and an FDNY firefighter.

Barthel was a loyal Dodgers fan and he frequently walked his younger brother, Tom, to Ebbets Field. Tom is now an author of several books on baseball and other subjects, and a retired college professor. During the summer, their father would hitchhike the family to the beach at Riis Park. During World War II, Barthel watched the U.S. Army exercise at the Brooklyn Parade ground, and on Victory in Europe Day, he waded through tickertape on Flatbush Avenue, holding his father’s hand.

He cherished his funny sister, Margaret, who predeceased him, and youngest

brother, Henry “Hank,” a retired teacher losophy as a student of Professor Frank and poet in Vermont. The family moved to O’Malley.

Barthel adored the Fighting Irish and Farmingdale in 1949. Barthel’s father commuted to work on the Long Island Rail rarely missed a football game. As an active Road from Farmingdale each day and told alumnus, he edited a published book of his class’s reminiscences, “Echoes his son that a person had three of ‘58.” After college, he served choices commuting on the four years in the U.S. Air Force railroad: to become great at in Bangor, Maine, where he cards, to become a drunk or to said, “There were two seasons: be well-read. His father chose winter and the Fourth of the last option, as did Jack, July.” He was honorably diswho also read and commuted charged from service as a capfor most of his career. tain.

While living in FarmingdaBarthel met Deidre “Dee le, Barthel helped his family Dee” O’Connor, the love of his by working a few jobs, caddylife, at a St. Patrick’s Day party ing at Bethpage State Park John Henry at Herman’s Restaurant on (including a round for Tom “Jack” Barthel Route 110 in Huntington, in Carvel, founder of the ice 1963. They married 18 months cream chain) and “chopping the heads of chickens” at one of the later, at St. Christopher’s in Baldwin. On Island’s many poultry farms in Bethpage. their wedding day, he lifted her veil on the altar and said, “Hiya cutie.” TogethHe never ate much chicken after that.

He graduated from Farmingdale High er; they raised their family on Cambridge School in 1954 and went on to the Universi- Street in a tight-knit community with ty of Notre Dame on an Air Force Reserve many other large families.

In Rockville Centre, Barthel organized Officers Training Course scholarship, graduating in 1958. At Notre Dame, Barth- the block parties. Their lives largely cenel learned to love literature and moral phi- tered around St. Agnes Cathedral, in

which Barthel performed in loopy theatrical productions for charity with his dearest friend, Bob Morvillo, in the parish hall.

At St. Agnes, he coached generations in CYO basketball teams and came to be known as “Captain Jack”. In his career, he worked many years in bond sales in Manhattan, and later in software sales.

In retirement, Barthel lived in Nassau Point, Cutchogue. Barthel was a calm, meditative, and contemplative family man always buoyed by his Catholic faith. He was kind and uncomplaining. He knew how to dance and how to give a toast. He was a wit and an inspiration. Most of all, with steady, quiet, and unwavering devotion, he loved his wife, family and religion.

In addition to Dee Dee, Barthel is survived by his six children, Matthew (Cathleen), Terence (Kathleen), Patrick (Michelle), Maura, Claire “Molly” McLoughlin (Brian) and Rory (Tatiana Torres); and his eight grandchildren, Owen, Caroline, Ellie, Cate, Johnny, Ronan, Francisco and Leo. Due to Covid-19, his funeral Mass was restricted to immediate family, but a public celebration of his life will happen when safety allows.

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Thursday, Jan. 13

Current Events with Richard Skolnik (Zoom)

Mozart: The Man Behind the Music (Virtual)

Richard Skolnik leads a discussion of what is in the latest news cycle. A lively, moderated discussion of hot topics.

Register online at the RVC Public Library website. Starts at 10:30 a.m.

Dan Lupo leads this glimpse into the world of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -one of music’s biggest heroes -- to appreciate his genius. Includes a piano performance. Register online at the RVC Library website for the Zoom link. Starts at 1 p.m.

Digital Know-How Hoopla (In-person) Learn how to borrow mvoies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and shows from the RVC Library to enjoy on your device. Register online at the library website. Starts at 2:30 p.m.

Simply Creative Chef Rob Chef Rob shares how to prepare russet potato celery leek soup. Register online at the RVC Library website to receive the Zoom link to this virtual event. Starts at 10 a.m.

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Friday, Jan. 14

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Chef Rob Soft Pretzel Take and Make Pick up a cooking kit during the RVC Library’s business hours and follow along with Chef Rob’s instructional video to make delicious pretzels the whole family can help create. Register online at the library website to receive the link to the guide video.

Virtual Friday Storytime Register online at the RVC Library website to receive the Zoom link to this librarian-led storytime to sing songs and read together. Starts at 10 a.m.

Sunday, Jan. 16 Chapter Two presented by Lantern Theatre Company (Virtual) The Lantern Theatre Company presents Chapter Two, a semi-autobiographical play that explores the possibility of finding that perfect someone twice in one’s life. Register online at the RVC Library website to receive the Zoom link Starts at 2 p.m.

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The National Alliance on Mental Health comes to the RVC Library for family support group sessions. Sessions will meet the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. Each session starts 7 p.m. For more info, contact dsills@ namiqn.org.

Rockville Centre residents William Severe and Ismata Alexis recently got married at Hempstead Town Hall. Town Clerk Kate Murray, far left, officiated the nuptials. library with her virtual exercise class.

Register at the library website for the session that runs from Sept. 7 to Nov. 9. Starts at 10:30 a.m.

Take and Make Seasonal Crafts Pick up a craft kit at the RVC Library during business hours to make a handprint penguin craft. Starts at 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday Yoga with Joe (Virtual) Certified yoga instructor Joe Climi leads the class designed to accommodate the needs of people who may have difficulty with more traditional appraoches. Register online at the RVC library website. Starts at 12 p.m.

When in Rome: Exploring the Art of Ancient Rome (Virtual) Marisa Horowitz Jaffe bring you back in

time to visit famous landmarks, learn about the destruction of Pompeii, and investigate how images and ideas from Ancient Rome still impacts all of us today. Register for this Zoom event online at the RVC Library website.

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What to Watch (Virtual) Join moderator Michael Matuszewski and RVC Library staffer Rob Siegel to discuss the shows everyone is watching and talking about from The Expanse to Bridgerton. Register online at the library website. Starts at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 19 Simply Stronger with Marilyn Bunger (Virtual)

this exercise class to enhance strength and flexibility. Starts at 9:30 a.m.

Bible Study at St. Agnes Join Fr. Bright and other members of the study group each Wednesday morning either in-person or virtually at 9:45 a.m. The program meets in the second floor of the ministry building in the youth ministry room. Email Irene Vastola at iavastola@gmail.com for Zoom link.

Mothers’ Center Circle (Virtual) Join others through the RVC Library website for this program to connect to other moms. Facilitators help mothers connect on the joys and challenges of motherhood and support each other through their own journeys. Register at the library website. Starts at 10 a.m.

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The SSHS auditorium hosts the RVC BoE meeting on Jan. 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Riverside School hosts kindergarden registration in the SSHS common room at 8 a.m. on Jan. 14.

The RVC Library hosts a virtual bridge class on Jan. 14 at 10 a.m.

Auctions International hosts a sale of farm equipment at 10 Sunrise Highway on Jan 17. at 7 p.m.

The RVC Village Trustees meet at village hall on Feb. 3 at 6 p.m. for a briefing reading.

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She is a two-time All-County selection and was an impact player as a sophomore during the team’s last county title run. She scored 10 points in its 60-52 victory over Syosset in the Class AA final held March 8, 2020 at Nassau Coliseum, marking her seventh game that season scoring in double figures.

She averaged 14 points as a junior.

GAMES TO WATCH Thursday, Jan. 13

Girls Basketball: East Rockaway at West Hemp.....4:45 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Lynbrook at Lawrence...................... 5 p.m.

Boys Swimming: Wantagh vs South Side (at Jeircho) 7 p.m.

Gymnastics: Valley Stream at Hewlett ........................ 7 p.m.

Gymnastics: Sewanhaka at South Side ..................... 7 p.m.

Girls Basketball: North Shore at Seaford ................... 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: Westbury at Baldwin ....................... 7 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 14 Girls Basketball: Glen Cove at Sewanhaka ..................... 5 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Roslyn at Elmont ............................ 5 p.m.

Wrestling: Freeport at Oceanside ..............................5:30 p.m.

Girls Basketball: New Hyde Park at MacArthur................ 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: Island Trees at Clarke ........................... 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: Seaford at Lawrence ............................ 7 p.m.

Boys Basketball: V.S. North at South Side................. 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 15 Wrestling: Baldwin Tournament ........................................9 a.m.

Boys Bakisetball: V.S. Central at East Meadow.............. 12 p.m.

Boys Basketball: East Rockaway at West Hemp. ........... 12 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Kennedy at South Side ..................... 12 p.m.

South Side scored the first nine points at Hewlett last Saturday afternoon and led from start to finish to keep pace with the frontrunners in Nassau Conference A-3 boys’ basketball with a 62-49 road victory.

Junior Robert Pericolosi scored a game-high 18 points and five others contributed at least five as the Cyclones upped their record to 4-0 in conference games and 8-2 overall. The Bulldogs (2-3 in A-3; 8-4 overall), who cut a 12-point first-quarter deficit to four at halftime, got 15 points from junior Ryan Weiss and 11 from sophomore Luke Rochler.

“It’s always a hard-fought and physical game when we play Hewlett and today was no different,” South Side head coach Jerry D’Angelo said. “We’ve played each other twice every season and also sometimes in the playoffs for the past 15 years. They’re always well-coached and with the exception of the second quarter I thought we did a really nice job at both ends of the floor.”

Hewlett opened the season with a sixgame winning streak and will try to get back on track when it closes the first half of the A-3 slate against Division.

“Offensively I thought we got away from our game plan at times and free throws hurt us,” Bulldogs head coach Bill Dubin said. “We had a nice second quarter to get back in it, but for as long as I’ve been coaching 15 years South Side is a team that’s always been able to grind out games.”

Senior Luke Schwartzberg (9 points) got South Side’s engine rolling by knocking down the game’s first shot from behind the arc. Sophomore Ryan Kennedy (7 points) added a basket and Pericolosi a pair as the Bulldogs struggled to find their way offensively in the early going. Their first points didn’t arrive from Weiss until 2:45 remained in the quarter.

The Cyclones, who entered with conference victories over Division, Roosevelt and Kennedy by 25-, 20- and 26-point margins, respectively, raced to a 14-2 advantage late in the first quarter Saturday before Hewlett clawed its way back into it.

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JUNIOR ROBERT PERICOLOSI led South Side’s 62-49 victory at Hewlett last Saturday with a game-high 18 point performance.

Senior Ian Panzarella scored 7 of his 8 points in the second quarter and the Bulldogs withstood treys by Schwartzberg and Josh Garelle to get as close as two and trailed 26-22 at halftime.

“We had a little lull and got caught up in the pace Hewlett wanted to play,” D’Angelo noted. “We were able to refocus and we did a better job rebounding in the second half.”

The Cyclones scored 10 of the first 13

points of the third quarter to reestablish a double-digit lead. Junior James Murphy (9 points) and seniors Patrick Erickson (6) and Chris Goldstein (5) all made key baskets in the second half to keep Hewlett from making a serious run.

“I believe we’re in the toughest conference in the county and we are what our record says we are and that’s 2-3,” Dubin said. “Every game is important.”

South Side hosts the rematch Feb. 5.

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Red & Blue competition may see changes Rockville Centre school officials plan to bring back the annual Red and Blue competition this year, but there may be some changes in the works.

On Jan. 7, the district distributed proposed alterations to the competition, which includes switching from a threeday format to one day, no costumes and no spectators.

Red and Blue was first organized in 1917, as an alternative to sports at a time when girls were not allowed to compete.

The event is usually three nights of competition in various categories, including dancing, skits, songs, relays and other athletic events.

In 2021, the events were scaled back in the 105th edition of the competition due to coronavirus restrictions., and with the prevalence of the Omicron variant, the school district will once again tweak the event.

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THE BLUE TEAM won the competition in 2020.

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Our Post is looking for Veterans (Young and Old) to join our Post!

We presently have 102 Veterans from the Greatest Generation of World War II veterans to the Latest Generation of Heroes that served in Iraq and Afghanistan and our post celebrated its Centennial in 2019.

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Molloy delays beginning of spring semester

By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com

Molloy College is slightly delaying the start of its spring semester amid health experts predicting a peak in Covid-19 infections this month due to the Omicron variant.

The college was set to begin its spring semester on Jan. 18, but officials announced on Jan. 5 that it is rescheduling the first day of clases to Jan. 22 for weekend students and Jan. 24 for those who attend on weekdays.

“Given the surge everyone is currently experiencing, we are simply utilizing four discretionary days (snow days) at the beginning of the semester to gain a few more days until classes start,” Ken Young, the school’s assistant vice president of marketing and public relations, wrote in an email to the Herald. “This buys us a little more time to allow the anticipated decline of Covid-19 cases to diminish as predicted. The goal is, of course, to help the Molloy community stay as safe as possible.”

Young added that if a severe winter storm causes inperson classes to get canceled during the semester, the school will move to remote learning for the day.

Hundreds of institutions across the country have taken steps to mitigate Covid-19 from being a factor to cancel classes. In addition to the delayed opening, Molloy has mandated that students and employees receive booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine when they are eligible.

Those not boosted by Jan. 24 will be required to receive a temporary waiver.

After having to suspend classes at the beginning of the pandemic, school officials installed advanced technology air purifiers in the academic and residence buildings, as a way to limit the spread of Covid-19. Siemens Smart Infrastructure installed the O2Prime NPBI indoor, ozone-free air purification devices on HVAC systems across the cam-

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MOLLOY COLLEGE HAS delayed the opening of its spring semester amid rising cases of Covid-19 across the county. pus. Molloy paid for the $1 million project through federal CARES Act funding that the Town of Hempstead distributed in a grant to the Rockville Centre college this summer.

“It’s important for our staff, students and the whole community that we have a safe environment for the inperson interactions that we’d like to have,” Molloy President Dr. Jim Lentini said in November. “We think it’s real-

ly important to get us back on campus.”

College officials said the air purifiers will add another layer of protection against Covid-19. The small units are black boxes, roughly the size of a cell phone, that attach inside air vents and work constantly while the vents are turned on. Molloy is the first college on Long Island to implement this technology, which floods the air with ions and greatly reduces viruses and bacteria.

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Parents differ on masking kids in school whether or not a district would be subject to fines and penalties, and issued by whom, for selecting to abide the competing directive in favor of weakened standards in protection of community health.”

In response to the inquiry on Facebook, Sid Bream offered a different take, saying he believed it was time to lift mask mandates. “RVC and New York for that matter needs to wake the hell up,” Bream wrote. “This isn’t about a virus, never was.”

Matthew Trani wanted to take it further. “I’d like to see [Blakeman] signing executive orders banning booster mandates across the county,” Trani wrote.

Blakeman’s orders read in part, “[G]iven the historical data on Covid-19 and the ongoing debate over whether masks are more harmful than beneficial to children and to school environments in general, we should protect the freedoms and statutory rights of students and parents by resting with the parents the decision whether their children should wear masks in school.”

School boards, the orders continue, must vote “to determine whether or not parents and children should be granted the constitutional right to reject mask mandates while in the classroom.”

The orders add, “More than half of all states in the nation have no set policy on masking at educational institutions, leaving the decision up to local governments to decide when and how to enforce mask mandates.”

In a memo to local school districts after Blakeman’s announcement, State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa wrote, “Counties are required to enforce school masking regulations. The regulation, which applies to schools and many other sectors, requires local health departments to enforce school mask mandates.

“Counties do not have the legal authority to require boards of education to vote on specific issues,” Rosa

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ROCKVILLE CENTRE BOARD of Education President John O’Shea did not say whether the district would vote on whether to lift the mask mandate for students. added. “School officers take an oath to obey all legal requirements. The State Education Department expects school boards will follow all legal requirements, including the face-covering regulation.”

William Biamonte, chief of staff of the Nassau County Legislature’s Democratic minority, said, “When ideology trumps science and politics are prioritized over the common good of society, our most vulnerable residents stand to suffer the most. County Executive Blakeman can say that ‘Nassau is normal again’ all he wants, but as Omicron continues to spread like wildfire and hospitalize more children than any other Covid variant to date, this is

a recipe for disaster.”

Blakeman, a Republican, said he was directly opposing an order put in place in early December by Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, requiring mask use in public spaces.

The state mandate was originally set to expire in mid-January, but Hochul recently extended it through Feb. 1.

“As governor,” she said on Dec. 10, “my two top priorities are to protect the health of New Yorkers and to protect the health of our economy.” Hochul said at the time that she expected the positivity rate to rise with the rapid spread of the Omicron variant.

The county executive’s legal counsel drafted the orders Blakeman signed, his spokesman, Chris Boyle, said.

Blakeman’s orders come at a time when Long Island’s Covid positivity rate is spiking at more than 25 percent — the highest in the state — and a growing number of school districts are reporting increased transmission of the disease, with some, such as Long Beach, being forced to close some schools because of staffing shortages. Hospitalization rates are rising as well.

In an email to the Herald, Kristin Schwab, who identified herself as a physician and a Rockville Centre resident, said that science proves that masks are effective against the spread of the coronavirus, and noted that the U.S. recently surpassed 1,000 pediatric deaths from Covid19, which is now one of the country’s top 10 causes of pediatric deaths.

“Mr. Blakeman has no authority to overrule what has been declared public health law during what is a public health emergency,” Schwab wrote. “His political theatre and his pandering to his base is not only pathetic, but dangerous as well. Even if Omicron proves to be less severe, it is more contagious and is infecting more people than ever before.”

Jeff Bessen contributed to this story.

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fin joined other Democratic elected officials in issuing a joint statementthanking Gov. Kathy Hochul for her stance on mask mandates, despite Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s attempts to over-ride them.

“We are grateful Governor Hochul has required the simple precaution of masks in schools to keep our schools open and our kids safe,” the statement, Christina Daly/Herald released last Friday, reads.

ADMINISTRATORS AT CATHOLIC Health’s Mercy Hospital, “At this point in the pandemic, the pediatric hospi- in Rockville Centre, continue to encourage residents to get talizations are spiking at vaccinated and boosted. dangerous levels, andit units] continue to be mostly those who would be the height of irresponsibility to ignore Governor are older and unvaccinated.”

Despite the continuing pandemic, Hochul’s vital efforts to protect public Mercy broke ground on a new Ambulatohealth.”

In a press briefing last Friday, Hochul ry and Family Care Center, where the again noted how vital it was for people to focus will be primary and specialty care, continue wearing masks. “Those who on Nov. 22. underestimate me do so at their own The hospital received $7.3 million in peril, including the county executive of New York state funding and a $1.3 million Nassau County,” the governor said. “I grant from the Mother Cabrini Health have the law of the state of New York Foundation for the 16,000-square-foot behind me, and I will always exercise my facility, which will offer expanded servicauthority and obligation to protect the es for women and children that are now health of the people of this state. Munici- provided at Mercy. Pediatric specialists palities, such as counties, are creatures of will provide services in allergy/immunolthe state. They have to follow state law.” ogy, endocrinology, gastroenterology, During the briefing, Dr. Stephen Cor- hematology, infectious disease, nephrolowin, chief executive officer of New York gy, neurology and pulmonology.

Presbyterian Hospital, said that the 1,200 The hospital also recently expanded its cases in its hospital system are evenly telehealth services by offering maternalsplit between unvaccinated people and fetal care to high-risk expectant mothers. those with two doses of a vaccine but no Mercy has also increased health care booster. Those numbers, Corwin said, are access and offers virtual services to consistent across most of the state. expectant mothers who are diagnosed “It’s very, very rare to see somebody with diabetes, chronic hypertension, and/ admitted who has had a booster,” Corwin or pre-eclampsia, in addition to mothers said. “Patients in the [intensive-care who need genetic counseling.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF ROCKVILLE CENTRE Community Development Block Grant Program 2022-2023 48th Program Year Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held at the Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, February 7, 2022 at 7:00PM in the Court Room, Municipal Building, One College Place, Rockville Centre, New York. The Hearing will be held to explain Community Development Block Grant Program Guidelines for activities associated with the 48th Program Year.

Past activities will be reviewed and an opportunity for proposals from the public will be offered.

The U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development and the Code of Federal Regulations require that Community Development funds primarily benefit low and moderate income persons in Rockville Centre and assist in the prevention and/or elimination of blight.

To accomplish this, a wide range of activities are available such as Acquisition of real property, Disposition of property, Improvement of Public Facilities, Public Services, Interim Assistance – alleviation of emergency or harmful conditions in public or private property, Rehabilitation, Relocation, Code Enforcement, Special Economic Development relating to physical or economic distress, Historic Preservation Planning and Administration.

Not Eligible–General improvement of government buildings as defined in CFR 570.3(d), schools, stadiums, cultural and art centers, purchase of equipment or furnishings, operating and maintenance expenses, government expenses or political activities associated with these facilities.

All interested persons will have the opportunity to be heard at the public hearing and my submit their program or funding requests to the Village of Rockville Centre Community Development Agency, One College Place, P.O. Box 950, Rockville Centre NY 11571.

The Village complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disabled persons with special needs should contact the Village Clerk’s office at 516-678-9212 at least three business days prior to the hearing, so that reasonable efforts may be made to accommodate such needs.

Dated: January 4, 2022

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF

ROCKVILLE CENTRE 129163

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LEGAL NOTICE SURROGATE’S COURT NASSAU COUNTY PROBATE CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent File No.2021-3055 To: Sean Turner a/k/a Shawn Turner and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law and next-ofkin of the said Richard Turner a/k/a Richard Alvin Turner, Jr., deceased, and if any of the said above 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.

GREETINGS: A PETITION having been duly filed by James Turner, residing at 111-30 169th Street, Jamaica, NY 11433, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on 3/2/2022 at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Richard Turner a/k/a Richard Alvin Turner, Jr. lately domiciled at 40 Emery Street, Hempstead, NY 1150 admitting to probate a Will dated May 18,2005, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Richard Turner a/k/a Richard Alvin Turner, Jr , deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that [X ] Letters Testamentary to James Turner [ ] Letters of Trusteeship to ___________________ [ ] Letters of Administration c.t.a. issue to ___________________ [ ] Further relief sought (if any): ___________________ HON. MARGARET C. REILLY, Surrogate Debra Keller Leimbach, Chief Clerk Dated, Attested and Sealed, 12/22/21 ___________________ (Seal) This Citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear in person. If you fail to appear, it will be assumed that you consent to the proceedings, unless you file written verified objections thereto. You

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Name of Attorney: Cliff S. Schneider Address: 275 Madison Avenue, Suite 1905, New York, NY 10016 Phone No.: (212) 365-8600 A TRUE COPY OF THE WILL OFFERED FOR PROBATE MUST BE ATTACHED TO THIS CITATION Notice: This citation is served upon you in accordance with the court’s order directing alternative service of process. No in-person appearances shall be held on the return date of the citation. If you wish to appear to answer or object to this proceeding, you may do so in writing in accordance with the annexed notice to cited parties.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS FOR AUDITING SERVICES INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF ROCKVILLE CENTRE NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK Notice is hereby given that the Incorporated Village of Rockville Centre, New York (“Village”) will receive sealed proposals for RFP #2201COMP1(1033) “Auditing Services”.

Proposals will be received until 11:00 AM on February 3, 2022 in the office of the Purchasing Department at the Municipal Building, One College Place, Rockville Centre, New York 11570, at which time and place all proposals will be opened publicly and read aloud in the Village Hall Meeting Room.

Proposal information and forms can be examined on the Village’s website at www.rvcny.gov.

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All questions should be directed to the Purchasing Department.

Please contact Lisa Strazzeri via email only at l s t r a z z e r i @ r v c n y. u s .

Questions must be submitted no later than January 24, 2022.

Award will be made to the lowest responsible bidder in accordance with applicable provisions of the law.

The Village reserves the right to reject all bids or make such determination as in the best interests of the Village, as provided by law.

Lisa Stazzeri Purchasing Agent (516) 678-9213 129164 LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 16-007154

WELLS FARGO BANK, NA, Plaintiff, v.

LANA FRISCH A/K/A LANA EMERICK-FRISCH A/K/A LANA E. EMERICK FRISCH, BRANDON H. FRISCH A/K/A BRANDON FRISCH, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE US SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, FRANKLIN PETROLEUM PRODUCT CO, INC., CAPITAL ONE BANK USA, NA, and JOHN DOE, Defendants.

To the above named Defendants: 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 summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorneys within thirty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

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. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Honorable David P. Sullivan, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 20th day of December, 2021 at Nassau County, New York.

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Town of Hempstead officials began their new term Jan. 4 at Town Hall. During the nearly two-hour inauguration, Supervisor Don Clavin, Town Clerk Kate Mur ray, Senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, and Councilmen Anthony D’Esposito and Dennis Dunne were sworn in following their re-election this past November.

After the invocation by Rabbi Mordechai Kamentzky of Yeshiva of South Shore in Hewlett, Clavin was sworn in Christina Daly/Herald first by Nassau County Republican Committee Chair man SUPERVISOR DON CLAVIN gave a speech following Joseph Cairo. his inauguration.

Months into Clavin’s first term as supervisor, the corovideo conferencing. In October, she navirus pandemic erupted and took a reached a milestone when she pertoll on Hempstead. Clavin secured tens formed her 500th wedding ceremony. of millions of dollars in federal CARES After reflections were offered by the Act funds that went to the community, Rev. Dr.Calvin Butts of Abyssinian Bapincluding millions for hospitals, tist Church, Attorney General Letitia schools, food banks, villages, fire James swore in Goosby, who is the firstdepartments and community organiza- ever African-American woman on the tions. The Town Board also rolled out Town Board, now entering her 22nd the first mobile vaccination unit in New year representing the 1st District.

York state, which has provided nearly During her last term, Goosby assist10,000 vaccine and booster shots to resi- ed in supplying free PPE kits for busidents to help fight the coronavirus pan- nesses and churches, secured personal demic. air filters for residents at risk, aided in Clavin thanked many of the govern- launching the outdoor dining initiative ment officials in attendance for the help to help residents stay open during the that they have given him during his pandemic and sponsored food pantries time in local government. “Today is that donated more than a million meals really about just saying thank you,” he to residents in need. said. “We work together and for the betGoosby discussed her tenure in govterment of all the residents, from the ernment and the plans that she has for town’s finances to bond upgrades to ser- her district moving forward. “I’m going vices through the pandemic. And it’s into my 22nd year, as I was elected seeknot just that it’s the men and women ing representation from my community that I work within the town. We do it via a historical lawsuit,” Goosby said. together because we’re one big team in “I’ve been sworn in on my plaza and the Town of Hempstead.” that’s progress,” she noted. The Town Murray, who was sworn in next, led Hall plaza was recently named for her. creation of online accessible parking “My colleagues are of a different permits, posted one-stop passport shop party,” she continued, “but it didn’t events and established outdoor service matter to them that I’m a Democrat and trailers where residents can continue to they aren’t. I’ve worked with wonderful access clerk’s office programs. Murray people, and I respect them and they became the first elected official in New respect me. We made a lot of progress York to conduct weddings using online in this town.”

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Q. A few contractors have looked at my attic so I can finish it for more bedrooms and a family room.

The 1920s house has a very large attic with stairs to the second-floor landing. The attic stairs are much steeper and narrower, and the contractor says the walls will need to be taken down and wider and longer stairs put in. Is this necessary? The stairs are already there, and even though they’re steep, they work. Also, one of the contractors said that the horizontal 2x4s going across the attic, which are too low to walk around, could be removed or raised. Is that true? He said we could put them higher and add more so we can add finished wallboards to them. Do you agree, and is there anything I should know about doing this before we start?

ou will love coming home to this beautiful and dramatic 3 bedroom Townhouse in the exclusive community of Meadowbrook Pointe. Enjoy the gorgeous master suite on the main floor with cathedral ceilings. The vaulted living room with fireplace is exquisite and the eat in kitchen with breakfast room leads to a private patio and yard. The upper den looks over the sprawling floor below and has an additional 2 bedrooms and full bath. This home boasts a one car attached garage and 2 car driveway.

You are close to the clubhouse, pool and gym. This is a private community with 24 hour gatehouse. $1,099,000.

A. Good thing you asked before you started.

Instead of starting, you need to stop and take a few steps back. What you’re describing has multiple issues that you have to address.

First, your state building code doesn’t allow the occupancy of a third floor in a single-family, woodframed dwelling. This is because of the many danonte eeper gers involved in surviving a fire at that level. In the process of getting the permit to occupy a third story, which you left out of the description of your investigation, you would need to have a licensed architect or engineer prepare plans that include specific methods of escape, including the correct size and number of windows, distances to exterior and interior levels below to escape to, sprinkler locations along the entire path of travel to get out of the dwelling, heights of ceilings and fire-rated materials to be installed. This is because, as I have often written, the chances of surviving a fire in the third floor of a wood-framed dwelling are statistically remote, only 5 percent.

That means you or your loved ones could be among the 95 out of 100 who will die from smoke inhalation or burns.

The plans for a finished third story are submitted to both your local building department, which will rightfully reject them, and to the State Codes Division for a public hearing, where your case will need to be represented by a code-knowledgeable professional. I have seen people represent themselves, which generally doesn’t go very well, since safety is the reason for the codes, and there are many laws and standards that the average owner is unaware of.

The stair access must be 3 feet wide, and the tread must be at least 10¼ inches, while the risers cannot exceed 8¼ inches. The horizontal 2x4s you described are collar ties, and they serve the important function of holding the roof together, especially in high winds and under snow loads. Moving or removing them can be dangerous. The higher up, the less effective, and without first calculating several factors, it should not be done.

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The telescope will bring into focus the oldest stars in the universe, and examine the atmospheres of nearby exoplanets for signs of life.

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He has largely been lost to history. He was a Marine Corps pilot, an aide to several members of Congress, JAMES undersecretary of to President BERNSTEIN state Harry S. Truman, president of a New York company, Sperry Gyroscope, and NASA’s second administrator. A pretty impressive biography.

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— Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, 40, Edward H. White, 36, and rookie Roger Chaffee, 31 — were killed on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida when a fire erupted in their command module during pre-flight training. At the time, it was the world’s worst space disaster.

Little is said or written these days about the three astronauts and their destroyed Apollo 1 spacecraft. For one thing, there was the success of the moon landings beginning in 1969. And there have been other disasters — two space shuttles, Challenger, in 1986, and Columbia, in 2003, were lost, resulting in the deaths of 14 astronauts.

The country was in shock after the ’67 fire in Apollo 1. NASA’s carefully cultivated image of infallibility had been badly damaged. There were calls from various corners to nix the space program, and let the Russians have the moon. It wasn’t worth human lives, some editorials in leading newspapers said.

Webb saw it differently. But perhaps the most distinguishing factor of his leadership, something rarely seen in gov-

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ernment or politics these days, was that Webb publicly took the blame for the disaster, pulling no punches.

“We’ve always known that something like this was going to happen soon or later,” he told the press at the time. “Who would have thought that the first tragedy would be on the ground?”

Not only did he shoulder the blame, but Webb was determined to get all the facts and keep the space program moving forward.

America, he thought, had to be first on the moon.

He went to President Lyndon Johnson and asked that NASA be allowed to handle the investigation into the fire, promising to be truthful with the agency’s findings.

Webb was grilled by various congressional committees, and kept the backlash away from NASA and the Johnson administration.

As a result, Webb was assigned much of the blame, and NASA ultimately regained its “right stuff ” image. An investigation indicated that a faulty electrical wire inside the Apollo 1 command module likely caused the fire.

fter a tragedy, he was determined to keep the space program moving forward.

Webb retired from the space agency in October 1968, just as the Apollo program was nearing completion. Astronauts landed on the moon a year later.

There were bumps along the way in Webb’s career. In 2015, a Seattle Times columnist revived talk that when Webb was undersecretary of state, thousands of gay men and women lost their government jobs in what was known as the “Lavender Scare.” There was never any evidence that Webb had anything to do with the firings, although people speculated he must have known about them.

Perhaps the thing to remember about James Webb is that he kept the complex machinery of NASA humming so America could stay true to the goal that President John F. Kennedy set in 1962: to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade and bring him back safely to Earth.

Much of the technology had not even been invented yet when Kennedy made that bold pledge, and many thought the goal was impossible. Webb was one of the believers.

Jim Bernstein is editor of the Long Beach Herald. Comments about this column?

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Choosing to read hope in the crystal ball

hat if we got knocked out of our socks by a brilliant turnabout in our national life?

At the moment, “Happy New Year” rings hollow. We all know how heavy the baggage is that we dragged from December to January this year. But my hope is in the mystery of the future. We could never have predicted the dreadful twin plagues of Covid and civil unrest, and that is exactly why we can’t predict a change, a windfall of good RANDI karma and good KREISS timing.

Twenty-two years ago, I wrote a New Year’s column for the Heralds offering my predictions for the year ahead, 2000. First, I suggested, sell all your stock. In my capacity as a person with little understanding of financial markets, I firmly believed that stores would become obsolete as online shopping became more popular. The markets would go south from there.

As it turned out, if you just kept your stocks for these 22 years, you would have made a tidy bundle. So my first predic-

tion was dead on arrival. Even with the dot-com bust in the early 2000s and the Great Recession, the average annual return in the stock market was about 10 percent.

I also predicted that that we would not go to war with Saddam Hussein.

On the national front, I lamented the scandals in Congress, and said our officials would out one another until no one would be left in government.

That one was particularly interesting: Apparently, the worst thing I could imagine about Congress 22 years ago was that folks were having sexual flings.

Man, wouldn’t you take that scenario in a heartbeat? What if someone told you back then that on New Year’s 2022, our country would be stumbling ahead, staggered by more than 800,000 deaths from a virulent pandemic that shut down schools and services and sent millions into isolation and quarantine?

Could you possibly have believed that political fighting, a violent attack on the Capitol and hordes of know-nothing anarchists would threaten the integrity of Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court? Would you have believed that a Marjorie Taylor Greene could exist

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if I described her to you back then? How about this one: Donald Trump would get elected president in 2016.

Hell, 22 years ago, the twin towers were still standing in all their massive glory at the tip of Manhattan.

Perhaps it’s best that crystal balls are cloudy.

The unexpected is what I am counting on — that unpredictably good things may save us.

As I think about the year ahead, my head and my heart do battle. Our hearts don’t heal according to a turn of the calendar page.

My heart is aching for our losses. Some friends have died. My city is set back on its heels. Our kids are out of school yet again, as we enter the third year of the pandemic.

Part of my head is worried about tomorrow. But I’m going with the part of my brain that knows unexpectedly beneficent events in the year ahead could heal the country and get us healthy again. We can go back to work, and bring back birthday parties and theater and family dinners. The virus could burn out. Our political leaders may find their best selves. Airplane travel will take off and people, too long sequestered in their homes, will embrace one another again.

nexpected events in the year ahead could heal the country and get us healthy again.

This could happen, and is no more unlikely than a raging global pandemic that stopped the clock for two years.

I wish this for all of us in 2022: that we are off-the-charts lucky and blessed in our lives and work. In the meantime, the poet John Roedel offers this advice: “My heart is always sad about/something that happened yesterday/while my head is always worried/about something that may happen tomorrow, I lamented . . .

“My gut squeezed my hand./‘I just can’t live with my mistakes of the past/or my anxiety about the future,’ I sighed . . .

“My gut smiled and said: ‘In that case/ you should stay with your lungs for a while . . .

“If you are exhausted about/your heart’s obsession with/the fixed past and your mind’s focus/on the uncertain future/ your lungs are the perfect place for you/ there is no yesterday in your lungs/there is no tomorrow there either/there is only now/there is only inhale/there is only exhale/there is only this moment/there is only breath/and in that breath/you can rest while your/heart and head work/their relationship out.”

Let us say goodbye to 2021 hoping to be astonished, in a good way, by 2022.

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

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n his first week on the job, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman addressed the coronavirus pandemic in a way that can best be described as premature, if not downright foolhardy.

Last week, Blakeman, a Republican from the Five Towns, signed a set of three executive orders, all of which were intended to loosen state regulations whose purpose was to protect public safety during this most recent surge of infections caused by the Omicron variant.

Blakeman was clearly thumbing his nose at Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, who on Dec. 10 ordered mask wearing in public to reduce the spread of Covid-19 as it fans out like wildfire across New York state, and the nation.

Before taking office, Blakeman had said he would not enforce the public mask mandate, as required by Hochul.

Then, on Jan. 6, he took this political showdown one step further when he signed a surprise executive order directing local boards of education across Nassau to vote on whether to require masks in the schools.

Refusing to enforce the mask mandate was bad enough. To require school districts to weigh in on a measure that is, incontrovertibly, intended to protect the health and safety of students — many of them unvaccinated — along with teachers and school workers, represents an abdication of his duty as county executive to protect Nassau’s most vulnerable.

It’s been a while since Blakeman, 66, has been in school, but surely he must

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remember the conditions in which students and teachers work. Twenty to 30 people are confined to a room for six to eight hours a day, with ventilation systems that are often decades old, unless a district has recently upgraded them. In short, students and teachers must spend hours a day within feet of one another, in rooms of stagnant air. One infected student or teacher could spread the coronavirus to dozens of people in a single day.

Why not mask up? What, precisely, is Blakeman’s point here? Anyone who enters a school must wear a mask, period.

Some parents say they worry about the potential psychological effects of their children wearing masks throughout the day. In studies since the start of the pandemic, however, children were found to be highly resilient, reporting few, if any, effects from mask wearing, and health experts across the country have weighed in, saying children are, generally speaking, doing just fine wearing masks.

At the same time, as we reported in last week’s editorial, numerous studies indicate that mask wearing does, in fact, reduce the spread of the coronavirus.

That is, there is no real downside to children wearing masks in school — and only an upside, the likely reduction of community spread of the coronavirus.

Thus, it would be just plain wrong of any school district, for what could only be described as political reasons, to overturn the state’s mask mandate in a vote.

Hochul quickly weighed in on the mat-

ter last week, saying that any school district that voted to overturn the mandate, ordered by both the State Education Department and the State Department of Health, could — and likely would — face the loss of state aid for education. She was right to weigh in aggressively.

There will be those who say that the Omicron variant, according to studies, is less virulent and less deadly than previous strains of the coronavirus. They are correct. This variant is still, however, a virus with the capability to send the unvaccinated to hospitals. And people who believe that even a three-dose vaccination will entirely protect them from it should think again. The vaccinated are becoming infected as well. They might not experience the heavy symptoms that unvaccinated people do, but they can still get sick. Further, the risk of a vaccinated person being hospitalized by the Omicron variant is extremely low, but it is not zero.

The bottom line: Blakeman appears to be playing a game of political brinkmanship, which has garnered him a good amount of publicity across the state and made him something of a hero to farright conservatives. That is why we find his first two weeks in office to be so disappointing. We honestly expected better of him. We hope and trust he will see the error of his ways and restore one of the best measures that we have to guard against the coronavirus — the mask mandate.

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ational Public Radio and ABC News warn, “Teachers are on the front lines in the Jan. 6 culture war.” Depending on where they work, teachers experience different political pressure when it comes to how to discuss with students the events that rocked the U.S. Capitol a year and a week ago.

For younger children, important themes are community decision-making and fairness, the building blocks of a democratic society.

In grades five to eight, students ALAN learn about the foundations of the SINGER democratic process — rights and responsibilities, civic action and voting — along with injustices.

In grades 11 and 12, students should follow congressional hearings, evaluate media coverage and discuss the implications of current events. For these grades, the anniversary of Jan. 6, with expanded media coverage, offered a teachable moment for more in-depth analysis.

While students and teachers are entitled to their opinions about the implications of the events, discussion in class about them must be respectful, and speak-

ers must support statements with evidence. The teacher must prepare documents for evaluation, ask questions of student speakers and moderate discussion.

The teacher must guide students through multiple sources with different perspectives so they can form their own questions, evaluate the sources and information, and arrive at conclusions supported by evidence. This process must not include deciding whether the Jan. 6 insurrection happened. It happened, and it was indeed an insurrection, intended to block certification of the presidential election.

One difficulty in addressing the events of that day is the country’s partisan divide. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found that despite widely viewed video footage, 60 percent of Republicans claimed the attack on the Capitol was not violent or somewhat violent.

Here, teachers should ask students to suggest additional documents to allow them to discuss and decide whether the events were violent or not.

To be clear, more than 700 people have been charged with various crimes at the Capitol. The FBI estimates that about 2,000 people were part of the mob that breached the building after a pro-Trump rally at which then President Donald Trump and

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other speakers repeated unsubstantiated charges that the election was stolen.

Some 140 law enforcement officers were injured during the attack, one died, and the Capitol sustained more than $1.5 million in damage. More than 160 of the rioters entered guilty pleas in exchange for lighter sentences. Seventy have been sentenced. Thirty-one were jailed and 18 received home detention. The longest prison term so far is five years.

About 100 defendants have ties to extremist groups.

Trump tweeted many times on the afternoon on Jan. 6, attacking then Vice President Mike Pence more than once. At 2:38 p.m. — more than an hour and a half after Trump supporters first breached the Capitol — Trump tweeted, “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!”

At 4:17 p.m. Trump tweeted a video in which he told his followers, “I know your pain, I know your hurt. We love you, you’re very special. You’ve seen what happens, you’ve seen the way others are treated . . . I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.”

Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, called what happened on Jan. 6 “an insurrection, incited by the president.” On Fox News, Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican

t offers a teachable moment for indepth analysis, if discussed respectfully.

LETTERS Shame on our senators To the Editor: It’s a real shame our elected leaders aren’t fighting harder for the people they represent, whether they’re Democrat, Republican or Independent. Meanwhile, we’re left empty-handed.

Fifty U.S. Senate Republicans and two Senate Democrats are the reason why the Senate went on recess without passing the Build Back Better Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. It’s unacceptable that while teachers and students continued to work the week leading up to Christmas, the senators said goodbye, neglecting their obligations. People were asking them all year to deliver results on affordable child care, climate action, housing and money in working families’ pockets. This is what Build Back Better would do for us, benefiting all of America, including Long Island.

We have been asking that every vote count in free, fair and secure elections, because Republican state legislatures are passing bills to make it harder for people to vote. That is what the Freedom to Vote Act would do, and again, all of us benefit when our voices are heard through our votes.

Thankfully, Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that both pieces of legislation will be taken up for a vote this month. Let’s hope the obstruction by these 52 self-centered politicians comes to an end and President Biden is able to sign them into law. If you have not already called Senator

from Wyoming, said, “There’s no question the president formed the mob. The president incited the mob. The president addressed the mob. He lit the flame.”

The New York Times published useful lesson ideas to aid teachers. It also recommends consulting the websites of Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance), Facing History and Ourselves and the Anti-Defamation League. The Times package includes documents with questions sorted by these themes: ■ Understanding what happened and reacting to it.

■ Investigating President Trump’s responsibility.

■ Exploring why democracy requires a peaceful transfer of power.

■ Understanding the roots of the riot.

■ Considering the role of the news media and the power of language.

■ Scrutinizing how social media can facilitate insurrection.

■ Putting Jan. 6 into historical context.

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

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Blakeman’s decision is ‘misguided’ To the Editor: The news generated by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s recent publicity stunt of signing an executive order allowing school districts to decide on mask-wearing is nothing more than a glaring example of misguided judgment and poor leadership. Surely Mr. Blakeman knows he cannot supersede Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate or the state education commissioner’s similar order.

It is nothing more than playing to the cheap seats, on top of being quantifiably false (the idea that there is no science to support mask wearing as a Covid mitigation practice). It’s both an embarrassment and an invitation to those who believe such nonsense to cause disruption and only furthers divisiveness.

It’s a sad day in Nassau County to be represented by a person willing to sow discord to be more popular with a loud and uninformed minority.

MICHAEL LUDWIG, PH.D. Rockville Centre Ludwig is director of Hofstra University’s health education master’s program.

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