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Youth group awarded funds Nonprofit coalition set to continue fight against substance abuse Nassau County. The Marion and Aaron Gural JCC in Cedarhurst and the Family and Children’s The Rockville Centre Coali- Association in Mineola also tion for Youth, which has worked received about $125,000 each. for over six years to raise aware“Preventing youth substance ness and prevention of youth abuse in our comsubstance abuse in munities is critical, the community, is and these grants will set to continue that help us do just that,” mission for another U.S. Rep. Kathleen five years, thanks to Rice said in a press federal funding from release. “I commend the Drug-Free Comthe Rockville Centre munities Support Coalition for Youth Program. The nonfor their tireless profit organization wo rk c o m b a t i n g has been awarded yo u t h s u b s t a n c e $125,000 per year abuse and I congratthrough 2025. ulate them on win“This additional ning this highly five years of funding competitive federal will enable us to congrant.” tinue our prevention RUTHANNE The Drug-Free education,” RuthCommunities proanne McCormack, McCORMACK gram is the nation’s the coalition’s proj- Project coordinator, leading ef for t to ect coordinator, said, RVC Coalition mobilize communi“and fulfill our misties to prevent and sion to plan and for Youth reduce substance implement strateabuse among youth. gies to prevent and reduce youth Created in 1997 by the Drug-Free substance use and its associated Communities Act, it provides consequences.” grants to community coalitions The U.S. Department of to strengthen the infrastructure Health and Human Services among local partners in that awarded a total of nearly $375,000 to three organizations in CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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This sure beats remote learning Two snow days this week meant lots of fun for kids in Rockville Centre. Miles, left, and Cooper Musa spent Tuesday building a snowman, with plans to build an igloo as well in their yard on Princeton Road. Story, more photos, Page 7.

Local brewer gets top rating

RVC native internationally recognized for craft beer

By THOMAS CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com

Rockville Centre native Jason Stein has made significant strides from homebrewing in his parent’s garage to heading up a growing brand in Timber Ales.

Stein, 33, a 2005 South Side High School graduate, has continued his passion for brewing even through the past year, when circumstances have complicated the brewing and distributing

processes, and he has been recognized for his efforts.

Website and app RateBeer named Timber Ales its New Brewer of the Year for 2020, ahead of breweries in Scotland, Canada, England, Poland and Australia. “Our new brewer awards are among the most coveted of RateBeer Best,” the website states. “These awards often recognize breweries that go on to join the world’s elite craft brewers, and that enjoy continued

great success.”

Andrew Berman, a childhood friend of Stein’s from Rockville Centre, went to the University of Michigan with Stein, where they developed a passion for craft beers as they sampled the state’s numerous breweries. A few years after Berman graduated from college in 2009, he joined his friend Matt Federico in New York City, and got involved in CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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SSHS grad gets global nod for brewing With the arrival of the pandemic and the resulting regulations that limited homebrewing in 2014. Four years later, indoor service of alcoholic beverages, the Stein joined the pair and engrossed himbrewery , where Timber Ales is now proself in homebrewing culture.

Stein developed connections, and duced, had to pause operations. “With a began to make a name for himself on the lot of places, bars, and stores not being able to sell to the craft-brewing customer,” Stein scene. “There’s a said, “it’s kind of brewery/distribulimited the outlook tor in Connecticut in terms of what called 12 Percent we could do.” He brewing,” Berman explained that said, “and they breweries had to were seeing Jason stop production out there, and hearand distribution ing about Jason for a couple of and the recognimonths because tion he was getting they were unsure as a homebrewer, of the future. and they approachStein now baled him.” ances his day job at The 12 Percent E r n s t & Yo u n g Beer Project strives with Timber Ales. to market smaller He is in New York brewers to a wider City most of the a u d i e n c e. A l e x Courtesy Jason Stein time, but will make Bank, who opertrips up to ConJASON STEIN POURED beer from a barrel ates the brewery, necticut twice a described the com- at 12 Percent Beer Project. month when beers pany in a 2020 artiare scheduled for cle for myrecordrelease.

While the pandemic has created journal.com as similar to an independent record label allowing artists to work in issues with distribution, it has also had a their own ways. Some of the beer “art- positive side. “I think . . . it does make it ists” don’t have their own facilities, and easier if I know there are days when I can that’s where 12 Percent comes in. The just take the calls from the brewery,” large-scale contract brewery, in North Stein said. “. . . With the pandemic there Haven, Conn., collaborates with rising aren’t as many people there, so I can go and sit down and have an office basically brewers who might need help expanding.

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JASON STEIN AND Zac Ross at work at 12 Percent in North Haven, Conn., where Timber Ales is produced. to do my full-time job and monitor things on the beer side when needed.” He must be tested for Covid-19 every time he goes to the Connecticut brewery.

Even with the challenges of the past year, Timber Ales has added 21 beers since last February, many of them stouts or India pale ales, or IPAs. One stout, which Stein named Chasing Darkness, even tastes like dark chocolate, and will be the first beer bottled out of bourbon

barrels. The bourbon bottle program will be the next big step for Timber Ales. Since the beers the company has produced have had 12 months to age and “develop nuances,” as Stein put it, now they can be bottled from the barrels. “That’s basically what the goal has been all along,” he said.

“To have these more complex-style aged beers.”

RVC Coalition for Youth receives federal grant CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE effort. Each grant recipient will use its funding for programming to combat youth substance abuse in the communities they serve.

Jeanne Mulry, program director for the Rockville Centre Coalition for Youth, helped write the grant for the first round of funding, which McCormack said “really put us on the path to success.” Mulry said she was proud that the organization had been approved for more funding.

“Ruthanne and I were there at the beginning, and we know a lot of coalitions that don’t get [the funding],” Mulry said. “A lot of times, I think the second round is harder to get than the first round. I’m excited for the next five years.”

The coalition was formed in August 2014, when several community groups joined forces to address the problems with teen substance abuse, and the first grant application was approved in September 2015. Members include the RVC Youth Council, an independent, teen-focused nonprofit that provides substance-free activities and programming for teens, as well as the village Police Department, the school district, Confide Counseling, Mercy Hospital, the Lions Club, the Hispanic Brotherhood, St. Agnes Cathedral, Temple B’nai Sholom-Beth David, the

Martin Luther King Center and the Economic Opportunity Commission.

Since its inception, the coalition has worked on communitywide anti-drug initiatives such as “sticker shock” campaigns, billboards, presentations to parents and teens and in-school workshops aimed at educating youth about the dangers of substance use. A new billboard was installed on Jan. 28 on Oceanside Road, by the Rockville Centre Recreation Center, with the message “You Are Not Alone” and the phone number for the Long Island Crisis Center. The intent is to let people know that it’s OK to ask for help when you’re struggling with anxiety, depression or substance use, according to McCormack.

The organization is also a member of the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, and several members, including McCormack, take part in two weeks of intensive training and attend the CADCA National Leadership Forum each year.

This week, McCormack is attending the leadership forum virtually, and on Tuesday she was preparing to meet with U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand to advocate against vaping and the legalization of marijuana.

Go to rvccoalitionforyouth.org for more information.

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SUSAN BLAUNER, OF Saving Lives Five Towns Drug and Alcohol Coalition, far left; Ruthanne McCormack, project coordinator of the Rockville Centre Coalition for Youth; Sgt. Nicholas DeLuca, of the Rockville Centre Police Department; and Liz Boylan, a parent volunteer for the Coalition for Youth, attended training in Washington last February that focused on opioid alternatives.

NFL invites four MSSN staffers to Super Bowl In recognition of their tireless efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic, the NFL is sending four Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital employees to participate in the league’s Super Bowl experience for front-line workers.

The four hospital employees — two physicians, an Emergency Department nurse and a respiratory therapist — are among the 7,500 vaccinated health care workers who will receive free tickets from the NFL to the big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa on Sunday as part of the NFL’s salute.

A Rockville Centre resident and grateful patient of MSSN is helping to make the trip possible by sponsoring the hotel and travel expenses for the nurse and respiratory therapist.

The four hospital employees who will participate in the game day experience are Emergency Department Nurse Eileen Carolan, Director of Respiratory Therapy Iris Halem, Dr. Frank Coletta, the chief of critical care and pulmonary medicine and MSSN Chief Medical Officer Dr. Adhi Shar ma.They all have received their first and second doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.

“This is a dream come true,” Carolan said, according to a news release. “I’m a big football fan and I never thought I’d get to attend a Super Bowl. After the challenges of the last year, this will be a welcome break.”

MSSN President and CEO Richard J. Murphy said the four employees represent the best of the hospital.

“They have been leaders in the fight against the virus since the start of the pandemic last February and we are proud they will be able to represent Mount Sinai South Nassau at the Super Bowl,” he said, according to the news release. “Like so many other members of the hospital’s staff, they worked tirelessly, sometimes around-the-clock, putting the needs of our patients before their own family and putting themselves in harm’s way to provide care for our community. We are very grateful to the NFL for recognizing them and all health care workers at the Super Bowl.”

The facility’s staff members will be included among the about 7,500 other health care heroes at this year’s Super

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LARRY FERAZANI, A Rockville Centre resident and grateful former patient of Mount Sinai South Nassau and his wife, Christine, made a special visit to the hospital to thank health care heroes after covering travel and hotel expenses for them at the Super Bowl.

Above, from left, MSSN’s Director of Respiratory Therapy Iris Halem, the Ferazanis, MSSN Chief Medical Officer Dr. Adhi Sharma and Dr. Frank Coletta, chief of critical care and pulmonary medicine.

Bowl and around the country that the NFL will recognize through a variety of special moments both in the stadium and during the CBS broadcast of the game.

Each of hospital’s four staff members chosen played a different role to support the more than 1,600 Covid-19 patients treated at MSSN during the pandemic.

A full-time Emergency Department nurse for the hospital since 1990. Carolan cancelled a planned vacation last spring so that she would not miss a single shift during the height of the first patient surge. Throughout the duration of the pandemic, she has served at the hospital’s on-campus and Long Beach-based emergency departments.

When the first Covid-19 patients arrived, Halem’s role as director of respiratory therapy took on a new urgency.

She worked side by side with nurses and doctors to provide respiratory treatments to severely ill patients. During the height of the pandemic in April,. Halem was coordinating the care of 97 patients on ventilators and 110 on bi-pap therapy.

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Sharma has provided steadfast leadership in MSSN’s ongoing response to Covid-19, overseeing the medical staff ’s response to the pandemic and coordinating with the Mount Sinai Health System to ensure the hospital’s patients and staff had access to the latest therapies, equipment and research. Sharma helped lead the hospital and its clinical staff to meet daily unforeseen challenges, reallocating resources and redeploying staff to MSSN as needed during the yearlong and unprecedented public health crisis.

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Super Bowl Covid-19 protocols include mandatory mask wearing, social-distancing, podded seating, touch-less in-stadium experiences at concessions, restrooms and security checkpoints, as well as controlled entry and egress.

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AS OF THIS week, Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre is Mercy Hospital.

New brand unveiled for Catholic Health

By JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com

The names have changed but the level of service and quality is the same, according to top executives at Catholic Health.

Formerly known as Catholic Health Services of Long Island, the Rockville Centrebased health care system is now simply Catholic Health. Additionally, the name of Mercy Medical Center has changed to Mercy Hospital as of Feb. 1.

“We’re a comprehensive health care system that has presented itself as separate entities,” Joseph Carofano, senior vice president of strategy and chief marketing officer of Catholic Health, said. “We wanted a unified identity to clarify that we have a single voice.”

The health care system, Carofano said, has a large footprint with six hospitals, three nursing and rehabilitation centers and a network of physician practices, but is “largely unknown.”

“People didn’t understand what comprised Catholic Health Services,” Carofano said. “We want clarity on what we represent and where patients can access us.”

Additionally, he said, a unified brand is important for the system’s nearly 18,000 employees and physicians, as it will give the consumer more confidence. As to changing the name from Mercy Medical Center to Mercy Hospital, Carofano said the term “medical center” was outdated as compared to what the facility provides to patients, and they also want to be consistent with how the Catholic Health hospitals are referred to.

According to Alan D. Guerci, Catholic Health’s President & CEO, the new branding allows the health system to emphasize its Catholic heritage along with sharing its reputation for excellent physicians and services that it has built over the past several decades of service to the community.

“We provide the best possible care from proven leaders in their fields,” Guerci said.

The official name changes took effect on Monday, and Carofano said the rebranding has taken part in two phases. In early January, the announcement of the name change was made using print, digital and social media efforts. Last weekend, Catholic Health launched the second phase, with

television and radio advertisements and sending out mailings to residents.

While the system has had to make a lot of changes over the past year to provide care to Covid-19 patients and follow the proper protocols, there have been other important additions, particularly at Mercy, as Catholic Health expands its focus on core hospital services, such as cardiac care and oncology. A cancer center opened in early 2020, the St. Francis Heart Health program began in the fall, giving more residents access to St. Francis’s renowned surgeons and medical teams; and they broke ground on a new Family Care Center. As a member of the Roswell Park Care Network, one of New York’s premier cancer centers, Catholic Health has strengthened its commitment to providing outstanding cancer care.

“The system has been committed to providing care to patients throughout the difficult year,” Carofano said, “yet has also continued to grow in traditional, ambulatory and telehealth services.”

The six Catholic Health hospitals are Good Samaritan Hospital, Mercy Hospital, St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center®, St. Charles Hospital, St. Catherine of Siena Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital. Continuing care services are offered at Good Samaritan Nursing & Rehabilitation, St. Catherine of Siena Nursing & Rehabilitation, Our Lady of Consolation Nursing & Rehabilitation, Good Shepherd Hospice and Catholic Health Home Care. Additionally, the medical group is now known as Catholic Health Physician Partners.

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Connection to CHS eVisit is done easily through a mobile app available for iPhone and Android platforms.

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events and activities

community update Thursday, Feb. 4 Chef Rob: Dragon Noodles Chef Rob demonstrates the steps in making dragon noodles through the Rockville Centre Library, 10 a.m. The recipe and link will be provided upon registration.

Valentine’s Day Cards Marcia Olsen will help crafters cut a Valentine’s Day card at 1 p.m. Register for the Zoom program through the Rockville Centre Public Library. Kits with supplies will be available for pickup at the library.

Book Club The Rockville Centre Library hosts a “young at heart” book discussion about “One of Us is Lying” by Karen McManus over Zoom at 7 p.m. Register through the library to get the link.

Friday, Feb. 5

Pickleball fundraiser for Bethany House

over Zoom and registration is required.

The link will be emailed one hour prior to the 7:30 p.m. start time.

Wednesday, Feb. 10

The John A. Anderson Recreation Center in Rockville Centre will host a Pickleball Tournament on Feb. 13, with proceeds benefiting the Bethany House of Nassau County, a nonprofit agency that provides emergency shelter to women and children. A free clinic starts at 4 p.m. and the tournament is from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m., with a fee of $45 per player. Email fmilillo56@ gmail.com or text (516) 384-5124 to sign up. Eileen Garry, right, joined the recreation center’s league when it began last fall.

Current Events discussion Stay up-to-date with current affairs and discuss what’s on your mind with facilitator Richard Skolnik, through the Rockville Centre Public Library. The discussion will take place over Zoom and registration is required. The link will be emailed one hour prior to the 10:30 a.m. start time.

In celebration of love Actress Kate Beckman presents a Reader’s Theatre presentation of poems, stories and excerpts in celebration of love, at 7:30 p.m. Visit the Rockville Centre Public Library’s website to register.

Thursday, Feb. 11

Poetry Workshop

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Facilitator Mandy Mangot leads an interactive poetry workshop that includes a study of poetic works and composing original works through the Rockville Centre Library at 1 p.m.

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E-Cycling Program Residents can bring electronics that they want to recycle to 10 Sunrise Hwy from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Accepted items include computers, televisions, gaming systems, electronic readers and cable boxes. Email ewaste@dec.ny.gov with questions.

Sunday, Feb. 7 Sunday Science Children ages 5 to 12 can learn candy chemistry and explore the properties of sugary treats at the Center for Science Teaching and Learning, 1450 Tanglewood Rd. in Rockville Centre, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Children will be given a piece

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Monday, Feb. 8 Book Chats Anna Katsavos, a librarian at the Rockville Centre Library, will lead a book discussion of “My Dark Vanessa” by Kate Elizabeth Russel, at 1 p.m. The discussion will take place over Zoom. Register through the library to get the link.

Meditation with MaryClare MaryClare Chiofalo leads a meditation class through the Rockville Centre Public Library that is designed to help participants destress, relax and focus. Registration required. 7 p.m.

Certified yoga instructor Joe Cilmi leads the class designed to accommodate the needs of people who may have difficulty with more traditional approaches. Registration required. At the Rockville Centre Library, 12:15 p.m.

Take & Make Crafts Children ages 3 to 6 can make a simple clay thumbprint heart craft through the Rockville Centre Library. Materials and online instructions will be provided by the library. Registration required to receive a kit. Call (516) 766-6257, ext.

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Chef Rob demonstrates the steps in making Valentine straweberry biscuit cookies through the Rockville Centre Library, 10 a.m. The recipe and link will be provided upon registration.

Board of Ed meeting The Rockville Centre Board of Education will hold a regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Commons Room at South Side High School, 128 Shepherd St.

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Professor Thomas Germano presents the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who went from hoodlum to art world darling and megastar of the transformational movement. The program will take place over Zoom, through the Rockville Centre Library, 7 p.m. Registration required.

What We’re Watching Join moderator Michael Matuszewski and library staff member Rob Siegel in a discussion about what everyone is currently watching on television, through the Rockville Centre Public Library. The discussion will take place

The Village Board of Trustees will meet on Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. on Zoom.

The village’s e-cycling program will happen on Saturday, Feb. 6.

Sandel TV airs daily at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Channel 18 (Optimum) and Channel 37 (Fios) The RVC Rec Center will host a pickleball clinic on Feb. 13 to benefit Bethany House.

Assemblywoman Judy Griffin is hosting a series of Coffee Chats; call (516) 561-8216.

Rockville Centre hit with massive nor’easter

ROCKVILLE CENTRE HERALD — February 4, 2021

Snow causes cancellations, but the snow days bring joy to residents already at home

By JILL NOSSA and THOMAS CARROZZA sbrinton@liherald.com; jnossa@liherald.com

A massive nor’easter out of the west swept across Long Island early Monday, and nearly a foot of snow reportedly fell on Rockville Centre, bringing the village to a halt.

The heavy snowfall caused the Rockville Centre School District to close on both Monday and Tuesday, and the Village of Rockville Centre to declare a snow emergency. Mayor Francis X. Murr ay s a i d t h a t crews from the Department of P u b l i c Wo rk s worked “around the clock to ensure the safety of our roadw ay s, ” n o t i n g that the department is responsible for plowing MIKE BAJDA 53 miles of roads, 30 parking RVC resident fields and all village-owned sidewalks. He also asked that property owners to remember that that they are responsible for keeping sidewalks clear.

Shortly after 9 a.m. Monday, Joerg Obermueller was out shoveling the sidewalk in front of his home on Hamilton Street. He said that, since he’s been working remotely since the start of the pandemic, the storm was not too disruptive.

“It’s not a big deal for me. Actually, I’m kind of enjoying being outside,” Obermueller said. “I’m getting a little exercise.”

With the snow continuing to fall throughout the day and into the evening, many people were not able to get outdoors until Tuesday.

Mike Bajda, who lives on Princeton Road, said on Tuesday that he was essentially incorporating the chore of shoveling snow into his work day.

“Between virtual meetings, I’m actually shoveling and doing some house projects as well,” Bajda said. “I love the snow. It’s fun. It’s kind of like a free workout during Covid. I’m trying [to shovel] hard enough to get it done, but not so hard that I have a heart attack.”

Farther down Princeton Road, Derek Musa, a stay-at-home dad, was out playing with his three sons while his wife worked remotely.

“They’re having the best time,” Musa said. “We’re going to make an epic snowman and there’s an igloo in the works. So, these two days have been positive for us.”

All garbage and recycling pickup was suspended on Monday and Tuesday, Murray said, and will resume on the next regularly scheduled pickup day.

Visit rvcny.gov for updates. Residents with concerns can call DPW at 516-6789288. No power outages had been reported as of press time.

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By Nicole AlciNdor nalcindor@liherald.com

The Covid-19 pandemic caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs in 2020, and as a result, many found that their worst financial fears became their reality.

Even though many Americans never lost their jobs and some have found new ones, a growing number of people have been preoccupied by fear because they worry about being able to keep their jobs during the worst economic c a l a m i t y s i n c e t h e G re at Depression.

For many, pulling money from their savings accounts is the only way to survive, while others wished they had saved more emergency money, or they don’t know where to begin to start cutting expenses.

With many Long Islanders grappling with these financial concerns, Herald Inside LI held a free infor mational Zoom webinar on Jan. 28 to discuss reducing expenditures.

The webinar, which was sponsored by Edward Jones, Emigrant Mortgage, EmPower VeroNicA Solar, Maidenbaum Property Ferrero Tax Reduction Group and Geico, featured a panel of Assistant Vice expert speakers, who discussed President, simple ways to save money. DisEmigrant Mortgage cussion topics ranged from paying off credit card debt and getting finances in order to information about how to refinance loans with lower rates, ways to save on electric bills and how to grieve property taxes.

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n the same way that you would plan a Super Bowl dinner for friends and family, I recommend that people plan if they want to budget.

The importance of an emergency fund

“Last year, it was eye-opening to see how many people lost their jobs, and many people learned the hard way that having emergency funds set aside is so important,” said Marie Taylor, a 20-year financial adviser at Edward Jones. “People need to know that you’re never too young to start saving because people can go into foreclosure if they can’t make payments.”

As someone who helps people manage people’s finances on a daily basis, Taylor said her usual approach when helping new clients to start a budget worksheet is to help them understand their savings, investments and income. The worksheet, she said, includes four key questions: ■ Where am I today?

■ Where do I need to go?

■ Can I get there?

■ What do I need to reach that goal?

“I tell my clients that it’s important to look at where your money is coming from and to make sure they know the risks, recognize strategies and that they should understand what their goals and aspirations are,” Taylor said. “It’s also important that people make sure that they have a financial adviser that is focused on the people they serve. If a financial adviser is not explaining costs or checking on your investments, and they are telling you what they think you need while failing to find out your background information, you might want to get a different financial adviser.”

Making a plan

Another guest panelist, Veronica Ferrero, who is the assistant vice president and community lending

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HerAld iNside li held a free Zoom webinar on how to reduce expenses amid the coronavirus pandemic last Thursday. coordinator at Emigrant Mortgage Company Inc., said her job involves helping people to create a plan that reviews their credit report to see if it is up to date and without errors. She also looks at credit cards to make sure the interest rate is the lowest possible.

“Whenever someone closes or opens a savings account, it will affect their credit score,” she said. “A lot of people have credit cards that they don’t use, and they don’t realize that this will affect their credit score and that they should be diligent about paying their credit card payments when they are due.”

Ferrero also said she spends time evaluating her clients’ mortgages to aid them in discovering new ways to save in various areas, such as in their utility, phone and car insurance bills. She also aids people in looking at their long-term goals and deciding if taking out a home equity mortgage or line of credit would be the most sensible decision, based on a case-by-case analysis. With the ongoing pandemic, she also said, interest rates are low, and now is an opportune time to refinance and renovate homes.

“In the same way that you would plan a Super Bowl dinner for friends and family, I recommend that people plan if they want to budget, and through my job, I want to help people to realize through an analysis process, specifically where their money goes on a monthly basis,” she said. “This is a challenging process, but most people are glad when they do this, and they are better able to see where they can better save money.”

Taylor and Ferrero both added that people should look for interest rates on their student loans to help budget better.

“It’s important to do research on programs and to look for companies to help you to do this,” Ferrero stressed.

“Speak to someone who will sit down and listen to you and be disciplined about this, and don’t get distracted,” Taylor said.

Tara McDermott, director of customer experience and stakeholder relations at EmPower Solar, said her company serves about 3,000 clients. EmPower Solar aims to help consumers save on electric bills by help-

ing them install solar panels.

“Now, more than ever, people are more conscious of an increase in electric bills because people are spending more time in their homes, and therefore they are using up more energy due to the pandemic,” she said.

“The average home on Long Island pays $250 a month on their electric bill, and our goal is to get homeowners to save money through the installation of solar panels on their roof. About one in every 22 houses on Long Island have solar panels now.”

Having solar panel consultation with EmPower Solar, McDermott said, is free. It will take place over Zoom to discuss how much solar panels will cost on a case-by-case basis and answer any other questions for those considering going solar.

“We stress to our clients that having solar panels does not increase taxes, but third-party studies have shown that it does add about $20,000 to the value of the home,” she said. “Around 15 percent of clients have a battery backup system for their solar panels—which will allow them to power their house during a power outage for an unlimited amount of time. This is great because clients can be prepared for an emergency, similar to another Superstorm Sandy.”

Filing a grievance

As the Zoom meeting was ending, guest speaker Mark Miller, in-house counsel at Maidenbaum Property Tax Reduction Group, made a few remarks. “All residential homeowners should file a grievance, and anybody who has a renovation on their house should file and see if they qualify, but they should keep in mind that solar panels don’t count as a renovation in these instances,” he said. “Also, if you double your house size through renovation, you won’t get the home improvement exemption. You might be considered a whole new property at that point.”

The recording for this cutting expenses webinar can be found at liherald.com/recordings. The next Herald Inside LI webinar will be Thursday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m., and will look at estate and Medicaid planning.

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Herald sports High-risk sports resume with conditions

By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

Less than a week after high-risk high school sports in New York state such as basketball, football, wrestling, volleyball and competitive cheer were given the OK to proceed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran relayed the necessary guidance put in place by the state and approved by local health officials.

At a Jan. 27 news conference at Bay Pa rk i n E a s t Ro ck aw ay, C u r r a n announced the high-risk sports guidelines that, once met, will clear the way for public and parochial schools to begin practicing for basketball, wrestling and cheer on Feb. 1, and holding games and matches as soon as Feb. 8.

“I’m excited to get our kids back on the fields, courts and the rinks they love so much and to bring a little normal back into their lives,” Curran said.

Some of the mandatory guidelines put in place countywide by Suffolk aren’t being mirrored by Nassau. Instead, those decisions were left to individual school districts in Nassau. These include weekly Covid-19 testing for participating athletes, coaches and others in daily contact with the teams, temperature monitoring before practices and games, and no more than two spectators per athlete for home teams.

Masks must be worn at all times, unless players are unable to tolerate such a covering for the physical activity, and a minimum of 6 feet in distance between individuals must be followed at all times, with the exception of participating athletes. No sharing of equipment or drinks will be permitted, and facilities must provide sanitizer for all in attendance and be limited to 50 percent of the maximum occupancy of a particular area, inclusive of employees, patrons, players and spectators.

Curran said the Nassau County Department of Health would conduct spot compliance checks at random schools to ensure safety guidelines are being followed.

On Jan. 26, Nassau’s athletic directors held a meeting with Section VIII, the governing body for high school athletics in the county, to discuss a return to play for basketball, wrestling and cheer. Section VIII also conducted a conference call with school superintendents that same morning.

Section VIII Executive Director Pat Pizzarelli said with athlete participation the primary goal this winter, there would be no playoffs for basketball and no postseason for wrestling. Basketball teams will play an eight-game season, while wrestling will conduct dual meets only.

“We want the largest number of kids playing in the most number of games, and this was the way to do it,” Pizzarelli

said.

Baldwin has already decided to have all high-risk athletes and coaches tested weekly and will not be permitting spectators, Athletic Director Ed Ramirez said.

The district is planning to livestream basketball games and wrestling matches. “I’m excited to see our winter student athletes, especially our seniors, back competing,” Ramirez said. “Although they will not get the full experience, they have an opportunity to represent their school one last time, be with their teammates and enjoy their passion.”

The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District does not plan to mandate testing, Athletic Director Eric Caballero said. It will allow two spectators per home athlete, with no fans from visiting teams permitted. The Sewanhaka Central High School District is following the same criteria for testing and spectators, said Athletic Director Matt McLees.

The Valley Stream Central High School District will not allow fans for basketball and wrestling, but Athletic Director Scott Steuber said the topic will be revisited for sports set to begin March 1, such as football, soccer, volleyball and field hockey.

“I’m thrilled that we’re going to be starting all of our sports,” Pizzarelli said. “We haven’t had any Covid spread with the sports that began Jan. 4. Now we’re starting basketball and wrestling. BaSkETBaLL, aLONg wITh other high-risk winter I’ll be honest, I’m concerned cheer, were cleared to begin practicing Feb. 1. about wrestling. I spoke to our athletic administrators. They need to stress to their coaches they need to be diligent in keeping the safety of our student-athletes as the No. 1 priority, which is what we always do in athletics.”

Pizzarelli added each school district would make a determination whether to compete in the high-risk winter sports or not. He said only Uniondale, which is in full remote learning mode, has opted out so far. Lawrence flipped its decision on winter sports and will be competing.

Traditional fall sports, including football, soccer, girls’ tennis, cross-country, volleyball, field hockey and girls’ swimming, are slated to begin practice March 1. Spring sports, such as lacrosse, baseball, softball, boys’ tennis, track and field, girls’ badminton and boys’ golf, are set to start April 22.

NaSSau COuNTY ExECuTIvE Laura Curran said individual school districts could decide on Covid-19 testing for athletes and coaches.

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We soon switched the program to a tent at the hospital. The program at Lawrence was a huge success. We wanted to expand it. We had very sophisticated analyzing equipment. At the beginning, we were seeing 30 to 40 people a day. Now, we’re seeing 80 to 90 a day. We pulled people from other parts of the hospital to help out. They were the very best people.

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How did all of this affect me? It gave me the opportunity to help out the community.

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Nadia Holden knows what she wants: to become a mother. For several years, the 2005 South Side High School graduate and her husband have been ready to start a family, but so far, luck has not been on their side. After three preterm losses during pregnancy, they decided to take a different route and are hoping to adopt a baby.

The decision did not come easy, but was made with a lot of consideration.

Holden, 33, acknowledged that the process of adoption won’t be easy and could be emotionally painful, but she has been dealing with heartache for some time.

Four years ago, she lost a baby – a boy – when she was seven months pregnant.

The pregnancy had been smooth up until that point, she said.

“My water broke, and when I went to the hospital,” Holden recalled, “we learned he didn’t have a heartbeat.”

It was devastating, but the couple tried again. The second pregnancy ended after four months, and the third, last January, was lost at three months. Between the pregnancies, she said, she visited a lot of doctors and underwent numerous testing.

But the third loss was too much.

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As tough as their journey has been thus far, Holden, a science writer for the National Cancer Institute, said she believes she and her husband, Jon Holden, a 34-year-old landscape architect, have both grown from the experience.

“We’ve been doing a lot of grieving, a lot of healing and we’ve learned how to reach out for support,” she said. “This is setting us up to be more compassionate and understanding parents.”

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RiveRside students each designed a personal bookmark during Reading Week. Cecil displayed his bookmark through the Plexiglas.

Riverside celebrates Reading Week Last month, students from Riverside Elementary School participated in a number of activities to celebrate Reading Week. The special week included Bookmark Day, when students designed their own bookmarks, and Pajama Day. Students stayed in their pajamas while going to school, and principal Erik Walter took time to read to various classes.

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Peter J. Nowak dies at 87 Peter J. Nowak of Rockville Centre leader/organizer of the RVC ROMEO Group and active participant of St. died on Jan. 18, 2021. Loving husband of Ellain. Caring father of Maureen (Larry), Anthony’s Men’s Saturday Prayer Group.

Likewise, a respected trailJohn (Tracey), Mark, (Erin), blazer as a charter member Andrew (Jennifer) and Chrisand past president of the topher. Beloved grandfather American Rental Association to Matthew (Jill), Sarah, (LI Chapter.) Friends may Christina, William, Grace, call Tuesday, Feb. 2 from 2-4 Elizabeth, Debra, Christiane, and 7-9 p.m. at the Thomas A. Myles, Rachel, and Katie. He Glynn & Son Funeral Home, was a great-grandfather to 20 Lincoln Ave., Rockville Julius and Mason. Truly an Centre. Funeral Mass will be incredible provider/selfheld on Wednesday, Feb. 3, at made man/entre preneur 9:45 a.m. at St. Agnes Cathe(ABC Rental, Seneca Retreat, Peter J. Nowak dral. Interment to follow at Nowak Properties) who purMt. St. Mary’s Cemetery. sued the American dream If you prefer to donate in with hard work and perseverance, and with the utmost honor and lieu of flowers the following are organizations that he wished to have supported: favor to the Lord God of All. As a man of honor and courage, he Association for Children with Down Synserved our nation as a Korean War veter- drome, Handicapped Encounter Christ an. He also loved to support his fellow (HEC Long Island, Inc.) and Trinity Misparishioners at St. Agnes as a Eucharis- sions, trinitymissions.org/general-donatic Minister for many years. He was a tion.

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need. The federal government, as part of project Warp Speed, surveys each state and the manufacturers to ensure that the latter is going to have enough vaccine to deliver according to the orders coming in from the states. Each state has an allocation allotment based on population, and New York’s number is around 400,000 vaccines per week. But after including the 65 and older crowd, the pool of eligible New Yorkers is up to around 7.5 million people, Miller said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who expanded the age eligibility based on the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has accused the federal government of not expanding the supply of vaccines to match the expansion of eligibility. “I happen to be Christian. This is a loaves and fishes situation,” Cuomo said.

Nassau County Legislator Denise Ford, a Republican from Long Beach, said reaching seniors living at home is one of the biggest challenges. “Our Office of Aging is working, setting up a telephone line that will be manned by people,” she said. “It won’t be a recording,” The hope is that this will assist seniors in setting up appointments, ensuring that doses continue to be used, she added.

Hempstead, the largest town in the U.S., received $133 million in federal CARES Act funding that it has put toward helping local businesses, including several in Oceanside, Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito said, noting

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feeling less willing to get out of bed, or you find yourself losing interest in things that you normally enjoyed doing,” Brady Medical professionals and elected offi- said, urging those who are feeling these cials gathered virtually for a panel discus- effects to reach out to mental health sersion hosted by the Oceanside Library on vices.

Jan. 27, focusing on the coronavirus.

State Assemblywoman Melissa Miller, The group discussed the local effects a Republican from Atlantic Beach, also of Covid-19, the vaccines and the distribu- spoke during the session, and said she tion plan, while providing was unhappy with how the residents with information vaccines have been distributand resources to help them ed so far, noting that it “has during this troubling time. not been a very smooth proDr. Jacqueline Moline, vice cess.” president of occupational New York is still in phase medicine, epidemiology and 1B of the vaccine distribuprevention at Northwell tion schedule, and phase 1C Health, discussed the vacis projected to start in March cines’ effects and people’s conor April. Miller explained cerns about them. how phase 1A was set up to “The technolog y for focus on high-risk medical mRNA, messenger RNA vacworkers, which included cines, has been around for KellyaNNe emergency room staff, intendecades, and it actually was sive care unit staff, and pulused in the first SARS,” Brady monary department staff.

Moline explained. “They were Molloy College Phase 1B, which included beginning to develop a vacfirst responders like police cine for the first SARS using officers, firefighters, and this technology.”

EMS workers, was originally designated Kellyanne Brady, clinical director and for individuals 85 and older. adjunct professor at the Health and Well“Then they opened it up to 75 and up, ness Center at Molloy College, spoke of and that more or less bottlenecked the the importance of focusing on mental entire system,” Miller said.” Phase 1B health during the pandemic. opened to include individuals aged 65 and “It’s really important during this time over on Jan. 11. to keep an eye on your mental health, to Miller explained that on the state level, notice any sensations of feeling more sad, every week an order is placed based on

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Courtesy Town of Hempstead

aT a virTual forum, Hempstead Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito said officials planned to continue using CARES Act funds and other means to support struggling businesses during the pandemic. that the goal was to continue helping businesses survive the pandemic.

“We spent about $3.5 million on [personal protective equipment] kits that were delivered to business owners, churches, libraries and many other places,” D’Esposito said.

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LEGAL NOTICE Enimrac LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/14/2020.

Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 188 Pine St Rockville Ctr 11570. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

124419 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF TENTATIVE ASSESSMENT ROLL; NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD OF REVIEW; HEARING OF COMPLAINTS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Assessor of the Village of Rockville Centre has scheduled completion of the tentative assessment roll of the Village for the current year and that a copy thereof will be left with the Village Clerk of Rockville Centre, New York, it may be seen and examined by any interested person at 103 Maple Avenue until February 16, 2021 at 1:30 pm.

Note: due to the COVID 19 Pandemic the release of the tentative assessment roll may be delayed. Please check The Village Website prior to

visiting the temporary Assessor’s Office.

The undersigned Board of Review will be in attendance with the tentative assessment roll Via a ZOOM Meeting between the hours of 2 pm and 6 pm on February 16, 2021, to hear complaints in relation to assessments. All changes in the tentative assessment roll made as a result of said Board of Review hearing of such complaints will be entered on such roll on or before the date when the final assessment roll is to be completed.

The link to the meeting will be on the Village website.

A publication containing procedures for contesting an assessment is available at the temporary Assessor’s Office, 103 Maple Avenue, Rockville Centre, New York.

Individual property assessments are also available at http://www.rvcny.us/Build ings/lookupsblfinal.html and information regarding the grievance process is available at http://www.rvcny.us/taxgr ievance.htm Francis X. Murray, Mayor Kathleen Baxley, Deputy Mayor Nancy Howard, Trustee

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LEGAL NOTICE Public Notice to Bidders Sealed Bids will be received by the Village of Rockville Centre Purchasing Department for the matter stated below.

Bids must be received at the Rockville Centre Police Department, 34 Maple Ave., Rockville Centre, New York 11570 until 11:00 am prevailing time on February 25, 2021.

Bids will be opened that day and read aloud in the Village Court Room. In accordance with Executive Order of the Governor of New York, the bid opening will be recorded, and the recording will be available on the Village website on February 26, 2021. The contract will be awarded as soon thereafter as practicable for: 2021/2022 Miscellaneous Materials for the Electric Department Bid No. 2102E1(1011) The contract documents, specifications and plans can be examined on the Village’s website at

www.rvcny.gov.

Follow the link to the Purchasing Department.

Potential contractors are required to participate in a conference call the week of February 15, 2021. Please contact Mike Valenzano at mvalenzano@rvcny.us to confirm attendance.

All questions should be directed to the Purchasing Department.

Please contact Debbie Advocate in the Purchasing Department via email only at dadvocate@rvcny.us with any questions you may have. Questions must be received no later than February 17, 2021.

Award of Contract will be made in accordance with applicable provisions of the law.

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

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Taxes: $12,578 Island Park $490,000 Brighton Road. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms.

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Baldwin $465,000 Grand Terrace Avenue. Fieldstone/brick Cape. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Updated eat-in kitchen with custom cabinets, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. Formal dining room. Den/family room.

Oak floor in living room. Open front porch and brick patio.

Park-like backyard.

Taxes: $11,674.67 Bellmore $575,000 Florin Court. Contemporary. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Eat-in kitchen with quartz countertops and stainless steel appliances. Open layout. Entry off kitchen to Trex deck. Master with full bathroom, walk-in closet and bonus room. Home office.

Deeded dock rights. 2 car garage.

Taxes: $9,307.31

Malverne $435,000 Nassau Avenue. Ranch. 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom. Eat-in kitchen. Large formal dining room. First floor master bedroom. Taxes: $12,145.77 Rockville Centre $950,000 Berkshire Road. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 4.555 bathrooms.

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Taxes: $35,391.23 Valley Stream $775,000 Kearny Drive. Split Level. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Eatin kitchen. Formal dining room. Den/family room and home office. Near shopping and transportation.

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Q. Why do my replacement steps need to be lower than my house foundation? I live near the water, and we dug a hole to put in a new foundation for the front steps that will be bigger than the old ones. We found the groundwater came up at 30 inches, so we stopped digging, but the inspector said our plans showed 36 inches minimum. The house foundation is at 30 inches also, so why are we digging lower?

They did it, but I can’t understand.

A. This is a very uplifting topic. The deep question and answer are actually simple and not too deep after all.

Science, if followed, can aid in survival against the forces of nature that perpetually exist.

The reason your foundation needs to be lower is that water, when it freezes, expands as ice.

So what does that have to onte eeper do with a big ol’ heavy chunk of concrete, you may ask? Well, the ground absorbs rain droplets, humidity and underground streams, all various forms of water just waiting to expand when the temperature drops below 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius. Frost begins to form, first at the surface and then further and further down below ground level the longer the air temperature remains at or below freezing.

In this part of the world, the average depth of freezing consistently reaches 3 feet, and only slowly thaws when the air temperature rises. The foundation should always have a wide base, or footing, that spreads out at the bottom, and needs to be below the 3-foot depth to resist the phenomenon of heaving. This is because, as the frost builds and expands, the moisture, in all its various forms (I just mentioned), begins to expand and crowd out the foundation of your home, or front steps, or anything else in its way.

Think of it like a big zit being forced to the surface from all directions.

When this happens, all the man-made structures in the ground begin to lift, sway, crack and separate in different directions. You have about as much chance of preventing it as you would of standing against a strong tidal wave on the beach, but since the heaving happens in slow motion, it seems to not be well recognized, because this problem comes up all the time on construction sites. Believe it or not, even large buildings, like skyscrapers and shopping malls, are vulnerable to uplift from soil expansion, so it’s not just your front steps or your comparatively smaller building. Workers who don’t understand the science can create some easily avoidable problems.

The reason your house foundation is closer to the surface is probably because it’s tied to deep piers, called piles, that may go down 25 feet below the surface. The adjacent concrete foundation, anchored to the piles, should still have gone down to 36 inches, but at least the existing footings are held to something that may resist the uneven lifting.

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f you spend any portion of your day watching the news on television, you’re no doubt confused about what is taking place in Washington. In a moment of reflection, it dawned on me that we are living in two worlds. One world is the happenings in Congress, and the other is the real world.

While President Biden is busy trying to launch his new government, the Senate will be tied up for weeks deciding whether to convict former President Trump JERRY for his conduct on Jan. 6, the day KREMER of the riot at the Capitol. The final result is totally predictable. Most of the Republican senators, who worry only about their careers, will not vote to convict him.

By and large, Congress is detached from people on the street. Politicians like Senators Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell are focused on protecting Trump, who has threated to promote

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primary contests against anyone who displeases him.

But at the impeachment trial, all those cowards who won’t vote to convict Trump will, along with the public, be forced to watch hours of video of the horrors of the Jan. 6 mob attack. And they will have to hear witnesses who will state, “President Trump told me to do it.”

To paraphrase the late, great boxer Joe Louis, they can run but they can’t hide.

So let’s turn to the real world. Thanks to the courage of Twitter and Facebook, Trump is without a platform to continue his lies about a stolen election. There has been no public uprising against the social media platforms. It’s really comforting to have a day without tweets from an out-of-control narcissist. And it feels good to have a president who is showing up for work each day.

Unlike Trump, Biden isn’t hiding from the Covid pandemic. The federal government is taking over the responsibility of getting vaccines out to people. We are hearing what the govern-

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ment is doing to tackle this plague, and not ignoring the dangers of a virus that has killed over 400,000 people. Biden will tell us the truth, which is a welcome change.

It is clear that the 74 million people who voted for Trump aren’t just sitting around, mourning their loss. In the weeks after the Capitol uprising, 30,000 Republicans reportedly changed their party registration in disgust over Trump’s conduct. That may not seem like a big number, but many of them were residents of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona, key political states.

Many of the same people who refused to wear masks, and made fun of Biden during the campaign when he appeared in one, are lining up to get their vaccinations, while anxiously awaiting new legislation that will provide stimulus money for struggling businesses and increased unemployment benefits. And in the near future, Biden will be offering a new health insurance proposal.

Trump will likely escape any penalties for the Jan. 6 attack, but many of

hanks to the courage of social media, Trump is without a platform to continue his lies.

his people who broke into the Capitol will face the possibility of prison terms. Many Trump voters may have second thoughts about sticking with a man who encouraged an event that resulted in the deaths of five people.

The talking heads on TV speak as if Trump voters are some sort of solid block, but most of them want the same things that Democratic voters want.

The rural red states have plenty of areas badly in need of a little love.

They are suffering with limited resources. They lack internet access and are saddled with poor schools, just like inner cities. Their local hospitals are overwhelmed and in danger of failing. Their need for a little TLC can be met by a caring president, and the dynamic will change.

So I’m not going to let the immoral conduct of 45 senators distract me. I’m focused on the real world.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm.

Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.

Creating your pandemic time capsule

f time is really relative and there are time travelers out there from the future thinking about where to visit, do not, I repeat, do not go back to 2020.

We just closed the door on that baby, and it was hard to get on with our lives.

If you don’t believe me, just open the time capsules we leave behind.

We’re preserving the artifacts of our lives so that people in the future can better understand who they are and what brought them to their moment.

RANDI I’ve been thinkKREISS ing about what I will put into my pandemic time capsule, which is a big cardboard box in my bedroom closet.

Into it goes anything that I think is evocative of living through the pandemic.

Some of the things I put in the box are what you’d imagine: a roll of toilet paper, pictures of us and our friends in masks, a bottle of hand sanitizer, an envelope with several strands of hair, eight inches long and gray. I started keeping a pandemic diary over the summer, and I threw that into the cardboard

capsule in August, when I was depressed by the numbers and didn’t feel like writing daily entries anymore.

I tossed into the box some of the newspaper front pages I saved: “CDC details first U.S. case of novel virus spreading in China.” “FDA grants historic authorization to a Covid-19 vaccine.”

“Winter is coming: Why America’s window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing.”

We cannot be reliable memory keepers if we don’t include politics. The ferocity of the pandemic was fueled by President Trump and his people.

They hid the truth from the American people, fudged the alarming numbers, silenced the scientists and failed to do what was necessary to get ahead of the surges. So, I would put into my box another front page, from The New York Times: “Biden Beats Trump.” The world changed in a moment.

I would also save my “screen use” statement from Verizon, indicating an average of 60 minutes a day pre-pandemic, and six hours a day as of last week.

I asked some friends and family what they would put in a pandemic time cap-

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sule. Photos of people in ICUs on ventilators, my sister said. My grandson suggested something with the Netflix logo, a friend suggested photos of her grandkids, with and without masks as the year progressed, and another friend suggested a can of tuna and a packet of yeast. Someone said she’d put an old paintbrush in the capsule, since it helped save her life. I’ll include the hard-copy calendar I keep with notations for Zoom meetings and virtual doctor’s appointments and copies of our living wills, executed as the pandemic surged.

I will include photographs — real, printed photographs — of the loving friends who died this year, some of Covid-19, some of other diseases. I have the receipt from some enterprising death company welcoming me to a “virtual shiva.”

I will toss in my appointment card for my second Pfizer vaccine shot, as soon as I get inoculated.

When I surveyed some friends about what should go into the time capsule, one suggested Trump himself. Another said she would like to bury the anxiety and constant fear many felt as the former president bungled the response to

’ll put in pictures of us and our friends in masks, a bottle of hand sanitizer . . .

the pandemic, and we realized the unthinkable: that upward of a half-million Americans could die. One friend said he would put in Hershey’s Chocolate Nuggets, which he swears are better than Xanax.

Food has loomed large for everyone — getting it, hoarding it, cooking it, donating it. What time capsule would be complete without takeout menus and a list ranging from GrubHub to UberEats?

These were companies I never heard of before 2020.

I would save the books I picked last year at random for my Zoom book group this winter. Somehow, they’re all relevant to living through a pandemic. I suppose that’s because all good literature distracts us and helps heal our fractures.

For a few weeks, I kept a notepad at my bedside and wrote down the dreams I was having in the worst days. They were all the same: I walk into a room and no one is wearing masks, and I know, I absolutely know, that I will get sick. I couldn’t have had that dream in 2019. I’ll put the notepad in my time capsule.

My best hope is that we can seal our capsules very soon and leave their memories and lessons to history.

Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Recalling injustice during Black History Month

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uring February, Black History Month, we celebrate the great African-American political and civil rights leaders, scientists, artists, poets, movie stars and athletes.

But we must also pause to recall America’s dark past, stained by horrific acts against Black and brown people, at times perpetrated by our own government.

As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, it’s critical that we look back at the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” to understand the distrust that many African-Americans feel toward our government and medical institutions.

That distrust may be a contributing factor in the significantly higher Covid-19 infection rate and death toll seen among Black and brown people.

The Tuskegee study was supposed to last six months. It carried on for 40 years, from 1932 to 1972, a collaboration between the U.S. Public Health Service and Tuskegee Institute, a historically Black college in Alabama. The study of 600 poor Black sharecroppers examined 399 with syphilis and 201 without the disease. Study participants were told they were being treated for “bad blood,” a colloquialism for syphilis, anemia and fatigue, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In truth, they weren’t being treated at all — even after 1945, when penicillin was accepted as “the treatment of choice for syphilis.”

In fact, the study looked at what would happen if syphilis were to go untreated — but the participants never knew that. It wasn’t until 1972, when an Associated Press story disclosed the study, that it

ended.

Is it any wonder that many AfricanAmericans might distrust the continual exhortations of our federal, state and local governments to be inoculated against the coronavirus as soon as they can?

According to the CDC, nationally, there have been 1.4 times more Covid-19 cases among African-Americans than white people over the past 11 months. The hospitalization rate is 3.7 times greater among Black and brown people. And the death rate is 2.8 times greater.

There are reasons for these dispiriting statistics beyond distrust of government and the medical system — systemic racism is chief among them, the CDC says.

Lack of access to health care is another, and occupation is another: Many people of color work in the service industry, requiring them to show up in person rather than work from home via Zoom and email. Finally, there’s the question of housing. Many Black and brown people live in tighter quarters, in more densely populated areas, than white people. The coronavirus requires density to spread widely.

In 2019, the Herald undertook a yearlong investigative series examining the many forms that systemic racism takes in Nassau County. We called it “The Racism Around Us.” Infant mortality is a leading indicator of a community’s well-being, according to the county Department of Health. When children are dying in high numbers at birth, there are probably myriad other health concerns in a community.

In the majority of white communities

LETTERS LIRR questions remain unanswered To the Editor: The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s success is New York’s success, and a strong LIRR makes for a strong Long Island. Critical planning is needed for the year ahead to stamp out fraud and abuse, smartly rehabilitate the East River tunnels and get Elmont’s new train station up and running. Long Islanders depend on the MTA to provide an affordable, dependable and hassle-free commute, and the LIRR must live up to that obligation, especially as riders return to work in New York City. The MTA has its work cut out in 2021, and I will continue to hold agency officials to account. Our region’s future depends on it.

I recently pressed MTA officials on the steps they’re taking to clamp down on fraud and waste, and urged MTA leadership to finish installing biometric clocks for employees to log hours in the coming year. Indeed, fraud has been a perennial problem for the MTA, and yet the agency has yet to adequate-

across Nassau, the infant mortality rate ranged from 0 to 3 in 1,000 births in 201416, according to the New York State Department of Health. In most communities of color, the infant mortality rate was three to nine times that.

County officials identified nine communities of color as well as those with large minority populations — Elmont, Freeport, Glen Cove, Hempstead, Inwood, Long Beach, Roosevelt, Uniondale and Westbury — each with measurably greater health concerns than nearby white communities. They have been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, mirroring national statistics for infection and death rates.

“Blacks are bearing a disproportionate burden of Covid-19 in Nassau County,” said Elaine Gross, president of the Syosset-based ERASE Racism, “and the county must address two related challenges.

First, it must increase health care access and Covid-19 testing in Black communities. Second, it must combat the structural racism that fuels the disparities.”

Sarika Kuman, Long Island regional organizer for the National Institute of Reproductive Health, put it this way: “One’s quality of life should not be determined by your zip code, but in Nassau County it is. From infant mortality to pandemic fatality rates, the common thread is Long Island’s structural inequities.”

During Black History Month, we must never forget the racial injustices of our collective past so they are never repeated again, and so we might commit to rooting out the daily injustices — large and small — in our present society.

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our hundred years ago, the Catholic Church — then the arbiter of what ideas could be expressed and promulgated — banned books by scientists who claimed the Earth revolved around the sun because that theory conflicted with the orthodoxy of the time, i.e., the Bible and the Magisterium, the teaching authority of the pope and bishops.

Even if astronomers’ heliocentric theories were true, the powerful elite could not allow such disturbing words to be read — at least not in the JOHN vernacular — for such heresies O’CONNELL fear would confuse the masses and undermine the authority of those in charge.

These days it isn’t the princes of Rome that rule on what ideas are true and what news is allowed to be heard, but rather a decidedly secular hierarchy: the doyens of Silicon Valley, the media masters in New York and California, and their agents in Congress and government offices in Washington.

The current ideological conflict is often described as a battle between liberals and conservatives, but that’s last century’s war. Today’s cancel-culture college of cardinals shouldn’t be confused with liberals.

Real liberals aren’t hate-filled, intolerant, angry anarchists, no more than real conservatives are rich, white supremacist nativists. Genuine liberals are First Amendment absolutists ardently supportive of our liberties: a free press, freedom to practice our religions, freedom to peaceably assemble, the freedom to petition the government to better serve us, its sovereign, and to speak freely without fear of violent attack or suppression.

Authentically liberal Americans wouldn’t tolerate censorship of disagreeing — even disagreeable — voices. They’d defend those voices.

The indisputably liberal Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1927 that “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” A monopoly-busting, free-speech advocate, Brandeis would, I’m sure, see today’s corporate social media lords’ cancel-culture censorship as antithetical not only to the Constitution but to American civil liberties.

Traditional liberalism fights for an individual’s right to freely express ideas, popular or unacceptable, commonly believed or held only by that individual, true or not, whose supporting “facts” are from presumably credible sources or

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ruly liberal Americans wouldn’t tolerate censorship of disagreeing voices.

LETTERS ly abide by its inspector general’s recommendations to stamp out overtime abuse.

In December, five MTA employees were arrested on fraud charges for having logged “almost physically impossible amounts of overtime,” according to federal prosecutors. According to state payroll records, overtime hours logged by MTA employees soared 46 percent between 2014 and 2019. I urged agency officials to focus on reining in overtime and restoring riders’ trust in 2021.

I also inquired about plans to repair the East River tunnels this year. Hundreds of millions of gallons of water inundated the tubes during Superstorm Sandy and left them in disrepair. A report by the state comptroller found that the number of trains delayed or canceled because of problems with the tubes and their switches had increased 72 percent since Sandy, and accounted for a significant number of the LIRR’s on-time problems.

Finally, I’ve been a strong proponent of the new Elmont train station’s development as an integral component of the Belmont Park Redevelopment Plan. In addition to providing a regular, full-time public-transit option to and from the new arena, hotel and retail village, the LIRR hub will also serve as an additional com-

aren’t reliably sourced at all.

Some of President Biden’s inaugural speech was right out of a traditional liberal’s handbook. In his president-as-conciliator role, he said, “We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors.

We can treat each other with dignity and respect.

We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature.”

Eschewing the inciteful far-left rhetoric of many of his party-mates in Congress, the press and Hollywood, the president warned: “[W]ithout unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury. No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. … Let us listen to one another. Hear one another. See one another. Show respect to one another. Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.

Every disagreement doesn’t have to be a cause for total war.”

Left-wing extremists hope Biden’s words are just political speechifying.

Unlike reasonable liberals — and conservatives, for that matter — who are committed to social justice, equal opportunity and free speech, the goal of the radical left is to redefine what’s just, to tilt the playing field based on group identity, to amplify the speech of loud leftists and to silence contrary voices.

How fairly the national press reports on the Biden presidency will be important

to the future of the nation and to the survival of journalism itself. According to a Gallup survey five months ago, only 9 percent of Americans trust the media “a great deal.” Sixty percent trust them “not very much” or “none at all.” According to Gallup, the percentage of those who don’t trust the media at all went up five points in one year.

News consumers have turned to social media for information. Some wanted to connect on the new social app Parler before Big Tech suppressed it. Yes, the same Big Tech, the new Magisterium, that decides what can be posted and who can post.

I would have preferred that Biden had lost, but the election is over. That virus has left the lab. Disappointed, I must now only hope that he will serve America as a true liberal and reject many Democrats’ condescending intolerance. A sovereign people will oppose authoritarian politics that orders citizens to agree or shut up.

Half the country is vexed by the prospect of a Biden-Harris administration unchecked by the House or the Senate.

That situation can be changed in two or four years. But many Americans are even more troubled by the anarchy brought by Antifa and the radial left, which revels in “woke” group-think and seeks to crush the individualism that has made America great.

John O’Connell is a former executive editor of the Herald Community Newspapers. Comments about this column? OConnell11001@yahoo.com.

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muting option for area residents — which the community has needed for years.

TODD KAMINSKY State senator, 9th District

Executive orders are no help To the Editor: Last week, President Biden signed numerous executive orders that will end thousands of union jobs. One of them orders the closure of private federal prisons contracted by the U.S. Department of Justice. The idea of privately contracted federal prisons came from a previous Democratic administration. It was part of Vice President Al Gore’s so-called “reinventing of government” plan that instituted contracted federal prisons.

It was Gore’s and President Bill Clinton’s idea that paying a contracted facility would reduce costs, cut the federal work force and save retirement money, because federal workers wouldn’t be employed at these facilities. With these closures, private prison guards will be on the unemployment lines, and joining them will be construction workers building the border

Just call them Team Snowblower — Long Beach

wall and Keystone pipeline employees.

And it was reported that another signed executive order ending drilling on federal lands will result next year in still more lost union jobs.

So much for helping hard-working

middle-class Americans.

STEVE GROGAN Lynbrook Grogan is a retired Department of Justice employee.

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