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Former police commissioner McKeon dies hiring, and was someone Vafeades always admired and respected. For mer Rockville Centre “Jack was an affable, intelliPolice Commissioner John gent man who was generous and (Jack) McKeon died on April 24, always quick with a joke,” of complications of Parkinson’s Vafeades said. “After meeting disease brought on by Agent him once, you were likely to call Orange, and Covidhim your friend.” 19. He was 68. Va f e a d e s d e McKeon was scribed his predecesknown for his love of sor as “a pillar of the family; kindness to community,” noting friends; devotion to that he was a recipiduty, community and ent of numerous country; and his commendations and sense of humor. accolades, and had McKeon, who even been made an lived in Islip, had a honorary member of 37-year career with t h e v i l l a g e F i re the Police DepartDepartment. John McKeon ment, retiring in “Jack will be 2010 as the longestm i s s e d d e a r l y, ” serving commissioner in its his- Vafeades said, “but not forgottory, with 19 years as “the com- ten.” mish.” Sworn in on Feb. 13, 1973, McKeon was a graduate of he served as a uniformed and the FBI National Academy and plainclothes officer, detective, the FBI Academy for CEOs in sergeant, lieutenant, command- Quantico, Va., and earned associing officer of operations and ate’s, bachelor’s and master’s deputy to the commissioner degrees in criminal justice and before heading the department. security. He was awarded certifiC u r r e n t C o m m i s s i o n e r cations as a Protection ProfesJames Vafeades said that McKe- sional and Fraud Examiner, and on was “instrumental” in his CONTINUED ON PAGE 9

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Moving up in the ranks The Rockville Centre Fire Department officers installation ceremony took place outside the firehouse last week. Mayor Francis X. Murray swore in Chief Eric Burel, First Assistant Chief James Avondet, Second Assistant Chief Scott Mohr, and Fourth Battalion Delegate Mark Murray Sr., as well as seven company captains and their first and second lieutenants, secretaries and wardens. The department held its elections by absentee ballot. Its 300 volunteers have answered roughly 600 calls during the coronavirus pandemic.

District schools remain closed

RVC’s remote learning will continue through June By JILL NOSSA and SCOTT BRINTON jnossa@liherald.com, sbrinton@liherald.com

Students in Rockville Centre will not return to their school buildings for the remainder of the academic year, and will instead continue with distance learning to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. The order to close schools statewide, announced last Friday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, came as Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths continued a steady decline, but the state was still see-

ing nearly 1,000 new cases a day, which Cuomo said was unacceptably high. The decision affects 4.2 million students in 700 public school districts, 89 SUNY and CUNY colleges, and 100 private colleges. “We are truly saddened that we cannot connect personally in our classrooms with all of our students,” Rockville Centre Superintendent Dr. William Johnson said, “but it is imperative that we focus first and foremost on maintaining the safety of our children and our families.”

“While we are all disappointed by the governor’s announcement . . .,” Tara Hackett, president of the Board of Education, said in a statement on behalf of the board, “we feel it is more important than ever to work with the district to keep a strong focus on educating our children. In a time of great uncertainty for us all, we want to ensure that our students are doing well both academically and psychologically. Our priority has been, and will continue to be, on delivering strong remote learnCONTINUED ON PAGE 8

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A SIGN OUTSIDE the Grand Pavilion for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Rockville Centre lets people remember that “heroes” work inside.

Car parade recognizes nursing home staff E m p l o ye e s a t two Rockville Centre nursing homes were reco gnized last week with a c a r p a r a d e. A group of thankful r e s i d e n t s d r ove past T he Grand Pavilion for Rehabilitation and Nursing and Rockville Nursing Center on April 22 to show their appreciation for their work during the pandemic.

STAFF GATHERED OUTSIDE of the Grand Pavilion and Rockville Skilled Nursing and Rehab Centers as a parade of cars with signs and horns thanked them for all the hard work they do.

A PEDESTRIAN, ABOVE, stopped to watch and celebrate health care workers. THOSE WITH RELATIVES at the nursing homes held signs of appreciation. NOREEN MCCARTHY, ABOVE, far right, collected the signs, posters and cards, and delivered them to the facilities. STAFF MEMBERS OF the Grand Pavilion and Rockville Skilled Nursing and Rehab Centers waved to the cars and showed their appreciation for the car parade.

Covid-19 rapid testing offered in RVC By JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com

Since early April, a large bus has been stationed in the parking lot across from the Rockville Centre Police Department on Maple Avenue to provide rapid testing for Covid-19, and people have been continuously taking advantage of this service. Offered by Halper Family Medicine, in partnership with Baseline Health, more than 100 people per day are visiting the site, where patients can receive results in about one minute. “It’s been steady since the start,” Dr. Todd A. Halper, medical director of Halper Family Medicine said, noting that about 200 patients a day are being tested across all three facilities, which includes locations in Long Beach and Bayport. Patients can either stay in their cars to get tested or go to one of the three testing rooms on the bus. For the FDAapproved 2019-Covid IgG/IgM Rapid Test, patients get a finger pricked and the results come back within a minute. At that point, people learn whether they currently have Covid-19, if they have the antibodies indicating they had been previously infected or if they have never been infected. “It’s important to know your status,” Halper said, “and to know whether you’ve been exposed.” Halper said the majority of patients have tested positive for Covid-19, and a large number are showing antibodies for the disease, including some who are asymptomatic. Knowing the results, he said, is important in order to know how to treat it. Recently, he said, a patient tested positive who had been diagnosed with pneumonia a month earlier. If he had been tested earlier, he would have known he had Covid-19 in addition to pneumonia. Luckily, Halper said, this patient took precautions to self-isolate, and no one else in his family tested positive. “If you test positive, you then know you have to quarantine yourself so others can’t get it,” Halper said. Anyone interested in getting tested can call the practice at (516) 536-2221 to set up an appointment. The test is covered by most insurances, and Halper said they will accept people who have not

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MILLY RODRIGUEZ AND Katherine Chavez, medical assistants at Halper Family Medicine, pose for a picture in between testing patients. been patients prior, as well as people without insurance. Those in need of testing large groups should text #Telemed 516-629-0486. Alba Rodriguez, the office manager at Halper Family Medicine, said that most tests are scheduled the same day. Patients must call to schedule to an appointment and then receive phone call for a telemedicine screening, where patients provide a list of symptoms and medical history related to Covid-19 exposure. She said people seemed relieved to have the availability to get the test and most are staying in their cars. “People are really grateful to be able to drive by to get tested,” Rodriguez said, “and to get an answer so quickly.” Halper Family Medicine is at 55 Maple Ave., Suite 102, in Rockville Centre. The office is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. In addition to the rapid testing, the practice offers telemedicine, virtual calls, respiratory and viral swabs, medication refills and sick visits.

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Covid-19 patients have dropped to low enough levels that Northwell Health is able to earmark Syosset Hospital as a “Covid-contained” medical center where certain elective surgeries will be performed. That’s according to Dr. David Battinelli, Northwell’s senior vice president and chief medical officer. He spoke with video producer Rob Hoell last Thursday about how the hospital system, which has medical centers throughout the New York metropolitan area, has been coping with the “massive surge” of Covid-19 patients in recent weeks. Northwell was forced to increase its total number of beds across its 23 hospitals by 2,000 at the height of the crisis, Battinelli said. “We were overwhelmed in the” intensive care units, he noted. The hospital system redeployed some 1,500 workers in order to keep up with patient demand. To date, the Northwell system has treated more than 40,000 Covid-19 patients, with 13,000 patients admitted to hospitals. “Nobody in the world has treated and seen more Covid patients than Northwell,” Battinelli said. As a result, the hospital had to stop elective surgeries, which Battinelli called planned surgeries, meaning most elective surgeries must be done, but not

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Dr. DaviD Battinelli, Northwell Health’s chief medical officer, last Thursday spoke with video producer Rob Hoell about the “massive surge” of Covid-19 patients within the hospital system. immediately. Rather, they can be scheduled weeks or months in advance. With elective surgeries put off for six to seven weeks now, many patients need them done, sooner rather than later. The need to resume planned surgeries, Battinelli said, has become “semi-urgent” — hence the opening of Syosset Hospital for the procedures.

Battinelli said Northwell could not guarantee with absolute certainty that Syosset would be entirely free of Covid19 patients. Rather, he called the hospital “Covid-contained,” meaning the hospital will be able to cordon off any coronavirus patients who might appear there. Battinelli also spoke of the many clinical trials for Covid-19 treatments

that Northwell has undertaken. The system has an estimated 700 patients in trials, while on any given year, it might have a dozen in trials, he said. Among the trials Northwell is conducting is for famotidine, the active ingredient in the heartburn medicine Pepcid. Doctors in Wuhan, China, noticed that patients who presented with Covid-19 and heartburn, and who were taking famotidine, exhibited less virulent symptoms than those who were not on the drug. That anecdotal finding led to clinical trials around the world. It appears famotidine might inhibit the coronavirus’s ability to replicate, Battinelli said. He also spoke of telemedicine as a saving grace of the crisis, allowing patients to communicate with their doctors without having to be seen in an office. Telemedicine, Battinelli predicted, will grow rapidly after the pandemic has subsided because health care consumers will want it because of its convenience. Patients can dial up their doctors, and then wait at home to be seen virtually. “It is absolutely the way of the future,” Battinelli said. He added that he believes social distancing is here to stay for at least the next year. It will be, he said, the “new norm” until a Covid-19 vaccine is discovered.

Antibody treatment offers ray of hope at MSSN By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com

People have been pinning up homemade signs thanking the many workers at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside on chain-link fence that blocks off a construction project full of big dirt mounds outside the hospital. It was, one could say, a fitting site for a recent Facebook Live session in which three hospital officials offered a glimmer of hope amid the coronavirus crisis, speaking at length about an “innovative” treatment called convalescent plasma that, for some at least, might help cure Covid-19. Joe Calderone, MSSN’s senior vice president for communications, led the talk on April 17 with Dr. Aaron Glatt, the hospital’s chief of infectious diseases and chairman of the Department of Medicine, and Dr. Adhi Sharma, its chief medical officer and vice president for clinical and professional affairs. Sharma noted that convalescent plasma is an investigational treatment, not yet fully approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. It works like this, according to Glatt: Patients develop antibodies when fighting off Covid-19, as they do with other viruses. Those antibodies can be extracted from a recovering patient with a high level of them through a blood draw. The plasma can then be injected into someone who is still fighting off the coronavirus, which should help the patient battle the illness. As of April 17, doctors at the hospital had given plasma to 15 patients, and in those preliminary cases, the procedure had demonstrated “promising” results, according to Sharma. Ideally, Glatt said, antibodies are extracted from patients three weeks after the onset of Covid-19 symp-

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Dr. aaron Glatt, Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital’s chief of infectious diseases, spoke recently of an “innovative” treatment for Covid-19 called convalescent plasma. toms. At that point, he said, a patient is most likely to have a sufficient number of antibodies for extraction. Antibodies, he said, can be counted and quantified. There is no risk to patients who are donating plasma and no indication the procedure would deplete their antibody stores, potentially leaving them susceptible to future infection, the doctors said. The treatment is most often given to a patient who is or will likely become “deathly ill,” Glatt said.

Plasma is removed at the New York Blood Center in New York City. Patients must make an appointment to donate. Appointments can be made through Mount Sinai Doctors Five Towns in Hewlett. Donation is a multi-stage procedure that does require time, Glatt said. Treatment is carried out with patient consent only. It is unclear, Glatt and Sharma said, to what degree Covid-19 antibodies protect a patient from the disease, and for how long. It could be weeks, months or years. There is insufficient data on reinfection to know, they said. Glatt and Sharma each said social distancing is key to ensuring that infection rates do not spike again over the coming weeks and months. They worry that people will ease up on the precautions they have been taking recently now that the weather is warming and more people are heading outside. They also pointed out that Governor Cuomo would likely allow businesses to start returning to normal operations in a phased reopening after May 15. Without continued social distancing, those two factors could lead again to a surge in hospitalizations, which nearly overran hospitals like MSSN in April. The hospital normally sees about 300 patients total, but at the peak of infection, MSSN was seeing 500 patients, 40 percent more than normal. The MSSN officials said patients were housed in tents and hospital corridors to accommodate them all. “The staff went well above and beyond to maintain a hospital of 500 patients,” Sharma said, adding that MSSN could not sustain itself for long with that number of patients. Until “we totally clear [Covid-19] from the population,” Sharma said, people should continue social distancing. It will only be eradicated, he said, with a proven vaccine, which is 12 to 18 months away.

HERALD COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS — May 7, 2020

By Scott Brinton

Watch out for new mothers this Mother’s Day

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Mother’s Day is usually a day of celebration and joy for new mothers, but with New York still on lockdown this year, it may be a tough time for those with postpartum depression. The condition affects one in five new mothers, according to Pauline Walfisch, a therapist at Helping Hands Psychotherapy in Rockville Centre who lives in Franklin Square, and the depression may be masked as Covid-19 anxiety. In fact, Sonya Murdock, the founder of the Postpartum Resource Center of New “that grandparent experience they were York, said it has received a greater numlooking forward to.” ber of phone calls during the pandemic, “It’s easy to focus on the things you’ve and has increased its helpline lost,” she said, and suggested services to seven days a week. new mothers spend their The helpline provides free Mother’s Day: and confidential support to mothers who are in domestic ■ Connecting with family violence situations, those and friends virtually. who need supplies for their ■ Making a craft they baby, mothers who may be could keep for years. having suicidal thoughts and those who are diagnosed with ■ Getting a little “me Covid-19. time” if there is someone else The outbreak, Murdock in the house who could take pauline walfisch said, has “amplified these care of the baby for a few issues.” minutes. Making it worse, Walfisch said, is the fact that many new mothers ■ Brightening up their space with flowhave an idealized vision of their first ers from their gardens. Mother’s Day, but cannot go out to dinner Everyone else, Walfisch said, should this year or perhaps even receive flowers. check on their friends and family memAdditionally, they may feel guilty that bers with new babies. their parents will not be able to have

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HempStead town SuperviSor Donald Clavin was one of 13 Long Island supervisors who took part in a discussion on how the proceed with the summer season, when people flock to Long Island’s beaches and parks. SuperviSorS diScuSSed How to convey social distancing guidelines to the public, and when to open and close town facilities, including beaches and parks.

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Town supervisors plan for summer recreation By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com

Thirteen town supervisors gathered Friday to begin planning coordination of the summer season on Long Island, when tourists from across the state and country descend on the Island’s beaches, in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The supervisors focused on parks and recreation in their discussion, officials said. Supervisor Rich Schaffer, of the Town of Babylon, organized the talk. Hempstead Town Supervisor Donald Clavin said, “The theme of our discussion was that the Covid-19 pandemic does not follow town borders, and it’s necessary to collaborate on our best practices and strategies for summer programs and services. Working together as a team and maintaining communication will be key to providing the safest environment.” At press time, it was unclear precisely what would be open for the summer, including the beaches.

The supervisors discussed how to convey social distancing guidelines to the public, and when to open and close town facilities, including beaches and parks. Supervisors said they wanted to ensure the closure of any one facility was done in coordination with other towns to make certain no one town was overrun by beach and park attendees. “The uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic requires us to consider all possible scenarios,” Clavin said. “Though we wish that all of our residents can enjoy the summers of the past, we accept that this is a ‘new normal,’ at least for this year.” In addition to Schaffer and Clavin, other supervisors taking part in the talks included: Edward Romaine, of Brookhaven; Judi Bosworth, of North Hempstead; Joseph Saladino, of Oyster Bay; Peter Van Scoyoc, of East Hampton; Chad Lupinacci, of Huntington; Angie Carpenter, of Islip; Yvette Aguiar, of Riverhead; Gerard Siller, of Shelter Island; Edward Wehrheim, of Smithtown; Jay Schneiderman, of Southampton; and Scott Russell, of Southold.

News brief Bill would keep firefighters benefits intact State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Demo- port and appreciation now more than crat from Long Beach, has introduced ever, not an unfair practice that penalizlegislation that would ensure volunteer es them for following safety procefirefighters are able to maintain their dures,” Kaminsky stated in a news active status during the Covid-19 pan- release. The proposed law “would cordemic, when required trainrect this problem and give ing exercises have been them the benefits they interrupted by the virus. deserve.” Maintaing active service Kaminsky said volunteers is required in order for firea t t h e Wo o d m e r e F i r e fighters to accrue funds Department informed him toward their state pensions. of the issue. “Thank you to Firefighters must attain 50 Senator Kaminsky for his points per year by being on leadership and advocacy on call, responding to emergenbehalf of our volunteer firecies and taking part in trainfighters,” Woodmere Fire ing sessions. C o m m i s s i o n e r s Ro n n a todd Kaminsky Kaminsky, who re preRubenstein and Israel Max sents several South Shore said in a joint statement in fire departments, said the the release. “This bill will measure would allow active volunteers make sure these brave men and women to earn up to five points per month dur- retain their benefits while forced to stay ing the Covid-19 pandemic and give home because of the pandemic.” departments the ability to set different It was unclear at press time when the emergency response requirements for State Senate would discuss the bill. The certain members. Firefighters would Assembly and Senate passed a resoluthen only have to respond to the mini- tion in late March enabling virtual conmum number of emergency calls they ferencing and voting among firefighters. are assigned. “First responders deserve our sup–Jeffrey Bessen and Scott Brinton

Families begin Ramadan fast — from afar

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By TIMOTHY DENTON tdenton@liherald.com

With the sighting of the crescent moon on the evening of April 23, the month of Ramadan officially began. This year, however, the traditional gatherings before sunrise and after sunset have been suspended at Masjid Al-Baqi in Bethpage and at the Islamic Center of Long Island in Woodbury, as they have been across the country and around the world. The month is holy not only to the thousands of Muslims in Nassau County, but also to the more than 1.8 billion worldwide and is observed with 30 days of daily dawn-to-dusk fasts. The fast is one of the Five Pillars of Islam and is obligatory, or fard for all whose health would not be jeopardized. Women who are breast feeding or menstruating, diabetics and the chronically ill are also specifically exempted from the fast. The month culminates in the feast of Eid-al-Fitr, one of the two great feasts of the Islamic calendar. Both communities will hold classes and services online, via various streaming media. At Masjid-Al-Baqi, Mufti Mohammad Farhan will give daily commentary on passages from the Quran after fajr, the first of the five daily prayers prescribed by the Quran. Live streaming of tafseer, or interpretation of the Quran, will take place every evening at 9:30. Online education will continue via Zoom videoconferencing. Ramadan is from a root Arabic word meaning God. Traditionally, families and communities gather after sunset for a communal meal, called iftar. In addition to fasting, devout Muslims also abstain from tobacco products and sex. Charitable deeds, another of the Five Pillars, are also traditionally increased during the holy month. Many carry out extra good works during the month, such as alms giving, participating in blood drives or feeding the hungry. Masjid AlBaqi is providing free groceries for the elderly, the chronically ill and the financially distressed, according to the community’s website. The Islamic Center is offering similar programs, with guidance by Sheikh Ibrahim Negm, adviser to the

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UsUallY a MONTH of communal contemplation, fasting and prayer, families will observe this year’s Ramadan in the home, as Muslims follow the pattern set by other religions and move to electronic formats. Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar in Cairo — one of the world’s earliest universities — and by Farhan, as well as twicenightly recitations by Hafiz Dr. Assad Baig and Hafiz Tanweer Ahmed. For further information, contact Masjid Al-Baqi (516) 433-4141, or online at masjidalbaqi.org; or the Islamic Center of Long Island, at (516) 333-3495, or at icily.org.

aN ExaMplE Of a simple Ramadan iftar, or evening meal.

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L.I. congressional reps unite behind small businesses By laUra laNE llane@liherald.com

The Small Business Administration, Treasury Department and banks should be held accountable if lending institutions focus only on larger businesses when approving Payroll Protection Program loans, said a bipartisan group of Long Island congressional leaders on April 24. Meeting on the video conferencing platform Zoom, they said that priority should be given to “small” small businesses seeking loans of less than $150,000. “There are a lot of smaller small businesses in the U.S. and most have less than 20 employees,” said U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from Glen Cove. “We have to send a clear message to the banks that we’re watching. They need to help the mom-and-pop shops, the plumber, electrician, doctor and dentist. And we need the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration to help get that message across.” President Trump signed a new stimulus bill on April 23 that includes more than $300 billion in federal guarantees for

PPP loans, which must be used to keep told her that they are worried they will employees on the payrolls of small busi- not survive. One of Trump’s vocal supporters, U.S. nesses. The SBA would forgive the loans if all employees are kept on the pay- Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Republican from Sufroll for eight weeks and the loan money is folk County, said the government needs to step up to help the smaller used for payroll, rent, mortbusinesses. “To my colgage interest or utilities. A leagues who think there is new stimulus bill was needed nothing left to do, this isn’t because the initial of $349 the time to walk away and billion for the program ran declare bankruptcy,” he said, out. referring to a suggestion Suozzi said that the avermade by Senate Majority age loan amount from the Leader Mitch McConnell. first stimulus package at the “We need to make sure the 15 larger banks was $515,000, state and local governments meaning the big borrowers get through this.” received the loans and not Big banks should focus the smaller business. their attention on the smallU.S. Rep. Peter King, a THOMas sUOzzI est of businesses, said U.S. Republican, said the smaller U.S. representative, Rep. Gregory Meeks, a Demobusinesses need relief now. crat, noting he is working to “Or there won’t be any small Fourth District make sure they do. “Despite businesses left,” he said. who is in the cue, if you see a “This is a natural disaster. We have to stand together on this as New small business with 20 or less employees, push them up,” he said. “We earmarked Yorkers.” U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, a Democrat, $60 billion to go to community banks and agreed, adding that local retailers have credit unions because they have the pulse

e will get through this if Democrats and Republicans are united like we are here.

of small business to make sure they can apply for loans.” Of the roughly 67,000 loan applications, 27,000 had been approved as of April 24. Rice said non-partisan oversight was needed moving forward. Then Zeldin warned businesses that do not need the loan to not apply, adding that they will be shamed if they do. “If you are flush with cash, if you are an individual who is sitting comfortably and wealthy — this is not a moment in time for you to be asking what your country can do for you to get through the pandemic,” he said. Payment of the loans should be flexible, Suozzi said. He predicted that when restaurants reopen, they would probably only see 30 percent of their business return. “They will need flexibility on paying back the loan,” he said. “Can we make money available with a much lower interest rate at maybe 0 or 1 percent?” The congressional leaders are 100 percent united on these issues, Suozzi said, and “want to fight for the little guy — the smallest businesses. We will get through this if Democrats and Republicans are united like we are here.”

District is prepared to continue distance learning prise, Pellettieri added, and he appreciated ing methods to educate all students and in what he called the “slow roll” of the process. If the decision had been made earlier, maintaining connectivity with them.” Dr. Christopher Pellettieri, the district’s he said, student motivation could have been lost. This way, the district had time to assistant superintendent of curriculum prepare and make changes based on what and instruction, was working and described the situawhat wasn’t. Websites tion as “heartbreakand apps used by stuing” for students, dents were streamteachers and parents. lined, and specials However, he said, the teachers were incordistrict has been porated into classadjusting over the room teachers’ sites past six weeks as the so students would not learning has moved have to visit multiple to a virtual platform, sites. and has continued to “We saw this comfind ways to meet stuing, and got predents’ needs. To facilipared,” Pellettieri tate more interaction said. “We wanted to and guidance from make it easier for stuteachers, for example, Courtesy Elizabeth Cavanaugh dents and parents to the district imple- KINDERGARTNERS IN DAVID Ferrone’s find the lessons.” mented office hours class at Hewitt Elementary School took Distance learning for teachers several part in a Zoom videoconference. has been going weeks ago, so stusmoothly, he said, and dents can check in he expected that to with their teachers through Zoom or continue through June. “Now we’re thinkGoogle Meet. ing about how to get students into the “Kids are already making that connec- building to collect personal belongings,” tion with their teachers and their friends,” he said. Pellettieri said, “which helps a lot for The district is also trying to figure out some, but for others, it makes them more how to celebrate milestones, whether upset that they can’t see them in person. through virtual ceremonies or waiting It’s about finding that happy medium.” until they can be held in person. “We’re Cuomo’s decision did not come as a sur- taking a slow, thoughtful approach,” PelletCONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

School elections set for June 9 By executive order last Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo reset the school budget and trustees election statewide to Tuesday, June 9. Voters will receive absentee ballots and postage-paid envelopes in which to return them. The order eliminates the traditional requirement that Board of Education candidates collect a sufficient number of petition signatures, but canditieri said. Johnson said that the administration was working to develop virtual versions of the end-of-year celebrations over the next few weeks, and Hackett stressed that recognizing students’ achievements will be a priority. “Our hearts break for our class of 2020 graduates at all levels, but especially our seniors, that the end of the year has taken this course,” Hackett said. “We pledge to find creative ways to give our students the celebrations and accolades they truly deserve.” Cuomo said on Friday that social distancing had prevented an estimated 100,000 Covid-19 cases, which he said would have overrun the hospitals and caused many more deaths. “Our past actions changed

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the past trajectory,” he said. Today’s actions will determine “the number of sick tomorrow,” he said — hence the need to keep school buildings closed. School districts and colleges across the state must begin developing reopening plans, Cuomo added, which must be approved by state officials. There had been no determination about the feasibility of summer school, but he said there would be an announcement in the coming weeks. “But we’re not going to wait to prepare,” Pellettieri said, noting that the district is currently looking at ways it could be held — in person, if the mandate changes, or virtually, if it does not. “We’ll come up with a plan that is safe and effective for all students, either way.”

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Jack McKeon dies of Parkinson’s and Covid-19 low officers and community members was a commercial fixed-wing pilot, hav- alike. “He was very fair and he coming flown in both civilian and military manded a lot of respect,” said Murray, who died last April. “He was excellent capacities. McKeon worked his way up from sol- with the public, and also with families — dier in the U.S. Army to commander in he saved a lot of families a lot of embarrassment by working the Navy and officer with some of the agent in the Naval yo u n g p e o p l e, o r Criminal Investigaeven an older person t ive S e r v i c e. H e who got into some served in numerous kind of trouble. If it stateside assignwasn’t too serious a ments, as well as crime requiring an overseas tours in arrest, he would take Saudi Arabia, Bahcare of them — counrain, Korea, Spain, sel them and see that Italy, North Africa they got home OK if and Scotland. Followsomething was ing the Sept. 11 wrong.” attacks, he was “Rockville Centre recalled to active milwas very kind to itary duty. He served me,” McKeon said close to a year in the before he retired. “It Middle East as an NCIS agent assigned Courtesy Katie McDonald allowed me to get an education. I was able to counterterrorism JACK MCKEON JOINED the RVCPD to pursue a military duties, and in active in 1973, and became commissioner career. I was able to duty in support of in 1991. pursue an aviation Operations Southern c a r e e r, a p o l i c e Watch, Noble Eagle career. I have nothing but gratitude. and Enduring Freedom. “I hope that I left this place a little betIn 2009 he was named the Herald’s Person of the Year. The late former ter than when I found it,” he added. “If I Mayor Eugene Murray told the Herald at did, I’m grateful. If I didn’t, and you the time that one of the reasons he chose think I didn’t meet muster, I need to apolMcKeon as commissioner was respect — ogize. At best, I was an ordinary guy both the respect people had for him and doing a pretty difficult job. I can tell you the respect he showed everyone else, fel- the truth: I did my best, and I hope I left

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MCKEON AND JUDGE Anthony Paradiso at Confide Counseling Center’s Night of Recognition in 2014. McKeon was an honoree. the place a little bit better.” By far, his family said, his proudest accomplishment was his role as husband, father and grandfather. “To know Jack was to love him — he always greeted you with a warm smile, funny joke and a story,” said his wife, Katie. “He was a loyal friend to all, and there are countless stories about how he positively impacted or changed some-

one’s life for the better.” In addition to his wife, he is survived by his son, Jack; his daughter, Katie McDonald; his granddaughter Kylie; a brother, Kevin; nieces, nephews and countless friends who were considered family. A private service was held for McKeon on May 5.

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Baumann Co., one of Long Island’s largest school bus companies, has filed notice with the New York State Labor Department that it is ceasing operations. The company filed a Workers Readjustment and Retraining Notice with the Labor Department on April 28. Baumann serves the Rockville Centre School District and many others on the South Shore. Roughly 900 drivers and other employees have lost their jobs. Robert Bartels, assistant superintendent of business and personnel of the Rockville Centre School District, said that since schools will remain closed through June, the loss of the transportation service is not an immediate concern. “It should not present a problem for the district,” Bartels said. “We have enough time now.” Moving forward, he said, Baumann can assign its contract to another transportation company, which the district can choose to accept. The benefit of this is that the district will know the cost up front. Otherwise, the district will send out a Request for Proposals to receive bids from new companies; officials said they expect to hear from Baumann in the coming weeks. Bartels said other bus companies have contacted the district, so he is confident there is interest and is not worried about securing transportation. The goal, he said, is to have a new contract assigned by the end of June. Officials of Baumann, which has been in business for more than 50 years, could not immediately be reached

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THE ROCKVILLE CENTRE School District will have to find a new bus company since Baumann went out of business. for comment. But its Readjustment and Retraining Notice had been expected. The company had let some employees go in recent weeks as school districts closed and were not paying Baumann. The company said that because the school districts were not paying them during the school closures, it did not have money to pay the workers. Dan DeCrotie, the president of Local 1205, the union representing the workers, said, “This has been an ongoing issue since Governor Cuomo removed the 180-day

requirement for a school district to maintain state aid. That state aid is supposed to be used to pay district employees and vendors. This has not happened. The lack of clarity or guidance from the NYSED regarding this issue has resulted in most districts not paying their school bus transportation companies, and now you see the results. Approximately 900 hard-working members who transport the most precious cargo there is on a daily basis now find themselves unemployed.”

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Rainbows have become a symbol of hope amid the coronavirus pandemic, with many kids and families coloring rainbows and hanging them in their windows for the community to see when they get out for some fresh air. As Laura Montaruli, owner of Hue Studios on Sunrise Highway in Rockville Centre, was driving around the village recently, dropping off to-go art kits at students’ homes, she saw the rainbows and had an idea. “I saw rainbows in all these windows, and I thought it was amazing,” she said, “I thought of doing a rainbow mural for the studio window, and students would be able to do their own piece… “Then, as I thought more about it, I said, ‘it doesn’t just need to be my students,’” she explained. “I started reaching out to the community and the Chamber of Commerce about it.” Soon after, the art teacher was on the phone with Mayor Francis X. Murray, who agreed to display the finished mural inside village hall. Now Montaruli is asking the entire community to get involved with the “Rainbow of Hope” project. She is delivering the 4-by-4-inch canvas squares to houses in the village for families to make art together. Those squares will make up a large rainbow mural, and people can register on Hue Studio’s website to receive a blank square. Each square has one color assigned to it, and the artist can decorate the square

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. BRODEUR COMMUNICATIONS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York, (SSNY) on 03/26/20. NY Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to: 84 Brower Ave., Rockville Centre, NY 11570. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity. 121588 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AND LIBRARY ELECTION ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual Meeting of the qualified voters of the Rockville Centre Union Free School District, Nassau County, New York will be held on June 9, 2020 for the following purposes: a) To vote upon the annual School budget and the Library budget for the school year 2020/2021 and to authorize the levying of a tax upon the taxable property of the District for the foregoing purposes; b) To elect, for three year terms, two members of the Board of Education commencing July 1, 2020; c) To elect, for a three-year term, one Library Trustee commencing July 1, 2020; d) To vote upon such other propositions as may properly come before the meeting and conduct other business as authorized by law. NOTICE IS GIVEN, that the Board of Education of the Rockville Centre Union Free School District, Nassau County, New York will hold a public meeting for the purpose of discussion of the expenditure of funds for the school year 2020/2021 beginning July 1, 2020. Said meeting may result in changes or modifications to expenditures for this budget and will be held remotely on May 6, 2020 at 7PM. Detailed copies of the proposed school budget will be available on the District’s website. NOTICE IS GIVEN that the Board of Education will hold a public hearing remotely on May 27 at 7PM for the purpose of presenting expenditure of funds and the budgeting therefore relative to the appropriation of necessary funds to meet the necessary expenditures of said School District for school year 2020/2021. No changes to expenditures can be made at this time. Search for notices online at: www.mypublicnotices.com

NOTICE IS GIVEN, that the Library Board will hold a public meeting for the purpose of discussion of the expenditure of funds and the budgeting therefore for the fiscal year 2020/2021 beginning July 1, 2020. Said meeting may result in changes or modifications to expenditures for this budget and will be held remotely on April 20, 2020 at 7:30PM. Detailed copies of the proposed Library budget will be available in on the Library’s website. AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that the Library Board will hold a public hearing remotely on May 26 at 7:30PM for the purpose of presenting expenditure of funds and the budgeting therefore relative to the appropriation of necessary funds to meet the necessary expenditures of said Library for school year 2020/2021. No changes to expenditures can be made at this time. AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that the Annual Meeting and Election shall be conducted by voting on propositions and candidates exclusively by absentee ballot voting. Canvassing of votes will be held on said 9th day of June, 2020 commencing at 5:00 PM at South Side High School, 140 Shepherd Street, Rockville Centre, NY 11570. AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for school purposes (School budget) exclusive of public moneys, and propositions involving expenditure of moneys and the operation of the school system for the ensuing year, may be viewed on the District’s website commencing on May 26, 2020 through the date of the Annual Meeting. AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for Library purposes (Library budget) exclusive of public moneys, and propositions involving expenditure of moneys and the operation of the Library for the ensuing year, may be viewed on the Library’s website commencing on May 26, 2020 through the date of the Annual Meeting. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that nominations for the office of Member of the Board of Education and the Library Board, unless otherwise provided by law, shall be made by petition. Petitions shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the School District by 5:00 P.M. prevailing time on May 11, 2020. Such petition shall state the name and residence of the candidates. Nominating

petitions filed by email or mail will be accepted. The District Clerk’s email address is jwong@rvcschools.org. There is no minimum number of signatures required on the nominating petition. Candidates receiving the greatest number of votes shall be considered elected to fill the vacancies. Where terms are of different length, the candidate receiving the highest vote shall be elected to the longest term. However, a nomination may be rejected by the Board of Education if the candidate is ineligible for the office or declares his/her unwillingness to serve. AND NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that any resident of the school district who wishes to be a registered voter for this election may register with the board of elections by submitting an on-line application for voter registration with the Department of Motor Vehicles at https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the District Clerk will mail an absentee ballot to every identified qualified voter no later than six (6) days before the election. Absentee ballots must be received in the office of the District Clerk by 5:00 P.M. on June 9, 2020, the day of the election. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the school district. Military voters who are qualified voters of the school district may submit an application for a military ballot. Military voters may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration, military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile transmission or electronic mail in their request for such registration, ballot application or ballot. Military voter registration forms and military ballot application forms must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 14, 2020. No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is received by the office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 p.m. on election day. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that any proposition or question to be placed upon the voting machines shall be submitted in writing by petition subscribed by at least one hundred-five (105) qualified voters of the District and filed in the office of the District Clerk between the hours of 8:15 A.M. and 4:30 P.M., not later than the 30th day preceding the meeting or election at which time such question

or proposition shall be voted upon, except that this rule shall not apply to those questions or propositions which are required to be stated in the published or posted notice of the meeting or to those propositions or questions which the Board of Education has authority by law to present at any Annual or Special Meeting of the District. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a Real Property Tax Exemption Report, prepared in accordance with Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law, will be annexed to any tentative/preliminary budget, as well as the final adopted budget of which it will form a part; and shall be posted on the District’s website. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Board will convene a Special Meeting thereof within twenty four hours after filing with the District Clerk a written report of the results of the ballot for the purpose of examining and tabulating said report of the results of the ballot and declaring the results of the ballot; and the Board hereby designates itself to be a set of poll clerks to case and canvass ballots pursuant to Education Law S2019 a, subdivision 2b at said Special Meeting of the Board. Dated:May 4, 2020 Rockville Centre, NY BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK JACQUELINE WONG, DISTRICT CLERK 121738

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d) Votar sobre otras proposiciones que puedan presentarse debidamente antes de la reunión y realizar otros asuntos según lo autoriza la ley. AVISO SE PROPORCIONA, que la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Libre de Unión de Rockville Centre, Condado de Nassau, Nueva York celebrará una reunión pública con el propósito de discutir los gastos de fondos para el año escolar 2020/2021 a partir del 1 de julio de 2020. Dicha reunión puede dar lugar a cambios o modificaciones en los gastos de este presupuesto y se llevará a cabo de forma remota el 6 de mayo de 2020 a 7PM. Las copias detalladas del presupuesto escolar propuesto estarán disponibles en el sitio web del distrito. SE DA AVISO DE QUE la Junta de Educación celebrara una audiencia publica de forma remota en 27 de mayo de 2020 a 7PM con el fin de presentar los gastos de los fondos y la presupuestación, por lo tanto, en relación con la consignación de los fondos necesarios para cumplir con los gastos necesarios de dicho Distrito Escolar para el año escolar 2020/2021. No se pueden realizar cambios en los gastos en este momento. SE DA AVISO DE QUE, la Junta de Bibliotecas celebrará una reunión pública con el fin de debatir los gastos de los fondos y la presupuestación, por lo tanto, para el año fiscal 2020/2021 a partir del 1 de julio de 2020. Dicha reunión puede dar lugar a cambios o modificaciones en los gastos de este presupuesto y se llevará a cabo de forma remota en 20 de abril de 2020 a 7:30PM. Las copias detalladas del presupuesto propuesto de la Biblioteca estarán disponibles en el sitio web de la Biblioteca. Y AVISO SE DA TAMBIÉN que la junta de la biblioteca llevara a cabo una audiencia publica de forma remota en 26 de mayo de 2020 a 7:30PM con el fin de presentar los gastos de fondos y el presupuesto, por lo tanto, en relación con la asignación de los fondos necesarios de la biblioteca establecida para el año escolar 2020/2021. No se pueden realizar cambios en los gastos en este momento.

Y AVISO SE DA TAMBIÉN que la Reunión Anual y la Elección se llevarán a cabo votando propuestas y candidatos exclusivamente mediante votación en ausencia. El lienzo de los votos se llevará a cabo el 9 de junio de 2020 a partir de las 5:00 PM el South Side High School, 140 Shepherd Street, Rockville Centre, NY 11570. Y AVISO SE DA TAMBIÉN que una copia de la declaración de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año siguiente para fines escolares (presupuesto escolar) sin dinero público, y propuestas que impliquen el gasto de dinero y el funcionamiento del sistema escolar para el año siguiente, puede ser vista en el sitio web del Distrito comenzando el 26 de mayo, 2020 hasta la fecha de la reunión anual. Y AVISO SE DA TAMBIÉN que una copia de la declaración de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año siguiente para fines bibliotecarios (presupuesto de la biblioteca) sin dinero público, y proposiciones que impliquen el gasto de dinero y el funcionamiento de la biblioteca para el año siguiente, podrán ser vistas en el sitio web de la biblioteca comenzando el 26 de mayo de 2020 hasta la fecha de la reunión anual. POR FAVOR TENGA EN CUENTA que las nominaciones para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de educación y la junta de la biblioteca, a menos que la ley disponga lo contrario, se hará por petición. Las peticiones se presentarán en la oficina del Secretario del Distrito Escolar antes de las5:00 p.m. hora prevaleciente del 11 de mayo, 2020. Dicha petición indicará el nombre y la residencia de los candidatos. Se aceptarán las peticiones de nominación presentadas por correo electrónico o correo. La dirección de correo electrónico del Secretario de Distrito es jwong@rvcschools.org. No hay un número mínimo de firmas requeridas en la petición de nominación. Los candidatos que reciban el mayor número de votos serán considerados elegidos para cubrir las vacantes. Cuando los términos sean de diferente duración, el candidato que reciba el voto más alto será

elegido para el período más largo. Sin embargo, una nominación puede ser rechazada por la Junta de Educación si el candidato no es elegible para el cargo o declara su falta de voluntad para servir. Y AVISO SE DA TAMBIÉN que cualquier residente del distrito escolar que desee ser un votante registrado para esta elección puede registrarse en la junta electoral presentando una solicitud en línea para el registro de votantes con el Departamento de Vehículos Motorizados en https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application. POR FAVOR TENGA EN CUENTA que el secretario del distrito enviara por correo la boleta en ausencia a cada votante calificado que lo identifique y no más tarde de seis (6) días antes de la elección. Las papeletas ausentes deben ser recibidas en la oficina del Secretario de Distrito antes de las 5:00 P.M. del 9 de junio de 2020, el día de la elección. POR FAVOR TENGA EN CUENTA que los electores militares que no están registrados actualmente pueden solicitar registrarse como votante calificado del distrito escolar. Los votantes militares que son votantes calificados del distrito escolar pueden presentar una solicitud para una boleta militar. Los electores militares pueden designar una preferencia para recibir un registro de elector militar, una solicitud de votación o una boleta militares por correo, transmisión de fax o correo electrónico en su solicitud de dicho registro, o solicitud de boleta. Los formularios de registro de votantes militares y los formularios de solicitud de papeletas militares deben recibirse en la oficina del Secretario del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. del 14 de mayo de 2020. Ninguna boleta militar será investigada a menos que sea recibida por la oficina del Secretario de Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. del día de la elección. POR FAVOR TENGA EN CUENTA que cualquier propuesta o pregunta que se coloque en las máquinas de votación se presentará por escrito por petición suscrita por al menos ciento cinco (105) votantes calificados del Distrito y presentada en la oficina del Secretario

de Distrito entre las 8:15 A.M. y 4:30 P.M, a más tardar el día 30 antes de la reunión o elección en el que se votará dicha pregunta o propuesta, excepto que esta regla no se aplicará a aquellas preguntas o propuestas que se requieran en el aviso publicado o publicado de la reunión o a aquellas propuestas o preguntas que la Junta de Educación tenga autoridad por ley para presentar en cualquier Reunión especial o anual del Distrito. POR FAVOR TOME EN CUENTA que un Informe de Exención del Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles, elaborado de conformidad con el Artículo 495 de la Ley del Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles, se adjuntará a cualquier presupuesto provisional/preliminar, así como al presupuesto final aprobado del que formará parte; y se publicará en el sitio web del Distrito. POR FAVOR TOME EN CUENTA que la Junta convocará una Reunión Especial de la misma dentro de las veinticuatro horas siguientes a la presentación ante el Secretario del Distrito de un informe escrito de los resultados de la boleta con el fin de examinar y tabular dicho informe de los resultados de la boleta y declarar los resultados de la boleta; y la Junta por la presente se designa a sí misma como un conjunto de secretarios de votación para las papeletas de casos y encuestas de conformidad con la Ley de Educación S2019a, subdivisión 2b en dicha Reunión Especial de la Junta. echa: 4 de mayo de 2020 Rockville Centre, NY POR ORDEN DE LA JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR LIBRE DE UNI\ÓN ROCKVILLE CENTRE CONDADO DE NASSAU, NEW YORK JACQUELINE WONG, DISTRICT CLE 121740 LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a restaurant wine license, #TBA has been applied for by OK 7, LLC d/b/a Organic Krush to sell beer and wine at retail in an on premises establishment. For on premises consumption under the ABC law at 27 N. Park Avenue Rockville Centre NY 11570. 121661 Place a notice by phone at 516-569-4000 x232 or email: legalnotices@liherald.com

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only things being “put on.” Wet weather and construction don’t mix. Homeowners are being misled by people they hired to do the right job. One of the first lessons in architecture is the detailed understanding of how water and movement affect buildings. Your observation is correct that installing materials in wet conditions should generally be avoided. In the case of putting shingles over shingles, there’s an assumption that the heat of a hot, sunny day will dry everything out eventually, but the slowly developing damage has already begun, hidden from sight. It’s generally not the first thing people think of, but the world we live in exists in multiple levels of scale, from nanoparticles to cells to larger molecules and visible materials. In other words, seeing may be believing, but what you can’t see is still there, and what you can’t see happening is still happening. If we only think of water as big droplets, forgetting about gas (vapor) and solid (expanding ice), or that many materials allow water vapor to squeeze between their molecular structures, then it will be harder to understand the level of permeability or penetration of a material, like the wood sheathing below the shingles — or that a thousand nails were just driven through the vapor barrier sheeting below the shingles. For installers, it becomes a gamble, a game of risk, to someone else’s cherished property through a bunch of assumptions: that water won’t get through, or won’t be locked in, heated by the sun, forced by pressure like a thousand little boiling tea kettles to push moisture around the nails and into the wood sheathing, or to cause the semi-rigid shingles to be forced by expanding frost to keep flexing and contracting, shortening their useful lifespan of protecting the inside of the house. Once this occurs, the materials have made accommodation for vapor and have slightly expanded, but after expanding, they don’t immediately contract again. They now have a much greater flexibility, and all because the moisture crowbarred its way in. I often wonder if those installers would leave their windows down in a car wash. They have little to lose, because if the shingles fail prematurely, they’ll be back sooner.

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he coronavirus pandemic sweeping our nation has highlighted critical gaps in our ability to beat back such threats. It’s quite a wake-up call for America. There is total consensus in the international medical community that Covid19 originated in Wuhan, China. It likely began as a virus that jumped from animals to humans in one of that city’s notorio u s “ we t m a rkets,” where all sorts of live animals — including live bats known to carry coronavirusALFONSE es — are slaughtered and offered D’AMATO for sale for human consumption. According to U.S. intelligence reports, it is also ever more likely that a Chinese governmentsponsored laboratory in that city — the Wuhan Institute of Virology — was experimenting with the virus, and that because of careless handling by its scientists, the virus might have escaped from the lab and triggered the pandemic. The Chinese communist government has predictably obfuscated on this disaster, locking down information from Wuhan and concealing the extent of the

pandemic in China. Instead of cooperating with the rest of the world to help scientists fully understand the origin and spread of the disease, Chinese authorities have lowered a cloak of secrecy and unleashed a propaganda campaign, even going so far as to make the preposterous claim that the virus was somehow imported into China by the U.S. military. All of this would be more than bad enough if not for the fact that the virus has painfully demonstrated just how dependent the U.S. has become on China and other countries for all manner of medical supplies and critical medicines. America imports vast amounts of medical masks, gowns and other protective equipment. Much of our pharmaceutical industry, which was once located in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, has shifted to Asia over the past few decades. America today is in the extraordinarily dangerous position of fighting a pandemic caused largely by the Chinese government’s carelessness and malfeasance with medical supplies from China. That must change, and quickly. It’s time for America to see China for the adversary it is, not the partner we might wish it to be. That will mean making some very fundamental changes in U.S. industrial and

trade policies in the future. We must bring critical manufacturing capability back to this country, especially for important medical supplies and pharmaceuticals. By way of example, for years America had a robust pharmaceutical industry in Puerto Rico. That industry was given tax incentives that were shortsightedly allowed to lapse, driving production to other nations, where it was welcomed with significant host-government support. Congress and the administration should reinstate those tax incentives to bring back pharmaceutical production. There are a number of other steps Washington should consider to help rebuild our manufacturing base. For years we have allowed China and other countries to game international bodies like the World Trade Organization and the World Health Organization, which gave special treatment to those countries as “developing nations.” But today its laughable to consider China a developing nation that can take advantage of WTO polices to dump manufactured goods in America and WHO policies that allow it to shirk its international responsibilities. How can it be right for China to run a trade surplus

t has painfully demonstrated just how dependent the U.S. has become on China.

with the U.S. of a half trillion dollars a year at the same time that it contributes less than one-tenth of what the U.S. has contributed to the WHO? China gives the WHO less than $50 million a year, while the U.S. gives it over $500 million for international health care initiatives, because the WHO considers China a “developing nation.” What nonsense! President Trump was right to suspend further U.S. financial support for the WHO until this glaring inequity is corrected. At the very least, China must make up the hundreds of millions of dollars it should have contributed to the WHO to match what the U.S. has already so generously contributed. Over the next few years, in the aftermath of this international health and economic disaster, America must rebuild its industrial might. We cannot lead the world with just the strength of our ideals or our arms, great as they may be. And we must demand that countries like China treat the rest of the world fairly, and shoulder their share of the responsibility to all humankind. It is not too late for America to wake up. But time is running out. Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com.

Have you heard the one about Clorox Chewables?

umor is serious business, so I felt much better when the pandemic jokes began popping up. For example: “If you need 144 rolls of toilet paper for a 14-day quarantine, you probably should have been seeing a doctor long before Covid-19.” If we can joke about it, it can’t be as terrifying as it seems, right? Right? Tracking the LOLs, it becomes evident that much coronavirus humor focuses on toilet paper and the shortages thereof. I guess the world started looking funny to us when we first put on our big boy and big girl pants. I know some RANDI readers think KREISS there’s nothing funny about Covid19, and really, those of us who find a laugh here and there don’t think it’s funny, either. We’re not making light of the disease, but of ourselves and our foibles. Humor is an enormously successful defense mechanism. That’s not from me; it’s from, you know, the guy who knew about these things, Sigmund Freud. He

wrote that humor helps us cope with seemingly insurmountable tragedy. It eases the burden and gives us some sense of control. Two photos online: The first is a picture of Quentin Tarantino. The second is a picture of a guy in full hazmat suit inside a tent. The caption is “Tentin Quarantino.” You can laugh, it’s OK. The psychologists say so. Gregg Levoy wrote in Psychology Today, “It’s a curious thing. We’re in the midst of the worst global health crisis in over 100 years, and yet we’re overflowing with jokes, parodies, cartoons and gag videos.” I’ve laughed a lot at talking-dog videos, especially that one with the Schnauzer giving advice to other dogs on how to behave during a pandemic, specifically identifying the no-sniff zones. Yeah, the humor is low, but so is my morale. This is not to say that sharing humor is without risk. We’re isolated, so when we send friends jokes or cartoons, they can’t see our expressions and we can’t read theirs. The possibility of misunderstanding one another is real. To be sure, there is safe humor, and much more edgy stuff. One does have to

exhibit a modicum of good taste. I don’t think humor goes into the ICU or to the gravesite. And it all depends on one’s own experience through this time of trouble. Being sick, worrying about a loved one in trouble, suffering financial setbacks or just going crazy from the extended isolation all change our sense of what’s funny. My family is notoriously dark when it comes to humor. Almost anything goes, and for us, it helps. People are still tuning in to Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers because they make us laugh, despite the horrific news. All of them push the envelope. Levoy says you can’t laugh and be scared at the same time, so while we’re laughing, we are momentarily forgetting the horrors of the pandemic. We are temporarily tuning out the map with the spread of the disease and the voiceovers with the daily totals of dead people and the news reports of refrigerator trucks holding the bodies of people’s mothers and fathers and children. After a while of consuming the bad news, we overload on horrific detail and actually shortcircuit. In that moment, if we can find

e’re not making light of the disease, but of ourselves and our foibles.

something to laugh about, it’s really OK. “Life does not cease to be funny when people die,” said George Bernard Shaw, “any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” Here are a couple of mini ha-has: Has anyone let the Amish know what’s going on yet? The World Health Organization has announced that dogs can’t contract Covid19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. Just to be clear, WHO let the dogs out. Some of the humor coming my way targets Donald Trump and his disastrous incompetence before and during the pandemic. (Have you seen the ad for Clorox Chewables?) Maher piled on: “Donald Trump had a meltdown about what a great temperament he has. It was like watching someone carve ‘I’m not a psycho’ into their arm.” “If you are able to teach people to be more playful, to look at the absurdities of life as humorous, you see some increase in well-being,” said Stanford psychologist Andrea Samson. I’m all for vaccines — the sooner the better — but let’s not inoculate ourselves against laughter. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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ast Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo finally offered students and teachers certainty about the rest of the 2019-20 school year when he canceled in-person classes through June to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Thank you, Mr. Cuomo. For weeks, pupils and educators in New York’s schools were left in limbo, wondering whether they should devote themselves entirely to the new online model or wait for classes to resume as normal. Moving to online teaching and learning was a shock to our education system that left all involved in a state of frenzied confusion. In just weeks, teachers had to move to a system in which most had little to no training or experience. Students, many of whom depend on their teachers, coaches, guidance counselors and administrators for social and emotional support, suddenly lost that network, leaving many full of anxiety at a time of widespread despair. What most young people repeatedly hear now are stories of job loss and death. Many children and young adults, without the life experience to understand that the nation will emerge from this crisis, remain in a semi-daze, incapable of focusing on their schoolwork as they did two months ago. Worse, many students are hurting because their parents have lost their jobs, or fear losing them. Worst still, some students have lost parents or grandparents to Covid-19. Teachers and administrators should, first and foremost, pay close attention to

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LETTERS The virus is tough, but Long Islanders are tougher To the Editor: Communities all over the world have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, but have pressed on and adapted to the “new normal” of social distancing, homeschooling and teleworking. Although the virus has ravaged communities and businesses, Long Islanders have shown our strength once again by coming together even when we are kept physically apart. Long Island is home to heroic first responders who risk illness and injury to help others in times of crisis. During Hurricane Sandy and after the Sept. 11 attacks, firefighters, police officers, health care workers and volunteers worked around the clock, without returning home to their own families for weeks on end, to heroically help our families and fellow New Yorkers. The same has been true during this pandemic.

their students’ psychological health during this precarious time, and secondarily to their schoolwork. The period between now and mid-June will be a time of survival for many people, and no less for students. Expectations of learning must be tempered by the premise that, above all else, our young people must emerge from this time unscathed — psychologically unharmed, in a sound mental state. The State Education Department canceled all major exams, including the Regents, for a good reason: The normal process of learning has been interrupted, and will not resume for some time. The nation is at war with an invisible killer. Right now, students’ grades matter less than during ordinary times. What matters is sending a clear message to our young people: We adults will keep you safe. One day soon, we will return to normal, and when we do, we will redouble our efforts to ensure that you learn all that’s necessary to know. Now, however, is not that time. That is not to say that we should forgo learning, or not expect students to do their work. Rather, we must understand and acknowledge how they are feeling before we can get down to whatever work is possible. With that said, we offer these suggestions to our schools: ■ If teachers are not already doing so, they should meet with their students in live sessions at least once a week, and pref-

erably twice a week. Students desperately need to see and speak with their teachers, but we have heard scattered reports that at least some teachers have not met live with their students for as long as six weeks. ■ Each district should decide on one online educational platform for all. Whether it’s Google Classroom or Edmodo, make it districtwide. Employing more than one platform will only sow confusion. ■ Students should be assigned homework according to a set schedule, at a given time on a given day, so they know what to expect. Consistency is key, so they can develop a routine. ■ Teachers should follow up on homework assignments with live Zoom sessions to explain the work, and not leave it to students to attend extra help sessions, particularly sessions conducted by email. ■ Students should not be videoed in class, with the images posted on YouTube, without student and parental consent. ■ All teachers in a district should have a single method of taking attendance, and grading rubrics should be provided to students and parents. ■ Students should be given opportunities to do extra-credit work to make up for missed work. We will survive this crisis, and teachers and school administrators will play a key role in ensuring that we do, provided that every district adheres to a set of basic guidelines for online teaching.

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was asked recently why university presidents aren’t speaking out about the state of affairs in our country. Of course, the issue of the moment is the lack of preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic, even when knowledgeable people were forecasting it. After all, universities are supposed to be moral forces in society. Who is in a better position to remind the public of what the 19thcentury English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said: “. . . the rule is absolute, the [nation] which ROBERT A. does not value trained intelliSCOTT gence is doomed”? Yet the voices of university leaders are largely silent in the face of the most critical issue of our time, and trained intelligence is ignored when politically inconvenient. Some argue that university leaders should not take stands on policy, that they should not be “political.” But what is political and what is polemical? Politics refers to the public affairs of a country. A

polemic is an aggressive attack on the opinions or principles of another. Surely academic leaders can comment on the public affairs of the country without resorting to aggressive attacks, even if those whose policies are being confronted want others to believe that such comments are inappropriate. Therefore, when scientific leadership on policies related to health care, clean water, air pollution and product safety, among others, is being replaced by lobbyists for the regulated industries, university leaders should be among the strongest voices expressing concern. Should they not call out falsehoods and fabrications passing as truth? Education is the foundation of a free and democratic society. In any country, the university is unique in its mission to create, curate and critique. Laboratories create new knowledge, museums and libraries preserve the past, and journalists examine social policy by asking “Why?” But only the university is responsible for all three roles. In these ways, the university fulfills its historic mission not as a political force,

houldn’t they call out falsehoods and fabrications passing as truth?

LETTERS Although the enemy that first responders are battling is invisible, they continue to fight with valor, and give us all the confidence that this virus will be defeated. Public transportation workers, grocery clerks, truck drivers and countless other essential workers are all working on the front lines to provide us with services that our society could not function without. With the apex of the pandemic hitting during the holy season, people of all denominations had to limit their celebrations to immediate family, and many, including me, opted for virtual gatherings via Zoom. While physically empty, churches, mosques and temples continue to play a tremendous part in keeping congregations full in their faiths and hopeful that an end to this crisis is near. Religious leaders and community members across creeds have maintained active charities to combat food insecurity and provide first responders and those in need with personal protective equipment and other supplies even though their own collection of these needed materials was dwindling. T he County Le gislature has received more than 4,000 letters and drawings from children for our frontline heroes as part of our “Letters to our Heroes” drive. Donations of PPE and nightly displays of gratitude — drive-bys, horn honks and alarm sounding — have cheered up and cheer

but as an ethical voice. For example, the founders of Adelphi were advocates for the advancement of women, the abolition of slavery and improved instruments for world peace. They adopted as their motto, “The truth shall make us free.” Surely there were those who thought the new institution should only teach classes, believing that school was separate from society. But the president and supporters knew the power of ethical arguments and the need for ethical thinking. The ethical perspective considers fairness, the degree of bias, the consistency of application, the factual basis for assertions and the justness of moral judgments and public laws. Women had no right to vote, slavery was legal and war ignored diplomacy as the “first resort of kings,” as the author Richard Arndt described it, yet the Adelphi leaders had the courage of conviction and a visionary voice. They knew that their role was to educate students, and the public, to reflect on what they read and heard, assess actions and policies, form independent opinions, and express impartial concerns as indi-

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Should university presidents take ethical stands?

viduals. In this way, the university teaches us all to distinguish among the three paths to finding truth — through facts, faith and fear — and helps to clarify each. To state facts is not polemical. People wake-u The can have different opinions, but not difnation ferent facts. The university’s role is to 19 orig advance knowledge, both general and expert; skills such as writing and speaking with clarity and persuasion; abilities such as critical thinking and leadership; and values such as teamwork, respect for others and their opinions, and becoming active in society as citizens. These are the missions of a university, and it is the university president who serves as the chief mission officer. If we do our jobs well, our graduates will be well prepared to see the results of political actions that ignore expert knowledge. They will be able to analyze propaganda masquerading as principle, and discern facts from unfounded superstitions. They will be able to call out the misguided actions of those who ignore science, histo- U.S. in ry and the need to respect others. We will more l sponso have prepared graduates for political action when it is needed regardless of the Wuhan polemics surrounding them. And we will experi becaus have taken an ethical stand. tists, th the lab Robert A. Scott is president emeritus of The Adelphi University. has pr ter, lo Wuhan

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on our heroes. I have worked with County Executive Laura Curran and my fellow legislators to approve emergency legislation allowing the county to spend $2.3 million on PPE, testing supplies and other critical tools to help keep workers and residents safe. Recently, I joined my colleagues to urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo to push back the property tax deadline to give relief to struggling businesses and residents. Last month the governor answered our call and extended the deadline until June 1. The pandemic has affected our lives in ways that we could noy have fathomed just a few months ago. Recovery will be difficult, but with our combined efforts, it is more than possible. The coronavirus may be tough, but Long Islanders are tougher. C. WILLIAM GAYLOR Nassau County legislator

Cuomo has a friend in Jerry Kremer To the Editor: I just had to respond to last week’s column by Jerry Kremer, “Cuomo puts the other guy from Queens to shame.” Kremer speaks in glowing terms about Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but

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leaves out so many details — for example, that Cuomo has put the state in a $6 billion hole because of inept and careless spending, investing state money in ridiculous solar panel schemes and not allowing fracking that would not only increase state revenue, but lower all taxpayer energy bills. He is also eliminating the Indian Point power plant, which provides New York City with 25 percent of its power. Where does Cuomo expect to make up that energy deficit? Windmills? Solar power? When the lights go out this summer

and in summers to follow, there will be only one person to blame, and that will be Cuomo. Kremer obviously despises President Trump, but I must say that if it were not for Trump and his staff bailing out all theseof us w mismanaged states, this country would bedon’t th finished. The least Trump deserves is amaking thank-you from these blue state governorsselves a Hum for coming to their rescue. defense RICHARD HEEMANit’s from Valley Streamabout t

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