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Summer Fitness Keep your cool Avoid feeling sluggish as summer heats
the living In the warmer, longer, lazier days of summer, tend to adopt a seems easier, life less chaotic. Even adults And now, as we’re “school’s out!” attitude in summer. our ‘“new normal’ learning to live with the pandemic in to the fullest. Still, mode, we’re ready to embrace summer we can feel slugsummer can start to drag and eventually weather can make gish. Long spells of hot and humid summer feel like an eternity. by season the enjoy and you of version Be the best maintaining a healthy lifestyle. both its advoBe careful with caffeine. Caffeine has one can argue cafcates and detractors. However, no needed. Those feine’s ability to provide a boost when can really who drink caffeinated beverages in moderation summer sluggish benefit from the boost it provides. On already hot and mornings when the temperatures are can not only prohumid at sunrise, a cup of iced coffee as well. vide a boost of energy but some refreshment pick-me-up When relying on caffeine for that extra to carefully during summer’s dog days, it’s important consumption moderate caffeine consumption. Caffeine actually have the in late afternoon or in the evening can get from caffeine. adverse effect many people hope to those who drink boost, a such provides Because caffeine or in the evening caffeinated products in late afternoon night, zapping their at asleep falling difficulty have might energy the following day as a result. is not healthy Caffeine can also be dehydrating, which its toll on the when hot, humid weather already takes caffeine conbody. Keep this in mind and don’t overdo sumption. can be more Alter eating habits. Perhaps nothing a big meal. Large draining on a hot summer day than of energy and meals on sizzling summer days rob people often lead to feelings of discomfort.
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eating, even But this doesn’t mean you should avoid has taken a sumthough you may feel like your appetite eating habits can mer break. Rather, altering existing meals per day, eat provide more energy. Instead of three the day. smaller meals more frequently throughout metabhelp boost Healthy snacking during the day can of how hot olism and maintain energy levels regardless 4 hours, every 3 to it might be outside. Eat light meals lead to feelings of and avoid foods that are heavy and lethargy. do a great deal Look for foods high in fiber. Fiber can daily their from energy more for people looking to get but perhaps no diets. The benefits of fiber are numerous, ability to flush benefit is more pronounced than fiber’s toxins and wastes toxins and wastes from the body. Such during summake people feel very sluggish, particularly include fiber in their mer’s dog days. However, those who in their daily diets will notice a substantial improvement energy levels. look to exercise Exercise in the morning. Many folks the summer as a means to boosting energy during but those swoon. This is a sound and healthy approach, workouts might who don’t feel they’re maximizing their mornings instead. want to consider working out in the tired by the end of Summer heat often make people feel to less effective the workday, something that could lead work. after exercise workouts for those who the temWhen working out in the morning, however, cenfitness conditioned air in (even lower peratures are warmer inside if the ters temperatures can be noticeably in the gym and the temperature outside is especially hot) make the most of a body is better rested and ready to workout in the workout. In addition, many people who levels are higher mornings before work find their energy throughout the day as a result.
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VOL. 33 NO. 22
MAY 26 - JUNE 1, 2022
Storage plan on hold after veto of variance
WORLD WAR II veteran Herb Rosenberg will serve as the grand marshal of the village’s Memorial Day Parade on Monday. At right, Rosenberg with American Legion Post 303 Commander Frank Colon during Rosenberg’s 100th birthday celebration in November.
of the building to 30 feet, which is above the 18 feet allowed by village code. The building would Amid backlash from several have been converted into a small residents, the Rockville Centre storage warehouse, which would Zoning Board denied a variance have required 91 parking spaces a developer sought to build a instead of the current three to storage facility at comply with village 117 N. Long Beach code. Road on May 17. Several residents WMG Rockville attended the hearing Owner LLC, an affilto protest the plan, iate of the Floridaand the board ultibased Miami City mately voted, 3-2, Self Storage Develag ainst g ranting opment & Investvariances for an ment, spent $5.5 milincrease in height lion to purchase the and reduced parking 52,811-square-footrequirements. building on the prop“In 2017, the erty earlier this year mayor and board of in an area of the viltrustees amended lage known as Little the zoning map to Town. reclassify the Long MCSS, which spe- VINEET KHOSLA Beach corridor to cializes in the devel- resident Business A-1 Disopment of self-stortrict in order to proage buildings, is tect the abutting resseeking to redevelop the building idents,” village spokeswoman into a similar facility. According Julie Grilli said in a statement. to the MCSS website, the compa- “The Board of Zoning Appeals ny has developed about 4 million reviews applications that prosquare feet of storage facilities pose to utilize property in a manin New York and Washington, ner not consistent with municiD.C., and 1.5 million square feet pal zoning laws.” in South Florida. With its variances denied, The developer wanted to build WMG Rockville will either have a second floor to raise the height CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
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WWII vet is grand marshal Herb Rosenberg was POW in Denmark By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
Herb Rosenberg can still vividly remember being a prisoner of war in Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II. “When you’re a prisoner, there’s always a gun over your head, and you never know what’s going to happen next,” the 100-year-old Rosen-
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berg said. “You don’t know if you’re going to live or die. I’m Jewish, and the Nazis were the party in power.” Rosenberg, who became a centenarian last November, was freed when the war ended, and eventually settled in Rockville Centre, where he has lived for more than six decades. In honor of his sacrifice and dedication to his country, American Legion
Post 303 has named him the grand marshal of the village’s Memorial Day Parade on Monday. Rosenberg was born on Nov. 6, 1921, to the late Gazella and Joseph Rosenberg. He had an older sister, Thelma, and a younger sister, Nadine, and grew up in the Bronx. In 1942 he was drafted into the U.S. Air Force, where he CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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