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Maple Lanes hosts top bowlers Money from televised tournament goes to veterans nationwide son, Bryanna Coté and Diana Zavjalova. The fourth-seeded Coté, of Tucson, Arizona, took Rockville Centre’s Maple home the $10,000 top prize with Lanes hosted some of the top scores of 289, 243, 278 and 212. All bowling talent in the world for a told, the BVL raised over $75,000 nationally televised tournament for veterans over the course of for a cause last week. The Bowlseven days. ers to Veterans Link The sport of donated money from bowling first made a the event to veterans connection with vetprograms across the erans in 1942, when country. members of the Residents may Women’s Inter nahave seen the large tional Bowling Contruck parked outside gress paid for planes the bowling alley on to bring wounded Maple Avenue. It soldiers home from carried dozens of the battlefields of bags of equipment, Wo r l d W a r I I . including the profesInspired by that sionals’ bowling effort, the BVL has balls. donated over $54 The festivities JOHN LASPINA million over the past kicked off with Bowl Owner, eight decades with the Pros on Maple Lanes t h ro u g h t o u r n a June 6, when young ments, car shows, b ow l e r s g o t t h e 50/50 raffles, donachance to learn from some of the tions and more. best bowlers in the women’s John LaSpina, of Long Beach, game. the owner of Maple Lanes and The week wrapped up with the current BVL national chairthe nationally televised Profes- man, said he was excited to sional Women’s Bowling Associ- return to his Rockville Centre ation BVL Classic on Sunday, alley for the tournament for the which featured top competitors first time since 2019. After a including Danielle McEwan, Shannon O’Keefe, Stefanie JohnCONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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And they’re off . . . to support a cause The Ken Pribil Jr. Foundation raised $10,000 to go toward angiosarcoma research at its Cocktails & Belmont III event last Saturday at RJ Daniel’s. Story, more photos, Page 3.

RVC woman finishes grueling open-water swim in Hawaii

By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com

Lori King was covered in man o’ war and jellyfish stings, and physically and mentally exhausted from a 14-hour, 38-minute swim through Hawaii’s sharkinfested Kaiwi Channel when she heard a sound she had been longing for throughout her arduous solo effort.

It was a group of friends and locals cheering her on as she

reached the shore at the end of what for most would be a seemingly impossible swim.

“That was awesome,” King said. “I just didn’t think it was going to ever come. When you’re in the dark and in the middle of it, you just feel like that moment is not going to come, and then it’s happening and you just can’t believe that it’s happening.”

The cheers came at the end of a grueling freestyle journey from the Hawaiian island of Molokai LB

to Oahu, as King completed one of open-water swimming’s most difficult challenges, reaching a personal goal she had set years ago. In all, she swam 30 miles in less than 15 hours, starting at 6:45 p.m. on June 4 and finishing at 9:23 a.m. on June 5, becoming just the 86th person to complete the route. Hundreds have attempted it and failed.

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By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com

The Ken Pribil Jr. Foundation raised $10,000 to suppor t angiosarcoma research at its Cocktails & Belmont III event on Saturday at RJ Daniel’s.

The “Evening at the Races” benefit was the first held in three years because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Attendees took part in race-themed activities leading up to the 154th running of the Belmont Stakes. Funds raised will go toward the Ken Pribil Jr. Sarcoma Research Grant, which will honor Dr. Cristina Antonescu and her team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

The funds fulfill the organization’s mission of commemorating the life of Kenny Pribil Jr., a 19-year-old from Rockville Centre who died from angiosarcoma in 2006, through annual grants that support sarcoma cancer research.

“This was our first in-person event in the past three years and it was a massive success,” said Kevin Pribil, the foundation’s president of the Board of Directors and a 2009 South Side High School graduate. “We were so grateful to see our family, friends and supporters come together face-to-face to stand up to cancer. People have continued to battle cancer amid the pandemic, and it is critical we maintain awareness and support research efforts. We are proud to continue our partnership with Dr. Cristina Antonescu and her team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as they continue their research on angiosarcoma cancer and identify therapeutic targets.”

The benefit featured a presentation from Mary Reed-Holman, the corporate and foundation relations officer for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, regarding the research being done by Antonescu and how partnerships from foundations are making a difference in the field of angiosarcoma research. She shared an article that Antonescu and her team published in the Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer, which is an indepth analysis of angiosarcoma patients who had been treated with immune checkpoint blockade inhibitors (a medi-

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THE KEN PRIBIL Jr. Foundation raised $10,000 at its Cocktails & Belmont III event on Saturday to fund cancer research. cation that stimulates the body’s immune system). The research found that nearly 40 percent of patients derived a clinical benefit from the treatment.

Two South Side High School seniors were recipients of the 2022 Ken Pribil Jr. Scholarship, and will receive $1,000 toward their college expenses.

“We are very thankful to the corporate sponsors and families that have supported our foundation by contributing goods and services to the raffle at our event,” foundation board member Daniela Catuogno said.

“This generous support has been inspiring and we look forward to continuing these partnerships as we fulfill our mission in years to come.”

ATTENDEES PERUSED THE raffle tables, above.

SEVERAL RAFFLES WERE drawn, near left.

ATTENDEES WERE GLUED to the Belmont Stakes, far left.

Beloved RVC teacher retires after 27 years

By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com

Carol Lombardi spent the past 27 years of her life nurturing and teaching hundreds of Rockville Centre’s youth during their first experiences away from their parents. On the same day that she celebrated with her final graduating class, over 100 of her closest friends and family members honored her with a retirement dinner at the Rockville Links.

A mainstay of St. Mark’s Nursery School, Lombardi has been known as a firm and loving teacher. Since starting in 1996, she saw the school move over to Temple B’Nai Sholom and weather the pandemic. Her impact was evident as one of her former students, Rockville Centre native Julia Rose, drove from Maryland to see the woman who inspired her to become a teacher.

“She was one of my very first teachers and I was a very shy student,” Rose said.

“She always made me feel welcome in the classroom and helped me form bonds and friendships with other students.”

Rose’s favorite moments with Lombardi were spent making tissue-paper vases, a few of which she still has at home.

Theresa Cantwell and Maria Petrone worked as assistants with Lombardi for years and recalled the recent retiree’s animated story times that engaged students and got them reading, too.

The woman who hired Lombardi,

Shirley Perry, also attended the dinner and reminisced about her long-time colleague.

“Carol came as an already seasoned professional, so she was really on top of her game,” Perry said. “She had high expectations for these kids, but they always lived up to those expectations.”

Perry said Lombardi helped the 4-yearold students learn manners and responsibility by hanging up their coats, pushing in their chairs, and more, with parents often in the class watching along.

“Children like structure and I run a structured room,” Lombardi said. “They know what’s expected of them each day and once you get that in place, they thrive and develop wonderful work habits.”

When that structure was interrupted by the pandemic, Lombardi and St. Mark’s staff adapted by making deliveries to the homes of her students for their projects. It was a “wonderful and strange” experience, according to Lombardi, but worth it to see the students anticipating her arrival on their front lawns.

“I will miss all of it, but especially the day to day banter with my co-workers and assistants and seeing those little children come in everyday and be so excited to come to school,” Lombardi said.

Lombardi said she is looking forward to relaxing and spending more time with her sons, Matt and Kevin, daughter, Katie, and her four grandchildren.

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CAROL LOMBARDI, CENTER, celebrated her retirement after 27 years teaching at St. Mark’s with her son Kevin, left, and husband Bruce, right.

ONE OF LOMBARDI’S former students Julia Rose, left, came up from Maryland to thank her preschool teacher for inspiring her to become an educator, as well.

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Tom Suozzi ready to solve problems in Albany

By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@liherald.com

Tom Suozzi’s path to the governor’s mansion won’t be an easy one — especially since he’ll have to win a June 28 Democratic primary that includes a popular incumbent, Kathy Hochul.

But Suozzi isn’t deterred, convinced that Hochul is vulnerable thanks to a few missteps and what he says is a hard lean to the left since her ascension following Andrew Cuomo’s resignation.

“Kathy Hochul was wrong for the job,” Suozzi told a team of reporters in the Herald Roundtable session. “She came in saying, ‘You know, I’m going to be a breath of fresh air. And there’s going to be the most transparent, most ethical government in the history of New York. I’m not going to be Andrew Cuomo.’”

But then Hochul passed what Suozzi called the state’s “most secretive budget” in decades, which included what he described as a “billion-dollar” giveaway to the Buffalo Bills for a new stadium.

“There was no public hearing,” Suozzi said. “It was the biggest giveaway in the history of the NFL.” The 59-year-old has represented a good portion of Nassau County as a congressman since 2017, and eight years as Nassau’s county executive, helping to quell a governmental financial collapse. He first took elected office in 1994, as mayor of

Courtesy the Tom Suozzi gubernatorial campaign

U.S. REP. TOM Suozzi says he’s leaving Congress so he can fix what’s broken in Albany — even if that means upending the incumbent governor from his own party, Kathy Hochul.

Glen Cove, where he earned high marks for his environmental efforts in cleaning up old industrial sites.

“Nassau County was rated the worstrun county in America when I got there,” Suozzi said. “I turned it around, and got it into the ‘A’ ranks. I left with the lowest crime rate in the history of Nassau County. I turned this county around.

“I’ve been in Congress for five and a half years,” he added, “and I’ve given up Congress to run for governor because I just feel so strongly about what’s wrong with our state, and it needs to be fixed.”

In fact, it’s Congress where Suozzi says

most of his preparation to take over as governor took place. He is vice chair of the House’s Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan group of 58 congressional members evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with the hope of bringing about more bipartisan consensus.

Among the caucus’s successes include President Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan, Suozzi said, which made it through both chambers last year.

Suozzi’s biggest focus in his primary challenge, however, is crime. He opposes the state’s cashless bail policy, and even took heat last month for tying bail reform

to the May 14 shooting in a Buffalo supermarket that claimed the lives of 10 people.

Talking to the Herald Roundtable, Suozzi instead blamed Hochul for not enforcing existing “red flag” laws that would remove guns from those who authorities believed could threaten the safety of others.

“It’s not been implemented,” Suozzi said. “We have to teach the cops. We have to teach the teachers. We have to teach the social workers, the mental health people.

We have to teach the family members that we have this great tool, and we can take the guns away from people who are mentally unstable.”

One recent study of congressional primaries showed that the chance of an incumbent being ousted in a primary is virtually nonexistent. But then again, this is New York, where incumbency doesn’t guarantee much of anything.

“I do things to build relationships,” Suozzi said. “I won’t compromise my values, and I’m not going to vote for something I don’t believe in. And having been doing politics since I was elected mayor of Glen Cove in 1993, I know how to get stuff done.”

Andrew Giuliani says New York ready for change

By MICHAEL HINMAN

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New York hasn’t backed a Republican governor since George Pataki was reelected for the second time some 20 years ago. But Andrew Giuliani is convinced the Democratic policies under longtime Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his successor, Kathy Hochul, have changed the viewpoint of many voters in the state, who are living with higher crime rates, historically high inflation, and ongoing coronavirus pandemic restrictions that even cost Giuliani a chance to participate in-person in a recent televised debate.

“I love looking at every single independent poll that has not been paid for by a competitor of mine that either has us winning this race or is within the margin of error,” the 36-year-old former Trump administration official told a team of reporters at a Herald Roundtable session. “I think it’s been really a tribute to the fact that at the very beginning of the campaign, we focused on trying to meet with as many of the 2.9 million registered Republicans — and frankly, the over 10 million New York voters. It hasn’t exclusively been Republicans. It’s been conservatives and non-affiliated independents, and certainly any Democrats that are looking at voting Republican.”

The son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Andrew Giuliani was first hired by President Donald Trump as an associate director of the White House public liaison office before being promoted to special assistant.

Herald Community Newspapers provided a chance for all of New York’s gubernatorial candidates to meet with a select editorial team to present their views and answer questions.

The responses of the other candidates who took part in the roundtable sessions will be published next week.

Courtesy the Andrew Giuliani gubernatorial campaign

ANDREW GIULIANI LOOKS to be the first Republican to return to the governor’s mansion since George Pataki finished his third and final term in 2006.

Like his father, Giuliani has focused much of his campaign on crime, lambasting the cashless bail system, saying he would do away with it the moment he was sworn into office.

“On Day One,” he said, “I have pledged that I will sit down with Carl Heastie and Andrea Stewart-Cousins” — the speaker of the State Assembly and the State Senate majority leader — “and tell them very simply that unless there’s a full repeal of bail reform on my desk, I will not be funding their top priorities in our upcoming budget priorities.”

As far as the state budget is concerned, Giuliani pledges to carve out $5 billion to be used solely at the discretion of local or county law enforcement. “Let’s say a

sheriff ’s office is not getting the resources they need,” he said. “They can tap into the state to get those resources.

“Look, New York state leads the country in net out-migration, and that’s not just because of crime. But I do think that’s one of the main reasons why, under an Andrew Giuliani administration, we will look to curb that on Day One.” Giuliani would also try to oust Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, who has been tasked with investigating some of Trump’s business dealings in the state.

As far as guns are concerned, however, Giuliani is not prioritizing stricter gun-control measures. Even after the May 14 mass shooting that claimed 10 lives in Buffalo, Giuliani says the prob-

lem is rooted in illegal guns — something law enforcement has failed to get under control.

“When I think about the overall defunding of the police movement, one of the things that this does is it makes it tougher for police to proactively police,” he said. “To have the resources necessary to actually get some of these weapons out of the hands of the criminals that are actually doing most of the crime.”

If Giuliani were elected governor, he would immediately face a heavily Democratic State Legislature that could curtail much of what he has planned. But that’s not something he expects to be a problem for long.

“I do think both of these super-majorities will cease to exist in 2023,” he said of the Assembly and senate. “I look at the state senate (district) lines, and I’m very confident that we will win back seats in the state senate. And who knows? With the right guy at the top of the ticket, we may even challenge to win the state senate back.”

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Thursday, June 23

Take and Make Fathers’ Day Craft

Xanadu at the Madison Theatre The Mount Sinai South Nassau-sponsored 2022 Summer Series at Molloy College’s Madison Theatre kicks off with the electrifying tale of a California roller disco. Shows run from June 23 to July 3. For tickets and more information call the box office at 516-323-4444 or visit madisontheatreny.org.

Come to children’s room at the Rockville Centre Library to pick up a craft kit to make a teddy bear card for Fathers’ Day. Starts at 9 s.m.

Mid-Month Village Board Meeting The Village of Rockville Centre Board of Trustees and Mayor Murray meet at the temporary village hall at the Sandel Senior Center at 6 p.m.

Friday, June 24

Game Night (In-person)

The Cathedral of St. Agnes 2022 Bazaar

Play mahjong, canasta, bridge, and monay other games at the Rockville Centre library. Starts at 7 p.m.

The St. Agnes Bazaar returns to 70 Clinton Ave. from June 24, 25, and 26 with live music, food, rides, games, and more. Free entry. One price ride bracelets are $35. Ride and game tickets are $1.25 rach. Go to www.stagnesbazaar. com for more information.

Friday, June 17 Music for Aardvarks Come to the Rockville Centre Library for a rocking, rollicking musical fun time.

Register online at the library website.

Sessions start at 10 and 11 a.m.

Friday Flicks The Rockville Centre Library hosts this screening of the film Cyrano (PG-13) in the Helen Kraus Room. Register online at the library website. Starts at 2 p.m.

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Welcome to the new “U” Molloy University celebrated its new status on Tuesday with the President’s Barbeque in the academic quadrangle.

Saturday, June 18

Tuesday, June 21

Wednesday, June 22

Jillian E. Daly Foundation 10th Annual Benefit

Chi Gong (Hybrid)

Chef Rob Take Home Kit

Farina returns to the Rockville Centre library with her virtual exercise class.

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

Make red, white and blue sprinkle cookies with Chef Rob! Pikc up grab and go kits at the Rockville Centre Library all day on Wednesday. Register online at the library website.

Tuesday Yoga with Joe (Virtual)

Simply Stronger with Marilyn Bunger (Virtual)

The Jillian E. Daly Foundation comes to Kasey’s Kitchen & Cocktails for its 10th Annual Benefit for Autoimmune Disease Research from 6 to 10 p.m.

Monday, June 20 Evening Yoga with MaryClare Yoga and meditation instructor MaryClare Chiofalo leads this traditional format yoga class. Register online at the RVC Library website. Starts at 7 p.m.

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

Certified instructor Marilyn Bunger leads this exercise class to enhance strength and flexibility. Starts at 9:30 a.m.

Mothers’ Center Circle (Virtual) A Mothers’ Circle provides a great way to connect to other moms. At each meeting, facilitators help moms enjoy the joys and meet the challenges of motherhood and support each other through their own journey. Register

online at the Rockville Centre Library.

Starts at 10 a.m.

Sunday, June 26 Health Fair on the L.B. Boardwalk Mount Sinai South Nassau’s Department of Community Education brings this health fair to the Long Beach Boardwalk between Edwards and Riverside Blvds. from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Attendees can get free community screenings for blood pressure, body mass index, balance testing, sleep assessments, head and neck exercises and more.

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

Current Events with Richard Skolnik (Zoom) Richard Skolnik leads a discussion of what is in the latest news cycle. A lively, moderated discussion of hot topics.

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

HAVING AN EVENT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest.

All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number.

Submissions can be emailed to tcarrozza@liherald.com

Send your letters to veterans to the RVC Library from May 1 to June 24. Visit website for details.

Rockville Centre schools are closed on June 20 for Juneteenth Day. The RVC Library hosts its Adopt a Sea Creature week starting on June 20.

The RVC Planning Board meets next at 34 Maple Ave. on June 21 at 7 p.m.

South Side High School’s class of 2022 graduates at Hofstra Arena at 5 p.m. on June 24

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SISTER KATHLEEN CARLIN, left, Helen Newman, Cecilia St. John, Mayor Francis Murray, Brian Joesten, the Rev. Michael Duffy and Al Baker attended the St. Agnes Fathers Club’s annual Golf Outing last Thursday.

St. Agnes Fathers’ Club tees off at the links

By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com

The St. Agnes Cathedral School’s Fathers’ Club returned in-person for its annual golf outing at the Rockville Links as the group’s largest financial fundraiser for the school.

The club has worked since 1992 to fundraise to help keep the cost of tuition down for the private Catholic school. This year, raffle items like tickets to a Notre Dame or New York Jets game or suite tickets to UBS Arena for an Islanders game brought back thousands of dollars for the school.

The school’s former principals Sister Kathleen Carlin and Helen Newman, whose names now hang over the two hallways at either side of the school building, joined current Principal Cecilia St. John and the rest of the Fathers’ Club leadership to award longtime supporter Brian Joesten with the William J. Cronin Award.

The award recognizes an individual, usually a member of the Fathers’ Club, who has given selflessly back to the children of the school community. Since 1997, Brian Joesten has done countless deeds for the students and school, including selling raffles outside Sunday Masses, helping to build the school’s stages, installing the new

playground, and wiring the school’s internet connectivity, among many others.

Joesten and his wife Blanche’s four children — Chrissy, Nick, Amy and Katie — are all proud graduates of St. Agnes.

Blanche was also active in the Mothers’ Club.

Mayor Francis Murray also awarded Joesten with a proclamation from the village.

“Brian Joesten is definitely a pillar of

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Joesten said he was touched.

“It’s a great honor from a great organization,” Joesten said. “There’s a lot of great memories and events that we helped out with at the school. And this is definitely pretty high on the list of my favorite moments.”

BRANDON CARMODY TEED off during the outing at the Rockville Links’ course.

JOHN CONGDON, TOP left, Sean Farley, Charles Massaro and Brayton Tom got out on the course in matching golf shirts.

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RVC woman completes arduous ocean swim CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE researcher who lives in Rockville Centre with her husband, Michael, and their children, Ryan and Anna. She grew up in Pennsylvania, and began swimming when she was 5. She swam throughout high school, and then was a decorated swimmer at La Salle University, in Philadelphia, from 1993 to 1997. The rigors of heavy competition took a toll on her, and King took a break from swimming until 2004. In 2006, however, her love of the sport led to an interest in open-water swimming.

After training for several years and competing in many swims, King was finally ready to attempt the Hawaii challenge, but her efforts were derailed for two years because of the coronavirus pandemic. She remained determined, and finally got her chance to attempt a crossing of the “Channel of Bones.” Though it is 26 miles between islands, King ended up swimming 30 miles because of the current pushing her southeast, away from Oahu.

“It’s considered one of the hardest, if not the hardest, channels in the world,” King said, “so for a marathon swimmer, to be able to try and attempt it and see how far you can push yourself, it’s just something that I felt like I needed to do, wanted to do.”

Under channel swimming rules, King was permitted to wear only a swimsuit, a cap and goggles, and nothing that retained body heat or increased her buoyancy. No one was allowed to touch her during her

journey, and if she had clung to a boat or got assistance in any way, her feat would not have counted. As she swam, King had a crew on a boat nearby in case anything went wrong. Ivan Shigaki, Kenneth Kimitsuka and Jonaa “Bulla” YiuLin took turns piloting the boat, and crew member Tina Neill kept King motivated throughout the swim, and sent her a bottle of a powderand-water mixture via a feed line from the boat every 30 minutes.

While the ocean currents were a source of worry, King also had to keep her mind on the sea life in the channel — a host of box jellyfish, man o’ war and cookiecutter sharks. Though she managed to avoid the sharks, she was stung several times by jellyfish, and suffered an especially painful strafing by a man o’ war, from her chest to her armpit, near the end of the swim. If a shark had been spotted, her effort would have quickly come to an end.

Janine Serrell, who met King several years ago at open-water events in New York City, has crewed for her on some of her other swims, but also witnessed a dangerous encounter in the Kaiwi Channel.

She served on the crew for Eric Schall and Steve Gruenwald when they set out on the island-to-island swim, but their attempt was cut short when Schall was bitten by a cookiecutter just below his navel at the halfway point. Serrell recalled an intense scene, but the crew pulled Schall onto a boat where a crew member who was a registered nurse treated his wounds. He spent

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ROCKVILLE CENTRE RESIDENT Lori King swam 30 miles in 14 hours, 38 minutes. some time in the hospital before being discharged. Serrell said she didn’t believe King would be bothered by sharks, because she timed her swim well.

She also lauded King ‘-s drive. “It takes fortitude,” Serrell said. “I will always say it’s one of the things I love about this sport. She’s an amazing swimmer, but it’s only partially about how well you swim.

Can you handle cold water? Can you handle water that’s swelling? Can you keep your feet down? Can you stay in when you

want to give up? She is always well trained.

She’s fast and she’s fearless.”

King’s fortitude was especially tested toward the end of her swim. She typically swims 22- to 23-minute miles, she said, but during the final six miles, the water changed, and she was battling a difficult current. The last mile and a half took her nearly an hour and a half.

“I’m pretty robotic,” she said. “I feed and I go and I have a rule: Don’t tell me where I am, don’t tell me what time it is and don’t tell me how far I swam or what I have left. I was already starting to unravel, because I was looking at the shore and it wasn’t getting closer.”

Eventually, she reached the shore of Oahu, to much fanfare. With a major goal now complete, King said she hoped to swim in Gibraltar and Greece in the future. But for now, she said, she would fondly reflect on conquering Kaiwi Channel and remember the group of friends and locals who eagerly cheered her on — and handed her leis at the end of her Hawaiian journey.

“It was unbelievable,” she said. “I couldn’t believe that it was finally there. I was looking at the shore for the last hour and a half for over 80 minutes, stuck in that current and thinking I wasn’t going to get there. When I raised my hand and they blew the whistle, I was very choked up.

When it finally happened and I heard them calling my name from shore, it was very emotional. I can’t describe it.”

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PROFESSIONAL APPRAISER PHIL Weiss, who appears on “Antiques Roadshow,” checked out Richie Hahn’s painting during a previous event. vious years, the event has had over 100 attendees, and this year is expected to draw a similar or larger crowd.

Over the span of four hours, community members will visit the museum, register for a place in line and receive a num-

ber. Once their number is called, the appraiser will research the item(s) and provide a value estimate.

The Historical Society will offer tours of the Phillips House Museum while attendees await their turn to have their

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The seemingly ordinary baseball card or stamp collection sitting on a shelf might actually be worth a great deal. By getting an antique or collectible appraised, its true value can be found, and often, it can be worth much more than anticipated.

On June 26 from noon to 4 p.m., the Rockville Centre Historical Society will host its ninth annual Appraisal Day event at the Phillips Museum, 28 Hempstead Ave., in which community members can bring in antiques, collectibles and old belongings to be appraised in hope of finding out that a certain item is more valuable than it may appear. Appraisal, or the assessment of an item by a qualified appraiser to estimate its value, gives them an idea of how much an item is worth.

“Stamps, coins, collectible pens, artwork, Disney items — any collectible really — can be quite valuable if they’re the right thing,” museum President Frank Seipp said. “Everything depends on condition and completeness. If you had a watch and its box, it would be worth 25 percent more than just the watch alone.”

The event will mark the Rockville Centre Historical Society’s first Appraisal Day since 2019, as the museum was unable to hold the event for the past two years due to Covid-19 restrictions. In pre-

items appraised. The museum is a Victorian restoration built in 1880. It houses over 1,000 collectible pieces of housewares, tools, dolls, furniture and more.

The oral appraisal will be done by Philip Weiss, an expert appraiser with about 40 years of experience. He owns Weiss Auctions in Lynbrook and appears on PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow.”

While many items appraised have little value, finding a hidden gem is always a possibility. A pair of lamps that was worth about $30,000, a Topps baseball card collection worth about $40,000, and a Sitting Bull peace pipe are a few examples of items that have been discovered to be of great worth at previous Rockville Centre Historical Society appraisal days, Seipp said.

Many items can be appraised, but the museum requested that attendees do not bring jewelry or large pieces of furniture.

It will cost $10 for the appraisal of one item. For $25, attendees can have three items appraised and receive a free membership to the museum. All proceeds from the event will go toward expenses for the museum.

“It is important to preserve the past so you know where we came from,” Seipp said. “This event will help support us and keep it going.”

For more information, visit Rvchs.org or call the Rockville Centre Historical Society at (516) 764-7459.

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RVC bowling tournament televised nationally CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE week of bowling action, the BVL donated $25,000 to the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook, and another $25,000 to the VA Hospital in St. Albans, Queens, to refurbish its bowling center.

The BVL also offers grants that fund diverse activities for veterans, including equestrian programs, drum therapy, ice fishing, community gardening and, of course, bowling. Most recently, money from the BVL helped fund virtual-reality therapy system called “Mynd VR” for veterans at the Stony Brook facility, which helps bedridden veterans relax by doing things like virtually swimming with dolphins or sitting on a beach. LaSpina said that the organization has been combating PTSD in veterans since before the condition had a clinical name.

“This is a great tool and it helps the veterans go to their happy place,” Jonathan Spier, deputy executive director of the Stony Brook facility, said of the VR system.

“There was a promise that was made 80 years ago by the bowling community that we would always be here for people who served,” BVL’s executive director, Mary Harrar, said. “And we have kept that promise through recessions, and wars, and now a pandemic.”

According to Harrar, the BVL man-

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aged to collect $687,000 in donations during the pandemic.

LaSpina, who lived in Rockville Centre for decades before moving to Long Beach, owns Maple Family Centers, five bowling alleys in New York and Florida. He was loosely involved with the BVL until the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. Amid the

armed conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan that followed, producing many more veterans, LaSpina made it a goal to take a larger role in the BVL. “Whatever it takes to bring some joy to those who served, we want to be a part of that,” he said. “The bowling industry has always supported them.”

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MAPLE LANES OWNER John LaSpina, above left, and BVL Executive Director Mary Harrar, right, awarded Yvette Cintron, of the St. Albans VA Medical Center, a check for $25,000.

CHERIE TAN, ABOVE left, bowled her way into the championship of the Stepladder Finals last Friday night.

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RVC woman arrested for kicking officer, larceny

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A Rockville Centre woman was According to the police report, when arrested by Nassau County police after officers attempted to arrest McCallum, allegedly kicking an officer as she was she tensed up and refused to comply with them. She was then attempting to arrest her in subdued, but before being relation to a string of robplaced into the police car, beries.

McCallum allegedly kicked a Angela McCallum, 45, was police officer in the knee and arrested after police spit in another officer’s face. responded to Victoria’s T h e o f f i c e r wh o w a s Secret at 3527 Long Beach kicked suffered pain and Road to investigate multiple swelling in her knee and was larcenies. While a loss pretransported to a local hospivention officer was filling tal for treatment and evaluaout a report on the incidents, tion.

McCallum entered the store Angela McCallum McCallum is charg ed and began to steal more merwith second-degree assault, chandise by concealing it in the front of her pants. She then exited fourth-degree grand larceny, resisting the store without paying for the items arrest, five counts of petit larceny and and police went to place her under harassment. She was arraigned on June 11 in First District Court. arrest.

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Longtime former RVC resident Edith Talbert dies Former Rockville Centre resident female art gallery owners in New York Edith Hope Talbert recently died in City on Madison Avenue and 93rd Street. She started Emerging Arts GalHighland Beach, Florida. She was 95.

Talbert was born on March 4, 1927, lery in the 1960s and Colorama Art Galin New York City, the daughter of Sonia eries in the 1970s. Known as a great Ro s n b l a t t J a c k s o n a n d dame and fierce businessHar ry Hof fman Jackson. woman, she was a ferocious Her mother lived in New reader and a gifted artist in York City, while her father her own right. Talbert also immigrated there from Lonenjoyed traveling across the don. Talbert g rew up in world and purchasing art Lawrence and Miami Beach, for her galleries.

Florida. After graduating Talbert is survived by from Lawrence High School, her daughter, Hope Candace she attended Pratt Institute Talbert, of Lenox; her Son and studied industrial Richard Harrison Talbert, design and art history. o f N ew Yo rk C i t y ; h e r She taught dance at granddaughter, Courtney Edith Talbert Arthur Murray Dance StuPaige Smith; husband Sgt. dios, while also attending Michael Smith, of Lenox; the Art Students League of New York and her great-granddaughter, Carmela and Hans Hoffmann, “Friday Critique,” Hope Smith.. at his school in Provincetown, MassaThe family expressed its gratitude to chusetts. She lived in Rockville Centre Hospice of the Berkshires for helping for 45 years before moving to Lenox, Talbert manage her pain in the last Massachusetts and then Florida. nine days of her life.

Edith and her future husband, In lieu of donations, the family Alfred A. Talbert, met while skiing in requests to make checks payable to the Berkshires. They enjoyed many Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Memotrips as a couple to Gloucester and ry of Edith Hope Talbert. Mail checks Rockport, where Edith painted Motif to Gumbo Limbo Coastal Stewards, No. 1 and her beloved natural scenery.

5301 South Federal Hwy., Suite 245, Talbert was a pioneer and trailblaz- Boca Raton, FL 33486. (On exterior of er and one of the first successful envelope, write: Attn: Lara.)

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Former Diocese of Rockville Centre reverend dies Longtime Diocese of Rockville Centre (Lynn Cooney), James and Donald member the Rev. Donald T. Bennett died Cooney; and his great-nephews and niecon June 6 es, Christopher Brandts, He was ordained as a Aidan, Patrick, Braden, priest in the diocese on May Colton, Caroline and Madi27, 1967. He served as an assoson Cooney; and his greatciate pastor at St. Joseph, in g r e a t n i e c e, G a b r i e l l e Garden City, St. Agnes in the Cooney-Weems. village and St. Anthony of Bennett’s vigil Mass was Padua, in East Northport. He held at St. Ignatius Loyola also served as a pastor at St. Church in Hicksville on FriJose ph and St. Ignatius day, and his funeral Mass was Loyola Church, in Hicksville, there on Saturday. He was and as a professor at St. Pius buried at Mount St. Mary’s X. Preparatory Seminary in Rev. Donald Bennett C e m e t e r y i n F l u s h i n g , Uniondale.

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Do you know a hero? Someone who took extraordinary action to save a life or perform an unselfish and extraordinary act for a family member, friend, co-worker or a stranger? An act that changed a person’s destiny, or made a community impact.

If so, then submit that person’s name by Monday, June 20 to the AmeriCourtesy American Red Cross can Red Cross, giving them a chance to be honored at the 2022 Long Island THE AMERICAN RED Cross seeks submissions Heroes Among Us gala set for Thurs- to honor a Long Island hero at its Sept. 22 gala. day, Sept. 22.

To be eligible, that person’s heroic or executive. “We are proud to shine a light courageous action needs to have taken on one of our exceptional neighbors from place between July 1 last year, and the end Nassau or Suffolk counties, an everyday of this past May 30. Nominees need to live hero — or a group of individuals who in either Nassau or Suffolk counties, and acted together — whose actions made a agree to complete a criminal background life-changing difference in someone’s life.” check administered by the Red Cross if Heroes are expected to be chosen by the selected. end of July. A preferred hero and two Those who move forward in the selec- alternate heroes will be selected, that way tion process will share their heroic story if one ultimately declines to be honored, on video, and receive the Heroes Award at organizers will reach out to the runner-up. the gala. They’ll also have a chance to talk The Sept. 22 gala begins at 6 p.m., at the to reporters, and gain some much- Oheka Castle, 135 W. Gate Drive, Huntingdeserved publicity for what they accom- ton. Individual tickets start at $400. plished.

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A couple of hometown heroes in the thoroughbred horseracing industry celebrated a memorable victory last Saturday after favored Mo Donegal, with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard, drew away down the stretch to capture the 154th running of the Belmont Stakes before a crowd of 46,301.

The three-length triumph marked the fourth Belmont Stakes win for Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher and first Triple Crown victory for Mike Repole, who coowns Mo Donegal with Donegal Racing and also co-owns runner-up filly Nest with Eclipse Thoroughbred.

Nest, also trained by Pletcher and ridden by Jose Ortiz, overcame a stumble out of the gate to finish a clear second outkicking pacesetters We the People (fourth) and Skippylongstocking (third.) Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike was never involved and finished sixth in the eighthorse field.

“First of all, it’s our family’s favorite race,” said Pletcher, who trained filly Rags to Riches [2007], Palace Malice [2013], and Tapwrit [2017] to Belmont victories. “Our kids grew up here and went to school here and we’ve always felt like it’s our hometown race. When we’re fortunate enough to win it, it adds some specialness to it. That hometown feel. That part of it is really cool.”

Repole is a Queens native and a lifelong racing fan who in 2007 started his own thoroughbred ownership business, Repole Stable. His most accomplished horse to date, Uncle Mo, is Mo Donegal’s sire.

“It’s a 40-year dream,” Repole said.

“Coming to this track [Belmont] and Aqueduct, being a kid from New York, this is New York’s race. In 2011, I came in second with Stay Thirsty and I watched the replay 150 times. I will no longer watch that replay.”

Mo Donegal was purchased in 2020 by Donegal Racing for $250,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Fifth in the Kentucky Derby in his previous start, he more than doubled his career earnings with Saturday’s victory to $1,511,800.

“I want to thank all the partners of Donegal Racing. They’ve believed and today they’ve been rewarded,” said Jerry Crawford, owner of Donegal Racing. “I think this victory today shows that the sport is more accessible than they may realize. I can’t say enough for Todd Pletcher and Irad Ortiz, Jr. for the great job they’ve done with this horse.”

We the People took command under Flavien Prat and led the field through splits of 23.99 seconds for the opening quarter-mile, 48.49 for the half, and 1:13.23 for six furlongs on the fast main track, with the Manny Franco-piloted longshot Skippylongstocking pressing from second position.

Nest, who stumbled at the start, advanced up the rail down the backstretch

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FAVORITE MO DONEGAL, with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard, won the 154th running of the Belmont Stakes last Saturday before a crowd of 46,301.

JOCKEY IRAD ORTIZ JR. and Mo Donegal co-owner Mike Repole, far left, shared a moment with the Belmont Stakes hardware.

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to stalk from third position to the inside of Mo Donegal as Skippylongstocking continued to pressure the pacesetter. Ortiz, Jr. gave Mo Donegal his cue approaching the quarter-pole and he advanced with a powerful move, surging outside rivals at the top of the lane and got the jump on Nest, who then angled outside and followed her stablemate’s path to complete the exacta.

The winning time of the 1 ½ miles “Test of the Champion” was 2:28.28.

“Last time in the Derby, he didn’t have the best trip and he still got beat by [only] three lengths,” Ortiz, Jr. said. “I knew if I got a better trip, he could get there. When I asked him in the clear, he took off. He’s a nice horse.”

Much of the hype leading up to the race was about Rich Strike, the 80-1 historic upset winner of the Kentucky Derby who skipped the Preakness. Jockey Sonny Leon said Rich Strike didn’t seem comfortable on

the Belmont surface and never found another gear.

Said Rich Strike trainer Ed Reed: “We were hoping we could have been a little closer and our pace was slow. Our biggest change was deciding to stay a little off the rail and try to give him a good, open run where he could take off. The whole way, his head turned and he was trying to get to the inside. I guess we made a mistake not putting him on the fence.”

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The pandemic wreaked havoc on small businesses across the country, causing many longtime local staples to shutter their doors amid the economic fallout. But, Leonardo’s Hair Design in Rockville Centre was able to make it through that tumultuous time and many others and celebrated its 50th anniversary on June 1.

Mayor Francis Murray gave former owner James Bilello and his daughter, Annemarie Bedell, the new owner, a proclamation from the village acknowledging the businesses’ longevity. As noted by Bilello, despite Leonardo’s location at North Long Beach Road having little parking, customers from all over Long Island and beyond have continued to flock to the salon.

Bedell started at the salon in 1991 as a stylist and took over as owner from Bilello in 2014. She estimated that most employees have been with Leonardo’s for around 20 years. “Whatever he (Bilello) did, I followed along since he’s been doing it right,” Bedell said.

Whatever it was and still is that the father-daughter duo has done,

it has attracted decades-long customers all over Long Island and even into the tri-state area. That customer base returned after the salon was closed for three months at the onset of the pandemic. With state money for local businesses, Leonardo’s welcomed back their friends in June 2020.

“When we reopened from Covid, everybody was just so happy,” Bedell said. “People were crying.

We were crying. You make a little family from customers that have been coming for so long.

Bilello frequently pushed for his employees to add as many skills as possible through educational seminars with Bedell and others becoming board certified hair colorists. That included eight hours of testing through both practical and written exams.

“They go above and beyond in education. It was like going for their masters,” Bilello said.

“That’s what I think people want.

You want to know how they’ve progressed in their lear ning and knowledge.”

The hard work from the whole staff has seen the business survive long enough that gas cost less than half a dollar when it opened in 1972.

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LEONARDO’S OWNER ANNEMARIE Bedell, her father James Bilello, center, and Mayor Francis Murray celebrated the 50th anniversary of the hair salon on North Long Beach Road last Wednesday.

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CRIME WATCH ■ On May 31 at 4:15 p.m., a NICE bus traveling on North Centre Avenue caught fire. The Nassau County Fire Marshal’s office determined that the cause was not suspicious.

Harassment ■ At 3:52 p.m., a Lakeview Avenue resident reported that she received harassing text messages from an unknown person.

Criminal mischief ■ A North Village Avenue building

superintendent notified police that a group of juveniles intentionally damaged several exit signs in the building on June 3 at 10:03 p.m.

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Larceny ■ On June 2 at 5:15 p.m., a Mercy Hospital employee reported that surgical instruments were stolen from a storage room.

Unusual incident ■ At 10:53 a.m. on June 2, a Southard Avenue resident notified police that someone transferred her phone’s SIM card information to an unknown phone.

People named in Crime Watch items as having been arrested and charged with violations or crimes are only suspected of committing those acts of which they are accused. They are all presumed to be innocent of those charges until and unless found guilty in a court of law.

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LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR GSR 2005-5F, Plaintiff, v.

LISA HYLAND F/K/A LISA WALSH, JOHN HYLAND, ET AL, Defendant. NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the office of the County Clerk of Nassau County on April 24, 2017, I, Russell S. Burman the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell in one parcel at public auction on June 23, 2022 at North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, County of Nassau, State of New York, at 2:30 PM the premises described as follows: 67 Marlborough Court Rockville Centre, NY 11570 SBL No.: 36-23601-23 ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Incorporated

Village of Rockville Centre, County of Nassau, State of New York.

The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 010965/2012 in the amount of $622,939.23 plus interest and costs.

The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the Court System’s COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held Rain or Shine. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the foreclosure auction.

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ALEXIS LIBEROVSKY, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on January 30, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on July 18, 2022 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 29 Seaman Avenue, Rockville Centre, NY 11570. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Rockville Centre, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 38, Block 274 and Lot 329.

Approximate amount of judgment is $342,559.99 plus interest and costs.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: The Art Studio RVC, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York, (SSNY) on 02/14/2022. NY Office location: Nassau County.

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Senior Cyclone captures lacrosse honor South Side High School boys’ lacrosse player Brady West recently earned the James C. Metzger Lacrosse Leadership Award.

The accolade is presented to one player on each of the eight teams that competed in the finals of the 2022 Section VIII Nassau County high school boys’ lacrosse championships.

Each award recipient reflected the tenacity, honesty, commitment and positive attitude required in Nassau lacrosse. Each player also possessed the ability to inspire others on and off the field. West plans to attend Loyola University in the fall.

The lacrosse championships were

held on May 31 through June 2 at Hofstra University. In the Class C championship game, Manhasset High School defeated South Side, 14-4.

The awards were presented by Metzger, a 1970s Long Island lacrosse star. A three-sport athlete at Half Hollow Hills East in Dix Hills, Metzger received the 1977 Lt. Ray Enners Award for outstanding Suffolk County lacrosse player when he scored 102 points and received All-American honors. An AllAmerican lacrosse player at Hofstra University, Metzger is the founder and chairman of Whitmore — The Agency, an insurance and financial services firm in Garden City.

RVC native Doris Goodwin honored Famed historian and Rockville sions called “Living in the White Centre native Doris Kearns Goodwin House,” where descendants’ ancestors was honored by Long reflected on the leadership.

Island University’s RoosGoodwin executive proevelt School on June 11 at d u c e d a re c e n t H i s t o r y the Society of Presidential Channel documentary Descendants and the about Theodore Roosevelt. school’s inaugural gala.

Goodwin is a historian The Pulitzer Prize winand author notably known ner and New York Times for her biographies of the best-selling author was recAmerican presidents. She ognized for her career helped Lyndon B. Johnson achievements. write his memoirs, and her After being bor n in book “No Ordinary Time: Brooklyn, Goodwin spent Franklin and Eleanor Doris Goodwin her youth in Rockville CenRoosevelt: The Home Front tre, and g raduated from in World War II” won the South Side High School in 1960.

Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995.

The event featured panel discus-

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Getting to and from work, taking care of family needs and trying to have a little joy is much more important. Most people don’t think of politicians as people, and the daily machinations of the political world often go unnoticed. But elected officials are human beings, and the system in which they live can be a very cruel one.

The State Legislature recently approved new district maps that JERRY will play a decisive role in deterKREMER mining which candidate will represent you in Albany and Washington. For some of the incumbents, the new lines were pretty much the same as the districts they have represented. For a few others, however, the proposed maps are either the end of their political careers or the beginning of a life-or-death campaign for survival.

On Long Island, there were two notable changes, both affecting Democratic incumbents. State Sen. John Brooks saw most of his current mid-Island 8th Dis-

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trict disappear, and had to decide whether to run for re-election in the newly drawn 5th District. At first he chose not to run, but then he did an about-face, and will run for the seat in the new district after all. Brooks is a dedicated official, and he fought successfully this year to get Gov. Kathy Hochul to give Long Island a massive increase in school aid — but the mapmakers don’t reward devoted public service.

State Sen. Jim Gaughran currently represents the 5th District, which for now stretches from Glen Cove, in Nassau County, to Commack, in Suffolk County.

Gaughran has been a Huntington Town Board member, a Suffolk County legislator, chairman of the Suffolk County Water Authority and a strong environmental advocate in the State Senate. He is respected by both parties. But the mapmakers eliminated most of his 5th District, and facing an impossible uphill battle, Gaughran decided to leave the political arena.

The most notable change in the electoral map is taking place in Manhattan, where two long-serving members of Congress will now face each other in a primary contest. Under the old district

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lines, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney represented most of the Upper East Side, and Rep. Gerald Nadler represented the West Side, both for more than 25 years. When the maps were redrawn, Maloney and Nadler were thrown into the same district. Nadler suggested that Maloney run in an adjoining district, but since most of the new district is in her old territory, she declined to run elsewhere.

This battle of two senior members, who have been good friends and hold major committee chairmanships, made me recall my own history on the subject of legislative reapportionment. Back in the 1970s, when new State Assembly district lines were drawn, my South Shore district was combined with that of the late Assemblyman Eli Wager, a friend and fellow Long Island Democrat. Wager and I attempted to resolve our dicey situation by proposing that one of us run for the State Senate. That compromise ended quickly when attorney Karen Burstein announced that she was running for the Senate.

Imagine what it’s like when two elected officials who sat together in the same office, and have close family ties, are forced into a public battle for survival.

hen friends run against each other, there is rarely a happy ending.

There could be only one winner, and for 60-plus days we battled each other with every ounce of energy. On primary night, I was declared the winner by a margin of 1,800 votes, but the bitterness lingered for a number of years.

When colleagues are pitted against one another, there is rarely a happy ending. Luckily, months later, I got a call from then Gov. Hugh Carey, asking whether it was OK with me if he appointed Wager to the State Supreme Court. I encouraged Carey to make that move, and two elections later, Wager won a 14-year term on that court, where he served with distinction.

No one can predict who will win the battle between Representatives Maloney and Nadler, but when it’s over the public will have lost one great public servant.

The redrawing of district lines is required by law every 10 years. It primarily involves a juggling of constituent numbers, and is a heartless process.

Sadly, there are few happy endings when the final vote count is announced, which is what makes this process so cruel.

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.

Is our democracy becoming a royal pain?

s it too late to bring back King George III? We had all the right intentions in 1776, and a terrific starting lineup, but we seem to be making a mess of this experiment called democracy.

Lately I’ve been thinking that everything British is better. Well, not everything (Boris Johnson) but many things.

Maybe not the food.

Still, God Save the Queen. You have to love a woman who embraces stoicism as her reason for being. Her Majesty does everything the old-fashioned RANDI way, and with such KREISS grace. She even wears a tiara with aplomb.

She is heroic in her steadfast devotion to duty. No matter how the world turns, no matter the dalliances of her children or her in-law kids, she embraces tradition with dignity and, I imagine, personal sacrifice. Democracy is so messy and divisive, but there is real comfort in the elaborate ritual of royal pomp. As evolved as I am as a woman in the 21st century, I would still enjoy a spin in a Cinderella carriage. With footmen, of course.

How sweet it would be here and now in America to have a royal figure to maintain some decorum as so many elected officials run off the rails. I’m telling you, we just didn’t think the whole 1776 thing all the way through.

Part of my escape over the Pond includes immersion in World War II novels and nonfiction. Literature featuring British history has all the elements of reallife thrillers. This month I listened to “In the Garden of the Beasts” and “The Splendid and the Vile,” both

by Erik Larson, and “Munich,” by Robert Harris, all superb nonfiction accounts of the days and months leading up to and into World War II. The Brits had an uphill fight to beat back the Nazis. They were blessed with a brave and self-sacrificing queen and a once-in-a-lifetime prime minister in Winston Churchill, who inspired his people with soaring rhetoric and unflappable courage.

I keep thinking about the Londoners during the blitz, not knowing how it would end but getting up every morning to drag bodies out of the rubble and then go to work. The high-mindedness of it all

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contrasts painfully with the skeevy machinations of today’s American politics.

Half the people running for office can’t compose or articulate a proper English sentence.

When I turn on the telly, it is to mysteries and thrillers on BritBox or Acorn TV. The stories presume some intelligence on the part of the viewer. No one shoots anyone in British police procedurals. They chase one another up and down buildings and across the countryside, but you rarely see a weapon other than a bloody knife. The writing is nuanced, which means every other word isn’t a four-letter one. Characters sometimes quote Shakespeare.

British TV actors look like real people.

That’s key. They have wrinkles and messy hair, lumpy bodies in shabby clothes. You see very few scantily clad women; when you do, they usually have a compelling story, something beyond their cascading curls and rising flesh. The character actors are especially talented, commanding their scenes without affecting cheap technique or $200 hairstyles. They look like regular people, which is the idea of acting, isn’t it?

ow sweet it would be here to have a royal figure to maintain some decorum.

One of my favorite series is “Midsomer Murders,” which has been on the air so long that the actor playing the main character, the village detective, retired from the role and passed it to his younger onscreen “brother.” Every episode features a ghastly murder in a village of 150 people. They just don’t run out of bodies.

And it isn’t so much a whodunit as a walking tour of the village eccentrics, all of whom are played by marvelous actors.

In my escape to the United Kingdom, I include Irish novels, many of which are gems, little-known literary sleepers like “The All of It” and “Northern Spy.” For some reason, books about the Troubles and the lives of the people of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland just pull me in and pull me out of my worries.

In general, the Queen and her subjects elevate the conversation, any conversation, unlike here in the States, where incivility and aggressive ignorance are increasingly common.

In one of the big production numbers in the show “Hamilton,” King George sings a solo to the American rebels.

“You’ll be back,” he warns, “soon, you’ll see. You’ll remember you belong to me…”

It has taken 246 years to come to this point, but maybe he was right.

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

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here is seemingly no place safer than home, but schools are supposed to be the next best thing. A place to learn about the world, to learn about one another. To grow. To mature. Really, a place to blossom.

Not too long ago, parents sent their children to schools without a second thought — worried only about grades and the occasional bully. Now it’s lockdown drills.

Secured classroom doors. Constant vigilance by those who we have otherwise tasked to teach.

And these words won’t make any of that better. Because if there is anything we have learned from Uvalde, from Parkland, from Sandy Hook, it’s that we can never do enough to protect our most precious resource: our children.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t try. And it’s time for a much broader approach — the kind only the Nassau-Suffolk School Boards Association can lead.

It’s so sad that we, as a country, can even say this, but there is a lot of experiential data available on how vulnerable our schools are to those intending to inflict harm. Yet we can’t dwell on why

that information exists. We must use it to prevent those tragic stories we read about and watch from elsewhere from ever landing at our front door.

The school boards association doesn’t have the authority to demand, of course.

But it can certainly advocate — something it’s been doing since 1959 for more than 100 school districts across Long Island.

Sure, most of that has been on the financial end — schools are always starving for money, thus making funding at all government levels a priority. But that doesn’t mean the organization can’t pursue school safety as well.

And it’s not that our local school districts aren’t trying — they are. The knowledge and skills to effectively fortify a school from a shooter are not something that can be piecemealed, however. It requires centralized planning — not as big as New York, but at least as big as Long Island.

The school boards association has the infrastructure to help lead that planning, and even effect real change.

The group can start by pushing for an audit of every single building, every sin-

gle door, every single window in Long Island schools. How are campuses accessed? How are visitors controlled?

How can those campuses keep weapons off their grounds, without making them feel like prisons?

Some ideas that have been promoted elsewhere include video cameras outside every exterior door with direct feeds to a security officer. Classroom door locks that can be activated by a teacher. Even bulletproof glass.

Sure, these measures are designed to prevent the symptoms of this overall issue, not the issue itself. But they are measures that will help keep our children safe today, and buy time for more expansive measures like gun control, assault weapon bans, and addressing the emotional needs of a school — and a community — right down to identifying signs that lead to a potential tragedy, and stopping it before a shooter’s plans are realized.

We can’t just talk and do nothing. We need to take action, and we need to speak with a unified voice. If we don’t, that next tragedy we read about could very well be our own.

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LETTERS Abortion is more than just personal To the Editor: In his letter “Abortion is personal — a pandemic is not,” last week, Eugene Artemyeff precisely states the universal error of those who, in defense of abortion, claim that a woman has the right to do as she pleases with her own body.

He concludes that “abortion is a personal experience that physically affects that person and no one else,” that the physical aspects of that decision start and stop with only the woman involved.

I cannot understand how the rights of the developing fetus, the unborn, can be so overlooked and disregarded. The unborn is not part of the mother, but, genetically, a new and unique individual, and abortion ends its existence. Killing another person cannot but equate with murder or manslaughter. Of course there will never be agreement as to when abortion is justified, but if the life of the mother-to-be is threatened by the pregnancy, it would be. Less objectively, perhaps, abortion would be a legitimate recourse in cases of rape or incest, although by the end of the second trimester, that option should have been decided on one way or the other.

Thus, it is a question of when, in the course of a pregnancy, abortion might

be justified. It is not a yes-or-no issue, regardless of how the extreme position holders would portray it. But for a fetus, particularly a viable fetus, to have its life ended is inconsistent with our belief in life as a society.

I am always amazed at how often the right to life of the unborn is never even raised in the abortion debate.

That the pandemic presents a challenge that

requires members of society to act in a mutually respectful and considerate way makes sense. But even if a “society” involves just two people, mother and unborn, respect and consideration should be just as warranted and forthcoming, particularly when one holds the life of the other in her womb.

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ur country mourned the tragic events of a school massacre — again. But the day after the shooting at Uvalde, school life here at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck went on as usual. From Monday through Friday, my routine remained unchanged: I woke up, ate my breakfast, grabbed my backpack and kissed my parents goodbye before I hopped on the bus to head to school, my home away from home.

My school friends and I don’t have to make a conscious effort to ILANA walk in the shoes your average GREENBERG of American student.

It’s not hard for us to understand and sympathize with the victims of the horrific tragedy in Texas and feel their grief.

What we can’t wrap our heads around is why it is so hard for our country to actually do something — anything — to stop this horror from happening again and

again and again, I am not fooled by my seemingly sheltered Long Island upbringing in Nassau County, the safest community in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. The unfortunate reality is that the shooting in Uvalde could have happened anywhere.

The statistics are staggering. More innocent children die from irresponsible and unregulated guns than from car accidents, according to Sandyhookpromise.org. Sixty-eight percent of school shooters used guns that were accessible in their homes. At any time, one or more of the 4.6 million American kids who live in a home with a loaded gun can bring it to school and use it to end lives.

School-aged children like me have enough to worry about. We’re exposed to harmful vape smoke and all types of drugs. We’re warned against the dangers of drinking and texting while driving. We battle bullying, and mental health problems, and Covid. And yet, gun violence has become the leading cause of death

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was taking a chemistry test, and started thinking about someone firing a gun.

LETTERS The Supreme Court was political long before the leak To the Editor: Re attorney Ronald Rosenberg’s op-ed piece “A leaking Supreme Court puts us at risk (May 26-June 1): I respectfully disagree. I think it is the Supreme Court itself that puts our democracy at risk.

Mr. Rosenberg writes that the leak of a draft decision on Roe v.

Wade “sought to politicize part of our democracy that was deliberately set above and beyond politics by our founders.” The Supreme Court is above and beyond politics? That’s news to me. In fact, today’s court may be the most politically partisan branch of our government.

When then candidate Donald Trump promised to appoint only judges that would outlaw a woman’s right to choose, that wasn’t political? Of course it was. And look what it got us: Neil Gorsuch, who was opposed by just about every civil and human rights organization in the U.S.; Brett Kavanaugh, whose “I liked beer” whine at his confirmation hearing is now a YouTube favorite, and Amy Coney Barrett, who served as a handmaid in an extreme religious organization.

Then there was Mitch McCon-

among young people.

News outlets covered the heartwrenching days that followed the shooting in Uvalde, but I fear the world has already become desensitized and diverted its short attention span to newer headlines. But for me, I suspect that no matter how long ago or comparatively distant the shooting took place, there will always be this constant, gnawing anxiety clawing through the depths of my subconscious, that something like this could happen to anyone — to my young brothers, to my friends and teachers, to me. I have an enduring fear, knowing that no school building is completely impervious to a safety breach.

Recently I was taking a chemistry test when my mind drifted, and a thought suddenly came to mind: If a student next to me were to start firing a gun, how would the security guard all the way at the front of the building stop him?

My peers and I have been trained in the event of a shooting to scan a class-

room and think, where would be a good place to hide?

Our doors have automatic locking mechanisms, so when a student returning from the bathroom innocently knocks at my classroom door, I have to look to my teacher for reassurance that our lives aren’t in danger and that the person that we’re about to let into the room doesn’t want to kill us.

When I ask my 7-year-old brother what he learned in school, he brings up safety drills, in which the phrase, “Stop, drop and roll” has been replaced by the instructions to “Hide, don’t make noise, and don’t open the door to anybody, not even the principal, who might have a gun to his head.”

When the world encountered a global pandemic, we came together to tackle the problem as best we could. Schoolchildren are now living through their own national crisis, but as our cries echo in the classrooms, the rest of the country stays silent.

When will we wake up from this living nightmare?

Ilana Greenberg is a freshman at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck.

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nell, denying even a hearing for Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland. That wasn’t political? McConnell said that a new appointment to the court shouldn’t be made only eight months before the next election. Later he allowed Coney Barrett, a diehard Republican who had never tried a case to or argued an appeal, to be confirmed in a Republican senatorsonly vote just a week before Election Day 2020. No politics there, right?

The truth is that we have ended up with a Supreme Court that is an arm of the Republican Party. Its decisions have consistently espoused the GOP’s political principles — or, rather, the lack of them.

These rulings were made by unelected judges with lifetime jobs, and they include decimating voting rights, gutting the Clean Water Act, permitting the proliferation of handguns and assault rifles and diminishing a woman’s right to choose.

I do not argue with Mr. Rosenberg’s contention that the founders were well intentioned when they tried to create a Supreme Court that would be above and beyond politics. But it seems today’s court verifies the aphorism “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

JOHN TURCHIANO Long Beach

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