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Golfing for Gabi, players raise $80,000 Guests bid on 47 gift baskets at the silent auction, with the contents ranging from a Hawaii The third annual Golfing for vacation to a New York City heliGabi fundraiser was the most copter tour and Billy Eilish conprofitable yet, with residents hit- cert tickets, to baskets of Gabi’s ting the Rockville Links on Sept. and her little brother Antonio’s 23 and raising $80,000 for brain favorite toys, as well as golf gear cancer research. and some of Gabi’s T h e e ve n t i s artwork. named in for Gabi Her g randparPellicani, who died ents Paul and Lisa of brain cancer in Pellicani came from 2018, at age 5. The Olde Severna Park, activities included Md., for the event, golf, dinner and a and supported the silent auction. Over cause by sponsoring the past three years, the fifth hole, reprethe outing has senting the five raised about years the family had $200,000 for Boston’s with Gabi. During Dana-Farber Cancer the dinner, Paul preInstitute, where sented checks totalGabi was treated. ing more than “We are so thank$9,500, raised among ful for the tremen- NICK PELLICANI their friends in dous support and Gabi’s father Maryland. generosity of the A record 160 golfentire community ers took part this in making this year’s event the year, helping to amass nearly most successful yet,” Gabi’s $80,000 to support brain cancer father, Nick Pellicani, said. research at Dana-Farber, where “Working to find better treat- Gabi underwent a clinical trial. ments for those with brain can- Jessica Tipping Tellekamp, of cer is more than just continuing Marlborough, Mass., who is batGabi’s legacy, [it’s] also about giv- tling brain cancer herself and ing hope and a future to so many being treated at Dana-Farber, others that deserve it.”

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SOUTH SIDE HIGH School sophomore Eva Kopelman, left, and her mother, Jenn, are participants on the Peacock show “Top Chef: Family Style,” which streams on Thursdays. Eva was one of 13 teens selected out of thousands who auditioned for the show.

RVC teen chef goes national Kitchen prodigy competes on ‘Top Chef’

By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com

Eva Kopelman has helped her mother in the kitchen since she was a little girl, but after her father suffered a stroke when she was 10, she was thrust into a new role: family chef.

Now Eva, who turns 15 on Oct. 30, and is a sophomore at South Side High School, has put her culinary skills to the ultimate test. She and her mother, Jenn Kopelman, are appearing on the inaugural

season of “Top Chef: Family Style,” which airs on Thursdays on the NBC streaming service Peacock and is hosted by pop star Meghan Trainor and acclaimed chef Marcus Samuelsson. The show follows 13 teenagers and members of their families as they compete for $50,000 in an elimination-style contest. Each week another team is eliminated. As of press time, four episodes had aired.

“Being in this competition with my mom is … 100 per-

cent one of the best experiences that I will have with her in my lifetime,” Eva said.

“Just seeing her being there while I get to pursue my dreams as a chef, it really just was great to have her by my side, getting to experience the whole opportunity with me.”

Cooking became a passion for Eva at a young age. Every Thanksgiving she has helped Jenn in the kitchen. As she got older, she learned how to make simple pasta and chickCONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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THE MOLLOY COLLEGE Choir performed an original piece for new President Dr. James Lentini.

Molloy College welcomes new president tend to live about a decade longer than those with only a high school diploma.

“Higher education is a public good,” LenDr. James Lentini was welcomed to tini said, highlighting the importance he Molloy College as its seventh president on sees in Molloy’s School of Education and Sept. 23, at a mass and ceremony at St. Human Services.

Agnes Cathedral. Lentini, a Michigan With the pandemic continuing, he also native, addressed noted the signifithe gathering at the cance of the church and outlined s c h o o l ’s H a g a n his vision for the School of Nursing future of the school, and Health Sciencincluding possibly es. “Health-related rebranding it Molprofessions will loy University. re m a i n i n h i g h In his inaugural demand for years to address, Lentini outcome,” Lentini said, lined his plans to “and Molloy’s stelinnovate by adaptlar reputation in ing to the changing this domain prodemog raphics of vides us opportuniLong Island. “We ties to grow our promust embrace the gramming.” changes occurring Outlining his right before our vision for the coleyes, requiring innolege’s future, Lentivation to go beyond ni said he expected our tried-and-true LENTINI GAVE HIS inaugural address at the need for healthSt. Agnes Cathedral after becoming the methods,” he said. related professionL e n t i n i a l s o seventh president of the college. als and educators to noted the challenges push enrollment that the college, and past the current higher education in total of 4,800. general, now face. “At a time when dubiRoger Tilles, Regent of the State ous social media feeds would have you Department of Education, who was believe that the difference between fact awarded the President’s Medal by Molloy and fiction is a mere matter of opinion, in 2018, expressed his pleasure in working we need more people than ever who can with the school in the past. “I witnessed think critically and act with empathy to Molloy’s growth as one of the top institutheir fellow human beings,” he said. tions of higher learning not only on Long “These are the traits that a college-educat- Island, but also in New York state,” Tilles ed individual brings to our society.” said. “I am looking forward to welcoming Lentini quoted statistics from the U.S. one of our fine colleges into the universiDepartment of Labor and the Lumina ty class.”

Foundation, an independent, private Lentini’s son, Luke, showed that his foundation committed to making opportu- parents’ musical talents run in the family, nities for learning beyond high school offering a musical interlude between the available to all. College graduates are five Mass and the inauguration ceremony, pertimes less likely to be imprisoned, and forming “Méditation de Thaïs” and “Pre-

By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com

LUKE LENTINI PERFORMED before his father’s inauguration. lude from the Violin Partita” on violin.

The Molloy College Choir also performed an original, award-winning piece for Lentini entitled, “Peace I Leave with You.” It is dedicated to, and was originally performed by, Dana Lentini, the new first lady of the college, in 2001.

It was only fitting that music played a large role in the ceremony, because it was Lentini’s desire to be a rock star, after watching the Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964, that eventually led him to study music composition at the University of Southern California and become a professor of music at Wayne State University in Detroit in the late 1980s.

“College president wasn’t anywhere on my list of career choices back then,” Lentini said. “My passion for music led to places that I’d never imagined.”

Dr. Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, the president of Oakland University in Michigan, laud-

ed Lentini for his efforts in setting enrollment records in his time as provost there.

For his efforts, Lentini was awarded the university’s Presidential Medal of Excellence for exceptional leadership.

“I think those of us who have had the great fortune of having worked with President Lentini know best that you are ready now to be president,” Hirsch Pescovitz said.

Lentini started his tenure as president of Molloy in June 2020, succeeding Dr. Drew Bogner, who had led the college since 2000. John McEntee, chair of the board of trustees, said that the task of replacing Bogner was a daunting one because of the job he had done expanding the school to what it is today. Lentini was chosen from a field of 80 candidates to uphold the school’s motto, to “honor tradition and embrace innovation.”

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help members of the village in need over the past five decades.

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The holocausT memoRial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove, which has been vandalized in anti-Semitic acts at times.

Bridging the Holocaust understanding gap

By Roksana amid newsroom@liherald.com

New York has the highest Jewish population outside of Israel. With that in mind, many young New Yorkers are misinformed about the Holocaust at the same time that the state is seeing a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

A recent, first-of-its-kind survey, conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Ger many, found high levels of inadequate Holocaust education among young people in all 50 states. In New York, 58 percent of Millennials and Gen Zers — those born between 1981 and 1996 and 1997 and 2010, respectively — could not name a single World War II concentration camp, death camp or ghetto, according to the survey. Sixty percent of New York young people also did not know that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, and 57 percent reported seeing Holocaust denial or distortion on social media and elsewhere online.

Dr. Stacie Locascio, a certified BrainCore Neurofeedback provider and mother of two from Glen Cove, said, “It’s absolutely shocking, and that just shows you how much anti-Semitism there is out there. I think [young people] are probably getting it from social media, which they probably believe more than they believe their teachers.”

Social media has become a politically charged platform to spread misinformation, and the extent of that misinformation is cause for concern to Holo-

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andRea BolendeR, acTing executive director of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove. caust educators like Andrea Bolender, who is acting executive director of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove.

“Education has changed over the years. I remember when I was in high school — you know, a hundred years ago — that you could take a Holocaust elective for a whole semester, and I think education has changed,” Bolender said.

Elected leaders like State Sen. Todd

Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach, are working to ensure New York schools provide adequate Holocaust education. Kaminsky said he believes there are schools on Long Island that are doing a good job of educating students about the horrors of the Holocaust, but he stressed the need for schools to undergo audits to see how students are being educated, and whether school curricula need to be amended.

“It’s not just enough to mandate it in the law that Holocaust education should be taught. We actually have to make sure it’s being taught, and it’s clearly not, or not well,” Kaminsky said in an interview with The Long Island Advocate. “And so, something has to be done, and we need to know where the problems are and direct our resources there.”

A bill proposed by Kaminsky to authorize the state education commissioner to undertake a study of which school districts are teaching about the Holocaust and which are not is currently under review in committee in the State Legislature. Kaminsky is now running for Nassau County district attorney.

Bolender said that without in-depth education about the past behaviors that led to the Holocaust, history could repeat itself. Bolender said young people must understand the context behind the history.

“That’s what we do here at the Holocaust [Memorial and Tolerance Center].

We identify the period of hate, which

behaviors will lead up to a genocide, but also examine the roots of anti-Semitism. A lot of people think it started with World War II,” she said.

In 2019, anti-Semitic hate crimes rose by 14 percent across the United States, according to the FBI. New York was among the states where they were on the rise. On Long Island, swastikas have been etched into sidewalks in Oceanside, Ku Klux Klan stickers placed on poles in Bay Shore and swastikas spraypainted at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center.

Bolender shared that most youths who have vandalized the Holocaust museum have not been Glen Cove locals. As a consequence, most must perform community service and take part in Holocaust education, including the meaning of Nazi symbols.

“We have to spend a little more time developing their emotional intelligence, not just their mathematical and science intelligence,” Bolender said of today’s students. “Emotional intelligence will get you much further in life and make you a better human being. Isn’t that what we all want for our kids, for someone to say they were a good person Locascio said parents play a key role in their children’s emotional development, especially regarding current events in the Middle East.

“I think their parents just need to pay a little bit more attention to what their kids are doing, thinking and who they’re hanging out with,” she said.

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to connect with other moms. At each meeting, facilitators help connect on the joys and challenges of motherhood. Register online at the RVC library website. Starts at 10 a.m.

Short Story Discussion with Mindy Mangot Mindy Mangot leads a discussion of Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor and Only Orange by Camille Bordas. Register online at the RVC Library website to receive the Zoom link to this event. Starts at 1 p.m.

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

Ukulele Lessons For grades 3 to 5. Learn the fundamentals of music through the ukulele at the RVC Library with Adam King from Reprise Music. Register online at the library website. Starts at 5 p.m.

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RVC Board of Trustees Briefing Meeting

Friday, October 15

The RVC Board of Trustees meets for a briefing meeting at village hall at 6 p.m.

Church of Ascension 24th Annual Friendship Fair

Friday, October 1 Opera Talks with Tanisha Mitchell Tanisha Mitchell leads this virtual discussion of Turandot by Giacomo Puccini. Register at the RVC Library website to receive the Zoom link. Starts at 1:30 p.m.

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Baby bundles The Rockville Centre Public Library wants you and your children to get hooked on books! Register at their website and pick up storytime bundles starting Oct. 5.

Tricia’s Flicks: A Quiet Place Part II Come to the RVC Library for this screening of A Quiet Place Part II (Rated PG-13) in the Helen Kraus Room of the library. Seating is limited.

Starts at 2 p.m.

Sunday, October 3 RVC Lions Duck Pluck The RVC Lions host their annual charity event.

Monday, October 4 Monday Mysteries Book Discussion Join RVC Librarian Eileen McCarthy for a discussion of The Escape Room by Megan Goldin. Register online at the library website to receive Zoom link.

Starts at 12 p.m.

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The Friendship Fair will feature sales of items including gifts, home decor, crafts, antiques, furniture, toys, and more. All funds raised will benefit the church. Runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

Meditation with MaryClare MaryClare Chiofalo leads this meditation class designed to help you destress, relax, and focus. The new session starts on Sept. 20. Register online at the RVC library website.

Starts at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, October 5 Chi Gong with Marianna Farina Farina returns in person to the Rockville Centre library with her exercise class. Register at the library website for the session that runs from Sept. 7 to Nov. 9. Starts at 10:30 a.m.

Library Play Date For ages 15 months to 4 years. Enjoy free play with the RVC Library’s colorful toys in a fun environment. Register

online at the library website. Starts at 10:30 a.m. in the Helen Kraus Room.

Wednesday, Oct. 6

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Simply Stronger with Marilyn Bunger

Certified yoga instructor Joe Climi leads the class designed to accommodate the needs of people who may have difficulty with more traditional appraoches. This class is hybrid, with in-person and Zoom options. Register online at the RVC library website.

Starts at 12 p.m.

What to Watch?

Join moderator Michael Matuszewski and library staff member Rob Siegel in a discussion about what everyone is currently watching on television, through the Rockville Centre Public Library. The discussion will take place in-person. Starts at 7:30 p.m.

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

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

Mothers’ Center Circle A Mother’s Center Circle is a great way

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 rvceditor@liherald.com

The RVC Farmers’ Market will be at Parking Lot 12 every Sunday from 7 a.m. to noon.

The RVC Board of Trustees meets for a briefing meeting at Village Hall on Oct. 4 at 6 p.m.

South Side high School hosts a meeting for drug/alcohol prevention at 7 p.m. on Oct. 4.

The RVC Library hosts a virtual lecture from Prof. Thomas Germano at 7 p.m. on Oct. 5.

The RVC Library hosts a writers’ workshop at 7 p.m. on Oct. 6.

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Mepham Junior Football ON SEPT. 18, LaSpina made national headlines when she became the first female football player in Long Island history to score a touchdown. She caught a 4-yard scoring toss from quarterback Peter Mayo to put the finishing touch on Mepham’s 49-21 victory over Roslyn. She had two other receptions in the game and totaled 45 yards.

LaSpina, also a key member of the school’s Long Island champion softball team, began playing football as a seventh grader at Grand Ave.

GAMES TO WATCH Friday, Oct. 1

Girls Soccer: Massapequa at East Meadow .........4:15 p.m.

Girls Tennis: Lynbrook at Oceanside......................4:30 p.m.

Girls Tennis: South Side at Long Beach.................4:30 p.m.

Girls Volleyball: East Rockaway at Mepham ..........4:30 p.m.

Field Hockey: Sewanhaka at East Meadow...........4:30 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Hewlett at V.S. North ........................4:45 p.m.

Boys Soccer: Kennedy at South Side....................4:45 p.m.

Football: East Meadow at Farmingdale .....................6:30 p.m.

Football: South Side at Manhasset ...........................6:30 p.m.

Football: Lawrence at Island Trees .............................6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 2

Girls Soccer: South Side at Garden City ................... 1 p.m.

Football: Garden City at Long Beach......................... 2 p.m.

Football: Sewanhaka at Baldwin ............................... 2 p.m.

Football: Carey at Elmont ............................................... 2 p.m.

Football: East Rockaway at Clarke .................................. 2 p.m.

Girls Volleyball: Long Beach at South Side................ 2 p.m.

Girls Soccer: Clarke at Carey..................................... 2 p.m.

Football: Massapequa at Oceanside .............................. 3 p.m.

Football: Hempstead at Freeport .................................... 3 p.m.

Football: New Hyde Park at V.S. Central .......................... 3 p.m.

Football: Hewlett at V.S, South ........................................ 3 p.m.

Football: Seaford at North Shore .................................... 3 p.m.

Football: Herricks at Calhoun ......................................... 3 p.m.

After falling for the second time in three weeks, South Side has a pivotal Nassau Conference III football game on tap Friday night when it travels to face defending county champion Manhasset.

The Cyclones proved no match for Plainedge last Friday night, falling 35-0 at home. The Red Devils, who lost last season’s title game to Manhasset, are looking to get back to 2019 form when they went undefeated and captured Nassau and Long Island crowns. They got a pair of touchdown runs from Dylan Pepe in the first quarter at South Side and never looked back.

“From what I saw tonight, Plainedge is going to be tough to beat,” South Side head coach Phil Onesto said of the Red Devils, who outscored their first three opponents by a 118-7 margin. “They’re so big and talented up front,” he added. “All in all, we can take a few positives from the game, have a short memory and move on.”

The Cyclones hit on their first snap of the game when junior quarterback Ryan Kassl connected with senior Brady West on a go route for a 41-yard gain to the Plainedge 34. “We’ll take Brady in a oneon-one matchup every time because he’s such an incredible athlete” Onesto said.

The opening drive stalled on the next set of downs and the visitors needed only a handful of plays to take the lead on Pepe’s 6-yard touchdown run. All of the scoring came in the first half.

“We felt we needed to throw the ball to be successful, but we didn’t execute as well as we’re capable,” Onesto said. “The same thing happened in Week 1 when we lost to Division and didn’t take advantage of our opportunities. We were much better in Week 2 and that’s what we need to get back to.”

Kassl has appeared in all three games under center and hooked up with West for a 37-yard touchdown in a 34-6 victory over Valley Stream South on Sept. 18.

Sophomore Owen West is very much in the quarterback mix and saw action in two games so far. “They’ll continue to split time until one emerges,” Onesto said. “They both have nice size and do different things well.”

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SENIOR BRADY WEST had a touchdown reception and punt return for a touchdown in South Side’s victory over Valley Stream South in Week 2.

so far, though senior TJ Maher leads the Cyclones in touches, however, and also sparking the defense along with sophomore corner Jack Lozito. Maher was instrumental in the runaway victory over Valley Stream South with 60 yards and two touchdowns on only eight carries. Senior Matt Solano led the way with 93 yards and a score on just seven attempts, while Michael DiFranscica

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Onesto is expecting the offensive front to receive a boost against Manhasset with the return of Billy Gryboski to join seniors Killian Hansman and Andrew Fingleton, junior Matt Davares and fellow sophomores Jack Beatty and Bobby Galindo.

“It’s a pivotal game for both teams,” Onesto said of the 6:30 p.m. kickoff.

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JENN AND EVA Kopelman said that competing on “Top Chef: Family Style” was an emotional experience. is honestly something I never expected.”

Eva described being on a Top Chef set as “surreal,” and said her “jaw hit the floor” when she saw the studio set in person.

Her mother said that while Eva had helped her in the kitchen and written in her fifth-grade yearbook that she wanted to be a chef when she grew up, she didn’t expect her daughter to pursue her dream all the way to national

television.

“She got more involved, and all of a sudden we have this little girl who, I’m like, this girl can cook!” Jenn said.

“Her seasonings and her temperatures were all perfect, it was just something that was just kind of innate.”

Jenn said the competition brought with it a whirlwind of emotions, as the two laughed, cried, sometimes argued and banded together over the course of the show.

She said she couldn’t reveal how far they got in the competition, because it’s still airing. She added that she was proud of her daughter for overcoming bullying at a young age and following her dreams.

“On the show, we’re fighting a lot in the kitchen, loving a lot in the kitchen, and we’re generally emotional people,” Jenn said, “but the whole experience of being able to be with her and watch her just shine, what more can a parent really ask for? It was the most amazing experience. It was the experience of a lifetime.”

Eva said that while she is a well-rounded chef, she most enjoys cooking Asian cuisine, especially dumplings. In the future, she said, she hoped to attend the Culinary Institute of America and then own a chain of restaurants. She has already caught the attention of many companies, and is serving as a spokeswoman for the Sunny Delight drink.

The show, she said, was an emotional experience.

“There were many emotions throughout the competition,” Eva said. “Definitely some upset, sad emotion, but definitely some exhilarating, happy emotion when we succeeded. I’m still here and I’m still cooking my heart out, and just being able to have the experience was just something that not many kids with a passion like mine get to do.”

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As she generated thousands of followers, the Magical Elves casting agency took notice, and contacted her to audition for the new cooking show. For three months, Eva sent the agency cooking videos and sat for virtual interviews that tested her culinary knowledge, and out of thousands of entrants, she was among 27 teens who were asked to travel to Los Angeles for the final auditions in May. Once there, Eva underwent three days of a “culinary boot camp” in which the contestants were evaluated on their knife skills, cooking techniques and culinary knowledge with a series of tests and exercises. Part of the audition involved quarantining in a hotel room for a week, during which participants were given a bucket of ingredients and had to cook them for judges on Zoom.

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“When I found out I joined the show after the Covid bubble, on set, we were waiting in the holding room together for nearly an hour,” Eva recalled. “It was the most grueling 40 minutes of my life, and when they brought out the balloons and we made it, I broke down in tears and hugged my mom so hard. It was insane. Flying across the country to have the opportunity of a lifetime

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Nearly 200 residents, veterans, Boys and Girl Scouts troop members and residents gathered at Baldwin Park on Sunday for the Run for Heroes event, which benefitted Rockville Centre American Legion Post 303 and other groups.

In all, the event raised more than $55,000, which will be shared by six local veterans’ organizations, and it was organized by Assemblywoman Judy Griffin.

“The brave men and women who fought for our country deserve to have their voices heard,” Griffin said, according to a release. “I was proud to host today’s event to honor our veterans and raise money for those VFWs and American Legion Posts who need it. Thank you to all of our sponsors and runners who made this event possible.”

In addition to RVC’s post, the event will benefit Baldwin American Legion Post 246, Freeport American Legion -William Clinton Story Post 342, Lynbrook American Legion Post 335, Lynbrook’s Howard Lathrop Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2307 and Malverne American Legion Post 44.

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Former RVC resident James Dixon Courtesy Dave Dixon

FORMER LONGTIME ROCKVILLE Centre resident James Dixon died on Sept. 9 at 92.

Longtime former Rockville Centre resident James Dixon died on Sept. 9 in Burlington, N.C. after battling a short illness. He was 92.

Dixon was born in 1928 in Queens, and later lived in Lynbrook and Bellmore before settling in Rockville Centre in 1958. He and his wife, Barbara, were married in October 1953 at the Church of the Ascension in RVC. They lived in Rockville Centre for 35 years

and were married for 67 years.

A for mer Hofstra University student, Dixon was a comptroller for 32 years for Gray Cadillac in Freeport (a family business) and an accountant for 15 years with the Town of Hempstead’s Parks and Recreation department. In 1993, Jim and Barbara retired to North Carolina.

Dixon was active during his 35 years of residency in Rockville Centre.

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Aside from raising two children, David and Suzanne, he was a devoted and dedicated village volunteer and member of St Marks UMC (lay leader, usher, handbell choir member, Music Committee chair, board of trustees and treasurer) as well as the Rockville Centre Republican Club. Dixon was often seen donating the use of his Cadillac, chauffeuring VIPs and dignitaries in many RVC Memorial Day parades.

Dixon was a past president and second vice president of the Rockville Centre Kiwanis Club (president in the late 1960’s — meetings held at the infamous Arbor Inn Restaurant). In 1992, NY District Governor and President Pat Genaci presented Dixon with the Legion of Honor Award as he celebrated his 30th year of dedicated service to the RVC community.

In 1993, the Rockville Centre Kiwanis Club presented a proclamation from the village honoring Jim and Barbara for their 31 years of service. Dixon was responsible and recognized for the Kiwanis Club’s “bell-ringing” fundraising projects for the Salvation Army during the holiday season.

Dixon was predeceased by Barbara; his parents, Mildred and James; and his siblings, Walter and Jean. He is survived by his children, David and Suzanne; grandchildren, Patrick and Jessica; and many nieces, nephews and grand-nieces.

A memorial and celebration of life for Jim and Barbara will be held at the Silver Bay, NY Chapel in Lake George, on Aug. 6, 2022.

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LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given by the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Rockville Centre that SEALED PROPOSALS for: PROPOSED HVAC REPLACEMENT AT VILLAGE HALL BID NO. 2109CP1 (1018) CONTRACT G - GENERAL CONSTRUCTION WORK CONTRACT H - HVAC WORK CONTRACT E - ELECTRIC will be received by the Purchasing Department of the Village of Rockville Centre for the matter stated below. Bids must be received at Room 204 of Village Hall, One College Place, Rockville Centre, New York 11570 until 11:00 am prevailing time on October 28, 2021. Bids will be opened at that time and read aloud. The contract will be awarded as soon thereafter as practicable for: PROPOSED HVAC REPLACEMENT AT VILLAGE HALL. BID NO. 2109CP1 (1018) CONTRACT G - GENERAL CONSTRUCTION WORK CONTRACT H - HVAC WORK CONTRACT E - ELECTRIC Bid documents may be obtained beginning Thursday, September 30, 2021.

The contract documents, specifications and plans can be examined on the Village’s website at www.rvcny.gov.

Follow the link to the Purchasing Department.

Bids must be made in the standard proposal form in the manner designated therein and as required by the Specifications that must be enclosed in sealed envelopes bearing the name of the job and name and address of the bidder on the outside, addressed to: VILLAGE OF ROCKVILLE CENTRE, clearly marked on the outside: Bid For: PROPOSED HVAC REPLACEMENT AT VILLAGE HALL, BID NO. 2109CP1 (1018), and which contract(s).

Each proposal submitted must be accompanied by a certified check or bid bond, made payable to the Incorporated Village of Rockville Centre, in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total amount of the bid, as a commitment by the bidder that, if its bid is

accepted, it will enter into a contract to perform the work and will execute such further security as may be required for the faithful performance of the contract. Certification of bonding company is required for this bid, see ‘Instructions For Bidders” section.

Each bidder shall agree to hold his/her bid price for forty-five (45) days after the formal bid opening.

A pre-bid meeting and walk thru is scheduled for 10:00 am Thursday, October 14, 2021.

Potential bidders are asked to gather at the main lobby at which time they will be escorted to the areas of work. This meeting is not mandatory; however, it is highly recommended that all potential bidders attend.

All questions should be directed to the Purchasing Department.

Please contact Lisa Strazzeri, Purchasing Agent via email only at lstrazzeri@rvcny.us. To be given consideration, questions must be received at least ten (10) days prior to the date fixed for the opening of bid.

It is the intention of the Village to award the contracts to the lowest qualified bidder who can meet the experience, technical and budget requirements. The Village reserves the right to reject any or all bids, waive any informality and to accept such bid which, in the opinion of the Board of Trustees, is in the best interests of the Village.

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LEGAL NOTICE ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Directory Information The Rockville Centre Union Free School District, pursuant to Sec. 438, Pub. L. 90 247, Title IV, Sub. 99.37 known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”), designates the following personally identifiable information contained in a student’s education record as “directory information,” which may be publicly released without prior consent: Directory Information 1.Student’s name 2.Student’s address 3.Student’s date of birth 4.Major field of study 5.Participation in officially recognized activities and sports 6.Weight and height of members of athletic teams 7.Dates of attendance 8.Degrees, honors and awards received 9.Names of student’s parents 10.Most recent educational agency or institution attended by the student

11.Photography or imagery of the student (which may be released and appear to the public via mediums including, but not limited to, print and electronic media, the internet, television, or annual yearbooks published by the District).

If the student from whom information is sought by the media does not want to be interviewed, photographed and/or videotaped, or if the parent/guardian of the student denies permission for media access to his/her child, such access will be denied by the building principal/designee and/or the Superintendent of Schools, upon notice of same.

Each year, parents, legal guardians or students who have attained the age of 18, may request that directory information designated above not be publicly released without their consent by writing to the District Clerk at 128 Shepherd Street, Rockville Centre, NY 11570-2298, by September 30th of each school year.

The student’s name, school and grade level must be included. The request not to publicly release information expires at the end of each school year.

A letter must be submitted each year in order to continue nonrelease.

All student educational records, and records that were created as a result of a student receiving special education services under Part B of IDEA, may also be released to another school or postsecondary institution at which the student seeks or intends to enroll. ___________________ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Military Recruiters Access to High School Students and Information on Students The District will comply with requests from military recruiters and institutions of higher education (IHEs) for access to name, address and telephone listing of each secondary school student, except for any student whose parent (or the student if he or she is at least 18 years of age) has submitted a written request to opt-out of this disclosure, in which case the information will not be released without the parents’ (or student’s, if he or she is at least 18 years of age) prior written consent. Parents wishing to exercise their option to withhold such information without prior written parental consent may do so by obtaining a form from the South Side High School Main Office, completing the form, and returning it to the Principal’s Office at South Side High School by September 30th of each school year.

___________________ ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Student Education Records In accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (“FERPA”) and Rockville Centre School District Policy, parents and students over 18 years of age have the right to inspect and review their child’s/their student education records or to request the amendment of records believed to be inaccurate or misleading.

Student education records are private unless the parent or student older than 18 consent to disclosure of personally identifiable information.

FERPA authorizes disclosure of personally identifiable information without consent in limited circumstances.

Procedures for such review process may be obtained from building principals or the District Clerk. ___________________ ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Non-Discrimination No staff member in the Rockville Centre Union Free School District shall, on the grounds of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, military status, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, or use of recognized guide dog, hearing dog or service dog, or domestic violence victim status be excluded from, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity sponsored or conducted by the School District.

No student in the Rockville Centre Union Free School District shall, on the grounds of actual or perceived race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender or sex be excluded from, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity sponsored or conducted by the School District. ___________________ ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Student Privacy Notice The Rockville Centre Union Free School District adopted Policy 7243, Student Privacy, Parental Access to Information, and Administration of Certain Physical Examinations to Minors.

Policy 7243 requires notification to all parents and guardians of specific types of surveys or activities which will be conducted during the school year and/or during the summer program in accordance with law by

Photos courtesy Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth

CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE-BETH EMETH hosted a harvest festival and plant-based cooking demonstration on Sunday.

Central Synagogue hosts harvest, cooking event

By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com

It was a day to celebrate the harvest and vegan lifestyles on Sunday at Central SynagogueBeth Emeth.

The synagogue recently received a grant from Shamayin, a Jewish animal advocacy organization, to sponsor plantbased food events throughout the next year. Through the endeavor, attendees will explore why adding more plant-based foods to one’s diet supports the Jewish focus on social justice and repairing the DAN ZELLER, OR “Chef Dan,” provided the demonstration. world.

Institute of America and serves as a TV Sunday marked the first event, which was held in conjunction host on cooking instruction. He also has a with Sukkot, a Jewish harvest festival. It YouTube show entitled, “Chef Dan featured a live cooking demonstration Almost Vegan.”

For more information on future events, from Dan Zeller, also known as “Chef Dan,” who graduated from the Culinary visit csbeli.org.

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either individual schools or the School District. If the School District or your child’s school principal plans to administer a survey or activity covered by this policy, you will be directly notified in writing prior thereto and then given ten (10) days to opt your child out of participation. ___________________ ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Identification and Register of Children with Disabilities In accordance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), parents who believe their child may have a disability are urged to contact Jeanne

Love, Executive Director for Special Education and Pupil Personnel Services, Rockville Centre UFSD, 128 Shepherd Street, Rockville Centre, NY 11570, telephone 516-255-8928, or Dr. Orly Gadon, Chairperson for the Committee on Special Education/Preschool Special Education at 516-255-8942 or Michele Vivona, Chairperson for the Committee on Special Education/Director of Secondary Special Education at 516-255-8942. ___________________ ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Complaints of Discrimination

In accordance with Title IX/Section 504/ADA, complaints and grievances regarding discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin or disability should be directed to the Title IX Coordinator, Jeanne Love, Executive Director for Special Education and Pupil Personnel Services, Rockville Centre UFSD, 128 Shepherd Street, Rockville Centre, NY 11570 at 516-255-8928.

Dignity for All Students Act Complaints pertaining to student harassment, bullying and discrimination, in accordance with the Dignity for All Students

Act, may be made to building Dignity Act Coordinators as follows: Covert School/ Darren Raymar, and Maureen Bedell at 516-255-8916, Hewitt School/Liz Pryke and Lisa Panebianco at 516-255-8913, Riverside School/Erik Walter and Lisa Panebianco at 516-255-8902, Watson School/Jen Pascarella and Sue Buckheit at 516-255-8904, Wilson School/Jim Duffy and Maureen Bedell at 516-255-8910, South Side Middle School/Shelagh McGinn and Jivanna Okolica at 516-255-8976, South Side High School/Ben Moss and Nicole Knorr at 516-255-8944.

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Responsibilities include, computer input, data maintenance, customer service-phones and emails, and general office functions. Strong knowledge of Excel required. Knowledge of database maintenance and postal regulations a plus. Qualified candidates must be computer literate, dependable, organized, energetic, detail orientated and able to work well under deadlines.

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wanted with AutoCad Civil3D experience. Health insurance benefits and 401K plan available. Applicants must be career oriented with excellent work ethic, attention to detail. Starting salary $18 per hour. Email resume to: ra@aksurveyors.com or call 516-678-9610

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EAST ROCKAWAY 10/3, 2-3:30, 33 Murdock Rd, NEW EXCLUSIVE! 5 BR,3.5 Bth Col on Beautiful St in SD#20. Large Gran/Wood EIK,LR/Fpl ,FDR/Fpl ,Den & Sun Rm .Mstr Ste w/ Vaulted Ceiling, New Bth, WIC & Terr. Bsmt....$999,000 Ronnie Gerber, Dougals elliman 516-238-4299

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A. It’s hard for me not to feel as old as your house when you put it that way, but after writing this column for 32 years, I’m often doing work for children of former clients, and have gotten your question thousands of times. First, almost anything you do that adds space to your home also adds value, and value increases taxes. Cosmetic onte eeper changes like siding, windows or an asphalt or concrete driveway generally don’t affect the value, but luxury materials, such as stone facing or interlocking pavers, will.

Most of the time, people complain about taxation but rarely, if ever, do they collectively attempt to do anything about it. The methods for deciding value, or even using value as a gauge for tax increases, are questionable, especially because we used to be taxed based on square feet. As we transition into not leaving our homes, communicating digitally, the tax system perpetuates without challenge.

In many villages and towns, garages are required, and hard surfaces for any kind of paving are considered “impervious,” not replenishing groundwater. There are limits on how much of your total property you can cover. You will need to investigate your specific jurisdiction’s requirements. Sidewalks, patios and driveways are all impervious, but pools and decks generally are not.

You’ll need your property survey, which is a map of your lot, house size and location, but you’ll also discover that surveyors generally don’t provide the dimensions of porches, sidewalks, driveways or steps. Get out a tape measure and accurately document the property’s hard surfaces if you’re in a community that requires impervious-area information. When you hire an architect or engineer, that’s what we have to do.

The only way to answer questions about removing walls is to assess the whole house: where to disperse loads, how to brace exterior walls against wind shear, how to handle snow loads and wind uplift, where pipes and wires would be relocated, how the spaces function and will be finished.

Package all this to be reviewed by building officials and receive permission to build — sounds simpler than it is, especially when workers leave details out or change something and we start adjusting all over again, only after much discussion, time and money.

That’s also part of the age-old process. Avoid changes once you decide, save money doing so and your old house will be like new again.

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Taxes: $13,468 Franklin Square $675,000 Seminole Road. Cape. 5, bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Partial finished basement with wet bar and butler’s pantry. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. First floor bedroom. 3 seasons room. Large park-like yard. Central air conditioning.

Near shopping, schools, parkway. Taxes: $12,551.58

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Baldwin $677,000 Charing Cross Road. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

Finished basement. Updated kitchen. Formal dining room with French doors to patio. Den/family room and office.

Attached garage. Large rooms. Near LIRR and Loft Pond.

Taxes: $13,903.83 Bellmore $760,000 Karen Street. Splanch. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Gourmet chef’s eat-in kitchen with custom cabinetry, granite countertops and stainless steel appliances with induction cooktop. Open floor plan with vaulted ceiling. Formal dining room. Den/family room. Entertaining backyard with pool and deck. Central air conditioning.

Taxes: $16773.45 East Rockaway $565,000 Riverside Road. Colonial. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Eat-in kitchen with granite countertops. Living room with fireplace.

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was mowing my backyard lawn in Merrick last Saturday when I was suddenly struck by the strange sensation that I had missed the bus to my race — that I should, at the moment, have been running a 5K or a 10K at a frantic pace instead of plodding along, mower in hand.

The temperature was a perfect 72 degrees, with no wind. Sunshine streamed down.

The leaves on the trees were halfbrown and turning crisp. Fall was clearly in the air.

Year after year, from my early adolescence to my SCOTT young adulthood, I ran cross-country BRINTON every fall, from middle school through college, missing only two seasons in high school. I was conditioned to gear up for the racing season as September neared an end. When the fall air and the angle of the sun in the sky turned just so, I had to be ready to run — hard.

The nervous anticipation I felt as the racing season approached was embedded in my brain, and every now and again it pops up, even now, more than three decades later. Such was the case on Saturday.

That got me thinking about how screwy the past 18 months must have been for our

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young athletes, how all of the coronavirus delays and cancellations in their sports seasons must have messed with their heads, whether they were elementary-age kids a few years into athletics or college competitors. When you’ve participated for years in a sport, there is an intuitive sense you feel for its up-anddown rhythms and welltimed rituals.

As a cross-country runner, I knew I had from midSeptember to late October to qualify for season-ending championships in early November, a narrow window within which to achieve that year’s goals, for sure. It was six straight weeks of focused energy, of exacting routines and, potentially, of great disappointment or glory on the field of play.

I was never a star runner, though in college I did eventually achieve my goal of breaking 17 minutes in the 5K, running it in 16:40, and 5 minutes in the mile, finishing it in 4:31. What cross-country, and track in college, gave me was a sense of belonging, camaraderie, place. That’s important for a young person. Athletics also gave me a routine — I knew where I had to be after school and on Saturday. My schedule revolved around sports.

I thought about how disruptive the pandemic must have been over the past year and a half to the routines of tens of thousands of young athletes, and the joy they

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must be feeling as they return this fall for their regularly appointed seasons.

Then I thought about Bulgaria. From 1991 to 1993, I served in the Peace Corps there, teaching English at the Vasil Drumev High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in Veliko Tarnovo, an ancient city in central Bulgaria. There were no after-school athletics in Bulgarian schools. If you wanted to play sports, you attended a specialized high school, open only to those displaying natural athletic ability.

At Vasil Drumev, there wasn’t even much of a gym program. The students, in grades seven to 12, hung out in the school courtyard during a free period when the weather permitted, playing basketball or volleyball. Boys did most of the playing. Girls often sat on the sidelines, chatting. There were no grass fields, no bleachers or scoreboards, only two basketball hoops set on one downwardsloping asphalt court, which, in the U.S., would no doubt have been a lawsuit waiting to happen.

One day, I asked my students what they did after school without sports or even clubs. Mostly, they said, they walked around town with friends, stopping for coffee at a café, where they would sit for an hour or two before heading home to finish homework and eat dinner with their fami-

’d never suggest that we do away with them, but they do have a downside.

lies. Afterward, they might watch TV on the handful of channels that were available then, and they were usually in bed by 10 p.m. It all sounded shockingly stress-free.

High school and college athletics in the U.S. can be wonderful, but the competitions are frequently high-stress events. The emphasis is too often on winning, on beating the competition, on rising to the top.

Even youth athletics can be anxiety-provoking, which I found as a volunteer soccer and track coach when my kids were younger.

I hope the pandemic might give us pause to think more deeply about our high school and college athletic programs. I would never suggest that we do away with them and adopt a Bulgarian-like system. As a former interscholastic athlete, I see the intrinsic value in sports. I also see the downside — the over-programming of students’ schedules, the often intense rivalries that can develop between teams and lead to divisions among young people, and the prioritization of victory over young athletes’ health, including their mental health.

Pushing young people beyond their limits to the point of a physical or mental breakdown in order to win a trophy is never worth the cost. Never.

Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication.

Comments about this column? SBrinton@ liherald.com.

It’s fall 2021. Can summer 2022 be far behind?

y earliest memory of a family vacation adventure ended with my mother and father falling into each other’s arms and sobbing. I was 7 years old. They were 31. We traveled 11 hours in our black Oldsmobile to a rental my dad had found in the newspaper known as Stony Hill Farm. It was in the armpit of New Hampshire, and we had dreamt of it, talked about it, and planned for it over an entire grim New York winter.

I can still see the scene where we drove onto the property. I was sweating RANDI in the back seat KREISS with my 3-year-old sister and my Grandma Annie.

We had turned off the main road, and when we saw the sign for Stony Hill, we were thrilled that all the days of our two-week vacation lay ahead. Then we saw the “cottages” — tiny, shabby huts that were more than chicken coops but not acceptable dwellings for humans who could walk upright.

We moved in, but not really. At 4 a.m. my parents woke us up, and we jumped into the car and fled, presumably skipping out on

our reservation and any financial commitments to the scamming “resort” owner.

The story came back to me this week as I started fantasizing about finding a rental for a few weeks in Maine next summer. I know it’s crazy early for planning anything, but I’m dreaming. I need to buy into a future when we can travel again without risking our lives. In case you’re wondering, everyone is going to Maine; it’s become the “it” place for summer. Ogunquit is the new East Hampton.

Part of Maine’s popularity has been its shabby chic, inexpensive cachet.

No more. Long gone are the days when early colonists fed lobsters, considered trash food, to their prisoners.

Since my early trauma in New Hampshire, the renting of vacation properties has become big business on Vrbo, Airbnb, HomeToGo and other platforms that bring owners and renters together — not without issues. The companies have gotten so big, and so many people are looking to escape, that the fees have soared and the potential for scams is always present. That said, we’ve found reasonably good vacation apartments and houses over the past 30 years, and I was looking to Maine for our

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getaway.

Maine may still be shabby, but the prices are for the rich and famous. For the uninitiated, when you rent on the platforms, for any time from one night to several months, you get to see photos and a list of amenities and house rules and availability.

I am now the world’s expert on deciphering what the house descriptions and photos actually reveal. Wherever you wander, I offer this as a pubic service: When reading about a property, look no further if you see the words “cozy” or “adorable.” This is online speak for cramped. You may have to crawl into the dormer bedroom. If the list of amenities includes “washing machine available,” it may be coin-operated. You don’t want to play your washer like a slot machine.

“Basic” kitchen supplies is a red flag.

Expect only salt and pepper. “Evolving” neighborhood also not a positive.

Study, study, study the photos. The angles can make a 6-by-8 room look like a football field. We nearly booked one appealing place until we looked at a photo of a bedroom and spotted what turned out to be a toilet right next to the bed. Another place had beautiful

s you search for a future vacation rental, pay very close attention to details.

wood floors, white walls and spiffy-looking appliances, but no other furniture aside from beds in otherwise empty bedrooms and living areas.

“Waterfront” can mean anything from waves crashing on a beach in front of the house to a glimpse of a canal from an attic window.

You must read all — every one — of the house reviews posted by renters. People will write on and on about how perfect the house is and then, perhaps prompted by conscience, add something like, “Just one little thing. There were mice in the walls.

But, really, the owner took care of it immediately.”

One house looked very promising until I read a review that said, “This was a spectacular house with a beautiful view of the bay.

I would definitely go back again except for the man living in the basement.”

Now I’m pursuing non-Maine properties, slightly off the grid, with more acceptable prices. Canada is a possibility if it stays open to travelers from the U.S. I did see a nice house in South Dakota. It boasted “stunning mountain views” and a “chef ’s kitchen.” But one reviewer complained of bears breaking into cars, more than once. There’s always something.

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ere we are, nine years after Superstorm Sandy pummeled Nassau County’s South and North Shores, still waiting for the federal and state governments to take meaningful action to harden our coastal infrastructure to withstand the likes of such a storm in the future.

For sure, strides have been made. The City of Long Beach has a new, much sturdier boardwalk, constructed of hardwood rather than pine. Smart move. It also has new dunes, with cord-grass plantings, to hold back the ocean. And here and there, small flood-mitigation projects have been undertaken in various communities.

We have yet to see the types of largescale hardening projects that were promised in Sandy’s wake, however. Check valves, for example, were supposed to be installed on storm drains that let out into the bays in any number of communities, but they are yet to materialize. Check valves prevent the tide from flowing backward into storm drains and flooding streets.

During Sandy, backflow caused by the storm’s rush of seawater flooded hundreds of blocks nowhere near the bays.

Our communities need check valves.

Where are they? Our new governor, Kathy Hochul, needs to answer us on this one.

For that matter, where are the streetraising projects? Is there any word on a $300 million proposal by Freeport Mayor Robert Kennedy to construct tidal floodgates across Jones Inlet? He first proposed the idea five years ago. So far we’ve had nothing but studies.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently released a draft report of its Nassau County Storm Risk Management Study, which suggests elevating more than 14,000 homes across the South Shore, at a cost of $3.8 billion, to mitigate the risk of flood damage during big storms, which are only expected to grow more powerful in the coming decades because of climate change.

Global warming not only heats up the atmosphere, but also increases sea surface temperatures. Warmer oceans provide greater energy for hurricanes to feed off.

So, yes, we need to act, as the study asserts.

At what point, though, do we stop studying and start taking decisive action?

The risk management study began in

2016. It is not expected to be complete until 2023 — more than a decade after Sandy ravaged our shorelines.

Beyond that, it’s unclear where the billions of dollars in funding to elevate thousands of homes would come from. This isn’t right. People deserve answers from our elected leaders.

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach who heads the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee and is running for county district attorney, recently expressed frustration with the lack of action on the storm-hardening front. Speaking of the Army Corps study, he said, “This study, while welcome, needs to become more than just paper and evolve into funding and real deliverables as soon as possible. This must go from concepts to actual, physical storm hardening — and that’s what matters as sea levels rise and storms intensify. Time is of the essence.”

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air and festivals season is upon us again. Last weekend, the Chamber of Commerce of the Bellmores staged its famed Family Street Festival, touted as the largest such fair in Nassau County, annually attracting as many as 100,000 people. This year, the crowds were back, despite the coronavirus, thronging Bedford Avenue.

It was, on one hand, a much-welcome relief to see people back together, laughing, smiling, chowing on roasted corn and zeppole. On the other, it was more than a little concerning that so many people were elbow to elbow in relatively close quarters. Social distancing — and masking — were out.

In no way are we suggesting canceling such festivals. We need them now to help rebuild our tattered spirits. We would like to see more people wearing masks during such events, however.

Yes, folks are outdoors, so ventilation isn’t a problem. Yes, many Nassau adults are vaccinated. We should make every attempt, however, to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in all ways possible, and masking helps.

By the way, the Bellmore chamber wasn’t the only organization holding a

festival over the weekend. Huntington Mobilization for Sustainability did as well. The Huntington Environmental Festival brought together conservation groups from across Long Island to teach about subjects ranging from electric cars to geothermal energy, composting and more.

What a wonderful idea! We suggest

that other groups, like our chambers of commerce, incorporate their own environmental corners into their festivals and fairs in the coming years. Long Island juts into the Atlantic Ocean, so it’s vulnerable to the effects of climate change (see editorial above). We need all the environmental education we can get.

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friend was lamenting the antivaccine movement and those who advocate their freedom from mandates, government or otherwise, to become vaccinated against Covid-19. After commenting on the irony of “pro-life” advocates wanting freedom from life-saving vaccines, my friend said, “What’s up with them?”

Fortunately, about 75 percent of the adult population in the U.S. has been vaccinated at least once.

Vaccination coverage, however, varies widely across ROBERT the country and among different SCOTT racial and ethnic groups. Black and Hispanic people are less likely than whites to have received vaccines, leaving them at high risk, especially with the Delta variant. As of September, nearly 60 percent of white people had received at least one dose of the vaccine, compared with only 10 percent of Black people, 17 percent of Hispanics, 6 percent of Asians, 1 percent of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, and under 1 percent of Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.

The low rate of vaccination among Blacks may be explained in part by their history with American health care. From

the time of slavery through the Jim Crow era, the Flexner reforms of medical education and medical care that disenfranchised Black citizens, through the syphilis “experiments” and segregation, Black people have been discriminated against, and have good reasons to be skeptical of government and corporate health care.

In recent months, however, owing in large part to citizen and community advocacy, vaccinations are reaching larger numbers of Black and Hispanics.

Nevertheless, there are elected officials and activist groups who argue against sensible public health measures such as vaccinations and mask-wearing. Unfortunately, these zealots brook no questions about their assertions and assumptions.

Their responses to questions like “Why not?” often is, “You just don’t get it.”

Perhaps one of the major challenges in our country is that we hesitate to engage those with other views. We have conservatives who think in terms of conserving privilege instead of promoting policies for the common good, and liberals whose lifestyles or attitudes at times belie their principles of equality and inclusion.

A former state senator in New Jersey was known for his familiar refrain: “We can disagree without being disagreeable.”

I sometimes wish this phrase were posted on every street corner in America.

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s members of a society — family, village or nation — we are free, but with responsibilities.

LETTERS Support the Climate Act To the Editor: Regarding the story “U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reveals findings of Back Bays Study” (Sept. 16-22): It is astonishing that an article about the high risk of flood damage faced by South Shore residents does not mention climate change. Why are our local elected officials supporting a plan to spend $3.8 billion in taxpayer money on resiliency measures such as “elevating more than 14,000 homes”? We know from the science that without addressing the source of the problem — climate change caused by fossil-fuel emissions — resiliency measures will ultimately fail.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and State Sen. Todd Kaminsky must realize that the real solution is a transformation to a renewable economy. The State Legislature must pass the Climate and Community Investment Act, which will create jobs and revenue by making corporate polluters pay their fair share to mitigate the damage they have done to our communities.

If our leaders truly want to combat the disastrous effects of climate change on the South Shore, and benefit every

Those who object to vaccinations not only put themselves in harm’s way, as many have learned, but also put the health of others in jeopardy. They must acknowledge responsibility for illness and death when not following the guidance of science-based public health protocols. How ironic it is that many who argue for the rights of the unborn act against the rights of the living to be protected from disease.

The anti-vaxxers might think they are making a political or perhaps theological choice, but in fact they are making a moral choice.

They are asserting a set of values that can harm and kill others. We are taught to love one another, even the meekest among us, but anti-vaxxers often prefer antipathy to empathy.

A defense offered by some is that mandates violate their freedom. Yes, a democracy honors freedom and provides that its citizens are free to question orthodoxy, to express opinions without fear of consequence, within the boundaries of law.

Consequently, members of a democracy must exercise freedom with responsibility, not freedom unfettered from concern for others.

Those who refuse to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle may cite their freedom to feel the air flow through their hair, but to do so is to ignore the societal

costs incurred when they crash. Society pays for their irresponsible behavior. The same is true for anti-vaxxers.

Freedom isn’t a simple concept. We can be free “from” bondage and free to exercise our will, but as members of a society, whether it be a family, a community or a nation, we are free, with responsibilities. Freedom “with” derives from our founding principle expressed as “We the people.” “We,” not “I.” To flout this freedom is to fail to understand the different ways of knowing what we think of as truth. Public-health policy depends on truth as established by science, through rigorous experimentation and replication. Those opposed to vaccine mandates cling to a truth based on faith, which cannot be replicated, or a truth based on fear of authority and suspicion of government, which may at times be justified. These forms of truth generally focus on “I” instead of “we.”

As American citizens with equal voices and residents of the world community, we must bear witness to the health and safety of others as well as ourselves. We must engage in boundary-spanning discussions and promote education about public health. We must honor the humanity of our neighbors and fellow citizens if we are to have a viable democracy.

Dr. Robert A. Scott is president emeritus and university professor emeritus of Adelphi University and author of “How University Boards Work” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018; Eric Hoffer Awardee, 2019).

FRAMEWORK by Joe Abate

South Shore resident, they must support the CCIA. LAURA MAFFEI Cedarhurst

Lead by example on the climate crisis To the Editor: Those attending the United Nations General Assembly could lead by example when it comes to global warming.

Hundreds of heads of state, ambassadors, military attachés and security personnel can give up limousines taking them to and from their embassies, hotels or residences to the U.N. These motorcades contribute to gridlock and increase air pollution.

Join several million New Yorkers by riding the subway or bus. Enjoy some fresh air and walk several blocks from any nearby subway or bus stop. Mingle with ordinary people to develop a better understanding of America and its people.

LARRY PENNER Great Neck

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