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MSSN scores big at annual golf outing Greenfield, led a 40-person committee of volunteers in organizing the event, which was more Mount Sinai South Nassau challenging than the past 35 raised more than $280,000 for years. “We wanted to try to the Oceanside hospital’s Covid- make people feel comfortable 19 relief fund at its coming to the out36th annual golf ing,” Cancellieri outing on Sept. 14. said. “And boy, did The sold-out we hit a home run. event, a socially disIt was a wonderful tanced affair, honouting.” ored MSSN’s entire The event 3,565-person staff, attracted 280 golfwh i ch c a re d fo r ers, despite strict patients during the health and safety worst of the coronap ro t o c o l s. T h e re virus outbreak in was no barbecue, as the spring. in past years, but “It was truly a instead a grab-andgreat day, in recoggo breakfast and a nition and celebragrilled lunch. Four tion of our dedicatseparate golf sesed and courageous RICHARD J. sions were held at health care profesthe Seawane Club, sionals,” said Rich- MURPHY in Hewlett Harbor, ard J. Murphy, the President and CEO, and the Rockaway hospital’s president Mount Sinai Hunting Club, in and CEO. “I comL aw re n c e — a South Nassau mend our golf commorning and aftermittee for organiznoon session at ing an outstanding event, and each location. thank our sponsors for their “We were very pleased with generous and steadfast sup- the turnout and the communiport.” ty’s continued support for the The golf outing’s co-chairs, hospital, especially during this Rockville Centre residents challenging time,” said CancellTony Cancellieri and Jef f CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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THE WINNER OF the Golden Ticket raffle, Megan Ross, left, won a piece of Gabi Pellicani’s artwork at last week’s Golfing for Gabi fundraiser. She collected her prize from Katie Preston.

Tournament raises $60,000 for brain cancer research

By JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com

Two years ago, Fabiana and Nick Pellicani, of Rockville Centre, lost their 5-yearold daughter, Gabriella, to pediatric cancer. Since then, they have raised awareness of the disease and funding for research in her honor, amassing nearly $150,000 over the past two years.

More than 100 people took part in the second annual Golfing for Gabi tournament

at the Rockville Links Club on Sept. 24, in support of the Jimmy Fund, a fundraising arm for Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The event honored Gabi’s life and spirit.

She died on Oct. 16, 2018, 10 months after being diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive and incurable form of brain cancer. Despite her disorder, she attended St. Mark’s Nursery School and kindergarten at Watson Elementary School.

“Gabi was always a posi-

tive child, even after her diagnosis,” Fabiana said. “Every day she would find moments of happiness and burst out, ‘This is the best day ever!’

And that phrase struck us on Thursday, since during such a terrible year, we were still able to come together with family and friends for this cause.”

During the afternoon, 110 golfers competed in the tournament, which was followed CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE by an outdoor reception attended by friends and family. The participants raised nearly $60,000 to support research focused on brain cancers at Dana-Farber, where Gabi underwent a clinical trial.

“Given the current situation, we had no idea what to expect in terms of attendance and fundraising,” Nick said, “but just like last year, we were completely overwhelmed by the support and generosity of the community. Golfing for Gabi is obviously very important to us, but it’s really gratifying to know that it also means a lot to so many others. And as always, we’re so proud to know that Gabi continues to bring hope and joy to others.”

Gabi’s grandfather Paul Pellicani, who drove up from Maryland to take part in the fundraiser, said he was pleased with the turnout and the generosity of the attendees. “Many giving a little,” he said simply, “can do a lot.”

Fabiana said that while her daughter was undergoing the clinical trial at DanaFarber, the family was supported by, and received high-quality care from, doctors, nurses and staff at the hospital, and they felt it was important to continue supporting the research being done. “It’s our hope that, in our lifetime, there will be a cure,” she said, “or at least a breakthrough in treatment options that will allow other children to live longer — and maybe even long enough until the next treatment breakthrough.”

The event’s first-place gross winners were Colby Anderson, Michael Lawless, Sean Kerly and Billy Dong, who set a tournament record with an 18-hole score of 59.

The first-place net winners were Frank Cummings, Mark Pfeifer, Kenny Collins and Ned Morgan. The winners’ prizes included a plaque featuring a rainbow drawn by Gabi. Sponsors included Toppan-Merrill, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP,

Photos by Christina Daly/Herald

FIRST-PLACE NET WINNERS, from left, Frank Cummings, Mark Pfeifer, Kenny Collins and Ned Morgan.

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The event also included a silent auction and raffles, with prizes ranging from sporting events, helicopter rides and a trip to Kiawah Island, in South Carolina, to framed artwork created by Gabi.

Another prize was a BMW i8 Spyder electric toy car, won by Gabi’s 4-year-old brother, Antonio, which he happily drove around during the reception.

Next year’s Golfing for Gabi is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 23. For more information, to to www.golfingforgabi. com. Donations in support of pediatric brain cancer research can also be made in Gabi’s memory at www.danafarber.jimmyfund.org/goto/gabistrong.

NICK PELLICANI, ABOVE, thanked the golfers for helping to support the foundation created in honor of his daughter.

ST. MARK’S NURSERY School teacher and the night’s emcee, Dina Testa, near left, made a last call for raffles and auction prizes.

PAUL PELLICANI, GABI’S grandfather, far left, with Wes Adams, Lisa Pellicani and 4-year-old Antonio Pellicani, in his new Spyder BMW.

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roBert DaviDson, 63, of Rockville Centre, demanded cash at T.D. Bank on Merrick Road at noon on Sept. 28. He was arrested later that afternoon.

Crime watCh Larceny

Recovered stolen auto

■■ On■Sept.■24■at■8:46■a.m.,■a■Harvard■Avenue■resident■reported■her■vehicle■was■stolen■from■her■driveway.■■

■■ On■ Sept.■ 21■ at■ 11:44■ a.m.,■ a■ vehicle■ reported■ stolen■ from■ New■ York■ City■ was■ recovered■—■parked■and■unoccupied■—■in■ Municipal■Parking■Field■No.■9.

■■ On■ Sept.■ 24■ at■ 7:02■ p.m.,■ a■ N.■ Kensington■Avenue■resident■reported■that■his■wallet■ was■ stolen■ from■ his■ vehicle■ while■ the■ vehicle■was■parked■in■his■driveway.

Auto accident Courtesy John Scalesi

RVC man arrested for T.D. Bank robbery

By Briana Bonfiglio bbonfiglio@liherald.com

A■man■has■been■arrested■in■connection■ with■ a■ robbery■ of ■ T.D.■ Bank■ on■ Merrick■ Road■ in■ Rockville■ Centre■ on■ Sept.■ 28,■ according■to■village■police.

Officers■ say■ that■ Robert■ Davidson,■ 63,■ of ■ Yale■ Ave.■ in■ Rockville■ Centre,■ entered■ the■T.D.■Bank■around■noon■and■passed■the■ bank■ teller■ a■ note■ demanding■ cash.■ The■ teller■complied■and■passed■him■cash■with■ a■ tracker■ attached.■ Davidson■ left■ on■ foot■

■■ On■ Sept.■ 25■ at■ 8:58■ a.m.,■ a■ delivery■ truck■ carrying■ appliances■ went■ off ■ the■ road■ on■ southbound■ Peninsula■ Boulevard,■ through■ the■ guardrail■ and■ into■ Hempstead■Lake.■■There■were■no■reported■ injuries■ and■ New■ York■ State■ Park■ Police■ were■on■scene■to■assist■village■officers.

Leaving the scene

and■ was■ last■ seen■ walking■ westbound■ on■ Merrick■Road.■No■injuries■were■reported.■ Rockville■ Centre■ police■ officers,■ along■ with■ officers■ from■ Nassau■ County■ Police■ Department’s■ Robbery■ Squad,■ followed■ the■tracker■to■a■nearby■home■and■arrested■ Davidson■at■3:50■p.m.

Davidson■ was■ charged■ with■ thirddegree■robbery■and■arraigned■on■Sept.■29■ in■Mineola.■Officers■say■he■was■on■probation■ for■ being■ arrested■ and■ convicted■ for■ several■ past■ robberies,■ including■ one■ at■ the■same■T.D.■Bank■in■January■2014.

■■ On■ Sept.■ 23■ at■ 10:29■ a.m.,■ a■ motorist■ reported■ that■ another■ vehicle■ struck■ and■ damaged■ his■ vehicle■ and■ left■ the■ scene■ while■driving■on■Sunrise■Highway.

■■ On■ Sept.■ 26■ at■ 1:54■ p.m.,■ a■ Meehan■ Lane■ resident■ reported■ that■ another■ vehicle■ struck■ and■ damaged■ his■ vehicle■ and■left■the■scene■while■it■was■parked■on■ Meehan■Lane.

■■ On■ Sept.■ 27■ at■ 11:17■ p.m.,■ a■ pedestrian■ reported■ that■ he■ was■ struck■ by■ a■ vehicle■ that■ left■ the■ scene■ while■ he■ was■ walking■ on■N.■Village■Avenue.

Arrests ■■ On■ Sept.■ 23■ at■ 7:48■ a.m.,■ Darryl■ J.■ Dunn,■ 32,■ of ■ Meehan■ Lane,■ Rockville■ Centre,■ was■ arrested■ and■ charged■ with■ fourth-degree■ criminal■ mischief ■ and■ third-degree■ attempted■ assault■ while■ at■ his■residence.■■ ■■ On■ Sept.■ 26■ at■ 1■ p.m.,■ Elis■ Fernandez,■ 23,■ of ■ Louise■ Place,■ Valley■ Stream,■ was■ arrested■and■charged■with■second-degree■ criminal■ possession■ of ■ a■ weapon,■ thirddegree■unauthorized■use■of ■a■vehicle■and■ several■ open■ arrest■ warrants■ while■ on■ Jackson■Avenue■in■Rockville■Centre.■■ ■■ On■ Sept.■ 26■ at■ 11:55■ p.m.,■ Edward■ O’Connor,■ 62,■ of ■ Hempstead■ Avenue,■ Rockville■ Centre,■ was■ arrested■ and■ charged■ with■ violation■ of ■ the■ social■ host■ law,■ which■ prohibits■ hosts■ from■ serving■ alcohol■ to■ minors,■ and■ an■ open■ arrest■ warrant■while■at■his■residence.■■ ■■ On■ Sept.■ 27■ at■ 4:50■ p.m.,■ Miguel■■ Condori,■ 38,■ of ■ Bowme■ Street,■ Flushing,■ was■ arrested■ and■ charged■ with■ seconddegree■ assault,■ resisting■ arrest,■ seconddegree■ obstructing■ governmental■ administration,■third-degree■menacing■and■false■ personation■ while■ at■ a■ Sunrise■ Highway■ business.

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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Advocates seek justice for Breonna Taylor

By Briana Bonfiglio bbonfiglio@liherald.com

Black women were front and center at the latest Black Lives Matter protest outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola on Sept. 24.

The protest primarily sought justice for 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was fatally shot by a Louisville police officer in March. Officer Brett Hankinson was indicted on Sept. 23 on three counts of wanton endangerment for bullets that flew into a neighboring apartment. There were no charges in relation to Taylor’s death.

One protester held a sign that read, “They charged the bullets that missed.”

Others said, “Jail killer cops,” “Shut down racism and white supremacy” and “No justice no peace.” Another said “Defund the police” on the front and “Refund social services” on the back.

Several local advocacy groups banded together to organize the rally, including the Long Island chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, LI United to Transform Policing and Community Safety, Nassau County Democratic Socialists of America, Long Island Black Alliance, NY02 Indivisible, Long Island Activists and Young Long Island for Justice. The protest began around 5:15 p.m. and led into a march about two hours later, after several Black Long Islanders spoke emotionally at the microphone.

Nia Adams, a Long Island organizer, said she took the death of Taylor “very personally” — “the last 24 hours have been very hard for me,” she said.

“The lesson that we are hearing out of Louisville is it is OK to break into a Black woman’s home,” she continued, “it is OK to murder a Black woman in her sleep, and it is OK to then attempt to slander and criminalize a Black woman after her death, and you will not be held accountable.”

She added that Taylor’s death is not an isolated incident. “This is a culture that needs to change,” she said. “We need to … divest [from police departments] and reinvest in community solutions — into health care, housing and education. These are the things that matter. These are the things that keep us safe.”

Shanequa Levin, founder of Women’s Diversity Network and member of LI United to Transform Policing and Community Safety, said she is “tired of having to give my kids ‘the talk,’” referring to the conversations Black parents have with their children to “teach them how to behave differently” when approached by a police officer.

“I can’t take my Black skin off,” she said, shouting. “I can’t do that. I’m Black every damn day, and you see that as a threat.”

Couple Devon Toney and Latoya Bazmore, community organizers from Brentwood, spoke about their own alleged experiences with police brutality. They said that they were beaten by Suffolk County police officers on the evening of Aug. 30 while hosting a barbecue at Ross Memorial Park in Brentwood for home-

Photos by Briana Bonfiglio/Herald

Many held signs in support of Black community members feeling hurt by the persistence of police brutality cases across the country.

shanequa levin, founder of Women’s Diversity Network and member of LI United to Transform Policing and Community Safety, vented her frustrations about how Black people are viewed in the United States. less, addicted and mentally ill community members. “I’m still traumatized by what went on that night,” Bazmore said, adding that she often sees people who are on the streets struggling being “brutalized by police.”

Protest organizers made several demands, including dropping charges made against Toney that night; charging, arresting and convicting “all killer cops”; divesting from Nassau County police; reinvesting in community safety programs; and providing slavery reparations for Black citizens.

Throughout the protest, the crowd took part in call-and-response chants, such as “Say her name, Breonna Taylor,” “When Black lives are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back” and “The people united, will never be defeated.”

“All I want us to do is continue what we doing,” Bazmore said. “Don’t ever lose the fight in you.”

PeoPle of all ages, but mostly young people in their 20s and 30s, gathered outside a Nassau County legislative building in Mineola to protest the lack of charges against Louisville police officers for the death of Breonna Taylor. nia adaMs, a racial justice advocate on Long Island, spoke candidly about how the Breonna Taylor case has affected her emotionally.

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Coaches talk high school, college sports delays

By Briana Bonfiglio bbonfiglio@liherald.com

High school and college sports coaches on the latest Herald Inside LI webinar discussed how Covid-19 has affected their programs — including new recruiting methods, alternatives to competitive gameplay and staying positive through it all.

The virtual panel was live-streamed on Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. and produced by RichnerLive, a division of Richner Communications Inc., publisher of Herald Community Newspapers. Herald Inside LI is a webinar series that aims to educate the community about navigating different aspects of life during the coronavirus pandemic.

Local athletic coaches and officials joined the most recent conversation, including Chuck Priore, head football coach at Stony Brook University; Danielle Santos Atkinson, head women’s basketball coach at Hofstra University; Michael Rubino, head football coach and athletic director at Valley Stream Central High School; and David Viegas, director of health, phys. ed. and athletics in the Hewlett-Woodmere Union Free School District.

Tony Bellissimo, sports editor of Herald Community Newspapers, offered opening remarks about the delay of fall sports because of Covid-19. “This has serious effects on schools and student-athletes,” he said, “especially the student-athletes in high school with an eye on playing at the next level.”

Skye Ostreicher, of RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers, moderated the event and asked the panelists questions — first, about their reactions to the delay of high school and college sports.

“It tears me apart to not see our kids and be at their games,” Viegas said, “but I think the focus had to be on getting us back into school, and now that we’re there, staying there, staying open.”

The other panelists agreed that though it must have been a tough decision for university officials to make, health and safety must be the top priority. “We need to make the most out of it and figure out how to move this process forward,” Priore said.

A big concern among high school athletes is losing game time that could be recorded and sent to college coaches, or

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CloCkwise from top left: David Viegas, director of health, physical education and athletics at Hewlett-Woodmere Union Free School District; Skye Ostreicher, Herald Inside LI moderator; Michael Rubino, head football coach and athletic director at Valley Stream Central High School; Danielle Santos Atkinson, head women’s basketball coach at Hofstra Universit;y and Chuck Priore, head football coach at Stony Brook University discussed how Covid-19 has impacted the college sports recruiting process on Sept. 23. that recruiters could attend to watch them play. However, the panelists each gave advice to those student-athletes looking to continue their sport in college. “We have learned different ways of recruiting and outreach,” Priore noted.

This means using online platforms to connect with colleges, rather than in-person meetings, tours or visits with college officials at competitions. Both Priore and Atkinson said they use social media to learn more about prospective players.

They also said that they would accept videos of players demonstrating their skills, even if they are not in a game and are recorded by a friend or family member.

College tours are also available virtually, Priore noted, as well as a wealth of information about the schools. Now that

prospective student-athletes are diving deeper into Stony Brook’s online information, “I honestly think the kids that we’re recruiting are benefitting from knowing Stony Brook better,” he said.

Priore added that being able to hop on a Zoom call for recruiting purposes has been advantageous for his football players looking to enter professional leagues.

“Today, we had 32 NFL teams on a Zoom call with [our athletics officials], showcasing our kids,” he said. “We’ve never had 32 NFL teams visit our campus, so our kids got more exposure this year than they normally would.”

For high school students, Atkinson encouraged Zoom calls for getting to know potential teammates and coaches at colleges. “They’re able to get on a call and

come face to face with our academic adviser, strength coach and student-athletes, which was a great change,” she said, “because that’s one of the most important things — who are the people that I’m going to be surrounded by during my time in college?”

Rubino said that Twitter is a great place for high school students to present themselves to coaches, as well, by adding information about the student’s academics and sports background. “It’s about marketing yourself in the best possible light,” he said. “Let [coaches] know what class you are and make it as easy as possible for them to recruit you.”

Although games are not being played, college student-athletes have already begun training in small groups within their teams, while following health and safety protocols, with practices on the horizon. The college coaches noted that during the shutdown, not all the players had access to a gym to continue conditioning before playing. Thus, they are still getting all players on the same page before they start playing in January.

“We had to stay in small groups as a football program, social distance and wear masks indoors,” Priore said. “From a training standpoint, our kids have really benefited.”

High school student-athletes, however, are mostly still waiting to practice with their teams. Coaches are formulating plans to make this happen in the future.

The panelists noted that without competitive sports in the fall, there is plenty of time to focus on academics, as well as maintain relationships with college officials to get recruited.

“It’s not canceled; it’s just postponed,” Viegas said. “They’ll get their opportunity; they just have to be patient.”

The panelists acknowledged that for student-athletes, many of whom have played every year since they were young, the change in plans could be overwhelming. Atkinson encouraged coaches and parents to discuss mental health with their student-athletes and to shed a positive light on the situation.

“Everyone is just trying to stay positive, follow the rules, wear your mask,” Rubino said, “and then hopefully in the next few weeks, we’ll start to see some high schools generate plans where we can follow [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidelines and get [teams] back together a little bit.”

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OBITUARY

By JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com

Harold Peterson, a longtime resident of Rockville Centre and Wantagh, was passionate about New York politics and spent the last decade of his life trying to instill change at the state level. He died on Sept. 23, 2020, at the age of 92, after suffering a heart attack.

Known to friends and family as “Hal,” Peterson had a strong interest in the “dysfunction” in Albany and became a guest columnist for Herald Community Newspapers in August 2010, highlighting the problems that persisted in New York State government. Judy Rattner, who was editor at the time, said that he approached her with the idea of writing a column focusing on fiscal refor m, and she thought it would be a topic of importance to readers.

“I thought it was something everybody could agree on, and it was nonpartisan and made a lot of sense,” Rattner said. “His intent was to root out corruption and greed in Albany.”

Peterson wrote more than three dozen columns between August 2010 and January 2015.

“He was a real gentleman,” Rattner

said. “He was always very pleasant to work with.”

In April 2011, he launched his own website, www.ReformAlbanyNowRegistry.com — a source of information for those interested in working to restore the state to a path of fiscal responsibility. That spring, he spoke at the Rockville Centre Public Library, along with experts charged with the oversight of New York’s public authorities and state and local agencies to address the need for reform.

At that time, he said state residents were in need of a “leaner, smarter, more efficient and affordable” state Harold government, and that both taxes and debt would continue to rise unless something is done.

Peterson continued to stay active in local politics until the end. Last week, he posted his final column on his blog taking Nassau County Executive Laura Curran to task for her proposed budget.

The post is dated Sept. 21, just two days before he died.

Peterson was born on July 25, 1928, to Fred and Evelyn Peterson in Ridgewood. According to the biography post-

ed on his website, he secured an entrance level job with the Standard Oil Company after high school working as a clerk in the coordination and economics department. He began taking evening classes at Columbia University until his Army Reserve unit was activated at the onset of the Korean War in 1950. He received a commendation for serving on the staff of a Brigadier General in the Corps of Engineering, and was discharged in 1952. He graduated from Hofstra University in 1955, earning a bachelor’s degree in business administration, and then joined the Executive Peterson Development Program of the New York Telephone C o m p a ny. I n 1 9 8 4 , Pe t e r s o n w a s appointed director of internal audit o p e r at i o n s o f t h e n ew ly fo r m e d NYNEX Corporation, dealing primarily with new acquisitions and the standardization of auditing procedures. He retired in 1990 after 36 years before turning his attention to local issues.

During retirement, he served on a special committee advising Nassau County’s Parks Department on the use

of a newly built swim complex; assisted the director of the Rockville Centre Library in studying the deployment and use of computer resources; and joined the staff of Wester n Suffolk BOCES, lecturing in libraries throughout Nassau and Suffolk Counties on the use of the Internet to build and manage investment portfolios.

In 1956, Peterson mar ried Mary Ellen Stapleton. They enjoyed a happy life together for nearly 60 years, according to their children, until her death in February 2016. The couple lived in Wantagh for 30 years, where they raised their children, then spent 21 years in Rockville Centre. They were the loving and devoted parents of Steven (Karen), Robert (Jann), Nancy (Steven) Onufrey and Kathleen (Raymond) Moore, adored grandparents of eight and great-grandparents of two.

Peterson was reposed at Clair S. Bartholomew & Son Inc. in Bellmore.

Funeral Mass was held Monday at St. Barnabas Roman Catholic Church in Bellmore, followed by interment at St. Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale.

I n l i e u o f fl owe r s, t h e f a m i ly requests donations to OneTreePlanted. org for $1 to pass his legacy forward.

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TIMOTHY DRISCOLL, JUSTICE of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, far left; Tony Cancellieri, vice chairman of MSSN’s board of directors; Joe Calderone, MSSN’s senior vice president of corporate communications; and Michael Sapraicone, president and CEO of Squad Security, enjoyed their day on the links.

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Hospital hosts 36th annual golf outing CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE ieri, who is vice chairman of the hospital’s board of directors. “After the long lockdown, many of our players were eager to get out on the course, and we demonstrated that you can have a safe outing if you put in place the proper procedures.”

Cancellieri also noted that it was only fitting to honor the hospital staff this year. Long Island’s South Shore was among the areas hardest hit by Covid-19, and MSSN has treated more than 1,400 patients. Hospital beds surged to more than 500 during the peak in April. Now, the hospital has transitioned back to near-normal operations, with cleaning and safety measures in place.

The outing celebrated MSSN employees and raised money for the hospital’s Covid-19 fund, as the pandemic has brought on numerous extra

expenses. Over the past decade, the golf outing had raised money for the hospital’s upgraded emergency department and exceeded the goal of $10 million.

The event’s major sponsors were LEB Electric Ltd.; Signature Bank; Jeffrey Frisch; Long Beach Nursing & Rehabilitation; Neurological Surgery, PC; Parking Systems; Park Strategies, LLC; Professional Maintenance of LI; Ropes & Gray, LLP and Squad Security Inc. Joe Calderone, MSSN’s senior vice president of corporate communications, said that beyond raising money, the show of support at the event was encouraging. “We didn’t really know how many people would participate,” he said. “It helps the morale of everybody here to know that the community supports them.”

TIM MATEJKA, EXECUTIVE director of development at MSSN, above left, and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Adhi Sharma attended the outing.

ADAM GLASS, OF Advance2000, was among the golfers at the event.

MICHAEL SAPRAICONE, PRESIDENT and CEO of Squad Security, took aim at the Seawane Club’s 16th green with a golf ball cannon launcher.

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over the summer, so she enlisted the help of her assistant teachers to spruce up the desks for all 19 of her in-person students.

“Normally, the children sit at tables and I wanted it to be more inviting and cheerful for them this year,” Deninno said. “Kindergarten is all about fun and learning through play.”

This year, children are confined to their desks more than usual, but Deninno said they are focusing on fostering communication skills since there is not as

much social interaction. “They’re learning to interact in different ways, and using more verbal communication.”

Deninno said her students are adjusting well so far and seem happy. This year, they are relying more on technology and are using iPads, but the children are catching on quickly, she said.

“Children adapt so well,” Deninno said. “And, as this is their first experience with public school, they don’t know that this isn’t the norm.”

Photos courtesy Odette Peralta/RVC Schools

UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES, kindergarteners sit at tables to promote social interaction. This year, teachers got creative and found ways to make the classrooms more inviting while keeping them at a safe distance. Riverside students have Jeeps.

STUDENTS IN LESLI Deninno’s kindergarten class at Covert Elementary, above left, sit at desks set up to look like cars.

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In a normal school year, public elementary schools’ youngest learners sit with classmates at tables and are encouraged to interact with one another. This year, however, is anything but normal. In an effort to keep with the spirit of fun that has long been associated with kindergarten, teachers at two Rockville Centre elementary schools got creative with their classroom set-ups.

Karen Feltman, who teaches kindergarten at Riverside Elementary, converted the desks in her classroom into Jeeps for the students. She said she got the idea after seeing it Pinterest, and personalized the concept by adding Riverside license plates.

“The kids usually sit at tables, and in this year of Covid, where they have to be socially distanced, I wanted to make it the classroom more friendly and colorful,” Feltman said. She used four different colors for the Jeeps, which she said also helps keeps the class organized, as they can line up by color group. “It makes the classroom more kid friendly, and the kids really love them.”

Covert Elementary School kindergarten teacher Lesli Deninno decorated her students’ desks to look like cars.

Deninno said she was inspired to transform the desks after seeing photographs online of other teachers’ creations

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hree years ago, Austin Glickman of Long Beach, a New York City police officer, started the organization Law Enforcement Officers Weekend, dedicated to taking the families of officers killed or injured in the line of duty on free weekends to Lake George and Long Beach.

When the Covid-19 pandemic began spreading in March, Glickman started another effort, to provide hot food to officers in New York, New Jersey and Maryland who were working shifts to help protect the public against the disease. His Law Enforcement Officers Being Law Enforcement Officers delivered over 4,000 meals. The food was donated by restaurants in the three states.

Glickman, who grew up in Long Beach and graduated from Long Beach High School, will on Oct. 17 lead his annual Ride for Remembrance, a motorcycle drive from Point Lookout to Heckscher Park in East Islip. The drive, open to the public, is to remember those who died of Covid-19, suicide or any type of illness. Anyone wishing to participate must register at www.leoweekend.com.

Law Enforcement Officers Weekend was unable to take families to Lake George this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. But it did take three families to Long Beach the weekend of July 30 to Aug.2. The families stayed at the Allegria Hotel, enjoyed water sports and a barbecue.

Glickman got the idea for the weekend getaways while he was still a cadet at the Police Academy in 2014.

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As a first responder in my local fire department, I have seen the Covid-19 breakout firsthand.

Upon arrival to the hospital, we are greeted with a very long line and hospital personnel donned in their own [Personal Protective Equipment] and the patient on a stretcher looking around, scared, because their loved ones cannot be with them in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Loved ones are scared because they cannot sit with the patient in the hospital.

This has had such an impact on me because I would see families crying because they don’t know what is going to happen to their loved one; I would see the nurses and doctors and [physician assistants] just burnt that they would be near tears themselves and that would shake me to my core.

It has had a lasting effect on me, but there was one time during the height of the virus, I took a patient to the hospital about 3 o’clock in the morning, and I was able to just walk in. I released my patient to the hospital, and while I was making up the bed, I was standing next to the nurses’ station and the nurses were sitting there, and they were just laughing. That made my night and my whole next day.

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he coronavirus brought with it trying times in our village, the greater metropolitan area and across the globe. Many of us have felt a mixture of emotions over the past several months as our way of living has dramatically transformed.

We were supported by front-line workers and first responders ensuring the safety of our communities and by the essential workers keeping the basics of our economy functioning. Lynbrook is home to many of these workers, and I join with all our residents in thanking them for all that they have done and continue to do.

At the height of the pandemic, we also did our part here at Village Hall to ensure continuity of services while activating modified working arrangements in accordance with guidance from our federal and state partners. Our public works, fire, police, and various other departments made the necessary accommodations to maintain operations in a safe and sound manner, while ensuring most services can continue operating remotely or online.

We have continued to engage with our local business community and have looked at ways to support them by fast-tracking certain accommodations, such as outdoor dining.

Despite the obvious health and economic impacts this crisis had on our village and across our country, I have never been more proud to call Lynbrook home. Every day, I am amazed at the outpouring of support our residents have for each other.

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he Farmers Market runs every year [since 2012], from the week after the Fourth of July until the end of October.

We buy the produce from local farms out east. We provide summer jobs and career training to local kids. It’s a win-win for the community, for our farmers and our youth.

We didn’t know if we’d be able to run the market this year, but we decided to open this year on a hope and a prayer.

Because of the pandemic, we changed things up and decided to do a drive-through market. Customers line up in the parking lot while our young workers take down their orders and do the shopping for them.

We’ve had long lines, of course, but people are still willing to wait for the fresh food. And the youth have done a great job adjusting to all the new protocols. They’ve taken workshops on Covid safety. They even got certified by Nassau County after completing a six-hour course on contact tracing.

We hire those between 14 to 22 years old. A lot of times, this is the first job they get.

The goal of this program is to prepare our youths for the workforce. We teach them all we can, give them letters of recommendation and serve as references — anything we can do to help them.

This Halloween, if the county’s infection rates continue to drop, we’re hoping to host a trunk-or-treat event for the local kids.

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When it comes to shopping for intimate apparel, women have a slew of options, from department stores to online shops. Very few of those places, however, provide the level of personalized customer service received at The Fitting Curve in Rockville Centre. The boutique on Merrick Road offers custom bra fitting to ensure a proper, and comfortable, fit -- which is harder to find than one might think.

“In a woman’s lifetime,” co-founder Kelly H. Saintus said, “her bra size will change six to 10 times on average.”

The changes, she said, can be caused from weight loss, weight gain, Courtesy The Fitting Curve pregnancy, nursing and illness, which THE FITTING CURVE, at 222 Merrick Rd., makes it important to periodically get offers a selection of bras, lingerie and limitfitted to avoid discomfort. Saintus, ed swimwear. along with co-founder Helene T. Delince and Stephanie Vincent, both ple who book appointment fittings have an of Baldwin, joined forces four years ago to provide their years of expertise in intention to make a purchase.

This year, The Fitting Curve has the industry to the local community.

“We had all worked in different aspects formed a partnership with the American of the lingerie industry,” Delince said, Cancer Society, being recognized as able to “and in 2016, we came together, wanting to serve mastectomy patients. The store is also giving back 5 percent of selected items do something for our community.”

Delince and Vincent, who are sisters, to beast cancer research.

“We’ve been in all different aspects of moved from New York City to Baldwin, the industry,” Vincent said, “and that porand soon discovered the available storefront on Merrick Road. “It was meant to tion of clients is very underserved when it comes to bra fitting.” be,” Delince said.

One of the brands they carry, Anita When the store first opened, she said, Care International, caters to mastectomy they mostly booked customers for bra fitpatients, and to serve those clients adetings. A fitting includes an assessment of what type of bra the client currently wears quately, Vincent attends yearly training and a discussion of what she should be seminars to become certified in fitting looking for in a bra. The Fitting Curve will bras for women who have had mastectoalso teach women how to adjust straps mies. “The post-cancer life is a unique properly, provide style options and help experience,” Vincent said, “and requires a different sense of empathy.” them learn how a bra should fit. A part of In addition to maintaining sensitivity the service is also teaching how to propertowards breast cancer survivors, the store ly care for undergarments.

The signs that it’s time for a new bra owners make a point to show that they are include discomfort with the fit and loose supporting real women. They use actual straps, as well as having held on to a bra women in their marketing materials for several years. Right now, Vincent said, instead of models, and believe this has resthey are seeing a lot of customers who are onated with their customers.

“We believe in the authenticity of all in need of a new bra after having put on women’s bodies,” Saintus said. “[Our custhe “Covid-15.”

According to Vincent, a weight loss or tomers] love seeing a real person repregain of 10 to 15 pounds can affect bra size. sented. It helps them think, ‘I can look like “That’s the range when women see a dif- that.’ Our store is meant to be a safe space, ference in either band size or cup size,” she where women can fall in love with themselves all over again.” said.

Saintus stressed that the store aims to Like most businesses, The Fitting Curve shut down in March, and remained serve its customers based on what they want, and that the three women behind closed for three and a half months.

“The beginning of 2020 was really hope- The Fitting Curve have the insight and ful,” Vincent said. “We had new products, knowledge to provide for them. She a new marketing plan and a new website. explained that, when they initially opened, So, we really had to pivot. We’re such an they had a low stock and then based their intimate business – our bread and butter buying decisions on what the neighborhood wanted. “We are not about what othdisappeared in quarantine.”

She said they kept relevant by provid- ers are carrying; we focus on what our cusing email updates to customers and offer- tomers want and need,” she said. “That ing online sales, including discounts for takes a long time to develop.”

“Our expertise speaks for itself,” Vinessential workers. The reopening plan was delayed due to the new protocols, but they cent added. “The practice of bra fitting is a have now eliminated foot traffic and dying art – the stores are few and far switched to an appointment system, with a between. I get a sense of pride knowing I vetting process for health risks. So far, this can educate people or that they come in has not hurt the business, since most peo- asking for my help.”

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: RICOED SOLUTIONS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York, (SSNY) on 08/27/20.

NY Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to:443Lafayette Avenue.

Rockville Centre, NY 11570.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that an order granted by the Supreme Court, Nassau County, on the 15th day of September, bearing Index number 608972/2020, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, NY 11501, grants me the right to assume the name of Lara Sue Lee Eisner.

The city and State of my present residence are Rockville Centre, New York; the month and year of my birth are June 15, 1955; the place of my birth is Chicago, Illinois; my present name is Laura Sue Lee Eisner, a/k/a Lara Sue Lee , a/k/a Laralee Eisner, a/k/a Lara Sue Lee Trueblood, a/k/a Lara Sue Lee Eisner, a/k/a Lara L. Eisner, a/k/a Lara T. Eisner, a/k/a Lara Eisner.

123283 LEGAL NOTICE Public Notice to Bidders Sealed Bids will be received by the Village of Rockville Centre Purchasing Department for the matter stated below.

Bids must be received at the Rockville Centre Police Department, 34 Maple Ave., Rockville Centre, New York 11570 until 11:00 am prevailing time on October 21, 2020.

Bids will be opened that day and read aloud in the Village Court Room. In accordance with Executive Order of the Governor of New York, the bid opening will be recorded, and the recording will be available on the Village website on October 22, 2020. The contract will be awarded as soon thereafter as practicable for: 2020 ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE Bid No. 2010E1(999) 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. Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check, bank check or bid bond payable to the Incorporated Village of Rockville Centre in the amount of five (5%) percent of the gross

amount of the bid.

All questions should be directed to the Purchasing Department.

Please contact Kathy McMahon via email only at k m c m a h o n @ r v c n y. u s.

Questions must be submitted no later than October 14, 2020.

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

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

Purchasing Department Kathy McMahon Purchasing Agent 516-678-9213 123305

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids for Living with the Bay: Smith Pond Improvements at Smith Pond, Rockville Centre, New York, Bid No. 2010CD2(1001) will be received by the Village of Rockville Centre (the “Municipality”), at the Village of Rockville Centre Police Department, 34 Maple Avenue, Rockville Centre, New York 11570, until 11:00 am local time on November 3, 2020 when they will be publicly opened and read aloud in the Village Court Room.

In accordance with Executive Order of the Governor of New York, the bid opening will be recorded, and the recording will be available on the Village website on November 4, 2020. Each bid must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders and must be accompanied by Bid Security in the form of a certified check, bank check, or bid bond in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total amount of the bid.

Bidders will have an opportunity to visit the site of the work at 9:00 am on October 16, 2020 at Smith Pond Park.

Attendance at the site visit is not mandatory inorder to bid for the work.

Contact Mario Bento at mbento@rvcny.us at least 24 hours in advance of the site visit time to notify of your intent to attend.

No later than forty-five (45) days after the bid opening, the Municipality shall accept bids or reject all bids. After the bid opening, a bid may not be withdrawn prior to the date that is forty-five (45) days after such bid opening. The Municipality reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and advertise for new bids, if in its opinion the best interest of the Municipality will hereby be promoted.

CDBG-DR FUNDED PROJECT

The Municipality seeks to improve flood control, increase storm runoff attenuation capacity, improve water quality and habitat quality.

Several resiliency interventions have been proposed, which architectural and engineering design has been completed, including: “ Improving the existing weir and installing a fish ladder and eel passage near the southeastern corner of the pond; “ Rebuilding a scenic overlook near Peninsula Boulevard; “ Constructing a new access drive to access Smith Pond spillway; “ Constructing approximately 1,800 linear feet of flood walls with flood breaks; “ Enhancing existing wetland communities by removing invasive species; and “ Improving social value within the surrounding community by enhancing recreational activities.

This project is being financed with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (“CDBG-DR”) funds administered by the NYS Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (“GOSR”). Attention of bidders is particularly called to Section 3 requirements, M/WBE goals, Federal labor standards, Federal and State prevailing wage rates, online reporting requirements using Elation System, Inc. and other requirements included in the Supplementary Conditions for Contracts.

See Instructions to Bidders for additional information.

Minority and Women Owned Business Participation Goals The following goals for MWBE participation on this project have been established at: Minority Owned Business Enterprise (MBE) 15% Women Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) 15% Equal Opportunity The Municipality is an Equal Opportunity employer.

PROJECT COMPLETION The completion date for this project is 250 Days after Bidder receives a notice to proceed with construction from the Municipality.

PROJECT SPECIFIC LIQUIDATED DAMAGES Liquidated damages will be assessed for each day of delay of the contract and will be applied in accordance with Article 14.10 of the General Conditions.

CONTRACT DOCUMENTS

“Contract Documents” has the meaning set forth in Article 1.1 of the General Conditions herein. Starting on the advertisement date, the Contract Documents, specifications and plans can be examined on the Village’s website at www.rvcny.gov or at the following OneDrive link http://rvcny.us/SmithPond GOSR DESIGNATED CONTACT The following agency staff has been designated as contact for this contract: Rockville Centre Purchasing Department Kathy McMahon Purchasing Agent kmcmahon@rvcny.us Please note that contacting any other agency staff regarding this contract may be a violation of state or municipal law, rule or regulation, resulting in a determination of contractor nonresponsibility.

BONDS The successful bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond in the statutory form of public bonds required by Section 137 of the State Finance Law, each for one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of the Contract.

REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION No formal pre-bidding meeting will be held.

However, questions or requests for clarification may be directed to Rockville Centre Purchasing Department.

Please contact Kathy McMahon via email only at kmcmahon@rvcny.us .

Questions must be submitted no later than October 23, 2020.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids for Living with the Bay: Lister Park Improvements at Lister Park, Rockville Centre, New York, Bid No. 2010CD1(1000) will be received by the Village of Rockville Centre (the “Municipality”), at the Village of Rockville Centre Police Department, 34 Maple Avenue, Rockville Centre, New York 11570, until 11:00 am local time on November 3, 2020 when they will be publicly opened and read aloud in the Village Court Room.

In accordance with Executive Order of the Governor of New York, the bid opening will be recorded, and the recording will be available on the Village website on November 4, 2020. Each bid must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders and must be accompanied by Bid Security in the form of a certified check, bank check, or bid bond in the amount of five percent

Courtesy Village of Rockville Centre

Cheers to six years For six years, School of Rock in Rockville Centre has been motivating and inspiring local musicians. Town of Hempstead Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, left, and Town Clerk Kate Murray joined with Village of Rockville Centre Trustee Nancy Howard, third from the right, Deputy Mayor Kathy Baxley and Mayor Francis X. Murray, to wish Monica Rubin and her team a happy sixth birthday.

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(5%) of the total amount of the bid.

No later than forty-five (45) days after the bid opening, the Municipality shall accept bids or reject all bids. After the bid opening, a bid may not be withdrawn prior to the date that is forty-five (45) days after such bid opening. The Municipality reserves the right to reject any or all bids, and advertise for new bids, if in its opinion the best interest of the Municipality will hereby be promoted.

Bidders will have an opportunity to visit the site of the work at 11:00 am on October 16, 2020 at Lister Park.

Attendance at the site visit is not mandatory inorder to bid for the work.

Contact Mario Bento at mbento@rvcny.us at least 24 hours in advance of the site visit time to notify of your intent to attend.

CDBG-DR FUNDED PROJECT The Municipality seeks to install 3,730 linear feet of Living Shoreline to provide bank stabilization, prevent erosion, and enhance habitat along Mill River.

Construct a bioretention basin at Tighe Park to increase stormwater quality and retention prior to runoff release to the Mill River.

Reconstruct and repave the existing parking lot and bioretention basin at Centennial Field to prevent ponding of water in the parking lot and to increase stormwater quality prior to runoff release to the Mill River.

Replace the overlook at Bligh Park to provide visual access to the waterfront. Construct an earthen berm and knee walls at Bligh Field to provide flood protection to homes located on Riverside Road for which architectural and engineering design has been completed.

This project is being financed with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (“CDBG-DR”) funds administered by the NYS Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (“GOSR”). Attention of bidders is particularly called to Section 3 requirements, M/WBE goals, Federal labor standards, Federal and State prevailing wage rates, online reporting requirements using Elation System, Inc. and other requirements included in the Supplementary Conditions for Contracts.

See Instructions to Bidders for additional information.

Minority and Women Owned Business Participation Goals The following goals for MWBE participation on this project have been established at: Minority Owned Business Enterprise (MBE) 15% Women Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) 15% Equal Opportunity The Municipality is an Equal Opportunity employer.

PROJECT COMPLETION The completion date for this project is 257 Days after Bidder receives a notice to proceed with construction from the Municipality.

PROJECT SPECIFIC LIQUIDATED DAMAGES Liquidated damages will be assessed for each day of delay of the contract and will be applied in accordance with Article 14.10 of the General Conditions.

CONTRACT DOCUMENTS “Contract Documents” has the meaning set forth in Article 1.1 of the General Conditions herein. Starting on the advertisement date, the

Contract Documents, specifications and plans can be examined on the Village’s website at www.rvcny.gov or at the following OneDrive link http://rvcny.us/ListerPark GOSR DESIGNATED CONTACT The following agency staff has been designated as contact for this contract: Rockville Centre Purchasing Department Kathy McMahon Purchasing Agent kmcmahon@rvcny.us Please note that contacting any other agency staff regarding this contract may be a violation of state or municipal law, rule or regulation, resulting in a determination of contractor nonresponsibility.

BONDS The successful bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond in the statutory form of public bonds required by Section 137 of the State Finance Law, each for one hundred percent (100%) of the amount of the Contract.

REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION No formal pre-bidding meeting will be held.

However, questions or requests for clarification may be directed to Rockville Centre Purchasing Department.

Please contact Kathy McMahon via email only at kmcmahon@rvcny.us .

Questions must be submitted no later than October 23, 2020.

123298 LEGAL NOTICE Notice of Public Hearing Village of Rockville Centre Nassau County, New York Meeting Date: October 5, 2020 Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 330 Rockville Centre Village Code NOTICE IS

HEREBY GIVEN that the Exterior Design Review Board of the Village of Rockville Centre will have a Public Hearing via VIDEO CONFERENCING LEGAL NOTICE October 5, 2020 at 7:00 PM Case No. 09-2020 Thomas Paladino 17 Broadway Rockville Centre, New York 11570 Description: Construct a detached garage in conjunction with renovations to the home that were previously constructed under building permit #32320.

Premises known as: 17 Broadway Case No. 10-2020 324 N.Village LLC 35 Stoneywell Court Dix Hills, New York 11746 D e s c r i p tion: Renovation of existing single-family dwelling.

Premises known as: 324 North Village Avenue *Please see Rockville Centre Village website, RVCNY.GOV, calendar for videoconferencing information* The Exterior Design Review Board OF THE VILLAGE OF ROCKVILLE CENTRE Eugene Murray Village Hall, Rockville Centre, New York George Bella, Chairperson of the consultants to The Exterior Design Review Board Thomas Domanico, Secretary to The Consultants Information and records for Exterior Design Review cases are available the Office of the Secretary, 110 Maple Avenue, RVC 123309

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Q. My father built a dormer on our house in the ’70s, and we want to sell the house but are being told that the permit didn’t include the bathroom or bedrooms. We decided to go with an expediter instead of an architect because it’s a simple thing, and we didn’t want to spend more or make it more complicated. The expediter says we won’t need the insulation information or window changes the architects said we need. What can we Ask The expect? Is this really simple, Architect or complicated?

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A. Sometimes trying to make things simpler makes things more complicated. Not filling in all the blanks means that if the blanks are ignored, just like a student with a half-answered test paper, you’re going to fail in onte eeper your objective, which is to get the permit, get the plumbing, electrical and final building inspections and get the final certificate of completion. Although you may think this involves just making a few calls, what it really involves, if done legally and correctly, is accurate measuring, drawing and code documentation.

What does that mean, and why do you need all that? The original dormer permit, more correctly described as an “addition to the second floor,” was handled as an unoccupied shell (from the drawing you emailed me). That typical ploy was done to avoid paying taxes since it was considered storage by your town, which granted the permit, and your county, which taxes you for the character of the building.

By not being habitable space, like bedrooms, it was believed that the taxes would be lower, which they may have been until the house was reassessed.

Building officials, if they review your expediter’s documents consistently with their safety requirements for a habitable second floor in 2020, not the 1970s, will require that the window openings meet current, larger sizes. Had the addition been previously approved as habitable space, or if the reviewing plans examiner allows the windows under a code for existing buildings, you may be able to avoid putting in larger windows before you can get a sign-off and sell.

In a quirky twist of logic, since the house plans don’t show any insulation, you may be required to meet the current New York State Energy Code, dictated by federal energy mandates. That means more insulation than would even fit in the small rafters — undersized, according to the current code, for the addition.

You may be of the belief that an expediter, whom you believe will get this done more quickly and without meeting all the requirements, can get around all this, but they don’t, really. Expediters still need an architect’s or engineer’s signature and seal on plans, because expediters aren’t legally responsible if things are incorrect. Architects, unlike most other professions, are regularly circumvented, and nobody, officially or unofficially, says anything. Barbers no longer pull teeth instead of dentists. Would you do the same with lawyers, doctors or even airline pilots? Would you want to?

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y soul is aching.

As the Covid-19 death toll surpassed 200,000 last week, we mourned Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of America’s greatest daughters — an incredible mind with a voracious appetite for learning, a fearless, indomitable advocate for women’s rights and, quite simply, a good and decent human being, with an oldschool sense of politeness that enabled her to deliver a penetrating verbal jab without personal insult.

Her death at age 87 came only two months after the SCOTT passing of U.S. Rep. BRINTON John Lewis, who was 80. Together they represented a particular brand of leadership: strength obtained not through bullying, but through the depth of their moral conviction, their sense of justice and their commitment to telling the truth under all circumstances.

Each helped create a more equal society and a more perfect union, though they would likely say their work was far from over at their deaths. That would explain why they continued working through the pain of terrible illness. Surely they will go down in the annals of history as truly monumental figures. Their lives should serve as models for our own.

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Lewis spoke of “good trouble,” agitating not simply for the sake of agitating, but to move the “arc of the moral universe,” as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called it, further toward justice.

For both Lewis and Ginsburg, advocacy meant always speaking their minds, telling the truth as they saw it, without reservation, no matter the reaction, and the reaction was often harsh, brutal even.

Lewis was beaten more than once during the 1960s civil rights movement for marching peacefully.

Both were ridiculed, mocked. Yet always they maintained their composure.

For both, a deep and abiding religious faith — Ginsburg, Judaism, and Lewis, Christianity — informed their responses. They showed love and understanding toward even the most vehement of their detractors.

Lesser leaders might have thought of their critics as enemies, but not Ginsburg and Lewis. To them, their detractors were people who needed persuading, and they held out the hope that, with enough time and patience, those critics might realize the error of their ways.

The nation could learn a lesson or three from Ginsburg and Lewis. For decades, our political system has become increasingly partisan, to the point that people hate others without ever having met them, for no reason other than they belong to another

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political party.

As a society, we no longer take the time to reflect on the possible merits of one another’s positions. We assume hostile intent. That must end.

I know that’s a big ask in the middle of the most contentious presidential race in memory, but we should, at least, try, if only to honor the memories of Ginsburg and Lewis.

That doesn’t mean we cannot disagree with one another’s positions. That doesn’t mean we cannot criticize candidates’ policy platforms, or their records. We can. We should. There is no greater exercise of one’s civil liberties than to speak and write freely, as is one’s First Amendment right.

We should, however, train our slings and arrows on policies and practices, not on people. All liberals are not communists, any more than all conservatives are corporate raiders and robber barons. We should never throw around such invective in our political discourse. We should, like Ginsburg and Lewis, assume that those on the other side of the political aisle love their country, too, until proven otherwise. And we should be prepared to forgive those who trespass against us.

I was reminded of this last week. I recently wrote a column titled, “A maddening take of two presidencies,” criticizing President Trump’s response to the corona-

he nation could learn a lesson or three from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Lewis.

virus pandemic and comparing it with President Obama’s approach to battling the H1N1 flu pandemic early in his first term, noting that Trump admittedly lied to the American people about the deadliness of the Covid-19 virus, while in a speech at the start of H1N1, Obama laid out the facts, calmly and truthfully.

Five letters from Trump supporters came fast and furious, with three asking why I hate America, and one, as expected, calling me a communist. Three were unsigned. Their vociferous nature shouldn’t have surprised me given how heated the presidential race is, but it did. I was inclined to cry, not at the letters themselves, but at the state of our politics.

I thought, my goodness, these writers have no idea who I am — the proud son of a World War II Navy veteran, a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer who taught English and American democracy for two years in the Republic of Bulgaria, a formerly communist nation, and an Eagle Scout who learned right from wrong at the earliest of ages.

As a Peace Corps volunteer, I swore allegiance to the U.S. Constitution in the garden of the American ambassador’s stately residence in Sofia, Bulgaria, in August 1991. That sacred document guided me then, and it guides me now as a journalist.

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.

The porch: not just a place, but a place in time

early 50 years ago, we bought our house in Woodmere because it had a back porch. The seller was very clever. She whisked us through the front of the house and straight out to the porch, where she was sipping coffee and reading a book, as pink and white magnolia blossoms tapped against the screens. It was love at first sight.

Our porch is our summer place.

The pine walls let in the first chill RANDI winds of autumn, KREISS so our porch season is limited. The limitation adds to its charm, since we begin thinking in April about the many dinners we will enjoy alfresco once summer comes. It is my favorite room in the house. Although we have perfectly good beds and couches inside, a porch nap, with the overhead fan stirring the air, is dreamy.

These warm autumn mornings, I drink my Bustelo brew and read the newspapers in my back porch, looking

out at the garden and listening to the birds and thinking how lucky I am to have a place that brings me such peace.

Sitting out there moves me out of the house and into the day, quietly, the way I like to begin. From the porch I can barely see any other homes; the privacy is complete.

When I sit out there, I notice things. Last week I saw cardinals sweeping back and forth across the yard and watched, day after day, until I spotted their nest nearby. I see other things, too, that aren’t there anymore, like my little kids screaming and jumping in and out of a kiddie pool.

In recent years, community developers have started building new “old-fashioned” towns in an effort to recreate one of the most precious pieces of Americana — the small, hometown neighborhood. The new communities have clean, narrow streets, variety in the home styles, built-in green space and — most important — ample porches.

The builders might as well save their money. Architects may erect nostalgic wraparound porches in darling Disneyesque communities, but there undoubtedly

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will be more Pelotons than rockers on those porches, and more cellphones and TV’s than pitchers of lemonade.

There is such a thing as porch culture, and I advocate strict adherence to its traditions. You simply cannot fake an oldtime porch. Our porch has no TV and no electric light.

In the evening, if we have dinner there, we experience the gradual fading of the day. We light candles. This has led to a remarkable phenomenon, which I refer to as porch therapy. In the glow of the candles, as the sun fades and the moon rises, people who sit in our porch are given to personal revelation. The mood invites intimacy, and we have heard, and told, our share of secrets.

The essence of porch culture was captured eloquently in an old favorite novel, “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”

by Rebecca Wells. She writes of four girls growing up in Louisiana in the late 1930s and early ’40s, and at one point she talks about their porch life: “An afternoon of iced tea and idleness.

Those Ya-Yas aren’t going anywhere . . .

They are lazy together. This is comfort.

n new ‘oldfashioned’ towns, more Pelotons than rockers on the porches.

This is joy . . . Not one wears a watch. This porch time is not planned. Not penciled into a DayRunner. . . . People took porches and porch time for granted back then. Everybody had porches; they were nothing special. An outdoor room halfway between the world of the street and the world of home. . . . And in the evening when the sun went down, the fireflies would light up over by the camellias, and that little nimbus of light would lull the Ya-Yas even deeper into porch reveries. Reveries that would linger in their bodies even as they aged.”

According to the website This Old House, “In American literature, the porch is a stage where the symbolism is often as thick as the summer air — a transitional space between the cocoon of home and the cacophony of the outside world.”

Another perfect example is the porch in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

For me, an ideal summer day begins with breakfast on the porch, includes a spell of reading and inevitably a nap, and then dinner with cicadas chirping their song into the twilight. Here we are in October, and that song feels ever more precious.

Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

ROCKVILLE CENTRE HERALD — October 1, 2020

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e have to wonder what President Trump has against giving people more time to fill out the U.S. census, particularly given that it must be tallied amid the global coronavirus pandemic, making inperson interviews difficult, if not dangerous. But Trump apparently wants the census over with sooner rather than later.

The census was scheduled to end on Oct. 31, but in August, the U.S. Census Bureau suddenly reduced the time frame by a month. Last Thursday, however, U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh, in northern California, issued an injunction requiring the Census Bureau to continue tallying people through the end of October, according to NPR. The Trump administration filed an appeal in federal court Friday.

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Koh said that the administration’s shortened census time frame was likely to produce errors in the count. We agree.

We say this: Complete the census ASAP. No one, regardless of status, should be afraid to fill out it out. Federal law prohibits the Census Bureau from sharing any information it collects with any other government agency. Its sole purpose is to count the number of people living in each state to apportion the correct number of U.S. representatives to the states and allocate the proper amount of federal funding to them.

According to the Census Bureau, you should be counted where you were living and sleeping most of the time as of April 1. If you’re responding for your home, count everyone who lives and sleeps there

Restoring tax fairness for Long Islanders

n December 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, pushed by President Trump throughout his first year in office. The act limited the deduction for state and local taxes — previously unlimited — to $10,000. That section of the legislation alone cost middle-class taxpayers on Long Island and other hightax areas thousands of dollars, and in some cases, more than that.

Thanks to intrepid reporting by The New York Times, we now know what Trump paid in federal income taxes that year — $750. The year he was elected, he also paid $750. For 10 of 15 years before that, he paid nothing.

That is to say, while Trump was hurriedly ramming through a tax measure with little public debate, he was benefiting from a vast array of loopholes to evade paying his fair share of federal income

taxes.

Ask yourself how much you paid in federal income taxes those two years — likely thousands more, if not tens of thousands more. Should you not be entitled to a deduction as basic as the one previously offered for payment of state and local taxes?

We have editorialized on the unfairness of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act before — and we will continue to until it is addressed.

Essentially, the measure forces taxpayers on Long Island and in other high-tax areas to pay taxes on the state and local taxes they have already paid. The deduction was originally enacted to ensure that taxpayers would not be charged twice.

The act also nixed deductions for unreimbursed employee expenses, tax preparation fees and other miscellaneous deductions, according to the Tax Policy Center

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most of the time. That includes children, foster children, roommates, and any family members or friends who are living with you, even temporarily.

If someone is staying with you because of the pandemic, however, they should be counted where they usually live. This includes college students, who should still be counted at school. If they live in student housing, the college will count them. If they live off campus, they should respond for their off-campus addresses.

Completing the census takes no more than 10 minutes, and you can do so securely online at www.2020census.gov. To reach the U.S. Census Bureau for help, call (844) 330-2020 for English speakers and (844) 4682020 for Spanish speakers. Representatives are available daily from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

LETTERS Worried about bail reform To the Editor: Each day, as I scroll through the news on Facebook or Twitter, I am stunned by the incessant rioting and chaos across the country, but I am especially concerned about how it has impacted New York state. In fact, The New York Times recently reported that the murder rate has increased 30 percent in New York City over last year.

In my opinion, the increase in crime has occurred because of bail reform in New York. The original intent of this bill was to create a fairer criminal justice system, but because of its careless authorship, all it has accomplished is a drastic increase in criminal behavior, because hundreds of suspected criminals have been released from jail and can continue their lawless behavior.

As a result, New York residents, especially in cities,

at the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution.

In short, the act eliminated some of the only deductions that middle-class Long Islanders had depended on in the past, while the president employed a litany of deductions available only to the rich — the rich who, we might add, sustained business losses.

Congress should have already rescinded the poorly considered SALT provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, but it hasn’t.

Democratic representatives like Tom Suozzi, in Glen Cove, and even members of the president’s own party like Republican Peter King, in Seaford, who is retiring at the end of the year, have spoken out, calling for a restoration of the SALT deduction. Ensuring that happens, however, will require sustained pressure on Congress and the White House.

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ecently, a unique mobile rally and car parade commemorated the 33rd anniversary of the closure of Willowbrook Psychiatric Hospital on Staten Island. Opened in 1947, Willowbrook was, by today’s standards, a horrific institution that warehoused people with developmental disabilities, mental illnesses or any other condition that made them look, act or learn differently. For those unfortunate enough to have been born with or develop a disability or mental illness during that era, placement at Willowbrook HARVEY a life of WEISENBERG meant neglect, abuse and horrifying, inhumane conditions.

I have my own personal horror story of how mentally disabled people are treated. When I married Ellen, she had a son, Ricky, who could not speak or cry and who is now blind. I married Ellen because of the love she had for Ricky, who eventu-

ally had to be placed in a special school, Wassaic, in upstate New York. That broke our hearts.

A few weeks after we left Ricky there, we went back to visit him. He had lost half his body weight, was wearing four diapers and had a black tongue. We took him to a pediatrician, who cried when he saw Ricky’s condition. He was later placed in another facility, where he was put in a steaming hot tub and scalded.

Ricky is now 62 and living in a group home, where I visit him often. But I can never forget his wretched treatment, or what it did to him — and to all the members of his family, who love him. The unconditional love for a developmentally disabled child is like no other love imaginable.

Thankfully, we have evolved far from that unenlightened time, and have become a more empathetic human race.

On Long Island alone, there are about 5,000 people with developmental disabilities living in smaller group homes and

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he fight for this often forgotten population of special people continues today.

LETTERS now live in fear for their safety and their lives. What really concerns me, however, is that both State Assemblywoman Judy Griffin and Sen. Todd Kaminsky voted for the bail reform bill, which has driven the drastic increase in crime.

I am a Democrat, and I voted for these individuals, but I will not vote for them again in the upcoming election because they have kowtowed to their party’s reckless progressive agenda, which has prioritized the rights of recidivists while jeopardizing the safety of law-abiding, taxpaying residents.

On Nov. 3, by voting for Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick and Victoria Johnson, we would have a chance to rectify the incumbents’ irresponsible decisions. This is a critical election for the residents of this state, inasmuch as it may literally be a matter of life or death for our families and loved ones.

REGINA A. ROCHFORD, ED.D. Malverne

Trump perpetuates unfair housing To the Editor: The Discriminatory Effects Standard (commonly known as Disparate Impact) of the federal Fair Housing Act prohibits unjustified policies or practices that have a disproportionate adverse effect (disparate impact) on protected class members, even if those policies or practices were not motivated by a discriminatory intent.

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development states that the

receiving care that far exceeds anything we could have hoped for in the past.

But these changes didn’t come about by accident. The strides forward in the treatment of our special children and adults came only after a lengthy, wellfought battle, beginning with a recognition of this population as human, deserving of basic considerations.

That fight continues today. Organizations and individuals have taken on the challenging role of caring for and housing people with developmental disabilities who can no longer be cared for at home. It is the state’s responsibility to adequately fund those organizations and to ensure that these vulnerable people are cared for and protected, and have some quality of life.

Over the past several years, it has seemed as if state funding for this priority has been anything but a priority. Caregivers who choose a career in nurturing and providing basic care to our special people are so underpaid that they are

new rule “. . . still recognizes disparate impact as a viable theory of discrimination.” But it carefully and thoroughly sets such a high bar for plaintiffs seeking to use a disparate impact claim that, in reality, with this new rule, the Discriminatory Effects Standard is effectively neutered.

Thus, HUD has taken another disgraceful and mean-spirited step to dismantle fair housing protections. When this new rule was first proposed last year, ERASE Racism and other civil rights advocates warned that it would likely sanction discrimination and perpetuate racial segregation. The final rule is even more damaging than we thought.

The new rule dramatically shifts the burden of proof to the plaintiff in housing discrimination cases and makes it much harder to bring cases to court. It aids defendants by neither requiring nor encouraging data collection. How convenient. No data, no proof.

Perpetuating segregation has been removed from the text as a component of the Discriminatory Effects definition.

Long Island is still one of the most racially segregated metropolitan regions in the country. That fact should not surprise anyone. Real estate agents and brokers recently testified at a joint hearing of three State Senate committees that they had not discriminated based on race against prospective homebuyers of color, despite undercover videotapes capturing discriminatory actions against people of color. ERASE Racism’s own lawsuits captured similar behaviors, in which white people were shown apartments and encouraged to apply, while black people were not, and were thus denied housing.

forced to work second jobs. What has happened to the progress we made and the empathy we gained? We are living in a time when fast-food workers are paid more than those who bathe, feed and dress those who can’t do it for themselves.

If this trend continues unchanged, we will certainly slip back to a time that we must vow never to return to.

Willowbrook closed in 1987 — not that long ago, and certainly well past the time when we all should have known better about what gives us our humanity and how it is inextricably tied to how we treat the most vulnerable among us.

If you agree with this and understand this message, please let your voice be heard by making sure Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to make our special people a priority in the state budget. We all know times are tough and spending is tight. But we simply can’t afford to return to one of our darkest hours. Cuomo can be contacted at https://www.governor. ny.gov/content/governor-contact-form, or by phone at (518) 474-8390.

Harvey Weisenberg, a longtime resident of Long Beach, served in the State Assembly from 1989 to 2014.

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Disparate Impact is one of the few tools available to combat systemic racism that is perpetuated by governments and businesses. HUD’s new rule on Disparate Impact is a major step backward in fighting housing discrimination. It removes an important standard that has been used in key cases on Long Island and across the nation to combat residential discrimination. In a famous housing discrimination case in Huntington, for instance, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld use

of the Disparate Impact standard. A recent federal District Court ruling in Garden City showed that the use of exclusionary zoning ordinances reinforced residential segregation.

With this new rule, the Trump administration is substantially undermining fair housing. It is depriving opponents of housing discrimination of an important and vital tool.

ELAINE GROSS President, ERASE Racism

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