Mental health plays an essen tial role in students’ social and emotional growth, affecting the way they think, act, feel, make decisions, han dle stress and relate to their peers.
grant from New York state in April 2021 to fund the Rockville Centre Behavioral Health Cen ter, an outpatient facility at 100 Merrick Road. Now the program is in full swing, with hundreds of district students getting the help they need.
Frank E. Yannelli, of Rock ville Centre, died on Oct. 3, at age 85. He was a husband, a father and a community lead er who served as village jus tice for 25 years.
Mayor Francis Murray said that Yannelli was beloved by the community for his kind ness and generosity. “He was respected by his peers and the legal community for his fair ness and knowledge of the law and was a fixture in the court rooms of our county and vil lage,” Murray said. “He will be
truly missed. My deepest sym pathies to his family and friends.”
Yannelli was born on April 1, 1937, at South Nassau Hospi tal in Oceanside, to Dr. Frank V. Yannelli and Marguerite Yannelli, of Baldwin. He rou tinely spoke of the joys of growing up in Baldwin, and the time he spent with his par ents and sisters, Jane and Pam.
He attended St. Christo pher’s School, Chaminade High School and Georgetown University, where he excelled academically and was a mem ber of the swim team. He went
on to serve in the U.S. Army, spending time at Fort Dix, in New Jersey, and Fort Knox, in Kentucky. He was also a mem ber of the U.S. National Guard, while continuing to pursue his education. He earned a mas ter’s and a law degree from Fordham University.
Yannelli began practicing law in 1964, and he and his wife, Roberta, were married in 1966. They raised three sons, Christopher, Michael and Thomas, and eventually set tled in Rockville Centre.
Frank enjoyed being an attorney, and practiced law for
That’s why the Rockville Centre School District is once again partner ing with Northwell Health on a mental health program, which aims to help ensure that students get the support they need in the face of challenges and potential crises.
Jeanne Love, the district’s assistant superintendent for special education and pupil personnel services, told Board of Education trust ees on Oct. 6 that the district had agreed on a contract with Northwell Health that will make it easier to refer parents to a local behavioral clinic.
superintendent, Special
Love said that Northwell has this kind of relationship with only a few Nas sau County school districts — includ ing East Rockaway, Freeport, HewlettWoodmere and Oceanside — and expressed her grati tude for the pro gram. “We were very lucky to get into this program early on,” she said. “It allows us to call (Northwell Health) and help our parents make appointments, and send parents directly to the behavioral clinic.”
The health net work’s connection to the clinic will eliminate obsta cles that those seeking mental health treatment might other
Northwell received a $100,000
Park Avenue will be closed down between Sunrise High way and Lincoln Avenue in Rockville Centre, for the annu al Eat, Shop, Rock event on Sunday, Oct. 16, hosted by the RVC Chamber of Commerce.
Dozens of local shops and restaurants will set up booths across the downtown business district, from noon to 5 p.m., to provide guests with a taste of the local cuisine, as they explore the many local shops and boutiques that Rockville Centre has to offer.
Chamber of Commerce President Lisa Umansky, who owns Polka Dot Pound Cake at 217 North Long Beach Rd., said the annual event has been held every fall for at least the last eight years and serves as a great way for local busi nesses to showcase their products and goods.
“It’s a great day for all the businesses,” Umansky said. “There is always a lot of foot traffic.”
During the event, people can sample some of the food from local restaurants, spend an afternoon shopping, or take in some of the live musical performances presented by the School of Rock. There will also be raffles, prizes, and a free kids’ zone featuring bounce houses, games, face painting, and a lot more.
Partners and sponsors this year, include Maple Lanes RVC, Making MemorEase, Dr. Doug Orthodontics, Pruden tial Borrowing, Bitton Orthodontics, the Lions Club Inter national, the Herald Community Newspapers, Xpress Coups, Living Large, LI Prime, Jovia Financial Credit Union, Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty, The Grand Pavilion, Signature Premier Properties, Long Island Dental Excellence, Polka Dot Pound Cake, and Cabo.
For details and more about the event, visit eatsho prockrvc.com.
Last year’s Eat, Shop, Rock festivities brought in large crowds to downtown Rockville Centre.
Rockville Centre native Celia Berk had a natural calling to sing. When she was growing up, she made it a goal to seize any and every opportunity to par ticipate in every music-based program that the school had to offer.
Her earliest memory of music is her father playing Al Jolson recordings. “He really instilled in me a love of the Great American Songbook,” Berk said.
Her mother, who she describes as a “wonderful pianist” would take her to the Metropolitan Opera. Berk’s grand mother’s sister was an opera singer so music influenced her life right away. When Berk got older, her grandmother gave her a classic 1926 Steinway piano so she could take lessons.
“I wish I could say I played well, but it wasn’t really my instrument,” Berk said.
Berk’s instrument is, in fact, her voice. By the time she was in high school, she began taking the Long Island Rail Road into the city to take voice lessons with professional teach ers. Even now, decades since she gradu ated from Hofstra in the late ‘70s, she continues to take voice lessons to per fect her craft.
As an award-winning vocalist, Berk blurs the line between classical and con temporary music as she creates her own renditions of early 20th century Ameri can songs.
Inspired by the Great American Songbook and classic Broadway musi cals, she composes her songs based around their foundations. Her inspira tion stems from the influence that her family had on her early life, which helped shape the way that she makes music today.
Although she recognized for her musical renditions, many of listeners aren’t aware of the extent of work that goes on behind the scenes. To ensure her music does not break any copyright laws, she does a lot of research to make sure her sound is distinct.
“It can be scary waiting for those cus tom licenses to come through after you’ve already recorded something and have invested so much in it emotionally and financially,” Berk said.
She said that she feels fortunate that all of her renditions have fallen in line with copyright laws. However, this pro cess takes time and involves multiple people working together.
Sometimes Berk needs to go to the songwriter directly for permission or other times she needs to ask for the rights from their publisher.
“For example, on ‘Manhattan Sere nade,’ I did the first commercial record ing of ‘The Broadway Song’ by Cy Cole man and David Zippel,” Berk said. “I worked directly with their lawyers, who drew up custom licenses for me.”
Berk needs to get mechanical licens es to make her covers, which she usual ly obtains through a clearinghouse like
Paperwork isn’t the only thing that Berk has to deal with, however, as she also has to figure out which songs would be perfect to cover in her album.
“For the albums, there is always some kind of theme,” Berk said. “For example, ‘Manhattan Serenade’ is about my love for the city and how I personal ly experience it. So those songs convey that.”
She said that her most recent album, “Now That I Have Everything” is about
the ways we try — both successfully and unsuccessfully — to connect our heart to someone else’s.
She also meticulously chooses cer tain songs that make her covers more unique.
“But the thing that really distin guishes my song choices is that I tend to choose ‘hidden gems’ by great songwrit ers,” Berk said. “In other words, not the usual suspects.” This is one way she is trying to make her covers stand out.
“There’s always a reason why I have
chosen the song — what it means to me, what it says to me, and about me,” Berk said. She hopes this is what makes her music distinctive for her listeners.
The Covid-19 pandemic also posed a major setback in her process, but she managed to work through it by using Zoom and FaceTime. And, at the height of the pandemic in 2020, she created and released three new singles.
Berk began recording her new album in June 2021. Thanks to the quick think ing of her producer, Scott Lehrer, they managed to find away to assemble the jazz musicians without needing to be in the same room together.
“Scott found a studio in Brooklyn called, ‘Big Orange Sheep’ which had lots of individual isolation booths. So, we found a way to make it all work safe ly,” Berk said.
Despite the hard work she must endure, Berk said she couldn’t imagine a world where she was not singing. She couldn’t even remember a time when she wasn’t interested in music and doesn’t see it ending anytime soon.
“I did three singles and an album in the last two-and-a-half years,” Berk said. “But I have lots of ideas and won derful collaborators to work with when I’m ready.”
nearly 50 years, focusing on criminal defense. Those who knew him best said that his professionalism and devotion to civility were his trademarks, both inside and outside the courtroom.
Martha Krisel, a former village attor ney, told the Herald that Yannelli was the kind of person who spoke to everybody in the same way, whether they were family, a fellow criminal defense lawyer or a client. “He was fair, but he was stern,” Krisel said. “He would always try to have people come to terms without judicial interfer ence. He believed in the best of people. He was a kind-hearted and passionate attor ney who was one of a kind, and we will miss him terribly, as will the profession.”
No matter who you asked, those who knew Yannelli they would say much the same thing, that he treated everyone with the utmost respect, and never had a harsh word for the opposing counsel, witness or defendant.
“Over 25 years of daily interaction, I never heard him swear — not once,” Ste phen Civardi, one of Yannelli’s longtime associates and a former law partner, said. “He never had anything bad to say about anyone. He was a remarkable person who gave a tremendous amount to his profes sion.”
Civardi recalled how Yannelli would call his parents every day at 5 p.m., a prac tice he continued with his children.
“He taught me as much about being a
professional as he did about being a father,” Civardi said.
Yannelli became village justice in 1982, and served for 25 years. He was known for finding a balance of enforcing laws in a manner that benefited all litigants. “No one can win every case,” he would say, “but every person involved in the court system could be helped in some man ner or fashion.”
He served as president of the Nassau County Bar Associ ation, the Criminal Courts Bar Association and the Nassau County Magistrates Associa tion.
Yannelli received numerous awards over the course of his career, including, in 2007, the New York State Bar Associa tion’s award for attorney pro fessionalism, in recognition of his honor, integrity, civility and commit ment to the practice. He did not bask in the accolades, but was proud of the work he did to modernize the village court system.
his death is a great loss to the community.
“He was probably the nicest, classiest kind, professional person that I’ve ever met,” Croutier said. “He set the example on how to treat people. How, when you’re in a position such as his, you have to be fair to everybody and make sure that everybody gets a fair shake.”
Yannelli also served on the board of directors of the Rock ville Centre Economic Oppor tunity Council, and on the Zon ing Board of Appeals.
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He enjoyed vacationing with his family, particularly in Maine, where they had a cabin. He canoed, ran and swam in the “healing waters” of Belgrade Lakes. He also enjoyed skiing in Vermont, California and Utah, where Christopher now lives with his family.
Frank E. YannelliAnd as dedicated as he was to his profession, he was equal ly dedicated to his family and his life at home. His son Chris topher said that when he was growing up, his father’s wis dom and friendship had a major impact on his life, set ting a high standard that he has tried to emulate with his own family.
Running was one of his many passions. He would often run from Rockville Centre down to Malibu at Lido Beach, where he had a cabana. During the summer months, all three of his boys worked there as life guards. He kept meticulous records of his run times, and would strive to improve them. He took part in races across Long Island, and occasionally in New York City.
Yannelli was a proud grandfather of Caroline, Alex, Madison, Dylan, Zachary and Keira.
He also took pride in his work with the Confide Counseling Center, an outpatient drug and alcohol facility in Rockville Cen tre; the work he did in creating a free senior citizen law consultation clinic; and his work on the county Bar Association’s “creed of professionalism.”
William Croutier, a Rockville Centre vil lage justice who spent 15 years as the vil lage prosecutor under Yannelli, said that
“As we got older and started looking at careers, he always stressed that we should do something that we enjoyed and that had social significance,” Christopher Yannelli said. “He was a smart guy. He was kind, caring, and nurturing. He was very gener ous with his time and the money that he made. He gave us the freedom to make mis takes and to learn that way, too.”
After he retired, Yannelli was honored by the legal community with the dedica tion of an attorneys room at the Nassau County Courthouse, which now bears his
In 2007, Roberta Yannelli died after a 20-year battle with leiomyosarcoma, at age 71. And last year their son Thomas died in his sleep, at age 47. He had served as a ser geant in the U.S. Army, where he fought in two combat missions in Iraq.
Yannelli is survived by his sister, Jane, sons Christopher and Michael, nephews Greg, Andrew and Keith and nieces Jane and Brooke.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, Oct. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m., at Glynn Funeral Home in Rockville Centre. A Mass of Christian burial will follow on Monday, at 9:45 a.m., at St. Agnes Cathedral, followed by inter ment at Holy Rood Cemetery in Westbury.
t’s hard to find anyone within the Town of Hempstead who doesn’t know who Anthony D’Esposito is, and it’s even more difficult to find some one who hasn’t actually met him.
That’s because D’Esposito makes sure he’s anywhere and everywhere. Whether it was his time as a detective with the New York Police Department, to his volunteer work with local fire departments, to his current role as a Hempstead town council man — D’Esposito can’t go anywhere with out someone he knows running into him.
“I’ve been super active in my communi ty, pretty much my entire adult life,” D’Esposito recently told reporters during a Herald Roundtable session. “People need to be able to see you. People need to be able to access you. And the only way that you can deliver the message — and the voices — of the people that you represent here in Washington is by hearing them.”
Wait, Washington? Yep. D’Esposito is ready to make the jump from town repre sentative to a U.S. House representative, running to replace Kathleen Rice in the 4th Congressional District.
“You know, in the police department, we have a saying that even in the coldest of nights or the hottest of days, you always drive around with the windows down so you can hear the streets, smell the streets, and understand what’s going on,” he said. “That’s exactly what needs to be done in politics and government. You need to have the windows rolled down so you can hear and smell the streets.”
D’Esposito wants to be the first Republi can representing this part of Nassau County since Dan Frisa won the seat back in 1995. Since then, the 4th Congressional District spent nine terms under Carolyn McCarthy, and then the last four terms under Kathleen Rice — both Democrats.
If he wins, D’Esposito could likely find himself a part of the majority if the GOP takes control of the House as expected. But he doesn’t plan to steamroll his way through the chamber.
“It’s all about forging relationships,” he said. “It’s about mutual respect. During my tenure on the town board, I’ve worked with Democrats and Republicans to deliver real results. It didn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or if you’re a Republican. You’re a Town of Hempstead neighbor, and that’s what mattered.”
That doesn’t mean, however, he’s set ting aside his conservative beliefs. Like the right to bear arms. But those rights also carry with them heavy responsibility.
D’Esposito remembers a program in New York City known as the “Trigger-Lock Program,” where anyone arrested for criminal possession of a weapon was immediately referred for federal prosecu tion. There, they were likely to face far stiffer sentences.
“That sends a message around the streets that maybe I should think twice about carrying an illegal firearm,” D’Esposito said. “We need to expand pro grams like that, and we need to take them into every community we can.”
D’Esposito also supports requiring fire arm training, and for improved back
Anthony D’Esposito faces Democrat Laura Gillen in November to see who will succeed Kathleen Rice in the 4th Congressional District.
Among the positions he shared with Herald Community Newspapers:
Florida, texas sending immigrants to other states
“Do I want to see illegal immigrants coming into the city that we love?
Probably not, But as an elected official, I also understand their point, when you have places that have taken the position of being a sanctuary city. I mean, you are elected to do a job. You’re elected to deliver results and find solutions to problems, and they’re taking their problems and finding a solution.”
“I’ve been supportive of sending aid to Ukraine, but I think there also needs to get to a point where we take a look at how much has been sent to Ukraine. We also need to start putting America first, when we have issues like parents and special needs caregivers not being able to get formula. But we have tons of
ground checks. If it’s good for law enforce ment, it should be good for everyone.
But unlike many Democrats, D’Esposito isn’t quite ready to turn his back on civil ian ownership of military-grade assault weapons.
money going elsewhere.”
“I have a unique background that is not just about working with people across the aisle. I saw in a car. I’ve been on crime scenes with people. I’ve sat across the interview room with people who have killed their family. And I’ve been able to establish a mutual respect to the point where I got that person to admit to killing their family. That is an education that you’re not going to get at any Ivy League school. That’s real-life experience.”
“Everyone should have the opportunity and the right to come to America and live the American dream, but it should be done correctly. Now every state has become a border state. It’s not just the fact that we have open borders, it’s the fact that the illegal immigration is affecting every piece of industry, whether you’re a farmer, a local business owner. Whether you’re a newspaper, whether you own a local restaurant, or whether you are in law enforcement.”
“I don’t think anyone and everyone should be able to purchase them,” the councilman said, “but banning them across the board and painting all assault weapons with one broad brush is not the answer, either. There needs to be increased
background checks. There needs to be a purpose” to purchase it.
D’Esposito also supports smaller gov ernment — but not necessarily through massive workforce cuts.
“Perhaps there’s spending cut opportu nities through attrition,” he said. “Just because 10 people retire doesn’t mean that you need 10 people hired. We have the abil ity now, with technology, to do more with less. And that’s really the mantra.
“It’s very hard to take such a huge gov ernment and start just sitting at a table, picking off where we can increase or decrease spending. But if you take it piece by piece, and you bring real-life issues that you’ve dealt with — or I’ve dealt with — and you can deliver them in a larger scale, obviously, it’s going to take time.”
Like many Republicans running for office, D’Esposito has been characterized as someone who is anti-choice. But if he is elected to Congress, D’Esposito pledges he will never vote for a nationwide abortion ban. However, he is calling out what he claims are Democrats’ push to allow abor tions up to nine months into the pregnan cy — something the Associated Press described as a misrepresentation of a bill introduced by lawmakers that would allow for an extremely rare late-term abortion necessary to protect the health or life of the mother.
“Nothing is changing in New York,” D’Esposito said. “Women’s rights are pro tected. But I am absolutely against the lateterm extreme measures that the Demo crats have taken in New York.”
Laura Gillen is used to being the underdog. After more than a decade as a litigator with Union dale’s Westerman Ball Ederer Miller Zucker & Sharfstein, Gillen decid ed to turn her attention to public service, eyeing the Hempstead town supervisor seat that hadn’t been held by a Democrat in a century.
“No one thought I had a chance,” Gil len told reporters during a recent Herald Roundtable event. “Most of the people who thought I would win were related to me, and it was very difficult to raise money because they all thought that, ‘If I give you money, then the other side’s going to know. And they’re going to get mad at me.’”
But Gillen did win, thanks to what she describes as grassroots support. And while her time leading the town lasted only until the next election, Gillen believes no one should underestimate her again. Especially as she looks to suc ceed Kathleen Rice in Congress.
“I’m the best representative for this seat,” Gillen said. “I grew up in this dis trict. I went to school in this district. Now I am raising four children. I own a house in this district. I go to the grocery store in this district. I really care about what happens here.”
It’s what pushed Gillen to seek public office in the first place, and why she said she worked hard as town supervisor, even when she felt others inside the gov ernment were pushing against her. Gil len still worked to make the Hempstead town government more transparent — putting contracts and other paperwork online — and says she even stopped taxes from going up.
Succeeding despite adversity is some thing Gillen says she’s ready for, espe cially in a Congress that is most likely to flip to Republican control come January.
“I went into the most challenging cir cumstances” as town supervisor, she said. “I went into the lion’s den, and I never back down. Ever. But that being said, it’s not about fighting. I found a way to build bridges.”
Like with Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican, where they tackled a number of issues like breastfeeding and ethics.
“I feel like I’m perfectly prepared to go to Washington,” Gillen said. “At least there I’ll probably have a few more friends that I had in the town. And I’ll reach across the aisle when appropriate, and still make things work.”
One of the things a new Congress could face almost immediately, however, is what appears to be an ever-growing immigration crisis, to the point where some seeking a better life in America are becoming pawns from the largest political factions within that America.
Gillen spoke to Herald reporters just as Florida governor Ron DeSantis sent a plane full of immigrants who had made their way to Texas, up north to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
Immigration has indeed been a mess,
Laura Gillen faces Republican Anthony D’Esposito in November to see who will succeed Kathleen Rice in the 4th Congressional District.
Among the positions she shared with Herald Community Newspapers reporters:
“I’m so frightened for the future that is ahead for my daughters. After one of the school shootings, I actually was researching bulletproof backpacks for my child. It’s crazy to think that’s the world we live in. When we were growing up, my mother never worried that something bad was going to happen to me in school. You were safe in school.”
“There are smart people on both sides of the aisle. As a litigator, you have to spend your whole day talking to people who are being paid to disagree with you.
Gillen admits. But it’s also something that can be fixed, if only leaders will just set aside politics long enough to make it happen.
“We have been talking about this for decades, right?” she said. “We need a pathway to citizenship. It’s too convolut
And generally, the best solution … is to settle the case. That’s what I spent a lot of my career doing.”
“We have to have well-funded police forces. We need to build relationships between our police force and our community. Policing, in that respect, is better accomplished on a more local level than at a federal level, because on a federal level, you don’t know the community.”
“The cost of a college education has become completely unaffordable. We really have to build up our public institutions and public colleges. I mean, it’s getting harder and harder to get into public colleges, and more people are like, “I can’t afford private colleges. And I think there also has to be alternative paths where people can get into learning trades.
ed for people who come here seeking political asylum. Or for people who are here — who are part of the fabric of our society, who our society probably couldn’t function without. If we took everybody who’s undocumented here and got rid of them, our society would
probably break down because we’re so used to having them here.
“They’re members of our workforce. They contribute to our economy.”
Still, that doesn’t mean the border should be a free-for-all, Gillen adds. It’s important to know who is coming in, and ensuring the safety of those already here. But once they do get through that process, everyone should have a chance to contribute.
And then, of course, there’s the one topic that many political observers say might have the biggest impact on who wins control of Congress in the mid terms: abortion.
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization essentially overturn the 50-year federal precedent that allowed women to end pregnancies.
Gillen says her position couldn’t be more clear: The only people who should be involved in reproductive decisions like this are a woman and her doctor.
“We have to preserve that a woman has the right to make her own health care decisions,” she said. “Look, I have four children. I’ve had complicated preg nancies. This issue hits home for me because I’ve had a lot of issues with pregnancies in my life. And I can tell you who had no business weighing in on that — who I am not inviting into my consul tation room with my doctor. And that’s the government.”
After battling injuries during an up and down regular season, South Side girls’ soc cer will look to thrive when it matters most in the postseason in hopes of returning to the state finals stage.
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appears well on her way to a second straight All-County season on the soccer pitch. After scoring 9 goals last fall, she ranks second in Nassau in goals with 15 as the Owls remain in contention for a conference title. Vuotto, also an inte gral part of Lynbrook’s basketball, flag football and lacrosse teams, also has 4 assists. She opened October with 4 goals in a win over Jericho, marking the fourth time this season with a hat trick or better.
Friday, oct. 14
Boys Soccer: Hewlett at Long Beach 5 p.m.
Boys Soccer: Calhoun at Clarke 5 p.m.
Football: Plainedge at Hewlett 6 p.m.
Football: Locust Valley at V.S. South 6:30 p.m.
Football: Hempstead at Farmingdale 6:30 p.m.
Football: Elmont at MacArthur 7 p.m.
Football: Clarke at Mineola 7 p.m.
Football: East Rockaway at C.S. Harbor 7 p.m.
saturday, oct. 15
Football: V.S. North at Lynbrook 2 p.m.
Football: Baldwin at East Meadow 2 p.m.
Football: Syosset at Freeport 2 p.m.
Football: Sewanhaka at Roslyn/Friends Aca. 2 p.m.
Football: Malverne at Seaford 2 p.m.
Football: Floral Park at Wantagh 2 p.m.
Football: North Shore at West Hempstead 2 p.m.
Football: Garden City at Calhoun 2 p.m.
Football: Roosevelt at Carey 2 p.m.
Football: Herricks at South Side 2 p.m.
Football: Hicksville at Oceanside 3 p.m.
Football: Long Beach at Mepham 3 p.m.
The Cyclones entered the last week of the regular season schedule at 5-2-2 in a challenging Conference A1 riding a three match winning streak heading into their final game Wednesday at Garden City after press time. The team clicked on all cylin ders Oct. 6 in an 8-0 win at Mepham that featured five different goal scorers.
“The girls are great and have been working hard,” said South Side coach Judi Croutier, who returned last year more than a decade removed from the last time she led the program. “We are hoping to peak at the right time.”
Croutier brought South Side to major heights in her first stint as head coach leading the Cyclones to eight Long Island titles and five state championships before stepping down following the 2009 season.
South Side is fueled for a championship run after reaching the state finals for the first time since 2012 last year where it fell to New Hartford 2-1. The Cyclones cap tured a county crown during the delayed 2020 season held in spring 2021, but did not get a chance to compete for more due to logistical challenges caused by the Covid19 pandemic.
The defense has keyed South Side’s suc cess this fall allowing only five goals with five shutouts. Kayla Hubler, Charlotte Rathjen and Morgan Harloff have led the backline in front of junior goalkeeper Avery Testa. The three-year starting netminder has stepped up with some big per formances this season including 11 saves in a 1-0 win against MacArthur on Sept. 22.
“She’s had some clutch saves,” said Croutier of Testa, who started as a freshman when South Side won a coun ty title. “She is coming up big when we need her to.”
On offense, the Cyclones have had a balanced scoring attack led by Nora Basile with four to go along with two assists. Maggie Colvin, Sienna Connolly
and Reese Haley have also registered key tallies this fall.
Croutier credits the midfield unit of Caitlin Haggerty, Basile and Haley with being integral part of powering a team that graduated a number of seniors from last year’s 13-4-3 team.
In the Mepham victory, Colvin, Haley and Adira Wilson each registered two goals with Hannah Porter and Basile also tallying scores. Annie Madden also shined with three assists and the defense held the
Pirates in check with Testa only forced to make one save.
South Side is in third place in Confer ence A1 behind MacArthur and Garden City. The seeds and bracket for the Class A playoffs will be announced after South Side’s regular-season finale at second place Garden City and then next week the Cyclones will kick off a postseason they hope ends with another journey competing against the top teams in the Empire State.
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It’s been nearly four months since the U.S. Supreme Court essentially overturned Roe v. Wade, leaving the decision on wheth er to allow abortions back to the states. Yet, women’s reproductive rights remain a pri mary issue for a number of voters, includ ing those who visited Hofstra University last week to hear from U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
It was certainly on Francene Fried man’s mind.
“Having survived two ectopic pregnan cies many, many, many years ago, I would like to know what would happen if, God forbid, my granddaughter decides to go that way,” the Cedarhurst resident said. “How would she able to survive?”
Gillibrand, one of the state’s two Demo cratic representatives in the upper cham ber of Capitol Hill, characterized the court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Wom en’s Health Organization as a broader attack on personal decisions.
“The challenge we have is that the Dobbs decision said that women in repro ductive years do not have a right to priva cy,” Gillibrand said. “Which is a shocking decision.”
A pregnancy is considered ectopic when a fertilized egg is prevented from entering the uterus, which could damage nearby organs and even threaten the life of the would-be mother. Such a condition could require dilation and curettage, Gilli
brand said — removing tissue from inside the uterus to help clear a path.
Yet, such a procedure “might be consid ered an abortion in some state laws’ analy sis,” the senator said.
“You might have to go to court to get your D and C. Well, you’ll be dead by then.”
While those advocating to maintain reproductive rights established through Roe v. Wade are disappointed by the court’s reversal, Gillibrand did acknowledge the decision has rallied more voters behind the Democratic Party ahead of the crucial midterm elections where Gillibrand’s party hopes to retain control over both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate.
Still, the senator encouraged voters at her town hall to make their voices heard on the issue.
“I think for both of your grandchildren, their rights and privileges are at risk,” she said. “We should fight for those rights and privileges back.”
But should Congress hold the U.S. Supreme Court more accountable? That’s something Hofstra student Nicholas Isaacs asked Gillibrand, especially since a num ber of justices who voted for Dobbs told senators during their confirmation hear ings Roe was watertight precedent.
“I think that the Supreme Court jus tices did lie,” Gillibrand said. “I think that they intentionally misled the senators in these hearings to believe that they would not overturn precedent.
“They should be held accountable. The only way we can do that is through
impeachment, which would take too much time and is not the priority of the Ameri can people. I don’t recommend that, but I do think the House can do an investigation and publish all the statements so people know for sure that these men and women were not honest.”
Gillibrand also is for exploring term limits for Supreme Court justices, although such a move would likely require a Constitutional amendment.
“I think that the idea that Supreme Court justices and all other judges who are appointed to life will make them nonpolitical just isn’t true,” Gillibrand said. “Now they’re appointed to life and they’re 100 percent political. That idea that they deserve a lifetime appointment, I think,
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Gillibrand also fielded question about the economy, mental health care, and the upcoming midterms. She also received a thank you from representatives of Moms Demand Action for the passage of gun reform legislation over the summer.
Like other lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Gillibrand says she finds town halls like the Hofstra one as a crucial part of democracy.
“I think this is one of the most impor tant things I do as a senator: Listen to my constituents,” Gillibrand said. “Hear what’s on your mind. Answer your ques tions.
“It allows me to do my job much better.”
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School of Rock
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Kids get to rock out and shine in a comfortable and safe environment that makes you feel like a rockstar. Children are taken seriously within lessons, and the combination of one-on-one in person or virtual and group band practices makes for a unique and wellrounded educational experience. They are also given the opportunity to perform live shows, develop their skills in a supportive, encouraging and learning environment.
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Hue Studio 326 Sunrise Hwy, Rockville Centre (516) 226-0430 www.huestudioarts.com
Adults, teens and kids can explore their creative minds at Hue Studio. Kids classes are for children ages fve and up and include a variety of projects with different mediums. They will learn the basics of drawing and how to use different techniques as well as mixing their own paints, designing and sculpting 3D models with clay and much more! New innovative fne art projects are performed each month. Teen programs are for tweens and teens looking to advance their skills and create unique pieces that apply to each lesson they learn.
Warren Levi Martial Arts & Fitness 136 Washington Ave, Cedarhurst (516) 569-0808 www.warrenlevikarate.com
Martial Arts is excellent for children who need a supportive, educational and fun activity that grants your kids the gift of learning life-long skills such as personal success and growth, discipline, self-defense and overall confdence. What is learned within the dojo can be applied to outside work such as physical and mental strength, valuable social skills and positive reinforcement among many other important lessons and skills.
wise face. “It’s very frustrating to be in a situation where you have a child who needs to be seen by a mental health pro vider and the parent can’t get an appoint ment or there’s some type of roadblock due to insurance,” Love said.
Dr. Vera Feuer, the head psychiatrist at Northwell Health, helps give parents rec ommendations on how to help their chil dren struggling with mental health chal lenges. “She’s been absolutely wonder ful,” Love said. “We can call her and get advisements as to how to make sure that our families and our children get the sup port they need.”
Thanks to this direct line to Dr. Feuer, there are other ways that parents can get information about how to help their kids. “Additionally, [Northwell Health] has pro grams for parents that you can attend with varying topics month to month, but they also meet with us here,” Love explained. “They meet with myself and other administrators from other school districts to see what the patterns are with students, what we’re seeing, and the type of help they need to provide.”
Members of the Northwell Health staff meet not only with the administra tion and parents, but also with the mental health staff of district schools. Accord ing to Love, this is “to make sure that we have all the most up-to-date information on the rates of admissions, how many students are seeking appointments with them, how many parents have brought students in to get appointments, and then to also give us training on various mental health initiatives.”
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Hewlett Lawrence Soccer Club
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If your child is interested or enjoys soccer, building their skills through intramurals or travel teams can be a great choice! It’s a way to improve sportsmanship and teamwork skills, building strength physically and mentally and creating friendships. The Hewlett Lawrence Soccer Club is a not-for-proft community soccer club that has been serving the Five Towns area of Long Island since the 1970s.
All American Gymnastics 2755 Merrick Rd, Bellmore (516) 409-0300 www.icangymnastics.com
All American Gymnastics offers a myriad of classes as well as totnastics! From Mommy and Me classes to Pretot and onward, All American Gymnastics allows children to not only stay active but develop a sense of community as they become self-suffcient, confdent in their techniques and broaden their social skills. Classes are made up of fve to seven children per instructor so classes are close knit and personal.
And even though the district’s part nership with Northwell will limit the time it takes to make appointments, there is an even faster way for students to find help. Because the clinic is so close to the schools, students can just walk into the facility and ask for help.
“If you walked in and for some reason they couldn’t see you or help you in that moment, they would advise you on where to go,” Love said. If it’s an emergency sit uation, the Northwell staff might send a student to a hospital emergency room. If the situation is less urgent and if the clinic is simply busy, a student will be given a time to come back.
According to the state Department of Health, one in five New Yorkers have symptoms of a mental disorder. This sta tistic alarmed district administrator in 2016, where they first implemented men tal health education in the schools’ cur riculums. And the result, six years later, is the partnership with Northwell.
By Michael Hinman
hrough the late, great Jonathan Larson, we learned how much can happen over the course of 525,600 minutes. So, one can only imagine what Anthony Rapp must have been up to over the past 4,730,400 minutes, when the actor and singer last performed on the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center stage.
We’ll find out Sunday, Oct. 16, when Rapp returns, ready to bring his memoir, “Without You,” to life at the very school Larson once attended.
It’s a story that begins in 1994. Although he’d already made a name for himself as a teen actor in film hits like “Adventures in Babysitting” and “Dazed and Confused,” Rapp found himself making ends meet working at Starbucks when he got a chance to audition for a rather unusual play.
It was a modern take of “La Bohème” called “Rent”— and it would change Rapp’s life forever. With a little help from R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion,” Rapp won the role of struggling filmmaker Mark Cohen squatting in an apartment with his friends in East Village’s Alphabet City.
But Larson would die suddenly just shy of his 36th birthday — when “Rent” was about to begin Off-Broadway previews. It turned Rapp’s world upside-down.
“Sometimes, we would talk to each other,” Rapp later told NPR’s Jeff Lunden. “But sometimes, we would just sit in silence and shock and, like, there was sort of nothing to say. We would cry.”
Rapp would finally find the words in his 2006 memoir “Without You,” that not only detailed those early days on the “Rent” stage, but also shares his grief over losing his mother, Mary Lee Rapp, from breast cancer a year after Larson’s death. Never forgetting his ties to the stage, Rapp turned the book into a one-man show not long after, mixing songs from “Rent” along with some of his own musical creations.
“Without You” feels more personal than one might expect from such a production, but that’s because it is personal. It took Rapp years to perfect the book it’s based on simply because of how personal the material is.
Even the title has special meaning, pulled straight from the “Rent” score. Because without you, the ground thaws. The flowers bloom. The breeze warms. Yet, “life goes on, but I’m gone. ‘Cause I die, without you.”
Rapp has resurrected his show from time to time, and brings it to Larson’s alma mater on the very stages he himself had performed while a student there. Larson’s presence is still felt to this day, especially with Adelphi’s annual Larson Legacy Concert Series, which features many of the recipients of Jonathan Larson Grants from American Theatre Wing.
Those winners have included future Pulitzer Prize winner Michael R. Jackson, as well as Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who created “Dear Evan Hansen” and the music for the Hugh Jackman film “The Greatest Showman.”
But Sunday, it will be a bit of a quieter affair, even with a five-piece band.
“It’s like holding up a mirror to the experience of what it means to be alive,” Rapp told Playbill’s Raven Brunner earlier this year. “In everyone’s case, at some point or other, you’re going to lose someone very close to you. It’s not just a piece of sorrow. It’s also a piece of joy and love — and connection.”
Anthony Rapp takes the stage at the Adelphi Performing Arts Center in Garden City, Sunday, Oct. 16, at 2 p.m. For tickets, use promo code “Herald5” to get a $5 discount.
Jeff Beck is joined by Johnny Depp on his current tour. Depp and Beck will highlight songs from their newly released musical collaboration, ‘18,’ which debuted at No. 10 on both the Billboard Top Albums and Top Current Albums charts. This marked the first top 10 for both Beck and Depp on the 31-yearold Top Album sales chart. The legendary guitarist found a kindred spirit in the actor-musician when the two met in 2016. They bonded quickly over cars and guitars and spent most of their time together trying to make each other laugh. At the same time, Beck’s appreciation grew for Depp’s serious songwriting skills and his ear for music. That talent and their chemistry convinced Beck they should make an album together. Depp agreed and they started in 2019.
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 1415, 8 p.m. $149.50, $99.50, $79.50, $59.50. The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington. (800) 745-3000, Ticktmaster. com or ParamountNY.com.
From re-imagining the classical masters and romantic greats, to sharing contemporary commissions, the world-class musicians of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra are passionate about playing: and with inspirational young conductor Maxim Emelyanychev at the helm, these live performances are anything but predictable. The SCO is joined by superstar Scottish violin virtuoso and long-time collaborator, Nicola Benedetti, who will delight the audience with Bruch’s everpopular violin concerto, when the renowned orchestra visits Long Island on its 10-day U.S. tour. Their program also includes Anna Clyne’s Beethoven-inspired work, ‘Stride,’ and Mendelssohn’s evocative ‘Scottish Symphony,’ inspired by the composer’s travels around Scotland.
Sunday, Oct. 16, 4 p.m. $79, $59, $44. Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, C.W. Post Campus, Route 25A, Brookville. (516) 299-3100 or TillesCenter.org.
Visit the Rockville Centre Farmers Market each Sunday through Dec. 18, from 7 a.m. to noon, in the parking lot across from Bigelow’s Clam Bar on Sunrise Highway and Long Beach Road. Operated by the Long Island Growers Market, vendors include Norman’s Best Pickles, Orwashers Baked Goods, Natural Hounds Wet Dog Food, and Lithology Brewing Co. For more information, call (631) 323-3653.
Meet journalist Joe Calderone, author of “Don’t Look Back,” a thriller that takes readers into the hearts and minds of a FDNY family who lost their son during 9/11, and set out on a mission to fnd out what really happened to him and the other 342 frefghters who perished, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 6-9 p.m. Hosted by Tony Cancellieri and Mike Sapralcone, at the Coral House, 70 Milburn Ave., Baldwin. For information, call (516) 672-3205.
your South Side Cyclones pride on Sat. Oct. 15, beginning with a parade at noon starting at South Side High School. And afterwards, be sure to check out the big game.
The versatile songstress-musical theater star brings her powerful voice to NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury, for her latest cabaret turn, Friday, Oct. 28, 8 p.m. A best-selling recording artist with 14 solo albums to her credit, Eder brings a diverse repertoire spanning Broadway, standards, pop, country, and jazz. When Eder performs live in concert, audiences are awed by the ease of her transitions between genres, effortlessly displaying the full range of her incredible vocal gifts.
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It’s karaoke night in Rockville Centre. Show your stuff at the Taqueria and Tequila Bar, 19 N. Park Ave., every Wednesday, 7 p.m.-11 p.m. featuring Dave G.
The annual event, hosted by the RVC Chamber of Commerce will return to the village on Sunday, Oct. 16, noon to 5 p.m. The all day street fair will be held on Park Avenue between Sunrise Highway and Lincoln Avenue.
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call (516) 247-5200.
The 45th annual Garden Potpourri fundraising event will
be held at St. Agnes Cathedral School’s Field of Dreams from Noon to 4 p.m. It promises to be a day full of fall fun that will include hand painted pumpkins, a Christmas market, local vendors, food at the Calico Café, homemade baked goods, STAGS Spiritwear, raffles, flowers, hot pepper jam, and a kids corner with games, pumpkin decorating and a DJ. The event is open to all, rain or shine.
Molloy University the national comedy fundraiser for special needs charities, Saturday, Oct. 15, 8 p.m., at the Madison Theatre. With Derrick and Julie Tennant and headliner Bobby Collins. Tickets are $45 and the show will be recorded live. For more information visit HelpingThruHumor.org or call (516) 323-4444.
Art has access to worlds beyond the one we know. Explore the next dimension as seen through eyes of artists throughout the centuries, at Nassau County Museum of Art’s current exhibition,“Other Worlds than This: The Supernatural in Art,” now through Nov. 6. The exhibit summons a celestial realm of demons, ghosts and extra-sensory phenomena as conjured by such Surrealists as Dalí, photographers who specialize in the occult, Old Masters including Goya, contemporary talents including Betye Saar, Luc Tuymans, Michaël Borremans and many others. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.
Celebrate the Halloween season at the Center for Science, Teaching and Learning’s Spooky Fest, weekends, through October, rain or shine, at 1450 Tanglewood Rd., in Rockville Centre. With a series of events including a “Spooky Walk in the Woods” and new animatronic “Zombie Dinosaurs” as well as some friendly Halloween characters. Family actives also include arts and crafts, meet-and-greets with merry monsters, fortune telling, a DJ dance party, jugglers and more. Tickets can be purchased online and admittance is limited to a first-come, first-served basis. Visit CSTL.org/Spooky-Fest for more information.
Hang out once again with some of Long Island Children’s Museum’s “residents,” Saturday, Oct. 15, noon. Join an animal educator in the Yellow Studio in the Feasts for Beasts Gallery to learn what goes into the care of LICM’s beloved animals. Observe animal bath time. Long Island Children’s Museum, Museum Row, Garden City. (516) 2245800 or LICM.org.
Items on The Scene page 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 thescene@liherald.com.
Join Nassau County Museum Director Charles A. Riley II, PhD, for a Director’s Seminar, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 4 p.m. He’ll discuss “The Persistence of Surrealism,” which highlights the drama and poetry of the Surrealist movement, along with masterworks of painting and sculpture. Participation is limited; registration required. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.
The U.S. Supreme Court has weighed in on a number of controversial topics as of late. But while a lot of attention is paid to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, another salient issue has seemingly been overshad owed: gun rights.
The court ruled last summer to expand access to concealed carry permits in a case originating here in New York, declaring unconstitutional laws they say could impede on Second Amendment rights like people being required to show prop er cause before they could carry a gun in public.
This latest case — New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen — loosened restrictions on concealed carry permits, ruling that both the Second and 14th amendments guarantee the rights to carry firearms publicly.
But Gov. Kathy Hochul and state law makers responded to that ruling with new laws requiring permit renewals, firearm safety training courses, and most of all, the creation of “safe zones” — places where firearms are not permitted at all.
Here in Nassau County, Bruce Blake man says he’ll enforce laws, but only until they are ruled unconstitutional.
“We are very concerned about the restrictions that might make law-abiding citizens who choose to carry into crimi nals,” the county executive told reporters
during a news conference last week.
“You can’t carry in government build ings. You can’t carry in places of worship. We have churches, synagogues and mosques in Nassau County where lawabiding citizens want guns for their own safety and the safety of their religious institutions.”
Blakeman believes the state’s new laws
won’t stop dangerous individuals from car rying and using illegal guns, but rather will stop ordinary people to legally carry them.
Yet, Blakeman says he’s also not for a completely unrestricted Second Amend ment, either.
“We would do background checks, regardless of what the state law requires,”
the Republican said, if such actions were left strictly up to local governments. “We certainly want to see if someone has a pro pensity for criminality or violence. We would do social media checks as well.”
But not everyone inside the county gov ernment agrees with Blakeman’s stance. County Legislator Kevan Abrahams praised Hochul’s new law, saying it pro tects anyone who doesn’t want to be near guns in public spaces. The Democrat also believes it makes the job of police easier.
“I don’t think anyone is infringing on anyone’s Second Amendment rights,” the minority caucus leader said. “The Supreme Court just allowed them to enhance those rights. The state law is just saying that there should be safe zones, where I couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to bring a gun unless their goal was to inflict harm.”
Abrahams named churches, malls and parks as places where he couldn’t imagine the need for a gun, and added he trusts law enforcement’s ability to protect the public from danger in those kinds of places.
“Removing safe zones makes the police’s job, which is already one of the toughest jobs in the country, even harder,” Abrahams said. “The safe zone legislation is, to me, just common sense.”
A federal judge last week put a tempo rary halt on the law — including a part it that would ban weapons in New York City’s Times Square — while legal chal lenges to that legislation proceed.
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Peter Gregory Kunkel of Chester town, Maryland died peacefully in his home on September 28, 2022, at the age of 71.
An avid martathon runner, he fin ished life much how he finished each one of his 30 marathons—strong and with passion.
Peter was born in Rock ville Centre to the late Gregory Peter and Mar guerite Griffin Kunkel.
He graduated from Southside High School in 1969, after which he went on to attend school at Hofs tra Unviersity, where he graduated in 1973. He went on to marry his wife, Elise Pesce on March 9, 1974, and together they made their home in Rockville Centre, where he was a member of St. Agnes Cathe dral. He also served as a past Captain of Reliance Hose Company No. 3 of the Rockville Centre Fire Department.
Pete began his career in 1973 at Mutu al New York in the group insurance department. There he rose through the ranks in the financial services industry, retiring in 2015 as the president and CEO of Transamerica Retirement Solu tions. He cared deeply for his co-workers and their families, and colleagues always stood impressed by his humility
and appreciation for his team of coworkers and employees.
He created a culture in which people cared deeply for each other and the cli ents they served. Although Pete retired in 2015, many of his work associates continued to rely on him for sound advice, which he was more than willing to provide.
Pete loved the Yankees, had a fondness for ani mals, dessert, and well-cut grass, but his true hobby was his family, especially his grandchildren.
In addition to his wife of 48 years, he is survived by two daughters, Chris tine Elise Chisolm (Chris topher) of Centreville, Maryland, and Ellis Luisa Quinn (Megan) of Wyoming, along with his grandchildren, Kayla, Kelsie, and Corban.
Services will be held on Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 11:00 am at Fellows, Helfenbein, and Newnam Funeral Home 130 Speer Road Chestertown, Maryland. Relatives and friends may call from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The family will be receiv ing visitors at their home following the service. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Compass Regional Hos pice at 160 Coursevall Dr., Centreville, Maryland, 21617.
Anne Linkner, nee Kolibersky, of Hil ton Head Island died on Sept. 29, 2022 at the age of 84.
She was born on July 26, 1938 and was a dedicat ed physical education teacher and athletic coach for the Rockville Centre School District for over 20 years.
Anne enjoyed spending time with friends playing tennis, golf, and bridge at Hempstead Country Club and Palmetto Dunes Plan tation. As an avid reader, Anne participated in book clubs, writing clubs, and was the author of her memoir, “Elephants Never Forget.”
She was the beloved wife of Bill for 60 years. Devoted mother to Debbie
(John), Bud (Katie), Margie (Don), and Greg (JoAnne). Cherished grandmother of Tanya, MaryKate, Val, Johnny, Tommy, Craig, Amanda, Jaycie, Shea, Maeve, Kyle, Layna and Annie. Beloved great grandmoth er of Alina, Isla, and Easton.
The Funeral Mass will be held at Saint Francis by the Sea Catholic Church on Hilton Head Island Friday, October 28th at 10 a.m. Following the Mass, there will be a lunch at the Family Cen ter, just steps from the church.
In lieu of flowers, feel free to donate to the Hilton Head Humane Association in Anne’s name.
It was raining cats and dogs on Sunday, Oct. 2. Despite the inclement weather caused by Hurricane Ian, several pets came out to the United Church of Rockville Centre at 430 Morris Ave. for the annual “Blessing of the animals” event.
These four-legged compan ions are a blessing to their families. That is why Pastor Scott Ressman blessed the ani mals. Owners and their furry friends departed with a certifi cate and a goodie bag with dog biscuits. Visitors also present ed photos and videos of cats and dogs for blessings from afar.
–Daniel OffnerPAstor scott ressmAn of the United Church of Rockville Centre blessed families and their four-legged companions on Oct. 2.
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COUNTY OF NASSAU, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF THE CERTIFICATES, FIRST HORIZON MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES
FHAMS 2005-FA9, BY FIRST HORIZON HOME LOANS, A DIVISION OF FIRST TENNESSEE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, MASTER SERVICER, IN ITS CAPACITY AS AGENT FOR THE TRUSTEE UNDER THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, Plaintiff, vs. LESTER I. CROCKETT A/K/A LESTER CROCKETT A/K/A LESTER ILLISTINE CROCKETT, ET AL., Defendant(s).
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on January 7, 2020, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on October 27, 2022 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 1214 Woodfeld Road, Rockville Centre, NY 11570. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 38, Block 109 and Lot 414. Approximate
amount of judgment is $436,133.85 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of fled Judgment Index #002194/2014. This foreclosure sale will be held on the North Side Steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale.
Ralph Madalena, Esq., Referee Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff, Firm File No. 201363-1 134227
SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. Bank NA, successor Trustee to Bank of America, NA, successor in interest to LaSalle Bank NA, on behalf of the Registered Holders of Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities I LLC, Asset-Backed Certifcates, Series 2007-AQ1
Plaintiff, Against Eileen Sweeney, et al., Defendant(s)
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 09/25/2018, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, on the North Side steps of the Nassau
County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. 11501. This Auction will be held rain or shine on 11/2/2022 at 2:00pm, premises known as 15 Norcross Street, Rockville Centre, NY 11570, And Described As Follows:
ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being In The Incorporated Village Of Rockville Centre, In The Town Of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York.
Section 38 Block 165 Lot 28,29 And 30. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $945,161.38 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 6975/16. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the then Court Appointed Referee will cancel the Foreclosure Auction.
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Q. We own an Airbnb upstate, in an area that has septic tanks and, on occasion, limited water sup ply, especially in a drought, so we turn the faucets off between guests using the place. One of the guests complained that a toilet kept running and that the plumbing made a high-pitched squealing sound. We hear the trickling sound and the squealing in the pipes, but haven’t been able to pinpoint the problem. A handyman came in and got the squealing to stop by adjusting the water pressure, he said. This worked for a short time, but then another guest complained about the same thing. Before we get another plumber, for the third time, can you explain some reasons for why this is happening? It’s frustrating to hear guests complain or ask for a reduction.
A. The first thing I did after reading your question was to go to my own toilets, open the top and examine the mechan ics of the flushing. There are really only a few working parts, and I know from experience, and from talking with plumbers over the years, that the flapper, the rubber stop per that lifts up when you push down on the lever, deteriorates over time and must be replaced. The part is usually under $7, so you can get a couple at a time to save a trip.
When the flapper isn’t dropping correctly onto the ring that it seats on, there’s an improper seal, and that’s why you’ll hear the trickling sound. You should empty the tank of water by flushing, enough to expose the flapper and seating ring so you can check the ring. If it has deteriorated, it has to be carefully pried off. If you feel any resistance, call the plumber, because if you use tools the wrong way to remove the ring, you could crack the ceram ic tank, and you’ll go from a $20 fix to a toilet replacement costing hundreds of dollars.
The squealing sound is partially explained by water pressure, and also by the type of fill valve, the vertical pipe and float that allows water into the tank. Generally speaking, the fill valve also becomes filled with impurities from everyday use, and the float that rises up as the water rises in the tank can be hindered over time. The parts aren’t expensive to replace, and it’s better to have the fill valve replaced than to take the time to try to clean it, try it out, become frustrated by the squealing sound of the water, under pressure, trying to squeeze up through the restricted fill tube, only to have to start over.
I wonder, though, whether you used the services of a real, licensed plumber, since I’ve never known a plumber who flunked out of potty training, and every plumber I know could have told you right away what the problem was. When in doubt, hire a professional. Good luck!
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Hurricanes are the world’s costli est natural disasters, and they’re intensifying because of climate change. Eighty-five percent of all hurricane damage is caused from Category 3, 4 and 5 storms. A hurricane with 150mph winds has the potential to do 250 times the damage of one with 75-mph winds. As the Earth’s climate warms, there has been a substantial increase in the pro portion of Catego ry 4 and 5 storms. And wind isn’t the only problem. The National Oce anic and Atmo spheric Adminis tration projects that the rainfall these storms pro duce will increase by about 15 percent by the end of the 21st century, leading to more disastrous flooding.
When Hurricane Ian slammed Cuba, it was a Category 3 storm, with top winds of 125 mph. The island’s entire power grid col lapsed, leaving people without electricity and trapped in deadly floods. The following day, Ian struck the west coast of Florida with even more destructive force, having picked up strength from warmer ocean water. The Caribbean Sea is now about 1.8
degrees Fahrenheit warmer than in the past. On Sept. 28, Ian was a Category 4 storm, with winds reaching 150 mph, just below Category 5. In the past 30 years, only two Category 5 hurricanes had made land fall in the U.S.
Meteorologists report that before it hit Cuba, Ian became 67 percent stronger in under 22 hours, and it was further turbocharged as it headed from Cuba to Florida.
It was one of 30 Atlantic tropical storms since 2017 that gained so much destruc tive power in less than a day. Climatologists predict that this phenomenon will become more frequent as the oceans and the Earth contin ue to warm.
According to University of Albany hur ricane scientist Kristen Corbosiero, “This season could be a harbinger of sorts of what is to come.” Over the past 10 years, there were about 25 percent more rapidly intensifying storms in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific than were recorded 40 years ago.
Millions of people were forced to flee from Hurricane Ian, well over 100 people died, and according to a spokeswoman for the Insurance Information Institute, insur ance modelers estimate that the damage it inflicted will total between $20 billion and
$40 billion.
Even less intense hurricanes have dev astating impact. In 2012, Superstorm Sandy left over $50 billion in damage, making it the second-costliest hurricane in U.S. histo ry up to that time. At its peak, Sandy was “only” a Category 3 hurri cane, and when it made land fall in New York City, its wind speeds had dropped to tropical storm force. The wind and the rate of rainfall were moderate for a hurri cane, but flooding was exten sive because a number of fac tors lined up: the size of the storm, its slow speed, its path from east to west and the fact that it made landfall during a full moon at high tide.
In May 2020, Cyclone Amphan struck India and Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of over 2 million people. Four months later, the western Ioni an Islands of Greece were battered by Cyclone Ianos, which flooded streets, destroyed crops just before harvest, tore down buildings and caused millions of dol lars in damage. Before the 1990s, hurricanelike cyclones in the Mediterranean, known as medicanes, happened rarely, because the climate there is generally dry.
In recent decades, the average speed of Atlantic hurricanes has slowed by more than 15 percent, making them more
destructive. In September 2020, Hurricane Sally stalled over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, absorbing warm water and gaining strength, and then flooded coastal communities in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a priestess who rejected a liaison with the god Apollo and was condemned by him with the gift of true prophecies that no one would ever believe. Explaining the threat of climate change to Republicans like Flor ida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis is like being cursed with the power of Cassandra.
In a press conference last year, DeSantis dismissed scientific recommendations for addressing climate change as “a bunch of left-wing things” and announced that in Florida “we’re not doing any left-wing stuff.” He warned Floridians that if cli mate mitigation or adaptation policies were put in place, “gas would be six or seven bucks a gallon,” and his job was to make sure “people are able to have afford able energy.”
Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.
Why do you have to make everything a political issue? some readers ask, and then they sign off with, “[Exple tive] Biden!” It’s too late for false indigna tion; everything is political, from the books in our schools to the vaccines we get, from abortion and contraception to who we marry, who we are, what we eat, where we live, whether we wor ship and how. MAGA and the extreme right have hyper-politicized American life. Their movement is fueled by hypocri sy — most recent ly, when it comes to women’s rights, most particularly women’s reproduc tive rights.
The GOP led the charge to overturn Roe v. Wade, setting up the end play by recruiting several ultra-conservative jus tices, named to the Supreme Court by for mer President Donald Trump.
Most Republicans proudly take respon sibility for this new restriction on wom en’s lives. The story takes a cynical twist, however. In the upcoming election, the GOP is backing former football player Herschel Walker for the Senate in Geor
gia. Walker was anointed by the former president, and touted a radical anti-abor tion position. Then, in an inconvenient turn of events, a woman came forward, saying Walker had paid for her abortion and asked her to get a second one, which she refused to do, according to The New York Times. Walker disowns the proof, hospital receipts and a per sonal note allegedly written by him and made public by the former girlfriend.
I wouldn’t spend the ink on this except for the galling hypocrisy. How does Walker, a clearly unqualified candi date who is morally chal lenged and intellectually naïve, still enjoy the support of most Republicans? They say one thing and they do another. They pose as righteous, but they put forward candidates like Reps. Marjo rie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz, extremists who pander to rac ists and antisemites.
The GOP embraces life except when it comes to supporting the lives of single mothers or early-childhood programs or many of the other social welfare initia tives that give people a helping hand. That is the living, breathing definition of hypocrisy.
The worship of the former president
is, we know, a kind of psychological con tagion. The self-appointed morality police in the mostly far-right GOP are actively supporting a corrupt, misogynistic man who should have been barred from public office years ago. Like you, I heard him on tape in 2016 saying he could grab a woman’s private parts because he was a celebrity. That was enough for me; the mystery is why the hypocrites are sticking around for a second act.
We are in October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. That is a women’s issue, too. Every year, some 264,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in the United States. The political piece is the laws deciding who gets access to screening and the best therapies.
In 2019, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 625,346 abortions were performed in U.S., mean ing that more than twice as many women who get breast cancer will seek an abor tion. Both breast cancer and abortions are significant health issues in women’s lives, and are best viewed through the lens of what is healthiest for the women. The deciders should be the women and their doctors, not politicians.
As president, Trump turned out to be
worse than we feared, an unprepared and erratic man who undermined our peace of mind and peace in the world. He trig gered a political lurch to the extreme right. At one point he threatened to defund Planned Parenthood, which, among its services, offers basic breast cancer screenings. He launched a renewed attack on women’s reproductive rights.
We live now in a political environment that feels increasingly hostile to me as an American woman. Breast cancer is, almost exclusively, a woman’s disease. It affects our morale, our confidence and our appearance. It brings us face to face with our own mortality.
Abortions are, exclusively, performed on women.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a good time to renew the fight for women’s rights, and access to decent health screen ings and care.
People ask why get political, but poli tics has already saturated the fabric of our lives. Women’s rights have been politi cized, not by women but by morality police who want to tell them who to be and how to be and if or when to have chil dren. In the Herschel Walker case, the extremists are keeping two sets of rules, one for Walker and one for everyone else.
Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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does Herschel Walker still enjoy the support of most Republicans?
in the days of ancient Rome, philos opher Seneca the Younger said that “every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” And that’s exactly what Valley Stream Pres byterian Church is facing as it says goodbye to its longtime pastor, the Rev. Kymberley Clemons-Jones.
It’s not that it’s simply a time to move on for the good pastor. Instead, she feels she has no other choice.
“My salary, you know, is a hit to the congregation,” Clemons-Jones said. “It’s just something that we have to worry about every two weeks.”
Eliminating her salary would give the South Central Avenue church a little room to breathe financially, but it also means losing a pastor who, over the course of nearly 15 years, increased the size of the congregation four times over.
Yet, the Presbyterian church’s woes are hardly unique. While Covid-19 has exacerbated a lot of these issues, reli gious institutions have been under sig nificant financial strain in recent years. Churches and synagogues have been sold, congregations scattered or merged with other communities, staff cut.
While there are a number of factors involved in all of this, the one that stands out the most is also the one that
To the Editor:
Democratic socialist Assemblywoman Marcela Mitaynes has introduced legisla tion to abolish Columbus Day. The famed Italian explorer has been honored for cen turies, like many other 15th and 16th cen tury explorers, for his brilliant naviga tional skills and bravery in helping Spain’s colonization of the Americas.
Now, centuries later, Columbus has become the target of leftist revisionist historians judging his actions by 21st century morals and values.
Mitaynes’s family originates from Peru, home of the Shining Path, and her major endorsements come from the Dem ocratic Socialists of America and the leftist Working Families Party. So we should not be shocked that she and her fellow leftists always seem to focus their attacks mostly on Anglo-Euro people when it comes to the colonization of the New World. Their bias and prejudice are more than obvious in the targets they choose.
They intentionally attempt to erase the historical fact that it was the Catholic Spanish crown that destroyed the Maya, Aztec and Inca civilizations in the early 16th century. That it was they who mur
might be the hardest to fix: Many just aren’t joining their faithful brethren seeking to visit houses of worship.
Last year, for the first time in its 80-year history, Gallup found that more people didn’t belong to a church, syna gogue or mosque than did. Just 47 per cent of those polled frequented a reli gious institution in 2020, according to researchers, compared with 50 percent in 2018 and a whopping 70 percent in 1999 — a number that had remained mostly consistent since 1937.
Church membership has dropped because the number of people express ing no religious preference has been on the rise, Gallup found. The portion of Americans who didn’t identify with any specific religion grew from 8 percent in the late 1990s to 1 in 5 today.
Yet waning faith isn’t the only culprit here. That same Gallup poll also revealed a significant drop in church membership even among those who did identify with a faith. Between 1998 and 2000, three-quarters of religious Ameri cans belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque. In the years leading up to the pandemic, that number had fallen to 60 percent.
That ultimately leaves churches like Valley Stream Presbyterian in the
lurch.
“People are still afraid to come out,” Clemons-Jones said. “Our tithes and offerings have taken such a huge hit.”
Valley Stream Presbyterian has served parishioners for nearly a centu ry. Church leaders are scrambling to make the transition from having a pas tor to not having one as smooth as possi ble, but it won’t be easy. While religious institutions offer their communities a range of services and activities — from youth outreach to food pantries to other charitable work — the spiritual leader still remains the central focus of each of them. Without that leader, an already struggling institution inches that much closer to non-existence.
The beauty of America is that it’s a country where all of us are free to believe, or not believe, what we want. But for those who do still believe — a segment of our population that is still in the majority — let’s not forget the very institutions that are the bedrock of our faith.
Valley Stream Presbyterian may very well pull through this, just as it has past challenges. So many houses of worship aren’t so fortunate, yet we can create a new beginning from some other begin ning’s end simply by showing up.
dered, tortured, enslaved and decimated the indigenous populations. It was Spain that offi cially introduced the African slave trade in South America.
The biggest mass murders of that time were not Christopher Columbus, but the conquista
dors, Cortez, Pizarro, Alvarado, Balboa and several others.
Time to separate fact from hateful propagan da as concerns history.
With the Jewish High Holy Days and Yom Kippur behind us, we in the Jewish community look forward to all that is to come in the new year, 5783 on the Hebrew calendar.
experienced a similar disturbing phe nomenon.
espousing the notoriously antisemitic libel of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and suggesting antisemitic tropes about Jewish power and control.
which other countries are not held. We encourage other towns to follow suit.
The Jewish people look to Israel and all the wonderful events, like the Abra ham Accords, widening Israel’s circle of peace and the innumerable con tributions Israel has made to the world. We also acknowledge the contributions of American Jewry to our wonderful country and the place we have in the tapestry of America’s multi cultural land scape.
However, we cannot ignore the prob lem of antisemitism and all forms of hate in America. Hate crimes have sky rocketed for many of America’s diverse communities. Barely a week goes by when there isn’t a violent attack on an identifiably Jewish resident in Brooklyn. The Asian-American community has
On Long Island, for the most part, we have been spared a large uptick in hate, but there have been a number of disturb ing incidents. Nazi swastikas and other symbols of hate continue to appear in public spaces from time to time. While these actions cannot be minimized and cause real harm to the Jewish com munity and all those of good will, it is often the work of adolescents who want to do something mis chievous, but have no clue about the hate these sym bols represent. Thankfully, these children can be edu cated, and are not inculcat ed to hate.
We have seen the Proud Boys, a farright, neo-fascist group that spews hatred and advocates violence toward many minority communities, brazenly march in several towns. We saw antisemitic flyer drops by the so-called Goyim Defense League this summer in several Nassau County communities. One person, under the cover of night, drove around the South Shore, leaving antisemitic leaflets
To the Editor:
Long Island Rail Road President Catherine Renaldi reminded me of Pinocchio when she said, “Fans who live east of Belmont now have a one-seat ride to attend Islanders and other events at the UBS Arena,” at the ribbon-cut ting ceremony for the opening of the westbound platform at the new Elmont UBS Arena station on Oct. 6.
That may be true for Oyster Bay, Port Jeffer son, Huntington and Ronkonkoma branch rid ers, but it does not apply to Babylon, Speonk, West Hempstead, Long Beach and Far Rocka way branch riders. They will have to change at Jamaica before doubling back east to reach the UBS Arena. Port Washington branch riders have an additional Woodside transfer.
Renaldi neglected to mention that the source of funding for the station is the Empire State Development Corporation, which trans ferred $105 million from its budget to the Met ropolitan Transportation Authority. That financed the new Elmont station. The develop ers put in $30 million up front, and the state, $75 million. The developers will make pay ments, without interest, to reimburse the state over the next 30 years. They end up with an interest-free loan. So much for truth in adver tising!
LARRY PENNERGreat Neck
Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, his
We are thankful that elected officials and community stakeholders have come together to denounce these acts as unacceptable and antithetical to the values of our counties and towns, and that law enforcement agencies are doing every thing they can to protect Long Island’s Jewish com munity.
In addition to remaining steadfast in denouncing these acts, Nassau and Suf folk County and 10 towns and villages have adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Defini tion of Antisemitism. It is widely acknowledged as the authoritative defini tion by the U.S. government, most states, including New York, and dozens of coun tries. The definition is a non-legally bind ing tool to identify antisemitism, wheth er in its traditional forms, or the new antisemitism, which demonizes and attempts to delegitimize the State of Isra el or holds Israel to double standards to
Twenty-two Long Island municipal leaders have also signed on to the Ameri can Jewish Committee’s Mayors United Against Antisemitism Campaign, along with over 700 leaders nationwide, in a partnership with the U.S. Conference of Mayors. This campaign is a pledge to identify and properly deal with antisemi tism if it appears in a municipal leader’s jurisdiction.
So, yes, at this holy time of year, the Jewish community acknowledges the wonderful freedoms America has afford ed us. Many American Jews will agree that, to date, there has been no better place and time to live as a Jew than in America right now. But this is a tenuous statement, one that relies on every elect ed official, religious leader, community leader and resident to stand up to anti semitism and all forms of hate.
We wish those who celebrate a Happy New Year, and we thank all our non-Jew ish neighbors for your friendship and everything you have done and will do to make sure Long Island remains a place for all to worship and live in harmony.
Eric Post is Long Island director of the American Jewish Committee.
torian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration’s Region 2 New York Office.
To the Editor:
I read Randi Kreiss’s column “When Nazis killed 6 million, where was America?” (Sept. 29-Oct. 5), on Ken Burns’s documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” and I look forward to watching it. But I find it amazing that even when covering a historical topic from the 1940s, Ms. Kreiss cannot resist making it political and taking a cheap shot at Republi cans and former President Trump.
If she really wants to experience prejudice in 2022, I challenge her to don a red Make America Great Again hat and attempt to walk on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in SoHo, Greenwich Village or basically any where in New York City. She should let us know how far she gets before being confronted and assaulted by those she puts on a pedestal.
“Ignorance and fear create the gods, enthu siasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them,” the British novel ist Graham McNeill wrote. Ms. Kreiss is wor shipping false gods, and should be seeing someone about her severe case of Trump derangement syndrome.
TOM O’CONNOR North Bellmoreo n Long Island, no surge in hate, but several disturbing incidents.
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