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he coronavirus pandemic has left many people isolated and financially burdened for almost two years. It has been harrowing for those who have lost their jobs to try to cover all of their expenses, from rent to utilities and, most important, food. For those struggling in Rockville Centre, Sharon Sheppard has offered a food pantry and classes for youth that have kept many people afloat, and engaged.

For her efforts, the Herald is proud to name Sheppard its 2021 Person of the Year.

Rockville Centre has been Sheppard’s home since her family moved to the village from Hempstead when she was 12. She is a graduate of South Side Middle School and South Side High. Now 54, she was a nurse at North Shore University Hospital in the 1990s, but has been working at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center for over a decade, having started as a volunteer, writing business letters to help local residents seeking employment. In 2012, she became the assistant director of the center.

Sharon’s Food Pantry, renamed for its founder in April, has become an essential service for many in the village, and now feeds more than 90 families a week. Each Friday morning at the community center, on North Centre Avenue, food paid for by Sheppard and the Rockville Centre-based Anti-Racism Project, which partnered with her to start the pantry in 2020, is distributed supermarket-style. Those who are in need of food can simply walk around, choosing what they need, instead of receiving a uniform care package. They can find milk, eggs, bread, fresh vegetables, canned goods, cereal, toiletries and even winter coats.

Though the facility is frequently

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brimming with food donations at Christmas, Passover and Easter, there is typically a “significant drop” afterward.

So the pantry and the Anti-Racism

Project reached out as well to Island Harvest, the largest hunger-relief organization on Long Island, in the past to receive donations.

Residents can make donations to Sharon’s Food Pantry by dropping off items at the MLK Center, at 150 N. Centre Ave. #2, on Friday mornings between 8:30 and 11, or at the AntiRacism Project, at 30 Seaman Ave., anytime. Monetary donations, in the form of checks, can be sent to the AntiRacism Project address. All donations go toward the purchase of meat, produce and other food items.

For more information, email antiracismprojectli@gmail. com.

Rena Riback, founder of the Anti-Racism Project, started working with Sheppard on the pantry in March 2020, at the onset of the pandemic. “She really is the heartbeat of the community there,” Riback said.

“She knows everybody that comes to the center, who needs what and where the help needs to go.”

Sheppard credited her sister, Karen Mobley, who helped run the pantry while Sheppard was recuperating from chemotherapy sessions as she battled breast cancer, and MLK Center Director Patrick Morris for continuing to expand the center’s programs and outreach this year.

Morris has seen Sheppard’s efforts evolve over the past decade, and said that her patience, dedication and sense of humor have greatly benefited the community. “Sharon has one of the best laughs ever, and she will keep a smile on your face all day,” Morris said. “She comes in at 7 a.m. and works 12 hours without getting paid for that extra time.

A lot of the kids call her Aunt Sharon.”

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Sharon Sheppard, assistant director of the MLK Jr. Center, continues to provide food and resources to others while battling cancer herself.

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At Mercy, vaccines offer hope As cases of Covid-19 in Rockville Centre continued to rise last January, many people were optimistic as vaccinations for the virus continued at Mercy Hospital. In mid-December 2020, the hospital began administering the vaccine to Emergency Medical Services workers while also rolling out the second round of inoculations to staff members.

Pamela Raimondi, a registered nurse, gave the first injection in the vaccination clinic on Dec. 16, 2020.

“Everyone that’s been coming is excited to be here and happy to get it,” Raimondi said, “and hoping that it does what it needs to do going forward.”

By the morning of Jan. 7, more than 1,000 people had been vacci-

nated at Mercy, and the hospital began giving the second round of the vaccine on Jan. 4. Separate clinics were set up for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and Raimondi said that while the effort was time-consuming, the staff has developed a good system for administering the vaccinations.

Patients registered and filled out paperwork when they arrived. After receiving the shot, they waited 20 minutes before leaving to make sure they were OK.

Just five days after the anniversary of New York City Police Detective Steven McDonald’s death in 2017, state and local elected officials honored him at Hempstead Lake State Park in Rockville Centre in January. Two commemorative signs on opposite ends of McDonald Pond, near the intersection of Peninsula Boulevard and Lake Drive, were officially unveiled.

McDonald Pond is among several places in Nassau County that honor the life, service, sacrifice and family of McDonald, who was shot in 1986 in Central Park and left paralyzed until his death nearly 31 years later, at age 59.His widow, Patti Ann McDonald, Malverne’s former mayor, said that he

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Dr. Robert Bramante, director of emergency medicine, and nurse Pamela Raimondi.

would regularly sit by the pond and pray the Holy Rosary, a set of prayers used in the Catholic Church.

“This place brought Steven a lot of solace, peace and happiness,” McDonald said, “and I’m sure that, going forward, people going by who see this sign will also have peace and love.”

McDonald said the pond was named for her husband, a Rockville Centre native, shortly after he came home from the hospital after the shooting, as a surprise from then Rockville Centre Mayor Eugene Murray.

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The McDonald family was joined by state and local elected officials.

RVC coalition receives federal grant Local brewer earns top rating Rockville Centre native Jason Stein has made significant strides from homebrewing in his parent’s garage to heading up a growing brand in Timber Ales. Stein, a 2005 South Side High School graduate, has continued his passion for brewing even through the past two years, and he has been recognized for his efforts.

Website and app RateBeer named Timber Ales its New Brewer of the Year for 2020, ahead of breweries in Scotland, Canada, England, Poland

The Rockville Centre Coalition for Youth, which has worked for over six years to raise awareness and prevention of youth substance abuse in the community, will continue that mission for another five years, thanks to federal funding from the Drug-Free Communities Support Program. The nonprofit organization has been awarded $125,000 per year through 2025.

“This additional five years of funding will enable us to continue our prevention education,” Ruthanne McCormack, the coalition’s project coordinator, said, “and fulfill our mission to plan and implement strategies to prevent and reduce youth substance use and its associated conse-

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and Australia. “Our new brewer awards are among the most coveted of RateBeer Best,” the website states.

“With a lot of places, bars, and stores not being able to sell to the customer,” Stein said in February, “it’s kind of limited the outlook in terms of what we could do.”

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Jason Stein and Zac Ross at work at 12 Percent in North Haven, where Timber Ales is produced.

quences.”

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded a total of nearly $375,000 to three organizations in Nassau County. The Marion and Aaron Gural JCC in Cedarhurst and the Family and Children’s Association in Mineola also received about $125,000 each.

“Preventing youth substance abuse in our communities is critical, and these grants will help us do just that,” U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice said in a press release. “I commend the Rockville Centre Coalition for Youth for their tireless work.”

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Susan Blauner, far left; Ruthanne McCormack, ; Sgt. Nicholas DeLuca and Liz Boylan.

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McDonald Pond rededicated with signage

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RVC finds new way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day For more than a quarter of a century, the Rockville Centre St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been a widely anticipated event in the community, an exuberant celebration known for its charitable outreach as well. With the pandemic preventing a large gathering for a second year in 2021, the “parade that shares and cares” has found a new way to give back. For the entire month of March, the parade committee focused on generating financial support for the local business community.

“For nearly 25 years, the RVC community has supported the Rockville Centre St. Patrick’s Parade,” said Andrew Healey, president of the parade committee, in March, noting that it has raised more than $1.3 million and supported more than 70 charities over the years. “This year there are a lot of people hurting, and we decided to turn the tide.”

In March, the committee launched a charitable GoFundMe page, with a goal of raising $25,000 for small businesses in the village. “The Rockville Centre St. Patrick’s Parade MARCH for Small Business” campaign sought to help 13 people or organizations in two categories: small businesses and individual employees.

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SSHS heroes honored Local elected officials and residents gathered to celebrate the bravery and heroism of two young Rockville Centre men, Billy Mohr and Patrick Erickson, after the pair helped save a passenger trapped in an overturned car in Baldwin on the night of March 13.

The pair, both juniors at South Side High School, received honors for their efforts.

Mayor Francis Murray, State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, Assemblywoman Judy Griffin, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Town of Hempstead Clerk Kate Murray and village Trustees Nancy Howard and Emilio Grillo were all on hand outside Village Hall to praise Mohr and Erickson and present them with more proclamations than they could carry.

“It looked like it was out of a movie,” Erickson said.

The two were in the backseat of two friends’ car that night at around 11:30 p.m., traveling along Grand Avenue in Baldwin, when they spotted an overturned car at the corner of Grand and Demott avenues, according to Jerry Brown, public information officer for the Baldwin Fire Department.

Erickson and Mohr immediately told their friends to pull over, and called 911 as they ran over to the three injured passengers lying in the

nesses were selected to receive up to $5,000 each, while 10 employees of local businesses had the chance to be awarded up to $1,000 each.

“It’s a win-win,” Healey said. “It helps those who are hurting now, and in the end it will help everyone when we get back to some sense of normal.”

Committee members, he added, launched the campaign at “lightning speed,” making it happen in about two weeks.

Each year, the committee selects a grand marshal and several benefiting charitable organizations. The charities must apply for the funding, and, Healey said, choosing them is “the hardest thing to do.”

The charities chosen — the Rockville Centre Breast Cancer Coalition, the Army Ranger Lead the Way Fund and the Holy Family School for the Deaf — will not be forgotten, he said, but the fundraising efforts will pause until 2022.

“We still have a responsibility to charities, and we’ll never shy away from that,” Healey said. “This is a way to support the small businesses, many of whom have been so supportive of local organizations over the years.”

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Juliette Poppy Clancy, far left, Ellie and Jack Clancy enjoyed the parade two years ago.

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As they tried to get their bearings, they shouted to Erickson and Mohr that one of their friends was still in the car. The boys then sprinted over to one of the back doors of the overturned vehicle and tried to pry it open, with help from two other pedestrians who happened upon the crash.

Together, the two boys and the two other men managed to rip the door off its hinges. One of the pedestrians had a pocketknife, with which Erickson and Mohr cut the tangled seat belt.

With the last injured passenger free, the boys took a few seconds to collect themselves as emergency services personnel arrived, three minutes after their call.

“I didn’t really think about if I would get hurt,” Mohr recounted. “I don’t know what it was, but something just made me feel like,‘We have to go over there and help them.’”

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SSHS students stage virtual play South Side High School’s production of “The Theory of Relativity” successfully streamed performances virtually between May 6 and 8, marking a triumphant return after the 2020 production was halted mere weeks ahead of opening night.

Pam Seiderman, the director, had to manage the production as part play, part movie, filming, recording and editing it over the course of a few days. Drone footage was even used for outdoor scenes, where students could socially distance and not need to wear masks.

Seiderman credited her crew for using unique methods to weave in live and pre-recorded songs and scenes that were edited together. “It takes a village,” she said. “It was a lot, and we had to get creative, but we

“First and foremost, I want to give thanks to God, of course,” he said. “I was scared, and it was tough, but the love you’ve shown me made me fight harder.”

The Williams family gathered near the entrance of the hospital and prayed together, grateful for Michael’s recovery.

Tracey and Michael, their children Ashley and Christopher and grandchildren A.J. and Ari all tested positive for Covid-19 in late January. Tracey described most of their cases as mild, but Michael’s case was alarming.

Rockville Centre resident Michael Williams is described by his wife, Tracey, as an alpha male who has never been afraid of a battle. Over the course of 85 days at Catholic Health’s Mercy Hospital, Williams fought Covid-19 physically and mentally — and beat it.

The impression he made on hospital staff members was clear: Dozens of doctors and nurses saw him off when he was discharged. They, along with family members and friends, lined Mercy’s lobby and cheered as Williams was wheeled out. The 59-year-old Army veteran was in high spirits, joking with staff all the way down the hallway and posing for pictures.

Williams spent 17 years in the Army, in a medical unit.

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RVC resident Michael Williams was sent off after his 85-day hospital stay by Mercy Hospital staff.

think we did the best we could in the circumstances, and I’m really proud of what we created.”

The play, which was adapted from the 2016 book by Brian Hill, focuses on college students and the importance of human interaction.“It’s really about how, though it seems like we’re all disconnected, we’re actually all connected in this world, and we need each other,” Seiderman said.

The play was also chosen because of the smaller cast required, which worked better given coronavirus safety protocols. Students submitted virtual auditions in January, and callbacks were done via Zoom.

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The masked cast of “The Theory of Relativity” performing at South Side High School.

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It took all of regulation and two series of overtime to decide the Oct. 16 Nassau Conference III football game between South Side and Floral Park.

The pendulum shifted in both directions for the entirety of the game, as there were multiple junctures where each side seemed destined to win. In the end it was South Side pulling out a thrilling 34-33 victory in front of a spirited homecoming crowd.

“I couldn’t be happier for my guys,” Cyclones head coach Phil Onesto said.

“We knew Floral Park was a great team, and we were fortunate enough to make one more play than them at the end.”

The final play was a perfect 20-yard lob from sophomore quarterback Owen West to his older brother, senior Brady West. These two were dynamic from kickoff to the final snap, as Owen had 79 passing yards and 94 rushing yards. Brady had 56 receiving yards and two touchdowns, as well as a 25-yard passing touchdown on a trick play.

South Side’s offense did not solely run through the Wests. Running backs Matt Solano and Jack Lozito played

South Side ran away with conference titles in girls’ and boys’ cross-country this fall, going undefeated in the process, and the ladies followed up with a repeat Nassau Class II championship.

In muddy and slippery conditions at Bethpage State Park Oct. 30, South Side had three of the top five finishers and out-legged Calhoun and Manhasset by a considerable margin.

“The girls were underdogs on paper, but it was well within their reach and they absolutely peaked at the right time,” coach Chris Webster said. “They all ran huge.”

Junior Cameron Coletti finished one second under 20 minutes to pace the Cyclones. She was second overall. “Cameron is considered one of Long Island top runners,” Webster said. Freshman Lara Jewett, a transfer from Bellmore, burst onto the scene for and emerged as South Side’s No. 2. She was fourth in the county meet. Sophomore Claire Bohan features a “smooth stride,” the coach noted, and finished third on the team in most races

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crucial parts, as they each had rushing touchdowns. Sophomore receiver Michael Melkonian also was a steady target, racking up 40 yards and a touchdown.

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Sophomore Jack Lozito opened the scoring in South Side’s 34-33 overtime win over Floral Park.

and did so again last Saturday when she was fifth overall. Sophomores Kelsie Reinholdt and Morgan McKenna completed its top five and finished 17th and 22nd overall, respectively.

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Grillo, Conlon elected to village board Street named after beloved barber After 53 years of serving the Rockville Centre community, Jose Dominguez was honored on June 5, when a section of North Park Avenue was named for him at a ceremony at his business, Pioneer Hair Design.

Chamber of Commerce President Brian Croutier and ESPN personality Kevin Connors, who grew up in the village, worked together with the board of trustees and Mayor Francis Murray to make the street renaming happen.

. “He’s the American dream,” Connors said of Dominguez.

“He’s the kindest, sweetest person that I know. He’s a fixture here in Rockville Centre, and we need to do something to honor that.”

“It’s an honor to be able to honor him,” Croutier added.

When polls closed in Rockville Centre on Election Night, incumbent Emilio Grillo and newcomer Katie Conlon were elected to the village board for four-year terms over challenger Mark Albarano. Grillo and Conlon both ran on the RVC Family Party line, while Albarano ran as an independent.

Grillo received 1,157 votes, while Conlon garnered 1,136 and Albarano netted 915.

Kevin McDonough received 1,222 votes in an uncontested race for a four-year term as village justice.

Grillo said he was “humbled and honored” to be re-elected to a third term after also winning voters’ support in 2013 and 2017.

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Jose Dominguez with the new street sign commemorating his decades of hair-cutting.

“As I pledged in my campaign, I look forward to finishing what I started,” he said,“and remain committed to continued collaboration with our mayor and village board, and a civil, honest and transparent government.”

Grillo has been a resident of the village since 1999. He was the village prosecutor from 2004 to 2013, and first ran for trustee in 2006. He is a partner at a law firm Conlon was born and raised in Rockville Centre, and is now raising her three children in the village. When she moved back to the area 12 years ago, she left her job as a nurse practitioner at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Since then she has immersed herself in local organizations.

South Side seniors look ahead After a tumultuous year that saw students jump from virtual to hybrid to in-person classes because of the Covid-19 pandemic, South Side High School’s class of 2021 had its moment in the sun as seniors gathered at Hofstra University’s Shuart Stadium for graduation on June 25.

Valedictorian Ethan Steere challenged his fellow students during his speech to become the new captains of industry like Elon Musk.

Then-Board of Education President Tara Hackett applauded students for making it through a senior year of isolation and challenges to adapt to.

At the end of the ceremony,

the graduates finally got to turn their tassels and toss their caps at the end of the long journey.

The celebration continued all the way back to the school, where students piled into their cars and led a mini parade down Princeton Road with honking and singling along the way.

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Members of the South Side High School class of 2021 celebrated after receiving their diplomas.

United Church celebrates pride

On July 27, members of United Church in Rockville Centre celebrated Pride Sunday mere days after their LGBTQ+ flag was torn down.

More than 100 masked attendees packed the church for its 9:30 a.m. service which focused on inclusiveness in the United Church of Christ.

The Rev. Scott Ressman was helped by congregants to decorate the interior of the church with colored

balloons making up the pride flag behind the altar and throughout the building. Ressman also based his sermon on a cover Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors,” an anthem for members of the LGBTQ+ community to not be afraid of being themselves.

Community institutions, including attended the service.

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The Rev. Scott Ressman and Lori Dunne, chairwoman of Christian education.

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Throughout Rockville Centre, many windows of local shops sported “help wanted” signs, making it clear that business owners were working their way past the economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic in August.

Elizabeth Douge, owner of Presava Boutique on Merrick Road, said her business has been hurt by a lack of large gatherings like weddings and family parties when people often buy new outfits for the event.

She claimed the biggest obstacle for her filling new positions was a high ask from potential workers that she could not afford at the time.

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Kalandarov of Prestige Barber Shop on Merrick Road, the lack of in-person events led many to avoid venturing out to get haircuts as often.

Eduard said it was a difficult time to get new barbers hired because many candidates did not want to be in close contact to other people.

Frank Siller can recall sitting at a kitchen table with his siblings and other family members on Sept.

11, 2001, glued to the television as they collectively realized that Frank’s younger brother, Stephen, wasn’t going to return from the World Trade Center.

In honor of Stephen and all those who lost their lives that day and in the years afterward, to cancers that resulted from their work at ground zero, Frank took part in the six-weeklong Never Forget Walk, a 537-mile trek from the Pentagon to the World Trade Center.

The endeavor benefitted the Tunnel to Towers Foundation,

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Eduard Kalandarov said it was a challenge to find new employees for his Prestige Barber Shop as the coronavirus pandemic dragged on.

which Frank and his family created in Stephen’s honor.

This year was especially important to Frank because it was the 20th anniversary of the attacks and Stephen’s death. One of the main goals of the Tunnel to Towers program is to keep the memory of the 2,977 victims on that fateful day two decades ago, and former New York City Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano said he was thankful to have the program to help keep the memory of that day alive.

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FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller, who grew up in Rockville Centre, died in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. His brother, Frank, walked 537 miles in his honor.

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‘May his memory live in our hearts’ BOE accepts school chief’s resignation The Rockville Centre Board of Education accepted the resignation of Superintendent June Chang at its Aug. 25 meeting. Chang announced his decision to step down in a letter to the board on Aug. 11, just over a year after he signed a five-year contract to serve as superintendent.

At the meeting, Chang stood by his recommendation to rehire South Side High School girls’ varsity soccer coach

Jennifer Abgarian – Newsday’s All-Long Island girls’ soccer Coach of the Year – and her assistant Chris Aloisi, who were both voted out in separate 3-2 votes from the Board of Education in July.

Eleni Maria Panaghi, 13, was not yet born when her uncle, died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but that didn’t keep her from collecting money in his memory to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his death.

Eleni, an eighth grader at South Side Middle School decided to raise $3,500 -$100 for each year her uncle lived – for the Tunnels to Towers Foundation.

To reach her fundraising goal, Eleni handed out jars to friends and family members to fill with loose change, and also launched an online campaign on the Tunnel to Towers website.

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BOE accepted the resignation of Superintendent June Chang at its Aug. 25 meeting.

passing her goal, raising $6,428 for the foundation, which honors the memory of firefighter and RVC native Stephen Siller, who also died in the attacks.

Because she collected more donations than she expected, Eleni decided to buy pins and thank-you cards for members of the Rockville Centre police and fire departments, which she delivered to them on Labor Day.

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South Side Middle School eighth grader Eleni Panaghi, 13, raised more than $6,000 for the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

Benefitting kids with special needs After being cancelled last year because of the pandemic, the Tim McMullan Memorial Golf Outing returned on Oct. 1 to raise money for children with special needs.

The outing, at the Clearview Park Golf Course, resumed its mission to raise money for the special needs community in honor of Tim McMullan, a South Side High School student who died in an accident in 2008.

McMullan was a volunteer in the SSHS CORE program and Camp Anchor at Lido Beach.

Lauren Falkenhainer, McMullan’s sister, and her husband Miles presented a $10,000 check to the RVC Conservancy at the cocktail hour at MacArthur Park in RVC after the

outing. That money will go toward completing the new inclusive playground at the John A. Anderson Recreation Center’s Mr. B’s Playground.

The playground also received a boost on Sept. 25 when the state released $500,000 in funding for its construction. Another RVCbased organization trying to help the special needs community, the Tommy Brull Foundation, also helped to raise funds for the playground.

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Lauren Falkenhainer, her husband Miles, and members of the RVC Lions Club presented a $10,000 check to the RVC Conservancy.

Past St. Agnes music director is sentenced

A former musical director at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre was sentenced to six years in federal prison for receiving child pornography and sending sexually explicit photos of boys to an undercover officer using the screen name “pervdad516.”

Michael Wustrow, 59, of Freeport, was sentenced on Oct. 13 by U.S. District Judge Denis Hurley, who said

that Wustrow would have to register as a sex offender and be subject to special conditions when he is released from prison.

For 24 years, Wustrow worked at St. Agnes and the Diocese of Rockville Centre, directing several youth choirs.

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Former St. Agnes musical director Michael Wustrow.

Local activist helps those in need In addition to the food pantry, Sheppard has also established a cooking academy to go along with tutoring, photography, dance, and arts programs at the center this year. The academy is a labor of love for her, because cooking, she said, is one of her great joys. On Thursdays she teaches table etiquette to a couple of dozen local young people as well as how to prepare healthy food.

“Sharon is one of the most OF generous-hearted people I’ve ever met,” said Ginny O’Sullivan, of the nonprofit the RVC Friends of MLK. “She has this powerful desire to help others. She reaches out to kids and adults, but she listens with a very open heart, and the world really is better off with Sharon Sheppard in it.” O’Sullivan, who taught at Wilson Elementary for three decades, is now helping with the MLK Center’s photography class.

In April 2020, Sheppard told the Herald how much giving back meant to her.

“It’s always been my passion to help people, whether they are well or sick, it’s just a natural instinct for me,” she said. “If I can help these families, I can rest that night.”

Amid all of her work, Sheppard has endured chemotherapy and experimental treatments for breast cancer. She received the diagnosis in July 2020, also learning that the cancer had spread to her liver, thyroid, lungs and bones. A clinical trial and chemotherapy this year helped clear the cancer from her liver and lungs.

“The kids give me inspiration,” she said. “Coming to work and having the kids around helps me fight even more.”

THE Sheppard’s diagnosis and treatment prompted her to work with Rockville Centre Deputy Mayor Kathy Baxley to bring the Nassau University Medical Center’s mobile mammography van to the MLK Center for free breast cancer screenings during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.

“That was most important program to me,” Sheppard said of the screenings.

Emma Travers, also of the Friends of MLK, called Sheppard a “force of nature,” citing her ability to get things done when she sets her mind to it. “She’s an example for all of us,” Travers said.

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Officials talk development Residents who were against the development voiced fears that increased traffic and overcrowding would hurt the small town feel in the village.

Trustee Michael Sepe closed the meeting by stating his opposition to the proposal.

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The Rockville Centre village board of trustees presented a preliminary plan for a multi-family, transit-oriented development at a town hall meeting at the Sandel Senior Center on Oct. 27, which received mixed reviews from residents.

Mayor Francis X. Murray and the trustees sat before an audience of dozens of residents to get input on the proposal, which was prepared by a Manhattan-based consulting firm, BFJ Planning.

The project would include new buildings up to three-stories tall, also grandfathered in existing larger structures, like the nowempty Rockville Centre Diocese building.

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WWII vet celebrates his 100th birthday with Legion Herbert Rosenberg, a World War II veteran and prison camp survivor, was honored on his 100th birthday on Nov. 6 at his Cleveland Avenue home, on the Rockville Centre-Oceanside border, by his family, friends, and fellow American Legion post members.

Rockville Centre firefighters, Nassau County police, and veterans held a parade by Rosenberg’s home as a salute to the veteran.

Rosenberg was drafted into the Army in 1942 when he was 20, and he worked his way up to the rank of staff sergeant, becoming a right waist gunner on a B-17 bomber.

In 1944, his aircraft

“Punchboard,” part of the 453nd Bombardment Group, was shot down by German fighters during a mission over Poznan, Poland, and crashed in Nazi-occupied Denmark. There, the crew members were captured and sent to the Stalag Luft 17 prison camp.

Rosenberg teared up when family, neighbors, and American Legion Post 303 members came over to the veteran and sang “Happy Birthday.”

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Frank Colon, of American Legion Post 303, far left, Rockville Centre Trustees Emilio Grillo and Katie Conlon and Mayor Francis Murray led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to Herbert Rosenberg.

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Rockville Centre pharmacist Howard Jacobson is among the many independent pharmacy owners who have struggled over the years due to the influence of pharmacy benefit managers and have urged Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign into law the Pharmacy Rescue Package.

The bill was passed overwhelmingly by the State Assembly and Senate in June.

PBMs act as middlemen between pharmacies, on one side, and drug manufacturers and insurance companies on the other. Currently, PBMs such as OptumRx, Express Scripts, and CVS Caremark have the power to determine how much money pharmacies are reimbursed for the prescriptions they dispense.

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A survey of more than 300 independent pharmacists earlier this year, conducted by the Pharmacists Society of the State of New York, found that 98 percent of respondents had their reimbursements cut during the pandemic.

“It’s alarming what’s happening in our state, on our island and in our own little Nassau County,” said Jacobson, the owner of Rockville Centre Pharmacy. “RVC Pharmacy, a tiny little location, we’re doing over 100 vaccinations every day, and that’s on top of our testing.”

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Q. I just rented a retail space, and I’m planning changes with my architect. The architect says I have to “upgrade” the restroom to handicapped-accessible, which will cost at least $8,000 and maybe more, depending on whether the old pipes can be reused where they are. I don’t understand why other stores around me have original restrooms but I have to change mine. We were only moving a couple of walls and installing a new ceiling. Can you tell me if the architect is right about the change?

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A. You would think the answer is an easy one, that it would be either yes or no. Unfortunately, the answer is that the decision in these matters is discretionary, left to the plans examiner, who either strictly interprets the code and the federal and state laws based on the Americans with Disabilities Act (which was signed into law by onte eeper President George H.W. Bush in 1990), or determines that the physical upgrade of the restroom isn’t necessary. The law states that businesses with 15 or more employees must comply, but is overridden by the fact that establishments cannot discriminate against people with disabilities, patrons or employees.

I once had a meeting at which the attorney for my client was challenging my advice to our mutual client that an upgrade — a renovation — would be necessary. The attorney appropriately pointed out exactly the same argument that you’re making, that nobody else has had to upgrade, and therefore you shouldn’t have to, either. My guess is that your neighbors may have been in that location for many years, and as long as nobody brings their location up to an official, we leave well enough alone, or that the official interpreted that the upgrade wouldn’t be necessary. I’m willing to bet that your neighbors, for the most part, moved in without anyone filing anything formally, with plans and permits, so the proprietors think they have no issue to deal with.

You, on the other hand, operating honestly and legitimately, probably feel that even though you can’t discriminate against a person with a disability, you’re being unfairly discriminated against.

Although I agree that you are being unfairly judged differently than your neighbors, your architect and any licensed professional, including the attorney, swore to uphold the laws of the state they practice in. If officials choose not to investigate every location, that is the governing bodies’ choice.

Your architect is only trying to do what is right under the law.

Coincidentally, that very morning, when the attorney was making the case that others were not in compliance, there was an incident in lower Manhattan in which an attorney had his heels slashed by a homeless man on a subway platform, and was instantly debilitated. I pointed out to the attorney that that poor guy was now disabled, and that we humans are all vulnerable, by age or accident, and need to be considered. He answered, “You should have been an attorney.”

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Publisher Stuart Richner guides the business and news operations of the 18 newspapers in the Herald Community Newspapers group, including the Nassau Herald, which serves the Five Towns, and Heralds for Baldwin, Bellmore, East Meadow, Franklin Square-Elmont, Freeport, Glen Cove, Long Beach, Lynbrook-East Rockaway, Malverne-West Hempstead, Merrick, Oceanside-Island Park, Oyster Bay, Rockville Centre, Sea Cliff-Glen Head, Valley Stream, Wantagh and Seaford.

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The production department is responsible for the papers’ design. The advertising and art departments produce the large, often illustrated display advertisements that appear throughout the papers. The classified department produces the smaller advertisements at the back of the papers.

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We are proud to say that we have won many press association awards for our editorial writing over the years.

Among our most important duties is publication of our annual endorsements in local elections.

We take this responsibility seriously. Editorial staff members sit down with candidates to question them about their views on major issues before offering the paper’s opinions about which candidates would best represent our readers.

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he Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., set off a cascade of worldwide catastrophes over the subsequent two decades — the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and many other terrorist attacks, in multiple countries. September 2001 seems like a lifetime ago, but for those old enough to remember that terrible year, it remains a haunting memory, a fever dream that we try to lock in the backs of our brains but is ever-present.

For those of us in Nassau County that day, we could only watch in horror as grayblack smoke plumes spiraled out of the twisted, crumbled remains of the twin towers upward into an otherwise perfect azure sky. The plumes were visible from points across the county.

Shortly after the attacks, people started to gather on the beach in Lido and at the Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick — the highest point on the South Shore — to watch the billowing smoke, staring silently in stunned disbelief.

The United States homeland was under attack for the first time since World War II, and at that moment, we had no idea who the invader was, or the future suffering in distant lands that the attacks would bring.

It was all incomprehensibly terrifying.

In a front-page story in the Heralds’ Sept. 13-19 issue, “Terror at the Towers,” reported by Scott Brinton, Carrie James, Laura Lane, Jeff Lipton, Larry Maier and Cindy Roth, this is how we described the scene: “A wave of fear and despair raced across [Nassau County] Tuesday morning

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’m really scared. It’s so scary if we have something of a World War III. I’m really, really scared.

Rollen Cajoles after terrorists slammed two hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center, sending the Twin Towers crumbling into Lower Manhattan.

“In the afternoon, surviving victims of the attack filtered into Nassau by Long Island Rail Road, like refugees from a war zone. Many, who were still shaking dusty, white debris from their clothes, were not from the area but had taken the first train they could out of the city and gotten off at the first possible stop.”

We sent our reporters to the train stations to meet the survivors of the attacks.

Sylvia Melendez, who worked in Lower Manhattan, described the chaos after the towers crashed to the ground. “The rush of clouds of debris forced everyone out into the streets,” she said. “Everyone was running away.”

Here in Nassau, people were glued to their TVs and radios, watching and listening, hoping for the best but fearing the worst. “I’ve been listening all morning,” Luisa DeGirolamo, who worked at La Margherita Pastry Shop in Bellmore Village, said. “I’m devasted. I can’t get over it.”

Rollen Cagoles, of East Meadow, said, “I’m really scared. It’s so scary if we have something of a World War III. I’m really,

really scared.”

Many parents rushed to their children’s schools to pick them up and take them home, fearful of further attacks. “A lot of people came and pulled their kids out because they didn’t want them to be in a place with a large group of people,” said Pat Brace, PTA president of Bowling Green Elementary School in East Meadow.

“They thought they would be a target.”

Nassau police doubled patrols around municipal buildings, schools, houses of worship and transportation lines. Police also diverted westbound traffic away from New York City. Motorists who had to travel major throughfares were advised to stay home.

The military closed down the airspace over Long Island, with unlighted F-16 fighter jets streaking overhead above John F. Kennedy International Airport into the night of Sept. 11 to 12.

Nearly 500 Long Islanders died in the attacks at the World Trade Center or later succumbed to 9/11-related illnesses. Each one was a life extinguished too soon. We must remember all of them — their essential goodness, their essential humanity.

In the coming days, there will be solemn ceremonies in remembrance of the dead.

Consider attending one to show your support for the victims, or stop and pause for a moment at 8:46 and 9:04 a.m. on Saturday and reflect on or say a prayer for the victims. In this way, you will help to keep their memories alive for generations to come. “Never forget” should never become a trite slogan. It should be a motto by which we live.

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A letter to Governor Hochul To the Editor: Congratulations and good luck to Gov. Kathy Hochul. She has been thrust into a role that is critical to the 19.45 million people who live, work and play in the Empire State. Here on Long Island, we are especially hopeful for her good work.

The challenges on Long Island are many. Our aging infrastructure needs serious attention. As the nation’s first suburb, we are living with an antiquated system that requires an upgrade. Our increasingly overburdened roadways, bridges and tunnels are dismal.

The environmental infrastructure is failing.

Drinking water has challenges, including the quality and quantity. Surface water contamination is rampant from nitrogen and other pollutants entering our creeks, bays, harbors and the Long Island Sound. Our air is polluted with toxins too small to see with the naked eye. We are vulnerable to sea level rise, climate change and the inevitable next big storm. The fact is, we aren’t ready.

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Opinion columns We publish three columns every week.

Columns represent the views of the writers themselves, not of the Herald. Each writer works independently and chooses his or her own subjects.

Among our regular contributors are the Heralds’ executive editor, Scott Brinton, and the Nassau Herald’s former executive editor, Randi Kreiss, both of whom have won numerous awards for their opinion writing. We also feature columns by prominent political figures, including former State Assemblyman Jerry Kremer, who is now a consultant. And we regularly invite guest columnists to offer their views.

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hen talking with my grandkids about returning to school this fall — to the building, with other kids, not the dining room table — I was reminded of a school day of my own years ago.

“Bobby.” I heard my name called on the second-floor landing of A. B. Davis High School in Mount Vernon, N.Y. The caller was Mr. Leone, Joseph Leone, my biology teacher and college adviser. “Why haven’t you signed up for ALAn the SATs?” he asked. sinGer Neither of my parents had attended college, my mother had died eight years earlier, and my father, a vacuum cleaner salesman, had his hands full with two active kids. When I think about the controversies surrounding school openings this fall, I think, too, of the critical role of teachers in the lives of their students.

That certainly was the case for me.

Mr. Leone wasn’t alone in affecting my life for the better. I was going to drop out of college after my first year not only because of the cost, but also because I

questioned why I was there. I entered to be a minister, but had become disillusioned with organized religion. My college adviser, Mildred Martin, helped me sort through the financial and philosophical questions and urged me to appeal my financial aid award, and I continued as her student.

Other teachers stand out as well. Miss Calabrese and Miss King, in elementary school, “Pop” Phillips in high school, Mark Ebersole in college, and Kay Moore and Robin Williams in graduate school.

The past year of living and learning with Covid in our path and in our shadows revealed the inequalities of access to teachers like the ones I’ve known. When teachers are diverted from their main responsibilities, teaching and advising, they can’t fulfill their roles to the fullest. It is especially difficult for them to be effective when students lack access to broadband and Wi-Fi, a quiet place to study, and supportive adults to help them with difficult assignments.

A distinguished psychologist once said that we human beings are the “teaching species.” All species must learn enough to leave the nest, but humans turned teaching into a “calling,” a vocation dedicated to preparing the next generation

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was going to drop out of college after my first year. I questioned why I was there.

Letters looming issues need real solutions, not lip service. We need to address the Island’s solid-waste crisis, illegal dumping and the associated increases in disposal costs.

Hochul hasn’t been handed the reins of the state at our finest hour. New Yorkers suffer with an unsustainable tax burden that’s accelerating the exodus of high-net-worth people, employers and job creators. The growing disparity in income and wealth, an increasing immigrant population and the associated educational and health care challenges are monumental. And our young workforce and empty-nesters are leaving because of a lack of affordable housing.

Leaders in the past have forsaken us in favor of book deals, their own selfish agendas and their next election. Indeed, some are in prison for their bad behavior, but the reality is, the good people of New York have been sold out, and that’s why we require Hochul’s earnest leadership.

We have hope in her vision, fortitude and ability to make the really tough decisions. We’re counting on her. Most important, please know that we are here for you, governor. Long Island and the state of New York have immense resources, none greater than their residents.

There will be vocal naysayers who attempt to stop Hochul from addressing these vexing challenges. There are people who talk a lot, and there are people who get stuff done. To Hochul, I say this:

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Letters to the editor

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Cuomo should be impeached To the Editor: Re Robert Rosenberg’s column “History repeats itself in Albany — again and again” (Aug. 26-Sept. 1): I agree with Rosenberg’s opinions, and would add that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo would indeed get the last hurrah and make “the State Legislature and state government look like a ship of fools” if it gave him a free pass on the nursing home deaths scandal and his subsequent cooking of the books to make it appear less egregious than he would have had us believe. Interestingly, Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed immediately that these deaths were undercounted by some 12,000.

By ordering nursing homes to accept Covid-19 patients, Cuomo, threatening owners with penalty if they did not comply, exposed many more confined elderly to the virus, potentially causing their deaths. With all due respect, I consider manslaughter to be an even more serious

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to the nation. They believed that education should be public; is critical to democracy because it prepares an informed citizenry, able to ask questions; is important because it prevents aristocracy and promotes meritocracy; should be free from religion and ideology; should be equal and equally available to all citizens; and is a public investment that is worth the cost.

While the ideals of the Founders foundered on the compromises made to create a republic, they nevertheless created within the Constitution the mechanisms for correcting early mistakes and providing the means for continuing the pursuit of a “more perfect union,” which we have shown the ability to do.

As we help our kids and grandkids, or relatives or neighbors’ kids, prepare for a new school year, let us acknowledge the noble profession of teaching, perhaps by remembering our own teachers, and do what we can to fulfill the Founders’ aspirations for true equality of education in America.

Please be the latter. Be bold. We heard you say you’d “fight like hell for New York,” and that’s exactly what Long Island needs.

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with knowledge, skills and values. As a result, teachers have a moral, social, civic and historical responsibility for not only educating each new generation but also, in this way, creating the future.

We must remember the vocation, the calling, of teaching. As the historian Jacques Barzun said, “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

At the beginning of our nation, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson stated that public education was at the heart of democracy.

“The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it,” Adams wrote. “There should not be a district of one mile square without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”

Jefferson expressed similar sentiments. It is unfortunate, therefore, that some local school boards see teachers simply as employees, instead of as those who inspire discovery and awaken students’ imaginations, as Mark Van Doren and Robert Frost said.

But while the Founders argued that schooling was a local responsibility, they were adamant about the public benefits

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crime than the sexual harassment charges that forced Cuomo’s resignation.

Given the present state of affairs, it is now the State Legislature (and, ultimately, the State Senate) that is on trial, and it remains to be seen whether playing politics will take precedence over what must be done in the name of justice. How can

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anyone trust Cuomo now? He contends that he will not seek future political office, but only impeachment would close the book on that possibility, definitively and conclusively.

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