A new children’s book written by the North Shore School District’s own Mojdeh Hassani is challenging the way people in the United States view traditional Middle Eastern clothing.
“Mama Shamsi at the Bazaar,” published Feb. 28, follows the story of a young girl who finds safety and comfort in her grandmother’s chador, a garment often viewed in the West as oppressive to women.
The crowd waited in hushed silence as North Shore High School senior Matt Nochowitz stepped forward for his final frame of the match. When he let the bowl-
ing ball go it sped down the lane and slammed into the pins, sending them flying — and making history by becoming the first North Shore student to bowl a perfect game for the district.
Nochowitz has been bowling as long as he can remem-
ber. The captain of the high School bowling team, he grew up watching and bowling with his dad, Dennis, a passionate bowler who also competed in high school and continues to participate in men’s league tournaments.
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Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, many Muslim or Middle Eastern-Americans have faced discrimination and abuse for wearing traditional clothing like chadors, burqas of niqabs. This stems from the false narrative that women who wear these clothing are forced to do so. While there are some countries or families who force or pressure women into wearing them, by and large it is the individual’s choice, particularly in the United States.
I saw Iranian women in black chador in the U.S. news networks, they were portrayed as angry and hostile.
Hassani, who grew up in Iran, explained that she based the book largely on her own experiences visiting the bazaar with her grandmother Shamsi Memarpoor, who frequently wore a chador, more commonly known in the West as a hijab. The chador is a traditional garment worn by women across the Middle East that covers the whole body, leaving only all or sometimes just part of the face uncovered.
MOJDEH HASSANI author
Hassani, a resident of Sea Cliff, explained that for the last 10 years she wanted to write a book that would help challenge this harmful view, and show how much joy and kindness the garment holds for her and others of Middle Eastern descent.
“Whenever I saw Iranian women in black chador in the U.S. news networks, they were portrayed as angry and hostile,” Hassani stated. “But my image of that magical black hijab was
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Matt has bowled for the district since seventh grade, and although he says his true passion is baseball, he’s loved the chance to bowl in between his fall and spring sporting commitments.
“It’s just nice to like have something in the middle that’s fun and not too stressful,” Nochowitz explained. “I kind of just have fun, and I like the team and the coach a lot too.”
As talented a bowler as he is, Nochowitz said does not intend to continue bowling when he moves to SUNY Cortland next year, instead focusing on his baseball career. Despite this, he added that bowling at North Shore has given him some of his favorite school memories.
His coach, Brian Rodahan, a history teacher in the district, has known Nochowitz since he was in middle school and coached his older sister while she was on the bowling team. Rodahan said that it’s been amazing to watch Nochowitz grow into a great athlete and, most importantly, into a leader on and off the lanes.
“He’s always been one of those
kids that has high energy, you know, very enthusiastic — a team player. No matter what sport he’s ever tried he always goes the extra mile to try to perfect his game,” Rodahan said. “It’s really cool to see a kid develop into a young man who has the ability to not just play a sport but also be a leader.”
On Jan. 17, Nochowitz had a chance to put his experience and skill to the test as he and the North Shore bowling team faced off against their opponents from Carle Place High School. During bowling matches, the top three players from each team compete to see which team can rack up the highest total score.
Nochowitz said that in the past he’s made seven or eight strikes in a row, so when he made his first few strikes he didn’t think much of it. He said that he was not nervous, reminding himself, “I’ve done this
before, no pressure.”
On his 11th ball, he said, it really began to sink in that he could bowl a perfect game. After nailing another strike, Nochowitz took a deep breath and prepared to make history.
“I kind of just turned around and soaked it all in,” was how he described getting ready for his final shot. “After hitting the 11th shot I just thought, ‘Just do the same thing on repeat.’ Then I did it again. As soon as I let it go, I knew it was a strike.”
Rodahan explained that during bowling matches the sidelines have to be quiet while a player is preparing for their shots, and that during this particular match the entire bowling alley was quiet as everyone watched to see if Nochowitz could finish the job. As the ball rolled down the lane, a huge cheer went up from his teammates, the crowd and even
members of the opposing team as they all watched the ball crash into the pins.
Nochowitz is the first player in North Shore School District history to bowl a perfect game, and is also the only high school player to do so in Nassau County this season. Nochowitz said part of his success is thanks to the presence of his family who came to support him, especially his aunt Michele Manfredi, who he says never misses any of his games for any sport.
Rodahan said he continues to be amazed by the skill and determination of his team captain, but maintains that what continues to impress him most is Nochowitz’s maturity and thoughtfulness for his teammates and fellow students.
“It’s really cool to see someone who has great values and is really close to his family really achieve that success,” Rodahan said. “I’m proud for him, and feel that whatever he achieves in life, whether it be in sports or any kind of job, he’s going to go beyond expectations and achieve success.”
As soon as I let it go, I knew it was a strike.
MATT NOCHOWITZ Captain, North Shore High School Bowling Team
Before the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history was the destruction of the steamboat the Lexington, which sank in 1840, with a loss of 139 lives. Although few now remember the tale of the Lexington, local author and former Newsday staff writer Bill Bleyer, of Bayville, hopes to change that with his new book, “The Sinking of the Steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound.”
The Lexington was a paddlewheel steamboat that transported passengers and cargo across the Sound starting in 1835. The ship was commissioned and designed by Cornelius Vanderbilt, the patriarch of the business dynasty, and was considered one of the most cutting-edge vessels of its time.
The ship’s smokestack caught fire on the night of Jan. 13, 1840, while it was sailing from New York to Stonington, Connecticut, with 143 passengers and crew, as well as 150 bales of cotton. All but four of the people on board were killed in the ensuing conflagration, drowned or died of hypothermia.
Bleyer said he first came across the story of the Lexington in the mid-1990s, when he was working on a series for Newsday on local maritime stories. While researching shipwrecks around Long Island, he said, he was amazed by the tragic tale and the dogged resilience of the four survivors.
“When I stumbled across the Lexington, I thought to myself, ‘Wow, this is a pretty amazing story,’” Bleyer recalled. “I actually did a full page in the series on the Lexington disaster; the fire and how the four people survived was so interesting.”
This isn’t Bleyer’s first time writing about the Lexington. He also mentioned it in his fourth book, “Long Island and the Sea,” a maritime history of Long Island, in a chapter on shipwrecks, but he knew even then he wasn’t done with the story.
During the pandemic, Bleyer finally got the chance to tell the tale in its entirety. He had intended to write a book about Roosevelt landmarks on Long Island, but with libraries and a lot of avenues for research closed to him, he turned his attention to the Lexington.
“It dawned on me that I could probably do something else in the meantime, because this was not going to happen during the pandemic,” Bleyer said. “I called my editor at The History Press and I said, ‘While I’m waiting to do this other book, I think I have enough information now to do a whole book on the Lexington,’ and it turned out they had a whole series of shipwreck books, so it fit right into that series.”
While he was writing about and researching the Lexington, Bleyer was able to find and incorporate previously overlooked documents and new research. One such example was the work of Ben Roberts, a scuba diver who helps find lost ships using
side scan sonar. Roberts found the remains of the Lexington off the coast of Port Jefferson and recorded its dimensions and state.
Bleyer also found a copy of the coroner’s report of the legal battle that followed the sinking of the ship, when much of the blame for the disaster fell on the ship’s owners and crew. The destruction of the vessel was attributed mostly to the carelessness of the crew and the shortsightedness of the owners — Vanderbilt had sold the ship to another company three years before it sank — but Bleyer said he was amazed to find that the coroner’s account of the trial largely disproved these claims, and that the fire was accidental.
“The most interesting thing that I found was that people claimed it was an old, aging ship that wasn’t properly maintained and that the 150 bales of cotton weren’t safe cargo, which I actually had in the early drafts of the book,” Bleyer said, “but when I started doing the research, I found a lot of expert testimony that got ignored, and that there was really a lot of hysteria at the time, and a belief that people needed to be punished, basically knee-jerk blaming of the crew and company.”
When I stumbled across the Lexington, I thought to myself, ‘Wow, this is a pretty amazing story.’
BILL BLEYER Author
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According to the National Institute on Aging (NIA) polypharmacy is the use of multiple drugs to treat diseases and other health conditions. Polypharmacy is common in older adults, many of whom have two or more chronic conditions, and about a third of whom take five or more prescription drugs. Often, these different powerful drugs have been prescribed by different doctors. Some drugs mask or neutralize others, some are dangerously incompatible with others and some may worsen conditions that naturally occur in the aging population -- such as loss of appetite, less efficient digestive systems and increased cardiovascular risk.
Inappropriate polypharmacy -- the use of excessive or unnecessary medications -- increases the risk of adverse drug effects, including falls and cognitive impairment. Harmful drug interactions and drug-disease interactions may also occur, where a medication prescribed to treat one condition worsens or creates a new one.
Enter the new field of “deprescribing”. The NIA is developing a network of scientists to
advance the field of deprescribing to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for older adults. According to Parag Goyal, MD, “despite its role as an integral part of patientcentric and goal-concordant prescribing practice, deprescribing is not frequently incorporated into routine clinical practice”.
In seeking to view medications in a way that is more patient-centered and less disease-oriented and guideline-driven, the NIA advises talking to your doctors about deprescribing if you feel a drug is not working or is causing harmful side effects. Make sure to bring a list of all medications you are currently taking, prescription and over-thecounter. Ask if there are any that may not be necessary.
For the American Geriatrics Society’s (AGS) list of medications that older people should avoid or use with caution, google “Beers List”. The Beers List is recommended for assessing your medications, however AGS advises not to stop taking any medication without talking to your doctor first.
In what is expected to bring together decades of experience and passion, one of New York’s leading consulting planning and engineering firms — Cameron Engineering — is merging with IMEG Corp. It brings Cameron into one of the nation’s largest engineering firms, allowing the Woodbury-based company a chance to bring its strong client base and presence in the greater New York region to IMEG’s 75 U.S. office locations spanning from Boston to California.
“This comes after 38 years of being totally independent,” said John Cameron, the company’s founder. The merger “positions us for growth for the future, and provides sustainability and a future for my succeeding leadership and all my people here.”
Cameron Engineering started off with a part-time secretary before growing over the next three decades to more than 100 people with not only headquarters on Long Island, but a major presence in Manhattan as well.
“It provides some security for everybody, and also enables me to sort of elevate the next tier of leadership and let them take more responsibilities,” said Cameron, who grew up in Long Beach but
resides in Rockville Centre.
“I really have a great staff here, and empower them to show a little more of what they could do.”
Cameron will continue to manage the firm with Joe Amato, leading a team that includes experienced engineering professionals like Nick Kumbatovic, Mike Hults and Rich Zapolski.
“The company we’re merging with is 100 percent employee-owned,” Cameron added. “So, it also gives all my people an opportunity to own stock, and many of them are interested in that.
In fact, in the first week that we’ve merged, over 30 people have already signed on to purchase stock. So, it’s very exciting for me and for my people, too, and we’re all really looking forward to it.”
That enthusiasm goes both ways.
“We are excited to continue our east coast expansion and add Cameron Engineering & Associates to our team,” said Paul VanDuyne, IMEG’s president and chief executive, in a release. “Their fullservice capabilities and market sector expertise align perfectly with IMEG, allowing us to serve more clients as a New York corporation.”
–Brendan CarpenterEd Lieberman, Sea Cliff’s former mayor, will be starting his historic tours for seniors once again. Working with the Mutual Concerns Committee, Lieberman will take a group of seniors by bus on a tour of the landmarks and history of Theodore Roosevelt on Long Island.
The next tour will be on April 21, when participants will visit Oyster Bay as well as Roosevelt’s home at Sagamore Hill. A bagged picnic lunch will be provided.
To sign up for the tour, or for more information, call Peggie Como at (516) 6757239.
Town of Oyster Bay residents are invited to participate in a Harbor Clean Up and Marine Expo, on April 15, co-sponsored by Friends of the Bay, at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park.
The Expo features environmentalists and marine educators offering information on local wildlife, including encounters with some animal ambassadors, ecosystem restoration projects, solutions to tackle marine pollution, and activities.
The cleanup is from 9 a.m. to noon Meet on the launching ramps and waterfront gazebo off of Larrabee Avenue.
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my loving, kind and sweet grandmother.”
Hassani added that she hoped her book would help change people’s perspective, especially young Western children who have not seen the garment before. She has many years of experience working with and teaching children, as a special education teacher for the last 37 years, 21 of them at Sea Cliff School.
Hassani described how, as a child, she would often play in her grandmother’s chador, just like in the book. She described it as a place she could feel safe and insulated from the world outside. She credits her grandmother with supporting her and letting her imagination run wild.
“I loved to go on errands with her, especially to the bazaar, and hide under her chador pretending to be an animal or a princess,” Hassani stated. “She never said anything negative to stop my imaginary play and just held my hand to make sure I was with her all the time. She was the matriarch of our family and adored by everyone.”
Hassani wrote the book with her daughter Samira, from whom the protagonist, the granddaughter of Mama Shamsi in the story, takes her name. Samira is an associate art director at Macmillan Publishers, where she helps design young-adult book covers.
Hassani said that she and her daughter had a great time reminiscing about their family and heritage. She added that they believe by showing how much love can be shared by family members, regardless of where they are from or how they dress, they could help “demystify the chador and show the
Western culture how safe and warm the hijab can be.”
The book has been well-received by both critics and readers who have reviewed it, earning a rating of five stars on its Amazon page based on nine reviews. Residents of Sea Cliff have also praised the book, and Hassani will be doing readings of it at the Sea Cliff Arts Council on April 24 and to all K-5 students in the North Shore School District on April 24 and 25.
One local parent who has already read the book to her children several times is Tannaz Nasirzadeh-Balooch, a trustee of the Sea Cliff Village Board who was born in Iran. NasirzadehBalooch said that she had come to know Hassani through their shared heritage, and had been thrilled to hear that she had written a book about the chador.
“I’m not religious, but at the same time this is a part of my heritage and my culture,” Nasirzadeh-Balooch said. “So for me to have something to reference and read to my kids and go, ‘Hey, your great-grandmother wore a chador and this is what it is,’ is really awesome.”
Her daughter Dahlia, 7, added that she loved the book, and enjoyed getting the chance to show it to her friends from school to help explain a bit about where her family came from. She said that she was looking forward to having Hassani read to her and the other students at school.
“I was excited that there was a book about my family’s culture that’s published by someone who’s basically a part of my family,” Dahlia said.
Courtesy Tannaz Nasirzadeh-Balooch
North Shore softball coach Chris DeMarzo talks a lot about positivity becoming infectious. It’s no surprise after a rough 4-11 campaign, he has remained positive about the upcoming season.
North Shore was off to a 2-2 start with wins over Wheatley and New Hyde Park.
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A TWO-TIME ALL-AMERICAN bound for the University of Florida, Radin’s latest accomplishment on the lacrosse field came March 29 when she reached the 300 career point mark in a victory over Carle Place. Last spring, she recorded 61 goals and a Long Island-leading 62 assists while leading the Marines to the Nassau Class B final. She appears well on her way to topping that production with 43 points through five games.
“I think we’re going to have a standout season this year,’’ DeMarzo said. “We’ve been building. They’ve bought into the program. Positivity is contagious. Negativity is divisive. We’re going to be well over .500 this year and in contention for playoffs.’’
The coach thinks the conference 4 reshuffle will benefit the maroon and credits North Shore athletic director Don Lang for sticking behind a program that suffered one of its worst seasons defensively in 2022.
The Glen Head/Sea Cliff program lost two seniors from that squad in leading hitter, Rebekah Lando and center fielder Fiona Breen.
But the Vikings return plenty of offense - led by three seniors in shortstop Phylicia Cangemi, catcher Kate Conklin and third baseman Natalie Gaeta.
“It’s our ability to hit the ball,’’ DeMarzo said of the team’s strength. “Defensively we’re getting better. We had a rough season defensively last year and we’re correcting that. Offensively we’re stronger.’’
Gaeta batted .362 last season. “The ball sounds different when the ball comes off her bat,’’ DeMarzo said.
Cangemi, who will play softball at Utica, is a defensive shortstop looking to emerge as a dependable hitter in 2023. “She’s got a super glove and strong arm,’’ DeMarzo said. “I’m looking forward to her batting lead off and she’s started out on a positive note.’’
Conlon, who will play field hockey in college at Franklin Pierce, is a softball grinder. She’s been part of varsity for five years.
will put herself in position to be a Top 100 Long Island selectee next year, the coach said.
North Shore still is trying to determine its full pitching rotation, but the Vikings are strong at the very top with sophomore ace Grace Ryan, who held the same role as a freshman.
“She throws strikes, walks very few people,’’ DeMarzo said. “She throws hard and has a great command of the plate.’’
Softball:
The team’s best bat may be owned by a sophomore in Adrianna Porcaro, who batted .450 last year as a freshman. She will move over to first base and looks as stout as ever. If she continues to rise, Porcaro
In an effort to enhance the program for the future, DeMarzo has decided to bring up four 8th-graders to be spot starters. The JV is well-stocked – another sign the program is on sound footing. The deep JV team offered DeMarzo the luxury of promoting four 8th-graders to the varsity.
The four youngsters are Megan Whitcomb, Charley Spence, Lis Serravalle and Nylise Rosario.
“They’ll see some playing time to complement the team, and get used to varsity,’’ DeMarzo said. “We’re hopefully building them into starters while getting used to the varsity.’’
One key will be improvement of the defense. That is where left fielder Jolie Waiksnis and center fielder Vanessa Jahnke make their impact. They are considered a reliable tandem patrolling the grass.
“They are can-of-corn outfielders, securing the outfield,’’ DeMarzo said.
DeMarzo raves about his players’ dedication as signs point toward a bounce-back campaign.
WHAT’S UP NEXT DOOR AND AROUND THE CORNER
Last Friday saw another successful Spooky Park Egg Hunt in Sea Cliff. Designed for children in 2nd grade and younger, this egg-cellent holiday tradition has been going on for 29 years. The event saw the whole community come out as Sea
Cliff’s littlest residents and their parents participated in the annual egg hunt in Elm Park, colloquially known as Spooky Park. Older children were also welcome, to either help set up the hunt or play street games like hoops.
Liberty has been the local water company serving Nassau County and Upstate New York for just over a year now. We value our customers and thank you for the opportunity to be your water service provider.
We are working hard to get to know and earn the respect and trust of our new customers and stakeholders; engage and support the communities we serve; and be open, transparent, and accountable.
To that end, we have completed or are making progress on several key initiatives (noted below) to positively impact our customers’ experience.
o Local Customer Call Center – Last year, Liberty hired and trained 16 local Long Island residents—many of whom live in the communities we serve—to staff our new call center, which went live last November. We believe it is important for our customers to engage with customer service representatives who are local and familiar with the areas we serve.
o Local Customer Walk-In Center – Liberty is on track to open a new walk-in customer center before year end. The walk-in center will be located at our Merrick Office and will provide customers opportunities to engage with our customer service team and other Liberty staff in-person.
o Public Outreach – Last year, we established a public outreach program to share information with and solicit feedback from our customers and stakeholders. So far, we have completed more than 60 meetings with stakeholders, local elected officials, and customers, including four customer town halls. In May, we will start another round of extensive public outreach throughout our service territory both to receive your feedback and explain ongoing regulatory efforts.
One of Liberty’s top priorities is to ensure our water service is safe and reliable. We would like to recognize our employees—many of whom are proud members of Utility Workers Union of America Locals 355 and 365—whose professionalism, commitment, and dedication make it possible for us to provide safe and reliable water service for our customers.
One of the biggest challenges for the water industry and Liberty today and into the future centers on replacing and upgrading critical, aging water system infrastructure, improving water quality, and keeping pace with emerging containments in our water supply. Over the last five years, our company made great progress, investing over $265
million in system improvements and replacements. In the next five years, Liberty plans to spend another $270 million in improving and upgrading our water systems. These capital investments are necessary to maintain safe, reliable, and compliant water service for our customers now and into the future.
Finally, Liberty recognizes that top of mind for our customers is affordable water service. To this end, we are doing everything possible to control costs, achieve efficiencies in our operations, and, where required, earnestly engage with key stakeholders interested in municipalizing portions of our water system. Moreover, we have launched the following key initiatives that, if successful, will provide direct rate relief to customers:
o Special Franchise Tax – Special franchise taxes continue to constitute approximately 25% of our customers’ monthly water bill. While these taxes provide funding to your local towns, villages, special districts, and public schools, they do not provide any direct benefit to the water service Liberty provides you. We are working with elected State officials, including the Governor, to advance several initiatives to provide rate relief to our customers by reducing the amount of the special franchise taxes our customers pay on their monthly water bills.
o Water Infrastructure Grants and Low Interest Loans –We are working with our regulators and elected officials to change State law so that Liberty and other private water companies are afforded the same opportunity and access that municipal water service providers have to taxpayer-funded grants and low-interest loans to finance needed water infrastructure and water quality improvements.
We value our customers and want our customers to know that we are working hard every day to improve their experience, keep their water service safe and reliable, and pursue opportunities to provide rate relief. If you have questions, comments, or concerns, please contact our local customer call center at 1-877-426-6999 or visit our webpage, www.libertyenergyandwater.com
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By Karen Bloom
he remains at the top of the children’s entertainment scene. Acclaimed as the “The Adele of the preschool crowd” or the “Queen of kindie rock,” Laurie Berkner is an industry unto herself. The first recording artist to perform in music videos on Nick Jr., her original songs, music videos, books, and three original off-Broadway musicals have made her ubiquitous in American households.
like it and whether I’m going to connect to them through it,” Berkner said. “I’m also thinking about whether I want to sing it over and over again, so I guess that’s the part that connects with adults. I guess I’m channeling my inner child.”
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The former preschool music teacher by day and indie rocker by night, Berkner started selling music out of her living
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And her outpouring of music continued throughout the pandemic. Berkner was a source of stability and much needed entertainment — in her comforting way — for her young audience through virtual concerts. Daily during the first months of pandemic lockdown — then monthly, which still continue — Berkner reached families struggling to cope in a world turned upside down.
struggling to cope in a world turned upside down.
“I didn’t know what to expect,” she says. “Families started watching. So many kids were not in school and not getting music time. It was very intimate and a way to get us through the pandemic. The comments I received were so special. Families would tell me: ‘We see you in our homes, now we want to see you in person.’”
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That moment has arrived again — to the delight both Berkner and her fans. She performs a solo concert — only her second show postpandemic on Long Island — at The Space in Westbury on April 30.
Billed as a “Greatest Hits” concert, it celebrates the 25th anniversary of the release of her second album “Buzz Buzz.”
“Many of my fans are disabled and immunocomprised,” she adds. “So it took a while to be able to get back to doing live shows safely. It feels so good to be moving around again in-person.”
That’s a Laurie Berkner concert. She wants her young fans in the groove with her throughout the duration of the show’s 75 minutes. “I squeeze every ounce of energy I can out of these kids,” she says.
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• Emily Lowe Hall Gallery, South Campus, Hempstead.
“When We All Stand,” Hofstra University Museum of Art’s new exhibition, examines Curated by Alexandra Giordano — the museum’s assistant director of exhibition and collection — the exhibit underscores artists’ civic responsibility and influence.
“It highlights the vital role that artists have in activating democratic values that promise equality and freedom, encouraging civic engagement, and cultivating unity,” Giordano says. “Artists often lead the charge and expose truths that may otherwise be ignored. The artists in this exhibition take a stand and call out injustices through their art and activism on issues such as immigration, gender, reproductive rights, mass incarceration, voting rights, racial bias, gun violence, and promises unfulfilled. They all combine the making of art with public service that has a grassroots approach in the hope of mobilizing their communities and the nation to ignite movement, create awareness, and inspire others to
room on her own label, Two Tomatoes Records. Now, the veritable dynamo is seemingly everywhere. In addition to her 15 bestselling, awardwinning albums, her off-Broadway musicals, Berkner helped develop the short-form animated musical preschool series “Sing It, Laurie!” on Sprout TV. She has created two Laurie Berkner’s Song and Story Kitchen series with Audible Studios, who released them as 10-chapter audio books through the Audible Originals brand. And, of course, they’ll be more to come.
Go over the moon with Wish You Were Here’s celebration of 50 years of the ground-breaking musical masterpiece ‘The Dark Side of the Moon.’ With the iconic album as its anchor, the 10-piece band, known as ‘The Sight and Sound of Pink Floyd,’ continues its 28-year tradition as a leading Pink Floyd tribute act, combining sight and sound to capture the mood, emotions and intensity of the Floydian theatrical concert experience. The show’s unique setlist includes Floyd classics and obscurities of all eras — from ‘Syd’ to ‘The Division Bell.’ The entire Pink Floyd canon is represented, including classic favorites from ‘Wish You Were Here,’ ‘Animals’ and ‘The Wall,’ along with showstopping deep tracks for the true Floyd fanatics. The spectacular multi-media stage production adds to the experience, with moving lights and lasers, vintage videos, flying inflatables, sound effects, wall bricks, and more.
“These projects are all great fun to work on,” she says.
This exhibit, which runs through July 28, is in conjunction with Hofstra’s 13th presidential conference on the Barack Obama presidency coming up in April.
“We were interested in the idea that the artist has a civic responsibility,” says museum director Karen Albert. “The initial idea for this exhibition was inspired by an Obama Administration White House briefing that took place on May 12, 2009, where more than 60 artists and creative organizers met with administration officials to discuss the collective power of the arts to build community, create change, and chart a pathway for national recovery in the areas of social justice, civic participation and
But the best part of it all, she says, is the ongoing connection with families. “I’m creating a memory that will stay with them and become part of their life. I have new parents who heard my songs when they were little and now bring their kids to see me. That feels really special.”
Finally, Berkner reminds her fans (who really don’t need a reminder): “Don’t forget bring your dancing shoes and an animal for your head!”
To that end, unlike other recent exhibits that showcased the museum’s permanent collection, Giordano reached out to contemporary artists who loaned the museum their selected works. Some 36 pieces are on view — representing all media — from Emma Amos, Molly Crabapple and the Equal Justice Initiative, For Freedoms, Miguel Luciano, Michele Pred, Hank Willis Thomas, and Sophia
She’ll perform all the beloved tunes like “Bumblebee (Buzz Buzz)” and “Pig On Her Head,” along with such well-loved hits as “Victor Vito,” “We Are the Dinosaurs,” “Rocketship Run,” and “The Goldfish (Let’s Go Swimming).” And more recent fan favorites including“Superhero,” “Waiting for the Elevator,” and “Chipmunk at the Gas Pump.”
“The way our climate is now, this exhibit could not be more timely than
Among the highlights, she points to the series of prints from the collective For Freedoms. Their four large scale photos are based on Norman Rockwell’s 1943 oil paintings inspired by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address that outlined what he considered the essential four democratic values freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. For Freedoms has interpreted these iconic works for our era.
From the get-go, her audience is fully in sync.“I draw everyone in — running, dancing, jumping. Almost every song choice has something the kids can do movement-wise. They can jump, spin, blast off. This is definitely not a ‘sit down and watch me’ show.”
concert — only her second show postIsland comprised,” she adds. “So it took so energy I can out of these kids,” she says. She’ll perform all the beloved tunes in speaks to kids without talking down to them, charming youngsters
“It’s the same composition,” Albert says. “From 1940s America, these (works) show what America is today, our diversity and what we look
Berkner, based in New York City with her band, is acclaimed as the star of children’s music and the power behind the progressive “kindie rock” movement — less saccharine, more rocking music that is not dumbed down for children. What sets her apart? Her music speaks to kids without talking down to them, charming youngsters without boring grown-ups.
As always the museum offers additional programming to enhance the exhibit experience. Upcoming events include an artist panel on Feb. 23, which examines the role of the artist as activist, and a gallery tour with Alexandra Giordano, March 16.
But it wasn’t simply talent that helped create an entire genre and skyrocketed Berkner to the top of the kids’ music scene. It was an ability to gain parents’ enthusiasm for the songs as well.
“When I’m writing a song, I’m thinking about whether the kids will
Saturday, April 15, 8 p.m. $66, $46, $36. Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, LIU Post campus, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville. Tickets available at TillesCenter.org, or (516) 299-3100.
His talent goes way beyond fashion. Adelphi University welcomes the famed designer and ‘Project Runway All-Stars’ judge Isaac Mizrahi to the stage. Fresh off his Broadway debut in ‘Chicago’ and his sold-out annual two-week residency at the legendary Cafe Carlyle, Mizrahi shares stories and songs from his 30-plus years in the entertainment industry, accompanied by his jazz band, led by Ben Waltzer. Mizrahi sings a range of tunes from the Great American Songbook classics to contemporary standards. Expect him to offer his hilarious musings on everything of the moment from politics to dieting to his latest Instagram obsessions.
Saturday, April 22, 8 p.m. Tickets start at $60, with discounts available to seniors, students, alumni and employees. Adelphi University Performing Arts Center Adelphi University Performing Arts Center, 1 South Ave., Garden City. (516) 877-4000 or Adelphi.edu/pac.
Can art change the world? It’s a question that’s been at the focus of our collective culture for centuries. Now as society navigates the complexities of modern life, art as a path for social change is at the forefront of artistic expression.Courtesy Hofstra Universally Museum of Art Four Freedoms are reinterpreted as photos by Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and the Wyatt Gallery. artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Sculpture: Hank Willis Thomas, Lives of Others, 2014, made from black urethane resin and standing 57 inches tall 250 Post Ave.,Westbury Photos courtesy Jayme Thornton and Todd Owyoung
Englishtown Project visits the Landmark stage with their tribute to rock history, Saturday, April 22, 8 p.m. This all-star jam band — featuring members of New Riders of the Purple Sage, Zen Tricksters, and Max Creek — recreates the legendary 1977 concert in Englishtown, N.J., headlined by the Grateful Dead, the Dead family’s New Riders of the Purple Sage and the good-time, southern rock Marshall Tucker Band. This extravaganza includes “healthy doses” of selections from each band’s sets that day with a relaxed, festivalstyle program. $35, $30. Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main St., Port Washington. (516) 767-6444 or LandmarkOnMainStreet. org.
Nassau County Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “Eye And Mind: The Shin Collection,” highlights the extraordinary collection masterworks assembled by 31-year-old connoisseur Hong Gyu Shin, an internationally recognized figure in the global art world. He shares his treasures, including works by Whistler, Lautrec, Boucher, Daumier, Delacroix, Klimt, Schiele, Balthus, Warhol, de Kooning, Gorky and many other important names from art history provocatively juxtaposed with the painting and sculpture of our own time from both Asia and the West. On view through July 9. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. (516) 484-9337 or NassauMuseum.org.
Mercy Hospital offers a peer to peer meeting for breastfeeding support and resources, facilitated by a certified breastfeeding counselor, every Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Bring your baby (from newborn to 1 year) to the informal group setting. All new moms are welcome, regardless of delivering hospital. Registration required. Call breastfeeding counselor, Gabriella Gennaro, at (516) 705-2434 to secure you and your baby’s spot. Mercy Hospital, St. Anne’s Building, 1000 North Village Ave., Rockville Centre. For information visit CHSLI.org.
Participate in Glen Cove Public Library’s at-your-own-pace hour walk, every Thursday, at 10 a.m. All fitness levels are welcome and attendees are encouraged to walk at their own pace, 4 Glen Cove Ave., Glen Cove. Register at GlencCoveLbrary.org or call (516) 676-2130 for more information.
North Shore Community Chorus and the Nolleaster Symphony Orchestra perform Mozart’s Requiem, Saturday, April 15, at 8 p.m., at North Shore High School Auditorium. The Requiem, Mozart’s final work, is a monumental choral masterpiece which was only completed after his death. 450 Glen Cove Ave., in Glen Head, For more information, contact director Stephen Goldstein at (631) 470-6128.
Enjoy visiting friends, with a delicious lunch and chair yoga, at the popular senior program hosted by Mutual Concerns, every Tuesday, at Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, at 253 Glen Ave., in Sea Clifff. Those iinterested in joining the lunch program can call Peggie Como at (516) 675-7239.
Enjoy the glorious grounds of Old Westbury Gardens with your pooch (leashed of course), Saturday and Sunday, April 15-16, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. With varied vendors and activities.
Old Westbury Gardens, 71 Old Westbury Rd., Old Westbury. For information contact (516) 333-0048 or visit OldWestburyGardens.org.
Glen Cove Volunteer Fire Department holds its annual recruitment, Sunday, April 16, noon-3 p.m. Contact (516) 676-0366 for information.
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.
‘The Wizard of Oz’ JJourney down that Yellow Brick Road when the beloved story springs to life, presented Plaza Theatrical Productions, Friday and Saturday, April 14-15, 11 a.m; Sunday, April 16, 12 p.m. All the ingredients that have made this story a perennial favorite are here. Share Dorothy’s epic adventure with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion as they make their way to Oz not knowing what awaits them. Tickets $15. Visit the Plaza stage at The Showplace at Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Ave., Bellmore. For information/tickets, go to PlazaTheatrical.com or call (516) 599-6870.
Back by popular demand, families will enjoy a musical adventure, ripped from the pages of Mo Willems’ beloved children’s books, on the Long Island Children’s Museum stage, Friday, April 14, 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m; Wednesday and Thursday, April 19- 20, 10:15 a.m. and noon. Elephant and Piggie storm the stage in a rollicking musical romp filled with plenty of pachydermal peril and swiney suspense perfect for young audiences. Cautious Gerald and playful Piggie share a day where anything is possible in an imaginative exploration of of friendship. Together with nutty backup singers, The Squirrelles, the comedic duo even gets the audience involved in the action. $9 with museum admission ($7 members), $12 theater only. Long Island Children’s Museum, Museum Row, Garden City. (516) 224-5800 or LICM.org.
The Woman’s Club of Glen Cove hosts its monthly luncheon, Tuesday, April 18, 11:30 a.m. The luncheon is at the View Grill, 111 Lattingtown Road, Glen Cove, Food items will be collected for a selected food pantry in Glen Cove. For further information call or text Yvette Menezes at (516) 673-1061.
Visit Planting Fields Arboretum for an exhibition guided tour, Saturday, April 15. Tours run hourly, 10:30 a.m. through 2:30 p.m. The exhibit, “Decisive Moments at Planting Fields: The Photography of Mattie Edwards Hewitt and Frances Benjamin Johnston,” highlights the work of these trailblazing female photographers, whom W.R. Coe engaged to document the Planting Fields’ Olmsteddesigned gardens, buildings and interiors in the 1920s, at 1395 Planting Fields Road. Oyster Bay. For more information,contact Katie Walsh at kwalsh@ plantingfields.org or (516) 9228680.
Teachers, school administrators, social workers and mental health advocates agree that, more than ever, teens need outreach and support when they battle negative thoughts and actions.
At the Nassau County Youth Wellness Summit — hosted by the New Jerseybased Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide — Long Island teens and school staffers received just that: crucial skills to help get through their toughest days.
Hosted once again by Brookside School inside the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, students and school leaders attended keynote presentations, panels, workshops, and even walked through a resource fair intended to connect them to mental health services.
The event was first brought to Nassau County by Bellmore’s Stacy Brief, a licensed social worker who attended Wellington C. Mepham High School in Bellmore, and currently works at Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick.
Brief went through her own difficult times in high school, struggling with anxiety and depression. Brief was eventually connected to the teen suicide society, and later would find herself volunteering and working with the organization.
Wellness summits had become a regular success in New Jersey, and Brief realized that same success could be brought to Long Island as well. She approached Mike Harrington, superintendent of Bellmore-Merrick’s schools, and asked if the district would be interested in helping her idea become a reality.
“Stacy was one of my standouts at Mepham,” Harrington said. “A tremendous, tremendous young lady. After graduating, I knew right away that she wanted to get into mental health and pursue a social work career.”
All for the idea, Harrington established a planning committee to create the summit, which kicked off for the first time in 2019, attracting students and professionals from 20 school districts. Last month’s summit attracted more than 30 schools from Nassau and Suffolk counties, including the first Catholic institution: Chaminade High School.
“Every year we try to feature a new coping skill workshop, just to be introducing the teenagers to new concepts, as far as what they can do to cope with stress,” Brief said. “Last year we did Movement Genius, and this year the students (did) a Tibetan singing bowl sound healing workshop.
“I think it’s something very different. They don’t often have access to something like sound healing.”
The keynote presentation was given by “Lead U,” a “high-energy, interactive assembly,” according to Brief. Created by a group of teaching artists, their presentations engage, educate and empower students of all ages to find leaders within themselves through interactive play and games.
Dawn Doherty, the teen suicide society executive director, described a correlation between mental health struggles and the
coronavirus pandemic. Social media, she added, also plays a huge role in how teens view themselves.
“There can be very positive aspects of it,” Doherty said. “But then, unfortunately, much of it can be negative, with the cyber-bullying and even just the comparison of yourself with everyone else.”
A point of emphasis, Doherty said, is the concept that your friends and others your age are often going through the same thing.
“If you’re struggling, that’s OK, because there are others who are struggling or have struggled,” she said. “We really use the day to enhance coping skills and strategies, and certainly educate on the resources available.”
The commitment to wellness doesn’t end with the summit. For example, the teen suicide society will again host a panel for parents later this year, teaching them to recognize the signs of mental health struggles and how to connect their kids to the appropriate services.
Brief also started another program on
Long Island last September called the Youth Council, open to high school students.
“I’ll be running monthly meetings where they’re going to develop more skills, insight, education and awareness on everything to do with mental health and suicide prevention,” she said. “That’ll be year-round, to develop leaders so they can take (what they learn) back to their communities and develop more structural change.”
Applications for the Youth Council opened immediately after the summit. For more information, visit SPTSUSA. org/NassauSummit.
Brief has come a long way from struggling with issues as a teenager, and now working to help others finding themselves in a similar predicament.
“We are just so proud of her for everything she’s accomplished personally and professionally,” Doherty said. “But really, (I’m)_just in awe of the success that she and the committee have really had with expanding the reach of this event.”
sOphiA BENNO AND Addison Soffer of John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore had a blast watching the keynote presentation, ‘Lead U,’ at the Nassau County Youth Wellness Summit.
stACy BRiEf, A social worker who brought the Nassau County Youth Wellness Summit to the local community, joined Dawn Doherty — executive director of the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide — to host the summit.
There are nearly two-dozen more conditional cannabis dispensary licenses on their way to Long Island. But thanks to local pushback in a number of Nassau County communities, chances are very low one will pop up near you.
The state released the licenses as part of a broader effort that could lead to 100 more legal dispensaries across the state. For Nassau and Suffolk counties, the 23 planned licenses join the 13 already here.
The conditional licensees are only allowed to sell directly to a consumer.
Albany officials haven’t shared exactly where these dispensaries will end up, but at least one of the licenses was awarded to a Bay Shore husband and wife, according to Newsday. Where else they can end up is actually a small list. Right now, only five Nassau villages allow dispensaries: Oyster Bay Cove, Kings Point, Mill Neck, Plandome and Saddle Rock.
In Suffolk, communities permitting recreational marijuana dispensaries include Brookhaven, Babylon and Riverhead.
Long Beach, for example, has not approved a dispensary, although it has held a public hearing on the matter — a contentious issue in the city. Glen Cove and Oyster Bay, Valley Stream, Lynbrook and Freeport have opted out, among most other municipalities. Any of them are allowed to opt-in at any time, but once they do, “there is no going back,” said Phillip Rumsey, manager of intergovernmental affairs for the state’s cannabis management office.
The other conditional adult-use retail dispensary licenses include four for western New York, one for the central region, three for Brooklyn, and five for the Mid-
nearly 100 more conditional cannabis dispensary licenses, with 23 coming to Long Island. But don’t expect too many to pop up in your neighborhood — if any.
Hudson area.
There are now 165 approved licenses across the state, although many municipalities — like New York City are filled with hundreds of unlicensed establishments, meeting very little resistance from law enforcement officials.
As of now, the cannabis board has granted at least one license in each region, except for the Finger Lakes.
The conditional licenses are issued as part of the Seeding Opportunity Initiative introduced by Gov. Kathy Hochul last year. Through the initiative, business owners that were impacted by old drug laws will benefit first. Those convicted or related to someone convicted of a marijuana-related offense — or nonprofit organizations who support people imprisoned for such offences — are able to get the licenses ahead of others.
Tremaine Wright, chair of the Cannabis Control Board, said the new licenses “will allow entrepreneurs to fairly participate in the legal market while promoting innovation and creative diversity throughout New York’s ever-growing cannabis supply chain.”
New York lawmakers legalized recreational marijuana in 2021 for adults 21 and older. It grants them the right to possess up to 3 ounces of cannabis, or a small quantity of concentrated cannabis. The state also expunged nonviolent criminal records related to cannabis in the past.
Licensees are allowed to open dispensaries on Long Island, but still need sign-off on any specific locations. Storefronts need to be approved and cannot have any neon or bright signs advertising any of their products, such as a giant marijuana leaf.
Each dispensary also needs to have darkened windows, or otherwise prevent the activity and products inside from being seen from outside. They also cannot be placed closer than 200 feet from any house of worship, and 55 feet from a school.
Each one must also be at least 4,000 feet apart from another, which will prevent a “Starbucks effect,” with one on every corner, officials said.
Licensees can work with a social equity fund to find spaces in communities to open shop or find them independently. The Cannabis Control Board additionally approved one laboratory permit for Certainty Analytical Labs in Rochester, bringing that number up to 13.
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Help protect yourself from fraud and scams! This FREE webinar series will cover identity theft, elder fraud abuse and how to recognize the warning signs. Representatives from AARP Long Island and United States Postal Inspectors will also provide information about scams targeting people age 50-plus and their families, tactics fraudsters use, and resources available to help prevent fraud.
Advance registration is required.
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2023
12-1PM
IDENTITY THEFT:
Each year thousands of Americans fall victim to Identity (ID) Theft. Consumers reported losing nearly $8.8 Billion to scams in 2022. This webinar will focus on:
• Understanding Personal Identifiable Information (PII)
• Scams that target your PII
• Tips to safeguard your identity
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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2023
12-1PM
ELDER FRAUD ABUSE:
Con artists don’t really care about your age or your needs. Their only goal is to separate you from your hard-earned money. Learn how to recognize scams. We’ll cover:
• Grandparent or Relative in Need scams
• Lottery and Sweepstakes Scams
• Investment Scams
REGISTER at www.LIHERALD.com/elder
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SATURDAY APRIL 22, 2023
10AM-1PM • IN-PERSON
LOCATION:
Nassau Community College
One Education Drive • Garden City, NY (Entrance to parking lot at Miller Place)
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LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF SALE
SUPREME COURT
COUNTY OF NASSAU, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES
2016-CTT, Plaintiff, vs. JAKLIN MAHRAM, ET AL., Defendant(s).
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale
duly entered on October 20, 2022 and an Order
Appointing Successor Referee duly entered on January 13, 2023, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on April 25, 2023 at 2:00 p.m., premises known as 11 Waldo Avenue, Greenvale, NY 11548. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at North Roslyn, Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 19, Block 4 and Lot 35. Approximate amount of judgment is $983,981.62 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 013965/2009. 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.
Malachy Lyons, Jr., Esq., Referee
Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Firm File No.: 180342-1 138214
LEGAL NOTICE
REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE
SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF NASSAU US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CITIGROUP
MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, INC., MORTGAGE
PASS-THROUGH
CERTIFICATES, SERIES
2006-4, Plaintiff - against - LARRY BLUMSTEIN, et al Defendant(s).
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on April 2, 2019.
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 “Rain or Shine” on the 25th day of April, 2023 at 3:00 PM.
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 Sea Cliff, Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York.
Premises known as 1 Richardson Avenue, Sea Cliff, NY 11579.
(Section: 21, Block: 222, Lot: 431)
Approximate amount of lien $624,040.05 plus interest and costs.
Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale.
Index No. 018968/2009.
Malachy P. Lyons, Esq., Referee. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC
Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 840 New York, NY 10170 Tel. 347/286-7409
For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832
Dated: March 1, 2023
During the COVID-19 health emergency, bidders are required to comply with all governmental health requirements in effect at the time of sale including but not limited to, wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing (at least 6-feet apart) during the auction, while tendering deposit and at any subsequent closing. Bidders are also required to comply with the Foreclosure Auction Rules and COVID-19 Health Emergency Rules issued by the Supreme Court of this County in addition to the conditions set forth in the Terms of Sale.
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POR EL PRESENTE TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que cualquier residente del Distrito Escolar podrá obtener una copia de la declaración de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá el próximo año para fines escolares (Presupuesto propuesto), junto con cualquier resolución que se presente a los votantes, en cada sede escolar y en la oficina del Distrito, entre las 8:00 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m., durante los catorce (14) días previos a la reunión y elección anuales y el día de la elección, excepto sábados, domingos y feriados.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que la votación, mediante una máquina de votación, sobre la propuesta a continuación se realizará el 16 de mayo de 2023, desde las 7:00 a. m. hasta las 10:00 p. m., en el gimnasio de la escuela secundaria North Shore
Senior:
PROPUESTA N.º 1
PRESUPUESTO ESCOLAR 2023-2024
SE RESUELVE que se aprobará el presupuesto del Distrito Escolar North Shore Central para el año escolar 2023-2024 propuesto por la Junta de Educación, de conformidad con la sección 1716 de la Ley de Educación, y que los impuestos necesarios se gravarán por consiguiente sobre los bienes inmuebles sujetos a tributación del Distrito.
PROPUESTA N.º 2
Shore Central a gastar del fondo de reserva de capitales 2016 previamente establecido, una suma que no supere $1,300,000, o la cantidad que sea necesaria, para los siguientes propósitos:
(1) la eliminación y el reemplazo de la cancha de césped situada en la escuela secundaria North Shore; y (2) la renovación y construcción de un salón de clases de danza exclusivo en la escuela secundaria North Shore; lo anterior incluirá mobiliario, equipo, maquinaria, demolición y otro trabajo necesario que corresponda, así como los costos preliminares y los costos secundarios, y su financiamiento; siempre que todos los costos detallados de los componentes de los proyectos puedan reasignarse entre dichos componentes en caso de que la Junta de Educación determine que la reasignación es en favor del Distrito y no se realicen cambios sustanciales al alcance de los proyectos.
Distrito celebradas en los cuatro años calendario anteriores (2019-2022), o las personas que estén registradas para votar en las elecciones generales dentro del Distrito, según la sección 352 de la Ley de Elecciones, no necesitan registrarse para ser elegibles para votar en dicha elección anual del Distrito.
LEGAL NOTICE
AVISO SOBRE LA VOTACIÓN DEL PRESUPUESTO ANUAL Y ELECCIÓN DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR
NORTH SHORE CENTRAL, CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK (16 DE MAYO DE 2023)
POR EL PRESENTE SE NOTIFICA que el 4 de mayo de 2023, a las 7:45 p. m., se celebrará una audiencia pública de los votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar North Shore Central, condado de Nassau, estado de Nueva York, en la escuela secundaria del distrito, 450 Glen Cove Avenue, Glen Head, Nueva York, para presentar el presupuesto del año fiscal 2023-2024 y para debatir sobre los fondos necesarios para cubrir los gastos estimados del Distrito Escolar durante el siguiente año escolar, y otros asuntos según la autorización de la Ley de Educación.
PROPUESTA DE ENMIENDA DEL FONDO DE RESERVA DE CAPITALES SE RESUELVE, que la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar North Shore Central queda por la presente autorizada a modificar el fondo de reserva de capitales 2016 existente, que fue establecido por autorización de los votantes el 17 de mayo de 2016 mediante la ampliación de su alcance para incluir, además de los propósitos previamente establecidos, la acumulación de fondos con el fin de financiar: (1) la eliminación y el reemplazo de canchas de césped en las escuelas e instalaciones del Distrito; sin ningún cambio, aumento o alteración de la fuente de financiación del fondo, la cantidad capitalizada final o la asignación anual máxima de financiamiento, que permanecerá como fue autorizada y modificada previamente por los votantes del Distrito.
PROPUESTA N.º 3
PROPUESTA SOBRE
GASTOS DEL FONDO DE RESERVA DE CAPITALES CANCHA DE CÉSPED Y SALÓN DE CLASES DE DANZA SE RESUELVE, que en caso de que se apruebe la propuesta n.º [2], por la presente se autoriza a la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar North
POR EL PRESENTE SE NOTIFICA ADEMÁS que en dicha elección, que se celebrará el 16 de mayo de 2023, los votantes calificados también elegirán dos (2) miembros de la Junta de Educación para tres períodos de tres años, que abarcan desde el 1 de julio de 2023 hasta el 30 de junio de 2026. Los candidatos para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación pueden ser nominados solamente mediante solicitud. Los candidatos se presentan en general y las solicitudes de nominación no deberán estipular ningún puesto vacante específico para el cual esté nominado el candidato. Cada petición deberá estar dirigida a la Secretaría del Distrito, deberá estar firmada por ochenta (80) votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar, deberá incluir el nombre y la residencia de cada votante y el nombre y la residencia del candidato. Cada solicitud deberá ser presentada en la oficina de la Secretaría del Distrito, ubicada en 112 Franklin Avenue, Sea Cliff, Nueva York 11579, a más tardar el 17 de abril de 2023, de 9:00 a. m. a 5:00 p. m.
SE NOTIFICA también que las personas deben estar registradas para tener derecho a votar. La Junta de Registradores se reunirá para registrar a los votantes el sábado 6 de mayo de 2023, de 10:00 a. m. a 2:00 p. m., en la oficina administrativa de las escuelas North Shore, en 112 Franklin Avenue, Sea Cliff, Nueva York 11579. Quienes se hayan registrado anteriormente para alguna elección anual o especial del Distrito y quienes hayan votado en cualquiera de esas elecciones del
SE NOTIFICA también que el Registro del Distrito estará abierto para que cualquier votante calificado pueda inspeccionarlo entre las 8:00 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m. durante los cinco (5) días previos a la votación anual del presupuesto y elección, excepto los sábados y domingos cuando podrá ser inspeccionado, con cita previa, de 9:00 a. m. a 10:00 a. m. ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que las solicitudes de boleta electoral por ausencia para la elección de los miembros de la Junta Escolar y la votación del presupuesto escolar deben completarse en un formulario elaborado por la Junta Electoral del estado, que puede obtenerse en el sitio web del Departamento de Educación del estado de Nueva York (http://www.counsel.nyse d.gov/common/counsel/fil es/absentee-ballotapplication-andinstructions-english.pdf, http://www.counsel.nysed .gov/common/counsel/file s /absentee-ballotapplication-andinstructions-spanish.pdf), o comunicándose con la Secretaría del Distrito por correo electrónico ciampib@northshorescho ols.org o por teléfono al (516) 277-7801. Las solicitudes completadas deben recibirse, al menos, siete (7) días antes de la elección si la boleta electoral debe enviarse por correo postal al solicitante, o el día anterior a la elección si la boleta electoral debe entregarse personalmente al solicitante o su apoderado designado. La Secretaría del Distrito no aceptará solicitudes de boleta electoral por ausencia antes del 17 de abril de 2023. Habrá una lista de todas las personas para las que se emitieron boletas electorales por ausencia disponible en la oficina de la Secretaría del Distrito durante los cinco días previos al día de la elección, excepto el domingo, y únicamente con cita previa el sábado anterior a la elección, entre las 9:00 a. m. y las 10:00 a. m. La Secretaría del Distrito debe recibir las boletas electorales por ausencia antes del 16 de mayo de 2023 a las 5:00 p. m. para que se escrutinen.
ASIMISMO, SE NOTIFICA que, de conformidad con la sección 2018-d de la Ley de Educación, cualquier persona que
preste servicio en el ejército, incluidos los cónyuges y dependientes, se puede registrar para votar en la próxima elección del Distrito Escolar. Los votantes militares que sean votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar pueden obtener un formulario de registro poniéndose en contacto con la Secretaría del Distrito por teléfono (516-277-7801), fax (516-277-7805), correo electrónico (ciampib@northshorescho ols.org), por correo postal (112 Franklin Ave. Sea Cliff, NY 11579) o personalmente (durante el horario de atención habitual o entre las 8:00 a. m. y las 4:00 p. m.). Los votantes militares que estén debidamente registrados pueden solicitar una boleta electoral militar comunicándose con la Secretaría del Distrito para pedir una solicitud del distrito. Las solicitudes completadas se deben entregar en persona o por correo postal en la Secretaría del Distrito, y se deben recibir antes de las 5:00 p. m. del 20 de abril de 2023. Las boletas electorales militares se deben recibir antes de las 5:00 p. m. del 16 de mayo de 2023 si están firmadas y fechadas por el votante militar y un testigo con una fecha que no sea posterior al día anterior a la elección o no más tarde del cierre de las urnas el 16 de mayo de 2023 si muestran una marca de cancelación del servicio postal de los Estados Unidos o del servicio postal de un país extranjero o muestran un endoso fechado de recepción por otra agencia del gobierno de los Estados Unidos. Los votantes militares pueden decidir si prefieren recibir un Formulario de registro para los votantes militares, una Solicitud de boleta electoral militar o una boleta electoral militar por correo postal, fax o correo electrónico en su solicitud para dicho registro, solicitud de boleta electoral o boleta electoral.
SE NOTIFICA ADEMÁS que se adjuntará un Informe de exención fiscal sobre los bienes inmuebles de acuerdo con la sección 495 de la Ley de Impuestos sobre Bienes Inmuebles a cualquier presupuesto preliminar o tentativo, como también al presupuesto definitivo adoptado del cual forme parte. Este se publicará en el sitio web del Distrito.
AVISO APROBADO: 23 de marzo de 2023 POR ORDEN DE LA JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR NORTH SHORE CENTRAL EN GLEN HEAD, GLENWOOD LANDING, SEA CLIFF, CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK
RESOLVED, that the North Shore Central School District budget for the school year 2023-2024 proposed by the Board of Education in accordance with Section 1716 of the Education Law shall be approved and the necessary taxes be levied therefore on the taxable real property of the District.
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION
NORTH SHORE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK (MAY 16, 2023)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing of the qualified voters of the North Shore Central School District, Nassau County, State of N.Y. will be held at the District’s High School, 450 Glen Cove Avenue, Glen Head, N.Y., on May 4, 2023 at 7:45 p.m. for the presentation of the budget for the 2023-2024 fiscal year, and for the purpose of discussing the necessary funds to meet the estimated expenditures of the School District during the ensuing school year, and for the transaction of such other business as is authorized by the Education Law.
NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for school purposes (Proposed Budget) may be obtained by any resident of the School District at each schoolhouse and at the District Office between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on each day other than a Saturday, Sunday or holiday during the fourteen (14) days preceding the annual meeting and election, and on the day of the election, together with the text of any resolution which will be presented to the voters.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER
NOTICE that voting, by voting machine, will take place from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on May 16, 2023 at the Gymnasium of the North Shore Senior High School, on the following Proposition:
PROPOSITION NO. 1 SCHOOL BUDGET
2023-2024
PROPOSITION NO. 2 CAPITAL RESERVE FUND AMENDMENT PROPOSITION RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the North Shore Central School District is hereby authorized to amend the existing 2016 Capital Reserve Fund, which was established by voter authorization on May 17, 2016, by expanding its scope to include, in addition to the purposes previously established, the accumulation of funds for the purpose of financing: the removal and replacement of turf fields at the District’s schools and facilities; without any change, increase or alteration to fund’s source of funding, ultimate capitalized amount or maximum annual funding allocation, which shall remain as previously authorized and amended by District voters.
PROPOSITION NO. 3
CAPITAL RESERVE FUND EXPENDITURE PROPOSITION - TURF FIELD AND DANCE CLASSROOM RESOLVED, that in the event Proposition No. [2] is approved, the Board of Education of the North Shore Central School District be hereby authorized to expend out of the previously established 2016 Capital Reserve Fund, a sum not to exceed $1,300,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the following purposes: (1) the removal and replacement of the Turf Field located at the North Shore High School; and (2) the renovation and construction of a dedicated Dance Classroom at the North Shore High School; the foregoing to include furnishings, equipment, machinery, demolition and other work required in connection therewith, as well as preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and to the financing thereof; provided that the detailed costs of the components of the projects may be reallocated among such components if the Board of Education shall determine that such reallocation is in the best interests of the District and no material change shall be made in the scope of the projects.
NOTICE IS HEREBY
FURTHER GIVEN that at said election to be held on May 16, 2023, qualified voters shall also elect two (2) members to the Board of Education
STREETS SURROUNDING THE church blocked vehicle traffic for the dozen bagpipers that escorted the ambulance carrying Giovanniello’s coffin.
for two, three-year terms commencing July 1, 2023 and expiring on June 30, 2026. Candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education may be nominated only by petition. Candidates run at large and nominating petitions shall not describe any specific vacancy for which the candidate is nominated. Each petition shall be directed to the District Clerk, shall be signed by eighty (80) qualified voters of the School District, shall state the name and residence of each signer and shall state the name and residence of the candidate. Each such petition shall be filed in the District Clerk’s Office, located at 112 Franklin Avenue, Sea Cliff, New York 11579 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on or before April 17, 2023.
NOTICE is also given that persons must be registered in order to be entitled to vote. The Board of Registrars will meet to register voters on Saturday, May 6, 2023, between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. at the North Shore Schools Administrative Office, 112 Franklin Avenue, Sea Cliff, N.Y. 11579. Persons who shall have been previously registered for any District annual or special election and who shall have voted at any such District election held in the prior four calendar years (2019-2022), and/or persons who are registered to vote at general elections within the District pursuant to Election Law §352, need not register to be eligible to vote at said Annual District Election.
NOTICE is also given that the District Register will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the School District between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. during the five (5) days immediately preceding this Annual Budget Vote and Election, except Sunday, and Saturday when it may be inspected, by appointment, between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
NOTICE IS FURTHER
By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
The haunting and mournful sound of bagpipes could be heard outside St. Rocco Roman Catholic Church on April 6, drawing attention to an unsettling reality — the death of teenager Susan Giovanniello, a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician.
Hundreds of mourners, still in shock over the sudden and devastating loss, filled the church’s pews to capacity. Family members, first responders and local leaders gathered, listening intently to Susan’s older sister Jessica Giovanniello deliver her remarks.
The sisters both volunteered for the city’s Emergency Medical Services. Jessica always looked up to her younger sister as a source of inspiration.
the right thing.” Norris said. “She led by example, she didn’t have to tell you what to do. You looked at her and you knew what the right thing to do was.”
District Superintendent Maria Rianna said that Giovanniello, who graduated in 2021, was a talented student. Like many others, Rianna was devastated to hear about the former student’s death.
“It is with great sorrow that we received the news,” Rianna said. “She had a great personality and was a young lady with a lot of potential.”
GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots for election of school board members and for voting on the school budget are to be completed on a form prescribed by the state board of elections and may be obtained by visiting the New York State Education Department’s Website (http://www.counsel.nyse d.gov/common/counsel/fil es/absentee-ballotapplication-andinstructions-english.pdf, http://www.counsel.nysed .gov/common/counsel/file s /absentee-ballotapplication-andinstructions-spanish.pdf), or by contacting the District Clerk by email ciampib@northshorescho ols.org or phone (516) 277-7801.
Completed applications must be received at least seven (7) days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the applicant, or the day before the election if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the applicant or to his or her designated agent. Absentee ballot applications will not be accepted by the District Clerk before April 17, 2023. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots have been issued will be available in the District Clerk’s office on each of the five days prior to the election except Sunday, and by appointment only between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 am on the Saturday prior to the election. Absentee ballots must be received at the District Clerk’s Office no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 16, 2023 in order to be canvassed.
GIVEN that pursuant to Education Law §2018-d, any person serving in the military, including spouses and dependents, may register to vote in the upcoming school district election. A military voter who is a qualified voter of the District may obtain a registration form by contacting the District Clerk by telephone (516-277-7801), facsimile (516-277-7805), email
(ciampib@northshorescho ols.org), mail (112 Franklin Ave. Sea Cliff, NY 11579), or in person (during regular office hours or between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.) A military voter who is duly registered may apply for a military ballot by requesting an application from the District by also contacting the District Clerk. Completed applications must be personally delivered or mailed to the District Clerk and received no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 20, 2023. Military ballots must be received by 5:00 p.m. on May 16, 2023 if signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto with a date which is not later than the day before the election, or not later than the close of the polls on May 16, 2023 if showing a cancellation mark of the United States postal service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States government. A military voter may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration form, military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile or electronic mail in the request for such registration, ballot application, or ballot.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that a Real Property Tax Exemption Report prepared in accordance with Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law will be annexed to any tentative/preliminary ebudget as well as the final adopted budget of which it will form a part; and shall be posted on the District’s website.
NOTICE APPROVED: March 23, 2023
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, NORTH SHORE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT GLEN HEAD, GLENWOOD LANDING, SEA CLIFF, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK
ELIZABETH A. CIAMPI, DISTRICT CLERK 138490
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF BUDGET ADOPTION
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Village of Sea Cliff has on April 4th 2023 adopted the budget for the fiscal year June 1, 2023 - May 31, 2024 and a summary thereof is on file and available for public inspection at the Village Clerk’s office, 300 Sea Cliff Avenue, Sea Cliff, NY during regular business hours 9:00 a.m.
- 4:30 p.m.
Dated: April 4, 2023
Sarah Beaudin Sea Cliff, NY Village Clerk 138814
“It didn’t matter what I was telling her about my shift with EMS,” Jessica said. “We always came to each other with questions about school, EMS, life, to rant, or when her or I had to write paragraphs to people. I had a built-in best friend.”
The 19-year-old volunteer EMT died suddenly on April 3 from an unspecified medical emergency. Although the exact cause of her death is unknown, the Nassau County fire marshal determined her death was not suspicious.
Giovanniello became a member of the Glen Cove EMS Explorers when she was 16. She was dedicated to her community and being an Explorer gave her another outlet to continue to do so.
Also a beloved member of Glen Cove High School’s mixed chorale, she was a mezzo-soprano and the group’s secretary. An avid lover of theatre, Giovanniello was also co-stage manager to Ed Norris, the high school’s chorale teacher, during the production of “Les Misérables.”
Mayor Pamela Panzenbeck was attending church when she received the call about Giovanniello’s emergency admittance at Glen Cove Hospital. Panzenbeck said she didn’t expect the situation to be as dire as it was when she went there to comfort Giovanniello’s family and local EMS members. Panzenbeck remained at the hospital for two hours leaving when Giovanniello was in stable condition.
Ralph Comitino, a close family friend, who also works for the Glen Cove Department of Public Works, remembers Giovanniello fondly. Comitino’s daughter and Giovanniello were classmates.
“I can’t bear what’s going on right now,” Comitino said. “It’s hard to digest, but it’s something that doesn’t go away.”
Glen Cove EMS Supervisor Christopher DeMetropolis knew Giovanniello since she became a volunteer with the city. He said that Giovanniello was hoping to advance her career in healthcare, saying that she wanted eventually to become a physician.
“She always wanted to learn, she always wanted me to show her new things and how we do things the right way,” DeMetropolis said. “And then she would adapt some of the things that I taught her to her best practices that she started to display.”
LEGAL NOTICE
ASSESSOR’S NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF THE FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL
THE ASSESSOR OF THE COUNTY OF NASSAU HEREBY GIVES NOTICE that he has completed the 2023/2024 final assessment roll, which will be used for the 2024 levy of Town and County Taxes in the Towns of Hempstead, North Hempstead and Oyster Bay, and the City of Glen Cove and the City of Long Beach, and for the 2023/2024 levy of school taxes in such Towns and in the City of Long Beach. A certified electronic copy of the roll was filed with the Department of Assessment on April 3, 2023. The electronic roll may be examined on public terminals located in the offices of:
DEPARTMENT OF ASSESSMENT NASSAU COUNTY OFFICE BUILDING 240 OLD COUNTRY ROAD, FOURTH FLOOR MINEOLA, NY 11501 where the same will remain open for public inspection for fifteen days.
Dated this 3rd day of April, 2023.
MATTHEW R. CRONIN, IAO Chief Deputy Assessor, Nassau County 138706
Norris said Giovanniello was everything and more that he could have asked for from a student leader. She would take the initiative handling tasks that others might not want to do. Norris said she never walked into any room without sharing her infectious smile.
“She was just one of those kids that stood out above the rest, and always did
Glen Cove Assemblyman Charles Lavine said he was shocked when he heard of the death of the 19-year-old, whom he deemed an important member of the community.
“In the little city of Glen Cove, we are either related or interrelated,” Lavine said. “We stand together in moments of tragedy and grief. Sadly, this is just one of those moments.”
We’re going back to the moon, or at least close to it, perhaps as soon as the fall of 2024.
We humans haven’t been near the place since 1972, when those of us who were around at the time were all wrapped up in Watergate and the Vietnam War. In the years since, we have had numerous launches of the space shuttle, and we continue to send astronauts to the orbiting International Space Station.
But last week, NASA announced the names of the crew members who will fly the Artemis II mission in November 2024, a 10-day flight that, at this point, is planned to send the three men and one woman farther than any human has ever traveled. After circling the moon — but not touching down on it — the spacecraft will return to Earth.
All this will pave the way for Artemis III, expected to launch in December 2025. The astronauts of Artemis III are
slated to walk on the lunar surface, the first time anyone will have done so in 53 years. Artemis III, NASA hopes, will kick off an effort to establish a permanent lunar outpost that will allow astronauts to live and work on the moon.
And that lunar outpost is supposed to help lay the groundwork for an eventual trip to Mars.
Should we be excited?
You bet, Andrew Parton, president of the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, says. Museum officials are already thinking about some type of launch party to mark the Artemis II flight late next year. The museum, Parton said, might invite some astronauts, or other dignitaries, to the event. But a celebration of some kind is in the works.
America’s space program has always operated in fits and starts. It does some extraordinary things, including landing people on the moon for the first time in 1969, and then repeating that feat several times, until the program ground to a halt in 1972, as public interest waned and congressional funding dried up.
Nothing space-worthy happened
after that until 1981, when the first space shuttle was launched. But the shuttle program ended in 2011, with the last flight of the shuttle Atlantis, after two disasters. In 1986, the shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, killing all seven astronauts aboard, and in 2003, the shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing seven more.
The first components of the International Space Station were launched in 1998, and sparked a great deal of interest. The ISS makes its way into the news every once in a while, when it is visible from Earth — or when students, as is the case now in Long Beach, are working on a science project that is to go aboard the station. But otherwise, it has become a ho-hum low-Earth-orbit presence.
Elon Musk and his SpaceX program generate interest, especially when he takes civilians into space, as he did for the first time in May 2020. But Musk has been getting mostly bad press lately
for the controversy that has surrounded his purchase of Twitter.
But here is a fresh start: NASA’s Artemis II, whose crew includes a woman and a Canadian, signals that our space journey is on its way again. “It should get a whole new generation interested in space,” Parton said.
“It’s so much more than the four names that have been announced,” Victor Glover, one of the crew members, said at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. “We need to celebrate this moment in history.” Glover’s crew mates are Christina Koch — a veteran of six space walks — Jeremy Hansen and Reid Wiseman.
Space is infinitely fascinating to so many, but alas, is the same old same old to many others. That, pretty much, is human nature. How much wonder is there anymore over how fast you can fly from New York to Tokyo?
We can hope that the eventual trip to Mars, and someday even beyond, will prove to be something else again, and ignite some passion for what is ultimately the destiny of humankind.
At least for a brief time.
James Bernstein is the editor of the Long Beach Herald. Comments? jbernstein@ liherald.com.
Forget everything I’ve said up until now.
Over these 18 years, as you graduated from binkys to bigboy pants to bicycles to four-wheel drives, the advice to young men turning 18 has changed. (It has also changed for young women.)
It used to begin with, “You’re an adult now; you need to be thinking about work or college or military service.”
That pretty much isn’t true anymore.
RANDI KREISS
The rollout to adulthood is different these days. And slower. The advice is less rigid because the path is less clear.
According to USA
Today, some 47 percent of young adults live at home with one parent or two. For all of you turning 18, the pandemic interrupted your lives, inflation is making single-person dwellings unaffordable, the job market is completely weird, and college isn’t necessary a launching pad to work but a time to continue growing up. That said, the rite of passage is signifi-
cant, because this is your moment. Some day you may be telling children or grandchildren what it was like when you were 18. Today you begin to write that story.
Once the day dawns on your 18th birthday, the following are all the things you can do that you couldn’t do the day before (legally, anyway). You can now, without parental permission:
Vote, join the military, buy a pet, get a body piercing or tattoo, change your name, book a hotel room, become a real estate agent, use a meat/deli slicer at a grocery store job, skydive, sign yourself out of high school, be called for jury duty, open a bank account, have sex legally with someone else over 18, get a Costco card, get married, buy a house, drive a taxi, get a license to drive a truck, go to the E.R. alone for treatment, file a lawsuit, adopt a child, create a will, buy a car, rent an apartment, rent an Airbnb, buy spraypaint, buy cough suppressants, or move out of your parents’ home.
Knowing you, I’d be surprised if the first thing you did was run out to buy spray-paint, but I’ve lived long enough to
know that you never know. I imagine you won’t be adopting a child. And it’s most unlikely that you’ll buy a house. You can move out of Dad’s house legally, but why in heaven’s name would you? Give up the morning strawberry smoothies? Pass up the exotic stir-frys and the mahi-mahi your dad catches on a regular basis? You may be 18, but you aren’t crazy!
Would you like to know what other 18-year-olds have done? No pressure, but Alexander the Great, who was born in 356 BCE, completed his studies with Aristotle at age 16 and ruled Macedonia. By 17 he had put down a revolt and founded the city of Alexandropolis. Life is different today, for sure, but people standing in the doorway of adulthood have few limitations on what they can accomplish.
Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he founded Facebook, Wayne Gretsky was a professional hockey player at 19, Pele was 17 when he won the World Cup, and Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize when she was 17. These young people were outliers, of course. Most of us find satisfaction and peace of mind in
managing to live quite ordinary lives.
What we all have in common is the need for solid human connections and a determination to do our best in our time on earth.
You come from a clan of achievers who support one another in our interests and relationships and work. Not a bad launch pad.
I was a freshman in college when I was 18, and it was one of the most confusing times of my life. I had no idea what I wanted to do or how to do it. It was the first time, and not the last, that I sought counseling to help me figure out my path. Always ask for help when you need it.
You have the mixed blessing of no required set path, and I confess to being a bit envious. You will educate yourself, travel, enjoy friendships and explore relationships. There is no timetable. You can take any leap of faith that beckons to you. That must be so liberating, and scary.
What I know, as your grandma, is that you have a good heart, an athlete’s determination and a sharp mind. Happy, happy birthday. Enjoy being 18, and don’t go adopting any children or buying any houses, at least until you’re 19.
Copyright 2023 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
You have the mixed blessing of no required set path, and I’m a bit envious.
NASA’s plans for Artemis II and III signal that our space journey is on its way again.JAMES BERNSTEIN
NY 11530
Phone: (516)
She always had the brightest smile in the room. She was always ready to offer a hand to anyone who needed it — whether it be for comfort, or simply for their own smile.
That’s how friends and colleagues described Susan Giovanniello, a volunteer EMT with Glen Cove Emergency Medical Services, who had a medical emergency of her own and died after a shift last week. While it’s tragic when we lose anyone who worked to make the world a better place, Susan’s passing was even harder, as she was just 19 years old.
“Susan, with her contagious smile and demeanor, put forth calm in stressful situations,” Glen Cove EMS said afterward.
“Her enthusiasm for training and teamwork with the corps will be greatly missed. She is a hero, and will live on in our hearts forever.”
It was no accident that Susan was doing exactly what she loved at such a young age. She was part of the Glen Cove EMS Explorers from a young age — a program started through the Boy Scouts of America that provides opportunities for young men and women to explore poten-
To the Editor:
While I am not and will never be a supporter or someone who cares for George Santos, and truly wish he was not our representative in Congress, I must say that the Herald’s weekly Santos update is fast becoming overkill and, quite frankly, a snooze-inducing waste of ink.
I think most, if not all, Santos constituents will agree that his election was a mistake, and he represents the very worst of politics. That being said, what, exactly is the purpose of the weekly update? To continue to hammer your readers over the head with Santos negativity has become tiresome and redundant and smacks of a political hatchet job by the Herald and the reporters who continue to cover him. We get it by now: He is not worthy of his constituents. Thank you.
I would think by now, most Herald readers are very much aware of Santos’ extremely public shortcomings, professionally and personally. Save the updates for election time, when his fate will be determined at the ballot box. Until then, in the interest of making sure your readers aren’t bored senseless, please report on all of our representatives and how they are performing for us.
KEVIN J. MCLAUGHLIN East NorwichTo the Editor:
In her column “Writers will tell the story of our
tial careers in a number of fields, like those of first responders.
There are now more than 5,000 posts across the country serving more than 100,000 teenagers. Teenagers just like Susan Giovanniello.
We all have busy lives, so we don’t think about the importance of first responders much until we, or someone we love, needs them most. A single EMS responder can head out on dozens of calls on a single shift, and save more lives in a day than many of us could in a lifetime.
We might not think of EMS workers putting their health and safety on the line, as do, say, police officers or firefighters. But they do. According to Lexipol’s EMS1, Giovanniello was the eighth first responder to die in the line of duty this year.
There was Chad Tate, a firefighter in Sequim, Washington, who was found dead in his bunk. Ethan Quillen, who died after coming into contact with a live power line in Paw Paw, Michigan. Tiquita Miles, who was killed in a collision between her ambulance and an SUV in Atlanta.
Minton “Butch” Beach died from an apparent heart attack during training in
Oak City, North Carolina. Eddie Hykel was struck by a car in West, Texas. Matthew Madigan was also struck and killed by a car, in Detroit. Jay Miles, a firefighter and EMT, suffered a stroke while loading a patient in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. Even since Giovanniello’s death, we’ve lost yet another one of these heroes: veteran Chicago firefighter Jan Tchoryk, who died after climbing 11 stories in a tower that was on fire.
These are people we never met, and likely never heard of while they were alive. But that’s what makes them heroes. They weren’t wearing fancy spandex or going by some eye-catching moniker. They were everyday people, like all of us, who simply wanted to leave the world a little better than they found it.
That’s exactly who Susan Giovanniello was. If you didn’t know her name before last week, that was perfectly fine. It was never about recognition for Susan — it was simply about being there when a perfect stranger needed her most. Offering the brightest smile in the room. Ready to offer a hand to anyone who needed it.
Susan Giovanniello was a hero. A hero we lost way too soon.
times” (March 9-15), Randi Kreiss referenced Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” which, as she put it, “speaks to the currents of evil that can sweep away an entire community.” She has no trouble at all vilifying DeSantis, Trump, and Marjorie Taylor Greene in this regard. However, she conveniently omits Joe Biden and the destruction his administration has wrought on the entire country: a border crisis, rising crime, rampant inflation, supply chain disruptions, high gas and food prices, Covid mandates, no more
energy independence, massive federal spending, banks collapsing, instability overseas — need I go on?
With the country currently circling the drain, Ms. Kreiss has successfully demonstrated once again that her irrational hatred for Donald Trump and conservatives takes precedence over current reality.
Ihave ridden through New York City in presidential motorcades with Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump. Looking out the window of the presidential limousine, I would wonder what was going through the minds of the onlookers lining the sidewalks, or the drivers and passengers in the cars and buses frozen in place as our endless stream of official vehicles made its way through the city streets.
A week and a half ago — on Monday, April 3, shortly before 4 p.m. — I found out. I was driving down Second Avenue in Manhattan, approaching 55th Street, when a New York Police Department officer climbed off his motorcycle, which had been traveling west, its lights flashing red, and halted all traffic just as I was about to cross 55th Street.
My first reaction was the thought, wrong place, wrong time. I was already running late for a WABC radio pre-show meeting at Third Avenue and 49th Street. But as I saw the long line of vehicles passing in front of me — the black SUVs, the marked NYPD cars, the unmarked heavyweapons Secret Service truck and the New York City Fire Department emergency vehicle — escorting former President Trump from LaGuardia Airport to Trump Tower, at Fifth Avenue and 56th Street, I realized that I was witnessing a moment in history. A sad moment, with lasting consequences not just for New York, but also for the United States and the world. Minutes later, as I walked from the parking garage on 48th Street and looked up at the NYPD helicopters whirring in the sky above the city’s giant skyscrapers, my sadness and concern heightened.
The first criminal indictment of a former president of the United States
To the Editor:
I begin with a reminder about something that we too often forget here in Nassau County: that all 1.3 million of us live on an island.
And while living on this island, our exposure to climate change is a constant threat to our homes, our communities, our infrastructure, our drinking water, and our collective safety. In fact, Long Island ranks fourth among major population centers for its exposure to the physical and economic risks of climate change.
Reports show that we are especially vulnerable to warming temperatures, extreme weather, sea level rise and “water stress” from our reliance on a sole-source aquifer. This underscores the need for collective urgency, and how the actions we take now will help protect Long Island for generations to come.
This view is not hyperbolic. Once-ina-generation storms that once happened every century are happening every month. Recently, 26 people died in an extreme tornado in Mississippi. Thirty-seven people died this winter from extreme storms in Buffalo. And we can’t forget Hurricane Sandy, in which 44 New Yorkers lost their lives and 69,000 people suffered property damage.
Local governments are on the front line of this crisis, and we have the opportunity to transform our commu-
nities and make them healthier and more sustainable. That’s why I’ve introduced legislation to make county government operations carbon-neutral by 2035. The state has already set a timeline of 2050, and there’s no reason Nassau shouldn’t be ambitious in leading the way.
To be absolutely clear, my proposal relates strictly to county government and our municipal operations. So, while it would not establish new mandates for individual homeowners, all Nassau residents would be the beneficiaries of a cleaner environment.
Whether it’s improving the quality of our air, drinking water, beaches, buildings, or parks and preserves, we all benefit from a greener Nassau. And of equal importance, this bill would make the county “climate smart,” ensuring that state and federal grants offset the costs of these improvements so we don’t have to add a single dollar in taxes. In fact, going green would actually save taxpayers money by making our operations more efficient.
A bipartisan group of mayors representing 130 American cities have joined the initiative Cities Race to Zero to move toward a zero-emissions future.
I’m calling on County Executive Bruce Blakeman and my Republican and Democratic colleagues in the Legislature to join them by passing this bill and making Nassau County the 131st participant. We don’t have any time to waste.
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crosses a line our nation has never before crossed — indeed, it is a 21st-century crossing of the Rubicon. I say this not as a supporter of Trump. Though I worked closely with him when he was president and saw firsthand his accomplishment in crushing the MS-13 gang here on Long Island, I am not supporting his current presidential run. This is not, and should not be, a partisan political issue. It should be of concern to all, especially to those who otherwise proclaim their fear that democracy is at risk, but are now supporting or silently enabling this indictment.
Politicizing criminal justice and criminalizing political opponents cannot be tolerated in a democratic society. Because I believe this so strongly, I was one of only two Republicans who voted against President Bill Clinton’s impeachment when I was in Congress. The false argument being used by Manhattan District Attorney
Alvin Bragg is that no one is above the law. That is a truism not bearing on this case or this indictment.
If Trump were to shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue, he should be indicted and prosecuted. But to indict him on a state misdemeanor charge whose statute of limitations has expired, and elevating it to a felony by attaching it to a federal election law on grounds that the Federal Election Commission has ruled do not constitute a crime, proves my good friend Judge Sol Wachtler’s dictum that a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich.
This is setting a harmful precedent for our republic. Do we want local district attorneys in red states going through convoluted contortions to indict and prosecute members of President Biden’s family? Donald Trump may not be the most sympathetic victim, but this indictment extends beyond him. It is the American justice system that is being put at risk — and that threatens us all.
Peter King is a former congressman, and a former chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
I was one of only two Republicans who voted not to impeach Bill Clinton.
