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Trio spreads ‘Seeds of Faith’ in N.S. and Muslim faiths.

BY GEoRGE WAllACE newsroom@liherald.com

Seeds of Faith, a nonprofit, was founded in 2017 after one of Seeds of Faith for Women, its co-leaders, Lisa Larsen Hill, and its sister organization, Daughters of Abraham, enters read a book by Tessa Afshar, entitled “Pearl in the its third year of on Sand,” which retold the Nor th Shore as historical biblical with a firm sense of fiction the story of purpose, a solid base Rahab, a prostitute of membership and who hides two Israean expanding vision li spies who come to of its role in fosterJericho. ing similar groups “I gave 15 copies around Long Island, to my church, Sea say its members, a C l i ff Methodist number of whom Church,” Larsen are from Sea Cliff Hill, of Glen Cove, and Glen Cove. recalled. “What Seeds of Faith impressed me was has four branches: she was a prostitute, ■ A Biblical Fiction would have been Book Club with stoned, but she ends MoJDEH three chapters: Sea up marrying one of C l i f f M e t h o d i s t HASSANI the Israeli lineage, Church, Manhattan Sea Cliff which is the lineage Congregational of Christ.”

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Rising to the challenge Students at North Shore Middle School last month took part in a Team Challenge, a two-day event that combines academic, athletic and artistic skills. Team Challenge enables students to demonstrate the creative, social, and athletic abilities learned during the first part of the school year. Students participated in cheers, songs and lip-syncing routines, and played in variou sathletic events.

Four vie for two seats on the North Shore school board

BY JENNIfER CoRR jcorr@liherald.comThere are many

changes in the North Shore School District, including the resignation of Superintendent Dr. Peter Giarrizzo, who will be succeeded by Interim Superintendent Dr. Thomas Dolan.

And with Board of Education

Vice President Tim Madden and Trustee Lisa Vizza, both of whom were elected three years ago, deciding not to run again, that leaves two open seats on the board.

Four candidates are campaigning for them: Lisa Colacioppo, Maria Mosca, Paul Puskuldjian, and Anthony Stanco. The election is May 18.

The Herald contacted the candidates to ask about why they were running, their goals and what they would contribute to the board.

Herald: What inspired you to run?

Lisa Colacioppo: I fir mly Continued on page 3

t’s not about doctrine, it’s about understanding that we’re all one circle.

Stories resonate.

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MOJDEH HASSANI, LEFT, Fredda Klopfer and Lisa Larsen Hill have become friends through Seeds of Faith for Women.

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An interfaith women’s group for story sharing CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE audience.

The book inspired Larsen Hill to try her hand at historical biblical fiction too.

The result was an Old Testament story about five women who changed the course of history. This quickly led to speaking engagements, sermons and the bigger idea of creating the Biblical Fiction Book Club, and from there, an interfaith group for women to share their religions’ stories.

“I wanted more than a book group; I wanted a way for women to share personal stories, what their faith means to them, how these stories connect to their lives,” Larsen Hill explained. “We wanted to create a safe space to tell each other our stories — a place where there’s sometimes tears, and sometimes laughter. We wanted an opportunity to plant seeds of faith.”

“I’m delighted that ‘Pearl in the Sand’ was seminal for her,” said Afshar, the author of the book. “I run into plenty of book clubs and book groups, but never one where they’re reading books not just to read, but to create meaningful community, to encourage each other and welcome each other on a deeper level.”

Two years later Daughters of Abraham was founded. “With Fredda and Mojdeh, we formulated a clear idea of our purpose, with some principles behind it, and launched Daughters of Abraham in 2019,” Larsen Hill said. “There was so much divisiveness then, we wanted a safe space to express our thoughts, to create respect and not prejudge, and honestly to build trust.”

Klopfer, who was principal of the Glen Head Elementary School until July 2019, recalled how the three came together to form Daughters of Abraham. In June 2019, Rabbi Irwin Huberman, from Congrega-

tion Tifereth Israel in Glen Cove, was leading a class where he shared the Bible story of Abraham and Sarah, which involves Sarah’s infertility, the surrogacy of Hagar, and the resulting birth of half-brothers Ismael and Isaac. When the two grow to adulthood, there is friction over inheritance, and Sarah asks Hagar to leave. The story goes that God said to Hagar, “You too will be father of a nation.”

“My friend Mojdeh Hassani, who I had hired as a special education teacher at Glen Head, and I talked about what the Quran had to say about that story, and we wrote and put on a biblio-drama at Tifereth Israel, from Hagar’s point of view,” Klopfer said.

“Lisa saw the play and came running over.

She said, ‘I need to talk to you. I’d like to start a group for Christians, Muslims and Jews that explores each other’s stories.’”

Hassani, who lives in Sea Cliff, said that one of the things that binds them is the fact that all three are storytellers. “We wanted to tell our faith through storytelling,” she said. “Storytelling makes it non-judgmental. These stories may come from the Quran, or the Old or New Testament, but they were passed down to all of us from our parents and grandparents. It’s not about doctrine, it’s about understanding that we’re all one circle. Stories resonate.”

While there is something of education and mutual understanding to be gained from being part of the organization, the women said there is another important ingredient to its purposes.

“The main thing we’ve tried to do is to support each other through rough times,” Hassani said. “There’s a lot we’re all going through, and we can help each other by sharing our spiritual practices. It’s a sharing group, yes, but it’s a support group.

We’re learning from each other how to deal

with things.”

Dee Jae Diliberto, a member of Seeds of Faith’s board of directors and a recent law school graduate, took an interest in the organization after hearing Larsen Hill give a presentation on a Bible story that she found inspirational in her profession. “It was the story of daughters of Zelophehad, about the evolution of law and the legal position of women in society, specifically a woman’s right,” said Diliberto, of Manhasset. “I had heard a lot of sermons, but to hear a presentation that relates Bible stories to contemporary issues inspired my intellectual curiosity.”

Diliberto, who raised four children who went to local Quaker schools where they teach non-denominational celebration of all faiths, finds Seeds of Faith’s philosophy a natural fit. And she has seen plenty of enthusiasm and friendships evolve since day one, when she joined the group.

“There’s plenty of desire to share, and hearing other people inspires people to share intimate and sometimes very painful experiences,” she said.

Nasrin Mesbah, of Oyster Bay, who became involved with the group through her friend Mojdeh, sings praises to its orientation toward sharing beliefs in an informative, personal way.

“While I have never been in a group exactly like this before, I have been part of Iranian groups that celebrate all the religions there — Muslim, Jewish, Christian, even Zoroastrian and Bahai,” she said.

“This group is so nice — we learn a lot about each other’s cultures, celebrations, our shared beliefs. Since I’ve been involved, my interest has only grown.”

“This is not political. It’s not Democratic or Republican,” Mesbah said. “It’s just human.”

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Maria Mosca Challenger

Lisa Colacioppo Challenger

Anthony Stanco Challenger

Age: 61

Age: 62

Age: 45

Age: 66

Family: Married, four children

Family: Married, one child

Family: Married, one child

Family: Married, four children

Occupation: Chief operating officer at a financial services technology company

Occupation: Full-time mother and gardener

Occupation: Stay-at-home parent

Occupation: Retired attorney

Education: Bachelor’s in business administration, Adelphi University

Education: Bachelor’s, Barnard College; master’s in landscape design, Columbia University

Education: Bachelor’s in psychology and political science, Binghamton University

Education: Law degree, West Virginia University

Residence: Glen Head

Residence: Sea Cliff

Residence: Sea Cliff

Residence: Sea Cliff

Meet the North Shore School District BOE candidates CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE believe in giving back and serving my community. I’ve been volunteering within the school one way or another since my son was in kindergarten three and a half years ago. For me, this is just the next step of giving back even more and volunteering in an even greater capacity. While I represent all residents, I do think elementary school representation is important, especially in a year when we’re hiring a new superintendent.

Maria Mosca: My husband and I came to this town, like so many other people do, because of the strength of its school district. More recently, I’ve been listening very closely to our Board of Education meetings. I’m really impressed with how well the district is run, and beyond impressed with the education that my daughter is getting. I’d like to be able to make a difference and help influence the tough decisions on issues that the world and our little community face.

Paul Puskuldjian: Over the last number of years, mostly in the last year, I’ve been a little bit disappointed in how the district is spending their money, and it’s very difficult to get concrete answers from the school district.

Anthony Stanco: What inspired me to run is the level of drug use in high school.

I don’t think it’s addressed appropriately.

Herald: How would you be an asset to the board?

Colacioppo: My business success and volunteering experience, working collegially with teachers, administrators, parents and community members on various district and school committees is definitely

an asset. I am extremely invested in our schools’ long-term success, not just for my child, but also for generations of children to come. I’m also skilled at relationship building, effectively listening and communicating.

Mosca: What I think I can bring to the table is a very strong sense of teamwork, of being a collaborator and listening incredibly well to other people, whether it’s stakeholders in the community or my fellow trustees if I’m lucky enough to be elected. I also have a lifetime of work experience in the educational sphere. I’ve worked for more than 24 years at the university level as an administrator, as an IT support person. I did have several years of budgetary responsibilities in my entire career, so I understand the concepts behind managing a budget.

Puskuldjian: My background is in finance and operations.

Stanco: I was a former teacher and a former youth outreach worker. I also understand contracts really well.

Herald: What would be your main goals for the district if elected?

Colacioppo: I would take my responsibilities very seriously. I think a successful school district is also a fiscally responsible school district. We need to pave the way for success not only now, but for future generations. Another goal is to make sure all stakeholders are part of the discussions in the school district, whether it’s about special education or the budget.

I think we need to figure out how to get the community answers to their budget questions even before they arise and communicate the budgeting process in a very clear way.

Mosca: We’re there to listen and balance the needs of all our stakeholders and students and find ways to continue to provide the amazing services that the district is known for and highly valued for.

I am trying not to have a specific agenda of my own. I think that’s not a recipe for being a good trustee. I think representing all parts of our community is key, and that I can’t do that well if I have blinders on because I only want to take care of one or two specific things that I’m concerned about. I want to be the best listener I could be and the best contributor I could be for this entire community.

Puskuldjian: I have a bunch of goals in mind, looking at spending, but also being an advocate for the children that go to the schools here. I love North Shore schools.

I’ve been here for a long time, and I believe there is quite an achievement gap in the North Shore School District, and I’d like to see the district close that achievement gap. I think there needs to be more transparency in school budgeting and how the district spends their money. They should really think about it as their money, how they would spend their own money. The school district needs to take into consideration all of the North Shore community, not just the parents who have children in school.

Stanco: I think that we need to improve the programs in such a way as to build very high self-esteem among students. I want to go from a competitive model to a cooperative model. Self-esteem is not built by being better than anybody else or having any more than anyone else.

But real self-esteem is built by having a sense of integrity in your life. We can give that to children starting from kindergarten all the way up, so that by the time they’re approaching problems they face

in high school, and the issue of if they’re good enough to be in the advanced group, they can easily choose for themselves what is best.

Herald: Why should the community elect you?

Colacioppo: I care about our schools, about our children and about our community. I would take the responsibility very seriously. I think we face very serious financial pressures, and at the same time we must ensure that the children of today and the children of the future will have what we know and what we value as a North Shore education.

Mosca: I have gained in the past five years a good knowledge of how our district works. I’m hopeful that what I’ve learned about the district, what I’ve selfstudied, combined with my experience in the educational arena, my budgetary experience and my life experience of being an older parent with quite a young child, will convince the community that I am a suitable candidate.

Puskuldjian: I’m a lifelong resident. I love the North Shore School District. I love the North Shore community. I feel like the background that I have in finance and operations is something that could really be used right now, and I’m willing to give my time to try to see if I could help.

Stanco: If they love their children, they should elect me. Children are growing up to be so insecure that they have what’s known as fear of missing out, or FOMO. And they feel they don’t have much value unless they’re participating in many activities that are beyond their emotional growth and are not smart choices.

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Baseball fields to be upgraded at Clifton Park Nassau County Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton has secured passage of an inter-municipal agreement that will deliver $85,000 in capital funding to the Incorporated Village of Sea Cliff for the renovation of two baseball fields at Clifton Park.

The full Legislature voted unanimously to approve the IMA on Monday, April 26. Using those funds, the village will: strip clay and grass from the infield; replace those areas with new clay and sod with appropriate drainage; rebuild pitchers’ mounds; and replace old bases with new home plates and safety bases.

“These improvements will make Clifton Park safer and more enjoyable for the leagues, teams and families who come here to participate in America’s pastime at every level,” DeRiggi-Whitton said. “I thank my colleagues for unanimously saying ‘Play ball!’ to a project that will benefit the Sea Cliff community and Nassau residents for many seasons to come.”

The upgrades will deliver much-needed TLC to the ball fields, which are open to all Nassau County residents and frequently utilized by residents of the North Shore School District and members of the Sea Cliff Baseball League; the North Shore Softball League; the Fire-

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“We are simply thrilled and so thankful for Legislator DeRiggi-Whitton’s efforts to secure the funding to improve the fields for our children,” said James W. Versocki, Commissioner of the Sea Cliff Junior Baseball and North Shore Softball Association. “Our community league has grown - especially due to the pandemic as parents look for outdoor activities for their children - and these funds will help us provide these activities with improved and safer fields. On behalf of our league and our community we thank Legislator DeRiggi-Whitton, the Legislature and the County Executive for supporting our children.”

“Baseball is part of the fabric of life.

The sight of children on a ballfield is one of the first signs of the promise of spring. In the aftermath of Covid, nothing could be more gratifying than the restoration of the ball fields at Clifton Park,” said Sea Cliff Mayor Elena Villafane. “On behalf of all of the children of Sea Cliff who will enjoy the restored fields for years to come, I wanted to express our deep appreciation to Legislator DeRiggi-Whitton for all of her hard work in bringing this opportunity to Sea Cliff.”

Throughout the pandemic, healthcare workers, first responders, grocery and pharmacy personnel, and so many others, have been dedicated to supporting and assisting our community. They are true heroes who deserve our respect, praise and recognition.

As many remain on the front lines in 2021, we invite you to nominate a Hometown Hero to be featured in Herald newspaper editions throughout the year.

Sea Cliff Beach will be opening on Saturday, May 29. The beach will be open on weekends only until June 26, when it will be open on a daily basis.

To ensure public health and compliance with Governor Cuomo's orders regarding outdoor gatherings, the beach will be open to Sea Cliff residents only on weekends (proof of residency required). Non-residents are welcome to purchase a weekday/daily membership for Monday through Friday.

The beach and kayak rack rental application is available online at www.seacliff-ny.gov/sites/g/files/ vyhlif3786/f/uploads/beach_application_2021.pdf The application must be brought to the beach office. Applications are not being accepted at Village Hall. As the beach parking lot is still being utilized as a staging area for the village's sewer infrastructure project, parking passes are not currently available.

New York American Water launches spring flushing program As part of its routine maintenance program, New York American Water (NYAW) will begin flushing of water mains throughout its service territory to deliver high-quality water service to its customers. Starting on May 3 and lasting through May 7, NYAW will be conducting this annual flushing in Cedarhurst, Glen Head, Inwood, Lawrence, Levittown, Meadowmere, North Seaford, and North Wantagh, Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Water main flushing clears harmless mineral deposits and sediment that may have built up over time inside the pipes. The process also includes flushing fire hydrants to make sure they are operational and to check flows in the system.

“Water main flushing is a necessary part of maintaining and improving water quality by removing mineral and sediment buildup that can occur over periods of time,” said NYAW Vice President of Operations

Jim Runzer. “Customers may experience low pressure or water discoloration during flushing in their neighborhood. If discoloration occurs, customers should run their cold water from the lowest point in their home until it runs clear.”

New York American Water asks all residents to please adhere to all social distancing rules if they are near a crew performing flushing in their area. The employees and contractors are doing essential work to keep your water safe, so please keep them safe as well.

New York American Water, a subsidiary of American Water (NYSE: AWK), is the largest investor-owned water company in New York, providing high-quality and reliable water and/or wastewater services to approximately 335,000 people. For more information, visit www.newyorkamwater.com or the company’s Facebook page.

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Congregate commercial and social events in New York—such as those at venues that host sports competitions, performing arts and live entertainment, and catered receptions can exceed the social gathering limits of 500 people outdoors or 250 people indoors if all attendees over the age of four present either proof of full vaccination status or recent negative Covid-19 test result and the required social distancing can be accommodated.

Starting May 19, large-scale indoor event venues will operate at 30 percent capacity, which is an increase from the current 10 percent capacity limit. Largescale outdoor event venues will operate at 33 percent. Social distancing, masks, and other applicable health protocols will still apply, including the requirement of attendee proof of full vaccination or recent negative Covid-19 test result.

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GOV. ANDREW CUOMO announced on May 3 a significant easing of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced on May 3 a significant easing of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions on the region's businesses, venues and gatherings, given significant progress in vaccinations and sustained reduction in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations.

The announcement comes after all hair salons, barber shops and other personal care services were given the green light to expand to 75 percent capacity on May 7. Cuomo also announced on April 28 that food and beverage service and catered event curfews would end this month.

"The tide is turning against Covid-19 in New York, and thanks to our increasing vaccination rates, as well as our successful, data-based regional approach, we're able to take more steps to reopen our economy, help businesses and workers, and keep moving towards returning to normal," Cuomo said.

He added that New Yorkers should continue to take proper precaution in order to keep moving in a positive direction.

“So, let's be safe and for anyone who has yet to be vaccinated, please do so as soon as you can,” Cuomo said. “With the addition of walk-in appointments, we've made it as easy as every to get your shot, so there are truly no excuses."

Effective May 19, most business capacities, which are currently based upon percentage of maximum occupancy, will be removed in New York and New Jersey.

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In New York beginning May 10, the outdoor social gathering limit will increase from 200 to 500 people. Beginning May 19, the indoor social gathering limit will increase from 100 to 250 people. Also, the outdoor residential gathering limit of 25 people will be removed, reverting to the social gathering limit of 500 people with space for appropriate social distancing.

Indoor residential gathering limits will increase from 10 to 50 people. In New York, any event gatherings in excess of the social gathering limits may only occur if all individuals present have

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on a recent Thursday at the Nassau County Police Academy in North Massapequa, recruits practiced arresting a suspect during a felony car stop, in which the vehicle that was pulled over had reportedly been used in a crime.

Photos by Scott Brinton/Herald

An arresting lesson in N.C. police work

By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com

Part three in a photo series on the Nassau County Police Academy.

A Signal 15 comes in over the radio: A stolen vehicle used in a felony — perhaps a bank robbery, maybe a kidnapping — has been pulled over. Officers must quickly assess the situation: Is the vehicle occupant armed? Hostile? Ready to run?

With so many unknowns, officers are trained to follow step-by-step procedures to take the suspect into custody without a fight. The objective of this high-stakes, potentially deadly scenario is to “keep everyone safe,” Officer Arthur Zanelli, a Nassau County Police Academy instructor, said on a recent Thursday, just before academy recruits ran through a mock felony car stop. “You want [the suspect] to have his day in court.”

De-escalation, talking a suspect through the car stop with specific instructions that leave no room for error, is the key to everyone walking away unharmed, according to Zanelli.

The recruits practiced talking suspects through a stop, instructing them precisely how and when to leave their vehicle.

There were four recruits in two police cruisers, whose objective was to bring in two suspects in a single vehicle, one of whom ran off, while the other stayed and was captured.

It was a mock exercise, but the nervous tension was palpable as of ficers approached the vehicle, their dummy guns drawn. Communications is key in this scenario, Zanelli said, and the recruits called out to one another throughout the exercise.

Once a suspect is handcuffed, then the Continued on neXt page

officerS practiced drawing their guns. The objective, police academy instructors said, is to avoid firing a weapon, to ensure that police, the public and the suspect all stay safe. officer arthur Zanelli, above ran recruits through their paces during the mock exercise. officerS muSt give suspects step-by-step instructions on how to proceed when exiting a vehicle during a felony car stop.

Recruits practice to make the perfect arrest detective work begins. Who is this person? Did he or she commit the felony in question? It might very well not be the bad guy, Zanelli noted. It could, for example, be a relative who had nothing to do with the crime in

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question, but that person must be treated as a suspect until proven otherwise.

The felony car stop, he noted, is among the most dangerous scenarios that a police officer might encounter in the field.

Photos by Scott Brinton/Herald

A recruit prActiced placing handcuffs on a suspect, who was played by an actual police officer for this exercise.

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the tension of a felony car stop was palpable even during a mock exercise.

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HERALD FOOTBALL NEWS Wantagh tops North Shore for title

BY ANDREW COEN sports@liherald.com

The Wantagh football team took the field for last Saturday’s Conference IV finals against top-seeded North Shore with the memory of beloved longtime defensive coordinator Tony Carter fresh on their minds.

The Warriors made their former coach proud with a 26-13 win in which they kept an explosive Viking offense out of the end zone until the final seconds and limiting it to just 122 total yards. Following the win at North Shore’s home field, the family of Carter, who died in April 2020 from complications of Covid-19, joined the Wantagh players and coaches to celebrate the program’s first county title since 2016.

“We dedicated every day to him this season and hoped it would end with a win and it did,” said Wantagh head coach Keith Sachs, who coached beside Carter for 17 years. “This is what it’s all about.”

Wantagh (5-2) had fallen to North Shore 26-12 in the team’s regular season meeting on March 27. The Warriors defense stepped up in the rematch limiting North Shore to one defensive touchdown and a Philip La Rosa 2-yard touchdown run with five seconds left.

The Warriors took command of the game on the other side of the ball from aggressive play calling in converting four-of-five fourth down attempts with the first two resulting in touchdowns.

Senior quarterback Bryan Picirillo connected with Ryan Graham in the corner of the end zone for a diving eight-yard touchdown catch late in the first quarter on a 4th-and-3 for a 6-0 Wantagh lead. Junior running back Tyler Martini later raced 59 yards for a

touchdown on a fourth-and-1 to expand the lead the 12-0 with 4:23 left in the second quarter.

Martini, who finished with 143 yards and was part of Wantagh’s impressive defensive effort at linebacker, said Carter was fresh on his mind during each play during the championship just like the entire season.

“Every time we stepped on the field we did it for him,” Marini said. “He was one of the most amazing coaches anyone could play for.”

Junior running back Mark Maniet also had big day on the ground with 133 yards that included a 48-yard touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter expanding the lead to 26-7. Marini credited the offensive line led by Tom O’Connor, Drew Palladino, Liam Casey, Nick Aldino and tight end Joe Fontana North Shore (7-1), which entered the finals unbeaten and seeking the program’s first county title since 1977, trailed 12-0 at halftime before clawing back into the game with 5:52 left in the third quarter on an Ian Roach 70-yard fumble recovery touchdown that cut the lead to 12-7.

Wantagh answered the North Shore momentum early in the fourth quarter with some controversy. On a fourthand-2 early in the 4th quarter from the North Shore 13, Martini moved close to the first down maker prompting a measurement, which was initially ruled short but later reversed by the referees.

Three plays later Anthony Reale hauled in a 9-yard touchdown pass from Picirillo.

“Things didn’t go our way on the scoreboard, but they fought until the end and for that I’m proud,” North Shore head coach Dan Agovino said.

“They played like champions.”

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COMMUNITY UPDATE Friday, May 7

Wednesday, May 12

Yoga with Morgan Rose

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Enjoy 15 weeks of all-levels yoga with Morgan Rose. You can join the live Zoom class on Fridays at 9 a.m. and/or watch the recording as many times as you like within the week. Classes run each Friday from May 7 through Aug. 27, with the exeption of July 16 and 23. Register at bayvillefreelibrary.org to receive the Zoom information and weekly recording link. The fee for this series is $60 payable by check only to The Bayville Free Library.

Your check will be held until the classes begin.

Through the Locust Valley Library, 10 a.m.

Discuss “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World” by The Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. In this nonfiction exchange between two of the world’s most noted spiritual thinkers, with the theme that fear, anger, and hatred exist internally as much as externally, the 14th Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu discuss the challenges of living a joyful life. Contact Janet Robertson: jrobertson@locustvalleylibrary.org to register.

Saturday, May 8

A virtual presentation through the Locust Valley Library. Learn tips on healthier ways to grill and what dishes to bring on picnics and to the beach. Find out how to get the best seasonal vegetables and fruits, and how to make the most scrumptious salads and dressings. Know how to hydrate yourself with sassy water and smoothies. The most popular summertime recipes are explained during this online workshop. Presented by Lisa Zimmerman, founder of Evolve Wellness. Register at locustvalleylibrary.org. The deadline to register is May 12 at 11 a.m.

Healthy Summer Entertaining

North Shore Community Food Drive North Shore High School, 450 Glen Cove Ave., Glen Head, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hosted by the North Shore Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Gold Coast Business Association and the North Shore Kiwanis Club. Covid-19 safety protocols will be enforced. Masks required for pick-up.

Trunks should have room for food items.

Call (516) 521-8274 with questions.

Outdoor Spring Flea Market First Presbyterian Church, 60 E. Main St., Oyster Bay, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

All appropriate Covid safety protocols will be observed as the community is invited into the parking lot to browse and shop a varied selection of wares.

Fair weather only.

Bone Marrow Drive Be the Match is partnering with the Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club for a bone marrow drive, 113 Glen Cove Avenue, from noon to 3 p.m. Contact Vasilianna Fakiris at vfakiris@optonline.net for more information.

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Virtual Upstanders Awards & Online Auction Join the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County on Monday, May 10, at 7 p.m., for the virtual Upstanders Awards featuring an online auction. For the past 11 years, the Friedlander Upstander Awards have been presented to students who have intervened during a bullying incident or act of intolerance. Award recipients are are rewarded with an educational scholarship of $5,000 provided by the Claire Friedlander Family Foundation. For more information contact Deborah Lom, Director of Development at (516) 571-8040 or dlom@hmtcli.org. at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park with one local photographers. For more information, call (973) 281-4503.

Monday, May 10 Virtual Class: Tai Chi Through the Gold Coast Public Library, 11 a.m. Join Linda Cafiero for the online class. Register at goldcoastlibrary.org.

Sunday, May 9

Tuesday, May 11

Mini photo sessions at T.R. Park

Virtual Trip to Iceland

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park, 25 West End Ave., Oyster Bay. Starting at 9 a.m., participants can capture themselves and their loved ones, including pets, with a free 30-minute photoshoot

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A virtual program through the Oyster Bay Library, 9:30 a.m. A short visit to Iceland’s capital and nearby areas is akin to visiting multiple US National Parks in just a few days. There are majestic falls, geo-

thermal pools, black sand beaches, shooting geysers, several UNESCO world heritage sites, spectacular volcanoes Iceland is one of the most volcanically active places in the world - and the fissure where European and North American tectonic plates meet. We’ll visit the capital and travel along two major tour routes: the Golden Circle loop of historical, geologic and cultural sites east of Reykjavik and then the Southern Coast for its beaches and waterfalls.. Go to oysterbaylibrary.org to register.

Virtual Program: Meet the Author Through the Glen Cove Library, 2 p.m.

Participate in a virtual visit on Zoom with Sue Miller, author of “Monogamy.” An engrossing novel, Miller depicts the intricacies of marriage, parenting and domestic life with vibrant prose and realistic character portrayals. Register at glencov-

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Haunted History: Bog Bodies A virtual program through the Bayville Free Library. Archaeologist Patty Hamrick returns to discuss Bog Bodies, the eerily well-preserved remains of hundreds of people – men, women, and children – found in the swamps and peaty wetlands of northern Europe. One startling thing that archaeologists have learned is that most of the bog bodies died violently before their burials hidden beneath the peat. In this program, we will discuss who the bog bodies were during life, how they died, and the science behind their amazing preservation. Register at bayvillefreelibrary.org to receive the Zoom link.

The City of Glen Cove Summer Camp registration is now open.

Glen Cove’s Shed Your Meds Day will be on May 8 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Town of Oyster Bay Board of Trustees meets on May 18 at 10 a.m.

The Glen Cove City Council meeting is on May 11 at 7:30 p.m.

The Village of Sea Cliff Board of Trustees meeting is on May 10 at 7 p.m.

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TRUE HEROES:

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s a nurse in the Population Health Department of St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, Kerinth Afflick follows up with patients after they are discharged from the hospital and helps to make sure they are getting and taking their medications and they are making and getting to their follow up visits to doctors.

“When you first become a nurse you are so young, and a little ignorant,” said Afflick, who will admit to being in her early 50s. She has been a nurse for 28 years. “You learn. You learn patience, learn to listen, listen to problems and follow up. You become a psychiatrist as the patients need someone to speak with and you become a great listener.”

There was one patient, she said who was undocumented that Afflick assisted to ensure they were aware and used all the resources available to them for more than two years.

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There are some other patients who, because of the coronavirus pandemic, are alone.

“One patient didn’t use our pharmacy (St. John’s has an in-house pharmacy), they were isolated because of Covid,” she said. “They tried to rely on CVS and we called CVS and asked them to please deliver the meds.” Which was done.

Afflick said for her being a nurse is about giving back. “It’s not about the thank you so much as making sure that [the patients] are OK."

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So, I got my license in February 2020, Covid happened, and we moved out here. My girlfriend has a home in Locust Valley. That means I’m new to nursing and at 45, working in what has essentially become a Covid ward, keeping up with younger nurses. I don't know if that’s good luck or bad, however, with the experience and expectations of someone at my stage in life, it wasn’t a shock. Anyhow we

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As a Covid ward there are peaks and troughs. It’s busy, it's chaotic, but we make our way through it. Now that there are protocols and we've been vaccinated, the world’s gotten used to a new normal. But people are sick, hundreds are dying, every day.

Becoming a nurse, I’ve learned we're all human. Our time on earth is precious and finite. And I’ve learned that it’s possible to be removed, dispassionate, but remain passionate about treating people with humanity.

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My amazing sister, Eva Jones, RN, is the exemplary model of a nurse who is compassionate, caring and expertly skilled. With 35 years of dialysis experience, working for both major national dialysis companies, Davita and Fresinius, Eva offers the ultimate level of competence, bringing heart and kindness to ensure her patients’ smoothest and most comfortable sessions three times per week.

They feel her love and confidence and are glad Eva’s in charge.

Through pandemic Eva worked in a Covid-only outpatient dialysis clinic every day, sometimes up to 105 hours in a twoweek period, perpetually short staffed because other staff called out. She opened the clinic at 4 a.m., leaving at 10 or 11 p.m.

Think about that. When a situation lands in your lap and you step up to the plate to do what is necessary, that’s an extraordinary person with a conscience. Thank God for nurse angels like Eva Jones!

Kayla Rein is my hero, my nurse, You may consider me biased because Kayla is my granddaughter. She worked tirelessly, 12 hour overnight ER shifts throughout the height of the pandemic and continues to do so today! I was there for her offering moral support along the way.

Little did I know I, myself, would become an ER admittance in mid-January — due to a DVT. I witnessed first-hand the arduous, hard-working nursing staff. Needless to say, I was the “lucky” one, having granddaughter to attend to my unexpected needs.

Thank God for our outstanding nurses and all other health care workers who routinely go above and beyond — day in and day out!

— Virginia Rein-Biehl, Oceanside

Ross Rieman

Phyllis Imbriano

Northwell LIJ/Northwell Forest Hills

Phyllis Imbriano was honored by Tiegerman Schools at their gala on March 25.

Phyllis has worked with Tiegerman for 21 years; as the school Nurse at Tiegerman Preschool, Elementary School, UPK and A.L.L. for Kids, also serving as the full-time nurse at Glen Cove Preschool/ Elementary School.

Among the many tributes to Phyllis: “When my daughter Grace was younger, she attended Tiegerman Elementary School.

Nurse Phyllis took great care of her and the other students. As a parent of a special needs child, you are always anxious when you get a call from the school! The first thing Nurse Phyllis would say is,“Grace is fine. I am calling about...”. I loved how aware she was and I can imagine she had the same sensitivity for the other students. I never worried about my child in school because I knew how supportive Nurse Phyllis and the staff were.”

Healthcare heroes don’t just touch the lives of their patients, but also the lives of their loved ones. From the perspective of a family member and also a future wife, we are amazed at the dedication, commitment and sacrifice Ross Rieman has devoted to saving lives, not only in the emergency room as a nurse practitioner at both Northwell LIJ and Northwell Forest Hills, but also as a volunteer (Second Assistant Chief) in the Woodmere Fire Department.

In a hospital located at the epicenter of the pandemic, Ross tirelessly attended to Covid-19 patients in an overflowing emergency room without regard to his own welfare. He took extra shifts when his dedicated colleagues were ill with Covid-19. When not treating patients, Ross served his community through the fire department, ensuring that people who experienced Covid-19 symptoms received the care they needed.

Ross is the epitome of what a true healthcare hero represents.

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NYU Langone Winthrop Hospital Jennifer Ryan, my wife, was a true a beacon of selflessness and compassion throughout the grimmest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jennifer provided outstanding to patients afflicted with Covid-19 in a homecare setting.

The courageous, compassionate care delivered by Jennifer and her homecare colleagues was instrumental in reserving local hospital capacity and resources for the most critically ill patients at the apex of the pandemic.

I salute and commend these true American heroes!

— Brendan Ryan, North Merrick

My mother, Mary Stillwagon (BSN-BC, MS, Lac.), retired from a 40+-year tenure at Glen Cove Hospital Northwell Health in May 2020.

She started her healthcare journey in the ICU at Glen Cove Hospital and continued her career there up until last year, amidst the pandemic. Mary also went on to receive her Masters in Science and became a Licensed Acupuncturist in 2005, all while working full time at the hospital.

What nurses do for the world is truly amazing. Mom worked hard and sacrificed to ensure the comfort, care and treatment of each patient she oversaw. She treated countless patients, worked alongside hundreds of other healthcare professionals and always did it with grace, relentless dedication, and love in her heart.

On behalf of our family, her friends, and associates, Thank You, Mary. Your retirement is well deserved! Now it’s time for us to take care of you.

— Laura Stillwagon, Glen Cove

Priti Chohan

South Shore University Hospital I am so proud of the selflessness and dedication my daughter, Priti Chohan, BSN, MBA, RN, Patient Care Services Manager at South Shore University Hospital, has shown throughout the pandemic. She has stepped in countless times to assist her team on the front-line, maintaining order in such a hectic environment, and sacrificing time on the personal and familial front to give to caring for those affected.

Most importantly, she has given her time to support her team, who were exposed to the virus and on the front-line daily.

Healthcare is truly a special calling, deeply rooted in compassion and empathy Therefore, I would like to extend my gratitude to all the courageous essential workers who have helped to support our community throughout this tumultuous time.

— Sudesh Chohan, Huntington

Susan Atwell

Mount Sinai Hospital Susan Atwell is a special person in my life.

She is a registered nurse, RN BsN, who works in the PACU (Recovery) Department of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She has been the most dedicated and determined nurse for her patients for the past 11 years at Mount Sinai Hospital. She began her nursing career 36 years ago with that same determination to help others in need, and it has only grown stronger through the years.

In addition, Susan, who lives in Woodmere, is a devoted mother of three incredible children, Robert, Christine and Matthew. She raised them by herself while holding a fulltime nursing job. She is the happy grandmother of an adorable 1-year-old little guy, Daniel, too! Susan is my real hometown hero. I am very privileged to be her friend.

— Donna Shulman, Hewlett

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I am so grateful for Megan during that time and I know that I healed so well in large part to the level of care Megan provided.

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We never really knew, however, what heroes they were until the coronavirus pandemic struck Long Island in March last year, sending already tired hospital staffs into overdrive. Nurses were at the very front lines of the crisis, and the physical and mental toll that they endured was unimaginable to most.

Nurses were, of course, accustomed to death. It is part of medicine. No amount of training, however, could have prepared them for the onslaught of Covid-19 cases that they would see between March and June 2020 — or the rapidly rising death toll.

With family and friends barred from entering hospitals during this grave period, nurses were often the very last people that the dying saw before they took their last breaths. 2020 and 2021 have very much been a battle for survival, and our nurses have fought it valiantly.

Many of them have been infected with Covid-19 themselves. Some have died.

We cannot thank our nurses enough for all that they did for us last year, but we should try. In this photo essay by Herald Photo Editor Christina Daly, we make the attempt, showing you, our readers, some of the faces who carried on through all the confusion and fear and heartache to protect and preserve life.

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1: Nurse Danielle Frantino, front, is in the Emergency Services Unit at Northwell Health Glen Cove Hospita Nurse Cel Christian Lumbera is her left.

2: Nurses Jaya Roy and Maria Cardone, of the Rehabilitation Unit at Northwell Health Glen Cove Hospital.

3: At Northwell Health LIJ Hospital in Valley Stream, nu educator Savita Amin reviewed notes with nurses De Pellitteri, Christine Luongo and Emily John, of the Pa Services Unit.

4: Taking in a lighter moment outside Northwell Health Hospital were Patient Services nurses Villaflor Andre Pascual, Ivana Klanac-Stern, Ann Marie Distanislao, Sheleema Harinandan, Benyanoot Rodthong, Emily Jessica Ruggierro, Debra Pellitteri, Saige Amoruso an Catherine Naranjo.

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6: Nurse Mary Sloane held a newborn in the Mercy Hospital Maternity Unit.

shortly after, with her family still in the parking lot. Asha said the experience made her cherish her time with her family.

10: Chris Frasco, left, and, Frank Masi, nurses at NYU Langone Hospital in Mineola.

7: Curtis King, a transporter, at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside.

8: Nurse April Dones, of the Maternity Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Mount Sinai South Nasau, was all smiles behind her mask recently.

9: Nurse Asha Ali, of NYU Langone Hospital, spoke of a 40-year-old patient who arrived at her unit struggling to breathe. The patient grasped her hand and told her, “You are you my angel.” The patient died of Covid-19

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eing an emergency room nurse Sarah Avis said is like “trying to thrive in controlled chaos.

You have zero patient info, teamwork is critical and you trying to find the missing piece of a puzzle.”

When Avis, 34, was young her mother was very ill. “I like how there was people to help in my mother’s time of need,” she said, explaining why when she went to college she chose nursing as her profession.

Now eight years in, Avis views the role of nurse as multifaceted. “It means just being there through an extreme time and making someone as comfortable as possible and being someone they can trust,” she said, “especially during Covid. Families are limited. We play the role of caregiver, friend, family member. It can be hard. As a nurse you are supposed to have an emotional barrier. We see so much certain

trauma and a lot of grief, it’s emotional. As a nurse you also want to be there. It is very challenging.”

Recently, Avis witnessed “a young life lose. “It was extremely emotional,” she said, describing how a family member sank to the floor. There was hugging to console this person and more family handholding and hugging. Sometimes just being a presence is very challenging for a very busy ER.” St. John’s emergency department serves nearly 49,000 patients annually.

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My first job was at an Ob-Gyn office and there were a lot of young women there with teen pregnancies in the community I was working in, and I just really took a passion to it.

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Through a grant, we were able to provide our patients with PPE. We were also able to provide our patients with food. A lot of patients were out of work because of Covid, so there was no food for their families.

Not only do we treat the patient, but we treat the family. We watch the children grow and then they have kids again and they trust us and want to come back to us.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

ANN MARIE DISTANISLAO

CARMEN COX

started off in banking, but switched to nursing because I love taking care of people.

Today, nursing is very challenging due to the pandemic. At the beginning, during spring 2020, we nurses were in-service constantly, getting educated by our supervisors about Covid-19. That’s what pulled us through.

On the job, we wear a mask, goggles, surgical headwear, and a disposable gown.

Every time we leave a patient’s room, we discard the mask and gown, and wash the goggles. It’s uncomfortable, but to fight the virus, we have to start with our first-line workers for the protection of the residents.

Our staff members are all tested for Covid-19 twice a week, in a little unit that does the nasal swabbing here on site.

Not having family members of patients visiting the facility makes our job a lot easier,

I

Emergency Nurse, Long Island Jewish Valley Stream because we have to control interaction from the outside. But we do help our patients communicate with loved ones virtually.

The virtual chats are scheduled with our recreation person. A nurse or aide can hold a cell phone so a patient can speak using FaceTime. We can also have the family members visit on-site, but not inside the facility. They stand in the entrance foyer between the double glass doors. The inner glass door is locked and the resident is brought down to sit on the inside. Then they talk with their loved ones on cell phones while smiling at them through the glass.

We are trained to let our residents know what’s going on, but to keep them comfortable, and to give them respect and dignity at all times. Remember, this is their home.

I

have a brother with Down syndrome so I was kind of a nurse even in my childhood, and I kind of grew up with him, favoring caring for people with a personal touch.

I went to nursing school and graduated in 1987, during the AIDs epidemic. I graduated from St. Vincent’s School of Nursing, and worked in the East Village where the AIDs epidemic was really fired up, so I had seen a lot of death and dying back in the 1980s. I thought I’d never see it again. And then Covid came.

The first wave was very heavy in our Emergency Department, but we pulled through. The Northwell Health system quickly got it together, and we were very organized.

We have a tiny Emergency Department, and as the volume increased we transferred out to the North Shore facilities.

The wisdom that I brought having had been

through something terrible like this before was that I knew I had to dress in the full PPE, the personal protective gear. Back in the 1980s we didn’t know it was sexually transmitted so we were wearing all sorts of hats and gowns and face masks. So I guess that was the little bit of wisdom there that I had. I also gave a little support to the newer nurses, letting them know that we’re going to get through this.

But it was also very overwhelming for myself. People were coming into triage and they could barely say their name, and then they would just drop dead in front of you. It was very scary. We did the best we could with what we had.

But even when it got overwhelming you still had to stop and give that extra personal touch, whether it was giving my phone charger to them so they could try and call a family member.

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MEGHAN EVANS

JOEMELLE KHAN

Emergency Department, Mount Sinai South Nassau

Nassau University Medical Center

I

chose to become a nurse because I wanted to work in the medical field and be at the bedside caring for patients. Growing up, I was inspired by the nurses I met and saw first-hand how they took care of people, not only physically, but also emotionally.

The nursing profession means teamwork. I am beyond lucky to work in an area that has incredible teamwork. I would not be able to provide the best care without the help of our amazing patient care technicians and unit clerks, also amazing doctors and physician assistants who have taught me so much over the years.

I have been an Emergency Department nurse at MSSN for nearly 10 years, also a member of the ED’s Unit Based Council and ED Trauma Committee for more than five years. We are always working on creating new ways to provide excellent nursing care for our patients.

The nursing profession has taught me a

lot about life. I enjoy helping people and find myself helping others inside and outside of the hospital. I see first-hand how fragile life can be, so I try to keep a positive mindset and take care of myself physically and emotionally.

We never know what is going to come through those ED doors and we must be prepared for anything and everything. We laugh together and we cry together. We lift each other up when we are feeling down or scared and celebrate the happy moments with each other.

Nursing has always been a profession that is challenging yet rewarding. Emergency nursing is typically fast-paced and can be stressful.

When the Covid-19 pandemic arrived in March 2020, we were challenged in ways we had never imagined. Our team came together — we cared for our patients, we cared for their family members and we cared for each other.

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I

’m from Harlem and lived in Queens near Valley Stream. My first degree was in finance, but when my father went into a hospital with a stroke it struck me that hospital workers had good intentions, but there was not enough help, and I was drawn to nursing.

It helps that I come from a family with a lot of doctors and nurses in it, so I asked a lot of questions, did some research, and seven years ago became a licensed nurse. For me nursing is a great field if you are the kind of person who cares. The money’s good, you can go anywhere in the country and you can help a person just by holding their hand.

I worked at the Nassau County Correctional facility, and then two years ago I came to work at the Emergency Room at Nassau University Medical Center. We get it all. Helicopters come in and out, drownings, stabbings, shootings,

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

HAYDEE LAJERA

MITCH MARAVILLA

Director of Nursing, Lynbrook Restorative Therapy & Nursing

Medical/Surgical/ Oncology Unit, Mount Sinai South Nassau

’ve been in long-term care nursing for 28 years, and Director of Nursing for 15 years. I consider being a nurse as a calling. It requires dedication and compassion because, while we take care of patients' and residents’ physical needs, we must also address their emotional and spiritual needs.

During this pandemic, our dedication to our profession was put to the test. We could not stay home from work to avoid the deadly virus.

Some of us isolated ourselves from our families for fear of exposing them. Many of us got Covid and some died.

As the Director of Nursing, I had to care for my staff. They feared catching Covid and infecting their own families. I ensured that they were educated and had enough PPE, encouraged them, cried with them when they were emotionally drained, and sometimes bought them food or sewed masks for them.

For our residents, I crocheted hats and scarves during the winter, which made them smile.

When nursing homes were closed to visitation, nurses brought phones and tablets to Covid-positive patients so that their families could say goodbye to them. I once held a patients’ hand as she took her last breath and told her son who lived in another state that she died peacefully. One day I had to “sneak in” a priest to administer a patient’s last rites.

Now our facility is Covid-free. We have passed several inspections and continue to follow all infection control guidelines from the CDC and the New York State Department of Health. We have vaccinated most of our employees and residents, and hope the public will do the same so this pandemic will end soon.

car accidents.

In the last year Covid took over. That was challenging in part because I took the pandemic personally. My cousin, Marilyn Howard, a mentor to me, was the first school nurse in New York City to die of Covid.

Emergency room work has made me an even more compassionate person. You need a tough exterior, but still care. But I have plenty of support for that at home. My wife is also a nurse. We talk to each other about all these issues.

W

hen I was in high school, my dad was sick and in and out of the hospital. I had to help my mom take care of him, and that’s when I decided to take up nursing in college.

The nursing profession is a calling. It is indeed a tough and stressful job. You need to have a certain virtue to become a good nurse.

We call those virtues “TLC,” tender, loving care.

It requires a lot of patience and dedication.

Even if you are an experienced nurse, you don’t assume that you know everything. Every day is a continuous learning process.

I’ve learned a lot in two decades of being a nurse. It’s made me stronger, resilient and appreciative of those people around me, such as my friends, family and co-workers, as well as my patients and their families.

When the pandemic started, our floor was turned into one of the Covid-19 units. I was so scared. I’ve never been in this kind of

overwhelming situation in my entire career.

I was physically, mentally and emotionally drained. There was a time when one of my patients could barely breathe, and I remember him saying, “Help me. Help me. I feel like I’m drowning.” As I waited for the rapid response team, I held his hand and encouraged him. I felt hopeless and prayed for him. I was his only support. It was also devastating when some of my co-workers got sick with Covid, including my husband, who is also an employee at the hospital.

Our unit has remained the Covid floor for the hospital, but this year has been more manageable. I’m proud and privileged that I am a part of the process. Nursing is tough, but when you think of the lives you have touched, the lives you saved, it’s such a wonderful feeling. It’s priceless.

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TRUE In HEROES: IN THEIR OWN WORDS TheIr own words

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TRUE In HEROES: IN THEIR OWN WORDS TheIr own words DIANE PAEZ

LYSTRA BULLEN

Glen Cove Hospital ER/ Northwell Health

Oceanside Care Center

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’ve been a nurse for 33 years, first at St. Vincent in Manhasset on a ventilator floor, labor and delivery, post-partum care and in the emergency room at Glen Cove the last decade.

I know it’s a cliché, but I think nursing found me. I was an average student in high school and didn’t have a lot of confidence. That all changed in nursing school. I felt like this was where I needed to be. The book part’s a large component, but taking care of people is not something you learn in a book. It comes from having empathy for others, understanding that it’s not just people, it’s somebody else’s mother, somebody’s child.

This whole last year has been difficult. It’s the first time I felt I don’t know if I can make it.

I have another eight years and I hope I can get through it.

We’re not a trauma hospital, but an emergency room sees everything, and beginning

last March Covid is all we saw. It was scary at first — new information every day about PPE, about treatment. But we got better at it. And the community support was really special, like a parade. Maybe the parade’s moved on, but we’re still here doing the work.

Still, nursing is an excellent career, so many kinds of jobs. It doesn’t have to be all high drama. Financially it’s great, you can’t be outsourced. There will always be a place for nurses.

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LORRAINE RIXFIELDS

M

y job as a Certified Nursing Assistant is really a story about my dad. After my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, my sister took him in, but he would do unpredictable things like leaving the house unannounced.

Within a short time after we put him in a nursing home, he was totally different. When I visited him, he would say, “I ain’t givin’ no trouble,” and I could tell he was getting good care.

About a year after he entered the nursing home, I decided to help others like the home helped my father, and I became a CNA. My job is hands-on. I bathe the patients, feed them, take them to the bathroom, talk to them, and learn the little things that help them feel calm.

My work takes dedication because, when people can’t do self-care anymore, they go through a kind of depression. They miss their families. They may have underlying medical

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

BARBARA SIMMS Nurse Practitioner, Mercy Hospital

Nassau University Medical Center

I

was a medical assistant for 20 years in a family practice office in Seaford. When my daughter went to college I decided to go back to school to be a nurse. Everyone thought I was a nurse, anyhow. I managed to get my degree and 15 years ago, became a regular staff nurse at NUMC’s pediatric unit. I just got this position as assistant nurse manager at the end of January.

I love going to work. It's a job that I wouldn’t mind being at forever.

In a pediatric unit, we get a little bit of everything. I also float to the nursery, neo-natal.

So, I’ve gotten to see a variety of patients, newborn to age 21. When I was a medical assistant I dealt with adults, but in pediatrics you’re dealing with the parents too, making sure they’re knowledgeable ofwhat’s going on with their child.

When Covid hit there was so much we didn’t

conditions. We have to be very patient and sensitive. We approach each one individually and build bonds, step by step.

When the pandemic began, everyone’s heart was bleeding for our patients. Families couldn’t visit in person anymore. Patients coming back from the hospital had to be isolated for Covid testing.

But the patients understood because they watched the news, and they respected our explanations. They wanted their families to be safe, so they accepted window-side visits, video chats, and phone calls. These protocols are still in effect at this time.

The nurses and CNAs have had to work extra hard to give the patients what they need.

It’s been trying, but because we know our patients so well, everyone has adapted.

know. I took out my sewing machine and made caps and masks for whoever needed them. The load was so heavy, we were stressed out, but we had to put that aside.

But the pandemic also put us in the public eye in an incredible way. Recently I pulled into a gas station in my scrubs and a man at another pump, a total stranger, shouted out, “Thank you!” That’s the kind of thing that makes you feel appreciated as a nurse.

I

worked in the airline industry in human resource management and I had a sister that worked here (Mercy Hospital) as a nurses’ aide.

My sister was diagnosed with cancer while she was an employee here, and she had a tough battle for seven years.

She was an employee here, a patient here, and she passed away here.

After she passed away, I made the decision to become a nurse. And going to nursing school, I knew that I only wanted to work at Mercy because I felt that it was paying back for what I felt they did really well for my sister.

I started nursing school in 2005 when I was 39, and I came straight here in 2008 and I’ve been here ever since. My mother went into nursing at the age of 40, so I think that let me know that no matter what the age, if you want to change, you can change.

When Covid hit, my patient was the first

patient on the floor to get it. For me I think it was just trying to do the best that you can to keep your patients OK. And Covid was an eyeopener as far as seeing how fast a patient can decline, unfortunately.

I think for most nurses, when you go into nursing you don’t go into it looking for someone to praise you for what you do or sacrifice. You do it because it’s something in your heart.

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SEA CLIFF TAX SALE ON MAY 27, 2021 NOTICE OF TAX SALE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF SEA CLIFF, NEW YORK 2020-2021 VILLAGE TAXES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to the provisions of Sections 1450 and 1452 of Article 14 of the Real Property Tax Law of the State of New York, I, Marianne Lennon, Treasurer of the said Incorporated Village of Sea Cliff, will sell at public auction, in the manner provided by law, on the 27th day of May at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon, in the Board Room at the Village Hall in said Village, so such of each of the following parcels of real estate upon which Village Taxes remain unpaid as will be sufficient to discharge the tax, fees, interest and charges which may be due thereon respectively at the time of such sale, and shall continue the same from day to day until the said sale shall be completed.

Such purchaser at such tax sale will be required to pay ten percentum of his respective bid to the undersigned Village Treasurer immediately upon the conclusion of this sale and the remaining ninety per centum within ten days after the sale and upon such payment in full shall receive a written certificate of sale describing the real estate purchased and sum paid therefor. THE NAMES OF OWNERS SHOWN ON THIS LIST MAY NOT NECESSARILY BE THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS OWNING THE PROPERTY AT THE TIME OF THIS ADVERTISEMENT. SUCH NAMES HAVE BEEN TAKEN EITHER FROM ASSESSMENT ROLLS PREPARED AS OF APRIL 2020 OR FROM THE RECORDS OF THE RECEIVER OF TAXES AND FREQUENTLY DIFFER FROM THE NAMES OF THE OWNERS AT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. IT MAY ALSO BE THAT SUCH OWNERS ARE NOMINAL ONLY AND ANOTHER PERSON IS ACTUALLY THE BENEFICIAL OWNER. PROPERTY OWNERS MAY MAKE PAYMENT AT VILLAGE HALL PRIOR TO TAX SALE. PAYMENT MUST BE BY CASH OR CERTIFIED CHECK ONLY. The following is a list of the parcels of real estate to be sold, including the amount of the tax, fees, interest and charges thereon, all parcels being within Section 21 of the Nassau County Land and Tax Map, to wit: PURCHASERS WHO ARE PLANNING TO ATTEND MUST REGISTER WITH THE TREASURER

BY EMAIL: mlennon@seacliff-ny.gov TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH THE GOVERNORS COVID-19 GUIDLEINES. BLOCK F 83 142

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SEA CLIFF, N.Y. May 3, 2021 1131541 LEGAL NOTICE HELP WANTED The Village of Sea Cliff has an opening for two seasonal full time Laborer positions. Work available from June thru October.

Knowledge of maintenance materials, methods and equipment are required. Must be able to perform a variety of routine maintenance tasks, mostly park and beach clean-up. $15.00 per hour.

If interested, please email Marianne Lennon at: mlennon@seacliff-ny.gov 125872 PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES… Printed in this publication can be found online. To search by publication name, go to: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com TO PLACE AN AD CALL 516-569-4000 x 232 Search for notices online at: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com

LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held as to the following matter: Agency:Planning Board, Village of Sea Cliff Date: May 18, 2021 Time:5:00 pm Place:Via Zoom videoconferencing Application of Michael and Jennifer Keiler, 19 Marden Avenue, Sea Cliff, New York, for site plan approval pursuant to Village Code Chapter 107, to construct a swimming pool and associated improvements.

Premises are designated as Section 21, Block 61, Lot 133 on the Nassau County Land Tax Map.

OWNER’S NAME LA ROCCA HELEN THOMPSON, JEANNE STREET Y’S REHABS LLC MARIANNE LENNON TREASURER The meeting and public hearings shall take place at Village Hall, unless permitted to take place by teleconference or videoconference, in accordance with Governor Cuomo’s orders issued on account of public health and safety concerns related to COVID-19. If the meeting and the public hearings take place via teleconferencing and videoconferencing through Zoom, the meeting will be recorded and a transcription will be provided at a later date.

The Zoom login information is: Meeting ID: 972 7931 3429 Password: 761765 Or dial by your location: +1 929 436 2866 Whether the meeting will take place in-person or through Zoom will be posted on the Village website, under the calendar link for the Planning Board meeting.

Please continue to visit the Village website until May 18, 2021, for information on whether the hearing will be held in person or through Zoom.

Plans and other materials associated with the application may be reviewed and downloaded at www.seacliff-ny.gov.

Through Zoom, the public will have the opportunity to see and hear the meeting and hearings live.

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If the meeting is held in person, the Board may render a decision on any hearing, after closing the hearing.

If the meeting is held by Zoom, the Board will accept and consider public comments submitted by email no later than 4:00pm on May 21, 2021. Such public comments are to be submitted to planningboard@seacliff ny.gov. Public comments must identify the application to which the comments apply.

If the meeting is held by Zoom, the Board will consider applications and may make final decisions at a meeting that will be scheduled to be held not less than six (6) days after the conclusion of a public hearing on an application held by videoconference.

Prior to rendering a determination, the Board will consider all timely submitted documents.

Dated: April 27, 2021

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LEGAL NOTICE NORTH SHORE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT 112 Franklin Avenue Sea Cliff, NY 11579 Telephone (516) 277-7835 NOTICE TO PROFESSIONALS The undersigned shall receive sealed proposals for delivery of services to the North Shore Central School District as follows: REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR ASBESTOS, MOLD, LEAD PCB, IAQ & WATER SAMPLING ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES RFP # 2021-2022 Receipt Day & Time : May 17th 2021 at 11.00am Proposals will be received until the above-stated hour of prevailing time and date to the attention of John Hall, Director of Facilities at the Business Office of North Shore Central School District located at 112 Franklin Ave, Sea Cliff, NY 11579.

Promptly at 11:00am prevailing time on May 17th 2021, RFP will be opened and read aloud by video conference/live stream arrangements for participation in which will be available on the District Website. Note: In the event closure of the business office makes such video conference impossible on the bid opening date, video conference or live bid opening will be conducted on the next day the office is accessible as will be indicated at least 24 hours prior on the district website.

OBTAINING DOCUMENTS: Specifications and bid forms may be obtained via email Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00am and 4:00pm, excluding holidays. Requests for bid documents must be sent via email to Mathew Cheravallil cheravallilm@northshores chools.org.

RFP Submissions: Each board of education reserves the right to waive any informalities in or to reject any or all bids, or to accept that bid which, in the Boards of Education’s judgment, is in the best interest of the School District.

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LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held as to the following matter: Agency:Zoning Board of Appeals, Village of Sea Cliff Date:May 19, 2021 Time:7:00 pm Place:Via Zoom teleconference and videoconference, as provided below Subject: Application of Lauren Pfeifer, 98 Altamont Avenue, Sea Cliff, New York, to construct an accessory exercise studio, which construction requires a variance of Village Code §138-516, in that the studio will be 625 square feet, where a maximum of 500 square feet is permitted. Premises are designated as Section 21, Block 256, Lot 46 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map. Application of Alan Guerci, 48 Prospect Avenue, Sea Cliff, New York, for a variance to install a generator at a distance of 6.5 feet from the side property line, where Village Code §138-516 requires a minimum setback of 15 feet.

Premises are designated as Section 21, Block 200, Lot 205 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map.

Application of CRB Restaurant Enterprises Inc. d/b/a Maldon & Mignonette, as tenant, and Samiano Realty Corp., as owner, 243 Glen Cove Avenue, Sea Cliff, New York to permit a restaurant to continue to operate at the premises, which restaurant requires a special use permit pursuant to Village Code §138-902. Premises are designated as Section 21, Block 192, Lot 180 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map. Application of Juan Ramirez, 160 8th Avenue, Sea Cliff, New York, for a variance to install air conditioning in a front yard, where Village Code §138-516 prohibits accessory structures in a front yard. Premises are designated as Section 21, Block 91, Lot 305 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map. Application of Heidi Hess, 155 14th Avenue, Sea Cliff, New York, to construct a front yard porch and maintain a gazebo above the garage, which construction and maintenance requires variances of the following Village Code sections: (a) 138-405, in that the lot coverage will be 42.46%, where a maximum of 30% is permitted; (b) 138-408, in that the front yard setback will be

17.92 feet, where a minimum of 25 feet is required; (c) 138-411, in that the side yard setback will be 7.05 feet, where a minimum of 15 feet is required; (d) 138-413.1, in that there will be an encroachment into the required height setback ratios; and (e) 138-416, in that the gazebo is located in a front yard, where no such accessory structure is permitted. Premises are designated as Section 21, Block 144, Lot 23 on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map. The meeting and public hearings shall take place via teleconferencing and videoconferencing through Zoom, and the meeting will be recorded and a transcription will be provided at a later date.

The Zoom login information is: Meeting ID: 930 7005 1441 Password: 822984 Or dial by your location: +1 929 436 2866 Plans and other materials associated with the application may be reviewed and downloaded at www.seacliff-ny.gov.

Through Zoom, the public will have the opportunity to see and hear the meeting and hearings live.

Any interested member of the public may provide public comments

by following the procedure herein.

The Board will accept and consider public comments submitted by email or by mail to Village Hall, 300 Sea Cliff Avenue, Sea Cliff, New York 11579 if received, no later than 4:00pm on May 24, 2021.

Email comments are to be submitted to zba@seacliff-ny.gov.

Public comments must identify the application to which the comments apply.

The Board will consider applications and may make final decisions at a meeting that will be scheduled to be held not less than six (6) days after the conclusion of a public hearing on an application.

Prior to rendering a determination, the Board will consider all timely submitted documents.

Dated: May 3, 2021

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County undertakes campaign to plant 500 trees On April 30 — Arbor Day — a 93-yearold Uniondale resident named Ernest Catanese joined Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and New York State Sen. Kevin Thomas to kick off the new Nassau County Tree-Planting Campaign.

The location was the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Park in Uniondale. Curran started the day’s ceremony by thanking Catanese, saying, “Ernest Catanese and his wife are really the reason this park is here.”

In 2009, Catanese and his wife, Marie, won a five-year fight to turn the trashy northwest corner of Uniondale Avenue and Nassau Road into the flowering little park. The pretty, well-maintained space is only one of many civic projects that the couple had taken part in since moving to Uniondale in 1955. Marie died in 2019.

On Arbor Day, after thanking Catanese, Curran outlined the campaign, which aims to plant 500 trees in Nassau County during 2021. “As we speak right now,” she said, “of those 500 trees, we already have 207 in the ground. We expect to have 233 in the ground by the end of today, and by the end of Tuesday, 270.”

Evergreens will be planted in the fall.

Each new tree, Curran said, will yield “three to five times their initial cost in benefit to the community, so it’s not just

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State Sen. Kevin Thomas, Ernest Catanese, and County Executive Laura Curran shoveled earth around a newly planted magnolia tree in Uniondale last Friday. an environmental issue, it’s also an economic issue.”

Thomas spoke to the meaning of Arbor Day, saying it “calls attention to the increased importance of reforestation, not only in our national forests, but also

in commercial forests, rain forests and wetlands around the world.”

Catanese took the microphone briefly to say, “When I grew up in Manhattan, I had to walk three blocks to see a tree, so this is really great. My wife deserves

every accolade . . . She was an endless worker on this.”

Tree Advisory Board Chairman Lawrence Fernandez further explained the planting campaign: “We’re studying and putting together recommendations for trees that will grow in narrow sidewalk areas.” Trees die, he said, “because they’re living in a space that’s too small, or if they happen to do well, they break the sidewalk.” As part of the campaign, tree experts are inspecting locations around Nassau to deter mine which types of trees will best fit different surroundings.

For sunny MLK Jr. Peace Park, the board chose a Southern magnolia, native to King’s home state of Georgia. “This is a hardy Southern tree,” Curran said, “and I think it will carry forward that spirit of perseverance that is embodied by the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Paul Gibson, president of the Uniondale Community Land Trust, was asked

by Curran to add a few words. The UCLT rehabilitates blighted homes to create affordable housing, and said Gibson, “We preserve the trees that we can, and if we can’t, we plant new ones.”

The day’s ceremony concluded with Curran, Thomas and Catanese shoveling dirt into the prepared pit where the magnolia sat, its buds full with the promise of blossoms to come.

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covered the Bellmore-JFK High School Homecoming parade in the fall of 2004, photographing the revelers and floats as they headed from the Bellmore Long Island Rail Road station off Sunrise Highway to the Bellmore Avenue school. It was a sunny day, full of carefree teenagers.

I could never have imagined then that day would haunt me still.

All journalists who’ve been in the profession a while have stories they can’t shake. You might think you SCOTT had locked them away at the back BRINTON of your brain, but they reappear without warning, leaving you in a state of disbelief or sadness or anger. Thinking back on that Homecoming parade leaves me feeling all three.

Covering the recent West Hempstead Stop & Shop shooting, in which 49-yearold Ray Wishropp, a father of seven from Valley Stream, was killed and two others were injured, sent the memories of that parade streaming back.

That day, I snapped photos of Carol Kestenbaum, a 17-year-old JFK senior, as she drove the Homecoming king and queen in her white convertible. A little

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more than two years later, Kestenbaum was shot dead while studying education at the University of Arizona. She had warned a friend that the young man she was dating seemed unhinged.

The 22-year-old found out about the warning, killed Kestenbaum and her best friend, Nicole Schiffman, another Kennedy High graduate who was studying journalism at the University of Maryland, and then took his own life. Schiffman had come for the weekend to celebrate Kestenbaum’s 20th birthday.

They were among the tens of thousands of Americans who have died in a perpetual cycle of gun violence in this nation. I held back tears when I covered their funerals on a cold winter day in 2007. They were buried side by side at New Montefiore Cemetery in West Babylon.

I knew Carol’s mother, Rita Kestenbaum. In 1999, she won a seat on the Hempstead Town Board. She lost it in the next election, but remained active in local politics for years after that. At the JFK Homecoming parade, she walked behind her daughter’s car from the train station to the school, beaming with pride.

Her daughter was the first person I knew to die of gun violence. Her death leaves me feeling unsettled to this day, understanding how suddenly and sense-

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lessly a life can be taken in this country.

Wishropp was a Stop & Shop manager.

Nassau County police said his alleged killer, a 31-year-old Hempstead man, had sought a transfer to another supermarket.

When he didn’t get it, he left the store, but returned 40 minutes later and started shooting.

I’m a runner. Last Saturday, I ran to the top of the giant hill at the Town of Hempstead’s Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick, where there’s a human sun clock dedicated to Carol Kestenbaum. You stand in the middle of the circle, where a rectangular stone block forms the centerpiece of this hallowed ground. The 12 months are marked on it. On a sunny day, if you stand on the month you’re in and raise your hand straight to the sky, your shadow will point to a number from one to 12, giving you the approximate time of day.

“The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time,” reads the plaque in honor of Kestenbaum.

I sat enjoying the 63-degree weather on a sunny, windless day. The azure sky stretched out before me, with wispy cirrus clouds high above. I could hear the creaky windmill to my left spinning, its moving blades forming a frenetic shadow on the seashell-coated path before me. In a grassy patch to my right, a family — a mother and father, their children and the

he deadly Stop & Shop shooting took me back to a Bellmore Homecoming.

kids’ grandparents — had spread out a blanket to sit and talk and laugh.

It all felt so normal, peaceful, a world away from the chaos of gun violence that had erupted at the West Hempstead Stop & Shop April 20 and in Arizona all those years ago. Kestenbaum, who wanted to become a teacher, would have loved the sound of children at play, I imagined.

Then a loud shot rang out, I believe from the gun range just across the Meadowbrook Parkway in Freeport, piercing the quietude, an eerie reminder that guns are never far away in America.

As I ran down the hill to head home, I heard three more pops of a gun in rapidfire succession. Then again, and again.

The shots continued as I ran out of the park. I had heard them many times before while at the preserve, but had never paid much attention to them. Now I wanted them to just go away, never to be heard again.

I only wish our elected leaders at the federal and state levels might sit in Carol Kestenbaum’s circle, soaking up the normalcy of everyday life and imagining this young light of the world extinguished in a heartbeat.

How would they vote on gun-control legislation then?

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

Comments about this column? SBrinton@ liherald.com.

Why are young girls mean to one another?

ime-travel with me. The year was 1957. We had just moved to Cedarhurst from Queens, and it was the first day of class at Number Three School on Broadway. I slid into my chair in Mrs. Haggerty’s sixth-grade classroom, and knew I would fall out of the same chair, dead, in a minute if I couldn’t get away from the stares and whispers of the other girls.

After a few minutes of mounting distress, I burst into tears, thus condemning myself to an entire school year of teasRANDI ing and ostracism KREISS and bullying. You can’t cry. It just feeds the frenzy. In 1957 there was no counseling, no help, just day after day of preteen hell.

I was actually one of the few, possibly the only, sixth-grader in America to get the “black spot” from a clique of girls in the class. Do you know your “Treasure Island”? The pirates passed a piece of paper with a black spot on it to someone about to be killed. So, did It make it better that I was the target of a literary group of

mean girls? When I opened the folded-up note left on my desk and saw the black spot, I knew I was doomed.

I wasn’t your regulation kid. I couldn’t help that. The other girls were consumed with “American Bandstand,” a daily live TV dance show out of Philly.

They followed that program, and the real-life teens who appeared on the show, with a devotion I could neither fathom nor fake. I just wanted to come home after school, cut up a few oranges and retreat to my room with a book.

Reading “Gone With the Wind,” I consumed a small grove.

Eventually I made friends and kept friends and got married and had children and then grandchildren. What is a troubling issue in my granddaughters’ lives?

Mean girl power plays, cliques and the popularity drama humming beneath the radar of most parents and teachers. Girls are still forming exclusive groups in elementary and junior and senior high school; they are still finding someone to be “it”; they are still causing other girls enormous emotional stress and anxiety.

And it is mostly girls. Boys interact in entirely different ways. Of course, there

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are bullies and guys’ cliques, but girls seem to deploy meanness in more creative and devastating ways.

I asked a few of my friends if they remember if they were mean girls in school, and every one of us recalled whether we were in the cool, mean group or with the uncool outsiders. And everyone who copped to being mean acknowledged that they knew it was wrong, but they were afraid that if they didn’t join the power clique, they would become a target. Pretty savage equation, isn’t it? Meanness equals survival.

In the decades since I survived the black spot, psychologists, educators and parents have studied the relationships among young girls and defined the behaviors and the interactions. But the meanness still exists in the whispers and the pacts to leave someone out and the comments on someone’s unacceptable clothes or habits or affect. There are attempts at discussion groups and sensitization groups and psychological services in the schools, but the toxic comments have leapt to the internet, where it is so much easier to target a classmate, anonymously and persistently.

hen I opened the note and saw the black spot, I knew I was doomed.

“Mean Girls,” the show and the movie, was hilarious, intuitive and sharp in its send-up of the popular girls who reigned supreme at a typical American high school. The production, which was, first of all, entertainment, glossed over the real pain young girls feel as victims of a meangirl power surge.

Rosalind Wiseman, author of “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” urges parents to look at their own behavior, how they talk about neighbors or friends and the capacity they model for accepting people into their circle.

Other suggestions she offers: Stay engaged with your child. Realize it isn’t only other kids who are the mean girls.

Contact the school and calmly convey your concerns. Band together with other parents to discuss the issues.

I’m not sure what to say to my own granddaughters. Perhaps remind them to keep talking to the trusted adults in their lives. Perhaps remind them that they are surviving a once-in-a-generation pandemic with courage and grace, and they can survive this, too. Look at me. I got the black spot 64 years ago and I’m still here. I don’t even remember the names of the girls who tried to ruin my sixth-grade life.

Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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For goodness’ sake, get vaccinated

e’re steadily getting there — herd immunity, when a minimum of 60 to 70 percent of Americans will be vaccinated against Covid-19. As of press time this week, about 34 percent of New Yorkers had been fully vaccinated, a number roughly equal to the national percentage.

That’s good, but not necessarily great.

Here’s why: Officials at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the vaccination rate has slowed in recent weeks, and if the percentage of inoculated Americans continues to drop each week, we may be unable to reach herd immunity by summer’s end.

That would be bad. So much of what we held dear during pre-pandemic times — the ability to work and earning a living, visit family members and friends, take in a ball game or concert — hangs in the balance.

Mercifully, we have seen a major drop in the number of infections across New York state over the past month. That trend, officials said, is due in large part to widespread vaccination of New Yorkers. It also may partly be a function of the slowing spread of the virus as warmer weather sets in. Officials had predicted that winter would bring the highest levels of infection and death, and it certainly did, peaking on Jan. 8, when the U.S. saw 259,564 new Covid-19 cases.

Following that peak, health officials said, we would see a decrease in cases, with summer predicted to bring the lowest levels of infection since the pandemic erupted here in March of last year.

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LETTERS Maria Mosca and Lisa Colacioppo for North Shore school board To the Editor: The election for the North Shore District Board of Education is on May 18. I will be voting for Maria Mosca and Lisa Colacioppo, and I encourage all NSD residents to vote for them, too.

I’m a homeowner, a taxpayer and the parent of three elementary school students in Glen Head. I believe in voting “yes” on school budgets, and I believe in voting for expertise and personal character when it comes to Board of Ed trustees.

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Walk in or schedule an appointment All New York state mass vaccination sites are now open to eligible New Yorkers ages 16 and over for walk-in vaccinations on a first-come, first-served basis. Walk-in appointments are reserved for first doses only, with second doses to be scheduled automatically after administration of the initial shot. All vaccine providers are encouraged to allow walkin appointments for those eligible.

People who would prefer to schedule Region and Southern Tier have already fallen below 1 percent, with Long Island not far behind, at 1.4 percent.

All of this, of course, is excellent news. But will it lead to vaccine complacency, with unvaccinated New Yorkers falsely believing that the virus is gone for good, leading them to think they don’t need the shot?

To be clear, even if we see the positivity rate drop below 1 percent — as it did last summer — the virus will not be gone unless we reach herd immunity. Unless a substantial majority of the state is vaccinated, we will risk the possibility that the virus will lurk among us and return with a vengeance, as it did this past winter.

So, we are pleading with those who are on the fence about whether to be vaccinated to get the shot. This is truly a matter of life and death for thousands of your fellow citizens. Beyond that, all of our livelihoods depend on our ability to earn a living in a thriving economy. Our economy will not be fully rid of the current governmental constraints until the virus is at last vanquished.

an appointment at a state-run mass vaccination site can do so on the Am I Eligible app or by calling (833) 6974829. They may also contact their local health department, pharmacy, doctor or hospital to schedule an appointment where vaccines are available, or visit vaccinefinder.org to find information on vaccine appointments near them.

Source: Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo

State vaccinations by the numbers Total doses administered: 15,643,329 Doses administered over the previous 24 hours: 93,940 Doses administered over the previous seven days: 1,208,303 Percentage of New Yorkers with at least one dose: 46.5 Percentage of New Yorkers with completed vaccine series: 34.9 Statistics as of Sunday, May 2. Source: New York State Department of Health

Each of us will play a small but integral part in defeating the coronavirus.

Winning the war will depend on whether average New Yorkers cast aside their lingering doubts and political allegiances and get the shot, which is free and accessible to anyone over age 16.

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t was recently reported that a group of Rockville Centre parents accused a high school social studies teacher of criticizing police during class, and wanted her to be reprimanded.

The district superintendent, without referring to the specific incident, wrote to parents, “Lessons and activities that create divisiveness or that marginalize anyone have no place in our schools.”

The teacher did not attack police officers or call for police departments to be defunded. To ALAN engage students in a discussion SINGER about police actions after the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, she shared statistics about police killings of Black men.

The superintendent is right that no lessons should marginalize a racial, ethnic or religious group, but it had better be OK to “marginalize” neo-Nazis and white nationalism. If the superintendent’s policy were implemented, that would mean eliminating from discussion any controversial issue that might challenge students to think, like women’s reproductive rights, racism in American society, climate change denial or citizenship opportunities for Deferred Action

for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, recipients. It would allow a small group of parents to censor the curriculum, intimidate teachers into silence and cripple students’ education.

The irony is that the Rockville Centre teacher was following guidelines outlined in the New York state social studies framework. An essential component of social studies education is teaching students to “respond thoughtfully to diverse perspectives; synthesize comments, claims and evidence made on all sides of an issue, and resolve contradictions when possible; and determine what additional information or research is required to deepen the investigation or complete the task.”

The Rev. Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at South Side High School in March 1968. Would he be banned today because his ideas on racism, militarism and poverty would make certain parents uncomfortable?

Other cases involving teachers’ rights and responsibilities have recently been in the news. In San Clemente, Calif., a fourth-grade teacher was investigated after she took part in the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol in Washington. She was temporarily suspended, and then reinstated after an investigation found no evidence that she acted illegally in Washington or

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e can’t eliminate controversial subjects that challenge students to think.

LETTERS po, and I’ve done my research on their academic and professional credentials. Each presents thoughtful, open-minded consideration of the issues facing our district. In short, they are exactly the kind of representatives I want to shape the education policies of our outstanding North Shore schools.

I strongly urge my fellow NSD residents to vote on May 18 for Lisa Colacioppo and Maria Mosca.

DEENA SOSKIN Greenvale

Keep up the vaccinations To the Editor: Last week Nassau County reached a vital milestone in our quest to defeat the pandemic: Half of the county population had received at least one shot, including two-thirds of adult residents.

I am proud of the collective effort being made by the Nassau Department of Health, hospitals and community partners to get shots into the arms of residents. If

that she brought her political views into the classroom. I think her conspiracytheory politics are crazy, but she has the right to be a teacher. The same principles that protect her also protect the teacher in Rockville Centre.

The Oneonta City School District upstate has a somewhat different issue that officials there are trying to sort out. Former students reported that a middle school social studies teacher gave them the finger and screamed obscenities when he drove by residents protesting the police shooting of a young African-American man. This case is difficult, because the teacher was acting, no matter how reprehensibly, as a private citizen. The district is now investigating him to determine whether there is evidence that his political views creep into his teaching, with students reporting that in lessons on the Civil War, he denied slavery played any role.

If the accusations about his teaching are substantiated, he is directly contradicting the state framework that reads, “Westward expansion, the industrialization of the North and the increase of slavery in the South contributed to the growth of sectionalism. Constitutional conflicts between advocates of states’ rights and supporters of federal power increased tensions in the nation;

attempts to compromise ultimately failed to keep the nation together, leading to the Civil War.” In a joint statement, the president of the local chapter of the NAACP and a school board vice president said, “We are disheartened to hear of the allegations that an Oneonta City School District teacher drove by the demonstration in Muller Plaza on Sunday, yelling obscenities and flipping off the crowd . . . While people have the right to disagree with the demonstrators, it is important that those who work for the OCSD remember that while they are entitled to their opinions, they represent the district, and their actions reflect on their competency in the classroom.”

The teacher is entitled to due process, but it appears he should have been investigated a long time ago. School administrators need to examine his lesson plans and monitor his teaching. If the district finds that racism not only shapes his politics, which is his right, but also affects how he teaches, he should be removed from the classroom, and the state should suspend his teaching certification.

Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies.

FRAMEWORK by Christina Daly

we keep up our vaccination progress, we will save more lives, get our economy fully reopened sooner rather than later and enjoy a normal summer. We can do it, Nassau!

LAURA CURRAN Nassau County executive

New York is making progress on infections To the Editor: Last week, the statewide Covid19 positivity rate dropped to 1.49 percent, falling below 1.5 percent for the first time since Oct. 28.

Every single day, New York state is moving forward in the race between the infection rate and the vaccination rate. More New Yorkers are getting vaccinated and hospitalizations are declining, which is good news, but we need New Yorkers to stay vigilant to ensure that we don’t lose any of the progress that we have made.

Washing hands, wearing masks and staying socially distant are critical behaviors that each of us can practice, individually and in

Nesting oystercatchers — Nickerson Beach our communities, to slow the spread. In the meantime, New York is continuing to make the vaccine more accessible, and opening more pop-up sites.

Spring is here, and we’re making progress, but there is a way to go before we reach the light at the end of the tunnel.

GOV. ANDREW CUOMO

CORRECTION In last week’s article about the exhibit at the Sea Cliff Village Museum, “Sea Cliff Museum reopens,” by George Wallace, photographer Eric Kamp was incorrectly identified as Eric Fast. We apologize for the error.

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