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Posing, wax-like, as their heroes By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
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THIRD-GRADERS AT GLEN Head Elementary, looking much more alive than cast in wax, shared what they learned about their heroes.
Glen Head Elementary School was chock-full of historical figures on June 1, when the school’s third-grade students staged their annual Wax Museum for their classmates and families. Titans of history including Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks and George Washington stood side by side on stage in the school’s auditorium with latter-day heroes like Barack Obama, John Herrington and Cristiano Ronaldo. This was the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic that the third-graders CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
Budget offers relief from cost of emergency medical service By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s state budget offers savings for volunteer fire departments. The Emergency Medical Service Cost Recovery Act will help fire department ambulances recover the cost of emergency medical services provided by paramedics and emergency medical technicians from insurance companies, Medicare, Medicaid and other agencies instead of footing the bill themselves. The act takes effect on July 1. The measure also promises savings for taxpayers. There is a line item in property tax bills
for fire services, and some fire districts have had to raise taxes due to the high cost of emergency services and the increase in demand for them during the pandemic. “When the coronavirus pandemic hit,” Dr. Peter Olsen, chair of the Long Island Legislative Committee and a Locust Valley Fire Department firefighter, explained, “many volunteer fire department ambulances couldn’t provide adequate medical care due to an increased volume of calls, increased manpower requirements and the additional costs for [personal protective equip-
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ar insurance, health insurance and homeowner insurance policies all include coverage for this in the policy.
JOHN BROOKS STATE SENATOR ment], which was required when medical personnel entered Covid-infected homes, nursing homes, rehabilitation
facilities and schools. Residents are already paying for medical insurance coverage, which includes medical assistance and ambulance services from their residence, work and/or school to a local hospital. This won’t increase taxes, because this will be part of their insurance coverage.” The act will save local taxpay-
ers over $120 million, Olsen said. Before it was passed, fire departments were using money set aside for protective equipment, and were not replacing hoses and other necessary equipment in order to pay for paramedics and EMS. Money received from insurance companies will be put into CONTINUED ON PAGE 13