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Teen helps raise $100,000 for kids’ hospital “I’m proud to team up again this year with Sky for our third annual golf marathon for Adam Laird, founder of the CHOP,” Laird said. “I’m so proud Adam Laird Junior Golf Acade- of Sky, and very honored to be a my at the North Shore Country part of an amazing event that Club in Glen Head, recently grows each year.” teamed up with 13-year-old SkyLaird, who lives in Glen Head, lar Friedman for is a professional golf their third annual instructor who helps charity golf maragolfers of all ages thon. The two golfand abilities, but has e r s r a i s e d ove r a particular passion $100,000 through for working with donations and sponkids, which takes sorships of the him all over the event, which will world, where he support the work of introduces the game doctors, nurses and to hundreds of researchers at the young people. newly named RichAfter meeting ard D. Wood Jr. Cenand working with ter for Fetal DiagnoSkylar, a longtime sis and Treatment at CHOP patient, on Children’s Hospital his golf swing, Laird of Philadelphia, learned about the which is also known hospital and the SKYLAR as CHOP. work it does on Starting at noon FRIEDMAN behalf of young peoon Aug. 18 at the ple. Laird and “Sky” country club, Laird teamed up to create played a total of 252 holes in 24 an annual golf marathon fundhours, beating his previous raiser for the hospital. record of 210, set last year. SkyThe Richard D. Wood Jr. Cenlar, an eighth-grader at Portledge ter for Fetal Diagnosis and TreatSchool in Locust Valley, had set a ment offers internationally recgoal of sinking as many 6-foot ognized, highly specialized care putts as he could in 100 tries, and for mothers carrying fetuses made 97, beating his total from last year of 82.

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BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com

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GRANT KLETTER, FAR left, Daniel and Andy Bogts, Jared White, Elena Bogts, Kevin White and Simon Kletter, kneeling, reached the summit of the highest peak in the Northeast, New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, on their annual high adventure summer trip.

Sea Cliff scouts head out for adventure of a lifetime

BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com

Sea Cliff Boy Scout Troop 43 recently braved the elements and hiked more than 20 miles over three days on their annual “high adventure” summer trip. The scouts hiked through the Presidential Traverse trail near Randolph, N.H., an advanced trail running through the White

Mountains featuring peaks named after past U.S. presidents.

“The highlight of the trip was summiting Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeast,” Grant Kletter, Troop 43 scoutmaster, said.

“I’ve gone hiking many times over the years, and this was definitely the most strenuous hike I’ve ever done. I give major props to the guys for

completing the hike.”

Along the trail, the scouts slept in huts each night, and made breakfast and dinner while taking a break from hiking. The huts allowed the scouts to hike the trail over multiple days without having to carry the heavy load of camping equipment. While in the huts, they learned about the Appalachian Mountain CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

am so happy to be a part of this amazing group, and am passionate about giving back to a place that has given me so much.

Glen Cove investment broker arrested again for fraud

BY JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com

A barred investment broker from Glen Cove was arrested for the second time this year on investment fraud charges. Peter Quar tararo was arraigned Tuesday and charged with grand larceny, facing five to 15 years in prison if convicted.

According to Acting Nassau County District Attor ney Joyce A. Smith, Quartararo allegedly stole more than $80,000 from victims who believed they were investing in shares of DoorDash, Airbnb and Petco. Quartararo, 56, was arraigned Tuesday before Judge David Levine and charged with second- and third-degree grand larceny. If convicted on the top count, the maximum sentence is five to 15 years in prison. Quartararo is due back in court on Oct. 20.

“This defendant has now been arrested twice this year for allegedly defrauding multiple victims with the same empty elevator pitch, stealing more than $500,000 in total from his victims and never delivering on his promises,” Smith said. “This case further highlights the need for investors to diligently review the credentials and

licenses of the financial professionals the victim stocks “on the ground floor” they work with to ensure they are cred- at $1.65 a share. In January, the second victim gave Quartararo $14,000 in cash ible and operating with integrity.” in exchange for what he In August 2020, accordbelieved were shares of ing to Smith, Quartararo Petco at $1.65 each. introduced himself to his Quar tararo never first victim at a tenantsdelivered any shares to only barbeque at the comthe victims, nor did he p l e x h e l ive d i n a n d p rov i d e a ny f i n a n c i a l claimed that he was an statements that indicated investor and a financial that the victims owned advisor. Quartararo allegshares of stock in Dooredly told the victim that Dash, Airbnb or Petco, he possessed pre-initial according to Smith. An public offering shares of N C DA i nve s t i g at i o n DoorDash and Airbnb at revealed that Quartararo $2 a share and that he n e ve r p u r c h a s e d a n y would sell the victim some shares on behalf of the of his shares. The individvictims. u a l g av e Q u a r t a r a r o Quartararo and a co$11,500 in cash and later conspirator were both wired him an additional JOYCE A. SMITH charg ed in April with $58,000 in exchange for grand larceny and other what the victim believed Acting Nassau County District Attorney charges for alle gedly to be pre-IPO shares of stealing $436,000 from four Airbnb.

Another alleged victim also met investors who believed they were Quartararo at their Glen Cove apart- investing in pre-IPO stock for several ment building in June 2020. Quartararo high-profile companies, including Airballegedly introduced himself as being nb, WeWork and Peloton.

NCDA’s investigation revealed that an investor and stated that he could get

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his defendant has now been arrested twice this year for allegedly defrauding multiple victims with the same empty elevator pitch.

the defendants never purchased any shares of stock in the pre-IPO companies on the victims’ behalf, and instead allegedly used the funds deposited in accounts that they controlled to purchase food, travel, and vehicles, including a 2020 Mercedes Benz SUV, and as the down payment on Quartararo’s Maserati automobile.

The SEC has confir med that no s h a re s o f I P O s t o ck i n Pe l o t o n , WeWork, and Airbnb were ever purchased by the defendants, Smith said.

In March 2013, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority barred Quartararo from operating as a stockbroker.

Both cases are being prosecuted by Senior Investigative Counsel Richard Sikes of the Financial Crimes Bureau.

Quartararo is represented by Gerard Donnelly, Esq., who could not be reached for comment as of press time.

Those who believe they may have been the victim of an investment fraud perpetrated by Quartararo can contact the Nassau County DA’s Office Financial Crimes Bureau at 516-571-2149.

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SEA CLIFF/GLEN HEAD HERALD — September 2, 2021 Photos courtesy Kevin White

JARED WHITE ON a fog-shrouded trail high in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains.

Scouts seek high adventure in New Hampshire CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE Club’s conservation efforts and how the organization keeps the huts running off the grid, using solar power and a minimum supplies.

“College students cook meals for the guests and maintain the huts,” said Elena Bogts, scout parent and chaperone of the trip. “They also entertain guests by doing skits and singing. It was so fun. One day we even had enough time to play Settlers of Catan for five hours with other hikers. Overall, it was a great experience.”

Each year the troop goes on a high adventure trip, where the scouts participate in challenging outdoor activities over three days. This year’s trip to the Presidential Trail was originally slated to be last summer’s trip, but Covid prevented the scouts from making the trek because the huts were closed to prevent the spread of the virus. Previous trips included white water rafting in the Adirondacks and hiking through Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

“Overall, the boys that attended had a good time,” Kevin White, assistant scoutmaster and organizer of the trip, said. “The hike was not easy; going up and down what ended up being a nearly 6,000 feet mountain made it very challenging. It’s nice that in the end they can say they accomplished something incredible.”

White chose the Presidential Trail when another member of the scouting community suggested it to him after hiking it himself several times. “It was close enough to home and sounded like something the boys would be able to do, while still challenging them,” White said. “Since it didn’t require air travel, like some other high adventure trips have in the past, this trip was a lot more accessible to the scouts. Those who wanted to go were able to go.”

Now it’s on to next summer, and planning what trip the troop will end up doing for White and the troop.

“We want the scouts to be a part of making these decisions,” White said. “We take suggestions from the scouts on where they want to go and what they want to do for their yearly trip. We, as parents, can vet those ideas and help them plan it out.”

Troop 43 has roots spanning three generations and is one of the oldest chartered Boy Scout troops in Nassau County’s Theodore Roosevelt Council. “We’re always looking to recruit new members,” Kletter said.

JARED FILLED UP his hat at a stream along the trail to cool off.

“During the pandemic, we were able to do outdoor activities and allow the scouts to still be a little active and interact with one another.”

The troop meets every week and has an outdoor trip once a month in addition to its annual high adventure

trip.

Troop 43 is hosting a registration event on Sept. 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. at St. Luke’s for all children in grades six through 12 who are interested in becoming scouts.

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N.S. names interim assistant H.S. principal At the Aug. 19 Board of Education meeting, Dr. Maram Mabrouk was appointed interim assistant principal of North High School. She began her service on Aug. 20, along with Assistant Principal Dr. Kevin Kurrus and Principal Eric Contreras.

“It is my pleasure to accept the appointment as interim assistant principal at North Shore High School,” Mabrouk said. “It has been an honor to be a member of the North Shore community for 14 years. I have always been proud of the commitment, compassion and values of the district in supporting the growth and goals of our students. I look forward to working with all community members in furthering this mission.”

Mabrouk has been a teacher at North Shore High School in the Social Studies Department teaching grades nine to 12. She also served as a class adviser, debate team coach and union representative.

She earned her doctorate in education and learning in 2020 from Hofstra University, as well as her Certificate in Educational Leadership in 2017, a master’s in social studies education in 2006 and a bachelor’s in history from Hofstra, summa cum laude.

In her spare time, Maram is a daily yoga practitioner, voracious reader and traveler. Some of her favorite authors are Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and TaNehisi Coates. Additionally, she is fluent in Arabic and knows French at the

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DR. MARAM MABROUK intermediate level.

Interim Superintendent of Schools Dr. Tom Dolan said, “I was honored to recommend Dr. Mabrouk to this important position. She has earned it by way of her ability and commitment to this district.”

He added, “As I reviewed all of the honor societies to which Dr. Mabrouk has been elected, I noted that I had not seen that many Greek letters since my visit to the Parthenon.”

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ADAM LAIRD AND Skylar Friedman raised over $100,000 in their third annual golf marathon, benefiting the Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

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with birth defects requiring treatment before or after birth. The center is also home to the world’s first birthing unit for expectant parents of babies with birth defects.

“I am honored that Adam has chosen the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at CHOP as the beneficiary for this marathon again,” Skylar said. “CHOP is a very special place that has played a huge role in my life so far.”

Skylar has been a patient at CHOP since before he was born. When his mother was pregnant with him, local North Shore doctors noticed during a routine ultrasound that he had a mass on his right lung. Although he lived in Laurel Hollow, an area near plenty of medical facilities and doctors, it became clear that no one knew how to accurately diagnose or treat him. When his mother turned to CHOP, Dr. Scott Adzick, of the fetal center, found a tumor that occupied the lower right portion of the lung. Adzick removed the tumor, and healthy lung tissue grew in its place.

Skylar is now a member of the hospi-

tal’s Youth Advisory Council, a group of patients who meet monthly to offer their input on everything from the design of new patient pajamas, to the cafeteria menu, to the artwork that will hang in the new Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care. Their focus is on making the CHOP patient experience better for kids.

“I am so happy to be a part of this amazing group,” Skylar said, “and am passionate about giving back to a place that has given me so much.”

Skylar remained a patient at the hospital for years, battling a number of health issues, including severe allergies and asthma. “I was diagnosed with roughly 10 food allergies and mastocytomas,” he said. “I needed my EpiPen, and had many E.R. visits. We again turned to CHOP for help, this time Dr. Jonathan Spergel, who taught us how to manage the allergies and asthma way better than our local doctors . . . today, my asthma is persistent but well-controlled, the environmental allergies are gone thanks to four years of shots, and I’m down to just four severe food allergies.”

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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

COMMUNITY UPDATE Friday, September 3

ceremony, the Town will unveil new names inscribed on to the Walls of Honor that recently lost their battle with 9/11 illness caused by exposure at Ground Zero. The September 9th ceremony includes bagpipe music, religious readings and remarks by family members of the victims.

Movie at the Library Gold Coast Public Library Annex, 50 Railroad Ave., Glen Head, 2 to 4 p.m. Watch “The Father” (2020) at the library. A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality. Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor Oscar for his role.

Tour the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center

Saturday, September 4 Deep Roots Farmers Market 100 Garvies Point Road, Glen Cove, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The weekly farmers market offers a selection of locally grown vegetables and eggs, fresh baked bread, honey, seafood and more.

Farm Stand with Orkestai Farm Begining at 10 a.m. stop by the Visitor Center at Coe Hall, Planting Fields Arboretum 1395 Planting Fields Road Oyster Bay and visit the farm stand to learn about the site’s agricultural history. Centuries before the Coes established their estate, indigenous communities and European colonists farmed the loamy soil of Planting Fields. This agricultural tradition continues to this day. Come speak with farmers from Orkestai Farm, the organic farm at Planting Fields, about produce, cultivation and historic crops. Be prepared to take some Orkestai Farm vegetables home with you!

Sunday, September 5 Forest Therapy Walk Starting at 10 a.m. experience the benefits of the outdoors at Planting Fields, located at 1395 Planting Fields Road in Oyster Bay. Certified guide, Linda Lombardo, will lead a 2-hour walk throughout the Olmsted Brothers-designed landscape of Planting Fields that will promote mindfulness and connectivity with your surroundings. Forest Therapy is a research-based framework for supporting healing and wellness through immersion in forests and other natural environments. Mem-

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Yoga in the Garden at Planting Fields

Begining at 2 p.m. via zoom, join author and artist Joyce Raimondo for a virtual tour of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, a National Historic Landmark site. Tour the former home and studio of two of America’s foremost abstract expressionist painters, Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956) and Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), which preserves the environment that inspired them and contains evidence of their creative processes. See the studio floor that’s covered with brilliant colors and rhythmic gestures found in Pollock’s masterpieces and on the studio walls, evidence of Krasner’s dynamic painting technique is visible. Register online at glencovelibrary.org.

Begining at 8 a.m. every saturday, enjoy summer in bloom at Planting Fields by starting your weekend taking outdoor yoga in the gardens. Enjoy being outdoors and connecting with the natural landscape through continuing your yoga practice at Planting Fields. The 409 acres of Planting Fields includes an extensive collection of gardens, including: the Italian Garden, Cloister Garden and Circular Pool, Children’s Play House and more. Members: $12 General Admission: $20. Planting fields is located at 1395 Planting Fields Road in Oyster Bay. bers: $36 General admission: $40

Monday, September 6 Monday Jazz Night at La Bussola Ristorante At 40 School St., Glen Cove, at 7 p.m. featuring pianist Danny Mixon, accompanied by bassist Bryce Sebastien, La Bussola Ristorante is putting on a Monday Jazz Night, to continue every Monday for the forseeable future. There will be two shows each week, at 7 p.m. and at 8:30 p.m., each an hour long.

Tuesday, September 7 Oyster Bay Cruise Night

Every Tuesday evening during the

summer, the streets of Oyster Bay are filled with classic cars and spectators for Oyster Bay Cruise Night.

Restaurants, shops, snacks and beverages, ice cream and shopping surround the collection of fun and interesting cars. Additionally, live music fills the streets with a band at every cruise night. Also, weekly raffles and giveaways for children.

Each show starts at 5:45 p.m. and runs until dark.

Wednesday, September 8 Tour the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center Begining at 2 p.m. via zoom, join

author and artist Joyce Raimondo for a virtual tour of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, a National Historic Landmark site. Tour the former home and studio of two of America’s foremost abstract expressionist painters, Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956) and Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984), which preserves the environment that inspired them and contains evidence of their creative processes. Register online at glencovelibrary.org.

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Thursday, September 9 9/11 & Walls of Honor Remembrance Ceremony Begining at 7 p.m. at TOBAY Beach, A 9/11 Light Tribute will illuminate the skies along the shoreline in memory of those lost that tragic September morning. At the

Glen Cove Senior Center Rose Shoppe Boutique is open Mon - Fri, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Oyster Bay Town Board will meet on Sept. 14 at 10 a.m.

Sea Cliff Mini Mart scheduled for Oct. 3 has been postponed until October 2022 North Shore Board of Education will meet on Sept. 2.

Village of Sea Cliff Board of Trustees will meet on Sept. 13 at 6 p.m.

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Honors for Crosby

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GEORGINA CONNETT AND Victoria Crosby

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A reception was held recently at the North Shore Historical Museum to honor longtime board member and past vice president Victoria Crosby. President Georgina Connett presented Crosby with a lifetime membership award, which read: “In recognition and since appreciation of outstanding loyalty and dedication to this museum, we are honored to confer upon you a lifetime membership.”

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The Beacon at Garvies Point launched new social media contest this week. In honor of National Dog Day, residents are invited to the dog park at Garvies Point in Glen Cove to share pictures of their furry family members, with a chance to win dogcentric prizes, celebrating the dogfriendly community at Garvies Point.

To enter this contest, participants are required to capture the best photo of their pup at the Garvies Point dog park and post it on Instagram. There will be three winners selected with the chance for three followers to win a $100, $50, or $25 gift card to the dog-friendly Garvies Point Brewery and special dog treat bundles from Garden of Bacon for their furry family members.

Rules of the contest include: must be a permanent legal resident of New York, New Jersey or Connecticut and over the age of 18 to qualify.

All Instagram profiles used for entry must be public. Open to residents and non-residents. Multiple entries per person allowed. Entries will be accepted through Sept. 10 at 11:59 p.m. The winners will be announced the week of Sept. 13.

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Residents who wish to engage in some form of family research may do so through ancestral services offered by Oyster Bay Town Clerk Rich LaMarca’s office.

Residents can fill out a form to search birth, death and marriage records for genealogical purposes, early vital records that might provide important information about ancestors.

“In recent years, ancestral research has become one of the world's most popular hobbies and countless people around the world are actively engaged in some form of developing a family tree,” LaMarca said. “Vital records are the cornerstone of genealogical research.”

The Town of Oyster Bay maintains records dating back to 1881. To protect the privacy of the living, birth records will not be released unless the record has been on file for at least 75 years and the person to whom the record relates is deceased.

Death records will not be released unless the record has been on file for at least 50 years. Additionally, can only be released if it has been on file for at least 50 years and both parties to the marriage are known to be deceased. The fee for a genealogical search varies depending on the number of years requested to be searched but ranges from $22 to $162. Call (516) 6246337 or visit www.oysterbaytown.com.

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The new year brings an opportunity to change Monday evening at sundown, Jews all over the world will usher in Rosh Hashana, our New Year. The holiday is the beginning of the High Holy Days and celebrates the birthday of the world. We go to synagogues (this year like last, virtually or in person) to celebrate as a community. We eat a special challah that is round symbolizing the continuous cycle of the year. We dip both apples and challah into honey, as we look forward to having a sweet New Year.

During our morning service, the shofar, the ram’s horn, is blown 100 times. Reform Jews read the Torah story from Genesis called the Binding of Isaac, where Abraham’s loyalty to God is tested as he brings his son to Mt. Moriah to be offered to God. At the last moment, an angel stops him and a ram, who is caught in the thicket nearby, is sacrificed to God in Isaac’s place. The piercing sounds of the ram’s horn are meant to wake us up, to stir us to action, to help us make changes, improvements in ourselves and to bring us

food insecure. How can a country closer to God. that has so much wealth have so We are charged to be introspecmuch poverty? We see the devastattive and examine our lives and our ing effects of climate deeds. Are we really livchange, yet half of the ing up to our potential, country chooses to ignore are we being the best we the science of it. We have can be? In the afternoon a Covid vaccine that of Rosh Hashana, we go to would reduce the number the beach for a Tashlich of people getting sick and (means to cast) service dying from Covid, yet peowhere we symbolically ple choose not to get it cast our sins into a flowand their choice puts the ing body of water to rid public at risk. America ourselves of what we feels different today. Hate want to let go of and Rabbi Dr. Janet crimes have risen, viobegin the New Year with a B. Liss clean slate. Between Rosh North Country lence and shootings are on the rise. There is a lot Hashana and Yom Kippur, Reform Temple to atone for and much we are to make amends work that has to be done. with anyone we have hurt With the fire at NOSH in Glen during the past year so that on Yom Cove, 500 families who have been fed Kippur, the Day of Atonement, we during the pandemic are now at risk. can make amends with God. Every year beginning on Rosh We are living in troubled times.

Hashana, North Country Reform There is so much pain in our world.

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We can start by being civil to each other and recognizing that while we may have different beliefs, we all have the same needs. Every human being wants to be treated with dignity and respect. Everyone wants to be loved and valued. Let us all try to open our hearts and our minds in this New Year and bring joy instead of strife into our relationships with each other.

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Richner hosts vaccine clinic for employees jvallone@liherald.com

Covid-19 vaccinations are now being administered at businesses, thanks to a new initiative by the Nassau County Department of Health.

On Aug. 27, Richner Communications Inc., parent company of Herald Community Newspapers, hosted a pop-up vaccination clinic at the company’s Garden City office in conjunction with the county-sponsored initiative — referred to by county officials as the “traveling vaccine pod.”

Nassau County communications specialist Vicki DiStefano said many people around the county still do not know where and how to get vaccinated. The new program — which brings vaccines directly to businesses for “in-house” vaccination — quickly grew in popularity, according to DiStefano. Covid infection rates have recently been on the rise in Nassau, hovering around 4 percent.

Interested RCI employees, as well as eligible friends and family, received their first doses of the Moderna vaccine. The second dose will be administered at the RCI office on Sept. 24. If employees had already received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine, they were also able to receive their second shot at the pop-up site.

“In Nassau County, 86.7 percent of adults 18 and older are vaccinated,” County Executive Laura Curran told the Herald, making Nassau the leading county in the state for vaccinations, and third in the country among large counties with a population of 1 million people or more.

The first business vaccination pod took place at Café Baci in Westbury on Aug. 3. “Since then, dozens of businesses have reached out to us,” Curran said, adding that officials have seen a solid uptick in the vaccination rate

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At A tRAVELiNg vaccination clinic hosted by Nassau County at the Herald Community Newspapers’ office in Garden City last Friday, nurse Jeanne Ost injected RCI pressman Richard Maitland with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine. since the program’s start.

“With the Delta variant, we want to get everyone vaccinated,” Curran explained.

The pods are run by health department nurses, all of whom have been on the front lines of vaccine administration since earlier this year.

Pod manager and nurse Holly Marrano said, “We’re bringing the vaccine to local businesses to make it more

convenient for people to get vaccinated.”

“We are making this as easy as possible — no excuses,” Curran said. “No business is too big or too small.”

Any business interested in participating in the program and hosting a vaccine clinic for employees can reach out to the county health department at (516) 2279570, Monday through Friday.

Among the RCI employees who were vaccinated was Richard Maitland, 46, of Rockaway, Queens. Maitland has been working as a pressman for the company for nine years.

“I’ve been watching the news and seeing what’s going on,” Maitland said. “I’m seeing that it’s the unvaccinated that are transmitting the virus.”

Saying he was never against the vaccine, he thought getting it now was the right thing to do with the infection rate on the rise, and especially since the vaccination pod made it so convenient.

“No one is safe, and I don’t want to be that carrier who gets someone sick,” he added, calling to the Delta variant “round two” of the coronavirus.

“I don’t want to be part of the problem,” Maitland said. “I want to be part of the solution.”

That solution, according to Curran, is to vaccinate as many people as possible.

Covid-19 vaccines are not 100 percent effective in preventing the disease; however, county officials are finding that those who are vaccinated and do test positive for Covid are less likely to end up with a severe case that results in hospitalization.

Pod nurse Camille Laudando said the traveling vaccine clinic is all about “community outreach” and is the “definition of public health.”

“The vaccine is the most effective way to prevent Covid,” Curran said. “Our residents understand the value of the vaccine.”

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Takeout Mmmm-o-Meter

■■ Youngs■ Farm (91 Hegemans Lane, Glen Head; https://youngs.far m/) The chilled corn soup will make you close your eyes and swoon “mmmmm.”

The ingredients are simple (corn, onion, water, olive oil, salt and pepper). But the corn is so deliciously sweet, each spoonful makes you feel as if you’re dancing in a cornfield. Other homemade summer soups that will be in the market through the end of September are yellow squash soup with a hint of nutmeg, and gazpacho. Rating: MMMmmm!

order the cotton candy ice cream special in this parlor over and over again. This year, I was so busy stuffing myself with it, I failed to notice another special that will be there through September: Beach Bucket Sundae. Basically, a plastic beach bucket is filled with five different scoops of ice cream, six toppings and whipped cream. When I read the description, I thought to myself, “Who in their right mind would buy that?” Then I ordered it. I happily devoured my bucket of unique ice cream flavors (including Fruit Loop, s’mores and banana split) CATHI and six toppings. It tasted like being seven years old.

If you’re having a hard time letting go of summer, the Beach Bucket Sundae will bring you back to July. Rating: MmMmMmmmm!

■■ Beaches■ &■ Cream■ Soda■ Shoppe (8 Bayville Ave., Bayville; https://www. bayvilleadventurepark.com/ice-creamsoda-shoppe.html)Every summer, I

■■ Bleu■Clarinet (26 School Street, Glen Cove; https://www.bleuclarinet.com/) & Losos of Glen Cove (19 Glen St., Glen Cove)

By CATHI TUROW I’m allergic to cooking. While most people fill their ovens to prepare a meal, I fill my gas tank and drive to my favorite eateries. This month, I drove around and found some end-of-summer foods with very high “mmmmm” levels.

Here’s some of the best summer-to-fall takeout in town:

I drove past a temporary sign at 19 Glen Street. It said, “Losos of Glen Cove.” Would this be a new place to eat some day? Marck Benjamin, owner of the much-loved Bleu Clarinet and upcoming Losos of Glen Cove (opening in October) told me, “Losos will be a restaurant with a fusion of foods and daily family entertainment--open mic night, karaoke, celebrity comedians and live music.”

In the meantime, at the Bleu Clarinet, there’s a new cook and executive chef.

Fried pork kebabs and black mushroom rice are TUROW back on the menu, along with the Bleu Burger (burger with bleu cheese oozing in the center). Rating: MmMmMMM! ■■ Sandro’s■ Italian (1496 Northern Blvd., Manhasset; chef@sandrositalian. com) Owner/chef Alessandro Acquistra, a graduate of the Culinary Institute, ran his family’s Italian restaurant in Queens

for 20 years. Now, “Sandro” is passionate about the soft opening of his own restaurant (August 31). It has a familyneighborhood-y feel. Simple dishes are offered with the highest quality ingredients, including 12 kinds of pasta made in-house daily, wild shrimp with saffron risotto and rigatoni Rocco with spicy vodka sauce. As a kid, Sandro remembers sitting in his cousin’s kitchen in Sicily eating whey from mozzarella with chunks of ricotta and semolina bread.

Now he’s considering transforming that dish into an appetizer of whipped ricotta with herbs, orange/lemon zest, rustic bread, white truffle honey, and pistachios. Rating: MMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

Wishing you a September filled with “mmm’s.” See you next month!

The Takeout Queen is now on Facebook. Search for Oyster Bay Herald Guardian, Sea Cliff/Glen Head Herald Gazette or Glen Cove Herald Gazette.

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OBITUARIES Jacqueline Wasp, of Locust Valley, died on Aug. 25, 2021, at age 74. Beloved wife of Warren. Loving mother of Alexandra. Cherished grandmother. Visitation at Dodge-Thomas Funeral Home, www.dodgethomas.com. Service at St. John's of Lattingtown. Inter ment Locust Valley Cemetery. Donations may be made to Dancing Dreams.

SUNNY P. CHIU

Sunny P. Chiu Sunny P. Chiu, of Locust Valley, died on Aug. 19, 2021, age 62. Beloved husband of Carolyn. Loving father of Hannah, Nicholas, Timothy and Christopher. Dear brother of Angel (Rick), Grace (Gary) and Annie (Robert). Also survived by loving nieces and nephews and his faithful canine friends Lily and Percy.

Chiu was born in Hong Kong on Dec. 10, 1958. He immigrated to the United States with his three younger sisters, parents, and aunts and uncles, on July 17, 1971.

Sunny waited 12 years to become a legal immigrant so that he could start a new and prosperous life in the U.S. He embraced all the freedoms and opportunities of the American Dream. He graduated from University of California Irvine with a bachelor’s degree in biology and economics as well as an MBA. Chiu was a lovely person, cherished by anybody he met and touched the lives of many. His talents for being a skilled manager started at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, CA, where he worked until 1992. He enjoyed the California lifestyle of sun and sand and even learned how to surf.

Chiu loved sports and was an athlete throughout his junior high and Alhambra High School years. He played soccer, baseball, ran field and track, and loved skiing and hockey. His passions were camping, hiking and being with his family. He was so proud when he climbed Half Dome at Yosemite, one of his favorite National Parks, with his family and always enjoyed the beauty of the outdoors despite mosquitos’ love for him. Chiu loved music and he also loved to cook. He enjoyed Pacifico beer and great food in general. He always took it to the limit, just like his favorite Eagles

song.

Chiu took on another challenge when he attended Harvard University of Public Health, earning a master’s of public health and meeting his love, Carolyn.

They were married on July 16, 1994.

New management positions took the couple to many places as Sunny worked at Northwestern University in Chicago, HIP and Mount Sinai in Manhattan, and the Northwell Health System on Long Island, where he improved every organization he worked for. Recently, Sunny became chief administrative officer for Catholic Health.

Chiu had a gift of being incredibly focused and talented, yet loving and beautiful in every way. He was an amazing husband and father and everyone who meant him was charmed by his loving, kind nature. Chiu was a proud member of Sigma Chi, many professional organizations, and actively involved in Troop 176 of the Boy Scouts of America. He shepherded his three sons as they achieved Eagle rank. He was an amazing father and husband who did everything to make his family safe and secure. Sunny will be sorely missed by his friends and family. Visiting at Dodge-Thomas Funeral Home of Glen Cove. Funeral service at Christ Church of Oyster Bay. Interment private. Donations can be sent to Bailey’s Arboretum or the Yosemite Conservancy.

Oyster Bay receives A+ rating from Wall Street Oyster Bay town finances have officially improved from a "junk bond" rating to an "A+" credit rating. On July 30, Wall Street credit rating agency, Standard & Poor's (S&P) Global Ratings upgraded the Town of Oyster Bay's credit rating by three levels due to the Town's “substantially improved financial position, even amid the pandemic.” S&P cited the Town's “robust operating performance” and “cost cutting” when also declaring a “positive outlook” for the Town's future.

The Town will now pay significantly less money in interest expense when bonding for the costs associated with road repaving and other critical infrastructure improvements. In total, the Saladino administration has received five credit rating upgrades from Wall Street since 2017.

“Wall Street recognizes the many positive steps taken by my administration and the Town Board to put the problems of the past behind us and return fiscal stability to the Town,” Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino said. “In just four years, we have

received five credit rating upgrades and several increased outlook designations from Wall Street. We've successfully restricted spending, significantly paid down debt and maintained a tax cut given to residents in 2018. We will continue to keep our promise to taxpayers by protecting their wallets while delivering important services."

The 2019, 2020 and 2021 Town Budgets sustained the $1.3 million property tax cut approved by the Town Board for 2018 by implementing a plan that froze taxes. As a result, $5.2 million is in the pockets of taxpayers. Total Town debt has also declined by a historic $165 million. In addition a multiyear operational deficit, which hit a high of $44 million under the prior administration, was ended and is now a $47.6 million surplus as of December 31, 2020. As a result of this combined success, the New York State Comptroller's Office removed the Town of Oyster Bay from its fiscal stress-monitoring list for the first time since the program's inception in 2013.

EVELYN C. PIERREPONT

Evelyn C. Pierrepont Evelyn C. Pierrepont of Locust Valley died on Aug. 12, 2021, at age 30.

Beloved daughter of Virginia C. and Rutherfurd S. Loving sister of Alisa, Stuyve (Dana), William (Caroline) and Edward (Janie). Dear granddaughter of Harden L. Crawford III (the late Alisa M.), and the late R.S. Pierrepont (the late Mary S.). Special aunt of Elizabeth Alisa. Also survived by loving aunts, uncles, cousins and her two faithful canine companions. Private visitation at Dodge-Thomas Funeral Home of Glen Cove. Service held at St. John’s of Lattingtown. Interment is private. Donations may be made to North Shore Animal League.

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Bill VSC 2107: A local law opting out of licensing and/or establishing retail cannabis dispensaries and/or on-site cannabis consumption

establishments within the Village of Sea Cliff.

Bill VSC 2101: A local law to amend Chapter 117 of the Code of the Village of Sea Cliff, in relation to providing for an exemption for Cold War veterans and increasing the maximum amount of the Alternative Veterans’ Exemption.

Time and Place of Hearing:Village Hall, Village of Sea Cliff 300 Sea Cliff Avenue, Sea Cliff, New York 11579 Date of Hearing: September 20, 2021 Time of Hearing: 7:00 pm The proposed local laws are available for public

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hirty years ago this week, I hopped on an electric train with a brightred engine, a nervous energy pulsing through my arms and legs straight to my fingers and toes, which fidgeted uncontrollably. My head was spinning.

I carried all I had in my arms — two gray suitcases of clothes, one violin in a worn brown case and one blue duffle bag with running shoes and toiletries. I was 24 and headed to the greatest adventure of my life, a twoyear bicultural SCOTT exchange that excited me, at BRINTON times vexed me and forever changed me.

I served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Veliko Tarnovo, a 5,000-year-old city in central Bulgaria with a medieval fortress that was flanked by white stucco houses, squeezed onto the steep hills above the winding Yantra River.

In the first week of September 1991, I left the safe haven of the training site the Peace Corps set up in Bankya, a spa resort 11 miles outside Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, and headed to Tarnovo, as it’s commonly known. After two and a half months of preparations, I still had no idea what to expect. I loved every minute of the next

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two years.

I was part of the first group of 26 Peace Corps volunteers to enter Bulgaria after the fall of communism there a year earlier. As was the case in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania between 1989 and 1990, thousands of Bulgarians took to the streets to protest communist rule. Todor Zhivkov — the longest-serving Soviet Bloc dictator in the post-World War II era, who reigned from 1954 to 1989 — was deposed without bloodshed. In July 1990, then President Petar Mladenov, a former communist leader, quit over accusations that he had ordered tanks to roll against protesters in December 1989.

People rejoiced after Mladenov’s resignation, The New York Times reported on July 7, 1990. “Never again a communist president in Bulgaria!” 5,000 protesters chanted in unison in central Sofia.

To be there, in this place burning with democratic idealism after more than four decades of repressed speech and thought, was the thrill of a lifetime for an American who had freedom of speech and assembly ingrained in him. Bulgaria felt so alive. I felt so alive. People were suddenly free. As an outside observer who was quickly acculturated to Bulgarian beliefs and practices (I married a Bulgarian), I internalized their joy, their relief and,

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sometimes, their fear of a return to communism.

On June 20 this year, most of the original 26 Peace Corps volunteers, our Bulgarian manager, Emil Patev, and my wife, Katerina, who was one of our language and culture trainers, gathered on Zoom to reminisce.

It was perhaps the strangest feeling I’ve ever experienced. Because of the intensity of the experiences that we shared, the names and faces of my fellow volunteers were indelibly etched in my mind. I pictured them as their younger selves, and then we appeared in little boxes on a computer screen, significantly older variations of ourselves, as if this were a “Dr. Who” episode. It was jarring at first.

Then we started to share what we took away from Bulgaria. Many spoke of the Bulgarian work ethic, the slower place of life, the neighborliness or the kindness they were shown by their colleagues at the schools where they taught — we were all English teachers.

Happy memories coursed through my mind — meeting my lovely wife for the first time, soaking in the sights and sounds that were so different than the United States, chatting with my students, who were 17 when I met them and 19 when they graduated from the Vasil Drumev High School of Mathematics and Natural

ecalling a lifealtering stint in Bulgaria after the fall of communism.

Sciences, as they attended a fifth year of high school for advanced studies.

That graduation, in June 1991, was among the most beautiful days of my life, aside from my wedding and the births of my children. It was a simple, short ceremony, full of music. The students poured flowers into their teachers’ hands, as is Bulgarian tradition. Katerina and I taught at the school together, and we came away with so many flowers that our tiny, rented apartment resembled a florist’s shop.

I’m occasionally asked to speak to young people about my Peace Corps experiences. They often ask about the challenges, or whether I had any regrets about signing up. I can sense their trepidation.

Volunteering for the Peace Corps is a monumental, life-altering decision.

I used to speak of the pluses and minuses. There is, no doubt, a financial sacrifice, because you’re volunteering for two years of your life, I would say. Perhaps that was the reporter in me wanting to give both sides of the story.

If they have a strong interest in joining, I tell them now, they should embrace any fears they might harbor and let the river of life take them wherever it might flow.

You needn’t know where it will end up. It could take you to magical lands you never imagined.

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.

In the eye of the western firestorm

e’ve been through a lot together, you and I. Now this.

As I wrote last week, my husband and I and Lillybee the dog headed out West to the Northern California mountains on Aug. 10. We drove from Denver through Cheyenne, Park City and Elko and arrived here in Tahoe-Donner on Aug. 20.

We’re in a rental house perched on stilts set into a hillside, a half-hour from anything, including our kids and grandkids, who live in a nearby town. They’re the reason we came, RANDI and they’re the reaKREISS son we’re still here, 10 days into a month-long stay.

We’re in the throes of a wildfire emergency, officially declared by President Biden yesterday. Smoke obscures views of the mountains. The grandkids’ school opening was delayed. The smell of smoke is in our clothes, our hair and even on the dog.

The Caldor and Dixie fires are raging around us, from 45 to 100 miles away. We’re told to stay inside, not exert ourselves and

keep the windows closed.

The obvious move is to leave ASAP, but that means driving back to Denver in our rental car through areas that are now smoky as well. Our children surely aren’t ready to abandon their family home. We hate to run, since the wind could change in a week, and it could be healthy to resume normal outdoor life. We don’t know when we’ll have the chance to sit down at the same table again.

Our kids must figure out if their life out here is sustainable going forward.

These fires aren’t going away, and it’s unlikely that it will be better next year. The snowpack has been lighter every winter, and the ground brush is drier. Tinder. No one has grass, just scrub around the homes, cut back for safety.

Back home, I know you’re struggling with the Delta variant and unusual heat.

We Long Islanders have had our shared disasters, mostly hurricanes, and there will likely be more this season.

This is something else. People who live up here are tough and self-reliant, but everyone is shaken by the hazardous air quality and the danger of encroaching

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fires. We all have alerts set on our phones should the conditions get more dangerous.

Ash falls out of the smoke clouds, irritating our eyes and throats.

We have captured some moments with the grandkids, some meals, a lot of time together playing Rummikub.

They seem able to be outside longer than we can, younger lungs and all that. But they are tuned in to our talk about the smoke and fire and what the options are. These kids just lived through more than a year of relative isolation during the pandemic, and so much of their hope was invested in this summer, to do the swimming and rafting and hiking that is their reason for putting up with life in the semi-wilderness. All of our kids and grandkids have tolerated so much constraint and disappointment. I hope it makes them stronger.

To summon my own resolve, I’ve been reading about people who live in places where the geography or the weather or the terrain is a constant challenge and threat.

Why do they stay? My husband and I can and probably will leave if the air remains unhealthy or the fires get worse; we have

ur kids must figure out if life out here is sustainable going forward.

that option. Our kids will make their own calculation of risk vs. benefit of life in these mountains.

People live on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Sicily, generation after generation, despite the inevitability of lava flows and ash that burn them out of their houses. They rebuild; they stay. Some say the reason is that the volcanic soil is fertile and produces the best olives and olive oil in the world.

People in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., know for sure that periodic super-floods will drive them from their homes, but they come back and they build again. Why does anyone live in New Orleans? Or on any barrier island?

Why didn’t we all flee after Hurricane Sandy?

Ultimately people look around and decide that the benefit outweighs the risk of living near a volcano or in a flood plain or on a fire-scarred mountaintop.

We would not have come to California now if we knew how the smoke and fire would look and feel and taste. The headline in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday read: “Caldor Fire Knocking on the Door of Tahoe Basin.”

The fire is knocking, and there isn’t much here to keep it out.

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

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Get your teenagers vaccinated ASAP . . .

ome 87 percent of Nassau County’s adult population, ages 18 and up, has received at least a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Bravo, Nassau! That’s a remarkable statistic, well ahead of the state average of 79.3 percent.

Nearly a million people have been vaccinated here, and we could soon reach that threshold.

But here’s the thing: Looking at all age groups in the county, only 73 percent of the total population has gotten at least one dose. That’s because children are ineligible, and only about 49 percent of teenagers, ages 12 to 18, had received a first dose as of last Friday, even though 16- and 17-year-olds have been eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine since April, and 12- to 15-year-olds since May. Clearly, we must focus our efforts on vaccinating teens. With school starting in many districts this week, and therefore with students starting to congregate in large groups five to six days a week, there is the potential for the virus to spread rapidly in this population, and then to be passed on to unvaccinated adults and even

to the relatively small number of vaccinated people who will get Covid despite being inoculated.

Nassau County government now has an excellent program that brings a team of vaccinators to a workplace on request. It’s all about making the vaccine readily available to people who are too busy or otherwise unable to break away from work to get inoculated. The Herald Community Newspapers took part last Friday afternoon, and the vaccination team did all the work.

Similarly, the county and the Town of Hempstead, each of which has a mobile inoculation unit, should bring the vaccination fight to our schools, one by one, starting in low-income areas, where parents may be unable to take their teens to a vaccination site because they’re working long hours and worry about taking time off.

We’ve already seen mobile units brought to a small number of school districts like Freeport, but the effort should be rapidly expanded to all 54 Nassau districts.

At the same time, parents should seek to have their teens vaccinated. With the

. . . And have a Covid talk with all of your kids

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chool’s starting this week. That’s a scary thought, given that we were supposed to have vanquished the coronavirus by now but simply have been unable to, despite our best efforts. This is one mean virus.

All parents of school-age children, whether they’re kindergartners or seniors in high school, should have a talk with them not only about avoiding strangers and saying no to drugs and

alcohol, but also about staying safe from Covid-19.

Remind them to wear their masks in school, as mandated now by New York state. Tell them to maintain social distancing, and to cover their mouths when they cough, and to stay home when they’re feeling sick. And don’t forget about handwashing — lots of handwashing with good old soap and water.

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Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine receiving full approval by the federal Food and Drug Administration for those 16 and over, we should all feel confident about its efficacy and safety. It will now be marketed as Comirnaty, according to the FDA. For those ages 12 to 15, the Pfizer vaccine will continue to be available under an emergency-use authorization.

The Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines are likely to receive FDA approval for 12- to 17-year-olds in the coming months.

Clinical trials are still under way to test all three vaccines for children ages 5 to 11.

It’s uncertain when, precisely, they might receive approval under emergency-use authorization for this age group. It could be as early as this fall, though that seems unlikely now. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said that authorization would more likely come by late December.

The bottom line for parents: Have your children vaccinated as soon as humanly possible.

LETTERS Happy birthday, President Johnson To the Editor: The late President Lyndon Johnson was born Aug. 27, 1908. Many remember him for succeeding President John F. Kennedy after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Others remember him for his domestic Great Society program, which included civil rights, Medicare, Medicaid, the War on Poverty and public broadcasting. There was also foreign policy, most notably the Vietnam War. Few remember that the success of public transportation can be traced back to one of Johnson’s greatest accomplishments, which continues to benefit many Americans today. On July 9, 1964, he signed the Urban Mass Transportation Act into

ate. There’s no need to scare young children. They need to be reassured that they will be safe in school. Meanwhile, teens might need a more frank discussion.

PBS Kids for Parents has an excellent primer on “How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus” that’s worth a quick read. You can find it at www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/how-to-talk-to-your-kidsabout-coronavirus.

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n the 1987 movie “The Princess Bride,” Vizzini, a Sicilian assassin, warns Wesley, also known as the Dread Pirate Roberts, “You fell victim to one of the classic blunders — the most famous of which is, ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’”

The United States fell into that classic blunder when it ignored 19th-century British debacles during the First AngloAfghan War (18391843) and the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) and pretended it could avoid the ALAN fate of the Soviet Union in the SoviSINGER et-Afghan War (1979-1988).

A 1979 internal memo to the Soviet Union’s governing Politburo explained why “nation building” by the Soviet Union was doomed to failure. The reactionary forces described in the memo are now known as the Taliban.

“The Afghan reactionary forces,” the memo stated, “are very skillfully taking advantage of the almost complete illiteracy of the population, complex interna-

tional and intertribal conflicts, religious fanaticism and nationalism. Subversive actions, sabotage and the resistance of the overthrown class of exploiters are deepening the economic problems, lowering industrial and agricultural output, as well as hampering business activity, raising prices and reducing the influx of revenue into the state budget.”

The memo warned the Politburo that “the use of Soviet troops in repressing the Afghan counterrevolution would seriously damage the international authority of the USSR.” In his 2010 memoir “Decision Points,” former President George W. Bush tried to justify the 2001 decision to invade Afghanistan and the prolonged war that followed. This wasn’t just about revenge for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, or a strategy to kill Osama bin Laden and destroy Al Qaeda.

According to Bush, “Afghanistan was the ultimate nation-building mission. We had liberated the country from a primitive dictatorship, and we had a moral obligation to leave behind something better. We also had a strategic interest in helping the Afghan people build a free

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erhaps every candidate for president should be a certified historian.

LETTERS law. It has resulted in the investment of several hundred billion dollars in public transportation under grants from the Federal Transit Administration, which before 1991 was known as the Urban Mass Transit Administration.

Even with Covid-19, millions of Americans continue using various public transportation alternatives, including local and express buses, ferries, jitneys, light rail, subways and commuter rail services. Investment in public transportation today contributes to economic growth, employment and a stronger economy. Dollar for dollar, it is one of the best investments we can make.

LARRY PENNER Great Neck Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.

State is now offering Excluded Workers Fund To the Editor: New York state’s Excluded Workers Fund, which is intended to provide much-needed relief to workers cut off from government unemployment bene-

society. The terrorists took refuge in places of chaos, despair and repression. A democratic Afghanistan would be a hopeful alternative to the vision of the extremists.”

The nation-building task was “more daunting” than Bush and his advisers anticipated because of their ignorance about Afghanistan and because they apparently never consulted either Wikipedia or the CIA World Factbook. It is a mountainous region of tribes, clans and linguistic groups, with millions of people who have little connection to those outside their locality or village. The constitution of Afghanistan, written in 2004 under U.S. auspices, recognizes 14 major ethno-linguistic groups. The largest is the Pashtun, who make up almost half of the population of the country and are the dominant group in the Taliban.

If only the Bush administration in 2001, or policymakers in the Obama and Trump administrations, had watched “The Princess Bride” or had access to the Soviet Politburo memo. I found it, quite easily, translated from Russian to English, on the website of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

The memo, “Our Future Policy in Connection with the Situation in Afghanistan,” became available to the public in 1993.

As President Biden made clear in a speech to the American public, “After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces [from Afghanistan] . . . There is no chance that one year — one more year, five more years or 20 more years of U.S. military boots on the ground would’ve made any difference.”

After the diplomatic, military and human disaster in Afghanistan, maybe there should be a constitutional qualification for becoming president of the United States: that a candidate be a certified historian. The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians could review all candidates the way legal organizations review potential judicial appointments.

Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.

FRAMEWORK by Linda Smith

fits and stimulus checks during the pandemic, is now accepting applications.

Any workers who were not eligible for enhanced Covid-19 pandemic unemployment benefits can apply. The funds do not need to be paid back, and this relief is available regardless of immigration status.

Please visit https://dol.ny.gov/EWF for more information and to apply.

I thank state leaders for their efforts to maximize the scope of our Covid-19 relief initiatives. In the weeks ahead, I look forward to sharing information about the Excluded Workers Fund at community events and with our local faith and civic leaders to ensure that economic relief reaches the maximum number of Nassau residents possible.

CARRIÉ SOLAGES Nassau County legislator, Lawrence

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