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Bart’s Barber Shop to close after 86 years Ave., to another barber. That way, he said, he could still go back once or twice a week to cut Since Bartolomeo Mazzeo hair when he wants to. His wife, opened it in 1934, Bart’s Barber Diane, said she could never see Shop has been a fixture in Sea him leaving the shop behind. Cliff. For decades, “ To m y h u s Sea Cliffians who band,” she said, “it’s have walked past the the place that’s his shop, in the heart of home, and where the village’s downhe’s the most comtown, on Sea Cliff fortable.” Avenue, have seen His father, Joe Bartolomeo or his said, emigrated from son, Joe, cutting the a small town in the hair of generations Benevento province of North Shore resiof Italy with his dents. family in 1926, when N ow, a f t e r 8 6 he was 11. When he years, Bart’s will be reached adulthood, closing, because Joe, he began working at its owner, says it is Bowman’s, a Sea time for him to Cliff barbershop on retire. He is now 78, Sea Cliff Avenue, has worked in the JOE MAzzEO next to what is now shop since the early the Stenson MemoriOwner, 1960s and has run it al Children’s since 1977. When the Bart’s Barber Shop Library, where he coronavirus panlearned to cut hair. demic forced him to close tempo- He took over the business in rarily in March, Mazzeo said, he 1934, and renamed it Bart’s. He got a taste of retirement before purchased the 272 Sea Cliff Ave. reopening in the summer. At his property in 1962. age, he said, making the closure After Bart was diagnosed permanent is something that with throat cancer in 1977, Joe feels right. said, he became the sole owner Mazzeo said he would only sell the space, at 272 Sea Cliff Continued on page 8

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JOANNA COMMANDER, lEFT, made it her mission to help generations of high school athletes, both male and female, starting with the women’s basketball team at Elmont Memorial High School in 1976.

Coach, teacher, athletic director, and now she’s a Hall of Famer By MIkE CONN mconn@liherald.com

Joanna Commander, of Glen Head, who was the Sea Clif f/Glen Head Herald Gazette’s first-ever Person of the Year in 2017, has been inducted into the Nassau County High School Sports Hall of Fame. Commander’s decades of excellence as a teacher, coach and athletic

director made her the ideal candidate for its 2020 class, Hall of Fame officials said. “I feel very blessed,” Commander said. “I feel very acknowledged . . . I love what I do, and to be acknowledged by your peers is just a very, very special thing, so I’m very appreciative of the honor.” Commander, 72, who lives in Glen Head with her wife, Rosemarie Cartagine, said

she pursued a teaching career in health and phys. ed. because she grew up when girls had few chances to succeed in sports. She loved playing any sports she could growing up, especially basketball, softball and field hockey. She was quite good at them, she said, noting her older brother always chose her first for neighborhood pickup Continued on page 3

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Commander is an advocate for female sports

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continued from front page games in their native West Hempstead. She also played basketball at Nassau Community College and Southern Connecticut State University, and these day is focused on her golf game. Her goal as a coach and athletic director, she said, was to give the next generations of female athletes the opportunity to feel a sense of belonging and camaraderie through sports. Dominick Vulpis, assistant executive director of Section VIII Athletics and a member of the Hall of Fame committee, said Commander mentored him when he became the East Rockaway School District athletic director in 1995. At the time, she was director of health, phys. ed. and athletics in the neighboring Lynbrook School District, and he said he admired her dedication to students. “Throughout the years, what you learned about Joanna was she’s a woman of convictions,” Vulpis said. “She‘s very even-keeled, she’s very objective in her thinking . . . She was always wanting to give to anybody out there who was willing to take, but the biggest thing was it was always about the kids.” North Shore School District Superintendent Dr. Peter Giarrizzo said Commander’s passion for helping student-athletes was apparent during the three years when he worked with her when she was a North Shore Board of Education trustee. Commander cared as deeply about the physical and emotional well-being of students as she did about athletic success, he said. “Joanna is not just about the athletics side of athletics,” Giarrizzo said. “Joanna always lives and breathes this notion of wellness and the role that athletics plays in that.” One of the most significant aspects of Commander’s storied career was her rise to prominence in a male-dominated field. When Commander became Elmont Memorial High School’s athletic director in 1976, she was one of only four female athletic directors in Nassau County. Mira Martincich, the former Roslyn School District director of phys. ed. and athletics and a fellow Hall of Famer, has known Commander for more than 30 years. In that time, she said, Commander has advocated for and mentored many female athletes and administrators. Vulpis said Commander’s success helped pave the way for future female athletic administrators. “Her voice was firm, honest and supported with research and professional knowledge,” Mirantich said. “You could not question her intelligence, passion and fervor. It was backed up by her selfless donation of

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Joanna commander accepted her first teaching job at age 22, at Elmont Memorial High School, beginning nearly 50 years of service to Nassau County’s student-athletes. thousands of hours of service, her deep belief in fairness and her commitment towards doing what was best for kids. When Joanna speaks, people listen.” “She’s living proof that you can rise to the top just through hard work, good intellect, good instincts and putting kids first,” Giarrizzo said. There is more to athletics than winning, Commander said. Sports help children understand relationship building, communication and goal setting in a group. When she attended her Elmont Memorial High School Hall of Fame induction ceremony last year, she reunited with a number of former students, who told her athletics taught them many of their most important life lessons. “I hope that I would have provided some blueprint for them to be successful in their lives,” Commander said, “to know what it means to be successful, to know what it means to be a part of a team and working toward a common goal. I hope that’s what my legacy is.”

Joanna commander’s résumé From coaching to teaching to directing, Joanna Commander has held many roles in the high school sports for nearly 50 years, leading to her induction into the Nassau County High School Sports Hall of Fame. Among the positions she held were: ■ Health and phys. ed. teacher, Elmont Memorial High School, 1970-86 ■ Women’s basketball coach, Elmont Memorial High School, 1974-86 ■ Athletics director, Elmont Memorial High School, 1976-79 ■ District coordinator of health education, Sewanhaka Central High School District, 1983-86 ■ Director of health, phys. ed. and athletics, Lynbrook Public Schools, 1986-99 ■ District director of health, phys. ed. and athletics, Harborfields Central School District, 1999-2003 ■ Adjunct Professor, Adelphi University, 2002-05 ■ Student-teacher mentor, Hofstra University, 2005-08 ■ Interim director of health, phys. ed. and athletics, Roslyn Public Schools, 2009-10 ■ Student-teaching coordinator, Hofstra University, 2009-11 ■ Coordinator of supervision and ticketing, Nassau County Public High School Athletic Association, 201318 ■ Board of Education trustee, North Shore Central School District, 2014-20 Courtesy Dominick Vulpis

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Friends and colleagues said that Commander has inspired high school athletes, teachers and administrators across Long Island.

Community garden created to benefit birds By AdAm FlAsh newsroom@liherald.com

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Volunteers gAthered outside Young’s Cemetery to help plant a native garden that will attract birds and other pollinators. garden. But coronavirus protocols made a school field trip impossible. So Audubon Center staff, members of the North Country Garden Club, a Sagamore Hill ranger and a few local residents did the planting. The Audubon Center’s Teen Conservation Ambassadors Club was also involved. The club comprises local teens who are

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passionate about conservation and volunteer frequently at the sanctuary. “A lot of [the projects] are led by them or are their ideas, things that they’re interested in,” said Kathryn D’Amico, the center’s director. “They’re very motivated.” Many of the teen Ambassadors once attended the center’s summer camp, whose oldest campers are 12. With many of them wanting to stay involved after they aged out, a summer counselor-intraining program was created for those ages 13 to 17. Now it’s a year-round group. “I’ve been working with the people who do the camps here, and I’ve been coming to the camps since I was very young,” Convoy said. “[It] was really fun, so I decided to keep doing it.” In addition to their work at the Audubon Center, many of the teens are active in their school and community preservation efforts, doing things like starting recycling programs. Some are interested in careers in environmental conservation. Julia Parry, 16, a senior at Oyster Bay High School, wants to one day own a nature preserve, “so this is a really useful experience for me,” she said. She is learning, among other things, what it takes to coordinate a small crowd of volunteers.

“It’s helpful for them when they’re starting to think about their college major or they need references or stuff to put on their college [applications], to be part of a local group like this,” D’Amico added. Whether or not it’s for a resume, the teens share a common passion for preserving the environment. “I think that it’s very important for everyone to understand their roots, literally and figuratively,” Convoy said. “I think that people need to connect to [nature] so that they understand we’ve got to conserve it and … we can live in a nice, still-green world.” The Audubon Center is doing great work, Parry said, but the Oyster Bay community needs to do more. “A lot of people around Oyster Bay and Oyster Bay Cove, I feel like they don’t really connect with the local environment …,” she said. “They have beautiful gardens, but it ends at their garden. Knowing what types of birds are around here [and] what types of animals, it’s just super, super important, especially in today’s climate and how everything’s changing.” To find out which native plants are best suited to the birds in your area, go to the Audubon database at audubon.org/ PLANTSFORBIRDS.

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The Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center, in Oyster Bay Cove, just got even greener. Local volunteers gathered last Saturday to plant a new community garden of native plants that support birds and other wildlife. The garden, right off the parking lot on a small hill, was funded by the National Audubon Society, which contributed a $5,000 Burke Grant. The once grass-covered area is now home to beautiful flowers and beneficial plants. The day’s team consisted of volunteers of all ages, all passionate about conservation. “I really like connecting to the natural environment,” said Will Convoy, 16, of Merrick. “I feel like that’s something that’s lost nowadays. I like getting into it, going out to your local park … and I really like doing work around here.” The Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center was donated to the New York state office of the Audubon Society by W. Emlen and Christine Roosevelt in 1923. The purpose was to memorialize their cousin Theodore, who is buried in Young’s Cemetery, adjacent to the sanctuary. It is the oldest Audubon songbird sanctuary in the country. Like many of its events, an educational portion of the day was scheduled, with plans for a local school group to plant the

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U.S. rep. Tom Suozzi, left, Order Sons of Italy in America Grand Lodge of New York President Anthony Naccarato, Councilman Rocco Totino, Mayor Tim Tenke, Councilwoman Marsha Silver, Order Sons of Italy In America Loggia Glen Cove #1016 lodge president Tony Sclafani and Joe Gallo, its vice president, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the chapter, along with Italian Heritage Month.

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The walls in Order Sons of Italy In America Loggia Glen Cove #1016 is lined with emblems of Italian and Italian American history, along with many photos and documents produced over the chapter’s 100 years. And on Saturday, the Glen Cove chapter got to celebrate its 100 years of fellowship and tradition, while also celebrating Italian Heritage Month, which is observed through October. “The Son’s of Italy is an organization for Italian Americans,” said Councilman Rocco Totino, who is also the principal trustee of the chapter. “It’s nationwide. Our chapter is about 215 active members.” Members of the chapter include County Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton and Congressman Tom Suozzi, who attended the event on Saturday and presented an American flag that flew over the U.S. Capital. “My family has been participating in the Sons of Italy for three generations,” DeRiggi-Whitton said. “I am very proud of my Italian heritage and am also thankful that this lodge preserves our rich culture and does so much for our community.” Tony Sclafani, the lodge’s president, pointed to a photo that included DeRiggiWhitton’s father, former Glen Cove Mayor Donald DeRiggi, also a member, which was placed among photographs and documents on display in the chapter’s basement. “There’s a lot of history here,” he said. “And this was all damaged. It was all put away in boxes and nobody actually wanted to tackle this.” The back room in the chapter’s basement, which is now a museum, was damaged during the flood. And as members took to cleaning the area, they found boxes and boxes of memorabilia collected

over the years. It wasn’t until the pandemic that Sclafani decided to look through the photographs, documents and other items. Sclafani, who used to own Romantic Travel in Glen Head and came to the United States at the age of 13, remarked that many members could recognize the people captured in the photographs dated as far back as the 1920s. “I still have a little bit more to do,” Sclafani said of the museum. “I have pictures and I don’t even know who they are. But little by little, I’ll make sure that they’re placed so that people can come down and see.” Black and white photographs from dinner party events that took place in the Polish National Home in Glen Cove, uniforms that the men and women of the chapter used to wear, documents given to the chapter by local officials and a memorial for late members help to tell a story of 100 years of how America Loggia Glen Cove #1016 came to be what it is today. “The most likely reason why there was a chapter formed in Glen Cove was due to the fact that most of our Italian population in Glen Cove is actually from a certain area in Italy called Sturno, Glen Cove’s sister city,” Totino explained, adding that he’s visited Sturno, Italy and has actually ran into former or current Glen Cove residents there. The America Loggia Glen Cove #1016 was formed on April 10, 1920 by Giuseppe A. Nigro, who immigrated from Sturno, Italy when he was a teenager. He opened a coal and lumber yard years later after moving to the city. Joining Giuseppe were 10 other Italian-Americans: Charles Anzalone, Carmine Caggiano, Vincent Gambino, Angelo Genova, Antonio Grazioso, Domenick Izzo, Arcangelo Macedonia, Pasquale Nigro, Giuseppe Sanfratello and Giuseppe Trimarchi. Members used to meet in the basement

of a building located near the Old Fashioned Bakery in Glen Cove until the new building in Downtown Glen Cove was purchased in the 1980s. “We’re the oldest chapter on Long Island,” Totino said. “The actual New York state [Sons of Italy,] which encompasses all of New York, was formed 15 years before [The Glen Cove Chapter.]” And besides the 100 years of fellowship and tradition that the chapter has brought for many local Italian-American families, the chapter has also served philanthropic purpose, donating funds to local little leagues, distributing scholarships for local high school seniors and sending money to the Grand Lodge-Sons of Italy, the statewide chapter, which ultimately donates funds to a number of organizations. “We try to give as much as we can,” Sclafani said. “But unfortunately we had to cut down a little bit because of income. We used to do a lot of parties, so we’d collect here, donate here. But the only income right now is the apartments [rented out in the chapter’s building.]” Marisa Gambino, the chapter’s principal trustee, explained that while she’s disappointed that the chapter couldn’t hold the large celebration the members had originally wanted, she’s happy that they can mark this milestone while celebrating their Italian heritage. “Even if we don’t meet all the time, people don’t come all the time, when we do the dinner dances or whatever, we see each other and it’s nice that we maintain that,” Marissa said, “and we’re trying to reach out to more younger people to keep our tradition.” Sclafani pointed to a sign posted in the bocce court in the basement, which is used for tournaments and a way to pass some time. “You can not know where you’re going unless you know where you came from,” he read.

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Bart’s was a Sea Cliff institution, residents say Joe Mazzeo decorated his shop, at left, with dozens of photos of friends and customers through the years.

continued from front page and operator of the shop, and Bart died three years later. Although he has had some people work alongside him over the years, Mazzeo said he has mostly worked by himself, something that he said he enjoys. One of his most loyal friends and customers is John Duff. Although he grew up in Levittown, Duff said he fell in love with Sea Cliff while attending Catholic school at St. Boniface. During one of his many trips to the village, in 1978, he recalled, he walked into Bart’s and met Mazzeo, whom he describes as a “wonderful guy.” Although his job in human resources at American Airlines took him to Dallas, Duff said he would still fly up to New York to saul get a haircut at schachter Bart’s whenever Sea Cliff resident he could. To this day, four generations of Duff ’s family have had their hair cut by Mazzeo, the youngest being his grandchildren. This is especially telling of his loyalty to Mazzeo, he said, because he, his children and grandchildren now live in Scotland. An ocean apart, the two men have remained friends. Duff said he admired both Mazzeo’s dedication to his customers and the fact that Bart’s has maintained its old-schoolbarbershop feel for decades. If Norman Rockwell were still alive, he said, there would be paintings of the shop in the Saturday Evening Post. “It was never just getting your haircut,” Duff said. “You go, sit in your chair

Mazzeo inherited Bart’s Barber Shop from his father, Bartolomeo, below, in 1977.

hether it’s somebody who’s an old veteran or kids, [Mazzeo] treats them with respect and genuine warmth.

and he always reminded me of seeing Floyd the Barber in ‘The Andy Griffith Show.’” Mazzeo’s kindness has perhaps no better representation than his relationship with Amy Peters, organizer and manager of the Sea Cliff Farmers Market and a close friend of Diane’s. Peters said she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017, and chemotherapy caused much of her three feet of hair to fall out. Her hair was always a part of her identity, she said, and losing it only magnified the trauma of her illness.

When her hair loss was becoming too much to bear, Peters said, she walked into Bart’s and asked Mazzeo to shave her head. He gave her a buzz cut on the spot, and told her to come by the next day when business was slow for a full shave. Not only was the shave free, she said, but Mazzeo took the time to listen to her and make her difficult circumstances a little easier. “He was just really, really kind and empathetic,” Peters recounted. “He wouldn’t take my money, and it just felt like it was such a generous and kind thing that he did for me. He made me feel comfortable in a very uncomfortable situation.” Lifelong Sea Cliff resident Saul Schachter echoed Peters’s admiration for

Mazzeo gave 4-year-old Isla DuffHowie a haircut.

Mazzeo. Schachter has had his hair cut by Bart and now Joe for decades, he said, and he is sad to see Bart’s close. Everybody knows Joe the Barber, he said. “He’s very caring with his customers,” Schachter said. “Whether it’s somebody who’s an old veteran or kids, he treats them with respect and genuine warmth.” Mazzeo said that serving Sea Cliff for as long as he did was something he would always treasure. He said he had met all kinds of people in his nearly 60 years of cutting hair, and although he isn’t ready to hang up his scissors entirely, he hoped he’d had as positive an influence on the village’s residents as they’ve had on him. “Sea Cliff is one of those places where you can find things about yourself that you didn’t know were there,” Mazzeo said. “You get to know a lot about yourself and about the nice people who live and work here. It’s a good feeling.”

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By Laura Lane

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The Town of Oyster Bay last week passed a local law to allow anyone who disrupts a Town Board meeting to be arrested and charged criminally. Offenders could be subject to up to 15 days in jail. Nor mally in the past, anyone who disturbed a meeting was asked to leave, but was not charged. Offenders could be charged with disorderly conduct, said Brian Nevin, the town spokesman. The law, adopted Oct. 6 in a 7-0 vote of the board, states that speakers at meetings “may not make personal comments about public officials, town residents and others.” The objective, the law states, is to allow residents to state their positions in an “atmosphere free of slander, threats of violence or the use of the Board meeting as a forum for politics.” Photography and videography will be allowed at Town Board meetings, so long as it is “done in a manner that does not interfere with the meeting,” according to the new law. The supervisor can decide if equipment is too large, or if someone taking photog raphs or videos is too close to a speaker or the board. In an interview with the Herald Gazette, Supervisor Joseph Saladino said it would be up to police to arrest anyone who was ejected from a meeting and up to the district attorney to charge the person. In an Oct. 12 Newsday story, District Attorney Madeline Singas, however, expressed doubt that charges would lead to prosecution. There have been several meetings, Saladino said, at which certain individuals have walked over to the lectern while a resident is speaking and put a camera close to the person’s face as a form of intimidation. “You can come to Town Hall and say whatever you want to say,” Nevin said. “This is about disorderly conduct. Our biggest concern is to have a safe environment at our meetings and ke e p t h e m re s p e c t f u l . A nyo n e i s allowed to video or take pictures.” Certain people have also disrupted ethics and environmental review board meetings, Saladino said, prompting a few members of those boards to quit, saying they were uncomfortable being videotaped. “There are checks and balances to the new rule,” Saladino said. Nevin spoke of an incident at the August meeting at which someone became disruptive. “A resident who wanted to speak about the town’s animal shelter was unhappy that she could not gain entrance to a Town Board meeting because it was filled to capacity,” he said. “She tried to get into the building anyway, banging on the sliding door so hard it went off the tracks and fell, nearly hurting someone inside. People have been screaming during meetings, and one person made a sexual gesture towards a female councilwoman. Police need

a new Law states that anyone who disrupts a Town of Oyster Bay meeting can be arrested and charged criminally.

to have something on the books.” The Press Club of Long Island, however, expressed concern that the new law might interfere with reporters’ ability to do their jobs. “The rules adopted in section three for use of recording equipment is what we are objecting to,” said Brendan O’Reilly, PCLI’s vice president. “The Open Meetings Law says that anyone can record. At a meeting, a journalist may need to pick up a camera and move about the room. We need to be able to take photographs and record without being told to sit down or a threat of being arrested.” PCLI released a statement on Oct. 13 that, in part, read, “A rule that permits the presiding officer to remove journalists from a meeting and even have them charged by the police for having a television camera that is too large or for moving about a room to shoot photographs flies in the face of the First Amendment. The rule puts journalists in the position of choosing between doing their work effectively and facing a punishment of up to 15 days in jail. If the rule is allowed to stand, it will be at the expense of freedom of the press and the public’s right to know.” Saladino said he believes the new law would benefit journalists. “If I’m being interviewed by a journalist and video is being recorded and someone is screaming, the segment would not go on the air, for example,” he said. “If the public wants to participate and are being intimidated by the select few, it would violate their First Amendment rights. We have to stop people from yelling and screaming during our meetings.” Saladino added that he would consider amending the law to exclude journalists. “We have never impeded upon the rights of jour nalists to report and record,” he said. “No Nassau County policeman would arrest a journalist for that. I was looking for a

Oct. 6, 2020 — revised and amended procedures of town code resolution no. 567-2020 Section 2 – guidelines for public comment General requirements Speakers shall observe the commonly accepted rules of courtesy, decorum, dignity and good taste and shall not use foul language, display unacceptable behavior or be disruptive of the proceedings. Speakers may not make personal comments about public officials, town residents or others. Members of the public and Board members shall be allowed to state their positions in an atmosphere free slander, threats of violence or the use of the Board meeting as a forum for politics . . . Any person making offensive insulting, threatening, insolent, slanderous or obscene remarks or gestures, or who become boisterous, or who makes threats against any person or against public order, and security while in the Board Room, either while speaking at the podium or as a member of the audience, shall be forthwith removed at the direction of the presiding office. Any person removed from a public meeting at the direction of the presiding officer may be charged with disorderly conduct in accordance with New York State Penal Law Section 240.20.

SeCTIOn 3 - use of recording equipment All members of the public and all public officials are allowed to photograph and tape or video record public meetings so long as the photography or recording is done in a manner which does not interfere with the meeting. The presiding officer may make the determination that the photography or recording is being done in a manner that interferes with the meeting after taking into consideration attendant movement and activity, distance from the deliberations of the board, noise, size of equipment, ability of the public to participate in the meeting notwithstanding the photography or recording, and any other pertinent factor. If the presiding officer makes the determination that the photography or recording is interfering with the meeting, the presiding officer may request an accommodation to avoid the interference and if not sufficient or complied with, order the photography or recording to be stopped. Any person failing to follow the determination of the presiding officer shall be forthwith removed at the direction of the presiding officer. Any person removed . . . may be charged with disorderly conduct in accordance with New York State Penal Law, Section 240.20. way to give the media comfor t to allow them to do their job.” O’Reilly, though, said, “The big problem is you have somebody in charge who decides if what someone is doing is a disruption. Someone they

like could take out their phone and record, and it is OK, but then at the next meeting someone the person doesn’t like could do the same thing but be arrested.”

A happy 200th birthday wish to the Jericho Cider Mill

By Laura Lane

SEA CLIFF/GLEN HEAD HERALD GAZETTE — October 22, 2020

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The Jericho cider Mill is the oldest in New York state and is turning 200 this month. Hundreds of people line up outside for their cider and baked goods on weekends. ends when I went to the Mount St. Mary’s in Newburgh,” she said. “The bakery is upstairs. They always appreciated it when I carried the pies up and down the stairs.” Ted has expanded the store a bit and there are tables and chairs outside to

make the atmosphere more festive, he said. Kerry, who is in charge of selling wholesale, has been successful, with production and volume increasing. The cider is sold in every supermarket on Long Island and in Queens, Ted said, and also

at farm stands. But little else has changed. “We still have the original 40-year-old window where people can watch cider being made,” Ted said. “We press 14 gallons a day four to five times a week.” Continued on page 19

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The Jericho Cider Mill, a two-story white barn where gallons of cider are pressed each season is celebrating its 200th birthday. Even with the coronavirus pandemic it remains a joyful place, where people go to purchase homemade pies and cider but also, to reminisce. “People who come here are happy, love the fall and they talk about their visits here from 20 to 30 years ago,” said Brianna Ketsoglou, 27, who has been working at the mill since she was 15. “It’s authentic here. We make our own pies and cider the same way we always have. When people come in, being here sparks their memories and they are happy.” Ailing in health, George Zulkofske, who owned the Jericho Cider Mill since 1958, sold it in November 2015 to Ted Ketsoglou. His family manufactured ice cream and distributed it, which Ted said gave him the experience to run the cider mill. Brianna met Ted’s son, Kerry, at the retirement party given to Zulkofske at the Atlantic Steamer firehouse. They fell in love and married five years ago. Brianna, a case worker for the Town of Oyster Bay, continues to work before and after work at the cider mill, as well as on weekends because she said she loves working there. “My life wouldn’t be full without being here. I even used to come home on week-

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Where to vote (early) in Nassau County By AlyssA seidmAn aseidman@liherald.com

Election Day is a little less than two weeks away, but thanks to a series of reforms passed by the State Legislature in 2019, Nassau County residents can vote before Nov. 3. Starting Saturday, Oct. 24, residents can head to one of 15 polling sites to cast their votes for the Nov. 3 election during a nine-day early-voting period. The process was introduced in New York state last year as part of a series of reforms intended to make voting easier for people who struggle to get to the polls on Election Day. The nine-day schedule offers 83 hours of early voting — 60 are required — including evenings and weekends through Sunday, Nov. 1 (see map). Registered voters may cast their ballots at any of the listed locations, but if they do not, they must vote at their regular polling place on Nov. 3. Residents will verify their voter registration on iPads, or electronic poll books, which have replaced physical poll books at each early-voting site and regular polling place. Using a stylus, poll inspectors will assist voters in signing their names and confirming their identities. Once their signatures are approved, the poll inspector will print ballots from a ballot-

on-demand printer. “No matter where you go, you’re getting your ballot,” said James Scheuerman, the Democratic commissioner for the Board of Elections. Scheuerman also said that if residents submit their ballots during the early-voting period, it precludes them from voting on Election Day. “The poll pads sync up,” he said, “so after you vote, other poll books around the county, within one minute, will know that you voted to guard against double voting.” Residents who have questions about the county’s early-voting procedures can visit www.nassauvotes.com. The Board of Elections has advised voters that some states that have already begun their early-voting period have reported significant lines at polling sites. To ensure ballots are cast at legitimate polling stations or deposited in legitimate drop-off boxes, voters are advised to be attentive. Report any suspicious activities or efforts to interfere with or disrupt voting immediately. If in doubt, or to report any issues, please call the Nassau County Board of Elections: (516) 571-8683 for English; or La Junta Electoral Condado Nassau en Español: (516) 571-1245. Information provided the Nassau County Board of Elections. Map by Christina Daly/Herald

Timothy Denton contributed to this story.

An infogrAph of Nassau County’s early-voting sites for the 2020 election.

Northwell awarded $1.4M to help prevent gun violence Northwell Health has been awarded $1.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to study gun violence prevention and establish and implement a firstof-its-kind protocol to universally screen among those at risk of firearm injury. The grant is part of the health system’s “We Ask Everyone About Guns” research study, which aims to shift the paradigm to view gun violence as a public health issue and approach firearm injury risk similarly to other health risk factors that are part of routine care, like smoking, substance use and motor vehicle accidents. We Ask Everyone About Guns will establish evidence-based screening and intervention strategies within three of its hospitals. Led by Drs. Chethan Sathya, director of Northwell’s Center for Gun Violence Prevention, and Sandeep Kapoor, the study will pilot at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, Cohen Children’s Medical Center, a pediatric trauma center on the Queens-Nassau County border that is the accepting facility for adolescent trauma for more than five counties, and Staten Island University Hospital — each of which are in regions with critical need for firearm injury and mortality prevention, a n d a r e a s w i t h a t - r i s k yo u t h . Northwell plans to expand We Ask Everyone About Guns across the health system. “Gun violence is a public health issue and this NIH-funded study is a step in the right direction to finally addressing

it as one,” said Michael Dowling, North- vs. universal screening, which can well president and CEO. “Unfortunately, exclude at-risk patients. “Adherence is key, and We Ask Everywe have been dealing with two pandemics — COVID-19 and gun violence. By one About Guns combined with Northscreening for firearm safety in our facil- well treating gun violence as the public ities, we can better understand how and health issue will push boundaries, elimiwhy this senseless blood shed continues nate knowledge gaps and prevent accit o i n c re a s e at h i s t o r i c r at e s. ” dental deaths and even suicides.” Under We Ask EveryNorthwell received the one About Guns, clinicians NIH grant as gun violence in the ED will ask patients continues to rise across the specific questions about country and remains the having firearms in their leading cause of premature homes and determine their death in the U.S. — nearly r i s k o f i n j u r y. E a c h 40,000 people dying each response will be scored and year, according to the U.S. embedded into the patient’s Centers for Disease Control electronic health record, and Prevention. In August, which will help guide disshootings doubled and mur- michAel cussions and establish next ders increased 50 percent in dowling steps for care. Motivational New York City, according to interviews, education and the NYPD, compared to the Northwell president other resources will also be same timeframe in 2019. and CEO available. Since May, there have been The study follows a simi791 shootings in New York City alone, which was a 140-plus percent lar protocol as the health system’s Screening, Brief Intervention and Referincrease over the same period in 2019. “The glaring statistics continue to ral to Treatment, a screening program spike not just here in New York, but that was implemented in its emergency across the United States as well,” said departments several years ago to identiSathya, who is also associate medical fy substance misuse and connect director for trauma and a pediatric gen- patients to treatment. Through SBIRT, eral and thoracic surgeon at Cohen Chil- Northwell completed 1.5 million patient dren’s. “This NIH grant will fully sup- screens across 18 EDs and many inpaport We Ask Everyone About Guns and tient and outpatient settings, resulting allow us to expand upon the limited clin- in 23,000 brief interventions and 8,000 ical studies that have primarily focused referrals. SBIRT was initially federally on outpatient settings or used targeted funded and has since been sustained

un violence is a public health issue.

across the health system. “As we have seen with SBIRT, we can make a difference for our communities by asking the right questions and providing the right education and connections to treatment,” said Kapoor, Northwell’s assistant vice president for addiction services and director of SBIRT. “The objective here is mirror that success and reverse the trend of rising suicides and preventable firearm injuries and deaths. It’s a major sea change for health care and can prove to be a significant tool in fighting the gun violence epidemic.” The NIH grant builds on the momentum from Northwell’s 2019 Gun Violence Prevention Forum, where Dowling’s call-to-action encouraged health care and political leaders to work for sensible gun legislation, more investment in mental health, more education and greater preparation for staff and communities. He also pledged $1 million to the effort, which helped establish the Center for Gun Violence Prevention. Dowling also appointed Sathya to head the center, which is tasked with shaping the role that health systems play in advancing safety, education, prevention and research, and he formed an advisory committee comprised of prominent voices on gun violence prevention. Northwell is scheduled to host the second Gun Violence Prevention Forum virtually on Dec. 10.

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October 22, 2020

A LOOK AT THE CANDIDATES

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ElEction 2020

October 22, 2020 — SEA CLIFF/GLEN HEAD HERALD GAZETTE

2020 Judicial candidatEs District Court Judge Candidates

Family Court Judge Candidate

Vote for two

Chris Coschignano

Running on the Republican, Democratic, Conservative and Independence party lines

David Wright

Running on the Democratic, Republican, Independence and Conservative party lines

Lisa Cairo Running on Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Independence party lines in the general election

Age: 56

Age: 53

Age: 43

Lives in: Muttontown

Lives in: Bayville

Lives in: Garden City

Education: Bachelor’s degree, St. John’s University, 1985; law degree, Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, 1990

Education: Bachelor’s degree, St. John’s University, 1989; law degree, Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, 1992.

Career: Chris Coschignano is a partner in the Uniondale-based law firm Sahn Ward Coschignano PLLC. He was also a Town of Oyster Bay councilman from 2002 to 2017. 2017.

Career: David Wright has been the Village of Bayville deputy mayor since September 2018. He has also been senior principal law clerk to Appellate Division Justice Angela Iannucci since 2004.

Education: Bachelor’s degree, Loyola College in Maryland, 1999; law degree, Hofstra University School of Law, 2002

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Legal career: Lisa Cairo began her career in 2003 as an associate at Chris J. Coschignano P.C., handling civil litigation with a focus on matrimonial cases, municipal applications and real estate transactions. In 2006, she became an associate at Jaspan Schlesinger LLP in the firm’s matrimonial practice group. In 2011, she became a partner in the firm’s municipal law, litigation and real estate practice groups. She is also a member of the firm’s management committee.

County Court Judge

SeLeCt up to eigHt CanDiDateS Kathy Bergmann

Joseph Conway

Independence, Democratic, Republican and Conservative lines

Democratic, Republican and Conservative lines

■ Suffolk County Family Court judge since 2017

■ Defense attorney at LaRusso, Conway & Bartling in Mineola

■ Earned her bachelor’s from SUNY Oswego in 1978 and her law degree from Touro College Law Center in 1988

■ Headed the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District Long Island criminal division from 2001 to 2003

Valerie Cartright

Randy Sue Marber

Democratic, Republican and Conservative lines

■ Attorney with Cartright & Company in Port Jefferson Station

■ Nassau County State Supreme Court judge since 2007

■ Was on the Brookhaven Town Council since 2014

■ Nassau County 4th District Court judge from 2002 to 2006

Derrick Robinson

erica prager

Democratic, Republican and Conservative lines

■ Served as a Suffolk County District Court judge since 2012

■ Nassau District Court judge since 2001

■ Acting County Court judge since 2016

■ Acting County Court judge since 2009

gary Knobel

Republican, Democratic, Conservative and Independence party lines

Democratic, Republican and Conservative party lines

■ Town of Brookhaven councilman from 2003 to 2014

Caryn Fink Running on the Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Independence party lines Age: 53 Lives in: Roslyn Heights Legal career: Caryn Fink started her legal career from 1993 to 2000 as an assistant district attorney and senior trial attorney in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. From 2006 to 2013, she was an assistant district attorney in the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office, Rackets Bureau/Labor Unit. And from 2013 to now, she has been the principal law clerk for the Hon. Helene Gugerty, a New York State Supreme justice.

Chris Hoefenkrieg Running on the Republican, Democrat, Conservative and Independence party lines Age: 53 Lives in: Roslyn Heights Education: Bachelor’s degree, SUNY Albany, 1990; law degree, St. John’s University, 1994.

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John E. Brooks

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the pandemic, so it will take Family Court Judge County Court Judge working across party lines to Incumbent (Vote for up to two) help (Vote for one) schools. In addressing Party: Democratic, IndepenJuez de la systemic racism, Suozzi Corte de is one of the dence, Working Families original co-sponsors of the Familia Juez de la Corte del Condado Age: 58 andpor Policing (Vote uno) Act (Vote hasta por dos) Justice Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic passed to reform police Professional experience: across the 7 8 12 country and insti9 10 11 13 U.S. Rep. since 2016, fortute certain federal stanmerly mayor of Glen Cove choke Timothy P. execuCaryn R. Tricia M. Joseph R. Chris E. dards, like Lisaeliminating A. Gary F. and Nassau County holds. Legal changes need Program to provide specific Fink Ferrell Conwaytive Mazzei Hoefenkrieg Cairo Knobel to be made at the local level relief to restaurants based Republican Republican Republican Republican Republican Republican Republican to enhance community Education: Bachelor of Scion their 2019 revenues ver10 13 8 9 11 12 7 policing, he said, and then ence, Boston College; law sus their 2020 revenues, as resources need to be allodegree, Fordham University well as another package for Tricia M. Caryn entertainment R. Lisa A.the problem Joseph R. Gary F. independent Chris E. cated where School Timothy of Law P. areas are. He said an Ferrell Mazzei Cairo Conway Knobel venues Fink Hoefenkrieg based on their net accountability system needsConservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative operating costs. A deal couldConservative On the issues: to be set12up based on the get done,10he said, if RepubliIn helping local econo-9 7 8 11 13 mies recover from the devas- cans and Democrats worked use of force, where it is needed and how often. tation caused by the corona- together. Timothy P. Caryn R. Lisa A. Suozzi Tricia Joseph R. Gary F. Chris E. If re-elected, said M. Suozzi said schools will virus pandemic, Tom Suozzi Mazzei Fink assistance.Hoefenkrieg Cairo Ferrell Conway Knobel need federal he would work to bring said there are many meamoney back to New York, as Some New York districts are sures that Congress could well as negotiate an infrasuffering because the state take, all of which require structure deal to address has lost so much in salesbipartisan cooperation. He water quality on Long Island tax revenues because busisaid there needs to be focused on green energy. another Paycheck Protection nesses are struggling during

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Joseph JosephR.R.Biden Biden

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Karla Ballard

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Independence Bryan L. Browns 3

Bryan L. Browns

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Independence Derrick J. Robinson

Derrick J. Robinson

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Independence 19

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he pandemic has been challenging for us. However, we’ve gotten a little creative, and we’re trying some new things out. They big thing was a Chowder Drive-by last Saturday. One of our members, Harry Schwartz, is a chef, and he came up this idea to do from his new store, Garden of Bacon, in Sea Cliff. He made a bunch of chowders and cornbread, and the residents of Sea Cliff and Glen Head ordered online or by phone to pay ahead of time. There was a drive-by pick up by the store where people picked up however many quarts or pints of chowder they ordered. We gave them information about our club and also sold T-shirts, which had the names of local vendors on the back. We didn’t have Mini Mart this year, and another big fundraiser we have is a golf outing every October, which also got canceled. We’re trying to reach out and do other things. Proceeds always go to different places. We have a number of charitable organizations we give to directly, including the Long Island chapter of the Guide Dog Foundation. We sponsor dogs, and we give a lot of money to that organization, which is quite a rewarding thing. We also work with a lot of local charities like soup kitchens and the Sea Cliff Mutual Concerns Committee. We tend to be local in the way we give money because it’s helpful to the community.

y real job is to work in the lobby. I strip the floors and wax and do other things there. But during Covid I had to go upstairs and work where the Covid patients were. It was a disaster in the beginning. The doctors were scared too. People were crying. I felt like no one knew what to do. I went to work every day. My wife and son were scared and asked me why I was working in a hospital when there was a pandemic. I felt like I had to help people in the hospital. I was never afraid. The amount of people coming in was overwhelming for my supervisor. For around three months, I had to work 16 hours because people were afraid and some took a leave of absence. Others had to quarantine. Three of my co-workers got sick with the virus early on. One had Covid for six months. For three, he was in a coma at the hospital. Working upstairs, there was a lot of [personal protective equipment], so I had to empty the garbage cans often. I also cleaned the rooms where the Covid patients were. I washed the floors and had to clean everything when a patient left. I used Clorox on everything. I never spoke to the patients when I worked downstairs. But upstairs, sometimes one of the patients with Covid would ask me for help, so I would get a nurse or doctor. A lot of those people died, five or six people a day. It was terrible. I never saw anything like that before.

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in 2019, an amphitheater for outdoor workshops and events, and the installation of memorial stanchions, were completed in the Children’s Memorial Garden at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove.

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Before staff members and volunteers gathered for socially distanced tour guide training at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County’s Children’s Memorial Garden on Friday, Oct. 9, Meryl Menashe walked up to a copper-colored stanchion in which the name Vladka Meed was etched, along with some of her words. “I will make you proud,” Menashe said, patted the stanchion. Menashe, a member of the Children’s Memorial Garden Committee and a longtime educator at the center, in Glen Cove, knew Meed, who died at age 90 in 2012. She was a member of the Jewish resistance in Poland who smuggled dynamite into the Warsaw Ghetto and helped children escape. Meed is one of 14 victims and survivors of the Holocaust who are memorialized on stanchions throughout the garden. In the past couple of years, the Children’s Memorial Garden, which was dedicated in 2003 to the 1.5 million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust, has undergone a number of renovations, including the installation and etching of the stanchions. Tours designed by the Children’s Memorial Garden Committee will lead groups through this dark chapter of history, reading the words of those like Anne Frank, who was 15 when she died, leaving behind her diaries, and Janusz Korczak, a Polish educator, children’s author and doctor who worked at an orphanage in Warsaw and was killed at the Treblinka exter mination camp. Anne Frank, Menashe said, “wanted to live after her death,” Menashe said. “And she did.” “The point of this garden tour, designed by Meryl and the garden committee, is to really highlight voices of the Holocaust,” said Helen Turner, the center’s director of education. The tours, which must be booked three days in advance, will run through Nov. 15,

The poem, a portion of which appears below, was written at Terezin concentration camp in 1942 by a 21-year-old Jewish Czech named Pavel Friedmann. He died of typhus at Auschwitz in 1944, and the butterfly has become the international symbol for the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust. His words are on the first stanchion in the Children’s Memorial Garden at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. a Group of Children’s Memorial Garden tour guides listened as Helen Turner explained how she presented the garden to a group of Girl Scouts. and will take groups on a 45-minute journey of quotes from before, during and after the Holocaust, all etched onto the 14 stations. “As we go through, you have the warning signs, you have Jewish resistance, you have rescue,” Menashe explained. “The last one was also a child’s voice, which was also deliberate.” We want the voices of the Holocaust to come alive,” she added. “If it didn’t give me chills, I didn’t put it in.” Menashe said she was proudest of the fact that every voice included in the garden is somehow connected to the Holocaust. “We wanted [the quotes] to be balanced; we wanted to represent everything,” she said, “and I have to say, it was a great committee. Everyone respected everybody, and there was a lot of give and take.”

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According to the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center website, the Children’s Memorial Garden is the first in its

kind on public grounds in New York state. In the early 1900s, the property, today known as the Welwyn Preserve, was a 204acre parcel given to Harriet and Harold Pratt as a wedding gift. In the 1910s, Harriet Pratt asked the renowned landscape architects the Olmsted Brothers to design the layout of the estate as well as a garden, which was subsequently developed by Martha Brown Hutcheson and James Leal Greenleaf. Harold Pratt died in 1939, and Harriet in 1963. In 1975 the property was bequeathed to Nassau County, and become the Welwyn Preserve. In 1996, the Million Pennies Project, the brainchild of Holocaust survivor Irving Roth, was launched with the purpose of creating a Children’s Memorial Garden. By the end of 1998, according the HMTC website, students from Nassau and Suffolk counties to Queens had accumulated $12,000 in pennies, each representing a child who died, for the garden. Volunteers hacked through the brush that covered the garden created almost

For seven weeks I’ve lived in here, Penned up inside this ghetto But I have found my people here. The dandelions call to me And the white chestnut branches in the court. Only I never saw another butterfly. That butterfly was the last one. Butterflies don’t live in here, In the ghetto.

100 years earlier. On April 29, 2003 — Holocaust Remembrance Day — the Children’s Memorial Garden was officially dedicated as a living tribute to the 1.5 million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. In 2019, an amphitheater for outdoor workshops and events, and the stanchions, were completed. “It’s a beautiful project,” Menashe said. To schedule a tour of the garden, contact Rachel Cara, the center’s education programming coordinator, at (516) 5718040 or rachelcara@hmtcli.org. For more information about the garden or the center, go to www.hmtcli.org.

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The North Shore Land Alliance’s October events are successful history in the evolution of the North Shore community. The Golf & Tennis event took place on Oct. 14. Hope and John Reese and Phyllis and Brad Weekes were honored this year at the event for their commitments to preserving the natural areas on the North Shore. Despite the challenges of 2020, the Land Alliance opened the 28-acre Humes Preserve to the public in September. It hopes the Humes Preserve will become an integral part of the community – a place where people can watch birds, observe native plants, hike woodland trails or sit on a bench by the meadow, watching the grasses bend in the wind. The North Shore Land Alliance, Inc. is a nationally accredited nonprofit land trust founded in 2003 that works to protect and preserve, in perpetuity, the green spaces, farmlands, wetlands, groundwater and historical sites of Long Island’s North Shore for the enhancement of quality of life and benefit of future generations. For more information about the North Shore Land Alliance, visit www.northshorelandalliance.org. Those interested in volunteering can contact the organization’s volunteer coordinator, Kristen Homeyer, at kristen@northshorelandalliance.org.

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The North Shore Land Alliance held five much smaller, outdoor fundraising events over a 10-day period earlier this month to support the nonprofit’s land conservation efforts. This annual Wine Auction Dinner was broken into four separate events with a maximum attendance of 50 people each. The Golf & Tennis event followed 10 days later. The Wine Auction Weekend extravaganza festivities kicked off on Oct. 2 with two asado dinners that were both hosted at two different locations on Groton Farm. The 108-acre preserved estate in Old Westbury is owned by long-time Land Alliance supporters and trustees Luis and Julie Rinaldini. The smell of roasting chickens lingered in the crisp fall air as guests perused various wines and silent auction items on display. Another Land Alliance event was held at the Seawanhaka Yacht Club on Centre Island the next day, where guests enjoyed cocktails and a delicious dinner under a blanket of stars. The festivities served as a reminder that normal moments are still possible during the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 30 people attended a lovely lunch at the Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley on Oct. 4. Paula Youngs Weir, owner of Youngs Farm, gave a lecture on the history of women in conservation on Long Island as well as the Young family’s

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CloCkwise from top left: George Zaharioudakis, vice president of SNF operations of Theradynamics at Cassena Care; Skye Ostreicher, the panel’s moderator; attorney Ronald Fatoullah, founder of Ronald Fatoullah & Associates; Dr. Esther Fogel, owner and director of Comprehensive Audiology; Josiane Peluso-Tomczyk, medicare sales director for New York City and Long Island at UnitedHealthcare Government Programs; and attorney Robert Harper, partner at Farrell Fritz P.C., discussed health and wealth during the coronavirus pandemic on Oct. 14. had to adapt and, in many cases, switch services to a virtual setting, which has often been a benefit. People can now have documents like wills and Medicaid trusts signed, notarized with witnesses and approved from home. “Since March, we’ve been doing as many consultations as we can through Zoom or FaceTime, whatever someone feels comfortable with,” Fatoullah said. “As an elder law attorney, our clients range anywhere from 40s and 50s to last week, we had a client that was 107 — but we’re doing Zoom. It’s wonderful.” Harper agreed — his firm has held virtual conferences via Microsoft Teams and Skype, other video call apps that have become useful during the pandemic. “Options that one never would have thought about months ago are now readily

available in our field,” he said. “Clients are saving travel time. These are efficiencies that we didn’t have before the pandemic.” Peluso-Tomczyk noted the pandemic has also caused more people to apply and stay on Medicaid. More people are becoming unemployed and applying for Medicaid; additionally, the yearly recertification process has been delayed so people will not lose their coverage during the pandemic. Though many of these logistical aspects of health and wealth have seen improvements, those 50 and older are at higher risk of more severe illness when contracting Covid-19. Fatoullah said his longtime secretary and brother have both died from the virus. “It’s affected my firm and me personally,” he said. “It’s been tough in that respect.” Covid-19 has caused many to stay at

home more than they typically would to avoid catching the virus and becoming ill. The panel discussed the implications of that and how to combat some common health issues. Fogel spoke about how the pandemic has brought new struggles to those with hearing loss. In isolation, many rely on phone calls with friends and family to stay connected, but those with hearing loss cannot always use the telephone to communicate. Even when those with hearing loss leave the house, masks can muffle the sound of people’s voices and make it harder to hear, she said. “If you’re stuck at home and you want to communicate with friends and family, we recommend using some sort of video communication,” Fogel said. “Being able to see their face makes it easier to have a conversation. We also offer free captioning phones for our patients.” Fogel’s audiology office is offering inperson and telemedicine appointments for those who need a screening or repairs to their hearing aids. The panel also discussed fall prevention for seniors. “Falls are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries in the elderly, which can lead to avoidable hospitalizations,” Peluso-Tomczyk said. “We want to see our seniors in the best health possible.” Zaharioudakis noted that handrails, shower bars and proper lighting help prevent falls. He also said rugs should be stabilized, and layout and placement of everyday items should be checked to ensure a healthy flow of movement. Fogel said hearing plays a part in balance, which is related to fall prevention. Taking care of any hearing problems early on can help prevent future loss of cognitive function, she said. There are also exercises that can support balance, and Straw led a movement to stretch the spine to close out the event. “Enough cannot be said about the health benefits of movement,” she said. “Exercise increases the flow of chemicals called endorphins to the brain that lift our mood. Movement through the body encourages important energy strengths like circulation and the lymphatic systems to do their job in clearing out toxins in the body.” For more information about RichnerLive’s virtual events, visit richnerlive. com/virtualevents.

UBS Arena’s leadership team growing Four executives have been named to the UBS Arena’s leadership team, New York Arena Partners announced Oct. 14. Mark Shulman has joined the team as senior vice president of programming; Michael Sciortino is now senior vice president of operations; Ethan Brown is senior vice president of marketing and community relations; and Zane Parry is vice president of finance. Shulman and Sciortino have backgrounds in the sports and entertainment industry, while Brown has had previous

marketing experience with the New York Islanders and has held leadership positions with Pacer Sports & Entertainment and Unilever. Shulman has managed a variety of projects over his 25-year career, including musical festivals, major venue developments and high-profile stadium concerts. Before joining the UBS team, he established the Anschutz Entertainment Group office in New York, where he expanded the company’s footprint into multiple cities through acquisitions and

booking partnerships, and as senior vice president of the East Coast, he supervised thousands of mainstream concert bookings, while promoting several national tours and shows at MetLife Stadium, the Great Lawn in Central Park, Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. “I’m thrilled to be joining the entertainment team at UBS Arena,” Shulman said in a statement. “The music industry is poised to have an incredible resurgence, and we anticipate consumers and

fans to be yearning to experience live entertainment by the time UBS Arena is open next fall.” Sciortino, meanwhile, has worked as vice president of operations at Golden State’s Chase Center, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations. “I’m excited to be back here in New York working with this team at UBS Arena,” he said. “This is a long time coming for the New York Islanders and their fans.” –Melissa Koenig

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As cArs entered the Mill Neck Manor for the annual apple festival Chris Otto handed them a menu and explained the procedures for this year’s festival.

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the Apple FestivAl looked a little different this year but the same tasty goodies were still available. A generator was brought in to keep refrigerated goods fresh and 50 volunteers helped pick, pack and deliver all the orders. principAl oF Mill Neck School for the Deaf Dr. Julia Silvestri, above right, helped to pack the crates of apples for the orders. AFter coMpleting An order, Kelly Barbu, right, a member of the apple fest committee, delivered the goods to the customer, who waited in their car.

or those who have a long family tradition of coming to Mill Neck’s Apple Festival and for those who came for the first time, the event was a little different this year but offered the same tasty goodies. The festival, a drive through, held on Oct. 10 and 11, was popular. Participants received a menu as they drove through to choose what they would like to order. Some had preordered. Eight varieties of apples were brought in from upstate, as well as six varieties of pies, local honey, jams, New York State chesses, fudge, apple fritters, apple cider donuts and artisan breads. In addition, Karl Elmer knackwurst and bratwurst were available to purchase for home cooking. A generator was brought to the site to keep refrigerated goods fresh. Those who did not preorder proceeded to a roped off area to wait for one of the 50 volunteers to deliver what they wanted to buy. There was also an opportunity to visit the campus and enjoy the beauty of the historic grounds and the majestic manor house using a social distancing approach by staying in the car. Despite all of the obstacles during Covid-19, Mill Neck remains one of the few organizations dedicated to serving and helping people who are Deaf and hard of hearing as well as those with intellectual and developmental disabilities from birth to end of life services.

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For example, while the stay is in effect, creditors cannot sue, assert a deficiency, repossess property, or otherwise try to collect from the debtor. Creditors cannot demand repayment from the debtor by mail, phone, or otherwise. Creditors who violate the stay can be required to pay actual and punitive damages and attorney’s fees. Confirmation of a chapter 11 plan may result in a discharge of debt. A creditor who wants to have a particular debt excepted from discharge may be required to file a complaint in the bankruptcy clerk’s office within the deadline specified in this notice. (See line 11 below for more information.) To protect your rights, consult an attorney. All documents filed in the case may be inspected at the bankruptcy clerk’s office at the address listed below or through PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records at https://pacer.uscourts.gov). The staff of the bankruptcy clerk’s office cannot give legal advice. 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The bankruptcy clerk’s office must receive a complaint and any required filing fee by the following deadline. Deadline for filing the complaint: To be determined 9. Creditors with foreign address: If you are a creditor receiving notice mailed to a foreign address, you may file a motion asking the court to extend the deadlines in this notice. Consult an attorney familiar with United States bankruptcy law if you have any questions about your rights in this case. 10. Filing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case: Chapter 11 allows debtors to reorganize or liquidate according to a plan. A plan is not effective unless the court confirms it. You may receive a copy of the plan and a disclosure statement telling you about the plan, and you may have the opportunity to vote on the plan. You will receive notice of the date of the confirmation hearing, and you may object to confirmation of the plan and attend the confirmation hearing. Unless a trustee is serving, the debtor will remain in possession of the property and may continue to operate its business. 11. Discharge of debts: Confirmation of a chapter 11 plan may result in a discharge of debts, which may include all or part of your debt. See 11 U.S.C. § 1141(d). A discharge means that creditors may never try to collect the debt from the debtor except as provided in the plan. If you want to have a particular debt owed to you excepted from the discharge and § 523(c) applies to your claim, you must start a judicial proceeding by filing a complaint and paying the filing fee in the bankruptcy clerk’s office by the deadline. If you have any questions about this notice, please contact the Debtor’s Claims and Noticing Agent, Epiq Corporate Restructuring, LLC, at (888) 490-0633 (toll free from the U.S. or Canada), (503) 520-4459 (international), by email at RCDRockvilleInfo@epiqglobal.com, or visit https://dm.epiq11.com/drvc.

The Town of Oyster Bay has partnered with NuHealth to provide free flu shots to residents who are 60 or older. The town’s Free Flu Vaccination Program will take place Nov. 2 at the Town of

Oyster Bay Ice Skating Center, 1001 Stewart Ave., Bethpage. The program will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and vaccinations will be administered on a first-come, first served basis.

Legislator Josh Lafazan to host virtual meeting with District 18 residents Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan, an Independent from Woodbury, is hosting another virtual Zoom session on Oct. 28 as part of his ongoing “Java with Josh” series of meetings. The ongoing series of informal community meetings is designed to encourage constituents to

OBiTuARy Robert Lee Gong Robert Lee Gong, 79, of Glen Cove, died on Oct.16. Beloved husband of Stella; loving father of Theron (Elizabeth) and the late Adrian; dear brother of Dennis and the late Lillian; also survived by nieces and nephews. Proud U.S. Army Veteran who served during the Vietnam Era and member of the East Island Association. He enjoyed gardening and he was a fish aquarium hobbyist. Visitation and service held at DodgeThomas Funeral Home of Glen Cove. Interment Calverton National Cemetery.

share their concerns and ideas with Lafazan and his staff in a casual setting. Pre-registration is required to reserve a time slot. For more information and to RSVP, contact Rena Thomas at (516) 8804029 or rthomas@nassaucountyny.gov.

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Glen Cove AMC 6 to reopen on Friday By JENNIfER CORR jcorr@liherald.com

With an announcement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo that most movie theaters outside of Manhattan can reopen on Friday, movies will return to the big screen at Glen Cove’s AMC 6. “We are certainly happy that the movies theaters are being opened,” said Patricia Holman, the executive director of the Glen Cove Downtown Business Improvement District. “We have missed our movie theater in Glen Cove and it’s great also for our restaurants and also our downtown businesses.” According to the Nassau County Department of Information Technology, as of Oct. 19, there has been a seven-day increase of 20 positive Covid-19 cases in Glen Cove. As per orders by the governor, theaters must open at 25 percent capacity and no more than 50 people may be seated in a theater. Theaters can only open outside of Manhattan in counties that have Covid-19 positivity rates of less than 2 percent on a

14-day average and do not have any cluster zones. Theaters will be subject to rigorous state guidance and enforcement. According to a press release from AMC Theatres, mask wearing, social distancing standards, reduced auditorium capacity, a simplified concession menu, daily associate health screenings and cashless transactions are part of the plan for a safe, movie watching experience. “It has become clear that movie studios are not willing to release blockbuster product until key major markets are open,” AMC CEO Adam Aron commented. “Therefore, it is a monumental step in the right direction for our entire industry that theatres are starting to open across the state of New York. We thank Governor Cuomo and local leaders in our New York communities for allowing guests to return to AMC at several locations throughout the state. As Cuomo announced that movie theaters could reopen, he reported a statewide positive Covid-19 rate of 1.11 percent.

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ome who are opposed to Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination are blurring the line between confirming a justice to fill a vacancy and the so-called “packing” of the court. Using this nomination to justify court packing would be a huge mistake. The real underlying issues relate to checks and balances and separation of powers. These are ideas that are embedded in our constitutional system of government. They’re essential to the successful American experience in alfonSe representative govd’amaTo ernment. The continued success of this experience depends on all of us abiding by these basic principles. Without checks, balance is threatened. Without separation, power is unfettered. Our founders understood that. They deliberately divided our national government into three branches designed to balance one another against the accumulation of too much power in one place or person. That’s why we have a president, not a king; a Congress, not a politburo; and an independent judiciary, not star chambers or kangaroo courts. If we knock one leg

off this executive/legislative/judicial stool, the whole thing tips over. That’s what could happen if our leaders in Washington go down the path of tinkering too much with our carefully checked and balanced system — if they fail to maintain the deliberate separation of powers. The most recent example is talk of increasing the size of the Supreme Court. The argument goes like this: Since Republicans are pushing through a conservative Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Democrats would be justified in expanding the size of the court with liberal justices to offset its conservative tilt. This tit-for-tat approach may sound appealing to Democrats, but it could easily lead to an unraveling of the balance of power in Washington, remaking the Supreme Court into not an equal branch of government, but an appendage of executive and congressional will. Suppose Democrats sweep to power in Washington next month, winning control of both the White House and Congress, and the court is increased from nine to 11 members by this one-party government. It may more easily bend to the will of Congress and the president, but it will have lost its essential independence as a co-

equal branch. It will in essence have become an arm of the other two branches. Fast-forward a few years and imagine the presidency and Congress swinging back to Republican control. The new oneparty government decides to increase the court from 11 members to 13 to get its pet initiatives through. It passes a different health care bill and changes the abortion laws, and then guarantees their passing Constitutional muster by loading the court with sympathetic justices. Over time the Supreme Court becomes a bloated mess, with 17 or 19 justices, or whatever number is needed to uphold the policies of the contemporaneous administration and Congress. America came perilously close to this situation once before. In the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt was frustrated that the Supreme Court struck down some of his New Deal initiatives as unconstitutional. When FDR tried to pack the court with sympathetic judges, the national backlash was swift and certain. FDR wisely backed down, and judicial independence was maintained. Maybe we Americans take our form of government too much for granted. We expect it to survive another 200 years just because it’s already lasted well over 200. Yet what Congress and the president do

f Democrats win big and ‘pack’ the Supreme Court, where might that lead?

can imperil our constitutional government. Congress, in particular, should resist the temptation to change its own self-limiting rules. The current Supreme Court controversy began when then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took advantage of his Democratic majority to remove the requirement of 60 votes to confirm District Court nominees. When the Senate swung back to Republican control, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decided to remove this 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court justices as well. That’s why Coney Barrett will likely be confirmed before the election. The next step in eroding the 60-vote requirement for Senate action would be to eliminate its application not just to judicial appointments but to all other legislative actions as well. That might sound appealing to the leaders of the next Senate majority, but it could come back to haunt them, too. Majorities shift with elections, and minority rights and privileges look a lot better when you’re in the minority. As someone who lived with both the pluses and minuses of the Senate’s higher threshold for action, I know that tinkering with power is tempting. It’s also dangerous. Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com.

When real-life horrors outdo Halloween

eally, could you make up Donald Trump if he didn’t already exist? What book publisher in their right mind or movie producer hoping for a hit would create a character as unlikely as the Republicans’ very own Great Pumpkin on steroids? Imagine this: Hungry screenwriter pitches a story to movie mogul: “See, you have this superrich guy who decides to run for Randi president against kReiSS 17 other candidates seeking the GOP nomination. He has some problems, sure, some ADD maybe, some narcissistic personality disorder, some grandiosity. Yeah, I’m pretty sure there’s tape out there of him bragging about grabbing women’s genitals and getting away with it because he’s a star. History? Not his strong suit. Also, yeah, he has no experience at all in government or foreign affairs. “He did host a reality TV show. And he has experience hosting the Miss Universe pageant, which will help when

negotiating with Russia, Syria and Iraq. “He’s planning to build a wall along the border with Mexico, lower taxes on the rich, create a religious test for immigrants trying to get to America. Also, there are TV clips of him gyrating while mocking a disabled reporter, and, yes, he did insult the Gold Star parents of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq. “OK, OK, he isn’t perfect, but he is flamboyant, and a fast talker, and he knows how to gin up a crowd, even inciting anger and violence, which will make for a great plot line, maybe even ending in another American Revolution.” Would any publisher or producer want to invest in this preposterous story? And wait, there’s more. He not only wins the nomination of his party, he wins the 2016 election and becomes the 45th president, a profoundly unprepared, uncouth, blatantly racist xenophobe. Then, get this, he runs for a second term. Sorry, Halloween 2020, you’ve been hijacked by the facts on the ground. Nothing can be as horrific as real life in the midst of a global pandemic in a country abused by an inept leader.

Between the last election and this year, certain bedrock beliefs, such as the peaceful transition of power, have been challenged. Double double toil and trouble. From which caldron did he pull the idea to destabilize the country by sowing hatred and fear? Halloween, can you really do better than that? Fake Freddy Krueger fingernails and monster teeth just don’t cut it anymore. This year, thanks to the worrisome spiking of the Covid-19 virus, most children won’t have the fun of going door to door. The trick is on the innocent kids who might have been living in an entirely different environment if a competent and forthright president had taken charge early on to fight the pandemic in a smart and scientific way. Halloween tricks seem old school. Egging a car? Toilet paper in the trees? You call those tricks? They’re lame when compared with Russia hacking the election, the GOP placing fake ballot boxes around California and the leader of the free world coyly encouraging a wacko fringe group like QAnon. Now those tricks get everyone’s attention. Facebook, like other social media plat-

his year, the scariest holiday has been hijacked by facts on the ground.

forms, is under attack by foreign goblins and gremlins; cyberwarfare is terrifying. The old-time fright masks just don’t have the same ability to reach inside our lives and twist until we scream. Masks have taken on a whole other meaning in the time of Covid and the reign of Donald. As for ghosts, Halloween, I’m seeing the spirit of dictators, past and present, dancing across America. What have you got? White sheets and green makeup? Meh. Trump is actively summoning the spirit of his brother, Vladimir Putin, to name just one. He invokes his spirit every time he saws away at the pillars of our democracy: the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the Supreme Court and the Environmental Protection Agency. Clearly, the Donald trumps Halloween. He has ruined my taste for manufactured terror. I just can’t get interested in candy corn. We need to invent a special holiday for him. Let’s call it Inauguration Day, celebrate a new president and say goodbye to the sick joke that has been Donald Trump’s presidency. Maybe next year, fright wigs and skeleton costumes will be amusing again. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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onsider the number 675,000 for a moment. That’s the number of people in the United States who died during the flu pandemic of 1918-19. Could the U.S. be headed for such widespread death again? At press time, nearly 220,000 Americans had died of Covid-19, only eight months into this pandemic. The coronavirus could very well be with us for months to come, perhaps through the end of 2021. What will the death toll be in six months, 12 months, 18 months? It isn’t a stretch of the imagination to believe we could reach 400,000, 600,000 deaths or more if a safe and reliable vaccine isn’t found soon. Each death represents someone’s mother or father, brother or sister, friend or colleague. Each death is a tragedy, an extinguishment of life that was, in all too many cases, avoidable — if not for the policies of the Trump administration. From the start, President Trump downplayed the dangers of the coronavirus, even though he understood its severity as

early as February. When we should have been locking down nationally, as New Zealand did in March, we remained open for business in most parts of the country, and the virus spread from transportation hubs like New York and California across the country. There was never a complete travel ban from China early this year, as Trump has claimed — American citizens and permanent residents flew back and forth at will between China and the U.S. And Trump has eschewed masks all along, even though mask wearing would improve safety as the U.S. continues to open up. Now the Trump administration is weighing, and in many ways pursuing, its potentially most dangerous policy of all — herd immunity, the ill-advised, frankly inane notion that we can beat the coronavirus by allowing healthy young people to become infected. If enough people do so and develop immunity to the virus, the thinking goes, it will disappear. Reputable scientists tell us, however, that herd immunity requires at minimum

50 to 60 percent of the population to be infected, and that it cannot be achieved without a vaccine. But let’s suppose for a moment that we, as a nation, were to pursue a herd-immunity course through natural infection, and 60 percent of Americans — or 196 million people — were to get the coronavirus. Think about the astronomical death total that would likely result. To date, 8.17 million Americans have reportedly been infected with Covid-19. That’s 2.5 percent of the population. In widespread testing in late September, 1 in 10 Americans had Covid-19 antibodies, according to the Stanford University Medicine News Center. That is, we’re a long way from herd immunity. Pursuing herd immunity in the absence of a vaccine is a recipe for a death toll not seen in a pandemic since 1918-19. Listen to the reputable scientists: Wear a mask in public. Keep your distance. Wash your hands frequently. Work from home if you can.

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Say goodbye to ‘Lady’ on our sports pages

n late September, we at the Herald were jolted when a senior at Kennedy High School, in Bellmore, called on school officials — and the local media — to stop referring to girls’ sports teams at Kennedy as the “Lady Cougars.” The student, 17-year-old Rachel Nossen, of Merrick, wrote an op-ed essay for her school newspaper, The Cougar Crier, and it certainly caught our attention. Throughout our newspaper group, which encompasses 18 editions on the north and south shores of Nassau County, we decided to

drop the use of “Lady.” Nossen was right to argue that the term diminishes the accomplishments of female athletes. Lady is a term of a bygone era when women were expected to be prim and proper and quiet, not the accomplished and fierce competitors they have become since Title IX was enacted in 1972, prohibiting sex discrimination in the schools. According to Title IX, if there is a boys’ team at a school, there must be a girls’ team. Up until then, many, if not most, schools did not have competitive girls’ ath-

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letters Virtual City Council meetings aren’t working To the Editor: After participating in the Oct. 13 virtual City Council meeting, it is clear to me that the recent change in format to virtual meetings is not user-friendly for the public who want to speak. I believe the change is intentional so the mayor and City Council do not have to face the wrath of the public and the union for the proposed 2021 budget that includes layoffs and a tax increase. The meetings were originally live-streamed via Microsoft Teams and included a sidebar chat box, which was a much better experience, allowing seamless interaction between the public and City Council. Who made the decision to remove the public chat? Now that the mayor and council are in chambers, under the current format, one has to call in to speak, there is a delay,

letic programs. Our editorial board gathered to figure out how “Lady” came into our sportsreporting lexicon, and concluded it was simply a matter of tradition. As we have learned in recent months and years, however, we need to look critically at our traditions to ensure they are in sync with modern thinking. Use of “Lady” when referring to girls’ sports teams is clearly out of step with 2020 culture, and so we will stop using it, except when it is part of an official team name.

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here is a storm brewing, and your child’s school is in its cross hairs. It’s not a hurricane or a tornado. It’s a fiscal tsunami, and it’s going to devastate the education system on Long Island unless Albany steps up and acts. Too many of our school districts were already in dire fiscal straits due to decades of austerity before the economic experts released their forecasts of even more funding cuts. This is especially true for schools in Black and brown neighborhoods. For Lisa years, students in TYson these classrooms have lacked up-todate materials, technology and other basic resources, so it’s no wonder these districts have been the first to feel the effects of this oncoming storm. The Copiague Board of Education pink-slipped dozens of staff members just a week before students were set to return to class. And this is just the beginning. The wind is picking up. Dark clouds are forming. Things are looking grim. But don’t worry. This particular storm isn’t a force of nature that we are powerless to stop. This is a human-caused

financial calamity to which there are sensible solutions. First, however, we have to examine how our “leaders” got us into this mess. It’s not news to anyone that New York, like the rest of the nation, is in economic turmoil because officials at both the state and federal levels failed to adequately respond to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 25,000 people in our state and left millions jobless. In response to New York’s fiscal distress, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the State Legislature approved a budget earlier this year that cut $1.1 billion in state aid from schools. Long Island schools lost a total $49.4 million. But it gets worse. Here’s how Copiague Public Schools Superintendent Kathleen Bannon explained the dire situation that every district is facing: “On Aug. 20, the district received a state aid payment for the 2019-20 school year that was 20 percent less than expected. Along with that payment was a notice that all future state aid payments would also be reduced by 20 percent.” These aren’t just numbers in a spreadsheet. Your children’s education, and therefore their future, is on the chopping block. Far too many of Long Island’s bright young minds have been forced to

he state must dip into its rainy-day fund, because it’s pouring out there.

LeTTers you are on hold with other people wishing to speak, and if you are speaking, you cannot tell if you are being heard, unless you are interrupted by the moderator to let you know, which can happen multiple times. Some municipalities are starting to have in-person public meetings again, with a limited number of attendees, following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, including the Town of Oyster Bay and Village of Port Washington. Even the Nassau County Legislature’s Oct. 14 budget meeting was open to the public to attend on a firstcome, first-served basis. Why can’t Glen Cove do this? The residents deserve better than the mayor and City Council hiding behind a camera. MAuREEN PAPPACHRISTOu Glen Cove

Personnel cuts should be last resort To the Editor: I fully appreciate the dire situation the city faces from a financial perspective and

attend schools that are criminally underfunded, and these cuts will further pulverize their chances at receiving a quality education. So, will Long Island’s state legislators stand by and let this happen, or will they fight for the children of Long Island? It’s time to act to stop this fiscal tsunami in its tracks, because we shouldn’t play politics with our kids’ education. We are proposing a fourpronged approach, and the first prong can and should be done immediately: The state must dip into its rainy-day fund, because it’s pouring out there. We can’t weather a storm with an umbrella full of holes. Secondly, class is now in session, so the State Legislature should be in session, too. Cuomo has been circumventing democracy and playing games with the budget, which has caused unimaginable uncertainty and instability in school districts and municipalities. This has to stop. He needs to produce a real plan that lawmakers can work with to avoid more cuts at all costs. If he fails to do so, state legislators must immediately reconvene to stop the bleeding themselves, and they can do that by passing measures to make ultra-millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share. Albany needs to stop giving New

agree that creating a balanced budget is a challenge. Budget cuts are one of the most difficult responsibilities of the elected officials. I get it. That said, cutting personnel should be a last resort after exploring many other options. The elimination of the director of parks and recreation, Darcy Belyea, would seem to hurt more than this employee. It would also hurt the city. She has demonstrated dedication, integrity and hard work for over 25 years and served multiple generations of our residents. Please take time to review and reflect upon this decision to abolish the parks and recreation director’s position. Belyea developed and perfected programs over the years. Breaking up her responsibilities to others who are ill-prepared would take a toll on the dozens of programs and hundreds of participants who enjoy the Parks and Recreation Department’s offerings, and it would crush those who adore and admire Belyea. It is especially challenging to accept what I think is a “select elimination” of one department head as fair, given the public’s knowledge of the difficult situation inflicted upon her by several administration officials in recent years. In addition, the public is becoming increasingly

York’s wealthiest residents a free ride. The rich have profited handsomely during the epidemic, earning enough during the public health crisis alone to close the state’s budget gap. New York’s cashstrapped families can’t be the only ones forced to make sacrifices. This isn’t a partisan issue. An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support raising taxes on the rich, which lawmakers should remember when it’s their turn to cast a vote on legislation, because voters will surely remember who acted and who didn’t when Election Day comes around. Third: All options should be on the table to raise necessary revenue and avoid exacerbating this crisis with more cuts. So Cuomo also has a duty to consider short-term borrowing from the New York Federal Reserve Bank’s Municipal Liquidity Facility. And, last, we can’t let the federal government off the hook. It needs to get its act together, stop all the partisan bickering and send relief to the state and local communities. Sadly, recent events have made clear that the State Legislature can’t just sit on its hands and wait for Washington. For the sake of suffering New Yorkers, Cuomo and state lawmakers must act now. Lisa Tyson is the director of the Long Island Progressive Coalition.

Framework by Christina Daly

Seeds as art — Malverne aware and leery of the fact that multiple department heads have been replaced by less experienced and higher paid staff. During this painful and troubling coronavirus pandemic, I have asked Mayor Tim Tenke not to dash the hopes of residents. Our residents look forward to returning to a robust city full of programs and activities for people of all ages to enjoy, which have long been all man-

aged by the finest and most respected director of parks and recreation in the history of our beloved Glen Cove. I am asking our city leaders to please listen to their constituents. BARBARA PEEBLES Glen Cove

SEA CLIFF/GLEN HEAD HERALD GAZETTE — October 22, 2020

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