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Olympian receives key to Hempstead

By KATE NALEPINSKI knalepinski@liherald.com

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WANTAGH NATIVE ANDREW Capobianco, who earned a silver medal in the men’s 3-meter synchronized springboard diving event at the Tokyo Olympics last month, was presented with a key to the town by Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin on Aug. 10.

Olympic diver Andrew Capobianco had the Wantagh and Seaford communities rooting for him as he earned a silver medal in the men’s 3-meter synchronized springboard event with partner Michael Hixon last month in Tokyo.

Now, the 21-year-old has acquired another special token — one that represents his home town.

More than 100 people gathered in front of Mandalay Elementary School in Wantagh — Capobianco’s alma mater — on

Aug. 10 to welcome him home.

Capobianco came with his girlfriend, Anne Fowler, his parents, Darlene and Michael, his brothers, Matt and Christian, and his grandfather John Kilkenny and his wife Pat. “It’s overwhelming to see everyone here supporting me and cheering me on through this whole journey,” Andrew told the crowd. “Whenever someone asks me where my home is, I always say Wantagh, New York. I moved when I was 13, but throughout my whole journey, this is the place where I’ve gotten the most support, CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

Jones Beach concert to honor Sept. 11’s ‘fallen soldiers’

By STEPHANIE BANAT newsroom@liherald.com

Nearly 20 years have passed since the U.S. was shaken by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

This Saturday, the New York City-based nonprofit Tunnel to Towers Foundation will host a Never Forget Concert at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the attacks.

“We have a beautiful, patriotic opening planned for the concert,” the foundation’s founder and CEO, Frank Siller, said.

“We’re going to honor our fallen soldiers in a truly reverent way . . . and remember what hap-

pened on Sept. 11, and our many great heroes including my own brother, Stephen, who paid the ultimate sacrifice that day.”

The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation was created in 2001 by Frank to honor his brother, Stephen, who was a member of the New York City Fire Department. Siller strapped some 60 pounds of gear to his back and ran two miles through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (now the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel) to the twin towers, where he died in the effort to save others.

The organization also honors the nation’s military and first responders.

The Never Forget Concert

will begin at 7 p.m., and will feature performances by a variety of renowned artists and groups, including Journey, the Chainsmokers, the Steve Miller Band, John Fogerty (of Creedence Clearwater Revival), Ann Wilson (of Heart), Lee Brice, Wyclef Jean, Gavin DeGraw, “The Voice” contestant Wé McDonald, Lee Greenwood, Flo Rida, rapper Danny Rodriguez, “American Idol” contestant Jax and guitarist G.E. Smith, who will serve as musical director. There will also be a few surprise guests, Siller said.

The tribute concert, sponsored by GMC, Home Depot Foundation and Verizon, will be

recorded and later broadcast on WAXQ/104.3 FM, select iHeart stations and on the iHeartRadio app on Sept. 11.

A crowd of some 15,000 guests is expected, Tunnel to Towers Executive Vice President Matthew Mahoney said. The foundation has donated “thousands” of concert tickets to families associated with 9/11, first responders,

police officers, firefighters, military personnel and Gold Star families, Siller said.

All proceeds will benefit the foundation, which provides mortgage-free homes to injured veterans, first responders and Gold Star families with young children, as part of its Smart Home Program. It also hosts proCONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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GIRL SCOUT EMMA Clancy of Troop 3233 in Seaford, receives an award from her troop leader Lisa Conti at the ceremony.

Future community leaders: Girl Scouts The labor of over 90 local Girl Scouts was honored by the Seaford and Wantagh Association of Girl Scouts at American Legion Post 1066 in Massapequa last Wednesday.

The ceremony honored Junior, Cadette and Ambassador Scouts in Seaford and Wantagh troops who have earned their Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards, respectively. Since the ceremony was canceled last year due to Covid-19, Scouts who completed projects in 2020 and 2021 were recognized.

Eleven girls received the Gold Award, the highest honor in the Girl Scout program. Service projects varied from addressing the hunger crisis to initiating a community reading program. The recipients included: Margaret Gates of Troop 3015, Julianne Crawford and Madeline Kollar of Troop 3038, Celeste Pozderec of Troop 3050, Courtney Blom and Julia Froese of Troop 3121, Mary McKenna of Troop 3133, Allison Davis, Rachel Nayar and Brittney Sirota of Troop 3239 and Hanna Carey of Troop 3432.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Hempstead Town Councilman Chris Carini and State Legislator Steve Rhoads also attended and shared their congratulations.

DAISY SCOUT MADISON Petoske whispered to fellow Scout Penelope Brooks, above far left, at the ceremony after completing the flower ceremony.

SENIOR GIRL SCOUTS Julia Froese and Courtney Blom, Rachel Nayar and Brittney Sirota, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and Hanna Carey above, at the ceremony in Massapequa.

JUNIOR LEADER MEGHAN Schlosser, Nicolette Pagano, far left, Skylar Pagano, Samantha Garbowski and Julia Schlosser at the ceremony.

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Community cheers hometown Olympian AIDAN, ANGELINA AND Christina Gill, of Levittown, above, helped welcome Capobianco home. Angelina wore her gymnastics uniform to the gathering.

CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE and especially when I was there in Tokyo, I definitely needed your support, and you all came through.”

Capobianco was the first seventh-grader ever to win a Nassau County diving title when he competed for Wantagh High School. He broke the county scoring record, and did so again the following year. At age 13 he moved to North Carolina with his family, and went on to attend Indiana University.

One of his Long Island coaches, George Taylor, shared his experience coaching Capobianco at the high school and with Long Island Divers. “[He’s] one of the most humble kids that I’ve ever coached,” Taylor said. “I knew just from talking to him that he had something in him. You could see it in his father also. His father wanted the absolute best for him — so did his mom, but especially Dad.” Taylor noted that Capobianco’s perseverance is part of what made him an Olympic medalist. “He always came to practice, never had a problem — he’s one of the best kids you could have ever coached,” Taylor said. “You wish you had a million of him.”

Kieran Krowl, of B K Gymnastic Center in West Babylon, commended Capobianco for his kindness. Krowl worked with Capobianco, who was then a gymnast, in 2009.

“He’s a great diver, but he’s really a great person, and that’s what it boils down to,” Krowl said. “I’m thrilled he won the silver medal, but I would’ve been just as thrilled knowing him, being able to be around him in my life … and this is where it all started. Anyone who goes to Mandalay: He walked through the same halls and sat in the same seats as you. So, dream big and work really hard, and you can do it.”

“On behalf of the 780,000 residents that live here in the Town of Hempstead, we could not be any prouder,” Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin told Capobianco at the gathering. “You are so gracious and sweet to take the time to be with us and share yourself with everybody.”

Clavin presented Capobianco with a key to the town to salute him. In a press release, Clavin said, “The key to the town signifies his link to our township during his childhood and to his family, and we hope he utilizes this key as a symbol that __________________

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he is welcome back here anytime.”

Town Councilmen Bruce Blakeman and Chris Carini, Town Clerk Kate Murray, Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll and State Legislator Steve Rhoads were also in attendance. “This is such an awesome day, and it’s great that the community was able to come out and show their support,” Rhoads said. “Andrew, you serve as an inspiration for so many of our young kids out there.”

Capobianco, who said he aims to be a good role model to young athletes, offered them some advice. “No matter what sport you choose,” he said, “make sure you’re having fun and working hard, and … you can reach your goals.”

The ceremony concluded with some questions from the crowd for Capobianco, who said he planned to train for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. In the meantime, he will return to Indiana University this fall and compete at the NCAA level.

OLYMPIC SILVER MEDALIST Andrew Capobianco, Town Clerk Kate Murray and Town Councilman Chris Carini met outside Mandalay Elementary School in Wantagh on Aug. 10.

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Curran gears up early for fall campaign

By James Bernstein jbernstein@liherald.com

Laura Curran has apparently decided not to wait until after Labor Day, the traditional beginning of fall political campaigns, to kick-start her drive for a second term as Nassau County executive.

Curran, 53, a Democrat, held a rally on a sweltering Saturday afternoon outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola, where bottled water was handed out with blue campaign signs.

The county executive announced her intention to run for re-election in May. After her 20-minute speech to about 100 supporters Saturday, Curran acknowledged that it is early to campaign.

“The election is three months off,” she said. “But it’s important for people to know where we are going. We will be persistent to build back” after the pandemic.

Curran said her fall campaign would focus on “fully funding” law enforcement, expanding access to mental health, developing multi-year plans for a balanced budget, supporting small businesses and promoting job growth.

Her opponent in the fall campaign will be Hempstead Town Councilman Bruce Blakeman, 65, a Republican who lives in Atlantic Beach. Blakeman has run for several offices before, including for a seat in Congress.

Blakeman has said his campaign will be all about taxes.

Curran, who lives in Baldwin, worked as a reporter for The New York Daily News and New York Post and as an editor at Herald Community Newspapers and was a Baldwin Board of Education member before winning a seat in the County Legislature.

In 2017, she defeated Republican Jack Martins to become the first woman to be elected Nassau County exec-

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Laura Curran spoke to about 100 supporters outside county office building on a sweltering Saturday afternoon. utive.

On Saturday, Curran was endorsed by John Durso, president of the 250,000-member Long Island Federation of Labor.

“I’m proud to lend my support to someone who is one of us,” Durso told the crowd. He said the federation’s support for candidates has not always been unanimous. “But this time,” Durso said, “it’s Laura.”

Her friend and neighbor, Naala Royale, owner of a Rockville Centre restaurant, told the crowd that Curran “lives in a normal house, walks her dog and sometimes holds press conferences on her front lawn. For us, that’s

Laura.”

In her speech, Curran outlined a series of programs on which her campaign would be based. One program includes fighting crime. She noted that she, Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and other officials recently broke ground on a new $54 million, 89,000-square-foot police academy on the Nassau Community College campus in Garden City.

She emphasized that Nassau was recently named the safest community in the United States by U.S. News and World Report. “That doesn’t happen by accident,” Curran said. It came about as the result of work by her administration, the police department and residents.

But her veto of a bill earlier this month to give first responders the right to sue under the county Human Rights Law when they face harassment disappointed police union leaders, including Nassau Police Benevolent Association President James McDermott. Curran cited a new opinion by the office of state Attorney General Letitia James questioning the constitutionality of the bill.

Under her administration, Curran said, the county had received its first positive bond rating from Wall Street in 15 years. Moody’s revised its outlook on the county to positive from stable while affirming its A2 rating, citing three straight years of improved financial results.

Curran also said the county had recently reached a critical milestone in the Bay Park Conveyance Project with the County Legislature’s unanimous approval of a design-build contract with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Western Bays Constructors Joint Venture. The $439 million Bay Park Conveyance Project is designed to restore the ecosystem and water quality in the Western Bays by conveying treated effluent from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant to the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant’s ocean outfall pipe through underground tunnels.

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High school football camps kick off Aug. 23

By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

Three months and three weeks after Massapequa, Garden City, Manhasset and Wantagh captured Nassau football championships, all 53 programs in the county will start preparing for a new season Aug. 23.

All scrimmages, two regular-season games, one round of playoffs and the Long Island championships were eliminated this past spring as the 2020 season was delayed six months. It’ll be back to the eight-game grind and eight playoff teams per conference this fall.

Conference IV, which has 13 teams, will begin the season one week before the rest of the county and all but three of its schools won’t have the benefit of a scrimmage. A handful of games, including West Hempstead at Malverne, are set for under the lights on Friday, Sept. 3. A full schedule will kick off the following weekend, with the majority of games taking place Saturday, Sept. 11.

Garden City, which has captured five straight Conference II titles, is the only defending county champion seeded No. 1 in its respective conference. Massapequa is No. 2 in Conference I behind Oceanside, Manhasset, the reigning Rutgers Cup champ, is ranked sixth in Conference III, while Wantagh is seeded second behind Plainedge. With Wantagh’s jump to III, North Shore earned the No. 1 seed in IV.

10 Games To Watch Sept. 18 Sept. 24 Oct. 2 Oct. 2 Oct. 9 Oct. 9 Oct. 23 Oct. 23 Oct. 23 Oct. 30

MacArthur at V.S. Central Plainedge at South Side Carey at Elmont Massapequa at Oceanside South Side at Wantagh Clarke at Seaford Carey at Baldwin MacArthur at Garden City Wantagh at Plainedge Calhoun at Mepham

Garden City opens against an unfamiliar opponent. Baldwin, in Conference II for the first time, visits the Trojans on Sept. 11. Massapequa travels to East Meadow, Manhasset visits Bethpage, and Wantagh hosts Valley Stream North.

Five teams switch conferences

Of the five programs taking on new conference rivals this September, more than half joined Conference II: Baldwin, Herricks and Glen Cove are seeded No. 9, 10 and 13, respectively. It’s the first time Baldwin will not play in the top conference. Wantagh is back in its longtime stomping grounds of Conference III, which includes South Side again after the

Cyclones were in Conference II last season.

Notable coaching changes

For the first time since the late 1980s, someone other than Stephen Carroll is leading Baldwin as its head coach. Frank Chimienti, former head coach at Valley Stream Central and an assistant at Freeport for the past five seasons, has taken over the helm and is thrilled about the energy displayed by the Bruins during summer workouts.

“It’s not like I’m taking over a program in need of a rebuild,” Chimienti said. “Baldwin has such a great tradition and there’s a lot of talent around.”

Making their head coaching debuts in September will be Frank Baglivo at Clarke and Kevin O’Hagan at East Meadow.

A former assistant under Rob Perpall at Seaford, Michael Corcoran returns to lead the Vikings.

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events and activities

community update Thursday, Aug. 19

explore nature themes from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. This is RSVP only. RSVP online at https://www.jonesbeachenc. org/events/storytime-aug-16. There is a $4 fee. The Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center is located at Jones Beach State Park, West End 2, 150 Bay Pkwy.

Net-zero Tour Ages 12 and up can join the Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center for a net-zero tour from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

This is RSVP only. RSVP online at jonesbeachenc.org. There is a $4 fee. The Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center is located at Jones Beach State Park, West End 2, 150 Bay Pkwy.

Tuesday, August 24 Yoga and Meditation with Amanda

Friday, August 20

Join yoga instructor Amanda’s online class from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Wantagh library and experience 40 minutes of vinyasa yoga and 20 minutes of deep, relaxing meditation. In-person reservations are required and limited 8 patrons in-person. A fee of $20 is payable by check at the time of registration. Attendees attending virtually will be emailed a Zoom link.

Sensory walks Children ages 3-6 can explore the grounds using their sense from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. This is RSVP only. RSVP online at https://www.jonesbeachenc. org/events/storytime-aug-16. There is a $4 fee. The Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center is located at Jones Beach State Park, West End 2, 150 Bay Pkwy.

Wednesday, Aug. 25

Bob Pinnola Bob Pinnola will be playing at Dang BBQ at 3864 Merrick Rd., in Seaford from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Weekly car meet The American Muscle Car Club of Long Island and the Rolling Joint food truck meet weekly from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

Enjoy some good food, cars and friends. Don’t forget to bring a chair.

For more info visit http://amccliny. com/. They meet at 3333 Sunrise Hwy., in Wantagh.

Saturday, Aug. 21 Seaford farmers’ market Head over to the Seaford farmers’ market for some fresh produce from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. The market is located on Washington Ave., at the east end of the Seaford Long Island Rail Road parking lot.

Cooper Alan Head down to Mulcahy’s Pub and Concert Hall to listen to Cooper Alan. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at

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Seaford Saturday Nights Enjoy the second Seaford Saturday Nights on August 21 from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Food trucks and games for children will line the Seaford LIRR lot. Masks are required and social distancing rules apply.

9 p.m. Tickets are available at www. muls.com. For more questions you can call 516-783-7500. Mulcahy’s is located at 3232 Railroad Ave., in Wantagh.

Tunnel to Towers The Tunnel to Towers Foundation will be having a Never Forget concert at the Northwell Health Jones Beach Theater at 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at livenation.com.

Babes supporting babes Join Lager Counseling Services for their third annual “Babes Supporting Babes” networking event. Sign up for an event focused on supporting women in business and providing networking opportunities. The event is located at Lager Counseling Services at 3408 Park Ave., Wantagh and is from 3 to 8 p.m. For more info call (516) 221 2123.

Sunday, August 22

Creature feature tour Families of all ages can join the Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center for a “creature feature” from 1:30 to 2 p.m.

Learn about their reptile species and spend time with them in person. There is a $4 fee. The Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center is located at Jones

Head down to Wantagh Park to watch a showing of Star Wars: Episode IV. Attendees should arrive at sundown.

The film start at 8 p.m.

Beach State Park, West End 2, 150 Bay Pkwy.

Popular pollinators program Families of all ages can join the Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center for its “popular pollinators” program from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Get up close and personal with local pollinators such as birds, bugs and bees. There is a entry $4 fee. The Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center is located at Jones Beach State Park, West End 2, 150 Bay Pkwy.

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Monday, August 23 Strength, flexibility and balance session Join the Wantagh library and instructor Barbara Gilmartin from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for a class with basic exercises using stretch bands. Participants will build muscles surrounding the joints while improving coordination.

Attendees should bring light hand weights. A class fee of $20 is due at time of registration. The event will take place in the community room.

Storytime With creative crafts, fun games and a story time, children from 3 to 6 can

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All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number.

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Wantagh Park is offering free drive-in movies this summer.

The next Seaford BOE meeting is August 19 at 7 p.m. at Manor Elementary School.

There will be an outdoor concert at Seaford library on August 28 with a band called The Traditions.

The Seaford Chamber of Commerce will hold its Fall Festival on Oct. 2 at 1 p.m.

Check out free museum passes from the Wantagh and Seaford libraries.

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THE NORTHWELL HEALTH at Jones Beach Theater will host the Never Forget Concert this weekend.

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grams such as the Fallen First Responder Home Program and the Gold Star Family Home Program, as well as the annual Tunnel to Towers 5K, which retraces Stephen Siller’s final steps. And his brother is walking 500 miles through six states, from Washington, D.C., to Lower Manhattan, in the Never Forget National Walk, a special commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Stephen Siller’s daughter, Genevieve Siller, 23, who lives on Staten Island, said she appreciates that music fans will honor those who lost their lives. “It is so special to have others come together to remember my father and the many others who selflessly gave up their lives for our country,” she said. “It is comforting that even after 20 years, New Yorkers will still come together to celebrate these heroes.”

Although Sept. 11 is a bittersweet day for her and her family, Genevieve said she was grateful that her father’s life and legacy have helped so many. “I truly believe my father was put on this Earth to help others,” she said, “and he has done that through both his life and death.”

Tickets, starting at $121, are available for purchase online at tickets.

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Schools gets over $5M in federal Covid aid the secondary buildings and create a “VIBE Studio” at Seaford High School, Pecora said, which will encourage stuSeaford Union Free School DIstrict dents to create podcasts to discuss their will receive roughly $5.37 million through mental health during the pandemic. two federal grants which will be used to A portion of funds will also be used to improve district infrastructure, students’ improve district infrastructure. Two scisocio-emotional health, and more, district ence labs at the high school, Rooms 204 officials announced last week. and 205, will be upgraded to benefit stuAt a school board meeting last Wednes- dents and improve ventilation and reduce d ay at S e a fo rd the risk of virus Manor Elementary transmission, PecoSchool, Superinra said. tendent Adele PecTo improve Seaora and Assistant ford Middle SchoolSuperintendent for ers social-emotioBusiness and Operanl health, the Disations Rhonda trict may use funds Meserole discussed to establish a Wellhow the district ness Center for stuwill use its funding dents. The room, from the American which uses existRescue Plan and i n g s p a c e, w i l l Coronavirus encourage students Response and to decompress and Relief Supplemenwill offer positive tal Appropriations mental health Act, two federal resources, Pecora grants created by said. Construction the government in would also improve response to the SEAFORD UNION FREE School DIstrict the layout of the Covid-19 pandemic. Superintendent Adele Pecora discussed guidance offices S e a f o r d w i l l the district’s federal funding at a school and improve ventireceive $1.131 mil- board meeting at Seaford Manor lation. lion from the ARP Elementary School last Wednesday.

“This would be Act. The district a tremendous asset must spend a porto the middle tion of these monies on afterschool of school,” Pecora said. extended day activities, summer enrichBefore renovations can take place, the ment and learning loss, to meet federal district must hold a public vote, as the two criteria, Meserole said. construction projects are considered “capThe district’s ARP grant proposal ital projects,” Meserole said. A vote is includes: two new fifth grade teachers at expected to take place in the fall, though a the Manor and Harbor Schools; two new date has not yet been set. psychologists at the elementary and secBoth grants will also help to impleondary level; new music instruments, ment the socio-emotional “RULER Proband uniforms, science, art/technology gram” districtwide. Psychologist Marc and athletic equipment for students; and Brackett, who created the system which the summer experience program. helps children to better process their emoThe district will get an additional $2.03 tions, will train Seaford teachers on Aug. mil from CRRSAA. Funds in this category 31. will establish two Academic Support “We’re going to spend a lot of resourcFacilitators, who will work with strug- es making sure this is implemented gling general education students, and pur- because not only will it support the stuchase new math and reading programs. dents, but it will support everyone that When the time comes, funding will attends our schools on a regular basis,” also be used to create flexible furniture at Pecora said.

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THE DRAFTED LAYOUT of Seaford Middle School’s proposed “Wellness Center”, which would offer social and emotional resources to students. Construction of the project would need to be approved by a public vote.

Both sets of funding will be used over several fiscal years, Dr. Pecora said: the ARP by 2024 and the CRRSA by Sept. 2023.

“I’m so pleased with how the federal

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The 24th annual Back to School drive hosted by the John Theissen Children’s Foundation in Wanta gh star ted last week and will run through Sunday, September 12.

Every year with community support, the foundation collects and distributes new school supplies and backpacks for u n d e r p r iv i l e g e d children across Long Island in grades kindergarten–12. The organization works with social workers and caseworkers from Courtesy John Theissen school districts and THEISSEN WILL CONTINUE to collect backpacks and school agencies across Nas- supplies for needy children across Long Island. sau and Suf folk Counties to identify workers and families are always so blown families and children in need. away by how much is donated, she said.

Each child in need receives a backpack Sherwood first got involved in Christfull of supplies, and a $100 gift card to pur- mas in 2001 when her godson, Matthew, chase a new outfit for the first day of wanted to help donate toys. Matthew, who school, John Theissen, of Wantagh, said. died from a brain tumor the following The organization is currently accept- spring, bonded with Theissen. ing new backpacks, spiral and marble “I’ve seen so many kids grow up,” she notebooks, loose-leaf paper, binders, cray- said. “They’re always so happy to see me ons, markers, colored pencils, pencils and and receive their supplies. I love seeing pencil cases, ballpoint pens, rulers, glue their faces.” sticks and scissors. Monetary donations “For the past five years, with the excepare welcome as well. tion of Covid-19, my girls have gone every “This year is harder than ever,” Theis- year to help out,” Carolyn Rochel, leader sen said. “School is coming back after the of Girl Scout Troop 3364 from Wantagh/ pandemic and kids’ parents lost their jobs Seaford, said. “It’s the highlight of the and it’s going to be a difficult year.” troop and they were so disappointed when The drive originally started with just they couldn’t help out last year.” backpacks and supplies, but after finding Theissen has helped Rochel’s family out that some children were missing the personally. One of Rochel’s daughters, first days of school because they were Kaitlyn, battled Leukemia when she was embarrassed for not having new clothes, younger. She said Theissen planned birthTheissen decided to add clothes to the day parties for her daughter and set up drive too. camps for her when she couldn’t go.

“After hearing the stories from par“It’s our way of helping him now,” ents, I knew we had to help out,” he said. Rochel said. “My daughters adore him.

“It makes children feel bad when they He’s from Wantagh and we’re from Wantdon’t have all the supplies or new clothes agh and he’s great.” for school.”

The John Theissen Children’s FoundaSocial workers, agencies and homeless tion was founded over 25 years ago after shelters send a list of the number of chil- Theissen beat a brain tumor. Since then, dren in need to the foundation. Every- the nonprofit has helped sick and underthing has to go through social workers or privileged children. agencies to make sure that only people The Back to School Program is just one that need are getting backpacks, ____ said. part of the organization’s efforts. Other Volunteers help prepare backpacks for programs include the “Smiles and Miles” children as supplies are collected. After transportation program, which brings the drive ends and the beginning of sick children back and forth to treatment school nears, social workers and families and other places; a family fun center come and pick up their backpacks at the where sick children and their families Family Fun Center in Wantagh. can go and play, and more.

“This drive is so beneficial to children “He puts a smile on everybody’s face,” in need,” Gail Sherwood, a volunteer who Sherwood said. “Everybody loves John.”

Donations can be sent to John Theishas been helping Theissen since 2002 said.. “No child should feel like they’re sen Children’s Foundation at 1881 Wantless just because they don’t have the agh Ave., Wantagh, NY or made online at money to get new things.” The social https://www.jtcf.org/make-a-donation.

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GENERAL FUND Fund Balance July 1, 2020 Nonspendable Restricted Assigned Unassigned Appropriated Total Fund Balance ADD: Revenues and Interfund Transfers: Real Property Taxes, Interest and STAR Other Local Revenues Revenue from State and Federal Sources Interfund Transfers Total Revenues LESS: Expenditures and Interfund Transfers: General Support Instruction Pupil Transportation Community Services Employee Benefits Debt Service + Interest Interfund Transfers Total Expenditures Fund Balance June 30, 2021 Nonspendable Restricted Assigned Unassigned Appropriated Total Fund Balance SCHOOL LUNCH FUND Fund Balance July 1, 2020 ADD: Revenue from Sales All Other Revenues Total Revenues LESS: Management Company Direct Expenses All Other Expenses Total Expenditures Fund Balance June 30, 2021 Nonspendable Assigned Total Fund Balance

16,540,848 $286,457 2,903,584 650,000

56,094,010 2,291,195 13,139,079 70,848

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DIRTY TACO IN Wantagh as of July 2019. The eatery opened in 2018.

Mexican staple expands to Suffolk County this fall

By STEPHANIE BANAT newsroom@liherald.com

One of Nassau County’s go-to restaurants for Mexican grub and drinks, Dirty Taco and Tequila, will open a new location in Suffolk County this fall.

With locations in Wantagh, Rockville Centre and Woodbury, Dirty Taco staff are excited to bring the essence of the eatery to Patchogue, owner Thomas Cataldo Jr. said. The new location is expected to open in November. He said he met with local elected officials, who welcomed Dirty Taco to the area. “[Patchogue] is a safe, fun, family-oriented community and that’s what we are all about,” Cataldo Jr. said. “Their culture fits with ours. It couldn’t be a better match.”

Cataldo Jr. opened the first Dirty Taco eatery in Wantagh in June 2018 after an inspiring time spent in Los Angeles, Calif. He said he wouldn’t have been able to open the Wantagh location without the support of his family.

“We’ve had a massive line every day since we opened,” he noted.

Dirty Taco brings a twist on classic Mexican cuisine by incorporating Asian elements into the menu. Some wellknown dishes at the Asian fusion staple include: Vietnamese shrimp with Thai peanut sauce and crushed peanuts, Kung Pao chicken tacos and Thai salmon.

The menu at each Dirty Taco location is identical and will remain the same at

the new location. The only major difference between the stores, Cataldo Jr. explained, is the aesthetic design of each – all of which combine Day of the Dead-inspired art and imagery of samurais, women wearing kimonos and lotus flowers.

Wantagh store manager, Dave Bharat, a long-time friend of the Cataldo family, said that he’s looking forward to watching the Dirty Taco brand expand further east on Long Island.

“I think Patchogue will hit it off real big,” Bharat said. “It’s going to keep up the same … great food, customer service, and excellent drinks.”

Full-time server Stephanie Twiford, who has worked at all three current Dirty Taco locations, said she’s eager to work in Patchogue and thinks the eatery will fit right in.

“The Patchogue shop is going to be a huge success. The restaurant scene is already huge in Patchogue and Dirty Taco will make it more huge,” Twiford said. “There’s a healthy balance of daytime restaurants and nightlife there and our cuisine will fit right in with that.”

Cataldo Jr. said he aims to open the Patchogue spot in November and kickoff with a grand opening party. He predicted that Dirty Taco will become a go-to spot within the area.

“It’s going to be a massive hit. It’s going to be the top spot of Patchogue,” Cataldo Jr. said. “Your favorite taco family is coming to town … and we’re ready to have fun.”

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A. Living near a onte eeper shoreline, with dynamic high- and low-tide water movement, means taking greater precautions to make construction last longer and perform better. First, there’s the base, way below the floor slab, which must allow water to run through it to avoid collapse. The base is made of compacted stones that allow water to flow between so they don’t form an obstruction, working kind of like a filter.

I generally design such a base with landscape filter cloth beneath it, to keep individual stones from sinking when the natural underground current of tide water rises and withdraws, pulling the ground material with it as it flows in and out. I rarely, if ever, see this done, and can assure you that if I’m not standing over the work when it’s being carried out, workers will ignore this “crazy” design, hence a reason for failure.

Everyone is an expert, as I am sure you’ve come to know, but ignoring ground and soil dynamics makes it a gamble as to what you’re going to get. It isn’t reassuring when someone says they do this all the time, especially if they can’t give technical reasons for what they do. Floor slabs, just like beams, should be designed for the concentration of the loads they will carry, not just general practice, especially because the steel reinforcing is part of the formula. If the concrete or the reinforcing is undersized for the load, it will, in correct terminology, yield, or give way, not necessarily completely fail.

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We did it to get rid of the old floor, which was cracked and had sunk. Our mason told us he does this all the time, but it just seems like the floor is too thin and could break.

Is there any way to know if it’s strong enough? It’s 4 inches thick, very flat and they put wires in, not thick Ask The rods, that crisscross in a grid.

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n the early morning of April 28, I tiptoed into my dew-coated backyard in Merrick to watch as an orange sun slowly migrated upward, sending its rays streaming through the hundreds of flower-covered branches on the three cherry and two apple trees that my wife and I planted nearly 20 years ago when we first moved in.

It is a glorious moment that I await each year, when I can stand and breathe in the sheer beauty of those life-sustaining flowers, all white and pink.

Each is such a tiny, SCOTT seemingly insignificant thing. CollecBRINTON tively, however, these flowers constitute a powerful force.

This is the natural world reborn in what was once a virtually lifeless suburban backyard. When my wife and I moved in, our yard was all lawn except for a handful of hydrangea, holly and Japanese yew bushes, two scrawny dogwood trees and one ornamental cherry around the edges.

In the early years in our home, we ripped out about half of the lawn to make way for many more trees, bushes and flowers, a number of them native species. We wanted to recreate, in a sense, the back-

yards that we knew as children. I grew up in rural Yaphank, in Suffolk County, surrounded by a dense forest of white pine and oak trees. My wife was raised in Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, but spent many days in her family’s village of Rajdavitsa, amid cherry orchards full of wildflowers.

We wanted trees through which squirrels and birds could scurry and construct their nests. We wanted a natural habitat.

Two decades later, I’m proud to say that we have one. The cherries that we planted are more than 20 feet tall, and the apples, over 30 feet. All were purchased as one-foot bare-root saplings for a couple dollars each from the Arbor Day Foundation. We also planted four arborvitae, three maples, two white pines, two dwarf Alberta spruces, a Japanese maple, many more hydrangeas and hollies, boxwoods, barberries, red osier dogwoods, butterfly, raspberry and blackberry bushes, forsythias, fountain and maiden grasses, euonymuses, lilies, lilacs, hostas, black-eyed Susans, peonies and purple cone flowers, among others.

Where once there was no wildlife, now we have bees and butterflies and birds — red cardinals, blue jays, European starlings, grackles, house sparrows, Baltimore orioles and my wife’s favorite, mockingbirds. We’ve even had birds build nests in

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our trees, including a robin and a mourning dove. I love that. There are also squirrels, which eat our apples and, occasionally, our tomatoes, as well as raccoons and opossums here and there.

This year we certified our yard as a Wildlife Habitat with the National Wildlife Federation. We started the simple process by answering a few quick questions: Does your yard provide shelter and food for wildlife? Is there a water source from which wildlife can drink? Are you committed to natural yard maintenance, without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers?

Then you pay a fee — certification is a fundraiser for this nonprofit environmental organization.

Finally, NWF sends you a beautiful green metal sign, which we staked in our front yard’s center bed for all our neighbors to see as they’re out walking their dogs or jogging by.

The sign sends a message that our yard is a safe place for wildlife.

Between 1982 and 2001, 34 million acres of open space, an area the size of Illinois, were lost to development — roughly four acres per minute, or 6,000 acres a day. More than 10 million of those acres were covered over to make way for houses, buildings, lawns and pavement between 1982 and 1997, according to the U.S. Forest Ser-

here once there was no wildlife, we now have all that we hoped for.

vice, which projects that America will lose another 26 million acres to development by 2030.

Each of us has a choice: We can leave our yards as lawn and pavement, or start planting to restore at least some of what has been lost. Collectively, we could reshape suburbia from a traditionally wildlife-averse landscape to a habitat that welcomes wild creatures of all shapes and sizes.

The family from which we purchased our home were the original owners of the house, which was constructed shortly after World War II. It was among the first homes built in the area. The couple, in their early 80s when we bought it from them, spoke of a time when farmland stretched from the block just north of us to Merrick Road.

That plot is now a shopping center. South of our home was covered by wetlands — what people in the mid-20th century thought of as swamp. It’s now all homes, the wetlands filled in to construct row upon row of split-level ranches, many double or triple their original size.

We cannot undo the past. We can, however, commit to a more sustainable future.

To learn more about how you can certify your yard with the National Wildlife Federation, go to nwf.org.

Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.

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Now, as the Delta variant spreads, shutting down buffet venues across the country, many folks are missing the opportunity for unrestrained gorging, which is a kind of sport coast to coast.

This is a small grievance, to be sure, considering the misery that Covid has wrought, but it’s one of the pandemic lifestyle changes that bite.

Like not being able to see your doctor in person or having RANDI to move your book KREISS group online or canceling your plans to see friends or family. With Covid unbound, we have to carefully consider whether to dine out, unless it is a well-spaced outdoor setting.

Dozens of buffet restaurants have gone belly up, and the rest are struggling to create safer dining opportunities. Not that buffets have ever been the healthy go-to choice for a meal. The basic idea is that you can abandon any reasonable eating habits you may have acquired and just shovel in as much food as you want to with-

out anyone saying “enough.” In fact, some folks have taken to competing at a few of the big buffet emporia to see if they can get kicked out for eating too much. No such thing. You. Cannot. Eat. Too. Much.

No one wants to be reminded that there has always been a direct path from the buffet line to the IV line in the E.R. We Americans want our super-sized meals, damn the glucose and cholesterol readings. If you dine out at a traditional restaurant, it gets awkward to order three desserts, but a buffet makes it not only possible but easy.

Now, with Covid, buffet restaurants are struggling to survive, except in the South, where Texas, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee vie for the best attendance award. There is guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Avoid offering any self-serve food or drink options, such as buffets, salad bars and drink stations. This limits the use of shared serving utensils, handles, buttons or touch screens and helps customers to stay seated and at least 6 feet apart from people who do not live in their household.”

Right.

In Florida, where masks are a sign of weak-minded liberalism, many buffets are

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still in business. Oh sure, there may be a server behind the dessert bar, helping you to the pie, but you’re jammed in with a million other unmasked people.

Historically, Las Vegas has always offered the biggest, cheapest buffets. If you were willing to leave your life savings at the roulette table, the hotel was willing to feed you into a coma. The Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace was the ultimate food experience for thousands of tourists. According to a review, it served more than 3,000 people a day across nine stations, featuring hundreds of items including nigiri sushi, dim sum, rotisserie chicken, 12-hour roasted American wagyu, paella, lobster bisque, snow crab legs, chicken and waffles, gnocchi, pizza, deviled eggs, pho, miso soup, Penang curry, cheeseburger sliders, soba noodles, poke, foie gras PB&J, oysters on the half-shell, shrimp and grits, pozole, tofu, General Tso’s chicken, avocado toast, peppercorn-crusted prime rib and more.

According to its website, Caesar’s has reopened its buffet after making renovations and (one would hope) installing safety measures to avoid serving up a superspreader for dessert.

n Florida, masks are a sign of weak-minded liberalism, and buffets survive.

I don’t want to come off as a buffet snob.

I’ve put in my time at the bacon station at many breakfast buffets. On the road, a cheap hotel buffet was an acceptable choice. You could always find something to eat.

Here on Long Island, private tennis, golf and social clubs drew new members to their opulent buffets. I loved being a guest at these places, which offered delicious food and the all-you-can-eat ethos, although with more savoir faire than a Golden Corral.

Buffets have been so abundant and ubiquitous that people learned to brainstorm the most effective methods of getting the best choices of expensive cuts of meat and seafood without wasting stomach space on the dinner rolls. My own son-inlaw nailed down the tactical approach to buffets years ago: Eat protein first. Don’t bulk up on salad. Go to the lobster and the shrimp and hold off on the carbs. No one ever made any profit on his buffet dinners.

Now most buffets are the stuff of nostalgia. My most memorable one was a lunch for President Ronald Reagan when he and Nancy visited Temple Ohr Torah in North Woodmere. The centerpiece was a bust of the president, done in chopped liver.

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

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o the climate deniers, we say this: Wake up.

July was the hottest in the past 142 years, since humans started recording climate data, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. July had previously been the hottest month ever recorded in 2016, 2019 and 2020.

What we are seeing now is climate change play out in real time, as predicted by scientists dating back to the 1960s and the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. As a nation, we have largely ignored the crisis, pretending it wasn’t happening, hoping the scientists had got this one wrong. They didn’t. We can see that now.

We can see it in the massive wildfires that have consumed swaths of the American West and southern Europe. California and Colorado may be on fire, but so are Italy and Greece.

No fewer than nine wildfires are now ravaging California. Exacerbated by extreme drought, the Dixie Fire has burned since July 13 and scorched more than half a million acres in Plumas and Butte counties. Need we say more?

The climate crisis is particularly worrisome for Long Islanders. We, after all, live on an island surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Long Island Sound, which are predicted to rise because ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica are melting into the seas, causing water levels to rise, inch by inch, foot by foot, over decades.

The 195-member United Nations International Panel on Climate Change recently released its sixth Assessment Report, offering the consensus findings and opinions of thousands of the world’s leading climatologists. The warnings are dire.

When the IPCC began its work 33 years ago, it built some small level of doubt into its reports that maybe, just maybe, humans weren’t the cause of the Earth’s rapidly rising temperatures. Not anymore. In its most recent report, issued only weeks ago, the IPCC stated, “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” As a result, the report continues, “Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.”

Climate change works like this: We humans burn fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — to generate electricity and heat our homes and businesses. We also burn gasoline — which is made from oil — to power our cars, buses and trucks.

That produces lots of carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change, which traps infrared heat that is radiated into

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space from the Earth’s surface, warming the entirety of the planet.

On average, human activities send 40 billion tons — tons — of carbon into the atmosphere each year. And here’s the thing: Despite our growing knowledge and awareness of the climate crisis, that volume of carbon continues to increase.

Between 2014 and 2016, amid negotiations over the Paris Climate Agreement, carbon emissions leveled off, giving us some hope that perhaps we might be headed in the right direction. But those emissions started to rise again in 2017, the year President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, and they continued to increase in 2018 and 2019, before falling last year during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when everyone stayed home, according to The World Counts, a website that

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tracks carbon emissions.

That we could, in fact, reduce our emissions dramatically during the pandemic should be cause for hope — not celebration, but hope. We are capable of limiting, even reducing our carbon output. We can seek and find alternatives to the old ways if we resolve to do so.

The continued warming of the Earth through the middle of the century is all but inevitable, according to the IPCC report. Ensuring that climate change does not continue past that point is, however, possible.

“Strong and sustained reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases would limit climate change,” the report states. Now, not later, is the time to commit to those reductions.

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he Smithtown School District will restrict the use of 34 BrainPop instructional videos in classrooms because they introduce topics like Black Lives Matter and human sexuality.

The restriction is in response to a couple who complained at the district’s July Board of Education meeting that the videos were biased against conservatives and “no more than a call for revolution, for our young people to protest,” according to Newsday.

A BrainPop spokesperson responded via ALAN email that “we created the video on SINGER the Black Lives Matter protests to provide parents and educators a resource for explaining the protests and movement in kid-friendly terms. The video, which features a cartoon robot named Moby, “doesn’t call for or encourage a revolution.”

BrainPop videos discuss over a thousand topics in math, science, social studies and English. They are used in almost three-quarters of U.S. school districts. Not coincidently, there were also complaints about BrainPop at a July school board

meeting in the Three Village School District. A speaker charged that the videos had “BLM all over it, along with Pride and videos that say if you’re white, you’re basically an oppressor.”

You can watch the nine-minute offending BrainPop Black Lives Matter video on You Tube.

In the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump carried every election district in Smithtown, some by over 30 percentage points, earning Smithtown the nickname Trumptown, New York. Smithtown also returned Lee Zeldin to Congress. Zeldin, one of the most conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives, voted against establishing a commission to investigate what happened in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, supported Trump’s claims that the election was somehow stolen from him and asked the Supreme Court to overturn the result.

In May, Smithtown voters elected three conservative candidates affiliated with the pro-Trump group Long Island Loud Majority to the Board of Education.

While it’s unclear whether the group represents a majority of Long Islanders, it is definitely loud when disrupting school board meetings, at which members often

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he campaign in Smithtown against diversity efforts first drew attention in January.

LETTERS People have a right to choose To the Editor: Re Jerry Kremer’s column “The political losers are killing your neighbors” (Aug. 5-11): I am amazed, and want to know what planet Kremer comes from.

First it was Trump derangement syndrome, and now it’s Republican derangement syndrome. He says the so-called health haters should be treated the same way as people who were arrested on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6.

Kremer speaks of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who flipped-flopped from day one, saying you have nothing to fear from Covid-19, starting with no masks. Then it was masks. Then it was two masks.

Kremer mentioned conservative Fox host Tucker Carlson, who rails against vaccines. Last time I looked, we had freedom of speech in this country, but apparently, only if you agree with the left, according to Kremer.

Then there’s Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom Kremer tries to smear because he did an amazing job during the coronavirus pandemic while other governors fiddled. Notice that Kremer never mentions California, New Jersey and New York, all states controlled by Democratic administrations, which were disaster areas during the pandemic.

attack staff and student speakers. They have also been accused of propagating anti-Semitic tropes. During the school board campaign, the group circulated a newsletter attempting to connect opposition school board candidates with George Soros, a progressive and a Jew who has been targeted by anti-Semitic forces in Europe.

The Smithtown campaign against Black Lives Matter and diversity efforts first drew public attention in January, when parents complained about the speaker at the district’s Family Literacy Night. Broadway actress Diamond Essence White read a children’s book called “Not Quite Snow White.” White, who is Black, is an outspoken supporter of Black Lives Matter. Smithtown Superintendent Mark Secaur apologized to protesting parents for the invitation to a “polarizing” personality.

After the Long Island Loud Majoritybacked candidates were elected to the school board, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction and administration, who had guided its diversity and equity efforts as a member of the district’s Equity Team, resigned. She had been criticized by parents and LILM,

which argued that diversity and equity were really subterfuge to promote critical race theory.

The push to take over local school boards is part of a long-term strategy of the conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council to reshape American education and society by taking control of local governing bodies. Opposition to critical race theory has replaced opposition to the 1619 Project as the main mobilizing point for conservatives across the country.

In response to the assault on CRT and the 1619 Project, the Zinn Education Project is organizing teachers to pledge to “teach the truth” and participate in Days of Action. It also provides sample lessons.

In Smithtown and other Trump-supporting communities across the U.S., however, school boards and frightened administrators apparently don’t want teachers to “teach the truth.”

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

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Governor Cuomo sent elderly patients to their deaths by executive order, placing them in nursing homes while a hospital ship stood empty and the Javits Center was vacant of patients. Nor is there mention of former President Barack Obama’s 60th birthday bash, a super-spreader event in the making, as the liberals would say. Democratic politicians and supporters flew in on private planes, causing a huge carbon footprint, but people like me are the problem.

So, yes, politicians are killing your neighbors by trying to suppress people’s right to choose and make their own decisions about themselves and their families.

MICHAEL APPICE Westbury

Pulling out is a mistake To the Editor: I voted for Biden with enthusiasm, but in May wrote to the Herald opposing his decision to withdraw the last remaining 2,700 American military from Afghanistan — citing the setback it would be for women and girls there. Remember that it is now 20 years without major Taliban presence. A whole new generation of Afghans has evolved, with the internet creating a more democratic environment through social communication. Afghani-

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stan has changed and policy should have changed too.

Our American presence there is not for nation-building, but the Afghans have been building their own nation. They just needed what we had made available and now have pulled out from under them.

For the decades since the end of World

War II, we have left tens of thousands of our military personnel in Germany and Japan. We could afford to leave 2,700 for another unspecified number of years.

BOB PRAVER Glen Cove

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