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MAY 6 - 12, 2021

Cheaper, cleaner water State approves $4.9M grant for Western Nassau water utility

By Peter Belfiore pbelfiore@liherald.com

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remembering a loving father Residents lined up in front of the Stop & Shop on Hempstead Turnpike in West Hempstead last Sunday for a car parade to remember the store’s manager, Valley Streamer Ray Wishropp, who was killed on April 20. More photos, Page 27.

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Two seats up for grabs in Board of Education Race

By Peter Belfiore pbelfiore@liherald.com

Editor’s note: This is the second of three parts of the Herald’s 2021 school board race coverage.

This year, two seats are being contested on District 13’s Board of Education. District 13 comprises the James A. Dever, Howell Road, Wheeler Avenue and Willow Road elementary schools.

With a student body of nearly 2,000, according to State Education Department records, it is the largest of Valley Stream’s

School board elections take place on May 18. three elementary school districts.

Qubilah Mackey-Matos is challenging incumbent Jessica Oliveri, who was elected in 2020, and is seeking her first full threeyear term on the board after

serving the remaining year of former Trustee Vinny Pandit’s term. Pandit resigned in 2019 after a controversy involving comments he made on social media.

In the other contested race, William Blair and Anthony Bonelli are challenging incumbent William Stris, who is seeking his 14th term on the board after serving as trustee for 39 years. This is the third time Bonelli has run for the board, after unsuccessful bids in 2019 and 2020 to unseat incumbents Continued on page 3

New York state officials announced early last month that $48.9 million in grant, interestfree and low-cost loan funds had been approved to help water authorities defray the costs of maintaining clean d r i n k i n g w a t e r, including a $4.9 mill i o n g r a n t e a rm a rk e d f o r t h e Water Authority of We s t e r n N a s s a u County, which covers Elmont, North Valley Stream and Floral Park.

The New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation board of directors approved the funding after a review of various water infrastructure grant proposals, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on April 8. The Western Nassau Water Authority had applied for an emerging contaminants grant to help it combat the potentially dangerous perfluorooctanoic, or PFOA, and perfluorooctanesulfonic, or PFOS, acids at one of its water treat-

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The grant is intended to pay for installation of a new granular activated carbon, or GAC, filtration system to remove the two contaminants from the water supply at the authority’s Station 44.

Installation of the filters at the facility was completed at the end of last summer, according to Water Authority Superintendent Mike Tierney.

“It’s performing well,” he said of the filtration system.

“It’s a big output well, and Elmont, Valley Stream and South Floral Park are in good shape in that regard.”

Station 44, the water authority’s largest, comprises four wells, Tierney said, and was selected first for installation of the GAC system because it services the most customers.

While Tierney was appreciative of the funding, he said it would only pay for a fraction of the overall effort to remove

he money would help reimburse the Water Authority of Western Nassau County for the installation of carbon filtration systems.

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Education: Bachelor of arts in media studies, Hunter College; master of arts in childhood education, Adelphi University; master of arts in educational leadership, Long Island University CW Post

Jennifer Oliveri

William Blair

Anthony Bonelli

William Stris

Education: Paralegal certification, Nassau Community College; bachelor of science in legal studies, St. John’s University

Education: Bachelor of arts in liberal studies, Medgar Evers College; master’s degree in public administration, Baruch College

Professional experience: Appellate paralegal

Professional experience: Youth program director, deputy director of education and workforce development, director of education and career services, youth development advisor, director of workforce development

Education: Bachelor of science in industrial engineering, New York Institute of Technology; masters of business administration, New York Institute of Technology

Education: Bachelor of science in economics and business administration, master’s degree in early childhood and elementary education

Professional experience: Computer programmer, Kidd Corporation; director of computer operations, City of New York

Professional experience: Elementary school teacher

Professional experience: Educator, New York City Public Schools

Two contested seats in District 13 race Continued from front page Mila g ros Vicente and Dr. F rank Chiachiere, respectively.

The past year has seen a major increase in conversations focusing on racial equity in the neighborhood, in which students of color are a majority, but its teaching staff remains largely white. Additionally, this past April the state announced record funding for universal pre-K. District 13 was the only district among the three in Valley Stream that announced it would seek to take advantage of the money. Coverage of the race is intended to reflect these issues among others.

The Herald conducted its interviews by email.

MackEy-Matos Vs. oliVEri Herald: The state recently announced additional funding for universal Pre-k, what are your thoughts about the importance of such a program as well as working to get it implemented or expanded in your district?

Qubilah Mackey-Matos: I am in favor of universal pre-K, which would allow all children to have access to a high-quality pre-school program, regardless of their family’s income. Research states that the inclusion of such a program could help foster higher school achievement, less retention in grade and reduce the need for special education at a later age. As an educator, I have seen in my classroom too many children come to school ill-prepared to learn. They lack language skills, social skills and motivation. Most experts agree that a preschool education is one of the most effective strategies for improving later school performance. Valley Stream’s

high schools are ranked high nationally, the inclusion of a high-quality pre-K program would further ensure that the pipeline for achievement is continuous in our district. I would work to get this program implemented and expanded in District 13.

I read that the proposed budget calls for the implementation of four classes with 80 slots. It’s a move in the right direction as young families will not only benefit monetarily but their children will have access to high-quality pre-K. This program gives families who want to place their children in a school setting the opportunity to do so.

Jennifer oliveri: I am excited about the

Pre-K program being offered by our district in the fall, and believe that Pre-K is necessary to help our children be successful in their school careers. Unfortunately, as a current board member I cannot share more information on our program but details will be released publicly shortly.

Herald: Over the past year, issues of

racial equity have come to the forefront in national and local conversations. In Valley Stream, an increasing disparity has emerged in recent years between the community’s diverse student body and its teaching staff, which has remained largely white. What are your thoughts about this disparity and what systems do you imagine could be implemented, if any to address it?

Mackey-Matos: Studies have shown that

all students benefit from having teachers from diverse backgrounds. As an educator, I have taught in largely white communities as well more diverse areas. My representation was key to the success of my students not only academically but socially and emotionally. My leadership allowed

parents as well as students to see someone different, which helped to dispel bias while allowing the children to excel as learners. There is a great disparity in the Valley Stream school districts between students of color and predominantly white teachers. Over the course of my son’s schooling from elementary to high school he had about five teachers of color here in Valley Stream 13. With that being said, we in Valley Stream need to ensure that the hiring practices are balanced for high-impact and inclusive recruitment.

We need to look for potential educators with competitive credentials and holistic skill sets that will serve the needs of our diverse student population. As for educators already in the system, we need to continue to support their efforts with professional development training around the ideas of the Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education framework and implicit bias training.

oliveri: I agree that children flourish when they see themselves in their leaders. Our district has been proactive in its approach to diversifying the staff and curriculum for many years. There are policies already in place to ensure this continues to be accomplished for years to come.

Herald: As an individual school board member, what if anything would you like to see changed in regards to school district policy and procedures?

Mackey-Matos: As an individual school board member, I would like to see more transparency and accountability between the board and the community. The board needs to understand the community’s values, wishes and challenges. As educational advocates, school board members need

to assure the community and all stakeholders that we are truly for the community by putting student’s needs first.

According to Valley Stream District 13 policy under the section Equity, Inclusivity and Diversity in Education, there is a goal to “provide students with exposure to teachers and school leaders of color which is realized to serve an important function of demonstrating from a young age to all students that people of color can and should hold positions of authority in schools, as well as in our society.” I think everyone would agree this is good policy.

However, policy with no action becomes just words on paper. The commitment to enforce this policy is where real change occurs. The actionable change I am talking about refers to hiring practices which could include outreach to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other university systems where we are actively seeking and retaining competitively credentialed teachers and administrators of color.

oliveri: Currently I think the focus should be on continuing to meet the needs of our student population to ensure that equitable access to all needs (i.e., devices, internet access, food, emotional support, school supplies) are met in light of the ever-changing environment we are faced with due to the pandemic.

Blair Vs. BonElli Vs. stris Editor’s note: Incumbent William Stris did not return responses to the Herald’s emailed questions.

Herald: The state recently announced Continued on page 12

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State approves $4.9M water cleanup grant continued from front page

Courtesy Water Authority of Western Nassau County

The granT approved for the Water Authority of Western Nassau County would partially reimburse the utility for the installation of carbon filters at its largest well facility.

2017, when New York made a commitment to provide a total of $5 billion in clean water funding.

State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, chairman of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, said he had pushed for

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the $5 billion, and lauded approval of the grant for Western Nassau.

“Residents deserve clean water, free of dangerous chemicals — and that is exactly what this $4.9 million grant will do,” he said in a statement. “I was proud

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Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) are part of a family of chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, which have been in use in the United States since the 1940s and have had a number of industrial applications. PFAS remains present in a number of everyday commercial products such as non-stick pans and stainresistant fabrics.

Most people have been exposed to PFAS, and some types can accumulate

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in the body and stay there for long periods of time. There is evidence that in high concentrations PFAS can have negative health impacts in humans, including high cholesterol and cancer.

PFAS exposure through drinking water typically occurs in areas where soil near manufacturing and industrial sites has become contaminated with the chemicals.

Source: Environmental Protection Agency

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emerging contaminants from the area’s water supply, including 1,4 dioxane, which the Environmental Protection Agency recently designated as a “likely carcinogen.”

Under state law, public water systems like the Water Authority of Western Nassau County cannot have more than 10 parts per trillion of PFOAs and PFOSs in their wells, and 1 part per billion of dioxane. The state government adopted these standards — which are some of the strictest in the country — last July.

Tierney said his utility had incurred $62 million in debt for the cost of filtration infrastructure, much of which would be passed on to ratepayers. But, he said, Western Nassau was not unique in this regard, and water customers across the Island would likely see rate increases for their respective utilities’ upgrade projects.

“This is a system wide issue,” he said.

With the first reimbursements from the $4.9 million grant expected in the coming months, Tierney said the Water Authority would be applying for additional clean water grants from the state.

The state 2021-2022 budget, passed in April, earmarks an additional $500 million in funding statewide for clean water i n f r a s t r u c t u re u p g r a d e s, C u o m o announced, bringing the state’s total financial contribution to $4 billion since

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

Photos by Scott Brinton/Herald

An arresting lesson in N.C. police work

By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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County undertakes campaign to plant 500 trees

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

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

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

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

Evergreens will be planted in the fall.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Central student’s Japanese work recognized Japanese to students who want to lear n a new language. In Japanese class, there are 4 levels which include 1, 2, 3, and AP. However, some levels are g rouped to g ether. Right now, because of Covid-19, it’s a little difficult to learn because some students are in person and some students are remote. The class is very interesting, and the Sensei is kind. Everyone tries their best to get the full experience of learning the language.”

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Central HigH SCHool AP Japanese student Nicole Tolentino wrote an article about her school in Japanese for the Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese pamphlet.

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The Valley Stream Central High School District announced that Central High School AP Japanese student Nicole Tolentino was selected to be included in a pamphlet for the Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese.

The NECTJ was established in 1992 as a nonprofit organization that supports the study of Japanese language education in the United States. NECTJ’s Spring Festival has been held at the end of March since 1994. More than 500 Japanese language learners gather at the United Nations International School and experience Japanese culture, performing arts and martial arts. This year, a digital pamphlet of the Spring Festival has been published and includes Nicole’s article about Central High School in Japanese. See her write up below in English: “I am going to introduce Valley Stream Central High School. The principal of our school is Dr. Pompilio. Dr. Pompilio cares about the students and wants them to succeed. The community of the school is very welcoming and diverse. Near the school, there are two parks. The park closest to the school is called Hendrickson Park. The park across Hendrickson Park is called Valley Stream State Park.

“There are different programs at this school such as the perfor ming arts program, culinary, cosmetology, STEM and fine arts. There are also a variety of extracurricular activities.

Some activities include a musical, drama production, dance concert, Japanese club, Culinary Arts club and a business leaders club.

“The school offers Spanish, French, Italian, American Sign Language and

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events and activities

community update Thursday, May 6

the district clerk at: mrosamilia@valleystream13.com for more information.

Meditation: the new mental therapy

Tuesday, June 1

At the Elmont Public Library, teens in grades seven through twelve will participate in a beginners guide to meditation over Zoom at 5 p.m. Register to receive information. Contact: teen services; (516) 354-5280 or email; elmontteens@elmontlibrary.org.

Village of Valley Stream’s Board of Zoning & Appeals The meeting will take place at 7:30 p.m. at Valley Stream Village Hall in the auditorium located at 123 South Central Avenue in Valley Stream. For questions contact Jennifer Piazza at (516) 592-5142 Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, May 8 High school math: part 1 At the Elmont Public Library, teens in grades seven through twelve will learn tips and tricks during this math lesson over Zoom at 12:30 to 2 p.m. Go to elmontlibrary.org and click on “events,” to sign up and receive Zoom information. Contact: (516) 354-5280.

Valley Stream Central High School District BOE Meeting

Tuesday, May 11

Wednesday, June 2

Adult baking coach: pink lemonade thumbprint cookies

Valley Stream District 30 SEPTA Meeting

At the Elmont Public Library, participants will join together viturally to watch a You Tube video and make lemonade cookies. Participants should register with their email to receive the recipe for the program, which will be posted on the library’s adult services page at www.elmontlibrary.org on May 11. Contact: adult reference; (516) 354-5280 EXT. 223.

Online Storytime At the Elmont Public Library, children of all ages will join together over Zoom for songs and storytime at 10:30 a.m.

Registration is required. Contact: children services (516) 354-5280 EXT. 207 childrenservices@elmontlibrary.org.

Wednesday, May 12 LENA Start meeting At the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, children from birth to three with a parent or caregiver will meet over Zoom with staff members from LENA Start, an outreach program provided by

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At 8 p.m., watch the school board meeting--which will be live streamed, unless otherwise stated on the district webiste. Contact the District Clerk at (516) 872-5628.

Outdoor Toddlers, Tots and Tykes At the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library children from birth to three-years-old with a parent or caregiver will meet in front of the library on Friday, May 14 at 11 to 11:45 a.m.

Adelphi University at 11 a.m. to noon.

Contact children’s librarian; Ms. Kunz at kidsroomvs@nassaulibrary.org.

Friday, May 14 Outdoor toddlers, tots and tykes At the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, children from birth to age three with a parent or caregiver will meet on the grass in front of the main adult entrance to the library at 11 to 11:45 a.m. Participants should bring a chair or blanket for sitting. Social distancing is required and masks are required for adults and children over two-years-old when leaving sitting area. Register here: https://forms.gle/geUpa11cVJVC9UKk7. Registration is required.

Contact: children’s librarian; Ms. Kunz at; kidsroomvs@nassaulibrary.org.

Wednesday, May 19 Monday, May 24 Library board meeting The Library Board of Trustees will be meeting via Zoom at 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Members of the public are welcome to attend. Send an email to hwmlcontact@ hotmail.com or leave a message on the library’s Facebook to indicate your interest in attending. The agenda and Zoom information will be sent to those interested prior to the meeting. Contact library director, Ms. Eng; (516) 8256422 or at hwmlcontact@hotmail.com.

LENA Start meeting At the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, children from birth to three with a parent or caregiver will meet over Zoom with staff members from LENA Start, an outreach program provided by Adelphi University at 11 a.m. to noon.

Ms. K’s read-aloud At the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, children in kindergarten to sixth grade will join children’s librarian; Ms. K as she reads chapters from a book selected by the children over Zoom at 4 to 4:45 p.m. Email kidsroomvs@nassaulibrary.org or message the library on Facebook to receive Zoom information. CONTACT: Children’s Librarian Ms. Kunz kidsroomvs@nassaulibrary.org.

Tuesday, May 25 Valley Stream District 13 BOE Meeting The meeting will take place at 8 p.m. live streamed on their website. Email

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m.

Additional information can be obtained by contacting Ms. Janet Carson, Clerk of the Board, at (516) 434-3600, EXT. 5222 or at questions@vs30.org.

HAViNg AN EVENT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest.

All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to pbelfiore@liherald.com

The village planned an Arbor Day celebration for Saturday, April 24 at 10 a.m.

Valley Stream’s Beautification Committee recently launched an anti-litter campaign.

The village will have it’s 59th annual pool season. Beginning on June 12th, the village pool will be open.

There will be multiple upcoming pool dance concerts at the Valley Stream Pool Complex.

On the week of May 3 to 7 the village will be collecting paper and cardboard.

It is unfortunate and a great disservice to the public when inflammatory language is printed without any opportunity for opposing viewpoint offered.

Such is the case of a recent “Hometown Hero.”

Just as actions have consequences, words matter. Defaming others is never ok and inflammatory rhetoric hurts everyone.

Claiming that code enforcement officers have been “weaponized against people of color” is a baseless, incendiary and damaging statement, not to mention patently false.

Our village code enforcement officers are professional in their pursuit of quality of life issues that affect all our residents.

They take pride in their work, which is often not easy. Nobody wants to receive a warning or worse yet, a summons, for violating the village code, but our employees do their best to d take a fair and compassionate approach to their jobs, no matter who calls them and under what circumstances. They go out of their way to help everyone, and their work is often appreciated by property owners who understand that, because of their efforts, our community continues to improve. That benefits everyone.

To suggest that any of our village workers would behave differently to a resident based on race is itself a prejudicial statement and extremely unfair to our employees, and to our administration that would never tolerate such behavior. The village mission statement reflects the expectation that all are treated with the best service we can provide. Our workforce prides itself on this mission.

Consider this: racially charged rhetoric is a weapon, and to some an all too convenient one. To make a statement that demeans dedicated public officials, who are tasked with maintaining a quality of life in Valley Stream that makes this a great, beautifully diverse and

cohesive community hurts all our residents.

I am extremely proud of Valley Stream’s entire “family” from sanitation, highway, parks, to all our inspectors out on the street, Village Hall staff, library employees and everyone whose job it is to assist the public and improve our village. Like so many who powered through the Covid pandemic to do a job, shouldn’t we all try harder to support each other, not look for ways to divide?

Another statement that cannot go unchallenged is that we do not have open and accessible elections. In Valley Stream village elections, for which the village is responsible, we have historically many more voting machines than required by law, exceeding the requirements not only of Nassau County, but New York State as well. When the state required one Spanish language interpreter, we provided two. Our Clerk’s arE Department is committed to running free and fair elections, and under the extraordinary challenges of Covid restrictions (school closures, limited number of election inspectors, etc.) we still managed to safely accommodate every voter that wanted to cast a ballot, including absentee ballots and not only in the immediate past election, but in all village elections. To imply voter suppression is damaging, divisive and completely without merit.

Last summer the New York Times recognized Valley Stream for its diversity, and houses went “flying off the shelves” according to local realtors. I am proud of the overwhelming majority of people in Valley Stream of all races and ethnicities, neighbors all, who unite to make this what Money Magazine has deemed the “Best Place to Live in New York State.” There is a good reason for that. In fact, there are about 38,000 good reasons: The overwhelmingly generous, kind and supportive population of Valley Stream, and a dedicated Village workforce who is here to serve

Guest column

By Nicole AlciNdor nalcindor@liherald.com

Starting in September 2021, the Diocese of Rockville Centre will start a new dual-language school—which will be a new pilot approach to school oversight and strategic planning in partnership with the Holy Name of Mary School. The partnership is intended to fill in gaps left by the recent closures neighboring Catholic schools.

The school will be part of a system servicing nursery-school aged students up to eighth grade and with sister schools in Deer Park and Central Islip and overseen by the Marianist Brother organization called the Morning Star Initiative.

“The Morning Star Initiative Team, the Department of Education and our schools have been hard at work to transfor m Catholic education on Long

Island,” Rockville Centre Diocese Bishop John Barres said in a statement.

The partnership with the initiative is intended to pilot a new governance model at the Holy Name of Mary School.

Under an agreement with the Rev. David Regan, pastor of the Parish of Holy Name of Mary, the Morning Star Initiative team is intended to support Holy Name of Mary Catholic School to achieve spiritual, moral, cultural and academic growth as it expands to serve a number of transfer students from closing neighboring schools.

The parish will continue to provide material support to the school and the Department of Education and Morning Star Initiative team will assist Regan and principal Pamela Sanders with planning and academic leadership with a hope of ensuring a sustainable future aligned with the four pillars of the Morning Star Initiative.

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District 13 Board of Education race continued from page 3 additional funding for universal Pre-k, what are your thoughts about the importance of such a program as well as working to get it implemented or expanded in your district?

William Blair: I am a strong believer in

the importance of universal pre-K education. Pre-K prepares children for a more structured educational environment and allows them to develop positive social interaction with their peers. Results of a study of the Boston Public Schools’ pre-K program (Yoshikawa et al, 2013) confirmed that children who attended the BPS program demonstrated substantial improved readiness for kindergarten compared to those who did not. In addition, the availability of pre-K programs in the district will provide substantial economic benefits for parents by reducing childcare cost and in some cases making it easier for mothers and single parents to return to work.

It must be noted that the district has already assigned funds in the proposed 2021-2022 budget to implement pre-K service. The availability of additional state funds creates an opportunity for the district to increase the level of services it can provide, extend to full-day programming and increase available slots.

If elected I would work the board to ensure full implementation of pre-K in the new school year.

Anthony Bonelli: Inarguably, prekindergarten is advantageous for both the student and parent. The child is given a head start in learning and social development and the parents are given a substitute for daycare. Daycare providers offer educational rich and safe environments without the use of accredited teachers. The problem is the teachers are demanding the district use accredited teachers for pre-k. The union’s demand would be very expensive and a huge tax burden to the residents.

The incumbent trustees are asking to raise your school taxes even though the state is giving School District 13 an additional $1.1 million in funding. I think it’s outrageous for the trustee I’m running against to be asking the residents to pass a budget that raises taxes during this historic Covid-19 pandemic that has killed dozens of our residents and hundreds more lost their jobs. I would work with the other trustees to find a way to provide pre-k without increasing school taxes. I have more on my website: VVST.ORG

Herald: Over the past year, issues of racial

equity have come to the forefront in national and local conversations. In Valley Stream, an increasing disparity has emerged in recent years between the community’s diverse student body and its teaching staff, which has remained largely white. What are your thoughts about this disparity and what systems do you imagine could be implemented, if any to address it?

Blair : It is important that discussions

about the lack of diversity among the teaching staff of Valley Stream 13 is not seen as an attack on teachers, but a recognition of the effects of years of systemic racism that continues to create barriers to the hiring teachers of color in Valley Stream.

Outside of parents, teachers are the most prominent role models and authority figures in our students’ lives and whether intentionally or unintentionally, the current lack of teachers of color reinforces the systemic disparities that exist in our society. Any purported efforts by the board over the last two decades to increase the hiring of teachers of color have failed, and the current system of recruitment needs to change. I believe that the board must take substantial action to increase the pool of candidates of color that go through the interview process. To this end, the board

must take steps to establish relationship with HBCUs, expand recruitment to CUNY colleges and establish relationships with academic and business organization with direct links to communities of color.

Finally, it is important that community members understand that change will be incremental and dependent on the availability of new vacancies due to resignation, retirement, and terminations over the next decade.

Bonelli: In School District 13 we have

seven trustees that do the hiring. They have been notoriously opaque in their hiring practices. It’s nonsense to suggest that there are no Asian or POC teacher applicants that would be interested and qualified in working in School District 13, or in 24 and 30 for that matter. I’m running against an incumbent who has been in office for almost 40 years. He’s been signing off on the hiring and has been defending the hiring practices that brought about the disparity in the demographic makeup between the teaching faculty and the student body. The first step in addressing this problem is to elect a candidate, like me, to be a trustee who is committed to taking proactive measures to hire candidates that will make the ethnic and racial makeup of our teaching faculty more reflective of our student body. The trustee I’m running against, Mr. Stris, also sits on the Central High School board of trustees. He voted to keep employed Superintendent Dr. Heidenreich, who threatened to cough Covid-19 on employees at his hometown gym if they did not do what he wanted them to do. I would move to fire Heidenreich. I have more on my website: VVST.ORG.

Herald: As an individual school board member, what, if anything, would you like to see changed in regard to school district policy and procedures?

Blair: The rejection of the initial 2020-2021

budget and the need for a revote on a modified budget should be a clear indication that there is a need for transparency and increased engagement with the community. Although the board publishes the budget on the website and broadcast board meeting it is clear that most people in the district are not aware of the business of the board. Concerns pertaining to budget expenditures and taxes are real. It is imperative that the school board is transparent about its decision-making process and inclusive in engaging all members of the community in its proposed policies and budgets. I believe that increased transparency and engagement will improve the chances of overwhelming support for budget approval, especially when increases are needed.

Bonelli: Policy and procedures create the environment of what is allowed and what is not allowed. I would make sure that investments made in our four elementary schools are geared to providing the best education possible. I would recognize and address the fact we have many children whose primary language is not English and therefore we need to hire more aides to assist in their learning. I would question the purchasing of the very expensive nontraditional school furniture. No school official can step forward and state that their recent and future multi-million-dollar furniture installations will result in lifting a student’s performance a whole grade or half a grade for that matter.I believe if we had more staff to directly address our children’s needs, whether it’s an emotional or social, or language-based challenge would have a greater effect on the student’s growth and acquisition of lifelong learning skills. The parents will benefit because their children’s needs are being addressed and the residents would benefit for this would enhance our school’s reputation and protect property values. I have more on my website: VVST.ORG.

V.S. pool to keep day pass system this summer

By Nicole AlciNdor nalcindor@liherald.com

The Valley Stream pool will open for its 59th annual season on June 12. Like the previous summer season, the pool will be using a day pass system for entry, as opposed to the family membership pass system used in previous years.

With the potential for limited pool capacity due to the pandemic, village officials said they decided to keep the daypass system in case they are forced to turn some visitors away. “if we can’t guarantee that all residents will have access to the pool at any time, then we shouldn’t be selling them family membership passes for every day use,” Village Recreation Director Jimmy Fitanzo said.

The decision to keep the day-pass system was met with some controversy on social media. In light of the pandemic,

however, others were OK with the decision to keep the day-pass system.

Valley Stream resident Eileen Rafferty suggested that the Recreation Department find a way to maintain capacity while allowing for family membership passes to return to the Pool Complex.

“They could easily do [family] membership and maintain a head count,” she said. “. . . One way in and out and have an employee to count those who enter at the entrance and exit, just like stores did when they reopened.”

“With emerging Covid variants and two small, unvaccinated children, I appreciate having the lower day rates because it lessens my anxiety over having to commit to a full season,” Ulla Kjarval said. “I understand why not having a pass option for families would be frustrating for some.

Families calculate what passes to invest in each summer and weigh options, and Covid-19 adds another level of stress.”

“I’m hyped about the pool for this year,” agreed resident Liz Hess. “I love the idea of resident days and the daily passes again.”

“Maybe it’s an easier way to control capacity,” Cat Chenkus speculated.

Also like last year, the pool will no longer provide lounge chairs, to minimize exposure to germs. Residents must bring their own chairs to sit at the pool complex.

Residents are advised to adhere to all of the standard coronavirus protocols, including social distancing of six feet, as well as mask wearing while moving about the complex and in the men’s and women’s locker rooms. Mask wearing while in the water is optional.

“It’s hard to tell who is actually family members, when hundreds of people are in the pool all at once, especially because we have up to 5,000 residents involved in pool activities,” Fitanzo said. “We will do our best to tell people to social distance this

season.”

Recreation workers will sanitize all surfaces before, during and after pool opening sessions each day, he said. Areas frequently touched by residents, such as counters, door handles and other surfaces, will be sprayed, wiped down and disinfected by staff members frequently.

“We want everyone to be safe, and we fully expect to go back to normal next season in 2022, with family membership passes returning as an option, and we hope in 2022 the swim team will come back, but we have to wait and see,” Fitanzo said. “Even though some residents aren’t happy with the changes that we’ve made to the pool complex, the majority of residents that I’ve talked to are OK with the changes because they understand that we’re in a pandemic. I’m looking forward to this pool season to see all the smiling kids and families splashing around and having fun.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Laura Stillwagon, Glen Cove

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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always wanted to be a nurse. My uncle was a physician, so growing up I used to go into work with him and see him taking care of all the patients. At 14-years-old I was a candy striper, later I volunteered in a local hospital feeding babies, and then I went and started as a PCA. And through that, I put myself through nursing school.

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

So, I grew in it and became a part of the Nassau County Perinatal Service Network, where we focus on the underserved communities to make sure they have easy access to prenatal care.

Covid hit our population very hard. A lot of our patients are living in multi-family

households, and Covid just ran rampant. A lot of them don’t have access to healthcare, so we really made sure we advocated for them.

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

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

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e had always known that nurses were heroes; the women and men who offered us a modicum of comfort at our darkest hours while quietly monitoring our heart rate, blood pressure and medications prescribed by our doctors. They watched over us, soothed our pain with a smile.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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5: At Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre, nurses Jeanne Colamussi and Claire Odayan, nurse manager Meghan Clark, and nurses Bincy Mathew and Jennifer Okoye celebrated their profession.

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

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

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

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

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

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TRUE In HEROES: IN THEIR OWN WORDS TheIr own words ANN MARIE DISTANISLAO

CARMEN COX Lynbrook Restorative Therapy & Nursing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The wisdom that I brought having had been

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MEGHAN EVANS

JOEMELLE KHAN

Emergency Department, Mount Sinai South Nassau

Nassau University Medical Center

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

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

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

The nursing profession has taught me a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

car accidents.

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

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

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MITCH MARAVILLA

Director of Nursing, Lynbrook Restorative Therapy & Nursing

Medical/Surgical/ Oncology Unit, Mount Sinai South Nassau

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It requires a lot of patience and dedication.

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

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

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

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overwhelming situation in my entire career.

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

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

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

LYSTRA BULLEN

Glen Cove Hospital ER/ Northwell Health

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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BARBARA SIMMS Nurse Practitioner, Mercy Hospital

Nassau University Medical Center

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

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

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

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

When Covid hit there was so much we didn’t

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Covid hit, my patient was the first

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

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

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Parade organizers and family members of Ray Wishropp gathered at West Hempstead’s Stop & Shop last Sunday for a car parade.

Car parade held to honor Ray Wishropp Dozens of cars filled more than half of the parking lot at the National Wholesale Liquidators site in West Hempstead in preparation for a heartfelt car parade last Sunday.

Residents, accompanied by the West Hempstead Fire Department, the Nassau County Police Department, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Local 338 members, among other groups, drove down Hempstead Turnpike to the Stop & Shop at Cherry Valley Avenue to remember Ray Wishropp, 49, the store’s manager who was killed on April 20.

At around 11:30 a.m., 31-year-old Gabriel DeWitt Wilson, of Hempstead, allegedly walked into the West Hempstead Stop & Shop with a .380 caliber pistol, and shot and killed him, while wounding two others. The car parade came days after Wishropp’s funeral on April 28. Wishropp was a father of seven children, including two daughters who attend Valley Stream South High School.

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several cars drove down Hempstead Turnpike to honor Wishropp, above. retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union Local 338 workers also showed their support, near left.

WishroPP’s Parents read a citation from State Sen. Todd Kaminsky’s office, far left.

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Public Notices LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM NOTICE OF SALE OF AN ESTATE IN REAL ESTATE FOR UNPAID 2019 AND 2020 VILLAGE TAXES

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the Real Property Tax Law and the Village Law of the State of New York and all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto and of a resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Valley Stream, Nassau County, New York passed at a meeting thereof held on the 15th day of March 2021, I, Michael J. Fox, Treasurer of said Village of Valley Stream, will sell at public auction in the manner provided by the law on the 11th day of May, 2021 at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, Eastern Daylight Savings Time, at the Court Room in Village Hall in said Village of Valley Stream, so much of each of the following parcels of real estate which Village Taxes remain unpaid for the year 2019 and 2020 as will be sufficient to discharge the tax, fees, interest and charges which may be due thereon respectively at the time of such sale, and shall continue the same from day to day until the said sale shall be completed.

Such real estate shall be sold subject to any unpaid assessment thereon levied by said Village and any unpaid lien purchased and held by said Village and all the liens on property involved in this Sale are sold subject to the provisions of the Federal and State Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act. The purchaser or purchasers at such tax sale will be required to pay the amount of their respective bids to the undersigned Village Treasurer within ten days after the provisions of Section 114 of the Village Law of the State of New York as amended.

The following is a list of statement of the real estate upon which taxes are unpaid for the year 2019 and 2020 combined, with a statement of the amount of tax, fees, interest and charges thereon to May 11, 2021.

Dated: Valley Stream April 21, 2021 Michael J. Fox Village Treasurer PARCEL NUMBER

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LEGAL NOTICE Incorporated Village of Valley Stream Office of the Village Clerk 123 South Central Avenue Valley Stream New York 11580 (516) 592-5105 NEW YORK STATE GOVERNOR CUOMO’S EXECUTIVE ORDER DATED MARCH 7, 2020 AND LATER AMENDMENTS THEREOF ON THE TEMPORARY SUSPENSION AND MODIFICATION OF NYS LAWS RELATING TO THE DISASTER EMERGENCY ARE UPDATED BY GOVERNOR CUOMO’S EXECUTIVE ORDER DATED AUGUST 6, 2020, PUBLIC BODIES ARE AUTHORIZED TO CONDUCT MEETINGS REMOTELY SO LONG AS THEY (1) ALLOW THE PUBLIC TO VIEW OR LISTEN TO SUCH MEETINGS, (2) RECORD THE MEETINGS AND (3) TRANSCRIBE SUCH MEETINGS WITHIN A REASONABLE TIME PERIOD. IN PERSON ATTENDANCE IS ALLOWED FOLLOWING CDC AND NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH GUIDANCE, WHICH INCLUDES ENFORCING THE 50% FACILITY CAPACITY REQUIREMENTS, SOCIAL DISTANCING, THE WEARING OF FACE MASKS AND HEIGHTENED CLEANING AND DISINFECTION PROCEDURES. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The public may attend the Public Hearing or join on ZOOM using the link provided. https://us02web.zoom.us/ j/7148140969.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to the provisions of the Village Law and the General Municipal Law of the State of New York, as amended, a Public Hearing will be held in person and on ZOOM in the Village Hall Auditorium, 123 South Central Avenue, Valley Stream, New York on Monday, the 17th day of May, 2021 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. before the Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees to consider contracting with the Valley Stream Fire Department for fire protection services for the fiscal year beginning June 1, 2021 and ending May 31, 2022.

The purpose of said contract is to: protect, against loss by fire, the property located within the limits of the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream, and within the districts with which the Village has contracted to provide fire protection services; to protect lives of the inhabitants of said Village and said fire protection districts; and to furnish all other services heretofore rendered including emergency and

ambulance services.

On the day of the Hearing, there will be a link on the Village website www.vsvny.org to download the Public Hearing calendar.

Dated: Valley Stream, New York May 6, 2021 JAMES J. HUNTER Village Clerk/Administrator 125818

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING, ANNUAL DISTRICT ELECTION, AND BUDGET VOTE OF VALLEY STREAM UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT THIRTEEN, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, STATE OF NEW YORK TO BE HELD ON MAY 18, 2021 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Board of Education of Valley Stream Union Free School District Thirteen shall hold a public hearing for the purpose of discussion of the proposed budget of expenditure of funds for the school year 2021-2022; that such public hearing will be held on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. via zoom. A link to the meeting will be provided on our website at www.valleystream13.com .

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the vote by the qualified voters of Valley Stream Union Free School District Thirteen upon the following propositions and elections will be held on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at the polling places set forth herein, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Daylight Savings Time on said day.

PROPOSITION NO. 1 DISTRICT THIRTEEN BUDGET The vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated expenditures of Valley Stream Union Free School District Thirteen for the school year 2021-2022 and authorizing the levy of taxes to meet the estimated expenditures of money during said school year will be held on May 18, 2021 as set forth herein. Copies of the proposed budget, together with the text of any resolution which will be submitted to the voters as well as copies of the estimated expenditures of Valley Stream Central High School District for the school year 2021-2022 may be obtained by any taxpayer of the School District at the Principal’s Office of each school building on each school day, during the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.,

during each of the 14 days preceding the voting day, except on Saturday, Sunday or holidays, and at such annual election.

Notice is further given that pursuant to Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law, the District is required to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report. Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how the total assessed value on the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted by the statutory authority, and show the cumulative impact of each type of exemption, the cumulative amount expected to be received as payments in lieu of taxes and the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted.

PROPOSITION NO. 2 DISTRICT THIRTEEN EXPENDITURE FROM CAPITAL RESERVE PROPOSITION PROPOSITION: Expenditure of no more than $140,000 from the Capital Reserve Fund established on May 15, 2018, to finance projects for the acquisition and installation of smartboards and classroom redesign at the District’s facilities and sites.

Shall the Board of Education of the Valley Stream Union Free School District Thirteen be authorized to expend from the Capital Reserve Fund which was established on May 15, 2018 (“Reserve Fund”) pursuant to Section 3651 of the Education Law, for the following capital improvement project of acquisition and installation of smartboards and classroom redesign at the District’s facilities and sites in the approximate amount of $140,000, and other work required in connection therewith; and to expend from the Reserve Fund therefor, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto an amount not to exceed the estimated total cost of One Hundred Forty Thousand Dollars $(140,000).

PROPOSITION NO. 3 DISTRICT THIRTEEN EXPENDITURE FROM CAPITAL RESERVE PROPOSITION PROPOSITION: Expenditure of no more than $2,300,000 from the Capital Reserve Fund established on May 15, 2018, to finance capital improvement projects including extension and renovation of classroom space at the James A. Dever Elementary School and board room and business office renovation and redesign.

Shall the Board of Education of the Valley Stream Union Free School District Thirteen be

authorized to expend from the Capital Reserve Fund which was established on May 15, 2018 (“Reserve Fund”) pursuant to Section 3651 of the Education Law, for the following capital improvement projects: extension and renovation of classroom space at the James A. Dever Elementary School and board room and business office renovation and redesign in the approximate amount of $2,300,000 and other work required in connection therewith; and to expend from the Reserve Fund therefor, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto an amount not to exceed the estimated total cost of Two Million Three Hundred Thousand Dollars $(2,300,000).

PROPOSITION NO. 4 CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET SHALL the proposed budget of expenditures of Valley Stream Central High School District, Nassau County, New York for the year 2021-2022 be approved and that the sum be raised through a levy upon the taxable property in the Valley Stream Central High School District, after first deducting the monies from state aid and other sources, as provided by law.

PROPOSITION NO. 5 CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT CAPITAL VOTER PROPOSITION SHALL the Board of Education be authorized to appropriate and expend the maximum amount of three million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($3,650,000) from fund balance for the purpose of completing capital improvements as follows: Replacement of Boilers at North Junior/Senior High School and South Junior/Senior High School, all of the above to include all labor, materials, equipment, apparatus, and incidental costs associated therewith.

ELECTION OF TRUSTEES PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that for the purpose of electing two members of the Board of Education of the Valley Stream Union Free School District Thirteen, an election will be held on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at the same times and at the same polling places as set forth herein.

The following are the vacancies to be filled on the Board of Education: a)The office of Jennifer Oliveri, a member of the Board of Education, for a three-year term commencing July 1, 2021 and expiring June 30, 2024. b).The office of William P. Stris, a member of the Board of Education, for a three-year term commencing July 1, 2021 and expiring June 30, 2024.

NOMINATION PETITIONS

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that each vacancy is a separate, specific office and a separate petition is required to nominate a candidate to each separate office.

Each petition must be directed to the Clerk of the District, must be signed by at least 25 qualified voters of the District, must state the residence of each signer, must state the name and residence of the candidate, and must describe the specific vacancy for which the candidate is nominated, including at least the length of the term of the office and the name of the last incumbent.

Petitions nominating candidates for the office of the Board of Education must be filed with the Clerk of the District between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. except that on the thirtieth (30th) day preceding the date set for election of trustees, namely Monday, April 19, 2021, nominating petitions may be filed between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

The deadline for submitting petitions is 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 19, 2021.

No person shall be nominated for more than one separate office on the Board of Education. A nomination may be rejected by the Board of Education if the candidate is ineligible for office or declares his/her unwillingness to serve.

In the event of the physical absence of the District Clerk from the District, nominating petitions are to be received and acted upon by the Acting District Clerk in the same manner as required of the District Clerk.

Voting machines will be used for the tabulation of all votes upon propositions and the election of Trustees. The meeting and the election will be conducted according to the Education Law and the rules previously adopted by the Board of Education.

REGISTRATION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT qualified voters may register to vote no later than May 11, 2021 by emailing a completed registration form to districtclerk@valleystrea m13.com or by dropping the registration form in the locked box which will be available in front of the administration building during normal business hours.

Registration forms are on our website at www.valleystream13.com.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Board of Registration of this School District shall meet on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. at the James A. Dever School, Howell Road School, Wheeler Avenue School and Willow Road School for the purpose of preparing a register of the qualified voters of this District for said annual District election, at which time any person shall be entitled to have his/her name placed upon such register provided that at such meeting of the Board of Registration, he/she is known, or proven to the satisfaction of the Board of Registration, to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at the annual District election for which such register is prepared.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the register shall include (1) all qualified voters of the District who shall personally present themselves for registration; and (2) all previously qualified voters of the District who shall have been previously registered for any annual or special District meeting or election and who shall have voted at any annual or special District meeting or election held or conducted at any time within the four calendar years (2017-2020) prior to preparation of the said register; and (3) voters permanently registered with the Board of Elections of the County of Nassau.

The register shall be filed in the office of the District Clerk at James A. Dever School, 585 N. Corona Avenue, Valley Stream, New York where it shall be open for inspection by any qualified voter between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on each of the five days prior to the day set for the election, except Sunday, and between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on Saturday, May 15, 2021; and at each polling place on election day.

ABSENTEE BALLOTS PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that applications for absentee ballots for the school district election may be applied for at the Office of the Clerk, or downloaded from our website at www.valleystream13.com under Board of Education.

A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available for inspection in the Office of the Clerk on each of the five days prior to the day of the election except

Sunday.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the Valley Stream Union Free School District 13 by requesting and returning a registration application to the District Clerk in person, or by email to districtclerk@valleystrea m13.com or fax sent to 516-825-2537.

The request for the registration application may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the registration application by either mail, fax or email. Military voter registration application forms must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 22, 2021.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are qualified voters of the Valley Stream Union Free School District 13, may request an application for a military ballot from the District Clerk and return such military ballot application to the District Clerk in person, or by email to districtclerk@valleystrea m13.com or fax sent to 516-825-2537. In order for a military voter to be issued a military ballot, a valid military ballot application must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m., on April 22, 2021. Military ballot applications received in accordance with the foregoing will be processed in the same manner as a non-military ballot application under Section 2018-a of the Education Law. The application for military ballot may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the military ballot by mail, fax, or email. A military voter’s original military ballot application and military ballot must be returned by mail or in person to the office of the District Clerk at 585 N. Corona Avenue, Valley Stream, New York 11580.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military ballots shall be canvassed if they are received by the District Clerk before the close of polls on May 18, 2021 showing a cancellation mark of the United States Postal Service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States Government; or received not later than 5:00 p.m. on May 18, 2021 and signed and dated by the

military voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is ascertained to be not later than the day before the election.

ELECTION DISTRICTS The boundaries of the four election districts are as previously adopted by the Board of Education by a resolution adopted on January 28, 1959, and which resolution is filed in the minutes of the District Clerk’s Office.

The places of voting and the general boundaries of the election districts are: Election District One The place of voting will be the Wheeler Avenue School, Wheeler Avenue and Rockaway Parkway, Valley Stream.

Said District is the area in the vicinity of the Wheeler Avenue School and the southwesterly portion of the District.

Election District Two The place of voting will be the James A. Dever School, 585 N. Corona Avenue, Valley Stream.

Said District is the area in the vicinity of the James A. Dever School and the southeasterly portion of the District.

Election District Three The place of voting will be the Howell Road School, Howell Road and Dana Avenue, Valley Stream. Said District is the area in the vicinity of the Howell Road School and the northwesterly portion of the District.

Election District Four The place of voting will be the Willow Road School, Willow Road and Catalpa Drive, Franklin Square. Said District is the area in the vicinity of the Willow Road School and the northeasterly portion of the District.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that this Board shall convene a special meeting thereof within twenty-four hours after the filing with the District Clerk of a written report of the results of the ballot for the purpose of examining and tabulating said reports of the result of the ballot and declaring the result of the ballot; that the Board hereby designates itself to be a set of poll clerks to cast and canvass ballots pursuant to Education Law 2019-a, subdivision 2b at said special meeting of the Board.

Dated: March 23, 2021

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, VALLEY STREAM UNION Valley Stream, New YorkFREE SCHOOL DISTRICT THIRTEEN, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK MaryAnn Rosamilia District Clerk 125138

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Q. The pandemic caused prices to go up, and we really need to work on our home. We know you’d tell us we need a permit, but we have to save everywhere we can. I want to know whether we can get permits just for some things we do later. We’re doing the work ourselves, and have relatives helping who do plumbing and electric to make it possible to save money.

How much are permits and, if necessary, fines?

Ask The What are the penalties for Architect the plumbing and electric work, too?

A. As I often must say, you need permits, but I also know that it’s a licensed professional’s job to provide a legal service.

As people who are not enforcers, we professionals walk a fine line, trying onte eeper to prepare what can be filed for doing work legally, with you, the property owner, the responsible party to follow the law. It’s always a concern when clients are pricing out the penalties for getting caught instead of intending to do things the prescribed way, but because government has placed a remedy for the problem that isn’t as extreme as the loss for being patient, you’re opting to follow the penalty route instead. You would rather ask for forgiveness instead of permission.

That being said, the system of getting government approvals leaves most people wondering why they ever tried to do the “right thing.” Yes, there are multitudes of requirements, and to do the project correctly requires at least five or six lengthy stages — planning, plan review, plumbing review, electrical, plumbing and building inspections, and often the need for resubmitting documents or reinspection. The system of approval is arduous enough, but then it gets even more complicated when you don’t phrase questions properly after waiting 40 minutes on your third phone attempt.

The permit fees vary from $100 for smaller projects, like decks or sheds, to a few thousand for second-story additions where the first floor is nearly gutted. In your county there are over 70 building departments, and all require plans to be given full review and inspection, whereas New York City has one department in each borough, and “self-certification” to prevent the logjam of waiting months to get a permit. With self-certification, the architect or engineer submits documents, taking responsibility instead of the building department, a system I have always questioned because it means that you, the consumer, are completely in the hands of the same person who prepared plans, kind of like the fox guarding the henhouse. The second-party independent government review is reduced in that system.

Fines are usually a few hundred dollars to $1,000 for the offense in your community, while New York City charges $1,000 per day or more for offenses, as a comparison. I see work done without permits every day, and too often see missing components, like connectors or reduced insulation, etc. That penalty is worse than a court can assess. Good luck!

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For goodness’ sake, get vaccinated

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

That’s good, but not necessarily great.

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

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

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

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

Already we have seen the overall infection rate across the state fall below 2 percent, with only the Finger Lakes and western New York seeing rates slightly above that figure.

The infection rates in the Capital

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

I am proud of the collective effort being made by the Nassau Department of Health, hospitals and community partners to get shots into the arms of residents. If we keep up our vaccination progress, we will save more lives, get our economy fully reopened sooner rather than later and enjoy a normal summer. We can do it, Nassau!

LAURA CURRAN Nassau County executive

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

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

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

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

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

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

Source: Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

Washing hands, wearing masks and staying socially distant are critical behaviors that each of us can practice, individually and in our communities, to slow the spread. In the meantime, New York is continuing to make the vaccine more accessible, and opening more pop-up sites. Spring is here, and we’re making progress, but there is a way to go before we reach the light at the end of the tunnel.

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

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

To the Editor: For almost a year, we had been told that conscienceless former police officer Derek Chauvin mercilessly kept his knee on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

Now the trial has taught us that the actual time was 9 minutes and 29 seconds — an additional 43 seconds of torture. Just think about the most painful or frightening 43 seconds of your life, and how agonizingly and excruciatingly long 43 extra seconds of that would have felt and seemed.

I suggest that to whatever prison time Chauvin is sentenced to, we add an extra 43 months, or, for greater justice, an extra 43 years.

RICHARD SIEGELMAN Plainview

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The story that haunts me all these years later

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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lessly a life can be taken in this country.

Wishropp was a Stop & Shop manager.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How would they vote on gun-control legislation then?

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

Comments about this column? SBrinton@ liherald.com.

Why are young girls mean to one another?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Incredible Lifestyle, Reasonable Taxes The new tax reduction is favorable to new construction, making this the perfect time to make your move to County Pointe Plainview. An extraordinary community of exquisite brand new homes and exceptional amenities. Townhomes, single level villas and condo suites.

Priced from the mid $700,000s*.

Call today and live the resort life all year long on Long Island.

516.341.6230 | BeechwoodHomes.com

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1427 Old Country Road, Plainview, NY 11803 | Open 7 days a week for virtual or in person appointments

*Prices, taxes and availability subject to change without notice. The complete terms are in offering plans available from the Sponsors. File No. CD16-0218, CD16-0219, CD16-0342, CD16-0343, CD16-0348 and CD17-0106. *Actual onsite photos. Equal housing opportunity.

WHEN CANCER HITS CLOSE TO HOME, THAT’S WHERE WE’LL TREAT IT. We offer state-of-the-art cancer treatment and therapeutics on the South Shore of Long Island, including an infusion center and blade-less brain surgery with the Gamma Knife. Mount Sinai South Nassau is a nationally-accredited cancer program open for screening, surgeries, and treatment procedures. Get the care you need where you need to be.

Book an appointment today at southnassau.org/cancer

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May 6, 2021 — VALLEY STREAM HERALD

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