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69 municipalities and town Although some started out boards voted for them, and Valwith high expectations of join- ley Stream was not one of them. ing what seemed on paper to be a Continued on page 13

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Chris KarmaCharya, 2, was struck by an alleged inattentive driver on May 28 outside his Melrose Street home.

Toddler struck by alleged distracted driver, police say

By JUaN lasso jlasso@liherald.com

Roads have always been dangerous places for anyone not in a vehicle — and the coronavirus pandemic hasn’t improved them at all, even as fewer drivers got behind the wheel.

The problem, in many cases, has been distracted drivers — often on their cellphones while navigating with two tons of metal surrounding them. One careless

maneuver could instantly mean the difference between life and death for anyone who crosses their path.

That hit home late last month when, police say, a 62-year-old Brooklyn woman wasn’t paying attention while driving her 2016 Nissan SUV down Melrose Street, and struck and severely injured 2-year-old Chris Karmacharya.

The investigation into the incident continues, although police don’t expect criminal

charges.

But that day was simply a mellow Saturday afternoon on this narrow stretch of road. Chris had begged his mother, Sarita, to play outside while his older brother, James, shot some hoops in the front of their house. Sarita said she agreed, so long as Chris’s 14-year-old brother kept a close eye.

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PSEG asks for caution while using balloons How you can “fly” safely ■ Never try to remove anything caught in power lines ■ Never fly kites or balloons in the rain or during electrical storms ■ Never cross a road or street while flying a kite or holding a balloon ■ Kites, Mylar balloons and drones should be kept away from overhead power lines and all utility equipment ■ Make sure balloons are secured to a weight that is heavy enough to prevent them from floating away

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cause a string of problems. attempt to retrieve a balloon, toy or anything caught in an overhead power line.

Report it by contacting PSEG Long Island at 800-490-0075 so a specially trained crew can safely address the issue.

–Karina Kovac

■ Always properly dispose of Mylar balloons safely by puncturing the balloon in several places to release the helium ■ Drones should be kept at least 150 feet from power lines, substations, etc., so you have time to maneuver the aircraft away from electrical equipment

Re-play for adults Young kids play so naturally. They jump, run, skip, dance, sing, leap, roughhouse, and roll around. They delight in rhythm and enjoy being silly.

They don’t worry about being in control. They just want to be.

Adults, in contrast, want to be in control. And find it hard to just be.

They think they should be doing, viewing it as a waste of time if they haven’t accomplished anything productive.

Except for summer. Summertime is when many adults give themselves permission to play, letting the kid inside of them run free. They spend time at the shore or the mountains to be — not to do. This time helps adults let go of trying to control it all and instead become more resilient, refreshed, rejuvenated … and creative.

If summertime feels so good, you might try using it as a model to feel freer all year round. To let go of the urge to always be in control. To allow yourself to be more spontaneous and adventurous instead of endlessly responsible.

Did I just hear you say, “That would be nice, but look at all my responsibilities. Somebody has to take care of these matters.” True. So, by all means, be an adult when you need to be an adult. But let your inner child have time to frolic in the sun.

To get to know yourself better, take a few moments to answer these four questions:

Was it delighting in motion, enjoying the sheer pleasure of just running around? Was it an adventurous game?

Was it a dramatic scenario in which you acted out dif ferent types of characters?

N ow t h a t yo u ’ r e a n adult, do you keep yourself so busy that play feels like a waste of time? Or, is your idea of playing only partici p at i n g i n c o m p e t i t ive sports? And does that start out fine, but become o p p re s s ive wh e n yo u become critical of yourself ? Have you forgotten how to play without your self-worth being on the apadin line?

Some adults tune is to what real play is like only when they’re frolicking with pets or young kids. Such play has no winner, no loser. It’s simply amusing, it’s clowning around, it’s letting your hair down, it’s being loose as a goose — making

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■ When do you play?

■ When do you feel free?

■ When do you act spontaneously?

■ W h e n d o yo u s e e k adventure?

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If you’ve struggled to answer these questions, you’re playdeprived. To begin to modify that, reflect on your childhood. What kind of play did you enjoy? Was it tag, catch, jump rope, Frisbee, or ball playing?

you feel happier and younger.

But, can you have that kind of play without a small child or loving pet?

Absolutely! To get started, go back in time. Be silly, move in an outlandish way, dance with passion (forgetting what you look like), sing with gusto, remember a sidesplitting joke, skip along the beach, hang around funny friends and above all, quit judging yourself !

Young kids are experts at playing, having fun, and letting themselves be.

It’s quite an ancient saying, yet a true and honest thought - that when you become an adult by young children you’ll be taught! ©2022 Linda Sapadin, Ph.D., psychologist, coach and author specializes in helping people improve their relationships, enhance their lives and overcome procrastination and fear. Contact her at DrSapadin@aol.com. Visit her website at www.PsychWisdom.com.

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Shiny, metallic Mylar balloons are a mainstay of celebrations such as graduations, weddings, Father’s Day and religious occasions that happen during the next few months. While they are festive, they can easily become hazards. Public Service Electric & Gas Company (PSEG) Long Island is reminding customers during these celebratory months that balloons released into the air can become entangled in overhead electric equipment and cause a host of problems.

“Though they’re festive, fun and look nice, we want the public to be aware that metallic balloons also conduct electricity. If they get loose and come into contact with a power line or other electrical equipment, that could lead to power outages, fire and, Balloons can quickly become tangled in power lines and possibly, injuries,” said Michael Sullivan, PSEG Island encourages the public to follow Long Island’s vice president of Transthese safety guidelines: mission and Distribution. “The safety of our customers and employees is PSEG ■ Metallic balloons and other decoraLong Island’s No. 1 priority. We want our tions should be kept clear of overhead customers to know the risks and take power lines and equipment, and never steps to ensure their celebrations are a purposely released into the air. success.”

To mitigate these risks, PSEG Long ■ NEVER touch a power line. Do not

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It’s time to nominate your Long Island Red Cross hero

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

Do you know a hero? Someone who took extraordinary action to save a life or perform an unselfish and extraordinary act for a family member, friend, co-worker or a stranger? An act that changed a person’s destiny, or made a community impact.

If so, then submit that person’s name by Monday, June 20 to the AmeriCourtesy American Red Cross can Red Cross, giving them a chance to be honored at the 2022 Long Island THE AMERICAN RED Cross seeks submissions Heroes Among Us gala set for Thurs- to honor a Long Island hero at its Sept. 22 gala. day, Sept. 22.

To be eligible, that person’s heroic or executive. “We are proud to shine a light courageous action needs to have taken on one of our exceptional neighbors from place between July 1 last year, and the end Nassau or Suffolk counties, an everyday of this past May 30. Nominees need to live hero — or a group of individuals who in either Nassau or Suffolk counties, and acted together — whose actions made a agree to complete a criminal background life-changing difference in someone’s life.” check administered by the Red Cross if Heroes are expected to be chosen by the selected. end of July. A preferred hero and two Those who move forward in the selec- alternate heroes will be selected, that way tion process will share their heroic story if one ultimately declines to be honored, on video, and receive the Heroes Award at organizers will reach out to the runner-up. the gala. They’ll also have a chance to talk The Sept. 22 gala begins at 6 p.m., at the to reporters, and gain some much- Oheka Castle, 135 W. Gate Drive, Huntingdeserved publicity for what they accom- ton. Individual tickets start at $400. plished.

To nominate a potential Long Island “Long Islanders represent the best of hero, go to tinyurl.com/RedCrossLIHero. this country,” said Jose Dominguez, AmerTo purchase tickets or to become a gala ican Red Cross on Long Island’s chief sponsor, visit tinyurl.com/RedCrossGala.

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YUM-YUM (SABRINA lOPEz) weighs the merits of two suitors, the earnest Nanki-Poo (Richard Risi, left) and the wily Ko-Ko (Michael John Ruggiere), in the Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island’s 2022 production of “The Mikado: A Long Island Fantasy.”

Valley Streamer conducts reimagined opera classic Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island appointed Valley Streamer Stuart Watarz as the musical director for their latest opera: “The Mikado: A Long Island Fantasy,” directed by Tony Tombasco. The performance will be a refreshing take on the classic comic opera, “The Mikado,” recasting one of the most famously known operas presented by the Gilbert & Sullivan operas, now its 68th season. The original opera satirizes English society and politics through the lens of Japanese culture. This modern interpretation moves its fictional setting to Long Island’s Gold Coast in the 1920s to examine contemporary American life. “ have attempted to recover the spirit of Gilbert & Sullivan’s intentions with a production that holds a mirror up to the present day, while also engaging in lighthearted fairy-tale-telling,” Tambasco said. “Setting `The Mikado’ on a fantasy Long Island of 100 years ago allows us to activate the `Gatsby’ mythology that is a part of the cultural heritage of Long Island in the service of telling Gilbert & Sullivan’s comic fairy tale of a community overcoming the nonsensical cruelty imposed on its people.”

Watarz will conduct an 11-piece orchestra, guiding the audience through the story’s bizarre series of events in the not-so-unfamiliar realm of Long Island.

The score for “The Mikado” is packed with famous songs, including the ballad: “The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze,” the rattling patter song: “I’ve Got a Little List,” and the trio “I Am So Proud” and the wistful “Titwillow.”

The cast includes more than a dozen of the company’s singers and dancers.

Richard Risi plays Nanki-Poo, the wandering minstrel who’s secretly the son of

Did you know?

“The Mikado” was the first opera ever to be made into a movie in 1939.

It has been a hit on Broadway as “The Hot Mikado” (1939) and has even had a movie—”Topsy Turvy” (1999)—made about its creation.

the all-powerful Mikado. Sabrina Lopez is Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo’s secret love, with Michael John Ruggiere as her guardian Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. Tamara Shyngle and Delaney R. Page play Yum-Yum’s schoolmates PittiSing and Peep-Bo, with Kenneth L. Kopolovicz as the pompous Pooh-Bah and Jorden Breslow as the wily Pish-Tush. Patricia Gallagher plays the fearsome aristocrat Katisha, who claims Nanki-Poo in marriage and won’t take “No” for an answer.

“The Mikado: A Long Island Fantasy” will be presented for five performances only: Sunday, June 5, at the First Methodist Church of East Meadow; Friday, June 7 at the Star Theater at the Suffolk Y/ Jewish Community Center in Commack, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, June 25, at the Jeanne Rimsky Theater at the Landmark on Main Street in Port Washington; on Sunday, June 26, at the Riverside Theatre in Manhattan, at 3 p.m.; and on Sunday, July 3, at Heckscher Park in Huntington, at 8 p.m. Admission is free. For further information or to reserve tickets, visit Gaslocoli.org.

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What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

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Herald ScHoolS North Senior Band Gets High Marks at Festival

By JUAN LASSO jlasso@liherald.com

Courtesy Valley Stream Central High School District

The BANd wAS rated by NYSSMA judges on their level five difficulty performances, which are regarded as the second-most difficult

by NYSSMA. most difficult.

North Band Director Angelica Ansbacher, saw the festival as a tool to gauge the student musicians’ current level of performance but was pleased to

hear the judge’s response. “Although I brought the students to the festival for them to gain experience and feedback from expert music educators, I’m so proud of what they were able to achieve,”

she said. If that weren’t enough, the distinction came with a plaque, which will be proudly hung in the North High band room.

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Valley Stream North High School’s senior high band members earned Gold, the second-highest rating, on their performance at the New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) Major Organization Evaluation Festival on May 27. The festival was held at Adelphi University.

The festival offers opportunities for music teachers to bring an exceptional ensemble — band, chorus, orchestra, or jazz – to perform for two specially trained adjudicators, according to the NYSSMA website.

The ensemble is given taped and written comments on their performance and awarded a rating such as Gold, Silver, or Bronze. The North High band received glowing feedback from judges for their renditions of “The Washington Post March,” “Variations on a Korean Folk Song,” and “Haven Dance,” said the press release. These challenging pieces, selected from the NYSSMA Manual, are regarded as having a level five difficulty

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Tom Suozzi ready to solve problems in Albany

By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@liherald.com

Tom Suozzi’s path to the governor’s mansion won’t be an easy one — especially since he’ll have to win a June 28 Democratic primary that includes a popular incumbent, Kathy Hochul.

But Suozzi isn’t deterred, convinced that Hochul is vulnerable thanks to a few missteps and what he says is a hard lean to the left since her ascension following Andrew Cuomo’s resignation.

“Kathy Hochul was wrong for the job,” Suozzi told a team of reporters in the Herald Roundtable session. “She came in saying, ‘You know, I’m going to be a breath of fresh air. And there’s going to be the most transparent, most ethical government in the history of New York. I’m not going to be Andrew Cuomo.’”

But then Hochul passed what Suozzi called the state’s “most secretive budget” in decades, which included what he described as a “billion-dollar” giveaway to the Buffalo Bills for a new stadium.

“There was no public hearing,” Suozzi said. “It was the biggest giveaway in the history of the NFL.” The 59-year-old has represented a good portion of Nassau County as a congressman since 2017, and eight years as Nassau’s county executive, helping to quell a governmental financial collapse. He first took elected office in 1994, as mayor of

Courtesy the Tom Suozzi gubernatorial campaign

u.s. rEp. ToM Suozzi says he’s leaving Congress so he can fix what’s broken in Albany — even if that means upending the incumbent governor from his own party, Kathy Hochul.

Glen Cove, where he earned high marks for his environmental efforts in cleaning up old industrial sites.

“Nassau County was rated the worstrun county in America when I got there,” Suozzi said. “I turned it around, and got it into the ‘A’ ranks. I left with the lowest crime rate in the history of Nassau County. I turned this county around.

“I’ve been in Congress for five and a half years,” he added, “and I’ve given up Congress to run for governor because I just feel so strongly about what’s wrong with our state, and it needs to be fixed.”

In fact, it’s Congress where Suozzi says

most of his preparation to take over as governor took place. He is vice chair of the House’s Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan group of 58 congressional members evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with the hope of bringing about more bipartisan consensus.

Among the caucus’s successes include President Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan, Suozzi said, which made it through both chambers last year.

Suozzi’s biggest focus in his primary challenge, however, is crime. He opposes the state’s cashless bail policy, and even took heat last month for tying bail reform

to the May 14 shooting in a Buffalo supermarket that claimed the lives of 10 people.

Talking to the Herald Roundtable, Suozzi instead blamed Hochul for not enforcing existing “red flag” laws that would remove guns from those who authorities believed could threaten the safety of others.

“It’s not been implemented,” Suozzi said. “We have to teach the cops. We have to teach the teachers. We have to teach the social workers, the mental health people.

We have to teach the family members that we have this great tool, and we can take the guns away from people who are mentally unstable.”

One recent study of congressional primaries showed that the chance of an incumbent being ousted in a primary is virtually nonexistent. But then again, this is New York, where incumbency doesn’t guarantee much of anything.

“I do things to build relationships,” Suozzi said. “I won’t compromise my values, and I’m not going to vote for something I don’t believe in. And having been doing politics since I was elected mayor of Glen Cove in 1993, I know how to get stuff done.”

Andrew Giuliani says New York ready for change

By MICHAEL HINMAN

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New York hasn’t backed a Republican governor since George Pataki was reelected for the second time some 20 years ago. But Andrew Giuliani is convinced the Democratic policies under longtime Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his successor, Kathy Hochul, have changed the viewpoint of many voters in the state, who are living with higher crime rates, historically high inflation, and ongoing coronavirus pandemic restrictions that even cost Giuliani a chance to participate in-person in a recent televised debate.

“I love looking at every single independent poll that has not been paid for by a competitor of mine that either has us winning this race or is within the margin of error,” the 36-year-old former Trump administration official told a team of reporters at a Herald Roundtable session. “I think it’s been really a tribute to the fact that at the very beginning of the campaign, we focused on trying to meet with as many of the 2.9 million registered Republicans — and frankly, the over 10 million New York voters. It hasn’t exclusively been Republicans. It’s been conservatives and non-affiliated independents, and certainly any Democrats that are looking at voting Republican.”

The son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Andrew Giuliani was first hired by President Donald Trump as an associate director of the White House public liaison office before being promoted to special assistant.

Herald Community Newspapers provided a chance for all of New York’s gubernatorial candidates to meet with a select editorial team to present their views and answer questions.

The responses of the other candidates who took part in the roundtable sessions will be published next week.

Courtesy the Andrew Giuliani gubernatorial campaign

ANdrEw GIuLIANI Looks to be the first Republican to return to the governor’s mansion since George Pataki finished his third and final term in 2006.

Like his father, Giuliani has focused much of his campaign on crime, lambasting the cashless bail system, saying he would do away with it the moment he was sworn into office.

“On Day One,” he said, “I have pledged that I will sit down with Carl Heastie and Andrea Stewart-Cousins” — the speaker of the State Assembly and the State Senate majority leader — “and tell them very simply that unless there’s a full repeal of bail reform on my desk, I will not be funding their top priorities in our upcoming budget priorities.”

As far as the state budget is concerned, Giuliani pledges to carve out $5 billion to be used solely at the discretion of local or county law enforcement. “Let’s say a

sheriff ’s office is not getting the resources they need,” he said. “They can tap into the state to get those resources.

“Look, New York state leads the country in net out-migration, and that’s not just because of crime. But I do think that’s one of the main reasons why, under an Andrew Giuliani administration, we will look to curb that on Day One.” Giuliani would also try to oust Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, who has been tasked with investigating some of Trump’s business dealings in the state.

As far as guns are concerned, however, Giuliani is not prioritizing stricter gun-control measures. Even after the May 14 mass shooting that claimed 10 lives in Buffalo, Giuliani says the prob-

lem is rooted in illegal guns — something law enforcement has failed to get under control.

“When I think about the overall defunding of the police movement, one of the things that this does is it makes it tougher for police to proactively police,” he said. “To have the resources necessary to actually get some of these weapons out of the hands of the criminals that are actually doing most of the crime.”

If Giuliani were elected governor, he would immediately face a heavily Democratic State Legislature that could curtail much of what he has planned. But that’s not something he expects to be a problem for long.

“I do think both of these super-majorities will cease to exist in 2023,” he said of the Assembly and senate. “I look at the state senate (district) lines, and I’m very confident that we will win back seats in the state senate. And who knows? With the right guy at the top of the ticket, we may even challenge to win the state senate back.”

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events and activities

Thursday, June 16 American Legion Post No. 854 Meeting The American Legion Post No. 854 will host their regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. located at 51 Roosevelt Ave. in Valley Stream.

Friday, June 17 American Legion Post No. 854 Meeting The American Legion Post No. 854 will host their regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. located at 51 Roosevelt Ave. in Valley Stream.

Rockaway Classic Car Show The village in partnership with the Valley Stream Chamber of Commerce is hosting a show of classic and antique cars at the intersection of WVS Boulevard and Rockaway Avenue from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. All are welcomed.

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Rev up your summer fun with classic cars Retro car enthusiasts, die hard classic car fans, and curious residents alike can treat themselves to an evening of classic cars on Rockaway Avenue courtesy of the Village of Valley Stream in collaboration with the Valley Stream Chamber of Commerce. The event is held at the intersection of WVS Boulevard and Rockaway Avenue from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Fridays throughout the summer.

Wednesday, Jun. 22

Central High School Graduation Ceremony

Village Summer Concert Series Best Hits of the Decade

Valley Stream Central High School will host its graduation ceremony for seniors starting at 5:30 p.m. Come watch graduates take the stage and toss their caps skyward in celebration of this signifcant milestone. Central High School is located at 1 Kent Road, Valley Stream, NY 11580.

Starting at 8 p.m., the village is hosting its summer concert series at the Village Bandshell featuring The Mystic tribute band covering the best hits through the decades. All are welcomed. The Village Green is located at Verona Place. In the event of rain, the concert is rescheduled for Monday, June 27. For further information, contact (516) 825-8571.

Village Poolside Movie Night Ghostbusters Afterlife Starting at 8 p.m., the village is hosting its poolside movie night at the Valley Stream Hendrickson park pool, where kids and parents can enjoy a movie screening of Ghostbusters Afterlife from the pool.

The Village Green is located at Verona Place. Tickets must be purchased in advanced at the pool lobby located at 123 W Merrick Rd, Valley Stream, NY 11580.

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Waldinger Library: First-Home Seminar The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library will be hosting a virtual lecture on “Thinking of Buying your First Home?” via Zoom. Join us for a first-time buyer seminar with guest speakers, Maria Ottomanelli (Licensed Salesperson, Accredited Buyer Representative, HomeSmart Premier Living Realty), John Baker (Meadowbrook Financial Mortgage Bankers Corp., Mortgage Loan Originator), and Adam Kitzen, Esq. (Managing General Partner of The Law Firm of Adam I. Kitzen, P.C.).

Register to attend the program by sending an e-mail to Library Director

Mamie Eng at hwmlcontact@hotmail. com and the Zoom information will be sent to you shortly before the program.

Friday, June 24 Rockaway Classic Car Show The village in partnership with the Valley Stream Chamber of Commerce is hosting a show of classic and antique cars at the intersection of WVS Boulevard and Rockaway Avenue from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

North High School Graduation Ceremony Valley Stream North High School will host its graduation ceremony for seniors starting at 5:30 p.m. Come watch graduates take the stage and toss their caps skyward in celebration of this signifcant milestone. North High School is located at 750 Herman Ave, Franklin Square, NY 11010.

South High School Graduation Ceremony

Monday, June 27

Valley Stream South High School will host its graduation ceremony for seniors starting at 5:30 p.m. Come watch graduates take the stage and toss their caps skyward in celebration of this signifcant milestone. South High School is located at 150 Jedwood Pl, Valley Stream, NY 11581.

Village of Valley Stream Reguler Trustee Meeting

Saturday, June 25 Sunday, June 26 Family Fishing Weekend Get your tackle rod and reel ready. The Village of Valley Stream will be hosting a Family Fishing Weekend June 25-26.

Learn knot tying, baiting, and casting.

There will also be a catch and release program with barbless hooks and educational information provided by the NYS Department of Enviornmental Conservation. You must register by June 20. Call (516) 821-3786.

The Village of Valley Stream will hold its regular trustee meeting at 7 p.m. at the Village Hall Auditorium located at 123 South Central Ave. On the day of the meeting, there will be a link on the village website at VSVNY.org and download the meeting calendar.

Residents can also Zoom in with the link provided on the village website under meetings.

Wednesday, Jun. 29 Village Summer Concert Series Tribute to the Beatles Starting at 8 p.m., the village is hosting its summer concert series at the Village Bandshell featuring the Penny Lane tribute band. The Village Green is located at Verona Place. Rain date to be announced. For further information, contact (516) 825-8571.

June is the month with the longest daylight hours in the Northern Hemisphere.

Queens Hospital Center is a local WIC clinic in nearby Valley Stream providing infant formula.

To contact the Consumer Affairs Price Gouging Hotline call 516-571-2449.

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VALLEY STREAM HERALD — June 16, 2022

Herald ScHoolS District 24 students have a Field Day in the sun District 24 students were able to get out and get moving during their annual Field Day event. Students enjoyed a full school day of sun and physical activity with their fellow classmates.

Wheeler Avenue Elementary School’s Field Day was held at Firemen’s Memorial Field. Students in grades four through six wore blue and gold T-shirts courtesy of the Parent-Teacher Association. Students participated in over 50 fun fitness events including mini-marathons, relay races, and tug of war. Ribbons were given out to all who participated as well as first, second, and third place winners.

Willow Road Elementary School enjoyed its Field Day with a circus theme. Students participated in various stations throughout the day and engaged in activities such as obstacle courses, tug of war, and dancing with a DJ. The PTA provided a pizza lunch that was enjoyed by all.

Howell Road Elementary School enjoyed its mega Field Day with potato sack races, dance parties, relay races, and more. The students also enjoyed some waterincorporated games to cool down from the hot weather.

James A. Dever Elementary School celebrated its Field Day by unplugging from technology. Students spent the day outside with activities centered around music, art, reading, and physical education. The classes rotated throughout the day, so everyone was able to have an equal experience with relay races, read-aloud, STEAM projects, mono printing, drum circles, and more.

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Howell Road elementaRy School students enjoyed water games to cool down from the hot sun.

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By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

A couple of hometown heroes in the thoroughbred horseracing industry celebrated a memorable victory last Saturday after favored Mo Donegal, with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard, drew away down the stretch to capture the 154th running of the Belmont Stakes before a crowd of 46,301.

The three-length triumph marked the fourth Belmont Stakes win for Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher and first Triple Crown victory for Mike Repole, who coowns Mo Donegal with Donegal Racing and also co-owns runner-up filly Nest with Eclipse Thoroughbred.

Nest, also trained by Pletcher and ridden by Jose Ortiz, overcame a stumble out of the gate to finish a clear second outkicking pacesetters We the People (fourth) and Skippylongstocking (third.) Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike was never involved and finished sixth in the eighthorse field.

“First of all, it’s our family’s favorite race,” said Pletcher, who trained filly Rags to Riches [2007], Palace Malice [2013], and Tapwrit [2017] to Belmont victories. “Our kids grew up here and went to school here and we’ve always felt like it’s our hometown race. When we’re fortunate enough to win it, it adds some specialness to it. That hometown feel. That part of it is really cool.”

Repole is a Queens native and a lifelong racing fan who in 2007 started his own thoroughbred ownership business, Repole Stable. His most accomplished horse to date, Uncle Mo, is Mo Donegal’s sire.

“It’s a 40-year dream,” Repole said.

“Coming to this track [Belmont] and Aqueduct, being a kid from New York, this is New York’s race. In 2011, I came in second with Stay Thirsty and I watched the replay 150 times. I will no longer watch that replay.”

Mo Donegal was purchased in 2020 by Donegal Racing for $250,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Fifth in the Kentucky Derby in his previous start, he more than doubled his career earnings with Saturday’s victory to $1,511,800.

“I want to thank all the partners of Donegal Racing. They’ve believed and today they’ve been rewarded,” said Jerry Crawford, owner of Donegal Racing. “I think this victory today shows that the sport is more accessible than they may realize. I can’t say enough for Todd Pletcher and Irad Ortiz, Jr. for the great job they’ve done with this horse.”

We the People took command under Flavien Prat and led the field through splits of 23.99 seconds for the opening quarter-mile, 48.49 for the half, and 1:13.23 for six furlongs on the fast main track, with the Manny Franco-piloted longshot Skippylongstocking pressing from second position.

Nest, who stumbled at the start, advanced up the rail down the backstretch

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FavOrITE MO DONEgaL, with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard, won the 154th running of the Belmont Stakes last Saturday before a crowd of 46,301.

JOckEY IraD OrTIz Jr. and Mo Donegal co-owner Mike Repole, far left, shared a moment with the Belmont Stakes hardware.

Courtesy NYRA/Joe Labozzetta

to stalk from third position to the inside of Mo Donegal as Skippylongstocking continued to pressure the pacesetter. Ortiz, Jr. gave Mo Donegal his cue approaching the quarter-pole and he advanced with a powerful move, surging outside rivals at the top of the lane and got the jump on Nest, who then angled outside and followed her stablemate’s path to complete the exacta.

The winning time of the 1 ½ miles “Test of the Champion” was 2:28.28.

“Last time in the Derby, he didn’t have the best trip and he still got beat by [only] three lengths,” Ortiz, Jr. said. “I knew if I got a better trip, he could get there. When I asked him in the clear, he took off. He’s a nice horse.”

Much of the hype leading up to the race was about Rich Strike, the 80-1 historic upset winner of the Kentucky Derby who skipped the Preakness. Jockey Sonny Leon said Rich Strike didn’t seem comfortable on

the Belmont surface and never found another gear.

Said Rich Strike trainer Ed Reed: “We were hoping we could have been a little closer and our pace was slow. Our biggest change was deciding to stay a little off the rail and try to give him a good, open run where he could take off. The whole way, his head turned and he was trying to get to the inside. I guess we made a mistake not putting him on the fence.”

Anti-horseracing protest held before Stakes rtraverso@liherald.com

Chants of “Belmont Park has blood on its hands” and “horses die on racing tracks” rang out along Hempstead Turnpike in front of Belmont Park before the annual Belmont Stakes on June 11.

Members of Humane Long Island (HLI), a nonprofit that works to expand the rights of animals, and over 100 other advocates for animals protested for three hours outside Belmont Park before the annual horseracing competition began.

“It’s wonderful to see all of the support from Long Islanders who are here speaking out against how many horses have died on this racetrack this year and in years past,” said John DiLeonardo, a Malverne native and HLI founder and president.

According to information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the nonprofit Horseracing Wrongs, 50 horses have died per year over the past three years at Belmont Park, and 27 have died already this year.

DiLeonardo said animal rights activists believe horses are forced to race when they are too young and have underdeveloped bones, are drugged to run through injuries, and then when they are injured and unable to run quickly, they

are killed. Even the winners of races York Racing Association (NYRA), which such as the Belmont Stakes, he said, are runs Belmont Park, with $450 million in often sent to slaughterhouses once they state-backed bonds to build a new clubhouse at the park. cannot compete.

A statement released by HLI in “It’s a horrific industry that does not care about the horses,” DiLeonardo said. response to the legislation being stalled cites a 2021 Marist Poll sur“These horses are literally vey that found that 91% of dying to win, and if you care New Yorkers did not plan to about animal welfare you visit a state racetrack and should oppose the Belmont bet on horse racing that year Stakes,” he added. while 5% planned to go once, Kathy Guiller mo, the and 1% planned to go twice. senior vice president of Peo“Residents of New York, not ple for the Ethical Treatment the 11 privately owned Thorof Animals (PETA) who oughbred and har ness leads the organization’s JOhn tracks, should be the recipiefforts to end horseracing, DiLEOnARDO ents of subsidies,” the statesaid there have likely been ment reads. more horse deaths at Bel- President, Although this victory was mont Park this year that the Humane L.I. celebrated by those in attenpublic has not been told dance, the protest mainly about.

“This is not all about beautiful horses, aimed to raise concerns about horseraccocktails and parties; this is about drug- ing as an industry.

“This is not a sport like it’s been ging, and broken legs, and auctions and called for the past 150 years,” said Patslaughterhouses,” she added.

The protest on June 11 was launched rick Battuello, the president and founder partially in response to a victory won by of Horseracing Wrongs. “In fact, it’s anianimal rights activists against horserac- mal exploitation, animal cruelty and animal killing,” Battuello added. ing in New York State.

While six horses die at U.S. tracks per Earlier this month, New York State legislators decline to move toward pas- day, and 2,000 die per year, according to sage a bill that would provide the New documents obtained by Horseracing

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hese horses are literally dying to win.

Wrongs from state horse racing commissions, Battuello pointed to other factors of the day-to-day treatment of racehorses as evidence of mistreatment.

The average racehorse, he said, is locked in a tiny 12-foot by 12-foot stall for over 23 hours per day. “That’s a cruelty being inflicted on naturally social animals,” he said, adding that the physical and mental abuse is evident in the constant swaying, excessive kicking, and even self-mutilation of confined horses.

“These horses are suffering every day,” Battuello added.

Battuello contrasted the treatment of horses with the treatment of dogs, pointing out how whipping horses in public view is acceptable at horseracing events.

“If you did that to a dog in the park you’d be arrested for animal cruelty; at the racetrack, it’s all just part of the tradition,” he said.

“It’s a justice and moral issue that society has been sort of pretending isn’t there,” said Lisa Kahn, an animal liberationist who traveled from New Jersey to the protest at Belmont Park, of animal rights issues, which she said manifest as human domination over species unable to speak out on their own behalf. “We’re animal liberationists – we just want animals to be left alone,” she added.

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Beachgoers will have to ‘share the shore’

By KARINA KOVAC kkovac@liherald.com

For the next three months Audubon New York will be doing studies of bird habitats on the coastline in Lido Beach and Jones Beach. The study is part of the East Coast’s Atlantic Flyway research project, conducted by the Audubon Society and Virginia Tech. The study will determine how best to teach the public to co-exist with native wildlife.

To research these Long Island beaches Audubon New York is partnering with Town of Hempstead officials. Both are asking all beach goers to “share the shore” with vulnerable nesting birds and be mindful of their activities. The study will examine weather nesting birds such as the piping plover, American oystercatcher, black skimmers and others can raise more chicks when given space to rest and nest.

“In a study published in Conservation Biology, Audubon’s Science team found that stewardship and management is essential to helping many coastal birds thrive. Now, we’re hoping to see which approaches work best. How can we teach people to keep birds safe by walking around flocks, and keeping at least 100 feet from fenced-off nesting areas? Do beachgoers notice signs, or is one-to-one conversation more helpful? These are the questions we’re hoping to answer,” said Shelby Casas, coastal program associate

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JuVeNIle sANdeRlINgs spRINg into action at Jones Beach. for Audubon New York and project lead.

“Jones Beach, with its miles of open sandy beach and ocean shoreline, is an important area for nesting shorebirds, and has the highest number of piping plover nests (about 30 annually) of any state park in New York,” said Annie McIntyre, Long Island regional environmental manager, New York State Parks. However, McIntyre continued, “The beautiful beach also attracts thousands of visitors each year, and it will be so beneficial if we can help them understand how simple changes can make a big difference in the success of the nesting plovers.”

Hempstead has tended to piping plovers’ nests, more than 50 American oystercatchers, and the largest colony of black skimmers in the Northeast. The town has also implemented GPS tracking to follow migration patterns to the Caribbean and Central America.

“The shores of the Town of Hempstead have long served as a refuge for a diverse array of animal and plant life, as well as generations of township residents seeking to bask in the serenity of Long Island’s coastal environs,” said Hempstead town supervisor Don Clavin. “The Town of Hempstead remains committed

to safeguarding our unique natural habitats and the many species that call it home.”

3.2 miles of shoreline trailing from Lido Beach to Point Lookout will be under the protection of the town. Some sections have been fenced off to sustain certain habitats for the federally protected plovers and walking paths have been redirected around nests.

“We’re part of a regional study across the Atlantic flyway with Jones Beach to give a pipeline of information,” said Hempstead biologist Tara SchneiderMoran. Saying that the aim of the study is to see, “what kind of improvements can we do to reduce disturbances to shore birds and give a space for them to nest with their chicks.”

For those who may encounter a nesting bird, Ashley Dayer, a professor of fish and wildlife at Virginia Tech has a fun way to avoid them, “I like to think of it as sort of a smiley face. If you think of the two birds right in front of you along the edge of the water or out in the sand, if you just do a half circle around them, then you’re not walking straight at them.”

At each study site beachgoers can visit tables with educational resources, see new informational signs on the beach, and speak to stewards in the field about how to help birds. At the end of the study the Audubon will determine which tactics during the three months made a tangible impact on the environment.

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Leaders in the emerging cannabis industry sat down with neighbors and local officials to talk about the ups and downs of how the cannabis industry is rolling out. Jessica Nassaint, left, a former cannabinoid dispensary owner from Valley Stream, joined Esther Lelievre, Assemblywoman Kimberly Jean-Pierre, Cannabis Control Board chair Tremaine Wright, Osbert Orduna and Carmine Fiore.

Rough start for budding cannabis industry on L.I. continued from front page The village submitted and voted on a resolution to opt out of retail cannabis stores and smoke rooms last December.

And of the several towns and cities that gave the OK, some have passed additional zoning restrictions that cannabis entrepreneurs say severely limit the growth of their local cannabis market, preventing many small prospective businesses from breaking in.

Brookhaven in Suffolk County was offered as one example of where a municipality passed an ordinance banning marijuana retail stores and consumption lounges from downtown business districts, effectively restricting them to industrial areas.

“Because of zoning restrictions, the pathway for a small business or independent person that has a small group of investors to launch is cut off,” said one cannabis entrepreneur, Osbert Orduna.

“Without the capacity to have a robust legal team and millions of dollars in the bank like large corporate cannabis, it’s unattainable.”

Similar zoning restrictions like those in Brookhaven or Oyster Bay deters dispensary businesses, the panelists said, barring them from setting up shop in underutilized business zones or an already struggling downtown area.

But closer to home in Valley Stream, while trustees and village officials took note of the potential source of large revenue that could come from these cannabis businesses, officials cautioned a wait-andsee approach. They preferred to scout how other towns and cities would fare with their emerging cannabis zoning and business regulation before considering joining the fray.

Sibling duo Charlene and Adam Ali — longtime recreational and medicinal marijuana advocates and cannabis entrepreneurs — say such a strategy has its limitations, and is not without its costs over the long haul.

“The biggest downside of the wait-andsee method is that by the time municipalities opt-in — encouraged by what they see in other municipalities — a lot of businesses have gone elsewhere,” Adam Ali said. They “have passed considering a

place like Valley in favor of a municipality with a longer and usually better infrastructure to support a new business coming in.”

Smart business people who must already sift through and comply with pages of detailed regulation — as well as evolving regulatory updates by the cannabis review board — will likely be turned off by towns and villages that place another hurdle of restricted zoning and overregulation, Charlene Ali noted.

“And the other side of it, too, is that Long Island people over here drive,” Adam Ali said. “They can easily drive to a municipality that is a little bit more lenient (or) friendly, even if it is a little bit further away from the foot traffic.”

The siblings said they were disappointed by the fact adult cannabis consumers would turn to places like Babylon and Oyster Bay for their recreational needs, while none of the revenue goes back to Valley Stream. But they are looking to make headway — with or without the village — as they take their cannabis business elsewhere.

Nassaint also has moved on. She closed up Wake and Bake Café, a cannabinoid dispensary on Rockaway Avenue, earlier this year. She hopes to open a cannabis dispensary with a blend of cannabinoid and THC cannabis products in a friendlier location in the coming months.

Adam and Charlene Ali have also started the Cannabis Accountability Group to ensure what they say is accurate information is made available to the public, all while following up on the latest decision from the Office of Cannabis Management, the state’s regulatory body.

“The OCM is doing the best they can to make sure that they keep this as an equitable process,” Charlene Ali said. “Yes, there are going to be caveats. Yes, there are going to be issues that we all don’t agree with.

But it’s up to us — Those who are in the education space, those who are in the advocacy space, to do our best to put the best education and information out there for people.”

Additional reporting by Karina Kovac.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU US Bank National Association, as Trustee for GSR Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-2F, Plaintiff AGAINST Joseph Echie a/k/a Joseph K. Echie; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated September 13, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on June 30, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 6 Fairmont Street, Valley Stream, NY 11580. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section: 37 Block: 440 Lots: 938 & 939.

Approximate amount of judgment $762,167.39 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 004934/2014.

The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.”

John R Dietz, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: April 21, 2022 131609 To place a notice here call us at 516-569-4000 x232 or send an email to: legalnotices@liherald.com

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, TRUSTEE FOR LEHMAN BROTHERSSTRUCTURED ASSET INVSETMENT LOAN TRUST-SAIL 2005-3, Plaintiff, Against LILIANA VELASQUEZ, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 08/27/2008, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. 11501 on 6/27/2022 at 2:30 PM, premises known as 158 Cochran Place, Valley Stream, NY 11581 and described as follows;

ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York. Section 39 Block 479 Lot 26 The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $444,277.42 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 021795/07. For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832.

Interested bidders are asked to pre-register with the Referee by emailing janetango28@gmail.com by 6/24/2022.

Preregistration is optional, but is encouraged to ensure that the auction occurs in a sufficiently sized room to comply with COVID-19 policies and procedures.

Jane Shrenkel, Esq., Referee.

SHELDON MAY & ASSOCIATES Attorneys at Law, 255 Merrick Road , Rockville Centre, NY 11570. Dated: 4-22-2022 File Number: 32665 pco 131621

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the certificateholders of the CWABS, Inc., AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2006-14, Plaintiff AGAINST Peggy Kouassi a/k/a Peggy Turner; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated January 25, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on June 27, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 73 Broadway, Valley Stream, NY 11580. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section 37 Block 667 Lot 41. Approximate amount of judgment $597,228.47 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 008374/2016.

The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held Rain or Shine.

Michael Jay Santino Pontone, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC

Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: April 12, 2022 131607

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB as Owner Trustee of the Residential Credit Opportunities Trust V-D, Plaintiff AGAINST Ninite Laguerre, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered April 11, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on June 27, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 15 William Street, Valley Stream, NY 11580. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Nassau, City of Valley Stream, State of New York, SECTION: 37, BLOCK: 485, LOT: 225 and 226.

Approximate amount of judgment $569,741.08 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #007114/2016.

The aforementioned auction will be conducted in acc ordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 Protocols located on the Office of Court Administration (OCA) website (https://ww2.nycourts.gov /Admin/oca.shtml) and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Wallace Leinheardt, Esq., Referee Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon, LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 01-067660-F01 71248 131591 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK CIT BANK, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST JEFFREY COOMBES; DIANE A. COOMBES A/K/A DIANE COOMBES A/K/A DIANE A. ROCKWOOD, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered June 21, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in front of the United States Courthouse, 100 Federal Plaza, Central Islip, NY 11722 on June 27, 2022 at 10:00AM, premises known as 11 EVERETT STREET, VALLEY STREAM, NY 11580. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and

improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Hamlet of Valley Stream, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 37, Block 468, Lot 124.

Approximate amount of judgment $551,561.71 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Case No. 2:17-cv-05871-ADS-SIL. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with current mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Elizabeth Gill, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 19-007576 71995 131599

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff, vs.

MICHAEL J. CARR, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on September 1, 2017, and Order Extending Sale Deadline entered on January 21, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on July 11, 2022 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 637 Diane Place, Valley Stream, NY 11581. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 39, Block 595 and Lot 7.

Approximate amount of judgment is $177,240.29 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 3666/16. This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine.

COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale.

Lisa A. LeimbachGutman, Esq., Referee Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff File No. 211487-2 131924 PUBLIC & LEGAL NOTICES To place a notice here call us us at 516-569-4000 x232 or send an email to: legalnotices@liherald.com

LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTION ONE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2004-2, ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-2, V. MIRLENE DUCATEL A/K/A MYRLENE DUCATEL A/K/A MYRELENE DUCATEL A/K/A MYRELENE DUCTEL, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated January 16, 2020, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTION ONE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2004-2, ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-2 is the Plaintiff and MIRLENE DUCATEL A/K/A MYRLENE DUCATEL A/K/A MYRELENE DUCATEL A/K/A MYRELENE DUCTEL, ET AL. are the Defendant(s).

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on July 13, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 84 LAW STREET, VALLEY STREAM, NY 11580: Section 37, Block 490, Lot 159: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 606560/2018.

Rita Solomon, Esq. - Referee.

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 131966

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LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR DEUTSCHE ALT-A SECURITIES INC. MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-2, V. ERNSY ETIENNE, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated September 27, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR DEUTSCHE ALT-A SECURITIES INC. MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-2 is the Plaintiff and ERNSY ETIENNE, ET AL. are the Defendant(s).

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on July 12, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 19 FOSTER AVENUE, VALLEY STREAM, NY 11580: Section 37, Block 612, Lot 21: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN ROSEDALE, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 007402/2015. John G. Kennedy, Esq. - Referee.

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 131968 To Place A Notice Call 516-569-4000 x232

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU LPP MORTGAGE LTD., Plaintiff AGAINST AVA N. COHEN, ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered December 6, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 11, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 11 FIR STREET, VALLEY STREAM, NY 11580.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York , Section 37, Block 382, Lot 42 and Lot 43.

Approximate amount of judgment $333,179.61 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold

subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #015553/2012.

The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 mitigation pr otocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine”. Michael Zapson, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 00-305024 71306 131883 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST “Rhonda D. Chapman” (Said name being assumed by unknown individual for the purposes of obtaining title to the premises and the mortgage which is the subject of this action); Rhonda B. Chapman, Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated June 11, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 19, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1096 Marc Drive, Valley Stream, NY 11581-2536.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being near Valley Stream, in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section 39 Block 512 Lot 0016.

Approximate amount of judgment $685,178.70 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 005391/2014.

The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.”

Douglas Lieberman, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: March 24, 2022 132109 To Place A Notice Call 516-569-4000 x232

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NASSAU COUNTY BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, Plaintiff against VARICK FLORES, et al Defendant(s)

Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein Such & Crane, LLP, 1400 Old Country Road, Suite 103N, Westbury, NY 11590.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered November 10, 2016, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 19, 2022 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 42 Cedar Avenue, Valley Stream, NY 11580. Sec 37 Block 00537-00 Lot 00014. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream, County of Nassau and State of New York.

Approximate Amount of Judgment is $492,185.78 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 009285/2011.

The foreclosure sale will be conducted in accordance with 10th Judicial District’s Covid-19 Policies and foreclosure auction rules.

The Referee shall enforce any rules in place regarding facial coverings and social distancing. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the Court Appointed Referee shall cancel the foreclosure auction.

Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine.”

Geoffrey Prime, Esq., Referee CARN262 132111 LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER, V. DENNIS BEAUDRY. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated March 4, 2020, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER is the Plaintiff and DENNIS BEAUDRY is the Defendant.

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the NASSAU COUNTY SUPREME COURT, NORTH SIDE STEPS, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on July 14, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1139 SLABEY AVENUE, VALLEY STREAM, NY 11580: Section 35, Block 235, Lot 60: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED,

SITUATE, LYING AND BEING AT VALLEY STREAM, IN THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 608035/2019.

Charles Casolaro, Esq. - Referee.

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 132125 Search for notices online at: www.newyorkpublicnotices.com

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF THE BUNGALOW SERIES IV TRUST, Plaintiff, vs.

WAHEED AKHTAR, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale After Inquest and Appointment of Referee duly entered on January 22, 2015 and an Order Extending Sale Deadline duly entered on January 11, 2022, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the front steps on the north side of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on July 18, 2022 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 20 Dewitt Street, Valley Stream, NY 11580. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 37, Block 468 and Lot 111.

Approximate amount of judgment is $584,103.21 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #1487-13.

This foreclosure sale will be held on the north side steps of the Courthouse, rain or shine. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, the Court Appointed Referee will cancel the sale.

Karen Grant, Esq., Referee Friedman Vartolo LLP, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Firm File No. 201931-4 132139

LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU CITIMORTGAGE, INC., Plaintiff -againstJEANNIE CEDENO A/K/A JEANNIE S. ROVIRA, if he be living and if he be dead, etc..., et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein and dated January 29, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction on the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court located at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on July 19, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and the State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the easterly side of Bismarck Avenue, distant 50 feet southerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the said easterly side of Bismarck Avenue and the southerly side of Delmonlco Place; being a plot 100 feet by 100 feet by 50 feet by 100 feet. Section: 39 Block: 19 Lots: 54 & 55.

All bidders must wear a face mask/shield at all times and social distancing must be observed by all bidders at all times. Bidders who do not comply with the face mask and/or the social distancing mandate will be removed from the auction.

Said premises known as 108 BISMARK AVENUE, VALLEY STREAM, NY Approximate amount of lien $692,904.16 plus interest & costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney.

Index Number 14772/2013.

SANFORD STRENGER, ESQ., Referee David A. Gallo & Associates LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 47 Hillside Avenue, 2nd Floor, Manhasset, NY 11030 File# 4722.1372 {* VAL STRM H*} 132003 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT. NASSAU COUNTY. L&L ASSOCIATES HOLDING CORP., Pltf. vs. SHERI M. BLAY, et al, Defts. Index #607643/2021. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale dated Feb. 9, 2022 I will sell at public auction on the north front steps of Nassau Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive,

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Mineola, NY on July 5, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. prem. k/a District 30, Section 37, Block 382, Lot(s)36-37. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Foreclosure auction will be held “rain or shine.” If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the court appointed referee will cancel the auction. PETER KRAMER, Referee. LEVY & LEVY, Attys. for Pltf., 12 Tulip Dr., Great Neck, NY. #99260 131803

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU CARISBROOK ASSSET HOLDING TRUST, Plaintiff, Against MICHAEL ALPERT, ESQ., AS TEMPORARY ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE ESTATE OF SANDRA BOWIE OMEIR A/K/A SANDRA BOWIE-OMEIR, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered02/02/2022, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, The North Front Steps of the Nassau County Courthouse, 262 Old Country Rd., Mineola, NY on 7/7/2022 at 2:30 PM, premises known as 155 Green Street, Valley Stream, NY 11580 and described as follows; ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the incorporated Village of Valley Stream,Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York. Section37 Block 538 Lot 15 The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $514,780.64 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 014791/2013 James Donald Leonard, Esq., Referee.

McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC, Suite 205, 10 Midland Ave, Port Chester, NY 10573 Dated: 4-27-2022 File Number: 17-302358Hilton Ramirez 131796 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Section 184 of the Town Law of the State of New York, a public hearing will be held by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead, on Tuesday, the 28th day of June,2022, at 10:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Village and Town of Hempstead, New York,

for the purpose of considering a proposed renewal contract for fire protection with the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream, for furnishing fire protection services within the Green Acres Mall Fire Protection District, for a period of five (5) years commencing January l, 2022 and ending December 3l, 2026, for the sum of $561,819.00 for the year 2022; the sum of $575,864.00 for the year 2023; the sum of $596,020.00 for the year 2024; the sum of $616,880.00 for the year 2025; the sum of $632,302.00 for the year 2026.

The proposed contract is on file in the office of the Town Clerk, Hempstead Town Hall, l Washington Street, Hempstead, New York, where the same may be inspected during office hours.

ALL PERSONS interested in the subject matter will be given an opportunity to be heard in reference thereto, at the time and place above specified.

Dated: Hempstead, New York June 14, 2022

BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. KATE MURRAY Supervisor Town Clerk 132155

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 184 of the Town Law of the State of New York, a public hearing will be held by the Town Board of the Town of Hempstead, on Tuesday, the 28th day of June, 2022, at 10:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, in the town Meeting Pavilion, Hempstead Town Hall, 1 Washington Street, Village and Town of Hempstead, New York, for the purpose of considering a proposal by the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream to contract for the furnishing of fire protection within the Mill Brook Fire Protection District for a five (5) year period commencing January 1, 2022 and ending December 31, 2026, for the sum of $284,556.00 for the year 2022; the sum of $291,670.00 for the year 2023; the sum of $301,878.00 for the year 2024; the sum of $312,444.00 for the year 2025; and the sum of $320,255.00 for the year 2026.

The proposed contract is on file in the Office of the Town Clerk, Hempstead Town Hall, Hempstead, New York, where the same may be inspected during office hours, 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

While Chris has made a steady recovery older brother, Prince. “Probably a lot physically, he is dealing with a newfound more than me and my brother James sense of anxiety and fear of going near were at his age. He’s very skittish as well, any kind of street.

“Whenever we’re playing now, he tends and just overall very energetic.” to randomly blurt out in his native NapaJames ended up on the other side of lese the words ‘road’ and ‘pain,’” Prince the street at one point, according to police. said. “We’ve brought this up at a couple of Chris wanted to join him, but two cars our follow-up appointments with his pediwere about to cross their paths, leaving atrician and he says, it’s a result of him them standing on opposite sides of the being reminded of the pain” of that inciroad. dent.

James extended his hand, Prince said, Prince is working through his own signaling for Chris to stop sense of guilt over what hapwhile the first car slowly pened. passed. Then James waved Moments before the acciChris to cross, anxious to get dent, “mom had asked me to him safely over to his side. look after Chris,” the 20-yearBut that’s when the second old said. “I was just feeling so car arrived. tired and exhausted that day “He was basically sent that I told him that I underneath the car,” Prince couldn’t.” said. “The car drove far out Instead, Prince took a nap. enough for him to come out “She left Chris in the care on the other end.” of James, who is still a kid Prince and his mother himself,” Prince added, “and were outside just a moment a little bit rough when it later, calling 911. It was just comes to looking after him.” before 7 p.m., when police But the accident also arrived, and an ambulance shines light on what many rushed Chris to a nearby hosdescribe as the outsized rate pital. of reckless driving felt across Prince The injuries are any parLong Island in recent years, ent’s worst nightmare. Chris Karmacharya leading to more severe injury suffered multiple lacerations Chris’s brother and, at worse, loss of innoto his head, broken teeth, and cent life. serious scrapes to his face, Motor service organizaback and elbows. tion AAA has identified a “significant Parts of “Chris’s backside were com- increase in bad driving” since the panpletely flailed,” Prince said. “And it was demic, citing issues of excessive speedapparently quite a miracle, according to ing, impaired and distracted driving, as the doctors, that he survived.” well as driving without a seatbelt.

His head wounds were sutured and And last year, Nassau County ranked mended at the pediatric intensive care third-highest in the state for vehicle-relatunit. Chris remained in the hospital for ed fatalities — 78 deaths — according to nearly a week, his distraught family at his the Institute for Traffic Safety Managebedside. ment and Research.

“My dad and I alternated between stayRajan Karmacharya, Chris’s father, ing with my mom and Chris at the hospi- has urged the Nassau Traffic Safety tal,” Prince said. “We would sleep in the Board to put up a signboard alerting drivcar and just basically didn’t go home until ers to slow down on Melrose — something he was finally discharged.” county officials say they’re ready to do.

It was a haunting experience for the Traffic safety experts suggest other roadKarmacharya family. way modifications like rumble strips, “There were other children at the pedi- bicycle lanes and narrower roads could atric unit, and you could just hear them help curb accidents — even more than crying through the walls,” Prince said. police enforcement alone.

“That put a lot of stress on Chris, and he “Our family just wishes that no other was always asking when he can go home.” child would ever have to deal with someBut even when Chris did return to Mel- thing like this,” Prince said. “Especially rose Street, life was still far from normal. in our area.” continued from front page

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ur family just wishes that no other child would ever have to deal with something like this, especially in our area.

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ALL PERSONS interested in the subject matter will be given an opportunity to be heard in reference thereto at the time and place above specified.

Dated: Hempstead, New York June 14, 2022.

BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD DONALD X. CLAVIN, JR. KATE MURRAY Supervisor Town Clerk 132058

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Gorgeous Home in the West End!

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beautiful FEMA compliant home with a main floor that features a sunny open layout, pristine kitchen with stainless steel appliances, granite island and countertops; a formal dining area and living room with sliders to west facing deck, full bathroom, laundry room and entrance to backyard. The 3rd floor boats a primary bedroom with large custom walk-in closet and sliders to deck, another bedroom with sliders to deck, a 3rd bedroom and full bathroom. There is wood flooring throughout, CAC, carport parking for up to 4 cars, storage room, and large fenced in backyard for entertaining. Close to the pristine beaches and Long Beach's famous Boardwalk, local restaurants, shops and LIRR!

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This position is a provisional position and will require the selected candidate to sign up and take the next scheduled Clerk Typist I exam given by Nassau County Civil Service, date not yet determined.

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from a deck to a pool shed, and we think there are changes inside, like the garage was made into a family room. The owner is selling “as is,” and the real estate agents for both sides say it’s really not a big deal. Is it a big deal, and what should we look for? If the deal falls through, at least we need to know if there are issues we need to look for on the next one. Our attorney seemed to agree with the real estate people, by the way.

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Q. We’re buying a house with multiple issues,

A. If you define “big deal” as having things to do, then, yes, there are things to do, and expenses to go along with each item. It will take months and several thousand dollars to rectify the permit and final inspections leading to certifications.

The people advising you each have a different intent than you do.

Consider that the outside onte eeper items each have issues that range from zoning to construction correctness in order to pass for permits and for final certifications. For example, the municipality has regulations on the size of a shed, the area of the lot that all sheds and decks can cover and how close the pool, shed or deck can be to a property line. In each municipality there are several zones designated for different kinds of uses and sizes of properties.

There will be a difference between types of properties based on width and street front length, the allowable area you can cover and heights.

A zoning variance request, which is a request to “vary” from ordinances if the deck or shed is not compliant, adds considerably to the time it takes to get a permit, possibly several months. Building permits aren’t instantaneous, and can take one to two months in smaller villages and three to four months in larger towns — if the volume of applications coming into the building department is lower.

In a bustling economy, it can take much longer, and the time in a building department should be added to the zoning variance time.

Many people make the mistake of lumping the two time frames together in the hope of convincing themselves that this is no big deal. The deck, pool shed and garage conversion to living space all have very specific requirements under state building code. The general public assumes that codes for construction are local ordinances, but they aren’t.

Construction regulations are based on the International Building Code, used by the majority of states.

To get more specific, when I’m asked to look at conditions that may arise before a sale is complete, I see that about 90 percent of just the decks I look at do not comply with proper foundations or connectors from each wood part to the next, and beam spans are undersized for the allowable-size lumber, based on structural capability, even if they seem fine. I hope this helps with making things less of a big deal. Good luck!

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olitics is generally of little interest to the average citizen.

Getting to and from work, taking care of family needs and trying to have a little joy is much more important. Most people don’t think of politicians as people, and the daily machinations of the political world often go unnoticed. But elected officials are human beings, and the system in which they live can be a very cruel one.

The State Legislature recently approved new district maps that JERRY will play a decisive role in deterKREMER mining which candidate will represent you in Albany and Washington. For some of the incumbents, the new lines were pretty much the same as the districts they have represented. For a few others, however, the proposed maps are either the end of their political careers or the beginning of a life-or-death campaign for survival.

On Long Island, there were two notable changes, both affecting Democratic incumbents. State Sen. John Brooks saw most of his current mid-Island 8th Dis-

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trict disappear, and had to decide whether to run for re-election in the newly drawn 5th District. At first he chose not to run, but then he did an about-face, and will run for the seat in the new district after all. Brooks is a dedicated official, and he fought successfully this year to get Gov. Kathy Hochul to give Long Island a massive increase in school aid — but the mapmakers don’t reward devoted public service.

State Sen. Jim Gaughran currently represents the 5th District, which for now stretches from Glen Cove, in Nassau County, to Commack, in Suffolk County.

Gaughran has been a Huntington Town Board member, a Suffolk County legislator, chairman of the Suffolk County Water Authority and a strong environmental advocate in the State Senate. He is respected by both parties. But the mapmakers eliminated most of his 5th District, and facing an impossible uphill battle, Gaughran decided to leave the political arena.

The most notable change in the electoral map is taking place in Manhattan, where two long-serving members of Congress will now face each other in a primary contest. Under the old district

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lines, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney represented most of the Upper East Side, and Rep. Gerald Nadler represented the West Side, both for more than 25 years. When the maps were redrawn, Maloney and Nadler were thrown into the same district. Nadler suggested that Maloney run in an adjoining district, but since most of the new district is in her old territory, she declined to run elsewhere.

This battle of two senior members, who have been good friends and hold major committee chairmanships, made me recall my own history on the subject of legislative reapportionment. Back in the 1970s, when new State Assembly district lines were drawn, my South Shore district was combined with that of the late Assemblyman Eli Wager, a friend and fellow Long Island Democrat. Wager and I attempted to resolve our dicey situation by proposing that one of us run for the State Senate. That compromise ended quickly when attorney Karen Burstein announced that she was running for the Senate.

Imagine what it’s like when two elected officials who sat together in the same office, and have close family ties, are forced into a public battle for survival.

hen friends run against each other, there is rarely a happy ending.

There could be only one winner, and for 60-plus days we battled each other with every ounce of energy. On primary night, I was declared the winner by a margin of 1,800 votes, but the bitterness lingered for a number of years.

When colleagues are pitted against one another, there is rarely a happy ending. Luckily, months later, I got a call from then Gov. Hugh Carey, asking whether it was OK with me if he appointed Wager to the State Supreme Court. I encouraged Carey to make that move, and two elections later, Wager won a 14-year term on that court, where he served with distinction.

No one can predict who will win the battle between Representatives Maloney and Nadler, but when it’s over the public will have lost one great public servant.

The redrawing of district lines is required by law every 10 years. It primarily involves a juggling of constituent numbers, and is a heartless process.

Sadly, there are few happy endings when the final vote count is announced, which is what makes this process so cruel.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years.

He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.

Is our democracy becoming a royal pain?

s it too late to bring back King George III? We had all the right intentions in 1776, and a terrific starting lineup, but we seem to be making a mess of this experiment called democracy.

Lately I’ve been thinking that everything British is better. Well, not everything (Boris Johnson) but many things.

Maybe not the food.

Still, God Save the Queen. You have to love a woman who embraces stoicism as her reason for being. Her Majesty does everything the old-fashioned RAnDi way, and with such KREiss grace. She even wears a tiara with aplomb.

She is heroic in her steadfast devotion to duty. No matter how the world turns, no matter the dalliances of her children or her in-law kids, she embraces tradition with dignity and, I imagine, personal sacrifice. Democracy is so messy and divisive, but there is real comfort in the elaborate ritual of royal pomp. As evolved as I am as a woman in the 21st century, I would still enjoy a spin in a Cinderella carriage. With footmen, of course.

How sweet it would be here and now in America to have a royal figure to maintain some decorum as so many elected officials run off the rails. I’m telling you, we just didn’t think the whole 1776 thing all the way through.

Part of my escape over the Pond includes immersion in World War II novels and nonfiction. Literature featuring British history has all the elements of reallife thrillers. This month I listened to “In the Garden of the Beasts” and “The Splendid and the Vile,” both

by Erik Larson, and “Munich,” by Robert Harris, all superb nonfiction accounts of the days and months leading up to and into World War II. The Brits had an uphill fight to beat back the Nazis. They were blessed with a brave and self-sacrificing queen and a once-in-a-lifetime prime minister in Winston Churchill, who inspired his people with soaring rhetoric and unflappable courage.

I keep thinking about the Londoners during the blitz, not knowing how it would end but getting up every morning to drag bodies out of the rubble and then go to work. The high-mindedness of it all

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contrasts painfully with the skeevy machinations of today’s American politics.

Half the people running for office can’t compose or articulate a proper English sentence.

When I turn on the telly, it is to mysteries and thrillers on BritBox or Acorn TV. The stories presume some intelligence on the part of the viewer. No one shoots anyone in British police procedurals. They chase one another up and down buildings and across the countryside, but you rarely see a weapon other than a bloody knife. The writing is nuanced, which means every other word isn’t a four-letter one. Characters sometimes quote Shakespeare.

British TV actors look like real people.

That’s key. They have wrinkles and messy hair, lumpy bodies in shabby clothes. You see very few scantily clad women; when you do, they usually have a compelling story, something beyond their cascading curls and rising flesh. The character actors are especially talented, commanding their scenes without affecting cheap technique or $200 hairstyles. They look like regular people, which is the idea of acting, isn’t it?

ow sweet it would be here to have a royal figure to maintain some decorum.

One of my favorite series is “Midsomer Murders,” which has been on the air so long that the actor playing the main character, the village detective, retired from the role and passed it to his younger onscreen “brother.” Every episode features a ghastly murder in a village of 150 people. They just don’t run out of bodies.

And it isn’t so much a whodunit as a walking tour of the village eccentrics, all of whom are played by marvelous actors.

In my escape to the United Kingdom, I include Irish novels, many of which are gems, little-known literary sleepers like “The All of It” and “Northern Spy.” For some reason, books about the Troubles and the lives of the people of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland just pull me in and pull me out of my worries.

In general, the Queen and her subjects elevate the conversation, any conversation, unlike here in the States, where incivility and aggressive ignorance are increasingly common.

In one of the big production numbers in the show “Hamilton,” King George sings a solo to the American rebels.

“You’ll be back,” he warns, “soon, you’ll see. You’ll remember you belong to me…”

It has taken 246 years to come to this point, but maybe he was right.

Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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here is seemingly no place safer than home, but schools are supposed to be the next best thing. A place to learn about the world, to learn about one another. To grow. To mature. Really, a place to blossom.

Not too long ago, parents sent their children to schools without a second thought — worried only about grades and the occasional bully. Now it’s lockdown drills.

Secured classroom doors. Constant vigilance by those who we have otherwise tasked to teach.

And these words won’t make any of that better. Because if there is anything we have learned from Uvalde, from Parkland, from Sandy Hook, it’s that we can never do enough to protect our most precious resource: our children.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t try. And it’s time for a much broader approach — the kind only the Nassau-Suffolk School Boards Association can lead.

It’s so sad that we, as a country, can even say this, but there is a lot of experiential data available on how vulnerable our schools are to those intending to inflict harm. Yet we can’t dwell on why

that information exists. We must use it to prevent those tragic stories we read about and watch from elsewhere from ever landing at our front door.

The school boards association doesn’t have the authority to demand, of course.

But it can certainly advocate — something it’s been doing since 1959 for more than 100 school districts across Long Island.

Sure, most of that has been on the financial end — schools are always starving for money, thus making funding at all government levels a priority. But that doesn’t mean the organization can’t pursue school safety as well.

And it’s not that our local school districts aren’t trying — they are. The knowledge and skills to effectively fortify a school from a shooter are not something that can be piecemealed, however. It requires centralized planning — not as big as New York, but at least as big as Long Island.

The school boards association has the infrastructure to help lead that planning, and even effect real change.

The group can start by pushing for an audit of every single building, every sin-

gle door, every single window in Long Island schools. How are campuses accessed? How are visitors controlled?

How can those campuses keep weapons off their grounds, without making them feel like prisons?

Some ideas that have been promoted elsewhere include video cameras outside every exterior door with direct feeds to a security officer. Classroom door locks that can be activated by a teacher. Even bulletproof glass.

Sure, these measures are designed to prevent the symptoms of this overall issue, not the issue itself. But they are measures that will help keep our children safe today, and buy time for more expansive measures like gun control, assault weapon bans, and addressing the emotional needs of a school — and a community — right down to identifying signs that lead to a potential tragedy, and stopping it before a shooter’s plans are realized.

We can’t just talk and do nothing. We need to take action, and we need to speak with a unified voice. If we don’t, that next tragedy we read about could very well be our own.

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letters Abortion is more than just personal To the Editor: In his letter “Abortion is personal — a pandemic is not,” last week, Eugene Artemyeff precisely states the universal error of those who, in defense of abortion, claim that a woman has the right to do as she pleases with her own body.

He concludes that “abortion is a personal experience that physically affects that person and no one else,” that the physical aspects of that decision start and stop with only the woman involved.

I cannot understand how the rights of the developing fetus, the unborn, can be so overlooked and disregarded. The unborn is not part of the mother, but, genetically, a new and unique individual, and abortion ends its existence. Killing another person cannot but equate with murder or manslaughter. Of course there will never be agreement as to when abortion is justified, but if the life of the mother-to-be is threatened by the pregnancy, it would be. Less objectively, perhaps, abortion would be a legitimate recourse in cases of rape or incest, although by the end of the second trimester, that option should have been decided on one way or the other.

Thus, it is a question of when, in the course of a pregnancy, abortion might

be justified. It is not a yes-or-no issue, regardless of how the extreme position holders would portray it. But for a fetus, particularly a viable fetus, to have its life ended is inconsistent with our belief in life as a society.

I am always amazed at how often the right to life of the unborn is never even raised in the abortion debate.

That the pandemic presents a challenge that

requires members of society to act in a mutually respectful and considerate way makes sense. But even if a “society” involves just two people, mother and unborn, respect and consideration should be just as warranted and forthcoming, particularly when one holds the life of the other in her womb.

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ur country mourned the tragic events of a school massacre — again. But the day after the shooting at Uvalde, school life here at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck went on as usual. From Monday through Friday, my routine remained unchanged: I woke up, ate my breakfast, grabbed my backpack and kissed my parents goodbye before I hopped on the bus to head to school, my home away from home.

My school friends and I don’t have to make a conscious effort to Ilana walk in the shoes your average GREEnBERG of American student.

It’s not hard for us to understand and sympathize with the victims of the horrific tragedy in Texas and feel their grief.

What we can’t wrap our heads around is why it is so hard for our country to actually do something — anything — to stop this horror from happening again and

again and again, I am not fooled by my seemingly sheltered Long Island upbringing in Nassau County, the safest community in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. The unfortunate reality is that the shooting in Uvalde could have happened anywhere.

The statistics are staggering. More innocent children die from irresponsible and unregulated guns than from car accidents, according to Sandyhookpromise.org. Sixty-eight percent of school shooters used guns that were accessible in their homes. At any time, one or more of the 4.6 million American kids who live in a home with a loaded gun can bring it to school and use it to end lives.

School-aged children like me have enough to worry about. We’re exposed to harmful vape smoke and all types of drugs. We’re warned against the dangers of drinking and texting while driving. We battle bullying, and mental health problems, and Covid. And yet, gun violence has become the leading cause of death

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was taking a chemistry test, and started thinking about someone firing a gun.

lEttERs The Supreme Court was political long before the leak To the Editor: Re attorney Ronald Rosenberg’s op-ed piece “A leaking Supreme Court puts us at risk (May 26-June 1): I respectfully disagree. I think it is the Supreme Court itself that puts our democracy at risk.

Mr. Rosenberg writes that the leak of a draft decision on Roe v.

Wade “sought to politicize part of our democracy that was deliberately set above and beyond politics by our founders.” The Supreme Court is above and beyond politics? That’s news to me. In fact, today’s court may be the most politically partisan branch of our government.

When then candidate Donald Trump promised to appoint only judges that would outlaw a woman’s right to choose, that wasn’t political? Of course it was. And look what it got us: Neil Gorsuch, who was opposed by just about every civil and human rights organization in the U.S.; Brett Kavanaugh, whose “I liked beer” whine at his confirmation hearing is now a YouTube favorite, and Amy Coney Barrett, who served as a handmaid in an extreme religious organization.

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among young people.

News outlets covered the heartwrenching days that followed the shooting in Uvalde, but I fear the world has already become desensitized and diverted its short attention span to newer headlines. But for me, I suspect that no matter how long ago or comparatively distant the shooting took place, there will always be this constant, gnawing anxiety clawing through the depths of my subconscious, that something like this could happen to anyone — to my young brothers, to my friends and teachers, to me. I have an enduring fear, knowing that no school building is completely impervious to a safety breach.

Recently I was taking a chemistry test when my mind drifted, and a thought suddenly came to mind: If a student next to me were to start firing a gun, how would the security guard all the way at the front of the building stop him?

My peers and I have been trained in the event of a shooting to scan a class-

room and think, where would be a good place to hide?

Our doors have automatic locking mechanisms, so when a student returning from the bathroom innocently knocks at my classroom door, I have to look to my teacher for reassurance that our lives aren’t in danger and that the person that we’re about to let into the room doesn’t want to kill us.

When I ask my 7-year-old brother what he learned in school, he brings up safety drills, in which the phrase, “Stop, drop and roll” has been replaced by the instructions to “Hide, don’t make noise, and don’t open the door to anybody, not even the principal, who might have a gun to his head.”

When the world encountered a global pandemic, we came together to tackle the problem as best we could. Schoolchildren are now living through their own national crisis, but as our cries echo in the classrooms, the rest of the country stays silent.

When will we wake up from this living nightmare?

Ilana Greenberg is a freshman at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck.

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nell, denying even a hearing for Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland. That wasn’t political? McConnell said that a new appointment to the court shouldn’t be made only eight months before the next election. Later he allowed Coney Barrett, a diehard Republican who had never tried a case to or argued an appeal, to be confirmed in a Republican senatorsonly vote just a week before Election Day 2020. No politics there, right?

The truth is that we have ended up with a Supreme Court that is an arm of the Republican Party. Its decisions have consistently espoused the GOP’s political principles — or, rather, the lack of them.

These rulings were made by unelected judges with lifetime jobs, and they include decimating voting rights, gutting the Clean Water Act, permitting the proliferation of handguns and assault rifles and diminishing a woman’s right to choose.

I do not argue with Mr. Rosenberg’s contention that the founders were well intentioned when they tried to create a Supreme Court that would be above and beyond politics. But it seems today’s court verifies the aphorism “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

JOHN TURCHIANO Long Beach

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