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Apartment complex now in the pipeline

By JUAN LASSO jlasso@liherald.com

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PROPOSED PLANS FOR the new apartment will go to final planning and review in the near future.

A proposal for construction of a new apartment complex on West Merrick Road is slated for final site development plan review by the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals. The resolution passed by the board of trustees Aug. 16 amended the zoning map, turning a parcel of land in a previously residential and commercial district, known as a C-2 district, into a C-A district, or floating zone.

For the uninitiated in the world of zoning, zoning areas tell developers what can and

cannot be built in certain places, but a floating zone change expands the realm of options for specific projects. In this case, it allows a higher-density apartment project sandwiched between a commercial and residential area.

If the plan is approved, and no further modifications are made to it by either the zoning board or the Nassau County Planning Commission, village residents may soon see a new multi-family apartment complex spring up at 360A and 362 West Merrick Road. The sleek, five-story apartment building, CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

A talk with the Central District chief on reopening

By JUAN LASSO jlasso@liherald.com

The coronavirus upended the normal learning landscape of inperson public schooling for thousands of students in Valley Stream. This year, however, the schools aim to rebound from two pandemic years of educational paralysis and loss. The move to resume in-person instruction is not without its risks and pandemic-induced challenges, however. In Nassau County, the contagious Delta variant looms large, with an average of 392 reported cases per day as of this week.

The Herald spoke this week

with Dr. Wayne Loper, superintendent of the Central High School District, to discuss reopening plans and his vision for the school year. Loper took over for Dr. Bill Heidenreich in late June. He will oversee the learning experience of more than 2,000 students among the three high schools. The conversation has been edited and condensed.

Herald: What challenges do you foresee this year with school reopening for the Valley Stream Central High School District?

Loper: First, I’m excited to welcome our students and staff

back as we return to full-time, inperson instruction, and that is simply because there is no better way to learn than having students in front of their teachers.

Now, does that pose challenges?

Yes. We have to keep everyone as safe as possible in the time of a pandemic. And so, we are following the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] . . . and the New York State Education Department guidelines, implementing all safety protocols that are being recommended at this time.

That includes mandatory mask-wearing and social-distancing to the greatest extent possible. We have enhanced

cleaning protocols that we implemented last year that we’re continuing, making personal protective equipment available to students and staff as needed. We’re monitoring Covid levels in the community, and we are actually doing mandatory testing for sports, something that’s not recommended but is a safety precaution done by the school dis-

trict. We’re staying flexible and recognizing this is a fluid situation, and we will adapt and adjust accordingly.

Herald: Gov. Kathy Hochul announced her tentative plan to mandate teachers to get vaccinated. Is that something the district has implemented or has CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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Helping to mount a recovery in Haiti rtraverso@liherald.com

The Central Nassau Rotary Club held an emergency meeting after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Aug. 25, and decided to donate $10,000 to two organizations that were helping out in the crippled island nation.

Bill Youngfert, co-president of the Rotary Club, said that it chose to make the donation after hearing about the devastation the earthquake left behind. The club was specifically moved by the details of blocked deliveries of supplies and the lack of shelter for children who were left homeless. “Some roads in the southern area are impassable and shelter is a big problem also,” read a statement the organization released about its donation. “We heard one story about how a newborn infant died overnight due to lack of shelter.”

The Rotary Club donated to three organizations: Project St. Anne, an international grass-roots nonprofit established

by Haitian Americans in 2008; Health Education Action League for Haiti, known as HEAL Haiti, a nonprofit that trains and mobilizes young leaders in Haiti to improve health care; and the Rotary Club in Haiti, which helps people in need.

A number of members of the Rotary Club, which also sent money to Haiti after an earthquake in 2010 left over 200,000 dead, according to some estimates, are of Haitian descent and have family there.

The club, which serves Elmont, Franklin Square, Westbury and West Hempstead and is well known in the sizable Haitian community in Elmont and across Nassau County, wanted to make an effective donation that would help as many Haitians as possible. Unable to hold its annual fundraising dinner in 2020 due to

Courtesy Bill Youngfert/Central Nassau Rotary Club

BILL YOUNGFERT, OF the Central Nassau Rotary Club, left, met with Joshua Joseph, of the office of State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, two entities that have urged community members to donate to organizations on the ground in Haiti. the coronavirus pandemic, the club’s members and its supporters raised the money themselves, Youngfert said.

This, he said, was a “substantial donation for our organization.”

A major concern for the club was getting the funds to organizations on the ground in Haiti that can be trusted to help its people. After the 2010 earthquake, the FBI and other governmental agencies

warned of fraudulent charities that were not distributing funds and supplies.

“We wanted to make sure the money actually helps people with needs,” Youngfert said. “It’s unfortunate on the island: There is no support structure in place to get help to people; there’s nowhere to go . . . it breaks our hearts.”

State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, the first person of Haitian

descent to serve in the New York State Legislature, said she appreciated the donation. “I really approved of the Central Nassau Rotary Club’s donation,” she said. “It was humbling.”

Solages applauded the club for donating to organizations recommended by its members of Haitian descent, who are familiar with charities there that have low administrative costs and distribute the majority of donations they receive to people in need.

“We need to build a bridge to recovery,” Solages said. The goal, she said, should be to empower and inspire the people of Haiti, and help them mount a recovery from the earthquake, as well as the political and social crises the nation faces.

“There has been an outpouring of support from people of all demographics,” Solages said, noting the donations made by people in Elmont, Franklin Square and across Nassau County. “The people of this community support Haiti and its success.”

In fact, she said, as a result of a donation drive she held last month, immediately after the earthquake, her office needed to purchase a larger truck to transport the donations of medical gowns, syringes and other supplies.

She urged community members to continue to pray for and keep Haiti in their thoughts, and she advised those wanting to donate to its recovery to work with trusted organizations such as HEAL Haiti.

In its Aug. 25 statement, the Rotary Club noted that Solages’s office was coordinating the collection of monetary donations, medical supplies and personal hygiene products that were to be transported to Haiti soon. Those interested in donating can call Solages’s office at (516) 599-2972.

“Haiti will recover from this,” she said.

The mishpacha has a new spiritual leader

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

With more than 20 years of educational experience and familiarity with the Five Towns, Rabbi Nissan Goldberg has joined The Brandeis School mishpacha – which means family in Hebrew – bringing his unconventional learning methods.

“I have no set curriculum,” said, Goldberg, the Frost Lane school’s new rabbi. “I look at what the class needs,” pointing to his more than two decades of teaching special education. He has taught from nursey school to 12th graders. “It is to get their strengths out and diminish their weaknesses. Whatever it takes. As long as their learning, that is my responsibility, is done in a fun and caring way.”

Blending teamwork lessons such as tug-a-rope, showing the students that working together is better than working alone, to using popular and games to enhance the learning experience, Goldberg adheres to the old Confucius saying,

His previous camp experience includes “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. serving as a division head at Avnet Day I do and I understand.”

Raised in Kew Gardens, Goldberg, 41, Camp and Mesorah and Lavi sleepaway graduated from South Shore Yeshiva camps. He is the youth director at Young Israel of Great Neck. He lives High School in Elmont and in Great Neck with his wife, moved on to the Yeshiva Bracha, and their four chilGedolah-The Five Towns in dren.

Woodmere and then Touro Goldberg most recently Graduate School, graduating was the Judaic and genera with a degree in psychology teacher at Ptach, a Brooklynand education. He also earned based nonprofit that aims to three master’s degrees from offer Jewish and secular eduTouro: early intervention, cation to children with spespecial education and school cial needs. He also has taught leadership. at the Yeshiva High School for Further burnishing his Rabbi Boys in Manhattan, known as Five Towns connections, Nissan Goldberg the Marsha Stern Talmudical Goldberg was the rabbi for Academy and Yeshiva UniverHillel Day Camp, this summer. “I love the Five Towns,” he said. “Hil- sity High School for Girls, known as Cenlel was an opportunity to be able to make tral in Queens.

In the school’s official welcoming lettraditional connections and this is an opportunity to teach our heritage in a fun ter, officials stated: “Rabbi Goldberg believes in an open door policy and has loving way with real understanding of always encouraged students to visit him the connection to [Judaism.]”

with any questions thy may have regarding any aspect of life. With more than three decades of working with children, Rabbi Goldberg understands first hand that each child learns differently and will succeed when given the opportunity to do so.”

“I’m excited for Rabbi Goldberg to join our mishpacha and looking forward to creating engaging and unique programs, activities and opportunities for our parents, students and staff members that bring the Torah to life in exciting new ways,” Brandeis’s Head of School Raz Levin said.

Using real world examples, Goldberg teaches the children about their Jewish heritage, their history and their significance as Jews living in this modern world. “I use current events without getting into politics,” he said. “We also use Jewish history. The Bible is a story to learn life lessons to tap into. The Torah is a living document and I teach it that way.”

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By ROBERT TRAVERSO

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PAM JAFFE, DIRECTOR of Dementia Programs at the Friedberg JCC prepares to deliver a ‘sweet basket.’

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Photos courtesy Friedberg JCC

JCC delivers Rosh Hashana meals On the morning of Aug. 27, volunteers at the Barry and Florence Friedman Jewish Community Center bagged and delivered 50 Rosh Hashana packages to 46 individuals, couples and families who are struggling with financial issues and food insufficiency or are isolated and/or in areas highly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The delivery of the “Sweet Baskets” was a collaboration with the Gural JCC in Cedarhurst, which provided the packages and their contents, consisting of honey, challah, kasha mix, matzo ball mix, apples, honey cake and more.

“It’s a mitzvah to do something like this,” volunteer Elizabeth Malmud said.

“People are still homebound, and the older people are extremely happy to see a face in person. It’s what we do.”

“It’s a really important connection for people who are home even more now during the pandemic,” Pamela Jaffe, director of Dementia Programs and Services at the JCC, said. “Because these people might have compromised immune systems or their families might be worried about their health, they may not be coming for the in-person programming that has slowly returned to the JCC, but they still know that they are remembered by this symbol of the Jewish community.”

Jaffe and Director of Social Services Gloria Lebeaux stressed the need to extend the JCC to meet the needs of its community members who have been greatly affected by the continued pandemic. Providing these “sweets” can lift spirits for the holiday as many remain in isolation for health reasons.

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LARRY AND ELIZABETH Malmud on their way to deliver Rosh Hashanah baskets in Oceanside and Long Beach.

THE FRIEDBERG AND Gural JCCs, in Oceanside and Cedarhurst respectively, partnered to bring Rosh Hashanah staples to their homebound community members.

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Dr. Barry Arnold, a dentist with a practice in Valley Stream, was arrested and indicted in federal court last Thursday for prescribing opioids to drug-addicted women in exchange for sex acts, federal authorities said.

“As alleged, Dr. Arnold abused his position as a dentist and preyed upon vulnerable, drug-addicted women, trading prescriptions for sex acts,” said Jacquelyn Kasulis, acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “We are committed to vigorous prosecution of medical professionals who abdicate their Hippocratic Oath and contribute to the rise of drug abuse and addiction in our communities.”

Arnold pleaded not guilty to 28 counts of distribution of controlled substances at his first appearance before a judge in Central Islip.

According to federal authorities, for nearly four years, from October 2016 to August 2020, Arnold, 70, wrote drug prescriptions to 28 different women who were not his patients and with no legitimate medical purpose in exchange for sexual favors from them.

Prosecutors allege that the sex acts would regularly take place after the close of business day at his former dental office in Lynbrook, his current office in Valley Stream and his house in Williston Park.

The drugs that Arnold dealt out to his victims included oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, and alprazolam, commonly known as Xanax, a Schedule IV controlled substance.

“He is ethically and legally responsible for every prescription, but he broke his oath with his alleged misconduct, and he is really no different than a street dealer,” stated HSI Special Agent in Charge Fitzhugh. “HSI’s continued partnership with the [Drug Enforcement Administration] will ensure that drug-dealing dentists are arrested for their criminal acts.”

During his arraignment, Arnold was released on a $200,000 bond, as ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge James Wicks. He is confined to home detention with electronic monitoring, but is permitted to take a 12-hour trip one day a week to visit his family in Westchester.

While Arnold is still allowed to continue his dental practice, he will be stripped of his DEA registration to prescribe controlled substances and is prohibited from performing oral surgery or administering nitrous oxide to patients. He must also be subject to random drug testing and keep away from his alleged victims and any witnesses.

Arnold is scheduled to appear in court again on Oct. 29. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison.

Arnold’s attorney, Evan Sugar, could not be reached for comment on the allegations.

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EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Friday, Sept. 3 Summer concert series: Shining Star The village will host its summer concert series featuring an Earth, Wind, & Fire tribute band at the Village Band shell on the Village Green at 123 S. Central Ave, located behind Village Hall. The event starts at 8 p.m.

Back to school teen trivia The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library will be holding a back-to-school Team Trivia Kahoot! from 4 to 4:45 p.m. Teens are welcomed to join an afternoon of trivia over Zoom. Contact Teen Librarian Ms. Kenney at vsteens@ nassaulibrary.org to register.

Saturday, Sept. 4 Pool dance concert From 8 to 10 p.m. the village will host a pool dance concert Tales of Soul at the mini-golf course behind the Valley Stream pool complex at Arthur J. Hendrickson park.

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Henry Waldinger Memorial Library outdoor events The Henry Waldinger Library hosts a variety of fun activities for children including outdoor games, readings, and scavanger hunts.

Saturday, Sept. 4-6 Saturday, Sept. 11 Labor Day weekend closing The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library will be closed for the Labor Day weekend beginning on Saturday, Sept.

4 to Monday, Sept. 6. The library will reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 7. Please visit the library for any curbside/lobby pickups on Friday, September 3, 2021, by 7 pm, to borrow your books, DVDs, etc. for the holiday weekend.

Monday, Sept. 6 Village offices closed Village Hall will be closed on this day.

Pool complex closed The village pool complex will be closed on this day.

Tuesday, Sept. 7 Board of Zoning & Appeals meeting The village will hold a zoning and appeals meeting at 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Village Hall auditorium.

Valley Stream Doggie Pool Party The village will hold a pool party for dogs and their owners from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the kiddie pool section of the pool complex at Arthur J. Hendrickson Park, West Merrick Rd. & S. Franklin Ave. You must be a member of the Valley Stream dog park to attend. this event. Please see vsvny.org/dogs if you would like to join.

Lions Club flea market

The Lion’s Club will host their flea market at the village pool parking lot on 123 W. Merrick Road.

Valley Stream 9-11 Ceremony The village of Valley Stream will hold their annual 9-11 remembrance ceremony beginning at 6 p.m. in Arthur J. Hendrickson Park. All are welcomed.

Monday, Sept. 13 Board of Trustees work session The village will hold its Board of Trustees work session at 6:30 p.m. in the village hall auditorium.

Architectural Review Board Meeting The architectural review board meeting will be held at the Village Hall auditorium 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 14 CHS Board of Education business meeting The Valley Stream Central Highschool District Board of Education Business Meeting will start at 8 p.m. in One Kent Road (second floor, rear entrance of Memorial Junior High School).

Food Safety Facts session The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library will host speakers, Veronica Bilenkin, consumer health librarian, and Tushaar Shriman-ker, MD, resident physician.

Proper storage and cooking techniques can prevent food poisoning, a potentially fatal illness. Learn about online resources to find food safety tips, how to recognize the symptoms of food poisoning and gastroenteritis, and the four steps to safely prepare and preserve food whether at home or traveling. Please contact the library at (516) 825-6422.

Thursday, Sept. 16 American Legion Post 854 The American Legion Post will hold its meeting starting at 7 p.m. at 51 Roosevelt Ave. Valley Stream, NY 11582

Sunday, Sept. 19 Classic Car Show The village will host a show of classic and antique cars at 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the village complex pool parking lot at 123 W. Merrick Road.

Tuesday, Sept. 21 Board of Trustees Regular Work Session The village will hold its Board of Trustees meeting at the Valley Stream Village Hall auditorium from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Men’s health meeting The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library will host speakers, Veronica Bilenkin, and consumer health librarian, Will Jowsey, MBBS, resident physician.

Learn what to expect at a prostate cancer screening, when to begin and how often to follow up. Plus, get recommendations for online and print resources for men’s health information. Please contact the library at (516) 825-6422.

Wednesday, Sept. 22 Executive Session and Business Meeting

will include a “meditation sitting” and a question-and-answer discussion period. Save your spot!

Tuesday, Sept. 28 District 30 Board of Education Business Meeting Valley Stream District 30 Board of Education Business Meeting will start at 8 p.m. in the library at Shaw Avenue Elementary School.

Valley Stream District 24 Board of Education Executive Session will begin at 6:45 p.m. and the business meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the William L. Buck Elementary School.

Library Board Meeting The Library Board of Trustees will be meeting via Zoom. Members of the public are welcome to attend. Send an e-mail to hwmlcontact@hotmail. com or leave message on Facebook to indicate your interest in attending.

The agenda (and Zoom information) will be sent to you prior to the meeting. Contact: Library Director Ms. Eng (516) 825-6422, hwmlcontact@ hotmail.com

Tuesday, Sept. 24 Connecting Body, Mind, and Spirit Medical research has uncovered amazing facts about meditation and the body-mind-spirit connection. Join Gerry Gorman to learn how meditation can be used to minimize the effects of stress and maximize speed healing.

Learn the tools needed to make meditation part of daily life. The program

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

convenient for people to get vaccinated.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Relationships 101 The basic principles of relationships are best learned when you’re just a baby.

They’re taught by example, honed by repetition and absorbed into your bloodstream as you interact with others who live by the principles day in and day out.

The principles are simple. They are: ■ treat one another with kindness ■ listen to one another respectfully ■ speak to one another respectfully ■ pay attention to what people are telling you - directly and indirectly And since you are one of the people in

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the relationship, you must also ■ treat yourself with kindness ■ listen to yourself respectfully ■ speak to yourself respectfully ■ pay attention to what you are telling yourself Eli learned the principles of relationships while growing up in a crowded apartment in a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn. Jimmy learned the principles while growing up in a well-educated family in a beautiful home in the Five Towns. Clearly, neither money nor for-

■ When a friend says a kind word to her, she feels goosebumps on her arms.

■ When her spouse responds affectionately to her request, she feels elated.

■ When her child asks for her opinion and listens to what she says, she blinks away tears.

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she isn’t told how selfish, stupid or bad she is. Or doesn’t get bullied, shamed or blamed for her thoughts.

When you adhere to the basic principles of relationships, will discord and dissension be a thing of the past? Sorry, that only happens in fairy tales. In real life, when people bump up a g a i n s t e a ch other, there’ll be conflict.

When people disagree on a matter, there’ll be tension and discord.

But conflict doesn’t need to lead to warfare!

Clashes don’t need to end in character assasinda apadin sination! Hostilities don’t need to end in humiliation! Disagreements can be resolved.

Compromises can be made.

So, next time your spouse disappoints you, remember the most fundamental principles of relationships. Instead of screaming at him (or her), calling him names, blaming her for what’s gone wrong, tell him respectfully how you experienced what he did and what’s bothering you.

Next time your teen treats you disrespectfully, instead of getting into a tug of war, drop the rope! Don’t be bullied into doing what she wants you to do. Instead, tell her you’ll be happy to converse with her on this matter as soon as she can speak to you respectfully.

It’s easy to slide down the slippery slope to being mean when someone disappoints you. You blame them, treat them poorly, then make excuses to justify your own behavior.

But now that you know the basic principles of relationships, I trust that you, dear reader, will do your best to avoid sinking down to the lowest common denominator even if “he deserved it” or “I didn’t start it.” Instead, you’ll pay attention to the soft voice inside of you that’s whispering, “there’s gotta be a better way for us to get along.”

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Apartment plan goes to final review CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE named the Promenade 360, would have 36 units, with four studios and a mix of one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments.

“It’s going to be new, high-end apartment building on Merrick Road in a part of the village we’d like to see revitalized,” Trustee Vincent Grasso said.

The project developer, Kay Development LLC, also provided a community benefit of $150,000 in the form of “in-kind work on specific village projects” as part of its agreement, as confirmed by Thomas McAleer, director of the Economic Development Committee in Valley Stream.

“That money is going to be used for specific village projects,” McAleer said, “. . . but we don’t know which ones. There are a variety of them that the money could be used for, but the money will go to benefit the community.”

Village residents have recently seen a number of housing projects built throughout the village, with still others under consideration. “In the last 10 years, we approved about 200 rental units of new development, and my current understanding is that they’re rented or at least fully

rented,” Grasso said. “There is certainly a need, and that is exactly what we are responding to.”

“The housing demand throughout Nassau County and in our community is incredibly high,” said McAleer, who contends that the “affordability issue” of housing in Valley Stream can be traced to supply and demand.

“There is a very high demand and a very low supply,” McAleer said. “Our single-family and multifamily housing stock have risen in value and in price, and when you supply more to meet the demand, you start to create affordable options.”

According to McAleer, “Accommodating residents at different stages and preferences for the housing they’re looking for is part of the vision of the village and our department.”

“The village does not have a master plan,” McAleer said. Instead, village officials seek out projects from the “development community,” or as in the case with the current project under consideration, lets any developer step forward with a proposal to submit to the board for consideration.

Courtesy Valley Stream Village Hall

A RENDERING OF the proposed apartment complex.

Wishing you a happy and a sweet New Year

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Schools chief talks reopening plans for 2021-22 CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

started to implement?

Loper: No, right now, there is no

mandate or way to mandate vaccination status. There is a question as to whether the governor can actually mandate that for schools. There are collective bargaining agreements and unions and a host of obstacles involved in making that decision enforceable, but if she can lawfully enforce it, we will certainly comply. I personally believe the more people are vaccinated, the better off society is at large. We do, nevertheless, have set up the Mount Sinai [South Nassau] VaxMobile, which will be back on Aug. 30 at Memorial Junior High School, and every three weeks thereafter. We are continuing to help vaccinate the community in every way possible, but we cannot mandate that.

Herald: Some students have done better during the remote learning experience as opposed to in person.

Do you think that a remote learning option should be available, at least to some degree, to help meet the unique learning needs of students?

Loper: We are not offering a remote

learning option at all, bringing all of

our students back in-house. I truly believe students belong in front of their teachers. There are so many distractions when students are home, and that hands-on experience is just invaluable. But there is a population that has a great deal of anxiety about coming back to school, and listen, these have been trying times for everyone. Students and families have been in a state of emergency for over a year now, and many have experienced tragic losses. School closures and remote learning have uprooted traditional routines and the normalcy that adolescents need to grow and thrive on.

That’s why the district has started one of our most exciting initiatives in a long time. We are implementing Wellness Centers in each of our school facilities, all four buildings.

We will have pupil personnel service staff — physiologists, social workers, school counselors and other staff members — to help meet the socialemotional needs of our students and their families. These Wellness Centers will start on Sept. 21 and will be open in the evenings from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. If asked to be opened later than 6:30, we’ll stay open later. We’re going to provide services and referrals to students and do everything we can to transition back to normal.

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VALLEY STREAM HIGH schools have reopened for full-time, in-person learning this fall. Above, Central High School.

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Janis Joplin lives again at Eisenhower Park A large crowd gathered at Eisenhower Park on Aug. 7 to experience the music of Janis Joplin, who died so many years ago. Lisa Polizzi, lead singer from the Janis Joplin Experience, shared heartfelt renditions of Joplin’s popular tunes alongside her band of talented musicians.

People sang along and they were inspired to get up and dance too. The free concerts provided by the county are beloved by the community, with the Janis Joplin Experience perhaps one of the most popular.

SOULFUL TUNES WERE provided by the Janis Joplin Experience at Eisenhower Park.

Photos by Christina Daly/Herald

Public Notices

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LEGAL NOTICE CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT, NASSAU COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Marcie Mae (aka Marcella) Fuchs Benda, Frances Helen Fuchs Bavaro, New York State Attorney General , Jasper Surety, Attorney in Fact SureTec Ins. Co., Diane Natalie Weiner, and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law and next-of-kin of the said DONALD FRANZEL, deceased, and if any of the said distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and/or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained.

A petition having been duly filed by Nassau County Public Administrator, who is domiciled at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York 11501.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on October 27, 2021, at 9:30

o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Donald Franzel lately domiciled at 133-55 Hook Creek Blvd., Valley Stream, New York 11580, United States, admitting to probate a Will dated August 3, 1981 (and Codicil(s), if any, dated _______), a copy of which is attached, as the Will of Donald Franzel, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that: [_] Letters Testamentary issue to ___________________ [_] Letters of Trusteeship issue to ___________________ f/b/o ___________________ f/b/o ___________________ f/b/o ___________________ f/b/o ___________________ [X] Letters of Administration c.t.a. issue to Nassau County Public Administrator ___ ________________ [X] Further relief sought (if any): Letters of Administration issued to petitioner on January 14, 2020 be revoked; Admin bond no. 3460182 issued

by SureTec Insurance Co in the amount of $485,000.00 be cancelled and the surety be discharged and released.

Dated, Attested, and Sealed, 8/20/21 Seal HON. HON. MARGARET C.

REILLY ___________________ Surrogate Margaret C. Reilly ___________________ /s/ ___________________ Chief Clerk Debra Keller Leimbach Richard T. Kerins, Esq. ___________________ Attorney Name Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC ___________________ Firm (516) 538-1111 ___________________ Telephone 254 Nassau Boulevard South, Garden City South, New York 11530 rkerins@mmkolaw.com ___________________ ADDRESS NOTICE: THIS CITATION IS SERVED UPON YOU IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COURT’S ORDER DIRECTING ALTERNATIVE SERVICE OF PROCESS. NO IN-PERSON APPEARANCES SHALL BE HELD ON THE RETURN DATE OF THE CITATION. IF YOU WISH TO APPEAR TO ANSWER OR OBJECT TO THIS PROCEEDING, YOU MAY DO SO IN WRITING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ANNEXED NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES. NOTE: 22 NYCRR 207.7(C): PROOF OF SERVICE SHALL BE FILED ON OR BEFORE THE SECOND DAY PRECEEDING THE RETURN DATE. 127312

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LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM OFFICE OF THE VILLAGE CLERK/ADMINISTRATOR 123 South Central Avenue Valley Stream New York 11580 (516) 592-5105 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Board of the Inc. Village of Valley Stream will hold a Public Hearing in the Village Hall Auditorium, 123 S.Central Ave., Valley Stream, N.Y. on the 13th day of September, 2021, at 7 o’clock p.m. to consider: Case No. 2-21 Applicant: Home Builders of Long Island, LLCAddress: 229 Munro Blvd. Proposal: Subdivision Purpose: Subdivide parcel into two conforming lots Proposed use after subdivision: Maintain existing one family dwelling on a lesser lot and construct one new one family dwelling on a conforming lot.

ALL PERSONS INTERESTED shall have an opportunity to be heard on the foregoing matter at the time and place aforesaid.

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SALLY SIMEONE DANCED the night away.

JOE FERRANTE TRIES to make it to a concert every night and dances from start to finish. He went to 321 shows in 2019 before Covid stopped live music.

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A. You should assure your wife that her concerns are very real and it is all right to be concerned. Validate her feelings and be understanding, because many people in the same situation, in taller buildings, are questioning the safety of where they live.

Questioning and confirming are what keep us safe, onte eeper no matter what the issue is or where we are.

Ignoring or dismissing a potential problem doesn’t make it go away.

Applying knowledge and reason leads to security.

Many people assume, with most things, that some qualified person simply took care of a problem, solved it correctly, and kept us safe. I often share my calculation process with clients, showing them the reasoning behind steps taken to calculate a beam, for example, for two reasons. One is so they understand how buildings work, and also so that when a substitution is requested, they understand why it was rejected.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of assumptions that work is being done with correctness and conscientiousness. With larger buildings, there are many safety procedures, including independent certification by qualified consultant engineering professionals. You might feel better if your building hired an engineer who could explain the building’s structural system and how it keeps you safe. If the people living in the Surfside condominiums could have questioned and acted with a maintenance program, which would have required spending money, things might have been different. The design, review, construction and maintenance all played a part in the failure.

Look at your own building’s track record and ask informed questions. If you have no knowledge of the building process, ask others who do. The more I learn about the investigation of the collapse, the more convinced I am of the reasons for never ignoring the smallest details of how these giant custom jigsaw puzzles fit together. Every failure I have ever learned about had at least two common denominators, confidence and naïveté.

If a reinforcing rod is shown on the drawings to be a specific diameter, don’t substitute a smaller size because it was more available or install separate pieces where a continuous rod was supposed to go. The pool deck of that building was a separate structure that should never have been tied into the columns of the taller adjacent building, just like a deck should have minimal or no attachment to a house. The right force, wind or water, can pull a vertical support column sideways, rendering the column useless and toppling the taller structure.

Listen to your wife and have a happy life!

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

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

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

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

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two years.

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

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

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

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sometimes, their fear of a return to communism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the eye of the western firestorm

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

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

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

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

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

keep the windows closed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why didn’t we all flee after Hurricane Sandy?

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

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

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

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

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Get your teenagers vaccinated ASAP . . .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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erhaps every candidate for president should be a certified historian.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FRAMEWORK by Linda Smith

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

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

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

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

CARRIÉ SOLAGES Nassau County legislator, Lawrence

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