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A new leader at LIJ-V.S. Medical director transition comes amid Covid-19 resurgence with many unknowns. “I couldn’t help but be forced to become specialized, coming Dr. Corey Karlin-Zysman was from a place hit as hard as we associate medical director at were,” Karlin-Zysman, 44, Northwell Health’s Long Island recalled. Jewish Medical CenColleagues said ter, in New Hyde she played an intePark, when the first gral role in getting wave of the coronavithe team through the rus pandemic hit crisis. “LIJ probably New York in March. went through the At the time, she most difficult time it said, LIJ was among has ever gone the hardest-hit hospithrough, and she was tals in the country, part of the leadertreating more than ship team that really 900 patients at a medgot LIJ Medical CenDr. Corey ical center designed ter through, and had Karlin-Zysman for 589. Her responsius come out stronger bilities were manion the other side,” fold, including helping to man- Dr. Nancy Kwon, vice chairwomage an increasingly overwhelm- an of emergency medicine at the ing caseload and ensuring medi- hospital, said. cal staff safety while balancing “I couldn’t have asked for a the various care regimens of better teammate,” said the cenpatients suffering from a disease Continued on page 10

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Visible from the Space Station? Neighbors and friends gathered on Sunday to watch the lighting of Valley Streamer Jose Perez’s Meyer Avenue house. Growing up poor in Ecuador it was a childhood dream of Perez’s to one day create the most elaborate Christmas display, and he adds more to it each year. Story, more photos, Page 3.

A reason to give thanks

Masjid Hamza food pantry expands services By NiColE AlCiNDoR nalcindor@liherald.com

Since its unveiling in August, the food pantry at Masjid Hamza, in Valley Stream, has opened once a week, on Mondays, providing vital aid to families and individuals affected financially by the coronavirus pandemic. And with the need increasing, volunteers took Thanksgiving as an occasion to expand the pantry’s services. “Every Monday the number

of families getting food is growing more and more, as the pandemic continues to have a financial impact on people, and I wanted to give back even more during this past week to allow for people to be covered and happy on the holiday,” said Ruhee Kapadia, of Valley Stream, the mosque’s outreach coordinator. “We thought about the fact that there might be an extra-special need for food donations this Thanksgiving, and we were right. We ended up having dozens more people than

usual call outside of the Monday hours this past week, because they needed donations for Thanksgiving.” Normally, Kapadia said, the pantry feeds about 120 families a week. In the days before Thanksgiving, however, with pickup hours expanded beyond Monday, it fed 200 families with 5,300 pounds of food. It also provided toiletries and clothes. Kapadia said that giving to the food insecure has long been a Continued on page 5

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Visitors gathered at the Valley Streamer Jose Perez’s house on the corner of Guenther and Meyer Avenue for the lighting of his spectacular Christmas display. He adds more to it each year.

A Christmas spectacle in Valley Stream By Peter Belfiore pbelfiore@liherald.com

Ever since he was a child growing up in Ecuador, Valley Streamer Jose Perez has dreamt of creating a Christmas decoration display so elaborate and so bright, it could be seen far and wide. But with little money, the best he could muster was to make do with small trees he would scavenge from a nearby forest and decorate. Now an adult, with a home and his own construction business, Perez has realized his dream, and on Sunday he lit his display to the delight of friends and visitors in what has become an annual tradition. “I was watching movies, and I said to my mom, ‘one day I’m going to get a big, big house,’” he said, and vowed to put up as many decorations as he could. Perez has lived in his home on the corner of Guenther and Meyer Avenue for seven years and having realized his dream, each Christmas season adds more to it. Visitors can come see the display from sundown to around 11 p.m. he said. Using his story as an example of possibilities, he had a message for others, saying, “If they trust in themselves they can do anything they want to do.”

Perez, center and his wife, in red, cut a ribbon to mark the lighting of his display. sisters Kamila, 8, and Mia Cuzco, 10, with Perez’s glittery nativity display. Perez said it was a childhood dream of his to create an ultra-elaborate Christmas decoration display.

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V.S. doctor eliminated on ‘The Bachelorette’ By Peter Belfiore pbelfiore@liherald.com

Bad news for fans of “Bachelorette” contestant Dr. Joe Park. On the seventh episode of the long-running reality television show, the Valley Stream native anesthesiologist was eliminated, along with three other contestants, after failing to receive a rose from Bachelorette Tayshia Adams. Park, 36, had become a fan-favorite on the show for his kind, soft-spoken nature and a handful of humorous moments, but with little screen time, a connection between him and Adams appeared to not materialize. Park was one of 31 men competing for the heart of this season’s original Bachelorette, Clare Crawley, who stepped down after falling for contestant Dale Moss early in its run. Adams took over in Episode 5. Fans are now taking to social media and calling for Park to become the Bachelor for the 2022 season of the show. Currently, Matt James has been named for the upcoming season. With filming underway, it is slated to air in January, 2021, but after that, producers for the show are free to select whomever they’d like for the following season. Park, speaking to Entertainment Weekly upon his elimination, said that by 2022 he hopes he isn’t still single. “I hope I’m in a committed relationship by then!” he said. “I appreciate it, don’t get me wrong. It’s flattering, but it’s like, jeeze, I’m not getting any younger.” Park has been a frontline worker during the pandemic, and also spoke about his struggles with Covid-19, which he himself contracted in March while working at a hospital. He described the isolation he had felt during those initial months. The experience, he said prompted him to agree to come onto the show as a contestant after its producers reached out to him.

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Valley Stream natiVe Dr. Joe Park was eliminated from “The Bachelorette” last week. A fan favorite, many are calling for him to be made Bachelor for the show’s 2022 season. “Honestly, I’d been in my apartment for the past few months — pretty much in my 400-square-foot cell — and going to work. If Covid has taught us anything, it would be seize the moment and just take advantage of the opportunities given to you,” he said. “This is not something that I would normally have done, but at this junction I was like, 2020 is such a weird year, so . . . That’s kind of how it happened.” Park attended the George W. Hewlett High School, and later Georgetown University. He graduated from the Sto-

nybrook School of Medicine in 2014, according to his Facebook. In his medical profile for AABP Integrative Pain Care, where he works as an interventional pain physician, Park completed his pain fellowship and residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and is currently an anesthesiologist at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. Outside of work, the profile continues, he is an avid surfer, runner and reader of non-fiction. Taking to his Instagram shortly after leaving the show, Park thanked his friends, fans and family as well as staff on the show, including its “unsung heroes” made up of sound technicians, cameramen, handlers, housekeeping food service and medical staff. “There’s no magic in television,” he said in the post. “There are a lot of hard workers.” “2020 has been such a challenging year, but we’ve all learned so much, even if it was the hard way,” he added. “And if we’re just still for a moment and look closely, there’s probably a lot more we have to be thankful for than we realize.”

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continued from front page part of her daily routine. An immigrant who arrived in the United States in 2001 from Bombay, India, she grew up in a middle-class family, and her father often gave to the p o o r, w h i c h inspired her to d o t h e s a m e. Additionally, as a t e a c h e r, a n d mother of four children, Kapadia said she “knows firsthand how hard it can be to have to provide for those she loves with all her heart.” “I always get tears of joy and it makes me Ruhee Kapadia smile when I give Outreach coordinator, to others,” she said. “I also enjoy Masjid Hamza seeing people smile back when I help them and to know that in that moment they are probably thinking, ‘It’s going to be OK’; [that] makes me so happy,” Kapadia said. “Last week, I was also really happy to see so many different people that came together from the community regardless

e thought about the fact that there might be an extra-special need for food donations this Thanksgiving, and we were right.

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The Masjid haMza food pantry scheduled an additional day to collect and give donations to help those in need this Thanksgiving. of our differences to build up others through these donations.” Since the pantry opened, she and others said food donations have expanded beyond the local Muslim community. “I really love the fact that everyone can get something from the pantry and that it’s not just for Muslim people, because it really brings the community together,” said Matthew Khan, of Valley Stream, a longtime mosque congregant. “I hope to start giving donations to the Masjid Hamza food pantry soon because the

Islamic faith is built on five pillars, and charity is one of them. It’s mandatory.” “I’m Catholic, and it made me happy that it didn’t matter what religion I am. I was still welcomed into the Masjid Hamza to help out,” said Valley Streamer and village Sanitation Department worker Kevin Aburto, who was among those who organized donations to the pantry before Thanksgiving. “I also like the fact that people who come to receive donations aren’t judged based on their skin color or religion, because no matter who you are,

if you are hungry and knock on the Masjid Hamza’s door, they will help you out.” Others at the Sanitation Department pitched in as well. “Some people aren’t that fortunate, so if we can give a helping hand, we will do it,” Department Supervisor Dominick Milillo said. “Those who are less fortunate deserve to have a good holiday, at any time, not just during the pandemic. Giving back is symbolic, given the very unprecedented times we are in. It gives people hope.”

The Masjid haMza food pantry fed 200 families with 5,300 pounds of food during Thanksgiving week.

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Despite losing its all-time leading scorer, Molloy College’s men’s basketball program is aiming to rebound from a 12-17 season, including a 7-9 mark against East Coast Conference foes. The Lions, who captured their firstever ECC Tournament title in the 2018-19 campaign, aren’t playing any non-conference games this season due to Covid-19 and won’t be in action until traveling to upstate Rochester to face Roberts Wesleyan College in the Jan. 9 opener. “We began working on conditioning around the same time as we usually do and then got into individual skill work and socially distant team-based offense and defense drills,” head coach Charlie Marquardt said. “We have that mandatory week off around the holidays and when we start back up Dec. 28, we’ll have 10 days to get ready for the opener.” Barring any changes, the 18-game ECC schedule and postseason tournament will be played without fans. “I’m expecting games to have the feel of a scrimmage,” Marquardt said. “We will have to generate our own energy. It’ll be intriguing.” The Lions will also need to turn the page on the Nick Corbett era. A threetime All-ECC First Team selection, he averaged 23.7 points per game and finished his career at Molloy with 2,032 points, 379 rebounds and 385 assists and 153 steals. “Not only was Nick our alltime leading scorer, which is an amazing feat considering some of the players we’ve had, but he also had the uncanny ability to step up late in games,” Marquardt said. “Who’ll be getting the ball in crunch time this season will be by committee,” Molloy returns four players who made at least 14 starts a season ago, including former Baldwin High School product Justin Caldwell, a redshirt senior big man, and former Lynbrook High School standout James Montgomery, a sophomore who like Caldwell is 6-foot-7. Calldwell, who averaged a little more than 5 points and 5 rebounds per game last season while making 22 starts, knows what it takes to get the job done inside, Marquardt said, and will be counted on to provide leadership as well. Montgomery started 19 games and led the Lions in field goal percentage (55.7) on the way to chipping in 6.3 points per game. “James improved as the season went on and made steady contributions as a freshman,” Marquardt said. “He got bigger and stronger during the offseason and he can attack the rim as well as post up.” Pano Pavlidis, a 6-8 sophomore, emerged last winter and Marquardt is expecting even more with 17 starts under his belt. Pavlidis led the team in

rebounding (6.8 per game) and scored at a 6.7 ppg clip. Though experienced in the frontcourt, Marquardt also likes his collection of guards and believes it’ll take strong backcourt play for Molloy to be competitive against the likes of Daemen, Bridgeport and St. Thomas Aquinas. Spearheading a deep group of guards is Steven Torre, one of few seniors on the roster. He’s the Lions’ top returning scorer (10.4 ppg) and made 14 starts. Marquardt said the plan is for Torre to be off the ball more and make up for some of the offense lost by Corbett’s departure. Junior guard Frankie Phelan is a breakout candidate following a determined offseason. Another quality option to run the point is Kenny Lazo, a freshman out of Brentwood High School who won two Long Island championships and earned All-State honors. Marquardt describes Lazo as a born leader and tenacious defender. Former Lawrence Woodmere Academy standout Kendall Ogilvie, a junior, transferred from LIU Post prior to last season but didn’t play. He’s in the mix along with a pair of freshmen — former Freeport High School’s Darren Fergus and Mick Browne from Queens. “We like our guards,” Marquardt said. “We have some experience, some guys with bigger roles and some talented newcomers.”

JuNIOr FraNkIE PhELaN is part of a deep backcourt that has Molloy head coach Charlie Marquardt excited.

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Wheeler students gobble up STEM lessons Second-graders at Wheeler Avenue Elementary school got a taste of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, this Thanksgiving season with a turkey-themed lesson. The students in teacher Alyssa Gress’ class were tasked with building an enclosure for their feathered friend using a specified number of blocks, and given a time limit of ten minutes.

The goal of the activity was to help students develop engineering skills by building a structure that would house the turkey and keep it safe and hidden. While social distancing requirements prevented the students from working in groups, they were able to share their design and ideas with the rest of the class afterward.

edWin QuezAdA, Also in secondgrade, made sure his turkey was protected all the way around.

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Wheeler Avenue second-grAder Michelle Rios built an enclosure around a turkey using blocks as part of a Thanksgiving-themed STEM lesson.

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Freshmen students oF the class of 2024 sponsored the event.

North H.S. hosts outdoor movie night Taking advantage of the unseasonably warm weather, North High School hosted its first movie night of the school year earlier in November. The class of 2024 sponsored the event, and the featured movie was “Hocus Pocus,” which was projected onto a large, inflatable screen. Students were kept socially distant and given pre-packaged treats and glow-in-the-dark goodies. Compiled by Peter Belfiore

north high school students set up lawn chairs and blankets to take part in the school’s first outdoor of movie night of the year early last month.

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LIJ-V.S. welcomes new medical director continued from front page ter’s medical director, Dr. Richard Schwarz, recalling the long weeks that the two worked to keep the hospital and staff from buckling under the pressure. Now, starting Dec. 7, Karlin-Zysman will help lead LIJ in Valley Stream as medical director, moving to Northwell’s sister hospital at a time when coronavirus cases are starting to surge. Kwon said her colleague is ready, noting, “I think she’s very prepared, she’s peerless, she has great flexibility, and she’s ready to step up to the most difficult of challeng es, as evidenced by everything she’s done so far in her career and during the pandemic.” “She’ll do w o n d e r f u l l y, ” S ch w a r z s a i d . “I’ll miss her tremendously. She’s been a g reat asset and a joy to work with. She’s more than ready for this position.” While KarlinZysman now manages the staff and procedures for a multiDr. nancy million-dollar medical facility, Kwon she said it all Vice chairwoman began when she of emergency was given the medicine, opportunity to dissect a frog in LIJ Medical Center s e c o n d g r a d e. She grew up in Islip. Her teacher one day announced the school had extra frogs to dissect. The only requirement was that the students needed to bring their own jars to hold the specimens. Worried there would be too many takers, she brought one from home the next day. She was the only one to take up the offer. “For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be a doctor,” she said. “It started from more of a place of scientific curiosity, and as I got older, I think I started to round it out and see it from more of a people place. How cool is it to be able to fix someone, to make them better?” She studied pre-medicine at Stanford University in California and received her medical degree from the Stony Brook University School of Medicine in 2003. While completing her residency at Brown University in 2006, her parents called to see if she could find a job closer to home on Long Island. They missed her. “I cold-called LIJ Medical Center, interviewed and got the job on the spot,” Karlin-Zysman recalled. She has worked there ever since, and has “never looked back,” she said. Although she never anticipated work-

he’s peerless, she has great flexibility, and she’s ready to step up to the most difficult of challenges, as evidenced by everything she’s done so far in her career and during the pandemic.

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Starting Dec. 7, LIJ Valley Stream will have a new medical director. Dr. Corey Karlin-Zysman brings 14 years of experience working in the Northwell Health network at its neighboring LIJ Medical Center. She will join the hospital as the coronavirus begins to surge again on Long Island.

Karlin-ZySman SpecialiZeS in hospital medicine, managing the logistics of treatments using medication in a hospital. She said she hopes to make the most of that experience in her new role. ing in a leadership role as a doctor, specializing in a fledgling area of study known as hospital medicine — which focuses on the logistics of medicinal treatment in a hospital — within six months of working at the medical center she was made associate site director of hospital medicine, and has continued to work her way up since. Leadership in the medical field, Karlin-Zysman said, is a radically different experience than working as a doctor. “When you’re a doctor, you’re a bit of an independent operator,” she explained. “It’s you and your patient, and that’s your world, that’s your bubble.” When managing a hospital, however, “You have to expand outside that bubble,” she said, and bridge various disciplines, whether it be those of different department heads, nurse managers and business-finance executives, to keep the

operation running smoothly. While it’s not for everyone, Karlin-Zysman said she finds it rewarding. “What I like is being someone who is there to help you achieve your goals,” she said. “How can I help you meet them, what processes and workflows can I help you create and what resources can I get you? “I can speak doctor and translate that to administrators, finance people and nursing,” she continued, “and be that essential go-between and find the mutual win.” “She’s an amazing leader, an outstanding leader,” Kwon said, adding that that while Karlin-Zysman is often open to input from her team members, she knows when to make a final decision. The two have worked together since she came on in 2013 as associate chairwoman of emergency medicine at LIJ Medical Center.

“She tries to look at things from all sides,” Kwon said. “It’s very bittersweet because she’s leaving us, but we know she’s the type of person who stays in touch, and we know we can all pick up the phone and ask for help even though she’s at a different hospital.” In a letter to the LIJ Valley Stream staff, Executive Director David Seligman thanked the outgoing medical director, Dr. Joseph Marino, for his service to the hospital and welcomed Karlin-Zysman. Marino had served in the role since 2010, and is becoming Northwell’s senior vice president for anesthesia services. “Throughout her tenure at Northwell, Corey has continually been recognized for clinical, teaching and research excellence,” Seligman said, listing a number of her accolades. “. . . In her new role, Corey will oversee and drive clinical quality and efficiency improvements while partnering with our team to propel innovation, programmatic development and a patientcentered culture at LIJ Valley Stream.” In addition to tackling the coronavirus, which Karlin-Zysman said Northwell is more equipped to handle this time around, she said she looks forward to leveraging her expertise in hospital medicine to further improve efficiency at the Valley Stream hospital. And in a field in which women are typically underrepresented in leadership roles — according to a 2020 report from McKinsey & Co., an industry consultancy firm, women comprise 30 percent of medical corporate leadership, despite greater parity in other areas of medicine — Karlin-Zysman said she is proud to serve as a role-model for others. Married, with two young children and living in Great Neck, she said that managing her home and work life has come with its own set of challenges, but it was important for her to push through. “It’s a difficult balance to strike,” she said, “but if you want it, you can achieve it.”

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’m likely not alone in saying that it’s hard to overstate how much of a rollercoaster these past nine months and change have been. In my role I’ve recounted tales of crises, loss and perseverance, both in the face of disaster and injustice. There has been so much death, financial destruction and disruption that it has certainly at times been overwhelming. Often, I think back to those first few weeks when this all started. There was so much fear, and so many people on a knife’s edge for whom this whole thing threatened to take what little they had managed to scrape together. I often wonder how they’ve fared. Then, there were the bright spots, when the anxiety and death gave way to a renewed fight for justice. A generation of activists was born, and we settled into a new normal. Now, with a renewed sense of uncertainty, I brace for what’s next. Like many, what my day-to-day looks like has changed. I no longer commute, and I’m fortunate enough to live in the community I cover. In that sense I feel closer than ever to the people whose stories I write about. I don’t tire of telling coronavirus stories because I know that they have the potential to help. Depending on the context, they provide useful information and hopefully a bit of illumination in dark times. I also hope that some might illustrate the ways in which we aren’t alone — whether it’s through loss, success, sacrifice or determination — there are others experiencing the same.

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’ve been a reporter or journalist for the Herald for almost two years now. My job entails interviewing people in the communities that I cover on various topics, event coverage and writing articles. The hardest part of doing my job during the pandemic is not seeing my coworkers anymore. I miss face-to-face communication with my coworkers. I also miss the ability to receive one-on-one guidance and tips from my editors and higher-ups in person. It’s also difficult to manage working from home instead of being in the office because at home I usually wind down from a long work day. Now, my home is my work space. I enjoyed the structure of working in the office because I could focus a lot better at my desk cubicle. When the pandemic first hit, it terrified me because it was very unexpected. Both my parents had the coronavirus in late March. When my parents were sick, I was terrified that they would both die and leave me and my siblings to survive on our own. Although both my parents survived the virus, I still have fears of them contracting another strain of the virus, and not making it through a second infection. Fortunately, I never got sick from the virus, even though I was exposed to my parents at the time when they were sick with coronavirus. I will always be afraid of the virus because it nearly stole my parents from me.

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Girl ScoutS from Valley Stream Troop No. 2243 collected food to donate to State Sen. Todd Kaminsky’s Thanksgiving Donation Drive this year.

Girl Scouts collect food for the needy Girl Scouts from Valley Stream Troop No. 2243 hosted a collection drive the weekend before Thanksgiving this year to gather food for State Sen. Todd Kaminsky’s annual Thanksgiving Donation Drive. The food is intended to help the food insecure living in the 9th Senate District, and the Girl Scouts, as in years past, dropped the food off at Kamkinsky’s district office in Rockville Centre. Compiled by Peter Belfiore

Valley Stream photographer Wallace of credibility on Serenity Photo,” Hutchinson recently earned certifica- Hutchinson said. “There are professiontion from the Professional als in industries who place Photographers of America, emphasis on expanding which currently recognizes their professional skills in roughly 2,500 Certified Prochallenging markets through fessional Photo g raphers additional certifications. nationwide. The Certified Professional Hutchinson received the Photographer Certification certification after completwill enhance my professioning an intensive program al skills and allow for me to intended to measure his advance my network and artistic and technical compemarket to potential customtence in photography. He ers.” Wallace hutchinson currently runs his own porThe certification involved trait photography business, a written examination and Serenity Photo. ima g e evaluation while “As a photographer I wanted to seek adhering to a code of conduct and it an opportunity to market my photogra- must be renewed on a periodic basis. phy skills and place a higher standard

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Nassau County police reported that they are investigating a robbery at a West Merrick Road convenience store on Nov. 29. Detectives say that around 7:27 p.m. a man reportedly walked into the Express C-Store on West Merrick Road and bought a can of soda. The store clerk, 53, reported that upon walking up to the register the man pulled out a handgun and demanded he hand over cash, took an undetermined amount of money and left the store headed east on Merrick. Police said the suspect was described as a 6 foot tall, black with a slight build and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black sweatpants, a white mask and black sneakers. There were no reported injuries. Police ask that anyone with information on the reported robbery call 1 (800) 244-8477.

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A teAcher At Central High School reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus on Nov. 30. It is one of the latest positive cases in Valley Stream schools, and althouth positivity rates are increasing in the neighborhood, infection does not appear to be spreading within school buildings. Courtesy Google

Police rePorted A robbery at the Express C-Store on West Merrick Road on Nov. 29.

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Team Kindness is a go at North H.S. North High School’s Team Kindness kicked off their day in the school library early last month with engaging and fun activities, games and team building exercises. One of three academic teams in the seventh-grade, this group of students

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North’s teAm KiNdNess gathered at the North High School library early last month for a handful of collaborative activities.

was tasked with breaking out of virtual escape rooms by working together to crack a code. In addition, they also created a team kindness banner together, decorated Jack-o’-lanterns and wrote stories by building on each other’s creativity.

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With Coronavirus positivity rates rising in Nassau County, Valley Stream schools are bracing for a number of potentials, including precautionary closures, required closures and mandatory Covid-19 testing of students and staff, according to a joint letter issued on Nov. 23 by Valley Stream’s four schools superintendents. As of Tuesday, Nassau’s seven-day positivity rate had jumped to 4.2 percent, with three new reported Covid-19 deaths, according to County Executive Laura Curran, bringing the total death toll in the region to 2,260 since the start of the pandemic. In Valley Stream, 106 new coronavirus cases were reported between Nov. 26 and Dec. 1, according to county Department of Health figures. In light of this, the superintendents warned that Valley Stream would likely be designated as one of the New York Department of Health’s problem zones, which comes with a host restrictions depending on the severity, including the closure of schools and non-essential businesses. Although Valley Stream schools have so far seen a handful of cases, including temporary closures at North and South

high schools, it does not appear that the virus has been spreading within the buildings. So far, Valley Stream’s three elementary school districts have avoided closures. The latest confirmed cases include a staff member at Forest Road Elementary School no Dec. 1, a Central High School teacher on Nov. 30, a student at the Carbonaro Elementary School on Nov. 27 and a student at Brooklyn Avenue Elementary School on Nov. 25. None of the cases are believed to have presented a risk of exposure to others in the buildings, according to school officials. As of Dec. 1, Valley Stream has so far not been designated as one of New York’s so-called cluster zones, which are color-coded depending on the severity of infection rates. Yellow zones allow schools to remain open with the requirement that 20 percent of students and faculty are tested weekly. Under new guidelines, schools in orange and red zones must close for four days after the zone designation. Reopening is contingent on all returning staff and students receiving a negative coronavirus test, and after, 25 percent of the staff and student population must be tested on a weekly basis in order for the buildings to remain open.

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A. Your northern Nassau County town has the particular reputation for this behavior. Many architects won’t even do work there, for the simple reason that they punish honesty instead of promoting ways to improve public safety. The implication of “omissions” at the top of the notice is a legally irresponsible implication that accuses you and your architect of purposely or unprofessionally leaving out important facts, as if you or your architect would have imagined filing for a washing machine or patio. A washing machine application would have been part of a plumbing application anywhere else. Most communities have no such requirement for the architect, and the homeowner expects that a house with a washing machine is as common as a car with four wheels. The inspector who came to your house was probably trying to help you with safety items, looking for the smoke detectors, escape windows and handrails, but the letter was composed by a plans examiner, who doesn’t come to the house but instead goes through the files that you can’t see because of the pandemic. The examiner went looking for anything and everything to reveal that there is much more they previously didn’t enforce. In this age of computers, building departments have a better way to keep records about your home, and they’re trying to update, since illegal additions and amenities like fences, retaining walls, pools and decks — and washing machines, I guess — slipped past their radar over the years. They also assume that plans are made just by pushing a few keyboard buttons, so why not ask for more than they ever did before? Unfortunately, the method of punishing with court hearings, fines and dismantling work isn’t the only way they could handle this. It’s just the way your North Shore town chooses to do it. Good luck! © 2020 Monte Leeper Readers are encouraged to send questions to yourhousedr@aol.com, with “Herald question” in the subject line, or to Herald Homes, 2 Endo Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530, Attn: Monte Leeper, architect.

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n the interior of Washington state, in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, there is a tiny city, population about 900, that I have long wanted to visit — Roslyn. There are no vacation amenities in this place — it is a seemingly ordinary American city, with a handful of eateries and shops and one hole-in-the-wall radio station along its single weatherworn main street. From 1990 to 1995, however, Roslyn was the standin for the fictional Cicely, Alaska, in the CBS cult classic “Northern Exposure,” an Emmy Award-winning sCoTT series that, to my BRInTon mind, is the finest comedy-drama ever produced, mixing medicine with literature, history, philosophy, religion, music —oh, so much music — and magic to conjure up an idealized version of small-town America. Yes, the denizens of this very out-of-theway place disagree and argue — and argue some more — but despite their differences, whether they be spiritual, political or socio-economic, folks seek to understand one another on a deep, existential level, and in the end, they do. That’s why, I believe, so many viewers love this show, worship it, really, including my wife and me. We discovered “Northern Exposure” in 1993, when we arrived in the

U.S. after I had served for two years in the Peace Corps in Bulgaria, where Katerina was born and raised, and we instantly fell in love with it. Five years ago, I bought the six-season DVD set of the show for Katerina as an anniversary gift, and we set it aside, thinking we would eventually watch and rewatch the show’s 110 episodes, but we never found the time. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck, and it forced us to slow down. Sequestered at home in the early weeks of the crisis, we started watching the series from its start and found solace in this endearing show, which was best described by one reviewer as “esoteric utopian.” Each Saturday afternoon, feeling pandemic fatigue, we lounged on the couch after chowing on diner food and watched three or so episodes at a clip until, nine months later, we had viewed six years’ worth of shows. It was an entirely escapist exercise in a year when, it appeared, the country was collapsing around us. It brought us back to a happier time, one of relative stability, before the Oklahoma City bombing (which occurred the year “Northern Exposure” ended), 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Great Recession of 2008-09, Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and now the pandemic. The show’s main character, Dr. Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), a Queens native and a graduate of Columbia Univer-

sity’s medical school, must spend four years practicing in Alaska because the state paid for his exorbitantly expensive medical education. He thinks he’ll be stationed in Anchorage, the state’s largest city, or its capital, Juneau. Instead he is sent to Cicely, somewhere in the far northern reaches of Alaska, where paved roads peter out into dense forest and the temperature plummets well below zero in the dead of winter. Fleischman, a citified New Yorker, is appalled, horrified even. In Cicely he must adapt to a decidedly slower rural culture, one that values the natural beauty of the land surrounding the town, and one that places interpersonal relations, rather than economic success, at the forefront of people’s lives. Through the relationships Fleischman develops with the other central characters, he slowly comes to appreciate the place and its people to the point that, one day, toward the end of the show, he ventures upstream by canoe to live off the land with a Native American tribe, fishing and gathering, before finally returning to New York City. Among his small circle of friends are the debutante-turned-bush pilot Maggie O’Connell (Janine Turner), the philosopher D.J. Chris Stevens (John Corbett), the millionaire retired astronaut Maurice Minnifield (Barry Corbin), the trapper-turned-

reaking up Covid fatigue with all six seasons of ‘Northern Exposure.’

barkeep Holling Vincoeur (John Collum) and his live-in girlfriend (and later wife), the former beauty queen-turned-waitress Shelly Marie Tambo (Cynthia Geary), aspiring filmmaker-shaman Ed Chigliak (Darren Burrows), general store owner Ruth-Anne Miller (Peg Phillips) and Fleischman’s quiet and patient receptionist, Marilyn Whirlwind (Elaine Miles). There are a host of minor, but always eccentric, characters who round out the cast. What defines the show are the relations among the characters, the depth of their thoughts and the intelligence of the dialogue. There is no other show quite like it. Many have compared it to “Twin Peaks,” another ’90s cult classic. Yes and no is my answer to that appraisal. There is a persistent darkness to “Twin Peaks,” which is about the murder of a teenage prom queen. “Northern Exposure,” meanwhile, is one long celebration of life and its many traditions and mysteries. Sadly, the show isn’t available on a streaming service, only on DVD, but buy it and watch it if you’re seeking a feel-good story that will stimulate your mind and soul. I’d love to know what show is keeping you going through the pandemic, and why. You can email me at sbrinton@liherald. com. 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.

We’re on Trump time for another seven weeks

alf of me never wants to write or speak the name Trump again. Half of me wants to finish the work I started nearly four years ago: to use my 750 words in this newspaper to speak to the issue of our time, the ongoing incompetence of the Trump administration. Apparently my second half is Trumping my first half, at least this week. I tried over and over again to stand in others’ shoes, to imagine how readers who clearly are RandI informed and kReIss patriotic could support a leader who freely lies and then lies about lying, who cheats and who is willing to abuse the majesty of the presidency for his personal gain. I understand when a reader praises his peace initiative between Israel and the UAE, or the Warp Speed vaccination program. Well done, Mr. President. But none of this comes close to compensating for all we’ve lost here at home, and across the world.

Responding to a column about Trump’s bad behavior, some readers digress to Cuomo and Clinton, with references to their lapses. But they aren’t in the White House. Does the fact that Hillary Clinton either did or did not use a personal e-mail account have anything to do with Donald Trump’s misogyny and racism? Were Cuomo’s people speaking to Russian operatives before his election? Perhaps you have loved ones and friends who have died of Covid-19. We have, and we are living the same masked and socially distanced life that so many of you are. This is our war, and we pull together to protect one another. Do we just let go the fact that Trump, back in January, was in the singular position to organize a cohesive national response to what he knew was a surging global pandemic? Do we forgive and forget 265,000 dead Americans? Do we let go of the tragedy that thousands died because the president decided to keep the pertinent information about the deadly virus a secret? How can we forgive the delay in

ramping up manufacturing of masks and gloves and ventilators? Even if we accept that which we cannot change, how do we accept his present shenanigans — the comments and behavior of the outgoing president in the face of his clear defeat to Joe Biden? The man is still raving, hurling false accusations and conjuring imaginary frauds perpetrated against his campaign. Dozens of frivolous lawsuits have fizzled to nothing. The courts are upholding the integrity of the election, and yet the sitting president says he won’t concede, and may or may not agree to attend the inauguration or welcome the new president to the White House. We have a leader who fiddles while the pandemic burns across the land. Every single day we are paying the price for electing him to office. This will all go away after the inauguration, I suppose, as Biden takes office. But what to do with the Donald? Reports abound that he is the subject of investigations in D.C. and New York. Trump has been pardoning himself

hen what? I don’t think it serves our country to be in forgive-andforget mode.

since he stepped into the presidency, so more pardoning will not be a surprise. The question is, how aggressive will authorities be in prosecuting him for his alleged misdeeds? Biden should not be asked this question, and certainly he should not answer it. Unlike his predecessor, he knows that executive power stops at the doors to the Justice Department. We teach our children that actions have consequences, and that bad actions may lead to punishment or sanctions. It must be the same for the president. I don’t think it serves our country to be in forgive-andforget mode. We cannot let Trump slide into his next incarnation with impunity. We cannot give him a pass if he has actually broken laws that he swore to uphold. He may be unsavory and duplicitous and, frankly, incapable of being president, but none of that is illegal. Let the investigations run their course. If we are a country of laws, then so be it, for everyone. If the legal eagles find no cause to pursue prosecution, then so be it. Should charges be brought, let Trump have his day in court. This is not to humble the man, but to heal the country. Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

VALLEY STREAM HERALD — December 3, 2020

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n mid-May, as the coronavirus pandemic raged in New York, the Heralds undertook what became a monumental project to feature each week the front-line heroes who were — and are — keeping us safe and providing for our daily sustenance — doctors, nurses, EMTs, firefighters, supermarket employees and sanitation workers. Every week through November, we published 16 Hometown Heroes — 444 in all — encouraging them to describe in their own words their harrowing, and sometimes horrifying, experiences. They told stories of death and job loss, mourning and fear. At the same time, they demonstrated resilience in the face of unbearable hardship and kindness to desperate strangers.

resident-elect Joseph Biden recently committed to re-entering the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, which President Trump pulled the U.S. out of in June 2017. Re-joining the climate treaty, which 194 countries have agreed to — including every industrialized nation except the U.S. — will surely be good for Long Island. Why? Because any effort that we make to limit CO2 and mitigate the global-warming crisis is good for the Island. Leading scientists from the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change and other agencies around the world tell us that we have limited time —

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perhaps only a decade or two — to reverse the effects of the crisis before the Earth’s climate system suffers permanent damage. And, they tell us, we must make a concerted, collective effort to address climate change. That was the idea behind the Paris Agreement. Among the many potential dangers of climate change are stronger hurricanes, and with Long Island jutting 118 miles into the Atlantic Ocean, we are particularly vulnerable to oceanic storms. We must not forget Superstorm Sandy. Thankfully this hurricane season, we weren’t hit by a hurricane, but Tropical Storm Isaias, which began in the Caribbean as a Category 1 hurricane, did wreak

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They spoke of our shared humanity at a time of collective tragedy. Last week, we wound down the series, publishing our final set of 16 Heroes in our Thanksgiving Day issue, a fitting way to end it. We are so grateful to so many people who have kept our society and our economy moving during this crisis. We began the series focusing primarily on health care workers, but we expanded it over time to include teachers and principals, custodians and business owners, and many, many people who formed ad hoc organizations and small nonprofits to address the needs of their neighbors during the pandemic. This week, we feature our stories — those of editors and reporters who, at

the beginning of the crisis, were deemed essential workers by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and since then have provided readers with the vital, fact-based information necessary to keep them and their families safe. We have often risked our own health to report not only on the pandemic, but also on the massive social and political protests that have erupted across Nassau County this year. Yes, we wore masks in the field. Yes, we maintained social distancing — or tried our best to do so. Still, in the backs of our minds, we had to live with the persistent thought that any time we were in the field reporting, we could have been infected. No doubt, 2020 has been a year like no other, for journalists, too.

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Thank goodness the election wasn’t in February To the Editor: Re John O’Connell’s column, “Give thanks the election is over, and put the knives away,” last week: I was deeply saddened that a person such as O’Connell bought into President Trump’s madness. O’Connell wrote that Trump ignited national pride among his followers, but that’s not at all what I saw. I saw an explosion of hate and intolerance. I saw people voting against their own best interests by supporting him. He is anti-union. He is anti-labor. He has declared bankruptcy six times, each time forcing his vendors to sue him to recover pennies on the dollar. His vindictiveness carries into his political decisions. His intent of destroying the states that didn’t

havoc here in early August, downing trees and power lines, causing widespread outages for a week or more. There were so many hurricanes in the Atlantic this year that forecasters ran out of names — the last named storm was Wilfred, in late September — so they switched to letters of the Greek alphabet. 2020 was the seventh most costly hurricane season on record, with more than $40 billion in damage in the U.S. Now, not later, is the time to address the climate crisis. We are pleased to see the president-elect taking it seriously, appointing former Secretary of State John Kerry, who signed the Paris Agreement for the U.S. five years ago, as his climate czar.

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or over a century, American higher education has been viewed as a public good as well as a vehicle for personal growth. It has been a source of scientific and technological advances as well as a means for individual intellectual and social development. According to such polls as Gallup and Pew, Americans believe that higher education is nearly essential in helping young people and adults succeed personally and professionally. We can see this on Long Island, where 15 public and independent roBert a. colleges and unisCott versities prepare the region’s students for productive and satisfying lives in a range of careers, from attorneys to artists to military officers, who contribute to the common good. These institutions enroll over 160,000 students, many the first in their families to attend college; employ over 30,000 people, from groundskeepers to faculty and administrators; have operating budgets of over $5 billion, yielding tax revenues and retail sales for the local and state economies; and hold over $1.5 billion in invested funds. If a community started an economic development initiative seeking an employer whose workforce included highly educated people who would be

active locally, whose “products” and services added to the economic and cultural well-being of the community, whose operations were respectful of the local ecology and whose economic impact would be significant, it wouldn’t have to look much further than its closest college or university. Nationally, however, there are an increasing number of critics of higher education, some of whom even question the value of a college degree. According to recent reports by Pew and Gallup, those surveyed said they were deeply concerned about higher education because of increases in tuition and student debt, and questions about the relevance of academic programs. Survey respondents’ dissatisfaction with colleges correlated closely to their political affiliation, with more Republican-leaning respondents saying higher education is going in the wrong direction. Those respondents were also much more likely to mention allegations that college faculty bring their political and social views into the classroom, and that colleges spend too much time protecting students from views they might find offensive. While we in higher education may question the design of the surveys, the vagueness of the questions and the definition of “college” they use, the results are the work of established polling orga-

mong the increasing number of critics are those who question the value of a degree.

Letters vote for him was and is clear. He appointed unqualified cronies to cabinet positions who proceeded to gut the public school system and make decisions based on increasing big-business profits. Lastly, the last four years of “good economy” is a balloon that is due to burst in a few years. The national debt will have to be paid at some point, and people like O’Connell will conveniently forget that a big chunk of it is the fault of Donald Trump. LIz AMbROSINO West Hempstead

Reminded what Thanksgiving is about To the Editor: Sitting at breakfast this morning, I was feeling sorry for myself because tomorrow, Thanksgiving, I will be home alone (for the first time) celebrating the holiday. This was not the original plan. I was to visit my son and his family and enjoy Thanksgiving with them.

nizations, and help perpetuate public views. Therefore, we should take these findings, and the resulting news stories, seriously and try to understand not only why these views exist, but also what we can do to regain public trust and confidence in our institutions. In many public discussions and news articles, higher education is overrepresented by wealthy institutions like Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford. Institutions on Long Island are not comparable in terms of students’ family income. Nearly 30 percent of students at Adelphi and over 21 percent of those at Hofstra come from families in the bottom 60 percent of family income (under $65,000), with fewer than 4 percent of families in the top 1 percent ($630,000 or more). In comparison, 15 percent of Harvard students are from families in the top 1 percent; Yale, 18.7 percent; Princeton, 17 percent; and Stanford, 17.5 percent. Long Island institutions are more accessible and offer opportunity to a wider swath of society. The role of higher education is complex and not easily understood. Not only do colleges and universities challenge what is known through research, scholarship and other creative endeavors, they also act as curators of the past, the archivists of heritage. They bridge the past and the future by preparing graduates for the challenges of careers and com-

merce as well as citizenship. Several Long Island colleges and universities are ranked nationally, but none are exceedingly wealthy, aloof from their communities and principally residential in character. Nor are any as the universities of Georgia, Alabama or Ohio State. Instead, our colleges and universities are primarily commuter institutions that fulfill their missions not only in their classrooms and online, but also in their communities. There are numerous examples of college partnerships with schools, chambers of commerce, nonprofit groups and businesses, not only for the benefit of the partners, but also as part of students’ education. Our research universities contribute to biomedical advances and the understanding of climate physics, among many other contributions. Many of our colleges and universities partner with one another in order to share resources and enhance efficiency. Overall, they are responsive and flexible, and have demonstrated that they can meet societal and student needs with a variety of programs and credentials. With greater efforts to demonstrate commitments to student success on and off campus and renewed initiatives to serve the public, colleges and universities can strengthen their place in society and regain public trust and confidence as essential forces for social mobility and personal fulfillment. Institutions on Long Island can lead the way. Robert A. Scott is president emeritus of Adelphi University.

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What happened, however, is that he lives in what is now a yellow zone, and he and his wife and school-age sons are concerned that they might inadvertently expose me to Covid. My initial reaction was disappointment and sadness, despite the fact that every year I have been blessed with being a participant in a great family celebration of extended family, including my two sons and daughter and their families. As I read Randi Kreiss’s column “Dinner for two at our Thanksgiving table” (Nov. 19-25), about the berlin Airlift and the sacrifices of World War II, I recognized that me being alone at Thanksgiving was nothing compared with the many who are currently suffering through this pandemic in such tragic ways. I am fortunate to be in good health, have the love of family and friends, have a roof over my head and food to share with our local pantry each week. When I sit down to Thanksgivings dinner tomorrow, I will remember to be very thankful, and I will look forward to next year and a hopeful return to normal for all of us. MARGE ELLIS Merrick

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VALLEY STREAM HERALD — December 3, 2020

In praise of higher education

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