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Police union turns a page Valley Stream native elected president of Nassau PBA matic stress disorder and anxiety, and sometimes take their own lives. Valley Stream native Tommy Now, as the PBA president, he Shevlin will take the reins from must help pull his fellow officers James McDermott as the new out of an altogether different acting president of the Nassau kind of crisis. Shevlin will County Police Benevolent Asso- inherit a divided police union, ciation Jan. 1. Shevwh o s e d i s a g r e e lin, 45, a state-certiments spilled out fied counselor, is publicly over confighting the stigma tract negotiations of mental health and last December. Dean the culture of Losquadro, second silence surrounding vice president under trauma and mental McDermott, led the illness among his felopposition and shot low officers. down passage of a Shevlin is now a new PBA contract counselor at the Nasne gotiated by sau County Police McDer mott and Department’s County Executive E m p l oye e A s s i s Laura Curran. tance Office, which ToMMY The plan, if it had provides counseling passed, would have shEVliN and other mental provided members health services to PBA president-elect with a 15 percent officers. Years back, pay raise over 8 ½ when Shevlin was a patrolman, years, but would have mandated he had found himself at the officers to work five additional office as a client for alcohol shifts a year and make them conaddiction recovery. tribute to their health care insur“I realize that as a union, ance, irrespective of their time you’re trained to save people’s of hiring. jobs, but we’re not trained to “They didn’t put enough time save their lives,” said Shevlin, and effort into taking care of who has seen his friends and colleagues suffer from post-trauContinued on page 14
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JaiDEN aND EliJah were taught CPR by Kendra Hoepper, director of Long Island University’s undergraduate nursing program.
Schools tackle mental health Central Wellness Centers help students cope By KaRiNa KoVaC kkovac@liherald.com
Central District Superintendent Dr. Wayne Loper said in September that the high school district would launch Wellness Centers at each of its four schools, staffed by psychologists, social workers and school counselors, to help students cope with the outsized toll that the coronavirus pandemic has taken on their mental health. The Memorial Junior High School Wellness Center
recently hosted a mentalhealth event with Molloy College focused on techniques to reduce stress, as well as cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Chanei Patterson, a Memorial psychologist, said there has been a “severe mental health emergency among our students and students nationwide... It’s really helpful for their socialization skills because students have been out of school for a long time.” According to a recent C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
national poll, 46 percent of parents reported that their teens showed signs of a new or worsening mental health condition since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. Among the purposes of the life skills workshop, Paterson said, was to give students an “opportunity to learn how to incorporate their mental health in a way that’s not stigmatizing.” Students learned to use music therapy as a coping skill, she said. Students Continued on page 4
realize that as a union, you’re trained to save people’s jobs, but we’re not trained to save their lives.
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Winterfest spreads village cheer By Juan Lasso jlasso@liherald.com
The village of Valley Stream celebrated their annual holiday Winterfest event on Dec. 3rd and 4th. Residents enjoyed a grand display of twinkling lights and a sprinkling of glowing decorations festooned throughout Arthur J. Hendrickson Park. Families walked through the brightly lit path leading to the Community Center where everyone would gather to cheer on the arrival of Kriss Kringle. A selection of Christmas tunes played by the Westbury Salvation Army band could be heard along the outset of the pathway as well as the ringing charity bell of Major Young Sun Kim from the Hempstead Salvation Army next to the red kettle. At the Community Center grounds, members from Valley Stream Boy Scouts Troop 116 and Troop 99 handed out cups of piping hot chocolate to families. Inside the Community Center building, children of all ages were offered to sit at a table and prepare holiday
arts and crafts, courtesy of Community Center Manager Sallyann Esposito and her team with the aid of the Valley Stream Youth Council. A special room was also reserved for village children to write and send their wish letter to Santa Claus run by volunteers from the Sparkle Girls Empowerment group. By about 7 p.m., the throng of merry families gathered outside as dozens of village children, armed to the teeth in scarfs and mittens, waited out in the cold to welcome the arrival of Jolly Old Saint Nick. After much anticipation, the blaring noise of fire sirens rattled the park as Mayor Edwin Fare welcomed Saint Nick to stand beside him to do the honors of lighting up the tree. The mayor started off the countdown from 10, and after the last second, cheers erupted through the crowd as the big man in red pulled the lever, illuminating the tree. To round off the festive night, families lined up to have their turn to sit with Santa on his sled and pose for pictures.
Dozens of famiLies line up to snap a quick picture with the big red man after the Christmas tree lighting. mayor eDwin fare is filled with elation as the Jolly Old Saint Nick pulls the lever to illuminate the Christmas tree.
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mEmoRIAl JuNIoR HIGH School seventh-graders Elijah Hinds, left, and Jaiden Custodia said they valued learning the lifesaving skill of CPR.
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who are banging on drums or shaking tambourines may not realize they are taking part in a relaxation exercise. Students joined Molloy College music therapy students to play away their stress on a variety of instruments. Anna Shane, who is studying music therapy at Molloy, said music provides mental and physical benefits. “Music therapy offers a wide variety of experiences and opportunities where people of all ages and capabilities can use music to enhance their wellbeing… and really explore their interests,” she explained. A study done by the Peterson Family Foundation noted music therapy reduces physical discomfort by improving respiration, lowering blood pressure and relaxing muscle tension. Eighth-grader Simra Israr said she came for the music and was now thinking about playing an instrument after the experience. Eighth-grader Serana Souvenance, who plays trumpet, was fascinated to try instruments that were new to her. Molloy nursing students also taught the Memorial students CPR. Kendra Hoepper, director of Long Island University’s undergraduate nursing program who is also part of Molloy’s nursing program, said partnering with neighboring communities and schools to give CPR training would lead to “better outcomes for people who have sudden cardiac arrest.” “I really wanted to come and enjoy the music and learn CPR, but I was more excited for CPR,” said eighthgrader Maranda Nunes, who said she now feels empowered to handle different cardiac emergencies. “The Wellness Center runs every week on Tuesdays,” Memorial Principal Bret Strauss said. “We’re looking for other connections to general health and wellbeing along with mental health.” Strauss said the school is planning for more events to “support mental health in a variety of ways…even just by giving people a safe space.”
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Talking with teacher and author Adam Bjelland
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By Juan Lasso
you only had one sleeve of a cassette holder, and you had to choose those tapes wisely. The types of songs that someone carried around in their mixtapes gave you a sense of who that person was. For my mixtapes, they were very eclectic: Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, rap, Broadway tunes. Whereas an album is one type of music the whole way through, those mix tapes had a little bit of everything, and I thought that was a fitting comparison for these stories because some stories in the collection are really sincere and realistic while others are kind of absurd. But, taken together, it’s representative of who I am as a writer. I don’t really stick to one genre; my mind is always trying different styles and genres. There is not one through line for this collection except perhaps trying to shed light on the little parts of our lives that people don’t talk much about.
H: Where did the inspiration for the title come from? B: I remember on all my road trips we
would always bring road trip music on
H: How should one approach reading your collection?
B: Some of these stories work well for
people who don’t necessarily have time to sit and read chapters at a time. Just like a cassette tape, you can listen to a couple songs or listen to one side of the cassette tape all the way through or flip the tape and play the music on the other side of the tape. Some of the stories are just a page long, so you can get a couple quick hits. You would think that if a story is short, the person didn’t put as much effort into it, when in fact, there was a great amount of care, time, and effort put in being as concise as possible and having every word in that sentence count. There’s a great quote that comes to mind: brevity is the byproduct of vigor. And that approach of boiling a story down to its purest essence really opened the floodgates for my writing. The book is available in paperback at amazon.com
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An inconvenient suicide disrupts a first date; an alcoholic negotiates with the demon riding shotgun in his car; and a man writes a 66-point addendum to be read at his own funeral. These are but a taste of the wonderfully offbeat and unflinchingly dark and funny tales in “Songs for the Visitor Upon Leaving,” written by tenth grade Central High English teacher, Adam Bjelland. Told in punchy, lean, and wildly inventive prose, Bjelland’s compilation of short stories, memoirs, flash fiction, and vignettes are a thrill ride that run the gamut from the absurdly profound to the amusingly sentimental. His literary “mixtape” is a great traveling companion for Courtesy Adam Bjelland the long ride home. adam BJeLLand puLLs from a variety of modern writers to Bjelland spoke with inspire and motivate his students at Central High. the Herald about his book. The conversation our way there, but going home, it was usuhas been edited and condensed. ally quiet. When going someplace, we’re Herald: How’d you come up with the vari- looking forward to the journey, looking ous situations and observations found in forward to all the possibilities and what your stories, and why would you say your lays ahead. But on the ride home, we’re collection is a so-called “mixtape” of sto- kind of reflecting upon about what happened; what we learned: both the good ries? times we had and the times that didn’t go Bjelland: Music always was and is a huge as planned. I’m reflecting on things that part of my life, and growing up, making have happened in my life and reporting mixtapes was a part of your identity. back through this collection. Each story Unlike today where you can bring your can stand on its own, but taken as a entire catalogue of music on your phone, whole, it builds up to a big picture.
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events and activities
Friday, Dec. 10
volunteer at the Henry Waldinger Library Sawaira will explore different coding apps, including Canva,Tinkercad, Scratch and Scratch Jr. from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Registration is required. Send an e-mail to hwmlcontact@hotmail.com to register. Registered children will receive the Zoom link and password for the program.
Teen Virtual Taboo Join the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library as they host Virtual Taboo over Zoom from 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Taboo is a word guessing game. Contact Teen Librarian Ms. Kenney at vsteens@ nassaulibrary.org to register for this program.
Virtual 3D Printing Workshop
Saturday, Dec. 11 Learn to Code - STEM Activities Interested in coding? Teen volunteer Sawaira will explore different coding apps, including Canva,Tinkercad, Scratch and Scratch Jr. from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Registration is required. and the program is available for grades 3 and up. Send an e-mail to hwmlcontact@hotmail.com to register. Registered children will receive the Zoom link and password for the program.
Zoom Computer Class Microsoft Word This virtual workshop sponsered by the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library will cover Microsoft Excel Basics and take place from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. The topics to be covered are special features. If you would like to join the class, send an e-mail to hwmlcontact@hotmail.com so that the library can send the Zoom information to you to attend.
100 Black Men of America Delegates Assembly 100 Black Men of Long Island Chapter is comprised of real men, giving real time, while consistently modeling the highest possible standards of morals, ethics and integrity. Their meeting will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the United States Postal Service 111 S Franklin Ave. More information on the Long Island Chapter can be found on their website 100 Black Men of Long Island Inc.
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Architectural Review Board Meeting The Village of Valley Stream is holding their Architectural Review Board in the Village Hall Auditorium from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 13 Architectural Review Board Meeting The Village of Valley Stream is holding their Architectural Review Board in the Village Hall Auditorium from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 15 Craft-Along: Christmas Craft Children in grades K through 6 are welcome to attend this Henry Waldinger Memorial event, but younger children may need adult help. Join the library for stories and a Christmas craft. The library will provide the materials. Registration for the Zoom is required and can be done through the libraries website.
Thursday, Dec. 16 American Legion Post 854 Meeting Valley Stream’s Andrew Fatscher Post 854 is having their monthly meeting at 7p.m. at the Valley Stream American Legion building, 51 Roosevelt Ave.
Family BINGO Night Join the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library for virtual bingo over Zoom. For any age, whole families can join from 6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. A form found on the libraries website must be filled out before the event and requests for Zoom less than an hour before the program may not be seen by staff.
Friday, Dec. 17 Teen Gingerbread House Craft Join the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library for gingerbread making. Ms. Kenney will be making and assisting Gingerbread House crafts in the Children’s Room. During the event face masks are required by attendees and early registration is encouraged as the program is limited to 10 participants.If you’d like to join, please send an email to Vsteens@ nassaulibrary.org. Requests for Zoom info less than an hour before the program may not be seen.
Saturday, Dec. 18 Learn to Code - STEM Activities
The Henry Waldinger Memorial Library will be offering a 3D Printing Workshop via Zoom from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The library’s 3D expert Kayla Serpa will show participants how to download print files from Thingiverse and to use Tinkercad to customize prints and create new designs. To register for this workshop, contact Library Director Ms. Eng at hwmlcontact@hotmail. com for the Zoom information, plus instructions about how to download and login to Tinkercad prior to the class. After your project is completed, it can be emailed to the library for printing. The library will print one FREE name plate per person using its MakerBot 3D printer, and then you will be notified when to pick it up at curbside/lobby pickup.
HAVING AN EVENT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest. All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number. Submissions can be emailed to jlasso@liherald.com
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There is a record shop in VS called All About Records that is on Rockaway Ave. There will be an outdoor baby meet up for babies born in 2020/21 at library Dec. 17 at 11 a.m. In 1955, the Bandshell and Village Hall opend on the Village Green. Al Iaquinta, a fighter on The Ultimate Fighter, grew up in Valley Stream. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan addressed Temple Hillel in Valley Stream.
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High schools honor AP Scholar winners By Karina Kovac kkovac@liherald.com
Valley Stream’s trio of high schools, Central, North, and South High, each held assemblies to honor their students who ear ned the title of Advanced Placement Scholar through the College Board’s Advanced Placement Scholar Awards earlier this year. The AP Scholar Awards recognize high school students who have demonstrated exemplary college-level achievement on A dv a n c e d P l a c e E x a m s, according to the College Board website. Building administration officials, teachers, family members, and friends gathered Courtesy Valley Stream Central High School District at each assembly to show their support for the distinguished aP scholars and faculty of North High School at the AP Awardx Assembly held in students honor. scholars. stone Diploma Award or the AP Seminar Valley Stream Central High School DisAcross the three high trict. schools, 183 students earned the AP Schol- and Research Certificate. He further added: “These 354 stu“These students earning their AP ar Award, 72 students earned the AP Scholar Award with Honor, and 99 stu- Scholar distinctions are a credit to our dents—as well as their AP teachers—have dents were granted the AP Scholar with District…[as we encourage them] to push worked diligently throughout the school Distinction Award. In addition, 47 stu- themselves academically and earn college year, and we are so proud to congratulate dents across the three high schools credit while in high school,” said Dr. them all on their well-earned recognition.” earned either the prestigious AP Cap- Wayne Loper, acting Superintendent of
aP scholar awards rankings: There are three levels of AP Scholar Awards: ■ AP Scholar - Granted to students who receive a score of 3 or higher on three or more AP exams. ■ AP Scholar with Honor Granted to students scoring an average of at least 3.25 on all AP exams taken and 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. ■ AP Scholar with Distinction Granted to students receiving an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken, and a score of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.
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North’s Ecology club members are seen partaking in biodynamic farming- sorting seeds harvested for future plantings.
North High Ecology Club takes tour of organic farm by JuaN lasso and KariNa Kovac kkovac@liherald.com
Members of the Valley Stream North High School’s Ecology Club under the direction of North High science teacher and club advisor, Stephanie Restuccio, embarked on a field trip to Crossroads Farm earlier this year. Their mission—to learn about biodynamic farming, an alternative agriculture practice rooted in the work of philosopher, scientist, and esotericist Dr. Rudolf Steiner. Steiner’s farming methods remain highly contested among horticulture academics and scientists alike for blending mystical concepts with science-based food practices. Experts are particularly critical of Steiner’s nine described “preparations,” a handful of herbs, animal and mineral substances, and manures made into field sprays and compost—citing a lack of scientific evidence to support its alleged benefits in improving soil quality.
Still, a growing number of farmers across the nation have trended toward adopting principles of biodynamic farming—attracted to the high premium it places on creating a holistic and sound ecology and nurturing a personal, ethical connection with the land. Cultivators and growers at Crossroads Farm incorporate a medley of “organic, biodynamic, and sustainable agricultural principles of land remediation and crop cultivation,” according to their website. Students were treated to a tour of the organic, 5-acre vegetable farm where they learned a simple, age-old farming practice key to biodynamic farming: saving seeds to be used for future planting. The budding North High ecologists then proceeded to roll up their sleeves as they harvested seeds from the buds of dead flowers to be used for new flower plantings next year to help foster genetic diversity and create new varieties of plantings.
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Joe Ra, a former Town of Hempstead attorney and councilman, died of Covid19 on Nov. 30. Ra worked in town government for nearly 40 years, under five different supervisors, and is remembered as a major figure in town government and a GOP leader in Franklin Square. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Ra later moved to Franklin Square in 1970, estab-
lishing a private law firm after earning both a bachelor’s and J.D. degree from St. Johns University. He married his wife, Joanne, and the couple raised their children, triplets, in Franklin Square. Ra is survived by his son Edward, a New York State assemblyman; his companion Madeline Presta; his son Joseph; his daughter Jillian of Franklin Square and his four grandsons. He is preceded in death by his wife, Joanne. The wake was held at Franklin Funeral Home, with a mass at St. Catherine.
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MSSN doctor lights White House menorah By Tom Carrozza tcarrozza@liherald.com
On Dec. 1, Dr. Aaron Glatt, chief of infectious diseases at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside, helped light the fourth candle of the Hanukkah menorah at the White House as thanks and recognition for his work during the coronavirus pandemic. Glatt got the call from the president’s liaison to the Jewish People, Chanan Weissman, extending the invitation on Thanksgiving. During a private meeting with the Biden and Kamala Harris and their spouses, Glatt blessed Biden, who put his arm around the doctor, who is also a rabbi, and thanked him for the honor. During the ceremony, Biden lauded Glatt as a “champion of encouraging his congregants in his community to get vaccinated.” Glatt serves as an associate rabbi at Young Israel of Woodmere and lives in the community with his wife of 41 years. “The torah tells us that we’re obligated to try and protect all people and keep ourselves as well as our society healthy,” Glatt said. “This is why the message to try and do proper public health actions is such an important message from a religious point of view.” Despite the personal praise from the president, Glatt said that his being there was about thanking health-care workers across the country for risking their own health during this long pandemic. He also spoke about how his faith, which was lifted up at the White House, has guided him during the past two years. “I don’t think I would be able to get through [the pandemic] without faith,” Glatt told the Herald. “Faith is a wonderful way for people to deal with these types of tragedies, knowing that there is a God and a greater purpose in life. We’re here to try to make things better
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mounT Sinai SouTh Nassau Dr. Aaron Glatt lit the menorah at the White House. for all mankind.” Glatt also said the event served as an important moment of visibility for Judaism in the country, as anti-Semitic crimes rise. According to an October report from the American Jewish Committee, one in four American Jews say they have been targets of antiSemitism and four in 10 say they have changed their behavior out of fear. Sharing the stage with U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and the country’s first second gentleman, Douglas Emhoff, who is Jewish, Glatt said he was full of patriotism and gratitude for living in America. “Coming
from a background where both of my parents were Holocaust survivors and their families were wiped out by cruel governments, living in the United States is the polar opposite, and it’s something we should celebrate and thank God for,” Glatt said. Glatt has chaired the Department of Medicine since 2015 and has been a board-certified physician in infectious diseases for the past 33 years. Previously, Glatt was the executive vice president and chief administrative officer at Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre and president and CEO at St. Joseph Hospital in Bethpage.
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By Karina KoVaC kkovac@liherald.com
A fire broke out on the roof of the Walmart Supercenter on Green Acres Road in Valley Stream last Wednesday at around 4 p.m. One woman suffered a seizure during the evacuation and was subsequently sent to the hospital. The Valley Stream Volunteer Fire Department was responding to an odor of gas call when FIRECOM notified Fire Chief Eugene O’Brien II of the incident, and units were
quickly dispatched to the scene. Firefighters climbed onto the roof of Walmart and found that the source of the fire was an air conditioning unit caught aflame. The firefighters used air pressurized water extinguishers to put out the fire while a backup hose line was set up from Engine 344 and stretched to Ladder 346. Mutual aid was received from the Elmont, Hewlett, and Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Departments. All firefighting emergency response operations were under the command of Chief O’Brien.
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an aerial hoSe was stretched up ladder 346 in case more water was needed.
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LEGAL NOTICE Incorporated Village of Valley Stream 123 South Central Avenue Valley Stream New York 11580 (516) 592-5105 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution and the provisions of the Village Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, as amended, a Public Hearing will take place on Monday the 20th day of December, 2021 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in the Village Hall, 123 South Central Avenue, Valley Stream, New York on to consider the enactment of the following local law which is subject to a permissive referendum: PROPOSED LOCAL LAW J - 2021 - A LOCAL LAW ADOPTED PURSUANT TO CANNABIS LAW §131 OPTING OUT OF LICENSING AND ESTABLISHING RETAIL CANNABIS DISPENSARIES AND ON-SITE CANNABIS CONSUMPTION ESTABLISHMENTS WITHIN THE VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM The public may attend the Public Hearing or join on ZOOM using the link provided: https://us02web.zoom.us/ j/7148140969 The proposed local law is on file in the Office of the Village Clerk, in the Village Hall of said Village of Valley Stream, where it may be inspected on regular business days between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. and will be on the Village website vsvny.org. ALL PERSONS INTERESTED shall have an opportunity to be heard on the proposed local law at the time and place aforesaid.
Dated: Valley Stream, New York December 9, 2021 By Order of the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream JAMES J. HUNTER Village Clerk/Administrator 128761
LEGAL NOTICE Incorporated Village of Valley Stream 123 South Central Avenue Valley Stream New York 11580 (516) 592-5105 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution and the provisions of the Village Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, as amended, a Public Hearing will take place on Monday the 20th day of December, 2021 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in the Village Hall, 123 So. Central Avenue, Valley Stream, New York, to consider the enactment of the following local law which is subject to a mandatory referendum: PROPOSED LOCAL LAW K - 2021 - A LOCAL LAW ADOPTED PURSUANT TO CANNABIS LAW §131 OPTING OUT OF LICENSING AND ESTABLISHING RETAIL CANNABIS DISPENSARIES AND ON-SITE CANNABIS CONSUMPTION ESTABLISHMENTS WITHIN THE VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM The public may attend the Public Hearing or join on ZOOM using the link provided: https://us02web.zoom.us/ j/7148140969 The proposed local law is on file in the Office of the Village Clerk, in the Village Hall of said Village of Valley Stream, where it may be inspected on
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LEGAL NOTICE Incorporated Village of Valley Stream 123 South Central Avenue Valley Stream New York 11580 (516) 592-5105 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Article 9 of the New York State Constitution and the provisions of the Village Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, as amended, a Public Hearing will take place on Monday the 20th day of December, 2021 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in the Village Hall, 123 So. Central Avenue, Valley Stream, New York, to consider the enactment of the following local law: PROPOSED LOCAL LAW I - 2021 - A LOCAL LAW AMENDING THE CODE OF THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM ENTITLED “ZONING” BY AMENDING § 99-2008 ENTITLED “SPECIAL USE PERMITS” The public may attend the Public Hearing or join on ZOOM using the link provided: https://us02web.zoom.us/ j/7148140969
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A. Your question is asked every day. Even officials, who would answer that you’re absolutely doing the right thing to get plans and permits, answer that they’re just doing their job, possibly intimating that they might agree with you. Truthfully, you are doing the right thing. Not just because of the paperwork, stages of review — includonte eeper ing a zoning variance — but because raising your property means high fences viewed from the bottom of the walls. Neighbors have complained, saying they’re looking up at the “Wall of China,” and municipalities reacted. Safety is why the process is worthwhile. A stacked block wall, done incorrectly, can give way, with costly — or deadly — consequences. I was once called to look at a predicament where someone using no formulas, no instructions (apparently) and no common sense built a chest-high wall, which began to drift and lean in the first rainstorm. It violated the laws of nature in that it did not have the ability to resist the hidden or plain-sight conditions. Yes, there are formulas, charts and tables developed for holding back land masses, just as there are formulas for designing columns and beams. In my experience, the less you know, the happier you are at the beginning of the process. The more you learn from what went wrong, especially after it goes terribly wrong, the worse off you’ll be. Well, it wasn’t even the leaning wall that was the biggest part of the problem. It was the fact that a few feet from the not-so-correctly built wall was a swimming pool made of gunnite. Gunnite is concrete that has been sprayed in layers onto a heavy mesh of woven reinforcing rods. It’s one of the strongest types of construction, so strong that it was used to form the hulls of PT boats in World War II to resist torpedoes. So when the landscaped wall drifted and leaned, the strongest kind of pool built began to twist like a pretzel. It wasn’t the wall that was the biggest problem; it was how to stabilize and stop the twisty pool from breaking apart. Hang in there. Fences and walls, not permits, are the bigger problem to solve, safely. Good luck!
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n the wake of his announcement that he is entering the Democratic primary for governor, U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi faces a pretty daunting obstacle: New York City Democrats. The city’s Democratic voter base, and the political bosses who select their primary candidates, mock anyone beyond the five boroughs. They know their statewide candidates will need Long Island votes in the general election, but that doesn’t mean they want a Long Islander leading the ticket. Think RoNALD J. of neighboring as deadly RoSENBERG Gotham kryptonite that destroys the aspirations of every suburban Democrat who wants a shot at running statewide. We already know the roster of Long Island politicians whose statewide campaigns died at the Queens line. Kathleen Rice and Steve Levy come immediately to mind, but there are others. In the 1960s, the highly respected Nassau Coun-
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ty Executive Eugene Nickerson couldn’t win the Democratic primary for Senate, despite the backing of none other than Robert F. Kennedy. Huntington Town Supervisor Jerome Ambro took on Basil Paterson for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 1970. Ambro promptly lost that contest to Patterson. And Tom Suozzi knows what it’s like to run and lose a statewide primary race. In 2006, he ran against Eliot Spitzer for the Democratic nomination for governor. He quickly lost to the Manhattan-based Spitzer (although Spitzer may still wonder what his life might have been like had he lost and then quietly repaired to the family business of making millions in real estate). So why is it that Suozzi believes that this time is the charm? For starters, the Democratic Party is unrecognizable. There are more left-leaning city Democratic power players than Politburo members in Red Square on May Day. And that’s the least of it. Consider a New York Post report that
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revealed how a Bronx-based congressman, Jamaal Bowman, “is facing the fury of the Democratic Socialists of America, who have accused him of betrayal for visiting Israel and meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.” That action alone reveals that Suozzi’s Democratic Party has a cancer eating away at its soul. Suozzi’s primary strategy is to position himself as a centrist in a race that will compel Democrats to choose among the progressive, the progressive lite and the still to be politically defined gubernatorial incumbent. Suozzi will have the advantage of fundraising among deep-pocketed New York City business leaders who have the right to fear a state lurching left. They have been desperately looking for a “common-sense” Democrat whom they can support, so it is no accident that the phrase “common-sense candidate” is now Suozzi’s adopted slogan. While Suozzi and his primary competitors seek to position themselves for a win, they need to recognize that a primary victory is not an anointment to be gov-
ew York City has often proved poisonous for suburban Democrats.
ernor. As this past Election Day revealed, there is a quiet but seething anger among voters who rightly view the progressive/socialist agenda, such as “bail reform,” as destructive to their quality of life and core values. In a state reputed to be deeply blue, there is every reason to believe that a Republican gubernatorial candidate could win by tapping into the anger, and not a little bit of fear of where New York might be heading. Much the way the Red Wave on Election Night 2021 sent a strong message that voters are not going to follow a progressive manifesto, Republican Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldin could easily upset the pundits and assume office as the next governor of New York. If so, it would be nothing less than ironic if those Long Island Democrats who aspired to be governor but were blocked by New York City progressives got to attend the gubernatorial inauguration of a fellow Long Islander who ran on the Republican line. Ronald J. Rosenberg has been an attorney for 42 years, concentrating in commercial litigation and transactions, and real estate, municipal, zoning and land use law. He founded the Garden City law firm Rosenberg Calica & Birney in 1999.
Hoping for the gift of life in this season of giving
e was 49 years old in March, and he hopes to celebrate his 50th birthday next year. Anyone would wish the same, but Scott Englander, a Woodmere resident, faces an uncertain future. According to his mother, Arlene, after a catastrophic bacterial infection left him in a coma more than six years ago, Scott suffered both heart and kidney failure. His heart stabilized, but his kidney function continued to decline until he was forced to begin RANDI regular dialysis KREISS recently. He is being treated at the Julia and Israel Waldbaum Davida Dialysis facility in Great Neck, where he undergoes dialysis three times a week, for four and a half hours at a time. It is a grueling routine that leaves him exhausted. The only way off dialysis, however, is to get a kidney transplant. The family is hopes for a living donor, someone who finds it within him or herself to promise Scott another birthday, and another one after that. We have all read stories of selfless individuals who know they can live normally with one
kidney and are willing to come forward in an exceptional act of generosity. If you or someone you know would like more information about this process, please email scottneedsakidney@ gmail.com. I have known Arlene and Richard Englander for more than 50 years. We hadn’t connected in a long time when Arlene reached out, hoping to increase Scott’s chances of finding a kidney donor. They had already tried Zoom megacalls and bulk mailings and emails. Maybe, they thought, someone will read this and consider giving this gift of life. Perhaps the word will pass through our communities and someone will step forward. For the recipient, according to the National Kidney Transplant Foundation, “Your health and energy should improve. In fact, a successful kidney transplant may allow you to live the kind of life you were living before you got kidney disease. Studies show that people with kidney transplants live longer than those who remain on dialysis.” Unrelated individuals who make a good match may be able to donate one of their kidneys, in a living transplant. If a donor and recipient are incompatible,
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there are “kidney swaps,” in which donors can provide kidneys to compatible recipients in exchange for a compatible donation to their intended recipient. Advances in kidney transplant have made it possible to do the surgeries laparoscopically, which leads to much shorter recovery times. Potential donors are carefully screened, and supported physically and emotionally. According to the Kidney Project at the University of California, San Francisco, some 100,000 patients in the United States are on the kidney transplant list, and the need for donor kidneys is rising 8 percent per year. The wait times for an organ vary from state to state. Fortunately, most insurance covers the expenses for both transplant donors and recipients. Many charitable groups offer travel and work compensation for donors. It is, of course, illegal to buy or sell human organs or tissue in the U.S. According to the Mayo Clinic, the hospital stay for most kidney donors is one or two days. Its website states, “After kidney donation, most people are able to return to normal daily activities after two to four weeks. You may be advised to avoid contact sports or other strenuous activities that may cause kidney dam-
local man who’d like to see his children grow up is in need of a new kidney.
age.” In the U.S., more than 6,000 livingorgan donations are completed each year. Living-kidney donation is the most common type of living-donor transplant. People can donate one of their two kidneys, and the remaining kidney is able to perform the necessary functions. For the recipient, receiving a kidney from a living donor is successful more than 98 percent of the time, according to the Mayo Clinic. If the kidney comes from a deceased donor, the success rate is 93 percent. Ongoing treatment tethered to dialysis is a difficult alternative. Scott Englander and his family are hoping for a living donor. He would like to go back to his work as a chiropractor and his life with his family. His roots in the community run deep: He went to the Number Six School, Lawrence Middle School, Lawrence High School, SUNY Albany and Life University in Georgia. Scott has been on the transplant list at the Northwell Health Transplant Center for two and a half years, his mother says. She says the expectation is a wait of some five to eight years to get a deceased person’s kidney. A living donor could come forward at any time. In a note to me this week, Scott said that he hopes for a kidney so that he may live long enough to see his children grow up. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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letters Ida relief deadline extended to January To the Editor: The deadline for applications for the Hurricane Ida Relief Fund will be extended until Jan. 4 to provide aid to excluded survivors of the storm and flooding caused by its remnants. New Yorkers who are ineligible to receive storm recovery help through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Individual Assistance Program or other means can apply for funding that is being distributed through an established network of community organizations. In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, my office has been fully committed to helping all New Yorkers recover from this devastating storm. With this extension to apply for resources, New Yorkers who are ineligible for FEMA relief and community organizations on the ground can now gather all the necessary information to apply for the funds that they need to rebuild.
particular, high property taxes in places like Long Island. It focuses only on income. Long Island is one of the most expensive places to live in the country. The median household income here, $116,000, would buy a whole lot in a state like Mississippi, where the median household income is about $42,000; or New Mexico, where it’s $46,300; or Idaho, where it’s $48,600. On Long Island, however, $116,000 is not rich. It’s middle class. So, while the SALT deduction has undoubtedly helped the wealthy, it has aided the middle class in high-cost regions like ours, and that is why it must be restored. The House of Representatives, led by Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from Glen Cove, recently passed SALT reform as part of the $2 trillion Build Back Better bill. Bravo! The legislation, if passed by the Senate, would smartly cap the deduction at $80,000, allowing middle-class families in states like New York and California to take advantage of the federal deduction, but still limiting it to prevent the truly wealthy from benefiting disproportionately. According to Suozzi, passage of SALT reform in the Senate would bring immediate tax relief to some 3.4 million New York taxpayers, including nearly 367,000 in Nassau alone. That would return dollars to our local economy, where they belong. Since enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act four years ago, New York has paid $12 billion more in federal taxes — money that has gone to states like Kentucky, home to Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell, a Republican who led the charge alongside Trump to pass the act. The recent reform package passed in the House would raise the SALT deduction cap for nine years, through 2030. That seems fair. New Yorkers would have time to plan for its sunset. The legislation passed by Trump, on the other hand, caught many flatfooted, requiring desperate measures of them, including taking out loans just to pay their federal income taxes. The $80,000 cap would take effect on people’s 2021 federal tax bills, providing them nearly immediate relief — which would be vital, given the economic hardships that many households have been forced to endure because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Lest any U.S. senator believe that the desire to restore the SALT deduction is confined to states like New York and California, he or she need only look to recent comments by Tom Cochran, CEO and executive director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, to understand that the sentiment is shared by many elected leaders and taxpayers nationwide. “On behalf of the nation’s mayors,” Cochran said, “I want to commend Congressman Suozzi for his hard work on this issue. He never stopped fighting to restore the state and local taxes [deduction] for middle-income families in all states.” Indeed. We mustn’t believe for a second, however, that the measure will pass in the Senate until it has. That is why we need everyone’s voice speaking out on this critical issue.
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n the wake of Democrats’ November election debacle, they are looking for who or what to blame. The initial targets are critical race theory, “wokeness,” and congressional progressives known as “the Squad,” in particular Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. If Democrats accept the narrative that swing voters rejected “extremism,” they are doomed to lose big in 2022 and 2024. Leading Republicans have not shied away from extremism. In fact, they have embraced it. When Arizona Rep. Paul ALAn Gosar tweeted animated videos sinGer showing him killing Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden with a sword, Republicans in Congress overwhelmingly voted against censuring him. They blame Biden for the recent spike in Covid-19 cases, while they actively campaign against mandatory vaccination and masking. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is promoting right-wing “replacement theories” that were behind the 2017 neoNazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. On Fox News, Gingrich accused leftists of trying to drown out “classic Americans” and replace them with people who know nothing of the country’s history and traditions because they want to “get rid of the rest of us.” Fox’s Tucker Carlson repeated Gingrich’s claims, accusing Democrats of
trying to “change the racial mix of the country” so they can “reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here.” Meanwhile, the Republican rank-andfile have disrupted local school board meetings, denouncing school curricula, library books and efforts to combat the pandemic. The New York Times reported a “disturbing spike in threats against school board officials” and “hundreds of intimidating messages to election officials in at least a dozen states.” The Democrats lost this year, however, because of their failure to articulate a clear agenda that would have provided an alternative narrative to GOP talking points; internal bickering that undermined legislative initiatives and made them appear incompetent; and deep-seated white racism that allowed the argument that critical race theory is invading our schools to take hold. In Kenosha, Wis., a largely white jury acquitted a 17-year-old white man who brought an assault rifle to a Black Lives Matter rally and killed two of the protesters because he thought he was defending himself from attack by his unarmed victims. That decision had nothing to do with critical race theory or leftwing “wokeness” and everything to do with white fear of Blacks. It was celebrated by white vigilante groups as justification for their behavior, and Kyle Rittenhouse was proclaimed a Second Amendment hero by
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STANISLAO PUGLIESE, PH.D. Queensboro Unico distinguished professor, Hofstra University
A moral obligation to speak out To the Editor: As a historian of fascism, I felt morally obliged to take part in the demonstration at Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth in Rockville Centre in response to the recent Proud Boys march through the village,
conservative politicians and right-wing news outlets. On CNN, the recently fired Chris Cuomo interviewed comedian and commentator Bill Maher about a supposed leftwing peril threatening the U.S., feeding him a series of softball questions. After acknowledging that “I’m not in schools” and “I have no interaction with children,” Maher said he had heard from people across the country that “kids are sometimes separated into groups, oppressor and oppressed” and are being taught that “racism is the essence of America.” He derided this practice as “just silly; it’s just virtue-signaling,” and accused people advocating for curriculum revision of being “afraid to acknowledge progress,” a psychological disorder he labeled “progressophobia.” I kept waiting for Cuomo to ask Maher for an example — any example — to support his claims, but Cuomo never did, and Maher never felt compelled to offer any evidence. On his HBO show, Maher promotes a group of contrarians who want to start their own college, where they will be free to present offensive ideas and dismiss objections without having to provide supporting evidence or answer to anyone. Cuomo never asked Maher about that, either. The more serious problems for Democrats and progressives worldwide are new surges of the coronavirus that have led to closings, supply-chain disruptions and
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inflation spikes, as well as counterattacks on climate-change initiatives. In Europe, protests against newly imposed Covid-19 restrictions turned into riots in Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands, and in Germany they boosted the right-wing vote. This has nothing to do with teaching critical race theory in American schools and everything to do with international right-wing fear-mongering and mobilization. The other real problem is denial of the impending climate catastrophe, and efforts to block restrictions on the production and use of fossil fuels. Global leaders sang Kumbaya after the Glasgow Climate Change Conference and then went home, where they will implement inadequate or phantom measures. Wealthy GOP and fossil-fuel industry donors in the U.S. are pouring money into the re-election campaign accounts of nominally Democratic senators Joe Manchin, of West Virginia, and Kyrsten Sinema, of Arizona, to influence them to stand firm against cleanenergy initiatives. Again, this has nothing to do with “wokeness” or the fictional claim that children are being indoctrinated into critical race theory in American schools. 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, @AlanJSinger1.
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