Valley Stream Herald 12-17-2020

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CHSD shake-up Superintendent takes medical leave after alleged threat ened to potentially infect staff and gym-goers at Orangetheory Fitness, on Merrick Road, with The Valley Stream Central the coronavirus.

High School District Board of “I’m demanding that you Educataion voted on Dec. 8 to free ze my membership for grant Superintendent Dr. Bill another month,” Heidenreich Heidenreich a 12-week medical said in one voice message leave and appointed Assistant obtained by the Post. “If you Superintendent Clifford Odell don’t, I’m going to cough all over acting superintendent. everyone.”

Heidenreich, who “I’m happy to m ay h av e b e e n come in there and exposed to someone spread the disease with Covid-19, allegand cough all over edly threatened to everyone,” he said in cough on people at another message. his Merrick gym In response, the when personnel gym notified Nassau there said they County police, but would start charging John mAIeR decided to cancel his him for a member- CHSD board membership rather ship that he wasn’t than press charges, vice president using. the Post also reportThe vote was 5-4 ed. in favor of granting Heidenreich Heidenreich, who lives in the medical leave, with board Merrick, is a former BellmoreVice President John Maier join- Merrick Central High School ing fellow District 24 Trustees District assistant superintenArmando Hernandez and Lisa dent.

Pellicane, along with District 13 After the vote, Toni PomerTrustee Patricia Farrell, in oppo- antz, the Valley Stream Central sition to the measure. Maier District board president, said voiced his opposition ahead of Heidenreich had tested negative the vote, saying, “I feel this is the for the coronavirus. Speaking to wrong move here.” the Herald, Pomerantz declined The split decision came four to say whether Heidenreich’s days after publication of a New request for medical leave was York Post article detailing how related to the alleged gym inciHeidenreich, in a series of text dent, citing legal restrictions in and voice messages sent to the discussing personnel issues. gym in mid-November, threatContinued on page 15

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Decking the halls, literally Members of the South High School class of 2026 with their winning holiday hallway decorations for South’s Spirit Week this month. Story, more photos, Page 9.

Village sets rezoning hearing

Vote would clear way for 35-unit apartment complex

By PeteR BeLfIoRe pbelfiore@liherald.com

The Village of Valley Stream board of trustees has scheduled a public hearing for Dec. 21 at Village Hall to discuss a proposed rezoning of a series of properties on South Franklin Avenue. If approved, the measure could pave the way for the construction of a 35-unit, fourand five-story apartment com-

plex, comprising two-bedroom units.

The proposal, by the Oyster Bay-based Rand L.I. LLC, would replace the existing commercial buildings on the 16,300-squarefoot property, near the Valley Stream train station, with the apartment complex. The Nassau County Planning Commission, which reviewed the zoning change and construction propos-

al on Nov. 12, signaled support for the project as transit-oriented development, but requested that the village provide information on affordable housing proposals in its multi-family housing applications to the county Planning Department.

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Former LIJ V.S. medical director recounts Covid struggle

By Nicole AlciNdor nalcindor@liherald.com

“The hardest part about the pandemic is witnessing patients die repetitively because it’s hard not to take it personally,” said Dr. Joseph Marino, former medical director at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream, who served there at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in spring. “I think being a medical professional during a pandemic would be even harder if I was an atheist or an agnostic, but I rely on my faith to get me through because I’m an instrument of God’s will.”

Although Marino has since moved on to become senior vice president for anesthesia services at Northwell Health, which manages LIJ, throughout the early months of the pandemic Marino would work 12- to 18-hour shifts for up to six days a week, overseeing the quality of medical care delivered at the hospital. In his new role, as Northwell’s senior vice president for anesthesia services, he said he works up to 20 hours a day in a similar role.

Marino was raised Roman Catholic and he said his faith has helped him through some of his most difficult moments during the pandemic.

“Every morning when I wake up, I get up on my hands and knees and I ask God to help me to be an instrument of his will and I always pray that God will guide me to serve him throughout the day while doing my job,” he said, adding that he fin-

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dr. Joseph MAriNo, former medical director at LIJ Valley Stream, recounted his experience at the hospital at the height of the pandemic in spring. His account of those deadly weeks, along with those of other Northwell workers, were recently featured in a short film. ishes each day with a night prayer as well.

“I’ll never forget when I had to rely on my faith to help me through the most difficult experience that I’ve had during this pandemic, which was the loss of one of my patients who died of Covid-19 this year.”

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had been placed on a ventilator in the hospital’s intensive care unit.

“The man told me, ‘I have two kids and I need to be around for them,’ and I remember telling him, ‘Don’t worry,’ and then the next morning he passed away and I was left feeling like I let him down,” Marino said. “My faith helped me realize that I should not remain depressed forever, but I should keep serving, helping others and continue moving forward to help other patients.”

Marino also suffered his own bout with the coronavirus and was out of work for three weeks.

“When I was sick with Covid-19, I mostly experienced a lot of guilt because I was not able to be in the hospital working to help my staff,” he said. “As a believer in God, I wasn’t afraid when I was sick with Covid-19 because I know if I had died, I would have went to be with God in heaven for the afterlife.”

A portion of Marino’s struggles, as well as other healthcare workers at Northwell were chronicled in a short film released about the psychological ramifications the pandemic has had on healthcare

professionals. The film, called “Sounds of Caring: New York,” was produced by Japanese sound artist, Yoko Sen. In the film, Marino and 19 other Northwell healthcare professionals shared their personal accounts of their struggles, and what they would like the world to know about their work.

"Sounds of Caring: New York,” is part two of a two-part series about the voices of frontline healthcare workers. In April, part one, “Sounds of Caring,” was released, which similarly depicts what health professionals are dealing with during the pandemic.

Marino, who shared his audio account in part two of the series, said that the film inspired him because he said he was able to recognize on a deeper level that he is not alone in doing his job.

“The film that Sen created was cathartic,” he said. “The film gave me a connection with others who went through the same things as me and this was very moving for me.”

"Sounds of Caring: New York,” has won several festival awards and was a finalist at the Venice Film Festival.

“My vision for this film was to help amplify the voice of healthcare workers as humans,” Sen said. “I hope my piece helps to educate those who are not in the healthcare workers shoes. We as a society are responsible for caring for people who care for others, even long after the pandemic.”

Sen said she was inspired to create the part one film because of her friend, Tammy Beaulieu, who works as a nurse.

The part two version of the series was inspired by Sen’s ongoing conversations with Agnes Barden, vice president of patient and customer experience for Northwell Health. Sen said her main goal for both films was to motivate and inspire others.

“I have had a number of people reach out from places outside of Northwell to tell me that they have felt their voices are being heard through my film,” Sen said.

“I also hope I have inspired the Northwell healthcare workers that star in the film and if so, I am humbled and grateful to be a part of such a process.”

To view "Sounds of Caring: New York,” see: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=fCW2jHRlVtc.

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What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

VALLEY STREAM HERALD — December 17, 2020

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Shaw avenue fifth-graderS in Lauren Rosenthal’s class have their class charter displayed on a board in their classroom with other social-emotional learning strategies such as a mood meter and meta-moment.

District 30 outlines social-emotional learning Each year, District 30 staff members seek to continue social-emotional learning in a student’s school environment. Since the start of the 2020-2021 year, staff members have worked diligently with school psychologists to continue incorporating SEL into their classrooms, whether remote or in person. With the coronavirus pandemic, efforts to have students feel supported not only academically, but also emotionally and mentally have taken on renewed urgency.

One tool teachers have implemented in the classroom is the emotional intelligence charter, a tool of the RULER (recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing and regulating emotions) Approach.

Charters are found in classrooms across Clear Stream Avenue, Forest Road and Shaw Avenue elementary schools and are intended to make students feel safe, supported and welcomed. It is a collaborative document developed by students and their teachers for how they want to feel in their classrooms. The charter contains agreed-upon behavior norms for how students will learn and positively interact in the classroom. It also focuses on student feelings, what can be done to foster these feelings and includes ways that students can manage and prevent conflict and uncomfortable feelings within the classroom.

“The Emotional Intelligence Charter cultivates an emotionally healthy classroom environment where students feel safe, welcomed and sup-

ported,” said Jennifer Orellana, Clear Stream Avenue psychologist. “When this happens, students are more likely to be engaged in learning and less disruptive within the classroom.”

District 30 teachers have been using their charters regularly within their classes and amending it as needed to reflect the changing needs of their classroom. For those students who are following a hybrid model this year, their charters are on full display in the classroom and include signatures from students. Remote classes have created their own virtual charters to follow using platforms such as Google Docs.

“The charter is a great way to bring the idea that this is more than just classroom rules to follow,” said Heather Graham, a third-grade remote teacher from Forest Road School. “The students have ownership over it because it is made up of their ideas and is rooted in how they want to feel as a student. Also, it acknowledges that while we can’t always have positive feelings, there are tools in our toolbox to help us regulate our emotions when negative ones arise.”

These emotional intelligence charters are one of a number of ways the district is trying to foster social-emotional growth. With the guidance of the school psychologists, teachers will continue their SEL endeavors during the school year with the goal of supporting and educating the whole student.

-Compiled by Peter Belfiore

Shaw avenue third-graderS in Darlene Sinclair’s class with their emotional intelligence charter, a tool intended to encourage students to be more open about their emotions and manage them in a healthy manner.

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The Village of Valley Stream is considering a zoning change for a strip of commercial properties on South Franklin Avenue to allow construction of a 35-unit apartment complex.

Village mulls zoning change for apartments

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pass final decision-making on to the village, with Planning Commission Chairman Marty Glennon requesting a notification to the village to include how such developments would address affordable housing requirements, as mandated by the Long Island Workforce Housing Act. The state law requires housing projects that include five or more residential units either to set aside 10 percent of a project’s units for workforce or affordable housing — priced for families making 130 percent of the median income in the area or less — or construct affordable housing elsewhere in the municipality or pay a fee.

“Can we send a reminder to the municipalities that they have to address these issues when they make a submission?”

Glennon asked of affordable housing.

It was not the first time that the Planning Commission had requested affordable housing in an application. Commissioners had made similar requests for a 2019 proposal to build apartments at Roosevelt Avenue and Cochran Place.

That development is now under construction.

“It just comes up quite a bit,” Glennon said. “Maybe they just need a little nudge.”

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passage of a local law required to convert a portion of the village’s commercial zone to one that allows apartments. The hearing notice did not mention which properties were under consideration or how they might be changed.

In its application to the county Planning Department, however, the village detailed the apartment proposal, with its location and other information, such as parking. The buildings would replace a strip of storefronts and a law office at South Franklin and West Hawthorne avenues, with municipal and commuter parking lots to the south and west.

Should the village approve the rezoning plan, the development would still require a parking variance before moving forward, according to county planner Martin Katz. The current proposal includes 51 parking spaces under a raised first floor. Village code requires 70 spaces for an apartment complex of the size in the proposal.

With its proximity to the train station and the Rockaway Avenue downtown, though, Katz suggested the Planning Commission support the development.

The commissioners voted unanimously to

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events and activities

community update Ongoing

Wednesday, Jan. 13

Holiday card for the residents at Plattduetsche Retirement Home

Valley Stream District 24 BOE Work Session

At the Elmont Public Library, children of all ages can ask a Children’s Librarian for materials to make holiday cards for local residents at the Plattduetsche Retirement Home. This walk-in craft initiative will take place from December 4 to 22. Contact: Children Services: (516) 354-5280 EXT. 207 or email: childrenservices@elmontlibrary.org.

At 7:30 to 9:15 p.m., the school board meeting will take place. Contact the district clerk, Jaclyn Cacioppo, at William L Buck School at (516) 256-0160 for more information about location.

Thursday, Dec. 17

The meeting will take place at 8 p.m.

Email the district clerk at: mrosamilia@ valleystream13.com to find out the location of the meeting.

Tuesday, Jan. 26 Valley Stream District 13 BOE Meeting

Alphabet soup - G is for goose At the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, at 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., children ages 3 to 5 with their caregivers will listen to goose stories and make a goose craft over Zoom. Participants should bring something to storytime that starts with the letter G. Craft materials will be provided by the library and available for contactless curbside pickup. Register to receive Zoom information and to receive a call about craft materials pick-up. Register here: https://forms. gle/2oTTfztLQYYmqnkYA.

Friday, Dec. 18 Toddlers, tots and tykes storytime At the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, from 11 to 11:45 a.m., children from birth to 3 years old with their caregivers will join one another for stories, songs and rhymes via Zoom. Older children are welcome to attend. Send an email to kidsroomvs@nassaulibrary. org or message the library on Facebook to receive Zoom information.

Teen gingerbread house craft At the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, from 4 to 5 p.m., teens in sixth to twelfth grades will join Ms. Kenney to make a Gingerbread House craft over Zoom. Registration is required. Send an email to Vsteens@nassaulibrary.org to receive Zoom information via email.

Wednesday, Feb. 3 Valley Stream District 30 SEPTA General Meeting Courtesy Central High School District

North H.S. student wins essay contest North High School seventh-grader Addison McGrath won this year’s fire prevention essay contest sponsored by the Franklin Square-Munson Fire Department. Her winning essay was titled “Fire Prevention in the Kitchen.” She was with Principal Rachel Green, from left, English Department Chairwoman Lori Belbol, teacher Fran Melluso and math teacher John Novello.

Saturday, Dec. 19

Sunday, Dec. 20

Tusday, Dec. 22

Saturday stories - shapes

Adults: motown Christmas with Rhonda Denet live virtual show

Toddlers, tots and tykes storytime

At the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, from 11 to 11:45 a.m., children ages 2 to 5 with their caregivers will join over Zoom for shape stories, songs, activities and crafts involving squares, rectangles, triangles and more. Program materials will be provided by the library and available for contactless pickup.

Register here: https://forms.gle/fZ1rjzCPbwDqNJYe7.

STEM storytime - Carnivals At the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, from 1 to 1:45 p.m., children in second to sixth grades will join over Zoom for a reading of Mr. Ferris and His Wheel and carnival themed STEMbased crafts and activities. Register: https://forms.gle/ZJbLXPCjvSYJor3P8.

At the Elmont Public Library, at 2 p.m., adult participants are invited to attend a live virtual show with vocalist, Rhonda Denet, as she performs Motown Christmas. Contact: Adult Reference: (516) 354-5280 EXT. 223 or email: reference@elmontlibrary.org.

Monday, Dec. 21 Valley Stream village board of trustees meeting At 7 p.m. in the Village Hall auditorium located at 123 South Central Avenue in Valley Stream. Meeting location might be subject to change to Zoom only. See village website for updates.

At the Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, from 11 to 11:45 a.m., children from birth to 3 years old with their caregivers will join one another for stories, songs and rhymes via Zoom. Email kidsroomvs@nassaulibrary.org or message on Facebook for Zoom information

Tuesday, Jan. 12 Valley Stream Central High School District BOE Meeting At 8 p.m., watch the school board meeting live streamed on the Central High School District website under the VS TV LIVE option. For more information contact the District Clerk at (516) 8725628.

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m.

Additional information concerning meeting dates and times can be obtained by contacting Ms. Janet Carson, Clerk of the Board, at (516) 4343600, EXT. 5222.

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l The Masjid Hamza food pantry is open every Monday from 4 to 6 p.m. l Visit to the Village of Valley Stream official website, to sign up for recreation programs: https://vsrec.org/ l The Village currently has an ongoing video short series called “The Valley Stream Road Show.” l The Valley Stream Presbyterian Church serves as an emergency food distribution center on Saturdays l The village Sanitation Department is collecting plastic, metal and glass recyclables for the week of Dec.

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Drive-in Theater COME T0

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HEMPSTEAD TOWN’S WINTER MOVIE FESTIVAL

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FREE WINTER DRIVE-IN MOVIES All movies will be shown at Town Park Point Lookout, 1300 Lido Blvd., Point Lookout

Almost Christmas Friday, December 18 5 p.m.

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Frank Zangla Commissioner, Parks & Recreation

Saturday, December 19 5 p.m.

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Sunday, December 20 2 p.m.

Council Members Dorothy L. Goosby Bruce A. Blakeman Anthony D’Esposito Dennis Dunne, Sr. Thomas E. Muscarella Christopher Carini

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The Town of Hempstead is teaming up with Toys for Tots this holiday season.

We are asking residents who attend one of these drive-in movies to bring an unwrapped gift to donate to Toys for Tots to help underprivileged children.

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Central junior ashlee Enderica took Second Place in the Celebration of Suburban Diversity 2020 essay contest for her essay “How Covid Affected Me.” Courtesy Central High School District

Central student gets Second Place in diversity essay contest Central High School junior Ashlee Enderica was awarded $1,000 from the Celebration of Suburban Dieversity 2020 essay contest for her Second-Place winning essay “How Covid Affected Me.” The contest was sponsored by the National Center for Suburban Studies at

south senior soCCer star Hailey Roberts with her parents Sherry and Newville. Last month she signed a letter of intent to play soccer for SUNY Binghampton.

Hofstra University and the Bethpage Federal Credit Union. Although there will be no award ceremony due to the pandemic, her photo was included in the contest’s Virtual Celebration of Suburban Diversity ceremony.

south soccer champ to play in college South High School senior Hailey Roberts signed her national letter of intent last month to continue her soccer career next fall at SUNY Binghamton. Roberts was a star defender on South High School’s 2018 New York State Championship girls soccer team.

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A little library on Cedar Street pbelfiore@liherald.com

Valley Stream resident Tina Rodriguez-Correa recently installed a little free library outside of her Cedar Street home, and is inviting anyone interested to come visit, borrow a book and share one of their own.

Called Tina’s Sharing Library, the little box is located at 115 Cedar Street, and Rodriguez-Correa said she is hoping it develops a diverse catalog of books as people come and share.

“I’m an avid book reader and would want to buy tons of books from the Scholastic book fairs, but it wasn’t always possible in a single-parent household,” she said of her childhood. “I’m hoping people feel comfortable browsing and borrowing books even if they are not able to leave a book. I also want kids to feel comfortable keeping the book if they absolutely love it.”

Little libraries involve people exchanging books when they come visit, donating one and taking one out in order to keep the library’s catalog varied and stocked.

Courtesy Tina Rodriguez-Correa

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Valley Streamer tina RodriguezCorrea is inviting all to come visit her little free library outside her home at 115 Cedar Street.

the South high School class of 2021 with their winning hallway decorations.

South students show their holiday spirit South High School students celebrated Spirit Week this year by transforming the hallways of the school with colorful festive decorations.

Each class competed for most creative display. The Class of 2021 won

the senior high school portion of the contest while the class of 2026 won the junior high school portion of the contest.

-Compiled by Peter Belfiore

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Bringing local sports home every week

Herald sports Nassau H.S. football approves 6 games

By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com

Nassau County high school football, slated to begin practice March 1 of 2021, announced it will play six regular-season games, down from the standard eight, and also eliminate scrimmages and one round of playoffs.

In addition, no Long Island championships will be played against Suffolk County, which will conduct only five regularseason games.

“We’re preparing for the season as if it’s going to happen and will have some things to address such as transportation and spectators as we get closer to March,” said Nassau football coordinator Matt McLees, who noted the decision to pass on the LICs was made with all 50 programs in mind. “We like the model we’re using,” he added. “It was most important to play six meaningful regular-season games above all else. With the power rankings we use, at least six games are necessary.”

Playing six games, as opposed to five, also gives each team three home games and three road games, instead of an unbalanced schedule, McLees explained.

“The football committee deserves a lot of credit for the effort they put in,” he said.

“In the end, all the decisions will benefit hundreds and hundreds of kids.”

The season is scheduled to kick off Saturday, March 13, though McLees said some games could be played on the 12th if teams wanted to give up a day of practice.

Freeport (Conference I), Garden City (II), Plainedge (III) and Seaford (IV) are the defending county champions. Freeport, which has captured back-to-back Long Island Class I titles, is the only one of the four not seeded No. 1 after losing some key contributors who transferred out of state to play this fall. Oceanside is the top seed in Conference I and will open on the road against Farmingdale.

“I think the six games is good,” Oceanside head coach Rob Blount said.

“It appeals to the majority of schools, rather than catering to the top of each conference with more playoff games. I hope we can get the season in. A small percentage of kids will continue to play in college, but most will play their last games. It’s something they will cherish for the rest of their lives.”

Garden City, which has won four straight county crowns, opens at Carey.

MacArthur, the 2019 runners-up in Conference II, is seeded second and will take on South Side in the opener. Other local matchups in Week 1 include Calhoun at Mepham, Valley Stream Central at Long Beach, and Kennedy at Elmont.

“It’s always fun lining up against one of the other teams in our district,” Mepham head coach Anthony Cracco said. “We didn’t have the opportunity to play either of the Bellmore-Merrick teams last year so our seniors are really looking forward to it.”

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MEphaM aNd CarEY will renew their Nassau Conference II football rivalry on April 10.

Plainedge, which nipped Freeport in the 2019 Rutgers Cup voting, kicks off at Lynbrook. Seaford opens at North Shore.

The regular season is scheduled to conclude Saturday, April 17. The number of playoff teams in each of Nassau’s four conferences has been cut in half, from eight to four. The semifinals are scheduled for April 24, followed by the county championship games May 1-2.

eight teams switched conferences Of the eight programs taking on new conference rivals for the upcoming season, half were part of Conference III a year ago. Runner-up South Side jumps to Conference II, while perennial powers Wantagh and Lawrence, along with North

Shore, bounced to Conference IV. New to Conference III are Manhasset and Valley Stream South. East Meadow and Herricks are back in familiar stomping grounds in Conference I after competing in Conference II in 2019.

Jv remains on saturday mornings The majority of Nassau’s junior varsity football games in 2018 kicked off Monday afternoons, but last year the action returned to traditional Saturday mornings at the opposite location of that day’s varsity game. It’ll remain that way in 2021. Should any freshmen, sophomores or juniors not step on the JV field on a particular Saturday morning, they would be eligible to play in the varsity game.

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March 13: Garden City at Carey

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March 13: Plainedge at Lynbrook

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March 13: MacArthur at South Side

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Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords stood outside the Safeway supermarket northwest of Tuscon, Ariz., on Jan. 8, 2011, chatting with constituents about Medicare reimbursements, when a 22-year-old gunman opened fire, killing six and injuring 11, including Giffords, who was the target of the attack.

A bullet sliced through the left side of Giffords’s head, and she was placed in a medically induced coma to ease swelling on her brain. When she awoke, she could not speak. She needed two months of speech therapy to mouth the words, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star,” according to USA Today.

Nearly 10 years later, her speech is still labored. “Words once came easily, but today I struggle,” she told the audience at Northwell Health’s second Gun Violence Prevention Forum last Thursday, broadcast over the internet. Some 1,200 people from throughout the country registered for the event, which was intended, in part, to reframe the debate over gun control from a battle over the Second Amendment right to bear arms to one of public safety.

The two-hour event featured a long line of speakers from the government, the medical community and private industry, including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, long an outspoken proponent of gun control, and U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat of Connecticut.

Nearly 40,000 Americans die of gun

Former U.S. rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was nearly killed in a 2011 shooting, was among the featured speakers during Northwell Health’s two-hour virtual Gun Violence Prevention Forum last Thursday. Joining her was U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican of Pennsylvania. violence annually — more than a hundred a day — two-thirds by suicide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell Health, said Americans must recognize that the country is — and has been for a long time — in the middle of a “pandemic of gun violence.”

At Northwell’s first Gun Violence Prevention Forum, held last December in Manhattan, the health system pledged $1 million to fund gun violence research and prevention, and Dowling called on other major health systems across the country to join in the effort and provide funding as well.

Last December, Northwell established the Center for Gun Violence Prevention, headed by Dr. Chethan Sathya, a pediatric surgeon and associate trauma medical director at Cohen Children’s Medical Center on the Queens-Nassau border.

“We have to get behind the root causes” of gun violence, Sathya said at the Dec. 10 forum.

To that end, Northwell is undertaking a major research study at three of its hospitals, asking patients questions about the firearms they might have in their homes to help determine their risk of injury by gun.

The study is funded by a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

“Progress has been made, but there is so much more to do,” Dowling said, emphasizing that the intent is not to deny anyone the Second Amendment right to a firearm, but rather to determine what concrete measures can be taken to reduce gun violence nationally, including which ones must be enacted through federal legislation.

High on the priority list, according to a number of forum speakers, is enacting a federal law to require a universal background check for anyone who purchases a firearm, without loopholes.

Among the speakers supporting a universal background check was U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican from Langhorne, Pa., who appeared with Giffords. On gun safety, Fitzpatrick, a former FBI special agent, said Democrats and Republicans “can come together on areas that we agree,” including background checks, estimating that 70 to 80 percent of Americans support them.

Other speakers, however, spoke of political paralysis in Congress, where special interest groups like the National Rifle Association, which opposes universal background checks, hold sway.

That is why, Giffords said, Americans must remain politically engaged and apply pressure to lawmakers to act. After she was shot, she said, “I found one word, and I found another.” People can make their voices heard, she said, at the ballot box.

“We can let this continue,” Giffords said, “or we can act. We can vote. We can be on the right side of history. Vote, vote, vote.”

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After a yearlong search with 270 candidates, the Hofstra University Board of Trustees has unanimously selected Susan Poser as its ninth president — making her the first woman to fill the role.

Stuart Rabinowitz, who has been the university’s president for the past 20 years, announced his retirement at the end of last January. In search for his successor, the university formed a committee of 13 members, including representatives from the Board of Trustees, university faculty and Student Government Association.

“In Dr. Poser, we have found a higher education leader of exceptional experience, a collaborative and visionary person, and a scholar of great depth and intellect,” said Board Chair Donald Schaeffer, who made the announcement on Dec. 9.

Poser, who will begin her tenure on Aug. 1, recently spoke to the Herald about her experience in education, goals in her first year as president and plans for a postpandemic Hofstra.

“I was really amazed by what’s going on at Hofstra,” Poser said. “It’s also incredibly well-managed financially and in a really great place coming out of the pandemic.”

Poser lauded the advancements Hofstra made during Stuart Rabinowitz tenure, including the university’s partnership with Northwell Health to create the Zucker School of Medicine and Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies.

Analogous in Poser’s leadership was UIC’s acquisition of the John Marshall Law School, which established the first and only public law school in Chicago.

What also stands out to Poser about Hofstra is its commitment to liberal arts and the humanities.

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Before her role at UIC, Poser was the dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 2010 to 2016 and the associate to the university’s chancellor for three years before that.

Poser grew up in Manhattan and majored in classics at Swarthmore College, graduating with honors. She earned her law degree and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Before starting her academic career, Poser clerked for the Honorable Dolores Sloviter, the chief judge of the U.S. Court Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. She also served as the Zicklin Fellow in Ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

“I have had the privilege to work with the Hofstra University community . . . for many years and know that under her leadership, Hofstra University will flourish for years to come,” Rabinowitz said.

Asked about her immediate goals as president, Poser said, “I know it’s cliché, but the first thing I want to do is meet a whole lot of people and listen to them and get a real feel for what everyone thinks of the university, how things are going there and how things should go moving forward,” she said.

One of Poser’s main priorities as an educator is to embrace diversity and foster “a culture of inclusion,” she said. This is evident in the actions she has taken during her tenure at UIC, where no race or ethnicity makes up 50 percent of the student population.

“I think we’ve learned that we’re very adaptable and resilient,” Poser said when asked what teachers and students could take away from the pandemic.

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NCPD swears in one of its largest cadet classes

By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com

Nassau County officials swore in 185 cadets at the Police Academy in Massapequa Park last Friday morning — one of the largest classes to enter the county’s tough, seven-month officer training program ever.

It was a socially distant affair, with 49 of the masked cadets seated on aluminum folding chairs in the auditorium of the former Hawthorn Elementary School, which Nassau leases from the Massapequa School District. The remaining recruits were separated in groups of 15 or 16 and spread out among surrounding classrooms to watch the ceremony via livestream.

The county police force now stands at 2,259, without the new recruits.

The cadets will study both in the classroom and through a series of intense simulations at various venues, which will imitate policing on the streets, including car chases, said one of the trainers, Chris Boccio, who grew up in Lynbrook. He stood by fellow trainer Joe Monez, of Mineola, in a hall as cadets sat in their classrooms nearby after the swearing-in.

The two noted that the NCPD requires a significantly more rigorous training program than New York state mandates — Nassau puts cadets through 1,050 to 1,200 hours of training, compared to the minimum 639 hours that the state requires for basic police training.

County Executive Laura Curran greeted the cadets during the ceremony. “Welcome to our Nassau County family,” she said. “We will have your back,” adding, “Your success is our success.”

The age of the Hawthorn building was apparent in the auditorium where Curran spoke, with its dim lighting, worn linoleum floor and exposed heating duct above, wrapped in silver insulation. A $54 million, 89,000-square-foot academy is now under construction on the campus of Nassau Community College in Garden City and is expected to be complete in May. The current class will be the last to train at the Massapequa Park facility and the first to graduate at the new Garden City center, said Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder, who grew up in Lynbrook

and now lives in Wantagh.

He also noted it is the first to enter the academy amid a pandemic, and will be the first to graduate under new state policing reforms enacted after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, which stress the need for community policing that requires officers to understand and engage with people at the local level.

At the same time, the reforms made the use of a chokehold a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison if an officer injures or kills a person, and opened police misconduct records to the public, among other measures.

It’s also expected that the cadets will wear body cameras when they patrol the streets after graduation, Ryder said. The county and Police Benevolent Association recently came to terms on the requirement. Officers are to be paid a $3,000 annual cash stipend to wear the cameras.

The union membership, county Legislature and county fiscal control board must still sign off on the agreement.

Ryder, now in his 38th year in policing, said he “embraced the culture here” during his time at the academy in 1986, after having spent four years in the New York

cAdet MichAel ShAnnon was among the 185 recruits who were sworn in to the NCPD’s academy on Friday.

Police recruit chelSeA Penn was joined at the swearing-in by her brother, Derrick Penn, an officer with the NCPD’s 8th Precinct.

Police Department. The NCPD’s culture, he said, is one “of community service.”

Cadet Chelsea Penn, 26, who was not permitted by academy rules to give her hometown, said, “I’m a little nervous but super-excited” about starting police training. She had been at the academy since

early that morning and had gone for a run before the swearing-in.

She stood beside her brother, Derrick Penn, 28, an officer in the 8th Precinct in Bethpage, who has been with the department four years. “She’s a perfect asset to this department,” Derrick said, smiling.

On Dec. 6, Heidenreich sent an emailed apology to the Central High School District community, saying he had been dealing with a personal family matter.

“I acted inappropriately to the messages from the gym, which I felt were harassing in nature,” he wrote. “My family has recently been addressing a difficult and traumatic issue, however, there is no excuse for my comments.”

Heidenreich could not be reached for comment.

The incident prompted a swift backlash in the Central District community, with at least some parents calling for Heidenreich to resign or for the board to terminate his contract. As superintendent, his salary for the 2020-21 school year is $281,000.

On the day of Heidenreich’s apology, Franklin Square parent Lauriel OrsanoMorales circulated a petition calling on him to resign, saying, “Our children deserve better than to have their leader say such disturbing remarks.”

As of Tuesday, the petition had gathered 578 signatures.

Sharon Yhap-van Dijk said the incident exhibited “inappropriate behavior for a school superintendent. This man is responsible for the education of our children. It was a threat — a verbal threat to cause harm to others.”

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The Valley STream Central High School District board approved a 12-week medical leave of absence for Superintendent Dr. Bill Heidenreich. la Winter said.

“He should be ashamed of himself,” Rachel Nicole Jaworski said.

Others, however, were more sympathetic. “He was clearly being sarcastic,” Anayo Michel said of Heidenreich, “and I don’t think he would actually cough on the members.”

V.S. schools outline testing procedures as cases rise

By PeTer Belfiore pbelfiore@liherald.com

Superintendents from all four Valley Stream school districts issued a joint letter on Dec. 10 outlining mandatory Covid19 testing procedures should New York state designate the neighborhood a “yellow zone” or worse under its coronavirus infection cluster initiative.

According to state guidelines, schools in geographic areas designated “yellow,” with seven-day coronavirus infection rates above 3 percent, must test 20 percent of the in-person school population, including staff and students, for at least two weeks for the coronavirus or otherwise switch to full remote instruction. If after two weeks the infection rate in the schools is revealed to be lower than in the rest of the neighborhood, testing is no longer required, according to state Department of Health guidelines.

Valley Stream school of ficials announced that the firm ATC Healthcare Testing and Screening would handle the testing process, using a polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test requiring a nasal

swab, should its services become necessary. Results from these tests would become available within 72 hours. The tests would be free for parents, with or without health insurance. Parents can also submit test results for their children from private health providers.

The announcement came as coronavirus cases continued to surge again in New York. In Nassau County, Covid-19 infection rates were around 5.8 percent as of Dec. 9, according to County Executive Laura Curran. In Valley Stream, 181 new cases were reported in the neighborhood from Dec. 8 to Dec. 14, according to Nassau County Department of Health figures.

Local schools have been grappling with the higher case numbers, with rolling building closures in the Central High School District. Most recently, school officials announced that Memorial Junior High School would be closed to inperson instruction until Friday after three confirmed coronavirus cases were reported in the building. Memorial had been closed since Dec. 9. South High School also remains closed until Friday.

LEGAL NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - ForeignTrade Zones Board [S-209-2020] Foreign-Trade Zone 37-Orange County, New York; Application for Subzone; JJS Transportation and Distribution Co Inc Valley Stream, New York An application has been submitted to the ForeignTrade Zones (FTZ) Board by the County of Orange, grantee of FTZ 37, requesting subzone status for the facility of JJS Transportation and Distribution Co Inc, located in Valley Stream, New York.

The application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally docketed on November 25, 2020.

The proposed subzone (0.69 acres) is located at 145 Hook Creek Boulevard, Valley Stream, Nassau County, New York. No authorization for production activity has been requested at this time. The proposed subzone would be subject to the existing activation limit of FTZ 37.

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Public comment is invited from interested parties.

Submissions shall be addressed to the FTZ Board’s Executive Secretary and sent to: ftz@trade.gov.

The closing period for their receipt is January 13, 2021. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to January 28, 2021.

A copy of the application will be available for public inspection in the ``Reading Room’’ section of the FTZ Board’s website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.

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LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that an Order granted by the Supreme Court,Nassau County, on the 29 day of October 2020 bearing the index number 20/000545, a copy of which may be examined at the office of Nassau County Clerk located at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, grants me the right to assume the name of Alexander Wesner Denis.

My present address is 597 Dubois avenue, Valley Stream New York 11581. The date of my birth is 14 May 2006, the place of birth is Saint John’s Episcopal, Queens New York, the present name is Alexander Wesner Gay. 124148 LEGAL NOTICE ASSUMPTION OF OFFICE OF GENERAL EXECUTRIX KARRINE NATASHA MONTAQUE ESTATE I, Montaque, Karrine Natasha do hereby give notice of my acceptance to occupy the position of General Executrix and Administrator of the KARRINE NATASHA MONTAQUE, Estate bestowed upon me by KARRINE NATASHA MONTAQUE, in accordance with the testator’s Will.

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December 21, 2020 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in the Village Hall Auditorium, 123 South Central Avenue, Valley Stream, New York on ZOOM https://us02web.zoom.us/ j/714814096 to consider the enactment of the following local law has been postponed.

PROPOSED LOCAL LAW C - 2020 - A LOCAL LAW TO AMEND THE OFFICIAL MAP OF THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM BY CHANGING A CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND IN A C-1 DISTRICT TO THE CA FLOATING MULTIPLE DWELLING DISTRICT. Dated: Valley Stream, New York December 17, 2020

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LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM OFFICE OF THE VILLAGE CLERK 123 South Central Avenue Valley Stream New York 11580 (516) 592-5105 LEGAL NOTICE TAX EXEMPTION FOR REAL PROPERTY OF SENIOR CITIZENS The Village is pleased to inform you that a Senior Citizen exemption is available if you qualify.

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Income includes Social Security benefits, Interest, Dividends, Pension, Wages, Capital Gains and Rental Income.

You must provide as proof of income a copy of your Federal Income Tax return, all 1099’s including Social Security, Pension, Wages, IRA, Trust, Dividends and a Statement of Rental Income for the year 2019.

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Dated: Valley Stream, New York December 17, 2020 JAMES J. HUNTER Village Clerk 124132 LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF VALLEY STREAM OFFICE OF THE VILLAGE CLERK 123 South Central Avenue Valley Stream New York 11580 (516) 592-5105 LEGAL NOTICE TAX EXEMPTION FOR REAL PROPERTY OF CITIZENS WITH DISABILITIES WITH LIMITED INCOME The Village is pleased to inform you that if you are a citizen with disabilities with limited income, an exemption is available if you qualify.

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his large Hi-Rance features 5 bedrooms and 2 full baths. The main level includes 2 bedrooms and a full bath, EIK and private side entrance. The 2nd level of the home includes a large extended kitchen with skylight, formal dining room which is perfect for large family gatherings and a formal living room with hardwood floors and vaulted ceilings and tons of natural light. The large master bedroom has huge double closets and a private balcony.

There are also 2 additional bedrooms plus a1 Full Bath. This could easily be a Mother/ Daughter with proper permits. Asking $595,000

IN BRIEF Douglas Elliman of Rockville Centre is proud to announce that Alexandra Porter has joined their growing team

Alexandra Porter, Licensed Real Estate Salesperson formally with Laffey Fine Homes in Manhasset, is thrilled to be selected as one of the newest agents to join the new office of Douglas Elliman in Rockville Centre. Under the leadership of fellow Sacred Heart Academy alumni, Donna O'Reilly Einemann, Alexandra will be working as a dedicated full-time agent targeting new buyers and home sellers in Rockville Centre and surrounding communities. Alexandra is local expert! She is a Rockville Centre resident, was born and raised in Garden City, and attended Adelphi University where she graduated with a BFA in Acting.

She most recently was pursuing a career in the performing arts in Manhattan before utilizing the downtime she had during quarantine to pursue a Real Estate career. She became a licensed Realtor in August. She believes her unique experiences will give her the advantage she needs to stand out as an agent. She plans on applying the skills she's learned and nurturing the relationships she's built over the last decade to excel as a real estate professional. Alexandra loves taking on challenging work so that the client does not have to. She wants to be a superstar in the eyes of those who know her and that means working harder than anyone else.

We are thrilled to have Alexandra's passion, humor, work-ethic, and commitment on our Team.

You can reach Alexandra at 516.238.3455 or at alexandra.porter@elliman.com.

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SD#14...$1,450,00 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-4299

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Q. We’ve had construction on our home going for what seems like forever. We got stopped by the pandemic in April (after starting right before, in March), and didn’t really get going again until July. A building inspector told us the insulation didn’t pass, and there was no “fire stopping.” The contractor said he followed the plans. We looked at the plans and the permit, and it doesn’t say anything about fire stopping. First, why didn’t the insulation pass, and second, what is fire stopping? We’re about to throw in the towel. Help!

A. You don’t need a towel to throw in or even clean up the mess; you just need to know that not all insulation is the same.

Either the insulation was the wrong type or thickness, or it may have been installed incorrectly. In the past decade, the federal Department of Energy has issued more stringent guidelines on what thermal ratings must be onte eeper installed for floors, walls and roofs. Your state, following the DOE, sets codes based on regional requirements to save energy.

If you look at the plans, there should be information about what R value was designed and approved.

R stands for resistance, and is printed on each bale of fiberglass. If the insulation installed was a lower number or was jammed into a narrower cavity, that may be a reason to fail. Another common failure is using open-cell foam insulation when closed-cell, which has a higher resistance, and cost, was specified in the drawings. Another common error is when air gaps allow cold air to creep right through. I often see where fiberglass insulation is forced into the gaps around windows, and when fiberglass batting is compressed, it loses insulation value because the thermal resistance is in the air pockets, not the material.

Due to the formulas and calculations we professionals have to provide “online” for each job, this is taken seriously, so if the installer ignored the required insulation, the inspector could not pass noncompliant work. I respect your inspector for trying to protect your interests.

Fire stopping is an important safety factor in protecting occupants. All pipe and duct penetrations, by law, have to be sealed completely to prevent flames from drawing into cavities, seeking oxygen and rapidly consuming the building and trapping people inside. Anyone who builds must build legally, whether there’s a note on the plans or not. Although building officials like to see more and more informational notes to cover everyone in case of liability, site enforcement by inspectors is important.

Your builder has an equal responsibility to follow all the laws. As a professional witness, I remember hearing a judge once state, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” Trying to say that “it wasn’t in the plans,” doesn’t relieve a party to the construction of responsibility for building to the letter of the law. So check for gaps, insulation type and markings to verify you’ve got the right stuff. Stay warm!

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ew York state is facing a $9 billion budget deficit due to the coronavirus pandemic, with severe cutbacks and tax hikes likely on the way. Although there should be some relief coming at the federal level once President-elect Joe Biden takes office, New York definitely needs to develop some new revenue streams, and fast.

Nearly two years ago, I argued in a Herald op-ed that the state should legalize the recreational use of marijuana, and that Nassau County leaders Nick and residents BuglioNe shouldn’t be so quick to shoot the notion down, as they so frequently do. I also wrote that it was about time the state legalized sports gambling, an activity that so many people take part in illegally already.

Not surprisingly, two years have passed and little has changed. The recreational use of marijuana is still illegal. And while the New York State

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Gaming Commission made sports gambling legal about six months after my first op-ed ran — you’re welcome — bets can only be placed at a handful of upstate casinos. Nobody is getting off their couch on a football Sunday to drive to the Catskills so they can bet that the Jets are going to lose again.

Now, more than ever, we need to legalize marijuana and online sports gambling. Obviously, we desperately need the tax revenue. But more important, both are now legal in nearby New Jersey.

Two years ago I pointed out that a friend of mine who lives in Jersey City was taking my bets all football season long.

He still does. I send him cash through Venmo and text him my bets. He keeps a ledger, and at the end of the season we settle up.

But two years ago, recreational marijuana use was illegal in New Jersey. Not anymore. In an Election Day referendum, New Jersey residents voted overwhelmingly to legalize pot.

Now, before I propose this scenario,

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I would like to make clear that I don’t smoke marijuana. But if I wanted to, what would stop me from calling my friend and asking him to pick up some weed for me at his local dispensary?

Maybe we could meet at Penn Station, have a bite to eat, catch up on our lives and make a quick transaction.

And couldn’t any enterprising person who has a friend in New Jersey place an even larger marijuana order, pick it up and sell it on the streets of Nassau County at a markup?

To be clear again, I’m not suggesting that anybody do this. I’m merely pointing out the obvious: Now that marijuana is legal in New Jersey, it is tantamount to being legal here. The stuff is going to pour in over the border anyway, so why don’t we join the party, so to speak? The same thing goes for online sports gambling.

If people want to do it, they’re going to do it, regardless of what the law says.

So let’s legalize it and cash in.

I’m not alone in my thinking. I was heartened to hear Gov. Andrew Cuomo

he stuff is going to pour in over the border anyway, so why don’t we join the party, so to speak?

recently say he thought marijuana would be legalized soon. Meanwhile, State Sen. Joseph Addabbo, a Queens Democrat, likes his odds of getting State Senate Bill 17d passed, which would legalize online sports betting.

Although neither measure would pull New York state completely out of its fiscal crisis, it’s safe to say that both would generate billions of dollars in revenue.

Oh, but I can almost see the Nassau County curmudgeons seething as they read this. I sure felt their wrath two years ago, when I first weighed in. One Herald reader wrote in and all but called me a drug addict. I even got an email from Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, who wrote that, while she enjoyed reading my columns (I’m kind of a big deal), she respectfully disagreed with my opinion.

Look, write your letters. Call me names. Say whatever you want to say.

It isn’t going to change the fact that the recreational use of marijuana and online sports gambling are here to stay. So let’s legalize them. New York sure could use the cash.

Nick Buglione is a teacher, freelance journalist and former editor of the East Meadow Herald.

Lost and found in the pandemic

think somewhere around the end of October, my husband and I ran out of things to say. Sitting across the dinner table from each other over plates of Costco soup and a homemade Greek salad with wimpy lettuce, our eyes met and … that was it. Our eyes met. At breakfast we had already covered news about the grandkids and news from the news. We have a rule about no TV during meals, so we ate in companRaNdi ionable silence, kReiss which felt both OK and a little sad.

When you’re out and about, seeing friends, going to an office, getting your hair cut or your car serviced or planning a weekend away or going to weddings and funerals, there is an ongoing narrative to your days. Normal life is grist for the conversation mill. But these days we’re not cutting our hair or mingling or going shopping.

We walk our dog, but don’t stop to chat with the neighborhood dog friends out for a stroll. Conversation requires material, and our material is growing

thin: “Did you speak to the kids?” “Do you want pepperoni or mushrooms?”

“Did you sign the health care proxy?”

We have lost more, too. Underpinning our lives is the sense that things will work out OK. We have believed in ourselves, that we can work through problems and survive life’s challenges and even tragedies. But the pandemic has eroded some of that confidence in ourselves and in the future.

We wobble a bit from time to time.

After 52 years of marriage, after decades of living in one community and creating friendships that form the fabric of our lives, that fabric is fraying, as friends are lost. At our age, we expect that people will get sick and some will die, but during a pandemic there is no satisfying way to grieve as a community of friends. Three dearest friends died since we began isolating ourselves, and we didn’t get to see them within weeks or months of their passing. We said what we could in messages and emails and photos, but one hug would have obviated the need for words.

My grandkids, ages 10 to 17, are spinning in their own galaxies of online school and virtual reality and friend

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bubbles and much too much downtime and isolation. No one can give them back this year, and while they have learned patience and resilience, I wouldn’t suggest global pandemics to teach character building. I miss them. I find I work hard to catch their attention with nottoo-annoying texts and offers with homework and pitches for group activities and games. They’re a tough sell, and nothing virtual compares to seeing them face to face.

It is important, I think, to be honest with ourselves and authentic with our kids and grandkids, not just cheerleaders for pandemic silver linings.

I will say, however, that much has been found during this time. Reference the same patience and resilience, which all of us have had to summon. “New York tough” resonates these days.

I am more disciplined about getting out and exercising, between clouds and raindrops, whenever I find a patch of blue. Just about every day, I move, somehow and somewhere, just to change the scenery and push away unwelcome thoughts.

I keep close with friends nearby and far away, giving more time to more

e’ve lost time with family and dear friends, but found the time to try new things.

expansive emails and the sharing of photos and memories. It helps. All these threads weave the fabric tighter.

I have started crafting books. What an incredibly satisfying thing it is to begin by folding papers and adding photographs and snippets of poetry and passages from old letters and collaging together something meaningful in an original book. It absorbs my free time, of which I have a lot. I appreciate the luxury of time to do art.

What I also place in the “found” column is the challenge of baking complex desserts, like the cranberry lemon bars I made from a New York Times recipe.

Every part, from the fresh cranberry puree to the lemon curd to the crust, had to be prepared separately and then composed. Now I have 24 bars in the freezer. Since I eat them only occasionally, they should last me until we get the vaccine.

If you’re reading this, and since I am writing it, we are still here, and still riding this crazy wave. As a new year approaches, even as we grieve for what has been lost, it feels exhilarating to watch the first people getting vaccinated, offering us all the promise of a healthy 2021.

Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

VALLEY STREAM HERALD — December 17, 2020

N.J. just legalized pot. N.Y. needs money. Well, then, why not?

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It’s time for America to come to its senses over guns

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istening to Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords speak, you’re quickly overcome by the urge to cry. The former congresswoman was once known for her incisive rhetoric, delivered with a magnetic smile. Then, at age 40, she was shot one sunny January day in 2011 outside Tucson, Ariz., while chatting with constituents in front of a Safeway supermarket.

The 22-year-old gunman, angered by Giffords’s political views, had targeted her. Six died in the attack, and 10 others besides Giffords were injured.

Giffords may have survived, but her speech did not. Her words once flowed easily, but now she measures each one, rehearsing phrases to string them together in coherent sentences before speaking in public.

It is a miracle that she is able to utter a word. The bullet that struck her pierced the left side of her brain, leaving her unable to talk for two months.

Through speech therapy, she regained the ability to speak, but only in short, labored bursts.

That challenge was obvious during Northwell Health’s second Gun Violence Prevention Forum, a two-hour meeting of gun safety experts, medical practitioners, policy makers and elected leaders from around the country on Dec. 10. Giffords spoke alongside U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican who supports a federal universal background check for firearm purchases, and whom Giffords, a Democrat, has endorsed for Congress.

We applaud Northwell Health — in particular Michael Dowling, its presi-

dent and CEO — for taking a leading role in fostering dialogue about gun safety, while also funding gun violence research: Northwell put up $1 million last December to study America’s “pandemic of gun violence,” as Dowling calls it.

We also applaud Giffords, who, despite the physical pain and mental anguish she endures, has been an outspoken proponent of common-sense gun laws that are intended not to take away anyone’s right to bear arms, but rather to enact safeguards — like background checks — to ensure that guns do not end up in the hands of criminals or those suffering from mental illness.

No doubt, we need to understand the root causes of our nation’s crisis of gun violence, which kills an average of 110 people a day — two-thirds by suicide.

With a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Northwell is conducting a major research study at three of its hospitals, asking emergency room patients about the presence of guns in their homes to assess their risk of injury or death by a firearm.

Our nation desperately needs studies like this one. From 1996 to 2019, Congress, tied up in knots by the powerful gun lobby, refused to fund firearms research. Only recently, thanks to the monumental efforts of gun safety activists like Giffords, is Congress starting to parcel out research funds. In its 2020 budget, it earmarked $25 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health to study gun violence.

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letters No place for bullying To the Editor: The New York Post reported on Dec. 5 that Dr. Bill Heidenreich, the Valley Stream Central High School District superintendent, threatened to “cough all over everyone” at his gym in Merrick. In the article, Heidenreich disclosed he had come in close contact with someone who is Covid-19 positive and that he was self-quarantining.

On Dec. 8, the Central District board held its regular meeting, at which members voted 5-4 to give Mr. Heidenreich a 12-week medical leave. Hours earlier, many others and I had written to Toni Pomerantz, the CHSD board president, asking that she immediately ter minate Mr. Heidenreich’s $281,000-a-year contract.

The board has approved numerous guidelines, policies and programs addressing bullying. Students found to be bullying other students can be removed from a school.

You cannot hold a higher office in a Valley Stream school system than superintendent. New York City residents who are looking to move to the suburbs consider the quality of Long Island’s schools as a decisive factor, and are now likely to be deterred from considering Valley Stream as their new home.

Current residents should be concerned that their home

roughly a million people have died by gun in this country, with about 170 mass shootings. After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012 — in which 26 died, including 20 6- and 7-year-olds — Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, who was recently elected in Arizona to the U.S. Senate, founded a nonprofit, simply called Giffords, to raise funds for gun violence research, lobby government to enact sensible gun legislation and educate the public about firearms safety.

Writing recently on Giffords.org’s blog, Kelly Drane noted that gun sales have surged during the coronavirus pandemic. We see this at any time of potential unrest in our nation — fear drives firearms sales to ever higher levels. In November, some 2 million gun sales were recorded — a 48 percent increase over the same month last year.

More guns, Drane rightly noted, do not make us safer. Quite the opposite.

We know that economic calamities such as the Great Recession of 2007 to 2010 increase the likelihood of suicide, according to the medical journal The Lancet. We also know that people who die by suicide are significantly more likely to use a gun than any other means. At the same time, according to Harvard University School of Public Health, more guns bring more homicides. Therefore, stemming our nation’s all-too-easy access to firearms should — and likely would — reduce gun violence.

The best way to effect change, Giffords noted last Thursday, is to “vote, vote, vote.”

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ews about an FDA approval for the coronavirus vaccine is monumental, but we must not allow it to lull us into a false sense of complacency. This war isn’t over — in fact, there are still a few battles ahead. We are not immune to the nationwide Covid19 surge, and in the past month we have seen positivity and hospitalization numbers that are the highest they’ve been since we reopened in May. Our data is beginning to show a more even distribution of disease activity among all age groups across the county. This Laura virus doesn’t disCurraN criminate, and its reach is once again widespread across all our communities.

I know that this has been a long and tiring battle, but now is not the time to let our guards down. We can’t allow Covid fatigue to get the better of us when we’re so close to the finish line. We have reached a clear point of community

spread that calls for increased vigilance from all of us. I continue to ask all residents to stick with the common-sense measures we know will keep us, and our loved ones, safe: Wear a mask, stay six feet apart and avoid unsafe gatherings. These simple measures can prevent us from going backward.

Furthermore, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, has said that Covid-19 will continue to disrupt lives until an “overwhelming majority” of people get the vaccine. Polls show, however, that as many as half of Americans have reservations about the shots.

In response, Nassau County is launching the “We Can Do It, Nassau” campaign, a public-awareness campaign promoting confidence in the U.S. vaccine effort, emphasizing unity and patriotism and the importance of the vaccines to ensure that schools return to normal and we continue on the path toward a strong economic recovery in the county. The campaign is a tribute to Rosie the Riveter, the cultural icon representing women

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who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II. During the war, defense workers on Long Island turned out hundreds of military planes a month for Grumman, in Bethpage, and Republic Aviation, in Farmingdale. The county’s campaign seeks to remind the public of the extraordinary challenges that Americans — including Long Islanders — have overcome in the past and inspire residents to likewise step up for their country today.

As county executive, I’ve made keeping schools and businesses open one of my highest priorities. As we manage the increase in cases because of the holidays and cold weather, the county will do everything in its power to keep education and commerce operating, but we need your help.

Robust testing is key, and I am committed to continuing to assist schools in meeting testing requirements so we can keep our kids in school safely and keep our business community open through the winter.

At the moment, hospital capacity isn’t a pressing threat in Nassau County, but

’ve made keeping schools and businesses open one of my highest priorities.

Letters values could be affected if the school’s reputation is tarnished by the superintendent’s behavior and the board’s action to allow a 12-week medical leave, during which Heidenreich will collect about $70,000. Leadership is behaving by example. Valley Stream residents, the teachers who work with the superintendent and parents must trust that the children will be safe in school and must demand the removal of the bully at the top.

ANTHONy BONeLLI Valley Stream

How did we almost re-elect Donald Trump?

To the editor: Thanks to Randi Kreiss for being brave enough to write about the man currently in the White House (“We’re on Trump time for seven more weeks,” Dec. 3-9). I doubt he will ever go to prison, although I agree that he should, with almost 300,000 people dead.

What a shame that he was almost voted back into office had we not pulled out all the stops to educate and organize.

Happy to hear that not everyone on this island is a Trump supporter!

CAROLANN PeRez Freeport

the trend is in the wrong direction. To save lives and prevent further restrictions on restaurants and other businesses, we must do everything we can to hold the line. At the peak of the pandemic, we had almost 2,600 patients hospitalized with Covid-19, and 505 of them were on ventilators. As of Monday, we had 419 people hospitalized, with 36 on ventilators. We expect those numbers to go up, and the county is ready to increase capacity for hospital and ICU units as needed. I’ve been in constant conversation with hospital executives to ensure preparedness for a potential surge cases as well as the upcoming pivot to vaccine storage and distribution.

I know that the holiday season brings unique challenges, but if we follow the guidance of our trusted public health professionals, we can save lives and keep our businesses and schools open while we eagerly await the distribution of the vaccine, our light at the end of the tunnel. We have worked so hard to contain this virus — let’s not lose our progress now.

Lauran Curran is the Nassau County executive.

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LIRR should rethink its plans To the editor: In our new Covid-19 world, Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Rail Road and New Jersey Transit must re-evaluate anticipated future ridership growth projections.

The same applies to any new proposed system capacity-expansion projects.

Clearly, more people are going to telecommute from home on a permanent basis. Add the increasing crime and the declining quality of life in New york City, making working in Manhattan less desirable. Many Manhattan-based corporations, including some in the Wall Street area, are considering relocating some employees to satellite offices in the surrounding suburbs.

The ridership growth for LIRR when the $11.8 billion east Side Access to Grand Central Terminal opens in December 2022 will be thousands less than anticipated. That start date assumes there are no more delays in the most recent project-recovery schedule.

Our new commuting world calls into question the value of investing $8 billion or more in Governor Cuomo’s proposed Penn Station South project, comprising four new platforms and eight new tracks.

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

Celebrating the holidays patriotically — Freeport

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