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Orthodox churches quiet They are among the last to join ban on large gatherings Church, which serves all of southeast Nassau County, including Seaford and Wantagh, fell The call and response of the silent as a community after its hymns reverberated through the last public liturgy on March 22, church on the evening of March as New York’s ban on gatherings 25, icons peering of more than 50 was down from the walls extended to religious on the priest in his organizations. The shining Lenten Orthodox Church robes of purple and was the last major gold brocade, a scene denomination to that has been repeatcease holding public ed for more than a services. thousand years. The parish was In place of the directed by Archusual Wednesdaybishop Michael evening Commu(Dahulich), head of nion liturgy, howevthe Diocese of New er, the Rev. Martin York and New JerKraus, of Holy Trinsey, and Metropoliity O r t h o d o x THE REV. tan Tikhon (MolChurch in East lard), archbishop of Meadow, was lead- MARTIN KRAuS Washington, D.D. ing an 1,100-year-old Pastor, and primate of the s e r v i c e c a l l e d a Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Paraklesis with a America, to obey all Orthodox Church new theme: supplicivil authorities in cating the Virgin deciding its course Mary for relief from the COVID- for the coming weeks. 19 crisis. Archbishop Elpidophoros, One other significant differ- head of the Greek Orthodox ence: The church was empty, Archdiocese of North America, except for Kraus’s wife, Matush- echoed Metropolitan Tikhon. ka Dennise Kraus, who filled the “I’m staying at home,” he said in dual role of canonarch, or mas- a YouTube broadcast to church ter of ceremonies, and choir. H o ly T r i n i t y O r t h o d ox Continued on page 5
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STATE SEN. KEVIN Thomas, a Levittown Democrat, said the Legislature was considering a number of options to help local residents, businesses and municipal governments get back on their feet when the crisis passes. Many people have struggled to find even basic supplies during a time of supermarket shortages.
Store supplies dwindle as COVID-19 crisis carries on By TIMoTHY DENToN tdenton@liherald.com
“Do you have a voucher for that yogurt?” The clerk at the Wantagh supermarket asked the question f acetiously. Yo gur t wasn’t being strictly rationed last weekend, although like many stores, this one had a two-item limit on all identical merchandise — even 3-ounce tins of cat food. Paper goods continued to be almost completely absent
from the shelves, although napkins started to reappear here and there. One Levittown grocer was sold out of prepackaged meat products like hot dogs, bologna and other cooked, ready-to-eat products, and those same items were in short supply in other locations. To deal with shortages, residents have begun sharing sources of their supplies in ways not seen since the 1940s. One Seaford resident was willing to divulge her secret
savior — the retail grocer that still stocked everything she needed — only on the condition that its name not appear in print. Over-the-counter cold and flu products dwindled at pharmacies in Seaford and Wantagh as residents began stocking up on them as well. Because of the extreme shortage of hospital beds and ventilators, residents contracting milder cases of the Continued on page 3
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continued from front page COVID-19 virus might have to let the disease run its course at home, according to health officials. Seaford had 28 test-confirmed cases on Saturday; Wantagh and North Wantagh had a total of 52, and there were no recorded fatalities. The hamlets have a combined population of about 46,000. As a result of shortages, prices for some over-the-counter medicines were rising, despite some special of fers. At one store, an expectorant/decongestant that a month ago sold for $15.99 for a packa g e of 20 was priced last Saturday at $19.19 for a package of 12. A nasal spray that sold for $6.59 two ago cost PrePared meats were not to be found at Kevin thOmas weeks $1 more last State Senator week. ments that will bear the brunt of admin“ T h a t ’s n o t istering those options. Thomas menr e a l l y p r i c e tioned changes in bankruptcy laws and gouging,” State Sen. Kevin Thomas said. loan forgiveness programs as two possiThe Levittown Democrat, who heads the bilities he and his colleagues have Senate’s Consumer Affairs Committee, begun to consider. While he expressed gratitude for the explained that in some cases, merchants have raised prices to help control federal assistance New York is slated to receive thanks to the new legislation, he demand and prevent hoarding. was critical of “Price gouging some of its providoes exist — there sions. “It grants w i l l a lw ay s b e relief for g amsome bad actors bling debts, but ready to take not for student advantage of a loans,” he said crisis,” Thomas ruefully. Student s a i d . “A n d t h e loans will benefit authorities are from a limited going after people moratorium on engaging in it.” interest charges, But Thomas said Thomas said, but he thought this not on repayment was a simple case of the principal. of supply and Thomas said demand. “Stores that he and his have to find some colleagues were way of keeping at as shell-shocked least a minimum as anyone. “Two inventory on the months ago, when shelf,” he said. we started talking While everyone GasOline was the one bright spot, with about this,” he i s c o n c e r n e d prices plunging to pre-2000 levels despite said, “no one about the immedi- the introduction of more expensive summer could imagine ate future, elected blends, as at this gas station on Old we’d be where we officials are Jerusalem Avenue in Seaford. are today.” beginning to The one bright focus on the aftermath as well. With millions of people spot in an otherwise dark scenario may across the country filing new claims for be falling gasoline prices, which dipped unemployment — scores of thousands below $2 per gallon for 87-octane gas at of them in New York — “We have to some Long Island stations last week for think about how we’re going to help the first time since 2004. The average them,” Thomas said. Ninety-day freezes price in Nassau County at the beginning on evictions or turn-offs is great, but of last week was $2.30 per gallon — the second-lowest in the state, after the city what happens on day 91?” In addition to the $2.2 trillion stimu- of Elmira, where the average was $2.14, lus package passed by Congress last according to Robert Sinclair, Long week, officials are pondering a wide Island AAA’s media spokesman and gasrange of stimulus options for individu- oline pricing expert. The national average was $2.08 per als, businesses and the local govern-
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tores have to find some way of keeping at least a minimum inventory on the shelf.
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any price at this supermarket in Wantagh.
Over-the-cOunter cOld and flu remedies were in increasingly short supply last week in the face of rising demand, inevitably resulting in price increases. The item on the far left sold for 15.99 just a month ago. gallon. Sinclair said he believed prices are headed lower still. “The standard formula for pricing at the pump is the wholesale rate plus 80 cents,” he explained. Wholesale prices were up slightly last weekend, closing at 64 cents per gallon, so the theoretical price at the pump is $1.44 — its lowest level since 1999. “It’s even more surprising, because after March 15, stations have to begin converting to summer grades,” which are usually more expensive, Sinclair added. Benchmark oil prices were hovering at slightly less than $24 per barrel — the lowest price in 20 years — and stocks were also high,” he said. To offset some of the glut, President Trump announced
two weeks ago that the government would buy excess inventory to beef up the country’s Strate gic Petroleum Reserve. All this would be great news for Seaford and Wantagh commuters — if they were commuting. With so many residents following government directories to stay home, few can take advantage of the windfall. Neither Sinclair nor Thomas would speculate about how long the crisis would last. Even if Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s predictions of an “apex” in 14 to 21 days prove accurate, Thomas said, it would take “at least until the end of the year” for life to return to pre-crisis conditions. And that, he allowed, might be optimistic.
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First responders workout for free By J.D. FREDA jfreda@liherald.com
The coronavirus pandemic has created many complications and has affected numerous groups of people. One highly-effected group is first responders – all first responders. “First responders are people who are trained to respond to emergency,” said Michelle Panetta, co-founder of Beyond the Badge, a local nonprofit that promotes mental health awareness and the wellbeing of law enforcement officers. “Some people say it is only cops and firefighters, but it’s everyone. Military is included, nurses, emergency medical technicians, dispatchers, they all count.” Bloomberg Business Wire posted an article on March 25 that cited statistics collected from Oren Barzilay, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2507, a union that represents mainly uniformed emergency medical technicians, paramedics, fire inspectors and dispatchers. According to Barzilav, medical emergency calls are up to 6,500 a day, a 40 percent hike from before the crisis. Barzilav said the union typically sees about 5,000 calls on New Year’s Day, its busiest day. In the same article, Anthony Almojera, vice president of Local 3621 of the Uniformed EMS Officers Union, which represents EMS officers in the fire department, said that virus-related concerns have been the most prevalent cause for calls since 9/11. And that comparison is important, especially for longtime first responders in the New York-metropolitan area. “At this point, you’re getting that feeling of 9/11 all over again in terms of how bad this could be,” Panetta said. “A lot of 9/11 first responders have health issues from that. Now they are up against this, and you have anxiety from all of that, knowing that this virus is out there.” Typically, Beyond the Badge focuses on the mental health of law enforcement. Now, Michelle Panetta says she and husband Chris see the bigger picture and more dire need to help a wider array than normal – and not just mentally. “A lot of first responders rely on fitness. If we have a bad day, we can get a hard workout in at the gym to get stress out,”
Michelle said. “Once the gyms closed, I asked, what ways can we still destress?” Panetta, a probation officer, mentioned that her office does not have a gym. She said many precincts, firehouses and law enforcement offices do, but she is not sure whether they are open. She also thinks that many are hesitant to use public, shared equipment. So, Panetta wanted to create an opportunity for first responders to destress while keeping their bodies healthy. “We wound up posting something about fitness, and then the Yoga Shack wrote to me saying they’d like to work with me,” Panetta said. She connected with the Yoga Shack in Bethpage’s Michelle DeNicolaTurano and Cindy Mussman-Valentine to offer free virtual guided meditation and yoga courses to first responders. The courses run roughly four weeks and throughout the month of April. Panetta is also working with Suzanne Kraemer and Ada Coonerty of Fitness 19 in Malverne. Fitness 19 provides online classes on Fridays and Saturdays, offering abdominal strengthening classes, cardio classes and Zumba classes. Panetta said that physical activity is a fantastic “destressor” and “preserves your mental health.” She doubled down, saying that being static can bring on anxiety. “Everybody is starting to get that unsettling feeling,” Panetta said. “That anxiety feeling of ‘could it be me? Do I have symptoms? Do I have no symptoms but am spreading it?’” But, beyond the stress of responding to calls professionally, many first responders must adapt to unfamiliar situations at home now, too. “Now, every day is something different and you are thrown in to different situations so fast,” Panetta said. “A lot of people are homeschooling their kids right now. So, you have to go from parent, to first responder, to teacher, and still be a provider. That’s a lot of stress.” But Panetta has seen her latest idea put into action already. She gets updates from the Yoga Shack or Fitness 19 whenever they have a new member sign up for the program. She even sent the offer directly to the Nassau County Police Department health and wellness department. Panetta really hopes they send it to their dispatch team, who she believes are a group of
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An oFFiciAl FlyER for one of Beyond the Badge’s free yoga class offers. unsung heroes that rarely get recognition. Beyond the Badge has grown steadily since its inception late last year, and more law enforcement officers are taking notice. When asked if Panetta would quit her job to take on the full responsibility of demanding nonprofit, she was not sure, but she did offer this: “I don’t know if I would stop my career, I’ve never been
asked that. But I think the beauty of the situation is that we’re active. We’re working the same type of job and going through the same things as the people we aim to help.” All information for the free exercise classes can be found on https://www.facebook.com/BeyondTheBadgeNY/.
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Fewer than halF of its regular congregants attended Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in East Meadow on March 22, the last day before the church closed due to the ban on large gatherings.
Orthodox churches obey ban, close doors continued from front page members, including those at St. Markela Greek Orthodox Church in Wantagh, “just as you are staying at home. It is the least we can do for the safety of our neighbors, of our families and of our friends. St. Gregory of Nyssa Carpatho-Russian and St. John the Theologian Antiochian orthodox churches, in Seaford and Levittown, respectively, followed suit. “I’d rather die than not have Communion,” parishioner and Operation Desert Storm veteran Scott Cackett muttered grimly as he waited in line to receive the sacrament. Many other regulars voiced a combination of relief and regret. “Either we believe in God, or we don’t,” said one, who requested anonymity. “I’m grateful we’re already streaming our liturgy, that we already have all the equipment in place,” Kraus said. “A lot of churches are having to learn this now, but we already have a few years’ experience.” In the coming weeks, Kraus said, he would continue the regular round of services if at all possible, with his wife carrying on as both canonarch and choir. The choir in the Orthodox Church has a much larger role than in most other churches, acting as a partner in the drama of the church’s liturgical celebrations. Last week, Kraus asked the church’s choir director, Dr. Nicholas Reeves, to self-isolate as a preventive measure, so that Reeves would be healthy for the demanding Holy Week rites. Now it is uncertain how the church will celebrate Pascha, as Easter is known, which falls on April 19. Like many modern churches, Holy Trinity runs on a tight budget, and usually depends heavily on donations from an influx of worshippers during the season of Pascha. The church’s treasury is ably managed, and, Kraus said, “We have enough to weather a couple of months.” But the loss of Pascha donations will inevitably hit all local parishes hard. Orthodox parishes tend to be relatively small compared with some of the big Roman Catholic or Evangelical churches in the area. Funded in 1924, Holy Trinity is the oldest Orthodox parish on Long Island, serving about 200 families. Attendance at its Sunday services usually averages between 50 and 60 worshippers, not including children.
St. GreGory oF Nyssa Carpatho-Russian church in Seaford is also closed, both for services and for the three weekly AA meetings it hosts. hiS eminence archbiShop Elpidophoros, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in the U.S., told his flock he was staying home and advised them to do the same, saying, “It is the least we can do for the safety of our neighbors.”
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What’s up next door and around the corner
Herald neigHbors Police pay birthday boy friendly visit Eugene Klochkoff lives in the Harbor section of Seaford. On Wednesday, March 25, Eugene turned 5 and his parents had planned a birthday party. They were forced to cancel their son’s birthday party in an effort to adhere to social distancing. Although none of Eugene’s friends or neighbors were able to attend, some looked on as the Nassau County Police Department (NCPD) visited his Seaford home to wish him a happy birthday. Officers from NCPD’s Seventh Precinct, located on Merrick Road in Seaford, rolled up in a caravan of squad cars — one of which carried Police Commissioner Patrick J. Ryder — to bring Eugene some birthday joy. Deputy Inspector Gus Kalin played Eugene “Happy Birthday,” on his trumpet from the street. Ryder and the Seventh Squad gifted the birthday boy with an NCPD hat, a reusable water bottle and a bag.
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EugEnE KlochKoff, 5, celebrated his birthday on March 25, with help from the Nassau County Police Department (NCPD). ncPD commissionEr PatricK J. Ryder, left, was in attendance. DEPuty insPEctor gus Kalin played “Happy Birhday” on his trumpet from the street.
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Seaford junior selected as leaders Four Seaford High School students have been selected to participate in American Legion Boys State, a leadership action program. Juniors Craig Ackerman, Colin Merrigan, Michael Scimeca and Brian Wise were sponsored by their town post, Seaford American Legion Post No. 1132. This year’s Boys State conference will tentatively run from June 28 to July 3 at SUNY Morrisville, barring a postponement. Qualified male high school juniors will participate in a practical government course designed to develop a working knowledge of proper govern-
mental structure. A central lesson of the course: Government is what you make of it. The selection process is rigorous. Young men with “outstanding qualifications in leadership, character, scholarship, service and citizenship” are chosen. Seaford Principal Scott Bersin and faculty members selected eight juniors, who were then interviewed by representatives from the Seaford American Legion. After the interview process, Wise, Merrigan, Ackerman and Scimeca were chosen.
With families beginning to feel the early stages of cabin fever, preparing a meal together can be one of the easiest and most enjoyable OF pastimes. Starting this week, the Seaford and Wantagh Herald-Citizen newspapers invite readers to share their favorite recipes or meals — or their experiences cooking together as their families have sheltered in place. To start the series, here is a longtime favorite.
Paglia e fieno alla ghiotta (Straw and wheat gourmand style) Despite the elaborate name, this recipe is surprisingly easy to make and only takes about a half-hour start to finish. It is visually beautiful, delicious, and the name alone makes it sound as if the cook has been slaving over a hot stove all day. And even very young children can help in its preparation. For four to six:
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SIMPlE, DElICIOuS AND quick – Paglia e Fieno alla Ghiotta is a perfect dish for family cooking.
Ingredients ■ One medium white or yellow onion ■ 4-6 oz. ham, pancetta, or other smoked or cured pork product, according to taste ■ 1-2 cups white mushrooms ■ 8 tablespoons butter ■ 1-2 cups heavy cream ■ Freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese ■ One package each yellow and spinach fettucine Timothy Denton/Herald-Citizen
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■ (Mushrooms, meat and onions should be in roughly equal proportions, but feel free to adjust quantities according to taste.)
Preparation In an 8-quart stockpot, enough cold water to cook all the pasta. (If you are using fresh pasta, you will have to do the spinach pasta separately, because it cooks more quickly) When the water comes to a boil, add salt to taste and all the pasta. Cooking the pasta uncovered and in as little water possible gives the cook better control over the final texture, which should be al dente — cooked, but firm to the bite. When the pasta is done, add cold water to halt the cooking process and drain. While the water is boiling, dice the onion, ham or pancetta and the mushrooms. In a large skillet that can later hold all the ingredients, including the pasta, melt all the butter over medium-high heat. When the foam begins to subside, add the onions. Sauté until just translucent.
Add the mushrooms and sauté for about until they just begin to soften. Reduce heat and sprinkle lightly with salt. When the mushrooms begin to produce liquid, or “sweat” (which happens very quickly), turn up the heat. Add the meat and cream. If the sauce needs thickening, add freshly grated cheese
To serve
Put the sauce in a bowl and set aside. Add all the noodles to the skillet and half the sauce. Mix thoroughly. Pour into a serving dish. Make an indentation in the center and pour in the remaining sauce. Sprinkle liberally with freshly grated cheese and freshly ground pepper to taste. Note: Pancetta is much saltier than most ham, so you may need to adjust the salt used in the recipe accordingly. Once you get the hang of this lovely dish, you can prepare the sauce in the time it takes to cook the pasta, while other family members prepare salad. Children too young to help with the chopping can stir the sauce or monitor the noodles. In Italy, pasta is nearly always the first course in a multi-course meal that is eaten with the whole family at mid-day. This would go well with almost any roast or grilled meat dish, except very strongly flavored ones like petti di pollo alla senese. Served with a mixed salad, it can also be a meal in itself. Enjoy! Got a favorite? Send your recipes and any photos to tdenton@liherald.com. Adapted from “The Classic Italian Cookbook,” by Marcella Hazan
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A 21-yeAr-old wAs killed after a collision with a utility pole in North Massapequa last Friday.
Fatal auto accident in Masssapequa Nassau County Police Department’s Seventh Squad detectives reported the death of Anthony Cardillo, 21, of Massapequa after a fatal automobile accident in North Massapequa on Friday, March 27 at 5:18 a.m. Cardillo was traveling south on North Broadway in a Town of Oyster Bay Public Safety vehicle, according to police. He then struck a utility pole near the inter-
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the wANtAgh Fire Department has closed down all firehouses, except for emergency calls.
section of North Pine Street. Police indicated that it was a one-car accident. As a result of the collision, Cardillo sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bethpage. Police did not report any indication of criminality, but the investigation remains ongoing.
NAssAu CouNty begAN accepting donations of medical supplies on March 23.
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Nassau County accepting medical donations Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick J. Ryder and Office of Emergency Management Commissioner Steven Morelli announced on March 23 that Nassau County would begin to accept medical supply donations during “this unprecedented National State of Emergency.” The medical supplies are collected at a Nassau County Public Safety Parking Lot drive-up collection point at Field 3 in Eisenhower Park on Monday through Fri-
day, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and are slated to end on April 3. The county is encouraging donations of N95 surgical masks in unopened containers, eye protection such as goggles and face shields, Nitrile gloves in unopened containers, disposable medical gowns, shoe covers or booties, no-touch thermometers, thermometer probe covers, HEPA filters for ventilators/anesthesia Machines, antibacterial and disinfecting wipes and hand sanitizer.
Wantagh F.D. closes firehouses, but still in service On March 27, the Wantagh Fire Department announced that it has closed its firehouses “for everything except response to alarms.” The department has six stations, five of them housing engine or ladder companies. According to public information officer Kevin Regan, the department will remain “fully in service and ready to respond to all emergencies. “We are working diligently to maintain services for our residents while doing everything we can to protect the health and safety of our members,” Regan wrote in a release. Regan detailed that the leadership of the department and Fire District maintain contact regularly by computer and phone, and when necessary, meet in outdoor or large open spaces to adhere to
social distancing. He also confirmed that the department’s equipment is cleaned and disinfected after each use. The department reiterates that, if anyone is experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 and is calling a WFD dispatcher, to please indicate so. The dispatcher will ask health-related questions. Fire department members that are called to enter a resident’s home will be following strict precautions, including wearing masks, gloves and surgical gowns as well as maintaining a safe distance. “All of these procedures are being taken in order to protect our members from potential exposure so that we can continue to fulfill our mission in providing fire, rescue and EMS services to our community,” Regan wrote.
New Horizon Counseling offers help amid crisis New Horizon Counseling Center in Valley Stream, one of the region’s leading nonprofit behavioral health organizations, is available seven days a week to provide support and counseling during the coronavirus crisis. New Horizon offers a “full plate of services,” including services for adults, teenagers and families. The center takes a “compassionate, patient-centered” approach to counseling. Particularly important during this time, New Horizon offers telemedicine, via telephone or telehealth. A statement by New Horizon reads: “We are navigating uncharted territory,
and in times like these, many of us are suffering. It’s important to understand that we are not helpless. Now more than ever, it’s so important to maintain a connection. New Horizon Counseling is your lifeline to your emotional health. Social distancing and quarantine don’t have to mean lack of connection. Reach out to the New Horizon team and let us support and empower you during this critical time.” To reach New Horizon, call (516) 569-6600. –Scott Brinton
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Nonprofits across Nassau County are still providing meals, counseling and other services to those who need them, explained County Executive Laura Curran on Friday morning at the office of the county’s Veterans Service Agency in East Meadow. Curran had just announced Nassau’s fourth coronavirus death, a 44-year-old man with an underlying health condition, before explaining that the county’s nonprofits would continue to serve its veterans and senor citizens. “This is already a vulnerable population,” Curran said, assuring that the Veteran’s Service Agency would remain open, with “moderate modifications” in safe to protect staff and guests, and continue providing transportation, food and counseling to the county’s roughly 55,000 veterans. Inside the VSA is the county’s vet’s mart, which will still be offering a driveup and delivery program to keep providing food to vets. “Our [senior] centers are currently closed to programs and activities, but they are open to provide support to all of our seniors,” said Jorge Martinez, of the Nassau County Department of the Aging. He added that staff would remain onsite and its meals-on-wheels program would still running and bringing food to senior centers, available for pick-up by those in need. Martinez noted that any
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NASSAu CouNTy ExECuTIvE Laura Curran announced on Friday morning that nonprofits across Nassau County are still providing meals, counseling and other services to those who need them. concerns could be directed to their main phone number at (516) 227 8900. Curran was also joined by State Senator John Brooks, Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Lawrence Eisenstein, Ralph Esposito, of the Nassau County Veterans Service Agency, Paule Pachter, of Long Island Cares, and Carol O’Neill, of EAC Network. “We recognize that the number of tests being given is increasing and, as a result, we’re gonna be seeing more people identified as having the virus,” Brooks said. “We have to realize that that is a byproduct of the amount of tests being given . . . we will
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get through this, but there are a lot of challenges ahead.” There are ten food banks throughout New York that will remain operational through the scourge. “As we did during Superstorm Sandy and as we did during the government the shutdown, we are ready and prepared to serve and protect our residents in need,” said Paule Patcher, the chief executive officer of Long Island Cares, Inc. He predicted a 20 percent spike in the number of people who rely on meals from food banks, rising from the current 259,000 to an additional 50,000. Of the 349 pantries
to which Long Island Cares provides food, some have already closed their doors because the majority of their staff and volunteers are aging and vulnerable. “I want to help LIers calm down and not be overly concerned about the availability of food that the food banks have,” he said, adding that Long Island Cares currently has 1.75 million pounds of food in its inventory. Food banks are seeing roughly $300 million in assistance toward food and about $100 million in storage and distributions costs, although Patcher said that he is requesting from Gov. Andrew Cuomo an additional $4 million for more food. “We certainly have concerns,” he said. “We’re seeing a shortage of volunteers with people fearful of coming out.” In addition, Patcher has seen a 23 percent drop in the amount of donations coming from food drives, although donations only make up 20 percent of the organization’s inventory. A final concern involves children who, despite continuing to receive food from their school districts, may not have afterschool meals or meals over the weekend. “We’re trying our best to determine how we can provide food to them as well,” he said. “This is a good opportunity to remind you that everyone could play a part in this,” Curran said. “This is a good time as any to remind everyone that kindness and reassurance is just as important right now as everything else going on.”
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Wantagh ElEmEntary School second-graders decorated pots of gold and gave out “complimentary” coins to one another.
Compliments worth their weight in gold
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Elizabeth Shevlin’s second-grade class at Wantagh Elementary School made a difference with their kind words. They decided that, for St. Patrick’s Day, compliments would be shared with one another in a joint art and English language activity. In order to pay a compliment, first, the second-graders had to be sure what a proper compliment was. They talked about how a compliment is supposed to make them and their peers feel. Then, students crafted and decorated pots of gold with their names on them to pair the activity with the holiday. The phrase, “What we treasure about…” was written on each pot of gold. Students then wrote compliments on “coins” to collect for their own pots of gold. The students used this activity as a way of practicing giving compliments and honing their creative writing skills.
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Wantagh ElEmEntary triEd to spread a positive message in their St. Patrick’s Day activity.
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Although I am not and have never been a reassurance to our students. I “attended” a Facebook participant, I continue to grapple religious service that were guided by clergy with the idea that through it and other from their living rooms and included social platforms, virtual comfort is the new prayers for the sick and reminders of what the temple can offer through its volunteer normal. For example, a few years ago, I looked at members. I even took the old fashioned the Facebook account of a family member route, relying on text messages and phone calls to check in on people who and saw posts that included the might need a helping hand. intimate details of someone’s So what to make of all of divorce, another person’s photo this? Is it comfort no matter of her resting with her elderly how it arrives — digitally, virtugrandparent in a hospital bed ally, literally or in person? in order “to share”, and the Marshall McLuhan, the honoring of the departed in Canadian philosopher whose text and visual eulogy. In all published ideas on the study of three cases, the authors of the media theory, once wrote, “The posts were looking for some medium is the message” and level of comfort from the online “We shape our tools and therecommunity but I involuntarily after our tools shape us.” His cringed from the TMI as I auren ev work, published fifty six years thought this intimate informaago, is so relevant today, one tion would be better suited in a can only imagine what he face-to-face conversation. Given the extenuating circumstances we would have thought of Facebook, social are facing as a nation at this time, virtual media and the digital applications that comforting is suddenly a lot more meaning- allow for ingenuity by its contributors — a virtual community sending support to a ful today than it was a few weeks ago. What used to be emoji happy faces or world suddenly stricken with a global pan“thumbs up” with “likes” is now more com- demic. plex — real comforting found in the virtual conferences, hangouts and social media in A contributing writer to the Herald since which we relate, console and connect as 2012, Lauren Lev is an East Meadow resident and a direct marketing/advertising executive communities. In a single week I joined online training who teaches advertising and marketing comseminars with encouraging moderators munications courses at the Fashion Institute who not only taught us teaching techniques of Technology/SUNY, LIU Post and SUNY but made sure to remind us how to give Old Westbury.
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Gaining support for health care providers Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin, Councilman Anthony D’Esposito and Hempstead Town Medical Director Dr. David Neubert called on U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand to support their request to deploy the National Disaster Medical System to the Town of Hempstead during the coronavirus pandemic. The officials, who co-chair the town’s Coronavirus Task Force, said that deploying NDMS personnel into COVID-19 “hotspots” could augment current disaster response. According to the Nassau County Department of Health, as of March 29, Hempstead Town had nearly 2,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, the most of any municipality in Nassau and Suffolk counties. According to the system’s website, more than 5,000 medical professionals can be counted on to “protect health and augment healthcare systems to stabilize patients and save lives.” As hospitals across the region are pushed to the limit in the fight against coronavirus, officials said the service could be an invaluable supplement to burdened health care providers, and potentially save more lives. NDMS was last deployed in Hempstead after Superstorm Sandy. “The NDMS comprises medical professionals from across the nation who are ready when disaster strikes,” said Neubert, who is a member of NDMS. “I am confident that the talented NDMS system
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Hempstead town officials called on U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand to support their request to deploy the National Disaster Medical System to the Town of Hempstead during the coronavirus pandemic. can help support our healthcare needs during this time to help protect public health and save lives.” If activated, NDMS could set up hospital tents and provide supplies and other resources to augment pandemic response on the local level. According to the system, teams are often deployed for 14 days
or longer, “and stay until local medical resources have recovered or are being supplemented by other organizations.” “We truly hope and pray that efforts to flatten the COVID-19 curve are successful as soon as possible,” Clavin said, “but as strong and capable as our healthcare system is, it is already being tested to its lim-
its. We need to act now to ensure that no patient will be left behind. “We firmly believe that the NDMS can provide a vital boost for our healthcare providers, but we need our federal representatives to deploy them right away.” –Alyssa Seidman
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING, ELECTION AND P E R S O N A L REGISTRATION, LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Annual Meeting of the School District, the vote on the School District budget and election of candidates for the School Board of Levittown Union Free School District, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, and the vote on the Public Library budget and election of a candidate for the Board of Trustees for the Levittown Public Library, will be held in the several election districts of the School District at the voting places designated below on Tuesday, May 29, 2020 between the hours of 7:00 AM and 8:00 PM, to vote by ballot on voting machines on the proposition or propositions set forth below, as well as any other propositions which may properly come before the electorate, and to elect members of the Board of Education and to elect a member of the Library Board of Trustees. Shall the following resolutions be adopted: PROPOSITION NO. 1 SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET BE IT RESOLVED, that the School District budget for the school year 2020-2021 proposed by the Board of Education and filed with the District Clerk in accordance with Section 1716 of the Education Law shall be approved and the necessary taxes be levied therefore on the taxable real property of the district. PROPOSITION NO. 2 EXPENDITURE OF CAPITAL RESERVE FUNDS FOR SCHOOL BUILDING IMPROVEMENT PROJECT RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Levittown Union Free School District (“District”), be hereby authorized to expend from the District’s Capital Reserve Fund, previously established by the voters of the District, an amount not to exceed $1,700,000 to undertake and perform a school building improvement project (“Project”) as described in the District’s Budget Brochure (“Brochure”) on file in the office of the District Clerk, said Project to commence during the 2020-2021 school year and to consist of capital improvements, renovations and/or alterations to all District Buildings, including but not limited to: District Wide Masonry, Plumbing, Electrical, HVAC, Athletic Field Repairs, & Upgrades (Environmental Testing, Architect and
Contingency), Division Avenue Tennis Courts, District Wide Parking Lot Expansion, Replacement & Repairs; Salk Parking Lot, including necessary equipment and related work, as well as preliminary and incidental costs; and that the specified Project costs as set forth in the Brochure may be reallocated among the Project’s components within the scope of this authorization. PROPOSITION NO. 3 LIBRARY BUDGET RESOLVED, that the Public Library Budget for the fiscal year 2020-2021 proposed by the Library Board of Trustees of the Levittown Public Library heretofore filed pursuant to law shall be approved and the necessary taxes be levied therefore on the taxable real property of the district. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education and for the office of member of the Library Board of Trustees must be filed with the Clerk of the District between the hours of 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM but no later than 5:00 PM on April 20, 2020 Forms of the petitions may be obtained from the Clerk of the District. The following vacancies are to be filled on the Board of Education: Three (3) members for the term of three (3) years, commencing July 1, 2020 and expiring June 30, 2023. A separate petition is required to nominate a candidate for member of the Board of Education. The three candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected. Each petition must be directed to the Clerk of the District, must be signed by at least twenty-five (25) qualified voters of the District, or 2% of the voters who voted in the previous election, whichever is greater, and shall state the residence of each person who signed, must state the name and residence of the candidate and the length of the term of office. This year all nominating petitions must include 39 signatures. The following vacancies are to be filled on the Library Board of Trustees: One (1) member for the term of five (5) years, commencing July 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2025. A separate petition is required to nominate a candidate for member of the Library Board of Trustees. Each petition must be directed to the Clerk of the District, must be signed by at least twenty-five (25) qualified voters of the District, or 2% of the voters who voted in the previous election for members of
the Library Board of Trustees, whichever is greater, and shall state the residence of each person who signed, must state the name and residence of the candidate and the length of the term of office. This year all nominating petitions must include 39 signatures. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that a statement of estimated expenses for the 2020-2021 school year will be presented at a Public Hearing on Wednesday, May 6, 2020, at 7:30 PM in the Board Meeting Room of the Levittown Memorial Education Center and copies of such statement, as well as the statement of the amount of money required for the 2019-2020 fiscal year of the Public Library, will be made available on the District’s website and at each schoolhouse and library in the District during the hours of 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM on each day other than a Saturday, Sunday or holiday during the fourteen (14) calendar days immediately preceding the election together with the text of any resolution which will be presented to the voters. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law, personal registration of voters is required and only those persons whose names appear on the register of the said school district, or who are registered pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law, shall be entitled to vote at said meeting and election. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that all qualified voters who have previously registered for any annual or special meeting or election and have voted at any annual or special election held or conducted at any time within four (4) calendar years prior to this year, 2020, are not required to register with the Board of Registration for this meeting. All other persons who wish to vote must register. A voter may register at the office of the District Clerk of the Levittown UFSD between the hours of 8:00 AM. and 1:00 PM on school days provided that such registration is effected no later than May 14, 2020. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that said register will be filed in the office of the Clerk of the District and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District on each of the five (5) days prior to the day of the election, except Sunday, between the hours of 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM, on Monday through Friday and between the hours of 11:00 AM and 12 noon
on Saturday ( May 16, 2020), in the office of the Clerk of the District and at each voting place on the day of the election. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that absentee ballots for those eligible pursuant to the provision of Section 2018a of the Education Law are available, and that applications for absentee ballots may be applied for at the office of the Clerk of the District. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots have been issued will be available in the office of the Clerk on each of the five (5) calendar days prior to the day of election except Sunday, between the hours of 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM on Monday through Friday and between the hours of 11:00 AM and 12 noon on Saturday ( May 16, 2020), in the office of the Clerk of the District. Such application must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) calendar days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter or by the day before the election if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter. No absentee voter’s ballot will be canvassed unless it has been received in the office of the District Clerk not later than 5:00 PM on the day of the election. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that during the voting hours on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, between the hours of 7:00 AM and 8:00 PM, in the various election districts, the Board of Registration will meet to receive registrations for subsequent elections. During the hours of 7:00 AM and 8:00 PM on voting days, the District Clerk shall be in her office at the Levittown Memorial Education Center. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that a Real Property Tax Exemption Report prepared in accordance with Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law will be annexed to any tentative/preliminary budget as well as the final adopted budget of which it will form a part; and shall be posted on District bulletin board(s) maintained for public notices, as well as on the District’s website. SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICTS: The boundaries of the school election districts and the place of each election district for voting and registration shall be as follows: ELECTION DISTRICT #1 GARDINERS AVENUE SCHOOL Beginning at Wantagh Parkway and Chase Lane; east on Chase Lane to Center Lane, thence south to Prairie Lane; thence east to Gardiners Avenue; thence south to Slate Lane; then east and north to Swan Lane; then east
and north to Grey Lane; continuing east to Wantagh Avenue; thence south on Wantagh Avenue to Jerusalem Avenue; thence west to Oakfield Avenue; continuing north to Old Jerusalem Road; thence east on Old Jerusalem Road to Wantagh Parkway Line; north along Line to the point of beginning. ELECTION DISTRICT #2 EAST BROADWAY SCHOOL Beginning at north side of Southern State Parkway and east side of Wantagh Avenue; north on Wantagh to Miller Place; thence east to Exit Lane; thence south to Elm Drive; thence west to Elbow Lane; thence southwest to End Lane; south to End Lane and Elm Drive East to Pope Street; thence east to District Line; thence south to Regent Lane; thence east to Red Maple Drive; thence northeast, and south to Regal Lane; east on Regal Lane and Cordwood Lane to Arlington Drive; thence southeast to Town Line; thence south to Southern State Parkway; west along Parkway to point of beginning. Beginning at south side of Southern State Parkway and west side of Town Line; south on Town Line to Jerusalem Avenue; thence west to Wantagh Avenue; thence north to Southern State Parkway; thence east to point of beginning. ELECTION DISTRICT #3 LEVITTOWN MEMORIAL EDUCATION CENTER Beginning at east side of Wantagh Parkway and south side of Hempstead Turnpike; east on Hempstead Turnpike to Silver Lane; thence south to Forge Lane; thence east to Cotton Lane; thence southeasterly to Wantagh Avenue; then south to Grey Lane; thence west to Swan Lane; then southwesterly to Slate Lane; then south to Gardiners Avenue, thence north to Prairie Lane; thence west to Center Lane; thence north to Chase Lane; thence west to Wantagh Parkway Line; north along Line to point of beginning. ELECTION DISTRICT #4 DIVISION AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL Beginning at north side of Hempstead Turnpike and west side of Jerusalem Avenue; west on Hempstead Turnpike to District Boundary Line at Wantagh State Parkway; thence northeast to northerly border of School District; east on Boundary Line (Flamingo Rd., Magpie Lane, Blacksmith Rd) to Jerusalem Avenue; thence south to point of beginning. Dated: Levittown, New York March 2020 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
LEVITTOWN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK 121445 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION OF THE WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT WANTAGH , NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Public Hearing of the qualified voters of the WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, Nassau County, Wantagh, New York will be held in the Senior High School Auditorium, Wantagh, New York, in said school district on May 7, 2020, at 8:00 p.m. prevailing time, for the transaction of business as authorized by the Education Law, including the following items: 1. To present to the voters a detailed statement (proposed budget) of the amount of money which will be required for the 2020-21 fiscal year. 2. To discuss all the items hereinafter set forth to be voted upon by voting machines at the Budget Vote and Election to be held on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. 3. To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting pursuant to Education Law of the State of New York and acts amendatory thereto. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of a detailed statement in writing of the amount of money which will be required for the 2020/2021 school year for school purposes (the proposed budget) will be made available, upon request, to any resident of the District between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, beginning April 30, 2020, except Saturday, Sunday or holidays, at the office of the Assistant Superintendent for Business, Administration Building, 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793, at each school house in the District, at school district offices, on the District’s website at www.wantaghschools.or g, and at the Wantagh Public Library. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that said Budget Vote and Election will be held on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, in the Three (3) Election Districts, described below, at which time the polls will be opened to vote by voting machine upon the following items:
1. To adopt the annual budget of the School District for the fiscal year 2020-21 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District. 2. To elect two (2) members of the Board of Education for a threeyear term commencing July 1, 2020 and expiring on June 30, 2023. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law, the School District is required to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report. Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how much of the total assessed value on the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted, identified by statutory authority, and show: (a) the cumulative impact of each type of exemption expressed either as a dollar amount of assessed value or as a percentage of the total assessed value on the roll; (b) the cumulative amount expected to be received from recipients of each type of exemption as payments in lieu of taxes or other payments for municipal services; and (c) the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted. The exemption report shall be posted on any bulletin board maintained by the District for public notices and on any website maintained by the District. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education shall be filed with the Clerk of said School District at her office in the Administration Building, 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793, not later than April 20, 2020, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., prevailing time. Vacancies on the Board of Education are not considered separate, specific offices; candidates run at large. Nominating petitions shall not describe any specific vacancy upon the Board for which the candidate is nominated; must be directed to the Clerk of the District; must be signed by at least thirty-nine (39) qualified voters of the District (representing the greater of twenty-five (25) qualified voters or 2% of the number of voters who voted in the previous annual election); must state the name and residence of each signer, and, must state the name and residence of the candidate.
AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that personal registration of voters is required either pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law and has voted at an annual or special district meeting within the last four (4) calendar years, he or she is eligible to vote at this election. If a voter is registered and eligible to vote under Article 5 of the Election Law, he or she is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register. Registration shall be conducted for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law through Thursday, May 14, 2020, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, on all regular days during which the office of the District Clerk is in operation, located in the Administration Building, 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793, at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such register, provided that at such time he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of said District Clerk to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such election for which the register is prepared. The Board of Registration will also meet for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law on May 5, 2020, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., prevailing time, in the Senior High School Lobby, and on Saturday, May 9, 2020, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 pm., at the Administration Building, 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793, to add any additional names to the Register to be used at the aforesaid election, at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such Register, provided that at such meeting of the Board of Registration he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of said Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such election for which the register is prepared. The last day to register shall be Thursday, May 14, 2020. The register so prepared pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law will be filed in the Office of the District Clerk, 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793, and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District beginning on Thursday, May 14, 2020, between the hours of
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9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., prevailing time, on weekdays, and each day prior to the day set for the election, except Sunday, and on Saturday, May 16, 2020 between the hours of 9:00 a.m., and 12:00 p.m., and at the polling place(s) on the day of the vote. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the Wantagh Union Free School District by requesting and returning a registration application to the District Clerk in person, by mail to 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793, by email to mcguigane@wantaghsch ools.org or fax sent to (516) 679-6349. The request for the registration application may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the registration application by either mail, fax or email. Military voter registration application forms must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 23, 2020. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that military voters who are qualified voters of the Wantagh Union Free School District, may request an application for a military ballot from the District Clerk in person, by mail to 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793, by email to mcguigane@wantaghsch ools.org, or fax sent to (516) 679-6349. In such request, the military voter may indicate their preference for receiving the application by mail, fax or email. A military voter must return the original military ballot application by mail or in person to the office of the District Clerk at 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793. In order for a military voter to be issued a military ballot, a valid military ballot application must be received in the office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m., on April 23, 2020. Military ballot applications received in accordance with the foregoing will be processed in the same manner as a non-military ballot application under Section 2018-a of the Education Law. The application for military ballot may include the military voter’s preference for receipt of the military ballot by mail, fax, or email. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, a military voter’s original military ballot must be returned by mail or in person to the office of the District Clerk at 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793. Military ballots shall be canvassed if they are received by the
District Clerk before the close of polls on May 19, 2020 showing a cancellation mark of the United States Postal Service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States Government; or received not later than 5:00 p.m. on May 19, 2020 and signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is ascertained to be not later than the day before the election. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to §2014 of the Education Law of the State of New York, the Board of Registration will meet on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, at each of the three (3) separate election districts to prepare the Register of the School District to be used at the Budget Vote and Election to be held in 2021, and any special district meetings that may be held after the preparation of said Register, at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such Register provided that at such meeting of said Board of Registration he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of such Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at the school election for which said Register is prepared, or any special district meeting held after May 19, 2020. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots will be obtainable during school business hours from the District Clerk beginning April 1620, 2020. In accordance with Education Law 2018-a, such completed application may not be received by the District Clerk earlier than April 20, 2020, and; completed applications must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the election, if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter or to the agent named in the absentee ballot application. Absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk not later than 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. A list of persons to whom absentee ballots are issued will be available for inspection to qualified voters of the District in the office of the District Clerk on and after Thursday, May 14, 2020, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on weekdays prior to the day set for the annual election and on May 19, 2020, the day set for the
election. Any qualified voter may, upon examination of such list, file a written challenge of the qualifications as a voter of any person whose name appears on such list, stating the reasons for such challenge. Any such written challenge shall be transmitted by the District Clerk or a designee of the Board of Education to the inspectors of election on election day. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that any referenda or propositions to amend the budget, or otherwise to be submitted for voting at said election, must be filed with the District Clerk of the Board of Education at the Administration Building, 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793, on or before April 20, 2020, at 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, except that referenda or propositions required by law to be included in the notice of the annual meeting must be filed with the District Clerk on or before March 20, 2020, at 4:00 p.m.; must be typed or printed in the English language; must be directed to the Clerk of the School District; must be signed by at least ninety-seven (97) qualified voters of the District (representing 5% of the number of voters who voted in the previous annual election); and must legibly state the name of each signer. However, the School Board will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any proposition the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, which is unlawful or any proposition which fails to include a specific appropriation where the expenditure of monies is required by the proposition, or where other valid reason exists for excluding the proposition from the ballot. SCHOOL ELECTION DISTRICTS AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Election Districts have been established in the School District. The boundaries of the Election Districts, as adopted by resolution of the Board of Education, and the place in each election district for voting shall be as follows: ELECTION DISTRICT NO. 1 - All voters who reside south of Sunrise Highway vote at the Mandalay Elementary School, 2667 Bayview Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793.
ELECTION DISTRICT NO. 2 - All voters who reside north of Sunrise Highway and East of Wantagh Parkway vote at the Wantagh Elementary School, 1765 Beech Street and DeMott Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793. ELECTION DISTRICT NO. 3 - All voters who reside north of Sunrise Highway and West of Wantagh Parkway, vote at the Forest Lake Elementary School, 3100 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, New York 11793. Dated: Wantagh, New York March April 219, 2020 By Order of the BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Wantagh, New York Elaine McGuigan, District Clerk 121442
LEGAL NOTICE AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA, VOTO PRESUPUESTARIO Y ELECCIÓN DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR UNION FREE DE WANTAGH WANTAGH, CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK SE DA AVISO POR LA PRESENTE, que una audiencia pública de los votantes calificados del DISTRITO ESCOLAR UNION FREE DE WANTAGH, Condado de Nassau, Wantagh, Nueva York se llevará a cabo en el Auditorio de la Senior High School, Wantagh, Nueva York, en dicho distrito escolar el 7 de mayo 2020 a las 8:00 p.m. tiempo prevaleciente, para la transacción de negocios autorizada por la Ley de Educación, incluyendo los siguientes elementos: ? 1. Presentar a los votantes una declaración detallada (presupuesto propuesto) de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año fiscal 2020-21. 2. Discutir todos los puntos que se expondrán en adelante para ser votados por las máquinas de votación en el Presupuesto de votación y elección que se realizará el martes 19 de mayo de 2020. 3. Para tramitar cualquier otro negocio que pueda venir adecuadamente antes de la reunión de conformidad con la Ley de Educación del Estado de Nueva York y los actos complementarios a la misma. Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL , que una copia de una declaración detallada por escrito de la cantidad de dinero que se requerirá para el año escolar 2020/2021 para fines escolares (el presupuesto propuesto) se pondrá a disposición, a solicitud, a cualquier residente del Distrito entre las 8:00 a.m. y las
4:00 p.m., horario vigente, a partir del 30 de abril de 2020, excepto los sábados, domingos o dias feriados, en la oficina del A s i s t e n t e d e l Superintendente de Negocios, Edificio de Administración, 3301 Beltagh Avenue , Wantagh, Nueva York 11793, en cada casa escolar del Distrito, en las oficinas del distrito escolar, en el sitio web del Distrito en www.wantaghschools.or g, y en la Biblioteca Pública de Wantagh. Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que dicho Voto Presupuestario y Elección se llevará a cabo el martes 19 de mayo de 2020, entre las 7:00 a.m. y las 9:00 p.m., hora vigente, en los Tres (3) Distritos Electorales, se describe a continuación, momento en el cual las urnas se abrirán para votar mediante una máquina de votación sobre los siguientes elementos: 1. Adoptar el presupuesto anual del Distrito Escolar para el año fiscal 2020-21 y autorizar que la porción requerida del mismo se recaude mediante impuestos sobre la propiedad imponible del Distrito. 2. Elegir a dos (2) miembros de la Junta de Educación para un período de tres años que comienza el 1 de julio de 2020 y expira el 30 de junio de 2023. Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que de conformidad con la Sección 495 de la Ley del Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles, el Distrito Escolar debe adjuntar a su presupuesto propuesto un informe de exención. Dicho informe de exención, que también pasará a formar parte del presupuesto final, mostrará cuánto del valor tasado total en la lista de evaluación final utilizada en el proceso presupuestario está exento de impuestos, enumere cada tipo de exención otorgada, identificada por la autoridad legal, y muestre: (a) el impacto acumulativo de cada tipo de exención expresado como un monto en dólares del valor tasado o como un porcentaje del valor tasado total en la lista; (b) el monto acumulado que se espera recibir de los destinatarios de cada tipo de exención como pagos en lugar de impuestos u otros pagos por servicios municipales; y (c) el impacto acumulativo de todas las exenciones otorgadas. El informe de exención se publicará en cualquier tablón de anuncios mantenido por el Distrito para avisos públicos y en cualquier sitio web mantenido por el Distrito.
Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que las peticiones de nominación de candidatos para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación se presentarán ante la Secretaria de dicho Distrito Escolar en su oficina en el Edificio de Administración, 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, Nueva York 11793, no después del 20 de abril de 2020, entre las 8:00 a.m. y las 5:00 p.m., hora vigente. Las vacantes en la Junta de Educación no se consideran oficinas separadas y específicas; Los candidatos se postulan en libertad. Las peticiones de nominación no describirán ninguna vacante específica en la Junta para la cual el candidato es nominado; debe ser dirigido a la secretaria del distrito; debe estar firmado por al menos treinta y nueve (39) votantes calificados del Distrito (que representan el mayor de veinticinco (25) votantes calificados o el 2% del número de votantes que votaron en las elecciones anuales anteriores); debe indicar el nombre y la residencia de cada firmante y debe indicar el nombre y la residencia del candidato. Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que se requiere el registro personal de los votantes ya sea de conformidad con §2014 de la Ley de Educación o de conformidad con el Artículo 5 de la Ley Electoral. Si un votante se ha registrado hasta ahora de conformidad con §2014 de la Ley de Educación y ha votado en una reunión de distrito anual o especial dentro de los últimos cuatro (4) años dias de calendario, él o ella es elegible para votar en esta elección. Si un votante está registrado y es elegible para votar en virtud del Artículo 5 de la Ley Electoral, también es elegible para votar en esta elección. Todas las demás personas que deseen votar deben registrarse. La inscripción se llevará a cabo con el propósito de registrar a todos los votantes calificados del Distrito de conformidad con §2014 de la Ley de Educación hasta el jueves 14 de mayo de 2020, entre las 8:00 a.m. y las 4:00 p.m., hora vigente, en todos días regulares durante los cuales la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito está en funcionamiento, ubicada en el Edificio de Administración, 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, Nueva York 11793, momento en el cual cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que se coloque su nombre en dicho registro, siempre que en ese momento él o ella es conocido/a o probado/a a satisfacción de dicha Secretaria del
Distrito para tener el derecho de votar en esa elección para la cual se prepara el registro. La Junta de Registro también se reunirá con el propósito de registrar a todos los votantes calificados del Distrito de conformidad con §2014 de la Ley de Educación el 5 de mayo de 2020, entre las 9:00 a.m. y la 1:00 p.m., hora vigente, en el vestíbulo de la escuela secundaria, y el sábado 9 de mayo de 2020, entre las 9:00 a.m. y la 1:00 p.m., en el Edificio de Administración, 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, Nueva York 11793, para agregar nombres adicionales al Registro que se utilizará en las elecciones antes mencionadas, momento en el cual cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que se coloque su nombre en dicho Registro, siempre que en dicha reunión de la Junta de Registro se conozca o se pruebe su satisfacción de dicha Junta de Registro tendrá derecho en ese momento o posteriormente a votar en la elección para la cual se prepare el registro. El último día para registrarse será el jueves 14 de mayo de 2020. El registro preparado de conformidad con §2014 de la Ley de Educación se archivará en la Oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito, 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, Nueva York 11793, y será abierto a inspección por cualquier votante calificado del Distrito a partir del jueves 14 de mayo de 2020, entre las 9:00 a.m. y la 1:00 p.m., horario vigente, entre semana y cada día anterior al día establecido para la elección, excepto el domingo y el sábado 16 de mayo de 2020 entre las 9:00 a.m. y las 12:00 p.m., y en los lugares de votación el día de la votación. Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que los votantes militares que actualmente no están registrados pueden solicitar registrarse como votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Union Free de Wantagh solicitando y devolviendo una solicitud de registro a la Secretaria del Distrito en persona, por correo a 3301 Beltagh Avenue , Wantagh, Nueva York 11793, por correo electrónico a mcguigane@wantaghsch ools.org o por fax enviado al (516) 679-6349. La solicitud de la solicitud de registro puede incluir la preferencia del votante militar para recibir la solicitud de registro por correo, fax o correo electrónico. Los formularios de solicitud de registro de votante militar deben recibirse en la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. el 23 de abril de 2020.
Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que los votantes militares que son votantes calificados del Distrito Escolar Union Free de Wantagh, pueden solicitar una solicitud de boleta militar a la Secretaria del Distrito en persona, por correo a 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, Nueva York 11793, por correo electrónico a mcguigane@wantaghsch ools.org, o por fax enviado al (516) 679-6349. En dicha solicitud, el votante militar puede indicar su preferencia por recibir la solicitud por correo, fax o correo electrónico. Un votante militar debe devolver la solicitud de boleta militar original por correo o en persona a la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito en 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, Nueva York 11793. Para que un votante militar reciba una boleta militar, una boleta militar válida la solicitud debe recibirse en la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 pm, el 23 de abril de 2020. Las solicitudes de boleta militar recibidas de acuerdo con lo anterior se procesarán de la misma manera que una solicitud de boleta no militar en la Sección 2018-a de la Ley de Educación. La solicitud de boleta militar puede incluir la preferencia del votante militar para recibir la boleta militar por correo, fax o correo electrónico. Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, la boleta militar original de un votante militar debe devolverse por correo o en persona a la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito en 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, Nueva York 11793. Las boletas militares deberán ser escritas si son recibidas por la Secretaria del Distrito antes del cierre de las urnas el 19 de mayo de 2020 que muestre una marca de cancelación del Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos o del servicio postal de un país extranjero, o que muestre un endoso de recepción por parte de otra agencia del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos; o recibido a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. el 19 de mayo de 2020 y firmado y fechado por el votante militar y un testigo del mismo, con una fecha que se determinará a más tardar el día anterior a la elección. ? Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que de conformidad con §2014 de la Ley de Educación del Estado de Nueva York, la Junta de Registro se reunirá el martes 19 de mayo de 2020, entre las 7:00 a.m. y las 9:00 p.m. , tiempo prevaleciente, en cada uno de los tres (3) distritos electorales
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Rainbows add color to south Merrick By AlyssA seidmAn aseidman@liherald.com
When the temperature neared 70 degrees last Friday afternoon, many south Merrick residents took to the streets to walk, run, bike and bask in the much-needed sun. As this reporter walked a mile-and-a-half loop from Clubhouse Road to Beach Drive and back, she often noticed something colorful out of the corner of her eye: rainbows — either etched in chalk on driveways and sidewalks or decorating her neighbors’ windows and front doors. The rainbows are part of a concept that sprung up on Facebook in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic on Long Island. T he g roup, “Rainbows over Nassau and Suffolk Counties,” encourages people to color, paint or print out a rainbow and display it for all to see. Families can
then walk around their neighborhoods and keep track of each rainbow they find. Because many people have been self-isolating at home, and since schools are closed until April 15, fun activities like the rainbow hunt have swirled on social media. It has become an outdoor activity, inviting neighbors to get some fresh air while maintaining a safe, social distance from one another, and spread cheer during an unprecedented time. On her walk — which has now, by consequence, become routine — this reporter met neighbors she didn’t know b e f o r e. T h e i r r a i n b o w s breathed a sense of joy into the already-sunny day, and t h e i r f r i e n d ly d e m e a n o r inspired hope to creep in and stretch her mouth into a smile. Bridget Downes contributed to this story.
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merrick residents HAiley, left, 7, and Ashley Baron, 14, smiled proudly next to the heart-shaped rainbow they drew on their sidewalk.
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separados para preparar el Registro del Distrito Escolar que se utilizará en la Votación y Elección del Presupuesto que se celebrará en 2021, y cualquier reunión especial de distrito que pueda celebrarse después de la preparación de dicho Registro, en cuyo momento cualquier persona tendrá derecho a que se coloque su nombre en dicho Registro, siempre que en dicha reunión de dicha Junta de Registro se conozca o se pruebe a satisfacción de dicha Junta de Registro que será entonces o posteriormente con derecho a votar en la elección de la escuela para la cual se preparó dicho Registro, o cualquier reunión especial de distrito celebrada después del 19 de mayo de 2020. ? Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que las solicitudes de boletas en ausencia se podrán obtener durante el horario comercial de la Secretaría del Distrito a partir del 16 de abril de 2020. De conformidad con la Ley de Educación 2018-a, la Secretaria del Distrito no puede recibir dicha solicitud completa antes de el 20 de abril de 2020, y debe ser recibido por la Secretaria del Distrito al menos siete (7) días antes de la elección si la boleta se debe enviar por correo al votante, o el día antes de la elección, si la boleta se debe
entregar personalmente al votante o al agente nombrado en la solicitud de boleta en ausencia. La Secretaria del Distrito debe recibir las boletas en ausencia a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m., hora vigente, el martes 19 de mayo de 2020.
Una lista de personas para quienes se emiten boletas en ausencia estará disponible para inspección para los votantes calificados del Distrito en la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito a partir del jueves 14 de mayo de 2020, entre las 8:00 a.m. y las 4:00 a.m. pm los días de semana previos al día establecido para la elección anual y el 19 de mayo de 2020, el día establecido para la elección. Cualquier votante calificado puede, después de examinar dicha lista, presentar una impugnación por escrito de las calificaciones como votante de cualquier persona cuyo nombre aparezca en dicha lista, indicando los motivos de dicha impugnación. La secretaria del distrito o un designado de la Junta de Educación transmitirá a los inspectores de elección el día de la elección cualquier desafío por escrito. Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL, que cualquier referéndum o propuesta para enmendar el presupuesto, o para ser sometido a votación en dicha elección, debe
presentarse ante la Secretaria del Distrito de la Junta de Educación en el Edificio de Administración, 3301 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh , Nueva York 11793, a más tardar el 20 de abril de 2020, a las 4:00 p.m., hora vigente, excepto que los referéndums o las proposiciones requeridas por ley para ser incluidas en el aviso de la reunión anual deben presentarse ante la Secretaria del Distrito en o antes 20 de marzo de 2020 a las 4:00 p.m. debe estar escrito o impreso en el idioma inglés; debe ser dirigido a la secretaria del distrito escolar; debe estar firmado por al menos noventa y siete (97) votantes calificados del Distrito (que representan el 5% del número de votantes que votaron en las elecciones anuales anteriores); y debe indicar legiblemente el nombre de cada firmante. Sin embargo, la Junta Escolar no considerará ninguna petición para presentar ante los votantes ninguna proposición cuyo propósito no esté dentro de los poderes de los votantes para determinar, que es ilegal o cualquier proposición que no incluya una apropiación específica donde el gasto de dinero es requerido por la proposición, o cuando existe otra razón válida para excluir la proposición de la boleta. DISTRITOS ELECTORALES ESCOLARES
Y SE DA AVISO ADICIONAL de que se han establecido Distritos Electorales en el Distrito Escolar. Los límites de los Distritos Electorales, según lo adoptado por resolución de la Junta de Educación, y el lugar en cada distrito electoral para votar serán los siguientes: DISTRITO ELECTORAL NO. 1 - Todos los votantes que residen al sur del Sunrise Highway votan en la Elementary School Mandalay, 2667 Bayview Avenue, Wantagh, Nueva York 11793. DISTRITO ELECTORAL NO. 2 - Todos los votantes que residen al norte de Sunrise Highway y East of Wantagh Parkway votan en la Elementary School Wantagh, 1765 Beech Street Wantagh, Nueva York 11793. DISTRITO ELECTORAL NO. 3 - Todos los votantes que residen al norte de Sunrise Highway y West of Wantagh Parkway, votan en la Elementary School Forest Lake 3100 Beltagh Avenue, Wantagh, Nueva York 11793. Fecha: Wantagh, Nueva York 2 de abril de 2020 Por orden de la JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR UNION FREE DE WANTAGH Wantagh, Nueva York Elaine McGuigan, Secretaria del Distrito 121444
Five-yeArold Jordyn PAnzA sat under the arch of her rainbow chalk creation. lAkeside student eleAnA Gerasimou, 12, of Merrick, hung her handdrawn rainbow in her front window.
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Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital has set up two triage tents for coronavirus patients amid the outbreak. Together, the tents can fit up to 20 cots, but hospital administrators said the number could be doubled if necessary.
MSSN sets up COVID-19 triage tents By Mike SMollinS msmollins@liherald.com
As coronavirus cases climb at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside, the hospital has set up two triage tents in a parking lot, and the local business community is pitching in to help the staff. “We have more than 100 patients who are COVID-positive,” said Joe Calderone, the hospital’s senior vice president of corporate communications and development. “The surge is here.” The triage tents will be used to screen patients who present with coronavirus-like symptoms. Combined, the tents can hold up to 20 cots, but the number can be doubled as needs arise, Calderone said. They were built to keep patients who have the symptoms away from others and as an extension of the Emergency Department. Calderone cautioned that the triage area is not meant to be a testing center like the one set up at Jones Beach. If people feel coronavirus-like symptoms, they are urged to call their primary physicians and not to come to the hospital seeking a test. The tents are fully equipped and will enable physicians to obtain electronic medical records, while also providing patients with a language translator as needed. Patients will be brought into and discharged from the tents as needed, Calderone said, and they will be brought into the hospital’s Emergency Department if they need additional care. The department has designated a space to house coronavirus positive patients as a way to segregate them from those who are suspected to have the virus, and patients who do not exhibit symptoms. The tents were a part of hospital administrators’ emergency preparedness plan for the expected rise in patients amid the pandemic. As an additional measure, the Nassau Parkway entrance on the southern part of the
DoctorS anD nurSeS working in the negative-pressure tents will be able to access patients’ electronic medical records from computer terminals located in each tent. hospital has been reopened for ambulatory patients after being recently closed for a construction project. While the hospital had some issues with mask and supply shortage when coronavirus cases climbed, its partnership with Mount Sinai has enabled it to procure the needed equipment, Calderone said. In addition, the Chinese American Association of Long Island donated 10,000 surgical masks to the hospital last week, and construction workers who are not working because of the virus have also donated materials. “We’re grateful that the community has been responding to the hospital’s needs,” Calderone said. Even though local shops have had to limit business recently, they are no less in the giving spirit, perhaps even more so than ever before. Healthcare workers at the hospital
received many food donations from local businesses as they treat coronavirus patients. Workers from Dee’s Nursery also showed community spirit by placing carnations on every car in the physician and employee parking lot last week to express their appreciation. Calderone said the donations have raised the staff ’s mood. “It’s extremely helpful, but it’s more than just the food,” he said. “It’s really lifting the spirits of everyone here, especially our frontline staff because they see that the community is rallying around the hospital, and that’s more valuable than the food.” Dana Sanneman, MSSN’s executive director of public affairs, said a few community groups have raised money through Facebook and used it to pay local businesses to deliver to area hospitals. “The community is supporting the businesses,” she said. “The restaurants
that are shut down except for takeout, it’s keeping them going, and at the same time, it’s helping the frontline workers.” The Kiwanis Club of Oceanside and the Oceanside Library have also joined forces to help the staff at Mount Sinai South Nassau and local restaurants, delis and other businesses, but they need the community’s assistance. Volunteers from the Kiwanis and library staff are collecting donations and will coordinate with MSSN to purchase meals from local eateries to deliver to its staff. Sanneman and Calderone each expressed their gratitude to the library and Kiwanis Club for their efforts. Tony Iovino, the library’s assistant director for community services, explained the motivation behind the collection. “We have a close partnership with Mount Sinai South Nassau,” he said. “They regularly run programs for our patrons at the library. We decided to run a fundraiser and use the money to have meals delivered to the hospital staff and to our local first responders.” Iovino said donations poured in from more than 100 residents, as well as Kiwanis members, library personnel, the Kiwanettes of Oceanside and the chamber of commerce. The efforts raised more than $5,000 in the first week, and the plan is to deliver 200 meals at a time to the hospital. Additionally, the project received a large donation from the Levitt Foundation, a trust that has provided the library with grants in the past. “The grant was arranged by Patricia Roth, a library trustee and Kiwanian, and will enable us to deliver a lot of meals in the weeks to come,” Iovino said. For more information about making donations to Mount Sinai South Nassau, call (516) 377-5360. Briana Bonfiglio contributed to this story.
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he model of higher education today rests on a system created in the Middle Ages, when knowledge was highly concentrated in a few places and in a few hands. It has evolved only slowly over the centuries. And while that evolution has brought knowledge from the few to the many, it hasn’t kept pace with the rapidly changing world young people live in today. Today’s colleges and universities operate in a time warp where higher education is over-expensive and under-performing. They are too often run by aLFonse administrators D’amaTo who sit on huge untapped endowments, and who fail to control costs, allowing tuition to climb at two or three times the general rate of inflation. They seem to assume that the willingness of parents and students to pay ever-increasing tuition is boundless. The same goes for too many of the professors who deliver their knowledge to students. It’s more than a bit ironic that the vast majority of college instructors tilt way to the left in their political and economic philosophy, but follow decidedly mercenary policies in how they expect to work and be paid. There are far too
many examples of professors teaching 10 or 20 hours a week while raking in six-figure salaries. In the meantime, their students will graduate with five- or six-figure college debt that will burden them for decades. They’ll postpone starting a family or buying a house because their monthly school debt payments will eat up their paychecks. That’s not the “better life” a college education should have provided. Politicians have responded to this spiral of high college costs and crushing student debt in predictable ways. For years they threw more and more money at colleges in the form of government student aid. Pell Grants, Tuition Assistance Program, or TAP, aid, and subsidized student loans funneled billions of dollars to institutions of higher learning without conferring any relief on their consumers. The result: College costs climbed along with college graduates’ debt. As this national student debt load has ballooned to over $1 trillion, today some politicians are proposing to forgive all or some of the huge debt with a massive federal bailout. It’s socialism come full circle, with government having helped fire up college costs and now “socializing” those costs with public dollars. All of this misses the point that the
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LeTTers We will be stronger To the Editor: Does anyone really know what’s happening? It seems we’re all going on a trip we hadn’t planned on taking. We don’t know where we’re going or what, exactly, is coming. I believe that whether we’re young, middle-aged or old, the world as we know it today will be gone. Will our new world be better or worse? Is the cup half empty or full? I was once nervous about the impact the internet would have on our youth. Would they be able to think for themselves and be capable of functioning in the world? With the craziness we’re now facing, I think the use of the internet and social media are the things that will help them survive. While some of the older generation will be cut off from what is happening in the world, the middle generation will be fighting to keep their world together and those who are younger will be keeping in touch with people all over the world to learn what is and isn’t working. They will want to be a part of the new world that is yet to come. I feel that when all is said and done, we will all be stronger to carry on. AUDrEY CUPoLo East Norwich
way to reduce student debt is to bring college costs under control. Some colleges are finally catching on that $50,000-a-year tuitions are indefensible. They’re looking for ways to freeze or even roll back those tuitions. They’re embracing rather than rejecting online learning. They’re even holding their administrators and professors more accountable for the totality of their performance, including how their students fare after they’ve graduated. A good example of this more accountable approach has been pursued by Mitch Daniels, the president of Purdue University. Daniels was the governor of Indiana before he became a college president, and he devised innovative ways of running his state that kept taxes down while delivering services in costeffective ways. That may be why he was a good fit to run a university. At Purdue, Daniels has imposed financial discipline and academic accountability. When he became its president, he took a voluntary pay cut, and tied his future salary to “performance-based evaluation.” He has also frozen Purdue’s tuition the years he’s been there, and substantially reduced the university’s operating expenses. Under Daniels, Purdue has fully embraced online learning, boosting the ability of Purdue students to take advan-
tage of “distance learning” (which students at every level, starting with elementary school, are learning now, amid the coronavirus pandemic). And the university established an innovative highschool-to-college program that allows under-privileged high school students from minority communities to take a faster track to college. More colleges ought to follow Purdue’s lead, which recognizes that these institutions should enable different paths to a degree. Not everyone needs a four-year degree in subjects that offer little future employment opportunities. Many students would be far better off with technical college training that prepares them for jobs that actually need filling. To effectively support college education, let’s focus on reducing college costs and making that education more relevant. I’m all for making public higher education as low-cost or no-cost as possible. States as politically disparate as Florida and New York are making great strides in that direction. But I also think the leaders of our private colleges and universities need to come down from their ivory towers and show some empathy for their customers, too. Let’s bring higher education into the 21st century. Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com.
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Pull us together, not apart To the Editor: If I weren’t so infuriated by their actions, I would pity people like randi Kreiss, who are so blinded by their hatred of President Trump that they can’t see past it (“I wonder whether this will be our ‘year of wonder,’” March 26-April 1). At a time like this, when we see our lives turned upside down — people we know dying from this vicious virus, schools closed, work disrupted, streets deserted, Kreiss can’t resist insulting our president. Perhaps it took a little time to assess the situation, but Trump’s initial move to refuse entry to people coming from China was an important first step. Since then he has been praised for his strong leadership even by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, both political opponents. The president is very much involved, and he and his top staff give daily briefings with opportunities for questions. Kreiss never fails to make untrue accusations, and doesn’t back up with facts her opinions, such as, “He doesn’t have the capacity for the humane gesture.”
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over and over, Trump has shown his love for this country and its people. Where is your humanity, Ms. Kreiss? Instead of trying to score cheap political points, how about encouraging people to pull together
in this unprecedented crisis and just be concerned with the well-being of all Americans, regardless of political differences. FAY SLADoWSKY Lawrence
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ovid-19 has completely changed the way we all live. But along with worrying about keeping themselves and their families healthy, thousands of small business owners across New York state are losing sleep over how to keep this virus from killing the businesses they have worked so hard to build. At the same time, lawmakers in Albany are trying to craft a budget in the face of plunging revenues. Sales taxes — much of them generated by small business — brought in a whopping $73.6 billion last year. Our schools, as well as other vital government services, rely on these funds. When a business fails — and too many are on the precipice of failure right now — that sales tax revenue goes, too. We believe a simple proposal could help restart local business and bolster sales tax revenues, but swift action is required by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the State Legislature. Small businesses are the backbone of our communities. Everyone wants a thriving downtown where they can shop, eat or go to a movie. The good news is that small businesses have always been engines of innovation and entrepreneurship, and we are seeing that again today as they adapt
to the new reality. Local gyms are streaming personal training sessions. Restaurants offer free delivery and online happy hours. Medical practices are expanding their telemedicine capabilities. Car mechanics are making house calls that require no personal contact at all. Of course, it’s vital that these businesses let potential customers know about their services. That’s the role of advertising in all its myriad forms. But advertising costs money, and the sad truth is that advertising is one of the first things small businesses cut when times are tough. Put yourself in the shoes of a local restaurateur with a stack of bills and very little money coming in. By the time she finishes paying the most urgent bills — rent, food suppliers, payroll — there’s not much left for advertising. Whatever stimulus money she gets from Washington or Albany will most likely be needed to keep the door open and the lights on. Yet studies show that how well businesses survive a downturn is in large part determined by whether they continue to market and advertise during the hard times. Fortunately, there is a way for Albany to prime the sales-tax pump to keep revenue flowing to both small businesses and state coffers. Let businesses use some of the
money they would have sent to Albany, as sales taxes, to market their new offerings. The formula would be simple: Every dollar a small business spends on advertising (up to some reasonable limit) would be a dollar saved off that business’s sales tax bill. It would be a win-win-win. Local businesses would be healthier because the increased advertising would jump-start sales. The state would get more sales tax revenue because local businesses would be selling more. And media companies (like ours) would benefit from the additional ad revenue. We’d like to think that we, too, are vital to the character and strength of our communities, not to mention our democracy. Think for a moment of the critical role that journalists have played in getting vital local information out to your community during this unprecedented crisis. The Legislature has a lot on its plate right now, and the temptation will be to bury this idea, or to take the shortsighted view that we can’t afford to do it right now. But right now is when it’s needed. We’ve been impressed with Governor Cuomo’s levelheaded leadership in this crisis, and we call on him to back this innovative yet simple policy.
no respect for expertise. It is truly frightening, and reflects poorly upon the values of Americans. The next time we’re looking for a person upon whom to bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom, I hope Fauci is the candidate. That might restore a little of the honor that this award is supposed to reflect.
I would like to publicly acknowledge Fauci and all of the doctors, nurses, therapists and associated medical care providers for their selfless dedication to others during a difficult time. Your efforts are deeply valued.
letters Let’s respect authority based on knowledge To the Editor: In the early 1980s I was the director of one of two infusion companies who accepted AIDS patients for care in their homes. In that epidemic we saw that the combination of ignorance and fear could do real damage and cause enormous suffering. Dr. Anthony Fauci was a leader at that time who displayed courage, calm and wisdom. He drove the effort to ensure that facts were the basis of intervention and helped de-villainize the people who suffered, both from physical illness and social stigma. He is still serving this country today, helping to balance the misinformation and political spin being spouted by the politicians surrounding him. Thank God for his presence. If one good thing comes out of this whole pandemic, I hope that it’s a return to respect for authority based on knowledge. In today’s world of Google and social networking, it’s far too easy for people with no educational preparation or experience to assume positions of power and influence. This is always bad, but potentially disastrous in a true national emergency. As the ultimate example of this, we are facing the disaster of being led during a time that requires mature decision-making skills, humility and deference by President Trump, a man who is a willfully ignorant bully and has
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