Wantagh Herald 06-23-2022

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Wantagh man tells father’s tragic story rizio saw each other the morning of their wedding, despite being familiar with the old tale that it was bad luck. DeFabvery family has a rizio’s last words to him before story that deserves they departed were, “John, I to be told, according love you with all my heart.” to Wantagh resident Tragically, DeFabrizio colLou Mastantuono, who has lapsed and died on the altar in stuck to that philosophy his arms. “All the pomp and cirwhen writing his cumstance was book, “Eternally going on,” Lou Rose,” the story Mastantuono of a tragedy that said. “’Ave struck his father Maria,’ ‘Here Comes The Bride,’ about 75 years customary kiss Morta! Morta! ago. from the father to “Eternally Morta! A middlethe daughter, then Rose” is the story aged Italian woman Rose turns to my of Mastantuono’s cried out on that father and just father, Johnny, a warm Sunday collapses. That’s decorated World afternoon. it.”

War II veteran. In The story was 1944, he met Rose news around the DeFabrizio prior to enlisting, and they wanted to world in 1946, and was even a featured story on Life Magaget married. zine. According to Mastantuo“That was the thing to do no, his father received a call when the war broke out,” Lou from President Harry Truman Mastantuono said. regarding the incident and was However, when Johnny Masapproached by Paramount Pictantuono was deployed, they tures in 1948 about making a decided to wait. The wedding movie. Johnny Mastantuono was set for October 1946, right declined all of this, and eventuafter his return from the war, ally met and married Lou’s as a hometown hero. mother.

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WANtAGH rESIDENt rAMY Latif rode his Sea-Doo in the bay. A year ago, he saved the life of a victim of an accident on the water.

Wantagh H.S. student looks back on day he became a hero A year ago, Ramy Latif helped save woman’s life

By MICHAEl MAlASZCZYK mmalaszczyk@liherald.com

Wantagh High School freshman Ramy Latif rode his Sea-Doo in the bay near the Wantagh Parkway Bridge in Seaford on what started out as a normal Frida about a year ago. Little did Latif know he was about to help save a woman’s life.

On June 25, 2021, Latif noticed something in the water right under the bridge. He saw a number of people on the bridge who had got-

ten off their bikes, and they were shouting and pointing down at the water. That’s when Latif saw a crashed personal watercraft, and blood in the water.

“I move closer, and near the crashed jetski I see a man swimming, carrying an unconscious woman,” Latif recounted. “The woman’s head was caved in — I knew she was not all right.”

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What’s up next door and around the corner

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Wind Turbine blade exhibit at the Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center.

Green jobs initiative at Jones Beach Throughout the summer, the Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center – located at 150 Bay Parkway – hosts a number of events throughout the summer which are intended to be both fun and informative for the local communities. These events make going to the beach an educating experience rather than just a relaxing one.

On June 16, the Energy and Nature Center hosted United Ways “Power Up!” program. This program is intended to offer job training for those interested in working in the renewable energy field.

The Center’s Director, Jeanne Haffner, leads these visits and uses the Center’s architecture, building technologies, exhibits, and surrounding landscape as a window into sustainable design. In particular, the Center’s Energy Efficient House exhibit was used in this training.

“This program is part of our commitment to connecting people to green jobs and job training,” Center Director Jeanne Haffner said. “As an educational center, our mission is to serve the public, and this is one way we fulfill that mission.”

According to Haffner, the goal of this specific training session is to give students/prospective workers hands-on job training in renewable energy technology.

The June 16 event was attended by over 20 students, all taught by teacher Stephen Muzyka. This was relatively strong attendance for the event, and as a result, it is set to continue as a regular series done at the Energy and Nature Center by United Way.

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a family explores the exhibit on Biomimicry at the Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center.

Jeanne Haffner, direcTor and Chief Curator of the Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center, talks to students about the history of the electrical Grid in New York State. sTepHen muzyka Talks to students about building science and technology in the Energy Efficient House exhibit at the Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center.

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sTudenTs using THe wave tank at the Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center.

A generous donation for Dress for Recovery rub against a patient's torso, Alderman explained, which can cause pain and discomfort on surgery wounds, radiaFinding the proper clothing to wear tion bur ns, and raw chemotherapy while undergoing treatments for breast ports. Seatbelt covers, usually a small, cancer can be difficult, and one organi- fabric wrap that goes around a seatbelt, zation has stepped up to help that cause. offer protection.

Dress for Recovery is a clothing bank Chemotherapy ports in particular, at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, which are normally on one’s chest, which serves the towns of Merrick, approximately the size of a nickel, and Bellmore, Wantagh and surrounding attached to the main artery, Alderman areas. Dress for Recovery is part of the said, require a lot of protection.

Chabad’s Circle of Hope initiative, “Most of them are under the skin — which helps individuals and families they’re inside of you,” Alderman’s huscoping with breast cancer and other ill- band, Bill added. “So if (a seatbelt) nesses. Services are offered to everyone, pushes on it, it really, really hurts.” regardless of reliLast week, gious beliefs.

Dress for Recovery Loraine Alderreceived a donaman, of East tion of seatbelt Meadow, founded covers, from the Dress for Recovery Mineola-based, in December of not-for-profit quiltDress for Recovery is open by 2020, having been ing organization, appointment only. For appointments diagnosed with Evening Star Quilor general inquiries about the clothbreast cancer the t e r s. A l d e r m a n ing bank and Circle of Hope, call year prior. When met the group at a (516) 833-3057 ext. 104, or email patients undergo quilting show she CirleOfHope@ChabadJewishLife.org. treatments for attended, and breast cancer, such thought they may as mastectomies, be able to help, by often they must wear surgical drains to making and donating seatbelt covers. aid the recovery process. The clothing One of its members, Catherine Peterbank provides large shirts, with ample son, came up with a quilting pattern, space for the drains, as well as various that could be completed by any of their zippers for doctors and nurses to access members. Jane Hartigan, another memchest ports for chemotherapy adminis- ber, told the Herald that during one of tration.

Evening Star’s charity nights, the pat“There's not one store in New York, tern was provided to its members, who New Jersey, and Connecticut where you then created 50 covers. can walk in and buy this type of cloth“They really picked out beautiful ing,” Alderman said. “They’re only material,” Alderman said of the donaavailable online and they're expensive. tions. “The craftsmanship was just We are the only place where people can amazing, I was blown away by what they come and get everything — free of did. It just shows, the person that’s charge. receiving it, that care went into it.”

“You need the shirts that open up in Peterson added they kept in mind the front and have the pocket for the personal preferences when making the drains,” she added. “When you go into covers, using a number of colors and treatment, if you have a port, it's helpful patterned fabrics. “I was thinking, when to have shirts that have a zipper for the we were making these, you want to have port opening to allow access to treat- something that appeals to a wide variety ments.” of people,” she noted.

In addition to providing treatmentWhen someone approaches Dress for friendly clothing, Dress for Recovery Recovery for assistance, Alderman said also offers other useful recovery items, she takes the time to meet with them. such as seatbelt covers. Seatbelts tend to “We let people choose what they feel

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How to connect with Dress for Recovery

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lORAINE AlDERMAN, FOUNDER of Dress for Recovery, with Jane Hartigan and Catherine Peterson, members of the Evening Star Quilters organization, who donated 50 seatbelt covers. most comfortable with —there’s so many things that are out of your control when you’re going through this whole process,” she said. “It’s all these little things that can chip away a little bit of the stress.”

Since the founding of Dress For Recovery, Alderman has seen the impact the clothing bank has had on those going through cancer treatment.

“When you’re going through treatment, you sit there for many hours and you have a lot of time on your hands,” Alderman said. “We believe that you have to pay things forward and we couldn't believe that there wasn’t one store where you can walk in and buy this clothing. We tried to figure out how to make something good out of what

was going on.”

Dress for Recovery, with Circle of Hope, also provides counseling, wigs, food, and financial assistance for people going through breast cancer treatment.

With the donation of the seatbelt covers, Dress For Recovery can allocate resources to getting more shirts and other items. Working towards raising $20,000 for their own, designated workspace at the Chabad Center, every donation helps.

“I wish this was around when I was going through treatment,” Alderman said of Dress for Recovery. “We want to let people know that we're here and everything is free of charge — it's really about paying things forward and just trying to help other people.”

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What’s neWs in and out of the classroom

Dressed in red, white, and blue, first graders at Mandalay Elementary School in Wantagh sang songs and shared their knowledge about the American flag during a Flag Day ceremony on June 14.

Parents were in attendance of a ceremony that honored 245 years of the American flag. Students presented the history and meaning of the flag, and discussed its creator Betsy Ross and the men and women who have died fighting for it.

The ceremony opened with a fifth grade color guard, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance and the Star-Spangled Banner. First graders also performed “America the Beautiful,” “God Bless America,” “This Land is Your Land,” and “You’re a Grand Old Flag”. The students also performed “The Fifty Nifty States” and named every state in alphabetical order.

Students learned the songs and facts from music teacher Beth Marinis and first grade teachers Christine Donovan and Christine Kopp.

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Mandalay ElEMEntary School fifth graders provided a color guard for the Pledge of Allegiance and national anthem at the first grade’s Flag Day ceremony on June 14.

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Herald honors L.I.’s best in health care Achievements of doctors, first responders and more recognized

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any called them heroes at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. But for anyone who has ever paid attention at a hospital or any medical facility, they’ve always been super.

Honoring them is long overdue, but more than 400 people gathered to do just that at The Heritage Club in Bethpage last week for the Herald’s premiere Long Island Excellence in Healthcare Awards.

Hosted by RichnerLive and Herald Community Newspapers with presenting sponsor FirstNet, Built with AT&T, some 40 of health care’s best from across Nassau County — and from Suffolk County as well — were honored June 15.

Dr. Adhi Sharma, president of Mount Sinai South Nassau, was among those honored. And what’s happening at the Oceanside facility has the executive more excited than ever.

“Right now, Mount Sinai South Nassau is undergoing a transformation,” he said. “We will be adding a number of advanced programs — including open-heart surgery, advanced neurosurgical techniques, and advanced stroke rescue techniques.”

In his acceptance speech for being named one of Long Island’s outstanding hospital leaders, Sharma reflected not only on work already done, but also what’s planned for the MaurEEN future.

WHItE “We look forward to this era beyond the pandemic,” he said, executive vice while “going back to typical care president, for our patients and working Northwell Health with the technology advancements we’ve gotten as a result of the pandemic.”

Maureen White, executive vice president and chief nurse executive at Northwell Health, called the past two years or so “uncharted water.”

“To see how we’ve come together in health care to navigate these uncharted and turbulent waters on behalf of our patients, it’s been very inspiring,” she added.

The keynote was delivered by White’s boss, Northwell’s president and chief executive Michael Dowling. He couldn’t attend the ceremony itself — where he was honored for his lifetime achievement — because he’s traveling overseas, but he did sit down with Herald executive editor Michael Hinman on video to share what health care is like in a post-Covid world.

“I never look at the world through the lens of challenges,” Dowling said. “I look at the world through the lens of opportunity. So to me, it’s the opportunity to continue to provide better care. To deal with prevention, wellness, the social determinants issues, dealing with food insecurity, dealing with lifestyle behaviors, and focusing more on those communities across the region in dire need.”

So much focus has been given to Covid-19 in recent years — and rightfully so — but that isn’t the only health issue facing many people. Work must continue in other fields as well, like what Bruce Stillman is doing at of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Oyster Bay’s Laurel Hollow.

“Our most recent project was for spinal muscular atrophy, which is the most lethal genetic disease in children, that now keeps those kids alive,” the laboratory’s

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o see how we’ve come together in health care — to navigate these uncharted and turbulent waters on behalf of our patients — it’s been very inspiring.

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Nassau CouNtY PoLICE Department commissioner Patrick Ryder and Town of Oyster Bay supervisor Joseph Saladino celebrate their award with Herald Community Newspapers publisher Stuart Richner, and FirstNet, Built with AT&T’s Evelsis Valentin and Anthony Postiglione at the Herald Long Island Excellence in Healthcare gala at The Heritage Club.

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For a complete list of winners at the Herald Long Island Excellence in Healthcare Awards, along with more photos from the event, visit RichnerLive.com/2022healthcarephotos. president and chief executive said. But still, even his facility — which has weathered through a number of pandemics and health crises over its more than 130 years — couldn’t avoid the coronavirus.

“When the pandemic started, we started working on Covid and Covid-related symptoms such as lung fibrosis,” Stillman said. “We never shut down. We kept doing research. And we’re back to normal now — or almost normal.”

Honorees were not limited to the lab or hospital but also included first responders — often the first point of medical assistance in emergencies.

“Law enforcement and the medical field are always together,” said Patrick Ryder, Nassau County’s police commissioner. “Whether it’s bringing patients to hospitals, our own members getting sick and needing help, 9/11 services, PTSD services — we’re always tied at the hip with the health services.“ Michael Uttaro, the county’s chief fire marshal, helps bring together emergency services in a broad community that includes more than 70 volunteer fire departments and six volunteer ambulance corps.

“I assist with coordinating those units, which incorporate ambulances and EMS,” Uttaro said. “We regularly interact with hospitals, urgent care and everything in between. It’s a nice honor to be recognized for what you do.”

Many of those first responders depend on FirstNet, a technology network managed by AT&T, that was first developed after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“FirstNet has been in the first responder and public safety space for well over 100 years,” said Anthony Postiglione, a public safety solutions sales executive for

DENIsE aLBErt, aN award-winning journalist and television producer, hosted the gala.

FirstNet, Built with AT&T. “We work with law enforcement, fire, EMS, health care, and even secondary responders that assist them. It really means a lot to us to be able to honor our health care heroes here tonight.

It’s something we like to do to give back to the first responder community.”

But it has become more than just a system for 9/11 heroes, Long Island AT&T regional manager Magdalonie Paris-Campbell said. It’s something that has been built for all of them.

“It was an honor for FirstNet, Built with AT&T, to support and attend this remarkable event, and celebrate our health care and law enforcement heroes for all they have done for our community, the region, and the state of New York during the pandemic,” she said. “As they say, not all superheroes wear capes. In fact, many wear scrubs, paraContinued on neXt page

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HERald Community nEwspapERs publisher Stuart Richner opens the Herald Long Island Excellence in Healthcare Awards at The Heritage Club last week. continued from PreViouS Page medic uniforms, stethoscopes, dispatch headsets and badges.

We saw this during the pandemic as first responders braved the risk of Covid infection to protect our neighbors during one of the most challenging periods of our lives.”

But on this particular night, at the Herald Long Island Excellence in Healthcare Awards, it was all about celebration.

“This was an amazing program, amazing turnout,” said Herrick Lipton, the chief executive of New Horizon Counseling Center. “We’re very proud to raise awareness, and the Herald has done such an amazing job to represent people making a difference in our communities.”

Presenting sponsor was FirstNet, Built with AT&T, while Mount Sinai South Nassau and New Horizon Counseling Center were platinum sponsors. Gold sponsors included Northwell Health, Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation, NAPA North American Partners in Anesthesia, LifeVac, Long Island Speech & Myofunctional Therapy Centers, and Alliance Homecare.

Silver sponsors were The Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Center of Long Island, EHS Episcopal Health Services, Zwanger Pesiri Radiology, Lenox Hill Radiology, Bleu Glove Concierge, Precision LTC Pharmacy, American Family Care Urgent Care, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Family & Children’s Association, and Rising Above & Beyond Home Care.

HERald Community nEwspapERs publisher Stuart Richner, at top left, joins Evelsis Valentin and Anthony Postiglione from presenting sponsors FirstNet, Built with AT&T — to hand out some of the more than 40 awards that were part of the Herald Long Island Excellence in Healthcare gala. They joined winners like Maureen White, executive vice president of Northwell Health. moRE tHan 400 people came out to celebrate Long Island’s health care heroes last week.

News brief

Man indicted for sending sexual texts to Wantagh minor

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Nassau County D.A. Anne Donnelly announced that a Manorville man was arraigned today on charges of sending sexually explicit text messages to a teenager in Wantagh.

The man - Andrew Quattrone, 39 of Manorville, allegedly sent these images on January 20, 2022. He has been charged with first degree Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors and Endangering the Welfare of a Child, a Class D Felony and a Class A misdemeanor, respectively.

Quattrone pleaded not guilty to

both charges and is being held in Suffolk County jail on another matter at a $1 million bond and $500.000 cash.

If convicted, Quattrone could face up to seven years in prison. In addition to the alleged graphic images, Quattrone tried to meet with the minor in person on January 21 but was scared off when she appeared with friends, according to District Attorney Donnelly.

Quattrone was arrested in Bay Shore on January 22. He is due back in court on July 18.

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LegisLator steve rhoads; Ronald Hunter, 50 years of service, Ex-Chief; Robert Kurtz, 50 years of service, Ex-Captain; William Willis, 50 years of service, Ex-Captain; Michael Leninger, Wantagh Fire Department.

Rhoads honors fifty-year firefighters On June 4, Legislator Steve Rhoads presented a number of Wantagh firefighters with a citation honoring fifty years of service to the Wantagh community in the Fire Department. Among those honored were Chief Ronald Hunter, Captain Rob-

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events and activities

Friday, June 24

starting May 5 and every Thursday from 11:30 until 4 pm. For information contact the office at 516-7852445 or email mahjonggCBT@yahoo. com. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is needed for newcomers, but masks are optional. A contribution of $5 per person is required.

Live music at at Craft Kitchen Chris Solo will be performing live acoustic music at Craft Kithcen & Tap House in Wantagh, starting at 7:30 p.m.

Comedy Night

Saturday, June 25

Lil Mo Mozzarella will be performing comedy at Mulcahy’s in Wantagh at 3232 Railroad Avenue, starting at 8:00 p.m., with doors opening at 7:00. You must be 18 or older to attend. To purchase tickets please visit ticketweb.com/event/comedy-nightfeat-lil-mo-mulcahys-pub-and-concerthall-tickets/12181885

Tears for Fears Classic 1980s band Tears for Fears, known best for songs like “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” and “Shout”, is back, and will be performing at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater as part of their “Tipping Point” tour. The concert is set to begin at 7:30 p.m., to purchase tickets please visit http://tears4fears.jonesbeach. com

Seaford farmers market The Seaford farmers market is back from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. The market is located at the Ra ilroad Street East End of Parking Lot of Seaford Railroad Station Corner of Washington Avenue and Sunrise Highway.

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Borrow a telescope from Seaford library The Seaford Public Library offers telescopes for members to borrow to view the stars. Please visit the Reference Desk at the library for more information.

Monday, June 27 Fun with Databases At the Wantagh Public Library, from 4:15 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., bring your kid along with a device to follow along on as Miss Karen will teach them how to navigate the library databases. To register please visit http://www.eventkeeper.com/mars/xpages/xp_new

future. Go on a tour and learn all about where energy comes from and how electricity is made and renewable energy. For more information please visit https://www.jonesbeachenc.org/ events/wonders-of-wind-june-28

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Summer Reading Program

Tuesday, June 28 Wonders of Wind Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center is spearheading the movement toward energy efficiency and a carbon neutral

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The Seaford Public Library is beginning its summer reading program. For childen 0-2, it is the Baby Shark Summer Reading Program, and for children age 3 to fifth grade, it is the Guppy Reading Program. Registration begins on June 27. For more information, please call the Seaford Public Library.

Wednesday, June 29 Tai Chi Join Marvin at the Wantagh Public Library at 9:30 a.m. for a weekly Tai Chi for Arthritis program geared for seniors, but all are welcome. Tai Chi combines slow-moving with deep breathing and is beneficial in increasing body strength, balance, and posture. Tai Chi can also help you reduce stress and increase relaxation. To register email ismith@wantaghlibrary.org.

be performing at 7:30 p.m. at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater.

For tickets, please visit STEELYDAN. jonesbeach.com

Kids Paint Party The Wantagh Public Library is hosting a kids paint party from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. To register, please visiteventkeeper.com/mars/xpages/xp_newpopevent.cfm?zeeOrg=WANTAGH&EventID= 6915354&sw=1920

Thursday, June 30 Steely Dan Steely Dan will be joining forces with Aimee Man for a summer 2022 tour, dubbed “After Earth Hours”. They will

Weekly Mahjong The JULIETS are back playing Mahjong and cards at Congregation Beth Tikvah, 3710 Woodbine Avenue, Wantagh,

HaviNg aN eveNT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest.

All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number.

Submissions can be emailed to mmalaszczyk@ liherald.com

Seaford’s United Skates of America will be hosting an array of themed skating events.

Check out all the concerts being performed at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater this summer.

Congregation Beth Tikvah offers ASL interpreting Shabbot services every third Saturday at 10 a.m.

Dont’ forget to look at all the Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center has to offer.

Mulcahy’s Pub and Concert Hall will have Happy Hour every Friday. Live music starts at 6:00 p.m.

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Astorino looks to wipe away political polarization

By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@liherald.com

There aren’t many people who can say they’ve come close to beating Andrew Cuomo — especially at the height of the former governor’s popularity. But Rob Astorino can.

Running with Chemung County Sheriff Chris Moss in 2014, Astorino challenged Cuomo, but fell short by a little more than 500,000 votes. So put him up against the current incumbent governor, Kathy Hochul, and the Westchester County executive believes he has a better chance than any other Republican on the June 28 primary ballot.

“We did not have the money at the end to compete,” Astorino told a team of reporters in the Herald Roundtable session. “We were outspent eight to one.”

And it didn’t help Astorino to not have the rest of the Republican Party behind him. There were reports after the election that Cuomo and state GOP leaders had hashed out a “non-aggression” pact ahead of the voting that essentially pushed Astorino aside.

Those particular Republicans are gone now — and Cuomo is, too, following a sexual harassment scandal that forced him to resign last year. Astorino sees Hochul as not much more than a placeholder, and if she wins the Democratic nomination next week, it might be a perfect chance for Republicans to return to the executive

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WEstCHEstEr CouNty ExECutIvE Rob Astorino is no stranger to statewide campaigns, coming within a half-million votes of toppling Andrew Cuomo back in 2014. But to have another chance at the executive mansion, Astorino first has to get through a crowded field of Republicans. mansion.

Crime is something that really has Astorino’s attention, especially when visitors from outside the country make it clear they don’t want to go anywhere near New York City. Democrats, he says, have been too soft on crime.

“You know, maybe the original concept of bail reform was one that was worth having a discussion,” Astorino said. “I

don’t want some nonviolent first offender to be rotting away in jail, or to have a record that he or she is not going to be able to overcome. However, when we have criminals who are career criminals and thugs and violent criminals, we’ve got to set the example.”

And even if Astorino takes over the state’s top job and finds himself facing a Democratic iron curtain, the gubernatori-

al hopeful says he’ll just push his agenda through the state budgeting process, where he would have significant power to create his own legislation beyond the Assembly and Senate.

Like the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs a number of transit services, including the Long Island Rail Road. “The MTA is an absolute and utter mess,” Astorino said. “It is wasting money left and right. And nobody wants to say, ‘Well, let’s fix the problem first’ before we create all these new multi-billion-dollar projects and programs.”

Astorino is against congestion pricing in Manhattan’s Financial District, and says those extra fees won’t hit those with big wallets, but instead much smaller businesses.

Winning this race is going to require finding common ground in a political environment that’s quite polarized. But Astorino believes he can do it. “We can appeal — and I have to appeal — to those who don’t ordinarily vote Republican,” he said. “There are a lot of reasonable things that we do that cross party lines. So, you know, I think definitely, come November, I’m the best candidate that could actually get elected.”

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When he first ran for president in 2008, Barack Obama took a lot of flak from opponents over his college days as a “community organizer” — work that has never been easy to define.

Especially for Jumaane Williams in his own post-college days, long before anyone knew who Obama was.

“No one had any idea what that was,” Williams told a team of reporters in a Herald Roundtable session. “My mother asked me to please get a real job, and I had to tell her it was a real job.”

His parents had emigrated from Grenada in the 1970s, and pushed for both Jumaane and his brother to get a good education. Williams did just that at Brooklyn College, earning a political science degree and later a master’s in urban policy.

A few years later, he was a Brooklyn city councilman, toppling an incumbent a year after that other community organizer made it into the White House. And within a decade, he was New York City’s public advocate — the city’s ombudsman, for lack of a better term — that has been a major steppingstone for predecessors including former Mayor Bill de Blasio and current state Attorney General Letitia James.

If he wants to have a chance to move to Albany, Williams will have to hark back to those days of upending incum-

Herald Community Newspapers provided a chance for all of New York’s gubernatorial candidates to meet with an editorial team to present their views and answer questions.

This week, we have included sessions with candidates Rob Astorino, Jumaane Williams and Harry Wilson. Last week, we featured Andrew Giuliani and Tom Suozzi. All sessions can be found on our website, LIHerald.com.

Neither Gov. Kathy Hochul nor U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin responded to invitations to join the roundtable.

Courtesy the Jumaane Williams gubernatorial campaign

JuMAANE WILLIAMs HAs been New York City’s public advocate since 2019 — a job that has led to higher office for many of his predecessors, including former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and current state Attorney General Letitia James. Williams hopes he can leap from that job to the executive mansion. bents, because observers say Gov. Kathy Hochul will be hard to beat — especially for a fellow Democrat.

“I ran against Kathy in 2018, and I said that if you had a lieutenant governor that was not willy-nilly, but when necessary, would stand up to the governor, we would be better off,” Williams said. “And that proved more right than even I thought, particularly as we got into this pandemic, and wrong decision after wrong decision was happening.”

The biggest problem now, as it was then, is priorities, Williams said. New

Yorkers have their priorities, and Cuomo — and later Hochul — had their own.

“The priorities that were made in this (most recent) budget were not the priorities of New Yorkers,” Williams said. “To not have any funding for housing vouchers. To not put in money we asked for, for gun violence prevention. But to instead focus on a stadium being built outside of Buffalo” for the NFL’s Bills.

Democrats, for the most part, have the right idea when it comes to turning society around, Williams said. But the “Democratic Party does not do a good job talk-

ing about public safety, or the economy, for that matter.”

Williams said he has a plan to put New York back on the right track, but first it requires listening to what the state’s residents have to say. And listening is what he has spent much of his entire political career doing, and what he will continue to do, he added, if elected governor.

“If we don’t know the intersection of housing and health care and public safety now, we never will,” Williams said. “We cannot say we’re going to let the rest of New Yorkers languish … and then send the police department to do on the back end what we fail to do on the front end.

“That’s just, I think, a selfish false choice.”

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Harry Wilson doesn’t have the most recognizable name among those running for governor — in either party. But then again, as the self-proclaimed turnaround expert might say, maybe he should.

It’s not like Wilson hasn’t sought office before. Hailing from Johnstown — less than an hour north of Albany — Wilson ran for state comptroller in 2010, losing to longtime incumbent Thomas DiNapoli.

But now Wilson is ready to move from company executive to state executive, looking to be the Republicans’ representative on the November ballot to take back the governor’s office.

“The two things that I think are essential for a successful candidate for governor,” Wilson recently told reporters at a Herald Roundtable. “One is the ability to actually fix this broken state, not just manage the decline, as I think most other candidates are proposing to do.

“And the second thing is, to do that, I have to win.”

That’s easier said than done. Other Republicans in the race, like Andrew Giuliani, Lee Zeldin and even Rob Astorino, have far better name recognition. But running a state government

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harry WIlson hopes he can turn his business savvy into making things happen in Albany as New York’s next governor. But to even get a chance, he has to overcome a field of Republicans who have far better name recognition than he does. isn’t much different from running a business, Wilson said. It’s just that many politicians wouldn’t know the first thing to do in the latter situation, since they’ve never run a business.

“I’m not a partisan,” Wilson said. “I am a very deeply, philosophically, limited-government conservative across the

board, so I’m happy to talk about that.

But, basically, I’ve been really focused on delivering results for my business, customers and stakeholders. And in my political focus, on taxpayers and voters.”

Wilson describes his core principals as lower taxes, lower cost of living and safer streets. And he believes he can ful-

fill those goals with the Legislature, whether it’s run by Republicans or Democrats.

“I have negotiated hundreds of deals with all kinds of entrenched stakeholders, with unions, who were kind of set in their ways,” Wilson said. “I always came to these companies that are in or near bankruptcy, so everybody’s mad.

They’ve lost a lot of money, and they may have been worried about their jobs.

“I have to deal with that, and create a new vision that people can believe in and rally around. And create a plan that people can support and work toward together.”

That even means taking positions that Republicans traditionally have not — like the fact that Wilson is pro-choice, and says he would protect women’s reproductive rights.

For him, it’s the first step in bringing a highly polarized electorate back together. And as governor, that’s what Wilson intends to do.

“I’m looking out for the little guy,” he said. “Small businesses. Regular people, and creating the environment so they can all thrive through their own merit.”

News briefs Reckless endangerment charge in Wantagh On the late morning of June 14, Nassau County police responded to calls for a possible drunk driver at Campbell Road and Martin Drive in Wantagh. Shortly afterwards, a 2011 Nissan Sentra was involved in an auto accident on Wantagh Avenue. The driver, 29 year old Colin Cassidy, had passed out after holding an aerosol can of Dust off to

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The moTorCyCle and pickup truck collided on Wantagh Avenue near the entrance to the Southern State Parkway.

Motorcyclist killed on Wantagh Avenue The Nassau County Police Department is investigating a fatal motorcycle accident on Wantagh Avenue in Wantagh on Sunday afternoon.

Police said the motorcycle was heading north on Wantagh Avenue when it struck a Ford pickup truck near Lea Ann Terrace. Authorities

identified the motorcyclist as Michael Bozzo, 49, of Wantagh, who was taken to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

The pickup truck driver remained at the scene. The investigation is continuing and no charges have been filed.

his nose. When police confronted him, Cassidy put the car in reverse and began colliding with other vehicles before police were able to stop the car and arrest him.

Cassy has been charged with Leaving the Scene of an Incident, Reckless Driving, and Second Degree Reckless Endang er ment. He was arraigned in Court on June 15.

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Hero reflects on his life-saving reaction said. “I put Pamela up on the jetski and lez, 28. The two had been out for a ride in noticed her leg was also broken.”

Latif drove Gonzalez and Rossi back to the bay, with Rossi in his new boat and Gonzalez following in a jetski, when Gon- Rossi’s boat, which had luckily run aground on a marsh. They were able to zalez crashed into the bridge.

According to Rossi, he had just bought push the boat back into the water, call 911 and get to a beach. Gonzalez a new boat, and the couple was airlifted to a nearby hoscelebrated with a ride out in pital, where she remained for the bay, where Gonzalez eight days. would learn how to ride the For Rossi and Gonzalez, personal watecraft. “She was the past year has been doing pretty well,” Rossi said. marked by surgeries and “So we moved further out recovery. Gonzalez suffered a into the water where you fractured skull and a broken could drive faster.” femur and lost vision in her As they were going under right eye. She has undergone the bridge, Gonzalez got too four surgeries on her femur close to the bridge wall and and has been mostly bedridaccidentally hit the throttle RaMy latif den for the past year. instead of the brakes, slam- Sophomore, Their outlook, however, ming into the wall. Rossi Wantagh High remains positive — when heard the crash, stopped his Gonzalez is able to go out, boat and jumped into the School they still enjoy going out on water to save Gonzalez. The the water, and both are optianchor on his boat, however, had failed, and the boat was being carried mistic about Gonzalez’s continued recovaway by the current — with Rossi’s dachs- ery. They said they are forever grateful to Latif. hund on board.

“He’s a friend for life now,” Rossi said.

Rossi had no choice but to head for the beach, carrying Gonzalez. The current “Let me just say that if it weren’t for him, began to pull him too, making it a diffi- we would have been in a lot of trouble. cult task. Rossi estimates he swam for Ramy really saved the day. He saved about three minutes, although he said, “it Pamela’s life.”

For Latif, the memory of the incident felt like an eternity.” That is when Latif sits with him every day, and he has been sped to the scene in his Sea-Doo. “Thank God he had shown up,” Rossi profoundly affected by it. continued from front page

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hen you see something like this, it’s no longer a choice.

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Wantagh high School principal Paul Guzzone with sophomore Ramy Latif.

“It really put things into perspective,” Latif said. “This sort of thing could happen to anyone, any place, any time.”

Latif said he also wants the WantaghSeaford community to feel a sense of responsibility toward one another.

“It’s important to see these kinds of things as not necessarily something to be proud of, but something we are obligated to do,” Latif said. “When you see something like this, it’s no longer a choice. You have to do it.”

Hollywood future for Wantagh man’s book? continued from front page According to Lou Mastantuono, this story was not discussed much growing up, although he was vaguely aware of it.

He said he pledged to his dying mother that he would set out to solve the mystery, and he did exactly that with “Eternally Rose.”

“I promised my mother that I would make our story into something big,” Mastantuono said.

“Eternally Rose” may have a future on the silver screen, according to Mastantuono, who has turned it into a screenplay and has been in touch with some big names about the story, including Scott Pardo, an HBO producer who has worked on “Survivor.”

Pardo has described “Eternally Rose” as “a dramatic tale that has Hollywood classic written all over it.”

Mastantuono, a Wantagh resident for about four and a half years, is also a Long Island native, having grown up in the Five Towns before moving to Los Angeles for a number of years.

He returned to Long Island after reconnecting with an old girlfriend and settled in Cedarhurst. She unexpectedly died, leading Mastantuono to move to Wantagh, where his son lives.

“I never thought I’d end up here,” Mastantuono said. “But it’s a beautiful

place. You know what they say — ‘Man plans, God laughs.’”

Mastantuono holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from St. John’s University, where he played baseball.

He has worked in maintenance for a number of years, but his real passion was as an artist. He has been described as something of a Renaissance man, being an actor, writer and songwriter.

Mastantuono said that one of his songs, called “Bring Your Love Back,” was set to feature in the 1990 film “Rocky V” but never made it out of the editing room.

Mastantuono saw the original movie “Rocky” in 1977, and both the film and the story behind the making of the film — of actor Sylvester Stallone coming from almost nothing and writing an Oscar-winning film — convinced him to write his family story.

Mastantuono said he wants Wantagh residents to realize that every family has deep, unique stories. “Even your seemingly ordinary neighbor has something that has happened to them or their family,” he said, “a story that deserves to be told.”

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lou MaStantuono, Wantagh resident and author, with his book, ‘Eternally Rose.’

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The Christophel Family he family of Laura Christophel has lived in Wantagh for three generations — she herself is part of the second generation.

Laura’s parents, Augustine Grueneberg and Dorothy MacDonald, both moved to Wantagh from Queens and attended Wantagh High School. The pair were high school sweethearts — Grueneberg graduating in 1959, MacDonald graduating in 1961. This family generation also included Grueneberg’s best friend, Richard Prime, who would end up marrying his sister Diane Grueneberg and is therefore Laura's uncle.

Laura Christophel attended Wantagh High School, graduating in 1982 and married her husband Robert Christophel who also grew up in Wantagh but attended Holy Trinity. They decided to remain in Wantagh; their three kids: Patrick, Jillian and Jack graduated Wantagh High School, in 2007, 2010, and 2016 respectively.

Laura’s kids could be the last generation of their Wantagh High School graduates, although Laura hopes that her youngest, Jack, stays. “He moved back in with us after college,” Christophel said. “Maybe we’ll pass on the house to him.”

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Left to right, Samantha Colbert, Eileen Krulder, Sean Colbert, Colleen Colbert, Ed Colbert, and Casey Colbert.

The Colbert Family asey Colbert traces her Wantagh heritage as far back as three generations, including herself.

The family got started in Wantagh when Casey’s maternal grandmother, Eileen Krulder, moved to Wantagh from Queens in her childhood. Eileen’s sister, Judy Snyder, was the first member of the family to go through every school in Wantagh, from kindergarten all the way to 12th grade. Eileen Krulder followed that same trajectory.

Casey’s mother Colleen Colbert graduated Wantagh High School in 1982, while her father Edward graduated Wantagh High School in 1983. Colleen and Edward did not begin dating until after high school. Another member of this generation was Edward Colbert’s sister, Jean Colbert.

The third generation is led by Casey, who graduated in 2010, her sister Samantha, is a 2014 graduate, and her brother Sean graduated in 2017.

Sean played football in high school and also served as assistant football coach. Colleen teaches at Pixie Nursery School (in Wantagh), was a cheerleading coach and formerly ran Sports Night.

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Bringing local sports home every week

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HOfstRA WON tHE Colonial Athletic Association baseball tournament title, marking the first conference championship in program history.

By ANDREW COEN Correspondent

When Anthony D’Onofrio first committed to the Hofstra baseball team as a sophomore at Wantagh High School, he saw potential for big strides for a local program he grew up following.

Six years later, D’Onofrio was a catalyst in Hofstra reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history after capturing the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) title with four straight wins in the doubleelimination tournament Memorial Day weekend. The accomplishment was made even more improbable by the fact Hofstra was picked in the preseason to finish dead last in the nine team CAA. “To be ranked last in the preseason and finish in third place in the regular and go 4-0 in the playoffs and shock the whole conference really felt great,” said D’Onofrio, who hit three home runs this season as a senior center fielder including a leadoff homer in Hofstra’s 7-6 win against Northeastern on May 29 that clinched the CAA championship. “It was a crazy experience.”

D’Onofrio, who will return in 2023 as a graduate student for an extra year of eligibility due to losing most of the 2020 season because of the Covid-19 pandemic, ignited Hofstra’s CAA tourney run with an infield single leading off the bottom of the ninth-inning before scoring the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Steve Harrington in a 4-3 win against Elon. The Pride kept the momentum the next day with a 4-3 victory in 10 innings versus second-seeded Elon and on May 27 and then knocked off Northeastern 8-7 in extra innings the next day on a Santino Rosso RBI double in the bottom of the 10th to advance to the CAA finals stage.

Hofstra made history in achieving the school’s first conference baseball crown with its third walk-off win of the CAA tourney when Ryan Morash was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to score Brian Morrell and cap a 7-6 victory and set off a massive celebration.

“To think that the program had never won a conference championship in its existence going back to 1938 is really

fORmER WANtAgH HigH School standout Anthony D’Onofrio helped fuel the Pride’s late-season success. amazing and I don’t know if any of us have realized how big that is,” said first-year Hofstra head coach Frank Catalanotto, who enjoyed a 14-year Major League Baseball career with the Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, Milwaukee Brewers and New York Mets from 1997 to 2010. “It helps put the program on the map.”

The CAA championship gave Hofstra some national exposure when its name was called during the NCAA Selection Show that aired on ESPN2 on Memorial Day. The Pride were sent to an NCAA Regional at North Carolina where it took an early lead on the ACC champions before ultimately falling, 15-4. Hofstra’s magical season then concluded the next day with a loss to Georgia in a nationally televised game on SEC Network.

Hofstra’s NCAA Tournament run enabled a number of locals to experience a big-time college baseball atmo-

BRAD CARmADA pitCHED seven innings in Hofstra’s 7-6 win over Northeastern in the CAA championship game. sphere. The Pride’s roster includes 10 from Nassau County in D’Onofrio, Anthony Fontana (Wantagh), Michael Florides (Glen Cove), Luke Napolitano (Rockville Centre), Mike McKenna (Farmingdale), Matt Pelcher (Merrick), Frankie DiMartino (Bethpage), Chris Keenan (Seaford) and Danny Kelleher (Rockville Centre).

Catalanotto, who previously led New York Tech to the Division II College World Series in 2019 before the school suspended athletics in summer 2020, said bringing Hofstra to the NCAAs ranks very high on his list of accomplishments, especially since he never experienced the MLB postseason. After a breakthrough season, the expectations will only increase for 2023.

“Now the target is on our back,” Catalanotto said. “We set a high standard and luckily these guys have bought in.”

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Molloy celebrates the new ‘U’ with $2M gift

June 23, 2022 — WANTAGH HERALD

By tOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com

Molloy University not only has a new name, but it also has a new gift — a $2 million one the school describes as its largest single gift in its 67-year history.

It was delivered by S. Zaki Hossain, president of Pintail Coffee, a Farmingdale-based “charitable roaster” as it’s described, which he helped found in 2013.

The donation headlined the first largescale, in-person event for the school with its new university status. What was formed as an all-women’s’ school in 1955 by the Sisters of St. Dominic in Amityville has grown to a roster of 4,800 undergraduate and graduate students.

Hossain’s donation will be earmarked for Molloy’s new workforce development program, intended to provide training for private industry employees, with a focus on health care. Molloy’s Barbara H. Hagan School of Nursing was ranked among the best nursing master’s program and best doctor of nursing practices in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.

“Zaki serves as a shining example of the great promise of America, which is that tremendous things can be achieved through education, integrity and education,” John McEntee, chair of Molloy’s board of trustees, said during the densely packed ceremony. “I know that generations of Molloy students will benefit from

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JAMeS LeNtINI, Left, Molloy University’s president, and Edward Thompson — the school’s vice president of advancement — celebrate Molloy’s new university status and a $2 million gift from S. Zaki Hossain. his remarkable generosity.”

Hossain immigrated from Bangladesh in 1979, earning a master’s degree in engineering from what was now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn. He spent a decade in the engineering field before launching Modern Packaging in 1989, which helped develop of the K-Cup manufacturing tech-

nology used by millions today for singleserve hot beverages like coffee and teas.

“I always felt that preparing our graduates with experience in the real field is very important,” Hossain said. “I feel my success is going to be when somebody comes to me and says that, ‘Because of you, my life is so much better.’”

Hossain’s Pintail Coffee is on a mis-

sion to address hunger globally, donating every single cent of the company’s profits to hunger-relief organizations.

James Lentini, Molloy’s president, said donations like Hossain’s will help the school expand its role in educating health care professionals. He also thanked former president Drew Bogner and state education department Regent Roger Tilles for their work toward attaining university status for Molloy.

As part of the festivities, the university also announced a partnership with Catholic Health Services, which operates Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre. Molloy nurses have continued to reinforce the workforce pipeline, which has been especially important during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We share the same values, as we are Catholic institutions, founded in faith and driven by mission,” said Dr. Patrick O’Shaughnessy, president and chief executive of Catholic Health. “Many of the students who graduate from Molloy with nursing degrees come to Catholic Health to commence their careers in health care, and are a huge asset in our vital work.”

Molloy will also continue its work with another local hospital, Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside. The university has seen many of its nursing gradates begin their careers there, Lentini added, and Mount Sinai will show its appreciation by sponsoring the 2022 Summer Series of shows at Molloy’s Madison Theatre.

Lifeguard shortage coming soon to pool near you Town supervisor successfully calls on governor to lower age minimums

By MALLORY WILSON mwilson@liherald.com

Beaches and pools need just one thing to be successful — sunshine. But to stay open, there’s just one more requirement: lifeguards. And for the second straight year, lifeguards are not easy to find, threatening the summer of young and old alike.

But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to Town of Hempstead supervisor Don Clavin. In fact, New York can solve its statewide shortage of lifeguards quite simply: lower the minimum age requirement for certification from 16 to 15.

Clavin called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to do just that last week, saying 15-year-olds could guard kiddie pools and splash pads.

Hochul apparently ag reed. She approved the change the same night she received Clavin’s letter.

“Permitting 15-year-olds to serve as lifeguards at spray pads and kiddie pools under supervision of more senior guards would greatly expand the pool of eligible lifeguard candidates,” Clavin wrote.

“Staffing spray pads and kiddie pools with younger lifeguards will permit older, more experienced guards to fill vacancies at beaches and regular-sized pools that desperately require their services.”

Luckily, the Town of Hempstead are not suffering through a shortage, Clavin

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NeW YORk StAte doesn’t have enough lifeguards to watch its pools and beaches. Don Clavin, the Town of Hempstead’s supervisor, is asking Gov. Kathy Hochul to lower age minimums to become a lifeguard from 16 to 15. said. But the rest of the state is.

“This is an opportunity to get people back in the pool,” he said. “It’s an opportunity for a lot of young men and women who want to really get into this and are ready at age 15.”

The town currently has 180 beach lifeguards on call, with another 300 staffing

pools. Hempstead managed to evade a shortage by offering classes in the winter months, Clavin said, allowing would-be lifeguards to be ready to work by summer.

Nassau County runs weekly programs to get prospective lifeguards tested and certified, Clavin said.

Nassau lifeguards are required to take

American Red Cross training.

“They go through that course, they learn rescues and various skills and so forth,” Justine Anderson, the Town of Hempstead’s aquatic director, said.

Once that course is done, the prospects take what Anderson calls a rigorous certification test. That includes complete two laps in 40 seconds, and eight laps in less than three minutes and 45 seconds.

There are differences between lifeguarding a pool with a deep end, Anderson said, and a kiddie pool and splash pad.

“A seasoned lifeguard knows what to see in the water, they know what active drowning looks like,” she said. “At a kiddie pool, mostly the parents are in the water with the child, so you’re really just watching the parents hold their children.”

Age doesn’t determine whether or not someone is going to be a good lifeguard, Anderson said. Maturity level does.

“Kids at 15 years old are babysitting,” Town councilman Dennis Dunne said. “So if you leave (15-year-olds) at home with your kids when you go out, you can leave them at the pool.”

The training courses are open to anyone from any town or hamlet, Clavin added.

“We are the chief certifier,” he said.

“This is about everybody in the equation from New York City, to Westchester to upstate New York.”

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

BY THE BOARD OF APPEALS Pursuant to New York State Town Law Article 16, New York State Public Officers Law Article 7, and the Town of Hempstead Building Zone Ordinance, NOTICE is hereby given that the BOARD OF APPEALS of the Town of Hempstead will hold a public hearing in the Town Meeting Pavilion, Town Hall Plaza, One Washington Street, Hempstead, New York on 6/29/22 at 9:30 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. to consider the following applications and appeals: --------------------------------THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 9:30 A.M. 485/22.

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LEVITTOWN - Craig & Marie Roberti, Variance, front yard average setback, construct 2nd story addition with cantilever & portico, all attached to dwelling; Variance, front yard average setback, maintain breezeway connecting garage to dwelling., S/s Green La., 225.02’ W/o Water La., a/k/a 36 Green La. N.C.P.C. Local determination.

THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE CALLED STARTING AT 2:00 P.M. 496/22.

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LEVITTOWN - Chick-fil-A, Inc., Special exception for proposed drive-thru with canopy above & proposed outdoor dining; variance for less than required shade trees, all in conjunction with proposed Chick-fil-A; Install one detached double-faced, illuminated monument sign, setback 15’ from Hempstead Tpke.; Install 2nd detached single-faced, illuminated menu board sign not permitted, in conjunction with proposed drive-thru; Install 3rd detached single-faced, illuminated menu board sign not permitted, in conjunction with proposed drive-thru., N/W cor. Hempstead Tpke. & Berger Ave., a/k/a 3859 Hempstead Tpke.

S.E.Q.R. determination not made.

ALL PAPERS PERTAINING TO THE ABOVE HEARING ARE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AT THE BOARD OF APPEALS, TOWN HALL, 1 WASHINGTON STREET, HEMPSTEAD, NY 11550.

This notice is only for new cases in Levittown within Town of Hempstead jurisdiction.

There are additional cases in different hamlets, towns and villages on the Board of Appeals calendar. The full calendar is available at https://hempsteadny.gov/ 909/Hearing---06292022 The internet address of the website streaming for this meeting is https://hempsteadny.gov/ 524/Live-Streaming-Video

Interested parties may appear at the above time and place. At the call of the Chairman, the Board will consider decisions on the foregoing and those on the Reserve Decision calendar and such other matters as may properly come before it.

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LEGAL NOTICE SURROGATE’S COURT NASSAU COUNTY PROBATE CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent File No. 2022-1690 To Fredric Reichel, Enid Kammin, Judith Berman, Sandra Teitelbaum & Iris Sandler and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent Inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law and next-ofkin of the said EILEEN DOCK, deceased, and if any of the said above distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and/or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained.

GREETINGS A PETITION having been duly filed by Jacqueline Pietrantonio, residing at 14 Reid Avenue, Port Washington, NY 11050 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on July 13, 2022 at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate EILEEN DOCK, lately domiciled at 3510 Center View Avenue, Wantagh, NY 11793 admitting to probate a Will dated March 25, 2021 a copy of which is attached, as the Will of EILEEN DOCK, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that [X] Letters Testamentary to Jacqueline Pietrantonio [ ] Letters of Trusteeship to ___________________ [ ] Letters of Administration c.t.a. issue to ___________________ [ ] Further relief sought (if any): ___________________ ___________________ HON. MARGARET G. REILLY HON. MARGARET C. REILLY, Surrogate Debra Keller Leimbach Debra Keller Leimbach, Chief Clerk Dated, Attested and Sealed, May 26, 2022 (Seal)

This Citation Is served upon you as required by law. You are not obliged to appear In person. If you fail to appear, it will be assumed that you consent to the proceedings, unless you file written verified objections thereto. You have a right to have an attorney-at-law appear for you.

Name of Attorney: Thomas Pietrantonio, Esq. Address:334 Main Street, Port Washington, NY 11050 Phone No:516-782-4571 132100

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF CWABS, INC., ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-12, Plaintiff, vs. JOHN MURPHY, LORI A.MURPHY, ET AL., Defendant (s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered on February 11, 2020 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Nassau County Supreme Court, North Side steps, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York on July 12, 2022 at 2:30 PM, premises known as 28-75 LAWRENCE DRIVE, WANTAGH, NY 11793.

All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Wantagh, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section: 51, Block: 295, Lot: 29. Approximate amount of judgment is $725,521.18 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 014271/2011.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee’s attorney, or the Referee.

WILLIAM J. BIRNEY, Esq., Referee Roach & Lin, P.C., 6851 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 185, Syosset, New York 11791, Attorneys for Plaintiff 131928 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR THE CIM TRUST 2017-8 MORTGAGEBACKED NOTES, SERIES 2017-8, Plaintiff AGAINST Raimondo Izzo, Fortunata Izzo, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment

of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered December 20, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 14, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 24 WILDWOOD LANE, WANTAGH, NY 11793.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Levittown, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 51, Block 356, Lot 8. Approximate amount of judgment $403,556.00 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #601982/201 8. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the NASSAU County COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine”. Mark S. Ricciardi, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 17-007296 71523 132060

To Place A Notice Call 516-569-4000 x232

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: NASSAU COUNTY. L&L ASSOCIATES HOLDING CORP., Pltf. vs. JAMES M. STOYER, IF HE BE LIVING, IF HE BE DEAD, HIS RESPECTIVE HEIRS-ATLAW, NEXT OF KIN, DISTIRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, TRUSTEES, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, AND GENERALLY ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING UNDER, BY, OR THROUGH JAMES M. STOYER, IF HE BE DEAD, WHETHER BY PURCHASE, INHERITANCE, LIEN OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN, ALL OF WHO AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF; et al, Defts.

Index #614067/2018.

Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale dated April 21, 2022, I will sell at public auction on the north front steps of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Dr., Mineola, NY on July 19, 2022 at 3:30 p.m. prem. k/a District 6, Section 57, Block 301, Lot 69. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale and the right of the

Two people arrested for 2021 larcenies across Nassau County On June 15, two Amityville residents – Jose Castro, 41, and Lolita Carbajal, 42 – were arrested for multiple larcenies across Nassau County that took place in June of 2021.

According to Nassau County Police, Castro and Carbajal stole from clothing bins across Nassau towns Bethpage, North Bellmore, East Meadow, and Wantagh.

Castro and Carbajal allegedly redistributed the bins and sold the donated clothing for profit. They wee both arrested at

their home – 42 Banbury Court, Amityville.

The investigation took place across eleven months. According to police, the thieves netted $17,000 off of stolen items.

Jose Castro is charged with three counts of fourth degree grand larceny and three counts of criminal possession of stolen property, while Carbajal is charged with two counts of fourth degree grand larcency and four counts of criminal possession of stolen property.

Public Notices

United States of America to redeem within 120 days from the date of sale as provided by law.

Foreclosure auction will be held “rain or shine.” If proper social distancing cannot be maintained or there are other health or safety concerns, then the court appointed referee will cancel the auction.

JEFFREY HALBREICH, Referee. LEVY & LEVY, Attys. For Pltf., 12 Tulip Drive, Great Neck, NY #99525 132090 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU CITIBANK, N.A. AS OWNER TRUSTEE OF NEW RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2016-3, Plaintiff AGAINST Andre Hunter, Terri Hunter, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered August 12, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 14, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1360 OAKFIELD AVENUE, WANTAGH, NY 11793.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at North Bellmore, in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, and State of New York, Section 56, Block 477, Lot

8. Approximate amount of judgment $670,771.73 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #002557/2017.

The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance wit h the NASSAU County COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Foreclosure Auctions will be held “Rain or Shine”. Janine T. Lynam, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC 1775 Wehrle Drive Williamsville, NY 14221 16-006604 71510 132062

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as Trustee for GSAMP Trust 2007FM1, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2007-FM1, Plaintiff AGAINST Ronald Meyer; Hollie Meyer; Courtney Meyer; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated February 14, 2020 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Nassau County Supreme Court at 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501 on July 20, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 3715 Sarah Drive, Wantagh, NY 11793. All that certain

plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Wantagh, in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York, Section 0051 Block 493 Lot 00200.

Approximate amount of judgment $759,782.25 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 008784/2015.

The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Tenth Judicial District.

Keith Jewell, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: March 21, 2022 132082

LEGAL NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, V. DONNA ALONGI, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated June 22, 2018, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC is the Plaintiff and DONNA

ALONGI, ET AL. are the Defendant(s).

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction RAIN OR SHINE at the North Side Steps, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501, on July 18, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 3039 VALENTINE PLACE, WANTAGH, NY 11793: Section 56, Block 266, Lot 174: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING AT WANTAGH, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 009643/2014. Ralph J. Madalena, Esq. - Referee.

Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. All foreclosure sales will be conducted in accordance with Covid-19 guidelines including, but not limited to, social distancing and mask wearing. *LOCATION OF SALE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DAY OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH COURT/CLERK DIRECTIVES. 132086 PUBLIC & LEGAL NOTICES To place a notice here call us us at 516-569-4000 x232 or send an email to: legalnotices@liherald.com

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Hebrew Academy of Long Beach Seeks a Full Time Middle School Science Teacher

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Q. We started planning a project to add a room, 303 square feet, in 2015, and due to many delays, we received approval for a permit only in January of this year. The costs from when we originally started planning until now increased from an estimated $80,000 to almost $200,000. Part of the work was to remove the previous owner’s handicapped-accessible deck with a permitted roof, which, thankfully, we don’t need. We got an alternative estimate for a paving-block patio, which we understand doesn’t need a permit in our town if it’s on the ground. The contractor even said we could cover the entire yard. We still want to keep the roof, so do we need a permit for the patio, and do we need a permit for the footings to continue supporting the roof we want to keep?

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Over 3200 Sq Ft of Living Space with Great Flow for Entertaining. Main Floor Master Ste w/ Updtd Bth. Full Bsmt with Hi Ceiling. 2 Car Gar. Landscaped Yard. New Heating System, CAC, HW Flrs, Anderson Windows .................................... REDUCED! $1,199,000 299 Princeton Rd, BA, Move Right Into This 3 BR, 2.5 Bth Colonial on Lovely Street. LR w/ Fpl, FDR, Sun Room & Updated Gran/Wood EIK. Master Ste Has Updtd Bth. Walk Up Attic with Cedar Closet. Fin Bsmt. 2 Car Det Gar. Rockville Centre SD ........REDUCED! $825,000

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Open Houses ROCKVILLE CENTRE 133 S. Centre Ave, BA, NEW TO MARKET! Move Right Into This Renovated 4/5 BR, 3 Bth Colonial w/ LR, DR & Gran/Wood EIK with Stainless Steel Appl. Full Bsmt, 2 Car Gar. RVC Schools..$979,000 Ronnie Gerber, Douglas Elliman 516-238-429

A. You can see, firsthand, what has happened with the economy and costs. Fortunately, you have an alternative to save money. People who are planning enclosed rooms aren’t as fortunate in the economy we’re now facing.

I have always recommended patios, properly drained, supported and finished, over the other onte eeper choice of decking, where possible, not just because many jurisdictions don’t require a permit for the paving, but also because the maintenance is less for a patio, and it will last much longer than a deck system. Some communities have regulations for a permit to be filed for paving to show the authorities that the paving is “permeable” — that it still allows rain to seep into the ground to recharge the water supply deep in the earth below. Your location is in a town that doesn’t require a permit for anything that’s built less than 8¼ inches above the ground. Incidentally, the magic of 8¼ inches isn’t arbitrary; it’s the maximum height of a step in the building code.

I just returned from a trade fair where I had the opportunity to discuss material pricing with many suppliers, and the consensus is that prices for commodity materials such a raw lumber and cement will begin to fluctuate downward, but many said that they don’t anticipate manufactured items to come down again. Just as real estate has seen a dramatic increase, so now have materials and construction in general.

The biggest concern we should all have, if we care about the next generation and the health of our economy, is whether they will ever be able to afford what their parents had. Currently, only 9 percent of the next generation of American families own or have a mortgage on a home, while the majority of the generation has had to find alternatives, such as multi-generational living arrangements or apartments, trailers or recreational vehicles as permanent living, according to Building magazine, among other building information resources. I hope the existing deck roof already has a correct supporting footing in the ground. If not, good luck!

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report just published by ERASE Racism explores how equitably educational resources are available across school districts on Long Island — and specifically, whether they vary depending on a district’s racial composition. The results are startling, and the implications for the Town of Hempstead are disturbing.

The report, “Unequal Resources for Long Island Students Based on race,” analyzes school districts by race. Of the 125 districts on Long Island, the report focuses on 66, ELAinE which fall into the following four cateGRoss gories: 11 intensely segregated (90 to 100 percent nonwhite), 10 majority Black and Hispanic (50 to 89 percent), five racially diverse (40 to 60 percent white), and 40 predominantly white (at least 70 percent).

The research reveals, among other findings, that the 11 intensely segregated districts have, on average, nearly $10,000 less in annual revenue per student than predominantly white districts. The most segregated districts also have more students for every guidance counselor and social

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worker than predominantly white districts. On average, there is one guidance counselor for every 1,226 students in intensely segregated districts, and one for every 356 students in predominantly white districts.

Similarly, there is an Advanced Placement course for every 179 high school students on average in the most segregated districts. That’s more than double the median ratio for all districts with at least one high school.

The report also found that the number of intensely segregated districts has grown from five in the 200304 school year to 11 now. The percentage of Black and Hispanic students in those 11 districts has also grown in this period, from 28 to 37 percent for Black students and from 13 to 36 percent for Hispanic students.

The geography of those 11 districts is also illuminating. Seven are in Nassau County, and six of those are in the Town of Hempstead. The seventh, Westbury UFSD, is in the Town of North Hempstead. The other four districts are in Suffolk County.

The six districts in the Town of Hempstead represent a majority of the intensely segregated districts on Long Island. They

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Elected officials representing those school districts should be alarmed by the disparities in resources for their constituents and prioritize getting them addressed. They should be asked, why do those intensely segregated districts have, on average, so much less revenue per student? Why do they have far fewer guidance counselors and A.P. courses?

And what will those officials do about it?

A related question for all Long Islanders — elected officials, civic and business leaders and ordinary citizens alike — is, why does Long Island, with only two counties, have 125 school districts, and what can be done to change the racial segregation and resource disparities inherent in that fragmentation?

Those conditions are grounded in the structural racism on Long Island, which is one of the 10 most racially segregated metropolitan regions in the U.S. School district boundaries, student assignment policies and district funding are all shaped by racially segregated residential patterns, reflecting historical and ongoing structural racism. Whether intentional or not, this racism excludes Black and His-

lacks and Hispanics are excluded from resourcerich school districts.

panic students from resource- rich school districts populated primarily by white students, and simultaneously ensures that districts populated primarily by Black and Hispanic students have resource deficits.

What can be done about it? One way of addressing the resource deficits is to bring the resources of the intensely segregated districts up to the level of predominantly White districts. In fact, one can make a strong argument that districts filled with “high-need” students should have access to more resources than those with more privileged students.

Another way to address the resource gap is to redesign the districts so that their schools and classrooms are more racially diverse. That can be done by changing the number and footprint of those districts. It can also be done by creating collaborations between districts to increase access to A.P. courses, for instance. With remote teaching more common due to the coronavirus pandemic, it should be easier to envision and implement such collaborations.

All Long Islanders should consider the findings of this report. We should be asking ourselves, our elected officials, and candidates for office what we, and they, are going to do about them.

Elaine Gross is president and chief executive officer of ERASE Racism, the Long Island-based civil rights organization.

Taking to the air is no flight of fancy

f you have fond memories of flying someplace for summer fun, well, you can just wipe that fantasy out of your head.

My reverie of fun flying goes back decades.

There I was, on July 4, 1968, in my dress-and-coat ensemble, white gloves and straw hat, boarding a plane with my brand new husband. Destination Bermuda!

We flew coach and had a yummy meal delivered to our seat on a little tray with darling salt and pepper RAnDi shakers. Chicken KREiss or beef. As I recall, my husband of 20 hours didn’t take off his tie. We didn’t take off our shoes and socks like today’s travelers. Flying was a life event. One dressed.

Get this: We talked to each other on the flight. With no devices or seat-back entertainment, we started a conversation that has lasted 54 years. To be clear, we haven’t spoken for all of those years, but we’ve done our best.

The flight attendants, who were called

stewardesses and were all women, were unfailingly solicitous and professional.

They were glamorous, and they wore perky little hats at a saucy tilt.

Speaking of saucy, the person seated next to me on this flight (I’m writing at 34,000 feet) just spilled the barbecue sauce from her sandwich all over my shoe. She looks like a superhero in her bright red Wonder Woman ensemble, but actually she’s eating a superhero. Has to be three pounds of meat and sauce. My husband has a seat in a different row because we both wanted aisles. That’s what happens after 54 years.

Whoopsie. We just dived.

“Fasten your seat belts,” the captain announced, but our flight attendant, who looks like she just rolled off a long-haul flight, kept up her chitchat with a colleague, not particularly tuned in to the passengers.

I know flight attendants have to meet certain physical standards to do the job, none of which has anything to do with gender or any subjective requirement for good looks, etc. As it should be. But I do think that since we’re all locked up in

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this flying metal tube for a few hours, the attendants should maintain appropriate decorum, and avoid using the mic for their stand-up.

We have lost so much general civility that it would be nice to be nice in these close quarters.

Today our flight attendant is a bit of a bully. She has asked me three times if I have any trash to contribute to her huge plastic bag, and I keep saying no. Last time she started rummaging in my seat back.

“What’s this?” She said.

“It’s my cookies,” I said.

She gave them back.

The whole tenor this experience is upside down and backward. First, you feel immensely grateful if you can even find a seat on a plane in this somewhat but not really post-pandemic summer season. Then you have to raid your bank account to buy a ticket. On JetBlue you can buy a ticket, but if you want an actual seat, and you want bathroom privileges and would like to bring a bag, you have to pay more.

I exaggerate, but you do pay more for getting on board early, for checking a suitcase, for snagging an upfront seat.

rom white gloves in 1968 to a seatmate’s sauce on my shoes in 2022.

Everything is easier … and harder. It took me a long time to figure out how to “pair” my phone with the JetBlue seatback screen.

Going through security is fraught.

This is true: My husband got pulled of the security line and had his bags searched because he was carrying an amount of Miralax that was deemed “suspicious.” In some ways, it is an explosive, I’ll grant them that.

My fellow passengers are a wellbehaved group, although no one is wearing a mask anymore except me and my husband and a few other oldies. But how people trundle onto a plane in the getups I see is puzzling. If you’re going to sit three inches from a stranger for four hours, shouldn’t you tidy up a bit? Get the food out of your beard?

This is our first flight together since last summer’s vacation, when we dropped into the raging wildfires in northern California, and basically turned around and came home. For us, staying grounded isn’t an option. I keep reminding myself that this isn’t, and will never be, a new “normal.” It’s a new world. We have to be patient and pack a sense of humor.

Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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We don’t typically endorse at the primary level — or at the gubernatorial level.

But then again, Suozzi is not a typical candidate. Not only is he from Long Island; he’s also from Nassau County — an important distinction from Hochul and Williams. He understands the needs of Long Island communities and wants to make sure those needs are not overlooked.

His past three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives have demonstrated that he is a moderate Democrat who is willing to work across the aisle.

New York is a diverse state in myriad ways, including political ideologies, and Suozzi’s views and values serve a wide range of voters, ensuring that he would be a formidable candidate in the general election. With the state and country more divided than ever, we need a governor who does not play to the extremes of either party, which would only serve to alienate millions of New Yorkers.

As a member of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee, Suozzi secured New York’s fair share of federal pandemic aid funds. His executive experience in Nassau County — one of the largest and

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letters Biden’s federal gas tax suspension follies To the Editor: President Biden is contemplating a temporary suspension of the federal gas tax as a means of reducing the price, which is around $5 per gallon nationally and has been growing each week. This makes no sense in the long run. He reminds me of the emperor during the decline of ancient Rome, who offered the masses free bread and circuses as a means to placate them.

Biden fails to explain how Washington would deal with less money going into the Highway Trust Fund as a result of a gas tax holiday. This is a critical source of funding for highway and transit projects. A gas tax holiday would result in Uncle Sam not collecting 18 cents for every gallon of gas.

The Highway Trust Fund already faces financial difficulties. The lost dollars would have to be made up, and Con-

most complicated municipalities in the country — prepared him well for the governor’s mansion.

Most important, during his time as county executive, Suozzi — who is both an attorney and a certified public accountant — reversed years of fiscal mismanagement. The current economic environment will require a deft manager of state finances, and we are confident that Suozzi would do this while balancing the need to make New York a more affordable place both to live and to conduct business.

Hochul should be applauded for hitting the ground running last year, after Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned in disgrace.

However, we’re not sure that Hochul understands, or will prioritize, the needs of Long Islanders. The home region of a governor can certainly stand to benefit from having a native son or daughter in Albany.

Case in point: the sweetheart deal Hochul brokered for a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills, in her home territory. The behind-closed-doors deal provides $1 billion in state funding for the stadium — the largest municipal aid package in the history of the National Football League — to support the upstate economy.

Furthermore, before Hochul’s time in Albany, in her one term as a member of Congress, she received an A rating from the National Rifle Association, from which she also accepted campaign contri-

butions. She has since insisted that her views on guns have “evolved,” and that she now supports much-needed sensible gun regulation.

Hochul says that her previous stance on guns was simply representing the views of the people in her rural district.

But one can be pro-Second Amendment without aligning herself with an organization that opposes common-sense gun form.

That is Suozzi’s position, which, no surprise, earned him an F rating from the NRA. The jury is still out on Hochul’s ability to make the correct choice when it comes to big decisions.

The coronavirus pandemic reminded all of us about the real-world — and sometimes life-or-death — consequences of a governor’s decisions. Yet, arguably Hochul’s biggest decision to date — her appointment of Brian Benjamin as her original lieutenant governor — was nothing short of disastrous, and could have been avoided with proper vetting. Just seven months into his job, Benjamin was indicted on wire fraud, among other charges, and was forced to resign.

Williams, the third candidate in the Democratic race, has a bright future, but does not have the executive experience the state currently needs.

The Herald endorses Tom Suozzi in the Democratic primary for governor.

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alling all lawyers: we need you back in law school, now. We need you in classrooms and clinics, in person and on Zoom. Law schools regularly post openings for fulltime and adjunct positions. They also need volunteers to serve as role models and mentors, to help inspire students so they excel in doctrinal and experiential courses and pass the bar exam.

On that last point, we all know the bar exam isn’t easy. But did you know that on the last one, more than a dozen jurisdictions’ pass rates SARA J. were under 50 percent? So if you’re BERMAN seeking meaningful opportunities to influence our world, nothing could be more important.

Law schools help shape society’s future counselors, advocates and legislators — we are responsible for the professional formation of tomorrow’s leaders. What we do, and what our graduates do, matters. The rule of law matters.

Work as a legal educator is particularly appealing (pun intended) because our stu-

dents take their skills and knowledge to do well and do good. Our graduates work in private, public interest and government, handling a wide range of civil and criminal matters. They work on bankruptcies and evictions, consumer protection and civil rights litigation. Their efforts may allow families to stay in their homes, or prevent children from losing visitation with parents or grandparents. They help entrepreneurs acquire patents for new inventions. They help businesses resolve disputes that prevent them from thriving. They represent clients ranging from the most sophisticated elite to ordinary people who simply don’t have the savvy necessary to navigate our increasingly complex world.

Why teach now? Legal education, a world that hadn’t varied much for over a century, is undergoing radical change.

Law schools today are bustling with new ideas, awareness, philosophies, and ways of teaching. Licensing and law practice are evolving, driving the academy to rethink what students need to become “practice ready.” The American Bar Association just instituted new requirements

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LEttERS gress would have to decide how to do that.

It will either raise other taxes, transfer revenue from another source, borrow more (increasing our growing $30.4 trillion national debt) or reduce the scope or number of funded transportation projects. In the end, both motorists and transit riders will be the losers if federal gasoline taxes are temporarily suspended.

How did we go from an energy-independent nation to an energy-dependent nation under Biden? Why have gasoline prices increased from $3 to $5 or more under his watch? Why haven’t Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi convened a special commission to investigate this?

LArrY PENNEr Great Neck Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.

Biden’s court pick was ‘arrogant’ To the Editor: I do not take issue with John Turchiano’s criticism of politicization in the appointment process of Supreme Court

for law schools to include professional identity formation and cultural competency training.

Creative law professors are developing new “ed tech” to assist in and out of the classroom. Most value inclusivity, collaborative skills and problem solving more than intimidation. (No more looking to terrorizing scenes from “Legally Blonde” or “The Paper Chase” as “inspiration.”)

Things have also changed on the student side.

More students — though still too few — from historically underrepresented populations are enrolling. And many law students are pursuing second and third careers, bringing wide and varied work and life experience to classroom discussion. So, readers who always dreamed of becoming lawyers, now is your time, too.

Even the bar exam is changing. We expect to have a new “NextGen” exam in at least two-thirds of states that will have much more of a practice-oriented focus, with negotiating, interviewing, counseling and other practical skills along with torts, contracts, criminal law and other traditional subjects. Fewer subjects will

justices in his letter last week, “The Supreme Court was political long before the leak.” But the decisions of the court can be, and are, inevitably interpreted as consistent with one political viewpoint or another. Would Mr. Turchiano deny that a president is entitled to nominate those whose political philosophies are consistent with his own? To do otherwise would be illogical.

I find it most curious, though, that he made no mention of President Biden’s recent appointment of soon-to-be Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Biden’s limiting his appointee to meeting only two criteria — race and gender — is, perhaps, the most flagrant example of politicization in memory, devoid of any consideration of competence, experience or even political philosophy.

Even if he hadn’t made race and gender his only criteria, Jackson might still have been appointed to fill the vacancy on the basis of her abilities and legal background.

Biden, in effect, did her a disservice by putting her up for consideration based on two criteria totally irrelevant to performance as a Supreme Court justice. He was motivated, I believe, by arrogance — namely, to be able to point out that he, if his nominee was approved, would be the first president to appoint a black woman to the court. This would have been obvious without Biden patting himself on the

be tested overall. And that rite of passage (or, as some might say, hazing ritual), the multistate bar exam, a six-hour, 200-question, multiple-choice marathon that allows test takers only 1.8 minutes to analyze each complex scenario, will finally be history.

The pandemic taught us all a great deal. For many, seeking meaning in our day-to-day life has become paramount. In a recent conference panel entitled, “The New Pedagogy: What We Should Study About Legal Education Now,” at the Online & Hybrid Learning Conference, one scholar noted that a key difference among today’s law students from those in previous generations is that now they enter law school believing their professors care about them. It’s true. We really do.

So, lawyers out there, if you love what you’re doing, keep at it, and thank you.

Your work is critically important. And if you’re thinking about a new challenge, consider coming back to the future of law school. We need the best and brightest.

And future law students, now is your time.

Sara J. Berman is a professor of law and the assistant dean of academic excellence and bar success at Touro University’s Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in Central Islip.

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Biden’s was the most egregious example of politicization and tainting of the nominating process, yet one in which relevant criteria were tossed aside. Biden owes America, and Jackson, an apology

for his frivolous and selfish action. I don’t know why Mr. Turchiano didn’t mention this. Perhaps it was a political decision? rOBErT ruBALSKY East Rockaway

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