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G.N. officials fight LED case subpoenas Bral among five from village slated to testify

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Current and former Village of Great Neck employees are fighting subpoenas in a lawsuit over the village’s installation of LED lights to replace more than 800 streetlights in 2018.

Their lawyer has filed a notice of appeal after a judge refused to quash five subpoenas issued in the suit, according to court documents.

The lawsuit filed by Great Neck resident Judith Youngblood against the Village of Great Neck, Mayor Pedram

Bral, Deputy Mayor Bart Sobel, Trustee Anne Mendelson, Trustee Norman Namdar, Trustee Steven Hope and former Clerk-Treasurer Joe Gill has been underway since February 2018.

Youngblood claims that the village misled residents during several public meetings in 2017 when discussing the potential replacement of the streetlights with LED lights.

Youngblood said the village informed her and other residents that once installed the LED streetlights would be shielded and not installed

within 200 feet of a residential home.

The village asserts that no guarantees were ever made in those meetings.

To date, the lights have not been shielded and Youngblood has a fixture directly across the street which she claims severely impairs her sleep and quality of life.

The dispute over subpoenas centers on what was said at village board meetings, the accuracy of minutes and the handling of recordings of the meetings.

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3 from Chile arrested for burglary spree: police PHOTO COURTESY OF RICHARD STANCATI

Charles Fravola hauls in halibut, some a bit smaller than this one, for the residents of Great Neck at Marine Fisheries on Middle Neck Road. See story on page 19.

Officials say crew stole from Saddle Rock, G.N. homes

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officials. The members then stake out homes in well-off arNassau County officials eas and strike when no one is have announced the arrest of home.

The three crew members three Chilean nationals tied to a recent burglary spree on the arrested were identified by police as Boneek Alexander North Shore.

They are part of an orga- Quintero-Baeza, 32; Alexandra nized crime group from Chile Ivonne Pizarro-Blanche, 23; that enters the country on 90- and Levy Frank Maury Bruggday travel visas, according to man, 23.

Investigators from Nassau’s Burglary Pattern Team arrested the three on the night of Jan. 21 in Queens, according to Ryder.

A search was then conducted of their College Point residence, where police found electronics and jewelry believed to have been stolen from North Shore and New Jersey homes.

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Parkland victim’s mom G.N. charity provides speaks on gun control stream of kindness Introduced by Suozzi at Temple Beth Sholom event

Aid in financial, medical, emotional trouble

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PHOTO BY ROSE WELDON

U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), right, introduced Linda Beigel Schulman, left, at Temple Beth Sholom last Thursday.

BY R O S E W E L D ON A Roslyn area-raised woman who lost her son in an infamous mass shooting is now taking action through lobbying and legislation.

Linda Beigel Schulman’s son, Scott J. Beigel, taught geography and coached the cross country team at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Since Scott’s death, Beigel Schulman has worked to pass gun violence legislation, including the passage of the Red Flag law, which prevents individuals who show signs of being a threat to themselves or others from purchasing or possessing any kind of firearm, in New York state in August.

She has also spoken at events across the country, including at Temple Beth Sholom in East Hills last Thursday, where she was introduced by U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove). The congressman noted in his remarks that he had spo-

ken with young people on gun violence in 2018, the same year as the Parkland shooting.

“I was working with younger people, just to find out what they were thinking,” Suozzi said. “I’m sitting there in these meetings with these kids, and they’re talking about how when they hear the fire alarm, they’re terrified.”

A Dix Hills resident who grew up attending the temple, Beigel Schulman described the events leading to her son’s death. The teacher became suspicious of the fire alarm, noting that a fire drill had been conducted earlier in the day.

“Instead of immediately closing and locking his classroom door when the students realized that it wasn’t a fire drill and that instead, it was an active shooter, Scott went against protocol and stood by his classroom door and began grabbing and summoning as many students as he could, so as to get them back into his classroom and out of harm’s way,” Beigel Schulman said. “Scott was supposed

to have stayed in the classroom with the door locked and not to have opened the door for anyone. That is what an active shooter drill teaches you.”

Beigel Schulman then showed screen captures from security footage caught during the shooting.

“The split second that Scott was going to close his door, this 19-year-old with an AR-15 pointed at Scott and shot him six times from five feet away,” Beigel Schulman said. “This is the last second before Scott is shot, when he turns around and realizes that he’s going to get shot by this active shooter with a gun.”

Scott had herded 31 students into the classroom, and by doing so saved their lives.

Beigel Schulman noted that one student Scott saved had been called to testify in the trial of the perpetrator, and her lawyer said she was “too traumatized by the experience to give a formal statement and possibly testify at

More than two years have passed since Melody Zar Aziz was called upon to help a young woman with brain cancer. Her aid quickly transformed into a communal effort to help that 21-year-old finish her last three months of treatment.

“I didn’t think that one act of kindness could spur this kind of movement at first,” Aziz said.

“Me and a few friends wanted to do more, so we got her an iPad and sent meals to her family.”

Now a joint effort by Great Neck residents to improve one person’s life has turned into an organization that provides help to those less fortunate from Brooklyn through Nassau.

As a result, the nonprofit organization Fountain of Kindness was officially created.

According to Aziz, the group’s core membership is around 400 people from Great Neck, Brooklyn and Queens, though more than 1,700 people have volunteered their time with the organization.

Aziz said that the organization helps people with financial and medical troubles, poor living conditions and troubled backgrounds by providing a variety of support from a week’s worth of groceries to flying people throughout the country.

“The people that we find out about are mostly all through word-of-mouth,” Aziz said. “Occasionally people will reach out themselves, but typically we get people with a variety of different backgrounds that can use some kindness in their lives.”

Members will coordinate events where they assemble care baskets, visit medical centers or provide meals to the elderly. Aziz said that there are also some organizations that are eager to collaborate and do events together.

“It’s all about helping your immediate community and setting a good example for our children,” Aziz said. “We feel that there is a need for people like us to come together and spread kindness throughout our respective communities.”

To Aziz, the name “Fountain Continued on Page 71

PHOTO COURTESY OF FOUNTAIN OF KINDNESS

Fountain of Kindness puts on events such as toy drives to help people throughout Queens, Brooklyn, and Nassau Continued on Page 71 County going through troubling times.

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Belmont plans began in 2016: village

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Kevin Fitzgerald, deputy mayor of Floral Park, said the village had obtained documents showing that state officials had no intention of taking local concerns into account in the Belmont Park development project.

According to the documents that were acquired by the village under the Freedom of Information Law, a “master plan” for the Belmont Arena project was discussed by developers two years before the state issued a request for the redevelopment of the property, he said.

The village has a history of opposition to the project, which includes a 19,000-seat arena for the New York Islanders, 350,000 square feet of shops and restaurants, a hotel containing 250 rooms and parking on 43 acres of vacant state-owned property at Belmont Park.

Floral Park filed a lawsuit in September asking a judge to overturn all approvals, stop construction on the site and restart the environmental review process.

In documents filed in the lawsuit, the village called the public bidding process “flawed”

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The Village of Floral Park remains in an ongoing lawsuit with New York Arena Partners, Empire State Development and the Franchise Oversight Board over development at Belmont. and the environmental review “inadequate” and said the project did not mitigate negative impacts on the village.

In a statement, Fitzgerald said the newly obtained docu-

ments supported the village’s contention that the process undertaken by Empire State Development, the state agency in charge of the project, was a show to hide a predetermined

outcome. A spokesman for Empire State Development rejected the argument.

In the statement, Fitzgerald said the village and its counsel Beveridge & Diamond requested

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Town taps Tepper as head of comm

BY R O S E W E L D ON Gordon Tepper was named the Town of North Hempstead’s new director of communications by a vote of the Town Board on Saturday.

The current senior director of communications and policy for the City of Long Beach, Tepper has worked in communications for nearly 20 years. He began his career at accounting firms Marcum LLP and Gettry Marcus Stern and Lehrer, eventually holding positions in the public relations department at Long Island University and teaching communications at Hofstra University.

“I am extremely excited to serve the Town of North Hempstead and its residents as we continue the tremendous progress made by Supervisor Judi

Bosworth and her team,” Tepper said. “Everyone was so welcoming to me, and I can’t wait to get started.”

He began in Long Beach in 2011, hired as director of online communications before being promoted to director of communications the next year.

Tepper will be acting as spokesperson in town matters, according to Rebecca Cheng of the North Hempstead communications team, and will be paid $120,000 a year.

Tepper will succeed Carole Trottere, who retired from her position of five years last month.

Trottere will continue to serve as a consultant on certain projects.

Tepper is due to leave his position in Long Beach on Friday and will begin in North Hempstead on Feb. 3.

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North hosts robotics event North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth recently attended the First Tech Challenge robotics competition at Great Neck North Middle School on January 18. Over 25 robotics teams from across Nassau County and Long Island attended the event, with Great Neck represented by the “Goatbusters” team. Each team built a robot that weighed approximately 40 pounds.

First Tech Challenge teams are challenged to design, build, program, and operate robots to compete in head-to-head challenges. For more information about First Tech Challenge, visit their website https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/ ftc.

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Town group celebrates Lunar New Year festival

BY R O S E WELDON

The Chinese-American Association of North Hempstead celebrated the Lunar New Year with a visual and performing arts festival at Manhasset Secondary School on Monday.

The Lunar New Year, also called Chinese New Year, celebrates the beginning of the new year on the traditional Chinese calendar, and marked the Circle Pendant with Spiny Oyster Inlay, beginning of the Year of the Mother-of-Pearl and Diamonds in 14K Yellow Gold by Kabana® Metal Rat in the Chinese zodiac. $3,200 David Chiang, the asChain included sociation’s president, who was dressed in the tradiMatching Earrings available tional garments of the Chinese god of fortune, wished the audience good wealth and health in the new year.

“The Chinese-American Association of North Hempstead was started Roosevelt Field Upper Level between Macy’s and Nordstrom, 516-248-7200 over 20 years ago by the parents in the Manhasset NaHoku.com and Herricks school districts,” Chiang said. “We want to make sure that our are welcomed in O-1387-3_KabanaCircleRiviera_HCP_4.3x5.6_Week013020.indd 1 1/14/20 2:17 children PM the community and that we can share our beautiful culture with the community.”

Chinese-born visual SINCE 1968 artist and Manhasset resident Cao Jun, who opened 536 Northern Blvd., Great Neck an installation of his paintwww.systematiccontrol.com ings at the school’s art gallery that night, was also present at the event.

Cao’s work has been seen in the National Art Museum of China, New Zealand’s Parliament Buildings and on the unmanned Chang’e-5 spacecraft, sent to the moon by China’s National Space Administration.

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Chinese-American Association of North Hempstead President David Chiang (center) is flanked by the Manhasset High School Dance Club at a celebration of the Lunar New Year.

“I cannot express how deeply honored we are not only to have Mr. Cao as a member of the community, but to host his work here,” Manhasset Fine Arts Director Christopher Hale said.

The artist was honored by school officials, faculty and collaborator Steven Rockefeller Jr. at the event.

See more photos on PAGE 10 “All of you are very, very fortunate to have Cao Jun’s show here,” Rockefeller said. “I’m sure when you walk into the gallery, you can see what an extraordinary experience you’ll have. I can attest, having traveled with Cao Jun for weeks and weeks in China, doing many shows together, what a special man he is, and the Manhasset community is very fortunate to have him here.”

Cao thanked the school and the association in brief remarks.

“This occasion is among

the most important to me,” Cao said. “[Manhasset] is my hometown.”

The Herricks High School Lion Dance team then performed a traditional lion dance onstage, followed by a ribbon dance performed by the Manhasset Secondary School Dance Club.

Audience members were then invited to take a hands-on approach to the Lunar New Year. Younger revelers built lanterns, fans and origami with members of the Manhasset Cultural Club, and parents and older students learned traditional Chinese calligraphy with teacher Xinde Sheng.

Cao also set up shop in the secondary school’s library, where he painted a full-size tiger through his signature mix of traditional Chinese calligraphy and modern Western techniques before an audience of silent onlookers.

Cao’s paintings will be on display in the Manhasset Secondary School Art Gallery until Feb. 8.

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State probe sought on phishing scam Legislature committee asks DiNapoli to investigate security at county comptroller’s office

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Nassau County Finance Committee Chairman Howard Kopel has asked state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and county Inspector General Jodi Franzese to further investigate the security control measures of county Comptroller Jack Schnirman’s office.

Kopel, a Republican who is the legislator for Nassau’s 7th District and deputy presiding officer, sent a letter to DiNapoli and Franzese on Friday outlining an incident in which Schnirman’s office fell victim to a phishing scheme online.

As a result, the county transferred $710,000 to a fraudulent entity before the Nassau County Police Department stepped in and recovered all of the funds in October.

“We’ve taken an unprecedented step and requested, in order to safeguard taxpayer money, that the New York state comptroller intervene, come over here, look at the operations at the Nassau County comptroller’s office,” Kopel said during a Friday news conference.

According to Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder, the transfer of payments to the fraudulent account was conducted via email, which Schnirman confirmed. Ryder said the scammers were impersonating a county vendor and filled out the usual paperwork and documentation to

Brett Speilberg, a spokesman for Schnirman’s office, identified the bank as a security system installed by the county and provided a statement from Schnirman after the hearing and news conference.

“The Comptroller’s Office was praised by law enforcement for the coordinated effort that resulted in zero dollars being lost,” Schnirman, a Democrat, said. “From day one, the Comptroller’s Office has improved financial controls in Nassau County.

We continue to enhance those controls and look to partner with leaders and experts to stay ahead of this threat.”

In his letter to DiNapoli, Kopel requested that a formal audit of Schnirman’s office PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATURE be conducted and for Franzese to investigate if instances such as this one have hapThe Nassau County Finance Committee has requested that the county’s pened in the past or could happen in the inspector general and state comptroller do a further probe into a phishing future.

“I join my colleagues in the Majority scam that hit the office of county Comptroller Jack Schnirman in October. in calling upon State Comptroller DiNapoli to conduct a formal audit of the financial to explore financial and payment security and payment security and controls within receive the funds.

“Many times we talk about the scams in Schnirman’s office. The members came the Office of the Nassau County Comptrolon our elderly, how they can get fooled, but away with several findings that they de- ler and to mandate implementation of such changes as will protect taxpayer dollars,” government can become a victim too,” Ry- scribed as “troubling” in a news release.

During the hearing, county officials Kopel said. “We also request that the Nasder said. “If it weren’t for the coordinated effort and initial contact from the comptrol- said they believed that the phishing scam sau County Inspector General exercise her ler’s office, the money may not have been only came to light because it was flagged as authority to conduct an independent repotentially fraudulent by the county’s bank, view of the phishing scam on the office of recovered because it moves quickly.”

Members of the bipartisan Finance rather than an internal system put in place the Nassau County Comptroller.”

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Celebrating Lunar New Year in Manhasset

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The Chinese-American Association of North Hempstead held a cultural celebration of the Lunar New Year at Manhasset Secondary School on Monday. The schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dance club and the Herricks High School Lion team performed, and refreshments were provided by Pearl East Restaurant in Manhasset.

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County to honor the end of WWII

Curran announces yearlong series to commemorate the 75th anniversary of war’s end

BY DA N OFF N E R Nassau County Executive Laura Curran announced on Friday the launch of a yearlong series of programs and events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. “We’re proud to honor our servicemen and ensure present and future generations will continue to appreciate the sacrifice and lessons of World War II,” Curran said during a news conference at the Cradle of Aviation Museum. “We want to make sure that history is not lost. That history remains alive and we’ve got such wonderful facilities in the county, the armor museum, and this museum right here, that brings that past to life.”

Curran said that with the help of the aviation museum, the Museum of American Armor and the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center the yearlong observance will include a variety of interactive events, retrospectives, tributes and educational programs related to WWII, the Holocaust, veterans affairs and Long Island’s role during that era.

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Nassau County Executive Laura Curran was joined by local officials and veterans to announce the yearlong commemoration of the end of World War II. See more photos on page 24. len Birnbaum, a member of the veterans committee, said that it is always looking for new ways to help veterans and to celebrate them for all that they have done to preserve our way of life.

“As we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, we really must remember what took place. The atrocities of the

war. The concentration camps,” Birnbaum said. “It’s just an unbelievable time in our history and we have to learn about it and listen to our veterans and listen to our survivors.”

In addition to commemorating V-E Day, which marked the end of the war in Europe, this year marks the 75th anniversary of the libera-

tion of the concentration camps at Auschwitz.

“Every day at HMTC we use the history and the lessons of the Holocaust to educate about the present-day dangers of antisemitism and intolerance in our schools and communities,” said Holocaust memorial board member Ronald M. Brunell. “It is through initiatives

like the one we have here today, which helps to ensure the memories and legacies of Holocaust survivors, liberators and veterans of WWII live on and inspire generations to come.”

Michael Sapraicone, senior trustee of the Museum of American Armor in Old Bethpage, said that while the museum is best known for its ability to put as many as 40 historic military vehicles in the field, the collection serves as an interactive classroom for the new generation of Americans to better understand the process and priceless gift of freedom provided by those serving before them.

“All these efforts are being undertaken at a time when an appreciation of what World War II continues to mean to our nation, our country and the world is being allowed to fade,” he said.

“Together, we stand against losing those critical lessons to time and indifferences.”

Steven Markowitz, chair of the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center, said the recent rise in antiSemitism makes this a more important lesson than ever.

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Happening at the Great Neck Library Two Local Great Neck Artists: Robert Wallman and Warren Mintz Exhibit at Main Robert Wallman and Warren Mintz will have their artwork on display from Feb. 1 to 27 in the Main Library Gallery, 159 Bayview Ave. In addition to his fine art, long-time Great Neck resident Robert Wallman is also a graphic designer and illustrator with experience in advertising, corporate communications, marketing, packaging, and publishing.

When Warren Mintz retired from full-time teaching, it became important to him to explore ways outside the classroom to do something meaningful. One of the possible activities evolved from the poster collages. He decided to collect cutouts and almost all of his collages begin by first choosing a background and then building upon it.

Photos: Illustration by Robert Wallman and Collage by Warren Mintz. They will have an exhibit, 2 Local Great Neck Artists, in the Main Library Gallery from Feb. 1 to 27.

Performance Poets Association Readings at Station Join George Pafitis when he hosts Performance Poets Association Readings on Saturday, Feb. 1 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Gardens at Great Neck Plaza, above Best Market. A monthly Open Mic forum, participate in reading your own work and/or listen and support others.

Electing the President presented by Jim Coll at Main Jim Coll provides an overview of the development of the modern American presidency on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 2:00 p.m. in the Main Library’s Community Room, 159 Bayview Ave. Jim Coll is an adjunct professor of American and constitutional history at Nassau Community College, an NYPD detective and the founder of ChangeNYS. Great Decisions with Librarian Christy Orquera at Main Librarian Christy Orquera facilitates a discussion on India and Pakistan by Barbara Crossette on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Library’s Community Room, 159 Bayview Ave. AARP Tax Assistance at Parkville AARP Tax Preparers will assist in preparing and filing simple Federal tax returns online only each Wednesday beginning Feb. 5 until April 15 between the hours of 12:00 and 4:00 p.m. at the Parkville Branch, 10 Campbell St. (off Lakeville Road), New Hyde Park. You must have an appointment and bring all relevant tax papers, including last year’s return. Call (516) 466-8055, ext.

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Author Barry Libin will speak about his book, The Vatican’s Vault at the Main Library.

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Author Barry Libin at Main: The Vatican’s Vault Meet author Barry Libin when he speaks about his book, The Vatican’s Vault on Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Library’s Community Room, 159 Bayview Ave. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. The Vatican’s Vault is Barry Libin’s best-selling second novel. The first, The Mystery of the Milton Manuscript discloses the true meaning of Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost. The Vatican’s Vault continues in that genre of historical novels.

Free Blood Pressure Screenings at Station Have your blood pressure checked by a clinical nurse from St. Francis Hospital, free of charge on Thursday, Feb. 6 between the hours of 12:00 and 2:00 p.m. at the Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level), Gardens at Great Neck Plaza, above Best Market.

Hypertension affects an astounding one in four adult Americans. Also known as high blood pressure, this condition usually has no symptoms, which is why it is often called the “silent killer.” No registration required.

Safely Use the Internet at Main Learn internet safety basics including ads, downloads, and malware on Thursday, February 6 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Library’s STEM Lab, 159 Bayview Avenue.

TED Circles at Library’s Socrates Salon at Main The renowned TED Talks has come to Great Neck

via the Socrates Salon which meets at the Library on the first Friday of each month. Participants watch and then share their own views and experiences in response to the Talk.

Ron Gross, the host of the Salon, was appointed by TED as one of 150 hosts to pilot the global program.

“Our Salon’s revival of face-to-face conversation is enriched by TED’s ‘sage on the stage’ format,” says Gross, who chairs a University Seminar at Columbia.

The next meeting of the Socrates Salon will be on Friday, Feb. 7, at 3:00 p.m. in the Main Library’s Community Room, 159 Bayview Ave. The subject will be “Nurturing Our Friendships,” featuring a TED Talk

by Shasta Nelson on “The Three Requirements of All Healthy Friendships.”

Give Back to Your Community The Great Neck Library is seeking prospective candidates for the Board of Trustees and Nominating Committee. This year’s Library Election will be held on Monday, Oct. 26. There will be four seats expiring in January 2021 – two on the Board of Trustees: Rebecca Miller and Josie Pizer; and two on the Nominating Committee: Cheng Carey Ye and Siu Long (Alex) Au. Any nominee for a position on the Board of Trustees or the Nominating Committee must be a member of the Great Neck Library Association by 5:00 p.m. on the Record Date of Oct. 5. All persons eighteen years of age or older, who are residents of the Great Neck School District and are either valid library cardholders or registered voters with the Nassau County Board of Elections will be members of the Association.

Interested members should send a letter and résumé by Friday, May 15 to: The Chair of the Nominating Committee, c/o The Director’s Office, Great Neck Library, 159 Bayview Ave., Great Neck, NY 11023.

Great Neck Library Closing/Cancellation Information Online Library patrons connected to the Internet are asked to check the website: www.cancellations.com for Library weather-related closings/program cancellations.

In order to access this service, Library District residents can log on to cancellations.com, type in their zip code or Great Neck Library and obtain information on program cancellations or Library closings. In addition, at no charge, residents can request automatic e-mails from cancellations.com when the Library has posted any information. This is a great way for Library District residents who are connected online to be advised of weather-related changes in Library hours or programs.

Neurosurgeons announce new partnership Rockville Centre, NY-based Neurological Surgery, P.C. (NSPC), one of the nation’s largest, private neurosurgical groups, has announced that all of its doctors, including its spine surgeons, brain surgeons, and interventional neuroradiologists, are now “in-network, participating providers” for members of The Empire Plan.

The Empire Plan is part of the New York State Health Insurance Program (NYSHIP), a comprehensive health insurance program for New York State public employees.

“For over 60 years, the physicians of our practice have provided excellent neurosurgical care to patients from Long Island, and beyond” notes Michael H. Brisman, M.D., an attending neurosurgeon, and chief ex-

ecutive officer of Neurological Surgery, P.C. (NSPC).

“By combining a high level of training with expertise and skill, our doctors bring advanced neurosurgical practice to diagnose and treat brain, back, and neck conditions right here on Long Island. I’m delighted that my colleagues and I will be participating providers for the hard-working men and women who serve the residents of New York every day.”

The New York State Department of Civil Service administers the New York State Health Insurance Program, one of the largest public employer health insurance programs in the nation, serving more than 1.2 million lives.

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A push for equity in the classroom

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ov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed two ways to address the state’s $6.1 billion budget gap that could have a significant impact on Nassau County school districts – particularly in North Hempstead.

The first is to boost aid to local school districts by $826 million, less than officials were expecting based on last year’s increase of $1.1 billion and well below the $2 billion sought by school boards, unions and others.

The second is a change in the distribution of state aid.

Under the governor’s plan, 80 percent of the increase in school aid would go to high-needs districts and the state would end the traditional division of money among regions. This division guaranteed that Nassau and Suffolk would receive between 12 percent and 13 percent of any increase.

State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-East Northport) told Newsday, “This is going to decimate Long Island schools.”

Cuomo called the division of money among regions “an anachronism.”

Cuomo is also calling for an overhaul of the state’s main formula for distributing money known as foundation aid to address the disparity in school spending between school districts that can range from as much as $36,000 per student to as little as $13,000 per student.

“That is an outrage, my friends,” the governor was quoted

by Newsday as saying about the disparity.

This may not be welcome news to many school districts in

North Hempstead where spending is at least close to that $36,000 figure.

The problem for Long Island is that if you believe in fairness and an equal playing field – virtues often taught to schoolchildren if not necessarily practiced by their parents – the governor has a point.

Students attending schools such as Brentwood, where spending per student is $14,019 per student, or Hempstead, where spending per student is $18,761, are just not getting an education anywhere near what students in North Hempstead are getting.

Worse, since most school funding is based on property taxes, “districts with expensive homes or commercial real estate can generate greater amounts of tax revenue than poorer districts, even though tax rates in the wealthier communities generally are lower,” according to a Newsday report.

Roger Tilles, a resident of Manhasset who represents Long Island on the state’s Board of Regents, said this results in the poorest people paying the highest share of their salaries to property taxes for their schools because they have little or no commercial property in their school districts.

And, as a Newsday series recently revealed, real estate agents have often steered black prospective home buyers on Long Island to school districts with low spending per student because of the color of their skin.

The fact that Nassau County is one of the most segregated areas in the state, it turns out, is not by accident.

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Then add to this inequity a dysfunctional county assessment system.

According to a Newsday study, about $2.2 billion in taxes was shifted over seven years from generally more affluent property owners in wealthier districts who successfully appealed their property taxes to generally less affluent owners in poorer districts who did not.

Now add in a tax cap, which since 2012-13 has limited local governments to tax increases of about 2 percent per year.

This treats taxpayers like a modern-day Odysseus, lashed to the mast, so they cannot be seduced by the siren call of more spending. But it is very popular.

The downside is that the tax cap makes it harder for poor school districts to narrow the spending gap with rich school districts.

Still, change will not be easy.

The quality of the schools in North Hempstead is what drew many of its residents.

And no parent would want to see a reduction in the quality REPORTERS Rose Weldon, Robert Pelaez

plaining why Nassau County has 56 school districts.

This approach to schools stands in contrast to health programs where benefits are based on need with older residents often receiving a higher share of the spending.

Which raises the question of why not spend the same way with children? We often talk about children being the future but in many cases, but we don’t spend that way. At least, on all our children.

There is now a push to change this system to close the gap in spending between school districts.

We would like to see that happen. We also wouldn’t want to see a decline in the quality of education in our schools.

Perhaps we don’t need 56 school districts after all. Perhaps you don’t need to spend $36,000 per student to offer a first-class education. And perhaps poorer school districts should get more foundation aid and richer school districts should get less.

These are tough questions that we are being asked to answer.

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of their child’s education – or in the decline in property values that could accompany it.

In an ideal world, all school districts on Long Island would spend $36,000 per student, giving all our children the best chance to compete in the global economy of the 21st century.

But we know that is not happening.

Nassau residents often complain about high taxes yet when given the chance to do something about two-thirds of where their property taxes go – the schools their kids attend – they seldom do anything at the ballot.

But talk about schools that other kids attend, even when those kids live in a neighboring community, well that seems to be a different matter.

The usual response from those living in more affluent districts is that they pay a lot in state taxes and should get their “fair share” back. And by this, they don’t mean just Nassau County, but the part of Nassau County in which they live.

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ALL THINGS POLITICAL

The most dysfunctional town, Part 3 Part III of VI

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hat Have They Actually Been Doing?

So many aspects of the Town of Hempstead have been neglected for so long it is difficult to understand what, if anything, the Town Board and previous supervisors have actually been doing with taxpayer money.

The town’s aging infrastructure is stuck in a 1970s-time warp. It’s worth noting that several scenes in Martin Scorcese’s recent movie, “The Irishman,” were filmed in and around the town for that reason.

Town buildings, pools, parks, senior centers, and computer systems are woefully outdated. In fact, the Town Attorney’s office has no computer program to handle files, and almost everything is kept on paper. When Supervisor Gillen first took office, the town wasn’t even equipped to handle credit cards, leaving most transactions to be handled in cash or by check.

The Town of Hempstead’s 1,309 units of affordable housing haven’t had a substantial

capital upgrade in decades. Nor, in several decades, has any new inventory been built. I oversaw the improperly named Department of Urban Development.

Its only function is to give out Section 8 vouchers for affordable housing. Though the town is allotted over 400 Section 8 vouchers by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, when I arrived at the town, Jan. 1, 2018, there were roughly 200 unused vouchers and a waiting list of 3,000 residents in need of affordable housing.

Nothing has been done by the Town Board to build additional housing, or to alleviate the need of housing for the working poor.

More Wasted Taxpayer Money When I came to work for the town, I immediately started looking at what they were paying for commodity-type products. Because I previously owned restaurants in New York City, I had experience in purchasing everyday commodities at the best prices.

With that in mind, I noticed

ADAM HABER

All Things Political the town was paying $40 a bag for a 50-pound bag of rock salt.

Grainger, a national supplier of items such as rock salt, sold the same bags for $16 each. This wasted about $1,000 per pallet when purchased in bulk! I instructed the purchasing department to immediately switch vendors.

I also tried to modernize the purchasing process (which is all done through paper) and bring in an electronic purchasing platform to create transparent bidding, so wasting taxpayer’s money on items such as rock salt

would never happen again.

The town went through an exhaustive RFP process, with vendors flying in from around the country to pitch their online programs. An exciting prospect named SpecBid was chosen internally, by committee, but was never allowed to be approved by the Town Board. As of today, all town purchasing is still done using paper bids.

The Town Owns What?

Another interesting project I spearheaded was the creation of an inventory of real estate assets for the Town. When I arrived at the Town of Hempstead at the start of 2018, I checked with every department to see if there was a database of town-owned properties. None existed, and I was asked several times, “Why do you need one?”

As the supervisor’s deputy chief of staff of Economic Development and Government Efficiency, I needed a database of town-owned property, by zoning, assessed value, and lot size, to see if there were developable lots for affordable housing, local businesses who might want to expand, or new businesses who

would locate here.

We hired an appraisal firm that took several months to create a database of Town-owned property. I was shocked to learn the town owns a total of 786 properties, at an assessed value of $4.85 billion.

While many of these properties consisted of municipal buildings and parks, there were at least two dozen properties that could be developed, scores of underutilized properties, and over 30 sliver lots.

Supervisor Gillen’s staff then audited the list, and came up with nearly 400 properties, assessed at around $850 million, that were vacant or underutilized. The Town Board responded swiftly, to try to negate its long legacy of mismanagement.

In an attempt to downplay the findings, on Oct. 17, 2019, Councilman Bruce Blakeman, told Newsday that the numbers were “flawed” and “bizarre.”

Adam Haber is the former deputy chief of staff of Economic Development and Government Efficiency for the Town of Hempstead

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Remembering my time with Jim Lehrer

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im Lehrer passed away on Jan. 23, peacefully in his sleep at the age of 85. His influence on journalism will be impossible to measure. I have just a few stories to contribute to the remembrances.

When I first met Jim Lehrer, I was appearing as a guest on his PBS show, which at the time was still called “The Robert MacNeil Report.” I was a senior at Yale, about to graduate with a BA in philosophy and no job prospects in sight.

That half-hour’s topic was whether a liberal arts degree was a good or a bad idea.

Just days before, I had been complaining to my dean — about my dismal future, while all my Econ-major friends had offers — and apparently his next phone call was from a reporter for the show, asking if he knew of any unemployed liberal arts majors.

“Boy, howdy, do I ever,” my dean must have replied.

So there I was, sitting at Jim Lehrer’s table. Whenever it was my turn, I repeated all Yale’s plat-

itudes about how Yale-educated you for life, not for a livelihood.

At the wrap-up, Jim tossed me a question I wasn’t expecting: “That’s all well and good,” he said. “But if you’re still unemployed in a year’s time, will you still feel you made the right choice?”

Thinking faster than I ever knew I could, I came up with an answer: “Ask me that in a year from now.”

A year from that date, I was working for him. That’s how I can report that he was both a great journalist and a great boss.

I had snagged the lowest paying position on Robert MacNeil’s staff in New York: Production Secretary.

Most nights, that meant I typed all the on- and off-camera scripts for Robin, the crew, and the teleprompter, plus the rundown of all the show’s segments and timings.

My encounters with any of the D.C. staff were pretty limited… until the day a fire in the Arlington, Va., studio sent Jim

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A Look on the Lighter Side and staff rushing up to do the show from New York.

That is how I got myself a lesson on how to write copy.

It started with me changing Lehrer’s punctuation. He used a lot of those three-dot ellipses that my English teacher detested.

Also em-dashes — like the ones on either side of this clause — which I knew were similarly to be avoided in good writing.

So I changed them.

I felt able to do so because I

had evolved a relationship with MacNeil where he let me have my way over such things as semicolons, something which the British and British-trained Canadians do all wrong. We use them only where two complete thoughts can be separated if need be; they use them to dot the landscape.

But the next thing I remember is Jim Lehrer, patiently but firmly explaining that I needed to put back all of his punctuation, dashes and all. “I write it that way so that I’ll deliver it the way I want, on the air.” After 12 years of an excellent school system school and four years in the ivy league, that’s when I learned that there isn’t just “writing” — that every piece of writing must be crafted with its particular purpose and audience in mind.

I also remain grateful to this day for Jim’s adamant stand that there are no stupid questions, only questions you wrongly left un-asked. He was never afraid to say, “I don’t understand;” “What does that mean?” or just plain “Why?” If he could do that, I

could eventually try the same.

My very favorite memory of Jim is from a show about the new-fangled credit-card readers that manufacturers were going to start putting in stores, to read the new credit cards with magnetic strips.

Jim kept trying to run the sample card they had given him, through the sample machine.

He tried and tried, but it never worked. Somehow it just kept jamming. This happened, not during rehearsal, but over and over, live on the air. It must have been a challenge for Lehrer, a former Marine, to keep it clean when he turned to the industry rep and demanded, “Just how is this gosh-darned thing supposed to work?!” I do not recall the answer.

Eventually, I left MacNeil and Lehrer for other pastures.

But I will never forget the distinction between them that one of their reporters let me in on.

“People would kill for Robin,” she explained to me. “But they would die, for Jim.”

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ON THE RIGHT

End anti-Catholic Blaine Amendment

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inally, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Espinoza v.

Montana Department of Revenue, is reviewing the constitutionality of a 19th-century relic known as “Blaine Amendments” that prohibit public funds from aiding students attending religious schools—particularly Catholic ones.

What most readers probably don’t know is that this blatantly anti-Catholic measure was first promoted by President Ulysses S. Grant. That’s the same Grant, who, as a general in the Civil War, led into battle tens of thousands of Catholic soldiers, defending the Union and opposing slavery.

Here’s the historical background: Grant, in his pre-Civil War civilian days, had flirted with the anti-Catholic Know Nothing movement. Brought up as an Ohio methodist, he had a jaded eye when it came to Catholics.

During the war, for instance, he let it be known that he did not trust Catholic bishops because they were critical of their flock being slaughtered in battle due to Grant’s attrition strategy.

In a speech given on Oct. 29, 1875, before a group of Veterans in Des Moines, Iowa, Presi-

dent Grant warned that money should never “be appropriated for the support of any sectarian school.” Aid to parochial schools, he argued, would wreck public schools, “the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a nation.” He also stoked the flames of anti-Catholicism with this remark: “If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be the Mason and Dixon’s, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”

Grant called on Congress to adopt a constitutional amendment directing each state to establish free secular public schools for all children. He also asked Congress to send him legislation that would permit the government to tax church property. Grant believed that this legislation would prevent tyranny “whether directed by the demagogue or by priestcraft.”

Responding to Grant’s appeal, Congressman James G. Blaine of Maine introduced a federal constitutional amendment that would stop the use of any public property, revenues, or loans to

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right support any school or institute of any kind under the control of a religious organization. The bill passed the House, but Democrats killed it in the Senate.

Sadly, the Republicans did not accept the defeat in the House as the final word on the subject.

At their 1876 national convention that nominated for president, Governor Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, the GOP included in its platform a plank that opposed funding to Catholic schools. It read: “The public school system of the several states is the bulwark of the American republic; and, with a view to its security and permanence, we recommend

an amendment to the constitution of the United States, forbidding the application of any public funds or property for the benefit of any school or institution under sectarian control.”

Like Grant, candidate Hayes did not pull any punches on the subject. At one campaign gathering, he said that if the Bible being read in public schools “[doesn’t] suit other people, let them remain east of the Ohio or go West…. I don’t propose to have them undermine the foundations and pull the house down around our ears without at least a protest.”

When the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed a watered-down version of the Blaine Amendment that made the law unenforceable (and seemed thus to open the door for public funding of parochial schools), Hayes condemned it calling it the “Jesuitical Clause.”

The Republican-controlled Senate followed Haye’s advice and advanced tough legislation that denied tax dollars to any religious institution for any reason. Senate democrats complaining that the Haye’s version was “nearly an accusation of disloyalty” managed to bottled up the bill.

While the Blaine Amendment

did not become part of the U.S. Constitution, 38 states went on to include similar provisions in its state constitutions.

New York was one of those 38 states. At its 1894 Constitutional Convention, controlled by protestant “good government” types, an amendment was approved which “prohibited direct or indirect aid to educational institutions under the direction of a religious denomination.”

Attempts to repeal New York’s Blaine Amendment have failed.

In 1967, for instance, an attempt led by the then archbishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman, supported by diverse political figures, including AFLCIO President George Meaney, future Democrat governor Hugh Carey, Bishop Fulton Sheen, U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy, and William F. Buckley Jr., went down in flames.

Hopefully, the Supreme Court will kick the Blaine Amendment into the dustbin of history by ruling that local governments can no longer bar students “from access to funding for an otherwise neutral, publicly available program, and from using such funding, based on strictly private choice, at a religious school.”

OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Gradual democratization of the vote

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n my previous column, I reported that Americans in the 18th century led the world with the highest percentage of eligible voters. Between 70 and 95 percent of adult white males (depending on where they lived in America) qualified to vote; the next best record was 10 percent in England.

The enormous expansion of suffrage in America had significant, unfolding consequences, but it did not guarantee democracy. In the past, as now, how the vote is administered (often manipulated) can limit the power of citizens.

As I mentioned previously, key voting developments expanded in America because British laws were used in a different context. In England, land ownership for the “privilege” to vote limited participation to 10 percent of adult white males because few owned enough land to qualify.

In 18th century America,

the same laws empowered huge percentages of adult white males with the privilege to vote because the people were scarce, and the land was abundant.

Most of the narrow British laws for the process of voting were also adopted in colonial America. These had a limiting effect on voters and contributed to what historians properly refer to as a “deferential society” in early America. Class differences in wealth and status gave more opportunities to upper echelon white men.

The process of voting transplanted from England represented a stacked deck. There were no fixed election dates. Governors could “dissolve” an assembly at any time and decide when a new election would be held. Such uncertainty about the process of review for elected officials gave an advantage to incumbents, who had more resources and could be faster to mount campaigns.

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field The move to fixed terms of office and fixed election dates was one of the lessons from colonial America implemented by the Revolutionary generation.

Another adopted practice from England was to have only one place to vote in each county, overseen by the county sheriff.

In an era of horse travel, it was time-consuming and costly to

trek to the polling place, sometimes requiring an overnight stay.

Here, too, the 1776 generation began to expand places to vote, certainly a major consideration into 2020, as more convenient access to the ballot has been a continuing concern. (Witness the shrinking number of voting centers in urban areas within some “red” states.)

There was, however, a colonial compensation for a single voting place because elections were often conducted over two or three days. This past lesson has inspired the Drum Major Institute to launch its “Why Tuesday” movement, calling, again, for several days of voting.

When people showed up at the single polling place, voting proceeded in various ways. They were all to the disadvantage of citizens, and to the benefit of elites. There was a total absence of secrecy and privacy in voting, much of which continued into

the late 19th century.

The simplest tallying was called a “view” – voters lined up with the candidate they supported, and the sheriff judged by sight who had the most supporters.

A more widely used option (also adopted from England) was “viva voce” (live voice) voting. In this practice, the candidates usually sat at a table, with the sheriff presiding, as each voter presented himself and announced for all to hear to whom he was giving his support. Often the candidate publicly expressed thanks for the vote.

When the votes were finally tabulated, there were opportunities for challenges. For many voters, the election days (while constraining their independence) were often festive occasions, described in detail by Charles Sydnor in his book, “Gentlemen Freeholders.”

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Trump’s attacks on foreign travel

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ravel is the greatest force for good on the planet.

It is an economic lifeline that preserves heritage and environment, gives a livelihood to people so they can stay in their communities, it forges people-to-people understanding and relationships, decreasing conflict beyond what diplomats can ever hope to achieve. International travel to the United States is the second highest export, lowering the dreaded trade deficit.

But like every good thing that America ever represented, that would bring people together with peace and understanding rather than promote conflict and competition, travel is under attack by Trump.

As a candidate, Trump pledged to ban all Muslims from the U.S. When that was found to be unconstitutional because the policy is blatantly racist and uses religion to brand all individuals with pre-crimes without actual charges, his administration lied to the Supreme Court by justifying

the ban on seven Muslim-majority countries based on a national emergency until the government could come up with better ways to vet. What emergency could it be if three years later, there have been no changes to vetting?

Now, with Trump desperate to divert attention from impeachment and dredge up what he perceives as his 2016 campaign “hits”, he is now proposing to impose travel restrictions on seven more countries: Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania – countries that are either majority Muslim or would be pushed closer into Russia’s orb.

“It makes us less safe, betrays our values, we won’t have enough labor, so it makes no sense economically,” said Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). “But most significantly, it betrays who we are as a nation, continues to feed the global narrative that Trump hates Muslims, and promotes recruitment among terror groups.”

KAREN RUBIN View Point

What’s not on the list? Saudi Arabia, the country most consistently responsible for the most heinous terror attacks in US history: the September 11 attacks that took more than 3,000 lives, and the gunman in Pensacola just weeks ago, and the brutal assassination of Washington Post columnist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi. But no sanctions against Saudi Arabia, no ban on Saudi travelers.

Now Trump is about to ban

pregnant women who are not from one of the 39 visa-waiver countries – that is primarily nonEuropean, non-white. The visa officer, just looking at a woman, can decide she may be pregnant and be coming to the U.S. for the purpose of “birth tourism”. That means she can be rejected even if she is coming for medical treatment to save the baby’s life or is just overweight. Since visas may be valid for 10 years, that means any woman could be barred just for being of child-bearing age.

Overnight, without consultation or a heads-up, Trump stepped up sanctions against Cuba, banning Americans on cruise ships from visiting, costing the cruise industry as many as 800,000 passengers (many already at the port). Cuba sanctions merely demonstrate Trump’s wanton cruelty because the policy does not hurt “the state” at all, only the Cuban people – scores of entrepreneurs that sprung up when Obama opened to travel. Cuba was moving to a

China-style capitalist economy which could only move sentiment closer to Americans. (Note: Americans can still travel to Cuba under programs designed to help the Cuban people.)

On the other hand, Trump shows little concern for what is true domestic terrorism: the scourge of gun violence. February 1 marks the beginning of National Gun Violence Survivors Week.

It is astonishing to consider that 58 percent of American adults have experienced gun violence or know someone they care for who has.

Last year posted a record number of mass shootings, 41.

That’s almost once a week, on top of the 100 people who are killed each day with guns – the equivalent of a 9/11 each month.

The epidemic of gun violence, which should be handled as a public health threat here, is considered a threat by other nations, many of which have issued travel advisories against Continued on Page 52

E A R T H M AT T E R S

Fossil-fuel profits vs. animal species “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” recently deceased, beloved poet Mary Oliver asks.

In appreciation and awe of this “wild and precious” life we have, I plan to do everything I can to protect it and support biodiversity in the wild. Acts of interspecies altruism are well known. Wildlife experts have reported numerous examples of humpback whales risking injury to keep orcas from hunting seals, sea lions, and even humans.

Famously caught on camera, a humpback whale shielded marine biologist Nan Hauser from a 15foot tiger shark attack in the South Pacific. Whether it’s intentional or instinctual, altruism seems built into the most fundamental survival instincts of many species. In other words, it is in your nature to care for life.

Introduced in 1973, the Endangered Species Act has successfully saved 99 percent of listed species from going extinct, including the symbol for this nation, the bald eagle. Imagine a world without peregrine falcons, humpback whales, grizzly bears, grey wolves, and Californian condors to name a few species rescued by the ESA. Sadly, motivated by the belief

that the ESA is “bad for business” politicians intimately linked to the fossil fuel industry have introduced legislation to weaken it. Tipping the scales in favor of industry and profit, the suggested revisions allow federal agencies to check the cost before deciding whether to protect a species.

This is a cultural and moral crisis, one that proves extinction to be a political choice at the mercy of cost-benefit analysis. I refuse to put a price tag on life. We must do what we can to save life on Earth.

Precious, wild lives are lost forever as I write this column, extinction rates are higher than ever before. United Nations Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services warns that more than 1 million animal and plant species will go extinct unless we start showing that we care in action. Human-driven pollution, habitat destruction, extraction, and exploitation are sentencing 1 in 4 species to death according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

These statistics seem to be falling on deaf ears with the government favoring corporate interests over conservation. A recent New York Times analysis counts more than 90 environmental roll-

HILDUR PALSDOTTIR Earth Matters

backs and revoked protections, see https://www.nytimes.com/ interactive/2019/climate/trumpenvironment-rollbacks.html Instead of declaring the extinction crisis a national emergency, recent changes to the National Environmental Policy Act will make it easier for federal agencies to approve infrastructure projects without a review process considering climate change.

Meanwhile, habitats are lost at land and sea, ecosystems are disrupted, wild spaces that cannot be reclaimed are lost forever, and with that our dignity. What will be our civilization’s legacy? Will humans survive the future to tell a tale of

a dramatic turnaround and change of heart towards regenerative practices and sustainability?

Can we crackdown on all forms of industrial pollution and re-create a viable world?

Our world is literally on fire.

Most recently, we’ve witnessed the fires in Australia from afar. Our atmosphere is shared, what happens there will affect us here. We shouldn’t wait for the fires to burn in our backyard, we should take action now and start with restoring the wild and free spaces.

This existential crisis needs bold solutions. With their ‘Save Life on Earth’ campaign, The Center for Biological Diversity demands we spend at least $100 billion toward saving wildlife and plants.

We must prioritize the protection of public land, maximize Carbon sequestration and dedicate land to at least 500 new national parks, wildlife refuges, and marine sanctuaries.

One study found Americans are willing to pay $177 a year to fight climate change and in the process save lives. How much do you pay for your cable TV? Consider matching your annual investment with a donation to the Center for Biological Diversity (https:// www.biologicaldiversity.org/).

Fund renewable and clean energy projects and reforestation.

The wild and green spaces allow us to breathe, nature connects us to our core values and gives us a sense of belonging. When we consciously connect to the wild we remember why we care.

Have you taken the time lately to sit by the water’s edge? Have you connected with a four-legged, gazed at birds in flight or marveled at worms tirelessly turning over the soil? In guided nature walk with elementary school children the other day I asked them: “What’s your favorite animal?” An active fourthgrader joyously responded: “Me, I’m my favorite animal.”

Please live as if your life depends on it. Go play outside, wild and free, with the other living beings. Show that you care by electing officials who care about biodiversity and clean energy. We’re only as healthy as the environment we’re in.

Securing a safe future for all wildlife must be a priority; in the process, we are saving ourselves.

Dr. Hildur Palsdottir ReWild Long Island https://www.rewildlongisland.org hildur@sol.center

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NHP Road closure poses big threat

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ravis Brennan, LIRR/3TC’s representative said, “It’simportant that we disseminate this information and everyone knows what to expect.” We’re certainly not going to make everybody happy. Construction is very difficult. It’s a challenge but in order to progress forward you have to have some struggles and you have to have some headache.”

Unfortunately, it’s a fact that New Hyde Park has already endured the brunt of the LIRR Expansion Project – a project which not only benefits LIRR commuters but largely supports the MTA’s, Gov. Cuomo’s, NYS Senator Anna Kaplan’s, and Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s concurrent agenda which is to build transit-oriented housing along the nine miles of the main line, regardless of the opinions of homeowners and taxpayers who reside in main line communities.

If 3TC, New York State, and Nassau County knew about these “headaches and struggles,” then NHP should have been granted a lot more in the way of compensation and mitigation strategies that specifically address a pleth-

ora of genuine problems from detour impacts, utility interruptions, noise, vibration, increased traffic, parking overloads, etc.

3TC’s proposed signage and media blitz are woefully inadequate in maintaining our village’s safety and security. In addition, a serious conversation about tax relief to the families and businesses directly impacted by this project must now be put on the table. Although we are reminded that it is our job to “take one for the team,” New Hyde Park residents and business owners assert that it is time for “the team” to recognize the sacrifices our village continues to make for the greater good and to do what it takes to make New Hyde Park the peaceful and vibrant community it was before this mega-project began.

3TC advised NHP village residents (see “3TC addresses concerns with New Hyde Park Road closure“) that it will wrap up this phase of the LIRR Expansion Project at NHP Road and LIRR Station in 7 months. Really?

While the lanes for the new NHP Road underpass may be opened in 7 months, that in no way should imply that the project will

be finished in New Hyde Park Village in seven months. Why? The new Covert Ave. underpass, the first phase of the project in New Hyde Park, is still experiencing unaddressed negative impacts – four months after Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and NYS Sen. Anna Kaplan lauded its opening in Oct. 2019. Although we were promised that the Covert Ave. crossing elimination would relieve traffic congestion and ameliorate air pollution, traffic gridlock continues to plague this roadway during morning and evening rush hours.

New intersections created by Covert Ave. elimination continue to have dangerous blind spots that remain unaddressed. Covert Ave. is a Nassau County road and it is supposed to be maintained by Nassau County. Sadly, four cars needed a police-assist to make it up and out of the underpass during a recent snow event because this county road was not properly treated prior to the storm.

Are these the successes that New Hyde Park residents should anticipate at New Hyde Park Road?

If so, we have big problems on the horizon since the NHP Road

crossing elimination coupled with the construction of the new LIRR Station are significantly more complicated projects.

Personally, I reached out to NYS Senator Anna Kaplan a month ago regarding a safety concern at the intersection of Covert Ave. and 6th Ave., which will be affected by this latest phase of the project. With the expected increase in volume due to traffic detours, this location becomes especially dangerous for drivers, pedestrians (including our kids walking home from school), trucks, buses, and bicyclists. We need a traffic signal at that location – temporary or permanent.

It is interesting to note that the opposite corner (6th Ave. and New Hyde Park Road) has a permanent traffic signal because of the safety issues that resulted in the growing volume in traffic.

Why are officials ignoring the same conditions (and perhaps even greater volume) on Covert Ave. due to the New Hyde Park Road detours? Although Senator Kaplan responded with a statement that she would look into the matter, I never received a cogent response to that question. Local

residents, especially senior citizens, eagerly await an answer – hopefully before the Feb. 3rd start date of the New Hyde Park Road project.

Let’s face it. Gov. Cuomo has long been a foe of local government. While our state and county taxes continue to increase, our quality of life continues to plummet. Our business community struggles. How much more can one village endure before it begins to fall to its knees? Words are empty. A growing group of engaged homeowners and voting taxpayers has mobilized. We want action. We want mitigation strategies – ALL OF THEM – that address the potential crippling impacts that will, no doubt, affect the future safety, security and viability of our beloved hometown.

We will hold all officials accountable for their (lack of) due diligence. New Hyde Park village has more than earned fair consideration for the significant hardship we continue to endure as we take yet another one for the team.

Diane Bentivegna New Hyde Park

Flexibility needed on NHP Rd. closure

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n Monday, Feb. 3, the New Hyde Park Road LIRR main line at-grade crossing will be closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic for seven months. It will be closed so that Third Track Constructors (3TC) can construct a five-lane roadway under the LIRR. Closing the crossing completely will reduce the roadway construction time by almost 25 percent and allow for an accelerated timeframe to reconstruct the New Hyde Park Railroad Station to accommodate 12-car trains. This will cut the time 3TC is in our neighborhood by at least six months.

The Village of New Hyde Park mayor has and still opposes the full closure while Garden City and Nassau County are in favor of full closure. Their cooperation netted them additional project amenities and funding opportunities.

The impacts of this closure

are monumental. 3TC’s traffic engineers estimate that Covert Avenue will see an increase in vehicular traffic of between 79 percent and 106 percent.

The potential of 25,000 vehicles a day using Covert Avenue for seven months is very real.

The impacts on my block, South 12th Street, could be as severe as when Covert Avenue was closed for months. Simple steps can be taken to mitigate the impacts. Wrong steps will make it worse.

It is important to move vehicles through the area as quickly as possible. People should be able to efficiently drive through to the Jericho Turnpike and Covert Avenue business districts, the Lake Success Quadrangle Business Center, and back home to southwest Nassau County.

People driving through the immediate Village of New Hyde Park LIRR main-line area should hinder south side residents as

little as possible. The more that drive through vehicles remain in the area, the more south side New Hyde Park residents are inconvenienced.

I offer some possible solutions.

The potential of 25,000 vehicles a day on Covet Avenue is real. It is important to move this traffic from Jericho Turnpike to Stewart Avenue. The Covert Avenue north and south side stop signs at Sixth Avenue must be temporarily removed.

Morning rush hour features vehicles backed up from Sixth Avenue to the LIRR Hempstead Line at-grade crossing. Evening rush hour features vehicles backed up from Sixth Avenue to Jericho Turnpike.

The sign at southbound Covert Avenue and Fifth Avenue that indicates there is a stop sign 160 feet away is a hazard and should be removed. Several rear-end accidents have already

occurred at this location because drivers have mistaken the sign for a stop sign and at the last seconds slammed on the brakes.

New Hyde Park Road must be closed at the south side of the intersection with Jericho Turnpike. Why? People will drive to Plaza Avenue and make a right then a left onto Herkimer then a right onto Second Avenue. Then what? Massive gridlock.

What about trucks that use Plaza Avenue west of New Hyde Park Road? Temporarily make South 16th Street and South 17th Street one-way south roads, and South 18th Street and Hoffman Road one-way north roads.

Trucks will only drive-through in or out – not both ways on the same street. Once New Hyde Park Road is done two-way traffic can resume.

Installing speed bumps and or a partial closure of South 12th Street is not needed. The northbound South 12th Street at

Fourth Avenue stop sign is completely unnecessary. The traffic on South 12th Street, my block for 54 years, needs to be moving through as quickly as possible.

My South 12th Street neighbors and I are going to be slammed by traffic again, but the faster this project is completed the faster all of New Hyde Park will benefit tremendously.

I respectfully request that the Village of New Hyde Park Mayor consider these suggestions, engage his board members and the many thoughtful constituents who are eager to find solutions that may not be realized unless adjustments are made with all due diligence, flexibility and a nimbleness sometimes not exhibited by the government closest to the people.

Ed Powers New Hyde Park Letters Continued on Page 51

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Happening at the Great Neck Park District SUNDAY @ 3: Piedmont Bluz Join us at Great Neck House for Piedmont Bluz on Sunday, Feb. 2; 3 p.m. This musical duo will perform country blues music and you will be amazed by the Piedmont style of fingerpicking. A park pass is required for admission.

Lunar New Year Celebration: Celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink on Sunday, Feb. 9. Pre-show runs 1-2:15 p.m. Free public session 2:15-4:15 p.m. for residents wearing RED (MUST present park pass at entrance). Non-resident fee applies. Skate rental available $5 per

person. Everyone welcome.

Weekend Movie at Great Neck House: The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019), written and directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz and starring Zack Gottsagen, Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson is playing at Great Neck House on Friday, Jan. 31 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 1 at 5 & 8 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m. A young man with Down syndrome, runs away from a residential nursing home to follow his dream of attending the professional wrestling school of his idol, The Salt Water Redneck (played by Thomas Haden Church). It’s rated PG-13; runs 1h

North prepares for Valentines soirée The Valentine Soirée at North High School will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m., at the school, 35 Polo Road. The public is warmly welcomed to this free event.

This annual concert features North High music groups performing a variety of classic and popular love songs. This year’s event will feature the Jazz Ensemble, Concert Choir, and the North High A Cappella Troupe. There will also be vocal solos.

The Valentine Soirée will be under the direction of Dr. Pamela Levy, department head for fine and performing arts/

director of vocal music, and Joseph Rutkowski, director of instrumental music. For more information, please contact Dr. Levy at (516) 441-4740.

37 minutes. A park pass is required for admission.

Nature Program: Join the park district Saturday, Feb. 8 at 11 a.m., for this new program which will have you using a map of Kings Point Park, to navigate to specific destinations.

Meet in first lot at Steamboat Road entrance. Register online at gnparks.org or call (516) 482-0355. Children under 16 may not attend.

Lights and Ice at the Village Green: The outdoor rink in the Village Green has been extended through Sunday, Feb. 2. Make sure to take advantage of our events before it closes including Pond

Hockey Tournament, Sat., Feb.1, 7 – 11 a.m.; Flirt into February Couples Night, Sat., Feb. 1, 6 – 10 p.m. (receive 50% off an igloo/fire pit rental from 6 to 10 p.m.); Super Bowl Bash, Sun., Feb. 2, 6 – 10 p.m., watch the Super Bowl on our huge LED movie screen. Wear any football jersey and receive $2 off skate admission or skate rentals. *Discounts excluded to those who present a Village of Great Neck coupon. Rent an igloo or fire pit any day or for any event. We’re open Monday-Thursday: 4-9 p.m.; Fridays: 4-10 p.m. and weekends: 10 a.m.10 p.m.

Plunging for a cause Once again, Great Neck resident Erin Lipinsky will be “Freezin’ for a Reason” at the 16th Annual Town of North Hempstead Polar Plunge.

Last year, Erin raised almost $12,000, making him the top individual fundraiser of the event. This year will be Erin’s sixth plunge and his goal is to break last year’s record. The event will take place on Saturday, Mar. 7 at North Hempstead Beach Park in Port Washington.

Join thousands of your neighbors who support Special Olympics New York every year by raising funds from family and friends— and then splashing into frigid fall and winter wa-

ters.

The Polar Plunge® supports year-round sports training and competition, health and inclusion programs for individuals with intellectual disabilities in your community. This year, make sure you’re freezin’ for a reason!

All money raised helps to provide year-round sports training and competition, health and inclusion programs for individuals with intellectual disabilities in your Special Olympics New York community.

Erin’s fundraising page is up and has already raised some funds. To take the plunge or make a donation, please visit: http://events. nyso.org/goto/erinsplunge

PHOTO COURTESY OF SARA RIETBROEK

Great Neck resident Erin Lipinsky is on a mission to top his own fundraising record of $12,000 set last year at the 2020 Town of North Hempstead Polar Plunge

Vendor Spotlight: Marine Fisheries

PHOTO COURTESY OF RICHARD STANCATI

Charles Fravola continues to provide exceptional quality of fish for Great Neck residents at 521 Middle Neck Road.

Getting up in the dark, driving to the New Fulton Fish Market at Hunts Point in the Bronx, five days a week, in the rain, snow, or sleet this is the way Charles Fravola, the owner of Marine Fisheries at 521 Middle Neck Road in Great Neck, begins his day. With a skill honed by years of experience, he works his way through the stalls handpicking the freshest and best the market has to offer.

The fish he chooses in those pre-dawn hours are in the Marine Fisheries, showcases by 8 a.m., ready for his lucky patrons to buy the same day. They will be correctly identified and priced accordingly. If it

says wild salmon it is wild salmon, there’s no doubt about it, integrity rules along with quality at Marine Fisheries.

Fravola buys the best but Fravola never overbuys. He wants the showcases empty by the end of the day, ready to be re-stocked tomorrow with fresh fish. Also, empty by the end of the day, will be the showcases that are filled daily with freshly prepared fish entrees, salads, and side dishes.

This location, at 521 Middle Neck Road, has an unbroken legacy of occupancy by a fish market of impeccable quality since 1946, a legacy that Fravola has not only continued but

has built upon. Weaving the trendy and new with the basic and classic there is something for everyone, every day, and for every special occasion at Marine Fisheries.

Picking up your holiday order at Marine Fisheries is like a Holiday in itself. People come from near and far, for their traditional dishes and more.

Some come for Passover, some come for Christmas, some come for holidays in between, but they all come.

A business that remains successful and sustainable anywhere, but particularly in Great Neck, combines integrity, personal service and a quality product all of which are hallmarks of Ma-

rine Fisheries.

This is a gem of a market staffed by a tight-knit team of talented professionals with specific skills that blend perfectly into the shared goal of getting the job done and getting it done right.

Fravola is at the helm and it is clear he is a good boss and a good person.

You can find him and the people who make up his indispensable and talented team: Allison, Kayla, George, Victor, Jose and Honario at 516-487-3145, Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Closed Sunday.

Submitted by Richard Stancati and the Great Neck Chamber of Commerce

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County seeks probe of phishing scam Continued from Page 9 Speilberg noted that various locations in the county have seen similar attacks, including the Rockville Centre school district, which had to pay $100,000 to restore its data after a ransomware virus infiltrated its system in August.

Schnirman said that other areas on the island were targeted as part of this phishing scam and that the issue of protecting sensitive information and financ-

es should not come down to politics.

“In this incident alone, 3 to 4 other municipalities on Long Island were also targeted,” Schnirman said. “Instead of cynically playing politics with public safety, I encourage the Republican Caucus to join me in working towards proactive solutions to protect taxpayers.”

Efforts to reach the offices of the state comptroller and inspector general were unavailing.

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Continued from Page 11 “Memories are fading about both what our country and our allies achieved in saving the world from Nazi tyranny as well as the horrors and extent of the Holocaust,” Markowitz said in a news release. “This commemoration of the end of World War II and the liberation of the concentration camps is meaningful for all of us, but especially for the diminishing number of veterans who served and the survivors of the Holocaust.

“We’re honored to join with the county, the American Armor Museum, and the Holocaust Museum to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.” Andrew Parton, president of the Cradle of Aviation Museum, said officials there are honored to join in the efforts to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII. “We honor all those who served on the battlefields and on the homefront every day, right here in our World War II gallery,” Parton said. “Grumman, Republic and many other manufacturers were major players in our success during the war and thousands of visitors who tour the museum come away with a greater appreciation for the sacrifices made by all those who served.”

The yearlong campaign will kick off with the installation of a photo essay at the County Center in Mineola curated by the Cradle

of Aviation Museum, which highlights the industrial role of Long Island during WWII. The museum will also host a reception in May to celebrate V-E Day featuring popular big band and swing music, dancing and an armor parade including tanks from the armor museum.

The Museum of American Armor will host a WWII encampment weekend on June 13-14 at the Old Bethpage Village Restoration, as well as a daylong field trip on May 8 for more than 1,000 high school students across Long Island. On Friday, May 22, the museum will dedicate a WWII era assault landing craft, similar to the ones used at Normandy on D-Day, and from Sept. 5-6, will feature Tanker weekend, where there will be some 25 armor vehicles in operation at the Old Bethpage Village Restoration.

The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County will also present a number of retrospectives and exhibitions throughout the year, including presentations that will draw lessons about the importance of combating hatred and anti-Semitism.

The center will host a discussion with author Bernice Lerner about her new book “All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of BergenBelsen,” on Sunday, May 17, at 1 p.m. The center will also announce additional commemoration events in the coming months.

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Nassau honors 75th Anniversary of WWII

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Laura Curran announced a series of yearlong events and programs to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the end of World War II.

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n commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, the Adler Gallery at the Port Washington Public Library is proud to present a photography exhibit highlighting the resilience and hopefulness of Holocaust survivors.

These survivors, originating from all over Western and Eastern Europe, are currently residents of Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties including two Port residents; Gloria Glantz and Stan Ronnell.

A project three years in the making, photographer and project coordinator Danny Weiss, along with Dinah Kramer, photographed and interviewed 18 (‘18’ signifying “Life” in Hebrew) Holocaust survivors. In conjunction with the photography, Rabbi Jodie Siff of Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore will give a talk about the exhibit on Monday, Jan. 27.

Danny Weiss is a renowned photographer in New York City and Nassau County, whose journey began with his passion for creating unique, soulful images.

Dinah Kramer works at the Holocaust Resource Center at Temple Judea in Manhasset and helps Siff run the Adopt a Survivor program at the Reconstructionist Synagogue in Plandome. The exhibit will feature large-format portrait photographs on canvas. Weiss refers to the project as an important way of celebrating those “brave individuals who not only survived but also rebuilt their lives after facing untold horrors.”

Just children and teens at the time of the Holocaust, they persevered and yet today have amazing outlooks on life. When asked what they believe can be done to fight indifference, hatred, racism and antiSemitism today, the resounding answer was to educate future generations. This collaborative project was made with the support of the Holocaust Resource Center at Temple Judea, The Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore, Dina Adsetts, Eric Adsetts, Rabbi Lee Friedlander, Matt Harris, Rebecca McKay, Meryl Menashe, Emily Nebenhaus, Cantor Eric Schulmiller, Les Shafranek, Lesley Siegel, Rabbi Jodie Siff, Caleb Weiss, Elijah Weiss, and Liz Weiss.

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THE TOP SEVEN EVENTS Arrival from Sweden: The Music of ABBA Friday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m.

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Since the band’s inception in 1995, “Arrival from Sweden” has toured in more than 60 countries, including 70 tours in the United States since 2005.

The group has also performed with more than 70 different symphony orchestras around the world. This ABBA-inspired band not only sounds like the actual group but also dresses like them too. Regular ticket prices range from $35 to $55.

Where: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville, NY 11548 Info: 516-299-3100 or tillescenter.org

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General admission tickets purchased prior to the day of the event are $65 each, plus a $4.39 service fee.

Tickets purchased the day of the event are $75 each, plus a $4.69 fee. VIP tickets, which admission one hour early, are $85 plus a $5.81 fee.

Where: Cradle of Aviation Museum Charles Lindbergh Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530 Info: 516-572-4111 or cradleofaviation.org

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New York Open 2020 Sunday, Feb. 9, 12 p.m.

The 2020 New York Open will soon kick off at Nassau Coliseum. Some of the world’s best tennis players will be competing with each other throughout the week. Among the players scheduled to compete that week are Kei Nishikori, John Isner and 2018 champion Kevin Anderson.

Where: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 1255 Hempstead Tpke., Uniondale, NY 11553 Info: 516-231-4848 or nycblive.com

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The Persistence of Hate: Exploring Contemporary Antisemitism Monday, Feb. 10, 10 a.m.

The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center will be hosting a workshop in which participants will be viewing primary sources of antisemitism in America throughout the 20th century. Additionally, there will be a lesson series exploring the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA. This lesson provides a case study on contemporary antisemitism. Participants will also get the chance to discuss the responses from communities to events like the Charlottesville rally and how they’d respond when faced with violations based on hatred or bigotry in their communities. There is a $25 fee via payable check to the HMTC for the workshop.

Where: Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center 100 Crescent Beach Rd.,Glen Cove, NY 11542 Info: 516-571-8040 or facinghistory.org

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Rock and Roll Hall Fame band “Cheap Trick” will be performing at the Theatre at Westbury. Formed in 1973, the group’s music bridges the gap between 1960s pop, heavy metal and punk. They may be bestknown for their song “I Want You to Want Me, which reached number seven on the “Billboard Hot 100” in 1979. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.

Where: The Theatre at Westbury 960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury, NY 11590 Info: 516-247-5211, events.wbli.com or thetheatreatwestbury.com

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Jay and Silent Bob Reboot Roadshow with Kevin Smith Wednesday, Feb. 12, 8 p.m.

Film director Kevin Smith will be bringing back the titular fan-favorite characters for a new movie. He’ll be coming to the Paramount and show a special screening of “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.” In the film, the stoner duo embark on a cross-country road trip to stop Hollywood from rebooting an old movie based on them.

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The Taming of the Shrew Thursday, Feb. 13, 2 p.m.

The Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts will be putting on a play of William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.” The play, set in 1590 Padua, is about a bold, brash and brazen man named Petruchio seeking to “tame” his future bride, Katherina, who’s described as a cantankerous wench. The battle of wills between the two sets the stage for this comedy.

Where: Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts 2 East Main St., Smithtown, NY 11787 Info: 631-724-3700 or smithtownpac.org

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THE TOP EVENTS FOR KIDS FOR THE COMING WEEK Active Shabbat

Friday, Feb. 7, 6:15 p.m.

Simchat HaLev will be holding Shabbat celebration for families. Parents can socialize with each other or get something to eat while the kids partake in a variety of activities. There will be an adventure maze, inflatable fun zone, laser tag, ninja warrior course, cannonball blast and laser frenzy. Additionally, there will be pizza and cupcakes on hand for the kids to eat. Tickets to the event are $25 per person.

Where: Active Kidz Long Island 200 Robbins Ln., Jericho, NY 11753 Info: 516-922-4224 or simchathalev.org

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“If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” Character Meet and Greet Saturday, Feb. 8, 12:30 p.m.

Mineola Memorial Library will be holding a reading of Laura Numeroff ’s classic children’s book, “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” The titular mouse will be on hand to greet kids in attendance. Additionally, there will be cookies provided for each child there.

The event is free and will take place in the library’s community room.

Where: Mineola Memorial Library, 195 Marcellus Rd., Mineola, NY, 11501 Info: 516-746-8488 or longisland.kidsoutandabout.com

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Baby Yoda Paint Event Sunday, Feb. 9, 11 a.m.

Key to my Art will be giving kids the opportunity to paint everyone’s favorite infant from a galaxy far, far away: Baby Yoda. In this drop-off event, kids will learn how to draw and paint the adorable creature. Online registration is required prior to the event and is $20 per child. There is a ten percent discount for siblings.

Where: Key to my Art, 10 W. Oak St., Amityville, NY 11701 Info: 631-608-9048 or care.com

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Meditation for Children at Port Jeff Library Tuesday, Feb. 11, 6:30 p.m.

In this adventure, kids are guided into relaxing and fun activities meant to teach them techniques for gaining more confidence, focus and consideration for others. While the event is geared towards kids between the ages of eight and 13, parents are welcome to stay and watch. The event will take place in the Port Jefferson Free Library’s activity room.

Online pre-registration is recommended.

Where: Port Jefferson Free Library 100 Thompson St., Port Jefferson, 11777 Info: 631-473-0022 or meditationonlongisland.org

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Introduction to Self-Defense (Ages 8-11) Thursday, Feb. 13, 4 p.m.

The Locust Valley Library will be holding an introductory class in which kids would learn martial arts. Led by an instructor with more than 57 years of teaching experience, Grand Master Gene Perceval, the class will cover traditional martial arts techniques while also advocating for respect, harmony, inner calmness in the mind and inspiration.

Where: Locust Valley Library, 170 Buckram Rd., Locust Valley, NY 11560 Info: 516-262-2990 or eventbrite.com

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N.Y. Tennis Expo at Nassau Coliseum The country’s largest tennis expo returns to Long Island this winter, as the 2020 New York Tennis Expo arrives at NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Last year’s event drew a record crowd of more than 5,200 people, and the sixth New York Tennis Expo promises to be the biggest yet.

This year’s Expo will be held on Sunday, Feb. 9, which will give attendees the opportunity to watch free professional tennis as the New York Open’s qualifying tournament begins on the same day. With ATP Tour players on-site throughout the day, attendees will also have the opportunity to get autographs from a number of different players doing signings, as well as take part in the tournament’s draw ceremony. The Expo Hall will be filled with more than 70 exhibitors, where guests can try new products, learn about clubs/programs and so much more.

“We are proud to be kicking off year three of the New York Open. More than 5,000 people came out to enjoy the 2019 New York Tennis Expo back in February, and Long Island and New York Tennis Magazines are excited to announce the return of this one-of-a-kind event,” publisher David Sickmen said. “This free event provides unparalleled exposure and branding opportunities for companies who want to promote their programs, products, services, etc. to a di-

verse audience in a fun environment. For local families, it is a perfect way to spend the day as there is fun for everyone both on and off the court. Now in our third year at NYCB LIVE, we are excited to continue building off of the success and bring the public an even better New York Tennis Expo in 2020.”

Once again, there will be games and activities as we will have something for the whole family. The kid’s zone will feature a bounce house, face-painting, photo booth, and other games, while

the activity zone will have a Beach Tennis Court, two tennis courts and a speed serve booth, as well as non-tennis activities such as mechanical bull riding, basketball pop-a-shot, football toss, plus the New York Islanders I.C.E. tour’s prize wheel and slapshot booth as well as the New York Riptide’s Lacrosse shootout.

Guests will get to learn from some of the top coaches in the industry who, joined by ATP Tour players, will speak on two different seminars about a wide array of topics ranging from the junior level

to the professional ranks. The panels are interactive, and audience members will have the chance to ask questions and pick the brains of these tennis experts.

Some of these experts include legendary tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, who also lead on-court clinics throughout the day, as well as Hannah Berner, star of Bravo TV’s Summer House who was a topranked junior player in the USTA Eastern Section before playing collegiate tennis at the University of Wisconsin.

There will be entertainment all-daylong with a DJ, live band, and mascots from local professional sports teams. The food court will also be open so guests can purchase food and drinks throughout the day.

The 2020 New York Tennis Expo is a can’t-miss event for anyone looking for a great way to spend their Saturday.

It’s completely free to attend, and with something to do for everyone in the family, make sure to join us on Sunday, Feb. 9 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

To pre-register and receive free tickets and parking, visit 2020NYTennisExpo.eventbrite.com. For more information on the event, visit LITennisMag. com/2020NYTennisExpo, e-mail Info@ USPTennis.com, or call (516) 409-4444.

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Meet the author of ‘Sharenthood’ Please join the Harvard Club of Long Island on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 1 p.m. at the Bryant Library, as we bestow our annual Distinguished Author Award to Leah A. Plunkett, who received her undergraduate and law degrees at Harvard.

Plunkett will speak about her book, “Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online.”

Dubbed a “must-read” by Wired Magazine, which describes how she “illuminates children’s digital footprints: the digital baby monitors,

the daycare livestreams, the nurse’s office health records, the bus, and cafeteria passes recording their travel and consumption patterns—all part of an indelible dossier for anyone who knows how to look for it.”

The New Yorker noted that the book’s “most gripping moments come when she imagines scenarios that seem both far-fetched and when you think more deeply about the direction of technological innovation, a bit inevitable.”

Copies of “Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before

We Talk About Our Kids Online” will be available at the event on Feb. 8, for purchase and signing. The book delves into the dangers of sharing of children’s information on social media, apps, and websites—colloquially known as sharenting—which can have disastrous implications in the present and in years to come.

By the time they turn five, Plunkett writes, the average child will have nearly 1,000 photos online, thanks to the adults in their lives, and there are few laws to protect the children’s privacy. She pro-

poses solutions that balance the need to share with the need to stay safe.

Plunkett got her start in law and writing as a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School. Early in her career, she practiced as a legal aid lawyer with New Hampshire Legal Assistance. There, she founded the Youth Law Project, which represents children and teens in special education, school discipline, and related cases. She then worked at the National Consumer Law Center, which is concerned with helping

citizens as they buy houses, shop for cars and make other household investments.

She is now an associate dean and associate professor at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. She also directs the law school’s Academic Success program. In Cambridge, she is a faculty associate with the Youth and Media team at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, a research center.

Hofstra Theater performs ‘Magic Flute’ Mozart’s musical fairy tale, The Magic Flute, will be performed by Hofstra Opera Theater at the Toni and Martin Sosnoff Theater, John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus.

The plot of the opera follows Prince Tamino who is

recruited by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from the evil high priest Sarastro. Tamino, armed with a magic flute, heads out on this quest with his companion Papageno.

When they find Pamina, they attempt to escape Sarastro’s

world. Tamino undergoes a series of trials to be deemed worthy of marrying Pamina.

Fully staged and performed in German with English subtitles, the production features artistic direction by Isabel Milenski and musical direction by Scott Jackson

Wiley.

Showtimes are Friday, Jan. 31, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 2, at 3 p.m. Members of the Hofstra community may receive up to two free tickets upon presentation of a current HofstraCard. Tickets are $10, $8 for adults 65+.

For tickets and more information contact the Hofstra Box Office at 516-463-6644.

Tickets are also availableonline. If seats are still available, they will be sold at the door starting 90 minutes prior to showtime at the Box Office.

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Hofstra museum A Cappella festival presents ‘Uncharted’ returns to Adelphi Eight acclaimed artists present works that investigate mathematic and scientific principals in the Hofstra University Museum of Art exhibition “Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age.” Presented at the Emily Lowe Gallery, from Jan. 28 – June 19, 2020, this show features art that collides with the worlds of science, math, and technology. James O. Clark, John Goodyear, Lynne Harlow, Daniel G. Hill, Gilbert Hsiao, Irene Rousseau, James Seawright, and Patricia Zarate offer examples of two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and site-specific designs, but many of their works on display defy traditional classification.

Museum Director and Chief Curator Karen T. Albert said, “these abstract artists have no common intention or focus, but by exploring new ideas, materials, and technologies in their artistic practice, they share a desire to head deeper into uncharted territory.”

The Emily Lowe Gallery is located behind Emily Lowe Hall on Hofstra’s South Campus. The public is invited to two free receptions: A preview and artist reception on Sunday, Jan. 26, from 2 – 5 p.m., and an exhibition reception on Thursday, Jan. 30, from 4:30 – 6 p.m.

Additional specialized programming planned in conjunction with the exhibition includes:

Uncharted Roundtable: Shock of the New Tuesday, March 24, 4:30 – 6 p.m.

Emily Lowe Gallery, behind Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus Join us for a conversation based upon the exhibition Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age, where the artists explore intersections between art, science, and technology. The presenters, with perspectives from various academic disciplines, will address a variety of issues related to the theme.

Free and open to the public.

Family Fun with ARTful Adventures All sessions meet 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Emily Lowe Gallery, behind Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus.

Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020 • Mobile Madness!

Saturday, March 14, 2020 • Op Art! Saturday, April 11, 2020 • Fun with Fans!

Saturday, May 9, 2020 • Adding Dimension!

For children ages 5-10 with an adult companion. Advance registration is required.

Limited to 15 participating children per ses- SingStrong sion. Fee: $10 per child per session when prepaid ($12 when paid day of the program).

For more information about the exhibiThe SingStrong A Cappella Festition and associated public programs, call val takes over the Adelphi University (516) 463-5672 orvisit the Hofstra Univer- Performing Arts Center Friday, Feb. 7, sity Museum of Art website. through Sunday, Feb. 9, for a weekend with five completely different a cappella concerts and two days of a cappella classes. The movie “Pitch Perfect” and the TV show “Sing-Off ” offer a glimpse of what to expect from the concerts featuring artists performing various styles of music, from pop and jazz to overtone singing, barbershop and even beatbox, all with nothing but the human voice.

The weekend includes the ACA-IDOL ton, Benny Goodman and more. Plus, competition Friday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m., amorous melodies performed by many where college and semi-professional a cappella groups compete for over $1,000 iconic vocalists.

Time & Date: 3:00 p.m., Feb. 9, 2020 in prizes. Celebrities judge live while the audience votes by cell phone. The next Price: $35-$40 day, the best High School a cappella Location: Madison Theatre groups compete for awards Saturday, at Molloy College Feb. 8, at 2 p.m. While the judges delibInformation: Theatre Box Office erate, there will also be a performance by 516.323.4444 or the “Single Singers,” an open a cappella www.madisontheatreny.org group that only releases during the festival and that you and your family can join.

Go to NewYork.SingStrong.org for details on how to join. Saturday night, professional groups from around the world take the stage for two evening shows at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., with a wide variety of different a cappella acts at each show. The festival’s final concert starts at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 9, with more professional acts from across the globe.

Headliners for SingStrong include Rilton’s Vanner, the Swedish Nordic Pop Vocal Band; Blue Jupiter, Broadway Records recording artists, performing wild re-imaginings of pop and “twisted Broadway” featuring Diana Preisler, star of the Lifetime TV show “Pitch Slapped;” SYNG Selected, Denmark’s number one

‘Swingtime: Taking a Chance on Love’ Keeping with Madison Theatre tradition, Swingtime returns for its eighth annual Valentine’s Day celebration of classics from the Great American songbook! Our 20-piece house band directed

by Steve Shaiman will thrill you with swingin’ toe-tappers and heartfelt ballads to put you in a romantic mood, featuring hits from legendary bandleaders like Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Duke Elling-

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PHOTO COURTESY OF ADELPHI UNIVERSITY

ranked contemporary a cappella youth choir; Grace McLean, the Lincoln Center featured composer and live looper; Resolve, the Disney-based jazz quartet that won both the New York and the National Harmony Sweepstakes Competition; Midtown, the fifth-best barbershop quartet in the world; Spiderhorse, the World Champion Beatboxers, two-time American Beatbox Champs and winners of the 2019 ACA-OPEN Championship; and Shimmer Grove Overtone Collective, the multi-generational six-person overtone singing ensemble.

All profits go to support school music programs and the fight against Alzheimer’s disease.

The SingStrong A Cappella Festival will take place Friday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m., three shows on Saturday, Feb. 8 at 2 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m. Classes are scheduled throughout the day on Saturday, Feb. 8, and Sunday, Feb. 9.

All shows take place on the Westermann Stage in Adelphi’s PAC Concert Hall.

Individual tickets are $20 or $35 depending on the show, with discounts available to seniors, students, groups, alumni and employees. Full Weekend Passes are $75, $100 or $200; and to just attend classes, a Class Pass is just $40.

For more information call the Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at 516-8774000 or email boxoffice@adelphi.edu.

Regular box office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. and the box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances. Ticket sales and additional information are available online.

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Taking Control of Your Health

Why annual checkups are important

The Easy Road to a Healthier You 3 simple ways to get healthier every day

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utritious diets and routine exercise are two hallmarks of a healthy lifestyle. Combining the two can lower people’s risk for various diseases and contribute to a high quality of life. But food and physical activity are not the only things people should do to improve their chances of living long, healthy lives.

Preventive care is important. One of the most effective principles of preventive care is to schedule an annual checkup with a physician. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, routine health exams and tests can find problems before they start. During annual check-ups, doctors may notice some red flags, such as high cholesterol, that men and women won’t detect on their own. These warning signs could be increasing people’s risk for disease and/or discomfort.

Many of these red flags are undetectable without proper screenings, which is why annual checkups are integral to maintaining one’s health.

Annual checkups also serve as a great time for adults to be screened for certain cancers. The American Cancer Society notes that cancer screenings are used to find cancer before a person develops symptoms. That’s a vital benefit of annual checkups, as cancers caught in their early stages are more easily treated. In addition, catching cancer before it has metastasized greatly improves patients’ prognosis.

Another reason to schedule annual checkups is that they make perfect opportunities for patients to discuss their family histories with their physicians. This is especially important for adults over 40, as age and family history are significant risk factors for a host of conditions and diseases. Men and women concerned about conditions and diseases that their family members have had can discuss those concerns with their physicians during their annual checkups. Physicians can then recommend ways for patients to balance their risk, calming patients’

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iets can be difficult to navigate. Since no two people are the same, a healthy diet that satisfies one person won’t necessarily satisfy another. Vegetarians might be perfectly happy without chicken or steak, while some people might shudder at the notion of never indulging in the occasional filet mignon.

While the most effective diets tend to be those that emphasize nutrition while still allowing individuals to indulge in some of their favorite dishes in moderation, the following are three ways that everyone, regardless of their personal preference, can eat healthy every day.

1. Eat lots of whole-grain carbohydrates.

Fad diets tend to paint carbs as the enemy, but various studies have shown just how integral carbohydrates, particularly whole-grain varieties, are to a healthy diet. One such study published in 2018 in the medical journal The Lancet Public Health found that diets that got between 50 and 55 percent of their calories from plant-based carbohydrates like whole grains were associated with a lower risk of mortality than low-carb diets that favored animalderived protein sources. When buying carbs at the grocery store, shoppers can opt for whole-grain varieties, including whole-grain pastas, brown rice and cereals. That won’t require

sacrificing flavor and makes for a simple way to eat healthier every day.

2. Make a concerted effort to eat more fruits and vegetables.

The United Kingdom-based National Health Service, which is the largest single-payer healthcare system in the world, recommends eating at least five portions of fruits and vegetables every day. That may sound like a lot, but it’s pretty easy to incorporate all those healthy fruits and veggies into a diet.

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Disease Control and Prevention note that diets rich in fruits and veggies can help people control their weight and may even reduce their risk for certain diseases, including cancer.

3. Kick added sugars to the curb.

Avoiding added sugars is another way anyone, regardless of their food preferences, can eat healthier every day. Healthy foods such as fruit contain natural sugars, and these don’t pose a threat to overall health.

However, added sugars, which the Harvard Medical School notes are found in many foods and can include honey, molasses and corn syrup, can increase a person’s risk for various conditions and diseases,

including obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Fruit contains fiber that slows the absorption of natural sugars, but the body digests added sugars much more quickly, leading to an uptick in blood sugar levels that can ultimately contribute to diabetes. Added sugars can be found in a host of foods and beverages, including some that aren’t generally considered unhealthy, like bread, certain breakfast cereals and pasta sauces. When shopping, consumers should read nutrition labels and avoid products with excessive amounts of sugar.

Eating healthy does not require people to abandon their favorite foods. A few simple adjustments can be all it takes to improve the nutritional value of your diet.

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any people give little thought to the snacks that take up space on their pantry shelves. But are the foods people eat between meals worthy of more careful attention? Those who subscribe to mindful snacking would suggest they are.

According to the International Food Information Council Foundation, mindful eating focuses on slowing down and tuning into the sensations of eating. One of the goals of mindful eating is to prevent unhealthy behaviors associated with food and eating. One such behavior is binge eating, which can have long-term negative consequences.

The National Eating Disorders Association notes that as many as two-thirds of people diagnosed with binge eating disorder, or BED, are clinically obese.

Mindful eating can benefit anyone, including people who are maintaining healthy weights and not considered to be at risk of developing eating disorders. One of the questions people may have about mindful eating, and mindful snacking in particular, is how they can slow down and tune into the sensations of eating when they snack. Working professionals tend to snack at the office, where it’s not always so easy to slow down and tune in to the foods we eat. In addition, availability may dictate what people eat while away from home, which can lead to people eating unhealthy foods because that’s all that is available.

While there’s no denying mindful snacking can be difficult, the IFICF

offers these tips to help people slow down and tune in during snack time.

Assess your hunger. Learning to assess their hunger can help people distinguish hunger from boredom.

The IFICF recommends using a hunger scale of one to 10, with one being very hungry and 10 representing feelings of being stuffed. If you determine your hunger is a four or below, then consider a snack. Anything higher than a four and you might just be bored. When snacking, periodically pause to reassess your hunger and determine if you’re satisfied. This reassessment can help you avoid overeating.

Reduce distractions. Distractions can make it hard for people to recognize how much they have eaten. Avoid snacking while watching television or using your smartphone so you don’t accidentally overeat.

Take small bites. Large bites also can make it easier to overeat. Small bites, such as one whole grain chip at a time instead of a handful with each bite, can reduce the likelihood of overeating.

Let your senses savor your snacks. Using all of your senses when snacking can force you to slow down and notice flavors and aromas you might otherwise never recognize.

A more mindful approach to snacking can help people better appreciate their food and may help them avoid overeating. Learn more about mindful eating at www.foodinsight.org.

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Last year the competition drew teams from 38 Long Island high schools and 50 prize winners shared $80,000 in score-based awards.

Created to foster interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) programs, applications for the 2020 competition must be received by no later than 12:00 p.m.

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profession,” notes Michael H. Brisman, M.D., an attending neurosurgeon and chief executive officer of Neurological Surgery, P.C. (NSPC), “we must focus on inspiring and motivating young people to take interest in STEM education and pursue careers in health and science. This is especially important with the high demand for healthcare and medical science positions, locally and nationally.”

tion were: Feyi Rufai of Roslyn High School in the “Behavioral Sciences” category, Alessi Demir of Manhasset High School in the “Biology – Medicine/ Health” category, Michael Lawes of Elmont Memorial High School in the “Biology Microbiology/Genetics” category, Jason Sitt of Lynbrook Senior High School in the “Health Related Biochemistry & Biophysics” category, and Christopher Lu of John L. Miller Great Neck North High School in the “Bioengineering and Computational Biology” category. Each winner received a $5,500 prize.

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The rise of telehealth services Sick? Telehealth services enable patients to connect with providers to get the care they need without leaving home.

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etting sick once meant traveling to a physician’s office only to sit in a waiting room with fellow under-the-weather individuals. Few if any people like leaving home when they’re feeling ill, and thanks to technology, many no longer need to do so.

Telehealth services, which the Massachusetts Medical Society defines as the delivery and facilitation of health and healthrelated services including medical care, provider and patient education, health information services, and selfcare via telecommunications and digital communication technologies, are revolutionizing the healthcare industry. In many instances, patients need not leave the comfort of their beds or sofas to be diagnosed and treated. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology says telehealth, which is a broader scope of remote healthcare services than telemedicine, can utilize everything from videoconferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and terrestrial and wireless phone communications.

Many providers and insurance companies now offer some method of telehealth services. Consider some of these statistics.

• The American Telemedicine Association says more than one half of all hospitals in the United States have a telehealth program.

• Forty-eight states require payers to cover telehealth, says the Center for Connected Health Policy.

• BBC Research indicates that telehealth makes up roughly one quarter of the healthcare-related technology market.

• The American Medical Association says nearly 75 percent of all doctor, urgent care and emergency room visits could be handled safely and effectively over the phone or via video.

• Beckers Hospital Review says 82 percent of millennial patients surveyed would rather have a telemedicine visit than an in person consultation.

• Around seven million people use telehealth services across the globe, according to eVisit.

Telehealth can connect rural providers and their patients to services at other sites and promote patient-centered health care. With a shortage of some medical specialities in rural areas, telehealth can play an important role in ensuring all patients get access to care they need. But the benefits do not only extend to rural patients. Individuals who are elderly and/or those who have mobility issues and cannot travel easily can benefit from telehealth services.

Furthermore, any patient with a rare condition may no longer have to travel long distances to consult with specialists in that field.

Telehealth applications and programs on smartphones, tablets or laptops can make it easy for people to monitor their health. These apps can enable patients to do things like track health measurements, share information with clinicians, manage chronic illnesses, and set medication or appointment reminders. Patients also can communicate with providers to get health information through patient portals or to refill prescriptions effortlessly.

Telehealth is changing the face of medicine and utilizing technology in unique ways.

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or many people, the road to a healthy lifestyle begins in the kitchen. People make changes to their diets of their own volition or at the recommendation of their doctors, and those changes can have a profound effect that might surprise even the most devoted of healthy eaters.

According to the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education, 90 percent of all cancer cases can be prevented through environmental and lifestyle choices like deciding to eat a healthy diet.

In addition, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, notes that a history of poor eating is one of the biggest contributors to the various nutrition- and physical activity-related health challenges that now face the U.S. population. By simply altering their diets to make them more nutritious, millions of people across the globe can significantly reduce their risk

for various chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

People who are committed to eating healthier should know that changing diets can produce some adverse, but typically temporary, side effects. The CACE notes that such side effects are predictable, as they are essentially just manifestations of the body’s adjustments as it responds to eating better.

People adopting healthier diets should discuss the appearance of the following side effects with their physicians while recognizing that they are not necessarily a cause for concern.

Skin rashes

The CACE notes that people who have histories of recurring skin rashes or eruptions may experience such rashes as they adjust to healthy diets. That’s because the skin is becoming more active and alive due to the healthy diet and expelling toxins that could potentially prove hazardous down the road.

Doctors unfamiliar with patients’ histories may mistake these rashes for food allergies, so it’s important that patients be open and honest about their medical histories and remind their doctors that they are in the process of changing their diets for the better.

Colds or fevers

Colds or fevers can be another way the body indicates it’s working hard to cleanse itself. Fevers should always be monitored closely, even while in the midst of changing one’s diet for the better. But the CACE notes that colds or fevers, while unpleasant, can serve as a natural form of housecleaning as the body adjusts to a healthy diet. Persistent colds and fevers should be brought to the attention of a physician.

Additional symptoms

Some people may experience withdrawal symptoms like headaches and irritability as they transition from unhealthy diets to healthy ones.

Such symptoms may be more likely to occur among people who suddenly adopt extreme diets.

A gradual transition may help mitigate these symptoms, as can choosing a less extreme, balanced diet as opposed to one that demands certain foods be avoided entirely right off the bat.

Choosing to eat a healthier diet is a smart move that can pay long-term dividends. But the transition may require people to confront potentially uncomfortable side effects as their bodies adjust.

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The role screening should play before starting an exercise regimen

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xercise plays a significant role in disease prevention. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, physical activity helps to reduce individuals’ risk of chronic conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, various types of cancer, and dementia.

As vital as exercise is to a healthy lifestyle, many people simply are not getting enough of it. A 2018 report from the National Center for Health Statistics found that only about 23 percent of American adults between the ages of 18 and 64 are meeting the benchmarks for physical activity guidelines set forth by the U.S. Department of

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Health and Human Services. And that problem is not unique to the United States. A recent study from Statistics Canada found that only about 17 percent of adults in Canada were meeting the minimum guidelines for weekly physical activity established by the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology.

Such figures illustrate the emphasis that many adults must place on getting more physical activity. But returning to physical activity after a long layoff or becoming physically active for the first time are not as simple as lacing up a pair of running shoes and hitting the road. In fact, the American College of Sports Medicine notes the importance of preparticipation health screening for adults about to engage in physical activity after a period of inactivity.

What is a preparticipation health screening?

A preparticipation health screening is an examination conducted by a physician that looks for particular issues that may interfere with one’s ability to exercise. Doctors will likely ask patients about their medical histories and their family histories as well, as each of these factors can be used to determine whether a person is ready for physical activity or any restrictions need to be put in place to protect them.

What happens after a preparticipation health screening?

Once a physician conducts a health screening, he or she will conclude if an individual can exercise and how much he or she can exercise.

Adults who are cleared to exercise but have never been physically active or have gone years without exercising will likely be advised to take it slowly at first. Doctors may provide specific exercise recommendations or refer patients to a sports medicine professional who can help them devise an appropriate workout regimen. Doctors also may recommend followup appointments to track patients’ progress. Such appointments can be invaluable, as they can help people whose overall health has improved after limited exercise ramp up the intensity of their workouts, which can help them continue on the course to a healthier life. However, it’s important that people consult their physicians before increasing the intensity of their workouts. A second screening might even be worthwhile, helping people and their physicians alter workout regimens that reflect their improved overall health.

Many people aspire to exercise more. In many instances, a preparticipation screening is a vital component for people looking to become more physically active after a long layoff.

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How handwashing helps fight infection

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here are many ways to avoid infection, but few might be as simultaneously simple and effective as handwashing.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, keeping hands clean is one of the most important steps a person can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others. While skeptics might question just how big an impact handwashing can have, the science behind washing hands paints a pretty strong picture of just how beneficial this particular component of personal hygiene can be.

How germs get you sick

The CDC notes that feces from people and animals are considerable sources of germs, including salmonella and E. coli.

These germs can get onto people’s hands after they use the toilet or change a diaper. People who handle raw meats also be exposed to such germs, as these foods can contain invisible amounts of animal feces on them. The amount of germs contained in small amounts of feces may come as a shock. Research published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology found that a single gram of human feces weighing about as much as a paper clip can contain one trillion germs.

What does handwashing do?

With so many germs floating around, it may seem as though something as simple as handwashing couldn’t be nearly as effective as it’s said to be. But the CDC notes that handwashing removes germs from hands, thereby removing an easy way for germs to enter the body and be passed on to others. For instance, many people habitually touch their eyes, nose and mouth without thinking twice, and doing so provides an easy way for germs to enter the body via the hands. By washing their hands, people can cut off this easy entryway for germs.

Handwashing also presents germs from entering the body while eating.

Germs from unwashed hands can get into people’s food and drinks, and can even multiply in some foods and beverages, potentially contributing to illness.

Washing hands also prevents the spread of germs by preventing them from being transferred from hands to handrails, table tops or toys, where they can then spread to other people’s hands.

Handwashing is a simple yet effective way to stop the spread of germs. And it just might be the simplest way to avoid illnesses.

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How to approach nutrition when feeding children away from home

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hildren can be picky eaters.

Parents know that getting kids to eat anything, much less healthy foods, can sometimes make the dinner table feel more like a battlefield than a place to break bread. That’s especially so when the dinner table is in a restaurant, where savvy youngsters might know less nutritious dishes like macaroni and cheese or fried chicken fingers are on the menu. But the benefits of a healthy, balanced diet are so numerous for youngsters that it’s worth doing whatever it takes to get kids to embrace nutrientrich foods, both at home and when dining out.

The American Academy of Family Physicians notes that a healthy diet can stabilize children’s energy levels, help them maintain healthy weights and potentially prevent mental health

conditions, including anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. But recognizing the importance of a healthy diet and getting kids to embrace one are two different things, especially when kids are dining out and being tempted by unhealthy alternatives.

In recognition of that, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the following strategies to parents who want their kids to eat healthy when they’re away from home.

Make meals all-inclusive. When preparing school lunches or taking youngsters out for a night on the town, make sure to offer a mix of foods from the five food groups. The AAP recommends parents offer vegetables, fruit, grains, low-fat dairy, and/or quality protein sources, which can include meat, fish, nuts, seeds, and eggs. Offering

each of these foods at every meal may not be feasible, but kids should eat foods selected from the major food groups at every meal.

Avoid highly processed foods. The National Institutes of Health notes that studies have suggested there’s a link between highly processed foods and health problems. Such foods, which typically contain ingredients such as hydrogenated oils, high-fructose corn syrup and flavoring agents, are typically high in calories, salt, sugar, and fat.

While highly processed foods tend to be easier to make and readily available at restaurants, serving them to youngsters can start kids down the road to poor dietary habits, potentially increasing their risk for obesity and diseases like heart disease and diabetes. When packing snacks for school lunches or taking kids

out to restaurants, be sure to include or bring along healthy whole foods, such as fruits and vegetables. This can ensure kids get some healthy fare during mealtime.

Enhance foods if necessary. While high amounts of sugar, salt and fat can jeopardize the health of adults and youngsters alike, the AAP notes that small amounts of these substances can be used to enhance kids’ enjoyment of healthy foods and increase the likelihood that they will eat them.

Parents may not have much control over what their children eat while away from home. But a handful of strategies can increase the likelihood that kids enjoy healthy fare when eating at school or at restaurants.

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B.J. Spoke to hold heART, Soul exhibit B.J. Spoke Gallery in Huntington will be holding a love-themed art exhibit throughout the month of February. The exhibit, called “heART and Soul,” will consist of artworks meant to ask what love means to the viewers.

The exhibit opens to the public on Feb. 5. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, Feb. 8, from 6-9 p.m.

All three gallery rooms will be filled with artwork by gallery member artists. There is art available in any style and all media. The gallery also offers fine art prints and smaller originals in a bin located in room three. The gallery room will be offering works for $300 or less. These works could be the perfect gift for collectors or the art lover in one’s life.This event free and open to the public.

The Gallery’s member artists include: Richard Anello, archival digital painter John A. Bell, metal constructions Phyllis Baron, abstract painter

Katherine Criss, surreal painter/photographer Lorraine Carol, abstract painter Liz Ehrlichman, painter Andrea Fortunoff, photographer Barbara Grey, watercolor painter and photography Chris Greene, realistic painter and cartoonist Simon Hickey, sculpture and ink drawings Barbara V. Jones, marbleized abstract paintings Karen L. Kirshner, abstract painter Kevin Larkin, abstract painter Lefsky, abstract painter Lee Ann Lindgren, landscape painter Minoo Moadel, abstract painter Lili Maglione, painter Gia Schifano, Long Island landscape painter Cynthia Shechter, painter Mara Szalajda Story submitted by B.J Spoke Gallery in Huntington.

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‘Youth Film Day’ to be held at Hofstra Hofstra University and the Gold Coast International Film Festival are proud to announce the third annual Youth Film Day, a day of hands-on filmmaking workshops for teens which will take place on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication in Hempstead, NY. Hofstra, one of the top schools in the country for training media and entertainment professionals, is the official university partner of the Gold Coast International Film Festival and the Gold Coast Arts Center’s year-round film programs.

This free event is designed for students in grades 7 through 12 who have an interest in directing, producing, editing, writing or acting, and wish to explore careers in film and television.

Attendees will participate in hands-on filmmaking workshops in animation, visual effects, cinematography, editing, sound design, stunts and fight choreography, special FX makeup and more, led by industry professionals including Hofstra faculty and Gold Coast International Film Festival staff and board members. New this year are hands-on workshops on experimental filming techniques such as green screen, stop motion, shutter effects and rear projection.

“There has never been a more exciting and innovative time in the film and television arts,” said Mark Lukasiewicz, dean of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra. “Young people are creating media at ever-younger ages, and exposing them to professional-level skills and techniques is a great experience for students and faculty alike.”

Other activities include screenings, panels and tours of the Herbert School’s fully HD-equipped learning environment, which includes production studios with 4K/ Ultra HD cameras, an audio production, sound mixing and color correction suite for TV and film, editing and screening suites, a converged digital newsroom and a new multimedia studio and control room for music, audio and radio production.

Participants will also have an opportunity, though not required, to submit a short film to be screened for awards consideration.

The program is an extension of the Gold Coast International Film Festival’s highly successful Young Filmmakers Program, which takes place every year during the annual film festival. “Our goals are to give students a clearer picture of the industry and, for those who decide to pursue careers in film or television, some practical skills and experience,” said Caroline Sorokoff, festival director.

Youth Film Day is part of Hofstra’s Regional Scholars program, which offers talented middle and high school students the opportunity to explore new academic interests with scholars and college students as mentors, to

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Participants in Youth Film Day work on creating special effects; part of the various workshops in film and television at the free event at Hofstra University on Feb. 29. spend a day or two on a college campus and to gain an understanding of what collegiate-level work entails. The initiative supports Hofstra’s mission to encourage and nurture intellectual curiosity and learning through a free and open exchange of ideas.

Although the event is free, participants must register in advance at https://goldcoastarts.org/event/youthfilm-day-2020/. Lunch is provided at no cost, along with some fun giveaways. The program is open to students from throughout the tri-state area and beyond. More information is available on the web page.

About Hofstra University Hofstra is an internationally ranked and recognized university with more than 11,000 students and 136,000 alumni from around the world who are dedicated to academic excellence, civic engagement and community service. Hofstra is the only university chosen to host three consecutive U.S. presidential debates, 2008, 2012 and 2016, and is among only three schools in the New York metropolitan area with colleges of law, medicine and engineering.

Hofstra’s Lawrence Herbert School of Communication educates students to become leaders in the dynamic world of mediated communication with a curriculum that provides strong technical skills while remaining steadfastly committed to a liberal arts foundation. Its students are taught to think critically as they explore countless opportunities to express themselves creatively.

The Herbert School’s Department of Radio, Television and Film was named to Variety’s 2017 list of “stellar film schools” worldwide – the second year in a row that Hofstra made the industry magazine’s annual list of top

schools for training media and entertainment professionals. The department’s faculty are working professionals and scholars who are groundbreaking documentary and feature filmmakers, radio personalities, writers, editors and producers. The school’s close proximity to New York City also allows students to take full advantage of worldclass internship and career opportunities.

About the Gold Coast International Film Festival Since 2011, the festival has brought the latest Hollywood hits and Indie favorites to standing-room-only audiences throughout the fabled Gold Coast of Long Island. Add A-list celebrities and unforgettable events to the mix and it’s easy to see why the Gold Coast International Film Festival has become the “go-to” festival for film buffs and the public. It is also the last major film festival on the East Coast before Awards season. The Gold Coast International Film Festival is produced by the not-for-profit Gold Coast Arts Center.

Previous honorees and special guests of the festival and the Gold Coast Arts Center include film and entertainment industry VIPs Francis Ford Coppola, Hugh Grant, Baz Luhrmann, Brian Dennehy, Paul Sorvino, Ed Burns, Bruce Dern, Isabella Rossellini, Lou Diamond Phillips, Morgan Spurlock, Eli Wallach, Gabriel Byrne, Jacques Pepin, Bill Plympton, Phil Donahue, Phylicia Rashad, Joan Allen, Jay McInerney and Michael Cuesta, as well as composer Morton Gould, artists James Rosenquist, Oleg Cassini, Edwina Sandys and Bob Gruen, comedian Susie Essman, Broadway stars Kelli O’Hara, Melissa Errico and Savion Glover and four-time Oscar winner for production and costume design Catherine Martin.

About the Gold Coast Arts Center The Gold Coast Arts Center is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting the arts through education, exhibition, performance and outreach. Located on the North Shore of Long Island, it has brought the arts to tens of thousands of people throughout the region for the past 25 years. Among the Center’s offerings are its School for the Arts, which holds year-round classes in visual and performing arts for students of all ages and abilities, a free public art gallery, a concert and lecture series, film screenings and discussions, the annual Gold Coast International Film Festival and initiatives that focus on senior citizens and underserved communities.

These initiatives include artist residencies, after-school programs, school assemblies, teacher-training workshops and parent-child workshops. The Gold Coast Arts Center is an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Partners in Education program and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. More information is at www.goldcoastarts.org.

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Blau, Bonomo join Gold Coast board Richard L. Blau, principal at Hicksville-based real estate development company Good Deeds Development, and Anthony Bonomo, an attorney with the Law Offices of Ronald D. Weiss, P.C., in Melville have joined the Board of Directors of the Gold Coast Arts Center according to Regina Gil, founder and executive director of the Great Neck-based nonprofit arts and cultural organization.

A resident of Brookville, Mr. Blau’s

Richard L. Blau

development company specializes in the adaptive re-use of distressed commercial properties. Holdings include more than 400,000 square feet of space on Long Island and 500,000 square feet of developments in other markets, including Florida and Texas.

He is married to Julie Levi and has two grown daughters, Rachel and Sara.

Mr. Blau also serves on several nonprofit boards, including the Schechter School of Long Island.

Anthony Bonomo is an associate at the Law Offices of Ronald D. Weiss, P.C., which concentrates in the fields of foreclosure defense, bankruptcy, and modification negotiation. He provides counsel to clients facing residential foreclosure.

Mr. Bonano received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Adelphi University in 2009 and earned his Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University School of Law in 2018.

Newly married, he and his wife reside in Fort Salonga.

“Anthony and Richard bring an added, new dimension of personal and professional experience to our diverse board of community and business leaders,” said Gil. “Their passion for the arts and commitment to service will be a tremendous asset in our core mission of bringing the arts to a broader audience, and we are delighted to welcome these gentlemen aboard.”

Oscar-nominated animated short films Join the Gold Coast Cinema Series as we present this year’s selection of the Oscar-nominated animated short films.

For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures will provide local film aficionados an opportunity to see these Oscar-nominated short films on the big screen before the 92nd annual Academy Awards presentation on Feb. 9th.

The screening will take place on Sunday, Feb. 2, at 4:30 p.m. at Great Neck Cinemas at the Squire, located at 115 Middle Neck

Rd. in Great Neck.

The nominees, listed below, will be shown during the screening of the 2020 Oscar-nominated animated shorts: “Dcera” (Daughter) – Czechia/ 15 mins/ 2019/ Directed by Daria Kashcheeva “Hair Love” – USA/ 7 mins/ 2019/ Directed by Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver “Kitbull” – USA/ 9 mins/ 2019/ Directed by Rosana Sullivan and Kathryn Hendrickson “Memorable” – France/ 12 mins/ 2019/ Directed

by Bruno Collet and JeanFrançois Le Corre “Sister” – USA/ 8 mins/ 2018/ Directed by Siqi Song The Gold Coast Cinema Series will also be screening the nominated liveaction shorts on Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m. at Great Neck Cinemas at the Squire. At each screening, moviegoers can enter their vote for the film they think will take home the Oscar, and could be eligible to win a free pair of tickets to an upcoming film presented by the Gold Coast Cinema Series. One winner will be chosen from each screening and winners will be notified after the Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 9.

The cost of admission in advance is $15 ($10 for members) and can be purchased online at www.goldcoastarts.org or by calling 516-829-2570.

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Planting Fields presents art exhibit Planting Fields Foundation and New York State Parks Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced the exhibition, “The Great Bird Blind Debate,” by artists Mark Dion and David Brooks, opening May 16 and on view through Dec. 2020.

The first of its kind at Planting Fields, the exhibition ushers in the Foundation’s new Catalyst program created to bring newly commissioned work by living artists to the site. The installations of Dion and Brooks will be composed within the Carl F. Wedell Bird Sanctuary and a corresponding exhibition, including the artists’ renderings, works on paper and artists’ models for the project, will be displayed inside Coe Hall.

As part of the initiative, Dion’s drawings for the project have been acquired and added to the Foundation’s permanent collection, expanding the scope of future collecting possibilities.

The Foundation and New York State Parks have collaborated over the past several months on the planning and execution of this unprecedented initiative. The work of both artists has looked at how the natural world is interpreted, organized, presented and preserved from the human perspective.

In this new exhibition, Dion and Brooks will present two different interpretations of bird blind designs, complimenting each other while also reflecting on aspects of Planting Field’s history and architecture.

According to Gina Wouters, executive director of the Planting Fields Foundation, “A defining, yet often-overlooked characteristic of the site’s founders, the Coe family, is their embrace of arts patronage. Leading designers and artists such as Robert Winthrop Chanler, Everett Shinn and Samuel Yellin were engaged for site-specific work at Planting Fields at the time of its making.

We are continuing that legacy through our new ‘Catalyst’ commission program and the thoughtful work of Mark Dion and David Brooks. While our mission to preserve underpins all aspects of our work here, we also want to ensure a strong sense of cultural vitality, bringing fresh perspective and relevance to our visitors.”

The site-specific, sculptural works will frame Dion’s and Brooks’ dueling views on birdwatching or “birding” as an activity and birders as a distinct community.

“In the spirit of the great scientific debates throughout modern history, we will debate the counterpoint notions of the birder,

culturally and ecologically, on the one hand celebrating the unique character of the nature observer ‘eccentric’ just as birding is becoming more mainstream, while, on the other hand, considering the unique character of the actual habitat that the nature observer will be observing within, at a time when animal habitats worldwide are reaching a critically vulnerable state,” Brooks said.

The Carl F. Wedell Bird Sanctuary was carefully selected as the site of the installations based on the artists’ mutual interest in ornithology and new perspectives that emerged out of the Cultural Landscape Report highlighting the environmental impact of the landscape of Planting Fields. Like the artists, both of whom have participated in numerous scientific expeditions, Planting Fields founder W.R. Coe was also a bird enthusiast and endowed the Professor of Ornithology position at Yale University, an appointment that historically has been filled by the world’s leading ornithologists, including today by Richard Prum, Planting Fields, while renowned for its collection of trees and plants, is also a hot spot for birdwatching, attracting numerous avid birders each season.

The opening preview reception will take place on Saturday, May 16. A complete schedule of exhibition programming will be announced in the coming weeks.

About the Artists Mark Dion has had major exhibitions at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York, dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel, Germany, MoMA PS1 in New York City, ICA Boston, British Museum of Natural History in London, Guggenheim Bilbao and the Tate Gallery in London. His work can be found in the collections of MoMA, Tate Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou and Seattle Art Museum.

David Brooks has had major exhibitions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, MoMA PS1 in New York City, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York, along with exhibitions at the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, Vizcaya Museum in Miami, Florida and major commissions from The Trust for Governors Island, Art Production Fund with the Time Square Alliance, and deCordova Museum, Massachusetts.

About Planting Fields Foundation Planting Fields Foundation preserves and interprets Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park as the premier public gar-

den and Gold Coast estate for today and tomorrow while creatingenriching experiences for the visiting public. Founded in 1952 by William R. Coe, the Foundation is a not-forprofit public educational foundation chartered by the New York State Board of Regents and tax-exempt under the status for a 501C3 organization.

Located in Oyster Bay, New York and originally landscaped by the Olmsted Brothers of Brookline, Mass., the Arboretum grounds feature 409 acres of greenhouses, rolling lawns, formal gardens, woodland paths and outstanding plant collections.

The original historic estate buildings remain intact, including Coe Hall, a 65-room

Tudor Revival mansion designed by “Walker and Gillette.” The interior of the house is a showcase of artistry and craftsmanship and features a distinctly American aesthetic through original ironwork commissions by Samuel Yellin and murals painted by artists Robert Winthrop Chanler and Everett Shinn.

Planting Fields is included in the National Register of Historic Places, the official list of the Nation’s historic sites worthy of preservation.

To learn more about Planting Fields Foundation, visit their website atwww.plantingfields.org.

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L.I. native, opera star to Gold Coast Arts camp perform live spirituals registration now open On Sunday, Feb. 23 at 4:00 p.m., acclaimed opera vocalist Zelotes Edmund Toliver, will be performing his moving Spirituals concert, live at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington.

Toliver is known for his great vocal skill and his deep sonorous bass. His Spirituals concert is dedicated to the historically important religious songs that constitute one of the largest and most significant forms of American folksong.

Toliver will be joined on piano by Wayne Sanders.

His setlist will include iconic African American Spirituals: On ma’ Journey, Down on Me, I’ve been in the Storm so long, All Night, All Day, Joshua fit de’ Battle of Jericho, I Know de Lord´s Laid His Hands on Me, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Chile’, Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel, Oh Glory!, Goin’ To Shout All Over God’s Heav’n, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, O Rocks, Don’t Fall On Me, De’ Ole’ Sheep Done Know de’ Road, City called Heaven, Ride on, & King Jesus Born on Long Island, Zelotes Edmund Toliver studied at Illinois Wesleyan before earning his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical of Arts Degrees at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he sang major roles in fourteen different operas.

He has since performed at The Michigan Opera Theatre, The Wolf Trap Opera, The Cincinnati Opera, The New York City Opera, and The Lyric Opera of Chicago – in addition to numerous performances

Zelotes Edmund Toliver

throughout Europe and Asia. He has received prizes in many international music competitions, including The International Verdi Voice Competition in Buseto, Italy, The Sixth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and he was a regional winner in the Metropolitan Opera auditions in Washington, D.C. His repertory encompasses almost all of the major-bass roles in Mozart, Verdi, as well as, Wagner Operas.

He has worked with leading conductors including Erich Leinsdorf, Heinrich Hollreiser, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Nello Santi, Giuseppe Patanè, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Horst Stein (Vienna), Niksa Bareza and Fabio Luisi (Graz), Ralf Weikert (Zurich), Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jeffery Tate (Paris and Minneapolis), James Conlon (Cologne), Lawrence Renes and Ton Koopmann (Netherlands), Hartmut Haenchen (Amsterdam) and Armin Jordan (Geneva). And is known for playing the parts of Don Basilio, Sarastro, Sparafucile, Boito’s Mefistofele, King Phillip, Grand Inquisitor, Ramphis, King Henry, Gurnemanz, King Marke, Pogner, Fasolt, Hunding, Fafner, and Hagen, in operas around the globe.

Program Event Fees: $15 Cinema Arts Centre Members | $20 Public To learn more about the Cinema Arts Centre visit our website www.cinemaartscentre.org, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

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Before you know it, summer will be here, and now is the time for savvy parents to enroll their children in the Gold Coast Arts Center’s popular summer programs: the SummerArts Camp and the Half-Day Junior Camp. The SummerArts Camp has comprised of one, and two-week-long sessions concentrated on specific forms of visual and performing arts, giving local children a variety of ways to have fun and express themselves. Sign up for one session or all!

As a special offer, parents registering their kids by March 6 can save $25 per week!

The SummerArts Camp Program, which begins on June 29 and runs through Aug. 21, is geared toward children ages six to 14 and goes from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., including lunch and a snack. The Half-Day Junior Camp is for kids pre-K to age six and goes from 9 a.m. to noon, and includes a morning snack. All food provided is nut-free. Flexible scheduling allows for children to attend sessions from as little as one week to all eight weeks.

Knowing that youngsters have a wide range of creative interests, the Gold Coast Arts Center has organized weekly sessions that offer something for everyone, including cartooning, drawing and painting, musical theater, 3D art, ceramics, dance, chess, theatre, Wood Workshop, and NEW Robotics Camp.

“The summer is an ideal time for students to devote 100 percent of their creative energy to a specialty,” said Ellen Schiff, school director at the Gold Coast Arts Center. Ms. Schiff reminds parents that programs fill up very quickly, and encourages parents to register soon, especially before March 6, to take advantage of the early-bird discount that will save them $25 per weekly session.

All camps take place at PHOTO BY BERND PAULITSCHKE the Gold Coast Arts Center, located at 113 Middle

Neck Road in Great Neck.

Tuition depends on attendance dates. Reduced rates are available for members of the Center.

For more information, visit www.goldcoastarts. org.To register for the programs, please call 516829-2570.

WOOD WORKSHOP The Gold Coast Arts Center’s Wood Workshop, a new 4-day program is offered June 29th-July 2nd.

Attendance is limited to 12 students. Campers, ages eight and up, have the opportunity to create their projects using raw materials and supervised in an intimate and safe environment. Safety is paramount.

Students spend a great deal of time working on a One Board Minimalist Chair, which some historians say dates back to the Vikings. Each camper will create a unique piece of furniture using acrylic or water-based paints.

Karen Hubela, the instructor of the wood workshop, explained, “the One Board Minimalist Chair gives practical knowledge with a creative aspect.

Woodworking builds persistence, concentration, and use of new muscles.”

Intern Theo Chang said about last year’s class, “it was an opportunity to be

very creative while designing their chairs, for example, there were a cupcake, spaceship, and chessboard chairs.”

The purpose of the program is to offer youngsters the opportunity to design, cut, and use tools properly. “Safety is emphasized, and we have spotters when using a drill or saw,” Hubela assured.

ROBOTICS CAMP The Gold Coast Arts Center’s Robotics, a new week-long program, is offered Aug. 3rd – Aug. 6th. Children ages seven to 14 and all levels are welcome. Class size is limited to 12 students.

Students will learn to build mechanisms, write programs, and incorporate sensors for the Vex IQ robot by working through a series of guided challenges, such as autonomous navigation, object transportation, and SUMO-bots.

Through a curriculum that meets the next generation of science standards, elementary students will be engaged in authentic scientific experimentation, and energized to develop the skills necessary to be successful in the 21st century.

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N.Y. bail reform vs. common sense

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t has now been several weeks since Gov. Cuomo put his signature on New York’s bail reform law. This hastily passed law has had a major negative impact on the quality of life here in Nassau County, to say the least, as it has taken judicial discretion from our jurists.

I have just finished viewing a YouTube video recorded live and uploaded on Jan. 17. You can find it online by searching for “COBA Bail Reform Carle Place Civic Association.”

Our Nassau County Police

Commissioner, Pat Ryder, offers some graphic examples of how the law has failed to accomplish its goals without much collateral fallout.

Previously, when someone was arrested, they would have to appear before a judge, and a decision would be made at that time whether there was a flight risk, a danger to the community, or a criminal history that would warrant remand to a holding cell pending arraignment. This allowed a judge to make that decision based on factual evidence.

In many of these cases, the judge had the discretion to decide based on these factors whether an appearance ticket and release was sufficient. This is called logic, the public interest is the first consideration.

In the interest of reducing the cost of holding prisoners, and to reduce the costs associated with incarceration, blanket reform was enacted by our progressive fiscal watchdogs and lawmakers, predominantly from the left side of the aisle, with little regard to consequences.

Now it becomes necessary to deal with the aftermath of their ill-thought-out decision. A bill to reform the reform law has been offered by NY state Sen. Tedisco, and it has now made it through the Senate Rules Committee to the Senate floor. A ‘same as’ bill has been presented to the New York State Assembly for their consideration. This is a ‘damage control’ measure to restore judicial discretion to the courts and try to restore some measure of control to our legal system.

Knowing that the squeaky

wheel gets the grease, I urge my fellow New Yorkers to contact their Senators to support and pass S.6861, and to contact their Assemblymen and women to support the ‘same as’ bill A.9047.

When this is accomplished, the task continues, and we must convince our governor to sign the reform legislation into law and return sanity to our legal system.

Eric Spinner New Hyde Park

Manorhaven trustee bids farewell

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n retrospect, after proudly serving as a Trustee of the Village of Manorhaven, my hometown, for the past threeand-a-half years, I am finishing up my second and final term as your trustee.

I have literally given well over 100 percent of my effort, time, and energy to improve the quality of life and conditions of our small waterfront village.

I have totally enjoyed and responded, to the best of my ability, to the numerous challenges that our village and its residents have faced during my tenure.

I am very fortunate that my past police, military, and fire department experiences during the past 55 years have provided me with a well-rounded background while acting as your trustee. I appreciated the support of our dedicated residents, our Mayor, and my fellow board members who backed me on all of my following proposals/recommendations that came to fruition: Total reorganization of Snow Emergency Parking Regulations Possible coverage of Village

by Port Washington Police Meeting with Nassau County Police Department Commissioner of Police resulting in improved

coverage and activity of police officers in Car 604 Installation of additional Stop Signs to increase safety for residents as well as reduce speeding on our local streets Improved activity by our code enforcement personnel pertaining to varied code violations and illegal occupancy Established actual laws pertaining to garbage/refuse regulations Safety regulations pertaining to car repairs on private property Future construction of new 1650’ limestone walkway thru our Preserve with support of our Mayor (grant proposal submitted in Fall of 2019 but was denied

by New York State in December 2019) Enforcement by Nassau County Police Department’s Problem Oriented Police personnel (P.O.P.) in Preserve to minimize drug/alcohol activity at various locations Rewrote the “Trailer” law to prohibit future extended use by businesses of temporary trailers without proper permit from Building Department Rewrote the “Noise” ordinance to incorporate restrictions during times and days of the

week Numerous cleanups by Nassau County Parks & Highway Department personnel along Park Lane opposite Manorhaven Park whereby large portions of the roadway had been covered by growth for years Safety check by NYSDEC personnel of chemical fluids emanating from the rear of 134 Shore Road onto Preserve walkway which have been addressed by the owner of the business Parking Permit Program (tabled by Board at 2018 Open Meeting but may still be a solution to our existing parking conditions in Village in the future)* Served on Waterfront Committee for 18 months to protect our valuable waterfront and supported maintaining the C-1 Zoned District as is Attempted to re-institute the “Neighborhood Security Watch Program” whereby residents could watch out for their neighbors in keeping our village safe.

Unfortunately, our excellent working relationship was disrupted in recent months as the Mayor and my fellow trustees disagreed with my efforts to ensure the safety and health of future residents who would even-

tually be residing in apartments at the new mixed-use site at 22 Sagamore Hill Drive.

This property was issued seven (7) variances by our Board of Zoning Appeals on the original site of Ikenson Iron Works (B.Z.A.#582, dated Feb. 19, 2019) and the trustees voted to take the responsibility for overseeing this project away from the Board of Trustees. Groundwater samplings taken in 2011 and 2019 in five wells at this site revealed the presence of tetrachloroethene, a volatile organic compound, that exceeded the groundwater standards established by the New York State Department of Environmental Conversation.

This project is probably the most controversial one in the history of our village other than the cell tower with it’s “50-year lease” that still has an aroma to it from past village administrations and rightfully should have been presented to our Village Board of Trustees rather than the planning board, with this property being over .5 acres as per our Manorhaven Village Code.

Although my family and I suffered a tragic loss four years ago, I was somehow able to turn

that loss into a gain by focusing all my energy in an attempt to improve the living conditions in our village. My original idea of serving one term in office quickly turned into two terms as the Mayor and I worked hand-inhand for three years on all of the important issues facing our village at the time.

I am especially grateful and proud of the efforts of the members of buildings & code enforcement, highway department and our office staff for their untiring dedication to our village. I totally enjoyed being your trustee, but I am at a point in my life where it is time to enjoy the winters in Florida, a much warmer climate, and it is time for some other residents in our community to step up, get involved, and do the right thing for Manorhaven “Port’s downtown waterfront community.”

I can proudly state that the Village of Manorhaven has been and still is one of the safest villages in Nassau County to live in.Please take a moment to check out my original website: kencaresmanorhaven.com.

Ken Kraft Manorhaven Village Trustee

New bias called age discrimination

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here is a new bias in America and is called, ageism.

There was a most informative report in the AARP Bulletin in this month, that reported about age discrimination in America, in the workplace and in hiring by companies and

corporations.

This report stated that 35 percent of the U.S. population is now over 50 and older. Now to discriminate against older Americans I find most sad.

You see older Americans have much to offer in the workplace. We are experienced, dedi-

cated, and devoted to the companies we work for and need to be respected for our loyalty.

A case in point, I have worked for a plumbing supply house in Mineola for over 40 years, and I am now 70 years old.

Now five years ago I came down with aggressive prostate

cancer and survived. I also had also three operations after that.

I now work part-time for the same company. I am in remission five years later. Now how many companies would have done that?

I guess they had realized my worth? According to the AARP,

if a person is being discriminated against they are to contact AARP, which has promised to help.

Power to all of us seniors who have made America great!

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola

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Trump’s foreign travel attacks bad for U.S. Continued from Page 17 traveling here, including Japan, Germany, New Zealand, Ireland, The Bahamas, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

These developments – Trump’s antagonism to China and Europe on trade policy; his racist travel restrictions on Muslimmajority and non-white nations; and general concern over wanton violence in the U.S. – have contributed to a one-percent decline in international visits to the US for 2019.

Take China, for example. In 2018, three million Chinese visited the U.S., 5.7 percent fewer than in 2017. In the first nine months of 2019, travel dropped a further 4.7 percent. Chinese visitors spend on average $6,700 during their stays, 50 percent more than other international visitors, so you do the math of what the “unwelcome” mat is doing to the US economy.

While global long-haul travel is projected to grow an average of 4.8 percent annually through 2023, the pace of U.S. growth is projected to be just half of that, at 2.4 percent; this will further diminish the U.S. share of the total

long-haul travel market from its 2015 high of 13.7 percent to just 10.4 percent by 2023. That means other countries will benefit from improved ties.

The decline from the 2015 high, has cost the economy $59 billion and 120,000 jobs through 2018. The 2019-2023 decline in market share would cost a further $78 billion in visitor spending and 130,000 American jobs. Thanks, Trump!

“International inbound travel is the No. 2 U.S. export, and making its pace of growth a national priority could be a difference-maker in helping to keep the country out of a recession,” said U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Roger Dow. “Right now, the country is not capturing the full economic potential of overseas travel.”

The travel industry generates $2.5 trillion in economic output and supports 15.7 million jobs. It is unfathomable why its many trade associations do not use their collective clout to protect one of America’s most sacred freedoms, one that should be exported around the world, Freedom to Travel.

Auschwitz: Not long ago.

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fter hearing much about the traveling exhibit, “Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away,” my family and I went to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.

My grandfather– a retired history teacher and expert on World War II and the Holocaust– organized a night for us to experience the display ourselves.

Walking through the first dark hallway of the exhibit, an eerie feeling immediately rushed through my body.

We were led into a large room split up by several panels covered in maps, propaganda, articles, texts, etc., showcased chronologically to tell the story of Nazi domination and the origins of Auschwitz.

I found myself pausing frequently at various panels, trying to absorb as much new information as possible, translating German newspaper clippings, analyzing remaining pottery, utensils and creases in leftover uniforms and watching other visitors do the same. While doing the latter, I witnessed spouses clutch each other tightly as a graphic photograph appeared around the corner and heard deep sighs as people read excerpts from writers in the camp.

After slowly walking through the exhibit, my family and I gathered in the lobby to leave, the rain clouds still flooding above us. I turned one last time to thank the staff at the museum and caught a final glance at the exhibit’s name. At the moment, I realized the weight that accompanied its subtitle and also my own visit.

Not long ago. Not far away.

It seems like a fairly simple concept to grasp. Yet taking into context today’s

climate and parallels, the seemingly plain six-word phrase morphs into an entity with a concerning amount of truth.

Not long ago, President Trump remarked that Jews who support Democrats show “great disloyalty.” Trump’s message was in conjunction with his decision to block two Democratic congresswoman from visiting Israel after they openly criticized some of that nation’s policies. Critics made the point that Trump’s words veered toward a politicization of anti-Semitism.

Although debates about Trump’s allusion to dual loyalty are still aloft, his focus on the Jewish community seemed to contradict the nation he represents, a democracy where all political opinions and actions are valued and respected.

While it is immoral for Trump to criticize a group that does not agree with him, it is far more hurtful and doubtful when that particular group is marked with historical judgment and resulting tragedy.

More recently, CNN reported that the 2019 U.S. hate crime rate spiked to 26%– the highest it has been since 16 years ago.

The local and national news is also becoming increasingly flooded with events of anti-semitic crimes. Just last month, a man ambushed a rabbi’s home in Monsey, N.Y., leaving stabbed and wounded. In Jersey City, N.J., five people were killed after a shooting outside a kosher market.

When considering these recent events, the phrase comes back to mind.

Not long ago. Not far away.

Nearly 80 years since Auschwitz there has been a dramatic increase of Antisemitism around the globe, in the

U.S. and on Long Island. To combat this, the Blank papers reported on significant rallies on North Shore against hate groups.

This vigilance for human rights is encouraging. It is hard for an outsider, one who has not been deeply taught or affected to believe the past events transpired. Even for people who are involved, have been well taught and were affected, have trouble putting the pieces together as to how places like Auschwitz existed.

The reason why exhibits continue to open and travel is to educate those who would otherwise not know.

The only way to avoid repeating a tragedy is to learn of it, learn from it and carry it with you.

When ignorance seems to remain present around a historical issue, it is necessary to spread, preach and scream awareness to remaining groups who fail at understanding. With the uproar in such violent incidents, action needs to be more urgent, as numbness to these frequent events is foreseeable.

Over seventy thousand people have visited the Auschwitz exhibit in New York City. The museum planned to close at the beginning of 2020 but is now extending its deadline after an unexpected increase in attendance. It will officially close on August 30.

To learn more about the Auschwitz exhibit or the Museum of Jewish Heritage, visit https://mjhnyc.org/exhibitions/auschwitz/.

Emily Levine Port Washington Emily is a Schreiber High School senior. She is currently working with UJA’s Witness Project regarding Holocaust remembrance projects.

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Gradual democratization of the vote Continued from Page 16 Candidates were often expected to provide treats for voters, including food and liquor, and a setting for social interactions. This custom obviously benefitted the more affluent candidates. In later years, there were laws that mandated that liquor stores and bars be closed during Election Day hours. These statutes preceded and outlasted the Prohibition Amendment,

but, in recent years, nearly all states have eliminated them.

The voting practices detailed for white adult males prior to 1776 clearly favored the “deferential” aspects of American societies. But, more than anywhere else in the world, the “privilege” to vote gave white adult men the potential to review their elected representatives, even while their choice was limited to casting a ballot for one aristocrat

over another. Still, this flawed system provided more citizen power than anywhere else on the globe.

With the American Revolution came a “contagion of liberty,” as described by historians Bernard Bailyn and Gordon Wood. While protests had early been launched by American elites against the encroachments of a much narrower British aristocracy, it soon became expe-

dient and indeed, necessary, to involve the expansive American electorates.

Although protests began as a battle for home rule against British authority, they increasingly took on dimensions of who should rule at home and how should Americans exercise power. When protests led to war, it was not prudent to deny the vote to American soldiers because they did not own enough

land. The rhetoric of liberty fueled the efforts of more ordinary citizens to become candidates and to have more of a say in defining the laws and culture of the independent states as historian Jackson Turner Main shows.

My next column will focus on “The Expanding Democratization of Voting,” beyond white male property owners, with suffrage processes that enhance the power of the many, not the few.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Couture owner Jean Sparozic dies at 93 Jean Sparozic, age 93, died on Jan. 12, in West Newbury, Mass., with residences in Port Washington and Huntington and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Jean was the beloved husband of the late Joyce Dendievel Sparozic. Loving father of Jill Morrison, Suzy Sparozic, and Wendy Dirkes. Adored grandfather of Jonathan and Ryan. Dear brother of Marie Gunderson.

Reposing at Austin F. Knowles, Inc. Funeral Home, 128 Main St. Port Washington Friday 4-8 PM. Graveside service Saturday 11 a.m. Nassau Knolls Cemetery.

For over 40 years, Jean was owner of Amoureuse Couture, a 7th Avenue Evening Gown Mfg. Amoureuse Couture in New York City, making glamorous custom formal gowns for such notables as Mamie Eisenhower, wife of the President, Opera singer, Beverly Sills, Kathryn Harken (wife of Zero Mostel), Rudy Giuliani’s second wife, Donna Hanover for President George H.W. Bush’s inauguration, a Saudi Prince’s daughter, Rose Mary Clooney, as well, sold to such stores as Saks, Hirshleifer’s on Miracle Mile, and many more around the country.

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Jean Sparozic pany, Jean worked with Bill Blass and Oleg Cassini amongst others notable fashion industry giants.

Born in Masny, France, on Sept. 3, 1926, Spazoric was a French Merchant Marine and made 32 trips across the Atlantic to the U.S.A. during WWII. As a child he was educated at a convent with his sister, his mother, a devout Catholic had

high hopes he would enter the seminary, but Jean had other ideas and wanted to become a merchant sea captain and see the world.

At 16, that dream became a reality when he joined the French Merchant Marines during World War II, making close to 40 trips to the United States and other ports of call. Many times

Weinberg celebrates 100th with Bosworth North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth celebrated Paul Weinberg’s 100th birthday on Jan. 19. Surrounded by friends and family, Mr. Weinberg celebrated his momentous occasion at the Atria in Roslyn. He is a graduate of NYU’s School of Business, where he was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma and the National Business School Honorary Society. He was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army during WWII. Paul was the Chairman of the Village of Kensington Board of Appeals. He was also an active member of the Village of Kensington’s Civic Association and Great Neck South’s PTA. Submitted by the Town of North Hempstead

the ships carried American soldiers and supplies back to wartorn France and other seaports.

Each time after he came to New York Harbor, he would never forget the sight of seeing the Statue of Liberty and being a symbol of freedom.

While in New York City, during free time, he would visit the USO French Canteen, where he met his future bride, Joyce Dendievel, a beautiful, young British and French fashion designer.

Joyce was fluent in French, she was a volunteer at the canteen for the war effort. Jean had tickets to Radio City Christmas Show and the romance bloomed.

Joyce was smitten with Jean’s french accent and Johnny Depp good looks!

After several trips back and forth to France, at 19 years old, Jean decided he wanted to make a life with Joyce in the U.S., and they were married.

Not knowing English, it was rough at first finding work. After moving to Port Washington to live with Joyce and her family, Jean worked for a time at Shield’s Plumbing. The couple moved to New York City and he would find himself working at the Waldorf

Astoria in the kitchen until he visited Joyce’s company, and she helped him find work in the garment district.

He became fascinated with the pattern makers and started taking night courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where he became proficient in pattern making and tops in his field.

At this point, in 1958, Joyce had become a mother to the three girls, and she had saved enough to buy a home. In 1966, he started Amoureuse Couture, and the rest is history. He continued taking courses of all sorts into his fifties.

Around this time, Jean also was able to help bring his mother, step-father, sister and her children from Algiers which was war-torn from French Algerian War at the time, to live in Port Washington, as well.

Jean loved sailing and kept his boat at the Town Dock, taking the family out sailing and fishing.

The couple had spent many summer’s in Montauk camping and fishing, as well. Jean’s other love was restoring old Mercedes Benz in his spare time, well into his eighties.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Toninho named dog of month Geraldine Golder’s Town of North Hempstead Town Clerk Wayne Wink recently awarded the “Dog of the Month” for December, a new monthly program led by the Clerk’s office.

Toninho, a seven-monthold Portuguese Podengo, was named the December 2019 “Dog of the Month” at the Town Clerk’s Office in Manhasset. Toninho is owned by Nick Pereira and resides in Mineola.

The initiative was created as a way to raise awareness about licensing dogs, which is required by New York State law. Dogs who are licensed by

their owners with the North Hempstead Town Clerk are eligible to become “Dog of the Month.”

“Toninho is a young and lively dog certainly deserving of the award. A special thank you to Pets Boutique in Manhasset for their donation toward the gift basket,” said Town Clark Wayne Wink. “Most importantly, I urge residents with dogs who are not licensed to contact my office to start the application process.”

To enter the contest, the first step is to license your dog.

Next, submit a photo either

with the license paperwork or on social media using #DogsofNorthHempstead hashtag.

Please include the name of the dog and part of the town where you live. Owners may submit one entry per dog per year.

The monthly winners of the contest will receive a prize pack with dog-related gifts, as well as a certificate of recognition.

Please visit www.northhempsteadny.govor call 311 or (516) 869-6311 with any questions.

100th birthday

Submitted by the Town of North Hempstead

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD

(Left to Right): Council Member Veronica Lurvey, Town Clerk Wayne Wink, Geraldine Golder, Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Council Member Peter Zuckerman.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Council Members Peter Zuckerman, Veronica Lurvey, and Town Clerk Wayne Wink celebrated Geraldine Golder’s 100th birthday on Jan. 19. Surrounded by friends and family, Ms. Golder celebrated her momentous occasion at the Atria in Roslyn. She became a North Hempstead resident in 1955 when she moved to her first home in Westbury.

Geraldine has two daughters, four grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. She moved to the Atria in Roslyn in 2018 and is still actively involved in social games and lunch with friends. She is part of the “Welcoming Ambassadors” to the community and active in exercise classes, opera lectures, and social events.

Submitted by the Town of North Hempstead

Glen Head school reading celebration The annual Glen Head School Reading Celebration began on Jan. 6. Principal Dr. Peter Rufa hosted the opening ceremony with the theme, “On Your Mark, Get Set…Read!”

During the next few weeks, Glen Head students will be reading lots of books related to the theme, parents will be visiting as reading partners, students will be pairing up to read together, Dr. Rufa will be visiting classrooms to be a guest reader, and acclaimed children’s fiction author, Dan Gutman, will be visiting on Jan. 14. The Reading Celebration will come to an end on Jan. 24th.

During the opening Reading Celebration Ceremony, Principal Rufa read Olympic Gold Medal Winner and famous women’s soccer player, Mia Hamm’s, book titled “Reader’s Never Quit,” which is a story that helps young readers learn how to deal with losing at sports without

getting angry orquitting, and how to be a good teammate. It encourages children to never give up and persevere. As in the past, students are always encouraged to read throughout the year, but for the celebration, reading logs will be noted and calculated for each student so that totals can be summarized at the end of the month.

Many thanks to the following students in the Glen Head Fifth Grade Art Club under the direction of art teacher, Ms. Sarah Rennie, for creating the banner titled, “On Your Mark, Get Set…Read”: Manuela Armata, Eva Dominguez, Serafina DiMisa, Sofia Colletti, Casey Gates, Isabel Espinoza, Claire Colletti, Lance Bobelian, Milton Sierra-Velasquez, John Peck, Parker Snow, Michael Cetta, Brooke Goldstein, Ella Cleary, Sofia Hesseltine, and Lucas Leguizamon.

Submitted by Shelly Newman

Pictured are some students in the Glen Head School 5th Grade Art Club who created the “On Your Mark, Get Set…Read!” banner under the direction of art teacher Sarah Rennie.

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COMMUNITY & SCHOOL NEWS

Shlesinger headlines JCC fundraiser Sid Jacobson JCC has announced its 25th annual Eat. Bid. Laugh! An Auction & Epicurean Event.

The fundraising event will be held on Thursday, March 26, at 6:30 p.m. at Fresh Meadow Country Club in Lake Success.

This year’s event will include a performance by comedian Iliza Shlesinger, tastings from leading local restaurants, and extensive silent auction prizes. Tickets go on sale this week and can be purchased at eatbidlaugh.org.

“We are so excited to celebrate the 25th year of this amazing event that gathers donors, sponsors, and participants to support the vital social service programs at the JCC,” says Connie Wasserman, associate executive director, Sid Jacobson JCC. “The funds raised at Eat. Bid. Laugh! help to create transformative and sustainable programs that meet the needs of all in our community.”

Last year’s event surpassed all others, raising more than $1.6 million, which went towards the event’s mission of helping enhance the lives of those who rely on the JCC’s quality services. Funds raised at Eat. Bid. Laugh! An Auction & Epicurean Event benefit the Sheldon A. Sinett BA-

SICS Fund.

Maintained as an incubator fund, BASICS has the goal of funding Sid Jacobson JCC’s social service programs. Impacting thousands in the community, BASICS has funded more than 70 new programs within the last 14 years. These programs serve all individuals and populations, regardless of their religious affiliation, some of which include those experiencing food insecurity in Nassau County, the first of its kind young-onset Alzheimer’s program, special needs programs including vocational training, and those recovering from addiction looking to reintegrate into the community to sustain wellness.

“This year’s live performance will be

by Netflix comedian, Iliza Shlesinger. Iliza won Elle Magazine’s Woman in Comedy two years in a row and will be a great addition to the evening,” says Bridgette Troisi, Assitant Director of Development, Sid Jacobson JCC. Iliza is one of today’s leading comedians. In 2019, she premiered her fifth Netflix stand up special “UnVeiled,” which delves into her journey of getting married. Her past specials include “War Paint,” “Freezing Hot,” and “Confirmed

Kills.”

Her most recent special, “2018’s Elder Millennial,” was the subject of her Fan-U-Mentary “Iliza Shlesinger: Over & Over” and gives fans an inside look into what goes into making a stand-up special. On the acting front, she will next be seen co-starring opposite Mark Wahlberg in the movie “Wonderland,” directed by Peter Berg, and recently wrapped production on “The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show.”

Both will premiere on Netflix in 2020. Her first book, “Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity” (Hachette Book Group), is a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident woman’s approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships. Her new podcast AIA: Ask Iliza Anything offers up her unique perspective to listeners, answering their questions on virtually any topic.

For more information about Eat. Bid. Laugh! An Auction & Epicurean Event or to purchase tickets starting this week, visit eatbidlaugh.org or contact Bridgette Troisi, Assistant Director of Development at 516.484.1545 ext. 141 or btroisi@ sjjcc.org.

Comedian Iliza Shlesinger

Full S.T.E.A.M ahead in Sea Cliff

As part of the first gradesound science unit, Sea Cliff students worked through the steps of the engineering design process to create their own instruments from recycled materials in the S.T.E.A.M. Lab. After first investigatinghow common instruments vibrate to make sounds,engineers explored the generous collection of recycled materials donated by the Sea Cliff School community and considered the different sounds these

materials could make.

Before building their innovations, students took time to plan their instruments, communicating their ideas through sketches and sharing their designs with peers.Once constructed, students drew detailed diagrams of their instruments and used their scientific understanding of sound to explain what part or parts of the instruments vibrate.

To celebrate their efforts as scientists and engineers, all first gradersthenmarched

through the hallways of Sea Cliff School, playing theirrecycled instruments during the annual S.T.E.A.M. parade to the joy of cheering peers, faculty members, administrators and principal Jeanette Wojcik.

S.T.E.A.M. teacher, Adrien Kaye said, “While this engineering experience enriched and extended the sound science unit, it also supported the district’s emphasis on recycling and the importance of teaching our students to be thought-

ful consumers and responsible citizens.

TheS.T.E.A.M. parade was a chance for our first-grade engineers to communicate this message with the entire school community and to show all students and teachers what is possible with a commitment to conservation, hard work, and ingenuity.”

Submitted by Shelly Newman under the direction of Adrien Kaye and North Shore Schools

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Temple Judea’s sisterhood holds luncheon Members of Women of Reform Judaism Sisterhood of Temple Judea met for lunch recently to review their projects and accomplishments of the past year.

WRJ Sisterhood is a community of creative, compassionate, and dedicated women who join together to promote Jewish values and support and nurture the temple community. Many of the efforts of the group are devoted to supporting various temple projects.

For example, with financial support from sisterhood, a live streaming system has been installed in the Sanctuary so that congregants and others can see Shabbat services and other

WRJ Sisterhood Luncheon

holiday celebrations at home.

Sisterhood provides opportunities for spiritual and personal growth in a Jewish atmosphere through social and learning experiences, such as book and author events and guest speakers on timely topics.

Reaching out to college students through College Connection is an ongoing project, keeping the college students of the congregation involved with Temple from their college campuses.

WRJ offers a wide variety of resources for Jewish study, gifts, life cycle events, and Judaica needs through the Judaica Shop.

Pediatric cardiology, general surgery practice Cohen Children’s Medical Center has opened a 26,000-square-foot pediatric outpatient practice in New Hyde Park that includes pediatric cardiology and general surgery in a facility near the hospital.

The new cardiology space, to be known as Cohen Children’s Northwell Health Physician Partners Pediatric Specialists at New Hyde Park, houses 18 physicians and 45 staff members, as well as nine exam rooms, eight echocardiogram rooms and four rooms dedicated for consultations. A general surgery space, which was relocated from the hospital, will be used primarily for pre- and post-operative visits and features 10 examination and two consultation rooms staffed by seven clinicians and 16 staff members.

Moving pediatric cardiology and general surgery to an outpatient location was necessary to make room for a new 24,000-square-foot inpatient pediatric surgical complex, which is under construction

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within the hospital’s Blumenfeld Family Pavilion. When complete, the complex will provide eight dedicated pediatric operating rooms and a 26-bed flexible intake/post-anesthesia care unit.

Currently, Cohen Children’s relies on Long Island Jewish Medical Center, which shares the same campus, for its OR space and recovery beds. The

pediatric surgical complex will alleviate that need, ensuring seamless, high-quality care for young patients.

“We’ve come a long way since opening in 1983 as the New York area’s first dedicated children’s hospital,” said Charles Schleien, MD, senior vice president and chair of pediatric services at Northwell Health. “Our latest undertaking reflects our

ability to meet the changing health care needs of children in the communities we serve.”

The recently-opened outpatient practice, located at 450 Lakeville Rd. in Northwell Health’s Center for Advance Medicine, is a major piece of Cohen’s $120 million investment in its more than 80 ambulatory offices and new inpatient surgical complex.

About the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York Founded in 1983,Cohen Children’s Medical Center is a 202-bed hospital dedicated exclusively to the care ofchildren.

The specialists in the hospital’s national and international programs cover an entire range of specialties. State-of-the-art care for children’s medical, surgical and dental needs are provided in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The facility is the largest provider of pediatric health services in New York State, serving 1.8 million children in Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties.For the 12th consecutive year in 2018, Cohen’s was ranked among the nation’s best children’s hospitals in U.S. News & World Report’s 2018-19 “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” survey, achieving top-50 rankings in eight of 10 pediatric specialties.

Story submitted by Northwell Health.

Lurvey celebrates Lunar New Year Great Neck School District Superintendent of Schools Dr. Teresa Prendergast, Council Member Veronica Lurvey and the Great Neck School District Assistant Superintendent of Schools Mr. John Powell.

Town of North Hempstead Council Member Lurvey attended the Lunar New Year Celebration at the All Saints Episcopal Church in Great Neck held on Jan. 25. Council Member Lurvey presented a proclamation of recognition to mark the holiday. The event,

which was hosted by the Korean Culture Exposure Center and the All Saints Episcopal Church, celebrated Seollal, the Korean New Year and Daeboreum, the first full moon of the New Year.

Submitted by the Town of North Hempstead

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Hiring wrong can lose you the sale So after several months and a multitude of viewings of homes, you have finally found your first starter, or move up or at last, your amazing dream home.

You put an offer in. The other party asks for your prequalification letter or proof of funds. You aren’t paying outright for your purchase, so proof of funds isn’t as critical (but many times some listing agents will want you to show proof that you have the “out of pocket” money as well as your lender’s letter showing you’re qualified and approved for a mortgage, pending your appraisal for the final written commitment.

You immediately call your mortgage person on their office number; but it’s Friday after 5 pm and he or she is gone for the day and you don’t have their cell, because either they didn’t provide it to you (which they should have in advance) and you didn’t ask for it, which you should have done at your first conversation! Your offer was excepted pending that most important lender letter of your pre-qualification. Your mortgage person doesn’t call you back until Monday (not the most actionoriented lender whatsoever) and you finally receive the let-

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ter. You now have that most important document you then forward over to the listing agent or your agent that is representing you and then call them too.

To your dismay and sadness, someone else has also put an offer in and because they were more prepared, they ended up getting not only the agreed and accepted but the inspection was completed on Sunday, the day before your lender received your call about your much needed, prequalification letter. I have seen the unfortunate situation so, so many times in the past (I had learned the hard way 25 years ago how crucial that letter is right up front because I too had lost a sale due to my client not having that most critical piece of paper in their possession as well as my own copy for our records.

Well never again did that ever happen, because I began to understand that “if you snooze or your client snoozes, they lose and so do you!” So I began to make sure to convey to everyone (as well as outside agents who were showing my properties) the necessity of having that oh so important piece of paper; especially at the time of placing an offer.

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

All those days and months of showing to end of losing a deal for your client as well as a very lucrative commission check; for what? Because you or your agent didn’t ask for a very simple document that would have made your sale happen.

The pain that occurs is sometimes very psychologically disappointing and depressing, especially when today the inventory is less than optimum ( more than 5.4 months and normal inventory as I have said in previous columns is 6-7 months) and many buyers are still very picky and sometimes have specific, “needs and wants.”

So to lose that one home

that you finally “fell in love” with due to a single piece of paper is heartbreaking and sad for not only the purchaser but for the agent too, especially if it is a new agent who hasn’t completed a transaction yet or it may have been several months since their last deal.

This could have been prevented if everyone knew what to ask for in advance of presenting their offers! This is why training and constant mentoring is so crucial, especially for a new “green” or fairly new agents who need to be cuddled and groomed to become strong producers.

It is tantamount to their path to success in earning an excellent living. The real problem is that many who earn their licenses do not grasp the gravity of what they have to do in this or any business when so many have come from or are still in a job position.

Of the approximately 1.4 million realtors in the U.S. almost half have jobs and most cannot perform this business full time. But then again, if many learned how to treat the real estate business like a real business, would they really need a job? Probably not!

However, there are exceptions to those who are fortunate enough to have been able to grow their pensions over the years, so those individuals could not jump ship until the time would be right, it’s called retirement!

I believe in general, due to the lack of proper training and mentoring, by both agents and brokerages, this contributes to a greater than normal dropout rate after the first and second years!

But then again, many think and believe that the road is paved with gold; yes, if they work smart and work very hard, it surely is! Treat it like a business and it will pay you like a business, but treat it like a second job or ancillary income and that is all you will receive.

Philip A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave. Suite 180 in Great Neck.

He has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute and a Certified International Property Specialist.

He can be reached by email: P h i l @ Tu r n Ke y R e a l E s t a t e .

Com, or by cell: (516) 647-4289.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in Great Neck Great Neck Real Estate Market Conditions MEDIAN SALES PRICE $940,000 Demographics near Great Neck, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

City 9,102 5,496 42.3 2.9 89,755 53,791

County 1,352,825 4,752 42.5 2.9 85,195 45,421

47 Stoner Avenue, Great Neck Sold Price: $1,328,000 Date: 08/19/2019 4 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 100x82 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $19,442 MLS# 3116930

29 Bayside Drive, Great Neck Sold Price: $1,100,000 Date: 10/30/2019 4 beds, 3 Full baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 100x109 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $28,860 MLS# 3142092

53 Nassau Drive, Great Neck Sold Price: $1,650,000 Date: 10/28/2019 5 beds, 6 Full/1 Half baths Style: Mediterranean # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 99x104 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $36,246 MLS# 3152301

65 Pine Hill Road, Lake Success Sold Price: $1,560,000 Date: 10/30/2019 5 beds, 3 Full/1 Half baths Style: Contemporary # of Families: 1 Lot Size: .2931 acres Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $30,515 MLS# 3136349

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in Great Neck by a variety of real estate agencies. The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes are presented based solely on the fact that they were recently sold in Great Neck and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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L.I. Music Hall of Fame accepting applications The Long Island Music Hall of Fame is proud to announce that it is accepting applications for the 2020 School Recognition Program.

The Long Island Music Hall of Fame High School Recognition Program is designed to identify Long Island High School music programs that are creating valuable music experiences for their students and that are incorporating the National and New York State Standards for the arts in creative and meaningful ways.

“We are very excited to offer Long Island schools an opportunity to have their music programs objectively evaluated,” said Tom Needham, the Long Island Music Hall of Fame vice education committee chairman. “We will not only honor programs but will also share feedback and learn more about the challenges each school faces as we continue to support and promote music education on Long Island.”

Applications will be reviewed by a panel of music educators some whom have been recognized by the Long Island Music Hall of Fame as “Educators of Note.” High Schools will be given designations of Gold with distinction, Gold, Silver, Bronze or Emerging. Application categories included program details, the inclusion of standards, faculty, as well as community and board support. Recognized schools will have the opportunity to participate in an upcoming Long Island Music Hall of Fame event and will be acknowledged throughout the year.

“The Long Island Music Hall of Fame is committed to music education, it is part of our mission and helps steer many of the programs we have developed,” Hall of Fame Chairman Ernie Canadeo said. “At the High School level, we support students with scholarships, educators with the Educator of Note award and the schools/districts that work to keep their programs at the forefront for their students and communities. We hope to hear from every district so we can show our support as big fans of music education.”

Applicants are asked to submit their applications by March 20, to be considered for the recognition program. The application and additional information can be found at https://www.limusichalloffame.org/scholarshipsgrants/.

Applications are to be mailed to: Long Island Music Hall of Fame High School Recognition Program 1175 Walt Whitman Road Melville, NY 11747 Or emailed to info@limusichalloffame.org For more information on this award or Education scholarships and grants offered by LIMHOF please visit www.limusichalloffame.org/scholarshipsgrants/ or contact LIMHOF’s Board Member for Community Outreach, Kelly Leung at (516) 938-1626 or kellyl@limusichalloffame.org.

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G.N. officials fight subpoena request Continued from Page 1 In October, Youngblood’s lawyer Tamara Harris sought to subpoena Bral, Gill, current village Clerk Karen Green, former village employee Katie Dugan and resident Judy Rosenthal, and Judge Denise Sher of state Supreme Court approved the subpoenas on Jan. 16.

A motion to quash the subpoenas was submitted by Andrew Preston of Bee, Ready, Fishbein, Hatter & Donovan LLP, who represents the village, but was denied by Judge Sher.

Preston sent a notice to the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division of an intent to appeal the decision.

In the initial complaint, Harris asserted that the village “falsely assured residents that the new lights would not be of a high intensity and would not pose a nuisance to the use and enjoyment of residents’ homes.”

Harris, a Manhattan-based attorney, has argued that the installation and lack of shielding of these lights violated New York Public Building Law 143.2a.

The law, established in 2014, states, “No state agency operating in the state shall install or cause to be installed any

PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN

One of the hundreds of LED lights installed throughout the village shines down on a portion of Baker Hill Road, near Village Hall. new or replacement permanent outdoor fixture unless the following conditions are met: In the case of roadway lighting or parking-lot lighting; whether mounted to poles, buildings or other structures, the fixture is fully shielded.”

Youngblood was joined by other residents in the past who expressed concerns over the LED light installation throughout the village.

In preliminary document submissions to the court in response to Youngblood’s com-

plaint, Preston cited the need for the streetlights remaining on as a safety measure. If not, it “could result in an unsafe condition to the general public and expose the Village to further tort liability,” according to the response submitted to the court

in February 2018.

While minutes of meetings where LED lighting was discussed do not show any guarantees by Bral, Gill or the board, Harris asked for the audio recordings of each meeting to fully determine the minutes’ accuracy.

The village said that those recordings no longer exist, leading Youngblood and Harris to say they believe that they were intentionally destroyed.

As the former clerk, Gill was reportedly in charge of maintaining the audio recordings.

According to Gill, his job was to retain voice recordings of village board minutes for at least four months.

But Rosenthal received separate, unrelated recordings from Green that stretched beyond the past four months.

“Long story short, the story kept changing,” Harris said. “So the judge wanted a hearing to determine if there was an intentional destruction of evidence.”

In an affidavit received by the court on Oct. 31, Bral said he had nothing to do with tampering with or destruction of any audio recordings, nor asked Gill to do so.

Belmont plans began in 2016: village Continued from Page 3 the former head of the New York Racing Association, or NYRA, ESD officials and Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office in 2016. The emails show communication involving details of a “master plan” for the project.

Former NYRA CEO Chris Kay sent the emails containing the “master plan” to a handful of former and current ESD officials, including former CEO Howard Zemsky and current Senior Vice President Thomas Conoscenti.

While the “master plan” contained most of the same elements that the approved proposal featured, such as a retail sector, arena, park and hotel, Jack Sterne, a spokesman for Empire State Development, said that any realistic proposal would share similarities.

One of the main differences in ESD’s approved site is that the acre size is 43 acres, rather than the NYRA proposal at 65.

In his statement, Fitzgerald said: “It is also telling that, immediately after these documents were released, ESD attempted to retract the release of these documents, despite the lack of any legal basis to withhold these documents from public disclosure. In our view, the documents belatedly turned over by ESD further support the Village’s contention that the entire process – from well before the commencement of the Request for Proposal (RFP) process and continuing through the

environmental review process conducted by ESD – was merely a show to hide a predetermined outcome.”

Sterne said ESD abandoned its first request for proposals in December 2016 and subsequently issued a second one a year later in July. Sterne also said that ESD has followed “an independent, competitive process” and that the arena proposal was chosen because it scored the highest of the three responses.

All we asked for (and quite frankly

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have a legal right to) was to have meaningful input in the process from the beginning.”

Kevin Fitzgerald DEPUTY MAYOR OF FLORAL PARK

The criteria that the responses were scored on diversity practices, community benefit, project design and timing, and the extent to which the project strengthens Belmont as a “destination.”

“This is nothing more than a Hail Mary attempt by the Village of Floral Park to kill a project that is creating thousands of jobs and generating billions of dollars in

economic activity,” Sterne said in an email. “The winning proposal was selected because it scored the highest on the clear, straightforward criteria outlined in our process. This other document from NYRA is old news and immaterial.”

In the statement, Fitzgerald asked several questions focused on the transparency, or lack of it in his view, that the ESD provided the village and its residents throughout the planning stages and with an environmental, or SEQRA, review.

Based on a public letter NYRA provided to ESD, SEQRA reviews include the impacts from NYRA conducting night racing, if and when it is legalized in New York, as well as the other NYRA operations at the Belmont and facility.

Fitzgerald closed his statement by saying the village and its residents were not against development at Belmont, despite the ongoing lawsuit with developers, but rather the way the development agency handled the community’s input.

“All we asked for (and quite frankly have a legal right to) was to have meaningful input in the process from the beginning,” Fitzgerald said. “It is now even clearer based on the aforementioned partial discovery that it appears that it never was the intent of the ESD as lead agency to have meaningful conversations and take those concerns from those meetings into serious consideration.”

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Your legacy, our legacy through the arts I attended a conference this weekend in Manhattan with the unusual title “Trauma Trails” about the impact a specific cultural trauma can have on generations that come after. The talk was by Dr. Michael O’Loughlin, an Irish psychoanalyst and professor at Adelphi University and his work focused on uncovering the traumatic damage done to the Irish due to the Great Famine of 1845 to 1849. He suggested that traumas like this can lead to an intergenerational transmission that impacts the minds, bodies, appetites, personalities, and behavior for generations.

We all know that each nation has a specific character. The Irish are stoic, spiritual, intellectual and depressed. I can attest to this fact because my mother was a beautiful Irish woman but the best she could come up with for comfort when I needed it was to say “You made your bed, now sleep in it.”

Dr. O’Loughlin suggested that the secrets of past ancestral trauma are buried deep within each of us and though these things influence us we really do not have access to discovering exactly what they are or how they function.

The secrets of our homelands remain as a silent presence which gives us our strength and also our anguish.

I can see much truth in his hypothesis. I think there is a stoic, defensive,

jority are very warm sullen, and yet humorand very middle class, ous and magical qualnot the upper-class ity about the Irish. As aristocrats that Ameria sport psychologist, cans typically think I have observed that of when they think of some of the best golfthe British Empire. Alers in the world such as lan emphasized the Rory McIlroy, Padraig working-class mentalHarrington, Graham ity most British have McDowell, and Shane and how they all must Lowry come from Irework hard and focus land. Golf is punishDR. TOM FERRARO on survival rather ing and extremely Our Town than lording it over pressure-packed and others. As he spoke the Irish golfer seems to have a remarkable ability to remain of all this I thought of one of my favorite British authors, Thomas Hardy and calm, stoic and well defended.

More proof of the Irish charac- realized that Allan was correct to deter is seen in the Samuel Beckett play scribe this character trait. In “Far from “Waiting for Godot,” a work filled the Madding Crowd” Thomas Hardy with Irish humor used to ward off, wrote of the love and honor amidst the despair, hunger, and suicidal urges. harsh realities of the farming commuI wondered if I might be able to ask oth- nity in 19th century England. There has er folks from foreign nations to define never been a more humble and honorfor themselves their nation’s personality able hero than Gabriel Oak the faithful and character traits. So off I went down farmer who forever loved the beautiful Hillside Avenue and ran into a variety of Bathsheba Everdene. That is the type of shopkeepers who were born overseas. British character that Allan Walsh was My first interview was with Allan Walsh describing to me.

I left the jewelry shop and headed longtime owner of Pyramid Jewelers.

Allan was born and raised in London westward and stopped at Williston and still has that distinctive British ac- Park Florist owned by the gregarious cent. I asked him to describe the British and always affable Gus, who is Greek personality and he told me that the ma- through and through. I asked him to try

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to describe the Greek personality and he smiled and then said: “The Greeks are a happy people and know how to live a good life.” I thought of the famous film Zorba the Greek starring Anthony Quinn and the wonderful dance he did.

Gus went on to tell me that perhaps the weather helps the Greeks to relax and enjoy life and said, “In Greece, the people work to live whereas in America, we live to work.” This is an old adage that is truer today than ever before and I reminded myself to book the Greek cruise this spring.

I had a chance to then interview Gus’s assistant Chris who is Peruvian and who told me that Peru has the fabled city of El Dorado with all the gold in the world but you must go into the Amazon to get it. Peru compelled the Spanish conquistador Pizarro to enter in search of Inca gold. Pizarro’s conquest entered into modern mythology when Werner Herzog made the mesmerizing film “Aguirre: The Wrath of God” about man’s obsession with gold and power.

And after interviewing these three men and after listening to Dr. O’Loughlin’s talk about the Irish I could see that two things were true. One, it is true that each country has a history that is deeply embedded into its people over many generations. And two, it will take either a masterful psychoanalyst to unlock these secrets or a great artist to do the same.

Artists like Samuel Beckett, Thomas Hardy, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Werner Herzog are like the fabled city of El Dorado in that they are worth their weight in gold. The wonderful Irish poet Yeats coined the term Spiritus Mundi which was that deep place that artists dive into to bring back to us the secrets of their society. So if you perchance are interested in learning about the secrets that are embedded within you have two choices.

Either get yourself into psychoanalysis or go see a great film or book that is authored by someone well-known in your homeland. You will learn far more about yourself in analysis, by watching a great film or reading a great novel than any Ancestry.com readout you can buy.

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3 from Chile arrested for burglaries: police Continued from Page 1 Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said last Thursday that the crew had just returned home from robbing residences in New Jersey, which police found out after arrests were made.

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“ his is not the only burglary team. So we need to continue to lock doors and keep alarms on until the other groups are apprehended as well.”

Dan Levy SADDLE ROCK MAYOR

fugitive from justice charges, according to officials. Authorities have alleged that Quintero-Baeza has committed “violent robberies” in Chile and Spain.

Ryder said members of the crew are “students of the game.

They’re studying where the money is,” during a news conference.

Officials said this “Chilean burglary crew” targeted homes in New Jersey and California as well. On Long Island, homes in Saddle Rock, Hewlett and Great Neck were hit by the crew, according to officials.

According to officials, an

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Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said that three members of a Chilean burglary crew have been arrested. estimated $1 million in jewelry, cash and electronics has been stolen from East Coast homes.

Police arrested Bryan Alexis Farias Luna, 28, of Puente Alto, Chile, and Isaias Antonio Lienlaf Donoso, 35, of Santiago, Chile, on Dec. 10.

Police said that areas such as Manhasset, Woodbury, Jericho, Kings Point and Munsey Park have also been targeted by crew members who were taken into custody.

The pair burglarized the home of Saddle Rock Mayor Dan Levy before ending up in custody, according to the county

police. According to officials, the men stole roughly $100,000 worth of family items, gold coins and watches from Levy.

“We need to continue to be vigilant,” Levy wrote in a statement after the incident. “This is not the only burglary team.

So we need to continue to lock doors and keep alarms on until the other groups are apprehended as well.”

Both men were charged with burglary in the second degree and arraigned at the First District Court in Hempstead on Dec. 11 on $50,000 bond or $25,000 cash bail, according to

officials.

Ryder said that the new bail reform laws implemented on Jan. 1 allowed Luna and Donoso to not show up for a court date and travel back to Chile to avoid further prosecution.

“Those two individuals were supposed to report to [get] their ankle bracelets; they did not,” Ryder said. “They were supposed to show up in court a week later; they did not show.

Those two individuals as we said before are probably back on a beach in Chile right now, watching this and having a good laugh.”

Ryder said despite the new bail reform laws, the department will continue to use every resource at its disposal to apprehend more members of crews such as this one.

“You come to our community, we’re going to hunt you down,” Ryder said. “You commit these crimes, we’re going to hunt you down. There will be more arrests coming for these ongoing burglaries.”

Ryder also asked residents to be on the lookout for Bryan Leandro Herrera-Maldonado, a suspect who remains at large after fleeing the scene on Jan. 21.

G.N. charity spreads kindness across L.I. Continued from Page 2 of Kindness” speaks to the generosity she has seen the organization cultivate with its members and volunteers.

Just like a fountain has a consistent flow and stream of water pouring out of it, the organization feels it does the same with philanthropic efforts.

Because the organization is a nonprofit, Aziz said she and the members are always appreciative when

community members donate funds so they may continue helping others.

The next Fountain of Kindness event will take place at Leonard’s Palazzo in Great Neck on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. as members package boxes for families in need. The event is singles only, something Aziz thought could be a fun idea.

“There are so many events and opportunities for

families to help give back and participate in,” she said.

“But we all thought it would be nice to play matchmaker while we all collectively help those in need.”

To inquire more about the organization or to sign up to be a volunteer, visit and follow @fountainofkindness on Instagram and Facebook or visit its website, www. fountainofkindness.org.

Parkland victim’s mom speaks on gun control Continued from Page 2 trial.”

“Let’s be perfectly clear, there are no survivors of a mass shooting, only victims,” Beigel Schulman said. “The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had thousand of victims.

I have no bullet wounds, no physical scars, I never felt anything piercing my body, but I am a victim. I will never be the same.”

Beigel Schulman’s goals now include passing a federal red flag law and House Resolution 8, which would allow for universal background checks on all gun sales.

“If Florida had a red flag law prior to Feb. 14, 2018, my son would be alive today,” Beigel Schulman said. “If the shooter’s social media history would have been able to be reviewed, we know for a fact that law enforcement would have discovered that the shooter was a

danger to himself and a danger to others.

If this had been done, the shooter would have been denied the ability to buy that assault rifle that murdered my son.”

A scholarship honoring Scott and the two other teachers who died saving their students is awarded annually at the Orange Bowl, and Beigel Schulman founded the Scott Beigel Memorial Fund to send children touched by gun violence to sleepaway camp. A total of 54 children have been sent to three camps in

New York state, and the fund is looking to send 54 more this summer.

“Just to be clear, all gun violence is senseless,” Beigel Schulman said. “Much as we might want it to be so, all gun violence is not preventable. I am not looking to ban all guns, we have a constitutional right to bear arms. I am fighting to save the lives of our children, grandchildren, husbands, wives, sisters, brothers, friends and co-workers.”

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