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Friday, October 30, 2020

Vol. 95, No. 44

ELECTION GUIDE 2020

LIBRARY ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED

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PA I N T PA R T Y

Leonard’s liquor license revoked Sept. wedding violated COVID-19 guidelines: Gov

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Leonard’s Palazzo of Great Neck, known for its extravagant setting for weddings, birthdays and other celebrations, had its liquor license suspended for violating capacity laws set by the state due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Friday that Nassau County Fire Marshal Scott Tusa met with the manager

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Great Neck Park District‘s annual Halloween Window Painting event was held on Bond Street in Great Neck Plaza on Sunday. The participants had a fun, safe opportunity to channel their spookiest, most creative inner artists and help Great Neck get into the Halloween spirit. Health protocols were strictly enforced including health screenings and the requirement to wear a mask for the duration of the event.

of Leonard’s, located at 555 Northern Blvd., on the evening of Sept. 25 after numerous complaints regarding excessive noise and large gatherings were filed against the venue.

According to Cuomo, the manager told Tusa that the licensee was hosting a wedding with 100 to 120 guests, at least double the 50-person limit on nonessential gatherings.

Tusa then observed a room inside Leonard’s set up for around 80 people, and another

one set up for 120 people and saw guests standing, drinking and ignoring social distancing measures, according to Cuomo. Tusa reportedly warned the licensee two weeks earlier about occupancy limits.

Efforts to reach a representative from Leonard’s for comment were unavailing.

Cuomo and State Liquor Authority Chair Vincent Bradley said there has been an increase in restaurants and small Continued on Page 42

N. Hempstead votes to take ExteNet settlement Board calls on federal officials to help oppose cell nodes

BY R O S E W E L D ON The North Hempstead Town Board unanimously voted to accept a settlement from ExteNet Systems to construct 13 cell nodes in its unincorporated areas at a virtual meeting last Thursday night.

Members said they were

only doing so because they had no choice, but residents said they could have done more to fight the nodes, which are intended to improve 5G cellphone service.

Councilwoman Mariann Dalimonte, whose district would be directly affected by the nodes, said: “I don’t want

to approve any wireless facilities being installed right outside of people’s homes. But I believe this is an acceptable compromise under the circumstances.

“The federal law has us backed into a corner. My choices are either to approve the 13, Continued on Page 41

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Four elected to G.N. Manhasset school Library positions board eyes mascot Mairzadeh and Gold join Board of Trustees

Various groups speak on possible change

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Four people were elected to fill spots on the Great Neck Library’s Board of Trustees and Nominating Committee on Monday.

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Two longtime Great Neck residents, Josephine Mairzadeh and Kathleen Gold, were elected to the Great Neck Library’s Board of Trustees on Monday.

Mairzadeh, a Great Neck resident for more than 25 years, received 223 of the 225 votes cast to fill a seat on the board held by Josephine Pizer. The other two votes went to write-in candidates.

Gold, a resident of Great Neck for 25 years, received 175 votes to fill the other spot on the board, currently held by Rebecca Miller. Roya Songhorian received 72 votes.

Mairzadeh and Gold were elected to four-year terms.

Mairzadeh currently serves as the legislative aide to Nassau County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum (D-Great Neck) and has served on the Sephardic Heritage Alliance’s board of trustees.

She was also the library Nominating Committee’s endorsed candidate.

“Libraries are more than

just books; they provide an ecosystem of service that both harbors and refortified our community long term,” Mairzadeh said. “They are an incubator of technological advancement for people of all ages, who can have access to the tools to design what they dream – even if they couldn’t have access to it otherwise.”

Gold is a special education teacher for the New York City Department of Education, a private tutor and an executive function coach for Beyond Booksmart, an organization that “empowers young people and adults to manage themselves effectively by providing tools, strategies and mentoring that lead to a lifetime of success,” according to its mission statement.

Gold has also been active throughout the community, serving on the Hebrew academic board at North Shore Hebrew Academy, the executive board for Young Israel of Great Neck, and the board of advisers for Meorot, a Hebrew special education school in Great Neck.

“Now, more than ever, the

library should play a central role in all our lives,” Gold said.

“While we are all getting acclimated to the COVID-impacted world, one thing that holds true is our need for literature.

Whether one is a baby just learning to touch the pages of a colorful book, a kindergartner learning phonics, a developing reader learning to comprehend a text’s lessons or an adult reading for pleasure, the library is a treasure cove for us all to explore.”

Marianna Wohlgemuth and Marietta DiCamillo were also elected to the library’s Nominating Committee on Monday to serve three-year terms in the seats currently held by Cheng Carey Ye and Siu Song (Alex) Au. While both incumbents received two write-in votes each, Wohlgemuth and DiCamillo each received four votes.

Rebecca Rosenblatt Gilliar received two votes and Robert Mendelson, Richard Lillien and Pizer received one vote each as well.

All four winners will begin their tenures at the library’s January reorganization meeting.

Students, alumni, longtime residents and representatives of Long Island’s indigenous nations turned out in droves over Zoom to discuss the Manhasset school district’s Indian mascot for the better part of a nearly three-hour meeting of the school board last Thursday night.

The district began talks about the mascot two months after a Change.org petition with over 3,000 signatures against it was created around the time the former Washington Redskins announced that they would be retiring their name and logo.

Alumni and current students alike referred to the mascot as racist and outdated, an idea reiterated by representatives of the Montaukett and Shinnecock nations on Long Island.

As a number of residents waited to speak, Superintendent Vincent Butera told the public that no decision on the mascot would be made that night.

“Regardless of your feelings and opinions on this issue, we can be certain that there are many in our community who have the opposite feelings and opinions,” Butera said. “And out

of respect for that, I ask that we temper our reactions, and show our students that we can be understanding and respectful of people who have different points of view.

“Tonight is about just that, allowing viewpoints to be shared and understanding the issue so that I, working in partnership with the board, can establish a process that allows us to make recommendations that are consistent with our goal of promoting equity, inclusivity and dignity for all people and to examine our practices and conditions against that standard.”

Butera first welcomed representatives from the Montaukett Indian Nation, the Shinnecock Indian Nation, the Ungechauk Nation, the Setalcott Nation and the Matinecock Nation, whose Chief Martin Lone Wolf Jones was among the first to speak. Jones began by greeting the assembled in his native language and discussed his nation’s history and connection to the Manhasset area.

“I’m just grateful to be a part of this conference meeting if I can share some input into how we feel about that mascot, the, Continued on Page 53

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The Manhasset school board held a discussion of the district’s Indian mascot last Thursday.

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Cohen one step away from owning Mets G.N. native, hedge fund manager’s bid clears MLB Ownership Committee; final vote to ‘come soon’

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Hedge fund billionaire and Great Neck native Steve Cohen’s majority purchase of the New York Mets was approved by Major League Baseball’s Ownership Committee last Tuesday.

The next step in the process is a review by league Commissioner Rob Manfred’s Executive Council. Afterward, the sale will be voted on by the league’s owners.

Cohen is required to obtain 23 votes for final approval of the sale to occur. The final vote could possibly take place soon after the World Series ends, according to league officials.

Efforts to reach Cohen or MLB officials for comment were unavailing.

Cohen purchased a majority ownership stake in the New York Mets in September, which, if further approved, would value the Mets at $2.475 billion. Cohen would hold a 95 percent stake.

The earliest Cohen would take over control of the team after a vote from other MLB owners would be November. The deal would break the record for the most money paid for a Major League Baseball franchise.

Cohen is the CEO of Point72 Asset Management and has an estimated net worth of $14.6 billion, according to Forbes.

In 2012, Cohen bought an 8 percent partnership stake in the team for $40 million.

Cohen was one of several interested

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Great Neck native and hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen purchased a 95 percent stake in the New York Mets in September. parties, including one consisting of Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez, who submitted bids to purchase a majority stake in the franchise in July.

Cohen’s initial proposal of $2.6 billion in December was rejected by team ownership in February. The proposed deal would

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have increased Cohen’s ownership of the team from 8 percent to 80 percent.

Sterling Partners, the company that runs the franchise, is headed by Fred Wilpon and Mets’ President Saul Katz, who is Wilpon’s brother-in-law. The company is a diversified, family-run group of companies, whose portfolio consists of real estate, sports and media in the New York area.

In 1980, Wilpon purchased a 1 percent stake in the Mets. He and Nelson Doubleday Jr. of the Doubleday publishing company agreed to purchase the team for $81 million in 1986, less than a month after it won the World Series. Sixteen years later, Wilpon bought out Doubleday’s 50 percent stake in the company for $391 million.

After the man behind a $64 billion Ponzi scheme, Bernard Madoff, was arrested in 2008, questions arose as to how close his connections were to the Mets and longtime associate Wilpon.

Wilpon and Katz founded their realestate development company, Sterling Equities, in 1972. Thirteen years later, a year before splitting ownership in the Mets, Wilpon invested $3 million with Madoff.

According to The New York Times, more than 500 accounts that Madoff possessed could be tied to Wilpon and Katz.

While a majority of the fan base has rejoiced in talk of the Wilpons’ days being numbered with the organization, Cohen’s

track record is less than pristine.

In 2013, Cohen’s hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors pleaded guilty to insider trading charges after being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, eventually coming to terms with a $600 million settlement.

A Vanity Fair article in June 2013 portrayed U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York as the Ahab to Cohen’s Moby Dick and described Cohen as the central figure of seven years of investigations that led to convictions or confessions from 71 people.

Michael Steinberg, a former top trader at SAC Capital, was charged with four counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy in 2013.

The charges against Steinberg were subsequently dismissed after the case was abandoned in 2015 after U.S. prosecutors said the case was no longer consistent with the law. He and Cohen are both alumni of Great Neck North High School.

Since 2002, the Mets have been to the postseason three times and accumulated 50 more losses than wins, going 1,4321,482. In 2015, the team made its’ first World Series appearance in over a decade, falling to the Kansas City Royals in five games.

After a wild-card loss to the San Fransisco Giants the following year, the team has not made the playoffs since.

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Cops probing residential burglary in G.N. Two masked men allegedly broke into unsuspecting man’s house last week: police

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Detectives from Nassau County’s Sixth Squad said they are investigating a burglary attempt in a Great Neck home last Thursday afternoon.

An unnamed 26-year-old man was asleep in his bedroom at a Westminster

Road residence when he was awoken by footsteps and noise from his parent’s bedroom, adjacent to his room, according to police. The man walked into his parent’s bedroom and observed two men, one holding a screwdriver in his hand, according to officials.

The two intruders then fled past him,

left the house and entered a white SUV with an unknown license plate number being operated by another person, according to officials. The white SUV was last seen heading south on Westminster Road in Great Neck, officials said.

The 26-year-old resident was reportedly uninjured, and it is believed that the

two intruders entered the home through an unlocked door, but no property was reported stolen, officials said.

The two intruders were described by officials as Hispanic, around 40 years old, 5-foot-4 to 5-foot-6, both wearing darkcolored pants, colored sweatshirts and ski masks covering their faces.

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Voters flock to early polling sites A record 40,000 Nassau residents cast ballots in first few days: Curran

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Around 40,000 Nassau County residents had taken the trip to one of 15 early voting sites as of Tuesday, according to election board officials.

Around 60,000 Long Islanders had cast their ballots in the early voting process, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said Tuesday. She said the turnout was more than twice the total amount of early votes last year.

Registered Democrats have been more inclined to vote early, officials said. On Saturday, when early voting began throughout the state, 12,839 Democrats and 4,347 Republicans went to the polls in the county, according to officials.

The final weekend count of Nassau residents who participated in early voting was 35,334, Nassau Democratic Elections Commissioner James Scheuerman said. More than 20,000 registered Democrats in Nassau County cast their ballots in person before Monday, compared

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The Gayle Community Center in Roslyn Heights is one of a number of early voting locations named by Nassau County for the general election in November. with 7,532 Republicans, according to county data. The county did not give the affiliation of the rest of the early voters.

Curran stressed the importance of voting to county residents, regardless of who they choose to support on a local and national level.

“It is not my business who

you vote for; that is up to you,” Curran said during a Friday news conference. “But I will say and beseech you to please let your voice be heard.”

Curran touted the work of state officials who helped implement early voting throughout New York for the first time last year. Curran said the county

invested close to $4 million to make sure early voting was spread out in 15 locations.

Scheuerman said the Board of Elections has been consistently meeting with law enforcement to ensure health and safety protocols implemented due to the pandemic are observed, and no instances of voter intimida-

tion are occurring.

“The Police Department is with us on Election Day as well, so if there’s any issues at the poll site, with voter intimidation, the police will respond accordingly,” Scheuerman said.

He also said the county received more than 180,000 requests for absentee ballots. The next closest election in terms of absentee ballot requests was 2016, when the county received around 48,000 requests. Of the 180,000 requests this year, Scheuerman said, around 44 percent had already been returned as of Friday.

All early polling places will be open until Sunday, with times varying by day and listed below.

Locations in the Town of North Hempstead include the Gayle Community Center at 53 Orchard St. in Roslyn Heights, the Floral Park Recreation Center at 124 Stewart St., the Yes We Can Center at 141 Garden St. in Westbury, and the Nassau County Board of Elections at 240 Old Country Road in Mineola.

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Tuman wants to improve local brand of GOP Hempstead engineering commissioner, Congressional candidate discusses the issues

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Douglas Tuman is running against U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice in the 4th Congressional District election.

Doug Tuman said the way President Donald Trump has shifted the ideology and values of the Republican Party over the past four years was one reason he is running for Congress on the GOP ticket.

“One of the first reasons I wanted to run before COVID started was to improve the brand of the local Republican Party as it is not being reflected in the best light,” Tuman said. “It has a lot to do with Trump and how he is being perceived. I would’ve liked to see him unite us all more.”

Tuman praised Trump’s initial decisions on cutting off international transportation and quickly reacting to the coronavirus pandemic. Tuman, who said he had the virus in March, said he understood Trump’s point of preserving individual liberties, but acknowledged that the President did not make the point in necessarily the “best way.”

“I do think [Trump] could have maybe led by example better and mask up more in public,” Tuman said. “I think that’s the point he’s trying to make. Allowing people to make and live with their own decisions. At the end of the day, the virus is something we will probably all be living with, like the flu.”

Tuman is the engineering commis-

sioner for the Town of Hempstead and hosts a YouTube channel discussing cryptocurrency. He is running against incumbent Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) in the 4th Congressional District.

The district comprises central and southern Nassau County, including Floral Park, Garden City, Hempstead, Mineola, Carle Place, New Hyde Park and Westbury.

Tuman said some form of second federal funding should be passed as soon as possible, siding with Rice in the “something is better than nothing” viewpoint.

Tuman said the priority for the federal government is to conduct bipartisan conversations and get federal dollars into the hands of people who have been impacted the most by the pandemic.

Tuman said he believes racism is still “very real in the country and in Nassau County” and supported the Black Lives Matter movement for magnifying that problem on a local level in ongoing efforts to dispel it. However, Tuman said, some of the group’s ideology can be interpreted as “very left-winged extremist,” referring to some calling to defund the police.

“We need to get the police better integrated into these communities so there’s no fear on either side,” Tuman said.

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Sillitti touts experience at forum Democrat, 16th Assembly District candidate, talks police reform, Plandome Rd. sewer project

BY R O S E W E L D ON Manorhaven resident and Democratic state Assembly candidate Gina Sillitti discussed the coronavirus pandemic, small businesses and other topics over Zoom at a Blank Slate Media forum last Thursday.

Sillitti is running for the 16th Assembly District, which includes Great Neck, Port Washington, Manhasset, Roslyn Heights, North Hills, Flower Hill, Lake Success, Baxter Estates, Manorhaven and Sands Point. She is opposed by Republican candidate, small-business owner and Manhasset Hills resident Ragini Srivastava, who was unable to attend the forum due to health reasons.

The district’s current representative, Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso (D-Port Washington), announced in January that he would retire after two terms.

A 20-year veteran of government work, Sillitti began her career in the Nassau County Legislature before joining the Town of North Hempstead and working as its deputy commissioner of community services. She later worked for former Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman and sitting Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, and currently serves as director of human resources for the Nassau County Board of Elections.

The candidate said that she supports most of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in New York and that “his data driven approach” had “saved a lot of lives in New York.”

“Obviously, this pandemic targets, for the lack of a better word, the most vulnerable among us,” Sillitti said. “Overall, I would rather him [be in charge], then some other people that are in charge right now.”

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Democratic state Assembly candidate Gina Sillitti at a Blank Slate Media interview last week.

She added that federal funding for municipalities is needed everywhere, not just in New York.

“They kept picking on New York and calling it a blue state bailout,” Sillitti said. “But, the unfortunate thing is, it’s not just us, the pandemic didn’t just hit New York.

We definitely took the brunt of it, we probably spent more than any other state, but the pandemic caused our economy across the country to come to a screeching halt. We lost billions in revenue, while we were spending billions of dollars to save New Yorkers and Americans. So it’s not a blue state problem. It’s an American problem.”

Sillitti said that the small businesses in the area are “legitimately nervous” about it, which may have to re-

sult in “the towns, the villages and the chambers coming together.”

“We have 31 villages in the Town of North Hempstead, and 22 of them, I think, are in the 16th Assembly District,” Sillitti said. “And our job, I believe, as elected officials, especially from the state government, is to give them the tools that they need to succeed. But that’s going to come with the revenue-generating measures that we talked about, the federal stimulus that we hopefully get, but the chambers of commerce are part of the backbone of these communities. Because of my background, I know a lot of these folks, I’ve worked with them for so many years. I know I can pick up the phone and call and say, ‘How can I help you? What can we do, to help out these businesses?’ Right now they’re hanging on by a thread, we tried our best to support them over the summer and into the early fall. And now we’ve just got to grab the bootstraps, and really hunker down to get through this winter.”

Sillitti says that she supports the Black Lives Matter movement and the police, and that while policing must be reformed, the police themselves need to have a hand in the changes.

“There can’t be police reform without police being involved in the reform,” Sillitti said.

She also said that “the intention was there” for bail reform initiatives passed by the state, but that “we could have done better,” and that placing the legislation in this year’s budget was “a cop-out.”

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Ex-Belmont worker charged in horse death

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ A former backstretch employee at Belmont Park was charged with releasing a racehorse onto blacktop, resulting in the animal suffering a fatal injury, according to Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas.

“This defendant is accused of releasing a young racehorse named Pasta from her stall, causing the horse to become frightened and run onto blacktop where she fell and died a painful death,” Singas said in a news release last Thursday.

Ramzan Antooa, a 38-yearold Elmont resident, entered stable No. 22 at Belmont Park and released the two-year-old female racehorse on July 30, according to the DA’s office.

The release spooked the horse, resulting in her running around the barn and onto the blacktop area where she slipped and fell, Singas said.

Pasta, who was valued at more than $200,000, broke her

leg, causing the horse to “bleed profusely” and die shortly after her fall, according to the news release. Singas said the defendant released the horse in retaliation for being fired.

“Every animal deserves to be treated with care and compassion, and my Animal Crimes Unit remains committed to prosecuting this and all of our animal crimes cases,” Singas said.

Antooa was arraigned before Judge Robert Schwartz and was charged with second-degree grand larceny, third-degree burglary, fourth-degree criminal mischief, second-degree aggravated harassment, interference with or injury to certain domestic animals, and petit larceny, according to the news release.

Antooa was released on his own recognizance and is due back in court on Nov. 19. If convicted of the top count, Antooa will face a maximum sentence of 15 years, according to the news release.

Efforts to reach Belmont Park officials for comment were unavailing.

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A former Belmont employee allegedly released a racehorse from its stable in July, resulting in the horse falling down and ultimately dying.

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Curran rejects budget changes sought by GOP ‘More fiscally conservative plan’ from majority in lawmaking body amends $3.3B proposal

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and members of the county’s legislative minority caucus announced a new budget agreement for 2021, while rejecting amendments submitted by the county’s Republican majority last week.

Curran called the amendments submitted by the majority caucus “fiscally irresponsible and illegal,” according to a news release sent out on Wednesday.

GOP officials said paying off the $75 million in debt the county faces this year rather than having the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, which has overseen the county’s finances for the past two decades, restructure it would ultimately save Nassau $95 million, according to a news release sent last Thursday.

“The Majority has created a more fiscally conservative plan,” the news release said. “The administration seeks to generate as much cash as possible in 2021 while increasing costs in future years and deferring any attempt to deal with Nassau’s structural imbalance.”

Curran introduced the proposed budget in September. The

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Nassau County’s majority legislature submitted amendments to County Executive Laura Curran’s $3.3 billion proposed budget for 2021. budget is a decrease from the $3.55 billion spending plan approved for 2020.

The budget calls for the finance authority to restructure $394 million in debt from the county and the finance authority, according to a county news release.

The County Legislature’s presiding officer, Richard Nicolello (RNew Hyde Park), said the negative impacts that the pandemic has had on sales taxes, a key component in the county’s revenues, have lessened, and Curran’s budget overestimated the drop in sales tax receipts.

Nicolello said he expects the receipts to decline by just 12 percent next year, rather than 20 percent as outlined in Curran’s proposed budget.

“These commonsense amendments to the County Executive’s budget provide a more conservative framework for dealing with the county’s finances,” Nicolello said.

“The amendments will reduce the cost of restructuring debt, and will create special revenue fund to attack the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax refund liability.”

The county’s majority legislators filed subpoenas for Nassau’s

deputy county executive for finance, Raymond Orlando, and Budget Director Andrew Persich answered questions from the Budget Committee in August, after being subpoenaed by the majority.

Other amendments featured in the majority’s release included reinstating nearly $4.4 million of the money Curran cut from funding the NICE Bus to preserve service hours, providing the Emergency Ambulance Bureau $168,000 to add four people to the staff, and giving $345,000 to the district attorney’s budget to upgrade office technology.

Another amendment proposed by the majority in the Legislature is to create a special revenue fund where a surplus of various budgeted revenues will be used to address the coronavirus pandemic. Officials said the fund will be used to fully or partly fund “principal and interest payments on debt issued in 2021 or later.”

“My number one priority as County Executive is keeping our residents safe,” Curran said. “That’s why I will veto any attempts to artificially inflate revenue projections that our County employees, including our first responders, rely on to

protect critical services, health and safety. The Majority clearly doesn’t have a plan to get Nassau County through the COVID-19 pandemic.

My budget protects Nassau’s future without raising property taxes.”

“At a time when we can afford it least, the Majority’s illegal and irresponsible budget amendments would jeopardize crucial funding for essential services during a pandemic,” Minority Caucus Leader Kevan M. Abrahams (D-Freeport) said. “Furthermore, the Majority’s actions would expose Nassau County residents to the unacceptable risk of massive tax hikes during a recession.”

Curran’s budget agreement vetoes the sales tax revenue projections submitted by the majority caucus, increases funding for five additional police medics in the Emergency Ambulance Bureau, funds the Smart Sprinkler Program through the county’s Department of Public Works, and commits to NICE Bus funding restoration if federal aid does not arrive by next year.

The Republican majority, which holds an 11-8 advantage over the Democrats, was expected to vote whether to adopt the budget on Thursday.

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Officials tout progress on 3rd track Project meant to reduce train congestion, delays to ‘create a more reliable railroad system’

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z More progress has been made to modernize the Long Island Rail Road with interlockings being installed in two locations and the elimination of the final railroad crossing in New Hyde Park.

Workers recently installed two interlockings, pieces of infrastructure critical to prepare for installation of a third track. The interlockings will allow trains to move from one track to another with the use of a series of switches.

“Once the LIRR Expansion Project is complete, the interlockings and third track will provide the railroad with the ability to increase service by nearly 50 percent, route trains around problem areas, and provide true bidirectional service during peak morning and afternoon periods,” officials said in a news release last week.

The two interlockings were installed in the past few months, one just east of the Merillon Avenue station and the other east of the Mineola station. Officials said most of the work is conducted during double-track outages.

The progress on interlockings is part of the Long Island Rail Road’s Expansion Project, which is adding a third track from Floral Park to Hicksville. The project, officials said, will reduce train congestion and delays to create a more reliable railroad system.

Officials said the third track in the area east of the Merillon Avenue station will be installed next summer.

Saturday also saw the elimination of the last of

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Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials announced the recent progress on the Long Island Rail Road’s Expansion Project. three crossings on the Main Line in New Hyde Park, as the South 12th Street crossing was permanently closed.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers are expected to replace the crossing with ramps to an underpass that allows pedestrians and people in wheelchairs

to safely travel to either side of the tracks.

“The closure of this crossing is a historic, major win after many previous efforts to eliminate the grade crossings failed,” said Janno Lieber, the MTA’s president of construction and development. “This crossing closure is the latest evidence that the LIRR Expansion Project is not slowing down because of the pandemic. This project is critical for Long Island, it’s critical for the LIRR, funding is secure and we’re not letting the pandemic get in the way.”

Transit authority officials stressed the need for the elimination of grade crossings after six fatal crashes at Main Line corridor crossing locations from 2007 to 2017.

“One less crossing means one less potential point of conflict between trains and roadway users,” Long Island Rail Road President Phil Eng said. “Every crossing that is eliminated helps us run a safer railroad and one less prone to delays that come from potential incidents.

Replacing this crossing with a pedestrian underpass is great for the community and it is great for the railroad.”

The New Hyde Park area has seen two other grade crossings eliminated at Covert Avenue and New Hyde Park Road over the past year. The pedestrian underpass for the South 12th Street location is scheduled to open within six months, according to transit officials.

Platforms at the New Hyde Park station are also being lengthened and positioned to accommodate the Main Line’s new third track.

Port girl’s art chosen for Rowling book

BY R O S E W E L D ON A student-artist in Port Washington was named as a winner in a contest to draw an illustration for a new book by a beloved author.

Lucy Navalany, a fourthgrader at John Philip Sousa Elementary School, was one of 34 young artists across the world chosen by Scholastic to provide illustrations for “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling’s first children’s book in 13 years, the fairy tale “The Ickabog.”

Lucy first gained interest in drawing from reading books by children’s author Mo Willems as well as the comic strips “Big Nate” by Lincoln Pierce and “Calvin & Hobbes” by Bill Watterson, and had started drawing her own characters.

“I wasn’t doing cartoons yet, but I have a character I’m drawing all the time,” she said in a phone interview.

The character, named Hearty, has so far been drawn on the family’s refrigerator, mail counter, and on cards sent to relatives and friends during the pandemic, her mother, Ilse, said.

As the 2019-20 school year was drawing to a close, Lucy’s third-grade teacher, Kathy Wengenosky, noting her talent in art, told her mother about a contest she had heard about, where artists between the ages of 7 and 12 were invited to read a serialized version of Rowling’s story and draw a picture of a scene of their choice, with an opportunity for the illustration to be used in the book.

“This is such a great testament to Sousa, because she reached out to me, and you know we’re all so busy with online learning, but she reached out to me digitally and said, ‘I think Lucy should enter this contest,’” Ilse Navalany said.

“And we were really touched by that, and that’s what motivated Lucy, that her teacher took the time to say it.”

Determined, Lucy waited until the last part of the story was released, according to her mother.

“Lucy waited until the end and read the whole thing in one sitting, it was that good,” Navalany said, also in a phone interview. “She read it in one day, and then worked on her draw-

ing all night.”

The story involves the Ickabog, a creature as tall as two horses and with the ability to speak and make fire, and a nearby kingdom that imposes a harsh tax to pay for a defense against the creature. When four teenagers from the kingdom run into the Ickabog, they discover it is not the monster they feared, and race to reveal the truth to their countrymen.

Lucy’s picture, drawn with pastel crayons after being sketched in pencil, depicts a scene from the story where the Ickabog and a group of children hand out food to those who can’t afford it due to the heavy taxes.

“The children are treating him fairly, but everyone else thinks he’s a monster,” she said.

“The Ickabog is being kind and helping people, and that inspired me to pick that part of the story. I was sitting late into the night, drawing chocolates and pineapples and strawberries.”

Mere days after the July 17 deadline, Lucy received a “congratulations” email from Scholastic, telling her that her pic-

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Lucy Navalany of Port Washington, left, was among 34 children across the world who won a contest to contribute an illustration to J.K. Rowling’s new children’s book “The Ickabog.” Her drawing, right, was selected for publishing in the book. ture was one of 34 picked out of over 42,000 entries.

She said her family has received a copy of the book, which will be released in the United States on Nov. 10.

“It’s so exciting seeing it,” she said. “It’s just like, ‘oh my gosh, it’s in a book!’”

Overall, though, she wants readers to take the message of

“The Ickabog” to heart.

“Everybody thought the Ickabog was this evil monster and they’re raising taxes against him, going after him. But these kids stood up for him, traveled with him to help the poor people in the city,” Lucy said. “I think the message of the book is to always be kind to others.”

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Floral Park board report from Oct. 20 Department of Public Works – Deputy Mayor Fitzgerald As many of you know the work on the reconstruction of Floral Boulevard got started. They’re making good progress. While we were hopeful that no trees would have to come down, unfortunately, this week we did learn that 10 trees need to come down. Speaking of trees as leaves start to fall we remind everyone not to sweep the leaves into the street.

Recreation Department – Trustee Pombonyo The fall season at the park continues to be busy with our Fall Recreation programs for our youth, adults and seniors.

Our baseball, softball, soccer and tennis games are in full gear and will soon be joined by our Screaming Eagles Roller Hockey teams. Five divisions of coed teams span ages pre-K to young adult.

Come out to cheer on all our sports teams and, now, Screaming Eagles Roller Hockey, as more and more players are now signing up for this exciting sport.

Conservation Society – Trustee Pombonyo Centennial Gardens continues to be a highly popular destination for all of those, young and older, who love the outdoors.

This past weekend, over 430 visitors came into our Gardens to enjoy nature’s changing colors on a bright and sunny fall weekend. This number easily topped 500 when you count all of those strolling on the outside brick path, spending time taking all in on the benches, or engaging in enjoyable outdoor exercise on the outer lawns. Check out our Gardens for a breathtaking experience watching nature change through the four seasons. Thanks go to our Floral Park Conservation Society volunteers, Department of Parks, and Department of Public Works for their dedication and efforts in beautifying the Gardens each and every day.

Also helping to add beauty to the Gardens is our Recreation Department’s Saturday Gardening for Kids program.

The children, ranging in age from twoand-a-half to nine, are planting perennials for the spring, weeding, and doing all that needs to be done to care for their area of the Children’s Garden. Iris Island is a special garden where the children completely weeded the area, prepared the bed, and replanted many iris bulbs.

Watch for Iris Island’s beautiful colors this coming spring. Not to be forgotten is Halloween with a pumpkin patch activity for our Saturday gardeners, thanks to Village Market.

Covert Avenue Chamber of Commerce and Our Businesses – Trustee Pombonyo Thanks to all for your ongoing concern and support for our nine Covert Avenue businesses that were affected by the Sunday morning, September 27th fire. Our businesses and property owners are slowly and methodically going through the complex decision-making processes regarding their future plans. To date, the Fire Marshal’s report on the fire has not been released. In the meantime, the COVERT AVENUE STRONG theme remains the focus of the Covert Avenue Chamber’s Facebook page, with suggestions on how we can continue to support our nine Covert businesses and beautiful tributes expressed by customers and friends. Watch for publicity about LIGHTS ON COVERT, an evening of special events and sales under the bright white lights to be strung in the trees that line Covert Avenue, coming soon.

Congratulations to the Corbetts! — Trustee Pombonyo On October 8th, a national nonprofit organ transplant organization honored our own Ann and Bill Corbett. The Hearts For Russ charity was created in 2014 to increase participation in the New York State organ donation registry and support patients undergoing transplants and their families.

Just three years ago, Ann Corbett donated a kidney to her husband, Bill, at NYU Langone Health. The successful surgery was performed by renowned surgeon Dr. Robert Montgomery, himself a heart transplant recipient, who was awarded the Hearts For Russ Physician Award. The Corbetts received the Donor Family Award. All spoke eloquently about the life changing benefits of organ donation and expressed their deep appreciation to the Hearts For Russ charity.

Ann is the former Mayor of Floral Park and current president of the Floral Park Historical Society. Bill is our former Village Justice and currently an attorney practicing in Floral Park.

A large audience of family and Floral Park friends participated in the awards ceremony via Zoom and enthusiastically applauded Ann, Bill and Dr. Montgomery. Ann and Bill are thanked for their decades of contributions in the Village of Floral Park, and wished great happiness and excellent health in the future.

Floral Park Fire Department – Trustee Archie Cheng On Sunday, October 11th there was a “Salute to our Heroes” tribute which was held at Memorial Park. The celebration

started with the 10:30 Mass. Immediately after Mass, there were several speakers who spoke about their experiences and sacrifices made by the members of the Floral Park Police Department, Floral Park Volunteer Fire Department, First Responders, nurses and other medical professionals who so valiantly served the New York region throughout the pandemic. The celebration was attended by a very large crowd. We give special thanks to Father Tom Fusco, Judge Hayden and John Keenan for their efforts in making this a most worthy tribute.

Third Track – Trustee Archie Cheng As for the third track there is no new news to report. The work is progressing and it’s not as visible as it was in the past, but things are moving along!

Floral Park Police Department – Trustee Frank Chiara Our police department continues to serve our community providing our Village with an extremely safe environment.

Reminders . . .

Please remember to lock your cars and homes to avoid any unwanted events. Recently three vehicles were entered into on a block off of Covert Avenue which the Department is investigating. All three vehicles were not locked.

With the start of the Floral Boulevard construction project, please be alert to changes in traffic patterns around the site.

Also with the increase of bicycle activity, please be safe while operating a bicycle and drivers be cautious when observing them.

Finally, Halloween may be very different this year due to COVID, please keep an eye out for our children that may be out and about on this day.

Thank you.

Building Department – Trustee Chiara Due to a recent uptick, our building department has been very busy processing permits for home construction projects. They are reviewing and issuing permits as quickly as possible.

Renee Marcus, our Building Superintendent, and her team continues to work with the store owners along Covert Avenue to assist them in any way possible. They are waiting for environmental testing results and recommendations from their insurance companies for damage remediation. Our building

department continues to be available to the business owners in addressing their needs.

We all wish the best to all the affected business and look forward to the day they will all reopen!

Library – Trustee Chiara Our Library is gearing up for Halloween. They are offering a Halloween –themed Trivia game to see what everyone knows about Halloween. This event is open to teens, tweens, children and adults. The winner will receive a $25.00 gift card. Details are available on the library’s Facebook and Website homepages.

Our children’s librarian, Kathy Guidal, received a big THANK YOU from the Floral Park-Bellerose Summer program for kids. They thanked her and our library for hosting the virtual ‘readaloud’ program this summer. The children loved it. THANK YOU, Miss Kathy for this program and all the other activities that you put together.

For our young readers for Halloween, there will be a Halloween Story Walk on the library lawn beginning Oct. 26th thru Oct. 31st. Young readers are invited to stop by and enjoy this story walk!

Please don’t forget the library’s participation in the Long Island Great Giveback Program. Donations continue to be accepted of packaged new socks in the library lobby. They will be donated to children at the Ronald Mc Donald House. We thank all who have generously donated and all who wish to do so may do so until Oct 31st.

Mayor’s Report – Mayor Longobardi As everybody knows October is “Breast Cancer Awareness Month”.

Around the end of September beginning of October we always have one of our greatest events in the Village…Liz’s Day. This year it happened ‘virtually’ to adapt to the Pandemic. Congratulations to the Liz’s Day Committee on all the work that they have done in raising funds for this important cause.

On Thursday night at 6:30 pm we will be recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness Month by have a ‘Pink Tree Lighting Ceremony’ similar to last month’s recognition of Pediatric Cancer. Please come down and join us — we think it will be a great night!

The Mayor thanked Felix Proccacia of ‘Just the Facts’ media.

The meeting ended at 8:20 pm.

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Happening at the Great Neck Library Go to the Events listings on the Library’s website at greatnecklibrary.org for more information. You can also call the Library at 466-8055. For certain events that require registration, any further meeting info will be released by the date of the event for registered users. Check your email before joining the event.

Online Programs are held live on Zoom unless specified. Open to all. No Zoom account required. You may join Zoom events by going to join.zoom.us, and enter the program’s Meeting ID and Password. You can also dial in at 1 (646) 558-8656 or find your local number at zoom.us/zoomconference.

Saturday, October 31 10:00 AM — 6:00 p.m. Autumn Scavenger Hunt. Don’t stop be-leafing in the wonder of autumn. For the month of October, you can look around your home for the items on this autumn-themed scavenger hunt: https://forms.gle/TadUjeYN7cdpUnNF6 Join Children’s Librarian Trainee Miss Jen. Once you complete your search, call the Children’s Department at (516) 466-8055to claim your prize.

10:30 AM — 12:30 p.m. Special Event: Outdoor Trick or Treat Spin Wheel. All ages.

Stop by the front of the Main Library to spin a wheel and win a prize. One lucky spinner will walk away with a Raspberry pi and a custom case for it. The prize will vary from awesome 3D prints, laser cut projects, candy, and more. Come in costume for the chance to spin the wheel twice. Face Masks are re-

quired for this program and must be worn at all times. All patrons must follow proper social distancing procedures. The event will take place rain or shine but is subject to while supplies last. No Registration Required. cvanwickler@greatnecklibrary.org (516) 466-8055 ext. 230 Monday, November 2 9:00 — 10:00 a.m. Virtual Tech Help.

Adults (18+). Contact the STEM Lab to arrange a virtual one-on-one appointment with one of the STEM Lab librarians. Meet over the phone or on a video call. Email STEMLab@ greatnecklibrary.org or call (516) 466-8055 ext. 230.

11:00 — 11:30 a.m. Storytime with Miss Kat. If you miss the live class—it will be recorded so you can enjoy it at your leisure.

Meeting ID: 856 2525 5404 Password: storychildrens@greatnecklibrary.org 2:00 — 3:30 p.m. Ninth Street Women

by Mary Gabriel discussed by Emily Kies Folpe. Inspired by Mary Gabriel’s book, Ninth Street Women, this talk will focus on five artists who dared to enter the male-dominated world of 20th century abstract painting, and changed American art and society in the 1950s: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler. Meeting ID: 849 1822 0204 Passcode: 468406 7:00 — 7:30 p.m. U.S. History & Elections Trivia. Join Librarians Justin and Kat. Trivia will take place in Zoom using Kahoot. Meeting ID: 978 2476 3818 Password: 962365

Wednesday, November 4 2:00 — 2:40 p.m. Graphic Chat: Cat’s Cafe by Matt Tarpley. Join Librarian Justin for a discussion. The book is available through Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13552513 3:30 — 4:15 p.m. Sticks in the Stacks.

Join Mina and Jamie for social stitching time on Wednesdays. Learn the basics of knitting and crocheting and help crochet and knit for a cause. Meeting ID: 939 9484 5012 Password: sticks Thursday, November 5 2:00 — 3:30 p.m. Protecting the President with Howard Ehrlich and Harvey Sackowitz. Too many times in our history the job of protecting our chief executive has been put to the ultimate test. Be put into the shoes of one of our special agents in order to show you how complex this job has become over the years. Meeting ID: 812 6913 7900 Passcode: 212166 6:30 — 7:30 p.m. Yoga Flow facilitated by Sharon Epstein. Learn yoga postures, breathing practices and meditation techniques to bring balance, equilibrium and good health to your body and mind.

Meeting ID: 848 1488 0463 Password: 462824 Friday, November 6 10:00 AM — 12:00 p.m. Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets. Adults. Learn how to unlock some of the free apps you have with your Gmail account. A quick overview of the 3 most commonly used Google apps:

Docs, a document writing software, Slides, a presentation software, and Sheets, a spreadsheet creation software. Meeting ID: 918 4053 0889 Passcode: Google Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) Registration welcome but not required. STEMLab@greatnecklibrary.org (516) 466-8055 ext. 230 12:00 — 1:00 p.m. Friday Film Discussion. The Candidates (2019) 1 hr. 15 min., Documentary. Since 1996, the wonderfully diverse students at a Queens public high school have staged a mock election, modeling the American electoral process playing out in real time. WatchThe Candidates at your leisure. Join the media staff and fellow patrons in a Zoom discussion of the film. Streaming for free with your Great Neck Library card on Kanopy, with ads on Tubi, Pluto, and with subscription on Amazon Prime. Meeting ID: 623 987 3994 Passcode: filmscdipietro@greatnecklibrary.org (516) 466-8055 3:00 — 4:30 p.m. Socrates Salon with Conversation Host Ron Gross. To Join this online conversation email Ron Gross at grossassoc@aol.com. Share your life experiences, knowledge, and wisdom about topics that matter.

4:00 — 4:20 p.m. Crafternoon Fun. Join Miss Kat live on Facebook to learn how to make a fun craft using materials you already have at home. Follow this link to find the Library’s Facebook page:https:// www.facebook.com/GreatNeckLibrary/

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Kathleen Rice for Congress, 4th District Kathleen Rice versus Douglas Tuman Kathleen Rice is the clear choice for Congress in the 4th Congressional District.

Rice has been an effective and independent voice for the district since she was first elected in 2014.

A former Nassau County district attorney, she has been a strong voice on national security issues as a member of the Homeland Security Committee and as the top Democrat on the Transportation Security Subcommittee.

Having served as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, a federal prosecutor in Philadelphia and Nassau County’s district attorney from 2006 to 2014, Rice also brings an important perspective to issues ranging from President Donald Trump’s many misdeeds to the

issues of police reform surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement.

And she has not been shy to express them, backing House Democrats in suing Trump for violations of the Emoluments Clause, supporting Trump’s impeachment and calling for sensible reforms to policing that she terms a long time coming.

She has also shown her independence by opposing Nancy Pelosi’s election as House speaker in 2018, citing a need for a generational change in the Democrats’ House leadership. We disagree with Rice’s opposition, but give her credit for breaking from the majority.

Most importantly, Rice has a clear view and a firm understanding of the No. 1 issue facing the country: COVID-19.

In an interview with Blank

Congresswoman Kathleen Rice Slate Media, she correctly called Trump’s leadership a “complete failure,” beginning with the lack of a national plan to contain the virus and the administration’s repeated questioning of science and doctors and refusal to embrace masking and social distancing.

Rice said that to reopen the

economy correctly the country needs a plan on how businesses can do it right that includes testing, masks and social distancing as well as punishment of “bad actors.”

She dismisses Senate Republicans for failing to act for months on a second stimulus plan and then calling for insufficient funds for states and local municipalities while supporting blanket immunity for businesses until 2024.

“If you get sick at all or have any workplace injury, there’s no liability,” Rice said. “That’s ridiculous.”

But, she said, she believes “something is better than nothing” in expressing support for a compromise.

“Do I understand Pelosi’s concern about budging from where we are now?” she added. “Yes. It revolves around what we’re spend-

ing where. Enhancing unemployment insurance for people whose jobs will never come back, extending PPP for businesses with bleak futures and local municipalities.

This isn’t propaganda for blue state spending, this is recouping lost revenue.”

Rice said she hopes former Vice President Joe Biden wins the election and proposes a “robust” agenda that includes rejoining the Paris Accords, an infrastructure bill to create good-paying jobs, an increase in the national minimum wage and immigration reform.

On policing, she said she does not want to defund the police but would like to see social workers brought in to assist police after community leaders have a chance to explore “what type police-community we want.”

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Gina Sillitti for state Assembly, 16th District Gina Sillitti versus Ragini Srivastava Gina Sillitti is not the incumbent in the race for the 16th Assembly District. She gained the Democratic nomination after Tony D’Urso decided not to seek re-election.

But Sillitti is very well prepared to assume the duties of the job after nearly 20 years with the Town of North Hempstead and Nassau County in a variety of positions that give her a good understanding of how government works and the needs of the district.

She also a member of a multicultural family, a background that will serve her well in dealing with the growing diversity of the district.

But perhaps most importantly, Sillitti brings a good understanding of the issues facing the state and the district stemming from the CO-

VID-19 pandemic.

Sillitti was correct when she said in a Blank Slate Media virtual forum last week that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s data-driven approach to containing the virus had “saved a lot of lives” after New York was among the first states to get hit by the coronavirus.

She also understands what the loss of $14.5 billion in revenue means to the state and local governments if the federal government does not cover most if not all of that money.

There is no doubt that this lost revenue will be the No. 1 issue facing Cuomo and every member of the Legislature.

Sillitti’s extensive knowledge of local government will be needed during deliberations in Albany on what to cut and where savings can be achieved.

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Gina Sillitti “We’re not going to let anyone step over us,” she promised.

Sillitti said she also recognizes the importance of small businesses as “the backbone of our community” and pledged to work closely with small businesses struggling to survive.

She offered a practical response to the Black Lives Matter call for social justice and the reform REPORTERS Rose Weldon, Robert Pelaez, Elliot Weld

of the police, saying, “I support Black Lives Matter and the police.”

“I’m really not sure how we got to the point in the country that if you believe in racial justice, if you support equality for all, that you’re somehow anti-police,” she said.

Sillitti said her family has given her a unique perspective on the issue. She said her sister-in-law is half black and she has nieces and nephews who are black while on the other side of the family she has a police officer as a relative.

She said there was no doubt that reforms were needed in policing, but those reforms “needed the buy-in of the police.”

Sillitti also said she supported bail reform in the state.

“Nobody should be in jail just because they are poor,” she said.

But, Sillitti said, she opposed how changes were made at the be-

ginning of the year – by including them in the state budget. She correctly said that changes to the legislation made in April had improved the legislation, but “we could do a little bit better.”

Sillitti is opposed by Ragini Srivastava, a resident of Manhasset Hills who emigrated from India in 2001 and later opened a frozen yogurt business. Srivastava also ran unsuccessfully for the North Hempstead Town Board.

Srivastrava, who canceled a debate with Sillitti hosted by Blank Slate Media, citing health reasons, said she supported repealing bail reform in its entirety.

“The Bail Reform Act is a striking example of the disconnect between the residents and some outof-touch elected officials,” she said on her campaign website.

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KREMER’S CORNER

Is it time for a new movie without Trump?

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hen my friends talk about politics they compare it to military combat, boxing bouts and even wrestling matches. I think politics is a little bit like all of them, but to me politics is often like the sequel to a famous old movie or a classic Broadway show.

When you run for re-election, you try to remake the movie or show, you stick to the script, and hope that the voters like the new version, as much as the old one.

Back in 2016, Donald Trump, after many successful years as a reality host, decided to bring his act to the national stage. His “your fired” persona made many people think that it was time to bring in this new guy to clean up the swamp and show the politicians how a successful businessman can run a country.

Millions of voters were itching for a candidate who would tell it like it is and who promised not to be politically correct.

You know the rest of the story.

By a margin of 47,000 votes, the showman became the commander-in-chief.

On the night of the election, no one was more surprised about winning than candidate Trump. All of his insiders knew he didn’t expect to win and that his candidacy was just a great way to sell condos and fill up hotel rooms. His trip down the escalator was meant to be a massive con job and a way to improve the brand. But as fate would have it, Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president on January 20, 2017.

The first couple of years of the Trump tenure made many of his supporters happy. He took on China and threatened our European allies forcing them to pay more money into NATO. He moved the U.S. Embassy into Jerusalem, which pleased many Jewish voters, along with the evangelicals. He nominated ultra-conservative lawyers for hundreds of federal judgeships.

He was enabled by Sen-

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ate Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell, who cared more about court-packing than passing laws that help people.

He made his big contributors happy by watering down hundreds of federal regulations dealing with clean water, clean air and consumer protection.

He filled up his administration with former lobbyists who did on the inside what they had been trying unsuccessfully to accomplish for years from the

outside. At the same time, using the powers of president, Trump made sure that government functions would be held at Trump properties so his family business organization could get in on the action.

But a look back at his almost four years shows a president who encourages racist groups with hate speech and fires generals and respected corporate executives replacing them with political hacks.

To make matters worse, he blames everyone but himself for his failure to develop a federal response to a disease that has killed over 200,000 Americans.

His daily tweets have thrilled his followers but has exhausted the voters who want a president who just lives in the White House and acts like a leader.

When I refer to people being exhausted, I am not referring to just Democrats. There is no doubt, that the Trump loyalists will stick with him even if he takes them off a cliff, but there is a growing number of Repub-

lican and independent voters, who have tired of the president’s daily antics and are ready to usher him off the stage.

My recent survey of a handful of respected lifetime Republicans, while not scientific, indicates that many of them have lost their love for this one-time reality show host and would like to take back their party, even if it means putting a Democrat in the White House. The Donald Trump they embraced in 2016 no longer resembles the current version of Donald Trump.

How this sequel to the first Trump movie will play out on November 3 is anybody’s guess.

Some voters may be happy with the second version of the Trump show, but maybe a majority of voters will ask for the curtain to come down and the words, “The End” will appear.

It’s only a few short days before America starts counting the ballots and then we will know whether our country was willing to buy a ticket to the 2020 sequel to the 2016 Trump show.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Time to elect the real government worker

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t’s been 13 years now since my dad passed away peacefully in his sleep. He’d been a government worker virtually all his life, ever since leaving his Brooklyn home at 16 for a job in Washington, D.C. He hadn’t even finished high school, but it was then the depths of the Depression, and you didn’t turn down a job offer.

He eventually managed to finish high school and get a night-school bachelor’s degree in Economics, working steadily for the federal government the entire time. He stayed there for the rest of his career until finally, long past retirement age, they got him to retire.

Dad always considered that his mission was helping other people. What I remember best were his years in the Labor Department, where he tried to broaden opportunities for everyone else in the nation to find meaning through what he called “The World of Work,” just as he had done.

You could call me a government brat. It might not be as prestigious as being an Army or

Navy brat, but still my dad took very seriously that he was in public service.

At his funeral, I learned just how seriously when my brother told us a story.

Dad usually worked at an office in downtown Washington, D.C. — an hour’s drive each way during rush hour from our home in the suburbs. But one time, he was sent to a meeting somewhere not too far from our house, and it finished early. He was faced with a choice — head all the way back downtown to put in a final 15 minutes at the office? Or take the opportunity to knock off a little early and head home?

For Dad, it was an easy decision. He went back to his office, of course. When he arrived, his startled boss asked, “What are you doing here?”

Dad explained he was being conscientious.

“Joe, there’s being conscientious, and then there’s being meshuggeneh!” (For the non-Yiddish-speaking, that means crazy.)

“Go home!”

So I took it personally when people made jokes at govern-

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A Look on the Lighter Side ment workers’ expense. “Good enough for government work!” people said and laughed.

Anti-tax activist Grover Norquist took things even further.

“I’m not in favor of abolishing the government,” he quipped. “I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”

But here’s the thing about government work. Sure, it’s easy to make fun of. But government workers are the people who make sure your medicines contain what they’re supposed to in

the amount they’re supposed to with no adulterants or, worse, anything toxic.

It is government workers who are doing their best to keep our air and water clean, and our workplaces (back when we had them) safe.

It is our government that we look to when airplanes tragically crash to collect the black boxes and figure out what happened… and then announce it. And it’s not only us — the whole world looks to our government workers for those answers.

It is government workers who rescue you when your boat goes under, who warn us when we’re in the path of a hurricane or tornado, who fight our wars for us and keep the peace, too.

It is government workers who landed on the Moon, and government workers who got them there … and brought them safely home.

It is government workers who are trying their hardest to keep us safe in this terrible pandemic.

Back in 1986, a lot of people thought it was funny when Presi-

dent Ronald Reagan said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ ” But nowadays, there are seven words that terrify me even more. They are from President Trump, when he was asked about some problems in the fight against COVID. “I don’t take any responsibility at all,” he said.

Meshuggeneh or not, my father understood something that Donald Trump never will: his government work wasn’t about himself. It was in service to all of us.

Grover Norquist wanted to drag the government into a bathtub and drown it. Well, he and his cronies have pretty much succeeded at doing exactly that. So do you feel safer now?

This election is about one question: Do you want the government in the hands of someone who believes in it and believes that the job of the government is to help us? Or someone who takes no responsibility for helping us, at all?

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E A R T H M AT T E R S

Green energy part of climate change solution

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just attended on online presentation by Dr. Chandu Visweswariah titled “An Inside Look: Radical Climate Action,” sponsored by Audubon NY. It can be viewed here https://www.facebook.com/AudubonNewYork/videos/718597959034029/ .

Dr. Visweswariah laid out the irrefutable science of climate change. He showed a graph of a reconstruction of climate changes over the last 800,000 years that tracks multiple ups and downs, but never exceeding 300 ppm, a point of equilibrium.

He demonstrated how CO2 levels, which have had natural swings over millennia, took a sharp upward turn about 200 years ago, aligned with the start of the Industrial Age, and haven’t looked back since.

Another upward spurt occurred after World War II in the 1950s. Each upward movement in greenhouse gasses is paralleled by a global increase in temperature.

This isn’t a uniform effect; some areas are getting hotter faster, especially the poles, where ancient ice is melting at a rapid rate.

Don’t mistake weather, which is a minute-by-minute phenomenon, with global climate change.

But changes in weather patterns

can be driven by climate change – drought and ensuing fires, polar melting, more severe storm events, more hurricanes and typhoons. The ocean acidification that is killing coral around the world is a direct effect of oceans sequestering increased heat.

Scientists have warned that if we exceed 1.5 degrees centigrade in warming, our environment will suffer permanent, irreversible damage. We’re hovering around 1.1 degrees and business as usual will put us over that threshold around 2040.

Dr. Visweswariah gave a link to a carbon footprint calculator; www.cure100.org. There you can input your consumption and get a carbon footprint for your household. You’ll need a year of electric, gas or oil bills and the make, mileage and MPG on your vehicles to get started.

He then outlined a Seven Step program to lower carbon footprint. Those steps are: electric use, transportation, building heat, food and waste, goods and services, zip code overhead and offsets. Some of these items involve personal choices and changes and some are societal, which can be driven by changes in laws, voting with your investments, and supporting

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organizations that push for these changes.

So how green is your energy?

It depends on how it’s created. Oil has the highest footprint, followed by gas. While natural gas is clean burning, the methane leaks during its production bring it up to the level of oil. Both involve massive infrastructure, drilling including fracking, and substantial damage to the local environment. They are also non-renewable resources — they aren’t making dead dinosaurs anymore. Known gas and oil reserves at current usage will be gone in a little over 50 years.

That’s not going to be an issue for me, but my kids and grandkids will have to deal with the massive

repercussions of that change.

So we’ll have to turn to green energy to replace those depleted resources and sooner rather than later. Green energy is a blanket term for solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, ocean, hydrogen and biomass. They are not a panacea; each has pluses and minuses.

A recent article in Newsday revealed that there are proposals from multiple companies to line the South Shore with wind turbines. They would be far enough offshore not to be an eyesore, but that energy has to come to land, which means miles of undersea cables laid in dredged channels and landing facilities to transmit that energy to the grid. They also create vibrations that transmit as sound to fish and sea mammals. Migrating birds either have to thread the needle or use limited energy to detour around the turbines. Because of the push by groups who are more concerned with actual environmental impact than bringing more power to people, design and lighting of turbines has improved.

Solar energy is great but not generally economical for households without subsidies. Getting tiny bills each month can feel great, but the real question is

how many years would that take to repay your investment? Largescale facilities can produce a good volume of energy, but companies tend to want to place them in “vacant” land, which means it has trees, not houses on it. While the carbon sequestration value of a tree is less than the production of solar that would replace it, trees offer other value that solar does not: oxygen production, cooling, erosion prevention, habitat and food for birds and wildlife. Certain types of installations like central mirror arrays create so much heat that birds flying over are incinerated. Where solar belongs is already urbanized areas — those huge flat roofs on malls, big box stores, office buildings and as shade structures on parking lots. That will take zoning and government will to make happen.

Green energy sources are new and improving, but most of that improvement comes from pressure by groups and individuals who are not willing to accept that power to displace or kill wildlife is really green. Good can always be better. Green energy will not get us the whole way there. Conservation is not a dirty word, it’s something to integrate into every level of society. Be the change.

OUR TOWN

Eisenhower Park embodies optimism in nation

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f you have been feeling low and mean based upon the economy, the election, polarization of thought, riots in the streets, the COVID pandemic and the unsettling state of the economy, here is what I would recommend you do. Get in your car, drive over to the Eisenhower Park, find a place to park and take a long walk. You may be amazed at what you see and just as importantly you will find out the secret of what makes America such a powerful, ingenious nation that remains the envy of the world.

I went there last Sunday morning to get some mild exercise since my gym at Healthtrax remains closed. I pulled into the southwestern part of the park and parked. In front of me was the huge Northwell Health Ice Rink and next to that was the mammoth Nassau County Aquatic Center, which is considered to be one of the nation’s premier swim centers. But those two standouts are merely the begin-

ning of the show.

As I walked along the track/ walking path I passed a state-ofthe-art baseball diamond with some young female softball players warming up. Years ago a guy I knew who had a company who installed these kind of baseball diamonds and I knew the astronomical cost of building and maintaining a field like this. The famous line “build it and they will come” from the film “Field of Dreams” may be true enough, but the cost of building it is no joke. I walked along and saw a large circular caged area, which was a batting cage with at least 15 stalls. Then to my right was a circular track for track and field events with a state-of-the-art foam and rubber track.

Up a ways further on my left were two “wow! knock your socks off ” mini golf courses with waterfalls, multi-tiered flower gardens and ponds. I later learned that these two cute mini golf courses are considered the best on Long Island.

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I kept on going and to my left were many large grass soccer fields filled with players from a variety of leagues and skill levels.

Then came a righthand turn and I walked toward the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theater fast along a big lake and with a lovely grass slope like at Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts. Mention the name Harry Chapin and warmth comes to my heart. He was the guy who funded some of my research while I was in graduate school at SUNY Stony

Brook. A true philanthropist.

Walking past the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theater, I came upon the Veterans Memorial commemorating those lost in World War II, the Korean War and the wars in Southeast Asia.

Then around the other side of the lake was the 9/11 Memorial designed by architects Gavosto and Striga and displaying two tall aluminum towers, salvage steel from Ground Zero and a pear tree grown from one of seeds from the lone surviving tree from Ground Zero.

As I made my way back to my car, I thought how amazing this park is and how strong is the spirit of America. We have the gumption to build sports facilities, which are significant investments and can only be built by an optimistic county government that knows that if you “build it they will come.” They built baseball diamonds and batting cages and tracks and mini golf courses and soccer fields with the same hopeful spirit.

I know mostly about golf and I know that Eisenhower Park has three gems in this park that are just waiting to be developed into world class venues. The Red course used to hold the Lightpath Classic and back in 1926 they even held the PGA Championship at Eisenhower Park. I know they have a PGA professional working in the park and he has remarked to me how these three courses are like national treasures just waiting to be reborn.

Walking through this park, you sense that it reflects the optimism and hope that makes America such an impressive nation. This place we call America is indefatigable in its spirit, drive and energy. We may be faced with a pandemic and with a variety of struggles and stressors, but this friendly park is a good reminder of just who we are as Americans. That prophetic line “build it and they will come” demonstrates America’s hope and valor. It’s enough to make you proud.

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VIEW POINT

False god of equating faith with patriotism

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he Island Now reported data from the Nassau County Department of Health that coronavirus cases on the Great Neck peninsula continue to increase at a higher rate than in most other villages on Long Island. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the Village of Great Neck (with a population of 10,000) increased by 11 on Oct. 7 to 332, while Kings Point (population 5,000) has seen its numbers spike by 27 in just the first two weeks of October to 195.

The level is related to the persistence, despite public health ordinances, of religious gatherings.

And spike they surely have: in Brooklyn “red zones” the percentage of COVID-19 cases went to 6.69 percent, in Rockland, 12.29 percent and in Orange County as high as 24.64 percent. The rest of the state was at 1.0 percent (the rate necessary to stop the spread).

The state imposed lockdowns in precisely micro-targeted “red zones” to curtail the spread. In Brooklyn, Orthodox Jews rioted, attacking an Orthodox Jewish reporter Jacob Kornbluh, calling him a Nazi while waving Trump flags to reject the state’s “authoritarianism”.

“The hotspot clusters as you know are primarily in the Hasidic community,” an exasperated Gov. Cuomo remarked recently. “I say to my friends in the Hasidic community, the Hebrew faith teaches us pikuach nefesh, which means save

a life. Under the Hebrew teachings, participation in a religious ceremony can be excused for matter of health and life and safety. Leviticus, love your neighbors, yourself, and the point here is to save a life and not to endanger others, not to endanger others in the same congregation, not to endanger others in the same community, and that’s what is happening with these large congregations. It’s an unfortunate situation I wish COVID didn’t happen, but that is the reality and you deal with reality, especially when it’s about life and death.”

Of course, it isn’t just Orthodox Jews, it is the whole spectrum of orthodox faithful. “Whether it’s the Jewish community, whether we’re talking about Black churches, whether we’re talking about Roman Catholic churches, the religious community has to agree to the rules and they have to agree that they are going to follow the rules,” Cuomo said.

I am trying to understand how these people think their faith has to be expressed within the institutional four walls of a church, synagogue or mosque. Isn’t God supposed to be everywhere? Do you need proof of living a moral life by davening before an altar or exculpation of sins from a minister? No, the reason the priests, ministers, rabbis demand their flock assemble is to exert authority, control. It is why as one of his first acts, Trump – in order to cement the political support of white

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Evangelicals despite his amoral character — overturned rules against politicking from the dais or lose tax-exempt status. Now he is pushing to allow churches to hold mask-less indoor gatherings that violate local law, and giving the OK for 15,000 to gather mask-less to worship on the National Mall – despite the numbers of people who have gotten sick and died after attending such religious observance.

Where in scripture does it say that one’s religious beliefs give the right to violate public health ordinances to sicken or kill someone else?

There is a sense that one’s “religious freedom” somehow takes precedence over others’ civil rights or right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The Founding Fathers, though, were as wary of theocracy as they were of monarchy. “Under God” was only added to the Pledge of Al-

legiance (which dates from 1892) in 1954 and “In God We Trust” added to currency in 1956 during the McCarthy era as a repudiation of anti-religion Communism.

But Karl Marx was right when he said “religion is the opiate of the masses” – it is a way of controlling people, of defusing discontent with those who hold power and wealth by making people content with their misery because they will surely be rewarded in Heaven.

Isn’t that the theme of every slave spiritual and gospel song?

Religion was used to justify slavery, the genocide of Native Americans and colonialism throughout the globe. Religious wars have been a plague on humanity, killing far more than any actual plague – the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Holocaust, Irish Catholics vs. Irish Protestants, Palestinians-Israelis. On and on it goes.

I call out the religious zealots as hypocrites who would ban a woman from making her own decisions concerning her life but would have such wanton disregard for spreading fatal infection throughout the community to endanger the lives of the health workers; I call out the hypocrites who do nothing to stem the epidemic of gun violence that takes 33,000 lives a year, those religious zealots who oppose capital punishment but applaud the extra-judicial murder of a suspect as “retribution” while hailing as a hero

a 17-year old who murdered two peaceful protesters.

This goes for Amy Coney Barrett, who Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and the other Senate Republicans are rushing through the confirmation process onto the Supreme Court, as well. Barrett, who has spent her entire life in a parochial bubble and punctuated her opening statement to the Senate confirmation hearing with “I believe in the power of prayer,” has signaled that her concept of religious freedom means that “believers” have the right to discriminate against others in jobs, housing, services, to deny life-saving health care, withhold health insurance and medical procedures. But not all believers, only those who adhere to her brand of religion.

Recall the hysteria conjured up not that long ago about American jurisprudence being taken over by Sharia Law. The common denominator is the arrogance that being religious, being “faithful” being “orthodox” (like waving the biggest flag) makes you better than someone else, exempt from rules that govern civil society or serve the interests of the greater good. That’s the approach that is implicit in Barrett’s concept of “religious freedom.” It is a perversion of “religious freedom” and an abusive twisting of “faith” in the service of power.

And it is a perversion of America’s founding freedoms to equate faith with patriotism.

THE BACK ROAD

‘Government sanctioned child abuse’ at border

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ust this past week renewed interest was generated in the migrant children who were separated from their parents at the southern US border in 2017. In scrolling through social media and after a few private conversations, it became clear to me that there is much confusion and misinformation. So, I thought I’d use this space to clear it up for myself.

The Trump administration started separating migrant children from their families as early as 2017 in a “pilot program” that preceded their 2018 “zero tolerance” immigration policy.

This past October 20th, New York Times reporters Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff wrote: “Lawyers appointed by a federal judge to identify migrant families who were separated by the Trump administration say that they have yet to track down the parents of 545 children.”

When asked about the fate of these particular children by moderator Kristen Welker at the Oct. 22 presidential debate in Nashville, Tenn., President Trump responded, “They are so well taken care of, they are in facilities that are so clean.”

The fact is that the Trump administration was warned by the Dept. of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security, that the pilot program set into motion in 2017 was going to have the same disastrous outcome that we have just now learned has become the reality.

It was clear from the start that the lack of an adequate recordkeeping system for the pilot program would result in not being able to find these parents once they were separated from their children and deported.

Despite the President’s glowing appraisal of the children’s current

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care, the American Academy of Pediatrics has categorized what they are going through as “governmentsanctioned child abuse”. Physicians for Human Rights went a step further in classifying it as “torture”.

In the book “American Dirt,” a controversial novel by Jeanine Cummins, the protagonist Lydia

takes a perilous journey to El Norte with her eight-year-old son Luca after the massacre of much of their family at the hands of a drug cartel.

As they head north, Lydia is thinking that “her son may soon reach the limit of what a resilient child might endure without triggering some permanent internal decay.”

One of the book’s critics Esmeralda Bermudez, who writes for the Los Angeles Times, tweeted, “I am an immigrant. My family fled El Salvador with death pounding on our door. The terror, the loss, the injustice of this experience shaped everything about me. I see no part of myself reflected in [the novel].

Whether you resonate best with Lydia’s apprehensive projection about her son’s future or Bermudez’s terrifying first-hand experience, they both speak to the sense of dread that that the trek north

brings to all who make it, before even crossing over the border into mainland U.S. Now, imagine reaching your destination with a child, only to have her ripped from your arms by government agents who then deport you back to where you know you will face mortal danger, and having to leave your child behind with not so much as an official request for your contact information.

This is precisely what happened What we know is that when we fail to protect children who have suffered adverse childhood experiences, we condemn them to a life of unending hardship, traumatic grief, poor health, possible incarceration, and early death.

The country I thought I knew better would never do such a thing.

But it has.

Andrew Malekoff is a New York State licensed clinical social worker

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READERS WRITE

Closest early voting location a traffic nightmare

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ellow Voters, For the most important national election in our lifetime, voters from Great Neck, Port Washington, Manhasset planning to vote early at our ‘closest’ location will be very frustrated, I believe. I have just visited, via WAZE, 53

Orchard St., Roslyn Heights, Gayle Community Center.

It is a residential area with narrow streets culminating with a sign warning, “NO OUTLET.” I continued with the hope that the one way in, one way out, might open to

a wide parking lot area one finds around recreation and community centers. No way folks.

The tiny cul de sac u-turn area would be brought to a standstill by three small cars or a couple of big SUVs. Was there not a more voter-friendly location available in

all of Great Neck, Port or Manhasset?

I will probably visit another location or wait until Nov. 3. Of course, dropping off an absentee ballot is always a possibility.

Steven Walk Great Neck

Why MTA 20-year capital needs plan MIA?

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he Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority just approved its own Thirty Year Long Range $400 billion Capital Needs Plan. Whatever happened to our own promised New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority 2020 — 2040 Twenty Year Long-Range Capital Needs Plan?

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the MTA pledged last year that it would be released by December 2019. Why is it now ten months overdue? Both LA MTA and NY MTA have had to deal with COVID-19 and local financial crises. .The plan documents how much money and years or decades will be re-

quired before each MTA operating agency, including NYC Transit subway and bus, Staten Island Railway, Manhattan Bronx Surface Operating bus, MTA bus, Long Island Rail Road and Metro North Rail Road have reached a state of good repair.

Categories for each agency include such assets as existing bus, subway and commuter rail fleet, stations including elevators to meet Americans with Disabilities Act and escalators, track including switches, signals and interlockings, communications, line structures including painting, protective netting on elevated structures and bridges, line equipment including tunnel lighting and pump

rooms, traction power including power substations, yards and shops and supervisory vehicles.

It is supposed to be the basis for the justification of NY MTA Five Year Capital Plans prior to their release. The $51 billion 2020 — 2024 Five Year Capital Plan was released and adopted before anyone could receive and review the updated Twenty-Year Capital Needs Plan.

The new 2020 — 2040 Twenty-Year Plan should update the previous 2014 — 2034 Twenty-Year Plan. This is inconsistent with both Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill deBlasio’s respective promises to conduct the most open and transparent administrations in the history of state

and municipal government.

This was supposed to have included independent authorities such as the MTA. Taxpayers, commuters, transit advocates, transportation reporters and elected officials deserve to know today when this critical document will finally be released.

Will someone hold the MTA’s feet to the fire and raise this issue at the next MTA Monthly Board Meeting?

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

Updating Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’

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uring the presidential debate, Vice President Biden brought up the subject that Trump’s immigration policy separated 545 children from their parent or parents.

Despite overwhelming efforts, Trump’s administration could not locate the children’s parent or parents who were apparently deported. Thus, these children were unable to be reunited with their parent or parents. In Trump’s defense, he said that the children were being well cared for, their living quarters in the completely redesigned warehouse was clean and they were being fed nutritious meals to build up their emaciated bodies, making them look almost good enough to eat. President Trump does not get enough credit for this wonderful deed.

In checking out the warehouse, I found the place to be near spotless and the food for the children was really good and healthy. I won’t get into which side is right or wrong in this matter of separation, but hopefully I can provide a solution that can settle this matter amicably of what to do with the children.

I sat down with two people who are concerned with children’s safety, namely Mindy Conman and Mitchell Cracker, both members of QAnon, who believe that elites are complicit in a child-sextrafficking cabal. Their purpose for becoming involved in this situation is to ensure that these unfortunate and helpless children be kept out of the hands of

these animals.

Mindy is a pleasant-looking, petite woman, very strong-willed yet despite her small size, she has a ravenous appetite. She can out eat at the dinner table her 250-pound husband. Her favorite part of the meal is the appetizer and her preference might seem strange, but to each their own. She loves almost every part of a cat’s body. The cat’s tongue is a special delicacy and the main body parts can make a delicious stew. If the cat is large enough, leftovers taste even better the next day. As for the cat’s eyes, she suggests you put them in a glass with your favorite liqueur, raise your glass and toast; “Here’s looking at you”.

Mitchell is a big guy, more than twice the size of Mindy. He prefers dog meat because it’s tougher and more chewy. It’s amazing how many dogs he and his family can go through in a week. During these trying times, have you checked out the price of meats in your local supermarket? Dog is cheaper, especially if adopted. But never eat the dog’s nose. You never know where it has been.

You might be asking what has this got to do with the 545 immigrant children? Although Mindy loves cat and Mitchell prefers dog, that is as food, when it comes to the epitome of a delicacy, both prefer children, especially young ones, since their bodies are so tender.

But when eating the young ones,

you must be careful, especially the older folk, because a child’s hair, when swallowed, can tickle the throat. On the other hand, when eating the bones of such a childish delight, you must be careful because if the bones get stuck in your throat, choking can occur which could lead to a painful but perhaps a loving and satisfying death.

You might not know this but Conman, Cracker and their group have already put in a bid for the children, all 545 of them. Not to be excluded from this transaction, Trump has demanded a 10 percent finder’s fee, but according to sources, if the deal goes through, he will round down his fee to 54 children. After all, the White House has great chefs, but to Trump it really doesn’t matter because we all know the crap he loves to eat. A young child burger? Doesn’t sound so bad.

To ensure the integrity of the process, the bidding for the children must be on the up and up. However, we have just learned that Trump has assured Mindy and Mitchell that they have no reason to be concerned. Trump is already licking his chops. Resolving this children situation proves what we already know; Trump will take credit for this solution because he is hungry to make deals. He is the epitome of a dealmaker, as he always makes sure to tell us.

With the outcome of the deal pretty much settled, Trump has suggested to

Mindy and Mitchell that they form a partnership, or rather an LLC., to cover not only this transaction but also for future business. Projections show that there is great potential in this type of business in a number of ways. One way is by importing young children and even older children from all over the world. A subsidiary can even be set up to handle the separate business that focuses solely on children’s parts. New or used, it doesn’t matter. An even greater source for raw material will shortly be available domestically with the overthrow of Row v. Wade, but Trump had to agree that Barrett’s children will not be touched.

One more point needs to be made.

We all know that Trump’s appetite is voracious. Therefore, I implore Barron to watch out, for a boy14 years old is at the height of his tenderness. Luckily for the boy, Trump does not cook, that is except when it comes to any one…of his company’s books, but chances are the bodies of evidence for his type of cooking will never be disclosed since such remains will always be under audit.

Of course, for a final course, Trump can finish off the delicious children’s meal with a little whine or even a little bigger whine.

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CONGRESSIONAL SEATS 3RD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

Representing Manhasset, Roslyn, Port Washington, Great Neck and Floral Park, among other areas, the district stretches from Whitestone, Queens, to Kings Park in Suffolk County.

Congressman Tom Suozzi (incumbent)

Democratic Party/ Working Families Party/Independence Party

Bio: The former mayor of Glen Cove who served as Nassau county executive for seven years, Suozzi won his first term in Congress in 2016 against former state Sen. Jack Martins, and won re-election in 2018 against former Navy SEAL Dan DeBono. In the spring, Suozzi won the Democratic primary against challengers Melanie D’Arrigo of Port Washington and Michael Weinstock of Great Neck, and is seeking a third term.

Views: Suozzi said in an interview with Blank Slate Media in May that he supported the House passage of the HEROES Act, which calls for federal funds to be distributed based on rate of infection in all states, has a priority of reinstating the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, and wants to send funds to local municipalities, villages, towns and cities, “regardless of their population size all the way down to the smallest ones.”

George Santos Republican Party/ Conservative Party

Bio: A native of Queens who currently lives in Whitestone, financial professional Santos worked for Citigroup’s real assets division, Turkeybased hospitality firm Metglobal, and at Goldman Sachs before joining LinkBridge Investors, and now serves as the regional director of Harbor City Capital, an alternative investment group. Santos’ campaign announced in March that he had tested positive for COVID-19, one of the first confirmed cases in the borough of Queens, and he was treated at Elmhurst Hospital prior to recovering.

Views: Santos said in an interview with Blank Slate Media that he supports funding updates to infrastructure; and that he opposes the Green New Deal, a universal income and Medicare for All.

4TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

Representing central and southern Nassau County, including Floral Park, Garden City, Hempstead, Mineola, Carle Place, New Hyde Park and Westbury.

Congresswoman Kathleen Rice (incumbent)

Democratic Party Bio: Rice previously served as the district attorney for Nassau County and

a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Philadelphia office and assistant district attorney in Brooklyn.

Rice resides in Garden City and is seeking a fourth term in office.

Views: Rice’s top priority is helping school districts, small businesses, hospitals and nursing homes recover from the coronavirus pandemic. She said that beyond providing these entities with “targeted financial relief,” she seeks to help them develop and implement plans to avoid recurrent coronavirus surges, as well as to combat future pandemics. She added that robust federal investment is necessary for this to happen. This federal aid should be used to help create jobs, provide relief to local businesses and help the families that have been most affected. She has also been vocal on climate change, repealing the cap on SALT deductions, immigration reform and gun control legislation.

Douglas Tuman Republican Party/ Conservative Party Bio: Tuman currently serves as the commissioner of engineering for the Town

of Hempstead, along with practicing as an attorney and professional engineer. He is also the host of a YouTube show called “Monero Talk,” discussing cryptocurrency.

Views: Tuman said his campaign platform centers around infrastructure improvements, improving representative democracy and making Nassau County a more affordable place for young families to live. If elected, Tuman would push to fortify the South Shore by implementing measures such as installing floodgates.

Such initiatives would save the district billions of dollars in potential damage from storms, he said. Tuman advocates moving swiftly to reopen the economy to “allow our open and free society to flourish again.” He added that he does not believe the financial crises that the pandemic has caused can be fixed by simply handing out money.

League launches electronic voter guide The League of Women Voters of Nassau County announced that its electronic voter guide, Vote411. org, is now live for the 2020 election.

Candidate information is available for Presidential Candidates as well U.S. Congressional Candidate districts as well as State Assembly and State Senate districts as well as Supreme Court Justices, County, Family and District Court Judges running in Nassau County.

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and responses to questions posed by the League, as well as links to candidates’ social media and campaign websites. This information can be accessed online at www.vote411.org in an easy-to-use electronic format.

Voters can enter their addresses to see their customized sample ballot and compare candidates’ positions. Candidates who have not yet submitted their information are listed with “Candidate Has Not Responded;” and their responses will be posted as

soon as the candidates provide the information. Additional local candidates and races will be added in the coming weeks.

Voters can also use Vote411.org to check their voter registration status, find their early voting and Election Day poll sites, and find deadlines for voter registration and absentee voting. The 2020 general election will be held on November 3. Early voting will be held from Saturday, Oct. 24 through Sunday, Nov. 1.

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STATE SENATE SEAT 7TH SENATE DISTRICT

Representing Floral Park, New Hyde Park, Williston Park, Mineola, Garden City Park, North Hills, Albertson, Old Westbury, East Hills, Roslyn, Roslyn Harbor, Roslyn Estates, Albertson, Searingtown, Lake Success, Manhasset, Munsey Park, Plandome, Plandome Heights, Plandome Manor, and the entireties of the Great Neck and Port Washington peninsulas.

Sen. Anna Kaplan (incumbent)

Democratic Party Bio: Kaplan was elected to serve the Town of North Hempstead’s 4th District

as a councilwoman in 2011. In 2016, she sought election to the House of Representatives, but lost to incumbent and current Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) in the Democratic primary. Kaplan defeated former Flower Hill Mayor Elaine Phillips in 2018 to represent the state’s 7th Senate District.

Views: Kaplan has most notably supported “sensible gun laws,” the Reproductive Health Act and the Child Victims Act. Kaplan has also been vocal on social justice movements, and overwhelming disapproved of the job that President Donald Trump has done over the past four years, and with the handling of the coronavirus. She has also been a proponent of ending hate speech and anti-Semitism throughout the district and has most recently called for the police to investigate an incident of 12 swastikas spray-painted in a Port Washington building.

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Dave Franklin Republican Party Bio: Franklin worked at MSG Networks for two years, and in 1983 accepted a job as an operations technician for HBO in Hauppauge. Franklin spent 36 years at the company, moving up to a position as a radio frequency technician, then an operations supervisor, working

nights to raise his sons during the day.

In 2010 Franklin ran for office for a seat on the Port Washington Police District’s Board of Commissioners. He won that race plus two other terms in 2013 and 2016, before losing his seat last year.

Views: With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Franklin said he is in favor of creating jobs through creating facilities that produce personal protective equipment and ventilators, both in the district and in places upstate. Franklin is also in favor of supporting the openings of vocational high schools, streamlining bureaucracy, arts education in schools and trades. He also looks forward to having town halls and hearing what can be worked on. Among the issues that Franklin sees is bail reform. “The crimes that qualify for bail include criminal sale of an illegal substance on school grounds, criminal sale of an illegal substance to a child, reckless assault of a child. That shouldn’t be,” he said in an interview with Blank Slate Media.

STATE ASSEMBLY SEATS 13TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT

Representing Roslyn, Greenvale, Sea Cliff, Glen Cove and parts of East Hills and Westbury.

Assemblyman Charles Lavine (incumbent)

Democratic Party/ Working Families Party Bio: A Glen Cove resident, Lavine worked as a lawyer for the Legal Aid

Society of New York and for the Glen Cove Community Development and Industrial Development agencies, also serving as chairman of the Glen Cove Democratic Committee. He served on the city’s Planning Board and City Council before his election to the state Assembly in 2004. He previously served as chairman of the bipartisan Assembly Committee on Ethics and Guidance and as co-chair of the New York State Legislative Ethics Commission, and currently serves as chair of the Assembly Elections Law Committee. He is running for an eighth term.

Views: On his website, Lavine said he is “dedicated to making higher education more affordable” and supports universal pre-K and “equitable school funding,” seeks to reform how the state invests “economic development dollars,” and told Newsday that he seeks to regulate utilities such as PSEG and New York American Water.

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received a master’s degree from LIU Post and a law degree from Fordham University, Monteleone practices criminal defense and personal injury law as a partner in a Mineola law firm and serves as a board member of the Criminal Courts Bar Association of Nassau County.

Views: In an interview with Newsday, Monteleone said he seeks to change the Bail Reform Act, saying that the#“extreme to which the Democrats in power went was … unnecessary.” He said “reckless spending must be stopped” and “reasonable tax legislation passed to stop the exodus from the state,” and he intends to sponsor a criminal justice reform act that would address the unfairness he said the old system brought upon defendants while accounting for public safety.

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STATE ASSEMBLY SEATS 16TH STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT

Representing Great Neck, Port Washington, Manhasset, Roslyn Heights, North Hills, Flower Hill, Lake Success, Baxter Estates, Manorhaven and Sands Point, the seat is currently occupied by Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso (D-Port Washington), who announced his retirement this year.

Gina Sillitti Democratic Party/ Working Families Party Bio: A resident of Manorhaven who graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in political science, Sillitti began her career working

for former Nassau County Legislator Dave Mejias before joining the Department of Community Services for the Town of North Hempstead, where she organized “constituent-based” community events. She later worked as deputy chief of staff and director of legislative affairs for then-Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman. Currently, she works as human resources director for the Nassau County Board of Elections.

Views: On her website, Sillitti said that she wants to invest in “infrastructure projects and smart economic development that pays a prevailing wage so that our neighbors get those jobs instead of out of state companies with an out of state workforce,” increase state funding for schools and other community organizations such as fire departments, and enact automatic voter registration and universal absentee voting.

Ragini Srivastava Republican Party/ Independence Party/Conservative Party Bio: A resident of Manhasset Hills who emigrated from India as a young adult, Srivastava’s website states that she began participating in her community by

volunteering for groups that focused on assisting domestic abuse survivors and encouraging women’s advocacy. She was later appointed to the Nassau County comptroller’s Minority and WomenOwned Business Enterprise Council, after owning and operating a small business.

In 2019, Srivastava was the Republican nominee for the Town of North Hempstead’s 2nd District, but lost to incumbent Councilman Peter Zuckerman.

Views: Srivastava’s website states that her goals including repealing the Bail Reform Act, which she states can “endanger witnesses to crimes by releasing their identities and private contact information,” controlling taxes and “runaway spending” by “creating dynamic economic corridors,” investing in infrastructure, including Long Island roadways, the LIRR and other mass transportation, and supporting the police, calling for “stricter criminal penalties for those who commit crimes against the police.”

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STATE ASSEMBLY SEATS 19TH STATE ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Representing Glen Head, Old Brookville, Old Westbury, New Hyde Park, Williston Park, Garden City Park, Garden City South, Garden City and Mineola.

Assemblyman Ed Ra (incumbent)

Republican Party Bio: Ra, a native of Franklin Square and current Garden City resident, was

first elected to serve the district in 2010, beating Democratic foe Patrick Nicolosi by more than 3,000 votes. Prior to his election, Ra served as a deputy town attorney for the Town of Hempstead and as a legal aide in the office of the New York state attorney general.

Views: Ra voted against the Reproductive Health Act, a New York statute enacted in January 2019 that decriminalized abortion and expanded abortion rights throughout the state. Ra said he does not model his conduct on President Donald Trump, but called the way national officials from both parties interact with each other “unfortunate.” Ra said he remains optimistic that a federal relief package will be passed and a potential package will have to include a combination of an undisclosed amount of federal funding and some revenue from tax increase proposals or sports betting.

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Gary Port Democratic Party Bio: Port, a lawyer, and retired Army lieutenant colonel is running in the 19th District for the fourth time. He lost the first three races, but this time, he said, is different because of the district’s demo-

graphic changes and the importance of the election. Port served in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve for 28 years. He is a founding member of the law firm Port and Sava, which practices divorce and commercial law. He has also done legal work for veterans in the area.

Views: Port said the most pressing issue that Long Islanders are faced with is the coronavirus pandemic. Port, unlike Ra, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo has done his best under the circumstances to make a plan to safely open schools and “bring people together.” Port said the issue of gerrymandered voting districts is a problem that disenfranchises voters. He has also pledged to work for social justice ranging from systemic racism, which Port believes is prevalent in the county, state and nation, along with LGBTQ rights.

Port also supports protecting veterans and providing benefits, working with entities such as the Hofstra Law School in the past to accomplish his goals in that aspect.

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Tuman seeks to improve local brand of GOP Continued from Page 8 Tuman said he believes he would be more attuned to his constituents than Rice is if elected.

“I don’t think she’s in the community very much,” Tuman said. “She’s in Washington, and not really in her district anymore. I would be in my district, and then going to Washington to represent my people.”

Since Tuman is the commissioner of engineering for the Town of Hempstead, which comprises much of the district, he is highly familiar with the communities that he would be representing, he said.

In particular, he emphasized that he is familiar with the infrastructure, which he believes needs improvement.

If elected, he would push to fortify the south shore by implementing measures such as installing floodgates. Such initiatives would save the district billions of dollars in potential damage from storms, he said.

Tuman stressed his belief that a member of Congress should act on behalf of constituents.

“At the end of the day, what really separates me is first and foremost what a congressperson is supposed to do is ad-

vocate for their people, and I think we’ve lost sight of that,” he said.

If elected, he plans to implement a text-based polling system.

“A core pillar of my platform is to improve representative democracy in America, and I want to do that right here with this district first,” Tuman said.

He explained that he would poll his constituents via text about issues that affect the district and would use that to determine how to legislate in Congress.

Tuman is implementing a text-based system with his campaign to demonstrate how it works, and would continue to use

this system if elected, he said.

Tuman pointed to his campaign slogan, “Build a Brighter Future Together,” to explain why he believes voters should choose him.

“I won’t bring biases or favor any groups when considering an issue,” he said. “I will simply look to solve the problem that our community collectively cares most about. I will also make sure all people are heard so that minority opinions in our communities are given a voice too. Additionally, I will bring people together by focusing on what unites us as opposed to what divides us.”

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Staying safe this Halloween

With the right precautions, families can still enjoy Halloween – even amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s what medical experts from Northwell HealthGoHealth Urgent Care want spooky revelers to know for a safe Halloween.

“The safest Halloween is spent at home,” said Dr. J.D. Zipkin the chief medical officer at Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care.

But if plans include venturing out, if anyone in the family feels ill, it’s best that everyone in the household stay home.

“No matter how much you want to trick-or-treat, if you’re feeling ill, everyone in your household really needs to isolate at home for the duration of the illness — for a minimum 10 days from onset,” Dr. Zipkin said.

Dr. Zipkin offered these ageappropriate trick-or-treating guidelines.

“Give your older children hand sanitizer, and teach them when and how to use it,” Dr. Zipkin said. That includes teaching kids to sanitize hands after touching objects or other people.

“With younger kids, parents should do most of the candy handling, and touchpoints, because these children are too young to independently manage these important safety measures

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But for parents who independently open the collected treats, “ensure that the candy doesn’t touch the outside wrapper – then wash hands thoroughly,” Dr. Zipkin said.

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As the world spent much of 2020 confronting the COVID-19 virus, public health organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Public Health Agency of Canada noted the importance of handwashing.

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How to return to the gym safely even with capacity restrictions in place.

Gyms have begun to reopen in parts of the United States and Canada after being shuttered to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It may have been several months since members have stepped foot in these facilities. That means not only will fitness enthusiasts need to be smart about COVID-19 precautions, they also will need to reacclimate their bodies to routine exercise.

"Based on recent research, aerosolized droplets can remain airborne for up to three hours, making the potential for spread in crowded and confined spaces such as fitness studios problematic," said Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in NYC. Maintaining distance and avoiding crowds is essential. Ask about air filtration and circulation at the gym. The rate of transmission of coronavirus may be higher in hot and crowded facilities without adequate circulation. Turn on fans or work close to open doors when possible.

Fitness resolutions may come earlier this year as people are eager to regain fitness levels achieved prior to shutdowns. Going about a return to the gym in a smart way can prevent injuries and illness.

Ease into workouts There will be a transition period as you get back to your gym routine. Start with flexibility workouts like yoga or pilates that can help reacclimate your body to physical activity. These will help increase blood flow, joint mobility and range of motion.

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To serve justice, burn the GOP to a cinder

Poverty rate, all persons, plus percentage of children under 5 living in poverty.

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he chart above should be the only information you need to make your decision this election year. The time period ranges from 1989 to Jan. 1, 2018.The thin grey line is the estimated percentage of people of all ages living in poverty in the United States, which is marked by the left scale.

The bold black line is the percentage of people living in

poverty under the age of 5. Yes, I said under the age of 5. This is counted by the scale on the right of the chart. The reader will note that despite these two metrics being counted in percentage as well as nominal terms, both trend lines have been well correlated for about thirty years.

It has been estimated, that as of this writing, an additional 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since May of this

year. This chart will not be updated until early 2021. But we now have the plain evidence that any time a Republican is elected President, poverty rates rise, dragging the fate of children, toddlers actually, with them. This is not by accident.

This is by design. This is due to hard policy.

The most interesting period of the chart is that of the George Bush Jr. presidency. Note that

even after two reckless and topheavy tax cuts, poverty rates tack up.

During this period, there are other indicators showing a slow consistent erosion of the economy. Labor Participation peaked in 2000 and continued to decline throughout the Bush presidency, well after the 2001 recession ended.

The employment to population ratio (EPOP) for age 25-54 swoons, the share of net worth for the bottom 50 percent of the population falls dramatically.

President Bush is practically playing a game of Jenga with the U.S. economy, slowly removing the blocks that support it throughout both terms of his presidency. In 2008, the pile crashes.

Few economists have realized it, and fewer have voiced it, but President Obama wasn’t left with a recession to fight. He was left with two recessions to fight, one, a slow-moving domestic train wreck, the other, a global calamity.

For all the whining about the “slow pace of the recovery,” he set a path set for continued, sustainable employment gains with low inflation. That’s not a

failed record, and his successor simply coasted on the momentum of that record, then took all the credit for it, even as he underperformed it!

Then, he destroyed it.

And now, not only do we face another lost decade in front of us, the progress made by the one behind us has been completely obliterated. All because of the utter lack of competence of just one man, and his Party of enablers. A stiff price must be paid.

And it must be costly, ruthless, and indelible. Many of you don’t bother to vote because the results in New York can be quite predictable. This year, we need to bury the GOP six feet deep.

The choice should not be hard. The cancer of the Republican Party, from Washington down to its race-baiting henchmen in state and county Legislatures, must be removed from the body politic of the nation. Vote out every last one and burn the GOP to a cinder. It has nothing to offer the country but impoverishment, social dysfunction and perpetual failure.

Donald Davret Roslyn

Dem agenda undermines the Constitution

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have read and heard news commentators discussing that much ambivalence among seniors has been noted when it comes to who to vote for in the next election.

No one has addressed this issue with more clarity than Mark Levin, a respected, conservative talk show host, constitutional scholar and a lawyer. Because I could never put into words his thoughts with such eloquence, I am going to quote him below.

“Are you prepared to vote for an agenda that undermines the Constitution, that undermines our economic system, that destroys our national borders, that expands welfare to illegal aliens, that destroys Medicare by lowering the age from 65 to 60 and puts so much pressure on the sys-

tem that it collapses, indoctrination in our schools from kindergarten to high school that pushes the 1619 Project, that attacks the 1776 history of this country?

“Are you prepared to vote for a party that treats law enforcement and our military worse than shabbily and lets looters and rioters out of court to go back and loot and riot again? Do you want to leave that kind of a country to your children and grandchildren?

Since when do we reject our Constitution, law and order, capitalism and honest Judges who rule based on law and not ideology.?”

We seniors have lived the life of love of country and patriotism and I want my grandchildren to experience that same feeling of pride when that flag goes by.

How about you?

Alvin Goldberg, a reader, called me out last week for my statements on the Supreme Court, the Electoral College and for being a “stupid ” woman who thinks the world is flat. This stupid woman will try to educate the fine gentleman and respond to several of his ludicrous statements.

The first subject he mentions is Putin and Trump in a rambling, non-sensical collection of statements that must be related to the debunked and overly investigated Russian collusion fiasco that went nowhere. He then, in the next sentence, appears to know that Amy Coney Barrett is going to vote to return the court to preCivil War days. Why he couldput the Long Island Medium, Theresa Caputo, to shame with his predic-

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tions. Not going to happen.

Then he asks why President Lincoln freed the slaves. He had to free them because your Southern Democrats (your party of slavery, segregation and Jim Crow) would not let them go without a fight.

Now, some facts on the Electoral College. There are two senators for every state, giving us 100.

The House of Representatives is based on the population of each state. California hasthe most at 55, Texas at 38 all the way down to the smallest number of three.

Mr. Goldberg then picks on the state of Wyoming with a myriad of negative facts about the state’s drug use, car accidents etc. and seems to suggest that they should have no say in electing a President because their population is only 578,000, so why should they have any say. They only have three electoral votes. It is the cumulative effect of all of the other smaller states that makes it fair.

Now according to Alvin Goldberg, the citizens of Washington, D.C. do not have the right to vote.

What? The 23rd Amendment to

the Constitution allows citizens who live in D.C. to vote. Puerto Rico cannot vote in our congressional or presidential elections.

It is an unincorporated territory.

Now, if they are both made states, they would each get two Senate seats and would probably vote Democratic. The filibuster was put in place to give the minority party some voice in the Senate and there is no comparison with that concept and writing a letter to a newspaper with an opposing opinion.

The 110-page policy statement of the Democrats is titled the “Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force Recommendations.” They released it jointly and worked on it jointly along with six task forces appointed by each. Enough said.

As a typical lefty, you resorted to calling me names instead of just attacking the message. I will not return the favor because I see life differently and thank God there are people just like me who treat others with respect Gayle Palmer Williston Park

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10 reasons why Trump wrong for America

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ovid 19 — Trump has mismanaged this pandemic from the beginning.

His failure to promote the wearing of masks, avoiding crowds and following social distancing has led to the needless deaths of thousands of Americans.

Trump’s recklessness led to his own infection.

Putin — Russia wants to divide and weaken America and its allies. Many of Trump’s actions help Putin achieve these goals. Trump is beholden to Vladimir Putin.

The only question is: why.

Debt — It was recently revealed that Trump owes over $400 million in debt that he has personally guaranteed. Who does he owe this to and what national security risks does this raise?

Mental Illness — It is clear that Trump

is a malignant narcissist. He has a personality disorder and has no empathy. He has also been called a sociopath and a psychopath. These diagnoses have been confirmed by his niece, Mary Trump, a trained psychologist.

Incompetence — Trump has shown he has minimal management skills. He is not interested in gathering facts or consulting with experts. He governs by his gut. That is not acceptable for the president of the United Sates.

Fascism — Yes, Trump has exhibited signs of fascism. He has never had to answer to anyone in his life. He attacks the free press as the enemy of the people. He divides Americans between “us” and “others.” He is trying to suppress the vote by claiming fraud, even though there is no

evidence. And he is refusing to say he will support an orderly transition of power if he loses the election.

Climate Change — 97 percent of scientists agree we are suffering from man-made climate change. We have suffered unprecedented fires in the West and hurricanes in the Gulf. Yet Trump has reversed many actions designed to slow and reverse greenhouse gases.

Economy — Trump inherited a sevenyear economic expansion. He signed a massive tax cut for the rich that did little for the middle class. He is refusing to take further action to help the tens of millions of Americans suffering from job losses due to his mismanagement of the coronavirus.

Racism — Trump has a long history of racism. He and his father were fined by the

Nixon administration in the 1970’s for failing to rent apartments to Blacks. He supports white nationalists and rightwing extremist groups.

Healthcare — The Trump Administration is actively supporting a lawsuit to be heard by the Supreme Court next month to overturn Obamacare. This will result in 20 million Americans losing healthcare. It will also allow insurance companies to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. Trump has no plan to replace the healthcare he wants to destroy.

The future of our democracy is on the line. The answer is to elect Joe Biden as our next president by an overwhelming margin.

Bob Kleinman Port Washington

Whose side is Delia DeRiggi-Whitton on?

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read with interest and curiosity the “letter” authored by Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton regarding New York American Water’s proposal to build a filtration system next to the railroad tracks in Glen Head. I believe some clarification is in order.

The Sea Cliff-Glen Head-Glenwood Landing area has been subject to private profit mongering New York American Water since 2012 when that company bought the assets of another private company, Aqua.

The area covered has had private water since the late 19th century because there had been no political will or interest in municipalizing the district. Unlike the Great Neck peninsula in the 1990s and the City of New York, local politicians have turned a blind eye to their constituents’ interests in obtaining affordable public water.

That changed slightly when on August 9, 2017 (3+ years ago), the “civic group” to which the Legislator refers held a meeting at the North Shore Middle School attended by approximately 400 ratepayers, all the local politicians and by the President of NYAW wherein the community aired its grievances about the rates and service.

From that meeting, another “civic” group, “North Shore Concerned Citizens” was created. Both the local civic association and NSCC are composed of VOLUNTEERS devoting their time and energy to the cause of this community WITHOUT PAY. In 2019 and again in 2020, Sen. Jim Gaughran sponsored and got passed (almost unanimously) in the Senate a bill forming a North Shore Water Authority, to allow a public corporation to buy out the assets of NYAW and operate the water service. That is and always has been the goal of both groups. A similar bill was introduced in the State Assembly both years and never got out of committee, despite support from our 3 local Assemblymen.

Earlier this year, after being caught lying to the Public Service Commission in 2016, investigations by the Nassau County District Attorney, New York State Attorney

General, U.S. Government Accountability Office and reams of bad publicity from Newsday and the local newspapers and radio stations, NYAW submitted a petition to the NYS Public Service Commission to sell its assets to another private water monopoly — Liberty Utilities, a Canadian company that has virtually no presence in the eastern United States. Again, the “civic group” and NSCC have been fighting this sale with the goal of stopping it and forcing a sale of the assets to a municipal entity like the ones that provide water to 90% of Nassau County.

Thanks to the community pressure, the PSC is asking for proposals from local municipalities and public water districts to take over parts of the NYAW system. The deadline for the municipalities and water districts to submit interest in this proposal was just extended from Oct. 15 to Dec. 31.

The only local governmental entity that has been involved in this fight (other than the State legislature) is the Village of Sea Cliff.

To appear and speak at these hearings, an entity must file a formal “Party Status Request.”

Such requests have been filed by the Village of Sea Cliff, NSCC and the Glen Head-Glenwood Landing Civic Council.

Other municipalities, including the upstate Town of Ulster and Massapequa Water District, have filed Requests. Another VOLUNTEER group, L.I. CAWS, based on the south shore, has filed a Request.

The Town of Hempstead has commissioned a feasibility study (which the Town has paid for) as has the Village of Sea Cliff (paid for by state grants) and the Massapequa Water District (paid by the District).

Notably absent from these proceedings are the Nassau County Legislature and the Town Board of Oyster Bay, both of which have been asked to join in the fight and have failed to do so.

Legislator DeRiggi’s article focuses on a $1,000,000 building. As she points out, with 4500 ratepayers, that amounts to a one-time payment of $200 per ratepayer.

Not that this is a minimal charge but approximately one year ago, NYAW AGREED IN WRITING to build a new Glen Head Water Tower for $3.2 million.

When it was built, they said that the cost is $6.4 million!! That will cost the ratepayers $600, three times the amount.

When the “civic group” and NSCC openly complained about this to the Legislator and other elected officials, nothing was done.

The complaint about the $200 is relatively minor compared to the cost paid EVERY MONTH (NOT QUARTER) by every ratepayer to this profiteering company.

Our rates are the highest on Long Island, one of the highest in the country and approximately five times what our neighbors pay to a public company such as Jericho Water District. Instead of focusing on the $200, Legislator DeRiggi and her associates should be focusing on getting private water out of Nassau County.

The Suffolk County Legislature has gotten private water out of Suffolk with the Suffolk County Water Authority. Great Neck got it out as previously mentioned. The City of Baltimore became the first major city in the country to BAN private water companies. NYAW services 10 percent of Nassau County, including the homes of the county executive and Oyster Bay supervisor. Whenever Legislator DeRiggi was asked by the volunteer groups about the county getting involved, it was always: “The County has no money.”

No “civic group” approved this filtration system building. “Civic groups” do not approve building applications or issue building permits. The water company submitted an application to the Town Building Department and then to the Zoning Board of Appeals and it was approved.

Notices for these hearings are published in the same newspapers that published the legislator’s letter. In this case, the property owners within 300 feet of the proposed construction were notified as required by the Town.

They and their civic representatives

met with the Town Zoning Board and water company representatives. There were several meetings held — in person, virtually and by conference call. The neighboring property owners were represented at these meetings.

The Village of Sea Cliff approved of the application. It is hard to believe that Legislator DeRiggi did not know about these meetings unless you consider the fact that this building she is complaining about is NOT in her district.

This proposed structure is next to the Glen Head railroad tracks in the 18th Legislative District. Legislator DeRiggi represents the 11th District, approximately one-half mile away. The building in question was also approved after an expert on industrial/commercial filtration systems, a retired local water commissioner and university professor, testified that a building was necessary for the system to properly function during sub-freezing weather conditions.

The expert also said that this is the recommended method of construction in the industry in cold climate areas.

The legislator wants the ratepayers to call American Water and voice their opposition. Thousands of ratepayers have already signed petitions to get rid of this company.

The ratepayers have a chance to speak at the public part of the PSC hearings which are coming up in November.

How about the county Legislature doing its “civic” and “ethical” duty and getting involved in the fight to get this community and all of Nassau County public water?

This company and any of these other private water MONOPOLIES are not only ripping off Glen Head, Glenwood and Sea Cliff but are doing so on the south shore from Massapequa to the Five Towns. This is a County issue and Legislator DeRiggi is a county legislator. Let’s look at the big picture Lloyd Nadel Attorney for Glen HeadGlenwood Landing Civic Council

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Anything goes in the Village of Great Neck

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llegal home-based businesses. Check.

Suspected Illegal day care centers.

Check.

Illegal signage. Check.

Illegal construction without Building Department permit or oversight. Check.

Curious minds want to know: Are Building Department personnel well-versed in Village Code?How can they enforce what they don’t know?Whose job function is it to review and sign off on the extraordinary number of blueprint designs in this visibly strained Building Department?Which Village of Great Neck official is whispering in the Building super-

intendent’s ear that suburban quality of life and public safety matters are not village priority?

Bottom Line: For many months low priority has been assigned to public safety and suburban quality-of-life issues. Is this any way to protect the people who live here and pay taxes here? What about the upcoming demolition of a certain single-family house (directly opposite Memorial Field tennis courts-off Baker Hill Road) located on a residential street? Area residents justifiably fear that at any moment there will be a repeat performance akin to the unlawful debacle at 66 Essex Road two years ago.

Will yet another single-family house (77 Radnor Road) be taken down to its foundation without the proper Building Department inspections and without the proper Village of Great Neck demolition permit in place? And will New York state law and Village law be strictly adhered to?

Or, like last time, will public utility personnel return 24 hours later to cut active lines because they were not cut — as required by law – prior to demolition?

Perhaps, this overwhelmed Building Department should take a raincheck before it signs off on multiple assignments of multi-story development that will impact a

Nassau County Road.

Tongues are wagging. The talk isn’t pretty. Schmoozing the concerned public won’t cut it. Residents demand the most experienced Building inspector be assigned to 77 Radnor Road to provide oversight prior to the upcoming demolition and every inspection after that. Village of Great Neck residents are entitled to protection and code enforcement of public safety measures on the streets where they live. It’s the law.

Judy Shore Rosenthal Great Neck

Trump haters ignore Mideast peace accords

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he Trump haters, and that includes the vast majority of our radio, TV and print media, are in the midst of committing an un-American act that is so monstrously despicable, that I can’t find a similar act to compare it to.

The Trump haters are almost completely ignoring the recent monumental achievements won by Trump and his administration, when Israel and the United Arab Emirates and then also Bahrain, signed peace accords. Not since 1994, when Israel and Jordan signed a peace accord, has Israel’s relationship with one of its neighboring Arab countries been normalized.

Now, in today’s news (way back, on Page A15 in Newsday), we are told that the Sudan is about to normalize relations with Israel and that President Trump claims that at least five other (Arab Muslim) countries want to “come into the deal.” I’m sure that one of those countries is Saudi Arabia. Yes, the Israel-Palestine problem is yet to be resolved, but the Middle Eastern world is waking up to the fact that Iran poses a much greater threat to it than tiny Israel and a tiny Palestine could ever pose.

Barack Obama, when he was president, was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize

in 2009 for no accomplishment that anyone knows of. President Trump’s Mideast peace achievements, just so far, should win him at least a Nobel Peace Prize, encrusted with diamonds and other precious gems.

However, our Trump hating media find it impossible to acknowledge those achievements, because it’s anathema for them to say anything positive about Trump, anything at all.

As a result, all Americans, particularly America’s Jewry, will suffer. It’s almost possible to condemn this lack of recognition of the importance of the Israel-Arab peace accords as an anti-Semitic act. Promoting

those accords would represent a positive for Israel and for world peace, while not promoting them has the opposite effect.

Not promoting the accords implies that Israel has made no progress normalizing its relationship with its many Arab neighbors and that world Jewry still cannot normalize its relationship with the Muslim world.

I fervently hope that millions of Americans will somehow realize what thoughtless damage the Trump haters are doing to our country and to world Jewry.

Joel Katz Port Washington

Importance of ABC’s at Herricks schools

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uring these unsettling times, the Herricks Union Free School District (HUFSD) and wonderful teachers/building staff have performed superbly in permitting our children to return to school. Thank you! As we move forward, it is important for HUFSD to focus on the “ABC’s” … Adjustment, Balance, Consistency.

Adjustment: While “tweaks” or iterations have been and will be made, it critical to allow time for the staff, students, families, and school administrators to adjust to “tweaks.” The act of implementing repeated changes, such as synchronous vs. asynchronous learning or required vs. optional screen time, in short periods of time, will foster destabilization, demoralization,

sow confusion and exacerbate pre-existing anxiety (for teachers, students and families). Please allow for “tweaks” or iterations to develop over a sufficient period to objectively evaluate their utility.

Balance: It is not easy to strike a balance between synchronous and asynchronous classes. There are those who shout for full day of streaming synchronous classes.

The argument is that this will allow for “coverage” of the Curriculum. However, there is no empirical data of any kind to support the use of synchronous full streaming classes.

Full day synchronous live-streaming classes will not increase SAT scores, Regent’s Examination results or “coverage” of the Curriculum. A balance between synchronous and asynchronous streaming classes will

meet the requirements for all families.

Consistency: It is imperative for our children and teacher’s physical, psychological, and academic success that they experience consistency during these unstable socio-political-cultural-racial-financial times. Consistency is a central component for the development of children and adolescents. Children learn best, and teachers are placed in the best position to teach when they anticipate consistent guidelines.

When teachers are required to change their methodology, this creates uncertainty and can lead to loss of confidence and further anxiety which in turn leads to impaired academic student performance.

I am genuinely grateful and proud of the HUFSD, teachers, administrators, and

families’ Herculean efforts during the last several months. In order to continue on this path, I implore HUFSD to (1) make adjustments in a manner to assess the utility of the adjustments, not simply to satisfy the voices of a few, (2) provide a balance between synchronous and asynchronous livestreaming classes and (3) allow teachers to develop a consistent system of providing education. We are in uncertain times and HUFSD has this remarkable opportunity to serve as leaders in Nassau County to ensure the physical safety, psychological wellbeing, and academic success of the entire student body!

Kostas A. Katsavdakis Herricks

Trumpsters on wheels or water a sham

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hese Trumplican parades all have one thing in common.

Whether they are yachts and rowboats draped with banners large enough to sink them, festooned with large numbers of inappropriately displayed American flags, or pickups

with oversized tires, and SUVs similarly festooned with yet more inappropriately displayed American flags. there is a common thread: futility.

The boat parades come off more as a Looney Tune circus show, impressing only themselves. The truck and car pa-

rades have more in common with Klan nightriders than legitimate demonstrations. The common thread?

If these demonstrators left their yachts, dinghies and trucks and assembled to voice their opinion, we would see what a meager number of simply

noisy people they are. Maybe that’s why they need to hide behind their trucks and yachts.

Eric Cashdan Sands Point

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Parents thank G.N. board of ed members

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t goes without saying that this has been a school year unlike any other. More than ever, our community puts their trust in our Board of Education for the best decision-making, thoughtful planning and the appropriate use of funds for our schools. Not only did we need planning for our schools to remain clean, healthy and safe places for our children, but also planning for the remote learning that is taking place.

On behalf of the United Parent-Teacher

Council, we would like to acknowledge the dedication and outstanding service of the members of the Great Neck Public Schools Board of Education. Our thanks and appreciation go to President Barbara Berkowitz, Vice President Donald Ashkenase, Trustee Donna Peirez, Trustee Rebecca Sassouni, and Trustee Jeffrey Shi for their outstanding service to the Great Neck community. We are well aware of the endless hours that they spend volunteering their time for the ben-

efit of our community, providing exemplary education opportunities for all, from Pre-K to adult education.

In conjunction with celebrating School Board Recognition Week in New York State, we acknowledge our board’s unwavering commitment to educational excellence.

“Education is not only the learning of the facts, but the training of the mind to think.” — Albert Einstein Thank you to the members of our Board

of Education. We are grateful for their leadership and so very appreciative of the wonderful school district in which we reside. We look forward to continued strength and unity in our district with their guidance and leadership.

Miriam Kobliner Moji Pourmoradi Co-Presidents United Parent-Teacher Council Great Neck Public Schools

Biden presidency would be bad for Israel “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles.

We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”

According to the Jewish Press in a 2015 article, those words were spoken by Menachem Begin in June 1982, directly to the Democrat senator from Delaware, Joe Biden, who had confronted the Israeli prime minister during his Senate Foreign Relations

Committee testimony by threatening to cut off aid to Israel. Biden opposed annexation of the West Bank in what was described as an angry session.

That’s right, only 32 years after the establishment of the tiny Jewish state, which was surrounded by 22 war-mongering, Israel-loathing Arab states, and only 35 years after the Holocaust savagely exterminated, gassed-to-death 6 million Jews.

Not a fluke, not a misstatement, not an error in judgment, but vintage Joe Biden, whose longtime antagonism and belligerence toward Israel has been exhaustively documented, most recently by Janet Levy in AmericanThinker.com (Is a Vote for Joe Biden in the Interest of American Jews?).

Levy reports that the Obama-Biden re-

gime’s consistent anti-Israel policies interfered with the 2015 Israeli elections to get Netanyahu defeated and that their State Department granted $350,000 to OneVoice, a radical anti-Israel organization that supports Hamas and the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement.

Only space limitations prevent me from listing dozens more of Biden’s anti-Israel statements and actions. And now, the presidential candidate has pledged to reopen the embassy of the viciously anti-Israel Palestinian Liberation Organization mission in D.C. and, incomprehensibly, to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, in which the arch-terrorist state in the entire world has vowed to exterminate the State of Israel and every Jew who walks the earth.

After the Holocaust, American Jews who followed politics––most did and do today––were forced to ask themselves, and taught their children to ask: Is it good for the Jews? Meaning will or could this or that statement or policy or law lead to another Holocaust?

To ask that question about Biden’s candidacy is to say without hesitation that he would be terrible for America and disastrous for Israel. If you’re a liberal American Jew determined to pull the lever or mail a writein ballot for Biden, don’t! Don’t be a Jew with trembling knees. Your very survival and that of your family is at stake!

Joan Swirsky Great Neck

LIRR Expansion Project no longer needed

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ewsday published an important article on Oct. 25: “Some LIRR regular commuters may be ‘lost forever’ rail experts predict.” It validates what the citizens and taxpayers along the 9.5 miles of the LIRR Expansion Project have known all along.

The article reports that the stagnant growth in LIRR ridership comes as the number of Americans working remotely remains around 46 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — about twice as many as in 2019. What’s more, it was reported in a recent survey by Owl Labs and Global Workplace Analytics that 80 percent of full-time workers expect to work from home at least three times per week after COVID-19 safety restrictions are lifted.

Janet Lenaghan, dean of the Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University, said some of the changes in commuting patterns are likely “here to stay,” as the health crisis expedited a transformation in work culture that already was underway. She noted that major employers have signaled they’ll allow some employees to work from home permanently. In addition to telecommuting, Lenaghan said employers and employees alike are realizing the benefits of flexible work schedules, and of using smaller, suburban-based office spaces — all changes that could erode the LIRR’s

traditional commuter base.

Railroad expert William Vantuono, editor-in-chief of Railway Age magazine, said the shift from the traditional rush hour is forcing commuter railroads across the country to reconsider their core missions.

“The LIRR, Metro-North are going to have to adjust, if they can, to these new commuting patterns,” said Vantuono, who agreed that some of the changes were inevitable.

“It’s been a trend, but COVID-19 accelerated it at a massive rate.”

LIRR President Phillip Eng said the changes in travel patterns have been apparent for a while, as evidenced by the fact that off-peak ridership has increased by 9 percent over the last five years, while rushhour ridership has remained mostly flat.

So a few questions beg to be asked.

Why did we need the LIRR Expansion Project and its companion, transit-oriented development if our governor, the MTA-LIRR, some state and county elected officials, and the experts knew these trends were already well underway before Covid? Why did they choose to spend billions of our tax dollars and cause massive disruption to our lives, our neighborhoods and our livelihoods for a train to nowhere?

Let’s face it. The progressive vision for Long Island’s future, one that elected officials and members of the Long Island Association and others have been peddling

for years, is effectively obsolete before it was ever completed. The coronavirus just confirmed for us that the LIRR Expansion Project was a tragic consequence of living in denial of the facts – facts that have been largely documented by the experts for several years — and ignored by the decisionmakers who pushed these projects through regardless of the groundswell of opposition by regular homeowners and taxpayers.

It is noteworthy that NYC dwellers are now increasingly seeking refuge in the suburbs; they are flocking to neighborhoods and communities across Nassau and Suffolk as they currently exist. Long Island’s single-family home sales hit new highs. Why? The suburbs have traditionally valued green space and low-density structures. The current trends have signaled (yet again) an overwhelming rejection of small apartments and mixed-use dwellings that are characteristic of the cookie-cutter, transit-oriented developments that are popping up everywhere. And, while L.I. developers continue to reap IDA tax incentive agreements (a.k.a taxpayer-funded sweet deals that take them off the tax rolls) to bulldoze and build, massive discounts have caused rents to drop precipitously in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens for the first time in history.

The same goes for the new retail opportunities being proposed as part of the

“revitalization plans” and the purported “vibrant downtowns” especially along the LIRR corridor. Many of these stores are now in serious free-fall.

It is tragic that it took a global pandemic to bring the facts to light. Our elected officials must acknowledge that their intent to bulldoze and develop all over traditional suburbia is woefully off course and overwhelmingly rejected by longtime and new residents of Nassau and Suffolk.

Critical questions remain. Will elected officials make decisions based on the evidence in the future? Or will they deny the facts and travel down that road? Do the developers who seek to gain huge profits by exploiting our open spaces and traditional suburban milieu count more than “we the people?” If so, the present-day exodus out of New York will continue, and thus it will successfully bring the state to its knees.

Again, we the people demand nothing less than informed decision-making at every level of government — and that informed decision-making must include the voices of the regular homeowners and taxpayers across Long Island who have made their largest personal investment in their single-family homes in suburban communities across Long Island.

Diane Bentivegna New Hyde Park

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A bully doesn’t belong in the Oval Office

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our years ago, my elementary school held a mock presidential election, when the real one was just around the corner. Most girls voted for Hillary Clinton. I was crestfallen when she lost, because I had wanted a female president.

Donald Trump, as far as my pre-adolescent mind was concerned, had no redeeming qualities. He frankly reminded me of a schoolyard bully. I was no expert on politics, but Mr. Trump just didn’t act like a president. He mocked people he didn’t like and attacked them not by presenting a logical argument, but by resorting to name calling.

I asked a particularly vocal supporter of Donald Trump, a boy in my fourth-grade class, why he voted the way he did. He simply replied, with clear enthusiasm in his eyes, “I think he’s cool. I mean, he’s funny and like super gangsta.” This got the gears in my head turning, even more so after the real election results came out. My classmate’s reasoning was flawed, certainly, but it incited a different question. Why did half of America feel compelled to cast their ballots for Trump?

Over the past four years, his flap of platinum blond hair, his apricot-colored face, so alive with indignation and defensiveness as it always is, has become familiar to all of

us. Reading books such as “Hillbilly Elegy” helped me to better understand why some people chose a businessman over a seasoned politician. For people who felt forgotten and betrayed by the establishment, an outsider was a more logical choice. I learned about the social issues in our society that propelled some swing states to vote for Trump. I understood his appeal to some American citizens, with his promise of “America first.”

But under President Trump, we’ve abandoned our role as the leader of the free world. We are at a trade war with China and a number of other countries. International relations and trade have become a game of win-lose. President Trump has hammered down old systems, but where’s his new one?

To President Trump’s credit, the economy under his administration grew and unemployment declined to an all-time low with the help of his tax cuts. But it wasn’t a Trump “rescue” as he boasted. All economic indicators showed that the economy was already steadily recovering under President Obama’s second term. On the flip side, the U.S. deficit soared. His tax cuts served the rich more than the poor. Income inequality reached an all-time high. When the pandemic hit, it affected minorities and low income families

disproportionately and exposed fissures and cracks in the healthcare system.

Instead of leading the fight against coronavirus with a unified approach, President Trump continued to act the way he has always acted, dividing people, pointing fingers, and turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to those who are struggling. He downplayed the threat of Covid-19 initially (and still does), sent messages that conflicted with his own public health experts’, and like a petulant child, refused to take responsibility for his actions.

Not only that, but he repeatedly and deliberately referred to Covid-19 as the “China virus” and the “kung-flu.” His press secretary said it was a joke. As an Asian-American, I do not believe that Asian-Americans being cursed at, spit on and stabbed in public is funny and his actions were certainly partially responsible for the rise in racially motivated hatred against Asian-Americans. President Trump repeatedly stifled and dismissed racial injustice, often displaying troubling racist behavior himself. Immigrants or people of color who disagree with him, are “other” to him and should “go back to their own countries”.

President Trump’s personality and man-

nerisms are the exact opposite of how schools teach children to behave. In class, you raise your hand when you want to speak. You wait for your turn, and stay respectfully silent when someone else is speaking. You respect people who have different opinions. President Trump turned the first Presidential Debate into a feverish mess of interruptions, low blows and insults. When he was chastised by both his opponent and the moderator, he plowed resolutely on, seemingly determined to get his point (whatever that was) across.

He acts like that one kid during recess who hurls insults at his perceived opponents, hollering all forms of verbal slander towards his so-called adversaries, until he has exhausted himself. As the teachers drag him to the principal’s office, he turns away believing he has won the metaphorical battle.

Bullies are for the schoolyard. They are not for the Oval Office.

Joy Wei Great Neck Joy Wei is an eighth-grader at Great Neck North Middle School who likes writing and art.

Many concerns about mailed-in ballots

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had written to Congresswoman Kathleen Rice two months ago about my concern regarding massive mailin ballots as I, like everyone else, wants a valid outcome.

Her response, which I received Oct. 24, was remiss re-

garding the safety from fraud regarding the massive mail-in ballots.

She tried to convince me of the need for this due to the pandemic and that it is very safe from fraud.

The early voting ability

here in New York (and across the country for that matter), already accommodates the COVID challenges. We also have the absentee-ballot application system as always. That being said, accepting mail-in ballots beyond the Nov. 3, 2020 post-

mark, or even not postmarked at all — is unprecedented and a farce.

It’s like having a horse race with no finish line. I’m very frustrated by her response about the safety of the ballots when we already know of discarded

ballots found in dumpsters.

Rosanne Spinner New Hyde Park Editor’s Note: New York State is not accepting ballots that have not been postmarked by Nov. 3.

All ballots must be postmarked.

Adopt-A-Pole shows spirit of Manhasset

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anhasset is a special place and our downtown district, Plandome Road, is very small but the heart of the hamlet.

Each year, the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce tries to beautify Plandome Road with hanging plants that are displayed on many lamp posts that line the road. The costs of these plants and planters are significant and with the ailing economy can not be sustained by the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce alone.

The Adopt-A-Pole campaign has been in place for decades, asking the community and the various organizations who use Mary Jane Davies Park for their activities and enjoy Plandome Road to support purchasing these flowers and helping the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce adorn the pole for the seasonal decorations which make Manhasset, the wonderful place to live.

This year our supporters for Adopt-A-Pole include: Exo Industries -Alex Stavrinoudis American Legion Post #304 Buttercookery Bakery Rita Eredics. Andrew Lunetta and Jane Cava Viola in memory of Hope Catalano Chase Bank Daniel Gale Sotheby’s Tony DiStefano in memory of from DiStefano family Westbury

Rita Eredics in memory of Henry Pecora Elizabeth Gagliardi Greater Council of Manhasset Civic Assns Ed and Diane Harragan, Kiwanis Club of Manhasset-PW Lovejoy Real Estate Esther Miller Nancy Morris State Farm Agency Ozehosky, Richard and John Plandome Heights Women’s Club and Civic Association Quan-Vest Consultants Dr Roseann Russo, Dr. Maryann Schaefer Spruce Realty Robert Symmons The Town of North Hempstead Joan Viscardi Joan Walter In memory of John Walter AA Planter 2020 LI Prop Mgmt (Ed and Lynn King) Morricci & Morricci,LLP Attys at Law G Quanvest Consultants Sears, Richard and Terry Many thanks to Manhasset Chamber of Commerce Adopt-A-Pole coordinator, Diane Harragan, who sent solicitation letters, at her own cost, to support this beau-

tification effort. We also acknowledge the hard work of former Co-President Elizabeth Johnson, who planted the flowers in all the planters along Plandome Road this summer with the funds available. We also thank the anonymous contributors who took it upon themselves to plant plants in planters and make them stellar.

The beautification of Plandome Road would have not been possible without the generous grant received from the Town of North Hempstead through the efforts of Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Town Councilwoman Veronica Lurvey. During this historic time, the efforts of Supervisor Bosworth and Councilwoman Lurvey pressed into service their staff to hang and water these plants and planters to maintain their health and beauty for all to enjoy.

Your contributions are imperative for the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce to continue their efforts. Please consider sending a check for $100 or whatever you are able to Manhasset COC, P.O. Box 754, Manhasset, NY 11030, earmark it “Adopt-A- Pole.” We have to pre-order for 2021 now in November. Your generous contributions are welcome.

Elizabeth C. Johnson Manhasset Chamber of Commerce Letters Continued on Page 46

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Do homework before buying property

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ell, we are now in the last quarter of what I think and believe to be the most tumultuous, divisive, sad, tragic, crazy, and most insanely ridiculous year and moment in time in our country’s 244-year history. For several reasons, I will not elaborate on all my personal reasons and thoughts about why this is and why it shouldn’t have been, so I can stay apolitical political and non-partisan. Maybe after the election that is coming up where I am the chair of the Russell Gardens election location, I just might reveal how I feel and have felt all along.

As far as the pulse of the market, it’s still zooming ahead strong as heck for homes due to 3.7 months’ availability right now (normally it’s six to seven months), the lowest on record, and still the lowest interest rates in 50-plus years. However, there are segments of our market that are a bit softer like the condo and coop area. The reason for that weakness is the majority of the current expatriates (400,000 plus and counting) who have fled Manhattan and other major cities to destinations east, north, south, and west is they are more interested and inclined to purchase homes than the condos and coops that

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they resided in. They’ve already had their experiences with the population density and congestion issues of city life. The Covid-19 pandemic has “broken the camel’s back” and was the final and last straw. Their mindset has drastically been altered and now they yearn for more greener pastures in the burbs, providing more space, privacy, quiet, and relaxing surroundings, and just a much safer, healthier, and happier environment.

And extremely important and most critical in their decision-making are the quality and highly ranked schools, which are paid for and included in their real estate taxes without the extra cost of those expensive private entities in the cities. So everything looks “peachy keen” now, right? But I still wouldn’t throw caution out the window or to the wind, but I would be very cognizant of everyday events and happenings around the globe. As I see it, some sudden recent moves in the stock market could be a precursor to what the future might hold and as they say “October can sometimes be a very challenging and unsettling month before a presidential election/ So be very careful.

I do see some potential

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

storm clouds on the horizon, but I am not saying that I am a perfect predictor of future events, or 100 percent (maybe 99.9 percent, lol) accurate or close to the famous prognostication if you believe in Nostradamus. But my crystal ball says to be careful and cautious about why, how, what, and where you will be purchasing whether it be a home, HOA, Condo, Coop, investment property, or even a residential rental.

Do your homework by analyzing the most current statistics as well as the multitude of variables, including your budget and mortgage costs, which are the most crucial items to consider right off the bat. Also examine the monthly costs, R.O.I. (return

on investment), location, school district and potential rental income in this catastrophic and deadly Covid-19 pandemic environment that we are currently experiencing. Also consider the cost of repairs, potential environmental issues, and make the right decision to engage, interview and hire a knowledgeable, professional Broker to handle all the details. Then and only then will you be more properly prepared to move ahead (or sometimes I say “go to war” and to have the necessary knowledge and important and critical tools to determine what makes sense or not with the purchase of your home, HOA, condo, coop, and even rental or commercial properties.

The future can be extremely bright or dismal and slippery and it will primarily depend upon which side of the fence you are currently situated and what your priorities are at the moment and will be going forward. Everyone really does have choices, but the benefits and spoils will always go to those who learn what to do by hiring the best Real Estate Broker that you can find to undertake the job and who will take the proper steps down the correct and right path and who

does the right thing, is candid, straightforward, truthful, transparent, logical and pragmatic and doesn’t take shortcuts. By studying Real Estate Brokers as well as other professionals in their specific fields of expertise and endeavors there is a certain pattern of behavior and by observing, listening, then learning, absorbing, practicing, and applying and doing the required and important homework, you will most always minimize your downside and maximize your upside.

Philip A. Raices is the owner/ Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He has 39 years of experience in the Real Estate industry and has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist (C.I.P.S). For a “FREE” 15 minute consultation, a value analysis of your home, or to answer any of your questions or concerns he can be reached by cell: (516) 6474289 or by email: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com Also, email or snail mail (regular mail) him with your ideas or suggestions on future columns with your name, email and cell number and he will call or email you back.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in

Great Neck

3 Oakley Place, Great Neck

10 Links Drive, Great Neck

5 bd, 3 ba, 2,394 sqft, Sold on: 8/30/20, Sold Price: $820,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

3 bd, 3 ba, 2,610 sqft, Sold on: 6/11/20, Sold Price: $1,334,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

39 Pine Hill Road, Great Neck

22 Colgate Road, Great Neck

4 bd, 3 ba, 2,119 sqft, Sold on: 9/22/20, Sold Price: $1,260,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

3 bd, 2 ba, 2,800 sqft, Sold on: 7/20/20, Sold Price: $1,060,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in Great Neck by a variety of real estate agencies. This information about the home and the photos were obtained through the Zillow.com. The homes are presented solely based 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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Town agrees to ExteNet settlement Continued from Page 1 or reject the 13 and clear the way for 16. So, I will be voting to approve the settlement, because it’s better than the alternative. And that’s what’s sad here. If we as the board deny it, they’re going to put 16 in. If we accept it, they’re gonna put 13 in ... We are in a no-win situation.

And we can’t use health as a reason. We can’t.”

Under FCC rules, municipalities can only cite aesthetics and node locations as valid reasons to reject applications, with other factors like health not allowed to be considered. The rules have not stopped residents on the North Shore from bringing up their concerns over health as a result of the nodes at public meetings and forums for villages that received applications.

In August 2019, ExteNet, contracted

by Verizon Wireless, filed applications to install 16 cell nodes in areas including Port Washington Estates, Manhasset Bay Estates, Bayview Colony and an unincorporated area near Plandome Manor.

After months of inaction where a “shot clock” was reset and ran out, ExteNet sued the town and won on the ground that the town had failed to act on the applications within a “reasonable” time frame, with no public hearings on the applications planned from last August to February.

The company was then granted summary judgment in a June 26 court order which calls for the town to “issue all approvals necessary for ExteNet’s installation of the 16 small wireless facilities” and “cooperate in good faith to coordinate with ExteNet during construction and installation.” North Hempstead then filed an appeal and sought a stay of the judgment but no stay was awarded. ExteNet then offered the town a settlement of 13 cell nodes, which the board voted to accept on Thursday.

During the public comment period before the vote, Port Washington resident Lorraine Miller, who said her home was scheduled to have a node nearby, questioned why no public hearing on the matter had been held prior to that night.

“No one on the block who I’ve spoken to wants the pole there,” Miller said.

“And what’s so disturbing is that residents were not given a public hearing, protocols were not followed. This is not acceptable. My husband and I have lived in Port Washington for over 13 years and this situation with the town and ExteNet has been the most awful thing we’ve experienced. While I’m sure you would love to be done with this issue, we need to know, as our officials, what will you do to continue to fight for us to get this node moved?”

Gloria Steinberg, who said that a node is scheduled to go up 40 feet from her house, echoed Miller’s comments.

“We never had a proper town hall as outlined in town regulations. ExteNet never followed protocols to warn affected houses,” Steinberg said. “In light of the breaches of the procedure, we ask that

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The Town of North Hempstead has settled with ExteNet Systems over a series of cell node applications. you please reject this plan and work out another option as you have had for other issues.”

Supervisor Judi Bosworth said that the town’s lost appeal had gone into mediation. “We tried to fight it, we were sued, we lost, we appealed the suit, we lost again,” Bosworth said. “ExteNet was told they needed to mediate with us, was actually very, very unusual, because they didn’t have to. We lost the suit, they had every right to just go in and start putting up the nodes. So they did meet with us.

And we were instructed by the mediators that we were not allowed to discuss it.

None would be better than 16, but this is where we are.”

Town Attorney Leonard Kapsalis added that the town’s hands were tied due to the federal regulations.

“Underscoring all of this is a simple fact that federal law severely ties our hands and our ability to regulate where these nodes and facilities can be placed,” Kapsalis said.

“The changes need to happen at the federal level,” Bosworth said. “They come with, ‘we want to put this in your right of way.’ And if we say no, we get sued, which we did, we defended the suit. We lost that in pretty devastating terms.”

Miller spoke again, asking, “Why were we not notified last year before Councilwoman Dalimonte took office that ExteNet filed their applications?

What are you going to do to continue to fight for your residents, given the situation?”

Kapsalis reiterated that the federal law would not side with the town. “We understand how you feel,” Kapsalis said.

“You couldn’t possibly understand how I feel, this isn’t happening to you,” Miller responded. “Why were the protocols not followed? Why were we not notified last fall that this was going on? That question still has not been answered.”

“That’s not before the board this evening,” Kapsalis said. “And really, this is where we’re not able to look backward.”

“You need to be transparent and tell us why when ExteNet filed those applications were we not notified,” Miller said.

“Well, I think part of the reason might be, and I don’t know for sure, but part of the reason might be that the town had no intention of just allowing it to happen,” Kapsalis said. “We had gone to the court to stop this from happening. So it’s not like it was imminent on the part of the town.”

“But then you failed to respond to the shot clock, and you knew that you had several opportunities to fight this,” Miller said. “And there were several missteps. You’re not giving me an answer as to why you didn’t notify us. And so that leaves a big question mark for the residents of this town. Not just the people involved, but everyone in this town, that information needs to be made public.”

Councilwoman Vivianna Russell said that pressure needed to be put on the federal level in order for change to be seen.

“We’re not taking this lightly,” Russell said. “This is something that we really have no say in how the federal government allows the cellphone companies to do cell towers. We will continue to advocate with the federal government so that we will have some say in our own right of way, but right now, we do not have the ability to do that. And so what we can do, we will continue to do. And that is to put pressure on our federal government to change the rules so that we can have more say. But this kind of thing does not happen. I would encourage you to reach out to your federal representatives with regards to this because this is not a local matter that we can make a decision on.”

Kate Hirsch of Flower Hill, who as a member of that village’s board voted against 18 node applications from ExteNet, said that public hearings should have been held on the applications.

“This board should have, you know, organized some public hearings on this,” Hirsch said. “You know, you kick the can down the road, you play the shot clock,

in this process that you had. I’m trying to be fair, and that’s really what happened.

So to say that you’ve been engaged in lawsuits, you’re ignoring everything that happened up to that lawsuit, which was that ExteNet made an application, it was ignored in the shot clock. If you had held public hearings, ExteNet would have been required to give public notice.”

Resident Matt Steinberg asked why the town allowed the ‘shot clock’ to run out without giving notice to the residents.

“We just want an answer to that question,” Steinberg said. “It’s clear where this board is going. But as other people have said, There is certainly a lot of suspicion in the neighborhood. And I think we deserve an answer to that. And I think it behooves you to respond to that question. It’s your choice if you want to, obviously. But I’m leaving that out there for you.”

Before casting their votes, most of the council members reiterated that they were not happy with the results.

“We’ve been fighting this battle for years with the first cell towers that went up for the same reasons because of the concern for our children,” Councilman Angelo Ferrara said. “I have the same concerns or the same fears. But unfortunately, until federal elected officials get behind us, there’s really not a lot we can do. We can fight it. We can spend money.

We can go through lawsuits, which is exactly what we did, it wasn’t that somebody sat on their hands and did nothing.

We did take a stand to say no. And that’s how we wound up in a lawsuit, recognizing where we are and the lousy laws that exist right now, that ties our hands. It’s the lesser of the two evils.”

“I wish there was another way, but we must continue to advocate with our federal and elected officials to change the federal laws that strip us of the right to approve or disapprove the placement of these facilities on health grounds, and to make unilateral changes after the fact,” Councilwoman Veronica Lurvey said.

“I share the sentiments of my colleagues and it’s an unfortunate situation; our hands are tied. It is the lesser of the two evils, but cannot use health concerns or environmental concerns as an argument against this,” Russell said. “Now, obviously, those are the concerns of our constituents. But because our hands are tied because we are put in this position of 13 or 16. I ultimately have to vote for the 13.”

The board then unanimously voted to accept the settlement.

ExteNet has also sued the villages of Lake Success, Flower Hill, Plandome and Plandome Manor in the past two years after each village, following widespread public backlash, did not approve its requests to build cell nodes. Legal proceedings are ongoing in all four villages.

The Town Board will next meet on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m., viewable at northhempsteadny.gov/townboardlive.

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Sillitti touts experience in forum Continued from Page 9 conduct a study for.

“In our North Shore community, people love our bays and our waterways,” Sillitti said. “The septic to sewer would be something helpful for our waterways, and our drinking water, our storm resiliency, shoring up our sea walls, but all comes down, again, to funding. We’re in pretty dire straits, but there are things that are so important in the long term for our survival, essentially. I mean,

we have to be ready for another superstorm Sandy.”

In terms of the environment, Sillitti said she is interested in “better ways of handling our garbage,” including possible community composting, increasing renewable energy storage and creating jobs in renewable energy.

While she supports discussing the consolidation of shared services, Silitti said she is not in favor of consolidating school districts.

“Consolidation would never

fly, as much as it might be beneficial for budgetary reasons,” Sillitti said. “I mean, look at an area like Herricks, they don’t have a downtown, per se. The identity of their community is the school district.”

She does suggest consolidating local elections, school board elections and special district elections, for which she says turnout is “embarrassing.”

“The turnout for our local elections, school district, special districts, it’s embarrassing, which is surprising to me,

because we always talk about our property taxes, but maybe you have 1,000 or 2,000 people that vote in communities of tens of thousands,” Sillitti said.

“So, would it make more sense to consolidate not districts, but consolidate elections? To increase turnout? I don’t know if that’s something that school districts would be interested in doing, but I think it might be less confusing for voters. It would give voters more of a say, and a chance to participate in the process. I’d be interested in talking

about that some more.”

Sillitti said she also supports the legalization of marijuana if it is “well regulated, and taxed, of course,” and will be voting for Joe Biden in November.

Raised in Mount Sinai and Florida, Sillitti attended the University of Georgia, majoring in political science, and moved to Manorhaven eight years ago.

Her husband, Kevin Clemency, is a native of the Manhasset-Port Washington area.

Leonard’s liquor license revoked by state

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Leonard’s Palazzo of Great Neck had its liquor license revoked on Sept. 30 due to violating state-mandated health and safety guidelines, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Continued from Page 1 businesses adhering to the health and safety measures implemented due to the pandemic.

The two stressed the importance of following the state-mandated guidelines so businesses do not have to deal with even more setbacks in efforts to combat the pandemic.

“Rules are only as good as enforcement, and as we have ramped up checks on bars and restaurants, compliance has increased, creating a safer environment for everyone,” Cuomo said. “A small number of business owners still don’t think the rules apply to them — even

in focus zones where the state has tracked increased spread — and these suspensions should serve as a reminder that we will take action against those who callously put New Yorkers in harm’s way.”

“The increase in compliance we’ve seen is encouraging but not surprising, given the fact the overwhelming majority of bar and restaurant owners are hardworking, conscientious operators that put the health of their employees, patrons and communities first,” Bradley said.

“However, as the risks associated with non-compliance by just a few bad actors remains high, the task force will continue our work to ensure a handful of reckless business owners do not halt or reverse our state’s progress.”

Officials said Leonard’s officially had its liquor license revoked on Sept. 30. Specific details on how long the license will be suspended and how much of a fine Leonard’s is required to pay to the state are unknown, but officials said suspension orders are served immediately and remain in effect indefinitely.

The maximum penalty an establishment faces is a permanent revocation of its liquor license and a fine upwards of $10,000 per violation. Leonard’s was one of 21 bars and restaurants around the state that had their licenses revoked from Sept. 30 to Oct. 21, according to officials.

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o certain groups of people in Great Neck think this virus is a contest to see how high we can raise the numbers?

I, personally, don’t care if you disre-

spect and infect your own, but then don’t rush to the hospital and expect our dedicated hospital personnel to give you expert care while you expose them and your families to your recklessness!

I have a grandson who just became an M.D. He has his whole life in front of him; however, that life is put in jeopardy by selfish people.

I do have a solution: institute “jackass”

wards in hospitals. You don’t wear masks — we put you in a bed in that unit and close the door and let you care for yourself!

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ore than anything over the last four years, I’m just exhausted.

I’m tired of the bluster, the bragging, the exaggerating, the lying. I’m tired of the chaos, the confusion, the ignorance, and the incompetence. I’m tired of straining to plan for the next few months or even weeks. I’m tired of kids being ripped away from their parents, the parents lost and the kids left to die in cages.

I’m tired of the self-dealing, the quid pro quos, the unashamed corruption, the foreign bank accounts, the hidden tax returns, the side deals between family and foreign governments,the abuses of power, the trampling of norms, of our government used as a weapon. I’m tired of everything being a “hoax,” but another “hoax”surfacing by the end of the day. I’m tired of “Lock Her Up.”I’m tired of his sexual assault and his defense

by our Justice Department. I’m tired of experts called idiots, veterans called losers, women called the worst of all. I’m tired of the sycophants, the enablers, the ‘I-didn’tsee-the-tweets,’ the henchmen. I’m tired of doubting the peaceful transfer of power.

I’m tired of Putin, MBS, Erdogan, Bolsinaro, and the pillow-talk with Kim. I’m tired of it being OK that Russia put bounties on U.S. troops. I’m tired of white supremacists, Proud Boys, the KKK, and FOX. I’m tired of seeing people who are suffering be made fun of, like the elderly, the handicapped, the ill, the poor, victims of fires and floods and hurricane devastation. I’m tired of healthcare under assault, of pre-existing condition protections killed. I’m tired of tax breaks going to for-profit schools. I’m tired of tax breaks going to Mar-a-Lago members. I’m tired of bailouts for coal barons who don’t even mine

coal anymore. I’m tired of his whining about wind. I’m tired of his anything-goes debt. I’m tired of my SALT deductions being stolen to pay for it all. I’m tired of cheap gangsterswagger pinched into paisley golf pants. I’m tired of Don Jr. and the other one, of Ivanka and her airbrushed complicity. I’m tired of Jared with his unearned condescension, of Melania with her bored contempt. I’m tired of Rudy Giuliani and the slime trail he leaves behind. I’m tired of hearing “the greatest of all time,” “like we’ve never seen before,” “very strongly,” and “I can tell you, believe me.”I’m tired of his “I’m under audit,” his “RussiaRussiaRussia,” his blaming of “Blue States.”And so, so tired of his excuses. Good God the excuses! I’m tired of getting no answers to questions, but getting them very strongly. I’m tired of the attacks on reporters.

I’m tired of the attacks on Congress. I’m tired

of the attacks on judges and courts. I’m tired of the attacks on governors. I’m tired of the attacks on cities. I’m tired of the attacks on states. I’m tired of the attacks on protestors.

I’m tired of the never-attacks on white supremacists, Proud Boys, the KKK, and FOX, no matter how many people they terrorize and kill. I’m tired of the attacks on women.

I’m tired of my kids seeing it all and wondering if this is who we are. And I’m tired of COVID. I’m so damn tired of COVID. Most of all, as a parent, I’m tired of the childishness of a spoiled brat who — it’s abundantly clear — will never ever grow up. But I’m not too tired to vote. And I’ll never be too tired to look on these past four years as the low point we can all join together to leave behind.

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ENDORSEMENTS

Kathleen Rice for Congress, 4th District Continued from Page 14 Rice is opposed by Douglas Tuman, a 39-year-old lawyer and engineer who currently serves as commissioner of engineering for the Town of Hempstead.

Tuman falls into the same bad habit as other Republicans in the Age of Trump by minimizing the president’s epic failure in responding to COVID-19 at a time when more than 225,000 Americans have died, 8.5 million have been infected and with the number of those infected rising faster than at any other time since the pandemic began.

This is the worst performance in the world and it was unnecessary.

But Tuman falls back on saying “nobody knew what this was out of the gate” and contends Trump’s initial reaction “made a lot of sense,” referring to a ban on people coming in from China.

The United States was actually the 45th country to ban travelers from China with a porous policy that let tens of thousands in.

More importantly, Trump knew early about the seriousness of the virus and lied to the American people about it.

Tuman also said that in downplaying masks, if not ridiculing people for wearing them, Trump was trying to make a point about the “need to preserve our liberties.”

He says this at a time when the pandemic is raging out of control almost everywhere in the country other than New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo has strongly led an effort to encourage social distancing and mask-wearing.

As we have said about other Republican candidates, there are two explanations for Tuman’s response.

Either he believes Trump’s performance

has been good, in which case Tuman has demonstrated he lacks the judgment to serve in the House. Or he believes Trump has failed the American people but won’t say it because of the political price he would pay, which might even be more disqualifying.

But on other issues, Tuman actually proposes a reasonable approach to governing that offers hope for the future of the Republican Party in Nassau County and the state of New York.

He said it was important to get money into the hands of people now through loans to businesses and local municipalities, although he adds a standard Republican talking point that it was important not to bail out “irresponsible” governments. Memo to the candidate: New York, like all other states, must balance its budget every year

and currently faces a $14.5 billion loss in revenue due to COVID-19.

But Tuman calls for improving the nation’s and the county’s infrastructure, citing many specific needs in Nassau. He said he believes in global warming and doesn’t “like the stigma” that Republicans are antiscience.

He also says supporting individual liberty includes everyone and that the education system and policing should be reformed to provide safety, security and opportunity to all.

Imagine a Republican actually sounding like a member of the party of Lincoln.

We don’t support Tuman in his race for Congress, but we do hope he sticks around in Republican politics.

In the meantime, we strongly endorse Kathleen Rice.

Gina Sillitti for state Assembly, 16th District Continued from Page 14 “The law has left judges powerless to detain drug dealers, gang members, bank robbers and other dangerous individuals while they await trial,” she added.

This is wrong for two reasons. The first is that you are not a criminal until you are convicted of a crime under the Constitution, as implied by her statement.

The second reason is that even before changes made in April judges were not powerless to impose bail. The criticism was that judges lacked discretion in too many instances – a flaw addressed in April and subject to future review.

But the need for bail reform was overwhelming. Tens of thousands of people – disproportion-

ately people of color – were in jail because they were poor and couldn’t afford bail, not because they had necessarily committed a crime.

Srivastava also failed to recognize the legitimate claims made by the Black Lives Matter movement and the mostly peaceful demonstrations on its behalf.

Instead, she said, “riots have

taken place across the country and right next door in New York City” that included “looting, vandalism and violence against innocent bystanders and the police.”

She said she will fight any efforts to defund the police and called for stricter criminal penalties for people who commit crimes against the police.

She made no mention of the unequal treatment of Blacks and other people of color in this country.

We believe Sillitti has a far stronger command of the issues facing the district and the solutions needed than her opponent.

We strongly endorse Gina Sillitti for Assembly in the 16th District.

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Marjorie Barton Rooney, of NHP, dies at 94 Marjorie Barton Rooney, widow of former New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School Superintendent Thomas G. Rooney, passed away on Oct. 21. She was 94 and still lived in New Hyde Park.

A native of Plattsburgh, NY, Marjorie was the youngest of the four children of Aethel Dodge Barton and Dr. Lyman Guy Barton Jr. Dr. Barton was the third of five Barton family doctors in northern New York and delivered all of his children and many of the residents of Plattsburgh, including his daughter Marjorie’s future husband.

Members of the Barton family were among the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 1600s. Their family tree includes Rebecca Nurse, who was hanged as a witch at the Salem Witch Trials; Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross; and former U.S. President James Buchanan, who Marjorie liked to say is now no longer considered the worst president in U.S. history.

Marjorie was one of the first test recipients of penicillin, which saved her life as she battled rheumatic fever in the early 1940s.

Following her recovery, Marjorie was determined to attain her goals of learning to fly a plane and obtaining her pilot’s license, despite the opposition of her family and the fact that very few women flew at the time.

By the time her father discovered what she had done (because he saw the family car parked at the airstrip and a seaplane in the air), she was too close to obtaining her license to be stopped.

She flew until she showed up nine months pregnant for her renewal exam and the horrified instructor refused to allow her to get in the plane.

She was a graduate of Plattsburgh State Teachers College (now SUNY Plattsburgh), where she met Tom. Before marrying, Marjorie, who wanted to experience an independent life before settling down, moved alone to New York City and worked at the Doubleday Book Shop for a year.

The Rooneys were married in 1949 and returned to the city while Tom was

studying at New York University.

It was then that Tom, in order to furnish the small studio apartment they shared with their first child on a very limited budget, learned woodworking and built their furniture, which he continued to do for all of their married life.

After moving to Croton Heights, where they lived for several years, the Rooneys relocated to New Hyde Park, where Dr. Thomas Rooney served as the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park superintendent of schools.

Mrs. Rooney taught elementary school for many years and eventually served as principal of Transfiguration Parish Day School in Freeport until 1983.

After retiring as an educator, she developed a second career as a real estate agent.

While never one to be the center of attention, those closest to Marjorie are well acquainted with her subtle sense of humor, her blunt political commentary, competitive Scrabble style, love of the New York Times crossword puzzle, and deep respect for the cocktail hour.

In her mind, her children were perfect, and her grandchildren more so. She loved cheering on the University of Notre Dame football team and the University of Dayton basketball team, though if they were winning by too much, she would feel sorry for the opposing players.

Marjorie was a devoted member of St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in West Hempstead, NY where she enjoyed singing in the choir, attending Bible Study, providing unsolicited sermon reviews, and studiously avoiding any clubs involving sewing or cooking.

In addition to her parents, Mrs. Rooney is predeceased by her husband of 52 years, who passed away in 2001, her beloved son John Barton Rooney of Mount Desert Island, Maine, who passed away in 2018, and by her siblings Lyman Guy Barton III, Eleanor Dodge Barton, and John D. Barton.

Marjorie will be greatly missed by her daughter Eleanor Poppe of Garden City South, her son Thomas Rooney Jr. of Gettysburg, PA, her grandchildren Frank Thomas Poppe of Washington, DC, Grace Barton Poppe of Astoria, Queens, and Sarah Crilley and her husband Bradley Crilley of Monument, Colorado, as well as many dear friends and extended family members.

In lieu of funeral services at this time, the family is respecting Marjorie’s wishes to “Tell everyone to just stay home and stay safe.” Future arrangements will be announced at a later date.

Contributions may be made in Mrs. Rooney’s memory to the food pantry of the N.Y. Race Track Chaplaincy at Belmont Park. (www.rtcany.org)

Parker Jewish gala honors health care heroes This year’s gala supporting Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation was virtual, honoring its healthcare heroes who battled the COVID-19 pandemic.

Streamed online on October 20, the gala paid tribute to its frontline physicians, nurses and support staff who courageously delivered compassionate care amid the challenges of COVID-19, as they stood together in battling the coronavirus.

The Queens-Nassau border was one of the hardest hit by the coronavirus during the initial outbreak, but Parker’s dedicated health-care workers tirelessly comforted families from afar and soothed patients through the most unprecedented circumstances. And all the while, they took time away from their families to serve the greater good.

Speaking to supporters, Peter Seideman, the chairman of Parker’s Board of Trustees, said, “As we navigate our new normal, we are continuing to call on these heroic individuals as we continue developing safe variations of our home health care, hospice, social adult care,

Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, WCBS News Correspondent Marla Diamond, Parker President and CEO Michael N. Rosenblut honor Parker Jewish Institute’s health-care heroes. physician home visits and inpatient and outpatient dialysis programs. With your help, we will continue to serve our community any way that we can.”

In addition to honoring Parker’s front-line workers, the Parker community recognized the Institute’s generous sponsors and supporters. They donated tens of thousands of per-

sonal protective equipment and contributed to Parker’s Meal Train, which provided thousands of meals to the Institute’s health-care workers. Thanks to their support, the Parker community never felt alone even in the pandemic’s most challenging moments.

“Through every twist and turn in the road and new chal-

lenge – and there were many, many new challenges – our health-care heroes were brave, comforting the residents, and strong, each and every day they came to work. They guided the patients and their families through unimaginable circumstances and were able to provide hope for so many. I personally am so proud of these individuals. I personally am so proud to be associated with Parker Jewish Institute for all of their efforts,” said Michael N. Rosenblut, Parker’s president and CEO. A moment of silence was held to remember those who lost their fight to COVID, as well as to honor the life of Scott Amrhein, the former president of Parker’s Continuing Care Coalition.

“These individuals epitomize what it means to be a hero,” Dr. Igor Israel, Parker’s chief medical officer said of Parker’s frontline workers.

“They came to Parker day after day, facing the unknown and continually made sure that our patients and residents felt safe, comfortable and supported.”

WCBS News Correspondent

Marla Diamond was the evening’s Master of Ceremonies.

And performer LA BlackSmith provided the evening’s musical entertainment.

Parker continues to innovate and roll-out strategies and technology to safeguard against the virus, while remaining true to the Institute’s commitment to excellent care as well as comfort to older adults, while offering support to their families.

These measures include Parker’s nonstop COVID-testing operation, devoting an entire team to test all staff weekly.

And the staff is armed with personal protective equipment to stay safe. Parker upgraded its generator system to ensure that the power is always on, which is especially critical during COVID-19.

In addition, Parker’s new ultraviolet lighting into its heating, ventilation and air-conditioning units were installed to kill or stop the spread of COVID-19 and a range of other dangerous bacteria and viruses, from MRSA to E. coli.

There’s still time to donate to Parker Jewish Institute by visiting its virtual gala page.

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Guidance center golf outing raises $54K North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center is pleased to announce that its golf fundraiser has raised $54,750 to support the organization’s lifesaving work.

As the preeminent not-for-profit children’s mental health agency on Long Island, the Guidance Center counts on donations to provide services for children, teens and families experiencing mental health challenges such as depression and anxiety — especially important during these unprecedented times.

For the safety of its supporters, the Guidance Center canceled its Jonathan Krevat Memorial Golf & Tennis Classic this year, a large fundraising event that

typically has well over 100 attendees.

Luckily, Guidance Center Board Member Andrew Marcell stepped in and saved the day, hosting a smaller gathering of six foursomes at the Sands Point Golf Club, where social distancing and other safety measures could be taken.

“As a proud Board Member of the Guidance Center, I was thrilled to hold this fundraiser,” said Marcell, CEO of Aon Reinsurance Solutions, which sponsored the event. “I’m very grateful to my many colleagues and friends who supported the golf outing. They know that the work of the Guidance Center is instrumental in making the lives of our kids healthy and happy.”

Paul Vitale, president of the Guidance Center’s Board of Directors, expressed gratitude to Marcell for making the event such a big success. “Andy’s dedication to the Long Island community shows in everything he does,” said Vitale. “With the Guidance Center team busier than ever providing therapy to children and families who are facing tough challenges brought on by the pandemic, it’s a real blessing to know that Andy is there for us.”

All proceeds from the event benefit the Guidance Center. To learn more about the organization’s services and how you can help, visit www.northshorechildguidance.org or call (516) 6261971.

STEM@HOME at Cradle of Aviation Museum The Cradle of Aviation Museum has announced STEM@ HOME TUESDAYS, a series of online video activities running every Tuesday through December designed to provide free, stimulating, family fun STEM activities at home for students K-5. Each video activity will premiere at 7 pm but will be available for replay.

A full schedule of video activities and supply lists are available at https://www.cradleofaviation.org/plan_your_visit/ virtual-museum/stem-at-home/ home.html.

Activities include: Tues, Oct 27 — Science of Flight (Bats): Some say there are witches in the air on Halloween night and maybe werewolves out there howling to the Full Moon, but those are just stories. There are flying creatures that lurk in the night!

Bats! Follow our educator to build your own Popsicle stick bat and learn about how bats fly along the way.

Tues, Nov 3 — Color Changing — Leaf Art: Make the per-

fect fall artwork for your fridge.

Start this program by going on a backyard scavenger hunt to find some leaves! Leaves should be strong (not dried out and brittle); then follow our educator along as he/she uses those leaves to make a masterpiece!

Tues, Nov 10 — Pixel Activity: Did you know many of the graphics you see on TV, your computer, and a video game are made of tiny dots called pixels?!

Well, pixels have come a long way in helping viewers see a full image or character clearly.

Today, follow our educator to make arguably the most popular video game character ever – Mario and Luigi!

Tues, Nov 17- Aviation Crossword and Word Search: November is National Aviation Month! Celebrate with the Museum by uncovering some clues of our Museum galleries in the crossword puzzle, or finding all the pilots and planes in our word search.

Tues, Nov 24- Intro to Aviation Careers: Discover the variety of careers available at the

airlines! From pilots to engineers to flight operators there’s so much happening you may not even see when airplanes get off the ground. Take a look at some of JetBlue’s crew members as they explain their career with Long Island’s hometown airline.

Tues, Dec 8 — Gingerbread House Builds: Be a part of our engineering challenge! Sure, we all know the story of the Three Little Pigs and the best,

Farm museum celebration Autumn Dance Celebration Sat & Sun, November 7 and 8 Timed tickets at 12:00 pm– 1:30 pm; 2:30 pm–4:00 pm Celebrate American Indian Culture through music and dance! Autumn Dance Celebration showcases over twenty different Native American dances over two days outdoors in front of a socially distanced audience.

Eight Indian Nations will be rep-

resented including Hopi, Winnebago, Lenape, Choctaw, Mayan, Seneca, Santo Domingo and Chickahomin.

This event also features a market of authentic Native American art, jewelry, ceramics, textiles, and food. The audience is encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs and picnic blankets, as seating will not be provided.

In autumn, the bountiful sum-

mer harvest is celebrated and thanks is given through song and dance, reflecting a reverence and appreciation for the wonderful things we find in nature. For Covid visitor guidelines, see queensfarm.org.

Online Tickets Only: $15/$10 (ages 4–11) ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/autumn-dance-celebration-tickets-126081536269

strongest house, but can you engineer the best gingerbread house! Build a house of colorful treats able to stand on its own.

Tues, Dec 15 — Celebrating the Wright Brothers and Airplane: The Wright Brothers first took flight on Dec. 17 1903. Learn a little bit about their flight and using math, follow along with our educator to color in the picture.

Tues, Dec 22 — Constellation Finder: The sky is full

of stars and shapes. When you “connect-the dots” from different stars you get a constellation.

Many times these stories of constellations come from ancient civilizations. Make a star finder to discover where the constellations are in our night sky.

STEM@HOME TUESDAYS are designed to help families spend fun quality time together while building self-esteem, strengthening bonds, & creating memories.

With STEM occupations expected to grow over 76 percent higher than non-STEM jobs nationwide, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, STEM@HOME TUESDAYS are an easy way to introduce & experience activities related to Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math. Although a new video is released each Tuesday, these videos are available online and can be watched and enjoyed at any time at www. cradleofaviation.org at Facebook.com/CradleofAviation and YouTube.com/CradleofAviation.

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Manhasset school board eyes mascot Continued from Page 2 for lack of a better term, insignia that you use to identify the Manhasset High School and the Indian name, that’s not for discussion tonight,” Jones said. “I just want to introduce myself and let you know that myself and my other two chiefs, we are all in agreement as to how we feel. And I’ll let that be for now.”

Helen Sells of the Setalcott Nation said the meeting was an opportunity to “educate” the community.

“I know many people have visions of Indians and even with my grandkids at school, they say that we don’t exist, but we do,” Sells said. “We’re still here. We fought in the wars, we also are doctors, lawyers, your teachers are in all paths of life and I think it’s important for people to know that we still are here and we look like you do, each and every one of us. We don’t walk around with war clothes on and looking for fights, we want to live in peace and to bring our country together.”

Sandi Brewster-Walker, executive director of the Montaukett nation, suggested that the mascot be put “on hold” and the community properly informed about the history of indigenous people in the area before it was changed.

“How we really look at this issue is that as for the mascot, we think you should put it on hold, and use it as a teaching moment and bring your community together in different programs, have students that participate and help develop the programs, as well as some of the adult members, because too often, mascots will change and everyone forgets all about the issue,” BrewsterWalker said.

“They don’t go into too finding out who the Native Americans of the area are. We have become invisible and if you just change the logo without learning about us, you’re keeping us invisible.”

Public comment was then opened, and 29 residents, alumni and parents voiced their opinions.

Resident and alumna Leslie Koch said that she thought changing the mascot would set a good example for the district’s students.

“I think it’s really important that we change the mascot. I think there’s a lot of controversy around it,” Koch said. “It’s dividing our community, it’s really important that we come together and find a mascot that really represents our values and Manhasset, our values of diversity, inclusivity and fair-mindedness. I think we need to consider the feelings of the Native American community that find this symbol offensive and also the members of our community as well. My son loves Shelter Rock School, and I just, I really feel like we can change the mascot and just make a difference to show it sends the right message to our kids.”

Class of 2013 alumnus Stephen Bourget said that he was “mildly uncomfortable” with the mascot while running on Manhasset’s track team.

“This community is just as valuable to me now as it was 10 years ago, and I think all of that value, what it was then and what it is now, will hold true without needing this mascot,” he said.

“Our mascot perpetuates a negative stereotype in characterizing indigenous peoples,” Manhasset High School student Bernadette Holm said. “And I don’t believe that that is something that we should take pride in.”

Gavin Olsen, a 2017 graduate who is a student at Harvard University, said the mascot didn’t appear to be a way to honor indigenous people.

“I don’t understand how slapping a cartoon picture of an Indian onto a helmet and having teams of majority-white people run around and be able to play sport

honors people, and specifically persisting to do something when they have told you it bothers them does not work,” Olsen said. “Right now I’m on the Harvard football team, and one of my best friends is in the Cherokee Nation. And when I told him my high school’s team name was the Indians, he was appalled.”

Evan Mandery, a parent in the district and a professor, suggested that the Manhasset team could be renamed in honor of athlete Jim Brown, a pro football star who played lacrosse for the school district.

“Brown is a problematic figure in some ways, but he does have a very distinguished record as a civil rights leader,” Mandery said. “And he’s probably the best athlete in American history. And he’s from Manhasset. I certainly surrender any proprietary interest in that name, but I mostly offer it as an example of the type of name that can honor Manhasset’s rich academic and athletic traditions, and also sent the signal that we promote inclusivity and measure our symbols by the effect that they have on people.”

I am not trying to be disrespectful, I

loved living in Manhasset but I am not honored. I’m honestly embarrassed when people ask me what the mascot for my high school is. And if you’re not indigenous, you don’t get to decide what’s offensive. People’s rights and lives are more important than the question of what our mascot is.

Regan Lavin MANHASSET ALUMNA

Mandery added that his son, half of whose heritage came from the Indian subcontinent, had written his college admissions essay on being half-Indian in a town with an Indian mascot. Biju Abraham, a district parent of Indian descent, was one of several speakers who discussed using the term ‘Indian’ to refer to Native Americans when it also refers to those from the Indian subcontinent.

“It’s never really been clear to me why a historically inaccurate term, which, we all know the story of how the Native Americans were mislabeled as Indians

by Columbus and it persisted all this time,” Abraham said. “Being part of the Indian American community in Manhasset, it’s also very jarring to see the word issue.”

Susie Petruccelli, an author and documentarian who specializes in social justice in global sports, as well as a parent of three students in the Manhasset district, quoted the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s decision on mascots concerning ethnicities. “‘The NCAA objects to institutions using racial, ethnic or national origin references in their intercollegiate athletics programs,'” she said. “This is the decision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the governing body of collegiate sports in this country and an organization that so many members of our community have either taken part in, like myself, are currently taking part in, or hope to one day take part in. The Manhasset athletics department is 15 years out of compliance with this NCAA policy.”

Other residents were not happy with the idea.

“I think it’s actually insulting to change the mascot,” Pam Perulli, a 36-year resident and alumna, said. “The Indians represent strength and resilience. We’re not making fun of them, we’re proud of them. They found this land. They’re still here. Way back when I was here, I went to the high school, I did not go to the elementary school, but they used to take field trips to Shelter Rock and teach the kids about the history if they don’t do anything more. So instead of erasing everything, maybe we should learn. And this whole generation is about erasing what was. It’s not racist to honor somebody.”

Tricia Dessi, a parent of Manhasset alumni, also said that she didn’t feel the mascot was “racist or discriminatory.”

“I’m very proud to be a Manhasset Indian, I’m proud to raise my children to be Manhasset Indians,” Dessi said. “You don’t necessarily need sports to be an Indian, we all are. It does represent power, resilience, strength.

And I think that we’re raising our children to be that way. I don’t think it’s insulting. I think it’s actually continuing the history of Manhasset.”

Jorge Matos also said he didn’t see the mascot as racist but as “a proud, strong figure,” and suggested putting the topic to a vote in the wider community.

“I think if we were to remove it, we would be making the Native Americans that were here invisible, we would have nothing else speaking out about them and how this was their land,” Matos said. “I do think it’s a good idea to get exactly what their feelings are. I think it’s more a question of the imagery. So I think to disqualify that would be to make them more invisible, where we want to promote their history here.”

District parent Logan Karropolous equated changing the Indian mascot with changing the name of Manhasset itself, which has origins in Native American language.

“The one question that I would have for everybody who wants to change the name of the mascot or the name itself is, would you be willing to change the name of Manhasset?” Karropolous said.

Longtime resident and parent Lauren Turano Baranello said that the “tradition” needed to stay.

“I was born and raised in Manhasset, and I’m extremely proud to be a Manhasset Indian,” Baranello said. “I’m 50 years old and I survived it and I wasn’t offended by anything. And I feel like there’s tradition there. What is left of any bit of tradition left in this world is being stripped. ” As a counter, Manhasset alumna Regan Lavin said that she was “embarrassed” by the mascot.

“I am not trying to be disrespectful, I loved living in Manhasset but I am not honored,” Lavin said. “I’m honestly embarrassed when people ask me what the mascot for my high school is. And if you’re not indigenous, you don’t get to decide what’s offensive. People’s rights and lives are more important than the question of what our mascot is.”

Brewster-Walker suggested that a committee of students, community members and representatives of the nations be put together for further discussion.

“You say you’re honoring us, too often people try to honor the Native American community, and they put in an image of Indians that live west of the Mississippi,” Brewster-Walker said. “That’s why you really have to know your history before you just grab any Indian, but they put up an image that looks like Tonto, who wasn’t even Native American. This image shows who we were supposed to be, instead of who we are.”

The Manhasset Board of Education will next meet Nov. 3 at 7 p.m., viewable at youtube.com/user/ ManhassetSchools.

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The pumpkins Temple Judea to host come to school Tovah Feldshuh

Pre-kindergarten students at Temple Beth Sholom Early Childhood Center enjoy searching for the perfect pumpkin to bring home to their families.

On Thursday, Oct. 22, students at Temple Beth Sholom Early Childhood Center were treated to a very special morning when their school lawn was transformed into a pumpkin patch.

In partnership with North Shore Garden Center in Port Washington, ECC Director Jen Schiffer organized the delivery of over 50 pumpkins to the synagogue lawn in an effort to bring the pumpkin patch to the children. In light of COVID restrictions for field trips and large gatherings, having the pumpkins on-site allowed the children to safely participate in this fun fall event.

Temple Judea is proud and pleased to present Tovah Feldshuh in a special Zoom program,” Up Close and Personal”.

Tovah is a Broadway trea-

Tovah Feldshuh

sure who will talk about her 45year career on the Great White Way. Best known for her stunning portrayal of Golda Meir in “Golda’s Balcony” on Broadway, and her role as Rebecca’s mother in “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” , Tovah’s career runs from Cyrano to Pippin, from Yentl to Irena’s Vow, and includes “Lend Me a Tenor” and more.

Her performances have garnered her six Tony and Emmy nominations.

Be party to the inside scoop, the backstage stories and the audition process—-the victories and defeats, all of which were turning points in her career.

Tovah has had a long-standing commitment to the Jewish

people. She is an unflagging advocate of Jewish causes.

Following Tovah Feldshuh’s presentation, there will be a Q and A time for participants to find out more background of the star.

Date: Saturday evening, November 7 at 8:00 p.m.Place: Temple Judea via ZoomMembers: $18; Non-Members: $36 Per Zoom link Temple Judea is located at 333 Searingtown Road, Manhasset, exit 36N (LIE) and can be reached at 516 621-8049 or templeoffice@temple-judea. com for the Zoom link. New members are always welcome!

Submitted by Temple Judea of Manhasset

Town Halloween night drone light show The Town of North Hempstead will be hosting its first-ever drone show at North Hempstead Beach Park (south lot) on Saturday, October 31 from 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The show is the first of its kind in Nassau County.

“This immersive and dazzling light show is the first of its kind in our area,” said Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth. “We know that Halloween celebrations might be a bit differ-

ent this year, so we invite our residents to join us for what will be an extraordinarily unique and fun event.”

The drone show, produced by Firefly Drone Shows, will use technology to produce a synchronized show for audiences of all ages. The show will be synced to music that will be broadcast through the car radio.

The Town will be enforcing social distancing guidelines at all times. All at-

tendees are required to remain in their vehicles unless using the restrooms. Additionally, they must wear a mask when not in their vehicles.

Food and refreshments will not be available for purchase. However, residents are encouraged to bring their own snacks.

The event is free and open to all North Hempstead residents only. Capacity is limited to 800 vehicles to accom-

modate social distancing guidelines.

The Town is encouraging attendees to bring non-perishable/canned foods to the events as part of North Hempstead’s donation drive. Vehicles will be admitted on a first come, first serve basis. Attendees are not required to register ahead of time.

For more information, please call 311 or 516-869-6311.

Town hosting weeklong Halloween celebration The Town of North Hempstead has announced that the Town will be hosting several Halloween-themed events for the month of October including a Not-SoSpooky Walk Halloween stroll through Clark Botanic Garden, pumpkin painting, trick or treat event, and an outdoor drive-in movie.

Visitors to any of the events will be

required to wear a mask when on the grounds and not in their vehicles. The Town will be strictly enforcing social distancing guidelines at all times.

“We are thrilled to be able to put together this week-long Halloween celebration for our residents,” said North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth. “Families are invited to join us for

North Hempstead hosts previous Not-So-Spooky Walk celebrations.

some fun this fall, while still being safe and adhering to social distancing guidelines,” said Bosworth. “We hope that these exciting Halloween activities bring some joy to our residents during these unusual times.”

On Saturday, Oct. 24 and Sunday, Oct. 25 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., the 12-acre park at Clark Botanic Garden in Albertson will be transformed into a spooky Halloween experience for NotSo-Spooky Walk. Visitors who embark on the Halloween walk will be treated to vampires, ghouls and other creatures.

Not-So-Spooky Walk is appropriate for guests of all ages.

50 visitors at a time will be allowed to explore the grounds. Additionally, the Town will be offering free pumpkins to visitors while supplies last.

Children and their parents are invited for a pumpkin painting event at Clark Botanic Garden on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 4 p.m. The outdoor event is limited to 20 children to adhere to social distancing guidelines. Registration is required.

Join the Town at North Hempstead

Beach Park on Friday, Oct. 30 at 4 p.m. for a special Trick or Treat event. Families will have the opportunity to visit different tables to trick or treat and receive candy goodies. A parent or guardian must remain with their child at all times.

Entrance to the event will be staggered in order to accommodate social distancing guidelines. Following the Trick or Treat event a Drive-in Movie screening of Hotel Transylvania will begin at 6:30 p.m. Registration for both events is required. Please visit northhempsteadny. gov/Halloween or call 311 to register.

All events are free and open to all North Hempstead residents. The Town is encouraging attendees to bring nonperishable/canned foods to the events as part of North Hempstead’s donation drive.

There will be no food available for purchase at the movie screening. However, residents are encouraged to bring their own snacks. Restroom facilities will be available for all events.

For more information, please call 311 or 516-869-6311.

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School board President Berkowitz honored Barbara Berkowitz, president of the Great Neck Board of Education, has been honored by Senator Anna M. Kaplan as a recipient of the 2020 New York State Senate Commendation Award.

Senator Kaplan hosted a virtual reception for award recipients and their guests via Zoom on Oct. 13, where she recognized “exceptional individuals who have shown extraordinary dedication and made lasting contributions to the community.”

“The New York State Senate Commendation Award is one of the highest honors that I as Senator can present, and it is reserved for a select few individuals each year whose exceptional work to support the community merits this level of recognition,” saidSenator Anna M. Kaplan.“This year’s recipients from the 7th District represent the best and brightest of our community, and it’s my absolute privilege to give them the recogni-

tion they deserve.”

Ms. Berkowitz was first appointed to the Great Neck Board of Education in 1992, and she is currently serving her ninth term on the Board. Ms. Berkowitz is the longest consecutively serving president of the Board of Education, a position she has held since 2006. She also served as vice president of the Board from 20002003.

Prior to volunteering her time as a

Board trustee, Ms. Berkowitz contributed to the GNPS community through other various school associations and committees. She served as a member and executive board officer for the E.M. Baker School Parent Teacher Association (PTA); a member and budget chairperson for United Parent-Teacher Council (UPTC); and a member of Shared Decision-Making Committees at both Baker School and North Middle School.

GNPS/TV to stream graduations online Tune in now to GNPS/TV to view the June 2020 graduation ceremonies for North Middle School and South Middle School.

Due to the pandemic, middle school graduation ceremonies were presented as videos for graduates and their families

in June. These videos are now available on-demand, 24/7, on the school district website at www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/ tv. Programs can also be viewed in the incorporated villages of Great Neck on Optimum Channel 75 and on Verizon Fios Channel 32. Airing times in program

descriptions below are for Optimum and Verizon viewing.

The South Middle School graduation airs at 8 a.m., and at 12, 4, and 8p.m.

The North Middle School graduation airs at 10 a.m., and at 2, 6, and 10 p.m.

GNPS/TV programming reflects the

offerings of the Great Neck Public Schools and the achievements of its students and staff. Programs are student-produced. For further information, please contact Robert Zahn, director of educational television and broadcast media, by e-mail at rzahn@greatneck.k12.ny.us.

G.N. school district announces community ed dates Interested in trying a new class at Great Neck Community Ed, but not sure if you want to commit to the whole semester? Community Ed is now offering a free introductory class for first-time students. Come experience one of several course offerings for the fall semester with no obligation.

First-time students may select one free trial class from the following courses. (“First-time student” is defined as an individual who has not previously registered for that specific class.) All classes are one hour in length.

The Golden Age of Illustration: Norman Rockwell with Tim Savage. Monday, November 2 at 11 a.m.

Creating the Great American Songbook (Presentation/Lecture) with Ken Grossman. Wednesday, No-

vember 4 at 12 p.m.

with Mary Dono. Thursday, November 12 at 10:00 a.m.

Term Limits for Congress and the Supreme Court (Lecture/Discussion) with Marc Greenberg. Thursday, November 5 at 11 a.m.

Space is limited. In order to ensure availability, anyone interested in participating must call Community Ed in advance at (516) 441-4949 to schedule their free introductory class.

In-person classes meet at 30 Cumberland Ave., Great Neck, one block south of Northern Blvd., off Lakeville Rd. Online classes are conducted via Zoom, an easy-to-use video conferencing program.

Current Events: Post-Election Recap with Marc Greenberg. Thursday, November 5 at 12:15 p.m.

Chair Yoga: Stretch, Strength, and Balance with Carolyn Carpentiere. Friday, November 13 at 12:30 p.m.

Beginner Line Dance with Lynne Martino. Tuesday, November 10 at 2:30 p.m.

Art History: The Life and Works of Gertrude Stein

Additional information is available by calling Community Ed or visiting the website at www.greatneck. k12.ny.us/ce. Be sure to follow Great Neck Community Ed on Facebook for the latest program updates.

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