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Ex F.P. Mayor Tweedy running for town board Lifelong Republican bucks party, will run as Dem

BY J E D HENDRIXSON

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Former Floral Park Mayor Thomas Tweedy, left, next to Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen, center, and Hempstead Town Clerk Sylvia Cabana.

Former Floral Park Mayor Thomas Tweedy, a Republican, announced his bid last Thursday for 2nd District Councilman Ed Ambrosino’s Hempstead Town Board seat as a Democrat.

Standing alongside Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen, a Democrat who he supported in her race for town supervisor, Tweedy said he was running to restore integrity to the Town Council.

“The time has come for inspired, honorable leaders whose goal is to serve and not enrich, to unite and not divide, to advocate and not obfuscate,” Tweedy said. “It is time

to return integrity to this office and to the town board.”

“The part of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt has become a morass of patronage, nepotism and cronyism,” he added.

Ambrosino is slated to begin a federal trial on Feb. 25 for wire fraud and tax evasion charges. Prosecutors allege that Ambrosino did not report $800,000 of the $1.3 million he made while working for two government agencies to the Uniondale-based law firm at which he worked. The law firm is not named in the indictment.

Ambrosino allegedly deposited the $800,000 into a shell company under the name Vanderbilt Bank Account, according to court documents.

The indictment also al-

leges Ambrosino made false deductions and understated income on his corporate and federal tax returns, skirting more than $245,000 in taxes over three years.

“The Republican Committee is disappointed and shocked that former mayor and registered Republican Thomas Tweedy would join the tax-hiking Gillen-Curran team in his bid for Hempstead Town Council,” said Michael Deery, a spokesman for the county committee.

Nassau County Republican Party leaders said they will not back Ambrosino for the seat in the November election, but have not named a candidate, Deery said.

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NHP board mulls canceling street fair

BY J E D HENDRIXSON

track expansion project in New At the village’s most recent Hyde Park may affect more than board meeting, Mayor Lawrence daily commuters in the near fu- Montreuil said that as a result of the construction, including Construction from the third ture. the six-month total closure of the Covert Avenue grade crossing, the board is “seriously reconsidering” holding the village’s annual

street fair.

“It would be a shame to end a tradition like this,” Montreuil said.

Hosting the street fair while nearby traffic closures are already in effect could be irresponsible, according to village officials.

The village’s annual street fair has consistently drawn thousands of residents and visitors to Jericho Turnpike, according to Greater New Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce President Jeanette Frisina.

Last year’s street fair, the village’s 23rd annual event, hosted Continued on Page 71

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Third Precinct talks Student addresses teen vaping epidemic district negotiations Students actively smoking while in school: police Herricks junior stands behind staff

BY J E D HENDRIXSON

BY J E D HENDRIXSON

Teen vaping has become an epidemic in Nassau County public schools and nationally, according to officers from the Nassau County Police Department’s 3rd Precinct.

At a community forum Wednesday night at the New Hyde Park Road School, precinct commanding officer Gregory Abruzzo, deputy commanding officer Daniel O’Connor and problem-oriented police officers spoke about the increase in and dangers of the new smoking trend.

Third precinct POP officers Joseph Oginski and Sherman Payami said that students in the precinct’s jurisdiction, the largest in the county at nearly 75 square miles, have picked up the dangerous habit and are actively smoking while in school.

Vaping is the use of a handheld, compact electronic device to heat up and smoke a combustible fluid. An atomizer in the device, when it is “pulled,” or breathed in, heats up the fluid electronically, rather than require an open flame as cigarettes do. Fluid is often flavored and contains chemicals like nicotine, the addictive element in cigarettes.

According to Oginski, the popular vape brand Juul Labs sells pods, fluid-filled cartridges that plug into vapes, that contain as much nicotine as an entire pack of cigarettes.

“That is terrible,” Oginski said. “This is getting into the hands of young kids.”

“This a massive amount of nicotine,” POP officer Jesse Cooper said.

According to a" recently published paper, Juul’s introduction of 5 percent nicotine pods spurred a “nicotine arms race” of

In the ongoing saga of the Herricks school district teachers’ contract negotiations, one group affected by the division has not spoken up.

District students, up until the board’s meeting Thursday night, had not made public comment on the state of the negotiations between the Herricks Teachers Association and the Board of Education.

Junior Kathryn Ritchie broke the trend.

“Herricks students see both sides of the argument despite the little information given from both sides as we have been taught to extrapolate and critical think by our indisputably highquality teachers,” Ritchie said.

Ritchie mentioned that from the board’s most recent statement, the negotiations have PHOTO BY JED HENDRIXSON

entered a fact-finding process, which will involve a mediator to determine a possible resolution to the negotiations, which have been going on for over a year.

The teachers previous contract agreement, which the teachers are still currently working under, expired in June 2018.

The implications of working under an expired contract and not having agreements that reflect the current economy are worrisome for students, according to Ritchie, because Herricks’ staff are like family to the students.

“Herricks staff do their jobs extraordinarily and should be fairly compensated, which we know can be achieved” he said.

Ritchie acknowledged the board’s position on considering the taxpayers of the Herricks community was important, adding that the district’s teachers are Continued on Page 71

Nassau County Police Department Third Precinct Commanding Officer Gregory Abruzzo at the community forum Wednesday night. competitors to increase the content of nicotine in their vaping fluids, CNN"reported.

Some devices are bulkier than others, but Juul’s and other popular brands are as slim and small as a pen or USB drive, making them incredibly easy to conceal while in school, Oginski said.

Juul devices are available for sale online and at most convenience stores, like 7-Eleven.

Advertisements for the devices and their pods are prominently displayed in the windows of the popular chain, Payami said.

“Just take a look next time you go,” Payami said.

School principals have confiscated dozens of the devices over the past few months,

according to Oginski. Some schools have taken measures such as installing vape detectors in bathrooms, he said.

A major part of the epidemic, according to Oginski, is the marketing of Juul’s and other devices. Vaping has become a socially acceptable normality in today’s culture and are “not branded as dangerous as cigarettes,” Oginski said, and Payami added that many feature colorful designs and pop-culture references.

“It looks like a toy,” Payami said.

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said that companies shouldn’t be able to design the devices to “make it Continued on Page 71

PHOTO BY JED HENDRIXSON

Herricks High School student Eish Maheshwari, left, and Superintendent of Schools Fino Celano. Maheshwari was recently named one of 40 Regeneron Scholar Finalists nationwide.

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NHP Gemach dressing those in need

BY T E R I W EST People from throughout the New York Metropolitan area trek to the social hall of New Hyde Park’s Young Israel synagogue to go shopping.

They sort through wedding dresses, suits and shoes preparing for the prom, their wedding or even just work. They leave with something to keep, often without paying.

The social hall is home to Beautiful Memories Gemach, founded seven years ago by congregant Mark Krieger. It offers formal clothing for individuals who can’t afford market prices.

“I think it’s a badge of pride,” Young Israel Rabbi Lawrence Teitelman said. “Knowing that we can host this service to the Jewish community as well as the community at large – it’s nice. Not every synagogue is going to give up its space. We only have two floors and this pretty much occupies one of them during the week, but it’s important.”

Gemachs exist in all forms over the world – traditionally serving as interest-free, mon-

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After volunteering at a clothing pantry in Hempstead for the homeless, Krieger had the idea to bring the concept to the Jewish community on Long Island.

Seven years later, he’s swimming in clothes. All are donated, and most are barely used.

He has more than 800 gowns, he said. One time, a woman donated 75 pairs of shoes.

“Nobody, including myself, could foresee the level of clothing I have,” he said. “Every-

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He doesn’t know of another gemach in the country with as much clothing as his, he said.

He and his volunteers, whom he calls gemacheteers,

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myself tripping over racks because they’re everywhere,” Teitelman said.

It’s not more clothes he needs, but volunteers to help with the operation that eventually gets"them to their destination, whether it’s a family on Long Island, a bride who visits from New Jersey or someone across the ocean.

Krieger sells fewer than 1 percent of the clothes, and that money just goes to the synagogue. When they are sold, the clothes are deeply discounted from their market price, and always sold – not rented.

Women often ask when they will need to return the wedding dress they have picked out, Krieger said. “‘Well, you just bought it, you don’t need to return it,’” he said he tells them. “You should see their tears.”

He spends up to 30 hours a week on the project. And it is a project – not a job.

“My wife and I do not make a penny except we get to feel good all day,” Krieger said.

His operation has expanded far beyond shopping appointments.

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Gillen condemns school noose image

BY J E D HENDRIXSON Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen condemned! imagery of a pair of nooses on display in Roosevelt Middle School that have gone viral since last week and called on the district to take action in! a statement Monday morning.!

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on Long Island displayed two nooses with the tag ‘back to school necklaces. It’s more than ‘racially offensive.’ It’s racist and sickening.”

Chelsea Clinton “This imagery that was on display in a Roosevelt Middle School classroom is undoubtedly racist and should not be tolerated in our town or any other community,” Gillen said. “The imagery is also deeply insensitive and troubling to anyone

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The controversial image, depicting nooses as back to school necklaces. with mental health issues and those contemplating suicide.” !

Gillen’s comments have come following a viral outcry over an image on a poster board

created by three teachers in one of the school’s classrooms depicting two nooses labeled “back to school necklaces” beside photos of the three teachers.

The image, two nooses on a poster board decorated with stickers that say “Ha Ha,” #yes and a pink smiley face, has since gone viral, receiving coverage from national media as well as a response in the form of a tweet from Chelsea Clinton.

“A middle school on Long Island displayed two nooses with the tag ‘back to school necklaces,” the tweet said. “It’s more than ‘racially offensive.’ It’s racist and sickening.”

“The Roosevelt School District is aware of the inappropriate conduct at the Roosevelt Middle School,” the district said in a statement. “The Board of Education was made aware of this incident on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. An investigation was! immediately initiated and appropriate action taken.”

“The Board of Education has zero tolerance for the display of racially offensive images,” the statement said.

Roosevelt Middle School’s student population is nearly 45 percent black, according to data from the state Education Department, and the image has been viewed as racially charged.

In a Facebook post last week, Mount Sinai Baptist Church Ca-

thedral Pastor Arthur Mackey Jr. called for the firing of three teachers alleged pictured and involved with the composition of the poster board.

“I call on our great leaders of the Roosevelt School Board to fire anyone involved in this racist act against the children of color in the Roosevelt School system,” Mackey wrote.

A! November 2018 article! by the publication Closer suggests that the nature of the saying and images refer to the feeling of despair that ensnares pupils returning to school, and makes no mention of racial motives.

District administrators said they were unable to comment further because the issue is classified as a personnel matter. According to Newsday, the three teachers have been placed on administrative leave in connection with the controversy.

Efforts to reach the district superintendent’s office for comment were unavailing.

An emergency board of education meeting originally scheduled for Tuesday night has been rescheduled for 7 p.m.

Wednesday at Roosevelt High School.

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Better on-time LIRR ratings for January

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN It was a happy new year for the Long Island Rail Road in January, when it recorded its best monthly on-time performance since January 2013, which had an on-time rate of 93 percent.

LIRR President Philip Eng said at a customer forum last week that 92.7 percent of LIRR trains were on time. Aaron Donovan, an MTA spokesman, confirmed that number.

This is nearly 10 percentage points higher than the 83.9 percent rating in January 2018, when a “bomb cyclone” battered Long Island with howling winds and snow.!December 2018 also recorded a 93.5 percent on-time rate, almost 4 percentage points higher than December 2017’s on time rate.

Donovan said the improving on-time performance is “a reflection of the changes” that Eng has implemented since April through the LIRR Forward plan. Among those changes have been the addition of switch snow covers, third rail heaters, flexible delineators, increasing wheel truing

growths of the LIRR’s new ap- This makes it the lowest level proach to identify the causes of since 1999, according to the delays to put practical solutions state comptroller’s office.

A train is considered “onin place quickly with renewed time” if it pulls into the station less than six minutes after its scheduled arrival time. “ tatistics reveal While the 92.7 percent rate what commuters is an improvement, it falls short of the agency’s own goal of a 94 know quite well percent on-time performance – that the LIRR’s rate.

The news comes less than recent performance a month after Long Island state is subpar and in senators, as well as the chairs desperate need of of two state Senate committees the Long Island Rail thorough review and blasted Road’s overall 2018 performance and announced their intention to revamping.” hold hearings about the continuLong Island’s Democratic ing travel woes.

“Statistics reveal what comState Senators muters know quite well – that the LIRR’s recent performance energy,” Donovan said. “The is subpar and in desperate need LIRR is tackling all of those of thorough review and revampthings that it can control, so that ing,” the senators wrote in a letPHOTO BY REBECCA KLAR the railroad is better prepared ter sent to the LIRR president to respond to challenges Mother and the MTA on Jan. 17.

LIRR President Phillip Eng greeting commuters at the Mine- Nature may throw at us.”

The on-time rating was reola train station.

The LIRR’s overall on time leased as the MTA, which overrating for 2018 was 90.4 per- sees the LIRR, has proposed fare capacity, and improving vegeta- platform lengths. cent, which is below 2017’s over- hikes in March to make up for a tion management and boarding “These actions are out- all on-time rate of 91.4 percent. revenue shortfall.

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Cuomo’s budget includes $40M for hub $18.3 billion investment in Long Island is ‘largest and most aggressive in history’: Gov.

BY T E R I W EST Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed 2020 budget includes $40 million toward the Nassau Hub, an ambitious $1.5 billiondollar development project, he announced Friday in Woodbury.

The allotment is part of the $18.3 billion in New York’s 2020 budget that he wants to earmark for Long Island, he said.

The hub would be a neighbor of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

“From economic development to academia to transportation to the environment, our proposed budget includes the largest and most aggressive investment for Long Island in the history of the state of New York,” Cuomo said when announcing Long Island’s share Friday. “This year is not about plans and visions, it’s about getting big projects done and we will continue delivering results across the board with a balanced and on-time budget once again this year.”

In addition to the $40 million, the budget includes $6

month to approve the two companies to spearhead the project and draw up plans for the space.

Northwell Health is planning to have a new “Innovation Center,”! which could include laboratories, research facilities and educational space, and be the hub’s anchor tenant.

Cuomo’s other commitments to Long Island in his proposed budget include completing modernization of 16 Long Island Rail Road passenger stations, two of which are in Floral Park and Great Neck, by the end of the year.

In May, the state will announce new wind projects offshore of Long Island, Cuomo said.

The $18.3 billion investment PHOTO COURTESY OF KEVIN P. COUGHLIN/OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO in Long Island is “the largest and most aggressive investment in Gov. Andrew Cuomo recognized Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and Nassau Long Island in the history of the state of New York,” Cuomo said.

County Executive Laura Curran Friday as he spoke about investments in Long Island that “This is the budget we want he’s included in his budget proposal. to pass,” he continued. “This million toward Nassau Veterans which! would add housing, adults, developers BSE Global year it’s not about plans. It’s not Memorial Coliseum improve- shopping and other business and RXR Realty told the county about visions. We know what needs to be done; we just have ments. amenities to create a destination legislature in December.

The state had already in- downtown, particularly intendThe county Legislature to get it done. And this year is vested $85 million in the hub, ed to attract younger working unanimously voted! later that the get it done year.”

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Residents pan proposed pot legalization

BY J E S S I C A PA R K S A majority of Nassau County residents who attended a public safety forum at the Nassau County Legislature last week expressed displeasure over the potential state legalization of marijuana.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced his support of state legalization, which has been echoed by a number of Democratic state senators and assembly members.

In response, a number of towns and villages in Nassau County have discussed or implemented measures that would ban the sale of recreational marijuana in their jurisdictions.

During the Feb. 6! forum, held by the Health and Social Services Committee of the county Legislature, residents asked for Nassau to opt out of the legalization, which the current bill that is in front of the state Senate Finance Committee would allow for counties and cities with a population higher than 100,000.

Christoper Cartier, assistant principal of Kellenberg Memorial High School in Uniondale, discussed the countrywide issue of teen vaping, which he believes teenagers would switch from nicotine use to marijuana use if marijuana were to be legalized.

“This county has an obligation to protect its citizens,” he said. “This county has an obligation to ensure its roads are safe.”

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The Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building is seen in Mineola.

Kathleen Spatz of South Hempstead said based on her personal experience with addiction in her family, she believes that marijuana leads to further drug use.

“I’m shaking because it just upsets me that this is happening in the state of New York,” she said.

Douglas Green, legislative director and a member of the board of directors for Empire State NORML, a pro-marijua-

na non-profit that advocates for the reform of marijuana laws,! had a message for those who thought they could stop the legalization of marijuana in New York.

“You lost,” he said.

He cited a January poll from Quinnipiac University that found 59 percent of New York State voters were supporters of the legalization of marijuana. He said ! county officials should remember

that when they are up for re-election.

Nassau County Legislator James Kennedy (R-Massapequa) asked Nassau County Attorney Jared Kasschau in a question-and-answer period if the county were to opt out of legalization, would that still mean anyone in Nassau could still smoke marijuana.

Kasschau said that was true, but the person would have to be over 21 and could not use it in a public place, which would include parks and hotels among other places.

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said legalized marijuana is a challenge he has never faced in his 35 years in law enforcement.

“We’re professionals and we don’t get to choose what side of the picket line we stand,” he said. “We have to stand on the side of the law.”

To prepare for the effects of legalization on law enforcement, he co-chairs a committee with Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan (D-Glen Head) with the mission to “educate and inform the residents of Nassau County about the potential impacts associated with the legalization of marijuana in the state of New York.”

On Feb. 27 at 7 p.m., the committee was scheduled to hold a town hall meeting in the Town of North Hempstead and then another on March 5 in the Town of Hempstead.

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Suozzi adds support to Green New Deal

BY J E S S I C A PA R K S U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) said Monday he supports the Green New Deal and plans to add his name to the list of 70 House Democrats who have co-sponsored the legislation.

The resolution was written by!fellow New Yorker, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Queens), and U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.).

Suozzi’s support of the Green New Deal, which he discussed in an interview Monday with the Huffington Post, is important due to his position on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. ! The chief-tax writing body in the House of Representatives also oversees revenue-related policies and programs and would cover many of the initiatives laid out in the plan His role as vice chairman of the Problem Solvers’ Caucus, a conglomerate of 24 Democrats and 24 Republicans, could also aid in garnering support from across the aisle.

Suozzi declined to issue a state-

ment at the time of publication.

The Green New Deal is an ambitious piece of legislation designed to better the welfare of U.S. citizens through social services and policies to combat climate change.

Proposals include universal highquality health care, free higher education, a guaranteed job with living wages and benefits, the cleanup of hazardous waste sites, infrastructure upgrades, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and an overhaul of the transportation sector with heavier financing of high-speed rail and public transportation.

While the initiative has been met with support from a number of lawmakers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was less enthusiastic of the resolution.

She said of the Green New Deal in an interview with Politico: “It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive. The green dream, or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it, right?”

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BY T E R I W EST Susan Lucci was shopping at Americana Manhasset’s Tory Burch store in October when she experienced chest pains that landed her in St. Francis Hospital for emergency heart surgery.

The pain “felt like an elephant pressing down on my chest,” Lucci said in a story published by People on Wednesday, and it turned out to be the result of artery blockage.

Her main artery was 90 percent blocked and another was 70 percent blocked, according to People. Without medical intervention, Lucci would have died, her cardiologist told the publication.

Instead, the hospital’s head of cardiology placed two stents in Lucci’s arteries, and the small tubes opened the passageways to restore blood flow.

Heart disease came to Lucci genetically, People’s Liz McNeil wrote. The “All My Children” actress’ father had a heart condition and a heart attack when he was in his 40s.

Despite regularly exercising and maintaining a healthy diet, Lucci found herself at risk of heart disease, she wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday.

“Narrowly missing a severe heart attack, I realized how vulnerable life is and how incredibly grateful I am to be here today,” the actress wrote.

Thursday evening, she walked the runway at the American Heart Association’s “Go Red for Women Red Dress Collection” show.

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About 25 percent of deaths in the United States are due to heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is the number one cause of death for both men and women.

Lucci, 72, said she wants women to remember to prioritize themselves.

She had felt chest tightness two previous

times last fall before the incident at Tory Burch, she said.

Had she been at home when she felt it the third time, she probably would not have chosen to head to the hospital, she said on Good Morning America.

“No one should have to die of a heart attack — they just need to listen to their symptoms and act on them,” she wrote on Instagram. “My hope in telling my story is that I can help at least one wife, mother, sister and friend.”

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G.N. schools tout enrichment programs Meanwhile contentious high school parking lot debate continues following car crash

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N Great Neck school officials presented the results of its 2018 enrichment programs to the school board and public Tuesday night, describing them as positive experiences that pay for themselves.

There were two presentations. One was a summary of summer camp and school year recreation. The other focused on the school district’s summer enrichment and summer school programs.

Matt Blackstone, the principal of the summer school’s programs, said 1,062 students participated, making it the largest number yet.

Much of that increase came from enrichment enrollment spiking from 600 to 689, Blackstone said, which in turn drove up revenue from $435,229 in 2017 to $514,272 in 2018.

Among the 78 enrichment courses are filmmaking, robotics, 3-D printing, coding, cooking, business, law, acting, public speaking, music, clay animation, fashion forensics – to name a few. The program also administered 299 Regents exams and offered credit recovery for high school classes.

“The list goes on and on,” Blackstone said.

Joseph Loria, the school district’s recreation supervisor, said the Summer Recreation Program – essentially a camp that offers art, crafts, sports, games and other recreational programs – registered a total of 840 campers. The Parkville School site had the most children enrolled, with 207 in total.

Expenses for the summer program were $696,303, according to David Zewatson, the school district’s director of physical education, athletics, and recreation. Revenues were $712,786.55,

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David Zewatson discusses the school district’s recreational programs. meaning that 101 percent of costs were recovered.

The district sponsored 25 children at no cost or partial cost, while there were a number of scholarships offered through the parent-teacher associations, Zewatson also noted.

Among the recommendations Zewatson and Loria made were having campsites at Saddle Rock and Lakeville for elementary campers because of summer bond project construction closing the South Middle School pool, using the Allenwood camp as a field trip site and forming a committee to explore possible changes for 2020.

“We do feel we’re at a point right now where between summer school, summer enrichment and summer camp, things of that nature, it would be a great opportunity for us to get together and

have some real conversations about what summer programming might look like in the 2020 year in a way that best suits the interests of our students, gives them the best possible experience, and meets up with some of the expectations and desires that the parents are expressing to us, too,” Zewatson said.

Registration fees should also be raised by 3 percent to accommodate for the minimum wage increase, he said, while the 50 percent reduced fee structure should remain in place for 2019, Zewatson said.

In unrelated business, school board trustees also said that Patricia Daley-Jimenez, the director for food and nutritional services, plans to retire this year.

They also heard continued criticism about the Great Neck North High School parking lot project on the corner of Beach

and Polo roads, which was approved in 2017 as part of a $68.3 million package of bonded projects.

The ongoing discussion comes in wake of a car accident on Beach Road, where a driver’s automobile flipped over.

Barbara Shaw, a concerned resident and parking lot critic, asked why the board could not come to a compromise on the parking.

“The best thing the Board of Education can do is use the parking lot that exists, the one across the street,” Shaw said. “You have more than 50 spots for the students who drive and work and the remainder of the cars should go to Parkwood [Tennis’s parking lot.]”

Harriet Picker, a Great Neck resident, said plenty of information has been disseminated to the public. She said there were mailers and green and white fliers itemizing each project that was in the bond.

“We have now spent every single meeting about this topic and it was voted on over 18 months ago,” Picker said. “So I’m not quite sure what this is going to benefit. It’s done, it was voted on, the community spoke, people were aware of it, and we need to move on, to work as a community to move on.”

Annie Mendelson, another critic of the parking lot and a trustee in the Village of Great Neck, said safety has not come up in the past as part of the discussion and as there were “100 items in the bond,” many people “did not focus on one line item.

She also said the Great Neck Board of Education is going in the wrong direction.

“Their vision for the future is increasing traffic and increasing carbon commissions,” Mendelson said.

Road ripped up after paving

BY T E R I W EST The Town of North Hempstead repaved Locust Lane in Roslyn in September even though it was scheduled to be torn up for National Grid work in December, according to the town and National Grid.

National Grid was not aware that the town had plans to repave Locust Lane, said company spokesperson Wendy Ladd. The company got its permit from the town in July to begin work in December, she said.

“The repaving was the result of a miscommunication between the Town and National Grid,” said Carole Trottere, the Town of North Hempstead’s communications director, in an email. “We resurfaced the road earlier than we should have.”

Sam, a resident of Carriage Lane where it borders Locust Lane who did not want his last name published, said his primary concern was the burden of such an error on taxpayers like himself.

“That’s where my money goes,” he said. “That’s my thoughts. Nobody cares.”

He remembered the road being repaved soon before National Grid construction started, and doubted that it would look as nice again after all of the new work.

“This is [a] disaster, I think,” he said. “But the politicians don’t care about that. It’s not their money. I wish they could put their money in it. Their own money in it, not my money.”

Efforts to reach Town Councilman Peter Zuckerman, who

represents Roslyn Heights, were unavailing.

In December, the town passed a law banning roads from being repaved less than three years after they already had been.

It also prohibits repaving on roads within five years of when they were constructed.

When the town repaved the road in September, it was because it was due for such work, Trottere said. At the time, town law only protected roads from repaving for the year following a repaving project.

“We work closely with the town the Town of North Hempstead and we have a great relationship with them,” Ladd said.

“We’re working through this issue.”

The town will split the cost of

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Locust Lane is closed to anything but local traffic between Woodhollow Road and Corn Crib Lane for National Grid gas main installation. repaving the road with National Grid, she said.

National Grid construction will continue on Locust Lane through April, Ladd said.

She said her company has not received complaints from residents regarding the repaving error.

Locust Lane is closed to anything but local traffic during the day between Woodhollow Road and Corn Crib Lane.

National Grid is installing a#gas main there as part of an ongoing multimillion-dollar project in the northwestern portion of the county.

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BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N The growth in the price of a Long Island Rail Road ticket will have outpaced wage and inflation growth on Long Island over the last 20 years when planned fare hikes hit in March, according to an analysis

by Newsday.

The average monthly ticket has gone up from $170 in 1999 to $335.50 and is slated to rise to about $344 in March thanks to a planned 4 percent fare hike, according to Newsday. This is a 102 percent increase since 1999.

For contrast, the median income of Nassau County residents has only risen 86 percent from $58,155 to $108,133 from 1999 to 2017, while SuďŹ&#x20AC;olkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has gone up from $52,080 to $94,750 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an 82 percent change, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

This has been paired with an average annual inflation rate of 2.32 percent, which translates to a nearly 55 percent inflation rate, according to Newsday.

Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Agency, which oversees the LIRR, said the increases come as the MTA plans to make â&#x20AC;&#x153;unprecedented levels of investment in the systemâ&#x20AC;? and aim to â&#x20AC;&#x153;hold the real cost of LIRR travel steady.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are pursuing the LIRR Forward plan to improve safety and on-time performance, and investing $6.6 billion in 100 capital projects like Main Line Third Track that are transforming and modernizing the LIRR and making up for past under-

investment,â&#x20AC;? Donovan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The recent increases, and the one that is pending, are designed to hold the real cost of LIRR travel steady while keeping pace with a two percent annual inflation rate.â&#x20AC;?

Donovan also said there is an important ongoing conversation when it comes to congestion pricing and finding other forms of revenue to control larger fare hikes.

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Opinion

OUR VIEWS

The right response to wrong speech

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n Super Bowl Sunday, we received an email from a reader who identified himself as a former media executive, criticizing our papers for publishing opinion pieces from people “who misstate facts – or simply make unfounded accusations.”

As an example, he cited a letter that said President Trump’s proposed southern wall would save lives.

The letter, he said, mimicked Trump and publishing the letter gave us a role in “perpetuating this fear – anger and hate between our citizens – dividing us at a time when we need leaders to unite us.”

Two days later, at the State of the Union, Trump again repeated his claim that the wall he has proposed between the United States and Mexico would save lives among other things.

“The lawless state of our southern border is a threat to the safety, security, and financial wellbeing of all Americans,” said the president of the United States.

Most if not all the Republicans in Congress rose when Trump made this claim and applauded. Trump repeated the claim at a rally in El Paso, Texas, on Monday night.

The decision of a newspaper to publish readers’ opinions has always been subject to debate.

That decision has become that much more difficult during the presidency of Donald Trump.

There is no" question in our minds that Trump’s rhetoric has divided Americans, undermined institutions central to our democracy including a free press and

debased the concept of truth with more than 8,000 lies and misrepresentations"during his two years in office according to people who have fact-checked him.

Nor is there any question in our minds that there is no crisis along our southern border or that the wall Mexico was supposed to pay for will not stop drugs or reduce crime. We also believe that the wall represents an appeal to people’s racial prejudices.

The question is whether we should publish the claims of the president of the United States. Or his supporters. Or others, either on the left or the right politically, who we think factually wrong or may or may not be appealing to our base instincts.

This newspaper has sought to serve as a community forum for people on all sides of the political spectrum to present their views on any topic they choose. We believe this serves as an antidote to the trend of people hearing only one side of any debate on cable television stations or social media groups. And that such exchange of opinions generates more light than heat.

We do have limits. We do not publish letters that are libelous or ad hominem attacks against a private citizen. We also bar letters seen" as attacks" based on race, religion ethnicity or gender, although that is often not an easy choice at a time of changing values.

Is it okay to call someone a “globalist?” Or refer to “national borders?” Or refer to the Republican Congress as “old, white men?” These are questions we see asked with increasing fre-

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quency.

We also do not fact check letters. To do so, we believe, would be impractical, requiring hours and hours of manpower, and would result in us often blocking arguments central to current political debate. This begins with the wall but goes on and on.

We believe the alternative is far simpler and more practical: allowing other readers to correct factual claims, offer different opinions or both. That is the idea behind the First Amendment and the concept of free speech.

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously advised: the remedy to bad speech is “more speech, not enforced silence.”

Unfortunately, we are finding an increasing number of readers from both sides of the political spectrum unwilling to follow this advice.

One of our papers, the Port Washington Times, was recently criticized for printing an ad in the

form of a letter that said the Port Washington school district lagged behind other school districts — a discussion always worth having.

But then he blamed the district’s performance on a board dominated by members whose sole qualification was being a mother.

Or at least we think we were criticized. No letters were sent to the paper but we did receive a number of second-hand reports of people responding angrily in a Facebook group that the advertorial was anti-women. Some also said the advertorial should not have been published.

The advertorial writer, a frequent critic of the school district, did state that just being a father was also not sufficient to being a school board member but he then singled out as positive examples two school districts that he said were dominated by “eminently qualified” men.

There were holes in the argument presented in the ad big

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enough to drive a school bus through. Two of Port Washington’s board members are men and two of the female board members are lawyers. One, the vice president of the board, spent 15 years as a litigator.

The president of one of the school districts the letter-writer said was a superior district, Great Neck, is also a woman.

In short, this seemed like a perfect opportunity to discredit a frequent critic of the school district. But no one responded.

Were we supposed to not publish the advertorial? if so, what happens during the next election for school board or village trustee?

Ironically, the #MeToo Movement and the success of women in the last congressional election once again demonstrated the power of people speaking out.

We hope that is a message that does not get lost amid the rancor.

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ON THE RIGHT

N.Y.’s conservative icon — Mike Long

M

ike Long, chairman of the Conservative party of New York, has announced he would retire from the post he has held for 30 years.

The 79-year-old Long, who disclosed his plans Jan. 28, is the quintessential “street corner conservative.”

Born in Brooklyn, Long returned home in 1961 after a three-year stint in the U.S.# Marine Corps, a fervent anti-Communist ready to lead the home guard.

The political epiphany in Long’s life took place when he attended the great Goldwater Rally at Madison Square Garden in 1964. The enthusiasm at the rally was infectious, and Long decided then and there he had to be actively involved in politics.

Long became a member of the fledgling Conservative Party that was founded in 1962. In 1965, he took over as chairman of the Cypress Hills Conservative Club and became a worker in William F. Buckley’s famous campaign for mayor of New York City.

He also had a key role in help-

ing elect James L. Buckley — who ran solely on the Conservative Party line — to the U.S. Senate in 1970.

That election cemented a coalition of inner-city ethnic Democrats and rural and suburban Republicans, all of whom were disgusted with excessive taxation and runaway government spending and championed traditional cultural beliefs.

Long stayed active in the Brooklyn Conservative Party and was elected county chairman in 1972. The following year, he was elevated to vice chairman of the state Conservative party.

Long was truly an old-fashioned political street fighter. In 1977, for example, he had a runin with a Democratic candidate for mayor at a forum at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn.

The candidate was Mario Cuomo.

Cuomo was boasting that his Neighborhood Preservation Party was the only political party in New York to have a platform.

Hearing this, Long interjected that Cuomo was wrong, and reminded him that the Conservative Party

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right has a platform. When Cuomo told him he was wrong, Long yelled at him, “You’re a liar!”

What followed was a scene one would ordinarily expect to see in a schoolyard brawl: a pushing match. Long recalls: “Mario and I sneered at one another and began pushing back and forth.

He pushed me through swinging doors and I pulled him along with me. The cops didn’t know me, but they certainly knew the mayoral candidate, so they broke things up and searched me while Cuomo

left in his car.”

“Moments later,” Long continued, “Cuomo came back in the car and called me over under some trees to chat. He apologized, and when I told him we did have a platform, Cuomo asked for copies.

Next day, I had state headquarters send him a copy of every platform since the party’s inception. Later I received a note from Cuomo conceding that the Conservative Party did indeed have a platform.”

Long was elected the state party’s executive vice chairman in 1986, and two years later he was unanimously elected state chairman.

Dedicated to defeating Gov. Cuomo, Long was instrumental in putting together the political coalition that elected a littleknown Republican-Conservative state senator from Poughkeepsie, George Elmer Pataki, as#governor in 1994 The Conservative Party provided the margin of victory for Pataki — and since then, no Republican has won a statewide race without the Conservative endorsement.

In recent years, Long preached over and over again that to energize the party’s traditional voting base, Republican-Conservative candidates must proudly promote their Conservative credentials as well as a vision for the future. His words fell on deaf ears.

And that “hide your conservatism” approach cost the Republicans control of the state Senate this past November.

For over a half century, Long has been a “street corner conservative” fighting for the folks.

When I think of Long, what comes to mind is British journalist G.K. Chesterton’s description of the guardian of the neighborhood in “The Man Who Was Thursday”: “He (finds) himself filled with a supernatural courage that came from nowhere… he did not think of himself as the representative of the corps of gentleman… But he did feel himself as the ambassador of all those common and kindly people in the street.”

Michael Long — thank you for your service.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

The CSI team that nobody knows “It’s the darnedest thing,” said the senior crime scene investigator, scratching his head. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

“You mean, how this entire cottage was built inside a hollow tree?” asked the assistant. “Yeah, that’s a first for me, too.”

“No, I mean I’ve never seen so many ‘biologicals’ left behind! The word ‘trace’ doesn’t even apply!

Long blonde hairs on the headrest of the big easy chair in the living room… on the medium-sized wing chair… and even on the child’s rocker! Whoever this is, she sheds more than my golden retriever, and that’s saying something.”

“How do you know it’s a ‘she’?”

“Well, they’re very long strands, for one thing,” said the senior investigator, carefully picking up each with a tweezers, to place in an evidence bag. “I’m pretty sure these follicles will prove to be female. Plus, not too many men spend this much money on highlights.”

“Check out the mess in the kitchen! One spoonful from each bowl, then on to the next? Who

eats like this? It’s so wasteful!”

“At least we’ll have no trouble getting epithelials off the three spoons, or DNA from the saliva in three bowls of left-over, spat-out porridge.”

“Was it a gang of teenagers?”

“I don’t know, but I’m only finding one set of fingerprints.”

“You mean, one set besides the homeowners?”

“No — I mean, only one set of fingerprints! Everything else is a paw print from Papa, Mama or Baby Bear.”

Suddenly an officer appeared at the kitchen doorway. “Boss,” she said, “You’d better see this.”

They walked down the hall. “I hate doing bedrooms,” said the senior investigator. “They’re always such a mess. Well, what have we here? Is this young Goldilocks, from down the street?”

“I’m afraid so, said the officer.

“Rise and shine, young lady, and keep your hands where we can see them. You’re coming downtown where we can fingerprint you properly, get a hair sample, and take a cheek swab, to see if you’re responsible for this… this… I don’t

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A Look on the Lighter Side know what to call it.”

“It’s a ‘cereal crime spree’,” said the boss.

But once downtown, Goldilocks had to wait. They were shorthanded, having just dispatched a team on another call.

“What am I looking at?” the criminologist asked the very short man in the doorway. “Is she alive, or dead? And what should I call you?”

“Call me Doc,” said the dwarf.

“Her name’s Snow White. We don’t think she’s breathing.”

The criminologist bent over the young woman. “She’s so beautiful,” he said. “But so pale! Let me check something I remember from Scouts: A-B-C for Airway, Breathing, Circulation. First is airway…

Hey, what’s this?”

He stood up, his gloved hand holding a half-chewed bite of something that had been in her mouth.

“Oh! That must be from the poisoned apple!” cried another dwarf, Grumpy. “I saw this ugly old witch offer her a bite, and I warned Snow White, I said, ‘Don’t take candy from strangers,’ but she said it wasn’t candy, and before I could stop her, she had fallen over!

It was all we could do to carry her inside!”

“Send this to toxicology,” said the criminologist to his assistant, bagging the apple fragment. “And tell them to rush it.”

“Oh, I feel so much better,” said a voice from the bed. It was Snow White, sitting up with a yawn. “All that housework was wearing me out!”

“Please don’t move, Ms. White,” said the criminologist.

“Not until the hospital can check you out.” Then he and his assistant slid Snow White and the bed right into their vehicle, and drove away.

Meanwhile, the office was scrambling to cover yet another crime scene — this one at Grandmother Riding-Hood’s place.

“You’d better send a ton of evidence bags,” the field agent was barking over the phone. “We’re going to need blood spatter experts; a textile specialist; and enough plaster to cast two sets of footprints for miles. And we’ll need the portable X-ray equipment, because the girl — Red — says her grandma’s been swallowed whole by the suspect here. Plus we need dental records from the suspect’s dentist, Dr. Wolfgang Pack.”

“That last one might be a problem,” said the dispatcher. “Dr. Pack mysteriously disappeared a week ago.”

“Hmm. Better send some extra plates with that X-ray machine.

And put us all down for double overtime!”

It’s a tough job, making sure that everyone in a fairy tale lives happily ever after.

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OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Immigration reforms — starting steps

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tate of the Union reports by presidents can be “reservoirs” as well as “watersheds.”

They can sum up what has been done and accomplished, and they can point to new directions (perhaps at an accelerating pace).

Donald Trump gave his delayed State of the Union on Feb. 5.

Some comparisons can be offered with how immigration issues were addressed in the 1906 State of the Union presented (in writing) by President Theodore Roosevelt.

In the early 1900s, the time of the largest, most diverse migration in our nation’s history (and an era of rising bigotry and xenophobia), President Roosevelt’s"State of the Union set new directions on this controversial issue.

Roosevelt gave explicit views supporting the vast numbers of “new” immigrants, writing in his State of the Union: “We must treat with justice and goodwill all immigrants who come here under the law. Whether they are Catholic or Protestant, Jew or Gentile; whether they come from England or Germany, Russia, Japan, or Italy, matters nothing.”

He also directly challenged the widespread prejudice and discrimination at Ellis Island and in our nation. Roosevelt rejected earlier negative views that he,

himself, had presented. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin cites his data attentiveness and empathy that led to growth.

At a time when Congress and much of the public showed extreme negativity toward Southeastern Europeans (predominantly Italians and Jews), Roosevelt had the audacity to select the first Jew ever to serve as a U.S. cabinet leader. The appointment of Oscar Strauss has not been adequately noted in history books.

Roosevelt was a Republican, but he was willing to select Democrat Strauss for Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Oscar Strauss was an immigrant who was dramatically successful in the United States.

He was a graduate of Columbia University and its law school.

He later joined the highly successful business ventures of his family, taking over R.H. Macy from bankruptcy, and then creating Abraham and Strauss through a merger with a Brooklyn company.

Historian Tyler Anbinder writes that Roosevelt “must have seen Strauss as something of an intellectual soul mate.” Both are described as “voracious readers of history” (a stark contrast to Trump, despite all of his hours of “executive time”).

Largely unknown to most

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field Americans then, and subsequently, was the power in Strauss’s Cabinet to oversee immigration law and practices (authority having been shifted from the Treasury Department).

Strauss’s humanitarian concerns and empathetic standards made Ellis Island and U.S. practices more responsive and supportive of immigrants than they had been previously (or would become after he was replaced by a different president).

This column is being submitted four days before the Feb. 15 negotiation deadline. There could be another government shutdown.

Trump’s State of the Union provided no substantive views that he might exhibit Roosevelt’s capacities for change and growth.

Reporter Jill Colvin noted: “Trump raised eyebrows in his State of the Union speech when he said he wanted people ’to come into our country in the largest numbers ever, but they have to come in legally.’

His policy positions to date do not reflect that wish.” Typically, Trump’s major focus was on his wall for “national security.”

“The immigration system is broken, but the president has no interest in fixing it,” wrote New York Times columnist Roger Cohen on Feb. 9.

Whatever the decisions by Feb. 15, two key aspects of immigration reform are continuing: 1. establishing a legal threshold for numbers of immigrants each year (through defined processes) and making a commitment to reexamine numbers and procedures at regular intervals (at least every two or three years).

Also an urgent consideration: 2. is how to proceed with people seeking refugee and asylum status. There is a key distinction here: refugees are approved before they come to the U.S. at our embassies in other nations, while asylees rely on international law that grants individuals the right to be reviewed for admission to any nation once they are within its borders, regardless of how they got there.

The qualifications to be considered for refugee and aslyee status have changed over the years.

There are questions regarding the review process, and whether absolute annual numbers should be set.

Fundamental questions concern whether the U.S. should make collaborative efforts to plan and act on the international refugee crises with other nations and whether the U.S. should continue to abide by the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights (led by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1948).

Determinations regarding who we should admit, how many, and using what criteria, are complex matters that call for informed data from nonpartisan commissions.

Backed by the president and Congress, such commissions would be well advised to engage the American public in discussing options (especially because our immigration system has become such a mess).

Our nation can advance more effectively with thoughtful national conversations about immigration challenges. Indeed, these activities could take place throughout our states and resemble the deliberative processes of juries. (More on that in my next column.)

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G.N.’s Old Village needs revitalization

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ardly anyone would disagree that Great Neck’s Old Village needs revitalization.

But the plan being advanced now for an incentive zoning overlay on the Middle Neck Road and East Shore Road corridors is not what I would call a “revitalization” program.

Spot development, perhaps. A windfall for developers, absolutely.

Benefits to the village residents?

Questionable.

By my account, the smattering of people who came forward in support of the incentive zoning plan cited the need for affordable housing – for elders to live in assisted living (apparently, the three facilities 1.5 miles away in Great Neck Plaza, with ample vacancies, are too far for Sabbath-observers) and for young Great Neckers wanting to have their own young families here.

But what makes anyone think

that what affordable housing units there would be would go to native Great Neckers? And what makes anyone think that any of these big projects would result in tax revenue for the village, rather than qualify for tax abatement; one can even envision the possibility of a religious foundation “building” senior housing and claiming a religious exemption.

In fact, VHB could have incorporated into its DEIS the actual economic benefit to the village of an existing high-density, five-story building: the Avalon on East Shore Road.

And the reality is that while the village board maintains that this is only “incentive” zoning, an overlay to existing zoning that gives the board the ability to grant larger density (four and five stories) based on getting back some community benefit, after the first five-story structure is approved (on a mere five days public no-

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tice), the next one that is denied will sue claiming the denial is discriminatory or capricious, and the village will cave.

In fact, the 16 “properties of interest” along the Middle Neck Road corridor, and the 17 POIs on East Shore Road were not randomly selected or recruited; rather, initiated by the property owners

interested in redeveloping.

VHB’s “environmental impact study” provides no rendering of what four or five stories would look like from the street view, or from adjacent buildings, the impact on “shadowing.”

There is no measure of impact on the value of nearby properties which lose their aesthetic view.

But a property that can be tripled in size would probably triple its value, as former trustee Mark Birnbaum noted.

“Where’s the math,” a frustrated Ruth Grusercio demanded of VHB, in reaction to the statement that the projected increase of 35 trips during the “peak” pm hour on East Shore Road would have “no adverse impact.”

But that’s a 20 percent increase when now, even in early afternoon, it can take 30 minutes to go a mile to Northern Boulevard.

More questionable is the statement of “no impact” on Middle

Neck Road, where the am peak traffic is expected to go from 227 to 329 trips – a 45 percent increase in volume – and the pm peak hour volume is expected to go from 378 to 461 trips, a 22 percent increase.

Meanwhile, the Village has made no attempt to redesign Middle Neck Road to calm traffic, before Nassau County undertakes a once-in-a-generation repaving.

VHB also concluded that adding 82 children to the school district would have “no impact”, that these children can be “easily absorbed” despite the study’s projection that this could cost $2,281,076 in additional property taxes.

That amounts to 1 percent of the school budget, or half of what is allowed as an annual increase under the state’s 2 percent cap, with no accommodation for increased enrollment. That prompted resident Barbara Berkowitz, Continued on Page 67

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E A R T H M AT T E R S

Missing buzz of bees, other insects

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few years ago, I saw a picture in a magazine of what the produce section of a grocery store would look like without any fruits or vegetables that were dependent on bees for pollination. I remember it clearly because it was so alarming.

Only a handful of vegetables and fruits were stocked in contrast to the large number of empty bins. Could this actually happen? Can we turn around the drastic worldwide decline in our pollinator species? With three-quarters of food crops dependent on pollination, it is no wonder the plight of bees is looming large as we contemplate the question of whether we will have enough food to eat in our lifetimes.

Around the turn of the century, beekeepers and entomologists began to notice an alarming drop in bee popula-

tions. There were many theories about what could be causing this problem — invasive parasites, climate change, industrial agriculture with its lack of plant biodiversity, expansion into pristine wild spaces by relentless human activities, pesticides, RF microwave radiation from a rapidly expanding wireless world, to name but a few. And while each of these factors are probably playing a role, the lack of interest in the world of scientific research and an even larger lack of funding for scientific research leaves us with many unanswered questions In fact, we are seeing a dramatic decline in almost all of our insect populations. Entomologists in Germany and Denmark began noticing a loss of insects where they had always been before — they called it the “windshield phenomenon.” Oh, right… I remember too that we

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were always cleaning bugs off our car windshield when I was a kid. Not anymore.

The study found that flying insects have decreased by 75 percent in about 27 years.

The implications of this decline are too great to mention here, except to say that untold numbers of bird, fish and other species rely on insects as their main

food source and that these pesky insects are indeed a critical part of our food chain. Did I forget to mention pollinators?

I strongly suggest you read the New York Times Magazine article written by Brooke Jarvis titled “The Insect Apocalypse is Here,” dated Nov. 27, 2018. It will change the way you think about bugs forever.

So, what are we humans going to do about this?

Across the U.S. and beyond, experts in the field are raising warning flags about a class of widely used systemic insecticides (pesticides) called neonicotinoids. Neonicotinoids are extremely toxic to honeybees and other pollinators, attacking the insect’s nervous system and killing them by paralysis. All 20,000+ varieties of wild bees and managed species (honeybees) are considered at great risk from just this class of pes-

ticides alone. Eliminating or reducing their use would address a leading and preventable cause of pollinator loss.

New York environmental organizations, businesses and individuals are appealing to Gov. Cuomo to support a moratorium on outdoor uses of neonicotinoid insecticides and other harmful systemic insecticides to safeguard the state’s bees, birds and other critical pollinators.

They cite damage to the state’s agricultural economy — pollinator dependent crops in New York are estimated at $1.2 billion annually — as well as the healthy functioning of critical ecosystems, including native plants and wildflowers, which are also dependent on pollinators. And, of course, the costs to New York’s beekeepers, who are currently showing losses around 40 percent.

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KIDS F IRST

Depression, poverty and babies

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aving a baby can be the happiest time in a woman’s life. But for many, new motherhood can also bring risk of an increase in existing depression or the occurrence of new depression.

In a recent report on maternal depression and economic mobility released by the Brookings Institution, author Richard V. Reeves states that “about 10 to 20 percent of mothers will be depressed at some time during their lives, and one in 11 infants will experience their mothers’ perinatal depression.”

Mental health experts agree that constancy of relationships from early childhood is the single most reliable predictor of positive outcomes in later life. Promoting safe and warm relationships with parents and other caregivers is an important factor in young children’s healthy development, later success in school and prevention of intergenerational transmission of poverty and lack of economic mobility.

One young mother who was recovering from postpartum depression at North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center brought her depression to life at a public event hosted by the Guidance Center. As she recalled, “I could

barely lift my head off my pillow, let alone lift and hold and cuddle and care for my baby.”

Studies reveal that mothers who are poor are more likely to experience depression. When a primary caregiver (most often the mother) is depressed, it is difficult to make a positive connection with her baby or toddler, which is likely to negatively impact the child’s development. Of course, postpartum depression can strike any woman regardless of her socioeconomic status, but it can be especially difficult for people struggling to survive financial woes.

At the same time, developing the skills, confidence and aspirations needed to transcend living in poverty are byproducts of strong early bonding.# So, if poverty, poor mental health, compromised child development and worse outcomes are likely factors contributing to perpetuation of poverty, what can be done to break the cycle?# According to the Brookings report, the goals of policies necessary to intervene in breaking the cycle are: (1) Reduce poverty; (2) Reduce the impact of poverty on depression among caregivers; (3) Reduce the impact of caregiver depression on early child develop-

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ment; and (4) Reduce the impact of weaker early child development on later outcomes.

The Center of Disease Control in Atlanta administered a project aimed at identifying maternal depression early on. Two questions that they asked moms were: 1) Since your new baby was born, how often have you felt down, depressed, or hopeless?; and 2) Since your new baby was born, how often have you had little interest or little pleasure in doing things?# The women who answered “often” or “always” to either question were classified as experiencing self-reported postpartum depressive symptoms. Detecting the problem is the first step in getting

moms and their families the help they need.

One thing we can do to help to break the cycle is to encourage primary care physicians and other health professionals to incorporate screening tools into their encounters with pregnant women and mothers of infants.

The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that clinicians screen patients at least once during the perinatal period for depression and anxiety symptoms using a standardized, validated tool. Screening should be coupled with appropriate follow-up and treatment when indicated.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that a woman experiencing negative feelings about her pregnancy should receive additional support from the health care team.

She should be monitored for symptoms of severe postpartum depression and offered culturally appropriate treatment or referral to community resources.

They also recommend ongoing assessment soon after hospital discharge. Monitoring for continuing or worsening symptoms should occur from four to six weeks after delivery, including a review of symptoms for clinically

significant depression to determine if intervention is needed.

Healthy attachments are not about# children getting what they want, but getting what they need — the assurance that an adult caregiver is by their side, looking out for them, teaching them how to manage their own feelings, and learning about the give and take of relationships. All children deserve this, regardless of their family’s socioeconomic status.

If you or your loved one is a caregiver of an infant or toddler and are experiencing symptoms of depression or anxiety, ask for the Diane Goldberg Maternal Depression Program at North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center at 516-484-3174. If there is a teenage girl in your family who is pregnant or parenting an infant child, ask for the Good Beginnings for Babies Program, also at the Guidance Center, at 516-9972926. We turn no one away for inability to pay.

Andrew Malekoff is the executive director of North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, which provides comprehensive mental health services for children from birth through 24 and their families. To find out more, visit# www.northshorechildguidance.org.

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READERS WRITE

Healthcare for all — a good idea, but….

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he concept of “Medicare for all” means different things for different people. Older Americans are attracted by the prospect of extra benefits, a limit on out-of-pocket costs, and a doctor or nurse who can coordinate their care.

Supporters of national health insurance, to many Americans, would provide a program in which a single-public program would pay most of the bills, but care would still be delivered by private doctors and hospitals.

Having been in a Medicare Advantage program, there were certain elements that were not so terrific, such as a restricted panel of doctors and a restricted drug formulary, where in Medicare, as most people are — the 60-plus percent — there is no restriction on where you can go or to which hospital.

If the facility accepts Medicare, you will be seen in both private office or the hospital setting.

The Kaiser Family Foundation, a highly respected foundation, published a report on Medicare spending and financing in June 2018. Try to read the following numbers having in mind the current stalemate in our government of over $5 billion dollars.

In 2017, Medicare benefit payments to-

taled $702 billion, up from $425 billion in 2007. Medicare spending was 15 percent of total federal spending in 2017, and is projected to rise to 18 percent by 2028. The Medicare Hospital Insurance (Part A) trust fund is projected to be depleted in 2026, three years earlier than the 2017 projection.

Robert Pear, a respected writer on economic issues for the New York Times, wrote on Dec. 30 that the Democrats “fed up with private health insurance companies” are endorsing the goal of a single payer system like Medicare for all Americans.

Medicare as a share of the Federal budget in 2017 was about 15 percent, the same as defense, non-defense discretionary with Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and CHIP, a children’s health insurance program.

The Kaiser report says that “Medicare spending is expected to continue to grow more slowly in the future compared to longterm historical trends. Medicare’s actuaries project that future spending growth will increase at a faster rate than in recent years, in part due to growing enrollment in Medicare related to the aging of the population, increased use of services and intensity of care, and rising healthcare prices.”

Medicare is financed in the following

manner. Part A, the hospital and physician’s office, through a 2.9 percent tax on earning by employers and employees with higher-income taxpayers paying a higher percentage.

Part B, which covers drugs administered by physicians in hospitals and offices, is financed through general revenues and beneficiary premiums, with beneficiaries with higher incomes reflecting a higher share of the costs ranging from 35 to 80 percent.

Part D, your drug plan, is financed by general revenues of about 73 percent of the costs, beneficiary payments of 15 percent, and state payments dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Again, higher-income enrollees pay a larger share of the court-old Part D coverage.

The Medicare Advantage Program (Part C) is not separately financed. The plans cover Part A, Part B and usually Part D. Beneficiaries enrolled in Advantage plans pay the Part B premium, and may pay an additional premium if required by their own plan with about half not paying anything more.

Medicare’s actuaries provide an estimate when the asset level is projected to be fully depleted. In 2018, the actuaries project that the Part A trust fund will be depleted in 2026, three years earlier than their 2017

projection. The actuaries estimate that Medicare will be able to cover 91 percent of Part A costs payroll tax revenue in 2026.

In Kaiser’s June 2018 report on the future outlook for#Medicare, writers Juliette Cubanski and Tricia#Neuman#say that the aging of the population, growth in Medicare enrollment due to the baby boomers reaching the age of eligibility, and increases in per capita health care costs are leading to growth in overall Medicare spending.

Where is the money to pay for this going to come from? Most physicians seem to have no strenuous objections to Medicare as it exists and do support care for younger people as well with the goal being to provide proper healthcare for everyone.

The obvious difficulty is working under conditions of timelines and formularies and abuse of a program, which you can be certain is currently being abused by some and challenged by others who feel they cannot provide proper care under the time frames imposed on them by the people who do the paying, being private or public.

Bertram Drachtman Great Neck

More community input needed in VGN

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attended the Feb. 5 meeting at the Village of Great Neck Hall where the consulting firm VHB presented its proposal to village residents for what they call “revitalization” of our Middle Neck Road corridor.

This proposal presented by VHB would demolish several commercial blocks in our village and replace them with a number of four- or five-story luxury apartment buildings along Middle Neck Road from Old Mill Road past Steamboat Road.

Among the proposals is the construction of a 20-unit apartment building on a one-family lot on Arrandale Avenue and the construction of a large assisted living facility on the corner of Hicks Lane and Middle Neck Road. The VHB consultants stated that they did not see a meaningful impact from any of these buildings on traffic, pedestrian safety or any other public concerns. Many village residents disagreed.

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We are all concerned about the empty stores on Middle Neck Road. But building luxury apartments is not a solution. Great Neck Plaza has many apartments and it has the same problem as we do with empty storefronts. Many Great Neck residents do not shop in our town.

It is possible that in our village many landlords have decided to force out small businesses by raising the rents too high and then warehousing the empty properties to wait for rezoning from commercial to multi-family zoning for large apartment projects like those above that are more profitable. A luxury four- or five-story apartment building could generate a lot more profit than a few retail stores.

What our village needs is moderately priced workforce housing and better conditions for our small businesses. Some of this workforce housing already exists at Academy Gardens on the corner of Steamboat Road where there are many

vacancies, but the landlord has allowed these garden apartments to deteriorate.

This is one of the properties that the VHB proposes to turn into luxury housing.

The Feb. 5 hearing took place on the Chinese Lunar New Year while Great Neck schools were closed for the holiday and at the same time that many Chinese families were in the midst of celebrating with family and friends. As a result, there were very few Chinese residents who were able to attend this very important meeting.

This scheduling was disrespectful to our many friends and neighbors who are Chinese and want to be heard. In addition, the next and final scheduled hearing is on Feb. 19 when the schools are closed for winter break and many families will be on vacation. At that time, the village board of trustees will do its final vote on whether or not to start to implement this plan.

This issue is too important to leave

up to one mayor and a board of trustees to decide on Feb. 19. Before any decision is made we need more input from our residents, the local planning board, zoning board, water board, the Nassau County Planning Board, and other villages in Great Neck. We need to know if the builders of this luxury housing will be getting tax abatements or exemptions.

Who will live in these buildings?

The future of our village must be determined by all of our residents, whether Persian, Chinese, Hispanic or other. We all live here and have a right to say what we want in our town. I urge Mayor Bral and the board of trustees to defer their vote and schedule more public hearings on this proposal at times when there are no conflicts with the school calendar or religious holidays.

Christine Knauer Great Neck

Is political correctness one-sided?

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he controversy with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam who admitted wearing blackface is somewhat troubling. But it has been reported that there are others in the entertainment industry who have worn blackface in the past with no repercussions, like Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Billy Crystal and Ted Danson.

Added to that, they were not accused as being racist. I might be wrong, but in my opinion is not wearing blackface honoring the African-Americans who have contribute to making a America what it is today?

Now what about imitating people of different races, nationality, religion and culture, is that disrespectful or acts of

recognition of other people who are different? Therefore, has political correctness gone too far?

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola Letters Continued on Page 65

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New restaurant aims to be a cut above

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Over the course of five years, Justin Aronoff has gone from standing behind the counter at a butcher shop to owning his own store along with a catering service. In his latest meat-related entrepreneurial venture, he is opening a restaurant.

BLVD 25, which is planning to welcome its first customers within the next few weeks at the location formerly home to Nick & Pedro’s in Manhasset, will be an American grill, said the Roslyn High School graduate.

Expect high-quality meats in a relaxed setting, he hinted.

When Aronoff opened his butcher shop, Center Cuts, he was 19.

Those who have known him even longer than that – he was a salesman at The Meat House in Roslyn before venturing into his own business – say they see his dedication and charisma as the reasons that now, at 24, he’s becoming a restaurant owner.

“He has work ethic like no other,” said Michael Sheinman, who got to know Aronoff while a customer at The Meat House and has since been a loyal Center Cuts patron. “He’s dedicated to his customers, he’s dedicated to the people that work with him. If there’s 24 hours in a day, he’s working 25.”

Long Island chefs Billy Liebhart and Rob Smith will oversee BLVD 25’s kitchen as executive chef and sous chef, respec-

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BLVD. 25 will have high quality meats like Center Cuts, owner Justin Aronoff said. tively, Aronoff said.

Chef John Brill, a former executive chef at restaurants around Long Island who now serves as a culinary consultant, provided guidance for the restaurant’s development, Aronoff said.

Burgers and sandwiches on the BLVD 25 menu will sit in the $20 range, while house specialties of meats and fishes with vegetable sides will extend upwards of

$30.

Salads start with a Caesar at $17 and a selection of sides, including vegetables and French fries, will vary from $8 to $12.

Ryan Weber of Jean-Georges" Management, a restaurant group based in Manhattan, will be the general manager and a managing partner. He graduated from Roslyn High School with Aronoff.

Mark Spiegel, who ran Mark of Excellence Distinctive Catering out of Port Washington for 30 years, is coming out of retirement to be a partner in the restaurant, he said.

“I was definitely retired, definitely going to be sticking my toes in every single ocean,” Spiegel said. “Now I’m going to come back, and we’re going to start with the restaurant and see where it goes from there.”

He described Aronoff as the “new young blood” in the local food scene.

Aronoff had worked at The Meat House since age 14, and its closing motivated him to open his own store, he said.

He doesn’t mention the fact that he was only a teenager when he was developing his own business and facing hurdles in opening the shop. He grew up in Manhasset, and people knew him from The Meat House. He had a great following from the outset, he said.

“Every customer would come in just looking to meet me and shake my hand, and they were all just very proud to see a small business with someone young behind it,” he recalled.

Still, he has learned much more since then, he said.

He was working seven-day weeks and realized about five months in what he’d really taken on and that it was taking off, he said. He started working even harder.

Three years later, Center Cuts expanded into catering, visiting homes with chefs and servers.

Now, catering for cocktail parties is more common than barbecues, Aronoff said, and on summer weekends the company typically sends out five catering crews a day.

“He’s…a very charismatic guy, so that helps with customer service,” said Louis Monarchio, who used to work behind the counter with Aronoff at The Meat House.

“He wants everyone to be satisfied with the products, and he’s always trying to get the best quality meat.”

Years into his own business that has expanded far beyond a meat counter, Aronoff is still a constant presence at Center Cuts.

“He’s always there to greet you, always there to talk to you,” Sheinman said.

One time, when Sheinman called saying he would not be able to make it to the shop before it closed, Aronoff dropped the meat off at his home, he said.

“His track record serves as a foundation for what the future holds,” Sheinman said. “I mean," he’s been very successful with his butcher store," he’s extremely successful with the catering business. I think the success will follow.”

COMMUNITY NEWS

Student named Student wins county art award Coke finalist Sewanhaka High School senior JoelAnthoney Bossous has been named a regional finalist in the Coca-Cola Scholars Program.

Bossous is one of 251 students across the country who have progressed to the second stage of the selection process in the competition and will participate in a regional interview with a committee of scholar alumni and staff within the coming weeks. After the interviews are complete, 150 of the 251 regional finalists will become CocaCola Scholars and receive a $20,000 scholarship.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

Herricks High School senior Lindsay Wong has been selected as the winner of the 2019 Nassau County Art Supervisors Association Senior Art Scholarship Award. She will receive the award at a special ceremony at Farmingdale State College on March 10. The 15th annual All-County Student Art Exhibition will then commence in Roosevelt Hall from 12-4 p.m.

The Art Scholarship Award is given to a deserving senior who has consistently demonstrated exemplary talent and passion in two-dimensional visual art forms.

“One of the goals of the Art Supervisors Association is to encourage our young artists. Our mission is to honor and recognize one outstanding senior from each member district in Nassau County who will likely pursue further studies in the fine and visual arts,” said Mary Passero, the Herricks Public Schools Related Arts & Business Chairperson and Past President of the Art Supervisors Association.

Mrs. Passero is pleased to announce that numerous Herricks students ranging from grades K-12 have been selected by their art teachers to participate in this prestigious event.

Herricks High School: Briaanna Chiu, Jacqueline Yi, Gabriel Gallego, Aparna Verma, Samin Chowdhury, Navita Budhu, George Mashavejian and John Welsch Herricks Middle School: Ceri Kang, Sanvi Patel, Shristi Nigam, Tyler Ulman, Katrina Chen and Amelia Babula Center Street Elementary: Mia Donnatin, Jocelyn Mueller and Lia Beth Cherian

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Herricks High School senior Lindsay Wong has been selected as the winner of the 2019 Nassau County Art Supervisors Association Senior Art Scholarship Award.

Denton Avenue Elementary: Isabella Liao, Zafir Khan and Saina Bawa Searingtown Elementary: Elliot Shim, Jason Liu and Winsey Lin

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COMMUNITY & SCHOOL NEWS

Lunar New Year Math counts for G.N. schools school celebration

The Great Neck Public Schools Adult Learning Center held their third annual Lunar New Year celebration on Jan. 30. Students and staff shared traditional foods, enjoyed performances, and participated in fun games to celebrate the Year of the Pig. Pictured here are event coordinators Susan Kleinman, high school equivalency teacher, Sophia Han, a student, Errin Hatwood, director of adult education, Gabby Gao, a student, Fran Rosen, a high school equivalency teacher, and Joyce Jing, a student.

Birnbaum touts G.N. shuttle bus

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Legislator Ellen Birnbaum recently heralded the arrival of the Great Neck Buzz shuttle-share service.

Legislator Ellen W. Birnbaum (D – Great Neck) recently heralded the arrival of the Great Neck Buzz shuttle-share service – an innovative fusion of mass transit and ridesharing that aims to address the downtown parking crunch for Manhattan-bound commuters at the Great Neck LIRR station.

The Great Neck Buzz, a low-cost, subscription-based service launched by the Great Neck Park District in partnership with Nassau County and Transdev through the NICE Bus system, allows riders to purchase a pass and be assigned a pickup point within walking distance of their home. The

shuttle-share holds 14 passengers and has accessibility for mobility devices.

“The Great Neck Buzz stands to provide Great Neck residents a low-cost and flexible option for accessing mass transit in their community,” Birnbaum said. “I applaud everyone involved in this endeavor for their willingness to think outside the box in search of solutions that will benefit commuters and reduce our reliance on automobiles.”

For additional information about the service or to subscribe, visit https://www. greatneckbuzz.com.

North Middle School hosted the 2019 Long Island MATHCOUNTS competition on Feb. 2, a regional contest which featured 15 schools from Nassau and Suffolk counties, including both Great Neck middle schools.

The team from South Middle School finished in second place and qualified for the statelevel competition. Team members are Brayden Chien, Charles Huang, Luke Huang, Jonathan Kogan, Eric Pei, Tristan Wan, Lillian Wang, Ashley Wei, Erin Wong, and Richard Zhuang. The team coach is Diane Hodgson, mathematics teacher at South Middle.

The team from North Middle finished in seventh place.

Members of the North Middle team are Junghyun Choi, Skyler Damaghi, Ryan Fu, Joy Huang, Julia Huang, Ryan Liu, William Okin, Adrian Shiu, Shuyuan (Julie) Sun, and Katherine Sun. The team coach is Zachary Boyt, mathematics department head at North Middle.

Additionally, two South Middle students — eighth grader Tristan Wan and sixth grader Erin Wong — were among the top 12 of all participants, which

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Math teams from North Middle and South Middle at the MATHCOUNTS competition at North Middle School on Feb. 2. qualified them to participate in the fast-paced Countdown Round. Tristan Wan took firstplace in the Countdown Round, where students face off against one another to answer questions before their opponent.

Team members who will represent South Middle at the state-level competition at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on March 9 are Jonathan Kogan, Tristan Wan, Eric Pei, Richard

Zhuang, and alternate Lillian Wang.

The MATHCOUNTS competition focuses on problem solving and mathematical reasoning through collaboration, with points awarded for speed and accuracy. It is sponsored by the MATHCOUNTS Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides engaging programs to middle schools across the country.

Library seeks talent for musical Calling all seventh-grade and up teenage performers! Levels’ Spring 2019 musical, Pippin, wants you.

Auditions will be held Tuesday, Feb. 26 and Thursday, Feb. 28, both days between 6:30-9:30 p.m. at Levels, Great Neck Library, Main Building, 159 Bayview Avenue.

Levels, the cultural center for teenagers located at the Main Library, presents several theatrical productions a year, all traditionally directed, produced and performed by students seventh-grade through college-age.

In the Tony Award-winning musical Pippin, a mysterious troupe of players, acrobats and circus artists tell us the story of a young prince on a death-defying journey to find meaning in his existence. Will he choose a happy but simple life?

Or will he risk everything for a singular flash of glory?

Pippin features a well-loved score by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Wicked) that includes “Magic to Do” and “Corner of the Sky,” and sizzling choreography in the style of Bob Fosse (Chicago, Cabaret).

Auditioners should prepare at least 16 bars of a Broadway-style song and be ready to sing a cappella (without music). They should also be

ready to read from the script (sides will be provided at the audition) and to do a group dance/ movement audition. The show is currently scheduled to be performed on May 16, 17 and 18, 2019.

Levels is also seeking musicians to play in the pit orchestra. Please contact Levels if you’re a teenager seventh-grade and up who plays any of the following instruments: bass, cello, clarinet, drums, flute, guitar, horn, keyboard, oboe, percussion, trombone, trumpet, violin.

Please contact Levels at (516) 466-8055 ext.

216 for more information.

Rosary Altar Society fundraiser The OLV Rosary Altar Society will be holding fundraiser on Sunday, March 3, 2019. A Pancake Breakfast will be held in Memorial Hall following all Sunday morning masses. The “Phat Sunday” fundraiser will benefit the OLV Outreach Program.

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Elmont students receive honors PHOTOS COURTESY OF HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Herricks High School students Mia Carranza, Carrie Hsu, Aroob Jalil, Joanna Lau and Izzah Nazir all received Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Herricks writers win awards Elmont Memorial High School’s Future Business Leaders of America competed at the Spring District Meeting at Hofstra University on Jan. 28.

Students competed against 11 schools in a variety of different events. Four students from Elmont earned awards during the meeting.

First Place Rachel Desir – Personal Fi-

nance Akshay Ramhit – Entrepreneurship Munahil Sultana – Public Speaking II Second Place Rachel Desir – Advertising Fourth Place Akshay Ramhit – Marketing Fifth Place Akinwale Agesin – Introduction to Public Speaking

Herricks students head to semifinals Herricks High School’s Virtual Enterprise business, Infinity Bars, successfully participated in the Long Island Trade Show and Business Plan Competition on Jan. 9.

Ninety-six Long Island Virtual Enterprise teams were contenders at this event, held at LIU Post. Herricks High School’s group is among only 11 that will now advance to the Long Island Oral Business

Plan Competition semifinals on Feb. 26, after which the top five winners will move on to the National Business Plan Competition.

Infinity Bars is!a customizable granola bar company in which customers build their bars on the company’s website specifically for their dietary needs. The district wishes them the best of luck in their upcoming ventures.

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Herricks High School announced regional Gold Key, Silver Key and Honorable Mention honorees in the 2019 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for the Northeast Writing Region-atLarge.

Presented by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, this program provides opportunities for students to receive recognition, exhibition, publication and scholarships.

The Herricks students were up against 350,000 entries in 29 categories of art and writing from students across the country. Junior Carrie Hsu and senior Joanna Lau each received four Gold Key awards and will be considered for national level medals later this year. They also received Silver Key awards, as did junior Mia Carranza, while juniors Aroob Jalil and Izzah

Nazir earned Honorable Mentions.

“Congratulations! to each and every one of these students, and to all of the teachers who have worked with and inspired them over the years,” said Director of ELA, Reading and Library Services K-12 Michael Imondi.

“Our writers become this special because of the critical thinking that all of our teachers challenge them to do on a daily basis.”

Mr. Imondi extended a special acknowledgment to teacher Alan Semerdjian for cultivating these writers in the English Scholars Program.

The full list of awards is as follows: Mia Carranza: Silver Key for Flash Fiction “Gaia.”

Carrie Hsu: Gold Key for Personal Essay/Memoir “Black

Specks;” Gold Key for Personal Essay/Memoir “Mirrors;” Gold Key for Poetry “A Foot in the Door;” Gold Key for Flash Fiction “La Vie;” Silver Key for Poetry “Two Coats of Veneer” and Honorable Mention for Poetry “Finite.”

Aroob Jalil: Honorable Mention for Poetry “Lapis Lazuli.”

Joanna Lau: Gold Key for Personal Essay/Memoir “Edges;” Gold Key for Poetry “Fly, Asian Girl;” Gold Key for Poetry “Staircase of Everything Inside Me;” Gold Key for Personal Essay/Memoir “The Right to the Skies;” Honorable Mention for Poetry “Snow from a Raincloud in a Sunny Sky” and Honorable Mention for Personal Essay/ Memoir “Black Coffee.”

Izzah Nazir: Honorable Mention for Poetry “Unsent Letters.”

Students interview music greats H. Frank Carey High School students were given a unique opportunity to interview music legends at Long Island Music Hall of Fame Gala.

Club adviser and Long Island Music Hall of Fame Vice Chairman Tom Needham arranged for students Gabby Cavalerie, Morgan Hunt and Isabella Mutt to attend the gala as members of the press. They were given full access to the red carpet, as well as the press room. Throughout the evening, the students successfully interviewed artists.

Some of the students’ notable interviews included segments with Billy Joel, Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Taking Back Sunday, folk singer Melanie, alternative rocker Elliott Murphy, radio’s Cousin Brucie, Sha Na Na’s Jon “Bowzer” Bauman, comedian Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling and DJ Chuck Chillout.

After the ceremony, students edited their video in a news-like segment and posted it on the Long Island Music Hall of Fame’s website. !Some of the students’ interviews even found their way into other reporters’ work. Overall, the students did a tremendous job. ”I am very proud of how well the students handled themselves in a very competitive press en-

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H. Frank Carey High School student Gabby Cavalerie interviewed Taking Back Sunday, folk singer Melanie at the event. vironment,” Mr. Needham said. “They were able to secure interviews with some of the biggest names in music, like Billy Joel and Chuck D, and demonstrated their video skills, as well.”

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SCHOOL NEWS

Senior gets automotive honor Sewanhaka High School congratulated senior! Wilmar Alfaro Moran on winning the Bench Skills competition at the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association Long Island Regional Diagnostic Competition.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

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F.P. school donates to Ronald McDonald Floral Park Memorial High School participated in Week of Change! in collaboration with Ronald McDonald House of! Long Island in December.

This mission was to promote positivity, encouragement and overall! good vibes through various activities and events.

A! replica of! the building was used as a collection box in the Main Office to collect loose change! to help support the

January Students of the Month

organization in its annual Day of Change event. The school raised $300 to benefit Ronald McDonald House.

The Floral Park Memorial High School community! understands! the organization’s! commitment! to the community and recognizes the importance of the mission.

They look forward to working with Ronald McDonald House in the future.

F.P. athletes earn honors

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Floral Park Memorial High School (from left): Athletic Director Lawrence Doreson, student Timothy Cleere, Principal Maria Hecht and student Jack Nugent.

Floral Park Memorial High School athletes Timothy Cleere and Jack Nugent were honored at the Sewanhaka Central High School District’s January Board meeting. Timothy was designated All-County for boys soccer, while Jack was recognized for his All-County status in volleyball.

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Sewanhaka High School’s January Students of the Month are pictured (from left): Usman Sheikh, Justin Ng, Maria Meza, Ali Khanat, Nicholas Balletta, Brien Bernard, Krystal Caballes, Patrick Marcelin, Muslimat Sunmonu, Daniel Ferrara, Sebastian Horta, Jeffrie Casanova, Seth Stephenson, Alana Allison, Kira Sethi and Varshanie Sookwah.

Sewanhaka High School has named the Students of the Month for January 2019. The selected students have all excelled in their awarded subject. They each demonstrate academic and character excellence in their classes.

Art- Makayla Simpson Business- Saihah Hussain Career Education- Usman Sheikh English- Muslimat Sunmonu English (ENL)- Maria Meza

Family and Consumer Science- Ali Khanat Math (7)- Alana Allison, Jeffrie Casanova, Daniel Ferrara, Sebastian Horta, Kira Sethi, Varshanie Sookwah and Seth Stephenson Music- Ryan Savasta Physical Education/Health- Nicholas Balletta Science- Krystal Caballes and Brien Bernard Jr. Social Studies- Patrick Marcelin World Language- Justin Ng

Gemach helps dress to impress Continued from Page 3 When colleagues at the pantry asked if they could send clothes to relatives abroad, his international operation began. Clothes from the gamech are now shipped to six nations, including countries in Central America and the Caribbean but also Ukraine and Israel.

A collaboration with Glen Cove schools is his first effort to have another group host its own closet filled with his clothes to distribute.

“He puts everything he has – his heart, his soul, his money for that matter – into making it happen,” Teitelman said.

Krieger recalled one couple who was living in a homeless shelter in the Bronx that came to the gemach in need of professional attire and church outfits.

It took them two hours to get there, and they brought suitcases to fill, Krieger said.

“They were as happy as can be,” he said. “They left with enough outfits to wear to work every day of the week.”

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Singh talks relationship Tax receivers charge with Manganos, loans county with miscalculation

BY J E D H E N D R I X S ON

In cross-examination, defense attorney John Carman brought up anecdote after anecdote appearing to show a loving relationship between Linda and Singh, including an apparent inside joke that the two should ditch the former Nassau County Executive and run off together, according to Newsday.

Continued on Page 80

BY J E S S I C A PA R K S

Fingers continue to be pointed when it comes to whether eligible seniors’ taxes were properly calculated by Nassau County to include an abatement on their sewer and stormwater tax.

Three town tax receivers said last week that county officials omitted senior abatement information from assessment data amounting to overcharges of $300,000.

But Town of North Hempstead Tax Receiver Charles Berman,# a Democrat, said he met with the county treasurer last Thursday and now believes the tax warrant from the county is accurate.

Town of Hempstead Tax Receiver Donald Clavin and Town of Oyster Bay Tax Receiver James Stefanich, both Republicans, still hold firm that there is an inaccuracy despite comments from Nassau County Executive Laura Curran saying the allegations are false.

Efforts to reach Neither Clavin nor Berman were unavailing.

PHOTO BY JOE NIKIC “I am astonished and disgusted by the seemingly endless string of errors on the Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, as seen leaving the federal part of Nassau County’s Administration, courthouse in Central Islip. which are victimizing innocent taxpay-

Government witness Harendra Singh testified for the second week in the corruption retrial of his one time friends Edward and Linda Mangano on their personal relationship and the awarding of various loans and contracts, according to Newsday.

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SCHOOL NEWS

Tech boosts student equity at Sewanhaka In a pioneering effort in the State of New York, over 250 students from the Sewanhaka Central High School District were able to use an innovative app called the GeoGebra Graphing Calculator on their Apple iPads for completion of the Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II Regents exams.

This usage was the culmination of a yearlong project in partnership among the district, GeoGebra and Jamf Software, whose mobile device management system is used to control the district’s more than 9,500 Apple iPad devices. District Coordinator of Mathematics Robert Pontecorvo and District Coordinator of Classroom Instructional Technology and Student Achievement Brian Messinger have been leading the project and could not be prouder of this landmark accomplishment.

“Sewanhaka is always looking for ways to break down any barriers for our students and provide them with the best resources available for success,” Messinger said. “Having students use the free GeoGebra Graphing Calculator app on their iPads in class, at home and on high-stakes exams achieves these goals, while promoting innovation."This project adds tremendous value to our iPads, which we already provide to all students as part of our 1:1 initiative.”

The driving force behind this endeavor was equity for all of the district’s students. By providing an Apple iPad and the free GeoGebra app, district students now have access 24 hours a day, seven days a week to a

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H. Frank Carey High School students Hadi Attia (foreground) and Alejandro Aviles used the GeoGebra app on an iPad during classroom instruction. powerful graphing calculator tool which can be used for both classroom instruction and the completion of paper-based New York State Regents exams. GeoGebra programmers worked with the district so that the app adheres to all New York State Education Department standards for a graphing calculator, and the district received approval for its use.

In order to be used for the exam, student iPads

were locked into an exam mode which restricts all iPad capacities beyond functioning solely as a graphing calculator. This was made possible through Jamf’s mobile device management features, such as Single App Mode and additional restrictions to protect the integrity of the paper-based exam.

Of this project, Superintendent of Schools Ralph Ferrie said, “It’s a credit to Mr. Pontecorvo, Mr. Messinger, the district’s mathematics chairpersons and all the math teachers in each of the five high schools that this initiative was such a huge success for our students.

This initiative ensured the district’s mission of equitable access to the appropriate educational tools needed to ensure student success.”

In addition to helping ensure universal, free access to a graphing calculator on the Regents exam, the GeoGebra Graphing Calculator is also a tool that fosters active, student-centered, discovery-based learning in the classroom. For the past year, district math teachers have been working with Mr. Tim Brzezinski of Brzezinski Math to increase student engagement in math classes through the use of GeoGebra apps.

On Jan. 24 and 25, GeoGebra founder and team leader Markus Hohenwarter, GeoGebra lead iOS programmer Balazs Bencze, Jamf Evangelist Sam Weiss and Mr. Brzezinski were all on site to support the district during this initial use of the GeoGebra Graphing Calculator on New York State Regents exams.

Junior receives Model UN wins at Ivy meet art accolades

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New Hyde Park Memorial junior Cynthia Park is pictured with Principal Dr. Richard Faccio and teacher Melissa Argaman.

New Hyde Park Memorial High School’s talented junior Cynthia Park won an honorable mention award for her watercolor/ colored pencils piece, “On the Other Side,” in the 2019"Scholastic Art & Writing Contest,"Northeast Art Region-at-Large.

The New Hyde Park Memorial High School Model United Nations team recently competed at the Ivy League Model UN conference"held in Philadelphia.

The conference brought together more than 3,000 students from all over the country to debate some of the globe’s most pressing issues. Led by head delegate Amanda Saji, the New Hyde Park team tackled some of the most important challenges facing humankind.

Congratulations to all the delegates, and special congratulations to the following delegates who were recognized for excellence in their committees:"Nicolette Iliadis and Dylan Mehta, who received the Honorable Delegate award in the committee on United Nations Commission of Narcotic Drugs as the country of Afghanistan;" Dario Gimenez, who received the Honorable Delegate award in the Peace of Westphalia Conference"as Fabio Chigi; and"Aman-

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da Saji,"who received the Best Delegate award in the AdHoc committee as Karen Ross.

The New Hyde Park Model United Nations team is led by Mr. Jonathan Novak and Ms. Melanie Deegan. The team has had great success over the years debating at various conferences

at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Rutgers and Yale and the national championships held in New York City. Their next competition is the Sewanhaka Intra-District Model UN Conference held at Elmont Memorial High School on March 30.

Robotics team qualifies for championship Sewanhaka High School’s First Lego League team members qualified for the Long Island championship on March 3 at Longwood High School.

The school congratulated Christopher Orlando,

team captain, and Rania Khan, who was the project lead on the topic of growing plants for food in space. Rania’s scale model was built from Legos and littleBits. Kudos go out also to Krystal Caballes, building team" lead,

and Sean Andrade, Farhaan Kahn, Shahid Khan, Maya Singh, Aaron Varughese and Tristan Yarna. The team’s coaches are teachers Dan Labbato and Diane Walters.

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Tax deadline extended for federal workers North Hempstead acts to aid employees impacted by government shutdown

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N

PHOTO BY JANELLE CLAUSEN

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, seen here at the State of the Town address, voted with the Town Council to extend the deadline for furloughed federal workers to pay their taxes.

The Town of North Hempstead convened a special meeting to extend the general tax payment deadline for federal workers impacted by the partial federal government shutdown on Friday morning, following the passage of a state law allowing municipalities to do so.

During the shutdown, which took place between Dec. 22 and Jan. 25 and impacted about 800,000 federal workers nationwide, the New York State Legislature introduced a bill amending property tax laws to allow furloughed federal employees and those that went unpaid a 90-day extension to pay their taxes.

After winding through the state Assembly and Senate, the bill was signed into law on Feb. 1. A week later, North Hempstead’s town council passed its own resolution.

“We hope that this 90 day extension will help residents in our community who are federal workers and were impacted by the government shutdown,” North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said. “This extension will help provide them with some relief.”

The last day to pay taxes in North Hempstead is Feb. 11. By passing the law, however, furloughed federal employees and those who went without pay have until March 13 to apply for an extension. Their tax payment would then be due by April 25.

Applicants must show evidence of their employment as a furloughed federal employee by providing the Receiver of Taxes an original letter from their employer stating that they were furloughed during the partial government shutdown.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Northwell, Woman’s Day team up for heart health Katz Institute for Women’s Health has partnered with Woman’s Day magazine for their sixth Annual Live Longer and Stronger Challenge. The challenge followed five women from across the country over the course of eight months to make over their eating and exercise habits. With guidance from medical experts from Northwell Health, the largest health-care provider in New York and Woman’s Day contributor Joy Bauer, these five women have turned their health around losing nearly 150 pounds collectively and lowering their blood pressure and cholesterol.!

Dr. Stacey Rosen, cardiologist and vice president of women’s health at the Katz Institute for Women’s Health; Dr.! Jennifer Mieres,! cardiologist, senior vice president of Northwell’s Center for Equity of Care and Dr.!Gerin Stevens, medical director of cardiac transplantation at the Sandra Bass Heart Hospital coached the women who took part in the Challenge. !“Helping women start on a journey to

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Dr. Stacey Rosen, cardiologist and vice president of women’s health at the Katz Institute for Women’s Health at Northwell Health.

better heart health by lowering their cholesterol, making smarter food choices and taking other steps to prevent heart disease is in line with the work we do every day at the Katz Institute for Women,” said Rosen.

“My colleagues and I are committed to providing the best care, advice and support to the women taking part in the Live Longer and Stronger Challenge. We’re excited to be a part of this initiative with Woman’s Day.” The women will share their stories and results of the Challenge in the March issue of Woman’s Day, on newsstands Feb. 12. Mieres and Rosen will also share heart healthy tips within the feature.

Northwell Health is also a sponsor of Woman’s Day’s 16th annual Red Dress Awards, which recognizes advocates and organizations helping American women take charge of their heart health. The awards ceremony will be attended by the participants taking part in the sixth annual Woman’s Day Live Longer and Stronger Challenge who will be celebrated on stage during the event.

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Artists’ salvage turned exhibit

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he Huntington Arts Council will present the juried exhibition, Objects Found, from Feb. 15 to March 23, with an opening reception planned for Feb. 15, 6 to 8 p.m., at the Main Street Gallery located at 213 Main St. in Huntington. The reception is a free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.!

The Arts Council invited artists to submit work that incorporated salvaged materials. During the creative process, artists were asked to consider still lifes, Joseph Cornell’s ephemera-filled boxes, Tim Noble’s and Sue Webster’s discarded item assemblages, Jim Golden’s object photography, and Jane Perkins’ 3D-

collage portraits, among other works. The artists were encouraged to use items that may have been found or collected — from twigs and antiques, to toys and textiles — to complete their work.

The following artists were selected to participate in the exhibit:! Beth Atkinson, Lisa Cangemi, Kathleen Celestin-Parks, Janet Costello, Heather Gottfried, Naomi Diracles, Terry Finch, Jim Finlayson, Anindita Ghosh, Bill Grabowski, Jeffrey Grinspan, Lenore Hanson, Beth Heit, Julianne Jimenez, Julianna Kirk, Liz Kolligs, Stephen Martin, Martha McAleer, Glenn McNab,

Kristen Memoli, John Micheals, Gabriella Grama, Gail Neuman, Ellen Paul, Jonathan Pearlman, Howie Pohl, Denis Ponsot, Meryl Shapiro, Sally Shore, Lauren Singer, Scott Schneider and Nancy Yoshii.

“Selecting for this show was challenging because of all the high-quality artwork,” said juror Tara Leale Porter of Red Lotus Fused Glass Art. “The artwork varies from minimalist to maximalist, with their narrative composed of everyday materials manifested in sublime ways. These artworks are like pieces of jazz that found their form bebopping down the rabbit hole.”!

The show has been described as “a wonderful compilation of artistic expression through a vast variety of objects and

creative techniques” by Marc Courtade, executive director of the Huntington Arts Council. “Submissions include everything from sculpture to photographs, each telling a unique story reflected through the combined objects in the work. I certainly welcome everyone to stop by the reception or our gallery to see this exhibit,” he said.

In her own artwork, Leale Porter creates a narrative through a dialogue of materials. She interweaves her fused glass with found objects that have a time-worn patina to construct stories of destruction and regeneration. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute and a Master of Arts in Art Therapy from Hofstra University.

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Gold Coast International Film Festival

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 7:30 PM

WORKING WOMAN BOW TIE SQUIRE CINEMAS 115 MIDDLE NECK ROAD, GREAT NECK

1 Orna, (Liron Ben Shlush) is the mother of three young children with a husband struggling to start his own restaurant. To help support her family Orna returns to the workplace, landing a job with a former army superior, Benny (Menashe Noy) who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna embraces her new position and tries to balance its demands with her home life, she begins to experience escalating sexual harassment from her boss. Her rapid rise through the ranks and her increasing financial success seem to parallel a pattern of predatory behavior which ultimately brings her career and marital relationship to the brink. This timely and devastating story is expertly told by long time feminist filmmaker Michal Aviad.

Visit goldcoastfilmfestival.org or call 516-829-2570 for tickets.

Tickets $15/$10 for members when purchased in advance, $20 at the door.

RAIN — A Tribute to the Beatles: Abbey Road

Friday, Feb. 22 at 8 p.m.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the epic album Abbey Road, RAIN will bring these greatest hits to life — from “Come Together” and “Something,” to “Here Comes the Sun” and “Because” — in addition to performing early Beatles’ favorites.

Where: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville Info & Tickets: 516-299-3100 • tillescenter.org

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Us and Floyd Presents: A Spectacular Tribute to the Music of Pink Floyd

Friday, Feb. 22 at 8 p.m.

This extravagant experience brings together the best elements of a real Pink Floyd concert — a full, nine-piece band, a state-of-the-art light show, Pink Floyd inspired video on the big screen, and their classic songs, including “Comfortably Numb,” “Wish You Were Here,” “Another Brick in the Wall” and many others.

Where: The Space at Westbury, 250 Post Ave., Westbury Info & Tickets: 516-283-5566 • thespaceatwestbury.com

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Marc Anthony Legacy Tour

Saturday, Feb. 23 at 9 p.m.

Two-time Grammy and five-time Latin Grammy winner Marc Anthony continues to celebrate his long career with live performances throughout the country. His most recent album, 2013’s 3.0, was certified four-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

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Where: NYCB Live, Home of Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale Info & Tickets: 516-231-4848 or 800-745-3000 • nycblive.com

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Wild Kingdom: The Concert iSchool Chamber Symphony

Sunday, Feb. 24 at 3 p.m.

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New World Stages 340 W. 50th St.

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From the wildly popular “Carnival of the Animals” by Saint-Saens to the irresistible “Dumbo’s Lullaby” of Debussy, animals appear in many classics of music. Join the iSchool Chamber Symphony and its professional soloists for a concert that coincides with the Wild Kingdom art exhibit currently on display.

Where: Nassau County Museum of Art, One Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor Info & Tickets: 516-484-9337 • nassaumuseum.org

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2019 Academy Awards Night Fundraiser

Sunday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m.

See the Academy Awards show on the big screen in the Sky Room Cafe while you enjoy an open wine bar, a Taste of Long Island dinner, dessert from Herrell’s Ice Cream, raffles and more.

Where: Cinema Arts Centre 423 Park Ave., Huntington Info & Tickets: 631-423-7611 cinemaartscentre.org

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Agatha Christie’s ‘The Hollow’

Tuesday, Feb. 26 through Sunday, March 3 (check venue website for daily show times)

An unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell, arguably Christie’s finest comic grande dame. As the list of romantic associations grows, so does the list of potential suspects... and nearly everyone has a motive.

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Thursday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m.

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Where: NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury Info & Tickets: 516-247-5211 or thetheatreatwestbury.com

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Sunday, Feb. 24, 11:30 a.m.

Preschool and kindergarten children will enjoy this spellbinding story about the magic of snow and the power of imagination that is illustrated with a crisp, wintry setting.

Where: The Dolphin Bookshop 299 Main Street, Port Washington Info: 516-767-2650 or thedolphinbookshop.com

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Where: The Paramount 370 New York Ave. Huntington

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15th Annual Town of North Hempstead Polar Plunge Saturday, March 2, 2019 North Hempstead Beach Park—Pt. Washington

Check-in 10- 11:30am PLUNGE at NOON

Last year over 400 plungers braved the chilly water while hundreds of spectators watched on. Help raise money for the athletes of Special Olympics New York by asking your friends, family, co-workers, etc. to support you in taking the PLUNGE! Every Plunger that raises $150 receives an official Plunge sweatshirt….. raise more money and receive more great prizes! Whether you plunge or support a Plunger, come join us on March 2nd!

How do I get started?

Log onto www.polarplungeNY.org/northhempstead where you can start a team, join a team or join as an individual. Set up your Personal Plunge Page and you are on your way to “Freezin’ for a Reason!”

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Special Olympics New York has 66,835 athletes & unified partners training and competing year-round in 22 Olympics-style sports. Our athletes and their families or caregivers are NEVER CHARGED to participate!

Sign up today!! www.polarplungeNY.org/northhempstead @NHPolarPlunge

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Agatha Christie’s ‘The Hollow’ at Adelphi Adelphi University’s Department of Theatre will present Agatha Christie’s murder mystery, “The Hollow,” on Tuesday, Feb. 26, through Sunday, March 3, featuring its own talented students.

Match your wits against the most

murderous mind in fiction when Christie, the “Queen of Crime,” brings passionate love, lost love and deadly love in this exciting production.

An innocently planned weekend (or was it?) flashes into passion and murder

as the guests — some expected and some not — collide at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and the eccentric Lucy Angkatell.

Follow the action to determine who has the motive and chance to kill.

Is it the talented but tortured sculp-

tress, the jilted and vicious movie star, the disregarded lover, the desperate young girl, the foolish wife, the hostess who knows more than she lets on, or the very protective butler? When the inspector and his loyal sergeant arrive, the body of a brilliant doctor awaits them, secret motives are laid bare and justice is restored.

Christie’s “The Hollow” will be staged at Adelphi PAC’s Olmsted Theatre on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 6:30 p.m., with a postshow discussion; Thursday, Feb. 28 and Friday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m.; two shows on Saturday, March 2 at 2 and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, March 3 at 2 p.m. The 2 p.m. performance on Saturday will be opencaptioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing patrons.

Tickets are $25, with discounts available to seniors, students, staff, and alumni. Information is available at the Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at 516-877-4000 or boxofice@adephi.edu.

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

Adelphi’s PAC is one of Long Island’s premier cultural arts venues for entertainment of all kinds. See more about other upcoming Adelphi PAC offerings at pac.adelphi.edu.

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Hosted by Blank Slate Media and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock The county executive will answer topical questions posed first by award-winning journalist and Blank Slate Media publisher Steven Blank and then in a question-and-answer period with members of the audience.

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New Orleans-style music in Port Celebrating over 40 years since their founding in 1977, New Orleans-based Dirty Dozen Brass Band has taken the traditional foundation of brass band music and incorporated it into a blend of genres, including bebop, jazz, funk and R&B soul.

This unique sound, described by the band as a “musical gumbo,” has allowed the Dirty Dozen to tour across five continents and more than 30 countries, record 12 studio albums and collaborate with a range of artists from Modest Mouse to Norah Jones.

Now, 40 years later, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a world-famous music machine whose name is synonymous with genre-bending romps and high-octane performances. They are set to join! the Mardi Gras Indian band, Cha Wa, at a per-

formance at Landmark on Main Street on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m.

Cha Wa radiates the fiery energy of the best features of New Orleans’ street culture while sharing a more serious,

social message in their music.

Over the years, their songs have tackled issues from the ’50s-era Jim Crow vagrancy law to the development of Mardi Gras Indian culture.

“We dress up in the Indian

suits to pay homage to the Native American Indians, because around the time of slavery, they were the first ones to take us in,” says singer J’Wan Boudreaux. “Everything on our suits is handmade — the beads,

the patterns, we sew together pieces of fabric and make the panels, we make the boots — everything.”

Not that you need a firm understanding of Indian or brass band culture to feel the danceready vibrations of Cha Wa’s new music. “It’s dance music so I think people are attracted to it. Even if people have no idea what the history is, it’s automatically infectious,” they explain.

“J’wan’s the next generation.

He’s keeping this flame lit.”

Tickets to see the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and special guest Cha Wa are available through Landmark’s box office, 516-7676444 or www.landmarkonmainstreet.org.

Landmark on Main Street is located at 232 Main St. in Port Washington.

Switchfoot shares surf life, film, songs Together for more than 20 years, the band Switchfoot has achieved a level of success that brothers Jon and Tim Foreman and their high-school friend Chad Butler never anticipated when they first formed in San Diego in 1996.

The Grammy Award-winning rock band recently released their 11th full-length album, Native Tongue, which debuted in the top 10 on multiple Billboard, Amazon and iTunes charts, and embarked on a tour to share their message of love and hope with

their fans.

“These are polarizing times where the loudest voice is often the voice of anger or fear,” says band co-founder Jon Foreman.

“This album is an attempt to sing that hope into life. To bring a group of diverse songs under one common banner. Hatred is not your native language. Love is your Native Tongue.”

The SoCal natives have sold millions of records, including their 2003 double-platinum breakthrough, The Beautiful Letdown,

and 2009’s Grammy Award-winning Hello Hurricane.

With a string of hit singles, such as “Meant to Live,” “Dare You to Move,” “Mess of Me,” “The Sound (John M. Perkins’ Blues),” “Dark Horses,” and “Afterlife,” Switchfoot has performed sold-out world tours, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to aid homeless kids in their community through their Bro-Am Foundation, and earned themselves a global fan base devoted to their emotionally intelligent and

uplifting brand of alternative rock.

Switchfoot traces its roots to the beaches of San Diego when the Foremans and Butler connected as surfers (Jerome Fontamillas joined in September 2000 and Drew Shirley in 2005). Though they competed in national surf championships on weekends, their real bond came from a common love of music. They decided to form a band, chose the name Switchfoot (a surfing term), put themselves through months of sweaty rehearsals in their garage, and then hit the road.

After just 20 gigs, Switchfoot released three albums, The Legend of Chin (1997), New Way To Be Human (1999), and the gold-certified Learning to Breathe (2000), followed by their fourth album, The Beautiful Letdown, which has sold 2.6 million copies, 2005’s Nothing Is Sound, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard album chart, and 2006’s Oh! Gravity, which climbed to No. 1 on the iTunes Album chart.

Itching for creative freedom, Switchfoot financed the building of its own studio where they recorded their seventh album, the hard-hitting Hello Hurricane, and its groove-oriented follow-up, Vice Verses.!

Switchfoot premiered Fading West on opening night of the 2013 Summer XGames. The band has been very active in the action sports world, having performed at numerous NFL and MLB post-game events, as well as at the U.S. Open of Surfing in 2011.

The band’s current Native Tongue tour will bring them to The Paramount on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 7:15 p.m.

To witness!Switchfoot’s!growing wave in the music world and catch their latest show, go to www.paramountny.com for tickets.

The Paramount is located at 370 New York Ave. in Huntington.

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Keeping fit in the winter months Stretching, body weight exercises key to staying in shape while cold intensifies

BY LY N D A SCHOETTL The road to fitness knows no season, and every day holds an opportunity to build strength, improve balance and maintain flexibility. Thirty minutes of exercise three times a week can help you maintain or build fitness and improve circulation, which will help you stay warm.

At a minimum, get up and move around every 30 minutes or so.

Joints are less flexible, muscles lose strength and visual acuity and reaction time decrease with age. Combat decline with strength training and moderate cardio activity, such as walking or stair climbing. A pair of 2-3 lb. weights, resistance bands or holding a can in each hand adds resistance.

Set aside a regular time each day to exercise. Wear comfortable clothing and supportive shoes that don’t slide.

Standing/sitting exercises Use a chair or wall for support during standing exercises

for balance. Repeat each exercise 10 times, switching legs as applicable.

Bicep curls— builds arm strength In a seated or standing position, keep arms by your side.

Alternate curling arms up to shoulder. Slowly return to starting position.

Chair arm presses— works triceps muscles While sitting in a sturdy chair, place hands on the arms on the chair and press up, use arms to lift your body to hover over the seat and return to seat. !

Chair stands— Strengthens thighs and core.

Helps balance.

Place a sturdy chair against a wall. Sit, cross arms across your chest, rise to a standing position. Try not to use the chair for support. Lower down into the chair. Keep abdominals tight as you raise and lower your body. This exercise is most effective when you rise up quickly

and lower down slowly.

Wall push-ups– Works chest muscles, arms, back Stand just over one arm’s length away from the wall with feet hip width apart. Place hands flat on the wall at shoulder height and a bit wider than shoulder width. Keeping back straight, make a slow, controlled movement in four counts towards the wall, bending elbows out. Push back to standing up straight in four counts.

Knee lifts—Strengthens quadriceps, hamstrings, supports knees, helps balance Stand alongside a sturdy chair that is supported by wall (seat facing in). Hold back of chair. Lift knee to hip height, straighten leg out in front slowly. Bend knee, lower to floor.

This exercise can be done while sitting.

Shoulder stretch Stand facing a wall at a distance of one foot. Crawl fin-

gers forward up the wall to feel a nice stretch while keeping shoulders down and back. Hold.

Repeat.

Hamstring curls– Works hamstring, gluteal muscles Holding onto a sturdy chair braced by the wall for balance, stand straight with legs shoulder width apart. Stand on one leg and curl the heel of the nonsupporting leg up towards your back, release slowly.

Lateral legs lifts– Works outer thighs, gluteal muscles Using a chair for support; lift leg out to the side as high as is comfortable in a slow controlled movement, then slowly lower leg to return to both feet on the ground.

Calf raises—strengthens and stretches calves Using a chair for support, lift up on heel to tiptoe, then lower down. Next, lift up toes to stand on heels, and then lower toes.

Balance Builders One leg stand Standing close to a wall or chair, stand on one leg as long as possible. Repeat as often as you can comfortably.

Wall walk Walk heel to toe along the length of the wall. Reverse direction.

Safety Tips Start slowly. Warm up and cool down by stretching by moving around a bit.

Use a chair or wall for support.

Drink water before, during and after exercise.

Lynda Schoettl, a certified fitness instructor at Jefferson’s Ferry Life Plan Community, is certified in Senior Nutrition and Personal Training, and is a Fall Proof Balance and Mobility Specialist and a Functional Aging Specialist. www.jeffersonsferry. org.

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WELCOME TO THE UN SEMINAR Are you planning to attend a seminar about trusts, wills and Medicaid planning to get answers to your questions about whether or not you need to have a trust or how to protect your home from Medicaid?

Let us save you some time.

There’s no need for you to travel to the seminar, sit through the sales pitch and then make an appointment to meet an attorney and use a discount coupon to get half the answers.

HERE ARE THE ANSWERS ONE Unless your estate is worth more than $11.4 million per person – that’s $22.8 million for a couple – your heirs will not pay federal estate taxes. New York State’s estate tax exemption is $5.74 million per person.

Estate taxes are not a reason for a trust.

TWO Federal and New York State law does not allow Living Trusts to be used to protect you or your spouse from the nursing home costs. Only a trust created by a probated will can protect a surviving spouse. Medicaid planning and Living Trusts are incompatible.

Trying to use a Living Trust for Medicaid Protection will only cost you MORE. THREE If you own your house jointly with your spouse, it has special creditor protection and is an exempt asset for Medicaid eligibility purposes.

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The estate plan can be further customized to allow a child to pay off her siblings using private installment notes with a modest rate of interest.! This flexible structure protects those who will likely not qualify for a conventional mortgage.

Thought must also be given to long term care needs. Absent Long Term Care insurance, Medicare and a supplement will only cover up to 100 days of rehabilitation following hospitalization.

After this, a nursing home can place a lien on real property in the parents’ names.

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Another great benefit of the house being owned by the trust is that the family will avoid a lengthy probate process.! It is now very easy to avoid probate on our liquid assets by naming beneficiaries.! The trust is the best way to ensure that the family isn’t forced through probate because of the house.

The bottom line is that a major life change, such as children moving back home, should cause us to revisit our old estate planning.! A fresh and creative approach can ensure maximum security and resultant happiness for the whole family.

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The exact cause of glaucoma is not known. For some reason, the passages that normally allow fluid within your eye become clogged or blocked. Fluid within your eye builds up and increases pressure on the optic nerve. The nerve fibers and blood vessels in the optic nerve are easily damaged by this pressure, resulting in vision loss. An injury, infection or tumor in or around the eye can also cause the pressure to rise. People who have glaucoma with normal eye pressure likely have poor blood flow to the optic nerve.

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A first wedding anniversary is a special one. Some couples celebrate their first anniversaries by enjoying a piece of wedding cake that has been properly preserved in the freezer. Couples may also dance to their wedding songs or enjoy a nice dinner at a favorite restaurant. The first anniversary also is a time to pull out the wedding video or photo album and reminisce about the wedding day.

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Find out if the reception site, which may be a catering hall or restaurant, serves dinner or brunch. Make a reservation and enjoy celebrating in the spot where the memories all began. · Take a second honeymoon. Honor wedding memories by booking a second honeymoon at a special location. · Throw a party. Use your anniversary as an excuse to have friends or family over for a party. Be sure to include your wedding song on the music playlist. · Create a romantic evening. Rekindle the romance by pulling out all the stops, complete with a nice homecooked meal, candles and mood music.

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Host a successful event with the help of a catering hall Many party hosts prefer to leave much of the hosting work to the professionals, feeling it reduces the stress associated with hosting while ensuring hosts they will have the time to mingle with guests and enjoy the festivities.

Working with a reputable and reliable caterer is the first step toward ensuring a party will be successful and enjoyable.

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· Think about the size of the venue. Catering halls can cater to parties of various sizes. When choosing a venue for the party, hosts should keep the comfort of their guests in mind. Guests should be able to move around and not feel as though they are sitting on top of one another at the tables. Halls can be too big as well. Rooms that are

too large for the guest list can feel uncomfortable and make guests feel isolated. · Develop a budget. Budget should factor into hosts’ decisions regarding a catering hall. Speak with the catering manager prior to booking and be sure that there is a package that will fit into your budget.

When examining catering packages, hosts can discuss if certain substitutions or amendments can be made to packages to meet their needs and the needs of their guests. · Consider the banquet hall location. Proximity to public transportation, highways and hotels is an important consideration. Guests should be able to get to and from the venue with ease. Try to find a catering hall that is not too far from home. This way you can communicate with the banquet manager and be able to pop in to drop off centerpieces and favors easily

or handle any other lastminute issues that pop up. · Explore the amenities.

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Vitamin D Both men and women age 50 and up have a reduced ability to produce vitamin D through exposure to the sun.

Extra vitamin D will be needed from foods and supplements. Everyone over the age of 50 should take a daily vitamin D supplement of 400 IU (10 µg), according to Canada’s Food Guide. Without adequate vitamin D, bone strength and health can deteriorate because vitamin D promotes calcium absorption. Vitamin D also has other roles, including helping neuromuscular and immune function and reducing inflammation.

According to Christine Gerbstadt, MD, RD, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, as they age, men and women need more protein in their diets to maintain their muscle mass. The amount of protein needed at a younger age no longer may be adequate. Look for lean sources of protein from fish and poultry. Beans are also a low-fat source of protein that can help fulfill daily protein requirements.

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over juices. Whole-grain breads and cereals also are good sources of fiber.

Dry beans and lentils can add a fiber boost. Always increase fiber slowly to determine your tolerance.

Fewer calories The National Institute on Aging says women over the age of 50 need between 1,600 and 2,000 calories, depending on how physically active they are. Men need between 2,000 and 2,400 calories per day. With each passing year there is a decrease in the energy required to maintain body weight, so caloric intake should be adjusted accordingly.

More water As a person ages, his or her body may not signal it is thirsty as well as it once did, so it’s possible that you may not recognize when you are thirsty or dehydrated. The Mayo Clinic recommends around nine to 10 cups of beverages per day to remain hydrated.

Eating healthy and changing one’s diet is important as a person ages, as dietary needs at age 50 may be quite different from what they were at age 30.

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enior living communities often present an affordable and comfortable option for adults over the age of 55. Filled with like-minded and similarly aged residents, these communities can be the right fit for individuals no longer interested in or capable of taking care of a larger home. Senior communities are located all across the country. Finding one that meets your needs takes only a little research.

Although they are often moderately priced and offer a variety of amenities, senior living communities sometimes suffer from a bad reputation. But such communities are not the “old age homes” that some people purport them to be. Rather, they’re entire living neighborhoods that cater to the needs of an active resident base. These communities can range from independent living private homes or condos to managed care facilities. Residents may be able to enjoy organized outings, recreation, shopping, and socialization without having to venture far from property grounds.

Some communities offer food services or an on-site restaurant.

Fifty-five and older communities offer conveniences that many find irresistible.

They’re frequently located close to shopping, dining and healthcare providers.

Taxes, insurance, utilities, and maintenance expenses may be covered in one fee. Clubhouses, golf courses, lakes, card rooms, and many other offerings are designed to appeal to residents of many ages.

Now that baby boomers have reached the age where retirement communities are a consideration, there has been an influx of interest. Those considering a move to one of these communities should research some information before purchasing a unit.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, regular physical activity is one of the most important things older adults can do to promote their long-term health.

The CDC recommends that men and women age 65 or older who are generally fit and have no limiting health conditions need at least two hours and 30 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity, such as brisk walking, each week. In addition, such people should perform strength-training activities that work all major muscle groups at least two days per week.

While many fit older men and women with no preexisting health conditions

are capable of these activities, those able to push themselves a little further can opt for 75 minutes per week of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity, such as jogging or running, combined with the same strength-training regimen. A combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity aerobic activity coupled with strength training may also provide adequate physical activity for aging men and women.

Before beginning a new exercise regimen, men and women should consult with their physicians to discuss any limitations they may have and how to manage those risks while still being physically active.

• Determine the fees associated with a community. Can Medicaid or longterm care insurance pay for all or a portion of the fees? Which types of services does the monthly fee cover?

• Who is eligible to live in the community? Some restrict all residents to a particular age, while others do not.

Rules may be in effect that include an age cut-off limit.

• Investigate the types of residents and who would be your immediate neighbors. What percentage of people live in the community all year long, and how many are part-time residents?

• Look into the particular home owner’s association rules. Bylaws may indicate that the property must be kept in a certain manner. You may not be able to paint exterior items a certain color, nor put up fencing or set up outdoor patio furniture. Get the details before you sign anything.

• Is this the type of community where you can age in place? Meaning, are there separate accommodations if you eventually need assisted living care?

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Best of Broadway returns to Adelphi Talented performing arts students from Adelphi University will delight their audiences with rousing renditions of numbers from the footlights of Broadway’s stages at Adelphi’s Performing Arts Center this month.

This year’s show, “You Think You’ve Got It Bad? — The Doctor Is In,” tackles musical moments

exploring the human condition.

Meant to inspire a wide breadth of emotions, the show may cause laughter, tears, or spontaneous singing.

The show, under the direction of Duane McDevitt and music director Aaron Gandy, will feature selections from “Avenue Q,” “You’re A Good Man,

Charlie Brown,” “Kinky Boots,” “La Cages aux Folles,” “Kiss Me, Kate,” “The Addams Family,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Spamalot,” “Dear Evan Hansen,” “Oklahoma!,” “Camelot,” “Spring Awakening,” “Next To Normal” and more.

Best of Broadway will be performed on Saturday, Feb. 23

at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 24 at 4 p.m. on the Westermann Stage in Adelphi’s PAC Concert Hall.

The Poole Family Broadway Series at the Adelphi PAC is generously sponsored by Mary Jane and Thomas Poole.

Tickets are $25, with discounts available to seniors, students, staff, and alumni.

Information is available at the Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at 516-877-4000 or boxofice@adephi.edu. Regular office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. The box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances. Ticket sales and additional information are available online.

Winter recess film screenings for kids During midwinter recess from school, young movie fans can enjoy two special screenings hosted by the Museum of the Moving Image.

To coincide with Black History Month, “Sweet Blackberry Presents,” created by actress Karyn Parsons (“Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”), features littleknown, inspiring stories of African-American achievement,

animated for children. The program includes three short films that bring the stories of Henry ‘Box’ Brown, Janet Collins and Bessie Coleman to life.

Brown was a 19th-century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom through the Underground Railroad and went on to become a noted abolitionist.

Collins# was among the pioneers of black ballet dancing

and one of the few classically trained black dancers of her generation.# Coleman was an American civil aviator, the first woman of African-American and Native-American descent to hold a pilot license.# The screenings of “Sweet Blackberry Presents” will take place every day from Saturday, Feb. 16 through Sunday, Feb. 24 at 12 p.m.

The film “Paddington 2” will be shown at 2 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 18 through Friday, Feb. 22 and on Sunday, Feb. 24. As fans of the first film and classic book series by Michael Bond know, the beloved Paddington faces the world with kindness — and always with a side of marmalade.

Every bit as charming and funny as the original “Paddington” film, the sequel finds the young bear now living comfortably with the Brown family in London and off to a new adventure.

Paddington seeks a special birthday present for his beloved Aunt Lucy. A visit to Mr. Gruber’s (Jim Broadbent) antique shop leads to the discovery of a beautiful and mysterious pop-up book featuring detailed scenes of London — the perfect gift.

Paddington just has to earn enough money to buy it

and to keep it out of the hands of a master thief, played with delicious gusto by Hugh Grant.

Featuring a top-notch cast, magical, animated sequences in which the book comes to life, and pure slapstick hilarity, “Paddington 2” is a joyful experience.# Variety has called the film “another near-pawfect family entertainment, honoring the cozy, can-do spirit of Bond’s stories while bringing them smoothly into a bustling, diverse 21st-century London.”

Ticket purchases to the above screenings include same-day museum admission, making a visit to the museum a fun and educational family outing.

The Museum of the Moving Image is located at#36-01 35th Ave. in Astoria. For more information, call 718-7776800 or go to www.movingimage.us.

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Local students making college news Hofstra University The following students made the fall 2018 Provost’s List, which recognizes students who have earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

Sabreen Bhuiya and! Bhakti Patel of Albertson;! Caitlin Egan and Erick Pacher of Williston Park;! Lauren Jenkins,! Hugo Renzzo Olcese and! John Ryan of Mineola;! Shorena Ginturi and Jillian Weinberg of Roslyn; Saman Suleman of Old Westbury;! Samantha Hoffman of Sands Point;! Katharine Tomasino of Port Washington;! Adrian Chen,! Seth Nabatkhorian and! Sally Shamouilian of Great Neck; and! Alison Forte,! Rena Fukuda,! Aashish John,! Husain Poonawala,! Michael Valentino,! Michael Varrone,! Hailey Weihs and!Jenna Weihs of New Hyde Park.

The following students named to the fall 2018 Dean’s List for their outstanding academic achievement:! Adam Hussain,! James Yioupis,! Adam Castar and!Meghan Checkovich of Port Washington.

Britany D’Introno,!Allison Erlich,!Ariana Farajollah,! Jennie Golub,! Brandon Hui,!Eric Khayyam,!Ella Rastegar,!Nicholas Belitsis and! Michelle Carmili of Great Neck.

Pavninder Deol,! Kameron Farhadi,! Katherine George,! Kristen John,! Anand Kotha,! Eleni Kothesakis,!Grace Macedo,!Febah Mathew,!Dylan Mccaffrey,! Joseph Murphy,! Bryan Nankoo,!Jack Nuttall,!Michael Ringel,!Patrick Robertson,!Christina Saji,!Diya Shroff,!Harjot Singh,! Amanda Tamara,! Shanon Thomas,! Frank Tricouros,! Meng-Chen Tsai,! Beverly Varughese,! Christine Vissichelli,! Channing Woo,! Samantha Aloysius,!Frank Bachhuber,!Tyler Baron,!Leah Bodh,! Lauren Burke,! David Capodanno and!Nicolas Castelli of New Hyde Park.

Dominick Piccirillo of Manhasset Hills.

Noah Masi and!Harshal Shah of Garden City Park.!

Joeylin De Guzman, Jabel James, Christopher Kostulias,! Eneyda Morales,! Elizabeth Nolan,! Danny Pires,! Nicholas Poppe,!Preeti Singh,!William Spisak,!Melissa Valente,! Anand Varghese,! Monika Waszczuk,! Matthew Barroca,! Christina Cardinal,!Xiang Pu Chen and!Valerie Cobos of Mineola.

Mia Fabiani and! Nicholas Gullotta of East Williston.

Sabah Iqbal,!Bongseok Jung,!Andrew Lazo,! Jonathan Sanelli,! Eka Singh,! Michael Solinas and! Serena Berger of Albertson.

Paulina Morandi, David Chacko and!Emily Silhan of Williston Park.

Diego Sousa and! Alanna Boland of Carle Place.

Mohammad Elzanaty,! Julian Faccibene,! Nathan Griffin,! Valeria Gromova,!Bruce Kardach,!Hannah Mariani,!Samuel Tesch,! Jillian Thomas,! Mojtaba Tokhie,! Samantha Winkler,! Naomi Brill and!Gabriel Corzo of Roslyn.

St. Lawrence University Samuel Okpan of Port Washington is participating in an off-campus study abroad program during the spring 2019 semester.

Okpan is a member of the class of 2020 and is majoring in international economicsSpanish and business in the liberal arts.

Okpan attended Taft School and is participating in St. Lawrence University’s spring off-campus program in Spain.

Bates College Jesse Sollinger of Port Washington was named to the Dean’s List at Bates College for the fall semester ending in December 2018.

SUNY Geneseo Maria Canellos of New Hyde Park was named to the President’s List for the fall semester 2018. To be on the list, a student must have achieved an A in all coursework (4.0 grade point average) while taking at least 12 credit hours.

The following students made the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester:! Bridget Rynne of Williston Park;! Morgan Tursi of East Williston;! Jonathan Chao and! Caroline Crimmins of Albertson;!Catherine Cunningham of Mineola;!Jade Chang,!Emma Lupoli,!Kristina McCann and!Una Stopford of Port Washington;! Danielle Angel,! Rebecca Hirschhorn,!Jae Hyung Kim,!Joo Hee Park,! Stephanie Pearl,! Madeline Walker and!Leah Fried of Great Neck; and!Jaime DeVita,!Mackenzie Griffin,!Mythili Hareendran and! Sean McClellan of New Hyde Park.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Matthew Nicholson of Port Washington, a member of the class of 2019 majoring

in management engineering, was a member of a student team that recently completed an intense, hands-on research project in New York. The project was titled Wall Street and Fintech.

Fairfield University The following students were named to the Dean’s List Honors for the fall 2018 semester:! Marielle Baranello,! Kyle Harragan,! Alyssa Hogan,! Kalliopi Kapetanos,! Caroline Kavanagh,! Olivia Piluso,! Patrick Pollicino and! Justine Spina of Manhasset; and!Ashley Branco,!James Curry and!Susana Miranda of Mineola.

University of Iowa Briani Baboolal and!Gabriel Trokel of Great Neck were named to the fall 2018 Dean’s List.

Colby College The following students were named to the Dean’s List for!the fall semester of the 2018-19 academic year:!Julia Gonzalez, a member of the class of 2020 who attended the Waldorf School of Garden City and is the daughter of Ann Mulvehill of Port Washington, N.Y.; and!Taro Katayama, a member of the class of 2019, who attended Schreiber High School and is the son of Takuo and Hiroko Katayama of Port Washington.

SUNY Purchase College The following students were named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester:!Megan Fox of Manhasset;!John Gould of New Hyde Park;!Maeve O’Brien of Williston Park; and!Stephanie Farber of Roslyn.

University of Hartford The following students were named to its Dean’s List for fall 2018:!Mark Green of Port Washington;! Jacob Portnoy of Great Neck;! Lawrence Lee and! Emily Paul of New Hyde Park;!Juliette Navarro of Mineola; and! Stephanie Maisch and! Gabrielle Soffer of Roslyn.

Miami University Aidan Barry of Port Washington and!James Duff of Albertson were!named to the Dean’s List for the 2018 fall semester.

New York Institute of Technology Athletes Andrew Pereira of Mineola and Martin Sundell of Old Westbury participated in the Polar Plunge for Charity in Long Beach on Super Bowl Sunday.

Rachel Gecelter of Old Westbury was inducted into Sigma Sigma Phi, the national osteopathic medicine honors fraternity for

medical students training to become doctors of osteopathic medicine. The medical students, along with their families, enjoyed a ceremony and a luncheon in their honor at the NYIT de Seversky Mansion.

SUNY New Paltz The following students made the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 semester:!Nicolette Koos,! Theresa Metzler and! Annie Sung of Mineola;! Fatemeh Shohadaee and! Carrie Smithing of Williston Park; Jenna Cohen,! Casey Condon,! William MacPhail,! Caitlyn Salstein,! Leo Santala,! Victoria Vasquez and! Juliet Walzer of Port Washington;! Malka Lohmann and!Evan Racsko of Great Neck; and!Tina Chan,! Eric Gonzalez,! Christine Koppelman,! Michael Romando,! Tania Velin and!Emma Weedon of New Hyde Park.

SUNY Oswego Madison Mangogna of Great Neck and! Alyson Decter of Manhasset were named to the! President’s List for achieving!a grade point average of 3.8 and above on the 4.0 scale.

The following students were named to the Dean’s List for fall 2018:!Patrick Shevlin of Carle Place;! Sarah Harty and Rose Small of Mineola;!Nicholas Natale of Williston Park;! Alessandra Mohr and! Adam Taxier of Port Washington;!Michael Fiala of Great Neck; and!Errol Dusman of Manhasset Hills.

Clemson University Emma Rose Aquino of Roslyn was! named to the President’s List for achieving!a 4.0 grade-point average.

The following students were named to the fall 2018 Dean’s List:!Shannon Andrea Rybecky and! Eric Joseph Schissel of Port Washington;! Matthew Eric Ambrosio of New Hyde Park; and!Nicole Karanicolas of Albertson.

Springfield College The following students were named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2018 term:!Taylor Barnard of New Hyde Park; and! Elias Kokalis and!Phillip Schifilliti of Great Neck.

The University of Alabama Matthew Torpe of Manhasset received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication during the university’s fall 2018 commencement.

Neurotransmitters in viral infection Feinstein Institute for Medical Research President and CEO Dr.! Kevin J. Tracey has joined with leading scientists across Canada, Europe and Asia, to discover the critical role the chemical acetylcholine plays as a neurotransmitter in combating chronic viral infection, as published online today in Science. A neurosurgeon specialist in the molecular mechanisms of inflammation, Tracey has studied the immune system for decades and led the development of the emerging field of bioelectronic medicine.

The new study details how acetylcholine, a chemical known to be produced by neurons, is also produced by white blood cells as a signal to fight viruses. The team, led by Tak W. Mak and Maureen A. Cox from Canada’s University Health Network’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, discovered that genetically-engineered mice that fail to produce acetylcholine in T-Cells fail to control chronic virus infections.!

“This finding – that immune cells need acetylcholine to fight viral infections – is

an important and surprising insight into how to strengthen the immune system,” said Tracey. “It offers a crucial new insight into how to pursue bioelectronic medicine devices to treat infections.”

Bioelectronic medicine combines neuroscience, molecular biology and bioengineering to tap into the nervous system to treat disease and injury without the use of pharmaceuticals.

“We now have absolute genetic proof that immune cells need this brain chemical in order to swing into action to attack

disease,” said Mak. “Not only does it give us a sharper understanding of the body’s immunological response mechanisms, it also brings immunology and bioelectronic medicine onto the same path of discovery.”!

In November 2016, the Feinstein Institute presented its Anthony Cerami Award in Translational Medicine to Mak in recognition of his research into T-cell activation, tumor suppressors, and the genetics of immunology, with the goal of translating basic research discoveries into new treatments for cancer.

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Opioid addiction recovery Sid Jacobson JCC has successfully received funding to launch the A.C.T. (Aftercare Community Transition) for Recovery Program, which seeks to support and assist individuals who are on the path to recovery from addiction, as well as their respective families.

The program will be led by the JCC’s newly hired licensed clinical social worker and certified addiction specialist, Cindy Leinwand. Services will include: individual/family counseling,

support groups, spiritual support, vocational coaching, and social/recreational opportunities to support health and wellness.

“In response to the current opioid crisis and ongoing challenges of addiction within the Jewish community, Sid Jacobson JCC found it imperative to develop an aftercare recovery program,” says Michelle Laser, director of social services at Sid Jacobson JCC. “A.C.T. provides a community safety net for those seeking to re-engage in healthy

living, vocational productivity, and spiritual wholeness.”

Leinwand is the A.C.T. for Recovery Program’s addiction specialist social worker. Her expertise in the field of addiction, as well as providing direct clinical addiction services both agency-based and in private practice, made Leinwand the perfect candidate for this position.

“Addiction doesn’t discriminate,” Leinwand says. “The opioid crisis is impacting families across a range of socioeconomic

and religious communities.”

SJJCC also hosts monthly NERA LI (Northeast Recovery Alliance Long Island) support groups for concerned persons, special events to educate those impacted by substance abuse, and offers opportunities for health and wellness, career services, and more, to provide support, education and growth opportunities to those facing addiction challenges.

To learn more about the A.C.T. for Recovery Program

and other support programs offered by SJJCC, visit www.sjjcc. org/supportgroups or contact Leinwand at 516-484-1545 ext.

211 or cleinwand@sjjcc.org and Michelle Laser, Director or Social Services at Sid Jacobson JCC, 516.484.1545 ext. 200 or mlaser@sjjcc.org.

Love in the air at PSEG Long Island PSEG Long Island employees donate substantial time and effort on behalf of many charitable causes and activities each year across Long Island and the Rockaways.

In fact, employees volunteered more than" 26,000 service hours at 1,145 philanthropic events in 2018."

“Strong community involvement is a top priority for PSEG Long Island, and that’s easy to do when our employees love where they live and work,” said Daniel Eichhorn, president and COO, PSEG Long Island. “The causes and issues important to our customers mirror those of our company and employees.”"

Volunteers supported more than 400 not-for-profit organizations, including the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign, Island Harvest, Ronald McDonald House, Salvation Army, Northport VA, Habitat for Humanity, American Cancer Society, March of Dimes and Book Fairies."

"PSEG Long Island employees also refereed and judged

PHOTO COURTESY OF PSEG LONG ISLAND

PSEG Long Island employees sell hearts as a fundraiser for the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign. This is one of the 1,145 activities and events the company supports each year. youth robotics competitions, cleaned up beaches and parks, ran food drives for area food pantries, and collected empty water bottles to donate to Bottles for the Brave.

The company also offers educational programs that reach nearly 100,000 students each year: ·" “The Energized Guyz,” a play teaching energy con-

D’Urso, L.I. Conservatory meet Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso met with Minsun Kim, founder and president of the Long Island Conservatory located in Albertson.

The conservatory offers programs in music, art and dance, and they have an academic center which provides after-school homework help and a language center for ESL

students specifically designed so students can develop and improve their language skills.

Their students have performed at many local venues including Eisenhower Park, Chelsea Mansion, Tilles Center, nursing homes and many other locations. The art made by their students has

been exhibited at the Long Island Children’s Museum, Tilles Center, Garden City Hotel and at the Fall Festival at the Old Bethpage Village Restoration.

“I am proud to have an institution such as the Long Island Conservatory in my district,” said D’Urso.

servation, was presented to 77,000 students at 200 elementary schools last year. · “Electric Safety Town,” a live demonstration of electrical safety issues inside and

outside the home, reached 13,500 fourth-fifth-and sixthgraders at 120 schools and camps last year. · The “Let’s Get Ready: Planning Together for Emergencies” workshop, presented with the United Way of Long Island and developed by Sesame Workshop, educated 5,800 children at nearly 70 schools in 2018.

Eichhorn continued, “Through our Community Partnership Program, our employees are able to support large and small events and activities throughout the year in a big way. Our connections with our customers are about so much more than supplying safe and reliable power.”

PSEG Long Island is committed to serving its customers with safe, reliable power, and supporting customers with community service.

Community organizations can request safety and energy efficiency presentations or support through volunteer efforts online at" https://www. psegliny.com/inthecommunity/communitypartnership.

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Island Harvest receives KidCents grant Island Harvest Food Bank received a $30,000 KidsCents Regional Grant through the Rite Aid Foundation to help support its childhood hunger relief effort through the Kids Weekend Backpack Feeding Program and Summer Food Service Program according to Randi Shubin Dresner, president and CEO of the leading regional hunger-relief organization.

The Kids Weekend Backpack Feeding Program, established in 2006, provides supplemental food support for school children who rely on their school’s breakfast and lunch program, but often don’t have enough to eat over the weekend. The Summer Food Service Program provides healthy meals to children during the summer months when school is not in session. More than 90,000 children on Long Island qualify for free or reduced-price meals through the National School Lunch Program and the National School Breakfast Program.

Each Friday during the school year, Island Harvest Food Bank discretely supplies children who are food insecure with packs of nutritious, shelf-stable food, which contain enough for two lunches, two breakfasts, two snacks, and

two servings of milk. During the 2017/18 school year, the program distributed 64,000 food packs, supplementing 256,000 meals, to 1,800 kids in 29 schools across 12 school districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

In 2018, the Summer Food Service Program provided access to 200,000 healthy breakfasts, lunches and snacks for 8,500 children at 84 sites across Long Island.

“The sad reality is that for many food-insecure schoolchildren on Long Island, the school meals are often the only meals they may eat during the day,” said Shubin Dresner. “Thanks to the Rite Aid Foundation’s KidsCents

Regional Grant, we can provide children who rely on their school feeding programs with essential food support over the weekend and during the summer months, when school is not in session.”

The KidCents Regional Grant Program, which provides grants of $15,000-$30,000, significantly expands the reach of KidCents by funding specific out-of-school-time programs focused on children’s nutrition, physical fitness, and academic success. The KidCents program also annually supports a select group of more than 400 nonprofit, kid-focused organizations committed to improving the health and wellbeing of children

living in the communities Rite Aid serves and national organizations focused on critical children’s issues, including The Fred Rogers Company, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and Folds of Honor.

“We created the KidCents program to ensure that kids have a chance for better lives and brighter futures,” said Tracy Henderson, director of The Rite Aid Foundation and charitable giving initiatives. “With the introduction of the KidCents Regional Grant program, we are expanding our efforts even more while filling a need for valuable out-of-school-time programming. In addition, we are enabling our partner nonprofit organizations to implement innovative, ground-breaking programs that advance children’s health and wellbeing and promote academic growth.”

KidCents Regional Grants support nonprofit organizations with programs that serve children, from newborn to 18 years of age, and improve the quality of life in Rite Aid communities. The grants support three of KidCents’ primary focus areas for improving the health and wellbeing of children: healthy eating, active living and education. To be considered, programs and projects were required to take

place during out-of-school-time.

Priority was given to programs supporting communities in need.

The inaugural cycle of grants launched in May 2018 and was available in select counties in the following states: California, Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington. Another cycle of KidCents Regional Grants will launch later this year. To learn more about the program visit riteaid.com/grants.

Through KidCents, members of Rite Aid’s loyalty program, wellness+ rewards, can round up their in-store or online purchases to the nearest dollar and give their change to one of more than 400 nonprofit organizations focused on improving the health and wellbeing of children. For more information, visit www.kidcents.com.

Since its inception in 2001, The Rite Aid Foundation has awarded more than $50 million to nonprofit organizations. Additionally, Rite Aid, through the efforts of its customers, supplier partners and associates, has also raised more than $87 million for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals across the country since 1994.

High marks on kidney transplant program The kidney transplant program at North Shore University Hospital has received a tier-five rating in the one-year survivability of transplant recipients by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) – one of three hospitals in New York State to earn the highest rating."

SRTR examined the outcomes of patients who underwent transplant over a 2 ½-year perioid and found that NSUH had a 98.3 percent survivability rating for transplant recipients with a functioning kidney after one year.

The SRTR receives kidney, heart, lung and liver transplant data collected by government agencies and other organizations, manages and analyzes the information, and supplies data, summary reports and analyses to the transplant community."

“Of the 16 hospitals across New York State that perform kidney kidney transplant surgeries, North Shore University Hospital, NY Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and Albany Medical Center were the only ones to receive a five-tier ranking for their survival rates over a one-year period,” said Dr." Lewis Teperman,"vice chair of surgery at NSUH and director of solid organ transplantation at Northwell Health. “Our success also coincides with a significant increase in the volume of kidney transplants performed at North Shore University Hospital, which is now on pace to perform more than 100 surgeries annually.”

During the SRTR reporting period from June 2017 to June 2018, NSUH performed 90 adult kidney transplants, including 40 living-donor surgeries, more than double the previous year.

PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTHWELL HEALTH

Dr. Ernesto Molmenti, director of adult and pediatric kidney transplantation at Northwell Health, performs a kidney transplant.

Among the metrics SRTR evaluated for kidney: the transplant rate and one-year organ survival."Nearly 430 people were

on the transplant waiting list at NSUH as of June 2018."

Northwell established its adult kidney transplant program at NSUH in 2007, and began performing pediatric kidney transplants at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park in 2017. The health system further strengthened its transplant capabilities in 2018, when surgeons began performing heart transplants at NSUH’s Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital. In addition, NSUH has received preliminary state approval to establish a liver transplant program and is expected to perform its first surgery later this year.

To learn more about the Northwell Health’s transplant program, call 516472-5800 or go to: https://www.northwell.edu/kidney-transplant

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READERS WRITE

My country is black and white

M

y poem (that follows) celebrates the legacy of civil rights and Dr. Martin Luther King. It was based on personal experience on a crowded F train; how a withering commute can lead to unexpected intimacy between strangers.

The poem speaks to the joy and kindness we are blessed to share; offering a vision that transports us to a better place — to realize the significance of “I have a dream” of King’s great vision — a testament to the wonderful power of language that speaks to the heart of humanity.

I was always struck by the eloquence and

transformative power of his vision in all its plentitude, its love and passion for humanity that enriches and invites everyone to participate and live the dream. We are the ones who make it possible.

King bestowed his thoughtful gift for everyone — few people have understood our nation’s history and complexity as closely.

King also had the passion, the wisdom, and the sensibility to make the move to better it.

An elderly woman nodded off to sleep Resting her head on my shoulder.

We were two strangers seated next to each other On the subway heading home.

ear.

She was black and I white.

Which of course, makes no difference.

With open arms I received her delicate

Soft and comfortable is my shoulder — like a pillow.

We never spoke. I never questioned.

I took pains not to stir the entire ride, For I could think of no greater purpose than not to disturb.

We speak of race as something revered — A trustworthy script. It is an act of mind Beyond which the actor must rise.

We speak of a Black World,

ing

And a White World.

I can only see a poem, and My country is black and white.

My charge awoke refreshed upon reach-

Her destination and leapt for the exit — Knowing everything of our arrangement.

Humanity is black and white.

Each person adds to the vital treasure, Like an inspirational Mahalia Jackson song, Stretching upward, full of grace and the divine.

Stephen Cipot Garden City

Tom Suozzi’s strong Lack of understanding about socialism record on immigration

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yield to no one with respect to my!progressive!leanings and!support for a!principled and! compassionate immigration policy. With that said, I believe the recent letter to the editor (“Suozzi not offering principled leadership on immigration,” Robert Adams, Great Neck) did a disservice to Congressman Tom Suozzi’s indisputable record of two decades on immigration issues.!

As mayor of Glen Cove, Suozzi opened the East Coast’s first “shape up center,” where undocumented workers were able to to find work, learn English, and receive job skills training. As county executive of Nassau County, he called!for a federal investigation into the poorly implemented ICE raids conducted in Nassau.!

Now, as our United States Representative, Suozzi has! negotiated legislation to regularize the 11 million undocumented immigrants and provide a pathway to citizen-

Undocumented people add to murder rate

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ne has to feel sorry for Ms. Scherer of New Hyde Park. ! She simply does not get it in her response to my letter.

Dead is dead. ! However, how a U.S. citizen becomes dead is the question.

There are over 300 million Americans and each year thousands of them!kill other American citizens for a variety of reasons. !It is almost!impossible to determine, in advance, !whose these killers will be.

However, what they all have in common is the right to live in America!on American soil. Sad that these killers exist, but they do. !And the!slaughter that Scherer mentions is by American citizens killing! other American citizens.

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he job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

— Finley Peter Dunne I believe that is precisely what I did in my letter called “The Truth About Socialism.” It certainly spurred Walter Jaworski of New Hyde Park and Sarah Adams of Plandome to respond in a critical fashion.

Their letters confirmed my thesis that most people do not understand the various types of socialism and therefore arrive at erroneous conclusions.

Jaworski points out that Winston Churchill called socialism “a philosophy of failure.”

This should come as no surprise since Clement Atlee of England’s Labor Party defeated Churchill, a member of the ConserSteven Markowitz vative party, after World War II. Jaworski also quotes Prime Minister Great Neck Margaret Thatcher who faced Labor party opposition throughout her career. This would be similar to having Hillary Clinton evaluate Donald Trump’s presidency.

While I am certain that Adams read my letter, she missed the most salient point (i.e. there is a clear distinction between Communism and Democratic Socialism).

I differentiated between Communist countries like Russia, China, Cuba and Venezuela and nations with Democratic However, due to the policies of mayors Socialist parties like England, Israel, and and governors that permit!illegals to live in the Scandinavian nations. It is not difficult America instead of deporting them, they al- to understand the differences.

Communist countries are totalitarian low some!of these illegals the opportunity to kill. !If they were not here in the!U.S., and despotic. Democratic Socialist counthose murdered Americans would still be tries believe in free elections and when the Socialists lose, they peacefully turn over alive.

There are between 10 to 20 million il- power to the party which beat them.

Had Adams grasped this simple point, legals living in America.!How many Americans will be killed in the future by some of she might not have written about “the Berlin Wall, the Gulag, the killing fields of them?

I wonder how Scherer would feel if a Cambodia, the Tiananmen Square massamember of her family was!slaughtered by cre and the daily bread lines in Moscow.”

I deplore each of these and Adams an illegal criminal immigrant?! should know this. She also writes that Just asking. for the deaths of John Messina ! “Socialism ! ! ! ! ! !is!responsible !!

East Williston more than 100 million victims.” ship for the DREAMers. He has co-sponsored over 10 bills regarding immigration, including!the Keep Families Together Act and the Dream Act. When the current administration began separating children from their parents, Suozzi traveled to the border in El Paso and Mercy First in Syosset to inspect the facilities where children were being held.

Congressman Suozzi has compiled an exemplary record of tackling complex immigration issues in a compassionate and effective manner.!There are those both within and outside the Third Congressional District who, for their own agendas, want to dispute Suozzi’s record. However, they should first educate themselves on!where he stands and what he has actually done.

Had she stated that the cause of these deaths was Communism, I would have agreed with her. Sadly, her thinking is not that nuanced.

Adams thinks I am opposed to capitalism which as she points out is responsible for “much of what we enjoy today.”

I couldn’t agree more with her staunch pro-capitalist position. However, a closer reading of my piece would reveal that we are neither one thing or the other.

In fact, the most accurate description of our economic system would be “a mixed economy.” This means that we embrace government programs like Medicare, while at the same time applauding entrepreneurship. Had our social studies teachers used the phrase “mixed economy” we would all be more enlightened.

I suspect that the reason this is not in common parlance is that we would have to admit the virtues of certain socialist policies. Put simply, we are brainwashed by our culture not to acknowledge the benefits of any governmental policy such as Obamacare.

The president must have known that Blank Slate Media was publishing my letters on socialism because in his State of the Union address on Feb. 5 he said: “America will never be a socialist country.”

This led to still another standing ovation from Republicans in the audience.

Not exuberant were Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, two self-proclaimed Democratic Socialists.

But in several polls conducted after the speech, Sanders came out ahead of Trump in a one to one match-up.

Next week I will describe proposals

by Elizabeth Warren and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez which would change the face of America.

Dr. Hal Sobel Great Neck

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Long road for Amtrak service to L.I. “Study eyes bringing Amtrak service to L.I.” (Jessica Parks — Feb. 1) to be conducted jointly by Amtrak and the MTA is nothing new. Never shy around a camera or photo op, Gov. Cuomo and the accompanying elected officials were more than happy to pose with shovels for an idea that will never reach fruition."

The concept of Long Island Amtrak service was already looked at several years ago under a Federal Rail Road Administration comprehensive plan for Amtrak Northeast Corridor service between Washington and Boston." This included a proposal for new high speed rail between Floral Park and Port Jefferson and on to New Haven via a 22mile tunnel under the Long Island Sound."

This would have involved building two new tracks around the Main Line Third Track and existing tracks between Hicksville and Port Jefferson." No one could figure out how to find up to $40 billion to pay for this consultants dream so it died.

The MTA has both Five Year 2015-2019 and Twenty Year Long Range Capital Plans 2014-2034 which are"periodically updated."

Amtrak has similar short- and long-range capital plans." These documents clearly outline what capital funding is needed to maintain both a state of good repair"for existing equipment, facilities and services along with safety, security"and any future system expan-

sion projects and programs.""

The State Department of Transportation maintains the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program." Each metropolitan planning organization for every urbanized area affiliated with NYSDOT maintains a local Transportation Improvement Program."

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, which also includes the Nassau-Suffolk Transportation Coordinating Council, maintains a listing of"proposed transportation projects"updated yearly."

The MTA and LIRR participate in this process. "Both the STIP and TIP documents contain a complete inventory of transportation improvement projects, sponsoring agency and estimated cost. Both the MPO and NYSDOT maintain five-year short-range and 20-year long-range lists of potential capital transportation improvement projects by recipient and operating agency."

Millions of dollars are spent yearly for planning studies to research the potential for new transportation capital investments and system expansion." This includes Cuomo’s Department of Transportation and Empire State Development Corporation, Metropolitan Planning Organizations in every major urbanized area, including NYMTC which serves New York City; the Port Authority of NY and NJ, the MTA along with operating agencies including NYC Transit, LIRR, Metro

North Rail Road and MTA Bus; Mayor Bill de Blasio’s own"NYC DOT, NYC Department of City Planning and NYC Economic Development Corporation, the" Regional Planning Association, Nassau County Planning Department and other private entities.""All of them conduct transportation planning feasibility studies.""

Collectively, every decade a complete inventory of all these agencies would reveal dozens and dozens of transportation studies worth"close to"$100 million"in costs have been completed." Funding for these studies comes from a variety of city, county, state and federal sources.

Has anyone ever taken"a complete inventory of all these studies?" Have they checked out the recommendations, estimated"project"costs, time line for implementation"and identification of potential funding sources for going forward? Who checks to see that one study is not just a duplication of a previous study for the same issue?

Too many transportation studies"championed by numerous elected officials are nothing more than"placebos designed to placate demagogues, who"are not regular users of the numerous public transportation alternatives that have been available for decades.

The real"problem"is finding"money to make things happen. "All too often"funding for many" studies" would have been better

spent on real capital and operating service improvements instead of just lining the pockets of consultants.""How many studies"end up on the shelf of planners just collecting dust?" How many times do we end" up with"a series of press conferences and news releases designed to" provide free publicity for elected officials to assist them in greasing the wheels of future elections? "These same elected officials"promise a bright future but leave riders"holding an empty bag.

Funding for this latest study would be better spent as a down payment toward building a joint Amtrak-LIRR Sunnyside Yard Queens station." Riders could avoid crowded Penn Station and save 10 minutes of travel time by making connections at this new station." This station was suppose to be built as part of the LIRR Eastside Access to Grand Central Terminal." No contract has been awarded to date. " In the meantime, don’t count riding any Amtrak train originating from Long Island in your lifetime. You will still change at Penn Station.

Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner is a transportation historian and advocate who previously worked 31 years for the US Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office)".

Manhasset Isle apartment plan a threat

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s a resident of Manhasset Isle, Port Washington, I’m grateful for your coverage of the proposal to build a large apartment block on the isle.

However, I’m concerned that your most recent story (“Meet Caroline DuBois, Acting Secretary of Manorhaven Action Committee,” Feb. 6) may have given the impression that opposition to that plan is being driven by DuBois" and the Manorhaven Action Committee.

That is not the case. Not only that, but the debate reflects an issue that affects people living well beyond this particular neighborhood, in many other parts of"Long Island.

You asked if Dubois is “a" voice for the people or a thorn in the side of progress,” before profiling her as just one of the individuals in this civic debate (and omitting key facts in that profile.)"

As" you have previously reported, attendance at public

meetings about the apartment plans has been so strong that the village administration has been forced to hire larger venues. Strong feelings were expressed when the many people who attended the most recent meeting were told they would not be allowed to make any public comments.

The" apartment blocks would set a precedent for more development on a similar scale, and the village administration has acknowledged that Manhas-

set"Isle"is already overcrowded, as you reported.

The community and environment of Manhasset Isle (which has only one access road), is already under strain.

Car parking is also an issue.

Residents support responsible (non-variance," build to code) development, and agree with Manorhaven mayor Jim Avena that more affordable housing" would be welcome, especially for younger people who"cannot afford single-family

homes in the neighborhood.

However, the proposed block would comprise high-end apartments.

Many other towns on Long Island are already facing very similar issues or soon will do.

This is why other civic groups have lent support to those opposing the Manhasset Isle proposals.

Tim Stammers Port Washington

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Missing buzz of bees, other insects Continued from Page 17 Their appeal also references the U.S. EPA’s “repeated and ongoing delays in its own scientific review of neonicotinoids and the Trump Administration’s unwillingness to prevent unsafe pesticide use which have left states with the responsibility to take the lead. Connecticut and Maryland passed laws prohibiting overthe-counter sales of neonicotinoid products, and earlier last year, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation put

a freeze on any new pesticide approvals that would expand neonicotinoid use.”

Calls, e-mails and letters to your elected officials in Albany to support the moratorium would be extremely helpful.

Besides the pollinator losses associated with this class of pesticides, there is ongoing research into the potential human health impacts, especially endocrine disruption. Endocrine disrupters can be natural or synthetic molecules that alter hormone function by interfering with the

body’s own natural hormones, and can lead to many different health problems.

Neonicotinoid pesticides for lawn care, sod production, agriculture and greenhouse operations are widely used on Long Island, especially imidacloprid.

This particular neonicotinoid has been found in our groundwater where it can remain for decades or longer, discharging into surrounding surface water resources as well. In 2012, a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

water study showed that imidacloprid was detected 782 times at 182 locations on Long Island.

As with all chemical contamination of our natural world, it always has unintended consequences. Your gardener, surveying the grub problem in your backyard and deciding to use imidacloprid, will certainly kill the grubs, but also thousands of bees and other beneficial insects as well.

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North lot opponents G.N. Plaza mayor wastes not accepting reality taxpayers’ money

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he tiny cohort of neighbors who obsess day and night about the parking lot at Great Neck North High School have no sight of reality: From a traffic engineering standpoint, it is simply a storage issue. The student in question who hit my retaining wall and overturned was one of those racing for a rare spot on Beach Road; she was not texting.

An orderly flow into a lot will increase safety and allow for orderly movement of vehicles off the street without “competition.”

I am pleased that at this point, the present season is the only remaining impediment to construction of this much-needed amenity.

For my neighbor’s edification, the record shows that the city of New York was well-administered under Mayor Ed Koch.

I’ve not disparaged any neighbors by name, but the three of them are welcome to site themselves before bulldozers if they are so desperately obsessed to stop a project soon to be in motion.

No one forced any of us to purchase a home adjacent to a high school. We are here and thank the school board for working to remove these working students’ vehicles from our streets.

Jeffrey Wiesenfeld Great Neck

What Kool-Aid VGN mayor drinking?

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was very disappointed with the lack of insight demonstrated by both Mayor Bral and VHB of Hauppauge, with respect to their Feb. 5 presentation to revitalize our downtown business corridors (10-year plan).

While their opening premise sounded smart, “Middle Neck Road has not achieved its potential,” what soon followed was an insult to every intelligent man and woman.

No wonder there was a constant onslaught of booing. The

booing became especially fierce as the lead presenter declared zero environmental impact to a checklist which included, but was not limited to: traffic and parking, noise, air quality, water resources, soil, ecology and more.

Who’s kidding who?

Having resided in the village of Great Neck for over 20 years, my family has always been happy with the upscale suburban environment combined with easy access to the LIRR, Northern Boulevard and area hospitals.

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was sorry to read the article in last week’s newspaper about Gov. Cuomo’s proposed initiative to cut state aid and incentives for municipalities. Such budget cuts will have severe impacts on many villages.

In the article, Jean Celender, mayor of Great Neck Plaza, stated that her village stands to lose $65,000 if the proposed budget cuts aren’t reversed, stating, “I feel we have to do everything we can to have it not eliminated and restored if possible.”

Unfortunately, Celender has a knack for spending our tax dollars on projects we don’t want or need, while foisting her vanity projects on the community.

It should be noted, however, that the mayor also has the wherewithal not only to replace the possible loss of $65,000 but to easily exceed that figure from an obvious revenue source: Shop Delight.

All Celender has to do is enforce the terms of Shop Delight’s conditional use permit; but she and her village officials have continued over many years to refuse to enforce the rules that they themselves made.

If the mayor allowed code enforcement to ticket, rather than bypass the daily multitudes of Shop Delight’s illegally parked employees who usurp dozens of parking spaces in an area where street parking for residents is already compromised, the parking fines would quickly fill village coffers.

Then there are the “rules do not apply” Shop Delight patrons who double park and park in the

fire zones and who are never ticketed; and how about the vendors who block up the streets adjacent to the market while illegally unloading their deliveries all day and all night in violation of Shop Delight’s conditional use permit.

And why isn’t Shop Delight itself severely fined for all the violations of its conditional use permit? Revenue from oversight and enforcement of all their violations would not only replace but exceed the loss of $65,000 in tax cuts if they should take place.

No matter how much or how often residents of the area document to the mayor and village officials how Shop Delight’s infractions have destroyed their quality of life, their concerns fall on deaf ears.

Shop Delight is allowed to have free reign because Celender has chosen to close her eyes to their violations and do nothing to stop them.

When County Executive Laura Curran appointed Celender to head a committee last year to improve quality of life for residents of the county, Celender had a public relations article published in this newspaper about how she was going to improve quality of life for residents, particularly for the folks in Great Neck Plaza.

In the article, the mayor actually addressed the dire parking problem suffered by those living in the Welwyn/Shoreward area and she reiterated her intention, originally stated more than two years prior, to re-purpose the unused post office garage under its building to become a garage for residents of the area — just an-

other empty promise that has yet to materialize and probably never will.

In her infinite wisdom, our well-paid full-time mayor insists on moving forward with worthless projects such as the creation of bicycle lanes on Shoreward Drive that nobody will use, and a park in front of the post office that nobody wants.

She doesn’t care about the garbage that will be thrown on the grass by uncaring individuals eating take-out food in the park; or the air pollution and trash caused by the smokers; and who would want to sit in a park in front of the post office, inhaling fumes from a dozen buses an hour over-congesting the already impassable streets while listening to the constant cacophony of the horns from Shop Delight’s customers.

And while forcing her vanity projects upon her constituents, Celender coldly continues to ignore their needs — particularly the promise of the sorely-needed residential parking garage, which would provide a stream of income for the village as well.

It’s sad that Jean Celender holds the office of first vice president of the Nassau County Village Officials Association, while at the same time wasting our taxpayer money with self-serving initiatives.

It’s time for the “Jean Machine Regime” to go.

Leo Pfeifer Village of Great Neck Plaza (We want our “Great” back!)!

G.N.’s Old Village should reject incentive zoning Continued from Page 16 who happens to have served on the school board for 27 years, to question how that number could have “no impact” or even how the 82 number was calculated, noting that Avalon has already generated 70, when the “forecast” was for 6.

To our knowledge, the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District, which would have to issue permits for the high-density buildings and certainly should have had input into the DEIS, and the Great Neck School District, were not consulted, nor even specifically notified of the presentation.

There was no mention of the need to pump more water, with the danger of salt-water intrusion into Great Neck peninsula’s water supply. “No impact. No impact.”

There is nothing in the DEIS that refers to the impacts of climate change on the proposed 17 high-density POIs on East Shore Road – the likelihood of even a few inches rise in the level of Manhasset Bay and more superstorms like Sandy, which a resident of 320 Kings Point Road said resulted in water up to her chest.

And as we noted before: this isn’t just the village of Great Neck

residents who are affected by the proposed zoning increase, it affects the entire Peninsula.

I remain as skeptical that there is no cohesive plan, an actual vision, nor even the vague attempt of doing a true revitalization program involving much-needed traffic calming, streetscape and quality-of-life improvements (“Complete Streets” is the jargon of the day), that would qualify for state and county funding.

Gov. Cuomo just announced the fourth round of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative where 10 winning communities

are awarded $10 million each to develop “a downtown strategic investment plan and implement catalytic projects that advance the community’s vision for revitalization.”

On Long Island, Central Islip, Hicksville and Westbury have all won these awards. Nor has the village sought DoT “Complete Streets” funding.

The village is holding its one and only public hearing on Feb. 19 (during the school vacation week), which is also the deadline to receive public comment.

Theoretically, no matter what

concerns, issues or questions are raised, the board could vote to close the public hearing and then vote immediately to adopt the incentive zoning law.

So why hold a public hearing at all, if the questions, concerns, objections have no impact?

We are told that Mayor Pedram Bral may adjourn the public hearing and continue it on March 5. But we still question how much of the “citizens advisory” or the public comments or the public hearing are addressed in the new zoning.

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Rent or world of homeownership?

As of this column, it appears that the government may or may not shut down on Feb 15, due to a sort of quasi-agreement between the Republican Senate and the Democratic House; but one never knows what glitch might be thrown into the mix!

If it were to happen and the 800,000 federal workers were to be laid off once again, I can only imagine the disruption this would cause, through no fault of their own and for one, I surely wouldn’t want to be engaged in certain things, like flying, when seeing an employee of the federal government, working without pay.

This is not to scare anyone or prevent them from flying, but how would you feel, if you didn’t get paid? Moreover, the difficulty in obtaining any type of mortgages insured and guaranteed by the federal government and the emotional impact upon borrowers would not be very healthy for our real estate market.

In my opinion, using innocent people as scapegoats is not the most logical or pragmatic approach to solving issues; however, everyone has their methods of getting things done. I want to correct something that I had written in last week’s column, that the period to grieve your real

estate taxes has been extended to April 30, 2018 (not April 2).

Attention purchasers, there are homes, homeowners associations, condos, co-ops and investments out there that are worth searching for and checking out.

However, unless you have a blank check to buy whatever you want, you need to be extremely realistic as to your specific “needs and wants.”

I had an epiphany last night, that made me decide to write and elaborate on this. I see way too many renters who have decided not be tied down to any type of mortgage (and also those in the “move up crowd” or may or may not want to be obligated to a new or larger mortgage); I then ask why?

Their response is usually, “I or we don’t want to be obligated!

I say, you are already or will be obligated to pay your rent every month, (plus all the increases over the years), whereby assisting your landlord in paying off his/her mortgage, taxes, some profit, and to boot, every year adding a bit of his/her appreciating value to their increasing wealth.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the amazing write-offs that will reduce your taxable income (there are some exceptions with high-

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income earners, consult your CPA for more advice).

Why in G_D’s name would you want to be part of that insane situation; when I explain to them that if I could provide them a fixed lease for 30 years, would they be interested? They said, OMG, yes! Where is that place, they ask?

It’s called a mortgage and it will be for your family to enjoy life in their new place! Then, their lightbulbs go off and I see the smoke rising from their heads and then they finally get it!!! LOL Besides, why hand over all the benefits of appreciation, tax deductions, increasing your overall wealth, assuming that you reside long enough in your home. (all things being equal and we don’t

blow ourselves up or pollute ourselves to oblivion or run out of potable water, then all bets are off).

Lastly the security of not having to move, because your landlord’s kids, relatives or friend might be moving in and he/she won’t be renewing your lease, with all those wonderful increases in rent that you will be subject to, over the years.

It’s really called becoming your own landlord and reaping all the benefits of homeownership.

However, one must understand that if you want all the bells and whistles, one must save or be fortunate enough to be in a position to buy what you want, because you can afford it. Most are not in that situation, so one must decide what is really important and what one can live without for the time being. It’s called trading off the “bells and whistles” and coming back down to earth and having a realistic vision and attitude, as to what one is willing to tradeoff to have that “dream of homeownership” materialize before their eyes.

It can be done, but I see too many singles, couples and married people who are searching for that “pie in the sky” or should I say, a “needle in the haystack”

within a still, very limited inventory. I know, you are thinking, why purchase an “ugly duckling” when you want something nicer?

I will tell you the reason why, to turn it into a “swan,” but, maybe not overnight.

Sit down and create a plan and a common sense budget (which, when you earn more you can always increase the dollars to improve and upgrade). Turn that ugly duckling into your swan, but if you have to, you can surely do this over time (I did in my first home).

As they say, it takes nine months to usually make a baby, so take your time and think it all out and you will end up hopefully being a happier homeowner and a richer and possibly more wealthier when you retire!

Philp A. Raices is the owner/ Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 Great Neck NY 11021-2415. He has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute and a Certified International Property Specialist.

Receive regular “FREE” updates of sold homes in your area and what your home would sell for in today’s market or search on: WWW.Li-RealEstate.Com He can be reached by email, at: Phil@ TurnKeyRealEstate.Com, or by cell: (516) 647-4289

What Kool-Aid is the VGN mayor drinking?

Continued from Page 67 These benefits will be dramatically altered with the proposed plan. VHB consultants and Bral are recommending a 17 percent increase in population (1,700+ additional residents based on 10,000 residents), fivestory housing on both Middle Neck Road and East Shore Road, as well as the relaxation of parking restrictions to allow for this increased population density.

These plans are in addition to the recent sub-divisions that allow developers to split a single parcel of land into two. !These plans are a dangerous assault — not only to the Village — but to the overall community, as well. Wake-up and smell the coffee — mayors and trustees in neighboring villages. Your residents, your roads will be negatively impacted. I take offense to the following features:

There are nine villages in Great Neck. All villages use Middle Neck Road and East Shore Road as main arteries to access the LIRR, Northern Boulevard, hospitals and major highways.

Currently, each village is free to create and implement a master plan without coordination or permission of the neighboring villages.

VHB is recommending the addition of 16 new buildings on Middle Neck Road and seven new buildings on East Shore Road.

What about the additional buildings planned by the other Great Neck villages on these same corridors?

The daily traffic (after 3 p.m.) on both Middle Neck Road and East Shore Road is already severely backed up, much talked about and negatively impacting area residents. Great Neckers, like all

Long Islanders, love their cars and many families own several cars per household. This is not New York City with a heavy infrastructure of subways, buses and taxis.

With that said, little thought has been given to the current and future traffic on our main corridors.

Population density. According to Google search: Great Neck Plaza is the 11th most densely populated village in the United States. Is this what Bral envisions for the village of Great Neck with his multiple clusters of five-story buildings and the relaxation of parking restrictions?

The population of Great Neck increased by slightly more than 300 residents (3 percent) since 2010. ! The 17 percent increase (Bral envisions) in the next 10 years would greatly harm our current infrastructure and suburban quality of life.

We moved to Great Neck for the quality of life. Great Neck was never intended to be trendy, hip Brooklyn. If the mayor and board want nightlife and bright lights, maybe their families should consider relocating, rather than decimate a community that is beloved by many residents who feel connected to it from generation to generation.

The VHB presentation acknowledges 84 additional students for public schools. That number is severely understated based on a 1,700 population increase in the next 10 years. Currently, the Great Neck public schools are maxed out in terms of students per class size and available classrooms. Is the VHB plan intended to destroy our excellent public school ratings?

What is true is the fact that the village of Great Neck gov-

ernment acted in isolation on a major overhaul that will have a chain reaction to neighboring villages. They also failed to weigh in with local fire department, police department, public school administration, post office, and other entities.

Great Neck Plaza and Great Neck Estates will be impacted according to the former chief of the Vigilant Fire Company. Those mayors and trustees must be included in the planning process if residents are to believe there is a benefit to the community. Thus far, the only clear benefits and incentives are those to the developers.

Are you surprised?

Please attend the Public Hearing on Feb. 19!at Village Hall.

Joseph Rosenthal Great Neck

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Recent Real Estate

Sales in New Hyde Park New Hyde Park Real Estate Market Conditions MEDIAN SALES PRICE $620,000 Demographics near New Hyde Park, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

City 9,811 11,367 41.2 3.2 99,469 35,118

County 1,361,350 4,744 41.3 3 98,401 42,949

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79-11 Langdale, New Hyde Park Sold Price: $650,000 Date: 01/31/2019 3 beds, 1 Full baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 40x100 Schools: Community District 26 Total Taxes: $6,100 MLS# 3078085

37 Evergreen Avenue, New Hyde Park Sold Price: $670,000 Date: 12/26/2018 3 beds, 1 Full baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 73x100 Schools: New Hyde ParkGarden City Park Total Taxes: $8,918 MLS# 3072910

127 Aster, New Hyde Park Sold Price: $765,000 Date: 02/07/2019 4 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 59x100 Schools: New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Total Taxes: $11,580 MLS# 3083615

533 S 14th Street, New Hyde Park Sold Price: $542,000 Date: 12/28/2018 3 beds, 1 Full/1 Half baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 40x100 Schools: Elmont Total Taxes: $8,535 MLS# 3053450

Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in New Hyde Park by a variety of real estate agencies. The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes are presented based solely on the fact that they were recently sold in New Hyde Park and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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NHP board mulls canceling street fair Continued from Page 1 more than 200 businesses and vendors and featured live music, entertainment and inflatable children’s rides, among other attractions.

Though no official decision has been made yet, Frisina said she hopes the event will still happen, even if it is scaled down as a result of the construction.

“We’d certainly still like to have it — if it’s feasible,” Frisina said. “It’s a tough call.”

The cancellation would stem from safety and congestion concerns, according to the board. The closure of Covert Avenue to create an underpass crossing as part of the LIRR third track expansion project would be only blocks away from Jericho Turnpike and village hall, where the street has been traditionally closed off for the fair.

The elimination of the grade crossing on Covert Avenue is one of seven grade crossings being eliminated along a 9.8mile section of the LIRR main line under the third track project between Floral Park and Hicksville.

At a previous meeting, Montreuil told residents that the construction surrounding the closure would be unlike anything they’d seen before in the village.

Covert Avenue was temporarily closed between 1st and 2nd avenues from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 5 to Feb. 12 for preliminary third track work.

Montreuil and the board said they were open to a community dialogue on the matter.

Any official decision determining the fate of the event should wait until the date approaches, according to Frisina.

PHOTO BY NOAH MANSKAR

A girl checks out a toy from one of about 250 vendors at last year’s New Hyde Park Street Fair.

Student voices opinion over contract talks Continued from Page 2 in fact among the highest paid in Nassau County, but said that the personal lives are staff can vary and the statement on median salaries may not encompass all teachers.

The central issue of the negotiations is compensation, according to a statement previously read by board president Juleigh Chin.

The fact-finding process is non-binding, Chin previously said, and if efforts fail to achieve a settlement, a super conciliator will then be appointed, also by PERB, to reach a settlement.

There are no further steps in state law for collective bargaining of public schools after the appointment of the super conciliator, according to Chin.

Ritchie said that “petty politics” surrounding the negotiations should be set aside, considering the issue has not been amplified to the community as much as it should be.

“For such a small group to decide what benefits the larger community without looking to the constituents is

concerning,” Ritchie said. “We"are standing behind our teachers because we know this contract will benefit the community, what the board seems to be most focused on.”

The board did not immediately issue a statement responding to Ritchie.

Following comments from the public, district administrators presented two presentations on initiatives in the district.

District math director Geetha Murthy provided the board with an update to the math curriculum for students in sixth through 12th grade.

Students entering sixth grade next year will be a part of the department’s new curriculum path, allowing students to decide whether they want to pursue advanced and multiple math classes later in their education or more humanities oriented classes like statistics, according to Murthy.

The department has also established a climate of “growth mindset” with students, according to Murthy, and students are encouraged to make and learn from their mistakes.

“Turn negatives into positives,” Murthy said.

Following Murthy’s update, district Assistant Superintendent for Instruction K. Elizabeth Guercin presented the board with the district’s new standards-based report card for elementary students.

Previously, the district used a onethrough-four scale for determining a students grades, which sometimes led to students believing they were “stuck at a one,” while in school, according to Guercin.

To encourage student improvement and growth, Guercin and a team Herricks’ staff developed a new report card system that will emphasize progression through subjects and hopefully de-stigmatize the notion that not initially grasping concepts is failure, Guercin said.

The new report card, which will launch in next fall, will grade students based on a R-S-O-C scale. The scale explains that students either rarely, sometimes, often or consistently demonstrates behavior indicating success. The letters M and P will also be used by the district

to denote consistent mastery of the learning standard, M, and progressing toward mastery, P. The report card will also be available digitally for the first time, Guercin said.

A pilot program using this methodology took place earlier this school year, with eight students’ families that were selected, and the results have been positive overall, according to Guercin.

Also at the meeting, Superintendent of Schools Fino Celano commended high school student Eish Maheshwari for his selection as one of only 40 students national to be named a Regeneron Science Talent Search finalist.

Maheshwari’s project, according to science research teacher and adviser Renee Barcia, utilizes a nano-particle system to deliver vital drugs to the body that are often metabolized by the liver too quickly to be administered.

The board’s next regularly scheduled meeting, which will begin the district’s budget season, will be Feb. 28 at the Herricks Community Center.

Third precinct officers talk teen vaping Continued from Page 2 attractive to children.”

An additional danger the rise in teen vaping poses is the realm of marijuana-related vaping, according to Oginski.

THC, the psychoactive element present in marijuana, can be extracted from the flower and collected as an oil. That oil can be packaged as cartridge

and is compatible with vape devices, allowing users to smoke the substance in plain sight.

The recognizable odor that marijuana emits is not present in the THC cartridges, Oginski said. In one instance, Oginski needed to hold a cartridge directly in front of his nose to identify that the fluid was, in fact, THC, he said.

Vaping trends are changing

by the month, and students now have the ability to smoke marijuana while sitting in class undetected, according to Oginski.

Though the recreational use of marijuana is illegal in the state, THC cartridges are still easily acquired by use through means of online ordering and transport from other states where the substance is completely legal, according to

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“ ou don’t want this to get into the hands of a 12-year-old.”

Joseph Oginski THIRD PRECINCT POP OFFICERS

Oginski.

In his State of the State address last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for the establishment of an adult-use cannabis program in the state, but did not include a timeframe for any legislation.

“You don’t want this to get into the hands of a 12-year-old,” Oginski said.

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Boy returns to school following surgery

PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTHWELL HEALTH

Dr. James Bradley and Dr. Mark Mittler celebrate Simao’s return to school with his mom, Lisa Meco, and favorite superhero, the Flash.

It’s not every day that a little boy gets to thank the surgeons who put his face back together again after a difficult surgery – and take a photo with his hero, the Flash. But, that’s just what happened to 9-year-old Simao Meco at"Cohen Children’s Medical Center"on Feb. 7.

Meco, who was joined by his mother, Lisa Meco, and 13-year-old sister, Maria, returned to Cohen Children’s to thank the two surgeons who performed a complex, six-hour surgery that succeeded in correcting the rare Tessier craniofacial clefts with which he was born."

Dr. James Bradley, Meco’s facial reconstruction surgeon, is one of only five surgeons in the world with the training to perform this complicated procedure.

“Simao was born with Tessier craniofacial clefts, which means that parts of his face and skull were abnormally separated,” Bradley said. “Because of these deformities, Simao was unable to breathe

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and always felt that he was suffering with a bad cold. He was constantly at risk of infection, and was unable to see well because one eye pointed off to the side.”"

In order to correct Simao’s malformation, Bradley worked with Dr." Mark Mittler," cochief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Cohen. According to Mittler, “My part of this was to provide Dr. Bradley with access to the skull. Once we were able to achieve access, Dr. Bradley was able to take the necessary steps to re-align Simao’s face.”

As soon as he saw Meco, Bradley knew that he would have to perform the facial bipartition surgery. In simplest terms, he would have to split Simao’s face in half vertically, and then bring both sides back together with proper re-alignment. During surgery performed on a pro-bono basis at Cohen on Jan. 8, Bradley repositioned the affected eye to point in the proper direction; adjusted the sinus cavities, which were overgrown between Meco’s eyes, thus nega-

tively affecting his breathing; and modified the structure of his nose."

“I’m happy to report that Simao is healing so well that he will be returning to school tomorrow,” Bradley said.

Lisa Meco recalled how difficult it was to watch her friendly, outgoing son suffer from the cruel taunts of bullies.

“I’m so proud of Simao,” she said. “He was brave enough to come home every night and tell me what the other kids said about him. It hurt when he would come home and tell me how it felt to be bullied. He is incredible.”

Because Meco listed the Flash as his favorite superhero, his doctors felt that a surprise meeting should be arranged.

So, after Meco described his feelings about going back to school with a new face, there was a knock at the door. And, to his surprise, the Flash, himself, raced into the room to present his biggest fan with an Xbox game and to wish him a “speedy” recovery."

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Tax receivers say county miscalculated Continued from Page 24 Senior abatements were approved in order to subsidize seniors when there was a 19.3 percent tax increase in 2002. Seniors who receive the enhanced STAR tax exemption are eligible for the abatement on sewer and stormwater taxes.

In a press release, Curran said seniors who are eligible for enhanced STAR exemptions are identified by the state.

The county then provides the town tax receivers with the correct abatement information to include in the tax bills of qualifying seniors.

She said the county has requested that each town provide them with a list of seniors who did not receive the tax benefit to which she has not received anything in return.

She called a report in Newsday in which the tax receivers’ allegations were made “inaccurate and ir-

responsible news reporting.”

Clavin said this is not the first time Nassau County’s Administration has “dropped the ball.” He said in 2018 error 32,000 village residents were overcharged on their sewer tax, which the county must cover, and a robocall that made! to 400,000 residents incorrectly said they were at risk of losing their senior citizen property tax exemption. The call should have only gone to about 3,500 residents.

Clavin said a! number of Cold War veterans also did not receive their property tax exemption, which Curran attributed to a computer processing error.

Curran said that!some!seniors receive both the! Cold! War! exemption and the senior abatement and that they are looking into whether!the!error!had any effect on the abatement.

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What it takes to become a champion The research on the making of a prodigy is clear. One needs a complex combination of good genes, family support, passion for the sport, luck, an early start, good coaching and at least 10 years of consistent emotional and financial support for the talent to flower. If that sounds like a lot, it is.

The amount of sacrifice and suffering is significant and the theory suggests it demands both optimism and perseverance for a family to get through all this in order to achieve greatness.

Well, let’s find out directly if this is true by actually interviewing someone who fits that category. I had heard about Ilana Sherman, a 17-year-old figure skater who is an Olympic hopeful and who lives in Great Neck. There may be something magical about Great Neck for that’s also the home town of Sarah Hughes, the 2002 Olympic champion.

When I first met Ilana she reminded me of all the truly elite athletes I have met over the years. Whether it was Tiger Woods in golf, Andy Roddick in tennis or the great Brazilian soccer star Marta when you meet them in person you

can see that they seem to be an entirely different species of humans.

They are always taller, quicker in wit, more attractive, have better skin, are friendlier, have more generosity of spirit and seem more healthy than the average person. And this is how Ilana impressed me as well. She is this tall blond beauty with a radiant and easy smile and emanates a kindness and sparkle when she talks.

I sat with her and her mom Nancy Sherman and discussed her figure skating career. Like all champions, she started young and by age six she was in

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lessons five days per week. As is typical, she needed to switch coaches and found Craig Maurici in New Jersey.

But that was only the beginning. After competing at the national championships in Minnesota when she was 14, Ilana was accepted by Olympic figure skating coach Tammy Gambill and she has worked with Tammy ever since.

Ilana is now part of an international stable of skaters including Karen Chen, Vincent Zhou and other world-class skaters at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

Like so many world-class athletes, Ilana had to leave the comfort and safety of her suburban life, move far away, endure intense daily training and also get homeschooled.

When I asked Ilana to comment on all that she remarked, “I haven’t had a normal life. I have not had normal schooling.

I had to leave my family and in fact, I had to become an adult at age 14. I guess you could say I never had a childhood.”

When I asked her how her body was holding up with all the training on ice, she said, “Sometimes I do feel like a 70-year-old when I get up in the morning. I have had many ankle sprains, herniated back discs, a concussion and some

knee problems. I don’t think fans realize the work and sacrifice that goes into this sport.

The only reason I am home right now is that I’m recovering from a back injury.”

Ilana’s mother is a powerful attorney in Great Neck and as her daughter spoke she sat by quietly listening with evident pride. I could see that the mother was the rock that Ilana relied upon. After Ilana finished talking Ms. Sherman said, “People don’t realize the amount of work and all out sacrifice it takes to get to be a world class skater.

But Ilana is blessed with talent and so we feel her talent must be allowed to follow its destiny. When you see her skate the beauty she possesses is astounding.”

Like many elite athletes, Ilana has dual citizenship. She now represents Israel’s National Figure Skating Team with her sights set on the Beijing Olympics in 2022.

So remember the name Ilana Sherman and when you see her blond hair and her nice smile on television at the Beijing Olympics remember you heard it here first.

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Singh belittled the defense’s efforts, claiming that Linda showed that kind of affection to many people, and when asked if he loved the pair, said he had a caring relationship with them, according to Newsday.

Linda is charged with five counts of lying to the FBI, including claims she allegedly made regarding a $450,000 “no-show” job provided by Singh. Ed Mangano is charged with seven counts including bribery, conspiracy and extortion.

Singh, as he did in the first trial, is complying with the prosecution in an effort to receive leniency for federal charges he has since pleaded guilty to.

The first trial last year ended in a mistrial after 12 weeks.

In testimony by another witness this week, former Oyster Bay outside counsel Jonathan Sinnreich, the nature of two loans that Singh applied for was addressed, according to Newsday.

Sinnreich testified that Ed Mangano was present and involved in the restructuring of loans that benefited Singh, according to Newsday.

Sinnreich, who worked with the town from 2005 to 2015, recalled telling former deputy town attorney Frederick Mei that particular amendments to two food concession agreements were “a complete sham and not legal,” according to Newsday.

Mei pleaded guilty in September 2015 to a charge of honest services fraud and admitted to taking bribes from Singh relating to the “pay-to-play” nature of the town, according to Newsday.

Sinnreich said that adjusting Singh’s loans with the town, which were already previously agreed upon to help his financially struggling businesses, was essentially a gift, dangerous to the town and forbidden under the state’s constitution, according to Newsday.

At a meeting with town officials described as pivotal to Singh eventually being awarded a townbacked credit line, Sinnreich testified that the former county executive stood adjacent to Singh and at one point placed a hand on his shoulder and expressed it was important to help the struggling restauranter, according to Newsday.

Also at that meeting was former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto. Venditto was found not guilty on 27 federal charges including bribery and wire fraud in May 2018.

The agreements with Singh did not require him to spend loan proceeds on the town and did not control how the loans would be used, according to Newsday.

Sinnreich said that following that meeting where he voiced his opposition to the deal he was excluded from further matters regarding Singh’s loans with the town.

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LIU Post track teams on their marks

BY I DA Y N N E R LAGERQVIST With the East Coast Conference Championships coming up next, the LIU Post men’s and women’s indoor track teams gathered for a workout at the Pratt Recreational Center’s indoor track on campus. With a smaller roster than last year but a lot of dedication, the athletes expect to perform at their best.

Last year, the women’s team ended up in third place and the men’s team in fourth place. A lot has changed since then. The announcement of the merger between the LIU Post and the LIU Brooklyn athletic teams led to some athletes deciding not to run this year. The roster has shrunk, mainly on the men’s team. Last year they had 25 active athletes.

This year they have 11 to 12 boys who are active, according to head coach Kevin Buckley. “On the men’s side, we have lost kids. We got a couple of kids injured, some transferred and some just didn’t come back from last year,” Buckley said.

The turbulence caused by the athletic merger has been a challenge for the athletes, but Buckley, who is head coach for both the men’s and the women’s team, is pleasantly surprised with how his athletes have handled the situation. “The kids who are here, they really hung in,” he said. Buckley is particularly delighted with the women’s team. “The women’s team gets a grade of A for keeping their focus, practicing, going

From left: Nicolette Agostinacchio, Kathryn Elnick, Margaret McKeever and Kaitie Schillaci through everything and succeeding when the vast majority won’t be running next year,” he said.

The reason why many of the athletes won’t run next year is because of the merger. The indoor track teams will be located on the Brooklyn campus, which creates problems for Post athletes.

Not all majors are offered at both campuses, which will prohibit a move for athletes who want to continue with their major. Buckley also explained that they have a very established Division I team at Brooklyn and a majority of his athletes will not be offered a spot on that team.

Despite the changes, Buckley has high hopes for the upcoming championship and expects a lot of personal records. “Everyone should have their best times,” he said. He also hopes to get some of his runners qualified for the IC4A/ECAC Championships in March, where the runners will

compete against a majority of Division I runners. “We are looking to be as good as we can. Even though we are a little bit out of business, we will keep on going and keep on trying,” Buckley said.

One of the strongest athletes who will compete at the ECC Championships is sophomore marketing major Destyn Harding.

Coach Buckley describes him as “the hardest worker you can possibly want.” He runs the 60-meter dash, 200-meter dash and the 4×400-meter relay. At last year’s ECC’s, Harding finished second in the 60-meter dash and fifth in the 200-meter dash. This year he has his mind set on the gold. “I expect to win the 60 and to be top five in the 200,” Harding said. Coach Buckley has high hopes for Harding, especially in the 60-meter dash. “He is a definite threat,” he said. Moving forward, Harding recently qualified for the IC4A Championships.

Another potential scorer is senior political science major Kaitie Schillaci. “She is back in form again. She was a bit out of form, but she is running very well now,” Buckley said. Schillaci runs both indoor and outdoor track and needed some time to adjust to the faster indoor tracks. “Getting indoors is always a little bit harder because you are coming from cross country where it’s all outside and long distance. It’s a transition and you got to wake your legs up,” she said. Schillaci agrees that she did not perform as well as she hoped in the beginning of the season, but said that she is stronger now and more confident. Her goal for the weekend is to beat her personal record. “I ran at 3:09 last weekend and that is my personal record so if I can run at 3:05 or 3:06 maybe that would be nice,” she said. When it comes to the team, she hopes they can place themselves among the top three teams.

In addition to Harding and Schillaci, junior Alexandria Okon is a runner who is expected to perform well. “She is the ECC preseason athlete of the year, the favorite in the 500-meter, where she is the defending league champion and the meet record holder and she is the favorite in the 800-meter, where she has the best time of the year,” Buckley said. What distance she will be running at the ECC Championships is not decided. “She can’t run both. They are too close together,” Buckley said.

Okon was not present during practice on Feb. 8 due to a visit

to LIU Brooklyn, where she most likely will be running next year.

Both the men’s and the women’s team have many other runners who Coach Buckley sees as potentially scorers. He mentioned, among others, Margaret McKeever, who will compete in the 1000-meter dash, Nicolette Agostinacchio and Nataly Ramirez in the 500-or 400-meter dash, Jacqueline Ginty in the 60-meter dash, and Jeffrey Reyes in the 1000-meter dash, where he is the meet record holder.

This East Coast Conference Championship will be Coach Buckley’s last as head coach for the LIU Post track teams, due to the merger. When the announcement of the merger reached him, he decided to not be a part of it.

The head coach for LIU Brooklyn, Simon Hodnett, will be responsible for the track teams next year.

In his 45 years as a coach, Buckley has spent the last three as head coach at LIU Post. “I have enjoyed my time here but now it’s time to stay home and read a book all day or find something else. We will see what happens but it was a good run,” he said.

The East Coast Championship will take place on Saturday, Feb. 16 at Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex, Staten Island.

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the awardwinning student newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer.com, and is republished here by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

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The beginning of the end for Post baseball

BY M Y L ES G OL D M A N The LIU Post baseball team will play its first game of its last season in green and gold on Feb. 15. Instead of giving up or forfeiting the season, the baseball team is using the heartbreak due to the merger of the LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn athletic teams as motivation.

Last season, the Pioneers made it all the way to the east coast conference championship and had a winning percentage well over .500.

Michael Gaffney is ready for this season as it will be his last as head coach.

“My thoughts going into this season are that we have to try to enjoy each other as much as possible; we’re going to try to win as many games as possible and that’s the bottom line,” Gaffney said. “I really am impressed with the players and the way they push each other; the way they’re not taking the current situation for granted is awesome and it’s actually inspiring.”

Junior LIU Post health science major and first baseman, Zach Fritz emphasized the cohesiveness of the team.

“We just stick together and play for each other. Our chemistry is strong right now and that sometimes matters more than talent,” Fritz said.

However, Fritz is still a competitor and wants to win it all, especially this season.

“My goal for this season is to win a championship and beat every team that doubts us and thinks that we are packing it in because of the school merge,” Fritz said.

Senior LIU Post philosophy major and business minor Johnny Dehler, out-

fielder, will do whatever it takes, even affect his statistics to win it all this year.

“If I strike out 20 times this season and it somehow helps us win a championship, then I want to strike out 20 times.

My performance does not matter to me and when I look back at our most impressive season two years ago, I didn’t play much but I had the most fun, so I am fine replicating that if we can win each game doing it,” Dehler said.

Due to the athletic merger of the LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn teams, some players did have to make the tough decision to walk away from the team, but that isn’t affecting the team’s morale. In fact, it seems to have reinforced the morale of those who remain on the team.

“These guys could have left mid-year and we did have a few guys leave midyear because they did what was best for them,” Gaffney said.

“Everyone that wants to be here is here. Some players left because it was the best choice for them and good for them; why shouldn’t they do that? But everyone that is here is committed to winning the regional championship. There is zero slacking this year,” Dehler said.

This is an emotional finale for the LIU Post baseball team; it’s going to be exciting to see what lies ahead this season.

The season opener on Feb. 15 will be in Tampa against the University of Tampa. The team’s first home game is on Feb. 28 against the University of New Haven.

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the award-winning student newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer.com, and is republished here by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

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