Guests enjoy a Port Tiki ride. The 10-passenger custom boat provides private cruises throughout Manhasset Bay.
The North Hempstead Town Board was scheduled to continue a hearing on Sept. 1 to consider the repeal of a 50-year-old section of town code that allows only hospitals, facilities administered by a hospital or facilities affiliated with a hospital to terminateDuringpregnancies.anAug.4 meeting, the vote to continue the hearing was approved 4-2 along partisan lines with Republican Supervisor Jennifer DeSena absent due to what was said to be a longstanding family commitment.Although not present at the initial hearing, DeSena will have the chance to vote this Thursday on the ordinance she said she was in favor of repealing.
“Although I was unfortunately unable to be there in person tonight to cast my vote due to a longstanding prior family commitment, I support the repeal of this chapter and would have voted yes for it, as it brings North Hempstead’s Town Code into conformity with state law, and removes a chapter of our code which is unenforceable and superseded by the New York Public Health Law,”
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Congressional candidates Robert Zimmerman and Laura Gillen won their respective primary elections despite a lower turnout from Democratic voters throughout Nassau County than June’s gubernatorial primary. A total of 46,229 votes were cast in both the 3rd and 4th Congressional District Primary elections two weeks ago. Officials from the Nassau County Board of Elections said nearly 11% of registered Democratic voters cast ballots for the congressional primaries, more than 3% fewer than those who voted in the state’s gubernatorial primary in late June. New district maps were submitted recently by a court-appointed special master and have been viewed as more neutral compared to ones that were rejected by a state appeals court earlier this year. But the newly-drawn lines forced the Congressional and state Senate primaries to take place in August rather than June with the gubernatorial primary, causing concern that fewer people would vote. The 3rd Congressional District race, comprised of Zimmerman, activist Melanie D’Arrigo, former Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman, Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan and Reema Rasool, racked up 26,520 votes.
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DeSena said in a statement following the meeting.Chapter 41A in town code was adopted on Aug. 10, 1971, one year after the state Senate legalized abortion up to the 24th week of pregnancy and two years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade, which permitted abortions during the first two trimesters of pregnancy
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Beginning Sep. 6, West Shore Road will temporarily be reduced to one lane in both directions, Coun cilwoman Mariann Dalimonte an nounced.Thiscomes as part of the Long Island Sound Cable Modernization Project. It will see the Y-49 Transmis sion line replaced by the New York PowerDalimonteAuthority.said work will be gin on Sep. 6 and it is expected to last two weeks. Work will be done between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. West Shore Road will still be ac cessible, but there will only be one lane of trafc in each direction. The project is the frst of several investments the power authority will make as part of VISION2030. Ex pected to be fnished in 2023, this step will replace about 10 miles of transmission line in Nassau County. The power authority says it will increase efectiveness and ensure steady electricity. It will also add more manholes, replace fber optic communication in Nassau and West chester counties and upgrade in strumentation to give the line more operational fexibility and reduce the risk of Teamsfaults.will set up work sites above manholes and travel along major roadways in Roslyn, Mineola, East Williston and Port Washington. Ofcials do not expect any interrup tions in power service because of the project.
South Salem Elementary School’s Clif Way gate entrance will be opened once more for walkers, reversing an earlier decision, Principal Pia Ferrante announced.Ferrante emailed parents Fri day detailing the results of an Aug. 25 meeting on the matter. She said the school has hired a second secu rity guard and additional staf to help with arrival and dismissal. “This means both the Clif Way door and the Clif Way gate will be open for independent walkers only,” she wrote. “We will reduce additional trafc on the campus by not allowing chaperones at Clif Way to continue with the goal of increasing student safety at FerranteSalem.”also discussed the initial protocols for Clif Way users until fur therDuringreassessment.arrival and departure, the Clif Way door will remain locked, with regulated access in and out of the school provided by a security guard and/or additional personnel.
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A map of the Y-49 transmission line. West Shore Road in Port Washington will temporarily have one lane in each way starting on Sept. 6, according to Councilwoman Mariann Dalimonte.
The Clif Way dismissal will begin at 2:55 p.m. The gate will be opened for all independent walkers. Parents may meet their children at the gate but are not permitted on campus dur ing dismissal.Ferrantesaid that the safety com mittee will review these processes in September.
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Two-acre property built in 1851 as stable for Vincent Astor Estate, converted to house in 1972
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The Sands Point barn-turned-home is listed for $2.399 million. The two-acre property at 87 Middle Road.
House-turned-barn listed for $2.4M
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Constructed in the 1850s, a barn-turnedhome in Sands Point has been listed for $2.399 million.Inthe listing, the two-acre property at 87 Middle Road is described as a “once in a lifetime chance to own a piece of Sands Point history.”The 6,615-square-foot home is in Harbor Acres, a subcommunity within Sands Point. The five-bedroom, three-story house also has five Evenbathrooms.though the property was expanded and renovated in 1972, many of its original qualities are still visible. Along with decks, patios and specimen plantings, it also has a companion three-bedroom cottage. “This unique converted barn transports you to a bygone era while offering today’s amenities,” the listing states. It also has an indoor pool. It offers beach and tennis rights. The structure, built in 1851, was used as a stable on the historic Vincent Astor Estate. Astor was a well-known businessman and philanthropist. When his father, John Jacob IV, died on the Titanic in 1912, he inherited a fortune believed to be worth more than $87 million. He was also the owner of the business that published Newsweek. It is in the Port Washington Union Free School District. The annual property tax is $45,719.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF BOTH OFFICIALS Gov. Kathy Hochul endorsed Robert Zimmerman for Congress on Saturday.
“Robert’s victory refects the broad coalition of community leaders, orga nized labor, and so many who have held or presently hold elected ofce,” Hochul said in a statement. “His lead ership on defending a woman’s right to choose, standing up for gun safety, and 33-year career as a small business owner, uniquely qualify him to be an efective member of Congress.”
Governor’s endorsement comes after Democrat’s primary victory in crowded field last week
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“I am honored and grateful to have the support of Gov. Kathy Ho chul,” Zimmerman said. “In her his toric tenure as our state’s frst woman governor, Kathy Hochul has shown great leadership in defending abor tion rights, being a ferce advocate for anti-gun violence legislation, and ensuring New York State remains a leader in fghting the climate crisis.” Zimmerman, 67, is co-president of ZE Creative Communications on Bond Street in Great Neck, a public relations frm he started 33 years ago with Ron Edelson and a Democratic national committeeman. He defeated North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kai man, who came in second place with 6,884 votes for 26%. Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan was in third place with 5,296 votes, Melanie D’Arrigo received 4,197 votes and Reema Rasool re ceived 661 votes. If elected, Zimmerman would become the frst openly gay member of Congress from Long Island and Queens as would his Republican chal lenger, George ZimmermanSantos.previously worked as a congressional aide on Capitol Hill for Congressmen Lester Wolf, James Scheuer and Gary Ackerman. His ad vocacy also led to his being nominat ed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Presidential Com mission on the Arts and by President Barack Obama to serve on the Nation al Council on the Humanities. The businessman referred to nu merous pieces of legislation in state governments aimed at compromising voting, abortion and the LGBTQ+ com munity’s rights, among other things, as threats to the country’s fabric. Notable endorsements for Zim merman include former U.S. Secre tary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, former Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, state As semblyman Charles Lavine and state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. New district maps were submitted recently by a court-appointed special master and have been viewed as more neutral compared to ones that were rejected by a state appeals court ear lier this Whileyear.the 3rd Congressional Dis trict under the new proposal does not extend as far west as the Bronx or West chester, it does stretch to more southern parts of Nassau County, such as Hicks ville and Massapequa. The new lines do exclude the parts of the district that now stretch into Sufolk County, mainly Huntington and Smithtown. Hochul, who defeated Suozzi in the June Primary, will look to be come the frst female governor of the state elected to a full four-year term after being promoted from lieutenant governor following Andrew Cuomo’s resignation last August. Hochul was a representative in the state’s 26th Con gressional District from 2011 to 2013 before becoming lieutenant governor. The governor said she has “priori tized keeping our communities safe, bringing down the cost of living for New Yorkers, and investing in schools to get our kids back on track,” accord ing to her website. She will face U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) on Nov. 8 in the state’s general election for governor. Zeldin secured the Republican nomination, easily besting Andrew Giuliani, for mer Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino and businessman Harry Wilson.
Gov. Kathy Hochul endorsed Great Neck resident and fellow Demo crat Robert Zimmerman in the 3rd Congressional District race Saturday. Zimmerman won the district’s Democratic Primary last week after receiving more than 9,400, or roughly 35%, of the votes. Hochul, who aced the Democratic Primary in the guber natorial race in late June, said she will work “tirelessly” with Zimmerman to improve the quality of life for middleclass families if they are both elected.
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A year after placing a steel beam from the World Trade Center to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Town of North Hempstead will be hosting a memorial service at Manhasset Valley Park that Sunday morning. The ceremony, officials said, will take place at 8:15 a.m. Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena and Clerk Ragini Srivastava discussed the importance the attacks continue to have on the North Hempstead“Ascommunity.weprepare to observe the 21st Anniversary of these tragic attacks on America, it is important that we commemorate this day as the passage of time does not diminish the tragedy that our nation suffered,” DeSena said. “56 North Hempstead residents lost their lives in the attacks, so it is especially significant that we come together as a community each year to honor their memory.”“Wewill gather in somber reflection and commemoration of those lost in the tragic events of Sept. 11,” Srivastava said. “On this 21st Anniversary, may we continue to heal and rededicate ourselves to peace throughout the world.” Officials presented the 19-foot monument, a steel beam salvaged from the wreckage, with a plaque listing the names of the 56 North Hempstead residents who died directly in front of it. The beam is visible from the LIRR overpass, the rail line so many of the victims took on their way to work that day. It is also pointed and angled directly at ground zero, 17 miles away. Other municipalities and villages throughout the North Shore are holding their respective ceremonies in commemoration of the anniversary. Residents are invited to join the Floral Park Board of Trustees and Fire Department to honor those whose lives were lost twenty-one years ago.
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Park will be holding a ceremony at Kelleher Memorial Field at the corner of Stratford Avenue and Syracuse Street on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 4 Eastp.m. Williston will hold a remembrance ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. at on the village green. A reading of the names will take place to pause and reflect on lives of Michael Cahill, Jonathan Connors, Robert Jordan, Thomas Kuveikis and Peter Owens Jr. A candle lighting will take place and a wreath will be placed on the Sept. 11 memorial. The 9-11 Memorial Service will be at Manorhaven Village Hall, 33 Manorhaven Blvd., at noon on Sunday, Sept. 11. In their reflections on that day at Ground Zero, they will commemorate the victims, the heroes and their families. Light refreshments will follow.
A commemorative service will be held at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, September 11 at the Relic Memorial located in front of Village Hall located at One FloralMineola’sBoulevard.annual Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony will take place Sunday at 8:30 a.m. in MemorialWillistonPark.
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A memorial for the three women killed in a car crash in May stands outside The Inn at New Hyde Park. The driver charged with killing them has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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New Hyde Park has installed “no left turn” signs at every north-south intersection along Jericho Turnpike in the village in response to a fatal crash in earlier in May. There are a total of 21 signs that have been put up and Mayor Christopher Devane says more safety measures may be implemented on the state road in the future. Because Jericho is not a village road, additional stop lights or cameras need to go through the state.“We’re still looking at other things that may come about,” Devane said during Thursday’s board of trustees meeting. “There are some things we can possibly make work.” Dante Lennon of Freeport, 22, is charged with killing three backseat passengers in a 2010 Lincoln Town Car leaving The Inn in New Hyde Park following a Sweet 16 celebration at the venue prior to the crash. Marlene Lu and Ho Hua of Queens and Tu Nguyen from North Carolina were the mother, aunt and cousin of the party’s host, respectively. All three were pronounced dead at the scene. Devane added that although the village is doing everything it can to ensure safety on the roads it cannot prepare for everything or assume every driver will abide by the signs. “I’ve watched the recording and one thing you can never plan for is illegal criminal activity,” Devane said. “That car was speeding that night and there’s an allegation the driver was intoxicated. I ask everybody to keep that in mind and that we will do anything to keep our residents, drivers and Jericho Turnpike safe.” According to court documents, Lennon acknowledged he had consumed alcoholic beverages before driving. His preliminary blood alcohol content of .88% was higher than the legal limit of .08%, according to the documents. fatal crash
Both Bynoe and Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D-Freeport) said Republican legislators have not shown a shared sense of concern about this proposed amendment. The release claimed Republicans this year have been seeking to “run out the clock” and be forced to approve gerrymandered legislative districts.
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The redistricting process occurs across the country every 10 years following the release of U.S. census data. Prior to the data being released this year, Abrahams led the charge in trying to have the county Legislature adopt an independent redistricting committee to keep a majority of the power from one party. In 2013, the Republican majority’s proposed district map was approved by a 10-9 vote.As of now, redistricting is delegated to an 11-member board made up of five voting members from each party, with the last member being a nonvoting chairperson picked by the county executive. Republicans currently hold an 11-8 majority in the county Legislature. The committee, Abrahams said, would preserve the boundaries of cities, towns and incorporated villages.
“Nassau County residents deserve a fair, orderly and transparent redistricting process that respects their feedback and input, and we must swiftly correct this conflict if we are to meet that standard,” Abrahams said in a statement. “It is time for our counterparts to begin treating this process with the seriousness and urgency that it deserves.”
“In the interest of ensuring that we eliminate confusion for the residents of our county, we believe that we need to address a conflict that has materialized as a result of the New York State amendment and change to the election process that now allows for the June primary,” Bynoe said in an interview. Bynoe said the amendment would also help pave the way for an “orderly and transparent process” and so constituents can know exactly who their representatives and candidates are.
Democratic legislators advocating to revise redistricting deadlines to benefit constituents
Officials from the Minority Caucus proposed an amendment to the county charter last week.
Officials from the Nassau County Legislature’s Minority Caucus are pushing for an amendment aimed at making the deadline to adopt district lines two months earlier than nowAplanned.release from the Minority Caucus Aug. 19 said the county charter and state election law require candidates running for office to collect petition signatures prior to the Legislature’s adoption of new district lines. The proposed amendment would make the Legislature adopt the new lines by Jan. 9, 2023, rather than March 7, 2023. In 2019, New York shifted to consolidated primary elections to be held in June. County-level primaries throughout the state were held in September prior to the change three years ago. The county’s deadlines were not updated following the changes, so the petitioning process remained the same under the previous election cycle. Nassau County Legislator Siela Bynoe (DWestbury) was forced to suspend her congressional campaign because of newly drawn lines adopted by the state following her gathering petition signatures to appear on the ballot. On May 20, newly drawn congressional maps were approved by a State Supreme Court judge. The maps were submitted by a courtappointed “special master” and have been viewed as more neutral compared to ones that were rejected by a state appeals court several weeks prior.
Minority Caucus seeks charter amendment
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Manhasset students finalists in tech event
“Living on Long Island near numerous bodies of water, water pollution is a visible issue that we see on a daily basis,” Palmadessa said.
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A pair of Manhasset High School students were finalists in an international technology competition earlier this month. Manhasset Juniors Ava Malysa and Samantha Palmadessa were one of 11 teams throughout the world that competed in the 2022 Spellman HV Clean Tech Competition. Their project was entitled “Electrocoagulation with Aluminum, Copper and Zinc for Aqueous Methylene Blue Remediation and Sustainable Energy Production.”Though the pair of students did not place in the top 3, they did receive $1,000 for their research and were one of five teams selected throughout the United States. Their first-hand interactions witnessing water pollution throughout Long Island, they said, sparked their decision on this research topic.
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Greenvale-based Laffey Real Estate has been mandated to pay $65,000 to correct discriminatory practices and carry out fair housing trainings, state Attorney General Letitia James announced. In 2019, the Office of the Attorney General and the Department of State launched investigations into Keller Williams Greater Nassau (Garden City), Keller Williams Realty Elite (Massapequa) and Laffey Real Estate (Greenvale).The examinations discovered realtors connected to these firms discouraged people of color from purchasing homes in white neighborhoods. They also applied different standards to them than to white homeowners and acted in other prejudiced ways. As part of the settlement, Laffey Real Estate must pay the state $30,000 for penalties and costs of investigation and Suffolk County $35,000 to undergo fair housing tests. They must also create an online form for potential buyers and sellers to report suspected prejudice and hold fair housing trainings for their agents quarterly.James and Gov. Kathy Hochul criticized them and two other firms’ behavior in a press release shared on Tuesday. They both said that New York will not accept discrimination. The release included two paired tests conducted on Laffey Real Estate agents in their Huntington and Great Neck offices. During both cases, they found that Laffey Real Estate’s agents discriminated against homebuyers based on race, color and national origin, in breach of the Fair Housing Act. In Huntington, Laffey Real Estate was found to have required a potential Black homeowner to get a preapproval letter from a mortgage lender before being shown a home. They did not hold a white homebuyer to the same standard. A Laffey Real Estate representative in Great Neck advised a Hispanic potential homeowner to narrow his search to an area he could afford despite not knowing his financial position.
Nassau joins congestion pricing hearing supports endavor to raise entry price into Manhattan, urges for ‘reasonable’ uptick
Nassau public officials and residents voiced a variety of viewpoints on what many expect to be a divisive debate during the first public hearing over the proposed Central Business District Tolling Program for drivers entering Manhattan. The hearing began at 5 p.m. on Thursday. MTA officials said that 391 speakers from the city and surrounding areas registered for the Zoom event, which lasted almost seven hours. During the hearing, each speaker had three minutes to share their thoughts. MTA officials on the call included Deputy Chief Operating Officer Allison C. de Cerreño and attorney Louis Oliva.
Democrat and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso referred to the proposal as a “win-winwin.” Beyond exceptions for emergency vehicles and those transporting persons with disabilities, he said it should proceed with as few exemptions as possible.
The MTA’s proposed congestion pricing plan, according to the project’s environmental assessment, could increase the daily entry fee into Manhattan. The plan calls for a toll to be paid to enter a zone that extends from 60th Street to the Battery. State Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-North Hills) and Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) kicked off theKaplanfestivities.voiced her support for the endeavor. In particular, she said that the pandemic has made matters worse by straining the MTA’s resources and compromising recent advancements made to the Long Island Railroad.
“It’s important that we do this right so that our region can benefit from new investments with the lowest cost to Long Islanders,” she said. “The promise of 10% proceeds for the Long Island Railroad, estimated at $100 million per year, will allow for transformative investment to take place in our local infrastructures like the purchase of desperately needed new train cars and overall improvements to service and reliability for Long Island commuters.” MTA officials expect congestion pricing to raise $1 billion per year, which would fund public transportation improvements. As Kaplan mentioned, 10% would go to the LIRR. She added she would not accept any project that does not “fulfill this promise.”Shesaid the tolling method the MTA should use is the one that meets the requirements for enhancing infrastructure while having the lowest costs for drivers.
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“This program stands to be a huge win for our region — $1 billion invested annually in our mass transit and our subways,” said Kaplan. “But it must be reasonable for residents who are still struggling themselves due to higher costs on everyday items.”
“I hope that the Traffic Mobility Review Board will consider conducting more outreach and holding these hearings in the fall specifically on the proposed pricing structures so that more New Yorkers will have the chance to have their voices heard,” he said. “Thank you again and please don’t forget to spread love — it’s the Brooklyn way. Peace.” Malliotakis, a Republican, was among those on the opposing side. She said the project is being “jammed down the throats” of all New Yorkers. Her constituents include Staten Island and southern Brooklyn.Shesaid the city needs more time and transparency to guarantee the effects of this initiative prior to its execution. To fully understand potential consequences, she said comprehensive environmental impact research and an economic impact study are required.“New York City is just getting back on its feet following the COVID pandemic,” she said. “We are trying to get more people to come to our city. I think that this is going to have a detrimental impact on that.”
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The first public hearing on MTA congestion pricing was held on Zoom. During the first public meeting, representatives and residents expressed a variety of opinions on what many anticipate to be a contentious discussion.
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Singles (60+) Discussion Group — Laws of Attraction in the Universe Sep. 7 @ 7 p.m. Lapham Meeting Room Join us for an informal discussion that aims to build community with intelligent discussion, laugh ter and social interaction. The group will be led by Lilyan Strassman, LCSW-R, Psychotherapist and Life Coach. The topic for this month is the Laws of At traction in the Universe. Register at www.pwpl.org/ events Nonfction Book Club Sep. 8 @ 1:30 p.m. BestsellingHybrid author Walter Isaacson returns with Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race, a compelling account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend of viruses and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to fnd that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. She became enthralled by the intense competition to dis cover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.
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Virtual Sandwiched In with Brian Rose — From the Hays Code to X-Rated Movies: A History of Hollywood Censorship Sep. 2 @ noon FromVirtualits very beginnings, motion pictures have delighted the public and upset authorities who felt that movies needed to be regulated to protect “in nocent” minds and discourage immorality. As cities and states established flm censorship boards, Hol lywood recognized they needed to take some kind of action. The result was the 1934 Hays Code. As the times changed, the MPAA flm rating system re placed the Code in 1968. And yet, ffty years later, the rating system of G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17 flms still continues to have its own set of problems. This virtual presentation, by flm and TV historian Brian Rose, will look at 125 years of movie censor ship and the many ways Hollywood has tried to deal with this continuing issue. This program is part of the Library’s month-long exploration of the topics of censorship and freedom of expression. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Register at www.pwpl. org/events Film: “California Split” (1974-108 min) Sep. 2 @ 7 p.m. Lapham Meeting Room Compulsive gamblers Bill Denny (George Segal) and Charlie Waters (Elliott Gould) have nothing in common except their terrible luck, but after a chance meeting at a Los Angeles card parlor, these two losers fnd that together, they make an unbeatable team. Story Time in the Garden Sep. 6 @ 9:30 a.m. Children’s Garden Join your favorite librarians in the Children’s Garden for stories, songs and fngerplays. Admit tance is on a frst come frst served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time. Register at www.pwpl. org/events Story Time in the Garden Sep. 6 @ 10:30 a.m. Children’s Garden Join your favorite librarians in the Children’s Garden for stories, songs and fngerplays. Admit tance is on a frst come frst served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time. Register at www.pwpl. org/events Support Group for Caregivers of Elderly Rela tives Sep. 6 @ 7 p.m.
Children’s Workshop Room Helping our elderly loved ones navigate the world is not easy. This support group for adults will give participants the opportunity to talk with others experiencing similar circumstances and share ideas for the best ways to handle a variety of situations. This informal group is hosted by Dawn Hagen, a Licensed Master Social Worker with over 20 years of experience in geriatrics and dementia care. Dawn is with the Willing Hearts, Helpful Hands Caregiver Support Program at Parker Jewish Institute. Please bring your questions and ideas. Register at www. pwpl.org/events Wednesday Matinee: Danny Kaye in “Up in Arms” (1944-105 min.). Sep. 7 @ noon Lapham Meeting Room Hypochondriac Danny Weems (Danny Kaye in his frst feature) gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He’s also lovesick when it comes to Mary Morgan (Constance Dowling), unaware that she’s in love with his best friend Joe (Dana Andrews).
A Citizen’s Guide to Disaster Preparedness and Community Resiliency Sep. 8 @ 7 p.m.
Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that would transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool to edit DNA. Known as CRISPR, it opened a brave new world of medical miracles and moral questions. The develo p.m.ent of CRISPR and the race to create vaccines for corona virus have hastened our transition to the next great innovation revolution. We are entering a life-science revolution. After helping to discover CRISPR, Doud na became a leader in wrestling with these moral is sues and won the Nobel Prize in 2020. Please join our librarians for a discussion of this work. Copies of the book are available on Libby and may also be reserved for pickup at the library. Par ticipants are invited to join us in person or via zoom.
Hybrid This important program will provide the most up to date information about what specifc steps everyone should take to be prepared for the next natural disaster. As a waterfront community it is important to recognize the risks and vulnerabilities that a changing climate pose to our peninsula and to be as prepared as possible. The presentation will review the current food maps of Port Washington, as well as maps showing the extent of fooding dur ing Superstorm Sandy. This presentation, led by Erin Molyneux and David Jakim, who are Board Mem bers of the Center for Disaster Resilience Solutions, will also explore what actions citizens and communi ties as a whole can take to prepare for an increase in the frequency and intensity of severe weather and storms. Find out what steps are needed to make our community as resilient as possible in light of the in creasing risks of climate change. This program is cosponsored by Transition Town Port Washington. This will be a hybrid event. Please register at www.pwpl. org/events Park Story Time Sep. 9 @ 9:30 a.m. Blumenfeld Park Join your favorite librarians at Blumenfeld Park (across the street from the library) for Park Story Time! No registration required. In case of inclement weather, story time will be held at the library. Sandwiched In with Dennis Raverty — The Fate of Modern Art in Nazi Germany Sep. 9 @ noon Hybrid Join award-winning teacher and art historian Dennis Raverty as he explores the Nazi cultural pol icy, which called for the eradication of modern art. An international faculty of distinguished modernists taught at the Bauhaus School of Art and Design in liberal Germany during the 1920s, but Hitler or ganized modern art seized from museums into his “Degenerate Art Exhibit” of 1936, which ridiculed modernism as an unhygienic. As a result, most of central Europe’s best artists, designers and architects moved to the United States. This program is part of
the Library’s month long exploration of the topics of censorship and freedom of expression. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please note this will be a hybrid event. Register at www.pwpl.org/events Film: “Fear” (“Strah”) (2020-100 min.). Sep. 9 @ 7 p.m. Lapham Meeting Room A Film Movement release. Svetla (Svetlana Yancheva), a widow who recently lost her job, is living near the Bulgarian-Turkish border. There are many refugees in her village due to its location. One day she meets Bamba (Michael Flemming), a refugee from Africa and her life is forever changed. Ivalyo Hristov scripted and directed this Bulgarian drama. First up, Marina Stepanska’s Ukrainian short, “Desaturated” (2019-10 min). Both flms are sub titled in English. How to Work With Recruiters Efectively — Part I & II Sep. 10 @ 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ManyVirtual job seekers have misconceptions about the basic role of a recruiter. To efectively work with a recruiter, one must frst understand the various types of recruiting, their role and how they work. In these two workshops you will learn how to fnd the right recruiter, what information you should share and how to navigate the process efectively and cautiously. Each of these workshops is unique and attendees are encouraged to attend both sessions.
Presented by Maria Themistocleous-Frey, President and Founder of Executive Consultants of New York and ECNY Foundation. Made possible by the Career & Personal Finance Center. Register at www.pwpl. org/events Moon Festival Sep. 10 @ 2 p.m. Lapham Meeting Room Hear stories about the Moon Festival, watch a moon cake demonstration, Chinese culture fashion show and the acrobatics of Yang Xiao Di. For chil dren in 1st to 6th grade with an adult. Registration required. Sponsored by The Library Foundation and The Children’s Advisory Council. Aztec Two-Step 2.0 — Legendary Folk/Rock Group Sep. 11 @ 2:30 p.m. Sousa Bandshell PWPL welcomes the enduring folk/rock group Aztec Two-Step, currently celebrating the 50th anni versary of the release of the act’s debut album, as part of our SoundSwap series. With four-plus decades as staples FM radio, major record deals, non-stop tour ing and even an appearance on David Letterman, Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman have impressed au diences with intelligent songwriting, dazzling lead guitar and soaring harmonies. Aztec Two-Step has also appeared in concert with such notable artists as The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, Talking Heads, Bon Jovi, Heart and many others. Since Neal’s retire ment, Rex and his wife Dodie Pettit, an accomplished musician and an original member of the cast of The Phantom of the Opera, are now the heart and soul of “Aztec Two-Step 2.0.” Together, they continue to expand and explore the band’s legacy. This event is sponsored by the FOL. Note: Please visit www.pwpl. org/events for information about the rain re-location for this event, if needed. Guía de Preparación para Desastres y Resil iencia Comunitaria para los ciudadanos Sep. 11 @ 3 p.m. Lapham Meeting Room Este importante programa provee información actualizada con los pasos que toda persona debe saber para estar preparada para un próximo desas tre natural. Como somos una comunidad que vive frente al mar es importante que reconozcamos los riesgos y vulnerabilidades que el cambio climático causa en nuestra península y tenemos que estar tan preparados como podamos. Durante la presentación se revisarán los mapas de las inundaciones actu ales en Port Washington, y también los mapas que muestran la extensión de las inundaciones durante la super tormenta Sandy. Además de esta present ación conducida por Erin Molyneux y David Jakim, que son miembros de la junta del Centro De Solución de Resiliencia Ante Desastres, también exploraremos las acciones que los ciudadanos y las comunidades enteras pueden tomar para prepararse a un aumen to en la frecuencia e intensidad del clima severo y tormentas. Descubra qué pasos son necesarios para hacer a nuestra comunidad lo más resiliente posible debido al aumento de riesgos de los cambios climáti cos. Copatrocinado por: Transition Town Port Wash ington. Nota: Un agradecimiento especial a Yesika Muñoz por su ayuda con la versión en español de la presentación. Story Time in the Garden Sep. 13 @ 9:30 a.m. Children’s Garden Join your favorite librarians in the Children’s Garden for stories, songs and fngerplays. Admit tance is on a frst come frst served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time. Register at www.pwpl. org/events Story Time in the Garden Sep. 13 @ 10:30 a.m. Children’s Garden Join your favorite librarians in the Children’s Garden for stories, songs and fngerplays. Admit tance is on a frst come frst served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time. Register at www.pwpl. org/events Hypertension Screenings — St. Francis Hos pital Outreach Sep. 13 @ 11 a.m. Reading Room Blood pressure screenings in the Joan and Ar nold Saltzman Reading Room. CPR / AED Training Sep. 13 @ 7 p.m. Lapham Meeting Room Be prepared to assist in an emergency! Join us for CPR and AED training, presented by Ildi Catu ogno, certifed CPR / First Aid instructor. Wednesday Matinee: Danny Kaye in “Won der Man” (1945-98 min) Sep. 14 @ noon Lapham Meeting Room After being murdered by gangsters, nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew (Danny Kaye) returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother Edwin Dingle (Mr. Kaye again) to help bring his killers to justice. Medicaid Signup Help Sep. 14 @ 2 p.m. North Study Room Free, walk-in assistance from the Nassau-Sufolk Hospital Council. Art Lecture with Thomas Germano — Savon arola and the Bonfre of the Vanities Sep. 15 @ 3 p.m. Hybrid Inspired by Fra Savonarola’s extremist public oratory, followers searched houses and public build ings for the sinful worldly art that he condemned. In 1497 Savonarola’s devotees held a “Bonfre of the Vanities” to deliberately destroy art, books, paint ings and sculpture of profane subjects. Join Profes sor Thomas Germano as he presents a visual lecture about the art and censorship in Florence Italy during Savonarola’s “Bonfres” of visual culture. This pro gram is part of the Library’s month-long exploration of the topics of censorship and freedom of expres sion. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please note this will be a hybrid event. Register at www. pwpl.org/events Park Story Time Sep. 16 @ 9:30 a.m. Blumenfeld Park Join your favorite librarians at Blumenfeld Park (across the street from the library) for Park Story Time! No registration required. In case of inclement weather, story time will be held at the library.
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The outside counsel found that Butera had violated the school’s sexual harassment policy by making the teacher uncomfortable. The policy has since been changed, but the school district has not disclosed how. The school board then correctly determined that Butera’s actions did not require punishment, citing the independent counsel’s recommendations. This was done internally out of the public eye as would be normal in cases like this.But then the complaint and subsequent investigation was leaked and later disclosed by NBC News and in a weekly newspaper. In May 2021 A firestorm followed.Some parents immediately called for Butera to resign, and about 200 seniors walked out inprotest. The students chanted “Hey hey, ho ho, Vincent Butera has to go,” and many, including some teachers, wore black in protest Butera responded to the controversy at a May 6 Board of Education meeting, saying it had been “extremely disheartening to learn that my actions were construed by even one person as anything other than completely professional.” He acknowledged hugging the teacher on two occasions. The first, he said, was at a retirement party with over 100 people in attendance, and a DJ playing music loudly, at a time when many teachers were upset that one of their colleagues had died and many there were “overwhelmed with emotion.”“And I hugged the complainant, in an effort to console her, as I did with others that day,” Butera said.
There’s something very wrong with that.
“I know Dr. Butera to be a humble, kind, caring and thoughtful human being and superintendent,” Johnson went on. “He is honest and he is self-aware. He is an extraordinary leader, the best I have ever worked with in my plus-40-year career.”The board’s response seems reasonable based on what Butera had done. But many parents and one school board candidate disagreed. District parent Stacey Kelly said that she reacted in “horror and disgust” to news of the investigation. She would later gather more than 800 signatures to a petition calling for Butera’s ouster. “Is Manhasset a zero-tolerance district when it comes to sexual harassment by students, staff, faculty and most especially the superintendent of the district?” Kelly said. “If the answer is no, then you as a board owe an explanation to the community as to why not. If the answer is yes, as it should be, then why does Dr. Butera still have a job? Why has he not beenActually,terminated?this depends on what the definition of sexual harassment is. Are two hugs in public and looking at a teacher or even staring at a teacher during visits to a classroom sexual harassment?Should the perceptions of one unnamed teacher that she was sexually harassed be enough to end the career of a distinguished educator? Should every complaint be made public?This seems to be a very dangerous standard.Amid these questions, Butera took a leave of absence that he would never return from. He cited his concern that the controversy surrounding the sexual harassment complaint would distract from the end of the school year and the upcoming graduations.
One wonders if many of the people calling for Butera’s head were equally demanding of President Trump. The Manhasset Board of Education unanimously approved a separation agreement with Butera in February that called for him to stay on paid administrative until his resignation became effective on July 11. The agreement allows him to receive the full remainder of his annual pay, $286,844, until his contract expires on June 30, 2023. But Butera’s problems did not end there.The state Education Department had launched an investigation of Butera in November 2021 based on a single complaint from the public that permits the department to determine if “certified educators lack good moral character.”
In the meantime, the school district has lost an effective leader even though neither the Manhasset school board nor state Education Department found he had not done anything that even required he be disciplined.
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Was Vincent Butera unfairly forced from his position as Manhasset superintendent by a few “bad actors” who incited a walkout of high school students as one school board member claimed? Was Butera a victim of a legitimate #MeToo movement seeking justice in sexual harassment cases that went too far? Did the punishment far exceed the alleged crime? It is hard to conclude otherwise. And even the possibility that a dedicated educator overseeing a quality school district could be wrongly pushed out of his job should concern us all.
In a civil suit or criminal case, the teacher’s identity would be known and she would be subject to questioning to clarify her side of the story. But school policy protected her right to privacy and she chose to never discuss the complaint in public as was her right What we do know is that in September 2020 the teacher, who is no longer with the school district, filed a complaint against Butera that he made her feel uncomfortable after hugging her twice in school and frequently visiting her classroom to “just stand in the back and stare.” She described it as “creepy.” Filing the complaint was certainly the teacher’s right. Sexual harassment is real and women’s concerns should be respected.TheManhasset school board responded correctly by following district policy and hiring an outside counsel from upstate to investigate the complaint.
At a time when a former American president who was elected with more than 20 credible sexual harassment complaints against him and not only refused to leave office after was defeated by more than 7 million votes but launched a campaign to overturn the election that included an assault on the U.S. Capitol, Butera’s leave of absence seemed like something from another century.
The second hug, he said, was one of several “congratulatory” hugs that the teacher received from administrators and a Board of Education member after reaching a “significant professional milestone.”Ofthevisits.
There is much in the case that remains unknown due to privacy concerns. This includes the identity of the elementary school teacher whose complaint against Butera set the wheels in motion for his leaving the district.
The Education Department closed its investigation two weeks ago. Butera said the state DOE’s conclusions were consistent with what the Manhasset board had concluded 18 months ago that discipline was not “Fornecessary.anyonein a leadership position, it is disconcerting to have unsubstantiated claims become a source of hurtful speculation and misinformation,” Butera said in a letter to Blank Slate Media.
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Butera said he routinely went to “classrooms throughout the district to observe classes, to spend time with students and staff, and to monitor and oversee district initiatives,” Butera said.Board members and school administrators rightly defended Butera. “There is no dispute that these events occurred,” Barbara Johnson, the deputy superintendent for business and operations, said. “There is, however, a dispute regarding Dr. Butera’s intent vs. the perception of the complainant. The board dealt with the complaint, issued a letter to the complainant, later circulated by unknown parties, stated its conclusion. As the board stated previously, it took appropriate action in the context of the nature of the complaint, which did not include termination.”
A good man gets a bad deal in Manhasset
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Ihave just returned from a weekend of high-stakes card games in Atlantic City. No, not in any casino; I was visiting a beach house full of friends and family, playing games with their little kids. Thank goodness their parents didn’t let us play for money. The first game was something called “Flutter.” It used a regular deck of cards. “You take half the cards and I take the rest,” explained my 4-yearold teacher. “Then we each put out a card, and somebody wins both cards.” I knew this game — it was just “War” by another name. I could do this.But as the game wore on, it resembled “War” less and less. “Oh, look at that,” I said. “You have a seven, but I have a ten. Looks like I win this round.” I put out my hand to take in both cards. “But the seven is black and ten is red and black beats red, so I win,” he said, scooping up the cards. I tried again. “Hey, I’ve got a King! There’s only one card that can beat a king,” I start to explain. “A three!” he crowed, taking my King with his “But…but….butthree. it was a black King,” I stammer. Uselessly. He is already finished with this game, and so to be honest am I. The next game was “Sleeping Queens.” It sounded completely made up to me, but cards of some kind were passed around, and then I proceeded to lose.“You just have to wake up the Queens,” one little girl told me. “How do I do that?” “The King wakes them up, silly. Like this.” And she proceeded to take the Pancake Queen off the board. “Now it’s your turn,” she told me. I thought about giving a speech on female empowerment and how nobody needs to wait for a King to wake her up; then I looked at my audience, waiting impatiently for me to finish my turn. I decided to just look at my cards instead. “So I guess my Turtle King can wake up the Moon Queen and take her away.” “You can’t do that.” “Why not? Isn’t that what you just did?”“You can’t because I have a sleeping potion and I put her back to sleep.”“Oh. Ok.” As long as there’s a goodWhenreason.my turn came again, I knew what to do. “I am putting your Queen of Pancakes back to sleep with my sleeping potion,” I announced. “You “Because“Whycan’t.”not?”I have a magic wand that erases the sleeping potion.” The game went on like that until nap time. I needed the break. As soon as I got home, I looked up “Sleeping Queens” and found it for sale on Amazon, so maybe it is a real game, and maybe it really does have the rules I ran afoul of that day. But it still feels completely arbitrary to me. But that experience awakened something in me — a memory of when my brother and his family visited me years ago. That was the spring when I decided to start my herb garden in flower pots on my screened-in porch. Apparently my nephew, about 7 years old, had never seen this before.“What are these?” he asked, puzzled.“These are my herbs,” I answered him. “This one is Basil.” “Ok … What’s this one?” “That’s Sage.” He looked up at me, square in the eyes, and asked, “You make up names for your plants? Like for pets?” “Oh, no, no,” I hastened to explain. “These names aren’t made up; that’s just what they are.” “Uh huh,” he said, clearly unconvinced. “So what’s this one?” “Um….” I didn’t want to answer, but couldn’t see any way around it. “That’s Rosemary.” I don’t think he ever really believed me. But now I know how he felt. It’s exactly the same way I feel about those Sleeping Queens.
Who needs rules? Not these players!
A Look on the Lighter Side
It’s time to give Joe Biden a break
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JUDY EPSTEIN
He’s old. He stumbles from time to time. He has to use a teleprompter. He fails to complete sentences. His polling numbers are at an all-time low. He botched up the withdrawal from Afghanistan. I have heard all of these comments about President Joe Biden, but maybe history will treat him much better because he has currently accomplished more than any president in the last 20 years. There is no doubt that the country has gone through a lot in the past four years. The COVID pandemic disrupted our lives in countless ways. The onset of inflation didn’t help the mood of the country. Politicians in general are disliked because they are a natural target in times when people are just angry and need someone to throw stones at. But if you take an objective view of Joe Biden’s first two years, there is a lot more on the plus side of the ledger than any recent president I can name. When Joe Biden ran for office, he promised that he would try to encourage more bi-partisanship in Washington. He made specific pledges about helping to upgrade our crumbling national infrastructure. He said he would urge Congress to do something on the issue of gun control. He spoke about the burden of student loan debt and said something had to be done. He stressed that the world was suffering mightily from the dramatic changes in our Whenclimate.youmatch the promises to the performance, President Biden has a lot to be proud of. The current Congress, which generally can’t even agree on the time of day, has passed a number of significant bills on a bipartisan basis with the full support and encouragement of the president. The infrastructure bill is pouring billions of dollars into new roads, bridges and tunnels. Our regional highways, such as the much-hated Long Island Expressway, are being repaved and improved with federal dollars. Our nation has had to deal with the constant sadness of mass killings with deadly guns. Happily, thanks to a bipartisan effort, Congress passed a gun control bill, the first since the assault weapons ban of the 1990s. Critics of the measure will say it didn’t go far enough, but the country finally got something done which has the potential to save lives. But facts are facts: No president, including Bush, Obama and Trump. were able to successfully get changes in the gun laws. The country is currently struggling with a dramatic shortage of microchips that are needed for all electronic devices. A non-electric vehicle might require as much as 3,000 chips and an electric vehicle uses twice as many. Personal computers and cell phones require chips as well. Presently, the vast majority of the microchips are manufactured in Taiwan. In July, Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act, which will provide $39 billion for the production of microchips in the United Regrettably,States.not every action taken by the Congress was on a bipartisan basis, but thanks to a united Senate Democratic delegation, the nation now has its first ever climate control bill. Under the Inflation Reduction Act, Congress has provided $369 billion for climate and clean energy projects. In addition, it allows Medicare to negotiate with drug companies, firms up the Affordable Care Act and taxes a number of companies that have dodged paying their share of taxes.Toadd to his string of successes, President Biden has signed an executive order giving 42 million American students a $10,000 to $20,000 reduction in their student debt, based on income limits. There is no doubt that some Republican senators will challenge the authority of the president to act by executive order, but it is still a case of promises made and promises kept.Joe Biden has had his share of problems, some created by his action or inaction. There is no way he can fix his sagging poll numbers and he can’t use an eraser to make the Afghanistan fiasco go away. But it is a plain fact that he will be treated much better by the historians than Donald Trump and most of the recent occupants of the White House.
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Short-term rentals like AirBnB provide a valued addition to communities, especially ones that are not in a tourist or commercial center. Airbnbs afford a lodging experience that is very different from commercial hotels – in the first place, they offer the convenience of a home – with kitchen, multiple bedrooms, laundry facilities and the like. As this woman noted, the guests who use AirBnB typically are coming to North Hempstead for some family or special occasion – a wedding, bar mitzvah, graduation or such. Most of the guests have ties to the community, or may even have been former residents (your former neighbors). As she pointed out, out-of-towners are good for a local economy –they are literally cash cows – dining out, shopping. Every dollar spent by a visitor ripples four times through a localI’veeconomy.stayed in AirbnBs in a small town in California, and an AirBnB was a godsend when a blizzard hit when we arrived at Capital Reef in Utah. It sidetracked our plan to do “wild camping,” but we were cozy, safe and warm in a lovely house just outside the park. There are huge advantages for property owners. Some people may be empty-nesters like this woman who is renting out a room rather than the whole house. These people not only provide revenue so that the empty-nester can continue to afford to keep the house but companionship.Others might be snowbirds whose homes would otherwise be vacant and abandoned for six months. How is that a benefit to the neighborhood to have a home vacant for months? AirBnB hosts hire housekeepers or local managers, paid for out of the guest fees, to maintain the property (added benefit of creating jobs). There are some negatives to short-term rentals. One is the complaint that by keeping a house off the market that would otherwise be sold, it limits housing stock and keeps housing costs high. That might be true, but on the other hand, it keeps home values up, which benefits you if you are the seller. I personally don’t see a problem with people coming and going after three or four days or so – thus the turnover.Butthe problems could be and should be mitigated – just as the accessory housing issue should be. Short-term rental property owners like AirBnB should be required to register – a practice perhaps that renewed every few years – and be inspected for health and safety. The town could create code that also sets fines for various breaches – sanitation, noise pollution, public nuisance – and even pull a license or registration for repeated offenses. If the situation gets out of hand, there could be further regulations, including on the number of properties at any one time that could get such a license or registration. The town could even impose a hospitality tax for short-term rentals. But weighing both sides – and the fact that housing costs are on the other side of the ledger from home values – the benefits outweigh the negatives, just as tourism, when done responsibly and sustainably, is a huge boon for a community. My understanding is that this item will be back on North Hempstead’s agenda at its Sept. 22 meeting. The board should not ban shortterm rentals, but instead properly regulate them.
The North Hempstead Town Board will be taking up a resolution to effectively ban short-term rentals like AirBnB. That would be a mistake. Those of us who travel appreciate how travel — more than anything (including reading books, banned or not, or listening to lectures by individuals banned or not) — opens minds, broadens perspectives, builds bridges and increases understanding. This is, in fact, one of the unique and important benefits of tourism that goes beyond the economic benefits that sustain a community. Travelers become ambassadors of sorts, whether going to a “foreign” country or another state or another community. We hear all the time how tourists are derided as being too insulated behind gates of posh resorts or some fancy commercial hotel to be a benefit to the local community. Short-term rentals, especially like AirBnB (the most visible and regulated form of short-term rentals), change that. It brings people into neighborhoods where they can really “meet the people,” see what communities and culture are really like.Just recently, as Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed a sister city and friendship agreement with Northern Jerusalem (Israel), he pointed to the desirability of “building bridges,” to which Northern Jerusalem Governor Israel Ganz said “I hope you will use it to come.” Friendship, relationships, understanding and bridges – personal and economic – come from personal contact.Now, North Hempstead is hardly a tourist destination so out-of-towners coming here are likely coming for family, friends, business, perhaps medical treatment or to support a patient in one of our world-class hospitals, or perhaps for a weekslong contract as a traveling nurse or health provider, a university lecturer or researcher, a business consultant, or possibly to survey the place to relocate altogether or start a business.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, in touting his stance on public education, referred to Florida “as the state where woke goes to die.” The expression “being woke” is a modern-day variation of “being awake.” It is often used today to suggest that one is knowledgeable about what is going on in the community, especially as related to racism and social injustice.Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who studied the psychological causes of political violence, advised an audience about what it takes to become an effective advocate. He said, you have to ask yourself two questions: Why am I awake? and, How do I relate to people who are asleep? Gov. DeSantis’ used the term “woke” as a political buzzword. His aim was to throw red meat to his base and, in so doing, to inflame them. To better grasp what is going on in Florida’s public education system, a bellwether of what is evolving in other red states, I watched an eye-opening interview by journalist Alex Wagner with Tatiana Ahlbum, a Florida social studiesAhlbumteacher.had just completed a three-day training offered to 2,500 teachers across Florida, that included instruction on teaching about slavery. One training slide noted that less than 4% of slavery in the Western Hemisphere was in Colonial America and that the number of enslaved people in America only increased through birth.Following is the interchange between Wagner and Ahlbum on this matter.Ahlbum: “There was this heavy emphasis that most of our enslaved people were born here, almost to say it was less Wagner:bad…”“…to enslave children for generations?”Ahlbum: “Yeah, we didn’t steal them and bring them on a boat, is kind of what it felt like.” Wagner: “Sort of making a difference between slaves born in the United States and those born in Africa; and, suggesting somehow that our moral debt is less because they were born into slavery as opposed to snatched from theirAhlbum:homes.”“Yes, that’s definitely how I felt they were portraying this information.”Wagner: “And, also less than 4% of slavery in the Western Hemisphere was in Colonial America. Is that to minimize the number of slaves that were here that still numbered in the millions?”Ahlbum: “I believe so.” It should be noted that there were almost 4 million slaves among a population of 31 million in the U.S. in 1860, according to the Library of Congress. The facilitators showed slides that contained quotes by slave-holders George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, professing their desire to see slavery abolished. The training did not mention that Jefferson raped at least one of his 14-year-old slaves Sally Hemmings, who was Jefferson’s property and mother to six of his children. Although there was a heavy emphasis on teachers using primary sources in the classroom, the facilitators advanced information in the training sessions that was not sourced. For example, no primary source was provided for either Washington or Jefferson’s quotations or for the stated percentage of founders who supported the abolition of Universityslavery. of Pennsylvania sociology and law professor Dorothy Roberts summed up what the Florida training omitted: “The law allowed white men to profit from their sexual assaults on Black women. Freed from the worry that their mixed-race offspring had any legal claim to freedom, white men could rape enslaved women with total impunity, maintaining their domination while increasing their wealth. Their control over Black women’s bodies was key to creating a permanent laborTheresupply.”appears to be little room for honest history in DeSantis’ Florida, the state where truth goes to die. The full interview cited in this column can be accessed on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/5kkmyRVPVeg
AirBnBs – essentially renting a room or even an entire house – make that possible. The facilities – very, very different from commercial hotels or motels – are ideal for families and particularly multi-generational families traveling together and people who are essentially wanting to live in a neighborhood. At a recent hearing, there were several people who complained about “outsiders” driving fast through their quiet streets, holding parties. Gosh, that sounds like just about everybody’s teenager. In fact, I question whether these complaints had anything to do with an AirBnB guest at all since guests have to be vetted and basically approved by the host, who also is vetted and approved by AirBnB to meet standards, and everybody rates everybody else. A host won’t accept a booking from someone who has received bad reviews, as one of the people who spoke at the hearing, who in fact is an AirBnB host, noted.
The Back Road VIEW POINT KAREN RUBIN View Point
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Town should regulate short-term rentals
ANDREW MALEKOFF
Long Islanders find ways to outwit COVID how we try, we can’t escape nature
“It’s an ill wind that blows no good” is something my father would say to me when I was a kid complaining about something or other. It’s another way of saying every cloud has a silver lining and it’s a pretty good way to think about life. My dad was an optimist and he did pretty well with that philosophy. Life often seems like a brutal battle and, as Marcus Aurelius said, more like a wrestling match than a dance. But the overriding character trait of humans and why doomsday predictions are always wrong is because humans adapt to things. We problem solve, we adjust and we overcome, especially in America. And so it is with COVID, the virus that simply will not go away. It killed millions and put the global economy on pause for two years. The travel industry, the sports industry, the entertainment industry, education, restaurants, cruise lines, the fashion industry—everything took a major hit. No one seems to know what the new normal will look like, but I did get a glimpse of it last week as I was taking my morning walk around my neighborhood. I began to notice that many homes are being expanded. McMansions are on the rise. And as Billy Crystal would say, “They look marvelous, darling.” They really do.As COVID forced us to quarantine, stay home and shelter in, no one dared to go to restaurants, go on trips or go to Broadway. And this meant that the nation did something it has rarely done before. It saved money. And as the cof-
fers swelled and the sun finally came out once again, we realized that for once we had money in the bank which we could spend. And so the spending has begun. Mostly the spending is on homes but not only on homes. I see new businesses opening up in Williston Park, which is the town I am most familiar with. For me personally I found the time to write a book proposal, get a contract with Routledge to publish it and finally complete it. It took two years. I call them the COVID years. When I ask my friends about gains accrued from the COVID years, they say things like more family bonding and business owners will say their firms are more productive since there has been less time wasted on commuting. Professionals and white collar workers who would ordinarily be spending upwards of three hours per day in cars or trains going to and from Manhattan were getting used to working from home.And this seems to have become the new normal with many professionals no longer being willing to drive into New York City for work. This has created a problem for major firms in NYC, which need staff to keep their law firms, medical practices and accounting firms in operation. But as I said about human ingenuity and adaptability, the response to this problem is that now big city firms are opening up offices on Long Island, which will not only benefit Long Islanders but it will benefit young professionals who are seeking employment but not too happy about traveling into Manhattan. One of my friends is Matt Kasindorf, a senior partner at Meister Seelig & Fein, the powerhouse NYC law firm. His firm has the full gamut of services, including Commercial Real Estate, Litigation, Corporate, Tax, Intellectual Property, Estate Planning, Criminal Defense, Crisis Management, Employment and Hospitality. But in order to expand he needs to attract young lawyers and he has decided to open a branch office in Jericho in those swank offices in the Jericho Quadrangle.He realizes that to attract bright Long Island lawyers he can no longer expect them to schlep an hour or more each way in traffic into Manhattan. His philosophy is “to build it and they will come.” This is yet another example of the silver lining on the cloud of COVID. Long Island will now have big city lawyers right down the block. COVID has been an incredible challenge for every family on Long Island, but we are all true New Yorkers. Americans are indefatigable, resilient, adaptive, practical, ingenuous and creative, a group of national traits referred to as American Exceptionalism. World War I did not stop us. World War II did not stop us. The falling of the Twin Towers did not stop us. The economic meltdown of 2008 did not stop us. And COVID did not stop us. This is American optimism and our secret ingredient that keeps us on top of the world. The reason tourists visit Manhattan is to see the Statue of Liberty, the High Line, Broadway, Little Italy, Times Square, the Empire State Building, and the great NYC skyline. The Indian and Italian and the Irish ironworkers built all of our bridges and roads and buildings and they call NYC “the land of manmade mountains.”Morethan any other city, New York City is a great big miracle that was built by fearless men who were undaunted and undeterred. And we moderns, guys like Matt Kasindorf or my neighbors who are expanding their homes, are the same way—undaunted and undeterred by COVID and its many setbacks. As the saying goes, that which does not kill us makes us strong. This is the way of human nature and especially the way of New Yorkers.
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LYNN CAPUANO Earth Matters EARTH MATTERS
In 1962, Rachel Carson described a “silent spring,” the consequence of chemical application to plants and soil in misguided and misunderstood attempts to control so-called pests.Today, I wonder if people would notice if the birds stopped singing because they were all dead or if the bees and crickets stopped buzzing because they were all dead. It seems most people are enclosed in their houses, offices, apartments or whatever structure they have chosen to isolate themselves in from nature and its bugs and dirt and heat. In those structures, the climate is controlled so the people inside don’t have to experience the heat and humidity or the blustery cold. The windows are closed tight all year round, holding in the heat in the winter or as soon as the temperature outside drops below 70 degrees and holding in the cool as soon as the temperature outside creeps over 70 degrees. Few people open the windows those first warm days of spring and even fewer leave them open through the summer and the blisteringly hot days. People are speechless when I say I haven’t turned on the air conditioning despite its being well into the 90s for a stretch of several days. I manage with fans, the breeze through the window and, if it becomes unbearable, I go to the library to work and then to the pool or beach to cool off at the end of thePeopleday. who avoid the outdoors, except in highly curated and controlled environments, miss a great deal. They overlook large swaths of the community around them like a family unconcerned about their lack of swim gear, splashing and playing at the beach on a seriously hot day. When was the last time you ran into someone and said “hot enough for you?” I can’t recall the last time I commiserated with someone over the heat since so many people escape to climate-controlled boxes for most of the year.There was a time when we experienced the weather and didn’t hide from it. And some people still do. Typically, they are the poor and people of color who work jobs outdoors and don’t have the luxury of working in a cool, temperature-regulated setting. And those who do can often still be found waiting outside for public transportation to get to and from work. This hiding from weather is just one example of how we have isolated ourselves from the natural world and created a way of life that relies on the fallacy that we are and can be separate from nature. Do people really believe that by living in built structures we have somehow vanquished nature and are no longer subject to its whims and Perhapspowers? we have forgotten that without nature there is no life. Through photosynthesis, the process of plants converting sun, air and water to food so they can grow, all other living things receive oxygen, a basic requirement for life. We then rely on the plants for food, as do other living things that human beings eat. Why do we cut ourselves off from this source of life and, even worse, abuse it to the point of destruction? We pave it over for roads or cut it down and clear it for development. The little we leave we persecute into submission with all kinds of chemicals to control what grows and what lives there and in the end, we’re left with nothing that is life-sustaining but is insteadTherelife-threatening.isareasonnature is called Mother Earth. Without the natural world, there would be no human world. We are completely dependent on her. It is time to get reacquainted with this giver and sustainer of life. Take a moment to go outside or even open your window and ponder how the tree breathes, because it does just like us. Consider how the plant distributes food throughout its structure just like our internal organs and biological systems do for us. We are not separate from nature but are very much a part of it. We have cut ourselves off for too long and have gone too far to segregate ourselves. It is time to course correct, open the windows, hear the birds and the insects, feel the heat and the breeze and embrace your kinship with nature.
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DR. TOM FERRARO Our Town OUR TOWN
ROBERT A. SCOTT, Ph.D. My Turn
Even more simply, the county can engage with an assessment database contractor whose program does not produce taxable value errors and perform a substantial Request for Proposal process that provides the County with a variety of strong, competent vendors capable of producing accurate assessment data. Instead, the county executive has relied on a tried-and-true political tactic — pass the buck elsewhere under the guise of a wasteful, lengthy audit of County assessments that have already been reviewed by touted independent assessment and appraisal experts.Thevaluations were not and still are not the problem — the assessment system itself is. Nassau County needs a leader who is interested in addressing the foundational issues that afflict the system, rather than just the façade.Withapropensity to help and promote highly connected and wealthy friends, we are not sure that this County Executive is willing to resist political allies to reform the assessment system for county taxpayers.
Political donations sustain assessment system
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FROM THE DESK OF DEBRA MULE DEBRA MULE Nassau County Legislator
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At a moment that calls for less politicking and more political courage, that is a shame. It is time to confront the core issues that plague the county’s assessment system, and the first step toward achieving that outcome is for the county executive to be transparent about his intentions and to explain how he plans on achieving his campaign promises.
Robert A. Scott Ph.D. is president emeritus at Adelphi University
Donations from tax grievance firms to the county executive and the Nassau County Republican Party help to sustain this vicious cycle — one that both shortchanges homeowners and undermines efforts to restore fairness to Nassau’s tax assessment system.The county executive and other Republican leaders should have the courage to reject political donations from the tax certiorari firms that exploit the broken system and mass settlement programs that provide little to no relief for our taxpayers.
After reading Newsday’s recent analysis of donations by a political action committee funded by tax grievance firms, (“Tax-challenge firms donate $256,725 to Nassau GOP candidates, committees”, Aug. 13, 2022; “Nassau tax firms donate to county politicians and taxpayers lose”, Aug. 21, 2022) it makes sense why Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has done little to address the purported assessment issues he endlessly campaigned on while running for office. Newsday’s reporting shows how the county executive and the Nassau County Republican Party benefit from a broken assessment system in the form of hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from tax grievance firms. So far, all County Executive Blakeman has done is punt the assessment issue to Comptroller Elaine Phillips — another office holder whose political fortunes were similarly buoyed by the largesse of the grievance firms. Amidst this inaction, the tax grievance firms have and will continue to make tens of millions of dollars in profits from homeowners who pay as much as half of their purported tax savings for an hour’s worth of work.
‘Defund police’ echoed in ‘defund education’
The attacks on higher education institutions ignore the missions of universities to create new understandings based on evidence, curate what has been thought and said, and criticize the status quo by asking “Why” and “Why not?” Universities are places where the probing of ideas through critical analysis can be disruptive because the goal is to find the truth based on evidence-based research. They are places that put a premium on science and evidence, even when long-held beliefs and opinions are challenged. Educators want students to have the skills and abilities to question assertions and assumptions and to distinguish between facts, opinion, and belief. They want graduates to be prepared as citizens, not just as Anotherconsumers.example of pushback from conservative voices concerns the removal and renaming of monuments and memorials dedicated to Confederate generals who committed treason by fighting against the MonumentsUnion.and memorials are expressions of values. They are constructed to commemorate people who are seen as exemplars of those values, a form of myth-making to honor the past. The naming of military bases for those who fought to preserve the system of slavery was an attempt at perpetuate the myth that the war was really about state’s rights. Today, book banning is argued to be a matter of local school board control over what ideas can be taught, another version of state’sSomerights.who criticize the teaching of this past apologize for our early founders by saying that they knew no better. However, during George Washington’s first year in office, the Society of Friends (Quakers) petitioned the U.S. government to ban slavery, an initiative they started in 1696. And 106 years before Woodrow Wilson segregated the federal workforce, Britain had already passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The fact that many people, including those elected to high office, benefitted from the slave system does not negate the active and public opposition to it throughout the land.When professors of history and textbooks discuss the history of slavery, it is to tell the whole truth, not the partial truth of American ideals partially fulfilled. The study of history is an examination of memory in all its forms. We study history and historical analysis to learn what came before, whether in politics, norms of behavior, or science and technology. History is necessary to understand art and social policy as well as law and philosophy because history is the study of context as well as of text. We need a national reconciliation with our history if we are to “to create a more perfect union”, as stated at the founding of our nation. The truth might hurt but should be cited in honor of the ideals of democracy. These truths are neither unpatriotic nor “politically correct.” They acknowledge that historical accuracy is a virtue and that our country was founded on ideals that were virtuous in aspiration if not always in action. America was founded by people seeking freedom who then proceeded to deny freedom to others. We must own up to this past. The study of history helps us think in terms of time, to understand how societies change. We should fund the police appropriately, honor the rule of law, and fund schools and colleges not only for career preparation but also for citizenship. This requires the teaching of history and critical analysis. We must know our history and know how to engage it.
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Debra Mulé, of Freeport, was first elected to the Nassau County Legislature in 2017. She represents the 5th Legislative District in the Nassau County Legislature.
The county executive should invest in a full reassessment to review every single parcel in Nassau County and then bolster the Nassau County Department of Assessment to actually defend the County’s assessments instead of relenting to political donors and allies. Maybe the County’s executive leaders can aim even higher by converting the County into a two-class system, providing assessments that represent true market values, and repealing the incredibly confusing “6/20” rule, which only benefits highvalue properties and does not actually keep tax increases from exceeding 6 percent per year or 20 percent over five Whyyears.not require utilities to submit yearly annual income and expense and inventory statements to make sure that residents are not unfairly carrying the tax load?
“Defund the Police” became a familiar slogan after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police in May 2020. The idea was not new but a longstanding argument that municipal police departments had become militarized with weapons and tactics borrowed from the Army. Advocates argued that a portion of police budgets should be diverted to community policing and social services. The cry became a focal point in the tensions between conservatives and liberals. These tensions were further exaggerated by the current rallying cry from the right to ban books about race and to defund schools and colleges for teaching about slavery. They claim that certain books and lessons make other students feel uncomfortable when discussing racism, colonialism, and slavery. Further, they claim that certain authors, mostly Black or liberal in perspective, are anti-American and un-Christian. The Center for the American Way of Life in Washington, D.C., working with the Idaho Freedom Foundation, was successful in advocating for multimillion-dollar cuts to Idaho universities for teaching about social justice issues, i.e., racism and other forms of discrimination in history and literature classes. Another of the center’s claims is that American institutions and corporations are caught up in identity politics. In this view, institutions are “woke” if they are alert to injustice and discrimination in society, especially racism. The allegation is that students are taught to hate the United States and that the only lens used to examine U.S. history is that of marginalizedStillgroups.other critics, such as former Florida Gov. Rick Scott, actively talked about cutting liberal arts courses and programs in favor of career preparation. They think of higher education as a preparation for jobs, not the advancement of knowledge, skills, and abilities for living a life as well as earning a living.
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TRIBUTE CONCERT FOR HARRY CHAPIN BACK
This year’s Harry Chapin tribute concert and food drive has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 6, after the original date of July 18 was canceled due to severe storms in the area.Nearly three dozen of Long Island’s top musicians and songwriters will take to the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow at 7:15 p.m. to perform the music of the late Grammy presswaydeathanniversaryinfoodlandablebringconcertgoersandvoritesdle”asforminghisorganizer16tributebreakoutsary—annualyear’sablebookChapinWildlivestreamedactivist.singer-songwriterAward-winningandsocialTheconcertwillalsobeviathe‘JustAboutHarry”(TheHarryTributeShow)Face-groupandwillbeavail-forlaterviewing.Thisconcert—the19thand17thattheparkwillmarkthe50thanniver-ofthereleaseofChapin’shit“Taxi.”TheJustWildAboutHarryconcertwillfeatureacts—includingconcertStuartMarkusandtrioGatheringTime—per-suchChapinclassics“Taxi”and“Cat’sintheCra-pluslesserhitsandfanfa-like“FlowersareRed”“StoryofaLife.”Theconcertisfree,butareaskedtodonationsofnonperish-foodtosupportLongIs-Cares,Inc.,theregionalbankfoundedbyChapin1980.ThisJulymarkedthe41stofChapin’stragicontheLongIslandEx-in1981—onthe day that he was supposed to perform on that very stage, since renamed for him. Several tribute show regulars were among the crowd in 1981 when what was supposed to be a joyous event turned into a vigil, Markus said.“Harry is so beloved in memory on Long Island,” Markus said. “You don’t have to look too hard to find someone who met him, whose school he did a benefit for, or someone who’s been helped by one of his charities. It’s so meaningful for the music community to come together and, in effect, do the concert he might have given.” Each act is encouraged to do its own interpretation of the song they do, Markus added. “We’ve had some amazing arrangements, from folky to country, torch-song style to hardTherock.”concert will also be a benefit for Long Island Cares, the Harry Chapin Food Bank. “The annual Harry Chapin tribute concert in Eisenhower Park is always a very special event for all of us at Long Island Cares because so many of Harry’s fans attend and are extremely supportive of Long Island Cares and the work we do to assist the more than 316,000 Long Islanders struggling with domestic hunger and high food insecurity,” said Paule Pachter, the nonprofit organization’s chief executive officer.As in past years, the “Just Wild About Harry” concert is being co-promoted by the Folk Music Society of Huntington, of which Markus is a board member. Harry Chapin lived in Huntington with his family. Besides Markus and Gathering Time, this year’s roster of performers includes newcomer JD Leonard, along with returning artists Roger Street Friedman, Frank Walker, Patricia Shih & Stephen Fricker, Robinson Treacher, Mike Barry, Debra Lynne & Lora Kendall, Joe Iadanza, MediaCrime, Judith Zweiman, Martha Trachtenberg, Robin Greenstein, Christine Solimeno, Grand Folk Railroad, and Russ Seeger, plus assorted side musicians.Also appearing will be an ensemble called “Will Sing for Food,” of which Pachter is a vocalist, which exists solely to do food drives and fundraisers for Long Island Cares. The concert will be held rain or shine, precluded only by thunderstorms. For more information, visit Parks-Recreation-Museums.nassaucountyny.gov/1767/https://www.
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Attendees swapped their summer shorts for kilts and hamburgers for haggis for the 60th Long Island Scottish Festival and Highland Games last Saturday. Thousands gathered at Old Westbury Gardens to display their Celtic pride. The event has been held there for 20 years and is one of Long Island’s oldest traditions. Organizers had canceled the event for the past two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The event’s aim is to inform the public about Scottish history and traditions. This is done through traditional entertainment, food and other activities. Some performers included the Scottish band Albannach, Bangers and Mash, world champion Highland dancer Isla Higgins, New York Celtic Dancers and Irish step dancers from the Ciara Greene School of IrishThereDance.were also animals for the children, which included a petting zoo, pony rides and a Scottish Dog Breed parade. For food, attendees had the choice of fish and chips, pies and sausage rolls. The competitions featured caber toss, tossing the sheaf and putting the stone, children’s races, children’s caber toss and tug of war, shortbread contests and antique British autos. In a 2010 survey, 5.4 million Americans reported having Scottish ancestry. returns after two-year
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The IDA defines dyslexia as a language-based learning disability that causes people to have difficulties with specific language skills, particularly reading. Students with dyslexia may experience difficulties with oral and written language skills, including the writing and pronunciation of words. What causes dyslexia?
The IDA reports that studies of brain images as well as the anatomy of the brain have indicated that there is a difference in the way the brain of a person with dyslexia develops and functions.
Answering questions about dyslexia
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Learning disabilities affect millions of people across the globe each year. Though learning disabilities are often discussed in ways that highlight how they affect students’ performance in the classroom, the International Dyslexia Association® notes that the effects of a learning disability like dyslexia can reach well beyond the classroom.According to the nonprofit organization LD Resources Foundation, Inc., which is dedicated to helping individuals affected by learning disabilities, dyslexia is the most common learning disability. Answering some common questions about dyslexia can help people affected by it, including adults, get the help they need to overcome it.
The LDRF indicates that individuals with dyslexia may find it difficult and overwhelming to read, write and speak. The Mayo Clinic notes that signs of dyslexia may be difficult to recognize before a child enters school, and symptoms vary depending on the age of the individual affected.Young children affected by dyslexia may learn new words slowly; experience difficulty forming words correctly; have problems remembering or naming letters, numbers and colors; or find it hard to learn nursery rhymes or play rhymingSignsgames.ofdyslexia may become more apparent once children enter school. At this point, kids with dyslexia may read well below the expected level for their age; have problems processing or understanding what they hear; find it difficult to find the right word or form answers to questions; have trouble seeing similarities and differences in letters and words; and have difficulty spelling, among other symptoms. Difficulty reading; problems spelling; avoiding activities that involve reading; requiring an unusually long time to complete tasks that involved reading or writing; and mispronouncing names or words are some of the symptoms of dyslexia in teens and adults. Can dyslexia be cured?
The Mayo Clinic notes that there is no known way to correct the underlying brain abnormality that causes dyslexia. However, various techniques have made it easier for individuals with dyslexia to do well in school and in the professional arena.Learning disabilities like dyslexia can affect individuals throughout their lives. But early detection and treatment can help students and adults overcome the challenges of dyslexia and other learning disabilities.
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How to support students interested in the arts
Schools are diverse communities in which people from all walks of life gather to teach, learn and pursue an assortment of interests and passions. Students are perhaps the best reflection of that diversity, as even small schools are home to young people who excel in sports, music, theater, and, of course,Manyacademics.youngpeople harbor a strong interest in the arts, which can provide some surprising benefits. For example, the National Endowment for the Arts reports that students with high arts participation and low socioeconomic status have a 4 percent dropout rate. That’s five times lower than their low socioeconomic status peers. In addition, a report from the Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research found that arts education experiences reduce the proportion of students in school receiving disciplinary infractions by 3.6 percent. Despite the myriad benefits of participation in arts education, which can include improved performance in the classroom, Americans for the Arts notes that not all students have access to art-based educational experiences. Parents of students who are interested in the arts can try various approaches to nurture those interests. Support school-based arts education programs. Funding for arts programs is perpetually in jeopardy. Each state and school district is different, but a 2013 report from the National Association of State Boards of Education found that federal funding for arts and humanities programs totaled roughly $250 million a year, while the National Science Foundation received around $5 billion annually. Arts and sciences are both important, and parents can support legislation that directs more federal funding for the arts while urging local legislators to direct more money to arts education. Make art a part of life at home. Americans for the Arts recommends that parents make the arts part of life at home. Participating alongside children as they sing, dance, draw, play music or pursue other arts-based interests is a great way to incorporate the arts into home life while showing kids how fun the arts can be. Research local performing arts schools. Children who exhibit an especially strong interest in the arts may benefit from enrolling in a school that specializes in performing arts. Such schools may be open to kids as young as five and extend all the way through high school. Some performing arts schools require prospective students to audition or apply. Arts high schools still offer instruction in core academic subjects, but parents should explore each school’s curriculum before deciding if a given school is right for their children. Arts education can have a profound impact on the life of a young person. There are many ways for parents to nurture and encourage their children’s interest in the arts.
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Volunteering can help students find a career path. A 2017 report from the U.S. Department of Education found that about 30 percent of undergraduates in associate’s and bachelor’s degree programs who had declared majors changed their majors at least once within three years of their initial enrollment. The same report noted that roughly one in 10 changed majors more than once. Those statistics suggest that many students are uncertain about what they want to study at the onset of their college careers. Volunteering before and during college can help students explore their interests and see where their skills are applicable. They can then rely on that experience as they choose a Volunteeringmajor. expands students’ social horizons. Volunteers serve and work alongside people from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. That’s a great way to see the world through a new perspective, and it also can positively affect students’ eventual careers. Professionals who have worked with people of various backgrounds are in better position to effectively communicate with a wider array of people, which can help them build a more diverse set of business relationships. Organizations recognize that value and often prioritize hiring candidates with the kind of strong interpersonal skills students develop through volunteering. Volunteering can be a great way for students to develop an array of skills that can benefit their personal and professional lives for years to come.
Volunteering is often seen through the lens of how volunteers help to improve their communities. Though there’s no denying the valuable role volunteers play in strengthening their communities, it’s worth noting just how much volunteers can benefit from donating their time and effort to worthy causes.
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A 2020 study published in the Journal of Happiness asked 70,000 participants about their volunteering habits and mental health. The study found that, when compared to those who did not volunteer, people who had volunteered in the previous 12 months were more satisfied with their lives and gave their overall health higherVolunteeringratings. can benefit anyone, and can be especially valuable to students, benefitting their overall health and helping in myriad other ways as well.
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How volunteering benefits students
Volunteering can get a foot in the door. The National Association of Colleges and Employers reports that employers expect to hire 7.2 percent more new college graduates from the class of 2021 than they did from the class of 2020. That’s encouraging news, but recent graduates will still face stiff competition as they look for their first job. Volunteering with an organization in their field can be a great way for current students and recent graduates to get their foot in the door. Even if a volunteering opportunity does not ultimately lead to a job offer, the experience students gain can help them stand out in a crowded pool of job applicants down the road.
Factors to consider before enrolling in college prep courses
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High school students, particularly juniors and seniors, spend a considerable amount of time contemplating their academic futures. Students typically feel pressure to set themselves apart from the millions of other teenagers who apply to college each year, and many look to college prep courses as a potential game-changer. College prep courses can improve students’ standing in the eyes of college admissions officers, but it’s imperative that high schoolers consider a host of factors before enrolling in suchTime:courses.Today’s high school students are busier than ever. The 2019 American Time Use Survey from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found that the average high school student spends a little less than 90 minutes each day participating in an extracurricular activity like playing sports, working or volunteering. Coupled with their existing academic responsibilities, high schoolers’ time may already be stretched thin. That’s a significant factor to consider before enrolling in college prep or advanced placement courses, which tend to require more work outside of the classroom than standard classes. Students whose schedules are already full may need to choose between their extracurriculars and college prep courses to avoid being overextended. Ripple effect: Students who have the time to take on the extra work of AP or college prep courses must consider the potential ripple effects of such a decision. It’s true that many institutions view students who excel in AP classes more favorably than their peers who excel in conventional classes. However, students should be sure they can handle AP coursework without adversely affecting their performance in other classes. Students’ grade point averages will likely drop if a strong performance in an AP class comes at the expense of strong performances in other classes. That dip in GPA could negate the benefits of performing well in an advanced course.Graduation/admission requirements: A strong performance in an AP class will not negate the basic requirements students must meet in order to graduate high school or be accepted into the college of their choice. Students must confirm that including a college prep or AP course in their class schedules won’t prevent them from taking another course that will help them fulfill their requirements to graduate or enroll in Collegecollege.prep and advanced placement courses can help students stand out during the college application process. But students must consider various factors prior to enrolling in such courses.
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Respect coaches. Good sportsmanship also involves respecting coaches, even when they make decisions players and their parents do not necessarily agree with. That respect has been dwindling in recent years, and it’s contributing to a coaching shortage in youth sports. One survey of more than 200 coaches in the Syracuse, N.Y., area found that nearly 60 percent of coaches had considered quitting over conflicts with parents. Many coaches volunteer their time to teach young people the game, and players should be taught to respect coaches at all times. That includes those times when players feel like they aren’t getting enough playing time or when they disagree with coaches’ in-game decisions.
membership has dropped by more than 20 percent since March 2020. Coaches and parents can practice what they preach when teaching young athletes to respect officials at all times, regardless of how games unfold on the playing field.
Respect the rules. Respect for officials should coexist with respect for the game itself. Every game has rules, and knowing and adhering to those rules is a vital component of good sportsmanship. Coaches and parents can set the tone for this by encouraging kids to play by the rules during the games, but also by adhering to rules governing practice times and offseason workouts when no one is watching too closely. Respect opponents. Showing respect for opponents is another principle of good sportsmanship. Social media provides a readily available platform for athletes to disparage their opponents before and after games. Such platforms have even proven too tempting to resist for some professional athletes. But showing respect for opponents, even in defeat, illustrates to parents and coaches that young athletes are mature and cognizant of the fact that participation in sports requires good sportsmanship.
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Sportsmanship is a vital component of sports participation. Teaching young athletes the principles of sportsmanship adds one more unique benefit to sports participation.
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Competitive sports have a lot to offer young people. In addition to exposing children to the thrill of competition, competitive sports can set a foundation for a lifetime of healthy living. One study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2014 found that afterschool physical activity programs were the most effective strategy to reduce childhood obesity among children between the ages of six and 12.
Competitive sports also teaches valuable lessons about humility and respect. Sportsmanship is a vital and valuable component of competitive sports, and that’s a lesson no athlete is too young to learn. Coaches and parents can work together to emphasize these principles of sportsmanship to young athletes.
Always respect officials. In the era of instant replay in professional sports, criticism of officials has become more common. Such criticism can easily move from the professional to the amateur arena if players are not taught to always respect the officials. Unfortunately, many amateur sports officials continue to be the victims of overaggressive behavior on the parts of coaches, parents and athletes, and many have simply chosen to walk away rather than subject themselves to abuse. Estimates from the National Association of Sports Officials indicates that the group’s
Find art in daily life One does not need to be enrolled in a regimented program to enjoy art. Children can engage in art-related hobbies on their own at home or in the community. Find art in collecting leaves and flowers, building sand castles, taking photographs, or just about any other creative endeavor.Arts-related extracurricular activities can be the perfect way to pass time outside the classroom.
Students looking to expand their extracurricular horizons need look no further than the arts. Art-related extracurricular activities can enhance lessons learned in the classroom and provide a way to explore creative pursuits to help relieve stress and improve focus. Art-based extracurricular activities are easy to find. Consider these ideas to get started.
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Enroll in an art course Students who enjoy art can improve their skills by taking art classes and courses that extend lessons learned during the school day. Perhaps a student wants to hone his or her skills in a particular medium? An art class can do that and even expand on lessons learned in the classroom.
Try other artistic activities The arts include everything from music instruction to acting in a play or musical to participating in a choral ensemble. Some children like to experience art through culinary endeavors. Students should not limit themselves to one activity. Dabbling in all sorts of activities may inspire students to pursue new interests.
Art-based extracurricular activities
Visit an art museum
Those lucky enough to live close to an art museum can wander through the past or get artists’ interpretations of the future. Many museums sponsor extracurricular activities for young artists, but even periodic visits using a student pass can provide all the inspiration creative young people need. Museums showcase everything from paintings to sculptures to historical artifacts, so it’s possible to find a specially curated collection that appeals to any artist’s interests.
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Doctors with the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness note that interest in sports should start with the child, not the parent. Such an approach can ensure kids are playing sports because they want to, and not solely because their parents want them to. The AAP notes that when kids are playing sports because they want to, they can take the lessons learned from competition and use them throughout the rest of their lives. For example, Dr. Steven Cuff, MD, FAAP, who co-authored the 2019 report “Organized Sports for Children, Preadolescents and Adolescents,” notes that “the camaraderie and teamwork needed on a playing field offers lasting lessons on personal responsibility, sportsmanship, goalsetting and emotional control.” When competing, some young athletes may have a hard time handling defeat. In fact, even professional athletes routinely acknowledge how much they struggle after a loss. But there are ways parents and coaches can help young athletes cope with defeat. Reward effort. The College of Education at Michigan State University recommends coaches and parents put an emphasis on effort and allow athletes to bring up the outcome of a particular competition on their own. Encourage maximum effort during competition and spend time after the game discussing with athletes how they performed and the effort they gave. Remind them that their best effort is all anyone can ask for, which shifts focus from a loss to the effort theyCommunicategave. privately if effort is lacking. Parents and coaches who feel their child or player did not give maximum effort can communicate those feelings privately without putting the athlete down. Emphasize that the next game is a great chance to show improvement and give maximumEncourageeffort.a healthy perspective. The COE at MSU also urges parents and coaches to encourage young athletes to keep a healthy perspective on their participation in sports. Encourage kids not to sacrifice other aspects of their life, such as academics and their social life, to improve their athletic performance. When young athletes focus too heavily on a sport, that can create an unhealthy situation that makes it that much harder to cope with defeat in a positive Emphasizeway. the individual, not the athlete. Coaches can speak with their players about their lives outside of the sport. Such conversations can show athletes that there’s more to life than just sports and that they’re more than just athletes, which can make it easier to handle defeat. Many successful athletes insist they learn more from defeat than they do from victory. Helping young athletes cope with defeat in a healthy way can benefit them throughout their lives.
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The value of athletic competition for children who like to play sports is undeniable. Though not all kids will want to play sports, those who enjoy competing in organized athletics can benefit in myriad ways.
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· Encourage participation in sports or other physical activities. Sports practices, games, competitions, and other activities may keep children moving for an hour or more several days per week.
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· Offer a variety of foods. Kids who eat a variety of foods are more likely to get the nutrients the body needs, according to Kids Health® by Nemours. These healthy foods should include at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, with an emphasis on vegetables.
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· Use exercise as a reward and not a punishment. Make exercise something kids can look forward to. Reward a job well done on a test with extra time biking with friends or a hiking trip to a scenic national park,. Kids will be begin to associate exercise with fun.
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However, the American Academy of Pediatrics states that only 25 percent of children get the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity per day. Emphasize a fun activity with a focus on movement that produces shortness of breath, body warmth and sweat. These are indicators that the heart rate is really pumping.
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· Limit screen time. Children may be inclined to entertain themselves by heading for the television, mobile phone or tablet first, especially after a year-plus of being stuck indoors. But parents can make a concerted effort to limit kids’ screen time in favor of more physically challenging pursuits.
· Teach healthy eating habits. A Harris Poll survey conducted on behalf of the American Psychological Association found that 61 percent of respondents age 18 and older reported a median weight gain of 15 pounds during the pandemic. Teach children that weight loss is accomplished when more calories are burned than consumed. Pay attention to portion sizes and explain how beverages like fruit juices can be sneaky sources of extra calories. Children may need a little extra help getting fit, especially if they gained weight during the pandemic. Teaching healthy habits now can help kids enjoy healthy futures.
Childhood obesity is a serious medical issue affecting children around the world, but notably in North America. While the issue has been around for decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says American children and teenagers have witnessed a significant increase in weight gain since the COVID-19 pandemicYoungerbegan.school-aged children have been among the hardest hit during the pandemic. A study published in September 2021 found the percentage of obese children and teens increased to 22 percent compared with 19 percent before the pandemic. The CDC looked at the BMI of study subjects between March 1, 2020 and November 30, 2020. One of the study’s authors, Dr. Alyson Goodman of the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, described the results as “substantial and Beingalarming.”lessphysically active, overweight and eating the wrong foods can start children on a path toward problems that once were only considered conditions of adulthood, namely hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol, offers the Mayo Clinic. To reverse course, parents, guardians and educators can focus on helping children become more physically fit. The following are a few ways to do so.
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BY NITYA WANCHOO Northern Boulevard’s Fridays restaurant is hosting plenty of fun dining options. The friendly staff has upped their game for friends and family alike. For starters, Fridays is mixing things up with seasonal drinks. Right now they have in-season spicy pineapple coolers and peach sangrias. In a few months, they’ll rotate to autumn-themed pumpkin spice lattes. And in winter, they hope to have Christmas-colored cotton candy cosmos. As far as events, the restaurant has options to engage with its customers from Thursday to Sunday. Fridays is partnered with Tango Time Trivia company, which brings in DJs, trivia nights, and bingo sessions for those dining. On Thursdays, Fridays does jeopardy-style trivia. Players get a board with categories and they answer questions of various difficulties to win Butpoints.the most fun happens on Fridays, fittingly, and Saturdays, when a DJ is brought in to play some good music. Staff member Evan says that “you can get up and dance if you want to, but the majority of people don’t.” The music gives everyone some nice tunes to jam out to while enjoying a good meal. Matty Ice comes in every Sunday afternoon from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. to play bingo with seated customers — he hands out the boards and announces the game style and numbers from his post by the bar. As for the competition, “When it gets going, it gets going — it’s a good time,” he says. Matty Ice adds that he’s “never not happy to be here,” which exemplifies the kind of atmosphere that Fridays has. Even if there are only a few tables participating, Matty switches it up from time to time since he’s been doing this for three months now. Sometimes the people play straight-line bingo, sometimes they play for an X, and sometimes they even play full-board bingo. Occasionally, they even win discounts for prizes. As for the future, Friday hopes to do some car-meets soon and the restaurant will continue to serve with a smile.
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The last thing to know is that the enforcement agencies are slow to respond and the fines they levy are seen as merely a nuisance by the offending broker/dealer. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve seen the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) boast openly about banning a broker from the industry, only to check his record on-line and find a career spanning decades, filled with dozens of fines, forced arbitration proceedings that take years to adjudicate, and multiple warnings.
The recent story about the Port Washington stockbroker banned from the industry for stock churning reminded me how important it is for investors to protectEverythemselves.timeIhear about someone in the investment industry violating trust, I read about the details of the fraud, and can only say these tragedies are preventable. Worse, the wronged investors are almost never made whole.First, I would avoid commission-based compensation. Not because all commissioned brokers are intrinsically evil, but the model itself forces investment decisions that would not ordinarily be made.
I called the client advising them to lock in a profit (which seemed prudent in the aftershock of the financial crisis) and sell the shares. And so we did. To this day, I cannot tell you honestly if I was motivated by the stock price advance and selling out of prudence or taking what I told myself was a well-earned
A case from Syosset took place some years ago about a broker who stole $5 million from his clients, using the money to fund a lavish lifestyle.The investors will never see that money again. Remarkably, the investment vehicle being promoted wasn’t the stuff of instant riches. All the broker promised clients was a 4.00% per annum return for two years, after which, they got their money back, which is not only a modest proposition, it could have easily been matched or exceeded with conventional investments like GinnieMaes.
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commission for doubling the client’s money. What I do know now is that holding on to Amazon afterward would have made the client far richer. But the seed was already planted: sell now, and you have nothing to apologize for. If there was an incentive for holding it, things might have turned out differently.
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The trail of ruin these bad actors leave have cost investors billions, but FINRA is more corrupt than the industry it regulates, and its executives are slathered with exorbitant salaries and FINRAbenefits.should be disbanded and the SEC should take over all market enforcement operations. They have utterly failed to protect retail investors, and so, you’re on your own.
The sky crystal blue, without blemish. Skin salted by sun and sand. As lovers of the beach we went swimming, and found each other submerged for fun. Splashing fountains of celebration and eddies of happiness. In the flow. We wrapped in towels and dried in the ideal air, walking along the edge of surf going nowhere. Then sat to read a book that gently lulled you to sleep under our patch of umbrella—the book sat on your chest. Through the calm shade of sunglasses I defaulted to the bliss and daydreamed. Everything here seems dramatic. The sunlight bathed in deeper colors. Umbrellas are straightforward truths. Work is a thousand miles away. But the sea, the wonderful, primitive, tireless blossoming sea is beyond beauty or description. You can begin to understand Ishmael’s fascination. Perhaps it was always something else, beyond measure and the rasp of duty that otherwise claim attention, like the rich power of creation replete with an androgynous element.
he advent of legal adult-use recreational cannabis in New York has exposed critical shortcomings in how the State regulates the potency of what is being sold to consumers. The Cannabis Control Board must work with state and local leaders to implement meaningful new policies to close the vacuum that currentlyWhetherexists. one supports or opposes it, the prospect of legal recreationaluse cannabis has loomed on the horizon for many years. Recent polls indicate that two-thirds of American adults support the legalization of cannabis, and medical-use cannabis has a well-regarded track record as a tool for easing the side-effects of chemotherapy for cancer patients, managing chronic pain, and addressing other ailments. Economic analysts predict that the emerging cannabis industry will generate tens of thousands of additional jobs and generate billions in new sales tax revenue for the benefit of all New Yorkers. Legalization furthermore represents an important step forward in efforts to address the disparate treatment minorities have experienced in the legal system for generations involving cannabis cases. Although New York State has established an extensive regulatory system to govern the sale of cannabis products, the concentration of THC in what is being sold to the public remains largely unregulated — something that is especially important when you consider that modern cannabis is much more potent than its predecessors.Whilethe average concentration of THC in cannabis samples seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1995 was 4 percent; the potency has more than quadrupled in a span of 20 years to an average concentration of 17 percent. And, in the age of legal cannabis, some manufacturers are creating products with concentrations of THC exceeding 95 percent. This reality was a major driving force behind why the Minority Caucus wrote to the Cannabis Control Board on July 13 to advocate for sensible, comprehensive policies regulating the potency of legal cannabis that is being sold to the public.Although THC is not fatal, consumers must know what they are consuming so they can avoid negative impacts from overuse. Additionally, preventing underage use among teens — whose brains are still developing — must always be a top priority. According to the Washington State Prevention Research Subcommittee, frequent use of high-potency cannabis can lead to uncontrollable vomiting, addiction, psychosis, long-term psychiatric disorders, an increased likelihood of developing depression and suicidal ideation, adverse changes in brain anatomy and connectivity, and poorEvenmemory.simple measures, such as requiring manufacturers to display the concentration of THC on cannabis packaging, will help to close the information gap without creating unnecessary hurdles to commerce. This is among several actions — including enforcing a maximum permissible THC concentration in cannabis products — that must be taken to preserve the longterm viability of this nascent industry and protect public health.
One of the things I dedicated myself to when I entered the profession was to learn as much about the role of incentives in economics and tax policy. And I can tell you even the most well-meaning, altruistic people in the world can be affected. Like it or not, incentives determine outcomes as much as investor psychology.Otherways to protect yourself include avoiding investments that are not publicly traded. Private placements have a notorious record for many reasons, one being underperformance, second, the lack of liquidity if you need to sell, and last, valuations for these feeladen vehicles are often opaque. The selling broker often receives a 7% commission with the sale.That’s 7% you must overcome in performance before the money is even invested, and the syndicators reward themselves even more. Do yourself a favor and buy wholesale. It says it right there in the Mishneh.
I know this because I used to be commission-based myself, and I am now fee-based.
The other reason is that these firms live on three priorities: production, production and more production. So if you want to be the top dog in your firm and have your name put up on the leader board with your commission tally (yes, they have them) start trading. A lot. But even an honest broker can be misled with honest intentions. To give a personal example, I had placed a client in shares of Amazon after the 2008 crash. The stock doubled.
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Tomorrow will welcome us back again, free from the world’s gross consensus when I have to play detective—what does he want? What does she want, same for my boss, while trying to avoid the burning gossip.
Democratic and Republican Party Congressional and State Senate Primary Election Day has come and gone. This reminds me of “The Outer Limits,” a 1960s television show. With the end of roundthe-clock commercials by politicians, political action groups and pay for play special interest groups, we now return control of your television back to you until the November General Election cycle. No more candidates campaign mailings clogging mailboxes and weighing down our hardworking postal employees. Finally, some peace and quiet!
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Now if only all the winning and losing candidates would pick up all the thousands of campaign signs that litter our roads and highways to clean up our environment. Candidates’ campaign volunteers and paid staff who placed campaign signs can collect and properly dispose of them. Why not also have some who have been sentenced to community service by judges help out as well?
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Upcoming mobile office hours includes: Tuesday, Sep. 20 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Port Washington Public Library at 1 Library Dr., Port Washington Tuesday, Oct. 18 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Port Washington Public Library at 1 Library Dr., Port Washington To schedule your appointment with Council Member Dalimonte, please call 516-869-7711.
North Hempstead has a bike rack outside of Town Hall to encourage the use of bicycle transportation. The rack is not only for town employees to use, but it can be used by anyone needing to lock up their bike for a trip into town or to the railroad station. The rack is located near the side door of Town Hall on Andrew Additionally,Street.newthis year, the Town partnered with PedalShare to unveil a new pilot bike share program in Port Washington.PedalShare is a bike share program on Long Island with over 200 bikes and 50 stations across the Island. As part of the program in North Hempstead, stations are located at Town Dock, Manorhaven Beach Park, and the Port Washington Long Island Rail Road Station. PedalShare maintains the bikes and the program will be offered at no cost to the Town.Town officials hope that Car Free Day will encourage residents to consider the negative impact of single-occupancy vehicles.Last year, North Hempstead earned an award from Car Free Day Long Island for the highest number of pledges of any town on Long Island. This resulted in resulting in the avoidance of 423.4 miles of driving and 2 tons of CO2 emissions. In 2021 alone, nearly 2,000 Long Islanders pledged to go car-free or car-lite. To participate in this event, all you have to do is pledge to be car free or carlight on Sept. 22 by filling out the pledge form on www.CarFreeDayLI.com. Those who take the pledge will automatically be entered for a chance to win great prizes. North Hempstead Council Member Mariann Dalimonte is reminding the community of her mobile office hours for the residents of District 6. This initiative first began in 2021 to allow residents to connect directly with her on issues that matter to them. The initiative continued in 2022, with two dates during the summer and will continue into the fall of 2022. “When I was first elected and took office in 2020, one of my top priorities as the Council Member for District 6 was to communicate effectively with people in my community,” said Council Member Mariann Dalimonte. “It is essential to provide easy access to information and a direct connection to Town Hall. I hope residents will make an appointment, and I look forward to meeting with everyone.”
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• Doors open at 10 a.m.; dancers must arrive by 10:30 a.m.; audition begins at 11 a.m.
• A parent or legal guardian must be present at registration to sign a participation waiver • Dancers must demonstrate their ability to learn and perform choreography
• Tumbling and break-dancing skills are a plus, but not required
• Only those auditioning will be allowed into the gymnasium
Mariann Dalimonte is reminding the community of her mobile office hours for District 6 constituents. The Long Island Nets, NBA G League affiliate for the Brooklyn Nets, will hold open auditions for the Long Island Nets Kids Dance Team on Saturday, Aug. 27 at the Yes We Can Community Center. Auditions are open to all children ages 6-14 with at least two years of dance training. Registration for auditions begins at 10 a.m. and all dancers must arrive by 10:30 a.m. at the latest in order to participate. A parent or legal guardian must be present at registration to sign a participation waiver. Pre-registration is not•Auditionavailable.Details:Seekingboysand girls ages 6-14 with at least two years of dance training
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Council Member Dalimonte also has an electronic newsletter which serves as an essential resource for the residents of District 6. The electronic newsletter also serves as an important vehicle for informing residents about significant issues coming before the Town Board. Council Member Dalimonte updates her residents following each Town Board meeting to ensure that her constituents are aware of the legislation discussed at each meeting. Residents can sign up for the newsletter by visiting www.northhempsteadny.gov/district6.
• Participants should wear dance attire and non-marking sneakers or dance shoes
• Finalists may be kept until later in the evening depending on the number of participants
• Dancers who are selected must be available to attend rehearsals on Long Island once a week as well as select home games at Nassau Coliseum Prior to the open call auditions, the Long Island Nets will hold a workshop on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at 6 p.m. at the Yes We Can Community Center located at 141 Garden Street, Westbury NY. The workshop is open to dancers ages 6-14 and participants will learn Long Island Nets Kids dance routines, similar to what will be performed on-court during the season. The session is $50 and interested participants can register here.
Christy R. Tolbert is the head coach of the Kids Dance Team. Tolbert is a native of Long Island, graduated from Long Island High School for Performing Arts, and trained at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and Broadway DanceSheCenter.hasspent the last 19 years teaching youth dance on Long Island at Venettes Cultural Workshop, Milton L. Olive Middle School, and the Bayshore School District, among others.
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North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena and the Town Board recently thanked the student volunteers who assisted with the Town’s events this summer including FunDay Monday and National Night Out. The Town’s Department of Community Services looks for volunteers throughout the year for the events it puts on for Town residents. For more information about future volunteer opportunities, please call 311.
The Long Island Nets Kids Dance Team was launched during the team’s inaugural season on Long Island and perform during select Long Island Nets home games at Nassau Coliseum. In addition to performing at games, team members serve as ambassadors and represent the organization at events, and media appearances throughout the Long Island community.
On Aug. 11, the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency voted to rescind a Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) that was previously awarded to Amazon for its last-mile warehouse project at Syosset Park lots 251 and 252 at 305 Robbins Lane in Syosset and to claw back any taxpayer-funded incentives that have already been provided.Following the vote, County Legislator Arnold W. Drucker (D-Plainview) issued this statement: “From the moment Amazon set its sights on Syosset, I vociferously opposed giving them a single penny of Nassau taxpayer money because, quite frankly, they did not need it nor deserve it,” Nassau County Legislator Arnold W. Drucker (D — Plainview) said. “My resolve turned into outrage when it was reported this past June that Amazon was planning an endrun around its commitment to creating 150 new jobs in Syosset by closing its Bethpage facility and moving those workers to Syosset.” “The Nassau IDA vindicated all of our concerns when they pulled the plug on this wasteful, ill-advised giveaway to one of the world’s wealthiest corporations,” Legislator Drucker said. “I thank the board for hearing our voices and for holding Amazon accountable for their broken promises.”
The 10th Annual Car Free Day Long Island will take place on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. The day-long celebration is sponsored by North Hempstead and is part of the town’s effort to go green and to reduce its carbon footprint.
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Here is a little history as to why people were forced to do short sales and the reasons behind it all. About 18 years ago, most subprime mortgages began their slide to an “underwater” position, meaning their value was greater than the market value of the financed home! That is what is meant by “underwater.” The percentage of new lower-quality subprime mortgages rose from the historical 8% or lower range to approximately 20% from 2004 to 2006, with much higher ratios in some parts of the U.S. A high percentage of these subprime mortgages, over 90% in 2006 for example, were adjustable-rate mortgages. These two changes were part of a broader trend of lowered lending standards and higher-risk mortgage products. Further, U.S. households had become increasingly indebted, with the ratio of debt to disposable personal income rising from 77% in 1990 to 127% at the end of 2007, much of this increase mortgage-related.
Generally speaking, a short sale is more to the homeowner’s advantage than a foreclosure. In a few instances, if mortgage payments continue to be on time during a short sale, the seller could essentially apply for a new mortgage for their next home. More importantly, the IRS also has extended the forgiveness of that money saved between the sale price and the mortgage, and for now, is not reportable income, as it used to be a few years ago when you had to report the savings on your short sale as income. However, nobody could afford to pay the income taxes on the savings, so Congress passed a law that the savings were no longer subject to income taxes, because if you couldn’t afford your mortgage payments, you could not afford to pay the income taxesForeclosureeither. is more serious and has a very huge impact on one’s credit for at least a two-year period. However, today it could take longer to secure a new mortgage if foreclosure had taken place. Credit is more severely impacted not only by foreclosure but by the last resort of action, bankruptcy, which would be the last avenue to pursue. Philip A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He can be reached by cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email: Phil@ TurnKeyRealEstate.Com or via https:// WWW.Li-RealEstate.Com Just email or snail mail (regular mail) him with your ideas or suggestions on future columns with your name, email and cell number and he will call or email you back.
Greenspan, along with President George Bush and Wall Street, benefited greatly by packaging these loans into multimillion-dollar to billion-dollar CDO’s (Collateralized Debt Obligations) or mortgage-backed securities and sold them off to whoever wanted to purchase, whether investors or even entire countries. The thought was that the U.S. economy, at the time, was doing well and bulletproof.
My professional and expert opinion is that Alan Greenspan, who was the Fed chairman from Aug. 11, 1987 through Jan. 31, 2006, had caused much disruption, due to allowing so many to enter the mortgage market, with variable rate mortgages, providing those, who I believe, couldn’t really afford to purchase a home. This type of loan had never existed in the past.
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Janet Yellen, one of the newly elected Fed governors, played a crucial and critical role in convincing Alan Greenspan that some inflation was good for the economy. As she put it, “a bit of lubrication was good for increasing economic growth and that was a decision that would haunt Greenspan’s tenure as Fed chair until he was replaced by Ben S. Benanke on Feb 1, 2006. He served until Jan 31, 2014. Greenspan realized too late, however, the unfortunate error of his decision, and when in December 1996, he came out with the term “irrational exuberance” in the financial markets, no one was even listening or even cared. Things were flying along and everything appeared in excellent shape, with low unemployment and great interest rates. But the bubble was growing unchecked, allowing those who could least afford a mortgage to enter the market, just so they could taste and enjoy the “American Dream” even though they didn’t realize that it would only be for a short term until the bubble popped.Itwas one of the greatest financial errors ever made. Greenspan pushed interest rates much higher at the beginning of his tenure when inflation exceeded 5% due to strong growth and low-interest rates after the great recession of 1988, which then caused another recession. Afterward, the economy expanded into the longest peacetime expansion in our nation’s history. The methods to approve a short sale for a homeowner whose mortgage is under water and is unable to pay on time are as follows: the owner has to provide all the necessary and required documentation to show the need to allow the short sale. They will also do a credit check and also ask for all their assets and liabilities to prove the tenuous position they are in, to approve their “short sale.” If approved by the lender, then the owner will be allowed to place their home on the market with a knowledgeable experienced brokerage. When offers come in, and even though they may be less than the mortgage amount that is owed, the bank will generally forgive the difference between the agreed price and the existing mortgage.Then the contract with the method of payment is sent off to the bank holding the mortgage for the short sale approval, whereby the bank will either approve or deny acceptance of the offer. Once approved the closing will be set up. The time could be a few weeks to as many as a few months to complete the short sale. It is more complicated than a regular real estate sale and a broker should have expertise and knowledge in how to start and complete the sale.
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Erica brings a wealth of education and experience to her new job. She is a licensed clinical social worker and New York State credentialed alcoholism & substance abuse counselor Trainee.She received her Master of Social Work from Fordham University and earned her SIFI certification, which provides first-time field instructors with the knowledge and skills to effectively supervise social work students for any school of social work to learn the importance of cultural competence in the field. Erica is well schooled in evidenced-based cognitive behavioral intervention and life skills training programs geared to instill life-long skills in families to help them build strong positive relationships and develop resiliency.
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Catholic Health’s Mercy Hospital has named Williston Park’s Joseph Manopella, as its new president. Manopella will oversee all areas of operations at Mercy Hospital, with a particular focus on clinical service line expansion, strengthening patient experience and leveraging employee engagement.“Mercyis poised for a new era of growth driven by enhanced services, and Catholic Health is bringing more doctors into its network to expand access to top quality medical and surgical specialties,” said Manopella. “I’m excited to join Catholic Health and Mercy at a time of immense growth and opportunity. I look forward to working alongside the staff and the community to ensure superb health care is all the more accessible to the communities we serve.”
Erica joined FCA in 2014 as a student intern during her first year of graduate school. From that time, she has continuously worked at FCA in a variety of full and part-time positions in programs that have broadened her knowledge and expertise, including Home & Community Based Services, PINS (Person in Need of Supervision) Diversion, and Community Credible Messenger Initiative. While she most recently was a full-time employee at Northwell Health, she remained employed at FCA as a part-time supervisor in the Step Up to Opportunity Program with the Department of Labor. “FCA is my home and dear to my heart,” explained Erica. “I’ve been here throughout my career journey. My mentor taught me so much, and I want to pay it forward, replicating my training in clinical supervision to help support the next generation of social workers as they grow in their practices and provide valuable services to our neighbors. The work that we do here at FCA impacts the entire Long Island community. Every day brings a new opportunity to change the course of people’sThroughoutlives.”her career, Erica has focused on the social determinants of health— education, income level and environment—that influence individuals and Ericafamilies.hasworked among the most vulnerable populations including children with complex behavioral health diagnoses and significant behavioral concerns, families seeking preventive services to keep their families intact, and adults with serious mental illnesses as well as substance use disorders.
A seasoned administrative executive, Manopella brings more than 25 years of experience in health care leadership. He comes to Mercy from Northwell Health where most recently, he led their Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. There he managed multiple large capital projects while expanding clinical services and enhancing the quality and improving the patient experience. Prior to that, Manopella served as executive director of LIJ Valley Stream, where he intensified that hospital’s focus on patient-centered care, growth, quality and experience. “Joe’s years of experience in health care operations brings great strength to Mercy Hospital as we embark on a number of service expansions to benefit its surrounding communities,” said Catholic Health Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer Dennis Verzi. “We look forward to working together to deliver more exceptional care to Long ManopellaIslanders.”earned a master of business administration in health care administration from Baruch College/ Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science from Stony Brook University. He currently resides in Williston Park with his wife and three children.
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FCA, a leading health and human services not-for-profit organization on Long Island, recently named Erica Schifano, assistant vice president, familyShesupport.most recently worked at Northwell Health as a supervisor within the Adult Health Home Program. FCA President and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey L. Reynolds made the announcement.“Ericaisoneof our shining stars who first earned our attention as an intern during her graduate work,” said Reynolds. “She has consistently demonstrated her value and ability to FCA while working in a wide variety of hands-on, supervisory, and mentoring roles. We are glad to have her in this important position.”
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The Manhattan Central Business District is one of the biggest in the world. But in 2020 and 2021, in a report from INRIX, a private analytics company, the city ranked as the most congested in AccordingAmerica.tothe executive summary of the congestion pricing plan, the region around New York City suffers from driver congestion costs of 102 hours of wasted time per year and around $1,595 per driver annually. Between 2010 and 2019, travel speeds in the Manhattan Central Business District fell by 22% from 9.1 mph to 7.1 mph. The environmental assessment states that over 1,262,400 of the roughly 1.5 million people who work in the Central Business District commute in. Long Island accounts for 8% of these commuters — a little over 100,000 individuals. The congesting pricing proposal seeks to lessen traffic while generating funds for upcoming transportation improvements. Officials say these changes will have a positive impact on the environment, the economy and emergency response times. If implemented, drivers earning less than $60,000 a year would be eligible for a tax credit.The MTA will hold future hearings on Aug. 30-31. They will also take place on Zoom and on the MTA’s YouTube channel.
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If implemented, peak-hour travel could cost between $9 and $23. Off-peak travel could cost between $7 and $17 and overnight travel might cost between $5 and Malliotakis$12.said the initiative is a continuation of the MTA’s “war on cars” approach and is about revenue. “I have a very toll-sensitive community representing Staten Island,” she said. “We’re the only borough that has to pay a toll to connect to the rest of the city. I fear that this will lead to my constituents being doubledtolled. No one should have to pay a $23 fee to connect to another borough in the city in which they live.” Other Republicans who spoke against the proposal included Rockland County Assemblyman Mike Lawler and Staten Island City Councilman Joe Borelli. Lawler dubbed the MTA the “worst-run authority in the country, period.” “We pay $50 million more in taxes to the MTA than services we receive,” said Lawler. “It’s totally unacceptable. Congestion pricing is nothing more than a money grant. This has been a plan to tax suburban commuters.”Prior to the public comments, the MTA officials on hand summarized the environmental assessment of the proposal.
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Suozzi’s slate of Democratic opponents included Kaiman, current state Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-North Hills), Steve Stern and Jonathan Clarke. Turnout for the 2016 election was significantly less than this year’s congressional election in the 3rd district. In that race, a total of 20,343 votes were cast with only 11,324 coming from Nassau County voters, according to statistics from the state’s Board of Elections. Suozzi received 7,142 votes, or 35%, winning him the election. On May 20, newly drawn congressional maps were approved by a State Supreme Court judge. The maps were submitted by a court-appointed “special master” and have been viewed as more neutral compared to ones that were rejected by a state appeals court several weeks prior.Other changes were also made to the state’s primary election cycle several years ago when officials voted to consolidate the preliminary elections to June in 2019. Primary elections throughout the state were previously held in September before the change.
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New York State and Nassau County Democratic Committee Chairman Jay Jacobs told Newsday that Gillen and Zimmerman’s interaction with various communities throughout their prospective districts and prior leadership roles played key roles in their victories. Both races also featured a lack of incumbents, with the 3rd District’s U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), running an unsuccessful campaign for governor and 4th District’s U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) not choosing to run for re-election. In 2016, however, Suozzi ran in a crowded Democratic Primary for the 3rd District without an incumbent, due to former U.S. Rep. Steve Israel not running for re-election.
The 4th Congressional District race, made up of Gillen, Malverne Mayor Keith Corbett, Nassau County Legislator Carrie Solages and Muzibul Huq, saw 19,709 ballots cast. While the newly-drawn 3rd Congressional District does not extend as far west as the Bronx or Westchester, it does stretch to more southern parts of Nassau County, such as Hicksville and Massapequa. The new lines do exclude the parts of the district that now stretch into Suffolk County, mainly Huntington and Smithtown. It also includes portions of Queens. A total of 20,147 votes were cast in Nassau in the 3rd Congressional primary and showed that Zimmerman had less of a lead over Kaiman and Lafazan than in Queens. Zimmerman received approximately 34% of the Nassau votes, while Kaiman and Lafazan received 27% and 22%,Inrespectively.Queens,atotal of 6,373 votes were cast in the primary, according to state figures. Zimmerman received approximately 43% of the votes, with Kaiman receiving 23% and Lafazan receivingOverall,13%.Zimmerman received 9,482, or 36%, of the votes. Kaiman finished second with 6,884 votes for 26%. Lafazan was in third place with 5,296 votes, D’Arrigo received 4,197 votes and Rasool received 661 votes. Gillen received more than 12,400 votes, 63%, in the 4th Congressional Primary, whose district comprises central and southern Nassau County, including Floral Park, Garden City, Hempstead, Mineola, Carle Place, New Hyde Park and Westbury. Under newly drawn redistricting maps, it also takes in the villages of East Williston, Williston Park, Lake Success and some unincorporated parts of the Town of NorthSolagesHempstead.had4,811 votes, Corbett received 2,169 votes and Huq received 297 votes.
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Robert Zimmerman (left) and Laura Gillen (right) each won their respective primaries despite lower turnout from Nassau Democrats than in the June gubernatorial primaries.
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The system, Palmadessa said, shows the “great potential for real-world application, especially in developing countries.”
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The two tested varying electrode metals, contact times and surveys to determine the optimal conditions for electrocoagulation. They accomplished this by creating a 3D printed lid that “simultaneously assisted in aqueous dye remediation and funneled hydrogen gas.”
Havsy said. “We encourage students worldwide to share their knowledge, ideas and passions for making a difference and preserving our planet for future generations.”
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“Global water pollution and unsustainable energy production are two growing and harmful issues.”“In the process of electrocoagulation, electricity moves into the positively charged anode and oxidizes water by removing an electron, creating oxygen gas and hydrogen ions,” Malysa said. “The removed electrons are conducted back in a negatively charged cathode to create hydrogen gas, which can be captured and used to produce green energy.”
The contest, in its 11th year, brings together students who have proposals on finding ways to develop clean energy and fight global climate change. “The Clean Tech Competition continues to grow in its worldwide participation and competitiveness as a showcase for innovative ideas,” Executive director of the Center for Science, Teaching and LearningRay Ann
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“As we enter the second decade of the Clean Tech Competition, our world is continuing to face growing challenges to which we must find solutions. These young students will play a critical role in developing answers which will make an impact on our natural world. As the sponsor of the Spellman HV Clean Tech Competition, each year we are ever more impressed and inspired by the student competitors,” Spellman HV President Dr. Loren Skeist said prior to the final rulings. to
The controlled system they created with the lid wound up being “highly successful,” reaching a peak of 100% remediation after five hours and using copper electrodes. The system, they said, was successful in remediating methane blue contaminated water.
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The North Hempstead Town Board’s next meeting was scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 1.
Continued from Page 1 in the United States. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe, ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the U.S. Constitution does not grant a right to abortion. In 1971, more than half of the 16,593 women who had abortions on Long Island used non-hospital clinics in Nassau County, according to The New York Times. At the time, North Hempstead had limited abortion access to hospitals only along with the cities of Glen Cove and Long Beach, the towns of Hempstead and Oyster Bay and the Suffolk County towns of Babylon and Suffolk, according to The Times.
The initial hearing featured residents and elected officials that spoke on both sides of the issue. After the hearing had gone on for multiple hours, Democrats opted to continue the hearing in order to reflect on what was said, speak with residents and allow for more resident participation in the future.
The next Town of North Hempstead Town Board meeting will be held Thursday, Sept. 1.
Keller Williams Greater Nassau and Keller Williams Realty Elite must also pay $25,000 to Suffolk County to support the enforcement and compliance with fair housing laws. The two must additionally spend up to $25,000 on fair housing training and courses. Several Department of State investigations into Laffey Real Estate and its agents are still ongoing. Continued from Page 10 THEISLAND360.COM
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Each year, the dinner program includes remarks by an individual who has benefited from the funds raised. Last fall, Elizabeth Santos, a Genius Admin at Apple, spoke about the profound impact the Center’s employment services had on her journey to re-enter the workforce as a veteran.“I was grateful to learn basic things that I probably wouldn’t have learned — the importance of networking, the importance of resume writing, and the importance of properly communicating my skills from the military and how they translate over to the civilian world,” said Santos.
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“We will gather in somber reflection and commemoration of those lost in the tragic events of September 11th. On this 21st Anniversary, may we continue to heal and rededicate ourselves to peace throughout the world,” said Town Clerk Ragini Srivastava.
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Story Time in the Garden Sep. 27 @ 10:30 a.m. Children’s Garden Join your favorite librarians in the Children’s Garden for stories, songs and fingerplays. Admittance is on a first come first served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time. Register at www. pwpl.org/events Art Lecture with Alice W. Schwarz — Kimono Style Sep. 27 @ noon Hybrid Join museum educator Alice W. Schwarz as she traces the transformation of the kimono from the late Edo period through the early 20th century, as the T-shaped garment was adapted to suit the lifestyle of modern Japanese women. The talk will feature a selection of works from the John C. Weber Collection of Japanese art that explore the mutual artistic exchanges between the kimono and Western fashion, as well as highlights from The Costume Institute’s collection. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please note this will be a hybrid event. Register at www.pwpl.org/events Wednesday Matinee: Danny Kaye in “A Song Is Born” (1948-113 min) Sep. 28 @ noon Lapham Meeting Room With her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, nightclub singer Honey Swanson (Virginia Mayo) hides out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors, one of whom — Hobart Frisbee (Danny Kaye) — begins to fall for her. Lotería Sep. 28 @ 4 p.m. Lapham Meeting Room Play “Lotería,” a fun Mexican bingo game and learn new Spanish words with Ms. Jessica. For families with children ages 5 to 12. Register at www. pwpl.org/events Park Story Time Sep. 30 @ JoinBlumenfeld9:30amParkyourfavoritelibrarians at Blumenfeld Park (across the street from the library) for Park Story Time! No registration required. In case of inclement weather, story time will be held at the library. Virtual Sandwiched In with William Thierfelder — Banned in America Sep. 30 @ noon WhenVirtualyou walk into a library, you’re entering a controversial place—for it’s a venue where you can read, listen to and watch media that could be considered potentially “dangerous” depending on where (or when) you live. This presentation explores the long saga of censorship and the silencing of writers, artists and musicians. We’ll look specifically at America, where there continues to be a heated debate regarding exactly how “free” creative minds really are when it comes to expressing feelings and ideas. Finally, we’ll look at on-going examples of censorship, examine the probable roots/ causes of such censorship and explore whether total freedom of expression is actually possible. Join Dr. William Thierfelder for this virtual presentation which is part of the Library’s month-long exploration of the topics of censorship and freedom of expression. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Register at www.pwpl.org/events Film: “Rose Plays Julie” (2019-101 min) Sep. 30 @ 7 p.m. Lapham Meeting Room A Film Movement Release. In this intimate exploration of identity, trauma and power, veterinary student Rose (Ann Skelly) seeks her birth mother, actress Ellen (Orla Brady), inadvertently triggering a string of events that change both their lives. Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor scripted and directed this Irish drama. Up first, Molloy and Lawlor’s short, “Who Killed Brown Owl?” (2003-10 min).
Drive: A Tribute to the Music of The Cars and the 1980s! Live at the Sousa Bandshell Sep. 18 @ 3:30 p.m. Sousa Bandshell Since 2007, “Drive: The Cars Tribute” has dedicated their talents to recreating the music of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees The Cars. For years, these talented musicians have entertained audiences all over the country performing the classic hits of The Cars in a fun and family friendly environment for all ages. Lead singer Mary Beth Cronin thrills audiences with her transformation to the persona of the late Ric Ocasek. Dance all night and enjoy the sounds of timeless music performed by this talented group of musicians. Join us for The East Coast’s premier tribute to one of the best-loved bands of the 1980s, The Cars. Afternoon on Broadway with Stephen Nachamie — Celebrating the Work and Legacy of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber Sep. 19 @ 3 p.m. Hybrid Join award winning director Stephen Nachamie for a celebration of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. He changed the world of the Broadway Musical with concept albums like Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Evita. Mr. Nachamie will look at the work of a rebel who created The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running musical ever on Broadway. Please note this will be a hybrid event. Please register at www.pwpl. org/events Story Time in the Garden Sep. 20 @ 9:30 a.m. Children’s Garden Join your favorite librarians in the Children’s Garden for stories, songs and fingerplays. Admittance is on a first come first served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time. Register at www. pwpl.org/events Story Time in the Garden Sep. 20 @ 10:30 a.m. Children’s Garden Join your favorite librarians in the Children’s Garden for stories, songs and fingerplays. Admittance is on a first come first served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time. Register at www. pwpl.org/events Fiction Book Club Sep. 20 @ 7:30 p.m. Hybrid Toni Morrison’s magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved, first published in 1987, brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. Sethe now lives in a small house with her daughter, her mother-inlaw and a disturbing apparition who calls herself Beloved.Sethe works at “beating back the past,” but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly, most powerfully in Beloved, whose childhood belongs to slavery and who has now come from the “place over there” to claim retribution for what was taken from her. Sethe’s struggle to keep Beloved from gaining possession of her present and to throw off the dark legacy of her past, is at the center of this spellbinding novel.Please join our librarians for a discussion of this work. Copies of the book are available on Libby and may also be reserved for pickup at the library. Participants are invited to join us in person or via zoom. Register at www.pwpl.org/events “Listen to the Banned:” Tony Traguardo Looks at Banned Rock and Pop Music of the 50s, 60s and 70s Sep. 20 @ 7:30 p.m. Hybrid Join Tony Traguardo for a look at some of the fascinating reasons why songs have been banned from radio and TV. You’ll learn about the FBI’s investigation into “Louie Louie,” the banning of Elvis’ pelvis and the FM radio and TV personalities who refused to follow the rules. Tony will also touch upon some of the early blues and “race” records that pushed beyond the boundaries of the censors. This program is part of the Library’s month long exploration of the topics of censorship and freedom of expression. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Register at www.pwpl.org/events Wednesday Matinee: Danny Kaye in “The Kid from Brooklyn” (1946-113 min) Sep. 21 @ noon Lapham Meeting Room After timid milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Mr. Kaye) knocks unconscious a boxing champion who was accosting his sister, he takes up boxing himself. Board of Trustees Meeting Sep. 21 @ 7 p.m. Lapham Meeting Room Board of Trustees Meeting. All are welcome. Park Story Time Sep. 23 @ 9:30 a.m. Blumenfeld Park Join your favorite librarians at Blumenfeld Park (across the street from the library) for Park Story Time! No registration required. In case of inclement weather, story time will be held at the library. Sandwiched In with James Coll — Free Speech and the Constitution Sep. 23 @ noon Hybrid “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” Despite the absolutist wording of the amendment, the Supreme Court ruled that free speech does not “protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.” As a consequence, the government routinely makes laws preventing people from speaking or expressing themselves in every instance without recourse. If free speech is not an absolute right, then when are government restrictions permitted? Join Professor James Coll where he will explore other examples of restrictions on free speech and other landmark Supreme Court decisions. James Coll is an adjunct professor of American and Constitutional history at Nassau Community College and has written numerous articles for Politico, The Hill and Newsday among other periodicals. This program is part of the Library’s month long exploration of the topics of censorship and freedom of expression. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please note this will be a hybrid event. Register at www.pwpl.org/events Film: “Coco” (2017-105 min) Sep. 23 @ 7 p.m. Lapham Meeting Room In search of his great-great-grandfather and legendary singer, aspiring musician Miguel enters the Land of the Dead. Rated PG. Showing in English with Spanish Subtitles. Saturday Story Time in the Garden Sep. 24 @ 9:30 a.m. Children’s Garden Join your favorite librarians in the Children’s Garden for stories, songs and fingerplays. Admittance is on a first come first served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time. Register at www. pwpl.org/events Teen SAT Crash Course Sep. 24 @ 10 a.m. ThisVirtualcourse will cover the English and Math sections of the test. Port Washington Teens in grades 9-12 can register beginning September 10. This event is made possible by the Friends of the Library. Saturday Story Time in the Garden Sep. 24 @ 10:30 a.m. Children’s Garden Join your favorite librarians in the Children’s Garden for stories, songs and fingerplays. Admittance is on a first come first served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time. Register at www. pwpl.org/events Artist Talk with PWPL Artist in Residence Mary Ahern Sep. 24 @ 3 p.m. Hybrid Artist in Residence, Mary Ahern, will discuss her exhibit “Not Just a Pretty Flower,” currently on display in the Library’s Adler Gallery. The subject matter for most of Mary Ahern’s work originates in the gardens surrounding her studio. The lessons learned from studying the synergistic communities of plants and other species are the central stimulus for the creation of her work. Born and raised in Brooklyn NY, Mary’s first introduction to the living world of nature was spent at her family’s garden in Upstate, NY. She holds a degree in both Fine Art and Horticulture. These two fields of study were further honed at the New York Botanical Garden Botanical Illustration program. Her work will be on display in the Adler Gallery during the months of September and October. Sponsored by the Library’s Art Advisory Council. Please note this will be a hybrid event. Register at www.pwpl.org/events Story Time in the Garden Sep. 27 @ 9:30 a.m. Children’s Garden Join your favorite librarians in the Children’s Garden for stories, songs and fingerplays. Admittance is on a first come first served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time. Register at www. pwpl.org/events
Continued from Page 12 Sandwiched In — World Travels with Ron Brown — Five Things to Do in Paris Sep. 16 @ noon Hybrid Ron Brown will share his five favorite places in Paris, the City of Light and Love. First is the ancient Roman bath house with its two thousand bathtubs. Second is the romantic Latin Quarter. Third is the famous Cafe de Fleur on the Boulevard St. Germain, the oldest cafe in Paris. Fourth is the monumental Pere Lachaise Cemetery. And fifth is Le Defense, the suburb where Paris banished its skyscrapers. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Please note this will be a hybrid event. Please register at www.pwpl. org/events Film: “Nightmare Alley” (2021-150 min) Sep. 16 @ 7 p.m. Lapham Meeting Room When manipulative carnival man Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) teams with equally deceptive psychiatrist Lilith Ritter (Cate Blanchett) to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society, he learns that his new partner in crime might be his most formidable opponent yet. Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving Course Sep. 17 @ 9:30 a.m. Lapham Meeting Room Priority is given to Port Washington card holders. The instructor will collect payment of $30 via cash, check or money order, payable to “Empire Safety Council” during class. There will be a 30 minute lunch break. Register at www.pwpl.org/ events Sunday Screening: Bulldog Drummond Double Feature Sep. 18 @ 2 p.m. Lapham Meeting Room First up, F. Richard Jones’s “Bulldog Drummond” (1929-89 min.), starring Ronald Colman as Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond, WWI veteran and master sleuth. After a brief intermission, Victor Saville’s “Calling Bulldog Drummond” (1951-80 min.) stars Walter Pidgeon as the detective, with Margaret Leighton as Sergeant Helen Smith, Robert Beatty as Arthur Gunns and David Tomlinson as Algy.
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As part of their SoundSwap series, the Port Washington Public Li brary will host the folk/rock band Aztec Two-Step, who are now com memorating the 50th anniversary of the release of their debut album.
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Aztec Two-Step has also appeared in concert with such notable artists as The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, Talking Heads, Bon Jovi, Heart and manySinceothers.Neal’s retirement, Rex and his wife Dodie Pettit, an accomplished musician and an original member of the cast of The Phantom of the Opera, are now the heart and soul of “Aztec Two-Step 2.0.” Together, they contin ue to expand and explore the band’s legacy.The FOL sponsors this event. Note: Please visit www.pwpl.org/ events for information about the rain re-location for this event if needed.
“This exhibition is not about the war, it’s about the home front,” said Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society President Chris Bain. “The exhibition showcases what was happening on Long Island dur ing World War I. The story of the home front is a personal one and hasn’t really been told in this way.” Military training began in hometown communities, including Port Washing ton and across the country. Visitors can view photographs and artifacts of Port Washington’s Home Defense Force, con sidered one of the most well-disciplined in the state. Training camps included Port Washington’s Main Street School and Manorhaven’s Locust Grove Pavilion, with military bases in Garden City and Yaphank.Women played a vital role in assist ing the U.S. campaigns on both sides of the Atlantic. The exhibition spotlights their work in occupations that had pre viously only employed men, who at wartime were drafted or enlisted in the military. Farmerettes cultivated crops in Port Washington, across Long Island and nationally.Women’s contributions further ig nited momentum for the concurrent suf fragist movement, as shown in the exhi bition. This is supplemented with photos and profles of local advocates, the Silent Sentinels and the women of the SandsWillets House, now home to The Histori cal Society.Thisexhibit showcases the patriotic initiatives, including victory gardens and canning lessons on the Long Island Rail road, that civilians led to support Ameri cans overseas at war. WWI: The Home Front also focuses on local youth scouts and their contributions during the war. The exhibition is made possible by the ongoing philanthropic support of James and Karli Hagedorn. Additionally, a generous grant from the Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation provided support for the Historical Society to produce a 160-page full-color exhibition catalog, as a companion text, available for purchase at theForexhibit.moreinformation and tickets, vis it www.cowneck.org call 516-365-9074, or email info@cowneck.org. The Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society is at the Sands-Willet House, 336 Port Washington Blvd., Port Washington, New York.
Women who have gone more than a year since their last mammogram will be required to get a prescription from their doctor (if they have insurance) and provide any past flms (if available).
• If driving children to school, know and follow the school’s protocols for drop-of and pick-up.
Photographs, uniforms, newspapers and artifacts tell the story of how Long Islanders responded to the war effort, supported U.S. soldiers, protected the homestead and fostered the suffragette movement.
In anticipation of the start of the new school year, the Port Washington Police and AAA Northeast have launched their annual School’s Open-Drive Carefully Campaign, re minding drivers to be extra careful behind the wheel as chil dren end their summer vacations and head back to school. “Very soon, thousands of children will be walking to and from school and school buses, many for the frst time,” said Police Chief Del Muro “Everyone who drives has a respon sibility to be especially careful during this busy time for schoolChildrenchildren.”are at greater risk during the back-to-school period because they are thinking more about seeing old friends, new teachers and their new school day rather than watching for trafc. Drivers should know school trafc can begin as early as 7 a.m. and go through the late afternoon as late as 6 p.m. with after-school activities.
• Pay attention to vehicle trafc, as drivers may not be paying attention as they should.
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Children may walk to school, be driven by a parent or even drive themselves to high school. To help protect our school children, Chief Del Muro ofered these tips from AAA Northeast:
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• Look all ways before crossing streets and crossing over driveways.
• Cross at corners or intersections, obeying trafc signals and school crossing guards.
• Be especially alert in poor weather.
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Historical Society presents ‘WWI: The Home Front’
• Slow down and be prepared to stop for school buses with fashing red lights, even on divided roadways, as required by New York State law.
• Keep speeds at or below posted limits, especially near school zones.
• Stick to the sidewalk or as close to the left side of the road as possible if there is no sidewalk.
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022 TIME: 8:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (by appointment only)
• Children younger than 10 should walk with an adult.
The breast cancer screening van will visit the Port Washington Activities Center on Wednesday, Sept. 28.
The docent-guided exhibit includes photographs, uniforms, newspapers, per sonal letters and artifacts documenting military, sufragist, cultural and agricul tural developments from the era. The 90-minute exhibition tours take place on Wednesdays and Saturdays in September and October at 10:30 a.m. and are limited to a maximum of 10 peo ple per tour. The museum is also ofering privately scheduled group tours for up to 10 people.Theentry fee is $10 and tickets can be reserved ahead of time at www.cow neck.org. The exhibition will reopen in the spring for the 2023 season.
For more information and to make an appointment, contact Legislator DeRiggi-Whitton’s ofce at (516) 5716211 or dderiggiwhitton@nassaucountyny.gov.
The Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society presents WWI: The Home Front – Our Community Takes Action, a frst-ofits-kind nine-room major exhibition that examines how and why the U.S. entered the First World War and how this afected communities on Long Island, throughout New York State and across the country.
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Port Washington Public Library presents Aztec Two-Step 2.0. The per formance on Sunday, Sep. 11 at 2:30 p.m. at the Sousa Bandshell. PWPL welcomes the enduring folk/rock group Aztec Two-Step, cur rently celebrating the 50th anniversa ry of the release of the act’s debut al bum, as part of our SoundSwap series. With four-plus decades as staples FM radio, major record deals, nonstop touring and even an appearance on David Letterman, Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman have impressed audi ences with intelligent songwriting, dazzling lead guitar and soaring har monies.
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Nassau County Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (DGlen Cove) is partnering with NuHealth to bring the breast cancer screening van to the Port Washington Activities Center on Wednesday, Sept. 28. Free mammograms will be made available to women over the age of 40. Appointments include a breast exam from a nurse, mammography and self-examination in structions.Appointments are required and mammograms are free for uninsured women based on eligibility guidelines. Women with health insurance may be required to make a copayment.
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