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Vol. 68, No. 30

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Long road to lawsuit with N. Hempstead

FROM WILLISTON TO D.C.

Overflow system changes at center of dispute with Martin pool contractor

BY T E R I W EST The system that kicks in when a pool gets overfilled with rain is at the center of a dispute between the Town of North Hempstead and the Clinton G. Martin pool contractor.

The Town of North Hempstead provided full plans for a new overflow system in February and did not plan to pay the contractor, the now bankrupt Gramercy Group, for what Gramercy Group said would be “several hundred thousand dollars” worth of work.

But the saga of the overflow system dates to December 2017, when Gramercy Group was in the midst of the pool repairs.

Recent letter exchanges between the Town of North Hempstead and Gramercy Group, conversations with the contractor’s lawyer and contract documents chronicle the dispute.

When Gramercy Group was retained as the pool repairs contractor, the pool had an existing gravity

overflow system, Gramercy Group’s attorney Michael McKenna said.

“The water would overflow into a gravity drain system that would then flow out to a manhole and just go along with the storm water,” he said.

The town’s original plans called for existing pipes that were part of the system to be demolished, he said, so Gramercy Group did so.

In December 2017, the contractor asked the town for guidance; piping the contract wanted installed looked as if it was supposed to connect to the pipes that the contractor had demolished, McKenna said.

The town then issued a change order in January 2018 asking Gramercy Group to create an overflow system that would drain to a sump, he said.

In a letter dated March 1, 2019, Commissioner of Public Works Paul DiMaria pointed to two pages in the original plans, which featured the pipes that had been Continued on Page 50

PHOTO COURTESY OF KATHRYN RITCHIE

Herricks senior Kathyrn Ritchie, with former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, is going to Washington with the ACLU. See story on page 3.

Ehrbar confirms water tower is officially open

BY R O S E W E L D ON

Trustees meeting, Ehrbar announced that the Williston Park Williston Park’s long-awaited water system was online as of water tower is officially opera- that day. This marked the first day tional, Mayor Paul Ehrbar said that the village was off the water system in neighboring Mineola.

Monday.

While acknowledging that At the village’s Board of

there is still some “groundwork” to complete, Ehrbar said the main tank was “up and running,” and that he would take a walkthrough of the site on Wednesday.

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MTA plan looks to streamline service Foye seeks to transform operations, save up to $500M

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Center to aid people with disabilities Viscardi aims to create entrepreneurs

BY T E R I W EST

PHOTO FROM THE MTA

The station for the Port Washington branch of the LIRR.

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved a plan on Wednesday that suggests streamlining services could cut up to 2,700 jobs and save up to $530 million annually as the agency seeks to rein in deficits and modernize its infrastructure.

AlixPartners, a management consultant firm hired by the MTA, developed the “MTA Transformation Plan” for $3.75 million, in hopes of helping the agency improve service, end project delays and overruns, and modernize the system, which includes the Long Island Rail Road. It was released last week and approved by the MTA board on Wednesday.

MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye said this is the first step to creating a modern and more efficient MTA that completes projects on budget and on time.

“Make no mistake about it,” Foye said, “this transformation will

allow us to finally give our customers the system they deserve, and prepares us to execute on what is likely to be the biggest capital plan in MTA history.”

The report calls for the consolidation of more than 40 groups within the MTA into six departments, with agencies focusing on service delivery, safety, day-to-day operations and maintenance. Other services would be merged and coordinated centrally.

It also recommends creating groups for capital programs, engineering, customer communications, support functions and human resources to reduce redundancies across the system.

The recommendations could lead to a reduction of 1,900 to 2,700 positions from the 74,000-strong workforce, the report suggests, and cost savings ranging from $370 million to $530 million per year.

LIRR President Phillip Eng said Long Island Rail Road workers are “at the heart” of their operation,

but that they also owe it to customers to be fiscally responsible.

“As they continue this work to ensure reliable service, increased communication, and a robust capital program that’s expanding and modernizing the railroad, we owe it to the public we serve to use funding both appropriately and in the most cost-effective manner,” Eng said.

In June 2017, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared the city subway system was in a “state of emergency” and ordered the agency to create a plan to turn it around. The plan’s release follows the forging of the Subway Action Plan, which provided $836 million in funding to modernize the system.

The New York Legislature also passed legislation requiring the MTA to create a personnel and reorganization plan and implement systemic reforms and approve it by the end of this month.

The full plan can be found online at https://new.mta.info/transformation.

People with disabilities are more likely to be self-employed than people without disabilities, yet very few entrepreneurship centers specialize in guiding people with disabilities toward starting a business, said Viscardi Center Chief Program Officer Colleen Crispino.

So in October, the Viscardi Center will launch its own effort called the National Center for Disability Entrepreneurship.

Designed for adults of all ages with any type of disability, the center will offer a 14-to-16week program to guide participants toward creating a business plan and then offer mentorship and potential seed funding for a launch, Crispino said.

For a population that often faces barriers to traditional employment, self-employment provides an important alternative, said Kim Brussell, vice president of marketing and public affairs at the Viscardi Center in Albertson.

“We’re creating entrepreneurs out of people that may not have ever thought they could be an entrepreneur or business owner,” she said.

The program is accepting applications for its first cohort, which Crispino said would hopefully have about 10 participants.

The Viscardi Center has spent about 18 months putting the program together. It has partnered with Farmingdale State College’s Small Business Development Center, which will offer training and mentorship for participants.

The curriculum will include two sessions per week that will be up to 90 minutes, Crispino said.

“We have a very extensive history of supporting people with disabilities in employment so this is sort of a very natural branching out for us to now support them in self-employment,” she said.

When putting together the center, Crispino attended a conference called “Entrepreneurship for All” where people with disabilities were never even mentioned, she said.

Entrepreneurship centers often specialize in working with certain demographic groups but people with disabilities are rarely one of them, Crispino said.

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In October, the Viscardi Center will be launching the National Center for Disability Entrepreneurship.

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Herricks senior goes to Washington Williston Park’s Kathryn Ritchie selected to attend ACLU advocacy institute program

BY TOM M CC A RT HY

Williston Park’s Kathryn Ritchie originally thought she would study medicine.

The shootings of high school students in Parkland, Florida, gave her a political awakening and now she’s going to Capitol Hill.

“A great community is determined by the interaction of the people within it,” said Ritchie, who is 17 and politically driven.

Key issues she is concerned about are gun violence and civic participation.

Ritchie, who will be a senior at Herricks High School in the coming school year, is a student activist selected to join a group of almost 1,000 students at the American Civil Liberties Union’s 2019 Summer Advocacy Institute program in Washington, D.C. The program is running from July 20 to Friday.

Ritchie said she is lucky to have the support of her family for her political activism and is encouraged to follow her passion. In an interview, she spoke about civic participation, voting and figuring out ways to get people off the couch on Election Day and into the voting booths.

“We have to remind people what government does,” she said. “Political tensions deter votes.” She said that her generation is just starting to go to college and enter the workforce and it is important to keep up with politics and the news. She said controlling the course of the nation is “going to

in Queens before attending Herricks and plans on bringing both her Herricks roots and Queens roots to Washington.

“Young people’s voices matter,” Ritchie said. She doesn’t know where she wants to go for her undergraduate education yet, but she said she plans on going to law school.

When asked where she sees herself if five to 10 years, she said she imagines herself working for the ACLU or a political campaign.

To get into the ACLU program, Ritchie had to write an essay on community organizing in February. She said she was accepted three weeks later.

The program involves high school students engaging with lawyers and political PHOTO COURTESY OF KATHRYN RITCHIE activists to build expertise and knowledge advocacy. Issues being highlighted inWIlliston Park’s Kathryn Ritchie (right) wants to get people in her community about volve criminal justice reform, voting rights, politically involved. religious freedom, participation in debates, and how to develop successful media and Responsible Solutions. Giffords survived a social networking strategies. be our job soon.”

The week was to culminate Thursday This summer won’t be her first time at shooting.

Ritchie participates not only in Wash- with a lobby day in which the students parCapitol Hill. It all started last year when vioington D.C. politics but in what is going ticipate in meetings with elected officials lence struck Florida.

The Stoneman Douglas High School on in Herricks. She started participating and congressional staff members on Capitol shootings in Parkland in February 2018 in Herricks Board of Education meetings Hill. This year the focus is on the treatment sparked Ritchie’s “political feelings” and in- during her junior year and said she has of immigrant families at the border.

Former CIA employee and whistleterest in gun violence reform. By summer successfully negotiated a new bathroom 2018, she had been accepted into a fellow- in the high school with the board. She said blower Edward Snowden will be one of the ship with former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Gif- she will continue to attend board meetings keynote speakers at the event via webcam. fords’ anti-gun organization Americans for during her senior year. Ritchie used to lives

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Fashion entrepreneur Spitalnick dies G.N. resident headed Evan-Picone, considered pioneer in women’s business clothing

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Irving Spitalnick, a fashion entrepreneur, longtime businessman and former Great Neck resident, died July 9. He was 88.

Spitalnick served as president of the women’s fashion group EvanPicone throughout the 1970s, having started there as a salesman in 1962. Three years after his ouster in 1980, he embarked on a series of business ventures, including his namesake brand Spitalnick & Co. in 1983.

His youngest son, Bill Spitalnick, described his father as a personable family man who could “hold a room captive with his stories.” He also never had a bad word to say about anybody, the younger Spitalnick said, treating every person he

met with dignity, kindness and respect.

“He just always treated every man as an individual. It was an inspiration to me – I live that way,” his son said. “Everybody’s a real person with the same issues and they all deserve respect. He was great like that.”

Irving Spitalnick was born on May 26, 1931, and grew up in Brooklyn, where he worked in his parents’ butcher shop and graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School. He joined the Army in 1951 and was stationed at a base in Germany, where he headed up recreation, during the Korean War, his son said.

Spitalnick got a degree from Brooklyn Tech to become a chiropractor but he changed his mind because of “baloney” claims going around about it curing cancer,

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SPITALNICK FAMILY

Irving Spitalnick, a fashion entrepreneur, family man and former Great Neck resident, died on July 9 at 88. Many of his family members still reside on the North Shore.

Spitalnick said.

After leaving the Army in 1954, Spitalnick worked at a hosiery com-

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pany and then a women’s wear company before starting work as a salesman at Evan-Picone, Bill

Spitalnick said. From there, he rose to vice president of sales, then president in 1969, and became an owner.

“When he had something to say, he definitely knew how to hold a microphone,” Bill Spitalnick said.

Palm Beach Inc., which by that point owned Evan-Picone, ousted Spitalnick “for cause.”

Spitalnick told Women’s Wear Daily at the time that there was “a dispute,” but the decision for him to leave was a mutual one.

Spitalnick & Co. began in 1983, with Cynthia Steffe recruited to design the brand. The first collection, according to Women’s Wear Daily, “took a dramatic step away from the gray flannel suit and prim bow-tie blouse” prevalent at Evan-Picone in favor of sleeker and more colorful looks.

He then founded the sportswear collection Juliana around 1994, Bill Spitalnick said, as the retail environment became more driven by accounting than receptive buyers, which in turn led to greater stress on vendors.

This involved using connections and bringing clothing collections into people’s homes as a show, he said, a “very risky endeavor” that required a “tremendous amount of sampling” and inventory.

“When he recognized that challenge, he went into a completely different business,” Bill Spitalnick said. “He opened a business that sold women’s clothing directly to the consumer.”

In addition to founding fashion ventures, Spitalnick also helped two synagogues in their beginnings.

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Searingtown crash leaves one dead

BY T E R I W EST A 20-year-old motorist died after a head-on collision on Searingtown Road in Searingtown last Thursday evening, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

The crash occurred at 5:09 p.m. just north of Old Searingtown Road, a public information officer said.

The victim was the sole occupant of a 2007 Honda Civic and collided with a 2000 Ford work van driven by a 29-year-old man who was also driving solo, he said.

Both men were taken to area hospitals, the 29-year-old with nonlife-threatening injuries.

A physician pronounced the victim dead at the hospital, according to officials, who did not disclose his identity.

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‘Bad Education’ to premiere in Sept.

Hugh Jackman film tells story of corrupt ex-school superintendent, administrators

BY T E R I W EST

Roslyn is headed to the big screen in September, when “Bad Education,” a film starring Hugh Jackman as the school district’s corrupt former superintendent, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Roslyn High School alum Mike Makowsky wrote the film, which also stars Allison Janney and Ray Romano.

“Beyond excited for us to present BAD EDUCATION at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival,” Makowsky, who graduated from the high school in 2009, tweeted Tuesday morning.

The film chronicles the corruption scandal School Superintendent Frank Tassone led in the early 2000s, embezzling millions of dollars and spending them on personal expenses.

He was sentenced to prison in 2006.

The Toronto International Film Festival runs from Sept.

5 to Sept. 15. Dates of specific showings have not yet been an-

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A still from the film “Bad Education,” starring Hugh Jackman. nounced.

“Some of the year’s biggest films will land in Toronto this September,” festival co-head Cameron Bailey said in a news release. “We’re thrilled to unveil Galas and Special Presentations

that bring the brightest lights in film to our Festival audience.

Our new programming team has been hard at work for months to deliver the compelling stories, acclaimed filmmakers, and top onscreen talent that mark our

two highest-profile sections.”

Parts of “Bad Education” were filmed in Roslyn last fall, when trailers were spotted on Round Hill Road. Area schools, however, were not used as sets, according to a letter the Roslyn

school district sent to parents at the time.

“While the film is purportedly meant to entertain, it’s important to remember that what occurred in our school district was far from entertaining,” the Oct. 3 letter said. “A former superintendent and several accomplices conspired to steal approximately $11.2 million meant for our children’s education. The scandal shook our community deeply.”

The full cast includes Ray Abruzzo, Peter Appel, Annaleigh Ashford, Rafael Casal (“Blindspotting”), Catherine Curtin, Hari Dhillon, Stephanie Kurtzuba, Kathrine Narducci, Jeremy Shamos, Stephen Spinella, Jimmy Tatro, Welker White and Alex Wolff (“Hereditary”).

Makowsky, Fred Berger (“La La Land”), Brian KavanaughJones, Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev and Oren Moverman co-produced “Bad Education.”

Cory Finley (“Thoroughbreds”) directed it.

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Legislature studies assessment contracts

BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Three contracts for services to assist the county in kickstarting the 2020-21 assessment process have yet to receive approval from the Nassau County Legislature.

The contracts were submitted to the Legislature on July 8 and were not included on the agenda for the July 15 meeting.

Christine Geed, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s director of communications, said in a previous statement to Blank Slate Media, that “the Majority is attempting to sabotage the 2021/2022 assessment roll by delaying three assessment contracts for necessary services.”

The three contracts, which total over $1.6 million worth of services, are with Michael Haberman Associates, Standard Valuation Services and Assessor Educational Services.

Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said the three contracts are under review.

“There are issues as to whether the work on updating the assessment roll should be accomplished by existing staff, which is what the administration said would be the case when we voted

for the same contracts last year,” he said.

Michael Haberman Associates would provide the county with ancillary services to further train Department of Assessment, Assessment Review Commission and county attorney staff members.

A contract with Standard Valuation Services is for training and related assessment support services for the use of the multiple regression model for the 2020-21 tentative assessment roll.

The Department of Assessment has determined that to conduct the 2021-22 tentative assessment roll, it will conduct a trend analysis of the 2020-21 assessment roll to determine values used for the next year’s tax roll, according to the county executive’s office.

Assessor Educational Services would provide staff with instruction in real property appraisal, property valuation, mass appraisal and commercial/industrial modeling concepts. The contract is for 396 hours of course instruction to 80 existing and newly hired staff members in the Department of Assessment, the Assessment Review Commission and the county attorney’s office.

While the contracts are being reviewed, it has not been determined whether they will be voted on at August’s meeting of the Legislature.

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Concerns of 2020 census undercount County comptroller report details potential loss of money, representation in Nassau, state

BY J E S S I C A PA R K S An undercount of only 0.6 percent in the 2020 census could cost the state two of its congressional representatives.

A report released Tuesday by Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman and the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island dives into just how important the census is for Nassau County and the rest of the state.

Of the state’s hard-to-count counties, Nassau County is listed as fifth. Hard-tocount areas are ones with high concentrations of young children, highly mobile people, racial and ethnic minorities, nonEnglish speakers, low-income households, individuals experiencing homelessness, undocumented immigrants, people who distrust the government, LGBTQ+ individuals and people with disabilities, according to the comptroller’s report.

Kings County, or Brooklyn, is the hardest to count county in the state and Suffolk County is listed as fourth.

Nassau County’s population, as shown in the report, is home to 40 percent people of color, while 5 percent are children under 5, 15 percent are people living in or near poverty and 6 percent of the population speaks limited English.

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Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman’s office released a report outlining the importance of the 2020 census on Tuesday. billion in funding each year, and the 2020 census determines the amount of aid each municipality receives.

“Getting an accurate count for the census is critical for Nassau County; $675 billion in annual federal funding is on the line, and it’s critical Long Island gets its fair share,” Schnirman said.

Programs such as Medicaid, Medi-

care, Section 8 housing, special education grants, Childhood Health Insurance, foster care and the National School Lunch Program are among those funded by census data.

Census data is also used to determine how legislative districts are drawn for both federal and state governments and how school aid is allocated for the next

decade.

“Completing the census is the single most important action a parent can take to secure their child’s future because of the significant 10-year funding impact on our schools and communities,” said Rebecca Sanin, president and chief executive officer of the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island.

Nassau and Suffolk counties have teamed up to ensure Long Island is accurately represented in the 2020 census and have formed 2020 Census Complete Count Committees in conjunction with the Health and Welfare Council and the Long Island Community Foundation.

“We have built an army of census soldiers to advance an accurate count in 2020 to ensure that New York can receive its fair share of funding,” Sanin said. “We need every Long Island resident to complete the census and recruit their family, friends and neighbors to be counted.”

A question on citizenship status will not be included in the 2020 census as of early last week when a federal judge in New York signed an order to definitively block the question.

The census form can be submitted online, by phone or by mail. April 1 is National Census Day, the reference day for the 2020 census.

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Singas war chest swamps opponents Nassau DA shows $1.12M in bank compared with $6,799 for GOPer Francis McQuade

BY T E R I W EST The Nassau County district attorney race is off to a wildly uneven start financially.

Incumbent Democrat Madeline Singas has $1.12 million in the bank while her opponent, Republican Francis McQuade, has $6,799, according to July campaign filing reports.

Nearly $1 million of Singas’ funds was already in her opening balance, which totaled $962,702. Since then, she has gained $318,375 in contributions, while McQuade has taken in $17,244 in contributions.

“I’m honored by this support for my campaign and look forward to running on my record of lower crime, safer communities, and the professional and ethical administration of justice by our outstanding team of prosecutors, investigators and staff,” Singas said in a statement.

McQuade said that joining the race in March and not being an incumbent has put him at a financial disadvantage.

“I was asked to run on the very night of the Nassau Republican Convention as a compromise candidate,” he wrote in an email. “I had not in-

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Nassau County District Attorney democratic and incumbent candidate Madeline Singas, left, and her opponent republican Francis McQuade. tended to run, and was surprised by the request. I was honored and happy to have been nominated, but certainly started ‘flat-footed.’”

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ting a campaign together and he invested $3,000 in it himself, McQuade said. Now he’s raising funds and appearing at events around Nassau County, he said.

“I am working harder to raise money and am making new pitches,” he wrote. “My next financial disclosure should report more encouraging results. I have a fund-raiser at the Jetty in Long Beach Aug. 8.”

He said he anticipates support from the Nassau County Republican Committee and unions.

Singas’ campaign spending totals $158,107, while McQuade’s was $13,444.

McQuade’s campaign has spent 66 percent of its receipts while Singas’ has spent about 50 percent of what

it has collected this campaign season.

Taking her opening balance into account, however, the Singas campaign has spent only about 12 percent of its total funds.

Individuals have made 235 contributions to Singas’ campaign since the start of the year and 85 contributions to McQuade’s.

The candidates are nearly tied, however, in the number of corporate donations: Singas with 12 and McQuade with 11.

Singas’ 12 corporate donors have given more than 10 times what McQuade’s have. His 11 corporate donations total $1,600 while hers total $20,350. Three of Singas’ corporate donors are based in the Town of North Hempstead.

Advantage Partners Inc. of Great Neck gave $2,500, PD One Corp. of Port Washington gave $2,000 and LA Kane Realty Corp. of Manhasset gave $100.

Singas has been Nassau County’s district attorney since 2016. She previously led the office’s Special Victims Bureau, was chief assistant district attorney and was acting district attorney.

“I first ran for office four years ago because I believed the Nassau DA should be an experienced prosecutor, not a politician,” Singas said in a statement. “We’ve worked relentlessly to fight violent gangs, tackle the opioid crisis and prosecute public corruption, and it is working.”

McQuade, an attorney, has never held political office but has run for city, county and state seats, most recently the New York State Assembly in 2006.

“I am in it to win it and do not consider myself a “place-holder” for the County GOP,” he wrote. “I’m fixing on winning.”

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O. Westbury degree earns accreditation The State University of New York at Old Westbury Public Health department has earned accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health for its bachelor of science in health and society. The SUNY Old Westbury degree program becomes the 14th stand-alone baccalaureate program in the country to hold this accreditation.

The Council on Education for Public Healthaccreditation recognizes efforts to provide quality education and prepare students for impactful careers in public health after graduation. The Council on Education for Public Healthis an independent agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit schools of public health and public health programs offered in settings other than schools of public health.

“CEPH accreditation is an outstanding affirmation of this program’s quality and places it among the finest undergraduate programs of its kind in the nation,” said Calvin O. Butts, III, president of SUNY Old Westbury.

“Having earned this recognition reflects the strength of our faculty members and the tremendous effort they put forth to provide quality education while preparing students for success in fields related to public health.“ CEPH’s accreditation procedures required the public health department and the college to undertake a rigorous self-evaluation — a process which engages stakeholders from across the college and its constituencies, including faculty, staff, students, alumni, collaborators and community partners. SUNY Old Westbury

Upcoming at W.P. Library New Titles Added “Keep You Close” by Karen Cleveland “Queen Bee” by Dorothea Benton Frank “Flatshare” by Beth O’Leary “Unsolved” by James Patterson “Friends We Keep” by Jane Green “Royal Secret” by Lucinda Riley “Book Woman of Troublesome Creek” by Kim Michelle Richardson Adult Programs Reiki: Thursday, July 25 at 6 p.m. $10 per person. Sign up at the circulation desk.

Stop the Bleed Injury Prevention: Tuesday, July 30 at 6 p.m. in the assembly room of Village Hall. Sign up at the circulation desk.

Author Appearance: William Handwerker. Thursday, Aug. 22 at 7 p.m. in the assembly room of Village Hall.

William is the grandson of Nathan Handwerker, founder of America’s favorite frankfurter company and the iconic

Coney Island institution. He will discuss his book “Nathan’s Famous: The First 100 years.”

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Children’s Programs Sign Language for Babies & Toddlers: Wednesdays, July 31 and Aug. 7 from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. in the assembly room of Village Hall for children 3 months to 5 years old.

Sign up at the circulation desk.

Story Time for Tots: Thursdays, July 25; Aug. 1, 8, 15 at 11 a.m. in the library. Sign up at the circulation desk.

LI Retro Gaming: Saturday, July 27 at 11 a.m. in the assembly room of Village Hall for all ages. Sign up at the circulation desk.

Let’s get ready for school: Monday, August 5 at 10:30 a.m. in the assembly room of Village Hall for ages 2-and-ahalf to 5 years old. Sign up at the circulation desk.

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began the accreditation process in 2015 and engaged in a threeyear, comprehensive self-study.

The college then submitted the self-study document and in December 2018 hosted a team of external peer reviewers to validate the self-study during an extensive, two-day on-site visit. This team of reviewers included public health academics, practitioners and accreditation specialists. The approval of Old Westbury’s accreditation was rendered in June.

“Our program is focused on helping students to understand the underlying social, political and behavioral forces that shape health status,” said Martha Livingston, chair of the public health department. “Our students also learn how to assess critically factors that contribute to the health of popu-

lations, integrating real-world experience with coursework and learning how to improve the public’s health at the policy and the community level.”

Approximately 230 students were enrolled in the 2018-19 academic year in the Health and Society program, which has been offered at SUNY Old Westbury since 1975. The program prepares students for entry into a broad range of professions in public health at the local, state, and national levels and for graduate study in public health.

Graduates have also embarked on successful careers in hospitals and local non-profit health agencies, and many go on to obtain training in health professions including medicine, nursing, physical and occupational therapy and physician assistantship.

SUNY Old Westbury is a selective public liberal arts college with more than 5,000 students studying in more than 45 undergraduate degree opportunities in its liberal arts and professional programs and 16 graduate programs in business, data analytics,education, liberal studies and mental health counseling. On the college’s 604-acre campus, students are challenged to take ownership of their futures through an environment that demands academic excellence, fosters intercultural understanding, and endeavors to stimulate a passion for learning and a commitment to building a more just and sustainable world. For more information on SUNY Old Westbury, www.oldwestbury.edu.

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Jr. firefighters tackle water The members of the Mineola Junior Fire Department took their annual trip up to Lake George to enjoy the sites, fun parks and had a good time.

The year-round beauty of the mountains and lakes beckons anyone to come and stay awhile. How could anyone resist?

The juniors stood at the Depe Dene waterfront lodge.

At the resort, the juniors had a chance to swim and relax at the resort’s beach which has paddle boats, rowboats, and canoes. Some of the members even did some fishing with a few catches.

During the week, the juniors rented a speed boat and a deck boat, so they could enjoy water tubing or just take a ride on beautiful Lake George. One night, they did the bumper car ride, laser tag at the Fun Spot Amusement center. The weather was sunny and warm.

Another day, we went to aerial adventure course at

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The junior firefighters went water tubing during their annual Lake George trip.

Adirondack Adventure Center where there is a state-of-theart adventure course through a beautiful forest canopy in the Southeastern Adirondacks.

We rode the zip lines, cross the wooden platforms, and had

fun!

After six days, it was time to start for home. When the juniors arrived home, they were all a little tired, but with fond memories of the 2019 Lake George Trip.

Annual children’s parade On Tuesday, August 6, come out for the 7th Annual “Children’s Parade for a Safer Williston Park” at 7:00 p.m. Ride your bicycle, tricycle. scooter, wagon or be pushed in a stroller. The parade will start at Broad Street and Amherst Street and will end at Kelleher Field Picnic Area. Neighborhood Watch Block Captains who are able to assist should contact Village Hall at 746-2193 Ice cream will be served at the finish of the parade. Williston Park is a great place to visit and a better place to live in. Let’s keep it that way. A police officer from the 3rd Precinct will be a Guest Speaker.

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LIJ delivers Baby-Friendly selection Long Island Jewish Medical Center has been recognized as a Baby-Friendly hospital, achieving the quality standard for best possible breast feeding support for mothers and infants in the maternity unit. Long Island Jewish Medical Centerearned this designation for offering new mothersthe information, confidence and skills they need to succeed in breastfeeding and caring for theirbabies. Of the estimated 6,000 hospitals and birthing centers in the United States, only 500 have received the Baby-Friendly designation.

The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative is a global program that was created in 1991 by theWorld Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund. The initiative’s aim is to assist hospitals in educating and supporting new mothers about the health benefits of breastfeeding their newborns.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization sug-

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New mom and baby at Long Island Jewish Medical Center maternity unit. gest that mothers breastfeed for the first six months of a child’s

life. However, only one in four babies in the US meet that rec-

ommendation. Research studies have shown that babies who are breastfed are less likely to have asthma, type 2 diabetes, or become obese.

“We’re very proud of our team for obtaining the prestigious Baby-Friendly designation at the Katz Women’s Hospital at Long Island Jewish Medical Center,” said Michael Goldberg, executive director of Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

“This designation represents our commitment to providing the highest level of education and family bonding for our new and expanding families.”

Long Island Jewish Medical Center features state-of-the-art labor and delivery rooms. Private mother and baby rooms are equipped with an ADA-compliant bathroom and shower, wireless internet, glider chair and flat screen TV. Overnight accommodations are available for a significant other to stay, which is recommended. All maternity staff are specially trained to

help with breastfeeding. Other hospital amenities include lactation consultation services, prenatal classes, a family lounge, patient and family classrooms, as well as a retail store focusing on women’s and newborn products. Breast pump rentals are available onsite.

The Katz Women’s Hospital at Long Island Jewish Medical Center delivers more babies than any other hospital in New York State, more than 9,100 in 2018. Long Island Jewish Medical Center and 10 other Northwell Health hospitals with maternity programs delivered more than 39,000 babies in 2018 – about 17 percent of all newborns in New York State and one percent of the nationwide total.

Other Northwell Health hospitals to receive the BabyFriendly designation include: Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital and Phelps Hospital.

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Northwell nurse program To enhance the health of children in its communities, Northwell Health has launched its School Nurse Professional Development Program, which provides education and clinical skills practice for these health care professionals. The program helps school nurses stay up-to-date on changes in the rapidly evolving field of health care, empowering them to more effectively care for students in their charge.

“At Northwell, we’re committed to caring not just for the children at our hospitals and practices but for all the children and families in our area,” said Launette Woolforde, vice president of nursing education and professional development at Northwell Health. “One way of achieving that goal is through providing educational support to school nurses, who are vital in protecting the physical, emotional and mental health of children from kindergarten through high school.”

The new program meets a demonstrated need. Unlike a number of other states, New York does not require nurses to participate in continuing education to maintain their license; additionally, there are limited resources available to school nurses who are interested in ongoing clinical education and skills practice

as well as professional development. Clinicians at Northwell’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park have regularly fielded calls from school nurses asking for guidance regarding new medical technology and practice guidelines.

In response, for the past two years, the health system has offered informational sessions on a variety of health care topics, which have been attended by approximately 1,000 school nurses.

The new program, which was jointly developed by Northwell Health Community Relations, Cohen Children’s Medical Center and the Northwell Health Institute for Nursing, includes an expanded schedule of these educational workshops and adds clinical instruction courses that offer school nurses hands-on experience with equipment, along with interactive demonstrations and assessment of nursing skills.

School nurses attending the clinical courses receive continuing education units.

“Through our involvement with local school districts, we became aware that school nurses are often siloed from education on the newest medical treatments and technologies,” said Matthew DePace, Northwell’s Regional Director of Community Relations

for Long Island and Queens.

“School nurses are eager for that information, and we’ve made it our mission to bring it to them.”

“School nurses face many more demands these days than in years past,” said Laura McDonagh, director of pediatric services at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. “More children have chronic conditions or complex medical needs, and nurses have to be prepared for potentially life-threatening emergencies, like diabetic coma or anaphylaxis. We want to give school nurses the tools they need to keep children safe.”

The first clinical classes will be held in the 2019-20 school year, and will cover best practices when handling anaphylaxis in a school setting, managing students with diabetes and caring for students with seizure disorder. The educational courses will update nurses on the latest evidence-based approaches to a variety of topics, including food allergies, childhood anxiety, the use of social media, urological issues, and human and child sex trafficking.

The educational program also includes Northwell’s wellattended school nurse program addressing the opioid epidemic.

The program, Recovery, Resil-

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Northwell’s School Nurse Professional Development Program offers clinical instruction and guidance on new medical technology and practice guidelines. ience and Hope, destigmatizes and reframes substance misuse and abuse as medical issues, provides information on resources available for students and community members with substance use issues, and provides a broad range of strategies that nurses can use in addressing opioid-related concerns. Participants also learn how to prevent, recognize and respond to overdose, including administering naloxone, the medication designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose. More than 400 nurses have attended the program, which as of the close of the school year has been offered to nurses in every school

district on Long Island. By the close of 2019, the program will have been made available to nurses in every school district in Northwell’s footprint.

School nurses can register for educational and clinical programs in the 2019-2020 series at http://NorthwellSchoolNurseSeries.EventBrite.com.

They can register for the opioid education program, Recovery, Resilience and Hope, at https:// www.northwell.edu/SchoolNurseOpioidProgram.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Boating safety tips for Nassau County With multiple deaths and injuries occurring in Long Island waters, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran joined District Attorney Madeline Singas, New York State Senator John Brooks, New York State Assemblywoman Judy Griffin, Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen, Nassau County Police Department Commissioner Patrick Ryder and the Nassau County Police Marine Bureau on Monday, July 22 at Wantagh Park Marina to emphasize the importance of boating safety.

“While we are fortunate to have access to amazing waterways, those who operate any type of boat or watercraft need to do so responsibly and with diligence,” said Curran. “I urge both residents and tourists to never endanger themselves or others by boating recklessly. Do not ever operate a vessel under the influence of alcohol or drugs, always wear a life jacket and educate yourself on safety protocol and proper operation before driving any type of watercraft.”

Boating crash survivor Gina Costa Lieneck, who lost her 11-year-old daughter in a boating accident in 2005, was also on site to speak about the importance of boater education and her legislation, Brianna’s Law – a law requiring all boaters in New York to take an eight-hour boating safety class.

“Until there are laws in place that prevent people from operating a boat or watercraft without proper education, I will be this industry’s biggest nightmare,” said Costa Lieneck. “Although the boating accident that took my daughter’s life 14 years ago took a lot out of me, it also gave me an inexhaustible drive to see to it that something like this never happens to another family. And yet, week after week I watch the news and read the papers and people are still dying. I applaud Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and all

officials who are promoting boating safety. It is a critical reminder that will save lives. And so will the passage of Brianna’s Law. I am grateful that the New York State Legislature passed this crucial boating safety bill this past June. I am hopeful that it will be signed into law soon.”

According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the top-five contributing factors in accidents are operator inattention, improper lookout, operator inexperience, machinery failure, and alcohol use. Nassau County officials stressed the importance of boating with caution.

“Long Island’s waters provide a wonderful opportunity for sport and recreation of all kinds,” said Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas. “But wherever groups of people and moving vehicles of any kind interact, safety must come first. Reckless, negligent or impaired operation has deadly consequences. It also has potential criminal consequences. For everyone’s sake please slow down and think. Lives depend on it.”

“Nassau County is the busiest recreational boating county in New York State. Over 40,000 recreational boats are currently registered here in addition to the large number of commercial fishing vessels that call Nassau County home,” said Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder. “The safety of those that utilize our waterways is of utmost importance to NCPD as we continue into our summer season. The Nassau County Police Marine Bureau will continue to enforce navigational laws to ensure the safety of our residents all visitors. I urge all boaters and their guests to adhere to all safety regulations to assist our department in reaching our goal which is a safe boating season.”

New York State Senator John Brooks added, “The safety of our waterways in

New apartments at Jefferson’s Ferry Learn more about new apartment homes planned at senior living community Jefferson’s Ferry. Jefferson’s Ferry, a life plan community for active adults 62 and better, invites the public to attend one of the following informational events: Wednesday, Aug. 7 at 12 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 8 at 12 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 13 at 12 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 15 at 12 p.m.

Jefferson’s Ferry is located at One Jefferson Ferry Drive in South Setauket. Space is limited and reservations are required by

calling 631-259-4898 or visiting www.jeffersonsferry.org/expanding/. Lunch will be served at each event.

Learn about the planned expansion that includes new apartment homes in residential and assisted living, a new memory care neighborhood, and renovations in key common areas.

The presentation will highlight the senior housing options available, focusing specifically on the benefits of living in a life plan community. Senior living experts will also share tips on how to select a life plan community.

New York is every bit as important as the safety of our roadways. Brianna Lieneck and her family paid the ultimate price from inadequate regulation. Knowing the laws of the waterways is crucial and it is simply a matter of common sense that informed vessel-operators will result in safer waters. I am confident that it will save lives.”

“We want to ensure smooth sailing for all of our residents and visitors, especially during the busy summer season, which marks the peak for boating in all of our historically nautical communities across the south shore of Long Island,” said Town of Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen. “The town’s Bay Constables are strictly enforcing speeding limits, especially in ‘no wake zones,’ and responding to suspicions of boating while intoxicated so that we avoid another tragedy.”

To educate residents on boating safety, Curran also shared the following tips: Take a boating safety course before operating a vessel.

Have a routine safety checkup and do regular maintenance on your boat.

Know the weather and ensure it is safe to go out. If you notice storm clouds, a sudden temperature drop or wind speed increasing, play it safe and get off the water.

Don’t ever operate a vessel while impaired by alcohol or drugs – it’s illegal and dangerous. Boating while intoxicated is a crime and a major contributor to boating accidents are fatalities.

Maintain a safe speed – a vessel must be able to stop safely within the clear space ahead.

Do not overload your boat. Keep to the recommended weight and number of people you can safely carry.

When operating a boat or watercraft, pay attention. Put your phone away and avoid distractions.

Submitted by the office of Nassau County Executive Laura Curran.

Upcoming programs at Mineola Library Monday, July 29 at 7 p.m.; Concert in the Park: Just Sixties Performs The Road to Woodstock: Hear the USA’s longest running ’60s tribute, Just Sixties, perform a tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket. Concert will be held in the Mineola Memorial Park Amphitheater. In the case of inclement weather, it will be held in the library’s community room.

Adult programs Tuesday, Aug. 1 at 1:45 p.m.; Classics & Conversation Film Series: “So You Wanna Be a Star?”

Join Adam Simms for the second film in a series that runs on se-

lect Thursdays through December. Call the Mineola Library at 516-746-8488 ext. 2 or visit the library’s website at www.mineolalibrary.info to find out which film he will be screening and discussing.

Saturday, Aug. 3 at 2 p.m.; Solar Telescope Workshop presented by the Vanderbilt Museum: Gain a basic understanding of how the sun works and learn about the importance of scientific inquiry. Go outside to view the sun directly using a solar telescope. Register at the reference desk or call 516-746-8488 ext. 2.

Children’s programs Monday, July 29 at 4 p.m.;

Family program (with children of all ages) – Dog Days of Summer: Make homemade dog toys for homeless dogs: Bring a clean, adult-sized t shirt. Work together to create a dog toy using a t-shirt and tennis ball. Toys will be donated to a local shelter. Register in the children’s room or call 516-746-8488 ext. 1.

Friday, Aug. 2 at 4 p.m.; Grades 1 and up – “Make a Wish” shooting star and unicorn bag: Color in your own unicorn bags with happy rainbows and shooting stars. Register in the children’s room or call 516-7468488 ext. 1.

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A way forward for G.N., our nation

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ore than a month ago, a slate led by Great Neck Village Mayor Pedram Bral easily defeated challenger James Wu and two trustee candidates in a race that exposed fault lines of ethnicity, racial differences, religious conflicts between Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews and the political divide between Democrats and Republicans in the era of Donald Trump.

But the campaign debate did not stop with the election.

Continuing an argument begun during the campaign, a group of Bral supporters led by Jeffrey Wiesenfeld accused Steven Markowitz, the chairman of the Glen Cove-based Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County and head of the Great Neck Democratic Club, of an “antireligious animus” against the Orthodox community.

As proof, they submitted what they said was an email sent by Markowitz – from four years ago – during the election pitting Bral against then-Mayor Ralph Kreitzman.

The email showed the sender as “Steven Marko…” It read: “Have no reluctance to tell people that this election is about an attempt by right wing Orthodox groups to take over the village.”

The recipients were not identified.

The email also seemed to raise several questions, as did the response.

Does the use of “right wing” before Orthodox lesson the onus of singling out Orthodox Jews?

How does identifying Orthodox Jews differ from classifying voters as whites without a college degree, black women, Hispanics and suburban women? And do the words “take over the village” make

it worse?

The role played by observant Orthodox and Persian Jews in Great Neck has been an issue in several recent elections almost always spoken in hushed tones.

The concerns expressed have included the impact of Jews who observe the Sabbath on Friday night and Saturday on local shopping districts and concerns that Orthodox Jews who send their children to religious schools will not support Great Neck school district budgets.

But no one was discussing the niceties of this debate.

Wiesenfeld and other critics demanded that Markowitz step down as chair of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County.

Wiesenfeld, in an email sent to administrators at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County with a letter from resident Robert Spitalnick warned, “If he is to remain your chair, we’ll contact every donor whom we know.”

Should a center that helps us remember the Holocaust and supports tolerance be boycotted because of a four-year-old email?

Should the person who had led the organization – and allegedly sent the email – be forced to step down? Those are questions that were also not answered.

Nor was there a clear answer about whether Markowitz sent the email.

In an earlier conversation with Blank Slate Media Publisher Steven Blank, Markowitz said he did not remember writing the email.

In a subsequent interview with a reporter for the paper, Markowitz denied having sent the email.

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“None of this is based on reality,” he said. “It’s all based on a hate campaign.”

More than a dozen letters were sent to the paper by prominent members of the community, citing Markowitz’s contributions to the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center and his efforts to bring together people of all religions.

But last week, Markowitz accepted responsibility for the email after Wiesenfeld and other critics said they would provide proof that Markowitz sent the email in 2015 unless he issued an apology in this newspaper.

In the apology, Markowitz maintained that he still did not remember sending the email and said the words used in it “are not acceptable and divisive.”

In a welcome sign of comity, Wiesenfeld said he accepted Markowitz’s apology.

But people in and outside Great Neck hoping for a break from a divisive debate based on race, ethnicity, religion and political affiliation were out of luck.

President Trump made it is

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Trump continued his campaign against the four freshman congresswomen during an event on the South Lawn of the White House and then, finally, at a rally in Greenville, North Carolina. The crowd then took up Trump’s cause for him, chanting, “Send her back!

Send her back!” as he railed against Omar.

Some heard echoes of Nazi rallies from the 1930s. Others saw a pattern followed by other authoritarian leaders of the past.

True to form, Republican elected officials were mostly silent about what Trump said, making them complicit in whatever follows.

Still, Scaramucci’s comments and the willingness of the two sides in Great Neck to make peace offer a way forward for the country.

Political appeals based on race, religion and ethnicity are never acceptable. And when they are used, it is the responsibility of everyone – Republicans and Democrats – to condemn them.

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clear this week that he intends to base his 2020 re-election campaign on all of the above. So goes Great Neck, so goes the nation. And then some.

On July 14, Trump tweeted that four congresswomen — Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, all minority members, should “go back” to “the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

Never mind that three of the four women were born in the United States and the fourth, Omar, is a Somali refugee who became a naturalized U.S. citizen at the age of 17.

Anthony Scaramucci, a Manhasset resident who grew up in Port Washington and briefly served as White House communications director, wrote on Twitter that Trump would never have told a white immigrant to go back to his country.

“That’s why the comments were racist and unacceptable,” he said.

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KREMER’S CORNER

Lights still on for now in Nassau

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here is no doubt that we are lucky to live on Long Island for a variety of reasons. Our quality of life is superb. We have the greatest parks and beaches. Our schools are among the best in the entire state and there are many attractions available to keep our children active and engaged. One of the only things we lack is the guaranty that every time you turn on your wall switch, your lights will turn on.

Most of us brushed off any concern when we learned of the July 13 power outage in New York City that affected hundreds of thousands of people on the West Side. After all, it didn’t affect Nassau or Suffolk counties.

But like it or not, Long Island, like the rest of downstate New York, is in danger of a similar outage if we are faced with a prolonged summer heat blast.

Luckily, the island has been blessed with a competent power company in the form of PSE&G.

They provide efficient service and haven’t become the public enemy that the old Long Island Lighting Company was. However, no utility company can guarantee that the systems will never breakdown. The 1977 blackout shut down regional power for 25 hours. The 2003 event, which caused billions in business losses, lasted two days.

If you weren’t a resident of the island in 2003, or just plain forgot, the whole blackout debacle started in Ohio when a tree branch crashed onto a high voltage utility line and the result was a cascading series of massive shutdowns throughout the East Coast. After that memorable event, the federal government promised that such events would never happen again.

While utility safety procedures were dramatically improved, not one federal dollar was spent to make the power grid more reliable.

On a typical day, New York

JERRY KREMER Kremer’s Corner

City uses 11,000 megawatts of power. To simplify it, one megawatt powers 100 homes. In the course of the year, the city uses billions of megawatts to keep the lights on. In 2021, the Indian Point nuclear facility will cease operating and its 2,000 megawatts will no longer be available. The state has promised us that the loss of Indian Point will be made up by wind

and solar facilities. But to date, there aren’t enough of either sources coming on line.

New Yorkers must face the fact that the power distribution system in the downstate region is outdated. No one is building any new massive power plants to provide replacement power.

It is a fact that since 1988, no new plants have come on line, with the exception of a smaller conversion in Dutchess County and the Caithness plant in Yaphank. That facility opened in 2009 and provides at least 10 percent of all of the power requirements of the island.

One fact that is rarely discussed in the power industry is that both New York City and Long Island rely on tiny power facilities known as “peakers.”

Many were built back in the 1980s and were never meant to be long-term sources of backup power. Having represented Caithness at one time, I know that the company would love to

build an additional power plant, but has been stymied by outside interests.

Recently, the state announced a plan to build an offshore wind facility near Montauk Point, but in its early stage, it has been met with local opposition. Solar power is appearing on Long Island, but neither source promises to be available in the near future. So, like the rest of the region, we are at risk for power failures, whether we like it or not.

Natural gas is a reliable source of energy, but efforts to increase the capacity of existing gas lines have met fierce opposition as well. While the state is planning for a fossil-fuel-free future, there is still a need for basic power in the interim and that is not going to happen. So the recent West Side blackout didn’t affect us, but we have no guaranty that it can’t happen to us.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Here’s hoping we learn from history

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everal events last week took me straight back to the past. One was the 50th anniversary of the July 20, 1969 moon landing.

I am, indeed, old enough to remember where I was when Neil Armstrong finally set foot on the moon. I am old enough; I just wasn’t patient enough. After what felt like hours of sitting in front of the family television, watching shifting fields of black and white static, I got restless and went back to my room to read a book. And that, of course, is when the final historic moment occurred.

That was the indisputable high water mark of one kind of American greatness.

Overshadowing my remembrance of this great achievement, however, were some other events last week, displaying a very different side of America.

One of these was the sorry spectacle of our president viciously attacking four U.S. citizens and lawmakers, telling them to “go back to the to-

tally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.”

He tweeted that their “governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world.” I guess he would know, seeing as how the government in question is his own.

Doubling down on these unworthy sentiments, our president stood at a political rally he convened for himself a few days later. The partisan crowd chanted “Send her back, send her back,” while our president stood there and basked in it all.

The scene sent shivers down my back. It took me straight to film clips of Italy’s fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, reveling in the cheers of his crowd…while the shouting felt much too close for comfort to the “Sieg Heil” (“Hail Victory”) with which crowds in Nazi Germany serenaded their hero, Adolf Hitler.

No, I am not a member of the Greatest Generation. But I did spend a year of my life working on a documentary on

JUDY EPSTEIN

A Look on the Lighter Side World War II, “The Democrat and the Dictator,” about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler. I helped acquire stills, newsreels, and a great deal of film footage, including Leni Riefenstahl’s masterpiece of Nazi propaganda, “Triumph of the Will.”

I have to say, it all came flooding back to me as I listened to Donald Trump’s crowd.

Worst of all for me was a moment from a press confer-

ence last week with Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway. When a reporter asked Conway about the president’s tweets, rather than answer the reporter’s question, she asked him one of her own: “What’s your ethnicity?”

That’s when the hair on the back of my neck stood up. What is happening to this nation of ours?

I used to wonder, working on that documentary, how the German people could have let it all happen, how an entire nation could go insane. But now I am afraid I am living through the answer.

Where will this end and how? And how many of us will still be above ground when it does? The last time around it took a worldwide war to put an end to the insanity — the deadliest military conflict in history, killing an estimated 70 million to 85 million of Earth’s people.

Did we learn nothing from that?

In World War II, America

was the world power that came to the rescue of everyone else. If we are the ones who need rescuing, who will there be to do it this time? Russia? China?North Korea? Especially when you consider that this president has made it a point to alienate every single ally we ever had?

Putting American astronauts on the moon was a literal high point for America’s technological prowess. But it is bittersweet to realize that that was half a century ago.

Eugene Cernan was the last astronaut to leave the moon and return to Earth. When he did, on Dec. 14, 1972, he left a plaque which said, in part: “We leave the Moon… as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17.”

Whatever became of that great nation?

And whatever is going to become of us?

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Medicare-for-All vs. Obamacare 2.0

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erhaps you haven’t heard: Trump solved the health care crisis, also the Big Pharma crisis, also the opioid criminal conspiracy that has taken 200,000 lives. You know that because at a rally in North Carolina, before spurring his Deplorables to chant “Send her back,” he said, “And we have all night, we’re going to have a lot of fun tonight, and I have nothing to do, nothing, nothing.”

And what is Trump’s solution? Pricing. Making hospitals, doctors and drug companies post their charges in advance – after all, as HHS Secretary Alex Azar, a former Big Pharma exec, said, you can negotiate with a car dealership over the sticker price of a car, you should be able to negotiate with the pharmacist. He misses the fact these are near-monopolies with control over life-and-death treatment and medications, giving new meaning to capitalism’s “supply and demand” equation. How much is your child’s life worth?

Each of the Democratic candidates who are vying to replace Trump, meanwhile, has come out with detailed plans to actually solve the most serious concerns

affecting our day-to-day ability to live and address the financial insecurity and anxiety over health care costs.

Sanders makes the argument that 30,000 people a year die prematurely for lack of access to affordable health care and 530,000 Americans declare bankruptcy each year because of medical expenses.

“The current debate over Medicare for All really has nothing to do with healthcare. It has everything to do with greed and the desire of the health-care industry to maintain a system which fails the average American, but which makes the industry tens and tens of billions of dollars every year in profit. It is about whether we maintain a dysfunctional system which allows the big drug and health insurance companies to make over $100 billion in profits last year, while the top CEOs in that industry made $2.6 billion in total compensation – all the while one out of five Americans cannot afford the prescription drugs their doctors prescribe.”

Amazingly, Democrats who raised their hand in support for a pure single-payer system replac-

KAREN RUBIN View Point

ing for-profit insurance are accused of handing the election to Trump, who has done nothing but sabotage access to health care but tars them as Socialists who will destroy liberty. Imagine the sin of seeing health care as a right, not a privilege.

In 2016, I decided that Hillary Clinton was the better candidate than Bernie Sanders because of her more pragmatic progressive plan for universal health care.

In 2020, health care could again determine the nominee and the president. Now Bernie is back with intensified attacks on anyone

who doesn’t support Medicarefor-All as if they were paid off by the industry.

Attacking anyone (ie. Joe Biden) who opposes Medicarefor-All is somehow in the pocket of the mega-billion healthcare industry. It is Bernie’s modus operandi and why his only success in his 30 years in Congress has been to destroy the Democratic Party and hand the reins of government over to the most inept, corrupt occupier the U.S. has known. Sanders seems ready and willing to do it again in 2020.

All the Democratic candidates have the same goals. But there is an argument to be made to improve upon the Affordable Care Act, which is already in place when presidents going back 100 years failed. Adding a public option would enable people (including non-citizens) to buy into Medicare, expanded and improved to cover necessary services like dental, hearing and eye care. Just as now, Medicare premiums would be related to income but set separately from income taxes. Cutting out the middleman of for-profit insurance companies would slash at least 20 percent from what

people pay now. My guess is that over time, more and more people would gravitate toward the public option – isn’t that the essence of capitalism’s competition? – especially as in the past decade, fewer and fewer employers even offer health benefits.

At the same time, just as ACA imposes limits on the profits of for-profit insurance (80 percent of premiums must be spent on actual patient care), Congress can set up rules that govern medical care and prescription drug costs and fees, much like what is already done with other utilities and monopolies essential for life, like water and electricity. If 180 million Americans who now have private insurance (debatable whether they love their private insurance company or rather their doctors) and think they don’t want to change, then a public option is an excellent transition. It should be made clear that under Medicare for All or a public option, patients still can choose their doctors or services, just as now, but then private insurance companies dictate which doctors, which hospitals, what drugs are covered, and as Continued on Page 46

Fear of prescribing narcotics is bad medicine

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patient whose pharmacist refused to fill his prescription for an opioid medication was ashamed after the pharmacist called him a “drug seeker.” He went home hoping to endure his pain. Three days later he tried to kill himself.

STAT, a pharmacy publication, reported that Dr. Barbara McAneny, the president of the American Medical Association, told this story at a recent AMA interim meeting.

I have been a practicing retail pharmacist for over 50 years and have always tried to fill the prescriptions for opioids as prescribed by the physicians and am very unhappy with a pharmacist who would say that to someone in pain. My colleagues and I were able to discern who was real and who wasn’t, which doctors were always prescribing CIIs, or heavy duty narcotics, with what appeared to be a free hand.

I was held up at gunpoint and with other assorted weapons nine times and fortunately not injured. Perhaps that pharmacist, and this is not an excuse for

him, simply had similar experiences and just plain lost it. Most pharmacists try their best to fill the prescriptions as ordered by the physicians, but when they know something is amiss and they don’t want to fill it, they can find ways to avoid this situation.

I would frequently call a physician and ask for the ICD10 code for the medical condition the physician was treating. This is simply the code the doctor’s office uses to bill for the service without writing it out on the prescription. If the physician’s office would not cooperate with me and give me the information, I sometimes was not able to fill the prescription.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published its guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain in March 2016, which has caused pain patients to experience difficulty getting needed opioid medications due to denials by pharmacists and, in some cases, insurance providers.

The U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants to make it clear: Its guidance on the use of opioids for the treatment

of chronic pain is not intend to apply to pain related to cancer treatment, palliative care or end of life care.

Dr. Deborah Powell, CDC chief medical officer, issued a letter Feb. 28 restating the intentions around the prescribing guideline that recommends nonopioid approaches, including physical therapy, as a preferred first-line treatment for some, but not all, types of chronic pain.

The government agency was restating its guidelines originally issued in 2016.

Stefan Kertesz and Kate Nichnolson, writing in April in the New England Journal of Medicine, said the guidelines have been useful for many clinicians, but they have been misapplied by individual prescribers, institutions and agencies, too often causing the kind of pain they were meant to address.

The authors of the guidelines, Dr. Deborah Dowell and Tamara Haegerich from the CDC and Dr. Roger Chou from Oregon Health and Science University, noted that ranges given in the guidelines related to opioid dos-

ages and the number of days for which an opioid should be prescribed were often translated to “inflexible limits that have been pushed, mandated, and incentivized by countless insurers, state agencies, and regulators in ways that exceed or even contravene the guidelines.”

Dowell, Haegerich and Chou have written of the “misapplication of a few select provisions in otherwise useful guidelines which wisely urge caution in starting and escalating opioids, has occurred at a breakneck pace since they were published, with real human consequences” Patients in serious pain face delays and denials when they attempt to fill their prescriptions. Some doctors have felt compelled by the guidelines to put patients who have relied on opiods to safely and effectively manage pain, often for decades, on lower doses or take them off opiods altogether, even when they believe patients are benefitting from the medication because they fear oversight and liability.

According to the authors,

the guidelines have also been incorrectly applied to people they were never meant to cover, such as those with pain associated with cancer, surgery, or acute sickle cell crises.

Strict limits on opioid prescribing risk the “inhumane treatment of pain patients.” Patients who are experiencing pain because of an accident at home that is causing much pain, but will be cured in a relatively short time with “Tincture of Time” are being given everything but an opioid for the first few days, including some anti-inflammatory drugs that take up to 10 days or more to kick in and provide relief, because of a fear of being too loose with the Oxycodone.

I am not advocating the free and easy use of CIIs. But understand, one or two days of such a drug could provide almost immediate relief. This could be then followed by other analgesics without the potential for addiction.

Bertram Drachtman Great Neck

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READERS WRITE

MTA’s latest plan won’t rescue the system

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TA’s reorganization plan was prepared by the consulting firm Alix Partners for Gov. Cuomo. Like all of his previous special commissions and advisory committee reports, it is not worth the paper it was printed on.

Promised savings by consolidation of civil rights, engineering, human resources, legal, procurement and other NYC Transit, Long Island and Metro North Rail Road departments have been discussed and promised for decades by every generation of MTA chairmen, board members, executive management and elected officials since the 1980s.

This never happens due to work rules, seniority and contracts between different labor unions at NYC Transit, LIRR and MNRR. The same applies to anticipated savings by contracting out work to the private sector. These savings are elusive due to union work rules, union contracts and safety concerns for non-MTA employees performing construction on active track.

It makes no sense for the MTA to reassign management

of major NYC Transit, LIRR and MNRR capital projects to the Office of Capital Construction. All three operating agencies already have their own experienced engineers, operations planning, procurement, force account, quality assurance and control employees. They have successfully managed numerous Superstorm Sandy along with other Federal Transit Administration and local funded capital projects.

In many cases, they were completed on time, within budget, with few design or change orders. Check the Office of Capital Construction’s track record. If all goes well with the most recent recovery schedule, LIRR East Side Access to Grand Central Terminal will be completed by December 2022 (11 years later than the original 2011 date) and $8 billion more than the original $3.5 billion budget. (Not counting $4 billion more in off-line costs). Second Avenue Subway Phase One and Hudson Yards No. 7 subway extension both suffered from delays, budget, scope and change order issues. Capital Construction is preoccupied try-

ing to complete East Side Access

by December 2022 and begin Second Avenue Subway Phase 2.

How would they be able to manage additional capital projects?

Project cost containment, fast tracking procurements,and contract change ordersareeasier said than done.

MTA union work rules sometimes prevent contracting out work to the private sector. Third party private contractors require NYC Transit, LIRR and MNRR agency Force Account (their employees) to provide both supervision and protection when they work on or adjacent to active right of way track. There are sometimes excessive numbers of MTA supervisory or employees assigned.

At upcoming contract negotiations, the MTA must insist that future union contracts include more flexible work assignments.

Salary increases should match the Consumer Price Index. Employees need to increase contributions toward medical insurance and retirement pensions just as we do. Future pensions must be calculated based on the

final year’s base salary and not inflated by overtime. Allow employees to remain part time while collecting a portion of their pension. This affords experienced employees time to train replacements and be available during emergencies. Allow unions to bid on projects like the private sector.

Offer union employees bonuses, like outside vendors when completing projects ahead of schedule or under budget. Share these cost savings with union employees.

End both the MTA “Arts in Transit” 1 percent expenditure requirement and Gov. Cuomo’s “New York Buy America Act.” Offer major businesses, hospitals and colleges who benefit by MTA services naming rights in exchange for adopting a station, paying for “Arts in Transit” and adding elevators to make them ADA compliant. Lobby the New York Congressional delegation for more reasonable federal Buy America requirements.

Stop wasting millions on transportation feasibility studies for future system expansion projects that will never happen.

Do not initiate any new system expansion projects until each operating agency, NYC Transit bus and subway, MTA bus, LIRR and MNRR have reached a state of good repair for existing fleet, stations, signals, interlockings, track, power, yards and shops.

Ensure that maintenance programs for all operating agencies assets are fully funded and completed on time to ensure riders reliable service.

Cuomo and elected officials who depend upon transportation union endorsements, campaign contributions, phone banks and volunteers in the end will not stand up against their benefactors and openly support MTA management in instituting these reforms during contract renewal negotiations. Riders do not have the stomach to put up with potential work slowdowns, service disruptions, employee sick outs and possible strikes by unions who are not going to give up what they have. Without these changes, it will continue to be the status quo.

Larry Penner Great Neck

GOP offers solutions on police, reassessment

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our editorial last week regarding Republican county legislators begins and ends with references to the movie “Memento.” As you indicate, the main character in the movie (Leonard Shelby) sustains a trauma and can only remember things for a few minutes.

There are other characters, however, who are aware of Shelby’s memory loss and manipulate him and his lack of memory for their own ends. That is exactly what your editorial seeks to do.

You attack Republican legislators for daring to criticize NIFA’s hiring of a well-connected lawyer, Gary Dellaverson, to a sweetheart contract. You fail to mention that before NIFA hired him, Mr. Dellaverson’s contract was rejected in a unanimous, bipartisan vote of the Rules Committee of the Legislature. There are several reasons for this. The contract is

ridiculously expensive, and Mr. Dellaverson does not have to account for his time. Second, the administration has already hired, with legislative approval, several well-qualified labor law firms, who would be paid a competitive rate and would have to account for their time.

Under the contract that the Island Now touts, Mr. Dellaverson, who happens to be a friend of the chief deputy county executive, gets paid $25,000 a month whether he works 10 minutes, 10 hours or 100 hours. He just submits an invoice and gets a check, courtesy of Nassau taxpayers, without having to account for his time. Unsurprisingly, negotiations are proceeding at a snail’s pace.

Why would Mr. Dellaverson push things when he is guaranteed a $25,000 check every month?

The Island Now then segues into the reassessment debacle.

Presiding Officer Nassau Legislature Richard Nicolello There, the Island Now’s memory analogy fails. The public does remember and knows full well what has occurred in the last year. The residents are keenly aware of the tens of thousands of errors, the missed deadlines, the confusing and mistake-ridden mailings, the botched robocalls, and the fail-

ure of the county executive and Assessor Moog to hold true town hall meetings throughout the county to answer residents’ questions for as long as it takes. And no, when the county executive shows up at legislative assessment grievance forum, takes a photo and then runs out as quickly as possible, it does not count as holding a public meeting. If you don’t believe my memory of this, ask the residents who attended these forums.

What the Island Now does not understand about our Assessment Bill of Rights is that most of these ideas came from taxpayers frustrated with the disastrous way that the administration rolled out its reassessment plan.

For example, one of the laws we propose requires the county to disclose the formula it uses to determine a property’s assessed value. You ask why didn’t we

think of this before? Well, it never occurred to us that a county official would refuse to release this information on the basis that it was a “trade secret.”

The Legislature has given this and the previous administration every tool they requested to conduct a reassessment of Nassau’s properties. (The Rules Committee approved contracts for Reassessment in 2015 and 2018). We have insisted and will continue to insist that the process be fair, transparent and accurate.

As to that last point, more than 249,000 homeowners filed challenges this year, the most in the history of the county. The outcome of these challenges will be the ultimate test of the county executive’s reassessment.

Richard Nicolello Presiding Officer Nassau Legislature

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READERS WRITE

Markowitz should not have apologized

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s a Jew and a longtime Great Neck resident, it nauseates me that Steve Markowitz has found it necessary to apologize for revealing his observations about the political efforts of some extreme elements of right-wing orthodoxy in Great Neck. Steve is the ultimate role model of a Jew who has shown by actions over decades that he cares deeply about Judaism, his community and all of the Jewish people, even those who now vilify him.

Since the passing of Rabbi Mordechai Waxman z”l, no single individual in our community and perhaps well beyond our community has done more than Steve

Markowitz to shed a bright light on the danger and horrors of anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and the need for understanding among peoples of different races and faiths and within his own faith.

Creating divisions among Jews is the antithesis of Steve Markowitz’s DNA and antithetical to his life’s work. Pointing out those who do create such divisions in an effort to prevent and repair divisions is consistent with Steve Markowitz’s life-long pursuit of “shalom bayit” among Jews and with others. Those efforts should be applauded not vilified.

To be clear: The divisive demonizing tactics of some Jewish religious leaders and

groups to gain political advantage is much more than offensive. It may be illegal.

There needs to be a formal and comprehensive federal investigation of the political activity of all religious groups providing political support or cover. If there have been violations of the legal requirements established to maintain their tax-free charitable status, that status should be revoked and their properties put back on the tax rolls.

An institution enjoying tax-free income treatment can be religious or political. It can’t be both.

Why is this important? Because separation of church and state works in both directions. Synagogues and all other religious

institutions have an affirmative legal obligation to refrain from political activity and they need to be held closely accountable to that standard. To confuse church and state invites governmental regulation. If governmental intrusion into religious affairs goes too far, such regulation can be reminiscent of the very sad conditions of Jewish life under Islam and in medieval Europe. As those restrictions matured over time there was no happy ending for Jews under Islam or in Europe. That is what Steve Markowitz has spent a lifetime educating people about. No apology is necessary.

Gary Sazer Mineola

Ronald Reagan celebrated immigrants

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hen I was about 10 years old and living with my parents in a tenement in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in the late 1950s, my fairskinned, blue-eyed mother, whose father and four grandparents all were born in Italy, decided to investigate what types of rents were available in Ridgewood, Queens.

When I accompanied my mother to a see a possible apartment where we might have moved in Ridgewood, I heard the owner tell my mother, “You’d like it here.

This is a great neighborhood…. no Italians.” The owner’s direct implication was unmistakable: Italians didn’t belong here.

Being the lady she is, my mother simply replied to the owner’s ignorant ethnicism, “This apartment isn’t as nice as I’d hoped it would be and is unsuitable for my family.” My mother refrained from giving the owner the tongue-lashing she deserved.

Now, in 2019, about 60 years after the aforementioned incident, our current president has suggested that certain “others” do not belong in America and should go back to their “own countries” because of their vocal dissent of various governmental policies.

Did not Donald Trump ever learn back in elementary school that America was founded by dissenting colonists?

The First Amendment of our Constitution guarantees that “Congress shall make no law…..abridging the freedom of speech….or the right of the people… to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” It seems crystal clear that our founders wanted all American citizens to be able to voice complaints regarding

perceived injustices and to be able to seek remediation for them.

Recently, it seems, Donald Trump attributed a fake quote to Ronald Reagan predicting Trump’s presidency. Although I did not agree with all of Ronald Reagan’s policies when he ran for president, I voted for him twice because I truly believed he best understood American government, knew civics, had a moral compass, and embraced the tenets of our American Constitution….and, because he understood how legal immigration from around the globe strengthens America.

Donald Trump would do well to read Reagan’s final speech in 1989. Although I did not believe in every political philosophy that Reagan espoused, I believed he was a man of honor who deeply understood and embraced the foundations of our American government.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum’s website has posted President Reagan’s final speech of Jan. 19, 1989, as follows (https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/research/speeches/011989b): “Now, tomorrow is a special day for me….And since this is the last speech that I will give as President, I think it’s fitting to leave one final thought, an observation about a country which I love…

A man wrote me and said: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese.

But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.”

Yes, the torch of Lady Liberty symbolizes our freedom and represents our heri-

tage, the compact with our parents, our grandparents, and our ancestors. It is that lady who gives us our great and special place in the world. For it’s the great life force of each generation of new Americans that guarantees that America’s triumph shall continue unsurpassed into the next century and beyond. Other countries may seek to compete with us; but in one vital area, as a beacon of freedom and opportunity that draws the people of the world, no country on Earth comes close.

This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America’s greatness. We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people — our strength — from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation. While other countries cling to the stale past, here in America we breathe life into dreams.

We create the future, and the world follows us into tomorrow. Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we’re a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.”

Although I am not a fan of either Donald Trump or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Squad, I am a fan of the magnificent concepts upon which our great country was established by our Founding Fathers. After observing Donald Trump’s performance in the role of president, I have come to believe that any candidate for the American presidency should be re-

quired to pass both a standardized test of common knowledge (e.g., airports did not exist during the Revolutionary War and Frederick Douglass died over 100 years ago) and be required to pass a basic cvics test involving our nation’s Constitution.

If there were a test to establish if one is a habitual prevaricator, I would suggest that test be given pre-candidacy as well.

Americans must recognize warning signs of encroaching authoritarianism displayed when a president espouses that “others” should leave our country if they have grievances, despite our own Constitution guaranteeing that “Congress shall make no law…..abridging …… the right of the people…to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

At the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., Protestant Pastor Martin Niemöller’s cautionary Nazi-era quotation is prominently displayed as follows (https://encyclopedia. ushmm.org/content/en/article/martinniemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists): “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

Let our American free speech continue to ring!

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Markowitz has shown intolerance

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t least a quarter of the 6 million Jews who were exterminated in the Holocaust could be considered as “Orthodox” with the nowadays understanding Orthodox Judaism. Yet, they all were equally victims of prejudice and intolerance.

Did Steven Markowitz, the current chairman of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, fail the “Right Wing Orthodox Jews” who perished in the Holocaust?

The answer is no. He failed all the Jews and gentiles who perished during WWII by sending the unjustifiable campaign message on behalf of the incumbents who sought re-election in the Village of Great Neck in 2015.

“I think the callers should tailor the script according to whom they’re talking. Have no reluctance to tell people that you know that this election is about an attempt by right wing Orthodox groups to take over the village. Most people are unaware and are generally apathetic but not when you scare them a little. … Steve,” Markowitz emailed to campaign members.

Thirthy one minutes later, one of the recipients sent a reply to Mr. Markowitz:

“” Define “right wing Orthodox.” Based on your personal outlook, many of the recipients of this e-mail might be considered “right wing” and I specifically include myself in the

group. How about we stay away from “hate speech” and “scare” tactics – you may scare me out of voting – and talk about the actual issues and the fact that ….”

At the time, Pedram Bral, a traditional Iranian Jew, was running for mayor at that time.

The late Raymond Plakstis II, a Christian, and Anne Mendelson, a member of a modern Ortho-

dox Jewish synagogue were running for the positions of trustee, none of which are considered near “right wing Orthodox.”

Why there is a division in Great Neck between different groups?

Steve Markowitz, an appointee of the incumbent mayor to the Board of Zoning Appeals of the Village, decided to run a campaign against Pedram Bral and his team with the intent of winning the election “at any cost” and used fear commingled with hate slurs: “tailor the script according to whom they’re talking,” “[h]ave no reluctance to tell people,” “attempt by right wing Orthodox groups to take over the village” and “scare them a little.”

With his campaign message, Markowitz proved that he is not tolerant of other religious points of view. The end justified the means, the very concept behind the atrocities of the WWII. Steven Markowitz cannot and should not serve in any capacity for the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center.

A new chairperson, someone with no history of intolerance, must replace him; otherwise, the message of the Holocaust to the world is lost.

Sara Povic Great Neck

Markowitz supporters’ sins of omission

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heard this joke after I complained about my rough bus ride experiences in Israel.

A rabbi and a Tel Aviv bus driver died.

At the Heavenly Court the verdicts ”the rabbi goes to hell” and “the bus driver goes to heaven” were announced. “I don’t understand, I am a rabbi and I am going to hell and this bus driver doesn’t even keep the Sabbath and he is heading straight to heaven” the rabbi exclaimed.

The Court replied, “I am sorry rabbi, whenever you spoke the congregants fell asleep, but, whenever this bus driver drove, the passengers on the bus prayed.”

I liked the joke because it

carries an important message, those who are carrying a title like a rabbi are no exceptions to the rule, they should also do their jobs right.

Four rabbis from different Temples in Great Neck and Lake Success sent a joint character reference letter to support Steven Markowitz to Great Neck News.

Mr. Markowitz is the chairman of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau county. He also holds two positions for the Democratic party.

In 2015 he sent an email which included hate language and scare tactics against the Orthodox Jews for the sake of winning an election. He was denying sending the email for a while

but after the hard evidence surfaced he is no longer in denial of sending the hate email. By now anyone following the news knows the facts.

Did these rabbis do their job right?

In law, there are categories of crimes known as acts of omission. For instance, when someone chooses to not state of his/ her knowledge of a crime in his/ her testimony or statement it is considered an act of omission – as opposed to an act of commission, which means actively committing a crime.

Prior to taking responsibility and apology for the 2015 hate email, Mr. Markowitz had requested from some rabbis, political friends and acquaintances

and different boards members to send character reference letters to the local newspapers.

In addition to the rabbis, some fellow Democrat politician wrote character reference letters in his support and sent them to the newspapers. Some even wrote that Markowitz never wrote the hate email.

Did the Democratic politicians who sent support letters to the papers do their job right or they damaged the reputation of their party? It certainly seems they did.

They may wish to send statements condemning the use of hate language and scare tactics against any groups including the Orthodox Jews for any reason including winning an

election. The ends do not justify the means.

Those rabbis who send a joint support statement may wish to utilize their knowledge of the Jewish literature and issue a new joint statement and condemn use of any hate language against any group including the Orthodox Jews. This would serve to bring unity to the community. It is in their hands now, they can choose to do the right thing.

Otherwise, you never know, one day, the High Court might reply ”I am sorry rabbi but your crimes were acts of omission.”

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NOTES OF SUMMER

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n Sunday, Aug. 4, the annual Summer Concert of the Orchestra at Shelter Rock will make its return to Manhasset, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock announced this week.

Stephen Michael Smith will lead the 60-piece orchestra as the music director and conductor for the performance for the 13th year. Smith started the summer orchestra back in 2006 as an outlet for those who still wished to perform in the summer months.

“The summer allows more time to practice and learn pieces that are more difficult,” said Smith. “In the summer, I tend to choose pieces that are more challenging, more complicated to learn.”

Those complicated pieces will include the compositions “La Mer” from Claude Debussy, “Sea Interludes” from Benjamin Britten’s opera “Peter Grimes,” and the song cycle “Sea Pictures, Op 37”

by Edward Elgar.

“All of the pieces are based on water,” said Smith. “We are going to have projections of the sea and water images during the concert. I’ve been around water my whole life, living in California, being in Hawaii, or just at my grandpa’s lake house. These pieces will be a visual and musical representation of nature” On hand for this year’s concert will be mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert, who has performed with the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera.

Gaissert will join the ensemble during the Elgar pieces.

“She’s extraordinary,” said Smith about Gaissert. “I’ve worked with her before and she’s always wanted to perform the Elgar pieces. The pieces are evocative ones, so combined they will conjure up both sounds and visuals of the sea.”

Continuing with the theme of water, which has been considered a source of

inspiration and art since earlier civilizations, the UUCSR hopes to raise awareness on issues regarding water quality with the help of four local not-for-profit organizations: Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Coalition to Save Hempstead Harbor, Save the Sound and The Nature Conservancy. All four of the organizations will be at the show to inform the audience on its efforts to protect Long Island’s water quality.

“We want people to be aware about the issues surrounding the quality of water,” Smith said. “Being on Long Island, surrounded by water, having these

organizations on hand brings things full circle. The organizations will be distributing its literature to raise awareness of these issues, which is critical given the changing environment.”

The concert begins at 1 p.m. in the Worship Hall in the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, located at 48 Shelter Rock Road in Manhasset. The concert will be held indoors and will be air conditioned. Concertgoers will also have the option of enjoying the beautiful landscape surrounding the area, as the concert will be simultaneously broadcast outside for those

choosing to listen as they take in the nature. Following the concert, a reception will be held to greet the artists on the grounds of Veatch House, which is a former Gold Coast mansion.

The concert and reception are both free, but donations are welcome. No tickets are required to attend the event.

For more information on the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, the concert, and driving directions, visit www.uucsr.org. To learn more about Stephen Michael Smith, view his website, www.stephenmichaelsmith.com.

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THE TOP SEVEN EVENTS Dierks Bentley ‘Burning Man’ Tour

Friday, Aug. 2, doors: 6:00 p.m., show: 7 p.m.

Dierks Bentley is an American singer and songwriter. Bentley’s studio albums have accounted for 25 singles on the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, of which 16 have reached number one along with seven other singles in the top 5.

Bentley’s most recent studio album, titled “The Mountain,” was his ninth studio album. It was released in June 2018 through Capitol Records Nashville. He is supported on tour by Jon Pardi and Tenille Townes.

Where: Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater 895 Bay Parkway, Wantagh Info & Tickets: 866-558-8468 or 516-785-1600 jonesbeach.com

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Where: Forest Hills Stadium 1 Tennis Place, Forest Hills Info & Tickets: 888-929-7849 or foresthillsstadium.com

Triton Fights Fourteen

Friday, Aug. 2, doors: 5 p.m., fight: 6 p.m.

Triton Fights is the premier MMA promotion in New York featuring the best MMA athletes on the east coast. On Aug. 2, Triton Fights is bringing the action to The Space at Westbury.

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

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Guns N’ Roses Tribute: Appetite for Destruction Saturday, Aug. 3, 8 p.m.

Appetite for Destruction, the ultimate Guns N’ Roses experience, have been performing the music of Guns N’ Roses for almost twenty years, selling out venues throughout the northeast. They have performed with special guest and current G N’ R keyboardist Dizzy Reed, shared two bills with ex-G N’ R guitarist Gilby Clarke, and headlined at BB King’s in Times Square for five consecutive years.

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Keeping seniors active, having fun

BY J O A N N E L E H M A N N The temperatures are warm and the sun is shining. Who doesn’t want to get outdoors? Physical activity is essential to overall good health.

A program of regular exercise affects us socially, emotionally, vocationally, physically, environmentally, spiritually and intellectually.

To make the most of the summer living, be sure to observe some basic sun and heat protection measures.

Grab your hat and sunglasses, and let’s get moving!

Embrace the outdoors, and beat the heat Outdoor activities like walking, bike riding, swimming, or tossing a bocce ball are great physical and social exercises, not to mention fun. Getting out early or later in the day is the best time for exercise, but whenever you go outdoors, it’s essential to wear sunscreen. Applying it before you get dressed makes it easier to get the coverage you need and makes it a part of your daily routine.

Check the daily UV index—the sun’s rays are strong, even when it’s overcast. Did you know that not all clothing provides adequate protection from the sun? Hold your clothes up to the light.

If you can see light through the fabric, use sunscreen under it. Different medications can affect sensitivity to the sun’s rays so be careful and consult with your doctor of pharmacist.

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Sixty percent of our bodies are made of water, and they demand regular hydration to operate at peak performance. While proper hydration is important year round, this is especially true in the warmer months. Water is the drink of choice, and you can jazz it up in countless ways to boost flavor without added sugar.

Try adding a few drops of lemon, orange or lime juice, or experiment with fresh fruit. Cucumber slices or fresh mint is delicious and refreshing.

While juices will hydrate you, they also have a lot of sugar, so it’s better to limit your intake. The same goes for caffeinated beverages like soda, coffee and tea. and coffee make it dehydrating rather that hydrating, so those drinks are better in moderation.

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Always strive to walk a little farther every day. The more you move, the more you can move; the less you move, the less you can move. If you slack off, it’s harder to get back up to where you were. A pedometer can be very helpful for measuring how many steps you’ve taken.

Recent studies indicate that a target for reducing the risk of premature death was about 4,500 steps per day. A woman maintained that level of activity was about 40 percent less likely to have died during the followup period than someone taking fewer than 3,000 steps each day.

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more fruits and veggies into your diet P arents imploring their children to eat their fruits and vegetables is a nightly occurrence at many dinner tables. Reluctant youngsters may have a seemingly innate resistance to vegetables, but parents should stay the course, as the importance of making fruit and vegetables a routine part of one’s daily diet is hard to overstate.

Children might be seen as the most resistant to fruits and vegetables, but reports indicate they’re not alone. A 2017 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that just 12 percent of adults in the United States are meeting the standards for fruit consumption as established by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which are determined by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Even fewer people (9 percent) are meeting the standard for vegetables. The picture is somewhat better in Canada, where the Canadian Community Health Survey, 2017, found that 28.6 percent of Canadians age 12 and older report consuming fruits and vegetables more than five times per day. However, that figure steadily declined since 2015. That’s unfortunate, as fruits and vegetables have been linked to a host of health benefits.

Why eat fruit and vegetables?

The U.S. Department of Agriculture notes that fruits do not contain cholesterol and are naturally low in fat, sodium and calories. In addition, fruits contain a host of essential nutrients, including potassium, dietary fiber, vitamin C, and folate, that are historically underconsumed. Similarly, studies have shown that vegetables, which also are great sources of vitamins and minerals, can help people reduce their risk for a variety of conditions, including heart disease, stroke and certain types of cancer.

How can I include more fruits and vegetables in my diet?

Routine is a big part of many people’s lives, and some may find it hard to change their dietary routines. But people who aren’t eating enough fruits and vegetables likely don’t need to completely overhaul their diets in order to include more fruits and vegetables. In fact, the American Heart Association notes that the following are some easy ways for people to sneak more fruits and vegetables into their diets.

Breakfast: When sitting down for a bowl of cereal, add some bananas, raisins or berries to your bowl.

When making eggs or breakfast potatoes, add chopped up onions, celery, green or red bell peppers, or spinach.

Lunch: Forgo sandwiches in favor of fruit or vegetable salads at lunchtime. If you must have a sandwich, top it off with vegetables like cucumbers, sprouts, tomatoes, lettuce, and/or avocado.

Dinner: Replace less healthy side dishes with fruit or vegetable salads, and don’t forget to include steamed vegetables, even frozen ones, on your dinner plate every night. Add chopped vegetables, such as onions, garlic and celery, when creating soups, stews or sauces.

A few simple strategies can help people eat more fruits and vegetables and reap the many rewards that such foods provide.

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xercise is a vital component of a healthy lifestyle. Many people find that pairing a nutritious, well-balanced diet with routine exercise is a successful formula for a long and healthy life.

People typically know when to stop eating. In fact, the brain signals when the stomach is full to prevent the body from eating too much. Exercise can be a little trickier, as men and women may be inclined to ignore certain warning signs of overexertion during a workout.

The well-known workout motto “no pain, no gain” implies that rewards await those who push through their pain during a workout. However, ignoring signals that the body is being overtrained can have a detrimental effect on both short- and longterm health.

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actually do more harm than good. ACE refers to the tipping point as overtraining syndrome, or OTS, which can actually contribute to a reduction in overall fitness and increase a person’s risk for injury.

People dealing with OTS may not recognize its symptoms as readily as they would a full stomach. As a result, it can be easier to overtrain than overeat. For instance, people focused on living healthy often know when to call it quits at the dinner table, but might not know when to end a workout.

Overtraining can be just as harmful as overeating, and athletes can help themselves by learning to recognize various signs of overtraining.

Decreased performance: ACE notes that a lack of improved performance, despite an increase in training intensity or volume, is a telltale sign of OTS. Athletes who recognize a decrease in their agility, strength and endurance might be dealing with OTS. Increased perceive effort during workouts: OTS can

make seemingly effortless workouts seem difficult. An abnormally elevated heart rate during exercise or even throughout the day may indicate OTS.

Excessive fatigue: Too much training can contribute to fatigue because the body is not being given ample time to recover between workouts.

Agitation and moodiness: Overtraining can contribute to a hormonal imbalance that affects stress levels, potentially making people more irritable and contributing to moodiness.

Insomnia or restless sleep: The overproduction of stress hormones that can occur when overtraining can adversely affect a person’s ability to get adequate sleep.

Additional signs of overtraining include loss of appetite, chronic or nagging injuries, metabolic imbalances, and stress and/or depression.

More information about OTS and how to avoid it is available at www.acefitness.org.

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Simple ways to lower your risk for type 2 diabetes A healthy lifestyle can help people live life to the fullest. There are many components to a healthy lifestyle, and few may be as influential as prevention.

Preventive measures to reduce one’s risk for various diseases can have a long-lasting effect, helping people maintain their independence well into their golden years. In addition, a proactive approach that focuses on disease prevention can improve the chances men and women will get to spend their retirement years doing whatever they please.

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Lose weight and keep extra pounds off. People should speak with their physicians about their body weights to determine if they’re currently overweight or obese or maintaining healthy weights. If the doctor suggests losing weight, doing so can help prevent or delay diabetes. Each individual is different, but the NIDDK notes that losing between 5 and 7 percent of your starting weight may help delay or prevent diabetes.

Become more physically active. The NIDDK lists a sedentary lifestyle among the many factors that can increase a person’s risk for type 2 diabetes. By embracing physical activity, getting at least 30 minutes of exercise five days per

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Port native to return Port native returns with The Repressions home for concert On Friday, July 26, the indie band The Repressions will be performing in Port Washington at the Dolphin Bookshop.

The art-therapy/funk/rock/vaudeville indie band from New York City features singer-songwriters Barbara Dragon and Nate Lay, who grew up in Port Washington.

During this acoustic show, audience members can expect to see original artwork and comics in song title and lyric cards, occasional bubbles, and a box of prizes for everyone attending. They cover many styles of music with two acoustic guitars, a small xylophone, and two wideranging voices. The songs are thoughtful, honest and erudite, performed with melodic feeling and frenetic energy.

They promote a message to “lift your head up,” as they sing in their two minute funk showstopper “Whatever Happened to the Bookstore.” Books, nature, defending animals, injustice, being weird, and living with wild emotions are common

themes in their songs. Their style has been described by audiences as radical folk-rock, ethereal indie rock, anti-bully music and a Saturday morning cartoon for adults. The band dedicates their music to anyone who has ever been made to feel small for being sensitive, kind, smart, or ill.

The Repressions play lively shows every month all over New York City, playing from the heart and hoping to make others feel better. They are very excited to play the Dolphin Bookshop and Cafe, especially as books and art are such an integral part of their music.

“I am very happy to be performing in my hometown at the Dolphin, this time with all new material and my band,” says Lay, who was formerly a solo artist and a regular at the local bookstore.

The performance begins at 7 p.m. and is free to attend. For more information on The Repressions and the band’s music, visit therepressions.com.

Melissa Hyman and husband, Ryan Furstebnberg.

Port Washington native Melissa Hyman is making a return to her roots on Wednesday, July 31, when the Port Washington Public Library hosts “The Moon and You,” a concert featuring the husband-and-wife duo of Hyman on the cello and her husband, Ryan Furstenberg, who plays the guitar and banjo.

Currently residing in Asheville, NC, Hyman grew up in Port Washington, where she first discovered her love of the cello. Her father is a professional violinist and formal music instructor, while her mother is a fan of 60s folk music and loves singing along to all the tunes.

Hyman says she has plenty of memories from her childhood in Port Washington, including the days she spent at the library.

“It seems to me that I was [at the library] most days, a comfortable and ha-

bitual place, halfway between home and school,” said Hyman in a press release. “I could not be more thrilled for the opportunity to share our music in a place that meant so much to me growing up.”

As for Hyman’s husband, Furstenberg grew up in the eastern North Carolina tobacco fields, where he learned classic country and 70s rock music – first on the harmonica and then the guitar.

The duo form a sound that is warm and inviting, atmospheric and fun. Each of them is a well-developed songwriter with their own unique voice, with songs that range in style from classic to quirky.

The concert will begin at the Port Washington Public Library at 7:30 p.m.

All those who wish to attend can do so at no cost, as admission to the concert is free.

Long Beach film festival set to kick off The eighth annual Long Beach International Film Festival is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, July 31 with plenty in store for this year’s event.

The four-day film festival will celebrate film, food, arts and culture of Long Beach and recognize the success of LBIFF on Long Island, some of New

York’s own award-winning filmmakers, culinary and musical talent, and the liveliness of the Nassau County filmmaking industry.

During the festival, more than 50 films will be on display including feature-length narratives, documentaries, short and animated movies open for

all ages. The festival will also feature nightly special events, such as red carpet premieres, gourmet food events, chefs and shorts, filmmaker receptions, filmmaker Q&As, and musical performances.

The opening night film has yet to be announced, but it will be screened at the Regal Lyn-

brook Theater at 5 p.m. and will be immediately followed by Taste on the Plaza. This red-carpet event will feature interview opportunities accompanied by the “Tastes” of over 30 restaurants, wines, beers and spirits on Long Beach Plaza with live musical performances celebrating filmmakers and artists.

The festival will conclude on Saturday, Aug. 3, with a free concert on the beach followed by free shorts on the beach, which offers movie screenings right on the shores of Long Beach beginning at sunset. For more information visit www. longbeachfilm.com.

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Huntington folk fest set to kick off July 27 Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III headlines the 14th annual Huntington Folk Festival on Saturday, July 27, at Heckscher Park, located off Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue in Huntington.

Opening for Wainwright on the park’s Harry Chapin Rainbow Stage at 8 p.m. that evening will be his daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche. Extending from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., with a dinner break from 6 to 8 p.m., the free event, co-presented by the Folk Music Society of Huntington and the Huntington Arts Council, is part of the 54th Huntington Summer Arts Festival.

Few songwriters have laid out their lives in song as graphically as Loudon Wainwright III, a 2010 Grammy Award winner for best traditional folk album for his “High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project.” Wainwright also has two previous Grammy nominations for “I’m Alright” in 1985 and “More Love Songs” in 1986. The singer-songwriter, humorist and actor is, perhaps, best known for his 1972 novelty song “Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road).” Maintains Stephen Holden of The New York Times: “Mr. Wainwright has proved to be far and away the most candid diarist among the singersongwriters who … brought confessional poetry into popular song…”

Prior to the evening concert, Michael Kornfeld, president of the Folk Music Society of Huntington and editor and publisher of AcousticMusicScene.com, will

host a series of song swaps from 12 to 6 p.m. These will take place near a canopy tent on the upper lawn area overlooking the stage and will feature more than 30 artists/acts from half-a-dozen states and a Canadian province. Unlike the unplugged showcases of previous years, these will

Loudon Wainwright III headlines the Huntington Folk Festival on Saturday, July 27. The free even at Heckscher Park extends from 11 a.m. until late in the evening.

be amplified. The day’s musical festivities begin with an open-mic song circle at 11 a.m.

Among the artists who will showcase their talents during the afternoon are Lisa Bastoni, Belle of the Fall, Melanie Brulée, Christian Diana, Roger Street Friedman, Genevieve, Sharon Goldman, Loretta Hagen, Marion Halliday, Joe Iadanza, Susan Kane, Judy Kass, Terry Kitchen, Scott Krokoff, Mara Levine, The Levins, Lipkin & Hitt, Annie Mark, Catherine Miles & Jay Mafale, Kate Mills, Lois Morton, Grace Morrison, Claudia Nygaard, Siobhan O’Brien, Anne O’Rourke, Nico Padden, D.B. Rielly, Eugene Ruffolo, Hank Stone, Jonathan Tea, and Toby Tobias.

The complete schedule for the Huntington Folk Festival appears below and also will be posted online on AcousticMusicScene.com, FMSH.org and HuntingtonArts.org.

11 a.m. Open Mic – Song Circle 12 p.m. LI Guys of Note: Roger Street Friedman, Scott Krokoff, Toby Tobias 12:30 p.m. Emerging Talents: Genevieve, Marion Halliday, Kate Mills, Anne O’Rourke 1:30 p.m. A Musical Mix: Christian Diana, Annie Mark, Lois Morton 2 p.m. NJ Songsters: Sharon Goldman, Loretta Hagen, Jonathan Tea 2:30 p.m. Musical Potpourri: Terry Kitchen, Mara Levine, Eugene Ruffolo 3 p.m. Kerrville New Folk Winners 2019: Lisa Bastoni, D.B. Rielly

3:30 p.m. Tribes Hill – Hudson Valley Songsters: Susan Kane, Judy Kass, Lipkin & Hitt 4 p.m. A Trio of Duos: Belle of the Fall, The Levins, Catherine Miles & Jay Mafale 4:30 p.m. Women of Note: Melanie Brulée, Grace Morrison, Claudia Nygaard, Siobhan O’Brien 5:30 p.m. FMSH Members Song Swap: Joe Iadanza, Nico Padden, Hank Stone 6 p.m. Dinner Break 8 p.m. Lucy Wainwright Roche 8:30 p.m. Loudon Wainwright III Festivalgoers are advised to bring lawn chairs and blankets and a picnic supper, or they can enjoy a meal at a restaurant in Huntington Village.

The Huntington Folk Festival is part of an extended folk and Americana weekend at Heckscher Park. Long Island talent will be spotlighted on Thursday night, July 25, with a shared bill featuring folk-harmony trio Gathering Time and singer-songwriter Christine Sweeney. On Friday night, July 26, the Crys Mathews Trio will grace the stage. Although both concerts are set for 8 p.m., Kornfeld will conduct a 7:15 p.m. special on-stage interview-conversation with Matthews, the grand-prize winner in the 2017 NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition. Crystal Bowersox, a rising star whose influences span across folk-pop, classic rock, soul, blues and country closes out the weekend on Sunday night.

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American Indian Powwow returns to F.P. Queens County Farm Museum and the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers present the 41st annual Thunderbird American Indian Powwow. The event will take place from Friday, July 26 util Sunday, July 28. New York City’s oldest and largest powwow will feature three days of intertribal Native American dance competitions. This powwow is one of the 10 largest powwows in the U.S. and has attracted over 200,000 attendees since Queens Farm hosted its first powwow in 1978.

Welcoming Native American and non-Native people, this event celebrates American Indian Culture through music, dance, authentic Native-made jewelry, ceramics, textiles and other products and food. Over 40 Indian Nations will be represented at this three-day spectacular event including Hopi, Winnebago, Cherokee, Kiowa, Lakota, Navajo, Santo Domingo, Taino, Matinecock, Shinnecock, San Blas Kuna, Rappahanock, Choctaw, Osage and Delaware Nations.

Dancers come from all over the United States and Canada.

Dance and music have always been a central part of Native American culture since it is directly connected to religion and social interaction.Powwows are social gatherings where friends and family can enjoy each other’s company, often after many months of separation. This

kind of rekindling of friendships goes back thousands of years, as do such similar gatherings in all cultures. The modern powwow developed after the institution of the Reservation System is derived from the Plains Indians War Dance gatherings and is dominated by dance styles developed in the Plains.

The Thunderbird American Indian Powwow experience connects the public to these native traditions and cultures. They can see and hear how the original inhabitants of this great land celebrate their legacy without having to travel to the west.

The program includes six major dance categories for competing dancers. In addition, there are several other non-competitive dances such as gourd dance, round dance, rabbit dance, and demonstrations of several kinds of Iroquois, Pueblo or Apache dances. The Grand Entry is a regal moment to experience the full dress of these dancers. Each dance section is explained to the public. At the end of the Friday and Saturday evening sessions, the audience is invited to join the dance circle around the bonfire and dance with the native dancers offering an incredible, authentic experience. The bonfire is lit each evening after sunset between 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

In addition to dance and dance competitions, the Thunderbird American Indian Pow-

wow will host a food and craft market featuring Native American vendors. One of the most popular foods is the native fry bread. Fry bread, a plate of deepfried confection, is eaten by most native people in one form or another. Sometimes it is eaten with a stew, or just by itself with a handful of strawberries sprinkled on top. A large selection of authentic Native American art, crafts, jewelry and food will be available for sale.

“Imagine the bonfire roaring at dusk in the field at Queens Farm and over 100 dancers in native dress dancing around the bonfire,” said Jennifer Walden Weprin, executive director of the Queens County Farm Museum.

“The Thunderbird American Indian Powwow is one of the lon-

gest running events at Queens Farm. We have shared this event with generations of visitors.”

“Most people think of Native American culture as a thing of the past,” stated Louis Mofsie, director of the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers. “This Powwow showcases a living, developing culture. This is a wonderfully educational and entertaining cultural event.”

The public will see dancers dressed in arguably the most beautiful clothing anywhere in the world. The music is authentic and true to hundreds-of-years old traditions. Attendees are transported into the midst of true Native American culture. Between the smell of the fry bread, the beat of the drum, the dazzle of the dancers’ regalia, the art,

craft and food of the vendors and the heat of the sun, one is moved into the most ancient traditions of this land.

On Friday, July 26, the event gates open at 6 p.m. and performances are scheduled from 7 to 10 p.m. On Saturday, July 27, gates open at 10 a.m. and performances run from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

On Sunday, July 28, gates open at 10 a.m. and performances are scheduled from noon to 5 p.m.

Online tickets are available at a discount; the day pass is $10 or $5 for kids 12 and under and the weekend pass is $16, or $7 for kids 12 and under for unlimited entry. Day passes at the door cost $15, or $8 for kids 12 and under. Tickets can be purchased at queensfarm.org.

Limited straw bale seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Visitors are encouraged to bring lightweight, portable seating to this event.

There is free event parking and bicycle racks on-site. Queens Farm grounds and restrooms are accessible. The Queens County Farm Museum is located at 7350 Little Neck Parkway in Floral Park. All event proceeds support Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Scholarship Fund and the Queens County Farm Museum Education Program. Additional event information is available at queensfarm.org.

Jazz in Gallery at Art League The Art League of Long Island meets the Jazz Loft when the Jazz in the Gallery event takes place on Aug. 8 at the Art League of Long Island in Dix Hills.

Enjoy the sounds of cornet-

ist WarrenVaché and Friends in the Art League’s Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery Thursday, Aug. 8 at 7 p.m. This exciting series is sponsored by Olivia and Harlan Fischer, who have sponsored a monthly series at the Jazz Loft

in Stony Brook since its opening in May 2016.

Tickets are $25, or $20 for ALLI members and seniors and can be purchased online at www.artleagueli.org or by calling 631-462-5400 ext. 222.

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READERS WRITE

Transparency is fiction in Markowitz merits our admiration Village of Great Neck

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ayor Bral, You were heavily quoted in this week’s local press.

You say: “We’re being more transparent than any other Great Neck Village would be.”

I say: “Local government that signs a Letter of Engagement for a significant and costly public works project, failing to disclose to the public for nine months – has issues with transparency.”

I say: “A village with an outstanding resident lawsuit for 1 1/2 years in Nassau County Supreme Court must have issues with transparency. Instead of amicably settling with the village resident early on, you have suc-

ceeded in draining a resident’s savings in excess of $50,000.”

And it’s not over yet. What is this lawsuit costing village taxpayers?

The facts are… the real facts are… no administration (I know of) consistently goes to such extreme lengths to conceal information from the concerned public. In some instances we know of, residential homes have come down without proper permits.

This village is engaged in a freefor-all. There must be something serious to hide. What are you hiding, Mayor Bral?

You cannot continue to deny the public access to the highly anticipated SEQRA study – making up your own rules, autho-

rizing development even in the midst of an ongoing public challenge, simply because you do not desire public interference.

As of 10 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, the evening of the latest Board of Trustees meeting, in a particularly vicious, hostile atmosphere, you gave orders for distribution of 20 copies of the wrong version or incomplete version of the actual SEQRA study for the Community Center on Steamboat Road. We are not naïve.

Good government, fair government, transparent and democratic government does not work this way.

Judy Shore Rosenthal Great Neck

Farewell to Great Neck readers, Blank Slate

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or the last two years and four months (to the dot), I’ve called Great Neck a second home. I often joked that I am here often enough to feel like I live here, whether it’s attending a community street fair or the several meetings all around the peninsula.

But as the students of the North, South and Village schools have graduated and are preparing for their next chapter, so am I. This edition was my final newspaper, as my last day is July 26. Somebody will be succeeding me as the reporter for the Great Neck News.

Every week I tried to do as much as I could, make more awkward phone calls than I could count, and write thousands upon thousands of words in the process. Some were on the record. Many of them were off. I’ve sought to verify nearly impossible things, follow up waves of leads, and tell stories that matter.

You’ve allowed me to write several first drafts of local history. I cannot begin to fathom how many hours some people have given to me on every topic imaginable. At the same time, I have been able to enjoy some of the great things that Great Neck has to offer: a vibrant park system, a lively school district, a unique spiritual experience and, among some activists, a level of passion that I can only envy.

As hard as I tried, I could not split myself into quarters, be everywhere and know everything, no matter how many hours or days I tried to put in (almost always more than 40, often more than 50). Great Neck gave me no shortage of things to talk about, good and bad. There were times when I have felt, to put it mildly, overwhelmed.

But in my search for meaning in news events, I felt a sense of meaning in my own words – which is priceless – thanks to you. Most of you helped me keep going. All your feedback,

both negative (less so) and positive made the work worth it.

I’m not sure yet who will replace me. But if my colleagues Tom McCarthy, Teri West, and Jessica Parks are any indicator of the people who are hired here, I think you’ll be in good hands. I will miss them and most of you dearly.

Because of all this and more, my decision to leave was both personally bittersweet and difficult to make. Thank you for everything. Whether it’s vitalizing a downtown or closing rifts between each other, I wish Great Neck nothing but the best.

For the foreseeable future I will still be on Long Island, just on a different shore. If you want, feel free to keep in touch.

My email is janelleaclausen@ gmail.com.

Goodbye for now, Great Neck – and thanks again.

Janelle Clausen Reporter, Great Neck News Wantagh

LETTERS POLICY Letters should be typed or neatly handwritten, and those longer than 750 words may be edited for brevity and clarity. All letters must include the writer’s name and phone number for verification. Anonymously sent letters will not be printed. Letters must be received by Monday noon to appear in the next week’s paper. All letters become the property of Blank Slate Media LLC and may be republished in any format. Letters can be e-mailed to news@theislandnow.com or mailed to Blank Slate Media, 25 Red Ground Road, East Hills, NY 11577.

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here are those individuals who selflessly give of themselves to make their community, if not the world, a better place.

One such individual is Steve Markowitz, imbued with an everlasting sense of common decency and upholding for what is right and just. He has demonstrated his forthrightness in numerous ways: supporting diversity, a former president of his temple, his commitment and participation some years ago to building

the new main library, the leader of the local Democratic Party affiliate, creating anti-bullying and anti-Semitism programs at the HMTC and his strong commitment at present to honorably serve as chair of the HMTC. To learn of any attack on Steve Markowitz is ludicrous. He is one person who deserves our admiration and respect for his selflessness and integrity.

Lois A. Schaffer Great Neck

Stop unwarranted attacks on Markowitz

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am deeply saddened and quite frankly shocked with the attacks upon my dear friend, Steven Markowitz.

Steve exemplifies the way that a community leader should act, as he has dedicated his life to putting his community before himself.

His selflessness, integrity and overall decency to others are just a few of the many traits that make him an amazing man. He has spent the past 16 years volunteering his time to the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau Coun-

ty and the past seven years as chairman. I know firsthand that he would never do anything to jeopardize the great name and work that the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center does.

I am disappointed in the people involved in the campaign against him and hope that these unwarranted and callous attacks stop so that we can move forward and work as one for the betterment of our community.

Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso Great Neck

Medicare-for-All vs. Obamacare 2.0 Continued from Page 16 has become tragically apparent, too many people can’t afford anything but the most stripped down insurance policies, so they can’t afford necessary services anyway.

Given that medical science is moving toward making it possible for people to live for 120 years (how does anyone stock away enough to afford 60 years of retirement?), the Obamacare focus on wellness, early diagnosis and treatment, which would reduce health care expenses to individuals and society, is essential. Also, expanding the number of medical professionals, clinics,

e-medicine, Advanced Precision Medicine is needed.

Just as Medicare is not free, Medicare for All is not free though it will likely reduce total outlay compared to insurance premiums, deductibles and copays. And just as with Medicare, the likelihood is there would still be a market for private supplemental insurance, as well as for VIP/concierge doctor programs, just as now).

The Democratic candidates will have another chance to make their pitch for health care at the second round of debates July 3031.

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SCHOOL & CAMP DIRECTORY

READERS WRITE

‘We’ve landed!’ rang out at May’s in Jamaica

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question being asked, “Where were you when the Apollo 11 landed on the moon?” The landing 50 years ago on the moon was a monumental achievement for the United States and all of mankind.

All this talk about the moon landing caused me to reflect on where I was on that date in time July 20,1969. Well, I was working as a buyer/ department manager in the giftware department at May’s Department store in Jamaica and was living in Queens Village at the time.

As I was working in the giftware department on the third floor when I

heard someone yell, “We’ve landed!”

This was in the nearby major appliance department where many TVs were on. I ran over there to watch this most important moment. I, like many others there, felt such pride. I was 20 years old at the time. My next moment of pride that year was when my son Tommy was born a few months latter. What a year 1969 was! I’m 70 years old now and remember the way we were on that day and time.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola

Markowitz supporters hurt Dems’ chances

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t is natural to support someone merely because they belong to the same political party.Yet it could blemish you.

Amongst different groups, Steven Markowitz asked for support letters to be sent by his political friends to local newspapers when the validity of his 2015 campaign email was a topic.

At some point, Mr. Markowitz even claimed that he never wrote the 2015 email wherein hate language and scare tactics was used for wining an election.

Now, against all odds, Mr. Markowitz takes responsibility for the email!

Some known Democrats, e.g., Robert Zimmerman, Michelle Schimmel and Gary Ackerman wrote the most amazing support letters for Markowitz.

Undoubtedly, the unwarranted support damaged the supporters and the Democratic Party.

They may wish to make statements and distance from the undemocratic language used by Mr. Markowitz in his 2015 email for winning an election.

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Business&RealEstate

Drinking water can affect home values

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sat the other day thinking and pondering about our drinking water and its effect on our survival as well as real estate.

If we didn’t have enough clean potable supplies for 16 millionplus New Yorkers who would be affected, then what would we do?

Moreover, having read about the current and previous problems with clean water in various towns across Long Island as well as our country, what is being done to keep it clean and the effects on the price of real estate now and in the future became a wake-up call to me. Are our government and politicians really being sufficiently proactive enough about this today or have any developed solid plans for the future?

As per a recent Newsday article from June 5, “The drinking water on Long Island has “by far” the most emerging contaminants of any region in the state, according to a review of the detection of the substances by the New York Public Interest Research Group. The review, “What’s in My Water,” was done by the Albany-based group using data collected between 2013 and 2016, and it concluded that “one or more emerging contaminants” could affect the supplies of about 16 million New Yorkers. The review was released May 28.

The report cautioned: “It is unclear if certain detections are health concerns” but noted that some emerging contami-

nants were detected above federal health advisory levels. Those contaminants include industrial chemicals from spills, wastewater and components in personal-care products like shampoo, detergent, as well as fertilizers, pesticides and household chemicals (Most notable were four contaminants detected, strontium, chromium-6, chlorate and 1,4-dioxane). Long Island has some of the highest detections in the nation of chemicals like 1,4 dioxane, a solvent used to keep machinery greased that is also a byproduct of certain personal-care products. The chemical is a likely carcinogen.

Because our water comes from aquifers underground (not like New York City water that comes from reservoirs in upstate New York, which appear to be much more protected), what we put into it, especially from the past from industrial wastes, and other current chemicals, as just mentioned, is what we are drinking. Greater and more specific attention, to our most important, life-sustaining water supplies has become tantamount and critical to our survival as well as to the value of our real estate locally and throughout Long Island, New York State and the rest of the United States.

Even salt infiltration is slowly but surely having adverse affects on our drinking water and will do more so in the future, as supplies dwindle and sea water penetrates

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

our underground. Christopher Gobler, chairman of coastal ecology and conservation and professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook, said the quality of drinking water on Long Island varies. Some

jurisdictions — such as the Suffolk County Water Authority — are good stewards of drinking water, Gobler said. He stressed that the supply to the estimated 100,000 Long Islanders who live in homes with private wells not connected by public pipes should be tested regularly for contaminants. However, many areas of Long Island do have clean water comparable to New York City water.

Nassau has greater issues than Suffolk County. Constant testing and monitoring of our water supplies today and into the future will hopefully provide us with cleaner more potable water. There is currently a $3 billion state program for testing, filtering and the addition of new pipes, of which $200 million is available to municipalities. You can read the entire article by clicking on the following link (if you are a Newsday subscriber) or I can email you a copy, if you contact me: https://www.newsday.com/ long-island/environment/longisland-drinking-water-quality-1.31846574 Long Island is just one area that clean water has become a major issue. Scientific American came out with an article by M.B. Pell and Joshua Schneyer noting that Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland and Milwaukee are a few other areas that are currently dealing with pollutants affecting their water supplies, which have even

greater issues than Flint, Michigan did in 2018. There are 3,000 cities and towns throughout the United States which have at least double the lead content in their drinking water compared with the city of Flint, and 1,100 of those towns have shown elevated blood tests in children that are four times that of Flint! You can read the full article here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thousands-of-u-s-areas-afflicted-withlead-poisoning-beyond-flints/ We as human beings tend to brush things under the carpet until a crisis occurs and then many times we wait until the last minute to try and resolve the problem. The water issue is a crucial issue and critical to our survival and some municipalities are doing their best to deal with it and others I am not so sure! Can you imagine how it has affected the price of real estate in Flint, Mich., as well as all those other 3,000 areas whose water has been challenged? Could this happen to Long Island’s water supplies and have a similar effect on our local real estate? Will many of our inhabitants’ largest asset, their home and its value, be negatively impacted, when a water and health crisis does occur? It surely is possible, if we don’t speed up and move more quickly in the testing, filtering and isolating of those pollutants that have a direct effect on our life and livelihood, here on Long Island and across the United States.

Philip A. Raices is the owner/ Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist (C.I.P.S.). He will provide you with “free” regular updates of sold and new homes in your town via the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island (MLSLI)or go to WWW.Li-REalEstate.Com as well as a “free” value analysis of what your home might sell for in today’s market without any “strings” attached. He can also provide a copy of “Unlocking the Secrets of Real Estate’s New Market Reality or Our Seller’s or Buyer’s Guides for “Things to Consider when Selling or Purchasing your Home. Just email or snail mail(regular mail) him with your request with your name, email and cell number and he will send it out ASAP. For a consultation, he can be reached by Cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com to answer any of your questions or concerns.

The Williston Times, Friday, July 26, 2019

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Recent Real Estate

Sales in the Williston Area Williston Park Real Estate Market Conditions MEDIAN SALES PRICE $645,000 Demographics near Williston Park, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

City 7,331 11,692 42.7 2.8 101,921 42,231

County 1,361,350 4,744 41.3 3 98,401 42,949

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120 Hilldale Road, Albertson Sold Price: $850,000 Date: 05/03/2019 5 beds, 3 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 87X103X125 Schools: East Williston Total Taxes: $13,284 MLS# 3062476

79 Sheridan Avenue, Williston Park Sold Price: $748,000 Date: 07/02/2019 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Duplex # of Families: 2 Lot Size: 58x103 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $14,582 MLS# 3125554

157 Coventry Avenue, Albertson Sold Price: $720,000 Date: 06/28/2019 6 beds, 2 Full/2 Half baths Style: Other # of Families: 2 Lot Size: 25x70 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $11,000 MLS# 3087586

181 Park Avenue, Williston Park Sold Price: $635,000 Date: 06/07/2019 3 beds, 1 Full baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 40x100 Schools: Herricks Total Taxes: $10,561 MLS# 3109734

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas by a variety of real estate agencies. The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes are presented based solely on the fact that they were recently sold in the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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Contractor, town in pool standoff Continued from Page 1 demolished, saying that they were supposed to have been installed and that the contract outlined this from the start.

That was the first time Gramercy Group ever heard anything about the intention of those plans being an installation, McKenna said.

In the March 1 letter, DiMaria also said that the sump drain was meant to be temporary. It would work as an overflow system while the town found a new solution, he wrote.

“In no way would anyone with construction background believe that draining a public pool into a small basement sump in this facility would be a superior (or even a satisfactory alternate) design to what was originally intended,” DiMaria wrote.

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The plans Gramercy Group received in February for the gravity overflow.

“There is no correspondence, no email no nothing that backs up that this was some sort of temporary or work around thing,” he said. “The pool wasn’t going to open until June. It’s not like you have to temporarily have a system in there.”

The pool opened in July 2018 with the sump drain system. Seven months later, in February of this year, the town issued a plan for a gravity overflow system that it wanted to replace it with.

“What we believe is Mr. DiMaria started to have concerns that if there were a power failure and this happened and that happened … that the water could somehow back up out of the sump pump and flood the equipment in the equipment room,” McKenna said. “As a result, in November of last year he said, ‘Oh I want now to put in a gravity overflow system.’”

To do so, Gramercy Group would have to take out already installed work, which “comes at a price that is estimated to be several hundred thousand dollars,” Gramercy Group President Vincent Parziale wrote in an April 30 letter to Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth.

“We believe Mr. DiMaria had second thoughts but had no more budget,” McKenna said.

DiMaria said the original contract did not omit any aspect of the system, pointing to the 12-inch pipes and storm water line, in his March 1 letter. The town also never approved the sump systems installation but rather asked for a “pricing and feasibility review,” he wrote.

The town is now withholding $1.3 million for what it considers unfinished business, including the gravity overflow system, and Gramercy Group claims an additional $1.5 million in unpaid debts.

The story will now play out in Bankruptcy Court.

Gramercy Group declared bankruptcy May 17 and sued the town less than a month later seeking more than $2.8 million for the combined $1.3 million withheld and $1.5 million it says is unpaid.

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W.P. water tower officially opens Continued from Page 1 Ehrbar also thanked Mineola officials for their assistance in a smooth transition, mentioning Mayor Scott Strauss, Superintendent of Public Works Tom Rini, water operator Jim Martin, and Deputy Superintendent of Public Works Leonard Palumbo in his remarks.

“Thank you to the village of Mineola for cooperating with us during this operation, specifically,” Ehrbar said. “We’re finished with Mineola in terms of using their water tower.”

The new $7 million tower replaced the village’s original tower on Syracuse Street, which was dismantled in the fall after 90 years of operation. Williston

Park’s new tower on the same site was constructed by Landmark Structures, whose plan was approved by the Board of Trustees last July. It stands 180 feet tall and holds up to 500,000 gallons of water.

In keeping with the water theme, Ehrbar also reported favorably at the meeting on the use of the village pool in the wake of last week’s heat wave.

“We have a good membership this year,” Ehrbar said of the pool. “We expect more hot weather and more use this week.”

The next public meeting of the Williston Park Board of Trustees is scheduled for Aug. 19 at 8 p.m.

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Williston Park’s water tower is officially operational.

Spitalnick, fashion entrepreneur, dies at 88 Continued from Page 4 “It’s good to recognize that my dad was one of the original founding members of the Great Neck Synagogue, he was a leader in the community, and he also helped the Westhampton synagogue,

which required a lot of help,” Bill Spitalnick said.

But while Irving Spitalnick took on many ventures, Bill Spitalnick said his father “never missed a meal.” He also fondly recalled trips to the warehouses growing

up, seeing the Knicks (“even in the tough years,” he noted), and how people would stop by their home in the afternoon for a biteafter golf or tennis.

Spitalnick retired in 2008 after selling the business so he could help his wife,

Ruth, who suffered from a stroke, Bill Spitalnick said.

In addition to his son, Spitalnick is survived by his wife; two other sons, Arthur and Robert; a daughter, Bonnie; 10 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

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What is it about the Irish?

early 15 percent of Nassau County is of Irish descent. If you walk along any street in Garden City, Williston Park or Manhasset, you are sure to run into a fair-haired Irishman with a smile and a quick joke.

But what are the specific character traits of the Irish? When I was growing up, I played lots of golf with Ernani D’Angelo at Hempstead Golf and Country Club. Ernani was a psychiatrist and he told me If you want to learn about people, watch animals or watch golf tournaments.

Well, this weekend we all had a chance to observe the Irish mind at work by watching the 148th British Open Championship played at Royal Portrush Golf Club in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. One of the wonderful things about golf is that it unfolds so slowly over five hours,

which is enough time for a player’s strengths and weaknesses to be revealed. That may why golf is so compelling. You will have ample time to be heroic or show yourself to be a coward.

In golf there is nowhere to hide when failure occurs. Actually at Royal Portrush there was one curious and ancient looking restroom built into one of the dunes off of No. 5, but I don’t think it’s in use any more so no longer available for hiding.

It ought to be no surprise that an Irishman won this year’s Open Championship. The “Champion Golfer of the Year” was the ever smiling Shane Lowry. If ever there was a golfer who looked exactly the opposite of American Brooks Koepka, it is Shane Lowry.

Here is this overweight, friendly, ever smiling, red-bearded man who looked like he hung out in pubs far more than in gyms.

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But lest you think he is the only Irish champion walking the earth, let’s not forget Rory McIlroy, Padraig Harrington, Darren Clarke, and Graeme McDowell. That makes five major champions all from the little island of Ireland with a population of less than 7 million.

The Emerald Isles have produced many good golf courses and many good golfers. The

“Shane Lowry, a true blue Irishman, captures the British Open at Royal Portrush”

mild temperature and frequent rainfall make the grass, gorse and heather grow well.

The only other popular sports are rugby, cricket and soccer, so it’s easy to see why the kids are drawn to golf.

But if we look deeper, we can find exactly why the Irish are so well-suited for golf and even why they are responsible for giving birth to this beautiful game.

Golf has two overriding features to it. It is highly cerebral and very punishing. Golf is not football with all the bruising and big men. Nor is it baseball with all that chewing tobacco, cursing and spitting. It is not hockey with the shoulder pads and concussions. In golf all the aggression is suppressed, defended against, controlled and internalized. All the aggression that you so easily see in our American sports must be held in as you play golf. That may be why so many golfers are depressed.

And who is better than the Irish at depression and holding things in. The Irish are a people who are smoldering with passion on the inside. Golf demands thinking and the Irish are a thinking people. They are filled with introspection and with fantasy.

They gave us Samuel Beckett who wrote “Waiting for Godot,” the finest play of the 20th century. The Irish gave us W.B. Yeats, who wrote the greatest poem of the 20th century, “The Second Coming.” The Irish gave us Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, and Gabriel Byrne. They also gave us John Kennedy, who was our last truly great president.

The Irish are known to be gifted intellectually, great storytellers and filled with contradiction.

Sigmund Freud once said that psychoanalysis was unable to unlock the mind of the Irish.

Pretty funny but kind of sad.

The character of the Irish may be due to living under English rule or living in a harsh and dreary climate, or living in poverty or embracing Catholicism so rigidly.

The Irish are cerebral, repressed and tend to be self-punishing.

For all these reasons the Irish helped to give birth to golf, a game that is for those who like rules, self-punishment, guilt and self-control. If you have ever played the game, you quickly become aware of the severe cruelty of the rules of the game.

Golf is for those who enjoy solitude and reverie and nature.

The astounding transcendent beauty of the landscape upon which golf is regularly played was best described by the great English writer Thomas Hardy in “Far From the Madding Crowd.”

In his novel Hardy goes on at length to describe typical pastoral settings in the south of England and how one can begin to feel God if you remain still and silent when alone in the fields.

A golfer partakes in the sublime beauty of the course, but if you make any little mistake along the way, you will be punished severely and that is the great challenge and contradiction of the game.

This week a true Irishmen by the name of Shane Lowry was able enjoy golf’s sublime offerings. He enjoyed the love of the hometown crowd. He seemed to glory in the beauty of Royal Portrush. In the end this humble Irishmen stood holding that marvelous Claret Jug with a look of reverie and amazement and disbelief on his face. He and his very strong mind were somehow able to withstand the multitude of demons and distractions and wound up with a big Irish smile beaming as the applause flowed all over him. What a day for golf and what a day for the Irish!

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Northwell doc chairs neurosurgery event The 18th biennial meeting of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery was attended by nearly 1,000 neurosurgeons and other practitioners from 58 countries, making it the largest meeting in the society’s history.

The WSSFN is the principal international organization that unites neurosurgeons, physicians in other fields and some engineers to advance the science and practice of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. Practitioners in this subspecialty care for patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, medically untreatable pain and brain tumors.

The event, held from June 24 to 27 at the Midtown Hilton Hotel in Manhattan, was co-hosted in collaboration with Kenes International and chaired by Michael Schulder, MD, who just completed his term as the society’s president. Schulder is also Northwell Health’s vice chair of neurosurgery at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park.

“The WSSFN has become an organization acknowledged all over the world as the meeting place for stereotactic and functional neurosurgeons,” said Schulder,

Dr. Michael Schulder spoke at the 18th biennial World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery meeting. who is also director of the Brain Tumor Center at Northwell Health’s Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery and co-director of the Center for Stereotactic Radiosurgery at Northwell Health’s Cancer Institute. “WSSFN membership has grown steadily from 200 members a

decade ago to now having nearly 1,200 members today.”

At the biennial meeting, there were 180 oral presentations and 276 posters, covering topics that relate to the concepts of stereotactic surgery, such as how precise targeting of brain structures can be

done safely to treat patients with tumors, movement disorders, epilepsy and other conditions. In addition, this year’s meeting had a strong focus on the ethics of surgery and research, with sessions that included a special film presentation on psychiatric surgery. Among the presentations were: Paul Larson, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, who discussed a phase I study using deep brain stimulation for patients with severe and medically refractory tinnitus. Research showed how surgery can provide relief via stimulation of the caudate nucleus, located toward the front of the brain. The study showed that the treatment was safe and its encouraging results should pave the way for an expanded trial to analyze the efficacy of the procedure, and the factors that contribute to its success.

Ali Rezai, MD, of West Virginia University, who demonstrated that by using non-invasive, low-intensity focused ultrasound treatments, the blood-brain barrier can be safely opened in the hippocampus of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. This method may lead to a variety of medical treatments for patients with this condition and deliver drugs at high concentrations in a safe and effective way.

Local students making college news Belmont University Michael Ottavio of Manhasset spent his summer traveling the world for college credit. Ottavio spent time in Belmont’s Ireland & Northern Ireland program for college credit this summer.

Loyola University Maryland The following students have been named to the university’s dean’s list for the spring 2019 semester: Diandra Burton and Helena Sanders of Port Washington; Peter Dunn and Gabriella Young of New Hyde Park; Julian Pagan of Mineola; Andrew Sluka of Roslyn Heights; and Jillian

Broderick, Kayleigh Caggiano,Thomas Carroll,Brian Gallagher,Natalie Labib,Samantha Lulov,Caitlin O’Connor and Samantha Zenobio of Manhasset.

In order to qualify for the dean’s list at Loyola, a student must achieve a minimum QPA of at least 3.500 for the term, provided that, in the term they have successfully completed courses totaling a minimum of 15 credits.

Miami University Karmiella and Rachel Ferster of Great Neck both earned degrees from the university following the spring 2019 semester.

New York Institute of Technology The following student-athlete’s have been named to the ECC commissioner’s honor roll list for the 2019-2020 school year: Andrew Pereira of Mineola; Martin Sundell, Ivana Andric, and Antonella Lopez Alcerro of Old Westbury; Anne Marie Ardito of Manhasset; and Brian Hoerter of New Hyde Park. Student-athletes who earned at least a 3.25 GPA for the academic year earned the honor.

Purchase College The following students have been named to the school’s dean’s list for the

spring 2019 semester: Alex Isaacson,James O’Sullivan, and Daniel Salvatierra of Port Washington; John Gould of New Hyde Park; Stephanie Farber of Roslyn Heights and Megan Fox of Manhasset. To be eligible for the dean’s list, students must carry a semester GPA of 3.5 for Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science programs and 3.75 for Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Music Performance programs.

Trinity College Lindsay Allison Miller of Manhasset earned a BA in political science from the school following the spring 2019 semester.

Town officials celebrate Howard Kroplick North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board honored Town Historian Howard Kroplick to express their gratitude for the work he has done within the community as the town’s volunteer historian.

The celebration was held on July 9 at Town Hall, where officials presented a proclamation in his honor and a “mock” historical marker.

Kroplick recently announced his stepping down from the volunteer position as town historian so he can achieve a better balance in his life and to spend time with family. He has served as town historian since 2012, contributing to various restoration and preservation

projects and acquiring numerous historical land marks, including the Roslyn Grist Mill and the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway. He also established a workshop at a local cemetery on how to restore old, weathered, historical head stones, restored and cleaned numerous historical cemeteries in the town and served as an invaluable resource for the town on matters of history.

Along with preserving history throughout the town, Kroplick published a book dedicated to the history of the Town of North Hempstead. A new historian has not yet been named.

Submitted by the Town of North Hempstead.

PHOTO COURTESY OF TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD

Council Member Lee Seeman, Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman, Council Member Angelo Ferrara, Town Clerk Wayne Wink, Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Roz Kroplick, Ex. Town Historian Howard Kroplick, Council Member Peter Zuckerman, Council Member Viviana Russell, Council Member Dina De Giorgio and Council Member Veronica Lurvey with a mock historical marker similar to the ones Kroplick has helped obtain for the Town.

64 The Williston Times, Friday, July 26, 2019

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