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Drive-thru testing begins in Nassau Cases grow as schools, businesses shutter

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Shoppers wait at the delivery door of Dollar Tree in Glen Cove for a shipment by truck of hand sanitizer and Clorox wipes.

DRIVE-THRU TESTING Long Island’s first drive-thru Nassau County Executive Laura coronavirus testing site opened at Curran announced Wednesday that Jones Beach on Tuesday. It was the second in the state, the county’s coroafter one was set up navirus cases have last week in New Rorisen to 278, with See related chelle. one death announced coverage Two additional Monday.

Three drive-thru PAGES 42, 43, 53 & 55 drive-thru sites at the ProHealth Urtesting sites opened gent Care locations in in the area in the past week, in Jericho, Little Neck, Little Neck, Queens, and Jericho, opened Wednesday.

Queens, and at Jones Beach.

The sites in Little Neck and By order of the county and state, K-12 schools have shut down un- Jericho will be open from 8 a.m. to til March 27 as part of the county’s 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, and state of emergency.

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Village elections postponed to April

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been scheduled for Wednesday throughout New York will be postponed until the state’s presiGov. Andrew Cuomo an- dential primary on April 28 due nounced Monday night that to the coronavirus outbreak.

“Our top priority has been all village elections that had

keeping New Yorkers safe and stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus,” Cuomo said in a news release. “Public health officials have been clear that reducing density is one of the most effective ways to stop the spread, and delaying village elections will help ensure poll workers and voters are not potentially exposed to the virus and at the same

time maintain integrity in our election system.”

Cuomo issued the executive order hours after President Donald Trump advised residents throughout the nation to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people.

The postponed Great Neck area elections are in the villages of Great Neck Plaza, Great Neck Estates, Thomaston, Kensington,

Saddle Rock and Russell Gardens.

In Manhasset, the elections in the villages of Munsey Park, Plandome Heights, Plandome Manor, Plandome and Flower Hill are postponed.

The Village of Floral Park’s election is the only one postponed in the New Hyde Park area.

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Hempstead supervisor Police shooting of declares emergency teenager protested Clavin calls for halt of nonessential services

Matthew Felix shot in Queens by NCPD

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Hempstead Town Supervisor Donald Clavin declared a state of emergency on Monday after the leader of the town’s thousands of unionized workers called for Hempstead to halt inessential operations for two weeks following the news that a town employee tested positive for the coronavirus.

“Along with New York State and Nassau County, the Town of Hempstead is declaring a State of Emergency to protect town employees, members of the public and our entire community against the spread of the Coronavirus,” Clavin said in a statement.

Hempstead’s Town Hall will remain open with reduced staff and adjusted hours. It will be open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Clavin urged residents to call Town Hall or use online services when possible in order to avoid unnecessary contact.

On Monday, Clavin said in an interview with Newsday that Hempstead is exploring staggering town employees’ shifts as an added precaution.

There were 101 confirmed cases in Nassau County as of Monday, according to County Executive Laura Curran. As of Friday, 34 cases involved Town of Hempstead residents.

Clavin announced the establishment of a coronavirus task force in a news conference last Wednesday following the confirmation of 31 COVID-19 cases in the town.

“I want to assure our residents that we are taking simple and effective measures to prevent the spreading of this disease,” Clavin said. “We’ve had regularly scheduled meetings to discuss the coronavirus and want residents to be reassured

At a demonstration last Tuesday in front of Nassau County police headquarters in Mineola, protesters demanded justice following the fatal police shooting of 19-year-old Matthew Felix last month.

The protesters, who included activist Kirsten John Foy, chanted, “No justice, no peace.”

Some called on the Nassau County Police Department to fire all officers involved in the shooting.

The shooting occurred on Tuesday, Feb. 25, around 5 p.m. in the Cambria Heights neighborhood of Queens. Nassau County police officers followed Felix, a carjacking suspect, from Garden City Park to Queens.

Police tracked him to his home in Queens and waited until the suspect left the house and got into another car. According to Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder, officers attempted to make an arrest as Felix left his house, but he drove away, and officers followed him.

Unmarked police vehicles had surrounded the car in a busy shopping district when it

Town of Hempstead Supervisor Donald Clavin has created a coronavirus task force. that necessary precautions are in place.”

The task force will be “dedicated to crafting strategies and precautionary measures in response to concerns related to novel Coronavirus on Long Island,” according to a statement Clavin released. These measures include expanding communication and education initiatives, as well as disinfectant and cleaning efforts.

“The health and safety of residents is our priority and we take this matter very seriously,” he said.

Clavin had previously remained quiet since the first case was announced on Thursday, March 5.

The following day, Curran said that all four confirmed coronavirus cases that had been confirmed in the county at that time were confined to the Town of Hempstead.

The first case was a 42-yearold man who works part-time at Mercy Medical Center. Medical experts said that he had not been to work in a week, and that they were unsure how he had contracted the virus.

The next three cases were women ages 36, 41 and 63. One patient is hospitalized and the

other two are quarantined in their homes. The three cases are “close contacts” of the first patient, according to Curran.

Medical Director Dr. David Neubert and Councilman Anthony D’Esposito will lead the coronavirus task force. Senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, Councilman Bruce Blakeman, Councilman Dennis Dunne Sr., Councilman Tom Muscarella, Councilman Chris Carini, Town Clerk Kate Murray and Receiver Jeanine Driscoll will also serve on the committee.

Clavin said that health experts and officials have found that senior citizens are among the most vulnerable. He announced that the town has implemented measures to protect the senior population, including disinfecting senior centers daily, installing hand sanitizing equipment, sending EMTs to educate seniors about the virus and sanitizing the senior transportation fleet.

The task force will hold a Facebook live question-and-answer session on Friday at 2 p.m. after holding one on Sunday.

Community members can access the event at facebook.com/ hempsteadtown.

sped forward and collided with a storefront. A witness said the officers discharged their weapons when the suspect appeared to begin driving toward the police.

Foy said that a meeting between Ryder and activists, himself included, was scheduled to take place last Wednesday.

Attempts to confirm that the meeting took place were unavailing.

“My son was loved by a lot of people and he was taken from me by racist Nassau PD cops who can go around shooting people with immunity,” Guerlyne Felix, the victim’s mother, said last Tuesday. “This must end now.”

“There were eight shots,” said Samantha Felix, the victim’s sister. “Eight shots for someone unarmed. For what?”

State Attorney General Letitia James has taken over the investigation. The attorney general’s office has the jurisdiction to assume authority over a case in an instance where police shoot a civilian or there is a question as to whether the civilian had a gun.

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Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said a carjacking suspect, Matthew Felix, drove away after officers tried to arrest him.

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Bicyclist Joseph Harrison of Williston was killed in October hit-and-run

BY E M M A J ON ES The Nassau County Police Department last week issued photos of a car similar to one involved in an accident in which a bicyclist was struck and killed on Oct. 2, in Mineola. The police asked anyone with information on the vehicle or its driver to contact the authorities.

Joseph Harrison, 64, of Williston Park was riding his bicycle southbound on Mineola Boulevard near Washington Avenue when he was hit by an unknown vehicle also traveling south around midnight, police said.

Harrison suffered a serious head injury and later died at a local hospital, police said.

Huguette Harrison, the victim’s wife, told CBS Local that her husband was “a very spiritual person and a great listener.”

In addition to being a father and grandfather, he was an environmentalist and volunteer and worked as a licensed chauffeur.

“He really cared for people,”

Harrison said. “He would stop and help anybody who needed help.”

Police describe the vehicle

that struck Harrison as a 2006– is damaged, according to au2008 Infiniti, four-door SUV. It thorities. is light in color, possibly silver The Police Department reor gray, and the front of the car quests that anyone with infor-

mation about the incident or the vehicle call Crime Stoppers at 1–800–244–TIPS. All callers will remain anonymous.

Police are looking for a 2006–2008 Infiniti, four-door SUV that is light in color, possibly silver or gray, with damage to the front of the car.

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Fire engulfs Mineola FCA gets grant for homes, businesses immigrant center

BY E M M A JONES A four-alarm fire damaged or destroyed multiple apartments and businesses on Main Street near Second Avenue in Mineola on Sunday evening.

All 25 residents living in the apartments affected by the fire made it out safely.

According to police,

the Nassau County Police Department and Mineola Fire Department responded to a 911 call at 7:55 p.m. for a vehicle fire in a garage at 101 Main St. When emergency responders arrived at the scene, the fire had already spread to nearby shops with apartments above.

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A 911 caller reported a fire on Main Street in Mineola Sunday night, according to police.

of approximately 200 firefighters, assisted the Mineola Fire Department in putting out the flames.

Arson and bomb squad detectives, fire marshals and the Village of Mineola Building Department were present as well.

It took approximately five hours for firefighters to put out the blaze.

Two firefighters were treated and evaluated at the scene for signs of exhaustion, the Police Department reported.

The Fire Department later received two calls reporting that the fire had been rekindled. This was likely caused by hot spots reigniting under the large amount of debris, according to authorities.

The Red Cross offered assistance to approximately 15 displaced residents.

The investigation is ongoing, according to police.

BY E M M A JONES The Family and Children’s Association will receive a $139,209 grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to support its new Newcomers Resource Center, the association announced last Tuesday.

The Newcomers Resource Center, according to the news release, will “provide struggling young immigrants with greater access to the necessary services needed to begin and build their lives for not only themselves but also their families in their new home on Long Island.”

The Town of Hempstead-based FCA is a nonprofit organization that has worked to protect vulnerable populations on Long Island for 135 years.

The launch of the Newcomers Resource

Center is a response to the growing need for services for immigrant and refugee populations.

It will offer legal guidance, case management and referral services, counseling, school advocacy, vocational training, educational training and short-term child care, according to the association.

The Lynn Vanderhall Nursery Co-op, part of the Newcomers Resource Center, will allow parents to attend classes and receive other FCA services while knowing that their children are in a safe, nurturing, educational environment, according to the statement last Tuesday.

The center’s bilingual program staff allow the association to meet the needs of Spanish-speaking community members.

The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation provides grants to improve

the health of vulnerable communities in New York State and eliminate barriers to care.

Monsignor Gregory Mustaciuolo, chief executive officer of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, said, “Mother Cabrini spent her life devoted to those who faced the greatest struggles, and the foundation named in her honor is proudly carrying on her legacy.”

The Mother Cabrini grant will allow the FCA to offer the services beginning immediately.

“We are grateful for the support of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation,” FCA President and CEO Jeffrey Reynolds said. “We look forward to seeing life-changing opportunities present themselves for these families within the Newcomers Resource Center with the support of this great foundation.”

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Protesters demand action afer shooting Continued from Page 2 Family, community members and activists gathered last Wednesday to commemorate what would have been Felix’s 20th birthday.

“Today my son

would’ve been 20,” Guerlyne Felix said. “Instead of him [being] out there celebrating, he’s in the morgue.

And that’s not right. My son did not deserve to die this way.”

The Police Department

has not offered a public explanation why an officer or officers fatally shot Felix.

“There was no reason for them to kill him,” said Guerlyne Felix. “Had my son been a white boy, he would be alive today.”

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Town postpones ExteNet hearing

Hearing for application for 16 cell nodes in N. Hempstead canceled due to coronavirus concerns

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public hearings and agenda way application, will be moved less to build nodes, has also cell nodes. Legal proceedings resolutions that were intended to an upcoming meeting at a sued the villages of Lake Suc- are ongoing in all three villages. cess, Flower Hill and Plandome Town officials have yet to The Town of North Hemp- to be held at those meetings, later date.”

The wireless provider, which in the past two years after each announce a new date for the stead has canceled a Town Board including the public hearing to meeting originally scheduled to consider the ExteNet right of was contracted by Verizon Wire- village denied requests to build hearing. include a hearing on applications filed by wireless infrastructure provider ExteNet Systems due to concerns over the coronavirus.

ExteNet is seeking to install 16 cell nodes in areas including Port Washington Estates, Manhasset Bay Estates, Bayview Colony and bordering the Plandome Manor area, according to paperwork filed with the Town of North Hempstead in August.

A deadline for a decision was originally set for Dec. 16, but over the course of four months, the town did not hold any public hearings on the matter, and ExteNet sued in January. The same day, the hearing was announced.

“In the interest of preventing the spread of coronavirus, the Town of North Hempstead’s Board meetings originally scheduled for March 19 and April 2 PHOTO BY ROB PELAEZ are being canceled,” a news release from the town said. “The The Town of North Hempstead has been sued by ExteNet Systems over a series of cell node applications.

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Hofstra makes NCAA, before cancellation

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z For nearly two decades, Hofstra University has failed to make an appearance in the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament.

This year the team made it, only to have the tournament canceled because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Hofstra coach Joe Mihalich touted his players’ success this season.

“These guys work their tails off every day, and I couldn’t be more proud to have coached them,” he said.

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Hofstra University Men’s Basketball clinched a spot in the NCAA March Madness tournament last Tuesday night.

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Providing breast health educators Maurer Foundation seeks to educate youths on how to prevent breast cancer

BY E M M A J ON ES The Maurer Foundation has brought breast health education to the youth communities of Long Island and the rest of the New York metro area since 1995.

This fall, the charity will launch an online training program allowing people across the U.S. to become breast health educators and bring crucial information to their own communities.

“Our mission has always been breast health education, providing information to the public at large,” Executive Director Susan Samaroo said.

“That mission has not faltered in 25 years.”

The Maurer Foundation, based in Melville, offers free breast health education programs to local schools and community groups. They teach young people how to implement

lifestyle changes to prevent breast cancer, as well as how to perform breast self-exams. The foundation has reached nearly 400,000 people in its 25-year existence and 23,000 in the last year alone.

“Awareness is great, but action is better,” the Maurer Foundation website says.

The workshops incorporate issues pertaining to breast health that disproportionately

impact youth populations, such as vaping.

The foundation has brought its message of livesaving breast cancer prevention and early detection to 80 percent of public high schools on Long Island. It has partnered with 44 schools in Nassau County alone, where programs are integrated into the curriculum, often through health classes.

“Risk reduction is cumulative,” the Maurer website says.

“By bringing our programs to high schools and colleges, we encourage the development of risk-reducing and early detection habits early.”

Beyond imparting crucial information to young people, the Maurer Foundation offers peer education programs. Through after-school workshops, Maurer educators train students to be breast health educators themselves. The students then lead breast health programs at their

schools.

Samaroo said that young people are more engaged with their peers.

“Being able to have that peer-to-peer opportunity we feel is an effective way of getting that lifesaving message across,” she said.

The Maurer Foundation strives to reach diverse populations of young people on Long Island. Its Bilingual Breast Health Program speaks to concerns specific to the Hispanic community.

The foundation recently started a transgender breast health series on its blog, which addresses topics such as the effects of sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy on breast cancer risk factors.

Samaroo said that the foundation’s mission is to provide the information that the public is asking for, and that the trans community, like the rest of the

population, seeks breast health information specific to its needs.

This fall, the Maurer Foundation will introduce an online “train-the-trainer” program.

The foundation has been doing this in person for years, Samaroo said. People come from all over the U.S. to participate in its training programs.

They then educate their own communities on breast cancer risk factors, nutrition information, mammogram guidelines, early detection strategies and conducting breast self-exams.

By expanding the program to include an online option, the Maurer Foundation strives to meet the growing demand for breast cancer educators. Samaroo said that while the mortality rate has gone down, the number of breast cancer cases continues to grow.

“Our program is still current, it’s still necessary, unfortunately,” she said.

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Suozzi seeks funding for L.I. Sound Congressman says additional money needed for preservation, restoration projects

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U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) advocated for more federal funding to preserve and restore the Long Island Sound’s habitat last week.

U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (DGlen Cove) called for increased funding for the preservation and restoration of the Long Island Sound’s water quality and diverse habitat last week.

Suozzi urged members of the House Appropriations Committee to increase federal funding for the Sound on March 10.

“The Long Island Sound is our ‘National Park.’ More than 25 million people from Long Island, New York and Connecticut live within an hour’s drive of the Sound,” Suozzi told committee members. “There is so much more that we can accomplish with your help.”

Since Suozzi arrived in Congress in 2017, funding to clean up Long Island Sound has increased by more than 500 percent, according to the congressman’s office.

Suozzi also serves as cochair of the Congressional Long Island Sound Caucus alongside Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut).

“I grew up swimming and fishing in the Long Island Sound,” Suozzi. “My children do today. I have devoted a significant part of my past 25 years in public service to cleaning up pollution, dramatically reducing nitrogen, modernizing sewage treatment plants, and restoring shellfishing.”

Despite improvements to water quality since the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Sound was still prone to sewage spills and high levels of nitrogen in the 1990s.

Since efforts began to clean up the Sound in the 1990s, Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have signed bills that provided funding for restoration.

‘Members Only’ founder dies at 92

BY R O S E W E L D ON Herbert Goldsmith, a garment entrepreneur and theatrical producer best known for co-founding the Members Only clothing brand, has died at age 92.

Goldsmith was living in a care facility in Roslyn at the time of his death on Feb. 22, according to an obituary published in The New York Times.

Born in 1927 to a Bronx homemaker and a garment worker for Chief Apparel, Goldsmith was drafted by the U.S. Army toward the end of World War II, and served as a disc jockey for Armed Forces Radio in Northern Italy. Upon returning to America, he attended Long Island University, now LIU Post, in Brookville, and graduated in PHOTO COURTESY OF LEGACY.COM 1950 with a degree in advertising.

Herb Goldsmith, co-founder of the Members Only fashion label, After working for Chief died at a care facility in Roslyn last month.

Apparel until his father died,

in 1961 Goldsmith founded Europe Craft Imports with business partner Edwin Wachtel, achieving steady, moderate success throughout the decade.

In the late 1970s, on a buying trip in Munich, Germany, Goldsmith noticed a slim-fit jacket with a knitted bottom and epaulettes on either shoulder. Combining the design with a chintz, light fabric he found in New York that came in a rainbow of colors, Goldsmith gave the creation a name inspired by a sign he often saw at a Long Island country club: “Members Only.”

The jacket debuted in 1980 to modest success, which ballooned when the company signed soap opera star Anthony Geary as its spokesperson in 1982. Members Only reached over $100 million in sales by 1984, and its later ads, which featured messaging against drug use

and advising young people to vote, won Clio Awards, the advertising industry’s highest honor.

After Members Only was named the world’s No. 1 outerwear brand for men in the late 1980s, with sales pushing past $125 million, Goldsmith left the garment industry in 1992 and turned his attention to theatrical producing. His company, Herbert Goldsmith Productions, produced or associate-produced various shows on Broadway throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, including revivals of “Annie” in 1997 and “Glengarry Glen Ross” in 2005, winning a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for the latter.

Goldsmith is survived by three daughters and four grandchildren, as well as his second wife, Myrna. His first wife Dolores (nee Turkel), a speech therapist, died in 2009.

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COMMUNITY & SCHOOL NEWS

Volunteer award for Jayam

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Wheatley Junior, Viraj Jayam named a Distinguished Finalist in the 2020 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program.

The Wheatley School is proud to announce that Viraj Jayam was named as one of the top runners-up in the 2020 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program. This is an important recognition of Viraj’s impressive work.

The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards represents

the United States’ largest youth recognition program based solely on volunteer service. All public and private middle level and high schools in the country, as well as all Girl Scout councils, county 4-H organizations, American Red Cross chapters, YMCAs and Points of Light Global Network members, were

eligible to select a student or member for a local Prudential Spirit of Community Award.

These Local Honorees were then reviewed by an independent judging panel, which selected State Honorees and Distinguished Finalists based on criteria including personal initiative, effort, impact, and personal growth.

Viraj, a Wheatley junior, founded “Helping Hands Long Island,” through which he uses 3-D printing to create tailored prosthetics for people in need.

Viraj learned how to operate the technology and partnered with another prosthetics charity organization to provide prosthetics to people in India, Nepal, and Mexico. Viraj was inspired to start this project after his childhood friend from India lost an arm in a factory accident.

Congratulations to Viraj for this important recognition who will receive an engraved bronze Distinguished Finalist medallion at an upcoming Board of Education meeting.

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Wheatley junior, Paula Gbenebitse, was honored at the African American Leadership Awards Ceremony.

Wheatley student receives award Congratulations to Wheatley junior, Paula Gbenebitse, who was honored at the African American Leadership Awards Ceremony held at Elmont High School on February 13th.

Paula was recognized as a leader in the African American community at the ceremony hosted by Senator Anna Kaplan in honor of Black history month.

She was honored along with ten other African American students from the seventh district of New York state. Many thanks to Wheatley Spanish teacher, Mary Martinez, for recognizing Paula’s leadership qualities and for nominating her for this wonderful award.

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Pet food drive Herricks honors students in Great Neck

Nassau County Legislator Ellen W. Birnbaum is once again proudly participating in Long Island Cares’ ninth annual Legislative Pet Food Drive Challenge in conjunction with Great Neck House.

Each year, Long Island Cares partners with elected officials to collect donations of items such as bagged or canned pet food, kitty litter, and new animal toys to fill Baxter’s Pet Pantry, a Long Island Cares initiative that supports families facing financial hardships by providing food and other supplies for their pets. The support eases pet care costs, potentially sparing families the heartbreak of deciding to place their four-legged friends up for adoption.

“When families face financial difficulties, every member of the household struggles,” Birnbaum said. “I am proud to support the Long Island Cares’ Legislative Pet Food Drive to ensurefamilies can keep their pets at home.”

Donations can be dropped off at:

Great Neck House 14 Arrandale Ave. Great Neck, NY 11024 March through the end of May. Closed on Easter. Open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

For more information please contact Legislator Birnbaum’s office at 516-571-6210 or via email at ebirnbaum@nassaucountyny.gov For additional details about Baxter’s Pet Pantry, visit www.licares.org/getto-know-us/our-programs/petpantry/.

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The Herricks Public Schools Board of Education Meeting on Feb. 27, featured several student recognitions.

Jeremy Lau and Jovana Lau were named Nassau County Fencing Champions for Sabre. Both have achieved All Long Island and All-County status and won the “Fencer’s Fencing Award.”

Nicole Chen, Jenna Chin, Gloria Kang, Rohan Khanderia, Christopher Lum, Daniel Min, Michael Paciullo, Shreya Patel and Rahul Singhal were

commended for their recognition as National Merit Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

They met high academic standards and completed other rigorous requirements. Members of the board and administration congratulated these students on their outstanding accomplishments.

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Choir sings at invitational On Feb. 27, Herricks High School’s Chamber Choir traveled to Princeton, New Jersey to participate in the Westminster Choir College High School Invitational.

Together with Glen Cove High School and five schools from New Jersey and Delaware, the students performed for a panel of choral conductors.

The Chamber Choir performed three pieces and was given the opportunity to work with Dr. Joe Miller, head of Westminster Choir College. Dr. Miller is one of the premier choral conductors in the country and this was a very special moment for Chamber Choir.

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W.P. Library changes PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NASSAU COUNTY LEGISLATURE

To our Patrons: The Williston Park Library places the highest priority on the safety of both our staff and patrons.

Out of an abundance of caution, the Library Board has decided to postpone all scheduled programs through April 4th.

All toys have been removed from the Children’s Room and public computer access has been suspend-

ed until further notice. Per the Mayor, all programs scheduled to take place in the Assembly Room have also been suspended.

We will continue to monitor the recommendations from the CDC, the NYS and Nassau County Health Departments and the school districts.

Continue to be safe.

Donna McKenna, Director

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Animal League rescues over 90 dogs

PHOTOS BY ROSE WELDON

North Shore Animal League America in Port Washington brought back over 90 dogs of varying breeds from backyard breeders and puppy mills across the South on Saturday. The dogs will be given veterinary care and grooming before becoming available for adoption.

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OUR VIEWS

Greater federal response needed

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lowly, unevenly and with fits and starts this country seems to be approaching Italy’s response to the coronavirus – a virtual lockdown of the country.

The unevenness of this shutdown – and perhaps the need – can be traced to a void in leadership by President Donald Trump.

Instead of a strong centralized response, we have some direction from the federal government, some from state governments, some from county governments and some from even villages and school districts.

Several local school districts decided to close last week before Nassau County Executive Laura Curran announced on Sunday that beginning Monday public and private kindergarten-12th grade schools in the county will be closed for the next two weeks.

This was followed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announcing that New York City’s 1.1 million K-12 students would be out a minimum of six weeks.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been among a number of governors who have stepped into the leadership void, leading a campaign to increase the scandalously low level of testing kits in New York and nationwide.

On Monday, Cuomo joined with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont to announce a regional approach to combating the coronavirus throughout the tristate area.

They announced closures of restaurant dining rooms, bars, gyms, movie theaters and gatherings of over 50 people, as well as public schools.

Cuomo also made the case that the federal government needed to

establish national standards for things like closing schools, businesses and events.

Some federal officials who are members of the White House task force headed by Vice President Mike Pence such as Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have offered sobering, fact-based opinions on the threat of the coronavirus.

Scientists now expect somewhere between tens of millions to 215 million Americans will ultimately be infected and the death toll could range from tens of thousands to more than 2 million – depending upon how well we respond.

But until Monday, real-world responses of federal officials had been undermined by Trump, who repeatedly downplayed the coronavirus.

As late as Sunday, Trump said the coronavirus is “something that we have total control over.”

This denial of reality began even before the coronavirus was first identified in China in December.

In 2018, Trump fired Thomas Bossert, a Homeland Security adviser whose portfolio included global pandemics. The next month he disbanded the council’s global health unit created under the Obama administration to prevent future pandemics. That meant Trump had no top advisers in the White House with expertise in global pandemics.

When the virus was first identified, Trump rejected an offer from the World Health Organization for test kits. Instead, he turned to the CDC to develop one of its own, a time-consuming process met with problems.

Only now is the CDC along

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with private labs rolling out the tests. But still too few are being produced.

The FDA gave its approval to testing at Northwell Health Laboratories in Lake Success hours after Cuomo took the federal government to task last week for failing to authorize private laboratories to test for the novel coronavirus and for failing to authorize automated testing, This has left localities flying blind in identifying the sick and inevitably allowed the virus to spread.

Trump finally appeared to acknowledge the dangers posed by the coronavirus Monday afternoon as the stock market had its largest loss in history.

Trump recommended Americans stop unnecessary travel and avoid bars, restaurants and groups of more than 10 people. He also warned that the outbreak could extend well into the summer.

But the guidelines are not mandatory and fall short of a national quarantine and internal restrictions, which many health officials had urged.

Both in tone and in substance, Trump did appear at least for one day to finally acknowledge the crisis

this country now faces.

But, in a conversation with governors, Trump told them to try to get ventilators and other equipment on their own.

There is now widespread agreement that the goal is to contain the speed of the spread of the virus so that hospitals are not overrun.

In an op-ed article in The New York Times on Monday, Cuomo called for the federal government to order the Army Corps of Engineers to begin finding buildings and constructing facilities to deal with the coming increase in coronavirus cases that could overwhelm the medical infrastructure.

Cuomo said New York State has just 53,470 hospital beds, only 3,186 of which are intensive-care beds. Our country as a whole has fewer than one million staffed hospital beds, fewer proportionately than China, South Korea or Italy.

Cuomo called for Trump to stop the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “from overregulating the testing process, and authorize states to certify a wider array of testing labs and methods.”

And he called on the federal

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government to establish uniform federal standards for when cities and states should shut down businesses and schools, or cancel events.

Consumers have dramatically begun cutting back on spending and businesses on staff. The financial impact on the workforce will be enormous – especially if the pandemic lasts for months, as expected.

The House of Representatives, working with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, developed legislation last week, providing paid sick leave to Americans affected by the pandemic.

But the bill, passed by the House, covers only 20 percent of the private-sector workers. And the Senate took a three-day weekend and has yet to take up the legislation.

Only the federal government has the ability to address the financial costs to businesses – especially small businesses and employees who lose their jobs.

The pandemic cannot be stopped. But its impact can be minimized.

We just need all levels of government to do their jobs for that to happen.

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KREMER’S CORNER

South Carolina primary rocks party

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ne day the history books will record the fact that one political event turned the lives of six national politicians upside down.

As you look back at the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, the results changed the fate of Vice President Joe Biden, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, and Bernie Sanders and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

Leading up to February 29, most of the combatants expected that Joe Biden would implode and that would open the door for anyone of them to move closer to being the Democratic nominee.

In a moment of great drama, Congressman James Clyburn made a historic endorsement of the vice president, which turned the tables on all the contenders.

At the top of the list was Mayor Bloomberg, whose $500 million expenditure had him on the

cusp of becoming the compromise candidate.

The three senators and the Indiana mayor were poised to ramp up their campaigns to capture the prize. But the smashing victory by Joe Biden forced all of them to abandon their efforts prior to Super Tuesday.

The outpouring of African American voters, who strongly backed Biden, forced most of them to quit and quickly turned the contest into a two-man race with Biden and Sanders.

Based on his big successes on Super Tuesday, Biden was propelled into another round of victories a week later in such delegate-rich states as Mississippi and Michigan. The South Carolina victory also dealt a death blow to the idea of picking future presidents at party caucuses.

There is no question that the Iowa and New Hampshire voting systems were a governmental disaster. As of this date, there has never been a final

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tally from Iowa and the results in New Hampshire are still being challenged. Which raises the question as to why were these states given the early primary dates?

Iowa and New Hampshire are predominantly white states with only a trace of minorities.

They do not look like the rest of America and there is no logical reason as to why they should be

first and second in the nation.

The Nevada election was a caucus type operation, but the results were jumbled. Senator Sanders was judged to be the front-runner, but South Carolina undermined that political guessing game.

Since 2016, the Democratic Party has been struggling with reforms that would satisfy the Sanders wing of the party. The progressives wanted desperately to do away with super delegates.

That is a type of delegate that does not have to run for the privilege. Most of the super delegates are prominent politicians in their state. The compromise won by the left was that there would be a smaller number of super delegates and they could not vote until the second ballot.

Now that we are well into the primary season, the reformers are still unhappy with most of the rules, and they will probably try to revise those rules even further in 2024.

The chances of super delegates disappearing are very remote, and the party will be battling internally for many years to come. One thing is clear; the primaries for the next presidential election will start in non-caucus states such as South Carolina or Arizona that have a fair number of minorities.

There is one other challenge for the Democratic Party and that is getting women to remain in the competition and not be eliminated well in advance of the national convention.

Senators Warren and Klobuchar ran strong campaigns and yet the two people standing at the end are older white men. There is no way that women can be given preference over male candidates if they cannot raise the money and get good polling results.

No matter what issue you want to debate, there is no question that without the historic South Carolina primary result, none of these issues would be under discussion.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

A nation that’s about to go stir-crazy

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o here we are, a whole nationful of people being asked to “socially distance” ourselves, in order to fight the Coronavirus.

Some of us are being asked to do even more (or perhaps I should say less) than that. My husband’s doctor, for example, put it to him bluntly: “Just don’t leave the house. For a couple of months.”

This is terrible news.

Not for my husband, of course. Recently retired, his two favorite hobbies are napping, and watching TV. Preferably at the same time.

Which is fine for him.

What the doctor doesn’t say is, who is going to go out and comb the stores for hand sanitizer and paper towels? Don’t tell me, I know the answer.

Also produce and meats, since I never signed up for Amazon delivery and now it’s too late.

It’s making me realize what a big part of my social life it used to be, going to the supermarket! Bumping wag-

ons with other moms I haven’t seen in a while, commiserating with strangers who also can’t find what they need at the wall-of-exotic-shampoo-flavors. (Mango coconut shampoo? Really? What a waste of a good drink!) Harassing the manager over why the fragile cookie brands are placed so high out of reach that they always fall and break when you try to grab one… you know, good clean fun.

All as gone as the dodo.

It even makes me homesick for the day when my biggest shopping problem was locating enough recyclable bags to bring it all home in. And that was just two weeks ago!

But the folks trying to keep us healthy want us all to “hunker down.” Or is that “bunker down,” because it sometimes feels like we’re in a bunker, waiting for World War III? It feels like a weird type of blizzard — one with no snow, and no end in sight. At least I don’t still have little kids at

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A Look on the Lighter Side home, that I’m expected to entertain…or worse, teach.

Because if I were any good at that, I would have been a teacher.

I once tried to run a summer school for the little kids in my neighborhood, when I was still a kid myself. I thought I had enough activities for several weeks. Turns out that after half an hour we had run through them all and the kids kept asking “What’s next?” Talk about panic!

Some schools are sending kids home with reading assignments for the rest of the year. I can just imagine how that’s going to work: “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Loser?

Or Genius? Use specific examples.”

“American History: Is this The End?” “The Iliad and The Odyssey. Discuss.”

We turn on the TV, only to find that PBS — in complete disregard for a nation of prisoners — is in pledge!

What are we to do? I’m all cooped up with nothing to do but taxes! You know I’ve reached my limit when I tell you that I am actually dusting the bookshelves.

But the most terrifying thing about this hunkering down is what it can do to ordinary, mild-mannered citizens. Ordinarily, my husband is a very sweet-tempered man.

And yet, during a patch of bad weather that kept us indoors this past winter, we almost came to blows over which cor-

ner of the dining room table was supposed to house the stack of junk mail!

So now I don’t know which to be more worried about: my life, or my marriage.

I keep thinking about all those men who get put under house arrest. Like Paul Manafort or Bill Cosby, before the judge put him in jail instead.

I can’t help thinking that the person it is really a sentence for is the wife.

“Bill, dear, it’s trash night and those cans aren’t taking themselves to the curb.”

Bill silently raises his ankle, showing the ankle monitor.

“Could you give me a hand getting the groceries in from the car? All the soup cans are killing my back.”

He silently shows her the ankle monitor once again.

“And you know the dog needs walking!”

It’s enough to make you commit a heinous crime of your own.

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Outside-the-box coronavirus considerations

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he coronavirus is going to be an unwelcome guest in all our homes and businesses for the next few months, so the quicker we can accept that the better.

Here are some proactive actions to mitigate your anxiety from the disruption of your daily routine, by being considerate of others and planning for the future: Be Kind – Over the last couple of years, most major media outlets reported 40 percent of Americans don’t have $400 in their bank account to pay for an emergency expense. That means 40 percent of U.S. residents, over 130 million people, will struggle to cover the basic necessities needed for survival during the coronavirus pandemic.

If you can afford to, please pay employees who rely on you

to take care of their families, even if they shelter in place.

That includes the people who clean your homes, care for your children, and mow your lawns.

The few thousand dollars you will spend will be a meaningful lifeline to help those who help you.

Don’t Treat School Closings as a Snow Day – This means no playdates, sleepovers or birthday parties. Instead, go with your family, and only your family, to hike a nature trail, walk in a park, or just stroll around your neighborhood. Be sure to practice safe social distancing.

Your children will emulate your actions and take the coronavirus pandemic as seriously as you do, so no cocktail parties for you too!

Look for Efficiencies in your Monthly Expenses – We all

ADAM HABER All Things Political squander thousands of dollars a year on inefficiencies in our household expenses.

Now is as good a time as any to shop for cheaper auto and homeowner’s insurance (renters insurance if you rent), refinance your mortgage, seek out lower

interest rate credit cards, consolidate debt, find cheaper cell phone service, compare cable TV, streaming service and internet rates, and comb through your credit card bills to cancel subscriptions and apps you don’t use.

Take advantage of this once in a lifetime chunk of free time to streamline your financial life.

Then share your savings with your friends.

Shift Anger to Action – The health emergency we are now under was going to happen sooner or later. Yes, our President was slow to get the message out and refused to admit the reality of the problem for a few precious weeks.

You will not change anyone’s view about Trump three years into his term, so stop trying and make sure you vote this Novem-

ber. Keep in mind there are also layers of government that could have also taken charge of the problem on a local level.

Instead, focus on how Gov. Cuomo took decisive action to keep New York State safe. And how can you not love NIAID Director, Dr. Anthony Fauci?

Keep your coronavirus TV and social media viewing to a minimum. Instead binge-watch all three seasons of the “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” You’ll thank me later!

The anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic, the ensuing stock market crash, and the changing of daily routines is all unsettling.

Please take steps to be kind to others, be financially productive, and lessen your own anxiety. It will make the next few months more bearable.

OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Hidden common ground in divided nation

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few years ago an interviewer told Republican House Leader Eric Cantor that he was considered a major obstacle to policy progress because he refused to compromise.

Cantor responded that Reagan, his role model, was a leader who never compromised.

But, like the President, he, too, was always willing to seek common ground. Cantor was quickly challenged by scholars who pointed to Reagan’s numerous compromises.

However, Cantor was certainly onto a less stressful path for politics. We are more likely to collaborate and cooperate when we are able to identify common ground (shared values and policies). This sounds like a common sense approach. Is it feasible at a time when there is so much rancor and political polarization in our nation?

We may need to explore more closely to find “Hidden Common Ground.”

Politics has often been considered the art of compromise, especially in our vast, numerous and diverse nation. My great Columbia teacher, Henry Steele Commager, always emphasized how challenging it was to make

democracy work in our country.

From our 1776 beginning, we were already a nation of nations. England would physically fit inside of Pennsylvania — in 2020, France could fit in Oregon and Italy in California. By the year of Independence, our population had soared and we were also one of the most diverse nations in the world.

Now, our population is as large as the 25-nation European Union, and Queens County New York is the most diverse place in the world with more than 150 ethnic and nationality groups.

How does any nation with these characteristics make democracy work?

While politicians often speak of the quest for common ground, one might ask how much they do to find it and to foster it. In this vital election year, Hofstra University has been invited to be part of the “Hidden Common Ground” project, a joint initiative of the Kettering Foundation and National Issues Forums Institute.

Those national organizations have an impressive record of developing partnerships and ways to bring diverse folks into civil, deliberative processes.

Working collaboratively, the

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field 2020 joint project will team “the USA Today network, nonpartisan research organization Public Agenda, NIF’s nonpartisan citizen issue guides, and NIF’s network’s deliberative forums.”

“The project will discover where we have common ground and where we’re divided and still have work to do.” All partners will consider “four urgent issues” which include: Divisiveness in America, Health Care, Immigration, and the Economy.

For more than three decades of Hofstra participation in Kettering’s National Issues Forums, we have consistently been impressed by how affirmatively citizens respond to the civility and format of these de-

liberative sessions — even when they have strong differences of values and public policies.

Common ground is a marvelous bond when one locates it, but this project, like decades of past forums, can help citizens better understand others, and in the context of nonpartisan civility can foster more of an inclination to compromises, even when common ground is not located.

Hofstra has selected a group of student leaders who will oversee the project for the rest of 2020. We have designated them “Civil Discourse Fellows.”

In two-person teams, they have been preparing to apply the Kettering deliberation principles to citizens’ discussions.

We will provide citizen participants with brief guides that present options for actions on key issues facing the nation. The Civil Discourse Fellows will foster careful listening to each other and considerations of what folks most value in the policy options. Participants will be asked to weigh the reservations and benefits for particular actions, and see if they can reach a common ground sense of directions with their colleagues.

Our forum goal is 15 to 18 people for each session; we

want all to have a chance for active participation. Our moderators will report on each forum to Kettering as part of the national evaluation project. Another contribution in this regard is having each participant complete a brief, anonymous questionnaire that becomes part of our report.

At various centers, libraries, senior groups, we have often conducted three or four forums simultaneously, provided there is quiet space to separate groups of 15 to 18.

We welcome wide participation to represent our region.

Paths for participation are: 1) email me (or postal mail me) your interest, and we can invite you to a forum at Hofstra; 2) if your organization would like us to bring forums to you, be in touch with me and we can discuss logistics: michael.dinnocenzo@ hofstra.edu (516) 463-5606; Michael D’Innocenzo, History Department, Joseph Shapiro Family Hall, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549 [There are no costs for forum materials or to participate in the forums].

We celebrate active citizenship as a hallmark of democracy.

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E A R T H M AT T E R S

Gardening for the birds in your yard

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ou may have wondered about the familiar birds that traverse through your yard or visit your feeder.

Where do they nest? Where do they go at night? Can they find enough natural food in the suburbs? You can help birds with your garden choices.

This doesn’t mean you have to rip out your existing landscaping (unless you have invasives like purple loosestrife, winged euonymus aka burning bush or barberry – those need to go) but when you do add plantings, think native.

These are plants that are adapted for our climate and soils and supply the best food resources.

What you are trying to create is a habitat. Habitat is the layers of plants from towering shade trees down to ground covers that birds and wildlife have adapted to utilize. The importance of these plants cannot be overstated.

They provide food, cover, nesting sites and often a combination of resources. Birds rely on the larder that nature provides from native plants. At different times of the year fruits, seeds, nuts and an array of insects are on the table.

Native trees and shrubs also provide shelter, protection from the weather, safe nesting sites along with nest material, perches from which to survey, and safe

places to sleep or wait out a storm.

Some birds and butterflies can only feed on a particular native plant with which they have coevolved. Many birds prefer dense plantings. If you have room, make part of your yard a thicket with understory trees and shrubs. Evergreens like juniper, holly, spruce, fir, pine, and hemlock give important shelter and nesting opportunities.

A tree with a cavity or the snag of a dead tree will provide food and shelter if it’s in a safe location. The plants already in your yard will give you clues to your soil chemistry and moisture, and light conditions.

A variety of species will mimic the layers of natural habitat and provide a season long display of flowers, colorful berries and fall color. This is a just a sample list.

There are native plants adapted to every soil and light condition.

Small Trees and Shrubs: Serviceberry (Amelanchier), Chokeberry (Aronia), Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), Hollies – need male and female for fruit (Ilex); Inkberry (I. glabra), American Holly (I. opaca), Winterberry (I. verticillata), Viburnums; Arrowwood (V. dentatum), Nannyberry (V. lentago), Black Haw (V. prunifolium), Highbush Cranberry (V. trilobum)

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Perennials: Aster sp., Coreopsis sp., Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), Joe Pye weed (Eupatorium fistulosum), Blue flag iris (Iris versicolor), Blazing star (Liatrus spicata), Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), Bee balm (Monarda didyma), Wild bergamot (M. fistulosa) Horsemint (M. punctata), Black-eyed Susan (Redbeckia hirta), NY Ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis), Phlox sp. Grasses: Big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), Broom sedge (Andropogon virginicus), Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans) Vines: Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia), Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) There are many places you

can go to see native plants demonstration gardens to get ideas; Planting Fields, Clark Botanic Gardens, Garvies Point Preserve, the Native Plant Center at Westchester Community College, the New York Botanical Gardens, and the Highline are a few.

My Audubon chapter has made small demonstration gardens locally and provides online resources northshoreaudubon. org/use-native-plants/. There are online plant lists that will give you options.

Long Island Native Plant Initiative www.linpi.org/native-plantfact-sheets/, Cooperative Extensions https://blogs.cornell.edu/ ccesuffolkligardening/category/ native-plants/, Audubon Native Plant Initiative www.audubon. org/native-plants.

Another critical resource is water. From a simple saucer birdbath to a habitat pond, fresh water is a key element to survival, especially in the winter and times of drought.

Birds need water to drink, to bathe in to keep their feathers in good condition and to keep cool in the summer.

The best birdbaths are gently sloping, have a rough bottom for footing and no more than two inches of water. Birdbath heaters will attract birds all winter long.

Yes, they will bathe even in very

cold weather so fill the bath with pebbles so only a shallow amount of water is available — wet birds in winter can freeze.

Keep baths away from low undergrowth where a cat might lurk.

Wet birds don’t fly well. Nearby trees or bushes will allow birds to escape from predators and safely preen and dry. Change the water in a shallow bath daily for hygiene, since birds drink and bathe in the same water, and mosquito control.

Birds are especially attracted to moving water. Small misters or fountains will draw a crowd. Water dripping from a hole in an old bucket hung over the bath will do the trick inexpensively.

If you have a pond, place a textured rock at the edge about one inch underwater. A safe spot to perch by a waterfall will be popular. Goldfish or Koi will keep your pond free of mosquito larva. If you don’t have fish or a good watercirculating pump, use Bt mosquito dunks.

Suburban landscapes tend to run to monocultures of lawns, a small selection of hedge shrubs, and some tropical annuals for seasonal color, mostly non-native and the bird equivalent of a food desert. Even small changes can enhance the beauty of your yard and help birds and wildlife survive and thrive.

DID YOU KNOW?

Census offers government needed data

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id you know that the Census is right around the corner this year? April 1 will begin the process of counting the entire population, and sometime this month you will be receiving a notification that the U.S. Census questionnaire is available.

This notification will have step-by-step instructions on how to complete the questionnaire by phone, online, mail or in-person.

Paper forms will be available in English and Spanish, but you can respond online or by phone in Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog and Vietnamese. The bureau is also providing video and printed guides in 59 non-English languages, as well as a video in American Sign Language.

Odds are good that you will provide more detailed personal information on social media than by responding to the questions on

the upcoming Census. There will be nine questions on the Census.

Some questions that will be asked on this questionnaire are regarding your household and housing situation. It will ask how many people live in your household and whether you rent or own the household. The questionnaire will also have questions specifically about each person living in the household, mainly race, gender and age.

Every question on the Census has a required purpose and the answers will help each community.

But if you think that the Census will not have any meaning or impact on you, please keep reading.

Why is it important we participate in the Census this year? Well, our governmental officials will use this information that is collected through this process to determine how much funding is distributed to each state.

It will affect funding for schools, local municipalities, and

WAYNE WINK

North Hempstead Town Clerk other governmental or semi-governmental organizations. Public funding for healthcare programs such as Medicaid and Medicare will be affected, as well as educational programs like Head Start and school lunches.

Funding for employment, training, and infrastructure for roads and highways will also be affected. Billions of dollars, 800 to

be more specific, are allocated using population and demographic data that is collected only through the U.S. Census every 10 years.

If North Hempstead shows that our population is growing or has grown, it will translate to an increase to funding for our school districts, it will influence how much money we receive for our public transit programs (LIRR, NICE Bus, etc.), support for housing options and it will determine how the business industry treats our community.

The census will also dictate how our population is represented. The results of the Census are used to determine the number of seats each state receives in Congress. The larger our population, the more representatives we get, the more our voices will be heard.

This would also apply to state representatives and local representatives. The more people counted in North Hempstead, the better our representation will be on the fed-

eral, state and local levels.

To debunk any myths that have been circulating about the 2020 Census, please note that there will NOT be any questions about citizenship. Additionally, you will NOT be asked for any Social Security numbers, political affiliation and you will most definitely not be asked to contribute any amount of money.

None of your information will be shared with any other governmental agency except for the US Census Bureau. The law requires the Census Bureau to keep information confidential and to only produce aggregate statistics. Census workers take a lifetime oath to keep census data private – which if broken could lead to a minimum of five years imprisonment and/or a fine of $250,000.

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Not the year for schools to raid reserves

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h, what a difference a few weeks make. But after the first presentation to the Great Neck School District board of the proposed 2020-21 budget, and taking all things into consideration (coronavirus pandemic, school closures, prospects for economic recession), I would still advocate as I did at the hearing that this is the wrong year to shortchange the district on property tax revenue. And this is why: The administration is proposing a $242,799,885 budget, an $8.4 million increase, that allocates for added teaching positions to address the increasing enrollments and needs of our students in order to maintain programs.

At the March 2 presentation, the coronavirus was already on people’s minds – Superintendent Teresa Prendergast had already noted preparations in case the

schools were closed – but the stock market hadn’t yet cratered taking with it people’s 401Ks, wide-scale quarantines that would keep people from their job and threaten the existence of businesses, and the unemployment rate was still at historic lows, consumer confidence was still high, and Trump was still touting the greatest, strongest economy in the history of the world.

But even before the exacerbations, there were already warning signs of fiscal troubles ahead.

Certain capital projects the school district was self-financing from its reserves were $6.6 million more expensive than projected; costs of materials were rising with scarcity as China’s factories were shut down; transportation costs – a $15.3 million budget item — are up $1.7 million, largely because of the need

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to entice bus drivers with higher salaries.

Moreover, state aid (less than 4 percent of Great Neck’s budget, versus 50 percent of New York City’s) is expected to be down this year, and likely down even more significantly because of the state’s $6 billion budget deficit, even before the

additional billions in expenses to address the coronavirus pandemic (“You’re on your own,” Trump said to the states.”) and a policy to steer precious state aid to underperforming, high-needs districts and away from highwealth, high-performing ones like Great Neck.

I can only imagine the higher expenses of closing schools and shifting on the spot to remote instruction that began March 18 for all grades, pre-K to 12.

I doubt there will be any savings (bus transportation is suspended, for example), but how much more money is the district going to have to spend on custodial services?

Moreover, many of our school buildings may be called upon to accommodate children of the many, many health workers, first responders and people who are employed in essential services in our community.

Based on the convoluted formula for the tax cap, the district could raise property taxes by 4.11 percent, but the proposed budget would increase the property tax revenue by 2.96 percent, an amount that is kept well below the tax cap by increasing the allocation from appropriated reserves and fund balance by $3,414.432 to $5.7 million.

That amounts to 2.35% of the budget from appropriated fund balance and reserves, compared to 0.95% this year.

This in effect cannibalizes the district’s resources to address what can be anticipated as unprecedented financial stress on the district.

On the other hand, the total assessed valuation of property is also going up, as Assistant Superintendent for Business John Powell noted, and that’s a good thing.

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OUR TOWN

Coronavirus – what to think, how to act?

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here’s no getting away from the coronavirus. The world’s anxiety-ridden pandemic conjures up any number of dystopian films including “I am Legend” “World War Z” “Contagion” and “12 Monkeys.”

All these films begin with a benign and largely ignored outbreak coming from a faraway country but soon emerges as a pandemic that kills off the population by pruning out the weak and elderly.

On Wednesday, March 11, I walked down Hillside Avenue in Williston Park and I saw any number of unusual things. I spotted a woman getting out of her car wearing a mask. I noticed that traffic is lighter than usual.

I overheard a man in the post office explaining the ineffectiveness of Purrell as a preventive measure against the virus. I have had a few patients cancel appointments because they had to stay home and watch over their children since the schools were shut down.

One of my patients had to return from his semester abroad in Italy. I heard that New Rochelle is under quarantine. The hot yoga class I go to in Bayside has seen class sizes cut in half. You can no longer find toilet paper or bottled water because people have started to hoard these items. That night I listened as the President

gave a sluggish and somber assessment of our current situation and promptly shut down air travel from Europe.

At about the same time the NBA canceled its season. And within a brief 24 hours, the nation has witnessed the shutting down of every major league sports season including MLB, the PGA tour and the NBA, the closing of Broadway and all theme parks including Disney World and Disneyland. Welcome to a world in a panic.

So let’s try to separate fact from fiction. I recently visited my general practitioner and she told me that the flu kills as many as 79,000 Americans per year. The coronavirus has only killed 40 to date. I asked my eye doctor about coronavirus and he remarked that it will get worse before it gets better and to avoid crowds.

From the psychoanalysts’ view, the world was ripe for a panic attack. Our nation has been in a state of chronic anxiety and exhaustion for more than 40 years. The growing income gap between the uber-rich and the rest has produced a true ‘pandemic’ of overwork and exhaustion.

This income gap has helped create a large cesspool of anger that gets repressed. But as the pressure of all these pent up emo-

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tions build they need an outlet or the whole system will blow. The coronavirus virus serves as a trigger and release valve for all this pent up frustration, anxiety and exhaustion. This accounts for the panic accompanied by anxious thoughts, hoarding and a tendency to overreact in a paranoid way.

This is not to say that the threat of the corona virus should be ignored. The most sensible viewpoint was shared with me by my chiropractor friend Dr. Bob Oerzen.

Bob is an extremely gifted practitioner with an office in Mineola and when I asked him about it the coronavirus he said “It’s all about prevention. There are germs that we are all exposed to every day. The key is to make sure your immune system is strong enough to withstand them.”

I asked him how to do that and he said “You need to get at least eight hours sleep per night, eat well and exercise daily. You also need to keep your hands clean, take some vitamins, get adjusted and do your best to think positively. If you do all that you are going to be fine.”

Good advice. The worst pandemic in history was the 1919 Spanish Flu which killed 50 million globally. It was spread by exhausted infantrymen who had comprised the immune system thanks to malnutrition and unsanitary living conditions. My guess is that our current pandemic will eventually run its course with far less damage done thanks to better nutrition, stronger immune systems, and faster containment efforts.

However, the underlying emotional/cultural dynamics that partially explain tour current panic will remain in place. Income inequality, overwhelming technological advances, and overwork are issues that are potentially far more deadly than any germ.

Paranoia is repressed anger that gets projected outward. Paranoia is responsible for the rash of school shootings and our current hysteria about a disease.

Blockbuster films become blockbusters only when they

strike a chord within our collective unconscious. The great filmmakers are like modern-day prophets who give voice to our most troubling unconscious fears.

“Contagion” was produced in 2011, and this film is almost an identical story to the coronavirus.

This year there have been two films that captured our attention.

“Parasite” was the winner of the Oscar for best picture and is a story about a down and out Korean family which manages to wreak revenge upon an upper-class family. This film mirrors our biggest issue, the anger we feel by being part of the have-nots in a culture of haves.

“The Joker” also won awards and is about a down and out lower-middle-class fellow who is ‘mad as hell and won’t take it anymore.” He then proceeds to kill a celebrity host while being interviewed by him on television.

The host in “Parasite” was a rich family. The host in “The Joker” was a celebrity interview.

What I see in our current world is a fear that we will all be the hosts for the coronavirus which we fear is out to kill us. But I think this is far from the truth. All you need to do is rest up, eat well, get some exercise and follow the new rules of disengagement.

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SCHOOL NEWS

Herricks writing success The Herricks Public Schools are pleased to announce several student achievements in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards program. Six entries won Gold Key distinctions and have advanced to the national level, with results to be shared in mid-March.

Mia Carranza received three Gold Keys, including one for her portfolio – an especially noteworthy accomplishment that brings the prospect of other prominent recognitions. She also earned three Honorable Mentions.

Carrie Hsu achieved two Gold Keys, three Silver Keys, and five Honorable Mentions, while Aroob Jalil earned a Gold Key, three Silver Keys, and an

Honorable Mention. Derek Chen was awarded a Silver Key and four Honorable Mentions, Carolyn Lau received a Silver Key and Honorable Mention, Patrick Leu achieved a Silver Key and Kayla Sohn earned an Honorable Mention.

Presented by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, the Scholastic Art &amp; Writing Awards provide opportunities for creative teens to be celebrated. Through the awards, students receive opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication, and scholarships.

Submitted by Syntax and the Herricks Public Schools

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Hearty Hops Herricks musicians perform at Searingtown at Lincoln Center competition

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On Feb. 6, the students at Searingtown School in the Herricks Public Schools jumped all over heart disease and stroke by participating in Jump Rope for Heart. The students raised more than $12,700 for the American

Heart Association, which funds research, programs, and education to fight heart disease and stroke.

“Chamber music is such a unique and special genre of music, because it requires so much of the students individually, and also forces a level of collaboration and compromise in working with others that is rare in students of this age level,” said Herricks High School orchestra director Catherine Fish. “To be able to give a professional-level performance like these students did is no small feat!

We look forward to hearing the results of the final round of the competition.”

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Mock Trial team’s success

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Middle schoolers hear of addiction Herricks Middle School welcomed guest speaker Stephen Hill for an inspiring presentation on March 2.

Hill addressed seventh and eighth graders as he shared his experiences in battling addiction.

A former high school athlete, Hill’s decade-long struggle with drug use ended in 2012. He now shares his story and recovery journey with students throughout New York and neighboring states, encouraging the prevention of substance abuse and vaping.

This event is one of the many ways that the Herricks Public Schools strive to direct students towards positive choices and lifestyles.

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The Herricks Mock Trial Team won their first round of the Mock Trial competition on Feb. 10 at the Nassau Supreme Courthouse. “Lawyers” Brandon Marafino, Eshita Kushi, and Moniza Mujtaba along with their witnesses Olivia Berg, Prableen Kaur and Dino Vadaich successfully prosecuted the case United States v. Phoenix Jones against the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County.The team

is coached by high school teacher Michelle Kaplan and is further advised by Herricks community member Ira Slavit.This year the team was also fortunate to get the help of community member Ajay Chheda.The district wishes participants the best in their next round on Feb. 24!

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Herricks DECA students excel at conference Some 70 Herricks High School DECA members attended the 60th annual New York DECA State Career Conference in Rochester from Feb. 26-28.

They competed against other DECA students with the goal of advancing to the International Career Development Conference. The Herricks group was suc-

cessful, with 14 students earning state winner distinctions and eligibility for the next level.

The annual state competition is one that is rich in tradition and is an excellent way to expand the member’s professional network and develop necessary skills for the future.

As a result of their performance at this event, Yasmeen Gilani, Gunreet Grewal, Greshma John, Karan Kaknia, Preethi Krishnamoorthy, Carolyn Lau, Lauren Levine, Jacqueline Manetta, Lamiya Rangwala, Nishi Shah, Priya Shah, Rikhav Shah, Emily Tucker, and David Zhang now have the opportunity to

travel to Nashville, Tenn. in late April for the international contest. Additionally, Ashna Shah and Gurvir Singh are moving on to the international level based on their report of the practices of the Herricks High School store.

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How to curtail college costs Education is an expensive investment, costing many people as much as their homes and far more than their vehicles. And the cost of a college education only continues to rise. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the annual costs for undergraduate tuition, room and board were estimated at $15,000 for public schools and between $23,000 and $39,000 for private institutions, whether they were for-profit or nonprofit.

Few students are able to fund their schooling outright, which means they must seek ways to finance their educations. The following are a handful of strategies students can employ to curtail college costs. · Investigate scholarship programs.

Colleges and universities offer scholarships to incoming students based on various criteria. Start by speaking with a school guidance counselor about available scholarships. Consult directly with the schools where you plan to apply for admission. You may find that they offer scholarships based on academic merit, extracurricular activities or athletics. You

also can do a search online. Scholarships. com, for example, enables you to find available money to pay for college. · Explore academic grants. Grants are another form of financial assistance for students to explore. Unlike scholarships, which are awarded based on merit, grants are not tied to a specific list of criteria that must be met. Financial need is often given greater weight when awarding grants than academic performance.

Public and private organizations, professional associations, the government, and even schools sponsor various types of grants. · Sign up for work-study programs.

Work-study programs are another form of financial aid. When part of a workstudy program, students work part-time to offset their college expenses. Jobs may be available on-campus or off-campus, though ones that are on-campus may be more amenable to your class schedule. · Stick closer to home. Many students dream of attending college away from home and immersing themselves in a new environment - including dorm

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Summer camp is a beloved tradition in many families. Many parents of young children fondly recall spending their summers at summer camp, where they made lifelong friends and learned the finer points of roasting marshmallows and competing in three-legged sack races.

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Day camp Day camps are not overnight camps, which means kids will return home each night rather than sleep over at camp. Day camps typically offer many of the activities people have come to associate with camps, including crafts, sports and even day-trips to experience local culture or attractions. Many day camps are co-ed, and counselors typically live within the community.

Faith-based camp Faith-based camps offer many of the same activities as more traditional summer camps, but do so while simultaneously offering campers the opportunity to celebrate and further explore their religious beliefs. Some faith-based camps may focus heavily on religion, incorporating faith into daily camp activities, while others may be more subtle with regard to integrating religious beliefs and lessons into camp activities.

Sports camps Some summer camps focus on a particular sport, catering to young athletes who want to further develop their athletic talents. Sports camps may feature guest lectures and lessons from notable local athletes and coaches, while some camps may provide instruction from current and/or former professional athletes. Some sports camps are overnight, while others are day camps.

Family camps Family camps are opportunities for the whole family to enjoy the summer camp experience. Family camps typically tailor their activities around tasks families can complete together, with counselors providing assistance when it’s needed. Family camps may be faith-based or secular, and families typically stay overnight, sleeping in facilities on the campsites or in lodging away from home.

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medical background and proof of insurance, names and numbers of emergency contacts, and any other pertinent information as it applies to the camper. This may include allergies, fears, physical or mental disabilities, or even preferences in camp courses. · Establish payment schedules. Summer camps vary in price. The ACA says camp costs range from $100 to more than $1,500 per week. However, many accredited camps offer some sort of financial assistance for children from families with limited financial means. If cost is a factor, be sure to broach the subject. · Prepare children for the physical challenges a camp may present. Summer camp activities may be rigorous, and campers may need to be cleared by a physician before starting. Be sure to schedule your child a physical and bring along any pertinent forms. Children also can increase their levels of physical activity compared to the often sedentary nature of winter. Such preparation can prevent injuries when engaging in outdoor and physical activities. · Shop for supplies. Camps are likely to provide a list of requirements with regard to clothing and other equipment campers will need. Make sure kids have enough shorts, T-shirts, socks, athletic shoes, swimsuits, toiletries, and other camp necessities before they leave. · Keep children in the loop. Engage children in the planning process to help alleviate their fears and get them excited about summer camp.

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Steps to choosing the right preschool want a faith-based curriculum for their young children.

Kindergarten used to mark a child's first foray into formal education. But preschool has now taken up that mantle for many students.

· Are pre- and post-care services available? A school that has flexible hours may be appealing to some. This enables parents to drop off and pick up children according to their own work schedules or in coordination with school hours for other children in the family.

Some parents may recall their own preschool experiences, mostly remembering extended moments of play and more monitored fun inside the school.

But as the world of education has become more competitive, and students are required to meet certain standards at even earlier grade levels than before, preschool has undergone its own transformation.

Academic preschools have become a popular choice for parents hoping their children can gain that extra edge. Rather than the play-based philosophy preschools adhered to in the past, academic preschools introduce students to the rigors of the classroom. These academic preschools often teach math and reading. Proponents of this type of learning say that children are sponges at early ages, and the more information they can be presented with, the more they are likely to retain it. Children

· Visit the school and assess the environment. A school may look excellent on paper, but you will not get a feel for it until visiting the school during a school day. Take your child along and get his or her opinion. Parents may love a particular school, but if kids are uncomfortable, the school may prove ineffective. who are able to sit and focus for 20 to 30 minutes at a time and are very curious and ask a lot of questions may make for the best candidates at academic-based preschools. Other children may be more comfortable attending play-based schools.

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children will spend more time at a preschool close to home, which can cost more and reduce the amount of time parents and their children spend together. · Should the school be faithbased? Religious organizations frequently offer their own faithbased preschool programs. Parents will have to decide if they

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How to save on college housing costs College is expensive, and the costs are only rising. Scholarships and grants can help mitigate the costs of higher education, but even students who receive such aid could find themselves scrambling for ways to make college more affordable.

Housing is one of the more expensive costs for college students and their families. According to the College Board, the average cost for room and board during the 2016-2017 school year was $10,440

at four-year public schools and $11,890 at private colleges and universities. And those costs typically cover housing for just the school year, which may last anywhere from six to eight months. However, there are ways for students and their families to reduce those costs. · Examine your dormitory options.

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have more input in their housing come their sophomore, junior and senior years.

Some dorms might be more attractive and offer more amenities than others, but students and families looking to save money on housing costs should opt to live in the most budget-friendly dorms available to them. In addition, choose to live with a roommate rather than in a single room, as singles tend to cost substantially more than double rooms. · Sign up to be a resident advisor.

Resident advisors, or RAs, often receive free housing in exchange for living in dormitories when they are upperclassmen or graduate students. RAs help newly enrolled or younger students adjust to campus life while also ensuring nothing untoward happens on the floors they’re tasked with looking after. Students who may want to apply for RA positions should first confirm if serving as an RA will affect their overall financial aid package and how great that impact might be. · Live with roommates even after leaving the dorms. Due to limited space, many colleges insist dorm residents live with roommates. Upperclassmen who are moving out of the dorms and into university or off-campus apartments can save money by continuing to live with roommates. This can be especially beneficial to students who will be living in off-campus housing where amenities such as electricity, cable television and water are unlikely to be included in the cost of the rent. · Commute to school. While it might not be ideal, commuting to school can save college students and their families substantial amounts of money. Public university students who did so during the 2016-2017 school year might have saved nearly $11,000, or $44,000 in four years.

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Internet safety tips for students T

he classrooms of yesteryear are distant memories. Gone are chalkboards, which have made way for smartboards. Even textbooks are slowly being phased out in deference to online curriculums. Modern classrooms are outfitted with digital devices that connect students to the internet. Each of these changes might surprise parents who haven’t stepped foot inside a classroom in decades.

A 2017 report from Common Sense Media said that children up to age eight spend an average of two hours and 19 minutes every day on screen media. Children between the ages of eight and 12 spend an average of four hours and 36 minutes on screens.

Much of that time is spent online.

The internet can be a useful tool for students, who can go online when working on school reports. Some students even communicate online with their teachers, while others play interactive learning games that can supplement lessons taught in the classroom.

But the internet also puts students at risk of falling victim to online predators. The internet also keeps students in constant contact with their peers, which can be troublesome for students who want to get away when they get home at night. These reasons and more are motivation enough to encourage students to practice good digital citizenship and follow these safety tips when online.

Exercise caution with photos and videos posted online. These images, even when posted harmlessly, can weigh on a student’s reputation. They may even

impact acceptance to schools or career opportunities in the future. Always think before posting, as content remains in cyberspace indefinitely. And remember, many schools screen for inappropriate content. Sending harassing or inappropriate material to others may result in disciplinary action.

Recognize the threat posed by online predators. The Crimes Against Children Research Center says one in five teenagers in the United States who regularly uses the internet has received unwanted sexual solicitations through the web. In addition, 25 percent have been exposed to unwanted pornographic material online. Students need to be aware that not everyone on the internet is an upstanding citizen.

Keep personal information private at all times. The service eMarketer says that 75 percent of children are willing to share personal information online about themselves and their families in exchange for goods and services. Students need to be better educated about protecting their passwords, ages, addresses, and other personal information.

Stop cyberbullying before it starts.

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College majors that can lead to higher earnings C hoosing a college major is an important decision that many students delay making until their sophomore or even junior years. Only after taking a few courses and uncovering one’s interests do some college students figure out what they want to do with their lives.

Each student is different, and while some may pursue a degree based on a particular passion, others may choose majors that can lead to high-paying jobs.

While men often lean toward majors like engineering and computer science that have traditionally been linked to high earnings, women have historically gravitated to lower-paying specialties like education and social sciences. But in recent years a shift has occurred, and more women have begun to choose majors associated with higher post-graduate salaries.

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As coronavirus spreads throughout the world, people are staying home from work, school, and social events.

We are all exercising caution in our new reality, but life as we know it does not need to stop completely.

Below are six tips to help you feel calmer, healthier and more connected during the days of coronavirus. Please keep in mind, these suggestions are not all or nothing. Life at home may feel topsy-turvy so do what you can, when you can. Something is better than nothing!

Exercise in place of your commute to work — If you are working from home, you can use your travel time for exercise. Stick to the same wake-up time and substitute exercise for your commute. Take a walk, jog or find a class online. There are many options besides the gym. Make exercise a priority not only for your physical health but for the calming effect it has on your mind and You can still “do lunch” — If you are accustomed to eating lunch with friends or colleagues, you can stay home and keep your lunch plans. Try using FaceTime or Skype to connect over a sandwich or a smoothie. Social distancing does not require social Cook during the time you would commute home from work — Less ac-

tivity often leads to more snacking. Use the time typically spent traveling home from work to prepare healthy meals and snacks. Healthy eating is a protective factor that helps us stay physically and emotionally Get more sleep — For many people, the hectic pace of daily life does not include sufficient sleep. With many activities canceled, use this time to go to sleep earlier. Choose a bedtime at the beginning of the day and adjust your schedule to stay on track. Sleep is an essential component for a healthy body and mind.

Pamper your hands — With so much hand washing and cleaning, your hands may be dry and chapped. If this describes your hands, perhaps treat your hands to a hand bath of soothing lotion with a relaxing scent like Don’t have any lotion? Apply a small amount of Vaseline or olive oil.

Be compassionate to others — Take time to show compassion and care for others. Even the briefest phone call, text or email can have a significantly positive impact on someone — and you will benefit from being compassionate too.

Being compassionate has been shown to improve physical and emotional health.

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School district extortion continues unabated

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s someone who has advocated for a meaningful restructuring of our school system, I could not have asked for a more damning piece of supporting evidence than the March 4 article “Preliminary budget for Great Neck public schools shows $8 million increase.” This was gift-wrapped from the District itself.

According to the story, Great Neck Teachers Association President Jim Daszenski addressed the board. Daszenski touted the work of drafting the budget but said that the funding for staff and faculty had much to be desired.

“We have dire issues in this district, yet this board and this budget turn a blind eye to our highest needs,” Daszenski said.

“Do not allow your legacy to be that the Great Neck Public Schools fell farther behind neighboring districts like Jericho, Roslyn, Syosset, and so on. Please do not allow anyone to ever say that

this board did less to support its students and educators when they had the resources and opportunity to do more.”

This is a naked attempt at extortion using fear tactics. The inference that your children will be condemned to an inferior education compared to neighboring districts is an obscenity, and speaking for myself, anyone intimating such a thing has no place in our educational system. This is a disgraceful attempt to publicly shame you. “Dire issues?”

What alarmist rubbish.

Parents, don’t be intimidated. At this stage of your child’s life, navigating the challenges of adolescence is as much a preoccupation of their inner lives as their classes. Their schooling is only a fraction of their real education. They are as assaulted by news and data as much as you are in their daily lives. Their classroom experience will not help them in the things that matter in one’s life: family, career,

relationships, financial choices, fiscal discipline, all of the factors that make for a happy life filled with meaning can’t be taught even if you double the cost of this bloated monstrosity.

I put two daughters through college. Absorb this: Believe me when I tell you than when it comes to shaping their futures, those four years will count for more influence and shape your child’s life tenfold over their K-12 experience. Why? Probably for no other reason than the development of their cerebral cortex.

They’re no different than you were. This is where they realize rehearsal is over. Adulthood awaits.

You have to smash the fantasy that these riches you are lavishing on school personnel, and the kingdoms of bloat they’ve built for themselves contributes in any way to your child’s well being. We all love our children, and we sacrifice anything for them. That makes it very easy

for you to get played by absurd claims of “dire issues.” Don’t fall for it.

Here’s what parents have to insist upon in the face of this extortion attempt: 1) Demand that your forced contributions to the NY State Teachers Retirement System cease at once. These are funded by your property tax. There is no need for you to fund $400,000 pensions.

2) Demand a phase-in of the reduction of health insurance subsidies for teachers. Right now, taxpayers cover 75-to-80 percent of health insurance premiums. This should be reduced to a more common 50 percent.

This starts now.

Note that if the pension fund doesn’t meet a performance threshold, (i.e., the market swoons) you must make up the difference. This probably means that your own holdings have taken a hit, but the educators will be made whole. You will

not. And they are made whole at your expense.

Likewise, with health insurance, if your premiums rise by 10 percent, so too, do that of the educators’. In both cases, you wind up paying double, for nothing.

Ask yourself what kind of chutzpah it takes, after all this, to claim that “funding for staff and faculty had much to be desired.” What else do they want?

Their mortgages paid off?

Take this opportunity to blow apart the fantasy culture these people have created for themselves. This can be the point where the parents finally wise up to what these narcissistic princelings have pulled off. Don’t waste the opportunity. Get in their faces and start standing up for yourselves and your community. The grift ends now. That’s the legacy you want.

Donald Davret Roslyn

Good value for higher prescription drug prices

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NBC — not my favorite station — was recently quoted that “attacking drug companies is one of the remaining bipartisan activities in Washington.”

Stephen Moore writing under the title of “Money Matters” talks of turning on the TV and listening to the politicians vilify drug companies as public enemies. Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren refers to pharmaceutical firms as “corrupt cartels” that ”rig the rules, insulate themselves from accountability, and line their pockets at the expense of American families.“ The administration recently issued new regulations requiring manufacturers to list the price of their drugs in television ads. I think this is a waste of time since nobody really knows what drugs cost at the retail level.

Congress has already passed the “Know the Lowest Price Act” and the “Patient’s Right to Know Drug Prices Act,” both of which try to promote transparency in prices.

The Senate’s bipartisan Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act would reduce the government’s spending on drugs by an estimated $100 billion over the next decade.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has likened drug company CEOs to murderers and says when they raise prices too much, we should “put them in jail.” On the Repub-

lican side of the aisle, President Donald Trump says the drug companies “get away with murder” and that he wants to force down drug prices, however possible.”

The Wall Street Journal had an article on their opinion page “Where You Want to Get Cancer.”

They are quoted as saying “mortality rates are falling, especially if you live in the US.” Mortality rates, as defined by Wikipedia, is a measure of deaths in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

The cancer death rate in the United States fell 2.2 percent from 2016 to 2017 — the largest single decline in cancer mortality ever reported, the American Cancer Society reported, Cancer remains the second leading cause of death after heart disease in both men and women nationally.

What percentage of people survive cancer? The five-year relative survival rate for all cancers combined has increased substantially since the early 1960s, from 39 percent to 70 percent among whites and from 27 percent to 63 percent among blacks. Improvement in survival reflects advances in treatment as well as an earlier diagnosis for some cancers. Survival varies greatly by cancer type, as well as earlier diagnosis, as well as the stage at diagnosis.

Relative survival is the propor-

tion of people who are alive for a designated period of time, usually five years, after a cancer diagnosis divided by the proportion of people of similar age, race, etc. expected to be alive in the absence of cancer based on normal life expectancy.

Five-year survival rates do not reflect the most recent advances in detection and treatment because they are based on patients who were diagnosed at least several years in the past.

A think tank known as the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation produced a study in September of 2019. The study was called “The Link Between Drug Prices and Research on the Next Generation of Cures.” It was written by Joe Kennedy.

It begins “Academic studies consistently show that a reduction in current drug revenues leads to a fall in future research and the number of new drug discoveries.

Policymakers need to keep these costs in mind when setting any policies that affect drug revenues.”

The biopharmaceutical industry is one of America’s leading sectors in terms of funding research and employing researchers. Public policy should try to encourage its growth and protect its competitiveness.

Congress could lower drug prices by expanding access to affordable insurance, streamlining

regulation for the manufacture of approved drugs, encouraging other counties to pay their fair share of the cost of developing new drugs.

Kennedy writes that “policymakers must choose between the respective demands of current and future patients. Government price controls and other measures to reduce drug prices, such as weakened intellectual property protection will undoubtedly help current patients. But this will come at a cost. Money not invested today can be invested for tomorrow. An overwhelming body of academic research shows that price controls will significantly restrict the number of new drugs in the future.”

Kennedy’s report shows that artificially reducing drug revenues today will not only cause companies to cut back on their future research – meaning the next generation will benefit less from new drug discoveries – it will jeopardize U.S. leadership in an industry that “punches above its weight in funding research and employing scientists.”

Drug companies must make significant profits on their best selling drugs in one generation in order to reinvest in the next generation. A large portion of these “profits” goes to three sources before they are available for distribution to shareholders.

First, the revenues must cover

the costs of the high number of failed research efforts, most of which generate no revenue. Second, they must pay for the long delays between initial research and product sales. These capital expenditures account for roughly half of the total costs of developing new drugs. Finally, a large portion of the remaining revenue goes into new research on the next generation of drugs.

Market investors quickly notice whenever companies do not have a group of promising drugs in their pipelines and the money that could be spent here is spent elsewhere.

The ITIF report shows numerous studies have shown a firm link between prices and profits on the one hand and higher levels of research and drug innovation on the other.

This well-established link will be broken if prices are lowered by political demands by people, many of whom have not done their homework and do not know all of the ramifications of their actions.

Lowering prices now will result in less future research and fewer new drugs. This decline in future drugs will, in turn, reduce patient welfare over the longer term.

Bertram Drachtman Great Neck

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READERS WRITE

The Nazis, freedom of COVID-19 is now expression, and real facts a pandemic

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he coronavirus is now a pandemic and is now affecting the whole world with sickness and death.

In New York, emergency measures are being undertaken by Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio.

All of our favorite sports are being suspended or cancel.

Wall Street is going down and losing ground. Our economy is reaching dangerous territory and the lights are going out on Broadway.

We are living in a world with much technology where we believe nothing is impossible. And yet our world is being

disrupted by a disease that we cannot see but yet can bring us down to our knees.

This disease does not care if we are rich, poor or famous as Tom Hanks has proven by coming down with the disease.

So who is king of our world now? The nations of the world must come together to fight this enemy. And if all else fails, let’s pray to our God and creator for his unfailing loving care for help. Are we not his children who are hurting?

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola

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n Phoenix earlier this month, an Arizona man described as a white supremacist, proudly draped a red Nazi swastika flag at a Bernie Sanders rally. Freedom of expression!

Isn’t that the American way? In 2017, condemning the Charlottesville violence where an innocent victim was killed, Trump blamed many sides but stated that there were very fine people on both sides and that included Nazis. This white supremacist believed in what he was doing and apparently felt that Nazism goes hand in hand with his beliefs. Many others feel the same way.

Let’s not put them down these white supremacists and Nazis for their beliefs. Apparently they are smart people. The

problem is they should do a bit more research. If they did, they would learn that during World War II, we and many of our allies fought against Nazi Germany. Estimates for total casualties of the war range from 60 million to 70 million. An estimated 18 million military personnel were killed on the battlefields of Europe with losses amounting to approximately 11 million for our allied fighters and seven million for the Axis powers. Add 45 million civilian deaths and they should get the total picture.

In the early 1940s, the United States population totaled 140 million and 16 million Americans served in the military and fought in the war. That’s was over 11 percent of the American population. American

troops who died fighting Nazism exceeded 415,000 and our wounded exceeded 670,000.

Back then, any American who supported the Nazis would have been considered a traitor and jailed for treason.

Shouldn’t all Americans know this? But they don’t. Perhaps we are not so smart.I’m sure many of these white supremacists had fathers, grandfathers or other relatives who fought in this war and if they saw their kin raising a Nazi flag, they would turn over in their graves. Facts! These are real.

They could and should look it up.

put over 600 political opponents and journalists in jail, and backed the Soviet Union in the Cold War, Castro was booed and threatened when he came back to Manhattan.

Amnesty International declared Castro the worst dictator in the world depriving his people of all human rights in the early ’60s.

Mr. Sobel states, “Castro’s efforts are considered one of the most significant social experiments of the 20th century.” This

is another ridiculous statement.

Adolph Hitler’s efforts are also considered “one of the most significant social experiments of the 20th century” but both dictators’ efforts were horrible and deprived people of all human rights. Bernie Sanders and Mr. Sobel are irrationally wrong in their praise of Castro.

help refugee resettlement agencies more fully serve the refugees already in their communities. Since most of our resettled refugees are living upstate, this would definitely help their long term population loss and help to reinvigorate their economies.

The second part requests $25 million in Adult Literacy Education. These invaluable services were cut last year. Restoring the funding will give people the ability to better support their families and communities.

The third part is to invest $25 million in immigration services to provide legal support, especially for those facing

deportation. Having a lawyer makes a huge difference. Seventy-eight percent of immigrants with lawyers win their cases, versus 15 percent who don’t have legal help.

The Promise Package would instill a renewed sense of confidence in these communities and offer some hope to our New York neighbors looking for a fair chance.

Alvin H. Goldberg Great Neck

Correct decision to delay elections Bernie wrong about Castro

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e believe that the health and safety of all of our citizens are of the utmost importance. As far as the election being postponed for about six weeks is concerned, we feel that it’s a small inconvenience which translates into people being better safe than sorry.

We plan to do whatever we can to keep Plaza residents

informed as to the latest data regarding the virus as well as forwarding to them lists of available resources that will help all of us in this stressful time.

Our hopes and prayers go out to all and may we continue to be there for each other in this time of concern.

Leonard Katz Revive Great Neck Plaza

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ernie Sanders, and Hal Sobel in his letter of 3/13/20, are very wrong in their praise of Fidel

Castro.

Mr. Sobel states, “ I can remember when Castro came to New York and was welcomed as a hero.” I also remember both times Castro came to NYC. The first time he came to NYC, the end of April 1959, Castro was cheered by many people.

But, a year later, after he nationalized all American businesses,

Marshall Hubsher Port Washington

‘The Messier 37 Star Cluster’ Investing in immigrants

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essier 37 Star Cluster Look at this sky full of stars.

They appear everywhere, though not randomly or too common.

Which of them shine for me and me alone?

A light so far away that comes the distance with deep wonder, not indifference— a necessary brilliance, and a long delineation.

A beautiful cluster of starlight is bright and black, falling down form the open sky.

Night is a window.

Stephen Cipot Garden City Park

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he Promise Package In the current political climate, where immigrant communities are under attack from the federal government, New York State must do everything in its power to support immigrant and refugee communities and help them thrive.

An important step forward would be to invest in these communities with the New York Immigration Coalition’s proposed Promise Package.

The Promise Package is a state budget request that has 3 components. The first part seeks to invest five million dollars to

Jeanette Walowitz Great Neck Bend The Arc Jewish Action Volunteer Leader, LI Chapter

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What coronavirus means for commuters

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here is good news from Washington concerning funding for public transportation as it relates to the Coronavirus.

The Federal Transit Administration on Friday, March 13, announced that expanded eligibility of federal assistance is available under FTA’s Emergency Relief Program to help transit agencies respond to the virus in states where the governor, such as Cuomo, has declared an emergency.

This includes allowing all transit providers, including those such as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority which operates NYC Transit subway, bus and Staten Island Rail Road, MTA bus (routes previously operated by the old NYC private franchised bus operators including Queens Surface, Triboro Coach, Jamaica Bus, Green Bus in Queens County; Command Bus in Brooklyn along with Liberty Lines’ Bronx Express and New York Bus in the Bronx transferred to the MTA in 2005) and Metro-North Rail

Road, along with Nassau InterCounty Express bus to use federal formula funds for emergencyrelated capital and operating expenses.

It also raises the federal share of those expenses.In 2020, the MTA will receive $1.4 billion in FTA funding. Nassau County, on behalf of Nassau Inter-County Express bus, will receive $16 million.

Expansion of the permissible uses of federal funds will allow transit providers such as the MTA and NICE bus greater flexibility that they need to deal with the virus.

Invoking the eligibility of the Emergency Relief Program also provides funds at a higher federal share within approved grants.

They are usually made up of 80 percent federal, 10 percent state, and 10 percent local contributions.

The MTA is counting on Gov. Cuomo, on behalf of the state, and Mayor de Blasio on behalf of NYC, to each, contribute $3.5 bil-

lion toward the MTA’s $51 billion 2020 — 2024 Five Year Capital Plan. Both Albany and City Hall need to follow the federal policy and allow the MTA similar flexibility in the expenditure of their respective financial contributions.

In these challenging times, the MTA must reevaluate which capital projects can be postponed until the next five year 2025 — 2029 Five Year Capital Plan.

Delaying the $6.9 billion Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 project should be considered.

This would free up between three-to-four billion dollars in local MTA funding for more pressing needs today.

This should be far more than enough to assist in covering unplanned expenditures related to the virus. MTA employee overtime, which can average a billion or more annually, will grow in dealing with far more extensive cleaning to cope with the virus.

Enhanced daily cleaning could go on for months.Better to spend these funds benefiting the

over six million daily riders rather than the far smaller number who would use Second Avenue Subway Phase 2.

FTA actions now allow transit providers to use their federal formula funds for operating expenses in addition to capital expenses and permits operating expenses to be covered at an 80 percent federal share rather than 50 percent. Transit operators can also request temporary relief from many Federal requirements.

Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio need to do the same for state and local requirements impacting the expenditure of their respectiveMTA Capital Program contributions.

In these difficult economic times due to the virus, it is important to patronize your local neighborhood restaurants and businesses.If you are working from home, why not take a short walk or drive for lunch or dinner and eat out?Do the same for shopping at your local small independent stores.

Now is the time to help our local restaurants and businesses to survive.If you can afford it, tip 20 percent or more against the total bill, including taxes. If it is an odd amount, consider rounding up to the next dollar. The extra dollar tip will add up for waiters, waitresses, and busboys. If ordering take-out, consider leaving a dollar or two for the waiter or cook. It will be appreciated.

Remember these people are our neighbors. Our local entrepreneurs create employment opportunities.They work long hours, pay taxes and provide jobs to our fellow citizens. They also serve as eyes and ears for the community, helping to prevent crime. If we don’t patronize our local restaurants and small businesses to shop and dine, they don’t eat either.

As a nation, we will eventually triumph over the Coronavirus even if it takes several months or more.

Larry Penner Great Neck

Importance of Census data important to us coyote education

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s many of you know my name is Frank Vincenti and I have the local coyote education group called the Wild Dog Foundation, which has been monitoring several individuals present in the area. The same ones, as well, that you generously covered. Because of my efforts to educate the local communities, I was called in to identify the animal initially

by East Hills and its indeed one I know. I could certainly be an

asset to your paper and its readers in filling in the blanks and to reassure no danger and advise on how to coexist with these animals that are present and how they are behaving, interacting and what they are eating.

Thank you again very much for all your generosity in the past I hope to hear from you in the future.

Frank Vincenti Wild Dog Foundation director

Donald Trump, a street-fighter?

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o call Donald Trump a brash street fighter from Queens is delusional.

Yes, he is from Queens. Born with the famous silver spoon in his mouth. I grew up in Queens too. Not too far from him. Around the same time. We’d call him a punk in my neighborhood.

He has never fought a fair

fight in his life. Daddy bailed him out so many times However, he is a bully, a much-overused term. But that’s been his M.O. “You don’t like it tough sue me.” The results, putting the little guy out of business or work.

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Continued from Page 17 shared with immigration enforcement agencies or law enforcement.

Government agencies, other than the U.S. Census Bureau, will only have access to publicly available census data.

Another myth is that you do not need to respond to the Census. Every household that hasn’t responded will receive several reminders. If households still have not responded, Census workers will follow up in person. And even after that, if you haven’t responded, then they will consult

neighbors or mail carriers to obtain basic information concerning inhabitants.

If all else fails, the Census will consult state and federal records to estimate uncounted persons. Studies have shown that when households participate voluntarily and in a timely manner, census data is more accurate and census operating costs are significantly reduced.

In 2010, the pre-paid postage for mailing back the census form only cost the government 42 cents, while a visit by a census enumerator cost $57.

So if you receive a questionnaire in the mail, have a US Census worker show up at your door or if you have access to the internet, be sure to fill out every question and show that North Hempstead and New York State have a large and diverse population. We all deserve proper representation and funding for our community.

Just remember, Facebook requires much more personal information than does the Census but the Census has much more impact on our communities.

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House OKs bill to aid families in light of virus

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THE NASSAU COUNTY CORONAVIRUS HOTLINE NUMBER IS: 516-227-9570 LOCAL BUSINESSES

All restaurants and bars will only offer carry out and delivery options under state rules.

Gyms, casinos and movie theaters will be closed until further notice.

Essential businesses like pharmacies, gas stations, grocery stores and medical facilities will stay open.

K-12 SCHOOLS

Closed until further notice Great Neck Public Schools Closed Monday, March 16, through Friday, March 27 Roslyn Public Schools Floral Park-Bellerose Union Free School District Manhasset Public Schools Port Washington Union Free School District Westbury school district North Shore school district Herricks Public Schools East Williston school district Mineola Public Schools The Waldorf School of Garden City St. Aidan’s School, Williston Park Buckley Country Day School, North Hills Our Lady of Victory School, Floral Park Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead St. Mary’s School, Manhasset Chaminade High School, Mineola Kellenberg Memorial High School, Uniondale

MUSEUMS & OUTDOOR FACILITIES

Closed until Tuesday, March 31: African American Museum and Center for Applied Arts Cedarmere Chelsea Mansion Cradle of Aviation Museum Elderfields Garveys Point Museum and Preserve Holocaust Memorial and Educational Center Long Island Children’s Museum Malcolm House Nassau County Firefighters Museum and Education Center Nassau County Museum of Art Old Bethpage Village Restoration Roslyn Grist Mill Saddle Rock Grist Mill Science Museum of Long Island Tackapausha Museum Wantagh Railroad Museum Hofstra University Museum of Art Sands Point Preserve – Hempstead House, Falaise, Castle Gould Bailey Arboretum Leeds Pond Science Museum Museum of American Armor Nassau Hall Mill Neck Preserve Nassau County Aquatic Center Twin Rinks Ice Skate Facility Cantiague Ice Rink Center for Science Teaching and Learning Mitchel Field Athletic Complex, including Nassau County Rifle and Pistol Range (open to law enforcement)

A bipartisan bill to aid families throughout the nation during the coronavirus outbreak was passed by the House of Representatives.

Just before 1 a.m. on Saturday, the House passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. The bill is sponsored by House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY).

The bill passed the House 36340 and now goes to the Senate after the House passed a separate bill making technical corrections on Monday night.

According to the House Appropriations Committee’s summary of the bill: $500 million will be allocated to provide access to nutritious foods to low-income pregnant women or mothers with young children who lose their jobs or are laid off due to the coronavirus. $400 million will be allocated to assist local food banks to meet the heightened demand from lowincome Americans during the emergency. $1 billion will be allocated for the National Disaster Medical System to reimburse costs for coronavirus testing and services provided to individuals without health insurance. $60 million will be allocated for

the Department of Veterans Affairs to cover costs of coronavirus testing for veterans receiving health aid through medical services or medical community care.

Funding will be provided for free coronavirus testing, 14-day paid sick leave and three months of paid family and medical leave for American workers affected by the pandemic and increased funding for food stamps.

The bill’s passing came after two days of “volatile negotiations” between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, according to The Washington Post.

The Post said Pelosi and Mnuchin spoke on the phone 13 times throughout the course of Friday, which ultimately resulted in a deal despite criticism of the House Democrats from President Donald Trump during an afternoon news conference.

Trump ultimately took to Twitter and expressed support for the bipartisan bill.

“I encourage all Republicans and Democrats to come together and VOTE YES! I will always put the health and well-being of Ameri-

Mitchel Gym (not part of the Park) Old Mill – NEC Horse Farm Eisenhower Park – Safety Town Christopher Morley Tennis The Nassau County executive has also closed the Nassau County Traffic and Parking Violations Agency and suspended enforcement of the boot and tow program, as well as eviction enforcement proceedings by the Nassau County Sheriff ’s Office.

MUNICIPALITIES & LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

The following villages will have their elections moved to Tuesday, April 28: Flower Hill, Plandome, Plandome Heights, Plandome Manor, Munsey Park, Floral Park, Port Washington North, Baxter Estates, Great Neck Plaza, Great Neck Estates, Thomaston, Kensington, Saddle Rock, Russell Gardens, Roslyn, Roslyn Estates, East Hills, East Williston and Mineola.

Nonessential local and state government employees are being directed by the governor to work from home.

All Town of North Hempstead facilities are closed until Monday, March 30. Essential services such as 311, the town clerk’s office and sanitation will continue to operate.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre announced Friday that congregants would not be required to attend Sunday mass for the next three weekends. Churches will remain open and schedules unchanged, spokesperson Sean Dolan said.

can families FIRST,” Trump wrote.

“Look forward to signing the final Bill, ASAP!” In a news release, U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) echoed the universal message of precautionary health and social distancing in the country to prevent the further spread of the virus.

“Heed the advice of public health experts who agree that the most effective way to ‘flatten the curve’ of the spread of Coronavirus is by practicing ‘social distancing’ to keep our communities healthy,” Suozzi wrote.

Though he supported the bill, Suozzi said in a release on Monday that said “much more needs to be done.”

“The fact remains that there are simply not enough tests available and this lack of testing is naturally causing concern,” Suozzi wrote. “ I am continuing to work closely with our elected officials along with the private sector to ensure that our health professionals have access to the tools that they need to address this growing crisis.”

According to published reports, all of the 40 “no” votes came from Republican members of Congress.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) canceled a previously planned recess so senators could act on the issue.

All senior programs across the county have been canceled until March 31, according to the commissioner for the county Office for the Aging.

This includes outside organizations such as the Sid Jacobson JCC in East Hills and others.

The Gold Coast Arts Center in Great Neck has closed its doors “until the end of March,” according to a news release.

Manhasset Secondary School has postponed its production of George F. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s “Once in a Lifetime,” originally to be performed on March 20 and 21, to an unspecified date in June.

Residents Forward of Port Washington postponed its April 4 “Clean Green Main Street” event.

The Greater New Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce has canceled its March meeting. Its April 16 meeting is still on.

The Mineola Chamber of Commerce canceled its March dinner meeting, originally scheduled for March 17.

The Village of East Hills closed its park and will be discontinuing all scheduled events, programs and nonessential meetings at the Village Hall until further notice.

The Village of Roslyn canceled its Board of Trustees meeting originally scheduled for Wednesday, March 18.

The Town of North Hempstead canceled its Town Board meetings originally set for March 19 and April 2. Public hearings for both meetings will be rescheduled.

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States partner in coronavirus fight Cuomo, governors of N.J., Conn. issue joint directives, call for federal help

BY K A R E N RU B I N New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced a regional approach on Monday to combating the coronavirus, closing restaurants, bars, gyms, movie theaters and gatherings over 50 people, as well as public schools.

But the governors all called upon the federal government – the Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA – to assist with building emergency hospitals and providing medical equipment and protective gear for health workers.

In what may be the first regional coalition in the country to slow the spread of the infection, these uniform standards will limit crowd capacity for social and recreational gatherings to 50 people, effective 8 p.m.

Monday.

This follows updated guidance that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued Sunday recommending the

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced steps to combat the coronavirus with the governors of New Jersey and Connecticut.

cancellation or postponement of in-person events consisting of 50 people or more.

The three governors also announced restaurants and bars will close for on-premise service and move to take-out and delivery services only. These establishments will be provided a waiver for carry-out alcohol.

These measures took effect at 8 p.m. Monday.

Finally, the three governors said they will temporarily close movie theaters, gyms and casinos.

This uniform approach to social distancing is meant to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

“Our primary goal right now is to slow the spread of this virus so that the wave of new infections doesn’t crash our health care system, and everyone agrees social distancing is the best way to do that,” Cuomo said. “This is not a war that

can be won alone, which is why New York is partnering with our neighboring states to implement a uniform standard that not only keeps our people safe but also prevents ‘state shopping’ where residents of one state travel to another and vice versa. I have called on the federal government to implement nationwide protocols but in their absence we are taking this on ourselves.”

Lamont said, “The only way to effectively fight the spread of COVID-19 is by working together as states. We have shared interests, and a patchwork of closures and restrictions is not the best way forward. I know that because of this collaboration, we will save lives.”

But the governors called upon the federal government to quickly assist to address an anticipated critical shortage of hospital capacity, medical equipment and protective gear for health workers.

“The best way to [add hospital capacity] is the Army Corp of Engineers – they build Continued on Page 53

Drive-thru testing opens in Nassau

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRISTINA LEVIN

ProHealth Urgent Care in Little Neck is one of two local urgent care centers offering coronavirus testing.

Continued from Page 1 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, by appointment only,

and are limited to ProHealth primary care patients.

County residents with

symptoms including a fever, cough and aches are advised to call the county coronavirus

hotline at 516-227-9570.

SCHOOLS, BUSINESSES & TRANSIT On Sunday, Curran announced that beginning Monday, public and private kindergarten through 12th grade schools in the county would be closed until Friday, March 27, to slow the spread of the virus.

Curran said she spoke to Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier in the day to develop a plan for health care workers with school-age children.

According to Curran, the school districts and county officials plan to implement a “graband-go system” for students throughout the county that are dependent on school meals.

On Monday, Cuomo announced a ban on gatherings of more than 50 people, and said that restaurants and bars will only be allowed to serve food via take-out or delivery, and that nonessential businesses like gyms, movie theaters and

casinos would be shut.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye issued a letter Tuesday to New York State’s congressional representatives, requesting over $4 billion in federal aid in the wake of the pandemic. The MTA, which is continuing operations, has seen ridership decline by approximately 60 percent on the subways, 49 percent on buses, 90 percent on Metro-North Railroad, and 67 percent on the Long Island Rail Road, he said.

“The stark reality is that as more people stay home following the advice of medical experts, the MTA is now facing financial calamity,” Foye wrote. “For these reasons, I am urgently requesting substantial federal aid at the level of MTA revenue losses ($3.7 billion assuming ridership trends this week continue for six months) and COVID-19 expenses (approximately $300 million annualized) as we continue to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.”

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Sales in the Williston Area Williston Park Real Estate Market Conditions MEDIAN SALES PRICE $675,000 Demographics near Williston Park, NY City 10,647 7,995 44.6 2.8 96,336 50,814

Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

County 1,352,825 4,752 42.5 2.9 85,195 45,421

87 Devon Road, Albertson Sold Price: $725,000 Date: 01/03/2020 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 50x100 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $11,176 MLS# 3142889

377 Emory Road, Mineola Sold Price: $630,500 Date: 12/24/2019 4 beds, 1 Full/1 Half baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 44x100 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $10,404 MLS# 3163327

545 Watkins Drive, Mineola

19 Fish Avenue, Albertson

Sold Price: $535,000 Date: 12/20/2019 4 beds, 1 Full baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 50x100 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $9,674 MLS# 3163192

Sold Price: $585,000 Date: 11/25/2019 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Ranch # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 50x100 Schools: Herricks Total Taxes: $9,073 MLS# 3143432

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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Think twice about waiting to sell your home First off, the coronavirus has now wreaked havoc on our country physically with severe illness and death as well as our economy and our financial foundation being crippled with a multitude of businesses and “crowd gathering” venues that have been totally shut down by many governors as well as all the school closings locally and around the U.S. The devastating effects and deadly blows have been experienced by the majority of the countries around the globe; although they have been much more prepared then the U.S. We could have and should have been much more proactive as was expressed by Dr. Micael T. Osterholm, of the University of Minnesota who is a foremost specialist in infectious diseases and bioterrorism.

He has felt since 2000, when he wrote a book called, “Living Terror” and told the powers to be and again in 2017, when he wrote “Deadliest Enemy,” that our country had been grossly unprepared in our defense against deadly viruses.

He had warned congress in 2017 about our situation and told everyone that we needed greater stockpiling of necessary medical devices and supplies, but nothing was done or accomplished. You should watch and read what he had to say in a recent CNBC interview here: https://www. cnbc.com/2020/03/17/coronavirusus-must-confront-how-were-going-tolive-with-it-expert-says.html Why are we always “Monday morning quarterbacks”? Just like we put off the rebuilding of our roads, bridges, tunnels and our “mothballed” high-speed rail around the U.S. We wait until we a bridge or two collapses, enough deaths and fatalities at intersections or roads then a traffic light or stop sign gets installed.

Are we so expendable that our government just looks at us as a basic commodity without any value or consideration as not only human beings or citizens? Are we working for them or are they supposed to be working for us?

It’s time for a drastic change in November!

Sorry about diverging, but I had to get this off my mind and vent a little bit!

Anyway, it’s obvious that our real estate market will be affected because of the Covid-19 virus and there is currently fear in going out to not only restaurants or any food location (except maybe grocery stores), but to hair and nail salons, estheticians for facials etc.

However, my feeling in waiting to sell your home and putting it on the back burner, thinking that when things cool down in 12-18 months, then you’ll consider selling.

These may not be everything that a during specific desigMy professional nated times agreed to homeowner or agent can do but it’s a opinion is that this by the seller and hav- basis to begin with if you are considerwould not be the most ing only one person or ing selling now, which I suggest and beneficial path to pura couple come in at a not wait until a recession hits and then sue. A recession will prices will surely slide and go down! time for each showing. almost assuredly occur e.) If the homeown- Selling now is your best bet. Here is in some form or another has compromised a link to read about the coronavirus er, whether it be short immune systems, re- (Noval Covid-19) from our National term or possibly for a spiratory issues or any Association of Realtors Website: longer period of time https://www.nar.realtor/coronaviother physical ailment in the very near future that would compro- rus-a-guide-for-realtors and I do not think that P.S. All local elections have been mise their health, then the Fed or any other PHILIP A. RAICES a strategy of 3D virtual canceled by Gov. Cuomo on 3/17/20 government agency tours would be created and rescheduled to April 28, so put will be able to stem Real Estate Watch to market the home this date on your calendar and don’t that tide. without anyone physi- forget to go out and vote or do an abWith all the busisentee ballot by calling your local munesses, schools and “crowd gathering cally coming into the home. f.) Have alcohol-based hand sani- nicipality for information. venues” being shut down for a number of weeks or for the season and foresee- tizers at the entrance to the home as Philip A. Raices is the owner/Broker able future, it is almost inevitable that well as soap and disposable paper towof Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave this “tsunami” of the reduction in our els in all bathrooms. g.) Discuss with the homeowner/ Suite 180 in Great Neck. He has earned GDP will be in the negative zone and seller if they would agree to temporar- designations as a Graduate of the Reno one really will know for how long.

Delaying and putting off selling ily relocate and live somewhere else altor Institute and a Certified Internayour home, townhome, condo or coop, while their home is being sold, espe- tional Property Specialist.

He can be reached by email: Phil@ thinking and hoping that things will cially if they are motivated to sell and get better, will not be financially ben- not wait to a much later date after a TurnKeyRealEstate.Com, or by cell: vaccination is created, which could be (516) 647-4289. eficial.

But the question is, by doing so, 12-18 months and then the coronaviwill prices stabilize or potentially be rus might subside. reduced? I emphatically say no and I do see prices going down, which have been softening slowly but surely to a more normal appreciation rate.

However, in a recessionary environment as housing inventory usually increases, because demand usually cools off, (right now it has slowed mainly due to the Covid-19 and much more than what would be considered normal) it becomes a supply/demand economic equation. Greater supply, lower demand equals lower prices.

Even though it might be an excellent time to refinance as well as for buyers to purchase due to an even lower interest rate today than a few weeks ago, selling now will be much more to your advantage than waiting.

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Not year for schools to raid the reserves Continued from Page 18 It means that the property tax pie that all of us are allocated our fair share to pay, is bigger, so that if the district does push up the property tax increase in property tax somewhere between 2.96 and 4.1, it may not even be felt, but will give the district a cushion for the future. That is because this year’s budget becomes the benchmark for next and for every succeeding year, like compounding interest on a savings account.

Most people would not feel the difference if the school district doesn’t raise taxes closer to the cap – or at all — most of us will still face higher taxes. That is because of the shift in tax burden from commercial property owners to residential homeowners, and the overall re-assessment.

Unlike many communities, our school district continues to expand its enrollment, which next year is projected at 6,686 (not including the private and parochial students for which the district pays for a variety of services including $4.9 million in transportation).

This number has been rising steadily (enrollment in 1990 was 5,311). Our schools, among the best in the nation, are a key reason for families to move here and keep our home values high.

Speaking as an empty nester who no longer has children in the school system, I appreciate the opportunities my sons have had that have been directly responsible for (knock wood) their success in career and in life.

Their opportunities – now unaffordable luxuries in so many school districts – to participate in sports, theater, music, art, Model UN, Model Congress, science research, robotics, business clubs, Mock Trial, AP classes, enable our children to tap and cultivate abilities that enhance learning, self-confidence and give them a taste of how they want to shape their future.

This is how our district fulfills its mission to help every child, regardless of ability and background, fulfill their full potential.

The school board has demonstrated over and over how it recognizes the difficult balancing act among sometimes competing stakeholders, never asking a penny more in taxes than it absolutely needs.

That would be true again this year, but this is not the year to raid reserves that cannot be replenished and will be needed for much more dire circumstances that lay ahead, in order to keep well below the tax cap.

Next year will be a horror when residents again marshal in with tales of woe, but the school district would have a lower benchmark upon which to draw, and lower reserves to address needs. Not to mention the unanticipated crises.

The line-by-line budget review scheduled for March 21 and the budget hearing on March 23 have been canceled. Hearings are scheduled April 21, May 11, before the Tuesday, May 19 budget vote. Information at www.greatneck.k12.ny.us.

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6 wellness tips for coronavirus lockdown Continued from Page 36 tion — competition for hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, food and toilet paper. This competitive mindset, while understandable during these times, also has the tendency to turn us inward. This inward focus reduces connection and psychological well being, exactly what we don’t need

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Hofstra makes NCAA, before cancellation Continued from Page 6 loved ones due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. The next day, officials cited the health and safety of players and coaches as the reason for canceling the tournament.

“I never thought it would get canceled,” Mihalich told The New York Post on Thursday. “The range of emotions, we’re just devastated. This is the first time in 19 years our university is going to the tournament and the euphoria quickly becomes heartbreak.”

A victory last Tuesday gave Hofstra its first conference championship since joining the Colonial Athletic Association in 2001-2. The team’s last tournament appearance came one year before, when it lost to UCLA 61-48 in the first round.

The Hofstra Pride’s 70-61 win over Northeastern on Tuesday came a year after losing to the same team in the same situation. Senior forward Elijah Pemberton said he and the rest of his teammates were waiting for this moment all season long.

“All before the game I was listening to ‘The Payback’ by James Brown,” Pemberton said. “We knew what we had to do, and we loved that we did it against [Northeastern]. Nobody on this team forgot about last year.”

Pemberton said he and the rest of the team wanted to win to bring a conference championship back to Long Island.

“Long Island deserves this, and it was only right that we were the ones that brought it back for them,” Pemberton said. “Thank you to all the fans who have been with us for the last four years.”

Pemberton and fellow senior Desure Buie led the charge throughout the season, which resulted in a 26-8 overall record.

Buie led the Pride in scoring, 18.2,

and assists, 5.9, per game. Pemberton was not far behind, scoring 17.6 points and hauling in 5.9 rebounds per game.

Mihalich, who has coached the Pride since 2013, touted the play of the two seniors once the team arrived back in Hempstead last Wednesday afternoon.

“Those are two hungry guys,” Mihalich said. “But what Desure did [Tuesday] night kicked his impact on Hofstra basketball up so much. In the last five minutes of the game, he just took over and put himself in an elite category at Hofstra.”

Buie finished with a game-high 20 points Tuesday night, nine of which came in the last five minutes of regulation. The Bronx native said those dwindling minutes seemed like an eternity to him.

“That was the longest few minutes of my entire life,” Buie chuckled. “I would look up, and what felt like five minutes was really 15 seconds.”

Buie, Pemberton and junior guard Jalen Ray were named to the Colonial Athletic Association All-Tournament Team. Buie was named as the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player.

“It just shows what type of player Desure is,” Mihalich said. “He, Elijah, Jalen, everyone knew what the heartbreak last year was like, and none of those guys were going to let that happen again.”

Though the Pride will have to wait until next year to try to repeat as conference champions and participate in March Madness, Mihalich shined some optimism on the situation during an interview with WFAN radio on Friday.

“We’re in the world of sports and athletics,” Mihalich said. “’I’ve heard somebody say we’re in the toy section of the department store of life. Let’s make sure everyone is healthy and the world can go on as we know it.”

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n two months, this coming May, you must vote “NO” on the proposed Port school budget for next year.

You can no longer worry that by voting “NO, “you may be hurting the children. You won’t be and that’s for sure. Rather, you will be helping the children and their parents.

We are at the very beginnings of a worldwide coronavirus pandemic and our Port school officials are pretending that it isn’t happening. They’re pretending that today, it’s just business as usual.

And since it’s simply business as usual, our school officials are asking you to approve of and to pay for, the largest budget increase in our school district’s history.

In 1918-19, a worldwide influenza epidemic took the lives of 40 to 50 million people. No one knows the exact number. No one knows today, how many lives will eventually be lost to the coronavirus, but you can be sure that worldwide, over two years, it will be millions.

And while the coronavirus is ravaging the world, there will be extreme social, economic and financial disruptions in our country and in others.

Will thousands of Port Washington residents and many Port businesses suffer significant losses of income while the coronavirus rages? Of course, they will, but are our school officials aware of that eventuality? Apparently not.

Our school officials have proposed a budget for next year that reflects an increase in spending of about $7.5 — $8 million. That’s 4.5 percent, or more, spending increase. What should they be proposing for the next school year?

They should be proposing, no increase in spending. We are facing catastrophic events and our school officials have chosen to ignore them. Our district’s assistant superintendent for business will jump out of her seat when I suggest no increase in spending because she will point out that the district has contracts that call for spending increases.

However, my response to that is that district must ask for and insist, that

those spending increases be deferred, until some future year when a budget can pay for them, with interest.

What are the major items that account for the proposed increase in spending of $7.5 — $8.0 million?

Here they are: Raises (non-merit based) to teachers, $3 million; Hiring new teachers and staff (these are additions to staff, not replacements of staff), $500,000; Repairing or replacing roof sections at the Salem ES and at the Schreiber HS, $2 million; and increases in School bus transportation costs, $1 million.

Obviously, the health and safety of the children who attend the Salem Elementary School and the Schreiber High School, and the health and safety of the teachers and other district staff who work in those schools, are of the highest priority to us.

Those roof sections must be repaired or replaced and the next budget must pay for that. And school bus costs must be paid for, whatever the bus contracts call for. However, none of our teachers will have to apply for food stamps, if their contractual raises are deferred and the proposed hiring of new staff, will just have to be postponed, to some future date.

Our current school budget amounts to almost $161 million. There is no reason why our school district couldn’t operate for another year, with a budget of that amount, without adversely affecting the children. 80 percent of the budget pays for generous salaries and for generous fringe benefits for our teachers, administrators and for other district staff.

I’m sure that our very experienced assistant superintendent for business and our school board, will be able to devise a new budget for next year that deprives the children of nothing while continuing to operate our school district as before.

Vote “NO,” this coming May. It’s your obligation to your family and our community, to do that.

Joel Katz Port Washington

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Tristate area unites in virus response Continued from Page 43 airports, bridges,” said Cuomo.

“They have the personnel, equipment and do it well. They have the medical equipment and experience setting up hospitals. The state doesn’t have existing workforce. We could contract out and expedite contracting, which is very expensive, but we still don’t have the medical equipment. It is very, very hard for a state to get this equipment. Everybody wants ventilators, oxygen tanks.

The federal government has a stockpile of emergency medical equipment. [But] if the federal government doesn’t step up and doesn’t step up quickly, states will be forced to do what they can on own, and New York will do exactly that” – use its own construction authority and Dormitory Authority to build.

“We need hospital beds and within a couple of weeks,” Lamont said. “We are woefully short, especially if a surge comes, even if we flatten the curve in the most optimistic way, we are badly outgunned. We saw what happened in China, where built new hospitals, added capacity in short order.”

The governors said they were not going to shut down public transportation, but to “right size the equipment to ridership,” Murphy said. “There are huge focuses on hygiene, cleanliness, making sure all the equipment is as clean and germ free as possible.”

Meanwhile, the governors

are looking to increase telecommunications capacity, to enable people to telecommute, to maintain education online and medical assistance, as well as stay in touch with family.

“We’re working with telecom service providers, upping capacity, taking away caps, to learn at home, telehealth at home, so people get out of cars and stay closer at home,” Lamont said. “Ridership on rail is way down.”

“New York also,” Cuomo added. “We want people to stay home, so we need capacity for telecommuting.”

The exceptions to the closings in the three states will be supermarkets, pharmacies, gas stations and other essential retailers.

New Jersey is strongly discouraging nonessential travel between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.

Other states may join New York, New Jersey and Connecticut in a wider regional coalition for coordinated action – including Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Asked about the downsides to closing public schools – including loss of food service for needy children and child care for workers, Cuomo said, “We will do it in a way that accentuates the upside and negates the downside. The downside is people lose child care, first responders may not be able to go to work, especially health care workers if there isn’t child care, so the crash will be on the health care system. So we said that schools can close

but must provide child care for essential workers, first responders, health care workers. Schools close but we will not stop the food for breakfast, lunch, dinner. Educational opportunities lost but we are planning to continue to teach through telecommuting or summer school if this has abated to that point by summer.”

Cuomo earlier issued a ruling to close schools in New York City, Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk, and instructed New York City to develop a plan within 24 hours to ensure children who rely on school breakfast and lunch programs will continue to receive that support, and parents — especially critical health care workers and first responders — will be provided access to child care as needed.

“Our goal is to slow the spread of the virus to a rate that the health care system can manage, and one of the ways to do that is to reduce density,” Cuomo said.

“Closing the schools is a good idea but you have to anticipate and correct any unintended consequences — we have to ensure children who rely on free school meals continue to get them and that there’s adequate child care, especially for health care workers and first responders who are parents of young children. We will close these schools but it needs to be done with these contingencies in mind so that children are not harmed and our hospitals aren’t understaffed — otherwise we cut off our nose to spite our face.”

The governor also called on 1199 SEIU President George Gresham, New York State Nurses Association President Judy Sheridan Gonzalez, Greater New York Hospitals Association President Ken Raske and United Federation of Teachers President Mike Mulgrew to work together to ensure that children who rely on school breakfast and lunch programs will continue to receive that support, and parents will be provided access to child care as needed, including temporary day care centers. These centers would prioritize care for children of health care workers and first responders to ensure these school closures do not strain the hospital and emergency response systems.

Cuomo tasked SUNY Empire State College President Jim Malatras with working with counties to develop contingency plans in preparation for school closings, including how to provide meals to food insecure children and ensuring families have adequate access to childcare.

County executives from Westchester, Suffolk and Nassau joined a conference call with Cuomo to discuss the school closures.: Nassau County Executive Laura Curran thanked Cuomo for fully supporting her decision to close all public and private schools and for his commitment to ensure every child in Nassau County is fully taken care of while the crisis unfolds.

Village elections postponed to April Continued from Page 1 In Port Washington, the elections in the villages of Port Washington North, Baxter Estates and Flower Hill are postponed.

The elections in the villages of Roslyn, Roslyn Estates, Flower Hill and East Hills are postponed.

In the Williston Park area, the village elections for East Williston and Mineola are postponed.

Village of Flower Hill Deputy Mayor Brian Herrington, who is running for mayor on the Flower Hill Party slate, said his party will suspend campaign operations “for the foreseeable future.”

“We have talked to hundreds of voters throughout the Village and, while they were supportive, it was clear that as the situation evolved last week people were concerned,” Herrington said in a news release Tuesday morning.

“We thank everyone for their support and look forward to assisting our community get through this public health crisis.”

The race, which pits Herrington against village Trustee Kate Hirsch, is one of two contested mayoral election races on the North Shore.

In Great Neck Plaza, Deputy Mayor Ted Rosen is opposing Leonard Katz to fill the spot Mayor Jean Celender has held for nearly two decades.

Katz, who is running on the Revive Great Neck Plaza Party line, said even though the delayed election is a minor setback, it is important to prioritize residential health.

“We believe that the health and safety of all of our citizens are of the utmost importance,” Katz said in an email on behalf of his party. “We plan to do whatever

we can to keep Plaza residents informed as to the latest data regarding the virus as well as forwarding to them lists of available resources that will help all of us in this stressful time.”

Rosen, who is running on the United Residents Party line, echoed the advice given nationwide by federal and state government officials.

“First and foremost, the responsibility of government is to protect the health, safety and well-being of the people,” Rosen said in an email on behalf of his party. “Postponing the election serves this purpose by reducing the necessity for people to go to the polling place to vote or to work and thereby encourages people to do what medical professionals are urging us to do at this time – practice social distancing.”

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday night all village elections throughout New York will be postponed until April 28.

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Eric’s Bistro offers free Nassau listings meals in face of pandemic decline, prices rise

BY E M M A J ON ES Eric’s Italian Bistro, located at 70 E. North Country Road in Mineola, announced on Tuesday that it is offering free pasta dinners to families facing hardships as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The restaurant said in an email announcement that it would provide meals free of charge regardless of family size. The goal is to aid community members who are sick, have lost a job or are struggling as a result of the virus.

“I went downstairs and saw this tremendous amount of food, and we have the means to [provide free meals], so I thought why not help out,” said chef George Echeverria, owner of Eric’s Italian Bistro.

Eric’s Bistro asks that those requesting pasta dinners contact the restaurant one to two hours before they plan to pick up the food. The restaurant

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can provide hot or cold dishes, Echeverria said, depending on whether the individual or family plans to eat the meal immediately or reheat it later.

The pasta dishes that are offered will vary. Echeverria acknowledged that some families will need free dinners on consecutive days, and therefore Eric’s will provide a few different options.

“If you’re going to do something, you might as well do it right,” he said.

Although Eric’s does not have the means to offer delivery to everyone requesting free meals, Echeverria said that the restaurant will strive to deliver pasta to those who cannot get to Eric’s. Currently, for instance, it is delivering meals daily to an elderly woman who cannot leave her home to pick up food.

As of Monday at 8 p.m., restaurants in New York are only permitted to offer takeout and delivery. The restrictions will remain in place as long as officials deem necessary to protect public health.

Eric’s will continue to be open seven days a week for takeout and delivery.

Echeverria acknowledged that restaurants will suffer due to the coronavirus outbreak. However, he said he hopes his peers in the industry follow suit and aid their communities in this time of need.

“I am a father of five [and] I come from nothing,” said Echeverria. “I have to worry about my family of course, but my community is my family too.”

For more information about free pasta meals, contact Eric’s Italian Bistro at 516-280–5675.

BY E M M A J ON ES The median sales price for homes in Nassau County rose 5 percent in February from the same month last year, jumping from $505,000 to $530,000, according to a report by the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island.

The organization reported that the median home sales price for Nassau, Suffolk and Queens was $480,000. This represents a 6.7 percent increase from last Feb-

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Housing prices in Nassau County have increased over the past year.

ruary.

The number of home listings for Long Island and Queens declined 1.7 percent since February 2019, and now stands at 15,330.

The median price for sold properties in Nassau County was $275,500 for co-ops, $635,000 for condominiums and $540,000 for single- or multifamily residences.

This reflects a slight increase in co-op and residential home median prices, which were $238,500 and $529,500 in February 2019, respectively.

The median condominium price last February was $520,000.

Pending sales prices were marginally higher than last year’s.

The median co-op price in February was $257,500, up $4,000 from last February. Condominium prices rose from $580,000 to $590,000.

The median pending sales price for single- or multifamily residential homes was $555,000, compared with $520,000 in February 2019.

Detailed monthly market reports on each county can be found at MLSLI.com.

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Drive-thru testing opens in Nassau Continued from Page 43 TOWN, COUNTY & STATE Curran announced March 13 that the county was declaring a state of emergency.

The declaration, which went into effect at 5 p.m. that day, shuts down county-owned properties and buildings such as Eisenhower Park, the Cradle of Aviation Museum and the Nassau Coliseum, along with many others.

The state of emergency will also allow the town to implement public safety measures, purchase essential items and services quickly, suspend parking regulations and respond to emergency needs.

Curran also announced Tuesday that a 96-year-old man diagnosed with the virus had died at Mercy Medical Center on Monday night, marking the county’s first coronavirus-related death.

On Wednesday, Curran announced a strategy that includes tracking and calculating lost revenues across every industry so that county business losses can be recouped.

The strategy includes a partnership with Hofstra University to maintain an accurate running tally of lost revenues and expenses and the multiplier effect of these economic losses. A data collection system for all segments of the county’s businesses, including industries such as hotels, restaurants, bars and entertainment, among others, will be put in place.

“I sympathize with the thousands of Nassau County businesses and employees and the nearly 1.4 million residents of Nassau County who are adversely impacted economically and I vow to advocate on their behalf,” Curran said.“Our goal is to advocate for the relief that our families and local economy will need.

I thank Hofstra University and all of the members of the Economic Advisory Council for their hard work and commit-

ment to this long-term endeavor.”

Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth also declared a townwide state of emergency on March 13.

The supervisor and Town Board sent a letter to Cuomo requesting an extension for payment of the second half of the 2019-20 school taxes in light of the pandemic. Currently, the final day to pay is May 11.

“We are asking the Governor to extend the deadline to June 1, 2020, which is the latest date allowable for paying taxes without interest or penalty,” Bosworth said. “In light of the effects caused by the coronavirus pandemic on our region, we believe it would put our residents at ease knowing that they have this extra time.”

Monday night also saw Cuomo postpone village elections throughout New York until the presidential primary on April 28. Nineteen villages on the North Shore will see their elections rescheduled.

Cuomo has also directed Michael Dowling, the president and CEO of New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health, and Ken Raske, the president of the Greater New York Hospital Association, to discuss ways to increase capacity.

In a op-ed article by Cuomo published Sunday in The New York Times and directed at President Trump, the governor spoke of the “all but certain” “imminent failure of hospital systems” that would occur without “immediate action.”

“According to one projection, as many as 214 million people in our country could be infected over the course of the epidemic,” Cuomo wrote. “Of those, as many as 21 million people could require hospitalization.This would crush the nation’s medical system. New York State has just 53,470 hospital beds, only 3,186 of which are intensive-care beds.

Our country as a whole has fewer than

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one million staffed hospital beds, fewer proportionately than China, South Korea or Italy. Ask your experts, how many intensive-care beds do we need for our vulnerable populations, and how many do we have now?”

NATIONAL In Washington, D.C., representatives from New York are urging their colleagues in Congress to take steps to avoid economic pitfalls and labor issues that may result from the virus.

The Internal Revenue Service announced plans to waive interest fees and penalties up to 90 days after Tax Day on April 15 for individuals paying less than $1 million and corporations paying less than $10 million. Tax returns will still have to be filed by that date, but payment is deferred.

U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) was one of a number of Democrats who signed a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig asking to extend the deadline.

“In light of the rapidly changing circumstances, our taxpayers do not have the time to wait for much-needed tax relief,” Suozzi said in a statement. “Not only does our government need to ensure the health of the American people, but we also need to ensure their financial security by giving people the extra resources they need during this difficult time.”

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) introduced a three-pronged plan Tuesday to combat the virus’ economic effects, including providing emergency funding to programs designed to support a pandemic response, supporting the “social safety net designed to help the working class,” and making “essential policy changes to further ensure hard-working Americans don’t fall through the cracks into financial ruin due to no fault of their own.”

“If your house is on fire, the first thing you worry about is not smoke damage to the roof — you try to put out the fire,” Schumer said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “That’s what our proposal does.

It means, first and foremost, we work to address the coronavirus itself, and the people most impacted. In the midst of a sprawling health and economic catastrophe, industry bailouts should not be at the top of our priority list.”

Early Saturday morning, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, sponsored by House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), passed in the House of Representatives.

The bill, which went to the Senate for action, provides close to $2 billion in economic relief to assist food banks, the National Disaster Medical System and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and will fund free virus testing, among other things.

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