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Student spending disparity EWSD among the highest on N. Shore

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Nassau County school districts that allocate the most funds per student outspend districts that provide the least amount by more than $20,000, according to a study of state statistics by Blank Slate Media.

The study analyzed the enrollment figures, demographics and budget expenditures for the 56 public school districts in Nassau County. The study did not take into account property tax values, special education programs, adult education programs, English as new or secondary language programs, or other external factors aside from the overall budget and how many students were enrolled in the district.

The average annual spending per pupil based on approved budgets and enrollment figures from New York’s Department of Education website was $32,424 throughout Continued on Page 34

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Fred Brewington, of the LIAPA, stood on the steps of the county Legislature to ask for police accountabililty.

Police accountability board sought Would address allegations of misconduct in wake of George Floyd’s death, protests

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the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building last The newly formed Long Thursday afternoon to announce Island Advocates for Police Ac- the introduction of legislation to countability stood on the steps of establish a Civilian Complaint Review Board in the county to serve as a check on police abuse.

The group, which counts civil rights attorney Fred Brewington and ex-NYPD

cop Dennis Jones as members, was formed several weeks ago.

It began amid protests and calls for police reform nationwide after the recent death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other publicized cases of police brutality against Black citizens in recent years.

“Coming out of the background of the people that stood

up and dared to say the words Black Lives Matter, we are here to echo the fact that change must come,” Brewington said to a crowd of onlookers.

An executive order signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on June 12 mandated that local governments that have a police force operating within them must “perform Continued on Page 35

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Old Westbury soccer Awaiting parent player dies in crash survey answers Tania Bonilla, 19, had been driving on Southern Parkway EWSD seeks input before finalizing plans

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A SUNY Old Westbury student-athlete was killed in a car accident.

Tania Bonilla, 19, had been driving a 2019 Honda Civic with four passengers traveling eastbound on the Southern State Parkway in Bay Shore early in the morning on July 18, according to a statement by the State Police.

Bonilla was in the left lane at the Exit 41A northbound ramp to the Sagtikos State Parkway shortly before 3 a.m. when the car left the roadway. The driver’s side of the car struck a guard rail on the right shoulder, police said.

Bonilla was taken to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore where she died from her injuries, police said. The four passengers were transported to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, with nonlife-threatening injuries.

A native of Brentwood who graduated from the area’s high school in 2019 after three years on the girls varsity soccer team, Bonilla served as a defender in her freshman season for SUNY Old Westbury’s women’s soccer team, and started in 13 of her 18 game appearances, providing assists in crucial moments against Mitchell College on Oct. 9, 2019, and on Oct. 30, 2019, against Purchase College, with her assist in the latter helping in taking the Panthers to the conference championship for the first time since 2015 as the No. 6 seed.

Bonilla, a criminology major, also excelled in the classroom, landing on the fall 2019 Athletic Director’s Academic Honor Roll, and participated in community service projects, including the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee’s annual Turkey Trot.

Head women’s soccer coach Betty Bohringer said in a state-

The East Williston school district has outlined three possible plans to reopen schools in the fall that call for students in kindergarten through seventh grade to be in the classroom every day while the approach for older students could vary.

School Superintendent Elaine Kanas sent a survey to district parents last Thursday asking for their views on a hybrid plan and another on Monday that contained two more specific plans.

The district will shape the plan it submits to the governor based on feedback from parents, a district spokesperson said, and the prospective plans were to be discussed at a Board of Education work session on Wednesday.

The first questionnaire spelled out the challenges facing the district in the coming school year.

“We do not have enough physical capacity to have all of our students in school at the same time and meet recommended NYS Department of Health social distancing guidelines. While we cannot have

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SUNY Old Westbury student-athlete Tania Bonilla was killed in an accident on the Southern State Parkway. ment that the school’s soccer community was “completely devastated” about Bonilla’s death.

“Tania’s life was cut much too short and she had so much to share and experience with us,” Bohringer said. “She made us all better people and players.

A piece of us died along with her and we hope that she had our strength and comfort as she passed. It will be a long time if we ever can move on ... from this accident.”

Bohringer added that the team would honor Bonilla when it resumed the soccer season in the fall.

The university’s president, the Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, ex-

pressed “heartfelt condolences” to Bonilla’s family in a statement.

“We mourn today the life of a student who passed too soon, but let us also remember Tania fondly and offer our hopes for strength and peace to her loved ones and teammates in this difficult time,” Butts said.

An Instagram post memorializing Bonilla from Brentwood High School’s varsity girls soccer team called her “an amazing person with a beautiful soul that was taken way too soon.”

“Heaven gained an angel today, and we pray for the family during this difficult time,” the post adds.

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all of our students physically in school at the same time, it is essential to us that we still ensure a full educational program for our students,” the questionnaire said.

Despite that, one of the prospective plans does allow for all students to come to in-person classes.

The first questionnaire then put forth a tentative reopening plan. Under this plan, grades kindergarten through seven would be in school every day, following a normal schedule while complying with physical distancing measures.

Grades eight through 12 would have classes four days a week, three of them virtual and one in person. The student’s inperson day of learning would consist of “half the number of students in the class with their regular classroom teachers in order to comply with social distancing guidelines while the other half will be home participating in a blend of independent and structured work for which there will be a method of student accountability,” the proposed plan said.

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East Williston School Superintendent Elaine Kanas sent a reopening survey to parents Thursday.

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Northwell nurses travel to Houston

To provide aid in COVID-19 hot spot in response to Cuomo’s call to pay forward help to N.Y.

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Nurses from Northwell Health have heeded Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s call for New York’s health care workers to provide aid to areas throughout the nation that are seeing an uptick in coronavirus cases.

Last Monday, nurses Kristine Chan, Anjanette Rosario, Shiney Paul and Timothy Verhey from Northwell’s North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and Lauren Ann Henry from Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park traveled to Houston, Texas, to extend a helping hand.

“We came down here together as a team,” Paul said. “Back in New York, we were hit very hard by COVID-19 at the beginning. We felt it was our time to give back to the communities that are going through this now. It’s been an honor to work with Gov. Cuomo’s team and my co-workers.”

Cuomo announced on June 16 that New York state had established two church testing sites in Houston. The locations, Cuomo said, were in “highly-impacted minority communities” and have the capacity for conducting up to 1,000 tests per day.

“When New York went through the unprecedented challenge and unimagi-

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Northwell Health nurses deploy to two COVID-19 testing sites in Houston, part of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s call for help. nable tragedy of COVID-19’s apex in the state, states throughout the country provided supplies, ventilators and personnel during our time of greatest need,” Cuomo said. “Now that New York’s numbers have stabilized, we’re returning the favor across the country, and I am glad to be able to help the great city of Houston establish two testing sites in vulner-

able communities.”

An initial 20 health care workers and public health experts were sent to Houston to facilitate and oversee the operation before the five nurses traveled to a state that has seen one of the most drastic upticks in confirmed cases over the past month.

“When Gov. Cuomo asked if we

could lend support to other states, we were proud that Northwell stepped up to get involved,” said Andrew Roberts, Northwell’s project manager for emergency eeployment. “These five people left their homes, their families, and their friends … we are so grateful to them and so proud.”

“It takes a unified front, which is why we are happy to work with the governor again to pay it forward and send our clinicians to assist in Georgia and Houston,” Northwell CEO Michael Dowling said. “We hope our first-hand experience with this novel virus can help limit the ongoing spread of COVID-19.”

According to a news release sent out

by Northwell last week, the five nurses were in “unanimous agreement” that extending their efforts and expertise to Houston was the “Northwell way” and each nurse said it was a “no-brainer” to volunteer for the assignment.

Roberts said the five nurses are using their experience in dealing with the pandemic to teach proper methods to prevent a further spread of the virus.

“Most importantly, they are providing education about the importance of wearing masks, quarantining if symptomatic or testing positive, proper hand hygiene and maintaining social distancing,” Roberts said.

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Ex-F. Hill mayor mentioned in Trump book Cousin Mary L. Trump says president’s sister eyed John Walter as leaker of biz records

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John Walter, right, former mayor of Flower Hill, with then-state Sen. Elaine Phillips in 2016. A new book by Walter’s cousin Mary L. Trump says that their aunt, Maryanne Trump Barry, sister of President Trump, suspected Walter of working with reporters from The New York Times on a story about family finances.

John Walter, the late mayor of Flower Hill, is among the people mentioned in his cousin Mary L. Trump’s book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.” Walter, the son of Fred Trump Sr.’s sister Elizabeth Trump Walter and first cousin to President Donald Trump, lived in Flower Hill’s Manhasset area for most of his life and served as mayor of the village from 1988 to 1996. He died in January 2018.

Mary Trump, a psychologist, daughter of Fred Trump Jr. and granddaughter of Fred Trump Sr., had served as a crucial yet anonymous source for a New York Times story published months after Walter’s death that claimed he allegedly assisted the president, his siblings and his father in a scheme to inherit Fred’s millions of dollars in real estate without being subject to a 55

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In the months after the story was published, Mary Trump says in the book, her aunt, former federal Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, told her that she suspected Walter of divulging the information about the alleged tax evasion to The New York Times prior to his death.

“In the interim, [Maryanne] had transferred her suspicion to her first cousin John Walter who had died that January,” Trump wrote. “John had worked for and with my grandfather for decades, had benefited enormously from his uncle’s wealth, had been heavily involved in All County, and, as far as I knew, had always been very loyal.”

Trump goes on to write that she “thought it strange [Maryanne] would implicate [Walter],” though her suspicions of him worked in Trump’s own favor.

The Times said that the elder Trump worked with Walter to set up All County

Building Supply & Maintenance in 1992, ostensibly to pay for maintenance crews and equipment for the properties owned by the Trump organization around New York City, but in reality allowing Fred Trump to give his children large cash gifts disguised as legitimate business transactions, thus evading the estate tax.

The address listed for All County was that of Walter’s home at 511 Manhasset Woods Road in Manhasset.

For his work generating the invoices, Walter received a cut of the markup and owned 20 percent of All County, which was split between him and the four Trump children, according to the Times report.

An investigation into the claims closed in 2019, as Maryanne Trump Barry resigned from her post as the senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and did not reach a conclusion on the claims.

Town cited for clean energy initiatives

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The Town of North Hempstead has officially been deemed a Clean Energy Community by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, according to town officials.

The town received the distinction for the completion of four “high-impact, clean-energy actions” identified by the

organization as part of the Clean Energy Communities initiative. These actions included the use of alternative fuel vehicles for municipal business, reducing costs for solar projects throughout the town, participating and completing energy code enforcement training, and adopting a benchmarking policy to track the use of energy throughout municipal buildings.

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‘Bad Education’ gets 2 Emmy nominations Jackman, Roslyn alum Makowsky got nods for work on HBO drama on school scandal

BY R O S E W E L D ON “Bad Education,” the film based on the embezzlement scandal that plagued the Roslyn school district in the early 2000s, has received two nominations at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, which recognize excellence in television.

“Logan” star Hugh Jackman, who portrayed former Roslyn School Superintendent Frank Tassone, received a nomination for outstanding lead actor in a limited series or movie, while the film as a whole was nominated for outstanding television movie, with writer, producer and Roslyn alumnus Mike Makowsky listed as a nominee in that area.

In a statement to Blank Slate Media, Makowsky expressed excitement at the news, calling it “surreal.”

“The film was intended in part as a love letter to Roslyn and my upbringing there,” Makowsky said. “I’m beyond thrilled to share this recognition with the town, and with the teachers who first encouraged me to pursue a career in creative writing.”

The film, which premiered on paycable network HBO on April 25 following a successful premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, is based on Tassone, who headed the Roslyn school district for 12 years, beginning in 1990, and took it to a ranking of No. 4 in the country.

After the quiet dismissal of Assistant Su-

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“Bad Education,” the film based on the 2004 embezzlement scandal in the Roslyn school district, has received nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards for outstanding lead actor for Hugh Jackman, center, and outstanding television movie, with writer, producer and Roslyn native Mike Makowsky listed among them. perintendent Pamela Gluckin, played in the movie by Allison Janney, a story on the dismissal was written by then-senior Rebekah Rombom and published in the school newspaper The Hilltop Beacon, leading to parents finding out and Tassone’s subsequent resig-

nation in June 2002. Rombom was thanked in the film’s credits, and the role inspired by her was played by actress Geraldine Viswanathan.

Both Tassone and Gluckin pleaded guilty to larceny charges and served prison

sentences. Tassone said after the film premiered on TV that he had repaid the $2.2 million he owed. HBO later said that Gluckin died in 2017.

Tassone was critical of the film when it premiered, contending that “about 40 to 50 percent” of the movie was accurate but praising Jackman for his performance, saying he did“a very good job portraying me.”

The Roslyn school district, which said in 2018 that it had not had any input on the film and that the production would not be shooting scenes on school property, has not yet issued a statement on the film.

Jackman is the only person in his category nominated for a movie, and will be competing against Jeremy Pope from Netflix’s “Hollywood,” Paul Mescall from Hulu’s “Normal People,” Jeremy Irons from HBO’s “Watchmen,” and Mark Ruffalo from HBO’s “I Know This Much Is True.”

In the outstanding television movie category, “Bad Education” will go up against four Netflix productions: “American Son,” “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings: These Old Bones,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs.

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The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by late-night personality Jimmy Kimmel, will take place in a socially distant fashion on Sept. 20 and will be broadcast on ABC at 8 p.m.

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County faces large drop in tax revenue Schnirman projects loss to Nassau of $156M-$360M, the largest he says in recent memory

BY E LL I OT W E L D Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman released a report this month projecting a large loss in tax revenue for the county and potentially tough budgeting choices.

The report showed that around 40% of the county’s revenue has come from sales tax historically, and with many retailers and eateries forced to shut because of the coronavirus, the county is projected to lose $156 million to $360 million in 2020 revenue.

Schnirman said the fiscal hole that the county is facing is “larger than anything faced in recent memory.”

“We’re all in this together,” Schnirman said. “The only way forward is to get this virus under control.” He added that getting the virus under control would get people back to work and begin to alleviate economic stress.

The report also said that if a second wave forced another shutdown of the economy, the losses would likely add up to

$665 million to $1 billion in the county.

Schnirman said there are a number of ways to deal with loss of tax revenue. One is to cut services and public works, which he believes is a bad idea, given that many people are currently vulnerable and need them. Another is to lobby for federal aid, which he said the county is currently doing and there are bills circulating in Congress that could give some relief. The county could also make minor cuts to a number of areas in order to create a more financially efficient system to save money, he said.

Over the last few years, Schnirman said, the county had been doing well financially and had been able to build up a “rainy day fund.” Before COVID-19, in January and February, the county was on track to surpass 2019 in terms of revenue.

The strong start to the year, along with a state law enacted in June 2019 which allowed tax collection on out-of-state items purchased online softened the blow somewhat for Nassau

County, according to Schnirman. That law was one that the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce had pushed for.

Schnirman said it was enacted because local chambers complained that buying an item at a local small business was less desirable than purchasing it online because the online sale wasn’t taxed and that the law now “leveled the playing field” somewhat.

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli issued a similar report Friday, saying that sales tax revenue for local governments dropped 27 percent in the second fiscal quarter this year, from April through June. Losses totaled over $1.2 billion statewide.

However, DiNapoli said most regions saw an improvement in June compared with April and May. “Although there was a glimmer of hope in June, second quarter sales tax figures show how deep the COVID-19 pandemic is cutting into municipal finances,” DiNapoli said in the report.

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Nassau County is facing large losses in tax revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to county Comptroller Jack Schnirman.

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Suozzi pushes bill to aid restaurants

Cites COVID-19’s especially heavy toll on eateries and employment in call for $120B in grants

BY R O S E W E L D ON As small businesses shutter across the country, a new bill meant to support independent restaurants and catering halls is being co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove).

The bill is the Real Economic Support That Acknowledges Unique Restaurant Assistance Needed To Survive Act of 2020, or the RESTAURANTS Act, and seeks to provide $120 billion in grants to owners of independent restaurants and catering halls affected by mandated shutdowns due to the coronavirus. Suozzi and others took to Zoom on Monday morning to discuss the bill.

The congressman, whose 3rd District includes the Manhasset, Roslyn, Port Washington, Great Neck and Floral Park areas, was joined on the call by Mickey King, president of Antun’s of Queens Village and director of the New York Restaurants Association; Tony Scotto, owner of the Nassau County-based restaurant and catering company Scotto Brothers; Kristen Jarnagin, president and CEO of the tourism group Discov-

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U.S. Rep Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), bottom right, joined business leaders and U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Portland) to discuss the proposed RESTAURANTS Act. er Long Island; and U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon), lead sponsor of the RESTAURANTS Act. “Restaurants and catering halls, a critical component of our economy, have been some of the hardest-hit businesses by the pandemic,” Suozzi said. “The Paycheck Protection Program was insufficient to address the needs of many restaurants who still

have not come close to their prepandemic business.”

“The independent restaurant is the cornerstone of a little community,” said Blumenauer, who serves with Suozzi on the House Ways and Means Committee. “Restaurants are a vehicle for immigrants, women, self-starters to be involved economically. Often restaurants are the first job for many people, an avenue for

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He noted that the country had “over half a million independent restaurants, employing more than 11 million individuals,” and that jobs from the restaurant and catering hall industry accounted for 27 percent of job losses in April alone.

“We simply cannot afford to

lose them,” Blumenauer said, before quoting a study from the Independent Restaurant Coalition. “Unless we do something of extraordinary power to protect them, 80 to 85 percent of independent restaurants will close permanently.”

Blumenauer added that the bill’s 123 sponsors, all but two of them Democrats, would be working to tailor the legislation “to meet the needs of independent restaurants and catering businesses’ needs,” and put it in “the next package to leave the House.”

“I’m hopeful that our Republican friends get on board.

There’s no reason we shouldn’t have bipartisan support,” Blumenauer said.

The proposed bill would provide $120 billion in grants to independent restaurants and catering halls “to cover a difference between 2019 and 2020 revenues,” Suozzi said. In a move that the congressman said was inspired by the rollout of the Payroll Protection Program, the RESTAURANTS Act funds are “designed to go to small guys first.”

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‘Back the Blue’ rally on – Nugent off

BY R O S E W E L D ON A canceled national anthem singer, a lack of a stage and even counter-protesters did not stop a Back the Blue rally in East Meadow’s Eisenhower Park, held as part of a Law Enforcement Officers Weekend, on Saturday.

Rock musician Ted Nugent had been announced as the event’s national anthem performer. An outspoken conservative and supporter of the Second Amendment, Nugent had previously drawn criticism for reposting content deemed anti-Semitic on his Facebook page that referred to “Jew York City Mayor Mikey Bloomberg,” among other politicians of Jewish faith. He has also come under fire for perceived sexist and racist remarks.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran tweeted on July 23: “Extremely disappointed that Ted Nugent, a man with a history of hate-filled speech, is invited to attend Saturday’s rally in Nassau. Our Police Department is the finest in the Country and our officers deserve admiration in a setting that we can all be proud of.”

Democratic county legislators including Ellen Birnbaum (D-Great Neck) and Arnold Drucker (D-Plainview) signed a statement issued the same day saying that Nugent had “consistently espoused racist, misogynistic, homophobic, anti-Semitic and xenophobic bile.”

“The vitriol he espouses is an affront to the promise of ‘liberty and justice for all’ that is central to our na-

tion’s Pledge of Allegiance,” the statement. “He is the last person who should ever have the high honor of performing the National Anthem before any public gathering in Nassau County’s most prominent park.”

The Nassau County Police Benevolent Association noted in a statement issued the same day that neither it nor any other PBA had been involved in organizing the event, and said it would not participate should Nugent attend.

“It has come to our attention that Ted Nugent, who was invited by the organizers of the event to sing the National Anthem, has a long history of making hurtful and hateful comments, and has beliefs that are not consistent with those held by our association and our members,” the PBA said in a statement. “We do not and will not condone his remarks and views, and have advised the event’s organizers that we will not participate in or support any rally that he attends. Mr. Nugent does not represent the sentiments held by countless Nassau County residents who support law enforcement while many sit idly by or even act against us.”

The following day, Nugent and U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana), who was scheduled to be the keynote speaker, were removed from the lineup via a statement on the group’s Facebook page, which appears to have since been deleted. The text of the statement was reported by Newsday.

“Ted Nugent will not be performing, speaking, or otherwise participating in the pro-law enforcement dem-

onstration tomorrow at Eisenhower Park,” the group wrote. “The purpose of this demonstration is to bring people together in support of the men and women of law enforcement. While we wholeheartedly appreciate anyone who supports the men and women in blue, including Mr. Nugent, the controversy over his appearance is contrary to the objectives of the demonstration.”

Curran said in a statement that Nugent had decided against going “after being reminded of New York State’s quarantine orders and Nassau County’s protest protocols.”

“Nassau County will continue to protect our residents’ right to safe, peaceful protest as is guaranteed under the First Amendment of our Constitution,” Curran tweeted. “However, we won’t tolerate blatant violations of the Governor’s quarantine order for travelers from high-risk states, which is designed to protect the health and safety of Long Islanders.”

The event’s Facebook page has since been removed. Law Enforcement Today, a publication for those involved in the industry that was involved in the event, said in an editorial that it had been removed by Facebook after it received over 4,300 RSVPs. The Law Enforcement Officers group said on Instagram that thousands had attended the event, adding that an additional 4,000 attendees had been turned away “due to parking and safety concerns.”

Suffolk County PBA Second Vice President Lou Civello said in his re-

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The Back the Blue rally on Saturday, held at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, went on without scheduled national anthem singer Ted Nugent.

marks that a stage meant for the rally had been removed, leading to the podium being placed onto two pickup trucks.

“They told us, ‘you need a permit for a stage, take it down,'” Civello said.

Among the speakers, who included U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) and U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) was Republican congressional candidate George Santos, a financial professional from Queens running against U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) in the 3rd District in November.

“Since when did defending the police become a Republican or Democrat issue?” Santos said. “Shouldn’t it be common sense to support those who keep us safe? Shouldn’t it be common sense to support the men and women in blue who leave their families behind every single day not knowing if they’re going to come back to them.

Since when did this become the new normal?”

He added that a “Marxist, socialist regime” was “trying to take over our country,” but did not mention Suozzi by name.

“My opponent has been silent, and silence is complacency,” Santos said.

Nassau PBA President James McDermott later spoke on his experience as an officer with the NYPD and the Nassau County Police Department, leading those gathered in a moment of silence for the fallen.

“I agreed to speak here today for obvious reasons,” McDermott said.

“You’re all out here to support what I do, and I want to thank each and every one of you for coming out, thank you very much from the bottom of my soul.

My police officers, and all police officers, need a shot in the arm right about now, and this is the shot in that arm for the Nassau County Police Department.”

He added that some “leadership, in certain cases, have abandoned us.”

“I don’t know why our county executive and our police commissioner can’t say ‘our cops do a great job day in, day out, we don’t have these problems here in Nassau County,'” McDermott said.

“We have tremendous relationships in all communities, including the minority communities, and they trust us, and we worked on that. We fostered these relationships, we nurture these relationships and we build on them every day. I don’t know why that’s so hard, because it’s the truth. It’s just standing up to the noise right now, the media-driven noise which is trying to divide us.”

Near the end of the rally, chanting could be heard outside the entrance. A group of 50 or more counter-protesters sporting Black Lives Matter signs was met by a group of the pro-police demonstrators, with a line of police officers separating the two.

The counter-protesters later made their way into Park Boulevard, blocking the road and forcing those driving to cross the grassy median, with two protesters seen filming the license plates of those leaving.

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Shots fired outside the Americana Suspect at large, Queens man arrested following altercation that ends in gunfire

BY R O S E W E L D ON After an argument, a man fired several shots at another man across the street from the Americana Manhasset on Saturday, but no one was injured, the police said.

The suspected gunman has not been apprehended.

But the other man was arrested following the incident on a charge of criminal possession of a weapon.

Yuri Oluh, 22, of 137-23 161 St. in Jamaica, Queens, had a verbal argument with “an unknown male black suspect” in front of 1980 Northern Blvd., recognized as the luxury mall’s address, according to detectives from the Gang Investigations Squad.

“The dispute escalated after the male suspect displayed a handgun and pointed it at [Oluh],” detectives said in a statement. “The suspect then discharged several rounds at the suspect who was not struck and fled the scene.”

Police said that no injuries were reported.

“A short time later officers located [Oluh] in the vicinity of Searingtown Road and Northern Boulevard,” police said.

“A subsequent investigation ensued revealing Oluh to have been in possession of a loaded silver handgun that police were able to safely recover.”

Oluh was then arrested “without further incident,” and charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of criminal possession of a firearm, according to police. He was arraigned at the Nassau County courthouse on Sunday and will return to court on Friday. The New York State Unified Court System’s online database did PHOTO VIA PORT WASHINGTON LIFE not name a defense lawyer.

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Social secretary to Whitneys dies Ex-Old Westbury resident June Mitchell Douglas-White, in role for 25 years, was 94

BY R O S E W E L D ON June Mitchell Douglas-White, a social secretary to a member of the Whitney family and a former resident of Old Westbury, has died.

Douglas-White, who was living in the Chatham township on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, was 94.

One of three daughters of the late William and Bertha McNeill Mitchell, Douglas-White was born on June 19, 1926, in Medford, Massachusetts. She graduated from ColbySawyer College in New London, New Hampshire, in 1945, and married the late Herbert T. “Doug” Douglas in 1950. The couple lived in Hadlyme, Connecticut, before moving to Old Westbury.

Douglas-White served as social secretary to Marie Louise “Marylou” Whitney, the last wife of the Roslynborn Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, for over 25 years, beginning in the 1960s and lasting until her retirement in 1991.

Her family says she sometimes joined Marylou Whitney on her travels, including trips to the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, for which she was the single largest

private donor, and the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. DouglasWhite also learned to speak Spanish to communicate with the staff at the Whitneys’ home in Majorca, Spain.

During this time, the Whitneys lived on part of what had been a 1,000-acre estate built by Cornelius Whitney’s grandfather in Old Westbury, which has since been divided up and sold. Current owners of property sections include the Long Island campus of the New York Institute of Technology, and the Old Westbury Golf and Country Club.

In 1970, Douglas-White and her family moved to Chatham, as she continued working for the Whitneys.

She retired in 1990, two years before Cornelius Whitney’s death at age 92.

Marylou Whitney died in 2019 at age 93.

Following her first husband’s death in 1987, Douglas-White married the late John E. “Jack” White in 1990. She was predeceased by her sisters Janet Green and Priscilla Mitchell, both Cape Cod residents.

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Douglas-White also volunteered in retirement as a reader for the blind at the Chatham Council on Aging, she delivered Meals-on-Wheels for over 25 years, and was a long-standing member of a writers group based in Chatham.

She is is survived by her son, Cameron Douglas, and his wife, Becki, of Pennsylvania; her stepdaughter, Jennifer Frei, and her husband, Bill, of North Carolina; her stepson, Brad White, and his wife, Darlene, of Chatham; seven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren, as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Cape Cod Theatre Coalition, care of HJT, P.O. Box 168, West Harwich, MA 02671. A service will be held at the Nickerson Funeral Home in Chatham at a date to be determined.

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Sounding bad note on police reform

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ocker Ted Nugent has called former President Barack Obama a “subhuman mongrel,” referred to erstwhile New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as “Jew York City Mayor Mikey Bloomberg” and frequently worn a Confederate-flag T-shirt.

So Nugent might not have been the best choice to sing the national anthem at a “Back the Blue” demonstration in East Meadow on Saturday.

Then again he might have.

It is not exactly clear what the intent is of “Back the Blue” events that have surfaced across the country in response to the Black Lives Movement’s call for wide reforms in policing in the wake of several police brutality cases.

Nassau police unions condemned the rocker-turned NRA activist’s past remarks, but only after coming under heavy political pressure from Democrats in the county Legislature to stop Nugent’s appearance.

“It has come to our attention that Ted Nugent, who was invited by the organizers of the event to sing the national anthem, has a long history of making hurtful and hateful comments, and has beliefs that are not consistent with those held by our association and members,” read a statement by James McDermott, president of the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association.

We will take the PBA’s statement opposing Nugent’s views at face value.

But we would feel a little more comfortable if it had come earlier and the news release did not preface its opposition with “It has come to our attention” that the rocker has a long history of making racist, sex-

ist and anti-Semitic remarks.

You don’t need to be a detective to discover Nugent’s history of making ugly comments. That’s what he is now best known for.

As late as Friday morning, Law Enforcement Today spokesman Kyle Reyes touted the rally and Nugent on Fox News, saying that upward of 10,000 people would attend.

And the group’s statement on Facebook later Friday was hardly a denunciation of Nugent’s views.

“The purpose of this demonstration is to bring people together in support of the men and women of law enforcement,” the post says.

“While we wholeheartedly appreciate anyone who supports the men and women in blue, including Mr. Nugent, the controversy over his appearance is contrary to the objectives of the demonstration.”

In Nassau County, support for police has a more benign face.

Nassau County Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) recently helped launch the “Blue Ribbon” campaign in Nassau County in support of police.

“The Blue Ribbon campaign is in response to the attempt by extreme groups to vilify all police for the actions of a tiny few,” Nicoello said in an interview with Blank Slate Media. “It is intended to show our men and women in law enforcement that we as a county and community appreciate the professionalism, dedication and courage of the overwhelming majority of men and women in blue.”

Republican State Assemblyman Ed Ra said in an op-ed article in Blank Slate Media last week that he was “deeply concerned about the damaging rhetoric, radical actions and misguided policy proposal we’ve been hearing from the left. It

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seems that for every measured step forward we take, there are radical voices demanding we carelessly leap in the wrong direction.”

Ra went on to cite proposals that he said would take us in the wrong direction: demands for defunding the police and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio’s call for a billion-dollar cut in the NYPD budget.

Both Nicolello and Ra acknowledged the need for some kind of reform following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis.

But they both seem to miss the point of the Black Lives Matter movement and the extent of the problem with policing and systemic racism in this country.

The Floyd killing was another in a series of questionable killings of Black men that began in July 2013 after the acquittalofGeorge Zimmermaninthe shooting death of teen Trayvon Martin17 months earlier, in February 2012.

The Black Lives Matter movement, which sprang from that verdict, became nationally recognized for street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two Blacks: Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner on Staten Island.

Support for the movement re-

cently exploded following the release of a video of a white policeman nonchalantly standing with his knee on Floyd’s neck on a Minneapolis city street in broad daylight with three other officers beside him for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

Two-thirds of U.S. adults now say they support the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the latest Pew Report, including 60 percent of whites.

It is also no coincidence that 64 percent of Black men say they have been unfairly stopped by police because of their race, that Black parents feel they must warn their sons on how to behave when stopped by the police and that Blacks are represented disproportionately in the nation’s prisons.

That sounds like more than a few bad apples. Maybe that is not the case in Nassau County. But forgive us if we would like that verified just in case.

When the Black Lives Matter movement began, the response from some was that All Lives Matter – minimizing the discrimination against Blacks in this country that goes back 400 years.

Based on the comments of Nicolello and Ra, it sounds like the “Blue Ribbon” campaign is just an updated version of All Lives Matter.

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We would like to see them prove us wrong by offering concrete proposals for policing reforms in Nassau County and beyond.

They can also stop representing fringe views as what most Black Lives Matter supporters believe.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, and the entire Democratic leadership in Congress have stated that they support reforming policing, not defunding it.

And a large majority of Americans interpret the phrase “defund the police” to mean reforming policing – not eliminating the police.

So let’s stop with the political rhetoric.

Nassau County Republicans and county police have worked closely together for years. County Republicans have made county police among the best compensated in the state and county police unions have rewarded Republicans with their considerable political support.

We would like to hear Republicans now say that in return for the generous compensation Nassau County police are expected to treat everyone, whether white or Black, the same. And that there will be consequences if they don’t.

That would be music to our ears.

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The unique 2020 coronavirus recession

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he 2020 recession Americans have been enduring is very different from past down-

turns.

First and foremost, the economic shutdown was induced by government fiat.

But the shutdown was selective in nature. Amazon and the big box stores (Costco, Walmart, Target), which were permitted to remain open, have been doing pretty well financially throughout the crisis.

In the case of Amazon, it has done extraordinarily well.

The value of the Amazon stock owned by Jeff Bezos, went up $13 billion one day in mid-July.

The Big Government crowd approve of big stores because their corporate chiefs, who fear boycotts and public denunciations, are easily intimidated.

Hence, the section of the economy disproportionately damaged—small businesses.

(Since they are hard to control, Big Government types despise small shops almost as much as they loathe suburban singlefamily homes.)

A study issued by the Partnership for New York City es-

timates that one-third of the city’s small businesses—that’s 80,000—may not reopen. That translates into several hundred thousand working-class folks pounding the streets looking for a job.

The news gets worse.

The Wall Street Journal, in an article titled “More Restaurants Forced to Close as Virus Fears Diners Away,” reported that between March 1 and July 10, 2020, over 1,250 New York restaurants have closed permanently.

Only Texas and California — whose combined population is three and a half times greater than the Empire State — have experienced more closings, 1,300 and 2,250, respectively.

Fisher and Phillip’s National Hospitality Practice Group has noted that in August there can be more restaurant closings in New York if the Paycheck Protection Program grants to save jobs runs out. Also, many landlords who offered rent deferments of a few months want to be paid in August.

The Nassau and Suffolk COVID-19 Economic Impact

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right Report released by the two County Executives on July 8, 2020, also paints a dreary picture.

The study states that “net job losses to date total 220,000 and may reach as high as 375 thousand in 2020, reducing local earnings by as much as $21 billion and local economic activity by $61 billion.”

So far, 8 percent of Long Island businesses have closed and the hospitality sector — food and drink services — has been hardest hit.

This helps explain why the highest unemployment on Long Island is among the

working class — particularly Hispanic workers.

The selective nature of the coronavirus pandemic closings is wreaking havoc on Main Streets throughout Long Island.

Retail space vacancies are hitting all-time highs — north of 20 percent — which in turn means commercial real estate values will drop and many owners may have no alternative but to default on their mortgages.

Here’s another reason why the recession is unique: In past downturns, people stopped spending because they were unemployed. Hence, the government often stepped in with deficit spending to jumpstart the economy in order to get people back to work so they could resume spending.

However, as economist Arnold Kling, writing in National Affairs, noted, “In [2020], the government has been more concerned with slowing the spread of the virus, and policymakers actually prefer to see ‘unessential’ consumption activities curtailed. In a typical recession, construction and du-

rable goods manufacturing experience the sharpest decline, while service industries stay relatively stable. In this case, in-person services have been among the hardest hit sectors of the economy.”

Retail and restaurants have been suffering because those lucky enough to be employed with disposable income are staying home and not spending locally.

And their spending habits are changing.

Many, myself included, are ordering more online and are not in a rush to dine indoors.

As for outdoor dining, it has not been appealing in 90-degree weather and will not be feasible come November.

In addition, Gov. Cuomo has further hindered restauranteurs by dictating what constitutes a bona fide meal.

Sadly, the coronavirus pandemic will have a lasting impact on New York’s economy— particularly on Long Island.

Thanks to poorly-conceived government policies, Main Street shopping may become a relic of a quainter age.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

News flash! Pandemic planning panic-inducing

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ever have I more desperately needed strategies for coping with anxiety and depression, than during this pandemic; but the pandemic has made a mockery of them all.

For example, take the strategem that I learned long ago, in Driver’s Ed. My first few times at the wheel, I steered the car all over the road: first too far to the right, then too far to the left, then too far back to the right again. “Classic problem,” my teacher intoned. “Are you focusing on the road right over the hood?”

“Yes, of course,” I replied.

“Well, that’s what you’re doing wrong. Instead, lift your eyes to the horizon. When you do that, you’ll automatically correct for any drifting you do, but you won’t be so tempted to over-steer.”

It was such a counter-intuitive, amazing solution, for

me, that over the years I have tried it out on other problems as well.

When I got overwhelmed with deadlines in college, I lifted my sights to the vacation after finals were over. When I got overwhelmed at work, I forced myself to look past the morass of immediate deadlines so I wouldn’t forget about longer-term goals, like getting my work actually on the air.

But with this pandemic, looking farther down the road has only backfired.

Never mind trying to plan a party, a vacation, or even going back to school — it doesn’t matter what you plan; Coronavirus is driving this bus. In fact, it’s pointless to make plans for anything farther away than the end of the week.

Take the time I decided to try and order some stew beef, to make good use of the vegetables I already had. By the time it finally arrived, the carrots were

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A Look on the Lighter Side black with mildew and the potatoes had sprouted.

Another time, I decided to forego the last few slices of raisin bread, saving them instead for weekend French toast. First, however, I needed a dozen eggs. By the time I had the eggs in hand, the bread was a thriving mold colony.

So planning’s a bust. What

about the practice of Daily Gratitude?

“Three things every night, to be thankful for before I try to sleep. That shouldn’t be so hard,” I said to myself. “And it’s always helped me before, so why don’t I give it a try.”

Let’s see.

My health. I’m very thankful that that’s good, right now… but it could go away tomorrow.

In fact, was that a sneeze I just heard from my husband’s side of the bed?

How about this nice, cozy roof over my head?

But then I remember how my bedroom window leaked in the rain, last autumn; and I can’t even have somebody come in to fix it, with this pandemic going on.

How about just being grateful for coffee? But we’re running low on coffee filters, as well as coffee — and the places we order from haven’t had any of the blends I like for weeks

now.

Ultimately, I found that listing the things I’m grateful for had the perverse effect of only giving me more things to worry about, instead. It felt as if I were putting a bull’s eye on their backs, so to speak… drawing the Evil Eye’s attention to how to hurt me the most.

There is one thing that hasn’t failed me.

My radio station — WNYC — has started doing a minute of mindfulness every weekday at 1:00 pm. Just one minute, and nothing more physically taxing than sitting in a chair with my eyes closed. I only have to breathe in; breathe out; and notice that for right now, this minute, I can still breathe in and out.

If that’s Zen, it’s a tiny bitesize bit that is small enough for me to handle.

For right here, right now, it’s enough.

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OUT OF LEFT FIELD

John Lewis, voting rights and Nassau County

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ike many people, I had great admiration for John Lewis before I met and worked with him. During the 1990s, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, we participated in meetings to discuss ways to expand the involvement of young people for using and protecting The First Amendment.

I was not surprised that the Long Islander whom John Lewis already knew was Harry Wachtel, who was living in Roslyn Heights at the time. John celebrated the work that Harry had done for civil rights from the time that Harry began as a key lawyer for Dr. King in 1962.

Harry (who died in 1997) worked closely with King, Lewis, and others in pushing for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Because of his friendship with Abe Fortas and many leaders close to President Johnson, John appreciated that Harry was able to arrange access to Vice-President

Humphrey, other leaders, and with President Johnson.

Those key meetings paved the way for the quintessential test of any democracy: ensuring the right of every citizen to vote.

John was also aware of Harry’s project to get more Democrats elected to Congress when Harry established “The 23rd State,” a political action committee that supported liberal candidates on Long Island. The title for the PAC reflected the reality of the late 20th century that Nassau and Suffolk counties had a combined population that was larger than 22 states. If the five congressmen from those counties were Democrats, they could be a force in Washington.

I was one of the candidates backed by Harry’s group when I ran for Congress in 1984. Although I lost, the support by Harry’s group enabled me to run such a strong race that, in 1985, I was offered the Democratic nomi-

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John L. Lewis, second from the left

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field nation for County Executive. (I declined that race for reasons too extensive for this discussion).

Meeting with John Lewis nearly a quarter of a century ago quickly revealed that we had many shared interests and values.

John was complimentary about my role as a history teacher and as a parent of activist children.

He told me about his only child, his son John Miles-Lewis, whose name was hyphenated to acknowledge his wife Lillian Miles.

In our extensive discussion of youth, I had already indicated that my spouse Andrea and I had given only her last name to our children: Leah Anthony Libresco and Zachary Jefferson Libresco. (We included activist middle names: suffragist Susan B. Anthony and civil libertarian Thomas Jefferson.)

I never met John’s son, who was about 20 when his dad and I collaborated; nor did I learn, until much later, that John Miles-Lewis was adopted when he was two months old.

John related my history profession to key aspects of rearing his son. He said that he emphasized to young John the deep importance of learning from the past; his son watched videos portraying his father and other leaders, and he read extensively about protest and reform.

As a teacher who had focused extensively on Thomas Jefferson, I spoke with John about some of Jefferson’s views concerning history and education that are too seldom emphasized.

Key values of history for Jefferson, which John Lewis appreciated, were the abilities for both negative and positive learning: to be aware of the errors and mistakes from the past so you “could shake off its dead hand,” and to find affirmative role models who, in their views and actions. epitomized worthy lives and the quests for liberty and justice.

More than anyone else, Jefferson was the visionary for the “Common School:” free, public education that would enable youngsters (white males, at that time) to become a “natural aristocracy” based on knowledge and talent, not wealth.

Of course, we recognized, even before the vital “Black Lives Matter Movement,” that Jefferson was a person of his generation, with limited focus on slavery and race, and on gender as well (whether he did more in his day than his peers in these regards is a topic for another discussion, but such an exploration does not dismiss the flawed values and conduct of Jefferson and many of our

white founders).

In the 1990s, we spoke of Lincoln’s celebration of Jefferson and other Founders for providing “beacons” for a just, inclusive, democratic society. John Lewis was always characterized by generosity. He recognized that we could go forward by building better on the frameworks established by those with limited and flawed human values.

Throughout his life, John was known to forgive people who were racist, even those who had assaulted him when he was a nonviolent activist. In sustaining this spirit, John Lewis understandably looked to wrongdoers to acknowledge their bad conduct and exhibit a better direction.

His spirit of forgiveness and commitment to building humanizing connections were well known before I met him; those qualities informed his dedication to work with rising generations to keep our nation moving toward Lincoln’s idealized democratic beacons.

To that end, John was highly enthused by projects we worked on at Hofstra, in association with the Kettering Foundation, to provide intergenerational activities that could get beyond age divides and foster shared democratic activism.

Hofstra University’s Center for Civic Engagement and Institute for Peace Studies were inspired in no small part by John Lewis’ work with and commitment to nurturing young people to be alert, active citizens working toward the creation of a beloved community.

VIEW POINT

COVID-19 relief should target states, localities

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t is beyond upsetting that as more than 4.5 million Americans have been infected with COVID, the dead approach 150,000 and 30 million are unemployed and losing their health insurance as well as under threat of losing their homes, Republicans are holding Americans hostage in order to create another $1 trillion slush fund for Trump and Friends of Trump – aid that Republicans condition on employers having immunity against liability if workers get COVID-19 because they can save money by not providing safe working conditions, while forcing workers back to work.

And just for a kicker, the GOP coronavirus bill, while cutting un-

employment benefit by two-thirds, includes $1.75 billion to rebuild the FBI building where it is now in order to prevent a potential competitor to the Trump Hotel, plus 100 percent deduction for business meals (which would benefit Trump’s hotels). But not a cent to ensure safe and secure elections this November.

What is needed now is what the Democrats have outlined in the Heroes Act, which provides $375 billion in budgetary relief for local governments to help avoid cuts to public services, layoffs, and/or tax increases, all of which could further negatively impact the local economy (and has been sitting on Mitch “Grim Reaper” McConnell’s

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desk for more than two months).

But I would go further: what is needed now is $2 trillion in relief and stimulus sent directly to states

and localities, to public schools and health care, and to keep renters from eviction and homeowners from foreclosure and families fed.

That’s it.

States, counties and cities are the entities closest to the people (and less likely, therefore, to be stolen); spending to keep states and localities healthy will go far to keep the economy out of a Great Depression and keep families from financial ruin.

State and local governments employ 15 million and public spending accounts for 11 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (health care is 18 percent). Unlike the federal government, states and localities cannot have a budget

deficit.

So, the pandemic, which has decimated major revenue sources, threatens jobs and services in education, public safety, health care, transportation and other vital functions.

America’s 3,069 counties, employing 3.67 million public servants, are on the front lines of the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, operating 1,900 public health departments – the ground troops in the CDC’s fight against this complex outbreak – nearly 1,000 public hospitals and critical access clinics, more than 800 long-term care facilities and 750 behavioral health centers.

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E A R T H M AT T E R S

The birds and the bees and 5G technology

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he 1962 publication of biologist Rachel Carson’s book, “Silent Spring,” has been widely recognized as the birth of the modern environmental movement.

Through her exquisite writing and scientific documentation of the devastating effects of pesticides on all living things, she was able to capture the attention of the public, and more importantly, decision-makers.

In early 1970, as a result of heightened public concerns about the deteriorating natural environment and increased pollution, President Richard Nixon presented Congress with a groundbreaking 37-point message and proposal for a program to step up the protection of the environment.

A newly created council to oversee this program developed a plan to consolidate many federal environmental responsibilities into a new agency.

The agency would have the capacity to do research on important pollutants, and on the impact of these pollutants on the total environment. In coordination with other federal agencies, it would monitor the condition of the environment – biological as well as physical.

The agency would also be able, in coordination with state agencies, to set and enforce stan-

dards for air and water quality and for individual pollutants. On December 2, 1970 the Environmental Protection Agency was founded.

Today, one of the most significant and widespread emerging individual pollutants is radiofrequency microwave radiation or RFR. In 1982, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Radiation Programs, which had been studying the non-thermal or biological effects of wireless radiation almost since the birth of the agency, announced that it was developing a federal guidance to limit the public’s exposure.

It began the process of doing an extensive analysis of the current science at the time and produced a report entitled “Biological Effects of Radiofrequency Radiation.”

Meanwhile, the telecommunications industry had become a powerful lobby, and in 1996, a heavily-industry-influenced Telecommunications Act was passed in Congress and signed by President Clinton, taking away many of the rights of citizens to protect themselves from RFR. Simultaneously, the EPA’s work on determining the extent of harm from RFR was defunded by the federal government.

Without federal money and the considerable research capacity of a huge institution, individual researchers and academic institu-

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tions were left to find support for and funding to conduct studies on the health effects from RFR in humans, plants and wildlife.

Despite this disadvantage, thousands of studies indicating harm have been conducted worldwide and there have been appeals to the World Health Organization, the European Union and our Federal Communications Commission by hundreds of medical doctors and scientists calling for a moratorium on the build-out of wireless infrastructure.

Although the health effects from RFR on humans are a source of considerable worry among a growing part of the U.S. population, especially as powerful wireless (“small cell”) antennas are now being placed in neighborhoods, the research on harm to

wildlife is getting less attention.

As Dr. Cindy Russell documents in her report “Wireless Silent Spring,” scientists have known for a long time that migratory birds use the earth’s magnetic field to navigate. Magnetite, a form of iron ore, is found in a wide variety of organisms and it has been determined that this substance is used to sense the earth’s low energy magnetic field as a directional reference, a sort of internal compass.

Further, a diverse array of animal life also relies upon this geomagnetic field as their GPS for feeding and breeding. Biologists have discovered that RFR disturbs these internal magneto-receptors used for orientation. Wireless radiation can also have profound impacts on biologic processes in insects, fish, amphibians, mammals, trees, plants and seeds.

A New York Times article dated December 6, 1998, “When Homing Pigeons Don’t Go Home Again,” reported pigeon races ending in a disaster soon after cell towers were installed in one region of Pennsylvania. More than 90% of the birds were disoriented and lost their navigational skills and exhibited abnormal frantic behavior near the cell towers.

Researchers are particularly interested in the effects of RFR on bee populations, which are already suffering alarming losses due to

pesticides, climate change, loss of habitat and air pollution. Bees are a critical pollinator species for agriculture.

Of the 100 crops that provide 90% of the world’s food supply, 71 are pollinated by bees, according to a report by the U.N. Environmental Program. The report also notes that to produce 1 kilogram of honey, a bee must visit four million flowers and fly a distance equivalent to going around the Earth four times.

Bees, like birds, contain magnetite magneto-receptors in their abdomens and RFR from cell antennas has been shown to disrupt their navigational skills as well, reducing the number of worker bees returning to their hives with the nectar needed to sustain their colony.

Indian researcher, Dr. Sainuddin Pattazhy, found that even when a cell phone was attached to a beehive, the foraging bees did not return, resulting in the collapse of the colony in less than two weeks.

What would Rachel Carson think of this new wireless world in which we live? Are wireless technologies, like pesticides, going to leave us a profitable but toxic legacy? We need to re-think new technologies and innovation and ask ourselves “just because we can, should we?”

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Play ball during the COVID-19 pandemic

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n the spirit of baseball fun and advancing our emotional wellness, I was thinking about the fact that there are no fans in the stands.

Instead, some stadiums have replaced fans with what appear to be pandemic era cardboard cutout figures in the stands. I understand that if you pay a hundred dollars or so, you can put your own image in a seat?

Here’s an idea: as long as we are doling the cash, couldn’t we have more of a choice?

Why couldn’t we pay for cutouts of our own choosing; for example, people who we love and admire, or that we simply have a fascination with, who have passed on and who we might like to see in the stands during a game. The camera could zoom in on them during breaks in the action.

For example, put Murderers Row from the 1927 Yankees in the stands — Earle Combs, Mark Koenig, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob

Meusel, and Tony Lazzeri. Or, past presidents like TR and Lincoln; and organized crime figures like Al Capone, Owney Madden, Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano.

What about historical figures like Genghis Kahn, Mahatma Gandhi, Henry the Eighth and Che Guevara? And labor leaders like Cesar Chavez, Marvin Miller, Jimmy Hoffa and Delores Huerta.

And, then there’s civil rights leaders and reformers like MLK, John Lewis and Rosa Parks. And, of course, abolitionist Harriet Tubman. If they won’t put her on a twenty-dollar bill we can at least give her a reserved seat at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field.

And, why not give Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman their place in the sun, alongside James Meredith and the Kennedy brothers; with box seats for Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Denise McNair and Addie Mae Collins — the four little girls killed in the 1963 church bombing at the 16th Street

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Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Why not invite writers Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, James Baldwin, Agatha Christie, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou and muckraker Upton Sinclair.

Naturally, we’d invite former Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison; actresses Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Shirley Temple

and Liz Taylor; human rights activists Eleanor Roosevelt and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jane Addams; prize fighters Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey.

And, we’d rip out a few seats, for sure, to make room for Andre the Giant.

We’d find seats for Charlie Chapman, Buster Keaton, WC Fields and Sam Kinison. And, why not great characters like Mighty Mouse and Bugs Bunny, along with Roger & Jessica Rabbit, Boris & Natasha, Rocky & Bullwinkle and Crusader Rabbit & Ragland T. Tiger.

Oh yeah, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles and Sergio Leone in the stands at each of the four bases for a full perspective.

And, don’t forget SNL’s Andy Kaufman, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, John Candy and Chris Farley.

We could jazz up the stands with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis,

John Coltrane, Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.

We’d put Ginger Baker in the bleachers to perform drum solos between innings.

Add some rhythm and blues with Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel and Rick Danko.

We would fill the rest of the seats with the thousands who died on 9/11.

And, what would any game be, especially in New York, without Red Barber, Mel Allen, Phil Rizzuto, Ralph Kiner, Lindsey Nelson and Bob Murphy cutouts in the booth, alongside Bob Sheppard and John Facenda, the “voice of God”, at the announcers’ table.

Now, that’s a crowd would make for a fun audience, and a great seventh inning stretch rendition of “Take me out to the ballgame.”

Who would you add?

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OUR TOWN

The reasons we need sport, now especially

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here is great fear by some of my younger athlete patients that organized sport will not return after this COVID-enforced layoff. These are serious worries for a scholarship student since a full ride to college means at least $60,000 per year of free education.

One can understand their anxiety but this is my response.

The existence of what we humans call sport or recreation or play is not a random occurrence that a pandemic can snuff out of reality. Sport is as crucial a part of human life as work and family and has been here just as long.The first great text on the importance of sport was written

in 1938 by Johan Huizinga, a Dutch historian. He traced the origins of human play back to the origins a man and suggested that play and sport are far from superfluous.

Sports allows us to step out of real life and enter a special reality with separate unique rules. It engenders a sense of freedom and an approximation of perfection.

The aesthetics of the playing field is balanced, often beautiful and captivating. The look of a baseball diamond is a good example of this aesthetic.

Playing a sport often creates a permanent community and sense of belonging. There is a secret quality to each sport

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with its own special and odd language. Only golfers know what greenie, bogey, premium, double-double and chippie mean.Each sport requires a special form of dress. Golfers were outlandish colors and tennis players like all white. These ‘uniforms’ set the sport apart from reality.

Who doesn’t like the look of a rider with their uber-cool looking jodhpurs and riding boots? Sport is separated from reality but in fact transcends it in every way.

The sporting arena requires a display of finesse, training, courage, poise, bravery, perseverance, strength, preparation, focus and more. It expresses the most valued of human traits and why professional athletes are paid so well.

They are the cultures role models despite Charles Barkley’s’ insistence that they are not.But Huizinga was not the only great thinker to describe the value of sports. Freud, who many consider the greatest thinker of the 20th century, described humans as being driven by two great animal urges, sex and aggression and the only way a culture is established and maintained is if it provides humans with ways to sublimate or displace our animals drives in safe and acceptable ways.

And sport is one of the best ways to sublimate both these drives. The physical act of any athlete is both a thing of beauty and a controlled way to kill.

Michael Jordan dunking a basketball is a thing of beauty and of violence as well.

I once asked the basketball great, Dave DeBusschere, if he thought basketball was a violent game and he answered “I’ve had my nose broken seven times. Does that answer your question?”There are other great thinkers who have remarked on the value of sports. Alfred Adler was the creator of the theory of the inferiority complex and suggested that the way to overcome one’s sense of inferiority was to compensate by overachieving in sports or in other ways.And

there are many others like Heinz Kohut, Christopher Lasch and JohnBerger all of who described the emergence of the culture of narcissism which forced us all to show off our stuff in order to gain recognition and not become invisible.

So these are just are some of the unconscious reasons that sport is a part of our life that will never leave us. In fact, it is more important than ever as the electronic age of information forces us into our heads more and more sport is a primary way of escaping from this information madness in our heads and finding a way back to our body and to the world.And that is what I say to any of my professional or student-athletes that speak to me in my office. COVID is a temporary pause in the action. And soon enough we will be hearing blessed words like “play ball,” and “on the tee next is… Tiger Woods.”Or better yet we may catch a glimpse of the song of summer: “Take me out to the ballgame,Take me out with the crowd.Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,I don’t care if I never get back.Let me root, root, root for the home team,If they don’t win it’s a shame.For its one, two, three strikes you’re out at the old ball game.”

READERS WRITE

Storm warning for employment prospects

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U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey

few weeks ago, I put out an article warning people that a jobs recovery may be a long and painful process. (Don’t count on a fast employment recovery- The Island Now — May 21, 2020) Data just released by the Census Department could prove that to be the case, and worse than previously thought.

In recovery, there are usually some fast and easy initial gains as companies recover from an initial shock, find their footing, and settle into a “new normal.”

And indeed, we saw a tremendous jump in people returning to their jobs in the Labor Dept. report produced early this month, with 4.8 million recorded. From there on, you would expect more gains, but at a somewhat muted pace, which again, is normal in a recovery.

However, the Census Bureau report shows we may get a negative jobs print when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its monthly report on Aug. 7.

The Census Bureau uses a “Household Pulse Survey” to determine trends in employment as well as household wellbeing, like availability of food and shelter.

For the week ending July 14th, employment appears to have shrunk by 4.7 million. Now there IS some seasonality to these numbers, being the first two weeks of July, and COVID offers a convenient excuse for downtime. But even factoring in past years’ seasonal variances, the numbers will be ugly.

It is easy to see how this happened.

With mostly larger states like ours that were initially hit by COVID reopening their economies in phases, and other states simultaneously refusing to take any precautions, we produced a solid gain in employment.

As those states that are now reckoning with the consequences of their behavior close down, that trend has now been broken. We could be in for a very difficult time, “like nothing you have ever seen before.”

The responsibility for this carnage lies with one man, and that is irrefutable.

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Highlighting advances in tumor treatments

BY R O S E W E L D ON Physicians from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research in Manhasset and the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in Garden City have co-authored a comprehensive update on biotechnology breakthroughs in brain tumor research.

The paper, entitled “Update on Glioma Biotechnology” and co-written in collaboration with the department of neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, is a culmination of all three institutes’ neuro-oncology research and emerging therapies, much of which was presented at the 2019 Brain Tumor Biotechnology Summit at Lenox Hill, according to paper co-author Dr. John Boockvar, who serves as vice chair of neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital and co-director of the Feinstein Institutes’ Brain Tumor Biotech Center.

“The goal of the Brain Tumor Biotech Summit is to provide a forum that encourages collaboration between cancer specialists, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry leaders, and the investment community in order to promote innovation and advance emerging therapies for brain tumors,” Boockvar said.

“With our published work, my colleagues and I have provided an update regarding

emerging therapies for brain tumors, including receptor targeting, methods for improved blood brain barrier disruption with intra-arterial drug delivery and other innovative intraoperative techniques and technologies.”

The report discusses the progress that has been made in brain tumor biotechnology and highlights innovative advances in the treatment of malignant brain tumors, with new information regarding various therapies used, including updated results, along with detailed information about new and ongoing clinical trials.

“Dr. Boockvar established an interdisciplinary effort to ignite progress in brain tumor research,” said Dr. Kevin J. Tracey, president and CEO of the Feinstein Institutes. “This review highlights the potential for collaborative strategies, offering hope new therapies may be on the horizon for patients with glioblastoma multiforme.”

“Update on Glioma Biotechnology” was co-authored by Marc Symons of the Feinstein Institutes; Madeline Abrams and Dr. Christopher G. Filippi of the Zucker School of Medicine; and Mona Li, Sherese Fralin, Tamika Wong, Noah Reichman, Dr. Nitesh V. Patel, Dr. Randy D’Amico, Dr. David Langer, Dr. Deepak Khatri and Boockvar.

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Swiss bank gets arena naming rights Islanders home at Belmont to be called UBS Arena in 20-year agreement worth $350M

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ The naming rights to Belmont Arena, which is on course to be the official home of the New York Islanders in 2021-22, were picked up by the United Bank of Switzerland, and the facility will be called UBS Arena, officials announced last Wednesday.

“Our group of fans are so excited about this situation that my mobile phone literally blew up, I had to turn it off because of all the text messages,” Islanders co-owner Jon Ledecky said. “One of the fans wrote, ‘We’re going from the barn to the bank,’ which I thought was a really interesting expression.”

According to CNBC, the Switzerland-based investment bank agreed to terms for 20 years worth $350 million, paying roughly $17.5 million per year. The international bank’s United States headquarters are located in New York City.

“It’s another indication, representation, to the people of New York, particularly Islander fans, that all of the uncertainty that has

ity include a 23,000-square-foot locker room and training area and a sports bar decked out with memorabilia and a standing-room section with views of the ice.

The coronavirus pandemic caused construction on the arena to halt on March 27 before continuing two months later.

Officials and residents of Village of Floral Park, which neighbors the Belmont stadium, have expressed various grievances throughout the process.

In May, a state Supreme Court justice denied an application submitted by the village and local civic groups in an attempt to overturn state approvals for the development of the arena.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NEW YORK ISLANDERS “Although the Court recognized the Village of Floral Park’s Belmont Arena will be named UBS Arena under agreement with Swiss bank. ‘legitimate concerns’ with the scope of the Belmont Project and the Belmont Project’s impact on surrounded this franchise over going to be in a state-of-the-art, containing 250 rooms and parking the Village’s residents, the Court the last couple of decades, all of first-class arena, which is some- on 43 acres of vacant state-owned determined that it may not ‘subthe people who were concerned thing from a hockey standpoint property broke ground last Sep- stitute its judgment’ for the judgtember. Also being built with the ment of the Empire State Develwhat was the future of the team this team hasn’t had in years.”

Construction on the 19,000- project is the first new full-time opment Corp.,” Floral Park Mayor going to be? Was it even going to be here?” National Hockey League seat arena to house the New York LIRR station in 50 years.

Dominick Longobardi said in a Amenities also included in statement.

Commissioner Gary Bettman said. Islanders, 350,000 square feet “Not only is the future secure, it’s of shops and restaurants, a hotel the soon-to-be constructed facilContinued on Page 46

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Council of Chambers postpones breakfast

BY E LL I OT W E L D The Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce has announced that it is postponing its annual breakfast, which is held each October at Crest Hollow County Club to honor business owners and provide an opportunity to network.

The council’s co-chair, Julie Marchesella, said the breakfast committee, in a virtual meeting, decided to postpone the event amid concerns over large crowds gathering, which could prove hazardous as the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the country. She said around 600 people usually gather.

She said she is unsure how many people would want to come amid virus concerns and is not sure the limit on large crowds will allow for it by Oct. 30. The council still has the date reserved at Crest Hollow in Woodbury and is discussing what to do next.

The council is an umbrella organization of all the chambers of commerce in Nassau County. Each chamber of commerce picks one member to be honored at the breakfast.

“It’s a small-business owner who has expanded upon the chamber in some way,” Marchesella said.

Marchesella has been involved with

the council for 28 years and is a member of three chambers of commerce on Long Island: Elmont, Merrick and Islip, and is the owner of the Queen of Hearts clothing store in Merrick. Another role of the NCCC, she said, is to help chambers that are struggling to make a community impact and to help them select and train board members.

In addition, the council lobbies in Albany for legislation that will help local business. Marchesella said that in recent years, small businesses have suffered losses to the rise of online retail and the internet.

The breakfast committee did consider having the event remotely. Marchesella said that the reason the group did not do this was that chamber members have great enthusiasm for receiving honors at the breakfast and they did not want to take away from that.

“Most members feel this is the Academy Awards of small business,” she said.

“We would sooner hold off and see what transpires. None of us on the breakfast committee felt it would be the same as a virtual event.”

Marchesella said that the event has grown immensely since she first got involved with it. Back then, the event usually garnered around 150 people, but it has slowly grown over time to its current size.

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Concern about missed cancer treatments

BY E LL I OT W E L D A doctor from Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau hospital in Uniondale has expressed concern that because of the COVID-19 pandemic, patients may not be getting early cancer diagnoses or treatment, crucial to successfully beating the disease.

Mike Bernstein, a radiation oncologist, said that he urges patients to get screened for cancer and continue their cancer treatment.

“We really want to drive home the fact that Memorial has always been available for high-quality treatment despite the pandemic,” Bernstein said.

“We feel that once the numbers started to trend in the right direction, it’s very important to no longer put off treatments.”

Bernstein said that Memorial Sloan Kettering did delay some treatments that were lowrisk and non-lifesaving for a few weeks when the pandemic broke out to see what trends would emerge in the virus but never delayed any lifesaving

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Dr. Mike Bernstein seeks to discourage cancer patients from putting off cancer treatment during the pandemic. treatment.

Cancer patients can have compromised immune systems and Bernstein said that doctors are always extremely sensitive to that during treatment, pandemic or no pandemic. Because of that, he said that the precau-

tions around COVID-19 are “not much of a change for us.” MSK has ramped up the precautions even more recently.

Every patient and employee who enters the hospital goes through a screening survey through e-mail or patient portal

which assesses any symptoms they may have that are related to the novel coronavirus.

The hospital has also been staggering appointments so there won’t be too many people in the waiting room at one time. It has introduced curbside check-in and an expedited check-out process to reduce the time patients have to wait.

Bernstein said another concern is that most patients who come to MSK already have a cancer diagnosis; those usually come from a primary care physician.

“Our concern is that people are home sheltering in place while cancer doesn’t shelter in place,” Bernstein said.

Diagnoses can come from routine procedures such as mammograms, colonoscopies or Pap smears, but with concerns about entering a doctor’s office, patients could be missing those, and Bernstein said early detection is crucial to successful treatment.

He said there are some initial reports that show a drop

in the rates of breast and colon cancer diagnoses, both of which are very common.

When the pandemic ends, Bernstein said one concern doctors have is that a wave of patients will come in who have put off treatment for too long.

“We would much rather have the flood of patients come in for necessary treatment than stay in place,” Bernstein said.

“We’ve been a major cancer treatment facility for over a century; we can handle it.”

Some problems have been alleviated by the explosion in telemedicine visits during the pandemic.

Bernstein said this has been a learning experience, but the feedback has been “overwhelmingly positive on both sides” since such visits offer flexibility in scheduling and the ability to maintain face-to-face interaction with patients.

Bernstein said he does not think that telemedicine will replace in-person visits, but there can be a place for both.

Island Harvest tackling ‘The show must go on’ food insecurity on L.I. for Gold Coast Arts events

BY E LL I OT W E L D Unemployment and economic contraction have caused people across the country to make tough decisions when it comes to money and food. Even an area as affluent as Long Island is not impervious to feeling those effects, according to Allison Puglia, vice president of programs

and agency relations at Island Harvest.

Island Harvest was recently given $2.1 million by the Town of Hempstead from the federal assistance it received from the CARES Act. The food bank is using that money to hire 21 staff members to add to its staff of 40 for the duration of the grant, which expires Dec. 31, Puglia said.

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BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z

The Gold Coast Arts Center had abided by the old adage of “the show must go on,” transferring its programs and events online due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Now, in the center’s 25th year, two of its major events will also be held in nontraditional manners.

Gold Coast’s founder and executive director, Regina Gil, confirmed that the center’s 25th Anniversary Gala will be held virtually on the evening of Sept. 14.

Gil said those in charge of organizing the gala agreed that holding the event on a virtual platform was the safest way to ensure it would happen without any risks of the virus spreading.

“Even if things are opening, it will be gradually,” Gil said. “Our supporters and parents of students have a certain level of anxiety [regarding the pandemic], and we did not want to risk anything.”

Gil said planning the event even under the most ideal circumstances can be strenuous, and the added pressure of having everyone in attendance abide by state-mandated health measures would only make matters more difficult.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THAT’S A WRAP PRODUCTIONS “Staging a full party with 2-300 people is very expensive and difficult to coIsland Harvest employees don masks and gloves to distribute food in the ordinate under good circumstances,” she said. “There was just no way this could COVID-19 era.

happen in person this year. We hoped for a bigger and in-person celebration, but we will still find a way to properly and safely celebrate 25 great years.”

Despite the changing of the platform, Gil said, those in attendance can still expect guest appearances, silent auctions, raffles and other surprises that will keep everyone entertained from the confines of their homes. Gil expressed her gratitude to the Gold Coast staff and supporters and said donations were needed to keep the arts center in business.

“Our center is based on support from the public, grants, foundations and individuals,” Gil said. “Even buying a book from one of our book talk events goes a long way. We depend so much on the public and we’re asking and hoping that people find that level of support to donate anything.”

One of the center’s most prominent public events is the international film festival, which is entering its 10th year.

The festival, according to the center’s associate director and film festival director, Caroline Sorokoff, will adopt a “hybrid model” featuring virtual and drive-in screenings.

“The one thing I can assure people that will not change about the festival is the quality of films that will be shown,” Continued on Page 39

Health,Wellness & The role diet can play in fighting cancer Many people are familiar with certain ways to reduce their risk for cancer. Avoiding tobacco, which the National Cancer Institute notes is a leading cause of cancer and death from cancer, and protecting oneself from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays by applying sunscreen are two of the most widely known ways to reduce cancer risk. But fewer people may recognize the important role diet can play in fighting cancer.

According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, a nutritious diet can reduce your cancer risk.

That makes eating right one of the easiest, not to mention the most delicious, ways to reduce your risk for a disease that is often preventable. But how exactly does diet lower cancer risk?

Healthy diets and healthy weights The American Cancer Society estimates that excess body weight is responsible for about 8 percent of all cancers and roughly 7 percent of all cancer deaths in the United States. A healthy diet full of fruits, vegetables and lean protein can help people lose weight and keep the weight off once it's gone, thereby reducing cancer risk.

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were the most physically active had a 19 percent lower risk of stomach cancer than those who were least active. By eating healthier foods and controlling their portions, people may discover they have more energy to get up and exercise, reaping all the rewards that such activity has to offer, including a lower risk for cancer.

Healthy diets and exercise Unhealthy foods and oversized portions can contribute to feelings of fatigue. Such feelings can make it hard to get off the couch and exercise.

While the ACS acknowledges that more studies are necessary to determine the link between sedentary behavior and cancer risk, various studies have shown links between physical activity and reduced cancer risk. For example, a 2016 meta-analysis of 10 cohort studies published in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine found that individuals who

Healthy diets and strong immune systems Another way certain foods can help you fight cancer is by bolstering your immune system, making it more capable of fighting disease. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, a world renowned medical center devoted exclusively to cancer patient care, notes that the fiber, phytochemicals and antioxidants humans get from consuming plants bolster their immune systems. A strong immune system is a vital ally in the fight against cancer.

The old adage "You are what you eat" is rooted in truth. And people who eat healthy foods are more likely to be healthy as a result.

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Avoid dehydration in the great outdoors iting, sweating too much, and urinating too much are some other factors that can cause someone to become dehydrated.

Hiking, fishing and swimming are among the more popular ways to experience the great outdoors. Outdoor enthusiasts may find nothing better than a day on their favorite trail or an afternoon spent fishing or swimming in a nearby lake.

Nature can inspire a sense awe and wonder, and in such situations it can be easy to overlook safety. That’s a potentially dangerous mistake but one that is easily avoided. Nature enthusiasts accustomed to spending long hours in the great outdoors are vulnerable to a host of potentially dangerous conditions, including dehydration. Avoiding dehydra-

tion involves learning to recognize its signs and symptoms and how to prevent it from occurring.

What is dehydration?

According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, dehydration occurs when the body loses more fluids than it is taking in. When that happens, the body does not have enough fluids to function properly.

What causes dehydration?

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Why are outdoors enthusiasts at risk of dehydration?

Outdoor enthusiasts who spend ample time outdoors during hot weather are at risk of dehydration if they do not drink enough fluids while outside. The risk of dehydration on hot days is higher because people are more likely to sweat a lot when the temperature rises. If those fluids are not replenished, and replenished often, dehydration can occur. In addition, the USNLM notes that outdoor exercise during hot days increases the risk of dehydration. Outdoor activities that are physically challenging, such as hiking, rock climbing and kayaking, are a form of exercise that can make participants more vulnerable to dehydration.

What are the symptoms of dehydration?

The Mayo Clinic notes that thirst is not always a reliable indicator that the body needs water. Older adults are more vulnerable to dehydration than others because they naturally have a lower volume of water in their bodies. Aging men and women also don’t typically feel thirsty until they’re already dehydrated.

So it benefits people of all ages, and especially the elderly, to learn these symptoms of dehydration.

· Extreme thirst · Less frequent urination · Dark-colored urine · Dry mouth · Less frequent sweating · Feeling tired · Dizziness · Dry skin Parents should know that infants and children may exhibit symptoms of dehydration that differ from those experienced by adults. Such symptoms may include: · Dry mouth and tongue · Crying without tears · No wet diaper for three hours or more · High fever · Being unusually sleepy or drowsy · Irritability · Eyes that appear sunken Can dehydration be prevented?

Ensuring sufficient fluid intake can help people avoid dehydration. Drinking enough water each day and avoiding outdoor physical activity on hot days are some other ways to reduce dehydration risk. In addition, avoid sugary and/or caffeinated beverages to reduce risk for dehydration.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

NHTV to hold virtual activities for North Hempstead The Town of North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth has announced that the Department of Community Services has expanded its virtual programming by adding new and innovative remote activities for residents.

The offerings include targeted programs for children and seniors along with entertainment for residents of all ages.

“We have adapted our recreational offerings during these unprecedented times to present fun and interactive programs for residents to enjoy in the comfort of their own homes,” Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said.

“We wanted to be able to offer pro-

grams that the Town normally hosts, but in a virtual setting so everyone can still participate. This ensures that we can do our part in helping to keep our residents safe and allow them to watch and learn something new at the same time.”

New programming highlights include the following: Cooking classes by the Cooking Lab in Port WashingtonSign language classes by ASL DiscoveriesJapanese language class and crafts by Long Island Japanese Culture CenterBubble workshops by BubbleDadArt classes by Marie Saint-CyrYoga, singalongs, and more!

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READERS WRITE

Now the time for liberal readers to speak up

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am pleased to see that this newspaper continues to print letters from different opinions, although in my opinion, you seem to favor those with a conservative point of view.

Perhaps it’s just that more conservative people write in.

If that’s the case, I urge my fellow liberal readers to express yourselves, loud and clear, now

more than ever. Our democratic republic is in danger, and it is our duty as citizens to speak up and take action before America succumbs to the fascist elements now in power.

Great Neck has a long and proud history of progressive activism, going back over fifty years to the Civil Rights era.

Where are all the progressive people of Great Neck in 2020?

In the Ides of the Moon

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ach passing year I celebrate an anniversary and dedicate a poem as an offering in the spirit of gratitude, each life a gift to the other is our promise home.

In the Ides of the Moon A gathering of large greys jumped far off, and by their reach made it at least twenty feet out of the water under a full moon.

The wind musing low, the leaps and bounds resound with a resonance like the bleating of sheep, what no one notices away in civilization.

I need to be here on this sandy shore, something of a speck in the ides of the moon, the sky simple and wide open, and night is a song.

Each part of the world becomes meaningful, as the deep breath of the ocean rises and falls.

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Don’t stay silent. Now more than ever, it’s time to take action!

I am on the executive board of Reach Out America, a grassroots progressive non-profit organization thatwas founded over 15years ago by two of Great Neck’s well known political activists, Shirley Romaine and Fran Reid.

We advocate for human

rights, the environment, the social safety net, and world peace. We present monthly speakers on timely topics of interest (meetings will resume in September, online for the time being).

In this time of turmoil across America, I urge interested readers to join this worthwhile organization and make your voice heard.

For more information, please visit our website athttps://www.reachout-america. com/and join us to work for meaningful change on both a local and a national level. We are also on Facebook, athttps:// www.facebook.com/ReachOutAmerica.LI/.

Nina K. Gordon Great Neck

Biden’s plan bad for ’burbs

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n response to Donald Davret’s July 10, 2020 letter, “Don’t block door on Nassau’s housing needs,” I offer the following information to the readers for serious consideration: Stanley “Kurtz said in an interview airing Sunday (7/26/20) at 8 p.m. ET (repeated Saturday 8/1/20 at 7 p.m. ET) on “Life, Liberty & Levin” that Obama and his wing of the Democratic Party viewed suburbs as “fundamentally unjust” communities that prevent taxation from flowing into the urban cities they surround.On Thursday (7/23/20), Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson announced that he is stripping Obama’s AFFH Rule from the Fair Housing Act, saying the rule “was an overreach of unelected Washington bureaucrats into local communities” — a point echoed by Kurtz.”Carson called the rule a “ruse for social engi-

neering under the guise of desegregation — essentially turning HUD into a national zoning board.”“The move comes after President Donald Trump characterized the 2015 rule as an existential threat to the suburban way of life that will bring about more crime and lower home prices.In a statement, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said the regulation is known as Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, or the AFFH rule, was “unworkable and ultimately a waste of time for localities to comply with.”For those interested in the history of earlier failed forays in housing social engineering programs I call your attention to the following:“The Community Reinvestment Act is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communi-

ties, including low and moderate-income neighborhoods.

Congress passed the Act in 1977 to reduce discriminatory credit practices against low-income neighborhoods, a practice known as redlining.”“Cuomo, who was secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1997 to 2001, has been blamed in some quarters for helping to trigger the financial crisis by pushing Fannie and Freddie to buy more subprime mortgages to increase homeownership among the poor. Many of those homeowners eventually defaulted, and the mortgagebacked securities market later collapsed.”In conclusion, who is willing to offer their community as the guinea pig for an AFFH social engineering program if Biden or his future extreme left running mate becomes president?

Walter J. Jaworski New Hyde Park

Why is racial bigotry being stirred up now?

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n 1960 I received a letter of greetings from the POTUS informing me that my friends and neighbors had selected me to be a member of the armed forces of this great country.

I answered the call and served 39 months of active duty (overseas) and another 33

months in the reserves. I served under three presidents.

When we arrived in Fort Benning Ga., we were met by a bunch of mostly southern state military instructors who told us in no uncertain terms that no matter where we came from or no matter the color of our skin

we were all the same.

We were told that the guy in the foxhole with you or the guy standing guard while we slept was our best friend and we took it to heart. I met some really fine men of all colors in the service and thank God for the experience.

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Yes we all got hungry, we all got cold we all got lonely and tired but we learned to respect and rely on one another. We found out that we had a lot in common and learned to live and work together.

I am absolutely outraged when I hear politicians, supposedly holy men, some members of the media and even a former president stirring up inter-racial bigotry and feel sad that this is allowed to happen in 2020.

Sixty years ago it would not have been tolerated in the military even though it was still happening in some civilian areas.

Why is all this being stirred up

now? To divide us, do not let it happen!

We are all Americans, we have to rely and depend on each other, forget about all the poisonous stuff being spouted by these bigots who call themselves political or religious leaders, ask a veteran how it was in the military and how we all got along for the betterment of our country.

God bless America. I support law and order and thank veterans for their part in keeping our republic free.

Peter Burnside Mineola

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READERS WRITE

Withdrawing from re-elex bid in Baxter Estates

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fter proudly serving for 15 years as a trustee, I withdraw my nomination for re-election, scheduled for Sept. 15, 2020. I encourage all civic-minded residents to consider organizing a write-in campaign for this open seat on the Village of Baxter Estates Board of Trustees.

COVID-19 has far-reaching impacts, including cancellation of my return to the USA from a New Year’s celebration with family in Taiwan.

This safest of democratic countries, with outstanding public health, has graciously extended my visa until the global pandemic subsides. I hope for a safe return

to my home community of Baxter Estates in the very near future.

My name remains on the ballot, but even if re-elected I would miss the swearing-in ceremony and not serve.

I encourage all residents to re-elect my running mate, Alice Pecklis.

Also, seek out and support a worthy

write-in candidate to fill the open seat, and apply now with the village office for an absentee ballot.

Douglas Baldwin Trustee, Village of Baxter Estates

Port Washington flunks Niche community test

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t looks like our Port Washington community has turned the corner and is now heading downward.

The Internet news site, Patch, reported today that Niche.com had just published its annual list of the 100 best places to buy a house in the NYC area. 20 of the communities listed are in Nassau County, while 4 are in Suffolk.

Port Washington is not listed and no

area in Port Washington is listed, as one of the 20 Nassau County communities to buy a house in.

The 24 L.I. communities chosen by Niche are (in the order of their ranking) : Great Neck Gardens, Syosset, Roslyn Estates, Plainview, Hewlett Harbor, Great Neck Plaza, Cold Spring Harbor, East Hills, South Valley Stream, Stony Brook, Jericho, Halesite, East Williston, Belle-

rose, Kensington, North Wantagh, Merrick, Herricks, West Bay Shore, Wheatly Heights, Bethpage, Great Neck Estates, Wantagh and Greenvale.

The key factors used by Niche.com to determine if a community is a “best place to buy a house in” are: the location’s housing market, home values, taxes, crime rates and the quality of local schools.

Well, I’m sorry to have to tell you, my fellow Port Washington resident, that we flunked the Niche test. And, in my estimation, things are not going to get any better in Port Washington, in the foreseeable future, thanks to inept, unaware and uncaring political and civic leadership.

Joel Katz Port Washington

Gov. Cuomo has it right on wearing masks

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ov. Andrew Cuomo has tried to impress on us that it is of great importance to wear masks and to social distance. For that, I agree 100 percent.

Now there are some businesses that are not abiding by the rules during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are young people between the ages of 19-30 who have not gotten the message and don’t realize they can died of COVID-19.

There are also many others who don’t seem to have gotten the message that wearing masks and social distancing saves lives. I was in a laundromat in Queens today and a woman walked in without a mask even though the sign on the window said a mask was required and proceeded in doing her laundry.

I was ready to leave and told the owner who said he would talk to her. I don’t know the end result, I hope he was

able to convince the woman to wear a mask.

Now my company Northeast Plumbing Specialty in Mineola that I work for in Nassau County have signs that say,” Wearing a mask is required to enter Plumbing Supply.”

This sign is posted both front and back of building.

Also, all employees have to wear masks and to practice distancing. Let me

also mention that I have worked for the company for 40 years.

Many companies do the same, too bad some people don’t care about the lives they endanger. I guess some people don’t want to be heroes by wearing masks and saving lives, what a shame.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Bellerose

Trump, love and the coronavirus pandemic

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love Donald Trump. Who else besides him can say that. He saved 2 million lives because of his quick response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Factually, the news of his quick actions spread across the world and because of him, the number saved exceeded 20 million or perhaps even 200 hundred million.

Places as far away as Mars lauded his action. Or is it the other way around. We all know that Trump has magical powers.

Hopefully, he’ll soon make himself disappear. If he doesn’t do it, we should do it. It’s a matter of health, for our country.

With the coronavirus now under control, Trump is pushing for school openings, so that children of all ages can return to school and parents can return to work.

He also wants parents to sign a disclaimer which means that if they or any of their children contract the disease, the government will not be liable.

For Trump’s efforts, that’s the least parents can do.

To show his empathy, he has proposed that if any child succumbs to that disease,

the government will take it upon themselves to cover the costs of all funeral arrangements. However, it should be noted that this is a limited time offer. It’s good until the president decides that it is not.

Additionally, this offer shall be limited to only one child per family. Praise the Lord and pass the vaccine.

Let’s move on to the upheaval that’s taking place in Portland, Ore. Protesters are destroying the city.

Trump was right to bring in his personal soldiers to not only calm down the situation but to also attack the enemy protesters and send them back to where they belong.

Since when do citizens have the right to protest? As a ploy, the protesters brought a contingent of mothers or moms in to protect them as if they were little babies. Little did the soldiers know until it was almost too late that these “Wall of Moms” had as weapons sharp needles that were hidden in their ammunition sewing baskets.

You and I know that these needle pricks can really hurt and do a great deal of damage. A little tear gas straightened out

these mothers. Let’s hear it for this five-star decision-maker, General Donald Trump, the same individual who served his country in uniform for, I just can’t remember, how many years?

So many things on his plate, yet he even had the time to take a test.

I think that test was summarized in the final book of a series titled “Cognitive Test for Dummies.” It’s funny. I don’t recall noticing anyone close to him whose lips move when Trump is talking. They’re really professional. That’s Entertainment!

As for the election, that’s a sure thing.

With Trump smartly putting up so many safeguards, to ensure that voting is fair, his own vote will be the deciding one in his victory that will end up as one vote to none in his favor.

This method will certainly make his friend Putin proud. Did you know how the Russians honor their great historical figures?

In the basement of the Kremlin is a Wall of Tribute with plaques that feature such dignitaries as Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Krush-

chev, Putin and the latest entry, Trump.

To make the Trump name more Russian sounding, they added an s-k-y, thus renaming him Trumpsky.

According to Trump, now that the coronavirus is over, he wants to focus on the major problem of the day; how to increase the ratings of the reruns of “The Apprentice,” the greatest television show of all time?

Can anyone argue with that? No way, for we all know that it’s impossible to win an argument with our great leader, one who knows it all. After all, he is a know-it-all.

Trump in his heart believes that the coronavirus pandemic is over. He prefers not to wear a mask. “Take off your masks,” he implores us to do.

That’s right. No need. Stand close to each other. Take a deep breath. Exhale.

Share and share-alike. Trump loves all of us who live in our great country. Believe me, this is truly a love story. God help us.

Alvin H. Goldberg Great Neck

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READERS WRITE

Enforce mask rules at Parkwood, Steppingstone

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eople in Great Neck are awfully cavalier about my health and the health of everyone in my somewhat senior community.The sign, “A simple ask, wear a mask” should have been

sufficient but no, people at the Parkwood pool and at Steppingstone do not comply.

The role of the commissioners and the super, Jason Marra, should be to step up enforcement in order to keep

the facilities open for people like me.

What we have now is a system where the potentially ill are out and about while the safe and healthy are stuck indoors.

Well, I for one am not going to take it anymore. I ask everyone who shares my concern to call Parks Super Jason Marra and let him know that the parks are here for the healthy but silenced majority.

Call him, write to him and attend their next zoom meeting.

David Levin Great Neck

Breakdown of Dem-run cities threatens ’burbs

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wo years ago, Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Trump, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for lying to Congress, among other counts, during the failed fiasco of the Mueller investigation into the non-existent collusion of thencandidate Trump with Russian operatives to rig the 2016 election in his favor.

Stone, now 67, was arrested in a predawn raid on his home by a heavily armed SWAT team, “coincidentally” caught by a CNN camera crew that just happened to be parked outside his home at 4 a.m. Imagine that.

According to Jan Wolfe from Reuters, Stone had connections to the WikiLeaks website, which released damaging emails about Trump’s election rival Hillary

Clinton. Uh oh…can’t have those damning e-mails released. Hence the sadistically harsh sentence — the original recommendation was seven-to-nine years — and the brouhaha when President Trump commuted Stone’s sentence a couple of weeks ago.

Of course, the leftwing media were “outraged,” “shocked,” “appalled” at President Trump’s miscarriage of justice. You would think, as reported by Mark Hyman, that he had just pardoned two-dozen FALN Puerto-Rican terrorists who murdered at least 24 people. Or commuted the 58year sentence of far-left terrorist Susan Rosenberg after only 16 years.

Or pardoned Marc Rich, who renounced his U.S. citizenship, did business with Iran while it held 52 U.S. hostages, and with

Libya which was responsible for the Pan Am 103 bombing that killed 189 Americans.

Oops, that was President Bill Clinton. Just before good ole boy Bill issued the pardons, Rich gave $450,000 to the Clinton Library and his wife Denise donated over a million dollars to the Democrat Party and the Clinton Foundation. Imagine that. But not a word from the craven media.

Many of Barack Obama’s pardons and commutations were for drug dealers and violent offenders, as well as for Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning, the traitor who leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents to WikiLeaks and was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison; for the convicted terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera, the leader of the FALN, responsible

for 130 attacks in the U.S., who was serving a 70-year sentence when Obama set him free, et al.

But Stone lied to the proven pathological liars in the Obama regime’s FBI, CIA, DOJ, et al, who were trying to frame candidate and then President Trump.

Well, whaddaya know? The entire uproar is already off the radar as the corrupt media are now back to: Covering for the escalating crimes of BLM and Antifa;Pretending that the Centers for Disease Control are not dispensing erroneous information about COVID-19,Failing to report on the jaw-dropping incompetence of the Democrat mayors in our country — de Blasio in New York, Eric Garcetti in L.A., Lori Lightfoot in Chicago, Bernard “Jack” Young

in Baltimore,Ted Wheeler in Portland, Ore, on and on and on — who are clearly incapable of stemming the steep upsurge in crime, including murder,Trying to ignore the recent resignee from the New York Times, liberal Bari Weiss, who outed the newspaper as the racist, sexist, antiSemitic rag it has been since its inception.

The vast American public out there already knows of the Democrats’ double standards. They see the breakdown of law and order in Democrat-run cities and its encroachment into the suburbs.

They are watching Joe Biden’s rapid devolution. Happily, the Democrats themselves are now waking up!

Joan Swirsky Great Neck

MTA budgets rely on congestion pricing

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ew York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Pat Foye has been consistently outspoken in his criticism of President Trump and the Federal Highway Administration concerning obtaining permission from Washington to begin congestion price tolling in Manhattan.

Foye and others blame both the President and FHWA for continued delays in the advancement of the federal NEPA Environmental Review process. MTA has been waiting for guidance to determine if the implementation for Congestion Toll pricing will need a less detailed Environmental Assessment or more complex Environmental Impact Statement.

In the meantime, nothing has prevented the MTA from preparing all the data necessary to support either environmental document over past months.

Most recently, both Foye and MTA Capital Construction President Janno Lieber have both said the MTA will miss the previously anticipated start date of Jan. 1,

2021 for congestion pricing.

They went on to say that the delay could be up to one year more. During this same time period, both Pat Foye and Janno Lieber have been relatively silent when it comes to the lack of any activity on the part of the MTA Traffic Mobility Review Board.

They also play a critical role in starting Congestion Price Tolling. Even with any future NEPA finding by FHWA, congestion tolls can’t be implemented until this board is constituted and completes its own mission.

This process to start and complete final determination for congestion toll pricing could take up to a year. It is a very politically sensitive issue.

The board will have to deal with divergent groups and opinions on who should pay and how much. To reach a political consensus will be the equivalent of threading a very small needle.

The Congestion Pricing Commission was specifically created by elected officials as Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City

Mayor Bill de Blasio, state Senate leader Andrea Steward Cousins and state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

It is crafted so that they and members of their respective legislative chambers can avoid accountability or blame for any negative outcomes. This body will determine congestion pricing.

Tolls are supposed to raise $15 billion toward funding the MTA $51 billion 2020-2024 Five Year Capital Plan. The board is made up of one chairperson and five members. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio never announced their respective members.

Eight months later, why have they not made these critical appointments? Details of who will pay what can never be resolved and made public until this board is established, proceeds and completes its assigned mandated tasks.

Elected officials from outside of Manhattan including the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, those representing

surrounding suburban Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Putnam and Rockland counties along with New Jersey and Connecticut will continue lobbying for exemptions or special discounted tolls for their respective constituents.

Those representing employees of essential municipal services such as police and fire along with seniors, physically challenged, independent small businesses, FedEx, Amazon, UPS and others will also be looking for favors.

Issuing more exemptions or special discounts will result in less MTA revenue. This commission, if it is every constituted, will decide the cost for congestion pricing. They will be meeting behind closed doors to work out these critical details.

This is inconsistent with both Cuomo’s and deBlasio’s respective promises to conduct the most open and transparent administrations in the history of state and municipal government. The final recommendations for tolling were supposed to be announced before the end of November

2020.

Even if congestion pricing starts in 2022, due to the economic downturn as a result of COVID-19, it is doubtful with only three years left in the 20202025 Five Year Capital Plan, that the amount actually raised will be anywhere close to the anticipated $15 billion.

We could be in an economic recession into 2022. Sooner rather than later, the MTA is going to have to come to grips with reality.

Without congestion pricing and other anticipated revenue streams. the $51 billion 20202024 Five Year Capital Plan may have to be cut by $10 to $20 billion. This will result in a plan closer to the previous $32 billion 2015-2019 Five Year Capital Plan.

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

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COVID-19 relief needed by states, localities Continued from Page 16 County governments run emergency operations centers and 911 services, court and jail management, public safety, protective services for children, seniors and veterans, and coroners and medical examiners.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, reporting on a study about the impact of COVID-19, said Long Island “shed jobs here faster than NYC “– 270,000 jobs evaporated in just the first two months, 375,000 projected for the year. The hospitality sector alone lost 82,000 jobs; health care and social assistance shed 59,000.

Altogether, Long Island workers are expected to lose $21 billion in earnings while Long Island faces

$61 billion in reduced economic activity. The counties expect a 30 percent fall in tax revenue.

Nassau is looking at a $749 million deficit over 18 months, “100 percent due to COVID. We stayed indoors. We did the right thing.”

Suffolk is looking at an $800 million budget gap, but even layoffs, lags in payroll, increasing sales tax and amortizing pension (the last thing we should be doing is laying off workers and increasing taxes) –only amount to $150 million.

“This is a catastrophic situation.

“This would be a manageable crisis if federal disaster aid comes through. But without it, the numbers we are talking about are catastrophic, not an ‘economic downturn.’ The difference is between

a manageable fiscal crisis versus catastrophe if there is no Heroes Act, no direct funding to states and counties,“ Bellone said.

States and localities should be the ones to spend money to provide public education – whether making the physical improvements to create safe environments in school buildings, PPE, hiring more staff, or improving virtual learning.

States and localities should be the ones to conduct testing, hire back from the unemployed the contact tracers and frontline and essential workers. They should expand Medicaid, reopen Obamacare and staff clinics.

It should go to shore up Food Stamps, food banks and programs to keep renters in their apartments and homeowners in their homes.

Instead, Trump and Mnuchin are salivating on making yet another fortune, as in 2008’s Housing Collapse, while using evictions as yet another form of voter suppression – challenging the right of people to cast a vote who have been thrown out of their residences. (It also helps them in sabotaging the census and apportionment).

Funding should go to maintain the nonprofits and institutions that are foundational to our communities and our society – the arts centers, the museums, the theaters which are holding on by thumbs.

Dollars should go to shoring up the US Post Office and election protection and to complete the census – all of which pay people to work as well as provide vital services for communities.

In this way, the stimulus would not only keep the services most vital at this crucial time, but actually support the economy, ripple through the economy and do real good.

“If Washington doesn’t provide state and local aid, there will be drastic budget cuts,” Governor Cuomo said. “We have about a $14 billion loss of revenue. We have about a $5 billion cost of this COVID virus. I’m calling on Republican lawmakers in this state to stand united with New York. It’s time to put your politics aside, stand up and call on your colleagues to do the right thing. You were elected to represent the people of this state, not the Republican Party. Fight for New Yorkers as loudly as you play politics for your party.”

COMMUNITY NEWS

Taking submissions Planting Fields set to for ‘Art at 50 plus’ open Chanler exhibit

Submission period Aug. 3-21 VIRTUAL Exhibition Dates: Sept. 15 – Nov. 7 Following the 2019 Art at 50 Plusexhibition, Islip Arts and AARP Long Island are collaborating againto present the best works of art in a variety of media from amateur and professional artists over the age of 50.

This year, due to social distancing rules, the exhibition is going virtual. Artists are invited to submit their work from Aug. 3 through Aug. 21.

Whether new to making art or creating for a long time, New York State artists who are 50 years and older can submit their new artwork for the upcoming Art at 50 PLUS: New Beginnings virtual exhibition. Work in any/all media will be considered, but previously exhibited work is excluded. A personal statement describing your artwork must be included with each submission. Artwork should reflect

the theme of facing new beginnings and the artist’s emotions during this uncertain time.

“While doing something positive and giving back often motivates the second half of our lives, this health crisis has thrown us the curve of not knowing how long this will last and what the future will be. We are all in social shielding now.

Adults over 50 not only face a greater risk for surviving COVID-19, but unfamiliarity with technology will contribute to technological isolation when the quarantine is lifted.” Islip Arts Curator Holly Gordon said.

“AARP Long Island is excited to support the Islip Arts’ upcoming virtual exhibit and activities. It’s times like these that organizations can help members of the public cope with social isolation and loneliness,” Bernard Macias, AARP associate state director for Long Island, said. “Art and creativity can help improve

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NORTH HEMPSTEAD AARP

or maintain our emotional wellness while dealing with constant change.”

Selected artists will be featured in the virtual exhibition sponsored by AARP Long Island on Sept. 15 through Nov. 7.

Other virtual activities include: Virtual Zoom Q&A to assist with submission: Aug. 3 from 2 — 4 p.m.Sip and See Virtual Reception for artists and guests: Oct. 4 from 2 — 4 p.m.AARP Long Island Art at 50 Plus New Beginnings Virtual Closing Reception and Meet the Authors of “Parallel Perspectives: Art of Collaboration” on Nov. 7 from 2 — 4 p.m.

Download the Prospectusat the Islip Arts Council website, which includes the application and submission guidelines.

Digital submission only.

Email submissions to VirtualArt50Plus@gmail. com. The body of the email must include these image details (Last name, First name Title, medium, size, date), Artists Statement, and all artist’s contact information.

For more information contact curator Holly Gordon at (631)666-8841 or by email at Holly.isliparts@ gmail.com.

Submitted by the North Hempstead AARP

Planting Fields Foundation is hosting a festive evening on Friday, July 31 to celebrate the public opening of “The Electrifying Art and Spaces of Robert Winthrop Chanler,” a new exhibition in Coe Hall.

Celebrate the centennial anniversary of this mural’s completion at Coe Hall.

Guests may book a ticketed time slot between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. for a special tour (five person maximum) that will lead to the Buffalo Mural in the Breakfast Room and Mai Coe’s bedroom before stopping in the gallery for a 15-minute performance from Long Island Chamber Music.

The program features 3 diverse composers who were contemporaries of Chanler and draw musical parallels to the dynamic use of color, texture, and mood of Chanler’s art. With music by Amy Beach, Maurice Ravel, and William Grant Still, this program will create a memorable atmosphere and inspire a uniquely deep look into the exhibition.

After viewing the exhibition in the Great Hall, guests will step out into the beautiful Cloister Garden for a cocktail and conclude the evening with a guided garden tour offered every hour from 5 p.m. — 8 p.m.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF DAVID ALMEIDA PHOTOGRAPHY

Cloister Garden at Planting Fields For added flavor and to evoke the colorful personality of Robert Winthrop Chanler, all are invited to come dressed in your favorite animal or flora print!

TICKETS: $35 for members/ $45 for non-membersMasks are required indoors, social distancing between groups is required outdoors.

In celebration of the centennial anniversary of the completion of the Buffalo Mural in Coe Hall, Planting Fields Foundation presents an exhibition on the work of Robert Winthrop Chanler (1872-1930), titled “The Electrifying Art and Spaces of Robert Winthrop Chanler.”

A rare opportunity to view decorative screens and panels from private collections throughout America, as well as a collection of

objects and photos from the artist’s life, include a photograph by Man Ray. The exhibition highlights Chanler’s depiction of frenzied worlds from the early 1910s to the late 1920s. Visitors will learn about his work in the context of the artistic developments in America in the early 20th century, his relationship to the wealthy patrons of the Gilded Age, and the preservation challenges presented by the Buffalo Mural in Coe Hall. Gain a deeper understanding of the historical significance of the screens and their design function, as well as Chanler’s eccentric persona and the characters around him throughout his life.

Submitted by Planting Fields Foundation

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Business&RealEstate

Listening to clients special needs, wants?

In our current working environment, it becomes imperative and critically important to pay attention to as many details as possible when catering to your sellers, investors, purchasers, and even renters!

In order for you to follow through within our new norm of doing business, listening, paying close attention, and truly understanding what everyone really needs and wants becomes a number one priority!

Asking probing questions, providing the necessary and required new COVID-19 forms to be completed are the initial steps, to begin with even before showing the property as required by the Department of State agents should be emailing or faxing those forms to prospective clients or having them fill them out once they initial walk into your office, prior to showings.

All agents should be asking for them and supposed to be filled out in advance and sent to them for their records. We want everyone to be as safe as possible; so if you have been in other states traveling, had a fever, been in contact with others who have been tested positive, we need to know about it.

Also, we need you to know that we are disclosing whatever liability that you might have when entering any premises. So far, based on my research and read-

ing, since June 10, where we have been able to conduct business once again, I have not heard of any seller, buyer, investor, or renter who has gone out with a broker or agent that had become infected.

Hopefully, that situation will continue, but then again I worry and question about all those that are traveling to New York by air and car and how strict we are monitoring and enforcing our new travel-quarantining rules and how well people are abiding by them?

There is a $2,000 fine for anyone coming into New York who doesn’t fill out a form, quarantining for 14 days or does not accurately and honestly answer the required questions on the COVID-19 Travel form.

This is especially critical for those that we may take out to show properties that are in the process of beginning their search moving from any of the 41 states as of Tuesday, July 21st that is on our travel advisory list, We also have a new form as of April 20 from state Department of State, Division of Licensing Services (518) 474-4429 www.dos. ny.gov New York State Division of Consumer Rights (888) 392-3644 New York State Housing AntiDiscrimination Disclosure Form passed by the state Legislature and signed by Gov. Cuomo.

This must also be presented to all potential buyers, investors, pur-

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chasers, and renters and became necessary mainly due to the 3-year investigation by Newsday in addition to complaints that had been filed over that period.

These forms are an integral part of being a concerned and professional Broker to disclose and provide the initial paperwork (besides the additional agency disclosure form as to who is representing who in the transaction).

For some, the paperwork can be overwhelming, but I liken it to learning how to ride a bike, you first have to put on the training wheels and learn how to balance, then one day you’re riding without them; so once you know what documents you have to present, it becomes rote, just automatic as riding a bike without training wheels.

The process of learning is all

about constant repetition and learning every day 24/7 (sometimes we are thinking and learning while we sleep!After the preliminary forms, it is important to ask probing questions of all your clients to determine and ascertain what is most important to them in their decision making from most important to least important to know what they are willing to trade-off in their search whether selling and relocating or buying and even renting too.

For you to able to have ease of access to their mindset it is crucial to develop that rapport so as to build solid relationship status.

It amazes me as to how so many don’t consider these important steps to learn and practice, leading to an automatic way of doing business leading to future referrals; because if you were a taxi cab driver you are going from point A to point B. Those that pursue that course of action in sales are what I called “glorified” taxicab drivers. However, those that treat their sales (I call consulting) businesses seriously, will always be considerably more successful over the short and long term.

Observing or asking If your clients have any special needs, handicaps, etc, then logically you will have a better understanding of the type and style of home they will need, whether it be a ranch-

style home or a building that is handicap accessible.

Also, at the beginning of the interview process just asking a simple question, do you have any pets, if so what breed, weight, etc, will save you and your client a lot of time that might be wasted when you find out after you have already shown them several properties.

Lastly, the art of listening has been going by the wayside for a very long time due to all the noise out there but it is an art whereby being an excellent listener or learning how to be one from start to finish will go a long way to becoming financially successful.P.S. Sellers, when is the last time your Broker reached out to you after you bought something through them?

1 year, 2 years, or never?

Philip A. Raices is the owner/ broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck.

He has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute and also as a Certified International Property Specialist. Just email or snail mail (regular mail) him with your ideas and suggestions on future columns with your name, email, and cell number and he will call or email you back. For a consultation, he can be reached by cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com to answer any of your questions or concerns.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in the

Willistons

121 High Street, East Williston

271 Emory Road, Mineola

5 bd, 4 ba, 2,497 sqft, Sold on: 2/17/20, Sold Price: $1,180,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: East Williston

4 bd, 2 ba, 1,502 sqft, Sold on: 4/20/20, Sold Price: $550,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

320 Beebe Road, Mineola

49 Jerome Avenue, Mineola

3 bd, 2 ba, 1,428 sqft,Sold on: 4/27/20,Sold Price: $550,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

2 bd, 2 ba, 1,273 sqft, Sold on: 6/2/20, Sold Price: $555,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in New Hyde Park, the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas by a variety of real estate agencies.

This information about the home and the photos were obtained through the Zillow.com. The homes are presented solely based on the fact that they were recently sold in New Hyde Park, the Willistons, Mineola and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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Mineola, EWSD spending ranks high Continued from Page 1 the county. The average number of enrolled students in each district in the county was 3,510.

The study examined approved 201920 budgets based on preliminary enrollment figures for 2018-19.

The Island Park school district, with two schools and 743 students, budgeted the most spending per pupil, according to state figures. The district’s budget of $40.6 million results in spending of $54,656 per student.

The Franklin Square school district had almost the same budget as Island Park, $40.16 million, but with three schools and 1,981 students, the district spent $20,274 per student, the lowest of the districts.

On the North Shore, the average number of students enrolled in each district was 3,749, with average spending of $31,943.

The Floral Park-Bellerose school district allocated the least amount of funding per student, $21,944 for 1,479 students, while the North Shore school district allocated $43,295 each for 2,548 students.

The other highest-spending school dis-

tricts were Jericho at $39,736 per student, East Williston with $36,638 per student, Roslyn with $35,861 per student, Great Neck with $35,312 per student and Mineola with $33,834 per student.

The eight other school districts on the North Shore all spent less per student than the $32,424 countywide average, three of which had enrollments predominantly made up of Hispanic/Latino or Asian students.

None of the school districts on the North Shore that spent more per student than the countywide average had an enrollment of Black students greater than 3.5 percent.

According to the data, a total of 32 school districts in the county spent less than the average $32,424. Of the districts that spent below the average, less than half of 15 districts’ enrollment was made up of white students. Of the 24 school districts that spent more than the $32,424 average per pupil, 20 had enrollment made up of a majority of white students.

In five school districts, Black students make up the largest group. Those districts

are Malverne with 48 percent, Baldwin with 47 percent, Elmont with 45 percent, Valley Stream 30 with 38 percent, and Valley Stream Central with 29 percent. The average enrollment for all five districts was 3,139 students while the average spending per student was $29,243, according to the figures.

In 10 school districts, Hispanic or Latino students account for the largest group.

Those districts are Hempstead with 79 percent, Westbury with 74 percent, Freeport with 67 percent, Glen Cove City with 62 percent, Lawrence with 61 percent, Uniondale with 60 percent, Roosevelt with 57 percent, West Hempstead with 45 percent, Valley Stream 24 with 38 percent, and Valley Stream 13 with 29 percent. The average enrollment for all the districts was 3,926 while the average spending per student was $31,087.

A total of 37 school districts’ enrollment was made up of a majority of white students. All of the school districts throughout the North Shore aside from New Hyde Park-Garden City Park, Herricks and Westbury were included in that calculation. Ac-

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The North Shore school district allocated the most money per student in its 2019-20 budget, according to state figures.

cording to the figures, the average enrollment of those districts was 3,451 students, and the average amount spent per pupil was $33,520.

Alan Singer, a professor of teaching, learning and technology at Hofstra University, discussed the disparities in education provisions throughout Long Island and proposed two potential solutions to close the gap.

Singer said one solution would make state officials responsible for funding education.

“Right now, New York state assigns local municipalities the responsibility to provide education,” Singer said. “These localities bear the main brunt of financial costs through real estate. If localities used the state income tax rather than going through real estate, the state would provide equal funding to all districts.”

Another potential solution that Singer discussed was consolidating smaller districts into regional districts that would provide a more “integrated education and equal funding” for students.

“There is no real reason why the minidistricts couldn’t be consolidated,” Singer said. “For instance, why isn’t Roosevelt part of Bellmore-Merrick? The district would still be between 60-70 percent white, and there wouldn’t be any problems with educational integration.”

Singer also touched on some of the other expenditures that schools face due to state or federal guidelines that were not taken into account in the study.

“In Hempstead schools, a lot of money is taken out to support charter schools, so Hempstead public schools actually have less money,” he said.

The population of Hempstead’s schools is dominated by Hispanic or Latino students, 78 percent, which also requires a certain amount of English as a second or new language programs to be implemented. While each school district can figure out a way to include them in its budget and curriculum, certain baseline requirements for programming are required, but not funded by, the federal government.

Singer said the disparity in education is a “political issue,” with real estate interests and families providing the resistance to modifying the current funding system.

“This political issue is not a Democratic or Republican matter,” he said. “Most local officials are afraid to present these drastic changes because they may be voted out of office. If you look at real estate ads, the first thing the advertisement will most likely say is how the local school district is. School districts are not supposed to be the basis here.”

Old Westbury soccer player dies in car crash Continued from Page 2 Bonilla can be seen playing for the Brentwood varsity girls soccer team in the short documentary “We Are Brentwood,” which followed the team during the 2017-18 season.

A GoFundMe page has been set up

by Bonilla’s cousin Ana Campos to assist her family in covering funeral costs.

“Tania’s parents and siblings are going through a great deal of pain and stress at the moment,” Campos wrote on

the GoFundMe page. “In times of need our community always comes together with generosity and support, and I hope that everyone can come together for this.”

So far, over 559 contributors have

donated $27,809, exceeding the campaign’s $20,000 goal. Efforts to reach Campos were unavailing.

Bonilla is survived by her parents and siblings. No details on the burial have yet been given.

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Pressing for police accountability board Continued from Page 1 a comprehensive review of current police force deployments, strategies, policies, procedures and practices and develop a plan to improve” those.

The proposed review board would have the power to investigate complaints from members of the public against Nassau County police for everything from offenses as serious as excessive use of force to things such as discourtesy and harassment.

The board would submit a report of the investigation to the county police commissioner and could recommend “penalties, discipline, a psychological evaluation, instructions with formalized training” or some combination thereof, according to the legislation.

A spokesman for the county legislative majority said the proposed bill has not yet been submitted to the legislative clerk for consideration but once it is, it will be reviewed.

“In the meantime, the county executive, as directed by the state, has put together a committee to review and address policing concerns,” the spokesman said.

County Executive Laura Curran did not respond to requests for comment.

New York City has had a similar review

board in place since the 1990s, and Jones said it is overdue in Nassau County.

The board would consist of 11 members of the public. Each member must be a resident of Nassau County.

Five members would be appointed by the county Legislature, five would be appointed by the county executive and the board’s chair would be jointly appointed by the county executive and the presiding officer of the Legislature.

The proposed legislation includes a clause that seeks to prevent any member of the board from having a conflict of interest. This includes anyone who has had any experience in law enforcement in any capacity.

However, those with experience as attorneys will be permitted. Brewington said other potential conflicts would be if someone has a relative in law enforcement or someone has a “pending action” against police.

Brewington, Jones and Rahsmia Zatar, another member of LIAPA, said that police are asked to do too much, that they are a catch-all expected to respond to too wide a range of situations for the amount of expertise they have.

“I want to elevate, today, the absurdity

of our current policing system,” Zatar said.

“That does not acknowledge the humanity of our police officers. This is not an antipolice issue, we are not anti-police, we are anti- the absurdity of the current structure.”

The group argued that police are not given support in terms of mental health and are suffering because of it and are not given training to deal with certain situations that they are expected to respond to.

“911 was an easy way out for our communities and our municipalities,” Jones said. “Let the police handle that. A cat up in the tree: call the police, a guy robbing the bank: call the police. That’s too ridiculous.”

Jones said police feel the stress of having to deal with such a wide array of problems, but because they have never known any other system, they haven’t seriously questioned it until now.

Jones got out of the police academy when he was 22 and said that often times he would not be able to get to a call that warranted a police response because he would be dealing with a call such as two people arguing, something that other types of professionals could deal with.

“A police 911 call should be for emergencies,” Jones said. “A family dispute shouldn’t be deemed an emergency. Nine

times out of 10 it’s an argument and the officer has to go in there and become a peacemaker. He doesn’t even know how to do that.”

Jones said mental health and social work professionals could work within police departments but if that system does not work, the resources should be reallocated.

He said the group is working to define “defunding.” To him, it means reallocating funds from police to other sectors of the community, and therefore certain issues won’t fall on police anymore.

Jones pointed toward the fact that some police departments have militarystyle equipment and vehicles.

The militarization of local police departments has been a controversial issue in recent years.

An article posted on the ACLU’s website in 2013 showed that in Keene, New Hampshire, a low-crime town with a modest population, local police were given a grant by the Department of Homeland Security to purchase a BearCat, an armored vehicle that can be mounted with highcaliber weapons.

“What could we have done with the money they spent on those items?” Jones asked. “Nobody knows.”

Town deemed a Clean Energy Community Continued from Page 4 “We appreciate NYSERDA recognizing the Town’s efforts in being a leader in clean energy – resiliency and sustainability are cornerstones of this administration,” Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said. “The Town is committed to green initiatives and finding ways to reduce its carbon footprint to create a better environment for future generations.”

The $16 million initiative was introduced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in August 2016 as a way to encourage municipalities to implement energy-efficient developmental projects throughout their communities. The organization provides

local municipalities throughout the state with grants to aid in rolling out the projects.

Under the initiative, municipalities that complete a minimum of four of the 10 environmentally progressive actions required are eligible to apply for funding upwards of $250,000 to help finance additional clean-energy projects.

“Congratulations to the Town of North Hempstead on this important accomplishment and for its commitment to a cleaner and healthier future for its residents,” Brad Tito, the organization’s program manager said. “Under Governor Cuomo’s leadership, New York has made

it a priority to support communities seeking to become more sustainable while helping drive progress toward reducing harmful emissions and lowering energy costs for New York families.”

The initiative is an extension of the Green New Deal, which Cuomo also implemented, which puts New York on a path to a carbon-neutral economy and the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Officials called the act “the most aggressive climate change program in the nation.” The act helps communities throughout the state further understand the impact and importance of helping in

the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. According to officials, New York’s goal is to reduce emissions by 85 percent from 1990 levels by the year 2050 and achieve a carbon-free electricity sector by 2050.

Additional acts that the town can explore going forward include performing renewable energy and energy-efficient upgrades throughout municipal buildings, converting streetlights into LED lights, streamlining the approval process for solar projects and establishing a finance program that promotes the use of renewable energy in commercial buildings.

E. Williston schools survey parents on fall plans Continued from Page 2 On the fifth day, the students would work at home on independent and structured work with guidance counselors, social workers and curriculum specialists.

The second questionnaire included two more possible plans. “Plan B” would feature students in grades eight through 12 divided into two cohorts which alternate days in the Wheatley School and maintain their nine-period schedule with no reduction to elective offerings.

Students would come in every other day and on the days they are not in school,

teachers would assign work to be done at home and submitted by 3 p.m. that day.

“Plan C” features all students in school five days per week but with a reduced program. Non-AP and nonmandatory courses in all departments would be reduced in order to bring down class sizes.

The music program and physical education program would be modified to allow for the band and orchestra room to be used as space for students.

The second questionnaire then asks parents to choose a first and second pref-

erence of which plan they prefer. It also gives the option to request fully remote learning for their student because of health concerns.

Under state guidelines, school districts must submit reopening plans by Friday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will decide on reopening schools in the first week of August.

The first questionnaire also had a question regarding transportation. It opened by saying that state Department of Health guidance recommends that school districts encourage parents to

drop off students at school to reduce density on the buses. Everyone on a bus will be required to wear a mask at all times.

In order for the district to plan for bus procedures, it asked parents to identify what grade their children are in and whether they plan to send their children to school via bus, if they are eligible.

The results of the surveys and community input were to be discussed at a work session for the Board of Education on Wednesday in the auditorium of the Wheatley School.

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Aid sought for restaurants Continued from Page 8 “The first two weeks will allow applications for restaurants that generate $1.8 million or less per year,” Suozzi said. “Then it will open for all independent restaurateurs.”

A study provided by Blumenauer’s office said that the bill’s overall economic benefit would be $248 billion in revenue.

King, whose family runs the 75-year-old event venue Antun’s and books over 600 events a year, called the proposal essential for someone in his line of work.

“We sell large events, that’s our job and that’s the biggest thing that is being blocked right now, understandably so, I’m for safety and health,” King said. “Our only hope right now is assistance from the federal government. The restaurant sector is the second largest employer

in the country. If we don’t help this sector then the future of the country is very bleak.”

He noted that his business has not had an event since March 10, and has 98 employees.

“Getting people back to work is so essential for us because I know these people,” King said. “When the 600 runs out, I’m hurting inside because I don’t know what to do to help them.”

Scotto, who owns several restaurants, hotels and four catering houses, including the Chateau Briand in Carle Place, said that he had to furlough over 1,000 of his employees, and that the situation was “disastrous to so many.”

“Catering, specifically weddings, on Long Island is a major industry and our catering houses have been completely shut down,” Scotto said. “Here

on Long Island, it is not just catering. You have to take into consideration the trickle-down impact on vendors including florists, photographers, musicians, limousine services, bridal shops, tuxedo rentals, hair salons, hotels and others. It’s going to continue to hurt Long Island unless we get some help.”

Jarnagin noted that tourism was a $6.1 billion industry that supports over 80,000 businesses and 100,000 jobs on Long Island.

“It’s critical that we address this,” Jarnagin noted. “It’s about consumer confidence right now, and we’re struggling with getting people to go back out.”

Blumenauer noted that associations like Jarnagin’s were excluded from PPP loans, something that representatives were “trying to correct”

in the new legislation. He added that independent restaurants that had their PPP loans forgiven would receive a reduced grant from the RESTAURANTS Act. “Part of what you have heard from people in industry is that they’ve been uniquely hammered,” Blumenauer said. “There are 500,000 small businesses scattered across the country. They don’t have the wherewithal to endure months of no economic activity.”

Suozzi said that the nation had “an obligation” to look out for such businesses.

“We are telling them for the good of the nation to stop doing their business the way they’ve historically done it,” Suozzi said. “Since we’ve stopped that, we as a nation have an obligation to look out for your employees and your businesses too.”

Gold Coast Arts adjusts to COVID Continued from Page 22 Sorokoff said. “The only thing that will really be changing are the mediums in which the films and events will be held.”

Sorokoff said the film festival will run from Oct. 13-20 and the locations of the drive-in film screenings and Q&A events are still to be finalized.

Ahead of last year’s film festival, Sorokoff

spoke on the importance of experiencing a movie with others in the audience.

Though people who attend the events will not get that same experience, Sorokoff said, the virtual platform offers a new and different experience people should look forward to.

“As we’ve seen, people are comfortable watching films at home,” Sorokoff said. “People have to look

at the experience in a different way. One of the silver linings of going to a virtual platform has been reaching people and new virtual audiences that may not have participated before due to geographical or time limitations.”

Sorokoff echoed Gil’s remarks about depending on the public’s support and the effort that the Gold Coast staff has put in to

ensure programs ranging from painting classes to an international film festival happen safely and seamlessly.

“We’ve all been working tirelessly to ensure we continue to provide what people expect from us,” Sorokoff said.

“Just like our name, we want to provide people with the gold standard for all of our events,” Gil said.

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American Airpower Museum reopens Aug. 1 The American Airpower Museum, Long Island’s only flying military aviation museum, is mounting a Grand Reopening special event on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020.

Like all other New York State museums, the American Airpower Museum was forced to close due to the Coronavirus outbreak, resulting in the cancellation of half of the Museum’s 2020 flight season. AAM’s iconic WWII bombers and fighters return to action with an exciting familyfriendly flight demonstration.

Join AAM on August 1, at 11:00 a.m., when World War II and other vintage aircraft depart from AAM’s ramp to take to the skies over Long Island’s north and south shores. Aircraft will create camera-ready opportunities as they perform low-level passes over Republic Airport where AAM is based.

These flights will feature AAM’s Grumman TBM Avenger, two North American T6 Texans, the AT28D5 Vietnam era combat fighter, the WACO Biplane and as an added attraction, L-39 cold war era Russian jets.

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banner year for AAM. Museum aircraft were scheduled to participate in historic events marking the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII and honoring U.S. Veterans who made the Allied victory possible. As they have done for the last 17 years, AAM’s WWII airplanes were going to appear in the Annual Jones Beach Airshow. And it must be noted that on May 24th 2020, the American Airpower Museum celebrated its 20th anniversary in isolation.

At the end of the 2019 season, AAM took their aircraft “off line” for the winter to begin scheduled maintenance and inspections, making sure the Warbirds would be ready for a full 2020 flight season. Sometime in early January, the coronavirus outbreak hit our shores. Public health and safety concerns led AAM’s Board of Directors to preemptively close the Museum on March 16th for two weeks.

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was foremost,” said Jeff Clyman, AAM president. “That’s why we acted early and sent everyone home, causing a total cessation of work on our aircraft,” he added. Then on March 22nd, New York State ordered all nonessential businesses statewide to close. Two weeks became three months.

Clyman said it has always been AAM’s mission to honor the legacy of those who gave all to preserve our freedoms. “We’re pleased to announce we recently resumed maintenance and inspection of our aircraft so that much anticipated flight operations can begin with our grand reopening event. We also promise a flying salute to our Veterans and front line workers very soon,” he said.

Admission for adults is $13, seniors and veterans $10 and children $8. Due to the need for social distancing, admission will be limited to first come/first served. A maximum attendance of 150 persons will be allowed on the outdoor ramp area, with limited access to the Museum.

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their temperatures digitally taken at the entrance. As a special promotion, the first 20 people admitted will be included in a raffle for WACO Biplane flights later in the summer (limit one per family). So bring lunch, hang out and enjoy the AAM experience.

If you are unable to come to the event on Saturday, Aug. 1, your can still help AAM offset major financial losses incurred during the Covid-19 shutdown, by using a secure PayPal link at: www.americanairpowermuseum.com/donate/ to make a taxdeductible contribution – any amount is appreciated — or for more information on corporate donations, call Jacky Clyman, AAM executive vice president, at (917) 690-1965 or jacky@cockpitusa.com.

The American Airpower Museum is an aviation museum located on the landmarked former site of Republic Aviation at Republic Airport, Farmingdale, NY. The Museum maintains a collection of aviation artifacts and an array of aircraft spanning the many years of the aircraft factory’s history.

Parker Jewish Institute channels creativity

Uplifting video captures encouraging support Parker’s health-care workers received from one another, and from the community in the pandemic

Front-line team members at Parker Jewish Institute channelled teamwork and joy in an inspiring video filmed and edited by their colleague, Aileen Albis-Umali.

The three-minute-and24-second video provided an outlet for some positivity amid the unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic, according to Ms. Albis-Umali, a physical therapist assistant at Parker’s Rehabilitation Department.

“It was a very emotional time,” said Ms. Albis-Umali, who in April and May began taking photos and filming short video clips of her teammates, with their permission, at Parker.

The video captures the encouraging support Parker’s health-care workers received from one another, and from the community. That community includes first responders from New York City and Long Island fire, police and EMS crews who paid tribute with a “Sound Off,” as a salute to health-care workers switching shifts at 7 p.m. in April.

Serving on the health-

care front lines during the apex of the coronavirus pandemic in New York is something Ms. Albis-Umali said she will never forget. And that sentiment is reflected in the video.

“I was inspired by how Parker’s Rehabilitation Department stood strong in delivering care to all of the COVID patients,” said Ms. Albis-Umali, who has worked at Parker since 2015.

Ever-present in the video is a painting that depicts Parker’s iconic blue logo, supported by hands, and the words “We will survive,” “#ParkerStrong,” “NYTough,” and “FightCOVID-19.”

“Our front-line team members have shown courage and compassion during in the battle against COVID-19,” said Michael N. Rosenblut, Parker’s president and CEO. “Through this crisis, the Parker team stood tall for our families, and for each other.”

Watch the on Parker Jewish Institute’s YouTube channel.

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Swiss bank gets rights to Island Harvest tackling naming Belmont Arena food insecurity on L.I. Continued from Page 20 Kevin Fitzgerald, Floral Park’s deputy mayor, shared Longobardi’s disappointment and said representatives from the Empire State Development did not publicly answer questions or concerns from the public.

“When a new business or restaurant comes to present something to [the village trustees], there are many questions and concerns brought up by the public and then addressed by the presenter,” Fitzgerald said. “[Empire State Development] did not handle this properly, when they knew issues were out in the open.”

The village filed a lawsuit in September asking a judge to overturn all approvals, stop construction on the site and restart the environmental review process.

In January, Fitzgerald said the vil-

lage had obtained documents showing that state officials had no intention of taking local concerns into account in the Belmont Park development project.

According to the documents that were acquired by the village under the Freedom of Information Law, a “master plan” for the Belmont Arena project was discussed by developers two years before the state issued a request for the redevelopment of the property, he said.

A spokesperson said Empire State Development abandoned its first request for proposals in December 2016 and subsequently issued a second one a year later in July.

The spokesperson also said that Empire State Development followed “an independent, competitive process” and that the arena proposal was chosen because it scored the highest of the three responses.

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lia said she thinks the widespread food insecurity won’t be curbed until coronavirus vaccination is available, and the economy can begin to create jobs again.

Island Harvest began in 1992 when a woman named Linda Breitstone saw that a local shelter did not have enough food. Meanwhile, food from a convenience store down the street was being thrown out. She began taking coolers full of food to the shelter while others began getting involved.

Island Harvest was established with the mission to “end hunger and reduce food waste on Long Island,” according to its website. Puglia has worked there for about seven years and said the organization has distributed millions of pounds of food over its history.

Island Harvest gets food through food drives, which are still being held, and some local retailers, and works with New York state and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take produce, dairy and meat that is otherwise not being purchased. A team of dietitians works to ensure that the food has sufficient nutritional value.

“If people are looking to donate soda or candy, that’s not really helpful,” Puglia said.

Island Harvest can also work closely with those in need to secure SNAP benefits (commonly known as food stamps).

During the process of screening people for those benefits, Puglia said, the organization may ascertain if someone is having trouble finding housing, employment or even clothing and can connect the person with the right resources.

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Continued from Page 22 Island Harvest distributes food to hundreds of shelters, soup kitchens and food pantries that help those in need.

The organization also distributes food directly to people in events like one held July 15 at the Best Western parking lot in Roosevelt. The organization distributed food to roughly 1,000 people, no questions asked.

Puglia said some of the pantries require some questions to be answered for people to get food assistance, due to funding requirements, but she believes giving it out without any screening is the best method. This, she said, makes sure people do not feel stigmatized, and will continue getting the food they need.

As food insecurity has ramped up, it has thrust people who never expected to be in this situation into having to choose between paying the bills or buying food.

“There are people who are living in homes that are much more extravagant than those who are living in poverty and they’re new to this situation,” Puglia said. “On Long Island people are very proud of what they’ve achieved. If they live in a higher-income community they don’t want to be seen taking food from a food pantry, they don’t want to be looked down upon by their neighbors.”

Puglia acknowledged that many of those neighbors would probably not judge someone for being in that situation, but the stigma still exists.

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Happening at the Williston Park Library WILLISTON PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWS Carl Del Vecchio Memorial Library www.willistonparklibrary.org By: Donna McKenna, Director E-mail: wppubliclibrary@gmail.com The Williston Park Library Is Open for Browsing!

After being closed for three months due to the pandemic, The Williston Park Library is now open for browsing! For now, we have limited hours while we adjust our operations.

Our New Daily Hours Are: Open for Browsing: Monday-Friday: 10am-5:30pm. Vestibule Pick-Up: Monday-Friday: 10am-5:30pm “Open for Browsing” means you can come inside, walk around the Library, and look for books and other items. Please limit your time to 30 minutes. Only one family at a time will be permitted in the Children’s Room.

Items requested over the phone can be picked up in the Library vestibule.

Please maintain social distancing practices while in the Library. You will notice markers at the Circulation and Reference Desks and directional markers on our floors.

All customers and staff are required to wear face coverings at all times while in the Library, per Executive Order 202.17. Face coverings must cover both your mouth and nose.

Congregating is not permitted.

Please return items in the outside book drops. For safety reasons, we cannot accept items returned inside the Library!

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