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W.P. native, 21 dies in hiking accident

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BY K AT I E F E N T O N Andrew Desiderio, a 21-yearold student at Binghamton University who grew up in Williston Park, died in a hiking accident on April 12.

He planned to graduate in May with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in economics.

Boy Scout leader Steven Grosskopf, who knew Desiderio as a member of Mineola’s Troop 45, said he was hiking in Utah with friends when he slipped and fell off a cliff.

“He loved the outdoors,” Grosskopf said. “He loved it out there, climbing the mountains, climbing through the valleys and everything, and the whole allure of the West was something that he really enjoyed.

Unfortunately, it became his demise, because he loved it so much that he and a bunch of guys on spring break from college decided they weren’t going to go to Florida, where all the lunatics weren’t wearing masks and

going out to all the bars. They decided that they were going to hike, and they went to hike in the mountains in Utah. He got too close to an edge and he fell off a cliff. It was a horrible accident, but he was a great guy.

He died doing what he loved to do.”

A funeral service was held for Desiderio on Tuesday at the Church of St. Aidan in Williston Park.

“He was an amazing kid, and today we had the funeral,” Grosskopf said. “There were hundreds of people in attendance at St. Aidan’s in Williston Park, just to show how much people really cared for him and how special he was. He really was a great young man and a loss to society and humanity in general.”

Desiderio was also a volunteer firefighter, joining the Mineola Fire Department’s junior program in 2013 before becoming a full member and earning the title of junior lieutenant in 2016. His unit, Truck 2, paid tribute to Desiderio in an Instagram post last Wednesday.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MINEOLA SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Mineola volleyball team advanced to the Class A semifinals on Tuesday, and will face Wantagh on Saturday at 11 a.m.

DeCillis unopposed in Mineola ed board race

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held by President Christine Napolitano, who announced last month that she will not seek Middle school teacher re-election.

The school board elections Stacey DeCillis is running unopposed for the seat on the in Mineola and other area disMineola Board of Education tricts will be held on Tuesday,

May 18.

Trustee Brian Widman, a Roslyn Heights resident, is also running unopposed for his third term on the board.

Napolitano endorsed the Continued on Page 38

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Two horses die in Teens lead rally Belmont Park fire against hate

56 racehorses rescued in blaze begun in stall More than 200 gather in Manhasset

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Two horses in a Belmont Park stall died in a fire last Tuesday, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ Two racehorses at Belmont Park died from a fire that broke out inside a barn at the racetrack, according to officials from the Nassau County Police Department and the New York Racing Association.

The Elmont Fire Department responded to the scene at Barn 60 shortly after the fire was reported around 6 p.m. last Tuesday, followed by the Valley Stream and Floral Park fire departments along with Nassau and New York state fire marshals.

Officials said three male racetrack employees suffered minor smoke inhalation and were treated at the scene. The cause of the fire remained undetermined and an investigation is ongoing, according to officials.

Officials said 58 racehorses were rescued, but two horses,

American Sailor and Beastie D, perished.

“The tragic loss of both horses will be deeply felt by the hard working women and men of the New York racing community, who dedicate themselves to the sport and to the care of these equine athletes,” racing association President and CEO Dave O’Rourke said in a statement. “That collective dedication and sense of community was on display this evening, when the heroic and selfless response of so many prevented further loss and saved the lives of dozens of horses.”

The two horses were under the care of trainers Wayne Potts and Jeffrey Englehart. American Sailor won the 2020 Troy Stakes race in Saratoga. Beastie D was a three-year-old Verrazano colt, according to Potts.

Potts, in a Facebook post, expressed his gratitude to the of-

ficials that rescued the 58 other horses from the fire and reflected on the lives of the two that perished from the fire.

“Thank you from the bottom of my heart to every single one of you that put yourselves at risk to make sure 58 horses are able to see another day,” Potts said.

“The actions of so many this evening proved that this industry is a family with a fierce love of the horse that triumphs over anything else.”

Potts said Beastie D was “an individual with an abundance of class and potential” and lauded the importance American Sailor had in his life.

“American Sailor was a part of my family and took my operation to a new level,” Potts said.

“He was the pride and joy of my stable and was the horse that took me places in my career that I had only ever dreamed of going.”

Over 200 demonstrators, as well as numerous elected officials and community leaders, joined on Sunday at the Mary Jane Davies Green in Manhasset to protest violence against AsianAmericans in light of horrific acts in recent months.

The event was the idea of sisters Ada Shu, 14, and Ava Shu, 16, both students at Manhasset Secondary School, shortly after they heard about shootings in spas in the Atlanta area that left eight people dead, including six Asian women, in March. Several videos have also shown elderly Asian-Americans being pushed, kicked and thrown to the ground in New York City and San Francisco since February.

In addition, more than 3,800 anti-Asian incidents were reported across the nation in 2020, with a 149 percent increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in the 16 largest cities in the United States.

“I was shocked,” Ada Shu said in a recent interview. “And I know Manhasset is a pretty safe place, but I was still afraid for other peo-

ple. And after that event, we saw a lot more of these hate crimes happening. That’s when I thought it was time to stand up.”

Together with friends, the sisters planned the rally over the course of a month, applying for permits, publicizing it via social media and receiving support from the Chinese American Association of North Hempstead.

“It was a really long process outside, but ultimately we were able to have a great turnout,” Ava Shu said in a phone interview.

Once the Shus and their friends arrived at the Davies Green before the start time, they saw a steady stream of community members gather, many with signs reading, “Stop Hate, Spread Love,” “Hate Has No Home Here,” “This is My Home Too!” and “Asians R Not Viruses.”

Elected officials, including U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), State Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti (D-Manorhaven), U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (DQueens), North Hempstead Councilwoman Mariann Dalimonte (D-Port Washington) and Continued on Page 37

PHOTO COURTESY OF ADA SHU

Over 200 community members gathered in Manhasset to rally against anti-Asian hate.

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Hofstra student victim of acid attack $200K raised for Sewanhaka grad to cover medical costs for treating severe burns

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More than $200,000 has been raised to cover medical bills for a Hofstra student who was attacked with acid and severely burned on March 17 in Elmont.

The victim, Nafiah Fatima, as she is identified on a GoFundMe page, is a 21-year-old Hofstra student and a graduate of the Sewanhaka Central High School District. The GoFundMe page was created by Shazia Anjum, who was permitted to tell her story to the public.

On March 17, around 8:30 p.m., Fatima and her mother parked their car outside their Elmont home on Arlington Avenue and were about to walk inside when an unknown man ran up to her and threw acid on her face. Footage of the incident was caught on a neighboring house camera.

According to the page, the attacker, who has not been identified by police more than a month later, used a “dark brown

lenses, which were melted to her eyes as a result of the acid.

“We don’t know if Nafiah will ever regain vision again,” the page said.

“Nafiah has stayed incredibly strong throughout this horrific event,” the page said. “Nafiah’s only wish is that the attacker is caught so that she can feel safe in her own home.”

Efforts to reach Fatima or Anjum for further comment were unavailing.

“We’re shocked by this horrific attack, and our thoughts are with Nafiah, her family and friends as she focuses on her recovery,” a statement from HofsSCREENSHOT BY ROBERT PELAEZ tra University said. “We are committed to supporting her through that process and will cooperate Elmont resident Nafiah Fatima was the victim of an acid attack on March 17, according to with any investigation into the the Nassau County Police Department. matter.”

The GoFundMe page was acid known to cause blindness san Altima, according to the po- into the house, where her parents attempted to help her, but started on April 17, a month aflice. and severe burning.”

When the acid was thrown the acid burned her parents’ ter the attack. Within three days, Officials from the Nassau more than 5,400 people had County Police Department said in Fatima’s face, it caused her arms and hands as well.

The acid caused “severe donated, resulting in more than the attacker, approximately to scream and acid then got 6-foot-2, was wearing a black into her mouth. Her tongue and burning” on Fatima’s eyes, chest $200,000 being raised to cover hooded sweatshirt and gloves. throat were burned as a result, and arms, according to the post. Fatima’s medical expenses.

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Roslyn schools host talk with activist Animal behaviorist Temple Grandin takes questions on teaching, thinking in webinar

BY R O S E W E L D ON Members of the community were invited by the Roslyn school district and the Bryant Library to a webinar question and answer session with autism advocate and animal behaviorist Temple Grandin in honor of Autism Awareness Month earlier this month.

Grandin, who received an autism diagnosis as an adult, first gained attention as a teenager for her creation of a “squeeze machine,” also known as a “hug box,” which was inspired by squeeze chutes where cattle would be placed to calm them during inoculations.

Today, she is a prominent author, speaker and a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Previously, Grandin had a successful career consulting on livestock handling equipment design and animal welfare, advocating for humane treatment of livestock for slaughter.

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Psychologist Alison Gilbert, left, moderates a question and answer session with autism advocate and animal behaviorist Temple Grandin, right. two students in the district, moderated the session, which took place Monday over Zoom.

Community members could submit questions prior to the event or through a “Q&A” feature in the Zoom app.

One of the first questions asked Grandin how it was possible to “think in pictures,”

which she has long discussed as being how her mind operates.

“When I was in my 20s and starting to work with cattle, I thought everyone thought in pictures,” Grandin said. “I didn’t know what about my thinking was different, and it was a shock to learn. And ba-

sically, the words narrate the pictures, like if someone asked me about, teaching math in my elementary school classroom, I see [my teacher] stare at the board, explaining borrowing and subtraction that comes up like a little thing on [a screen].”

Grandin then asked Gil-

bert to help with an exercise, where the psychologist would give a word and the professor described what she saw.

Gilbert then asked what primary school teachers could do to support their students with autism. Grandin advised against “long strings of verbal directions,” and noted that breaking a process up into steps would be more helpful.

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1 killed in W. Hempstead shooting 31-year-old man arrested in attack in Stop & Shop in which 2 people were also injured

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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT

31-year-old Gabriel DeWitt Wilson was arrested for allegedly shooting up a West Hempstead Stop & Shop on Tuesday, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

Three people were shot inside a Stop & Shop grocery store in West Hempstead on Tuesday morning and one died, the Nassau County Police Department said. The gunman, a store employee, was arrested after a search, police said.

The gunman, identified as 31-year-old Gabriel DeWitt Wilson, allegedly went into the Stop & Shop located at 50 Cherry Valley Ave. around 11 a.m. wearing a black hat, black mask and black sweatshirt, according to officials. Officials said a 49-year-old manager of the store, Ray Wishropp, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Two other gunshot victims, whose names were not immediately disclosed, were transported to a local hospital for treatment. One victim was a 26-year-old woman, the other a 50-year-old man, officials said.

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said the two other gunshot victims were recovering in the hospital.

Police said Wednesday that Wilson, a “troubled employee,” allegedly came into the store earlier and asked about transferring to another Stop & Shop location. Wilson, whose job was to collect carts, was allegedly nonconfrontational in the initial conversation with management before returning 40 minutes later with a gun, police said. Wilson, accord-

ing to police, went up to the second-floor office where he shot the man and woman who survived. He then allegedly went into another office, where he shot and killed Wishropp, according to officials. Wilson also allegedly had previous disputes with co-workers and made unwarranted advances towards a female coworker, officials said.

Police said they apprehended Wilson around 3 p.m. on Tuesday at an apartment building in Hempstead after a search involving more than 150 officers, with helicopters circling overhead.

Wilson, who police said had previous arrests for assault, attempted narcotics distribution, attempted murder and posession of a firearm, was also the subject of two previous mental health crisis calls. Wilson was arraigned on Wednesday and was charged with second-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder, officials said. He will return to court on Friday.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, who notified the public via social media that Wilson had been caught, praised the work of the Police Department and said it was an “all hands on deck” effort. Curran acknowledged recent acts of gun violence across the nation, and said the county and its residents “will persevere” and “get through this together.”

“This event just shows that we aren’t immune to what is happening throughout the

nation right now,” Curran said on a call to News 12.

Stop & Shop President Gordon Reid said in a statement to Newsday that he was “shocked and heartbroken” by the incident and that the West Hempstead location will be closed until further notice.

“Our hearts go out to the families of the victims, our associates, customers and the first responders who have responded heroically to this tragic situation,” Reid said in a statement.

“The store will remain closed until further notice, and we appreciate the Long Island community’s support during this difficult time.”

Efforts to reach Reid for further comment were unavailing.

John R. Durso, president of Local Union 338 RWDSU/UFCW, which represents more than 100 of the store’s employees, shared Reid’s sentiment in a statement.

“We are devastated by the tragic shooting at the Stop & Shop in West Hempstead.

Our thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones, and all those, including workers and customers, who witnessed today’s horrifying events. Our priority is and always will be the physical and mental well-being of our members. Representatives of our union are on site at Stop & Shop and will be ensuring that our members have all of the support they need, including access to counseling.”

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Experts optimistic about downtowns Post-COVID opportunities for business districts look promising to panelists in Blank Slate forum

BY R O S E W E L D ON Experts on business growth said that the outlook for downtown areas was optimistic even after the COVID-19 pandemic at a recent Blank Slate Media forum entitled “Saving Nassau County’s Downtowns.”

The panel included Eric Alexander, director of Vision Long Island; Anthony Bartone, managing partner of Terwilliger and Bartone Properties; Mayor Ralph Ekstrand of the Village of Farmingdale; Dennis Grossman, president of the DMI Business Consulting Group, the Great Neck Chamber of Commerce and the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce; Richard Kessel of the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency; and Michelle Tabaroki, owner of ConfiDanZe and Fitness, and and a member of Destination: Great Neck. Publisher Steven Blank moderated the panel.

During the discussion, Alexander said that most downtowns in Nassau had lost an average of three stores during the COVID-19 pandemic, but that foot traffic had continued due to a “mass ex-

that attitudes about where to place apartment buildings were changing from those of 50 to 60 years ago.

“Back in the 50s and 60s, everybody wanted to get as far away as they could from the train,” Cartone said. “So typically you’d find warehouses or other uses, industrial uses in those areas. Now we’ve gone full circle, and the next generation wants to be near the train for ease of access to mass transit. The community wants to be able to walk downtown, not have to have an automobile. Believe it or not, this is a concept of many Long Islanders who live in transit-oriented developments in the downtown, actually not having cars here on the road.”

Ekstrand, in his time as maySCREENCAP or of Farmingdale, has seen his Panelists discussed the post-COVID future of downtown areas at a Blank Slate Media forum board approve eight transit-oriented development projects, and last week. echoed Cartone.

“It sort of snowballs,” odus” from New York City at the se, but the smaller localized busi- dus from the city has helped us. It Ekstrand said. “Once you have ness services that are in our of- has put feet on the street.” pandemic’s outset. success with one transit-oriented Frequently discussed was the “The office space within our fice buildings on our main streets development project, others folMain Street business districts has have been relatively full,” he said. use of transit-oriented mixed-use low.” been in a lower vacancy rate than “There’s no doubt people are developments. Cartone noted that Continued on Page 11 industrial and office parks, per working from home but the exo- the concept’s popularity meant

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Roslyn father, son duo renovate trailer to stand out on journey to the Southwest

BY R O S E W E L D ON The Fleetwood Wilderness travel trailer is 27 feet long, covered in Dr. Seuss-inspired artwork on the outside, and decked out in fur, leather and constellations on the inside.

And for the summer, Max Miller, 21, of Roslyn will call it his home away from home.

As the culmination of a project more than a year in the making alongside his father, David, Max will depart with the trailer hitched to a 2015 GMC Yukon XL for a tour of the American Southwest, from New York to California with numerous stops in between.

For the Millers, the idea had been long gestating in their minds.

“I remember one of the major ideas that me and my dad had of projects to do was always to renovate a school bus into a traveling lounge, to basically just make it into a party bus,” Max Miller said.

Once the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Max, then a sophomore at Chapman University in Orange, California, had to take classes online and was stuck inside until

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Max Miller of Roslyn in the trailer he renovated with his father, David. The 21-year-old plans to drive the trailer across the American Southwest over the summer.

May, when he was inspired by a friend’s plans.

“My one of my best friends out in school told me that he wasn’t going to be coming back to school this year, that he was going to take a gap year and travel in a 1980s Chevy conversion van,” Max said. “And I was like, ‘Oh my

God, that sounds like the sickest thing!’ I’d been watching so many people on Tik Tok, renovating school buses, and me and my dad have been talking about that forever. I just thought, ‘I need to get a school bus and travel around the country.’ So I called my dad all excited, and said that I want

to take a gap year, I don’t want to go back to online school. I want to buy a school bus, renovate it and turn it into an ultimate like traveling lounge.”

The idea appealed to his father, a creative director and event designer.

“We wanted to turn it into a

nightclub, into a lounge,” David Miller said. “So we wanted an open floor plan, but they were hard to find.”

As the two talked it out, they realized the bus wouldn’t be practical for what they pictured.

“If you redo a school bus, you need to install electrical, you need to install batteries for the electrical, you need to run plumbing, and all that stuff,” Max said.

“Whereas, for around the sameish price, you can buy a RV travel trailer, and it’s already plumbed, it already has electrical, all you have to do really is just touch up the surfaces and make it look like your own, unless you don’t do a good job of inspecting it in which case you’re gonna have to do a lot more.”

The two bought the Fleetwood Wilderness trailer in September from a seller in New Jersey, but upon taking a closer look saw that there was more work to be done.

“We found rotted floors and soft spots due to water damage, and we had no idea how to fix it,” Max said.

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Experts optimistic about downtowns Continued from Page 8 The mayor added that the village’s first 100 percent unit workforce housing development had recently been approved in an effort to “keep the youth on Long Island” and encourage them to visit the downtown area.

“Once we bring these apartments to our downtown, people naturally shop,” Ekstrand said. “It’s just human nature, they walk from the train station and they pass all the shops to get to the house and you know what, after a long day on the subway, that last thing you want to do is cook, you want to eat in our restaurants.”

Grossman said that the Great Neck area had numerous such projects in development, and that such ideas needed the cooperation of villages and residents.

“We also need the cooperation of the mayors and residents in terms of parking and valet parking, which I battle over all the time in certain areas, because people don’t know where the parking is, even though we prepare maps and other things like that,” Grossman said.

Also discussed were methods to assist store owners. Tabaroki, representing a Great Neck grassroots group of business owners that united when they saw

many of their stores shutter during the pandemic, touted the use of social media as a way to “unite” small businesses.

“Even though everything has opened up a little bit more, I myself know that I, unfortunately, I’m more on my phone than I used to be,” Tabaroki said. “And people are looking for things to do, restaurants to go to, fitness studios to attend, anything you can imagine.

“So we have invited all of these businesses to join our Instagram page. We’ve invited members of the community to join the Instagram page. And what we ask is very simple, for people just to tag businesses that they go to, business owners to tag themselves. We promote them, it’s a free service. I myself have found so many great new businesses through this group in the last couple of months.”

Kessel praised Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s efforts in the pandemic, but called for a focus on small business growth.

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Greed sometimes good on N. Shore

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s the old saying goes, you steal a loaf of bread and you get 10 years in jail.

You steal a railroad and you get your name in the Social Register.

That saying should probably be revised on the North Shore to say that if you or your company commits financial misdeeds, you get to own the New York Mets. Or at least be the money man for the team.

The story of two men with strong North Shore ties explains why.

One of those two men, Bernie Madoff, died last week at 82 while serving a 150-year sentence for defrauding clients of more than $19 billion in history’s largest Ponzi scheme.

The second, Steven Cohen, a Great Neck native, has become the toast of the town for at least Mets fans after his purchase of the team from Fred Wilpon despite failing to prevent insider trading at his firm, SAC Capital Advisors, that cost him a record $1.8 billion fine in 2013.

The story of the two men is different and similar in many ways with both raising comparisons to tales from stage and screen.

In Madoff’s case, think Shakespearean tragedies. In Cohen’s case think the movie “Wall Street” or the Showtime series “Billions,” the story of a hedge fund manager who does not color between the lines.

Both stories say much about wealth, the North Shore and the Mets.

Madoff began his fraud while living in Roslyn, targeting supposed friends and country club acquaintances on Long Island and in Manhattan, many of whom shared his professed interest in Jewish philanthropy.

Those who invested were lured by returns that seemed too good to be true, which as it turns out is exactly what they were.

Madoff’s reach ultimately grew to encompass major charities like Hadassah, universities like Tufts and Yeshiva, institutional investors and wealthy families in Europe, Latin America and Asia.

“The victims of his fraud, some of whom went overnight from comfortable wealth to frantic desperation, numbered in the thousands and were scattered from Palm Beach, Fla., to the Persian Gulf,” The New York Times reported. “The paper losses totaled $64.8 billion, including the fictional profits he had credited to customer accounts over at least two decades.”

One of those victims was Fred Wilpon, the owner of the New York Mets.

Wilpon and his brother-in-law, Saul Katz, had invested personally and through their real estate company, Great Neck-based Sterling Equities, with Madoff. This included money from the Mets’ pre-season sales, money Mets employees put in their 401(k)s and money for the team’s day-to-day operations.

In 2008, when the Ponzi scheme was revealed, Wilpon and Katz had invested more than $500 million in various Madoff accounts, according to the trustees for the Madoff bankruptcy that followed his conviction.

The Wilpon and Madoff families had become good friends after Bernie’s son Mark connected with Wilpon’s son Jeff while attending school in Roslyn. Jeff graduated from Roslyn High School in 1980 and Mark graduated two years later.

Bernie Madoff would be arrested a day after he confessed his crimes to Jeff and his younger son

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Mark – both of whom worked for him.

Mark committed suicide in his Manhattan apartment on Dec. 11, 2010, the second anniversary of his father’s arrest. Andrew died of cancer at age 48 on Sept. 3, 2014. He blamed the stress of the scandal for the return of a cancer he had fought off in 2003.

Wilpon’s suffering was merely financial, the cost of which was passed on to the Mets and their fans.

In 2008, the year the Madoff fraud was exposed, the Mets had the second-highest payroll in baseball. By 2013, the Mets payroll ranked 23rd and was less than a third of their crosstown rivals, the Yankees. The Mets payroll had climbed back to fifth place in 2020.

But time and again, the team failed to bid for prominent – and expensive – free agents.

That ended when Cohen purchased the team in 2020 for the astonishing amount of $2.42 billion – the largest amount ever paid for a sports franchise in the United

States. Particularly astonishing when the team was losing money and Wilpon had purchased control of the Mets 18 years earlier for, relatively speaking, a mere $400 million.

But perhaps not so surprising when you consider that Cohen was still worth $11 billion after paying his $1.8 billion fine. And Cohen grew up in Great Neck a Mets fan and had his reputation tarnished during a 10-year insider-trading investigation into him and his hedge fund.

The Securities and Exchange Commission had charged Cohen with failing to supervise a former SAC Capital Advisors portfolio manager and another SAC executive who they said had traded on insider information.

The executive, Michael Steinberg, had graduated from Great Neck North High School a number of years after Cohen, who served as his mentor. Think Charlie Sheen in “Wall Street.”

Steinberg was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for insider

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trading, only to have his conviction overturned by a federal appeals court in 2014.

Following the decision and the Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the case – a move said to have weakened the federal government’s ability to root out insider trading – federal prosecutors dismissed Steinberg’s conviction.

The second employee, Matthew Martoma, is serving a nineyear sentence in prison.

In a settlement with Cohen, the SEC blamed Cohen for ignoring red flags about Martoma that should have prompted Cohen to question whether he was engaging in insider trading.

Think of the series “Billions” here.

In its 2016 settlement, the SEC barred Cohen from managing money for outside investors for the next two years – after it had initially sought a lifetime ban.

The cost of the illegal trades by SAC Capital – merely hundreds of millions – pales in the amount of Continued on Page 45

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Gov. Cuomo surrenders to radical left

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fter Congress passed the COVID-19 relief bill, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer announced that New York would receive $12.6 billion and would not have to raise taxes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed and added that proposed cuts in spending could be eliminated from his proposed budget for the 2021-2022 fiscal year.

These declarations, however, did not impress Democrats in the state Legislature. Spending $194 billion was just not enough. Proposals floating around Albany called for a 22 percent increase in spending — 10 times the inflation rate.

In ordinary times, calls for preposterous and unsustainable spending would not be an issue for Cuomo.

Why? Because the budget process in New York is very different from the federal government’s process. In Washington, the president proposes a budget plan, but Congress is free to do whatever it wants with it. In New York, the state Constitution gives the governor responsibility for drafting the budget.

Under this system, the governor deals from his budgetary deck of cards and the Legislature must play the hand dealt to it.

The Legislature has the power to “take action,” which means that it can accept the governor’s budget as is or it can reduce spending, eliminate spending or add to a spending measure. However, the governor can exercise his veto power to reject any of these spending changes.

Hence, Cuomo has the upper hand in negotiations with legislative leaders.

An additional power the governor possesses: He can fire the friends, relatives and political cronies of assemblymen and senators who are employed in the inner sanctums of the state government.

In past years, Cuomo, like many of his predecessors, was not afraid to use his budgetary and political power to convince recalcitrant legislators to fall into line.

But this year has been different. For the first time in 11 years, the governor has surrendered to the fiscally reckless demands of Democrat legislators.

The $212 billion budget he agreed to increases spending by

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right $18 billion—a 10 percent hike— and increases taxes by $4 billion: • For New York’s highest earners, the state income tax will rise to 10.9 percent.

• The capital gains tax will add on a 1 percent surtax.

• Estate taxes will jump from 16 percent to 20 percent for estates valued over $10.1million.

• The corporate franchise tax will be 7.25 percent, up from 6.5 percent.

Analyzing the tax hikes, E.J. McMahon of The Empire Center for Public Policy, concluded: “The financial incentive for high earners to move themselves and their businesses from New York

to states with low or no income taxes has never ever been higher than it already is.”

As for spending, there’s plenty of pork: • $385 million appropriated for the State and Municipal Facilities Program. These funds, The Empire Center reports, “can be used to underwrite almost any capital construction or equipment purchase a state or local politician can think of, including the vast category of privately sponsored ‘economic development’ projects.” In other words, corporate welfare for favored constituents; • $2.1 billion for undocumented immigrants without jobs; • $23 million for local community “restorative justice” programs; • $300 million for farmland preservation and botanical gardens and zoos; • $4.6 million for “the retention of professional football in Western New York”; • $125 thousand to promote N.Y. grown Christmas trees; • $50 thousand for N.Y. hop growers to promote hops; • $108 million to develop the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx; • $43 million for the N.Y.

Council of the Arts and $1 million for “arts stabilization grants”— whatever that is.

And as tens of thousands of New Yorkers—who lost their jobs due to Cuomo shutting down the state’s economy—search for employment, the budget provides $175 million in raises for those who suffered least financially— state workers.

During his first 10 years in office, the fiscally prudent governor kept the growth of budgetary spending to an average of 2 percent annually.

So why did he sign on to a 10 percent increase?

Answer: He’s politically weak thanks to scandals haunting his administration.

Hence, Cuomo may believe giving into the radicals may slow down the Legislature’s investigation into his behavior and may thwart impeachment proceedings.

To save his political hide, the governor agreed to fund cockamamie legislative proposals and to throw overburdened taxpayers “under the bus.”

Andrew Cuomo—a profile in courage?

I think not.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

How do we fight something like racism?

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t the time of 9/11, I was a harried, stayat-home mom whose hands were completely full with a husband and two boys, 4 and 7. I had no time for anything like watching television.

So it wasn’t until sometime later that I finally had a chance to sit down and watch “24” and the other programs of the day.

But when I did, I got one clear and consistent message, ringing like a bell through everything I saw: “Fear! Fear the Muslim terrorists!”

Now that problem has abated to the point that President Biden is ready to put the Afghan war officially behind us. Which is just as well. Because it is becoming clearer with every passing day that we have an even bigger problem to deal with.

There is a giant gaping wound across our nation’s soul and its name is “racism.”

President Biden has pledged to “eradicate the scourge of sys-

temic racism” from our country.

A noble goal surely — but how?

Some have said they want to get rid of racism, “root and branch.”

Of course, I agree with the goal. I, too, yearn for a non-racist America. But I fear that statements like these make racism sound like just a troublesome bit of poison ivy.

Others have called racism “a cancer upon this country.” That’s worse than poison ivy, but still — if racism is a “cancer,” well, what do we do with cancers? We cut them out if they’re tumors or we kill them with toxic chemotherapy and radiation.

We can’t do that with racism.

Racism isn’t the kind of thing that you can remove from a person. When people say “we must eradicate it, root and branch,” I get a weird image of someone pulling a squid-like alien out of my body.

That does not sound very safe. In fact, it might even back-

JUDY EPSTEIN

A Look on the Lighter Side fire, making me cling all the more tightly to whatever you were hoping to “root out.”

The thing is I don’t think there is a single person in America who can say they are free from any hint of racism. No one—of any color. Not even the purists who criticize everybody else on Twitter; they just haven’t lived long enough to make any mistakes of their own yet.

All we have really are just

varying degrees of bias, which we fight with varying degrees of success.

I’m certainly no angel. I am one of those white people who crossed the street if I saw a black man heading towards me and then chastised myself for doing it. I try to be the soft-hearted liberal my parents raised me to be, but even so I check the locks on my car doors before driving through what I consider to be a “bad” neighborhood, which always means poor and usually means “of color.” Back when I went places in the city, I was definitely one of those women who held my purse a little more tightly when someone black or brown got on the elevator. Well, if they were men anyway.

I bring up TV shows because they taught me what every redblooded American TV watcher knows: When problems arise, you shoot them. Whether it’s “NCIS” or one of its spinoffs, or “FBI” or “S.W.A.T.” or “Chicago PD” — there is almost al-

ways the climactic scene where bad guys are popping up from behind cars or around building corners or from warehouse stacks — and the good guys shoot and kill them. And all of that is OK, because the bad guys were terrorists or Russian mafia or cartel hitmen or, more and more these days, sex traffickers — in any case, something irredeemably bad and therefore OK to kill.

But racism isn’t like that. No one is all good or all bad. Racism cannot be obliterated like a terrorist or a tumor. It lives in the hearts and minds of our fellow Americans, and it is not OK to kill them. It lives in the hearts and minds of our own selves and what are we to do about that?

Somehow we must find a way to open our hearts to people we fear. It won’t be quick or easy, and there are precious few role models or road maps for how to proceed.

But still we have to try if we want to save this nation.

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The Anthropocene: an unwanted new age

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hat better time than Earth Day 2021 to talk about something big that is happening to our Earth? The history of our planet (covering about 4.5 billion years) is described using geological time as epochs, eons, eras and ages.

For the last 11,700 years, Earth has been in the Holocene Epoch, beginning at the end of the last ice age, when glaciers that had covered the Earth melted.

Epochs can last for millions of years and are defined by changes in the mineral composition of rock layers and the presence of distinctive fossils. These are the indicators that reflect major climatic change.

Over the past decade, experts in varying fields of science have begun to debate whether we are actually witnessing a new formal geological epoch, the Anthropocene.

The term translates to “Age of Humans,” and there is mounting evidence that human activity rather than natural progress is changing our planet in ways that will continue far into the future through geologic time.

Crucial signs of these changes include our unstable climate and the Earth’s warming. An increase in the release of greenhouse gases, deforestation, agricultural practices, widespread planetary pollution and urbanization and many more human activities underlie these changes.

But to actually document a

shift in geologic time, there would have to be detectable markers in rock layers millions of years into the future. This is where the disagreement lies.

Can humans, who have only been around for about 200,000 years, really affect the chemical composition of the fossils and rocks under our feet with their activities?

Geologists are looking for proof of this marker, or the “golden spike,” that would demarcate the Holocene from the Anthropocene.

Golden spike candidates range from Britain’s Industrial Revolution beginning in the 18th century and the nuclear weapon test by the United States in July 1946 to plastic pollution and mass extinction events.

Until humans unleashed their destructive powers, mass extinction events were caused by natural causes like volcanic eruptions or asteroids hitting the planet.

The International Commission of Stratigraphy, located in Cambridge, England, is the global governing body that formally names geological eras, associating sedimentary rock layers with a period of time.

Geologists working in stratigraphy spend their time in laboratories, carefully studying cores of dirt or ice and even tree rings to understand the climate history of the Earth.

In the year 2000, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist named Paul

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Crutzen made stratigraphy more familiar to the world. He said that human activities had altered the fundamental processes of the planet in such a significant way that a new geological epoch, The Anthropocene, had commenced.

The first International Earth Day took place on March 21, 1970, on the vernal equinox of that year.

John McConnell, a newspaper publisher, proposed the idea of a global holiday at a UNESCO Conference on the environment in 1969.

He chose the vernal equinox (either March 20 or March 21) when night and day are the same lengths everywhere on the Earth and hoped that people would put aside their differences and recognize their common need to preserve the Earth’s resources.

Then U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signed a proclamation of-

ficially establishing the March date as the International Earth Day and made this statement: “May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.” The United Nations celebrates this International Earth Day each year by ringing the Peace Bell at U.N. headquarters in New York at the precise moment of the vernal equinox.

Here in the United States, we also celebrate another Earth Day, every April 22.This second Earth Day was introduced and organized

by U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin and environmental activist, who held a nationwide day of environmental education and activism on this date in 1970. He wanted to show other politicians that there was widespread public support for a political agenda centered on environmental issues.

With some dedicated organizers and volunteer college students, the first Earth Day was hugely successful, sparking Earth Day celebrations and clean-ups across the country.

After this first Earth Day, Congress passed a number of important environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, wilderness protection legislation and the Environmental Protection

Agency was created.

In 1995, Nelson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton for founding Earth Day, raising awareness of environmental issues and nurturing environmental activism.

An October 1993 article in American Heritage Magazine proclaimed, “April 22, 1970 Earth Day was one of the most remarkable happenings in the history of democracy 20 million people demonstrated their support American politics and public policy would never be the same again.”

These two annual Earth Day celebrations hope to raise awareness and inspire people to take personal action. ”Think Globally, Act Locally” has become the Earth Day mantra, but I think we need to act locally every day. We need to think every day is Earth Day! President Biden returned the United States to the Paris climate accord on his first day in office. And then he appointed Gavin Schmidt as senior climate adviser to NASA. It’s worth the effort to watch his 2014 TED talk.

So, now that we know something big is afoot on our planet, what to do about it? I like to start by thinking that if humans caused the problem, humans can fix it.

But how do we get humans to care about future generations or understand how interconnected we are with all other living things that call the Earth home?

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Property taxes are high, but should you grieve?

“You have nothing to lose!” the email solicitation goes. The TV commercial goes like this: “Everybody on Long Island should grieve their property tax and do it every year.” The phone call to one of the many tax reduction services begins this way, “Every Nassau County resident should grieve and do it every year.”

Why are people so anxious to grieve? Is it because there’s no reason not to? By endless ads, mailings by “property tax specialists” who only get paid (a percentage) if they win reduction?

By county legislators who use their advocacy (of tax grievance) to put themselves on their constituents’ side? By the county which sets up school districts (which account for two-thirds of property tax levy) as the bad guy, encouraging resentment? The county makes it extremely easy to file, it doesn’t cost anything (the services take up to 50 percent on what is won) and

you can’t be reassessed higher, so why not?

I think it is because promoting tax grievance foments distrust and resentment for government and for neighbors who grieve every year and win their reduction which those who don’t grieve wind up paying for. Because paying taxes is paying to ourselves for the services that make living here possible, even wonderful – the schools, parks, libraries, roads, water, sewage, sanitation, police. And if you follow how the budgets are prepared, how dollars are spent and how revenue is raised, you should have confidence that every tax dollar is worth it. We know what property taxes are when we purchase our homes, and we still do.

But we want to pay a fair share.

And that’s where confidence in the assessment and collection system comes in.

The New York Times recently ran a column that was quite an

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indictment of how property taxes foment the inequality between rich and poor, suggesting that rich people’s homes are undervalued for the purpose of assessing tax and poor people’s homes are overvalued.

What it failed to take into account is that there is also a difference between how much commercial property tax a community might have which mitigates the amount of tax

an individual homeowner would pay – rich neighborhoods like Great Neck and Manhasset have more commercial property than Roosevelt.

Also, that almost two-thirds of property tax bill goes to schools, budgets which are local to that community – Great Neck must raise 95 percent of its school budget from property tax while Roosevelt gets 50 percent of its school budget paid for by state aid, which is how the state equalizes the disparity in commercial tax.

If people honestly believe they are unfairly valued, they have every right to grieve (the deadline for Nassau County was extended to April 30).

Sometimes it is valid to grieve the tax assessment – after all, it is based only on a cursory look outside, not inside, so is really difficult to accurately say what the “fair market value” of that specific house would be.

What is more, the property value is very individual to circumstance, so the “fair market value” depends on a host of factors – comparable sales in the neighborhood, for example.

So yes, nothing to lose by grieving. Nor does the government lose, because that total amount of the tax pie – its budget – simply is made up by a higher share being paid by those homeowners who didn’t.

This little cycle was in force, especially during the Mangano decade, when there was a free-for-all where property values were frozen despite rising home values, yet almost anyone and everyone who grieved their assessed value won a reduction.

In the last year of the Mangano administration, 218,000 filed grievances (out of 386,571, two-thirds of property owners), with 203,000 getting offers to settle – so more than 90 percent.

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OUT OF LEFT FIELD

Your right to be happy in our Constitution

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ere is a topic to ponder as we seek positivity moving away from the pandemic horror year. In my previous column, it was a pleasure to highlight radical humanitarian views by Thomas Jefferson that are too seldom recognized or acted upon.

Jefferson’s key radicalism was associated with a few words in his revision of John Locke. Jefferson referred to the “inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

As scholars have long recognized (but few in the public are aware), when Jefferson used the term “pursuit,” he was not merely talking about “seeking” happiness.

Instead, as the Oxford English Dictionary for the 18th century indicates, the word “pursuit” then referred to a “practice,” e.g. a doctor was in the “pursuit of medicine,” a lawyer was in the practice (or the “pursuit of law”).

One of my favorite authors, Yuval Noah Harari, in his dazzling book, “Homo Deux,” erred in criticizing Jefferson for proposing “seeking” happiness, but not doing enough to achieve it. As I wrote previously, Jefferson left a legacy of great happiness activities and directions.

As we go forward, more of these pathways (some with limitations) will be examined and we can certainly consider the range and depth of Harari’s most impressive happiness explorations.

This could be a long journey of discoveries. But I hope you will be part of the trek so we can examine advances of individual happiness that also deepen “res publica,” or the public good.

Jefferson contended that all humans had a fundamental right to be happy and he offered pathways to life’s satisfactions. The topic of happiness is vast. Although much has been written about its quests and practices, I might need to enlist a squad of friends, scholars, analysts to illuminate key dimensions for our lives and our society. (Might you be a volunteer contributor?)

Indeed, this past week, during a regular monthly Zoomers conversation among 18 friends (mostly with past associations with the Kettering Foundation), we continued our discussions of worthy lives and good societies.

We are recapturing some of the great spirit of Benjamin Franklin, who was only in his 20s when he started his Philadelphia “Junto.”

Those remarkable community gatherings continued for decades; they still offer models of pathways to happiness and “Res Publica.”

Franklin’s creative genius and his public leadership are brilliantly depicted in the marvelous book “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life” by Walter Isaacson. The book is long but the learning and the take-away values are vast and often entertaining as well. Indeed, Franklin may well be one of our best exemplars for incorporating

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field humor into rewarding lives — as my future elementary school teacher son, Zach, vividly discussed with me this week.

Part of our challenge is where and how to prioritize the effective pathways to be happy. Questions and challenging inquiries abound.

Obviously, family and relationships are early shaping experiences, but they can vary in how they are experienced and in the legacies they leave.

A dramatic Long Island example comes to mind in this regard.

I had the good fortune to meet Italian-American writer Mario Puzo and to read all of his books. In his emotional,fictionalized view of his mother (called “Lucia Santa” in “The Fortunate Pilgrim”), he speaks of the embarrassments growing up in Hell’s Kitchen with illiterate immigrant relatives. Escaping eventually to Long Island but experiencing

loneliness and prejudice, he eventually comes to respect the courage of his immigrant chain breakers and the ways they coped and helped him “find a dream” to a life of wider fulfillments, without severing family and community bonds.

These advancements came for Puzo even as his immigrant mother warned him not to overreach (“Be happy? She averred: Just be glad you are alive!”)

I think also of my remarkable colleague, Sam Toperoff, who chose the ironic title “All the Advantages” for his growing up memoir (experiences with inner city poverty and social isolations). How Puzo and Toperoff proceeded are examples of happiness achieved despite many social and family limitations.

Still, we will want to ask: What are the key factors that show people are truly happy? (Harari’s “Homo Deux” provides many leads, but we can also recognize as with Puzo and Toperoff that individuals can advance from where they began – sometimes in the most dramatic and fulfilling ways.

Understanding components of change and progress requires close attention not only to the character and conduct of individuals but also to the society in which they are striving.

This past week my Kettering Zoomers group discussed Michael Sandel’s superb book, “The Tyranny of Merit.” Among many major themes, Sandel (also author of the brilliant “Justice”) considers strains

in our polarized society. Some of them occur from people who believe that “personal responsibility” is the sole key to everyone’s life.

Where you are in every respect is a reflection of your abilities, your commitments, your discipline. Sandel is concerned that successful people may be arrogant in attributing credit only to themselves. As the Sunday New York Times pointed out, Leah Libresco Sargeant focuses on “interdependence” – how such a variety of economic, chance, education, family and other factors can affect our activities and our happiness.For Sandel, folks who aren’t successful and happy may form resentments against the privileged “credentialed” and blame themselves alone for their shortcomings.

Community conversations in the spirit of Franklin’s Junto can give more folks a chance to take stock of their experiences and to consider pathways to “arrete” (the Greek concept of excellence and happiness).

Leah Libresco Sargeant and her Greek heritage spouse, Alexi, suggested that in our explorations we consider “Eudaimonia” – translated from Greek as “Flourishing” as well as Happiness and “Good spiritedness,” which sounds like Jefferson!

Leah emphasizes that to seek ‘flourishing happiness,” it is “necessary to think about what human nature is and what will fulfill it.”

Let’s follow Long Islander Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road.”

THE BACK ROAD

Full circle from mischief to good trouble

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ast week an article appeared about me in this newspaper entitled, “Guidance Center CEO announces retirement.” The average age of retirement in the US is 61. When I retire in two months I will have surpassed the average by nine years.

Among the articles I have been reading about retirement are those that offer cautionary notes and tips. For example, I learned that I should not expect retirement to feel like an endless vacation, I should structure my time and I should not neglect my appearance.

The last one will be difficult after working from home during the year of the pandemic. Although I think I’ll add a third pair of pants to the rotation and buy a couple of new sweatshirts.

With respect to structuring

my time, although I am retiring after 45 years with the same organization, I have also held a part-time job for 31 years as a journal editor, which I will continue. I also plan to continue writing this column for as long as my imagination will take me and publisher Steve Blank will have me.

I never imagined retirement as an endless vacation, although living in Long Beach has always had a vacation feel to it, being within walking distance of the boardwalk and ocean. Driving home from Roslyn Heights to Long Beach on the Meadowbrook and Loop Parkway since the late 1970s offered me the benefit of landing in a resort every single day.

Despite addressing my impending retirement in a lighthearted manner here, I am well aware that there are risks and losses associated with this major

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life transition that cannot be simply brushed aside.

I’ll be losing daily contact with my dear workplace friends, some of whom I’ve known for decades.

A benefit of my job has been an excellent health insurance plan.

As a cancer survivor that has been vital.

Naturally, I will apply for the health insurance I will need in retirement, but I already know that it won’t be quite as good as what I have had for years and that the out-of-pocket costs for certain prescription medications are prohibitive.

As a social worker, I have always been an advocate. I can already see that if I choose to in retirement, there will be no shortage of causes to take on if I wish to continue to employ my advocacy skills.

One of the more mundane operations in preparation for my retirement has been cleaning out my office at work and making some room for my books and other items at home. In making space at home, I came across a box that contained some of my old report cards.

My first-grade teacher Ger-

trude Finkel wrote: “Andrew tends to go to extremes lately. He is either the best boy in the class, or he creates mischief.” A few years later my Hebrew school teacher wrote: “Andy has some disruptive influence on his neighbors.”

William Wordsworth wrote that “the child is the father to the man” in his 1802 poem “My Heart Leaps Up.” To the extent that this applies to one’s later years, I’m not sure that I want to create mischief in retirement, although it does sound like it could be fun.

Upon re-reading my teachers’ comments, I have come to believe that my disruptive behavior was a precursor, a primitive sign if you will, of what the late civil rights activist, Congressman John Lewis referred to as “getting into good trouble.” I think I can do that, whether or not I neglect my appearance in retirement.

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OUR TOWN

Envy: one of the deadliest sins in our lives

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n the medieval novel “The Quest for the Holy Grail,” there is always a king who is troubled and depleted of life.

He desperately needs someone to find the Holy Grail, a magic chalice which will restore life, happiness and joy to him and his kingdom.

In the Chretien de Troyes version, Galahad is introduced as a poor young boy living in the forest who sees some shining knights on horses and decides he wants what they have, armor, horses, swords and a life of adventure. He kills a knight, takes his horse and armor and thus the story begins.

This is a story of envy and the desire to possess what another seems to have. The theme of envy makes for great films as well. The 1984 film “Amadeus” was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and was about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the envious

court composer Antonio Salieri, who eventually referred to himself as “the patron saint of mediocrity.”

Such was the envy Salieri had for Mozart’s talent that he plotted his death.

Envy is an inevitable part of the life of anyone who possesses great talent. One of the most shocking things I have learned as a sport psychologist working with world-class athletes are the stories of envy these athletes encounter as they rise to the top. The public harbors a fantasy that the life of a superstar is filled with applause, accolades, money, admiration and love. But there is a dark side to the experience of fame that is every bit as dangerous as the death threats Mozart faced. Those who drink from “the great and glorious poisoned chalice of money and fame” will encounter envy at the highest level.

Here is Dante, guided by Virgil, in consoling the envious in purgatory. Painted by Flanders, 1835

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One patient told the story of when she was 11 years old. She was already a prodigious talent and she had just dominated a soccer match by scoring seven goals in one game. As she walked off the field in triumph, she was greeted by a parent for the opponent’s team who came up to her and kicked her in the stomach. This player later grew into the No. 3 in the world. Welcome to the world of envy, loathing and jealousy.

Another tale was told to me by a coach who began to dominate his sport of baseball by the time he was 30. At that time, he was an assistant coach on a nationally ranked baseball team and after they won the national title, the head coach, who was older and wiser, walked with him to the parking lot, put his arm around him and cryptically remarked: “Get ready to go home to no friends.” The young coach could not imagine what the head coach was referring to, but after his car was keyed a few times he came to understand the nature of

envy firsthand.

Another unhappy tale is from an ex-NBA player I worked with who was a standout in his rookie year only to be sabotaged and eventually thrown off the team, thanks to the fear and envy of the team’s superstar, who instructed the head coach to get rid of this young player or else.

And envy is not only limited to sports. A common cause of learning disability in gifted children is due to the envy a parent, peer or sibling unconsciously feels when they begin to see that the girl or boy is smarter than they are. When the gifted child begins to sense that they are about to lose love because they are gifted, the child starts to slow down, work less and dumb it down rather than lose the relationship. A gifted child dreads being called an egghead or uncool and will intentionally work less hard to remain within their peer group.

The first psychoanalyst to write about envy was Melanie Klein, an Austrian/British author and child psychiatrist who developed a theory which described the aggressive and envious nature the young child had towards the mother’s breast, the object which contained the thing which the infant needed but had little control over. Her theory allowed researchers to study envy as the most basic and perhaps the most dangerous human trait. Contrary to the adult fantasy of the bliss of childhood, she felt that children suffered more acutely than adults and that most adult suffering has its roots

in the childhood experience of anger, frustration, hunger, greed and envy.

When you work with gifted athletes, talented coaches or high IQ students who face painful envy and unwarranted attacks, one naturally commiserates and empathizes with them. As the saying goes “It’s lonely at the top.” The athlete or student assumes that there must be something wrong with them to have been ostracized this way. They have been contaminated by the envy of others. I help them understand that their pain and loneliness come from being better than others and not worse.

Eventually this allows for a renewed ownership of their abilities, independence, and power.

To be envied, scapegoated and shunned by peers is exceedingly painful and confusing. But what is worse is the shutting down of talent to hide your power, your gifts and your potential. Yes, we need the love of others, but we also need to fulfill our own destiny.

Chretien de Troyes used the Holy Grail as the symbol of the ultimate elixir and why trophies are often symbolized as chalices or cups. They are meant to symbolize nourishment for the victor and a safeguard against the envy and jealousy of their peers. So, if you feel you have been hurt by the envy of others, make a list of your achievements, display your trophies and medals and ask yourself the question: “Am I able to truly recognize the joy of all this and of my own greatness?”

F R O M T H E D E S K O F S TAT E A S S E M B LY M A N E D W A R D R A

Dems reckless budget shows one-party dangers

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ome clichés exist for a reason- they’re true. As more pundits, activist groups and elected officials continue to analyze the recentlyenacted state budget, you’ll probably hear some version of “budgets are about priorities” a few times.

And there’s a lot of truth to that.

Whether you’re a non-profit or a family or a state government, what you chose to fund ultimately says a lot about your values.

Budgets, however, are also about budgeting. They’re about real fiscal constraints, real numbers and real planning. The Democrat majorities authorized a budget that’s deeply at odds with the long-term economic viability of the state. In short, their budget doesn’t budget very well.

The topline spending jumps

off the page. Their $212 billion budget represents an 18.9% increase. That sort of one-year spike would’ve been a nonstarter as recently as 2018 when Republicans controlled the state Senate. For some context, this budget spends more than Texas and Florida combined. Both have higher populations than New York.

Democrats spent more on lump-sum payments for undocumented immigrants than on state aid for local infrastructure and small business recovery combined.

And despite dozens in their ranks calling for the governor to resign amidst twin impeachment and attorney general investigations, they fully funded his corrupt economic development programs without creating any new oversight measures. Why would you hand $150

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State Assemblyman million to someone you just said is unfit to serve?

The Democrats also hiked taxes by $4 billion. Raising taxes on businesses that are struggling to bring back workers and scale back up after a year of economic

devastation was obviously wrong.

And while people of all political stripes want to ensure that wealthy residents pay their fair share, what Democrats don’t seem to grasp is that, in New York state, they already were.

The top 1 percent of earners were already supplying 44 percent of the state’s income tax revenue, to say nothing of their property and sales tax contributions.

These are people who can decide to leave at the drop of a hat, taking huge chunks of revenue and jobs with them. There’s a difference between catering to the wealthy and acknowledging that wealthy people are not stupid and respond to incentives like all other human beings.

The decision to raise taxes and frustrate our economic recovery is

even more galling when you consider that our state received $12.5 billion in unrestricted aid from the federal government.

We could’ve used last year’s budget as a framework and come up with a responsible plan that balanced the needs of taxpayers and job creators, all while using the massive influx of federal aid to power a robust COVID-19 recovery effort centered around our small business owners, non-profits, healthcare systems and schools.

The Democrats had much different ideas. When firms flee the state for friendlier tax climates and families leave for better economic opportunity, there won’t be another federal bailout waiting- just a lot of voters who are going to wonder how they let it happen.

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COMMUNITY & SCHOOL NEWS

Happening at the Williston Park Library Carl DelVecchio Memorial Library www.willistonparklibrary.org By: Donna McKenna, Director E-mail: wppubliclibrary@gmail.com New titles added to the collection: New Normal: A Roadmap of Resilience in the Pandemic Era— Jennifer Ashton, MD All Girls—Emily Layden American Baby: A Mother, A Child & the Shadow History of Adoption— Gabrielle Glaser Russian Cage—Charlaine Harris Black Widows—Cate Quinn Band of Sisters—Lauren Willig Diplomat’s Wife—Pam Jenoff Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle— Sarah Greaves Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free—Paulina Bren The Williston Park Library is again partnering with LI Cares/16th Assembly District’s Legislative annual pet drive. The drive, which will run during the month of April, will help local soup kitchens and food pantries meet the needs of struggling families with pets.

The most needed items are bags of dry dog and cat food, canned dog and cat food, cat box litter, treats, and toys. All food must be unopened and in its original packaging.

A donation box will be available inside the Library. Thank you for your support.

Our Daily Hours Are: Open for Browsing: Monday-Friday:

10am-5:30pm. Vestibule Pick-Up: MondayFriday: 10am-5:30pm. Browsing & Vestibule Pickup: Saturday: 10am-4pm “Open for Browsing” means you can come inside, walk around the Library, and look for books and other items. Please limit your time to 1 hour. 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.

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.

Three computers are available for public use for a limit of 30 minutes.

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

Thank you for cooperating with the guidelines we have in place to keep us all safe.

Adult Programs Knitting Circle—April 22—11am-1pm in the Assembly Room of Village Hall.

Winter Brook, Psychic Medium—Tuesday—April 20—6pm via Zoom. Email Chris at willistonpr@yahoo.com to register. Login information TBA. Book Discussion—April 21—7pm via Zoom. Author Susan Conley will join the dis-

cussion via Zoom. Copies of Landslide will be available at the Circulation Desk. Join Zoom Meeting https://adelphiuniversity.zoom. us/j/97873413611?pwd=cTVxMk1UR0NK OHJaV0tGdXVJOE9iZz09 Meeting ID: 978 7341 3611 Passcode: WPBookClub or just call 19292056099 and they will ask for the meeting id and password above.

Mama & Baby Garden Turtle Ceramic To-Go Craft—$25 per kit (cash only). Kits will be available the week on April 26. You Tube instructions will be included. Email willistonpr@yahoo.com to register.

Children’s Programs Virtual Funny Poetry Show—Saturday—

April 24—10:30-11:30am for children of all ages. Join poet and author Darren Sardelli as he brings poetry to life. Please register at willistonparkprograms@gmail.com. Please include your name, phone number and name/ ages of children attending. The Zoom link will be sent upon registration.

Ceramic Crafts To Go—$10 p/craft (kittens and butterflies). Available while supplies last.

Please check our website willistonarklibrary.org for updates on all upcoming events.

Come into the Library for a free children’s craft every Monday for Take and Make Mondays

Center St. explores music To celebrate Music in Our Schools Month, Center Street’s second and fourth graders learned about Mozart’s opera, “The Magic Flute.”

While listening to the sounds of Mozart, students imagined instruments that could grant them magic powers and illustrated adventures starring themselves saving the world through the power of music.

The students selected powers that spoke to empathy and resilience, such as feeding the hungry, making bullies kind and becoming indestructible.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Preschoolers celebrate Israel’s 73rd birthday On Thursday, April 15, preschool students at Temple Beth Sholom Early Childhood Center in Roslyn Heights honored Israel’s 73rd birthday, also known as Israel Independence Day, with a day of celebration highlighted by a mock trip to Israel. As families arrived at school, Religious School Director Sharon Solomon and Cantor Ofer Barnoy led the re-Kkndergarten students in the singing of Hebrew songs.

The children stood under a balloon arch erected for the occasion, waving Israeli flags as the cars pulled up to drop off children in the younger grades.

Immediately after arrival, the children made sure they had their boarding passes and passports as they made their way to the mock airport to board their “private flight” to Israel.

Cantor Ofer Barnoy acted as the pilot of the plane, while Rabbi Alan Lucas walked down the aisle of the airplane handing out snacks to the children. The children watched a real El Al airplane take off on a large-screen television that was set up in front of the plane.

Upon arrival in Israel, the children

had their passports stamped and they made their way back to their classrooms to engage in additional activities.

In the week leading up to their imaginary trip to Israel, Temple

Beth Sholom Early Childhood Center students watched live stream video from the Kotel, the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Inside the school, a replica of the ancient Wall was created from

boxes painted by the children.

Classes learned about Israel’s rich history leading up to their independence in 1948. They talked about the salt in the Dead Sea and how it helps people float in the

Early Childhood Center pre-kindergarten students sing and dance in honor of Israel’s birthday.

water. On Israel’s actual birthday, they sampled traditional Israeli foods like falafel and hummus and decorated cupcakes with blue and white icing, the colors of the Israeli flag.

Because no celebration is complete without a parade, the children painted and decorated flags of Israel that they proudly waved as they marched in the hallways. ”This is by far one of my favorite days of the school year,” said school director Jen Schiffer.

“For our preschool children, learning about Israel and its people is an important part of their early Jewish education.”

At the end of the day, tired from their visit, the children boarded the airplane once more to head back home from their “trip” in order to be back at school in time for parent pick-up.

While nothing can compare to actually visiting Israel, the children in the school shared an immersive experience that helped them to better understand the sights, sounds and tastes of the country.

Going to school amidst a global pandemic, it is nice to have something to celebrate.

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READERS WRITE

Mom-and-pop bakeries need your help

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f you don’t wish to grieve the loss of these two fine mom-andpop shops, please send your bakery business their way.

It’s simple economics. Hardworking shopkeepers can’t pay the rent based on Thursday and Friday only bakery business. They have expenses seven days a week. That’s

why we lost Benkert’s Bakery and many mom-and-pop shops as well.

It’s seldom talked about, but it’s a reality. You can’t enjoy a flourishing, prosperous downtown if you don’t agree to buy local with your whole heart and mind.

Visit Mr. and Mrs. Steiner at Steiner’s Pastry Shop at their new

location in Port Washington (formerly of Manhasset for 39 years).

They’ll much appreciate your visit and your renewed bakery business.It’s located at 148 Main St. in Port Washington; phone 612-9730.

Check out their famous blueberry muffins, chocolate chip muffins and meltaways.

And Louie of Sweet Temptations in Great Neck would love to see you again as well at 805 Middle Neck Road; phone 487-9048.

Check out the excellent banana bread or banana chocolate chip bread. There’s nothing simpler and there’s nothing better.

Give the “little guy” – the hon-

est, hard-working guy a break.

Mom-and-pop bakers are measuring ingredients and pounding dough at 4:30 a.m. to service you.

Shop local and please remember to “Come Again.”

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The Holocaust. Not long ago. Not far away.

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ix million Jews perished in German-occupied Europe during World War II. Though Jews were in the gas chambers with all kinds of other people — the gypsies, gays, political opponents of the Nazi regime — but only the Jewish people were targeted for “The Final Solution”: the destruction of the Jewish people from the entire planet.

No such plan was ever devised in the annuals of humanity,” said Rabbi Israel Zoberman, founder of Temple Lev Tikvah in Virginia Beach.

It is estimated that 90 percent of Europe’s Jewish children perished in the Holocaust. Women and children were often the first victims of the Nazi’s and their collaborators in the concentration and death

camps, often within days of arrival.

There were more than a thousand concentration camps, with no lull or let up to wholesale debasement and murder until the Nazis were defeated and forced to abandon the evil handiwork of their systematic, industrialized evil.

Nothing can rationalize such wanton destruction, pain, suffering, tragedy and death on a mass scale. The Holocaust challenges our ideas about humanity, good and evil, silence and justice. It tests our ideas about bigotry, hate, and the evil of anti-Semitism combined with power.

If unchecked we know the ultimate outcome, silence and inaction cannot be the answer.

I wrote “Joanna” describing my daughter’s coming to terms with

the “Diary of Anne Frank” and what happened during the Holocaust.

The poem is coupled with my friend’s touching portrait of Anne Frank who perished at a young age in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Anne’s family fled Germany for the Netherlands when the Nazis began the wholesale persecution of German Jews.

In 1942 the family went into hiding when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, where they remained until betrayed in 1944. Anne’s father, Otto, was the only one of the eight people in hiding to survive.

“Joanna” appeared in 2014 in Yeshiva University’s seminal “PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators.” I read Joanna at the 2015 New York City Federal Commemoration Day of

Remembrance in the U.S. Court of International Trade, the only poet invited to read.

Joanna At 12 she’s become obsessed with the Holocaust,with the thought of children her age who in the soft evening did not go to bed tucked in with pleasant dreams and fluffy play animals at their feet. She knows about the children bathed in seething gas and turned to ash and cinders.

Her dreaming eye sees Anne Frank: stuffed into tight attics,hiding under tables,herded into cattle cars,separated from her family,reduced to skin and bones,ravaged by typhus,freezing to death,her small body unceremoniously dumped into a mass grave,and an indelible yellow star

stitched through her heart.

Information about Anne Frank and the personal impact of the Holocaust can be found here: https:// www.annefrank.org/en/ Information on the Holocaust, and about the most infamous camp Auschwitz where approximately one million Jews were murdered can be found at The Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Heritage to the Holocaust in at Battery Place, NYC: https://mjhnyc.org/Scholarly articles and interdisciplinary resources can be found here:https:// www.yu.edu/azrieli/publications And on the Wikipedia: https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_ concentration_camp Stephen Cipot Garden City Park

How test kit delays impacted nursing homes

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he pandemic was in full force last March 2020 when nursing homes across the country were caught off-guard by the deadly coronavirus.

The test kits that were badly needed early-on to detect the coronavirus in the skilled facilities were scarce. Making matters worse, the surge in COVID-19 cases caused a shortage of personnel staff and a lack of PPE for both residents and employees of the nursing homes.

Nationwide the virus and its consequences claimed the lives of an estimated 160,000 residents of long-term care facilities, approximately 1/3 of the deaths in the United States. The failure to provide substantial amounts of test kits throughout the U.S. laid with the bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received emergency use authorization to develop

a laboratory test kit to diagnose COVID-19. The test kit provided results within 4 hours, but the number of kits available were disproportionately lower than the growing cases of coronavirus in the United States.

At that time there were only about 200 kits being distributed nationwide testing approximately 700-800 patient specimens per kit. The International Reagent Resource, the CDC’s arm, was created to acquire and distribute reagent chemicals needed for the test kits to be used by diagnostic labs which separated the coronavirus’ genetic material.

But the manufacturing setback of test kits was precipitated by a decline of the supply of reagents.

The primary manufacturer of the reagents needed for the COVID-19 tests was Qiagen located in Germany. Qiagen’s supply of the reagents had diminished because of the unexpected demand caused by

the pandemic.

While the availability of test kits was scarce in the United States, most European countries had already manufactured their own kits. Europe experienced the widespread effect of the pandemic earlier than the United States, and by the end of February, 2020 researchers from around the world were producing test kits to detect COVID-19.

The World Health Organization had dispatched test kits to detect the novel coronavirus to over 60 countries, but not the United States. Why? The WHO’s list for distribution of test kits never included the United States since the U.S. had always had a laboratory network sufficient to counter most viruses.

But the novel coronavirus posed a different consequence and the Pan American Health Organization, headquartered in Washington D.C. focused on other countries

that had a weaker virology laboratory system than the United States.

Even though the CDC’s protocol is to initiate diagnostics to counter new threatening bacterium that cause disease, there was a bottleneck in the production of test kits for the coronavirus.

Early on during the virus pandemic the CDC lab in Atlanta was the only lab in the United States that had the authority and capability to test for the novel coronavirus but was severely backlogged. In its defense, the CDC’s response to the backlog was “lab testing quality.”

While the test kits were sent out to state labs throughout the country, including New York, they were recalled because of a reagent validation problem.

Theoretically state labs and hospitals throughout the United States had the capacity to carry out tests for the novel coronavirus, but FDA approval was withheld during the early months of the pandemic.

It was not until the very end of February 2020 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced new guidance for emergency use approval of coronavirus tests not distributed by the CDC. Between January and March 2020, the virus in its purest form spread from China and Europe making its way to the United States. The widespread need for testing in the early months of the pandemic of nursing home residents, staff and visitors never happened in most skilled facilities because of the scarcity of test kits.

The national failure of Washington D.C.’s bureaucracy to not foresee the urgent need for test kits early on in the pandemic and the pending delay in test kit distribution cost New York precious time. The consequences of which allowed the virus to multiply at an unprecedented rate.

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READERS WRITE

Glickman offers leadership for the future

I

am writing this letter in support of Michael Glickman’s candidacy for the town school board.

I have known Michael for the better part of approximately the last 15 years. In that time, I have been able to observe Michael in his professional capacity, personal capacity and in his altruistic capacity as he is involved with many worthy causes surrounding education, culture and the arts.

Michael is a giving person and is

willing to donate the appropriate amount oftime to this cause.

I humbly place forth the idea that folks often misconstrue Michael’s passion for certain causes relative to their own complacency.Michael is simply passionate about what he believes, so I respectfully submitto this community: please excuse his passion and ‘growth mindset’.

Moreover, relative to this field, Michael far outstrips his competition in terms ofpoignant experiences

at the highest leadership levels of both the educationvertical as well as ‘skippering’ major cultural institutions in the metropolitan area.

Simply put, he is more experienced at addressing the pertinent issues thatchallenge a school district, more multi-dimensional in his daily approach toissues and more considerate of the burgeoning views of an evolvingcommunity due to his interaction with a better representation of a 21st century-

population. Michael will have the dexterity to address arising issues because he has beenthrough them in one iteration or another at significant institutions and, through these transferable skills, possesses the vision and the knowledge of how tosteward this school district forward into the future. In summary, Michael has more experience, vision and contemporary exposure than his competition. Michael also has three lovely children attending

our schools so it takes a very little leap of logic to realize he would want the best for his children and by extension all of ours. By way of background, I am a parent of two children attending schools in thedistrict and have full faith in Michael in this endeavor. Please consider voting for him and thank you for reading!

Andrew R. Dorf Lake Success

Berkowitz promotes diversity, growth, innovation

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rust and respect are earned.

Barbara Berkowitz has certainly earned both. At the request of her fellow trustees, Mrs. Berkowitz has served fifteen years as president of the Board of Education. Apparently, her colleagues share my sentiments.

Mrs. Berkowitz understands

and accepts the challenges and importance of maintaining quality education in an era of shrinking resources. She celebrates and promotes a culture of social and informational diversity which encourages change, growth, and innovation.

Her broad experience in the areas of finance, policy, and strate-

gic planning and the continuity she provides have enabled the Great Neck schools to thrive, especially during this extraordinary pandemic year.

Mrs. Berkowitz continues to work hard to establish and maintain positive and supportive relationships in Great Neck and at all

levels of county and state government.

She is devoted to the mission, vision, and values supported by all Great Neck residents.

Going forward, I have every confidence that Mrs. Berkowitz will continue to put children first.

She will make sure that Great Neck

students have all the resources and help they need to become productive members of society. The Great Neck school district will continue to be recognized and rated an A+ model school system.

Judy Eisman Former Co-President SEPTA

Glickman offers reasoned change for G.N. schools

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am Morgan Kronenberg, a proud product of Long Island’s north shore, having grown up mere minutes from the heart of Great Neck.

I am a Jewish communal development professional, of 20 years, some of which were based on Great Neck Road, and have proudly generated hundreds of millions of dollars in support of causes profoundly important to

me.

Short of having different names, that introduction could have been written by Great Neck School Board candidate Michael Glickman, who I have looked to as a dear friend for 40 years.

Michael and I have a number of parallels in our lives — from our origins at Denton Avenue Elementary School, to our respective professional missions and journeys,

where moving the needle in the interest our missions is paramount, as is recognizing that change, for the better, can find fruition when conviction and capacity come together.

Certainly, there have been opportunities and challenges unique to each of us. For instance, I have never saved one of the world’s foremost Holocaust Museums from the brink of financial despair, ensuring

the survival of a vital light for the future of Holocaust remembrance and education.

Nor did I bolster the future of another conservatory of historical learning, driving a campaign to rid them of tens of millions of dollars of debt — something that has crippled myriad centers tasked with the vital challenge of safeguarding our history — so we, and those ahead of us, are not doomed to re-

peat it. Michael has.

As a member of the Great Neck school board, Michael could have yet one more opportunity to safeguard something of incomparable importance — the future of Great Neck’s children. Something tells me, those kids would hope he gets that chance.

Morgan Kronenberg Formerly of New Hyde Park

Why I am running for Great Neck Board of Ed

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eciding to challenge Mrs. Berkowitz for a seat on the Great Neck Board of Education was not a decision I took lightly. When making the choice to run, I thought long and hard about my experience leading public institutions over the past two decades and my daily understanding of what it means to be a parent with school-age children in our public schools and how that would contribute to this moment.

My decision was inspired by what Mr. Ashkenase did 40 years ago, when as a parent himself, he started a movement in this community. He called on others to act for the benefit of informing, engaging and motivating residents across the peninsula. He launched Great Neck Forward because he

believed in the power of public education and, thankfully, he also believed in the responsibility of not staying silent. Forty years later here we are sharing that same burden and obligation. I believe that the greatest testament to Mr. Ashkenase’s legacy is to place a new generation of pro-publicschool parent advocates on the Board of Education. I am one of those parents.

I am deeply passionate about our collective responsibility to advance society and protect the institutions that are core to our well-being, such as Great Neck’s public schools. I remain committed to ensuring that we explore what resources are available to support the needs of our children, readying them for a future none of us can yet imagine. I believe that

we must invest in our teachers and in our facilities. We must be responsive, agile and communicative. We must move beyond the dysfunction of dated ideas and bureaucratic ways. As a community, we must be empowered to restore our trust in those guiding our schools and keep our property values in mind as decisions are made.

We can learn from what was accomplished 40 years ago and strive not only for a reinvigorated Great Neck School District, but to revitalize the Board of Education under new leadership.

We need a Board of Education that is committed to transparency in its decision-making.

Which leads me to ask why has Mrs. Berkowitz refused to make a public announcement that she

has renewed the superintendent’s contract?

We need to have faith in the way the Board of Education budgets the district. Which leads me to ask why does Mrs. Berkowitz continue to refuse to provide any long-term financial projections or attempt to inform the public about what such projections would suggest?

We need a Board of Education that actively pursues transparency in how curricula are reviewed and enhanced for the benefit of ensuring our children are future-ready.

Which leads me to ask why does Mrs. Berkowitz continue to refuse to provide statistics about how Great Neck Schools compare to peer districts?

We need a Board of Education that is aspirational and communi-

ty-minded. We need a Board of Education that can trend-spot and actively identify and deliver new strategies around the future of public education. We need a Board of Education where all members rise above the divisiveness of identity politics whenever they feel challenged or questioned. We need a Board of Education that has children enrolled in Great Neck Public Schools.

Just as this community did 40 years ago, it is time for Great Neck to move forward once again. It is time for a new generation of Great Neck parents to lead our schools forward because our children and our school system simply can’t afford any other alternative.

Michael S. Glickman Great Neck

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READERS WRITE

Berkowitz offers needed continuity in leadership

I

am a graduate of the Great Neck Public Schools and my two daughters are graduates as well.

The reason why I wanted to move back here is because unlike many things in life that change, and not for the better, the school district has maintained its excellence since the days when I was

a student.

Much of this is attributable to the continuity of leadership of its school board and administrators.

My girls’ assistant principal was a fellow student with me, their dean of students grew up here as well, and some of their classmates are children of my neighbors while growing up.

People I know choose to live here because of the confidence they have that the district is in capable and caring hands, and that starts at the top, with the Board of Education.

The president of the board, Barbara Berkowitz, has guided the school district thru many trying times, such as 911, the micro-

burst, and now, a pandemic. She has done so with a steady hand, good instincts, knowledge, and calm.

Our schools have continued to flourish and provide wonderful experiences for our children because of the continuity of leaders who have continued to serve even after their own children have

graduated, because of how much they care for all children, not just their own. We are so fortunate to have Mrs. Berkowitz’s continued dedication to this community!

Remember to vote for Barbara Berkowitz on Tuesday, May 11.

Gail Lehrer Great Neck

Glickman best person to address new challenges

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have known Michael Glickman for over fifteen years and can honestly say that he is a remarkable, brilliant, talented and fearless young man who has strong principles, great energy and a generous heart. Read his bio and you cannot fail to be impressed with his accomplishments.

Michael grew up in the region and came to Great Neck with his wonderful wife, Sumi, to raise their family. That was a strong vote of confidence in this community and in its future.

His dedication to the community led him to my door at the

Gold Coast Arts Center, where he enrolled his children in classes and eventually joined the board and was elected resident of the board.

During that time and especially during this terrible time of COVID-related challenges, Michael ably led the arts center through some very tough financial and policy decisions; used his abundant business connections and not for profit experience to help me and my staff and faculty get the kind of advice we needed to navigate the world of internet marketing, grant writing, and community outreach at a time when our online presence had

been limited to our website.

All of our classes but a few; and all of our film offerings and other in-person programs are now available online and successfully providing cultural education to children, teens and adults.

I am personally indebted to Michael Glickman for his time, which he has donated so freely, and his experience, which has proven invaluable to us.

With great humility, he has decided to run for the Great Neck School Board, a decision that should be applauded, no matter the outcome, because it is a coura-

geous one.

He has taken on a respected longtime community leader and is urging the residents of this community to open the way for him to join the school board in order to explore and secure even more enriched educational opportunities for students; increased and more transparent dialogue with parents and other community leaders; and a firm and experienced business hand to help manage a budget of $250M plus.

As a parent of three children in Great Neck Schools, he is all too aware of the challenges that

technology, at-home virtual learning, and educators face in this new era; what post-Covid education will look like eventually is something that needs to be examined and dealt with thoughtfully and creatively.

I believe that Michael Glickman is the man to meet all these challenges as he works with the members of the Board of Education and as a longtime private citizen of Great Neck, I hope he gets the chance.

Regina Gil Great Neck

Glickman a leader for future of G.N. schools

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ifteen years ago, we moved from the city to Great Neck to start our careers as well as our family. We have never regretted that decision.

Our two children at North Middle have benefited from the high standards of the Great Neck School District, which we hope recognizes that preparing for the future will determine if new young families make the same decision.

Leadership in our school district is the key to its future success.

Consequently, we endorse Michael Glickman, as he is intelligent, innovative, and committed to our

community.

Michael is no stranger to those who live in Great Neck. Michael has served as president of the Gold Coast Arts Center (formerly the Great Neck Arts Center).

At one of the many galas I went to at the arts center in support of Michael, I learned about the tough situation that Arts center faced at the time of Great Recession, when many non for profits were failing. I heard how Michael reached out to many in the community, he worked closely with all stakeholders in order to come up with a partnership with the Town of North Hempstead

to position the arts center through that time.

Thanks to Michael and the rest of the team at the Gold Coast Arts Center thousands of children in our community have access to the arts.

In times as challenging as ours, we need a school board that truly values and listens to the voices in the community. We are confident that the same abilities of listening and engaging with the community that Michael demonstrated at the arts center, he will bring to the school board.

Michael’s career has been one of involvement in the many aspects

of education, whether being the resident and CEO of the New York Holocaust Museum (Museum of Jewish Heritage) or a vice resident at Long Island University.

Anyone acquainted with Michael from his working on the Great Neck School Districts Board of Education Citizens Advisory Committee or as part of the United Parent-Teacher Council Budget Committee, knows his ability to ask the tough questions and see the big picture.

He has the talent to bring people together and has the determination to make the tough decisions

and get the work done. Michael wants future generations of children to be able to access an excellent education with outstanding teachers and up to date technologies. The decisions that the school board makes today will have implications for the years to come.

We want future young families to say they want Great Neck because the educational experience is second to none. We know that will be far more possible if our community supports Michael Glickman for school board.

David and Barbara Podwall Great Neck

Is using NFTs really worth the overall cost?

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he hype of the NFTs, “non-fungible tokens” has lured many people to buy things they can’t even actually own.

NFTs are collectible digital assets that work somewhat like a type of cryptocurrency. This means anything unique can be stored and held value, leading to expensive prices. Even the first tweet of Twitter CEO, Jack Dors-

ey, is being sold for 2.9 million dollars according to the highest price being sold at that time.

But is it really worth it?

Who would have thought people would have gone crazy over an animated flying cat with a pop tart body and a rainbow?

Moreover, anyone can use it as a GIF on social media so, what are you really getting, besides bragging rights?

More dangerously, creating an NFT has a stunning environmental footprint of over 200 kilograms of planet-warming carbon, equivalent to driving 500 miles in a typical American gasoline-powered car, according to a recent estimate. The theory is that as more people grow an interest and start mining, it is just going to lead to a bigger emissions impact unless their en-

ergy is carbon-free.

Unless these blockchains manage to change their model, now is not really the right time to introduce more carbon offsets into the environment. The good news is that Ethereum states that they “plan to cut its absurd energy consumption by 99 percent.” However, no one really knows when this is going to take place or if it is going to. It

is said though that some smaller NFT platforms — including one known as Hic Et Nunc, which is based on the Tezos blockchain — have already started using proof of stake by the New York Times.

Yume Nay Win is a student at Adelphi University studying Bitcoin & Blockchain.

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YOUR GUIDE TO THE ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND DINING

OUTDOOR FILMS RETURN FLASHBACK FRIDAYS

The Gold Coast International Film Festival is celebrating the return of outdoor movies with a Flashback Friday screening of the classic 1980s hit “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” starring Matthew Broderick.

The screening, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the film’s initial release, will take place on Friday May 7 at North Hempstead Beach Park in Port Washington. The film starts at 8:00 p.m. (cars enter starting at 7:00 p.m.) and tickets are $30 per car.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off became one of the top-grossing films of 1986 and has been praised by critics and audiences

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

alike. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

New this year, Gold Coast will offer you the chance to see yourself on the big screen at the event. Celebrate Mother’s Day, a birthday or graduation by sending Gold Coast a picture and short message and a customized slide will be created for you that will appear on screen before and after the film. To purchase tickets and on-screen slides visit www.goldcoastarts. org/flashback-drive-in.

Proceeds from the screening will benefit the non-profit Gold Coast Arts Center, now celebrating its 25th anniver-

sary.

Each year Gold Coast serves thousands of students and audiences of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, including over the past year when it transitioned its classes, workshops, concerts, artist talks, films and special events to an interactive virtual format.

Gold Coast is currently offering a wide array of in-person and virtual classes in arts, music, dance, theater, film, chess, robotics and more. The ever-popular summer camp is back starting June 28, and one-day outdoor workshops are currently available offering a variety of disciplines that cater to adults, families,

kids and teens.

Several of Gold Coast’s non-profit community partners will be celebrated at the May 7 event including Landmark on Main Street, PW Hearts and Sid Jacobson JCC. Gold Coast is also working with local restaurants to offer special take-out “Drive-In” specials that audiences attending the movie can take advantage of.

Sponsors of this special event include The Bristal, Neiman Marcus, New Country Lexus of Great Neck and the Town of North Hempstead.

More information about the event can be found at www.goldcoastarts.org/ flashback-drive-in.

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Hire a ‘personal chief financial officer’ Keeping up with today’s investment trends, markets, regulations, taxes and opportunities has become a full-time job for most families. It can even be depressing, especially if you feel your assets might be inadequate for retirement.

The reality is you cannot do this in your head! And with the markets at all-time highs, there cannot be a better time to take the step to develop a complete plan with a certified financial planner.

If you are like most people, you have multiple relationships assisting with financial affairs, but no one “quarterback” that sees your whole picture.

This invites disorganization in your financial life.

To make life simpler, even if you stay with multiple service providers, select one of them with planning capability and develop your financial plan. If none are acceptable, seek out a trusted independent full-service certified financial planner where you can have a good working relationship.

It will make your financial life simple and more organized. Ideally, you may find a firm to serve as your “personal chief investment officer” to make your life simple, minimizing the burdens of assembling the data and remaining current in a changing financial world.

Financial Peace of Mind: The Goal of Completing a Financial Plan Building your retirement is like building or renovating a house. You would not do so without a detailed plan. That’s why building inspectors insist in it. So why would you face retirement any differently?

Having an all-encompassing financial plan and mapping out a range of scenarios, from the worst-case scenario to the best is just as essential. Yet most people have either never done one plan, or have not kept the one they have current. Life changes, markets change, and so should your plan. Your objectives

will remain the same, but the plan to achieve those objectives should remain current.

Today’s proposed tax changes and the market hitting new highs suggest it is a great time to execute a new plan or update your existing one. As an example, re-visiting plans for intergenerational wealth transfer plans need to be revisited now.

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Senior service programs support mental health The actor Bette Davis famously stated, “Getting old ain’t for sissies.” Davis may be right, but older adults need companionship and assistance to thrive. This past year has particularly challenged Long Island’s seniors. If you’ve sensed that an older friend or family member is struggling in this way, or self-medicating with drugs or alcohol, there are ways to help.

Warning signs include loss of interest in activities that were once pleasurable, sleep disturbance, under or overeating, and feeling sad or anxious.

When this happens, people’s inclination is to reach inward rather than reach out. It’s important to talk to a trusted friend, family member or physician. Things can get better. No one has to live like that. Contrary to popular belief, depression and anxiety are not part of getting older. Most seniors age well, can learn new things, and benefit from counseling and psychotherapy. The pandemic has normalized isolation, exacerbating mental health issues. Most at risk are older adults who live alone without ready transportation or regular visitors. When COVID shut down services and community gathering places frequented by older adults, FCA mobilized staff

and volunteers to phone seniors to keep them connected. At Family and Children’s Association, the mission of its Senior Division is to protect and strengthen Nassau County’s seniors through services that ensure safety, maximize independence, respect the right to self-determination, and improve the overall quality of life. FCA staff help seniors navigate the ever-changing health care system, manage finances, cope with mental health concerns, and connect with resources to support living at home safely. Seniors are a vital part of the community, and with a little assistance, continue to thrive, remain active and contribute to the community. FCA provides these services to seniors and caregivers regardless of income level or ability to pay. Generational and cultural barriers remain, however, keeping some from seeking support from outside of their family unit. Many who have struggled with mental and psychological challenges over time find that their coping strategies no longer work for a variety of reasons.

They may have transportation issues, adult children who have moved away, or lost a spouse or friends. Multiple chronic medical

Lisa Stern LCSW-R conditions may require a host of medications. A shortage of psychiatrists who take Medicare or insurance and a lack of geriatricians compound the issues.FCA’s Senior Division excels at connecting consumers with the right community services.

FCA’s Linkage Project coordinates community resources, advocacy, and counseling for homebound seniors who struggle with mental health or substance use disorders. Program staff make home visits to evaluate and assess needs, help develop a personal care plan, connect seniors with services that will help them stay safely at home, and facilitate connection to long-term care sup-

Respect.

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EISEP can provide up to 20 hours of home care services with a cost share based on monthly income and expenses. FCA’s Chore Workers assist with light housekeeping, cooking, shopping, and laundry.

VACCINE ASSISTANCE With the support of a Newsday grant, FCA is able to help seniors schedule COVID 19 vaccine appointments and assist with transportation. The program, administered by a licensed social worker, can provide counseling and support for seniors experiencing COVID-related isolation, stress and anxiety.

FRIENDLY VISITING PROGRAM FCA’s Friendly Visiting Program matches volunteers with homebound seniors for mutually rewarding socialization and personal connection. For many clients, their only social interaction is with the volunteer and the caseworker. Our older neighbors’ life experiences, insights and ideas enrich and contribute to the lives of those around them. Pay a visit,

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With the exception of families comfortable discussing finances, legacies and inheritances, most families find discussing money and plans for dying and death difficult at best.

Talking with aging parents about their futures can be easier when the discussion is less focused on how much money will be left for their heirs and focusing more on their wishes in case of incapacity.

Do they have legal documents like a power of attorney for their finances, or a healthcare proxy so that a family member may speak with their medical care providers if they cannot do so? If the answer is yes, then find out where these documents are located, and who helped prepare the documents.

If parents have these documents and have worked with an estate planning attorney, chances are good they have an estate plan—but don’t take that for granted. The conversation needs to continue into more substantial areas. Do they have a will, when is the last time it was updated, and where is it?

Discussing concern that parents’ wishes will be honored may find a more receptive audience than focusing on assets to be distributed.

If a family member has passed in recent memory, a conversation around the funeral and memorial services before and/or after their passing might yield opportunities to ask questions about what they would like to occur.

One client of ours asked that the funeral attendees sing together, and the adult children handed out song sheets with lyrics after the traditional services had ended.

Another created a playlist for each part of the ceremony, from the time people entered the funeral chapel to a specific song when people were leaving the chapel to drive to the cemetery.

Not everyone is so musically minded, but these conversations were part of a larger discussion about the will, trusts that had been created, and the bequests that the decedents wanted grandchildren to have.

The musical selections balanced the more serious discussions, making it just a little easier for everyone.

Sadly, in the past year, many families learned the hard way that not having this discussion, not knowing where documents are located and not knowing their parent’s wishes has made a stressful situation worse.

If they don’t want to talk about their estate plan the first time around, don’t be surprised. But don’t give up either. This is too important to let go for too long.

The second time, you might take a different approach. Tell them that you are concerned about their wishes being fulfilled.

Explain that if you don’t know what they want to happen with their property, and if they don’t have a will or haven’t worked with an estate planning attorney, the court will make the decision for them. Going to court when there is no will is expensive and time-consuming.

If they have an estate planning attorney, you’ll want to know who they used so you can contact them when the time comes.

Family meetings, in person or online, are so helpful to ensure everyone is on the same page.

Estate planning for aging parents (and for young parents also) is for incapacity and post-mortem.

Incapacity planning names a person to be in charge of their financial and medical affairs if they are incapacitated.

A living will explains what they would want to happen if they are not able to express their wishes about end-of-life care.

There might be hard decisions to be made in the future. Knowing what your parents would want will allow you to honor their wishes.

If you have any questions about aging parents and their plans for the future, or if you need help preparing for your family’s future, please call us at 516-307-1236 to learn how we can help.

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interest getting in touch with someone from your past and reconnecting, make the time to attend school reunions and other alumni activities. It can be fun to reconnect with friends from high school or college.

Join a gym. The local gym isn’t just a great place to get physically fit. Group exercise classes also can be ideal places to meet other people who enjoy working out. Strike up a conversation with another class participant you see on a regular basis. Once you develop a rapport, schedule lunch dates so your friendship grows outside of the gym.

Making friends is not just for the young.

Men and women over 50 also can find ways to build new friendships.

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Nursing home care and the ‘look-back period’

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ealth care plans provide access to medical care and other necessities and reduce out-of-pocket health-related expenses. Each plan is different, and depending on where you live, your coverage may vary.

People quickly find that many healthcare plans do not include provisions for long-term health care, such as paying for nursing facilities.

Understanding how health plans work and learning about potential financial reviews for nursing home payment qualification is a good idea for anyone concerned about financing their future health care needs.

to the Government of Canada. Each province or territory has its own health insurance plan that covers a variety of services.

In the United States, health care is largely privately managed, with most employers offering access to various health coverage plans. Government subsidized plans include Medicare, which is for retirement-age individuals and younger people with disabilities.

Medicaid is a joint state- and federally-run government program that provides health coverage to lowincome individuals and families.

Just as in the United States, health insurance in Canada does not pay for nursing home care in most cases. In the United States, unless an individual meets low-income criteria, nursing home care is paid for by the resident; otherwise, people who qualify for

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Medicaid can have their nursing home expenditures payed for by that program. To receive Medicaid assistance, applicants should expect a financial review, including a lookback period.

What is the look-back period?

The senior health, finance and lifestyle resource Senior Living advises that Medicaid is a “last resort” method of financing nursing home costs. Individuals are expected to use other means of payment first and “spend down” their assets. When financial resources dwindle, Medicaid will kick in to provide coverage.

To ensure that individuals simply do not transfer money out of their accounts to avoid paying for nursing home care by their own means, Medicaid requires a look-back period

into applicants’ finances to determine if there were any violations to rules regarding asset transfers.

Most people engage in some sort of long-term planning to protect a portion of their assets so that they can be used to support spouses or children.

According to rules, an applicant is permitted to transfer certain monies to his or her spouse, provided the spouse isn’t also applying for longterm care through Medicaid. Most money and tangible asset transfers (check with your state Medicaid office for the most current rules) must have taken place 60 months (5 years) prior to application for Medicaid. Penalties will be instituted when rules are broken, namely gifts or asset transfers that take place within the look-back period. This could delay Medicaid acceptance.

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Chamber ensemble in virtual concert The acclaimed Canta Libre Chamber Ensemble will present a virtual concert, performing music for flute, strings and harp, online on Zoom on Thursday, May 6 at 7:00 PM, sponsored by Great Neck Library, 159 Bayview Ave. in Great Neck.

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Business&RealEstate How to hold a safe open house Agents are always attending open houses with their clients as a more efficient way of being able to show properties, especially on Saturday and Sundays. Since the market has sprung back in the last two quarters of 2020, I have noticed the droves of purchasers out there visiting open houses.

I always wonder how many of them are truly buyers who are qualified, serious and ready to “pull the trigger” if they come upon the right place and how many (neighbors included) are just out there kicking tires and just making a day of perusing open houses? How about those who may have sinister intentions for those who are doing their own for-saleby-owner open houses? So make sure to be safe and that you have at least one other person assisting you rather than just doing it on your own.

Be careful about the questions that are asked, especially if a buyer(s) wants to come back and inquires as to the best days and times when you will be home, which leaves you potentially open to possibly being robbed. The majority of buyers are honest people searching for a home, but there are those who are under tremen-

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dous financial stress and will do whatever is necessary to survive.

Open houses are critical times in selling one’s home and precautions are absolutely necessary. Do you have all the necessary paperwork, a sufficient amount of masks, gloves and shoe protective coverings? Do you have the correct Covid-19 pandemic forms to screen your clients? How about the fair housing anti-discrimination forms? Sign in sheets for all those attending? I believe it is important to dress comfortably but professionally even though many of us have dressed down during the pandemic.

You want to establish a certain impression and confident feeling to be conveyed to your buyers. Safety is numero uno when it relates to open houses as well as being with clients when showing homes.

Why any homeowner would even consider doing their own open house is beyond my comprehension and one will not save any money as buyers have already subtracted the commission that you won’t be paying.

When one attends an open house does the agent first sign you in, provide you with the required forms to sign and be-

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

come proactive and go through the important process to keep everyone safe and healthy or just stand there and let you walk through? Since the pandemic, at every open house I have gone to Realtors were doing a superb job of providing the legally required things that are supposed to be done.

I am hoping that homeowners are doing the same thing and if not get advice as to what they should be doing to keep everyone safe and healthy.

The virus is still with us and may just be with us a while longer than expected until the majority are vaccinated and one will never know who is or is not asymptomatic, potentially

passing it on to another person or who had Covid previously unless questions are asked and answered on the Covid form.

It may be a good idea to have an electronic thermometer to check everyone to be sure.

When you go through the open house has it been prepared properly, de-cluttered, organized and cleaned? And how is the paint? A simple thing of having beds made will provide a better impression than those that aren’t. Do you notice anyone just sitting down and allowing you, if without an agent, to just go browse around the home? Today it may be necessary to have assistance because of the multitude of buyers who are going out to see homes.

Also, some may believe based on the super low inventory (less than a month in some areas) that much less effort is needed to secure a purchaser.

This may be somewhat true, but the preparations that are required for the seller especially if you are bold enough to sell on your own must make the home stand out like a shiny penny. Play some melodic music and add some freshly baked cookies, cinnamon in some boiling water or potpourri

to provide a pleasant aroma throughout the home. Addressing the five senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch will help when doing open houses.

While this market continues to zoom ahead and prices increase, one should never just assume that your home will sell without any effort. Make it look the best it can and be cognizant as to how the buyers will react when coming to your open house.

Philip A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He has 39 years of experience in the Real Estate industry and has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist (C.I.P.S). For a “FREE” 15 minute consultation, a value analysis of your home, or to answer any of your questions or concerns he can be reached by cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com Just email or snail mail (regular mail) him with your ideas or suggestions on future columns with your name, email and cell number and he will call or email you back.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in the

Willistons

101 Hilldale Road, Albertson

77 Lynton Road, Albertson

3 bd, 2 ba, 1,860 sqft, Sold On: 1/22/21, Sold Price: $725,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: East Williston

4 bd, 2 ba, 1,350 sqft, Sold On: 3/19/21, Sold Price: $570,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

444 Wilson Blvd., Mineola

90 Albertson Place, Mineola

4 bd, 2 ba, Sold On: 3/23/21, Sold Price: $620,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

3 bd, 2 ba, 1,210 sqft, Sold On: 3/12/21, Sold Price: $545,000 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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W.P. native, 21, dies in hiking accident Continued from Page 1 “Around the firehouse Andrew would pitch in wherever needed,” the post stated. “During the summer you could find him at the beach either fishing or boating, he tried to go mountain biking whenever the weather allowed, and he loved to go hiking. Although he has left us all too soon we remember that Andrew was doing what he loved.”

The Desiderio family has set up a scholarship fund in conjunction with Mineola High School to remember the young firefighter. His mother, Mary Desiderio, created a GoFundMe page for the scholarship fund on April 12, encouraging family and friends to contribute toward the $10,000 goal “in lieu of food or flowers.” As of Tuesday, the page had raised $85,770, exceeding the original goal by $75,770.

Nine hundred and one donors contributed to the Andrew Desiderio Memorial Scholarship Fund, with many leaving heartfelt comments on the

page. One was fellow Binghamton student Christopher Farrell, who said he would cherish Desiderio’s “crazy inventions” and “funny stories.”

“Andrew was one of the greatest people I will ever get the pleasure of knowing. Over the last 3 years we were suitemates at Binghamton. Every day when I would come home from class Andrew would always manage to put a smile on my face no matter how I was feeling,” Farrell wrote. “I will miss him and I will always keep Andrew in my heart.”

Born Aug. 29, 1999, in Williston Park, Desiderio became interested in engineering from an early age. On the GoFundMe page for the scholarship fund, Mary Desiderio wrote that her son was able to foster that interest while attending Mineola High School, from which he graduated in 2017.

“Even as a young boy, Andrew loved to create and build things. His mind was always working on plans and ideas.

He learned woodworking and

welding as a student at Mineola High School,” she wrote.

During his time at Binghamton University, Desiderio served as an assistant technician for the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and was a member of the Binghamton Motorsports team for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Formula Competitions. This year he served as the team’s chief engineer.

He was a dedicated member of the Boy Scouts of America as well. Desiderio held the position of senior patrol leader in Troop 45 from 2016 to 2017, and he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout in 2016. Grosskopf said that Desiderio was named Scout of the Year two years in a row.

“He was a modern-day Renaissance man, because there wasn’t anything he put his mind to that he couldn’t accomplish,” Grosskopf said.

Desiderio is survived by his parents, Michael and Mary, and his two younger brothers, Justin and James.

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Andrew Desiderio, 21, was in his senior year at Binghamton University.

Teens rally against Asian-American hate Continued from Page 2 Town Clerk Wayne Wink also attended in support, and Suozzi, Meng, Manhasset Superintendent of Schools Vincent Butera and CAANH president David Chiang gave addresses. The sisters also recruited their grandmother Liu

Tee Shu, founder of the Chinese American Women’s Commerce Association, as a guest speaker before taking the microphone themselves.

“We Asians are not a virus, but racism and hate is,” Ada Shu told those gathered. “It is high

time we stand up for justice as American citizens. The previous generations chose to remain silent but this is my generation, and we choose to stand up and fight.

The future depends on us, so stop going for the vulnerable and the weak.”

Even with the rally being a success, the sisters say their work is not done.

“Maybe we can change one person’s opinion, that person can change someone else’s,” Ava Shu said. “And eventually we can change the whole community the

whole time.”

“Even though this rally is over, we’re not going to just stop,” Ada Shu said. “Even if we’re not the ones getting hurt, the others who are don’t deserve this at all, and we should try to help them as much as we can.”

Hofstra student victim of acid attack Continued from Page 3 Anjum expressed her gratitude on the GoFundMe page and said that since no one could be sure what future expenses may be, the GoFundMe

goal was reset to one dollar, “as it feels too much to ask of our community who has already done so much.”

“We would like to thank everyone who shared/do-

nated from the bottom of our hearts. We had no idea we had such an amazing support system,” Anjum said on the page Monday. “All we continue to ask is that you keep Nafiah in

your prayers and share with as many people as possible!!!”

Fatima has expressed her gratitude for the support she has received through social media posts that have circu-

lated throughout the Hofstra community and Long Island.

For more information on her condition or to donate to her cause, people can visit the GoFundMe page.

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DeCillis to run unopposed for ed board Continued from Page 1 candidacy of DeCillis, an eighth-grade social studies teacher at Garden City Middle School. DeCillis said on Facebook that her goal is to prioritize students throughout the district.

“My goal is to ensure this district continues to provide high-quality education to all of our district’s children and continues to create a generation of lifelong learners,” she said in a statement. “As a parent to 3 school aged children and an educator myself, I am hopeful to be a valuable member to this team.”

Napolitano, a Williston Park resident for almost 30 years, cited giving more attention to her “growing family and husband” as a reason to step down and said she informed district Superintendent Michael Nagler of her decision in January.

“I announced today that after 12 years of serving on Mineola’s BOE, I will not be seeking re-election for a fifth term,” Napolitano said in a tweet. “I will never be able to say thank you enough to my community for letting me share in this amazing journey. It has been the honor of my life.”

The district’s election will take place from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Voting will occur at the Jackson Avenue School at 300 Jackson Ave. in Mineola and the Meadow Drive School at 25 Meadow Drive in Albertson.

The board adopted a $111.8 million budget for the 2021-22 school year, an increase of almost $11 million, or 10.87 percent, from the $100.1 million budget for 2020-21.

The budget calls for no increase in the tax levy. Capital projects such as the next steps on Jackson Avenue renovations and additions call for $13 million, according to Assistant Business Manager Andrew Casale.

Jackson Avenue renovations include a new cafeteria, kitchen, playground, sidewalks, retaining walls on the east side of the school, and new grass fields

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Mineola Board of Education President Christine Napolitano will not run for re-election in May. for soccer and lacrosse. Also featured is the construction of a new field house, which officials anticipate to take around three years to complete.

East Williston East Williston Board of Education Trustees Robert Fallarino and Leonard Hirsch are running unopposed to retain their seats.

Hirsch, from Roslyn Heights, has served two terms on the board. He has two children, one in Willets Road School and one in North Side School. Hirsch, who grew up in East Williston, was first elected to the board in 2012.

Fallarino, a medical malpractice attorney, will be seeking his fifth three-year term on the board. Fallarino has also previously served as a prosecuting attorney for the Village of Floral Park.

The board adopted a $64 million budget for 2021-22, which includes $6.81 million to fund various capital projects. The $63,984,675 budget is a 1.4 percent increase from the $63,091,128

budget for 2020–21. The budget also comes with a property tax levy increase of 1.67 percent.

Joseph Piscopia, a member of the Capital Facilities Advisory Committee, outlined a multitude of current and future projects taking place throughout the district.

Projects are in progress at each of the district’s schools, such as the installation of a new irrigation system to the fields at Northside School and the addition of new sidewalks from the parking lot at Willets Road School. Some projects have been completed recently at the Wheatley School, including the installation of a new gymnasium floor and replacement of the turf on the baseball field.

New Hyde Park-Garden City Park All three incumbent trustees on the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Board of Education are not seeking re-election, school officials said.

They are David Del Santo, Jennifer DeRocchis and Danielle Messina. Del Santo, who has also served as the Sewanhaka Board of Education president, spent five terms on the board. DeRocchis, a former Manor Oaks Parent Teacher Association vice president, was first elected to the board in 2015 after unseating Frank Miranda. Messina, an involved parent in the school district, was appointed to the trustee position last year.

Efforts to reach the three for comment on why they are not seeking re-election were unavailing. District residents Binu Jacob and Danielle Fagan are running for DeRocchis’ and Del Santo’s seats, respectively, officials said. The board will appoint someone to fill the vacancy left by Messina, with that term ending in 2023.

The board adopted a $42.3 million budget for the 2021-22 school year on Monday. The budget comes with a tax levy increase of 1.14 percent. The $32,971,547 tax levy will cost the average homeowner $42 more.

It also includes a 0.69 percent de-

crease in salaries to $20,649,980 and a 0.32 percent increase in benefits to $10,803,115. As the school district’s deputy superintendent, Michael Frank, explained, administrators expect a decrease in staffing needs based on enrollment projections, and there has been a decrease in staff due to retirements.

Thanks to a 24.15 percent increase in state aid to $7,766,370, the budget will be able to fund various enhancements to the district’s programs.

Herricks Herricks Board of Education Trustees Brian Hassan and Nancy Feinstein are running unopposed for re-election.

Feinstein, a Roslyn resident, is running for her fourth three-year term on the board. She has three children who have all attended and graduated from Herricks schools.

Hassan, an Albertson resident, is running for his fourth term on the board. He has three children who have graduated from the Herricks schools.

The board unanimously adopted a $122.9 million budget on Tuesday, a $2.33 million, or 1.94 percent increase, from the 2020-21 budget.

The budget called for a 1.42 percent increase in the 2021-22 tax levy from this year, but it remained below the state cap of 2.51 percent.

The initially proposed 1.86 percent levy increase was lowered to 1.42 percent as a result of additional state aid.

The district’s average levy increase since the cap’s inception in 2012-13 is 1.66 percent.

A total of 75 percent, or $91.6 million, of the budget, is for programming, with 15 percent, or $18.4 million, for capital projects, and the remaining 10 percent, or $12.8 million, made up of administrative costs.

The vote for the board and the budget will take place from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Herricks Community Center Gymnasium.

A Seussical journey, just in ‘Thyme’ Continued from Page 10 Undeterred, the Millers turned to the internet and got to it.

“It’s amazing what Reddit groups and YouTube and Facebook videos can teach you,” David Miller said with a laugh. “We just were literally sitting in here watching videos as we’re repairing it!”

Father and son ripped up the floor, cleaned out mold, black spots, rotted wood and other unpleasant sights and smells within the trailer’s deepest confines, and then began the interior design process.

Within the next few months, the Millers installed a bar, two TV’s, two fireplaces, LED lighting, a disco ball and colorful wallpaper designed by Brooklyn-based glass mosaic and interior designer Allison Eden.

Once the interiors were complete, Max and David reached out to Robert Z. Pelleiter, a Connecticut-based artist they had seen at comic conventions also known as

RZP, to design an eye-catching design for the trailer’s exterior.

Pelleiter created a vibrant mural inspired by the works of Dr. Seuss, using spray paint to complete it the week before Max’s departure. Characters like Sam-IAm, the Sneetches and Max the dog adorn the surface, and Seussian quotes from his books were written on clouds, including, of course, “oh, the places you’ll go.”

Max’s planned route goes down the Eastern Seaboard and then through the Southwest, with planned stops including the Outer Banks in North Carolina; Miami, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; New Orleans, Louisiana; Austin, Texas; the Grand Canyon; Las Vegas, Nevada; and numerous locations in California including the Joshua Tree and Yosemite National Parks, Death Valley and Big Sur. Once Max reaches Chapman for his junior year in September, the trailer, along

with a digital diary of both the renovation and his journey, will be offered for sale as what David calls “the world’s first non-fungible token Art RV.” An “NFT” is a unit of data, often an image, on a digital ledger known as a blockchain, which certifies it to be unique and not interchangeable. NFTs have made news recently, with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey selling an image of his platform’s first tweet for $2.9 million.

For Max, who has traded in cryptocurrency like bitcoin for years with his mother, Vicki, the idea seemed unique.

“Not everyone is lucky enough to be able to spend a few months on the road, but whoever buys the NFT will be able to share the experience virtually through my collection, and possibly have some adventures of their own in the NFT Art RV,” Max said.

The trailer was scheduled to begin its maiden trip on Thursday. Its adventures

will be documented via Instagram at the handle @MillerThymeTravel, with the project gaining its punny name from Vicki’s status as owner of the First Spice Mixing Company.

For David, the departure will be bittersweet.

“I have such an incredible bond with him,” David said. “This was sort of a gift.

And he actually has his original copy of ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go’ with the poem I wrote from when he was 9 years old, so he’s planning on taking that with him.”

David’s gift will also serve as a guestbook, with Max eager to get new friends to sign it and leave their social media handles.

“I cannot wait to get this on the road,” Max said. “I can’t wait to have experiences in this and have friends in here and, like, just start using it, because my dad and I spent six months, making it happen. I’m ready to use it.”

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Continued from Page 16 The result: those who grieved shifted the tax burden to those who didn’t, who wound up paying more than their fair share.

Meanwhile, commercial properties that won reductions chalked up $300 million in tax certiorari liability for Nassau County– one of only two in New York State which is responsible for assessment and therefore paying out refunds — which, ironically, pushes up all of our property taxes.

That’s changed now.

The Curran administration did a fair-market value reassessment and last year, out of 236,000 grievances filed, instead of a virtually automatic reduction, only 61,000 won reduction and the average reductions were relatively low.

An average homeowner who grieved their assessment might win a $1000 reduction in property tax, but if one of the tax reduction services was used, that amount would be shaved to about $500.

That, says Robert Miles, deputy assessor and counsel, is evidence by an objective third-party that the assessment was fair. “An independent commission said it was accurate.”

“That’s a good thing.

Homeowners should be happy that first round of reassessment gave us an accurate assessment. In the future, the administration’s goal will be to continue to improve the assessment system, continue to provide accurate assessments to bring equity to the county.”

There has to be confidence in the “fair market value” assessment.

First some understanding of what property tax assessments represent: unlike income taxes where you pay a percentage to the government, property tax assessment represents your piece of the tax pie to pay the amount that the taxing authorities — schools, parks, libraries, roads, sewage treatment, water – say they need to operate.

It doesn’t matter if your home is assessed at $800,000 if the rest of “comparable” homes also are assessed at $800,000 and the valuation goes up to $1 million if those other compara-

ble properties also go up that amount. In fact, if the total property valuation for a district goes up, that expands the total tax pie to share the burden of paying for schools, parks, libraries and roads so your bill may actually go down as the community’s valuation goes up.

So even in an affluent district like Great Neck, with outstanding schools that have kept our home values high, our tax rates are 57th out of 62 school districts, at 1718.22 (per assessed value), compared to 3688.069 for Hewlett-Woodmere.

Also, taxable value can be different from the “fair market value” because of various exemptions – such as veterans, seniors, Enhanced Star, disability, first responders.

The “fair market value” also doesn’t necessarily reflect the actual purchase price of your house because there are any number of factors that go into a sale, even an arm’s length sale, so a new owner will not be assessed based on what they paid.

And there are caps on how much the assessment can be raised in a given year, 6 percent, or 20 percent over five years.

To preserve confidence in the assessment of “fair market value,” the county has decided to freeze the assessed value of homes to last year’s level because of the extraordinary bump in prices due to the coronavirus pandemic (fleeing New York City apartment dwellers to the suburbs) creating a high value but low supply of properties available. At the same time the value of commercial properties – so important to keeping residential taxes down — sank.

“We don’t want to value properties in such a chaotic year,” Miles says, “We are seeing life come back and the market stabilize a bit, hopefully on commercial end. We want more stability.”

Reassessments should take place regularly – every year or every three years – so that taxpayers see “fair market value” assessments as standard practice, that the assessments are accurate and everyone is paying their fair share. “That will discourage grievances.”

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It was an honor and a privilege to lead the GNPS educational technology program for the past 24 years with Mrs. Berkowitz on the board that entire period. This was a time of tremendous innovation brought about by technological change, and her encouragement, understanding, steadfast leadership, and the support of the Board of Education were critical to rolling out 1:1 devices to all students and staff, installing presentations systems in all classrooms, renovating library media centers for the 21st Century, add-

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Her preparation, thoughtfulness, mastery of the issues, collaboration, compassion, and moral clarity have stood the test of time. This is a person of tremendous integrity who is fully committed to the academic success and the social-emotional development of all children, as well as the district’s mission of educational excellence, equity, discovery, and innovation.

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mendous record college acceptances, numerous student and staff awards, and the highest of rankings at the local, state, and national levels.

These accomplishments do not happen overnight or by accident. They are the product of community support for its schools and the hard work and due diligence of many key stakeholders which flows from the tone set from the top.

Mrs. Berkowitz’s experience, empathy, institutional history, and continuity of leadership are more important than ever given the health, safety, and financial challenges of our times.

I urge you to reflect upon how this community volunteer has always been so giving of her energy and time and how inextricably intertwined her leadership has been to school district achievement. Mrs. Berkowitz is critical to the ongoing success of the Great Neck Public Schools. This is the one diamond that is a community treasure and truly a keepsake.

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couple of weeks ago my friend, Michael Glickman, shared with me that he was running for a seat on the Great Neck Public School’s Board of Education. I was excited to learn of Michael’s interest in stepping into a greater leadership role in our community.

I have known Michael and his family for years through our numerous mutual friends, our respective children’s participation in the Great Neck Soccer Club and his other community involvements, including as president of the board of the Gold Coast Arts Center.

Michael is a committed husband and father of three engaging children who have been enrolled in our schools for over eight years. His youngest child is still in elementary school, meaning his connections to GNPS is strong, and will continue for years to come.

Professionally, Michael is a not-for-profit executive with over twenty years of experience leading community-focused, educational institutions. In this capacity, he has spent decades working

with leadership and advisory boards, hiring and supervising professional and voluntary staffs, developing and analyzing financial budgets and projections, and evaluating and managing contractors. Michael has accomplished this all while continually keeping his finger on the pulse of his constituents and consumers.

From the perspective of navigating divergent priorities of different constituent groups, Michael is amongst the most experienced professionals living in our district.

These are precisely the skills necessary for success as a member of the Board of Education.

Personally, I know Michael as a loyal friend who finds ways to help his community and those in his network. I witnessed his enthusiasm as he facilitated for high school students researching and developing a marketing and expansion plan for the Gold Coast Arts Center.

His excitement was palpable when that student project placed top three in a New York state-wide competition, immediately asking for the plan to be shared with the board and professional staff of the

arts center. Michael was also the first parent to offer to step in to assist when one of our local youth soccer teams experienced an unexpected void after a long-time coach stepped away from the program. This is exactly what community leadership looks like.

He is a fierce advocate and an outspoken voice unwilling to sweep controversial issues under the rug. I have little doubt that he will transparently seek effective solutions to the challenges facing our schools.

Michael is one of those people you want in your corner and, I expect, the families and children of our district will appreciate his voice and support as a member of the Board of Education.

As our community and school district recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, our schools need more committed parents, dedicated and community-focused representatives, and experienced, forwardthinking leaders like Michael.

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Five men with the IQ of a house plant

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ate in the afternoon on a Friday in April 2021, I went to Marie Blanchère on Middle Neck Road. Hanging out in a leisurely group were five men without masks. I had rushed in and was rushing out when I noticed them.

I put my purchase in my car and made a split-second decision to return. I told them their being without masks was an affront to our community of neighbors where too many have been sickened and have died by the coronavirus.

Thousands.

One of them responded to me with well-practiced shrewdness: He tried to reverse the focus.

He told me I needed to be six feet away, which made me think to myself, “Ahh, they know the rules. This is deliberate. They know what they are doing.”

Infectious disease experts are imploring people to be cautious and respect the threat of the virus, but these guys are consciously playing fast and loose with the New York State mask mandate.

There were a handful of other people inside the bakery, on line at the long counter and wearing masks. Two of them nodded to me when they overheard what I said.

Wanting to confirm my impression of the loungers, I said something to them in Yiddish.

Their faces went blank for the moment—that is to say, they were unfamiliar with the language. They did not inquire what I had said.

They should have.

I asked an employee why these men were not called to account about mask-wearing, in keeping with the sign at the door. The answer was that they come regularly, on Friday (before Shabbos), do not wear masks, and have even tried to order food maskless.

Their excuse for remainingsansmasks is that they are “eating,” though the eating was long past.

Indignation is not an option to indulge given the need to stay safe in the time of the coronavirus, so I

left behind five grown men, straddling their midlife and old enough to know better, who had no intellectual acquaintance with or interest in a virus that has ensnared the people of more than 180 countries.

If you want to see these men in your mind’s eye, picture them leaning back, their hands folded on their bellies.

What to do. Call the police?

Alert the media. (Record the betrayal. Spread the word.)

By the way, Marie Blanchère has outdoor and rooftop seating and it was a warm day.

I could not decide, as I thought about it, if collectively the five men share the IQ of one house plant or

each has the IQ of an individual house plant. In the end, it seemed a moot point. After all, a house plant has no IQ: zero plus zero would still be zero.

(I know, I know, apologies to my friends who are devoted gardeners. They would say even a house plant would know better.)

Rebecca Rosenblatt Gilliar Great Neck postscript: Nothing has changed in Great Neck since a year ago. See my letter describing last May 2020. https://theislandnow.com/ opinions-100/readers-write-whydo-jews-of-gn-welcome-the-virus/

Trump unfairly attacked, Biden leading us to ruin

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am afraid that one of your letter contributors is afflicted with Trump phobia and he believes that everyone who disagrees with him has been infected

by Trumpitis and cannot think for themselves.

To the contrary, those of us on the right side of right had opinions long before Trump came down the escalator. This gentlemen and I use the term loosely, has also claimed to be a seer and has read my mind so I feel the need to set him straight.

I did not vote for Trump in 2016 but wrote in the name of another GOP candidate, despite being a Republican all of my adult life. That decision was based, solely, on his behavior during the primaries, not his policy plans.

Nowhere in any of my writings have I declared that the 2020 election was” stolen” but there

were irregularities in many states that need to be prevented from happening in the future so there is no doubt that our elections are secure and honest.

My fellow Republicans are not represented in the state of NY and our votes go nowhere.

We are 100 percent under control of theDemocratic party that is slowly destroying our state due to failed leadership in Albany and NYC. Racism exists in America but “systemic racism” is pushed day after day by the left and I am not buying it.

My relating a church experience was one day in the life of an American but I have been out there in the workplace and living for many decades among Americans of every ilk and I know what is possible.

The racist believes that he is

superior to another race. I pointed out in my letter that people of color are just as able to have success in America because they are just as capable.

The right is not the political party that keeps playing the race card and trying to convince minorities that they can’t make it.

The Democrats were the party of Jim Crow, The KKK, segregation and slavery.

I wonder why cancel culture has missed that part of history and, via transference, have made it a Republican issue?

Gender dysphoria was on my mind long before Trump came on the scene. It was pushed out there in the forefront by Obama.

I think that what the letter writer in question knows about it could fit on the head of a pin. Let me enlighten you.

You cannot change your sex,

you can only live a delusion.

Nothing, I said, nothing, can change that fact. Do you know that the suicide rate before the transition is equal to the one after transition? Having read case studies, there are many who regret it and decide to reverse transition.

Unfortunately, much cannot be reversed. Facial hair and deep voices in women continue and if they have had surgery to have their ovaries and uterus removed, they are no longer able to have children.

A deep regret for many. You can only imagine what problems a trans would have reversing to manhood. A life-changing decision that should not be in the hands of minor children.

The letter writer throws out general statements, again about “Trump’s” wrong statements that I have apparently taken as my

own but fails to name one concrete example of any. So list them and let’s see what is true and what isn’t. Trump is all he talks about.

He is insulted at the end of his letter by the fact that I “questioned his intelligence”. Readers, the first blow was struck by the other party, insinuating that I was “dumb and stupid”. I rest my case.

If Trump is found guilty of any real crimes, then I say throw the book at him. So far, there has been nothing that the left has been able to conjure up for the last 4 years. I will finish with this.

Joe Biden is a pox on America and I only hope we can save our country from complete wreck and ruin. Mark my words, there is trouble ahead for all of us.

Gayle Palmer Williston Park

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Daily newspapers concentrate on international, Washington, Albany, NYC, business and sports stories. They have few reporters assigned to cover local neighborhood news stories.

These reporters have to compete against colleagues for limited available print space. As a result, daily newspapers miss significant

news and political stories from Great Neck, Manhasset, Plandome, Port Washington, Roslyn, New Hyde Park, Albertson and Williston Park.

Weekly newspapers based in Great Neck, such as our own Great Neck News and neighborly competitor — the Great Neck Record, provide more in-depth coverage of local news not found in Newsday, The New York Times, Post, Daily News or AM Metro New York.

We continue to be fortunate to live in one of the few remaining free societies, with a wealth of information sources available.

Sadly, most American cities and suburbs are down to one local daily or weekly newspaper.

Newspapers have to deal with increasing costs for newsprint, delivery and distribution along with reduced advertising revenues and declining readership.

I continue to be grateful that Blank Slate Media along with other daily and weekly newspapers afford me an opportunity to express my views as well as differing opinions. Thanks to you, ordinary citizens have the freedom to comment on the actions and legislation of elected officials.

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Help pollinators by participating in research The Town of North Hempstead is encouraging residents to participate in collecting data for the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project and the Empire State Native Pollinator Survey.

This spring, pollinators such as bees are beginning to emerge from overwintering and monarch butterflies will soon migrate to Long Island, which means that the Town will be participating in these community science research projects to help learn about these important animals, many of which are in decline.

“The Town is dedicated and committed to these community science research projects which have brought attention to pollinators both here in North Hempstead and throughout our country,” said North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth.

“These creatures are so important to our

daily lives, and the data on them is invaluable. We encourage you to take part in these projects that are educational and enlightening for the entire family.”

The MLMP is a collaborative effort by the Monarch Joint Venture and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum that uses volunteers from across the United States and Canada to collect long-term data on monarch distribution and abundance during the breeding season.

To volunteer for this project, you will need to choose a site, such as your backyard or a local park (with permission), that contains milkweed plants and monitor them once a week. Participants will look for monarch butterfly eggs, larvae, and pupae.

Monitoring for the project allows residents to get outside and learn about mon-

archs and other wildlife that inhabit our local area. The town monitors the pollinator garden at Clark Botanic Garden every week beginning in June and ending in the fall when monarchs stop laying eggs to prepare for migration to Mexico for the winter.

The ESNPS, administered by the NY Natural Heritage Program in partnership with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, aims to determine the conservation status of a variety of native insect pollinators throughout New York.

With many pollinator species in decline, this survey’s goal is to provide a more concrete picture on the status of pollinating insects.

Surveying for the project involves taking pictures of the bees, flies, moths, bee-

tles and wasps seen pollinating flowers.

This can be done in your own backyard or any location that has flowering plants.

The Town participates in the project by surveying at many of its parks’ pollinator gardens.

To participate in the MLMP visit: monarchjointventure.org/mlmp.

The Town is also looking for volunteers to participate in the project by monitoring milkweed in some of our parks’ pollinator gardens. Interested participants can email Sustain@northhempsteadny.gov or call 311.

To participate in the ESNPS visit: nynhp.org/projects/pollinators.

Also, for more information on attracting and helping monarchs and other pollinators in your own yard, visit: northhempsteadny.gov/sustainability.

Temple Judea offers new prayer book course Congregants of Temple Judea will be introduced to a new “virtual” course on the Hebrew prayer book, “UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF THE SIDDUR”, taught by Rabbi Todd Chizner. This class will explore everything from the history of the prayers to the roots of individual Hebrew words.

The ultimate goal of the class is to demystify the Hebrew prayer experience so that each can feel at ease with and connection

to these timeless expressions of faith.

The prayer books, (the plural is siddurim in Hebrew), which are used by Jews during Shabbat and High Holiday services as well as for daily worship, have had a long history. The oldest Siddur, which resides in the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, dates back to the eighth century CE, and was written by hand on parchment. Of course this prayer book was very scarce,

and it was rare for people to own one.

Today’s prayer books, while basically similar to each other, take many forms.

Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist Jews each use their own versions and interpretations of the holy writings and prayers.

The group will study changes made throughout the millennia, as well as those parts which have remained the same

throughout history. Knowledge of Hebrew is not required. All are welcome to join this exciting new course. There is no fee. The course will meet on Wednesdays at 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm.

Temple Judea is located at 333 Searingtown Road, Manhasset (exit 36n on the LIE) and can be reached at (516) 6218049 or at www.temple-judea.com. New members are always welcome

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Town to start sweeping streets on April 26 North Hempstead has announced that starting April 26, town highway crews will be hitting the streets to sweep up the winter debris as the annual “Operation Clean Sweep” gets underway. This two-week initiative is held each spring and aims to sweep North Hempstead’s roads safe and clean.

“With all of the snow we received this winter, Operation Clean Sweep is a vital program that will keep our streets clean while also preventing toxic chemicals from entering our storm drains,” said North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth. “We certainly are looking forward to kicking off the spring with the spring cleaning of our streets.”

The Highway Department needs the public’s help to make Operation Clean Sweep a success. They ask that residents refrain from parking vehicles on town roads from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. during their designated sweeping days. Businesses are asked to keep their cars off the road from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m. The public’s cooperation will ensure that the roads are cleaned as thoroughly as possible.

From Monday, April 26 to Friday, April 30, all areas NOT within incorporated vil-

lages and south of the Long Island Expressway will be swept.

From Monday, May 3 to Friday, May 7 all areas NOT within incorporated villages and north of the Long Island Expressway will be swept. *See below for complete schedule of locations* Operation Clean Sweep Dates: South of the Long Island Expressway MONDAY, APRIL 26 New Cassel, Polo Park Section, Westbury Hills, Albertson; beginning at Train Station and heading west. Manhasset Hills section, heading towards City Line South Park, (Roslyn Heights) TUESDAY, APRIL 27 Carle Place, Searingtown, New Hyde Park; east of Denton Avenue and north of Hillside Avenue WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 Country Club Section, Devonshire Section; east of Denton Avenue and south of Hillside Avenue, West Williston, New Hyde Park, west of Denton Avenue and north of Hillside Avenue THURSDAY, APRIL 29 Garden City Park, from Mineola High

School and heading west. Stewart Avenue Section; from North New Hyde Park, continuing west of Denton Avenue. New Hyde Park, west of Denton Avenue., and south of Hillside Avenue, (including Bar-wick, Willis, Cherry & McKee) FRIDAY, APRIL 30 Touching up, cleaning up and spot sweeping where necessary Operation Clean Sweep Dates: North of the Long Island Expressway MONDAY, MAY 3 Port Washington: Eastside Port Washington Boulevard., beginning in New Salem, and heading north Westside of Port Washington Boulevard, beginning at Marino Avenue and heading north Great Neck: University Gardens Manhasset: South Strathmore, Strathmore Vanderbilt, Strathmore Village TUESDAY, MAY 4 Port Washington: Continuing north from Monday’s cut off location Great Neck: Pembroke and Jayson Avenues Manhasset: South Strathmore,

Strathmore Vanderbilt, Strathmore Village Roslyn: West side of Mineola Avenue, from L.I.E. to Village line; West, North and East Parks WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 Great Neck: Terrace Circle, Little Neck, Saddle Rock, Manor Section Manhasset: Manhasset Park, North Strathmore Areas west of Plandome Road and North of Northern Boulevard Roslyn: East side of Mineola Avenue, from L.I.E. to Village line. Glenwood Landing, Greenvale THURSDAY, MAY 6 Great Neck: Allenwood Section Harbor Hills, Manor Section, Embassy Court / Russell Woods Road Manhasset: Bayview Terrace Manor West of Plandome Road and N/O Northern Blvd FRIDAY, MAY 7 Touching up, cleaning up and spot sweeping where necessary *Please note that dates are subject to change based on weather conditions

Officials to host bicounty, bipartisan food drive Addressing the 47 percent increase in food insecurity among people in Nassau and Suffolk counties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, elected leaders from both political parties join forces with Island Harvest Food Bank hosting a food collection event across Long Island on April 23 and 24 and April 30.

According to Randi Shubin Dresner, president and CEO, Island Harvest Food Bank, the food drive is expected to be the first and most extensive food collection of its kind involving uniting Long Island’s elected officials.

“This food collection event is the first of its kind on Long Island, bringing elected officials from both major political parties together at one time in a bipartisan manner to help solve food insecurity,” said Randi Shubin Dresner, president & CEO, Island Harvest Food Bank. “We hope that Long Islanders, too, will come together and help support their neighbors struggling to put food on their tables.”

A significant decline in donated food to support local feeding programs, including the cancellation of the annual Stamp Out Hunger Food drive, which has typically yielded more than half-mil-

lion pounds of food, has placed additional strain on the region’s food bank since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.

Island Harvest Food Bank has been on the frontline in assisting approximately 600,000 families on Long Island,

adversely impacted by the economic calamity created by the pandemic by providing supplemental food support, benefits assistance, and other help to those affected.

Long Islanders can do their part by

Island Harvest Food Bank volunteers distribute food to Long Islanders. The food bank is in need of donations to continue to make sure that no one on Long Island goes hungry.

donating nonperishable food items, including canned goods, cereal, pasta, rice, boxed juices, and shelf-stable milk (please, no glass items). Personal care items, including baby wipes, soap, shampoo, toothpaste, and deodorant, are also welcome. Pet food is also accepted.

All the food collections event will be contactless and drive-through.

On Friday, April 30, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., collections will take place in Nassau County at: • Town of North Hempstead Beach Park, 175 W Shore Rd., Port Washington, NY 11050 • Wantagh Public Library, 3285 Park Ave., Wantagh, NY 11793 • Mid-Island Y JCC, 45 Manetto Hill Rd., Plainview, NY 11803 • Barry & Florence Friedberg JCC, 15 Neil Ct., Oceanside, NY 11572 • The Leon Campo Salisbury Center, 718 The Plain Rd., Westbury, NY 11590 Food donations may also be delivered to the district offices of their locally elected officials. Please contact your elected representative for locations and hours. Additional information about the food drive can be found at www.islandharvest.org or by calling 631-873-4775.

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Herricks junior Herricks rated a best place for music education cited by N.Y. Times The Herricks Public Schools have again been named Best Community for Music Education by the NAMM Foundation.

This annual designation, now in its 22nd year, is awarded to districts that demonstrate outstanding achievement in efforts to provide music access and education to all students. Herricks has a longstanding history of earning this distinction.

The Best Communities for Music Education Award and the implementation of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act bring attention to the importance of keeping music education part of the school’s core education for all students. It also highlights music’s vital role in students’ overall success in school.

The Herricks Public Schools provide a comprehensive music and performing arts program with totals of nine bands, nine orchestras and 12 choirs. Almost 80 percent of the district’s eligible student population is involved in musical performance. At the high school level, the musical experience is broadened through classes in theory, composition, music history and theatre. Students also pursue their talents through extracurricular musicals and dramas, jazz bands, chamber orchestras, wind ensembles and show choir.

The Music and Performing Arts Department has a strong history of success, which includes several GRAMMY Foundation school awards and New York State School

Music Association distinctions.

Herricks students earn acceptance to prestigious, competitive performance ensembles on an annual basis and many continue to fine-tune their skills through participation in summer courses.

Most recently, the high school and middle school Tri-M chapters both received 2018 Chapter of the Year honors from the National Association for Music Education.

“On behalf of the music department, I am so proud of receiving this distinguished honor once again this year,” said Director of Music and Performing Arts Anissa Arnold. “It is thanks to the support of our community and administration and the dedication of our students and teachers. Bravo!”

Herricks High School junior Chloe Chang has been selected as one of the 11 winners in the New York Times’ Sixth Annual Critical Review contest.

More than 4,100 entries were submitted to this competition. Chloe’s piece is titled, “‘Liminal Space’: Refocusing Our Lens on Queer Americans,” and is published on the New York Times website at https://www.nytimes. com/2021/03/24/learning/ the-winners-of-our-sixthannual-review-contest.html.

Congratulations to Chloe and her AP English and English PHOTO COURTESY OF Scholars Program teacher HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS Tom Mattson.

Herricks students advance Herricks soph 1st in History Day Competition in poetry contest Herricks High School students earned numerous distinctions in the National History Day Regional Competition, which was held virtually this year in light of the pandemic.

A total of 31 students entered 13 projects in the competition after thoroughly researching various historical topics under the guidance of advisers Samantha Gerantabee and Melissa Jacobs. Eleven projects will now advance to the virtual state event.

First-place awards were achieved by Alisha Gwalani Aanya Goel and Stephanie Sukhraj for their Group Performance, “Shirley Chisholm: The Voice of the Disenfranchised,” and by Rosh-

ni Patel, Sarah Ninan, Genesis Kang, Prableen Kaur and Amisha Brahmbhatt for their Group Exhibit, “From Outrage to Amity: The 1964 Panamanian Riots.”

Nine projects were top in their division and are listed as follows: Michael Zanetti, “The Tiananmen Square Massacre; Communicating Democracy in the Face of Government Repression,” Paper; Chris Zovko, Wafiq Khondkar, Esther Min and Scott McClellan, “The Vietnam Era: How Anti-war and News Communication Defined a Generation,” Group Documentary; Ayesha Nadeem, “Underground Railroad: How Secret Codes, Messages, and Spirituals Were Used to Escape to Freedom,” Individual

Performance; Rma Polce, “Lucy: The Legacy of Lucille Ball,” Individual Performance; Madison Chiu and Maggie Lau, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Communicating Morality in the Face of Slavery,” Group Performance; Dheyala Simrin, Sanjana Lodha, Tiffany Leo and Celeste Zhang, “The Novelist Charles Dickens Communicating Reality and Calling for Reform,” Group Performance; Preston Chan, “A MAD Mission,” Individual Exhibit; Shivani Kapoor and Liyana Zaman, “The Space Race: Communication In Early Space Discoveries,” Group Exhibit and Reena Gupta and Gayatri Bulsara, “The House of UnAmerican Activities Committee,” Group Website.

Herricks High School sophomore Carolyn Lau was awarded first place in the annual Carl Sandburg Poetry Contest for her piece, titled, “Stuck in Some Time.”

This is the third major honor for Carolyn this year – she recently won first place in the Ringling College of Art and Design’s Sixth Annual “Storytellers of Tomorrow” High School Creative Writing Contest and a number of her pieces received Gold Key awards or Honorable Mentions in the Scholastic Arts PHOTO COURTESY OF and Writing Awards proHERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS gram.

Searingtown celebrates diversity of heritages Searingtown School celebrated the community’s rich diversity with a Heritage Festival held on March 26. Students showcased their family history and traditions and realized the many ways in which people all over the world are alike and

united.

Students researched their individual family ancestry and created “All About Me Books” that portrayed special events, holidays, family stories, customs and much more. They shared their books, along with pictures,

in class on the day of the festival.

Students also created heritage dolls representative of their personalities and ethnicities.

Many students came to school dressed in traditional cultural attire, and several demonstrated knowledge of other languages.

PHOTO COURTESY OF HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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