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W. Park weighs prohibition of marijuana sales Trustees to hold public hearing on Monday to potentially opt out BY S A M U E L E PETRUCCELLI The Williston Park Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing Monday to consider whether it will follow the footsteps of neighboring villages: opting out of allowing the sale of marijuana in the village. Slated for 7 p.m. at Village Hall, residents will have an opportunity to share their opinions on how trustees should vote to interpret the recent statewide legalization of cannabis, signed by Gov. Cuomo. Trustees could take a vote on the matter as early as that night, or schedule for a later date. Localities have till the end of this year to make their choice. Under the new state law, consumption and smoking of cannabis is now legal throughout the state wherever smoking tobacco is legal. Municipalities, however, can refuse to allow the retail sale of the substance, though they will not get to share in any generated tax revenue.

Eﬀorts to reach Williston Park trustees were unavailing. Neighboring villages have already made their choice, though, picking to opt-out of allowing brickand-mortar dispensaries where people could purchase marijuana products. New Hyde Park most recently voted, unanimously, to prohibit such dispensaries or any cannabis consumption establishments at a board of trustees meeting last Thursday. The adjacent village of Floral Park also opted out, though not before hearing concerns from Mayor Kevin Fitzgerald. “I personally don’t think the potential revenue would outweigh any of the social costs,” Fitzgerald said. “Therefore, I vote aye.” The cost-benefit analysis of additional revenue for the village is something to consider, according to DeVaughn Ward, senior legislative counsel at the Marijuana Policy Continued on Page 26

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A driver suffered from a heart attack and crashed into the kitchen of a Williston Park home Monday morning. See story on page 2.

Herricks alum to pitch for Israel’s Olympic team BY R OB E RT PELAEZ From humble beginnings at Herricks High School to joining Israel’s national baseball team in the upcoming Olym-

pics, Alex Katz is accomplishing feats only a handful of people in the world can relate to. The 26-year-old Katz, earlier in July, was named to the final 24-man roster for Israel’s first Olympic baseball roster,

which will be traveling to Tokyo to compete against other nations around the world later this month. Katz is also a dual citizen of the United States and Israel. Continued on Page 27

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Driver dies after crash Weinstein called into W. Park home visionary, friend Police say man suffered heart attack while driving

DiNapoli among many to honor judge BY S A M U E L E PETRUCCELLI

what it is today,” Brodie said. Enlisting the law to attain justice, he did so “imaginatively, with persuasive elegance, indiﬀerent and without a thought to what our Second Circuit colleagues might think.” Long before he accrued the 11th-longest tenure among federal judges in American history, Weinstein first became a judge when Brodie was a year old. Creator of the Criminal Justice Act Committee, SOS Program, pro-bono panel and civil litigation fund, Weinstein was an iconoclast whose designs served as models throughout the federal system, according to Brodie. “As remarkable as all of his contributions to our court as an institution are, he will be remembered as much for his quieter unheralded acts towards us – his Eastern District colleagues and friends,” Brodie said. “He was the shepherd tending to the cultural and intellectual growth of his flock.” Though a shepherd, he sometimes demanded strict levels of recognition from the special master for TARP Executive Compensation, Kenneth Feinberg, who recounted two such incidents with Weinstein. Continued on Page 27

A forerunner of justice often for the less fortunate, Jack Weinstein was a tireless legal advocate and champion of the court system he helped change. Along the way he rubbed shoulders with heavyweights on Wall Street, boldfaced names in the state and judiciary and the powerful in New York politics. At a memorial service last Friday, his friends, colleagues and family told stories of their memorable encounters with the federal judge, who died at the age of 99 June 15, 2021. As they reminisced, guest speakers told the packed pews at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck often amusing anecdotes about Weinstein’s bold and loving personality. Margo Brodie, chief district PHOTO COURTESY OF KERRY COLLINS, VILLAGE OF WILLISTON PARK BUILDING INSPECTOR court judge for the Eastern District of New York, said Weinstein had A Williston Park man died after crashing into the kitchen of a residential home on Monday. a profound impact on the federal court covering Long Island, Brooklyn and Staten Island during his is a concern the bathroom above him a good man who knew how more than half a century of sitting BY S A M U E L E the kitchen may fall in, said Wil- to make others laugh. PETRUCCELLI on the bench. “He had a great humor about liston Park Building Inspector “He was a visionary who A driver in the midst of a Kerry Collins. The home was de- him,” Koerner said. “He was the helped transform the district into heart attack crashed into a Willis- clared unsafe and evacuated by funniest guy, the nicest guy you’d ever want to meet.” ton Park home Monday morning, the family. Arcese often drove around Dylan Guo was working at police said. The driver, later identified by the auto repair shop just across Williston Park in his maroon Cafriends as John Arcese, was trans- the street from the accident when dillac with his dog accompanying ported to a nearby hospital where he heard the impact of the car hit him, Koerner said. Michael Vietri said he knew he was pronounced dead. Police home. Initially, Guo said, thought Arcese for almost 30 years, regua tractor trailer hit a bump. declined to confirm his identity. I look over first I don’t see a larly bowling against him at HerPolice said no other injuries tractor trailer,” Guo said. “And rill Lanes in New Hyde Park. were reported. “He almost always had a Surveillance video captured then I look further, and I see the smile on his face,” Vietri said. “He by an auto repair shop shows Arc- car inside the house.” People responding to the could make anybody laugh.” ese speeding through the intersecHerrill Lanes was also the site tion of Willis Avenue and William crash were unable to remove Street. He then hits a storage unit Arcese from the car and had to of his Elvis Presley-themed wedand a parked SUV, before crashing wait for first responders to cut an ding, to which over 300 people PHOTO BY SAMUELE PETRUCCELLI into a homeowner’s kitchen on opening, said Eddie Guan, owner attended, according to Koerner. “John lived for his kids,” Vie- State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli spoke at the memorial of the auto shop. Lehigh Street. John Koerner said he knew tri said. “He was dad of the year service of federal judge Jack Weinstein, who passed away The impact of the car moved floor joists in the home, and there Arcese for over 30 years, calling every year.”

last June. He was 99.

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NHP man faces DWI plea deal, again Nassau prosecutors make same offer as vacated agreement in Brooklyn for Greenvale crash BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z A New Hyde Park man and Coast Guard veteran Keith Dillon will receive the same plea deal from Nassau County prosecutors as he did from a Brooklyn appellate court for a drunk driving incident 3 1/2 years ago, according to multiple reports. Dillon, 32, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular assault, assault and drunken driving in a plea bargain resulting in a sentence of up to 12 years in prison. Dillon was allegedly intoxicated and impaired by Xanax when he drove his 2014 Dodge Ram onto the center median in Greenvale and eventually crashed into an unmarked police car, driven by Nassau Police Officer Willard Gomes early on Jan. 1, 2018, officials said. Gomes suffered serious injuries. Though the plea bargain called for Dillon to face six to 12 years in prison, a ruling from a Brooklyn appellate court in June reversed the conviction and threw out the plea in its entirety before the case was sent back to the Nassau court system, according to court documents. Court officials said in the June 9 notice that the State Supreme Court failed to notify Dillon that he would be sentenced to a period of post-release supervi-

for Aug. 23. Palma told Newsday that Dillon faces five to 15 years on the aggravated vehicular assault charge along with seven years on the second-degree assault charge if convicted. According to court records, Dillon was previously represented by attorney Marc Gann, but due to Dillon’s inability to pay for a private attorney and a conflict of interest for Gann to continue representing Dillon, he was appointed a new attorney, Luigi Vigliotti. Efforts to reach Vigliotti for comment were unavailing. On the night of the incident, officials said, Dillon struck Gomes head-on while driving on Glen Cove Road in Greenvale just before 2:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day. The collision pushed the police car driven by Gomes about 50 feet backward and rotated it 180-degrees, according to the PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS district attorney’s office. Gomes, who was on DWI patrol at Officials said Keith Dillon, of New Hyde Park, will receive the same plea deal the time of the crash, suffered multiple in the Nassau courts as he did in a Brooklyn appellate court for a drunk injuries, including a brain bleed, broken elbow, and leg fractures, which required driving incident in 2018. multiple surgeries to repair, officials said. Gomes has remained on medical leave sion upon his conviction of second-degree said. Prosecutor Stefanie Palma told News- since the incident, according to officials. assault at the time of his guilty plea. Dillon apologized to Gomes during “Under the circumstances, the defen- day that the Nassau County District Attordant’s plea of guilty was not knowing, ney’s Office would withdraw the plea of- his sentencing in 2019, expressing his revoluntary, and intelligent, and therefore, fer if Dillon did not take an identical plea gret for “selfish, reckless actions”, accordmust be vacated,” the court document bargain at the next court date, scheduled ing to Newsday.

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Uptick in COVID-19 cases in Nassau 7-day average in positivity climbs to 1.8 percent as Curran calls for unvaccinated to get shots BY R OB E RT PELAEZ

Despite continuous vaccination eﬀorts throughout Nassau County and Long Island, the number of new, daily coronavirus cases has neared 100 for the past week, with positivity rates increasing and the new Delta Variant present. According to state Health Department statistics as of Wednesday morning, Nassau County’s positivity rate was at 2 percent, with a seven-day positivity rate of 1.8 percent. While the numbers pale in comparison to some of the numbers during the peak of the pandemic last year, the increase in daily cases throughout the county has hovered around triple digits for nearly two weeks, figures showed. Nassau’s statistics are also higher than the statewide positivity rate of 1.7 percent with a seven-day average of 1.3 percent. Long Island as a whole has seen sharp upticks in positivity rates since July 1, when the daily positivity rate was at 0.6 percent. As of Wednesday, accord-

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Nassau County has seen an increase in positivity rates for the coronavirus since July 1, according to state health department statistics. ing to the latest statistics, Long Island’s 2 percent single day positivity rate was tied for the thirdhighest throughout the 10 state regions. Its seven-day positivity rate of 1.7 percent trailed only the Capital Region in New York. With rates continuing to climb, Nassau County Executive

Laura Curran once again advocated for residents to get the coronavirus vaccine as quickly as possible. “Nassau County is in a strong position thanks to our high vaccination rate, but highly contagious COVID-19 variants like Delta underscore the need

to keep getting shots into arms,” Curran tweeted last week. “The more residents who roll up their sleeves, the stronger our defense against variants will be.” According to state Health Department figures, Long Island has more than 1.4 million fully vaccinated people for third place

in the 10 state regions, trailing only the Mid-Hudson and New York City. Over 1.5 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine, second only to New York City, according to the figures. The state Health Department, which also breaks down vaccination rates by zip code, found that the 11042 zip code of New Hyde Park has the lowest rate at 20.8 percent of people vaccinated. That zip code, however, consists primarily of businesses south of the Northern State Parkway and along Marcus Avenue. The next lowest vaccination rate throughout the North Shore areas is the 62 percent featured in the 11024 zip code of the Great Neck Peninsula, made up by the village of Kings Point. The next lowest one rate also resides in Great Neck, with the 11023 zip code at a 65.4-percent rate, according to the figures. This zip code incorporates parts of the Villages of Great Neck and Saddle Rock, along with Great Neck Gardens and Harbor Hills. Continued on Page 27

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GOP taps Donnelly to run for DA Garden City resident has served for more than 3 decades as prosector in Nasssau County BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z

The Nassau County Republican Party nominated Garden City resident Anne Donnelly as their candidate for district attorney in a special election this November. She will face Democrat Todd Kaminsky to fill the district attorney seat formerly held by Madeline Singas, who was confirmed by the state Senate to the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, on June 8. Donnelly, 56, has worked in the district attorney’s oﬃce for more than three decades and currently serves as the deputy chief of the Organized Crime & Rackets Bureau. Donnelly also spent 12 years prosecuting violent felonies, including two prominent murder-for-hire cases that resulted in convictions, according to the Republican oﬃcials. “I am delighted to be a candidate for Nassau District Attorney,” Donnelly said in a release. “I have dedicated my career to keeping the public safe and prosecuting those who commit crimes. I want to be the district attorney in order to protect Nassau County residents from dangerous criminals who pose a threat to society.” As the deputy chief of the Organized Crime & Rackets Bureau, Donnelly pros-

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The Nassau County Republican Party chose Anne Donnelly to run for district attorney on Monday. ecutes defendants with connections to large-scale illegal operations such as money laundering and oversees the prosecution of all computer crimes throughout the district attorney’s oﬃce, oﬃcials said. Donnelly also serves as the liaison to the county’s Correctional Center and spent time as the acting chief in the Pub-

lic Corruption Bureau, deputy chief of the Economic Crimes Bureau and a senior trial assistant in the Rackets Bureau. Republican Party Chairman Joseph Cairo praised Donnelly, who earned her law degree from Fordham University in 1989, for her three decades of service in the DA’s oﬃce as a reason voters should

choose her over Kaminsky in the special election. “Republicans have put forth a candidate who has dedicated her career to keeping the public safe and putting dangerous criminals behind bars,” Cairo said in a statement. “Her opponent, on the other hand, is a political opportunist who has spent his time in Albany writing ‘get out of jail free’ laws to turn loose more dangerous inmates onto our streets.” Kaminsky, who announced his candidacy in late June, attended law school at NYU and spent a decade working as a prosecutor on the federal and state levels. He worked as an assistant district attorney in Queens County under Singas in the Domestic Violence Bureau. Kaminsky later served in the Eastern District of New York as an assistant U.S. attorney and acting deputy chief of the district’s Public Integrity Section. “As DA, I will protect our families from violent crime, taxpayers from fraud and corruption, and the human rights of every New Yorker,” Kaminsky said. “Let’s get to work.” Campaign spokesman Rich Orsillo said Kaminsky will continue to fight for Long Islanders if elected in November and did not comment on the Republican’s nomination of Donnelly. Continued on Page 35

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Historic opioid settlement for Nassau To receive up to $115M in agreement with 3 of nation’s largest drug distributors BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Nassau County will receive up to $115 million as part of the largest opioid settlement in United States history, officials announced on Tuesday. The funds are part of a $1.1 billion settlement between the state of New York and McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health Inc., and AmerisourceBergen Drug Corporation, three of the nation’s largest drug distributors. Officials said Nassau County will receive close to $87 million from the settlement to go along with an additional $26 million in settlements with pharmacy chains CVS Pharmacy, Walgreens, Rite Aid, and Walmart. “While no amount of money will replace the countless lives that have been affected, we can save future lives by expanding our support network and increasing funding for mental health and addiction programs, along with prevention efforts,” Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said in a statement Tuesday. Nassau County legislators said the settlement funds will be put into a special revenue fund to provide education and treatment to Nassau residents suffering from the opioid epidemic. “The settlements passed through committees yesterday will be invested in education, treatment and prevention to fight the

heroin and opioid abuse epidemic in Nassau County,” Presiding Officer Rich Nicolello (RNew Hyde Park) said. “By creating this special revenue fund, we will ensure that every dollar coming from these settlements goes to the people that need it most,” Nassau Legislator Bill Gaylor (R-Lynbrook) said. The agreement between the state and the three companies was negotiated by Attorney General Letitia James in ongoing efforts to combat the opioid epidemic throughout New York. Officials said an additional $15.3 million is expected to come to Nassau from pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson as part of a $230 million settlement throughout the state of New York also secured by James in late June. “For more than two decades, the opioid epidemic has wreaked havoc on countless communities throughout New York and across the rest of the nation, killing hundreds of thousands of our friends and family members and addicting millions more,” James said in a statement. “While no amount of money will ever compensate for the millions of addictions, the hundreds of thousands of deaths, or the countless communities decimated by opioids, this money will be vital in preventing any future devastation.” In early July, multiple states also settled

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New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a record opioid settlement between the state and three major opioid manufacturers on Tuesday. a lawsuit with the Sackler family and their Purdue Pharma, another large-scale opioid manufacturer, that resulted in $200 million for New York to combat the epidemic. Last month, Curran and Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder joined to

announce the “re-energizing” of Operation Natalie, a countywide effort established in 2018 to combat the opioid epidemic throughout Nassau. The announcement came after a spike in drug overdoses caused, primarily, by the restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic. The effort — which included educational seminars for youth and adults throughout Nassau’s communities — helped drive down opioid addictions and fatalities over the last three years before that progress was reversed last year amid the COVID-19 crisis, Curran said. Countywide non-fatal opioid-related overdoses subsequently dropped 21 percent from 2017’s levels to 217 cases in 2019, while fatal overdoses fell 15 percent to 44, according to Ryder. But fatal drug overdoses jumped 34 percent in Nassau in 2020, according to new statistics reported by Newsday. There were 287 fatal drug overdoses in the county last year, with 60 suspected overdose deaths that have not yet been confirmed by the medical examiner’s office, the paper reported. Drug enforcement also dropped because of the restraints of the coronavirus, but the pandemic clearly did not stop drugs from being pushed into communities, Ryder said. County cops made just 294 heroin arrests in 2020, down from 766 in 2017, according to the commissioner.

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Suozzi, Rice welcome start Hofstra alum of child tax credit payments Cooper gets 2nd BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) implored families receiving the child tax credit to discuss if they prefer a lump-sum credit or monthly payments on Wednesday.

Suozzi touted the tax credit, which began hitting the pockets of families throughout the nation on Thursday, as a valuable financial resource for millions of Long Island families. Suozzi said the lump-sum or monthly payments will diﬀer de-

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U.S. Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) encouraged Long Island parents to discuss how they would like to receive their child tax credit payments.

pending on families, but urged those who applied for the tax credit to discuss to see which way is more beneficial. “I am urging families to consider if they would rather receive the monthly payments, or a lump sum at the end of the year so the amount of taxes they owe do not increase,” Suozzi said in a release. “The need will diﬀer from family to family, but this is a conversation I’m urging all families and filers to have.” Some families, Suozzi said, may desire to opt-out of the monthly payments since they could still owe money when they file their 2021 taxes. Suozzi said if parents decide to opt-out of the monthly payments to opt-in to the lump-sum credit, they would have to follow the steps on the IRS website. The tax credit oﬀers parents $3,600 for every child 6 years old or younger, $3,000 for kids aged 6 to 17 years and up to $500 for children older than 18, including full-time college students aged 19 to 24. The benefit is available to parents of biological and adopted children, stepchildren and foster children. Continued on Page 35

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After another year of extinguishing a red-hot Islanders team en route to a Stanley Cup victory, Tampa Bay Lightning Head Coach and Hofstra alum Jon Cooper has his name in conversations with some of the all-time greats. Cooper, who graduated from Hofstra in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an exceptional tenure with the school’s lacrosse team, led the Lightning to their second consecutive Stanley Cup victory with a 4-1 series win over the Montreal Canadiens. Prior to their victory against Montreal, the Lightning defeated the

Islanders in a back-andforth series that went a full seven games. One year ago, the Lightning bounced the Islanders in six games with a 2-1 overtime victory that propelled them to the finals. The Lightning were just the second team to repeat as champions in the National Hockey League’s salary cap era, which began in 2005-06, and the 17th team in league history to do so. In a season initially delayed by the coronavirus, the team’s 36 regular-season wins were the lowest under Cooper’s eight-year tenure with the team. With uncertainty surrounding whether or not the team would stay intact after the oﬀseason, Continued on Page 34

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Port tennis luminary Zausner dies at 87 Longtime president, director of academy was Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame inductee BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Richard Zausner, the president and director of the Port Washington Tennis Academy for more than four decades and a Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame inductee, died on July 12. He was 87. Zausner, in a 2017 interview with Blank Slate Media, said he would be a part of the Port Washington academy his father had founded in 1966 until the very end. Zausner began working at the academy as a young man and said one of his main goals was to help children on and oﬀ the court. “It’s all about using tennis as a way of furthering your goals,” he said. “That’s the goal.” Zausner was born in Manhattan in 1934 and developed a passion for sports at a young age. He went to the Bronx School of Science before attending Syracuse University. After college he served two years in the United States Navy and went on to PHOTO COURTESY OF SUSAN KOMISNKI ZAUSNER have a career in real estate before taking over the tennis academy. The academy, which is the largest Longtime Port Washington Tennis Academy indoor tennis facility on the East Coast President and Director Richard Zausner with 17 indoor courts and a 1/4-mile died last week. track, was created as a nonprofit facil-

ity not only to help children but Port Washington, too. The tennis academy primarily trains children from ages 4 to 18, but also oﬀers a variety of adult programs as well, including singles play, doubles play and private lessons. Some of the academy’s notable figures who trained there include John McEnroe, Vitas Gerulaitis and Mary Carillo. Zausner, who lived in the Port Washington area since the early 1970s, said the academy donates to over a dozen local nonprofit organizations, including the Community Chest of Port Washington, the Port Washington Parent Resource Center, the Port Washington Counseling Center, the Port Washington Senior Center and more. In addition to Zausner’s constant work with the tennis academy, he served as the chairman of the United States Tennis Association Eastern Division’s Junior Tournament Rules & Discipline Committee. He also organized showcases for college and junior tennis players and provided them with knowledge and information about the game and their future endeavors. Many of those who attended the academy and worked with Zausner

ended up receiving full or partial scholarships to colleges that they would not have been able to aﬀord otherwise. Some were also introduced to coaches from Ivy League schools, expanding professional opportunities once their tennis careers ended. Zausner received the “For the Love of Tennis” Achievement Award, named after Gerulaitis, in 2016 and was inducted into the United States Tennis Association Eastern Hall of Fame in 2017. “It’s a very nice honor to be named to the Hall of Fame,” Zausner said in 2017. “This is all about kids and education.” In a tweet Friday, the association said: “USTA Eastern sends our condolences to the family of the late Dick Zausner. A member of the Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame and director of Port Washington Tennis, Dick made an indelible mark on the Long Island tennis community.” Zausner is survived by his brothers Martin and Michael, his sister Susan Zausner Kominski, his son David Fischbach, his nieces Madison and Isabella Kominski, and his nephew Nicholas Komisnki.

Visiting goats feast on town’s poison ivy BY S A M U E L E PETRUCELLI Peeking through the tall grass and dense weeds along the shores of Manhasset Bay, a heard of hungry farm animals can be seen peacefully chomping on the ground’s thick poison ivy. Traveling everywhere from New Haven, Conn., to Thurmond, West Va., the Green Goats of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, N.Y., have become famous in the world of environmentally eradicating invasive vegetation. Now at the unanimous request of council members, they’ve brought their big appetite to the Town of North Hempstead. North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth met the goats upon their arrival and in a press release explained how the program works toward the town’s resiliency and sustainability. “It is so important to protect and preserve our environment,” Bosworth said. “By eating poison ivy, these goats will provide us with a simple, innovative, and environmentally friendly alternative to the use of pesticides and herbicides.” Dubbed an invasive plant on the town’s shoreline property, poison ivy is an allergen for some and typically causes an intensely itchy skin rash. Luckily, it’s a favorite meal of the goats. “Goats will eat practically any unde-

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Larry and Annlilita Cihanek visited Ziggy, one of their four goats grazing the shore of Manhasset Bay last Tuesday. sirable weed,” said Larry Cihanek, who owns Green Goats along with his wife Ann. “If you have a choice of 50 things, they’d eat poison ivy first or second choice.” For that reason, Cihanek recommends not scaling the temporary fencing to pet the town’s visitors.

“If you want to scratch their cute little faces, this is not your dog that brushed against poison ivy; they dove into it face first,” Cihanek said. “So they have plenty of poison ivy on their faces.” Feeding the goats is also not recommended since their digestive systems, which work 24 hours a day, don’t have the

enzymes to consume food they’re not accustomed to. But for the four-legged ruminants, they’re living the quintessential retired life. Many of the Green Goats of Rhinebeck are retired from dairy farms, and though hard at work chomping on ivy, they might not have been oﬀered the chance at a second life if it weren’t for Cihanek. “They’re as friendly as dogs,” Cihanek said. “Just because it doesn’t bark anymore, you’re not going to send it oﬀ to the meat market. But if the goat isn’t productive, that’s the only choice.” Fortunately, LuLu, Jersey, Heidi Clume and Ziggy, the four goats working along Manhasset Bay, embarked on a career change. “They eat for a living,” Cihanek said. The goats aren’t the only ones with a past life. Before operating Green Goats of Rhinebeck, Cihanek worked in the advertising industry. “All I did was get somebody to use the American Express card as opposed to a Visa card,” Cihanek said. “It’s nice to do something that everybody likes and you’re not screwing up the world.” Typically, it takes at least two seasons of grazing to completely remove an invasive plant species. If successful, town employees will continue the rest of the removal, then evaluate plans to hire the goats to clean up another portion of land in the same area.

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Business&RealEstate

Know rules, regs before investing abroad So you’ve now decided to purchase a vacation home or condo in a development or hi-rise outside the U.S. Maybe you are thinking of some exotic location like Costa Rica, where 200,000-plus from the U.S. and Canada and expatriates from other countries have decided to buy and eventually end up there to retire. While the dollar is still somewhat strong in comparison to other currencies, it just might be an excellent time to consider your purchase. Moreover, interest rates have gone down once again to less than 3 percent, so possibly refinancing your home to take out additional money for the purchase might make a lot of sense. If your current interest rate is at least 1-2 percent higher, then it will save you money as long as you stay in your home five-plus years or more. However, you will need to see what the total cost of the refi would be as you will have a payback period of those costs until you can really take advantage of your lower rate. Obviously, your current business or job income, credit scores and debt/income ratio are the key factors that will determine your

borrowing power and interest rate. Another consideration is how much longer you will be living in your home. The younger your children are the longer you potentially might be staying put at least until they graduate college. So borrowing now with these historically low rates will be to your advantage. Conversing with a qualified professional mortgage broker will provide you more insight into whether or not refinancing will work for you. But first, you must think about the financial strength and footing of your business and how secure is your job and position. Amazon and other internet businesses have had a marked effect on how we have purchased our groceries and necessities and the adverse eﬀect on a vast amount of businesses throughout the U.S. Although infection rates have come way down, we are still in a COVID-19 pandemic environment. The Delta hybrid virus is having an eﬀect on certain parts of the U.S. and other countries, too, with infection rates spiking and increasing over the last month. You have to tread lightly when determining

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whether you have the continued and disposable income as well to buy your vacation/potential retirement home. On the positive side, my professional opinion is that you probably will have an excellent opportunity to purchase a property at a much more discounted price and value now as opposed to if and when the viruses subside. Predicting that happy event is anyone’s guess and at this point is surely an unknown. The following countries do not allow foreigners to own property or make it next to impossible to do so, such as:

• Vietnam • Greece • Thailand and other countries so check out the policies of any country before doing anything There are many other countries where Foreign Nationals can own property and the investment is somewhat of a solid bet, such as: • Turks and Caicos • Mexico • Barbados • Anguilla • The Cayman Isles • Bermuda • Costa Rica • Canada • Philippines • United Kingdom • Spain • France • Italy • Panama • Bahamas • Germany • Brazil • China (you must have worked there at least 1 yr and are purchasing for self use) • Belize • Colombia • Jamaica One must read and learn what the rules and regulations

are so you will become more wellinformed prior to looking for a property. Hiring a local experienced and knowledgeable Realtor who will be able to provide you all the information needed to purchase will be to your advantage and benefit so fewer mistakes and glitches will occur. Having the needed and necessary information will back up whatever the agent(s) convey to you so you will be that much more informed in minimizing and eliminating issues, losing money and time. Also, hiring a local attorney with a good reputation and reviews will back you up by providing you legal representation, again to minimize potential issues that surface and to assist in solving problems. 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).

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Opinion

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Dollars and sense in drug policies

assau County recently approved settlements totaling more than $26 million with pharmacy chains CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens and Walmart and drug manufacturing giant Johnson & Johnson for their role in the ongoing opioid epidemic. This followed a $4.5 billion national settlement with the Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma, that will shut down the company and end the family’s ability to manufacture opioids ever again. The agreement is expected to provide New York State with at least $200 million. And on Tuesday, the county’s total take grew to up to $115 million as Nassau, Suﬀolk County and New York state came to terms with drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. The companies were being sued in federal court in Central Islip led by state Attorney General Letitia James seeking to hold manufacturers, distributors and chain pharmacies accountable for the plague. Nassau, Suﬀolk and the state are still in court with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Allergan PLC, Endo International, and Anda Pharmaceutical Products. James and the two counties claim that the drug manufacturers misled the public by initially denying that the drugs were highly addictive and aggressively marketed them, ignoring warnings of abuse in pursuit of profits. The opioid epidemic has wreaked havoc on countless communities across New York state and the rest of the nation, leaving millions still addicted to danger-

ous and deadly opioids,” James said following the settlement with the four pharmacy chains and Johnson & Johnson. “While no amount of money will ever compensate for the thousands who lost their lives or became addicted to opioids across our state or provide solace to the countless families torn apart by this crisis, these funds will be used to prevent any future devastation.” Countywide non-fatal opioidrelated overdoses dropped 21 percent from 2017’s levels to 217 cases in 2019, while fatal overdoses fell 15 percent to 44. But fatal drug overdoses jumped 34 percent in Nassau in 2020, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic. There were 287 fatal drug overdoses in the county last year, with 60 suspected overdose deaths that have not yet been confirmed by the medical examiner’s oﬃce. James, Nassau and Suﬀolk counties and attorney generals across the country deserve much credit for bringing companies that destroyed lives in the pursuit of profits to account and provide much-needed funding to combat this crisis and aid its victims. Missing from all the litigation is any talk about “junkies,” “the pusher man” or “drug kingpins” as was common in the 1990s. Nor are we hearing any discussion of long jail sentences for those responsible for the 93,000 overdose deaths nationally in 2020. Or for that matter the people using and possessing the opioids. In fact, the current drug kingpins are facing no jail time and the billions in fines agreed to by people like the Sackler family still

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leaves them with billions in their bank accounts and stock portfolios. What’s the difference? The most obvious one is that both users, distributors and manufacturers are predominantly white and live in rural and suburban areas. While those in the 1990s were predominantly Black and brown and living in inner cities suffering from high crime rates. And in the case of distributors and manufacturers, they wear suits and work for large corporations. This is not to say that we do not welcome eliminating the use of words like “junkie” to describe people using drugs. Even as users have moved from painkillers to heroin and then fentanyl, a dangerously powerful opioid. The emphasis for users now – as it should have always been – is treating people suffering from a disease: addiction. Not as criminals locked up for long prison terms. This evolution of how drug users are treated makes a good case for that new bogeyman of the right REPORTERS Rose Weldon, Robert Pelaez

– critical race theory, a study of how American racism has shaped public policy and the law. Republican politicians have now twisted the term to justify efforts to avoid teaching the role of racism in U.S. history that accompanies the noble ideals that our flawed founders set forth. But it is hard to argue against the presence of racism in our drug laws. For instance, it wasn’t until 2010 that Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the sentencing disparities between crack cocaine and powdered cocaine. Under the old law, the distribution of 5 grams of crack carried a minimum 5-year prison sentence — the same as the distribution of 500 grams of powder cocaine. Guess who were the predominant users and distributors of crack cocaine and powder cocaine? A similar disparity can be seen in the use and distribution of marijuana where Blacks have been 10 times more likely to be prosecuted for possession than whites.

Despite many states, including New York, moving to legalize marijuana, there are an estimated 40,000 Americans incarcerated for marijuana oﬀenses. And millions more carry criminal convictions that prevent them from getting jobs. While marijuana may have both short- and long-term adverse side eﬀects, there is limited research as to whether using it can cause death. Compared to other drugs such as alcohol and tobacco, marijuana is far safer. Excessive alcohol use was responsible for more than 95,000 deaths in the United States in 2020, according to the CDC. In 2020, the total number of deaths attributed to marijuana overdoes was zero. It also turns out that heroin and fentanyl have replaced prescription pills containing opioids as the main causes of drug deaths. In other words, prescription drugs with opioids have been the gateway drugs to heroin and fentanyl. Not marijuana, as is often claimed. Continued on Page 35

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A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

The shocks keep on coming from Jan. 6

f you had told me on Jan. 6, 2021, that I would ever find anything more shocking than the events of that terrible day, I would not have believed you. But there is a new book out about that day and the surrounding events and I am finding that, indeed, there is more to the story — and worse — than I had already thought. The book is “I Alone Can Fix It,” using Donald Trump’s own 2016 campaign pitch for its title. It was researched and written by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, two Washington Post reporters whose previous book, “A Very Stable Genius,” became a No. 1 New York Times best seller upon its release in 2020. The writers’ reporting chops are formidable. Leonnig won a Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for reporting on security failures inside the Secret Service and is a three-time winner of the George Polk Award for investigative reporting. Rucker won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Polk Award in 2018 for his coverage

of Russian interference in the 2016 election and is currently White House Bureau Chief at the Washington Post. I have been reading excerpts from the team’s latest book and already my jaw has dug itself a permanent little divot into the desk where I sit and read. Perhaps the most stunning revelation — so far — was the extent to which our top military men from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staﬀ Mark Milley on down were so concerned that the election’s loser might precipitate a coup that they had many discussions and actually made plans in case it happened. They resolved that if push came to shove and they were given orders they felt they could not in good conscience obey, they would quit or else require the president to fire them. Nor would they quit en masse. They would go one by one — to slow down a rogue president. Milley’s discussions of various “what if” scenarios with other military insiders included everything from dealing with

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A Look on the Lighter Side rumored unrest at every state capitol to the possibility that Trump might refuse to leave the White House. Milley was especially alarmed by the prospect of Trump inciting enough violence in the streets to form a pretext for invoking martial law. That is why he made public a memorandum to all U.S. troops, signed by the chief of every branch of service, reminding them that their oath of loyalty had been sworn to the Constitution, not to anyone man.

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edgeable people in our government. Usually — back in Normal Times — you worried that the military of any given country would be the ones causing a coup. How often do you find the military leaders plotting to PREVENT one? That’s how far we were into Looking-Glass World with Mr. Trump. And maybe we still are. I am certainly breathing easier with Joseph R. Biden at the helm of our ship of state these days. But Mr. Trump appears to think he is a viable candidate to run for president in 2024; and whether he actually follows through with that or not, there are plenty of people — most of his party, in fact — who seem ready, able and willing to do whatever it takes to hand themselves an election “victory.” If that happens, we might have a truly stolen election next time — one from which not even the most gifted military men and women can save us. That is the most alarming thought of all.

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THE BACK ROAD

Death from COVID-19 becomes him

nvaccinated people now account for 99.7 percent of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. On June 29 the Associated Press reported that “nearly all COVID deaths in the U.S. are now among unvaccinated.” At the same time, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky stated that the eﬀectiveness of the vaccine is such that “nearly every death, especially among adults, due to COVID-19, is, at this point, entirely preventable.” Despite the stark reality reflected in these statements, the paradox that we continue to live with is that Donald Trump and his acolytes spend day and night discouraging use of the vaccines he credits himself with spearheading. His silence, which amounts to reckless endangerment, is the most potent force in proliferating

the spread of the most transmissible variant, known as Delta, to date. There is no point, here, in discrediting the countless myths circulating about the vaccine. The American Academy of Family Physicians COVID-19, for one, has done a good job of debunking a number of them including that vaccines were developed too fast with not enough clinical trial participants to be safe, vaccines will deliver a microchip into one’s body and the vaccines change your DNA. Someone is guilty of reckless endangerment when he or she exhibits depraved indiﬀerence to human life by recklessly engaging in conduct that creates a grave risk of death to another person. Nevertheless, it is highly unlikely that Trump will ever be charged and tried for negligent ho-

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micide in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Short of legal remedy, a higher power will be left to judge his depraved indifference. In the words of Elie Wiesel: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference . . . and, the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. Because of

indiﬀerence, one dies before one actually dies.” One five-minute PSA extolling the use of the very vaccines that he fast-tracked to record completion, is all it would take for the former president to save lives. Yet, the delusional crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, TX (July 9-11), where Trump was the headliner, cheered against COVID-19 vaccinations. “It’s horrifying,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to President Biden. “They’re cheering about someone saying that it’s a good thing for people not to try and save their lives.” The former president will never deliver such a life-saving message because there is nothing in it for him. He persists in believing that what he wishes or expects will aﬀect what really happens. That

is what renowned developmental psychologist Jean Piaget referred to as magical thinking, most befitting the cognitive functioning of a pre-pubescent child. When Donald Trump was sworn in as president, like Alice in Wonderland he disappeared down a rabbit hole to an imaginary place full of bizarre adventures. Perhaps Alice is his alter ego imagining, “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would.” Sadly, his fantasy is nonfiction and has become America’s nightmare. And, he will not so much as lift a finger to prevent his adoring lemmings, our fellow Americans, from jumping oﬀ the cliﬀ. No KoolAid is needed. Death becomes him.

E A R T H M AT T E R S

Now is time to plan for planting in the fall

n the heat of summer, garden work is mostly weeding and harvesting done as early as possible in the day. Planting is not a great idea as the high heat makes it hard for plants to establish. But planning for fall planting is a good activity when its too hot to work out in the yard. Fall, late September through October, is the best time for planting trees and shrubs. Cooler temperatures and reliable rains give plants plenty of time to start establishing roots before going dormant in the winter, generally around Thanksgiving. Take a walk around your yard. Observe where you have sun and shade, how long an area is in sun, is the shade dense or filtered? Places where nothing seems to be happy and why — dense tree roots, heavy shade, poor drainage? What is your soil type — sandy, loam, clay, acid or neutral? Knowing these answers will start to create a plant selection. Trying to get a plant that likes moist soil live in a former sand mine is only asking for trouble. Having killed a lot of poorly chosen plants early in my gardening career, I can vouch for how choosing for your sun and soil conditions will save a lot of grief. How many non-native invasive plants have taken root, like English Ivy, Barberry, Bamboo, Asian Wisteria, Japanese Honey-

suckle, Burning Bush, Privet, and Norway Maple to name a few. Do you have native plants that are evolved in our ecosystem to support birds and wildlife? Do you need to create some privacy or lower maintenance? Ready to reduce your lawn? The place to start is with the structure and backbone of the garden, trees and shrubs, and begin to create the layers of plants found in nature, from canopy to understory to ground covers. Each layer provides beauty and ecological services — habitat and food for birds and wildlife our homes have displaced. The idea is to have something blooming or fruiting or providing shelter for the entire year. If you are lucky enough to have a mature shade tree – an oak, beech, hickory, tulip, native maple – that is your canopy. The saying that you “plant an oak for your grandchildren” is true. Unless you have buckets of money and can aﬀord to have an estate size tree planted, those trees will not mature in your lifetime. But do plant those trees, even if you won’t benefit, because future generations will thank you. There are understory trees that will supply shade, flowers, fruit and fall color while not demanding a lot of space or taking decades to grow. My favorite is Amelanchier, aka Juneberry, Shadblow, Service berry and a

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few other common names. It’s a small tree or large multi-stemmed shrub with an open habit and light shade. It has white flowers in May, delicious blueberry like fruit in June and golden fall foliage. Our native dogwood, Cornus Florida evolved as an understory tree, but because of blight that aﬀects it in areas with poor air circulation, it now does best in full sun and good ventilation. It has lovely white flowers followed by a red fruit loved by birds. There are plenty of native shrubs to choose from. Hollies (Ilex) need male and female for fruit and that is often the fruit that will last into winter as it requires freeze and thaw to be palatable for birds. American Holly (I. opaca) can grow into a sizable tree (40-50’ high and 20-40’ wide) but can be pruned to remain smaller

or work as a hedge. It was once the basis of mature woodlands on Long Island along with Oak, Beech, Tulip and Chestnut. Inkberry (I. glabra) and Winterberry (I. verticillata) are smaller shrubs offering berries. The Viburnum family offers a large number of natives with flowers and fruit; Arrowwood (V. dentatum), Nannyberry (V. lentago), Black Haw (V. prunifolium), Highbush Cranberry (V. trilobum). One important caveat for planting trees and shrubs. When you select a spot for that innocent looking little 2’ tall shrub, believe the information that tells you it will be 6’ across and 8’ high at maturity. Don’t over plant. It may take some time for the plants to fill in but it will save you a lot of work down the road, or even having to remove overcrowded bushes. If you want a planting to cover your house foundation, plant 4’ to 5’ away from the house, so they can be accessed and pruned from behind and kept off the siding. Do not plant any tree within 15’ of your house, and the larger the tree the farther away it should be situated. If you are ready to remove invasives, add natives and create a habitat and enjoyable outdoor space, but this sounds overwhelming, there is help. I suggest joining the Long Island Native Plant Gardening Group on Facebook.

North Shore Audubon has a yard certification program and will oﬀer advice on what to remove and what to add ( northshoreaudubon.org/use-nativeplants/ ). Many groups will be having native plant sales this fall. If you want to work with a designer or landscaper, make sure it is one who specializes in natives. There are online plant lists that will give you options. Long Island Native Plant Initiative www.linpi.org/ native-plant-fact-sheets/, Cooperative Extensions https://blogs. cornell.edu/ccesuffolkligardening/category/native-plants/ , Audubon Native Plant Initiative www.audubon.org/native-plants To get ideas and see how the plants work together, there are many public gardens to visit. Garvies Point Museum in Glen Cove has a bird garden and butterfly garden. Planting Fields has a bird-friendly garden. The Roslyn Art Museum has native plantings around the Manes Education Center. There is a small garden across the street from the Bayville Library. Clark Botanic Garden has a butterfly garden. You don’t have to rip out all the non-native plants in your yard, but replacing a highly invasive species like Burning Bush (Euonymus Alatus, now a prohibited species in NY), with a native shrub is a great start to improving your habitat.

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VIEW POINT

Biden deserves high praise for economy

ipartisanship? Bah. Humbug. Grim Reaper Mitch McConnell and the Congressional Republicans have declared unabashedly their sole priority is to sow chaos and obstruct any progress for the American people for the next 18 months when they fully well expect, through voter suppression, gerrymandering, control of election process, to take back both the House and Senate, effectively ending Biden’s presidency, and ultimately stealing the White House in 2024. Imagine for a moment if the Republicans were in charge now. Americans would still be dying by the tens of thousands from COVID because Republicans would never have passed the American Rescue Plan (not a single one voted for it, though now they tout the benefits for their constituents).

There would not even be any discussion of any voting rights protections as Republican-dominated states passed hundreds of voter suppression laws or any accountability for Trump’s attempted coup. There would be no plan to “Build Back Better,” taking steps to mitigate and reverse the ravages of climate change and global warming, while building an economy for the 21st century in which all Americans benefit. There would not be any discussion to address surging gun violence, even though guns, which flew oﬀ shelves in record numbers in 2020, are killing at record rates. Criminal justice and police reform? Are you kidding? Health care? Instead of reopening enrollment in Obamacare, as Biden did on his first day, the Republicans would have sat

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back as tens of thousands sickened with COVID, losing their jobs and their health care, suffered and went bankrupt. Instead of an economy that is roaring back – to the extent workers are actually getting decades-overdue wage increases and can even be selective about which job to accept – with Republicans in charge you would

have people still afraid to leave their houses – if they have houses still to live in because the Republicans would have made sure there were no protections against eviction. Instead, travel – the leading indicator of robust consumer sentiment – is surging. As is consumer confidence. The whole strategy of Republicans is to sow fear, insecurity and chaos. You would think this would be enough to propel Democrats to even larger victories in the 2022 midterms. But voters’ memory is selective, even shortlived and all-too-easily subject to revisionism. While telling Kentucky voters that they will get a ton of money – $4 billion from the federal government – which he boasted he did not vote for and would do everything possible to block infrastructure spending,

too, so they won’t be getting any more money. “My advice is to spend it wisely because hopefully, this windfall doesn’t come along again.” Somehow, this is supposed to be a winning argument. “But Republicans know they don’t actually have to have a “winning argument” or even deliver any progress to their voters. They know they have all the mechanisms and tools and cogs to put into the election machinery, plus voter amnesia. They are depending upon the extraordinary gullibility – plainly on view with the masticization of the Big Lie – and eagerness to embrace hate and fear to excuse their own violent inclinations. Obama made a mistake during his term in showing way too much sympathy for people’s suﬀering so failed to blow his Continued on Page 28

OUR TOWN

The facts about focus in succeeding

nyone with ambition wil need focus. When a 50-year-old Phil Mickelson won this year’s PGA Championship at Kiawah Island, the win was attributed to his newly acquired ability to focus. He would take a deep breath and stare intently at his target, then approach the ball and let it rip. There was no doubt that he had recently been trained in some focusing methodology based upon Buddhist meditation famously employed by Tiger Woods. But alas, in his next major, Mr. Mickelson lost that magical focus and before you knew it he missed another cut. So long and farewell, Mr. Phil. I consider focus as part of the three big hurdles in sports along with anxiety and anger. Poor focus, poor anxiety management and uncontrolled anger all must be managed to reach full potential and get to the winner’s circle. And make no mistake, focus control is every bit as complex as anxiety and anger control and no amount of Zen meditation is going to change that fact. Focus is the ability to stay on task for an extended period. That takes a surprising amount of energy. It will take me at least two hours to write this 900-word essay as a good example. If I cannot focus for more than 5 minutes, that two hours may turn into two days. One reason the term café writing exists is because cafes provide

coffee, background noise and pastries, all of which enhance the ability to focus by energizing the writer. To play a good round of golf you need to focus for at least four hours. To play a good PGA tournament you need to focus for a full four days. And that, my friend, is a lot of focus. Many things get in the way of focus, including fatigue, lack of sleep, distractions produced by other people, boredom, side effects of drugs like marijuana, CBD oil or alcohol or medication side effects from anti-depressants or tranquilizers. The lack of fans at most professional sporting events has hurt many pros enormously. The pro is used to the eyes and the applause of the fans and this helps them focus a great deal. There are also underlying less obvious blocks to focus as well. Many learning disabilities are caused by early childhood experiences of family secrets, incest or parental jealousy of the gifted child. If the child senses family secrets of any kind, they will learn to screen out reality and this means weak focus. If a gifted child makes the parents jealous, the child will dumb down their ability to focus. And incest or any form of trauma means that the child’s defenses become shattered, and they will lose the ability to focus. Another reason people lose fo-

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cus is that unconsciously they feel they do not deserve to win. If one has low self-image, this will almost always prompt a person to avoid success by losing focus at the end. If one internally feels weak, the person will fear pressure which they will not be able to cope with. Focus becomes a problem when a person has a fear of failure. They understand that the higher they go up, the harder they may fall. They feel a big loss with shatter them. I call this the Humpty Dumpty Syndrome where “all the King’s horses and all King’s men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again.” So what things may help focus for the athlete, the businessperson or anyone else?1) There is truth in this old saying that “nothing succeeds like success.” What it means

is that success builds upon itself. Try to observe your success at the beginning of any quest and use this to build momentum. In golf, when you get a few lucky bounces, these can produce momentum so dwell upon your good fortune and embrace it rather than ignore it. Take it as a sign that this is your day. 2) Be like Tiger Woods, who posted his dream on his bedroom wall and looked at it every night. This means that you need to keep your dream in your awareness by having an image of it that you see each day. 3) Have a support team: Every top athlete I work with has a large team of experts around him who keep him on task and who guide and encourage him. Tiger Woods was really the first to do this in golf, but all top athletes have a team they trust. Mike Tyson had Cus D’Amato and it was only when Cus died that Tyson began to have big trouble. No man is an island and that is especially true if you want to achieve your dream. You may recall that Dante only made it to heaven with the guidance of Virgil and the inspiration of Beatrice. 4) And just like in “The Divine Comedy” the hell and the pain of your unconscious must also be faced if you want to get to the heavenly place of your big dream. As the saying goes, “you may be through with the past but the past

ain’t through with you.” This means that any underlying issue of shame, low image, past family secrets or traumas must be faced before you are free of them. And this takes us into the cumbersome mention of the psychoanalytic couch but who wants to talk about that. People are reluctant to talk of past pain and bad memories, but as Freud famously told the world many years ago, the pain of the unconscious must be dealt with for the cure to be achieved. Focus, anxiety and anger are the three handmaidens to success. All three must be harnessed if you are to embrace your dream. And no amount of marijuana, tranquilizer or deep breathing exercises are going to do much good until you discover the source of all these sticky problems.

Whether you’re a polo player or a regular person, you will need to manage your focus if you are to win.

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READERS WRITE

Trump supporters Whitman for post-Covid world empower Putin W

t’s well past time for a serious conversation. Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 election, fair and square, by any serious, factbased examination. Period. All of you MAGA cowboys who think otherwise are being seriously punked by Vladimir Putin, whose agents are constantly stirring the disinformation stewpot on Facebook and Twitter. Keep retweeting your nonsense—you are doing his bidding. His major triumph is the dissension and disinformation-inspired paralysis we find our political system in. It’s the most vile and despicable elements of the fascist Trumplican

personality cult who view Putin as the savior of “white Euro-Christian civilization.” He is glad to accommodate. Elements of what used to be the Republican Party and even the Conservative movement (with the emphasis on the con) in their lust for power do his bidding while laughing up their sleeves at the third-rate power if-not-for-nukes framework in which they choose to dismiss him while his poison serves their perceived ends. They are naïve. We are all at risk. Eric Cashdan Sands Point

Legacy

or season after season summer parched its stubble of earth and stone. The shepherd remembers the joy rising up between the silence shining hills, all the immeasurable intervals. You keep looking. The long welcoming valley below the old walls, the village laid out before the sun sets, the olive groves glittering in the distance— yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The goats that follow and come with the sweep of the hand whistling the herd filing through the narrow gaps of stone. The walls of home still sharing the sun’s warmth, every beginning turning to amber at day’s end. The world launching into nightfall bathed in starlight. The cypress reaching for the sky and moon above the time worn path as Van Gogh saw them, that’s part of the joy too. All the treasures laid bare in the light. Stephen Cipot Garden City Park

Peloponnese Mountain Path by Dennis Comis

hile worrying every minute about when and whether to take oﬀ masks, we can learn something from Long Island’s own Walt Whitman. HOW SOLEMN AS ONE BY ONE (Washington City, 1865.) “How solemn as one by one, As the ranks returning worn and sweaty, as the men file by whereI stand,As the faces the masks appear, as I glance at the faces studying themasks,(As I glance upward out of this page studying you, dear friend,whoever you are,) How solemn the thought of my whispering soul to each in theranks, and to you,I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul, O the bullet could never kill what you really are, dear friend, Nor the bayonet stab what you really are; The soul! yourself I see, great as any, good as the best,Waiting secure and content, which the bullet could never kill,Nor the bayonet stab O friend.” Whitman watched troops drag themselves into Washington after the long Civil War. He saw their faces and knew that they were masks to cover the pain and uncertainty inside. He saw other

people “studying” those masks themselves, perhaps imagining the horrors. His reaction was compassion. In recent years, soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have familiarized the broad characteristics of PTSD. Survivors of sexual assault and domestic abuse have done the same. We know of the anxiety, the inability to feel safe long after the dangers have passed, the lurking fears that pool in the recesses of irrationality. In recent months, we’ve all come to know this kind of anxiety as we come out from under the shadow of COVID, If I’m fully vaccinated, when

should I wear a mask? Does wearing one do more harm than good? Should I wear it when outdoors in public? Maybe just when on a narrow sidewalk? And what about inside? If I go to a restaurant, should I wear a mask as I walk to the table and then take it off once I sit down? What if the people at the next table aren’t vaccinated? What would they think if they see me take my mask off? Would they assume I’m vaccinated? Would they wonder if I’m not? What does it say about me that I’m wondering the same of them? Should the schools be masked? Should trains? Grocery stores? How does the Delta surge affect any of this? Nobody can be blamed for these doubts. We’ve spent a year and a half terrified of our neighbors. Up until March 2020 a sneeze would invariably be met with an automatic “Bless you,” a sign of fellowship and kindness. Since March 2020 a sneeze has met nothing but silence and tremors of dread. Continued on Page 31

Unhelpful editorial on antisemitism

he editorial, “Definition of antisemitism should just be a start,” is a disservice to the fight against antisemitism and bigotry and hatred in all forms. It is important for governments to respond effectively to the “alarming rise in antisemitism.” But the ability to “effectively respond” is greatly undermined when governments are encouraged to focus on antisemitism only if they focus at the same time on a “response to racism and bigotry directed at other groups.” That the government should only fight antisemitism if it simultaneously fights all forms of hatred and bigotry is absurd. This is like saying that one cannot cure a cancer unless they simultaneously cure diabetes. Both are important to fight, but to fight effectively it is essential that we understand that they have different pathologies requiring different solutions. You would not advocate to any oppressed group that they need to include all other oppressions in their fight. Why for the Jews then, especially knowing that Jews and Israel are often portrayed as the oppressor and excluded from the

modern-day fight against oppression? The starting point to fighting any disease, be it physiological or societal, is identifying and defining it. This is the purpose of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism, which does not quell legitimate criticism of Israel. Critics of the IHRA definition have yet to propose an alternative that would be both eﬀective and widely adopted. This makes one wonder whether the critics are really interested in fighting antisemitism or just asking Jews to get in line behind other oppressed groups before getting the necessary governmental resources. Sadly, this is what the editorial suggests, and, in doing so, includes inaccuracies. “The danger posed by those on the left is dwarfed by the opponents on the right” is simply not factually true. When you cite only examples of the right-wing extremism and avoid any mention of left or religious-based violence against Jews, it makes it seem that the issue is predominantly from the right. We need to be swivel-headed and call out the antisemitism firm-

ly on the left, right and religious extremists. Those who call it out only when on the other side of the aisle are not fighting antisemitism but rather weaponizing antisemitism against the other party. This needs to stop. If you just want to bash the Jews or use the Jews to bash the other party, then know that you are just making it much harder to eﬀectively fight antisemitism. If that is the case, then just be honest about it. Don’t pretend you care about antisemitism when your words and actions evince a disinterest or disdain for this fight. Lastly, the dangerous trope accusing Jewish people (today via Israel) of committing “ethnic cleansing” is antisemitism. The answer is not, as the editorial suggests, incarcerating for three years those who display a swastika. Rather the answer for fighting non-violent antisemitism should be education and dialogue. Arnie Herz President American Jewish Committee Long Island Region Letters Continued on Page 31

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YOUR GUIDE TO THE ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND DINING

DRAGON BOAT RACES RETURN TO FLUSHING To celebrate the Year of the Ox and NYC’s Summer of Recovery, the 2021 Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York will return to Queens on Saturday, Aug. 7. Due to the Covid pandemic, HKDBFNY did not take place in 2020, but organizers plan to re-start the 30-year tradition with a scaled-down, one-day event while following all current New York State safety protocols in 2021. HKDBFNY, whose sponsors include HSBC, will feature invitational races at Flushing Meadows Corona Park’s Meadow Lake. The colorful contestant boats will have a dragon head at the front and dragon tail at the rear. Crew members — paddlers, a drummer, and a steering person – will power them through the water. On the nearby shore, a stage will host a cultural program with live music by the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York, martial arts by New York Shaolin Temple, and tales by professional storyteller Jonathan Kruk. As this is New York State’s largest multi-cultural festival, the fun will include a Caribbean steel drum performance from the CASYM Steel Orchestra and other non-Asian presentations. At other spots, sponsors and community-based organizations will staﬀ booths to provide giveaways and interact with the public. (Food trucks will operate in lieu of the traditional international food court to respect safety norms.)

Admission is free, and activities will proceed from 9 am to 4 pm, rain or shine. (An opening ceremony is set for noon.) Only fully vaccinated attendees/racers – or those with proof of a negative Covid test within 72 hours of the event – will be admitted. A vaccine team will be on hand to administer Covid shots to those who wish them. Plus, Northwell Health will provide information related to Covid

recovery and other health issues. “We feel it is very important for HKDBFNY to have an event this year focusing on three major issues: vaccination/public health safety; HKDBFNY’s contribution to the reopening of the NYC economy; and bringing a focus to the anti-Asian plus other hate crime issue,” stated HKDBFNY Board Chairman Henry Wan. “We look forward to hosting a fully vaccinated

audience this year.” The Dragon Boat tradition dates back to a tale about idealistic poet and performer Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in the third century BC to protest his emperor’s policies. As he languished in the water, locals go in their boats in an attempt to rescue him. They had to beat drums and splash paddles to scare away dragons and other animals, according to legend. HKDBFNY attendees are

advised to take the 7 Train to the Mets-Willets Point station and transfer from there to special MTA shuttle buses that will go directly to the Meadow Lake area and back. Downloadable photos are available at www.hkdbf-ny. org, which is designed and maintained by Fusia Communications. For more information, try 914.299.0837 and DAAssociatesPR@gmail.com

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Come get creative at CreARTive kids event The Art Guild of Port Washington invites families to our annual summer event, CreARTive on Saturday, Aug. 7, from 1-4 PM. Our home at Nassau County’s Elderfields Preserve will feature free art-related activities such as tie-dying, simple printmaking, painting, clay hand-building, and more. This is a great way for parents to meet our instructors and familiarize themselves with The Art Guild. The projects will be geared for ages 5 through 12. This year’s event is sponsored, in part, by a grant from the New

York State Arts Council. Our art classes for kids are equally fun and educational. Our teachers are exceptional professionals who generate a variety of projects every week, all year long. We would like to use this opportunity to connect with the community and share our love for art. This fall, we are oﬀering kids classes, including Art Explorations and Painting & Drawing. Art Explorations with Mr. Manny is geared for grades K-4 and runs weekly from September 21- October 26. This class covers a variety of mediums for

children to experiment and grow their skills. Painting & Drawing with Mr. Manny is geared for grades 5+ and runs weekly from September 23-October 28. This class focuses on the essential and rudimentary skills needed to thrive in painting and drawing. Summer Camp is in session! The Art Guild is offering weekly summer camps for kids and teens in a flexible space under an outdoor tent on our beautiful nature preserve. Smaller groups ensure a great experience! In the remaining weeks of the summer, we are offering a 3-D Work & Sculpture Summer Camp with award-winning artist, Mr. Marc Isaacs. This class teaches kids and teens how to create large-scale works with clay, cardboard, wood, and much more. Visit www.theartguild.org/summercamp to learn more and register. We are offering many adult classes including — Keys to the Expressive, Life-like Portrait with Rob Silverman: Wednesdays 1-4PM— Oil Painting with Howard Rose: Mondays 10 AM-12:30 PM— Abstract Watercolor with Esther Marie: Mondays 1-3 PM (Online)— Watercolor with Denis Ponsot: Tuesdays

7-9:30 PM (Online) And don’t miss out on our upcoming workshops, including — Revamped Vinyl with Zoe Lefkowitz: August 6— Acknowledging the Negative with Lorraine Rimmelin: August 12— Acrylic Paint Pour with Ellen Manner: August 26— Art of the Mark Hans Hofmann with Laura Shabbott and Alana Barrett: September 17— Flower Arranging for Still Life with Ilene Silberstein: September 19 Visit our website at www.theartguild.org to learn more about all we have to oﬀer! About The Art Guild: The Art Guild oﬀers classes and workshops for children and adults yearround. The Art Guild was voted Best Art School the past three years, and Best Art Gallery the past four years in Blank Slate Media’s annual competition. The Art Guild of Port Washington, Inc. is conveniently located at Elderfields Preserve, 200 Port Washington Blvd., Manhasset, New York. The Art Guild is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization providing encouragement, education and a forum for the appreciation of the visual arts.

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Freshen up warm weather cuisine

Dining trends that will hang around after the pandemic has ended The restaurant industry is slowly getting back to normal after a very rough year that saw more 110,000 eateries temporarily or permanently close their doors. Thanks to rising vaccination rates and other factors, including assurances from public health officials regarding the safety of dining out, consumers are once again comfortable with the idea of going to restaurants. As restaurants begin catering to larger crowds, it’s expected that certain changes implemented in 2020 are bound to become permanent or, at the very least, stick around for a little while longer. · Reservations will be necessary. Many restaurants, even those that did not require reservations prior to the pandemic, may continue to encourage them. Not only will reservations give them greater control over the volume of patrons they host, but they also afford staff ample time to clean and disinfect tables and other surfaces. · Outdoor dining will still be available. Outdoor dining filled an important need and presented restaurants with an avenue to generate revenue when indoor dining was restricted or prohibited. A May 2021 Morning Consult survey found that diners prefer outdoor dining to indoor dining. With that in mind, restaurants likely will still set aside outdoor areas for diners to eat comfortably, particularly those who were successful in creating attractive and comfortable al fresco offerings.

· More restaurants will offer takeout options. Even though on-premise dining had started to catch up to takeout orders for many restaurants by the spring of 2021, takeout figures to stick around to satisfy safetyminded customers who still desire curbside convenience. · Expect increased sanitation technology. Restaurants may continue to make upgrades with safety and sanitation in mind. In addition to touchless sink features, self-flushing toilets and minimal touch or touchless payment methods, businesses may implement UVC light air purification systems and upgrades in HVAC filtration. Barriers that were effective in preventing the spread of disease may remain in place to continue to protect workers and patrons from any type of airborne illness. · Loyalty programs will grow in popularity. Many organizations have implemented loyalty programs to track how often consumers patronize a business and to offer discounts and other deals for repeat customers. Restaurants may increasingly roll out loyalty programs that allow diners to earn points for each meal and reward repeat business through emailed coupons or free items. Dining out is gaining steam as customers increasingly feel confident and comfortable enjoying meals away from home.

When the weather is warm, many people are inspired to expand their culinary horizons and look for foods that are light, fresh and satisfying. Although warm-weather cooking may call to mind backyard barbecues, there is much more to seasonal dining than charbroiled frankfurters and beef patties. Taking a fresh approach to cooking can yield a number of new and innovative meals. Cool down When the temperature is high, few people want to fill their stomachs with heavy, hot foods. Instead of cooking up a batch of stew, reinvent recipes for a warm-weather spin. For example, experiment with chilled soups. Borscht is a beetbased soup of Eastern European origin that is very often served cold. Other vegetables or fruits can be pureed and served as a cold summer soup. Gazpacho, a Spanish tomato-based soup, is the most widely known cold soup. However, cucumber- and avocadobased soups and creamed vegetable soups also can be enjoyed chilled. Embrace salads While salads may be relegated to side dishes for most of the year, they tend to take center stage when the weather is warm. The addition of fresh berries, grapes or raisins can lend a different flavor to salads. Think about topping salads with grilled fish or chicken to add more substance to salads serving as entire meals. Rather than using heavy dressings that may end up covering the delicate flavors of lettuce leaves and other greens, use vinaigrettes made from citrus fruits to add both sweetness and tartness to dishes.

Savory sandwiches Who says sandwiches are only for lunch? When the weather is warm and families are busy hurrying here and there, sandwiches make for fast and portable meals. Grilled vegetables paired with grilled mushrooms can make hearty, satisfying sandwiches that are relatively low in calories. Previously grilled chicken can be shredded and turned into chicken salad when mixed with Greek yogurt and apple cider vinegar. Even standard cold cuts can be given a new twist when turned into cold-style reubens by being topped with cole-slaw or chilled sauerkraut on gourmet slices of herbed bread. Pastas and casseroles Much as warm-weather soups can be served cool, so can pastas and casseroles. Pasta is a versatile food that can be paired with traditional salad ingredients or mixed with vegetables or dressings to make a variety of different dishes. Baked casseroles can be served at room temperature for pot-luck meals in the yard or brought along when visiting friends and family. Chunks of mushrooms, summer squash, eggplant and garlic can be sauteed and baked together to make a hearty and flavorful vegetable casserole. Seafood Lobster, shrimp and clams can be harvested from the coast and then cooked on the grill or over an open fire. For those who want chilled seafood, opt for shrimp cocktail or head out for a sushi and sashimi meal at a local restaurant. Warm-weather dining means exploring different flavor options to find lighter fare.

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Quench your guests’ thirst with this healthy concoction

ew foods are as synonymous with a particular season as watermelon is with summer. For many people, a backyard barbecue or picnic in the park is not complete without a refreshing slice of fresh watermelon. But while watermelon is most often associated with dessert at warm weather soirees, this beloved fruit is much more versatile than that. For example, watermelon can be used to make a refreshing beverage for guests of your next outdoor gettogether. Easy to prepare and ideal on warm afternoons and evenings, the following recipe for “Pressed Watermelon With Basil Water” from Brian Peterson-Campbell’s “Cool Waters: 50 Refreshing, Healthy, Homemade Thirst Quenchers” (Harvard Common Press) is sure to cool down your guests.

Pressed Watermelon With Basil Water Makes 6 servings 4 cups watermelon 6 to 8 large basil leaves 1/4 teaspoon white wine vinegar 4 cups chilled still water Pinch of sea salt 1. Combine the watermelon chunks and basil in a colander placed over a large bowl. Using a metal ladle or spoon, press the watermelon to extract as much juice as possible (the remaining pulp should be fairly dry). 2. Season the juice with the sea salt and vinegar and strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a large pitcher. Add the water, stir and serve.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in the

Willistons

405 Congress Avenue, East Williston

11 Lee Avenue, East Williston

5 bd, 4 ba, Sold on: 2/26/21, Sold Price: $1,600,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: East Williston

4 bd, 3 ba, Sold On: 3/24/21, Sold Price: $827,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: East Williston

113 Hampton Avenue, Albertson

107 Lynton Road, Albertson

3 bd, 3 ba, Sold On: 5/14/21, Sold Price: $747,5000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

4 bd, 1 ba, Sold On: 5/11/21, Sold Price: $495,000 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. Park to hold hearing on marijuana Continued from Page 1 Project, a nationwide advocacy organization for marijuana legalization. “A lot of municipalities are trying

to figure out what’s best for their communities,” Ward said. “But essentially all they’re doing is shutting down their towns with the revenue.”

Ward referred to the potential of a 4 percent local tax as a revenue generator for governments. That extra income can be applied to civic engagement, with

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Williston Park’s Board of Trustees heard from members of the public at a meeting last June. Monday’s meeting will be held at village hall.

one municipality in Colorado even using it for funding school construction, Ward said. “They’re closing oﬀ their borders to cannabis businesses, and essentially just closing oﬀ their municipalities to the revenue that could be generated,” Ward said. And though state legislation gives neighborhoods a choice of participating in the marijuana market, Ward says there’s no sign of it muting the size of the industry statewide. “I don’t think these individual optouts are going to have much of a damper on the industry,” Ward said. “It didn’t stop Colorado as a state from having a robust cannabis market.” “Typically, these smaller municipalities opt-out, and then some of the larger population centers permit it,” Ward said. “Maybe Westbury and Nassau County may opt-out, folks are still going to be a short drive away from Queens or Manhattan or Brooklyn.” “The reality is folks are already consuming this product, there is demand for this product, and folks will be a short drive from it no matter where they’re located in Long Island,” Ward said.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

WILLIAM J ALLSBROOK Jr.

“William “William, liam you were always my hero hero. I wanted to be just like you, but I didn't play football or basketball like 'The Will', just didn't have your touch. I enjoyed watching you and was always proud to be your brother. Never does a day go by that I do not think of you. What would it be like to be able to call you. I have told my daughters about you letting me drive Mom and Dad’s new car around Tarboro although I was only 14 years old. October 2, 1970, Daddy’s birthday and the day that changed my life. You were my hero before Nam and you are still and one day I hope to walk with you again. I Love you. Mike”

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Herricks alum to pitch for Israel’s team Continued from Page 1 “There’s no words to describe the feeling — it still hasn’t hit me yet,” Katz said. “I’m excited for the opening ceremonies and our first game, which will be against Korea.” A Manhasset native, Katz graduated from Herricks in 2012. During his time with the Highlanders, Katz was secondteam All-Island and first-team All-County and was named the Most Valuable Player of the Nassau County Exceptional Senior Game. Some notable performances Katz had at Herricks as a pitcher included games with 15 and 16 strikeouts against top competitors. After high school, he received an offer to play in the Cincinnati Reds organization but declined so he could attend college at St. John’s University. His junior year with the Red Storm proved to be the one that would pave the way for future success. Katz went 3-1 with a 3.40 ERA in 19 mound appearances with 52 strikeouts in 55.2 innings. That same year, Katz and the Red Storm won the Big East baseball championship and secured a berth in the College World Series. In 2015, Katz was selected by the

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Herricks High School alum Alex Katz will play for Team Israel in the upcoming Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Chicago White Sox organization in the 27th round of the MLB Draft. Katz, in a 2015 interview with Blank Slate Media, recalled the days leading up to being selected and what his family’s reaction was like once the pick was made. “I was actually watching all three

days [of the draft] in my house and during the one minute that I walked away my name was called,” Katz said. “On the computer, they announce the names live. I heard my parents screaming with excitement and I saw about 10 seconds later my name popped up on the phone.”

Since being drafted by the White Sox six years ago, Katz has moved around various organizations, playing in the farm systems of the Baltimore Orioles, Kansas City Royals, and the Chicago Cubs. In 2019, Katz returned home and played with the Long Island Ducks in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. Former major leaguers Ian Kinsler and Danny Valencia, who are currently in Long Island playing for the Ducks will be two of Katz’s teammates on Team Israel. Kinsler was a four-time All-Star, two-time Gold Glove recipient, and a 2018 World Series winner with the Boston Red Sox. Katz has also played for an Israeli national team before after starting oﬀ 4-0 in the 2017 World Baseball Classic. That year’s Israeli team, ranked outside of the top 40 teams throughout the world, defeated third-ranked South Korea and fourth-ranked Chinese Taipei. That team was referenced as one of the largest underdogs in international tournament play. This year’s Tokyo Olympics, originally scheduled for last year but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, will begin next week, with the baseball tournament kicking oﬀ on July 28 in Fukushima, Japan.

Weinstein remembered as visionary, friend Continued from Page 2 “Notice that I refer to him as judge,” Feinberg said. “One time I greeted him as Jack and I immediately received the infamous Weinstein glare.” “I also visited his chambers about 10 years ago without wearing a tie – a big mistake,” Feinberg said. “But the glare was always accompanied by a dose of

love so overwhelming it just didn’t matter.” Unlike Feinberg, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli always called him Jack and never received a glare though he admitted to not being able to keep pace with the Brooklynite’s 6 a.m. gym schedule. “I go there the first time and who do

I see on the stationary bike reading The New York Times but Jack Weinstein,” DiNapoli said. “There was always a part of us that always felt Jack Weinstein was going to go on forever in a physical sense,” DiNapoli said. “And we know that’s not possible. But certainly, the example of his life, the impact that his life has had

on so many in so many diﬀerent ways, this truly is an example of someone whose life and whose spirit will indeed go on forever.” “Jack’s legal decisions made our world a better place,” said Sanford Weill, former chief executive oﬃcer and chairman of Citigroup. “God bless you, Jack, and thank you for being my friend.”

An uptick in COVID-19 cases in Nassau Continued from Page 4 The highest vaccination rate, of 83.6 percent, also is featured along the Great Neck peninsula, with the 11020 zip code, consisting primarily of the Village of Lake Success and University Gardens. Some

of this zip code is also made up of Great Neck South Middle and High School, North Shore Hebrew Academy, and the Fresh Meadow Country Club. The statistics also show vaccination rates of 81.3 percent in Roslyn, 80.6 per-

cent in Albertson, 79.2 percent in New Hyde Park’s 11040 zip code, 77.2 percent in Williston Park, 76.7 percent in Port Washington, 75.9 percent in Mineola, 75.7 percent in Great Neck’s 11021 zip code, 75.3 percent in Roslyn Heights, 72.3 percent in

Manhasset, and 69.3 percent in Floral Park. In total, the 13 North Shore zip codes average a 70.1-percent vaccination rate. Without the 20.8-percent figure in the 11042 zip code, the average increases to 74.2 percent.

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vents reported in the recent news story, “Wheatley grad’s speech met with backlash from administrators, parents” (June 24, 2021), raise important questions about freedom of expression in our schools and society. Once again some school administrators and parents have decided that a student can speak freely, but only if some vocal members of her audience aren’t oﬀended! In this case, Huda Ayaz, was one of three honor students chosen to give graduation speeches at Wheatley High School in Williston, L.I. I’d remind these administrators and parents that the U.S. Supreme Court in Tinker vs. Des Moines ruled that “students do not shed their constitutional rights to free speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate.” https://www.uscourts.gov/ educational-resources/educationalactivities/facts-and-case-summarytinker-v-des-moines Nevertheless, the principal felt he needed to “apologize that such a wonderful ceremony became marred for many people in attendance due to those remarks.” And, he added, “We will take what happened today and strive to make further sure our students understand the lessons we seek to teach above regarding time, place openness and appropriateness.” Huda Ayaz called on her class to “speak for those who don’t have a voice and stand up for any injustice you see.” She added, “Educate yourself about international dilemmas, including the ethnic cleansings

of Palestinians and Uighur Muslims. Families are continuously torn apart, and real human lives are being lost but ignored.” Those were the words the principal believed required his apology, three sentences of a six-minute speech entitled “Speak” that oﬀended some in the audience.I’m certain everyone in attendance would agree we should speak for the voiceless and call out injustice; however, this student had the temerity to speak of the decades-long removal, displacement and illegal treatment of Palestinians and Uighurs. And when did speaking for any of the voiceless or calling out any injustice become controversial? Clearly some in the audience only approve of speaking out for some of the voiceless, but not for others. What hypocrisy! Moreover, to some of these parents, Huda Ayaz’s comments were fighting words. How else to explain catcalls of “go back to Pakistan” or that an incensed, oﬀended parent yelled, made gestures and had to be escorted out? And, according to reports, some even confronted the student after the ceremony. What were these parents thinking? Perhaps when they’ve cooled down, they might consider that how we adults behave toward others, especially those with whose views we disagree or even despise, teaches our children how they should treat others. The actions of these “adults” speak louder than all the oft-cited moral virtues that all humans deserve freedom, dignity, fairness, kindness and respect—the noble

values we say we espouse. Which begs the question: What values do these parents want to instill in their children and what are their actions teaching them? I’ve since read that the principal later asserted that he believes a student has a right to say uncomfortable, unpopular words; nonetheless, the school superintendent avers that she and the principal were “in conversation regarding the necessary steps that must be taken to prevent such an upsetting occurrence ever happening again.” It is clear these administrators yielded to pressure and played it safe rather than defending the student’s right to speak what to some were unpopular words. They and others like them say they want students who question and think critically, but their words are only hollow, mouthed platitudes if when someone deviates from the safe and expected and makes some uncomfortable, they cave when the pressure is on to ignorant slurs and invective. What a mockery of education and freedom! When Huda Ayaz asked her classmates to speak out and said “to many silence is safety,” she might have been speaking of these school administrators and some parents who find politically challenging, if uncomfortable speech unacceptable. Joe Attamante Former teacher, member of Jewish Voice for Peace Morristown, N.J.

Walt Whitman for a post-COVID world Continued from Page 16 Whitman knew this. He writes that “I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul,” a commitment to seeing through the surface to discover “that wonder” of common humanity. He was watching soldiers trying to re-enter society after deep trauma. He knew to deal respectfully and patiently and to lead with

generosity of soul. Those soldiers filing back into the city knew to put on a mask, to cinch up their individual torments for the greater good of society. Soldiers have struggled with this since the first wars of human history. In many ways it’s the hardest battle any soldier can face. But the social contract has always been about wrestling your personal demons into submis-

sion. It’s what we have to do, like soldiers putting on a mask or ordinary citizens taking them oﬀ. Either way the process needs generosity. We always need to look beyond the mask to seek the kindred soul. Douglas Parker Port Washington Letters Continued on Page 35

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Hofstra alum’s 2nd Stanley Cup Continued from Page 8 Cooper applauded his group for being able to block out the chatter and focus on winning a second consecutive championship. “This was the end of a special group for two years,” Cooper said in a postgame interview with SportsNet. “To be a part of this, and be able to do it two years in a row… it kind of cements this group.” This year was also Cooper’s third Stanley Cup Final appearance as head coach of the Lightning after losing to the Chicago Blackhawks in six games in 2015. The British Columbia native scored goals of his own for the then-Flying Dutchmen of Hofstra on grass rather than ice for the men’s lacrosse team. During his four-year letter-

man tenure for the team, Cooper racked up 74 goals and 25 assists, finishing fifth in all-time goals scored, and ninth in alltime points, 99, in the university’s history. Cooper was also a member of the 1988 and 1989 East Coast Conference championship teams. Despite coaching one of the best teams in the National Hockey League’s Eastern Conference over the past seven years, Cooper has acknowledged some of his alma mater’s athletic feats, such as when the Hofstra men’s basketball team had the nation’s longest active winning streak in 2019. “Hey, I graduated there. I’m a proud alum. I do have a lot of things on my mind, but I do follow,” Cooper told Newsday in January 2019.

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Nassau GOP taps Donnelly to run for DA Continued from Page 6 “Todd Kaminsky is a fearless prosecutor who has put violent criminals behind bars and led the convictions of corrupt politicians from both parties — and his record is second to none,” Orsillo said in a statement. “As district attorney, he will continue to protect Long Islanders and be a tireless champion for

Nassau County, delivering again and again for our families without being beholden to party bosses.” State and county Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs implored voters to remind themselves of the “old adage ‘you don’t bite the hand that feeds you’” when choosing Nassau’s next district attorney.

“[It] should come to the minds of every Nassau Voter when deciding who they would like to protect their taxpayer dollars and keep our County safe from corruption. It sure won’t be the machine’s handpicked candidate,” Jacobs said in a statement. The two are running to fill the district attorney seat formerly held by Singas, Singas, a

Manhasset resident who was picked by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to fill a vacancy on the Court of Appeals left by Judge Leslie Stein, who retired last week, and will take a 14-year term on the court. Singas was succeeded by Joyce Smith, a longtime assistant district attorney and special victims prosecutor, who is the county’s first black district attorney.

Suozzi talks child tax credit payment options Continued from Page 8 Full payments for each individual child are available for an individual parent making up to $75,0000 a year, and joint filers making up to $150,000 a year. Single filers with incomes of $240,000 or more and joint filers with combined incomes of $440,000 or more will not receive the child tax credit. Parents with eligible children who filed their 2020 federal tax returns by May 17 can receive the credit that can help impov-

erished families across Long Island, oﬃcials said. “This child tax credit is going to provide hundreds of thousands of families throughout Long Island with thousands of dollars and lift up people’s lives,” Suozzi said. “The American Rescue Plan has been great in so many ways, we just have to keep telling people about all the things that are in there.” In Suozzi’s 3rd Congressional District —

which stretches from Whitestone, Queens, to Kings Park in Suﬀolk County and includes Manhasset, Roslyn, Port Washington, Great Neck and Floral Park, among other areas — more than 56 percent of the eligible children will benefit from the credit, with 3,700 being lifted out of poverty, he said. U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) said more than 100,000 children in her 4th Congressional District — which includes Floral Park, Garden City, Hempstead,

Mineola, Carle Place, New Hyde Park and Westbury — stand to benefit from the child tax credit. That number — which accounts for more than 65 percent of the entire eligible child population throughout the district — includes 5,500 children who will be lifted out of poverty as a result of the credit. “This is money directly in the pocket of families to put food on the table and pay the bills,” Rice said.

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hatever happened to the promised Metropolitan Transportation Authority 2020-2040 TwentyYear Long-Range Capital Needs Plan? New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the MTA pledged that it would be released by December 2019. It is now 19 months overdue. The plan documents how much money and years or decades will be required before each MTA operating agency, including New York City Transit bus, subway, Staten Island Railway, MTA bus, Long Island Rail Road, and Metro North Rail Road, have reached a state of good repair. Categories for each agency include such assets as existing bus, subway and commuter rail fleet, stations including elevators to meet Americans with Disabilities Act and escalators, track including switches, signals and interlockings, communications, line structures, painting, protective netting on elevated structures and bridges, line equipment including tunnel lighting and pump rooms, traction power, power substations, yards and shops and supervisory vehicles.

It is supposed to be the basis for the justification of New York MTA Five-Year Capital Plans prior to their release. In this case, the $51 billion 2020 — 2024 Five-Year Capital Plan was released and adopted before anyone could receive and review the updated Twenty-Year Capital Needs Plan. The new 2020 — 2040 Twenty-Year Plan should update the previous 2014 — 2034 Twenty-Year Plan. This is inconsistent with both Gov. Cuomo’s and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s respective promises to conduct the most open and transparent administrations in the history of state and municipal government. This was to include independent authorities such as the MTA. Taxpayers, commuters, transit advocates, elected oﬃcials and transit reporters should not have had to wait 19 months before being able to read such an important transportation planning document. Advocates for various potential transportation system expansion projects will know by omission from this document that the MTA has no intention of advancing their project. This list of hopeful dreamers

includes but is not limited to the $400 million Metro North Hudson Line Penn Station Access via Amtrak Empire Corridor, $258 million Phase Two Woodhaven Blvd. Queens Select Bus Service, $2.2 billion Light Rail between Jamaica and Long Island City on the old Lower Montauk LIRR branch, $8 billion restoration of LIRR service on the old Rockaway Queens branch, $2 billion plus Triboro X Subway Express (new subway line connecting the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn), $2.7 billion-plus Brooklyn-Queens Waterfront Street Car Connector, $5 billion Utica Avenue NYC Transit Brooklyn subway extension, $600 million NYC Transit North Shore, $1.5 billion West Shore Staten Island Bus Rapid Transit, $800 million new NYC Transit No. 7 subway station at 10th Avenue and 41st (deleted from original $2.4 billion Hudson Yard No. 7 subway extension to save $500 million) and $3.5 billion Red Hook Brooklyn subway extension from NYC Transit No. 1 subway line from the Rector Street downtown Manhattan station to Red Hook.

Will outgoing MTA Chairman Pat Foye release this critical report as one of his last actions before resigning his position at the end of July? It was announced weeks ago that Foye has been appointed by Cuomo, his benefactor, to become interim president and CEO of the Empire State Development Corp. It will be a homecoming of sorts for Foye, as former Gov. Eliot Spitzer previously appointed him to be chairman of the Empire State Development Corp. under his administration. Foye has also served as executive director for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and deputy secretary for economic development under Cuomo. Besides collecting Social Security and a 401K, how many pensions will he be eligible to collect from these various positions to enjoy his future retirement? Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Oﬃce.

Dollars and sense in drug policies Continued from Page 12 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has injected some sanity into the discussion by proposing legislation to legalized marijuana at the federal level, remove it from the Controlled Substances Act and expunge federal records of nonviolent cannabis offenders. But the relatively low threat posed by marijuana has not stopped Nassau County

towns and villages from voting against even medical marijuana dispensaries from being located in retail locations. The same towns and villages are now opposing the sale – and foregoing the tax revenues it produces – of recreational marijuana after it was legalized by the state. But they have no problem with pharmacies that have admitted their roles in the wrongful distribution of opioid products. In

stores that also sell deodorants, chocolate and school notebooks. Or liquor stores and restaurants that sell alcohol, a product the CDC says is responsible for 261 deaths a day. We are by no means calling for curtailing pharmacies or the use of alcohol in retail stores and restaurants. The so-called War on Drugs during the past 50 years, like Prohibition in the 1920s,

has been a failure that too often penalized people of color. So we don’t need a replay of those misguided policies now. What we do need is common sense in treating marijuana no more harshly than alcohol or cigarettes and treatment for those who abuse drugs of any kind. And jail sentences for the pushers in suits who sell dangerous drugs unnecessarily in pursuit of profits.

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Sillitti seeks to extend Aug. 15 car wash to pollution control subsidies benefit Special Olympics State Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti (D-Port Washington) has announced that legislation she sponsored to extend a 50 percent subsidy in connection with the Clean Water State Revolving Fund to September 2024 was signed into law. Without passage, the 50 percent subsidy would have expired in October 2021.“Pollution in waterways is a problem Long Island communities have battled for years,” Sillitti said. “From ensuring access to clean drinking water to investing in aging water infrastructure, I’m committed to protecting our families and our communities for generations to come.” The CWSRF was established in 1989 to provide financial assistance to recipients, generally municipalities, to construct and upgrade eligible water pol-

lution control projects. The interest rate subsidy level was originally set at onethird, but was increased to 50 percent in 1992. The increase helped to incentivize municipalities to undertake clean water projects. Commissioner Patty Katz of the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District remarked, “We are grateful to Assemblywoman Sillitti for sponsoring such an important bill. Besides saving taxpayers money, this bill will enhance infrastructure and preserve the quality of water on Long Island for years to come.” “Extending the 50 percent subsidy will help municipalities, who may already be struggling financially because of COVID-19, continue their eﬀorts to combat water pollution,” Sillitti noted.

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Great Neck resident Erin Lipinsky will be hosting his annual car wash to benefit Special Olympics NY on Sunday, Aug. 15. Lipinsky has been fundraising for the Special Olympics for the past seven years and the car wash will kick oﬀ his eﬀorts to fundraise for the Annual Polar Plunge® in 2022. This past March, Lipinsky raised $16,115, breaking his own record and again was the top individual fundraiser of the event. The Polar Plunge® supports year-round sports training and competition and health and inclusion programs for individuals with intellectual disabilities in your community. Erin has been a longtime member of the Great Neck Spirits Basketball Team for the Special Olympics. The car wash to benefit Special Olympics will take place at the Great Neck Alert Fire Company, 555 Middle Neck Road in Great Neck, and runs from noon to 4 p.m. The cost is $10 for cars, $15 for trucks, and $5 for motorcycles.

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Upcoming at the Williston Park Library Carl DelVecchio Memorial Library We’re happy to announce that the Nassau Digital Doorway users now have access to over 3,000 magazines! There is a separate tab on top of the NDD browser page. The Williston Park Library is excited to announce our partnership with Page Turner Adventures to offer children a virtual and fun summer experience. Please refer to the children’s calendar of events on our website, willistonparklibrary. org. Each week will feature a different theme and each day offers a new experience — theater shows, stories, crafts, children’s book author and illustrator interviews, contests, games, special guest performers, virtual field trips, and much more. Monday is Show Day featuring a virtual story theater show; Tuesday is Craft Day featuring crafts, games, recipes, science experiments, and other activities; Wednesday is Author and Illustrator Day featuring fun interviews, read-alongs, trivia games, book giveaways and other activities with children’s authors and illustrators; Thursday is Mashup Day featuring more crafts and activities; and Friday is Guest Day featuring special guests related to that week’s theme. New titles added to the collection: Stepsisters—Susan Mallery Kobalt Dossier—Eric Van Lustbader Great Circle—Maggie Shipstead What We Carry: A Memoir— Maya Shanbhag Lang Stronger: Courage, Hope & Humor in My Life with John McCain— Cindy McCain Olympus, Texas—Stacey Swann Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up & What We Make When We Make Dinner— Liz Hauck Reunion Beach—Elin Hilderbrand, et al. Our Daily Hours Are: Browsing &Vestibule Pick-Up: MondayFriday: 10am-5:30pm and Saturday: 10am4pm “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! Adult Programs Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center Virtual Tour—Tuesday—July 27—11am12pm via Zoom. Register in advance for this meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrcuGhqTksHNG444AE2dLAJRZ9XAcEZ-aP You will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving Class—Thursday—August 12—10am-4pm in the Assembly room of Village Hall. Limited to 25 participants. $28 p/person. Check payable to Empire Safety Council. Social distancing and masks are required. Registration is required. Williston Park residents will receive preference. Non-residents may begin registering on July 29. Call the library to register. Children’s Programs Pageturners—Monday-Friday—July 1-July 30—10am-5:30pm. Please refer to the children’s calendar of events on our website willistonparklibrary.org STEM-tastic: Mythical Tales-Unicorns, Mermaids & Dragon Tails—Friday—July 20—11am in the Assembly Room of Village Hall for children of all ages. Explore a world of mythical creatures, create a rainbow in a bowl and build your own dragon. Masks are required for everyone ages 2+. Email willistonparkprograms@gmail. com to register. Reading to Dogs with Bide-A-Wee— Thursday—July 22—11 am-12 pm in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Masks are required to everyone ages 2+. Email willistonparkprograms@gmail.com to register for a time slot (11 am, 11:20 am, 11:40 am or 12 pm) First come, first served. Summer Reading Finale with Nick the Balloonatic—Saturday—August 7—11 am12 pm in the parking lot of Village Hall. Masks are required for everyone ages 2+. Please bring your chair. Raﬄe prizes to be drawn and winners announced. Email willistonparkprograms@gmail.com to register. Come into the Library for a free children’s craft every Monday for Take and Make Mondays. Check out the calendar of events for Virtual Puzzle Wednesdays and Virtual Game Fridays. Please check our website willistonarklibrary.org for updates on all upcoming events.

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