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Vol. 20 No. 19

may 7 - 13, 2020

Chamber mulls plans to reopen Special committee fields questions from businesses

By BRIaN STIEGlITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

Courtesy Carla Fernandex

maTEo SolIS, of East Meadow, in red shirt, dedicated his 10th birthday on Sunday to a 5-yearold who died of Covid-19. Throughout the day, Mateo and his sister, Eva, far left, collected donations to send to the child’s family.

‘I’m lucky to be even turning 10’ E.M. boy dedicates birthday to family in need

By BRIaN STIEGlITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

Mateo Solis has often spent his birthday on vacation, visiting extended family members, with previous trips including Costa Rica and Portugal. Although he spent his 10th birthday, on Sunday, quarantining in his East Meadow home, he wanted to do something for a family that had lost someone even younger than he is.

“I’m lucky to be even turn-

ing 10,” he told the Herald last Friday.

M at e o ’s g r a n d m o t h e r Jacinta Fernandes works in the emergency hospitality department of NYU Winthrop Hospital in Mineola. She has been telling him stories about her work on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, mostly about the patients she has treated and seen admitted.

Last month, the hospital treated the country’s youngest Covid-19 patient so far: a 3-week-old infant who recov-

ered a week later. More recently, a 5-year-old was diagnosed with the virus at Winthrop, and died in treatment.

When Mateo heard that story, he said, he wanted to dedicate his birthday to the child’s family. “I’m really fortunate to not have Covid-19 and to be OK and have enough food in the fridge,” he said. “To even help during this time — I feel pretty grateful for that.”

Mateo and his mother, Continued on page 4

Although they don’t know the specific details and conditions or even a definitive date on which businesses in New York will be per mitted to reopen, members of the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce want their community to be prepared.

“There are so many different factors that go into opening up again,” said Ted Rosenthal, founder of the law firm Rosenthal, Curry & Kranz. He recently launched a chamber committee that will focus on post-pandemic efforts with Jim Skinner, owner of A&C Pest Management.

The committee also includes Skinner’s son James, also of A&C, and Richie Krug Jr. and Tom and Lyndsey Gallagher, all of Century 21 American Homes. The group had its first meeting with the chamber’s board of directors on April 29.

“The support that the chamber board is giving us is phenomenal,” Rosenthal said, adding that board and committee members had been bouncing ideas back and forth since the meeting.

“Some people want to go shopping and go to restaurants, but there are going to be people who are fearful,” Rosenthal said. “Our committee is to help all businesses come up with a plan so that people can come in and feel comfortable.”

Although Gov. Andrew Cuom o ’ s s t ay - a t - h o m e o r d e r extends only until May 15, and there has been no announcement of what might follow it, reopening is not going to happ e n ove r n i g h t , Ro s e n t h a l noted. A restaurant is going to have a different experience than a g ym or a salon, he explained. “Each should contemplate what they need going forward,” he said. “We’re here to help them discuss what they may need to do.”

One of the committee’s ideas is to create “reopening kits” for business owners.

They will include necessary supplies to keep employees and p at ro n s s a f e a n d h e a l t hy, including face masks, gloves, hand sanitizer and toilet paper.

Rosenthal has fielded a number of questions from business owners that he and other committee members are still mulling. Which businessContinued on page 4

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HERALD COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS — May 7, 2020 Photoß by Courtesy Facebook

EAST MEAdow RESIdENTS have been painting rocks and hiding them around the community as part of a Facebook scavenger hunt called #rockthemeadow. Grayson Hohl, 4, and his brother Gavin, 2, painted some rocks with their father.

Rock the Meadow challenge inspires neighbors

By BRIAN STIEGLITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com

With East Meadow residents staying at home and children looking for activities to do to spread hope, one Facebook group has rocked the community — literally.

Participants have been painting rocks and hiding them around the community as part of a Facebook scavenger hunt. Amanda Skoros started the Facebook group, called Rock the Meadow, with her daughter Ryan and son Kellen in July 2017.

“It’s been a great activity for the kids,” said Jennette Ackerman. “It has been fun for the kids to participate in over the past Summers and even more fun now that we are home from school.”

Her sons Connor, 10, and his brother Bennett, 8, have been taking part in the scavenger by finding their own rocks and painting designs on them, then looking on Facebook to see if anybody found them.

“My family has been making and hiding rocks all month trying to bring cheer to people during this time,” said Karen Hohl, who had been painting rocks with her husband and their sons Grayson, 4, and Gavin, 2.

When participants find a rock, they could take a picture and post it to the Facebook page indicating where they found it and adding the hashtag #rockthemeadow. Then they could hide the rock in a new location and give a new clue. Residents are also encouraged to create and hide their own rocks.

CoNNoR ACkERMAN, 10, and his brother Bennett, 8, found one of the rocks on a recent family bike ride.

NIChoLAS URSo ANd his brother James found some rocks throughout their neighborhood.

RyAN SkoRoS, A junior at East Meadow High School, started the Facebook group Rock the Meadow with her mother Amanda and brother Kellen in July 2017.

SoME of ThE rocks have been used to inspire neighbors with messages of hope.

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Chamber committee mulls ideas for reopening many f aces,” Chamber President Michael Levy said.

Business owners are invited to direct any question they have on reopening to the committee at reopening@eastmeadowchamber.com.

Levy added that business owners should contact chamber member Jerry Baldassaro, owner of Raymour and Flanigan, at jerrybaldassaro@gmail.com, when they know more about their reopening status. Baldassaro will post information on the chamber’s website and social media pages to let community members know what to expect from business they intend to patronize.

“It may be devastating,” Levy said, “but we’re going to survive, and make this work, and resume life.”

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es are at the be ginning stages of reopening, and which are ready to resume operations? What limitations might be imposed on patron capacity?

Will restaurants have the space and viability to open and make a profit?

One proposal that left Rosenthal incredulous was first made by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on April 20. De Blasio suggested mandating that business owners check their employees’ temperatures before admitting them to work, given the fact that a fever is one of the most predictable symptoms of Covid-19.

Since then, Rosenthal said, he has seen the idea grow into a suggested mandate that businesses check the temperatures of all patrons before admitting them. “I would not be in favor of us instituting that, and that’s a personal opinion,” he said. “These b u s i n e s s e s h av e b e e n closed for the past two months. We want to get them back on their feet, and it would be very difficult, in addition, if they had to monitor who could come in and who cannot . . .

I would hope people would respect other patrons and owners, and if they’re not well, they would not go out.

And I think for the most part, they are. And that’s why we’re on this downward curve, because people are taking it seriously.”

Courtesy Facebook On May 13, the chamber ` will host a virtual general the east Meadow Chamber of Commerce meeting on Zoom to outline recently formed a committee dedicated to its plans, provide updates and invite members to ask helping businesses reopen. Members will questions or address con- answer questions about it at a general cerns going forward. meeting via Zoom on May 13. Above, “Our last Zoom meeting had 39 members join in, members at April’s general meeting. and it was great to see so

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over the course of the day, Mateo collected over $1,000 from friends, family and community members.

A charitable birthday for a family in need continued from front page Carla Fernandes, drove around East Meadow last week, distributing fliers — “150, to be exact,” Mateo said — detailing his birthday promise to raise funds for the family of the deceased child.

Then, on Sunday, Mateo, his mother and his sister, Eva, sat on their front lawn with a collection jar, a sign and more fliers about his fundraiser, which he had dubbed Help Me Help One, and about the pandemic, as seen through his grandmother’s eyes.

Mateo is a fourth-grader at Maria Regina School in Seaford. When he’s not in class (via Zoom) or doing homework, he has been taking part in community efforts to spread joy, posting a drawing of a rainbow outside his house and giving thank-you notes to friends and neighbor who are essential workers.

“We’re trying to make the best of it,” his mother said. “That’s really the best we can do.”

They began his birthday fundraiser with no goal in mind, not knowing how much money they might collect. Mateo’s mother and sister were setting up a table at 9 a.m. when a man driving a pickup truck stopped in front of the house and

approached them. They could see tears in his eyes, running down his cheeks and under his medical mask. “He said, ‘What you’re doing is really wonderful,’” Fernandes recounted — and he handed her a $100 bill. “I was in awe and shock,” she said.

Throughout the day, neighbors stopped to make donations. Mateo’s former babysitter came over with a large jar full of coins. Strangers who donated even handed Mateo birthday cards, his mother said.

“We didn’t know, or had ever even met, many who stopped by,” she said, “but their grand generosity was clear.” The family collected a total of $1,009.14.

The day concluded with a surprise for Mateo, when his friends and family members drove past his house in a car parade.

“It made me feel very happy,” he said of the fundraiser. “It made me feel I made a pretty big impact, and that kids can make a difference.”

He hoped the money would help comfort the dead child’s family, his mother said, and Mateo added, “I hope that it will help them cope and feel better.”

Jacinta Fernandes plans to send the money to the family with the help of the NYU Winthrop administration.

Mateo’s grandMother Jacinta Fernandes, far left, works in the emergency hospitality department of NYU Winthrop Hospital in Mineola. She told her grandson about a child who had died, and coordinated with hospital administration to send the donations to the family. With them was Mateo’s grandfather David.

Northwell opening Syosset Hospital for elective surgery sbrinton@liherald.com

Covid-19 patients have dropped to low enough levels that Northwell Health is able to earmark Syosset Hospital as a “Covid-contained” medical center where certain elective surgeries will be performed.

That’s according to Dr. David Battinelli, Northwell’s senior vice president and chief medical officer. He spoke with video producer Rob Hoell last Thursday about how the hospital system, which has medical centers throughout the New York metropolitan area, has been coping with the “massive surge” of Covid-19 patients in recent weeks.

Northwell was forced to increase its total number of beds across its 23 hospitals by 2,000 at the height of the crisis, Battinelli said. “We were overwhelmed in the” intensive care units, he noted.

The hospital system redeployed some 1,500 workers in order to keep up with patient demand.

To date, the Northwell system has treated more than 40,000 Covid-19 patients, with 13,000 patients admitted to hospitals. “Nobody in the world has treated and seen more Covid patients than Northwell,” Battinelli said.

As a result, the hospital had to stop elective surgeries, which Battinelli called planned surgeries, meaning most elective surgeries must be done, but not

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Dr. DaviD Battinelli, Northwell Health’s chief medical officer, last Thursday spoke with video producer Rob Hoell about the “massive surge” of Covid-19 patients within the hospital system. immediately. Rather, they can be scheduled weeks or months in advance.

With elective surgeries put off for six to seven weeks now, many patients need them done, sooner rather than later. The need to resume planned surgeries, Battinelli said, has become “semi-urgent” — hence the opening of Syosset Hospital for the procedures.

Battinelli said Northwell could not guarantee with absolute certainty that Syosset would be entirely free of Covid19 patients. Rather, he called the hospital “Covid-contained,” meaning the hospital will be able to cordon off any coronavirus patients who might appear there.

Battinelli also spoke of the many clinical trials for Covid-19 treatments

that Northwell has undertaken. The system has an estimated 700 patients in trials, while on any given year, it might have a dozen in trials, he said.

Among the trials Northwell is conducting is for famotidine, the active ingredient in the heartburn medicine Pepcid. Doctors in Wuhan, China, noticed that patients who presented with Covid-19 and heartburn, and who were taking famotidine, exhibited less virulent symptoms than those who were not on the drug.

That anecdotal finding led to clinical trials around the world. It appears famotidine might inhibit the coronavirus’s ability to replicate, Battinelli said.

He also spoke of telemedicine as a saving grace of the crisis, allowing patients to communicate with their doctors without having to be seen in an office.

Telemedicine, Battinelli predicted, will grow rapidly after the pandemic has subsided because health care consumers will want it because of its convenience. Patients can dial up their doctors, and then wait at home to be seen virtually.

“It is absolutely the way of the future,” Battinelli said.

He added that he believes social distancing is here to stay for at least the next year. It will be, he said, the “new norm” until a Covid-19 vaccine is discovered.

Antibody treatment offers ray of hope at MSSN

By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com

People have been pinning up homemade signs thanking the many workers at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside on chain-link fence that blocks off a construction project full of big dirt mounds outside the hospital.

It was, one could say, a fitting site for a recent Facebook Live session in which three hospital officials offered a glimmer of hope amid the coronavirus crisis, speaking at length about an “innovative” treatment called convalescent plasma that, for some at least, might help cure Covid-19.

Joe Calderone, MSSN’s senior vice president for communications, led the talk on April 17 with Dr. Aaron Glatt, the hospital’s chief of infectious diseases and chairman of the Department of Medicine, and Dr. Adhi Sharma, its chief medical officer and vice president for clinical and professional affairs.

Sharma noted that convalescent plasma is an investigational treatment, not yet fully approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration.

It works like this, according to Glatt: Patients develop antibodies when fighting off Covid-19, as they do with other viruses. Those antibodies can be extracted from a recovering patient with a high level of them through a blood draw. The plasma can then be injected into someone who is still fighting off the coronavirus, which should help the patient battle the illness.

As of April 17, doctors at the hospital had given plasma to 15 patients, and in those preliminary cases, the procedure had demonstrated “promising” results, according to Sharma.

Ideally, Glatt said, antibodies are extracted from patients three weeks after the onset of Covid-19 symp-

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Dr. aaron Glatt, Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital’s chief of infectious diseases, spoke recently of an “innovative” treatment for Covid-19 called convalescent plasma. toms. At that point, he said, a patient is most likely to have a sufficient number of antibodies for extraction.

Antibodies, he said, can be counted and quantified.

There is no risk to patients who are donating plasma and no indication the procedure would deplete their antibody stores, potentially leaving them susceptible to future infection, the doctors said.

The treatment is most often given to a patient who is or will likely become “deathly ill,” Glatt said.

Plasma is removed at the New York Blood Center in New York City. Patients must make an appointment to donate. Appointments can be made through Mount Sinai Doctors Five Towns in Hewlett. Donation is a multi-stage procedure that does require time, Glatt said.

Treatment is carried out with patient consent only.

It is unclear, Glatt and Sharma said, to what degree Covid-19 antibodies protect a patient from the disease, and for how long. It could be weeks, months or years.

There is insufficient data on reinfection to know, they said.

Glatt and Sharma each said social distancing is key to ensuring that infection rates do not spike again over the coming weeks and months. They worry that people will ease up on the precautions they have been taking recently now that the weather is warming and more people are heading outside. They also pointed out that Governor Cuomo would likely allow businesses to start returning to normal operations in a phased reopening after May 15.

Without continued social distancing, those two factors could lead again to a surge in hospitalizations, which nearly overran hospitals like MSSN in April. The hospital normally sees about 300 patients total, but at the peak of infection, MSSN was seeing 500 patients, 40 percent more than normal.

The MSSN officials said patients were housed in tents and hospital corridors to accommodate them all.

“The staff went well above and beyond to maintain a hospital of 500 patients,” Sharma said, adding that MSSN could not sustain itself for long with that number of patients.

Until “we totally clear [Covid-19] from the population,” Sharma said, people should continue social distancing. It will only be eradicated, he said, with a proven vaccine, which is 12 to 18 months away.

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Watch out for new mothers this Mother’s Day

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Mother’s Day is usually a day of celebration and joy for new mothers, but with New York still on lockdown this year, it may be a tough time for those with postpartum depression.

The condition affects one in five new mothers, according to Pauline Walfisch, a therapist at Helping Hands Psychotherapy in Rockville Centre who lives in Franklin Square, and the depression may be masked as Covid-19 anxiety.

In fact, Sonya Murdock, the founder of the Postpartum Resource Center of New “that grandparent experience they were York, said it has received a greater numlooking forward to.” ber of phone calls during the pandemic, “It’s easy to focus on the things you’ve and has increased its helpline lost,” she said, and suggested services to seven days a week. new mothers spend their The helpline provides free Mother’s Day: and confidential support to mothers who are in domestic ■ Connecting with family violence situations, those and friends virtually. who need supplies for their ■ Making a craft they baby, mothers who may be could keep for years. having suicidal thoughts and those who are diagnosed with ■ Getting a little “me Covid-19. time” if there is someone else The outbreak, Murdock in the house who could take pauline walfisch said, has “amplified these care of the baby for a few issues.” minutes.

Making it worse, Walfisch said, is the fact that many new mothers ■ Brightening up their space with flowhave an idealized vision of their first ers from their gardens.

Mother’s Day, but cannot go out to dinner Everyone else, Walfisch said, should this year or perhaps even receive flowers. check on their friends and family memAdditionally, they may feel guilty that bers with new babies. their parents will not be able to have

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HempStead town SuperviSor Donald Clavin was one of 13 Long Island supervisors who took part in a discussion on how the proceed with the summer season, when people flock to Long Island’s beaches and parks.

SuperviSorS diScuSSed How to convey social distancing guidelines to the public, and when to open and close town facilities, including beaches and parks.

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Town supervisors plan for summer recreation

By Scott Brinton sbrinton@liherald.com

Thirteen town supervisors gathered Friday to begin planning coordination of the summer season on Long Island, when tourists from across the state and country descend on the Island’s beaches, in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

The supervisors focused on parks and recreation in their discussion, officials said. Supervisor Rich Schaffer, of the Town of Babylon, organized the talk.

Hempstead Town Supervisor Donald Clavin said, “The theme of our discussion was that the Covid-19 pandemic does not follow town borders, and it’s necessary to collaborate on our best practices and strategies for summer programs and services. Working together as a team and maintaining communication will be key to providing the safest environment.”

At press time, it was unclear precisely what would be open for the summer, including the beaches.

The supervisors discussed how to convey social distancing guidelines to the public, and when to open and close town facilities, including beaches and parks. Supervisors said they wanted to ensure the closure of any one facility was done in coordination with other towns to make certain no one town was overrun by beach and park attendees.

“The uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic requires us to consider all possible scenarios,” Clavin said.

“Though we wish that all of our residents can enjoy the summers of the past, we accept that this is a ‘new normal,’ at least for this year.”

In addition to Schaffer and Clavin, other supervisors taking part in the talks included: Edward Romaine, of Brookhaven; Judi Bosworth, of North Hempstead; Joseph Saladino, of Oyster Bay; Peter Van Scoyoc, of East Hampton; Chad Lupinacci, of Huntington; Angie Carpenter, of Islip; Yvette Aguiar, of Riverhead; Gerard Siller, of Shelter Island; Edward Wehrheim, of Smithtown; Jay Schneiderman, of Southampton; and Scott Russell, of Southold.

News brief Bill would keep firefighters benefits intact State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Demo- port and appreciation now more than crat from Long Beach, has introduced ever, not an unfair practice that penalizlegislation that would ensure volunteer es them for following safety procefirefighters are able to maintain their dures,” Kaminsky stated in a news active status during the Covid-19 pan- release. The proposed law “would cordemic, when required trainrect this problem and give ing exercises have been them the benefits they interrupted by the virus. deserve.”

Maintaing active service Kaminsky said volunteers is required in order for firea t t h e Wo o d m e r e F i r e fighters to accrue funds Department informed him toward their state pensions. of the issue. “Thank you to Firefighters must attain 50 Senator Kaminsky for his points per year by being on leadership and advocacy on call, responding to emergenbehalf of our volunteer firecies and taking part in trainfighters,” Woodmere Fire ing sessions.

C o m m i s s i o n e r s Ro n n a todd Kaminsky Kaminsky, who re preRubenstein and Israel Max sents several South Shore said in a joint statement in fire departments, said the the release. “This bill will measure would allow active volunteers make sure these brave men and women to earn up to five points per month dur- retain their benefits while forced to stay ing the Covid-19 pandemic and give home because of the pandemic.” departments the ability to set different It was unclear at press time when the emergency response requirements for State Senate would discuss the bill. The certain members. Firefighters would Assembly and Senate passed a resoluthen only have to respond to the mini- tion in late March enabling virtual conmum number of emergency calls they ferencing and voting among firefighters. are assigned.

“First responders deserve our sup–Jeffrey Bessen and Scott Brinton

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Committing their artwork to memory favorite color. The students could choose any artistic medium for their drawing, from graphite to chalk pastel. The photo was attached to the back of the portrait, along with a photo of the student-artist and a tracing of the artist’s hand.

The students worked hard to create the most accurate portraits possible for the children receiving them. “In my observation, it was incredibly rewarding for my class,” said Giglio. “They really felt a lot of pride in their completed portraits.”

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East Meadow High School students in grades 10 through 12 made connections with children across the globe by drawing their portraits as part of the Memory Project. The Memory Project is a youth arts organization that asks high school art students throughout the United States to create portraits for children living in refugee camps, orphanages and similar situations around the world.

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they could not. It was closed captioning Like everyone else, I have been part of virtual meetings since mid-March and as that help me save whatever face I had left both participant and host I have never been (as the face they could finally see). so humbled in my life.

I can’t download files if they were lowly Department conferences and school- Word documents, only PDFs. I had to wide gatherings have resulted in hundreds change my calendar information on the fly of new faces that I can now connect with and hope I had the most up to date informathe names on group emails. tion as the session was preThe opinions and points-ofsented. I recorded each sesview, vast and diverse as the sion only to see that the camaudience that contributes it, era doesn’t add ten pounds but would never be as rich if it identifies what fifty-plus days wasn’t for this technology. without a haircut can do to a I passed on the use of profile.

ZOOM, learning the very One time, when lecturing basics of Microsoft Teams but to a class and pacing by the found my special affinity with real blackboard, I fell down.

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Not just a little trip — but a as I prepared my classes for flat out pratfall in front of 30 seven weeks of remote learnstudents. I jumped up, ing. brushed myself off (both Every session is a new physically and mentally) and auren ev adventure in glitches and corkept on talking. rections with every presentaFrom that day forward, I tion. But that’s turned out to was convinced that was the be part of the fun — the reality that makes most humbling moment ever. But thanks to computers machines and us human. these new communications methods, I Take the first session, in which I dressed believe the best humbling is yet to come. in the college sweatshirt to welcome my Just hope I’m prepared. students but there was no video. An hour of a talking head with no head. Students A contributing writer to the Herald since listened and we all made it through. Turns 2012, Lauren Lev is an East Meadow resident out I needed to use a specific web browser and a direct marketing/advertising execu— contrary to prior IT training. tive who teaches advertising and marketing Next week there were issues with the communications courses at the Fashion audio — I could hear the YouTube video Institute of Technology/SUNY, LIU Post and that I screen shared with my students but SUNY Old Westbury.

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The above arTwork is part of the East Meadow High School’s Memory Project, which challenges high school art students throughout the United States to create portraits of children around the world.

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Families begin Ramadan fast — from afar

By TIMOTHY DENTON tdenton@liherald.com

With the sighting of the crescent moon on the evening of April 23, the month of Ramadan officially began.

This year, however, the traditional gatherings before sunrise and after sunset have been suspended at Masjid Al-Baqi in Bethpage and at the Islamic Center of Long Island in Woodbury, as they have been across the country and around the world.

The month is holy not only to the thousands of Muslims in Nassau County, but also to the more than 1.8 billion worldwide and is observed with 30 days of daily dawn-to-dusk fasts. The fast is one of the Five Pillars of Islam and is obligatory, or fard for all whose health would not be jeopardized. Women who are breast feeding or menstruating, diabetics and the chronically ill are also specifically exempted from the fast.

The month culminates in the feast of Eid-al-Fitr, one of the two great feasts of the Islamic calendar.

Both communities will hold classes and services online, via various streaming media. At Masjid-Al-Baqi, Mufti Mohammad Farhan will give daily commentary on passages from the Quran after fajr, the first of the five daily prayers prescribed by the Quran. Live streaming of tafseer, or interpretation of the Quran, will take place every evening at 9:30.

Online education will continue via Zoom videoconferencing.

Ramadan is from a root Arabic word meaning God. Traditionally, families and communities gather after sunset for a communal meal, called iftar.

In addition to fasting, devout Muslims also abstain from tobacco products and sex. Charitable deeds, another of the Five Pillars, are also traditionally increased during the holy month. Many carry out extra good works during the month, such as alms giving, participating in blood drives or feeding the hungry. Masjid AlBaqi is providing free groceries for the elderly, the chronically ill and the financially distressed, according to the community’s website.

The Islamic Center is offering similar programs, with guidance by Sheikh Ibrahim Negm, adviser to the

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UsUallY a MONTH of communal contemplation, fasting and prayer, families will observe this year’s Ramadan in the home, as Muslims follow the pattern set by other religions and move to electronic formats.

Grand Mufti of Al-Azhar in Cairo — one of the world’s earliest universities — and by Farhan, as well as twicenightly recitations by Hafiz Dr. Assad Baig and Hafiz Tanweer Ahmed.

For further information, contact Masjid Al-Baqi (516) 433-4141, or online at masjidalbaqi.org; or the Islamic Center of Long Island, at (516) 333-3495, or at icily.org.

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L.I. congressional reps unite behind small businesses By laUra laNE llane@liherald.com

The Small Business Administration, Treasury Department and banks should be held accountable if lending institutions focus only on larger businesses when approving Payroll Protection Program loans, said a bipartisan group of Long Island congressional leaders on April 24. Meeting on the video conferencing platform Zoom, they said that priority should be given to “small” small businesses seeking loans of less than $150,000.

“There are a lot of smaller small businesses in the U.S. and most have less than 20 employees,” said U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from Glen Cove. “We have to send a clear message to the banks that we’re watching. They need to help the mom-and-pop shops, the plumber, electrician, doctor and dentist. And we need the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration to help get that message across.”

President Trump signed a new stimulus bill on April 23 that includes more than $300 billion in federal guarantees for

PPP loans, which must be used to keep told her that they are worried they will employees on the payrolls of small busi- not survive.

One of Trump’s vocal supporters, U.S. nesses. The SBA would forgive the loans if all employees are kept on the pay- Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Republican from Sufroll for eight weeks and the loan money is folk County, said the government needs to step up to help the smaller used for payroll, rent, mortbusinesses. “To my colgage interest or utilities. A leagues who think there is new stimulus bill was needed nothing left to do, this isn’t because the initial of $349 the time to walk away and billion for the program ran declare bankruptcy,” he said, out. referring to a suggestion Suozzi said that the avermade by Senate Majority age loan amount from the Leader Mitch McConnell. first stimulus package at the “We need to make sure the 15 larger banks was $515,000, state and local governments meaning the big borrowers get through this.” received the loans and not Big banks should focus the smaller business. their attention on the smallU.S. Rep. Peter King, a THOMas sUOzzI est of businesses, said U.S. Republican, said the smaller U.S. representative, Rep. Gregory Meeks, a Demobusinesses need relief now. crat, noting he is working to “Or there won’t be any small Fourth District make sure they do. “Despite businesses left,” he said. who is in the cue, if you see a “This is a natural disaster.

We have to stand together on this as New small business with 20 or less employees, push them up,” he said. “We earmarked Yorkers.”

U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, a Democrat, $60 billion to go to community banks and agreed, adding that local retailers have credit unions because they have the pulse

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e will get through this if Democrats and Republicans are united like we are here.

of small business to make sure they can apply for loans.”

Of the roughly 67,000 loan applications, 27,000 had been approved as of April 24. Rice said non-partisan oversight was needed moving forward.

Then Zeldin warned businesses that do not need the loan to not apply, adding that they will be shamed if they do. “If you are flush with cash, if you are an individual who is sitting comfortably and wealthy — this is not a moment in time for you to be asking what your country can do for you to get through the pandemic,” he said.

Payment of the loans should be flexible, Suozzi said. He predicted that when restaurants reopen, they would probably only see 30 percent of their business return. “They will need flexibility on paying back the loan,” he said. “Can we make money available with a much lower interest rate at maybe 0 or 1 percent?”

The congressional leaders are 100 percent united on these issues, Suozzi said, and “want to fight for the little guy — the smallest businesses. We will get through this if Democrats and Republicans are united like we are here.”

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The hotel building itself began falling into disrepair. In 1962, Clifford Hoeffner, now fully engaged in the contracting business with his brothers, looked to dispose of the hotel. He offered it to the East Meadow Union Free School District, as long as the trustees agreed not to tear down the historic building. Seeing educational value in the property, school district officials considered the offer, but legal experts advised against the transaction. In October of that year, Mr. Hoeffner offered to give away the house – and give $500 in cash! – to anybody willing to move the old building and preserve it as a museum. Ultimately, the Town of Hempstead took the land by eminent domain in 1963 and the building was moved to the Old Bethpage Village Restoration, where it serves root beer to many school children as “Noon Inn,” reminiscent of 1850s East Meadow. Veterans Memorial Park (Prospect Pool) was built in its stead.

The Hoeffners were close to their neighbors, Charles and Emma Steck and John and Anna Moskowski, and their extended families. Dr. Raymond Hoeffner, Jr. still owns a home in East Meadow and has been instrumental in the preservation and of local history and the furtherance of genealogical research. © Scott Eckers

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Hoeffner years. This oft-reproduced picture can be seen in several nearby businesses, in both original and edited forms.

The Hoeffner property was important to civic functions within the prewar community: East Meadow Hall, used for social and political functions and strongly connected to the Methodist Episcopal Church across the street, sat on the southern edge of their lands.

This building had been the 1868 schoolhouse when it was located up the avenue at Front Street. By the 1950s, the Hoeffner family m e m b e r s Courtesy Scott Eckers turned to conFamily, after 1911. struction with their ACE (Andrew, Clifford, Edward) Hoeffner Contracting Company and the property was used to store materials for their projects. The family built the East Meadow Post Office on the southern edge of their property in 1952, just north of East Meadow Hall, and leased the land to the Federal Government. Previously, mail would be delivered by Rural Free Delivery from Hempstead and Hicksville. The

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East Meadow farmers, including the Hoeffners, were mostly “market” or “truck” farmers, regularly taking their goods by mule, horse, and later motor vehicle to the Wallabout Market in order to sell to customers in New York City. The market was located at the site of the current Brooklyn Navy Yard on Wallabout Bay. Like many other farm- Above is the Alsheimer ers of the Hempstead Plains area, the Hoeffners crop included an ample amount of potatoes. Throughout the years, Andrew P. Hoeffner, Sr., worked between eight and 150 acres. In good times, he rented part of the Barnum property to increase his yield and profits. One of the most iconic photographs of “early” East Meadow is of a hunting party posing in front of the East Meadow Hotel during the

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Last week’s article explored the German-American proprietors of small hotels in East Meadow, which included members of the Alsheimer and Schultze families.

Though not considerably larger than other local establishments, the East Meadow Hotel at the intersection of Prospect and Newbridge (East Meadow) avenues became the most well-known hotel in East Meadow and, partly as a result, the center of activity on the southern side of the district. State liquor license documents from 1908 and 1914 list the address as Smithville South and West roads. The hotel was commonly known as the Noon Inn, since that family owned and operated the property in the mid-19th century, but was under the control of its last owners, the Hoeffner Family, for the longest. In fact, a small sign located at the property today calls it “Hoeffner’s Corner.”

Heinrich (Henry) Schultze sold the property to Andrew and Elizabeth Hoeffner in January 1914. The Hoeffners moved from Fosters Meadow, a German farming community near Elmont, and took over operations of the two-story, sixroom East Meadow Hotel, selling Welz & Zerweck Beer at the impressive first-floor bar until Prohibition (1920-1933). In 1922, hotel manager Joseph Friar was arrested with keeping a “disorderly” house. He was released on $1,500 bail after pleading not guilty. Since the nation turned “dry” and hotels were dependent on income from the sale of beverages to both travelers and reg-

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Students in kindergarten through 12th grade will not return to their schools in the East Meadow School District for the rest of the 2019-20 school year and will instead continue with distance learning to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, Governor Cuomo said Friday afternoon.

“Upon meeting with stakeholders from around the District, we have devised a plan that we feel will benefit the students while providing feedback to parents about their child’s progress,” wrote David Casamento, the assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, in a letter to parents that detailed how the district would adjust its final grading procedures.

For the final trimester of elementary school classes, students will not receive numbered grades on their report card.

Instead, teachers will only give feedback in the form of comments about students’ performances.

For the final quarter of middle and high school classes, students will receive one of four numbered grades and on their report card. Numbers one, two and four will represent passing grades with a four reflecting “exemplary” work, a two meaning “proficient” work and a one meaning “passing” work. A zero will be represent “no mark.”

The district will not be administering any final exams and Regents Exams are cancelled, but teachers could assign their own final assignments.

“The teachers and administrators are dedicated to the success of your child and our resolve is now stronger than ever,” Casamento wrote to conclude his letter.

“We will continue to work hard to ensure a smooth end to this school year and we are already planning additional measures to ensure your child’s success in the 202021 school year as well.”

Gov. Cuomo’s announcement came as Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths continue a steady decline, but the state is still seeing nearly a thousand new cases a day, which Cuomo said was unacceptably high.

The decision affects 4.2 million students statewide in 700 public school districts, 89 SUNY and CUNY colleges, and 100 private colleges.

For the first time in weeks, the number of overnight deaths dropped below 300 from Thursday into Friday — from 306 to 289, a 5.5 percent decline. New hospitalizations were also down.

The governor said social distancing practices, as mandated by the state, have prevented an estimated 100,000 Covid-19 cases, which he said would have overrun the hospitals and caused many more deaths.

“Our past actions changed the past trajectory,” he said.

Today’s actions will determine “the number of sick tomorrow,” he said — hence the need to keep school buildings closed and continue social distancing.

The governor said colleges and school districts across New York must begin developing reopening plans, which must be approved by state officials. The governor added there was no determination yet whether there would be summer school.

That announcement would be made in the coming weeks.

Of the virus, the governor said, “The enemy is on the run.”

Now, however, state officials must determine more precisely why the state is still seeing nearly a thousand new cases a day. So the state is drilling down, looking at new cases by county.

New York County (Manhattan) had the most new cases overnight, with 167, followed by Kings (Brooklyn), Bronx, Queens and Nassau counties.

Nassau had 97 new cases, or roughly 10 percent, of the statewide total.

The state is also now looking at who is becoming infected. The governor wondered if essential workers were, or if other people were. Where are they becoming infected? At work? On public transportation?

Those are the questions the state is seeking to answer, Cuomo said.

People should continue wearing their masks in public and keep up social distancing to protect others, he said.

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LEGAL NOTICE ANNUAL MEETING NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL AND LIBRARY MEETING AND ELECTION EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual meeting, budget vote and election of the East Meadow Union Free School District will be held on June 9, 2020, by absentee ballot only, on the following separate matters: 1.

Proposition 1 The estimated expenditures for school purposes (school budget) for the ensuing school year 2020-2021 and authorizing the levy and collection of the necessary taxes thereof.

2.

Proposition 2 - Turf Field - WHEREAS, on March 7, 2017, the voters of East Meadow Union Free School District, in the County of Nassau, New York (the “District”) approved the expenditure of not to exceed $44,244,720 for the construction of improvements and enhancements to various school buildings and sites, substantially in accordance with a plan prepared by the District with the assistance of John A, Grillo, Architects (the “Original Project”); and thereafter the Board of Education authorized the issuance of not to exceed $44,244,720 bonds and the levy of a tax in installments to pay said bonds and the interest thereon; and WHEREAS, the Board of Education has now determined that it is necessary and desirable to modify the Original Project in accordance with a revised plan prepared by the District’s architects to provide for the construction of two artificial turf fields with green crumb rubber and the elimination of one grass athletic field, which modifications will increase the cost of the Original Project by not to exceed $2,582,080; RESOLVED: (a) That the Board of Education of the District is hereby authorized to modify the Original Project by (i) eliminating the grass field proposed to be constructed at East Meadow High School, and (2) constructing an artificial turf field with green crumb rubber at East Meadow High School as well as an additional artificial turf field with green crumb rubber at the main site of W.T. Clarke High School; and to expend therefor, including equipment, machinery, apparatus and ancillary or related site, demolition and other required work, preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and to the financing thereof, the amount of not to exceed

$2,582,080; and (b) that a tax in the amount of not to exceed $2,582,080 is hereby authorized to be levied and collected in installments in such years and amounts as shall be determined by the Board of Education to pay said cost; and in anticipation of such tax, the Board of Education is hereby authorized to issue bonds of the District in an amount not to exceed $2,582,080, and a tax is hereby authorized to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds.

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Proposition 3 The estimated expenditures for library purposes (library budget) for the ensuing school year 2020-2021 and authorizing the levy and collection of the necessary taxes thereof.

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Any other questions or propositions as to matters or expenditures or authority to levy taxes that may be presented for a vote under the Education Law. NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that voting upon the estimated expenses for school and library purposes for the school year and the election of members of the Board of Education and Library Board will be held on June 9, 2020, by absentee ballot only.

VOTING will be by absentee ballot only, such ballot to be mailed to each identified qualified voter of the East Meadow School District by the office of the District Clerk.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that at said vote and election to be conducted on June 9, 2020, two (2) members are to be elected to the Board of Education and one (1) member is to be elected to the Library Board as follows: (a) two members of the Board of Education for a full term of three (3) years, commencing July 1, 2020 and expiring on June 30, 2023. (b) one member of the Library Board for a full term of five (5) years, commencing July 1, 2020 to succeed Ellen Matishek, incumbent, whose term of office expires on June 30, 2020.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the election shall be held in accordance with the Rules for the Conduct of Meetings and Elections adopted by the Board of Education and applicable law.

NOMINATIONS OF CANDIDATES PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that candidates for the offices of member of the Board of Education and member of the Library Board shall be nominated by petition.

Candidates for member of the Board of Education run at large. Each candidate petition for the office of member of the

Board of Education shall be directed to the Clerk of the School District, care of the Superintendent, and shall state the name and residence of the candidate.

Each vacancy to be filled for trustee of the Library Board shall be considered a separate specific office.

A separate petition shall be required to nominate a candidate to each separate office.

Each petition for candidate for the office of member of the Library Board shall be directed to the Clerk of the School District, care of the Superintendent, shall state the name and residence of the candidate, and shall describe the specific vacancy on the Library Board for which the candidate is nominated, which description shall include at least the length of the term of office and the name of the last incumbent.

Each petition shall be filed in the Office of the Clerk of the District by not later than 5:00 p.m. on May 11, 2020. There are no minimum number of signatures required for the nominating petition.

The nominating petition may be email, faxed or mailed to the District Clerk.

P E R S O N A L REGISTRATION OF VOTERS PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that any resident of the school district who is not already registered to vote and wishes to be a registered voter for this election may register with the board of elections by submitting an on-line application for voter registration with the Department of Motor Vehicles at https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Official Budget Presentation on the adopted school budget will take place remotely on May 27, 2020 at 7 p.m. There will be a Public Hearing on the proposed Library Budget that will take place remotely on May 27, 2020 at 8 p.m.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the proposed 2020/2021 school budget is available upon request to district residents commencing May 26, 2020 on the District’s website.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, pursuant to Real Property Tax Section 495, an exemption report detailing exemptions from real property taxation shall be available and appended to any tentative, preliminary or final budget.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the proposed 2020/2021 library budget will also be available on the East Meadow Public Library website.

Search for notices online at: www.mypublicnotices.com

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Absentee Ballot will be mailed to the address set forth in the voter registration books, no later than six (6) days before the election. Absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2020.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the school district. Military voters who are qualified voters of the school district may submit an application for a military ballot. Military voters may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration, military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile transmission or electronic mail in their request for such registration, ballot application or ballot.

Military voter registration application forms must be received in the Office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 14, 2020.

No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is returned by mail or in person and received by the office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 p.m. on election day.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that any proposition or questions to be placed upon the voting machines shall be submitted in writing by petition subscribed by at least five hundred (500) qualified voters of the District and filed in the office of the District Clerk at least thirty (30) days prior to the annual meeting, except for petitions relating to a proposition which must be included in the notice of the annual meeting.

Petitions relating to a proposition which must be included in the notice of the annual meeting must be submitted sixty (60) days in advance of the annual meeting. Any proposition may be rejected by the Trustees or Board of Education if the purpose of the proposition is not within the power of the voters, or where the expenditure of monies is required by the proposition, if the proposition fails to include the necessary specific appropriation.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR VOTING: 1.

A person shall be a citizen of the United States.

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Eighteen or more years of age.

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A resident of the District for a period of thirty days or more next preceding the election at which he or she offers to vote.

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PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that this Board shall convene a special meeting thereof within twenty-four hours after the filing with the District Clerk of a written report of the results of the ballot for the purpose of examining and tabulating said reports of the results of the ballot and declaring the result of the ballot. The Board hereby designates itself to be a set of poll clerks to cast and canvass ballots pursuant to Education Law Section 2019-a, subdivision 2b at said special meeting of the Board.

Dated: May 5, 2020 Y ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK Jeanne M. Puma District ClerK 121801 LEGAL NOTICE REUNIÓN ANUAL AVISO DE REUNIÓN Y ELECCIÓN ANUAL DE LA ESCUELA Y BIBLIOTECA EAST MEADOW UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT PUEBLO DE HEMPSTEAD, CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK POR EL PRESENTE SE NOTIFICA que la reunión anual, la votación del presupuesto y la elección de East Meadow Union Free School District se llevará a cabo el 9 de junio de 2020, sólo por voto ausente, en los siguientes asuntos individuales: 1.

Propuesta 1: los gastos estimados para fines escolares (presupuesto escolar) para el siguiente ciclo lectivo 2020-2021 y para autorizar el gravamen y la recaudación de los impuestos necesarios correspondientes.

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Propuesta 2: campo de césped. POR CUANTO, el 7 de marzo de 2017, los votantes de East Meadow Union Free School District, en el condado de Nassau, Nueva York (el “distrito”) aprobaron el gasto de no más de $44,244,720 para la construcción de mejoras y ampliaciones de varios edificios y lugares de la escuela, sustancialmente de acuerdo con un plan preparado por el distrito con la ayuda de John A. Grillo, Arquitectos (el “proyecto original”), y, subsecuentemente, la Junta de Educación autorizó la emisión de bonos que no excedan los $44,244,720 y el gravamen de un impuesto en cuotas para pagar dichos bonos y el interés que de ellos se derive; y POR CUANTO, la Junta de Educación ahora ha determinado que es conveniente y necesario modificar el proyecto original de acuerdo con el plan revisado preparado por los arquitectos del distrito para prever la

construcción de dos campos de césped artificial con caucho pulverizado verde y la eliminación de un campo de atletismo de césped, cuyas modificaciones aumentarán el costo del proyecto original en no más de $2,582,080; SE RESUELVE: (a) Que, por el presente, se autoriza a la Junta de Educación del distrito a modificar el proyecto original al (i) eliminar el campo de césped que se propuso construir en East Meadow High School, y (2) construir un campo de césped artificial con caucho pulverizado verde en East Meadow High School y también un campo de césped artificial con caucho pulverizado verde en el sitio principal de W.T. Clarke High School; y por consiguiente, para gastar en ello, entre el equipo, la maquinaria, los aparatos y sitios auxiliares o relacionados, la demolición y otros trabajos necesarios, los gastos preliminares y los gastos adicionales a estos y a su financiación, la suma de no más de $2,582,080; y (b) se autoriza el gravamen y la recaudación de un impuesto por un monto que no supere los $2,582,080 para ser cobrado en cuotas en los años y por el monto determinado por la Junta de Educación para pagar dichos costos; y, en previsión de dicho impuesto, por el presente se autoriza a la Junta de Educación a emitir bonos del distrito por un monto que no supere los $2,582,080, y, por el presente, se autoriza un impuesto para pagar el capital y los intereses de dichos bonos.

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Propuesta 3: los gastos estimados para fines bibliotecarios (presupuesto de la biblioteca) para el siguiente ciclo lectivo 2020-2021 y para autorizar el gravamen y la recaudación de los impuestos necesarios correspondientes.

4.

Cualquier otra pregunta o propuesta con respecto a los asuntos, gastos o autoridad para gravar impuestos que pueda ser presentada a votación de acuerdo con la Ley de Educación.

POR EL PRESENTE TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que la votación sobre los gastos estimados para los fines escolares y bibliotecarios para el ciclo lectivo y para la elección de miembros de la Junta de Educación y la Junta de la Biblioteca se llevará a cabo el 9 de junio de 2020, sólo por voto ausente.

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LA VOTACIÓN será solo por medio de boleta ausente, dicha boleta será enviada por correo a cada votante calificado identificado de East Meadow Union Free School District por la oficina de la secretaria del Distrito.

NOTIFÍQUESE TAMBIÉN que en la votación y elección que se realizará el 9 de junio de 2020, se elegirán dos (2) miembros de la Junta de Educación y un (1) miembro de la Junta de la Biblioteca de la siguiente manera: (a) dos miembros de la Junta de Educación para un periodo completo de tres (3) años que comenzará el 1 de julio de 2020 y finalizará el 30 de junio de 2023. (b) un miembro de la Junta de la Biblioteca para un periodo completo de cinco (5) años que comenzará el 1 de julio de 2020 para suceder en funciones a Ellen Matishek, cuyo mandato finaliza el 30 de junio de 2020.

NOTIFÍQUESE TAMBIÉN que la elección debe llevarse a cabo de acuerdo con las Normas de Realización de Reuniones y Elecciones adoptadas por la Junta de Educación y la ley aplicable.

NOMINACIÓN DE CANDIDATOS NOTIFÍQUESE TAMBIÉN que los candidatos para los cargos de miembros de la Junta de Educación y miembros de la Junta de la Biblioteca deben ser nominados por solicitud.

Los candidatos a miembros de la Junta de Educación se presentan en general. La solicitud de cada candidato para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de Educación debe estar dirigida a la secretaria del Distrito Escolar, a cargo del superintendente, y debe establecer el nombre y el domicilio del candidato.

Cada vacante por completarse por fideicomisarios de la Junta del a Biblioteca se debe considerar un cargo específico y separado. Se debe pedir una solicitud por separado para nominar a un candidato para cada cargo en particular. Cada solicitud para candidatos para el cargo de miembro de la Junta de la Biblioteca debe estar dirigida a la secretaria del Distrito Escolar, a cargo del superintendente, debe establecer el nombre y el domicilio del candidato y debe describir la vacante específica en la Junta de la Biblioteca para la que el candidato es nominado; esta descripción debe incluir al menos la duración del cargo y el nombre del último titular.

Cada solicitud debe presentarse en la oficina de la secretaria del distrito no después de las 5:00 p.m. del 11 de mayo de 2020. No hay un

número mínimo de firmas requeridas para la petición de nominación.

La petición de nominación puede ser enviada por correo electrónico, por fax o por correo al Secretario del Distrito.

REGISTRO PERSONAL DE VOTANTES TENGA EN CUENTA QUE TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que cualquier residente del distrito escolar que no esté ya registrado para votar y desee ser un votante registrado para esta elección puede registrarse en la junta electoral presentando una solicitud en línea para el registro de votantes ante el Departamento de Vehículos Motorizados a https://dmv.ny.gov/morei n f o / e l e c t r o n i c - v o t e rregistration-application.

TENGA EN CUENTA QUE TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que la presentación oficial del presupuesto escolar adoptado se llevará a cabo a distancia el 27 de mayo de 2020 a las 7:00 p.m.

La presentación oficial sobre el presupuesto bibliotecario propuesto se llevará a cabo a distancia el 27 de mayo de 2020 a las 8:00 p.m.

TENGA EN CUENTA QUE TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que el presupuesto escolar propuesto para el 2020/2021 está disponible para los residentes del distrito, si lo solicitan, desde el 26 de mayo de 2020 en el sitio web del Distrito. El presupuesto bibliotecario propuesto para el 2020/2021 está disponible para cualquier residente, si lo solicita, desde el 26 de mayo de 2020 en el sitio web de la biblioteca pública de East Meadow.

TENGA EN CUENTA QUE TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que, conforme a la sección 495 de la Ley del Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles, un informe de exención donde se detallen las exenciones de los impuestos de los bienes inmuebles debe estar disponible y anexado a cualquier presupuesto tentativo, preliminar o final.

TENGA EN CUENTA QUE TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que la boleta ausente será enviada por correo a la dirección establecida en los libros de registro de electores, a más tardar seis (6) días antes de la elección. Las papeletas ausentes deben ser recibidas por el Secretario de Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. del 9 de junio de 2020.

ASIMISMO, TENGA EN CUENTA que los votantes militares que no estén registrados actualmente pueden solicitar registrarse como votantes calificados del distrito escolar. Los votantes militares que sean votantes calificados del distrito escolar podrán enviar una solicitud de boleta electoral militar.

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pueden indicar su preferencia de recibir una solicitud de registro de votantes militares, una solicitud de boleta electoral militar o una boleta electoral militar por correo postal, fax o correo electrónico en dicho pedido de solicitud de registro, solicitud de boleta o boleta. Los formularios de solicitud de registro para votantes militares deben recibirse en la oficina de la secretaria del distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p. m. del 14 de mayo de 2020.

Ninguna boleta militar será investigada a menos que sea devuelta por correo o en persona y recibida por la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito a más tardar a las 5:00 p.m. del día de la elección.

TENGA EN CUENTA QUE TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que toda propuesta o preguntas que se realicen en las máquinas de votación deberán presentarse por escrito mediante solicitud firmada por al menos quinientos (500) votantes calificados del distrito y presentarse en la oficina de la secretaria del distrito al menos treinta (30) días antes de la reunión anual, con excepción de las solicitudes que estén relacionadas con una propuesta que deba incluirse en el aviso de la reunión anual.

Las solicitudes relacionadas con una propuesta que deban incluirse en el aviso de la reunión anual deben presentarse sesenta (60) días antes de la reunión anual. Los fideicomisarios de la

Junta de Educación pueden rechazar cualquier propuesta si el propósito de la propuesta no se encuentra dentro de las facultades de los votantes, o cuando la propuesta requiera gastos de dinero, si la propuesta no incluye la asignación necesaria específica.

REQUISITOS PARA VOTAR: 1.

Ser ciudadano de los Estados Unidos.

2.

Ser mayor de dieciocho años.

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Ser residente del distrito por un periodo de treinta días o más inmediatamente antes la elección en la que se ofrece a votar.

TENGA EN CUENTA QUE TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que esta Junta convocará a una reunión especial de dicha Junta en un plazo de veinticuatro horas después de la

presentación ante la secretaria del distrito de un informe por escrito de los resultados de la votación con el fin de analizar y clasificar los informes de los resultados de la votación y declarar el resultado de la votación. Por el presente, la Junta se designa como un grupo de fiscales para emitir y sondear votos conforme a la Ley de Educación, sección 2019-a, subsección 2b, en dicha reunión especial de la Junta.

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Q. Lately, now that it’s spring, I’m seeing roofers putting on new shingles and assume people are getting leaks that must be making them a little desperate, because roofers are working on wet roofs or in cold weather or when it’s drizzling. Can roof shingles be put on in wet weather? I Ask The was taught by my father, a carpenter who was Architect extremely careful with everything he did. I learned what to do (and not to do) from him, and he never would have allowed this. Is there something about today’s products that allows them to be put on in wet or cold weather that I don’t know about?

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only things being “put on.” Wet weather and construction don’t mix. Homeowners are being misled by people they hired to do the right job.

One of the first lessons in architecture is the detailed understanding of how water and movement affect buildings. Your observation is correct that installing materials in wet conditions should generally be avoided. In the case of putting shingles over shingles, there’s an assumption that the heat of a hot, sunny day will dry everything out eventually, but the slowly developing damage has already begun, hidden from sight.

It’s generally not the first thing people think of, but the world we live in exists in multiple levels of scale, from nanoparticles to cells to larger molecules and visible materials. In other words, seeing may be believing, but what you can’t see is still there, and what you can’t see happening is still happening. If we only think of water as big droplets, forgetting about gas (vapor) and solid (expanding ice), or that many materials allow water vapor to squeeze between their molecular structures, then it will be harder to understand the level of permeability or penetration of a material, like the wood sheathing below the shingles — or that a thousand nails were just driven through the vapor barrier sheeting below the shingles.

For installers, it becomes a gamble, a game of risk, to someone else’s cherished property through a bunch of assumptions: that water won’t get through, or won’t be locked in, heated by the sun, forced by pressure like a thousand little boiling tea kettles to push moisture around the nails and into the wood sheathing, or to cause the semi-rigid shingles to be forced by expanding frost to keep flexing and contracting, shortening their useful lifespan of protecting the inside of the house. Once this occurs, the materials have made accommodation for vapor and have slightly expanded, but after expanding, they don’t immediately contract again.

They now have a much greater flexibility, and all because the moisture crowbarred its way in.

I often wonder if those installers would leave their windows down in a car wash. They have little to lose, because if the shingles fail prematurely, they’ll be back sooner.

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he coronavirus pandemic sweeping our nation has highlighted critical gaps in our ability to beat back such threats. It’s quite a wake-up call for America.

There is total consensus in the international medical community that Covid19 originated in Wuhan, China. It likely began as a virus that jumped from animals to humans in one of that city’s notorio u s “ we t m a rkets,” where all sorts of live animals — including live bats known to carry coronavirusalfonse es — are slaughtered and offered d’amaTo for sale for human consumption.

According to U.S. intelligence reports, it is also ever more likely that a Chinese governmentsponsored laboratory in that city — the Wuhan Institute of Virology — was experimenting with the virus, and that because of careless handling by its scientists, the virus might have escaped from the lab and triggered the pandemic.

The Chinese communist government has predictably obfuscated on this disaster, locking down information from Wuhan and concealing the extent of the

pandemic in China. Instead of cooperating with the rest of the world to help scientists fully understand the origin and spread of the disease, Chinese authorities have lowered a cloak of secrecy and unleashed a propaganda campaign, even going so far as to make the preposterous claim that the virus was somehow imported into China by the U.S. military.

All of this would be more than bad enough if not for the fact that the virus has painfully demonstrated just how dependent the U.S. has become on China and other countries for all manner of medical supplies and critical medicines. America imports vast amounts of medical masks, gowns and other protective equipment. Much of our pharmaceutical industry, which was once located in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, has shifted to Asia over the past few decades.

America today is in the extraordinarily dangerous position of fighting a pandemic caused largely by the Chinese government’s carelessness and malfeasance with medical supplies from China. That must change, and quickly. It’s time for America to see China for the adversary it is, not the partner we might wish it to be.

That will mean making some very fundamental changes in U.S. industrial and

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trade policies in the future. We must bring critical manufacturing capability back to this country, especially for important medical supplies and pharmaceuticals.

By way of example, for years America had a robust pharmaceutical industry in Puerto Rico.

That industry was given tax incentives that were shortsightedly allowed to lapse, driving production to other nations, where it was welcomed with significant host-government support.

Congress and the administration should reinstate those tax incentives to bring back pharmaceutical production.

There are a number of other steps Washington should consider to help rebuild our manufacturing base.

For years we have allowed China and other countries to game international bodies like the World Trade Organization and the World Health Organization, which gave special treatment to those countries as “developing nations.”

But today its laughable to consider China a developing nation that can take advantage of WTO polices to dump manufactured goods in America and WHO policies that allow it to shirk its international responsibilities. How can it be right for China to run a trade surplus

t has painfully demonstrated just how dependent the U.S. has become on China.

with the U.S. of a half trillion dollars a year at the same time that it contributes less than one-tenth of what the U.S. has contributed to the WHO? China gives the WHO less than $50 million a year, while the U.S. gives it over $500 million for international health care initiatives, because the WHO considers China a “developing nation.”

What nonsense! President Trump was right to suspend further U.S. financial support for the WHO until this glaring inequity is corrected. At the very least, China must make up the hundreds of millions of dollars it should have contributed to the WHO to match what the U.S. has already so generously contributed.

Over the next few years, in the aftermath of this international health and economic disaster, America must rebuild its industrial might. We cannot lead the world with just the strength of our ideals or our arms, great as they may be. And we must demand that countries like China treat the rest of the world fairly, and shoulder their share of the responsibility to all humankind.

It is not too late for America to wake up. But time is running out.

Al D’Amato, a former U.S. senator from New York, is the founder of Park Strategies LLC, a public policy and business development firm. Comments about this column? ADAmato@liherald.com.

Have you heard the one about Clorox Chewables?

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umor is serious business, so I felt much better when the pandemic jokes began popping up. For example: “If you need 144 rolls of toilet paper for a 14-day quarantine, you probably should have been seeing a doctor long before Covid-19.” If we can joke about it, it can’t be as terrifying as it seems, right? Right?

Tracking the LOLs, it becomes evident that much coronavirus humor focuses on toilet paper and the shortages thereof. I guess the world started looking funny to us when we first put on our big boy and big girl pants.

I know some Randi readers think kReiss there’s nothing funny about Covid19, and really, those of us who find a laugh here and there don’t think it’s funny, either. We’re not making light of the disease, but of ourselves and our foibles.

Humor is an enormously successful defense mechanism. That’s not from me; it’s from, you know, the guy who knew about these things, Sigmund Freud. He

wrote that humor helps us cope with seemingly insurmountable tragedy. It eases the burden and gives us some sense of control.

Two photos online: The first is a picture of Quentin Tarantino. The second is a picture of a guy in full hazmat suit inside a tent. The caption is “Tentin Quarantino.” You can laugh, it’s OK. The psychologists say so.

Gregg Levoy wrote in Psychology Today, “It’s a curious thing. We’re in the midst of the worst global health crisis in over 100 years, and yet we’re overflowing with jokes, parodies, cartoons and gag videos.”

I’ve laughed a lot at talking-dog videos, especially that one with the Schnauzer giving advice to other dogs on how to behave during a pandemic, specifically identifying the no-sniff zones. Yeah, the humor is low, but so is my morale.

This is not to say that sharing humor is without risk. We’re isolated, so when we send friends jokes or cartoons, they can’t see our expressions and we can’t read theirs. The possibility of misunderstanding one another is real.

To be sure, there is safe humor, and much more edgy stuff. One does have to

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exhibit a modicum of good taste. I don’t think humor goes into the ICU or to the gravesite. And it all depends on one’s own experience through this time of trouble.

Being sick, worrying about a loved one in trouble, suffering financial setbacks or just going crazy from the extended isolation all change our sense of what’s funny.

My family is notoriously dark when it comes to humor. Almost anything goes, and for us, it helps.

People are still tuning in to Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers because they make us laugh, despite the horrific news. All of them push the envelope.

Levoy says you can’t laugh and be scared at the same time, so while we’re laughing, we are momentarily forgetting the horrors of the pandemic. We are temporarily tuning out the map with the spread of the disease and the voiceovers with the daily totals of dead people and the news reports of refrigerator trucks holding the bodies of people’s mothers and fathers and children. After a while of consuming the bad news, we overload on horrific detail and actually shortcircuit. In that moment, if we can find

e’re not making light of the disease, but of ourselves and our foibles.

something to laugh about, it’s really OK. “Life does not cease to be funny when people die,” said George Bernard Shaw, “any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

Here are a couple of mini ha-has: Has anyone let the Amish know what’s going on yet?

The World Health Organization has announced that dogs can’t contract Covid19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. Just to be clear, WHO let the dogs out.

Some of the humor coming my way targets Donald Trump and his disastrous incompetence before and during the pandemic. (Have you seen the ad for Clorox Chewables?)

Maher piled on: “Donald Trump had a meltdown about what a great temperament he has. It was like watching someone carve ‘I’m not a psycho’ into their arm.”

“If you are able to teach people to be more playful, to look at the absurdities of life as humorous, you see some increase in well-being,” said Stanford psychologist Andrea Samson.

I’m all for vaccines — the sooner the better — but let’s not inoculate ourselves against laughter.

Copyright 2020 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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Schools: focus on students first, then learning

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ast Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo finally offered students and teachers certainty about the rest of the 2019-20 school year when he canceled in-person classes through June to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Thank you, Mr. Cuomo.

For weeks, pupils and educators in New York’s schools were left in limbo, wondering whether they should devote themselves entirely to the new online model or wait for classes to resume as normal.

Moving to online teaching and learning was a shock to our education system that left all involved in a state of frenzied confusion. In just weeks, teachers had to move to a system in which most had little to no training or experience. Students, many of whom depend on their teachers, coaches, guidance counselors and administrators for social and emotional support, suddenly lost that network, leaving many full of anxiety at a time of widespread despair.

What most young people repeatedly hear now are stories of job loss and death.

Many children and young adults, without the life experience to understand that the nation will emerge from this crisis, remain in a semi-daze, incapable of focusing on their schoolwork as they did two months ago.

Worse, many students are hurting because their parents have lost their jobs, or fear losing them. Worst still, some students have lost parents or grandparents to Covid-19.

Teachers and administrators should, first and foremost, pay close attention to

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letters The virus is tough, but Long Islanders are tougher To the Editor: Communities all over the world have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, but have pressed on and adapted to the “new normal” of social distancing, homeschooling and teleworking. Although the virus has ravaged communities and businesses, Long Islanders have shown our strength once again by coming together even when we are kept physically apart.

Long Island is home to heroic first responders who risk illness and injury to help others in times of crisis. During Hurricane Sandy and after the Sept. 11 attacks, firefighters, police officers, health care workers and volunteers worked around the clock, without returning home to their own families for weeks on end, to heroically help our families and fellow New Yorkers. The same has been true during this pandemic.

their students’ psychological health during this precarious time, and secondarily to their schoolwork.

The period between now and mid-June will be a time of survival for many people, and no less for students. Expectations of learning must be tempered by the premise that, above all else, our young people must emerge from this time unscathed — psychologically unharmed, in a sound mental state.

The State Education Department canceled all major exams, including the Regents, for a good reason: The normal process of learning has been interrupted, and will not resume for some time.

The nation is at war with an invisible killer. Right now, students’ grades matter less than during ordinary times. What matters is sending a clear message to our young people: We adults will keep you safe.

One day soon, we will return to normal, and when we do, we will redouble our efforts to ensure that you learn all that’s necessary to know. Now, however, is not that time.

That is not to say that we should forgo learning, or not expect students to do their work. Rather, we must understand and acknowledge how they are feeling before we can get down to whatever work is possible.

With that said, we offer these suggestions to our schools: ■ If teachers are not already doing so, they should meet with their students in live sessions at least once a week, and pref-

erably twice a week. Students desperately need to see and speak with their teachers, but we have heard scattered reports that at least some teachers have not met live with their students for as long as six weeks.

■ Each district should decide on one online educational platform for all. Whether it’s Google Classroom or Edmodo, make it districtwide. Employing more than one platform will only sow confusion.

■ Students should be assigned homework according to a set schedule, at a given time on a given day, so they know what to expect. Consistency is key, so they can develop a routine.

■ Teachers should follow up on homework assignments with live Zoom sessions to explain the work, and not leave it to students to attend extra help sessions, particularly sessions conducted by email.

■ Students should not be videoed in class, with the images posted on YouTube, without student and parental consent.

■ All teachers in a district should have a single method of taking attendance, and grading rubrics should be provided to students and parents.

■ Students should be given opportunities to do extra-credit work to make up for missed work.

We will survive this crisis, and teachers and school administrators will play a key role in ensuring that we do, provided that every district adheres to a set of basic guidelines for online teaching.

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was asked recently why university presidents aren’t speaking out about the state of affairs in our country. Of course, the issue of the moment is the lack of preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic, even when knowledgeable people were forecasting it. After all, universities are supposed to be moral forces in society.

Who is in a better position to remind the public of what the 19thcentury English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said: “. . . the rule is absolute, the [nation] which robert a. does not value trained intelliscott gence is doomed”?

Yet the voices of university leaders are largely silent in the face of the most critical issue of our time, and trained intelligence is ignored when politically inconvenient.

Some argue that university leaders should not take stands on policy, that they should not be “political.” But what is political and what is polemical? Politics refers to the public affairs of a country. A

polemic is an aggressive attack on the opinions or principles of another. Surely academic leaders can comment on the public affairs of the country without resorting to aggressive attacks, even if those whose policies are being confronted want others to believe that such comments are inappropriate.

Therefore, when scientific leadership on policies related to health care, clean water, air pollution and product safety, among others, is being replaced by lobbyists for the regulated industries, university leaders should be among the strongest voices expressing concern. Should they not call out falsehoods and fabrications passing as truth?

Education is the foundation of a free and democratic society. In any country, the university is unique in its mission to create, curate and critique. Laboratories create new knowledge, museums and libraries preserve the past, and journalists examine social policy by asking “Why?” But only the university is responsible for all three roles.

In these ways, the university fulfills its historic mission not as a political force,

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houldn’t they call out falsehoods and fabrications passing as truth?

Letters Although the enemy that first responders are battling is invisible, they continue to fight with valor, and give us all the confidence that this virus will be defeated. Public transportation workers, grocery clerks, truck drivers and countless other essential workers are all working on the front lines to provide us with services that our society could not function without.

With the apex of the pandemic hitting during the holy season, people of all denominations had to limit their celebrations to immediate family, and many, including me, opted for virtual gatherings via Zoom. While physically empty, churches, mosques and temples continue to play a tremendous part in keeping congregations full in their faiths and hopeful that an end to this crisis is near. Religious leaders and community members across creeds have maintained active charities to combat food insecurity and provide first responders and those in need with personal protective equipment and other supplies even though their own collection of these needed materials was dwindling.

T he County Le gislature has received more than 4,000 letters and drawings from children for our frontline heroes as part of our “Letters to our Heroes” drive. Donations of PPE and nightly displays of gratitude — drive-bys, horn honks and alarm sounding — have cheered up and cheer

but as an ethical voice. For example, the founders of Adelphi were advocates for the advancement of women, the abolition of slavery and improved instruments for world peace. They adopted as their motto, “The truth shall make us free.” Surely there were those who thought the new institution should only teach classes, believing that school was separate from society. But the president and supporters knew the power of ethical arguments and the need for ethical thinking.

The ethical perspective considers fairness, the degree of bias, the consistency of application, the factual basis for assertions and the justness of moral judgments and public laws. Women had no right to vote, slavery was legal and war ignored diplomacy as the “first resort of kings,” as the author Richard Arndt described it, yet the Adelphi leaders had the courage of conviction and a visionary voice.

They knew that their role was to educate students, and the public, to reflect on what they read and heard, assess actions and policies, form independent opinions, and express impartial concerns as indi-

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viduals. In this way, the university teaches us all to distinguish among the three paths to finding truth — through facts, faith and fear — and helps to clarify each.

To state facts is not polemical. People wake-u The can have different opinions, but not difnation ferent facts. The university’s role is to 19 orig advance knowledge, both general and expert; skills such as writing and speaking with clarity and persuasion; abilities such as critical thinking and leadership; and values such as teamwork, respect for others and their opinions, and becoming active in society as citizens.

These are the missions of a university, and it is the university president who serves as the chief mission officer. If we do our jobs well, our graduates will be well prepared to see the results of political actions that ignore expert knowledge.

They will be able to analyze propaganda masquerading as principle, and discern facts from unfounded superstitions. They will be able to call out the misguided actions of those who ignore science, histo- U.S. in ry and the need to respect others. We will more l sponso have prepared graduates for political action when it is needed regardless of the Wuha polemics surrounding them. And we will experi becaus have taken an ethical stand. tists, t the lab Robert A. Scott is president emeritus of The Adelphi University. has pr ter, lo Wuhan

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on our heroes.

I have worked with County Executive Laura Curran and my fellow legislators to approve emergency legislation allowing the county to spend $2.3 million on PPE, testing supplies and other critical tools to help keep workers and residents safe. Recently, I joined my colleagues to urge Gov. Andrew Cuomo to push back the property tax deadline to give relief to struggling businesses and residents.

Last month the governor answered our call and extended the deadline until June 1.

The pandemic has affected our lives in ways that we could noy have fathomed just a few months ago. Recovery will be difficult, but with our combined efforts, it is more than possible.

The coronavirus may be tough, but Long Islanders are tougher.

C. WILLIAm GAYLOR Nassau County legislator

Cuomo has a friend in Jerry Kremer To the Editor: I just had to respond to last week’s column by Jerry Kremer, “Cuomo puts the other guy from Queens to shame.” Kremer speaks in glowing terms about Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but

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leaves out so many details — for example, that Cuomo has put the state in a $6 billion hole because of inept and careless spending, investing state money in ridiculous solar panel schemes and not allowing fracking that would not only increase state revenue, but lower all taxpayer energy bills. He is also eliminating the Indian Point power plant, which provides New York City with 25 percent of its power.

Where does Cuomo expect to make up that energy deficit? Windmills? Solar power? When the lights go out this summer

and in summers to follow, there will be only one person to blame, and that will be Cuomo.

Kremer obviously despises President Trump, but I must say that if it were not for Trump and his staff bailing out all theseof us w mismanaged states, this country would bedon’t th finished. The least Trump deserves is amakin thank-you from these blue state governorsselves Hum for coming to their rescue. defense RICHARD HEEmANit’s from Valley Streamabout t

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