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HERALD All the News of the Five Towns

William Koehler is remembered

Trying to help small businesses

happy Birthday, Stephen Witt

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Vol. 97 No. 23

JUNE 4 - 10, 2020

Five Towns businesses start to reopen the work he has planned and obtaining the necessary approvals for a project in New York City. jbessen@liherald.com “I tried not to break my routine, As Long Island moved into doing what I could,” Vilardi said, Week Two of the state’s Phase “but for every step I took 10 back.

One reopening, business owners But now is the time to get going. who had not been operating Everyone knows what it takes to since the coronavirus pandemic keep safe.” business closures began in At Eyes on Broadway, in March started to mobilize man- Hewlett, optometrist Dr. Steven power and materials Agin said he was for the restart. “thrilled” to be able Hewlett resident to reopen his now Jim Vilardi, who 20-year-old business, owns the Bedford though he was less Construction Group than ecstatic about in Valley Stream, the way in which said that while he bu s i n e s s e s we re had been working in classified during the the office since his shutdown. “With the business was shut understanding of down, it was taking JIM VIlARdI the severity of the time to ramp up to Business owner coronavirus pandoing projects, demic, staying because supplies have to be closed and the social distancordered, and some subcontrac- ing,” Agin said, “there just tors had employees who con- should have been a better evaluatracted Covid-19. Waiting for tion of what was actually essenmunicipalities to process the tial.” He noted that liquor stores backlog of permits that are remained open, while his busirequired is another hurdle. ness, which serves people with “It’s a good sign things are prescription eyewear, was closed. starting to move,” Vilardi said, “It was absolutely out of line adding that he kept busy during for us to be closed for two the shutdown by cleaning the months,” he said. “I had a lot of office, shopping for new projects, people upset because of these looking for partners for some of Continued on page 8

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ATlANTIC BEACh RESCUE members have made and will continue to make changes in the way they treat patients during the coronavirus pandemic. Aboard the squad’s boat were David Weinberger, left, and Steve Patterson.

Pandemic is a ‘hectic time’ to be saving lives in A.B.

By MATThEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com

First responders across Long Island have had to change the way they treat patients during the coronavirus pandemic. Emergency service units such as Atlantic Beach Rescue now face new challenges when rescuing distressed boaters and swim-

mers just as the summer season ramps up.

The all-volunteer squad of roughly 40 provides emergency medical services and advanced life support within the 2-square-mile area of Atlantic Beach, conducts rescues in its waters and provides mutual aid to the U.S. Coast Guard, the New York City police and fire depart-

ments and all of the fire departments in the Five Towns, as well as Long Beach.

Atlantic Beach Rescue was named Nassau County’s Emergency Medical Service Agency of the Year in 2018.

Avi Golan, the unit’s chief, described the adjustments that the volunteers have had to make since March. “WhenContinued on page 8

t’s a good sign things are starting to move.

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Help us to continue to provide critical and essential services to our entire community.

The Rina Shkolnik Kosher Food Pantry

located at The S.H.O.P. (Sustenance Hope Opportunities Place) has seen a 40% increase of new families who are suddenly facing hardships.

Our Older Adult Department

is in touch with seniors and Holocaust survivors to check in and perform wellness checks. Activities are being shared so that they can stay healthy and engaged.

The JCC Social Work Team

is conducting remote counseling sessions with vulnerable and isolated community members who are anxious and need support at this time.

Our Special Needs Department

has been running virtual support groups for adults with disabilities and parents of children with special needs to connect, share resources and support each other.

Our Volunteer Department

has mobilized an army of volunteers to deliver food, run errands and shop for groceries to those who can’t get out especially seniors living alone.

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Asher Mansdorf

Asher Matathias

Amil Virani

Longtime incumbents challenged in Lawrence School, library budgets and election voting by mail deadline is June 9 at 5 p.m.

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

School district voting on proposed budgets, board trustees and propositions will have a completely different feel as there is no in-person voting this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. All voting will be done by mail-in ballot as mandated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

In the Lawrence School District, the proposed budget is $102,490,053, a .04 increase over the current $102 million fiscal plan. Both the tax levy — the amount of money the district collects through property taxes — and state aid remains flat. The tax levy is $85,954,300 and as of now state aid is expected to be $12,880,421, same as the present budget.

Cuomo said that there could be cuts to state aid because of the financial strain of the crisis. Possibly as much as 20 percent.

But nothing is yet to be finalized. “We are ready for that,” said Jeremy Feder, Lawrence’s assistant superintendent for business and operation. “A budget is fluid.”

Two challengers in trustee race

Incumbents and longtime Board of Education Trustees Murray Forman and Dr. Asher Mansdorf are being opposed for the three-year terms by Amil Virani and Asher Matathias, respectively.

Virani, 18, a 2019 graduate of Lawrence High School, attends Queens College and is majoring in finance with a minor in political science. He has been attending Lawrence board meetings for more than a year. He lives in Cedarhurst.

“I was inspired to run to give back to the community,” Virani said. “When I was student body vice president and going to board meetings, I was seeing things that were not right. There is a lack of transparency, and the teachers going without a new contract. I think we could dedicate ourselves to doing a lot better.”

He said that the current board is disconnected from the community as illustrated by what he perceives to be a lack of concern for getting a new teachers contract done and the laying off of 102 employees and furloughing five other staff members amid the pandemic.

Having a sister attending school in the

district, Virani noted what he thinks is the cal responsibility.” “systematic failure” of the district with its He defends the staff layoffs and furremote learning because instead of using loughs as part of the pledge Board of EduGoogle Classroom, a platform many teach- cation trustees take to not “gift taxpayer ers and students were familiar with, the funds.” Forman said that because of the district used the iTutor platform which did pandemic, paying the employees was “not have numerous issues at the onset of the appropriate if the work is not there.” He distance learning. “The non-English pointed out that because of the CARES Act speaking households are getting hurt the and the manner the federal and state govmost,” he said. “We ernment is supwill see long-term por ting people damage.” who are eligible He said that the f o r u n e m p l oy class size cap needs ment, the layoffs to be retained. It is a n d f u rl o u g h s Lawrence School District officials noted a recurring issue we r e “ f i s c a l l y that this year’s budget and election in the teacher conresponsible” for tract talks. And for the school district results will be based upon the manual him he said it is and he anticipated tallying of paper ballots, which can be a personal. “I would a return to normal more time consuming process than in not be sitting here s t a f f i n g l eve l s past years. if I didn’t have the when school buildAfter the final tallying of the ballots, the small class sizes I ings are allowed to district clerk will submit the totals to the had in high reopen. The federBoard of Education, which will then meet school,” Virani al Coronavirus to accept the results. said. The personal Aid, Relief and In terms of scheduling the board re l at i o n s h i p s I Economic Securimeeting, it is anticipated that it will be developed with ty Act addresses held on either June 9 or, if the tally is not teachers helped me the nation’s ecosucceed as a stunomic fallout from completed that night, then on June 10. dent.” the pandemic.

Virani added Being part of -- Jeffrey Bessen that if elected, he the board that has p ro m i s e s m o re been negotiating a open and accessinew teachers conble communication with residents “There tract for more than nine years, Forman is no one holding them accountable,” he said that before the pandemic struck there said, referring to the board. had been what he called “robust negotiaForman, 59, a private investor who lives tions” for nearly nine months. “It’s not in Lawrence, is running for his sixth term. really up to the board, it’s up to the teach“I am more enthusiastic than ever seeing ers,” he said. “Unfortunately, what became the progress of the district and I want to apparent while the district moved on virtubuild on the strong foundation that I have ally every issue, unfortunately there was been a part of in the past 15 years,” he no movement on the part of the union.” said, in explaining why he wants another For the seventh consecutive year term.

Matathias, 76, is running for the board.

Currently the board president, Forman Declining to answer the Herald’s “trite said that the district has made “dramatic questions” as the Woodmere resident strides in its educational outcomes by all described them, he referred the Herald to our students,” and the board he has served an email which highlighted his platform with has “reversed the non-investment in that shows concern for immigrant stuthe physical facilities” and whether its dents that must mow learn remotely and Hurricane Sandy or the pandemic he is a the need for a new teachers’ contract. The “proven leader who can handle any chal- other half dozen items have either been lenge and doing it with an eye toward fis- addressed by the district or could be con-

Counting the ballots

sidered verbal assaults against Lawrence officials.

Mansdorf, 67, a retired dentist, is the board’s vice president and running for his seventh term. He said that “many good things are falling into place, the district is moving forward and we are correcting issues that had been overlooked,” are his reasons for wanting another three-year term.

He points to increasing the educational opportunities for all district students, rising graduation rates, creating safer campuses and renovating the Broadway Campus auditorium as the most recent achievements. “I really enjoy watching the kids succeed,” Mansdorf said, adding that the district’s financial health is also strong.

Defending the layoff and furlough decision, he highlighted the same arguments as Forman, noting that the contrast between teachers who have roles and the cleaners and the aides who have no role at this time. Showing an optimism not usually present, Mansdorf said that the teachers’ contract situation will be settled. “We’re incredibly close,” he said.

Other propositions, PPL

Voters are also being asked to approve a Building Capital Reserve Fund not to exceed $4 million. The purpose is to finance reconstruction, renovation and the equipment for infrastructure improvements, including air conditioning at the high school, classroom and cafeteria renovations at the middle school and parking and playground enhancements at the Lawrence Primary School.

Peninsula Public Library is proposing a $3.112 million budget. An increase of 1.8 percent from the current spending plan. Trustee Audrian Gray, an Inwood resident, is running unchallenged for another five-year term.

Ballots must be received in the Office of the District Clerk 2 Reilly Road, Cedarhurst, N.Y., 11516 no later than 5 p.m. on June 9. There will also be a ballot drop box by the main entrance of the high school at the same address.

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Murray Forman

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crime watch

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Arrests ■ ATLANTIC BEACH-On May 24 at 10:22 p.m., Jerardo Lemus, 24, of Levittown and Marlyng Palma-Vindell, 22, of Westbury, were arrested at the intersection of Tioga Avenue and Ocean Boulevard for possession of marijuana, according to police.

■ INWOOD-On May 24 at 10:57 p.m., Nosike Obanya, 25, of Far Rockaway, was arrested on Mott Avenue for possession of marijuana, police said.

■ NORTH WOODMERE-On May 22 at 9:34 p.m., Curt A. Roberts, 51, of Rosedale, was arrested for driving while intoxicated on Cedarhurst Street, officials said.

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Toll operaTions began again for the Atlantic Beach Bridge.

A. B. Bridge tolls are in effect, again Atlantic Beach Bridge toll operations that were suspended since midMarch because of the coronavirus pandemic have been lifted and the required tolls will be collected again, Nassau County Bridge Authority officials said.

When toll operations, bridge authority workers sanitized the tollbooths and buildings. The bridge con-

Larceny from auto ■ INWOOD-On May 23 at 7 p.m., a man

nects Atlantic Beach village and the rest of the barrier island to mainland Long Island.

For more information on the bridge authority, go to https://ncbaabb.com/ or call (516) 239-6900.

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reported that items were stolen from his unlocked vehicle on Redfern Avenue, according to police.

■ INWOOD-On May 27 at 11 a.m., a man reported that a catalytic convertor was stolen from his vehicle on Cerro Street, officials said.

Petit larceny ■ INWOOD-On May 23 at 6:48 p.m., it was reported that an unidentified female stole items from the CVS on Burnside Avenue, authorities said.

Criminal Mischief ■ WOODMERE-On May 27 at 7:30 p.m., a man reported that a window on his vehicle was broken while parked on Woodmere Boulevard, according to police.

Cedarhurst man arrested for alleged Valley Stream burglary A Cedarhurst man was arrested by police for an alleged burglary of a Valley Stream at 1:01 a.m. on May 31.

Police said, the owner of Touch of Glass Collision, at 120 East Hawthorne Ave. received a notification from his alarm company that an unidentified person was inside the store. He immediately brought up video of the location on his cell phone and called 911 and provided a description of the alleged burglary.

After the subsequent investigation, the

police found Jorge Santizo-Lanuza, 21, of 217 Prospect Ave. near the business. He was arrested without incident.

Santizo-Lanuza is charged with burglary third-degree, grand larceny thirddegree, grand larceny fourth-degree, unauthorized use of a vehicle thirddegree and criminal possession of stolen property fifth-degree. He was arraigned on June 1 in Mineola.

—Jeffrey Bessen

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P R O P O S E D

VOTE!

VOTE! VOTE!

BY JUNE 9, 2020 ABSENTEE BALLOT ONLY NO IN-PERSON VOTING

Ballots mailed to all qualified voters in Hewlett-Woodmere with a postage-paid envelope to return the ballots.

Ballots MUST be received by 5:00 PM on June 9, 2020.

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he proposed 2020–2021 school budget allows the District to maintain our existing programs and services while allocating the resources necessary to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

WHAT’S NEW? • Funding for personal protective equipment, professional •

development to address learning gaps, and facility alterations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Continuation of Behavioral Health Center partnership with Northwell Health for all resident students.

Increased extra-curricular opportunities at HHS.

• WHAT’S MAINTAINED? • Expansive course offerings at HHS. • Adult education, recreation, and summer programs.

• Academic, art, music, and athletics programs.

S C H O O L

B U D G E T

PROPOSITION ONE

2020–2021 School Budget $126,882,632

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PROPOSITION TWO

Will allow the expenditure of $2,000,000 from the Long Range Capital Reserve Fund to complete projects at all facilities.

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PROPOSITION THREE

2020–2021 Library Budget More information can be found on the District Website at

www.hewlett-woodmere.net

BUDGET-TO-BUDGET INCREASE: 2.89% PROJECTED TAX LEVY INCREASE: 2.89%* * Complies with New York State limit.

For 2020–2021, the District’s maximum allowable tax levy limit is 3.77%.

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Proposed H-W budget is $126.8 million

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By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com

Hewlett-Woodmere School District residents will be voting by mail-in ballots because of the coronavirus pandemic. Eligible voters were mailed an absentee ballot with a postage-paid envelope to return the ballot. All ballots must be received by 5 p.m. on June 9.

Incumbent Board of Education Trustees Cheryl May and Paul Critti are running unopposed for the three-year terms that begin on July 1 and expire on June 30, 2023.

Hewlett Harbor resident May is running for her fourth full term. She has served on the board since 2011 and noted that a prime motivator for her is to maintain continuity during the health crisis.

“This year has been harder than any other year serving on the board because of all the remote learning challenges and remote meetings,” she said. “I didn’t want to leave the community high and dry after going through all these years of serving.”

May remains hopeful that in-person classes will return in September, she acknowledged that might not be the case.

“The normal issues we face as a board are now compounded with making other plans for alternate learning,” she said.

“We also will have the huge task of coming up with a contingency plan in case we are not open.”

First elected in May 2019, Critti is fin-

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THE HEWlETT-WoodMERE ScHool District has averaged a 2.32 percentage spending increase in each budget since 2012-2013. The proposed 2020-21 budget is $126.8 million. ishing up the unexpired term of former Trustee Scott McInnes’ “For the past 10 years, I’ve always volunteered in the school district,” Critti said. “Last year, I felt that running for the board was the next step for me to take.”

Preparation for a second wave of Covid-19 is something that Critti thinks the district should emphasize. “Everyone had a rocky start to this and I think we have to look at what we did do, what worked and what didn’t work,” he said.

“Hopefully we get over this and don’t go through this again, but I’m a realist and I realize this can happen again so it’s important to be prepared just in case.”

Proposition No. 1 is the proposed 202021 budget of $126,882,632. It is a 2.89 percent increase from the current budget of $123.3 million. The 2.89 percent increase is in line with the state’s tax levy increase.

The anticipated tax levy, the amount of money the district collects from property taxes — is $106,273,125.

Assistant Superintendent for Business Louis Frontario said that the proposed budget, despite the 2.89 percent spending increase, is in the best interest of the community. “An important thing to mention about this proposal is that it preserves everything we know and love about this district,” he said. “This includes clubs and services that are beneficial to our students.” Frontario added that the average budget increase since 2012-2013 has been 2.32 percent.

Proposition No. 2 would allow the district to use $2 million from the HewlettWoodmere Long Range Capital Reserve Fund established in 2017, to address several maintenance projects.

Proposition No. 3 is the proposed Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library budget of $6,620,961, a $53,515 increase from the current budget. The cost of library materials, resources and services is proposed at $893,520, a $40,000 uptick from current costs. Incumbent library trustee and Hewlett resident Leslie Eisenberg is unopposed for a second five-year term.

“I am running for another term, to continue working with my fellow trustees and the director, to keep the library running smoothly and efficiently,” she said.

“It is my hope to further develop and offer a variety of programming, for our community, which will become even more important as a result the current pandemic.” More information can be viewed at https://bit.ly/3gqX9N7.

Lawrence schools looks for more food assistance

By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

A New York state program that is offering additional food assistance to feed children who previously received free and reduced-price meals at school could be put into use in the Lawrence School District.

The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance said that more than $880 million would be made available beginning last month. What is being called the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer program will provide eligible households with a total of about $420 per child, with school buildings closed for the remainder of the school year due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Many of our school district families do not want to be on the system per say but are eligible for free lunch due to income levels,” said Inwood resident Sasha Young, who has played a pivotal role in the community throughout the pandemic from helping to feed people through her Gammy’s Pantry that is run out of the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence. “However, these children need to be identified through the school,” adding that she sent the information about the program to district officials.

Lawrence Superintendent Dr. Ann Pedersen said the district was working on including more families. She noted that there are two different categories of fami-

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GETTING Food INTo the hands of Five Towns residents has become a priority during the pandemic. On May 20, food from Long Island Cares was distributed at the community center in Lawrence. lies that qualify for free and reduced meals. People that already are on SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program) and those receiving free and reduced meals that are not on SNAP, a federal program that provides food purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people.

“If families already get some kind of SNAP benefit it will be added to the benefit card,” said Sharyn Friedlander, a district social worker. “If families do not they will be mailed a card that will be able

to be used in the same way. The $244 amount will be disbursed in two separate amounts. One for March and April, the other for May and June. The amounts are based on the days school would have been in session in each month but was closed instead. The funding stream is not from DSS (Department of Social Services), rather from the Office of Temporary Disability Services. Families will not have to apply separately for this benefit.”

Roughly 2.1 million children across the state were receiving free and reduced-

price meals before all school districts were closed on March 16. Under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s direction, the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance requested that the U.S. Department of Agriculture provide food benefits to households with children who have temporarily lost access to these meals due to pandemic-related school closures. The federal Families First Act authorized states to apply for federal approval to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer programs.

Roughly 1.3 million children living in households enrolled in SNAP, receiving Temporary Assistance benefits or Medicaid will automatically receive the additional assistance through their existing EBT cards.

OTDA is also working with the state Education Department to identify an additional 800,000 children in households that are not receiving Medicaid, SNAP or Temporary Assistance, but are receiving free and reduced-price school meals.

These families will be mailed a temporary EBT card along with instructions for activating the card and accessing their assistance.

OTDA Commissioner Mike Hein stated in a news release. “This temporary program will bring them some measure of relief by ensuring that parents have additional help purchasing healthy, nutritious food for their school-aged children during these unprecedented times.”

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obituary

By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com

For family and friends who knew him, William “Bill” Koehler was a hard-working man known for his community service and love for his family.

The longtime Hewlett resident Koehler died on May 6 from natural causes in upstate Hudson. He was 93.

Born Jan. 28, 1927 in Far Rockaway, Koehler subsequently came to live with his aunt, Louise Koehler, in Hewlett, when he was 10, as his father could no longer care for him and his mother died when he was a baby. Koehler lived in Hewlett for the majority of his life.

Louise and Koehler would co-own Bergman’s Florist on Broadway in Hewlett next to Hewlett Elementary School until the business closed in 1970. He also served in the U.S. Naval Air Corp in 1946 and ‘47 in Corpus Christi, Texas.

He and his wife, Mary Ann Watts Koehler, from Inwood, married in 1950. They lived on Broadway in Hewlett in a house that he and his uncle, Thomas Minnigan, built in 1957.

Koehler worked as a carpenter for the HewlettWoodmere School District for 22 years beginning in 1971, and then as a pallbearer for Hempsteadbased Reisert’s Limousine Service for 15 years before retiring in 2008.

Involved in his community as he was with work, Koehler was a member of the Hewlett Fire Department for 68 years. He served as chief

between 1982 and 1990 and fire district commissioner between 1990 and 1995. He also served as a delegate to the Nassau County Fire Fighters Burn Center for roughly 10 years for the county’s Third Battalion.

One of Koehler’s children, Kerry, noted the importance of the fire department to her father.

“My dad loved and adored his fellow members more than he probably ever expressed,” Kerry said. “Hewlett Fire Department was a huge part of his life and it helped define who he was.”

His interests ranged from car racing, boating and carpentry along with watching sports and spending time with his family. Koehler’s daughter, Kim Fera, remembers taking in these interests alongside her father. “From car races in Islip to fishing on a boat to building furniture, I was his sidekick,” Fera said. “I was his shadow and I loved it.”

Predeceased by his wife of 68 years, Mary Ann Watts in 2018. Koehler is survived by his three children Kathy Lapp and her husband Al, Kerry Koehler, Kim Fera and her husband Lance. Four grandchildren, Lindsay Fera Schultz and her husband David, Ashley Lapp, Kyle Fera and his wife Emily. He is also survived by four great-grandchildren, Cason Schultz, Kensley Schultz, Reagan and Hadley Fera.

A memorial service will be scheduled at a later date. Donations in Koehler’s memory may be sent to the Firemen’s Association of the State of New York Firemen’s Home, Operation Small Change, 125 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson, N.Y. 12534.

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Former Hewlett FD chief William Koehler, 93

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WIllIAM KoEHlER sERvEd as the chief for the Hewlett Fire Department from 1990 to 1995. With his daughter, Kerry Koehler, in 2019.

Volunteer firefighter bill awaits governor’s signature

By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com

The state assembly and senate passed legislation introduced by State Sen. Todd Kaminsky that protects the benefits of volunteer firefighters and emergency medical personnel.

The bill passed on May 27 that is cosponsored by Kaminsky, who represents many South Shore volunteer fire departments and Assemblyman Fred Thiele (I-Sag Harbor), will protect the Length of Service Award Program. The program provides pension benefits to volunteer firefighters who reach certain milestones. The measure now heads to Gov. Cuomo, where it will likely be signed into law.

“Our brave volunteer firefighters and emergency medical responders have been on the front lines during this pandemic, risking their lives for our communities,” Kaminsky said. “Due to a quirk in the law, the pensions of volunteer firefighters and EMTs were jeopardized — despite the fact that these courageous community members have been working harder than ever before during this pandemic.”

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic restrictions has affected volunteer firefighters and their efforts to attain the required 50 points per year through responding to calls, taking part in training and being on call to be eligible

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volunTEER FIRE dEpARTMEnTs across New York state, including the LawrenceCedarhurst department will benefit from the newly passed legislation that will protect the Length of Service Award Program. for New York state’s length of service award program that serves as a pension fund for the firefighters.

Fire officials said that because of the restrictions many fire department members are not meeting the requirements, adding that the quarantining

and near shutdown of the New York metropolitan area has rendered the options to gain LOSAP points impractical.

M e y e r A d l e r, 2 n d d e p u ty chief of the Lawrence Cedarhurst Fire Department said this bill is

an example of first responders being assisted by local leaders. “The passing of this important bill will help us retain our quality members that we have had to bar from participating in responses due to their being at a higher risk if they were to be infected with Covid-19,” Adler said.

Wo o d m e r e F i r e C o m m i s s i o n e r Ronna Rubenstein noed the importance of volunteer firefighters maintaining their benefits. “Thank you to Senator Kaminsky for his leadership and advocacy on behalf of our volunteer firefighters,” Rubenstein said. “Now that this bill has passed the Legislature, these brave men and women will be able to retain their benefits while forced to stay home because of the pandemic.”

Kaminsky added that he plans on continuing to support first responders during the pandemic.

“By protecting their benefits during this pandemic, not only will we be showing appropriate gratitude to our heroes, but will also help bolster the recruitment and retention of local first responders,” he said. “I will continue to support our local firefighters and EMTs throughout this pandemic and beyond, and look forward to my bill being signed into law.”

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Businesses start slowly as virus ebbs continued from front page restrictions.” He added that he was taking every precaution, cleaning the entire store, scheduling appointments to reduce the number of people in it and stocking up on masks and hand sanitizer, as required by the reopening guidelines.

As a Herald reporter spoke with Beth Star, of the women’s apparel shop A.J. & MOS in Hewlett, a customer stopped by, thinking she could walk in and shop. Star explained to the woman that the store could still only do curbside pickup or delivery, and that in-store shopping was not yet allowed.

“I’m reaching out to my clients, and along with that, moved to a new store, but thankfully I have clients who are very supportive,” Star said. (The old A.J. & MOS store was in Woodmere.) “I changed my buying and definitely learned the streets in the Five Towns.” Star has kept in contact with customers through Instagram, she said.

The state-mandated Phase One of reopening includes construction and wholesale trade companies, along with retailers, who can offer curbside pickup only. The state’s economy will reopen by region, in three subsequent phases: Phase Two: Professional services, finance and insurance, retail, administrative support, and real estate, rental and leasing.

Phase Three: Restaurant and food ser-

Phase one guidelines Phase One includes low-risk businesses involved in construction, manufacturing and wholesale trade, agriculture, fishing, forestry and hunting, and select retail for curbside or instore pickup or drop-off. Businesses in both Nassau and Suffolk counties are part of this reopening.

Residential/commercial construction: All workers must have masks and wear them when within 6 feet of another worker.

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EyEs on Broadway, in Hewlett, is one of several Five Towns businesses that reopened under Phase One. vice beyond takeout and delivery.

Phase Four: Arts, entertainment and recreation, and education.

If the number of deaths, hospitalizations and new Covid-19 cases remains stable or declines for two weeks, a region can move on to the next phase of reopening.

“As more regions of the state begin reopening,” Cuomo tweeted on May 26, “we are carefully monitoring health data to make sure that everything is going in

the right direction. We rely on science and data to guide us — not emotion or politics.”

He emphasized that personal behavior would determine the success — or failure — of the reopening process. “The trajectory,” he said, “is decided by people.” New York City is expected to begin Phase One on June 8.

Cuomo repeated that people should wear masks in public spaces, wash hands frequently and maintain social distancing.

“We want [the] economy to come roaring back,” he said.

Employers must provide masks to all employees.

No mass meetings.

Retail businesses — curbside pickup.

Employee and purchaser in vehicle must wear masks, and gloves are preferred.

Hand sanitizer must be made available.

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A.B. Rescue responds amid viral threat continued from front page ever we go on a call, we treat the patient as if they have coronavirus,” Golan said.

“One person goes in and treats the patient wearing [personal protective equipment] such as gloves and masks. In the past, two or three members would go in and treat the patient.” Golan added that crew members are equipped with thermometers to take patients’ temperature.

The new protocols add to response time, Golan said. “We’ve adjusted pretty well,” he said. “It was hard in the beginning, as it took time to put on the PPE supplies.

Under normal circumstances, we would just take a bag of gear and hop in the truck and go to the house.”

Water rescues are a new challenge as well, Assistant Chief Jonathan Kohan said. “There’s no playbook for this,” he said. “We know a few things for sure, having been advised by both the New York state and Town of Hempstead medical authorities that the virus does not dilute in saltwater.”

Considering the manner in which the virus spreads, Kohan questioned whether swimming in this environment is appropriate. “It’s also transmitted airborne, so the wind is going to blow it longer distances in the ocean, putting swimmers and res-

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atlantic BEach rEscuE is an all-volunteer squad with roughly 40 members. From left were Chris Aliankian, Nat Etrog, David Weinberger, Jake Ortega and Alex Squieri. cuers in greater jeopardy,” he said. “Why would anyone go into the ocean now?”

The emergency unit has met with the Long Beach Patrol and the Town of Hempstead Emergency Medical Services in the past eight weeks to gather information from other lifeguards and marine rescue services up and down the East Coast to formulate a response protocol for ocean rescue as the pandemic continues, said A.B.

Rescue’s public information officer, Jimmy Olsen.

“Because of the information we’ve received, we will be issuing waterproof masks for protection, which will be utilized during an ocean rescue,” Olsen said.

“While on the beach or on the marine crafts, and prior to contact with the public or a victim, our responders will have their nose and mouths covered for additional

protection.”

Once on shore, Olsen explained, first responders will place a shield or similar face covering on the victim before conducting a primary assessment. “While the agency deploys a rescue swimmer as needed,” he said, “they will also be using different swimming rescue approaches to minimize patient contact.”

Kohan acknowledged that circumstances may be different this summer because of the pandemic. “We just want people to come to the beach, enjoy their time here in the sun, surf and go home safely, having had a great day,” he said. “As always, we will try our best to keep the public informed.”

Golan said he was proud of how his rescue squad members have responded to the new treatment protocols. “It’s been a hectic time, but everybody on our team is doing a great job, and it’s good experience for the members,” he said. “It goes without saying that A.B. Rescue hopes that people will respect social distancing protocols, wear masks and give our responding crews adequate work space to provide required care.”

For more information on Atlantic Beach Rescue call (516) 371-2348, or go to the organization’s Facebook page, facebook.com/abrescue360.

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Nine Hewlett High School students showed their appreciation for first responders with a virtual thank you message.

Sophomore students Natalie Popilevsky, Gabriela Pesantez, Sasha Mayer Mia Kaminsky, Elizabeth Zemlyans k y, D a y l i n L a y n e , H a y d e n Millman,Isabelle Borohov and Jessica Lubliner sent a video message to health care workers, first responders and essential personnel. The students thanked them for their work in keeping the Five Towns community safe during the coronavirus pandemic.

The students filmed themselves via zoom and held up thank you notes to the camera to show their gratitude.

“We greatly appreciate the sacrifices you make each and every day to keep us safe and healthy,” the students said in the message. “Your strength and devotion to the community has left an impact on our lives and we hope that you continue to stay safe during this time.”

The video was a part of State Sen. Todd Kaminsky’s (D-Long Beach) ‘Project Gratitude’ initiative where students from throughout the 9th district were encouraged to create personal notes of thanks that would be distributed to workers on the front lines of the pandemic.

“A huge thank you to the sophomore students at Hewlett High School for putting this endearing video together and sending this message of gratitude,” Kaminsky said. “It is truly inspiring to see our students come together to support our essential workers, health care professionals and first responders. What a great lesson in civics and citizenship.”

Hewlett High class of 2022 advisors, Laura Frauenberh and Joe Virgilio, said the students had been brainstorming ways to not only stay connected with their teachers and families, but also their community.

“Although they weren't able to physically thank all our frontline and essential workers, they came up with a way to share their appreciation for those who sacrifice on behalf of others,” they said.

“Stay strong, have hope and we are in this together.”

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wildly different from what I anticipated back in September, I was correct in that HAFTR students have been incredibly successful.

As we leave these virtual doors, I hope that we will be walking through real ones next fall. But whatever the case may be, I know that HAFTR students and faculty are resilient and will be able to continue to lear n and thrive.

As we say farewell to the 2019-2020 academic school year, I leave you with the following messages: To the seniors: Wishing astour you much success as you move on from HAFTR High School to all your future endeavors. You will surely be missed!

To my fellow juniors: We took numerous Advanced Placement classes online together, tackled ACTs and SATs (but who

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knows what is happening with those), and I know that no matter what is in store for us, we will excel.

To the sophomores: As upperclassmen, I’m sure you are ready to take on all of the challenges that your junior year holds.

To the freshmen: You have learned the ropes of high school and will be great role models for the incoming freshmen.

To the rising freshmen: We very much hope to welcome you, in person, in the fall.

To HAFTR teachers and faculty: Thank you for all your hard work, dedication and support.

It has been my pleasure writing HAFTR Highlights this year. Wishing you a wonderful summer, with much good health and safety.

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workers, the junior varsity basketball team donated to Hatzalah, and there are numerous group chats of HAFTR students, alumni and faculty continuously reciting psalms for those in need.

We commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israel’s national day of remembrance and also celebrated the founding of the Jewish State and Jerusalem Day together as a school community. Although we were not able to learn with our teachers and rabbis on Shavuot, students were fully prepared with lessons from their teachordana ers so that they could continue learning at home over the holiday.

In my first column of the school year, I predicted that HAFTR students would succeed in all of their endeavors this year.

Though this year has turned out to be

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As this unconventional school year comes to a close, we say goodbye with the hope that school reopens in September. I have learned so much about the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway and our community during these times.

At the beginning of the pandemic, there was much uncertainty about the future. No one knew how long this would last or if we would return to the building during this academic year. But HAFTR almost immediately, seamlessly transitioned to online learning. Students and teachers learned simultaneously how to navigate their online platforms. As my history teacher put it, “Zooms only work when everyone on both sides gives their all to make it happen.”

Aside from the learning at HAFTR barely missing a beat, the HAFTR community banded together to help during these challenging times. Students volunteered to help Kosher Response package food and care packages for health care

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I didn’t know these people. Some of them I barely knew at all. I literally just started walking down the block and knocking on doors asking if anyone needed anything.

I asked people on Facebook, people were reaching out saying they needed food but didn’t want to g out. One woman had a son who had asthma and didn’t want to go out and bring it back to him.

Then we expanded. We’re dropping stuff off at Holy Name of Mary … They were really low on food, they only had canned peaches.

I started a GoFundMe page … We’ve raised over $1,400, and have been donating food to hospitals’ EMS stations. I haven’t gotten a phone call from people who have been laid off yet, but I’m planning on giving out gift cards for people who have been laid off. … It’s starting to take off. This is just something I’ve always done, we had the food drive at sanitation for the first year this year, and toy drive through the village; we’ve been doing that for the past four or five years … It’s just nice to get involved in the community. Every time I try to do something, it’s great how residents step up to the plate and help out however they can.

don’t consider myself a hero. I consider myself a professional who has a responsibility to her community.

I am just one of the many front-line workers who feel equally dedicated to their duty.

As a critical-care registered nurse and qualified Spanish interpreter at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside, I have never experienced anything like the Covid-19 pandemic in my personal life or my entire 20-year professional career, 11 of which were spent in the Critical Care Unit. It began with one, then two critically ill suspected Covid-19 patients. Then, what felt like overnight, we converted multiple patient care units to critical care units to meet the specific and specialized care needed by the exponentially increasing number of critically ill patients admitted to the hospital.

The surge of patients was so rapid and persistent that the entire hospital staff – doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, respiratory therapists, medical residents, patient care technicians, technicians, transporters, unit clerks, food and nutrition staff, phlebotomists, engineering, security, managers and administrators – banded together to provide the non-stop, 24/7 quality, compassionate care and helped our patients to overcome this stubborn and vicious virus Our institutional directors, managers and educators were ever present working with us at our side to inform, instruct and implement new treatment processes, plans and therapies as we learned more about the virus, its many pernicious traits and its deleterious impacts on patients with underlying conditions.

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Our lives have all been impacted by the Coronavirus and touched by those who have helped get us through.

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Without funds, our staff has gone on unemployment. We have decided to keep working 40 to 50 hours a week to feed all those who hunger in the Five Towns. In the past month we have helped open a six-day a week pantry at the Five Towns Community Center, Gammy’s Pantry, which is feeding over 200 families at risk daily.

My wife, Diane, and I have forged a relationship with Trader Joe's of Hewlett and are receiving short-dated items each week for donation. We also receive daily donations from Costco in Lawrence, Wall’s in Hewlett and the Bagelry, Crawfords Coffee Bar & Cafe and Toddy’s Appetizers in Cedarhurst for distribution. We are also helping senior veterans in the community through these food donations to members of the American Legion Lawrence Cedarhurst Post 339.

This week our daughter Emily gave birth to our granddaughter in Portland, Ore., and we will probably not see her until July at the earliest. We practice our faith by praying each evening through the Zoom minyan of Temple Beth El of Cedarhurst.

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was talking with Rabbi Susan Elkodsi from the Malverne Jewish Center about the delay of the Malverne Chamber of Commerce’s annual Art Walk due to Covid-19. That’s when we came up with the idea for the digital quilt project. Our goal was to express gratitude to our essential workers through art.

We wanted to say thank you to all of the essential workers that are out there risking their lives for us. We thought this quilt could bring another dimension of hope, creativity, unity and joy to all in Malverne.

It was Benny Montalbano, of Elite Painting, who suggested that the focus of the project should be on expressing gratitude to the village’s essential workers.

For us, this project became such an amazing opportunity for the community to come together. It also provided an immediate, emotional support to the essential workers so that they can see right now — while they’re having their own challenges going to work — that we really appreciate them.

Once we have all the art, we will digitally stick them together for a permanent record of this unique time in history. The quilt will debut in the Art Walk, but we’re hoping that this quilt could someday hang in Village Hall to really show a moment in time and how the community came together during a challenging crisis.

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Her family described as a person who did not need to be applauded or exalted, however Marcia “Marcy” Moreines appeared to be a woman who knew when action was needed.

For more than 30 years she helped cross adults and children at the busy and on occasion hazardous crossing guard post at the intersection of Sheridan and Bayswater boulevards in Inwood.

“She even risked life and limb by once being hit by a car while on duty,” he son Michael posted on Facebook.

“Thankfully, that would not deter Marcy from her post.”

Marcia died on May 21. She was 84.

Born Oct. 16, 1935, Marcia living in Delray Beach, Fla.,“passed away quietly and without fanfare, just the way she would have wanted it,” her daughter Sue posted. A small gathering of family was held at Eternal Light Memorial Gardens on May 26.

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Moreines, Susan Moreines and Dana Brennan will keep her memory alive here on earth, as she travels to her forever home to be with her husband, Lewis Moreines, her sister, Judith Cohen, her parents, Elsie and Lou Klein and the many other family members and friends who passed before her,” Sue posted.

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(Place). Your mom always had a smile on her face crossing us kids on the way to the No. 2 School. May she rest in peace.”

“So sorry,” Marie Butindaro Daniels posted. “I remember her well. “[C] rossed my [three] kids for years and I lived in her brother-in-law’s Eli’ house many years. I loved her. She was a very sweet lady.”

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The Village of Cedarhurst offering the eateries a temporary outdoor use permit through Dec. 31. “This application is for restaurants in Cedarhurst,” Deputy Mayor Ari Brown posted on Facebook. “We decided to put this together to allow for more seating during these difficult times. In other words, when the governor opens up restaurants, there will be some type of restriction as to indoor seating; this application and measure will allow for more seating outside the premises. We made it as an online interactive form. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions.”

The temporary outside dining is intended to allow restaurants to open while maintaining appropriate social distancing, the village said. Only registered places of public assembly with a valid village use permit will be considered. Tables and chairs lust be removed from the sidewalks by 11 p.m. and stored inside.

Applications can be submitted by emailing the application to building@ cedarhurst.gov. For more information call (516) 295-5770.

Nassau County is also looking to accelerate the return of small business by closing off streets in what are called downtown areas of several communities to allow restaurants to have or expand outdoor dining and for consumers to shop outside.

Broadway in Hewlett and Woodmere was one of the dozen areas cited by the county. Hewlett-Woodmere Business Association President David Friedman said the idea is under consideration. “We have to evaluate this to see if we have any location (s) where this would be workable,” he said.

Friedman noted that the Town of Hempstead program that also helps to expedite permits on outdoor dining is one that the HWBA endorses. “We are in favor of that program and encourage our local Hewlett-Woodmere businesses to participate where practical,” he said. Business owners can apply online at hempsteadny. viewpointcloud.com.

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While a graduation ceremony initially scheduled for June 8 was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, Lawrence Woodmere Academy Headmaster Brian O’Connell thought of the next best thing to do to honor the 32 senior students in the class of 2020.

O’Connell, who officially became LWA headmaster in March, visited each of the seniors outside their homes on May 25 and 26, taking photos and delivering graduation caps, tassels, lawn signs, and personalized banners.

His predecessor, Mary Barton, accompanied him. “We wanted to have a socially distant and safe live drive-in graduation to celebrate the hard work of our senior Tigers,” O’Connell said.

The jour ney started in Lawrence when O’Connell and Barton visited valedictorian and the Herald’s LWA Antics columnist, Lilli Albucker at her home. Albucker, who will continue her studies at Tulane University in Louisiana, was touched by the gesture and shared some advice for younger LWA students. “Always remember to study hard,” she said. “It won’t always be easy, but it will be worth it in the end if you put the hard work in.”

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LAWREncE WoodMERE AcAdEMy Headmaster Brian O’Connell, center, and former interim headmaster Mary Barton, left, visited the homes of all 32 students in LWA’s class of 2020. The journey began in Lawrence on May 25 with valedictorian Lilli Albucker. as the school is set to release a number of online summer programs.

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Longtime former HewLett-wooDmere Board of Education member Stephen Witt was feted with a vehicle birthday parade last month.

Celebrating Stephen Witt’s 84th birthday During a time when every traditional activity associated with the spring has been canceled or substantially altered because of the coronavirus pandemic, people have found ways to mark birthdays, graduations and the efforts of essential workers.

The Hewlett-Woodmere community dedicated a portion of time on May 22 to celebrate the birthday of longtime retired Board of Education member and former coach Stephen Witt, now 84, with a vehicle birthday parade that began at the front entrance of Hewlett High School that Friday afternoon.

Witt, a Woodmere resident, was born in 1935 and raised in Great Neck. He graduated from Great Neck High School in 1953. He attended Michigan State University and graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Science in accounting. He has lived in Woodmere for the past 48 years. He worked as a banker, working for companies such as J.P. Morgan and Citigroup up until his retirement 13 years ago. Witt retired from the Nassau BOCES Board of Education last year after 23 years of service.

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People started to stream into the demonstration in front of the Nassau County Legislature and Executive Building in Mineola nearly an hour before the scheduled 5:30 p.m. start time on Monday. They had come to protest the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

Shouting “I can’t breathe” and brandishing handmade signs, they arrived from parts across the county and beyond.

A coalition of Nassau advocacy groups planned the protest, “Justice for George Floyd.”

The demonstration followed the Memorial Day death of Floyd, 46, an AfricanAmerican man who died after officer Derek Chauvin, 44, pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes before he stopped speaking or moving.

Police, according to authorities, responded to a report of a man attempting to pass a counterfeit $20 at a shop.

Barbara Powell, an executive board member of the Hempstead NAACP, described Floyd’s death as a “modern-day lynching,” noting, “People are fed up and disgusted with how things are and how they keep repeating.”

Patrick Ryder, the Nassau police commissioner, attended the rally. “People are here to speak their minds and get their message across,” he said. “What happened in Minneapolis should never have happened. We have a good relationship with our communities. People are exercising their rights, and we hope to continue to do so peacefully.”

Five Towns Community Center Executive Director K. Brent Hill was not at the rally but said that his initial perspective on the protests is the famous Fannie Lou Hamer declaration, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired,” Hamer, a civil rights leader, spoke those words at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

“The peaceful protestors are pushing the envelope, unfortunately there are bad elements and the looting is not good,” Hill said, adding that the time for talk is over

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DozenS of people came to the Nassau County Executive Building and Legislature on Monday evening to protest the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on Memorial Day. and genuine action is needed concerning prison reform, more education on civics to change government policy and how people can get their voice heard, and more sensitivity from the police.

Rep. Gregory Meeks, a Democrat who represents Inwood and southeastern Queens called for charges to be brought against all the officers who were involved in a prepared statement.

“Once more we grieve with hurt and outrage as we watched yet another black man plead that he cannot breathe,” Meeks

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stated. “Once more we see captured on camera the unwarranted force that men and women of color routinely suffer under the heel or knee of unrestrained law enforcement.”

Among the protest sponsors were the Young Progressives of Nassau County, Indivisible of Nassau County (formerly Indivisible of Rockville Centre), the Hempstead NAACP, Freeport/Roosevelt NAACP, Nassau County chapter of the National Action Network, Anti-Racism Project and Americans of Pakistani Heritage.

In a prepared statement, Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, lead of Temple Israel of Lawrence and president of the National American Board of Rabbis, expressed sympathy for Floyd’s death but disagreed with the violence at the protests.

“And while our hearts are breaking with the death of another African-American man, we are also pained by the violence that has followed,” Rosenbaum stated. “The angry response of so many is understood and shared, but the violence by some may be understandable but it ultimately must be rejected.

As of Monday morning, protests against police brutality had swept across the nation, in nearly 70 cities, including in New York City, according to The New York Times. At times, they turned violent, as was the case in the city Saturday night.

Over the weekend, several peaceful protests took place across Long Island Chauvin was charged with third-degree

murder and manslaughter, but as of press time Sunday, none of the other three officers at the scene had been charged.

“This cruel act,” Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said, “does not represent the vast majority of police officers who, with professionalism and honor, serve and protect our communities. Nassau is committed to community policing because it works. Building trust works, and we always strive to do better.”

Governor Cuomo spent much of his Sunday coronavirus briefing addressing the protests that had turned violent, including in New York City. Racism is the central issue at hand, he noted.

According to the governor, people must demand that federal and state legislation be enacted to: ■ Prohibit local investigations of officerinvolved deaths. Any such investigation should be conducted by an impartial third party, he said.

■ Define one standard of excessive police force across the nation.

■ Require the release of officers’ records in cases such as Floyd’s death.

■ “Be smart, be directed,” the governor said. “Help your community, don’t hurt your community. “George Floyd,” he said, “ m u s t n o t h ave d i e d i n v a i n . ” Jeffrey Bessen contributed to this story

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The Payroll Protection Program provided major grants and loans to small businesses to keep them afloat and able to retain workers. Yet even with this help, 40 million Americans are out of work. The jobless are being helped with a $600-a-week federal supplement in addition to state unemployment benefits, but this program will expire in two months.

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The economic situation shows no sign of getting better soon. White House economic advisers project that unemployment could top 20 percent before the economy begins to revive. And the chairman of the Federal Reserve has pointedly noted that even though the Fed has already pumped $2 trillion into the financial system, “It may well be that the Fed has to do more,” Jerome Powell told “60 Minutes.” “It may be that Congress has to do more … [to] help businesses avoid … insolvencies and … do the same for individuals — keep workers in their homes, keep them paying their bills. Keep families solvent.”

That’s very important advice from the world’s most powerful banker. Congress and the White House should take it seriously and act on it. The key to achieving another round of federal stimulus relief will be a willingness of all parties to put aside political differences to deliver meaningful help to the country.

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leadership of the Senate have signaled their support for additional federal spending during this extraordinary crisis. Yes, the deficit and the national debt will climb, but failing to resuscitate our economy could have even more dire economic consequences.

The economy right now is like a Covid-19 intensive care patient hanging on life support. This is no time to argue about how much more effort should be made to save the patient. Washington should not get sidelined by political arguments.

Here’s a prescription for dealing with the crisis:

es, the deficit and the national debt will climb, but that’s not the big worry.

■ Authorize generous spending on speeding up the development of a vaccine and a way to deliver it to every American as soon as it’s ready.

■ Provide another round of direct $1,200 stimulus checks to individuals and their dependents to help families pay mortgages and rents and put food on their tables.

Trump has indicated that he’s open to this proposal. It’s worth the extra cost. Cash in the hands of desperate families is key to saving many from destitution.

■ Renew and improve the Payroll Protection Program with additional funding and key reforms to its operation. Small businesses, especially, need more flexibility on

how the grants they receive can be used.

Keeping employees on the payroll won’t protect their jobs in the long haul if businesses are forced to close because they can’t meet other operating costs.

■ Along with reforming the PPP, convert the current $600 additional federal unemployment insurance supplement into an employment supplement. Instead of paying employees to stay home from their jobs, let’s pay them a “job bonus” to get back to work.

■ Provide substantial assistance to states and localities to help with the extraordinary costs imposed by the pandemic and to help them cover their operating costs.

State and local tax revenues have dropped drastically since the pandemic began in every state. Helping them to keep providing critical services is not only reasonable, it’s necessary. That doesn’t mean writing a blank check to every state.

■ Finally, finally come to agreement on a national infrastructure program, putting jobless people to work rebuilding America.

These are extraordinary times, calling for extraordinary measures. Washington must step up to the challenge, now.

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.

When, and how, do you recover a lost first kiss?

here is no Plan B for young love.

Through this pandemic, we are all living some version of Plan B, but my heart aches for our teenagers, for whom Plan B doesn’t work so well.

They have been locked down and shut out by the Coronavirus, and they have far fewer coping mechanisms than adults.

Some parents are struggling with teens who are sleeping all day or refusing to pitch in with chores. Being a teenager in the best of times is hugely inconvenient, and acting out is normal. I think any human who just survives the years between 13 and 19 reasonRandi ably intact is doing kReiss a splendid job.

I actually remember what it was like to be 13. Everyone has his or her own hell. Mine was being tiny. I was so small that my mother couldn’t find “teenage” clothes in my size, so, of course, I hated my mother. I threw my Mary Janes at her one day because she thought I would put them on my feet and actually

be seen in public, when everyone knew that you don’t wear Mary Janes when you’re 13. I was generally miserable from ages 13 to 16, when I discovered boys and the pimples subsided and I fell in love.

How might that have played out if we had gone through a global pandemic between 1958 and 1964, when I was “becoming”? I would have been holed up in my house with my mother and father and younger sister. We weren’t the let’s-bring-out-theMonopoly-board kind of family. Our parents didn’t play with us. They loved us and fed us and told us what to do. Sequestering without 600 channels of TV, no Internet and no phones would have been a claustrophobic experience.

Today, kids do have many more opportunities to launch Plan B. They just don’t want to. No school? Well, heavens, in the virtual world, kids with access to the internet can tour museums, wander the galaxy, practice new recipes and star in musicals.

Every day, I send my grandkids links to magic shows and master classes for

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kids and invitations to Facetime and books that tell the stories of teenagers who lived through adversity and came out stronger and bolder and happier. In other words, I send them stuff they ignore. And I understand the lassitude.

I’m just doing the grandma thing, trying to engage, but part of me knows the kids are surviving as best they can. They’re suffering from the isolation, and they have no place to vent their anger and their fear because the cultural message is to push through and do your work and don’t complain when others have it worse.

One of my grandkids is about to enter his senior year in high school, and I also remember what it was like to be 17, when passion ruled. Do you remember your first kiss? Take a moment. Remember. You were probably a teenager and I hope it was thrilling, and sweet. Now, teens are being told to social distance, a suggestion that is antithetical to their very existence.

No kissing or fooling around for months, or a year? Being told that if you hang out with a friend or find love, you

eing told to social distance is antithetical to teenagers’ very existence.

might be endangering your family or killing your grandma?

I have four grandkids in various stages of moving up in school. One is leaving elementary school for middle school. One is going from seventh to eighth grade, one is leaving middle school for high school and one is the rising senior. They have been “attending” school at home and passing the time as best they can, while parents weave in and out of their days and multiple screens shine an everlasting light on them. They are isolated from the only other human beings who know how they feel — other teenagers.

I see them on Facetime and, really, they look slightly unfamiliar, a bit stunned, after days of little interaction with other people. I wish they would keep a diary or a photo journal. The gift they already possess is a great story to tell, but I understand the inertia of this moment.

So, for now, kids, it’s enough just to get through, and you will Then, because you’re young and strong and smart, you will move on and make up for lost time. In the meantime, take notes. You are caught up in the drama of a lifetime.

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

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Vote ‘yes’ to Lawrence budget

he proposed 2020-21 Lawrence School District budget of $102.49 million is just $41,000 larger than the current spending plan, but boasts new programs and the expansion of existing ones — a list including math, driver’s ed, professional development for teachers, instruction for students with dyslexia, and parental workshops.

Voters are also being asked to approve a Building Capital Reserve Fund, not to exceed $4 million, to finance infrastructure improvements: air conditioning at the high school, classroom and cafeteria renovations at the middle school and parking and playground enhancements at the Lawrence Primary School.

We urge the approval of both the budget and the reserve fund.

Longtime Board of Education Trustees

Murray Forman and Dr. Asher Mansdorf are being challenged by Amil Virani and Asher Matathias, respectively. Forman and Mansdorf have helped guide the district through several thorny years, and the schools are reaping the benefits, ranging from improved fiscal health to renovated buildings and rising academic performance. We expect them to make the most of their combined experience to help settle the protracted contract battle with the teachers’ association and continue the judicious use of taxpayer dollars.

Virani is a young man who has admirably become involved in civic matters, attending board meetings and asking questions. We encourage him to remain involved.

Matathias is another matter. After a brief lull, his boorish behavior at meet-

ings has returned. His upbraiding of officials needs to end. His rants at meetings and in emails have become a nuisance, and are not consistent with the school community’s outlook.

The Herald supports the re-elections of Forman and Mansdorf.

support library budget Peninsula Public Library officials have proposed a financially sound $3.11 million spending plan. The library has remained viable to its patrons by offering virtual programs and services throughout the pandemic.

Library Trustee Audrian Gray is running for her seat unopposed, and we encourage residents to give her, and the budget, their approval.

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he proposed Hewlett-Woodmere School District budget of $126.88 million is nearly 3 percent larger than the current spending plan, but the increase is justified, because it will support the clubs and services students need. Also on the ballot, the district is requesting to use $2 million of the Hewlett-Woodmere Long Range Capital Reserve Fund, established in 2017, to address a number of maintenance projects.

The budget and the maintenance projects are prime examples of responsible governance. We encourage residents to approve both propositions. Remember that voting this year is being done by mailin ballots, which must be returned by

June 9 at 5 p.m.

Incumbent Board of Education Trustees Cheryl May and Paul Critti are running unopposed for the three-year terms.

May, who has served on the board since 2011, is running for her fourth full term.

Critti, who replaced Scott McInnes last year, is running for his first full term.

Both candidates have helped the district deal with the coronavirus crisis, and are keeping an open mind on whether school buildings will be able to reopen in the fall, fully aware of the necessity of contingency plans. May has said that being a trustee in this difficult time motivates her. Critti has noted the possibility of a second wave of Covid-19, which must be kept in mind as the district moves for-

letters We can all do our parts To the Editor: It has been heartbreaking not being able to be with my Ricky during this time at his residence for people with developmental disabilities. He has severe cognitive impairments, has never been able to speak and is now blind. He relies entirely on others for everything. That’s why, in all his 61 years, we have never gone this long without visiting his residence.

During these frightening times, Ricky and most other vulnerable and defenseless New Yorkers are locked down and need direct caregivers, whose compensation does not reflect the essential nature of their work.

Right now, so many frightening aspects of the coronavirus are out of our control. We don’t know who will be stricken, how our economy will fare and when this crisis will end.

It’s a lonely time for so many of us.

Through my many years of life and public service, I

ward. We urge voters to show them their support.

Vote ‘yes’ for library budget The proposed Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library budget of $6.62 million is just $53,515 larger than the current spending plan. The projected cost of library materials, resources and services is $893,520, a $40,000 uptick. Throughout the pandemic, the library has continues to offer remote programs and services, and its plan is a responsible use of taxpayers’ money.

Incumbent library trustee and Hewlett resident Leslie Eisenberg is running unopposed for a second five-year term on the board, and she, too, deserves voters’ approval.

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omehow, in April, I missed observing national Siblings Day, and then the time rolled by and along came Memorial Day. So I’m taking this opportunity to talk about my brother, David Kremer, and salute the many other brothers and sisters who really shouldn’t need a special day. This first week of June will mark a year since Dave (he liked that better) died at age 89.

I’m sure that every one of our readers who enjoy a special relationship with a sibling understands how significant a role they play in JerrY our lives. Those kremer of you who are lucky enough to have a living sibling know how important they can be, provided you haven’t let some petty grievance get in the way. As a rule, most of us reach out to a sibling at almost any time of the day or week for a kind word or just reassurance that all is well.

Two of my friends recently lost sib-

lings, and they described to me at length missed opportunities or a lifetime of strong bonds that are irreplaceable. All of their comments reminded me of my loss, and the fact that Dave is no longer a part of my life. A day doesn’t go by without a moment when I think about reaching out to him, just to exchange a few simple words. It took quite a few years for my brother to express his love, but getting older does that to people.

Dave had a lot of unique qualities. He was the family historian, and had an encyclopedic memory of just about everything. He knew not only the day, but also the hour that I was born, and where he was as he anxiously waiting to greet his baby brother. He would regale me with facts about distant relatives and their family history.

His knowledge of family trivia was bottomless. He had photos of relatives who I didn’t know existed.

When I ran for public office, Dave was always there, pushing me to take care of all the minute details of success-

LetterS have found that when things spin out of control and we feel helpless, those of us who pray certainly should. After that, I always realize that while I cannot change everything, I can change something, even if it’s a small matter.

So I buy dinner for the direct caregivers at Ricky’s house at least once a week. I also reached out to Dr. Julie Bates and her staff at Advantage Care Diagnostics & Treatment Center in Freeport. Dr. Bates and her amazing staff specialize in health care for people like Ricky, who can be so difficult to diagnose and treat due to their inability to communicate and their different way of perceiving changes in their health.

Like so many health care professionals right now, Dr. Bates needed funding to protect both patients and staff. I donated $10,000 to help them with that. I also helped Plainview Hospital with a $5,000 donation in appreciation of the wonderful care they give people with special needs.

I try to do something every day, like delivering food and helping organiza-

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ful campaigning. When I would arrive at some campaign event, he was waiting outside the building, staring at his watch and reminding me that I was two minutes late. He would usher me into the building quickly, making sure that I didn’t linger too long with a faithful voter.

I consider myself a devout Yankees fan. I check the baseball scores whenever the team is playing, even if it’s early in the season and the games don’t really mean that much. I would spot him at some dinner listening to the game with earphones, while everyone else was chatting away. On days when I called him to announce some Yankee mistake or achievement, he would tell me he’d heard about it hours earlier. I always thought I was up on all things Yankees, but he eclipsed me.

Last year, we decided we should observe Dave’s birthday at a place he would really enjoy. So as a family, we bought a bunch of tickets to Yankee Stadium on the week of his 89th birthday.

eep special family members close, no matter how far away they may live.

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tions that seek to make a difference during these very dark days.

We have to remember, appreciate and recognize the abundance of good work being done right now by so many unsung heroes who are, together, making a massive difference in quality of life, illness outcomes and the emotional well-being of everyone they touch.

You can make a difference. I’m doing it daily, and it goes a long way toward keeping my faith and perspective. It can be done.

When you help others, you also benefit by not feeling so helpless in the face of monumental challenges.

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The plan was to get his name on the scoreboard and salute him for another milestone in his life. As fate would have it, he didn’t make it to the game. But the whole family went, and shared a special the 192 moment when his name flashed on the Depres screen. The nieces and nephews cheered emerge the loudest for Uncle David. scienti I write this not as a sad remembrance, but rather as a reminder of the importance of siblings in our lives. Having a special brother or sister can be an enormous blessing. It’s an experience that can’t be replicated, so long as you stay close to those special family members and are willing to meet them halfway on life’s issues.

Make those short phone calls just to say hello. Keep them close no matter how far away they may live. If you’re lucky to have the right relationship, then every day will be national Siblings Day.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman few mo for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s enacte Ways and Means Committee for 12 years. ing sub He now heads Empire Government Strat- busine egies, a business development and legisThe lative strategy firm. Comments about vided m this column? JKremer@liherald.com. busine retain million jobless $600-a-w tion to this pr

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Protest, yes. Turn to violence, no.

To the editor: I share the pain of all Americans regarding the senseless and tragic killing of george Floyd in Minneapolis. no one should ever

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have to worry that such a nonviolent encounter with the police might end in death.

At the same time, I stand with the hardworking and dedicated officers from the nassau County Police

Department, and the neighboring new York City Police Department, who protect us daily here in the village of Lawrence. I am appalled by the images of nYPD vehicles being destroyed by anarchists. There is a need to protest injustice, but such protest should never turn to violence.

I thank nassau County’s 4th Precinct Inspector Joseph Barbieri as well aswas lik Commissioner Patrick Ryder for alwaysown he stepping up to keep our village and itssmall t residents safe. age” cl

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WE WERE HERE FOR YOU BEFORE COVID AND WE’RE HERE FOR YOU NOW.

Don’t put off seeking medical care, including elective surgery, in fear of COVID-19. Mount Sinai South Nassau has dedicated non-COVID patient care areas, including within our Emergency Department. All units have undergone a deep cleaning to ensure your safety. All patients undergoing procedures are tested for COVID-19 within three days prior to admission. Our frontline staff of physicians, nurses and support personnel are equipped with full Personal Protective Equipment to help halt the spread of infectious diseases.

Your health shouldn’t be defined by COVID-19.

DON’T PUT YOUR HEALTH ON HOLD. COME WITH CONFIDENCE.

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Mount Sinai South Nassau is certified as an Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence (CoE) by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

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