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Large disparity in spending per pupil by districts Ranges from $23K to $45K on N. Shore with G.N. 3rd with $39K

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z North Shore school district budgets for the upcoming school year show a wide disparity in spending per pupil ranging from more than $45,000 to less than $23,000, according to an analysis

by Blank Slate Media The Floral Park-Bellerose school district allocated the least amount of funding per student, $22,466 for its 1,603 students.

The North Shore school district allocated $45,601 for its 2,543 students, the most among the districts.

The East Williston School District, which has the second-fewest enrolled students, will spend the second-highest per pupil at $41,192, according to the statistics.

Great Neck will spend $39,539 per pupil, Roslyn $38,804, Mineola $36,559, Manhasset $34,193, Port Washington $32,994, Herricks $30,023, Sewanhaka $28,260 and New Hyde Park-Garden City Park the second-lowest per pupil with $27,043, according to statistics.

Despite having 1,400 fewer students than the Sewanhaka School District’s 8,045 students, the Great Neck School District will outspend Sewanhaka by about $35 million — $261.4 million to $227.4 million — for the 2022-23 school year.

Blank Slate’s study analyzed enroll-

ment figures and budget expenditures for the 11 public school districts throughout the North Shore of Nassau County (East Williston, Floral Park-Bellerose, Great Neck, Herricks, Manhasset, Mineola, New Hyde Park-Garden City Park, North Shore, Port Washington, Roslyn and Sewanhaka).

The analysis did not take into account property tax values, special education programs, adult education programs, English as new or secondary language programs, or other external factors aside from the overall budget and how many students were enrolled in the district.

The analysis examined approved 2022-23 budgets based on preliminary enrollment figures for 2021-22. The average enrollment for the analyzed school districts was 3,706 students, an increase of 74 from the 2020-21 enrollment figures, according to the statistics.

As a result, school districts throughout the North Shore increased their average spending per pupil by $230, according to the statistics and the approved 2021-22 budgets.

North Shore’s budget, which had the highest per-student spending, has increased by more than $7 million from the 2019-20 budget, despite enrollment decreasing by five students since the 201819 school year.

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Hundreds of individuals gathered in Great Neck advocating for Asian American history to be taught in school.

Rally in G.N. against Asian American hate

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Hundreds gathered at Firefighters Park in Great Neck Saturday to speak out against hatred against Asians and advocate for Asian-Amer-

ican history to be taught in schools.

The rally, hosted by state Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-North Hills) and state Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti (D-Port Washington), featured residents throughout the North Shore

discussing the recent trend of violence against the Asian-American community and what could be done to put a stop to it.

Great Neck resident Vicky Lin Continued on Page 43

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Driver in fatal NHP car G.N. school district crash held without bail to honor Shine Allegedly killed 3 women leaving Sweet 16 party

Longtime superintendent died in Jan.

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Three women were killed in a car crash outside The Inn at New Hyde Park on Saturday

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The 22-year-old driver charged in a DWI car crash that killed three relatives of a girl celebrating her Sweet 16 party at The Inn in New Hyde Park Saturday night was still hospitalized Tuesday and ordered held without bail, his lawyer and officials said.

Dante Lennon of Freeport was behind the wheel of a speeding 2012 Mercedes-Benz sedan that struck a 2010 Lincoln Town Car carrying six people outside of the Inn on the eastbound lane of Jericho Turnpike, police said. Detectives responded to the collision shortly after 11 p.m., officials said.

The three passengers in the backseat — Marlene Lu and Ho Hua, both of Queens, and Tu Nguyen from North Carolina — were pronounced dead at the scene. The driver and two other passengers in the Lincoln were taken to local hospitals and were in stable condition, officials said.

Officials said the women were leaving a Sweet 16 celebration at the venue prior to the crash. Police said Lu was the mother of the host of the Sweet 16 party, while Hua was the host’s aunt and Nguyen the host’s cousin.

Lennon was charged on Monday with three counts of second-degree manslaughter, second-degree assault, second-degree vehicular assault and driving while impaired, police said.

According to court documents, Lennon acknowledged he had consumed alcoholic beverages before driving. His preliminary blood alcohol content of .88% was higher than the legal limit of .08%, according to the documents.

Lennon’s attorney, Robert C. Gottlieb, described his client as “a very good and decent young man who is distraught by what happened,” to Newsday.

The driver was hospitalized at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset with nonlife-threatening injuries, a spokesman from the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office said.

Lennon was ordered held without bail Monday by a Nassau County judge, but officials said he remained at North Shore University Hospital and was ordered to return to court Wednesday.

An investigation into the incident remained ongoing, officials said. Officials said they are trying to determine how fast Lennon was driving at the time of the crash.

Police said the other individuals in the Lincoln were a 73-year-old man, a 67-year-old man and a 42-year-old man. The 67-year-old man fractured his clavicle and the 42-year-old man fractured his ribs and both were hospitalized after the accident, police said. The 73-year-old man had been discharged from the hospital Monday after suffering neck and back pain, according to officials.

Michael McCutchen, a security guard at The Inn who opened the door for the guests and saw them leave the spot Saturday night, told Newsday the crash “sounded like a bomb went off.”

Efforts to reach a representative from The Inn at New Hyde Park or officials from the Nassau County Police Department for further comment were unavailing.

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said the police department plans on starting an initiative to “take back” the roads and crackdown on traffic infractions such as speeding and drunk driving.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman described the incident as “a horrible tragedy” and said a press conference was scheduled prior to Memorial Day to remind the public of the dangers of drunk driving.

The Great Neck School District has scheduled an event to celebrate the life of the late Superintendent William A. Shine in June.

District officials said the occasion will take place in the auditorium of his namesake building, South High School, on Thursday, June 2, at 4 p.m.

The event will feature a video tribute, speakers and student music performances. The district is hosting the event in partnership with Shine’s wife, Susan.

Shine, who was hailed as a “visionary” leader by current-day district officials, died in January at 93. He served as superintendent from 1982 until he retired from the post in 2004, giving him the second-longest tenure as superintendent in the district’s history, trailing only John L. Miller’s 28 years.

Shine was born on April 22, 1928, in White Plains and attended Iona College for his undergraduate education, later receiving a Doctor of Education from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

His tenure in public education began at the Tabernacle school district in New Jersey in 1954. Shine then went on to serve as superintendent of the Medford school district and Cherry Hill school district, both in New Jersey, before heading to Nassau County.

In 1982, 60 years after Elise Gignoux was named as Great Neck’s first superintendent, Shine was named to the job.

In 2006, Shine’s legacy was cemented in the district when South High was officially named William A. Shine Great Neck South High School.

Following his tenure in Great Neck, Shine spent six years working in the Manhasset school district, including a few months as interim superintendent.

Former Great Neck Board of Education President and current Trustee Barbara Berkowitz said in a statement to Blank Slate Media that Shine “was the true definition of an educational leader” and that it was an honor knowing him for more than 35 years.

“It is fitting that William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, an institute of learning, was named for

PHOTO COURTESY OF SUSAN SHINE

Former Great Neck Superintendent Dr. William A. Shine died in January at 93.

Dr. Shine with the hope that all that saw his name permanently etched on its signs would emulate his continued love of learning,” Berkowitz said.

“Dr. Shine’s legacy is inextricably intertwined with our schools and Great Neck,” said Board of Ed President Rebecca Sassouni. “He was a visionary who understood education from every vantage point: He understood the vitality of the mission of public education to the students, the educators, to the entire community and also built positive relationships with local private schools.”

“Dr. Shine admirably served this wonderful community for almost 23 years as the superintendent of the Great Neck Public Schools,” Superintendent Teresa Prendergast said. “He was a friend and a mentor to us all and his legacy will live on through the stories of his life and the advice and words of encouragement he provided to others.”

The public is invited to attend the event and should RSVP to the district using an online form: https://bit.ly/ DrShineEventRSVP. Officials said the event will also be live streamed and recorded in case individuals are not able to attend in-person.

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GOP presence increases in new 3rd District

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Newly drawn congressional maps with significant changes to the state’s 3rd District were approved by a state Supreme Court judge on Friday night.

Patrick McAllister, the state Supreme Court judge who approved the newly-drawn maps, previously rejected maps drawn up by Democratic officials, saying they were “unconstitutionally drawn with political bias.”

Some of the changes in the previously approved congressional maps included the state’s 3rd District stretching into parts of the Bronx and Westchester counties.

While the 3rd District under the new proposal doesn’t extend as far West into the Bronx and Westchester counties, it does stretch to more southern parts of Nassau County such as Hicksville and Massapequa.

The new lines do exclude the parts of the district that stretch into Suffolk County, mainly Huntington and Smithtown.

An analysis from Politico shows that the newly-drawn 3rd Congressional District is incorporating some of the more Republican areas in terms of voting breakdowns from the 2020 Presidential election.

The vote margin for the current 3rd District is +10.5 in favor of Joe Biden, compared to the newly-drawn lines having it as a +8.5 vote margin in favor of Biden.

Joshua Lafazan, a Nassau County

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A state Supreme Court judge approved newly drawn congressional lines last week.

Legislator and Democratic candidate for the 3rd Congressional District, said he was pleased with the newly-drawn lines and reiterated his priorities on what he plans to advocate if elected.

“I am happy with the new lines of congressional district 3,” Lafazan said in a statement. “I have been serving and delivering for the people of Nassau as a school board member and

county legislator and I am excited to go to Congress and fight for Long Island to have affordable and accessible healthcare, lower taxes, enact common-sense gun laws and curb out

of control inflation.”

Jon Kaiman, a former supervisor for the Town of North Hempstead and another Democratic candidate in the 3rd Congressional District race, also said he was “encouraged” by the newly-drawn maps and his campaign “continues to move full speed ahead.”

“As a U.S. Representative for the 3rd Congressional District, I will continue to prioritize government reform and deliver resources directly to the people of Long Island and Queens,” Kaiman said.

The election’s most notable Republican candidate, George Santos, said the newly drawn lines make the 3rd District “stronger” and “fairer,” reiterating his desire to keep a more secure border, prioritize the well-being of veterans and combat inflation.

“I am ready to make you all proud and bring much-needed change to Washington D.C in the 118th congress,” Santos said in a statement.

“The road ahead is not easy but we will band together through this journey and with your vote, we will come out victorious on November 8th. I look forward to meeting the people of the newly added areas and to strengthening my relationships with our newly added communities.”

Melanie D’Arrigo, another candidate on the race’s Democratic ballot, said that the 3rd District will always be home to her, regardless of what the newly-drawn lines indicate.

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Town tables Tiernan appointment Board approves resolution to remove Harry Weed as acting highway superintendent

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y North Hempstead Town Board Democrats voted to table a resolution opposed Supervisor Jennifer DeSena appointing Thomas Tiernan to highway superintendent Thursday night.

“With great, great regret, I am going to vote to ‘aye’ to table,” said Democratic Councilman Robert Troiano, who voted last and broke a 3-3 vote along party lines by siding with the three Republicans on the board.

The vote followed deliberations that took an hour and 23 minutes, which featured a number of people testifying in support of Tiernan’s nomination mixed with some calling for a search for other candidates.

Councilwoman Veronica Lurvey thanked those in attendance who expressed their support, concerns and questions about Tiernan’s potential appointment. She called for the Town Board to participate in a search “so we can work together to best serve the needs of our residents.”

“I hope that Tom Tiernan will be given every consideration as part of this search,” Lurvey said.

DeSena had called on Lurvey to withdraw a resolution to appoint Tiernan as the town’s new highway superintendent six years after he resigned following probes into his overtime compensation.

“It’s extremely clear for anyone to see that Mr. Tiernan was handpicked in a backroom deal by Councilwoman Lurvey as no prior discussion, rationale or explanation was given as to how, when, where, and why, Mr. Tiernan was chosen,” DeSena said in front

PHOTO BY BRANDON DUFFY

Town Councilman Robert Troiano (left) and Supervisor Jennifer DeSena (right) discuss a resolution regarding the appointment of Thomas Tiernan to highway superintendent Thursday night. of Town Hall at a news conference weeks ago.

DeSena began to read one of the disciplinary charges Tiernan received from a previous town attorney in 2016 following the vote to table Tiernan’s appointment.

The charge stemmed from an internal investigation in 2015 through the town attorney’s office following complaints from a vendor, Robert Hamilton, that Tiernan verbally abused him.

“There was a call for some of the findings from the report, and I would

like to note a couple of them,” said DeSena, a registered Democrat who was elected as a Republican in November.

“Item No. 35, Mr. Tiernan’s unprofessional behavior negatively reflected upon the Town and was unbecoming of a Highway Superintendent.”

While DeSena was reading the report, Troiano stood up from the dais, said what DeSena was doing was “unbecoming of a legally-trained person” and briefly left the room before returning.

Troiano and Lurvey both said they had previously looked at the charges

reviewed by the town attorney in 2016 while fellow Democrats, Councilmembers Mariann Dalimonte and Peter Zuckerman, said they did not.

Troiano said DeSena reading the charge after the Town Board tabled the resolution to appoint Tiernan violated Robert’s Rules of Order and was not a proper continuance of the scheduled agenda.

Councilmembers later approved a personnel resolution that included the removal of Harry Weed as the acting highway superintendent. DeSena had earlier called for Weed, who was put

into his position in 2021 under Supervisor Judi Bosworth, to be appointed on a permanent basis.

That for the moment leaves the town without a highway superintendent.

An interim appointee will be named next week and the position will be posted Monday with the intention of permanent hiring in June, according to Gordon Tepper, director of communications for the town.

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3 DeSena reccomendations appointed to board

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y After four months, Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena had three of her seven recommendations appointed to the town’s Board of Ethics during last Thursday’s Town Board meeting.

Dr. Isma Chaudry, who is a current holdover from the previous administration, will finish her new term on Dec. 31, 2023. Chaudry had previously been serving on an expired term. Westbury/ New Cassel NAACP President Robin Bolling and Chabad of Mineola Rabbi Anchelle Perl are each taking a vacant spot on the board and will serve until Dec. 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

DeSena’s four other recommendations—Derek Chan, president of Greater Hudson Financial; Robert Reilly, former assistant dean at Fordham University’s School of Law; Melissa Slobin, speech language pathologist for Manhasset Public Schools; and Francisco Vazquez, senior counsel to Norton Rose Fullbright—did not get appointed by the end of the meeting.

For a brief moment, Vazquez was appointed to the board following a vote

from Councilwoman Mariann Dalimonte that gave the three Republicans - DeSena and Councilmembers David Adhami and Dennis Walsh - the majority but later re-opened the resolution on Vazquez’s appointment.

Dalimonte said that she “voted in error” after asking for and receiving an answer from Town Attorney John Chiara.

Dalimonte said she was under the impression that Vazquez would be appointed to the board and take up a vacant term. But after speaking with Chiara and Deputy Supervisor Joseph Scalero during a brief recess, she learned that he would take the term of current Chair Joseph Sciame.

“After speaking with the deputy supervisor, I realized I actually replaced someone who did not want to be replaced, so this is no indication against Mr. Vazquez’s character,” Dalimonte said. “I make a motion to reconsider.”

Following the re-opened vote, Vazquez was rejected by the board after a 4-3 vote along party lines.

DeSena, who jokingly said the Democrats have “to get their votes straight,” had minutes before said

that Dalimonte was “re-coached” into changing her vote.

Dalimonte disputed the claim by saying she misunderstood the answer given by Chiara and got further clarification following the vote. The councilwoman added it was “confusing” that DeSena would support Vazquez’s approval because she believed that the supervisor wanted Sciame on the committee.

“From what I’m hearing is that you wanted him [Sciame] to remain on the committee, so I don’t know why you would put someone in this position,” Dalimonte said. “That’s even more confusing. My mistake is taking someone off that you want on the committee, so I’m fixing it for everyone.”

Right now, the town’s Board of Ethics is made up of Bolling, Chaudry, PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SUPERVISOR’S OFFICE Perl, Sciame, Richard Kestenbaum, Bette Leong, Hon. Richard Kestenbaum, Rev. Charles Vogeley and Rabbi Current members for North Hempstead’s Board of Ethics are operatRobert Widom. Widom and Vogeley ing on unexpired terms, said Supervisor Jennifer DeSena. are currently inactive members of the board, according to town officials.

“In my opinion, we have an Ethics Of those seven, only Bolling, serving unexpired terms and can be Chaudry and Perl are serving on de- removed at any time, which Walsh al- Board that is beholden to the majority,” Walsh said. fined terms. The remaining four are luded to during the meeting.

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Proud Boys again march through RVC Democratic officials condemn far-right group’s rally through village last weekend

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bers of the group, asking them to remove their masks if they “believe in [equity, diversity and inThe Proud Boys marched through Rockville clusion].”

State Sen. Anna Kaplan also issued a statement Centre for the second time in six months on Suncondemning the group. day, May 22, drawing criticism from local leaders.

“We have to reject this The Proud Boys are an hate and extremism whenever American far-right and neoit shows itself in our commufascist organization founded nity,” she said. “So I’m calling in 2016. Notably, the orgathis shameful display out for nization was involved in the what it is: nothing more than Jan. 6 attack against the U.S. a modern-day Klan march Capitol, and several senior happening in our community.” leaders were arrested.

In another statement, Nas“There is no place in Nassau County Legislator Siela sau County for hate based Bynoe expressed a similar on race, religion, or ethnicview. ity,” Nassau County Execu“Now more than ever, it tive Bruce Blakeman said in is crucial for people of good a statement to Blank Slate conscience to stand together Media. to reject their racist, misogyState Sen. Todd Kaminsky nistic, antisemitic and antiposted a video of the masked LGBTQ bigotry,” said Bynoe, marchers waving American, who is seeking the Democratic Gadsden and other group — Bruce Blakeman nomination for the 4th Conflags.

NASSAU COUNTY EXECUTIVE gressional District. “And send “Hey Long Island…let’s a clear message that hate has make sure we never forget to no place in Rockville Centre, notice when neo-facist hate Nassau County or anywhere groups take to our streets in broad daylight,” Kaminski said. “Yesterday, the else in our nation.”

This past November, the group marched Proud Boys came to @VillageRVC again. This can’t be the new normal and this isn’t who we are. This through Rockville Centre and were met with similar can’t be the new normal, and this isn’t who we are,” responses.

Efforts to reach Nassau County Presiding Officer he tweeted.

In another video, a bystander confronts mem- Richard Nicolello were unavailing.

There is no place in Nassau County for hate based on race, religion, or ethnicity.”

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History, government Regents canceled Education Department claims content could trigger students in light of Buffalo shooting

IN THE WAKE OF THE BUFFALO

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z The state Education Department announced Tuesday that the Regents exams scheduled for June 1 have been canceled for history and government, with officials citing the need to analyze the framework of the tests in light of the recent supermarket shooting in Buffalo.

The exams, which normally are held in January, June, and August, must be passed for a student to receive a high school diploma in the state of New York. They were scheduled to take place next week.

Emily DeSantis, a spokeswoman for the department, said that some content in the exams could potentially “compound student trauma caused by the recent violence in Buffalo.”

“While developed by NYS-certified social studies teachers more than two years ago and field-tested to confirm that the exam’s content is educationally sound, the tragedy in Buffalo has created an unexpected and unintended context for the planned assessment,” DeSantis said in a statement. “In the wake of the Buffalo tragedy, it is not appropriate to administer the exam with a question that could compound the grief and hardship faced by our school communities.”

Ten people were killed in a Buffalo supermarket earlier this month when a white 18-yearold wearing military gear fired a rifle and shot 13 individuals, 11 of whom were black, according to law enforcement officials. Payton Gen-

TRAGEDY, IT IS NOT APPROPRIATE TO ADMINISTER THE EXAM WITH A QUESTION THAT COULD COMPOUND THE GRIEF AND HARDSHIP FACED BY OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITIES.

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The state Education Department canceled the June Regents exams for history and government following the recent shooting at a Buffalo supermarket earlier this month. dron, the suspected gunman, was wearing a helmet camera when he opened fire at the Tops supermarket and live-streamed the shooting, officials said.

Gendron was indicted by a grand jury on first-degree murder charges and was being held without bail, according to multiple reports.

Betty A. Rosa, the Education Department commissioner, said a review of the exams will be conducted and the department will ask the state’s Board of Regents to approve a graduation exemption for students who were scheduled to take the June exams.

The regulatory change presented to the

Board of Regents will include exemptions for any student planning on taking the exam in June and August this year and in January 2023, Rosa said.

“New York has exceptional school communities that show unwavering dedication to their students,” Rosa said. “The department is committed to supporting our students, schools, and communities in the wake of the tragedy in Buffalo. We will work together to ensure that goodness and compassion will always triumph over ignorance and hatred.”

Regents exams for January 2021 were also canceled by the department due to the coronavirus pandemic. High school students scheduled to take the exams had modified assessment requirements to receive their diplomas.

Senate approves bill backed by Franchetti

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y The state Senate unanimously passed Monday a bill championed by lifelong Manhasset resident Jacqueline Franchetti after her 2-year-old daughter was murdered by her father on a court-approved visit.

The bill is the first of eight laws that Franchetti has pushed for. It prohibits certain forensic child custody evaluators from appearing as expert witnesses in family court.

Senate Bill S8578B now must pass the state Assembly before it can become law.

Franchetti has led a fight to reform the New York justice system that let her daughter slip through the cracks.

On July 27, 2016, 2-year-old Kyra’s father shot her twice in the back while she was sleeping at his Fairfax, Va., home on an unsuperPHOTO COURTESY OF JACQUELINE FRANCHETTI vised, court-sanctioned visit. He then set the house on fire and shot Jacqueline Franchetti of Manhasset with her daughter Kyra at the Mary Jane himself to death.

Davies Green in an undated photo. A bill named after Kyra aiming at improving After Kyra was killed, Franchthe family court system has been introduced into the state Assembly. etti founded Kyra’s Champions and

the Kyra Franchetti Foundation, whose mission is to protect children in custody cases from being ordered by a court into the home of an abusive parent.

Franchetti’s advocacy has led to multiple bills, including Kyra’s Law, which makes child safety the top priority in Family Court, increases judicial training on family violence and eliminates the use of forensic evaluators, among other things.

Franchetti previously said that the bills have garnered interest and led to over 15,000 emails sent to legislators in support of the five bills.

In December, Gov. Kathy Hochul released a report from the Blue-Ribbon Commission on Forensic Custody Evaluations, created by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year, of which Franchetti was one of 20 members.

The group was focused on providing recommendations to the governor about updates to the evaluations for New York courts after negative experiences were

reported by parents, attorneys and court officials.

Forensic evaluators are required to have a background in mental health and conduct evaluations on parent/child relationships before providing a report to the court. Franchetti described a lack of necessary training, bias and lack of standards as reasons the commission was created.

Franchetti previously cited several disturbing examples that included a forensic evaluator in Schenectady requiring a child who disclosed sexual abuse to sit on her father’s lap during her interview.

She said on Long Island an evaluator interviewed a young boy on the bed where he was raped and in her daughter Kyra’s case, the evaluator dismissed documented evidence and eyewitness accounts of abuse and advocated for the father who ultimately murdered her to have joint custody.

More information about Kyra’s Champions can be found at www. kyraschampions.org.

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Queensboro prez backs Zimmerman Says Democratic candidate for 3rd Congressional District will be ‘a true champion’ for borough

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Queensborough President Donovan Richards has endorsed Robert Zimmerman, the longtime Democratic National Committee member, in his bid to capture the party’s nomination in the 3rd Congressional District, the campaign announced.

“Robert Zimmerman will serve the Borough of Queens with passion and dedication. He is a strong leader who we can count on to deliver results for our neighborhoods and enhance our quality of life by standing up for public safety, organized labor, and the unacceptable airplane noise in our communities,” Richards said in a statement.

“At this very critical time, we need Robert Zimmerman in Congress to make sure infrastructure dollars come back to Queens to meet our sustainability goals for a cleaner environment. I am proud to endorse Robert’s candidacy. He will be a true champion for the Borough of Queens in the Halls of Congress.”

Richards, 39, has been in his current position since 2020. Previously, he was a New York City councilmember for seven years.

Zimmerman, 67, is co-president of ZE Creative Communications on Bond Street in Great Neck, a public relations firm he began 33 years ago with Ron Edelson.

He is seeking the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen

Cove), who is running for governor.

If elected, Zimmerman would become the first openly gay member of Congress from Long Island and Queens.

Since his announcement this year, Zimmerman’s campaign has raised over $900,000.

Other endorsements for Zimmerman’s campaign include former Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Assemblyman Charles Lavine and state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Others running for the Democratic nomination in the district include former North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman, Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan, state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, Melanie D’Arrigo of Port Washington and Oyster Bay’s Reema Rasool.

New district maps were submitted recently by a court-appointed “special master” and have been viewed as more neutral compared to ones that were rejected by a state appeals court several weeks ago.

While the 3rd District under the new proposal doesn’t extend as far West into the Bronx and Westchester counties, it does stretch to more southern parts of Nassau County such as Hicksville and Massapequa.

The new lines do exclude the parts of the district that stretch into Suffolk County, mainly Huntington and Smithtown.

George Santos is seeking the Republican nomination.

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COMMUNITY & SCHOOL NEWS

Deep Roots Farmers Market coming to Great Neck Deep Roots Farmers Market, in conjunction with the Great Neck Park District is coming to Steppingstone Park in Great Neck — Sundays from 9 AM to 1 PM beginning June 19.

We will have 25+ vendors each week, featuring locally grown vegetables, farm fresh eggs, meats and

dairy, local fish and shellfish, freshbaked breads and sweets, artisan cheeses, fresh seafood, honey, prepared foods, kombucha, fresh ravioli and pastas, jams, coffees, and much more.

Weekly guest art and craft vendors, kids activities and live music, too! We will be in Steppingstone

Park through Labor Day Weekend and then we move to Firefighters Park on Grace Avenue from Sept. 11 to Nov. 20 for the fall market season.

Deep Roots Farmers Market was voted the #1 Farmers Market on Long Island by the LI Choice Awards in 2021! We look forward to being part of the Great Neck community!

Manhasset G.N. EOC to hold spring gala fundraiser Before you know it, summer will be upon us. To celebrate, come and join the Manhasset Great Neck EOC for its annual Gala fundraiser on June 2 at Leonard’s of Great Neck. Festivities will begin with an Open Bar from 6-7 PM, followed by a sit-down dinner at seven o’clock.

This year’s celebration is especially important and most exciting due to the fact that the EOC was unable to hold its in-person fundraiser for two years due to COVID.

After living through two difficult years, it is with great joy and relief that the EOC community is thrilled to make this announcement about the forthcoming gala. Come support this terrific organization and join in the fun activities that will include a Silent Auction and Raffles. Tickets are $125 per person.

This year’s EOC honorees are: Nassau County Comptroller and former New York State Senator Elaine Phillips

Town of North Hempstead Councilwoman Veronica Lurvey Manhasset Architect TJ Costello Local Activist Ruth Freeman Villa Milano Restaurant Owner Don Bekteshi Paulette Williams, Assistant Principal, Shelter Rock School, who is retiring Desire Woodson, chair of the EOC Board of Directors, notes that “the Organization is

poised to service the youth of the community in many ways. In addition to our Summer Program, we have begun a Saturday mentoring program and are in the process of setting up a program for youth with disabilities as well. We are very excited about our future.”

For further information about reservations and journal ads, please call Stephanie Chenault at 516-627-6385.

Happening at the Great Neck School District Celebrating William A. Shine The Great Neck Public Schools is honored to host an event celebrating the life and legacy of former Superintendent Dr. William A. Shine, who served as the leader of the school community for more than 20 years. The event will be held on Thursday, June 2, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of his namesake building, William A. Shine-Great Neck South High School, 341 Lakeville Road.

The District is hosting this event in partnership with Dr. Shine’s wife, Susan Shine. The program will feature speakers, student music performances, and a video tribute.

Dr. Shine served as the Superintendent of the Great Neck Public Schools from 1982 until his retirement in 2004. During his 22-year tenure, Dr. Shine established himself as a visionary leader who made an immeasurable impact on the public school system and the entire community. He was widely regarded not only as a brilliant educational leader, but also as a mentor and a friend. Dr. Shine passed away on Jan. 28, 2022, at the age of 93.

The public is invited to attend this event in person or virtually.

Individuals who wish to attend in person are asked to RSVP using an online form: https://bit.ly/ DrShineEventRSVP. The event will also be live-streamed and recorded for remote viewing. For additional

information, contact the GNPS Office of Community Services at 516441-4094.

Rotary recognizes middle school students The Rotary Club of Great Neck annually recognizes students from North Middle and South Middle schools who demonstrate an exemplary level of community service and a commitment to “service above self.” Award winners were applauded by Rotary representatives, proud parents, school administrators, and faculty members during an in-person ceremony on May 18.

Receiving this year’s Rotary Youth Merit Award are: Ava Jonisch, Gabriela Sedagatpour, and Taylor Weber from North Middle School; and Kyra Capodanno, DaliaCastilho, and Irina Chian from South Middle School.

South High projects advance to state, national History Day contest Projects created by South High School students were awarded second and third place at the New York State History Day competition. Jillian Chang and Sebastian Lennox won second place in the Website Category at the state competition and will now advance to the National History Day Contest. Melody Song was awarded third place in the Individual Performance category at the state competition.

Jillian and Sebastian’s awardwinning website submission is titled, “Fishin’ Wars: Reaffirming Native American Fishing Rights.”

This is the second consecutive year that teammates Jillian and Sebastian have won awards in the Group Website category. In 2021, their project advanced to the National History Day Contest after earning second place at regional and state competitions.

Melody Song’s award-winning project, “nNHD News: Treaty of Versailles,” won third-place honors at both the regional and state levels of competition.

The theme for this year’s National History Day Contest is “Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences.”

The top three projects within each category at the Long Island History Day competition qualified for the New York State competition in May. The top two projects from each category at the state level will advance to the National Contest, to be conducted virtually in June.

The faculty advisor for the South High History Club is Fran Tria, social studies teacher.

GNPS/TV current programming Current programming on Great Neck Public Schools Television (GNPS/TV) includes the South Middle Cultural Heritage Celebration, South High Spotlight, North Middle

Spotlight, and Village School Exhibition.

GNPS/TV programs are available on demand, 24/7, on the school district website at www. greatneck.k12.ny.us/tv. Programs can also be viewed in the incorporated villages of Great Neck on Optimum Channel 75 and on Verizon Fios Channel 32. Airing times in program descriptions below are for Optimum and Verizon viewing.

South Middle Cultural Heritage Celebration This year’s South Middle Cultural Heritage Celebration was filmed

by GNPS/TV high school students and presented virtually in January.

This annual event celebrates the cultural mosaic of the South Middle community through dances, songs, and presentations. Enjoy student performances of the Chinese YoYo, Lion Dance, Ribbon Dance, Korean Fan Dance, Hispanic Dance, Indian Dance, K-POP, Korean Drum Dance, and more. South Middle Cultural Heritage Celebration airs at 7 and 11 a.m., and 3 and 7 p.m.

South High Spotlight Tune in to the South High Spotlight for a glimpse into exciting activities from the first half of the school year at South High School, including Battle of the Bands, Charity Volleyball Tournament, Fashion Show, Music Night Coffee House, a Halloween montage, and the Theatre South musical production of

Grease. South High Spotlight airs 8 a.m., and 12, 4 and 8 p.m.

North Middle Spotlight This episode of North Middle Spotlight highlights recent performances and school activities, including the Club Fair, Float Your Boat Regatta, a Halloween montage, One Acts, and North Middle School Theater Company’s production of Disney’s Descendants: The Musical. North Middle Spotlight airs 9 a.m., and 1, 5 and 9 p.m.

Village School Exhibition Village School’s annual Exhibition is a celebration of student work at the culmination of the fall semester. It is an evening event wherein students are given the opportunity to share a semester’s worth of work — moving it from the confines of the classroom into a space where it can be exhibited for others to ponder, question, and enjoy. Village School Exhibition airs at 10 a.m., and 2, 6 and 10 p.m.

GNPS/TV Programming GNPS/TV programming reflects the offerings of the Great Neck Public Schools and the achievements of its students and staff. Programs are student-produced.

For further information, please contact Robert Zahn, director of educational television and broadcast media, by e-mail at rzahn@ greatneck.k12.ny.us, and by phone at (516) 441-4676.

A nonprofit organization in Great Neck is seeking sealed bids for sales and installation of security related enhancements. The project includes: installation of entryway door replacement, anti-ram equipment, blast resistant security film and window hardening, access controls, alarm system, lock replacement, installation of CCTV equipment, as well as security training and education. Selection criteria will be based on knowledge of surveillance and security references, and cost. Specifications and bid requirements can be obtained by contacting us at jksbbids@gmail. com. All interested firms will be required to sign for the proposal documents and provide primary contact, telephone, fax and email address. Bids will be accepted until June 6, 2022. Work is to commence by June 15, 2022 and completed by August 5, 2022.

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Working Families Party backs D’Arrigo Democratic candidate for 3rd Congressional District fighting for ‘Medicare for All’

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Melanie D’Arrigo of Port Washington has launched a second campaign for a House of Representatives seat.

The New York Working Families Party has endorsed Port Washington progressive activist Melanie D’Arrigo as she runs for the Democratic primary in the 3rd Congressional District.

The NYWFP pushes for progressive legislation, training, recruiting and supporting progressive leaders to seek elected office, according to its website.

“The New York Working Families Party is proud to support Melanie D’Arrigo for Congress. She is a mother and workingclass New Yorker who has been organizing for years in NY-3 to expand health care through Medicare for All, protect reproductive rights and ensure dignity for workers,” Sochie Nnaemeka, state director of the party, said in a statement. “Long Islanders will benefit from having a real champion for working families fighting for them in Congress.”

D’Arrigo said in order to usher in a better New York, candidates need to be committed to working families.

“If we want to build a New York for the many, we need to elect representatives who are unbought by corporate PAC money and undeterred in the fight for working families,” D’Arrigo said in a statement. The Working Families Party has been the blood and sweat of that movement, and I am beyond honored to receive their endorse-

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She added, “We are building a grassroots movement across NY-03 in the fight for Medicare for All, reproductive justice and an economy that works for all of us— and the Working Families party is the latest addition to our formidable grassroots coalition, the largest in the race.”

D’Arrigo is seeking the Democratic nomination in the district, a seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove).

Others running on the Democratic line for the seat include former North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman, Nassau County Legislator Joshua Lafazan, state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, Oyster Bay’s Reema Rasool and former Democratic National Committee member Robert Zimmerman.

New district maps were submitted recently by a court-appointed special master and have been viewed as more neutral compared to ones that were rejected by a state appeals court several weeks ago.

While the 3rd District under the new proposal doesn’t extend as far West into the Bronx and Westchester counties, it does stretch to more southern parts of Nassau County such as Hicksville and Massapequa.

The new lines do exclude the parts of the district that stretch into Suffolk County, mainly Huntington and Smithtown.

George Santos is seeking the Republican nomination.

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Nassau GOP soft on domestic terrorism

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hat’s the matter with white people?

Or at least those white people who are white supremacists or members of other like-minded groups that have committed the majority of terrorist attacks in the United States this year.

And what about Republican officials who either encourage these groups or stand silent in the face of their hate?

“The House G.O.P. leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy and antisemitism,” Rep. Liz Cheney tweeted.

We don’t hold whites or any other group groups responsible for the misdeeds of individuals — as say Muslim Americans were after 9/11. That, by definition, is bigoted.

But it is important to try to understand what is fueling the rise of hate crimes by white nationalists and extremists.

The most recent racially motivated attack, which took place in a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket, claimed the lives of 10 black people and seriously injured three other black people.

The 18-year-old gunman left behind a 180-page, hate-filled manifesto that said white Americans were at risk of being replaced by people of color.

An annual assessment by the Department of Homeland Security warned that violent white supremacy was the “most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland” and that white supremacists were the most deadly among domestic terrorists in recent years.

U.S. intelligence officials have cited domestic extremism and white nationalism as threats to national security.

Gunmen like the alleged Buffalo shooter have referenced the racist idea, known as “replacement theory,” during a string of mass shootings and other violence in recent years committed by white people.

The term replacement theory was once associated with the far-right fringe, but has become increasingly mainstream, pushed by politicians andpopular television programs, including one featuring

Tucker Carlson, the Fox host with the highest-rated program on cable television.

Elise Stefanik, a representative from Upstate New York who is the No. 3 Republican in the House, had recently echoed the racist “great replacement” theory.

“Radical Democrats are planning their most aggressive move yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION,” reads a Facebook ad posted by Stefanik, which shows a reflection of migrants in sunglasses Biden is wearing.

“Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington,” the post reads.

The apparent assumption by Republicans is that immigrants will vote for Democrats. Why? What is it about their candidates and message that they think new Americans would reject them? That part is unexplained.

Stefanik, it should be noted, took Cheney’s place in the House leadership after Cheney joined the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The term replacement theory was also used by a white man with a history of antisemitic internet posts who gunned down 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, blaming Jews for allowing immigrant “invaders” into the United States.

The next year another white man, angry over what he called “the Hispanic invasion of Texas,” opened fire on shoppers at an El Paso Walmart, leaving 23 people dead. He later told the policehe had sought to kill Mexicans.

The idea that black people were replacing white people in America is absurd on its surface, given that black people began arriving in what is now the United States against their wishes as slaves beginning in 1619 – long before most white people came here.

But in light of efforts to suppress the vote in many states in 2022, it makes perfect sense. If black people are allowed to vote, they will have an equal say in who gets elected and how the country is governed and therefore more power.

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Efforts to suppress the vote of blacks and other minorities have often been the case in America — something that opponents of so-called “critical race theory” don’t want to be taught in our schools.

But whites as a group cannot be blamed for the country’s ugly history on race. Many whites have believed in the idea that all men (and women) are created equal. They literally fought for the rights of blacks to be citizens during the Civil War and later in legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul said following the shooting in Buffalo that “domestic terrorism is the most significant threat we face as a state” and signed an executive order creating new domestic terrorism units for the state counterterrorism division and state police.

Their mission would include tracking white supremacists using websites and social media to organize and recruit new members.

She also called on lawmakers to pass legislation closing gun law loopholes and fine-tuning red-flag laws intended to prevent people with mental health problems from possessing firearms.

Hochul’s executive order and proposed reforms are sensible responses, but still fall woefully short of what is really needed to put an end to this violence.

New York already has some of the toughest gun laws in the country.

But other states have little or nothing in place to restrict the sale of guns, which then find their way to New York and other states with reasonable gun laws.

National legislation to bar the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, which has become mass shooters’ weapon of choice, as well as universal background checks have been blocked in Congress year after year – even though a large majority of Americans support them, including gun owners.

Now add that to the volume of firearms in this country, which has now been estimated to be more than 400 million, and you would be excused if you did not know what to do.

Don’t expect much from Congress unless Senate Democrats agree to do away with the filibuster, an undemocratic practice that gives a minority of states and population the ability to override the will of the majority on gun safety measures.

In fact, Senate Republicans are now expected to reject legislation passed along party lines in the House to prevent domestic terrorism.

Rep. Lee Zeldin, a congressman from Suffolk County who is the Republican Party’s choice for governor, is even less helpful. He said in the wake of the Buffalo shooting that New York should dump its

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red flag law, loosen permits for concealed weapons and allow New Yorkers to “stand your ground.”

This after Aaron Salter Jr., a former Buffalo policeman trained in the use of firearms who was working as a security guard, was killed when his shots failed to penetrate the armored vest of alleged assassin Payton Gendron and the suspect returned fire, killing Salter.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who spent 20 years on the police force, has repeatedly called for ways to restrict the flow of guns into New York and get what’s already there off the streets.

Rep. Tom Suozzi, who is running against Hochul for the Democratic nomination for governor, offered a mixed message at best following the shooting in Buffalo.

He issued a laundry list of legislative changes he’d like to see related to mental health and gun laws but cited bail reform as a priority in response to the Buffalo shooting.

Suozzi, echoing state Republicans, has routinely blamed the state’s reform bail reform on rising crime in New York.

Like Republicans, he has not backed up his claim with statistics, but even if this is a legitimate debate, what did it have to do with the Buffalo shooting? Nothing.

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KREMER’S CORNER

Voters have good reason to be turned off

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nce upon a time politics was a simple business.

You were a Democrat or a Republican. Many people picked their political party based on what party their parents belonged to. From time to time, Congress passed a few laws that helped people and arguments about political issues were civil.

Today’s politics are a far cry from the good old days. If you dare to talk about politics at the Thanksgiving dinner table, you may find yourself in the middle of a fistfight.

The parties are not divided over such old-time issues as fair trade or American isolationism.

The current battles are over issues that are often mean-spirited or ugly. I can never recall ever hearing an argument over whether the elections were fairly administered and no winning or losing candidate ever alleged that their election was stolen.

According to the latest CNN

opinion poll, over 60 percent of Republicans think the election was rigged. But the most surprising polling numbers are on the question of whether you are sick and tired of the current political climate? In that case the voters agreed by a margin of 72%.

There is no doubt in my mind that former President Trump made a major contribution to the divide that plagues our political system.

To this day, he has failed to concede his defeat even though most of the Republican officeholders agree that Trump lost and Biden won.

If you want to see how sick the system has become, the best place to start with is Florida under Go. Ron De Santis. He has made sexual orientation, textbook contents and teacher lesson plans into hot button issues. Florida ranks as one of the highest states for COVID infections and deaths for its size, but DeSantis is proud of his resistance

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to any restrictions on health efforts such as masks in the public schools.

He has punished any public school that fails to follow his edicts. Florida’s two biggest tourism sources are the cruise ship

industry and Disneyland. At the height of the COVID epidemic, he continuously blasted the cruise lines for insisting that passengers wear masks. He has gotten legislation passed to punish Disney for supporting gay rights.

As we approach the November elections, some Republican candidates will be seeking voter support for their allegations that “all Democrats are looking to grant citizenship to undocumented immigrants in order to gain a liberal majority in the country.” That is a typical white supremacist trope.

These same words were part of the hate manifesto of the shooter who last week killed 11 Black people in Buffalo. It is a throwback to the time when politicians were warning us that “Catholics, Jews and Muslims were seeking to change our culture” as well as those who warned us that “Irish, Italians and Asians would replace Protestant Americans.”

Unfortunately, we will be facing a partisan divide for at least the next two years and possibly four years thereafter, if Mr. Trump can again gain control of the White House. His whole existence is based on re-running the 2020 election and his determination to change enough voter laws to guarantee a Republican victory even if the Democrats actually win.

There is no voice of reason in today’s Republican Party. Almost all of the national party leaders are afraid to disagree with former President Trump for fear that they will be challenged in a primary contest. Congress members such as Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney cannot be the campaign police forever.

As I am about to experience another birthday, my fondest hope is that some tinge of bi-partisanship will come back to life and the tone of our politics takes a turn for the better. At least I can wish.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Marie Antoinette: ‘Let them drink breast milk’

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he United States is currently experiencing a dire shortage of infant formula. In response, I hear some people say “let the moms breastfeed!”

I’m guessing these backseat drivers don’t know that once a nursing mother stops breastfeeding, she cannot start up again.

I’m also guessing they don’t know how hard it is right from the start.

Take it from me. As a white, healthy woman with every advantage, including a home in the suburbs and a husband’s support, I was still a breastfeeding failure.

Our two children grew up just fine — on formula. They’re now both in their 20s, working and traveling around the world. But we had a rocky start.

My first-born was only a few weeks old when I realized that breast-feeding just wasn’t going to work for us. “It’s supposed to be so simple!” I wailed. “COWS can do it!”

But not apparently, me.

I had tried and tried, and so had my baby — on our own, with experts and with awkward and bulky equipment — and we had gotten nowhere. Only 30 days into motherhood, and I had failed him at the most basic level: mother’s milk.

This was not in my plan. I meant to breastfeed. I subscribed to all the theories: that it is the easiest option — with no bottles to make, sterilize or wash; the cheapest — no formula

to buy; and the healthiest — all the antibodies and nutrients your baby needs, miraculously blended for every stage of their young life. Plus, it’s psychologically best for you both as well. Just clap baby to bosom and bond.

There are just a few things the theories leave out.

No. 1: You have no idea what you’re doing. Neither my mother nor my mother-in-law had any advice for me, and the hospital nurses were far too busy.

No. 2: It hurts. My toothless infant, 6 hours old, clamped down hard enough to make me scream.

Convinced I must be doing something wrong, I rang for the lactation consultant. “Oh no,” she said, “if you can uncurl your toes after the first 30 seconds, you’re doing it right.”

No. 3: Sometimes there’s nothing there. The milk doesn’t always arrive when the baby does — a design flaw, as my husband the engineer likes to say.

Worst of all, you must repeat the cycle, every two hours. Or more often, if the baby can’t tell time yet.

Whose idea was this? Nine months of increasing sleeplessness and “discomfort,” which means pain, capped off by either labor or surgery — or for the lucky few both.

Then just when you are at a lifetime low and could sleep for a week, you have to breastfeed?

For me, this was sufficient proof

JUDY EPSTEIN

A Look on the Lighter Side that God is NOT a woman. In fact, breastfeeding was the biggest disappointment of my life — even worse than finding out that the chocolate Easter bunny is hollow.

Of course, we’d had more than our fair share of problems. First, my baby had jaundice; then after my medically necessary C-section, I ran a high fever — possibly Toxic Shock

— putting me back in the hospital in the ICU on intravenous antibiotics for a week.

Then the baby had his own (low) fever, requiring a spinal tap and his own weekend in the hospital on antibiotics. I had tried to pump breastmilk all through my ICU stay, but I hadn’t pumped enough — foolishly choosing to sleep instead — so by the time we got back together, his demand for milk was zooming just as my supply was packing it in.

But I was determined, so we went to consultants, who gave me a contraption to wear every time he nursed to teach us both what to do. I had to hang a flask of formula around my neck, with angel-hairpasta-sized tubes leading from it, taped onto my boobs. It reminded me of those “beer hats” they wear to baseball games — except I was the beer and the hat.

The first time we tried, it was a disaster. The second time was even worse.

I wanted to scream with anger misery, and frustration. But some-

one else was already doing that, and I was supposed to be the grown-up in the room.

I took off the harness and made him a bottle of formula.

It was a huge relief, knowing he was getting enough to drink, and our relationship instantly became much healthier. Feeding my baby became just one of many things I did, along with burping him, changing him, even — oh yes, — playing with him. All things I hadn’t thought of, in the depths of my misery.

But I never thought the stores could just run out of formula.

And what I never would have believed is that in a nation where Republican legislatures are rushing to FORCE pregnant women to have babies they don’t want— there could be 192 Republican members of Congress who voted “No” to giving the FDA enough money to fix the baby formula shortage.

These Republicans say they are “pro-life” — but they’re apparently just fine with letting babies starve to death once they’re born.

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THE BACK ROAD

From Green Bay to Tennessee to High Court

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ince retiring from full-time employment 10 months ago, one of my resolutions was to catch up on my reading.

Although I’m not too particular, I do favor historical fiction, anything on organized crime, and biographies on great athletes.

The athletes don’t have to be human. For instance, ‘Seabiscuit: An American Legend’ is one of my all-time favorites. If you haven’t already read this classic about the thoroughbred racehorse by Laura Hillenbrand, you will find that Seabiscuit is every bit as unforgettable as any Damon Runyon character.

Another favorite is ‘When Pride Still Mattered’, a biography of the legendary football coach Vince Lombardi. The book contains a memorable chapter that details game conditions surrounding the ‘Ice Bowl’, the 1967 NFL Championship Game between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys. Game time temperature was 13 degrees below zero.

Murder mysteries book jacket endorsements often use the word “chill-

ing” for marketing purposes. In his Lombardi biography, Pulitzer Prizewinning author David Maraniss gives new meaning to the term; so much so, that I almost grabbed my down jacket reading the ‘Ice Bowl’ chapter.

I read both of these works years ago, when I tackled books in obsessive spurts, usually during vacations from work. In time, my reading frenzy would dissipate and I wouldn’t make my way to another book-for-pleasure for many months.

In anticipation of retirement, I started a reading list based on recommendations from family and friends.

The best suggestions of contemporary works came from my wife Dale, a voracious reader. Her recommendations of novels have allowed me to gradually catch up with notable books that passed me by. It helped that most of them were already on our Kindles.

Each book reinforced how critical good fiction is in revealing universal truths and activating empathy.

Among Dale’s early recommendations was the most recent book I read entitled, ‘Before We Were Yours’ by

ANDREW MALEKOFF The Back Road

Lisa Wingate. It is a fictional account of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society (TCHS), a Memphis adoption center, whose director Georgia Tann (real person) authorized the kidnapping and sale of poor children to wealthy families.

In researching more about Tann, I found that TCHS operated in Memphis from 1924 to 1950. Roughly 5,000 children passed through its doors and

an estimated 500 children died while in its care.

At the same time I was reading about Tann’s house of horrors, also deserving of the adjective “chilling,” news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s intention to eradicate women’s reproductive rights came to light. I was reminded of the late comic George Carlin’s bit about pro-life conservatives.

Carlin quipped that after giving birth, “They don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No neo-natal care, no day care, no Head Start, no food stamps, no school lunch, no nothing. If you’re pre-born your fine. If you’re pre-school you’re [screwed].”

Supreme Court Justice Amy Comey Barrett is reported to be a proponent of “safe haven” laws. They allow women to opt out of forced parenting in lieu of the right to abortion, by anonymously surrendering their infants for adoption shortly after birth. They are then protected from criminal liability and prosecution for child endangerment, abandonment, or neglect.

Justice Barrett adopted two children from Haiti after the 2010 Haitian earthquake, “when the US government allowed Haitian children to be scooped up and sent from the country with little to no proof that they were orphans or had been voluntarily relinquished,” asserted Seattle attorney Carolyn McConnell in a May 6 piece she wrote for Jacobin Magazine entitled, “‘Safe Haven’ Laws Are Key to the Right’s Push to End Women’s Right to Abortion.”

I think it is fair to say that the term “chilling” also applies to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion draft overturning Roe v Wade, in which the Court ruled in 1973 that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman’s liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.

I am afraid that reading ‘Before We Were Yours’, about the terrifying reality at the Tennessee Children’s Home Society that it is based on, is quite likely a foreshadowing of what is to come, especially if the rigged U.S. Supreme Court has its way.

VIEW POINT

Bravo for President Biden’s budget plan

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re you getting whiplash as I am over Biden’s proposed FY2023 budget?

“Biden overextended with his social spending, that’s why Build Back Better failed and why Democrats will get creamed in the midterms.” “Biden didn’t do enough to advance the progressive agenda in his 2023 budget, that’s why Democrats will get creamed in the midterms.”

“His budget reflects a capitulation to Joe Manchin, who made his millions from dirty coal and who is torpedoing any investment to transition from climate-killing fossil fuel to clean-energy, and that’s why Democrats will get creamed in the midterms.”

And what is the Republican plan?

To raise taxes on the bottom half of the country, repeal the Affordable Care Act and sunset Medicare and Social Security, take away women’s rights, ban books and suppress the vote and subvert elections – that is when they aren’t busy impeaching Biden, Harris and every cabinet member in order to complete their insurrection. You know that if Republicans regain control, the substantial progress Biden has made (but pushed off the headlines by Ukraine, Jan. 6, the ongoing Trump coup and more), will be undone. That would be a truly dystopian society.

I don’t have any complaint with the Biden Budget – to me, it is as Biden has said, a statement of values of a nation; it fulfills Biden’s and the Democrats’ pledge to address climate change; foster economic, political, social, criminal and environmental justice; expand health security nationally and internationally; and advance pub-

lic safety and national security – in effect, it is the Build Back Better agenda.

So what’s in the Biden Budget?

First, it is important to put it into context: When Biden took office, the pandemic was raging in communities across the country and the economy was struggling to recover from the most severe downturn since the Great Depression. The economy shrunk and the unemployment rate was 6.4%, with 20 million collecting unemployment. The budget deficit exploded to $3.1 trillion in 2020—yet despite trillions in COVID-relief resources (and billions in fraud), the Trump administration didn’t secure vaccines for all Americans.

Most schools were closed and testing and medical equipment shortages continued as Trump set states against each other in a cage-match to buy supplies. And even before the pandemic, the Trump tax cuts had added $2 trillion to the deficit and the deficit increased every year despite the Republicans’ constant “trickle down” BS that tax cuts for the wealthiest would bring down the deficit.

Unlike his predecessor, President Biden prioritized fiscal responsibility (and hopefully recovering money from the CARES Act fraudsters). In the face of the extraordinary challenges he inherited, Biden knew that a strong economic recovery – built, as he said, from the bottom up and the middle out instead of the top down — would result in less emergency spending and drive future deficits down.

This strategy paid off producing the strongest economic growth in 40

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years –5.7% in 2021. The administration is projecting the deficit in 2022 will be $1.5 trillion lower than last year’s — the largest ever one-year decline in history.

Since Biden took office, 8 million jobs (that is 8 million taxpayers) have been added while the unemployment rate dropped to 3.4% — the lowest since 1969. And those receiving unemployment benefits dropped from 20 million to 1.6 million, the lowest since 1969.

And between the start and the end of 2021, we went from about 41,000 to more than 200 million Americans vaccinated (for free at thousands of locations), and from most schools closed to 99 percent open for in-person learning, freeing up parents to return to productive work. Biden’s war-level mobilization to combat COVID has saved 2.2 million lives (1 million have already died), prevented 17 million hospitalizations and 66 million COV-

ID-19 cases, and avoided $900 billion in health care costs.

Inflation? The percentages are deceiving because they are against 2020 and 2021 low level of economic activity and reflect increased spending power and demand, not to mention pricegouging and profiteering. What I want to see is a comparison to 2019. Also, you need to factor in Putin’s Ukraine War and ongoing supply chain issues (helped along by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott interfering with produce coming from Mexico).

Biden’s FY2023 budget is aimed at continuing economic growth and progress. It addresses rising prices due to the release of pent-up demand, amassed savings, lingering supply chain issues as well as price gouging, by cutting costs for necessities like prescription drugs and child care and even gas by promoting clean-renewable energy and fostering competition and prosecuting price-gouging, rather than cutting jobs or wages.

The Biden Budget invests — with greater return on investment than expenditures for climate disasters – in climate action and renewable energy (producing jobs while cutting dependence on brutal autocrats), public health and medical research, public safety and national security and what Biden has called a “Unity Agenda” (basically the things that the vast majority of Americans, regardless of party or where they live, want and would benefit from – like addressing the opioid crisis, research to treat cancer, Alzheimer’s). The investments in climate action – for clean energy, public transit, infrastructure – come with require-

ments for Made in America products like steel and aluminum, which will support US manufacturing.

Biden could easily have dubbed his budget the “People’s Agenda” for its focus on what everyday Americans need to improve their lives, or the “Justice Agenda” because every line-item is designed to promote economic, social, political, environmental and criminal justice across zip codes, from urban to rural, coastal to mid-America, on everything from health care, public education, public safety and infrastructure spending. His is the first administration that has specifically demanded equity in government administration.

Most critically – if they are honest critics rather than partisan obstructionists – Biden’s Budget does not add but rather reduces the budget deficit and is paid for by making the wealthiest 0.1% and corporations pay their fair share of taxes, while assuring anyone making $400,000 or less will not pay a dollar more in federal income tax.

My idea, instead of an impractical, improbable “wealth tax,” is a revised Alternative Minimum Tax combined with a Value Added Tax on spending over a certain amount – those billionaires may not earn “taxable income” but they sure as hell spend millions they get from somewhere.

“All told, it is a budget that includes historic deficit reduction, historic investments in our security at home and abroad, and an unprecedented commitment to building an economy where everyone has a chance to succeed,” Biden declared.

I’ll vote for that.

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OUR TOWN

Professional golf’s vanishing heroes There is morbid fascination to watch something die from its own weight.

Similar to the way you turn your neck as you pass a car wreck. It’s tough to resist the gore. Well, it appears that the great game of golf is slowly dying from its own success and it’s impossible to resist comment.

Early signs of its passing were seen in this week’s PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club. Simply by gazing at the leaderboard. Who are these guys who are vying for the prize? The names did not include Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka or Dustin Johnson. Rather we got to know Will Zalatoris, Mito Pereiro and Seamus Power.

What’s that you say? You have not heard of these guys. Well, you’re not alone. All the heroes are gone, gone, gone. The parade of departing heroes have been led by Tiger Woods, who withdrew after three rounds. But lord knows, he’s carried the heroes’ load for far too long as it is and certainly deserves a brief vacation. But where have all the others gone to?

In the tune “Mrs. Robinson” Paul Simon woefully wrote: “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?

A nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you.

Woo, woo, woo.

What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson? ’Joltin Joe has left and gone away.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.”

And it doesn’t take a genius to figure out where our golfing heroes have disappeared to. Let’s make a list of the more obvious things that killed them off. First, we have the growing horror of the new Saudi Arabian-funded LIV Tour, which is throwing big money at the leading stars in an effort to tempt them away from the PGA season. It is said that they offered Jack Nicklaus $100 million to be their spokesman.

Now that’s what I would call serious temptation.

But the new LIV Tour is merely one of many distractions that are producing defocus, deficient performance and a death-like flatness in our former golfing heroes. Financially driven equipment changes are part of the problem. “Hey, bud, put our new driver in your bag and we’ll put $1 million in your pocket to do so.”

And then we have the insane number of serious injuries that plague the over-trained stars that seek extra yards by working out extra hours in the gym. The sweat shops of the new and improved super trainers are cashing in and so are orthopedic surgeons.

It’s all good.

“Whoops, there goes my ACL, my lower back, my ankle, my wrist tendon, etcetera!”Our golfing hero’s careers are cut short by all these distractions. The LIV Tour, increased rate of injuries, inappropriate and unnecessary equipment changes are all driven by the almighty dollar. It’s just like the

DR. TOM FERRARO Our Town

endless trades in baseball, which prevents the home team fan from identifying with their local hero. If Mickey Mantle played today, he would have played for a variety of teams around the nation.

“What’s that you say, you’re offering me a $350 million, ten-year contract?

Just a minute while I pack my bags.”

The evaporation of the heroes is a big deal for golf. And if you doubt this, just take a gander at the thoroughbred racing industry to see what money and greed can do to an industry. The racing fan no longer has the opportunity to get to know great horses because any of the thoroughbreds lucky enough to win the Derby, the Preakness or the Belmont, are immediately put out to stud and make small fortunes in stud fees. The owners really have no choice

because on one in their right mind is going to risk a serious racing injury to a potentially lucrative stud.

The result is the fan no longer gets the chance to fall in love with the horse and so each year a new crop of strangers are raced and the fan is left scratching his head. This ends up with fans turning away from the sport.

The fan needs time to fall in love with the hero and love takes time as we all know.

If you have gone to Belmont Racetrack recently, you know you will be greeted by many empty seats and lots of silence. The sport of racing is in its death throws. And this is what the PGA is beginning to face.

When a leaderboard is filled with unknowns, that means that the greats in golf are either thinking about Saudi money, thinking about changing equipment or are still in rehab following yet another injury. he PGA is like a morbidly obese person slowly eating itself to death because it can’t stop eating. The food all these star golfers are eating is called MONEY and the chefs are guys in nice blue suits carrying briefcases filled with dollars. The golf fan will soon grow tired of watching people they do not know and care even less about. If Paul Simon liked golf, he might coin a tune called: “Where have you gone, Mr. Mickelson?”

The golfing gods are gone.

E A R T H M AT T E R S

Lights out to save the birds durign migration Spring migration of birds returning from their southern wintering grounds takes place every year from roughly April 1 through May 31. From tiny warblers weighing less than an ounce, to hawks and shorebirds, in the billions, they are on the move right now.The majority of migration takes place at night, allowing birds to land and feed during the day. Because of the night flights, in addition to battling weather and predators, one of the biggest threats to migrating birds is light pollution. They become disoriented by bright artificial lights and attracted to urban centers, causing them to detour, expend more energy and end up in places with less food and more dangers. Building collision is another major danger. An estimated one billion birds are killed annually from direct collisions with illuminated buildings, towers, and other structures across the country. With 80% of the United States impacted by photo-polluted nights, light pollution of airspace and increased urbanization poses serious threats to birds migrating at night.

Audubon is partnering with USGS Bird Banding Lab, Smithsonian, Georgetown University, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Movebank to bring together tracking data for birds that

spend a portion of the year in North America, to better understand when and where migratory birds will be. A national collaboration among Audubon’s Bird-Friendly Communities network and the International Dark Sky Association (IDA) is helping to build and strengthen www.audubon.org/ lights-out-program. To date, over 40 cities and several state and regional efforts are underway to turn out the lights during migration.In our area, the New York City Audubon Society, working with the Lights Out Coalition in 2021, achieved a significant victory with the unanimous passage in the New York City Council of artificial light legislation requiring that all city-owned buildings turn their nonessential outdoor lights off from 11pm to 6am during peak migration periods.

But this does not cover vast majority of privately owned buildings which are still attracting and killing birds.

NYC Audubon also monitors the annual 911 memorial lights. The intent of the lights has never been to capture, disorient and kill thousands of songbirds, but it was an unintentional by product of the powerful twin beams of light during fall migration. Audubon volunteers spend the night on adjacent rooftops, monitoring the number of

spaces 3. Choose shielded lighting that directs lights downward 4. Install automatic motion sensors and controls wherever possible 5. Close curtains and blinds 6. Change the color- white, red, and yellow light attracts birds migrating at night much more than blue or green light

JENNIFER WILSON-PINES Earth Matters

birds pulled into the light beams and the beams are shut down periodically to let the birds continue their journeys.

In your home or office, you can help reduce these risks to migratory birds from artificial light by turning off all exterior floodlights, spotlights, and decorative, vanity, and event lighting during the heights of migration: April 1 through May 31 (spring) and August 15 through November 15 (fall), from 11pm until 6am. Just flick that switch: 1. Turn off exterior floodlights 2. Turn off lights at night in unused

There are several solutions to reducing bird collisions with glass. Birds don’t ‘see’ glass the way we do and may fly into windows and other surfaces that reflect the surrounding landscape or try to fly through glass that appears transparent. Birds need to be shown that the glass isn’t an extension of the outdoors.

1. Create patterns on the outer surface, such as stripes and dots, with stickers on the outer glass surface using commercial products designed for this purpose, or create your own design using craft paper, tape, stickers, paint, and markers designed to be used on glass.

2. Make the glass look solid by completely covering the outer glass surface with paint, perforated vinyl film, or other materials that will make the glass appear opaque. Perforated vinyl

film products are available, which create a solid appearance from the outside, but allows views from the inside.

3. Place barriers like screens, netting, or hanging cords in front of the glass. As long as the barriers do not contain open spaces that are larger than 2 x 2 inches, or the hanging cords are spaced no wider than 4 inches apart, they can effectively discourage most birds from trying to fly through them into the glass.

4. Closing blinds or curtains can help discourage birds from flying into windows by creating the appearance of a series of barriers. Closing curtains and shades can also discourage collisions on windows that appear transparent from the outside; however, they are best used on windows where collisions are being caused by the appearance of transparency.

5. Move interior plants away from windows as birds perceive them as habitat and may try to fly towards them.

6. Place bird feeders directly on windows or closer than three feet, or more than 20 feet. This prevents birds from building up enough momentum to harm themselves if startled when near the window, and having time to deviate if far away.

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MY TURN

White replacement theory in perspective

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he teaching of American history is essential to the preparation of citizens in a democracy. For decades, this teaching has focused on the noble acts and remarkable accomplishments of the millions who comprise the American republic, usually without adequately acknowledging the darker side of our nation’s past.

Yet now when we are giving proper due to the history of racial and ethnic discrimination, and social injustice, we hear complaints from parents and politicians.

They protest that the teaching of racism and slavery in American history will make students feel “uncomfortable”. Yet this history is ours to know and to learn from as we pursue our founders’ ideals.

At the same time, there are those who claim that policies regarding equal opportunity, immigration, bilingual education, and anti-racism are really part of what is called “White replacement theory.”

This is the supposed theory that there are those who want to replace what are viewed as the dominant American characteristics – white, prayerful, Christian, male-dominated – with a

population that is more Black, brown, and multi-cultural. Those who are fearful become xenophobic and worry about who will have the right to vote.

These views counter the founding narrative. The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness…”

Furthermore, the Bill of Rights begins, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

These are the founding ideals of our nation; they are ideals that craft a direction, not a snapshot of 18th century realty. These are the ideals that underpin our sense of social justice; they create the environment for recognizing that diversity strengthens a community, and that divisiveness weakens it.

ROBERT A. SCOTT, Ph.D. My Turn

The irony of the current controversy about replacement theory is that an honest rendering of American history would reveal that it is not new. Who were the first settlers, including here on Long Island? They were not White and Christian. They were the Native Americans.

When the Dutch and British colonized Long Island in the 17th and 18th centuries, they forced out, often brutally,

the Native peoples already here. There were 13 Native tribes that called Long Island home but were forced to leave or become enslaved. The settlers also brought deadly diseases that killed many of the Algonquin, for example. These Native peoples were replaced mostly by white, Protestant, Christian, colonists.

Thus, the history of America as well as the history of Long Island is one of White replacement of those already here.

That is the tragic irony of statements that Christopher Columbus and his crews “discovered” America. No, he did not. It was already here and populated by people who had created communities, governing systems, economies, and culture.

White replacement theory is a demagogic attempt to scare people who do not know their own history and ancestry. Studies by ancestry.com indicate that 50% of Americans with an ancestor who lived in the Americas before 1800 have Native blood.

Unfortunately, too many people, even those in responsible roles, lack knowledge of history or the tools of historical analysis.History is an essential subject, especially if we are to under-

stand the different ways people “know” the truth and how they challenge assumptions and validate assertions. In the study of history, we learn about the world we meet (nature or science); the world we make (culture); and the systems by which we mediate between them (law, morality, ethics, and religion).

We learn about the past and present, science and technology, war and peace.

We learn how we know what we think we know by learning to distinguish between and among empirical evidence, epiphanies or faith, and emotions based in fear or superstition. The study of history helps us think in terms of time, to understand how society has changed and continues to change.

Memes like “White replacement theory” must be questioned so that we do not make the mistakes of the past. We need more history and less histrionics.

We should study our history so that we can continue our quest to create a more perfect union.

Robert A. Scott, Ph.D. President emeritus of Adelphi University

FROM THE DESK OF RICHARD NICOLELLO

GOP majority’s reforms resolving fiscal ills

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or decades, Nassau County has been plagued with refund liability resulting from successful property tax certiorari challenges made by residents and businesses.

Under the “County Guarantee,” Nassau fully refunds county, town and school taxes from these assessment challenges even though it only receives a small fraction of the original overpayment.

This inequity costs Nassau tens of millions of dollars annually, has led to bond rating decreases and is largely responsible for the continued existence of a financial control board.

Over the years, the refund amount paid out by Nassau County is in the $1 billion range, substantial amounts of which were paid with borrowed monies. Meanwhile, county residents have received no additional services in return for these payments.

Thanks to a dedicated revenue fund created by the Republican Majority, the county has a historic opportunity to pay off millions of dollars of outstanding tax refunds owed to residents and businesses.

In so doing, we can bring the county’s tax refund liability as close to current as possible. The Republican Majority’s special revenue fund

RICHARD NICOLELLO Presiding Officer

is funded by sales tax revenues in 2021 that were much higher than the prior administration’s wildly erroneous forecast.

In fact, in 2021 the county took in $360 million more than had been forecast by the prior administration.

These monies will be placed in a “lock box” account to be spent primarily to pay tax refunds owed by the county.

The Republican Majority’s reserve fund is a win-win for the county and residents; it will allow the county to finally pay refunds it owes to residents and businesses, and it will benefit taxpayers by eliminating millions of dollars in compounding

interest accumulating against that debt.

This could not have come at a better time as residents and businesses continue to recover from the pandemic.

Reducing the county’s tax refund exposure puts the county in better position with rating agencies, which can lower our cost of borrowing. It also is a big step toward ending the oversight board’s control period.

This good government initiative will help resolve an issue that has plagued the county for decades, free up taxpayer monies to be spent on services our residents and help boost our economy at this crucial time.

READERS WRITE

Hold Tucker Carlson, Setting the record straight Murdoch accountable on rising oil prices, formula Tucker Carlson’s fingerprints are all over the Murdoch MAGA Massacre that took place in Buffalo this past week.

When will this racial grifter be held to account publicly?

Eric Cashdan Sands Point

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In response to Jack Lipsky’s recent nonsense: No president sets the price of gasoline. The price is determined by the price of oil, which is set by the oil companies. President Biden is not responsible for the baby formula shortage. That happened because we have one plant in the entire United States that makes 90 percent of the formula and it had to shut down because of contamination problems. And yes I am bet-

ter off now because we no longer have a whiny crybaby (give him a binkie) in the White House who can’t accept being a loser.

MaryEllen Scherer New Hyde Park Editor’s Note: The price of crude oil is set by producers and the world oil market. The

oil companies use the crude oil to make gasoline and other petroleum products, which they then price for the consumer.

There are four manufacturers of baby formula in the United States that make up 90 percent of the market here.

One of the plants, Abbott Nutrition, was shut down because of contamination concerns.

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Observing Memorial Day in town The Town of North Hempstead has announced that the Memorial Day Commemoration and Fireworks Extravaganza will be held at North Hempstead Beach Park on Saturday, May 28, with the program beginning at 6:30 p.m.

“The Town is so pleased to announce that the annual Memorial Day Commemoration and Fireworks show will return for an in-person experience this year,” Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena said. “Memorial Day serves as an opportunity to honor the members of our Armed Forces who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms. I urge all who attend to take the opportunity to reflect on the sacrifices made by these brave men and women for our country. Additionally, the Town will offer free parking for veterans and active-duty military on the night of the event as a gesture of appreciation for all that the men and women currently enlisted in the military, as well as our veterans, have done in service to our country.”

This year, the Memorial Day Commemoration and Fireworks Extravaganza will feature a fireworks display by Santore Fireworks and musical entertainment from BonJourney, a BonJovi and Journey tribute band. The Vietnam Veterans of America Nassau County Chapter will assist during the opening ceremony.

The Town is pleased to offer free parking for veterans and active-duty military on May 28 for the Annual Memorial Day Commemoration and Fireworks Extravaganza at North Hempstead Beach Park. Parking passes will be available at various facilities throughout the Town with a proof of ID. The free parking passes for active military members and veterans will be issued now at the following locations: Clinton G. Martin Park – 1601 Marcus Avenue, New Hyde Park Office of the Town Clerk – 200 Plandome Road, Manhasset North Hempstead “Yes We Can” Community Center – 141 Garden Street, Westbury Michael J. Tully Park – 1801 Evergreen Avenue, New Hyde Park Qualifying residents will need to show their government-issued VA card or an active military ID. This parking pass applies only when the main lot at North Hempstead Beach Park is still open. When the lot is full, overflow parking is available for free with shuttle bus transportation.

Gates open at 3:30 p.m., and the program will start at 6:30 p.m. Fireworks will begin at 9:15 p.m. The rain date will be on Sunday, May 29.

The event is free, but vehicles will be charged a $10 parking fee (cash only). When the lot is full free overflow parking will be available with free shuttle bus transportation. No drop-offs or walk-ins allowed. Attendees are urged to leave dogs at home due noise sensitivity; however, service dogs are welcome.

For more information, please visit www.northhempsteadny.gov or call 311 or (516) 869-6311.

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Super Growlers at American Airpower Museum The American Airpower Museum has announced that three Boeing EA-18G Growlers, a specialized carrier-based electronic warfare adaption of the two-seater F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter aircraft, will visit the Museum over Memorial Day Weekend at Hangar 3, Republic Airport, from Friday, May 27 through Monday, May 30.

The three advanced Navy aircraft are scheduled to arrive at AAM late Friday afternoon and will remain on display until late Monday afternoon on AAM’s ramp.

Can’t get to Jones Beach Air Show during Memorial Day Weekend? Don’t want to watch aircraft wiz by from a distance, anyway? The solution? Visit AAM and get up close and per-

sonal with these Growlers, ask questions of their crews, grab photo ops with pilots, etc.

Please be advised these Growlers are exclusive to AAM and are not performing at the Jones Beach Air Show.

In addition to the Growlers, AAM is also flying its own iconic bombers and fighters at the air show this year!

Long Island’s aviation enthusiasts will be happy to know that AAM once again is fielding its fabled “Arsenal of Democracy” Warbirds squadron as part of the Jones Beach Air Show.

But, if they can’t make it to Jones Beach, they can come to AAM Friday, May 27 and watch our Warbirds perform practice flybys at Republic Airport all day long. Then on Sat-

urday and Sunday, fans can hang with us at Hangar 3 to watch our aircraft take off, one after the other, and head south to perform over Jones Beach.

They will thrill as our Warbirds return, touch down and taxi back to Hangar 3. You can even applaud as pilots and crew disembark from their steeds! AAM Warbirds flying in the air show on Saturday and Sunday are: a B-25 Mitchell Bomber; Douglas C-47 Skytrain troop transport; Grumman TBM Avenger Torpedo Bomber; P-51D Mustang Fighter; Curtiss P-40 Warhawk Fighter; and two AT-6 Texan trainers.

A big thrill for AAM visitors is that “California Tom Cruise,” the celebrated Tom Cruise impersonator, will spend Sunday, May 29 at the Museum to meet and greet fans for photo ops, just two days after the long-awaited TOP GUN Maverick movie launch! Plus, every paying Museum guest (18 and over) during Memorial Day Weekend, will be entered to win the NEW Cockpit USA Movie Hero Top Gun CWU, a replica of the Special Flight Jacket Tom Cruise wears in his latest blockbuster movie! Cockpit USA is AAM’s sponsor and official supplier of flight jackets to the U.S. Air Force.

Just to give you a taste of the visual impact these Growlers will have for military aviation fans, included below are two hyper-links from last year’s AAM programming during the 2021 Jones Beach Air Show. Last year we had two EA-18G Growlers visiting the Museum’s ramp for the show’s duration.

The presence of these two supersonic electronic warfare aircraft drew hundreds of fans to the Museum. We hope that hundreds of Long Island military aviation fans can join us on May 27th, to bear witness as these incredible jets zoom in from the west, bank over Republic Airport and descend to park on our ramp!

Navy EA-18G Super Growlers flying over Republic Airport as they arrive at American Airpower Museum for visit during Museum’s part in 2021 Jones Beach Air Show:https:// www.facebook.com/123023458399/videos/10158993008968400/ Navy EA-18G Super Growlers taxi off runway and enter Hangar 3 ramp at American Airpower Museum for visit during Museum’s part in 2021 Jones Beach Air Show:https:// www.facebook.com/1501368963479485/videos/791088731607460/

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Nightmares from the news: how to respond In this monthly column, therapists from North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center answer your questions on issues related to parenting, mental health and children’s wellbeing. To submit a question, email communications@northshorechildguidance.org.

Question: With everything going on in the world, from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine, our seven-year-old son is having terrible nightmares. He’s been waking up in the middle of the night, which leaves him exhausted when it’s time to go to school. We try to shield him as best we can from all the scary stories on the news, but he still hears things that are very concerning to him. What can we do to help him get back to a normal sleep routine?— Sleepless in Seaford Dear Sleepless: The pandemic hasn’t just impacted the daily lives of our children in numerous ways, it’s also had a big effect on their nightly lives. Over the past two years, we’ve seen a significant increase in children’s intrusive thoughts related to COVID-19, particularly when it comes to their bedtime routines and sleeping patterns. And the recent outbreak of war in Ukraine has added to their worries, as many have seen or heard about children and parents hiding in their basements or being forced to leave their homes.

It’s not uncommon for kids (and adults too, for that matter) to experience anxiety more acutely at bedtime when the usual distractions such as homework or TV are done for the day and they are in their bedrooms with the lights out. For young people, the pandemic and other traumatic events have caused heightened anxiety that has resulted in behaviors such as bedtime avoidance, clinging to parents during their bedtime routine, refusal to get off electronics or, as is happening with your son, more frequent nightmares.

The first step is to find out what your son has heard and then listen as he shares his thoughts and feelings. If he is reluctant to talk, one useful technique might be to ask him to draw, write or play with toys—a technique often used by our therapists with younger children to help them express and process their fears.

When it comes to reducing nightmares, it helps our younger clients to think of items or people that help them feel safe, such as a hug from a parent, favorite stuffed animal, special blanket or night lights. Another technique employed by some of our therapists is to teach youngsters a practice called “Grounding in the Five Senses,” which involves thinking about

five things you can see, four things you can touch, three things you can hear, two things you can smell and one thing you can taste.

That helps them to let go of the worry and focus on something more concrete. Parents can teach this to their children and use it anytime they are having trouble sleeping, or for other anxious moments.

Here are some other strategies to help children with nightmares, whether related to the pandemic or other troubling issues: • Stick to their normal, calming bedtime routine, perhaps reading an extra book that focuses on a happy, comforting topic.• Validate their worry and other feelings so they feel seen and heard.• Don’t tell them they have nothing to worry about or are being silly.• Model reassurance and safety either verbally (“I’m here, I will protect you”) or physically with a hug.• Encourage them to imagine happy endings for their dreams before bedtime.• During the daytime, give them the choice about whether to draw, talk or in some other way convey their feelings, which will help them feel some sense of empowerment in the face of uncertainty and fear.• Limit their exposure to news as much as possible—but do respond to any of their questions in an age-appropriate way.

These techniques may go a long way in improving your son’s nightmares, but if you find they are getting worse, or his anxieties seem to be intensifying, consider getting help from a therapist or other mental health professional.

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T-Rex sized fun, activities on Dino Weekend As part of National Dino Day, The Center for Science Teaching and Learning is inviting the public to experience its Dinosaurs! and Animal Adventure exhibit featuring over 80 unique displays, including animatronic dinosaurs as well as several unique events planned for the weekend of June 3-5.

CSTL’s Dinosaurs! and Animal Adventure gives visitors a unique and up-close-and-personal experience with representations of animals that roamed the Earth millions of years ago as well as their modern descendants.

The exhibit features 20-ft. tall model dinosaur skeletons, animatronic dinosaurs, floor-to-ceiling hand-painted prehistoric dinosaur murals and an assortment of live wild animals demonstrating environmental adaptation.

The special weekend begins on Friday with an interactive presentation by CSTL paleontologist Thomas Pascucci.

He will be hosting a live interactive presentation entitled “Dinosaur Detectives: From Fossil to Film” on the real-life dinosaurs that inspired the books and movies of the “Jurassic Park” franchise. This will be held at their campus in the Tanglewood Preserve.

Throughout the weekend, children visiting the exhibit will also be able to participate in a special dinosaur crafting activity. Dino Weekend

Paying tribute to fallen warriors this weekend The American Legion Auxiliary will be honoring fallen warriors on Sunday, May 29 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at Eisenhower Park, Veteran’s Plaza, Field 6 The American Legion Auxiliary is one of the nation’s most prominent supporters of veterans, the military, and their families. The auxiliary helps to advance the mission of The American Legion.

From helping to draft the GI Bill in 1944 to advocating for veterans on Capitol Hill, the non-partisan American Legion Family is instrumental in advancing legislation that improves the quality of life for our nation’s veterans and service members.

On the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, May 29, the American Legion Auxiliary members will join with the American Legion, the Sons of the American Legion, and the American Legion Riders to

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“This is an event 65 million years in the making,” said Dr. Ray Ann Havasy, Executive Director of CSTL. “Our Dinosaurs! exhibition highlights the adaptation of dinosaurs and animals throughout the history of Earth to different environments and our guests will learn about the real-life dinosaurs and the differences with their silver screen counterparts.”

Attendees will learn the differences between the real and cinematic versions of all of your favorite dinosaurs, including Velociraptors, Dilophosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex, among others from. Tickets for the presentation can be purchased online through the CSTL website at www.cstl.org.

“The fascination and wonder of dinosaurs have exploded from scientists to adults and especially children.

This presentation and exhibit will animate how everyone’s favorite dinosaurs have been adapted to make their way onto the big screen,” said Tom Pascucci.

Dinosaurs! and Animal Adventure is open every day except Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are $15 for visitors 13 and older, $12 for children 1-12 yrs. old. Tickets can only be purchased on site, by calling (516) 764–0045 or email helpdesk@ cstl.org. For more information about CSTL, special events and Dinosaurs! and Animal Adventure, visit www.cstl. org.

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Thoughts for Upcoming MTA union pacts Memorial Day O My father was an engineer in the bowels of an aircraft carrier in the Pacific during WWII. He kept the electrical systems and machinery running through thick and thin.

His brother served with an Army artillery unit in Italy.

My mother’s brothers all served in WWII—one was a gunner on a bomber whose insides were smeared all over his gun turret when a kamikaze finally blew up less than 100 feet of his plane.

Two brothers served on cruisers in the Pacific through harrowing action.

A brother served with the 1st Marines in Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and later in Korea, traversing the Korean peninsula several times, advances and retreats.

My wife’s uncle was one of General Patton’s drivers in Italy.

While transporting another officer around his charge was killed in the seat next to him by a German Stuka that came out of the sun and strafed their jeep and a column of advancing US soldiers.

One uncle was a partisan and message coder in Greece.

Another uncle was a partisan as well.

My college thesis advisor—the program department chairman— enlisted underage after Pearl Harbor was bombed.

He served with the 1st Marines in Iwo Jima, and in Korea at the Chosin Reservoir when Mao’s troops entered the war in a big way.

He said the Marines would have been overrun if the Chinese had more tanks. He managed a 50-caliber rear-guard machine gun, having burnt out two barrels. Wounded twice, he was given last rights and his first cigarette in a MASH unit by a doctor who would become the future US Surgeon General. He later earned a PhD at Stanford, though died young from complications sustained in combat, having barely survived with ½ his lungs.

A cousin was an Air Cavalry and air rescue helicopter pilot in Vietnam.

Two students in my field of study were Army Rangers in Vietnam.

Both had been wounded, one suffered from PTSD— you quickly learned not to offend or cross him in any way.

Several other Vietnam Veterans I studied with were scarred from their experiences.

One was a naval officer who had been discharged when another officer turned him in for being gay.

A former Sargent managed splitting headaches by drinking.

A veteran I worked with was an Army intelligence officer who knew several SE Asian languages—he managed NYC’s chaos and noise by commuting 2.5 hrs each way from a rural 19th century farmhouse.

These few details were all I knew of their experiences.

The people I knew who experienced war did not talk about it.

If anything was said when asked it was the rare occasion, and only “War is Hell. Pure Hell.” You knew not to ask.

They considered themselves the lucky ones because many comrades and friends were wounded and perished in gut-wrenching ways.

They considered talking and boasting to be disrespectful, the dead deserve honor and peace.

My visiting the Wounded Warrior Battalions of Forts Bragg and Lajune with local fire fighters during the holidays was truly eye opening.

Even in periods of relative calm, training and preparing for war has its unseen casualties—the hard machinery of war is unforgiving to flesh, bone, and the human psyche.

I cannot imagine what relatives and others experienced.

I did not serve. In high school I was accepted to the Navy ROTC, when the Vietnam War ended the draft ended and my colleges of interest cancelled their ROTC programs in protest, so I never signed up.

I clearly recall how the Vietnam War tore up our country from the inside.

In fact, I don’t remember many things I subsequently learned in years of college, but War is Hell is something I always remember.

We must remember and honor those who experience the process of war and its Hell, what most of us are very, very, fortunate not to ever have to.

Stephen Cipot Garden City Park

n May 16, 2022, NYC Transit Workers Union members received a 2.75 percent basic wage increase under the last year of their contract. Previously, the agreed upon contract in 2019 provided for wage increases of 2% in May 2019, 2.25% in 2020 and 2.5% in 2021 for a compounded total of 9.8% over four years.

The annual costs of the wage increases will grow from $42 million in 2019 to $354.3 million in 2023, for a total of more than $1 billion through 2023. The MTA’s November 2020-2023 financial plan assumed 2 percent annual increases and set aside $907.7 million for wage increases.

It anticipated a cumulative shortfall of $638 million.

The current contract includes other increases to pay and benefits. The Citizens Budget Commission estimated that these benefits would add at least 0.5% to the 9.8% in annual wage increases, for a total cost of 10.3%. It further stated that the four-year costs of these benefits to be at least $64 million, bringing the total four-year agreement cost to $1.1 billion.

Inflation was 4.16% in 2021 and 8.26% in 2022. Why would the TWU not ask under the next round of contract negotiations with the MTA for salary increases to keep up with inflation? Given the MTA’s ongoing financial crises, commuters and taxpayers have to ask how they will find the additional billions in funding to meet transit workers demands. What will the MTA budget under the next financial plan provide for employee wage increases?

Will riders be asked to pay more at the fare box? Will motorists be asked to pay increased tolls, a portion of which is transferred from the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority to transit. Will City Hall or Albany increase operating assistance to cover these costs? LIRR union workers will want the same salary increases obtained by NYC Transit TWU members in their next contract as well.

Larry Penner Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.

Wrong choice for Congress

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n May 21, state Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou announced she was abandoning her state Senate campaign for the Lower Manhattan seat and instead running for Congress in New York’s 10th

District.

No sooner had Niou announced her candidacy did Newsweek run a hastily researched story trumpeting the fact that, if elected, she would be the first openly autistic U.S. congressperson.

As an autistic New Yorker myself, I wish I could be excited at that prospect. However, I would rather there be no autistic representation in Congress than have Niou fill that role.

Firstly, Niou actively supports the institutionalized abuse of the autistic community. Last year, she co-sponsored/co-introduced and voted in favor of Assembly Bill 3523 (the Assembly version of Senate Bill 1662B).

As I mentioned in my previous letter to your publication, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed that bill into law, allowing the same brand of conversion therapy practiced on autistic people (“applied behavior analysis”) to be practiced on anyone with any neurological or psychiatric condition.

If Niou had any connection to the neurodiversity movement (or even did some cursory Googling), she would know how abusive this pseudoscience is and how the vast majority of autistic self-advocates strongly reject its use on anyone, particularly children and others who can’t legally give or withdraw consent.

Supporting the inhumane treatment of autistic and other disabled individuals is, in and of itself, disqualifying. Unfortunately, there’s a lot more to this story.

While the Newsweek article falsely claimed Niou first publicly announced she was autistic in a 2020 Refinery29 interview, she actually appears to have first made such an announcement in a 2016 interview published by The Political Student.

In the 2016 interview, Niou recounted making the decision to come out as autistic after meeting with a group of parents representing Autism Speaks while working for Assembly Member Ron Kim. For context, there are few organizations (if any) as widely reviled within the autistic community as Autism Speaks. In a nutshell, the organization was founded in 2005 on the eugenic belief that autism was a disease in need of a cure (a belief they dubiously claim to have abandoned).

They have spent the past 17 years infantilizing, stigmatizing and talking over autistic people and spreading an incalculable amount of disinformation and misinformation. Further, very little of the money they raise tangibly benefits the autistic community. (This only scratches the surface of how terrible Autism Speaks is.)

For Niou to not only speak warmly about Autism Speaks, but to also credit them with such an integral part of her journey as an autistic public figure, is stomachturning. In Autism Speaks’ perfect world, she wouldn’t even exist.

That’s not all, unfortunately. Niou also referred to herself in that interview as “very high functioning.” Again, if she had any connection to the neurodiversity movement, she would know that functioning language is inherently reductive and dehumanizing.

Such language also badly misrepresents the concept of the autistic spectrum, which is not a left-to-right functioning scale, but rather a color wheel. Where one falls on this metaphorical color wheel reflects one’s specific autistic traits.

Considering Niou prefers to refer to herself using the euphemism “on the autism spectrum” (she appears to be strongly averse to using to using the word “autistic” in any context), one would imagine she would have some idea of what the spectrum is, but that doesn’t appear to be the case (or at least it wasn’t the case back in 2016).

I just want to make it clear that I am not writing this to bully Niou or belittle the path she is currently on. Many of us spend years or even decades mired in internalized ableism before we realize our self-worth (if we ever do).

I sincerely hope Niou will one day pull herself out of that hole and learn, as she put it in a 2020 interview published

by The Yappie, to stop “eating bitter.”

However, in the here and now, I do not believe Niou is fit to represent the interests of the autistic community on the national level (or any level). If she were to win a House seat, I am confident she would continue to defer to non-autistic voices, promote institutionalized abuse of the autistic community and normalize ableist language/ labels.

That would not be a step forward for the autistic community; it would be a large step back.

Matthew Zeidman New Hyde Park

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Thank you to Floral Park, Bellerose for your support

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would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the voters of the Floral Park-Bellerose School District for electing me to a second term on the Board of Education this past Tuesday. I am honored and humbled that you have placed your trust in me.

With that trust, I will work tirelessly on your behalf to ensure that our district continues to strive towards excellence. I am committed to advocating for our children, supporting our families, and keeping our schools among the best in New York State.

I am optimistic about our future. We find ourselves in a moment with a tremendous opportunity to improve the educational experience for our students, establish new goals for our district, and continue the return to normalcy for our community. Our children and our villages were the real winners on Election Night.

I look forward to working with parents, teachers, administrators, community members, my fellow Trustees on the Board of Education, and our precious students to advance issues of importance to our district over the next three years. We are stronger when we come together, and I am confident that we will

successfully face any challenge that lies ahead.

Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Maria, and our daughters for all of your love and support throughout the last three years. Our village is a brighter place because of you.

Thank you all for the opportunity to serve our community. It is my great honor.

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Tech hinders car security

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s a lifelong car freak practically since birth, I find the spate of thefts caused by people leaving their wireless key fobs in their cars amusing. Technology has done many things for us, but sometimes, it does the opposite of what it is supposed to do. I mean, if I have to accept any more cookies, I’m going paleo.

The wireless key creates bad habits. It’s tempting to leave the thing in your console when you park in your garage, so you can hop in and take off. Unfortunately, it incentivizes the owner to do the same thing when parked at a supermarket or a driveway.

What’s worse, it seems some cars can be stolen even without the fob in the car. Thieves are using range extenders to hack the signal from the devices even when it’s inside your home.

County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a renowned expert on criminal behavior, actually blamed this phenomenon on bail reform.

“Criminals are very resourceful, so now they’re starting to use technology to commit crimes,” Blakeman said. “If there were consequences, this wouldn’t happen.”

I’m beginning to think our CE has a very limited repertoire.

Driving is a lot about habits. You may recall in the old days, dashboards had things called “gauges” with white needles on black backgrounds to tell you how fast you were going, or the coolant temperature. To see them at night, you had to turn your headlights on. If you’re wondering why it seems like a lot of people are driving at night without headlights on, it’s because they’ve been trained to a Pavlovian response level since digital gauges are ALWAYS lit up. And so the mind is tricked.

There’s another danger technology has brought to the driving experience. The use of flat screens. Beside the need to take your eyes off the road to use them, burying simple functions like choosing a radio station or heater fan speed beneath a layer of submenus is distracting and forces the driver’s attention away from the task at hand.

It’s also counter-intuitive. The tactile sensation that a physical knob or switch gives the driver through touch is an important benefit. It’s how

the blind read using braille. You’re actually using another part of your brain. The systems become ever more complex each year to impress you with their “tech savvy.” Some recent designs are completely buttonless. We tell people not to text and drive, but we’re cool with mounting a 12 inch wide screen to the dash.

Which brings us to the last and most dangerous “innovation.” Some years ago, some concerned parents lobbied Congress to mandate rear view cameras on new cars because it was impossible to see children behind what amounts to a steel barn door. They weren’t just any parents.

They had influence, cash, and when the big dog barks….

But not all cars are the size of a two-bedroom condo on stilts. Never mind. Everyone paid for the cost of having every dashboard’s center stack redesigned, and cameras installed.

Unfortunately, the problem wasn’t the rear view. The fashion for outsized vehicles built to sate the egos of the entitled and virility starved created a bigger problem. These SUVs and trucks, known as “jack ups” in the trade, stand so high up, it is now impossible to see a five year old standing five feet in front of them. The result?

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, pedestrian motor vehicle crash deaths have increased 51 percent since reaching a low point in 2009. Injuries are also far more serious because the pedestrian can’t slide over a hood.

Bodies are simply smashed foursquare. And back over accidents? They declined by only 8% since the mandate was put in place, and they were never a major component of pedestrian incidents to begin with. After all, how much of a car’s life is spent in reverse?

Talk about looking the wrong way, and needlessly inflicting costs on everyone to please the desires of those who have the means to make a hobby of political tourism. It’s not the first time the rest of us were turned into bagholders for this crew.

And it won’t be the last. Wonder what they’ll ask for next?

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Taking a look at real estate market in Spain Being in Madrid, Spain, for the first time over the last few days has been an eye-opener to say the least. I am here on business and will be going to Seville to meet with my Global Committee. We have an MOU (memorandum of understanding) to facilitate and grow our long-term relationships with the Realtors, so we may successfully perform & complete current and future real estate transactions here with our American investors and purchasers and other countries’ clients and with the Spanish investors back in the States.

I became one of the 3,720 C.I.P.S. (Certified International Property Specialist) Designees many years ago out of 7.2 million agents around the globe.

This has had a major impact on connections and networking, leading to many successful transactions here and with those in other countries. Volunteering on our global as well as other local and National Association of Realtors Committees has enabled us to learn so much more about many other cultures. We can absorb and apply the local customs to be more knowledgeable when meeting current and future clientele from around the globe.

We also have a multitude of MOUs with other European, Asian and South American countries, too. Being involved at the local, national and international level puts us in a prominent position with

our network and clientele that is second to none in the real estate industry.

I have never experienced such vast and varied, inspiring classic architecture from 250 to more than 800 years old.

The crucial reason is that the structures throughout the years have been attended to and continue to be in quite amazing and pristine condition. The government and private sector money is always being proactive and on top of all used to make necessary repairs and upgrades to keep all their buildings in tip-top condition.

Nothing gets left behind and the palaces and other structures are in such perfect condition that you wouldn’t know they are as old as they are. But they are in absolutely spectacular showroom appearance and condition.

The United States is in its infancy in terms of our construction and has many, many years to go and I doubt that our buildings will be comparable. And will they last for hundreds of years into the future? Our architecture is so vastly different and is not generally considered classic from the Renaissance or Baroque periods, although some of the details could be construed from early 18th and 19th century European descent.

In Europe, however, they used more permanent materials and vinyl or aluminum siding is truly looked down upon as inferior material. The way things were constructed and methods used back then

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

were and even now are always with the idea of permanence and to last forever.

Unfortunately, much of our residential and commercial construction that has been built in the past had obsolescence built into the construction (like all our appliances and other goods today which maybe last eight-12 years) to be replaced every 50-100 years.

In the past it has always been about the money and the economy, not what’s best for the cities, towns or local villages to preserve and be eco-friendly. However, it appears that more and more the ideas of sustainability and more perma-

nent structures that use less energy with solar and energy cells, recycling rainwater to irrigate plantings and that use materials that are more friendly to the environment with less polluting components are now taking hold and are becoming a requirement and standard procedure in many localities throughout the United States.

Having a L.E.E.D. (Leadership in Engineering and Environmental Design) certified rated building of of Silver, Gold or Platinum is now a standard building code in many areas of the U.S. and will be part of all codes in the future. My son, Matt, has an engineering degree and earned his L.E.E.D. Certified designation many years ago when it wasn’t exactly in fashion, but he saw the future and it is extremely important in today’s construction. Europe in many ways has been practicing these methods for years and it is evident in how they retrofit and upgrade their buildings.

Properties in the capital city of Madrid can be considerably less or even more than prices in New York City but can vary depending on the locality of the units. Prices can range from $500,000 Euros into the millions of Euros for a four-bedroom/two-bath flat w/a terrace w/an elevator in good condition. Down payments are usually a minimum of 30% or 70% loan to value (normally in the U.S. it’s 20%).

Rents can be 5,000 Euros per month, which is somewhat comparable to the United States. It all depends on the location. Mortgage rates as of the third quarter of 2021 were 2-2.5% for a maximum of 20 years and with the borrower age limit at 70 years. Everything is based on Euro denominations and the Euro at this time is one dollar equals 0.945626 Euro.

Madrid, Spain can be an excellent place to retire as an expatriate, but do some thorough research before pulling the trigger and come and visit for a week or two.

Donate and Save a Life or Two: USA for IOM is the International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s nonprofit partner in the United States OR: The International Organization for Migration a 501(c) 3 Corporation: http:// donate.iom.int Philip A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He has 40 years of experience in the Real Estate industry and has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist (C.I.P.S). For a “FREE” 15 minute consultation, a value analysis of your home, or to answer any of your questions or concerns he can be reached by cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com

Blumenfeld vice president to receive award The Children’s Medical Fund of New York announced it will honor Brad Blumenfeld as this year’s recipient of the Bernard L. Martin Humanitarianism Award at their 47th Annual Golf & Tennis Outing on June 20 at the Glen Oaks Golf and Country Club.

The award, which is named after longtime volunteer and supporter Bernard L. Martin, honors the commitment and passion he displayed throughout the many years of his service to the

foundation.

The Blumenfeld Family has been intricately involved with CMFNY beginning with the inception when parents Susan and Edward were part of the original founders group. Brad’s brother, David currently serves as Chairman and has held that position for 10 years and also has served as President.

Brad follows in the footsteps of Ed and David, who were recipients of the award in 1970 and 2001 respectively.

“I am truly humbled to be the recipient of this year’s CMF’s Bernard L. Martin award for Humanitarianism, said Brad Blumenfeld, vice president, Blumenfeld Development Group. CMF has always held a special place in my family’s heart and it is a true honor to join my father and brother as recipients of this very distinguished award. It is easy to see that CMF is very personal to me and there is nothing more inspiring than building upon the legacy that my

parents started.”

Funds raised by CMF have benefited Cohen’s Children’s Hospital over the years, most recently supported the building of a state-of-the-art pediatric only operating-room complex, and acquiring a fully robotic pharmacy that dispenses drugs with precision dosing accuracy and speed that is not possible via manual methods and CMF continues to support child life initiatives like the flagship superheroes program.

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Cybersecurity: Stopping the rotten phisherman!

BY R OB E RT LON D I N , ESQ In these times of pandemic, many good people continue to help others. Unfortunately, there are those that continue to prey upon others by casting snares to compromise confidential and sensitive information like social security numbers, credit card numbers, and passwords.This is known as “phishing” and the ordinary citizen would be surprised at the sophistication of these attacks, the simplicity of these attacks, and the effectiveness of attacks on personal data.Phisherman’s Tools of the TradeThe phisherman’s bait box includes worms like malware, link manipulation, “spearphishing” , “spoofed” emails, and other sophisticated techniques designed to ensnare your private and confidential information.

This article will serve only as a brief and general description of more prevalent phishing hooks/bait and some common sense wake-up calls and protections to combat the unwanted trawler.Common attacks include emails that can contain malware and other nasty “launchables.”

Attacks can allow the cybercriminal to track your keystrokes, gain access to your data, and authorize your device to run other functions and programs. The criminal casters can “spoof” legitimate vendors. Did you get an email about tracking a surprise FedEx delivery, resetting a password, an “automatic response” from a vendor/email you did not contact, a failed log-in attempt, confirming a purchase, or renewing your virus protection software?

Also, some phishing emails can blindly extort you by notifying you that your private information or photos have been accessed, and then demand a ransom. For businesses, hackers gain access to key information systems via compromised passwords or other weak IT security protocols, and then cripple the business by shutting down information technology systems until a ransom is paid.

Although credit card companies and financial institutions greatly enhanced their fraud prevention programs, these programs result in email traffic confirming purchases which means you must increase your diligence to sort out the bona fide notifications.The CatchSo, what’s a phisherman desired catch? Tasty hooked information includes: access to laptops and personal computers, passwords, Social Security numbers, access to bank accounts and credit card numbers.

Many times, the phisherman sells your information on the dark web. That’s how they make their money. The buyer of that info, in turn, makes new credit cards and then sells those cards to the shoppers.Shark RepellantsSo, what are some very basic protections that we “phish“ can use to avoid the hook? Here’s a brief list of some anti-phishing tactics:* Never provide your Social Security number or any private or confidential information if you have any doubts.* Regularly change your passwords. Make your passwords somewhat complex by using numbers and symbols and a mix of both upper case letters and lower case letters.

Never use the same password for different vendors, websites or financial institu-

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Robert Londin tions (otherwise one password breach will ripple through your pond of privacy and financial protection).* Don’t click on suspicious email embedded links.* Don’t store credit card numbers on websites.

Otherwise, you are trusting that vendor’s security protocols.* If you think there is a remote chance that the request for information is for a legitimate reason, don’t reply to an email, don’t click on any embedded link, and (in the case of a phone call) hang up the phone first. Then, find out the legitimate contact information of the subject vendor, confirm that contact information, and then call them directly (or visit their website via your own direct search).* In the case of apparent spoofed emails, run your cursor over the sender’s email address. If the email shows to be a gmail account or a strange looking email address with lots of numbers and/or a

suffix not related to the vendor, delete the email.

If you feel like a credit card alert could be legit, download the financing institution’s bona fide app to your phone and monitor your purchases via secure application.* On your cell phone, each time you get one of these unsolicited phishing calls, block the number. If your home phone number is supported by VOIP, you can also block numbers via your service provider’s. Using the national Do Not Call Registry is a good idea (www. donotcall.gov).* Add a credit monitoring app to your phone. If your information has already been compromised upgrade to a monthly subscription service that’s more aggressive in its monitoring. In addition, by contacting any of the four major credit agencies (EquiFax, TransUnion, Innovis and Experian), you can put a personal “credit freeze” in place.

With a credit freeze in place at any one of the major agencies (the agencies share freezes with each other), no thirdparty can pull credit on you without having the freeze lifted which can only be done by your action. The https://www.

OptOutPrescreen.com service protects from unauthorized credit checks. * Ignore general solicitations for investment in your business through people you don’t know. Share information only after vetting a third party, then seek out an attorney to draw an appropriate confidentiality agreement for your business which includes a no-solicit provision.* Yes, we all want to increase our social networking profile. BUT, accepting a new friend or a new LinkedIn contact may come at a cost. Take the time to vet

their background through publicly available tools.* Don’t engage anonymous extortionists or blackmailers (unless they separately convince you that they do truly have the goods on you and, in which event, consider hiring a private detective, lawyer and reaching out to the police).* For businesses — train your employees.

Teach them to report any potential incursions to your IT department. Discourage (or prohibit) Internet browsing from company devices. Make sure that employees regularly change passwords.* Putting two-factor authorization on websites and applications is great protection.* While reviewing your (snail) mail, sort it and when done, SHRED all mail that contains personal information. Using https://www.OptOutPrescreen.com can also reduce your junk mail.* There are websites (like www.scambusters.org) that can help you check for phishes and scams. If you are presented with an email or phone call that’s suspicious, describe the suspicious request and add the word “scam“ or “phish“ to a Google search.

You can also Google the sender’s email or phone number (again, with the word “scam”).* Listen to your “Little Voice.”

If something seems suspicious or too good to be true, listen to your intuition.

Those are just some basic tactics that you can take to stay off the hook and protect your privacy and wallet.

Remember, as we get smarter, phishermen get more creative!

For more information, please contact attorney Robert Londin (RLondin@Jaspanllp.com).Robert Londin, Esq., is a Partner at Jaspan Schlesinger LLP in Garden City, NY

Could my investment be fraud?

BY J OH N R OTON D I It’s a question we should ask ourselves.

Not a week goes by without a putative financial scam, and its alleged perpetrator, being in the news. By the time they’re caught, the money — your money — may be gone.

On May 12th the Department of Justice arrested and charged Eddy Alexandre, a Long Island resident and founder of EminiFX, Inc., a supposed investment platform, with fraud.

He is accused of lying to hundreds of investors about how the $59 million he collected from them between September 2021 and May 2022 would be used and what returns they’d receive.

The authorities allege that most of the money wasn’t invested, and the portion that was sustained heavy losses. Some of the money was even used on lavish personal expenses, including a $155,000 BMW, according to the DOJ press release.

Be aware of one or more of these warning signs of investment fraud: • Your money isn’t held with a well-known, reputable, and independent custodian. You’ll want to know which custodian will protect your funds and deal directly with that institution

when obtaining your account balance.

If you’re sending a wire transfer or writing a check to the individual that approached you about the investment, it’s possible you’ve seen the last of that money. According to the DOJ charges against him, Alexandre was the sole signatory on the bank account to which investors deposited their funds, allowing him to send some of those funds to his personal brokerage account.

• You’re promised high returns with little or no risk. Any seller who promises high returns, yet says the investment is “guaranteed,” “a sure thing,” or “won’t lose money,” is lying.

It’s a fundamental tenet of finance that the higher the return, the higher the risk.

If an “investment guru” tells you otherwise, then walk away. Currently, a relatively safe one-year US Treasury security yields about 2%. If someone is promising you more than one hundred times that, as Alexandre is alleged to have done, then it’s going to be an investment with a lot more risk if it’s a legitimate investment at all.

Alexandre promised his investors that he’d make them millionaires with guaranteed returns of 5% per week, according to the DOJ. • The returns from your invest-

ment appear overly consistent. Be skeptical of an investment that generates steady positive returns, regardless of market conditions.

According to the DOJ, Alexandre falsely represented to investors that their account balances would increase each week within a consistent range, between 5% and 9.99%.

• The seller isn’t licensed to sell securities or commodities. Many investment schemes involve individuals or firms that are not licensed. Before investing, check out the seller using these free search tools: https://www.investor.gov (for securities brokers or investment advisors) and https://www.nfa. futures.org/basicnet/ (for commodities brokers). Neither EminiFX nor Alexandre were registered, according to the DOJ complaint.

• The investment is esoteric, and/ or comprises the latest fad. Today,that might mean cryptocurrencies (digital money), such as bitcoin. It could also involve common financial instruments, such as bonds, certificates of deposit, and real estate. Alexandre claimed he used a “Robo-Advisor Assisted account” to conduct trading in cryptocurrencies and foreign currencies, referring to the underlying technology as his “trade secret,” according to the DOJ. If you don’t

understand it, don’t invest.

• The seller is resistant to your requests for your money back. The scammer may encourage you to “reinvest” any purported income. They know that the lower any redemptions, the longer the scheme will last.

In the Alexandre case, it appears that certain investors were able to withdraw funds, although the DOJ observed that it looked like it came from other investors, not investment gains.

• You found out about the investment through a community organization or religious group. Investment fraudsters like to operate in trusting environments, so religious venues work particularly well for their nefarious purposes. A recommendation from a friend, or fellow congregant, is not due diligence.

It’s unknown if there was any particular affiliation among the investors that Alexandre solicited. However, it’s alleged that, like a pyramid scheme, he used at least some investors to sell the investment to others, perhaps attempting to create a connection among them.

• You trust the seller. Humans crave friendship and being social.

Sometimes, to one’s detriment, the con artist fills that need. It’s important to get yourself past the discomfort of ask-

ing tough questions. Any reputable seller will answer the questions you have so you can make an informed decision.

Alexandre organized an event at his office, calling it a “tremendous success” as it “put to rest many of the questions” that investors had about whether the EminiFX website address and office location were fake, according to the DOJ. A website and office aren’t enough to make an investment legitimate.

• There is undue pressure for you to invest “now.” The scammer doesn’t want you to take too long to think about it. Time, however, is your friend.

Take your time to investigate the seller and the investment before making any decision. And if you’ve already forked over money?

It’s never too late to conduct due diligence. If you suspect you’ve been swindled, report it. Contact the Securities and Exchange Commission at 1-800-SEC-0330 or online at www.sec. gov/complaint/select.shtml.

If you don’t report it, perhaps because you’re too embarrassed, and would rather chalk it up to experience, the fraudster just cheated you again.

John Rotondi, a resident of Port Washington, is the author of “Stand Up to Elder Financial Abu$e” (2017).

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5 bd, 6 ba, Sold On: 3/24/22, Sold Price: $2,500,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

6 bd, 6 ba, Sold On: 3/28/22, Sold Price: $4,210,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Great Neck

Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in Great Neck by a variety of real estate agencies. This information about the home and the photos were obtained through the Zillow.com. The homes are presented solely based on the fact that they were recently sold in Great Neck and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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Large disparity in spending per pupil Continued from Page 1 A new settlement between Nassau County and the Long Island Power Authority could result in North Shore district residents paying higher taxes.

According to the settlement, the taxes on the power authority’s Glenwood Landing plant, which helps fund the4 district’s budget, will be reduced by around $29 million.

The North Shore district, accord-

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ing to officials, receives 28 percent of its annual tax revenue from the Long Island Power Authority. North Shore Interim Superintendent Tom Dolan said the district is in continuous communication with the county administration and the settlement “represents an area of great concern to the district and the entire community.”

Alan Singer, a professor of education and history at Hofstra University, said other districts should be taking notes from the Great Neck School District if they want to see their funds be put to the best possible use.

“The amount of money they spend on kids in their school districts, that’s the amount of money that should be spent on every kid in every school in the New York metropolitan area,” Singer said in a phone interview.

If recognition in various rankings

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The 11 public school districts throughout the North Shore of Nassau County spent an average of $34,000 per pupil, according to a study done

by Blank Slate Media. is the metric to gauge how effective a school district’s budget is, Great Neck has certainly justified its spending to residents, being recognized as the top school district in New York by Niche in 2021. Niche, headquartered in Pittsburgh, is an online company that ranks schools and colleges, as well as other categories.

Aside from Great Neck, other area school districts that were featured on the Niche list were Roslyn (No. 3), Manhasset (6), Herricks (7), North

Shore Central (17), East Williston (24) and Port Washington (25). The Mineola school district came in as the 122nd ranked district on the list.

Nationally, the Great Neck school district was ranked as the third-best district, with Roslyn (No. 7), Manhasset (19), Herricks (29), North Shore Central (69), East Williston (96) and Port Washington (100) also featured in the list of the top 100 school districts.

Singer said having reputable

teachers who want to stay in a successful district is another driving factor as to why budgets in prominent school districts can increase.

“One of the things that happen with school budgets is that when you have a high-performing faculty that remains, their salaries go up in increments,” Singer said. “They stay because they like teaching in your schools and because the students are doing well, so the cost goes up.”

In a district like East Williston,

which only has seven more students enrolled than Floral Park-Bellerose, Singer said it comes down to offering students electives and small classes.

Schools should be budgeting to provide students with mental health resources so they can properly address what they experienced throughout the coronavirus pandemic, he added.

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GOP presence increases in new 3rd District Continued from Page 3 “With the stakes this high, it’s not enough to elect just any Democrat,” D’Arrigo said in a statement. “We need to elect better Democrats — the kind who remember our FDR roots, who lead with conviction, and who will stand up for all people.”

Evan Chernack, the campaign

manager for fellow Democratic candidate Robert Zimmerman, said the lines will result in a “much more competitive general election.”

“You can rest assured that while our district may look different, our campaign remains as committed as ever to fighting for the people NY-03,” Chernack said in a letter.

No major redistricting changes were featured in the 4th Congressional District, which includes central and southern Nassau County, including Floral Park, Garden City, Hempstead, Mineola, Carle Place, New Hyde Park and Westbury. The vote margin for Joe Biden increased from +12.4 to +14.8 under the new maps, according to Po-

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litico.

A total of 15 of the state’s 26 congressional districts had vote totals from the 2020 Presidential election shift to being more in favor to Republicans, according to Politico.

The maps were submitted by a court-appointed “special master” and have been viewed as more neutral com-

pared to ones that were rejected by a state appeals court several weeks ago.

Dave Wasserman, a national elections analyst with the Cook Political Report, told The New York Times that “Democrats could lose a lot of ground this fall and that could drive a stake through their hopes of keeping the House majority.”

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Rally in G.N. for Asian American education Continued from Page 1 and Manhasset resident Iris Liu said educating the younger generations on Asian-American history can be one of the most effective ways to prevent future acts of hatred from occurring.

“We are sick and tired of having to

WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF HAVING TO SEE OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY BE BLAMED FOR GLOBAL PANDEMICS AND WATCHING OUR ELDERLY GET PUSHED, BEATEN AND KILLED OVER RACIST MISINFORMATION.

Vicky Lin GREAT NECK RESIDENT

see our friends and family be blamed for global pandemics and watching our elderly get pushed, beaten and killed over racist misinformation,” Lin said.

During the pandemic, the Great Neck school district was the subject of a letter from nearly 40 parents reporting that younger students of Asian descent had been asked if they ate bats and were called “COVID-19 spreaders” by other students. District Superintendent Teresa Prendergast said no anti-Asian incidents had occurred on school grounds.

“We need to incorporate AsianAmerican historical figures, struggles, stories in our school curriculum,” Liu said. “Only then can we begin the very important work of erasing antiAsian bias.”

Sillitti and Kaplan co-sponsered legislation sponsored by fellow Democratic state Sen. John Liu (D-

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State Sen. Anna Kaplan (right) and state Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti (left) hosted a rally in Great Neck to promote Asian American education in New York’s public schools.

Queens), who was also in attendance Saturday. The proposed legislation, which resides in the Senate’s Education Committee, would require public elementary and high schools to provide instruction in Asian-American civic impact and history.

“Teaching Asian-American history and civic impact in our public schools will help to end the harmful stereotypes, such as the model minority myth and the perpetual foreigner syndrome, which have plagued Asian Americans for generations,” Liu said.

“At a time when extremists and white supremacists are trying to tell us that diversity is a bad thing, we reject the idea that diversity shouldn’t be taught and celebrated in our schools, and we’re rallying today because more needs to be done to ensure our kids learn about the history and contributions of Asian Americans,” Kaplan said. “The more we know about our rich history, and the better we understand the journey of our neighbors, the closer we can be as a community.”

Sillitti said, “Through education we can begin to change minds, break barriers and stereotypes, and finally start to chip away at the hate and racism towards Asian Americans.”

She added, “Education may not bring about the fastest results, but it will bring about the longest lasting ones.”

Robert Zimmerman and Jon Kaiman, Democratic candidates for the state’s 3rd Congressional District, were also in attendance and backed the proposed legislation.

Statistics from the NYPD show that anti-Asian incidents throughout New York City have increaesed by more than 340% since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.

A study from the Pew Research Center earlier this year found that approximately one-third of Asian Americans fear “somone might threaten or physically attack them,” while more than 80 percent say the violence against the Asian-American community is increasing.

Town tables Tiernan appointment, Weed removed Continued from Page 4 a lot of support from people in the audience, including multiple town employees.

Robert Hamilton, the executive vice president of Bohemia-based truck equipment distributor Trius who said he was verbally abused

by Tiernan in 2015, supported his appointment Thursday night.

He told the Town Board he had a “tough conversation” with Tiernan, who he called a “passionate individual,” in 2015. Hamilton said the two have patched up their relationshi8p and hoped it didn’t have any bearing on his impending employment.

“I will say even then, Tom was held in very high regard for the job he did as the highway superintendent department he helped build and ran with great efficiency,” Hamilton said. “I hope that puts any of the controversy surrounding my past conversation with him to rest.”

Additional supporters for Tiernan included First Baptist Cathedral of Westbury Bishop Lionel Harvey, Westbury Hills Civic Association President Pablo Sinclair, Bill Cutrone, Lakeville Estates Civic Association president, a group of town employees and Tom McDonough, the safety coordinator for North Hempstead’s Civil Service Employees Association Unit 7555, among

others.

McDonough touted Tiernan’s appointment to stop the “rollercoaster” going on in the department and to post the position if the Town Board decided against Tiernan.

The union head said Weed, in addition to his $150,828 annual salary, is “actively collecting his retirement from the state of New York”, a process he referred to as “double-dipping.”

“The leadership of the highway department has been dysfunctional for five or six years now since Mr. Tiernan left,” McDonough said. “Bring someone in who is going to come in and work with the people, with the employees and the union because right now I am working with someone who is anti-union and retaliatory; a very vindictive individual.”

Kate Hirsch of Manhasset referenced a recent editorial from Newsday on Tiernan and called for transparency.

“Is there really only one person who’s qualified for this position, that is hard to believe,” Hirsch said.

Hank Ratner and Robert Donno, a Manhasset Chamber of Commerce committee member, requested the public get a copy of the charges that were brought against Tiernan and that it get read into the record, which DeSena briefly

read later.

“I’d actually like to know what’s going on,” Donno said. “It seems like there’s a lot of things not being said that should be said and people should know what’s going on.”

Tiernan had worked with the town since 1980 and was named highway chief in 2000.

In 2016, Tiernan resigned following reports in Newsday that he had amassed over $130,000 in overtime between 2011 and 2016, according to Newsday payroll data, and an internal investigation by the town.

Following Tiernan’s resignation, Joe Geraci, the deputy commissioner of public works at the time, served as the town’s acting highway superintendent from 2016 to September 2018, when the town officially began its search for a full-time superintendent.

After Geraci, Kevin Cronin, then administrative assistant to Supervisor Judi Bosworth, was the acting commissioner. His salary in 2019 was $117,507, according to town payroll filings.

Richard Baker became the first permanent highway chief in 2019, just over two years since Tiernan resigned. After his February appointment, Baker resigned that July, just four months after he had gotten the job. At the time of his resignation, Baker was earning $140,000 ac-

cording to Newsday.

At the time of his resignation, several members of Tiernan’s family were on the town’s payroll and still are.

His sister, Helen McCann, is a former longtime employee of the town.

In 2018, she was sentenced to a conditional discharge for embezzling more than $98,000 from the Solid Waste Management Authority from 2014 to 2016, prosecutors said. She was ordered to pay $50,000 in restitution to the town, $48,330 to an insurance company for a claim made by the town and pleaded guilty to second-degree corrupting the government charges.

His brother, John, was a 27-year town employee who was a highway construction supervisor. He was asked to resign in 2018 after the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board found he “knowingly made material misrepresentations” to get benefits, according to Newsday.

His wife, Jill Guiney, is a former town deputy commissioner of public works who still works with the town. Tiernan’s son, Thomas, also works with the town.

The next North Hempstead Town Board meeting will be Thursday, June 16.

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“A significant priority for me as an elected official has been the protection and preservation of our local environment,” said Dalimonte. “Manhasset Bay is a local treasure, serving as a communal destination for residents and boaters, while also acting as a vital eco-

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“The warm, sunny days of summer are nearly upon us, and residents can soon begin visiting our community pools daily,” Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena said. “Town pool memberships offer families and senior citizens access to many great amenities at our pools, so I encourage everyone to come out and have some fun in the sun!”

Clinton G. Martin Park: Open to Special Park District Residents Only Pool opens Saturday, June 18 Open daily Saturday, June 18 – Friday, August 19 at 11 a.m. through 8 p.m.

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Regular Rate Youth: $100 Early Bird; $112 Regular Rate Senior (60+): $50 Early Bird; $60 Regular Rate Senior Couple: $100 Early Bird; $112 Regular Rate Disable/Volunteer/Veteran: $82 Early Bird; $94 Regular Rate Disabled/Volunteer/Veteran Family: $187 Early Bird; $215 Regular Rate Disabled/Volunteer/Veteran Couple: $154 Early Bird; $177 Regular Rate Nanny: $100 Early Bird; $112 Regular Rate 5 Visit Pass: $60 Daily Guest Fees*: Adult: $11, Teen: $8, Child: $7, Senior: $6, Disabled/Volunteer/Veteran: $6 *All guests must be accompanied by a member.

Manorhaven Beach Park Pool opens Saturday, June 18 Open daily Saturday, June 18 – Friday, August 19 at 11 a.m. through 8 p.m.

Open daily Saturday, August 20 – Monday, September 5 at 11 a.m. through 7 p.m.

You can register in advance now through Friday,

June 17. Hours include: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.

From Saturday, June 18 through Friday, August 19 residents can register from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; beginning Saturday, August 20 through Monday, September 5 residents can register from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Early Bird registration ends June 11. All registration must be done in person at the pool. No registration will be available on Saturday, May 28, 2022.

Early Bird and Regular Fees: Family: $280 Early Bird; $322 Regular Rate Couple: $230 Early Bird; $265 Regular Rate Individual: $145 Early Bird; $167 Regular Rate Youth: $100 Early Bird; $115 Regular Rate Senior: $50 Early Bird; $60 Regular Rate Senior Couple: $100 Early Bird; $115 Regular Rate Disable/Volunteer/Veteran: $85 Early Bird; $98 Regular Rate Disabled/Volunteer/Veteran Family: $255 Early Bird; $294 Regular Rate Disabled/Volunteer/Veteran Couple: $205 Early Bird; $236 Regular Rate Nanny: $130 Early Bird; $150 Regular Rate Daily Fees: Adult: $11, Teen: $8, Child: $7, Senior: $6, Disabled/Volunteer/Veteran: $6, Guest: $14 (All guests must be accompanied by a member.)

Whitney Pond Park Pool opens Saturday, June 25 Open daily Saturday, June 25 – Friday, August 19 at 11 a.m. through 7 p.m.

You can register at the pool office beginning Monday, June 20 daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Membership: Family: $100 Couple: $80 Individual: $50 Youth: $45 Senior: $35 Senior Couple: $45 Disable/Volunteer/Veteran: $35 Disabled/Volunteer/Veteran Family: $85 Disabled/Volunteer/Veteran Couple: $45 Nanny: $45 Daily Fees: Adult: $8, Teen: $6, Child: $5, Senior: $4, Disabled/Volunteer/Veteran: $4 Non-Resident Adult: $12 Non-Resident Teen: $9 Non-Resident Child: $7 Non-Resident Senior: $5 Non-Resident Disabled/Volunteer/Veteran: $5 Non-residents, must be accompanied by a resident Martin “Bunky” Reid Park Pool opens Saturday, June 25 Open daily Saturday, June 25 – Monday, Sept. 5, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.No Fees – Residents Only For all pool facilities, no outside food deliveries will be allowed and no food will be allowed on the pool deck. Food will be allowed in designated areas only.

The Town is also seeking staff to join the North Hempstead team at its aquatic facilities. Lifeguards positions are available throughout the summer.

Please call 311 or 516-869-6311 or email parks@ northhempsteadny.gov for more information.

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BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena’s office said that no new signs in the town will have names added to them, upholding a campaign promise she made before being elected.

While at a Sept. 4, 2021 event, DeSena made a Facebook post that was uploaded to her page saying in part “as supervisor I would include everyone with ideas for improving town services, regardless of party affiliation. I would not put my name on signs and plaques and would welcome term limits. Trust me and Vote Row B for supervisor.”

At the time of this printing, Martin “Bunky” Reid Park in New Cassel, Whitney Pond Park in Manhasset and Herricks Ball Field in New Hyde Park have either new signs or stickers that have DeSena’s name. It is unclear if any other signs in the town have been changed to include the supervisor’s name.

Brian Devine, director of communications for the supervisor’s office, said the additions were made before DeSena took office and no

additional tax money would be spent on the signs.

“Upon Supervisor DeSena taking office, we found that departments had already updated town sign names and we learned that many existing signs were created with a replaceable spot for the supervisor’s name. Going forward, options included leaving current signs around town unfinished and sloppy or replacing them entirely. To prevent any new taxpayer money from being spent on signs, the supervisor has asked departments to refrain from adding names on new signs.”

Devine asserted that interim Highway Superintendent Harry Weed made the signs without DeSena’s knowledge and that Deputy Supervisor Joseph Scalero later emailed Weed that DeSena never advised Weed to create new signs.

According to the town website, there are over 40 parks and facilities under North Hempstead’s jurisdiction.

A previous version of this story was published.

It has since been updated.

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Kinexion launches disabled individuals service on L.I. More than 100 members of the Long Island disabled community gathered to help launch Kinexion, a new non-profit that will organize an existing family of affiliate organizations, now with 10,000 employees serving more than 4,000 developmentally and physically disabled people on Long Island, here today.

Kinexion (pronounced “connection”), will oversee seven separate non-profits that provide residential, education, vocational training, early and special education, therapeutic programs, housing and day habilitation programs for the intellectually and physically disabled community, medically frail children, and people living with traumatic brain injury.

Kinexion will provide support and services that enable people with disabilities and their families to live their best life, for life. Kinexion will stand as an operational model of excellence and sustainability, equipping network partners with the financial strength and resources to deliver lifetime care that enhances the purpose and well-being of people with disabilities, their families, and our community.

It will further energize a symbiotic network of partners by providing the infrastructure that frees them to focus on what they do best: offer best-in-class services to individuals with disabilities and build a new reality where society embraces people of all abilities.

Kinexion will become the Master Service Organization under which its seven affiliate organizations will be grouped, including: — IGHL: Independent Group Home Living’s innovative services and supports for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities include residential, day habilitation, vocational training and employment programs.

— NIS: The New Interdisciplinary School is an innovative early childhood learning center that respects the unique needs

of all children and their families. Their commitment is to provide therapeutic and educational services in a nurturing environment with the highest standards of expertise.

— Angela’s House: Assists families caring for children with special healthcare needs that are medically fragile, chronically ill or living with a life-threatening illness.

— Maryhaven: The mission of Maryhaven is to enrich the lives of people with special needs. They provide support with compassion in our residential, day habilitation, and vocational services while promoting individuality and integration.

— Head Injury Association: The mission is to maximize potential among TBI survivors, and those with intellectual or physical disabilities, by providing the necessary residential and support programs to help them achieve four valued outcomes: Individualization, Independence, Integration and productivity.

— East End Disability Associates: Dedicated to creating practical solutions and providing innovative support to people

with intellectual and developmental disabilities on the East End of Long Island.

— The Center for Developmental Disabilities: Committed to helping children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning and enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.

“By being part of a large organization, our agencies get to participate in sharing in costs and saving money and in learning new things about providing the best services we can for the people that we serve,” said Walter W. Stockton, CEO of Kinexion. “We also like to think that by combining back-office staff, since we all need to have back-office staffs, that we could save that money and put that back into our programs that are so very important to the people that we serve.”

The name Kinexion was chosen because of its verbal similarity to what the new MSO will do, which connects the seven affiliate organizations. Kinexion will: · Focus on the whole person · Deliver excellence, every day · Put families first · Embody care and compassion · Embrace innovation · Foster collaboration and respect · Maintain sustainability in a changing landscape “This is a terrific advancement in the effort to provide accessible and effective services for the disabled community on Long Island,” said Kerri Neifeld, Commissioner of the State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities. “Our neighbors with special needs deserve the best possible care, which these affiliates have always provided and will continue to provide, now on a more effective scale. We look forward to continuing our work with Kinexion and its affiliates for years to come.”

Tribute to NCPD’s Medical school’s 1st graduation fallen outside HQ Members of the Nassau County Legislature’s Minority Caucus joined leaders of the Nassau County Police Department and their colleagues in government on Wednesday, May 11 for a memorial ceremony honoring sworn and civilian NCPD members who have passed away and the officers who lost their lives in the line of duty throughout the department’s history dating back to 1925.

Members in attendance included Nassau County Legislator Siela A. Bynoe (D — Westbury), Debra Mulé (D — Freeport), Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D — Glen Cove), Arnold W. Drucker (D — Plainview) and Joshua Lafazan (D — Woodbury).

The solemn ceremony coincides with the observance of National Police Week in America, a tradition that was established in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy to give special recognition to law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty while serving the public.

NYU Long Island School of Medicine celebrated its first graduating class of physicians this week, marking three years since the new medical school opened its doors, launching the nation’s first accelerated program devoted exclusively to training primary care physicians.

According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the U.S. is expected to be short of primary care physicians by upwards of 21,000 within a decade, and the school’s graduating students will contribute to alleviating that deficit. More than half of the physician graduates will remain in the greater New York and Long Island regions.

NYU Long Island School is one of the first medical schools in the nation to be tuition-free—and the first on Long Island—following the tuitionfree model of NYU Grossman School of Medical in Manhattan, both under the auspices of NYU Langone Health.

“NYU Long Island School of Medicine’s inaugural Class of 2022 is the realization of a bold vision to make medical school financially attainable and attract exceptional students into the field of primary care,” said Dr. Robert I. Grossman, dean and CEO of NYU Langone Health. “We hope that many of the graduating physicians will choose to practice on Long Island, keeping our communities healthy and helping NYU Langone Health expand upon our network of quality physicians across Long Island.”

The physician graduates, totaling 20 in the Class of 2022, will practice in four primary care areas: family

medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and OB/GYN, along with general surgery. They will first fulfill their medical residencies, including those attending NYU Langone Hospital— Long Island, Johns Hopkins, Mass General, and other prestigious institutions to which they were accepted.

By graduating from an accelerated three-year program, they begin these residencies a year earlier than those who graduated from a traditional four-year medical school where students typically focus their final year on other specialties.

Founding Dean Steven Shelov, gave the keynote at the ceremonies, commending the graduates: “All of you are empathic, patient, powerful listeners, and caring, kind, and humble, eager to bring out the best in yourselves. We in the leadership of NYU Long Island School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health are committed to you, our charter class, as you become exemplary physicians.”

Also addressing the graduates at this year’s inaugural commencement were Dr. Gladys Ayala, vice dean of NYU Long Island School of Medicine; Dr. Steven Carsons, senior associate dean of Research at NYU Long Island School of Medicine; and Dr. Joseph Greco, senior vice president and chief of Hospital Operations at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island.

NYU Long Island School of Medicine, which is located in Mineola on the campus of NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, celebrated its Class of 2022 graduation at nearby Molloy College in Rockville Center. The graduates continued from there to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, to join a collective graduation ceremony honoring all NYU 2022 graduates.

To sustain its full-tuition scholarship initiative, NYU Long Island School of Medicine is supported by philanthropy as well as receiving support from NYU Langone Health.

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Wheatley’s Kavin Shukla defies convention

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Kavin Shakla

This is not like 99% of the tennis player stories you’ve heard.

Kavin Shukla is the first to acknowledge how wild his story is, laughing in the re-telling several times.

“It’s crazy, right?” he said with a laugh, as this reporter said “wow” for at least the third or fourth time of the interview. “It doesn’t sound like anything that should’ve happened.”

In the world of junior tennis, there is a very clear formula for success: Start playing around age 5 or 6, slowly take the game more and more seriously with the influx of lessons and court time and tournament play, and by the time you’re a teenager, your path to glory is set, or at least you can see the path from there.

Your height is projected to be between 5’8″ an 6’3,” your strokes are finely honed, and college coaches beat down your door.

Absolutely none of that applies to Kavin Shukla.

He’s all of 5-foot-3, several inches shorter than even famous vertically-challenged tennis pros like Michael Chang and Fabrice Santoro.

He didn’t start playing seriously until the summer after 8th grade when he was 13.“I didn’t even know how the scoring worked, or where you had to serve into,” Shukla recalled. “I was totally clueless.”

After taking some lessons around age 8, Shukla said he was discouraged by his mom, Purvi, and father, Mayank, from playing sports. In his Indian family, he explained, sports was just not something anyone did. Academics were by far more important.

But finally, after what Kavin recalled as “I did something good in school,” he was told by his parents to pick something he wanted to do. Entering a tennis tournament was his answer, and his memory is that he did really well, losing in the final.

“And after that,” said Steven Stonar-Coleman, who leads Kavin’s coaching team at Robbie Wagner Tennis in Glen Cove, “his family was all in and totally committed.”

That commitment has led to impressive results in a short amount of time. Playing No. 1 singles for The Wheatley School this year, Kavin has amassed a 13-2 record through matches of May 22, leading his team to the playoffs.

After playing high school tennis as a freshman, he spent the past two years working hard with Stonar-Coleman and his coaches at Wagner, including Marcus Malcolm, Elvis Henry and Eldad Campbell, and playing as many tournaments as he could.

His success in those events led to recruiting interest, and Division III University of Rochester has signed him to play next year.

“He’s an amazing story, considering how late he started,” Stonar-Coleman said. “He was just a nor-

mal kid when we began, but his work ethic and the support he got from his parents, giving us the time to work with him, has made such a big difference.”

“From Day 1 this year he’s been the strongest player for us, and has been a great leader for the other kids,” said Wheatley coach Herman Lim. “Having him at No.1 has made the whole team stronger.”

Shukla said his tennis ascent came gradually once he started taking it seriously, but the more he played, the more he loved it.

As a vertically-challenged player, he had to learn to be quick around the court and use his tennis IQ to win points.

Stonar-Coleman said he used former Top 5 star Kei Nishikori as a role model for Shukla, “trying to give him an all-around game and play three feet behind the baseline.”

As he started to have success in tournaments, Shukla said, his belief that he could actually have a college tennis career started to take hold. He said he always planned to return to Wheatley for his senior season and said this spring has been “the most fun I’ve had in tennis.”

“I just love the team aspect of high school tennis, since this is such an individual sport,” Shukla said. “It’s been great seeing our success; everyone at school seems shocked we’re doing so well.”

If they knew Shukla’s unlikely road to get here, they wouldn’t be surprised by any of it.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Spring festival at Kaplan mobile office hours Clark Botanic Garden

With many in-person activities resuming, Sen. Anna M. Kaplan has brought back her Mobile Office Hours events to provide constituent services and assistance in our community, and to hear from residents about their concerns and issues.

The upcoming mobile office hours will be held at: • Mineola Memorial Library, Mineola – June 9 from 12 pm-2 pm • Westbury Public Library, Westbury – June 10 from 12 pm-2 pm The festival also highlighted a North Hempstead Supervisor • Shelter Rock Public Library, Albertson – June 14 from 2 pm-4 pm Jennifer DeSena, Council Members special Earth Day exhibit “We Speak Walk-ins are welcome, and no appointment is necessary. Contact Kaplan’s office at 516-746-5924 with any questions Peter Zuckerman, Dennis Walsh, and for the Trees” which is on display Veronica Lurvey joined the hundreds next to the Clark House featuring the or if you require any assistance. of visitors to the Annual Clark Garden artwork and designs of local North Hempstead students.

Spring Festival on April 30.

To see video footage from the The festival served as the kickoff of to spring with many family-friendly Clark Garden Spring Festival visit: activities which included nature hikes www.youtube.com/townofnortharound the garden, lawn games, edu- hempstead, or tune in to NHTV on cational programs, arts & crafts, a live channel 18/65 on Cablevision and FCA’s Girls Empowerment & work and as the recipient of mulchannel 46 on Verizon. animal show, and more.

Leadership Summit, a four-month tiple awards. The discussions were program designed to create a supdiverse and lively. portive environment for young In part because of programs like women attending middle school and the GEL Summit, The Hempstead high school, recently completed its Prevention Coalition was recently inaugural session with a red carpet selected as a 2022 “What’s Great in “Night of Elegance and AchieveOur State” award winner, recognizment,” for graduates of the summit. ing and honoring the individuals Administered by FCA’s awardand programs for outstanding work winning Hempstead Prevention Coto bring positive mental health outalition and made possible with fundcomes for children, youth, young ing from Gov. Kathy Hochul and the event was joyous, with girls and adults, communities, and families.

Nassau County Office of Youth Ser- their families enjoying an evening FCA President and CEO Jeffrey vices, the three main goals of the acknowledging and supporting their L. Reynolds congratulated Thurston summit were to include girls in an great potential to live a full, produc- O’Neal and the entire Hempstead environment that fosters strong re- tive life.”

Prevention Coalition. “We at FCA are The virtual summit featured extremely proud of Thurston, thanklationship building, inform the girls on how to effectively identify and four tiers: Public Speaking & Lead- ful for his work and appreciative of navigate opportunities and barri- ership; Violence & Substance Pre- this recognition. Acknowledging the ers, and to invest in these girls by vention; Self-Advocacy; and Valuing great need for mental health awarecreating the platforms for them to Education. ness and support, FCA’s Hempstead Each tier was presented by com- Prevention Coalition makes a differmentor, influence, and advocate for munity experts including the hon- ence creating a safe space for our themselves and their peers.

“The summit serves to open orable Brianna A. Vaughan, Village community youth to engage and be a world of opportunity and smart Justice for the Village of Hempstead; seen. Developing young leaders in choices for girls by creating a sup- Motivational Speaker and Life & the Village of Hempstead will better portive, inclusive, and safe space Success Coach Jessica Toussaint; position our community for success for girls from various areas of Nas- and community resident and activ- for generations to come. Thurston’s sau County to learn, grow, and be ist Victoria Roberts, who shared her work has been thoughtful, engaging empowered,” said Thurston O’Neal, lived experience on how she turned and inclusive, always with an eye director, FCA Hempstead Preven- her life around to become a high towards creating systems of change tion Coalition. “Our graduation achiever with a degree in social and a renewed sense of community.”

Since 2006, Hadassah Nassau has Council Member Veronica Lurvey attended Hadassah Nassau’s Walk-a- raised nearly $1.5 million towards stem Thon for Stem Cell Research held on cell research.

Lurvey honored Ellen Domitch, May 15 at the Nassau County Museum of Art. Attendees participated in this Lynne and Arnie Gordon, Sandy Rosen, fundraiser for stem cell research for the and Jim Rotenberg with proclamations Hadassah Medical Organization in Jeru- of recognition for their dedication to Hadassah Nassau and the local community. salem.

Nassau County Legis- lius Pearse African American lator Siela A. Bynoe (D — History Museum of Nassau Westbury) partnered with County curated an exhibithe North Hempstead Su- tion dedicated to Toussaint pervisor Jennifer DeSena, L’Ouverture, who emerged Councilman Robert Troiano, from slavery under French the North Hempstead Town rule to lead the Haitian RevoBoard, the Westbury Union lution and become a historic Free School District and the founding father of the repubHaitian American Political lic.

“Our lives are enriched Action Committee of New York in supporting the Town by the cultural contributions of North Hempstead’s sev- that are made by the comenth annual Haitian Flag munity of Haitian Americans Day Celebration on Saturday, who proudly call Nassau County home,” Bynoe said.

May 14.

Held inside Westbury’s “I am thankful to all of the Yes We Can Center, the fes- government, education and tive community celebration community partners whose marked the 219th anniversa- contributions make this celry of the Haitian flag’s adop- ebration of Haitian Flag Day tion and commemorated the such a joyous and meaningrevolution against France ful celebration each and evthat led to the formation of ery year. May we continue to embrace the spirit of Libète, the Republic of Haiti.

Hadassah Walk-a-thon for STEM Cell Research Sunday, May 15 at PHOTO PROVIDED BY OFFICE OF At the request of Legisla- Egalite, Fratènite in all that the Nassau County Museum in Roslyn.

LEGISLATOR SIELA A. BYNOE tor Bynoe, the Joysetta & Ju- we do in the days ahead.”

FCA’s girls leadership summit

Hadassah Walk-a-Thon for stem cell research

Celebrating Haitian Flag Day

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