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Lampasona unopposed for re-election Teacher, trustee initially joined Mineola school board in 2016

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Mineola Board of Education Trustee Cheryl Lampasona is running unopposed for re-election.

Lampasona joined the board in 2016. She ran unopposed for Vice President Patricia Navarra’s seat after Navarra stepped down.

If Lampasona is re-elected to a three-year term on May 17, it will be her third term on the board. Previously, she was co-president of the Hampton Street School PTA. She has worked as a full-time and part-time school teacher.

Lampasona joined the board shortly after the movement of Mineola parents opting their children out of state tests aligned with Common Core educational standards.

She announced her candidacy in February on Twitter, committing to continue her work for Mineola.

“I am pleased to announce that I will be seeking re-election as your Board of Education Trustee,” Lampasona said. “It has been a privilege to serve the Mineola school community over the past 6 years. I look forward to continuing the vision of this exemplary district, an honor I take tremendous pride in. I will continue to accept all the challenges and extraordinary responsibilities that the trustee posi-

tion encompasses. I look forward to continuing to work for the children, parents and taxpayers of our wonderful community.”

In 2019, Lampasona said her favorite accomplishment at the time was voting for and passing full-day pre-kindergarten, which then made Mineola the only district in Nassau County to offer a free full-day program. For her most recent three-year term, she said that focuses would be on maintaining and growing school programs and preserving school facilities while staying within the tax cap.

In December, the Mineola school district added the former Sperry Associates Federal Credit Union building on Jericho Turnpike, adjacent to Mineola High School. The $4.25 million purchase will expand the high school’s campus with additional programs.

Voting will take place from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Jackson Avenue School and the Meadow Drive School.

In the East Williston school district, two spots on the Board of Education are open as the terms of David Keefe and Tasneem Meghji are expiring. Both terms end on June 30.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on May 17 and voting will take place at the Wheatley School in Old Westbury.

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The Chaminade High School varsity baseball team celebrates a win over Archbishop Molloy High School on Thursday, April 14.

Dynamic pitching duo leads Chaminade’s title hopes

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But double that number of outstanding hurlers, and you’ve got a If you have one dominant pitch- recipe for a ton of wins and likely a er on a high school baseball team, championship.

At Chaminade High School this you’re already ahead of most oppoyear, opposing batters get no break. nents.

Senior pitchers J.J. Gatti and John Downing are both Division I college signees who throw in the high 80s/low 90s, can buckle your knees with breaking pitches, and Continued on Page 34

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Zolezzi Auto Body, Haller E.W. sportswriter’s make historic business list passion honored 2 W.P. firms among 100 firms statewide recognized Mag calls book on cartoonist one the best

BY M I C H A E L LEWIS

Simon Frederick Falconer minding the store.

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Three North Shore businesses were recently named to the inaugural list of New York’s historic businesses.

S.F. Falconer Florist in Port Washington, and Albert Zolezzi Auto Body and the Haller Agency Inc., both of Williston Park, were included among the 100 named across the state. Long Island had 19 entries.

Founded in 1920 by Simon Frederick Falconer, the family business on South Maryland Avenue has been providing services to the community for over a century.

Falconer, a Scottish immigrant, was gifted a greenhouse by Harry

Guggenheim, his former employer, in order to start the business, according to the Historic Business Preservation Registry. The business was nominated by Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti (D-Port Washington).

In 2021, South Maryland Avenue was renamed S.F. Falconer’s Way to commemorate 100 years in Port Washington.

Fred Falconer Jr., grandson of Simon Frederick Falconer and the current owner, was named Citizen of the Year by the Community Chest of Port Washington in 2019.

On Willis Avenue, Albert Zolezzi Auto Body was started in 1947 by Albert Zolezzi Sr. Initially starting as a mechanical repair shop, the business expanded when Albert “Joe”

Decades before he became a fixture in World Series and Super Bowl press boxes as a top sportswriter in America, East Williston resident Hal Bock was just a teenage copyboy in a New York city newsroom, in awe of a legend.

When Bock was in college he worked at the long-dead World Telegram and Sun newspaper, and occasionally he would see famous sports cartoonist Willard Mullin, who worked at the paper.

“I was so intimidated by him, because I’d seen his drawings and was fascinated by them, but I never could get up the PHOTO FROM THE ISLAND 360 ARCHIVES nerve to talk to Willard,” Bock recalled. “He was a gregarious guy, always talking to everybody, but I

was a kid and thought he was too intimidating.”

As Bock grew up and became an accomplished sportswriter of his own, spending 40 years at The Associated Press, he got to know Mullin’s family and eventually convinced them to let him help write text to go along with a book of Mullin’s cartoons.

Mullin died in 1978.

That book, “Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball Drawings 19341972″ was eventually published in 2013, and much to Bock’s delight, was recently honored by Esquire magazine.

The venerable publication published a list several weeks ago of the Top 100 Baseball Books ever written, and the Mullin collection was among them.

“I was flaggergasted, stunned and thrilled,”

Zolezzi Jr. came on board in 1968, according to the registry.

In 1978, Joe’s wife, Nancy, who is a former East Williston mayor, joined and currently runs the business with their son, Albert.

The Haller Agency has been providing insurance services since December 1938. In 1978, the business moved to Williston Park where it currently stands on Hillside Avenue.

In 1990, the business was incorporated as the Haller Agency Inc. Four generations of the Haller family have worked for the agency, with Nicholas Haller III joining in 2019 under CEO Raymond Haller.

Both Williston Park businesses were nominated by Assemblyman Ed Ra (R-Franklin Square).

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Cover of book that earned Hal Bock book honor as one of top 100 sports books.

said Bock, who retired from full-time sportswriting in 2004. “The books on that list are incredible, so to be included among that, is very exciting. I think Mullin would be thrilled too.”

Bock said the book shows Mullin’s whimsical sense of humor.

“One of the interesting things about him, a brilliant thing, was he would sign every cartoon with 26 pen strokes, and all but two were horizontal,” Bock said. “I don’t know how he did that, but it was unique.”

Baseball has fallen behind football and basketball in popularity in the U.S., but Bock said he hasn’t lost his passion for it.

“I don’t like them putting that runner on second base in extra innings, and about 100 other things they’ve done to baseball over the years,” Bock said. “They shouldn’t tinker with the sport. But I still absolutely love it. I watched a few innings of the Mets game today, and just the whole package of baseball, the green grass, the players, all of it, is still so wonderful to me.”

Bock keeps busy these days writing a few times per week for New York SportsDay, and still does presentations from time to time over Zoom.

“I love that I can still feed my passion for baseball, and sports,” Bock said. “People have asked why do you still write.

I say it’s because that’s what I like doing the most. The experience of sitting down in front of a computer and writing, I still love it.”

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Increased funding set for local districts Mineola, East Williston school districts set for $11.9M, $3.9M increases respectively

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z State aid for public school districts on the North Shore of Nassau County in 2022-23 increased by more than 21 percent from the current year, according to statistics from the state legislation.

The boost in state aid for the 11 public school districts on the North Shore is part of a record $457 million in extra financial aid for all Long Island public school districts included in the state’s budget, which was approved earlier this month. The cumulative rise in the 11 school districts is larger in percentage terms than the cumulative 16.52 percent increase for all Nassau County school districts.

The largest dollar increase among the North Shore’s districts was a $9.67 million rise in Sewanhaka’s state aid.

In 2021-22, according to statistics, Sewanhaka received more than $48.2 million in state aid for its six high schools. In 2022-23, that state aid will increase to more than $57.8 million. The largest percentage increase comes from the East Williston school district, which had more than $3.9 million allocated in state aid in 202122. In 2022-23, statistics show, that state aid will increase by more than 38.7 percent to $5.5 million.

“With this budget we are going to unleash the power of higher education to lift up the people of our state by investing in our institutions and our teachers.”

— Gov. Kathy Hochul The dollar increase for Manhasset’s state aid in 2022-23 was the lowest among the 11 school districts, with $652,000 more being allocated, resulting in a total of almost $5.6 million. The lowest percentage increase was allocated to the New Hyde ParkGarden City Park school district, with just under 10 percent of new state aid rolling in for the 2022-23 year. The district received nearly $9.2 million in state aid in 2021-22, with the 202223 total coming in at more than $10.1 million, according to statistics.

The Mineola school district received a notable 30.3 percent increase in 2022-23 state aid, which will result in a total of more than $11.9 million. The Port Washington and Roslyn school districts also received increases of more than 23 percent.

The Port Washington school district will receive more than $12.7 million in school funding while the Roslyn school district will receive nearly $9.3 million.

The Floral Park-Bellerose school district’s state aid will increase to $7.8 million in 2022-23, the Great Neck school district’s will increase to nearly $12.2 million, the Herricks school district’s will increase to almost $17.6 million and the North Shore school district’s will increase to more than $6.8 million.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said the $31.5 billion statewide package “will broaden access to opportunity in New York and build the education system of the future” in a statement.

“The opportunity to pursue a quality education is the silver bullet for so many New Yorkers,” Hochul said. “With this budget we are going to unleash the power of higher education to lift up the people of our state by investing in our institutions and our teachers.”

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Williston Park OKs $6.7M budget, 2% rise

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y

The $6,712,974 budget represents a $131,613 increase in spending from the curThe Williston Park Board of Trustees ap- rent year, a 2 percent rise.

Property taxes for the village will rise by proved a $6.7 million budget for the 2022-23 $81,807, or 1.52 percent, below the state fiscal year on Monday night.

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Mayor Paul Ehrbar thanked the village’s employees, trustees and specifically Village Clerk Julie Kain, who put in a lot of work around the beginning of the year in order to

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“We hate to raise taxes on any resident or taxpayer in the village but to only increase $81,000 on a budget of $6.7 million I think the board and office staff did a very great job,” Ehrbar said. “We’ve been able to accomplish a lot without really having to impact residents on the tax base for what we are doing.”

In 2018, the village board voted to exceed the tax cap for the 2018-19 fiscal year budget, increasing the tax levy 3 percent from the prior year. From 2013 through 2016, the board voted to override the cap, saying the village’s spending needs were growing more than the state limits allowed.

In unrelated village business, the Board of Trustees voted to request a grant of $50,000 from Nassau County’s Community Development Block Grant Program, which would be spread out across the village in a residential rehabilitation program, if approved.

The Community Development Block Grant Program is a federally funded program administered through Nassau County intended to help urban communities and low-andmoderate-income individuals in particular, according to the Nassau County website.

Ehrbar said the village’s options are limited due to the per capita income of residents, but the village is eligible for some funding for residential rehabilitation projects. The money would be available for individuals with limited incomes who need to repair their homes.

More information about the Residential Rehabilitation Program can be found on the village website.

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Mangano sentenced to 12 years in prison

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for corruption last Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Joan Azrack.

Mangano’s wife, Linda, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for obstruction by lying to the FBI. The sentence falls short of the 17.5 years prosecutors sought for Mangano for accepting bribes and kickbacks in exchange for governmental action.

Federal prosecutors Catherine Mirabile, Christopher Caffarone and Lara Treinis Gatz submitted a 25-page memorandum in early March recommending forfeiture and full restitution for his victims’ losses, which included over $11 million to Phoenix Life Insurance Co., which repaid defaulted loans, and $4 million for Oyster Bay’s legal fees, prosecutors said.

Mangano’s actions were far from one mistake and his “criminal conduct began the moment he was elected as Nassau County Executive and continued for years” prosecutors said.

Democratic legislators lauded the sentencing while claiming that current Nassau Executive Bruce Blakeman appeared to be bringing back Mangano’s style of governing.

“As one of Nassau’s darkest chapters draws to a close, we stand at a crossroads,” Nassau County Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D-Glen Cove) said in a statement. “Unfortunately, there are indications that the Blakeman administration may be reverting to the questionable practices of the past.”

“Already, they are attempting to undermine the powers of the county’s independent Inspector General to investigate waste, fraud and abuse in

Outside the courthouse after Mangano was sentenced, U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said he helped himself at the cost of the public.

“From the moment he was elected, Edward Mangano sold himself and his office,” Peace said in a statement. “He cashed in the power, the resources, and the influence of his office to enrich himself and his wife. For Ed Mangano, public service was self-service.”

The Manganos were found guilty of corruption charges in March 2019.

Edward Mangano’s conviction is based on a deal he made with Harendra Singh, a restaurateur on Long Island and a star witness in the trial, in which Singh kicked back money and personal benefits in return for pushing the Town of Oyster Bay to authorize loans for Singh, according to a previous news release from the U.S. attorney’s office.

Mangano and his wife obstructed justice by conspiring with Singh to fabricate work Linda Mangano supposedly performed at Singh’s restaurant to prevent a grand jury investigation, the news release said.

PHOTO BY JOE NIKIC Prosecutors said that several weeks after Edward Mangano took office, he used his political inNassau County Executive Edward Mangano, as seen leaving the federal courthouse in fluence to have the Town of Oyster Bay “indirectly Central Islip in 2017. guarantee” $20 million worth of personal loans to Singh for improvements to Tobay Beach and the County operations; are ignoring an anti-corruption that no one is above the law and that we have a town’s golf course.

Singh in turn paid for five vacations, hardorder that blocks political party leaders from simul- long way to go to restore the people’s trust in govtaneously serving in his administration; and are ernment,” Lafazan said in a statement. “We must wood flooring, a custom office chair, watch and a “no-show” job worth $450,000 for Linda Mangano filling top government positions with individuals do better!”

Azrack said Mangano was the root of many as a marketing director for Singh, prosecutors said. who have tainted track records,” DeRiggi-Whitton Mangano was working at Oheka Castle in Hunproblems within Nassau County. continued.

“Your crimes were motivated by greed, entitle- tington in 2020, owner Gary Melius told Newsday.

Nassau County Legislator and congressional Prosecutors previously said Mangano “led a candidate Joshua Lafazan (D-Woodbury) said ment, the law be damned,” Azrack said, according Thursday was a start to gaining public trust again. to multiple reports. “Rot ran deep ... you showed culture of corruption that permeated throughout his administration: it rotted from the top down.”

“Ed Mangano’s sentencing today demonstrates no remorse in the slightest.”

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Zimmerman tops in funding for 1st quarter

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Among the qualified candidates running in the 3rd Congressional District, Robert Zimmerman raised the most money in the first quarter of 2022, according to the Federal Election Commission.

Since his campaign announcement this year, Zimmerman, a longtime Democratic National Committee member from Great Neck, has raised $916,913.88 and disbursed $165,969.55, leaving him with $750,944.33 cash on hand, according to FEC reports.

Financial disclosures for the period, which were submitted by April 15, track contributions, money spent and cash on hand from Jan. 1 to March 31.

Economist George Santos, the lone Republican candidate vying for his party’s nomination as of now, raised $778,094.72 in the first quarter, bringing his campaign total to $1,631,042.18 since the announcement of his candidacy, according to FEC reports. He has disbursed $985,583.12, leaving him with $821,293.77 cash on hand at the end of the first quarter.

County Legislator Joshua Lafazan (DWoodbury) was third in receipts for the first quarter and second among Democrats, raising $550,235. Throughout his campaign, which began in December, Lafazan has raised $1,002,783

and disbursed $283,914, leaving him with $718,869 cash on hand.

State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi of Westchester County, who announced her candidacy this year, raised $437,230.42 in the first quarter, good enough for fourth among all qualified candidates. She has also disbursed $111,570.02, leaving her with $325,660.40 cash on hand.

Former North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman, who currently is Suffolk County deputy executive, raised $387,544 since announcing his campaign this year. Kaiman disbursed $56,342.49, leaving him with $339,583.71 cash on hand.

Melanie D’Arrigo of Port Washington raised $71,417.66 in the first quarter, disbursing $90,334.05. By March 31, she had $97,259.59 cash on hand and had raised $297,296.85 during her campaign.

Oyster Bay’s Reema Rasool raised $62,556 in the first quarter. Rasool, who began fundraising this year, disbursed $22,333.12, leaving her with $40,222.88 cash on hand.

Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), who has represented the district since 2016, is giving up the seat to run for governor.

After a redistricting vote in the state Legislature, the 3rd Congressional District includes the North Shore of Nassau County and parts of Suffolk, Queens, the Bronx and Westchester.

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Zimmerman says 3rd District no sure thing

BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y Great Neck’s Robert Zimmerman said he believes Democrats can win the 3rd Congressional District, but is wary that too many of them think it has already been won.

In a virtual town hall with Blank Slate Media last week, the longtime Democratic National Committee member spoke about a number of issues, both nationally and locally, as he seeks the Democratic nomination in the district, a seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove).

“The good news is we can win this Democratic seat,” Zimmerman said. “The bad news is too many Democrats think we’ve already won it.”

Zimmerman took note of the red wave that swept through the district and parts of Long Island in November where Republicans won all countywide posts. He reiterated that the district is still winnable but messaging has played a major role in voters’ minds.

“It had to do with the fact that I think people were frustrated with Washington, not seeing fast enough action,” Zimmerman said. “They were dealing with the trauma of COVID-19, job security and keeping their children safe.”

Since his campaign announcement this year, Zimmerman has raised $916,913.88 and disbursed $165,969.55, leaving him with $750,944.33 cash on hand, according to the Federal Election Commission’s most recent filings. The fundraising numbers in the first quarter put him at the top of qualified candidates vying for the Democratic primary. He attributes that to his campaign’s ability to build a consensus off grassroots energy and activism across the district’s five counties.

If elected, Zimmerman said it will be his job to find issues where common ground can be shared and bipartisanship can thrive, despite what he calls dangerous rhetoric from the other side. The businessman referred to numerous pieces of legislation in state governments aimed at compromising voting, abortion and the LGBTQ+ community’s rights, among other things, as threats to the country’s fabric.

“I think our democracy is facing its greatest threat since the Civil War,” Zimmerman said.

“Even those types of severe extreme situations, we

have to look for ways to find common ground on important issues.”

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 said a major reason for running was the political activism he experienced when he was younger and how isolated he felt growing up “as a gay kid in suburbia.”

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

Zimmerman previously worked as a congressional aide on Capitol Hill for Congressmen Lester Wolff, James Scheuer and Gary Ackerman. His advocacy has also led to his being nominated by President Bill Clinton to serve on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Presidential Commission on the Arts and by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Council on the Humanities.

Regarding bail reform, Zimmerman called the law passed by the state Legislature “counterproductive” and “ultimately ineffective,” calling for judges to be given more discretion in determining who is a danger to society.

In 2019, the state Legislature enacted a law that eliminated cash bail for many nonviolent crimes. Pretrial detention and optional cash bail were eliminated in an estimated 90 percent of cases.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman in January signed an executive order that cites a need to “increase transparency by disclosing in daily reports the pending criminal data case and bail stats of those rearrested” by the Police Department.

Zimmerman said there are many reasons for the increase in crime, adding, “Democrats spend too much time focusing on the root causes of crime and not understanding the reality of crime today.”

“Obviously in a climate where millions of people lost their jobs nationwide and their health care, there’s going to be serious issues of mental health untended,” Zimmerman said. “When you have a depressed economy, illegal guns flooding our streets, you’re going to have more crime.”

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2 Port residents on Forbes billionaire list

BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z A pair of Port Washington residents were named to Forbes’ 2022 Billionaires list, including Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone.

Langone, a Roslyn Heights native who now lives in Sands Point after years in the Manhasset area of Flower Hill, was ranked as the 438th richest person in the world and grew his net worth from $4.7 billion in 2021 to $5.8 billion in 2022, according to Forbes.

After spending his early years digging ditches for the Long Island Expressway, according to Forbes, Langone made an early investment in Home Depot with fellow billionaires Arthur Blank and Bernard Marcus in 1978.

The Sands Point resident’s name is also part of the NYU Langone medical system, which has locations across Long Island and the greater New York City area. His $5.8 billion net worth is the highest among Long Island residents, according to Forbes.

A longtime supporter and donor to the Republican Party, Langone expressed displeasure with former President Donald Trump for inciting the Capitol riots last year.

Langone appeared as a guest on the CNBC program “Squawk Box” in January 2021, telling co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin that he felt “betrayed” by Trump’s actions that led to the riot, including months of rhetoric falsely claiming that he had won the election and a speech the same day as the riot where he implored his supporters to march on the Capitol.

“I think the biggest mistake anybody is go-

ing to make is [to] try and rationalize what happened last week, what the president did, and what that crowd did,” Langone said. “There should be no mitigation at all. It was horrible. It was wrong. I’m shocked.”

He also said that he didn’t care if Trump was impeached for his actions, and called actions of Republican members of Congress who voted against confirming Joe Biden’s victory even after the riot “a grandstand play.”

Fellow Port Washington resident Don Vultaggio, the co-founder of Arizona Beverages, also increased his net worth, according to Forbes, going from $3.8 billion in 2021 to $3.9 billion this year. Vultaggio, 70, began his work in the beverage industry by using a van to sell beer and soda throughout Brooklyn, according to Forbes. In 1992, according to Forbes, Vultaggio ditched the suds and shifted to selling iced tea, and used creative labels and taller cans with the creation of Arizona, launched from a warehouse in Brooklyn.

Other Long Island residents included in the Forbes list are Oyster Bay’s Charles Dolan ($5.4 billion), East Hampton’s Katherine Rayner ($5.2 billion), Southampton’s Margaretta Taylor ($5.2 billion), Locust Valley’s Julian Robertson ($4.8 billion), Sag Harbor’s Pablo Legorreta ($3.8 billion), Oyster Bay’s Louis Bacon ($1.6 billion), Locust Valley’s Mitchell Jacobson ($1.3 billion) and Sagaponack’s Axel Stawski ($1 billion).

Forbes said the United States leads the world with more than 700 billionaires in 2022 whose combined net worth exceeds $4 trillion.

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Nicholas Center aids adults with autism Port Washington center programs driven by one mom’s desire to give opportunties to son

BY M AT T H E W D I D O MENICO The Nicholas Center in Port Washington, and more recently Westchester, has supported adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder through their post-graduate endeavors with a variety of specialized programs since 2011.

“The journey begins at the Nicholas Center,” said Lee Anne Vetrone, director of development. The center, located at 366 Main St., accounts for vocational training, peer connections, life skills, community engagement and more for over 100 individuals.

Stella Spanakos, one of the center’s three co-founders, was displeased with the opportunities available to her son with autism spectrum disorder, Nicholas, who struggled with verbal communication.

She went on to collaborate with her friend and colleague Nicole Sugrue, whose son is also diagnosed with ASD, along with Patrick Bardsley, as cofounders.

“Never underestimate the power of moms on a mission,” said Vetrone.

The three formed a social service agency, the Nicholas Center, named after Stella’s son, along with a social enterprise business offered on-site train-

ing, and possible employment, which “We gauge support needs, age, to carefully manage staff, space and Vetrone. would lead to the creation of Spectrum interests, and opportunities… Since other considerations, all while making According to a study conducted by Designs. we have a long waiting list, we have sure the program remains true,” said the AJ Drexel Autism Institute in 2015, those with ASD in their early 20s had a 58 percent rate of employment. This is much lower than those with learning disabilities, speech and language impairments, intellectual disabilities and more.

While the idea of inclusivity and acceptance in the workforce is more mainstream than ever, the road after high school is especially difficult to navigate for those with special needs.

Young adults with ASD statistically have a harder time finding work compared with their peers, even among those with other disabilities.

Spectrum Designs, along with other branches, is where the individuals put into practice the skills they have honed at the Nicholas Center. From there, the hope is that they’ll be ready to join the workforce as paid employees.

“Some folks are out in the world working where we’re continuing to support them, and others find jobs at Spectrum Designs, Spectrum Suds or Spectrum Bakes,” said Vetrone.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NICHOLAS CENTER For more information about the Nicholas Project, go to https://tncnewThe Nicholas Center in Port Washington celebrating a decade of serving the community in 2021. york.org.

Sands Point Preserve appoints new director B Y R O B E R T P E L A E Z Bosgang said.

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The Sands Point Preserve Conservancy appointed Jeremiah Bosgang to serve as its new executive director.

The Sands Point Preserve Conservancy has announced that Jeremiah Bosgang will be its new executive director.

Bosgang, who has served as the conservancy’s film and television production manager since 2012, will suceed Beth Horn, who is stepping down from the position after five years. Karli Hagedorn, chairman of the conservancy, touted Gosgang’s familiarity with the 200-acre estate, formerly owned by the Guggenheim family, and said everyone is looking forward to new projects and events on the horizon.

“We are delighted that Mr. Bosgang is able to assume the position of executive director,” Hagedorn said in an April 5 press release. “His knowledge of the Conservancy, as well as our staff, stand him in good stead as we enter our busy season and embark on a number of exciting projects.”

“I am truly grateful to Karli and the Board for trusting me with this role and I am excited to prove myself worthy of helping them to lead our wonderful Preserve staff and supporters in continuing the growth, vibrancy and relevancy of all that is the awesome Sands Point Preserve,”

Hagedorn lauded Horn for her work at the conservancy, wishing her success in future endeavors.

“The conservancy is enormously grateful to Beth Horn for her leadership and vision during her time as executive director,” Hagedorn said. “She brought an unprecedented level of excellence to our programming and led us through the difficult days of the pandemic with aplomb.

We wish her every success in the future.”

Bosgang, who has an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and certification from the UCLA Anderson School of Management Executive Program, has experience in content development within various departments of television networks, studios and production companies.

Bosgang played a role in developing “Seinfeld” as a network executive and was vice president of development at MTV, senior vice president of programming at FX, executive vice president creative at the Howard Stern Production Co. and executive vice president of television at Sony BMG Music Entertainment.

His work as production manager includes overseeing all on-

site media projects at the conservancy, including Showtime’s “Billions,” USA’s “Mr. Robot,” HBO’s “The Gilded Age,” NBC’s “The Black List” and others.

The preserve includes the 50,000-square-foot Hempstead House, built in 1902 by financier Howard Gould. Gould sold the estate in 1917 to mining tycoon Daniel Guggenheim, whose family built several other houses on the property.

After Guggenheim’s death, his widow, Florence, auctioned off the house’s furnishings, and during World War II she allowed 75 British refugee children to live in Hempstead House while foster homes were organized for them.

Florence Guggenheim later donated 162 acres of the estate, including Hempstead House and Castle Gould, to the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in 1942, resulting in their use as offices and laboratories.

Once naval operations moved to Florida in 1967, the land was declared government surplus, but in 1971 Nassau County acquired 127 acres for public recreational use. With the remaining 90 acres deeded to the county after Florence’s son Harry died, the estate was restored and rechristened the Sands Point Preserve.

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Attempted murder charges dropped Roosevelt man goes free after 2 years in jail when case falls apart after defense granted discovery

BY R OB E RT PELAEZ A Roosevelt man who spent more than two years in jail had charges of attempted murder dismissed

by Nassau County prosecutors last week, according to the district attorney’s office.

Malcolm Griffin faced various charges, including attempted murder, for a 2016 shooting in Roosevelt that resulted in a cab driver being shot in the face and losing an eye, Brendan Brosh, communications director for the Nassau County district attorney, said in a statement last week. Brosh said Griffin was arrested in December 2019 and was in jail awaiting a trial, scheduled for early January 2022.

The district attorney’s office, upon further investigation, found that an individual who allegedly witnessed the incident was not truthful, Brosh said. The findings were “immediately brought” to the attention of

the court and the defense counsel, seeking to have Griffin released from jail, according to Brosh.

“The administration of District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly is committed to doing justice and protecting the rights of the public, victims, and all defendants,” Brosh continued. “As a result, today, the NCDA has moved to dismiss the pending charges against Mr. Griffin.”

Brosh said the investigation into the 2016 incident remains ongoing.

Griffin’s attorney, Joseph Lo Piccolo, told Newsday, “Prosecutors did not have to share discovery with the defense or defendant until nearly two years later and he stayed in jail the whole time.”

Efforts to reach Lo Piccolo for further comment were unavailing.

Lo Piccolo also told Newsday that an informant provided false information to police which contradicted the cabdriver’s account.

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The Nassau County district attorney’s office said attempted murder charges against a Roosevelt man were dismissed.

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ecisions in two criminal cases were announced within hours of each other last Thursday that should make us all stop and think about the fairness of our criminal justice system.

The first was the announcement that former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for his participation in a bribery and kickback scheme that was part of what prosecutors called a “culture of corruption” at the heart of Long Island’s political machine.

Mangano’s wife, Linda, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for her role.

Prosecutors at the trial showed that from 2010 to 2015 Mangano accepted bribes and kickbacks from a Long Island restaurant owner, Harendra Singh, in exchange for favorable official actions, including steering contracts to Singh and helping him secure about $20 million in loans.

Among the things Singh gave the county executive were a $454,000 “noshow” job for Linda Mangano, free meals and vacations at posh hotels, two luxury chairs, hardwood flooring for the master bedroom in the couple’s Bethpage home and a $7,300 wristwatch for one of their sons.

The 12 years Mangano got was not a light sentence, although prosecutors had recommended 17 years.

“Democracy is a precious thing and crimes such as yours strike at the heart,” U.S. District Judge Joan Azrack said while sentencing the former Republican county executive.

“From the onset of your administration, you defiled your office and the oath you had taken to serve the people of Nassau County,” she told Mangano.

Azrack added: “You have shown no remorse for your actions in the slightest.”

Mangano and his wife, who were arrested in October 2016, were found guilty in March 2019 and sentenced in April 2022.

During that time, he and his wife lived at home and at least during part of that time he worked at Oheka Castle, a high-end hotel and restaurant located in

a Gold Coast mansion “resting majestically on the highest point of Long Island” that “emanates the elegant refinement of a chateau in France,” according to its website.

Now compare this with the treatment of Malcolm Griffin, a Roosevelt man arrested in 2019 and charged with the February 2016 shooting of a cab driver who lost an eye in the attack.

Within hours of Mangano’s sentencing, Nassau County prosecutors dropped attempted murder charges against Griffin following “an extensive and thorough review” in conjunction with Nassau County police.

But not before Griffin, who had never been found guilty of any crime, spent two years in jail.

Griffin had been held on $400,000 bond, $250,00 cash bail since a grand jury indictment led to his arrest in December 2019.

Griffin didn’t have the money, personal assets or friends to pay his bail while he awaited trial.

In other words, a person with access to money remained free after he had been convicted of a serious crime and showed no remorse. And a poor person who was innocent in the eyes of the law sat in jail for two years because he didn’t have the money to pay for his freedom.

Griffin’s attorney, Joseph Lo Piccolo of Garden City, raised another serious question about bail laws. He said his client did not have access to the prosecution’s case for the two years following his arrest due to discovery laws.

When he did he get the information as the case was approaching trial, it led to two key witnesses in the case recanting their testimony, Lo Piccolo said.

“Prosecutors did not have to share discovery with the defense or defendant until nearly two years later and he stayed in jail the whole time,” Lo Piccolo said.

“Within two weeks, the case was already falling apart.”

Lo Piccolo said an informant gave police false information that claimed he was the lookout for the taxi driver’s robbery by three people, including Griffin. The informant’s girlfriend also corroborated the story, but Lo Piccolo said Griffin was not

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at the scene of the shooting.

The informant’s account contradicted the cab driver’s story, which said there were only two people involved in the robbery, Lo Piccolo said.

Two other defendants in the case were convicted of attempted murder charges and sentenced to life in prison.

County prosecutors said “upon further investigation, the NCDA determined that a person who allegedly witnessed the incident was deemed to not be truthful. The NCDA immediately brought this to the attention of defense counsel, and the court, and sought to have Mr. Griffin released from jail.”

The investigation into the 2016 shooting, they added, “is ongoing.”

Lo Piccolo said Griffin planned to move to Georgia to live near his mother.

“It’s a tragedy he sat in jail for more than two years and had his lawyer had this information, it could have led to his release,” Lo Piccolo said. “He can finally leave the state to try to rebuild his life.”

The Griffin and Mangano cases are reminiscent of two cases that began the push in 2019 for New York to reform its bail laws.

In one case, 16-year-old Kalief Browder was held for three years in Rikers Island awaiting trial for allegedly stealing a backpack because his family couldn’t afford the $3,000 bail.

The charges were baseless and eventually dropped. But the incarceration – in-

cluding two years in solitary confinement – left the youth emotionally scarred; two years after his release, he died by suicide.

The other case involved millionaire movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who was arrested on charges of rape and sexual abuse.

Weinstein was freed after posting $1 million bail, and even when the bail was doubled because he mishandled his ankle monitor, Weinstein had the resources to remain free until his conviction.

Those two cases, and the cases of Griffin and Mangano, are yet another reminder of the disparity in the American legal system’s treatment of wealthy and disproportionately minority poor people.

Now, two years after enacting landmark legislation that ended the assessment of cash bail in most cases involving misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies, state lawmakers this past week, at the behest of Gov. Kathy Hochul, approved changes that criminal justice advocates fear might undermine reform but are not enough for those who want bail reform repealed.

Critics blame bail reform for an increase in violent crime.

But no evidence exists to support the claim that New York’s bail reform is responsible for increases in violent crime, which have occurred nationwide, including in jurisdictions without bail reform, during the pandemic.

A recent analysis by the Albany

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Reviewing state data on pretrial releases between July 2020 and June 2021, the newspaper found that just 2 percent of 100,000 cases in which someone was released pretrial led to an arrest for a violent felony.

In New York, that is defined as murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, felony gun possession, burglary, kidnapping and most sexual assaults.

There clearly is a large difference between burglary and murder. So it would have been nice to have a breakdown of that 2 percent of cases that resulted in violent felony charges for someone released before trial.

We also should consider what 2 percent means. It means 98 percent of those released did not then commit a violent felony once released.

Bail reforms had released 200,000 people. That would mean 4,000 people committed crimes after release and 196,000 did not.

How many among them were like Malcolm Griffin, who lost two years of his life to prison for something he apparently did not do?

And how many among them were like Mangano and got to spend his time in the lap of luxury after he was convicted of violating the public trust?

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Hochul stumbles on crime and corruption

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n his masterpiece, “The Wasteland,” Nobel Laureate T.S. Eliot forewarned “April is the cruelest month.” And so it has been for Gov. Hochul.

First, there was the governor’s rather lame reaction to the April 12 shooting horror on the N train in which a man wounded 29 with a 9mm semi-automatic gun.

At a press conference with the city’s top cops and FBI agents, she said, “This morning New Yorkers left their homes en route to a normal day.

That sense of tranquility and normalness was disrupted, brutally disrupted, by an individual so cold-hearted and depraved of heart, that they had no caring about the individuals that they assaulted as they simply went about their daily lives.”

Not a caring person? Good Lord!

You think the governor at such a moment would call the mass shooter for what he is—a vicious evil monster.

If nothing else, it proves Hochul has a political tin ear.

Events surrounding the resignation of her lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin, on the same day as the shooting incident provides additional

evidence to prove my point.

Benjamin was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly taking part in a bribery scheme. He is accused of “falsifying campaign donations forms, misleading city authorities and giving false information as part of a background check to become lieutenant governor” in 2021.

Benjamin agreed to accept the lieutenant governor appointment even though he had received a federal subpoena.

Concealing that fact from the governor and the state troopers was just plain old dumb.

But for the governor not to catch wind that an investigation was afoot and to say as recently as April 7 that she had the “utmost confidence in my lieutenant governor” indicates to me just how isolated she is in the governor’s mansion.

Anyone who has spent time in Albany knows that the primary activity in the halls of the capital is gossiping.

So, I find it hard to believe that there weren’t any murmurings about Benjamin’s troubles. Particularly when there were already published reports in The City that Benjamin’s

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right failed campaign for New York City comptroller had “benefitted from suspicious donations as well as ethical concerns about his use of campaign funds for a wedding celebration and car expenses.”

Hochul’s statement announcing Benjamin’s resignation was also lame.

Instead of denouncing Benjamin as a scoundrel for deceiving her, she meekly said: “While the legal process plays out, it’s clear to both of us that

he cannot continue to serve a lieutenant governor…. New Yorkers deserve absolute confidence in their government, and I will continue working every day to deliver for them.”

That statement doesn’t increase my confidence in the Hochul administration.

Hochul’s opponent in the Democratic primary, Congressman Tom Suozzi, succinctly described the governor’s precarious situation: “Kathy Hochul’s poor judgment and lack of executive experience are on full display with her handpicked running mate. Why did she pick someone who not only had [an] impending ethics complaint but also a vocal supporter of defunding the police?”

To add to Hochul’s woes, the lieutenant governor she runs with in the general election might be a political foe.

Because it’s too late to replace Benjamin on the primary ballot, the winner may be the radical leftist Ana Maria Archila, who is aligned with Hochul’s primary opponent Jumaane Williams.

The last time a Democratic candidate got stuck with a lieutenant gover-

nor not of their choosing was in 1982 when Mario Cuomo was saddled with Ed Koch’s running mate, Westchester County Executive Alfred DelBello.

But Mario Cuomo never forgot a slight, and for DelBello to have supported his opponent was unforgivable.

To make life miserable for DelBello, Cuomo slashed his staff in half and kept him on a short leash.

When DelBello publicly complained that Cuomo ignored his advice, the governor told The New York Times, “He obviously chose Koch over me. He had to adjust to his own delusional expectations.”

DelBello resigned his post out of disgust in December 1984.

I doubt Hochul, if elected to a full-term in November, would have the tenacity to pull a “Cuomo” on an unwanted lieutenant governor who may work against her and oppose her policies.

Finally, there was another April cruelty that will soon haunt Gov/ Hochul and every taxpayer: the disastrous, reckless $220 billion state budget she signed into law.

But more on that mess in my next column.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

An appreciation of ‘Thelma & Louise’ at 31

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his week I finally watched the movie “Thelma & Louise” all the way through.

Almost everyone “knows” the ending, even me: the iconic shot of two women joyously driving their convertible off the edge of the Grand Canyon. I think of that image every time I’m on the top level of Great Neck’s parking garage with no clear signage for how to get back down. Is that what they want me to do? (And don’t tell me “it’s a double helix, of course,” or you will get the same uncomprehending glare I give my husband when he says that.)

But why did Thelma and Louise feel compelled to commit suicide — let alone so brazenly? (And please don’t say “they were driven to it,” like that same not-funny husband!)

Was that really the characters’ only option? Was it justified by the plot?

Or was it just one director’s idea of a fabulous publicity-generating stunt?

I didn’t know, because somehow — in all the years since the film’s release in 1991 — I had never managed to watch the film from beginning to end.

Before I go on please be advised that if, like me until this week, you haven’t seen the movie yet, maybe put this column aside and go do that,

as I’ll be indulging freely in spoilers. I think that after 31 years enough time has elapsed.

The film’s tragic conclusion is set in motion early in the film when a man who has danced for much of the night with Geena Davis’ Thelma at a honky-tonk, assaults her once they are out in the parking lot. He gets most of the way toward raping her before Susan Sarandon’s Louise sees this and comes to Thelma’s rescue.

She does so with the aid of Thelma’s gun, which she happens to have in her purse. But the man is furious, and unpardonably rude, and when he screams an obscene suggestion at Louise for what she should do for him, she shoots him. She turns out to be an excellent shot: the man is dead.

The women panic, and soon their plan for a weekend getaway has become a headlong flight from the long arm of the law. “Why can’t we just tell the police it was self-defense?”

Thelma asks her friend.

“Because he had stopped,” replies Louise, “and we were walking away, and then I shot him. Besides nobody will believe us.”

If I had watched that film back in 1991, I think I would have been skeptical of Louise’s answer. I would probably have felt that the women

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A Look on the Lighter Side (whom I would have called “girls” back then) had plenty of options and just didn’t exercise them. But in the years since 1991 I’m afraid we have

all seen reason to lose a lot of faith in the criminal justice system in general.

Indeed, I have heard of case after case where a woman is being beaten, or choked, or almost drowned by an abusive man and then acts to defend herself — and she’s the one who ends up in jail.

Most notoriously, there is the case of Marissa Alexander, who in 2010 said she merely fired a warning shot — at the ceiling! — when her abusive husband threatened to kill her. She had a restraining order against the husband (which he was violating), as well as a license for carrying a concealed weapon, she told “The Cut” in 2017, and no one was injured by what she did. To recap, all she did was fire a warning shot into the ceiling. Even so, she was convicted and slapped with a 20-year sen-

tence for “aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.”

This in spite of the fact that her state, Florida, had a “Stand Your Ground” law at the time, which supposedly allowed civilians the use of deadly force in self-defense.

Alexander eventually won a plea deal and finally freedom, thanks to media outcry and national publicity.

But this case, and too many like it, made me realize that Thelma and Louise (along with their creator, Oscar-winning scriptwriter Callie Khouri) were probably more correct about the hopelessness of their predicament than I would ever have believed back in 1991.

I am sadder about the world now, and more cynical, than I was 31 years ago. A small silver lining is that now I can see the brilliance of this iconic movie.

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THE BACK ROAD

Closing the loophole on ghost guns, saving kids

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any Americans became consciously aware of ghost guns for the first time in 2013.

That’s when 23-year-old John Zawahri went on a killing spree on the campus of Santa Monica College in California.

Having failed a gun dealer’s background check, he assembled an ArmaLite rifle (AR-15) and proceeded to use it to murder six innocent people. Zawahri was killed after an exchange of gunfire with police.

What are ghost guns? They are privately manufactured, unregulated firearms that cannot be traced because there is no commercially applied serial number.

Ghost guns are invisible to law enforcement personnel charged with tracking legally sold, licensed firearms. No background check is required. Anyone can purchase the components, build one and, in so doing, sidestep firearms laws.

It is legal to privately produce firearms without a license. However, it is illegal to sell or give them away with no license to do so.

Gun historian Ashley Hlebinsky, who spoke before the Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on The Constitution dur-

ing a 2021 hearing entitled: “Stop Gun Violence: Ghost Guns,” testified that “these privately made firearms have been around for centuries, basically since the first system was developed over 500 years ago.”

“It was private gun makers,” Hlebinsky continued, “that played an essential role in the American Revolution using locks and barrels the same way parts kits are sold today.”

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, an opponent of common sense gun reform, remarked at the hearing that “when you see countries enact registries of firearms, the next step is confiscation,” disarming law-abiding gun owners powerless to protect themselves and their families.

Cruz has repeatedly used this talking point as a fear tactic. In fact, a Public Policy Polling survey found that 83 percent of gun owners support expanded background checks on sales of all firearms, including 72 percent of all NRA members.

Unlike Cruz, there are many lawabiding gun owners who are not influenced by NRA money and understand that gun safety does not threaten their Second Amendment rights.

However, manufacturers are more than pleased to sell kits of gun compo-

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nents with undrilled receivers, called “80 percent receivers.” Online retailers sell a kit that enables a purchaser to assemble an AR15 rifle for $554.99.

“Brady — United Against Gun Violence” is one of America’s oldest gun violence prevention groups. The website emphasizes that once a ghost gun is assembled it “looks, feels, and functions like a traditional gun, whether a handgun or assault weapon, and is just as deadly and dangerous in the wrong hands.” Online tutorials are plentiful for

novices.

Gun tracing is used widely by law enforcement to track firearms to the first retail purchaser. Andrew Kudlinski of the Arizona State Law Journal reports “today, more than 40 percent of crime guns recovered by ATF agents in California are ghost guns.”

Kudlinski stressed that many “have been used by mass shooters who were incapable of traditionally purchasing firearms.”

For example, on Nov. 14, 2019, 16-year-old Nathaniel Berhoe shot five classmates, killing two, before killing himself. The .45-caliber handgun he used was assembled from a kit.

On Aug. 15, 2019, Aaron Nathaniel Luther, who was barred from possessing or purchasing firearms under California law because of his criminal history, used a homemade AR15 to shoot three California Highway Patrol officers, killing one.

On April 11 the White House said “last year alone there were approximately 20,000 suspected ghost guns reported to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as having been recovered by law enforcement in criminal investigations – a tenfold increase from

2016.”

On April 8 President Joe Biden announced a new firearm regulation that aims to contain the use of privately made weapons, requiring federal firearms dealers to add serial numbers to ghost guns, including component parts, that they plan to sell. Dealers would also be required to run background checks before a sale, which is no different than what they do with commercially made firearms.

The new rules would not prevent law-abiding citizens from acquiring gun kits. The aim is to decrease illegal gun ownership and deter mass shootings and violent crimes. Although regulating ghost guns is an important step forward, there is still much more to do.

The to-do list includes raising the minimum age to buy guns, adding a waiting period before gun sales, having a no-loopholes policy for a mandatory background check of the gun buyer and banning high-capacity ammunition magazines and bump stocks.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, we’re only halfway through April 2022 and 450 children ages 0-17 have died by gun violence. Another 1,083 have been injured.

VIEW POINT

The climate for Earth Day? Boiling here and now

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ust ahead of Earth Day 2022, climate scientists have renewed the alarm that not enough is being done to mitigate, let alone reverse, the catastrophic impacts of climate change, no longer far away or in the distant future, but here and now.

Across this nation and the globe, homo sapiens who have declared themselves the ultimate controllers of the Earth’s ecosystem, have shown the same contempt for Mother Nature as every other woman.

So even as millions are suffering impacts of climate catastrophes and are clamoring for change, the electeds who control purse strings and policy have failed to show “political will” to make the necessary structural and societal changes.

Their selfishness and shortsightedness is like watching how the tragic flaw causes self-destruction as a Greek tragedy unfolds. (Looking at you Senator Joe Manchin and Mitch McConnell.)

You are upset about inflated prices in food, and gasoline now? Wait until drought and flooding destroy fields, wildfires destroy supply chains, and wars are fought not for oil but drinking water.

You think that refugees fleeing for their lives are a problem now? Wait until 500 million have to flee from homes washed away or burned to the ground.

Climate-denying Republicans love to use the argument that climate action will stunt the economy, but the opposite is manifestly true: floods, drought, wildfires and hurricanes made worse by climate change are costing $120 billion a year now and by 2100 could balloon to $2 trillion each year — a 7.1% loss in

annual revenue, according to the Office of Management and Budget’s first formal accounting in the Federal Budget for risks of climate change.

But how do you put a price on lost lives, livelihoods, and everything a family has held dear?

The President’s budget for fiscal year 2023 invests $44.9 billion to tackle the climate crisis, an increase of nearly 60 percent over FY 2021, but a bargain compared to the $120 billion on disaster aid.

This includes $15 billion to increase clean energy innovation and deployment and further U.S. competitiveness through innovative technologies that accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy.

Of this, $7 billion will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the power sector and $3 billion in the transportation sector; $5 billion in mandatory funding for the Department of Transportation to support the transition to a clean transportation sector; $18 billion to strengthen climate resilience and adaptation efforts across the Federal Government and protect communities from climate change impacts.

“Investments to confront the climate crisis will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, drive down clean energy prices, make our Nation more resilient, present new opportunities for American innovation and well-paying jobs, provide benefits to historically underserved communities, and work to protect against the long-term fiscal risks identified in the new Budget analyses released today,” the OMB stated.

Climate change is also impacting our state –just look at the $100 million

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that Hurricane Ida, alone, cost New Yorkers; Superstorm Sandy cost $70 billion in damages and dozens of lives.

Thankfully, Gov. Kathy Hochul has picked up the reins from Andrew Cuomo, moving forward with the state’s climate agenda, possibly the most aggressive climate and clean energy initiative in the nation.

Enshrined into law through the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, it puts New York on a path to achieve a mandated goal of 70 percent renewable energy generation by 2030 and a zero-emission electricity sector by 2040 to reach economy-wide carbon neutrality.

New York has made unprecedented investments to ramp up clean energy, including $33 billion in 102 large-scale renewable and transmission projects across the state, $6.8 billion to reduce buildings emissions, $1.8 billion to scale up solar, more than $1 billion for clean

transportation initiatives, and over $1.6 billion in NY Green Bank commitments.

Combined, these investments supported 158,000 jobs in New York’s clean energy sector in 2020.

The state’s 2022 budget just adopted advanced the plan with historic investments in clean energy infrastructure, climate resiliency and preservation: an additional $1.2 billion for the landmark Clean Water, Clean Air, and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act, bringing the total investment to $4.2 billion; a record $400 million Environmental Protection Fund to support climate change mitigation projects, improve agricultural resources, protect water sources, advance conservation efforts; an additional $500 million in clean water infrastructure funding, bringing the state’s total clean water investment to $4.5 billion since 2017.

Significantly, for Long Island, the state is allocating $500 million to develop the State’s offshore wind supply chains and port infrastructure — supporting 2,000 jobs in a growing industry, while helping to make New York the nation’s offshore wind capital. The goal is to generate 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2035 and power 1.5 million homes.

Also, the budget includes a record $32.8 billion investment in a five-year transportation infrastructure plan — a 40 percent increase over the prior fiveyear plan.

The state is implementing a plan to achieve 2 million climate-friendly, electrified or electrification-ready homes by 2030, and legislating to ensure that all new building construction reaches zero emissions by 2027 – the source of one-

third of the state’s climate pollution.

Other notable achievements: the State finalized regulations requiring significant reductions in methane and other harmful emissions from any oil and natural gas infrastructure.

New York has become the top community solar market in the United States with more than one gigawatt of community solar installed and operational — enough to serve 209,000 homes across the state — and has the largest pipeline in the nation with enough community solar under construction to serve an additional 401,000 homes. This is a milestone toward the goal of generating 10 gigawatts of solar by 2030.

The 2022 Budget implements Governor Hochul’s Clean Green Schools initiative, funding significant infrastructure upgrades to 1,000 public schools and benefiting 1 million students, such as geothermal heating and cooling, solar, green roofs, and indoor air quality/ ventilation.

It also provides $500 million to facilitate school districts’ transition to zero-emission buses — all new school bus purchases must be zero-emissions by 2027 and all school buses on the road be zero-emissions by 2035.

Also in the works: $175 million in federal funding over the next five years to install electric vehicle charging stations.

Finally, Hochul is aiming to make New York a green hydrogen hub and signed a multi-state consortium agreement with Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey and 40 hydrogen ecosystem partners, for clean hydrogen infrastructure deployment and research and development.

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OUR TOWN

Personality can make your career choice

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oes your career choice fit your personality?

Much confusion exists in today’s youth when it comes to choosing a career path and then earning a living. Despite the current worry that Gen Z and the Millennials all want to opt out of the system, the fact remains that to live one must earn money and that means one must work.

As a full-time, practicing psychoanalyst and sport psychologist, I interact daily with kids heading for college or college kids headed for the job market. I listen to their confusion and hesitation and worry as they struggle with what is known as the quarter life crisis. And in today’s world of hyper competition, longer work hours and stagnated wages, the question of finding a suitable and enjoyable career is a crucial decision.

One way that I help with these questions is to refer to Carl Jung, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalyst. Jung is widely known for a variety of brilliant concepts that have become cultural touchstones, including collective unconscious, liminal space, archetypes, anima and animus, the shadow, midlife challenges and theories about marriage.

But when someone is struggling with career decisions, Jung’s theory about extroverts vs. introverts is very helpful. Whether we are discussing a sports career or a more regular profession, your personality type will act like

a tropism which will guide your choice to its correct and inevitable destination.

According to Jung, extroverts are oriented toward the external world, are outgoing, outer directed, friendly, open, candid, accommodating, confident, adventurous and the life of the party. You see extroverts in the fields of finance, law, sales, politics, and teaching. In the world of sports, which I am most familiar with, you see the extroverts attracted to sports like football, basketball, lacrosse, and soccer which require one to interact continuously with teammates both on and off the field.

Introverts are said to be naturally introspective, thoughtful, more quiet, hesitant, cautious, reflective, retiring, serious, defensive, and wary about social interactions. They are naturally drawn to careers like research, writing, art, engineering and medicine.

The sports that an introvert is drawn to include golf, swimming, long-distance running and biking. All these sports allow for a greater sense of isolation and aloneness.

There is a need for both personality types in this world. The extroverts are the ones that keep businesses going and I have met and admired the instantly likable businessperson who is naturally disarming, charming and fun to be with. These are the risk takers, the entrepreneurs and world beaters like Howard Schultz, the head of Star-

often see such rigidity in the corporate a society that grows it takes two to tango, the extrovert and the introvert. world.

Jung was the first to outline this But phase two must eventually occur or the system will die. This hap- dimension of personality and it tends pens when someone, usually a lonely to dictate the direction you will go in introvert, dreams up something that with your career. Therefore, do not they have worked on in isolation for fear for all will work out in the end. Or years and presents the idea to the as the great mythologist Joseph Campworld. If this is a truly good idea, if it’s bell always told his students at Sarah a better way to do things, then it shat- Lawrence College, just “follow your bliss” and all will be well. ters the old system.

But, of course, to follow your bliss Einstein is a good example of an introvert whose idea changed our hinges upon that other ancient maxim view of time. There are many exam- spoken by Socrates to “know thyself.”

DR. TOM FERRARO ples of this. Computers destroyed the And I suspect that is where the theraOur Town typewriter. Cell phones destroyed pay pist comes in, for there is no better phones. Netflix and Prime will destroy place on earth to discover who you are bucks, or former New York State Sen. movie theaters. Photography and Pi- and what you like to do than on the casso destroyed realism in art. To have analyst’s couch.

Mike Balboni.

But the culture needs the introverts just as much. These are the dreamers, the thinkers, the creators.

Men like Julian Schnabel in art, Merce Cunningham in dance or Gay Talese in journalism. It takes these two types to have a society that grows.

Thomas Kuhn was the American philosopher of science who wrote the book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” where he said that fundamental change occurs in two phases.

Firstly, there is the hard work of establishing a system of thought or a structure of business. I would say this is the work of the extroverts who establish this structure. When this is completed, the system is protected and safeguard- Introverts often are drawn to sports like golf, biking and long distance ed and resists change. This is why you running.

E A R T H M AT T E R S

PFAS – the forever chemicals all around us

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f you’ve ever studied environmental contaminants, you likely spent some time looking at persistent organic pollutants, or POPS. These are sometimes known as “forever chemicals ” – compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation through normal pathways and processes. They are highly toxic chemicals that move easily through the environment, contaminating air, water, ecosystems and food supplies while harming wildlife as well as humans.

Famous among these pollutants that travel the globe through our oceans and atmosphere are DDT, chlordane and PCBs. The damage and potential harm to life on our planet from these chemicals created an international outcry resulting in a global treaty (the Stockholm Convention) to protect human health and the environment from POPS. The treaty, created on the premise that no single government acting alone can protect its citizens or its environment from POPS, was introduced and adopted in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2001 and entered into force in 2004. As of December 2021, 152 countries had ratified the treaty, with the notable exception of the United States and just a few other countries.

As time goes on, more and more

chemicals are being added to the original list of 12 POPS covered by the treaty. A fairly recent addition to these “forever chemicals” are a group of chemicals called PFAS. PFAS (pronounced P-fass) stands for per-andpoly-fluoroalkyl substances, of which there are about 5,000 currently in use.

At a molecular level, PFAS form an incredibly strong chemical bond, which makes them difficult to break apart or degrade. PFAS are used in products to make them water, grease and stain resistant and in plastics production to make it easier for the materials going through extruders, molds and other manufacturing processes.

These chemicals are found in your dental floss and eye makeup, shampoo and shaving cream, in the lining of microwave popcorn bags and pizza boxes, in water-resistant clothing, carpets and upholstery.

The most publicized and wellknown use of PFAS is for Teflon, or non-stick cookware, but when we begin to look, it is everywhere!

It is in plastic food packaging, artificial turf’s green plastic grass blades, candy wrappers and fertilizers. PFAS in firefighting foam and firefighter’s gear have made headlines across the country, as members of this mostly volunteer community are suffering from

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a variety of illnesses linked to PFAS exposure.

The public is not generally aware of the magnitude of the problem, but as the founder and executive director of a national environmental health non-profit, I am concerned about chemicals that are ubiquitous in our environment and that find their way easily and inadvertently into our bodies. When researchers started to look for PFAS in humans, they found them in blood, tissue and even in breast milk. In fact, recent studies show that 99 percent of Americans have PFAS in

their blood.

So, what do we know so far about the health implications?

The primary concern when it comes to PFAS is that they accumulate in your body. As these toxic chemicals build up, they can cause a wide range of health problems, such as: • An increased risk of cancer – particularly testicular, prostate, and kidney cancers• Decreased fertility in both males and females and an increased risk of elevated blood pressure or preeclampsia in pregnant women• Developmental problems in babies and children – such as low birth weight, variations in bone development, and early puberty (a risk factor for breast cancer)• Depression of the immune system – resulting in increased susceptibility to infections and a reduced response to vaccines (several recent studies have shown a link between COVID-19 and PFAS, suggesting that PFAS exposure could increase the risk of being infected and reduce the effectiveness of vaccines)• Endocrine or hormone disruption• Changes in the production and secretion of liver enzymes• Increased cholesterol levels and an increased risk of obesity So, how can you protect yourself and your family from PFAS? The best thing is to minimize exposure.

First, it is very important to eliminate PFAS in your drinking water.

While some municipalities are taking steps to remove PFAS, there are filters you can use at home that significantly reduce these contaminants. Look for filtration systems that have lab tests backing up their claims and proving their systems actually remove toxic pollutants like PFAS. Second, look for PFAS-free brands of products that you use most frequently. As more and more consumers seek to avoid these chemicals, manufacturers will be looking for safer alternatives.

Discard all non-stick or Teflon cookware, unless the surfaces are ceramic. Choose stainless steel, cast iron, enamel-over-cast iron and glass for safe cooking. Avoid purchasing clothing and other outdoor items that are advertised as water and stain-resistant.

But, of course you, shouldn’t have to do all the work to avoid PFAS. This should be the government’s job. Ask your federal representatives why the United States has chosen not to join the Stockholm Convention on POPS, and why the burden is on the public to avoid exposures to chemicals with known toxicity and not on industry to prove their safety.

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Learn how to protect L.I. drinking source

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s you have probably noticed, there is a lot going on with drinking water on Long Island. It seems to make the paper each week. But, as we know, making it into the newspapers can be a good thing—or a bad thing. In my opinion, any awareness of our solesource drinking water here on Long Island is always good news. Once aware, we pay attention.

As one of your commissioners in the Port Washington Water District, I can tell you that the trifecta of emerging contaminants, climate change, and the imminent risk of saltwater intrusion have placed us in a new era of water resource management. An era in which knowledge leads us to having a personal stake in its protection.

It’s important and even scary to realize that it is all we’ve got! Our only water source is under our feet.

So, what’s been done so far and

what do we still need to get done?

To answer these questions, we have created a community-wide “Do it for Port” Drinking Water Educational Series, which you can register for at www.pwwd.org.

Our first session took place on Feb.16 and is posted for viewing at www.pwwd.org. It focuses on those “emerging contaminants” and outlined the complex process of pumping, treating, and delivering high– quality water in the wake of those contaminants. We took a deep dive into the multifaceted plan underway that includes: water conservation, land acquisition, piloting treatment, bonds, grants and legal actions to reduce financial burden, treatment design and permitting, project bidding and construction, and start-up testing.

Session two, scheduled for May 4, will explain why conservation is

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no longer just a nice thing to do. It is necessary. Not only will it allow us to perform the essential steps necessary to secure our water’s future. This is where all of us become the makers

of the dream of clean water on our Port Washington Peninsula for as far out as we can reach, which is why we have invited three local residents to share their successes. And it cannot be forgotten that these major improvements cost money. By conserving water, you save money and allow the district to keep wells off-line while undergoing treatment.

On May 11 and 12 we are offering a special two-day program for students and parents in an effort to get residents more involved with protecting our water and earn Do it for Port community service certificates.

Participants will have fun suggesting your own creative conservation projects, from rainwater collection to interesting advertising and public awareness campaigns, such as “Who needs half an hour to shower.” In addition, students will be invited to tour our facility and participate in a volun-

teer certificate program for community service.

We will complete the series on June 18 with a “Sustainable Garden Tour,” a “Show and Tell” of beautiful, low-water usage, earth-friendly landscapes around Port Washington. This will be done in collaboration with ReWild Long Island.

In a nutshell, the “Do it for Port” drinking water program is a road map to a bright water future, handing us the tools to get there. Let’s act now, while there is still time to do this right. Look at it this way: where in the world would we be if we didn’t have access to quality water—and plenty of it?

Mindy Germain is commissioner of the PW Water District; Lead Organizer of the Western Nassau County Aquifer Committee; and Steering Committee Member of the NYS DEC Long Island Drinking Water Sustainability Study

READERS WRITE

Security a higher priority than MTA expansion

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he horrible shooting on a NYC Transit subway train in Brooklyn revealed a fatal flaw in the MTA capital and maintenance programs. How long were the Brooklyn 36th Street 4th Avenue subway station security cameras not working? NYC Transit will never return to more than 5 million pre COVID-19 riders until customers feel safe, secure accompanied by reliable on-time service at a reasonable price. One solution is to assign a transit police of-

ficer to ride each train and patrol all stations.

Security cameras must also be installed and in working condition for all 6,400 trains, 5,500 buses and 473 stations. Adequate funding must be budgeted to make sure all of these physical assets are in place, inspected and maintained to insure they are operational 24/7. These are a higher priority than initiating new system expansion projects such as the $6.9 billion Second Avenue Subway Phase

2 and $2.6 billion Metro North Bronx East Penn Station.

Suspend any system expansion planning feasibility studies to fund Gov. Hochul’s proposed multi-billion-dollar Interborough Brooklyn to Queens new subway and others. All MTA Chairman Janno Lieber could promise is that the cost would be under $10 billion. NYC Transit bus, subway, MTA bus (the former NYCDOT seven private franchised operators transferred to the MTA in 2005 and

2006), Staten Island Railway, Long Island Rail Road and Metro North Rail Road must have reached a state of good repair for existing fleet, stations, elevators, escalators, signals, interlockings, track, power, tunnel lighting, pumps, yards and shops along with all safety and security assets.

This should also include insuring a majority of subway and commuter rail stations are in compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Maintenance programs for all operating agencies assets must be fully funded, staffed and completed on time to ensure riders safe uninterrupted reliable service.

Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner is a transportation advocate, historian and writer who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office.)

You’re never too young to fight climate change

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i, my name is Aaron Shamsian and I am a budding climate activist.

I wanted to educate other students in my middle school about climate change and its effect on the environment, so I approached my school principal back in the fall about doing an Earth Day event.

To get the Earth day event done I had to do a lot of things. First, I had to meet the principal and talk to him about the idea of celebrating Earth Day which is on Friday, April 22.

As there was a school break that week we decided to plan something

for April 12. The principal said to start by picking out videos explaining climate change that are under 5 minutes long made for middle school kids.

The video had to be describing the Earth and how you can help it and the impact humans have had on the Earth.

The next time I met him I brought a friend, Aden, who also had a liking towards the earth and helping it.

Both of us checked over the video and picked the one to present to the Principal which got approved to show to all the first-period classes. We decided that I was going to make an announcement to the entire school over

the loudspeaker beforehand explaining what we were doing today (April 12) and its importance.

We also worked on getting all the science teachers to do a lesson on the environment that day.

Lastly, we wanted to plant something that would last forever and help take carbon out of the air. Hicks Nursery gave us $125 that we used to buy three Azalea bushes.

So that gave us the idea to purchase garden stakes to put in front of each bush from the current 6th, 7th and 8th grades (class of 2026, 2027 and 2028). Each year a new bush will

be planted in honor of the new grade coming to the middle school.

The final thing that happened is that Garden World donated 750 seed packets to the school to give out to the kids at the end of the day to plant at home.

So everything was all set, approved and ready for April 12. Then next thing I knew it was April 12, so in the morning I did the announcements.

Most people said good job. Of course, some people said I did a bad job but people will always hate. Once the announcements ended with me, they showed the video and some peo-

ple you could tell it had an impact.

At the end of the day each teacher had seeds to give out to the kids so if anyone wanted they would take and anyone who didn’t want the extra seeds went to other kids and the school staff.

So the school day ended. It was a great day for me, I’ll probably never forget it since I knew that day I hopefully did something good for the environment and made a difference in the world.

Aaron Shamsian Grade 6, Roslyn

Send Donna Peirez back to G.N. school board

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am a resident of Great Neck for nearly 30 years. Like so many of us, I moved here primarily for the schools and the education my children would receive.

Having raised two kids here,

and as an educator myself, I can tell you without question that the Great Neck community is better because of Donna Peirez. Donna has been involved at all levels—as a parent, teacher, PTA leader, and now as a

school board member. Her wealth of experience serves our district well.

I would certainly agree that GNPS has its share of challenges to address, but Donna Peirez can, and

does, work with all constituents, all segments of our diverse community, to develop and implement solutions.

If you want to protect our children and our schools, I urge you to

re-elect Donna Peirez on Tuesday, May 17, for Great Neck Board of Education Trustee.

Jill Madenberg Great Neck

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READERS WRITE

Proposed Great Neck project unworthy of IDA aid

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ear Members of the Nassau County IDA Board: I had thought this proposal died back in September in response to our community’s opposition. Instead you have given it fresh oxygen.

The reappearance on your agenda of this unworthy request for tax relief causes me to think that either the IDA is uninformed or misled: either you lack relevant knowledge about our community, or you are deceived.

These are the only choices to explain why you continue to smile upon a plan that will do damage to our Long Island suburb.

For my part, let me provide you with information you lack or have overlooked, to refute the representations from our mayor to you on behalf of this developer, whose interests he champions over ours.

When Mayor Pedram Bral replaced our village’s carriage street lights with ones known as cobras, he faced a wealth of new medical research cited by residents that conveyed the potential harm to pregnant women and children from high intensity LED lights.

On his way to dismissing the emerging and troubling research, the mayor denigrated the AMA (American Medical Association) and Harvard University. He then gave the contract to a

company based in Canada.

So your assertion that this project has value for its local job creation should be prefixed by the word fleeting: they come from who-knowswhere and then are gone.

Look at this applicant, seeking a 22-year tax relief. Gesher is based in the state of Connecticut. Rabbi Shemtov, who is the putative owner of the site, lives on Arrandale Avenue in a Residence AA zone, from which no business can be conducted because that violates the village zoning code.

So the applicant is not local, and its mailing address is not legitimate.

Great Neck is a peninsula, a piece of information absent from your deliberations. A peninsula has immovable physical boundaries, unless you want to push residency onto houseboats in the waters around us. Anyone wise enough would anticipate the consequences of promoting overdevelopment on a delimited land mass.

For one thing, overdevelopment imperils our peninsula’s supply of fresh water. Instead of entertaining this decision in a vacuum, look to the people of California, who cannot find water for their crops, a mainstay of their state’s economy. Their water has been disappearing over time, even from the depths of their acquifers.* Yet the IDA would send our peninsula

down the same future path.

The United States Geological Survey in cooperation with Nassau County studied our Great Neck fresh drinking water supply from the wells beneath us. That study found two wells at the north of our peninsula are closed due to salt water intrusion.

Salt water intrusion is caused by overpumping, which in turn results from the proliferation of…water faucets.

Count the number of faucets in the Gesher plan of 4 stories with 63 apartment units. Estimate the volume of fresh drinking water to be used up in one year by this one apartment building. Then calculate well closures.

(Recently the mayor and the trustees approved a swimming pool for a 36-unit apartment building. When faced with a denunciation about the waste of fresh drinking water, the mayor’s rejoinder was memorable: He said, you only fill a swimming pool once.)

The day will come when the Great Neck peninsula will have to ask New York City, or beg New York City, to let us tap into their upstate reservoir for fresh drinking water, and the city will see our request as competition for a dwindling supply of potable water.

My final topic is money. My husband and I pay taxes to the state, county, town, village, and special dis-

tricts. We support our schools and our library.

My village, the Village of Great Neck, is by far the largest of the nine villages, and the properties off the tax rolls in my village have a ripple effect.

Seventeen percent (17%) of village land is not taxed. The land owned by government and institutions provides a public service to all of us, to which is added tax relief to religious institutions. To all that add the queue of properties applying to be newly free of taxation in my village.

It is not a matter of whether someone is a senior citizen or a breadwinner for a young family. None of us can afford to pay for the mayor’s generosity to developers, and none of us can afford for the IDA to grant this carpetbagger, Gesher, tax relief and then transfer its tax burden to us, the homeowners. Gesher follows the developers of Avalon Bay, 191 units relieved of taxation.

There is an unpleasant side effect of irresponsibility by the mayor and trustees followed by an irresponsible decision by the IDA: These actions cause homeowners’ tax payments to increase, and then residents incorrectly place the blame on the institutions.

Each tax bill we homeowners receive holds secrets. Were the IDA to grant Gesher a 22-year tax relief,

that secret in my tax bills will be how much more I pay to cover what Gesher does not pay. A tax holiday for Gesher would be a secret simultaneously on every institution’s tax bill.

No matter how well-reasoned the budgets are for the institutions that serve us year after year (public schools, library, parks, water, sewage, fire protection, ambulance, police), when the tax bills arrive we are expected to pay sums transferred to us unseen.

The application for tax relief for 733-741 Middle Neck Road is a putup job. The owner held the property on our main road for years and let it fall into decline and decay. Then the mayor proclaimed it an eyesore. An application to build 20 units ballooned to 63 in a building that will leave no permeable ground around it.

Gesher asked to put the apartment building’s drywells in the adjacent residential rear yard, and the result is more sticky business.

This project is not IDA-worthy, and, as is the nature of bad decisions, it would inevitably throw into question other decisions the IDA renders.

Bad things have a tendency to live on.** Rebecca Rosenblatt Gilliar Great Neck

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o this political party walks into a country. In the past two weeks, they grilled a qualified Supreme Court justice candidate and accused her of being soft on child predators.

A Virginia GOP official was forced to resign after calling for the lynching of the Secretary of Defense.

(Clue:. The secretary of defense isn’t Jewish) A pioneering Black judge was to get a courthouse named from him, but it was discovered he once issued a ruling against prayer in schools, so the House GOP sunk it. Asked why he voted against a bill that he cosponsored, Rep. Vern Buchanan said, “I don’t know.”

The Colorado GOP is standing foursquare behind their secretary of state, even though she’s indicted on a 10 count Federal charge for hatching a scheme to bypass election security protocols in a county office.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey claimed the 2020 election was stolen by “big tech, fake news and blue state liberals.”

A lawyer on her staff was ar-

rested the same week on child solicitation charges. Rep. Elise Stefanik, also made the same claim about the stolen election and outright refuses to acknowledge Joe Biden as the legitimately elected president of the United States. In private, she acknowledges Trump was a disaster for the party but sees “no upside” in criticizing him publicly.

Tennessee Rep. David Byrd admitted to molesting three children.

His Party refused to expel him, and expressed support.

Also in Tennessee, a bill seeks to eliminate age restrictions on marriage altogether. Another bill concurrently introduced seeks to ban gay marriage.

Forty eight Missouri Republicans voted against a bill to outlaw marriages to a child under the age of 14.

Rep. Marge Green accuses the Democrats of being the party of pedophiles and “princess predators from Disney.”

A former chief counsel on judiciary for Sen. Charles Grassley openly boasted of starting the demented conspiracy attacks on Justice Jack-

son.

Two gubernatorial candidates in Oregon defended the January 6th insurrection. One of them was there.

It was discovered a former Trump aide seeking a House seat in New Hampshire voted in two states in 2016.

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was struck off from North Carolina voting rolls after it turned out he wasn’t really living there. His wife provided two different addresses on voter registration forms, which is a felony.

For some reason, Meadows still hasn’t been charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with them.

Six GOP House members voted against a bill that would require the state department to report and preserve evidence of war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.

Sixty tree Republicans voted no on a non-binding resolution reaffirming “unequivocal support for NATO as an alliance founded on democratic principles.”

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Fruitcake) is

attending a National Socialist gathering on Hitler’s birthday.

It appears Jared Kushner got a $2 billion investment from the Saudi government while his father in law was in office, after he told them how to finesse the political fallout from bonesaw murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The wife of a sitting Supreme Court Justice was discovered to have played a leading role egging on Trump Administration officials to nullify a Presidential election. The justice himself was the lone dissenter in a decision to compel the former President to release documents from the January 6th committee, and refuses to recuse himself from future cases regarding the matter.

Former Trump attorney John Eastman, already embroiled with the wife of the Supreme Court justice, was in Wisconsin this week, still trying to get the state to reverse its electoral decision that gave Joe Biden the state. He wrote the blueprint for overturning the election itself.

In a suburban Forth Worth runoff election, candidates debate about

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killing women over abortion.

Idaho’s house passed, by a 55-13 vote, that anyone affirming care to trans teens would get a life sentence.

Even if done out of state.

A Missouri bill is seeking to prevent women from getting an abortion out of state.

Robert Regan, a Michigan GOP candidate says he tells his daughters to “lie back and enjoy it” if rape is inevitable.

Senator Mike Braun R-IN) said that the 1967 Supreme Court decision, Loving vs. Virginia, should be overturned.

Sen Blackburn (R-TN) came out against legalized contraception.

California GOP Secretary of State candidate Rachel Hamm said she decided to run for office after she said her son found Jesus inside a closet in their home, and Jesus handed him a scroll telling her to declare her candidacy. (This is on video.)So what do you call a political party like this?

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On Sunday, April 24 at 3:00 p.m., Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel will present a video conversation with intelligence and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance, moderated by NY1 news anchor, host of Inside City Hall, and CNN political analyst, Errol Louis. Malcolm Nance will be reporting from Ukraine.

Malcolm Nance is an American author and media commentator on terrorism, intelligence, insurgency, and torture. He was a counter-terrorism and intelligence consultant for the U.S. government’s Special Operations, Homeland Security and Intelligence agencies, and is currently a counter-terrorism

analyst for NBC News.

Over 34 years, Nance participated in field and combat intelligence activity including acquiring experience as an Arabic-speaking special intelligence collections operator, field interrogator as well as providing both covert and clandestine anti & counterterrorism support to national intelligence agencies and assets.

A former Navy intelligence operator, he has eye-witnessed numerous terrorist incidents and/or participated in response operations, and has trained and advised numerous international and government agency personnel in terrorist tactics and coun-

tering extremist ideology including the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Malcolm is the author of several books, including, “Defeating ISIS: Who They Are, How They Fight and What They Believe;” “The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election;: the New York Times bestseller, “The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West;” and “The Plot to Betray America.”

His newest book, “They Want To Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideol-

ogy of the Trump Insurgency,” will be released July 12, 2022.

This program is funded by Elaine & George Malin.

Registration for this event is $10.For further information, to register and purchase a ticket online, go to: https://www.scwculturalarts.org/sunday-series This event can be viewed through May 8th. To Purchase a ticket after April 24 at 2:00 p.m., call 516.482.5701.

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Dinosaur egg hunt and ‘Everyone is a Kid Week’ The Center for Science Teaching & Learning is offering kids prices of $12 to all patrons for its expanded Dinosaurs! and Animal Adventure exhibit the week of April 16-24 (closed Wednesdays). Additionally, with paid admission, children can participate in a special dinosaur egg hunt on the nature trails.

The egg hunt will provide children with an exciting way to visit the trails and find special eggs along the way. Dinosaurs! And Animal Adventure is the only engaging attraction of its kind on Long Island combining animatronic dinosaurs, skeletal dinosaurs, and live animals together in the same exhibition.

Over the past two years the exhibit has become a highly popular family-friendly attraction.

“During their school break, as parents look for activities to do with their kids, we wanted to host an egg hunt with a dinosaur twist,” said Dr. Ray Ann Havasy, executive director of CSTL. The Dinosaurs! And Animal Adventure exhibit focuses on how animals adapt and survive. This is demonstrated through a unique intermixing of dinosaur models and live animals together. It is housed at CSTL’s 35,000 square foot WAC Lighting Hall of Science at its Tanglewood Preserve headquarters located at 1450 Tanglewood Road in Rockville Centre.

School children and families from the New York region and beyond are expected to visit this exhibit annually to experience more than 80 unique displays.

As a science education-focused not-forprofit organization, CSTL is dedicated to providing people of all ages with a place to engage in both formal and informal learning. CSTL also creates signature corporate programs and delivers educational workshops.

Dinosaurs! and Animal Adventure is open every day except Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are normally $15 for anyone 13 and older, $12 for children 1-12 yrs. old. Tickets can only be purchased on site.

For special group rates and programs for special events, birthday parties, camps trips and school field trips call (516) 764–0045 or email helpdesk@cstl.org. For more information about CSTL, special events and Dinosaurs! and Animal Adventure visit www.cstl.org.

Moonstruck: Lunar art at Heckscher Museum Drawn from The Heckscher Museum of Art’s collection, Moonstruck features a broad range of artwork inspired by the moon and moonlight. From the nineteenth century to the present, artists have gravitated to the moon for reasons scientific, mythic, and symbolic. These celestial artworks explore the enduring fascination with the moon in all its phases. On view through Sept. 18.

Constant and ever-changing, the moon reflects the sun’s light as it orbits earth. People use the cyclical waxing and waning of the moon to mark the passage of time and witness its gravitational force in the tides. At once tantalizingly within reach and achingly distant, the moon has inspired scientific study, space travel, and countless beliefs, traditions, and stories.

Coinciding with the Moonstruck exhibition: Potions 101: Lunar Elixirs on May 12, 7 to 9 pm — Participants will delve into the world or lunar elixirs and moon wisdom, then create their own moon potions. Registration required.

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How people over 50 can stay mindful

BY K E I T H W. F I V ES ON Mindfulness is often seen as a practice that is beneficial for young people, but it turns out that it is just as important for people over the age of 50. In fact, mindfulness can help older adults stay healthy and independent for longer.

There are many ways to practice mindfulness every day, and the benefits are far-reaching.

Mindfulness can improve mental health, physical health, and spiritual wellbeing. Older adults can also benefit from nutritional steps that support mindfulness practices, and help individuals to sit with themselves, digest, and rest more effectively.

Resources abound for those who want to learn more about mindfulness and how to incorporate it into their lives!

Some of the benefits that mindfulness can provide for older adults include:— improved mental health, including reduced stress and anxiety, increased focus and concentration, and enhanced moods— better physical health, including stronger immune systems, less pain, and slower aging processes — greater spiritual wellbeing, including a sense of connectedness to others and a sense of peace. So, how can older adults start practicing mindfulness? Below are some steps that can be taken:— Make time for yourself each day: Dedicate at least 30 minutes to an hour for yourself each day.

This is time that you can use to relax, meditate, journal, or do whatever else brings you joy.— Find a comfortable place to sit or lie down: Once you have set aside some time for yourself, find a comfortable place to sit or lie down. If you can, try to do this in a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted.— Focus on your breath: Once you’re comfortable, focus on your breath. Notice the way that it flows in and out of your body. If your mind starts to wander, gently bring your attention back to your breath.— Practice regularly: The more you practice mindfulness, the better you will become at it. Try to do it every day, even if it’s for just a few minutes.

In addition to these mindfulness practices, older adults can also support their health by taking some nutritional steps. For example, they can:— eat plenty of fruits and vegetables— drink lots of water— get enough sleep— exercise regularly.

By incorporating mindfulness into their lives, older adults can enjoy many benefits that lead to improved mental and physical health, as well as spiritual wellbeing. There are many resources available to help them get started, so there’s no excuse not to give it a try!

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10 ways to take care of your loved ones BY MORRIS SABBAGH, ESQ. Whatever your age, income, or family circumstances, having a good estate plan ensures that your future financial independence and health care are protected; that you’re prepared for an event of physical or mental incapacity or death; and that your inheritance is protected against estate taxes and creditors, and is distributed according to your wishes.

But an estate plan that only includes you may not be enough to secure your legacy. To optimally preserve and transfer your wealth and assets to your children and grandchildren, the family should create a multigenerational estate plan together.

Planning vehicles range from simple to complex, but here are 10 ways to make sure all your loved ones are taken care of:

estate, even if they’re separated.

A prenuptial agreement might affect those rights, as well as a postnuptial (which can be created at any time during a marriage). Other considerations include legal obligations to a former spouse.

If assets might be distributed to an underage child or grandchild, include a trust Create a trust and name an appropriate trustee to ensure funds are preserved and used properly for the benefit of children until they’re responsible enough to make decisions themselves. It also protects them from unwanted influence or misappropriation by others, such as an overbearing former spouse or an in-law.

Take an inventory of all your assets Some assets are not be distributed according to your Last Will and Testament. IRAs, 401(k)s, 403(b)s and other qualified retirement plans, as well as life insurance and annuities, will pass according to the most recent beneficiary designation that you signed, even if your Will is dated later. Make sure that you review these assets when executing your Will, Anticipate and plan for speso that the overall distribution cial circumstances of your assets is consistent with You can’t prepare for everyyour plan. thing, obviously, but you can and should prepare for scenarios Consider assets that pass like a beneficiary receiving govautomatically at death re- ernment benefits, or accruing gardless of your Will excessive debt, or developing a Similarly, if you have a joint gambling or drug problem, or bank account, real estate, or se- simply being irresponsible with curities held jointly with some- money, or alternatively needing one else, and they have right of emergency funds from an othersurvivorship, those assets will wise locked trust. pass to the surviving co-owner.

Likewise, some qualified retireGive special attention to ment plans must be left to your closely held business interests spouse, unless they consent to and co-ownership of real esyour designation of other ben- tate eficiaries.

Consider whether you have any agreements with your partReview old trust agree- ners that will affect your famments, deeds, and beneficiary ily’s rights to those assets and designations whether those agreements need Make sure that your plan to be modified. If there are no takes all documents into ac- such agreements, consider putcount. Your life insurance policy, ting them in place to protect for example, might still have your family’s rights and to quanyour ex-wife listed as benefi- tify what they will be entitled to ciary. receive. If you are a sole proprietor, create a business succesConsider spousal inheri- sion plan. tance laws Under New York State law, If you’re in a risky line or spouses cannot be disinherited. work, protect yourself and A surviving spouse must be left a your family portion of the deceased spouse’s Likewise, if your profession

makes you susceptible to lawsuits. You want your loved ones to receive your asset, not creditors.

Consider creating a revocable trust to avoid probate Certain circumstances may call for a revocable trust (meaning it can be altered or canceled by you) to help avoid probate.

For instance, if you’re disinheriting someone closely related who may challenge your Will, or if your nearest relative are distant cousins or out of touch, or if you have assets located in several states. With the current delays in the probate courts, more and more people are choosing to create revocable trusts even where there are no special circumstances involved.

If you have a larger estate, make sure to put a tax plan in place While the federal estate tax exemption is $12,060,000, the New York State exemption is $6,110,000. Furthermore, if an estate is over the exemption, the NYS estate tax will apply to the whole estate, not just the portion over the exemption (this is known as the “estate tax cliff ”).

If you’re a New York resident with a larger estate, make sure to include careful tax planning as part of your estate plan (possibly using the “generation skipping transfer tax exemption”) to ensure that your assets pass to your children, grandchildren and later generations with minimal or no taxes.

Morris Sabbagh is a partner in Vishnick McGovern Milizio LLP’s Wills, Trusts, and Estates and Elder Law practices. He focuses on assisting families with the preservation of wealth and administration of estates and trusts, as well as high-net-worth individuals with preventing the dissipation of assets to taxes, creditors, and long-term care expenses. He can be reached at msabbagh@vmmlegal.com and 516.437.4385 x120.

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How to manage end of life decision-making Trinity Church in Roslyn is hosting an information lecture “How to Manage End of Life Decision-Making,” with renowned elder care attorney and “right to die” expert David A. Smith, who has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Fox and more. He will address issues around understanding and controlling options in advance of health care crises and emergencies. The lecture will be held on Wed., April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Church.

The informative session, followed by Q&A, will cover a range of topics, including “right to die,” to help prepare for possible health care emergencies and crises. It will also discuss some of the forms and tools available in New York State for end-of-life healthcare decision-making.

Speaker David A. Smith has more than 40 years experience in civil litigation, including many “right to die” cases such as the Baby Jane Doe case and the 2012 Grace Lee case. Discussing “right to die issues,” he has appeared on numerous television programs, including the Today Show, NBC Dateline, CNN and Fox News.“Various forms of life-saving and life-sustaining technologies have grown exponentially and to try to make sure we control the technologies, rather than be controlled by them, it is important that we all think about them, understand them, and make decisions concerning these issues while we still can,” said David A. Smith. “By preparing, properly executing and fully distributing documents by which we carefully articulate our own healthcare wishes in advance of any healthcare crisis, we can better control these decisions.”Prior to founding the Law Office of David A. Smith in Garden City

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in 1996, he opened the New York State Attorney General’s first Nassau office.

In the early 1990s, Smith served as legal director for the New York-based Society for the Right to Die (later known as Choice in Dying).

As part of the presentation, attendees will be provided with forms such as healthcare proxy statements and living wills. The presentation will be held live and also via zoom. To request the zoom link, please email: office@trinityroslyn.org. Trinity Episcopal Church is located at 1579 Northern Blvd, Roslyn, just east of the Roslyn Viaduct (516621-7925).

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Annual Clark Botanic Garden Spring Festival The Town of North Hempstead has announced the return of the Annual Clark Botanic Garden Spring Festival on Saturday, April 30 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Clark Botanic Garden in Albertson.

The festival will celebrate spring and the beauty of nature at the bountiful Clark Botanic Garden. The daylong event will feature: • Nature hikes around the garden• Magic show• Raptor show•

Wooden leaf decorating, button making, seed planting, and excavation crafts• Slime Bar• Animal presentation• Paleontology presentation• Photo opportunities with Pachycephalosaurus and Protoceratops• Pond education• Character meet and greet around the grounds Additionally, a special Earth Day exhibit “We Speak for the Trees” will be on display next to the Clark House featuring the artwork and designs of

local North Hempstead students.

“The Town is proud to announce the return of this annual spring festival, which provides free family fun to all of our residents,” North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena said. “Clark Botanic Garden has consistently been recognized as an amazing resource for our residents, and I encourage everyone to come out and enjoy this fun event for the entire family to celebrate the end of

winter and the warmer days ahead.”

“After a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic we are excited to welcome the warmer weather and host this fun spring festival,” said Council Member Peter Zuckerman.

“Bring the whole family for this event filled with activities, performances and of course beautiful flowers blooming throughout the garden.”

All attendees can enjoy the 12 beautifully manicured acres of Clark

Botanic Garden which includes labeled gardens, trees, ponds and streams and provides an oasis of peace and aesthetic enjoyment for all. Clark Botanic Garden is located at 193 I.U. Willets Road in Albertson.

For more information about the Clark Botanic Garden Spring Festival and for a full schedule of events, please call 311 from within the Town, or (516) 869-6311 from outside the Town.

Town declares Varsity Flag launches Donate Life Month youth flag football league North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena, members of the Town Board, and Town Clerk Ragini Srivastava joined with medical professionals from Northwell Health, representatives from LiveOnNY, and heart and kidney transplant recipients to declare April as Donate Life Month in the Town of North Hempstead. Donate Life Month is a month dedicated to raising awareness and encouraging organ donation.

“There are currently over 9,000 children and adults on the lifesaving transplant list in New York alone, and nationwide, there are over 100,000 people waiting on a transplant. Each day, over 20 people die while waiting for on the transplant list – a truly sobering statistic,” Supervisor DeSena said.

“I encourage residents to pay it forward and consider organ donation, an act that many religions celebrate as one fi-

nal act of kindness. In signing up as an organ donor, one person can save up to 8 lives through organ donation and enhance the lives of up to 75 more people through tissue donation.”

At the event, multiple organ transplant recipients told their personal stories detailing how transplantation has saved their lives. Additionally, Dr. David Hirschwerk, Medical Director at North Shore University Hospital, spoke regarding the kidney transplantation center at that hospital, which was recently rate #1 in the country for oneyear survival of transplant recipients by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Finally, a Donate Life flag was raised outside of Town Hall, and will stay there throughout the duration of the month. For those looking for more information about becoming an organ donor, visitwww.LiveOnNY.org

Varsity Flag is excited to announce that registration is now open for the area’s newest premier youth flag football league.

The league welcomes athletes of all skill and experience levels, ages 3-5 for junior varsity and 6-14, with both boys’ and girls’ divisions open for enrollment. Varsity Flag’s game plan is to leave it all on the field and raise the bar in youth sports by providing a premier, community-centric youth sports league that emphasizes elite character building.

Varsity Flag founded its youth flag football league as a way to help future leaders grow through team sports.

Aside from having fun out on the field, young athletes will learn indispensable skills they can apply later in life. Alongside a commitment to the fundamentals, Varsity Flag’s mission focuses on teamwork, friendship and character building—all within a safe and inclusive environment.

Varsity Flag is a no-contact league, reducing the potential for injury and increasing the potential for fun! The league is player-centric, allowing kids to team up with friends or meet new people through an assigned team.

“We’re really excited about the league we’re building: one that’s dedicated to providing better service, better facilities, top tier parent communication and proactive scheduling,” said League Commissioner and co-founder, Dave Kramer. “Coaches

will give players every opportunity to get off the bench and onto the field, and Varsity Flag prioritizes personal growth for every child by developing their skills in the sport. This new flag football league will help kids feel empowered, supported and included.”Through partnerships with some of Long Island’s top camps—including Coleman Country Day Camp and Crestwood Country Day Camp— players will gain private access to pristine football fields where they’ll play each week. In addition, the league will provide team photos and an on-site videographer, to help capture the action. Varsity Flag promises white-glove communication with players and their families. The league keeps everyone up to date with notifications via text, email, website and the league’s mobile app. It’s the only youth flag football league on Long Island that posts its full schedule before the season begins!

A 2022 study found that flag football was the fastest-growing youth sport in America. Varsity Flag’s new youth flag football league is premiering at a time when demand is higher than ever as parents and players seek an alternative to traditional impact football.

Registration is currently open for the Fall 2022 season, which kicks off in September. Parents can visit the league’s website to register their kids and discover more information.

Seeking child abuse prevention North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena, Council Member Veronica Lurvey, and Council Member Mariann Dalimonte along with Council Members Peter Zuckerman, Dennis

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Walsh, and David Adhami, Town Clerk Ragini Srivastava, and Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman joined together with Kyra’s Champions to raise awareness for National Child Abuse Preven-

tion Month.

Kyra’s Champions was founded by Jacqueline Franchetti in memory of her daughter Kyra, who was tragically killed by her father during an unsupervised, court sanctioned visit. Kyra’s Champions’ mission is to advocate for policy changes that promote and protect children and families at risk for family violence.

Town officials joined Shayna Blumenfeld and Téa Cotronis, local students, who helped lead a group of volunteers in the Pinwheels for Prevention project which installed 744 blue pinwheels at Mary Jane Davies Green in Manhasset, Blumenfeld Family Park in Port Washington, and Clark Botanic Garden in Albertson. The installation was held in conjunction with National Child Abuse Prevention Month, which is held annually in April.

For more information on Kyra’s Champions visit: www.kyraschampions.org.

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St. Baldrick’s benefit Breast cancer screening forum in Manhasset Town of North Hempstead Council Members Veronica Lurvey and Peter Zuckerman along with Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman recently attended a St. Baldrick’s Benefit at Publicans in Manhasset on April 10.

This year marked the 4th Annual Manhasset Head Shaving Bonanza, which was spearheaded by Logan Panzik, a young resident from Manhasset.

The Town Board members celebrated the young leaders from the

community for supporting St. Baldrick’s mission to fund childhood cancer research. During the previous benefits, Logan was able to raise $50,000.

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer and donor-driven charity that funds and supports research to find cures for childhood cancers. The organization raised over $314 million in research grand funding since 2005.

To donate online, visit their website at www.stbaldricks.org.

On Tuesday, May 3 from 4 to 5 p.m., Dr. Sylvia A. Reyes, a breast surgical oncologist at Mount Sinai Union Square, will be discussing current breast cancer screening recommendations for women.

Reyes will guide you through the diagnostic workup for breast cancer and what to expect after a breast cancer diagnosis.

Reyes is a fellowship-trained breast cancer surgeon with a clinical practice dedicated to breast cancer management at Mount Sinai Union Square. She is a faculty member of the Icahn School of Medicine and serves as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. She currently serves

as a founding committee member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons – Health Equity Advisory Group and the National Hispanic Medical Association communications committee.

Reyes is a native New Yorker of South American heritage and is bilingual in English and Spanish. She has a special interest in oncoplastics, nipple sparing mastectomies, hidden scar surgery, and elimination of health disparities in underrepresented populations.

This event, presented by the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program, is sponsored by The Junior Coalition of the Manhasset Women’s Coalition Against Breast

Cancer and Northwell Health Cancer Institute. Register online for this forum at breast-cancer.adelphi.edu. The Zoom link will be sent in your confirmation email.

Dr. Sylvia A. Reyes

Clark Garden Test kits for first responders Mother’s Day sale The Town of North Hempstead and the Clark Botanic Garden Auxiliary will be presenting the Annual Spring Plant Sale at Clark Botanic Garden on Friday, May 6 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, May 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The sale will feature annuals, perennials, herbs, shrubs, hanging baskets, and vegetables for purchase. The plant sale raises money for the Fanny Dwight Clark Memorial Garden, Inc. Collections at the garden include native spring wildflowers, conifers, roses, perennials, daylilies, wetland plants, rock garden plants, herbs, butterfly plants, medicinal plants, and more than a dozen collections of plant families.

The plant sale will also feature:• Twice Loved Jewelry & Accessories•

Art Show• Refreshment Stand• Garden Gift Shop• Bioferm, “Black Gold” for your garden (available from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. each day)• Farm stand selling seasonal locally grown produce• Raffles Founded in 1969, Clark Botanic Garden is a 12-acre living museum and educational facility dedicated to understanding and appreciating the world’s plant life through horticulture, education and research. It is located at 193 I. U. Willets Road in Albertson.

Admission to the plant sale is free and cash or check only is accepted when purchasing plants. All proceeds will benefit the Fanny Dwight Clark Memorial Garden, Inc. The plant sale is rain or shine. For more information, please call 311 or (516) 869-6311.

State Assemblywoman Gina L. Sillitti (D-Port Washington) announced that she distributed over 3,000 COVID-19 rapid test kits to our first responders and frontline community organizations to help our residents stay safe and healthy.

“While fatigue is completely understandable after two challenging years battling this pandemic, it’s critical that we continue taking steps to protect ourselves and others,” said Sillitti. “My office provided free test kits to a host of locations throughout our communities and I’ll continue working with local stakeholders to protect our families and safeguard public health.”

Sillitti distributed the free COVID-19 test kits at local fire departments, food banks, libraries, police stations, senior centers and schools.

“Since our inception, throughout the pandemic and continuing always, Sid Jacobson JCC’s top goal is to care for community. As we strive to keep everyone who enters our building as safe as possible, we are grateful to Assemblywoman Gina Sillitti for providing us with COVID test kits

for our vulnerable clients and volunteers actively serving the community,” said Susan Berman, Vice President of Community Engagement, Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center.

“We are grateful for the continued support in accomplishing our mission to keep the public and our first responders healthy and safe,” said Kevin McCarroll, Assistant Chief, Port

Washington Police District.

Residents can also receive a free test kit from her district office by calling 516-482-6966 to arrange a pickup time. Test kits are available while supplies last and will be distributed on a first come, first served basis. If you have questions on this or any other community issue, send an email to SillittiG@nyassembly.gov.

Town free boating Sillitti’s ‘Spot the Scam’ sessions safety course The Town of North Hempstead has announced that the town will be hosting a free New York Boating Safety Course on Saturday, May 7 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Manorhaven Beach Park at 158 Manorhaven Blvd. in Port Washington.

The free 8-hour course will provide an introduction to the principles of safe and responsible boating. It will cover basic boating skills and encourages common sense and courtesy to all who share the water as

well as rules of the nautical road, required safety equipment, special boating-related activities and much more. Students successfully completing this course earn a safe boating certificate. Must

State Assemblywoman Gina L. Sillitti (D-Port Washington) announced that she’s hosting two informational sessions with the New be at least 10 years old to York State Attorney General’s Office to help our seniors identify scam calls participate.

To register, please and emails and provide resources for visit: www.register- victims of fraud.

“Most New Yorkers are familiar ed.com/events/ view/180718. For more with the wide variety of scam calls information, call 311 or and unsolicited emails that fill our inboxes, and seniors are sadly a fre(516) 869-6311. quent target of these criminals,” said Sillitti. “Older adults lose billions of dollars to scammers each year and we must do more to stop this. These

informational sessions will provide valuable tools and resources for local seniors and help all of us keep our hard-earned money where it belongs – in our pockets.”

The “Don’t Fall for Fraud: Helping our Seniors Spot the Scam” events will be held from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 28, at the Port Washington Public Library, and on Friday, May 6, at the Shelter Rock Public Library in Albertson.

TJ Hatter from the state Attorney General’s Office will join Assemblywoman Sillitti to discuss how to recognize an internet or phone scam and what to do if you’re a victim of fraud.

Residents who are interested in attending either event must RSVP at https://nyassembly.gov/Sillitti or call our office at (516) 482-6966.

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Don’t be held hostage as a renter P

rices beyond your budget?

Downsizing to a condo or coop will be your best strategy.

As prices have escalated since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 and interest rates have increased ¼ of a point as of March 16, I have noticed more and more individuals and families rethinking their decisions to consider purchasing a home. Now I see greater potential gravitation toward considering townhome, hoa’s, condos and co-ops. I am not sure if this will be a trend that will continue as a mindset of buyers or not. I will be able to look back in the next 3-6 months to see if my prognostication is accurate or not.

However, staying in a rental or even considering one, is still a mistake in my professional and expert opinion.

There are still a few reasons why and they are: 1.) If you earn $100,000 or more and your debt-to-income is in the 30 percentile or lower and you have credit in the $700+ range or even higher, you need deductions that you are not currently receiving to reduce

your taxable income. Unless, however, you are socking away a substantial amount of money into your retirement plan, but then purchasing is still a viable path to take. However, if you are a day/night trader and are making a consistent return on your money, then renting could be a better choice, but it all depends on your individual financial situation.

2.) Consider how hot the current rental market is and what increases you might face going forward and the impact on your wealth. You provide hard-earned dollars to pay your landlord’s mortgage, taxes and potential profit, Or if the landlord’s mortgage is paid off, then you’re providing increased income that will be added to their current wealth as well as the write-offs and tax deductions that they will receive.

3.) Turn your lease into one that is fixed for 15-30 years, which is called a mortgage. Become your own landlord and decide when and if you want to move up to the next level of luxury or “dream home” as well as keeping your monthly payments lev-

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

el and consistent as lease payments will most definitely increase over the years. Greater demand will occur and will fuel the rental market from those shut out from the opportunity for home ownership. This group will be resigned to becoming potential longand short-term renters and tenants while they save enough to jump back

into the purchasing mode.

4.) Many hedge funds, like Black Rock as well as Warren Buffett, who had purchased 1,000 homes a few years later after the implosion of the market in 2008, institutional investors and fix n’ flipper shave added to the challenge of regular “end user” buyers trying to purchase their first primary residence. Therefore, this has reduced the housing availability and has exacerbated the low housing inventory.

5.) The ability to create and grow roots in the community as well as owning a single or multi-family home, townhome, Hoa, condo, coop provides a healthy environment for children as well as adults by adding to new potential long-term friendships, stability, and again forced savings in future wealth creation.

Where our market is heading could be extremely treacherous. If you are paying anywhere from $1,800 or more in rent and have excellent income, credit and a low debt/income ratio, we can show you how you may be qualified to purchase, unless you

have a better method and path to increase your wealth for the long run.

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For a “FREE” 15 minute consultation, a value analysis of your home, or to answer any of your questions or concerns he can be reached by cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.com Just email or snail mail (regular mail) him with your ideas or suggestions on future columns with your name, email and cell number and he will call or email you back.

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26 Fordham Street, Williston Park

107 Stratford Avenue, Williston Park

3 bd, 1 ba, 1,450 sqft, Sold On: 1/26/22, Sold Price: $600,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

3 bd, 1 ba, Sold On: 2/4/22, Sold Price: $575,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

223 Horton Hwy., Mineola

134 Seward Avenue, Mineola

3 bd, 3 ba, Sold On: 2/1/22, Sold Price: $630,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

6 bd, 4 ba, 2,565 sqft, Sold On:1/14/22, Sold Price: $880,000 Type: Single Family, Schools: Mineola

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

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Dynamic pitching duo leads Chaminade Continued from Page 1 show no signs of relaxing even though their futures are set for the next few years.

Downing, a lefty, went 6-0 with a 1.33 ERA last season for the Flyers, striking out 37 hitters in 36 innings. He’s signed to play for Seton Hall in the Big East Conference next year.

“He’s just really solid, terrific control with a great changeup and doesn’t walk many,” said Chaminade coach Mike Pienkos. “He knows how to pitch and doesn’t get rattled on the mound at all, and he works very hard on his game.”

Right behind him (or next to him, since they’re equally effective) is Gatti, a righty who went 3-1 in 25 innings last season, tallying a 2.55 ERA. The overpowering pitcher averaged more than a strikeout per inning in 2021, with 30 K’s in 25 innings.

He’s committed to play for Dayton, in the Atlantic 10 Conference, next year. For now, as the spring baseball season gets going, Downing and Gatti are looking to lead the Flyers to another Catholic High Schools Athletic Association title, and perhaps a state championship as well.

“J.J. is a real tough kid, gets it up to 90, 91 miles per hour, and also can throw a nice breaking ball,” Pienkos said. “He’s a really good

“Having him on the team, knowing that sometimes he can relieve me if I’m not pitching well, and I can relieve him, is a great feeling.”

While Gatti throws a little bit harder, both said they rely on their changeup to get batters out. Downing started this season 2-0 and Gatti 1-0, with a win over rival Kellenberg on April 6 a particular highlight.

Both Gatti and Downing attribute a lot of their improvement over the past year to playing offseason ball with Next Level Baseball, an amateur program based in Farmingdale that helps develop lots of top Long Island talent.

“It was just a big boost to me to play with all the talented kids that go there,” said Gatti, who chose Dayton over Villanova and Sacred Heart. “You play tournaments with top players and coaches who just do so much for you.”

Downing said he and Gatti are both motivated to repeat as CHSAA champions, and go further this year.

After two COVID-affected seasons, there will be the chance for Chaminade to play for a state championship this year. With 13 other college signees on the squad, the Flyers certainly have a great chance.

“We have a lot of talented guys who’ve played together for a while PHOTO COURTESY OF GOOGLE MAPS and we want to go out on top,” Downing said. “We all have confidence we can do it.”

Two pitchers on Chaminade’s varsity baseball team have committed to Division I programs for next year.

athlete and competes hard every game.”

“I honestly think last year we were just scratching the surface of what we could do,” Gatti said.

“We’ve been working hard and both

of us have gotten a lot stronger and a lot better.”

Downing, who said he also considered St. John’s and Sacred Heart as college options, said he agreed with Gatti about their potential, and

that having someone as a teammate who knows exactly what you’re going through is beneficial.

“Whenever we’re in the dugout and not pitching we’re talking about pitching or baseball,” Downing said.

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Continued from Page 1 In Herricks, one board seat is available for a three-year term following the expiration of the term currently held by Juleigh Chin. Also on the ballot will be the vote for the $125.3 million budget proposal for the 2022-23 school year.

The proposal represents a spending increase of 1.99 percent from the current year and calls for a tax increase of 0.5 percent.

Breaking down the budget, 76 percent of it is devoted to programs and 13 percent goes to capital improvements, according to district officials. The district anticipates state aid of $16.6 million, an increase of $2.2 million from the current year.

A final budget review will be held on May 5.

Efforts to reach school district officials for further information were unavailing.

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Zimmerman says 3rd District no sure thing Continued from Page 8 On more national issues, Zimmerman said he believes in a minimum tax for corporations, raising the corporate tax rate and raising taxes on “top tier earners in our country,” albeit modestly.

“We have to protect the middle class and focus on targeting corporations that are just basically using loopholes to avoid paying their taxes and go after corporate taxes or raise them,” Zimmerman said.

Zimmerman called the Russian invasion of Ukraine “genocide” and commended the Biden administration for the work done so far. He also separated himself from national tropes used against Democrats and said if elected, Republicans won’t be putting him on the defensive.

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Pictured (l to r) Williston Park Mayor Paul Ehrbar and Ted Fengarinas.

The Incorporated Village of Williston Park held its annual Organization meeting on Monday, April 4, 2022. At the meeting Hometown Hero Dad,Ted Fengarinas of Williston Park presented an American Flag to the Village of Williston Park.

Mr. Fengarinas asked Mayor Paul Ehrbar to accept this American Flag on behalf of his son Staff Sergeant Nicholas Fengarinas. This flag was given in gratitude for the care packages sent to Staff Sergeant Fengarinas and his Unit during Operation Free-

dom in Afghanistan. Staff Sergeant Fengarinas and his Unit were grateful for the outpouring of thoughtfulness the entire Village of Williston Park displayed.

This American flag was flown during a Combat Mission in Afghanistan on a UH-60 Blackhawk in support of “Operation Freedom’s Sentinel” on the 27th day of September 2019.

Currently, Staff Sergeant Fengarinas is serving as Crew Chief with Army National Guard B Company 142 at MacArthur.

Williston Park Library upcoming events Wearing a mask in the library and at library programs is now optional. This will remain in effect as long as Nassau County is considered a low transmission area. The Library Board reserves the right to amend the policy in accordance with Governor Hochul and CDC guidelines. The library is distributing Covid-19 self-test kits while supplies last.

New titles added to the collection: High Stakes—Danielle Steel Give Unto Others—Donna Leon Match—Harlan Coben Summer Getaway—Susan Mallery Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir—Marie Yovanovitch Adult Programs Reiki—Thursdays—April 28; May 12 & 26—6 pm in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. $10 p/person.

Knitting Circle—Thursday—April 28; May 12 & 26 —11:30 am-1:30 pm in the Assembly Room of Village Hall.

Book Discussion—Wednesday—May 25—7pm in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Copies of Ordinary Grace will be available at the Circulation Desk.

Shredding Service—Saturday—June 4—1:30-4:30 pm in the parking lot of Solomon Schecter School.

St. Francis Hospital Health Screenings—Monday—June 20—10 am-2 pm in front of the Library. Open to everyone over 18 years of age. Included: brief cardiac history, blood pressure and simple blood test for cholesterol and diabetes.

Children’s Programs Storytime with Miss Beth—Tuesdays—April 20 & 26—11-11:45 am in the Assembly Room of Village Hall for children ages 1-4. Limited to 15 children plus caregiver.

Please call the library to register. No walk-ins.

Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery & Aquarium—Saturday—May 14—10:3011:30am in the Assembly Room of Village Hall for children 4+ for a live animal encounter. Limited to 12 children & 1 caregiver p/child. Call the library (742-1820) or email willistonparkprograms@gmail.com to register.

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

Mineola welcomes Digi Slices North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena and Town Councilmember Dennis Walsh joined with Mineola Mayor Paul Pereira and members of the Mineola Chamber of Commerce to welcome Digi Slices to Mineola and celebrate their grand opening. Located at 106 Main Street in Mineola, Digi Slices received a warm opening

day welcome from an excited community. Supervisor DeSena commended the owners for their strong motivation and business acumen and welcomed them to the Town of North Hempstead!

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COMMUNITY & SCHOOL NEWS

Herricks honors Students of history advance Spanish program At the April 7 Herricks Board of Education meeting, New York State School Boards Association recognized Herricks Public Schools for their Spanish Immersion Program with a special banner. The recognition is part of the NYSSBA program Champions of Change.

During the banner presentation, NYSSBA Member Relations Manager Patrick Longo said, “The Champion for Change program recognizes innovative and creative change that enriches educational opportunities and improves academic results.”

He praised the teachers, staff, administrators and board for their hard work and commitment to the program.

Herricks’ Spanish Immersion program is one of the most unique duallanguage K-12 offerings in the state and is open to all students but serves mostly students who do not speak Spanish at home. The district launched the voluntary program in September of 2010.

Currently more than 520 students are enrolled districtwide and this June, the pioneering class of 22 students will graduate.

PHOTO COURTESY OF HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Back Row (L-R) Sanjana Lodha, Dheyala Simrin, Tiffany Leo, Celeste Zhang, Liyana Zaman, Shivani Kapoor.

Front Row (L-R) Sarah Ninan, Prableen Kaur, Genesis Kang, Roshni Patel, Michael Zanetti, Ayesha Nadeem Six Herricks projects received recognition in the 2022 History Day regional competition that took place in March and are advancing to the New York State History Day Contest. Five of the six Herricks regional project winners were from high school students, and one was from the middle school. The 2022 theme narrative was “Debate and Diplomacy in History.”

The following students were recognized: · First Place Individual Performance: Ayesha Nadeem – “The Spirit of Houston: The 1977 Debate Over the Role of Women in American Society and the Diplomacy that Followed” · First Place Group Exhibit: Sarah Ninan, Prableen Kaur, PHOTO COURTESY OF HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS Amisha Brahmbhatt, Genesis Kang, Roshni Patel – “Backdoor Diplomacy: The Iran-Contra Affair” · Second Place for Historical Paper: Michael Zanetti – “The Francesco L. Fratto district director of world languages, language Paris Peace Accords: Successful Diplomacy Hindered by Vioimmersion & English as a new language, Patrick Longo, NYSSBA lent Debate” member relations manager, and Fino Celano, Herricks superintendent · Second Place Group Documentary: Shivani Kapoor and of schools.

Liyana Zaman – “THE KASHMIRI CONFLICT: A STORY OF

FAILED DIPLOMACY” · Second Place Group Performance: Celeste Zhang, Tiffany Leo, Sanjana Lodha, Dheyala Simrin – “Engel V. Vitale: Debate and Diplomacy Over School Prayer and Religious Freedom” In addition to the students mentioned above, Herricks Middle School students Inaya Khwaja and Jubilee Kim placed first in the group documentary category with their project titled “The Diplomatic and Not-So-Diplomatic Road to the Debate Revolving Around the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court Case.”

National History Day (NHD) is a nonprofit organization that creates opportunities for teachers and students to engage in historical research. NHD is an innovative curriculum framework. Students learn history by selecting topics of interest and launching into year-long research projects. The mission of NHD is to improve the teaching and learning of history in middle and high school. The most visible vehicle is the NHD Contest. Winners of the NYS History Day Contest will be announced on May 2.

GoHealth in Roslyn now offers late-night care Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care Roslyn now offers latenight care, with new, expanded hours from 8 a.m. until midnight, seven days a week.

With the additional hours, Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care enhances its convenient, accessible on-demand care for families in Roslyn, and surrounding areas, Port Washington, Greenvale, Roslyn Heights, Manhasset and Albertson.

Creative kids at W.P. library On April 9, the Library hosted a textured mosaic letter craft for children ages 3+, taught by art teacher Doris Benter. The kids had a fun time, and Doris is confirmed for future programs.

“By staying open late, we are increasing our delivery of care, when and where our community needs it,” said Vivek Taparia, NY market president. “We all know that sore throats, fevers, coughs and minor injuries can happen at any time. With our latenight hours, patients can receive care for any non-life threatening concerns until midnight, which could help avoid the emergency room or reduce the wait for important medical atten-

tion.”

To help patients access any necessary ongoing or follow-up treatment, the center’s healthcare experts can provide referrals to top Northwell Health specialists.

Northwell Health-GoHealth Urgent Care Roslyn is located at 1033 Northern Blvd., just east of Searingtown Road/Port Washington Boulevard. Patients can save their spot online, or just walk into the center.

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