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Who Local Leaders are Thankful for Helping During Pandemic BY KYLE BARR AND RITA J. EGAN KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM, RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM With so much going on day to day, with people stuck at home and fearing for the future, there are consistent hopes provided by the men and women doing more to help the people most in need. Whether it’s people making masks for essential workers or meals for hospital employees on the front lines, we asked local officials, business and civic leaders who they would like to thank during this time of crisis.
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State Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) wanted to thank both those on the front lines and the “unsung heroes.” “I want to thank each and every one in our community who has been on the front lines of this battle,” he said. “Doctors, nurses, first responders and all of our volunteer firefighters have been fighting a war that they never expected. Their efforts are truly heroic, and we owe them a debt we may never be able to repay. But equally as notable is the work of our unsung heroes — retail workers, postal employees, cleaners, truck drivers, restaurant employees, delivery people and every single person who continues to show up every day to help make sure we have food on our table, gas in our cars and electricity in our homes. This is an effort that requires so many to work together and these men and women are the ones who will lead us to victory over this virus. We say thank you for all you do for all of us.” State Assemblyman Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) is thankful for several local residents. “We owe a debt of gratitude to the members of our community who, week after week, have shown up for their jobs — our health care workers, first responders, grocery workers and all the others who have provided the crucial services we need to get through this shutdown. Through their courageous commitment to service, essential workers have enabled the rest of us to do our part by staying home.” Englebright was grateful also for those doing their part at home. “For those of us at home, it is hard to reconcile that staying put is actually doing something important,” he said. “But by working from home, helping our children with their schooling, social distancing and wearing masks when out in public, our responsible behavior has worked to flatten the curve and slow down the transmission of the coronavirus. So, my gratitude goes to everyone who responded so admirably to the challenge before us. Your collective actions combined with others around the state have literally helped save thousands of lives.” State Sen. Jim Gaughran (D-Northport) said it’s difficult for him to just name one person or one group of workers. “Everybody’s different and everybody, in different ways, has done so much incredible
work,” he said. He said in addition to medical and nursing home professionals, it’s important to remember the volunteer firefighters and EMS workers. “They’re basically volunteering to put themselves in harm’s way,” he said. He also credited police officers who have had to assist more so in ambulance calls during the pandemic. “They are busier than they have ever been before, but it’s less with crime and more with dealing with so many health emergencies,” he said. Gaughran added that medical calls are more involved than before as additional protocols need to be followed to protect first responders from COVID-19. He said he has seen so many restaurant owners doing remarkable work too, donating food to nearby hospitals and firehouses. “Some of these businesses are operating almost on their last dollars, just using it to help people,” he said.
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Suffolk County Legislator Leslie Kennedy (R-Nesconset) had health care and front line workers as well as residents on her mind when giving thanks. “I would like to thank the doctors, nurses, aides, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, techs, phlebotomists, dietary workers, custodians, mechanics, grocery workers, restaurant workers, car mechanics, moms, dads, grandparents and daycare teachers and aides who have sacrificed their personal health and safety during this time as essential workers,” she said. “I would also like to thank all of those that continue to wear masks, maintain at least a 6-foot distance from others, sneeze and cough into the crook of their arms and wash their hands frequently. These little efforts protect not only them and their families from COVID-19 and other viral and bacterial infections, but they protect us all! Stay strong, stay safe!” Suffolk County Legislator Rob Trotta (R-Fort Salonga) also had an array of people to thank. “During this unprecedented pandemic, it has been wonderful to see our neighbors coming together to support and help one another,” he said. “All of our essential workers (first responders, health care providers, postal and delivery people, store clerks and many more) deserve our gratitude for the sacrifices they make each day to do their job to help keep us safe and healthy. It is important to recognize everyone stepping up to make a contribution, from students sending kind messages — to sewing groups and seamstresses making and donating face masks — to restaurants/food establishments donating meals — to the libraries and businesses making PPEs and hand sanitizers — to nurseries donating plants to residents and health workers — and to the newspapers and media outlets keeping us informed. The work of those on the front lines is
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truly heroic and I can’t thank them enough.” Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) said she’s grateful for a range of people. “Like so many others, my gratitude goes first to our health care and frontline workers,” she said. “Their courage and devotion is the brightest star in this dark time. I’m grateful that people in our community are staying home, following social distancing guidelines, and wearing face coverings in public so we can all help slow the advance of this invisible enemy. We all have that essential role to lower the toll COVID-19 takes by being responsible.” Hahn also pointed out the importance of mental health professionals. “I am grateful too for the mental health professionals providing counseling, guidance and emotional support for domestic violence victims, as well as the many among us who are struggling to hold on to hope and the tattered shreds of what was a normal life just a few short months ago,” she said. “As someone with a social work background, I know for certain that these caring individuals are critical to the wellbeing of our community. We need their skills and their caring hearts now more than ever.” Hahn added that the community has played an important role to help fight the pandemic. “From people making masks for others, delivering food to seniors and neighbors in need, to journalists bringing us the facts and stories or the lost and to the families teaching their kids at home, I see bravery and love everywhere,” she said. “It gives me hope that we will come through
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Town of Smithtown Supervisor Ed Wehrheim (R) had many to thank from restaurant owners to residents and community organizations that have taken the time to help out others to his fellow “partners in government” at the federal, state and county levels. Most of all, he wanted to show town employees his gratefulness. “None of this would be possible without the hard work and dedication of the town’s department directors and our labor force who stepped up in every way, during this pandemic,” he said. “The department leadership has worked through this entire pandemic, without time at home to be with their families. Our Senior Citizens Department teams and volunteers have pushed through exhaustion to deliver weekly meals for over 200 homebound residents. Our parks department has worked tirelessly to keep town buildings and grounds sanitized, while helping us to deliver PPE supplies to local frontline workers and facilities. And most of all, the job that our Public Safety department has done over the last two months has been nothing short of extraordinary. They did not get to rotate out of the schedule and work from home like all other departments. Public Safety has managed our Emergency Response, patrolled our parks, assisted SCPD, enforced social distancing requirements and all executive orders from the state. They have done an exceptional job, in an impossible situation and we all owe them a debt of gratitude.”
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Protesters Call for New York to Open up All Businesses BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Protesters in Commack May 1 made it clear that they wanted New York to get back to business. Dozens lined up in front of the Macy’s parking lot at the intersection of Veterans Memorial Highway and Jericho Turnpike rallying for New York to open up its economy. For weeks, after an executive order from Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), businesses deemed nonessential such as clothing stores, hair salons, barbershops, casinos and more were mandated to shut their doors to customers to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. The rally was organized through the Reopen NY Facebook page, and similar events have been held across the country in the last few weeks. These protests have taken a politically partisan edge, with many wearing “Make America Great Again” hats and waving “Trump 2020” signs in support of President Donald Trump (R).
Protesters held signs while others hung them on their cars. One read, “If it’s forced, are we free. Reopen NY Now.” Another sign said, “Small business is essential.” One car had an “Impeach dictator Cuomo” sign on its window, while a protester held a sign that read, “Stop the spread of tyranny.” One woman held two signs where one read, “All jobs are essential” and the other, “Hey Cuomo, domestic violence and poverty does equal death.” Among those lining the street, some wore masks while others had no face covering. Children were among the protesters with their parents, many holding signs as well. Setauket resident George Altemose attended the event with friends from the North Country Patriots, a conservative group that rallies on the northeast corner of Bennetts and North Country roads every Saturday morning. “I was there because of the ongoing COVID-19 problem, to show my support for President Trump and to express my disapproval of the misguided policies of Governor Cuomo, Mayor De Blasio and other politicians that are counterproductive in our battle to restore our normal lives,” Altemose said in an email after the rally. He said he was pleased that he attended the May 1 rally. “It was a most refreshing and uplifting experience to gather with hundreds of likeminded friends and neighbors in Commack, and to enjoy the enthusiastic responses from the passing motorists, the majority of whom took the time to wave, blow their horns and give us the “thumbs up” sign,” he said. “It looks like Nov. 3 will be a day to remember.” For Altemose, the protests were about more than the closings. He said he has taken issue with a few of Cuomo’s mandates, including that nursing homes must admit those afflicted with the virus, “even though they are not hospitals and are not even close to being equipped to deal with a problem of this nature and magnitude.” Altemose applauded the president’s performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. “President Trump has provided outstanding leadership from the earliest possible day of this crisis, including the placement of responsibility where it belongs,” he said. Lorraine Yovino, from Hauppauge, said in a phone interview after the protest she was delighted to see so many people show up for the rally. “The whole atmosphere was so positive and so hopeful,” she said. “It was just a very happy, hopeful group. I was so pleased to see so many young people too.”
A protester, below, holds up a sign at the May 1 Reopen NY rally in Commack. Above, one of many cars with signs in the Macy’s shopping center in Commack the day of the protest. Photos by Lorraine Yovino
Yovino said she has attended rallies in the “It’s no longer justified to put American past including the March for Life protests in citizens into poverty and not let them go to Washington, D.C. and others in Albany. She work, not let them open their businesses, not heard about the May 1 rally through friends. let them support their families,” she said. She said the Macy’s Yovino said she parking lot turned out believes Trump has to be an ideal place for been doing a good job everyone to park and when it comes to dealing protest as the lot was with COVID-19, and empty, unlike the Target people need to ask more parking lot in the next questions regarding the shopping center which local elected officials’ was full. response to the pandemic. “It’s unfair that the “My heart is going out Target salespeople are to so many people who are considered essential, unnecessarily having their while the Macy’s people freedom taken away,” are nonessential,” she she said. “Their constisaid. “One group gets a tutional rights are being salary to support their trampled on.” families, and the other Earlier this week, Cuogroup is impoverished.” mo said that businesses in While Yovino said she the state will begin openunderstands that there —Lorraine Yovino ing after the May 15 pause was not much information deadline. However, the first known about the virus at nonessential businesses to first, she said she feels open will be in areas with experimental treatments, such as the anti- lower density in upstate New York, with those malaria drug hydroxychloroquine may be in the city and Long Island to follow at a later helpful to many. Though it has shown in date. Currently, Suffolk and Nassau counties cases to help treat the virus, it is still largely have not met much of the criteria set by the untested and has shown to cause heart issues U.S. Centers for Disease Control for any kind in some who use it. of reopening.
‘It’s no longer justified to put American citizens into poverty and not let them go to work, not let them open their businesses, not let them support their families.’
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I know you would still be ashamed The overwhelming majority of folks violating the law with public protests, not personal protective equipment for essential to see the way I keep my home. protesting around the country against observing social distancing or wearing workers; the broken patchwork health Courtney and Caroline Biondo - Johness Kuisel quarantine are white. Many of my friends masks, as we witnessed in Commack care system that leaves millions without To us, Johness is Mom and Granny. in the black and brown communities last week. These men and women are health care during a global pandemic; the My mom is the driving force not only of my life, but for have made the comment, “Imagine if that endangering themselves and others with inadequate safety net for the 40 percent of 44 years has been the heart and soul of Times Beacon Record was us?” The truth is that we don’t have their actions. Congressman Lee Zeldin has Americans who live paycheck to paycheck, newspapers. She is the epitome of class. She teaches me to to imagine. Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, referred to protesters he disagrees with as to name a few. always be my very best and always put forth my very best effort, Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, Stephon “unhinged,” an “angry mob,” a group of But I will not take to the streets and more importantly as a mother myself. Clarke and Eric Garner are just a few “paid protesters,” but is silent over the actions endanger lives. This moment is about Our Granny is the one to watch college football with on Saturdays, examples of what happens to people of color. of his base, whose behavior is a public health looking out for one another, and prioritizing the NFL on Sundays and basketball during the week. Granny is It is curious to me that the armed protesters threat. It is hypocrisy at its finest. communal health. It is shameful that the always up for a trip to the beach to lounge in the sun and collect shells. I have organized and participated in right does not recognize this, and that their in Michigan, breaking into a government Granny likes to sit with a cat in her lap after a long day and sip a building, were not arrested and did not get peaceful protests on numerous occasions leaders don’t take them to task. It perpetuates Bloody Mary. Granny teaches us to never give up, because you’re fined, despite clearly breaking the law. Why over the years, taking great pains to remain a hypocritical and biased system, one that often closest to succeeding when you want to forfeit. She teaches us does white skin too often mean a free pass within the law, coordinating with law unfairly discriminates against communities to explore through travel and to always be eager to learn new things. for transgression? Why does black or brown enforcement and respecting the parameters of color and minorities. I call upon Mr. Daniel Dunaief - Leah Dunaief that come with exercising First Amendment Zeldin to repudiate his base’s dangerous skin too often mean a death sentence? When I was young, my mother started these papers. When I Also telling is that politicians like U. S. rights. There is plenty to protest right now: actions and ask them to stay home, where called her at work, Mrs. Kuisel answered, much as she does now. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY-1), who has publicly the Trump administration’s downplaying we all belong right now. “Can I speak to my mom?” I asked. Mrs. Kuisel asked me who my disparaged Colin Kaepernick taking a knee, of this virus; the racist rhetoric that has Shoshana Hershkowitz mother was because so many mothers worked at the papers. The have been silent about their base, who are endangered Asian Americans; lack of South Setauket question is one I’m happy to answer every day. I’m proud to say that who I am and who my brothers are begins with being numbers 1, 2 and 3 sons of Leah Dunaief. Sure, my younger brother and I might argue about the order of importance, but we are all grateful to have learned numerous important lessons, including never to wear jeans It is precisely this aid that Mitch U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY-1) Like any state, New York relies on tax in the ocean or to use apple juice to clean our faces, from a woman McConnell referred to when he suggested pretends to call for bi-partisan leadership, revenue to provide all of the services we we’re fortunate to call mom. I wish her and all the other moms but he refuses to truly hold the President enjoy, tax revenue that has significantly states should go bankrupt — he does not dealing with the ever-fluid new normal a happy Mother’s Day. Donald Trump (R) Administration, Senator dropped off since the pandemic has kept want to provide funding. And Lee Zeldin Rita J. Egan - Rita M. Egan Mitch McConnell (R) and his own party everyone home. Incomes, fuel consumption is intentionally evasive when it comes to When I was a kid in Queens, more mothers were beginning to go accountable, and that is the fundamental and retail sales are all down severely, and the need for direct federal aid to New York. to work full time, outside of the home. My mother was no different. problem we face on Long Island. with the decline, funding is drying up for House Democrats have already said that At first, she worked as a cashier at Alexander’s Department Store, New York has immediate and major essential services. That same tax revenue state aid will be central to their next stimulus but she knew she needed to make more money, and she soon took needs — our hospitals are stretched for is used to pay for our frontline workers — bill. The Trump Administration and Senator a night class to brush up on her typing and shorthand. After a few resources and health care workers are being police, firefighters and teachers. While we McConnell have very loudly pushed back different jobs, she eventually found herself working for Con Edison pushed to the limit. But our problems from may be able to survive a few months with and demanded pro-business, anti-workers in its transportation department. She lived in Queens when she coronavirus run much deeper as our tax reduced revenue streams, we ultimately concessions as ransom for state aid, if it is first began working there but eventually moved out to Smithtown. base has taken a beating. Suffolk County must restore or replace these funds, or to be provided at all. It’s time for Zeldin She would be up before the sun, even leaving before sunrise to is hit particularly hard, and we need more we will lose these services. But while the to stand with the people he represents and catch the train, and while she soon became part of a carpool, the support from the federal government than economy is depressed from the pandemic, openly call for state funding of scale to cover more convenient ride didn’t stop the early morning rush to be at we are getting. Zeldin ignores all but our revenue levels will stay down too. There lost revenues — otherwise Long Islanders the office by 7 a.m. I may not have inherited my mother’s knack immediate issues. We face a greater long- will continue to be fewer people driving, and the rest of New York will continue to for getting up before the crack of dawn, but I would like to think I term problem that will only continue to get a lower income base and fewer sales to suffer while he remains a stooge propping take after her when it comes to getting up every morning and doing worse if nothing is done, even after the virus tax. This is where the need for federal help up the Trump administration. whatever it is that needs to be done, even when times are rough. itself is under control, namely — the money comes in. States like ours, deeply impacted Perry Gershon While Mother’s Day may be celebrated a little bit differently to keep New York afloat. Unless something by the coronavirus, need assistance as we Democratic Primary Candidate this year, here’s hoping we can all find some way to celebrate is done, we will run out of cash and Long rebuild, and that must come from the federal U.S. House of Representatives all the special women in our lives. New York District 1 Islanders will suffer. government.
Letters to the Editor
The Inequalities of Quarantine Protesters
Zeldin Ignores Most Immediate Issues with Virus
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Opinion
People Share Lockdown Habits, Both Healthy and Unhealthy
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erek has eaten more pizza in the past six weeks than he has in the previous three years. Heather feels like an insect, trapped late in the night in the electric glow of her screen. Steve drinks too much Coke Zero and Eliene stays up way too late and wears the same pants too often. In response to email questions, several Long Islanders shared their healthiest and least healthy D. None habits during the of the above lockdown. BY DANIEL DUNAIEF Derek Poppe, who is a spokesman for County Executive Steve Bellone (D), has been able to work off some of the pizza he’s eating at lunch by running outside, which he started doing after the gym he has attended for
seven years closed seven weeks ago. “I have also tried my hand at meditation which has been incredible since, really, from the time we wake up to when we go to bed, we are surrounded by all things COVID-19,” Poppe wrote in an email. Bellone, meanwhile, rides his Peloton stationary bike early in the morning or late at night. The county executive also sometimes runs at 10:30 p.m. before beginning to prepare for the next morning’s meetings and radio calls. Bellone’s least healthy habits include ramping up his consumption of Coke Zero. Sara Roncero-Menendez from Stony Brook, meanwhile, walks around her neighborhood on sunny days. When the weather gets rough, she does YouTube yoga. She’s also been crocheting and cross-stitching, getting a head start on holiday gifts. “It’s been a good way to keep busy and actually have something to show for it at the end,” Roncero-Menendez wrote. Like many others in New York and around the world, Roncero-Menendez has spent
too much time glued to her screens and also hasn’t been sleeping well. Karen McNulty-Walsh from Islip does 30 minutes of yoga, takes her dog for walks, and gets out of bed regularly between 6 and 7 a.m. each morning. Pete Genzer from Port Jefferson Station has been cooking dinner every night, which is “good in terms of eating healthy food, and I also really enjoy cooking so it’s mentally stimulating and relaxing.” Genzer’s least healthy habit is “sitting in the same, non-ergonomic chair all day long doing work and attending virtual meeting after virtual meeting.” Larry Swanson and his wife Dana, who live in Head of the Harbor, enjoy their daily walks with their aging Chesapeake Bay retriever Lily. Dana is growing food in the yard and has found it a “new, interesting and nice experience being with her grumpy old husband for so much for the time,” Larry Swanson wrote. Indeed, in the 56 years of their marriage,
the Swansons have never spent as much time as they have together during lockdown. Dana’s unhealthiest habit is watching the news. Heather Lynch from Port Jefferson said she feels like the insect trapped in the glowing screen. On the positive side, she continues to work out every day, which she describe as more of an addiction than a habit. Eliene Augenbaum, who lives in the Bronx and works on Long Island, has eaten homecooked food and had deep conversations with friends. On the unhealthy side, she stays up too late, wears the same pants, and shops for vacations and shoes that are of little use during lockdown. A friend from New York City, who makes her own meals and walks her dogs, takes her temperature several times a day, has eaten her emergency, huge bag of Chex mix in one sitting and obsesses over why everyone else has medical-style masks on the street while she’s seeking viral protection behind a pillowcase wrapped around her head.
Memories of My Mother and Lilacs
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hen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” is a poem written by the great Walt Whitman as an elegy for the great Abe Lincoln, who died around this time in May of 1865. For me, it too honors my mother, whom I also regard as great, as I guess we all do our mothers, if in a more personal context. I think of my mother whenever lilacs bloom because she loved the flower, with its Between heart-shaped leaves and its perfume you and me fragrance, and beBY LEAH S. DUNAIEF cause she died right around Mother’s Day when, to me also in her honor, lilacs bloom.
My mother grew up in the earliest years of the 20th century in Corona, a then-countrified section of Queens in New York City. She told us that on her way to elementary school, she sometimes had to wait for the cows in front of her to finish crossing the road, which is certainly a different picture than what I saw of the neighborhood when I was shown the house in which she and her siblings, parents and maiden aunt lived. (That last is an expression from a century ago.) She also lovingly described the backyard as “completely filled with lilac bushes whose scent filled the entire block.” My mother was the bridge for her parents and older siblings between the Ukraine, from which they emigrated, speaking not a word of English, and America, the repository of their dreams. She was probably 4 years old when they arrived and moved into the house on Corona Avenue, and she was sent off to school where she learned the language and brought it home, along with the ways of the new country. That she was bright must have been apparent to the teachers because she was skipped grades
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twice during those early years and graduated from junior high or middle school when she was 11. Although she yearned to go on to high school and college, her father had suffered a debilitating stroke, and she, along with her older brother and sister, were obligated to work and support the family of nine. She won a scholarship to what was then called a “business school,” where she learned in record time to be a credentialed bookkeeper and was hired as such by a man named Mr. Mosler, a member of the well-known family that made Mosler Safes and Vaults. My mother worked all her life, arranging her work hours somehow around the responsibilities of caring for my father and three children. She was well ahead of her time, of course, as a “businesswoman,” but apparently neither she nor my father thought it odd that she should have a work life outside the home. It was apparent to me at an early age that she was different from the mothers of my friends. She didn’t bake cakes or cookies, was a terrible cook — except during holidays when she focused on preparing
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delicious meals — didn’t knit and didn’t seem interested in stylish clothes. Indeed, it would have been strange had she been restricted to the home for all her adult life since she was both worldly and had a manner that I would today call “commanding,” despite her short stature. She was occasionally asked if she were a lawyer. For all of that veneer, my mother was generous, warm and affectionate with all of us, had a great laugh, had a close and supportive relationship with my father, and together they provided a safe and nurturing home in which we were raised. My mother reaches the level akin to sainthood, in my opinion, because of the way she welcomed and raised my younger sister, who had Down syndrome. Despite the prevailing attitudes then, in 1942 when my sister was born, of stigma and institutionalization, my mother insisted that my sister had a right to a “normal” life within the family and to learn and grow to the fullest extent of her capability. Again, my mother was way ahead of her time.
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