HERALD________________ GLEN COVE _______________ Gazette Tastes of higher Residents walk the season Education for alzheimer’s Page 16 Pullout Page 9 Vol. 28 No. 39 SEPTEMBER 26 - oCToBER 2, 2019 $1.00 City looks at ‘opportunity area’ study Hopes for smart development By RoNNY REYES neighborhood. Brownfields are [email protected] blighted areas where often there has been large-scale industrial City of Glen Cove officials contamination. The Brownfields would like to see more affordable Opportunity Area also includes housing and green spaces, with the adjacent Cedar Swamp Road trees and shrubbery, in the Area to the east, a Transit Ori- Brownfield Opportunity Area, at ented Development Area to the Ryan Hedlund/Herald Gazette the south entrance north and the Coles JohN SEMiTEColoS, faR left, greeted his classmates at the 60th reunion of Glen Cove High to the city’s bustling School Area to the School’s class of 1959 during the second day of the event on Sept. 21, at the Glenwood Landing downtown. northeast, now the Life Center. That’s the con- e’re site of the new Tieg- clusion of a generic dictating e r m a n M i d d l e e n v i r o n m e n t a l W School. impact statement what someone Ann Fangmann, that the city had executive director Meeting up 60 years later prepared for the has to look at of the Glen Cove area, known as the when they come Community Devel- Orchard Neighbor- opment Agency, is G.C High School’s class of ’59 reconnects hood and Sea Cliff in for a project. o ve r s e e i n g t h e Avenue Corridor. area’s revitalization By RoNNY REYES was gone. But some things Glen Cove, heading to the The statement, aNN faNGMaNN process, and urged [email protected] were still the same, he said, beaches and often stopping by however, has not the City Council to been made public Executive director, approve the envi- particularly the breeze from Dosoris Island to gaze at the Glen Cove CDA Returning to Glen Cove, the Long Island Sound that mansion that once belonged yet, after the City ronmental impact John Semitecolos, 78, said he blew away the thoughts of the to J.P. Morgan. Those memo- Council moved to statement during a table discussion on the final ver- had mixed feelings about how hot and humid summers ries, along with countless oth- pre-council meeting on Sept. 17. sion on Tuesday, saying officials Fangmann explained that his beloved city has changed Semitecolos has endured in ers, were the reasons why needed more time to look it over approving the statement since he left for Florida nearly Florida for years. Semitecolos was happy to before voting to approve it and wouldn’t mean the city was two decades ago. With the The cool weather and the return to the city to celebrate release it. approving any development development of Village sight of the Gold Coast the start of the 60th reunion Because the area is designat- plans for the BOA yet. Instead, it Square and Garvies Point, brought Semitecolos back to of Glen Cove High School’s ed a Brownfield Opportunity would provide a framework for class of 1959 on Sept. 20, at the Semitecolos said, the small the days when he and his Area, that allows city officials to the city and future developers to CONTINUED ON PAGE 19 downtown he grew up with friends rode bikes around seek state aid to undertake revi- follow. talization projects to improve the CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 Celebrating long island’s Top lawyers Look Inside 2 COME TO THE F r E E September 26, 2019 — GLEN COVE HERALD GAZETTE 2019 — GLEN COVE September 26, ALL THINGS FOR SENIORS DEDICATED TO ENHANCING YOUR HEALTH & LIFESTYLE FridAY OctOber 11 • 2019 10:00AM – 1:00PM YmCa at glen Cove 125 Dosoris lane, glen Cove, NY 11542 Hear from the experts with a panel discussion followed by a Q&A. 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Hospital 3 GLEN COVE HERALD GAZETTE — September 26, 2019 HERALD GAZETTE — September 26, GLEN COVE By RONNY REYES nial for the success of the Teams pro- [email protected] gram. “By providing our staff with tools to enhance collaboration and coor- Although Glen Cove Hospital was the dinate care, we’ve improved the patient last of the Northwell Health hospitals experience and ultimately helped to integrate email in its messaging sys- reduce the cost of care.” tem, Bissoondaye Ragoonanan, regis- Glen Cove Hospital piloted the pro- tered nurse and manager of clinical gram on its telemetry, brain injury unit transformation at Glen Cove, said the and coronary care unit. Ragoonanan hospital was now leading the way in said the hospital’s staff received a week communications as one of the first hos- of training in the new app, which could pitals in the nation to roll out Microsoft be operated on their phones or desk- Teams in February. Teams, a messaging tops. She added that the program was application, allows hospital staff to intuitive and is being taught to all new message each other over a secure net- nurses at the hospital. work, helping doctors, nurses and “We are proud to be among the first health technicians stay in contact to in the nation to use this technology in a provide proper care for their patients. clinical setting,” said John Bosco, chief “The world of health care moves at a information officer at Northwell fast pace and using a secure texting Health. “Glen Cove Hospital was well- platform such as Microsoft Teams suited to launch secure texting. [It’s] allows our staff to more quickly and part of the health system’s commitment safely convey information about their to implementing new and innovative patients to each other,” Ragoonanan ways to provide the best patient care said. “This software can potentially Christina Daly/Herald possible.” speed up patient care and ensure that GLEN COVE HOSPITAL was an early adaptor of the Microsoft Teams communication app. Teams has also been implemented at there are fewer unnecessary wait It will be rolled at other Northwell Health facilities in 2019 and 2020. Cohen Children’s Medical Center in times.” New Hyde Park for clinical purposes, Although Microsoft initially rolled app a central hub for chats, meetings, gram for Teams in 2018, said the conve- and it will be used at two Northwell out Teams as a tool for corporate com- calls, files and other tools, medical nience of Teams was ideal for hospitals. Health facilities in Manhasset within munications, the app has found success teams could update each other through- “We have team members located the next two months. About 8,300 North- in the medical field. In her blog about out the day in real-time. Divyang Joshi, across the network, so we need central- well Health staff currently use Micro- developing Teams, Emma Williams, cor- medical director and doctor in internal ized communication to see what’s hap- soft Teams. The system will continue to porate vice president of modern work- medicine at Advocate Aurora Health, pening at different points in the care rollout across Northwell Health facili- place verticals, said that making the which launched the initial pilot pro- continuum,” Joshi wrote in his testimo- ties through 2019 and 2020. Scouts plan upgrades for local vet memorials BY RONNY REYES residents knew that the plaques honored [email protected] veterans, it was never entirely clear what war they fought in as the plaques never As he was preparing to devise his revealed any hints. After they discovered Eagle Scout project, John Blazich, Jr., 17, that the plaques were made for those of Glen Cove’s Boy Scout Troop 6, knew who went off to fight in World War II in he wanted to do something for either the 1943, John Sr. said that an odd phenome- local veteran’s community or the parish- non occurred after all six plaques were ioners at the St. Rocco’s Church. After finished. One morning, he said, parishio- some of his initial ideas were turned ners found that the old wooden crucifix down, Blazich spoke to Glen Cove Veter- atop the church had “miraculously made ans Council President Fred Nielsen and a 90-degree turn to face the plaques.” City Councilwoman Pamela Panzenbeck, “All the families took it as a sign that who gave Blazich the idea to move the their loved ones were being watched over veterans memorial in St. Rocco’s Church during the war,” John Sr. said. to a more prominent location alongside John Jr. is currently working on the the Madonna Center in the courtyard. fundraising portion of the project. “It’s being put in a place where every- Through donations and a car wash event, one can see it and appreciate it and not he has raised about half of the $5,000 hidden away,” Nielsen said.