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Residents concerned over high lead levels in home water
FRESHMAN FOOD DRIVE
BY RIKKI MASSAND
Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin (rear, right) and Town Clerk Kate Murray (rear, left) attended the Garden City High School Freshman Food Drive on November 20.
School Board hears report on new curriculum developments BY KASSARA MCELROY The Garden City School Board heard a presentation on changes to the district’s curriculum during its meeting on Tuesday, December 7th. Dr. Edward M. Cannone, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction, began by spotlighting that since last year, the Office of
Curriculum and Instruction, which was formerly focused on grades 6-12, now extends through grades K-12. He said this provides the opportunity to strengthen the alignment between grade levels while generating increasingly cross-content driven interdisciplinary learning. Vice President of the Board of Education Stefanie Granville also acknowledged
this change and its benefits. “It’s so great to now be able to more clearly see what is being done in the lower grades. For curriculum leaders, I hope this has been very eye-opening... you can now more easily say to those elementary teachers... ‘if the kids have this, they will be better prepared for that.’ I think this, in See page 40
Residents attending the Garden City Board of Trustees’ meeting on Thursday November 18th told the Board that dangerously high levels of lead had been found in their home’s water, and asked the Board to investigate whether other homes are also impacted. The Ceriello family of Heath Place told the trustees about learning that their home’s water contained lead. Mrs. Ceriello described the frightening experience of learning from her doctor that she tested positive for lead poisoning during her pregnancy, through a routine prenatal screening. Later, her mother who is an Estates’ section resident got tested, and her results indicated borderline lead poisoning as well. “For reference the actionable level for lead contamination is 15 parts per billion and our home’s level was 118 parts per billion. We have now replicated those results a few times over with testing performed by Nassau County, once through H2M and the Village of Garden City, and also we hired our own independent contractor to sample the water. We have asked the village multiple times for any See page 46
Restaurants seek to extend outdoor dining BY RIKKI MASSAND
At its last meeting on November 18, the Garden City Board of Trustees discussed the applications of two Franklin Avenue restaurants to extend their outdoor dining permits through the end of 2022. Restaurants in several areas of Garden City had been allowed to offer outdoor table service during the pandemic in order to help them survive economically. However, during last summer the village rescinded the outdoor dining permit of another Franklin Avenue restaurant, Revel, because the village said its structure impeded access of emergency vehicles. Revel’s structure had been located on See page 48
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