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New bakery cafe receives Jericho Superintendent warm welcome in Woodbury discusses masks, new
year for schools
BY GEORGE HABER
Natasha and Nimesh Patel in their new business, Great Harvest Bakery Cafe of Woodbury BY RIKKI N. MASSAND The nationwide franchise Great Harvest Bakery Cafe is enthused to land a new Woodbury Common location, the first location opened on Long Island and currently the only one of its franchises operating in New York State. Syosset Woodbury Chamber of Commerce members, husband and wife team Nimesh and Natasha Patel, opened Great Harvest Bakery Café
of Woodbury just prior to summer. They selected the Woodbury Common shopping center, which features a variety of other restaurants; fitness, lifestyle, beauty and boutique stores. On Tuesday, August 10, Great Harvest received a special delivery from Syosset Woodbury Chamber of Commerce President Russell P. Green and Home Depot of Syosset’s Mike Gallo, a new Chamber board member: heaters for
outdoor dining as the colder weather arrives. “Thanks to the PSEG 2021 Main Street Revitalization Program, the Chamber was able to work with Home Depot to provide outdoor heaters to Nimesh Patel and the wonderful people at Great Harvest Bakery,” Green said this week. With the Chamber of Commerce’s Syosset Street Fair returning to the comSee page 10
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When Henry (“Hank”) Grishman, Superintendent of Jericho Schools, introduces himself to fellow attendees at national education-themed conferences or conventions, he invariably gets the question from attendees “Jericho, New York?” When he answers yes, he usually receives a smile and a knowing head-nod. Clearly, the Jericho school district’s reputation has preceded him. For the past 27 years, Grishman has served as schools Superintendent, making him one of the longest-serving “supes” in New York State. Over that period, the district has garnered numerous top-district awards from local, regional and national surveys of “Best Schools” listings. After weathering a uniquely challenging year and a half, Jericho schools--guided by Grishman, his staff and faculty, and the Board of Education, is now poised to resume as “normal” a school year as can be carved out even as COVID concerns still grip the county and the country. In an exclusive interview with the News Journal, Grishman outlined some of the steps Jericho is taking to restore the sense of normality to its nationally renowned schools. “Students will be returning for in-class learning,” he said. “All the research shows that long-term remote learning is detrimental to children’s social and emotional development. Sitting in a bedroom playing video
games, or watching television and then taking classes in that bedroom, is just not healthy for a kid’s overall development.” It’s not like they’re students taking an online course for a few hours a day, and it’s not like they signed up for this style of learning, he believes. Grishman also believes that the policy of requiring all students and faculty to be masked indoors will be a positive aspect of the reopening as well. “Our community has not been very anti-masking,” he said. “Masks are a proven, recommended way of helping assure that germs are not spread.” Grishman noted that the district’s partnership with Northwell Health will enable the schools to offer support services to students who have problems with resuming in-class learning and who may need counseling. “Our main goal this year is to focus on a smooth, successful, and healthy reopening,” he said. Responding to some requests for offering summer classes to students wanting to take courses to advance their academic progress, Grishman said he does not believe this would be effective. “If a kid wants to take classes during the summer to retake an exam and improve a course grade, that’s one thing, and we can support that. But to want to compress a fifteen-week course into an eight week See page 16
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