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Spreading ‘a little extra love’ Drive Out Hunger to hold food drive for those in need provide food and nutrition to those in need. The organization has also With the hope of spreading partnered with Bethany House, a some Valentine’s Day love, Molly nonprofit that provides shelter Miskiewicz, of West Hempstead, and services for homeless will host a food drive called women and children in Baldwin. “Long Island-tines Day” on SatMiskiewicz, 25, a social work urday from noon to 3 p.m. The consultant in Baldwin, started event, hosted by Miskiewicz’s collecting food donations from group Drive Out people across NasHunger, will be sau County last held at St. Thomas March, when she the Apostle Church became aware that in West Hempstead many residents and LifeLine Restowere struggling to ration Ministries get food as the panChurch in West demic spread. Babylon. “We’ve gotten “ Wi t h eve r y hundreds of people thing going on, to volunteer with between Covid-19 mollY mISkIEwICz us at this point,” and the social and West Hempstead Miskiewicz said. “I political unrest, I feel like this orgadefinitely feel like nization has a life the world could use and a brain of its own.” a little extra love these days,” She said that the group had Miskiewicz said. “We just want held several large holiday food to do whatever we can to give donation drives, with volunteers back.” making deliveries to those in A nonprofit founded by need. Some residents, such as Miskiewicz in June, Drive Out Malvernite Lori Lang, volunHunger is a food donation pick- teered to make their homes up service that works directly “drop zones” where people could with a number of local food drop off canned goods and nonbanks, pantries and shelters — perishables. Lang collected more including one at St. Christopher’s Church in Baldwin — to Continued on page 3
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Courtesy Oceanside Dog Rescue Club
ARIEllA RUkhlIN, FAR left, Riley Mahoney, Julia Valukis and Kate Wiedmann formed the Oceanside Dog Rescue Club last summer and have since collected blankets and cleaning supplies as part of two donation drives for local rescues.
Students launch dog rescue club Group advocates for adoptions of furry friends By BRIDGEt DowNES bdownes@liherald.com
A group of high school students from throughout the Baldwin area have formed a club to support local nonprofit dog rescue centers and advocate for adoptions and rescues of dogs. Oceanside High School freshmen Kate Wiedmann, of Baldwin, Riley Mahoney and Ariella Rukhlin, of Oceanside, and Julia Valukis, of Rockville Centre, launched
the club last summer. It focuses on “raising awareness about the benefits of animal rescue, adoption and fostering,” Wiedmann said, “and we just kind of want to bring awareness to fostering dogs and rescuing them from rescues, and not shelters.” The Oceanside Dog Rescue Club partners with rescue centers rather than shelters because rescues tend to keep animals in better condition. Shelters are often govern-
ment-funded facilities with paid workers, while rescue centers are more often run by volunteers and funded by money raised by people in the local community. “There is a huge difference if you look at it closely,” Mahoney said. Shelters keep their dogs in kennels, Mahoney said, which separates and isolates them, whereas rescue center volunteers take dogs outside and take them for walks. Continued on page 3
feel like this organization has a life and a brain of its own.