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CoMMUNitY UPdAtE infections as of Feb. 14
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infections as of Feb. 8 2,887
Republican Club donates blankets
Basketball tourney on hold
Making truffles at the library
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FEBRUARY 25 - MARCH 3, 2021
Vol. 28 No. 9
Baldwin millennials talk diversity good decisions.” Mulé’s chief of staff, Jonathan Prevost, of Baldwin, led the Nassau County Legislator discussion. Baldwinite Bianca Debra Mulé hosted a discussion Boursiquot, owner of Sweets by with millennial constituents last B, a Baldwin-based baked goods week as part of a virtual panel business, joined the discussion called “Redesigning the District: along with Freeport natives A Conversation with Millenni- Kyra Lewis, Jose Villatoro and als.” Kiana Abbady. During the Feb. The panelists 18 webinar, broadrecalled fond childcast via Facebook hood memories Live, Baldwin and and touted BaldFreeport residents win’s and Freediscussed key por t’s sense of issues facing milcommunity and lennials, as well as diversity among opportunities for residents, but also local civic involveshared the changes ment and changes they have seen t h e y h ave w i t while growing up nessed — and and those they would like to make would like to see. — in their commu“The most KiANA ABBAdY nities. change I’ve seen in “My children Freeport Baldwin has to deal are millennials with businesses,” who grew up in the 5th Legisla- Boursiquot said. “And I’m proud tive District, and I know that the of how many businesses that issues of millennials are differ- opened in Baldwin — I apprecient from the issues of my gener- ate that [there is] an increase of ation,” said Mulé, a Democrat food businesses — but somefrom Freeport. “And it’s very times I see that they increase important that we hear what fast food, so that’s some change they are. We need to get your per- that I see in Baldwin that I’m not spective, your energy, your fresh takes on things so we can make Continued on page 4
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Pickleball, anyone? A few dozen people turned out for Frank Milillo’s Pickleball Tournament on Feb. 13, which raised funds for Bethany House of Nassau County, a nonprofit agency that assists homeless women and children. Story, more photos, Page 7.
Group rescues abandoned domestic ducks in Baldwin By BRidgEt dowNEs bdownes@liherald.com
With spring less than four weeks away, the domestic duck dumping season has begun in the Town of Hempstead. Activists with Long Island Orchestrating for Nature, also known as LION, an animal advocacy nonprofit, rescued more than 100 domestic ducks that were abandoned in the township last year, including about 75 in
Baldwin. “It’s a big problem all over, but in 2020, Baldwin was the big hot spot for us,” said LION’s founder and president, John Di Leonardo, an anthrozoologist and a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. “We always rescue some birds in Baldwin, but we never hit that type of number before.” The rescuees in Baldwin — at Milburn Pond Park and Baldwin Harbor — included birds with broken wings, leg injuries, bacte-
rial infections, vitamin deficiencies, missing molts, mutilated beaks and other health issues. Many more died before the group could rescue them, Di Leonardo said. And there are still more domestic ducks out there that activists plan to rescue. In Hempstead, it is illegal to keep waterfowl, and statewide, it’s illegal to abandon them. Continued on page 3
love that there are more people from different backgrounds coming to live in our community.