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BHS research students target food waste what we accomplished.” The team presented the Feed t h e C o m m u n i t y P ro g r a m , A team of three Baldwin which focused on food waste High School students was generated in the high school’s awarded third place for its cafeteria. The students surresearch on the impact of food veyed their classmates and waste reduction in Northwell interviewed the kitchen staff as Health’s 11th annual Medical well as Rebecca Dodder, a senior Marvels competiphysical scientist tion on March 3. for the EnvironmenFreshman Mattal Protection Agenthew James Caraan cy. Their plan proand sophomores posed limiting food Samaya Lindo and waste at the high Solhaine Thera tied school by giving stufo r t h i rd i n t h e d e n t s t o - g o fo o d event, which boxes and impleinvolved student menting a cold comresearchers from post prog ram, in high schools across which stored food Long Island and was w a s t e i s b ro ke n hosted by the Feindown into nutrientstein Institute, rich soil by bacteria. N o r t h we l l ’s “This competiresearch institute, tion helped me betin Manhasset, in SAMAYA LINDO ter understand clipartnership with change as a Baldwin High School mate the health network’s social issue,” Lindo Workforce Readi- sophomore said. ness department. According to the The trio earned the school dis- U.S. Department of Agriculture, trict a $500 scholarship. human-generated greenhouse “It wasn’t easy, and we all gas emissions could be reduced contributed a rigorous amount by 6 to 8 percent simply through of work,” Caraan said. “We had a reduction in food waste. Carathe minimum amount of people an, Lindo and Thera said they required to enter the competi- hoped their program could be tion, and were all very proud of CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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She’ll grow into it Baldwin fire captain M.J. Stuparich let Kaylee Ricca of Baldwin try on a fire coat at a Girl Scout fire safety and prevention presentation at the department’s headquarters on Sunday.
Baldwin filmmaker seeks funding for a tribute to his late grandfather By ANDRE SILVA asilva@liherald.com
Tim Snow began writing about his feelings of grief, and nostalgia, for his grandfather, Norman Silverman, in 2018, 20 years after Silverman died. In December, Snow, 33, a filmmaker from Baldwin, completed the script for a short film, and plans to begin work on “Now It’s Your Turn” later this spring. Snow’s script is about a young man who is clearing out the home of his grandfather, who has just died, and learns to make peace with the struggles of daily life after the loss of a loved one.
Since he finished the script, he has launched a fundraising campaign and hired a production team to start filming in May. “I’ve been working on this story subconsciously,” Snow explained. “Every time I sat down to write, I would find myself describing the grandson-grandfather relationship and the feeling of grief and loss.” His film will follow the man’s life in the aftermath of his grandfather’s death. As he rummages through his belongings, he comes across a checkers table — a detail inspired by Snow’s own experiences playing checkers with his grandfather. Snow said his grandfather died during his CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
his competition helped me better understand climate change as a social issue.