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gainful employment. And a lot of employers are looking for employees. We’ve been pretty HempsteadWorks recently successful in helping them.” held a job fair, which was The more than 80 businesses described as the most successful featured opportunities from to date — with more than 80 nearly every feasible field — businesses participating, 3,000 retail, healthcare, education, people attending and hundreds security, banking, hospitality of applications and more. being filled out. “We want to make The April 20 sure that there’s a event drew a line of diverse g roup of business-clad hopebusinesses and fuls that stretched industries available out the door of the to everyone,” Kurt Freeport Recreation Ro c k e n s i e s , t h e Center, down the town’s deputy comsidewalk and around missioner, said. “We the cor ner. While try to get every last September’s job industry possible to fair produced 1,500 participate.” people seeking Jeffrey Johnson, employment, last program director of month’s saw more Urban Seniors Jobs than double those dejeAne Program, with the nu m b e r s. H e m p - edOuArd Urban League of steadWorks runs a Westchester County job seeker job fair in the spring Inc., noted that job and fall of each year. fairs have been the “It’s so people can have a bet- source of plenty of success for ter quality of life, for employ- his company. Many of their ment, so they can support their hires came directly from job fair families and strengthen the applications. economy,” Eric Mallette, com“We come as often as we can,” missioner of the Town of Hemp- Johnson said. “HempsteadWorks stead’s Occupational Resources, does a great job of getting the said. “And also to give back to word out to the public. Our the community if they have Continued on page 14
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dOzens Of VendOrs crowded the 2021 Grand Baldwin Festival, and more are expected this year.
Grandest Baldwin Festival yet Rained out last weekend, event promises more vendors than ever when it makes its return By Ben fIeBerT bfiebert@liherald.com
The Grand Baldwin Festival is coming back within the next few weeks, and it promises to be bigger than ever. The event, which is expected to return later this month or in early June, was scheduled for last Saturday, but was rained out. More than 100 vendors are signed up to take part when it does take place, hosted by the Community Coalition of Baldwin and celebrating the community. David Viana, a co-chair of the event, said it would be the largest one ever since the event debuted in the fall of 2019. “We’ve been saying
that this will be our grandest festival yet, because it will include the most . . . vendor spaces that we’ve ever had,” he said. According to Viana, there will be no more room for vendors, with some 112 planning to be involved. The event was initially scheduled to be held on the Baldwin Public Library parking lot, but the site for the rain date had not been finalized as the Herald went to press. “We’re very excited to have so many vendors,” Viana said. “It will be a mix of food vendors, retail, clothing, accessories, housewares and jewelry. So it’s a nice, eclectic mix of different vendors from Baldwin.” The food vendors will include Pops and Continued on page 4
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