Baldwin Herald 12-03-2020

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CoMMuNity uPDAtE infections as of Nov. 30

1,271

infections as of Nov. 23 1,184

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students donate to foster children

Baking cakes for a cause

Hospital to offer rapid tests

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DECEMBER 3 - 9, 2020

Vol. 27 No. 49

Baldwinite publishes self-help book and volunteering more. A few years later, her doctors told her that her cyst had shrunk and It was August 2016 when h e r o v e r a l l h e a l t h h a d Johane Ligondé improved. suddenly lost conLigondé, the sciousness while principal of J.W. cleaning her Dodd Middle h o m e. S h o r t ly School in F reeafter, she visited a p o r t , wh o a l s o neurologist, works as a yoga underwent several a n d m e d i t at i o n MRI and CT scans, teacher, recently and learned that launched an there was a colloid e-book that cyst, or a benign describes to readt u m o r, i n h e r ers the seven brain. activities that she Ligondé, a Balddid every day that win resident and contributed to her MiA CAMPBEll Freeport educator, improved health. began practicing Yoga teacher More than a dozen what her meditapeople attended tion teachers had the launch party taught her for years — breath- via Zoom on Nov. 27. ing consciously, moving her “After trying different activibody, connecting with others Continued on page 4

By BRiDgEt DowNEs bdownes@liherald.com

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etting to see this project reach this stage and be able to reach so many people; it just excites me . . .

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VoluNtEERs witH 3D’s Community Empowerment Center in Baldwin helped pack up and distribute nearly 100 grab-and-go meals to people in need on Thanksgiving.

Center offers Thanksgiving hope By BRiDgEt DowNEs bdownes@liherald.com

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the annual 3D’s Community Empowerment Center Thanksgiving dinner looked different this year. T h i r t e e n vo l u n t e e r s teamed up with the Baldwin center’s founder and executive director, Dr. Zodelia Williams, a social worker, to pack hot meals into individual boxes for a grab-and-go distribution to people in need in

local housing facilities. “We had to change the way we distributed the food, but made sure it was personable,” Williams said. While she has hosted her Thanksgiving event for 15 years, this year was different in that it was a mobile effort. Volunteers packed the boxes into the center’s van and drove to four sites to drop them off. Nearly 100 meals were packed and ready to go T h a n k s g iv i n g m o r n i n g ,

including salads, desserts and drinks. Additionally, gifts were placed in each box — masks and hand sanitizer, provided by Island Harvest, and signed copies of the book “I Know My Rights,” by Mysonne Linen, for the children. Trays of catered food were delivered to 3D’s Community Empowerment Center, on Seaman Avenue, where volunteers packed individual boxes before loading them into the Continued on page 3

Our COvid-19 traCker With the Covid-19 test positivity rate rising across the country, the Herald is adding a weekly coronavirus tracker to the upper-left corner of our front page to help you gauge what’s happening in your area from week to week. the number is an aggregate of the communities that this newspaper covers. data is obtained from the nassau County Covid-19 dashboard, which provides the total number of cases reported in an area since the start of the pandemic, and is updated regularly.


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