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Dine-LI’s food fair returns this weekend Restaurants see a lot of negativity online, Guidice noted, fueled by bad reviews on platDine-LI’s second food-cen- forms such as Yelp. “We only tered vendor event — “For the allow positive reviews,” she said. Love of Dine-LI” — will take “We’re trying to keep people off place on Saturday at the Sama- Yelp. We try to do cool and internea Mall in Westbury. Following esting things to get people out — its first, successful event last to put a positive spin on the O c t o b e r, D i n e - L I industry.” aims to unite food Dine-LI’s Facelovers with new and book page now has old businesses, resover 32,000 followers, taurants and eaterwith members in ies on Long Island. both Nassau and SufDine-LI started as folk County. It has a Facebook page in started to trickle into July 2019, and its Queens and other cofounder Alyssa parts of New York Guidice told the HerCity, but due to dinald that she created ing restrictions the page — with her JoANNE brought on by the m o t h e r, T e r e s a pandemic, Guidice ANDERsoN Guidice, and her said, it is not fully friend Susan Perna Last Hope involved in the city’s — as a platform to Animal Rescue restaurant market help businesses conyet. nect with patrons. A charitable orgaThe “pandemic really helped the nization, it helped feed front-line page grow,” Alyssa said. workers at the beginning of the Guidice, 28, of Hicksville, pandemic, and raised money for works in the beer, wine and restaurants like Piccola Bussola, liquor business, and said she’s in Mineola, after a devastating with “restaurants all day, every fire in 2020. day.” Dine-LI hosted its first food“We just wanted to create a vendor market last October at platform for restaurants to promote themselves,” she said. Continued on page 15
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Will you be my Valentine? Peyton and Maddyn Kolinsky, 9 and 2, of Bellmore, snuggled as they celebrated Valentine’s Day. More photos, Page 3.
Construction work continues on Bay Park Conveyance Project By KAtE NAlEpiNsKi knalepinski@Liherald.com
Additional construction work is expected to begin in Wantagh this week on the Bay Park Conveyance Project, a massive effort to improve water quality and stor m resiliency in Nassau County. The project is expected to provide storm protection, and quality-of-life and economic benefits to Bellmore-Merrick and sur-
rounding South Shore towns, particularly those around the Western Bays, by improving existing wastewater management infrastructure. The project is a joint effort of the Nassau County Department of Public Works and the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The state hosted a virtual public information session on Feb. 10 with Western Bays Constructors, the team in charge of the project. The presentation,
given each quarter, offered updates on the project’s progress and what residents can expect in the near future. Andy Fera, project director for the DEC, said the team was approaching its one-year anniversary of working on the mainly subterranean project. It could be completed as early as fall 2023, he said. Construction has already Continued on page 14
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