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FEBRUARY 25 - MARCH 3, 2021
Vol. 24 No. 9
New ASL club shows ‘signs’ of progress recalled of communicating with Cassandra. “I taught my friends basic signs as well, and realized Sitting in a pew at the Church that this could seriously help of Jesus Christ of Latter Day other people.” Saints in Plainview, Lily Hodson Last fall, Hodson, now 17, watched a woman standing near started an ASL club at Sanford the altar, using her hands to H. Calhoun High School to teach translate the hourh e r p e e r s, a n d long service into raise awareness of American Sign deaf culture and Language so deaf history in the hearand hard-of-hearing community. ing congregants “A lot of people could follow along tend to be uncomwith the hymns fortable talking to and prayers. deaf or hard-of“Every time I hearing people went, I would because they never watch her sign the experienced the whole program,” communication said Hodson, of boundary between MADElINE Merrick. “It was so someone who is Calhoun High cool to look at.” hearing and someHer interest led School student one who is not,” Hodson, who was Hodson said. “The 13 at the time, to goal is to make it teach herself ASL. Every Thurs- more of a comfortable situation day, she attended “Intro to ASL” and teach kids who can hear that activities hosted by the church, . . . you can communicate with read books and used online them normally. You can cross resources to develop her profi- that barrier.” ciency. Hodson even asked a deaf Hodson’s mother, Sharon, is a congregant named Cassandra to special-education paraprofeshelp her learn certain words in sional at Calhoun and the club’s ASL, and, in return, Hodson adviser. The two talked about signed the sermons for her. “It was a win for me,” she Continued on page 4
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RYAN CARRoll oPENED the Bellmore location of Carroll’s Kitchen in December. “It’s a monster of a kitchen,” he said. “It’s exactly what we needed.”
Carroll’s Kitchen is prepared to feed thousands — again By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com
The year is shaping up to be a busy one for Carroll’s Kitchen, a nonprofit that opened in Bellmore late last year to help feed those in need. A number of events are scheduled for the coming weeks to distribute food to thousands of people. O w n e r Rya n C a r r o l l opened the Bellmore location, an offshoot of the original Carroll’s Kitchen, in Blue
Point, in December. The Bellmore kitchen is at the end of Charles Court, off Newbridge Road. The weekend before Christmas, a small group of chefs busily prepared 3,000 holiday meals that were distributed to families throughout the area. That was only Day One. Each week, the organization has been providing meals to more than 350 elderly people in the area. The meals are part of Carroll’s Kitchen’s Elderly Grandparent Pro-
gram, which sends a full meal, with side dishes, to senior residents. The first plates delivered from the Bellmore kitchen marked 33,000 total meals donated by Carroll’s Kitchen since its founding last March. The group has since donated thousands more. “We now have a good feel for Nassau — especially in Bellmore,” Carroll said. More than 1,500 meals will be assembled at the kitchen’s Continued on page 12
f you’re somewhere noisy and need to communicate and knew how to sign, you’d be all set.