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Library kicks off the Great Give Back Merrick Central High School District’s Community Cupboard, at Brookside School. The stuThe Bellmore Memorial dent-run organization helps feed Library will honor individuals roughly 50 families in the comand give back to the community munity. as part of the Great Give Back, a A donation table is open in day of service celethe library’s front brated by libraries lobby, and a list of across the state. needed items will T h e i n i t i a t ive, be published weekwhich will run to ly on the Cupthe end of October, board’s Instagram is a gesture by page, @bmchsd_ library staf f to community_cupthank those who board. The list will worked throughout ensure that donathe Covid-19 pantions match what demic to ensure the families need — well-being of fami“Purposeful givlies in need. ing,” Head of Ref“This is a great erence Martha way to acknowlDiVittorio said. edge those commu“I love that this MARThA nity members and is one community let them know we organization workDIVITToRIo appreciate their ing with another work,” said chil- Head of reference, community org,” dren’s librarian Bellmore she continued. “It’s Pam Pagones, who Memorial Library a privilege to be in helped organize the that position to be project. “It’s an able to help, espeopportunity not just for us but cially this year. It’s a good time to for members of the community show your gratitude.” to give back as well.” On Monday — the start of the Half of the Great Give Back first full week of the Give Back will be a food drive, with all donations going to the BellmoreContinued on page 9
By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com
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MERRICk REsIDENT luCIllE Munson, who will celebrate her 100th birthday next Wednesday, said she would make it a point to vote in person on Election Day.
A Merokean turning 100 offers some advice: get out and vote
By AlyssA sEIDMAN aseidman@liherald.com
2020 is the 100th anniversary of a constitutional amendment that changed the course of American history. Because of the efforts of suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, who organized the first women’s rights convention in upstate Seneca Falls in 1848, a national movement for women’s equality, including the right to vote, began to gain
traction. New York passed a referendum granting women that right on Nov. 6, 1917. Three years later, on Aug. 18, 1920, women across the country were given the same privilege with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Two months later, on Oct. 14, Lucille Munson, of Merrick, was born. A member of the first graduating class at Mepham High School in North Bellmore, Munson, 99, has voted
in her fair share of elections since casting her first ballot in 1941, when the voting age was still 21. That year she gave birth to her first son, Ronald, named for Ronald Reagan, who at that point was known only for his career in Hollywood. Munson’s maternal grandfather, Joseph McCoy, was an active member of the Merrick Democratic Party in the 1930s. The call to civic service was seemingly passed down, Continued on page 3
t’s a privilege to be in that position to be able to help, especially this year. It’s a good time to show your gratitude.