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Small gyms feel weight of the pandemic have conducted close to 1,200 personal training sessions — and none has resulted in a positive Although gyms were allowed Covid-19 case, he said. to reopen on Aug. 24 after a The mandates “lumped us in months-long shutdown, smaller with bars, restaurants, movie fitness studio and boutique gym theaters and bowling alleys owners are still using a broad feeling the weight stroke brush, and of state-mandated they made it sound restrictions intendlike if you step foot ed to limit the into a training spread of the corofacility, you’ll get navirus. Covid,” SchneiderIn New York, man said. “People gyms can operate started getting at 33 percent capacscared, and this is ity as long as they one of the things provide proper venthat we’re fighting tilation and adhere against.” to social-distancing Steel Fitness rules. Masks are opened in 2008, also mandatory. of fering clients Additionally, on one-on-one sesN o v. 1 2 , G o v. sions in its A n d rew C u o m o 2,300-square-foot announced that SANDi VEGA studio. To comply gyms, along with Trainer, Steel Fitness with state manrestaurants or bars dates, Schneiderwith a state liquor man bought a license, must close by 10 p.m. MERV 13 air filter, installed North Merrick resident Stu- three hand-sanitizing stations art Schneiderman, who owns and wipes down all equipment Steel Fitness, in Bellmore, said with a cleaning solution every the curfew does not affect his two hours and after each session. business. He reopened the Grand He offers disposable facemasks Avenue studio at the end of August. Since then, his trainers Continued on page 14
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A tree glows in Bellmore The Chamber of Commerce of the Bellmores continued a beloved holiday tradition despite the coronavirus pandemic. On Sunday night, a small crowd gathered at the Veterans Memorial on Broadway and Pettit Avenue to light the community Christmas tree and menorah.
Dress for Recovery clothing bank opens at Chabad Center By ANDREW GARCiA agarcia@liherald.com
You might guess that clothing banks for cancer patients, offering special items designed with cancer treatments in mind, would be as common as wig banks are — but they’re not. When Loraine Alderman was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, she searched beyond New York’s borders for a brickand-mortar retail outlet that sold
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ter for Jewish Life in Merrick. “On May 28, 2019, when I received a call informing me that my two biopsies both came back positive for breast cancer, I could not think or perceive that something positive could come out of my new nightmare,” Alderman said to a small gathering before the ribbon was cut. “I could not believe that there was not one store in all of New York or New Jersey where I Continued on page 9
e’re quite different than the big corporate gyms since we don’t have hundreds of people coming in and out of the door.