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DECEMBER 24- 30, 2020
Vol. 23 No. 52
CHSD reflects on messages of Dr. King year, and each individual grade in each building is tasked with bringing in a specific set of The lessons of the Rev. Dr. items. At Wellington C. Mepham Martin Luther King Jr. are espe- High School, each grade is colcially poignant for the students lecting separate Covid-related of the Bellmore-Merrick Central items: freshmen, masks; sophoHigh School District this year — mores, hand sanitizers and tisnamely what he sues; juniors, hot said was the most cocoa and tea; and urgent question in seniors, soup and life: “What are you crackers, said doing for others?” Mepham social A m i d a ye a r studies teacher that included a Robyn Einbinder. pandemic and “It takes on its re s u l t i n g w i d e own personality spread financial across the district,” troubles, middle said Einbinder, and high school who also helped students are conplan the districttinuing their annuwide initiative as al tradition of colthe Central Dislecting goods for trict’s social studless fortunate indi- MADISoN yEh ies chairwoman. viduals. This year, John F. Kennedy High “We have such all donations col- School ambassador crazy things going lected will directly on in the world, benefit the commuand we need to nity via the Bellmore-Merrick bring light to [the] positive Community Cupboard. things,” Mepham senior Taya The collection will run until Carlin said. “MLK changed so Martin Luther King Jr. Day on many lives for the better, and it’s Jan. 15. Collected goods will then important in hectic times we be packed and distributed by remember all the good times.” small groups of students. “MLK Day is building comThousands of students take part in the massive drive every Continued on page 4
By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com
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Courtesy Stacy Quinn
No school? S’no problem. Hayden Quinn, of North Bellmore, let fly during a snowball fight last Thursday. The first snowstorm of the season — four days before winter officially began — closed local schools, giving kids a much-needed snow day. Story, more photos, Page 9.
Chefs open nonprofit kitchen in Bellmore to feed thousands By ANDREW GARCIA agarcia@liherald.com
Last Saturday, in a half-hidden, newly rented kitchen at the end of Charles Court, off Newbridge Road in Bellmore, a small group of chefs was busily preparing food. The next day, they distributed roughly 3,000 meals to families throughout the area. It was the first day after Ryan Carroll officially established the location as the new outlet for
Carroll’s Kitchen, a nonprofit organization that he started in Blue Point, near his hometown of Sayville, in Suffolk County. Carroll began the initiative in March and has since helped feed tens of thousands of people across Long Island. Sunday’s batch of donations marked 33,000 meals donated by Carroll’s Kitchen since it started. “It’s a monster of a kitchen,” Carroll said of the new location. “We’ve been working with two
stoves in this small kitchen in Blue Point, but this kitchen in Bellmore is amazing — it’s exactly what we needed.” The kitchen has seven ovens, additional stoves and extra countertop space, which will help Carroll’s team prepare even more food than before, he said. Many of the volunteers, including Carroll, are chefs who lost their jobs over the past nine months when restaurants shutContinued on page 3
t’s ever more prudent for us as a school and community to more than just simply recognize MLK Day.