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Courtesy Ella Noonan
BROOKE, LEFT, AND Ella Noonan brought donations to Last Hope Animal Shelter on Dec. 15 after their club collected supplies.
Clarke High School students aid animal rescue effort By MALLORY WILSON mwilson@liherald.com
Christmas came early for Last Hope Animal Rescue last month thanks to students from W.T. Clarke High School in Salisbury. Members of the high school’s Dog Rescue Club collected supplies for Last Hope for two weeks before dropping them off Dec. 15. Hundreds of dog toys, leashes, collars, blankets, beds, treats and cleaning sup-
plies were dropped off at the Wantagh center by Clarke seniors Ella Noonan — the club’s founder — her twin sister, Brooke, and their mother, Maura. “It’s a great club,” Joanne Anderson, the shelter’s outreach coordinator, said. “We couldn’t be more thankful. It’s just so nice to see young people involved.” Ella Noonan founded the club in February 2020, attracting more than 50 students to the first meeting. They shared
ideas about what the club should do and where members should help out. Less than a month later, the school closed for in-person classes because of the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly two years later, the club is booming, with over 100 members. When schools closed in March 2020, the club was put on hold, but when schools reopened, it started up again. At first the East CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
Jennette Ackerman has long been drawn to creative endeavors. Growing up in Bellmore, she loved to draw and played cello from the time she was a child until she was 21. What she likes about the Barnum Woods Elementary School PTA, she said, is that it gives her a creative outlet, and seeing the smiles on children’s faces as they experience a PTA event never gets old. “We’re the icing on the cake for school,” said Ackerman, of East Meadow, who has been Barnum’s PTA president since 2020. “To hear the children cheering and being engaged with the perfor mers we bring in is so
rewarding.” Ackerman’s love of creativity continued at Fordham University, where she majored in art history. After graduating in 2001, she was hired by Christie’s Auction House in Manhattan as a credit department accounts representative, working with buyers who had purchased works of art by masters such as Rembrandt and Picasso. In 2004, she started working at Cosmopolitan magazine as an editorial department business manager, in charge of budgets for photo shoots and “anything creative,” she said. After marrying her husband, Daniel, in 2007, she remained at the magazine until 2009, when her first child, Connor, was born. CONTINUED ON PAGE 16
MARY-JO GRAHAM, FAR left, and Jennette Ackerman at the PTA’s Bingo Night in 2019.
Courtesy Jennette Ackerman