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Supporting youth sports Northwell Health Ice Center and Jovia announce partnership sponsor like Jovia,” Lombardo said. “They support our youth on Long Island, and these kids are Northwell Health Ice Center, our future, and sports play such a in Eisenhower Park, has part- huge part in developing these nered with Jovia Financial Cred- kids.” He said that sports build it Union, one of the character, and teach leading credit unions strategic thinking on Long Island. Jovia and leadership skills, will be the rink’s teamwork and goal “official credit union setting. partner.” A Jovia ATM will Chris Lombardo, be installed in the the rink’s vice presimain lobby, and at dent of partnerships, select times, Jovia said that the facility representatives will was excited about be present to interthis multi-year partact with families, nership. “They have provide information such deep roots in about the credit the community,” CHRIs union’s services and Lombardo said, “and loMBARDo promote financial having Jovia repreliteracy. sentatives available Vice President Renu Dalessanto speak to these of Partnerships, dro, the credit young kids and their Northwell Health union’s chief marparents about finanketing officer, said Ice Center cial literacy at such a that Jovia is all about young age is so investing in local important.” communities. “It’s these types of Jovia will be the presenting local partnerships that really give sponsor of the In-House Youth us a way to give back to the comHockey Programs at the Ice Cen- munity,” she said. “When this ter, which includes youth house program came to be, we knew leagues, youth summer camps that this would be a perfect fit.” and youth clinics. Each program She said that it’s important to is geared toward kids ages 5 to 13. “It means a lot to us to have a Continued on page 13
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state champion! Clarke High School senior Jordan Soriano became the school’s first-ever state wrestling champion last Saturday night in Albany, capturing the 138-pound title. Story, additional photo, page 10.
With data to back her up, Hochul lifts school mask mandate By MAlloRy WIlsoN and REINE BETHANy mwilson@liherald.com, rbethany@liherald.com
G o v. K a t h y H o c h u l announced last Sunday that the state requirement for children in school and child care to wear masks indoors would end on March 2. Hochul likened the Covid-19 pandemic to a “war that has been unfolding for the last two years, where our country has
been under siege by this unseen assailant – one that has taken thousands of lives of Americans and New Yorkers.” In defense of the mask requirement so far, Hochul said that when she was sworn into office six months ago, her priority was to get children back to school, but that wearing masks was the best guarantee for children’s safety, especially since no pediatric vaccine was available until November.
“We’re going to talk about where we came from in these last six months,” Hochul said, “and you see the spikes and the infection rates that really validated the rationale and the logic behind ensuring that we had those masks in place through those spikes, especially the Omicron variant.” On Sunday, East Meadow School District Superintendent Continued on page 12
hey have such deep roots in the community . . . a young age is so important.