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Vol. 23 No. 13

MARCH 23 - 29, 2023

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Students sell bracelets for Pulsera Project and has been used to create jobs and educate Central Americans. “I wanted to give the students When East Meadow High an opportunity to raise money School Spanish teacher Rebecca for other people and not necesSaltzman took over as adviser of sarily have to do a fundraiser to the Spanish Honor Society this raise money for ourselves,” school year, she had Saltzman said. “I a fundraising idea in just thought it would mind to show her be a good experience students the importo have the students tance of raising be able to give back money for others. to the Hispanic comThe Pulsera Projmunity.” ect is a nonprofit Saltzman found organization that the org anization connects artists from online, and was waitGuatemala and Nicaing for an opportuniragua with schools ty to introduce it to in the United States. the students. “I figThe artists create ured that since this pulseras — bracelet is the first year I’m in Spanish — with advising the Spanish colorful threads. The Honor Society, why organization hires not do this fundraisthe artists, and the REBECCA er where you’re givbracelets are sent to ing back to the HisSAltzMAN participating Ameripanic community?” can schools, whose teacher, she said. “It just students sell them. East Meadow made sense for the All the money is sent High School Honor Society.” back to the GuatemaThe society hadlan and Nicaraguan n’t really done a communities, where they then fundraiser before, and the stuget fair wages. dents thought this one was a According to the Pulsera Proj- great idea. ect website, over $5 million has “I thought it was really cool,” been raised through the project, Continued on page 9

By MAlloRY WIlSoN mwilson@liherald.com

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Saying ‘mazel tov’ to Rabbi Androphy Nat Androphy sat on the lap of his zaydie — his grandfather Rabbi Ronald Androphy — at the rabbi’s retirement gala last Sunday. Androphy is the longtime spiritual leader of the East Meadow Beth-El Jewish Center. Story, more photos, Page 3.

You, Eileen Cronin, some Irish music, and a grand cup of tea By MAlloRY WIlSoN mwilson@liherald.com

There might not be anyone who’s more proud of being Irish than Salisbury resident Eileen Cronin. For 23 years, Long Ireland Show listeners have heard her talk about all things Irish — from the history of Ireland, to Cronin’s love of Irish music, to stories about her family immigrating to America.

The Long Ireland Show is a radio show airing on WRHU-88.7 FM Radio at Hofstra University. Every Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m., Cronin’s voice can be heard on the airwaves. “When I was working in Motor Vehicles, I met this man from Ireland,” Cronin said. “His name was Pat Thompson, and he was from County Cavan, and he asked me if I would come down and answer the phone at the radio station at Hofstra Universi-

ty, and the rest is history.” Cronin raised three sons in the Bronx, and she worked a few other jobs before becoming a radio personality. She started in insurance before she was married, and then made her way to the Department of Motor Vehicles, where she met Thompson. She started at the radio show in the early 1990s, answering the phone for Thompson while also Continued on page 2

just thought it would be a good experience to have the students be able to give back to the Hispanic community.


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