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Fire damages Carman Ave. strip mall inside Ralph’s. But when EMFD Chief James Walsh, arrived minutes later, he saw smoke in all B&G Deli owner Alphonse five of the stores, which indicatLentz was at his Salisbury store ed a fire. He requested additional late on March 16, hours after manpower. closing. He was rearranging Eighty East Meadow volunsome things, he said, teers from seven and left at 11 p.m. On companies led the his way home to effort to fight the Bohemia, he got a fire, with another 20 call to come back, firefighters assisting because at approxifrom other departmately 11:15, his ments, including building and the Bellmore, Hicksville, four that surroundLevittown, North ed it had caught fire. Bellmore, Nor th Police had seen Merrick, Wantagh smoke coming out and Westbury. A fireof Ralph’s Italian fighter assist search Ices, two doors down team was also on the from the delicates- WILLIAM SEAN scene. sen, in the strip mall RUSSELL “The fight was on south of the interto save the row of Salisbury resident section of Carman stores, as Carman and Stewart aveAvenue was filled nues. They called the East Mead- with fire apparatus,” O’Brien ow Fire Department. Lentz said said. “As additional firefighters he was grateful that police called arrived, hose lines were deployed so quickly, adding that it was not to different businesses in hopes unusual for them to be nearby. of getting ahead of the fire.” His late brother was a state Firefighters were quick to trooper. Lentz said he has always realize that the blaze was actualhad a close relationship with the ly not in Ralph’s, O’Brien said. local police. “We couldn’t see the fire, but Firefighter John O’Brien Sr., once we opened the ceiling at from East Meadow Station 1, said the call initially reported smoke CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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AUTUMN GONZALEZ, LEFT, and Shannon Burt, of Daisy Troop 1119, had never sold Girl Scout cookies, and didn’t know that a drive-through wasn’t the way people usually buy the cookies.
Those cookies keep selling
Taking precautions, scouts try a drive-through By LAURA LANE llane@liherald.com
As the cars lined up, four little girls could barely contain their excitement. Wearing bright blue Girl Scout vests, the members of East Meadow Daisy Troop 1119 stood behind a table filled with boxes of Girl Scout cookies, ready to fill orders. Traditionally, scouts sell the cookies outside grocery stores or in malls, or go door to door. But because of the
coronavirus pandemic, the Girl Scouts of Nassau County have given the girls no choice but to market their highly sought after treats more creatively. The drive-through Girl Scout cookie sale at Veterans Memorial Park, where everyone wore masks and socially distanced, was a first for everyone — the girls, their mothers and troop Co-leader Kim Gonzalez. Gonzalez’s daughter, Autumn, 5, peeking out from a tumble of dark curls, didn’t
hesitate when asked what she liked best about taking part. “Because we’re selling Girl Scout cookies,” she said. Daisy Shannon Burt, also 5, put her ar m around Autumn and added, “What I like best is that we’re all together.” The importance of being together has taken on new meaning for the girls. The cookie sale was the first time they had met in person. Amid CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
l is very generous, and even though he doesn’t live in our community, he cares about it.