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April 28, 2022
Senior Healthy Living
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Art was her ‘healing drug’
Play ball! Chase Elson, 7, near right, and his brother, Parker, 5, were all dressed up and ready to take the field for the Central Nassau Athletic Association opening day last Saturday. More photos, Page 3.
Abstract artist Karen Kirshner prepares for upcoming shows in preparation for these shows. The collection will feature 15 to 17 pieces of varying sizes. It At first glance, Karen Kirsh- includes the biggest piece she ner’s paintings may look like lit- has done, 96 inches wide and 38 tle more than a mix of colors inches high. “It’s like a mural, and patterns on canvas. But and it’s composed of two cankeep staring, and vases that are you may find yourlatched together,” self feeling a range she explained. “It of emotions and w a s a n e xc i t i n g noticing figures and thing to do.” images among the She said that she planned craziness has always been of the abstract art. into abstract art, After her art even though ar t started taking off in wasn’t initially her 2018, winning career path of KAReN awards and gaining choice. “My mother her recognition, she KIRSHNeR was the artist and never looked back. Artist the art teacher, and Now the artist, 64, is my father was the preparing for two writer or the jourupcoming solo shows: Onward nalist and the advertising man & Upward, at the B.J. Spoke Gal- and the lawyer, and I wanted to lery, and Spotlight Artist, at the be like my father,” Kirshner Paramount Theatre, both in said. “I always was a writer. I Huntington. always wanted to be a famous “Karen is a longtime member American author.” of the gallery, and we enjoy havShe was caught doodling ing her with us,” said Katherine abstracts as a 14-year-old in EngCriss, president of the B.J. lish class at East Meadow High Spoke Gallery. “I personally School. At first she thought she believe she has a very unique, was in trouble, but instead the well thought out, happy look to teacher introduced her to an her paintings.” advanced art program. She Kirshner has been painting in her home studio for a while Continued on page 14
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East Meadow’s Earth Day cleanup Bird sanctuary gets some TLC from volunteers By MAlloRY WIlSoN mwilson@liherald.com
Not many people would know that behind East Meadow’s Senator Speno Memorial Park sits a bird sanctuary. It looks like a neighborhood sump, but it’s actually home to over 50 species of wildlife. The sanctuary is on Tremont Place, adjacent to Speno Park on East Meadow Avenue. It was once a Nassau County storm
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recharge basin, but was transformed in 1997, the result of a partnership between the county and the Council of East Meadow Community Organizations. Now, 25 years later, nearly 30 volunteers gathered last Saturday, in recognition of Earth Day, to clean it up. “Twenty-five years age we made a resolution at a CEMCO meeting to reach out to the county to see if we could have this area preserved as a bird sanctu-
ary,” said Joe Parisi, CEMCO’s president. “We were here one day with county officials and witnessed an osprey dive into the water and pluck out a fish, and that kind of sealed the deal.” When the site was first preserved, CEMCO and local Boy Scout troops did the initial work to clean it up. Over the years the East Meadow Kiwanis Club joined the cleanup efforts, and Continued on page 12