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East Meadow Herald 09-08-2022

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Helping to feed Nassau County Harry Chapin National Food Bank Day recognized on Sept. 2 tington Station, and Freeport. A location in Lindenhurst also has a pet food pantry. A third Standing at the Harry Chap- Nassau location, Valley Stream, in Lakeside Theater, Nassau will open in November. In 2021, County Executive Bruce Blake- the pantry fed almost 74,000 man declared Sept. 2 Harry Long Islanders, with 11.4 milChapin National lion meals distribFood Bank Day. uted, according to Chapin, a Gramthe pantry’s webmy Hall of Famer, site. is known for his CEO of LIC, classic songs like Paule Pachter, said “Cat’s in the CraLIC opened 25 popdle” and “Taxi.” He up locations during also founded Long the Covid-19 panIsland Cares, Long demic to aid those Island’s first food in need with addibank, in 1980. Chaptional support from in died in 1981 at the Town of Hempthe age of 38 in a stead. The pop-ups car crash on the helped the pantry Long Island an additional PAulE PAcHTER feed Expressway. He was 223,000 people. driving westbound CEO, Once, the panon his way to per- Long Island Cares demic star ted to form at the theater slow down, and the in Eisenhower Park numbers started to that now bears his name. decrease, Pachter said that they “Not only was he a great thought they were “out of the songwriter, and a great per- woods,” and that they would former,” Blakeman said. “But have enough food to feed those he’s also a humanitarian.” in need. The main LIC location is in “Then, of course, inflation Hauppauge, but the food pantry happened,” he said. “And that has satellite locations in other sent us into a whole new direcareas of the island including Bethpage, Hampton Bays, HunContinued on page 4

By MAlloRY WIlSoN mwilson@liherald.com

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Courtesy Luisa DeGirolamo-Zafonte

Heading back to school Myla Hernandez, far left, Rylie Hanson and Amelia Zafonte waited for the bus together on their first day of kindergarten at McVey Elementary School. More back-to-school coverage, Pages 3, 5, 19.

Fall festival fun for East Meadow Chamber of Commerce to hold fundraiser this month By MAlloRY WIlSoN mwilson@liherald.com

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ust in time for the fall weather and back to school season, the East Meadow Chamber of Commerce will host its inaugural fall festival in Eisenhower Park Field 2. The four-day festival, from Sept. 15 to 18, will feature rides, games, food, entertainment and more.

“Since before I was chamber president, I had always said that East Meadow needed something like this,” Mitchell Allen, the developer and senior chairperson for the event, said. “But we never really had the town street to do something like this like other areas do.” Allen, who was chamber president in 2015, said the idea to host the festival in the park came about four years ago. “I remember him calling me

years ago with this idea,” current Chamber President Richie Krug Jr. said. “He spent countless hours talking and collaborating with other chambers who’ve done the same thing to make sure ours was the best it could possibly be.” Eisenhower Park, East Meadow’s big backyard, was the ideal location to hold the festival, so Allen went to work speaking to Continued on page 17

s always is the case with Long Island, the community rallies around this issue.


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