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Lending a hand, a turkey at a time ard’s, said. “We like to be a part of the community, be familybased, and there’s a lot of great Members of the East Meadow people in East Meadow, a lot of Fire Department joined elected great residents.” leaders and Stew Many Stew LeonLeonard’s employees ard’s workers live in outside the superEast Meadow, and market on Nov. 18 to the store loves to help give out more help them, Vota said. than 40 boxes of tur“We get a great keys. reception,” he said. This is the fifth “We like to work year that Stew Leonwith the churches, ard’s has provided and a lot of these Thanksgiving dinpeople are our cusners for the foodtomers as well and insecure. Cars and love to help out.” trucks lined up in Charities can the store’s parking apply to be beneficialot waiting to pull up ries of the turkey to the building to giveaway, but others receive their turkey were selected after a donations. representative of Stew Leonard’s Stew Leonard’s started its tradition called them and of donating turkeys asked if they needed to charities and local help with stocking organizations near their food pantries. its supermarkets in “When the organiTOM McKEVITT 1979. The East Meadzations are selected, ow location opened Nassau County we try to fit the numin 2017, and the store legislator ber of turkeys they has continued the need the best we tradition ever since. can,” Vato said. “We “This started back in the origi- base it off of the need.” nal store,” Joe Vota, vice presiThanksgiving is a great time dent of operations for Stew LeonCONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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A LARGE SIGN from those favoring parental choice was spread out outside the Leon J. Campo Salisbury Center, where all of the shoes for the shoe drop were left.
E.M. parents join other districts in ‘Operation Shoe Drop’ By MALLORY WILSON mwilson@liherald.com
About 150 East Meadow residents last week took part in Operation Shoe Drop, a peaceful protest in response to school Covid-19 mandates. Parents in 50 districts across New York state dropped off pairs of shoes, some with notes and some without, to make a statement. Dropping off shoes in front of schools was meant to represent students walking out
of school or leaving the district if mandates were to persist, said Kim Boyette, of Merrick, who started Operation Shoe Drop’s Long Island Facebook page Nov. 13. It now has 6,000 followers. Nicole Horak, an East Meadow parent who was among those taking part in the local shoe drop, said it was a group effort. After seeing the post on one of the Facebook groups she follows, Horak worked to let others know about it.
“I wanted to help in any way I could so we the people could get our point across that we make the decisions when it comes to our children,” she said. “We do not parent with the government.” The East Meadow School District, and East Meadow PTA Council President Donna Goldstein, declined to comment. According to the Centers for Disease Control and PreCONTINUED ON PAGE 14
uring this time, there are a lot of people and organizations in need, and I think this is a wonderful program in order to make this a better Thanksgiving for some people.