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Brothers meet the demand Siblings collect, donate nearly 300 bottles of baby formula Call to action
By RoBERT TRAVERSo
Ali and Akram were inspired to help children and families in Just before the distribution of need of baby formula not only baby formula ended late last by reports of the nationwide Monday at the Masjid Hamza shortage, but also by personal Islamic Center mosque in Valley experience. Stream, a man rushed in, and Akram, who co-founded Toyswas overjoyed when he learned 4Eid, which collects and distribthe center had utes toys to local enough to feed his children during the child. Muslim holiday of “He almost teared Eid al-Fitr, said he up,” said Sheharyar realized the demand Ali, who with his for baby for mula b r o t h e r, H a m z a when speaking with Akram, both Elmont those who attended a residents, collected r e c e n t To y s 4 E i d bottles of baby forevent at Eisenhower mula that was disPark in East Meadt r i b u t e d a t t h e SHEHARyAR AlI ow. mosque’s food pan- Elmont resident “We decided to do try. more than just toys,” Ali and Akram Akram said. collected 260 baby formula botAli, who has two sons, one tles in a week and donated them who is two and a half years old to the Valley Stream mosque, as and the other two months old, well as to 11 Nassau County shel- was personally affected by the ters that primarily serve infants. crisis. “The demand is very high, He said his wife, Hina Ghani, but it’s impossible to find formu- expressed alarm about the baby la, and we made it happen,” Ali formula shortage. “If I can’t feed said of the nationwide baby for- my son, there isn’t even formula. mula shortage that he and his How am I going to feed my son?” brother are working to counter Ali recalled his wife saying. in Nassau County. This upset Ali, who joined his
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Remembering the fallen A car decorated for Memorial Day by the Community League of Garden City South made its way through the Franklin Square parade on Monday.
Elmont veteran inducted into state’s Veterans Hall of Fame By RoBERT TRAVERSo rtraverso@liherald.com
Elmont resident and United States Ar my veteran Lecia Rodrigues-Whyte was inducted into the New York State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame by Sen. Todd Kaminsky on May 26. Rodrigues-Whyte’s service in the Ar my began when she signed up in 1986. She eventually rose to the rank of sergeant first class, and after the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, she was sent to Fort Totten, in Queens. In 2003, she served overseas during the war in Iraq. “Her time overseas was challenging, working 24 hour days, assigning soldiers to various working positions and running to hospitals to support her fellow s o l d i e r s wh e n t h e y we re injured,” Kaminsky’s office stated in detailing RodriguesWhyte’s service in Iraq. “Additionally, shootings, bombings
and a helicopter attack forced her into an emergency landing in Tikrit.” Rodrigues-Whyte retired from the Army in 2007 due to injuries sustained during her service in Iraq. Kaminsky said he inducted the Elmont resident into the Hall of Fame in recognition of her “honorable and selfless service to the nation and fellow veterans.” Continued on page 5
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