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Leaders decry ruling on guns Lament high court’s ending concealed-carry requirements more concerned about doing things like honking her horn or standing up for herself in public, After the Supreme Court for fear that someone might be overturned a century-old state carrying a concealed weapon. law that required gun owners to “Bullets don’t have names on provide proof of their need to them,” she said, reasoning that carry firearms for self-defense, innocent bystanders, namely the Elmont community advocates elderly and children, face an expressed concerns about safety increased risk of despite the virtually gun violence as a nonexistent gun vioresult of the court’s lence locally. They action. pointed to the potenHall stressed that tial breakdown of Elmont — where trust among resithere have been only dents because of three reported uncertainty about shootings since 2014, t h e p re s e n c e o f according to the weapons. Trace, a website that “It makes you tracks gun violence change your whole in the U.S. — is not thought patter n,” prone to gun crimes. said Claudine Hall, JOhNSON The number of shots president of the Mimi Pierre fired in Elmont has Jamaica Square consistently been Civic Association zero, she said, every and Improvement month since 2017. League, adding that she believed Despite that, a program called that overturning the law would Shot Spotter, which helps police make even communities unaf- find the source of gunfire by trifected by gun violence, like angulating its sound with senElmont, less secure. sors mounted on utility poles, “I don’t want to walk around was rolled out in Elmont by the the world nervous or scared — Nassau County Police Departand not only in Elmont, but any- ment in March 2017. Hall and where,” Hall said. The ruling, she explained, would make her Continued on page 14
By ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com
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hOlidAY FARmS, WhiCh currently operates three Nassau County stores, including this one in Roslyn Heights, is owned by third-generation grocer David Mandell.
Holiday Farms unveils plans
Store replacing F.S. King Kullen will add bigger deli, curate items based on community’s needs By ROBERT TRAVERSO rtraverso@liherald.com
When the locally owned grocery chain Holiday Farms opens its newest store next month, in the location currently occupied by King Kullen in Franklin Square’s Franklin Plaza, it will initiate a long-term plan that envisions cooperation between the store and the community. “We’re just a lot closer to the road,” Holiday Farms owner and third-generation
grocer David Mandell said of the small-business mentality that Holiday Farms, which has three stores in Nassau County, plans to bring to Franklin Square when the new location opens on Aug. 8. Mandell emphasized that Holiday Farms is known for curating its products based on a community’s specific needs, and that it plans to do so in Franklin Square. “It’s not a corporate structure — the store is curated to the neighborhood,” Mandell
said. “If the customers want low prices and items that are less expensive, that’s what we’ll give them. If they want more organic or natural or something more higher-end, that’s what we’ll give them.” Lisa DelliPizzi, president of the Franklin Square Chamber of Commerce, said that many residents support the arrival of Holiday Farms, especially because the store is part of a small, locally owned chain. Continued on page 4
e’re going further and further away in trying to unite people.