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Pastor with a plan: 75,000 boxes of food national hunger relief organization, or 5 percent of the population. Feeding America estimates Every Wednesday, Thursday that that figure has almost douand Friday, the Rev. Danilo Arch- bled, to 9.8 percent, in 2020, when bold spends his mornings taking many people have been laid off care of his wife, Melissa, who is and are struggling to make ends recovering from surgery, and his meet. afternoons handing out hunAn estimated 46,000 Town of dreds of boxes of food to those in Hempstead residents were need. unemployed in August, data “We have to find different from the state Department of ways of helping Labor shows, and people” as the coroNassau County navirus pandemic had a 10.7 percent c o n t i n u e s, s a i d unemployment Archbold, the pasrate. At the same tor of New Jerusatime last year, the lem Pentecostal county’s unemChurch, in Elmont, ployment rate was adding that if there luChIaNO NIVaR just 3.7 percent. is a need in the But, Archbold c o m m u n i t y, t h e Elmont said, “That ch u rch t r i e s t o shouldn’t stop peoaddress it. ple from having decent-quality According to the United food.” States Department of AgriculHe partnered with the New ture’s Economic Research Ser- York City-based 9 Million Reavice, 10.5 percent of New Yorkers sons to hand out food every were food insecure in 2018, just Wednesday in October in under the national rate of 11 per- Elmont, every Thursday in the cent. The agency defines food Village of Westbury and every insecure households as those Friday in the Village of Hempthat are “uncertain of having, or stead. Though it has only two unable to acquire enough food to full-time staff members, 9 Milmeet the needs of all their mem- lion Reasons runs the largest bers.” community food pantry in New In Nassau County, 72,210 peo- York City, and now feeds more ple were food insecure in 2018, Continued on page 3 according to Feeding America, a
By MElISSa KOENIg mkoenig@liherald.com
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e stand as one in this community.
Courtesy Joe Allocco
JOE allOCCO IS creating a coronavirus protocol-observant Halloween display this year, with the help of his wife, Linda, and their son, Joseph.
Scaring visitors in new ways
F.S. tradition continues with a haunted display By MElISSa KOENIg mkoenig@liherald.com
Last year, Joe Allocco announced that he would no longer be creating his Franklin Square Hor ror House — where trick-ortreaters could make their w ay t h ro u g h a h a u n t e d house complete with actors dressed up in scary costumes — as he had for more than 20 years. He had a miniature stroke, he explained, and building the
attraction on the side of his Norbay Street home would be too arduous a task. But with everyone stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, and after his neighbor, Tito Roman, d i e d s u d d e n l y i n Ju l y, Allocco decided to revive the award-winning display. “Tito was always involved with the Haunt from the very beginning,” Allocco, 55, posted on Facebook on Oct. 12. “It didn’t and wouldn’t feel right to
continue without him here. But, in the same breath, I know he would say, ‘Are you crazy? You have to do something! You’ve done it for 23 years.’” The tradition started one Halloween when Allocco dressed up as Leatherface, from “Texas Chainsaw Mass a c r e, ” a n d r ev ve d h i s chainsaw when neighborhood children passed by. They told their friends, and the following year, almost Continued on page 24