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Freeport Herald 08-11-2022

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HERALD Your Health

Family Wellness Inside VOL. 87 NO. 33

Applebee’s donation drives

Blood Alley may get tollbooths

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AUGUST 11 - 17, 2022

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National Night Out returns to Freeport By MOHAMED FARGHALY mfarghaly@liherald.com

Courtesy of Freeport Public Relations

FREEPORT MAYOR KENNEDY, center, precinct officers, village trustees and administrators and community members at National Night Out in Bishop Frank O. White Park on Aug. 2.

Freeport residents turned out in force at Bishop Frank O. White Park to interact with first responders and celebrate the return of National Night Out on Aug. 2. More than 11,000 towns around the country annually participate in National Night Out to raise public awareness of the violence, gang activity, and crime that threaten local neighborhoods. The focus of this year's program was on anticrime efforts that improve police-resident cooperation and CONTINUED ON PAGE 5

The annual Great Canoe Race is both fun and historic By REINE BETHANY rbethany@liherald.com

For 47 years, the Great Freeport Canoe Race has been a high point of the summer, in which residents and racers from surrounding communities come to the village’s marvelous waterfront for a memorable day on the water. Guy Lombardo launched the first Great Canoe Race in 1975. Most years, Waterfront Park, at the foot of South Long Beach Avenue, has served as the race launch point and endpoint. In 2018, and again this year on Aug. 7, organizer Marianne Endo dropped the start and finish flags

from the dock overlooking the beach at Cow Meadow Park. Freeport assumed ownership of Cow Meadow from Nassau County in February, and has been upgrading the entire park. “Rob Fisenne with DPW, they had this beach all leveled out with fresh sand for us,” said John Nuzzi Sr., a past president and current director of the Chamber of Commerce. “It was really a dynamite job.” The Chamber, the Freeport Police Athletic League and the Village of Freeport co-sponsored the event. Enthusiastic paddlers of all skill levels were pushed off from

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t’s a challenge for the rowers. But it’s a phenomenal view.

JOHN NUZZI SR. shore by Nuzzi, Chamber President Ben Jackson, First Vice President Ken Dookram, Third Vice President Jacques Butler and villagers who came to help. Freeport Police Community Affairs Division Officer Bobby Ford, with officers Donnetta Cumberbatch and Samantha Sepulveda, brought along teenag-

ers who participate in PAL. Each teen settled into a canoe with one of the adults and paddled across the shining, calm water, rounding the two buoys marking the route before returning exuberantly to shore. Endo was pleased that the teens came. “Our community is surrounded by water,” she said. “These kids should be exposed to

it.” The blazing sun and 90-degree temperatures didn’t deter Assemblywoman Judy Griffin from racing Legislator Steve Rhoads and Officer Ford, with “lots of kibbutzah.” No winner was declared. Village trustees Chris Squeri and Jorge Martinez stood on the sand, cheering on the competitors. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8


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