Freeport
HERALD Leader
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OCTOBER 22 - 28, 2020
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Chamber to host dinner Officials celebrate Freeport’s resilient business community the Year and John Hrvatin as the Community Service Award recipient. After the coronavirus shut “It’s great to be able to hold down the local economy in this event, even if it’ll be on a March, the Freeport Chamber smaller scale,” Chamber Presiof Commerce worked around dent Jenny Jorge said. “This is the clock to proa celebration of mote local businessFreeport’s resilient es and connect business communithem with resourcty.” es that could help Bennett, presithem stay afloat dent of the Freeuntil the reopening port-based Rabco began this summer. Engineering P.C., As busy as the which provides chamber was assistengineering and ing its members, construction manthe spring shut agement services, down also forced has worked in the the organization to JENNy JORgE village for 33 years. cancel its annual Founded in 1987, President, Installation Dinner, Rabco Engineering which celebrates Chamber of began working on not only the cham- Commerce small residential ber, but also Freejobs until it grew to porters dedicated to managing larger, improving their community. multi-million-dollar projects, Though the Chamber of including airports, rail faciliCommerce cannot hold its usu- ties, breweries, hospitals and ally large-scale affair, its lead- universities. ers decided to hold a smaller Bennett also took on homeceremony at the Freeport Yacht raising and flood-control projClub on Thursday, after the ects in Freeport and Island Herald Leader went to press, to Park to protect homes after reinstall officers and board Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Benmembers and to honor Robert Bennett as Business Person of Continued on page 4
By RONNy REyEs rreyes@liherald.com
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Courtesy Stop & Shop
No tricks, just treats Long Island Cares Inc. partnered with Stop & Shop to distribute Halloween goodie bags to children at its food pantry in Freeport last Friday. Story, Page 4.
A place for those Inn-B-Tween Library plans to construct new youth section By RONNy REyEs rreyes@liherald.com
For years, the Free por t Memorial Library has tailored special programs for residents of all ages at its building, but there was one age group that had long proved difficult to serve — tweens. These youths, ages 10 to 12, are too old for some of the children’s activities but not quite old enough to join teen groups. The
library has a Children’s Room and Teen Room, but Library Director Ken Bellafiore asked, “What about those kids in between?” After receiving more than $175,000 in state aid secured by State Sen. John Brooks and Assemblywomen Judy Griffin and Taylor Darling, Bellafiore said the library would construct a space specifically for tweens called the “Inn-B-Tween,” where tweens can gather to socialize
and take part in library programs catered to them. “This is something we’ve wanted to do for a long time now, and I’m looking forward to creating a space for tweens at the library,” Bellafiore said. “It has been said that ‘a library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life,’ and we are delighted to be able to facilitate the funds necessary to mainContinued on page 3
his is a celebration of Freeport’s resilient business community.