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At G.C. library, club members find ancestors gy, reflecting the diverse population of Glen Cove and the rest of the North Shore. Have you ever wondered The collective will have its about your ancestry, or the histo- first virtual meeting on Feb. 10. ry of your home? Sometimes The libraries working to host the oral stories aren’t reliable, and events are in Glen Cove, Baynot every household ville, Oyster Bay, can keep records, Locust Valley and photos and docuGlen Head. “We’re ments. To help resistronger if we work dents take a deeper with other people,” dive into their histoRodgers said. ry, the Glen Cove Ancestry.com and Public Library’s similar websites Genealogy Club held have helped many its first meeting on people trace their Jan. 24. family trees. The “It’s really just Glen Cove library’s like a place where LYDIA WEN Ancestry.com mempeople come to bring bership was cantheir work, talk RODGERS celed two years ago amongst each other, Glen Cove Public due to budget cuts, e n c o u r a g e e a c h Library librarian but Rodgers said she other,” archivist and hoped that renewing librarian Lydia Wen the subscription to Rodgers said. “It’s a community.” the website with the help of a One component of the club is grant would encourage commuthe Genealogy Collective, a col- nity members to visit and use it. laboration of North Shore Genealogy Club meetings are libraries that will meet on Zoom. limited to five participants, and The collective’s librarians, gene- are held in the library’s history alogists, historians and authors room. On Jan. 24, attendees were plan to give virtual lectures on eager to share their stories, and the resources and history avail- offered one another tips for deepable to residents to help them ening their research. explore their roots. Topics Mercedes Morales, a library included Latin American, Italian and African American genealoCONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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he idea is that people will come and kind of share with each other.
Courtesy Christine Brown
A trudge uphill for a slide downhill While adults spent a good part of Sunday digging out from the nor’easter that walloped Glen Cove, kids like Ryan Rieger enjoyed a day of sledding at Deasy School. More photos, Page 12.
VFW hosts Covid test giveaway near post still in need of repairs BY LETISHA DASS ldass@liherald.com
The James E. Donohue Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 347 headquarters in Glen Cove has been closed since August 2021, when a fire destroyed the second floor of the building on Hill Street. The facility was also a base of operations for the North Shore Soup Kitchen. Over five
months later, the veterans remain in desperate need of donations to help rebuild. “The main floor, upstairs, where NOSH was, that was pretty well burnt up,” Howard Stillwagon, a Vietnam veteran and a VFW member, said, referring to a soup kitchen program that was initiated during the coronavirus pandemic. “They pretty much lost everything. That whole part
has got to be rebuilt.” The downstairs area of the century-old building, where the post held meetings and displayed its memorabilia, sustained water and smoke damage. Neither the heat nor the building’s plumbing has been operational since the fire. “A lot of people in Glen Cove probably don’t know the situaCONTINUED ON PAGE 5