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North Shore Soup Kitchen serves again other,” she said, “and they know nobody’s judging them.” The soup kitchen feeds the This week, after being closed homeless, and anyone else lookfor over a year and a half, the ing for a hot meal. Moore North Shore Soup Kitchen stressed that they know most returned to its main purpose: people who come by name — but serving hot meals to those in strictly first names only. need. Volunteers “We really reand recipients respect their dignity,” united on Tuesday at she said. “We don’t the First Baptist ask questions.” C h u rch o f G l e n Board member Cove, where takeout Bernie Rosenblum, meals will be handof Great Neck, has ed twice a week. volunteered at the “The people who kitchen for 12 years, really missed us and agreed that its were at our door,” accepting atmoBERNIE Estelle Moore, the sphere was an soup kitchen’s direc- ROSENBLUM important factor. tor, said, noting that Volunteer, North “A n y b o dy c a n about 40 meals were come get a meal or Shore Soup Kitchen turkey,” Rosenblum given out. The soup kitchen said. “We have no has operated in the basement of restrictions.” the church on Continental AveHowever, Moore said, if peonue for 32 years. Before the pan- ple ask for help in other areas, demic, recipients were served such as obtaining a Metro card, buffet-style and could sit at the scheduling a doctor’s appointtables to eat. Now, however, they ment or traveling to the social must take their meals to go. services department, soup kitchMoore said that the benefit of en volunteers can assist with the dining room — aside from making the arrangements. providing a sheltered space to “They come to us and then we eat — is that it allows people to can help them, but we don’t go in mingle and network. “They get to know each CONTINUED ON PAGE 19
BY JILL NOSSA
jnossa@liherald.com
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his aspect has withstood the test of time.
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MICHAEL DANCHALSKI, A Glen Cove veteran who served in the Army in Operation Desert Storm, was this year’s Veterans Day honoree.
Glen Cove honors local man at Veterans Day ceremony BY JILL NOSSA jnossa@liherald.com
Glen Cove residents gathered near the Doughboy Monument on the front lawn of the Glen Cove Public Library on an unseasonably warm and sunny Veterans Day to honor the men and women who have served in the military. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 347 Commander Henryk
Nowicki led the morning’s ceremony, and explained the significance of the holiday. “On Veterans Day we honor all of the men and women in unifor m who survived,” Nowicki said, “and came home to their communities and their families.” The VFW has been organizing the holiday ceremony in Glen Cove “for many decades,” Nowicki said, noting that it wasn’t until 1993
that the Veterans Day Committee began choosing an honoree. The tradition started, Nowicki recounted, when he became the post commander and Don DeRiggi was mayor. DeRiggi wanted to honor a veteran who represented all of the veterans in the area, Nowicki said. Nowicki then introduced this year’s honoree, Michael Danchalski, who has lived in CONTINUED ON PAGE 20