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Referendum will focus on firefighters Firefightera, there are some 4,000 fewer volunteer firefighters in Nassau County than Firefighting brings new chal- there were 20 year ago. The lenges every day, and there’s no decline is not only a major pubone-size-fits-all handbook for a lic safety concern, but also crefirefighter’s life. In recognition ates major challenges in county of these valued volunteers’ firehouses. Limited staffing heroic acts, the City Council increases safety concer ns among firefighters, and Mayor Pamela who are often given Panzenbeck have expanded responsigiven their unanibilities. It also placmous approval to es financial burthe Glen Cove Voldens on fire departunteer Fire Departments when firement to hold a reffighters don’t stay erendum next in the service as month to extend the long, as the departeligibility for the ments bear the cost city’s Length of of training and Service Award Proequipping new volgram from 35 years unteers. to 50 years. PAMELA Glen Cove Fire The city’s fire- PANZENBECK C h i e f Ro b e r t S . fighters are not Mayor, Retoske said the paid, but thanks to Glen Cove de par tment curthe program, rently has about 90 known as LOSAP, they receive pension-style bene- firefighters, its smallest contingent in 10 years. fits when they turn 65. Only two Long Island fire “One of the issues is that people no longer volunteer like departments, Setauket and they used to,” Panzenbeck said. Long Beach, have some paid firefighters. There are none in “The program is a means of recruitment and retention to Glen Cove, but the GCFD offers get people to join. We want to scholarships to the children of firefighters who are applying to support our volunteers.” According to Nassau County CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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Victoria Bjorklund, left, and George Strausman, two of the 13 poets who took Evelyn Kandel’s long-standing poetry class, congratulate each other after reading their respective poems at the Sea Cliff Arts Council.
North Shore poets prove that anyone can be creatively inspired By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com
For aspiring poets, putting pen to paper or words on a computer screen is daunting. Too often, many become discouraged, thinking their writing needs to be momentous, or embody a high level of sophistication to be taken seriously. That narrative is something the writers of “13 Poets From Long Island,” an anthology of poems from 13 authors, hope to do away with. “Unfortunately, in schools, poetry is taught in a way that isn’t any fun,” said Evelyn Kandel, a former county poet laureate and Glen Cove resident. “Poetry is just like reading a good book, you’re just reading a short poem,
and it’s telling you something. You shouldn’t always think of it as something you have to study.” Some of the book’s contributors met 14 years ago as students in Kandel’s poetry class at the Great Neck Library’s adult education program. Her classes started out with a few students, but over the years, Kandel developed a loyal following from her classes in Great Neck and Sea Cliff. Sheila Saferstein, one of the book’s contributors and retired North Shore High School English teacher, said she joined Kandel’s class to fill her spare time. Before joining, her poetry was often based on allusions to classical mythology, but Kandel encouraged Saferstein CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
ne of the issues is that people no longer volunteer like they used to.