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Golf outing helps residents in need Beach, the board of trustees and attendees. “I just couldn’t be more pleased to be a part of a Under sunny skies Monday, partnership with the village. I village residents, elected officials said when they gave me the and business owners hit the award tonight that it comes links for a cause at the Mayor’s down to leadership, and this Golf Outing at the Hempstead administration epitomizes that. Golf & Country Club, where a This is the type of local businessman place we want to do and developer were business, a place honored. where they’re busiMoney raised at ness-friendly and the event went looking to encourage toward the Lynbrook business, so I’m Community Chest, excited and hopeful which provides this leads to future financial help to vilopportunities.” lage residents who The four-story, have fallen on hard 80-unit, $24 million times. The outing apartment building also honored Anthow i l l re p l a c e t h e ny Bartone, the man- ANTHONY C a p r i Ly n b r o o k aging partner for BARTONE Motor Inn, which Terwilliger & Barwas razed in June Managing partner, tone Properties, the 2020 after several company developing Terwilliger & battles between vilthe Cornerstone at Bartone Properties lage officials and the Yorkshire project in motel’s owners over the village, and John alleged crime and Fraser-Mifsud, the North Divi- prostitution at the site. Future sion vice president for Daikin tenants began leasing apartGlobal, which opened its Com- ments last month, and Bartone fort Design Center on Sunrise has eyed November as the openHighway in 2019. ing date for the new building. “I couldn’t be more humbled The developer said the building or thrilled,” Bartone said of being recognized by Mayor Alan CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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AVA OLSON, LEFT, and Amaiyah Hansen jumped for joy upon seeing Brian Pellicane’s 1987 Buick at the East Rockaway Car Show, which helps fund Kiwanis Club high school scholarships.
Revving up support for students Car shows fund scholarships, bring E.R. normalcy By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
After the coronavirus pandemic wiped out a summer tradition in East Rockaway last year, the Kiwanis Club car shows have roared and rumbled back, helping the village return to a sense of normalcy. The shows began more than a decade ago when car enthusiast Rich Cittadino started them to bring the village together during the sum-
mer. Cittadino recently retired and moved out of East Rockaway, and the Kiwanis Club has taken over the tradition as a fundraiser for community service projects to continue its goal of “changing the world one community at a time,” President Michaelene Abbott Cooper said. “It’s definitely a very special time for the East Rockaway Kiwanis Club to go from friends to family,” Abbott-Cooper said of having a weekly in-person activity. “It takes all
of the active club members to make the night a weekly success.” Over the years, the car shows have supported many nonprofits, including Mended Little Hearts, which supports children, families and caregivers affected by congenital heart defects; the Little St. Nick Foundation, an East Rockaway-based group that provides hospitalized children with gift bags to reduce anxiety; Camp ANCHOR, a CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
just couldn’t be more pleased to be a part of a partnership with the village.