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Lynbrook board bans pot in public including restaurants and bars, to protect workers and the public from exposure to harmful Months after voting to pro- second-hand tobacco smoke hibit marijuana sales and dis- and vaping aerosols. pensaries in the village, LynIn May, the village board brook officials unanimously unanimously voted to ban marvoted to ban smoking marijua- ijuana dispensaries and conna in public places sumption shops like parks, eateries from being built or and local businesses set up in the village at a public hearing after a public hearon Oct. 18. ing, citing potential “The Village of danger to the comLynbrook will abide munity. by the New York The board state law and keep opened the public t h e re s i d e n t s o f hearing about disLy n b r o o k s a f e, ” pensaries after New Mayor Alan Beach York state passed told the Herald. the Marijuana Reg“The vote was unanulation and Taxaimous.” tion Act, or MRTA, Officials reacted on March 31, which after there were gave villages, counsome complaints ALAN BEACH ties and towns the from residents authority to ban Lynbrook mayor about people smoksales within their ing marijuana in jurisdictions. New parks and other public spaces. York became the 18th state to The vote included a change to legalize marijuana use, and the village code, which was in officials formed new agencies keeping with the state’s Clean within the state government to Indoor Air Act. The act was control it. approved by state officials in In New York, residents are 2017 and prohibits smoking and able to possess up to 3 ounces vaping in almost all public and private indoor workplaces, CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
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The key to a successful food drive The Lynbrook High School Key Club and the Kiwanis Club partnered to host a food drive earlier this month that helped local families in need.
Entering the ‘Land of Lots’ Lynbrook writer co-authors book series
By MADELINE ARMSTRONG lyn-ereditor@liherald.com
Lynbrook resident Joe Delia and his family friend Susan Willis, of Bridgehampton, have launched their newest children’s book series, “Land of Lots.” “We’ve been in development for this book series for eight years,” said Willis, owner of Gattie & Lopez, a Manhattanbased TV advertising company. “It’s been a very long, methodi-
cal labor putting these books together.” Willis and her husband, Chuck Willis, co-created the books with a colleague, Christian Carl, who has been in advertising for 30 years as a writer and has worked closely with the Willises. He now lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and three children. Susan Willis referred to him as “highly artistic.” “He’s the kind of person who if he’s bored for one minute, something
is going to come out of it,” she said, “a sketch, a drawing, an idea, a painting.” So, when Carl approached them and Delia, an office manager at Gattie & Lopez, with a sketch that he doodled at Ikea, they put their heads together to create “Land of Lots.” The series focuses on a character named Lovelot who travels to the Land of Lots. There she CONTINUED ON PAGE 23
he Village of Lynbrook will abide by the New York state law and keep the residents of Lynbrook safe.