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A call for a new street name Malverne residents lobby for board vote on Lindner Place the board to vote on renaming Lindner Place by May 1. Corbett said he could not commit to a Malverne residents and mem- vote by that date. bers of a committee presented Old and new information evidence at a March 2 village about Lindner’s leadership and board meeting in favor of renam- involvement in the KKK was preing Lindner Place sented at the March 2 because they said it meeting. is named for a Ku “T he things I Klux Klan leader. found were completeThe Lindner ly eye-opening,” P l a c e Re n a m i n g Brown said of what Committee is comthe group discovposed of community ered. members and organiIn reading from zations dedicated to the report, Brown changing the village quoted Lindner as street named after saying, “I believe in Paul Lindner, a local the limitation of forbusinessman and eign immigration. I olIVIA BRowN leader of the Ku am a native-bor n Klux Klan during the Student, American citizen, 1920s. The group sub- Malverne High and I believe my m i t t e d a re p o r t School rights in this coundetailing Lindner’s try are superior to leadership of the those of foreigners,” KKK to Mayor Keith Corbett and she quoted the known Exalted the village board. Cyclops and Grand Titan of the Corbett said he and the board KKK as saying. would review the document, She said that in 1923 the Lindwhich was requested by the ner-led Klan burned down an board at the village’s February orphanage not once, but twice. A meeting. year later, a cross was burned on Speaking on behalf of the his farm. renaming committee, Olivia Brown, a Malverne resident, Brown, a ninth-grade student at Malverne High School, called on Continued on page 14
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Courtesy Sydney’s Sweets
syDNey PeRRy, Co-owNeR of Sydney’s Sweets, in West Hempstead, began her bakery business after college from her mother’s kitchen in 2006, and is now a competitor on the Food Network’s
Making sweet creations in W.H. Sydney Perry competes in TV baking contest By lIsA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
Sydney Perry, a former accountant and a co-owner of Sydney’s Sweets bakery in West Hempstead, took part in Food Network’s “Spring Baking Championship: Easter” series, in which seven bakers compete to win $25,000. The first episode aired on Feb. 28. Perry grew up in Queens, baking alongside her mother on weekends. She was always creative and liked ar t,
although when she headed off to college, she majored in accounting. “My parents were really proud of me, and they kind of wanted me to ensure that I could get a good job,” she said. “That was always the thing — you want to make sure that you can get a good job that’s something reliable, something that can make you a good living, a good amount of money, and they said, well, why not accounting? And I just went for it. It wasn’t
something that I dreamed of doing, it was something that seemed solid, so I picked it. It worked for a while, until it didn’t anymore.” After graduating from Howard University in Washington, D.C., with a degree in accounting and finance in 2005 and landing a job at PriceWaterhouseCoopers soon after, Perry started baking as a serious hobby. Word spread that she had a Continued on page 5
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