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THE MAlVERNE STREET was named after Paul Lindner, who held leadership positions, such as Exalted Cyclops and Grand Titan, in the Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century.
Despite inflation, Our Lady of Lourdes is still serving the needy He serves as an organizer and distributor of the pantry’s food, and helps collect it as well, drivAs the price of food and gas ing to Island Harvest locations in continues to rise, many Long Uniondale and Elmont, where Islanders have been forced to volunteers use a small fund of rethink their shopchurch donations to ping and driving buy produce. habits. So how have According to food pantries, like Latronica, since JanOur Lady of uary the food pantry Lourdes’ pantry in has noticed a change Malver ne, been in the food it has weathering the inflare c e iv i n g f ro m tionary storm? Island Harvest. The church’s food There has been less pantry has been in meat, specifically operation for chicken and beef, decades. Over the and far more canned years, it has providgoods and vegetaed food to the needy bles. This is no surtwice a week, on prise: The ConsumTuesdays and Fri- lINDA er Price Index shows days, without fail. BAlDACCHINo a double-digit Since January, how- Youth coordinator, increase in the cost ever, the organizaof beef across the tion has been feeling Our Lady of Lourdes country. Pasta has the pinch as food also been harder to prices have climbed. come by, in part because of the “It ain’t easy,” said Tom Russian invasion of Ukraine, Latronica, a local volunteer, “but which normally produces onewe’re still feeding a lot of peo- fifth of the world’s grain. ple.” Luckily for Our Lady of Latronica is president of the Lourdes, Island Harvest isn’t the Malverne chapter of the Society pantry’s only source of produce. of St. Vincent de Paul, a lay Much of the food it distributes is Catholic charitable organization founded in 1833 to help the poor. Continued on page 14
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Lindner Place to be renamed
After two years, village board approves change By RoBERT TRAVERSo rtraverso@liherald.com
After two years of petitioning and compiling evidence, the push by community members to rename Lindner Place, the village street named after Ku Klux Klan leader Paul Lindner, culminated with the Malverne village board voting unanimously to rename the street during a special meet-
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ing on March 31. The street’s new name is still to be determined. “A group of dedicated Malverne residents of diverse backgrounds and ages came together to unite in one cause to finally have Lindner Place renamed,” Lori Lang, a member of the renaming committee, said in a statement. “On Thursday, March 31st, 2022, we did not erase or change
history. We corrected it!” A report of historical documents compiled by the renaming committee and presented to the board last month detailed Lindner’s involvement in cross burnings and other acts of hate speech that targeted minority groups, Jamie Bellamy, a member of the renaming committee, said at a previous village board Continued on page 16
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