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Malvernite honors animals Dedicated activist continues quest to create a better world school, he said, motivated his first professional goal: to become a school counselor or psycholoWhen protests led by John gist. This goal was driven by a DiLeonardo shut down Long sense that he and friends were Island performances by the Cole neglected by the school system. Bros. Circus 10 years “I wanted to help ago, the Malverne kids in their youth native thought his get on the right animal rights activtrack,” DiLeonardo ism had reached its said, “or get off the peak. wrong track.” But it was just He earned a beginning. degree in education DiLeonardo, 34, from Sienna College the founder of Long in 2010. At that Island Orchestrating point, he recalled, he for Nature, or LION, believed his calling was a lifelong Mal- JoHN was to serve others vernite before movthrough education. ing to Riverhead last DilEoNARDo But that was just July. one interpretation President, LION, he said, Long Island of a larger mission. remains closely “I always wanted associated with his Orchestrating for to make this world a hometown, where it Nature better place and was founded. have the biggest “We’re still very well impact that I could connected to Malverne,” DiLeon- have on the world,” DiLeonardo ardo said. “That’s where we set said. “Namely, I wanted to help our roots.” the group that needed the most Before LION was founded and help.” helped shut down the circus Catherine Grefig, who now events, DiLeonardo attended lives in New Jersey, was DiLeonDavison Avenue Intermediate ardo’s neighbor for 30 years in School and later Howard T. Her- Malverne. She said she wasn’t ber Middle School. DiLeonardo’s early years in Continued on page 4
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Sydney Perry, owner of Sydney’s Sweets in West Hempstead, won the Food Network’s “Spring Baking Championship: Easter” series and the $25,000 first prize. “Overall, the experience was exciting,” Perry said. “It was, like, a little bit stressful,
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but it was a lot of fun.” The show, which debuted on Feb. 28, was a competition among eight bakers, who, given several baking challenges, used their imagination and skill to create unique sweets. Food Network judges Jordan Andino and Stephanie Boswell were the arbiters. The final episode aired on April 4. “This season’s spectacu-
larly talented bakers create some of the most impressive edible creations ever on Food Network,” host Sunny Anderson said in a news release. There were up to two challenges in each of six episodes, and the judges decided which baker went home in each episode. The competitors vied for the Golden Easter Egg filled with “bunny Continued on page 16 April 14, 2022
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