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Teaching kids that dreams do come true By MARK nOLAn mnolan@liherald.com
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sARA deGennARO, CenteR right, with her students in her Malverne studio, Tap to Pointe Dance Center. DeGennaro recently published a children’s book about ballet.
Sara DeGennaro started dancing when she was 3. She’s been a lover of literature for almost as long. Now she’s also a published author. When DeGennaro was 7, her mother gave her a copy of the book “A Very Young Dancer,” by Jill Krementz, about a 10-year-old girl who performs at the School of American Ballet in New York City. The book inspired DeGennaro, and she was accepted into the prestigious school as a child. DeGennaro is following Krementz’s path again by writing her Continued on page 4
Job seekers descend on HempsteadWorks’ fair in droves By nICOLe FORMIsAnO nformisano@liherald.com
HempsteadWorks recently held a job fair, which was described as the most successful to date — with more than 80 businesses participating, 3,000 people attending and hundreds of applications being filled out. The April 20 event drew a line of business-clad hopefuls that stretched out the door of the Freeport Recreation Center, down the sidewalk and around the corner. While last September’s job fair attracted 1,500 people seeking employment, last week’s fair saw more than double those numbers. Hempstead-
Works runs a job fair in the spring and fall of each year. “It’s so people can have a better quality of life, for employment, so they can support their families and strengthen the economy,” Eric Mallette, commissioner of the Town of Hempstead’s Occupational Resources, said. “And also to give back to the community if they have gainful employment. And a lot of employers are looking for employees. We’ve been pretty successful in helping them.” Dozens of businesses featured opportunities in a wide variety of careers — retail, health care, education, security, banking, hospitality and more.
“We want to make sure that there’s a diverse group of businesses and industries available to everyone,” Kurt Rockensies, the town’s deputy commissioner, said. “We try to get every industry possible to participate.” Jeffrey Johnson, program director of the Urban Seniors Jobs Program, with the Urban League of Westchester County Inc., noted that job fairs have been the source of plenty of success for his company. Many of its hires came directly from job fair applications. “We come as often as we can,” Johnson said. “HempsteadWorks does a great job of getting the word out to the public. Our
recruiting efforts have been very successful due to this kind of job fair.” Would-be employees worked their way through the crowded gymnasium, booth by booth. People of all skill sets, experience levels and backgrounds — from recent high school graduates in death metal T-shirts to seniors in three-piece suits —
sought employment matches. “I’m a pandemic graduate, so I wasn’t able to gain a lot of the experience that people wanted from me,” Shannon Roth, 25, an information technology specialist, said. “It’s a very difficult field right now. I’m still pushing myself out there.” While some applicants Continued on page 10