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Vol. 28 No. 24
JUNE 10 - 16, 2021
OBITUARY
A man who had ‘core values’ WWII veteran, Malverne volunteer Joseph Schutta dies at 92 By NAkEEM grANt ngrant@liherald.com
Courtesy Community Mainstream Associates
Promoting inclusivity in Malverne Malverne Mayor Keith Corbett, top row, second from left, and State Assemblywoman Judy Griffin, to Corbett’s immediate left, joined members of Community Mainstreaming Services, a nonprofit that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, on May 27 for the grand opening of a group home in the village. Story, Page 12.
Malvernite Joseph Schutta was known by many as a man of self-discipline. Most every morning for the past 40 years or so, he jogged around his church, Our Lady of Lourdes. As he got older, he walked with a walker. Before he went to bed, he ate one cracker, one pret- Joseph zel and one Oreo. “Even if it was snowing out, I’d have to shovel a path for him,” said his daughter Sally
Schutta. “If he couldn’t get out and walk first thing in the morning, he was frazzled all day. Everybody thought he was a disciplinarian, but he was just disciplined.” Schutta died at his home on May 15. He was 92. He grew up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and joined the Marines at the end of World War II, Schutta in 1945, serving until 1947. He was briefly recalled as a reservist to serve in the Korean War in 1952. Schutta Continued on page 23
Lakeview, Rockville Centre groups discuss voting rights By BrIDgEt DowNES bdownes@liherald.com
As Republican lawmakers around the country pass laws that will institute new voting restrictions in the wake of a presidential election whose validity many in their party question, local groups in Lakeview and Rockville Centre recently hosted a discussion of voting rights and how to combat voter suppression. Many recent bills that have passed in states including Florida, Georgia and Texas aim to limit voting by mail and increase voter identification and registration requirements,
among other measures that will make it more challenging to cast a ballot. The new bills came about in reaction to former President Donald Trump’s and Republican lawmakers’ inaccurate claims that the election was fraudulent. The charges of widespread fraud were rejected by dozens of courts, and election officials called the election the most secure in American history. The Rockville Centre Democratic Club partnered with the Lakeview Democratic Club to sponsor a conversation via Zoom on May 20. “Voting rights under attack: Current challenges. What can we do?” featured
U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice and Long Island civil rights attorney F rederick Brewington, of Lakeview. “I never feared, as I do now, that our precious democracy is threatened,” said Louise Skolnik, co-president of the Democratic Club. “The big lie. Distortion of truth, fact and reality. Insurrection as tourism. Validated election outcomes as stolen frauds. What a bizarre and threatening time we are in, and nowhere is this threat more evident, at least to me, than in the attack on voting rights taking place on the state level, and we’ll hear from our congresswoman about what’s happening
at the federal level.” Rice, who represents New York’s 4th Congressional District and previously served as Nassau County district attorney, said the new voting laws are flagrant attempts to suppress Black and brown voters. “It’s a frightening prospect, she said. “It’s clear that today’s Republican Party is more inter-
ested in fixing elections for itself than in protecting our bedrock of democracy, which is the right to vote.” That’s why, Rice continued, she urges Democrats to be more invested in building a bench of good candidates at the local and state level, since states have the ability to change laws. Continued on page 4