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Reserve police force expands Volunteer unit inducts four new members, promotes three others to find another way to stay involved in the community.” Raja, a Brooklyn native who Four new of ficers were now lives in Oceanside, said, sworn into the Malverne Police “I’ve always been one to particiReserve at the village’s monthly pate in community service board of trustees meeting on events starting in high school. I Aug. 3, bolstering used to go to events the volunteer force with a community to 35 members to outreach club back help keep the comwh e n I l ive d i n munity safe. Brooklyn. I realized Hassan Raja, how fun it was and Chris Spence, Frank how you get to grow Vicari and Norton as an individual.” Wa l l m u l l e r h ave Through these completed their pro g rams, Raja training and joined said, he was drawn the reserve force as to the police officers. In addition, reserves. “I realized three members of that the Police the police reserve Department has a rose in rank: Anvolunteer departdrew Chernoff was ment where you get promoted to lieutento come and help ant, Jack McCarren out, be the eyes and to sergeant and ears of police offiBrian Thompson to KEITH CORBETT cers, as well as getp a t r o l m a n f i r s t Malverne mayor ting to know the class, at the meetneighborhood,” he ing. said. Spence, a Malverne resident Spence described how the since 2004, spoke about his deci- training works, initially pairing sion to join the force. “I was first a reserve member with a senior involved in coaching youth officer, which is called a shadsports when my kids were play- owing program. The curricuing youth sports,” he said. lum is developed by the reserve “When they graduated, I wanted CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
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Courtesy Glenn Ackerman
ESTEE ACKERMAN COMPETED at the U.S. National Table Tennis Championship, where her former coach and the mother of her doubles partner reportedly called her ‘ugly’ and ‘not professional.’
Orthodox player allegedly harassed for modest dress By KYLE CHIN
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The father of an Orthodox Jewish table tennis player from West Hempstead has accused former Olympian Fei Ming Tong of harshly criticizing his daughter for her conservative style of dress at the U.S. National Table Tennis Championships in Fort Worth, Texas, in early July. Estee Ackerman, 20, has been playing table tennis since she was seven, introduced to the sport by her father, Glenn, who has been playing for more than 40 years. During her career, she has amassed several tournament victories and gold medals from the national champion-
ships. In 2013, she even beat tennis legend Rafael Nadal in a match of table tennis. For this year’s championships, Ackerman’s father got in touch with Tong, who represented Taiwan in table tennis in the 2000 Summer Olympics. The two parents arranged for Estee and Tong’s daughter, Lucy Chen, herself a highly accomplished player, to play together in the women’s doubles event on July 5. “We reached out to Fei Ming and Lucy,” Glenn Ackerman recounted. “We asked, ‘Would you like to play doubles with Estee?’ And they were agreeable to this.” The Ackermans had texted the Tongs asking for a practice session during the morning CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
e have the largest crew we’ve ever had. Thirty-five police reserve officers volunteer and come in to assist us in this village.