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HERALD Great Homes October 21, 2021
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Great Homes Inside
Vol. 28 No. 43
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Malverne board honored
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An escape room with a killer vibe crashes, missing people, jailbreaks, mafias and murderers. The rooms are designed at differThe award-winning Epic ent intensities so that players can Escape Rooms LI, in West Hemp- choose the one that best suits stead, is offering a special Hal- them, and the challenges the loween attraction: an immersive rooms present are rated on an escape room called Killer Fea- easy-to-difficult scale of 1 to 5. ture. Epic Co-owner The West HempCat Dunn encouragstead business, es participants to try which opened in the Killer Feature 2017, has won Best of room, which is based LI awards three on popular horror years in a row and movies such as “Frimore than tripled in day the 13th” and size in four years. “Nightmare on Elm Escape rooms are Street,” if they’re interactive, puzzlelooking for the solving games that spookiest attraction take place in a lifeout of the five. The sized space containKiller Feature was ing clues for particione of Epic’s first p at i n g t e a m s t o creations in 2017, uncover. Teams typiand is Dunn’s favorcally have an hour to PAtrIck ite. The storyline find every clue in a i nvo l ve s g e t t i n g room and use them DuGGAN abducted by a murto find a way to Port Jefferson derer. Players start escape from the Station the game handcuffed room, making the and blindfolded in a experience someroom with scary thing of a hands-on puzzle. music, flickering lights and fake Escape rooms offer endless blood-spattered walls. “It looks possibilities for storylines. The like a room that you really West Hempstead location cur- wouldn’t want to spend much rently has five different rooms time in,” Dunn said, “unless with stories involving plane Continued on page 7
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Practicing mindfulness Students in Jaclyn Klafter’s class at Chestnut Street School in West Hempstead took part in a Habits of Mind program on Oct. 8. Story, more photos, Page 11.
Beloved Malverne teacher retires
‘There’s nothing else I could remember wanting to do’ by robert trAVerSo rtraverso@liherald.com
The oldest of five sisters, Marjorie Monahan used to pretend to be a teacher as a child, checking if her siblings had their imaginary tests signed. “There’s nothing else I could remember wanting to do,” Monahan said of becoming an educator. After 20-plus years in the Malver ne School District,
Monahan, 65, retired on Oct. 15. Monahan, a North Lynbrook resident who has lived in Malverne and sent her four sons to Malverne schools, taught primarily at the Maurice W. Downing School. She also taught at the Davis Avenue School, filling in for half a year in 1997 as a seventh- and eighth-grade Spanish teacher. Since 2002, Monahan has taught elementary school and kindergarten classes, a level
that she said always resonated with her. “I always felt like a could relate to little kids,” Monahan said. “Having four of my own, I was home when they were little, so I had firsthand experience on how to engage children.” This experience, she said, guided her philosophy as a teacher, which focused on enriching the experience and Continued on page 7
scape rooms really show that you can take that artistic mindset will beyond those boundaries.