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A young artist’s Covid diary Five-year-old illustrates book on her experience during the pandemic By NakEEM GRaNT ngrant@liherald.com
Couresy Celine Lin
aNTOINETTE lEVINE, a children’s librarian at the Malverne Library, accepted a copy of Angela Lin’s book from its author, to be included in the library’s collection.
For Angela Lin, a former student at Grace Lutheran School in Malverne, pictures really are worth a thousand words. When the school went into lockdown in March, Angela, 5, was searching for ways to express herself. She did so by drawing and painting pictures of what was happening. “She doesn’t talk a lot,” her mother, Celine Lin, of Valley Stream, said of Angela, “but whenever she’s home, she just wants to draw.”
Celine, who is Chinese, said that because her daughter struggles with English, painting became a way for her to engage with her classmates on Zoom. Amazed by her artwork, Angela’s pre-kindergarten teacher at Grace Lutheran, April Schachtel, suggested to her parents that they create a book, and they did just that. They published a book called “Little An’s Covid-19 Diary: During the Lockdown in New York,” last month. Each page featured Angela’s paintings accompanied with a descripContinued on page 3
Cuomo OKs reopening of movie theaters on Friday By NakEEM GRaNT ngrant@liherald.com
After months of being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Malverne Cinema will be allowed to reopen on Friday, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo announced last Saturday that movie theaters outside New York City would be allowed to reopen at 25 percent capacity, up to a maximum of 50 people per screen. He specified that this would apply to areas that have infection rates below 2 percent on a 14-day average and have no cluster zones. “We’re hitting the ground running here,” said Anne Stamp-
fel, who owns Malverne Cinema with her husband, Henry. “We’ve done everything possible to make this reopening a possibility. I don’t know too many theaters on Long Island that can survive as long as we have.” Cuomo’s announcement came a day after the state conducted nearly 160,000 Covid tests in one day, a new record. “When you’re doing that level of tests, you get down to the block level,” Cuomo said in a news release. “And then, when you start to see a cluster, you oversample in that cluster, so you get even more data.” Malverne Cinema has been in operation since 1947, and the
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National Association of Theatre Owners Stampfels have owned it for almost 30 years. The theater has earned a reputation in Nassau County as the place to go to see upscale commercial, independent and foreign films. One of the highlights of its reopening will be a discounted screening of
“It’s a Wonderful Life,” which was the first film shown there. “I guess that’s a way for us to celebrate our rebirth in Malverne,” Stampfel said. “We know that things will never be quite normal again, but we’re doing the best we can to welcome people back into our theaters.” The Stampfels, who own two other movie theaters in Nassau
County — Bellmore Movies and North Shore Towers in Floral Park — have had only 75 active movie days this year. They were disappointed not to be included in Phase 4 of Cuomo’s reopening schedule, Henry said, but they are eager to get back to work. “The protocols have all been in place for weeks now,” Henry Continued on page 3