Malverne/West Hempstead Herald 12-03-2020

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Malverne/West Hempstead

CoMMuNIty uPDAtE Infections as of Nov. 30

1,252

Infections as of Nov. 23 1,139

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Holiday market at Crossroads Farm

A special surprise in Malverne

W. Hempstead’s very own trolley

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DECEMBER 3 - 9, 2020

Vol. 27 No. 49

From caregiver to Covid patient W.H. nurse, brother-in-law recall nightmarish bouts with coronavirus with. A lot of front-line workers ended up getting ill because we didn’t know what it was or how For the past nine months, to even protect ourselves.” West Hempstead resident Narda Martin-Haye has Martin-Haye says, s i n c e r e c o ve r e d she and her family from the virus, but have been living a she said that her life nightmare. A regishas completely tered nurse in Naschanged. She still sau County for 16 experiences shortyears, Martin-Haye, ness of breath, and 38, said she was one has not returned to of the first people in work since March, her family to conso she is collecting tract Covid-19 in workers’ compensaMarch. tion. She also had to “I went from take care of her being heroic and NARDA husband and son — dedicating my serboth named GregoMARtIN-HAyE vices to being a r y, a n d b o t h o f patient,” s h e West Hempstead whom contracted recalled. “It was a the virus. While virus that came to they fully recovered, New York so quickly. We, as Narda said she was still strugnurses and physicians, didn’t gling with other lingering sympknow what we were dealing Continued on page 4

By NAkEEM GRANt ngrant@liherald.com

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e, as nurses and physicians, didn’t know what we were dealing with.

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ANIMAl RIGHts ACtIVIsts John Di Leonardo, left, his wife, Juliana, Rachel Levy Ejsmont and Victoria Lagardera took part in a pre-“ThanksVegan” feast on Nov. 19.

‘Lucky’ birds get rescued

PETA saves turkeys from animal markets By NAkEEM GRANt ngrant@liherald.com

Two newly rescued turkeys were the center of attention — instead of being the main course — at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ special pre-“ThanksVegan” feast on Nov. 19. Malverne animal rights activist John Di Leonardo invited two rescued turkeys to gobble fresh fruit and vegetables in his backyard. “Our end goal is always to

get these farmers to change their business model,” Di Leonardo said, adding, of the birds, “T hese guys are extremely lucky, because they’re going to get to live.” Di Leonardo is a senior manager of PETA and the founder of Long Island Orchestrating for Nature, an animal-advocacy nonprofit. PETA members, along with Brooklyn-Queens Animal Save, rescued the turkeys from New York City live-animal markets, and they are

now in foster care with LION. More than 46 million turkeys are killed each year for Thanksgiving alone, Di Leonardo said, and most of them are just infants, under 26 weeks old, when they are h u n g u p s i d e d ow n a n d dragged through an electrified bath. Di Leonardo added that at most slaughterhouses, workers cut the turkeys’ throats, and at live-animal markets they are stacked in Continued on page 5

Our COvid-19 traCker With the Covid-19 test positivity rate rising across the country, the Herald is adding a weekly coronavirus tracker to the upper-left corner of our front page to help you gauge what’s happening in your area from week to week. the number is an aggregate of the communities that this newspaper covers. data is obtained from the nassau County Covid-19 dashboard, which provides the total number of cases reported in an area since the start of the pandemic, and is updated regularly.


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