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Store owners are upbeat Community support, vaccine rollout boost business optimism dent going forward with the vaccine rolling out, and this spring should be great.” With a new year here and vacBeja noted that he had been cines for the coronavirus rolling carefully following safety protoout, Five Towns businesses are cols, including taking customers’ starting to feel more optimistic temperatures at the door. “I about their future, while at the think that we’ve been the benefisame time remainciary of consumer ing diligent in folconfidence because lowing state-mandatof the way that our ed safety protocols. business has been Nassau County handling the precaubegan administering tions since the the Covid-19 vaccine beginning of the to teachers, first pandemic,” he said. responders, public “Some of the protosafety and public cols we’ve enacted transit workers on include building a Monday and now Plexiglas counter. people 65 and older. We also allow no Local business ownmore than three cusers are hopeful that tomers in the store the vaccine will lead at a time.” to a quicker return AHC Appliances, SANDY LAU to normalcy. on Central Avenue Jeff Beja, who Owner, AHC in Cedarhurst, has has owned Central Appliances benefited from its Galleries, an artpandemic designaframing shop on tion, owner Sandy Spruce Street, in Cedarhurst, for Lau said. “We were very forturoughly 35 years, said he was nate that we were considered an feeling optimistic despite the essential business from the start, pandemic. “We’ve been doing since we carry appliances such much better the last few as refrigerators,” she said. months,” he said. “Our art sales “Because of the nature of the were slow in the summer, but they’ve come back. We’re confiContinued on page 14
By MATTHEW FERREMI mferremi@liherald.com
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Courtesy Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation
Just a little pinch Employees and residents of Five Towns Premier Rehabilitation, in Woodmere, received their second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Monday. Walgreen’s pharmacist Kazi Rahman inoculated Demitrius Diaz, director of environmental services.
Showing a passion for research Trio of 5T students are Regeneron semifinalists By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
Battling an autoimmune disease, not being able to use the school laboratory and worrying about contacting enough people to complete a survey were the individual obstacles that a trio of Five Towns students faced in completing the projects that led them to be named semifinalists in the prestigious 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search.
Hewlett High School seniors Alex Breslav and Alicia Hsu, and Priva Halpert, a senior at Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park, are among the 300 semifinalists in the country’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. The students and their schools will be awarded $2,000 each. The semifinalists were selected from 1,760 applications from
611 high schools across 45 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and 10 countries. They were chosen based on their exceptional research skills, their commitment to academics, their innovative thinking and their promise as scientists. They study at 198 American and international high schools in 37 states, Puerto Rico, Chinese Taipei and Singapore. On Jan. 21, the field will be Continued on page 14
e’re grateful
to the community, since they have been very supportive throughout this.