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Sasha Young is out at 5TCC ‘Gammy’s Pantry’ founder resigns amid center’s uncertainty “I was informed by our board president that all efforts must cease and everything must be emptied by Feb. 28,” Sasha Young, founder of she said. Gammy’s Pantry in the Five The community center has Towns Community Center and operated at 270 Lawrence Ave. the Herald’s 2020 Person of the since 1974, and has Year, is resigning played an instrufrom her job at the mental role in the center amid uncertainty about the lives of Inwood and Lawrence facility’s Lawrence residents future. for 107 years. The The announceuncertainty it faces ment of her deparconcerns its 50-year ture was posted on lease with Nassau her Facebook page County, which last week. owns and leases the “Unfortunately, site to the center. my time at the Five The lease is set to Towns Community expire in July, and Center is coming to the county has no an end,” Young plans to renew it. wrote. “I want to The county SASHA YOUNG thank each of you issued a request for Founder, Gammy’s that have worked proposal 13 months Pantry tirelessly with me ago, seeking an here at the center individual or entity and my amazing volunteers to lease the Lawrence property (that have become family) that and provide youth-oriented have served and continue to activities and services — serserve thousands of families in vices that center officials have need 7 days a week in Gammy’s previously told the Herald they Pantry and the center.” have offered. 5TCC board president Young, who lives in Inwood, Gwynn Campbell informed was optimistic that the pantry Young that the pantry must end would continue to operate until its work by the end of this month, Young said. Continued on page 9
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A visit to New York City at Hewlett Michael Vais, 3, makes his own fossil at the ‘Museum of Natural History’ space at the New York City-inspired Hewlett Elementary School’s state fair. Story, more photos, Page 10.
Hewlett Bay Park mayor steps down Alex Salomon ends 25 years of public service By PARKER SCHUG pschug@liherald.com
After 25 years of serving as a village official in Hewlett Bay Park, Mayor Alex Salomon has stepped down. “It has been an honor and privilege to serve the residents of Hewlett Bay Park and I am grateful for the trust and support during my tenure,” Salomon wrote in his resignation letter on Jan. 30, which was effective on that date. “The renovation of my new home in Boca Raton has been completed and I am repositioning my
life to south Florida.” Salomon, 65, came to the United States from his native Ukraine in 1974, and has been a village resident since 1996. He was a village trustee from 1999 to 2004, deputy mayor from 2004 to 2022 and mayor since 2022. “I like to participate in life — I’m not a passive observer,” he said, explaining his involvement in village government. “If things go well, you’re happy. If things go bad, you won’t complain, because you’re part of it.” Salomon said that when he was elected Continued on page 7
was informed by our board president that all efforts must cease and everything must be emptied by Feb. 28.