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Summer is in, seniors are out at LHS By lISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
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After enduring a pandemic-plagued twoplus years, members of the Lawrence High School class of 2022 celebrated the end of their high school careers at the second annual Senior BBQ June 14 on the school’s football field, eating, playing games and reminiscing about the last four years. The Senior BBQ is “a proper goodbye,” class Student Government Treasurer Youry A. Tundidor said at the event, when the entire class gets the chance to spend the day together and sign one another’s yearbooks. Student Government Secretary Liselot Polanco agreed. “It’s our last hurrah together,” she said. The barbecue is “really special,” class President Gabrielle Domanas added, “because it gives us all an opportunity to get together one last time and just really enjoy each other’s
lAwRENCE HIGH SCHool seniors Jeymi Diaz, left, Josephine Jean and Kiani Whitolck enjoyed the Senior BBQ on June 14.
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Police: Lock your vehicle doors to help halt crime wave By lISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
Aiming for the same success they saw nearly three years ago, Hewlett Harbor village officials asked Nassau County police to speak to residents at the Seawane Country Club last week about another increase in burglary and vehicle thefts. “We’re here because over the last 18 months, there have been what we consider to be an inordinate amount of break-ins — car break-ins and auto thefts,” Mayor Mark Weiss said. “Statistics suggest that our community is actually experiencing less than most, maybe less than all
the other communities in Nassau County.” The last time the county Police Department held a similar meeting in the village was in 2019, after which burglaries there “plummeted,” NCPD Detective Sgt. Jeffrey Raymond said. He shared prevention methods at the June 14 meeting — described by Weiss as “zero-cost option(s) on how to prevent break-ins and perhaps thefts of automobiles.” “If you just call nine people over the course of the next couple of days,” Weiss told the group of roughly 50, “we would saturate communities with the same message that Detective
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hey will stop coming when they stop finding unlocked vehicles in the community. JEffREy RAyMoNd
Nassau County Police Dept. Raymond gave us three years ago, and I’m telling you, overnight, the reputation that we would have in this village (among criminals) is, ‘Don’t bother coming.’ It will absolutely
shut down the operation.” He added, “If you simply spoke to nine other people, we would have 450 homes notified by friends.” The village has a population of around 1,500. Raymond’s prevention methods are guided mostly by common sense, from locking vehicle doors and removing key fobs — which can also prevent crimi-
nals from gaining access to garage-door openers — to leaving lights and the television on when you’re not home. Removing key fobs from vehicles is the one “zero-cost solution that will be 100 percent effective,” Weiss said. Criminals “will stop coming when they stop finding unlocked vehicles in the Continued on page 9