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Founder of Orthodox Church dies
husband, James Poulos, another Greek immigrant who also worked in the beauty industry. When Irene Poulos died on They married and had two Sept. 1, at age 92, the North sons, Spyros and Alexander, and Shore Greek Orthodox commu- lived in Bayside, Queens, before nity lost not only a devoted moving to Bayville in 1969. Spyparishioner, loving wife and ros, their oldest son, said his mother, and cheerful neighbor, parents made the decision to but an important move there figure in its combecause they wantmunal history as ed to give their well. Poulos, of sons a life as close B ay v i l l e, a l o n g to the American with her husband D re a m a s t h e y and several friends could. and area residents, “ T h e y re a l ly played an integral gave us a great part in the creation ZOE KAROUSOS childhood, and it o f t h e G r e e k friend, Glen Cove was such a great Orthodox Church community to of the Holy Resurgrow up in,” Spyrection in Brookville in 1976. ros said. “We had a normal, Poulos was born Irene Cha- great childhood, and a lot of kirsy in Paterson, New Jersey, in that stability came from the 1930, but was raised mostly in sense of community and sense Astoria, Queens. Her parents of family in Bayville.” were Greek immigrants from the In addition to providing a region around what is now Istan- good life for her children, Poubul, Turkey. los never forgot the importance Poulos’s family was in the of maintaining her ancestral beauty industry, and she and her religion. In the 1960s and ’70s five siblings — two brothers and however, the Greek Orthodox three sisters — worked at her community on the North Shore brothers’ salon on Main Avenue was without a church to accomin Flushing, the Beauty Nook. At modate the growing Greek popa convention for hairdressers in the 1950s, Irene met her future CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
By WILL SHEELINE wsheeline@liherald.com
W
e worked very hard to get where we are.
Courtesy Jody Peters
MARK ADIPIETRO AND Tucker Peters are friends who sail often in Westport, Connecticut. To improve their skills, they took an advanced sailing course at Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay.
One friend saves another at Oakcliff Sailing Center in O.B. By LAURA LANE and WILL SHEELINE llane@liherald.com
Mark Adipietro, 15, and Tucker Peters, 16, share a passion for sailing. After an incident at Oyster Bay’s Oakcliff Sailing Center on July 9, when Peters helped save Adipietro’s life, they have an even stronger bond. The residents of Westport, Connecticut, are experienced sailors. Peters has been sail-
ing for a decade, and Adipietro for eight years. Two years ago, they began going out on the water together. In July, hoping to become better sailors, they signed up for Oakc l i f f S a i l i n g ’s f ive - d ay advanced program. But when they were halfway through the program something went wrong. While they were practicing a drill on a 16-foot 49erFX, a dinghy, the clip on Adipietro’s harness, which was attached to the tra-
peze — a wire attached to a point high on the mast — got stuck. Peters had missed the trapeze when he tried to attach himself to it. “The boat capsized as they turned through the wind in a tack,” Dawn Riley, Oakcliff Sailing’s founder and executive director, explained. “When the boat tacks, the sails and the crew change sides. The boat is unstable until everything is settled and CONTINUED ON PAGE 6