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Lack of social distancing at Scream Park Queens, who went to the park on Saturday night with her family. She said that they waited on line Last weekend, the actors and for four hours in the cold, until props weren’t the scariest things 11:30 p.m. at Bayville Scream Park, a popu“Soon after arriving, we reallar Halloween destiized that there was nation in Bayville. It no social distancwas the lack of ing,” Baboolal said, social distancing adding that she was and long wait times under the impresthat left many parksion that there goers frightened and would be g reatly frustrated. reduced capacity “We got called due to the coronavithere on Saturday rus pandemic. “With night on a complaint no end in sight [after f ro m t h e Po l i c e waiting on line for Department for hours], my husband severe crowding at spoke to someone the Scream Park,” about a refund and said Michael F. Uttathey said they ro, assistant chief in weren’t doing the Nassau County refunds. The park fire marshal’s office. CORINA closes after 1 a.m., so “When our fire marit [would have been] shal got up there, he LEMANSKI impossible for us to observed between Bristol, Conn. see more than one 200 and 300 people scare attraction, waiting on different lines of the considering we were a whole attractions and milling about the other hour away from the attracproperty.” tion.” “There were a lot of unhappy At that point, Baboolal said, people,” Uttaro said, “because she decided to leave. Because the they were waiting on lines for park didn’t seem prepared for so four to five hour.” many people, and because there One of those unhappy customers was Trish Baboolal, of CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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DONNA DRAKE, OF “The Donna Drake Show,” gave Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino a plate full of oysters for the oyster eating contest.
Oyster Festival goes virtual Despite pandemic, Oyster Week continues the tradition of supporting local causes By JENNIFER CORR jcorr@liherald.com
On a foggy Tuesday evening at Coopers Bluff, oyster enthusiasts, along with Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino, gathered for the oyster eating and shucking contests, popular events at the annual Oyster Festival, which traditionally takes
place outdoors in the heart of the hamlet. The coronavirus pandemic has necessitated a different kind of festival this year, the 37th, forcing organizers to change the format to a virtual one. But perhaps the most popular events, the oyster eating and shucking, had to be done live, so they were held for the media only, who could share them with view-
ers and readers. “Tonight, is something special,” said Donna Drake, of “The Donna Drake Show.” “It’s actually an honor when you realize 100 years from now, somebody is going to be looking at the videotape and see that we were here. We did it.” The winner of the oyster CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
he line was insane. People were on top of each other. There was no such thing as social distancing at all.