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A trio of grand openings in o’side
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Vol. 56 No. 13
MARCH 25 - 31, 2021
OHS senior’s science research published twice direct.com, a website that provides access to a large bibliographic database of scientific Oceanside High School senior and medical publications. Mirando Leibstein notched a Hall said she has never had a rare feat when she had her student who has been published research into cows’ diets pub- twice while still in high school. lished for a second time. “While, often, public focus is on Leibstein translated her love things like winning awards,” she of riding and caring for horses said, “the science and the to another barnresearch compoyard animal as part nent is what I get of her work with excited about.” the prestigious UniLeibstein, an versity of Pennsylequestrian enthusivania School of ast from an early Veterinary Mediage, said she never cine. thought she would Leibstein creditend up working on ed her OHS college research about research teacher MIRANDA lEIBSTEIN cows. She added Heather Hall for that she had long setting her up for OHS senior wanted to do her recent successequine metabolic es with her research papers. research because her horse, “The way that she teaches Caden, developed a potentially you to write in ninth and 10th fatal condition in her hoof called grade, it has helped so much,” laminitis in 2015. Leibstein said of Hall. “I can go Early detection helped bring into the papers and see my word- the horse back to health, but it ing.” also led Leibstein to monitor Her first research paper was Caden’s diet more closely. In published last year in PLOS One, 2019, she contacted an equine a peer-reviewed, open-access sci- researcher at the University of entific journal published by the Pennsylvania School of VeteriPublic Library of Science since nary Medicine, who connected 2006, and her second paper was published on March 4 on scienceContinued on page 3
By ToM CARRozzA tcarrozza@liherald.com
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got to work in probably the best vet school in the United States.
Courtesy Lynne Lubash
lyNNE luBASH fREquENTly brings her dog Red, left, to the park. Above, Red made a new friend.
A well-kept secret in O’side
Owners excited after dog park opens unexpectedly By MIkE SMollINS msmollins@liherald.com
For nine years, Lynne Lubash drove to Bay Park or Long Beach to find a dog park where her pet, Red, could play. That recently changed, however, when a d o g p a rk w a s b u i l t i n Oceanside Park, on Mahlon Brower Drive. “I love it, because I actually live on the same road the park is on . . .,” Lubash said. “This is fantastic.”
The park opened on Jan. 17, she said, but few people knew about it initially, and she thought local pet owners would benefit by discovering it existed. Town of Hempstead officials said the park had a “soft” grand opening, but a bigger event would be scheduled at a date to be determined. In the two months since it opened, more people have discovered it, but Lubash said that many more would know about it if the opening
had had more fanfare. Dogs were not previously allowed at Oceanside Park, she said, but now she takes Red, an 11-year-old Pembroke Welsh Corgi that she rescued from North Shore Animal League, there several times a week. The dog park is a fenced-in grassy area and is divided into two sections, for small and large dogs. There are also benches for dog owners and a water fountain. Continued on page 3