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Diocese sells headquarters for $5.2 million and plans to relocate to offices that are better suited to its needs and a better use of its bdownes@liherald.com resources.” The Diocese of Rockville Dolan said that the move Centre has sold its Pastoral could result in separate headCenter headquarters, on North quarters for different minisP a rk Ave n u e i n tries and functions. d ow n t ow n Ro ck The Hempsteadville Centre, for $5.2 based Synergy million, church offiHolding Partners cials announced LLC purchased the last Friday. five-story structure, The diocese which includes an be g an marketing adjacent 58-space the property in parking lot. 2018, after deterThe diocese filed mining that it was for Chapter 11 too costly to operate bankruptcy protecthe facility, accordtion last October ing to church offibecause of the cials. It was unclear financial strain of at press time where lawsuits from sexuthe diocese might al abuse victims find new headquarunder New York’s ters, or what might the ReV. Child Victims Act, become of the Paswhich took effect in eRIC FASANo toral Center. 2019. Sean Dolan, a Vicar general, Rockville Centre spokesman for the Diocese of RVC is among the diocese, said that nation’s 10 largest diocesan operations dioceses, home to should not be affected by the 1.4 million Catholics in Nassau sale, and that the church decid- and Suf folk counties. It is ed to sell its headquarters among a growing number of mainly because the diocese dioceses that are filing for “does not currently use all the bankruptcy because they must available space in the building Continued on page 3
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And they’re off! Local families gathered for a morning of fun at the annual Spring Egg Hunt at Veterans Park, outside the Recreation Center, last Saturday to celebrate Easter.
SSHS juniors lauded for heroism Pair ran to rescue passenger in overturned car By tom CARRozzA tcarrozza@liherald.com
Local elected officials and residents recently gathered to celebrate the bravery and heroism of two young Rockville Centre men, Billy Mohr and Patrick Erickson, after the pair helped save a passenger trapped in an overturned car in Baldwin on the night of March 13. The pair, both juniors at South Side High School, received
honors for their efforts. Mayor Francis Murray, State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, Assemblywoman Judy Griffin, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Town of Hempstead Clerk Kate Murray and village Trustees Nancy Howard and Emilio Grillo were all on hand outside Village Hall on March 22 to praise Mohr and Erickson and present them with more proclamations than they could carry. “It looked like it was out of a
movie,” Erickson said. The two were in the backseat of two friends’ car that night at around 11:30 p.m., traveling along Grand Avenue in Baldwin, when they spotted an overturned car at the corner of Grand and Demott Avenue, according to Jerry Brown, public information officer for the Baldwin Fire Department. Erickson and Mohr immediContinued on page 3
he operating efficiencies that will result are expected to free resources that can be directed to those with the greatest need.