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RVC disbands auxiliary police Volunteer officers petition for the village department’s return trained and certified at the Nassau County Police Academy and overseen by the Rockville Members of the Rockville Centre Police Department. “I’m trying to have some Centre Auxiliary Police Departkind of understanding why a ment said they were caught off guard last week when they got building that was built with a phone call notifying them grant money, secured between that the locks on their facility, the village, state and county, is just being taken at 5 Chester Road, aw a y, ” M u s s i n i had been changed said. overnight. Village Adminis“I am at a loss trator Nancy Howfo r wo rd s a f t e r, ard said she was u n f o r t u n a t e l y, tasked with reviewreceiving a phone ing the 2025 budget, call this past which, due to the Wednesday afterrising cost of noon that the vilunfunded state lage was dissolving EDwARD MuSSINI mandates, has conthe auxiliary police Auxiliary Police Chief tinued to impact that was estabvillage taxpayers. lished back in “Certainly your manpower 1951,” Auxiliary Chief Edward Mussini said at the village is voluntary, and it is respected and greatly appreciated,” Howmeeting on Monday night. Mussini, a 35-year volunteer ard told Mussini. “I’m sorry member of the auxiliary force that this came in the way of a and a lifelong Rockville Centre phone call, and I will stand resident, said that while the with you and say that it probadepartment’s numbers have bly could have been communidwindled in recent years, they cated better. That doesn’t necescontinue to provide assistance sarily change the decision that in police-related activities such we need to utilize that building as traffic control, accident differently.” Howard said that the village scene assistance and parade examined the budget thoroughand community event support. The auxiliary officers are Continued on page 8
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Kenny owens is gearing up for the 4th annual Kevin owens Run to Remember, in memory of his younger brother who died of cancer in 2017, which will take place this Saturday, april 6.
Kenny Owens runs 27 miles in 24 hours for his brother By DANIEl oFFNER doffner@liherald.com
Kenny Owens, of Rockville Centre, will run 27 miles through the village in 24 hours this Saturday, in memory of his younger brother, Kevin Owens, and other local families who have lost loved ones or have loved ones still fighting long term ailments. This 27-mile goal represents the last 27 days that Kevin spent in the intensive care unit at Mercy Hospital before succumbing to cancer on April 6, 2017. He was 39. “I knew deep down inside that I was meant to do something,” Kenny, 48, said, “but I wasn’t sure what.” The idea was inspired by the 4x4x48 chal-
lenge, created by ultramarathon runner David Goggins, in which participants complete four miles every four hours for 48 hours. With the help and support of Buoy4, an apparel company he created with four of his brother’s closest friends, he started the Kevin Owens Run to Remember in 2020. In just its first year, Kenny managed to raise $6,000 for Mercy Hospital. “It was such a good feeling,” he said. “I just knew that this was something I wanted to do.” The following year, Owens partnered with Martin Brull, founder of the Tommy Brull Foundation, to help raise money for four local families who lost loved ones. That year, Continued on page 16
don’t know where things have gone astray.