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Outrage grows over concert vaccine issue vaccination at the door and will have no seating restrictions, although we encourage spacing Several parents in the Rock- between family pairs when posville Centre School District sible. Any unvaccinated guest, have voiced their displeasure guest who forgets or does not with school officials after they want to show proof of vaccinaannounced plans to separate tion and vaccinated guests vaccinated and unvaccinated accompanied by an unvaccinataudience members ed child will sit in at n e x t m o n t h ’s the unvaccinated winter concerts. section with six feet In a letter to par(three seats) spacents earlier this ing between family month, interim pairs.” Superintendent Several parents Rober t Bar tels expressed outrage wrote that the conover the letter at the cer ts, which are Board of Education divided by g rade KRISTEN meeting on Nov. 16. levels, would be PUTTERMAN Bartels said at the held in the auditorimeeting that the um to allow for Rockville Centre measure would appropriate spacenable administraing, each student would be per- tors to effectively contact-trace mitted to have two guests, parents in the event of an outattendees would be required to break. wear masks, the concerts would After the meeting, Kristen be live-streamed, and there Putterman, who said she was would be two sections of the vaccinated, told the Herald that audience based on vaccination she and her husband would not status. attend the event because of the “There will be a vaccinated seating arrangements, and that section and an unvaccinated her daughter would not sing section for each concert,” Bar- with the elementary school chotels wrote. “Guests sitting in the rus. vaccinated section will be “It’s just a way to divide the required to show evidence of CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
By MIKE SMOLLINS msmollins@liherald.com
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t’s just a way to divide the whole community.
Courtesy Molloy College
The big score Dana Poetzsch celebrated her goal three minutes from the end of regulation in Molloy’s victory over Bridgeport last week, which came before it was eliminated on Saturday. Story, Page 3.
Fundraiser returns in person
Outing in memory of Tommy Brull is a success By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com
The Tommy Brull Foundation has continued its mission to help those with physical, mental and emotional disabilities through the pandemic. At its 14th annual fundraiser at the St. Agnes Parish Center on Nov. 13, the foundation made donations to 13 groups and individuals, including the Backyard Players & Friends and South Side High School student
Will Ryan, who was the foundation’s 2021 Courage and Resilience Award winner. In the first in-person iteration of the event since 2019, the foundation roared back. Last year’s event was a livestreamed telethon that lasted nearly six hours. “It was really cool and different — and I never want to do it again,” joked Martin Brull, the foundation’s creator. Brull started the foundation in 2008 in honor of his brother,
Tommy, who died in 1999, at age 23, in an accident near the Williamsburg Bridge. Some of the details of his death are still uncertain. He and Martin, who were just 17 months apart, were close. Tommy devoted much of his free time to the special-needs community, and volunteered at Camp ANCHOR in Long Beach. The foundation in his name has CONTINUED ON PAGE 13