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Pickleball raises funds for NOSH BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
A pickleball tournament held over the weekend raised more than $4,300 for a local food pantry in n e e d o f h e l p. Alistair Wright, 16, a junior at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, is the founder of Rally For Hunger, a pickleball tournament created with the goal of raising enough money for NOSH to find a permanent home on the North Shore. In August last year, a fire broke out at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 347 hall in Glen Cove, destroying the headquarters of NOSH, a pro g ram of the North Shore Soup ALISTAIR Kitchen. The food pantry had operated out of the Hill Street building since April, serving about 500 families on the North Shore each week. “In doing research into different charities to donate the tour-
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No Champagne needed Parents and children welcomed the new year on Dec. 31 outside the Sea Cliff Children’s Library, which invited families to ring in 2022 at a noon New Year’s Eve party.
Woman arrested for giving Covid-19 vaccine to teenager BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
A Sea Clif f woman was arrested on Dec. 31, and charged with giving a 17-year-old a Covid19 vaccination last Friday without permission from his parents, according to police. Laura Parker Russo, 54, is accused of injecting the teen with the shot at her residence in the village.
According to officials, Russo’s son had a friend at the house, and the friend asked for the vaccine, claiming his mother didn’t want to have him immunized against the coronavirus. The teenager told his mother when he got home that he had gotten the vaccine, and she notified the police. Russo, a biology teacher in the Herricks Public Schools in
New Hyde Park, was charged with unauthorized practice of a profession, after police determined that she was not a medical professional. She was freed with an appearance ticket, and is due in 1st District Court in Hempstead on Jan. 21. The Nassau County Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14
nament proceeds to, I found out that NOSH’s building burned down in August, and that they were leasing out a temporary space, but that the lease for that space just ended on Dec. 10,” Wright said. “When I heard they were looking for a per manent space, I wanted to help because I know that they do a lot of great work.” Wright is an avid tennis player, training for the last six years at Robbie Wagner’s Tournament Training in Glen Cove. After tearing a ligament in his ankle in September, Wright, suddenly with an abundance of free time on his hands, decided to use his extra hours to give back to his commuWRIGHT nity. “I thought if I’m not playing tennis, I want to do something good and something that I can say I made a good use of my time, and I’ve done a lot of
y hope is that I can . . . raise enough money for NOSH to rent out a space, but also to raise awareness for all the great work the charity does so others can contribute themselves.
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